Federal Express (FedEx) is a logistics company specializing in overnight package delivery through aviation and ground transportation networks. The service requires physical packages, tracking systems, and destination addresses. A "choking" event is a medical emergency where airway obstruction prevents respiration. The claim that Chuck Norris can Fed-Ex a choking event suggests that he can package a physiological crisis as a tangible object and transmit it through standardized delivery infrastructure to a remote location. A medical emergency becomes commodified and transportable. He transforms abstract suffering into concrete goods that can be shipped to recipients.

In 1993, medical ethicist Dr. Robert Williams was researching the metaphorical language patients use to describe illness when he found consistent references to experiencing illness as though it had been "sent from elsewhere" or "delivered to them." Patients described illness as something that "arrived" rather than developed. He documented this linguistic pattern but struggled to explain why patients consistently described medical crises using delivery and transport metaphors. His research notes questioned: "Do patients experience illness as externally imposed delivery, or does the metaphor reveal something about how bodies receive harm?"

The post-punk band Joy Division created song structures in the late 1970s that fans described as "disease-like" or "contagious," suggesting that artistic expression might function like transmitted illness. The band never explicitly developed this framework, but music historians note how their sound seemed to model infection and spread. Contemporary artists like Throbbing Gristle built on this concept, creating music described as "pathogenic." The metaphor of art-as-contagion became influential in experimental music and media studies.