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Oh. Oh good.
https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-monkeys-escape-with-covid-19-samples-after-attacking-lab-assistant-11996752
The bizarre incident saw the troop of primates launch their assault near Meerut Medical College in Delhi, India.
According to local media, the animals then snatched COVID-19 test samples from three patients and fled.
One of the monkeys was later spotted in a tree chewing one of the sample collection kits, the Times of India reported - adding that test samples from the patients had to be taken again.
Dave in VA
(2,037 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)12 Monkeys, also known as Twelve Monkeys, is a 1995 American science fiction film directed by Terry Gilliam, inspired by Chris Marker's 1962 short film La Jetée, and starring Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe, and Brad Pitt, with Christopher Plummer and David Morse in supporting roles. After Universal Studios acquired the rights to remake La Jetée as a full-length film, David and Janet Peoples were hired to write the script.
A deadly virus, released in 1996, wipes out almost all of humanity; forcing survivors to live underground. A group known as the Army of the Twelve Monkeys is believed to have released the virus.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12_Monkeys
rusty fender
(3,428 posts)The 12 Monkeys group actually released animals from a zoo. The virus was released by a lab worker.
raccoon
(31,111 posts)Buckeye_Democrat
(14,854 posts)I bet they won't even wear masks!
dalton99a
(81,512 posts)LisaL
(44,973 posts)They are our close "relative."
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)Solly Mack
(90,767 posts)I know, I know.
It was a what's next, raining frogs kind of laugh. If you know what I mean.
When life hands you absurdities...
sop
(10,189 posts)one of the collection kits."
Solly Mack
(90,767 posts)laughter. I had to get a grip. Lasted about 3 seconds.
LisaL
(44,973 posts)Solly Mack
(90,767 posts)on something you don't understand anyway.
Fucked up shit happens in the world and sometimes the hits keep coming, so much so that laughter eases the stress when it begins to border on the absurd.
Now, had you bothered to read the entire exchange instead of reacting to one part you might have grasped the context of the whole.
Feel free to assume and eyeroll some more. I've got all morning.
Recursion
(56,582 posts)It's as if somebody had asked "what else can go wrong?"
Solly Mack
(90,767 posts)Afraid to even ask could it get worse.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,347 posts)Any minute one of them will jump out and point to the camera
https://www.youtube.com/user/JustForLaughsTV
Solly Mack
(90,767 posts)Cheeky, mischievous, and potentially lethal.
LisaL
(44,973 posts)Monkeys can get infected and most likely will. Then it will spread among monkeys and more humans that monkeys come in contact with.
Solly Mack
(90,767 posts)Scary thought. Drove me over the edge just thinking about it.
sop
(10,189 posts)a la izquierda
(11,795 posts)Admittedly I laughed and then asked if I could be put on Space X and sent to the space station.
fleur-de-lisa
(14,624 posts)More from the article:
It is the latest example of the highly intelligent, red-faced rhesus macaques taking advantage of India's nationwide lockdown to combat the spread of coronavirus.
While they have proved an increasing problem in urban areas of the country in recent years, lockdown measures in the last two months have emboldened the monkeys.
Reports have shown them congregating in parts of Delhi normally crowded with humans.
Shell_Seas
(3,333 posts)Kid Berwyn
(14,907 posts)Sure would be an upgrade for what blocked psycho moron we got running things now.