Fear and Loathing, a Rat Flu Odyssey

[bennymac]

It has been removed. I didn't get a chance to read it so I can't speculate why.

Oh sorry -here is a summary

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1...643357696.html

warning - will make you feel like this is the end of days

For example:

"Americans make up 4.4% of the world's population. If we extrapolate these numbers to the rest of the world (warning: MOE is high here), this gives us 90 million deaths globally from COVID-19, in 3-6 months. 15 Holocausts. 1.5 times as many people as died in all of World War II.

Now, of course countries won't stand by and do nothing. So the Imperial College team ran the numbers again, this time assuming a "mitigation" strategy: all symptomatic cases in the US in isolation. Families of those cases quarantined. All Americans over 70 social distancing...."

[BmillsSkier]

Stones cancel tour.

[Insert virus/Keith Richards joke here]

[Adolf Allerbush]

I agree with the fuck China sentiment but we should be careful sitting in glass houses throwing rocks. Our animal agriculture industry is only slightly less bad than China's. Our only saving grace is that we don't mix animals, but our reliance on antibiotics (70-80% of antibiotic use in the USA is for farmed animals) will come back to bite the world in the ass eventually. The wet markets are disgusting, but I bet none of us would be any less disgusted spending time in an industrial chicken farm or pig farm close to where we live.

totally...well said.

[SirVicSmasher]

https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2020...n-restaurants/

Work is now banned in orange co

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[Bozo T. Clown]

Coughs and sneeze.
But no chest pain or difficulty breathing.
Fever is lingering 100-102F, body ache, headache, chills, congestion... flu like symptoms.
Hospital told us not to come back unless we have difficulty breathing, chest pain or high fever.

Get well soon!!

After you recover, maybe you'll be two of the immune superpeople, who can save civilization, while the rest of us are hiding, and going to the supermarket in hazmat suits.

[klauss]

we are so f'd

https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1...078000128?s=20

[Ted Striker]

Is Canadians coming to the U.S. for gas considered essential or not?

I happened to be in the neighborhood, so I went to Costco gas today. I stopped counting BC plates after I hit 10, so I guess American Costco trips are considered essential. SMH.

[Garbowski]

There's a lot of these data aggregators, I like this one for graphs:

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries

[iceman]

Oh sorry -here is a summary

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1...643357696.html

warning - will make you feel like this is the end of days

Yeah you posted at least the start of that before. I'd be interested to see some data. There is unquestionably a lot of speculation in that recap but that doesn't necessarily reflect on the original piece. I can say is that pieces generally don't get removed because they're so good. Why that one was removed is worth looking into or at least considering.

[hawkgt]

[Mustonen]

Yeah you posted at least the start of that before. I'd be interested to see some data. There is unquestionably a lot of speculation in that recap but that doesn't necessarily reflect on the original piece. I can say is that pieces generally don't get removed because they're so good. Why that one was removed is worth looking into or at least considering.

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imp...16-03-2020.pdf

[gravitylover]

Our tenants daughter just flew to Cancun yesterday. (10 YO). I am kinda pissed that they went ahead with their trip (14 people), the opportunities for transmission in such a large, traveling group are enormous. And she will be in the basement 24/7 when (if?) she gets back...but I can’t tell her to go somewhere else, really.

I didn't read past this so of it has been settled, sorry.

Was it spoken about before they went? If so I'd be telling them to go find a new place for a few weeks then show me the test with a negative result and I'll let you back in.

[KQ]

we are so f'd

https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1...078000128?s=20

Higher education has obviously failed this young man. He should get a refund.

[Core Shot]

Goodbye


It’s been fun

[The AD]

we are so f'd

https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1...078000128?s=20

You can always count on college kids to bring the dumb.

[Mofro261]

Yeah you posted at least the start of that before. I'd be interested to see some data. There is unquestionably a lot of speculation in that recap but that doesn't necessarily reflect on the original piece. I can say is that pieces generally don't get removed because they're so good. Why that one was removed is worth looking into or at least considering.

weird, still available for me.

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imp...16-03-2020.pdf

edit- didn't see mustonen already posted the same thing.

[PNWbrit]

I didn't read past this so of it has been settled, sorry.

Was it spoken about before they went? If so I'd be telling them to go find a new place for a few weeks then show me the test with a negative result and I'll let you back in.

Pretty sure that would be illegal in any jurisdiction in the US.

[SirVicSmasher]

we are so f'd

https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1...078000128?s=20

How did those idiots get into college in the first place?

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[BmillsSkier]

How did those idiots get into college in the first place?

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I think he's on the fencing team at USC.

[Ted Striker]

So I'm looking at the front door of Costco, and they're limiting the number of people inside, so there's a line outside and everyone's about a foot apart! Fucking hell.

[gravitylover]

Pretty sure that would be illegal in any jurisdiction in the US.

Yeah but if you were able to argue that was the only way you could reasonably protect your family I don't think there's a jury that would convict. I'm probably wrong but I'd have a tough time not making that decision.

[Ski220]

I think it's more the motive our president needs to label something. Why not call it CoVid-19 ? China might get upset. Who's going to pay our bills and ship us medical equipment then ?

Why do you think he has been trying to decouple us from an adversarial trading partner? People ,wake up and read the tea leaves.

[Meadow Skipper]

How about “Chinese Rat Flu” ?

Can we just settle on Ching Chong Flu and be done with it?

Tensions are rising here, but I got a much needed laugh from these.

we are so f'd

https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1...078000128?s=20

But now I’m not laughing.

[rideit]

Pretty sure that would be illegal in any jurisdiction in the US.

Ain’t no legal when there ain’t no lease

[The SnowShow]

How did those idiots get into college in the first place?

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Probably some shit SEC college.