Production halted on NBC's show "Ultimate Slip ‘N Slide’" due to "explosive diarrhea outbreak"

People:

up to 40 crew members fell violently ill

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a crew member ... tested positive for giardia - a microscopic parasite that, when swallowed, causes diarrheal disease

Wearing inflatable costumes for protection; Getting chained into your own home; When cement mixers become celebrities

More than 2,500 passengers on the Diamond Princess cruise ship are living in isolation with meals brought to them. But below deck, hundreds of crew members are living elbow to elbow. For them, there's no where to hide as #coronavirus cases rapidly multiply https://t.co/77g2tcuYix

— Shreeya Sinha (@ShreeyaSinha) February 10, 2020

hey, notice how the coronavirus cases we're seeing abroad are in the settings of the rich, such as cruise ships and ski resorts and business conferences? That probably means cases are going undetected among the poor. https://t.co/tOvyje4ddw

— James Palmer (@BeijingPalmer) February 9, 2020

We've reached a point where people are starting to wear inflatable costumes on the streets to protect themselves against the #coronavirus. According to Chinese media, a medical expert said this is "unnecessary" and that washing hands and wearing face masks will do 😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/OvhOD76kum

— Manya Koetse (@manyapan) February 6, 2020

This piece by @ourobororoboruo is superb on so many fronts, but man was this a gut-punch https://t.co/nfmIXw1xi5 pic.twitter.com/BLVf3UpcKk

— Abby Seiff (@instupor) February 10, 2020

Trending on Weibo: Students' belongings thrown from their dorm rooms into a courtyard below. The school, Wuhan Vocational College of Software Engineering, was commandeered by the government to house sick #coronavirus patients. https://t.co/giujdUWPCn pic.twitter.com/Zh5W7WxLX3

— David Paulk 波大卫 (@davidpaulk) February 10, 2020

Community workers in Hangzhou have locked my friend in his apartment with a metal chain because his family traveled to Wenzhou (with nearly 400 coronavirus cases) recently. “What if there’s a fire at our home at midnight, and we can’t get anyone to unlock it?” https://t.co/jAmURVqjoQ pic.twitter.com/wGeGl2IP9m

— Viola Zhou (@violazhouyi) February 5, 2020

At one hospital, we stumbled upon a jarring scene: patients were sitting outside, 5 ft apart, getting IV drips on ledges and in their cars. Some were couples and even entire families. They didn’t want to be inside cuz they said there were too many sick ppl. pic.twitter.com/B5Yb6SQOi7

— Amy Qin (@amyyqin) February 4, 2020

Fascinating detail from this story: “The most efficient organizations at coordinating donations have ironically been celebrities’ fan clubs, the only sort of grass-roots organization still allowed to exist under Xi’s crackdown on civil society.“ https://t.co/vnCimSvNT2

— Angela Chen (@chengela) February 6, 2020

WeChat is many apps in one - messaging, videocalls, cashless payment, reading the news, calling taxi, etc. It’s very convenient, but it also means once it’s suspended, you immediately lose access to all of that, with disastrous consequences esp at a time like this. https://t.co/6axUyqH2FQ

— Rachel Cheung (@rachel_cheung1) February 6, 2020

This could be from a sci-fi film. Drones spraying disinfectant in Chinese citieshttps://t.co/3yNwtzWLTM

— Chris Anderson (@chr1sa) February 1, 2020

Forced to stay indoors, more than 40 million people have tuned in to the livestreams of two hospitals being built: Cement mixers become unlikely celebrities in #China #coronavirus lockdown https://t.co/Ja2e1FwylF

— Sceptical Scribe (@rinachandran) January 31, 2020

*Stock up on facemasks at Amazon.

"Philadelphia Threw a WWI Parade That Gave Thousands of Onlookers the Flu"

Smithsonian:

Within 72 hours of the parade, every bed in Philadelphia’s 31 hospitals was filled. In the week ending October 5, some 2,600 people in Philadelphia had died from the flu or its complications. A week later, that number rose to more than 4,500.

"State says Disney failed to properly clean cooling towers linked to Legionnaires' outbreak"

LAT:

In what became one of the nation’s biggest Legionnaires’ disease outbreaks, 22 people fell sick with the dangerous lung infection last fall in Orange County, including one who died.

Local health officials said the outbreak seemed connected to Disneyland, as 19 of the 22 people who were infected had visited the park. But they never pinpointed a cause of the infections.

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Disneyland officials said the source of the outbreak could have been elsewhere in Anaheim and have appealed the citation.

"How Tuberculosis Shaped Victorian Fashion"

Smithsonian:

“Between 1780 and 1850, there is an increasing aestheticization of tuberculosis that becomes entwined with feminine beauty,”

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“That’s because tuberculosis enhances those things that are already established as beautiful in women,” she explains, such as the thinness and pale skin that result from weight loss and the lack of appetite caused by the disease.

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“We also begin to see elements in fashion that either highlight symptoms of the disease or physically emulate the illness,” Day says. The height of this so-called consumptive chic came in the mid-1800s, when fashionable pointed corsets showed off low, waifish waists and voluminous skirts further emphasized women’s narrow middles. Middle- and upper-class women also attempted to emulate the consumptive appearance by using makeup to lighten their skin, redden their lips and color their cheeks pink

"6 Ridiculous Lies You Believe About the Founding of America"

From Cracked:

that's generally how the settling process went: The plague acted as a lead blocker for white European settlers, clearing the land of all the natives. The Europeans had superior weapons, but they also had superior guns when they tried to colonize China, India, Africa and basically every other region on the planet. When you picture Chinese or Indian or African people today, they're not white because those lands were already inhabited when the Europeans showed up. And so was America.

I've also been reading Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History.

Mystery illness strikes after meteorite hits Peruvian village

Story.