COVID19 predictions

[bedlamite]

Which is still FAR fewer than the number of Americans we'll lose to the scourge of gnu violence in the same span! BAN GNUS NOW!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4oQPJYM02A

[brimic]

For you It’s just the flu types......
https://vimeo.com/398334975
Video from an Italian hospital treating COVID patients.

That looks a lot like one I've seen come out of china a month or so ago, except with a lot less corpses.

[charby]

Illinois is apparently going to Shelter in Place... https://wgntv.com/news/coronavirus/gov-pritzker-to-issue-shelter-in-place-order-for-illinois-beginning-saturday/

Means the IA, MN, and WI will probably doing the same. Fudge!!!

 

[K Frame]

I'm expecting Virginia to eventually go that route. That's one reason why I'm taking Seren to my friends'. She'll have a big yard to run around in.

[makattak]

I'm expecting Virginia to eventually go that route. That's one reason why I'm taking Seren to my friends'. She'll have a big yard to run around in.

My office has definitely been acting as though that is what they are expecting, too.

[brimic]

Illinois is apparently going to Shelter in Place... https://wgntv.com/news/coronavirus/gov-pritzker-to-issue-shelter-in-place-order-for-illinois-beginning-saturday/

Means the IA, MN, and WI will probably doing the same. Fudge!!!

 

Yeah. I was talking to our engineer today. Our site leader has applied for federal exemptions/passes for critical industry or something like that. Lock downs are almost certainly coming.

[Perd Hapley]

Here's a prediction I made on the 17th, though it wasn't recommended and put on the public side of Ricochet until today.

https://ricochet.com/732418/wuhan2k/

[Jamisjockey]

Here's a prediction I made on the 17th, though it wasn't recommended and put on the public side of Ricochet until today.

https://ricochet.com/732418/wuhan2k/

Few pause to consider that maybe the Y2K roll-over was no big deal because we “over-reacted,” and mitigated the disaster before it could occur. In the same way, I predict that people in late 2020 (us) will mock those idiots (us) who hoarded toilet paper* and canceled sportsball. Even though we idiots are saving (some of) their lives. Let’s hope so.

Good stuff.  It's wild that the only way to know if they overreacted would have been to do nothing. 

[Perd Hapley]

Good stuff. 

Thanks.

[brimic]

Good stuff.  It's wild that the only way to know if they overreacted would have been to do nothing. 

Exactly.


In other news, China list 15 million cell phone subscribers in the last 2 months... take that any way you like, whether it be that people discontinued their service from job loss, or that they no longer have a need for cell phones.

[Viking]

Exactly.


In other news, China list 15 million cell phone subscribers in the last 2 months... take that any way you like, whether it be that people discontinued their service from job loss, or that they no longer have a need for cell phones.

I also read this. Should probably try to find it on /pol/ and look into it further.

Edit to add, if someone does not realize why this is A Big Deal: your entire online identity is tied to your phone number in China - social media, banking, social credit score, paying for everything from chewing gum to haircuts, it is all connected to your primary cell phone number.

[brimic]

I also read this. Should probably try to find it on /pol/ and look into it further.

Edit to add, if someone does not realize why this is A Big Deal: your entire online identity is tied to your phone number in China - social media, banking, social credit score, paying for everything from chewing gum to haircuts, it is all connected to your primary cell phone number.

I found that on /pol/ the other night. There are 3 major phone companies in China, which showed the loss of subscribers...

I remember seeing videos last month with a giant pile of cell phones from people coming into the hospitals. I imagine they were taken away right away to try to stop the information from getting out plus the expectation that people checking into the hospitals weren’t ever going to leave.

ETA: this would explain the chatter about Chinese government put an order in for a huge number of incinerators  .

[brimic]

Speaking of China: I’ve been grilling one of our buyers (the only one still on site) about shipments from China...
Our Shanghai site is apparantly still up. One of our suppliers in Wuhan did just send us some shipments (we don’t know when it will get in yet), but the materials all have a 2019 lot. So it seems they are just shipping inventory. We have no idea if they are actually up and running.

Luckily we have other suppliers for the same materials in South Korea and Taiwan.

[Viking]

I found that on /pol/ the other night. There are 3 major phone companies in China, which showed the loss of subscribers...

I remember seeing videos last month with a giant pile of cell phones from people coming into the hospitals. I imagine they were taken away right away to try to stop the information from getting out plus the expectation that people checking into the hospitals weren’t ever going to leave.

ETA: this would explain the chatter about Chinese government put an order in for a huge number of incinerators  .

I first read about it on a Facebook page, then I went to look at /pol/ today. There´s one active thread and 3 archived ones about it last I looked.

[brimic]

I first read about it on a Facebook page, then I went to look at /pol/ today. There´s one active thread and 3 archived ones about it last I looked.

There’s almost too much to wade through. There is always an open thread about Corona Chan, which probably gets archived more than once a day.

[Viking]

There’s almost too much to wade through. There is always an open thread about Corona Chan, which probably gets archived more than once a day.

I meant that the archived ones were still open to read on 4chan rather than having to go to one of the archiving sites.

[charby]

I predict in less than 3 weeks after this over, people will start to not trust the scientists and doctors again.

[Perd Hapley]

I predict in less than 3 weeks after this over, people will start to not trust the scientists and doctors again.

Public trust in the intelligencia has declined in the past few decades, It is well-deserved. Scientists, apparently, not so much.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/03/22/public-confidence-in-scientists-has-remained-stable-for-decades/

Science is not supposed to be about trusting the pronouncements of some special caste of people, anyway.

[RoadKingLarry]

Public trust in the intelligencia has declined in the past few decades, It is well-deserved. Scientists, apparently, not so much.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/03/22/public-confidence-in-scientists-has-remained-stable-for-decades/

Science is not supposed to be about trusting the pronouncements of some special caste of people, anyway.

Unless it is about a subject wherein "The Science Is Settled" like globular warmulating. The not trusting the chosen peoples is evil and criminal and badthink.

[charby]

Unless it is about a subject wherein "The Science Is Settled" like globular warmulating. The not trusting the chosen peoples is evil and criminal and badthink.

What happens when you politicize the science.

[charby]

Public trust in the intelligencia has declined in the past few decades, It is well-deserved. Scientists, apparently, not so much.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/03/22/public-confidence-in-scientists-has-remained-stable-for-decades/

Science is not supposed to be about trusting the pronouncements of some special caste of people, anyway.

One would think otherwise, with the antivaxx (and other) movements.

[Jamisjockey]

What happens when you politicize the science.

That's how you get manmade climate change wealth redistribution schemes...

[Ron]

Very long read with predictions

https://medium.com/six-four-six-nine/evidence-over-hysteria-covid-19-1b767def5894

[RocketMan]

Very long read with predictions

https://medium.com/six-four-six-nine/evidence-over-hysteria-covid-19-1b767def5894

Pretty much says we are tanking our economy without justification or reason.  COVID-19 is not worth all the FUD.
But don't let actual hard data prevent you from getting your panic on.

[Andiron]

What happens when you politicize the science.

Like checking people's temperature at airports?  It's Scientology , not science.  This is the gun control of epidemiology,  It's what you do instead of something.  Along with passing a dem's wetdream list of free *expletive deleted*it bills.