aban57 wrote:

Keep It Real wrote:

aban57 wrote:

Keep It Real wrote:The dialogue I normally have (on the rare occasion I splash out on a dear takeaway) is: "Chinese or Indian, Chinese or Indian, Chinese or Indian...hmmmmm." I can imagine my brain might ATM interject "Coronavirus, so, Indian."

Well you're not really known here for your ability to think critically, one might explain the other.

That's as rich as BBQ spare ribs, coming from you Cindy!

Hum what are you refering to, exactly ?

Still waiting for an answer to that question, KIR. Although I'm not holding my breath.

Spearthrower wrote:

Fallible wrote:I was just thinking. ‘Rational reaction’? How could it be a rational reaction?

Keep It Real wrote:Increased risk of contracting corona due to having one's food prepared by (overwhelmingly, round these parts anyway) Chinese nationals.

That's an 'irrational' reaction. The coronavirus isn't endemic to Chinese nationals.

Also, isn’t it spread by droplets in the air?

A photography website I was on had someone asking whether there was a risk of ordering equipment from China or Japan (all the same apparently) due to the corona virus.

aban57 wrote:Still waiting for an answer to that question, KIR. Although I'm not holding my breath.

KIR pretends it's you who doesn't exhibit rational thinking, whereas that's just not true. I think he believes that he's counter-punching by saying 'no you'.

Fallible wrote:Also, isn’t it spread by droplets in the air?

Aye, respiratory droplets produced when coughing or sneezing, although not necessarily in the air as it's quite probably that contact with an infected surface can transmit the virus from hand to mouth/nose too.

Ordered a Kindle. All my books are gonna be sent over the ether with zero risk of contamination from now going forwards. Like the Chinese but that's within reason, and doesn't include dying because they sneezed on a book or anything.

Unless someone sneezed on the Kindle.

aufbahrung wrote:Ordered a Kindle. All my books are gonna be sent over the ether with zero risk of contamination from now going forwards. Like the Chinese but that's within reason, and doesn't include dying because they sneezed on a book or anything.

Not how it works.

At least he reduced the risk from zero to zero.

BlackBart wrote:At least he reduced the risk from zero to zero.

There is that. Good job Auf!

Thought you'd catch me out with mentioning the ether there, slipping?

You might catch the virus "through the ether" auf by, after reading this thread, deciding there is no appreciable risk of infection through ordering a Chinese and then being proved WRONG!

aufbahrung wrote:Thought you'd catch me out with mentioning the ether there, slipping?

No, it was a different form of nonsense this time.

BlackBart wrote:Unless someone sneezed on the Kindle.

I'd soak it in betadine. It's the only way to be sure.

Keep It Real wrote:

felltoearth wrote:

Keep It Real wrote:Increased risk of contracting corona due to having one's food prepared by (overwhelmingly, round these parts anyway) Chinese nationals.

The problem with humans is that we’re not very good at calculating risk

True, but when an Indian takeaway is just as appealing, why "cross the road" other than "at the zebra crossing?"

I missed the part where Indians are immune.

Did I say Indians are immune? No. Chinese nationals are, be it true or not, in the zeitgeist, FAR more likely to come into contact with infected individuals through traveling to China/Wuhan or having contact with people who've had contact with people (who've had contact with people etc etc etc), or have themselves been to China/Wuhan than Indians/Poles/Brits etc etc etc. WHY does this need spelling out FFS

Racism. It's racism.

Coronavirus is a race?! Oh no, I see what you mean now - Wuhan is spread evenly over the planet's surface like so much icing on so much carrot cake.