#201
also, heres a cool thing, in the "UK" they are not even bothering to test medical staff to see if they have corona's virus - if i was prone to paranoia i would be thinking that they were trying to conduct some sort of country-wide death fueled ritual, which is what i am thinking
#202

lo posted:

what's up with the uk government saying that their strategy is to just let most people get the virus and rely on herd immunity. i don't really get what is in it for them, to do that specifically


#203

tears posted:

if i was prone to paranoia i would be thinking that they were trying to conduct some sort of country-wide death fueled ritual, which is what i am thinking



perhaps there's another angle we could look at...

#204
there's more news that chloroquine seems to be working, if you want to get someone to bring you a raft of bottles of tonic water tears, it might make you feel better. by putting gin in it, but also maybe killing the virus

https://www.lemonde.fr/sciences/article/2020/03/17/la-chloroquine-une-piste-pour-lutter-contre-le-sars-cov-2_6033364_1650684.html
En France, une étude clinique vient d’être lancée par le professeur Didier Raoult, directeur de l’IHU Méditerranée Infection (Marseille). Evoqués lundi 16 mars dans une vidéo par ce dernier, les résultats préliminaires semblent spectaculaires : au bout de six jours de traitement par Plaquenil, 25 % seulement des patients seraient encore porteurs du virus, la proportion étant de 90 % chez ceux ne recevant pas le traitement. La charge virale à J + 6 serait encore plus basse chez les malades traités en plus par un antibiotique, l’azithromycine.

"the preliminary results seem to be spectacular: at the end of 6 days of treatment with Plaquenil , only 25% of patients were still carriers, compared to 90% of those who did not receive the treatment. The viral load at D+6 was even lower in patients who were also treated with an antibiotic, azithromycin."

The UK govt silently put it on the list of drugs you can't export to the EU on March 14th. https://www.pharmaceutical-technology.com/comment/parallel-export-covid-19/

#205
Chloroquine and an old HIV drug (lopinavir) are the subject of a large scale drug trial about to roll out across Straya, once funding is secured. I am greatly comforted to know our scientists are following the lead of Chinese researchers instead of trying to reinvent the wheel. https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/health-problems/coronavirus-australia-queensland-researchers-find-cure-want-drug-trial/news-story/93e7656da0cff4fc4d2c5e51706accb5
#206
ive got a treatment for it......... Communism!!!!
#207
it has been interesting to see contra the David Harveys of the world how important "catastrophic risk" is to demonstrating the benefits of socialism. as in it doesn't have to be employed cynically or rhetorically because the universe makes sure it happens anyway.
#208


any thoughts about this
#209

marimite posted:

any thoughts about this



yes

#210

marimite posted:

any thoughts about this


no

#211
im not confident in a professor of international law's interpretation of virology study. he should stick to what he's good at, which is writing shit like

The enemy of all humankind! For the good of all humanity, this Tribunal must condemn and repudiate the Federal Government of the United States of America and its grotesque vision of a New World Order that is constructed upon warfare, bloodshed, violence, criminality, genocide, racism, colonialism, apartheid, massive violations of fundamental human rights, and the denial of the international legal right of self-determination to the Indigenous Peoples and Peoples of Color living in North America and elsewhere around the world

in legal briefs to the International Tribunal of Indigenous Peoples and Oppressed Nationalities in the United States of America while petitioning them to issue an order dissolving the u$ government as a legal and political entity

#212
stay strong tears... for the future of this internet forum, you must live...
#213
yes pls don't die tears. this forum is bad enough already.
#214
Though I doubt it's true, I would find it more believable on its face that a new and deadly respiratory virus resulted from someone in the current U.S. administration green-lighting kooky, poorly-planned economic bio-warfare or a cover-up of accidental release of a bio-weapon than I would that the government of the first country to take a major economic hit from the illness, one that has taken swift, strict and relatively successful measures to contain it, is responsible for the rest of the world contracting it.

