I've got 30 rolls of bog roll and 300-odd tea bags, I'll be fine.
03-14-2020 05:24 PM
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CORONAVIRUS PANIC WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIEI've got 30 rolls of bog roll and 300-odd tea bags, I'll be fine. | |
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03-14-2020 05:26 PM
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Queue for bog roll in London... | |
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03-14-2020 06:24 PM
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03-14-2020 06:32 PM
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It's an interesting take, if that is indeed their strategy. I suspect it's a short-term approach, and they'll be closing schools and banning large gatherings in the next few days. It just doesn't make sense to let the exponential growth go on unabated imo. | |
03-14-2020 06:34 PM
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What bugs me more is people stocking up on hand sanitizer and masks and hoping to make a big profit off it. Those people need to be stabbed in the balls with a rusty fork. | |
03-14-2020 06:41 PM
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People are more afraid of having a shitty arse than they are of starvation. | |
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03-14-2020 06:52 PM
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I'm not bothered about a couple of people getting together and swapping germs with each other. You can't just live in a bubble. | |
03-14-2020 06:57 PM
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My cousin is currently in self isolation with a cough and fever, we suspect she has it. Her boyfriend has fucked off to his parents and left her in isolation. Arsehole. That bothers me more than people trying to enjoy themselves. | |
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03-14-2020 07:06 PM
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It bothers me less. It's one person being a cunt to one other person, which I agree is bad. | |
03-14-2020 07:07 PM
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03-14-2020 07:10 PM
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They're not testing people with mild symptoms any more, simply advising 14 days isolation. She might just have flu, there's no way to be certain. I hope that's all she has, but even so she's young, healthy, doesn't smoke, I'm not going to worry unless she's hospitalised. | |
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03-14-2020 07:07 PM
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On the other hand, they're keeping bar staff in a job. | |
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03-14-2020 07:12 PM
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My mum is 78, overweight and with athsma. This thing could fucking kill her. If I found out she got it from some cunt serving her coffee who got it 'cause they went out partyiing the weekend before, I'd be pretty fucking angry. | |
03-14-2020 07:17 PM
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The problem is that if 10-20% of people lose their jobs because we shut down the economy, how bad is that for public health? | |
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03-14-2020 07:33 PM
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They're not going lose their jobs forever and I'm gonna assume the gov't is not going to let them starve because they lost their job. So I'm having trouble seeing how it's better to let a disease run rampant just to protect the economy. | |
03-14-2020 07:44 PM
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Just to bring this point home, during 1918 Philadelphia held a parade and immediately saw a huge surge in Spanish Flu cases. St. Louis cancelled their parade that same year and guess what, no surge. | |
03-14-2020 08:16 PM
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Also lower tax revenue for the government, and increased welfare costs, in turn crippling health budgets. People might get inferior cancer treatment because the government can no longer afford to treat people properly. It might take a few more years than it otherwise would have done for HIV to be curable, due to decreased R&D. | |
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03-15-2020 05:09 AM
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03-15-2020 09:46 AM
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Don't be this cunt. | |
03-14-2020 08:09 PM
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03-15-2020 03:05 PM
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Poop and Ong, you guys are talking past each other, but you both have valid points. | |
03-15-2020 03:59 PM
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Just to be clear, I don't for one minute think everyone should stop working and move to a self-contained bunker. | |
03-15-2020 04:15 PM
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The funny thing is, I'll still be expected to jump on a train on Thursday, head to the next town, go to the jobcentre, and spend ten minutes talking to a civil servant face-to-face about what I've been doing to find work, before going back home. If I don't do that, I'll lose my benefits. | |
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03-15-2020 04:26 PM
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Ong I know you like to reductio ad bananum me, but I never said you're a cunt if you socialize in a pub with a friend. I said you're a cunt if you deliberately and unnecessarily expose yourself to hundreds of people like those kids in Chicago did on St. Patty's, or the women in S. Korea who refused to get tested, then went to church and other large gatherings. Those people are cunts. | |
03-15-2020 04:30 PM
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I'd call them. Would be pretty ridiculous if you can't do that over the phone for at least the next month or two. | |
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03-15-2020 04:51 PM
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A lot of cruises are shutting down. | |
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03-15-2020 05:23 PM
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03-15-2020 05:29 PM
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03-15-2020 05:20 PM
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03-15-2020 05:39 PM
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03-15-2020 05:43 PM
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03-15-2020 06:08 PM
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Poop, I think you're underestimating the potential domino effect this can have on the economy. Many restaurants, nail salons, spas, etc, are seeing significant impacts to their business. Large sectors of the entertainment industry have ground to a halt. We're starting to see supply chain disruptions. Very few people knew about/understood the links between the financial industry, real estate, and the insurers (primarily AIG) who were guaranteeing the former's bets on the later. I think it's naive to assert that this will only amount to a "knock." Hopefully, but if the wrong domino falls, we could find ourselves in a global depression. | |
03-15-2020 07:05 PM
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You may well be correct Boost. I suppose I'm just finding it slightly tangential to the debate Ong and I were having about social distancing. I think people are going to increasingly self-isolate whether or not the governments try to make them as this thing gets worse, and yes I understand it's bad for the economy. But, as long as we all agree going to mass gatherings is being somewhere between reckless and a cunt, then I'm not sure what else we can do about it. | |
03-15-2020 07:08 PM
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Well the Fed cut the rate by 1 whole point. |
03-15-2020 07:36 PM
