Covid-19 Pandemic

[RETAC21]

[Deleted, because on second thought, the graphic or the point it was trying to make was kinda bullshit.]

 

Not bullshit, but poorly made

 

Follow up to the previous video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Etlyvt9n_QE

 

"If there was no intervention in China, it would have infected 67 times more people"

[Ivanhoe]

https://babylonbee.com/news/bernie-we-must-seize-the-means-of-toilet-paper-production

 

BURLINGTON, VT—In a video message recorded from one of his many, many houses, Bernie Sanders has called on the workers of the world to unite and seize the means of toilet paper production.

 

Sanders was under quarantine because he is old and susceptible to the virus. So he delivered the message remotely, but it was just as powerful as if he had delivered it to thousands of Bernie bros in person: "Workers of the world, unite and seize the means of producing bath tissue in large quantities!"

 

[Der Zeitgeist]

 

[Deleted, because on second thought, the graphic or the point it was trying to make was kinda bullshit.]

 

Not bullshit, but poorly made

 

Yes, it should have shown the cases that require critical care, not the total number of confirmed cases.

[RETAC21]

 

 

[Deleted, because on second thought, the graphic or the point it was trying to make was kinda bullshit.]

 

Not bullshit, but poorly made

 

Yes, it should have shown the cases that require critical care, not the total number of confirmed cases.

 

 

That's typically about 15%-20% of all cases, but there could be cases where that 20% is concentrated in a small area and overwhelms the local resources (see Bergamo, for example)

[Ivanhoe]

https://thefederalist.com/2019/03/02/no-average-american-doesnt-use-three-rolls-toilet-paper-per-week/

 

Fortune Magazine’s 2.2 million Twitter followers woke up Friday morning to a news story that seems unbelievable. According to the magazine, “The average American uses 3 rolls of toilet paper each week—and it’s devastating forests.” Not everyone has the same bathroom needs and habits, but most people’s reactions to the tweet were similar: that seems like a lot.

 

That sort of reaction by ordinary people ought to have convinced Fortune’s editors to fact-check the information. Instead, they took the figures disseminated by the Natural Resources Defense Council—an environmental advocacy group—and republished them nearly word-for-word, turning the magazine into a microphone for a special interest group.

 

 

If we take the actual weight of a roll of toilet paper (227g, or 0.5 lbs.) and divide the 12.72 kg per person per year by that, it produces a yearly total of 56.04 rolls per year, or slightly more than one a week for each American. That is a lot more in line with what you would expect.

 

 

I have one roll in the mag well, one roll for speed reloads, and 5 rolls in strategic reserves. After that, assless chaps time.

[Markus Becker]

Re: Home entertainment in times of the Virus

 

The wife refused to watch an educational video with me (Mad Max 2) under the threat of retaliation with an episode of her favorite fantasy series involving the grand homo marriage of the leading characters (just two, in case you were wondering). I don't understand it. It's not like Mad Max 2 is lacking in the homoeroticism department. What more does she want, beach volleyball?

What's the name of that tv show?

[Jeff]

Yesterday morning's local news broadcast looked like we were having a blizzard, dozens of school closings.

 

[Ssnake]

 

Re: Home entertainment in times of the Virus

 

The wife refused to watch an educational video with me (Mad Max 2) under the threat of retaliation with an episode of her favorite fantasy series involving the grand homo marriage of the leading characters (just two, in case you were wondering).

What's the name of that tv show?

 

Seriously?

 

Something something, or something.

 

The point is, my homoerotic video screenings are manly, hers are not.

[BansheeOne]

Aaand here we go. City of Berlin bans all public and private congregations of more than 50, effective immediately. Pubs, clubs, gambling halls, betting offices, fairs to be closed. Same for cinemas, theaters, museums, exhibitions and brothels (yup). Restaurants to remain open if tables have a minimum distance of 1.5 meters between them.

 

I'm investing in alcohol and condoms.

[RETAC21]

Aaand here we go. City of Berlin bans all public and private congregations of more than 50, effective immediately. Pubs, clubs, gambling halls, betting offices, fairs to be closed. Same for cinemas, theaters, museums, exhibitions and brothels (yup). Restaurants to remain open if tables have a minimum distance of 1.5 meters between them.

 

I'm investing in alcohol and condoms.

 

The baby boom is going to be AWESOME!

[lucklucky]

Yesterday Mcdonalds here was putting a sign of "reserved" in every alternate table.

[Nobu]

Costco on Friday night around 8-ish after work was interesting in various ways. Shortages of some canned goods and most paper goods. Trying to get out of the parking lot was chaotic.

 

Tractor trailers were being unloaded around the back when I left, and team members looked like they were working some serious overtime.

 

The smart money, with access to a Nevada ski cabin or thereabouts, has probably left the building.

Edited March 14, 2020 by Nobu

[Harold Jones]

Well, the panic buying has definitely spread to the grocery section of my supermarket. One shelf only had cherry tomatoes left which, as luck would have it, was the exact thing I wanted.

 

I thought as much after the announcement that parts of Berlin gastronomy would be shut down next week, even though it was said at the same time that shops would remain open. Me, I got a panic haircut - you know, just in case they close the barbershops for a couple weeks.

Jami stopped by the local grocery store last night to get some stuff, she said the produce department was stripped clean, the only thing left was some kale. The dairy section was also bare except for some vegan 'yogurt'. There was also no canned soup, frozen vegetables (except peas for some reason) and the paper goods aisle was stripped bare. I stopped by this morning to see if they had restocked and while there were a few empty spots (no potatoes or cold/flue medicine) things were otherwise at least not bare.

