Wuhan virus 2020

[Mr Quatro]

Just went to Walmart (online) to see if I could reorder some of my favorite supplies and they were all all out of stock.

Beans, chilli, mac and cheese, etc

So I ordered some cold cereal- and one Advil cold med 20 pills per pack

The cereal will be here Wednesday, but the Advil will take till Monday March 23rd

[Rufus Shinra]

Originally Posted by Traveller

Without trying to get too political, I will say that it sounds to me like someone drank a little bit too much of the idealist socialist/communist kool-aid. Expecting the government to save you in times of emergency is a grave mistake.

That's true if you're living in a country where cabinets are named through nepotism and where the leadership is known for its incompetence. Thankfully, I do not live in such a country, so our decision criteria are very different.

But then, according to socialist kool-aid, single payer healthcare is cheaper AND more effective than a private system and, oh, well, it actually is. Katrina is not our Modus Operandi when it comes to dealing with disasters, nor throwing toilet paper at homeless people in Puerto Rico, nor calling Covid-19 a simple flu. Must be cultural differences, I guess. But as long as you're satisfied with such a system, who am I to judge? ;-)

[Traveller]

Originally Posted by Mr Quatro

but the Advil will take till Monday March 23rd

Seriously? Damn. I knew there would eventually be over the counter cold and flu medicine shortages in the US once panic buying began, but I didn't expect it to be this soon.

[Rufus Shinra]

Oopsie. Want me to send some over the Pond? I'm in front of a pharmacy with full stocks.

[Traveller]

Originally Posted by Rufus Shinra

Oopsie. Want me to send some over the Pond? I'm in front of a pharmacy with full stocks.

Apart from your continuous trolling, you obviously have nothing useful to contribute here, so you are now on my very short ignore list. Congratulations.

[Rufus Shinra]

Originally Posted by Traveller

Apart from your continuous trolling, you obviously have nothing useful to contribute here, so you are now on my very short ignore list. Congratulations.

Huh, I guess having available medicine and honestly offering to share is trolling now. Real trolling was when I was driving in Houston with my car blaring the Soviet anthem as sung in Red October, with the windows down so that people around could enjoy music fit for a Red State.

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Traveller

Apart from your continuous trolling, you obviously have nothing useful to contribute here, so you are now on my very short ignore list. Congratulations.

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[mapuc]

I can get out my mind, that there a more than meets the eye or what we have been told.

The last few days dramatically steps taken by Denmark, Sweden and some other countries tells me there's something fishy about this virus.

Then I recalled a post where someone had put up a link to a story where the was pictures of hundred if not thousand of body bags In Wuhan China

So what if this Corona virus is way more contagious and way more deadly than the politicians will admit..... ? This to prevent mass hysteria.

And the collapse of the society.

I truly hope I'm wrong on this

Markus

[Rufus Shinra]

Originally Posted by mapuc

I can get out my mind, that there a more than meets the eye or what we have been told.

The last few days dramatically steps taken by Denmark, Sweden and some other countries tells me there's something fishy about this virus.

Then I recalled a post where someone had put up a link to a story where the was pictures of hundred if not thousand of body bags In Wuhan China

So what if this Corona virus is way more contagious and way more deadly than the politicians will admit..... ? This to prevent mass hysteria.

And the collapse of the society.

I truly hope I'm wrong on this

Markus

Such a thing is as likely to be hidden in Europe as the Truthers and Flat Earthers being right. It's beyond silly, to stay polite. The stealthy logistics required for this in democratic countries are beyond imagination, that's fantasy in the range of Breitbart or Project Veritas.

[mapuc]

Originally Posted by Rufus Shinra

Such a thing is as likely to be hidden in Europe as the Truthers and Flat Earthers being right. It's beyond silly, to stay polite. The stealthy logistics required for this in democratic countries are beyond imagination, that's fantasy in the range of Breitbart or Project Veritas.

In other words my brain had concluded things totally wrong

Well it's only here in this thread I have put this thought into writing and here is where it will be and forgotten.

Markus

[Rufus Shinra]

Originally Posted by mapuc

In other words my brain had concluded things totally wrong

Well it's only here in this thread I have put this thought into writing and here is where it will be and forgotten.

Markus

Don't worry, it's easy to get caught in a bad reasoning, but look a bit around you and try to imagine how insanely complex it would be to hide so many deaths in such densely-populated areas as European countries, in which there is a strong tradition of acting against authorities when needed. For such a theory to work, you'd need everyone on almost every level of administration to be in with it and to keep their lies straight with their close ones, for all newspapers and TV channels to be complicit or brain-dead, etc. Hell, even the Holocaust couldn't remain really secret, the surprise being the sheer scale of it when it came to light. And back then, Denmark ended up famous for how it worked against the authorities of the time (we still learn in school here about your country's actions back then).

Conspiracy theories like this require a level of total involvement and efficiency that is absolutely incompatible with pretty much any experience we have with administrations, even the efficient ones in Europe.

Now that we have a pretty good idea of the virus' effects here, that debunks quite clearly all the conspiracy theories spouted by 'youtube investigators' on the Chinese situation. The only way they got some serious following beyond the usual conspiracy nuts was the Chinese Derangement Syndrome that was fed with these videos. Now, the scary videos are just playing on your justified fear of an unknown situation.

So remember Roosevelt: 'Who is the enemy? Fear itself.'

Don't fall to that enemy like so many do, and be just as awesome as Danes were back in the War.

[STEED]

Originally Posted by Onkel Neal

Steed, have you asked anyone in the store when they are scheduled for their next delivery? Here is is 2 or 3 times a day.

They are clueless that is too say the average joe worker. You can see something is up on the faces of the supervisors, they know something on what is going on but will not tell.

[Catfish]

Originally Posted by Onkel Neal

[...] Preppers had all the supplies they needed ready and on hand in January. The shortage of TP is not caused by preppers, it is caused by non-preppers, who always laugh at preppers, wait until the last minute to get the stuff they need for a quarantine, then PANIC, then they blame the preppers. See how that works?

Excactly. I would call them unprepared ones hoarders. They are those who are responsible for any supply shortfall now. If anyone sticked to normal buying behaviour there would be no probem.

Stores are just not prepared for the run on certain products, but i may say that our local store owners, selling more than ever, are not discontent with the situation.
And monday morning the shelves will be magically filled again.

[Mr Quatro]

[STEED]

Originally Posted by Catfish

Excactly. I would call them unprepared ones hoarders. They are those who are responsible for any supply shortfall now. If anyone sticked to normal buying behaviour there would be no probem.

Well said catfish, you have won a free trip to my local supermarket and feel free to let these selfish swines know their actions are stupid and feeding the fear machine.