People just need to calm down and follow a few rather simple procedures.
Sadly people following a few rather simple procedures isn't a simple procedure, especially when there are people who make their money misinforming people. Not to forget the people who spread misinformation to sow chaos in places they obtain some gain from by weakening or they just don't like the people who live there, and the people who spread misinformation just simply because they want to watch the world burn.
Edit: Case in point some medical personnel in Mexico are now making sure they wear plain clothes in public because there have been a string of assaults on them, so far things like bleach thrown on them or in at least one case being punched in the face, cause conspiracy theories that the coronavirus is being deliberately spread by the medical personnel.
Not surprising. She was the last straw who broke Bismarck, so makes sense they'd make her responsible (and so far seems one of those least to cause trouble). Its kind of like that situation where you have roommates who don't want to be the one to take out the garbage, so they just keep stacking the garbage until the last person to come by and unable to keep the stack stable is stuck with the responsibility to take out the trash.
Aren’t Chinese companies handling a lot of 5g tower business? If so, then the thought process of these people may be: 5g towers -> Chinese company -> Covid-19 starting and not being contained initially in China.
You'd think so and that'd make some degree of logic, but as I understand it the conspiracy theory actually claims Wuhan got COVID-19 because they had 5G towers installed not that long ago.
The thing to understand is this is actually a 5G conspiracy that is latching onto the whole COVID-19 hysteria. The bogeyman is 5G, coronavirus is just another excuse to blame the bogeyman.
Wild claims about 5G are not new. The technology has an outsize political importance because it may provide countries with a competitive edge, with faster wireless speeds enabling more rapid development of driverless cars and other innovations.
Internet trolls have seized on 5G and its political implications to sow fear, leading to protests in the United States and elsewhere against the technology in recent years. Russians have pushed claims that 5G signals were linked to brain cancer, infertility, autism, heart tumors and Alzheimer’s disease, all of which lacked scientific support.
In January, as the coronavirus rippled through Wuhan, China, and beyond, it provided new fodder for anti-5G trolls. On Jan. 19, a post on Twitter speculated on a link between 5G and the disease, according to Zignal Labs, a media insights company that studied 699,000 mentions of the conspiracy this year through April 7.
“Wuhan has 5,000+ #5G base stations now and 50,000 by 2021 — is it a disease or 5G?” the tweet said.
On Jan. 22, an article on a Belgium news website included a comment from a physician claiming that 5G was harmful to people’s health. Though it did not specifically mention the coronavirus, the doctor mentioned a possible “link with current events.” The article, later deleted by the publisher, reached as many as 115,000 people, according to CrowdTangle, a tool that analyzes interactions across social media.
By last month, 5G-coronavirus claims on the web and television were rising, according to Zignal Labs. A YouTube video that connected the virus to 5G last month racked up roughly two million views before the site deleted it. And the singer Keri Hilson, as well as Mr. Harrelson and Mr. Cusack, posted online about the conspiracy.
“A lot of my friends have been talking about the negative effects of 5G,” Mr. Harrelson wrote on Instagram to his two million followers last week, sharing a screenshot of an article that drew links between the outbreak in Wuhan and 5G development there.
How does materia even work, giant orbs, don't fit into 1 inch wide holes.
Well you see, you can squeeze them into a much smaller form. So when they install those they're compressed down to fit into the slots. The pressure from the materia trying to restore to its full size in the slot helps to keep it firmly secured so they don't fall out when you're swinging your weapon around.
This is madness. How could people believe this? A virus caused by a network sounds like something out of science fiction. Have these people gone insane?
It’s a rehash of the belief that the electromagnetic waves from these things are making people sick. How it could transmit a virus doesn’t even really enter the equation, it’s just the new sickness they can blame on the these towers.
It doesn't matter hugely. The only masks available to us are not medical grade. Like masks for household dust you can buy on Amazon or Newegg. Those are better than nothing but don't stop germs as effectively as a medical mask. Us wearing these masks is little more than security theater. And even if you COULD get a medical mask, you shouldn't. Those must be reserved for medical professionals.
Well the point of wearing the masks, at least as they're being encouraged here in the US, is for the safety of others and not for your own safety. These masks help prevent people from aerosolizing saliva and other bodily fluids that could carry the coronavirus and thus spread it around. So they matter, they just matter in regards on lowering spread, not protecting the wearer.
The one advantage these kinds of masks have is they're reusable and can be readily cleaned, so while they have extremely limited protective properties they are much easier to decontaminate. The N95 masks on the other hand aren't meant to be reused and cleaning them is difficult to remove contamination.
yes, but Chinese don't kill/eat bats, simply because "蝠"(bat) is the "福"(blessing; happiness; good fortune) also a stronger cultural belief. I don't know why Parauk & Indonesians eat bats so I won't go on about it.
You don't need to kill/eat the animal for it to spread disease though. Just keeping live animals in unsanitary conditions where they could contaminate surfaces or other types of foods is enough. Even living in close proximity with the live animals allows the animal to spread disease. The issues with having these kinds of markets is sanitation and proximity of live animals of different kinds together. The sanitation is obvious, but the close proximity of different kinds of animals might not seem obvious. Lets take the flu as an example. Birds are the natural reservoir for influenza and all subtypes. The jump from birds to humans though is rather hard, but its easier for the flu to jump from birds to pigs. Pigs are much closer biologically to humans than birds, so pigs act as a great stepping stone for the flu to mutate and then be able to make the leap to infecting humans. Sites where humans raise lots of pigs and chickens in close proximity are actually great breeding grounds for new strains of flu. Placing exotic animals and just other animals in general in close proximity in unsanitary conditions act as breeding grounds for disease like this by reducing the health of the animals to make them more prone to illness and by increasing the exposure of disease from one animal to another to allow for them to make inter-species leaps of infection.
