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Title: Coronavirus Ncov Updat ?
Post by: tp4tissue on Wed, 26 February 2020, 12:49:56
So it seeeems like some news coming out about CDC warning of possible State-Side pandemic.

Checkn' deep web, pretty much nothing came up on Coronavirus on the surface.

Have read conspiracy that the fervent media coverage is a distraction to tune american audience away from the epstein (and constituants) scandal + election-news.

Allegedly many high-lvl gov officials and captains of industry are involved.



-- also Tokyo olympics might be canceled.
Title: Re: Coronavirus Ncov Updat ?
Post by: dgneo on Wed, 26 February 2020, 12:50:29
lmao
Title: Re: Coronavirus Ncov Updat ?
Post by: tp4tissue on Wed, 26 February 2020, 12:59:48
All the young people are prolly thinkin. No skool. it's like early summer vaction. Better buy up them GPUs, gonna be a shortage.

For reference,   the recent larger COVs


1918 Spanish flu (possibly Kansas born, or France), ~ 100,000,000 Deaths.

2003 China Sars, ~ 1000-10,000 fatalities

2009 United States born H1N1, killed ~ 300,000 (world wide)


Current NCOV tolls, unreliable, < expected 10s of thousands >

Title: Re: Coronavirus Ncov Updat ?
Post by: treeleaf64 on Thu, 27 February 2020, 11:03:59
Yes, there are a lot of people affected, especially in China. The Chinese government has not done a good job of reporting the amount of people that are actually afflicted, and it censors anyone who speaks out against the government. It is dangerous because there is no freedom of the press, and people are routinely discouraged from saying anything against the government.
Title: Re: Coronavirus Ncov Updat ?
Post by: dgneo on Thu, 27 February 2020, 11:16:52
(https://i.imgur.com/GSlVPaq.jpg)

can't believe bill gates would do this to us
Title: Re: Coronavirus Ncov Updat ?
Post by: tp4tissue on Thu, 27 February 2020, 11:19:40
Yes, there are a lot of people affected, especially in China. The Chinese government has not done a good job of reporting the amount of people that are actually afflicted, and it censors anyone who speaks out against the government. It is dangerous because there is no freedom of the press, and people are routinely discouraged from saying anything against the government.

There are 2 sides to this.  In non-nuclear related emergency cases, Panic is worse than censorship.

This is especially true when you consider that the majority of the population are NOT engineers.

If the entirety of society was composed of engineers, world peace achieved. Unfortunately, that is not the case. You've got engineers, and you've got many more riff-raffs.

There is reaction to solve problems, and reaction to burn down store fronts and loot BigScreenTVs.

To be clear, TP4 would totally be stealing all the TVs.

Now, in terms of a Convergence Economy, whereby the nation is catching up on GDP and Technology, it is far more time efficient to have command economy and vertical integration along with a totalitarian command structure.

Government is a balance of Rights and Getting-Things-Done. 


What if your hand had a vote if what you do, and you had to negotiate with your hand everytime you needed to use it.  In the leviathan creature that is society, you have to make choices, have a working hand, or an often idling hand.

America wasn't always so free, its foundations were built on slave labor, opium money, and immigrant oppression.   Sure , it's got better stuff now, but not before alot of the base infrastructure was built by more efficient (less polite) means.


Title: Re: Coronavirus Ncov Updat ?
Post by: treeleaf64 on Thu, 27 February 2020, 11:23:41
Yes, there are a lot of people affected, especially in China. The Chinese government has not done a good job of reporting the amount of people that are actually afflicted, and it censors anyone who speaks out against the government. It is dangerous because there is no freedom of the press, and people are routinely discouraged from saying anything against the government.

There are 2 sides to this.  In non-nuclear related emergency cases, Panic is worse than censorship.

This is especially true when you consider that the majority of the population are NOT engineers.

If the entirety of society was composed of engineers, world peace achieved. Unfortunately, that is not the case. You've got engineers, and you've got many more riff-raffs.

There is reaction to solve problems, and reaction to burn down store fronts and loot BigScreenTVs.

To be clear, TP4 would totally be stealing all the TVs.

