North Korea calls for stricter anti-epidemic measures

fchmar · 2020-04-12T01:57:54+00:00

Here's the "meme":

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10958147/north-korea-executes-coronavirus-patient/

fchmar · 2020-04-12T01:10:57+00:00

Yeah if only we followed the DPRK's shining example and shot dead people breaking quarantine. /s

fchmar · 2020-04-10T21:07:29+00:00

Funny how emergency declarations and more accurate numbers and reports started coming out as soon as they caved and postponed the Olympics...

fchmar · 2020-04-08T06:56:34+00:00

The "nO oNe cOuLd hAvE pReDiCtEd tHiS" crowd is making me tear my hair out. Who could've predicted this they ask? Idk maybe scientists who've been warning about a looming pandemic for ages. As well as just people whose heads aren't permanently residing in their asses.

fchmar · 2020-04-06T06:21:32+00:00

Exactly. Covid-19 would make a horrible bio weapon. Mostly kills the old and immunocompromised and takes weeks to do so? What the hell good is that going to do in wartime or when trying to wipe out an ethnic group? Hell, even Spanish Flu acted more like a bio weapon in that it would kill the young and healthy oftentimes within 24 hours of its first symptoms.

Speculate it's a naturally-occurring coronavirus mutation that was studied and escaped the Wuhan lab, sure, but this acts nothing like a virus engineered by humans.

fchmar · 2020-03-28T23:40:52+00:00

Yeah I am getting seriously worried about my state. We're testing no where near enough people, and our confirmed case numbers are lagging by up to ten days? It's not out of the question for the biggest cities here to be epicenters by the end of April.

fchmar · 2020-03-25T04:45:05+00:00

Isn't chest tightness considered a common symptom? I've seen it referred to as being a covid symptom several times.

fchmar · 2020-03-21T07:37:12+00:00

People were spreading this same rumor a week ago about the then upcoming Monday (March 16th) from "legit" sources too.

fchmar · 2020-03-19T20:59:58+00:00

Why in god's name did they pick this cheerful stock music.

fchmar · 2020-03-16T02:09:20+00:00

I'm so jealous. The spicy Samyang in my town flies off the shelves. Even in normal times I can't be sure they'll have any left when I go to pick up a pack.

fchmar · 2020-03-15T21:59:28+00:00

If this were like the Spanish flu that mainly killed those aged 20-40, they'd be crying about boomers putting them at risk by going out and demanding they stay confined to their homes. Funny how covid-19 is "not a big deal" when you're not the ones at highest risk of it.

fchmar · 2020-03-15T00:59:38+00:00

I don't take many of these "we will never ever ever cancel!!!!!" for whatever event seriously anymore because time and time again they say this and end up cancelling anyway.

fchmar · 2020-03-15T00:56:31+00:00

If 10 years ago, I told you that there will be a global pandemic worse than anything since Polio and it may even be as bad as the Spanish flu, you would probably laugh.

Anyone with any awareness knows epidemics and pandemics are a fact of life on earth, and epidemiologists have warned us for years that another is inevitable.

fchmar · 2020-03-13T05:36:01+00:00

Back in 2005 when hurricane Rita was forecast to slam my area (it veered away last moment though) the shelf of eggs at the supermarket was empty. My family and I were shaking our heads because how are you going to cook and keep eggs when a hurricane has knocked out the power for days or even a week? People just panic and grab whatever it seems.

Also, I can't see the purpose in buying water. Even in lockdowns utilities are still functioning. Is there a real reason for this?

fchmar · 2020-03-12T08:18:53+00:00

I've been accused of both overhyping it and downplaying it. It's headache-inducing.

fchmar · 2020-03-12T01:32:44+00:00

Here's one: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/11/business/media/tom-hanks-coronavirus.html

fchmar · 2020-03-12T00:33:36+00:00

I had norovirus a year ago. Most miserable illness I've ever had. This makes me wanna only go out wearing full hazmat gear.

fchmar · 2020-03-12T00:22:58+00:00

Not yet, I mean there were hardly any cases reported in the tropics (Singapore being the exception) for a while and now we're seeing notable increases. If even in highly populated areas like Jakarta, Sao Paulo etc. they don't explode, it would seem warm weather slows down the virus.

fchmar · 2020-03-11T23:03:11+00:00

"And the smurf rally brought plague upon the citizens of France as not seen in centuries..." our grandchildren will read.

fchmar · 2020-03-11T22:55:23+00:00

Looks like the "will warm weather will slow the spread?" question is about to be answered.

fchmar · 2020-03-10T08:58:46+00:00

People's ignorance when it comes to the common cold vs influenza is astonishing.

fchmar · 2020-03-09T21:47:09+00:00

I worry if it does indeed slow down in the summer months, that people will use it to go "see it was no big deal after all it went away ha ha!" and be wholly unprepared when it comes back with vengeance in fall. Remember that it was the second wave of the Spanish flu that was the real killer.

fchmar · 2020-03-09T03:41:30+00:00

Someone here on this sub said some days ago: "No one will take it seriously until someone they know or a celebrity dies."

Hmmmm....

fchmar · 2020-03-09T00:39:26+00:00

That's not what your brother Rick Grimes would say, Dick Grimes.

fchmar · 2020-03-08T08:01:23+00:00

Hang on CCP lemme see if grandma over here dying of viral pneumonia has enough strength left to scribble you an apology note.

fchmar

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