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Someone please ask trump why has he changed from “it’s a hoax by the fake news and the democrats” to “it’s a serious pandemic”. And how many test kits did the WHO offer and why did he refuse them.
— Boyd Edwards (@b_l_edwards) March 17, 2020
Someone please ask trump why has he changed from “it’s a hoax by the fake news and the democrats” to “it’s a serious pandemic”. And how many test kits did the WHO offer and why did he refuse them.
— Boyd Edwards (@b_l_edwards) March 17, 2020
I’m thinking Gen X is best equipped for all this because we spent our childhoods believing that the entire planet was going to be wiped out by nuclear war any moment. Dealing with constant, gnawing fear is just second nature for us.
— The Rude Pundit (@rudepundit) March 17, 2020
re: #4 goddamnedfrank
You all are smarter than my generation and the generation behind me right now. The whole BoomerRemover shit and the haha I ohpe the boomers die shit infuriates me.
Stand back, I’m about to Elvis my TV. https://t.co/po2qzAh5UK
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 17, 2020
re: #6 Charles Johnson
They need to stop babying him.
re: #5 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
You all are smarter than my generation and the generation behind me right now. The whole BoomerRemover shit and the haha I ohpe the boomers die shit infuriates me.
Trust me, we are not all smarter. Gen X is riddled with knuckleheads.
If there’s any real advantage it’s that we’re in the age sweet spot, healthier than older folk but with the caution and slower pace that comes with maturity.
“We shall go on to the end, we shall whine in the Rose Garden, we shall whine on the chopper talk, we shall whine with growing brazenness and growing petulance on the air, we shall defend our bloated self image, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight with the media, we shall fight with the Democrats, we shall fight with the little people and with those who refuse to suck up, we shall fight on the twitters; we shall never surrender”
Remember when Trump wasn’t doing press conferences?
We didn’t know how good we had it.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 17, 2020
re: #8 goddamnedfrank
Trust me, we are not all smarter. Gen X is riddled with knuckleheads.
If there’s any real advantage it’s that we’re in the age sweet spot, healthier than older folk but with the caution and slower pace that comes with maturity.
Yeah true enough. Just wish there was more caution showed by people my age right now. I’m playing it very safe right now.
re: #7 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
They need to stop babying him.
It’s Normalcy Bias. The mainstream media did it with Trump, now we’re doing it with this Pandemic. There is a huge lesson to be learned from it. Yesterday I watched a pandemic/virologist be interviewed and the news anchor was practically arguing with him doing the ‘Sir, you can’t be serious’ with him and he was just a rock saying ‘Look, I’m giving you the math, it’s quite simple. The math doesn’t lie.’
Not making an excuse for it, but this is why many non-Trumpers assisted Trumpism and continue to do so.
re: #4 goddamnedfrank
I was thinking Gen Z and Gen Alpha are well equipped for social distancing since they have been doing that since birth with the internet, handheld devices, gaming, social media, etc., etc.,
GDFrank, my coffee “recipe” is CL’ed downstairs.
re: #13 Dr. Matt
I was thinking Gen Z and Gen Alpha are well equipped for social distancing since they have been doing that since birth with the internet, handheld devices, gaming, social media, etc., etc.,
I do hope the aftermath of this virus is we spend more time outside. I’m planning to bike more and hike more.
Can’t wait for my first swim of the year too.
Still trying to figure out if today is a dead cat or dead rat bounce on the stock market.
re: #15 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I do hope the aftermath of this virus is we spend more time outside. I’m planning to bike more and hike more.
Since I wont’ be going back to the Y until there’s a vaccine or strong treatement, so probably a year at least, I’m ordering a rowing machine.
P.S. To everyone here, I am absolutely fully aware that there’s a lot of privilege enabling me right now.
re: #12 BigPapa
It’s Normalcy Bias. The mainstream media did it with Trump, now we’re doing it with this Pandemic. There is a huge lesson to be learned from it. Yesterday I watched a pandemic/virologist be interviewed and the news anchor was practically arguing with him doing the ‘Sir, you can’t be serious’ with him and he was just a rock saying ‘Look, I’m giving you the math, it’s quite simple. The math doesn’t lie.’
Not making an excuse for it, but this is why many non-Trumpers assisted Trumpism and continue to do so.
“The extinction of the human race will come from its inability to EMOTIONALLY comprehend the exponential function.” E. Teller.
This is looking more true than ever these days.
re: #15 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I do hope the aftermath of this virus is we spend more time outside. I’m planning to bike more and hike more.
Just as long as you’re doing it in a Safe Zone.
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re: #18 goddamnedfrank
Since I wont’ be going back to the Y until there’s a vaccine or strong treatement, so probably a year at least, I’m ordering a rowing machine.
P.S. To everyone here, I am absolutely fully aware that there’s a lot of privilege enabling me right now.
Yeah I’m not going ot the gym either any time soon. Thankfully I already have a recumbent and my brother’s old workout equipment.
socialism and government bailouts suck
until *I* need it
“The government’s economic stimulus is set to quickly balloon into trillion-dollar territory in the coming days, the largest rescue in modern American history, as major industries flood the Trump administration and Capitol Hill for aid while huge swaths of the economy stall from the coronavirus crisis,” Politico reports.
re: #8 goddamnedfrank
Trust me, we are not all smarter. Gen X is riddled with knuckleheads.
If there’s any real advantage it’s that we’re in the age sweet spot, healthier than older folk but with the caution and slower pace that comes with maturity.
We’re the Cassandra generation - no one wants to listen to us even when we’re raising all the alarm bells.
re: #23 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!
Applies to boomers too.
Markedly less so, in that while Gen X is on the political bubble Boomers are far more likely to have been believing Trump while watching and consuming misinformation about this on FOX. They’re also firmly on the hockey stick part of the COVID-19 mortality curve.
re: #19 EPR-radar
Everything about a pandemic is a math and logistics problem.
You have variables:
beds, cases, time, rate of doubling, population size, ease of transmission, ICU units, surge capacity
You have to solve for being able to keep your health care system intact, which means avoiding a situation where the cases exceeds your bed/ICU/surge capacity.
Flattening the curve gives you time and space to do so. Social distancing. Canceling events, etc. all means to reduce spread.
Trump failed to flatten the curve, and it took states to do this in a haphazard manner. Trump’s the one who decided that the mayor in Jaws is the true role model, not Roy Scheider. Keep the beaches open. Ignore the problem and it will go away.
This isn’t going away.
re: #18 goddamnedfrank
Since I wont’ be going back to the Y until there’s a vaccine or strong treatement, so probably a year at least, I’m ordering a rowing machine.
P.S. To everyone here, I am absolutely fully aware that there’s a lot of privilege enabling me right now.
Since my gym just closed, I don’t have to ask myself whether to go. I live on a hill, so aerobic exercise won’t be a problem, but need to work up the will to do the indoor stuff (I have worked up the routines, so there’s that).
Right-wing media really jumping on the Politifact evaluation of Biden’s claim that the US turned down WHO tests. Politifact rated the claim “mostly false”.
Of course these sites ignore all the times Politifact rated Trump straight up “false”.
In regards to Biden, Politifact points out that there was no explicit offer by the WHO to provide the US kits. But as also noted, the WHO Americas office is set up to help those countries without a virology capability themselves, and since the US has such a capability it is not normal for the WHO to then provide the US with such aid.
I do wish that Biden would have been better briefed. What Biden should have said is that the Trump administration should have asked the WHO in the first place.
re: #26 goddamnedfrank
Markedly less so, in that while Gen X is on the political bubble Boomers are far more likely to have been watching and consuming misinformation about this on FOX. They’re also firmly on the hockey stick part of the COVID-19 mortality curve.
I was referring only to the “about to be destroyed in a nuclear war” part.
“I don’t take responsibility at all.”🤬#coronavirus #COVID19 #CoronavirusPandemic pic.twitter.com/fhO5RqmNx6
— Dr. Dena Grayson (@DrDenaGrayson) March 17, 2020
Good news watch:
BREAKING: Former GOP Rep. Duncan Hunter has been sentenced to 11 months in prison for violating campaign finance laws https://t.co/SZI8aMhTyA
— POLITICO (@politico) March 17, 2020
All of the Trumpists should end up there eventually….
the government when its citizens need money vs when corporations need money pic.twitter.com/CABxsY8ktq
— ziwe (@ziwe) March 17, 2020
re: #29 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!
Since my gym just closed, I don’t have to ask myself whether to go. I live on a hill, so aerobic exercise won’t be a problem, but need to work up the will to do the indoor stuff (I have worked up the routines, so there’s that).
I’m cranking out pushups like they’re going out of style, up to 45 per set.
When the petty orange bastard gets voted out, I bet he’ll tell his staff to trash the White House.
re: #30 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Right-wing media really jumping on the Politifact evaluation of Biden’s claim that the US turned down WHO tests. Politifact rated the claim “mostly false”.
Of course these sites ignore all the times Politifact rated Trump straight up “false”.
In regards to Biden, Politifact points out that there was no explicit offer by the WHO to provide the US kits. But as also noted, the WHO Americas office is set up to help those countries without a virology capability themselves, and since the US has such a capability it is not normal for the WHO to then provide the US with such aid.
I do wish that Biden would have been better briefed. What Biden should have said is that the Trump administration should have asked the WHO in the first place.
There is no way to parse every syllable that comes out of your mouth in a live situation. I get what you are saying but really, there’s just no way to do that.
I record a lot of my meetings and then go back and listen and it is amazing what is said in a moment. I know some things I said was flat out wrong…but it was how I said it and it was in the moment, and it simply came out wrong. But that wrong was still wrong. It is in no way indicative that I didn’t know what I was talking about, it was the words that fell out of my mouth…in that moment.
re: #28 lawhawk
Everything about a pandemic is a math and logistics problem.
The mayor in Jaws is the true role model, not Roy Scheider. Keep the beaches open. Ignore the problem and it will go away.
This isn’t going away.
He didn’t care until it dawned on him it was hurting his reelection chances
re: #34 lawhawk
Good news watch:
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All of the Trumpists should end up there eventually….
Is he going to run in the next election? That’s what republicans do these days.
re: #31 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!
I was referring only to the “about to be destroyed in a nuclear war” part.
True. They got it a lot worse. The duck and cover drills were just absurd and had to fuck with people’s heads. Same thing with more recent school shooter drills.
American needs to fix its shit.
So the census not only asks what race you are but also where your ancestors came from.
Is this a normal census question, or is a tRumpified census question?
re: #41 PhillyPretzel
I am going to running up and down the stairs in my house. That and walking to the local supermarket. It will not come close to the 10 miles a day that I usually walk.
