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(Reuters)   China reports total of 634 coronavirus cases. Which means there are waaaayyy more than 634 cases. Link goes to briefest article ever   (reuters.com) divider line
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I hereby demand that I be given a Fark account [TotalFark] [OhFark]  
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2020-01-23 9:54:59 AM  
100 cases of nCoV
100 cases of SARS
Take one down, treat it and see
101 cases of nCOV.
 
Valiente  
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2020-01-23 9:56:10 AM  
Virus 2020.
Comet 2020.

Why not both?
 
zerkalo  
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2020-01-23 9:56:39 AM  
Urge to walk to Vegas rising
 
I dont want to be on this planet anymore  
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2020-01-23 9:59:01 AM  
Could have been shorter


(Reuters) - Buckle up, we all gunna die !
 
Sorelian's Ghost [TotalFark]  
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2020-01-23 9:59:42 AM  
M-o-o-n that spells time to panic!
 
pounddawg  
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2020-01-23 10:00:07 AM  
Remember kids,.... this thing has a 14 day incubation period.

/My life for you!
 
UncleDirtNap  
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2020-01-23 10:00:24 AM  
Sounds like it's time to start checking to see who has the chubbiest kids, just in case.  That reminds me, I need to make sure I have enough firewood for the burn pit to.  Damn, I need to check and make sure that extra long spit is still working too.
 
Coelacanth  
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2020-01-23 10:00:52 AM  
🎶 Here comes Captain Trips down the bunny trail... 🎵
 
SBinRR [OhFark]  
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2020-01-23 10:06:06 AM  
Not to sidetrack things, but the NYT claims the briefest article ever

It's so short you can probably read it before the paywall wakes up.
 
Bootleg [TotalFark] [OhFark]  
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2020-01-23 10:07:04 AM  
They quarantined a city of 11 million people over 634 cases?
 
RaiderFanMikeP  
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2020-01-23 10:08:22 AM  
grab socks! lots of socks.  the new gold
 
Ringshadow [TotalFark] [OhFark]  
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2020-01-23 10:09:20 AM  
I think we all called this. I say for any number they admit lift it by a factor of ten for reality.

Bootleg: They quarantined a city of 11 million people over 634 cases?


Chinese New Year, I think? A time when a lot of people are traveling so they're trying to curtail that.

Which hasn't worked given they've already expanded the quarantine range.
 
PunGent  
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2020-01-23 10:09:31 AM  

Bootleg: They quarantined a city of 11 million people over 634 cases?


And a second city, now.  Hopefully it's just an abundance of caution, because the alternative could go viral.

And not in the funny-cat-video way.
 
lolmao500  
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2020-01-23 10:09:44 AM  
If they say 634 its probably 6340 cases
 
RankStranger  
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2020-01-23 10:12:55 AM  
On the plus side there is no state like a life long indoctrinating totalitarian police state more prepared to quickly and effectively clamp down on people to end a disease outbreak,

So they got that going for them
 
Mollari  
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2020-01-23 10:13:06 AM  

pounddawg: Remember kids,.... this thing has a 14 day incubation period.

/My life for you!


Matt Frewer was the best thing about that mini-series

/well, maybe Laura San Giacomo's "talent" as well
 
Wicked Chinchilla  
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2020-01-23 10:13:21 AM  

lolmao500: If they say 634 its probably 6340 cases


Potentially.  It is a 14 day incubation period.  That is a long time to wait to see if anyone new is going to pop positive.  I would imagine its the lengthy incubation period as to why they went to quarantine.
 
Two16  
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2020-01-23 10:14:40 AM  
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Opacity [TotalFark] [OhFark]  
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2020-01-23 10:19:42 AM  
Golf clap subby, the Fark headline is longer than the article.
 
AngryDragon  
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2020-01-23 10:21:30 AM  

RankStranger: On the plus side there is no state like a life long indoctrinating totalitarian police state more prepared to quickly and effectively clamp down on people to end a disease outbreak,

So they got that going for them


We sure this is really a disease and not that Wuhan got early access to Starlink?
 
exqqqme  
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2020-01-23 10:21:35 AM  

Bootleg: They quarantined a city of 11 million people over 634 cases?


