A Bright Melody for a Very Dark Song: Dirty Projectors, “Overlord”

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Dirty Projectors - Overlord (Official Music Video)
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Gaffer: Joe Albino (@josephjalbino)
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The Pie Overlord!  Mar 14, 2020 • 7:32:51pm

Well, I’m supposed to get my nails done tomorrow but I think I will cancel that biweekly outing for the next couple of months.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 14, 2020 • 7:46:09pm

Gov. Reynolds Announces Community Spread Of COVID-19 In Iowa

Gov. Kim Reynolds said Saturday night community spread of COVID-19 has occurred in Iowa.

The announcement came after a Dallas County resident tested positive for the disease caused by the new coronavirus, and the person wasn’t linked to a known risk factor such as travel to an affected area.

Earlier Saturday, the neighboring state of Nebraska also announced its first evidence of community spread with a new case in Omaha.

[…]

Now that SARS-Cov-2 is working its way through the entire society, the question in my mind is what will Americans do next.

Early data suggest the lethality is around 1%, pretty much all old people or those who are otherwise in poor health.

Perhaps the lethality will be shown, after millions are infected, to be lower. Or, perhaps, higher. We will find out.

Personally I doubt we can handle a “lockdown” like what happened in Hubei. There’s the current effort at social distancing, but as I wrote downstairs about my trips to the grocery store, most locals around here aren’t doing the most basic of tasks to avoid spreading when out in public.

This flu season has been rather mild compared to past years.

But most people don’t notice deaths from flu. That is why the conservaderp went early with the THE FLU!! approach to disinformation.

Pretty much I suspect most Americans will think all this social distancing was for nothing, once enough people die but they (the young and healthy survive.) Most don’t give a second thought to people in nursing homes, unless their parent/spouse happen to be in one.

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i(m)p(each)sos  Mar 14, 2020 • 7:49:32pm

Hoping my edibles stash lasts long enough to see us through the social isolation.

It’s 4+ hours to the nearest legal dispensary in Massachusetts…

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goddamnedfrank  Mar 14, 2020 • 7:50:44pm
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NetworkKed  Mar 14, 2020 • 7:51:53pm

So yesterday the WaPo map page listed 2200 US cases. Today it lists 2700. 20% increase per day is not a trend that is our friend.

That’s doubling every 4 days. (Okay, fractionally less.) That’s every US inhabitant infected in approximately 2 months.

The good news and the bad news is that there isn’t sufficient testing, unless apparently you’re a Rethuglican bigwig or a major sports franchise. It’s “good news” in that the growth curve is really as much an artifact of testing ramping up as any true spread. The bad news is the inference that we’re only measuring the tip of the iceberg on actual spread.

In my personal life, I suspect that we’re going to get told to work from home in a week. It’s one of those things for which there simply is no good timing. If you do it when you see local community spread, then it’s too damned late. But I know the bosses, and until they see a “measurable” number of cases in the county then they’re not going to believe in it. They refuse to believe anything else we tell them, anyway.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 14, 2020 • 7:54:18pm

This season, flu deaths peaked in week four at 446. That are deaths reported to the CDC - the actual number will be higher and estimated numbers will be available much later.

Flu deaths this week are probably substantially lower than that maximum week.

But, as the conservaderp strategy illustrated, most people don’t give a thought to these statistics. Most people have no real problem if they contract the flu, just a few days of misery.

Until the hospitals are full and ambulances are turned away, not sure people are going to really notice the problem of everyone getting infected at once.

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stpaulbear  Mar 14, 2020 • 7:54:55pm

Yay. / I just got a public hearing notice from the city of St. Paul to approve the assessment for the public sewer rebuild that needed to be done from my house to the city’s main sewer line last September. I have to pay for it, to the tune of about $18,000. The way it works in St. Paul is that I hired an approved sewer contractor, the city approves of the contractor, the contractor does the work and submits the bill to the city, and the city (eventually) adds it to my property tax bill. If I don’t pay it all at once, they spread it out over 20 years of payments at 4.25% interest. I’ll have to call them to find out if I need to present myself at the city council meeting and how I need to prep. There’s nothing I see in the notice that I need to dispute so I don’t see the need for a lawyer (famous last words).

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The Pie Overlord!  Mar 14, 2020 • 7:58:13pm

This is a lie.

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SteelPH  Mar 14, 2020 • 7:59:13pm

re: #8 The Pie Overlord!

110% infected.

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goddamnedfrank  Mar 14, 2020 • 7:59:23pm

re: #5 NetworkKed

But I know the bosses, and until they see a “measurable” number of cases in the county then they’re not going to believe in it. They refuse to believe anything else we tell them, anyway.

There are going to be a lot of extremely yelly conversations about people’s refusal to react to this responsibly.

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Belafon  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:00:05pm

In an email from AMC theaters:

To give you more empty space around you within our theatres, we are capping ticket availability to 50% of the normal seating capacity for every showtime in every auditorium at all AMC theatres nationwide. Once we hit 50% of an auditorium’s capacity, movie screenings will show as being Sold Out, even though by definition there will be a large number of unfilled seats. This will begin Saturday, March 14, and for now, will continue until April 30.

• For those AMC auditoriums with more than 500 seats, we will further reduce bookings to a maximum of 250 people in any case.

• And, it goes without saying that AMC is actively complying with all current and future federal, state and local authorities’ directives on social gathering.

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goddamnedfrank  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:00:31pm

re: #3 i(m)p(each)sos

Hoping my edibles stash lasts long enough to see us through the social isolation.

It’s 4+ hours to the nearest legal dispensary in Massachusetts…

Fuck, and here I was pissed off that I have to drive 45 minutes down to Topanga.

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Belafon  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:00:55pm

I went to Walmart to drop off some movies and get some chocolate. I have pictures to show later.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:01:43pm

re: #8 The Pie Overlord!

This is a lie.

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We’ll know for sure if he suddenly stops tweeting for a few days.

Half /

But in all seriousness if he is infected, he will at least have to curtail his appearances for awhile. We’ll know soon enough.

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teleskiguy  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:04:14pm

Lieutenant Governor of Florida.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:06:35pm

re: #2 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Although the cases in Nebraska remain confined to the eastern part of the state, I can’t imagine it staying there.

Although we appear to be in one of the biggest areas of the country with no infections noted, that’s going to change. Hospitals here in the Panhandle are already slammed with influenza cases. We’re about to be fuqued with a rusty unsharpened cactus.

A non-comment from Wonkette (anecdotal and third-hand to me, so take it as you will):

brother, who is a Dr in MN emailed me today:
“we just learned there will not be enough ventilators when the bulk of the virus hits. So we will need to ration them. And probably people over age 85 will not be able to access them. The age limit will continue to go down as the ventilators are used up.
Fortunately most people don’t need ventilators but in Italy they ran out. And the disease attacks the lungs primarily, causing a disease called ARDS, adult respiratory distress syndrome, where the alveoli in the lungs weaken and leak filling up the lungs with water. It’s not unusual to get ARDS with major trauma or bad pneumonia’s.
So Social Distancing is the name of the game, avoid the disease.
Another worrisome thing we learned was that young people will get the disease, breeze through it and do well but will continue to shed the virus for a long time afterwards while not having any symptoms. That is truly spooky.
Again, Social Distancing!”

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i(m)p(each)sos  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:08:30pm

re: #12 goddamnedfrank

Fuck, and here I was pissed off that I have to drive 45 minutes down to Topanga.

That’s actually not 100% accurate. There are closer legal dispensaries than the ones in western Massachusetts, but they’re on the other side of the Canadian border and I’m not going to risk crossing the border with cannabis. I’d rather drive the two extra hours within the US.

I wish NY would get its act together already!

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Cheechako  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:08:42pm

re: #15 teleskiguy

Lieutenant Governor of Florida.

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I guess he hadn’t heard about the family who drove from Canada to Disney World only to find it was closed. I’ll bet they were disappointed too.

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Dread Pirate  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:08:59pm

re: #12 goddamnedfrank

Fuck, and here I was pissed off that I have to drive 45 minutes down to Topanga.

I get free delivery within an hour, order online… Life is good.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:09:06pm

re: #15 teleskiguy

Lieutenant Governor of Florida.

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Tone deaf motherfucker.

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The Pie Overlord!  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:10:20pm

shit

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:10:55pm

re: #15 teleskiguy

Former Lieutenant Governor of Florida.

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FTFY

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:11:00pm

Goddamn these people straight to hell.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:11:36pm

re: #23 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Goddamn these people straight to hell.

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The grift just never stops.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:12:53pm

re: #15 teleskiguy

Kottkamp is particularly dense:

One of the replies corrected him, but of course Kottkamp ignored it.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:13:20pm

re: #15 teleskiguy

Lieutenant Governor of Florida.

What a selfish asshole. No wonder he’s a Republican. Someone responded:

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:15:51pm

This freaking guy. I simply cannot forgive those who got is here.

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teleskiguy  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:16:05pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:16:25pm

re: #15 teleskiguy

Lieutenant Governor of Florida.

Governor of Colorado responds:

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plansbandc  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:18:29pm

re: #9 SteelPH

I have no doubt he’s infected. We will find out when he’s rushed to the hospital. And then the MAGATS /QAnon will scream deep state and start shooting Dems. Plague and Civil War at the same time.

And here I thought the fat orange tyrant would start a nuclear war. I did not get a bingo. Dude did though. He thought a plague would take us down for sure.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:18:56pm

Really solid Coronavirus FAQ here straight from the
WHO:

who.int

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:19:12pm

re: #29 Anymouse 🌹🎃

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:20:58pm

re: #28 teleskiguy

Unreal appears to be the new normal these days.

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teleskiguy  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:21:25pm

re: #28 teleskiguy

Got a live one.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:24:03pm

An example of how money can help you when you’re sick:

Matthew Broderick Says Sister Janet Is on ‘Road to Full Recovery’ After Coronavirus Diagnosis

Matthew Broderick is speaking out after news of his sister, Janet Broderick, testing positive for coronavirus.

In a statement to PEOPLE, the actor, 57, says his 64-year-old sibling is recovering in Beverly Hills, California, where she was hospitalized.

“My entire family is grateful for the concern about, and the well wishes for, my sister Janet. I’m happy to say she is feeling much better and is on the road to a full recovery,” Matthew says. “We are all very appreciative for the wonderful care she received from the amazing doctors and nurses at Cedars-Sinai.”

His sister Janet fell ill after attending the Consortium of Endowed Episcopal Parishes conference in Louisville, Kentucky, where another attendee was diagnosed with the virus, according to a statement from her parish, All Saints Episcopal Church, last Wednesday.

“She is receiving the best medical care available and her doctors’ prognosis is for a complete and full recovery,” the church said. “It will take some time, but Janet is resting comfortably at Cedars until the time she is released and can return home to complete her recovery.”

Janet, who is a former rector of St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Morristown, New Jersey, was moved to the ICU and placed under isolation before her test results confirmed her positive coronavirus diagnosis.

It’s all fine to talk about the numbers “recovered” when the sick have the money for the best medical care and there are ICU beds available.

But what happens to the rest of the world, who don’t have such wealth?

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I Would Prefer Not To  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:24:05pm

re: #34 teleskiguy

Got a live one.

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Welcome back.

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retired cynic  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:24:30pm

re: #34 teleskiguy

Got a live one.

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I think I would do preemptive blocking on that one. He’s either waaaaay past dense, or he’s trolling.

BTW, Welcome Back! Missed you!

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:24:45pm

Darling Katie is rubbing for the local school board. Holy shit.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:25:31pm

re: #30 plansbandc

I have no doubt he’s infected. We will find out when he’s rushed to the hospital. And then the MAGATS /QAnon will scream deep state and start shooting Dems. Plague and Civil War at the same time.

And here I thought the fat orange tyrant would start a nuclear war. I did not get a bingo. Dude did though. He thought a plague would take us down for sure.

It’s not def yet… We’re just talking bets at this point.

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retired cynic  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:26:32pm

re: #38 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Darling Katie is rubbing for the local school board. Holy shit.

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What a selfish bitch. In a proper world, her chances at election should be zero.

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William Lewis  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:27:31pm

re: #34 teleskiguy

Got a live one.

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The only thing to ask that one is “Drunk? Stupid? Or drunk And stupid?” Because it’s already obvious that he’s as sharp as a bowling ball.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:28:05pm

Speaking of Governors
Illinois

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Belafon  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:28:55pm

re: #35 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

An example of how money can help you when you’re sick:

Matthew Broderick Says Sister Janet Is on ‘Road to Full Recovery’ After Coronavirus Diagnosis

It’s all fine to talk about the numbers “recovered” when the sick have the money for the best medical care and there are ICU beds available.

But what happens to the rest of the world, who don’t have such wealth?

I bet that’s where the person from Fort Worth got infected.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:30:38pm

re: #38 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Darling Katie is rubbing for the local school board. Holy shit.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:32:05pm

re: #40 retired cynic

What a selfish bitch. In a proper world, her chances at election should be zero.

Remember who Nevada Republicans nominated to run against Harry Reid in 2010…

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:36:34pm

The number of cases in the UK is exploding. The choice by Boris to go for the “herd immunity” route - against what most experts in the world recommend - is yet another Brexity thing to do. Thinking good ol’ England is special somehow.

I wonder how long it will last? I suspect that when the daily death count reaches three digits there will be a lot of pressure to do a complete lockdown.

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Mattand  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:37:38pm

re: #29 Anymouse 🌹🎃

Governor of Colorado responds:

Thank you for your deep concerns regarding the health of our residents in the face of a global pandemic, as well as your heartfelt sympathy for the difficulties faced by those who work in the ski industry and hospitality

The CO Gov will cut your ass.

