Threezero Shipping Delay - Transformers products pushed back

Discussion in 'Transformers News and Rumors' started by Black Convoy, Mar 12, 2020.

  1. Smitty.1981

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    Mass hysteria is not the same as a deadly illness.
     
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    It is. The flu has a vaccine that protects the most vulnerable. Covid-19 doesn't. The high number of people needing special care over such a short period of time is leading to healthcare systems being overwhelmed (such as in Italy), leading to a knock-on effect where medical professionals are having to choose who to give priority to. Most people will recover, but if they need to be treated for something completely different then they may find themselves at the back of the queue because the healthcare system is too overburdened dealing with Covid-19. I'm speaking from a European perspective here, so can't say how it'd be like elsewhere.
     
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    The recovery rate is still 99.7%
     
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    I agree with you on this one. The hell are we suppose to do here? None of us can cure the damn pestilence. All we can honestly do is talk about toys and do other stuff like live our lives. I honestly doubt there is a single person here screaming and demanding that the workers get back to work while they are sick. I doubt there are people cheering as the death toll rises, praising the arrival of Pestilence the first horsemen of the apocalypse...well no one sane I suppose.

    I may not be able to accurately speak for other users But most likely we have our priorities straight and are doing the best we can do here. Plus I am pretty sure some users here are young teens, young adults, children and adults who are coming to this site as an escape from the world and look at toys to help with the escapism or, to keep up with one of their favorite hobbies.
     
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    That's not the issue. It's the strain being put on the healthcare systems in various countries to take care of the most vulnerable. If the infection rate was spread out over a longer period of time, it wouldn't be such a worry.

    EDIT: Anyway, this isn't the thread to discuss this.
     
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    The infection rate is not even that bad tye strain on some health care systems is a problem, but that's the fault of the people feeding incorrect information to others. As long as you practice normal hygiene and are healthy you'll be fine if you get it.

    The delays are because manufacturing is done in places where the hygiene is poor, living conditions suck and there is over crowding.
     
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    That really, really is not the issue.
     
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    And aren’t a diabetic, have heart disease, cancer, and/or elderly.

    It’s amazing. After an entire country goes on lockdown, Disneyland closes its gates, NBA suspends it’s season, colleges love to remote teaching, events get cancelled/postponed, and movies get delayed, I really thought people would’ve started treating this virus a bit more seriously than “iTs JuSt ThE fLu”.
     
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    Important CDC reminder: All fun/candid discourse is STRICTLY PROHIBITED until Covid-19 is cured.


    Anyway yeah sucks that we're probably going to see a lot more delays.
     
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    I believe that's what the "healthy" bit covers.

    Covid 19 doesn't kill indiscriminately. It's only deadly to those who have compromised immune systems in some way. That's why it's such a problem.

    I'd think that meme speak would be dead by now, mostly because it makes whoever uses it look bad.

    The thing with CV is it's not just a flu, nobody's saying that, but it's not especially deadly if you have it. It's that it spreads so fast and there's no vaccine for it, so those who are already susceptible are at a greater risk than something like the flu that spreads slower. Last time I checked the mortality rate was 4%, and of the over 5000 people who had died, over 3000 were in China where it first broke out. (China having an incredibly dense population where anything can spread like wildfire) Meanwhile recovery rates are at over 50%.

    Thing is, just because you're being realistic doesn't mean you're downplaying it. It's still a very serious outbreak and precautions need to be taken. The vast majority of people are not at risk to die, it's just that those who are at risk are far more likely to get it than the average bug. It's for those people, the sick and elderly and anyone with compromised immune systems, that these shutdowns and quarantines are being put in effect.
     
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    I did say "healthy".

    It's funny how even with the facts people still point to mass hysteria and over reactions as "proof" that the virus is a bigger problem than it is.
     
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    Then what is? What about this mostly harmless virus is keeping you up at night that you think I should care about?
     
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    I think that's already been explained in this thread.

    Without a vaccine, those with compromised immune systems are at serious risk. You, with a presumably healthy system, will probably experience Covid-19 as a mild inconvenience. However, while you have it, you risk passing it onto those with a compromised system. If too many of those people get sick at the same time, the healthcare system (at least here in Europe) will be overloaded and overstretched which ultimately affects us all. Go read what Italian medical professionals have said about this.

    I don't think there's been any overreaction from the countries involved. I do agree about the hysteria since, as you point out, most of us won't be affected. But these measures being put into place are not about us. And to lead back to the topic of this thread, if 3A think delaying their product will help stem the spread of the virus until a vaccine is found to protect the most vulnerable, then they're doing the right thing. You seem to be looking at this from a weirdly self-centred point of view.
     
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    Goodness I typed the wrong thing
     
  15. Smitty.1981

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    I don't A3 is delaying to stop the spread, but their work force is sick.
     
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    It's most certainly not mostly harmless. Just because the average person is not at risk doesn't mean a significant number of people aren't.
     
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    I honestly dont know. Are Transformers manufactured in Asia because of their Japanese orgins ? Or because of the use of cheap labor ? Where are MLP and Star Wars toys manufactured ?
     
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    The real problem with the corona virus is that even if healthy people survive it, they bring it home and infect people that cant survive it. Older people have weaker immune systems. And this sparks fear in the US where older people run the government and own most of the financial capital.
     
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    Yeah but the people at the greatest risk with coronavirus are also at the greatest risk for the flu.
     
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    Oh never bought that but feel bad for the people that had bought it.