outbreak! (ebola, sars, coronavirus, etc)

yup. I've been doing my damndedest to get silby banned for his posting in this thread, bcz disagreement is waaaay different than heaping constant verbal abuse on someone and if that becomes the standard around this place, ilx will die with a whimper in less than a year.

that's what they said during the rockism troubles

but rockism was vanquished! we had a 3 day potluck celebration!

hope springs eternal

Thank you, Aimless. I don't know you, but I think you're good people. I'd buy you a drink, but you'd have to tell where the good places were in my own town.

I just went to buy toilet paper. Not out of panic but out of normal family shitting cycles. Of course there's no toilet paper left. Thanks for saving my life, sanpaku.

i do not support silby getting banned. i think maybe silby should cool it down and wait for sanpaku to get banned of their own accord bc it will happen

until then idk mute them on zing (i’ve heard this is a thing you can do)

Mostly Apolitical Thread for Discussing/Venting our Rational/Irrational COVID-19 Fears and Experiences in 2020

I don't think anyone with less than a 2 month supply of toilet paper purchased over the last week should be banned.

I like silby but these posts seemed p deranged and though i didn’t read the thread too closely Sanpaku posts seemed benign. also, silb’s posts are not funny. getting mad and being mean online *always* needs to be counterbalanced with humour, or else what’s the point

share links from Fancy Stormfront and reap what you sow imo

Brad, I've been here under this username a decade. Under other usernames since 2005. I'm peripheral, yes. A line in the yearly polls for 5-6 years. But keep bumping those who want to participate in a thoughtful pop culture community but have other concerns, and what's left.

man i do not care just don't post bullshit

some toilet paper is left

(no really blaming sanpaku for this)

(though, i did whisper "sanpaku" aloud when faced with the horror of the empty shelves)

Well I'm even more confused than before now

just noticed "mellon collie and the infinite bradness" and it has extinguished all rage, real or otherwise, within me

I still haven't listened to the Smashing Pumpkins since July

https://www.womenthatheal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/sanpaku-faces-1024x576.png

it sanpaku. but presumably also access to toilet paper at home while they were alive

but rockism was vanquished!

…or was it?

👹

A reminder that every silby post has a flag link next to it for your personal convenience.

I only flag posts that call for other people to flag. And yes I will flag my own post shortly too.

I tried to flag one of silby’s posts but got an error message saying “where’s the lie tho”

confirmed case on Lesbos as well as a member of staff of London Underground

not sure how much longer the “contain” situation in the UK can obtain tbh

Cobra weirdly deciding that “spread is inevitable” but sticking at contain for now.

Also two cases in Shetland so there goes my patronising-but-deep-seated view of the islands as rural idylls and places of escape.

De Blasio this morning with advice in contravention of every other source I have read (infection requires a “direct hit to the face”, virus “only survives on surfaces for a matter of minutes”)

No, fuck your subway

I think people should be able to post the occasional link to a dodgy right wing site. My bubble can handle it.

So last year 37,000 Americans died from the common Flu. It averages between 27,000 and 70,000 per year. Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on. At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of CoronaVirus, with 22 deaths. Think about that!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 9, 2020

definitely a good tweet to revive when this things has spread to millions globally later this year

he should've just put Good Cuck USA! to save himself the logic.

My workplace (West Chelsea, about 150 employees, open office plan) did not ring the work-from-home bell like I thought they would. This, coupled with de Blasio's seemingly false claims about commuter safety this morning, has me pretty fucking stressed. I can tell you I'm not fucking coming in after today but I'm not sure exactly how I'm gonna play it

any decent place with decent HR will not fight you about anxiety issues. They are probably monitoring and if enough people request to work from home, they will be pushed to finally pull the trigger on it.

BREAKING: A D.C. priest has Coronavirus. He offered communion and shook hands with more than 500 worshippers last week and on February 24th. All worshippers who visited the Christ Church in Georgetown must self-quarantine. Church is cancelled for the first time since the 1800's

— Sam Sweeney (@SweeneyABC) March 9, 2020

my group is on unofficial 'feel free to work from home if you wanna', but some believe it will be mandatory soon

i'm on official "i'm working from home and not telling anyone, doubt anyone will notice"

Ireland cancelling all St Patrick’s day parades!

I saw this old food delivery guy coughing and spluttering while he was getting out of his car last night. Might have just been a smoker's cough, but good lord, I'd still be throwing that takeaway straight into the bin if it was arriving at my house.

“Work from home” is fine and good if you are a professional person on a salary at a job that does not require your physical body. But it generally just slows the spread of disease for a small, privileged class. How many wage workers, teachers, medical personnel are fucked by the loss of income? It just sucks.

I would imagine most businesses that rely on such workers won't bother shutting down or changing things up much at all, just issuing "anti-flu best practices" or whatever. I'm not worried about loss of income for them as much as I am that workers in those industries won't have the luxury of effectively reducing the risk of exposure.

“Work from home” is fine and good if you are a professional person on a salary at a job that does not require your physical body. But it generally just slows the spread of disease for a small, privileged class. How many wage workers, teachers, medical personnel are fucked by the loss of income? It just sucks.

― rb (soda), Monday, March 9, 2020 10:20 AM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

boom this is why we need paid sick leave. (and M4A).

like at this rate, im also thinking about if we have to cancel classes this spring, how many kids wont be able to take their exams to graduate, their AP tests, go to graduation, shit.

oh yeah, for sure. it is a fucking mess.

gig economy people without benefits, uber/lyft drivers, hard to see how they aren't fucked at some point. wish someone would have pointed out the problem with these paycheck-to-paycheck jobs before a crisis happened!

the USA- every man is an island.

one of the UK's pro political commentariat arseholes caught himself thinking aloud about how terrible it is that poor ppl on zero hour contracts will end up spreading COVID 19 to him because they can't afford to self-isolate.

the good news here in the U.S. is our surgeon general who I just saw on TV appears to be very bright for a14 year old boy