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goddamnedfrank  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:39:30pm

We’re paying the housekeeper in advance to skip the next month.

This thing is going to roll down so goddamn hard on service workers.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:39:46pm

re: #42 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

We’re doomed to stupidity.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:40:00pm

re: #46 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

The number of cases in the UK is exploding. The choice by Boris to go for the “herd immunity” route - against what most experts in the world recommend - is yet another Brexity thing to do. Thinking good ol’ England is special somehow.

I wonder how long it will last? I suspect that when the daily death count reaches three digits there will be a lot of pressure to do a complete lockdown.

But Nigel the F said that the British NHS budget would substantially increase when Brexit passed…

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:40:20pm

Earlier today it was sailor at the base downtown San Diego. Tonight just a few miles from there:

Chula Vista City Councilmember Reports Positive Test for COVID-19

No indication of how he caught it.

The idea of flattening the curve is noble, but I think it’s not going to be so flat in reality.

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teleskiguy  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:40:42pm

re: #29 Anymouse 🌹🎃

re: #47 Mattand

Giphy

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plansbandc  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:41:14pm

Singing as much as I can daily, and it’s kind of amazing how much better and stronger my voice is having sung with the chorus. But it’s sad because we can’t sing together anymore. But still, I must sing. I put this lovely version up because it’s more to my voice, but I just freaking love Kate Bush so much. But I love Pat too. Anywho I’m singing this right now…

Pat Benatar - Wuthering Heights

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:42:51pm

re: #49 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

We’re doomed to stupidity.

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I expect the virus to explode in the Red States. Soon Still will be panicking from THE MASQUE OF THE RED STATE DEATH!

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Ace Rothstein  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:42:52pm

re: #38 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:42:54pm

re: #46 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

The number of cases in the UK is exploding. The choice by Boris to go for the “herd immunity” route - against what most experts in the world recommend - is yet another Brexity thing to do. Thinking good ol’ England is special somehow.

I wonder how long it will last? I suspect that when the daily death count reaches three digits there will be a lot of pressure to do a complete lockdown.

Well, he did promise to shore up NHS. A few million dead olds should help.

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jaunte  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:46:37pm

re: #55 Ace Rothstein

That Dunning-Kruger Virus made us terribly vulnerable to this one.

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Belafon  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:46:50pm
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NetworkKed  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:49:02pm

re: #58 Belafon

wut

Edit - I mean, I can do this sort of yelled meme-ing in an ironic sort of sense, but… for the President to be doing this sort of incoherent communication is just an utter national embarrassment.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:52:22pm
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teleskiguy  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:55:06pm
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:59:14pm

Philippines closes off capital for the next month as number of coronavirus infections doubles

Police began closing off access to the Philippines’ sprawling and densely populated capital of Manila on Sunday, imposing a quarantine that officials hope will curb the nation’s rising number of coronavirus cases.

Officers armed with rifles blocked off main roads into the city of some 12 million as domestic flights to and from Manila were halted early Sunday for a monthlong isolation of the capital.

Mass gatherings and school at all levels have also been called off, but delays and exceptions have led public health experts to question how effective President Rodrigo Duterte’s measures will be.

Though the Philippines has detected a fraction of the infections seen in hot spots like China or Italy, its confirmed cases nearly doubled in recent days to 111, with eight deaths.

Duterte is a malicious strongman. But he learned from the Chinese about what to do, ignoring the Republicans in this country.

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makeitstop  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:00:02pm

re: #38 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Darling Katie is rubbing for the local school board. Holy shit.

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Her TL is really…something.

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:02:26pm

re: #26 Anymouse 🌹🎃

What a selfish asshole. No wonder he’s a Republican. Someone responded:

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Kentucky really dodged a bullet last November, narrowly electing a sensible Democratic Governor instead of the anti-vacc GOP idiot who probably would’ve told us to pack the churches Sunday to pray the virus away.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:02:36pm

re: #63 makeitstop

Her TL is really…something.

Yes. It’s an endless episode of STUPID TREK!

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goddamnedfrank  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:03:59pm
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Dread Pirate  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:07:53pm
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Interesting Times  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:08:19pm

re: #38 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Darling Katie is rubbing for the local school board. Holy shit.

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Here’s that attention she ordered…

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:09:20pm

re: #63 makeitstop

Her TL is really…something.

No kidding, and she’s still going on bragging about this.

Several people commented on her AOC response that in parent groups on Facebook and such, both conservatives and liberals are appalled at her actions and intend to make sure she loses her school board election.

She was once named “Ms. Nevada,” but complained she was stripped of the title for supporting Trump. The organisers say she violated the pageant’s social media rules.
nbcnews.com

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:10:44pm

Another complete Trump fiasco

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jaunte  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:11:59pm

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Belafon  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:15:58pm

My adventures in Walmart. Pictures of a wasteland: littlegreenfootballs.com.

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jaunte  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:17:16pm
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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:18:21pm

re: #34 teleskiguy

Got a live one.

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Just block the idiot bot.

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:19:51pm

re: #42 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

Speaking of Governors
Illinois

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Huges crowds packed tightly together for hours. Great job!

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:21:26pm

re: #46 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

The number of cases in the UK is exploding. The choice by Boris to go for the “herd immunity” route - against what most experts in the world recommend - is yet another Brexity thing to do. Thinking good ol’ England is special somehow.

I wonder how long it will last? I suspect that when the daily death count reaches three digits there will be a lot of pressure to do a complete lockdown.

There is no fucking immunity to a novel virus, much less “herd immunity”!

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teleskiguy  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:22:10pm

re: #74 NO SMOCKING GUN!

Just block the idiot bot.

Oh that’s not a bot, it’s a very real person. I toyed with him for a bit, they’re now blocked.

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Dread Pirate  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:22:27pm

re: #72 Belafon

My adventures in Walmart. Pictures of a wasteland: littlegreenfootballs.com.

The good news is they can only stock up so much, give it a week…

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Dread Pirate  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:22:57pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:24:34pm

re: #74 NO SMOCKING GUN!

Just block the idiot bot.

Not a bot. It’s a Christian apologist who has a long-running YouTube channel attacking atheists and science.

youtube.com (channel)

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Targetpractice  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:25:00pm

re: #73 jaunte

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Ayep. Give it another week and we’ll see the wingnuts in an uproar that their favorite fast food restaurants have sick people working the line and they don’t feel safe getting a burger because “I might catch something!”

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Citizen K  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:26:52pm

re: #67 Dread Pirate

Yep, that’s the damn thing, isn’t it? It’s not just about you (the general you) and whether you get sick, or whether you’re at low risk. It’s about whether you might become the carrier that brings it to someone who does have an adverse reaction. It’s about limiting the spread of seemingly healthy people becoming the vehicle that infects countless others.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:27:51pm

re: #76 NO SMOCKING GUN!

There is no fucking immunity to a novel virus, much less “herd immunity”!

You get herd immunity without a vaccine once the overwhelming majority of the populace has caught the virus.

In other words, Boris and his Conservative Party are quite fine with killing off 1-3.5% of the UK population to retain power.

Conservatism kills.

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:29:47pm

re: #83 Anymouse 🌹🎃

You get herd immunity without a vaccine once the overwhelming majority of the populace has caught the virus.

In other words, Boris and his Conservative Party are quite fine with killing off 1-3.5% of the UK population to retain power.

Conservatism kills.

Except apparently even catching it doesn’t grant immunity; you can catch it again!

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:30:15pm

re: #76 NO SMOCKING GUN!

There is no fucking immunity to a novel virus, much less “herd immunity”!

Herd immunity for Covid19 MIGHT be a thing but not until a shitload of people get sick first.

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Dread Pirate  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:30:57pm
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jaunte  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:32:38pm

Hey, everything will be OK, Acting Chad is working.

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teleskiguy  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:32:38pm
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Belafon  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:32:51pm

re: #72 Belafon

My adventures in Walmart. Pictures of a wasteland: littlegreenfootballs.com.

I posted a few of the pics on facebook with the following comment:

I went to walmart this evening. Lot’s of empty shelves in food, like the lunchmeat section below. Panic buying that will most likely result in food being thrown away.
As you’ve seen in my posts, I’m all for taking this virus very seriously. But seriously also means being realistic about what it means for you and those around you. And this hoarding will just make things harder. Buy what you need. When you need more, go out and get it. Take proper precautions when you do, and we’ll get through this.

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:33:35pm
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Belafon  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:36:16pm

re: #90 NO SMOCKING GUN!

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teleskiguy  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:36:33pm

re: #87 jaunte

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jaunte  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:37:35pm

There are some truly evil fuckers out there taking advantage of a crisis

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Belafon  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:37:48pm

When this is over, I am going to plan a Metroplex Lizard meetup for all of us in the area.

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Targetpractice  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:39:26pm

re: #92 teleskiguy

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“Yes, we ignored the issue until it became so serious that it was impossible to ignore, but please be patient as we bumble our way through to a resolution.”

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teleskiguy  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:39:27pm

Twitter is LIT.

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Belafon  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:39:38pm

The Avengers and Doctor Who have really screwed up this timeline:

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Targetpractice  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:40:27pm

re: #97 Belafon

The Avengers and Doctor Who have really screwed up this timeline:

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This feels like a bad episode of Sliders.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:41:27pm

re: #97 Belafon

The Avengers and Doctor Who have really screwed up this timeline:

Newt Gingrich is one of the architects of our current problems, with his Contract on America.

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William Lewis  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:42:56pm

re: #99 Anymouse 🌹🎃

Newt Gingrich is one of the architects of our current problems, with his Contract on America.

This.

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BlueSpotinAL  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:47:30pm

re: #55 Ace Rothstein

One of my friends responds

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:49:04pm

I’m going to go off to bed. Catch y’all later.

Giphy

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makeitstop  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:49:04pm

Interesting thread from a NYC councilman from Brooklyn Heights.

(My gig tonight in NYC was canceled literally as I was walking out the door. Singer got sick, but she’s pretty sure it’s allergy-related.)

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teleskiguy  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:50:50pm

Just got the word, ski area I work at is closing.

Shit, man. SHIT.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:51:50pm

Boston Herald tries a both-sides opinion piece, to which I wrote a strong reply:

disq.us

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Ace Rothstein  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:54:05pm

re: #70 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

I have to admit that I don’t understand what is going on there. Can someone explain?

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TedStriker  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:54:57pm

re: #104 teleskiguy

Just got the word, ski area I work at is closing.

Shit, man. SHIT.

Damn, dude, that blows hard.

OTOH, glad to see you’re back here…a lot of Lizards missed you.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:55:04pm

re: #103 makeitstop

I doubt leaders are going to go hardcore lockdown until deaths in an area reach triple digits.

Which may be soon, as in just a week away.

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Ace Rothstein  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:55:04pm

re: #77 teleskiguy

I think I speak for all of us when I say that’s it’s great having you back.

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Belafon  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:55:08pm

re: #106 Ace Rothstein

I have to admit that I don’t understand what is going on there. Can someone explain?

People with Covid-19 are being made to share the disease with as many people as possible here at DFW airport.

Is that what you meant?

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makeitstop  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:55:36pm

If there is even one person in that crowd with the virus, a whole lot of people are going to get sick. Customs gates have become COVID incubators.

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Ace Rothstein  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:55:50pm

re: #110 Belafon

No, I don’t understand what the lines are all about.

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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:57:03pm

re: #71 jaunte

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If you’re in California, you can apply for state disability, about 60% of your regular pay, but we’re only one state.

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NetworkKed  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:57:45pm

Reading that Newt editorial, it’s both innumerate and asinine Republican boosterism. The title is… not wholly inappropriate, but his BIG action is all about economics. “Not just stimulus”, but really big economic changes. Which he neglects to detail what that should be but inevitably is more big-biz welfare and tax cuts for the rich.

And his vision of catostrophic, Italy-like outcomes is 5-10k dead in the US, as if the dying in Italy is all done already.

Absolutely disgusting.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:57:46pm

re: #112 Ace Rothstein

No, I don’t understand what the lines are all about.

If I were a betting man (and I am, writes the lottery player), I suspect the TSA agents are being pressured to be on the lookout for “illegals” and “foreigners”. With Stephen Miller at the helm of this Administration’s ideology, deaths are a feature, not a bug.

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Targetpractice  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:58:36pm

re: #101 BlueSpotinAL

One of my friends responds

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Mary Mallon went to her grave convinced that she wasn’t sick and that was being discriminated against for being Irish.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:58:43pm

re: #112 Ace Rothstein

No, I don’t understand what the lines are all about.

Apparently travelers returning to the U.S. delayed by having to go through required health screenings.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:59:04pm

re: #105 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Boston Herald tries a both-sides opinion piece, to which I wrote a strong reply:

disq.us

I just wrote one as well:

This is a bunch of both-siderist BS. Only one party is trying to cut the budget of the CDC further; only one party dismantled the pandemic response team set up by President Obama. Only one party called the Senate into recess for three days after the House passed an emergency bill.

You cannot correct a problem unless you identify it first, and that problem is the Republican Party.

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makeitstop  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:59:30pm

re: #112 Ace Rothstein

No, I don’t understand what the lines are all about.

They’re making people wait to be screened by Customs officials. Combine that with the extra flights booked in haste to avoid travel bans and there you go.

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Ace Rothstein  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:59:49pm

I just finished watching “The Big Short” for the twentieth time. One of my favorite lines from the movie is exactly what’s going to happen when the economy crashes again soon: “They’ll blame immigrants and poor people like they alway do.”

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 14, 2020 • 10:01:00pm

It’s just insane how fast all this shit is happening.

