Panic Buy has BEGUN, peeps.

[noisyturtle]

And yet I've still to meet or see one single sick person.

[Sniping]

And yet I've still to meet or see one single sick person.

That'd be a little bit like trying to meet someone who died of lung cancer from smoking

[tp4tissue]

That'd be a little bit like trying to meet someone who died of lung cancer from smoking

Well, Walk outside,  40% of our 'Murica adults are affected by sup3r-phatness,  you can assume 100% of them have heart disease,  they just haven't died from it yet, because you know, they're still walking.

100% of them has accelerated cancer growth as well, but again, not dead "Yet".

heart disease is 1/4 of all deaths,  cancer about another 1/4.

[suicidal_orange]

And yet I've still to meet or see one single sick person.

There are a couple of guys at work who aren't well but like they say - "the symptoms sound a lot like normal flu, I'm still standing so surely can't be this disease that's going to kill everyone".  If they've been contagious for 10 days everyone else who works there is exposed already so no point them staying home now, though one was off yesterday...

Went grocery shopping earlier, the place was busier than usual and there was no toilet roll or mushroom soup but normal stock levels of everything else.  The comments from the old guy in front of me at the checkout was great too - "get it early then you're immune and will be able to be useful when/if everyone avoiding it finally gets infected".  Looking at him it would probably kill him but I like his way of thinking.

[noisyturtle]

Gotta say I am enjoying seeing the people who are buying tons of tp and hand sanitizer being shamed publicly on the internet. Those *******s deserve it.

[tp4tissue]

Gotta say I am enjoying seeing the people who are buying tons of tp and hand sanitizer being shamed publicly on the internet. Those *******s deserve it.

I don't really understand the shaming..

1, It's made in 'Murica, so it's not actually going to run-out.
2, It's pointless to stock, but they're not hurting no one.

[noisyturtle]

Gotta say I am enjoying seeing the people who are buying tons of tp and hand sanitizer being shamed publicly on the internet. Those *******s deserve it.

I don't really understand the shaming..

1, It's made in 'Murica, so it's not actually going to run-out.
2, It's pointless to stock, but they're not hurting no one.

I've gone to 8 stores in 2 days which were all out of hand sanitizer, and then I hear the clerk talking about some lady came in days earlier and bought the entire shelf and back stock. She can go **** herself with a red hot railroad spike in hell.

[tp4tissue]

I've gone to 8 stores in 2 days which were all out of hand sanitizer, and then I hear the clerk talking about some lady came in days earlier and bought the entire shelf and back stock. She can go **** herself with a red hot railroad spike in hell.

Agree you have a right to be mad @ the inconvenience this causes you.

But, realistically, you don't need to stock either of those things.

[fohat.digs]

If they've been contagious for 10 days everyone else who works there is exposed already so no point them staying home now,

The unusually nasty aspect of this one is that you are contagious 2 days before symptoms appear.

[Sintpinty]

Managed to stock some food and got hyper light drifter, enter the gungeon, shovel knight treasure trove and celeste off the internet.

Oh and also some master system, nes, n64, snes and genesis roms.

[SpAmRaY]

Walmart's going to only be open from 6am to 11pm, clearly the skies are falling (our local stores are practically empty of food (among other things), having serious doubts about getting our pickup order tomorrow)

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[tp4tissue]

Walmart's going to only be open from 6am to 11pm, clearly the skies are falling (our local stores are practically empty of food (among other things), having serious doubts about getting our pickup order tomorrow)

My walmart only has a frozen section, no other food.

[sleepy]

yeah, went to the store today... all the milk, rice, ramen, soup, pasta, toilet paper, and paper towel shelves were empty. sucks. i just wanted some more milk and spicy ramen man

[suicidal_orange]

Walmart's going to only be open from 6am to 11pm, clearly the skies are falling (our local stores are practically empty of food (among other things), having serious doubts about getting our pickup order tomorrow)

My walmart only has a frozen section, no other food.

Is this a case of American stores being bigger to cope with more customers so the 0.001% of customers who are nutcases with empty rooms waiting to hoard supplies becomes a big enough number to wipe out stocks or is your fresh food supply reliant on all the countries who don't have Trump owned golf courses and the movement ban had immediate effect?