The former idea is considered deranged conspiracy theory in the U.S. and a forbidden topic for media to investigate—a Chinese reporter who started asking around about it in the U.S. today would be deported tomorrow. The latter idea is treated as nonpartisan political consensus within the U.S. government and news media and the basis for both public health policy and foreign policy, and if China pushes back against foreign reporters in country writing their daily propaganda piece about China as a Commie plague factory, the Western media report that as de facto confirmation of it.
#215
This is one of those wonderfully pure confrontations between bourgeois ideology and most people's private beliefs. Like probably at least half of U.S. citizens could easily imagine some doofus in a suit or uniform showing a PowerPoint to Trump and a carefully selected group of adjacent weirdos, saying, Hey let's give China the super-flu, we can blame it on them if anything goes wrong, and Trump asking nothing more than, Will I get it? and they say, Oh no, I mean, you're rich, and then the president says some catchphrase he uses to make incredibly bad decisions that make him feel less like he's going to die soon. Probably a lot more than half of U.S. citizens if you include the people who could have easily imagined it a couple months ago as the first step towards rubbing one out.
#216

cars posted:

it has been interesting to see contra the David Harveys of the world how important "catastrophic risk" is to demonstrating the benefits of socialism. as in it doesn't have to be employed cynically or rhetorically because the universe makes sure it happens anyway.



What do you mean

#217

cars posted:

This is one of those wonderfully pure confrontations between bourgeois ideology and most people's private beliefs. Like probably at least half of U.S. citizens could easily imagine some doofus in a suit or uniform showing a PowerPoint to Trump and a carefully selected group of adjacent weirdos, saying, Hey let's give China the super-flu, we can blame it on them if anything goes wrong, and Trump asking nothing more than, Will I get it? and they say, Oh no, I mean, you're rich, and then the president says some catchphrase he uses to make incredibly bad decisions that make him feel less like he's going to die soon. Probably a lot more than half of U.S. citizens if you include the people who could have easily imagined it a couple months ago as the first step towards rubbing one out.



but why tho

#218
just to suffer or?
#219

cars posted:

I would find it more believable on its face that a new and deadly respiratory virus resulted from someone in the current U.S. administration green-lighting kooky, poorly-planned economic bio-warfare or a cover-up of accidental release of a bio-weapon than I would that the government of the first country to take a major economic hit from the illness, one that has taken swift, strict and relatively successful measures to contain it, is responsible for the rest of the world contracting it.


this is the position global research is pushing

Chinese medical authorities – and “intelligence agencies” – then conducted a rapid and wide-ranging search for the origin of the virus, collecting nearly 100 samples of the genome from 12 different countries on 4 continents, identifying all the varieties and mutations. During this research, they determined the virus outbreak had begun much earlier, probably in November, shortly after the Wuhan Military Games


the geographical location with the greatest diversity of virus strains must be the original source because a single strain cannot emerge from nothing. He demonstrated that only the US has all the five known strains of the virus (while Wuhan and most of China have only one, as do Taiwan and South Korea, Thailand and Vietnam, Singapore, and England, Belgium and Germany), constituting a thesis that the haplotypes in other nations may have originated in the US.


radiologists and others in amerika seem to think similarly


#220
Good lord, what a load of crap. The Chinese statements blaming the US weren't serious, they were a tit-for-tat reaction to the ramping up of Sinophobic propaganda the US has been pushing about China being at fault for allowing it to exist and spread in the first place (a ramping up that is obviously intended to cover for massive US failures to prepare for their inevitable outbreak, which is in turn responsible for many cases spreading elsewhere in the world). It was never a serious suggestion and certainly the Chinese public neither take it seriously nor care and it would be prudent to follow their lead imo
#221

kamelred posted:

cars posted:

This is one of those wonderfully pure confrontations between bourgeois ideology and most people's private beliefs. Like probably at least half of U.S. citizens could easily imagine some doofus in a suit or uniform showing a PowerPoint to Trump and a carefully selected group of adjacent weirdos, saying, Hey let's give China the super-flu, we can blame it on them if anything goes wrong, and Trump asking nothing more than, Will I get it? and they say, Oh no, I mean, you're rich, and then the president says some catchphrase he uses to make incredibly bad decisions that make him feel less like he's going to die soon. Probably a lot more than half of U.S. citizens if you include the people who could have easily imagined it a couple months ago as the first step towards rubbing one out.

but why tho


In my heart I don't think 9/11 was an inside job but our ruling elites contemplated how they could respond to a potential reality of 9/11. You are not ruled by machines of love and grace.

