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>Take THAT, coronavirus! :P It's really hard at this point not to feel like people deserve what's coming. The vast majority of regular Joes still don't care an
by allovernow 7y ago
>Take THAT, coronavirus! :P
It's really hard at this point not to feel like people deserve what's coming. The vast majority of regular Joes still don't care and think I'm crazy for simply telling them to be responsible and buy some non perishable goods.
Meanwhile Mecca is shut down, Italy instituted a Nationwide lockdown overnight, UK hospitals are running out of capacity, China shut down it's entire industry for two months, Independent reports Trump admin may be considering declaring a Nationwide state of emergency...I'm losing track of all the clear, obvious evidence of imminently approaching danger from literally all over the world.
- throwaway55554 7y ago> It's really hard at this point not to feel like people deserve what's coming. The vast majority of regular Joes still don't care and think I'm crazy for simply telling them to be responsible and buy some non perishable goods. Because you have a lot of so-called authority figures (in the USofA at least) telling people it's all under control. At what point will the lies become criminal?
- everybodyknows 7y agoHave officials in the US ever been prosecuted for telling voters lies that they want to hear in order to validate their own delusions? We can draw a meandering line from this tweet back through at least 2000, when a US presidential candidate dismissed his opponent's quantitative reasoning about climate change as "fuzzy math". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzzy_math_(politics) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzzy_math_(politics)
- theredbox 7y agoYou are not crazy you are simply overreacting like a typical american.
- phailhaus 7y ago> Meanwhile Mecca is shut down, Italy instituted a Nationwide lockdown overnight, UK hospitals are running out of capacity, China shut down it's entire industry for two months Those countries are not American. They are reacting reasonably to a virus that has 20x the mortality rate of the flu, with no known vaccine.
- watwut 7y agoItaly is reacting to overflown hospitals unable to deal with crises.
- dang 7y agoPlease keep nationalistic flamebait off this site. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- humaniania 7y agoYou're making a lot of inflammatory statements without providing any references to support your claims. Fearmongering does not benefit anyone.
- allovernow 7y agoIt's all over the internet at this point. Major outlets are reporting on it. Why the hell do you think the stock market tanked into recession territory? They're already calling it "Black Monday" in the news. Why would I bother continuing to post references when I only have downvotes to look forward to for my effort? Spend two minutes on Google. Do you know how many billions of dollars have been already lost to cancelled events? SXSW was cancelled. Japan has been talking about postponing the Olympics for months. What more do you need spoon-fed? It's not like you even need to do anything drastic! Just stock up on some non perishables and be prepared to stay home for a while if you can. That's literally all a responsible adult needs to be doing right now. But whatever. I'm not taking this personally. Everything will be clear in the next 1-4 weeks. We're lagging behind European countries by 10-20 days, and like a typical epidemic the growth is exponential. Things are about to get interesting locally. I certainly hope I'm wrong but the constant trickle of literature out of China since early January (in legit journals like Lancet and PubMed) paints a very dire picture.
- oarsinsync 7y ago> Why the hell do you think the stock market tanked into recession territory? They're already calling it "Black Monday" in the news. There was a small matter of oil prices dipping as a result of negotiations breaking down between Saudi Arabia and Russia, which may have played a minor role in Monday’s events. I don’t disagree with your general sentiment, but there was more to the events on Monday than a virus.
- gdy 7y agoWhy would a stock market tank because of low fuel price?
- SpicyLemonZest 7y agoIt seems pretty clear at this point that there's not going to be a shortage of nonperishable goods. Everywhere that's been hit by coronavirus, food's still available and stores are still open - the only severe shortage so far has been ICU beds. People seem more receptive (although still not universally receptive) to more helpful advice like "start washing your hands a lot more" or "don't go to any big events".
- allovernow 7y agoIf there is an outbreak, you want to avoid going to places like stores - not just for yourself but to minimize your chances of contracting the virus and exposing others. It's the socially responsible thing to do.
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- meowface 7y agoI get almost all of my non-perishable items with Amazon and Amazon Fresh (left at my door without human interaction). Not sure how much safer that is, but I imagine it's less exposure in total, if I'm careful about hand-washing.
- rasz 7y agoDelivered by a robot? or minimum wage coughing worker?
- SpicyLemonZest 7y agoIt's about risk mitigation. It's not 100% guaranteed physically impossible to pick up the virus from a delivery package, but it's a very low risk, much lower than other infection vectors most people will be exposed to. Unless you're planning to hermetically seal yourself into your home for the next 8 weeks, the risk is probably so low it's not worth thinking about.
- wpietri 7y ago> It's really hard at this point not to feel like people deserve what's coming. Please try harder. The people most harmed by this will not be the people making the dumb decisions. It'll be the people they infect. And of course their loved ones, some of whom will soon be watching caskets get lowered into the earth.
- everybodyknows 7y agoRead somewhere that funeral services are banned in Italy. Didn't see any exception for household relatives.
- wpietri 7y agoWow. That's even worse!
- whyleyc 7y ago> UK hospitals are running out of capacity. What’s your source for this statement?