Random Rants
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There is no doubt excessive social media and competitive news coverage creates unnecessary anxiety before people get tired. That is dangerous. The threat COVIDn-19 poses should not be over exaggerated, most people who get it will be just fine, but disregarding advice and taking it lightly will increase behaviour that enables the disease to spread even more easily. That makes a difference if you are elderly/senior or if you have a disease requiring you to take corticosteroids as they are the people it will kill if it comes to where you live.
There is good info out there that we need to take note of, but it gets drowned out by all the click bait coverage and by people talking out of their arses.
Agreed.
The prepper sites are probably raking in the dough
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I have my Landrover for sale at GBK16K. Some twat just messaged me and said they'll give me 11K for it. I texted back. "11K what? Omani Rial"
I just did a quick exchange rate check; 11k OMR is approximately 22k GBP. Does he want you to cover shipping to Oman?
The joys of commerce in the modern world…
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Fair enough.
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Back to Corona Virus, my MIL works at a Costco and they are completely sold out of bottled water, toilet paper, and paper towels.
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Back to Corona Virus, my MIL works at a Costco and they are completely sold out of bottled water, toilet paper, and paper towels.
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Not surprised since Costco sells in bulk. I've stopped buying bottled water because of the environmental issues associated with micro plastics and only drink tap water.
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Wash your hands. Like, a lot.
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Wash your hands. Like, a lot.
This. And stop touching your face.
And FFS if you feel sick stay home.
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Back to Corona Virus, my MIL works at a Costco and they are completely sold out of bottled water, toilet paper, and paper towels.
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Not surprised since Costco sells in bulk. I've stopped buying bottled water because of the environmental issues associated with micro plastics and only drink tap water.
I agree but I’m feeling like preppers dont give a shit. And when I say out of toilet paper I mean like an empty corner of a warehouse. She said it’s never happened before [emoji15]
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For sure. I don’t shop at Costco but can say that the other chain grocery stores and places like Target still have these items in stock. I think the hysteria will die down a little once people calm down. I came across a few news articles that stated a company in Texas has allegedly developed a vaccine, but that it still needs FDA approval to go through trials.
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Back to Corona Virus, my MIL works at a Costco and they are completely sold out of bottled water, toilet paper, and paper towels.
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Not surprised since Costco sells in bulk. I've stopped buying bottled water because of the environmental issues associated with micro plastics and only drink tap water.
I agree but I’m feeling like preppers dont give a shit. And when I say out of toilet paper I mean like an empty corner of a warehouse. She said it’s never happened before [emoji15]
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Maybe @neph93 's teenagers and 12 year old paid a visit.
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My wife and I prep to some degree (we don't have an underground bunker…yet) and largely the covid-19 freakout isn't going to affect us. Even if the supply chain is damaged, we have six weeks of freeze dried food stored. I'm not too concerned about water in this situation, the water systems in my area are largely automated and if it comes to it, there's a stream 100m away and I have a water purification system.
I went to the Lidl by my house the other day and the shelves were bare. People were freaking out and I needed all of one bag of spinach.
The panic buying is pretty interesting to watch. At the rate things are going, you're going to have to participate or you're going to be left behind. If shelves are bare because people are buying two weeks worth of food at a time, you're not going to be able to get your groceries weekly.
If the people that manufacture the food stay home to avoid getting sick...you're not going to get your food.
If the guys that drive the trucks to get the food to the store stay home...you're not going to get your food.
If the stores are understaffed because people are staying home...you get it.
I'm reminded of one of my favorite quotes "we are nine meals from anarchy."
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Luckily the most dire estimates of the surprisingly high mortality is still lower than 4% even with very few people being tested (skewing the denominator down and artificially inflating the rate) and elderly/infirm/immunocompromised (as in >80 years or very sick already) are far more vulnerable to succumbing to the disease, skewing towards males.
Without a mutation, this won't that virus that ushers in an apocalypse, but then again, we seem to be at peak stupid these days so I suppose it could. It seems that the reaction has the potential to be far worse than the disease.
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@mclaincausey agreed on all points.
It seems that the reaction has the potential to be far worse than the disease.
This is bewilderingly true in some countries. Not in others. I wonder why. In Norway people are very relaxed (moving towards 40 infections, no deaths). The UK seems relatively calm. Australia is seeing panic buying/prepping as is the US. I wonder how much media coverage is responsible? If all the good info in a media is behind a paywall and most people aren’t accessing it does this lead to more ass-clown behaviour?
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Today's update from a friend of mine in Tokyo…...
"My dad asked me how things seem in Tokyo. I told him, 50% of people are wearing face masks, like normal during this time of year. The Shinkansen to Okayama was pretty well empty, as usual too.
The biggest difference is there are much fewer Chinese tourists in Tokyo. Shibuya crossing is not as crazy as it usually is. But Yamanote line is still full of Japanese business people even at 6AM!"
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I wonder how much media coverage is responsible?
As I mentioned earlier, I think social media is partly responsible because it reaches far more people than it did back in the early 2000's, before Facebook, Twitter and Youtube were formed. Instagram came about in 2010 so that has added to the chorus of millions of voices out there.