Be careful. Stairs are dangerous and you cannot take a fall right now.
The really frustrating thing is that people like Dana Bash can make these incredibly stupid comments, get called out for them, have to take them back, and then NOTHING HAPPENS. They suffer absolutely no consequences for their appalling idiocy. They just keep doing it.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 17, 2020
re: #46 goddamnedfrank
True. I will be careful.
re: #34 lawhawk
Good news watch:
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All of the Trumpists should end up there eventually….
11 months
i may give some money to a charity knowing it ‘might’ go to pencils and not helping the animals, or kids, or research directly
No one gives money to a candidate knowing it might be misused, ok, stolen and spent on affairs and bimbos (sorry) and NOT on the campaign
(well of course they do now)
this is the worst kind of reprehensible theft.
11 months
Personally, I may expand my local roto-watching game.
Today I spotted a rare Sea Dragon, chugging along, headed north down the St. Johns river.
Followed shortly after by an Osprey, in more tilt than forward mode, traipsing south up the river.— 𝙒𝘽 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 🍕🐀😷 (@FormerDirtDart) March 17, 2020
re: #40 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Sure, everybody makes mistakes when speaking.
But if you’re going to campaign on how Trump messed up the response to COVID-19, I think it is imperative that one gets the message correct.
Biden could have, should have, come out with a statement after the debate that he misspoke. But I don’t know if his close campaign advisors are as up on this pandemic as we hope.
Things are moving fast, as I keep repeating. Biden keeping up on things is going to require his staff to brief him more than once a day and keep him on target.
This is very problematic to me: ultimately Biden is a defensive pick by the Democrats, and came about for a lot of reasons, not the least of which is that Bernie poisoned the well once again. I do fear that Biden is not going to come off as sharp as needed against Trump. We are all betting on the idea that Biden is comforting to those in the middle who really don’t keep up on things. That gamble may pay off - a lot of people don’t like Trump.
re: #51 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Things are moving fast, as I keep repeating. Biden keeping up on things is going to require his staff to brief him more than once a day and keep him on target.
This is true of any campaign at this time, not just Biden’s. Ultimately, the message is Trump has screwed up the response and it’s going to cost American lives. Just because a candidate doesn’t get that 100% right all the time doesn’t change the fact that Trump is going to get people killed.
I’ve had to adjust my block button’s sensitivity to “hair trigger” lately.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 17, 2020
re: #13 Dr. Matt
I was thinking Gen Z and Gen Alpha are well equipped for social distancing since they have been doing that since birth with the internet, handheld devices, gaming, social media, etc., etc.,
I’ve been self-employed since 1983—sometimes my work involves travel and interaction, but mostly I work from home and have become quite comfortable being by myself. The current situation is sort of my usual routine. (And I have 4 streaming services and 200+ books on my Kindle, so I’m good unless there’s a power outage. Yeah, privilege, but I’ve been working and self-supporting for 50+ years, so I feel like I’ve kind of earned it.)
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😂 relatable https://t.co/we8JoHISip
— Chowhound (@CHOW) March 17, 2020
You know the saying that hindsight is 2020
How about we learn from this fucking catastrophe and make sure it never happens again by forever destroying the Republican Party— Stop acting like this is normal (@goddamnedfrank) March 17, 2020
“DAVE PLEASE STAY SIX FEET AWAY AT ALL TIMES DAVE” pic.twitter.com/of7i7rDIhb
— darth™ (@darth) March 17, 2020
Trump’s dog whistle of “Chinese virus” has certainly brought the dogs out.
re: #55 BeachDem
I’ve been self-employed since 1983—sometimes my work involves travel and interaction, but mostly I work from home and have become quite comfortable being by myself. The current situation is sort of my usual routine. (And I have 4 streaming services and 200+ books on my Kindle, so I’m good unless there’s a power outage. Yeah, privilege, but I’ve been working and self-supporting for 50+ years, so I feel like I’ve kind of earned it.)
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I have at least 1000 on my kindles. Some I’ve read, of course. Paper books everywhere. Only three streaming services, but lots of dvds.
re: #56 The Pie Overlord!
We’re going to repeat the week after thanksgiving over and over until this has passed.
re: #60 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Someone needs a dictionary.
A friend’s contribution for us chonky folks. A gathering of chocks is a chumbus.
Trump’s dog whistle of #ChineseVirus has certainly brought out the deplorable dogs.
Trump knows his base are the bigots. Trump has the best bigots. Beautiful bigots. The biggest bigots.— freetoken fights fecking fascists (@freetoken) March 17, 2020
re: #60 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Show us your athetits!
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If you get it before I do, you might need to question your belief in God.
(And no, I don’t mean whether you believe, but that you believe that God is messing around in everything. Because if he actually is, he’s probably sending you a message.)
re: #66 The Pie Overlord!
That’s a rather… unfortunate setting for that photo.
re: #60 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Show us your athetits!
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FFS. What is the origin of this?
re: #68 Charles Johnson
That’s a rather… unfortunate setting for that photo.
I’m sure they found her like that in the kitchen, brought her into the bathroom for a cleanup and then decided to take the picture.
re: #61 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!
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I have at least 1000 on my kindles. Some I’ve read, of course. Paper books everywhere. Only three streaming services, but lots of dvds.
Oh yeah, forgot to mention dvds and actual books (trying not to sound like the boomer I am.) Suggested to one of my stir-crazy friends that she should pour herself a beverage and read a good book. She said she was reading Facebook. I rolled my eyes and shook my head and was thankful we weren’t video conferencing.
BREAKING: Fmr GOP Rep Duncan Hunter was just sentenced to 11 months in prison for breaking campaign finance laws. He was one of the first two US Reps to endorse Trump. The other? Convicted fmr GOP Rep Chris Collins, who was sentenced to 26 months in prison. Birds of a feather.
— Scott Dworkin (@funder) March 17, 2020
6 days ago, dude posts a meme about how the media is trying to turn this into a pandemic. Now he’s got it and warning people that it’s actually serious pic.twitter.com/KNc2DR0tH0
— DR (@DjRodgers1231) March 17, 2020
DID CNN JUST DO THAT pic.twitter.com/83wwWCIOqc
— microscopic tardigrade swimming through algae ★彡 (@YaiSor) March 17, 2020
So they want to send out checks to everyone eh? Make mine at least $2000 then! I could pay off the pawn shop, get a nice revolver AND a newer digital camera :D
Hey, if the Mango Moron wants to do something silly like that, I’ll be happy to let him get me what I want.
This is why I question the US reported low number of “serious or critical” cases
Probably a lot closer to France’s numbers than the UK’s
worldometers.info
This shit is serious folks. He’s dead. Nothing they could’ve done to stop it either. Nothing. We asked repeatedly. We were told to not visit him in hospital. Or risk infection and a minimum 14 day quarantine. Nightmare people. Absolute nightmare.
— Larry Fine (@LarryFinesGhost) March 17, 2020
Current administration officials attending this meeting included: Stephen Miller, Steven Mnuchin, Mike Pompeo (then a Congressman), Betsy DeVos, Ben Carson, Elaine Chao https://t.co/V29uJu3FCd
— Pete Souza (@PeteSouza) March 17, 2020
Not only is ICE doing this they are then shuttling people through various facilities around the country, almost certainly creating a health crisis in their own centers. https://t.co/nYbqf94M5a
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) March 17, 2020
Might be a little unsafe for work so… :D
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Communications observations
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Dana Bash in CNN re: Trump: “He is being the kind leader, today and yesterday, that people want, with this change in tone. It is so important to have him strike that tone.”
— Michelangelo Signorile (@MSignorile) March 17, 2020
They completely excuse his having created this disaster with lack of response, and his still attacking governors — like Michigan governor — for criticizing the lacking federal response.
— Michelangelo Signorile (@MSignorile) March 17, 2020
The next journalist to interview Tony Fauci should ask him whether or not, as Trump claims, the Obama-Biden response to the 2009-10 swine flu was a disaster. And then ask him to contrast that with Trump’s response to regular flu in 2017, where 78,000 died. https://t.co/ZAdpKSymkd
— The Daily Edge (@TheDailyEdge) March 17, 2020
I’m so old, I remember when the media said that Trump had finally changed his tone and had grasped the seriousness of the crisis.
JHU: 5702 cases, 94 dead. Mortality rate: 1.6% - 16 times higher than seasonal flu.
Cases appear to be doubling every 2-3 days. And the pace of the growth means that we’re likely to overtake South Korea very shortly. We do not have a handle on any of this, especially when GOPers didn’t take this seriously for weeks.
So, by 3/20, we could have 10k cases.; 3/23 20k cases, 3/26 40k cases; 3/29 80k cases. It doesn’t take a math wiz to figure out how many cases we’ll be dealing with just doing the goddamned math. They still aren’t doing enough testing, which means these figures are still low.
This is Meeko. He’s supposed to be a guard dog. Incredibly bad at it. Hasn’t scared a single person away. 13/10 would noggin pat through the fence pic.twitter.com/GsukncAqfq
— WeRateDogs® (@dog_rates) March 17, 2020
re: #84 Ace Rothstein
I’m so old, I remember when the media said that Trump had finally changed his tone and had grasped the seriousness of the crisis.
Pivot!
The Trump administration is working toward relaxing regulations, including infection control procedures, for nursing homes after lobbying and campaign contributions from the industry—an example of dangerous industry influence, in the midst of a pandemic.https://t.co/SwvcyPbBRC
— Noah Bookbinder (@NoahBookbinder) March 16, 2020
Navy shutters Naval Base San Diego schoolhouse amid coronavirus cluster
Navy leaders closed Training Support Command San Diego on Saturday after three sailors tested positive for the new coronavirus, officials finally announced Tuesday.
Medical investigators have linked at least two of the cases to the schoolhouse and a third is strongly suspected, which is why it’s closed indefinitely.
On March 14, a sailor from the amphibious warship Essex who was attending a course at Training Support Command tested positive for COVID-19, according to a prepared statement issued by Naval Education and Training Command.
[…]
Two additional cases involve a sailor at the training center and a sailor who was assigned to Naval Base Point Loma. The latter sailor showed no signs of the illness but was tested and the results were positive for COVID-19.
Those sailors and all others who came into contact with them have been ordered to remain in their residences or quarters.
[…]
I’m just going with the idea that the virus is in the community in San Diego county, though we don’t have a shelter-in-place order yet. It was indicated as in the community several days ago. I suspect by the end of the week this county will follow the ones up north in closing everything down.
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re: #85 lawhawk
JHU: 5702 cases, 94 dead. Mortality rate: 1.6% - 16 times higher than seasonal flu.
