# Posts that aged well **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 24, 2026, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posts-that-aged-well/1029532 "2026-04-24T13:53:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 5
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2026, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posts-that-aged-well/1029532/5 "2026-04-24T16:13:30Z")
Okay, here’s one of mine: > [@How concerned are you about this Coronavirus?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-concerned-are-you-about-this-coronavirus/847164/84): > > Good luck. And hell, I read your later post. Good luck with all that, too. You are reading the numbers wrong. This is still in the “exponential growth” stage. So most of the infected haven’t had it long enough to either die OR recover. And the numbers coming out of China are out-dated, both because China is not a reliable provider of information in general, and also because there’s a long backlog to get tested in China. From his obit in the WSJ: The “whistle blower”, a 33 year old opthamologi… Especially the last part: > [@How concerned are you about this Coronavirus?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-concerned-are-you-about-this-coronavirus/847164/84): > > I think this is pretty bad. I’m still hopeful we will contain it, as SARS and MERS have been contained. But I don’t think worry is silly. That was from February 2020. I think i had an earlier post about it, but I’m failing to find it. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posts-that-aged-well/1029532)._