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Belafon  Mar 14, 2020 • 10:01:25pm

Isn’t the NYPost the conservative paper:

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Ace Rothstein  Mar 14, 2020 • 10:01:33pm

re: #121 Eclectic Cyborg

It’s just getting started.

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makeitstop  Mar 14, 2020 • 10:02:16pm

re: #108 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

I doubt leaders are going to go hardcore lockdown until deaths in an area reach triple digits.

Which may be soon, as in just a week away.

Hoboken NJ has done it.

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Belafon  Mar 14, 2020 • 10:02:18pm

re: #121 Eclectic Cyborg

It’s just insane how fast all this shit is happening.

After starting out slow. It’s like panic and the effects of maladministration grow at an exponential rate.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Mar 14, 2020 • 10:02:22pm

re: #119 makeitstop

They’re making people wait to be screened by Customs officials. Combine that with the extra flights booked in haste to avoid travel bans and there you go.

Plus plenty of conservatives on Twitter are blaming the Illinois governor for the problem because “it’s an airport in his state.”

Conservatives at large really don’t understand much of anything about how stuff works do they? Pregnancy, evolution, who runs Customs and Immigration in an airport, and they’re proud of their lack of knowledge.

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NetworkKed  Mar 14, 2020 • 10:02:51pm

While I’m staying up late and pounding the new comments button obsessively, I’ve realized that there’s one thing that really drives me nuts about LGF.

Please, anyone - is there a dark mode?

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Belafon  Mar 14, 2020 • 10:04:37pm

re: #127 NetworkKed

While I’m staying up late and pounding the new comments button obsessively, I’ve realized that there’s one thing that really drives me nuts about LGF.

Please, anyone - is there a dark mode?

That would be a good request. Though I would use it all the time. I put Visual Studio in dark mode, I found a plugin for eclipse, and I figured out on CentOS that you can change the background and foreground when you launch xterm with:

xterm -bg black -fg orange &

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makeitstop  Mar 14, 2020 • 10:05:12pm

re: #126 Anymouse 🌹🎃

Plus plenty of conservatives on Twitter are blaming the Illinois governor for the problem because “it’s an airport in his state.”

Conservatives at large really don’t understand much of anything about how stuff works do they? Pregnancy, evolution, who runs Customs and Immigration in an airport, and they’re proud of their lack of knowledge.

It’s happening at DFW, too. What a total cock-up.

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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!  Mar 14, 2020 • 10:05:15pm

re: #84 NO SMOCKING GUN!

Except apparently even catching it doesn’t grant immunity; you can catch it again!

They thought that earlier, when some people tested positive after apparently recovering, but now they’re saying that it’s just a lingering effect of the original infection, and you do have immunity after infection. Of course, all this is before we really have long-term data.

(I — not a medical professional — doubt it lasts forever, or colds would be extinct, but you won’t recover and be instantly laid low again.)

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 14, 2020 • 10:06:15pm

re: #130 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!

They thought that earlier, when some people tested positive after apparently recovering, but now they’re saying that it’s just a lingering effect of the original infection, and you do have immunity after infection. Of course, all this is before we really have long-term data.

(I — not a medical professional — doubt it lasts forever, or colds would be extinct, but you won’t recover and be instantly laid low again.)

Appreciate the clarification, thank you.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Mar 14, 2020 • 10:06:47pm

re: #128 Belafon

That would be a good request. Though I would use it all the time. I put Visual Studio in dark mode, I found a plugin for eclipse, and I figured out on CentOS that you can change the background and foreground when you launch xterm with:

xterm -bg black -fg orange &

This is what I use on my computer (there are different versions for different operating systems):
justgetflux.com

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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!  Mar 14, 2020 • 10:12:23pm

re: #111 makeitstop

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If there is even one person in that crowd with the virus, a whole lot of people are going to get sick. Customs gates have become COVID incubators.

There would probably be less transmission if they just let them through than if they screen them.

Also this is a “keep it out” tactic and it’s already here. Much worse than useless.

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makeitstop  Mar 14, 2020 • 10:13:02pm

Short and sweet.

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Targetpractice  Mar 14, 2020 • 10:13:45pm
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teleskiguy  Mar 14, 2020 • 10:15:11pm

It’s one of the busiest times of the winter at the ski areas. Economically, this is devastating.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 14, 2020 • 10:15:41pm

re: #46 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

The number of cases in the UK is exploding. The choice by Boris to go for the “herd immunity” route - against what most experts in the world recommend - is yet another Brexity thing to do. Thinking good ol’ England is special somehow.

I wonder how long it will last? I suspect that when the daily death count reaches three digits there will be a lot of pressure to do a complete lockdown.

It’s looking increasingly like what the Brits are gonna do is, instead of a full 100% lockdown of everybody, they’re gonna lockdown the elderly and the at-risk for four months.

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Targetpractice  Mar 14, 2020 • 10:16:44pm

Jim Wright weighs in:

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Belafon  Mar 14, 2020 • 10:18:57pm

re: #138 Targetpractice

Jim Wright weighs in:

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I have never had it, because we have more burger choices than mexican choices here in Rockwall and the closest one is 20 miles away. Is it bad or just eh?

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Targetpractice  Mar 14, 2020 • 10:21:12pm

re: #139 Belafon

I have never had it, because we have more burger choices than mexican choices here in Rockwall and the closest one is 20 miles away. Is it bad or just eh?

I can only go by reputation since the nearest one is a 30 min drive and I’m not that desperate to try it out. My dad swears by them, but other folks I’ve talked to put it squarely in the “eh” category.

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NetworkKed  Mar 14, 2020 • 10:21:41pm

Someone has to like Red Robin, unless they’ve built a chain of restaurants entirely on credit. (Is that what happened to Boston Market?)

In any case I’ve never managed to get to the one nearest to me, because there is a Portillo’s just up the street and there’s no reason ever to not eat Portillo’s.

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BigPapa  Mar 14, 2020 • 10:25:34pm

If you tasteless heathens have any doubt about pineapple on pizza:

Pineapple on Pizza Demand
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Dread Pirate  Mar 14, 2020 • 10:26:01pm

Their burgers are good. That’s all I ever ordered.

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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!  Mar 14, 2020 • 10:26:29pm

I forgot to buy powdered milk on my shopping trip today, so I’ll have to try to score some tomorrow. Bummer. I’ll probably pich up some hot food while I’m there, so I don’t have to go out.

By going out, I mean among other people — if it stops raining, I’ll take a nice walk on the deserted campus, nodding hello to the occasional other visitor from 10 feet away. Thank heavens I can combine isolation with the outdoors.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 14, 2020 • 10:28:02pm

There was a Red Robin in the Glendale CA Galleria that had a great manager and a friendly staff. But the manager passed away and the atmosphere went way downhill. It closed soon after.

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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!  Mar 14, 2020 • 10:28:50pm

re: #142 BigPapa

If you tasteless heathens have any doubt about pineapple on pizza:

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Unlike eggplant, my reason for avoiding pineapple is strictly physiological. I like it just fine, it does NOT like me.

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teleskiguy  Mar 14, 2020 • 10:29:42pm
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Dr Lizardo  Mar 14, 2020 • 10:30:42pm

So yeah, looks like the UK’s approach is gonna be to lockdown the 65+ (and those most at risk, such as the immunosupressed) while everyone else goes about their merry way (with some caution and care, hopefully).

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teleskiguy  Mar 14, 2020 • 10:31:07pm

When Tommy Chong is dragging Bernie Sanders…

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 14, 2020 • 10:31:18pm

I’m getting more scared by the hour. Bad enough I’m waiting on the biopsy from the surgery I had on Thursday that removed a growth and a salivary gland from my inner right cheek…and I’m immunocompromised from the Humira IV’s I have to have keeping my rheumatoid arthritis in check…Grandma said she prayed I would never experience a plague like she did in 1918…If Grandma was alive she’d be calling me every hour checking on me like she did when I had a terrible case of the flu in 1984…

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teleskiguy  Mar 14, 2020 • 10:33:01pm
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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 14, 2020 • 10:34:59pm

re: #149 teleskiguy

When Tommy Chong is dragging Bernie Sanders…

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makeitstop  Mar 14, 2020 • 10:40:47pm

Only funny cuz it’s true.

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Belafon  Mar 14, 2020 • 10:41:04pm

Balloon Juice has been running a series of post on online teaching. Here’s a funny tweet:

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Dread Pirate  Mar 14, 2020 • 10:44:42pm

At the poles there is only 1 day a year.

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Belafon  Mar 14, 2020 • 10:49:01pm

One reason why McGrath will be receiving some of my money even though I’m not in Kentucky:

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Targetpractice  Mar 14, 2020 • 10:49:06pm

re: #152 Joe Bacon 🌹

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Nah, Bernie’s the guy to the side, lecturing people that the house should just be left to burn because everybody thought it was ugly.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Mar 14, 2020 • 10:53:40pm

re: #150 Joe Bacon 🌹

I’m getting more scared by the hour. Bad enough I’m waiting on the biopsy from the surgery I had on Thursday that removed a growth and a salivary gland from my inner right cheek…and I’m immunocompromised from the Humira IV’s I have to have keeping my rheumatoid arthritis in check…Grandma said she prayed I would never experience a plague like she did in 1918…If Grandma was alive she’d be calling me every hour checking on me like she did when I had a terrible case of the flu in 1984…

Let’s hope all is well with the biopsy.

I’m not a physician, but if there are concerns over the Humira and a compromised immune system, it might be worthwhile to talk to a physician to see if there is an alternative, or if (in your opinion) dealing with RA might be a better choice during the epidemic.

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teleskiguy  Mar 14, 2020 • 10:54:50pm
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electrotek  Mar 14, 2020 • 10:55:20pm

How come Italy is receiving a lot of love and solidarity while China gets nothing and Asians get the brunt of racist abuse?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Mar 14, 2020 • 10:56:32pm

re: #160 electrotek

How come Italy is receiving a lot of love and solidarity while China gets nothing and Asians get the brunt of racist abuse?

The GOP and FOX News, along with wingnut sites have been pushing the “Yellow Peril” line for days now.

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Belafon  Mar 14, 2020 • 10:56:36pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Mar 14, 2020 • 10:57:27pm

Coronavirus reaches Naval Base San Diego (Navy Times)

A sailor at Naval Base San Diego tested “presumptive positive” for the newest strain of coronavirus, the first believed case for a sailor in California.

Pentagon officials told Navy Times that the he is quarantined at home off the base.

The sailor is assigned to one of the 220 tenant commands. There is no indication that a warship’s crew is affected.

(more)

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electrotek  Mar 14, 2020 • 10:58:34pm

re: #161 Anymouse 🌹🎃

The GOP and FOX News, along with wingnut sites have been pushing the “Yellow Peril” line for days now.

I mean it’s not like Little Italy is receiving the brunt of racial abuse as they did early in the 20th century.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Mar 14, 2020 • 10:59:18pm

re: #162 Belafon

Now is not the time for partisan recriminations: Every time there is a mass-murder with high-powered rifles.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Mar 14, 2020 • 11:00:25pm

re: #164 electrotek

I mean it’s not like Little Italy is receiving the brunt of racial abuse as they did early in the 20th century.

Italians are now honorary whites to conservatives. “White” is a construct for conservatism which is fluid, depending on which groups they need to hoodwink get to vote for them.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 14, 2020 • 11:06:20pm

re: #148 Dr Lizardo

So yeah, looks like the UK’s approach is gonna be to lockdown the 65+ (and those most at risk, such as the immunosupressed) while everyone else goes about their merry way (with some caution and care, hopefully).

Yup. They’re going for the “herd immunity” for the under 65’s in the hopes that most will be infected soon and recover.

Here’s the problem: You can’t really isolate all those 65+ immune compromised from the rest of society. There will be interactions. Furthermore, each replication of the virus is an opportunity for more mutations. So willingly infecting say 40 million people means creating 40 million machines producing mutated viruses. And there is reason to be afraid that even under 65s can suffer damage, such as to lung capacity.

Note the UK is sort of going alone here, other than than he-men of Russia who seem to believe that the Orthodox Church is immune to these sorts of things.

We’ll know soon enough if the UK’s approach works. Like, less than 14 days.

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Dread Pirate  Mar 14, 2020 • 11:06:23pm
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stpaulbear  Mar 14, 2020 • 11:06:59pm

re: #148 Dr Lizardo

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So yeah, looks like the UK’s approach is gonna be to lockdown the 65+ (and those most at risk, such as the immunosupressed) while everyone else goes about their merry way (with some caution and care, hopefully).

My office supervisors are meeting Monday to decide what to do about working from home. Most of my coworkers would rather work from home so I told one of the supervisors that if they all stayed home I wouldn’t mind coming in to the office. I find it really difficult to work from home. I’d rather work in an empty office (of course not while sick).

If the supervisors look at age, I’m going to be sent home for sure. I’m 65, probably 10 years older than my next-oldest coworkers, I was planning on retiring in July but I may consider retiring in April and finding some way to make up the lost income when this plague is over.

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teleskiguy  Mar 14, 2020 • 11:07:04pm

Fuck, man. Everyone, and I mean everyone I know is going to take a hit from the closed ski areas. Frankly, I’m in disbelief.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Mar 14, 2020 • 11:07:37pm
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Targetpractice  Mar 14, 2020 • 11:08:45pm

See, this is why we can’t have nice things:

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Mar 14, 2020 • 11:09:14pm

re: #168 Dread Pirate

Weed to my south. Weed to my north. No weed here.

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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!  Mar 14, 2020 • 11:12:03pm

re: #167 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

.
Note the UK is sort of going alone here, other than than he-men of Russia who seem to believe that the Orthodox Church is immune to these sorts of things.

