Coronavirus Chat Zone

1:26 PM

please put on your 😷 when you enter ;)

3

I'm not super scared or anything, but doing my last night of revelry (colleague's farewell party) before secluding myself (for some values of seclusion)

Axoren

Oh man, and I was JUST about to ask if RPG.SE would be a good place to ask about Germ Games.

kviiri

People are maintaining quite long distances which is nice

Axoren

I should probably wash my keyboard more often after leaving chat.

goodguy5

Can I also post memes in here?

Or is this serious chat?

Abhas Kumar Sinha

1:40 PM

😷

kviiri

I dunno. I'd default to "memes in good taste are fine" and see where it goes.

But I very much intend to have serious chat too :)

Abhas Kumar Sinha

JohnP

1:54 PM

who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019

cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html

Currently, major sports organizations around the world are canceling/suspending seasons. All the major professional leagues in the US are suspended, colleges have cancelled championship events, and all other winter/spring sports are (currently) canceled.

If you haven't, I would encourage people to read the WHO and CDC (or local non US equivalent) to acquaint yourselves with the facts, current situation and current recommendations.

goodguy5

Because I trust our US task force on this soooo much.

Abhas Kumar Sinha

@JohnP hello sir, some fitness related queries, can I ask here please?

JohnP

...fitness related to corona?

Abhas Kumar Sinha

@JohnP not related to coronavirus... or any room?

skullpatrol

@goodguy5 Worldometer seems reputable

goodguy5

2:00 PM

This sitrep map looking like a plague inc game

Abhas Kumar Sinha

@skullpatrol YAP Bro

Indian doctors recently found a way to cure for conv in 2 days using a combination of flu, malaria and HIV Medicine

2 italian couples recovered in 2 days till now.

skullpatrol

:O

JohnP

@goodguy5 That's a separate discussion, but the CDC works under Dept of Health, which is apart from the main political forum. The Pandemic team that was released in 2018 was a separate group.

Abhas Kumar Sinha

around 50% of CONV cases in India are italians.

goodguy5

oof. that death rate looking higher than advertised.

Though, I guess it doesn't account for undocumented cases.

JohnP

2:02 PM

@AbhasKumarSinha mm, if you want to ask here probably not a bar, if you want to ask on fitness chat, I think I might ahve to unfreeze our main chat room.

goodguy5

I'm hoping we can get some really accurate mortality statistics by the end of the month.

Abhas Kumar Sinha

@JohnP I don't know the main chatroom? My problems are related to stamina, soldier pain, yoga and flexiblity. I'm a Kung Fu Player and have some queries to ask about that.

skullpatrol

@JohnP what do you think of Wilder's punching power at 230 lbs?

JohnP

@goodguy5 I expect that it will be probably somewhere in the 3-5% range when all starts settling, which places it above "normal" flu, and below swine, MERS, SARS, etc.

Abhas Kumar Sinha

@skullpatrol deccanherald.com/national/…

JohnP

2:05 PM

@AbhasKumarSinha That would be more suitable in Open Roda, the martial arts chat. That has semi regular activity from a few people.

Abhas Kumar Sinha

@JohnP Huh, Fat, bodybuilding, stamina?

medicaldialogues.in/state-news/rajasthan/…

JohnP

@AbhasKumarSinha yoga/flexibility/kung fu. I can open our chat, but the activity there is very sparse. Open Roda is at least somewhat active.

Abhas Kumar Sinha

ok

skullpatrol

you don't follow boxing?

Abhas Kumar Sinha

Tiger Style Kung Fu requires boxing too. (I dun follow conventional boxing)

I mainly stick with Wing Tsun.

JohnP

2:08 PM

@skullpatrol rarely. Same reason I don't follow MMA much, in that I don't like a sport where the main goal is to cause a loss of consciousness due to impact. But this isn't really the venue to discuss, there are other chats more suitable.

Abhas Kumar Sinha

It requires very less power and techniques designed to use power against the opponent.

skullpatrol

Worldometer

4

pin^ please

:-)

Abhas Kumar Sinha

:)

skullpatrol

thnx

Abhas Kumar Sinha

:)

@JohnP So can you please come to Roda Room?

