Fear and Loathing, a Rat Flu Odyssey

**Benny Profane** · 03-28-2020, 09:37 AM

Our modern, contemporary moment that is much like Marie Antionette's Let Them Eat Cake line.

https://twitter.com/revrrlewis/statu...62967555870721

**Adolf Allerbush** · 03-28-2020, 09:47 AM

Originally Posted by LeeLau

Hard to say really

100k cases yesterday approx. But recall har due to under testing who really knows the real number? That 100k doubles every 2.5 days on a 32% increase.

10 days - 1.6million cases

Let's take the lower end fatality rate of 0.5% - 8,000 fatalities

Totally. I'm positive that my estimate will end up being way off. But if not, remember, a random environmental scientist dude on a ski forum had it calculated in late March!

**seano732** · 03-28-2020, 09:56 AM

**LeeLau** · 03-28-2020, 09:58 AM

Originally Posted by Adolf Allerbush

Totally. I'm positive that my estimate will end up being way off. But if not, remember, a random environmental scientist dude on a ski forum had it calculated in late March!

Ha. True. Here's a breakdown by country and by age from Oxford University fyi https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/global...atality-rates/

**Hott Butt Mud** · 03-28-2020, 10:00 AM

Originally Posted by Benny Profane

Our modern, contemporary moment that is much like Marie Antionette's Let Them Eat Cake line.

https://twitter.com/revrrlewis/statu...62967555870721

I don't even understand the point she was trying to make here. Everyone already knows the current situation we are in. Everyone who has a functioning brain realizes you can't get your fucking nails done right now.

**The SnowShow** · 03-28-2020, 10:01 AM

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...on/5080571002/

**muted** · 03-28-2020, 10:12 AM

Originally Posted by Name Redacted

New test, 9 mins for positive, 13 for negative, 50,000 tests being sent out this week.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/bruceja.../#3bb446f96086

When the storm settles I wonder if these tests will part of our daily lives. Like to fly, you have to get tested while in security. Go the baseball game? Test at the gates.

**Bunion 2020** · 03-28-2020, 10:15 AM

Originally Posted by Hott Butt Mud

I don't even understand the point she was trying to make here. Everyone already knows the current situation we are in. Everyone who has a functioning brain realizes you can't get your fucking nails done right now.

She and always has been an airhead eyecandy designed to get old white guys to watch Fox. Along with most of the fox stable of blonde airheads.

When the storm settles I wonder if these tests will part of our daily lives. Like to fly, you have to get tested while in security. Go the baseball game? Test at the gates.

Until we build herd immunity or this fizzles I think so.

**Ottime** · 03-28-2020, 10:18 AM

Originally Posted by Benny Profane

I just started a road ride out of my town's H.S. parking lot, and this was the scene when I got back to my car. Nice nearly 60 degree sunny day. All girls, one to a car, parked about ten feet from each other, chattering. It's a new thing for white girls.

Seems like a great way to not go insane and not see your friends.

Mom: “How was seeing your friends honey”

Daughter: “Was a good time except for the creepy older guy on a bike taking pictures of us.”

**splat** · 03-28-2020, 10:34 AM

Originally Posted by Cono Este

R.I. National Guard looks for New Yorkers. I guess they’re not doing enough themselves.

https://nypost.com/2020/03/28/rhode-...avirus-refuge/

Sorry, I just had to.

**altasnob** · 03-28-2020, 10:34 AM

In Seattle a few of the homeless shelters are in full lock down for 14 days. That means none of the homeless can go in, or out, of the facility for 14 days. And some of the staff has volunteered to be locked up with the homeless in the facility for 14 days. Seems like a good idea, but after 14 days, it will just be back to business as normal and the virus will spread.

**Meathelmet** · 03-28-2020, 10:39 AM

Originally Posted by TBS

Abbot delivering 50k tests per day is huge. That means in about 30 days we can reach the testing level of S Korea (0.5% of population) and start taking the next steps to sort the sick from the healthy from the immune.

Ya can’t control what ya can’t measure

And to add that, an antibody tester as well: Who has gone through the C.
That would be crucial for individuals in healthcare etc so the resources could be utilised better.

**gretch6364** · 03-28-2020, 10:41 AM

China reporting around 3,300 deaths and claiming no new cases...and yet 10,000 urns were just shipped to Wuhan...right.

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**powdork** · 03-28-2020, 10:43 AM

Originally Posted by Meathelmet

And to add that, an antibody tester as well: Who has gone through the C.
That would be crucial for individuals in healthcare etc so the resources could be utilised better.

I read somewhere, and this thread moves so fast there's no way I could find the link, that the asymptomatic carriers would not have the antibodies and could still become infected. Something about the virus needing to reach the lymph nodes to elicit a response from the immune system.

Any of you epidentists know anything about that?

**skiing-in-jackson** · 03-28-2020, 10:50 AM

From a friend:

“Quarantine is like being in Vegas. You’re loosing money by the minute, you’re drinking all hours of the day and you don’t know what the date is.”

**Ted Striker** · 03-28-2020, 10:51 AM

so true

**Danno** · 03-28-2020, 10:51 AM

Originally Posted by gretch6364

China reporting around 3,300 deaths and claiming no new cases...and yet 10,000 urns were just shipped to Wuhan...right.

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I think it's fairly safe to say we can't trust China's numbers.

**Buster Highmen** · 03-28-2020, 10:53 AM

Italians:

**glademaster** · 03-28-2020, 11:05 AM

Originally Posted by skiing-in-jackson

From a friend:

“Quarantine is like being in Vegas. You’re loosing money by the minute, you’re drinking all hours of the day and you don’t know what the date is.”

Well now that it's after 10:00am here on the west coast, I think it's time for a beer.

**Benny Profane** · 03-28-2020, 11:07 AM

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/a...=pocket-newtab

**summit** · 03-28-2020, 11:13 AM

Originally Posted by gretch6364

China reporting around 3,300 deaths and claiming no new cases...and yet 10,000 urns were just shipped to Wuhan...right.

Around 1000 people normally die per month of all causes in Wuhan... perhaps 5000 in Hubei province.

PRC is not above hiding deaths... or causing deaths... commies gonna commie.

**dunfree** · 03-28-2020, 11:22 AM

China’s numbers are bullshit? Who would have predicted that?

**splat** · 03-28-2020, 11:34 AM

Epidentists (love that, powdork) - dont' forget to change from your daytime pajamas into your nighttime pajamas at 9 pm.

**Mustonen** · 03-28-2020, 11:38 AM

Originally Posted by Meathelmet

And to add that, an antibody tester as well: Who has gone through the C.
That would be crucial for individuals in healthcare etc so the resources could be utilised better.

I’m not sure it’s been confirmed how and when immunity is established. It sounds nice, but every credible seeming article I read on this has big caveats that we don’t really know how this part works with this virus.