Topic: Corona Virus Panic/Discussion Thread

@nessisonett Stay friends with him, for sure. Sounds like he’s going to be a good ally when it all comes down.

Well this thread has turned the corner into Strange Street.

@RogerRoger I’m sure Lucasfilm and Disney has lawyers knocking down the door every time he starts discussing ninja weapons, but that’s a very catchy (if incorrect) label.

But yes, for other reasons as well — throwing stars (or “shuriken” google tells me is the official name) would be a poor apocalypse weapon. Physics and logic would argue that popular movies and video games drastically overstate their effectiveness. The average zombie in the apocalypse is sure to be undeterred. 😂

@RogerRoger Fun fact, many years ago when I worked in retail I remember having to ID people buying knives. The till prompted you and you could get fined if you sold them without ID'ing people.

@Rudy_Manchego I was quite flattered when an Amazon delivery man recently requested my ID. It's been some years since I was 18 and most days I actually look rather haggard.

I got ID'ed a few months ago, I took my hat off and just looked at him and he was like ah jeeez...ok, sorry old boy.

@mookysam Alas those days are behind me... I feel more likely to get asked if I OAP discount.

@QualityGeezer @RogerRoger Yep - regardless of age you had to ask to make sure. I assume that is why I have never been stabbed.

Okay so there is now a corona virus cure.

Time to get my snake flavoured bat stew with civet cat coffee on the go again.

@themcnoisy I thought the virus could be killed by using Dettol? I've just drunk a litre of the stuff, so I'm expecting to feel right as rain very shortly

@Gremio108 That does work but boy oh boy does your pee burn on the way out. That said, you don't need to clean the toilet afterwards so win win.

@Gremio108 no Dettol does not work. One of the coronavirus victims tried to down a bottle and it actually sped up the virus and he died within 10 minutes of drinking the Dettol.

@themcnoisy @Gremio108 is this sarcasm or did some idiot actually try this lmao

@DonJorginho sorry Don that was a joke.

Dettol have been involved in an online Conspiracy theory as the label states it kills coronavirus, before the coronavirus even happened! Look it up and go down the rabbit hole.

https://fullfact.org/online/dettol-coronavirus/

@themcnoisy jesus this is a deep hole

@themcnoisy So Dettol doesn't kill it? Damn, I've just ordered 5,000 bottles as well

I survived bird flu and I will survive this

Can we get back on the subject of the zombie apocalypse? That was more interesting than anything happening in real life.

Destroying organic material is never a problem bleach will do it an autoclave will do it. The problem with ingesting poisons is that they will kill you as well as a virus.

I'll admit that I'm absolutely terrified.

Apparently Tencent (who is tracking the official numbers for some reason) had the numbers at about 24,000 infected/400 dead a few days ago, but the numbers briefly jumped to about 157,000 infected/24,000 dead for a few moments before being corrected.

Supposedly it's the third time their tracker did that, and some people are beginning to speculate that those are the real numbers, and that the Chinese government is hiding it (if correct, the mortality rate would be much higher than the 2-3% currently reported, closer to 15-16%).

Granted, I understand there are lots of conspiracy theorists & alarmists out there, so I'm trying to keep a level head, but I get nervous whenever I see an article on a place like Yahoo showing that they've locked down Wuhan (and Beijing, as per an article I saw today) to the point of being ghost towns, and you can imagine why some would be skeptical that they would do that for a disease with a 97-98% survival rate.

@RogerRoger, while I do agree it was probably a glitch, the real infection number and the glitched death total weren't exactly the same (just in the same ballpark).

I just hope they're able to slow it well enough until a vaccine is completed, or at least until they learn it well enough to put in place more effective treatments.