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nCoV 2019-2020 Outbreak

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French Rage said:
https://frinkiac.com/caption/S06E14/1268566
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There’s a famous Isaac Asimov story based on this very premise. The title of which I’m drawing a blank on.

It has to do with a planet in a two sun system which never experiences night. Except for one rare day which the astronomers discover and warn the population about. Nobody believes them. When nightfall happens, the population panics, riots, and burns the observatory down, killing the scientists.
 
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Deutsche Gopher Fan said:
Sounds like the olympics being called off is getting quite close
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I really believe this virus, which apparently is more volatile than the flu, is going to "die out" (should I say go dormant?) during the summer heat and humidity. (In fact that’s one thing that can save Trump.)

It’s ironic that everyone has been talking about how bad the heat will be in Tokyo, moving the marathon events up north, that we not going to allow ourselves the benefit of that heat to halt the epidemic for the summer.
 
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I agree it will likely burn out in warm weather but no way the Olympic committee could make that choice now.
 
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ScoobyDoo said:
Why does he keep saying 15 when it's over 60 now? I think I heard 68 last night.
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I have no idea if it's correct but at the very first press conference with the CDC doctors he broke it out to ~45 that caught it in China and came back to the US and ~15 who contracted it here.

Edit - Not even sure if they returned to the US or just Americans abroad.
 
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The steady hand that Pence used to wipe his nose at the coronavirus press conference and then used to shake the hands of everyone else? <a href="https://t.co/4uLSdIbAyd">https://t.co/4uLSdIbAyd</a></p>— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) <a href="https://twitter.com/KevinMKruse/status/1233781704856424450?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 29, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
 
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Deutsche Gopher Fan said:
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The steady hand that Pence used to wipe his nose at the coronavirus press conference and then used to shake the hands of everyone else? <a href="https://t.co/4uLSdIbAyd">https://t.co/4uLSdIbAyd</a></p>— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) <a href="https://twitter.com/KevinMKruse/status/1233781704856424450?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 29, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
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Getting some mixed messages- if it's a hoax, then what needs to be "done right?" Other than nothing, I mean. And nothing is what the russian party is quite good at, other than tax cuts.
 
Deutsche Gopher Fan said:
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The steady hand that Pence used to wipe his nose at the coronavirus press conference and then used to shake the hands of everyone else? <a href="https://t.co/4uLSdIbAyd">https://t.co/4uLSdIbAyd</a></p>— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) <a href="https://twitter.com/KevinMKruse/status/1233781704856424450?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 29, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
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I have absolutely zero fear that you will get the job done right.
 
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Deutsche Gopher Fan said:
Yeesh

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="in" dir="ltr">Asian. Lungs. <a href="https://t.co/T16IwNxn7r">pic.twitter.com/T16IwNxn7r</a></p>— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) <a href="https://twitter.com/ParkerMolloy/status/1233758189092507648?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 29, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
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(broad sarcasm) oh yeah, its true. those "Asian Lungs" are much different.
 
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Hoax presser
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I guess not a hoax? <a href="https://t.co/xcRf2BvC1Y">https://t.co/xcRf2BvC1Y</a></p>— Jim Swift (@JimSwiftDC) <a href="https://twitter.com/JimSwiftDC/status/1233802570008875008?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 29, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
 
aparch said:
That was proven twenty years ago when McDonalds trialed third pound burgers, but stupid America kept buying quarter pounders because "four is a bigger number than three."
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It was thirty years ago and A & W is the one that tried it, but your point is spot on. We're extremely stupid.
 
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Deutsche Gopher Fan said:
Hoax presser
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I guess not a hoax? <a href="https://t.co/xcRf2BvC1Y">https://t.co/xcRf2BvC1Y</a></p>— Jim Swift (@JimSwiftDC) <a href="https://twitter.com/JimSwiftDC/status/1233802570008875008?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 29, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
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I'm afraid I am going to have to watch. I'm curious to see how much lying there will be today.
 
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Russell Jaslow said:
There’s a famous Isaac Asimov story based on this very premise. The title of which I’m drawing a blank on.

It has to do with a planet in a two sun system which never experiences night. Except for one rare day which the astronomers discover and warn the population about. Nobody believes them. When nightfall happens, the population panics, riots, and burns the observatory down, killing the scientists.
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"Nightfall." IINM it was voted the greatest SF short story of all time.
 
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Kepler said:
"Nightfall." IINM it was voted the greatest SF short story of all time.
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That’s it. It was a six sun system the planet existed in.

You are semi-correct:

"In 1968, the Science Fiction Writers of America voted "Nightfall" the best science fiction short story written prior to the 1965 establishment of the Nebula Awards, and included it in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame Volume One, 1929-1964."

It was written early in his career when he was still a graduate student at Columbia. That story is considered to be the one that made Asimov. Though, he considered his personal favorite to be "The Last Question." That’s also my favorite Asimov story.

You can read "Nightfall" here:

https://mysite.du.edu/~treddell/3780/Asimov_Nightfall.pdf
 
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White House announces the first US death caused by the <strike>Carinavirus</strike> hoax
 
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