BF2S Forums Pandemic thread

uziq wrote:

it's weird you can then point out the hypocrisy/stupid thinking over the chinese flight ban. weren't you angry that china called your policy racist? hey look, two weeks later, it turns out it was racist and ineffectual. white people brought in it. well done dilbert. you'll learn eventually.

Most of these people have been identified and contained. Most Australian states have no in-community transmission to speak of, although thats likely about to change.

Were the Chinese racist in locking down Wuhan? Why were they so vociferous in accusing others of racism?
The world should have locked down China and everyone there whatever their nationality just as China locked down Wuhan, then we wouldn't be in this mess with no 'racism' involved. China's pushback may have doomed us all, their delays and secrecy certainly have.

Last edited by Dilbert_X (2020-03-19 13:56:55)

Photo of Trump remarks shows 'corona' crossed out and replaced with 'Chinese' virus
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics … spartandhp

Super annoying tit-for-tat political "skullduggery." Comes off as a woefully inane and inappropriate scuffle when the focus could be finding or contributing to a solution instead.

The spokesman for the Chinese foreign ministry blaming the US is not trivial.
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/13/asia … index.html

The Chinese have 5,10,20,50,100 year plans,they are always working to their own benefit, we can barely scrape through the next quarter.

Locking down China and not worrying about being called racist by racists would have been a substantive step, didn't I say that months ago?
Now we need to lock down every other country in the world for months and deal with the deaths.

Dilbert_X wrote:

I remember when Webex was free, it worked pretty well.
Up to that point we had to email documents to each other like savages.
"Have you got document 1.3 dated yesterday? We're all on 1.4 dated today. Lets cancel this and hook up tomorrow when we're all on the same page"
Great days.

We also had four dedicated ISDN lines for the video-conference system, which was only installed at one site so couldn't be used for an awful lot. We used a laptop and webcam instead.
Those lines were maintained for about six years.

I still have to play that document version game because people I work with still do it, they're intimidated by anything more complex than an email sign in screen, and get agitated when change is suggested. It's an endless frustration of mine trying to keep people on the same page when I'm dealing with guys who use Word in place of a spreadsheet, plug in numbers off of their external calculator, and save changes to an existing filename without altering version numbers.

I have to maintain a master document folder that nobody else can write to because of that sort of thing, keep asking that any alterations be CC'd back to me, and field endless complaints that they can't just meddle with source files or go back to a word processor from the 1980s.

Also, guys, maybe try closing some Word files, PDF documents, and browser tabs instead of running CCleaner every ten minutes for crying out loud.

Ugh.

Also,

Chinese Bat-Flu rolls off the tongue.

It can't be controlled in that way.

https://nyti.ms/2wqFfI7

WASHINGTON — Senator Richard M. Burr sold hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of stock in major companies last month, as President Trump and others in his party were still playing down the threat presented by the coronavirus outbreak and before the stock market’s precipitous plunge.

The stocks were sold in mid-February, days after Mr. Burr, Republican of North Carolina and the chairman of the Intelligence Committee, wrote an opinion piece for Fox News suggesting that the United States was “better prepared than ever before” to confront the virus.

Two weeks after the sales, Mr. Burr spoke at the Capitol Hill Club in Washington to a nonpartisan group called the Tar Heel Club, warning that the virus could soon cause a major disruption in the United States.

i am looking forward to watching america go to hell in a handcart. the chi-comms at least have pedigree.

Shortly before issuing his stay at home order, governor Gavin Newsom said 56% of California residents were expected to contract Covid-19 over the next eight weeks. It would require nearly 20,000 more hospital beds than the state could currently provide.

these goddamn liberals using the virus scare to their own ends!

Last edited by uziq (2020-03-19 19:33:21)

Doesn't really seem to be slowing down, my money is on the bat.

https://vimeo.com/398334975

Italian hospital. This will be the U.S. in a few weeks.

it’s just the flu

Well there is no stopping it, I hope that by the time it makes a comeback from poorer regions that don't have the health system to cope enough resistance has been built up in the population to prevent another wave of deaths and quarantine measures.

Last edited by Larssen (2020-03-20 01:34:56)