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My thoughts on coronavirus
5 years ago
Well, I should've talked about this earlier, but it seems that the Covid-19 coronavirus outbreak has gotten more rampant as ever. x_x More and more new cases kept appearing every day, and there were even deaths as well. O_o I mentioned in my Twitter that this scenario is very similar to that 2012 movie, Contagion. Sure, that movie exaggerated a few stuff -- like the death toll of millions -- because Hollywood. XD (In reality, at the time of typing this, the death toll was still within the 4-digit range.) Still, it's not a laughing matter, and that movie did correctly predict other aspects of this pandemic, like the mass panic and hysteria, like we've seen with just how lightning quick hand sanitizers went out of stock. >_o (People are also politicizing the coronavirus outbreak itself, but I won't dabble any further with that.)
Just an hour ago, Malaysia's newly-appointed prime minister, Muhyiddin, announced a nation-wide lockdown to the entire country from now until the 31st of March, in an effort to try to limit the spread of the virus as much as humanly possible. My parents and I have already imposed to ourselves our own self-imposed lockdown for over a month now, so this doesn't change much for us. Still, it sucks because this shows just how dire our situation as gotten.
It's not just that. E3 has already been confirmed to have been canceled. If the situation worsens, then Tokyo 2020 could be canceled as well. A lot of big conventions and public events got canceled as well. Better save than worry, I guess. x_o
This virus has screwed everyone over. Thankfully, this virus spread can't go on forever. Eventually, it will recede; we just don't know when. And a cure will be found, no matter how long it takes. If this is Contagion, we'd likely be in the last quarter of the movie now.
Update: Okay, more like still in the second half of the movie right now. x_x;;
Just an hour ago, Malaysia's newly-appointed prime minister, Muhyiddin, announced a nation-wide lockdown to the entire country from now until the 31st of March, in an effort to try to limit the spread of the virus as much as humanly possible. My parents and I have already imposed to ourselves our own self-imposed lockdown for over a month now, so this doesn't change much for us. Still, it sucks because this shows just how dire our situation as gotten.
It's not just that. E3 has already been confirmed to have been canceled. If the situation worsens, then Tokyo 2020 could be canceled as well. A lot of big conventions and public events got canceled as well. Better save than worry, I guess. x_o
This virus has screwed everyone over. Thankfully, this virus spread can't go on forever. Eventually, it will recede; we just don't know when. And a cure will be found, no matter how long it takes. If this is Contagion, we'd likely be in the last quarter of the movie now.
Update: Okay, more like still in the second half of the movie right now. x_x;;
There are diseases that are a lot nastier with much higher death rates, and while this will cause staggering loss of life and livelihood, I think people are giving themselves too much credit. Sure this is bad, but people have been through a lot worse in the past.
If this is the challenge of our generation, then we got off lightly.
Hand sanitiser? in England everyone's gone completely loopy, the shelves are getting cleared, even though the shops had plans in place for this sort of thing. You'd think it was the zombie apocylipse.
As for the virus doing us in? Nah, it's not anybody's fault. We like to victimise ourselves, but stuff happens. Although it would have been a lot more scaled-back a century ago. We have the benefit of modern medicine, but the curse of modern travel and population density. I guess some of us just got complacent and assumed we were beyond the reach of circumstance.
sure sure, it's nasty, and older people (like me) and people with respiratory problems, chronic diabetes (me), and immune issues are the main people it targets
I had a REALLY nasty bug a couple weeks ago, hospitals refused to even consider testing for it at that time, now everyone is out of testing kits.
Am I worried about corvid-19? No. 4% is pretty remote, and I spend most of my time isolated at home Anyway (since I can't GET a job right now)
give it time to burn out, and it won't be an issue anymore. mostly what I'm worried about is how the governments are going to use the panic to restrict our rights and disarm us
With a statement being made that this pandemic could last through August.
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We got bills to pay, man!
Lately I’ve been thinking of the Ubisoft game The Division and it’s sequel which deals with the concept of American society collapsing in the face of a human engineered small pox virus pandemic and a secret agency of the Government with super tech is called on to re establish order by basically killing all the looters and rioters with impunity.