The Virus Outbreak Thread

@lonewolf  
RIP anyone that doesn’t already have some games, electronics, of books for the long ass lockdown…

Those idiots who keep filling parks and beaches here despite social contact bans should get life imprisonment.

@lonewolf  
So, anything that is not essential, which is kinda dumb considering you need something to be entertained with.

And I have to wonder about these lockdown orders. Tornado season is almost upon the central US (April-June). What happens if a town gets hit, and a shelter has to be set up? And with trailer parks. All established ones have a single storm shelter big enough for everyone. Same with public shelters. How does that work out with the no groups and social distancing stuff?

@lonewolf  
They probably die. Welcome to the new normal.

@lonewolf  
A tornado just hit Arkansas.

@lonewolf  
It won’t work. That’s what makes this scary.

@lonewolf  
At this rate, it’ll only be a matter of time before people are forced to choose whether to die by A or B.

Rats taking over streets in New Orleans
 

 
and Mark Blum has died from corona complications.

US cases are past 123,800 now.

Shawnee county, KS just had it’s first death, making our total 5.
 
Chuck Norris’s warning about where the country might be heading.

My estimations for global COVID-19 death toll with:  
No containment- 550 million - 3 billion  
Current containment- 10 million - 1 billion  
Maximum containment- 99,999 - 10 million  
Nuclear war- 7.8 billion
 
@lonewolf  
So if I’m guessing right, if the military gets involved, Trump could be overthrown and restrictions would be eased, pulling an Earth Abides on the entire Lower 48?

@Wiimeiser  
That would probably start a mini civil war

@lonewolf
 
That is some serious fearmongering

If only we could communicate with Tardigrades, they’d teach us how to survive everything.
 
Killer Asteroids + Comets, Gamma Ray Bursts, Super-volcanos, Drastic Climate Change, and Pandemics like this one wouldn’t even faze those little soldiers.

@Wiimeiser
 
No, and humanity doesn’t quite have the ability to kill itself of fully yet. Ask me again when we can economically produce anti-matter or relativistic kill missiles.

@Ebalosus  
I don’t exactly know what the latter is…

Nursing and rehab center in Burlington, KS has 3 cases.
 
Probably the worst place for the virus to appear.
 
And I just noticed the lockdown order for my county is indefinite. They can run it as long as they want.

@lonewolf  
Where are you? Because that sounds bad…

I feel like I’ve been hit by a truck…

We are sprinting fast. 343 new cases for today than yesterday’s 272.

@Count Adramélekh Sear  
@Count Adramélekh Sear  
You need our new test kits

@MagpulPony  
Well, we’ve rejected the lot of China’s own kits.

@Count Adramélekh Sear  
Because China’s kits are piles of crap.