We’ll know soon enough if the UK’s approach works. Like, less than 14 days.

I read the entire article you’re referencing, and there are actually measures being taken to stop the spread In Russia (about as ineffectual as the ones at our federal level, and apparently varying in different regions). The “he-man” is one orthodox priest. Unfortunately, he’s in charge of a major church, and his parishioners, it seems, believe in him.

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Sherlock Hound  Mar 14, 2020 • 11:14:01pm

re: #34 teleskiguy

[cough]
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Chrysicat  Mar 14, 2020 • 11:21:53pm

re: #34 teleskiguy

Got a live one.

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Do I even want to know what he thinks causes disease if not microorganisms that can travel on our breath?

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electrotek  Mar 14, 2020 • 11:22:46pm
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Targetpractice  Mar 14, 2020 • 11:25:15pm

re: #176 Chrysicat

Do I even want to know what he thinks causes disease if not microorganisms that can travel on our breath?

Bad air, of course.

//

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Mar 14, 2020 • 11:27:48pm

re: #176 Chrysicat

Do I even want to know what he thinks causes disease if not microorganisms that can travel on our breath?

Demons. Same entities that cause epilepsy.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 14, 2020 • 11:29:09pm

re: #167 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Not to sound all tin-foil hat here, but maybe this is BoJo’s plan to get rid of those pesky pensioners.

Many would point out, “But they vote Tory almost en bloc” and that’s true. But in typical high Tory master race thinking, the counterpoint would be, “Eh, they’ve done their duty and now it’s time for them to go. And besides, think of the billions we’ll save!”

Mitchell & Webb explained it pretty well…..just replace “the poor” with “retirees”.

Mitchell and Webb - Kill The Poor

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teleskiguy  Mar 14, 2020 • 11:30:34pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Mar 14, 2020 • 11:31:19pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Mar 14, 2020 • 11:37:05pm

Here it comes.

Panhandle Public Health District has issued new screening guidelines for residents who have traveled outside the Panhandle.

Outside the Panhandle? Trapped in a 14,000 square mile area with 87,000 people.
…

Nebraska’s 11th presumptive positive case was reported by the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services on Thursday, March 12. The agency stated it is a Cass County man, who had been on a connecting flight with the person who was Nebraska’s first confirmed case.

By Friday, March 13, two more cases had been confirmed in Douglas County, in eastern Nebraska.

Event cancellations and school closures have occurred throughout the state, including in western Nebraska. According to PPHD, the postponements, cancellations and closures are meant to prevent spread and avoid overwhelming hospitals and clinics.

starherald.com

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Targetpractice  Mar 14, 2020 • 11:39:51pm

Millions of Americans are about to find themselves stuck in their homes for long periods with little or nothing to do. When the boredom truly sets in, we’re gonna see some truly crazy shit.

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Dread Pirate  Mar 14, 2020 • 11:40:35pm

re: #184 Targetpractice

Millions of Americans are about to find themselves stuck in their homes for long periods with little or nothing to do. When the boredom truly sets in, we’re gonna see some truly crazy shit.

Welcome to my life.

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Dread Pirate  Mar 14, 2020 • 11:41:41pm

I am the king of, “When there is nothing to do, do nothing.”

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Dread Pirate  Mar 14, 2020 • 11:45:03pm

The U.S. is now over 3,041 cases, 60 deaths.

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Targetpractice  Mar 14, 2020 • 11:46:21pm

re: #186 Dread Pirate

I am the king of, “When there is nothing to do, do nothing.”

That’s the upside to working graveyard at a hotel front desk: So long as you do the short list of tasks you’re assigned every night, and the guests aren’t being total dickwads, the rest of your shift is spent coming up with ways to amuse yourself.

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stpaulbear  Mar 14, 2020 • 11:46:22pm

I went back to that NYT story this morning about the guy who has 17,000 bottles of hand sanitizer in his garage. Amazon cancelled his account after he tried to price gouge the resale. The Times gives the guy all the time in the world to state what a good guy he is.

The comments are broken down by “NYT Picks” and “Reader’s Picks”. All of the top NYT picks support the guy for what he’s done. All of the top “Reader’s Picks” are calling him a criminal and telling him to donate the stuff to hospitals and seniors. Of course, I was with the readers. I was floored by how badly the Times felt the need to justify their story.

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William Lewis  Mar 14, 2020 • 11:47:04pm

re: #184 Targetpractice

Millions of Americans are about to find themselves stuck in their homes for long periods with little or nothing to do. When the boredom truly sets in, we’re gonna see some truly crazy shit.

So will more be dying from the virus or from “Hold my beer”? ////

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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!  Mar 14, 2020 • 11:53:45pm

And South Korea is still showing a 1% death rate, despite being one of the earliest centers of infection. Outlier, or are they just catching more infections?

(On that note, it’s time for me to go to bed. Stay well.)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Mar 15, 2020 • 12:02:57am

re: #190 William Lewis

So will more be dying from the virus or from “Hold my beer”? ////

That’s what YouTube is for.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Mar 15, 2020 • 12:06:12am
Click to Reveal

Sigh. I really don’t know what to do about my dad’s funeral on the 21st. IL has as of now banned gatherings of 250+ people. No way there will be that many in attendance at the church. My brother is flying up here to Chicago from Austin this evening (Sunday) and his wife and two kids (20/23) booked their flight for the 20th. I’m just telling them to see how things go this upcoming week. They’d all be staying at the house with my 77 year old mother. I suspect they’ll cancel their flight because they wouldn’t want to risk getting grandma sick, and also there’d be a concern of getting back home 3 days later if there’s a domestic travel ban, which I think is likely. Sounds like a nightmare scenario.

Lots of elderly people would be attending the service. I just don’t think it’d be a good idea at this point. :(

As much as it would hurt my mom, it might be best in the end to cancel the service all together.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 15, 2020 • 12:07:18am

re: #193 GlutenFreeJesus

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I’d gently suggest postponing the service for a later date.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 15, 2020 • 12:07:47am

re: #193 GlutenFreeJesus

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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!  Mar 15, 2020 • 12:14:46am

re: #193 GlutenFreeJesus

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Why not have a small private funeral now, and plan on a larger memorial later? And have everyone send cards and letters to your mom in the meantime.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Mar 15, 2020 • 12:20:25am

re: #194 Dr Lizardo

I’d gently suggest postponing the service for a later date.

Perhaps a one-year memorial service.

A gentle reminder that the reason the ban exists is to protect people who may be more susceptible to the disease includes her, and you don’t want her to get sick.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Mar 15, 2020 • 12:22:11am

re: #181 teleskiguy

My that title sounds cheery.

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goddamnedfrank  Mar 15, 2020 • 12:38:36am

Hey Yo, did you know you can make tincture with your AVB (already vaped bud) ?

Double your pleasure up in this dystopian hellhole!

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teleskiguy  Mar 15, 2020 • 12:44:40am
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goddamnedfrank  Mar 15, 2020 • 12:46:20am
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goddamnedfrank  Mar 15, 2020 • 1:06:16am
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CarolJ  Mar 15, 2020 • 1:08:54am

Graveside service for local people, memorial and wake later.

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goddamnedfrank  Mar 15, 2020 • 1:10:15am
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Dr Lizardo  Mar 15, 2020 • 1:23:33am

re: #204 goddamnedfrank

My question is this.

What if, in 12 or 18 months, scientists announce that there is no vaccine for COVID-19, that no matter what they’ve tried, it’s impossible.

Then what?

I know, because I’ve heard it from others, “But we just have to hope!” Hope is not a solution to a problem.

No society will tolerate being held in indefinite quarantine. Sooner or later, people are gonna say, “Fuck it, let the chips fall where they may. We’ll mourn the dead and get on with our lives.”

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teleskiguy  Mar 15, 2020 • 1:25:54am
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unproven innocence  Mar 15, 2020 • 1:29:36am

re: #191 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!

And South Korea is still showing a 1% death rate, despite being one of the earliest centers of infection. Outlier, or are they just catching more infections?

(On that note, it’s time for me to go to bed. Stay well.)

Due to South Korea’s more thorough testing, their data is less likely than any other nations’ to be seriously undercounting the # of cases of Covid-19, according to a study I read less than a week ago (but can’t find right now).

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goddamnedfrank  Mar 15, 2020 • 1:41:57am

re: #191 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!

And South Korea is still showing a 1% death rate, despite being one of the earliest centers of infection. Outlier, or are they just catching more infections?

(On that note, it’s time for me to go to bed. Stay well.)

Catching more infections means earlier interventions which leads to better outcomes. It also aids in isolation which prevents healthcare system overload.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 15, 2020 • 2:04:40am

re: #208 goddamnedfrank

Catching more infections means earlier interventions which leads to better outcomes. It also aids in isolation which prevents healthcare system overload.

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teleskiguy  Mar 15, 2020 • 2:41:38am

Instagram

The ski industry right now….. (Yah yah all others as well)

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ericblair  Mar 15, 2020 • 2:50:22am

re: #148 Dr Lizardo

So yeah, looks like the UK’s approach is gonna be to lockdown the 65+ (and those most at risk, such as the immunosupressed) while everyone else goes about their merry way (with some caution and care, hopefully).

This would work in theory, with non-humans. This is more of the too-clever-by-half shit cooked up by a government run by a bunch of lazy crooks, with one autodidact bigoted crank to do the “thinking”, and a complete antipathy towards the professional civil service. Good thing we don’t have anything like that.

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teleskiguy  Mar 15, 2020 • 2:58:04am
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ericblair  Mar 15, 2020 • 3:05:29am

re: #174 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!

I read the entire article you’re referencing, and there are actually measures being taken to stop the spread In Russia (about as ineffectual as the ones at our federal level, and apparently varying in different regions). The “he-man” is one orthodox priest. Unfortunately, he’s in charge of a major church, and his parishioners, it seems, believe in him.

The measures are mostly “dirty foreigners out”, and lack of testing:

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 15, 2020 • 3:26:05am

re: #213 ericblair

The measures are mostly “dirty foreigners out”, and lack of testing:

The number of pneumonia cases in #Moscow went up 37% yoy which is seemingly an indirect confirmation #Russia’s Covid-19 problem is much more serious than the government admits.

I wouldn’t be at all surprised if there’s a massive outbreak of COVID-19 in Moscow, and probably other large Russian cities as well, and the Kremlin is taking every possible step to suppress any and all information about it.

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Chrysicat  Mar 15, 2020 • 3:36:01am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 15, 2020 • 4:34:26am
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I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)  Mar 15, 2020 • 4:42:35am

never let them forget

total annihilation

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 15, 2020 • 4:57:47am

re: #217 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)

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never let them forget

total annihilation

This crisis is both a failure of so called small government conservatism and libertarianism.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 15, 2020 • 5:03:40am

re: #193 GlutenFreeJesus

Cancel the funeral (for people attending) and have a memorial in the future.

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 15, 2020 • 5:12:19am
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 15, 2020 • 5:16:58am
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 15, 2020 • 5:19:35am
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 15, 2020 • 5:24:12am
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I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)  Mar 15, 2020 • 5:38:57am

you’ve seen this, right?

which of course brings up this point:

it’s all because this:

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Mar 15, 2020 • 5:42:19am

re: #11 Belafon

In an email from AMC theaters:

When my wife went to see some movie, she and her friend were the only ones present. Why she went us a question that doesn’t really have an answer.

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teleskiguy  Mar 15, 2020 • 5:43:17am

Colorado skiing completely shut down today.

Big powder day at Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

Hey, at least they had the sense to close the aerial tram.

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 15, 2020 • 5:44:19am

I just came home from my local supermarket. Anything with the name Lysol on it was gone. Toilet paper was gone. Distilled water was gone. Rubbing Alcohol was gone. I managed to get a few things that I needed but I am amazed. The regular cashier was also amazed.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Mar 15, 2020 • 5:46:44am

re: #118 Anymouse 🌹🎃

I just wrote one as well:

And you got attacked for pointing out the problem that is the republican party.

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 15, 2020 • 5:48:07am

re: #177 electrotek

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jeffreyw  Mar 15, 2020 • 5:49:41am

Good morning!

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teleskiguy  Mar 15, 2020 • 5:55:48am
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I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)  Mar 15, 2020 • 6:03:55am

re: #228 Colère Tueur de Lapin

And you got attacked for pointing out the problem that is the republican party.

this is ‘the republican party’s response’
don’t let them forget it

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 15, 2020 • 6:09:04am

When the unconscious becomes the conscious.

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 15, 2020 • 6:13:29am

re: #233 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Yes. I think that is why SEPTA had all of their doors open. I went downtown yesterday. Even the gourmet food store DiBruno Bros had Purell at the entrances.

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I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)  Mar 15, 2020 • 6:17:27am

enjoy the day

YouTube

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Mar 15, 2020 • 6:22:36am

re: #153 makeitstop

As Kevin Kruse notes, the Self-awareness of a tr@mp is non-existent. jr is pushing the idea that guns are coming out on daddy’s watch because society is breaking down. Not an iota of Self-awareness or the irony.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 15, 2020 • 6:29:40am

It only took two days to go rom145k to 162k reported cases.

We’re now entering the steep part of the exponential curve.

I don’t know where it will flatten off, because I don’t know how the social distancing strategy of most countries will work.

I also don’t know how bad it will be as far as deaths.

It took only three days to go from under 5k deaths to now over 6k deaths. I guess when we get to 1k deaths/day that will be some sort of grim milestone. Probably in less than a week we’ll be there, globally.

This is clearly the fastest moving epidemic of my lifetime. AIDS was devastating but slower moving and transmission could be reasonably controlled. Back when I was a kid there was a Rubella outbreak, but there were vaccines and I had one. Other epidemics since WWII have been more localized (MERS, SARS, Ebola, etc.)

