HANDLING CORONAVIRUS vs HANDLING RAW CHICKEN

Handling coronavirus is different than getting a handle on other diseases, like cancer.

Both are silent killers, but one is more contagious, though cancer is also contagious in at least one form.

One is different than the other, but how different?

People remember the Korean War as the Forgotten War. Guys got drafted, ran up and down the Korean Peninsula shooting and killing, then came home.

Some of their old friends catch up and wonder where they’d been, because they didn’t get drafted, didn’t enlist, and didn’t tune in the news.

The numbers were awful.

For years after the war ended in 1953, the Pentagon published a figure of 54,260. That combined the 33,643 “battle deaths” with 20,617 “other deaths.”

The shit hit that fan from June 1950 to July 1953, and lots of guys were busy with other things.

Handling coronavirus with a vengeance

If it’s war on coronavirus, and the weapons are washing hands, wearing masks, social distance, and staying home, what’s the problem?

Most adults understand the concept of clean hands, and how clean hands don’t spread germs as easily as nasty hands.

Who cleans their toilet and then starts eating finger food without a good wash.

Who washes out their garbage can then cooks dinner without a good hand wash?

Even the thickest anti-science, anti-vaxxer, in the neighborhood knows they’ll get the scours from both ends if they eat raw chicken, or handle raw chicken and don’t wash afterwards.

CDC On Food Poisoning Via Chicken Juice

Americans eat more chicken every year than any other meat. Chicken can be a nutritious choice, but raw chicken is often contaminated with Campylobacter bacteria and sometimes with Salmonella and Clostridium perfringens bacteria. If you eat undercooked chicken or other foods or beverages contaminated by raw chicken or its juices, you can get a foodborne illness, which is also called food poisoning.

Handling coronavirus sounds like handling chicken, right, but there is a difference.

Foodborne illness from chicken.

Airborne illness from covid-19.

What would anyone do if a stranger poked their raw chicken juice covered fingers in our mouth? Then screamed, “It’s raw chicken juice, bitch, deal with it. FREEDOM, FREEDOM, FREEDOM, motherfuckers. Eat it.”

Is it any different when a customer gets denied from entering a store without a mask and responds with a series of sharp coughs in the employee’s face?

If you don’t take the idea of spreading illness, or getting the illness, seriously enough to wear a mask, then you put yourself at risk.

Just not the risk you might expect.

The lady without a mask in dark slacks and tan t-shirt takes quite a lashing.