D&D and the rising pandemic

[Zardnaar]

Lovely graph.

But the actual health care system capacity is closer to 0.1% of the population than 15%.

Because 5% of the people sick need 3 weeks of respirator care.

And the USA has 65000 of them. Imagine they (a) scrounge up 20k more, and (b) kick everyone on them off so they are all usable for Covid19.

85k/5% is 1.7 million people sick. But those 5% need 3 weeks of care, so the most you can handle per day is about 81,000.

81,000/300 million is, carry the two, well 0 within rounding error. And while that is a joke, it is also true: in order to flatten the curve to stay under healthcare capacity, we need the curve to stretch for a crazy number like 10 years.

To beat this, we need capacity (millions of respirators and technicians) or a vaccine, and we have to accept this isn't going to end soon.

In any case, Iran is about to show us what happens when you are hit by this epidemic and do nothing to stop it. 80*.05 is 16. I hope my math is wrong.

Iran has a young population.

It might also be an example of where everyone is in a few months. You can't sustain a lockdown for more than a few weeks, 2-3 months tops and I think that's optimistic.

The choices are bad, worse, awful, and aw crap.

Venezuela is also gonna be another case study.

There's no civil society as such in China and what exists has been corrupted by the CCP. They may have done the modern equivalent of bricking people up inside their houses.

 

[Son of the Serpent]

People will look back on the 20's as the time of the iconic, classic D&D campaign streams catalyzed by the Great Virus Outbreak.

Nah. 3 and everything before 3 will probably always be looked as iconic d&d (different parts of each edition)

4th and 5th i dont think will look iconic to anyone. 3 barely is part of that.

4 and 5 both represent a major shift in the gaming culture.

2 and 3 obviously were major departures in their own way but its not the same.

Corona virus wont be considered a major influence on anything realistically. Its no cold war (pun intended)

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Hoarder update!

THIS makes a bunch of sense.

 

[Zardnaar]

No D&D but I dug these out. I own plenty of d10s.

Party like it's 1985. Found my Megadrive games, not sure where the console is. Found the NES as well buy only Super Mario 3.

 

[Zardnaar]

Hoarder update!

THIS makes a bunch of sense.

Lol I live near a port and did a stocktake last year. At any time there's around 2-300 million dollars of milk powder there. 25 kg bags, 72 to a pallet piled 5 or 6 high filling 2 or 3 stadium's.

And that's just the local area produce less than 10% of the countries supply.

Basically we can feed ourselves plus Australia and people are panic buying.

It's not strip the shelves yet though.

 

[Theo R Cwithin]

Hoarder update!

THIS makes a bunch of sense.

She's gonna be irate when she gets home and realizes she forgot the bread for all that french toast.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Lol I live near a port and did a stocktake last year. At any time there's around 2-300 million dollars of milk powder there. 25 kg bags, 72 to a pallet piled 5 or 6 high filling 2 or 3 stadium's.

And that's just the local area produce less than 10% of the countries supply.

Basically we can feed ourselves plus Australia and people are panic buying.

It's not strip the shelves yet though.

It’s Zoidberg’s Sandwich all over again.


If they’re hoarders, it’s a facepalm moment. If they’re profiteers, their comeuppance will be swift and stinky. I mean, I’m a dairy fiend and I could wait these jokers out.

 

[robus]

I’m leaving this thread because the rolling impacts of this pandemic are making me really angry, people are losing their lives and livelihoods and no one knows when things are going to get back to normal.

I’ve got nothing productive to contribute.

It’s really cataclysmic!

Please stay safe everyone and good luck. We’re going to need it.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

It’s amazing how much of the news is like:

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[Zardnaar]

It’s amazing how much of the news is like:

coronaviruscoronaviruscoronaviruscoronaviruscoronaviruscoronaviruscoronaviruscoronavirusTOMBRADYLEAVINGPATIOTScoronaviruscoronaviruscoronaviruscoronaviruscoronaviruscoronavirus

I'ma just watching YouTube clips. Have to venture out just avoiding crowds. Go to supermarket late and really early.

Wonder if I should do a virtual tour in the off topic area on YouTube.