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Re: Where's the petri dish thread?
Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2025 7:39 pm
by Overlander
JKLivin wrote: ↑Tue Jan 28, 2025 5:58 pm
Overlander wrote: ↑Tue Jan 28, 2025 5:52 pm
JKLivin wrote: ↑Tue Jan 28, 2025 4:54 pm
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.
Re: Where's the petri dish thread?
Posted: Wed Jan 29, 2025 8:10 am
by KUTradition
Re: Where's the petri dish thread?
Posted: Wed Jan 29, 2025 12:32 pm
by Shirley
There's a simple solution for that: Stop testing.
Re: Where's the petri dish thread?
Posted: Wed Jan 29, 2025 12:46 pm
by BiggDick
Shirley wrote: ↑Wed Jan 29, 2025 12:32 pm
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.
Re: Where's the petri dish thread?
Posted: Wed Jan 29, 2025 1:01 pm
by Shirley
BiggDick wrote: ↑Wed Jan 29, 2025 12:46 pm
Shirley wrote: ↑Wed Jan 29, 2025 12:32 pm
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.
Re: Where's the petri dish thread?
Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2025 9:45 pm
by 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.
Re: Where's the petri dish thread?
Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2025 10:40 pm
by 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
Re: Where's the petri dish thread?
Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2025 12:04 am
by TDub
KUTradition wrote: ↑Thu Jan 30, 2025 10:40 pm
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
Re: Where's the petri dish thread?
Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2025 12:55 pm
by 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...