Coronavirus

[Jalpha]

So I was backed into a bit of a corner. Maybe I could have avoided it (well I could have). It was just much simpler and faster to get the covid test so I can keep moving.

I was much happier with the testing facility in the Prague airport compared with the ones at the German trainstations. GHC Genetics was the company running the facility. They had a ticket system so nobody had to stand in line which made me feel much more comfortable. €85 with the official certificate. There was no shortage of people waiting to get tested either. I hope these huge sums of money will be put to good use.

They did both nostrils here. It was uncomfortablle. I wouldn't quite say painful but it did... sting a bit. My eyes watered and I breathed through my mouth for about an hour afterwards just in case. By the time I got back to the hostel I was fine.

I was expecting a false positive because the rate can be as high as 30%. Thankfully there were no problems with the test. No covid here. I guess the last seven months or so of moving around building up a natural immunity has paid off.

I'm a tank.

Get amongst it y'all. This is a great time to travel. The lines to get into popular monuments like the roman forum are shorter than they will probably ever be again in your lifetimes.

[shubla]

So I was backed into a bit of a corner. Maybe I could have avoided it (well I could have). It was just much simpler and faster to get the covid test so I can keep moving.

I was much happier with the testing facility in the Prague airport compared with the ones at the German trainstations. GHC Genetics was the company running the facility. They had a ticket system so nobody had to stand in line which made me feel much more comfortable. €85 with the official certificate. There was no shortage of people waiting to get tested either. I hope these huge sums of money will be put to good use.

They did both nostrils here. It was uncomfortablle. I wouldn't quite say painful but it did... sting a bit. My eyes watered and I breathed through my mouth for about an hour afterwards just in case. By the time I got back to the hostel I was fine.

I was expecting a false positive because the rate can be as high as 30%. Thankfully there were no problems with the test. No covid here. I guess the last seven months or so of moving around building up a natural immunity has paid off.

I'm a tank.

Get amongst it y'all. This is a great time to travel. The lines to get into popular monuments like the roman forum are shorter than they will probably ever be again in your lifetimes.

Yeah but many countries do not allow visitors currently. At least those countries that I have interest in visiting. And I find it very tedious to check if you can even enter some specific country. You have to check embassies sites one by one etc.

I've read that the coronavirus test from nostrils may be wrong. Too early into the infection there is not enough of the virus to test positive. And too late into the infection the virus will retreat from your upper respiratory system (nostrils where the sample is taken) and move deeper into lungs. And only way to test positive in latter stages may be to take the sample from the lungs, which is probably quite unpleasant and possibly even impossible without some kind of anesthesia.

I felt a bit ill few days ago, and sneezed repeatedly for some reason, but only for a few hours, and after sleeping I felt better. I've been wondering if I may have already had the disease. But for the reasons mentioned above I've not visited a test.

There is also a possibility of testing from the blood if it contains some antidote or such that body produces. But it may take weeks after the infection to there be enough of that in the blood to test positive. In Finland they don't do the antidote-tests for free, it costs like 100€ so I'm not sure if I want to take that either.

[dafels]

Just a reminder to not forget to get the government's covid trackingspying app! They are testing how far people are letting them go on state surveillance under the pandemic trash and the newly imposed surveillance won't go away after the pandemic. Not without a force atleast. Have a nice one iPhone cucks!

[shubla]

Just a reminder to not forget to get the government's covid trackingspying app! They are testing how far people are letting them go on state surveillance under the pandemic trash and the newly imposed surveillance won't go away after the pandemic. Not without a force atleast. Have a nice one iPhone cucks!

Possible indeed! Maybe in the future the app will be used in flu epidemics etc. so it will never be removed.

[Jalpha]

That's not very citizen of you dafels. Who doesn't trust their government these days. After all they have done to keep us safe in these dangerous times too. For shame.

In my mind the strange thing is not that we are being tracked. The strange thing is how openly it is being done now. As a social experiment this crises is producing a lot of data. Intended or not. Data and money. But why.

Will we ever know what is really going on.

Yeah but many countries do not allow visitors currently. At least those countries that I have interest in visiting. And I find it very tedious to check if you can even enter some specific country. You have to check embassies sites one by one etc.

I use this site and this site.

They usually make things pretty simple. Until you try to escape a lockdown at the last minute and things get a bit hectic anyway. I am sure every civilised country has a travel advice website for their citizens. I use the UK one sometimes too.

It would be a great loss to not be travelling around asking people everywhere if they know of anyone who has been seriously affected by coronavirus. The number of tragic stories I have heard you would not believe.

[dafels]

That's not very citizen of you dafels. Who doesn't trust their government these days. After all they have done to keep us safe in these dangerous times too.

