Where's the petri dish thread?

[Overlander]

Cool story, bro. Too bad he never said people should do those things. But, please, keep on acting as if he did if it makes you feel better.

Yeah, I know. He didn't mean it.
He was just teasing while announcing to the American People that there was no real danger from a virus that was ripping through the world.

For a guy that claims to possess superior intellect, you sure say some stupid shit.

You’re the one who fell for it. Talk about stupid.

Nope. Not one sip of bleach, and no illumination devices in any of my holes.

Weird that a high IQ individual such as yourself is afraid of actual science.

I recognized stupid pretty quickly and acted accordingly.

[KUTradition]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/graphics ... 973536007/

[Shirley]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/graphics ... 973536007/

There's a simple solution for that: Stop testing.

[BiggDick]

There's a simple solution for that: Stop testing.

I guess this too could be the solution to the headline I came here to post about a tuberculosis outbreak in Wyandotte and Johnson Counties.

[Shirley]

There's a simple solution for that: Stop testing.

I guess this too could be the solution to the headline I came here to post about a tuberculosis outbreak in Wyandotte and Johnson Counties.

^^^

Same thing, only different:

“Death solves all problems — no man, no problem."

Anatoly Rybakov (Not Joseph Stalin)

Somebody posted about the TB outbreak yesterday, I believe.

[TDub]

Ebola outbreak in Uganda.....I have a friend who just got back from Kampala and has been too sick to go to work...hmm....I think I'll avoid him for awhile...and hopefully he avoids stores...because there are only a few around.

[KUTradition]

i don’t think i’ve ever been as concerned for my own safety/well-being as when we learned of an outbreak in Nigeria while i was doing field work next door in Cameroon

for sure more unsettling than abu sayyef or even boko haram presence during other travels

[TDub]

i don’t think i’ve ever been as concerned for my own safety/well-being as when we learned of an outbreak in Nigeria while i was doing field work next door in Cameroon

for sure more unsettling than abu sayyef or even boko haram presence during other travels

it's rare...ish...but a death sentence more or less and a horrible way to go

[Shirley]

Praise the Lord it can't happen here!* And thank goodness, because we're going on ~ 3 generations of physicians who've never seen a case, and wouldn't know it if it hit them in the face.

*Because as Americans, we're just so us, so exceptional!

A 10-year-old boy has died from a diphtheria infection in a Berlin hospital, German newspaper Tagesspiegel reported on Wednesday, saying the child had not had the well-established vaccination.

The child, from the nearby state of Brandenburg, contracted the illness in October and had been in intensive care ever since, says Tagesspiegel.

According to Tagesspiegel, citing Brandenburg's health ministry, the boy had not been vaccinated against the illness...