Hardly facts. I'd give such a murderous virus a little more respect and not give people who are very gullible any wrong ideas.

I'm assuming the OP is sarcasm...

It also goes away if you don't test. lol

Yes, sarcasm, but many people are so gullible that they will take it as "facts".

LOL thanks for the moment of lightness, Moni. Certainly a little laugh

is good for us...SMH

Couple of weeks ago my sewer decided that it needed to be dug up and replaced. The plumber that was sent to try and clear it mentioned that the company was short on service techs because of the virus.

It also goes away if you don't test. lol

A 'fact' that our president believes. Makes my point.

I thought it very strange that I could go to Target to buy clothes or socks, but not my small local women’s store or indepentent shoe store. Actually, I COULD, if they brought the items out to me. Outside.

Why were the big chain supermarkets swamped, when the local grocery stores were normal?

I‘m still not sure what good one-way aisles does in my grocery store. I’m still going to pass people, or be passed by others, even if we are going in the same direction. Maybe the virus only is contagious in a cross-breeze?

Oh, and it goes away with or without a vaccine, especially as temperatures warm up in the summer, unless of course it’s in Arizona, or Florida, where I guess the heat isn’t hot enough. Must be the humidity, or lack of humidity, or something.

Sarcasm and humor aside (and appreciated), it's suprizingly hard to write a rule that satisfies all cases everywhere -- especially in early days of a new situation. Well, "early days" are passed so it's time to figure out better but still safe ways forward.

Oh, it's sneaky, all right. It moves right in to some people, giving them no warning that they have become hosts. Heh-heh-heh, then BAM down the line. It might covet your lungs or your heart or your kidneys. Your circulatory system will let it 'shop' unfettered.

Some people can't take a joke! Sheesh! If you don't think all this is insane, you aren't paying very much attention!

A 'fact' that our president believes. Makes my point.

do you have a direct quote on that? or was that a claim heard nbc or cnn?

desertsteph, I have better than a direct quote. Here's the Dear Leader saying it at 21 seconds in on the video.

https://news.yahoo.com/trump-coronavirus-testing-stopped-testing-212011656.html

Video Transcript

DONALD TRUMP: "Again, our testing is so far advanced. It's so much bigger and better than any other country that we're going to have more cases. We're always going to have more cases. And as I said, this morning, that's probably the downside of having good testing is you find a lot of cases that other countries, who don't even test, don't have. If you don't test, you don't have any cases.

If we stop testing right now, we'd have very few cases, if any, but we do."

So that's the way to stop the pandemic. Just stop testing. Brilliant!! 🙄

I wish humor could help us all more, but with gullible people believing everything they read on Facebook or online as "news", then the dangerous wrong info continues to spread.

You don't like this, obviously, but, yet, you are still reading it. Not trying to

be snarky, but why? And, I'm sorry your friends are that gullible, as it

bothers you. Hugs....(this is sincere...if you don't like it...that's ok).

Sheesh! Talk about things getting twisted out of context!

Rusty

No, my friends are quite realistic and have excellent senses of humor. But take this virus very seriously. The gullible people are here among us and everywhere, and often cannot tell the difference between satire and reality.

LOL! Thanks, Moni.

LOL

Funny, thanks Moni!

We can all use more humor.

Thanks, Moni. Humor is always welcome, especially lately. And I do recognize it when I see it.

Enjoyed and am biting my tongue. :-))))

...often cannot tell the difference between satire and reality...

In this day and age, I struggle to tell the difference. I mean when we have a president who talks about injecting disinfectants as a cure for the virus or who tells us windmills cause cancer or who retweets himself saying his own tweet is "so true", it's hard to find satire which goes far enough to be clear it's beyond reality....

Here's some more sarcasm: it's a virus that many countries have brought under control through diligence, hard work, cooperation and restraint, but those same countries whose people and politicians that have worked (hard) together and taken measures based on science and statistics have to worry about their health being threatened and realize they will have to eventually open up their borders to poorly run countries who decided they were too selfish and (quite frankly idiotic) to take even the most basic of measures. Those people in countries who have worked so hard to control the virus are now threatened by the selfishness of others with political rather than humane motives.

Oh wait, sorry. That's not sarcasm. It's anger.