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If you want to use the power inside of your GPU and CPU at home to help researchers find a cure for COVID-19 / coronavirus, then Folding@Home is where you'll want to go. Folding@Home is a distributed computing project spearheaded by Stanford University, and has been around for what feels like forever. Instead of a sing

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[gx-x]

I thought folding at home "people" are still active, and lending their resources for free. Personally I am a capitalist to the bone. Just as are the people that will sell the vaccine (which wont be needed, Corona, like SARS, will be gone in a few months, and I am yet to hear about anyone that went to get SARS vaccine after it was made some 10 months after SARS passed)

[heretic]

[gx-x]

I am from Serbia, we are going to have a disaster in a week. We have no economy to speak of (we make cables and fiat 500L, that's about it). Infected people will:
1. die if they are old, middle aged and sick
2. live if they are children or not old or not middle aged and sick.
3. that's it. After 1 and 2 are done, like SARS, this will pass. It's just a matter of time. This is worse than flu for old people, and less than a flu for younger people.

Dirty people and people that can't control their urges to go to parties, voting, supermarkets and pharmacies to hoard stuff, will get infected whether I Fold at Home or not.

Smart people up their hygiene, stay away from crowds for the time being as much as possible, and don't hoard toilet paper since you know, you can wash your ass like Muslims do. Nothing wrong with that, it's even cleaner.

As you can see (even if we assume they are lying) infection rate is slowing down in China already. And slowing down a lot.
It's not COID fault that Merkel insists on open borders. Orban closed borders and infection in Hungary is in check, unlike Italy where it's still rampart (open borders) and Germany (open borders), and so on.
Using common sense is always more important than using populist politics and SJW way of thinking. Hell, even if your gvnt keeps borders open, doesn't mean you should travel or use public transportation. You can self-isolate for a month until infected people are either cured or dead or in hospitals. Virus doesn't have a good life span outside of the living organisms.

PS.economically, world is way ahead of the time when SARS was a thing. 1. We have a lot more communication going on, hence we know more.
2. There is a lot more trading going on, and a lot more panic on markets now, then there was when SARS was active (I would argue that if this now was SARS and not Corona, results would be the same as they are now)
3. China produces most, adn I am not kidding, MOST of the stuff that people outside of China use for their businesses. So, when China closed of, of course the impact was huge. That's what you get for exploiting cheap labor. It's till worth it. (China controls most resources on the planet. Just look at steel, >80% is owned, produced and controlled by Chinese companies. )

PPS. Your country is doing what needs to be done. Mine should have done that 2 weeks ago, and everyone else. It's a good thing. It forces idiots to stay isolated and others safe from infection that would be unnecessary. If you would to ask around, you would find a lot of people with "I won't get infected, I am strong" mentality (idiots)

[Csimbi]

People can be idiots. It's just a flu with a higher mortality rate.
Does everyone get flu?
No.
Only the weak and the careless.

[Sabot]

[gx-x]

well, it's less contagious than flu. It needs more time and better conditions. Every year hundreds of millions get flu in the winter. Corona didn't even get close to that.

[Csimbi]

[Sabot]

[gx-x]

that's because we know flu and what it does and how to fight it. Still, flu kills millions every year, but no one panics over it because people are used to the idea of flu. Flu is actually more dangerous than this is, looking at statistics is enough to tell you that.
Market reactions are artificial and reactionary.

As for the man made virus, well that's unfounded. You can't back or prove that with anything. SARS was also a strain of COVID. There are many strains of COVID.

[Sabot]

[heretic]

Was Coronavirus Predicted in a 1981 Dean Koontz Novel?

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/dean-koontz-predicted-coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR3RAiwYymib7KVsH5zG_DqB8AP0jPY1kz0Un7WNTvvxz2Jm61iLq8NkQlI

[Sabot]

Well the bit about living outside the human body for no longer than a minute is all wrong. Since we can catch it within a couple meters of infected people and from buttons, poles, wood surfaces, tables. The virus lives for several hours on tissues. Neither is the part about vanishing as quick as it appears. This will be around for years as it bounces around the planet. Apparently it’s 6X more infectious than flu per se. There is probably going into millions of people infected by it but officials only document those that need treatment not those that have it but can cope in isolation. The U.K. is predicted to get an 80% infection out of 65 million. One of the worlds biggest airports, Heathrow, is reducing flights by 80 to 85% telling staff (Virgin airlines) to take 8 weeks unpaid leave... yeah it’s huge

[gx-x]

that's because government is making them do that. (Virgin Airlines related). They don't care if people get infected and/or die. They only care about profits.

[Sabot]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-51903319 Germany shut, France shut, shops shut no one allowed socially out in France. Gee whiz it’s kicking off now. U.K. only a matter of days away from a shutdown