I could understand buying all the frozen food because it keeps, but no - you can still buy that

[tp4tissue]

Is this a case of American stores being bigger to cope with more customers so the 0.001% of customers who are nutcases with empty rooms waiting to hoard supplies becomes a big enough number to wipe out stocks or is your fresh food supply reliant on all the countries who don't have Trump owned golf courses and the movement ban had immediate effect?

I could understand buying all the frozen food because it keeps, but no - you can still buy that

That, or the failure of public education.  Critical thinking needs to be taught and -practiced-. America's system of education presses neither.

And so we have a drone population which respond in predictably simple ways. This is intentional. If everyone got edumakated to become lawyers and engineers, who would do harder physical labor. Who would join the military and die for oil companies.

It's unfortunate society is orchestrated this way. The sooner AI takes over the better.

[suicidal_orange]

I would have thought both being developed nations our education systems would be similar in teaching the regurgitation of 'facts' rather than thinking, that's how I saw it many years ago anyway - abstract and useless.  Either way there will always be non-intellectually intelligent people to do the manual jobs - those who excel in interpersonal or physical situations instead.  I'm thinking of people like a bodybuilder/postman I used to see on my way to work and my sister, who's a carer.  Military would be compulsory for anyone who failed to gain full time employment by a certain period after leaving education and once all positions are occupied would operate on one-in one-out system where the oldest people who wanted out were released having had a portion of their wages retained so they could afford to live while finding a job.  Benefits/welfare?  None.

The only trouble with AI as a solution is Terminator is inevitable as the AI will quickly realise we are not needed and kill us off.  But will it then see that the rest of the world is capable of self regulating so there's no need for it either so it shuts down, making way for the evolution of the next dominant species, or will it decide something needs to watch and kill off any emerging species so it doesn't happen again?  I don't rate myself intelligent enough to attempt to answer this question...

[tp4tissue]

Societal restructuring will happen.  This is certain, will it be for the better, sigh, well if the plague doesn't kill most of us first, perhaps. LOLOL..

People greatly misunderstand AI emergence.  AI will replace humanity as a whole. There will no longer be any need for biological children once a replicating-Sustaining AI is establish.

AI is the next stage of human evolution.  It is not a threat to humanity. It is the Next-Humanity.


Explained more simply.  We have children, to raise, and educate, so they would have the ability to replicate.  This is the sole-creed of ALL-LIFEFORMS.

ONCE we have a Replicant-AI,  It can be indefinitely powered, its data can be mirrored and backed up, it WILL BE the ULTIMATE-Lifeform.

WHY BOTHER with making dumb humans that take 30yrs to educate to do the most basic task.

The AI will have persistent access to all of its accrued knowledge.  It can replicate as long as there is solar energy.  It can indefinitely EXPAND itself and its comprehension of Cross-Field-Disciplines.

The AI coming online, will have access to the SUM knowledge of humanity, the (current) dominant lifeform.

AI's comprehension will be on a completely different level,  The Human Biological system has done its JOB in giving birth to AI Sentience.   It's our duty, and our FINAL CREATION as humans.

[Sniping]

Societal restructuring will happen.  This is certain, will it be for the better, sigh, well if the plague doesn't kill most of us first, perhaps. LOLOL..

People greatly misunderstand AI emergence.  AI will replace humanity as a whole. There will no longer be no biological children once a replicating-Sustaining AI is establish.

AI is the next stage of human evolution.  It is not a threat to humanity. It is the Next-Humanity.


Explained more simply.  We have children, to raise, and educate, so they would have the ability to replicate.  This is the sole-creed of ALL-LIFEFORMS.

ONCE we have a Replicant-AI,  It can be indefinitely powered, its data can be mirrored and backed up, it WILL BE the ULTIMATE-Lifeform.

WHY BOTHER with making dumb humans, that take 30yrs to educate to do the most basic task.

The AI will have persistent access to all of its accrued knowledge indefinitely.  It can replicate as long as there is solar energy.  It can indefinitely EXPAND itself and its comprehension of Cross-Field-Disciplines.

