Fear and Loathing, a Rat Flu Odyssey

[old goat]

I teach at a college with a large Chinese student population. The population level panic and preventive measures are pretty wild. The mask rules are serious and a big problem as there aren't enough masks. So it's very hard for some people to get basic necessities as they can't access transportation without a mask. In worse areas, everyone is on house arrest basically and social services workers are bringing necessities to the house, but there aren't enough social services workers so it makes for hungry days between deliveries.

where are you?

[huckbucket]

Are people really getting sick or is this how martial law and a major crackdown on freedom of movement starts?

On a US cruise ship docked in Japan? Take a lap.

[Mofro261]

See the story about the UK "super-infecter" guy that infected 11 other people when he stopped over in France to ski on the way back from Singapore? https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-51459210


....
Mr Walsh, who works for a firm providing gas analysis equipment, from Hove in East Sussex, caught the virus in Singapore and is thought to have infected 11 others at a French ski resort.


Five of the cases linked to Mr Walsh are in England, five are in France and one is in Majorca, Spain.
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[MarcusBrody]

where are you?

Oh I'm in the US. Massachusetts specifically. But the school I teach at has something like 18% of its students coming from China, so things that happen there tend to have effects here.

[old goat]

Oh I'm in the US. Massachusetts specifically. But the school I teach at has something like 18% of its students coming from China, so things that happen there tend to have effects here.

So you're describing what your students are telling you about whats going on in China I guess. Not that things have gotten that bad in MA, yet.

NY Times, November 1, 2020: "CORONA VIRUS SPREADING ACROSS US. TRUMP DECLARES STATE OF EMERGENCY, SUSPENDS ELECTION"

[Timberridge]

So you're describing what your students are telling you about whats going on in China I guess. Not that things have gotten that bad in MA.

You've never been to Massachusetts apparently.

[SKIP IN7RO]

Yay!

Yo!

[MarcusBrody]

So you're describing what your students are telling you about whats going on in China I guess. Not that things have gotten that bad in MA, yet.

NY Times, November 1, 2020: "CORONA VIRUS SPREADING ACROSS US. TRUMP DECLARES STATE OF EMERGENCY, SUSPENDS ELECTION"

Right. My Chinese students are talking about their experiences over break and their families' experiences at the moment.

[BmillsSkier]

You've never been to Massachusetts apparently.

Or upstate New York.

[sb]

Too late for this?

[old goat]

Californians moving to Idaho so they don't have to vaccinate their kids.
https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics...239068753.html
Time to quarantine the state of Idaho.

[riser4]

Californians moving to Idaho so they don't have to vaccinate their kids.
https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics...239068753.html
Time to quarantine the state of Idaho.

Should have been done a long time ago.

[Rideski]

Coronavirus in the pipes? How a Hong Kong policy change may have helped it spread faster - South China Morning Post
https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/...ng-kong-policy

[Timberridge]

If Glademaster was doing the inspection this would never have been approved.

[Toadman]

Too late for this?

It's never too late...until it's too late.

[PNWbrit]

If Glademaster was doing the inspection this would never have been approved.

Thanks for his service.

[riser4]

Didnt a similar thing happen with SARS and sewage issues in HK?

[Rideski]

It’s a shitty situation all around.

[XXX-er]

6 months ago we planned a trip to the mother land (singapore) leaving next week via hong kong,

decided it would be flying into the eye of the storm, too risky, pulled the plug

duno about the money lost on the ticket and don't care

cuz a shroud has no pockets

[summit]

The curve was flattening

It was

I thought they'd got a handle on it

NOPE 16K new cases reported today? It's still exponential.

[sb]

Heard today its 50K + cases and 12K dead.

[Dee Hubbs]

Heard today its 50K + cases and 12K dead.

Thats one big cruise ship!

[DBdude]

The stats I’ve seen suggest a mortality rate for Corona roughly 10X regular flu.

Meanwhile in Colorado:

Holy fuck


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[iceman]

Before abone freaks out:

Early on Thursday, officials announced that nearly 15,000 new cases and 242 new deaths were recorded in a single day in Hubei Province, the center of the coronavirus outbreak, largely because the authorities there had expanded their diagnostic tools for counting new infections.

Until now, only infections confirmed by specialized testing kits were considered accurate. But those kits have been in such short supply — and so many sick people have gone untested — that the authorities in Hubei have started counting patients whose illness have been screened and identified by doctors.

The result was a sudden — and large — spike in the overall tally for the coronavirus...

[BmillsSkier]

Thats one big cruise ship!