The Virus Outbreak Thread

A lot of people depend on the elderly for financial support. Should they die, you can expect a massive increase in poverty and corruption.

@Badheart  
Assuming that they don’t have life insurance.

@Badheart  
I depend on the elderly for advice.

India could become the most infected country in the world on the long forecast.
 
Meanwhile approximately 99% of us here having the virus are only of mild symptoms.

Maybe the huge number of daily cases we’ve been seeing lately could be the very late test results from weeks or months ago.

@Searly Sear  
I wonder if they’re also adding in antibody tests to the results - if I recall correctly, there was a bit of a controversy a few weeks ago that some study was inflating the active case numbers by including positive antibody tests.

I can happily say that New Zealand has kicked Covert 19 off our island!As a result we also went down to level one, so everyone is free to do anything they could before corona except go overseas. I hope the rest of the world can do this soon too. :)

Fuck these protesters.

@Badheart  
Here’s what I say to you.

@Badheart  
Why don’t you like the protests, yes they do increase corona cases but if it’s not done now then when?

@Background Pony #1FCE  
Do you seriously think that spreading this virus will end racism?
 
You’ll be happy to know that I might have it.

My mother is here with me

@Background Pony #1FCE  
He’s right. The protests will do nothing but spread the virus further and undo a lot of the progress that was made.

So apparently protesting lets you ignore the quarantine rules. I can picture it now:
 
“Um.. Alright. But uh… I don’t know what you expect to find in a simple, uh… neighborhood… BLM protest.”
 
“Protest eh? Well I just have one question. What kind of protest is filled with rambunctious yahoos and hot jazz music at 1 AM.”
 
“Um… oh… The… best damn protest in TOWN!”
 
“YEAH!”

@Badheart  
I was saying that if it’s not done now then would it ever be done? Yes people really should be at least attempting social distancing, but they seem to have somewhat forgotten about the virus. And no, I’m not happy to know you might have it.

Congrats to NZ I guess…

@Searly Sear  
“All lockdowns in NZ lifted. Coronavirus eradicated.” And thus begins the countdown to it starting there all over again. Only takes 1 asymptomatic person.

@Searly Sear  
@MagpulPony
 
Aunty Jacinda has already begun the historical revisionism about how NZ “went hard and went early” despite that being most definitely not the case. I know because I said in early March that travel restrictions should be in place when they weren’t. “Hard and early” would’ve been locking the boarders in February at the latest, not mid-March.

@Background Pony #1FCE  
You know they’re using the virus as a weapon, strange time to act like this.
 
When I myself feel the pain I did earlier it gets personal.

According to economists, we entered this pandemic-recession back in February.

Leaving this post about India becoming the highest cases in the world within the next 2 months, then I’ll come back quoting this to see if it does. No surprise for a 1.3 billion pop nation.

Several recent studies have shown that widespread mask usage would likely crush a second or third wave of covid.
 
But meanwhile the inbred masses scream about “muh feeedums and mah feefees”.

Kane County, Utah just entered the green “new normal” phase of our reopening while the rest of the state is still at yellow “low risk.”
 
No major cities down there, but we have some state and national parks as well as Lake Powell in Kane County, Utah.

@Zincy  
Recent studies? That was determined over 4 months ago.