Cases appear to be doubling every 2-3 days. And the pace of the growth means that we’re likely to overtake South Korea very shortly. We do not have a handle on any of this, especially when GOPers didn’t take this seriously for weeks.
So, by 3/20, we could have 10k cases.; 3/23 20k cases, 3/26 40k cases; 3/29 80k cases. It doesn’t take a math wiz to figure out how many cases we’ll be dealing with just doing the goddamned math. They still aren’t doing enough testing, which means these figures are still low.
I actually find the growth in case numbers a bit encouraging. Means more tests are being conducted.
Bad news. South Korea’s ID’d case numbers are based on a massively higher level of testing
Worth remembering also.
South Korea ID’d first case on 20 Jan
US ID’s first case on 21 Jan— 𝙒𝘽 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 🍕🐀😷 (@FormerDirtDart) March 17, 2020
re: #89 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
I’m just imagining the bunks on the ship I was on and trying to respond to this. I didn’t hot-swap but we were packed in close.
Why is it “important” to give this grotesque con man a medal every time he doesn’t embarrass the whole nation? When you do this, you’re handing him a propaganda victory, and the right wing media are already pushing it. This is shameful. https://t.co/ZWegPCIpVu
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 17, 2020
re: #91 The Pie Overlord!
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I don’t fucking believe this shit. Goddamn useless media morons.
Taking advantage of our community won’t be tolerated.
If you witness an instance of price gouging during the #COVID19 response, report it to the Harris County Attorney’s Office so that we can hold them accountable. pic.twitter.com/7ZbJtpJI8J— Harris County Judge (@HarrisCoJudge) March 17, 2020
Judge Lina Hidalgo is the first woman to be elected County Judge in Harris County.
New York City Mayor de Blasio says there are discussions occurring regarding a potential shelter-in-place order for the city; says he expects to make a decision in the next 48 hours. https://t.co/f9pJK2U0fT
— Breaking News (@BreakingNews) March 17, 2020
The grift stops for no pandemic. https://t.co/zjyjgvO3h9
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 17, 2020
re: #99 Charles Johnson
Whatever God tells you to do.
NYC: Order to shelter in place may come within next 48 hours in attempt to flatten the curve.
#BREAKING: NYC Mayor Bill DeBlasio says New Yorkers “should be prepared right now for the possibility of a shelter in place order.”
The decision has not been made yet, but he says it’s a possibility within the next 48 hours.— Caroline Orr (@RVAwonk) March 17, 2020
NYC cases continue growing. New: 187 | Total: 644. It’s doubling once every 2-3 days. With more aggressive testing, we’ll see the cases rise even more, but we’ll have a better understanding of the severity and hope that we can flatten the curve.
good fucking grief
UPDATE: @kroger, the largest supermarket chain in the US, is still not providing all its workers with paid sick leave
Instead, everyone is getting a 25 DOLLAR Kroger gift cardhttps://t.co/19uNybttHl pic.twitter.com/DN17GcUmVY— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) March 17, 2020
UPDATE: A spokesperson for @Kroger confirms it will be providing the $25 gift cards to all its workers nationwide
No word on any additional changes to its paid sick leave policies, which leave out many workers https://t.co/19uNybttHl— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) March 17, 2020
That’s right. @Kroger doesn’t provide sick leave to all its workers and by pointing them out I’m DIVIDING THE COUNTRY (?) and DISRESPECTING THE HARD WORK OF KROGER EMPLOYEES (??)https://t.co/19uNybttHl
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) March 17, 2020
re: #99 Charles Johnson
“God told me to ask you for money, Paula.”
re: #101 lawhawk
We must all expect to contract the virus over the next year. Many of us over the next few months.
I have in place:
1) liquids with electrolytes (but I won’t water the plants with it, really I won’t.)
2) canned soups.
3) acetaminophen.
Hopefully when I get it the symptoms will be mild.
re: #103 Backwoods_Sleuth
At least I have leave with pay until March 27th. After that who knows what will happen.
re: #105 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
We must all expect to contract the virus over the next year. Many of us over the next few months.
You don’t think all the extreme social distancing going on now will make any dent?
All the undeserved praise for his “change of tone” seems especially silly when he is still doing this. Attacking New York and its governor and worst of all, applying a xenophobic tagline to coronavirus, like it’s just another “caravan”-style campaign football to rile up his base. https://t.co/NgoX6giEpP
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) March 17, 2020
She truly has no idea how this impacts real people with jobs https://t.co/rYoDG2rrzq
— Asha Rangappa (@AshaRangappa_) March 17, 2020
re: #107 Interesting Times
You don’t think all the extreme social distancing going on now will make any dent?
Social distancing is to delay the peak of those who are infected.
You will still get the virus.
Donald Trump is NOT A FUCKING BABY. He’s been a con man all his life. You’re not going to turn him into a good president by giving him treats and praise and “positive reinforcement.” He’s just going to turn it into a weapon against you.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 17, 2020
re: #109 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Well, it’s clear what her “job” is. Propagandist for Trumpworld. Because the rest of us have jobs to do. And now many of us have to not only do our jobs, but be teachers, home health aids, cooks, janitors, and all the other jobs we outsourced to others.
re: #109 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Apparently it’s a staged photo shoot from a few years ago.
re: #107 Interesting Times
You don’t think all the extreme social distancing going on now will make any dent?
my guess:
it’ll likely flatten the true curve (forget the ‘official’ numbers)
then too many people will ‘relax’ and return to ‘normal’ thus spreading it all over again
re: #108 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #110 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
This is why I’m so despairing. We are going to get it and dude and I are not healthy enough to survive it. How many days do we have? Not many. This thing is spreading fast.
re: #111 Charles Johnson
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mommy, come see what i did…
Why is it “important” to give this grotesque con man a medal every time he doesn’t embarrass the whole nation? When you do this, you’re handing him a propaganda victory, and the right wing media are already pushing it. This is shameful.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 17, 2020
re: #116 plansbandc
Please don’t despair. The lethality rates seem particularly high at the beginnings of a pandemic. You have a very good chance of surviving if you catch the virus.
Donald Trump is NOT A FUCKING BABY. He’s been a con man all his life. You’re not going to turn him into a good president by giving him treats and praise and “positive reinforcement.” He’s just going to turn it into a weapon against you.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 17, 2020
Though some of us aren’t going to be paying equally, because we will be paying with our blood.
re: #116 plansbandc
This is why I’m so despairing. We are going to get it and dude and I are not healthy enough to survive it. How many days do we have? Not many. This thing is spreading fast.
unfortunately, I think the key is to not catch the virus at a peak time when the medical system is overwhelmed. Unfortunately, again, the system could be overwhelmed from very soon to past April. For Michigan I saw the est. time we run out of beds is April 27th.
re: #110 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Social distancing is to delay the peak of those who are infected.
You will still get the virus.
I had ‘The Talk’ with the Wife Unit last night and literally saw/felt Normalcy Bias in my own mind. I pushed her to think about what we would do if I got symptoms: lock me in bedroom and have her sleep with mom? I saw/felt her getting uncomfortable as only a married couple together for 20 years can do. I felt like changing the subject because I felt her discomfort and wanted to protect her. But I pressed on: we need to think of this now so when it happens we move to protocol; it will probably happen sooner than we think; how long to maintain protocol? We should have two/three weeks of supplies so we don’t go out and spread, how will we deal with that?
I feel better now, but it was tough. Plus mom made some Filipino food and that sorta busted us out of the worried mindset.
re: #122 Ming5000
I have a weak chance to survive to see my birthday in April.
re: #113 plansbandc
Apparently it’s a staged photo shoot from a few years ago.
Six years old
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re: #124 plansbandc
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The little Mel-Max Brooks short has me wanting to laugh again. Watching the Producers now.
re: #113 plansbandc
Apparently it’s a staged photo shoot from a few years ago.
coulda been a stock photo for the difference that makes
it just adds to the in-authenticity and stunningly stupid messaging in the first place
she might have just said ‘have your kitchen staff prepare a picnic basket of sandwiches and smores’
tone deaf, out of touch, clueless
re: #99 Charles Johnson
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So fucking sick of these pulpit pimps!
TAX THE GODDAMNED CHURCHES!!!!!!!!!
re: #129 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
The little Mel-Max Brooks short has me wanting to laugh again. Watching the Producers now.
that 2 minute short actually woke me up
my mom lives alone 8 miles from me.
i kept saying we can hang out together, you’re not isolated we’ll bring you to our house some days, etc.
mrs dm and i both work from home, but i’m out doing the food shopping for us and for mom, some errands, etc.
mom’s 91. *i* can pick it up and give it to her and not even know it.
better she stays on the other side of the sliding glass door (metaphorically)
re: #105 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
We must all expect to contract the virus over the next year. Many of us over the next few months.
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re: #132 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)
that 2 minute short actually woke me up
my mom lives alone 8 miles from me.
i kept saying we can hang out together, you’re not isolated we’ll bring you to our house some days, etc.mrs dm and i both work from home, but i’m out doing the food shopping for us and for mom, some errands, etc.
mom’s 91. *i* can pick it up and give it to her and not even know it.
better she stays on the other side of the sliding glass door (metaphorically)
I’m honestly inspired seeing communities come together. I ordered bbq from a local place for me, my youngest brother, & his gf. They’re delivering on account of what’s going on. Mel is a treasure. We need humor, music, & inspiration in times like these.
This is a useful link: Virtual Concerts
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I don’t think it’s unfair to say that the failures in this coronavirus crisis have been largely failures of politics. And @senatemajldr & his party bear as much responsibility for that as the man they essentially agreed has no responsibility to accede to congressional oversight.
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) March 17, 2020
No amount of social distancing, no amount of fiscal stimulus, will matter if we aren’t testing. You can’t beat this virus flying blind.
Two months into this epidemic, the Administration still has not figured out a way to deploy tests. https://t.co/Gg2oGZtkt3— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) March 17, 2020
When a former ICE person agrees with your brutal assessment of why ICE is doing something. *YIKES*
re: #71 BeachDem
I lucked out last Friday when a local 2nd-hand store I walk by added many titles to its section for English books - snagged 9 books for about $15, including a copy of the sixth book in the Expanse series I’d previously lost (got ruined while I was traveling overseas).
Originally figured I’d get around to finishing them and a few other unread books by summer, but that was just before the effective lockdown set in place the past few days in this corner of the world.
Now I figure they’ll be read by the end of the month.
