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The same regulations are here. The problem with the virus is not its mortality rate but the fact it spreads quickly and the large number of patients require hospitalizations, which can overwhelm healthcare system, if not kill it. Ban on gatherings can slow down the epidemic but there is no guarantee. The price to pay will be a global economic recession. And it's easy to say "stay at home" but it's technically impossible to do that for several months because let's not kid ourselves, the epidemy will not end after two weeks.

I work in care home for the elderly, surrounded by various pathogens and several colleagues work in the hospitals where they offer preliminary tests for those suspected of having COVID. Either I will catch it and kill all of my patients and a few of my colleagues or they will catch it and kill me, perhaps? Or maybe, just maybe, everything will be all right. Time will tell. One thing is certain. I'm not going to shut myself at home while I'm healthy. Illness and death are part of life.

Seriously, the national quarantine is bullshit. Unless you put a cop or a soldier in front of everyone's door, it is technically impossible to keep people at home. Sure, you can make going out difficult by closing businesses, places of entertainment, banning buses, cars, trains, planes, bicycles and what not but that is not going to stop everyone from gathering unofficially and secretly if they wish so.

The only way to combat the virus is to become immune to it, at least temporarily. That means that you have to first get it. And then, you will either get immunity or you will die. And then, if you survive, you will die later on from cancer, heart  disease, car accident or SARS COV (third edition, this time). Yeah, that sucks, I know.

But of course, governments have to show their stupid electorate that they are doing something, no matter how ridiculous, and it is the prerogative of the stupid to make an already bad situation even worse.

Stability will return. Maybe sooner than one may expect. 

Spring training back up for Nippon League (Japan & Korea) 

PLAY BALL. 

And by Mid May, GO PADRES!  Things will recover. 

On economy: 

A force majeure economic correction. Unlike 1987, 2000, or 2008 this one was an outside event. A inorganic regulation of a bullish system. Silver lining is this completely tempers the 12 or 13 year bull market epically crashing in a year or so.  With immediate bipartisan bailout this recovers as quickly as 1987 did (5 months). 

So even if it was a diabolical plan of The Elite to throttle the worlds economy it may have saved another 1929. 

"Turned a Chernobyl into a mere Three Mile Island".  

Hopefully it wont be a Fukushima where everyone is in denial about a meltdown occurring. 

The last Pandemic was H1N1. "Swine Flu". 

In the USA there were 60 million cases of Swine Flu, and 12,400 deaths in 2009. 

I swear it, but I remember everything except swine flu. 

But apparently it was bad. Still don't remember a lockdown.  Must be the lack of killing people it did. 

The difference is the mortality rate, which is scaring people.  That is about it.  1 death per 4,840 people vs 1 death per 27 people. 

In any case, this is like watching The Trust on an epidode of Stargate take over the world with a bio-engineered pandemic in an alternate reality.  And Governor Newsom is a Goa'uld,  as well as Cuomo.  

WE ARE BEING CONQUERED BY ALIENS!

"Stability will return... Things will recover."

Fuck that shit, dude, my life ain't going back to normal. You know ... I no longer wash my hands. Not even after I wipe my butt. I became allergic to washing hands. After taking poop, I get straight down to dinner. And since there is a shortage if toilet paper, I guess soon I will have to follow my cat's example.

Now I only need those dumbfucks, my neighbors, to flock to their balconies to sing serenades and I'll be forced to give up on opera too.

For example: The adversity of grocery stores has led me to seeking food elsewhere.  And there are an amazing number of options. All delivered.  Beer and bottles of wine, and even liquor, along with gastropub delicacies like "buffalo wings" and "mozzarella sticks".  

The corner bar can come to you! And then the weed guy gets there. And then you numb yourself from the mountain of financial strangulation crumbling towards you.

“The actions of a few can take the lives of many,” (Bitch Mayor) said. “The time for education has ended. The time for enforcement is here.”

FUCK YOU WITH NO DUE RESPECT, COME EDUCATE AND ENFORCE IT ON ME, I FUCKING DARE YOU. 

#slavenewworld

And I don't have spiritual experiences while on DMT. Everyone else talks to god but I get real people like my dad and they tell me to quit being a whining bitch and figure shit out for myself.

This is the tell of how stupid societies are.

Hail the fucking comet to wipe out this ball of dirt populated by faux-empathetic (Cover our asses from being sued) fucking morons. And listening to a civil regulatory agency, and global non-profits, more attuned to special interest. 

FUCK THE CDC

FUCK THE WHO

You should give our precious virus more credit, I think. The way it keeps gradually and systematically dismantling societies and ruining economies is truly remarkable. Even if most of this is achieved by morons digging their own graves, let's admit that; even good old smallpox didn't manage to achieve half that much.

 The draconian measures undertaken by governments are more a sign of desperation and helplessness than actual power or terror. If the shit lasts for months, everything will fall apart, no riots necessary. Not exactly a zombie apocalypse but still morbidly fascinating to watch.

Any thoughts on the virus being biological warfare?

One of you thought it was aliens?

Shirley, my initial concerns about the virus centered around the fact that the early behavior of the virus did not seem to be typical of similar strains. We would consider COVID-19 a novel infectious disease and considering its origins in China, I had to at least consider that this may have been an intentional or accidental release of a biological pathogen. As time has progressed, however, the Coronavirus seems to be settling into a natural rhythm. I'm not suspicious of deliberate warfare. That doesn't let China off the hook. Their response and lack of transparency (and general disregard for its people) has allowed this virus to become a much bigger existential threat.

The good news is that since this is probably a naturally organic strain, there will be a necessary thinning of the herd, so to speak. The vast majority of the deaths  are of people who are heavy users of our limited healthcare resources. And to what end? Don't always mean to be cruel, but the weak and frail might as well move on and free up medical care for the younger ones who still have some life vibrancy.

Really, genius, I hope you will live long into your old age. Long enough to require the help of others. And that there will be no one around to change your diaper, wash your body or only to give you a kind word. And no one around to put an end to your misery by killing you. And that you will be left to die covered in your pee and poop because "thinning the herd and all that jazz."

Besides, you should have been killed the day you were born. I really don't understand why your parents spent so much time feeding you and wiping your ass instead of pursuing more worthwhile goals.

If you think about it, China is a communist state. They probably brainwash their own people with the propaganda shit that "Americans are evil."  Except we can't say that the herd of chinks all released the Corona Virus deliberately from China, that would be to silly to assume.

The top Chinese officials of course would do this on purpose If you think about it, since the virus is going to effect the economy in the U.S., China would have the upper hand on their economy while we slowly have to dig out from the grave, to put it as an analogy. 

This may sound crazy, but some of it is true. China has sent spies to other countries to gain information and intel. They had a case that I remember on some island, where China gained control over that island, to get to a precious matter that they wanted to seek.

I feel that since the U.S. has been a pretty guarded country, the Chinese wouldn't be able to get control over it. So we can say that the Chinese response would be sending that virus out on the U.S. by eliminating the competition. Those are just my thoughts and ramblings.

Anyone over 38 had already exceeded natural human physiology/life expectancy.  Considering size, weight, and genetic relatives, antiseptics and other medical advances humans are already an anomaly. This is why late 30's and 40's has such a sharp rise in cancers and other diseases. Like rats developing tumors at 1.5 years old. 75 is already double what we are supposed to live. 

We are meant to die by 40. Long before the shame of incontinence. Thus, a total Darwinian approach whould make that the cutoff age for services. Fuck the baby boomers and even their children. Really, don't trust anyone over 30. 

And, yes that research was roundly discredited: https://www.bloomberg.com/...tural-lifespan-of-38