Guest Posted February 18, 2020 Share Posted February 18, 2020 Well, it's either that, or giving them back new cash directly. Governments do that all the time. In any civilized country, if you have some old and dirty banknotes, you can take them to a bank and get new ones (as long as the serial numbers are legible). This isn't different. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted February 18, 2020 Share Posted February 18, 2020 If you have a bag of dirty banknotes under your bed, you should bring them, too, I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted February 18, 2020 Share Posted February 18, 2020 12 hours ago, kerbiloid said: So, that's ithttps://nypost.com/2020/02/16/chinese-bank-to-destroy-cash-in-areas-hit-by-coronavirus/ Reminds me of Bank of Russia's regulation on handling of radioactively contaminated banknotes - usually because the police is very generous on radioactive iodine when they want to mark the cash. Instruction 131-I. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted February 20, 2020 Share Posted February 20, 2020 Talk about extreme NIMBY. 65 Ukrainians evacuated from Wuhan greeted with a barrage of rocks as they are being transported into quarantine. https://www.unian.net/society/10883921-evakuirovannyh-iz-kitaya-ukraincev-privezli-v-novye-sanzhary-avtobusy-zabrosali-kamnyami-video.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted February 20, 2020 Share Posted February 20, 2020 They've apparently found shed virus in fecal swabs for people who are not shedding virus in their cough output. Wash your hands, people. When I went to that car show in FL, I was paying attention to people in the airport bathrooms while I was washing my hands. Watching people walk out without washing their hands well... grrrr, those are the same people touching the tray table on the flight before you, etc. Filthy buggers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted February 21, 2020 Share Posted February 21, 2020 (edited) A story of true friendship https://thegaltimes.com/the-embassy-of-ukraine-in-china-and-explained-why-they-did-not-evacuate-ukrainian-woman-with-a-dog/22030/ Spoiler Edited February 21, 2020 by kerbiloid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted February 21, 2020 Share Posted February 21, 2020 (edited) Starting Thursday, Rospotrebnadzor has began to snatch anyone Asian-looking off the streets of Moscow for an (indeterminately thorough) medical check. https://www.newsru.com/russia/20feb2020/moscow_china.html That's barely a week after they got in hot water for doing health checks on minors without parental consent. Similarly, public transport drivers have been ordered to request a police squad to detain any suspected Chinese nationals at the nearest stop. https://www.newsru.com/russia/19feb2020/mosgortrans.html Mosgortrans tried flat-out denial about the order, before caving in several hours later. A reminder that as of today, there are 0 cases in Russia, and two Russian nationals have been infected abroad. Edited February 21, 2020 by DDE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted February 21, 2020 Share Posted February 21, 2020 So University of Queensland has a vaccine candidate already: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Listy Posted February 22, 2020 Share Posted February 22, 2020 The good news about Coronavirus is that not everybody gets sick: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2762028 The bad news about Coronavirus is that ... not everybody gets sick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wjolcz Posted February 23, 2020 Share Posted February 23, 2020 (edited) On 2/22/2020 at 1:33 PM, Listy said: The good news about Coronavirus is that not everybody gets sick: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2762028 The bad news about Coronavirus is that ... not everybody gets sick. Plague Inc IRL Edited February 23, 2020 by Wjolcz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted February 24, 2020 Share Posted February 24, 2020 China's ambassador to Russia claims that a vaccine is in trial stages and the outbreak will be eliminated within a month https://ria.ru/20200224/1565135523.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scotius Posted February 24, 2020 Share Posted February 24, 2020 28 minutes ago, DDE said: China's ambassador to Russia claims that a vaccine is in trial stages and the outbreak will be eliminated within a month https://ria.ru/20200224/1565135523.html Now that's a tall order. Vaccine(s) for normal flu are available every year before the season, yet every year thousands of people flock to clinics for help. "Eliminated within a month." - i'll believe when i'll see it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted February 24, 2020 Share Posted February 24, 2020 They are starting trials on the vaccine in Queensland, but it takes months to get trials done, and more months to gt one into mass production. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terwin Posted February 24, 2020 Share Posted February 24, 2020 4 hours ago, Scotius said: Now that's a tall order. Vaccine(s) for normal flu are available every year before the season, yet every year thousands of people flock to clinics for help. "Eliminated within a month." - i'll believe when i'll see it Sounds ominous to me... Immunization Vaccines take time, but a 9mm 'vaccine' is very very quick... Don't forget, China instituted the 1-child policy due to excessive population. Wide-spread application of a 9mm vaccine could address both the corona virus and the excess population... