Corona Virus

Our favorite orange monkey banned travel to and from Europe... excluding Britain. Its okay no one lives there right?

«What people don’t understand is that this is gonna go on for months … We CONSERVATIVELY estimate 48 million ospitalisation, … 480,000 deaths that can occur in the next 3-7 months. This is not one to take lightly … We are not gonna have a vaccine soon, that’s happy talk»

You should realise that in Italy they are not testing doctors for Covid-19 anymore, because it’s an “all hands on deck” situation and very little staff and departments are available for non-covid patients. Doctors are working 16 hours shifts.

More importantly in the areas with most cases medical staff has to choose who’s being left to die, just like happens on the frontlines in war. There’s simply not enough respirators to help all those that need them.

The virus ? incubate for 4 days, stays alive in air for 30 min, 8h on surfaces. A carrier or infected should/will infect at least two people, and they are infectious way before having symptoms (coughing), the virus levels in this phase is 10,000 times than with SARS.

Obesity is a prime pre-existing factor for complications in young/middle-age people.

Quote from DMU222

10 hours ago, DMU222 said: So, More panic = less spread of the virus? I'm going to go buy all the toilet paper.

So I have to ask. Why toilet paper over water? You can wash your ass with water but you can't hydrate your body with toilet paper.

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3 hours ago, AlexM said: So I have to ask. Why toilet paper over water? You can wash your ass with water but you can't hydrate your body with toilet paper.

I don't understand this shit either. Toilet paper is sold out fucking EVERYWHERE in here, it's so fucking weird.

Quote from AlexM

10 hours ago, AlexM said: So I have to ask. Why toilet paper over water? You can wash your ass with water but you can't hydrate your body with toilet paper.

It could a combination of panic buying and size of the commodity: when people look for something to stockpile preparing for isolation, they get drawn to whatever they can buy in the largest quantities. Toilet paper is available in large packs so when people start buying it en masse, it looks like the shelves are emptying rapidly, prompting consumers to buy even more in fear of shortage of the goods. It's all a big feedback loop triggered by consumer psychology.https://news.sky.com/story/coronavi…-paper-11952397

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/11/her…ilet-paper.html

Quote from AlexM

11 hours ago, AlexM said: So I have to ask. Why toilet paper over water? You can wash your ass with water but you can't hydrate your body with toilet paper.

Imagine a vision where you could be forced to stay at home for a two weeks. What do you use on daily basis? Water, food, toilet paper. People don't think straight sometimes. Water? Worst scenario you have tap water. Food? In worst case scenario you can order (which doesn't help when there is virus spreading there). It's just how it goes. People see others buying shit and panic. They go and buy too. You don't need to panic at first but if you see shit going out of stock quickly you just want to buy for yourself.

Thing is stores are not prepared for a surge like this. The problem is not a supplier running out of resources because of virus. It's the stores that didn't expect this kind of demand. Actually a demand right now is close to the one they experiencing near christmas. Food and toilet paper will be back in few days.

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1 hour ago, Lizard said: Thing is stores are not prepared for a surge like this. The problem is not a supplier running out of resources because of virus.

In a certain way you could say that, but no, there will be or there is the potential shortage because of the pandemic (or whatever other disaster).

Watch the video I posted for the example about IV bags and meds shortage. Atm there is scarcity of masks and alcohol. Medical masks were ironically made in big part in Whuan. We depend from China so much in terms of production… they are slowly starting again but production has slowed down for sure. If is not production the problem, there are no workers to move the goods (someone needs to load and drive the trucks).

Countries that heavily rely on import (UK produces so little vegetables for example) what are they gonna do when there are no farmers picking them in Spain/Italy etc. And with chain disrupted as per above can you even count stuff will be moved across?

Hopefully I didn’t misunderstand what you mean ✌?

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3 hours ago, blackdog said: In a certain way you could say that, but no, there will be or there is the potential shortage because of the pandemic (or whatever other disaster).

Watch the video I posted for the example about IV bags and meds shortage. Atm there is scarcity of masks and alcohol. Medical masks were ironically made in big part in Whuan. We depend from China so much in terms of production… they are slowly starting again but production has slowed down for sure. If is not production the problem, there are no workers to move the goods (someone needs to load and drive the trucks).

Countries that heavily rely on import (UK produces so little vegetables for example) what are they gonna do when there are no farmers picking them in Spain/Italy etc. And with chain disrupted as per above can you even count stuff will be moved across?

Hopefully I didn’t misunderstand what you mean ✌?

Sure You did I was mainly referring to Poland. In terms of food and accesories like soap and toilet paper we are not dependent on any other countries that were struck by the pandemic.

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On 3/10/2020 at 5:23 PM, Minos said: Some good information here:

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Not a good idea to bury ours heads in the sand now. If we are lucky it's not as bad as it seems, but that doesn't seem very likely. Events like this happen and were predicted before, and the world simply wasn't prepared for it. This disease first showed up 3 months ago, and now it's almost everywhere. Hopefully after this is over, we will have systems in place to stop something similar in the future.

That was an interesting watch, but this shit is getting scary af TBH.

The world is going apeshit, but we still have each other at Mapcore Dot Org...

I've got a couple of weeks worth of rations, some vidja gamez, and mapcore. Fuck it, bring it.

Stay strong motherfuckers.

Ars Technica has a good compilation of information - https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/0…he-coronavirus/

We definitely have more than a couple thousand cases if celebrities including NBA stars are getting it. Our testing here sucks and they refuse to close down the schools because kids will starve. It really is time to move to Australia already...

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59 minutes ago, Interfearance said: We definitely have more than a couple thousand cases if celebrities including NBA stars are getting it. Our testing here sucks and they refuse to close down the schools because kids will starve. It really is time to move to Australia already...

You mean that place that was entirely engulfed in flames a couple of months ago?

Quote from Minos

On 3/10/2020 at 9:23 PM, Minos said: Hopefully after this is over, we will have systems in place to stop something similar in the future.

Well doesn't seem SARS taught anything, this seems to be spreading worse. We'll see, fingers crossed, we do need to all come together stronger out of this.

(At the same time I think these events are Mother Nature's attempts to keep humans to lower numbers)

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On 3/12/2020 at 7:01 AM, [HP] said: I don't understand this shit either. Toilet paper is sold out fucking EVERYWHERE in here, it's so fucking weird.

Well I subscribed to my toilet paper on Amazon, got last delivery just before this started, I'm settled for a bit

In Sweden we make so much toilet paper its nice to atleast not have to worry about that ass

On a bright note, lots of games coming out now. Doom, Final Fantasy, TLOU2, HL:Alyx, Ori, the new COD battleroyale and Animal Crossing. So look forward to those, or catch up on your backlog!

Been playing Ori and the Will of the Wisps that came out a few days ago. It's beautfiul, highly recommend!

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14 minutes ago, Pampers said: On a bright note, lots of games coming out now. Doom, Final Fantasy, TLOU2, HL:Alyx, Ori, the new COD battleroyale and Animal Crossing. So look forward to those, or catch up on your backlog!

Been playing Ori and the Will of the Wisps that came out a few days ago. It's beautfiul, highly recommend!

Yeap, I finally beat Days Gone a couple weeks ago. I got Ori on steam, gonna try it this weekend.

Doom releasing during Doomsday!