JohnP

2:12 PM

@goodguy5 Also, if you look at the worldometer, death rate is ~ 3.2%. Swine flu was 4.3? 4.4? SARS and the 1918 flu were right around 10%.

Abhas Kumar Sinha

@JohnP There are a lot of misreporting too... :(

goodguy5

@JohnP yea, I'm looking at that, and I'm somewhat comforted by that it gets lower as you get younger, unlike some of those others.

JohnP

@goodguy5 Yes. It really is a slightly deadlier flu, that appears to hit elderly and previously compromised patients harder (i.e. asthma, COPD, obese, diabetes, etc).

goodguy5

I'm concerned about my obese, diabetic, COPD grandmother....

Abhas Kumar Sinha

@goodguy5 Just focus on food and taking her for a walk, rest is easy.

goodguy5

2:16 PM

Don't live close enough for that.

Also, I've been slowly realizing for the past few days that basically all I do is touch my face.

skullpatrol

can we talk about the corona connection to the stock market crash?

Carcer

@goodguy5 twitter.com/cassidoo/status/1237152422448869376

JohnP

@goodguy5 Yeah, my parents are in their 80's, and my mom has asthma. They were supposed to come down this weekend from Colorado, and they turned around and went back home halfway, worried there might be travel bans.

And the realtor they were going to meet also canceled all their operations for the rest of the month.

goodguy5

oh no! Look out!

It's a random dude with a knife!
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RandomDudeWithAKnife

hello

lol

I've been super scared that past few days cause I've been coughing up bloody snot, and a few of the people where I work say the same.

Abhas Kumar Sinha

2:33 PM

@RandomDudeWithAKnife Not all people who cough have coronavirus.

@RandomDudeWithAKnife Where you live/age?

RandomDudeWithAKnife

@AbhasKumarSinha live/ around noble county age/ 28

Abhas Kumar Sinha

@RandomDudeWithAKnife noble country? Which continent?

RandomDudeWithAKnife

@AbhasKumarSinha Noble COUNTY (Indiana)

Abhas Kumar Sinha

@RandomDudeWithAKnife India you mean?

skullpatrol

USA

Carcer

2:36 PM

@AbhasKumarSinha Indiana. US state.

RandomDudeWithAKnife

@AbhasKumarSinha what Carcer said

Abhas Kumar Sinha

Ok... Then, do you work in a factory?

JohnP

@RandomDudeWithAKnife Bloody snot just means that somewhere in your lung you've irritated it enough to bleed. Not necessarily indicative of corona, but indicative that yes, something is wrong. I'd call into an urgent care and ask. They may want you to get tested to be on the safe side.

Yuuki

@AbhasKumarSinha to be fair, bloody snot is something you should worry about

JohnP

My wife will get a nasty cough if her allergies act up enough, and gets that every once in a while (bloody sputum).

skullpatrol

2:46 PM

goodguy5

@RandomDudeWithAKnife That sounds like a different problem.

I'm about to cry. My wife is making me go to the store.

skullpatrol

:(

goodguy5

I went to the store last night for a few "essentials".

It was a warzone

Abhas Kumar Sinha

@skullpatrol That combination of HIV Drugs, has treated 7 patients in Jaipur Hospital : twitter.com/Tavysingh/status/1238446747942129664?s=20

^seems India found cure for CoNV

Yuuki

Doesn't necessarily mean cure.

Also, why are they treating coronavirus patients with HIV drugs?

Abhas Kumar Sinha

3:01 PM

agree, They are now but 100% of the CONV patients in the hospital are now recovered.

Yuuki

Without any information, that sounds like reckless medicine.

"Hmm... you seem to be having a case of shingles, so we're starting you on some chemotherapy."

Abhas Kumar Sinha

@Yuuki Combination of HIV, Malaria and Swine Flu drugs, it's a common practice among virologists to treat a new viral disease in case readymade medicine/vaccine for it is not available.

JohnP

@Yuuki Because HIV drugs are antivirals. And China has much looser testing and medication laws than the US.

