The highlighted area, for one. And it looks like another section in the shaded area at lower left of center, too, under construction. That’s a lot of good Shi’ites.
Open trenches in Qom, Iran, graveyard a hundred yards long for all the Kung Flu victims stacked up recently, spotted on recent private company sat photo pics, published by the WaPo. (It’s full-screen sized at the link.)
When reality gets so bad even the MSM has to acknowledge the obvious, it’s past time to be mildly concerned.
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Same site: It seems that Canadian PM’s wife is Kung Flu+, and the Canadian PM is now in quarantine as well. So much for professional courtesy among communists.
“Chinese bioweapon takes out Canada’s leader; film at 11.”
Forty years ago, nukes would already be flying over the pole, and bombers would be heading out from their fail-safe areas.
QOTD, same site comments:
Pure poetry in prose.
“I envisaged the End of Days to be more exciting than starving to death
trapped in your own house while wiping your bum on a sock.”
Didn’t we all.
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And, naturally, cue a run on socks next.
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Got small kids around?
Facing an enforced period of them staying home?
This is genius, and hilarious. A must-read: Kung Flu curriculum.
We can all use the laughs.
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Go back to Commander Zero‘s post, and read comments to see the laundry list of colleges and unis from the commentariat that have folded their tents today. Including, two posts later, his own.
Shit = Real.
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As I noted in comments at WRSA earlier tonight, wait until this gets into the hospitals if they don’t re-locate all possible cases to FEMA-care ghettos instead. We have a nursing shortage now, as we have had since the 1970s, and will until the 2060s. The average age of RNs in the U.S. is 50. And this afflicts older patients worse than younger ones?!? Good times. Wait until 10-75% of staff is out either actually sick, or in self-quarantine.
We’ve done health care without nurses.
It was called the Crimean War.
Casualty rate was nearly 60% of everyone, on all sides, due to preventable diseases like typhoid, cholera, and dysentery.
I wasn’t kidding when I told you this will be a Sh*t Mardi Gras.
Literally.
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Important PPE Update:
There is, it turns out, one good use for “surgical” (i.e. zero filtering) masks, besides keeping other people’s snot and sneezes inside of them: they remind you to keep your damned booger-picking Kung Flu-infected fingers out of your own face.
That is not nothing.
They won’t protect you from other people for spit, but if you make your own, and they do that much, they will at least do a good deal to prevent you from self-infecting.
And you can make your own from any scrap of fabric.
You don’t even need to sew it. Just get scissors, and Shoe Goo, and press-fit pieces as needed. I used lumber scraps and C-clamps, at the time.
(From personal experience, Shoe Goo fabric seams so constructed, properly, will last 5-10 years, and survive repeated hot wash laundry visits. For realz.)
Think about that, if you’re still wandering out and about in the madness and plague.
If you forego that, and wish to just Trust The Force to protect you, suture self.
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Also, a day or few ago, some soopergenius mused, “Why are they buying bottled water? Do they think a pandemic is going to take out the taps?”
Bless his heart. Yes, I imagine those boobs were too stupid to consult the Marquess of Queensbury Pandemic Rule Book, and didn’t realize that right on page 27 it plainly states “Employees of municipal utilities like water companies, and their families, are forbidden to become infected with said pandemic. Also, power company employees, their spouses, and children are similarly exempted from the disease, lest the power fail, and then the water pressure, by dint of not having any oomph in the water pumping apparatus anymore.”
And we all know that viruses scrupulously follow Marquess of Queensbury Rules.
First-order effects.
Second-order effects.
Third-order effects.
Fourth- through N-th order effects.
Think, dammit.
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Rules, there ain’t any rules. He who fights fair, dies. Always bring a knife and brass knuckles, along with your gun to a gun fight. What else did I miss?
ambush!