Thats like shutting down both NYC and LA for those of us bad at concepulizing large numbers.
 
Texmandie  
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2020-01-23 10:23:09 AM  
Madagascar or Iceland... https://sssscomic.com/comic.php?page=1
 
KickahaOta  
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2020-01-23 10:24:07 AM  

SBinRR: Not to sidetrack things, but the NYT claims the briefest article ever

It's so short you can probably read it before the paywall wakes up.


I've always been tempted to order reprints of that article. Just to see how they react.
 
Kerr Avon  
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2020-01-23 10:26:49 AM  
Following the plan, go for spread first before lethality.

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probesport  
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2020-01-23 10:28:51 AM  
Have they even tried adding the lime? It really does make it better.
 
probesport  
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2020-01-23 10:29:14 AM  

Kerr Avon: Following the plan, go for spread first before lethality.

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President Madagascar unavailable for comment.
 
ObscureNameHere  
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2020-01-23 10:33:35 AM  
There's a reason that I almost always start games of Pandemic in China....  can infect half of humanity before having to go elsewhere.
 
Kerr Avon  
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2020-01-23 10:33:53 AM  

probesport: Kerr Avon: Following the plan, go for spread first before lethality.

[Fark user image 700x511]

President Madagascar unavailable for comment.


Unless you get something quiet and low level in Madagascar and Iceland early.
 
Tr0mBoNe [TotalFark]  
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2020-01-23 10:35:58 AM  
When China reports a bad statistic like this, add 2 zeroes. When they report a good statistic, divide the number by 2. If someone gets caught for stealing or fraud, the amount they stole is actually 10 times what was reported.
 
Znuh [TotalFark] [OhFark]  
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2020-01-23 10:36:06 AM  
There's been a smattering of 'reports' coming out onto 9gag and other shady sites that the problem is far, far worse than anyone's talking about, and that there's a lot of people in Wuhan who are infected.
 
Dknsvsbl  
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2020-01-23 10:37:22 AM  

Bootleg: They quarantined a city of 11 million people over 634 cases?


In the unlikely case that this is the true total diagnosed, with a 14 day incubation period, you are likely looking at 2 or more orders of magnitude more infections.
/If H-H transmission is occurring...
// All bets are off.
 
stir22  
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2020-01-23 10:37:30 AM  

lolmao500: If they say 634 its probably 6340 cases


You spelled 634,000 wrong.
 
Chris Ween [TotalFark]  
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2020-01-23 10:38:09 AM  

Ringshadow: I think we all called this. I say for any number they admit lift it by a factor of ten for reality.

Bootleg: They quarantined a city of 11 million people over 634 cases?

Chinese New Year, I think? A time when a lot of people are traveling so they're trying to curtail that.

Which hasn't worked given they've already expanded the quarantine range.


Every model every created by epidemiologists essentially accepts that governments will react too slowly to contain an outbreak.
 
probesport  
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2020-01-23 10:39:22 AM  

stir22: lolmao500: If they say 634 its probably 6340 cases

You spelled 634,000 wrong.


It's like reverse cop math.
 
Znuh [TotalFark] [OhFark]  
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2020-01-23 10:39:34 AM  
Hmm.

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Chris Ween [TotalFark]  
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2020-01-23 10:39:48 AM  

probesport: stir22: lolmao500: If they say 634 its probably 6340 cases

You spelled 634,000 wrong.

It's like reverse cop math.


How many deaths is that in marijuanas?
 
Tr0mBoNe [TotalFark]  
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2020-01-23 10:44:17 AM  

Znuh: Hmm.

[img-9gag-fun.9cache.com image 460x619]


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Magnus  
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2020-01-23 10:44:42 AM  

Chris Ween: probesport: stir22: lolmao500: If they say 634 its probably 6340 cases

You spelled 634,000 wrong.

It's like reverse cop math.

How many deaths is that in marijuanas?


