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Coronavirus Rumors Tore This Small Town Apart

26 points by raybb 7y ago

squarefoot 7y ago
Rome, Italy here. I was at the bar this morning having probably my last coffee, since apparently from tomorrow on we'll be under sort of a nation wide curfew, and had it ruined by one bystander telling utter nonsense about foreign superpowers (USA, China, etc) creating the virus and spreading it through chemtrails. Why every damn time we think there's still hope for humanity, suddenly some idiot comes by to prove us wrong?
- vikramkr 7y ago
  Hope you're safe with the virus. The conspiracy doesn't even make sense here - superpowers created a virus to then infect, themselves? And shut their own governments and economies down? So their own wealthy elite and politicians can lose money and have to face a crisis? Like - what?
joshstrange 7y ago
Well it's a good thing that Americans aren't susceptible to misinformati... oh.. yeah... This is probably my biggest fear, not that I'll die from CORVID-19 but rather fear and panic will take over and cause people to do stupid things. Well, that and our healthcare industry being completely overwhelmed in part because we aren't taking this seriously enough ("It's just the cold, no big deal" <- I've heard that SO many times). No need to go into full blown panic but wash your damn hands and take some minor precautions. You personally might not be at a high risk for death but you can still spread it. Wash your hands for your parents, your grandparents, your aunts/uncles. Our best bet to stretch this out as long as possible as to not overwhelm our healthcare industry. We have 2.77 hospital beds per 1000 Americans and remember CORVID-19 doesn't magically remove all the other reasons people need those beds (over half are already in-use). Our government is telling us we have stockpiles of 12M N95 masks and 30M surgical masks. We have ~18M healthcare workers in the US. You can do the math. I've got a friend who is a nurse and they've been told to use each mask (N95) for 8 hours putting it in a brown paper bag while they are on break/eating. If our healthcare workers start getting sick it only makes this whole issue worse. Don't panic but dear god, wash your hands, and follow the other CDC guidelines on how to protect yourselves and others.
uranium235 7y ago
It's be nice if people didn't have to trust the government, since that always ends in failure. Like America for example, but admittedly it's a damn shame that people are not smarter than this.

26 points by raybb 7y ago

Rome, Italy here. I was at the bar this morning having probably my last coffee, since apparently from tomorrow on we'll be under sort of a nation wide curfew, and had it ruined by one bystander telling utter nonsense about foreign superpowers (USA, China, etc) creating the virus and spreading it through chemtrails. Why every damn time we think there's still hope for humanity, suddenly some idiot comes by to prove us wrong?

vikramkr 7y ago
Hope you're safe with the virus. The conspiracy doesn't even make sense here - superpowers created a virus to then infect, themselves? And shut their own governments and economies down? So their own wealthy elite and politicians can lose money and have to face a crisis? Like - what?

joshstrange 7y ago

Well it's a good thing that Americans aren't susceptible to misinformati... oh.. yeah... This is probably my biggest fear, not that I'll die from CORVID-19 but rather fear and panic will take over and cause people to do stupid things. Well, that and our healthcare industry being completely overwhelmed in part because we aren't taking this seriously enough ("It's just the cold, no big deal" <- I've heard that SO many times). No need to go into full blown panic but wash your damn hands and take some minor precautions. You personally might not be at a high risk for death but you can still spread it. Wash your hands for your parents, your grandparents, your aunts/uncles. Our best bet to stretch this out as long as possible as to not overwhelm our healthcare industry. We have 2.77 hospital beds per 1000 Americans and remember CORVID-19 doesn't magically remove all the other reasons people need those beds (over half are already in-use). Our government is telling us we have stockpiles of 12M N95 masks and 30M surgical masks. We have ~18M healthcare workers in the US. You can do the math. I've got a friend who is a nurse and they've been told to use each mask (N95) for 8 hours putting it in a brown paper bag while they are on break/eating. If our healthcare workers start getting sick it only makes this whole issue worse. Don't panic but dear god, wash your hands, and follow the other CDC guidelines on how to protect yourselves and others.

uranium235 7y ago

It's be nice if people didn't have to trust the government, since that always ends in failure. Like America for example, but admittedly it's a damn shame that people are not smarter than this.