Abhas Kumar Sinha

@Yuuki You may search the article explaining the logic behind those drugs to treat CONV...

Yuuki

@JohnP India, not China, but I suppose so.

JohnP

3:04 PM

@Yuuki It was done on the recommendation of doctors at ground zero in China.

Yuuki

What article? You linked a tweet.

Abhas Kumar Sinha

@Yuuki Let me search...

JohnP

@Yuuki - Here's one infoblurb - natap.org/2020/newsUpdates/020420_02.htm

Abhas Kumar Sinha

didn't found the exact article. but these are related : nypost.com/2020/03/12/… newnownext.com/coronavirus-covid-19-cure-hiv-drugs/03/2020

JohnP

@AbhasKumarSinha NYPost - Here in the US, it's regarded as slightly better than a gossip supermarket tabloid.

Abhas Kumar Sinha

3:07 PM

@JohnP okay... Here's the better one : medicaldialogues.in/state-news/rajasthan/…

goodguy5

Can someone find me some credible news on the 1.5 trillion dollar wallstreet situation?

I'm bad at googling and also trying to good information (compared to memes)

JohnP

@AbhasKumarSinha The main message from that is "Don't do that again, we need a trial".

Abhas Kumar Sinha

@JohnP Yep... Currently Indian Medical Association doesn't has any medicine specific for CONV, that treatment was just an experiment.

Those HIV medicines given to them are very very strong.

skullpatrol

@goodguy5 now is a good time to learn :-)

Abhas Kumar Sinha

They've clarified that they need 3 more months to get a vaccine

@goodguy5 Wall Street is not a professional media service, I guess....

goodguy5

3:12 PM

What I've been able to figure out so far, is that the fed is buying bonds (that it can sell later), so it's not "giving" money, strictly speaking.

Abhas Kumar Sinha

Just 5 min before: *Controversy erupts over Delhi riots coverage.
MEA writes to its embassy in the US seeking deportation of the Wall Street Journal journalist levelling ‘anti-India behaviour’ charge.*

twitter.com/TimesNow/status/1238481524460122112?s=20

JohnP

@goodguy5 The fed is offering short term, 500 billion in loans in three installments to banks to avoid them not having enough to lend regular people and businesses.

skullpatrol

wsj.com/articles/…

goodguy5

Thanks, team

JohnP

cnn.com/2020/03/12/investing/ny-fed-trillion-coronavirus/…

RandomDudeWithAKnife

3:27 PM

I just got a notification my kids will be off school for 5 weeks

Yuvraj Singh...

@AbhasKumarSinha if you can understand that where you are discussing India, s internal matter be good!

Abhas Kumar Sinha

@YuvrajSingh... actually chat was about Wall Street Journal :)

Yuvraj Singh...

@AbhasKumarSinha then people will search what wall street has written, and then more fake news...

@AbhasKumarSinha I was planning to shift to my village if college authorities give holidays.

Abhas Kumar Sinha

@YuvrajSingh... no one takes them seriously... (or atleast to those I''ve met)

@YuvrajSingh... iit campus is extremely safer than your village....

Yuvraj Singh...

@AbhasKumarSinha that, s wrong, totally wrong not about iit it is about the village.

We local people use to walk many miles a day.

Abhas Kumar Sinha

3:31 PM

@YuvrajSingh... village is safer? how?

Yuvraj Singh...

@AbhasKumarSinha I never had any smoothie or pizza burger, mein Gaon ka ghee chach dhudh kha kar bada Hua hun.

With no pollution.

No foreginers

Abhas Kumar Sinha

@YuvrajSingh... hahaha... ok :)

Yuvraj Singh...

@AbhasKumarSinha yes.

@AbhasKumarSinha what there is orrisa, I haven't saw any news?

RandomDudeWithAKnife

Humanity will likely servive COVID-19, humans are fairly smart, and we have survived many devastating plagues over the many years humans have existed.

nitsua60

@RandomDudeWithAKnife Ouch. Two here, starting today. Where're you? (Northeast US, here.)

Oh, Noble County.