All we can do is hang on and ride this one out.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 15, 2020 • 6:29:44am
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 15, 2020 • 6:30:48am

re: #238 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

The Guardian has published a couple of very critical pieces the past couple of days about Boris’ approach.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 15, 2020 • 6:33:01am

re: #239 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

The Guardian has published a couple of very critical pieces the past couple of days about Boris’ approach.

It’s complete insanity. The US & UK used to be smart about government. Now? We’re idiots.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Mar 15, 2020 • 6:34:23am

re: #239 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

The Guardian has published a couple of very critical pieces the past couple of days about Boris’ approach.

Because boris is a moron of the orange shit-goblin persuasion. Hear a word, try to use it without understanding. Watch your idea fail, blame someone else.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 15, 2020 • 6:36:14am
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 15, 2020 • 6:36:51am

2nd Marine at MCAS Miramar tests positive for coronavirus

Also, with the councilman down in Chula Vista, the sailor in downtown San Diego, I’m just going with the idea that SARS-Cov-2 is in the community in the county.

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Disloyal Archangel  Mar 15, 2020 • 6:40:02am
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mmmirele  Mar 15, 2020 • 6:40:06am

My evil too big to fail employer sent out a very detailed email on Friday night spelling out various situations and what we’re to do in them. As a manager and someone who can work at home, not all of this applied to me. It should surprise nobody that ETBTF employer is more proactive than the Trump administration.

Basically, the situations went from “you’ve tested positive for coronavirus” through “you think you’ve been exposed [obviously for those who can’t get a test because there aren’t any to be had],” “you’ve been in contact with someone who tested positive,” “you have children whose school or daycare has closed” to the one that applies to me: “you’re in a high-risk group as defined by the CDC.” Basically, my group has been told to stay out of the office. That’s what I’ve been waiting for.

To my evil too big to fail employer’s credit, the seven days of personal PTO you have to use up before going on short-term disability has been waived if you test positive for COVID-19, have been exposed or are in a high risk group.. If I couldn’t work at home (which I can, and plan on doing, I feel FINE), I could be paid for this “Nonroutine Event > Public Health/Quarantine” for 14 days. People can get paid for five days while looking for childcare. This last is pretty important as the Los Angeles Unified School District is shutting down and the ETBTF employer has a lot of employees in LA.

Again, it’s pretty shameful that an amoral business has to step up and do right by its employees because we have no social safety net. I am concerned for people in the “gig economy” or who are working a couple of jobs to make ends mee.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 15, 2020 • 6:45:06am

Fauci: Worst-case coronavirus predictions ‘unlikely if we do the kinds of things that we’re essentially outlining right now’

Anthony Fauci, the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said Sunday that the steps the U.S. is taking to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus will likely mean the worst-case estimates for the number of deaths don’t materialize.

ABC’s Jonathan Karl asked Fauci on “This Week” about the New York Times report on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) worst-case projections. The CDC reportedly predicted 160 million to 214 million infections, 2.4 million to 21 million hospitalizations and 200,000 to 1.7 million deaths in the country.

Fauci responded that a model is “only as good as the assumptions you put into a model.”

“The worst-case scenario is either you do nothing or your mitigation and containments don’t succeed,” he said “So although that’s possible, it is unlikely if we do the kinds of things that we’re essentially outlining right now.”

[…]

That’s a very big “if”.

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Belafon  Mar 15, 2020 • 6:45:25am
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I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)  Mar 15, 2020 • 6:45:29am

this is an absolutely outstanding article on covid-19

easy to read, lots of data. no spin.

politically speaking the takeaway is official vs true cases:

Crucially, these true cases weren’t known at the time. We can only figure them out looking backwards: The authorities don’t know that somebody just started having symptoms. They know when somebody goes to the doctor and gets diagnosed*.

What this means is that the orange bars [graph] show you what authorities knew, and the grey ones what was really happening.

*diagnosed and / or merely tested.
no tests, no numbers; it’s a hoax, no big deal, etc

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 15, 2020 • 6:49:27am

Trump trolls coming out in that TheHill piece about Fauci’s statements.

I tried to bat one down: disq.us

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Disloyal Archangel  Mar 15, 2020 • 6:49:44am
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 15, 2020 • 6:58:30am

re: #248 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)

this is an absolutely outstanding article on covid-19

easy to read, lots of data. no spin.

Things are moving so quickly that the graphs/data in that article are in many cases now out of date. For example, cases outside of China have now surpassed the number of cases in China.

We are now on the steep side of the infection curve. Any number you see that are counts are already out of date by the time you see them. At best, if you want real time numbers you’re going to have to go with simulations that extrapolate from the latest counts.

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The Pie Overlord!  Mar 15, 2020 • 6:59:03am

This is the time of year that Jewish people clean out their homes and remove all leavened products. We lock up the unused leaven (flour, pasta, cereal, liquor, my container of sourdough starter) and eat no leaven products for a week!

There is a frenzy of shopping as everyone buys “kosher for Passover” products!

Families gather for Passover seder like it’s Thanksgiving. My daughter and her family booked tickets in early February.

Then, when the Passover holiday is over, we put away the Passover dishes, silverware, pots & pans, and bring out the dishes we use all year and celebrate with pizza!

Last year we managed through a measles outbreak where the kosher supermarket was “Ground Zero.”

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2020 Blue Wisconsin  Mar 15, 2020 • 7:00:47am

re: #172 Targetpractice

See, this is why we can’t have nice things:

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Actually, that makes me wonder if we’ll be seeing a baby boom about 9 months from now…

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The Pie Overlord!  Mar 15, 2020 • 7:02:18am

I am thinking more and more about my grandfather who died in the 1918 influenza pandemic. He was 29 years old.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 15, 2020 • 7:03:35am

Second Person Tests Positive For Coronavirus At Northwestern University

No information on how the person contracted the virus.

I do wonder how universities are going to be able to get going again anytime this year.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 15, 2020 • 7:05:31am

re: #254 The Pie Overlord!

Looks like he was a studious man. Sorry to hear he died so young.

My father and his siblings made it through the 1918 flu, probably because they were somewhat isolated on the farm. Back then they farmed with horses, so one didn’t go running to the nearest town in an automobile.

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 15, 2020 • 7:10:12am

re: #255 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Remote learning also known as distance learning.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Mar 15, 2020 • 7:11:47am

re: #252 The Pie Overlord!

There is a frenzy of shopping as everyone buys “kosher for Passover” products!

Its during this time one looks out for yellow-capped bottles of Coca-Cola that are made with sugar…

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 15, 2020 • 7:12:01am

re: #257 PhillyPretzel

Remote learning also known as distance learning.

Does not work with labs. Does not work with most art. Etc.

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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!  Mar 15, 2020 • 7:12:16am

re: #207 unproven innocence

Due to South Korea’s more thorough testing, their data is less likely than any other nations’ to be seriously undercounting the # of cases of Covid-19, according to a study I read less than a week ago (but can’t find right now).

Of course I’m aware that that’s one possibility (I’m the one who kept harping on the Diamond Princess numbers after all), but it’s not safe to conclude anything this early. Still, it’s cause for hope.

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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!  Mar 15, 2020 • 7:13:49am

re: #213 ericblair

The measures are mostly “dirty foreigners out”, and lack of testing:

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That too, but they’re at least forbidding mass gatherings.

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 15, 2020 • 7:15:43am

re: #259 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

True. And most universities in and around Philly had extended Spring Break. We will see what happens.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 15, 2020 • 7:22:02am
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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Mar 15, 2020 • 7:22:06am

re: #245 mmmirele

Some government agencies are doing the right thing; at least mine, the US FDA is (they can’t require until Sec. of HHS declares it) suggesting (telling us; even the upper manglement team) we work from home. The prohibition on home child care while working from home has been waived; all internal and external meetings are moved to WebEx; our building remains open four the time being if you really need to do something there, but why?

The “official stance” still coming from the orange shit-goblin is that is everything as normal, though.

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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Mar 15, 2020 • 7:22:56am

re: #254 The Pie Overlord!

That is a terrific portrait.

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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!  Mar 15, 2020 • 7:23:51am

re: #230 jeffreyw

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Good morning!

Rain is good!

We’ll get through this together.
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 15, 2020 • 7:26:05am

Thread.

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I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)  Mar 15, 2020 • 7:28:14am

re: #239 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

The Guardian has published a couple of very critical pieces the past couple of days about Boris’ approach.

And he thought all he’d have to deal with was a measly brexit

Governing is dealing with what you *didn’t* expect

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I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)  Mar 15, 2020 • 7:28:55am

re: #240 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

It’s complete insanity. The US & UK used to be smart about government. Now? We’re idiots.

We elected idiots

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 15, 2020 • 7:29:31am
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PhillyPretzel  Mar 15, 2020 • 7:32:02am

re: #270 Backwoods_Sleuth

I agree with the good doctor.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 15, 2020 • 7:33:20am
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Dr Lizardo  Mar 15, 2020 • 7:34:01am

re: #272 Backwoods_Sleuth

Aged like milk left out on the counter for a couple of weeks.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Mar 15, 2020 • 7:35:21am

re: #259 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Does not work with labs. Does not work with most art. Etc.

Does not work without instructors trained in that style of teaching, which most are not.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 15, 2020 • 7:36:04am
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Ace Rothstein  Mar 15, 2020 • 7:37:05am

re: #272 Backwoods_Sleuth

That aged as well as uncorked wine.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 15, 2020 • 7:37:33am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 15, 2020 • 7:38:27am
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I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)  Mar 15, 2020 • 7:39:51am

re: #251 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Things are moving so quickly that the graphs/data in that article are in many cases now out of date. For example, cases outside of China have now surpassed the number of cases in China.

We are now on the steep side of the infection curve. Any number you see that are counts are already out of date by the time you see them. At best, if you want real time numbers you’re going to have to go with simulations that extrapolate from the latest counts.

Absolutely

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 15, 2020 • 7:42:17am
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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!  Mar 15, 2020 • 7:46:28am

re: #280 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Paywalled for me.

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Mar 15, 2020 • 7:47:10am

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Mar 15, 2020 • 7:48:33am
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PhillyPretzel  Mar 15, 2020 • 7:48:50am

re: #282 NO SMOCKING GUN!

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Mar 15, 2020 • 7:50:25am

re: #284 PhillyPretzel

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 15, 2020 • 7:52:41am

Germany seals itself off: In response to the corona pandemic, the borders with France, Austria and Switzerland are to be closed from Monday. There will be exceptions for commuters and traffic of goods.

spiegel.de

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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!  Mar 15, 2020 • 7:52:46am

re: #282 NO SMOCKING GUN!

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Ace Rothstein  Mar 15, 2020 • 7:53:05am

A week ago I mentioned that my bookie had Trump as a -200 (66%) favorite over any Democrat. The “Any Democrat” was +170 (37%). That $30 difference in between the two numbers should make it more than obvious why the bookmakers never lose in the long run. Anyway, last night I logged on to the bookie’s app, and Trump is now -140 (58%) and the Democrat is even money (50%). I still maintain that there is no way that Trump is that big of a favorite, but unfortunately all the value on betting the Democrat has been squeezed out.

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Ace Rothstein  Mar 15, 2020 • 7:54:21am

re: #283 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

Suckers, fish, donkeys, all of them. They deserve everything they get.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 15, 2020 • 7:55:05am

South Asia - I wonder how they are going to cope:

Patient with coronavirus-like symptoms flees from hospital

Shahjahan (40), who returned from Bahrain, was admitted to the hospital’s medicine ward around 8:00am today.

He has been suffering from fever, cough, sneezing and breathing difficulties, the hospital’s Director Uttam Kumar Barua told The Daily Star.

After examining his health condition, doctors suspected that it might be a case of coronavirus, so they called for a team from Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR), the director said.

When the IEDCR team reached the hospital around 12:30pm and went to the medicine ward, doctors did not find him and his wife, he added.

Uma Rani Saha, a nurse at the hospital, told The Daily Star that the patient was very nervous when he heard that he might be infected with coronavirus.

[…]

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 15, 2020 • 7:55:16am

re: #281 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!

Paywalled for me.

Now it is for me too. Weird.

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Mar 15, 2020 • 7:55:48am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 15, 2020 • 8:01:52am

morons

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Disloyal Archangel  Mar 15, 2020 • 8:03:50am

For those unfamiliar with it, Folding@Home is a long-running, volunteer-based distributed computing project for disease and biomedical research. Users basically “donate” their computer’s idle time, letting the program run as a screensaver and put the hardware to use analyzing protein folding, computational drug design, and other types of molecular dynamics.

In the past few days, they’ve added and prioritized COVID-related projects.

Thanks to Nvidia and one of Reddit’s large PC subs, it’s now going, appropriately, viral.

I’ve been contributing to them for a very long time (admittedly less in recent years after a previous bugged version couldn’t run on my PC); it’s good to be able to do something to help with the efforts against COVID-19, however minimal.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 15, 2020 • 8:03:52am

re: #293 Backwoods_Sleuth

morons

I wish Twitter would just fucking ban him already as Kamala Harris suggested.

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lawhawk  Mar 15, 2020 • 8:06:20am

re: #6 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

This season, flu deaths peaked in week four at 446. That are deaths reported to the CDC - the actual number will be higher and estimated numbers will be available much later.

Flu deaths this week are probably substantially lower than that maximum week.

But, as the conservaderp strategy illustrated, most people don’t give a thought to these statistics. Most people have no real problem if they contract the flu, just a few days of misery.

Until the hospitals are full and ambulances are turned away, not sure people are going to really notice the problem of everyone getting infected at once.