BREAKING: Coronvirus Outbreak. One week after Italy’s national lockdown (8 days after the north), Italy has three days with same number of new cases. This means 5 days after lockdown cases leveled off, consistent with typical incubation period of 3-5 days. This is good news. pic.twitter.com/YS9WQaVamP
— Yaneer Bar-Yam (@yaneerbaryam) March 16, 2020
re: #141 goddamnedfrank
That is good news. Now we have to convince DT that this is the example we should follow.
This is the Twitter content we need now.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 17, 2020
He gave his wife CPR as she died after contracting coronavirus. Officials won’t test him https://t.co/luGHGkWLvq
— Tammy Metzger JD, MA (@JuriSense) March 17, 2020
re: #103 Backwoods_Sleuth
good fucking grief
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Sir, this is a Wendy’s drive-thru. May I take your order? https://t.co/WhuNzWuCgW
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 17, 2020
It’s not hidden.
It’s not getting tested for because your failed admin refused to aggressively test for it.
We don’t know how many cases are out there because you wanted to keep the count low.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) March 17, 2020
Former CDC Director: https://t.co/DWZdzHtfFq
— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) March 17, 2020
re: #140 Disloyal Archangel
I lucked out last Friday when a local 2nd-hand store I walk by added many titles to its section for English books - snagged 9 books for about $15, including a copy of the sixth book in the Expanse series I’d previously lost (got ruined while I was traveling overseas).
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THere is some Great books there. Enjoy!
Because Trump and Co refuse to test, other countries can then talk about the high rate of deaths among Americans, and remind people that capitalism makes you sickly and suspecptible to viruses worse than any other country.
Infuriating thread
So, what I assumed would happen has happened. I have a cough, a headache, chest tightness and a low fever. I am six months pregnant and I have an autoimmune disease.
— Lizzie O’Leary (@lizzieohreally) March 17, 2020
Thankfully, I have options other than @Kroger to shop at. I am not at all interested in shopping where the employees have to show up when they’re sick. I want to stay on the flat side of that curve, because I could die and I’d be pissed if Kroger killed me! #FlattenTheCurve
— Yeah Sure WTF Ever (@YeahSureWhatev2) March 17, 2020
Definitely. That’s one of the reasons they’re so disconnected and clueless - they live in bubbles of wealth and privilege.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 17, 2020
re: #6 Charles Johnson
Wonder what kind of mouthwash Dana uses after tongue-bathing Trump’s posterior to that extent?
Scope? Or is this something that only the harsh chemicals in Listerine will help remove? pic.twitter.com/gVCEZFAjV7— Surreal painters were just ahead of the curve (@MutatedReality) March 17, 2020
The instinct to grovel at the feet of the Strong Man is so deep in the White House Press Corps (well, only if its a Republican - Democrats get roasted for wearing tan suits) that they just can’t help groveling and whimpering like whipped puppies.
re: #155 Khal Wimpo (the extinguisher of tiki torches)
That’s gonna take the old-fashioned Listerine. You know, the gold-colored stuff, the original recipe, the good shit that makes your mouth feel napalm fresh!
re: #155 Khal Wimpo (the extinguisher of tiki torches)
At the same time they’re infantilizing him - they seem to think if they praise him enough he’ll grow up to be a good boy.
re: #153 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Of the four groceries in my area, Aldi is the only one that meantions sick leave. Kroger will have to deal with their unions at some point on this. I don’t know about Tom Thumb. Walmart is Walmart.
re: #246 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I hope that sociopath and his wife are afraid to show their faces in public after this. They’re responsible for a lot of this.
I’d love for that to be true.
OTOH, Secret Service protection for the rest of their lives. If they’re afraid to show their faces in public, there isn’t a single politician in the country who isn’t constantly in mortal danger.
And the only way our side isn’t constantly under crosshairs at that point is if we manage full de-GOPification where we track down and jail all of them before any of them can try to assassinate Dems as retaliation for Trump being taken out, whether electorally or extra-legally.
I don’t like the sound of that future and might even trade the Trumps’ permanent fear away to avoid it.
re: #157 Charles Johnson
Well he does act like a 2 year old.
re: #109 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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Aside from the fact Ivanka is dumber than a box of rocks and unconcerned with life among the peasants, what is this “Tape some brooms together?” a.) She or whomever constructed that used a fairly tall clothes rack with an actual stable base on it. b.) How many brooms and of what size would you need to make an approximation of that?
re: #161 calochortus
There’s a good chance she has no idea what a broom is.
re: #75 William Lewis
So they want to send out checks to everyone eh? Make mine at least $2000 then! I could pay off the pawn shop, get a nice revolver AND a newer digital camera :D
Hey, if the Mango Moron wants to do something silly like that, I’ll be happy to let him get me what I want.
If they send me one (I don’t need it), I’ll subtract about 20% for income taxes and give the rest to my less fortunate neighbors — the people I’ve been doing business with all these years. They’re the ones who will stimulate the economy, after all.
Disgraced Marine Vet, and Former Congressman, Duncan Hunter Gets 11 Months in Prison #FTFY#FixedThatForYou
— 𝙒𝘽 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 🍕🐀😷 (@FormerDirtDart) March 17, 2020
re: #79 plansbandc
Might be a little unsafe for work so… :D
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The White House and its allies are clearly trying to push the “wartime President” idea. Frankly, it might be more effective if Trump hadn’t dismantled or defunded many of our key defenses and otherwise ignored the looming threat before purporting to marshal the fight against it. https://t.co/yGGLcc4yrq
— Ned Price (@nedprice) March 17, 2020
(heavy Q-sigh)
A handful of QAnon followers have begun to entertain a wild theory: what if the coronavirus pandemic is a real, serious natural disaster and wasn’t part of any “plan?”
Naturally, those loons are getting some pushback in the QAnon community. pic.twitter.com/033z6eSvUO— Travis View (@travis_view) March 17, 2020
@SenatorCollins is part of the federal #coronavirus response. She left DC for a 3 day weekend, propped up an #UnfitToBePresident for the past nearly 4 years and blew the chance to oust him when she had the chance. Now unprecedented US deaths as his followers do not believe crisis
— MarchForth (@MarchForthMaine) March 16, 2020
I need you all to remember is that the racism of the Republicans is not random. It has a *purpose.*
Right now, they are intentionally calling #COVID19 “Chinese” because they need their voters focused on an external scapegoat instead of how badly they mismanaged this pandemic.— Jason (@jasonthinks) March 17, 2020
re: #149 Dr Lizardo
Everyone working from home be all like this guy:
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This is what happens when I sit down at my desk now to try to work. It is basically impossible for me to work now. Be kind to your employees with kids. After two weeks penned up in the house, those kids are gonna be climbing the walls. pic.twitter.com/KXquOrM7Lt
— Robert E Kelly (@Robert_E_Kelly) March 16, 2020
re: #173 Don’t Blame Me, I Voted for Kodos
I agree. It is a win. But he will be back before we know it.
A representative of Wynn Resorts, owned by Trump ally and donor Steve Wynn, has reportedly pushed to receive cash directly from the government. https://t.co/YdJmgeQ0tG
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) March 17, 2020
Casinos Are U.S.
I braved Costco this morning, the first day of our “shelter in place” (except for stuff like grocery shopping.) They opened early so when I arrived a few minutes before official opening there were already a few people leaving and no line, though we were sent around to a specific “corridor” to enter. Big sign advising they were out of TP, paper towels, hand sanitizer, gloves, bottled water, and Clorox wipes. I was undeterred as I wasn’t looking for any of those. They were out of the black rice crackers I wanted, or at least I didn’t see them, but I got the rest of the stuff I wanted and out the door without excessive exposure. I did wear gloves, though.
Then I stopped at my little local grocer who looked like the place had been hit by a plague of locusts. I’m sure they don’t restock overnight like the big places, and it was all hands on deck restocking stuff while I was there. I still managed to get what I needed, buying for a full week as opposed to the usual 4 days, but otherwise not hoarding. Unless 3 lbs of asparagus (soup!) is hoarding.
My daughter will be relieved that I don’t need to go out again for a while. She worries.
re: #173 Don’t Blame Me, I Voted for Kodos
That feels great, doesn’t it? Like taking scalps!
re: #176 jaunte
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Isn’t that the same creep guilty who sexually harassed and assaulted several employees, Harvey Weinstein-style?
re: #114 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)
my guess:
it’ll likely flatten the true curve (forget the ‘official’ numbers)
then too many people will ‘relax’ and return to ‘normal’ thus spreading it all over again
I’m honestly wondering if, even when public transport and public accommodations re-open, we’ll have to switch to a permanent restriction of seating to give each person a three-foot radius. That would cut transport capacity by at least half and maybe more, and do if anything an even worse number on sports-venue seating capacities.
But this isn’t the worst thing out there that will have enough time to spread from the wrong wild animal before it kills it, and eventually hang around in the wrong human long enough, before it also kills them, to evolve human-to-human transmission. There’s no path forward that doesn’t add as many diseases to the human environment as the Pastoral Revolution did.
We don’t have great documentation as to what that looked like to the people domesticating livestock, but we do have a good record of what happened when carriers-who’d-evolved-asymptomaticity but-still-shed-pathogens encountered people who hadn’t kept livestock for millennia.
It’s why there have never been enough First Nations people in North America, after 1650, to outnumber whites.
Remember Grandma Bacon telling me that during the 1918 pandemic Elks, Odd Fellows, Mason, Moose, Mannechor, YM/WCA’s, YMHA’s and Nationality clubs were turned into emergency hospitals…
Time to call it a day. Have a good one Lizards.
It’s awful disheartening that the only way America seems to be able to mentally engage in a unified effort for the good of all is through relating to it as a “War”
— 𝙒𝘽 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 🍕🐀😷 (@FormerDirtDart) March 17, 2020
re: #165 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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If anyone deserves a less-than-honourable after the fact…— (((Chrysi Cat))) [no, Karen is STILL my sister!] (@chrysicat) March 17, 2020
Painfully funny. https://t.co/YKyFwUTeRL
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 17, 2020
re: #105 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
We must all expect to contract the virus over the next year. Many of us over the next few months.
I have in place:
1) liquids with electrolytes (but I won’t water the plants with it, really I won’t.)
2) canned soups.
3) acetaminophen.Hopefully when I get it the symptoms will be mild.
I would say “be prepared to get it.” Actual infections even in the hardest-hit areas aren’t even up to 1% of the population, and the one thing we don’t and can’t know without a whole lot more data is how many people are susceptible.