Now, in terms of a Convergence Economy, whereby the nation is catching up on GDP and Technology, it is far more time efficient to have command economy and vertical integration along with a totalitarian command structure.

Government is a balance of Rights and Getting-Things-Done. 


What if your hand had a vote if what you do, and you had to negotiate with your hand everytime you needed to use it.  In the leviathan creature that is society, you have to make choices, have a working hand, or an often idling hand.


That's why you don't involve corporations in the government. That's Europe right now. People in China do not have many rights. They are living under a totalitarian regime, and the government of China is more focused on limiting speech against it than protecting the people. There are soldiers in the streets to make sure people don't protest.
Title: Re: Coronavirus Ncov Updat ?
Post by: tp4tissue on Thu, 27 February 2020, 11:29:38
That's why you don't involve corporations in the government. That's Europe right now. People in China do not have many rights. They are living under a totalitarian regime, and the government of China is more focused on limiting speech against it than protecting the people. There are soldiers in the streets to make sure people don't protest.

We shouldn't view government from the perspective of the individual.

As an individual, our rights and body are the only things we have, our view gives 100% weight to those possessions. The government is not considerate of that, it can't be.  The government has to balance the desire of the people with Long term productivity goals as a NATION of people.

These differences in appropriations between Liberties and Productivity takes time to adjust.

Eventually, they'll get to individual rights, and workers union, and all that.
Title: Re: Coronavirus Ncov Updat ?
Post by: treeleaf64 on Thu, 27 February 2020, 11:50:01
That's why you don't involve corporations in the government. That's Europe right now. People in China do not have many rights. They are living under a totalitarian regime, and the government of China is more focused on limiting speech against it than protecting the people. There are soldiers in the streets to make sure people don't protest.

We shouldn't view government from the perspective of the individual.

As an individual, our rights and body are the only things we have, our view gives 100% weight to those possessions. The government is not considerate of that, it can't be.  The government has to balance the desire of the people with Long term productivity goals as a NATION of people.

These differences in appropriations between Liberties and Productivity takes time to adjust.

Eventually, they'll get to individual rights, and workers union, and all that.


Yes, TP, but you cannot have a developed economy, and ways of communication with an authoritarian government. It will eventually cave in, as it is doing now; no country can sustain itself on communism.

While I agree that goals should be prioritized above individual rights to achieve work, I believe that work should not be done at the expense of the public opinion. The American government system is built upon a community of individuals, all working together to achieve a common goal.
Title: Re: Coronavirus Ncov Updat ?
Post by: tp4tissue on Thu, 27 February 2020, 13:51:19
Yes, TP, but you cannot have a developed economy, and ways of communication with an authoritarian government. It will eventually cave in, as it is doing now; no country can sustain itself on communism.

While I agree that goals should be prioritized above individual rights to achieve work, I believe that work should not be done at the expense of the public opinion. The American government system is built upon a community of individuals, all working together to achieve a common goal.

China is not communist, just as America isn't democratic.

All governments are fundamentally Oligarchies.  The implosion the way you're describing it is merely the erosion process whereby the Flock is satiated and no longer hungry, thus releasing them from the control of established oligarchical structures.

America has been at it longer, and baring' any drug induced dulling of the populace, the society here is further along this more equal power path.

Given time, why should a plumber make less money than an engineer, and why should an engineer make less money than his boss.

These things just take time. China's process is not different from that of any other nation.


Title: Re: Coronavirus Ncov Updat ?
Post by: Kavik on Thu, 27 February 2020, 14:52:57
 :thumb:
Title: Re: Coronavirus Ncov Updat ?
Post by: Sintpinty on Sun, 01 March 2020, 07:29:10
Show Image
(https://i.imgur.com/GSlVPaq.jpg)


can't believe bill gates would do this to us

Oh my gosh 🤦🏻‍♀️
Title: Re: Coronavirus Ncov Updat ?
Post by: noisyturtle on Mon, 02 March 2020, 15:16:55
More deaths in my neighborhood  :'(

Kirkland is the next Wuhan, T- 2 weeks until zombie apocalypse.

There were a bunch of news crews down the block at the hospital.