[April Fools] This better not be what I think it is...

[UserU]

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You get Toilet Paper Tokens, not bad for such a rare commodity now!

[squatz1]

While some could say bad taste, I'd say that it shows people what social distancing in real life can do for you. Ya never know what the other people at work did before, or who interacted with the other people at the dinner, etc. Just an interesting way to show how infectious and how destructive (imagine this part, site cant really show you) this disease really is


I like it. Thought I was freaking out or my computer was losing it when I saw it before though.

[Bthd]

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Joining is free!

I'm not infected, still. But working on it.

[LoyceV]

Jokes like that don't age well even if you happen to be a fan of making fun of hurricane, pandemic, or plane crash victims.

I don't look at this as making fun of the victims (and obviously I wouldn't like that). But making fun of the situation can lighten the mood a bit. And it actually contains a serious warning: social distancing is really needed.

Maybe we are supposed to figure out how it spreads?  Do you need to post in a thread of an infected person?

Quoting an infected user didn't get me infected. Maybe you need to be quoted by someone who's infected? That kinda makes sense: the ones who are contagious spread it.

Or, knowing theymos, it's probably based on a large mathematical formula with many different ways to get it. And I expect full statistics from theymos afterwards.

I get it, though.  Some will always turn to humor to cope with fear, uncertainty, concern, cabin-fever...

I prefer humor over fear, and I think we should be able to have a (bitter) laugh about almost anything. However:

Mocking a situation that is killing many people and making a lot of people extremely ill is not funny, IMO.

Mocking makes it less funny indeed.

We should have a treatment about this virus


*It's not real, just edit from inspect element

I'm pretty sure advertising a fake cure would be illegal in most countries.

[AlexSimion]

Maybe we don't need to do anything about it , reply/quote etc and it can just be a "replica" of the outside world situation , maybe by the end of the day a large number of members here will be randomly infected with the virus.

[vickersja]

*cough*

[Lauda]

This is not what I was expecting. Not infected! 

This did not end well.   

[NotATether]

How are you going to be infected by this forum's virus? Just wondering how he set this up?  

I believe, as in the case of COVID 19, it will spread after some time if we quote the infected or the infected quotes our post. Not sure though, but it seems the only reasonable way.

Anyways, looks like a nice awareness campaign.

It's not an awareness campaign if every single news station in the world is already talking about it, as well as google and social media sites displaying banners about it on their front pages, and most companies you know are sending you email related to this too. And if everyone is ordered to be in self-isolation anyway I don't think a practical joke by the forum will do anything to spread awareness.

News outlets even have to put an "Uplifting News" link because apparently this event is making thousands of people depresses.

By the way this "online virus" here is actually called ASCII art, some people find it trendy to put it on their usernames.

We should have a treatment about this virus


*It's not real, just edit from inspect element

I'm pretty sure advertising a fake cure would be illegal in most countries.

I think that link was removed since I posted, because I don't see it anywhere on the "More" page.

[tvbcof]

Who said that April fool can only be funny? We have a little idea about Theymos don't we? obviously, he's not joking.
what's wrong with using this event in an unconventional way since a lot of members are anticipating it. I would say probably he wanted to raise more awareness about this virus since, even at this stage of contagion, some people are still not taking the matter seriously. Personally, I like the initiative and support it, will try not to get infected.

At this stage of the 'contagion' people who used to 'take it seriously', or at least try to make sense of the information/mis-information available, are seeing some seriously shady things and are starting to catch on.

Remember, the Smith-Mundt act was 'modernized' (to deal with the dastardly terrorists of course) a number of years ago now.  Lots and lots of shady stuff since then.

[muslol67]

Even 1st April jokes evolved to Corona virus. Sad but good the see hear awareness. Please guys and ladies, stay home, stay safe & be careful about social distance.

[Betwrong]

I'm trying to figure out what does "practice social distancing" mean in the context of this forum.

Based on my observations, it has nothing to do with putting s p a c e s  b e t w e e n  l e t t e r s, which makes sense because irl you don't protect yourself from being infected by talking like a retard. Rather you should avoid contacts with infected people.

