Show of Hands

Still forgiven!!!

Well think of it more like this ... my wife's brother ... and his wife. I assume my wife's brother is hence my brother n law.

Or technically the reverse is true ... I'm technically his brother in law (his sis is my wife)... so I'm kind of reverse-labeling it the wrong way ... but alas.

Show me where I say you were the only one calling it that. I didn’t. I am quite aware that others are using the same too-vague terminology, and will have to come up with something else the next time a virus emerges in China.

Oh yeah, a projected 60k when in 2018, 80k died of the normal flu.

I won't hold my breath.

I wish

So just to clarify you called Ebola the “African virus?” Small pox the “India/Egyptian virus?”

Yes. I friend has died but I mentioned that before. 3 cousins still in the hospital 2 in Lexington KY better but still in ICU in Lexington KY. 1 cousin in Cincinnati released from the hospital last week status of one unknown but I know they are alive. Both Cincinnati cousins are young under 30 I’m told. They all met for dinner and became symptomatic and I’ll soon afterward.

It wasn’t an attack; it was an explanation. And it was focused on you because you were the one who made the original statement and I was replying to it.

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Not that I know of. My throat sometimes gets sore and I get a light cought from irritation but I don't have a fever and I don't have shortness of breath or feel anything in my chest.

I might have it. It hurts my lungs when I cough.

My mom knows someone at her work who tested positive so they sent him home to quarantine and she got today off because of it.

What makes this ironic, borny, is what happens when the *next* new virus emerges in China, and the next, and the next and the next. Will cowboy call them *all* “the Chinese virus,” even if they cause completely different diseases?

I don’t think some people put this into a historical perspective. It’s the virus *right now* that has newly emerged in one part of China and spread around the world. But this is one moment in time, when it’s happened many times before.

Africa is a similar case... Imagine if we called both Ebola and HIV “the African virus,” as well as Lassa, Marburg, Zika and others. (Or even by the specific country names; there are more than one viruses from some.) Such different diseases... all from Africa. It would not only be sheer ignorance to call them all “the African virus” plus it would have a *horrendous* effect on public perception of how to deal with the actual *disease*a - and isn’t that of primarly importance?

Same with viruses from China.

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My sister

I have read that the first known case of what has become known as “the Spanish flu” occurred in Kansas. I wonder how cowboy would like it if that were called “the American flu.”

Thank you, Matt.

Thanks

Ha! You trust the mainstream media! That’s funny! I prefer the CDC definition...but you reserve the right in this country to be ignorant! Freedom is your right my friend!