OP, this article is from 20 September 2024.

Like that’s not a written rule here, but that seems like something you shouldn’t do given this is a news community.

My Mom’s a pediatric oncology nurse and she said

Dude, I’m sorry; it’s not the same thing. Virologists were freaking the fuck out about COVID-19. Your mom being qualified to nurse children with cancer does not qualify her literally at all to give a prediction on the virology of an emergent outbreak. You may as well have said she was a vet tech.

If you’d read it, you would know:

At this early stage of the investigation with limited available information, we consider everyone on the ship to be close contacts, due to the closed setting and shared social areas and activities, aligned with the precautionary principle.

If a cruise ship is close and personal, a fuselage is obviously close and personal. The virologists are taking this into account; you’re not going to have any considerations they haven’t already thought of with 1000x more expertise and scrutiny.

Care to share with the class? Is the Lügenpresse in the room with us right now? I just linked to “the press” who were pushing that WHO quote around.

you don’t have the ability to control what I chose to read, sorry.

What does the word “please” mean to you? It’s a well-informed suggestion, and you were always free to ignore it.

As for the quote “very complicated and required extended intimacy”, can you point me to where the WHO has said that regarding this outbreak? Neither your article nor mine says those exact words.

• I’m not saying that human-to-human transmission isn’t possible. The WHO has acknowledged the possibility.
• The point is that transmissibility is likely quite low, i.e. even if there’s human-to-human transmission, it’s unlikely to be severe.
• “Got infected” in this case is “suspected of being infected”; we don’t know yet.
• For your own health, please don’t read the New York Post. Anything worth reporting will have coverage in other, actually reliable, sources.

The idea of human-to-human transmission is not some kind of fringe media panic. The World Health Organization has acknowledged that it could be human-to-human.

“We do believe ‌that there may ⁠be some human-to-human transmission that’s happening among the really close contacts, the husband and wife, people who have shared cabins,” Maria Van Kerkhove, the director of epidemic and pandemic preparedness and prevention at the WHO, told reporters in Geneva.

It’s just that the spread would likely be limited, unlike COVID which is highly transmissible.

Well of course, it has synergy – it has what cars crave.

Not likely, OP. Human-to-human transmission is so rare that its existence was credibly disputed in 2021, and virologists collectively assert that public risk is quite low. Good to keep an eye on; just not probably healthy to “COVID-19 2.0” about it.

Near 18th and Holmes; been there since March.

“Wolf Cola has become the official drink of Atlanta.”

“Atlanta, Frank? Or the official drink of Antifa?”

Sponges are animals. Phylum Porifera, m8.

I opened my third eye after my pilgrimage to Iowa.

(Also, can this picture of Milo Rossi please become a popular image macro meme?)

Sometimes asking something is just hard, man. Nobody’s saying it’s your responsibility to ask or that they can’t ask on their own, but that it might comfort the person struggling to get something off their chest if you express that you’re open to it. It’s not coddling in some zero-sum game; it’s just trying to be in-tune with how your partner’s feeling.

Do you mean that sales were poor? If not, and you mean that literally, then they did – about 25,000 units, making it a commercial failure, but nevertheless “brought”.

It seems pretty clearly like a “what not to do at a stoplight”-style joke about unhealthy interpersonal behavior. Like it’s calling out a real pattern you may not have noticed and then, as a subversion, providing the most insecure, manchildish response to it.

Edit: To be more concrete, my interpretation of the takeaway is that if your partner is doing this shapes thing, they might have something on their mind, and maybe you should ask them if they do. (And the joke to make you realize that is to juxtapose you getting up and leaving like Patrick Bateman.)

Cohen added that eBay’s earnings power could increase materially under tighter cost controls, arguing earnings could potentially double over a relatively short period.

Okay, yeah, he’s fucking delusional.

(Also, ‘GameStop stock sinks’ feels like a mild tongue twister.)

How dignified and refined. Exquisite.

Oh dear god. I’ve never bothered to read much into the anatomy of horseshoe crabs until today, and I had no idea they have an array of photoreceptors along their telson (the long, tail-like segment). That’s so creepy.

If I was confined in those close quarters I’d probably contract something, too.

I don’t think you understand: human-to-human transmission of hantavirus is insanely rare, to the point its existence is credibly disputed as of 2021.

That isn’t to say “panic” – just that this is well outside the norm for hantavirus if true.