All the posts since December were pre-written and scheduled.
So, I have yet to shitpost about the Wu Flu…the Kung Flu…the Chineses virus…SARS little brother…
SARS-CoV2.0 you can (not) coofance.
(there’s nothing interesting written in this post, only shitposting of the lowest calibre)
I’m a experienced happeningfag, always browsing 4chan’s pol whenever some sort of disaster hit. Shitposted there in March 2011 and in every earthquake or tsunami ever since. Watched the Baltimore riots in 2015. Terrorist attacks, school shootings.
If it was a happening I was posting about it somewhere on the internet.
But f*ck me, I never had a happening that consumed so much time of my life. I’ve been glued on the computer (and now smartphone) since mid-January.
How glued to the screen? I hear you ask?
I have a spreadsheet with daily data for worldwide infected, worldwide dead, daily increase in infected/dead and the wrong way to calculate mortality percentage, maintained at the same hour (give or take 10-30 minutes) daily since the 23rd of January. Back when there were 581 infected, 17 dead and we were all shitposting about it being the start of the zombie apocalypse.
The same spreadsheet also has daily data for a handful of countries since March 6th. Back in the days when South Korea’s score was 6284/42, Italy was 3858/148 and Iran was 3513/108.
I expected lots of shit, but never really expected a worldwide epidemic. Interesting experience.
Of course, I’m old enough to remember the H1N1 epidemic in 2009, but to be honest, didn’t quite care for it at the time. But loved that the price of pork went down like a rock. Like the bird flu some years before where chicken price dropped like hell too.
As we stand at the time of writing this post: 1.6 million infected all around the world, 95 thousand dead.
Since December 2019, less than half a year ago (January 2020 being when things really became weird). And I’m not even taking into consideration how much the chinese must have lied on their official numbers.
So I’m using only official numbers for everything.
We’re about at the same point with COVID19 in ~4 months as H1N1 was in a year and half.
And the swine flu did not enjoy the heavy measures to stop it from spreading and the worldwide panic about it.
Just putting things into perspective.
Let’s hope for the best and prepare for the worst.
Well, gotta go prepare my gear to go to the supermarket.
Blowout soon, fellow STALKER!