RandomDudeWithAKnife

3:48 PM

as a response to whoever asked me where I worked, I am a docter

nitsua60

Coronavirus: Why You Must Act Now looks pretty reputable (sources are all Science and Johns Hopkins and JAMA and the like), and everything he's saying is consistent with all the CDC/NIH testimony I heard and all the mathematics I know. But I have no idea who Tomas Pueyo is and can't find much about him. Anyone know what his deal is?

Abhas Kumar Sinha

@YuvrajSingh... 0 cases here.

nitsua60

@RandomDudeWithAKnife Yes, humanity will survive. I have no doubt of that. I actually have no doubt that I will survive: I'm middle-aged in good health in a sparsely-populated but well-off area, blah blah blah....

Personally, I'm wondering if my industry will survive.

(Longer-term: say, the ten-year window.)

Abhas Kumar Sinha

@nitsua60 gaming industry? It'll get a boost

nitsua60

@AbhasKumarSinha Boarding schools.

Abhas Kumar Sinha

3:54 PM

@nitsua60 You teach in boarding schools?

nitsua60

A lot of our revenue comes from international students. And it's not unthinkable that there could be a sever reduction in that income stream starting pretty soon.

@AbhasKumarSinha Yup.

Yuuki

@RandomDudeWithAKnife Humans are also fairly stupid. The GOP is currently blocking a coronavirus funding bill in order to insert an abortion defunding amendment.

Abhas Kumar Sinha

@nitsua60 Don't worry, around world's 70% economies have been interrupted, also, there are great chances of recovery after 6 months.

nitsua60

@AbhasKumarSinha And most of the rest of our revenue comes from pretty well-off domestic sources. Who've just seen 20% reductions in their net worth.

We survived 2008, but it wasn't easy. And this looks like it could very easily basically be two hits like that.

@AbhasKumarSinha I don't understand why the thought of 70% of the world's economies being interrupted would lead me to not worry. We sell a luxury good: brick-and-ivy education for kids who have very good options near their homes.

Abhas Kumar Sinha

@nitsua60 Don't worry, it's already 10 years, technology and medicine has vastly changed, you'll notice things gradually coming back to place and soon boost in profits. It's like slingshot mechanism.

skullpatrol

3:58 PM

the crash of 1987 started the recession

Abhas Kumar Sinha

@nitsua60 What I was trying to say was that everyone is worried, and it's natural that this is a global phenomenon, but that's how that works, our learning from sufferings is more important than sufferings itself.

nitsua60

Okay, I don't think you're hearing me. Thank you for trying to uplift me, I'm sure it's well-intentioned.

@AbhasKumarSinha May I be happy and free from suffering, may those I meet be happy and free from suffering, may all mankind be happy and free from suffering... something like that?

Abhas Kumar Sinha

@nitsua60 See if I hear you, we are are not going to find a way to stop and cure conv, the best thing you can do now is to hear and trust me. There is something you've to trust, destiny, karma or whatever!

RandomDudeWithAKnife

on an unrelated note, mosquitos hate the smell of garlic.

Abhas Kumar Sinha

@nitsua60 See sufferings can be different for different people. so, I'm referring Coronavirus using suffering as conv is regarded as a more negative word by most of the people on internet.

@RandomDudeWithAKnife My socks works better XD :P :)

@skullpatrol well said :)

skullpatrol

4:02 PM

:)

Abhas Kumar Sinha

@nitsua60 The situtation is more like this : twitter.com/iatemuggles/status/1238008076353110017?s=20

RandomDudeWithAKnife

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times-" Right now, it is indeed the worst the worst of times.

Abhas Kumar Sinha

There is always a spring followed by Winter.

RandomDudeWithAKnife

@AbhasKumarSinha and a summer followed by that :)

Abhas Kumar Sinha

rain followed by that :)

RandomDudeWithAKnife

4:09 PM

Unfortunately, after falls comes, there must be another winter.

yes, and rain.

