CORONAVIRUS 2020: RHYTHM OF THE DEATH

[popcorn]

What are these scanner things they keep showing in headline photos? What are they scanning? Do they work?

[marquis_de_sad]

They are non-contact infrared thermometers.

[Sin Agog]

Don't listen to him; they're tricorders.

[Dex Sawash]

Rates shagability through protective gear.  36.6c is pretty fit.

Under 30; he/she's not worthy.

[imitationleather]

Cases in Brighton have doubled in one day?

We're doomed!

[idunnosomename]

Someone I know from Wuhan just posted this picture they took on Facebook:

near the end of the walk she can just hang the dog off a tree and leave it there

[Blumf]

Data!!

https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3874013

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Data from Windy.com on Sunday (Feb. 9) showed heightened levels of sulfur dioxide around Wuhan, the epicenter of the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV), causing some to speculate that it is a sign of mass cremations of victims of the deadly disease.
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The third possibility proposed was that: "Dead bodies are being burned on the outskirts of the city, the death numbers are way higher than the CCP is letting on about, and things are really, really bad." One netizen even calculated that it would take the burning of 14,000 bodies to reach such a high level of SO2.

https://www.windy.com/-SO2-mass-so2sm?so2sm,43.069,28.477,3

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[QDRPHNC]

Saw on Reddit that people are being forcibly removed from their home or forcibly sealed into their homes. Seems... Bad?

[imitationleather]

Data!!

https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3874013
https://www.windy.com/-SO2-mass-so2sm?so2sm,43.069,28.477,3

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Err... Fucking yikes?

[bgmnts]

Good god.

Although fucking hell how polluted is China? Mental.

[katzenjammer]

That's scary... or is it?

https://www.reddit.com/r/China_Flu/comments/f19uc8/debunking_the_burning_bodies_sulphur_sulfur/?

Earth null has an archive option and you can see countless other days before the epidemic when the sulfur dioxide level has been as high as that image.

Lets see if this is plausible that cremation is the source...

"Sulfur represents about 0.25 percent of our total body weight"

Average person weighs 75 kg, so that's 187 grams of sulfur per person.

The concentration in the cloud is about 1 mg per m3 of sulfur, assuming tropospheric dispersal to 500 meters altitude and it spans about 100 km X 100 km.

That cloud is 5,000,000,000,000‬‬ m3 in volume.

At 1 milligrammes per m3, that cloud contains approx. 5,000,000,000,000‬ milligrammes of sulfur i.e. 5,000 tons of SO2, or 2,500 tonnes of sulfur or 1 million tonnes of corpses.

To create a cloud that size, you'd need to burn approx. 13.35 million people. Or burn 500,000 tons of Chinese coal (0.5% sulfur content).

[gib]

Err... Fucking yikes?

If you go 'more layers' on that second link you can see where 'active fires' are.

[Shit Good Nose]

Jeepers, that's mental.  Maybe they're just having a dried fruit and cider festival????



Very early in the thread I mentioned that someone who works in my office's son came flew back from China and there were zero barriers or checks at either end.

Anyway, apparently he "handed himself in" by phoning 111 at the weekend as he had developed a "mild" fever which he does suspect is nothing more than a regular cold but he phoned them just to be sure, explaining that he'd got back from China a couple of weeks ago.  They've told him to keep an eye on his temperature - no mention of quarantining himself or anything like that.

So one could suggest there are some mixed messages going around at the moment.

[imitationleather]

So somewere between 0 and 13.35 million people are being burned outdoors?

In order to not be alarmist let's be conservative and say around 6.67 million people are having outdoor cremations.

This might not be entirely accruate so feel free to add or subtract a dozen but either way it is TIME TO PANIC!

[Shit Good Nose]

Although fucking hell how polluted is China? Mental.

Epically so - they are currently building five coal power stations and there are at least three more planned.  Officially there are fifteen already running, but some industry insiders think that number is actually closer to twenty.

Still nowhere near as many as Australia, mind, but China also has a lot more cars and heavy industry which is topping up their pollution.

[lankyguy95]

Welp we're going to die. May as well try and break up my high school crush's marriage.

[bgmnts]

How big and industrial is Wuhan compared to cities like Beijing and Shangai?

Its listed as 10 on top 10 cities in China, with almost 8 million people and described as a transportation hub. So its big, but to be as polluted as Beijing? I don't know man.

Also, average person weighs 75kg? Average to Wuhan? Average to China? Average to the world? Weird.

[imitationleather]

All those saps with something to live for look pretty damn stupid right now.

[Shit Good Nose]

How big and industrial is Wuhan compared to cities like Beijing and Shangai?

Its listed as 10 on top 10 cities in China, with almost 8 million people and described as a transportation hub. So its big, but to be as polluted as Beijing? I don't know man.

I think Wuhan has more heavy industry than Beijing, and that's always going to be a big cause of a region's pollution.

[Cuellar]

They could also be burning dead livestock

[marquis_de_sad]

You could all just read that reddit post.

This is where the "data" backing the theory falls apart. See, windy.com and earth.nullschool.net are not sources of historic data on sulphur emissions. They are forecasts. This is why they provide "data" of sulphur emissions in the future. Specifically, they are the NASA GEOS-5 22KM forecast. Understandably, a weather forecast will not predict sudden changes in human activity, such as a mass body burning.

Yes, this entire conspiracy theory is built off confusing a forecast with historic data.

[Puce Moment]

My brother in Singapore has posted about the panic buying going on (toilet paper, canned food, water etc) but he said most people there have resigned themselves to catching the virus and are keeping healthier and eating better in preperation for it.

[Cuellar]

You could all just read that reddit post.

Oh well then

[danielreal2k]

this is nothing to worry about is it,    is it?  nah must be something else, justeat delivery or something.

[Space ghost]

Nice source on that image!

[BlodwynPig]

this is nothing to worry about is it,    is it?  nah must be something else, justeat delivery or something.

Residue Skripal

[Dex Sawash]

Invoking a beloved CaB anecdote

[marquis_de_sad]

Nice source on that image!

lol

[Alberon]

You could all just read that reddit post.

OK, so they haven't cremated 13.35m people.

They're about to cremate 13.35m people.

[Shit Good Nose]

OK, so they haven't cremated 13.35m people.

They're about to cremate 13.35m people.

Anyone for barbecue?