I think the virus spreads through quoting posts of those infected, but I may be wrong, and it's possible that even posting in a thread like this one is enough to get you letters messed up.

We'll see. This is my first post today, and I will edit it several minutes later to report how I feel.

EDIT: It looks like I'm fine, but don't trust me, do your own research. Let's stop this virus spreading.

EDIT2(45 minutes later): Now, I'm infected, guys. I must say, I have no idea how this virus is spreading. Stay safe. Keep researching.

[LoyceV]

I think that link was removed since I posted, because I don't see it anywhere on the "More" page.

The screenshot was a fake.

[mediaBuzz]

This 'joke' with online infection is gone too far, isn't it? When everyone is in panic despite they tryna not to show it, this one can make their day even worse.

Snap out of your psychosis.

I'm being realistic pal. Everyone rofled when it born in Wuhan. Everyone rofled when they locked the city down. Everyone rofled when there were news it is spreading over other cities, then countries. Now the whole world can't get out of their home and you are still rofling

[xavierXDRC]

Writing a post today it will be wise to keep a distance between them. I hope the vaccine is coming soon

[Lauda]

This 'joke' with online infection is gone too far, isn't it? When everyone is in panic despite they tryna not to show it, this one can make their day even worse.

Snap out of your psychosis.

I'm being realistic pal. Everyone rofled when it born in Wuhan. Everyone rofled when they locked the city down. Everyone rofled when there were news it is spreading over other cities, then countries. Now the whole world can't get out of their home and you are still rofling

If you are panicking about this then you are indeed psychotic.

[acroman08]

Apparently it's a selective virus.  Foxpup and khaled0111 are infected, so far everyone else in this thread is safe symptom free.

I wasn't at first; I must have caught it from khaled0111. That confirms it; theymos apparently thinks it's funny to joke about a disease outbreak that (by my guesstimate) will probably directly kill at least a million people and sicken tens or hundreds of millions, and indirectly kill or sicken millions more who have unrelated illnesses that will be left untreated due to medical facilities being overloaded. Many if not most of the survivors will personally know someone who was affected, some will know the pain of losing a loved one and not be allowed to hold a proper funeral due to quarantines, and all will face a grim future filled with new social, economic, and political problems. I'm not entirely sure what's so funny about that, but I guess that's why I'm not a comedian.

to be honest I feel like this April fools is not meant to be a joke but a reminder from theymos that the virus can spread quickly without practising social distancing and he only launch it today since a lot of people are expecting something to happen on April 1st in this forum.

I'm trying to figure out what does "practice social distancing" mean in the context of this forum.

Based on my observations, it has nothing to do with putting s p a c e s  b e t w e e n  l e t t e r s, which makes sense because irl you don't protect yourself from being infected by talking like a retard. Rather you should avoid contacts with infected people.

I think the virus spreads through quoting posts of those infected, but I may be wrong, and it's possible that even posting in a thread like this one is enough to get you letters messed up.

We'll see. This is my first post today, and I will edit it several minutes later to report how I feel.

EDIT: It looks like I'm fine, but don't trust me, do your own research. Let's stop this virus spreading.

it looks like you're right. I got infected after quoting Foxpup's post.

[Iman E. Vilsok]

...
it looks like you're right. I got infected after quoting Foxpup's post.

I bet it is that nasty creep and his cycling club minions spreading this thing around.  We should kill them!

[xavierXDRC]

It's fun to smile these hard times. I wonder how long I can be uninfected ...

it seems that quoting the posts of infected people transmits the disease. #Stay_safe #Keep_distance

[LoyceV]

Maybe we don't need to do anything about it , reply/quote etc and it can just be a "replica" of the outside world situation , maybe by the end of the day a large number of members here will be randomly infected with the virus.

You had to jinx it by quoting me

[ice18]

This virus was quickly spreading...oh wait I cant type on my keyboard I hope its not infected Im so afraid my mouse just starting to malfunction this is bad, stay safe guys..