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SolarCross wrote:@Patrickov
Is not being paranoid and crazy a fault in conduct?
The Christ had described what actions the Pharisees had done. I am yet to see a proof that someone fits the definition of "paranoid and crazy" during the epidemic.
#15073706
Patrickov wrote:The Christ had described what actions the Pharisees had done. I am yet to see a proof that someone fits the definition of "paranoid and crazy" during the epidemic.

Panic Buying Over Covid-19 Reported Worldwide

Shelves are being stripped bare of toilet rolls, hand sanitiser and surgical masks everywhere from Japan to France to the United States as panic buying criss-crosses the globe with the Covid-19 coronavirus, defying repeated calls for calm and disrupting supply chains.

Obsessively documented on social media, scrambles to the shops and empty shelves are adding panic and confusion to the fight against an epidemic that has killed thousands, placed millions under quarantine and battered global markets.

Australia’s biggest supermarket this week began rationing sales of toilet paper after police had to be called to a shop in Sydney when a knife was drawn in a scuffle over the scarce commodity.

On Saturday, Japan’s prime minister took to Twitter to calm fears of a national shortage, while social media photos from the US show toilet paper shelves lying bare.

Psychologists say a mix of herd mentality and over-exposure to coverage of the virus is to blame.

“We might be less irrational if we weren’t being reminded so much of the potential dangers by the news,” London-based consumer psychologist Kate Nightingale told AFP.

“We either avoid the topic or we go completely nuts and stock up on anything we might just need.”

Panic buying of non-medical items like toilet paper “gives people this sense of control that ‘I will have what I need when I want’,” Andy Yap, a psychologist and Charlene Chen, who specialises in marketing and business in Singapore told AFP in an email.

The city-state experienced its own recent run on toilet paper, traceable, they said to a “believable” rumour of an impending shortage due to shutdowns in virus-stricken China, a major producer.

Endlessly scrolling through social media also “distorts our perceptions and makes us think that things are a lot more serious than they truly are,” they said.

As the uncertainty grows, they added, items such as surgical masks and hand sanitiser transform into “problem-solving goods… that seemingly help people gain control over the virus.”

Single-use surgical masks that typically retail for just a few US cents are also hot property, exacerbated by restrictions on exports from China, the leading producer, as the government keeps more back for domestic usage.

Last month ten thousand people queued outside a Hong Kong shop that had secured a shipment, and days later masks were voted the most desireable gifts to receive for Valentine’s Day.

In London, masks are now going for more than 100 times their normal retail price, while French authorities said they will requisition all face mask stocks and production.

The demand is being “driven by panic buying, stockpiling and speculation,” World Health Organisation spokeswoman Fadela Chaib told AFP.

This is despite the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention saying it does not “recommend the use of facemasks” to help combat the outbreak.

But in crowded, paranoid cities where others are already wearing them, donning a mask can be comforting – if ineffective.

“You don’t want to be the odd one out,” Nightingale said.

“At the end of the day, we do need our social groups for survival so it’s a primal instinct to obey whatever needs that society imposes on us.”

https://www.malaysia-today.net/2020/03/ ... worldwide/
#15073722
Paranoia is the feeling that you're being threatened in some way, such as people watching you or acting against you, even though there's no proof that it's true.

COVID-19 is out to get you, and it's a real threat to you. There is evidence that it's dangerous to people and it's spreading.

Thus, it's not paranoia. It's more of a threat than terrorism or Commies ever were.
#15073726
Godstud wrote:Paranoia is the feeling that you're being threatened in some way, such as people watching you or acting against you, even though there's no proof that it's true.

COVID-19 is out to get you, and it's a real threat to you. There is evidence that it's dangerous to people and it's spreading.

Thus, it's not paranoia. It's more of a threat than terrorism or Commies ever were.

The health experts in the U.S.A. say that the risk is low for those in the U.S.A. So there is no need to panic and become paranoid over it.
#15073740
:roll: Tell the Americans who have died from Coronavirus how low the risks are, if you get the disease.

If you catch the disease, the risks are NOT low, particularly if you're over 60 years old.
#15073794
Hindsite wrote:The health experts in the U.S.A. say that the risk is low for those in the U.S.A. So there is no need to panic and become paranoid over it.


It's interesting, CNN is helping to drive the panic and paranoia over all of this.

The World Health Organization has not called this a pandemic. Likewise for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

But CNN calls it a pandemic.

