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new coronavirus outbreak China, Korea, USA - mod warnings in OP (updated 24/02/20)

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  • #3422
    goat2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,935 ✭✭✭goat2


    tuxy wrote: »
    I think it's safe to assume that most unsubstantiated claims come from twitter or some random whatsapp group.

    Why is it headlining so much around the world, with flights stopped coming from area, huge hospitals built in days, people locked in in their homes, on board huge ships, and China asking for assistance with masks and so on, it has to be a huge problem


  • #3423
    goat2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,935 ✭✭✭goat2


    givyjoe wrote: »
    Have you seen these videos? They look far, far, far from comically fake. The opposite, disturbingly real. The quality of acting talent must be through the absolute roof if all of these videos are fake. I can only assume you haven't seen them, but if you have, care to offer how (and why) folks are making such elaborate and realistic fake videos?

    Just a few I've seen

    - Corpses lying on otherwise empty streets
    - People literally dropping and going into fits (this is a real complication, regardless of whether the videos are real)
    - Apartment of family, of various ages, all dead
    - Screaming woman and BF being bundled into a relatively small box on back of a truck. Sounds incredible, but the woman is very convincingly upset!!!

    The above are just a few, hope to Christ every one of them is fake, but that's even more improbable than them actually being fake, considering the amount of similar content out there.

    I have not seen them, but if it is true, it is disturbing


  • #3424
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,002 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    bodhrandude wrote: »
    Any link for this.

    His death confirmed by the BBC https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-51403795

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



  • #3425
    tuxy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,980 ✭✭✭✭tuxy


    goat2 wrote: »
    Why is it headlining so much around the world, with flights stopped coming from area, huge hospitals built in days, people locked in in their homes, on board huge ships, and China asking for assistance with masks and so on, it has to be a huge problem

    You need to read the post I'm quoting for context.
    Please don't take my post and apply it to something unconnected.


  • #3426
    creditcarder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 494 ✭✭creditcarder


    bodhrandude wrote: »
    His death confirmed by the BBC https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-51403795


    Only god knows tbh as China seems to be locked down.


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  • #3427
    Nijmegen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,086 ✭✭✭Nijmegen


    https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3871594

    &

    https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/health-problems/image-deleted-from-tencent-sparks-doubt-about-official-virus-tally/news-story/54736a213dddd2e6d8d9d0b382ca34b6

    Tencent briefly lists 154,023 infections and 24,589 deaths from Wuhan coronavirus.

    Hard to know what to believe except that if the virus was affecting the number of people purported here, the draconian steps taken would make a lot of sense.


  • #3428
    wakka12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    It is hard to believe the videos are real because they are not verified by any reputable sources, no other reason. I'm not going to judge the authenticity of a video based on how convincing it seems


  • #3429
    goat2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,935 ✭✭✭goat2


    bodhrandude wrote: »
    His death confirmed by the BBC https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-51403795

    I watched that last night, He was a brave man, and the way he was treated for letting truth be known, it was terrible, shows it is al about power and money, and to hell with the small man


  • #3430
    ceadaoin.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,740 ✭✭✭ceadaoin.


    bodhrandude wrote: »
    Any link for this.

    Go to the China_Flu subreddit and you'll see a few links there. Eg:https://www.reddit.com/r/China_Flu/comments/ezv4lg/dr_li_wenliang_one_of_the_first_whistleblower_of/


    Allegedly, 3 hours after death he has been hooked up to life support. The government knew they were facing a huge backlash about it so ordered it to be done. Barbaric if true. Wtf

    Here is another link where apparently the hospital has confirmed he isnt dead

    https://mobile.twitter.com/globaltimesnews/status/1225463450354110466?s=19


  • #3431
    givyjoe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,286 ✭✭✭givyjoe


    tuxy wrote: »
    Why are you so reluctant to post these tweets? Boards supports embedded tweets.

    Just go and look for yourself. I literally gave detailed steps. Was In work looking at Twitter on the mobile, and posting here on the desktop.

    Feel free to disbelieve if you wish, I'm just not going collecting a load of grim links to post here. You can easily find them for yourself.

    As I've said, I'm open to some logical explanation as to how/why such unbelievably convincing/harrowing videos are being faked.


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  • #3432
    s7ryf3925pivug
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,999 ✭✭✭s7ryf3925pivug


    Nijmegen wrote: »
    https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3871594

    &

    https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/health-problems/image-deleted-from-tencent-sparks-doubt-about-official-virus-tally/news-story/54736a213dddd2e6d8d9d0b382ca34b6

    Tencent briefly lists 154,023 infections and 24,589 deaths from Wuhan coronavirus.

    Hard to know what to believe except that if the virus was affecting the number of people purported here, the draconian steps taken would make a lot of sense.
    This is a big deal. They are huge and have massive influence.


  • #3433
    creditcarder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 494 ✭✭creditcarder


    Hmmm, this is interesting.



    https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3870739


  • #3434
    Gynoid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,524 ✭✭✭Gynoid


    Roh kay :( I looked up #coronavirus and clicked on videos to see what all the fuss is about and now I regret it. Something worse than I feared - to be honest I had not been concerned much - is going on.
    Hmmmm.


