I've had the last 4 months off work for the winter and starting back to work monday haha. This should be interesting.
I was at a supermarket yesterday and this woman near me starts spraying the shopping trollies with some chemical. She had masked herself and her daughter. She was telling her daughter not to touch anything. Ironically, the plumes of disinfectant started to make me cough. She gave me a weird look and I told her it was her spray, not CV. It's all fearmongering.
The shortages and the panic worry me more than the flu does. I'm not worried about getting sick and probably everyone will catch this eventually, let's be real. I dont think I will die from it and it affects everyone differently so let's just get it over with and get back to work. Time for everyone to go out and take a nice deep breath of some virus so we can get it over with.
I almost want them to bring it on! Part of me wants to go to Wuhan and stick my middle finger up at the world and the panic media. It's a scam...
They used to have Pox parties for children. Everyone responds differently but if you’re healthy with no underlying conditions then it is likely not going to be serious. It’s a lucky dip or not.
For Italian families with dead relatives bodies in theirs homes ..... your comments might seem a little misplaced.
oddly as soon as people start contracting it in masses, its likely at only that point we get over it and life goes back to normal. Like swine flu, heaps of people freaking out, some schools were shut down, the early cases of infected people went into quarantine in hospitals, treated like they had the Plague but eventually lots of people got it and then they gave up on all that and life went back to normal and havent worried about it since. it will be the same with this, and likely best to just let it get over and done with as all that is happening it seems is they are dragging out the inevitable and f'n the economies of the world at the same time, and while people are cheering that on, thinking some how they them selves are immune to a financial melt down because they have a few grand saved away, well your not going tobe protected with a few grand saved away plus who really wants to burn through all their savings if that can be avoided.
Who reported the deaths? How do we know it wasn't fake news? How do we know it wasn't caused by the flu or something else? Who died exactly? How old were they? Etc.
I don't know. But the promotion of the Corona virus is the best marketing campaign I've ever seen. Coca Cola could learn from this. Apple, Microsoft, Google too. And the Kardashians too! It's a global run on food stores. And I'm guessing at some point it'll flip to the Venezuela-type scenario. Perhaps a milder one? Either way, spreading the rumors of a pandemic is the best way to control people. Sends them home, makes them shut up and obey.
Some people go paranoid. I've heard of physical attacks on coughing people. But it's a huge informational chaos, what can you believe? "it's less dangerous than the flu, don't worry" "it's just hysteria, don't panic" "this is 30x more dangerous than flu" (S. Molyneux said recently) "it's a biological weapon that targets Asian people exclusively" (this is the most stupid theory, proven wrong!) "it is only dangerous to old people" "you might have Corona virus and not know it, most people go without symptoms and don't get sick" (plausible, but who the hell can verify?)" I don't know what to believe. But it's better to wear a mask and prepare BEFORE something very bad hits the fan. It could potentially be worse than Wuhan.
I basically agree. This could be the common cold or the Black Death revisited. Whatever it is, I'm more interested in what THEIR solutions are. Hegelian dialectic at play. Yes, it's prudent to be prepared. However, I'm doing my best not to buy into the fearmongering. What that means varies from person to person. At what point does prepping become an obsession and an invitation for the things you're protecting yourself against?
I'm in town now and it's not as bad as I had heard earlier. The stores and parking lots are packed full and everyone is shopping. I only wanted to grab a few things and some beer since I did all my shopping early. Tractor supply and family dollar both still had tp but I have aplenty and beer is more important. Got more dog food too.
if you remain employed your probably not going to burn through ANY savings -- im a public servant now a days so not particually worried about my job security
I had a look at the map of Gunnison - the airport is right next to the town. Rapid spread of this virus depends on people being in confined spaces for a period. Airports and aircraft fit that bill. This is how I suspect Tom Hanks got it and various politicians and their wives. Gunnison looks also like a nice small, otherwise isolated rural town. It probably is a place where many people have roots and community. Something like this could more easily grip a place like that in fear. Small town gossip spreads fast!