So more great (///) news from the Big Apple - I’ve just found out our doctor (GP) was “advised by the hospital” to close his office until after 3/31, so no medical visits for us for the next couple of weeks. (I’m OK for now, Mrs. Jay has serious issues that could really use a MD visit, but there we are) The doctor’s office will still be issuing prescriptions for their regulars, but damn: though I can see the logic behind it, it’s still a bummer that medical practices are (with the exception of hospital ERs, I suppose) among the closure-prone businesses.
re: #19 EPR-radar
“The extinction of the human race will come from its inability to EMOTIONALLY comprehend the exponential function.” E. Teller.
This is looking more true than ever these days.
“There’s no system foolproof enough to defeat a sufficiently great fool.”
-Edward Teller— Stop acting like this is normal (@goddamnedfrank) March 17, 2020
read julias story i am serious https://t.co/JBYtHMyIce
— darth™ (@darth) March 17, 2020
re: #152 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Infuriating thread
One of the responses. This infuriates me even more. Call your rep and you can get tested? I am assuming she knows her rep. How many don’t? It’s like you have to know SOMEONE to get a fucking test, or be a celeb.
I literally just went through the same thing. My story was on NBC and CBS last night. It took my Congressman to intervene to get me tested.
— Diana Berrent (@dianaberrent) March 17, 2020
re: #4 goddamnedfrank
Born 1959, does that make me a boomer or X? Anyway, there was not a second of my childhood or adolescence where the impending nuclear war was not omnipresent.
re: #188 goddamnedfrank
“There’s no system foolproof enough to defeat a sufficiently great fool.”
Like they say, if you make something idiot-proof, someone will just build a better idiot.
re: #163 jaunte
There’s a good chance she has no idea what a broom is.
Oh, she knows what a broom is. She was from that class before she fucked her way up.
re: #173 Don’t Blame Me, I Voted for Kodos
Respect!
Candace Owens has gone to war against conservatives who are starting to suggest government responses to the coronavirus pandemic.
“I would recommend just accepting there is a new virus, & like all viruses, some people will die”https://t.co/KTRrV0XdZJ— Jared Holt (@jaredlholt) March 17, 2020
Reaching “… can’t even stage” a little early today. May have to log off to go out back and smoke out.
re: #177 calochortus
3lbs of asparagus is not hoarding. Proceed.
re: #131 Joe Bacon 🌹
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re: #196 BigPapa
3lbs of asparagus is not hoarding. Proceed.
Not hoarding, but that’s a lot of smelly urine…. 😷😷😷😀
re: #196 BigPapa
3lbs of asparagus is not hoarding. Proceed.
Only if it casts aspersions on Louie Gohmert.
Racist to the core, the whole lot…
This morning a White House official referred to #Coronavirus as the “Kung-Flu” to my face. Makes me wonder what they’re calling it behind my back.
— Weijia Jiang (@weijia) March 17, 2020
re: #116 plansbandc
This is why I’m so despairing. We are going to get it and dude and I are not healthy enough to survive it. How many days do we have? Not many. This thing is spreading fast.
In China, the first case was reported 1 December, 2019. It is now up to 80,000 . Of a population of 55 million in Hubei.
Hang in there, maintain social distance, this isn’t over. And neither are you.
Now the logistics chain has to spool up and that takes precious time. This shit doesn’t just teleport to where it’s needed. FUCK!
You…had…that…the…whole…time? https://t.co/qfSAlsIQ7a
— Alex Seitz-Wald (@aseitzwald) March 17, 2020
re: #196 BigPapa
3lbs of asparagus is not hoarding. Proceed.
Nope. Some stock, cream and butter and mushrooms perhaps cubed chicken and rice = glorious pot of soup.
re: #195 Khal Wimpo (the extinguisher of tiki torches)
Reaching “… can’t even stage” a little early today. May have to log off to go out back and smoke out.
Okay, Candace, you first.
There are no libertarians in foxholes.
re: #195 Khal Wimpo (the extinguisher of tiki torches)
“I would recommend just accepting there is a new virus, & like all viruses, some people will die
The Pro-Life Party™
re: #197 Anymouse 🌹🎃
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I saw somewhere that DoD is bringing hospital ships to ports nationwide ASAP.
— Jamie Nolan (@dcjams) March 17, 2020
You heard wrong.
The Navy is currently fitting out the Comfort and Mercy to respond to the outbreak, but there are only two hospital ships.
re: #19 EPR-radar
“The extinction of the human race will come from its inability to EMOTIONALLY comprehend the exponential function.” E. Teller.
Throughout most of my youth (as I mentioned above) we were pretty sure that the extinction of the human race would come about because of the inability of the human race to reject E. Teller.
(P.S. his reference to the exponential function there? More Malthusian bullshit).
Not all scientists are nice guys.
And now, like clockwork, right wing Twitter is mobilizing to attack Dana Bash’s critics.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 17, 2020
re: #200 plansbandc
Racist to the core, the whole lot…
There is a crapfest of “whataboutism” in that thread. “Liberals are the real racists,” &c.
More info: https://t.co/KnU7L3RGhO https://t.co/l5YExURUr6
— Local 12/WKRC-TV (@Local12) March 17, 2020
re: #196 BigPapa
3lbs of asparagus is not hoarding. Proceed.
Thank you, I will.
re: #203 William Lewis
Nope. Some stock, cream and butter and mushrooms perhaps cubed chicken and rice = glorious pot of soup.
I have a couple quarts of soup in the freezer made with onions, veggie stock and roasted asparagus and am certainly thinking of going the “cream of” route for this batch. Maybe some mushroom stock? Hmmmm.
re: #207 Anymouse 🌹🎃
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The Navy is currently fitting out the Comfort and Mercy to respond to the outbreak, but there are only two hospital ships.
One thing I read the other day, also, was that said hospital ships may or may not be the optimal solutions to the current virus outbreak, as they are designed for a relatively high patient density, versus the isolation/separation/quarantine protocols which are recommended for the Coronavirus outbreak. But better, I guess, than nothing for the two lucky port towns (?) they might be deployed to….
re: #211 Backwoods_Sleuth
LLBean and REI have closed their stores too.
re: #158 Belafon
Of the four groceries in my area, Aldi is the only one that meantions sick leave. Kroger will have to deal with their unions at some point on this. I don’t know about Tom Thumb. Walmart is Walmart.
Mine are either union, or follow the same rules as the union, I can’t remember which.
re: #191 John Hughes
Born 1959, does that make me a boomer or X? Anyway, there was not a second of my childhood or adolescence where the impending nuclear war was not omnipresent.
Like me…bottom of the boomers (last year).
Latest update from the University of Nebraska Medical Center.
March 17
In collaboration with the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness & Response and the Nebraska Department of Health & Human Services, UNMC and Nebraska Medicine supported an operation to bring home eight Nebraskans who had been passengers on the Grand Princess cruise ship. The individuals will quarantine in their homes and be monitored by local public health officials
One remaining evacuee from the Diamond Princess cruise ship might leave the National Quarantine Unit in the next day or two, pending test results.
A 36-year-old Omaha woman remains in critical condition, while a former Diamond Princess passenger who suffered a fall continues in good 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 4,800, with about 95 deaths. Worldwide, cases stand at about 190,000, with more than 7,500 deaths.
re: #159 Chrysicat
I’d love for that to be true.
OTOH, Secret Service protection for the rest of their lives. If they’re afraid to show their faces in public, there isn’t a single politician in the country who isn’t constantly in mortal danger.
And the only way our side isn’t constantly under crosshairs at that point is if we manage full de-GOPification where we track down and jail all of them before any of them can try to assassinate Dems as retaliation for Trump being taken out, whether electorally or extra-legally.
I don’t like the sound of that future and might even trade the Trumps’ permanent fear away to avoid it.
Being booed and jeered wherever they go would work well enough.
re: #30 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
The WHO didn’t imagine that the US would need the German Charité test because they thought the US would be intelligent enough to develop its own tests, possibly using the Charité test as a gold standard, like the Institut Pasteur did (for example).
It is vary hard for people outside the US to get used to thinking of it being the failing state that it is proving to be.
The richest member of the third world.
racist moron
“I think it’s a very accurate term,” Trump says of referring to it as the “Chinese virus.” He said he took exception to Chinese accusations it was started by US
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) March 17, 2020
re: #213 Jay C
One thing I read the other day, also, was that said hospital ships may or may not be the optimal solutions to the current virus outbreak, as they are designed for a relatively high patient density, versus the isolation/separation/quarantine protocols which are recommended for the Coronavirus outbreak. But better, I guess, than nothing for the two lucky port towns (?) they might be deployed to….
They aren’t the optimal solution for the reasons you cite (and they are fitted out to deal with combat wounds, not disease).
re: #219 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!
Being booed and jeered wherever they go would work well enough.
he’ll always be insulated from that by the rich assholes he hangs with.
“And poor people: If you find you have, like, way too much champagne in your wine cellar, wash your hair in it — or make popsicles! 😜”
— Ivanka, Nepotism’s Martha Stewart https://t.co/ggLpncZo3w— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@BettyBowers) March 17, 2020
The Bureau of Land Management says it will continue holding oil and gas lease sales on #publiclands during the pandemic. https://t.co/aO0O5J0oc0
— Western Priorities (@WstrnPriorities) March 17, 2020
Looters.
This is highly irregular. These decisions are made before indictment. https://t.co/oE5ESZ63Nb
— Barb McQuade (@BarbMcQuade) March 17, 2020
We need a way to prosecute people whose lawyers WILL leak to enemy governments without those lawyers RECEIVING THE INFORMATION THEY’LL LEAK TO ENEMY GOVERNMENTS.
— (((Chrysi Cat))) [no, Karen is STILL my sister!] (@chrysicat) March 17, 2020
Counterpoint: it requires literally no courage to go on cable news and say The President Is Good https://t.co/wBGxwynGMk
— friendly neighborhood cider man (@jesseltaylor) March 17, 2020
Working at home, called the local Chinese place for broccoli beef because I figured Henry really needed the business. He said he was sorry he had no broccoli but he could make asparagus beef. Told him it didn’t matter to me he needs the business. He started to tear up because other people got nasty about not getting broccoli beef...Feezus Jucking Key-Ryest selfish people are motherfathering assholes!
Dana Bash now getting lavished with praise by Hugh Hewitt, Mike Huckabee, the RNC, and any minute now, Donald Trump.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 17, 2020
re: #211 Backwoods_Sleuth
Lol I didn’t even know they still existed.
re: #202 goddamnedfrank
Nothing Trump did was done with a sense of urgency except to try and game the markets to his advantage.
He’s let resources waste away.
He’s ignored the experts, other than the ones he fired and disbanded before this - as a money saving operation.
Public health is a full time job. Pandemic prevention is a full time job. Pandemics happen precisely because some dumbass know nothing ignores all the warning signs, refuses to take aggressive action to curtail the spread, and then claims he’s doing a great job all while saying that the only thing that matters is keep the count low because it might hurt him politically in November.
