Mega-Thread: Coronavirus Pandemic

[Granyala]

The funny bit, that person claimed the "fearmongering" of the next pandemic is just around the corner because the CDC is basically controlled by communists that want to destabilise the West...

Ookay. Did you ask him whether his tinfoil hat was a little tight?

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It’s daunting but I think most of us knew that we were going to have a surge again this winter.

It will most likely get worse and yes: it's entirely expected.

[Katchii]

It will most likely get worse and yes: it's entirely expected.

The fact it never really got "better" only ever, "just not as bad" where i am because people are selfish fucking morons is disheartening.

[Slant]

The CDC...
And the FDA...
And the HHS...
And the ECDC...
And the EMA...
And the WHO...

And their conspiracy don't even stop in organizations but in peer-review publications too:

and the Lancet...
and the New England Journal of Medicine...
and Nature...
and the Anals of Internal Medicine...

Fuck! we are surronded by communists.Communists everywhere....In fact: fuck it!, everyone that paints an ugly picture: communist too.

Ookay. Did you ask him whether his tinfoil hat was a little tight?

he just responds with "You don't know what you're talking about."

Which I guess is valid, since I don't know that much about domestic politics in the US. But as an outsider, it seems a bit unreal that people have reverted back to McCarthyisms in their daily thinking. I thought the US put that crazy era behind it... And sure, I acknowledge that this is my bubble right here, and I got the sane responses I expected. But is that because this is a bubble and are y'all crazy, too? Or is it because it's actually sanity speaking?

Fucking world is so weird now. Used to be that Communists were safely stored in Russia and China (and some other minor places nobody gave a shit about). Suddenly NK is the biggest threat (lol, when did that happen?), Communists are responsible for illegal immigrants to subvert the American society with radical leftists and Europe is the bastion of liberties and human rights...

[Fuiking]

New day record for:


Fuck the Netherlands.

7393 cases, with lockdown shit in place... So, stricter/harder lockdown measures should happen. But I lost faith in my own countrymens willingness to follow said measures. (I've been in quarantine since feb basically, with some gaps of working when shit died down. And its pissing me off. That people dont take it seriously, so that it sods off so that i can find new job/do things again) Country is doing terrible at the moment. The Florida of the EU atm

[Katchii]

New day record for:


Fuck the Netherlands.

7393 cases, with lockdown shit in place... So, stricter/harder lockdown measures should happen. But I lost faith in my own countrymens willingness to follow said measures. (I've been in quarantine since feb basically, with some gaps of working when shit died down. And its pissing me off. That people dont take it seriously, so that it sods off so that i can find new job/do things again) Country is doing terrible at the moment. The Florida of the EU atm

Having "lockdown shit" in place is effectively meaningless if a sizable portion of the public doesn't actually follow it. Look at the US.....

[Unholyground]

Having "lockdown shit" in place is effectively meaningless if a sizable portion of the public doesn't actually follow it. Look at the US.....

Our gov is giving out $10,000 dollar fines around here if you are not following the rules, so people listen pretty fast.

[Granyala]

The fact it never really got "better" only ever, "just not as bad" where i am because people are selfish fucking morons is disheartening.

Hmm.. here it was basically gone during the summer months.
So much so, that people got a wee bit frustrated with the continuation of some of the measures.

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7393 cases, with lockdown shit in place... So, stricter/harder lockdown measures should happen.

You do realize that it takes 2 weeks for newly implemented measures to kick in and be visible in the numbers?

[Katchii]

Hmm.. here it was basically gone during the summer months.
So much so, that people got a wee bit frustrated with the continuation of some of the measures.

We had fewer cases, sure, enough so that the state allowed certain businesses to re-open with accommodations in place that were previously closed outright. But it wasn't a vast improvement, it was a very slow decline and only in certain areas because people in SOME areas never really took it seriously. The problem re-opening was that people took that as some kind of "it's gone!" message and started to completely disregard the safety measures.

*gasp* surprise! we get a surge in cases!

Fucking idiots.

[Zan15]

shit i only have 23 rolls of TP left

better get out and stock up

[Edge-]

shit i only have 23 rolls of TP left

better get out and stock up

Man, the Great Toilet Paper Shortage of 2020 seems so long ago...

[Forogil]

Ookay. Did you ask him whether his tinfoil hat was a little tight?

I hope they have one, and in that case smugly recall that tin foil hats were first "invented" by an ateist socialist who became the first Director of UNESCO

[unfilteredJW]

Man, the Great Toilet Paper Shortage of 2020 seems so long ago...

It does feel like the 528th day of March.

[Omega10]

when someone says covid will go away after election day i remind them that joe biden isnt inaugerated until january 21st to take care of the virus

I think this is the optimistic viewpoint that in November of 2024 the virus will no longer be much of an issue anymore.

[Edge-]

https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN26Y30C?il=0

The Eli Lilly therapy Trump is promoting has...problems.

The three sources who spoke to Reuters requested that their names be withheld so they could speak freely without fear of retaliation.

Inspectors who visited the Lilly plant in Branchburg, New Jersey, last November found that data on the plant’s various manufacturing processes had been deleted and not appropriately audited, government inspection documents show.

“The deleted incidents and related audit trail were not reviewed by the quality unit,” the FDA inspectors wrote. Because the government inspection documents reviewed by Reuters were heavily redacted by the FDA it was not possible to see the inspectors’ more specific findings.

