Coronapony · 6:55pm Mar 10th, 2020
Soooo, anyone freaking out and running around madly like ants after somebody kicked in their anthill and then set it on fire?
Because I'm rather conflicted between being amused by the whole frantic panic which allows me to troll on a scale beyond my wildest dreams and manipulate the entire globe to my whims (such that my ascendance to World Emperor in 2032 is now utterly assured), and annoyed that people are still such primitive reactionary monkeys chattering madly in the trees flinging poo around.
I mean, seriously, if we'd had this level of paranoia in 2009 around the H1N1 flu, the whole planet would have ground to a halt.
Meanwhile, a million people a year die from malaria and no one gives a rat's ass.
Why must humanity constantly try to convince me it's not fit to survive?
It's not even like it's even a particularly deadly virus. Thing is everyone is horribly misinformed about it due to China (well mostly just the CCP) being rampart liars about everything surrounding it so everyone is operating on pure speculation.
I won't be worried until a hear a crier going by my window calling "Bring out yer dead!"
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"But I don't want to go on the cart!"
I can't help but feel that if they were actually trying to convince you of that, that they'd have failed.
5217481 Imagine the sheer chaos if this WAS as deadly as the Plague! I think half the planet would be on fire. The other half would already be ashes.
Anyway, saw the latest report out of South Korea, where they're doing A LOT of population-level testing. They're finding many many more low-symptom and asymptomatic carriers, bringing the actual mortality rate there down to 0.6%, which is about what I expect the reality to be. And, again, it's deadliness is almost totally among the elderly and those with lung/immune problems. It's very similar to the pattern of old viral pneumonia epidemics, just sneakier since such a high fraction of people show few symptoms, so it can spread much more before being noticed.
Once we get test kit production ramped up, more people will be identified and told to stay home until cleared. That will drastically slow the spread. All the fear-mongering of exponential spread assumes everyone carrying it will be coughing all over everyone. Nope, that phase is over. Everyone knows about it now. The cases are already plateauing, and dropping, in several countries. Which means the containment is working. There will likely be a few breakouts here and there as belligerent people refuse to stay home or hide their illness, but overall it's going to begin declining in the developed world.
Africa has the most risk of a wide-spread infection, since so many countries there are in disarray. The odd thing is that it HASN'T popped up there in large numbers yet. There are many Chinese companies in Africa now, with a great deal of travel, yet infection rates there are quite low, with only 19 confirmed in all of sub-Saharan Africa thus far (as of noontime 3-10-2020). Could there be a natural resistance due to common infections with a similar but much milder virus (similar to the immunity to smallpox granted by a former infection with cowpox).
Anyway, I'm just hoping my vacation flight won't be cancelled in April. I have flight insurance (first time I've ever been glad I spent the extra dough on it!), but if I miss this chance, I don't have the time to schedule another trip this year. It's to see the lions again... but I hear the zoo may have bowed to animal rights group pressure and don't allow people to pet the big cats anymore.
If so... I shall make a demonstration out of PETA of what happens to those who TRULY piss me off.
5217491 *WHACK* He's died.
5217514 No, that wouldn't be as hard as you think. Humanity's come rather close several times, but always managed to pull back just before I push the button to release Harvey Cthulhu from his bubble.
Conspiracy theory time: What do you think are the chances are that this whole thing was a deliberate act by the Chinese government to draw attention away from the Hong Kong protesters?
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Agreed on the whole topic and post.
You know how they are trying to make it sound like is a whole new plague or something, but all that you need to do to both prevent and heal quickly from it is to take Vitamin C.
Fun fact: Swine Flu actually did kill an objectively alarming number of people, it's just that the regular flu does that too and nobody notices.
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I'm not sure I'm willing to give them that much credit. Now, deliberately spreading the virus in an attempt to kill off said protesters... (Yes, I know about the low fatality rate. That's the joke)
Well I am freaking out a little, since my country is getting 1000+ infected people per day and everything is on lockdown.
5217527 Nah, they'd have no idea how the virus would behave in the general population. And releasing it where it showed up... they would have risked wiping themselves out if it turned out to be too deadly.
I surmise they were playing with coronaviruses in the bioweapons research facility in the city (which is like a baseball field-distance away from the meat market... real geniuses over there) and thanks to their notoriously-shoddy safety protocols, it slipped out. That would explain their initial desperation to hush it up, then the absolute freakout when they realized they'd lost containment. They couldn't know at first exactly which virus had escaped.
It's a perfect example of why bioweapons are basically Self-Assured Destruction rather than Mutually-Assured Destruction. You have no hope of controlling a living weapon.
5217559 The diagnoses are going to up for a while, because more people are getting tested. Like I said, 80% of the people infected show so few symptoms they don't even suspect they have it. And that percentage may be even higher.
We'll see what the real numbers are in a month or so when the large-scale population-wide tests start getting results.
