Coronavirus Alarmism

[Óttar]

There were news reports a few days ago that said, "16,000 New Yorkers could die from the 'Rony." Guess what!? 15,000 Americans die every two days from... Living.

There are idiots on Twitter saying that they're having anxiety attacks because the people at the grocery store dared to get within 6 feet of them, and that social propriety was the only thing keeping them from screaming, 'Get the f-ck away!'

In a Denver suburb, a dad was temporarily arrested for playing tee-ball with his wife and daughter alone in a park for violating "social-distancing" guidelines. He was, thankfully, later let out with an apology.

This whole thing is just an excuse for self-righteous fuckwits to attempt to impose their draconian bullshit on other people; strangers, no less.

NEWSFLASH: Diseases exist to cull the herd. People die. We are not special. GET OVER IT!!!

[Daco Celtic]

you wearing a mask when you go out?

[Óttar]

you wearing a mask when you go out?

NOPE!!!

[Daco Celtic]

NOPE!!!

I haven't myself. Are you worried about grandma? I don't want Grandma Houlihan to check out on me.

[Óttar]

Am I the only one pissed-off about this stuff? Just today, some men were ejected from Philadelphia public transport for not wearing masks. FFS! F-ck these self-righteous authorities. I can't believe that nobody has challenged the constitutionality of these goddamn rules.

[sailormoon]

New research suggests 6 feet of social distancing may not be enough. COVID-19 could be aerosol-transmitted, which means the tiny particles that carry the virus stay in the air for few hours. When a person coughs or sneezes, germs travel about 6 feet, upon which the 6 feet rule is based. However, germs that carry viruses can travel much farther to 20 feet away by breathing or talking. Simply wearing a surgical mask is the best defence, if you have to go out for grocery shopping in an affected area, because breathing the same air with a virus carrier in a closed space can get you infected with the coronavirus. The following study by Santarpia et al. (2020) looked into SARS-CoV-2's airborne transmission.

Abstract
Lack of evidence on SARS-CoV-2 transmission dynamics has led to shifting isolation guidelines between airborne and droplet isolation precautions. During the initial isolation of 13 individuals confirmed positive with COVID-19 infection, air and surface samples were collected in eleven isolation rooms to examine viral shedding from isolated individuals. While all individuals were confirmed positive for SARS-CoV-2, symptoms and viral shedding to the environment varied considerably. Many commonly used items, toilet facilities, and air samples had evidence of viral contamination, indicating that SARS-CoV-2 is shed to the environment as expired particles, during toileting, and through contact with fomites. Disease spread through both direct (droplet and person-to-person) as well as indirect contact (contaminated objects and airborne transmission) are indicated, supporting the use of airborne isolation precautions.

Although this study did not employ any size-fractionation techniques in order to determine the size 25 range of SARS-CoV-2 droplets and particles, the data is suggestive that viral aerosol particles are produced by individuals that have the COVID-19 disease, even in the absence of cough. First, in the few instances where the distance between individuals in isolation and air sampling could be confidently maintained at greater than 6 ft, 2 of the 3 air samples were positive for viral RNA. Second, 66.7% of hallway air samples indicate that virus-containing particles were being 30 transported from the rooms to the hallway during sampling activities. It is likely that the positive air samples in the hallway were cause by viral aerosol particles transported by aersonnel exiting the room (16,17). Finally, personal air samplers worn by sampling personnel were all positive for SARS-CoV-2, despite the absence of cough by most patients while sampling personnel were present.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1....23.20039446v2

[Finnish Swede]

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NEWSFLASH: Diseases exist to cull the herd. People die. We are not special. GET OVER IT!!!

Why get over it?

Are you losing money or your job/salery?

Well ... guess what? GET OVER IT!!!!
(You are not special.)

[Daco Celtic]

I'm working from home during the Coronavirus so I don't give a shit. My wife is making new york strip steak, petite red potatoes, and green beans. Of course, a table side Caesar salad is the starter. I wash it down with a mid-grade cab.

[Óttar]

Why get over it?

Are you losing money or your job/salery?

Well ... guess what? GET OVER IT!!!!
(You are not special.)

These m*therf*ckers should not have the right to destroy the world economy. In a quarantine, sick people's movement is restricted, if anyone should be restricted at all; NOT healthy people. Besides, Sweden has not applied any of these stupid measures.

[JamesBond007]

Am I the only one pissed-off about this stuff? Just today, some men were ejected from Philadelphia public transport for not wearing masks. FFS! F-ck these self-righteous authorities. I can't believe that nobody has challenged the constitutionality of these goddamn rules.

Nigga what ? Constitution ? What planet do you live on ? Neo-liberalism does not do Democracy as the free market allows Corporations to take over etc... neo-liberalism took hold in the 1970s then Bush with his PATRIOT act etc...shredded any last remnant of your constitutional rights. People like Edward Snowden told you about your rights being violated e.g. the unreasonable search and seizures clause of the Bill of Rights being violated by NSA spying but you sheeple did nothing about it ! So you get what you deserve !

Snowden is the first guest in the new 'Shelter in Place' series debuting on VICE TV on Thursday at 10 p.m. EST, which looks at the global response to COVID-19 and its lasting impact around the world. VICE co-founder Shane Smith will discuss these themes, as well as how to survive quarantine, with a host of thinkers from science, entertainment, economics, and journalism. In the premiere episode, Smith talks to Snowden, who blew the lid off of the National Security Agency's surveillance of the American people in 2012. In the interview conducted from Smith's home in Santa Monica over video chat, the two tackle topics including the lack of preparedness in the face of a global pandemic, how long this will be a threat to humanity, and whether the power we're handing to global leaders will come back and bite us in the ass.
[...]

It seems that [coronavirus] may be the greatest question of the modern era around civil liberties, around the right to privacy. Yet no one's asking this question. As authoritarianism spreads, as emergency laws proliferate, as we sacrifice our rights, we also sacrifice our capability to arrest the slide into a less liberal and less free world. Do you truly believe that when the first wave, this second wave, the 16th wave of the coronavirus is a long-forgotten memory, that these capabilities will not be kept? That these datasets will not be kept? No matter how it is being used, what' is being built is the architecture of oppression.

Snowden said intelligence agencies knew a pandemic like this was coming "because they used to read the reports had been planning for pandemics."

Asked about if we can trust the numbers coming from China, Snowden says "I don't think we can," adding that autocratic regimes like China aren't doing things better than democratic ones. "I mean, there are arguments being made that China can do things that the United States can't. That doesn't mean that what these autocratic countries are doing is actually more effective."

You can watch the snowden interview here :

https://www.vicetv.com/en_us/video/e...3be07ff249ae3e