It should motherfucking destroy him in November - and now. But his know nothing base continues to protect the fucker, exactly as McConnell keeps doing. They’re perfectly fine with this and see it as an opportunity to game the system so the millionaires get richer and everyone else is fucked.
We have MASH equipment. We have stockpiles of gear. Trump’s not dipping into any of it.
Why? This is their fucking purpose.
“TIME TO TAKE ME FOR A WALK DAVE” pic.twitter.com/1VCbfqrlh2
— darth™ (@darth) March 17, 2020
Just dropping in a for a few minutes. I’m still here, still okay. I still have to work but my company is offering a paid 14 day leave for anyone over 60 or who is immunocompromised so we’re down quite a few hands for awhile. They’ve actually offered unlimited OT for those who want to come in and hold the fort down.
My doctor prescribed me an anti-anxiety medication to help me keep my head on straight during this mess so we’ll see if that helps. Unfortunately, like most medications of that type, it’ll take awhile for me to get the full effect.
Hang in there, everyone. We can pull through this.
re: #225 jaunte
On the flipside, with the oil price war ongoing, and demand falling off the cliff, no one will be able to actually do anything with this because it’s not worth the expense.
re: #44 goddamnedfrank
TThe duck and cover drills were just absurd and had to fuck with people’s heads.
We never had that in the UK. The timing for an IRBM attack was never more than four minutes warning, but even for a bomber attack nobody thought you had a chance. The UK abandoned all civil defence measures in the 1950’s, it was just assumed to be a waste of money and time.
(Lightning interceptor pilot doctrine was they could each get up to 4 bombers — two with air to air missiles, one with the 20mm cannon, the last with the plane. No point about trying to get back to base, there’d be no place to land.)
What working from home is really like:
Me: *on a conference call*
*looks up from laptop screen*
Him: pic.twitter.com/xsrCufqcTN— Reyda (@MsReyda) March 16, 2020
re: #198 Dr. Matt
Not hoarding, but that’s a lot of smelly urine…. 😷😷😷😀
I used to gloat to my wife after broiled asparagus, BBQ’d meat, and lots of Laphroig ‘Hey baby come smell my pee!’
She didn’t find it as amusing as I did.
— Stephen King (@StephenKing) March 17, 2020
Part of my mental health routine while we’re locked up is to not spend my whole day on line, but to go do something constructive every so often. So I’m going to do that.
Tomorrow I start a “go for a walk every day” routine as well, because in addition to staying away from people for the last week because COVID, and the 3 weeks of doing the same looming ahead, I was sick for 3 weeks before that and could start chewing the woodwork at any moment.
It is a seriously good thing that I don’t require a huge amount of social stimulation and am generally pretty happy at home.
I will BBL
re: #231 lawhawk
MASH units are organised for combat wounds, just as Navy hospital ships are.
Moreover, they are reservists. To set up MASH units means you strip hospitals and clinics of personnel.
The Nebraska Tornado Drill scheduled for 3/25 has been CANCELLED. However, Severe Weather Awareness Week will still on across Nebraska next week. Check back for posts and information throughout the week. #SWAW2020 pic.twitter.com/hcmYNNYL0g
— NWS Hastings (@NWSHastings) March 17, 2020
re: #101 lawhawk
Another jump in cases in NYC: 814.
That’s an artifact of more testing. But it’s still slow in coming.
re: #235 John Hughes
We never had that in the UK. The timing for an IRBM attack was never more than four minutes warning, but even for a bomber attack nobody thought you had a chance. The UK abandoned all civil defence measures in the 1950’s, it was just assumed to be a waste of money and time.
(Lightning interceptor pilot doctrine was they could each get up to 4 bombers — two with air to air missiles, one with the 20mm cannon, the last with the plane. No point about trying to get back to base, there’d be no place to land.)
We converted nuclear duck-and-cover drills when I was in school in Michigan to tornado duck-and-cover drills.
The outcome would likely be the same.
Fucking panic shoppers. pic.twitter.com/zGlc2ePEF0
— jamie (@gnuman1979) March 17, 2020
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Folks, this #CoronavirusOutbreak is no joke. I’ll give you occasional updates, tweeting from “Above the Hospital Bed,” about how serious #COVID19 aka #coronavirus can be. Think of this as #LatsCovid19Journal, my thoughts on #LivingWithCovid. [Thread] pic.twitter.com/pFXkAGWu3O
— David Lat (@DavidLat) March 17, 2020
re: #240 Anymouse 🌹🎃
MASH units are also physical facilities - the gear, structures, etc.
The hospital ships are also physical facilities, and they can be transitioned for same purpose.
We’ve heard talk of cruise ships or hotels transformed into covid19 wards.
Those have value at this time. You can activate those folks to go where they’re needed most. You can be ready and prepared. Trump’s done none of that.
Programming note:
Considering the craptastic response of the government to the epidemic, and the need to fend for ourselves, it might be worthwhile to set up a way to track those of us who become ill and might need help.
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Yesterday I tweeted about a nursing home in the Chicago suburbs that had 12 confirmed cases of COVID-19. The number has subsequently risen to 22. Here’s the Chicago Tribune article confirming it. This disaster could’ve been averted by the removal of Trump
https://t.co/2ETADzfEPg https://t.co/kqascqXfxr— Tom Joseph (@TomJChicago) March 17, 2020
re: #192 makeitstop
Like they say, if you make something idiot-proof, someone will just build a better idiot.
It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.
re: #24 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)
socialism and government bailouts suck
until *I* need it
Where are these fucking MAJOR INDUSTRIES bootstraps all us low life commoners should pull ourselves up with when a major industry moves away from us?
re: #193 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Oh, she knows what a broom is. She was from that class before she fucked her way up.
Ivanka? Naah.
THERE IS NO ELECTION IN OHIO TODAY: Forecast Called For CONSTITUTIONAL SH*TSHOW (Wonkette)
The crapfest Gov. Mike DeWine put the state through in the last couple days. Practice for voter suppression in the general election.
re: #254 Anymouse 🌹🎃
THERE IS NO ELECTION IN OHIO TODAY: Forecast Called For CONSTITUTIONAL SH*TSHOW (Wonkette)
The crapfest Gov. Mike DeWine put the state through in the last couple days. Practice for voter suppression in the general election.
From what I understand, he violated a judge’s order.
re: #251 Eventual Carrion
Where are these fucking MAJOR INDUSTRIES bootstraps all us low life commoners should pull ourselves up with when a major industry moves away from us?
When that happened in Western Pennsylvania when the steel industry died in 1984, President Pruneface told the unemployed steelworkers “Tough Shit” along with the mainstream media…
re: #248 Mescalero09
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re: #223 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
he’ll always be insulated from that by the rich assholes he hangs with.
We’re talking about the man who needs public adulation like you and I need air, right? We’re talking about the sycophants who will drop him like a roasted turd as soon as he’s no longer in power, right?
re: #243 Anymouse 🌹🎃
We converted nuclear duck-and-cover drills when I was in school in Michigan to tornado duck-and-cover drills.
The outcome would likely be the same.
When I was in school in Cali, we converted them to earthquake drills. They were useful and effective for that purpose.
re: #259 sagehen
We definitely did duck and cover drills in Elementary school in Denver.
re: #246 lawhawk
MASH units are also physical facilities - the gear, structures, etc.
The hospital ships are also physical facilities, and they can be transitioned for same purpose.We’ve heard talk of cruise ships or hotels transformed into covid19 wards.
Those have value at this time. You can activate those folks to go where they’re needed most. You can be ready and prepared. Trump’s done none of that.
As DOD pointed out in a briefing yesterday, military medical set ups are not really useful for infectious disease treatment. Especially hospital ships, whose wards are rather closely packed.
Deployable medical infrastructure is designed for trauma care. While the military’s hospital system in the US is set up for day to day treatments. Think sports injury and neonatal and such.
Also most of the military medical system resides in the Guard and Reserves. Which means those personnel would need to be pulled from their current medical treatment positions.
Now, military field hospitals could be of some assistance to relieve the civil medical infrastructure in caring for non-virus patients
My hope is we come out of this experience as a planet ready to confront the climate change issue. We have to be ready.
re: #249 Backwoods_Sleuth
Any idea what suburb? It’s behind a paywall.
Italy: 31,000+ infected, 2,500 dead - 7% mortality rate. They are likely to surpass the China death toll within the next week or so.
From a friend on FB:
“Years ago, anthropologist Margaret Mead was asked by a student what she considered to be the first sign of civilization in a culture. The student expected Mead to talk about fishhooks or clay pots or grinding stones.
But no. Mead said that the first sign of civilization in an ancient culture was a femur (thighbone) that had been broken and then healed. Mead explained that in the animal kingdom, if you break your leg, you die. You cannot run from danger, get to the river for a drink or hunt for food. You are meat for prowling beasts. No animal survives a broken leg long enough for the bone to heal.
‘A broken femur that has healed is evidence that someone has taken time to stay with the one who fell, has bound up the wound, has carried the person to safety and has tended the person through recovery. Helping someone else through difficulty is where civilization starts’, Mead said.
We are at our best when we serve others. Be civilized.”
- Ira Byock, The Best Care Possible: A Physician’s Quest to Transform Care Through the End of Life (Avery, 2012)]
BTW if you want to be very pedantic about it, Trump didn’t call the coronavirus ITSELF a “hoax.”
The efforts to warn people, the demands for action and testing, the media coverage of a growing crisis - THAT’S what he called a “hoax.”
And that’s even worse.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 17, 2020
re: #258 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!
We’re talking about the man who needs public adulation like you and I need air, right? We’re talking about the sycophants who will drop him like a roasted turd as soon as he’s no longer in power, right?
But he’ll always have the morons who voted for him and still love him.
But he wants the rich and powerful to love and accept him. Most won’t. And I hope that’s the case for eternity.
re: #257 PhillyPretzel
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re: #258 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!
We’re talking about the man who needs public adulation like you and I need air, right? We’re talking about the sycophants who will drop him like a roasted turd as soon as he’s no longer in power, right?
You will still have brainwashed marks worshipping him…like a certain relative who had a picture of Pruneface Reagan on her prayer altar…and she prayed to Reagan
Process is always paramount for McConnell, and this is the process for WH’s $1T stimulus: Three groups of GOP senators are putting together aspects of the proposal with the goal of getting an agreement among the Republicans themselves. Then, they will try to cut a deal with Dems
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) March 17, 2020
I’m in Alameda County, California and I see that at least some construction work is going on. I’m not sure if it’s essential work (You need to cure something for a certain amount of time and then do something else otherwise redo), or not.