Abhas Kumar Sinha

If there's only spring or summer then things would tend to become more boring :P

RandomDudeWithAKnife

Personally, I love the rain, without it I would have to purchase * shudder * bottled water

lol

brb

RandomDudeWithAKnife

4:21 PM

back

what do you get when you mix an archer and a priest?

idk what

a crossbow

dang it

lol

4:37 PM

These upcoming 3-4 months can be very productive.

Abhas Kumar Sinha

4:51 PM

Educ

5:06 PM

@AbhasKumarSinha what are the reasons behind that ?

Abhas Kumar Sinha

@Educ No schools, collages, work, safe at home, there are several skills which just need these conditions as side requirements.

Educ

@AbhasKumarSinha Yeah, for some people, if you give them those conditions, they will be no productive. But personally, for me, I like those conditions because I feel I'm a free learner.

Abhas Kumar Sinha

@Educ Focus on only those skills which you can value throughout your life. For me, music is just 3 month investment, but this skill is worth forever, for example you can use music to calm others.

Educ

@AbhasKumarSinha I want to invest this period in studying some new concepts in mathematics and trying to understand old ones deeply. And it's time to be innovative.

Abhas Kumar Sinha

If you feel you can do those much better in following 3 months then any other, then it's certainly good.

Educ

5:17 PM

of course I need more than that time but at least 3 months is good than nothing

RandomDudeWithAKnife

Is it weird that one of my kids are homescholled and one isn't

goodguy5

ages?

and is there a needs reason?

It's slightly odd on the surface, but it's one of those things that feels like "there's a good reason for it"

RandomDudeWithAKnife

5:56 PM

they are twins, and there is no special needs reason

goodguy5

Did one of them WANT to be schooled at home/school ?

If it's just a whim, then it's a be odd

RandomDudeWithAKnife

6:14 PM

back

and there is really no reason for it, but its tradition in my neanderthal clan that we choose where we are schooled

Yuuki

@goodguy5 what do you get when you mix an archer and a butcher?

JohnP

6:34 PM

Also to be aware of - There are hoax websites that install malware already cropping up. Make sure you are linking to reputable sites for your information.

FSOs: see below and attached.
Alert Synopsis:

A malicious website pretending to be the live map for Coronavirus COVID-19
Global Cases by Johns Hopkins University is circulating on the internet
waiting for unwitting internet users to visit the website
(corona-virus-map[dot]com). Visiting the website infects the user with the
AZORult trojan, an information stealing program which can exfiltrate a
variety of sensitive data. It is likely being spread via infected email
attachments, malicious online advertisements, and social engineering.

Yuuki

It's important to retain your sense of humor in these times:

goodguy5

@Yuuki idk

Yuuki

@goodguy5 a bull's eye

goodguy5

@Yuuki looooool

dang it!!!!!!

What do you get when you have a scared archer?

Yuuki

@goodguy5 archer doesn't get scared, he gets drunk

goodguy5

6:45 PM

A quiver

Mithrandir24601

@nitsua60 A data scientist originally shared this with me saying it was really good

nitsua60

@Mithrandir24601 Ty.

Decapitated Soul

7:03 PM

Hello. :)

Educ

7:48 PM

President Donald Trump makes an emergency announcement on coronavirus - LIVE

►

Andras Deak

8:01 PM

to be addressed as Supreme Leader henceforth ;)

Educ

NeutralTax

11:19 PM

Would it be a bad idea to run D&D while my school is shutdown for a month?

Yuuki

11:36 PM

> Cocktail of the day: The Quarantini - it's just a regular martini but you drink it alone in your house.

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BESW

← 1 message moved from RPG General Chat

I love the joke and am sharing it with friends!

But yeah, if the purpose of a dedicated chat is to let people decide how much they want their RPG.SE experience to intersect with discussion of the pandemic, we need to keep even the most light-hearted discussion of the pandemic in the dedicated chat.

RedRiderX

Interesting note: All the cancellations and closures due to COVID-19 mean "Important Notice" is trending on Twitter today.

BESW

FESTPAC was moved to June 2021! Which, yes, that makes a lot of sense, even on non-pandemic years it exposes a lot of people from places with minimal health facilities and relatively isolated disease spaces, to a lot of exciting new ways to get sick.

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