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikegarrison Posted February 24, 2020 Share Posted February 24, 2020 It was so much more fun making jokes about this before I ended up home sick with a fever of 102 and coughing up who knows what from my lungs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted February 25, 2020 Share Posted February 25, 2020 16 hours ago, Terwin said: China instituted the 1-child policy due to excessive population Afaik, this policy cancelled. 15 hours ago, mikegarrison said: It was so much more fun making jokes about this before I ended up home sick with a fever of 102 and coughing up who knows what from my lungs. Do you see a corona in the mirror? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikegarrison Posted February 25, 2020 Share Posted February 25, 2020 1 hour ago, kerbiloid said: Afaik, this policy cancelled. Yes, the 1-child policy turned out to be a huge mistake for China. Culturally so many people wanted sons that selective abortions and adoptions have drastically skewed the population to males. You would think maybe people would have realized that having daughters would have drastically upgraded their chances of having grandchildren, but it seems not many people thought that all the way through. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted February 25, 2020 Share Posted February 25, 2020 (edited) 32 minutes ago, mikegarrison said: Yes, the 1-child policy turned out to be a huge mistake for China. Culturally so many people wanted sons that selective abortions and adoptions have drastically skewed the population to males. You would think maybe people would have realized that having daughters would have drastically upgraded their chances of having grandchildren, but it seems not many people thought that all the way through. I'm afraid that its cancellation is mostly not an undo, but a change to expansive strategy after the iterational industrial upgrade. Their south-eastern neighbors probably may start worrying. Edited February 25, 2020 by kerbiloid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted February 25, 2020 Share Posted February 25, 2020 (edited) 2 hours ago, mikegarrison said: Yes, the 1-child policy turned out to be a huge mistake for China. Culturally so many people wanted sons that selective abortions and adoptions have drastically skewed the population to males. It's a problem that, historically, has resolved itself to a certain very ugly and bloody but reliable solution - just ask Conan the Barbarian. But instead, even with China's relatively nonexistent welfare system, this bulge might prove its undoing. Edited February 25, 2020 by DDE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirkidirk Posted February 25, 2020 Share Posted February 25, 2020 20 hours ago, mikegarrison said: It was so much more fun making jokes about this before I ended up home sick with a fever of 102 and coughing up who knows what from my lungs. so, influenza? Spoiler hopefully it doesn't get worse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikegarrison Posted February 25, 2020 Share Posted February 25, 2020 14 minutes ago, Dirkidirk said: so, influenza? Pretty sure pneumonia. Third day of a fever means it's time to go see the doctors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted February 25, 2020 Share Posted February 25, 2020 https://virologydownunder.com/so-you-think-youve-about-to-be-in-a-pandemic/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scotius Posted February 25, 2020 Share Posted February 25, 2020 4 hours ago, mikegarrison said: Yes, the 1-child policy turned out to be a huge mistake for China. Culturally so many people wanted sons that selective abortions and adoptions have drastically skewed the population to males. You would think maybe people would have realized that having daughters would have drastically upgraded their chances of having grandchildren, but it seems not many people thought that all the way through. This bias against daughters was present for a long time, and is rooted in economy. Eldest son was an inheritor of the land, house, livestock etc. Spare sons were semi-free workforce. But daughters? Sure, they helped with some of workload, but ultimately became a burden when family had to provide them with dowry and marry them out to another family, which then reaped the benefits of additional pair of hands. Net loss for parents Sure, we know such trend is unsustainable and leads to huge problems down the line - but explain that to a pair of uneducated Chinese peasants. Paradoxically, Western civilization avoided this trap partially thanks to feudalism, of all things. Of course - sons, especially the eldest one were more important. But a daughter - pretty, well groomed and educated one was a valuable "commodity" too for her family. Good political marriage led straight to alliance and increase in power, prestige and wealth. Such attitude eventually trickled down to middle and lower classes and became a social norm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted February 26, 2020 Share Posted February 26, 2020 I have seen people saying the Spanish Flu (1918) had a mortality rate of ~2.5%, then I read it killed 3-5% of the population of the world. The actual mortality rate was more like 10-20% of those infected as per that chart. Covid19 is looking to be under 2% (since the number of actual cases likely grossly exceeds the number of confirmed cases by an amount that substantially exceeds any failures in death reporting). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted February 26, 2020 Share Posted February 26, 2020 ...then we suspended air travel with South Korea Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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