Anyways, I never specifically singled out bats. While there is some research to suggest that is the origin of the disease, I'm not going to specifically single them out when its the markets setup as a whole that is the breeding ground for disease. I'd personally wait until more conclusive studies come out on the origin of the disease before attributing them to bats. Although it's going to take a long time before that happens, if at all. As I understand it now the Chinese government has begun cracking down on Chinese studies of the origin of the disease and now requires that the central government approve the results of the study before they're allowed to publish it.
Edit: just to add some additional information. SARS and MERS are also believed to have originated from bats, but they were transmitted to humans from civets and dromedary camels. Having a direct link to bats is definitely not a necessity, but close proximity of these different animals certainly can allows these things to happen.
PotUS Trump's response in this incident is correct and isn't even the tiniest bit out of touch with reality: the man shouldn't be writing a letter - especially not to his hometown media. He has access to the ears of Navy Command all the way up to the White House directly, he should have made a call - and one is all it would have taken, as I alluded above.
The punishment toward the captain was actually harsher than it should have been and clearly an overreaction by the leadership. They've screwed up and only succeeded in painting a picture that they do not care about the health and safety of the personnel under them, and succeeded in making the captain appear as a martyr who was punished for doing the "right thing". I say that in quotations, because clearly he did screw up with this as well, but it is clear that those above him have clearly screwed up on this too and if they continue with their current course they're just going to succeed in destroying confidence in their ability to command during this crisis.
Additionally the Acting Secretary of the Navy, a career businessman, attacking the former Captain in an address to the crew of the ship is also clearly a failure in the current leadership.
Does anyone anywhere still write on --- public, not home --- lavatory walls any more ?
Can confirm this still seems to be true. Attended a relative's performance at their high school and the restrooms had a decent amount of writing on it, and given the general state of the building most of that must have been renovated only a few years ago. Also where I work is open to the public and the restrooms most likely to be used by the public I can also confirm has some writing on the bathroom walls, more so chiseled into the walls. Given said walls are decorative stone, it's rather depressing the extent people will go to leave a stupid comment.
It's interesting to see that the second hallway is spotless until the corpses fell onto them. Which begs the question, is the death toll per anomalous level really low (and it just adds up when you take into account the whole building), or did someone - or something - clean the apartment regularly? Clearly not hoping for an anomalous janitor to appear at some point, nope.
Probably should also take into consideration all the possible floors one can end up on. We don't know how many people are actually investigating the apartment, but it wouldn't be unreasonable to guess it's probably rather infrequent for floors that aren't labelled on the inside of the elevator. Even the ones that are crossed out in the elevator probably get frequented more than a random floor.
I don't think the virus is a serious threat, but it's infectious enough it'd be good to learn how to deal with something that actually did pose a danger.
Going to disagree with that. This is a serious threat. The disease causes a flood of patients that can easily overwhelm the capacity of hospitals and is easily infectious enough to readily infect hospital staff and require them to be taken out to avoid infecting others. This means that you’re losing the capacity to deal with all the other medical emergencies that happen regularly and that means lives that wouldn’t have died will die from this disease.
k2NeXTTUNE said:
The worldwide outbreak of COVID19 shouldn't be simply attribute to China.The First outbreak center ,WuHan,has been sealed from Jan.23.Every citizen are prohibited to go outside and their living nessarities are provided by the government and volunteers.WuHan actually has a population of around 14 millions of people,so the action of locking down is a very risky move and it did create much casualties on economic but controls the situation . Now there are only 4k people in China were infected ,yet in America and Europe,the number of patients and deaths are quickly increasing.Maybe some people will say Chinese government has falsified the data,but according to what I have seen in Guangdong province of China,the epidemic situation has been controlled effectively and the price of face mask has dropped to around 0.15 USD for one.The war between mankind and COVID19 needs the cooperation of different countries and races.
My issues with China was that they created the conditions for this to migrate from their original host animal to humans through their exotic animal markets due to having a rather strong cultural belief that eating exotic animals gives you "strength" or other attributes related to what you eat. This is of course due to the beliefs of the mysticism of their traditional Chinese medicines (TCM). Furthermore the government will not have learned their lesson on this, because they're tying in on TCMs as a part of approved traditional Chinese culture and that being pro-TCM means being pro-China. They're "crack-downing" on these markets for food, but they'll just leave the door wide open for these same markets for their medicines. Which is a growing business in China and something that their government has been heavily trying to push into other countries. Even being a major part of their "Belt and Road" initiative. In fact their government is using COVID-19 to be able to make further claims that TCMs work and mandated that TCMs had to be made a part of the treatment nationally for COVID-19, which in turn they're now using to push out "studies" that "prove" TCMs work.
Furthermore China manufactured something like 80% of the masks worldwide, and who knows what percentage of the ventilators. It's easy to make readily available the equipment and lower the prices when you're making probably most of the world's supply of these devices. It was smart on them to lock the exports of these things for their own use, but I find it rather insulting when people think there is any "good will" when China "donates" supplies to other countries to fight COVID-19. It's easy to donate supplies when you control the market on those supplies, and it's very easy to be out and low on those supplies when you gave up your production base to China to save on costs.
