Breaking news? Or just a lot of hot and aromatic air?

[daffy]

Hopefully this will not come to be evenly remotely true......  and perhaps should be in the Jokes thread.

Just got wind  of this possible addition to the ways the virus can be spread.

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/stephen-colbert-farts-coronavirus_n_5ea01b0dc5b6b2e5b83a913a?ri18n=true&ncid=APPLENEWS00001

[Young Bulla]

I see a business opportunity there, activated carbon lined undercrackers!

BTW, does this mean that all those tins of baked beans that flew off the shelves last month are now potential bio-weapons?

[Snowwolflair]

Humour aside, as COVID 19 can infect the gut the answer is probably a limited risk but yes.

Definitely another reason for social distancing 

[TrevL]

Let's hope the s*** doesn't hit the fan then.

[emjaybee]

Humour aside, as COVID 19 can infect the gut the answer is probably a limited risk but yes.

Definitely another reason for social distancing 

It is recognised as being present in faecal matter, hence the importance of hand washing. Although I'd like to think that people already understood the importance of handwashing after using the toilet.

[daffy]

Although I'd like to think that people already understood the importance of handwashing after using the toilet.

Sadly many, many don't, judging by how many men I've seen walk straight out of the Men's Room in various supermarkets (and elsewhere) after doing their thing.

[Snowwolflair]

When they left only the front one had it 

[RailGooner]

A load of guff! The virus cannot exist in a gaseous form. If an infected person were naked, it would be theoretically possible that they might transmit the virus via a 'shart' but... no, I'm not even...

[Stuart Down Under]

Dr Norman Swann is the leading comentator on COVID-19 in Australia, and I heard his comments re farting. It was an amusing aside in his daily podcast. There is some validity in that COVID-19 does ocur in the rectum, and is aparently the last place to be virus-free. You can find the actual podcast here, assuming it is available outside Australia;

https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/coronacast/no-bare-bottoms-norman-swan-weighs-in/12154256

[daffy]

Thanks Stuart, plays fine here in UK. A good podcast indeed.

So as I understand it, the bare facts indicate that only nudists and those sharing a shower with others (and perhaps those running solo from bathroom to bedroom) need consider a mask.

That leaves the only difficulty being what to loop those elastic straps around.   Probably easy for men to attach to existing software, butt for ladies I think it might require some research.

[Newportnobby]

With dear Donald thinking injecting people with disinfectant could be 'interesting' it might also be good to know our 'Trumps' will be virus free

[Bealman]

Ha Ha.... funnily enough, when somebody on the telly said that washing hands is good because we know soap kills it, I said to my wife: "Easy, then. We just get Fairy Liquid injections"

Scary to think that Trump thinks like me 

[Snowwolflair]

The problem is that 5% of the (world) population will think this is a brilliant idea. 

I'm afraid the Darwin Awards will be overloaded with applicants this year.

[TrevL]

I'm afraid the Darwin Awards will be overloaded with applicants this year.

Hopefully