#222
call me a naive optimist but i have faith that, at the very least, i am ruled by machines what realize that severing the final lifeline to american capital is not a very good conspiracy no matter what Step. 2: ????? turns out to be
#223
conspiracies about bio-terrorism - that you can target and control a viral load delivery over a certain population (not that capital hasn't tried controlling pathogens) - are the ideological result of playing resident evil games. so such theorists stock up on guns
#224
you may pry my resident evil games from my cold, dead hands. this will be necessary as i have succumbed to contagion
#225

kamelred posted:

call me a naive optimist but i have faith that, at the very least, i am ruled by machines what realize that severing the final lifeline to american capital is not a very good conspiracy no matter what Step. 2: ????? turns out to be



compromise position: shadowy amerikan élites accidentally spread the virus after developing a taste for pangolin

#226
SHIT is FUCKED lmao
#227

slipdisco posted:

conspiracies about bio-terrorism - that you can target and control a viral load delivery over a certain population (not that capital hasn't tried controlling pathogens) - are the ideological result of playing resident evil games. so such theorists stock up on guns


both resident evil games and those ideas are the result of familiarity with the real history of american biowarfare (among other things w/r/t RE but this aint the place for that). they more or less openly study those possibilities, the difficulty or impossibility of implementing them has no bearing on a scenario where whatever is going on is obviously not controlled. You're talking about people who have done all manner of stupid and evil shit without sufficient forethought.

neo-Malthusianism is also still extremely popular among our ruling class and I wouldn't rule out any schheme designed to effect depopulation, especially on a class-mediated eugenic basis like disease resistance/medical availability

e: also no conspiracy or intent at all is required for the virus to have originated in the U.S. , the stuff about the military games and the troops arriving in Wuhan and the timing etc. all adds up with no further explanation.

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#228
#229
looking forward to trump running for reelection on medicare for all
#230
Trump is going to give us free healthcare and monthly TrumpBucks via a new kind of socialism, with nationalist characteristics,
#231
Here is my best guess for near term, like 1-2 years (not that anybody is asking): Coronavirus spreads, shuts down economy, but deaths mostly limited to ill/elderly non-whites which is pretty neat from a Trumptopian angle. Economic recession reduces demand for oil, price stays low, combined with politically driven high output from Saudi, Russia, etc., US shale declines sharply but impact on world oil markets isn't devastating and US still has import options. Central banks coordinate action to keep markets afloat – basically new rounds of qe and 0/negative rates; volatile but sideways action in markets after a couple more months of limit down>quarantined gambler btfd>limit down. Trump wins re-election narrowly based on fans having much higher morale than the incompetent, incoherent, social fascist "left"; in second term becomes lame duck and probably gets impeached quarterly to death.
#232
how are you feeling tears!!
#233

swampman posted:

Trump is going to give us free healthcare and monthly TrumpBucks via a new kind of socialism, with nationalist characteristics,



*shrugs* sounds like a plan

#234

kamelred posted:

swampman posted:

Trump is going to give us free healthcare and monthly TrumpBucks via a new kind of socialism, with nationalist characteristics,

*shrugs* sounds like a plan



seig heil motherfuckers!!!! am i right?

#235
Its great when we get lots of free stuff and nobody even had to be packed into a concentration camp in texas or murdered for organizing a union in the chiquita fields in guatemala or what have you
#236

kamelred posted:

swampman posted:


Trump is going to give us free healthcare and monthly TrumpBucks via a new kind of socialism, with nationalist characteristics,



*shrugs* sounds like a plan



He's got a plan for that!

#237

jeantatlock posted:

how are you feeling tears!!


IM SO FUCKING BORED!!!!!

#238
torkil lauesen on corvid: https://anti-imperialist.net/2020/03/19/some-thoughts-on-covid-19/
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