outbreak! (ebola, sars, coronavirus, etc)

wait it doesn't "burn right through the latex"

also. the eventual plan is to put that shit in your mouth, right?

Yeah, and when you do it hurts! But imo the burn I got on my hands from habeneros felt more like a, well, burn.

Anybody else visually creeped out by the coronavirus "avatar"? I just did a double-take at a dragonfruit display at Whole Foods.

yeah, it's too much work to wear gloves if it's just one pepper at a time. but you really feel it later when you accidentally scratch or stick your finger in your eye.

or take a pee

I have a great story about making ghost pepper salsa I should share sometime

I use nitrile gloves to cut anything hotter than a jalapeño now

I can imagine that ghost peppers are a whole different story. I was thinking about chopping up say scotch bonnet or something never burned my hands.

have had some very bad experiences with chili tainted hands, which belong in ILTMI

we might've had a case in clinic today

i watched a cbs news clip on youtube about this poor guy in new rochelle who spread it to his family and neighbors and they put his name and photo in the story? wtf. i'm beginning to accept i'm just going to get it. i'm reading the internet too much. i work with numerous diverse members of the public every day, and by the time they close my job for the emergency it'll be too late. my bf does too, even worse. he's not gonna know he has it and he'll give it to me. good luck usa

also can you guys believe it's been 12 years since lj posted "good luck usa" on an election thread for barack obama and i'm still saying it? what a disaster

i'm also pretty resigned to getting it, tbh. i work in healthcare (granted, not the sector of it most at risk to exposure, but still) and spend all day with strangers.

Just talked to my five housemates here in Seattle, now that King County is advising that people work from home and avoid large gatherings. Of the five, three are now going to be working from home/working alone and limiting time in public, and one can't work from home but insists he's being very careful. I had a brief moment of relief after talking to them, and then I talked to housemate #5. He basically was like, "yeah, I don't think this is important enough that I should let it interfere with my life." He works for a company that will let him work from home, but he's going to work anyway. He goes to group dance classes four nights a week, he goes to the gym, he traveled last weekend and is traveling again next weekend, and he eats all his meals out. So I guess there goes my faint hope of battening down the hatches and avoiding this thing.

I will never stop getting busy with fresh hot peppers

was good luck USA not started by specific user such as imago

Yeah as harbl says

Altho I think it may have been the 2012 election? (Citation needed)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9YirNgAzXI

Altho I think it may have been the 2012 election? (Citation needed)

Googling indicates harbl is right re 2008.

ahhh sorry read ‘I’ not ‘lj’

can’t believe it’s been 12 years since that slag slammed good luck USA into an american election. still freaks my nut out to this day

I went to an awards ceremony last night in Central London and the woman I was sitting next to (a colleague) now has a fever. Sitting on her other side? Zoe Ball! Let's see how breakfast goes on Radio 2....

Trump calls it “corona flu” and suggests it’s ok to go to work if you catch it

Here is the President of the United States telling the country it's okay to go to work with Coronavirus.

I'm not kidding. pic.twitter.com/Tz4kKbyear

— Matt Rogers 🎙 (@Politidope) March 5, 2020

he doesn't actually say that though

Trump is speaking at HIMSS 2020 in Orlando next week (the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society conference). The attendance list is an endless parade of awful people: https://www.himssconference.org

More on it:
https://www.healthleadersmedia.com/innovation/coronavirus-wont-knock-out-himss-20-trump-speak

Companies are cancelling from it:
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/03/amazon-intel-cisco-salesforce-back-out-of-himss-due-to-coronavirus.html

I think all the tech companies have wussed out of SXSW. Amazon, Apple, Netflix, TikTok (lol), Facebook, Twitter ...

talk to me when universal and warner back out lol

Has anyone else been making a mental list of a-list older people who might not be in the best of health?

Trump
Biden
Sanders
The Queen
Prince Phil
Rupert Murdoch

and so on

because if there's a decent chance one or more will succumb then this will be an even bigger deal

I'm not suggesting we do a poll

are you sure

i don't understand this. i think viruses in general are able to survive on surfaces for a number of hours, so why would a food surface be different?. . .

https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2020/03/experts-say-coronavirus-likely-not-spread-by-foodborne-routes/?fbclid=IwAR1lr453SAMzoYgHvZaNK7jdszpPW6ytqyLvo3LOb9kJSdAYjJfNDzSvxgI

the pope took ill after visiting the sick in italy just last week

yeah, the Pope is one for sure. hope he doesn't die as the next one will probably be another nazi weirdo

xpost If you're talking about food that has been sitting out for a few hours, then sure, but that's true all the time. I think it takes 2 hours for significant levels of bacteria to start popping up. But cooked food, out of the oven? Heat kills a lot of viruses, including the flu, so it likely kills this one as well.

was talking about viruses, not bacteria. and was thinking about uncooked foods like sandwiches, and potentially hazardous foods like chopped tomatoes, deli meats, cheeses, and whatnot

I think it takes 2 hours for significant levels of bacteria to start popping up

this is generally true, but Listeria is a psychrophile

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/coronavirus-patient-worked-shift-in-emergency-department-in-west-of-ireland-1.4193756

great!

I'd hope that an A&E worker would naturally be doing the various things that would keep them from transmitting the virus, but I may just be talking shite there.

There are suggestions that schools and universities may open up again fully in China at the start of May and that the government is reasonably confident they're over the worst of it now.

Has anyone else been making a mental list of a-list older people who might not be in the best of health?

Trump
Biden
Sanders
The Queen
Prince Phil
Rupert Murdoch

... Harvey Weinstein

weinstein isn't on the a-list any more, he's now on a much less prestigious list

Last picture I saw of him he definitely appeared to be listing.

Some spine:

"We are concerned that in some countries the level of political commitment and the actions that demonstrate that commitment do not match the level of the threat we all face”, says @DrTedros. (Feels like an escalation in rhetoric to me.)

— Kai Kupferschmidt (@kakape) March 5, 2020

xp outdoor miner:

There hasn't been the published work on SARSCoV-2 that there is for SARS, but even mild heat in cooked food inactivates SARS. I wouldn't be surprised if transmission by food kept cold for extended periods (salads, desserts...) was possible.

Duan et al, 2003. Stability of SARS coronavirus in human specimens and environment and its sensitivity to heating and UV irradiation. Biomed env sci, 16(3), pp.246-255.

Viruses stayed stable at 4 °C, at room temperature (20 °C) and at 37 °C for at least 2 h without remarkable change in the infectious ability in cells, but were converted to be non-infectious after 90-, 60- and 30-min exposure at 56 °C, at 67 °C and at 75 °C, respectively.

A top State Department official warned Thursday that Russia is behind “swarms of online, false personas” seeking to spread misinformation about the novel coronavirus on social media sites, stressing that the “entire ecosystem of Russian disinformation is at play.”

Now, see, this is what we mean by "you can't have it both ways, you fucking hoax-claiming assholes."

There's an obvious Russian troll who keeps popping up on the NYtimes comment section claiming to be a "Professor of Medical Genetics" and telling everyone that the "coronavirus flu" has been around for years and is nbd. I keep flagging his posts and the Times moderator keeps letting them through.

NYT comment moderation is like Kinja moderation in the gawkersphere: they'll get to it someday, maybe, probably not

It's weird, though, because they take a really long time to let comments through. So what exactly are they doing?

i assume they're processing commenter metadata with a third party so that later in the day i can get a targeted instagram ad that somehow manages to reference something i made in the comment