Following its November inspection, the FDA classified the problems as the most serious level of violation, resulting in an “Official Action Indicated” (OAI) notice.

That “means that the violations are serious enough and have a significant enough impact on the public health that something needs to be fixed,” said Patricia Zettler, a former associate chief counsel at the FDA who is now a law professor at Ohio State University.

Separately, Lilly said on Tuesday it had paused its clinical trial for the COVID drug in hospitalized patients “out of an abundance of caution” over a potential safety concern. The company did not release information on what the problem was and declined to say how the news might affect their EUA request.

Reposting here. The road to approved therapies and vaccinations is a slow one, and if companies are going to engage in shady behavior to push their drugs to market faster it'll only slow everything down when they're caught.

Like this.

[Pony Soldier]

Are you certain you don't? Did you get tested? If not you're being incredibly irresponsible being out in public and people should look at you suspiciously. In fact they have no way of knowing you've been tested if you have so it's perfectly reasonable for people to react that way.

Yes, I am and yes, I did in fact get tested and I came out negative.

I just feel like everyone forgot that the common cold and even the regular flu still exists. I know the symptoms are very similar to covid but people have to stop being so paranoid about it. Not that you shouldn't take it seriously but I mean it's just a little ridiculous when you start feeling like you're in some post apocalyptic movie and people will look at you as if you're turning into a zombie because they simply sneezed or coughed. I mean no one acted this way about the normal influenza virus which kills people as well.

I think it's just that this virus has been politicized so much. The politicians are using this virus to gain power and instill fear into people and telling them that if you vote for them everything will go back to normal because they "have a plan".

[Zan15]

Yes, I am and yes, I did in fact get tested and I came out negative.

I just feel like everyone forgot that the common cold and even the regular flu still exists. I know the symptoms are very similar to covid but people have to stop being so paranoid about it. Not that you shouldn't take it seriously but I mean it's just a little ridiculous when you start feeling like you're in some post apocalyptic movie and people will look at you as if you're turning into a zombie because they simply sneezed or coughed. I mean no one acted this way about the normal influenza virus which kills people as well.

I think it's just that this virus has been politicized so much. The politicians are using this virus to gain power and instill fear into people and telling them that if you vote for them everything will go back to normal because they "have a plan".

Ya, no.

I will continue to freak out anytime I possibly have something that is going to kill me in a real actual possible scenario.

And yes during flu season everyone at work would lambast anyone who fucking showed up sick. People used to freak the fuck out during bad flu seasons all the time. We shut down schools and a lot of them all the time because of bad outbreaks.

[Pony Soldier]

Ya, no.

I will continue to freak out anytime I possibly have something that is going to kill me in a real actual possible scenario.

And yes during flu season everyone at work would lambast anyone who fucking showed up sick. People used to freak the fuck out during bad flu seasons all the time. We shut down schools and a lot of them all the time because of bad outbreaks.

Well, I have never experienced any of that before covid so maybe it was different where you live but I know where I live in flu season no one was wearing masks, quarantining, shutting down schools or businesses. Life went on as usual.

[Shadowferal]

Well, I have never experienced any of that before covid so maybe it was different where you live but I know where I live in flu season no one was wearing masks, quarantining, shutting down schools or businesses. Life went on as usual.

Yeah, same here.
The flu is just an endurance trial here. Depending on the person, it's either minor or no, but typically gone in a day or so.

[Edge-]

Well, I have never experienced any of that before covid so maybe it was different where you live but I know where I live in flu season no one was wearing masks, quarantining, shutting down schools or businesses. Life went on as usual.

Masks, no, but during bad flu seasons discouraging coworkers who are sick/coughing from coming into work isn't uncommon.

I don't think Zan was implying any of the other stuff was "normal" either, but even in the US there are occasional school closures for bad flu outbreaks - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2725856/

It's just that like...covid isn't the flu so life is decidedly abnormal right now and shit. You just have a cold? Cool, that's good that it's not more severe. But I don't know that (that you only have a cold), and the cold could compromise your or my immune systems and make us more susceptible to covid.

[Zan15]

Well, I have never experienced any of that before covid so maybe it was different where you live but I know where I live in flu season no one was wearing masks, quarantining, shutting down schools or businesses. Life went on as usual.

what state you live in, denial?

happens every year across the country.


2019

https://weather.com/health/cold-flu/...%20the%20virus.

5 states are reporting "high" flu activity, according to the CDC.

Two Alabama schools closed for the rest of the week because the flu wreaked havoc on staff and students.
Two public school districts and one private school in northern Mississippi were closed Friday
A North Carolina county's school district canceled classes for both students and staff on Friday
Three Idaho school districts were forced to close because of the flu

https://www.inverse.com/article/5282...tbreaks-states
schools in at least 12 states across the United States have closed because so many students are calling in sick

2018
https://www.the74million.org/when-sc...ue-to-the-flu/

at least 11 districts and nine scattered individual schools across 12 states that have closed for a full day or longer because of excessive absences and concerns about the virus. Thirty children have died, and the governor of Alabama has declared a state of emergency due to the flu.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/26/healt...own/index.html

The Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy in suburban Chicago is one of them. For the first time in its 30-year history, the Aurora school closed for almost a week due to the flu. On Friday, January 19 there were 25 students who stayed out of class due to flu-like symptoms. By Monday, 88 students were sick and 23% of the faculty were sick with flu-like symptoms, too.


etc, etc, etc