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COVID-19 ? What's that ?

Just imagine what life was like during the Black Plague. No internet, no modern day medicine, doctors that still believed blood letting, and leeches were cure-alls, less law and order. And the damn thing rotted your flesh. Holy shit, that gives me the shivers. It basically wiped out millions.

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Yeah most people know how deadly it is, not very deadly. However even a virus that most will survive can be very dangerous. How contiguous Covid9 is and how we have no real way to combat it is what makes it a problem. We will survive and it will move on but the damage will be done.

Yes the people treating it like the next black plague are wrong but so are the people trying to treat it like it's nothing.

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I personally am not afraid of corona. I am (or was) doing all the things I normally do. Going to the gym, concert, movies etc. Time to spruce up that ol netflix account I suppose since I am off work for at least 30 days..

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It's not that deadly it's just going to overwhelm the health care system so they're trying to shut it down

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Can we get a better pic that isnt for ants?

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SauI_Goodman posted...

I personally am not afraid of corona. I am (or was) doing all the things I normally do. Going to the gym, concert, movies etc. Time to spruce up that ol netflix account I suppose since I am off work for at least 30 days..

Enjoy that shit while it lasts man. I was laughing it up until this week where my province shut down all of that shit. Good luck.

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SauI_Goodman posted...

I personally am not afraid of corona. I am (or was) doing all the things I normally do. Going to the gym, concert, movies etc. Time to spruce up that ol netflix account I suppose since I am off work for at least 30 days..

Same. I was going to the gym daily, and doing stretches on the floor where everyone's sweat was, and shit. Once several positives came into my County, and over 100 in my state, I stopped.

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REMercsChamp posted...

Enjoy that shit while it lasts man. I was laughing it up until this week where my province shut down all of that shit. Good luck.

The governor already shut the state down. I wasn't going to change my life just because of a little virus. The only reason I stopped is because they literally made it to where I can't do that stuff now. Which is why I'm trying to remember my netflix password lol

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SH_expert44 posted...

Can we get a better pic that isnt for ants?

Click the full size link bro >_>

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SauI_Goodman posted...

The governor already shut the state down. I wasn't going to change my life just because of a little virus. The only reason I stopped is because they literally made it to where I can't do that stuff now. Which is why I'm trying to remember my netflix password lol

Same here lol. I wasn't stopping shit until they legally made it so you couldn't access the places.

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LampChop posted...

Same. I was going to the gym daily, and doing stretches on the floor where everyone's sweat was, and shit. Once several positives came into my County, and over 100 in my state, I stopped.

Yeah normally I dont wipe the machines before only after. but I started wiping that mfer like a bitch before lmao

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Exponential growth. It wont take long for COVID-19 to jump up a row.

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Its only been 4 months & its death toll is already half of what the Ebola virus did in the span of 2 years.

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Yeah, coronavirus is just getting started.

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iPhone_7 posted...

Its only been 4 months & its death toll is already half of what the Ebola virus did in the span of 2 years.

Ebola?
Let me tell you a little something about Ebola, baby. Ebola is a case of DANDRUFF compared to me.

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We have more measures to contain viruses in modern times than we did even 100 years ago

Left unchecked, it could definitely get up there

The question is, is it going to over take swine flu in a year?

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Yes, I can't believe a currently-ongoing pandemic that people are taking preventative measures to slow the growth of hasn't killed as many people as the Bubonic Plague. It's all a hoax. Your brain is truly big.

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This is proof that Goerge Soros and the Clintons have time machines...how else were those other viruses created?!?!

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I think a more appropriate way of counting the bodies is to use percentage and ratios of infected to death.

We definitely have more people now then any given times in history. COVID-19 infected more people when compared to Ebola, MERS and SARS, of course it's going to kill more people despite a relatively low fatality. Smallpox keeps 30% of it's victim and maimed the survivor, so it's still reign supreme.

Oh snap, it's critters. I'm getting the fuck out if here

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Corona has impacted more of the world than the Black Plague ever did. it's spread to like every country on earth. Black Plague never did that

You are right, we should only start combat pandemics once they got the highest death toll.

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It's only been a few months and exponentially growing. By this time next year, Coronavirus is capable of reaching to Spanish Flu level.

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Zikten posted...

Corona has impacted more of the world than the Black Plague ever did. it's spread to like every country on earth. Black Plague never did that

Black Plague took out 50 fucking million people, chief.

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Zikten posted...

Corona has impacted more of the world than the Black Plague ever did. it's spread to like every country on earth. Black Plague never did that

I wonder why

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The Columbian Plague probably had the greatest fatality rate, but that was multiple diseases (bubonic plague, smallpox, measles, mumps, etc.) as opposed to just one, and there's still considerable disagreement as to how populated pre-Columbian America actually was(in other words, over how many people died from the spread of European diseases).

SauI_Goodman posted...

