2020

Just when it looks like the plague will mutate into a form that wipes out everything (far fetched? not this year!), what will actually do us in is a comet, called 2018VP1…

what will actually do us in is a comet, called 2018VP1…

Listed as an asteroid and too small to do much beyond produce an airburst that could rattle windows. Assuming it does the 0.41% chance of actually hitting earth or its atmosphere.

Bit alarmist Rick, have you been reading the daily excess again?

Bit alarmist Rick,

You know, if five years ago you pitched a movie to Netflix where Trump is president, where he pretty much doesn’t care about the out of control situation of a global viral pandemic that shut down much of the world for a couple of months (don’t even contemplate the scale of the coming depression), and where for a while people stood outside clapping to support health workers instead of putting hands into pockets to help buy some damned masks and aprons, and everybody is going gung ho for wearing masks months too late (except the selfish twats that don’t think the rules should apply to them), where millions have lost their jobs, and water is an upcoming crisis in a scary number of American homes…

…you’d be laughed out of the room for the story being too absurd to even take seriously.

It’s all real, and it’s all 2020.

So the idea of that 0.41% chance being wrong and the lump of rock being big enough or fast enough to do some damage… is that really so far fetched? In this weird ass year?
It’d basically be the cherry on the cake, right?

been reading the daily excess again?

Just popped over for the lulz. Nothing about being wiped out like the dinosaurs (what a missed opportunity!).
Just a lot of bollocks about “stuff the EU, we’re British and we’re right!”. Like Brexit is so important right now… or maybe it’s a useful distraction from the failed quarantine plans, the failed exam plans, and let’s face it, Boris was pretty much elected on a promise to “Get Brexit Done”, so I guess we can’t expect him or his government to be any use whatsoever at anything else…

Like Brexit is so important right now

It’s on record, you know what Boris and co were doing when they should have been doing Covid prep work. Brexit, way more important than people dying.

Boris was pretty much elected on a promise to “Get Brexit Done”, so I guess we can’t expect him or his government to be any use whatsoever at anything else…

Or even that.
I did make a comment months back about Covid possibly turning Boris into something less functional and how would we be able to tell the difference. Well, that seems to be prophecy rather than hilarity.