And *then* you have the insane R0 value/virulence rate (flu's is 1.3, Covid-19's is up to 6.7), durability outside the body (can live for up to 9 days), it's long incubation length (up to 27 days) and it's amount of asymptomatic carriers, as well as it's fairly high death rate (confirmed recoveries/confirmed deaths) of 8% (the 2-3% death rate is based on a faulty formula, total cases ever/deaths), that paints an extremely dire picture. Especially when you learn that covid-19 is bizzarely complex for a coronavirus, despite something like the flu viruses being around and mutating for hundreds of years and still being nowhere near that level of complexity.

Oh yeah idubbbz is great

maybe our deep state just told China to go ahead and let some shit loose and they'd look the other way

also, Chinese people should probably stop fucking eating bats and dogs and shit

@qwasi what video did you pick to watch first?

I doubt it's anything more than them just botching shit that they were working on.

The 50% peanuts one

Oh he has much better ones

His kick starter crap is great

So are his bad unboxings

Im not the biggest fan of his newer shit

yeah it's more likely a fuck up by China than any conspiracy, it's just the timing seems good for last push to convince everyone Trump is the worst thing to ever happen to humanity

Well the left would jump on it anyways

Just as they've done so now, left leaning outlets for instance covered the pandemic minimally and largely dismissed it until about maybe 2 weeks ago when they literally couldn't ignore it anymore, which they and the DNC then used as political ammo against Trump.

The beginning of Italy's outbreak and the increased severity of Iran's and South Korea's infection rates roughly marked the start of this turn, as well as a short time before china really started restricting information on their own cases

South Korea is disturbing because I view them as being very modernized with good healthcare

i really don't know much about SK though, I could be wrong

They're doing a hell of a job on monitoring the virus' spread and they have a good disease control on general from what I know, and they're struggling.

have they mandated any quarantining yet?

Even a good healthcare system won't help much if you make missteps

Not sure

If they haven't done that yet they will probably do so soon, at least for affected areas

No idea what the fuck Italy was thinking though

Letting the first cases just play out

Days later and they're one of the worst affected countries.

29 dead in Italy, 1128 infected

Then Iran, holy fuck

of course the infected number is probably much higher

Iran is abso fucking lutely massively underreporting cases

43 deaths officially

A chunk of the governmental body is sick

damn

yeah I wouldn't trust numbers from Iran

or China

I wouldn't be surprised if they were second only to China in terms of infected

China probably has close to a million infected at least by this point

I guess someone died in the US yesterday, didn't realize that

First one in Washington, yeah

55 year old guy with health problems apparently

is it causing pneumonia? Is that what's killing people?

GG @qwasi, you just advanced to level 33!