Daily Dose of Doom Thread

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

I forgot about that one!

[rocket surgeon]

so let me get this straight-ya pee your pants and post in online and that's supposed to be...what?

https://www.tiktok.com/music/Peeing-your-pants-is-the-cooliest-6591644442204048134?lang=en

stay tuned for picking your nose and eating it?  not sure this is going to work out real well when your new potential boss has to decide between 2 people and goes online to decide?

[Frenns Liquor Depot]

Rocket I could be wrong but I think they are all just riffing on the Billy Madison scene.  I don't know that they have peed themselves (though I couldn't believe the tide pod challenge happened —so I could be wrong).

[rocket surgeon]

Rocket I could be wrong but I think they are all just riffing on the Billy Madison scene.  I don't know that they have peed themselves (though I couldn't believe the tide pod challenge happened —so I could be wrong).

you could be right frenn.  i may not have seen it in that context.  maybe a cheap shot on my part.  i guess this virus thing brings out the weird things in people.  maybe they were getting sick of netflix et.al. 

[Pakuni]

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/05/14/us/georgia-invasive-lizard-trnd/index.html?utm_term=link&utm_content=2020-05-15T04%3A01%3A05&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twCNN

[Spaniel with a Short Tail]

https://nypost.com/2020/05/30/apocalyptic-bird-flu-could-wipe-out-half-of-humanity-scientists/

[mu_hilltopper]

https://nypost.com/2020/05/30/apocalyptic-bird-flu-could-wipe-out-half-of-humanity-scientists/

That sounds really appealing right now.   Which half, though?

[JWags85]

https://nypost.com/2020/05/30/apocalyptic-bird-flu-could-wipe-out-half-of-humanity-scientists/

A general practitioner with a specialization in nutrition who is a vocal and aggressive vegan who has testfied against meat throughout his career. Not exactly Tony Fauci ain'a?

[The Sultan]

Cracker Barrell is going to start selling alcohol.

https://www.foodandwine.com/news/cracker-barrel-beer-wine-reopening

[Not all scoop users are created equal apparently]

Cracker Barrell is going to start selling alcohol.

https://www.foodandwine.com/news/cracker-barrel-beer-wine-reopening

I was tired of fishing it out of the toilet tank there

[warriorchick]

Cracker Barrell is going to start selling alcohol.

https://www.foodandwine.com/news/cracker-barrel-beer-wine-reopening

Oh, no.

Where are all the Baptist and Church of Christ folks going to go for breakfast after church now?  They don't have Greek diners in the South, Waffle House is too small for families, and Shoney's is all but gone.

[mu_hilltopper]

Please please please.  June 21.

https://www.the-sun.com/lifestyle/tech/973452/end-of-the-world-2020-conspiracy-theory-calendar/

[Pakuni]

Ruh-roh

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-nuclear-particles-baltic-idUSKBN23X2TN

[mu_hilltopper]

Public mood turns grim

[Spaniel with a Short Tail]

#fakepoll. Arby's not an option.

[mu_hilltopper]

Team Dementor is sad to see 46% are hopeful.   I mean, what do we have to do?

[mu_hilltopper]

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/squirrels-bubonic-plague-colorado-test-positive/

To my Colorado Scoopers .. just relax and let the black death take you. 

[Lennys Tap]

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/squirrels-bubonic-plague-colorado-test-positive/

To my Colorado Scoopers .. just relax and let the black death take you.

I blame Trump.

[The Sultan]

I blame Trump.

Are you kidding?  He would be an expert at evicting the black death.

[Hards Alumni]

Are you kidding?  He would be an expert at evicting the black death.

I rarely audibly laugh out loud when I read things.  This was fantastic.

[The Sultan]

I rarely audibly laugh out loud when I read things.  This was fantastic.

Blind squirrel and all...

[mu_hilltopper]

"Morgues Are Overflowing in Mississippi and Coroners Are Terrified"

https://www.thedailybeast.com/amid-a-mississippi-coronavirus-surge-morgues-are-overflowing-and-coroners-are-scared

[rocky_warrior]

"Morgues Are Overflowing in Mississippi and Coroners Are Terrified"

https://www.thedailybeast.com/amid-a-mississippi-coronavirus-surge-morgues-are-overflowing-and-coroners-are-scared

Probably belongs in a CV-19 thread, but doom indeed

Several autopsy techs had resigned and the already barebones staff was now down to just two medical examiners and a single tech statewide.

"I'm not a doctor, man. I'm a coroner," he added. "It's not up to me to say 'this pneumonia was caused by COVID' if it wasn't. So writing COVID when I don't know for sure, that could be false information and drive the numbers up higher than we already know they are. I would love to talk to someone at CDC or elsewhere who could give me guidance on that. But that's not a choice I would make until I'm instructed to do otherwise."

[mu_hilltopper]

Yeah, it could go in a different thread. 

COVID is really taking up all the doom oxygen, it's just not fair.

[rocky_warrior]

True, it appears they've solved murder hornets and riots. Now we just have to worry about Dunkin shutting down stores

As the coronavirus pandemic continues, Dunkin' Brands Inc. said Thursday it expects to close up to 800 underperforming U.S. stores this year. The Canton, Mass.-based company had previously announced the closure of 450 stores within Speedway gas stations.

And yes
1) that's still CV related
2) what I got out of this more entertaining headline: https://www.foxnews.com/us/chicago-dunkin-employee-arrested-trooper-mucus-saliva-coffee