The Virus Outbreak Thread

@Typhoon2000
 
Bro May 1st feels like a lifetime away for those of us under lockdown.

China is also now deleting the data about the virus that paints them in a negative light. What a truly disgusting display of corruption. Cause a global disaster and over a hundred thousand deaths and all you can focus on is censorship. Fuck the CCP, honestly.

@Typhoon2000  
And just a few weeks ago, you were concerned about the world essentially becoming a police state because of the lockdowns.

FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK!!!
 
Healthcare Expert Says Concerts Won’t Return Until “Fall 2021 at the Earliest”

@Typhoon2000  
That would be unsustainable.

@MagpulPony  
But what that health expert said about concerts and large gatherings

Understand the Mainstream Media in America also lied about the Virus.

@Typhoon2000  
@MagpulPony  
@Typhoon2000  
Australia is going until June 29 at the bare minimum, the Prime Minister said 6 months back in late March, but it probably won’t happen until a vaccine is available, which is at least October 2021, which is absolutely not sustainable.
 
Though it’s working, our total death toll so far is 54, and most if not all are elderly; compare that to the US having 2000 deaths a day, nearly three times Australia’s total relative to population.

That 2021 prediction is making me hyperventilate

@Typhoon2000  
Believe me, the 2021 prediction for the vaccine is a low estimate AFAICT; based on how easily reinfection occurs it might even be physically impossible to vaccinate against. Now you can be paranoid.

@Wiimeiser  
The US also has 303 million more people than Australia and much larger cities which leads to that.

@Wiimeiser  
Yup, I have that blunt feeling that we’re never gonna go back to normal, The harsh reality is that we won’t have a vaccine and even that being made is incredibly unlikely

@Wiimeiser  
That’s when emerging technologies come into play. That would be the kind of thing that forces new research.

@TheHappySpaceman  
Well so much for the 2 concerts I was going to in June, and the rescheduled Planet Comicon and another con I was going to in August. And next year’s HarmonyCon. That will kill all sporting events, races, wrestling events, everything that requires a large amount of fans to make money and survive. We may in fact be facing Great Depression 2.0.
 
FUCK ALL OF THIS. And FUCK THE CCP for covering it up/ hiding the virus spread.

@lonewolf  
The CCP needs to just fucking die tbh.

@MagpulPony  
HAD THEY NOT COVERED IT UP, NONE OF THIS FUCKING BULLSHIT WOULD HAVE EVER HAPPENED! WINNIE THE POOH TOOK EVERYTHING FROM US!

@Wiimeiser
 
No FTL and time travel are physically impossible. Curing illnesses are something we’re pretty good at doing today, and are getting better at every year. Some of the good news tidbits I saw in between coronavirus coverage was that two people have been cured of HIV. Besides cancer, HIV was considered the disease you definitely wanted to avoid, yet we’re closing in on cures for both.
 
Coronavirus behaves like the flu, and will be cured and treated like the flu in the not too distant future.
 
@MagpulPony
 
Quantum computing would be enormously helpful for things like this, as they’re exceptionally good at searching through available data and separating signal from noise. It’s why there’s lots of discussion of quantum cryptography, because quantum computers are much better than conventional computers at beating entropy through brute force.

@MagpulPony  
If vaccines fail, Nanotechnology sounds like the fallback. Worst case scenario we’ll have to deal with mandatory cybernetic implants from birth.

@Ebalosus  
Stop comparing the Coronavirus with the Flu, This is TEN TIMES WORSE  
@Wiimeiser  
Exactly

@Ebalosus  
Pretty sure the US is already doing that. We have the most powerful supercomputer in the world doing something like that. Need to find the article again.

@Wiimeiser
 
You don’t want to be JC Denton or Adam Jenson? Who wants to play Deus Ex with me?
 
@Typhoon2000
 
Given that the coronavirus is a strain of influenza…

The Great Depression But Worse is 99.9% likely to happen

@MagpulPony
 
It’s believed that the NSA has the best quantum computers in the world (built by IBM of all people; go figure), though if indeed they do, they must only use it for super-serious SIGINT because if it was easily available the FBI and CIA wouldn’t be bitching and moaning to congress over encryption.