The idea of a government has outlived its concept and must be killed sometime in the future. The concept that some cucks above you that are out of touch with reality are making decisions for you most of the times not even having an idea what they are doing and abusing power while at it. I would sacrifice all my peronal material belongings for some new type of decentralized organization that provides more freedom from these state cucks. The docile sheep seem to like the current organization because they can't even imagine no better. Trump getting covid right before the election is just a stunt to get more votes in the election, there is no way that person with such a signifact political importance could have got sick when theres huge teams around him actively taking measures to prevent that from happening. It is a trick for the sheeple

[Jalpha]

Yes I am expecting Mister Trump to make a miraculous recovery and to praise God as his saviour. Many who would not have will then vote for him. But I like him because of the Artemis Program. I think also that it is short-sighted to blame him for the social issues in the USA right now. The USA really needed to lance the pussy wound which is their social issues and drain it. He allowed that to happen. It is really up to the citizens to decide for themselves what it is that they want.

I agree that government is largely irrelevant now and has been for some time. A new system could emerge but I suspect new societies in space will break that ground and then slowly the new system will also be adopted down here.

Really the problem as I see it is the sheeple themselves. From a top down perspective they are a resource. Consumers to be harvested. However that system is becoming outdated. Consumerism is destroying the earth. I guarantee that within the next couple of decades the sheep will need to prove they have purpose beyond their meaningless (and destructive) existences.

Otherwise they will be removed to save the earth from destruction.

Maybe people like me will rise up to show everyone that the masses are a resource which can be utilised in much more constructive ways. Maybe the Abrahamic faiths will get the apocalypse they seek so frantically instead.

I think it is obvious which outcome is more likely at this time.

[MagicManICT]

Yes I am expecting Mister Trump to make a miraculous recovery

"Miraculous"... hmm. https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medica ... 05_ENUS__1 Apologies if that article gets blocked outside of the US.

I expect he'll recover, but the bullheadedness of his has truly disrupted the system. Personal politics aside as best as I can, there's a distinct likelihood to lose a quorum in the US Senate until well after the November elections because of the rejection of public health recommendations.

[shubla]

Yes I am expecting Mister Trump to make a miraculous recovery

"Miraculous"... hmm. https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medica ... 05_ENUS__1 Apologies if that article gets blocked outside of the US.

I expect he'll recover, but the bullheadedness of his has truly disrupted the system. Personal politics aside as best as I can, there's a distinct likelihood to lose a quorum in the US Senate until well after the November elections because of the rejection of public health recommendations.

I think the experts don't know what they are talking about, or at least journalists are mis-interpreting what they say based on political motives.
US president is probably person with the most thoroughly monitored health in the world. They have years of data and all kinds of tests about his health. They also have the money, resources, personnel, equipment to do probably every test possible to him in the hospital, 24/7. So they can use medicine with possibly severe side effects, and quickly stop using it if something harmful seems to be happening. Normal people do not get treated like this, because having a doctor monitoring your vitals 24/7 and taking blood tests etc. multiple times a day would be too resource intensive to perform for all patients on any health care system.

It is VERY likely that those doctors have been preparing months for the moment that the president gets infected, these treatments were probably decided well before the president was even infected.
Death of any current US president because of some illness would be huge political catastrophe, so making sure that the president doesn't die from possibly preventable diseases is high on their priority list.

Thus they can make decisions about using medicine that ordinary people don't get, people seem to forget that he gets special treatment for being a president, not some cost effective treatment like the ordinary people.

[MagicManICT]

In the grand scheme of things in the US... a president is about 20% of the political power (pulling the number from a lot of estimates based on various political rules and the US constitution). It's enough that it can be ignored, have a strong impact on the way things go, or be a big drain on the way things go. Yes, the government is the "biggest boy scout" as they are always planning for any situation, but some things, like illness, can only be estimated.

Trump himself is playing this off like it's just some routine hospital visit. For now, he's able to do so. It's possible his condition will seriously worsen and he gets stuck and we have to go through a temporary transfer of power (ie he's been placed in a medical coma and on a ventialtor, requiring the VP to step up as acting president until time the elected president can return to office). I'm sure that his staff and members of Congress that get sick will get very good treatment, too. However, they'll have to be under quarantine, and the US Senate, at least, has been obstinate about making rules to deal with the potential reality of this pandemic, such as too many members under quarantine at the same time. If they can't have a quorum, then they can't get anything done... like naming a new SCOTUS justice.

You can say what you want about the virus and the hype surrounding it, and means of stopping its spread, but you can't deny that political leaders almost all fit into that category of high risk if infected. I think we've all agreed on that, at least.

late edit: I guess, since President Trump now has covid-19, he's Chuck Norris? Just saw a tweet about him punching it to death.