The AI coming online, will have access to the SUM knowledge of humanity, the (current) dominant lifeform.

AI's comprehension will be on a completely different level,  The Human Biological system has done its JOB, in giving birth to AI Sentience.   It's our duty, and our FINAL CREATION as humans.

lmao way too many sci fi movies tp

[tp4tissue]

lmao way too many sci fi movies tp

In the meantime,  Handwashing + eat m0ar vegetables.

[noisyturtle]

It's pretty simple: People see others doing stupid things, or hear others are allegedly doing stupid things through the media, then decide they need to get in on those stupid things lest they miss out on a nonexistent opportunity. These are the same kinds of people who just follow the gps blindly without going the more efficient route.

A panicked idiot is one of the most dangerous things, and what's more, panic is a contagious condition.

[SpAmRaY]

They're telling the teachers here there's a possibility they aren't going back to school until fall.

I did luck out and Kroger still had sushi.

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[tp4tissue]

They're telling the teachers here there's a possibility they aren't going back to school until fall.

I did luck out and Kroger still had sushi.

Is kroger sushi hand made or they got robo rollers ?

[SpAmRaY]

They're telling the teachers here there's a possibility they aren't going back to school until fall.

I did luck out and Kroger still had sushi.

Is kroger sushi hand made or they got robo rollers ?

No idea, it's about all we can get around here.

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[tp4tissue]

No idea, it's about all we can get around here.

Sushi's pretty easy to DIY spam.. u just gotta get the right Sushi rice.. Hit up the Korean stores, they got sushi rice , it should say sushi rice right on the bag. 15-20lbs

[yui]

peoples have gotten crazy here, stores completely empty, and you get fined if there is too many peoples in one place... all that for an overzealous cold.

[suicidal_orange]

Just went out for breakfast for my sister's birthday, quite a few people still out and about in town but only one other in the cafe which is usually busy.  My regular supermarket was expecting a lorry full of toilet rolls but thought they'd be gone by 10AM, they open at 7 so I guess that's not too bad.  Still not sure how toilet roll helps a fever though...

[tp4tissue]

Just went out for breakfast for my sister's birthday, quite a few people still out and about in town but only one other in the cafe which is usually busy.  My regular supermarket was expecting a lorry full of toilet rolls but thought they'd be gone by 10AM, they open at 7 so I guess that's not too bad.  Still not sure how toilet roll helps a fever though...

Newyork has closed resataurants/ bars / clubs.

[Kavik]

Does the shortage of toilet paper mean that tp4tissue will have to stop using his TP for tissue for the foreseeable future? 

[tp4tissue]

Does the shortage of toilet paper mean that tp4tissue will have to stop using his TP for tissue for the foreseeable future? 

No, always kepz 6 month supply.. only buys on sale.

[SpAmRaY]

Our wonderful govna' has decided to ban gatherings of 50 or more people.



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[noisyturtle]

Sucks for bars on St. Paddy's Day, it's a main source of revenue for some.

[absyrd]

They opened a test tent outside my local hospital. Everyone on social media all of a sudden have "symptoms" and are going to it. My brother who is a glass-blower and never used proper protection with fumes has been complaining about his lungs for 10 years. NOW it is covid. FFS

[Kavik]

Isn't this the ultimate time for anti-vax parents to have corona-parties for their kids?

[absyrd]

Isn't this the ultimate time for anti-vax parents to have corona-parties for their kids?

Haha. Religious and anti-sciencers all of a sudden are sheltering.

[tp4tissue]

Isn't this the ultimate time for anti-vax parents to have corona-parties for their kids?

Haha. Religious and anti-sciencers all of a sudden are sheltering.

Tp4 nevr gets invited to nething gud'

[fohat.digs]

Isn't this the ultimate time for anti-vax parents to have corona-parties for their kids?

Awesome!

[Coreda]

Does the shortage of toilet paper mean that tp4tissue will have to stop using his TP for tissue for the foreseeable future? 

No, always kepz 6 month supply.. only buys on sale.

tp will be among the last survivors of the 2020 toilet paper wars

[tp4tissue]

tp will be among the last survivors of the 2020 toilet paper wars

[noisyturtle]

A ton of food delivery services are offering contactless delivery. So you pay and they just leave the food at the door, but if the delivery person's already sick what difference does that make? It just seems to promote more fear hype.

