corona virus

[greenhorn]

We have now experienced the second day of the lockdown here. I went grocery shopping this morning and was relieved to see that the situation is very calm and that almost everything is back in stock again (except toilet paper, but including pasta and canned stuff). The authorities will evaluate the effectiveness of this lockdown at the end of the week and then decide on whether more severe restrictions are necessary or not. I believe the lockdown will be extended for quite a while, but I think I will be able to deal with it if remains in its current form and doesn't get more strict.

It is fortunate that we nowadays have the possibility of having social interactions online, especially when personal social interactions have to be limited like it is the case now.

[Guest]

4 minutes ago, greenhorn said:

It is fortunate that we nowadays have the possibility of having social interactions online, especially when personal social interactions have to be limited like it is the case now.

This !! ^o^

[FakeCIA]

Just now, greenhorn said:

It is fortunate that we nowadays have the possibility of having social interactions online, especially when personal social interactions have to be limited like it is the case now.

I'm just hiding out at my place. This forum and couple other places are what I'm partying with.

[Andreas Lilja]

Québec not discarding the possibility of closing schools for up to two months. 

 

https://www.tvanouvelles.ca/2020/03/17/les-ecoles-quebecoises-pourraient-etre-fermees-pour-longtemps

 

I work in one and I'm bored to death, and it's only been a few days.

 

[Guest]

And Discord! Discord is a life saver for me

Let's me chill out with my "adult" gamer friends

 

Having only my teenage kid to interact with irl is really at times. (And the same for her!  )

[greenhorn]

4 minutes ago, Cora_Lie said:

And Discord! Discord is a life saver for me

Let's me chill out with my "adult" gamer friends

Hmm..never used it, I guess I should look into Discord.
 

5 minutes ago, Cora_Lie said:

Having only my teenage kid to interact with irl is really at times. (And the same for her!  )

I can imagine that, but still it is important to have family close to you, especially in times like these.

[FakeCIA]

3 minutes ago, greenhorn said:

Hmm..never used it, I guess I should look into Discord.
 

I can imagine that, but still it is important to have family close to you, especially in times like these.

Don't look too far into Discord. It's where the darkest parts on the internet converge. Check the Murica (But International) Parrot Gang thread for some of the stuff I've posted there as well as @Lord Xeb.

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, greenhorn said:

I can imagine that, but still it is important to have family close to you, especially in times like these.

Absolutely! That's not what I'm saying at all!

 

There is also the reality of human interactions and the need to exchange with people of like maturity.

It's a perfectly normal need, like my daughter having some video chat through Teams with her school friends for their daily work and for chatting.

A disparity of maturity builds up tension, which needs to be expressed, one way or another.

We are not used anymore to live one upon another in a closed space.

[Guest]

6 minutes ago, FakeCIA said:

Don't look too far into Discord. It's where the darkest parts on the internet converge. Check the Murica (But International) Parrot Gang thread for some of the stuff I've posted there as well as @Lord Xeb.

Pfff.... Please...

It's a tool! I've been using it for the past 4 years and I'm a perfectly respectable person (well... at least that's what I say here! )

 

More seriously, you have also the same thing on Signal.

I will NE-VER use WhatsApp, and Skype is not an option afaic.

 

It's crypted, so sure you will find some shaddy places. But you will only find them if you look for them...

I mean... even LTT has a Discord Server!

[PhantomJaguarr]

Went to pick up ordered food online at the Irish pub I frequent at. The kind hostess told me that they can do this DoorDash/pick-up business strategy for like 5 days before they really go under. Felt so bad. Damn this whole situation.
 

/endrant 

[greenhorn]

22 minutes ago, FakeCIA said:

Don't look too far into Discord. It's where the darkest parts on the internet converge. Check the Murica (But International) Parrot Gang thread for some of the stuff I've posted there as well as @Lord Xeb.

I noticed the Parrot stuff, but I have to look more into it to get what it's all about. Thanks for the suggestion

[Letgomyleghoe]

3 minutes ago, greenhorn said:

I noticed the Parrot stuff, but I have to look more into it to get what it's all about.

=yes 

[Pickles von Brine]

40 minutes ago, FakeCIA said:

Don't look too far into Discord. It's where the darkest parts on the internet converge. Check the Murica (But International) Parrot Gang thread for some of the stuff I've posted there as well as @Lord Xeb.

I rock with discord. Currently i have a gaming community in it. That reminds me, I gotta help them out in Destiny 2. 

Right now my group is rather quite (various reasons) but they are adults and good people. I kicked out all the trouble makers. 

[Guest]

Well... There is one thing positive with all this mess! We can notice a global improvement of the air quality and even the water quality.

 

Venice has the cleanest waters for the past 20 years (no ships and tourist for 2 weeks)

In China, an d north of Italy, there is a dramatic fall of NO2 emission and they have the cleanest air for the past 20 years.

 

2 weeks to 2 months industrial inactivity and there is such an improvement.

If THAT doesn't show to all the doubters that it's our industrial activity that is responsible for pollution and climate change, then I don't know and only despair and doom is left!

 

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/climate/coronavirus-pollution.html

[Guest]

There... It is starting...

 

 

[Andreas Lilja]

1 minute ago, Cora_Lie said:

There... It is starting...

 

 

The best healthcare system in the whole world?

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, Andreas Lilja said:

The best healthcare system in the whole world?

I won't comment on that. Anyone is awarded their own delusions.

