It's more entertaining than the current impeachment scam, but doesn't strike me as any more significant

Bon appetite!

Bon appetite!

Media goes nuts as Chinese fret over coronavirus. Says here you get it from eating monkeys and bats, two delicacies I eschew. I suppose it could be serious, but so far it strikes me as about on par with the worldwide panic over Ebola and SARS. Good for keeping public health officials busy and the media hyperventilating, but otherwise, meh.

A Chinese “expert” warns that this version could be “ten times more deadly than SARS” — SARS killed 775 people back in 2003; with a world population of 7 billion or so, we can probably afford to shave off 7,750 exotic food lovers.

You’re not supposed to eat the table setting, dummy

You’re not supposed to eat the table setting, dummy