Why?

Because bad news sells.
#15073819
ProPhoto wrote:But the chance of getting the disease is very low.
:eh: Don't be asinine. The disease has barely started and it's going to get a lot worse before it gets better. Anyone with any medical knowledge is telling people this.

The chances of dying of Conoravirus are very low, unless you get it, that is.

ProPhoto wrote:It's interesting, CNN is helping to drive the panic and paranoia over all of this.
You don't know what paranoia is either, do you?

Not everyone is as irresponsible as Fox News, with their dipshit doctor who cannot tell the difference between the flu and Coronavirus(not the flu). :knife:

New York University Professor of Medicine and Fox News contributor Dr. Marc Siegel said Friday on the Fox News program Bill Hemmer Reports that the World Health Organization was a "bunch of alarmists" after their latest statements about the coronavirus.

WHO director-general Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a Tuesday media briefing that "globally, about 3.4 percent of reported COVID-19 cases have died. By comparison, seasonal flu generally kills far fewer than 1 percent of those infected."

"This virus is not SARS, it's not MERS, and it's not influenza," Ghebreyesus clarified. "It is a unique virus with unique characteristics."

https://www.newsweek.com/fox-news-docto ... us-1491028
#15073853
Godstud wrote:The chances of dying of Conoravirus are very low, unless you get it, that is.


Well, the numbers bear out that the majority of people who've been reported as having it have not died.

There have been 111,817 cases reported. Of those, 3,893 have died. 62,722 people have recovered.

More than half of the people who've had it are okay now. You understand that, right?

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

The percentage of people dying from it is extremely low.

You don't know what paranoia is either, do you?

Not everyone is as irresponsible as Fox News, with their dipshit doctor who cannot tell the difference between the flu and Coronavirus(not the flu). :knife:

New York University Professor of Medicine and Fox News contributor Dr. Marc Siegel said Friday on the Fox News program Bill Hemmer Reports that the World Health Organization was a "bunch of alarmists" after their latest statements about the coronavirus.

WHO director-general Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a Tuesday media briefing that "globally, about 3.4 percent of reported COVID-19 cases have died. By comparison, seasonal flu generally kills far fewer than 1 percent of those infected."

"This virus is not SARS, it's not MERS, and it's not influenza," Ghebreyesus clarified. "It is a unique virus with unique characteristics."

https://www.newsweek.com/fox-news-docto ... us-1491028


You completely ignore the point I made. Even the WHO isn't calling it a pandemic.

So why is CNN? Are they somehow more qualified to make that determination than the WHO?
#15074008
ProPhoto wrote:The percentage of people dying from it is extremely low.
Your age is an important factor, as it's death rate is 0.2% for younger people, and up to 13% for people over 65. You really don't pay attention, do you?

Cases with Outcome 68,015
Recovered/Discharged 63,990 (94%)
Deaths 4,025 (6%)

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavir ... rus-cases/

“Globally, about 3.4% of reported COVID-19 cases have died. By comparison, seasonal flu generally kills far fewer than 1% of those infected.”
https://www.who.int/dg/speeches/detail/ ... march-2020


The Fox doctor is a fucking moron, who is out of his depth. His statements class with actual people working with the disease.
#15074038
0.2% is 4 times more dangerous than the flu.

13% is 260 times more dangerous than the flu.

Is that still low, to you? Which would rather have? COVID-19 or the regular flu?

Willfully ignorant. That's no way to go thru life.
#15074049
:eh: @ProPhoto/@BigSteve You're likely the age with the 10%+ death rate, so you pretending it'll just be another flu, is childish in the least, and laughable, at best.
#15074052
Godstud wrote:Jesus was a left-wing crazy who wanted people to have free healthcare.


He wasn't a left-wing crazy. He was a Jewish Religious Socialist Rabbi. Neither Left-wing nor right-wing.

He followed Moses opinion on many topics and was even stricter on one particular issue(Divorce).

You can be extremely virilantly anti-establishment and still be a faithful Religious Jew "upholding the Torah".

These modern Religious Jews hate the secular state of Israel and support Palestinian independence(extremely anti-establishment, yet definitely not "Left-wingers"):


Jesus interpretation of the Torah was the socialist interpretation, but he was no "Left-winger", he still believed in traditional Jewish Morality. His attack on the money changers and animal sellers in the Temple was because they were doing business on holy ground on mount Moriah not because he opposed their trade generally.

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