This needs to go viral.

[Arkansas Granny]

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[getagrip_already]

1. that reminds me, we are low on pasta.......

And no, that doesn't mean we only have 26 boxes.. lol

[Initech]

21. I bought a pasta roller on Amazon.

Give me some eggs and flour and I'll have a fresh batch in 45 minutes!

[jmg257]

2. Is that a thing? Who looks down on people fleeing from war??

[Wounded Bear]

3. Trumpers blocking refugees from Central America, for one group...

[Arkansas Granny]

4. It doesn't necessarily have to be armed conflict between countries.

Think of people fleeing drug wars and violence in Mexico and Central America.

[CaptYossarian]

6. And women being mutilated, raped or murdered in central Africa.

And the orange menace keeping them from entering our melting pot.

[Arkansas Granny]

7. Exactly.

[Under The Radar]

5. Nor shall you ever say shit to me...

About buying multiple 3 for $9 12 packs of Diet Coke.
That is a good buy damnit

[robbob]

8. Diet Coke isn't a good buy at any price.

Sorry, that’s just the way I feel about Diet Coke.

[GetRidOfThem]

34. Mix it up with rum and ice...

...it is a good buy!

[robbob]

36. Sorry, I'll take my rum with ginger beer and lime!

Make mine a dark and stormy! And I still say real refined sugar, as bad for you as it may be, is still probably healthier then the chemically created artificial sweeteners. Which does NOT include stevia and other plant based alternatives...

[GetRidOfThem]

38. I like coca cola zero the most....

[Turin_C3PO]

11. Trump's deplorables, primarily.

[ET Awful]

12. I seem to remember a certain group of people wanting to block Syrian refugees . . .

Now who could that have been?

[Iggo]

14. Republicans.

Mostly just the brown refugees, though.

[tblue37]

27. Hatred of Syrian refugees helped fuel the right wing movements in Europe, especially in

Germany and Scandinavia, as well as in the US and Canada.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

9. This likely originated in Italy.....

as people were fleeing the quarantine zone around Milan and many there are resisting the flood of Syrian refugees.

Now, the whole nation is on lock-down.......

[calimary]

10. It's the empathy.

[wnylib]

13. Does anyone know how this

virus got such a stronghold in Italy and Iran? Does either country have strong business or tourism connections to China? Or, did former cruise ship passengers come from those countries?

I can see how South Korea, Washington state, CA, and NYC became centers of infection. But why Italy and Iran?

[BonnieJW]

15. Smokers

80% of men in China smoke. Lots of smokers in the ME, France and Italy. This is a respiratory virus and older smokers have spent a lifetime smoking.

[wnylib]

16. That does not explain how the

virus got there in the first place, and how it spread so much, which is what I was wondering.

[progressoid]

22. about 500,000 people are estimated to be up in the air at any given time.

If the average length of a flight is two hours, that means six million people fly somewhere everyday.

It's a small world.

[wnylib]

25. But why the concentration in Italy

and Iran? Surely people in other nations also fly.

From the moment I heard about the outbreak in China, I knew it would spread aross the world. Several nations have cases, but only a few have heavy concentrations. It might be useful to know why.

[progressoid]

31. It may be a matter of increased testing and reporting in Italy and other European countries.

Compare that with Russia. They claim to have only 10 which is likely way under their actual number.

[LisaM]

33. Aging populations.

https://www-rte-ie.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.rte.ie/amp/1121368/?amp_js_v=a3&amp_gsa=1&usqp=mq331AQFKAGwASA%3D#aoh=15839290184828&amp_ct=1583929021500&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rte.ie%2Fnews%2Fcoronavirus%2F2020%2F0310%2F1121368-italy-coronavirus-outbreak%2F

[wnylib]

37. Thanks for the link. I was not

looking for info on the death rate since it is well known that older people are more vulnerable to viruses (and other illnesses) than the general population, so the deaths would be highest among them.

What puzzled me was how such a large cluster of infected people developed in Italy in the first place. Having a lot of seniors would not, by itself, increase the rate of infection, only the rate of deaths of people already infected. The link pretty much answered that for me. A few undiagnosed infected people passed it along to limited numbers. It was the infected hospital patient who apparently caused the infection numbers to jump higher because hospital staff got infected by him. That would spread it to other patients and to more hospital staff as well as to staff families and hospital visitors and their families.

Institutional infections, especially hospitals and nursing homes, can spread it farther and faster than lone individuals in a community. Similar to Washington state. Once it got into a nursing home, the staff, other patients, and visitors picked it up and that increased the numbet of hubs who could infect their families and contacts. In Italy, the custom of cheek kissing and hugging would make the spread even worse.

Maybe health care facilities, patients and staff, deserve priority in testing to help contain the spread in communities, along with schools. One teacher can infect several students and one student can infect teachers and students.

[MySideOfTown]

17. Was thinking of relocating to Montana for the summer.

so what?

[ihaveaquestion]

18. I only have a few followers on Twitter

But I retweeted it.

[bucolic_frolic]

19. Brutal

Gave MAGAzis the mace of smackdowns, now hit them again, will ya'?

[Karadeniz]

20. That is so well put! Thanks for sharing!!!❤

[Missiris]

23. With tears in my eyes.....

Poignant, so very true, and hopefully will resonate with people still capable of empathy.

[DENVERPOPS]

24. Hey AG......Way beyond awesome.

If the tide ever turns, I want all the lily white assed pervs who have created this mess
to serve out the rest of their days in the same cages they have put the immigrants in
along with their families including children over 16 who they have taught their "morality"......
There is no redemption for them, they have drank the kool-aid and are warped for life.....

[Ferrets are Cool]

26. It will fall on deaf ears...intentionally deaf. nt

[lapfog_1]

28. Let's not use that phrase anymore

"going viral"... there must be a better synonym that doesn't remind us of these days and the people we are about to lose and have lost.

[krakfiend]

29. Amen

However, the self awareness is lost on certain groups of people.

[zentrum]

30. Fantastic statement. Thanks.

[jimlup]

32. True enough but I hate the expression "this should go viral"

for exactly the reason of COVID 19

[jcgoldie]

35. Yeah "go viral" not the best expression at this point in time

Cringe 😬