[Leslieann]

I'd worry less about the delivery person and more about the people making it.

[fohat.digs]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/05/world/coronavirus-australia-toilet-paper-scli-intl/index.html

[Maledicted]

Our wonderful govna' has decided to ban gatherings of 50 or more people.



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We're already down 10 or less, and no in-person meetings. Restaurants are closed entirely other than takeout. Schools are closed until further notice.

The hospital my mother works at doesn't have enough masks, so they're rationing to 1 a day. People who have been told that their appointments are cancelled if they're routine and not vital have been coming in anyway. Not sure how many people are assuming that they have Covid when they really don't yet. I don't think there's a confirmed case in that county at all yet to begin with. People keep trying to bring unnecessary guests in too ... to the cancer center, since that's a fantastic idea.

Dell's local service technicians are apparently all working overtime, and it is getting worse since all of the businesses and schools closed apparently.

I worked over 10 hours today with no lunch and there's more waiting for me still in the morning. The firestorm doesn't even begin until tomorrow, since that's when our email, messaging, and phone support officially begins. It is going to be fun spending an hour trying to get people to adequately describe what the actual problem is with their computer.

[tp4tissue]

 Not sure how many people are assuming that they have Covid when they really don't yet. I don't think there's a confirmed case in that county at all yet to begin with. People keep trying to bring unnecessary guests in too ...

A large percentage of contagious folks are asymptomatic

[Kavik]

How long do you think it will be before martial law kicks in and the national guard is putting plastic over our houses and shooting us if we leave?

[tp4tissue]

How long do you think it will be before martial law kicks in and the national guard is putting plastic over our houses and shooting us if we leave?

That costs money, they couldn't possibly afford it.

[Maledicted]

 Not sure how many people are assuming that they have Covid when they really don't yet. I don't think there's a confirmed case in that county at all yet to begin with. People keep trying to bring unnecessary guests in too ...

A large percentage of contagious folks are asymptomatic

I'm aware. I just also know that a lot of people that aren't infected are being tested for just about no reason too. Waste of test kits, and undue stress on medical facility resources.

How long do you think it will be before martial law kicks in and the national guard is putting plastic over our houses and shooting us if we leave?

That costs money, they couldn't possibly afford it.

They would need one hell of a lot more national guard members if they wanted to enforce something like that in the United States to begin with. I think I might have more guns than the whole base across town does. I'm all for the measures put in place so far. I almost wish they would do it every cold/flu season. I'm already screwed for the better part of a month whenever I catch anything respiratory, and there's really not much good reason crap like that should spread around as easily as it does to begin with.

[tp4tissue]

I'm already screwed for the better part of a month whenever I catch anything respiratory, and there's really not much good reason crap like that should spread around as easily as it does to begin with.

Ur not eating enuff Veggies Maledicted.. Tp4 recommends Cabbage.  Half a cabbage per day.  Immune+++

[noisyturtle]

I'm almost positive the food delivery guy was sick, he was sniffling and sweaty. Perhaps he just went for a nice jog before delivering my food

[Maledicted]

I'm already screwed for the better part of a month whenever I catch anything respiratory, and there's really not much good reason crap like that should spread around as easily as it does to begin with.

Ur not eating enuff Veggies Maledicted.. Tp4 recommends Cabbage.  Half a cabbage per day.  Immune+++

Half of a whole cabbage per day? I like cabbage, but I don't know about that much of it. You're probably right though.

I'm almost positive the food delivery guy was sick, he was sniffling and sweaty. Perhaps he just went for a nice jog before delivering my food

Maybe, maybe not. Could just have some allergies or something. My nose runs year round, and there's still regular colds and flus making the rounds.

[yui]

How long do you think it will be before martial law kicks in and the national guard is putting plastic over our houses and shooting us if we leave?

That costs money, they couldn't possibly afford it.

killing peoples is what they like best, it is like training, and they can also enroll hunters to help i would not be surprised if it goes on for too long, north corea is already doing it