[Andreas Lilja]

https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/17/21184308/coronavirus-italy-medical-company-threatens-sue-3d-print-valves-treatments?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=theverge.socialflow&utm_content=facebook&fbclid=IwAR2sR1fbVG4cxufHD5iS5kT2NhX_PZ4B6BAJiAq_JULLAXvD6t6fdgeUVd0&fbclid=IwAR2FnAbmiClG_6mkzZt3K52lT6QvzHeTNLieDDtksh6Fi0ermt8JA__V6tI&fbclid=IwAR0_tx6yqCjBVxrrp7zJ1HeTQ3nP95TsZ1Hr4_Vd_42IBgbz-wBapBGoIFw

 

[Guest]

4 minutes ago, Andreas Lilja said:

https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/17/21184308/coronavirus-italy-medical-company-threatens-sue-3d-print-valves-treatments?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=theverge.socialflow&utm_content=facebook&fbclid=IwAR2sR1fbVG4cxufHD5iS5kT2NhX_PZ4B6BAJiAq_JULLAXvD6t6fdgeUVd0&fbclid=IwAR2FnAbmiClG_6mkzZt3K52lT6QvzHeTNLieDDtksh6Fi0ermt8JA__V6tI&fbclid=IwAR0_tx6yqCjBVxrrp7zJ1HeTQ3nP95TsZ1Hr4_Vd_42IBgbz-wBapBGoIFw

 

Huh? Could you clean up the link pls? O_o

 

Makes me think of the UK government promising 10K  ventilators in a matter of weeks, when a UK manufacturer says that on a good year they manage to build 500...

Obviously there will be some more things to think about once all this is over... And at the moment countries should pass a bill about emergency citizen help.
A company's profit in the a state of crisis shouldn't be put before the livves of people.

And it would have been smart of them (the company) to offer to share the schematics for good will. Now they are going to be looked down for their greed, when they can't even manufacture enough of these valves to answer the need.

Instant karma!

[Bartholomew]

2 hours ago, SolarNova said:

Its interesting, and somewhat frustrating, to watch the continued over reaction to this situation.

 

Numbers keep getting brought up, like 1000's of deaths, and numbers like 250k 'potential' deaths in the UK etc, as if 250k is an unimaginable number.

I can only surmise that the rather over the top reaction to these figures means a large portion of people have problems grasping large numbers .. like 8,000,000,000 (8 billion) and what 1% death toll really means to an already exponential global population growth rate.

 

Long story short is that even if the entire Human population is infected within a relatively short time frame of say 2 years (highly unlikely), and 1% die (as per the most accurate measurements of mortality so far provided (south Korea)), which is roughly 80 million at the most, it would not even negate a single years worth of population growth.

 

If people truly believe that this is a massive serious situation, then they should perhaps take a second to look at themselves and realize that acting out on emotion is the worst thing one can do in a 'serious situation'.

You are 100% correct..

 

IF! Taking a perspective from the moon, sitting on a god-chair, looking down on earth, seeing "people" as a "population".

 

The thing is, a family member of a family of 5 sitting in the living room, looking at his or hers mom, dad, big brother, little sister, thinking of grandma and granddad. For that person, "people" is not a "population" but a group of 7 loved ones. 1% rate means a 1 in 14 chance one (or more) will die the next months/weeks. Those 7 people, looking at each other, do not like these odds, and consider that a big thing.

 

That said, although i do consider it a big thing (i worry about loved ones), i do absolutely agree that overpopulation and exponential growth themselfes are, in the bigger scheme of things, not even "a higher risk" than this virus, but even "a certain ticket to our demise" (this spread being just a early symptom). It one of the reasons my wife and I do not have kids by choice.

 

[Guest]

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/17/us/politics/trump-coronavirus.html

 

Quote

On Tuesday he took to the White House lectern and made a remarkable assertion: He knew it was a pandemic all along.

“This is a pandemic,” Mr. Trump told reporters. “I felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic.”

And:

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On Jan. 22, asked by a CNBC reporter whether there were “worries about a pandemic,” the president replied: “No, not at all. We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China, and we have it under control. It’s going to be just fine.”

And... And... And...

 

I need to know! WHERE did you find this clown? What is the recipe?

We need to find it and to lose it in the deepest and the darkest hole at the farthest and remotest place at the end of the world, or maybe even build a very special rocket and send it directly into the sun to melt it forever and ever...

Some "things" shouldn't be allowed to reproduce. Way too dangerous for the World!

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[PhantomJaguarr]

 

[PhantomJaguarr]

A medical device manufacturer has threatened to sue a group of volunteers in Italy that 3D printed a valve used for life-saving coronavirus treatments. The valve typically costs about $11,000 from the medical device manufacturer, but the volunteers were able to print replicas for about $1

So far, the valves they made have worked on 10 patients as of March 14th, according to Massimo Temporelli, the founder of Italian manufacturing solutions company FabLab who helped recruit Fracassi and Ramaioli to print the replica valves.

“[The patients] were people in danger of life, and we acted. Period,” said Fracassi in a Facebook post. He also said that “we have no intention of profit on this situation, we are not going to use the designs or product beyond the strict need for us forced to act, we are not going to spread the drawing.”

 

https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/17/21184308/coronavirus-italy-medical-company-threatens-sue-3d-print-valves-treatments

 

What a time to be alive.

[atxcyclist]

59 minutes ago, PhantomJaguar77 said:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/17/21184308/coronavirus-italy-medical-company-threatens-sue-3d-print-valves-treatments

 

What a time to be alive.

Imagine being such a piece of crap that you're willing to sue people for saving lives during a pandemic, over patent infringement. 

[Guest]

No thanks to the elbo bump bull shit.

 

Brings people's faces closer together and is the biggest bunch of bullshit.

 

You don't need to touch another human to greet them. 

 

Say hello and carry about your business. 

 

Fucking elbo bump, the new hand shake. 

 

Like Archie Bunker said. 

 

Meat Heads.