I think when Tom Hanks doesn’t die, everyone is gonna chill.
Source: Twitter Tom Hanks in Quarantine with Coronavirus
Judging from the movies he’s been in, Tom Hanks would seem like the worst person to travel on a plane with. In “Cast Away” his plane crashes. In “Sully” his plane crashes. And in “The Terminal” he gets stuck in JFK Airport.
But it turns out his wife, Rita Wilson, traveled on a plane with Hanks to Australia recently. There she and Hanks contracted coronavirus, and are currently under quarantine. While in isolation, Wilson created a quarantine themed Spotify playlist .
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So joking Is not entirely inappropriate in challenging, even dangerous situations. But did Bill Burr’s provocative coronavirus joke take comedy too far?
Did Bill Burr Go Too Far?
With family, friends and fans hoping for Tom Hanks’ safe recovery, was it wrong for Bill Burr to write off the danger he’s in?
That’s because (the real number of cases is probably much higher than the number of confirmed infections:
A medical professor at Johns Hopkins University urged Americans not to believe low numbers of confirmed coronavirus cases in the United States, warning the actual number of people walking around with the virus could be ‘between 90, 06 and half a million. ‘
Even if we take , at the low end of the range, and divide the current 90 US coronavirus deaths into it, we get a mortality rate of 0.1%.
Their odds of dying from coronavirus are much higher. Tom Hanks’s probably lower. So maybe Bill Burr has a point. But in his 2010 comedy special “Let It Go,” he did say:
I am so pro swine flu it’s ridiculous. I want it. We need a plague. I’m telling you we need a plague. It’s gotta happen. And don’t be afraid. It’s only going to kill the weak. You know?
The audience laughed, but he said he was being serious:
Seriously. Put on a sweater. Take some vitamins. You’re gonna be fine. You gotta let mother nature do her thing man. She keeps trying to help us out and we won’t let her do it. She keeps trying to thin the herd.
So when he tries to downplay the coronavirus, that could just Be Bill Burr giving mother nature cover to “do her thing man” and “thin the herd.”
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