Coronavirus

[TheTainted_Wisdom]

In the name of the Creator of the universe, no wonder Brazilian people is a mockery to many places in the world. There is a virus who is serious contagious and can kill you and everyone you know...and instead of stay home to avoid such virus to affect us, we go to the beach and party and do the thing we supposed to NOT do.

And it seems the president of Brazil is also diagnostic with Coronavirus. And what he did? He. Fuc***. Shake. Hands. With. Everyone.

Could be worse, Captain Cavernous Cranium over here (Trump) wants the quarantine to end in time for Easter and says things like "wouldn't it be great to have the churches full?" and "so I think Easter Sunday and you'll have packed churches all over our country... I think it will be a beautiful time" while also having shaken the hands of several strangers and press conference speakers.


As for my take on things, I'm about as outgoing as a piece of bacteria living in a rock in the lower mantle of the Earth, so I'm completely unphased by social distancing and quarantine, though I can foresee more than a few potential problems cropping up in the future:

White supremacists have expressed a desire to use it as a bioweapon and intentionally infect largely black communities and politicians by contaminating surfaces like doorknobs and the like with infected saliva. And many anti-vaxers are paranoid about any form of modern medicine, so unless a full-on vaccine is developed this disease can probably easily reappear to threaten us even if a treatment to mitigate the symptoms is discovered.

Li Wenliang's death and the Chinese government's handling of the outbreak in general likely won't sit well with the citizens, and if enough deaths occur there could be some serious pushback from citizens either during, or after this fiasco.

There's the capacity for geo-political instability depending on how badly leaders botch a cooperative cure effort. (I would not be surprised in the slightest if a vaccine or treatment/cure were developed in America and he would not let other countries or China specifically have access to the information unless they paid for it).

And of course, with many politicians being older, just a few infections could radically change the way the government is run, not to mention the potential implications for the 2020 election, given that going to the polls means running the risk of spreading disease. I mean granted, Trump vs Biden has been pretty much guaranteed for quite a while now, and it's not going to matter much which of them gets elected, but this virus could still drastically shake things up if even just a few notable politicians get infected/die.

However, all of that is based on the assumption that this thing doesn't pull an H1N1 Spanish Flu and mutate into a more dangerous strain. As long as that doesn't happen, the quarantining works, and scientists are able to develop a vaccine things will drastically improve. If scientists only get as far as treatment, and the virus mutates/scientists develop a vaccine but the virus mutates in a manner where it becomes more dangerous AND develops into a strain that can't be consistently halted by the vaccine things will have the capacity to get much worse.