KFC

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-53901236

KFC is removing the finger licking good slogan because of Covid?!

They say it’s not appropriate given the risk of COVID!

So now licking your own fingers is far too terrifying, cause you could die.

Seems 163 people saw the ads and complained.

I wish these people would get interviewed so we could get a glimpse of true ninnies in their native environment.

 

You're going to head up the Darwin Awards.

 

Fingers represent an unacceptable choking hazard.

Vote Democrat 2020

 

Did you serious fall for that? It's a marketing campaign, using COVID as a tool to get themselves some free advertising. It wouldn't surprise me if they didn't manufacture the complaints themselves but they certainly made judicious use of them for marketing purposes rather than expressing any real concern about public health.

 

The withdrawal of the slogan is not unjustified ...

But what I find more important is that these buckets with the chicken parts are no longer used as they used to be, where everyone reaches in with their stinky hands and takes something out and then pushes into the chimney hatch what was previously touched by one of the others. I found it disgusting even before ... but with Corona it is a "No Go"!

 

Actually that might be true. Makes no difference to me as I have never once bought anything from KFC and am disappointed that Amsterdam is littered with these restaurants.

 

Fried chicken is gross in and of itself. Chicken skin is unhealthy all on its own so increasing the fat content further seems silly.
Although I’m all for speeding up the spread of corona to get this over with.

 

Skirting the issue of whether one should or should not lick their fingers first, Diana tells us to reach out and touch somebody’s hand and God knows that her life matters!

 

Yes ... but everyone can and must decide what they eat ... and to be honest: I find this health craze in the USA just ridiculous. I can still remember how cholesterol was generally vilified in the USA and woe betide something has a lot of colesterol and you eat it. Then you were the "Black Sheep" for everyone.
A little later it was found out that there are 2 types of cholesterol and not just one ... and more: Good cholesterol is important for the body!
Or ... even if it was a long time ago ... suddenly the skin of tomatoes and fruit was supposedly generally unhealthy. Such nonsense that is spread over and over again ... besides, of course, meaningful things.

As far as Corona is concerned ... just be careful: The one with the pack immunity is idiotic and backfired in the UK. Boris Johnson once said the nonsense ... until he got Corona himself and had to go to the hospital. After that he was not only cured of Corona, but also of the idiotic idea of pack immunity. is always something different if you get it yourself or at least someone in your own family.

The displeasure about the duration and the consequences of the virus etc. are of course understandable ... but does not change the fact that in terms of spread and also the number of deaths is the worst pandemic since the Spanish flu 1917 - 1920 (which by the way must correctly be called American flu, since it came from the midwestern (Kansas) of the USA and had its origin and first outbreak point there).

 

First of all I was the one who posted the link about the 1918 pandemic coming from the US and that the fault lay squarely on Wilson

Secondly about 11 million people have died of starvation and/or the effects of other communicable diseases just this year. Way more than covid deaths and way more preventable.This is in another of my posts but people don’t concern themselves about this. The corona shutdowns have even exacerbated this. And a large proportion of covid deaths are merely presumed.

I was almost certainly exposed in early to mid March here in Amsterdam and I’m happy for it. 5 weeks of a hacking cough. I never went to the hospital and I bet Boris didn’t need to either.

The 1918 flu killed children and younger people. I have four young daughters. Studies show that only 0.8 percent of children who test positive even get sick much less die. The 1918 pandemic often killed within 24 hours. This one only kills weaker people because it is a weak virus.

Lastly cadaver studies showed that soldiers killed in Korea and Vietnam showed significant plaque accumulations in their arteries and veins so it starts early so nutrition is key early.

I’ve had three people in my life die of cancer and 5 die of arterial disease just in the last few years. One or both of these things are likely to kill us all.

So these are the things I choose to worry about.

 

Yeah, but it sure does taste good!

 

Sorry, but that is unfortunately not correct!

