OT: Coronavirus chat

[Foppberg]

Director of National Public Health here has been challenged recently about that...originally he said that we shouldn't wear masks because we don't know how to do it, false sense of security and we'd touch our face too much and repeated all the WHO directions about it...but lately he admitted that infected people should absolutely wear masks.

Problem is not everyone is tested and not everyone is showing symptoms. So in the end everyone should wear masks.

But obviously we just don't have them and we should keep them for the nurses and doctors.

I can understand why they said that BTW, imagine if people ordered masks at the beginning like they acted with toilet paper.

I can't believe how unprepared we were. Countries will change after this, everyone wants to be self-sufficient now.

Sure hope so, but we are a pretty damn stupid species.

 

[UncleRisto]

Countries will change after this, everyone wants to be self-sufficient now.

Nah. Already can't do it by a long shot.

 

[Avs44]

Director of National Public Health here has been challenged recently about that...originally he said that we shouldn't wear masks because we don't know how to do it, false sense of security and we'd touch our face too much and repeated all the WHO directions about it...but lately he admitted that infected people should absolutely wear masks.

Problem is not everyone is tested and not everyone is showing symptoms. So in the end everyone should wear masks.

But obviously we just don't have them and we should keep them for the nurses and doctors.

I can understand why they said that BTW, imagine if people ordered masks at the beginning like they did with toilet paper.

I can't believe how unprepared we were. Countries will change after this, everyone wants to be self-sufficient now.

Sadly, I doubt it. There will be talk. But nobody is actually going to want to cough up the sort of funding it takes. We’ll go back to shortsighted thinking.

 

[Hasbro]

Why was [SARS] wiped out in about a year, while some experts warn that Covid-19 may be around forever? Because SARS usually didn’t become contagious until several days after symptoms appeared. This meant that, as four British infectious disease experts wrote in 2004, “actions taken during this period to isolate or quarantine ill patients can effectively interrupt transmission.” They proposed adding another variable to disease-transmission models: the proportion of transmission occurring prior to symptoms.

Source

 

[Foppberg]

Balthazar shows a ray of hope and it's immediately shot down. Poor optimistic bastard.

 

[UncleRisto]

Balthazar shows a ray of hope and it's immediately shot down. Poor optimistic bastard.

Easy for Americans to talk about self-sufficiency.

Besides, I want pineapple and shit.

 

[Foppberg]

Easy for Americans to talk about self-sufficiency.

Besides, I want pineapple and shit.

I think he's Canadian actually. Québécois to be exact.

 

[UncleRisto]

I think he's Canadian actually. Québécois to be exact.

Same same.

 

[Foppberg]

Same same.

Ya cheeky Russian

 

[UncleRisto]

Ya cheeky Russian

Aaand a grave insult to 5 million people.

 

[Metallo]

Why was [SARS] wiped out in about a year, while some experts warn that Covid-19 may be around forever? Because SARS usually didn’t become contagious until several days after symptoms appeared. This meant that, as four British infectious disease experts wrote in 2004, “actions taken during this period to isolate or quarantine ill patients can effectively interrupt transmission.” They proposed adding another variable to disease-transmission models: the proportion of transmission occurring prior to symptoms.

Source

The fact that they didn’t already have that in the models is unbelievable to me. COVID-19 is not the first virus that is contagious before symptoms, right?

 

[Murzu]

Ya cheeky Russian

How dare you.

 

[Hasbro]

Easy for Americans to talk about self-sufficiency.

Besides, I want pineapple and shit.

Somebody should have thought of that an conquered a contenent then!

 

[Foppberg]

Aaand a grave insult to 5 million people.

Worth it

 

[Murzu]

Worth it

Take it back.

 

[UncleRisto]

Worth it

Why don't you just fire off a take it back.

 

[Foppberg]

Why don't you just fire off a take it back.

To you? Never

 

[JLo217]

Hope everyone is holding up okay. We just got hit with salary cuts today and quite a few good contractors/interns are being let go with a lot of projects getting pushed out super far.

 

[VikingAv]

Ya cheeky Russian

Oh, no. You..., you wen't there, huh? Pretty sure the ghost of Simo Häyhä already have you in his crosshair.

 

[Foppberg]

Oh, no. You..., you wen't there, huh? Pretty sure the ghost of Simo Häyhä already have you in his crosshair.

I'll go toe to toe with him

 

[UncleRisto]

I'll go toe to toe with him

Yes, I assume his are badly frostbitten.

 

[Pokecheque]

https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/sarsguard/n12013

 

[Sheet]

Or maybe history was contrived. As is obvious because the victors write the history anyway. Go ahead and argue that last point and try to look educated.

The victors write a part of the history. I would talk to you about the importance of multiple sources and opposition research but I’m not going to waste my time on it. If fact based, credible sources of information was something you were interested in you wouldn’t have the views you do.

The fact that you think “the victors write the history” is some sort of unassailable statement is probably a strong indication you should put more effort into your own education before you try to talk down to others.

You’re struggling real hard to come off as an arm chair philosopher with a wide open world view, looking down on the rest of us sheeple, and you’re falling short and landing somewhere closer to conspiracy theorist without the back ground knowledge to understand the subject matter blindly drinking the click bait kool-aid.

You probably click on all of the “Ten things western medicine doesn’t want you to know” ads.

 

[Balthazar]

Without a coronavirus vaccine, America can’t even think about bringing sports back

 

[CharlesPuck]

Without a coronavirus vaccine, America can’t even think about bringing sports back

I feel like there will be plenty of people who still go. There’s plenty of people who think it’s just a flu and overblown still...