Gov Cuomo is calling on Trump to mobilize the military to help build MASH units to help with potential overflow from hospitals.

China built temporary hospitals to deal with the overflow in China, and even then the hospitals were overburdened.

There’s an average of 2.4 beds per 1000 people nationwide. But that’s not an even distribution. NJ has 2.4. NY has 2.7.

Washington has 1.7 - and that begins to give a sense of how many ICU beds are also available (or the max that could be converted to ICU). If NY is warning on beds, you can be damned sure there are places that are in far worse shape.

Iran didn’t build mobile hospitals. They instead have mass graves to deal with the death toll. The death toll there (and China for that matter) is probably higher than they’re willing to admit.

Trump continues dragging his feet over all this. He refuses to practice social distancing at his pressers and conferences, and cares more about misinforming the masses and contradicting his public health experts than following their advice. He puts Jared into a key role on the covid19 response, but when people point out why he’s at a conference call with public health experts, Trumpworld crops him out of photos to reduce the chances people see this.

Trump’s failures are manifest, including declaring travel bans and not having resources available to screen passengers. Instead of screening on the outbound side, he funnels everyone into massive lines on the inbound side where no one can avoid close contact with everyone else - guaranteeing the spread. Trump’s failures include refusing to coordinate with foreign leaders, ignoring the spread domestically, downplaying the severity of the crisis, and focusing on how to get relief to his backers and oil companies instead of taking action on public health now.

Tonight we have a debate between presumptive nominee Biden and Bernie. They should put out a joint statement indicating that they will not shake hands out of a social distancing public health measure because that’s what people should be doing during this pandemic in direct contrast to Trumpworld ignoring all those protocols.

This needs to be about Trump and his failures to act, and yet the media still treats Trump statements as something newsworth without indicating all the lies up front and directly.

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lawhawk  Mar 15, 2020 • 8:08:45am

re: #293 Backwoods_Sleuth

Pressers where no one practices safe public health measures. No social distancing. Trump shaking hands with everyone. No one countering Trump’s lies.

Trump instead focuses on the economic indicators, even though you can’t stop a pandemic with tax cuts (and Grover Norquist was droning on about that latter bit earlier today too). When every problem the right wing encounters is treated with a tax cut, you know how fact-free the GOP truly is.

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The Pie Overlord!  Mar 15, 2020 • 8:08:58am

JFC TEH EEMAYLES!!!!!

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 15, 2020 • 8:09:07am

re: #254 The Pie Overlord!

I am thinking more and more about my grandfather who died in the 1918 influenza pandemic. He was 29 years old.

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Thanks for this VB. There was a story my grandfather told that he lost two siblings in the pandemic. My cousin and I later verified that it was not true but I think about the lives of people like your grandparents and my great grandparents. My Dad’s parents weren’t much older than many of your grandkids and my niece was when this happened. I never asked my Nana about it because I didn’t know too much about the flu pandemic when she still had her memory. And that’s another thing that pisses me off about the LOL JOE BIDEN HAS DEMENTIA crowd, I knwo what dementia is. It was the hardest thing for me to watch this lovely woman who loved all of her children, grandchlidren, and great grandchildren forget. I think about my ancestors constantly in these strange times.

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Mar 15, 2020 • 8:09:40am

Business as usual; mega corporations got themselves exempt from mandatory paid sick leave in the House bill. So the people handling your food at McDonalds and Wal-Mart will come to work infected because otherwise they won’t get paid. vox.com

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 15, 2020 • 8:09:44am

This assclown:

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 15, 2020 • 8:10:11am

re: #298 The Pie Overlord!

JFC TEH EEMAYLES!!!!!

God he’s such a disgusting freak. Please America. Let’s put this son of a bitch on trial when all this is over. He needs to be held accountable.

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sagehen  Mar 15, 2020 • 8:11:25am

re: #283 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

A new survey from the Pew Research Center shows that U.S. evangelicals are far more likely than other Americans to see President Trump as “honest” and “morally upstanding” and “somewhat religious.”

Which I’m sure has nothing to do with the fact that US evangelical culture have deliberately cloistered their media access. They don’t watch mainstream movies or television, they don’t read mainstream novels or newspapers or science, they don’t listen to mainstream music, they don’t attend public schools (K-12 or universities).

Ex-evangelicals, again and again and again, tell us how astonished they are to eventually find out discover what people outside their subculture are like, what science has published, what politicians have said or done.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 15, 2020 • 8:11:37am

re: #301 Dr Lizardo

This assclown:

I have never felt more disgusted by an American president.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 15, 2020 • 8:12:52am

re: #303 sagehen

Which I’m sure has nothing to do with the fact that US evangelical culture have deliberately cloistered their media access. They don’t watch mainstream movies or television, they don’t read mainstream novels or newspapers or science, they don’t listen to mainstream music, they don’t attend public schools (K-12 or universities).

Ex-evangelicals, again and again and again, tell us how astonished they are to eventually find out discover what people outside their subculture are like, what science has published, what politicians have said or done.

Indeed. They accuse liberals of living in a bubble but Evangelicals live in the biggest bubble of all.

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Belafon  Mar 15, 2020 • 8:16:43am

re: #283 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

When your religion is money and white supremacy, Trump is going to fit right in.

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Eventual Carrion  Mar 15, 2020 • 8:16:50am

re: #262 PhillyPretzel

True. And most universities in and around Philly had extended Spring Break. We will see what happens.

My sons college extended spring break by 2 weeks and will be having all online classes for the foreseeable future upon return. Guess all the kids in the dorms have to move out. My son has an apartment just outside of campus and works weekends for the local Sheetz in his college town. Wife will pick him up tomorrow and he will stay here at home until Friday, then take him back for the weekend work. At least he is only about 45 minutes away so it isn’t a long trip back and forth.

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Belafon  Mar 15, 2020 • 8:18:57am

re: #307 Eventual Carrion

My sons college extended spring break by 2 weeks and will be having all online classes for the foreseeable future upon return. Guess all the kids in the dorms have to move out. My son has an apartment just outside of campus and works weekends for the local Sheetz in his college town. Wife will pick him up tomorrow and he will stay here at home until Friday, then take him back for the weekend work. At least he is only about 45 minutes away so it isn’t a long trip back and forth.

My son’s college added one more week to spring break, and at least two weeks of online classes after. They weren’t forced out of the dorms, and he can return to campus and do his online stuff there. UTD has a lot of international students that would have nowhere else to go.

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Mar 15, 2020 • 8:22:32am

In the face of a pandemic which will likely cause millions of job losses, the Trump Administration is fighting in court to cut off food stamp benefits to 700k Americans. slate.com

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Belafon  Mar 15, 2020 • 8:24:30am

From mistermix over at balloon juice:

Yesterday, things got real around my home town, Rochester, NY, when the news broke that the second diagnosed COVID-19 case was a 60 year-old woman who worked in the Greece, NY public schools. She was exposed at services at a Ukranian Catholic Church in another suburb on March 1, and worked a couple of days with symptoms before testing. Prior to her diagnosis, the only confirmed case in Rochester was a man who had traveled to Italy. So, in one fell swoop, we learned that we had community spread, that the virus had been in our community for weeks, and that it makes no sense to keep schools open. There had been a debate on Thursday and Friday over whether the schools should be closed. By 2:30 yesterday, that debate was over, and the schools all closed. Our County Executive, a Democrat (thank you baby Jesus), declared a state of emergency yesterday.

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BlueSpotinAL  Mar 15, 2020 • 8:28:31am

re: #308 Belafon

My son’s college added one more week to spring break, and at least two weeks of online classes after. They weren’t forced out of the dorms, and he can return to campus and do his online stuff there. UTD has a lot of international students that would have nowhere else to go.

Our University told US residents to go home and stay, and international students can stay.

Chemistry labs are going to be a challenge, but will be done. They have already done a lot in lab, though.

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Disloyal Archangel  Mar 15, 2020 • 8:29:41am

Meanwhile in Israel:
Following the elections, Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin began accepting the traditional post-election party recommendations for the role of next Prime Minister.
In something of a surprise twist, Israel’s Blue White party leader Benny Gantz - chief rival to Benjamin Netanyahu - has just been given the majority of recommendations, 61 out of 120, with both the Arab Joint List party AND Avigdor Lieberman’s Israel Beitenu recommending Gantz (IB gave no recommendation last time around, to give both Netanyahu and Gantz a chance).

In semi-related news, loud and continuous screams have been heard echoing across the city of Caesarea, where the current Prime Minister is known to reside…

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plansbandc  Mar 15, 2020 • 8:31:04am

re: #282 NO SMOCKING GUN!

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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!  Mar 15, 2020 • 8:32:46am

UC Berkeley has its first confirmed case, someone who doesn’t live in the city of Berkeley and is deemed not to have changed anything about policies already in place — remote classes where possible, working remotely where possible, social distancing. The dorms remain open, as do the venues that feed students.

(The confirmed case is self-isolating, and as a graduate student, probably isn’t in a high-risk group.)

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lawhawk  Mar 15, 2020 • 8:33:07am

re: #312 Disloyal Archangel

Right wingers are already spewing nonsense about how Ganz is now pushing the Palestinian view and will destroy Israel, all while ignoring the chaos Bibi and his corruption have already caused.

Ganz will be forming the first non-Bibi govt in 11+ years.

With all this going on, Bibi has been seemingly competent on covid19 response, doing aggressive testing, and even involving Palestinians in that effort.

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Renaissance_Man  Mar 15, 2020 • 8:33:21am

re: #313 plansbandc

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plansbandc  Mar 15, 2020 • 8:37:29am

re: #316 Renaissance_Man

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 15, 2020 • 8:39:02am

Well, looks like Wuhan-style lockdown is coming to the Czech Republic.

I’m fucked.

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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!  Mar 15, 2020 • 8:39:34am

re: #317 plansbandc

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jaunte  Mar 15, 2020 • 8:39:37am
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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 15, 2020 • 8:40:14am

re: #312 Disloyal Archangel

Meanwhile in Israel:
Following the elections, Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin began accepting the traditional post-election party recommendations for the role of next Prime Minister.
In something of a surprise twist, Israel’s Blue White party leader Benny Gantz - chief rival to Benjamin Netanyahu - has just been given the majority of recommendations, 61 out of 120, with both the Arab Joint List party AND Avigdor Lieberman’s Israel Beitenu recommending Gantz (IB gave no recommendation last time around, to give both Netanyahu and Gantz a chance).

In semi-related news, loud and continuous screams have been heard echoing across the city of Ceasaria, where the current Prime Minister is known to reside…

I really think Bibi being out of power and Trump being out here in the US will do a lot of good. If Ganz becomes PM, he definitely has his work ahead of him. I wish him well.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 15, 2020 • 8:41:02am

re: #318 Dr Lizardo

Well, looks like Wuhan-style lockdown is coming to the Czech Republic.

I’m fucked.

Stay safe dude. Tell your Czech friends and neighbors that we’re all in this.

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plansbandc  Mar 15, 2020 • 8:41:35am

re: #319 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!

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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!  Mar 15, 2020 • 8:42:20am

re: #320 jaunte

I have still been going to restaurants, with precautions, to support those workers, but he needs to spell out restrictions. Pub, no — unless they can manage to separate the clientele.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 15, 2020 • 8:42:39am

re: #322 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

Stay safe dude. Tell your Czech friends and neighbors that we’re all in this.

It’s got nothing to do with being safe. I’m gonna be homeless. I’m a gig economy worker. No lessons….no $$$. No $$$, no rent, no food.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 15, 2020 • 8:43:04am
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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 15, 2020 • 8:44:12am

re: #325 Dr Lizardo

It’s got nothing to do with being safe. I’m gonna be homeless. I’m a gig economy worker. No lessons….no $$$. No $$$, no rent, no food.

Agh how awful. The gig economy. Man. I think we’re in experiencing a period of economic transition along with what’s going on. There are times where I just want to escape all this madness.

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The Pie Overlord!  Mar 15, 2020 • 8:44:43am

re: #315 lawhawk

Right wingers are already spewing nonsense about how Ganz is now pushing the Palestinian view and will destroy Israel, all while ignoring the chaos Bibi and his corruption have already caused.

Ganz will be forming the first non-Bibi govt in 11+ years.

With all this going on, Bibi has been seemingly competent on covid19 response, doing aggressive testing, and even involving Palestinians in that effort.

I donate money to 3 charity foundations in Israel:

United Hatzalah for saving Z’s life when he had a hypoglycemic attack on an El Al flight
Magen David Adom
Pantry Packers a soup kitchen run by my son-in-law.

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jaunte  Mar 15, 2020 • 8:45:28am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Mar 15, 2020 • 8:45:52am

re: #228 Colère Tueur de Lapin

And you got attacked for pointing out the problem that is the republican party.

I responded back just now, though I’m not going to waste any more time with jackasses over there.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 15, 2020 • 8:46:18am

re: #329 jaunte

Finally watched Bombshell last night. Fox even before this was a fucking shithole for awful people.

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Disloyal Archangel  Mar 15, 2020 • 8:46:53am

re: #315 lawhawk

Right wingers are already spewing nonsense about how Ganz is now pushing the Palestinian view and will destroy Israel, all while ignoring the chaos Bibi and his corruption have already caused.

Ganz will be forming the first non-Bibi govt in 11+ years.

With all this going on, Bibi has been seemingly competent on covid19 response, doing aggressive testing, and even involving Palestinians in that effort.

Yeah, seemingly competent seems an accurate description. A lot of good policies were put in place, but also some far reaching ones that created a panic in the past couple of days, primarily fears of service and food/product shortages.

