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A new virus is reported, China puts millions of people under quarantine. Eastern Asia (a week later and with few own cases): this is serious, let's implement containment measures early on, even if it's restricting personal freedoms. Europe (two and half months later and with hundreds if not thousands infected in their own countries): let's gather in thousands for a Smurf festival, go on a holiday because it's cheap now, oh and don't forget to get that last cheeseburger before they close the joint because my non essential personal needs are obviously more important than anything else. We had plenty of time and there was enough information to react in order to contain it. Both the politicians and the general public screwed up completely. The former for downplaying the threat and failing to implement the required measures early on, the latter for being ignorant and unwilling to make small personal "sacrifices" for the benefit of society.

As @Eco has mentioned, I've had my hands full recently. Both my wife and I work in the medical field, so our family is constantly worried about us. I have family in Arezzo face timing and saying they are worried about me...My daughter's daycare has closed so I've been trying to keep her busy 5 days in the week. Appreciate the concern, but everything is fine.

You just have to go back to the first month of this thread to see the western mindset. Blaming sensationalist newspapers, complaining about panic buying and trying to argue the fatality rate isn't bad.

Strowman is a big dumb motherfucker that doesn’t have the self-awareness to realise the onky reason he has a job is because was scouted and put on a fasttrack to the big leagues. He is kinda like a private school wanker that doesn’t realise the onky reason he is chief executive junior vice president of his cousin’s best friends law firm is because they were both molested by the same priest at their catholic school.

13% of cases in Spain are also healthcare workers. The great scandal in all of this when it is over is going to be how medical professionals didn't have the gear to be protected.

It's not easy for people to simply stop living their lives though and with it being a unique experience for many, especially in Europe, people don't realise the severity of it until it actually becomes a problem. It also happened so quickly and was impossible to stop. Other countries acted quicker once the virus arrived there but they were also able to learn from other country's mistakes. This is spot on to be honest.

This the problem everywhere, unfortunately. @topic We have begun to see a spike here in India, thanks to people's continued stupidity. On aside note, nice explanation of a simple concept by a scientist who is currently working on Malaria and Tuberculosis.

Now China are reporting this as a "foreign virus" in their media, writing headlines such as "Beware of a second outbreak started by foreign garbage.” while you have people there being racially abused for having blue eyes. We all know how racist the Chinese are when in their own backyard, just ask any black person who visits their country(if you walked through the streets with a black kid, they'd all take pictures of them!!!!), but this just takes the piss. They just can't take responsibility for their own fuck up can they? This whole situation is entirely and 100% their fault and nobody should forget it. Whether their new wave of cases are imported or not, it's all their fault.

Finally started watching 12 Monkeys. The original movie is one of my favourites and I always meant to check the series out but somehow never did... glad I did today. Watching Episode 1; fantastic. The theme might be a bit uncanny given the current situation but at least it's relevant haha. Knowing it's currently in Season 4 gives me hope too. @Bluewolf

It will be a death sentence for a lot of people, I don't think the media have reported it as being a death sentence for everybody...but there's something like 1.5m people with serious health complications that could die from this if they get it. That is a ridiculously high number. The reporting is spot on imo and everybody should be doing all we can to isolate and not spread the virus.

It seems they have reached the peak and plateaued in the last 6 days so I'd be carefully optimistic and say that the trend indicates a slow improvement.

[Coronavirus] is just another psychosis, which will benefit some people and harm others," "The civilized world is going nuts. It is absolute stupidity to close state borders. The panic can hurt us more than the virus itself." To add to that, he suggested that instead of panicking "like those in Western Europe," one should have 40-50 grams of vodka daily, go to a banya [Russian sauna] two to three times a week and keep working on a farm, as "tough work and a tractor can cure anything." No, not Trump but Lukashenko . I have to admit, I think there is some truth in what he is saying at least about the sauna and panic. Also, let me just say, I tried the vodka cure a couple of nights ago, at possibly a higher dosage than he recommended and though I felt great at the time, the next day was not so great and I was more or less restricted to green tea and water with what some might consider flu like symptoms. Feeling better today, so may try again with different dosages and medications, maybe maple syrup whiskey is what you need in Kanada?

Simon Miller told me to fuck off today. What a day.

Condolences to both of you @DeadLinesman @Happy Blue My granddad's in the hospital with multiple minis strokes and now has coronavirus, no more visiting and not looking good for him.

Another 800 dead in Spain.

Me and the failed attempts to make the Caption Contest a successful thing