People are being good at social distancing at least in a brief walk outside, but I haven’t been to a store since the shelter-in-place order
re: #239 calochortus
Part of my mental health routine while we’re locked up is to not spend my whole day on line, but to go do something constructive every so often. So I’m going to do that.
Tomorrow I start a “go for a walk every day” routine as well, because in addition to staying away from people for the last week because COVID, and the 3 weeks of doing the same looming ahead, I was sick for 3 weeks before that and could start chewing the woodwork at any moment.
It is a seriously good thing that I don’t require a huge amount of social stimulation and am generally pretty happy at home.
I will BBL
Me: healthful walk (including steep hills) with Italian dialogs in earphones, pick up takeout(no sprouts, but I didn’t complain), today’s bit of housework, laundry.
Laundry is in dryer (or hanging in bathroom, last of the morning’s chores.
re: #236 Backwoods_Sleuth
Ullo Darlin, whatcha doin tonite?
re: #243 Anymouse 🌹🎃
We converted nuclear duck-and-cover drills when I was in school in Michigan to tornado duck-and-cover drills.
The outcome would likely be the same.
I remember them as earthquake drills.
re: #240 Anymouse 🌹🎃
France, we discover, has a service of medical reservists, composed of retired doctors and last year medical students, who are being called up in support roles.
And we have nothing but incompetence in and America.
In China booze makers are cranking out hand sanitiser and car firms are churning out disinfectant. Chinese companies have rushed to produce wares to fight the covid-19 epidemic @studersc tells “The Intelligence” https://t.co/oHKqIHeSHU pic.twitter.com/0h8AN1jZsG
— The Economist (@TheEconomist) March 17, 2020
A video always emerges. https://t.co/lPPnhNnUzy
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 17, 2020
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If the HAT fits ….. pic.twitter.com/T8IpGeKBA5
— The Resistor Sister ♥️🇺🇸🦅 (@the_resistor) March 17, 2020
In 1959, I was in second grade in Newark, NY.
Our drills involved being released from school (on foot!) when the air raid sirens activated, and then timed for how long we took to either get home or arrive at one of the Civil Defense shelters.
as the years passed, the sense of imminent death was just about inevitable.
re: #228 Joe Bacon 🌹
Working at home, called the local Chinese place for broccoli beef because I figured Henry really needed the business. He said he was sorry he had no broccoli but he could make asparagus beef. Told him it didn’t matter to me he needs the business. He started to tear up because other people got nasty about not getting broccoli beef...Feezus Jucking Key-Ryest selfish people are motherfathering assholes!
MN has closed bars and restaurants now too.
I had heard a story about popular NY restaurants getting backed up for weeks of orders, so I called a local restaurant to find out how they’re handling to-go orders. He said just call it in 10 minutes early and call again when I’m at the back door. He was kind of happily surprised that I was calling to check. This is from a place called Shamrocks that would have been packed to the gills with St. Pat’s day patrons. They’re known for their tremendous hamberders.
Any New Yorker with non-medical or non-student debt owed to the State of New York and referred to my office may also apply to temporarily halt the collection of state debt.
Use the link below to fill out an application:
https://t.co/QntgE81iwY— NY AG James (@NewYorkStateAG) March 17, 2020
re: #267 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
But he’ll always have the morons who voted for him and still love him.
But he wants the rich and powerful to love and accept him. Most won’t. And I hope that’s the case for eternity.
And “others” can line the streets leading to the morons and throw rotten lettuce.
re: #282 BigPapa
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A local distillery/ brewery is making hand sanitizer and is giving it away to anyone who wants some.
This is doing it right.
re: #239 calochortus
Part of my mental health routine while we’re locked up is to not spend my whole day on line, but to go do something constructive every so often. So I’m going to do that.
Tomorrow I start a “go for a walk every day” routine as well, because in addition to staying away from people for the last week because COVID, and the 3 weeks of doing the same looming ahead, I was sick for 3 weeks before that and could start chewing the woodwork at any moment.
It is a seriously good thing that I don’t require a huge amount of social stimulation and am generally pretty happy at home.
I will BBL
I’m going to become that most rare of creatures - an Oklahoma City resident who walks. We moved here last year (my wife’s hometown) and I’m still so surprised by how few people walk anywhere. I’ve done plenty of long-distance hiking, so I think I’m going to go full-on urban hiker and start blogging about it.
As for today’s sanity making activities, I just popped a batch of peach scones in the oven. Yay stress baking!
The doctors, nurses and other health care workers treating patients and keeping our hospitals & clinics open are heroes.
To help, we must do all we can to flatten the curve so they can care for the most at-risk patients.
Thinking of them as we do our part and keep our distance. https://t.co/d8ZrdYuvng— Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) March 17, 2020
Well, Wisconsin is closing down now too. Going to be interesting.
I doubt I’ve posted much over the years on LGF about my work. Here’s the missive I just posted on Facebook for my friends. I’m learning a lot from Lizard survival stories, so why not share one of mine.
Hi friends! If any of you need help transitioning your existing business or work to life online, or have been thrust into the position where you need to figure out how to move forward professionally from home, let me know.
I’m a professional editor and website designer, and fortunately just completed a major update to my own online presence last month in order to find more clients.
I have over ten years of experience working remotely on major communications projects, and have a lot of advanced skills in online marketing, business plan development, content creation, website design, project management, and more.
We’ll all be transformed I expect over the coming months, our work lives included. I’m hoping one way I can be of service, and continue to grow in my own career, is by helping people who have long thought about striking out into online work, or need a better website for their business, but haven’t yet had the resources and motivation.
My wife and I plan on doing more blogging, and will likely start publishing tips and other helpful content via my pro Facebook page and other platforms. And definitely message us even if you’re just brainstorming. #WeGotThis
Bailing out cruise lines? They fly under a foreign flag to avoid U.S. taxes, they don’t pay many of their employees near minimum wage, they don’t follow EPA standards. Get right with America first before being bailed out.
— John Weaver (@jwgop) March 17, 2020
re: #289 William Lewis
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So, to take our minds off the stress of being confined to our dwellings by covid-19 France Television is showing us documentaries about global warming bringing up the corpses of people buried in the permafrost after the Spanish flu. Couldn’t we at least have something amusing and mostly disease free like La bohème?
Lre: #294 Ferdinand
I doubt I’ve posted much over the years on LGF about my work. Here’s the missive I just posted on Facebook for my friends. I’m learning a lot from Lizard survival stories, so why not share one of mine.
I’m going to start a journal I think.
MAJOR NEW TOOL BY @propublica: The health care system is projected to be overwhelmed by coronavirus patients unless drastic measures are taken. Use this tool to look up how prepared hospitals near you are for COVID-19. https://t.co/zHgOfx2UC8
— Charles Ornstein (@charlesornstein) March 17, 2020
re: #297 John Hughes
For me it is PBS series. Victoria, Poldark and of course Dowton Abbey. I am downloading Victoria as we speak. :)
Cat is home from the vet! One week with the drain. Two weeks with the cone of shame.
— VincentWandersAimlessly (@VWAimlessly) March 17, 2020
Unhappy kitty pic.twitter.com/9vTmDwBtPl
— VincentWandersAimlessly (@VWAimlessly) March 17, 2020
re: #295 Backwoods_Sleuth
Much of that is true, but it is also true that the foreign (third world) nationals who work the cruise ships can put their kids through college and their neighbors have trouble feeding theirs.
Even if it’s broke, be cautious about fixing it.
re: #287 Backwoods_Sleuth
France announced that the treve hivernal (winter truce) is to be extended — nobody can be expelled from their habitation for non-payment of rent.
re: #286 stpaulbear
MN has closed bars and restaurants now too.
I had heard a story about popular NY restaurants getting backed up for weeks of orders, so I called a local restaurant to find out how they’re handling to-go orders. He said just call it in 10 minutes early and call again when I’m at the back door. He was kind of happily surprised that I was calling to check. This is from a place called Shamrocks that would have been packed to the gills with St. Pat’s day patrons. They’re known for their tremendous hamberders.
Austin (Texas, not Minnesnowta) just shut down bars. Restaurants my stay in business if they shift to delivery/pick-up only. Movie theaters, no. Taco and other food trucks, open, but outdoor seating limited to no more than ten people.
Time frame, immediate. Duration, unknown.
This is a very, very service industry dependent town. It’s going to fuck a lot of people over. Damn tough for them. We know lots of servers. Many are also musicians.
It’s also the right thing for the City to do to flatten the curve.
We’ve just said a sad goodbye to our last on-site visitors for a while….But at least the amazing online collections and learning resources of the @britishlibrary are ready and waiting for the home time that lies ahead for us all. pic.twitter.com/ZcQ95bKhqD
— Roly Keating (@rolykeating) March 17, 2020
Feels more than little weird to close up @bodleianlibs this evening. We may have shut our ancient wooden doors for a while but we have digital collections and services aplenty! pic.twitter.com/A8FRGRqkZf
— Richard Ovenden (@richove) March 17, 2020
re: #298 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
L
I’m going to start a journal I think.
Hey—just saw The Quiet Man is on TCM tonight at 8.
re: #302 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!
Much of that is true, but it is also true that the foreign (third world) nationals who work the cruise ships can put their kids through college and their neighbors have trouble feeding theirs.
Even if it’s broke, be cautious about fixing it.
nope.
I am totally opposed to bailing out cruiseships, airlines, casinos, etc., before addressing the real needs of regular working Americans
re: #124 plansbandc
Please don’t say that. (I am an old, well overweight, with other health issues, including a tendency to depression, so I’m not trying to push on you because I am young and healthy.)
Not everyone will be exposed. Not everyone who is exposed will get the virus. Most who get the virus will have a mild case. And as time passes, the medical community will be better equipped to know what to do for the more severe cases. So please don’t beat up on yourself. Find something to enjoy (your dog! a good movie) and laugh a bit every day! Laughter is the best medicine!
re: #261 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
As DOD pointed out in a briefing yesterday, military medical set ups are not really useful for infectious disease treatment. Especially hospital ships, whose wards are rather closely packed.
Deployable medical infrastructure is designed for trauma care. While the military’s hospital system in the US is set up for day to day treatments. Think sports injury and neonatal and such.Also most of the military medical system resides in the Guard and Reserves. Which means those personnel would need to be pulled from their current medical treatment positions.