And he was already more than happy to use it to his personal advantage, with emergency regulations being passed LITERALLY in the middle of the night this Sunday, at 2AM. These included, among other things, emergency functionality of the Israeli courts, which resulted in - happy coincidence - the delaying of his criminal trial from this Tuesday to the first week of May.
Also being considered: granting the police and Shabak security service permission to use far-reaching tech surveillance (including monitoring cellphone tracking and social media surveillance) to know the whereabouts of COVID patients and people who they may have been in contact with, at all times.

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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!  Mar 15, 2020 • 8:47:03am

re: #323 plansbandc

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lawhawk  Mar 15, 2020 • 8:47:49am

re: #328 The Pie Overlord!

I have donated to Leket in the past, and continue to do so. They take excess food from restaurants and businesses and deliver them to those in need.

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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!  Mar 15, 2020 • 8:48:27am

re: #326 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Tweet some more. Get everyone to retweet.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Mar 15, 2020 • 8:48:27am
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jaunte  Mar 15, 2020 • 8:49:24am

All that “liberalism is a mental disorder” stuff was pure projection.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Mar 15, 2020 • 8:50:13am

It looks like the Panhandle Public Health District is trying to quarantine the Panhandle from the rest of the world:

If you are returning to the Panhandle from a community experiencing community transmission or known community spread, please call Panhandle Public Health District at[no phone numbers allowed] before returning to the Panhandle. You will need to self-quarantine and complete monitoring for 14 days; you will receive more guidance once you have made the call.

pphd.org

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calochortus  Mar 15, 2020 • 8:50:42am

I’m doing what I can by staying away from people except for grocery shopping and the like. (Also saw my brother and sister-in-law the other evening. Non essential, but pretty low risk.)
I’m hoping that there will be some way to help out all the service/gig workers when the dust settles a bit. Thing is, I rarely do things in my everyday life that feeds into that economy. We rarely eat out (Mr. C is celiac,) I don’t need ride-shares, I don’t get my nails done, etc., etc. Really, the government doing something and paying through our taxes is the only practical way to do that. I realize the Feds are unlikely to do much, but maybe California will step up?

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 15, 2020 • 8:51:21am

re: #336 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

I cannot wait to vote against this fuckhead in November and then hopefully celebrate his removal from the Presidency and hopefully trial.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 15, 2020 • 8:52:10am

re: #337 jaunte

All that “liberalism is a mental disorder” stuff was pure projection.

Exposing yourself to a virus to trigger the libs. I swear. This is why I kinda do hope Trump dies from it even though I want him held accountable. I want them to see how stupid they’ve been and maybe Trump dying from it will wake some of them up.

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lawhawk  Mar 15, 2020 • 8:53:28am

re: #337 jaunte

The POWER of Lysol compels you. Prayer is meaningless at a time like this. Science is needed, and like Trump and the GOP, they would rather faith this away than do the hard work necessary to try and flatten the curve.

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Belafon  Mar 15, 2020 • 8:54:00am

re: #326 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Hang up. Let them call back. Tell them you’ll only speak to the president. Then let the world know what happened.

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Mar 15, 2020 • 8:54:16am

re: #329 jaunte

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Success! Thank Cthulhu! Our chemtrail distributed cyber brain-virus has reprogrammed the Republican leadership to eradicate its own base. The effect is probably fleeting, since the Nunes unit has so little brain matter to be influenced, but any positive result is worthwhile.

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Disloyal Archangel  Mar 15, 2020 • 8:56:26am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 15, 2020 • 8:56:53am

re: #342 lawhawk

The POWER of Lysol compels you. Prayer is meaningless at a time like this. Science is needed, and like Trump and the GOP, they would rather faith this away than do the hard work necessary to try and flatten the curve.

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lawhawk  Mar 15, 2020 • 8:57:39am

Spanish PM’s wife and two other ministers test positive.

Restaurants and bars closed across France. Italy is in lockdown.

Nashville TN, South Padre Island, PARTY PARTY PARTY!

The disconnect is not only jarring, but entirely predictable when there’s precisely zero leadership from the leading from the REMF Trump.

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jaunte  Mar 15, 2020 • 8:57:41am
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jaunte  Mar 15, 2020 • 8:58:53am
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jaunte  Mar 15, 2020 • 9:00:24am

Profiteering scumbag stays true to form.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 15, 2020 • 9:01:30am

re: #350 jaunte

Profiteering scumbag stays true to form.

This needs to be the end of “populist nationalism.” This virus isn’t playing favorites with nationalities. Trump’s hatred of Europe is getting people killed.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 15, 2020 • 9:02:04am
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lawhawk  Mar 15, 2020 • 9:02:05am

NYC metro area debate - to close or not close schools.

There’s the concern about the disruption to education systems. There’s the concern about community spread, and what to do with the kids that are home (they go to the playgrounds where they mix and mingle anyways). And who cares for those kids especially for those parent(s) who have to work? Grandparents who are most at risk?

There are no good answers here, and shutdowns are likely inevitable. All the efforts to bend the curve are coming at the state and local level, and Trump’s busy suggesting everything is fine if you do business as usual.

But the thing about school closures is this - it is a value signal that things aren’t normal and wont be for a while to come. It gets people recognizing the danger and to take action in ways that other efforts aren’t.

Trump isn’t leading on any of this. He’s only listening to the worms in his brainpan.

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Disloyal Archangel  Mar 15, 2020 • 9:03:17am
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plansbandc  Mar 15, 2020 • 9:03:58am
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William Lewis  Mar 15, 2020 • 9:05:05am

re: #337 jaunte

All that “liberalism is a mental disorder” stuff was pure projection.

Maybe the good Lord is using this to weed out all the hate filled Pseudo-Evangelicals out there? Wouldn’t that be funny!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 15, 2020 • 9:05:06am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 15, 2020 • 9:06:20am
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retired cynic  Mar 15, 2020 • 9:06:31am

re: #286 Dr Lizardo

Germany seals itself off: In response to the corona pandemic, the borders with France, Austria and Switzerland are to be closed from Monday. There will be exceptions for commuters and traffic of goods.

spiegel.de

I talked with a friend from Hungary last night via email, and he said they are closed off. Everyone there is scared, as there is a lot of traffic with northern Italy.

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 15, 2020 • 9:06:50am

re: #357 Backwoods_Sleuth

Happy B’day RBG. :)

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 15, 2020 • 9:06:57am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Mar 15, 2020 • 9:08:03am

Well, it turns out stupid will kill other people too, not just the stupid person.

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lawhawk  Mar 15, 2020 • 9:08:10am

Israel: no gatherings of 10+ people.
France: shut bars, restaurants, cafes, and public places.

Nashville TN: PARTY
South Padre Island: PARTY PARTY

The MIA governors from those states are endangering the welfare of the nation and their state residents with their depraved indifference and putting profit above all else.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Mar 15, 2020 • 9:09:53am

re: #356 William Lewis

Maybe the good Lord is using this to weed out all the hate filled Pseudo-Evangelicals out there? Wouldn’t that be funny!

I don’t find it funny that religious brainwashing will get millions killed.

I didn’t sign up for this as an atheist (but Christianity has a long history of killing us).

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lawhawk  Mar 15, 2020 • 9:10:19am

Metal:

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 15, 2020 • 9:12:15am
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William Lewis  Mar 15, 2020 • 9:13:16am

re: #364 Anymouse 🌹🎃

I don’t find it funny that religious brainwashing will get millions killed.

I didn’t sign up for this as an atheist (but Christianity has a long history of killing us).

Yes. We know. You tell us a dozen times a day how you should have been murdered by ebil Christianists a thousand million billion times by now.

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Disloyal Archangel  Mar 15, 2020 • 9:13:41am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 15, 2020 • 9:14:53am
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 15, 2020 • 9:15:45am
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stpaulbear  Mar 15, 2020 • 9:16:14am

re: #324 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!

I have still been going to restaurants, with precautions, to support those workers, but he needs to spell out restrictions. Pub, no — unless they can manage to separate the clientele.

I’ve gotten some restaurant food too, but I get it to go. I’m not sitting down.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Mar 15, 2020 • 9:16:34am

It’s not just evangelicals. Conservative religion is doing it too.
(0:06)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Mar 15, 2020 • 9:18:02am

The church across the street from me (Lutheran) took the information I pasted to the trap line seriously. Last night they cancelled services this morning.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 15, 2020 • 9:19:16am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Mar 15, 2020 • 9:20:23am

re: #374 Backwoods_Sleuth

Well, I hope the Brexiteers are happy. They were warned.

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retired cynic  Mar 15, 2020 • 9:20:43am

re: #325 Dr Lizardo

It’s got nothing to do with being safe. I’m gonna be homeless. I’m a gig economy worker. No lessons….no $$$. No $$$, no rent, no food.

Is there anything we can do from here, $ wise?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 15, 2020 • 9:20:53am
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Dr Lizardo  Mar 15, 2020 • 9:21:18am

re: #375 Anymouse 🌹🎃

Well, I hope the Brexiteers are happy. They were warned.

Some of You May Die

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Mar 15, 2020 • 9:21:40am
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goddamnedfrank  Mar 15, 2020 • 9:23:58am
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Dr Lizardo  Mar 15, 2020 • 9:24:07am

re: #376 retired cynic

Is there anything we can do from here, $ wise?

SYdCmU5v3l5Dst9CVAVdO8Gxmm5fhOrQ8X+wf++nbRdoK1MmpbPoAZkjtqhzvA2i+ISzuRzdCokO+6KRgYRftzzwl0NPsz29

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 15, 2020 • 9:24:27am

“Mr.Guilfoyle”

*snerk*

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Belafon  Mar 15, 2020 • 9:24:57am

re: #370 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

The Black Plague was aided by people meeting at church to pray the plague away.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 15, 2020 • 9:25:58am

sadly true

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Belafon  Mar 15, 2020 • 9:27:21am

re: #384 Backwoods_Sleuth

sadly true

Or Texas.

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jaunte  Mar 15, 2020 • 9:28:11am

re: #385 Belafon

Looking for leadership, we get a Corona beer joke.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Mar 15, 2020 • 9:29:41am

re: #382 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Mar 15, 2020 • 9:30:33am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 15, 2020 • 9:31:35am
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Barefoot Grin  Mar 15, 2020 • 9:32:43am
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Belafon  Mar 15, 2020 • 9:33:28am

re: #390 Barefoot Grin

No, you really don’t want to know them.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 15, 2020 • 9:34:13am
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PhillyPretzel  Mar 15, 2020 • 9:34:34am

re: #389 Backwoods_Sleuth

Maybe someone should tell that congress critter if he wants to help buy a case of Lysol and give the cans to those in need. I am sorry I am a bit pissed off by all of those who are not doing what they can.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Mar 15, 2020 • 9:36:03am

Managing editor at the Buffett Early Child Institute:

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retired cynic  Mar 15, 2020 • 9:36:47am

re: #381 Dr Lizardo

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Wr0+m1Yv9b5ubYl+SKjsbeOoECUXp9mY

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 15, 2020 • 9:37:27am
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jaunte  Mar 15, 2020 • 9:38:05am

Stress-counting down the next 25 days: will I get my house sold first, or get a fever?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Mar 15, 2020 • 9:38:06am

Nebraska Medicine update:

March 15

A 16-year-old boy from Crofton, Neb., and a former Diamond Princess passenger injured in a fall have improved to good condition. They continue to be treated in the Nebraska Biocontainment Unit, along with a 36-year-old Omaha woman who remains in critical condition.

For those who might be experiencing symptoms, instructions are available here. This link also offers resources, guidelines and links to trusted sources for area residents and businesses as they take measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

Cases in the U.S. have reached about 3,100, with 60 deaths. Worldwide, cases stand at about 163,000, with about 6,100 deaths.
nebraskamed.com

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sagehen  Mar 15, 2020 • 9:38:53am

re: #315 lawhawk

With all this going on, Bibi has been seemingly competent on covid19 response, doing aggressive testing, and even involving Palestinians in that effort.

Even Bibi cannot out-yell, out-maneuver, or out-instruct that many Jewish mothers and Jewish doctors.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Mar 15, 2020 • 9:39:04am

re: #350 jaunte

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 15, 2020 • 9:40:46am

re: #400 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

I am so disgusted. Disgusted not only by him but the people who make excuse after excuse for him and his shitty administration. Move over Jimmy Buchanan and Andy Johnson, Donnie’Trump’s here to take your place as the two worst POTUSes in history.

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plansbandc  Mar 15, 2020 • 9:41:17am

The birds are extra chirpy today. Can tell it’s almost spring.

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calochortus  Mar 15, 2020 • 9:41:36am

re: #393 PhillyPretzel

Maybe someone should tell that congress critter if he wants to help buy a case of Lysol and give the cans to those in need. I am sorry I am a bit pissed off by all of those who are not doing what they can.

We seem to have a weird combination of panic and denial. I suppose people don’t really believe the denial part, and therefore panic.

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plansbandc  Mar 15, 2020 • 9:41:56am

re: #401 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

He wants to kill a lot of people.

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BeachDem  Mar 15, 2020 • 9:42:04am

re: #377 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Hard to believe that DeWine has really stepped up. He’s usually such an asshole.

And speaking of assholes, my Rep, major idiot Tom Rice, this morning:

this is not a reason to panic. What will get us into more problems than the actual illness itself is if people panic over this and we shut down economic activity”.

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stpaulbear  Mar 15, 2020 • 9:42:09am

re: #400 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

Germany (and the EU) should consider this an act of war against its people.

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jaunte  Mar 15, 2020 • 9:42:27am
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BigPapa  Mar 15, 2020 • 9:42:37am

So Trump tried to make a business power play on a vaccine company so he could make a buck?

