Chinese "Devil Virus" - anyone worried?

[Athens]

If they weren't so woke and sensitive, perhaps they'd plot the right graphs which would allow them to come up with drugs that do work. I wouldn't hold your breath, those drugs would probably be racist or something.

Lots of drugs work against cancer.

The problem is they kill the person too.

Perhaps a better version would go like:
The drugs do work, but they make it worse, what we need is something with fewer severe adverse reactions and greater tolerability and I'll know I'll see your face again...

Probably needs a bit of work to fit the tune.

 

[dantes]

What we needed was nanotechnology, what we got was a bunch of nanotech catchphrases to steal research funds in return for fuck all solutions and innovations. Those obedient little nanoparticles would have been curing cancer left right and centre by now.

 

[Athens]

I would love nanobots inside my bloodstream. I would drink every night.

 

[dantes]

You'd be instantly cancelled by the #NanobotLivesMatter movement, and have to issue a grovelling apology before having them purged from your blood and set free into the ocean. The purging process would probably kill you.

 

[the count]

Ah @dantes, you're amazing.
I rarely tire of your nonsense

 

[Holle]

You'd be instantly cancelled by the #NanobotLivesMatter movement, and have to issue a grovelling apology before having them purged from your blood and set free into the ocean. The purging process would probably kill you.

BUT, until this happens you could drink every night!

 

[LeTallecWiz]

A friend of mine, a journalist, wrote this:

I'm writing this in proper Orwellian language so it won't be quieted:
Last year there was an "incident" in which a "thing" spread around the world from a "country." That country now has basically no new cases of the thing. That country is doing things normally. That country is one of the most populous in the world.
1.How is it possible that the most populous country has so few incidents of the thing? How it is possible that it's not just so few but actually the least of all countries in the world, even compared to places like NZ which have strict policies. Why has no media asked this basic question.
2.Now the thing is in some new form called thing2...and thing2 is supposedly causing many incidents in places that had quite strict policies and also which developed elements that are supposed to stop the thing. Yet thing2 is having many incidents. Scientists say that any return to normalcy is dangerous. So we wonder, if that's the case and thing2 is now increasing, then what is the plan for the future. How come the country the thing came from is normal and all is well, but not in other places?
3. When will thing3 appear and thing4 and thing5....every year maybe? And how is that coincidence...not in the country where things began...but always some other place...

 

[Atlas]

I think those are normal questions to ask.

The only thing at the moment is that deaths and hospital admissions seem to be low compared to when the case rates were this high previously.. at least in the UK.

 

[gene hughes]

I wish it was The Thing. That would be much cooler than this.

 

[StevieM]

I wish it was The Thing. That would be much cooler than this.

Not the remake or the one that’s in The Fantastic Four though...

 

[Frogfish]

Not the remake or the one that’s in The Fantastic Four though...

Nah the original was great !

 

[rubans]

Nah the original was great !

Which original though?
80s or the 50s one? 😉

 

[Frogfish]

Which original though?
80s or the 50s one? 😉

Ah ! Have to be 80s, the John Carpenter version, because it was a 'thing' when I was young back then 🙂

 

[Rosco]

The bots are pro vaccine anyway

 

[MomoWASright]

The bots are pro vaccine anyway

It is the Microsoft microchips in the vaccine making the hosts tweet the exact same message.

 

[Farkmaster]

The bots are pro vaccine anyway

It's almost as though they are all reposting the shit they found somewhere else. Hrmmm.

 

[Rosco]

 

[Rosco]

 

[dantes]

Would you say Dr Holohan is more or less laughably thick than Dr Fauci?

 

[StevieM]

I’ve lost count of how many lockdowns we e had in Melbourne - but we’re now in another snap 5 day one.

I had my second Pfizer jab on Sunday - and felt like absolute dog shit on Monday - chills, shivers, aches... like a bad hangover - and gone as quickly.

 

[Rosco]

Would you say Dr Holohan is more or less laughably thick than Dr Fauci?

I won't have a bad word said about Dr. Holohan

 

[Mamma Mia]

I’ve lost count of how many lockdowns we e had in Melbourne - but we’re now in another snap 5 day one.

I had my second Pfizer jab on Sunday - and felt like absolute dog shit on Monday - chills, shivers, aches... like a bad hangover - and gone as quickly.

We just had another two weeks of not being able to sit down in restaurants, and we're in week 3 of another total booze ban.

I'm getting my first Pfizer shot on the 2nd Aug. I'm surprised they've gotten to my age group this quickly down here. I wasn't expecting to be eligible until the end of the year at best.

 

[dantes]

I’ve lost count of how many lockdowns we e had in Melbourne - but we’re now in another snap 5 day one.

I had my second Pfizer jab on Sunday - and felt like absolute dog shit on Monday - chills, shivers, aches... like a bad hangover - and gone as quickly.

Probably food poisoning from the "pizza".

 

[StevieM]

Probably food poisoning from the "pizza".

My digestive system isn’t quite like the Almighty Sarlacc’s.

I haven’t had pizza for weeks now.

Now I’m fucking hungry for one!!!

I need a beer too... and some wine.... instead of trying to figure out how many cans of 0.5% Low-alc beer it’ll take to get a buzz on.

You bastard!!!!

 

[dantes]

My digestive system isn’t quite like the Almighty Sarlacc’s.

I haven’t had pizza for weeks now.

Now I’m fucking hungry for one!!!

I need a beer too... and some wine.... instead of trying to figure out how many cans of 0.5% Low-alc beer it’ll take to get a buzz on.

You bastard!!!!

You should have foreseen this the moment you laughed about not being in lockdown the other day. Particularly when dantes made the mistake of thinking you were in lockdown, did you really doubt the universe would not step in to correct my mistake?

 

[StevieM]

We just had another two weeks of not being able to sit down in restaurants, and we're in week 3 of another total booze ban.

I'm getting my first Pfizer shot on the 2nd Aug. I'm surprised they've gotten to my age group this quickly down here. I wasn't expecting to be eligible until the end of the year at best.

Rather amusingly, the lockdown rules in Sydney outlawed “vertical consumption” of alcohol in the early days.

 

[StevieM]

You should have foreseen this the moment you laughed about not being in lockdown the other day. Particularly when dantes made the mistake of thinking you were in lockdown, did you really doubt the universe would not step in to correct my mistake?

If by universe you mean a removalist that drove down to Melbourne from Sydney and proceeded to go on what looks like a shopping and fast food spree... before driving to Adelaide, then back to Sydney - quite a road trip.

I mean.... it’s 18 new cases over 3 days... and we’ve locked down the entire state of over 6 million people.

 

[dantes]

Rather amusingly, the lockdown rules in Sydney outlawed “vertical consumption” of alcohol in the early days.

The subsections to that law presumably explain the intended geometry?

 

[StevieM]

The subsections to that law presumably explain the intended geometry?

I’m not sure... I think you could go into a pub, lie down on the floor and fill your boots.... just couldn’t stand up and drink.

 

[dantes]

If by universe you mean a removalist that drove down to Melbourne from Sydney and proceeded to go on what looks like a shopping and fast food spree... before driving to Adelaide, then back to Sydney - quite a road trip.

I mean.... it’s 18 new cases over 3 days... and we’ve locked down the entire state of over 6 million people.

It must have been a difficult decision for them. I can relate, I need to decide which whiskey my absent host will be least pissed off about me cracking open.