Detergent!
Yesterday, an unusually high number of New Yorkers contacted city health authorities over fears that they had ingested bleach or other household cleaners. The Poison Control Center, under the aegis of NY City’s Health Department, handled a total of 30 calls regarding possible exposure to disinfectants between 9 p.m. on Thursday and 3 p.m. on Friday, said a spokesperson.
This flurry of calls came in the eighteen hours that followed President Trump’s comments on injecting/ingesting
Ghost?
We have COVID. And with it COVIDspeak. The virus is changing the way we speak! All over the world. And quickly, too.
There’s “covidiot.” It’s even in the Urban Dictionary.
(If you don’t know who or what a covidiot is, it’s is exactly what you suspect it is. That dumbo with 300 rolls of toilet paper in their shopping cart. I.e., anyone behaving stupidly or irresponsibly in these days of crisis—covidiotic behavior: partying on beaches, spitting on items in a
Alive!
Several months ago, an eerie photograph sparked all kinds of bizarre conspiracy theories.
It showed someone who looked a lot like Apple cofounder Steve Jobs, who died in 2011, aged 56, of a rare cancer of the pancreas. But this photograph was taken in the second half of 2019. In Egypt. In some random café. And shared on Facebook by one Ahmed Basyouney who wasn’t available for comment.
The guy is even barefoot, as Jobs often was.
One Twitter user captioned a photo of the
Calculator?
Somebody asked on Reddit the other day:
How do you barter toilet paper?”
One person helpfully suggested:
This way: ‘I have 3 rolls of toilet paper. Willing to trade for a bottle of rubbing alcohol, your first-born child, or your house.’”
It’s gotten a lot more sophisticated than in the Middle Ages, though. Social networks like Facebook and Nextdoor are offering eggs for toilet paper.
A Twitter poll asked how many cans of beer a single roll of paper is worth.
Abe Kuruvilla is the Carl E. Bates Professor of Christian Preaching at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (Louisville, KY), and a dermatologist in private practice. His passion is to explore, explain, and exemplify preaching.