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I would like to think that this event will make people realise that they should have at least two weeks of emergency stockpile AT ALL TIMES, to avoid the panic buying we're seeing. This is fairly mild compared to what we could expect if it was a more serious disease, or a major volcanic event. This CV is not nearly as nasty as SARS, it just seems a lot more contagious. If a virus like SARS was as contagious as flu, we're getting into plague territory. | |
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03-16-2020 06:23 PM
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Level 1 - panic buying | |
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03-18-2020 01:32 PM
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just wait til you factor in over half the population with firearms . |
03-18-2020 03:24 PM
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03-16-2020 06:38 PM
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Went to my local market today expecting to see empty shelves, but apart from toilet paper they had pretty much everything. More shoppers than usual, but no sign of panic afaict. Lots of cans of food still and other staples like rice and pasta. | |
03-16-2020 06:57 PM
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I went into Tesco today and there were lots of empty shelves. Tins were sparse, bread was minimal, sugar was decimated, only crap tea, no bog roll at all, and there was hardly anybody there. Freezer aisle was well stocked though. | |
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03-16-2020 07:49 PM
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Some relatively good news: The places where the most cases are being tested are also showing the lowest death rates. | |
03-17-2020 12:07 PM
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Farts don't spread the virus. | |
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03-17-2020 10:11 PM
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I almost certainly had this virus about a month to six weeks ago. |
03-18-2020 07:10 AM
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https://www.latimes.com/gallery/with...virus-lockdown | |
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03-18-2020 08:13 AM
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If you want more entertainment, watch Fox News do a complete 180 on coronavirus in about 3 days, after first agreeing with Trump it was a hoax, and now agreeing with him that he knew it was serious before anyone else did. | |
Last edited by Poopadoop; 03-18-2020 at 08:29 AM. | |
03-18-2020 02:25 PM
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It's amazing how many people who hated borders now love borders. | |
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03-18-2020 02:37 PM
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Lol, yeah it's ironic people want free movement across borders except when there's a deadly pandemic going on. Such hypocrites, amirite? | |
03-18-2020 03:02 PM
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Apparently there was a coach load of Brummies in Ludlow looking for bog roll today. | |
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03-18-2020 09:12 PM
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Last edited by wufwugy; 03-18-2020 at 09:22 PM. | |
03-18-2020 03:22 PM
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I do hope this bog roll situation is resolved within the next two weeks. We got lucky, me and my housemates have just moved back into the house after some electric work, so we needed to buy bog roll anyway. He got a 24 pack and I got a 9 pack, and we had around ten lying around the house anyway. Then everyone went mad for bog roll. | |
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03-18-2020 08:25 PM
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Interesting period for medium and large businesses, where we'll soon find out which ones have been managed properly and which have spent either too long flying by the seat of their pants, overextending on debt or paying out too large bonuses and dividends. That and we'll find out which companies treat their staff like shit. | |
03-19-2020 08:48 AM
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The Vegas casinos have shut down. WTF?! | |
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03-19-2020 09:34 AM
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Our uni is making deliver our lectures online. But they're not making us come in, and I only have one lecture left to prepare so no biggie. | |
03-19-2020 10:32 AM
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Stay safe guys. You're about 11 days behind Italy by first confirmed cases. | |
Last edited by oskar; 03-19-2020 at 10:42 AM.
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03-19-2020 03:11 PM
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03-19-2020 01:43 PM
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We Americans don't go to the doctor when we're sick unless we're on our deathbed. And tests for Negra Modelo Virus have been ludicrously hard to come by. |
03-19-2020 03:14 PM
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03-21-2020 07:26 AM
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03-21-2020 08:46 AM
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03-21-2020 01:56 PM
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You are right, it could have been a flu. Nobody knows. Interesting to note: one of the people I know who got sick from the same one I did, had the exact exclusive covid19 symptoms and nothing else. |
03-19-2020 01:49 PM
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Another family member (one I work with also), got off a plane a couple months ago when corona was breaking out of China. He got sick as a dog with corana symptoms. |
03-19-2020 03:45 PM
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I know a Chinese hoor who was flying back and forth between Washington and China at the time. |
03-19-2020 03:51 PM
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03-19-2020 04:02 PM
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I prefer the Communist Party of China Genocidal Maniacs Flu. |
03-19-2020 04:04 PM
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Or the Communist Party of China Assigns Rapists to the Wives of its Concentration Camp for Muslim Slaves Flu |
03-19-2020 04:21 PM
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Washington Flu it is then. | |
03-19-2020 04:20 PM
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I've always understood why Trump publicly praises the most dangerous man alive, but I never liked it. |
03-19-2020 04:22 PM
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We've already started telling people we're from Montana. |
03-19-2020 05:10 PM
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A public savings incentive plan that would create vast surplus of funds that people could use during economic calamity would be remarkable for times like this. |
03-20-2020 04:38 AM
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I'm just waiting for all the billionaire philanthropists to start announcing how much they're donating. | |
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03-20-2020 08:00 AM
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Last edited by Keith; 03-20-2020 at 10:56 AM. | |
03-20-2020 12:24 PM
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My job just announced they're locking all doors (not really, lol) to non-essential faculty and staff for the next 2 weeks. | |
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03-20-2020 10:18 PM
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03-21-2020 07:19 AM
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03-20-2020 12:57 PM
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It's got nothing on SARS and MERS either, both different strains of coronavirus, both emerged in the last 20 years. Luckily for the world, those two aren't nearly as contagious. But the next nasty one might be. | |
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