this was bound to happen, thanks chuck

Corona is gonna be the tale of how Tulsi wins the Presidency after all the boomers keel over.

African countries move to restrict European visitors amid coronavirus pandemic

thats not good at all
if corona is gonna spread through africa we can say that:
its likely gonna spread like crazy with many deaths since i doubt 3rd world african countries are able to take serious actions against it. oh and tons of ppl

and the "virus will disappear when the weather gets warmer" is clearly not correct either

If the US and UK continue to adopt soft measures, it will be interesting to see how that works out, and see which approach was better or worse for the economy in the long run.

On a side note, TIL you can mention people here with a "^". Thanks.



Our government's image has been severely damaged by how they've handled the crisis. They went from literally saying "if our children ask us if it's safe to go to the Women's March, we will tell them that it is and that they should go if they want to", to closing schools on the following day and then banning all mass events on the day after that. Their reaction has been very incompetent and comes out as saying "we needed to take strict measures against the virus, but we couldn't let them be an obstacle for a feminist rally, which is our priority over public health". Two members of the government that attended have tested positive, and the whole government is now under a self-imposed soft quarantine.

And things aren't much better on the hard-right conservative camp, as the party VOX decided to make a convention of their own to counteract the attention given to the feminist rally, and a few days later several of the party members that attended have tested positive too.

Isnt it also a problem for Spain that you have a very high degree of urbanization?

That does indeed contribute. There are still several provinces with no reported cases at all... all of them among the most rural and least inhabited ones. Meanwhile, the spread is high in big cities, especially in Madrid.

Wasn't that you a few days ago saying this was all panicking and that's it's just like the flu?

I've always been in favour of measures, but not in favour of halting the economy.

I still think a soft approach is better in the long run.

Won't be as bad there because their population pyramid by age isn't upside down like American, European, China, and Japan, where the countries have been geriatric for quite some time.

When you have entire populations being kept alive through artificial means while denying natural selection, all the while refusing to let the weak die off naturally as they would have, thus weakening the human race in terms of directing its evolution, then a virus that is more or less a very very nasty cold will become a pandemic.

Getting all Nietzschean here.

This post was edited by Skinned on Mar 13 2020 04:31am