outbreak! (ebola, sars, coronavirus, etc)

Good Luck, Joey Corona! future participant on a minimum of 3 reality shows.

joey corona i'm sorry about what's happened to you, but could you please say "hey it's me! joey corona!" whenever you walk into a new room?

More like, "heeeeeeeeeeey, it's me!"

not going to worry about this

Eyy here’s yah boy Joeyyyy Co-RO-naaaah

we'd like to thank the opening band, joey corona's virus -- weren't they great, folks

sad lol, my daughter says that's actually his nickname, Joey Coronavirus.

first COVID-19 casualty in the US

I'm normally not one to worry about this shit, but I have a bad feeling about this, mostly due to how contagious this appears to be and how ill prepared our leadership is. Going to stock up on rice, beans, and pork that can be put in the freezer. I'm not worried about catching/surviving the virus, more the upheaval that will occur if the virus punctures the thin veil of societal control.

Basically, if a lot of people are too sick to come to work, all at once, things will get very dicey for a while. It's not like we'll all die squalid deaths, but even a small amount of social chaos would suck balls until things came back to a semblance of normal. If I were a healthcare worker, I'd be nervous about what my next six months might look like.

Goodbye to Joey, the King of Corona
See you, me and Julio down by the schoolyard

Japan does seem to have cocked things up a bit but Indonesia is still insisting that there are no cases despite a whole bunch of people returning from Bali with corona virus (also a popular place to Chinese tourists and locals and tourist from around the world to mix).

people like me will probably just get sick and be aight after, people like my dad will probably die.

Announcing my intention to go out panic buying, not because I’m worried or anything, but because all those other idiots are probably gonna go out panic buying, the idiots

DO IT. As long as you do first in first out whatever on food you eat anyways, it's not a waste. These are staples we always have enough of for at least a month for two people: black beans, chickpeas, sardines, frozen salmon, canned tomatoes, dry pasta, quinoa, rice, nori, cheerios, protein powder, flour, nut butters, water, soy milk. It' preparedness but honestly also partly because when you don't usually drive to grocery stores you take opportunities to stock up on heavy stuff when you can.

17 cases in Portugal, only one of which turned out to be positive(!). Someone returning on a flight from Milan

17 suspected cases that should say. only 1 actual case

This is reminding me a lot of the Eyjafjallajökull event as regards sorting out people who can conceptualise "Maybe I can't / shouldn't travel by plane for a while" vs those who are absolutely clear that reality should bend to them.

Does 'I'm scheduled to leave the country and my lease/tenancy agreement is about to expire and I can't afford to get quarantined in an Airbnb, especially in this housing market' count as expecting reality to bend to my will? Never mind, it probably does.

This is reminding me a lot of the Eyjafjallajökull event as regards sorting out people who can conceptualise "Maybe I can't / shouldn't travel by plane for a while" vs those who are absolutely clear that reality should bend to them.

https://fcbayern.com/binaries/content/gallery/fc-bayern/homepage/saison-18-19/profis/lewandowski/190107_lewandowski_get.jpg/190107_lewandowski_get.jpg

He's ready (to not travel by plane for a while)

xp no no you're fine, I'm not fundamentalist about it!

Eyjafjallajökull ... you're talking about the volcano, right? That's an outright natural disaster that was physically disruptive, it's kind of a different thing, isn't it?

Honestly not entirely sure why/when avoiding air travel should be considered (unless you're possibly sick already). Maybe not to (relative) epicenters like China right now, but the real concern is people already infected coming *from* those places, right? Do they even know how it's spread yet? Not through the air, just by contact, right? So unless you plan on avoiding all people everywhere for a while, go hand washing ham and I imagine you're about as safe as anyone. I don't want to get sick, and I sure don't want to die, but the numbers (so far) don't indicate either is any more a pressing possibility than the plane crashing. Or maybe more like a car crash, or the flu, or all sorts of other stuff.

Eyjafjallajökull ... you're talking about the volcano, right?

no, we're thinking of the other eyjafjallajökull

hand washing ham or ham washing hand

i am also mad at wins for subtweeting me

Lol, no, not the "other" Eyjafjallajökull, but I had to google it to make sure there wasn't, like, some famed disease that wiped it out in the 1800s or something that I didn't know about.

Double lol, looked at the WaPo just now and it seems that Trump thinks the media is simply stoking fear and has demanded a press conference to clear things up. If anyone should be able to assuage concerns with his reasonable tone, clear grasp of the facts and calm insight it's this asshole, right?

6pm’s always a good time to drop great news, right?

If by that you mean Trump's scheduled toilet time, then yes. Also, every other hour on the hour.

Of course, we all know Trump's drops are typically pretty bad news.

The most important thing is whatever they say tonight we know we can trust them entirely.

ok i'm not worried anymore, apparently this is just a left wing ploy to drive the stock market down

Low Ratings Fake News MSDNC (Comcast) & @CNN are doing everything possible to make the Caronavirus look as bad as possible, including panicking markets, if possible. Likewise their incompetent Do Nothing Democrat comrades are all talk, no action. USA in great shape! @CDCgov.....

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 26, 2020

What are the odds on him huffing a big vial of carona to own the libs?

it'll be like obama drinking the flint tap water

MSDNC ... I've got to admit, I've never heard that one before but it's pretty clever. wherever he got it from.

Accurate, too

possible possible possible

thanks president donald j trump for making me sing 'my carona' in my head to the tune of 'my sharona' for the last 30 minutes

it seems that Trump thinks the media is simply stoking fear

not to give trump credit for anything ever but if he does think this he's probably otm it's sorta the media's job description - irresponsibly stoking fear to generate clicks

Problem is, Trump and team are doing nothing to manage the message on this.

they're not doing nothing, they're making it worse.

The only thing that would really get the message across is for him to die of it, here's hoping

I can't quite follow what the point actually is here but there's a cryptocurrency that gets more valuable as more people die BUT it gets destroyed every couple of days so it's not meant for investing?
( coronatoken.org )

the media is supposed to stoke only certain categories of fear

Meanwhile, Marine Le Pen is seizing this opportunity to take the EU to task for supposedly preventing member states from closing their borders.

https://www.manamediagroup.com/files/en/project_gallery/file_57442cf50c7374606674973.jpg

Here's the clip of Azar not assuring Rep. Schakowsky a covid-19 vaccine will be affordable to all. pic.twitter.com/Z8aNd4wLWj

— Michael McAuliff (@mmcauliff) February 26, 2020

My medical microbiologist friend who has, up to now been pretty sanguine about this sent out a group text this morning saying now was the time to start stocking up on food and medicine, in a few extra items in the basket kind of a way.

I just spent about $70 to reinforce our fairly well-stocked pantry. As long as we have running water and electricity we'd have no great difficulty with sheltering in place under tight restrictions on freedom of movement. Just boredom and a longing for fresh vegetables.

I'm not bothering, I'm a single bachelor and will probably die some other way this year.