  • #3435
    wakka12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    https://www.reddit.com/r/China_Flu/comments/ezvxen/case_not_related_to_china_in_south_korea/
    Another similar case, new infection in Korea, no travel to China, woman was infected in Thailand.


  • #3436
    VinLieger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,185 ✭✭✭✭VinLieger


    Kaya Prehistoric Landlord wrote: »
    This is a big deal. They are huge and have massive influence.

    Yes Tencent are huge but it could just as easily have been a mistake, if its such a big secret they arent going to go and give the site developer both the real numbers and fake numbers.


  • #3437
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 13,839 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Just went on to Twitter put in hashtag Coronavirus and then clicked onto videos.

    The HSE have a link up (like a banner ad?) right at the top. Is this new or has it been there a while?


  • #3438
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,002 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    wakka12 wrote: »
    https://www.reddit.com/r/China_Flu/comments/ezvxen/case_not_related_to_china_in_south_korea/
    Another similar case, new infection in Korea, no travel to China, woman was infected in Thailand.

    Feck my flatmate is in Thailand on holiday at the moment, has been there since last Tuesday and will be back next week. Maybe I'll have to buy latex gloves and spray disinfectant and keep my distant from him. :)

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



  • #3439
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 13,839 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    :D

    https://twitter.com/henryyincna/status/1225353782067744768?s=21


  • #3440
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 18,046 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    That's hilarious.


  • #3441
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,471 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    They're asleep on the Job. The Chairman won't like that.


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  • #3442
    cameramonkey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,220 ✭✭✭cameramonkey


    tony1980 wrote: »
    There is a couple where I work who returned from China on Sunday and are just doing self quarantine at home before coming back into the office this Monday. They didn't mention any checks on them before flying home. I can't recall the City they were in but it was about 700km from the outbreak and at the time of leaving for their flight, they said there was apparently 100 confirmed cases in the City they were staying in.


    Strange. I was talking to a guy who is very far from the outbreak and had 3 checks , one a few KMs from the airport and then 2 in the airport. Everyone was oblige to use masks.


  • #3443
    ardinn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,246 ✭✭✭ardinn


    givyjoe wrote: »
    Have you seen these videos? They look far, far, far from comically fake. The opposite, disturbingly real. The quality of acting talent must be through the absolute roof if all of these videos are fake. I can only assume you haven't seen them, but if you have, care to offer how (and why) folks are making such elaborate and realistic fake videos?

    Just a few I've seen

    - Corpses lying on otherwise empty streets
    - People literally dropping and going into fits (this is a real complication, regardless of whether the videos are real)
    - Apartment of family, of various ages, all dead
    - Screaming woman and BF being bundled into a relatively small box on back of a truck. Sounds incredible, but the woman is very convincingly upset!!!

    The above are just a few, hope to Christ every one of them is fake, but that's even more improbable than them actually being fake, considering the amount of similar content out there.

    Everything ABG hears is fake - im sure he thinks there isnt even a virus.
    images.jpg
    http://slaneyfishing.com




  • #3444
    Oranage2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,129 ✭✭✭✭Oranage2


    Whoever was asking about the truck with the box has something like 'Environmental inspections'


  • #3445
    givyjoe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,286 ✭✭✭givyjoe


    bodhrandude wrote: »
    Feck my flatmate is in Thailand on holiday at the moment, has been there since last Tuesday and will be back next week. Maybe I'll have to buy latex gloves and spray disinfectant and keep my distant from him. :)

    You would have had to do that anyway!


  • #3446
    creditcarder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 494 ✭✭creditcarder


    givyjoe wrote: »
    You would have had to do that anyway!


    That is the most hilarious thing I've ever read on this site


  • #3447
    Duke of Url
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,661 ✭✭✭Duke of Url


    Our Government are such tight bastards
    THE GOVERNMENT HAS allocated €500,000 to the World Health Organization (WHO) to assist its work to help control the spread of the coronavirus.
    The WHO has requested around €610 million in funding from world nations to combat the spread of the novel virus.


  • #3448
    mikeecho
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,429 ✭✭✭mikeecho


    What does the HSE coronavirus protection pack contain exactly?


  • #3449
    givyjoe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,286 ✭✭✭givyjoe


    mikeecho wrote: »
    What does the HSE coronavirus protection pack contain exactly?

    ..


  • #3450
    s7ryf3925pivug
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,999 ✭✭✭s7ryf3925pivug


    VinLieger wrote: »
    Yes Tencent are huge but it could just as easily have been a mistake, if its such a big secret they arent going to go and give the site developer both the real numbers and fake numbers.
    I imagine they have a decent CMS and don't need to provide content to the developer to publish it. Simplest explanation is that the figures were reported and they were told to pull them.


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  • #3451
    creditcarder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 494 ✭✭creditcarder


    Duke of Url wrote: »
    Our Government are such tight bastards


    That's embaressing tbh. I mean Ireland is one of the top tier countries on the planet?


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