Wednesday, March 18, 2020

Weakest Plague Ever

I'm pretty sure my wife, son and I just had the Kung Flu. We live on the outskirts of Middle Of Nowhere, Midwestia. I thought we were having a very mild case of spring allergies after a series of warm days started everything greening up. It wasn't until we all had mildly sore throats for a few hours on day 3 (of 5 total) that we started to suspect something was up.

No, we haven't been tested. We're not going to waste the hospital's time.

As plagues go, this one is remarkably… lame. 17% of those massively exposed contract it. (And that was in the ideal environment of a cruise ship packed with mostly older people.) Of the 17% who contracted the disease, half experienced no symptoms. Of the 17%, only 1.2% died – and they were old people with preexisting conditions. So, a plague that causes a few old people to pass on a little more quickly than they maybe would have.

No wonder the politicians are screaming and running about with their hair on fire. They care nothing about the nation being invaded by terns of millions of self propelled, self propagating invaders, but let a few of their generation get sick and die, and suddenly the sky is falling and something must be done!

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