Where's the petri dish thread?

[Sparko]

This virus is a shit-kicker.

[sdoyel]

[DCHawk1]

My God.

This thread.

[sdoyel]

[ousdahl]

https://www.theonion.com/billions-of-vi ... 1842925435

[ousdahl]

President Pussy-Grabber's got your back, Mich!

wait, now the coronavirus is comin to take our guns too?!

Well, duh.

gun nut: from my cold dead hands!

coronavirus: hold my beer...

[ousdahl]

So roundabout ousdahl thought of the day!

So earlier today I pondered the math of China being the second biggest economy (cuz Merica is still biggest amirite hell yea).

But even if Merica is the biggest economy, hell yea, then how is China the second biggest economy even if/despite the fact it has like a bajillion times as many people?

then my bestie Asian homie, a Chinaman from Korea, called me with a joke. He’s the kind of guy who brilliantly shakes up stereotypes, without even pissing on my rug.

So ousdahl, what’s the Asian term for “white trash?”

Umm whatever the Asian term is for “Missouri?”

And my Asian homie, being even more not PC and even more muck fizzou than me, drops this:

Actually, it’s “Wuhan.“

wu-wut?

“No for real. Wuhan is even more poor and white trash than poor white trash. think about it, that province of China is so broke and starving that they’re eating bats.”

And it got me thinking in this whole new angle about why the eff would anyone even be eating a bat, if not for economic or sustenance necessity.

And cuz even the Gates on state line is a long way from Wuhan.

[MICHHAWK]

You cleaning carts?

Every time I go to the grocery store. So I have to think I would at the golf course. But my first choice is to walk.

[Deleted User 289]

I'm wondering who gets to be the person who dives around on a golf cart telling people they can't be so close to each other and socialize.
I figure there would probably be a lot of risk involved and at least 20% of the golfers would try and hit that person with a golf ball.

[HouseDivided]

I'm wondering who gets to be the person who dives around on a golf cart telling people they can't be so close to each other and socialize.
I figure there would probably be a lot of risk involved and at least 20% of the golfers would try and hit that person with a golf ball.

I've always wanted to do this:

[Deleted User 289]

I was thinking about that when I made my post. Tough guy golfers are always good for a laugh.

[ousdahl]

Goofy pants and a fat ass.

[Shirley]

Edited to add: This is a long, interesting story.

Contamination at CDC lab delayed rollout of coronavirus tests

The failure by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to quickly produce a test kit for detecting the novel coronavirus was triggered by a glaring scientific breakdown at the CDC’s central laboratory complex in Atlanta, according to scientists with knowledge of the matter and a determination by federal regulators.

The CDC facilities that assembled the kits violated sound manufacturing practices, resulting in contamination of one of the three test components used in the highly sensitive detection process, the scientists said.

The cross contamination most likely occurred because chemical mixtures were assembled into the kits within a lab space that was also handling synthetic coronavirus material. The scientists also said the proximity deviated from accepted procedures and jeopardized testing for the virus.

The Washington Post separately confirmed that Food and Drug Administration officials concluded that the CDC violated its own laboratory standards in making the kits. The substandard practices exposed the kits to contamination.

The troubled segment of the test was not critical to detecting the novel coronavirus, experts said. But after the difficulty emerged, CDC officials took more than a month to remove the unnecessary step from the kits, exacerbating nationwide delays in testing, according to an examination of federal documents and interviews with more than 30 present and former federal scientists and others familiar with the events. Many of them spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to comment publicly.

This account confirms for the first time the contamination’s role in undermining the test and the CDC’s failure to meets its lab standards.

[...]

[HouseDivided]

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries

So, if 96% of cases are mild or asymptomatic, 4% are serious or critical, and 1% of that 4% is fatal, why the heck are we destroying the economic future of the country? So. Frickin’. Stupid.

[Mjl]

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries

So, if 96% of cases are mild or asymptomatic, 4% are serious or critical, and 1% of that 4% is fatal, why the heck are we destroying the economic future of the country? So. Frickin’. Stupid.

First off, that 4% doesn't include dead people.

Secondly, where on Earth did the bold part come from - certainly not from your link.

[TDub]

The US has 102,136 cases that have had an outcome of those 37(!!)% are dead.

[Geezer]

102,136
Cases which had an outcome:
63,936 (63%)
Recovered / Discharged

38,200 (37%)
Deaths

[HouseDivided]

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries

So, if 96% of cases are mild or asymptomatic, 4% are serious or critical, and 1% of that 4% is fatal, why the heck are we destroying the economic future of the country? So. Frickin’. Stupid.

First off, that 4% doesn't include dead people.

Secondly, where on Earth did the bold part come from - certainly not from your link.

I’m looking at active cases. Seems like those would be more accurate numbers, since testing rates have improved.

[Mjl]

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries

So, if 96% of cases are mild or asymptomatic, 4% are serious or critical, and 1% of that 4% is fatal, why the heck are we destroying the economic future of the country? So. Frickin’. Stupid.

First off, that 4% doesn't include dead people.

Secondly, where on Earth did the bold part come from - certainly not from your link.

I’m looking at active cases. Seems like those would be more accurate numbers, since testing rates have improved.

There are zero fatalities in active cases

[sdoyel]

Golfing should be the first thing banned and last activity reopened. Talk about non-essential.

Of course golf is not essential. But how is me and the old lady going to shoot 9 gonna hurt anybody?

How is me and the old lady jumping in the boat for a cruise gonna hurt anybody.

How is my neighbor that owns a one man grass cutting service servicing his clients gonna hurt anybody?

How.

Because you and your old lady turn into 50 showing up wanting to play golf.

And I don’t know where you live, but I never see 1 man grass cutting crews except when I cut my own grass. Yard crews cannot effectively implement social distancing doing what they do. Especially hauling their equipment house to house.

Suck it up.