What do we call the time before corona?

@Cerridwyn

Don’t apologize. Make the jokes.

@jst1ofknd
Grin - I could be… picky
Corona is a beer, a city and a car (once)
Covid-19 is a disease
Coronavirus is a group of viruses of which SARS-CoV-2 (the actual virus that is causing the pandemic) is a member

@Cerridwyn @jst1ofknd Right. I remember the times before we were all KungFlu fighting…

@Cerridwyn

@kuoh a series of movies I thought for sure would be pop up on one of the “nothing but action/sf/fantasy” movie channels (SYFY, TBS, FX, etc.) but so far no one has bit …

@stolicat Guess they don’t want to risk getting shut down for encouraging mass panic?

KuoH

@eonfifty

Nice. I like this. I wish I could do more than one star. Especially when a Google search confirmed that ante means before.

@eonfifty

And most people will hear “antiviral”.

@eonfifty
Or The Anti-Vaxx Demo

@eonfifty @mike808

Wonderful! I love this too!

@jst1ofknd
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@eonfifty @jst1ofknd
or Auntie viral

@IWUJackson or 4:59pm

@therealjrn
You mean like post-Katrina or post-9/11?

@mike808 More like pre-JFK assassination. He was asking about the times before. But yeah, like that.

@therealjrn

We don’t have a term for that, but the bombing was mostly a local event (at most regional) in scope and (to the best of my knowledge didn’t cause any behavioural changes in society). This event is international in scope and I think the changes will affect us all to varying degrees.

@jst1ofknd @therealjrn Oh, that was WAY more than a local event. It was indeed a change in how we thought of terrorism. Both the place and face of terrorism, in a literal way, changed for America. I’d say there has been a fundamental shift in our thinking since then.

@therealjrn @ybmuG

I was young(er) when it happened.

Well, yes I know. We were all younger back then. I was a high school senior and lived far enough away that it didn’t effect me directly.

I concede the point. I can’t say what changed as I was not directly effected by the changes.

@jst1ofknd @therealjrn @ybmuG
Naw, as a NY’er, as horrible as it was, it didn’t really make any huge impact on our lives or the way we viewed terrorism or terrorists- they were a bunch of poncy wankers both ever before, and ever since.

Personally, the Iran hostage crisis, whereupon our embassies went from being thought of as sacrosanct fortresses of our sovereignty to vulnerable figments of our imagination was more impactful, and I’ve never yet been in one.
But that’s IMHO.

@jst1ofknd @PhysAssist @ybmuG Probably the Beirut bombing was bigger for me.

@jst1ofknd @PhysAssist @therealjrn not saying Oklahoma was bigger than others before or since, but the big change was that it wasn’t some foreign agent, but “one of our own”. Or to be blunt, it wasn’t a radicalized Muslim from some far off land, but rather a white kid from around the corner.

@jst1ofknd @therealjrn @ybmuG
Agree, or the USS Cole maybe.

@jst1ofknd @therealjrn @ybmuG While I get you, I think it didn’t affect us here as much as folks nearerby.

@cranky1950

I don’t understand the reference. Please expound.

@jst1ofknd You want a name I gave one. Beside we’ve evolved beyond reference id’s to index id’s the knowledge base doesen’t care.

@cranky1950

I second the motion to call the before times “Smitty”. All in favor, say Aye!

@cranky1950 @jst1ofknd

@mike808

Can you post that meme for the wife? I don’t want to explain it and it’s past time for me to go to sleep.

@mike808

I googled the meme and showed her this morning. She didn’t find it funny. Can’t account for some people’s sense of humor.

@OldCatLady I just finished up droppin’ a big BVA in my bathroom. Ooowee it a YUGE

@newby1 Oh yes. The Brown Bottle Flu has been around a long time.

We’re still looking for the cure.

@newby1 @therealjrn Currently, preventative measures are the only effective ones.

@macromeh @newby1 I know that’s right. Gotta put the plug in the jug.

@macromeh @newby1 @therealjrn pretty ironic that Corona largely comes in a clear bottle