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I had like one, maybe two friends who were all like FUCK YEAH YOU PAINT IT WHATEVER COLOR YOU WANT, PURPLE BEDROOMS ARE AWESOME.

But when they actualy saw the finished bedroom, every single one of them was like, “Oh yeah, that’s really pretty.” (Well, the ones who supported me from the beginning were more like WOOHOO.)

The reason we don't have massive pandemics isn't because of goddamn paranoia and panicking as soon as something happens, it's because we now have a strong scientific understanding of how contagions work, detecting and screening them when outbreaks occur, and using technology to sequence, study and eventually vaccinate against dangerous pathogens. Spanish Flu got as bad as it did because people were popping Aspirin as if it was a cure-all and most of the world still had no clue how the virus spread and subscribed to Miasma theory.

We have had time to study 2019-nCoV to sequence it's genome, we've calculated the rate of infection, we've determined the mortality rate is 4% (keep in mind SARS had a mortality rate of 10%, MERS had one of 34%). We know how the virus spreads, we know that it takes 2 weeks before patients become symptomatic, and we know that deaths are caused by respiratory complications like pneumonia, which are treatable and preventable in sterile medical environment. We also know that it jumped to humans from snakes and bats, greatly helping research into it's origins and applying that to curb outbreaks. The goddamn seasonal flu is a larger threat than this.

Maybe it's not apparent to you, but paranoia and panic ISN'T fucking good during a health crisis, especially if the country where the virus originated from is the one currently in front of the barrel of the US' geopolitical propaganda game. The WHO is asking public officials to refer to the virus as nCoV rather than "Wuhan/China coronavirus" due to the stigmatism and bigotry that can come to Asian people, specifically Chinese people, especially in an age where white supremacists are using the rhetoric that immigrants and people of color cause pestilence, ESPECIALLY at a time where the Trump administration is engaged in a proxy war with China. Need I remind you of the paranoia against African people during the Ebola outbreak, or against Latinx people during Swine Flu?

So no, I strongly disagree. There is no need to panic, we have studied it significantly enough to determine everything from it's genome, to it's infectivity and mortality rate. Being a paranoid fucker over a SCARY FOREIGN DISEASE has historically shown to fucking do more harm than good. The last 4 major disease scares ultimately lead to no horrible pandemic, and the fear-mongering ended up fucking over people solely because they were minorities.

So if you didnt know several warehouses full of undistributed disaster aid from Hurricane Maria were found in PR and people are PISSED

Rightfully so, 4645 people died in PR due to lack of resources and they had WAREHOUSES full of supplies and didn’t distribute them.

Last time we saw you, you were trying to kill everyone. What are you up to these days?

some quality geralt moments from episode 1

bonus:

Sebastian Stan for “Men’s Health”

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