# When the new Pandemic Starts... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 8, 2019, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-the-new-pandemic-starts/830734 "2019-03-08T01:31:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![pool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pool/32/4152_2.png) [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2019, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-the-new-pandemic-starts/830734/1 "2019-03-08T01:31:50Z")
Blame me! Sitting inside a Ruby Tuesdays tonight in Atlanta, GA I sneezed all over a Taiwaneze pilot whom, apparently makes a lot of trips between the states, including Alaska, Taiwan, and mainland China. I’ve been sick for about a week, this is how the pandemic starts, this is the way the world ends, this is the way the pandemic starts, not with a bang, but a sneeze all over an Asian guy’s face!!! ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2019, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-the-new-pandemic-starts/830734/2 "2019-03-08T01:40:56Z")
My favorite line from Stephen King (you know the book): He left the sweet thang that waited his table a dollar tip that was crawling with death. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2019, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-the-new-pandemic-starts/830734/3 "2019-03-08T01:43:13Z")
Get ready for a time traveler to come back in time and kill you. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2019, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-the-new-pandemic-starts/830734/4 "2019-03-08T01:47:41Z")
_whimper_ ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2019, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-the-new-pandemic-starts/830734/5 "2019-03-08T02:00:54Z")
I’m so glad, at this moment to be a germaphobe. If I weren’t a insomiac I would sleep better tonight. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2019, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-the-new-pandemic-starts/830734/6 "2019-03-08T10:20:03Z")
My grandfather was lucky to survive the flu pandemic of the early 20th century. He told me about being in Kansas City in 1918, seeing trainloads of sick soldiers coming into the train station. He said the hospitals ran out of rooms. The owner of the boarding house where he was living was caring for a sick relative. So the flu was all around him but he luckily never caught it. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2019, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-the-new-pandemic-starts/830734/7 "2019-03-08T14:45:49Z")
pool, your Delta Tau Chi name is Vector ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2019, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-the-new-pandemic-starts/830734/8 "2019-03-08T15:59:26Z")
There goes my trip to Madagascar! ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2019, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-the-new-pandemic-starts/830734/9 "2019-03-08T22:41:19Z")
> [@Cheesesteak](#): > > There goes my trip to Madagascar! That’s OK, the Walkin’ Dude can find you wherever you are. ---
**Author:** ![mikecurtis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikecurtis/32/3284_2.png) [@mikecurtis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mikecurtis)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2019, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-the-new-pandemic-starts/830734/10 "2019-03-08T22:46:06Z")
> [@Inigo\_Montoya](#): > > pool, your Delta Tau Chi name is Vector Today’s winner! Well done. mc ps: I\*\* KNEW\*\* Ruby Tuesdays would be involved, somehow. . .either them or Sizzler. . . ---
**Author:** ![Kimera757](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kimera757/32/3765_2.png) [@Kimera757](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimera757)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2019, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-the-new-pandemic-starts/830734/11 "2019-03-09T00:02:28Z")
> [@Wesley\_Clark](#): > > Get ready for a time traveler to come back in time and kill you. They’ll probably just harvest his sputum and synthesize a vaccine from it. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2019, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-the-new-pandemic-starts/830734/12 "2019-03-09T04:51:52Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > My grandfather was lucky to survive the flu pandemic of the early 20th century. He told me about being in Kansas City in 1918, seeing trainloads of sick soldiers coming into the train station. He said the hospitals ran out of rooms. The owner of the boarding house where he was living was caring for a sick relative. So the flu was all around him but he luckily never caught it. I had an interesting conversation online with someone who stated that no one has ever died from the flu. I gently pointed him towards 1918. And then I not so gently told him that my otherwise very healthy cousin died last year from the flu. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2019, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-the-new-pandemic-starts/830734/13 "2019-03-09T15:09:38Z")
**Loach** , how can anyone be so stupid as to say something like that? They sound like Holocaust deniers or moon-hoaxers. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2020, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-the-new-pandemic-starts/830734/14 "2020-03-27T16:57:58Z")
> [@pool](#): > > Blame me! Damn you, pool! (Shakes fist in the air.) ---
**Author:** ![pool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pool/32/4152_2.png) [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2020, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-the-new-pandemic-starts/830734/15 "2020-03-27T19:42:53Z")
Haha I was hoping nobody would remember, must go into hiding! ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2020, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-the-new-pandemic-starts/830734/16 "2020-03-28T19:00:32Z")
Wow! Patient Zero, right here on the SDMB! Gee, can I shake your hand? ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2020, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-the-new-pandemic-starts/830734/17 "2020-03-28T19:05:51Z")
> [@pool](#): > > Haha I was hoping nobody would remember, must go into hiding! Get him!!! ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2020, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-the-new-pandemic-starts/830734/18 "2020-03-28T19:05:55Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > **Loach** , how can anyone be so stupid as to say something like that? They sound like Holocaust deniers or moon-hoaxers. They’re two years old. “I didn’t personally experience it, therefore, it didn’t happen!”