Pete7874
(Pete7874)
January 28, 2020, 4:34pm
110
My guess is extra scrutiny will be given to all packages coming in from China, to ensure no one is trying to bring in “the bug” in some survivable transport environment. It will likely delay shipments currently enroute.
I’m OK with it. There isn’t anything urgent that I’m waiting for.
tempo
(tempo)
January 28, 2020, 4:36pm
111
the national soccer trainer has resigned after the outbreak
Doesn’t protect against mudane diseases you should be wiping/washing a torch against to begin with, scaremongering or not.
RapidLux
(RapidLux)
January 28, 2020, 6:40pm
113
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Johnv
(Johnv)
January 28, 2020, 6:41pm
114
CDOA
Customer Dead On Arrival
hank
(hank)
January 28, 2020, 7:01pm
115
Spam, or humor? It’s hard to tell.
hank
(hank)
January 28, 2020, 8:42pm
116
Phlogiston
(Phlogiston)
January 29, 2020, 1:46am
118
Copper foil is better. Copper has an antimicrobial effect.
shirnask
(shirnask)
January 29, 2020, 1:50am
119
Hope it turns out to be not much worse than the flu because it looks to me like containment in China was a complete failure.
raccoon
January 29, 2020, 1:57am
120
My sister told me this joke.
She might have read it on Facebook.
Q. How do you fix coronavirus?
A. Add a lime to it!
If the fatalities start rising again as zombies, I’m outta here.
Oh yeah, blame your sister… :laughing:
hank
(hank)
January 29, 2020, 2:21am
123
All sorts of creatures have their own suite of coronaviruses infecting them, and every so often one jumps into a new species. Humans seem to be more vulnerable to viral infection from other mammals (naturally) and from birds. No one is sure what species 2019-nCoV came from, although all the evidence is that it started in a particular market in Wuhan, likely from direct blood transmission in some sort of butcher shop. The virus appears to cause a rapidly developing viral pneumonia in some patients, and the problem with that is that there is very little to be done. Supportive care is all there is to offer – as medical professionals continually remind the general public, antibiotics are useless against viruses. And although we have more actual antiviral agents than we used to, the selection in hand is not very useful against the coronaviruses. So what does biopharma research have to offer?
https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/01/27/coronavirus
A reliable source, with links out to other resources.
That takes us back to the open questions about the spread of the virus. For news on this and other issues, Stat has been doing a good job rounding up the reliable information, and they’re doing it in front of their paywall. Here’s one of their latest , on the shift from trying to contain the virus to dealing with the fact that it may be too late for that strategy to work.
Muto
(Muto)
January 29, 2020, 2:31am
124
My sister told me this joke.
She might have read it on Facebook.
Q. How do you fix coronavirus?
A. Add a lime to it!
That is not funny.
Innocent People dying is not funny.
raccoon
January 29, 2020, 2:51am
125
It's just a stupid joke.
It's not meant to be taken seriously.
My whole family thought it was funny.
Look up the word "levity."
It's an important concept that helps people get through difficult times.
Muto
(Muto)
January 29, 2020, 2:55am
126
It’s just a stupid joke.
It’s not meant to be taken seriously.
My whole family thought it was funny.
Look up the word “levity.”
It’s an important concept that helps people get through difficult times.
The word you are looking for is Gallows Humor
Still bad timing.
raccoon
January 29, 2020, 3:01am
127
Levity and gallows humor are pretty similar.
Look, the news about Wuhan coronavirus is pretty grim.
I was just trying to lighten the mood a little.
I admit that my sense of humor is very sick, but according to my hero Dr. Drew Pinsky, levity is very important in life, especially when things look grim.
Kevin_Z
(Kevin Z)
January 29, 2020, 3:24am
128
My sister told me this joke.
She might have read it on Facebook.
Q. How do you fix coronavirus?
A. Add a lime to it!
Are you having another bad day?
raccoon
January 29, 2020, 3:37am
129
Actually I was until I opened up some packages that I received yesterday.
I got some very nice Bluetooth headphones that put a smile on my face.
Apparently there's nothing like receiving a new toy to improve my day, though they say laughter is the best medicine.
...
If you guys don't see the value of levity, there's no hope for you and no one can help you.
Jokes about bad situations actually help your mental health.
If you don't like the joke, that's fine.
But that joke is pretty tame compared to the ones that I usually come up with and do not share on BLF.