His shittiness has no bottom. Truly evil.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 15, 2020 • 9:43:00am

re: #404 plansbandc

He wants to kill a lot of people.

He needs to be put on trial.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 15, 2020 • 9:44:02am

Trump-Hague 2021!

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Mar 15, 2020 • 9:44:23am

re: #400 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

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plansbandc  Mar 15, 2020 • 9:44:49am

re: #406 stpaulbear

If the orange bag of pus and his minions get control of a cure, the poors will be priced right out of it. Guaranteed.

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sagehen  Mar 15, 2020 • 9:45:21am

re: #407 jaunte

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He believes that 9 women, working together, can gestate a baby in one month.

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Mar 15, 2020 • 9:46:33am

re: #387 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

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As usual Cheeto Jr is completely full of shit. First, I have always been ok with the 2A and so have the great majority of other Democrats. Secondly, a 12 gauge pump shotgun is a far better choice for sane people who feel the need to be armed. It is much cheaper and more versatile than a Black Rifle, it has far greater stopping power (including against vehicles if you use slugs) and it will be of less use to a crazed mass murderer if one happens to steal it from you.

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BigPapa  Mar 15, 2020 • 9:47:26am

re: #413 sagehen

He believes that 9 women, working together, can gestate a baby in one month.

If we all pray hard enough, sure it can.

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Jay C  Mar 15, 2020 • 9:48:12am

re: #384 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

sadly true

OK, maybe I’m just an armchair economist, but even after thinking it over a bit, I really can’t figure out Rep. Massie’s “logic” here, about how/why Amazon & eBay “waiving commissions” on hand sanitizer sales (re-sales) is going to somehow boost the availability. Outside, of course, of allowing hoarders/price-gougers to maximize their profits (Yay! Free markets!!) - public health considerations notwithstanding (as they usually aren’t with “libertarian” assholes).

But of course, Massie is a GOP Congressman, so defense of predatory economics is pretty much a given…..

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BeachDem  Mar 15, 2020 • 9:50:47am

re: #384 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

sadly true

If your senators are a total embarrassment and your rep. is a self centered dumbass you might live in Kentucky

Or South Carolina…

Tim Scott spouting the usual pablum on Fox.
My idiot Rep more worried about $ than people.
And Lindsey…

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plansbandc  Mar 15, 2020 • 9:51:26am

OK so this made me laugh entirely too much. Dear God it’s stupid. :D :D

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 15, 2020 • 9:52:06am

COVID-19 has the Oregon Buddhist Temple in Portland, Oregon doing livestreaming of their Sunday service:

2020 Spring Ohigan Service

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Belafon  Mar 15, 2020 • 9:54:30am

re: #400 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

She cited Germany’s foreign trade law, under which Berlin can examine takeover bids from non-EU, so-called third countries “if national or European security interests are at stake”.

A law which the US also has.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 15, 2020 • 9:54:49am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 15, 2020 • 9:54:52am
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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 15, 2020 • 9:56:12am

re: #421 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

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Bullshit. Fucking bullshit. Trump did all he could to minimize this.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 15, 2020 • 9:57:47am
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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 15, 2020 • 9:58:20am

re: #383 Belafon

The Black Plague was aided by people meeting at church to pray the plague away.

Meanwhile family members are yelling at me for not going to church…”Our faith in Jesus demands we worship him no matter what”…

Religion sure makes people stupid. Real stupid.

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jaunte  Mar 15, 2020 • 9:58:54am

Pandemic = opportunity for Republicans to suppress voting

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Chrysicat  Mar 15, 2020 • 9:58:59am

re: #400 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 15, 2020 • 9:59:00am
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Belafon  Mar 15, 2020 • 9:59:23am

re: #425 Joe Bacon 🌹

Meanwhile family members are yelling at me for not going to church…”Our faith in Jesus demands we worship him no matter what”…

Religion sure makes people stupid. Real stupid.

“How many churches did Jesus attend?”

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plansbandc  Mar 15, 2020 • 10:00:43am

re: #425 Joe Bacon 🌹

And callous.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 15, 2020 • 10:04:30am

re: #373 Anymouse 🌹🎃

The church across the street from me (Lutheran) took the information I pasted to the trap line seriously. Last night they cancelled services this morning.

I’m surprised they didn’t think it was an atheist plot to stop services.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 15, 2020 • 10:04:35am
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stpaulbear  Mar 15, 2020 • 10:04:43am

We’re up to 35 cases in MN. Six of them are in my county and 12 of them are in neighboring counties.

K-12 schools will be closed from 3/18 thru 3/27.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 15, 2020 • 10:06:59am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 15, 2020 • 10:07:32am

lying moron

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retired cynic  Mar 15, 2020 • 10:10:29am

Why social distancing? Even if you immediately get the concept, these simulations pound the lesson home in a way children can understand. DT? Probably not…

washingtonpost.com

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The Pie Overlord!  Mar 15, 2020 • 10:12:40am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 15, 2020 • 10:13:58am
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Citizen K  Mar 15, 2020 • 10:15:14am

re: #432 Backwoods_Sleuth

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And he’ll see no consequences whatsoever because the media is stuck in the mindset that they absolutely have to launder his statements and normalize him and Republicans. No matter what, nothing can ever be the Republicans fault. Even when they are at fault, they’re not at fault. Either ‘things happen’, ‘everyone is to blame’, or ‘Dems forced them’.

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plansbandc  Mar 15, 2020 • 10:16:03am

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 15, 2020 • 10:16:06am

re: #437 The Pie Overlord!

That is a beautiful dining set. I hope you enjoy it for many years to come.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 15, 2020 • 10:17:07am

re: #439 Citizen K

And he’ll see no consequences whatsoever because the media is stuck in the mindset that they absolutely have to launder his statements and normalize him and Republicans. No matter what, nothing can ever be the Republicans fault. Even when they are at fault, they’re not at fault. Either ‘things happen’, ‘everyone is to blame’, or ‘Dems forced them’.

The DC Press Corpse will continue to kiss Trump’s ass and nothing will stop that.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Mar 15, 2020 • 10:17:23am
444
Charles Johnson  Mar 15, 2020 • 10:18:41am
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 15, 2020 • 10:18:48am

re: #400 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

Fucking trump is going to ensure the rest of the world refuses to help us.

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Charles Johnson  Mar 15, 2020 • 10:19:06am
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Belafon  Mar 15, 2020 • 10:19:51am

According to an NBC poll, Biden now leads Sanders 61-32 in polling among Democrats. nbcnews.com

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 15, 2020 • 10:20:59am

re: #447 Belafon

According to an NBC poll, Biden now leads Sanders 61-32 in polling among Democrats. nbcnews.com

BernieBros on suicide watch.

449
Dr Lizardo  Mar 15, 2020 • 10:21:38am

re: #446 Charles Johnson

So, the rest of the world will get a COVID-19 vaccine. Except America.

Way to go, Trump.

450
Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 15, 2020 • 10:22:15am

re: #447 Belafon

According to an NBC poll, Biden now leads Sanders 61-32 in polling among Democrats. nbcnews.com

Republicans shutting down voting in Georgia and Louisiana also restricting polling places in Arizona. Those fucking Republicans are doing everything in their power to save Bernie and fuck Joe.

451
The Pie Overlord!  Mar 15, 2020 • 10:22:22am

JFC he’s whatabouting again.

452
The Pie Overlord!  Mar 15, 2020 • 10:23:00am
453
Renaissance_Man  Mar 15, 2020 • 10:24:59am

re: #448 Dr Lizardo

BernieBros on suicide watch.

Berniebros represent a nihilistic segment of the ‘left’ that actually agrees with the core principle of the fascist right, indeed arguably their only principle - that ordinary liberals and progressive are evil and must be destroyed. You see it in people like Michael Tracey, Jill Stein, and the like; they may have some mild disagreements with Republicans and other fascists, akin to small doctrinal differences, but they reserve their most passionate hatred for ordinary Democrats.

454
KGxvi  Mar 15, 2020 • 10:27:03am

re: #453 Renaissance_Man

Berniebros represent a nihilistic segment of the ‘left’ that actually agrees with the core principle of the fascist right, indeed arguably their only principle - that ordinary liberals and progressive are evil and must be destroyed. You see it in people like Michael Tracey, Jill Stein, and the like; they may have some mild disagreements with Republicans and other fascists, akin to small doctrinal differences, but they reserve their most passionate hatred for ordinary Democrats.

The old idea that the political spectrum isn’t a straight line left to right, but more like a horseshoe, where the two extremes might have different underlying ideologies but the day to day life for most people is life in a totalitarian regime

455
Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 15, 2020 • 10:27:20am

re: #453 Renaissance_Man

Berniebros represent a nihilistic segment of the ‘left’ that actually agrees with the core principle of the fascist right, indeed arguably their only principle - that ordinary liberals and progressive are evil and must be destroyed. You see it in people like Michael Tracey, Jill Stein, and the like; they may have some mild disagreements with Republicans and other fascists, akin to small doctrinal differences, but they reserve their most passionate hatred for ordinary Democrats.

Tracey is now showing his true colors—he’s a Nazi.

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Belafon  Mar 15, 2020 • 10:28:28am

re: #450 Joe Bacon 🌹

Republicans shutting down voting in Georgia and Louisiana also restricting polling places in Arizona. Those fucking Republicans are doing everything in their power to save Bernie and fuck Joe.

They don’t care about either of them. That is to prepare for November. One of the statements by the Arizona AG in that article was to the County Board supervisor that he’d better not try to do what he was doing - sending ballots out so everyone can vote by a drop-off ballot rather than just those who registered to vote early - in November either.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 15, 2020 • 10:29:12am
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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 15, 2020 • 10:29:59am

re: #456 Belafon

They don’t care about either of them. That is to prepare for November. One of the statements by the Arizona AG in that article was to the County Board supervisor that he’d better not try to do what he was doing - sending ballots out so everyone can vote by a drop-off ballot rather than just those who registered to vote early - in November either.

Disagree. Republicans want Trump to face off against Bernie. They’ll mop the floor with that old fart with a bad heart!

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Mar 15, 2020 • 10:30:09am
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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 15, 2020 • 10:30:56am

re: #454 KGxvi

The old idea that the political spectrum isn’t a straight line left to right, but more like a horseshoe, where the two extremes might have different underlying ideologies but the day to day life for most people is life in a totalitarian regime

I keep on hearing about how Bernie is a democratic socialist. His reactions to the results thus far make me think he’s not the former. I’ve defended him on it in the past but I’m almost as disgusted by Bernie and his cronies as I am by Trump and his cronies.

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Ace Rothstein  Mar 15, 2020 • 10:31:14am

re: #400 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

Now why would Trump want to do that? Hmmmm, let us count the ways.

1. He or someone(s) in his administration have some form of stock in CureVac and know that it would see a massive stock increase if they were able to secure the future vaccine in the United States only.

2. He wants to punish Europe.

3. It will help him politically.

I say all of the above and probably more.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 15, 2020 • 10:32:01am

A lot of libertarians are revealing their true colors too.

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Skip Intro  Mar 15, 2020 • 10:37:17am

re: #320 jaunte

Hard to believe that there was once a time at CNBC when Bartiromo wasn’t a complete Republican hack propagandist.

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jeffreyw  Mar 15, 2020 • 10:38:45am

re: #339 calochortus

We have a housekeeper come in once a week. Mrs J is going to tell her not to come in but we are going paying her the same as if she came and cleaned. We’ll go a couple of weeks and see how it works out

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b.d. (We're on our own, Vote!)  Mar 15, 2020 • 10:39:06am

re: #444 Charles Johnson

[Embedded content]

Bringing in German scientists is the very foundation of making America great!

//

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sagehen  Mar 15, 2020 • 10:41:21am

re: #457 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

Reminder: the way Harry Truman got famous enough to be the replacement running mate for FDR’s 4th term… is by chairing the Truman Commission (aka the Profiteering committee) holding hearings and either fining or imprisoning those who saw wartime shortages as an opportunity for excess price hikes and personal gain.

The only time the executive branch interfered with his committee was

history.com

In the process of investigating war-production expenditures, Truman stumbled upon a suspicious plant in the state of Washington and asked the plant managers to testify in front of the committee. Unbeknownst to Truman, this particular plant was secretly connected with a program to develop an atomic bomb—“the Manhattan Project.” When Stimson, one of a handful of people who knew about the highly classified Manhattan Project, heard about Truman’s line of questioning, he immediately acted to prevent the Missouri senator from blowing the biggest military secret in world history.

On June 17, Truman received a phone call from Stimson, who told him that the Pasco plant was “part of a very important secret development.” Fortunately, Stimson did not need to explain further: Truman, a veteran and a patriot, understood immediately that he was treading on dangerous ground. Before Stimson could continue, Truman assured the secretary “you won t have to say another word to me. Whenever you say that [something is highly secret] to me that’s all I want to hear. If [the plant] is for a specific purpose and you think it’s all right, that’s all I need to know.” Stimson replied that the purpose was not only secret, but “unique.”

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lawhawk  Mar 15, 2020 • 11:13:13am

re: #435 Backwoods_Sleuth

There’s no precise screening.

The problem with waiting for everyone coming in to get screened first means everyone on board is getting exposed while waiting to get screened. Screening is maybe a temp check.

It’s a total shitshow.

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mmmirele  Mar 15, 2020 • 12:20:08pm

re: #373 Anymouse 🌹🎃

The church across the street from me (Lutheran) took the information I pasted to the trap line seriously. Last night they cancelled services this morning.

The Methodist church (will probably go with the liberal side when the split comes) up the street from me and the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran church down the street (WELS is so conservative they think the antichrist is the pope) both had services today. Idiots.


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