Mandoman wrote:But, anyway, there's room for about 8 guys - 5 CBid FOGs - on my porch.
Hear that, guys? Coronavirus "swap n' spread" party at Mandoman's house!
Mandoman wrote:I believe I'm safe.
Maybe you are, maybe not. But what about everyone else? For example:
Guest #3 is an asymptomatic carrier and brings the virus with him. Cutters, lighters, cigars, glasses, bottles, etc. etc. are all handed around, air is shared, coughing and sneezing happen, shared surfaces are touched by multiple guests, etc. etc., which collectively spreads the virus around to pretty much everyone.
Afterward, long before symptoms start, the guests all return to their home cities, taking the virus to several far-flung areas, some of which may not already have it.
Guest #5 has a bad time with it, is hospitalized but after recovery he has severe and permanent lung capacity reduction due to tissue scarring and can't breathe easily for the rest of his life. He also transmits it to his cousin, who ends up on a ventilator.
Guest #2 carries it back to his 81-year-old mother whose lungs fill with fluid, the ventilator isn't able to save her, and she dies. She also transmits it to a nurse in the ICU who doesn't have proper protective gear, and she takes it home to her family, several of whom are hospitalized.
Guest #4's spouse is a cigarette smoker who dies in agony in an ICU because he took it back to her. Guest #4 also touches a nonpourous surface in a supermarket which is shortly after touched by another customer whose whole family gets sick, two of them ending up in the ICU, one dying.
And it can go further than that, much further. You're creating whole new branches of a giant ever-expanding tree, and those branches branch, and it goes on and on. The death, suffering and carnage from just ONE CIGAR MEET-UP that never needed to happen, that could've been pushed off a few months until things got better, can be immense and widespread.
Don't laugh. This is exactly how it happens, and is no exaggeration. It's reality.
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