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I do not think9-1-1is endorsing any particular COVID origin theory, but the association is unpleasant.

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Do I feel great about how the researchers are depicted here?

And yet, Sick Day is so thrilling that it won me over by the end.

Im not a perfect person.

9-1-1, on the other hand, may be a perfect show.

Or not perfect I was pretty mixed on thelast episode but it knows how to tell a great story.

This one starts, like so many great stories, with a bus plowing into a bunch of cars.

(See, just likeHot Shots.)

Buck has had enough friends quitting for one year, urging Ravi to get back on the firefighting horse.

Unfortunately, Moira is also clearly insane.

Its very contagious and very fatal, with people usually dying from uncontrollable bleeding.

Again, I think Id be happier not knowing about any of this.

Once they get to Roz, she refuses to take off her suit (smart lady!

At this point, its time to leave, especially after Bobby spots an isobutane fire.

Moira is not a baby, Ravi she is a mad scientist with a God complex.

But before anyone can explain that, the isobutane fire begets an isobutane explosion.

(At one point, Buck says, Screw protocols!

and I cannot get behind that.)

Hartman says it will take two hours, at best, before Bobby and his team are extracted.

Hen doesnt have two hours, though.

Chim is all set to do the emergency thoracostomy when Maddie (still patched in!)

points out that if hes sick, he could infect Hen during the procedure.

Cap, youre gonna have to push really hard, Chimney says, because9-1-1is nothing if not disgusting.

Bobbys able to insert the tube and Hen starts breathing again, but Chim is not doing so hot.

He coughs blood into his mask and then his nose starts bleeding.

Hey, honey, not sure Im gonna make it home for dinner, he tells Maddie.

I think I picked up a little bug at the office.

If I ever start bleeding from multiple orifices, I can assure you I will not be so clever.

We have a pandemic in a bottle, and I am not risking popping that top, he says.

Again, I get it!

However, Chimney is fading fast.

Moira has absconded with her greatest work, of course, presumably for reasons beyond that shes crazy.

Well find out next week!

To be clear, that is not a reason to avoid PPE.

Buck trying to skip the decontamination process made me want to shake him.

Theres room enough for both of them!

Especially if someone dies in next weeks episode, which Im only in moderate denial about.

The deadly virus really pulls focus, sorry to these scenes.

I think if youvehad encephalitisin the relatively recent past, you should be excused from contracting CCHF.