2 Taylor Swifts and thousands of Beckys.  Oh the huge manatee.
 
eiger  
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2020-01-23 10:45:42 AM  

RankStranger: On the plus side there is no state like a life long indoctrinating totalitarian police state more prepared to quickly and effectively clamp down on people to end a disease outbreak,

So they got that going for them


Except such states create incentives on all levels for covering up a problem. So yeah, by the time the machinery of totalitarianism get moving, it might already be too late.
 
Resident Muslim [TotalFark] [OhFark]  
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2020-01-23 10:46:55 AM  

Bootleg: They quarantined a city of 11 million people over 634 cases?


Forget it, Jake, it's Chinatown.
 
probesport  
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2020-01-23 10:46:56 AM  

Magnus: Chris Ween: probesport: stir22: lolmao500: If they say 634 its probably 6340 cases

You spelled 634,000 wrong.

It's like reverse cop math.

How many deaths is that in marijuanas?

2 Taylor Swifts and thousands of Beckys.  Oh the huge manatee.


The two Taylor Swifts are also Beckys
 
Magnus  
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2020-01-23 10:48:20 AM  

probesport: Magnus: Chris Ween: probesport: stir22: lolmao500: If they say 634 its probably 6340 cases

You spelled 634,000 wrong.

It's like reverse cop math.

How many deaths is that in marijuanas?

2 Taylor Swifts and thousands of Beckys.  Oh the huge manatee.

The two Taylor Swifts are also Beckys


Stage names for Pronhubba.  Don't be fooled.
 
Resident Muslim [TotalFark] [OhFark]  
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2020-01-23 10:50:09 AM  

Znuh: There's been a smattering of 'reports' coming out onto 9gag and other shady sites that the problem is far, far worse than anyone's talking about, and that there's a lot of people in Wuhan who are infected.


9gag now reports news?
 
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2020-01-23 10:51:05 AM  

Bootleg: They quarantined a city of 11 million people over 634 cases?


No.

They only said they did.
 
Tr0mBoNe [TotalFark]  
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2020-01-23 10:58:46 AM  

eiger: RankStranger: On the plus side there is no state like a life long indoctrinating totalitarian police state more prepared to quickly and effectively clamp down on people to end a disease outbreak,

So they got that going for them

Except such states create incentives on all levels for covering up a problem. So yeah, by the time the machinery of totalitarianism get moving, it might already be too late.


The blame game is happening right now and it's only going to get worse. Nobody wants to take a family vacation to a labor camp in the Gobi Desert.
 
Smelly Pirate Hooker  
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2020-01-23 10:59:57 AM  
Yeah, there absolutely are. THIS is probably Reason #1 why having a government that doesn't routinely lie to its citizens is a good thing and not something that should be business as usual.

Our government is currently no more reliable or trustworthy than that of China.

That's pretty farking hard to do, unless you're just trying really, really hard.
 
backhand.slap.of.reason  
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2020-01-23 11:02:31 AM  

RankStranger: On the plus side there is no state like a life long indoctrinating totalitarian police state more prepared to quickly and effectively clamp down on people to end a disease outbreak,

So they got that going for them


China has 1.4 billion people and a prison population of 1.5 million. Our prison population is over two million, with another 5 million in community monitoring that have agreed to be sent to prison on a probation or parole office's whim.  In China, the most frequently administered sentence is a 2 year's stay in a labor camp-while such homogenisation does not occur in America, many states are serving average sentence lengths at ten years, with red states nearly doubling sentence severity from 2000 to 2020.  China has a legalistic justice system, but it is no worse than the United States, and arguably more merciful towards its petty criminals than the United States... at least when it comes to re-entry on virtue of incarceration length alone.
 
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2020-01-23 11:07:20 AM  

backhand.slap.of.reason: China has 1.4 billion people and a prison population of 1.5 million.


Remember to multiply all bad news China admits to by a factor of 100.

They have a prison population of 150 million.

\8 million of these live in Hong Kong
 
2wolves [TotalFark]  
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2020-01-23 11:08:01 AM  
Time for a deep cleansing.
 
probesport  
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2020-01-23 11:10:05 AM  

2wolves: Time for a deep cleansing.


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