I was looking at the S. Korean numbers, and they seem to have managed to reduce the effective R0 to just over 1 with their suppressive measures over the past two weeks – pushing the peaks out about 5.5 years. The other thing is that they are at least managing to keep people alive for longer than they were managing to do. The CFR may have dropped to about between 1.8% to 4.5%, down from about 5% to 8.5% – can’t tell yet if these reflect merely delaying deaths longer rather than actual increased survival, we’ll have to wait and see what happens.
If the Chinese managed to do the same from the middle of Feb. onward, they’d have about 750,000 total cases with maybe between 8800 to 22,000 dead total, both as of tomorrow. Again, managing to push the peaks out about 5.5 years.
Italy not so much, and the UK is apparently planning to intentionally allow their (mostly white) elderly population segment to die off.
In the US, we can still choose the S. Korean plan over the UK ‘plan’ – by adopting the same suppressive measures as S. Korea we should ensure a similar positive outcome. The same is true of doing what the UK is doing, and ensuring a catastrophe.
One problem the Western governments face is the complete disenfranchisement of their populace, one result of the globalist screwing of the West. Nobody gives a shit about society, because we don’t have a real one.
https://www.zerohedge.com/health/man-walks-out-quarantine-motel-goes-shopping-hops-bus
Also, Peak Cohencidence:
as of this morning the mortality rate in the US is 1.9%. if the numbers of people infected are in the hundreds of thousands as some people seem to think, then the rate is less than 0.1%. insignificant.
They’re including the unresolved cases in their CFR calculations: They’re doing it wrong. It’s higher than 1.9% in the US at the moment – we should have a better idea in two weeks, if testing ramps up properly. I’m projecting we have about 4,250 total cases at the moment (vs. 3557 reported – I don’t think it’s hundreds of thousands yet – this would necessarily push the introduction in the US back to a point prior to the likely release in China, which isn’t plausible), with 68 reported deaths, this would be a CFR of about 12.5% (with 544 cases in the previous cohorts, total).
The mortality rate can only be estimated right now – we won’t be able to actually know for sure until next April or so. Based on the S. Korean church group, I’m presuming that at least 70% of people exposed will become infected, so the mortality rate is probably somewhere between 70% to 100% of the CFR.
If we manage to do as well as S. Korea, at best the mortality rate should drop to somewhere between 1.26% to 3.15% – which is still 12 to 31 times worse than influenza.
I must admit be it a catastrophic fuck up or an intentional global test of a bio weapon the Chi-Coms are up to no good and now they want to blame the American Military ? That’s a laugh if it was a US Military Bio attack there would be a much bigger body count
WaPo?
I’m sold.
Nobody speaks of the virus in water. How long does it last? Do the municipalities water filters disinfect? Will my tap water have covid in it? Not a word said…
It seems to me that some people, both here and people I interact with in real life, are unable to wrap their minds around the fact that life’s paradigm’s actually CAN change. We bloviate online about how things HAVE to change and can’t go on forever, but when a catalyst smacks us in the face we decide it’s somehow NOT “the thing” that we’ve been talking about for years.
I don’t know if Coronavirus is all it’s being cracked up to be, from a virology standpoint, but I do know that it DOES have the power to change certain paradigm’s that we’ve all been taking for granted for the last 30 years. Failure to see this, and recognize it, could be deadly. If not from the actual virus itself, but from it’s peripheral affects. Nothing happens in a vacuum, so failure to keep your eyes and minds open to all aspects of what’s going on right now, WILL have consequences. Some minor, some possibly major. Proceed at your own risk, as a very risk-averse and conservative person by nature, I will do what I can to take as many precautions as necessary.
BTW….I work for a major utility and we’re locking down our control centers and sending all non-essential people to work from home, until further notice. Over-reacting? Maybe, but keep in mind that if the electricity goes down we will be instantly transported to the 1860’s.
Just Sayin
The best prep is a pack of loyal dogs.
From Fernando “Ferfal” Aguirre
http://www.survival-spot.com/survival-blog/argentina-collapse/#1
Just Sayin
Same shit is going on daily in 2020 to the white farmers in South Africa.
To paraphrase a Confederate general: The battles are won by who get there the firstest with the mostest!