So coronavirus is definitely going to kill a few of us.

[Baron Von Strucker]

I’ve seen Asian people wearing masks when nothing is going on. They’re definitely not a YOLO people. Very risk-averse culture. I feel like everything I did between 15-40 had a 3% mortality risk on any given night. I kind of lost interest in the outbreak when I saw the mortality rate. Obviously you can pile up a lot of bodies at 3%, but I see people I know who are walking around at 300lbs or chainsmoke sweating this and I’m sitting there thinking that if they have to shovel snow tomorrow I might get down on a coronary event at 33-1.

Pandemics interests me because if it ever goes down, I see it going down that way before nukes or global warming, but it isn’t going to be this one.

Same here all over Vancouver, I had asked some one i knew why and they indicated it is worn as a courtesy when they or some one in there family has a air born virus. is actually a good idea and should be implemented by the Gwai lo, may save a few lives. but whites generally employ the if I'm sick or miserable i wasn't every one to be.

[OSA]

I’ve seen Asian people wearing masks when nothing is going on. They’re definitely not a YOLO people. Very risk-averse culture. I feel like everything I did between 15-40 had a 3% mortality risk on any given night. I kind of lost interest in the outbreak when I saw the mortality rate. Obviously you can pile up a lot of bodies at 3%, but I see people I know who are walking around at 300lbs or chainsmoke sweating this and I’m sitting there thinking that if they have to shovel snow tomorrow I might get down on a coronary event at 33-1.

Pandemics interests me because if it ever goes down, I see it going down that way before nukes or global warming, but it isn’t going to be this one.

Same here all over Vancouver, I had asked some one i knew why and they indicated it is worn as a courtesy when they or some one in there family has a air born virus. is actually a good idea and should be implemented by the Gwai lo, may save a few lives. but whites generally employ the if I'm sick or miserable i wasn't every one to be.

Its actually a fashion statement now, boomer.

[sonatine]

[MumblesBadly]

TBH, it sounds like much ado about very little. The death rate appears to be about 2% versus the much higher 10% rate for SARS, which is also a coronavirus. And the people who are dying from it are doing so because they overwhelmingly have an underlying health problem or weakened immune system, with most dying due to also contracting pneumonia.



So, I guess we’re not gonna see a realignment of real wages in China from this disease after all.

[dwai]

TBH, it sounds like much ado about very little. The death rate appears to be about 2% versus the much higher 10% rate for SARS, which is also a coronavirus. And the people who are dying from it are doing so because they overwhelmingly have an underlying health problem or weakened immune system, with most dying due to also contracting pneumonia.



So, I guess we’re not gonna see a realignment of real wages in China from this disease after all.

oh my god are you fucking kidding me

[sonatine]

80 dead in china.

[MumblesBadly]

TBH, it sounds like much ado about very little. The death rate appears to be about 2% versus the much higher 10% rate for SARS, which is also a coronavirus. And the people who are dying from it are doing so because they overwhelmingly have an underlying health problem or weakened immune system, with most dying due to also contracting pneumonia.



So, I guess we’re not gonna see a realignment of real wages in China from this disease after all.

oh my god are you fucking kidding me

Dude, I’ve sometimes been spookily accurate at the projected death rates of catastrophic events. But that perception may be biased by my memory of a bet I offered a colleague of mine a few days after the 9/11 attacks. He had seen one of the towers fall that morning from a south-facing conference room in a Midtown skyscraper he happened to be in that day, and was still in a bit of a shock about it. He was sure that over 5000 people died in those attacks. I thought that was a way too high and said I’d take 3000 for $20 bucks. Sadly, he declined, because I think the count came out to be just shy of 3000. Oh, well. Would have been an easy 20 bucks.

[sonatine]

the genome ends with 33 "a"s. this is statistically... unlikely.. to occur in something that isnt man made.

[limitles]

I’m pumped

Can you think of a more filthy environment - an environment most likely to transfer the contagion- than casinos?

Personally, my play is Macau gets shut down but if Vegas is America’s Wuhan ....


Edit
Dammit, I forgot those tip-scamming cruise line companies today. Completely spaced

I'm pumped rep

[Dan Druff]

Fuck why did I go to Commerce?

[Wiganer]

Fuck why did I go to Commerce?

Comps and lesbians?

[Dan Druff]

Fuck why did I go to Commerce?

Comps and lesbians?

I wish on both counts

[Sloppy Joe]

Just saw the movie Contagion for the first time a couple of weeks ago and subsequently read some scary shot about pandemics. Yikes.

[TheXFactor]

Great Movie.

[Crowe Diddly]

the genome ends with 33 "a"s. this is statistically... unlikely.. to occur in something that isnt man made.

counterpoint: As far as I've read, statistics have nothing to do with this functional part of the sequence. it is a very common type of ending for this kind of rna virus, which happen in nature all the time. It appears to signal the end of the strand, is involved in replication processes, or some such things or other. Can be 5 a's, can be 20, can be 33 as it is in this one. It's called polyadenylation.

[FRANKRIZZO]

Shit I have 2 six packs , I bought 2 months ago? should I toss them?

[TheXFactor]

Great Game.

[sonatine]

the genome ends with 33 "a"s. this is statistically... unlikely.. to occur in something that isnt man made.

counterpoint: As far as I've read, statistics have nothing to do with this functional part of the sequence. it is a very common type of ending for this kind of rna virus, which happen in nature all the time. It appears to signal the end of the strand, is involved in replication processes, or some such things or other. Can be 5 a's, can be 20, can be 33 as it is in this one. It's called polyadenylation.

you're 100% right, a biochemist chimed in on that thread and explained how its basically necessary for replication. mea culpa.

[sonatine]

first case in germany.

also US CDC traced it to contaminated bat meat from a bat breeder near by.

[sonatine]

also lets take a deep breath and consider that there are bat breeders in china who sell their wares as food.

really savor that.