It’s hard not to be pessimistic when they fly people infected with Ebola from continent to continent. At this pace, the nocebo will kill us before the actual disease.
I know it’s no laughing matter, but part of me chuckles ruefully every time I get another message from a chronically hypochondriac friend who’s positively convinced he’s contracted the current health scare of the day, including Ebola, when he’s never left the town he was born in out on the West Coast.
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EVERY disease and unpleasant condition is triggered by pessimistic assumptions. That’s why I’ve got so many of them.
Hope you don’t, Adam.
Another grave symptom: if you’ve traveled with public transport in the past 11 years. Everybody on trains have Ebola. And SARS.
It’s hard not to be pessimistic when they fly people infected with Ebola from continent to continent. At this pace, the nocebo will kill us before the actual disease.
I know it’s no laughing matter, but part of me chuckles ruefully every time I get another message from a chronically hypochondriac friend who’s positively convinced he’s contracted the current health scare of the day, including Ebola, when he’s never left the town he was born in out on the West Coast.
When I was a kid, I thought Ebola was pronounced ‘the bola’. I was a stupid child…
That hazmat suit would make an epic cosplay.
I’ve heard beer gives you immunity.
Dat TITLE! Perfect!
I’ve got a weird bump on my leg as well as my arm. How bad is that?
Another cause of Ebola is looking up your symptoms on WebMD.
“You Can’t Spell “Pandemic” Without “Panic”” and “me”
I think I can.
Bad timing for me to get a cold. *sniff*