Fun with Corona

“Noooo, Amazon. The order was for fresh peaches and pears, not stuffed toys!”(© image.)

Rather share Panda-monium than pandemic, but humor is where you find it.  A few giggles and grins offered for Corona-mageddon.

First one with diagnosis gets the white coat:

Multiple guess:  Is it virus, a cold, or rabies?  Clues: 1) Does the patient crave Gatorade or water? 2) Is diarrhea or concern over toilet paper supplies apparent? 3) Has the patient been to the San Antonio’s rodeo?(Answer: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/a-rabid-cow-at-a-texas-rodeo-may-have-infected-attendees-officials-warn/ar-BB10Ddi8)

Did the shopper have a cold, the ordinary no-worrying-about-it flu, or Corona? Clue: Did the CDC close the shopping mall that was visited by the individual? (Answer: https://woai.iheart.com/content/2020-03-02-north-star-mall-temporarily-closes-to-clean-after-coronavirus-patient-visit/)

What’s on hand? Did the individual have fever or icy cold hands? (A sort of an easy beginner question. Should be enough said with the open cooler and limes on the counter)

Is it feverish delusions or ordinary mental response? Clues 1) Is there a 3 year old in the house? 2) Are the schools closed? 3) Did Spring Break trip get cancelled?(https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30460-8/fulltext)

Bonus question: Is it eco-terrorism or is a natural pandemic. (High level of difficulty here.) If everyone stays home in China and their factories are closed, the clearer skies is quite dramatic…(Please, no one point this out to Greta: first it might shake her belief of which countries she needs wag that finger at, and, second, she might get ideas and encourage others to chant “Corona is the solution to pollution” which is very catchy.) (https://china-underground.com/2020/03/01/china-pollution-coronavirus/)

Oh, please. Everyone is tired of endless, unanswered questions, so how about alternatives?

“Hey, video conferencing and working at home is answer to my dreams.” (USPD/Commons.wikimedia.org)

Creativity. Focus with that. Turn lemons into lemonade

People are gonna want bumper stickers and souvenir T-shirts. Write some.

“My parents went on a cruise and all I got was lousy Coronavirus”

 “Be pro life: Stay home if you’re sick”

“Hazmat suits are not Spring Break beachwear”

“Grocery stores are not Olympic track trials”

“Quarantine is not a Staycation.”

You got YouTube. Start the next dance craze or perform something original

Well, it worked with “Ring Around the Rosie”. Became a classic. (Remember to protect for residuals.)

Don’t ignore potential bored boardgames/ new video games….

It could be like Clue or the novel “Then There Were None” Participants are invited to board a mysterious cruise ship only to discover someone is infected with an engineered disease that will become contagious in 24 hours if they don’t find out who it is and get them off the ship. (Great opportunities for writer to reveal the skeletons in passengers closets – oh, that was about their past secrets, not actual bodies – How many interesting stories could come out of that?) 24 hours. Clock’s ticking.

Mask and gown? I thought you meant Mardi Gras mask and costuming.(USPD/Commons.wikimedia.org)

As good as NaNoWriMo: new novels and shows await to be liberated.

A new “Lord of the Flies” about a breakdown of society as people’s social masks are ripped off?

Well, while no man is an island, with mass quarantines there could be parallels besides “The Walking Dead”. Hmmm, have to wonder if the CDC’s “Zombie Preparedness” a few years ago wasn’t just a stupid human trick (Call a Congressional hearing! What did they know and when?)

The Amazing Race already nixed a reality show.

But there’s a lot of potential for sit-coms, right? (“What do you mean your mother is staying with us for the quarantine duration?”) Uh, maybe a few murder / crime stories, too…)

Oh, well, bored, cabin-fevered minds can be fertile and creative minds.

Contagion as a catalyst. Yep, let’s all go with that. (Works for bloggers, right?)

“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.” (Charles Dickens)

Nothing sick about that.

Phil, the Philosopher Mouse of the Hedge

Spring Breakers here are hoping COVID-19 is history soon – like before next week.(1958.Hou.Chron S. Pierson/tsdhof.org)

 

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