5217535 And that's the point. There are a number of infectious disease which kill far more people than this one has EVERY YEAR, and they get little to no media coverage. This is so obviously being used as propaganda, even Pravda would be ashamed of itself.
I have recently identified the NPC gene! Now to begin my diabolical work! MUWAH HA HA!!
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Well, on the bright side it wasn't anything close to the T-Virus.
Now that would've been a shitty way to go.
I for one am so damn sick of hearing about it near 24/7 for the past couple months. And I'm not losing my head over it and fully expect everyone else to be looking quite silly once the dust settles in the coming year.
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I'm just assuming massive incompetence on the part of literally everyone, which is the same thing you're doing.
5217650 Absolutely. I don't even think it'll take a year. By summer, either the antiviral drug Gilead is testing will be approved and they'll be making a mint shipping hundreds of millions of doses all over the planet, or the vaccine will be ready... and Gilead might be making a second mint off that too.
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Time to invest in Gilead Pharmaceutical stock.
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Its not like the cats even care, I don't know what the big to do is
5217669 It's a nerd joke. There are several NPC genes which are involved in cholesterol transport. The joke is that the mutant gene causes the SJWs to transport too much cholesterol into their brains, so their heads are full of lard.
You-you have to be as smart as us "Rick & Morty" fans to comprehend such... URRRRRP... high-high level humor! (the worst elitists ever)
5217717 Animal rights people want NO ANIMALS AT ALL in captivity, including pets. They even have a twisted mantra 'better dead than bred', meaning they'd prefer all the animals be dead than breeding in captivity. They attack one thing after another that they dislike, until it's all destroyed.
But of course they do NOTHING about actual poaching and illegal animal parts trading, because THOSE people shoot back.
Kind of like what Hollywood SJWs have done to Star Wars, Star Trek, Doctor Who, Terminator... seeing a pattern with leftists as a whole?
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There is a big difference between knowledge and intelligence. A deficit of the former is known as "ignorance" and is dealt with in the manner you did. A deficit of the latter is known as "stupidity" and the closest thing to a cure for that is much the same as the 'cure' for zombification.
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I mean, far as I've heard thats mostly just PETA, who even other animal rights groups think are shitheads. I haven't heard any group other than them say things like that. Although the problem being that they're the LOUDEST, which makes people THINK they speak for the masses.
(As an aside, Star Trek and Doctor Who have pretty much always been heavily leftist, even as far back as the very begining. The difference now is the lack of good writing, leaving you with a pile of half baked moral preaching and metaphors without the metaphors)
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5217846 There are PETA types pretty much infiltrating every animal rights group now. They're just the ones who are more subtle and use people's innate fears, lack of knowledge, and emotions to drive the agenda forward.
As such, none of it can work on me, as I know everything.
5217863 My Troll powers just increased to... 1 million.
Yeah, my observations have basically consisted of "Over here we have various sources I particularly trust, including a close friend who works in the medical field, who appear to be saying that it's not that an especially fundamentally big a deal (outside China, at least) in proportion with the amount they know about it. And over here we have the bits of mass media filtering through my lack of interest in consuming the mass of the mass media, which are... not."
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And from what I've heard, children are actually statistically less likely to be hit hard by it.
Hope your vacation goes off well!
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What, the Western Mainstream Media, engage in propaganda? How could you possibly believe such a thing?! Clearly you've been looking at unapproved sources, and maybe even... thinking and spotting discrepancies in the approved narratives! You know you'll never be a good
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I did just earlier today see someone remarking that they'd noticed a curious accompaniment of coronavirus-fear-mongering news stories by broadcasters being accompanied by advertisements from companies that would likely profit from people having such fear.
Though I must admit I've not seen them myself, as that would likely require extensive exposure to a: mainstream broadcast media and b: advertisements, specifically on same.
5217976 With Gilead, they just happen to have an antiviral drug already developed which showed significant activity against this COVID-19, and they're also working very quickly on the vaccine.
I'd wager many drug companies are. The one who gets a effective vaccine out first is guaranteed massive profits, they're going to be able to skip through much of the normal red tape and excessive testing. The whole clinical trial process will be drastically sped through, meaning they'll spend much less money developing it than is typically required.
It's a goose laying golden eggs, and Gilead has a history of knowing not to kill those, as they proved with the anti-HCV drug they created called Sovaldi (which also shot their stock through the roof and made them the new big player in pharmaceuticals). They've needed something new for a while now, since successfully treating HCV and new drugs by other companies have led to Sovaldi's decline in sales as HCV cases fall.
So, they're going to be dumping everything they've got into getting the vaccine done first.
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Ah, didn't know that. Never let a good crisis go to waste, sounds like. And I can't imagine they had enough pull to start this in the first place, but I'll bet a few generous gifts to media executives would cost a lot less than the usual testing process and be a lot better for sales.
5218005 Apparently calling it the 'Chinese coronavirus' is racist...
You know, like the Spanish Flu? The Hong Kong Flu?
