Covid-19 and the madness of crowds |
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Blacksword
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Topic: Covid-19 and the madness of crowds Posted: March 09 2020 at 07:59 |
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After watching a Youtube clip of people physically fighting over toilet roll in Australia, and our own supermarket shelves being stripped bare by rabid crowds of dribbling morons here at home, I was wondering if it was time to just lock everyone down under house arrest and disable the internet until people learn to behave.
Ok, in all seriousness is anyone else more bothered by the public reaction, and the media deliberately stoking panic, than they are about the actual virus?? |
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Shadowyzard
Forum Senior Member Joined: February 24 2020 Location: Davutlar Status: Offline Points: 4506 |
Posted: March 09 2020 at 08:44 | |
There is a huge negative hype going around the world about this virus. It doesn't serve a purpose, at best. It is like the evil version of Ice Bucket Challenge. Just warn/act, and don't exaggerate to a point of smothering all the public opinion in.
My country Turkey claims that we're clean of the virus still. I doubt it, anyway. |
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chopper
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Posted: March 09 2020 at 08:51 | |
I've not seen much panic buying round my way yet, except you can't get antibacterial handwash (which is ineffective anyway). Tesco have now started limiting the amount you can buy of some goods (pasta, why are people panic-buying pasta? I mean I know it keeps but what are you going to eat with it?).
Me? I'm just going to make sure I have enough whisky to last me a few months.
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SteveG
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Posted: March 09 2020 at 08:56 | |
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Blacksword
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Posted: March 09 2020 at 09:00 | |
I'm not sure what political purpose it could serve, apart from as a distraction from something else going on that they don't want to draw attention to. |
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SteveG
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Posted: March 09 2020 at 09:03 | |
Because it feeds the perception of a poorly run government.
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Posted: March 09 2020 at 09:13 | |
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chopper
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Posted: March 09 2020 at 09:30 | |
It's really sad that Asian people have been beaten up over here due to the virus but then again, it was people in this country who attached a paediatrician's office a few years ago because they didn't know the difference between a paediatrician and a paedophile.
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lazland
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Posted: March 09 2020 at 12:12 | |
I have just got into London, and travelled on the underground from Paddington to Euston Square. Only a 10 minute journey, but the train was absolutely ram packed.
If this is a modern equivalent to the bubonic plague, and virulent in its spread, Irather feel I might be doomed 🤮 However, what makes me feel a little bit better is the fact that it quite clearly is not the modern equivalent of bubonic plague.
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Atavachron
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Posted: March 09 2020 at 13:12 | |
I'm in California, land of plenty and consumer-based. Pretty hard to run out of anything. But yeah, hoarding is idiotic. |
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SteveG
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Posted: March 09 2020 at 13:14 | |
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someone_else
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Posted: March 09 2020 at 13:28 | |
I get the impression that the corona virus is spread by the media. I prefer to keep it cool without worrying. I hope I stay free of it, but if I'll get infected, then so be it .
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Atavachron
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Posted: March 09 2020 at 13:32 | |
It's just a freakin' flu.
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dr wu23
Forum Senior Member Joined: August 22 2010 Location: Indiana Status: Offline Points: 20631 |
Posted: March 09 2020 at 14:28 | |
Not worried at all.....but I don't live in a high risk big urban area.
But again more people get sick and die from just the flu..so why are we getting all uptight?
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Nogbad_The_Bad
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Posted: March 09 2020 at 14:33 | |
This is my position too. More likely to get shot.
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Cosmiclawnmower
Forum Senior Member Joined: August 09 2010 Location: West Country,UK Status: Offline Points: 3766 |
Posted: March 09 2020 at 15:39 | |
Likewise; my default position (generally in life) is self isolation, we live in the middle of nowhere on a farm and are fairly self sufficient for most food.. there's plenty of Dock leaves in the fields to wipe my arse on if we run out of toilet roll and I can knock up a cracking Nettle soup/ Quiche (thank goodness the Hens have started laying again!)
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The Dark Elf
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Posted: March 09 2020 at 17:32 | |
On the bright side, toilet paper manufacturers are literally wiping up.
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npjnpj
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Posted: March 10 2020 at 03:21 | |
It seems strange to me that some people are simultaneously saying: the normal flu is much worse and kills tens of thousands of people a year, and: it's just the flu. It also seems very strange that the people who are panic buying disinfectants and toilet rolls don't seem to realize that they're preventing others IN THEIR OWN NEIGHBORHOODS from disinfecting their hands after they've not been able to wipe their arses after a sh*t.
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Frenetic Zetetic
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Posted: March 10 2020 at 03:26 | |
Panic is profit!
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SteveG
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Posted: March 10 2020 at 04:02 | |
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