sh1pman Posted March 23, 2020 Share Posted March 23, 2020 (edited) Quote Coronavirus: Russia to send medical help to Italy The Russian defence ministry said that military transport planes would deliver eight mobile brigades of military medics, special disinfection vehicles and other medical equipment to Italy from Sunday. Russia will also send about 100 military specialists in virology and epidemics, the Interfax news agency cited the defence ministry as saying. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/coronavirus-italy-russia-medical-aid-help-putin-a9416546.html Also, saw this today and took a photo. This is starting to look ridiculous... Edited March 23, 2020 by sh1pman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted March 23, 2020 Share Posted March 23, 2020 41 minutes ago, sh1pman said: This is starting to look ridiculous... Look, people invested in bitcoin when it was up. How is toilet paper worse? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hotel26 Posted March 23, 2020 Share Posted March 23, 2020 (edited) I think, in five years from now, the only thing I am going to remember from this thread, as valuable as its detail is now, is this banner, posted earlier. I fear this is ultimately going to be the crux of the matter. Edited March 23, 2020 by Hotel26 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sepone Posted March 23, 2020 Share Posted March 23, 2020 1 hour ago, sh1pman said: This is starting to look ridiculous... Toilet paper, of course! Isn't that how stock markets work? Everybody's buying, so others feel the urge to buy, too. Before the price increases, you know! And then, all of a sudden, people realize they can't dump enough mulch in the porcelain throne to ever use up this pile of paper, and the stock price crashes... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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sh1pman Posted March 23, 2020 Share Posted March 23, 2020 34 minutes ago, DDE said: Typical lies and western propaganda. My brother in the police said they could only get 300 lions, and most of them were too lazy to go on patrol duty, sleeping 18 hours a day, etc. I bet there’s less than a hundred lions actually on the streets right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted March 23, 2020 Share Posted March 23, 2020 7 minutes ago, sh1pman said: Typical lies and western propaganda. My brother in the police said they could only get 300 lions, and most of them were too lazy to go on patrol duty, sleeping 18 hours a day, etc. I bet there’s less than a hundred lions actually on the streets right now. ...Can we at least import some of St Pete's ones? I hear they're rock-solid. Spoiler Even after a few Italians damaged 20 of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted March 23, 2020 Share Posted March 23, 2020 4 hours ago, Flavio hc16 said: In my city ( Rome, Italy) today a 34 years old man with no diseases, not smoker/drug addicted and medium fit died. "It's only a flu" To be fair, we're going to hear about way more younger people because it's this. Someone in the same ICU could be 34 and die of seasonal flu (it happens) and no one would hear about it. It's X times worse than flu in whatever age range we're talking about, so we're gonna see X*flu as many deaths in that given age range. For younger people the "flu" baseline number is low, but we'll still see X times more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted March 23, 2020 Share Posted March 23, 2020 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/22/health/coronavirus-symptoms-smell-taste.html Temporary loss of smell/taste is perhaps a novel symptom of COVID-19. ~1/3 of cases that tested positive had no symptoms. https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3076323/third-coronavirus-cases-may-be-silent-carriers-classified (Chinese data posted way up the thread also suggested that ~60% of cases were unascertained (because asymptomatic, or very mild)) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sh1pman Posted March 23, 2020 Share Posted March 23, 2020 Amazing read: https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-the-hammer-and-the-dance-be9337092b56 Summary of the article: Strong coronavirus measures today should only last a few weeks, there shouldn’t be a big peak of infections afterwards, and it can all be done for a reasonable cost to society, saving millions of lives along the way. If we don’t take these measures, tens of millions will be infected, many will die, along with anybody else that requires intensive care, because the healthcare system will have collapsed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted March 23, 2020 Share Posted March 23, 2020 (edited) Spoiler "Decameron of Hikikomori", that's how would I call this all. (If somebody likes, feel free to use). Edited March 23, 2020 by kerbiloid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubinator Posted March 23, 2020 Share Posted March 23, 2020 Just got to drop this here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RCgothic Posted March 23, 2020 Share Posted March 23, 2020 The number of deaths in the UK from 10 to 281 in 10 days is tracking a doubling every 50h. That'll be 2900 by next Monday, after which the NHS will collapse and we go into triage of the cases with best chance of survival only. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
insert_name Posted March 23, 2020 Share Posted March 23, 2020 4 hours ago, DDE said: In Soviet-ish Russia, lion tames you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirkidirk Posted March 23, 2020 Share Posted March 23, 2020 (edited) Edited March 23, 2020 by Dirkidirk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted March 23, 2020 Share Posted March 23, 2020 1 hour ago, insert_name said: Soviet-ish Russia In more ways than one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikegarrison Posted March 23, 2020 Share Posted March 23, 2020 Boeing just announced (on the day after the first confirmed death of a Boeing factory worker from COVID-19) that they are closing their factories in the Puget Sound area for at least two weeks. They are also going to be establishing "objective and rigorous criteria" for when to reopen. For a couple of weeks now they have already closed all their engineering offices and made telecommuting mandatory, but you can't (yet) telecommute to a factory job. I'm sure that part of the consideration involved is that Congress is debating a bailout plan for the US aerospace and airline industry. This puts a little more pressure on that. Boeing for a long time has been the biggest US manufacturing exporter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RCgothic Posted March 23, 2020 Share Posted March 23, 2020 UK finally gets serious: https://twitter.com/10DowningStreet/status/1242187244733161474?s=19 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cavscout74 Posted March 23, 2020 Share Posted March 23, 2020 The cargo airline I work for went and did something proactive again. They already started having non-essential personnel work from home last week. Now they have sent letters out to all mechanics & flight crews stating they are essential personnel working for a cargo airline so everyone will have them ready as the situation changes, rather than trying to play catch up as different states & countries (we have several Caribbean flights in addition to US) are changing their restrictions on a daily basis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted March 23, 2020 Share Posted March 23, 2020 On 2/24/2020 at 2:07 PM, 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 Ha! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted March 23, 2020 Share Posted March 23, 2020 9 hours ago, Sepone said: Toilet paper, of course! Isn't that how stock markets work? Everybody's buying, so others feel the urge to buy, too. Before the price increases, you know! And then, all of a sudden, people realize they can't dump enough mulch in the porcelain throne to ever use up this pile of paper, and the stock price crashes... It's not even a concern about price. I was in the store when stuff first started being bought up. I had no need of extra food, but I bought some anyway. I didn't want to come back in 2 days and not have something to feed the kids home from school (an extra meal a day per). It can only go on for a little while, then the supply chain will refill everything. Also, as the economy tanks, people will not have money to hoard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted March 23, 2020 Share Posted March 23, 2020 So my State, which is usually at the bottom of lists where 1 is the best is number 4 in something. COVID-19 testing per capita. On Earth. Not bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elidnas Posted March 23, 2020 Share Posted March 23, 2020 My country to be placed on lock-down from midnight 26th March. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted March 23, 2020 Share Posted March 23, 2020 16 minutes ago, Elidnas said: My country to be placed on lock-down from midnight 26th March. Yikes, I better text my cousin (he lives in Jo-berg). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elidnas Posted March 23, 2020 Share Posted March 23, 2020 15 minutes ago, tater said: Yikes, I better text my cousin (he lives in Jo-berg). The army was deployed earlier today in Johannesburg. We'll only have essential services running from Thursday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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