Oh wait, Trump wasn't President, so it wasn't racist when the media labelled THOSE pandemics based on the region of origin.
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And I don't know much about the Hong Kong Flu, but the Spanish Flu didn't even originate in Spain. It just, as I understand it, got called that because Spain, being neutral in WWI, reported it instead of covering it up as both the Entente and Central Powers did (don't want to lower war morale with the truth, you know...).
5218643 Oh I know, it just means calling it the Spanish flu was the most racist thing possible, since it actually started in the USA and WOODROW WILSON, DEMOCRAT ULTRA-PROGRESSIVE hid the truth, let the virus spread globally, and threatened to arrest reporters and health officials who tried to warn about it.
Kinda like what China did from Dec to January, until Coronachan had spread already.
And so we see that authoritarianism always fails miserably. Especially when combined with socialism or any of its bastard offspring ideologies.
On a note: Donald is taking quite strong steps to contain the virus, stepping up containment as we see where it's popped up, and giving calm, common sense measures to stop it from spreading any further..
And the left and media? Frantically screaming and flailing around, telling us tens of millions shall surely die in the next 5 minutes... oh, and absolutely everything Orange Man does is racist. But it's also not doing enough! (?????)
It's pretty obvious who the leaders are versus the hyperventilating loons on the sidewalk with the 'End is Nigh' signs.
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Donald still can't actually do anything, because having a single person who can dictate how the country works is the definition of a dictatorship and was never how the US actually worked. As you pointed out, it was never how any functioning country worked.
But yeah, the government has been on the ball and Trump has uncharacteristically bothered to read the cue cards he's handed by the people he pays to know what they're talking about. (He's just barely smart enough to realize that he's an idiot, and just barely rich enough to pay for people to do all his thinking for him. This is the reason for the disconnect between what he says and what he does.)
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I believe I've found a solution that pleases everyone
5218837 Going to vote for Uncle Joe, the guy who can't even debate for more than 7 minutes at a time?
You know, you guys had Andrew Yang, a guy who made a lot of sense. I didn't agree with all his ideas, but I got the sense he genuinely wanted to help all Americans, and wouldn't have feared for my rights with him in office.
Why'd you pick the oldest, whitest, craziest people in your primary?
Thanks to everyone going absolutely bonkers this time around, the virus is going to find itself running out of accessible hosts rather quickly.
A note I posted on Yahoo: I remember the H1N1 of 2009. 6 months went by with the media downplaying it. By the time the President at the time declared there was a pandemic and it was serious, 10K Americans were already dead. 575,000 people worldwide died. 10 million or more total infections.
It's currently around 125,000 infections worldwide. This isolation, though tough on everyone's life for now, will prevent millions of additional infections and save hundreds of thousands of lives.
This is a SMART THING TO DO. It just so happens it is also the compassionate thing to do.
A cold, cruel person would just shrug and say, "Eh, it's mostly killing off the old and weak anyway. Natural selection at work! We'll save hundreds of billions in long-term health care costs!" That'd be something we could expect from the eugenics movement created by the 1920's progressives.
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A friendly reminder that I'm all the way up here in ****ing Canada, and have nothing whatsoever to do with whatever you're implicating me in. And if you point out Trudeau again, I'll point out that you pointing that out is exactly equivalent to what I'm doing again. If we're not going to have a court jester, then it should be because everyone is already making fun of everyone else regardless of relative location or social status. And I propose we keep doing that.
5219131 Everyone knows Canadians don't exist.
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Like Australians
5219567 Australia?! You mean the land of the Easter Bunny has all his giant mutant bunny armies with pouches? (That's how they carry the eggs for all the kids!)
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No, they apparently avoid them at all costs.
This blog post aged poorly
5222845 How so? People are still freaking out irrationally.
We've confirmed a ton of people are asymptomatic, which is how it spread so fast without anyone noticing. The death rate is mainly among the elderly and those with preexisting conditions, and thus far only one child has died.
My point still stands, there were previous pandemics that were even more lethal and DIDN'T have everyone hiding in their basements. The Great Influenza of 1918 (Spanish Flu) killed 50 MILLION people, likely more. It came right at the end of WWI, which had the world already reeling. Yet it didn't collapse the globe.
People today as a whole are very fearful. They will NOT withstand any serious threats. Terrorists and would-be dictators are paying close attention, for they now know how little it will take to seize control of the world.
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I have to say, I still have no clear idea of what's going on.
I usually make my own research and listen to those I consider more trusteworthy, but in this case I have heard so many conflicting things, so much conflicting data from many different sources that I still don't even understand if this virus is deadlier or not than normal influenza!
At this point the only thing I hope is that they find a cure quickly because I am very tired of all of this.
5223106 It's MORE deadly than regular influenza. It's just about as deadly as the 2009 H1N1. It's less deadly than the 1918 Spanish Flu, and tends to be fatal in the elderly, whereas influenza is frequently more deadly in young people due to a condition known as cytokine storm, which does not often affect the elderly with their slower immune responses.