 

I'm due for a cut myself but since I just get an all over buzz with #2 guard, I'll just do it myself if the local barbershop is down for the count.

[MiloMorai]

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[Jeff]

 

Well, the panic buying has definitely spread to the grocery section of my supermarket. One shelf only had cherry tomatoes left which, as luck would have it, was the exact thing I wanted.

 

I thought as much after the announcement that parts of Berlin gastronomy would be shut down next week, even though it was said at the same time that shops would remain open. Me, I got a panic haircut - you know, just in case they close the barbershops for a couple weeks.

Jami stopped by the local grocery store last night to get some stuff, she said the produce department was stripped clean, the only thing left was some kale. The dairy section was also bare except for some vegan 'yogurt'. There was also no canned soup, frozen vegetables (except peas for some reason) and the paper goods aisle was stripped bare. I stopped by this morning to see if they had restocked and while there were a few empty spots (no potatoes or cold/flue medicine) things were otherwise at least not bare.

 

I'm due for a cut myself but since I just get an all over buzz with #2 guard, I'll just do it myself if the local barbershop is down for the count.

 

 

Kale and vegan yoghurt? Even panicked people have their limits.

 

Me, right now.

 

L.M.Whistleblower

@laurenmarie10

 

Can all you Panic Hoarders please let us know when you have enough stuff so the rest of us can just buy our weekly groceries without lining up like a bunch of Socialists?

 

1:48 PM · Mar 14, 2020

https://twitter.com/laurenmarie10/status/1238884742415568896

 

[Ivanhoe]

 

Aaand here we go. City of Berlin bans all public and private congregations of more than 50, effective immediately. Pubs, clubs, gambling halls, betting offices, fairs to be closed. Same for cinemas, theaters, museums, exhibitions and brothels (yup). Restaurants to remain open if tables have a minimum distance of 1.5 meters between them.

 

I'm investing in alcohol and condoms.

 

The baby boom is going to be AWESOME!

 

 

The smart money is going to stock up on disposable diapers in about 4 months. Sell 'em at double the purchase price.

[TonyE]

Norway will be closing its borders on monday morning, same with all harbours and airports for all foreign arrivals. Army and Home Guard militia will most likely assist with enforcing.

[Nobu]

FT is reporting no new cases of the virus over a 48-hour period in the original Italian town at the center of its outbreak sector 3 weeks ago. A scrap of good news if Italian government authorities are to be believed.

[Der Zeitgeist]

Unintended effects of a travel ban: When you scare everyone back to your country at the same time and can't handle the immigration lines at the airport, you get a ton of additional infections right there.

 

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[Corinthian]

When Dutertard announced that a lockdown of Metro Manila would take effect on 15 March 2020, a lot of people left for the provinces. Some of them most likely brought the virus. The problem is that often these provinces do not have hospitals that can deal with emergencies like this. The more remote the province, the less capable the hospital.

[Stuart Galbraith]

 

 

Aaand here we go. City of Berlin bans all public and private congregations of more than 50, effective immediately. Pubs, clubs, gambling halls, betting offices, fairs to be closed. Same for cinemas, theaters, museums, exhibitions and brothels (yup). Restaurants to remain open if tables have a minimum distance of 1.5 meters between them.

 

I'm investing in alcohol and condoms.

 

The baby boom is going to be AWESOME!

 

 

The smart money is going to stock up on disposable diapers in about 4 months. Sell 'em at double the purchase price.

 

Or if paper money becomes worthless, use them as disposable currency.

 

We have now decided to close all football matches and large assemblies of people. A complete contrdiction on what they said the other day, but I guess after Scotland premptorily took the same decision it would look a bit odd for the rest of the country not to do the same.

[Der Zeitgeist]

 

We have now decided to close all football matches and large assemblies of people. A complete contrdiction on what they said the other day, but I guess after Scotland premptorily took the same decision it would look a bit odd for the rest of the country not to do the same.

 

 

Well, considering the state of your health care system and the number of available hospital beds, this "herd immunity strategy" the UK was going to implement sounded kinda sketchy, to put it mildly.

[Soren Ras]

Unintended effects of a travel ban: When you scare everyone back to your country at the same time and can't handle the immigration lines at the airport, you get a ton of additional infections right there.

 

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That looks like any other day at Immigrations at O'Hare, frankly. Had the family through there back in July 2019, and we were appalled at the total chaos. There was no attempt at managing the number of people in the facilities so every landed plane just poured passengers into the backend, even as the mass of people grew. It took us 5 hours from landing to get through Immigrations.

At that time finding our luggage was not easy as our plane had long since been removed from the screens at the luggage conveyors (along with many other flights), so we were sorting through mountains of luggage that had been put on the ground to avoid congestion as new bags kept coming in with their owners still stuck in the queues. Exhausted and with three kids in tow, I was basically keeping sane by devising novel ways to murder the pinheads responsible for running the place.

 

The system in place is not capable of handling peak loads and especially if infection is a serious concern, it just compounds an already deficiently designed, organized, and managed airport.

 

Soren

[LT Ducky]

Panic update, SE Pennsylvania version -

 

Niece that is staying with me during Spring break will be here an extra 2 weeks. All State Universities closed, students will take on-line classes.

 

Went shopping yesterday, no toilet paper, no bread, only a few egg cartons.

 

No dead bodies in the streets.

[Martin M]

People are increasingly going into semi-isolation. We stocked up early, so I am not worried about toiletpaper etc. Instead of shopping daily, I go very early once a week about midweek for fresh items. I have bought a giant dvd box of "The Fugitive" which should last for a while of black/white viewing before going crazy.

Not a time for breaking a leg or some other necessity of doctor/hospital visit however.