really Australia needs have a coronavirus release date, a time, a location, and people to do it, someone contagious, and a few others to transmit it to, one can cough on the rest, or jam their finger up their own nose and then the others, whatever works, probably need do it a few times to make sure the job is done properly, they can jam their fingers up each others noses, sort of a coronavirus orgy

they should all be vaccinated beforehand, those volunteers for the official initial transmissions

the media will need attend to document the occasion, the official release, which probably would deserve a special day on our calendars to commemorate

absurd as that above sounds, consider how it will likely be done

transition said:

really Australia needs have a coronavirus release date, a time, a location, and people to do it, someone contagious, and a few others to transmit it to, one can cough on the rest, or jam their finger up their own nose and then the others, whatever works, probably need do it a few times to make sure the job is done properly, they can jam their fingers up each others noses, sort of a coronavirus orgy

they should all be vaccinated beforehand, those volunteers for the official initial transmissions

the media will need attend to document the occasion, the official release, which probably would deserve a special day on our calendars to commemorate

absurd as that above sounds, consider how it will likely be done

If you’re talking about countries other than China, there already is one. It used to be accessible as a list on the web but I haven’t seen the list for more than eight months.

On the other hand, I may be able to reconstruct it from some data I’ve already downloaded. Let’s look.

Official case 0 date for selected countries.

Afghanistan 24 Feb
Africa (continent) 14 Feb
Albania 9 Mar
Algeria 25 Feb
Angola 20 Mar
Argentina 3 Mar
Armenia 1 Mar
Australia 26 Jan
Austria 25 Feb
…
Brazil 26 Feb
…
Canada 26 Jan
…
Ecuador 1 Mar
…
France, EU & Europe 24 Jan
Germany 27 Jan
Hong Kong 23 Jan
Hungary 3 Mar
India 30 Jan
Iran 19 Feb
Iraq 24 Feb
Italy 31 Jan
Japan 22 Jan
Nepal 25 Jan
NZ 28 Feb
Peru 6 Mar
Russia 31 Jan
South America 23 Feb
South Korea 23 Jan
Taiwan 22 Jan
Thailand 22 Jan
UK 31 Jan
US 22 Jan

If I remember correctly, Thailand was the second country to get Covid, although Japan, Taiwan and US claim the same date in the table above.

I was right “Thailand was the first country to report a case outside China, on 13 January 2020”. So don’t trust the above table on or before 22 Jan 2020.

Come on.

Tell me you were thinking of releasing the Singapore strain of the Virus into Australia.

mollwollfumble said:

Come on.

Tell me you were thinking of releasing the Singapore strain of the Virus into Australia.

I was of course being a bit that-word-with-all-the-vowels-in-order in the OP

but, as I wrote elsewhere, in chat…

…it’s a phenomenon, people keen to release it but wouldn’t actually do it themselves, they want others to do it, through intended accidents of sorts

it’s a wonderful grey area of socializing forces, where everyone and nobody can be responsible simultaneously, sort of territory that provides a soft insight into self-deceptions, not too demanding that way…

> it’s a wonderful grey area of socializing forces, where everyone and nobody can be responsible simultaneously, sort of territory that provides a soft insight into self-deceptions, not too demanding that way…

Ah yes. Or as some philosopher put it:

If everybody is responsible then nobody is responsible.

and

If nobody is responsible then everybody is responsible.