Corona

[keyplus90]

One virus, something that you can't even see has taught who is boss....

[vulcan42]

Science will see it off.

[Theland]

There's not much else on the news.
Certainly not the worst plague of locusts in the Arabian Peninsular and East Africa.
The collapse of oil prices strangling Saudi Arabia and Iran to name just two.
The 342 page draconian legislation going through parliament attacking our freedoms.
Society is now under multiple threats.
The banks and corporations will screw the last penny out of the last man.
I predict, eventually, riots.

[vulcan42]

Theland, you just love spreading doom and gloom don't you?
Lighten up man, spread a little happiness, it might even cheer you up.

[Peter Pedant]

// Certainly not the worst plague of locusts in the Arabian Peninsular and East Africa.//
o god will you please not set him off ?

it is like poking a dog which has been tied up - with a stick
and then running away laughing

or tying a saucepan to its tail

since they require a cell to repeoduce - it does show that cells were 'created; before viruses which rather screws up the idea of creation in Genesis and nothing thereafter....

and it also screws Intelligent Design
on the grounds that viruses arent intelligent
( they kill the cell they reproduce in)

but ho hum - lazy afternoon - they have tattoos on the Beeb news now

[keyplus90]

Off course science will see it off. Because this is just a reminder and not the real thing. But did science see off Spanish flue? or did that just disappear as it came?

[Peter Pedant]

// Lighten up man, spread a little happiness, //
and then bomb the crap out of it Vulcan

that was a mantra in the Viet war innit?

[brainiac]

Spanish flue? Disappeared up the lum

[Theland]

OK then.
"We are all getting free balloons, and many days off work.
We are rediscovering forgotten values and skills, like making bread pudding, and sharing it with neighbours.
Community singing from our back gardens and front doors.
Everybody smiling and getting to know the neighbours."

[vulcan42]

And the real thing being?

[vulcan42]

Theland, thank you, don't you feel better?

[keyplus90]

So far science is telling us all, that it is good to wash hands, it is good to cover your face, it is good to keep your environment clean. Did you not know that before?

[Peter Pedant]

// But did science see off Spanish flue? or did that just disappear as it came?//
yeah it did
come on come on
do you reading on that - - or did God say OK that is enough for 1919? no he didnt - it died out in the usual scientific conditions
mutated and returned in a different form

we know this because we know the sequences of both viruses and they are related
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza
a bit of a long read I can see why you skipped it

MERS and SARS DID just stop leaving the scientists non plussed

[pixie374]

Covering your face isn't good (for humanity, anyway). Hygiene and care is, of course.

[Theland]

Vulcan - thank you.
I feel fantastic.
I feel like leaping out of my sick bed, grabbing Mrs T and giving her a great big sloppy kiss.
I feel like a new man.

[Peter Pedant]

....do your reading on that.... sozz

[Theland]

I'm in bed leaning up on one arm to see my I pad, and my arm is going dead.

[keyplus90]

I have done my reading. And by the way I am not against science. However I am not convinced that science has answers to everything. However you perhaps believe so. Thats why you are on a website called the answer bank.

[Peter Pedant]

no that is why I am on answerbank and derisively called Dr Know-all

[vulcan42]

keyplus, So why are you on a website called The AnswerBank, Is it just to preach?

[royfromaus]

So god ain't the boss then?