I personally am not afraid of corona. I am (or was) doing all the things I normally do. Going to the gym, concert, movies etc.

And that is why governments need to shut things down.
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Turbam posted...

Ebola?
Let me tell you a little something about Ebola, baby. Ebola is a case of DANDRUFF compared to me.

Oh...I see. And you are?

*hands mic back to Turbam*

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EndOfDiscOne posted...

I wonder why

jwlim80 posted...

I have a sudden urge to glue googly eyes all over that...

Garioshi posted...

Yes, I can't believe a currently-ongoing pandemic that people are taking preventative measures to slow the growth of hasn't killed as many people as the Bubonic Plague. It's all a hoax. Your brain is truly big.

LampChop posted...

Black Plague took out 50 fucking million people, chief.

Seriously though. If people got through the Black Plague, then humans can get through anything.

Imagine a disease that turns your skin black and you vomit blood all the time. In those days you can't call 911 and there aren't doctors to tell you to just take this medicine. It wiped out millions of people without airplanes crisscrossing the planet.

ninjarobot_22 posted...

Seriously though. If people got through the Black Plague, then humans can get through anything.

Imagine a disease that turns your skin black and you vomit blood all the time. In those days you can't call 911 and there aren't doctors to tell you to just take this medicine. It wiped out millions of people without airplanes crisscrossing the planet.

...so? Nobody's saying we're doomed if we don't stop this pandemic. That doesn't mean we let it run rampant killing millions of people.
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Sir Will posted...

...so? Nobody's saying we're doomed if we don't stop this pandemic. That doesn't mean we let it run rampant killing millions of people.

All the shoppers buying everything up like it's the last day on earth disagree with you.

In order for Corona to kill millions of people, it would have to go non-stop as it's now, for several years. God forbid anything like that happens. And thank God the human race has advanced enough to come up with Vaccines.

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Black plague....wow. heard of people not even being buried during it, left outside to rot and spread the disease.

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KillerKhan420 posted...

Black plague....wow. heard of people not even being buried during it, left outside to rot and spread the disease.

I can't even imagine living during that time. Had to feel like the end

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Here's a good documentary on it

https://youtu.be/hF6vLt-YhRM

Since most of us have nothing to do for now, give it a watch.

Those with anxiety, and depression, avoid it.

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The black death is only as bad as it is because it hit in a time when it was literally impossible to contain or combat it. Nowadays, cases still pop up, and basically nobody ever dies from it. Our ability to identify and treat it have grown substantially.

The Spanish flu hit in a time when everyones government was in full time war mode, and everyone was packed into trenches or factories, and medical supplies were in short supply.

Basically, our ability to respond to a virus matters a great deal more then the virus itself.

If we create conditions in which the virus is allowed to spread uncontested, it will be significantly worse. I mean this should be obvious to most people, but you still have fuckwits all over the place bragging about not social distancing and how unfair it is they cant go to their concerts next week. Take this thing seriously, and itll stay near the lower rungs. Treat it like a joke and youll start seeing the death toll rise substantially.


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LampChop posted...

Here's a good documentary on it

https://youtu.be/hF6vLt-YhRM

Since most of us have nothing to do for now, give it a watch.

Those with anxiety, and depression, avoid it.

Mankind had not change much over the course of 700 years it seems.

Some might even argued that we might have even got weaker.

Never had heard of the Plague of Justinian before. given that it happened 800 years prior to Bubonic Plague it must have killed a pretty substantial portion of the world's population as well. I think if I had been alive for either of those I would have packed my bags and moved out into the middle of nowhere immediately. Extreme self isolation

I didn't realize SARS killed so little and swine flu killed so many(relatively speaking). I always thought they were about the same or that SARS was a little worse. I feel like I remember SARS being a pretty big deal back in the day so it only killing 770 people is kind of odd. I was also a little kid back then though so maybe my perception is off.

Coronavirus' death toll isn't even close to swine flu's and it already feels like a way bigger deal is being made out of it.

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It's almost as if shutting down the whole world drastically cuts back on the death toll, who'd thunk?

If you're still going out and acting like shit's normal, just remember who's to blame if one of your parents or grandparents die from this shit.

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LampChop posted...

In order for Corona to kill millions of people, it would have to go non-stop as it's now, for several years. God forbid anything like that happens. And thank God the human race has advanced enough to come up with Vaccines.

Exponential growth. Look at this logarithmic graph. Deaths increased tenfold in the last month in a half. Meaning that we could reach 1 million in 3 months if the rate stays the same.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-death-toll/

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Speaking of Black death, here is the last thing written by a monk during it from Horrox's The Black Death:



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Stagmar posted...

Speaking of Black death, here is the last thing written by a monk during it from Horrox's The Black Death:

That second sentence

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If anyone is interested, heres the Wikipedia page for the friar: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Clyn

Something that popped into my head later, both Spanish Flu and Swine Flu were H1N1.

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