Yes, you also mentioned the Spanish flu and its actual origin, I know ... but I also knew it beforehand as part of a work on World War I. In addition, it is good that there is someone else who also knows this and also says it.

Yes, depending on the source, that's true with the 11 million deaths you mentioned this year, depending on the source ... but on the one hand it also includes the corona deaths and on the other hand no contagious disease has caused so many deaths from these alone this year 11 million dead. Other causes of death are irrelevant, it's all about contagious diseases.
And if you then take the statistical comparisons with the other pandemics, then the last one that brought more deaths was the so-called Spanish flu (AIDS aside, but there were and are not as many deaths in a year as since the outbreak of Corona until now).

With regard to Spanish flu, it was only at the beginning that it primarily affected children and young people. The virus somehow mutated, because later it had affected everyone, but less children than before. Read again

And Boris Johnson said he really had to go to the hospital because he was doing very badly. And then he did a 180 ° turn in terms of pack immunity.

Unfortunately, there is nothing nice to talk about with Corona. Of course, there are also assumed numbers, just as there is an unreported number where you did not register that Corona is the reason.

As long as there is no vaccine, the situation is just miserable. In my family there were also 3 infected people ... so in the wider family and not in the narrow immediate area of whom one died and the other two became ill. The one who died is a cousin, 53 years old, and he was very athletic and ran matathons, etc. Got infected in Italy. The other two were elderly ...

 

Ok I will worry about real threats that have taken the life of people I cared deeply about.
Don’t give a **** about Boris Johnson or anybody else who rushes to the hospital cause they got scared. Weak people should not be coddled!
People get sick and people die and I’m ready when it’s my time. I faced it directly and I guess it could have killed me but I refuse to hide out in the basement for the illusion of absolute safety. It can’t be achieved!!
Your time will come too. Please try to handle it with dignity. In the meantime live your life without fear because there is never dignity in fear especially when in this pandemic, your risk is so incredibly low!!

 

Put a moratorium on all dipping sauce and hot sauce except for the small single packets. The world is too dangerous!

Seriously, don't tell me you're a product of public education and you haven't thought these things through for yourself last February, or at least by March.

 

It's not about hiding in the basement because of Corona. As with all things in life, there is no one hundred percent protection with Corona too ... but there are sensible measures to slow down the spread and also to protect yourself.
The masks are such a thing, because the main thing is not that you shouldn't get infected with the mask ... only special medical masks can do that. It's about not playing the "mother ship virus" with a mask in front of your face and spreading the virus ... you know, around 14 days pass between infection and the outbreak and from day 1 of infection you can infect others, without knowing that you are infected.
Then there is social distancing, which also helps for the same reason ... and I guess neither hurts, albeit it is only annoying.

Ultimately, the aim is to relieve the health system, because every system in every country has its capacity limit and woe to when that is reached!

And as far as all the other negative consequences are concerned, politicians simply have to take sensible measures so that it works again, despite Corona. Sometimes it was done, sometimes not, sometimes overdone and idiotic, sometimes far too little and ridiculous ...

In my city last weekend, I saw around 100 young people partying in a square ... nobody was wearing a mask, everyone was drinking alcohol and there was no keeping their distance.
Stupid remarks to the police then too.
They would all have to be picked up by the police, then pay an appropriate fine and should they then fall ill with Corona later, they would have to pay half of the medical costs themselves as a punishment. Then their mechanics might run normally again in their heads ...

 

@Mandelus
The BLM protests are a living testimony to the temerity of some communities to resist both social distancing and mask wearing when they feel righteously indignant. Hence the higher death rates in these communities.

I’ve changed my position on mask wearing and social distancing to a degree as it clearly works in Japan and other places where it is enforced.

Way better than shut downs which clearly does not work and is a broad dull sword that kills everything.

 

Nothing but "bandwagon" American marketing at work. Has anyone noticed that now EVERYONE from doctors, lawyers, and Indian chiefs to used car dealers, financial advisors, and plumbers are all dedicated " to keeping you safe during these difficult times". Meh......