Now, military field hospitals could be of some assistance to relieve the civil medical infrastructure in caring for non-virus patients
Pentagon in the process of activating the US #Navy’s two #hospital ships, MERCY T-AH19 & COMFORT T-AH20. Ships will be used for non-#covid-19 cases to relieve shore hospitals dealing with the #virus crisis. MERCY is based at San Diego, COMFORT at Norfolk https://t.co/FCG8Xmy7bZ pic.twitter.com/tCsuviin4V
— Chris Cavas (@CavasShips) March 17, 2020
re: #306 BeachDem
Hey—just saw The Quiet Man is on TCM tonight at 8.
Oooh. Dropkick Murphys are doing a virtual show tonight and I may start Plot Against America. I’m at a Facebook virtual concert now. Decisions, decisions
re: #301 Backwoods_Sleuth
Social distancing. We all feel for you, kitty.
re: #202 goddamnedfrank
Now the logistics chain has to spool up and that takes precious time. This shit doesn’t just teleport to where it’s needed. FUCK!
It’s not the DOD’s job to look for states and hospitals that might need their supplies. It’s the Executive branch’s job to realize that states are going to need stuff and know that the military has it.
Amazon suspending shipments of non-essential items to warehouses https://t.co/p2gkkRNrxz pic.twitter.com/VDU45VxbYi
— The Hill (@thehill) March 17, 2020
re: #304 austin_blue
Austin (Texas, not Minnesnowta) just shut down bars. Restaurants my stay in business if they shift to delivery/pick-up only. Movie theaters, no. Taco and other food trucks, open, but outdoor seating limited to no more than ten people.
Time frame, immediate. Duration, unknown.
This is a very, very service industry dependent town. It’s going to fuck a lot of people over. Damn tough for them. We know lots of servers. Many are also musicians.
It’s also the right thing for the City to do to flatten the curve.
South Carolina Governor @HenryMcMaster announces Exec. orders to:
-Close all bars and restaurants’ dine-in services
-Push back state tax deadlines to June
-Ban gatherings of 50 or more in public/gov’t-owned facilities
-Mobilize Nat’l Guard to assist hospitals with infrastructure pic.twitter.com/pM2DXc7kHA— Meg Kinnard (@MegKinnardAP) March 17, 2020
re: #307 Backwoods_Sleuth
Amen. Give every American adult $2000 before any airline, cruise line or etc gets a single cent.
re: #313 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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Ordered a yoga mat just in time. Also got new DVDs.
As early @NBCNews exit polls begin to roll in, an overwhelming majority of voters in AZ, FL & IL say they trust @JoeBiden over @BernieSanders to handle a huge crisis.
FL VOTERS
Biden 71%
Sanders 23%
IL VOTERS
Biden 64%
Sanders 31%
AZ VOTERS
Biden 63%
Sanders 31%— Henry”No Malarkey”Djoutsa (@D_jeneration) March 17, 2020
re: #312 Belafon
It’s not the DOD’s job to look for states and hospitals that might need their supplies. It’s the Executive branch’s job to realize that states are going to need stuff and know that the military has it.
if only the USA had some sort of central authority to coordinate this instead of throwing the individual states into a free-for-all grabbing resources…
re: #317 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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re: #285 Backwoods_Sleuth
In 1959, I was in second grade in Newark, NY.
Our drills involved being released from school (on foot!) when the air raid sirens activated, and then timed for how long we took to either get home or arrive at one of the Civil Defense shelters.as the years passed, the sense of imminent death was just about inevitable.
I was in school in 70s and 80s in Abilene, TX, which is the home of Dyess Air Force base, where the first B-1 Bombers were located. We occasionally practiced tornado drills, but there was never any drills for nuclear war. Kids did occasionally talk about what they would do if the missiles went off while we were at school, but that was it.
re: #316 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I ordered a metal snips and files. I also have an order of Lysol.
re: #280 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Thanks. Southern suburbs. Monied. Meat even more money.
A message from Mayor Trilla regarding the Coronavirus:
first case in DuPage County has been identified in Willowbrook at the Chateau Senior Living facility
re: #301 Backwoods_Sleuth
My kitten after she got back after getting her gonads hacked out. Vet said two weeks for the cone- of-shame.; I released her after two days. She didn’t pick at get incision and all was fine.
Oh, yeah, something that happened today — if I leave the house I have to have a déclaration sur l’honneur saying why I’m outside — essential work (also needs declaration from employer), necessary shopping (food), health (visit doctor, pharmacy, hospital) or family emergency.
No declaration, could be fined on the spot by the police.
Form downloadable from gouvernement.fr.
Everybody with a cellphone got a SMS heads up from the government this morning.
Put the corned beef brisket, cabbage, onions, potatoes, etc in the Instant Pot with some beer.
Happy St Patrick’s Day!
Got nervous and ordered another bag of dog food.
re: #324 John Hughes
Is the transit running where you are?
re: #317 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Those are choke on your saliva numbers.
Probably gets checks from corporations weekly
— 𝙒𝘽 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 🍕🐀😷 (@FormerDirtDart) March 17, 2020
re: #324 John Hughes
Everybody with a cellphone got a SMS heads up from the government this morning.
I just got one a minute ago: not sure from who, though: probably NYC.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Tuesday the upper chamber will pass the House’s second coronavirus funding package without changes.
The decision comes despite some vocal GOP opposition to the measure over concerns about its impact on small businesses.
“With regard to the bill that came over from the House, there was some discussion about whether to amendment that with a bigger proposal, because we all know a bigger proposal is necessary. But I’ve decided we’re going to go on and vote as soon as the Senate can get permission to vote on the bill that came over from the House, send it down to the president for signature,” McConnell told reporters.
Asked about pushback from within his caucus, he added, “My counsel to them is to gag and vote for it anyway.”
re: #105 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
We must all expect to contract the virus over the next year. Many of us over the next few months.
I have in place:
1) liquids with electrolytes (but I won’t water the plants with it, really I won’t.)
2) canned soups.
3) acetaminophen.Hopefully when I get it the symptoms will be mild.
The bottom line is, if you contract COVID-19 - it’s best to get it early before the hospitals triage.
Spoke to a hospital construction contractor yesterday.
He was headed to Florida to install containment structures in some hospitals’ hallways.
OK, that’s pretty damn dystopian
A voter wearing a glove holds an “I Voted” sticker in Miami Beach, Florida, as the coronavirus outbreak roils the presidential primaries. https://t.co/Mbji4w4pgS pic.twitter.com/A6iERspDK1
— ABC News (@ABC) March 17, 2020
re: #334 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
OK, that’s pretty damn dystopian
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re: #330 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
And money from Russia funneled through the NRA.
— Yeah Sure WTF Ever (@YeahSureWhatev2) March 17, 2020
I don’t want to ever hear complaining about voting not mattering. It matters. Voting is our ultimate expression of participation in democracy. It’s something that we all share with the President and high ups of government.
4 Brooklyn Nets players, including Kevin Durant, have tested positive for COVID-19.
Not sure why this occurred but the Bankers Association of the Philippines suspended trading, clearing and settlement of all foreign exchange (FX) and fixed income transactions since earlier today.
The Bankers Association of the Philippines targets to re-open trading of foreign exchange and bonds on Wednesday and are awaiting approval from the government. “We hope that the FX and fixed income markets can re-open tomorrow. That would allow our economy to continue to function in these challenging times,” BAP President Cezar Consing told Bloomberg News in an email.
re: #330 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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This is the worst nightmare for the wingnuts: A crisis where people aren’t willing to settle for a tax cut.
re: #336 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Well, that is still a “government check”
Just a different government— 𝙒𝘽 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 🍕🐀😷 (@FormerDirtDart) March 17, 2020
re: #332 Belafon
I wonder if this is some sort of fuckery, like “We *wanted* to go bigger, but were pressured to accept what the House passed. It’s not our fault you didn’t get more, blame the dems.”
re: #317 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Also, these numbers indicate Bernie didn’t pick up many Warren voters.
re: #339 makeitstop
4 Brooklyn Nets players, including Kevin Durant, have tested positive for COVID-19.
Dude. I’m not sure if you’re on Facebook or not but Frank Turner has a virtual concert on right now. He’s playing 1933 as we speak.
re: #343 Flying Squirrel Girl
I wonder if this is some sort of fuckery, like “We *wanted* to go bigger, but were pressured to accept what the House passed. It’s not our fault you didn’t get more, blame the dems.”
Cotton was trying that a couple of days ago. The push-back is that Republicans went home for the weekend, and they left the White House in charge of negotiating.
This is really something…
Rush hour in downtown DC. pic.twitter.com/PXF2JcQwDV
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) March 17, 2020
re: #347 plansbandc
This is really something…
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That’s the eeriest thing. But I should hold that thought because we don’t know what’s to come.
re: #327 Sherlock Hound
Is the transit running where you are?
Yes, but they’ve announced a reduced service (which is a bit odd, reduced service means
increased promiscuity(*), right?)
((*)In the French(**) sense of the term, of course…)
((**) In French “promiscuity” means closeness(***))
((***) so, not so different then…)
(Ed: Stop it with these bloody footnotes).
re: #347 plansbandc
Great time for film crews to be doing location shoots for “last person on earth flicks”
This stands out for me, but go read the whole thing:
“The restrictions came upon us slowly but steadily. Within two weeks, our old lives were gone. First the schools closed, then came social distancing. Then the government locked down the hardest-hit areas: no more going in and out of certain provinces; limited movements within the “red zones.” Then the whole country shut down.”
re: #339 makeitstop
4 Brooklyn Nets players, including Kevin Durant, have tested positive for COVID-19.
Tested while not being symptomatic.
re: #345 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Dude. I’m not sure if you’re on Facebook or not but Frank Turner has a virtual concert on right now. He’s playing 1933 as we speak.
Thanks! Brought it up but it’s pretty balky.
Yet another problem
Nearly 2,700 Red Cross blood drives have been canceled, resulting in about 86,000 fewer donations. https://t.co/LkdhuLyGzL
— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) March 17, 2020
re: #353 makeitstop
Thanks! Brought it up but it’s pretty balky.
Got it on my phone. He sounds great.
re: #347 plansbandc
This is really something…
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re: #307 Backwoods_Sleuth
nope.
I am totally opposed to bailing out cruiseships, airlines, casinos, etc., before addressing the real needs of regular working Americans
And I’ll stand up for public transit (as is my wont):
Congress is actively working on a third package of COVID-19 response legislation and an emergency aid package could pass in the coming days. Public transportation organizations are taking extraordinary efforts to protect the health and safety of riders and employees while working tirelessly to maintain essential services. We want to ensure that the federal government includes aid to public transportation agencies to help offset the additional costs and lost revenue related to COVID-19.
re: #351 Flying Squirrel Girl
I can’t remember who said it, but I think I read something on the lines of “before the pandemic every measure proposed seems alarmist, afterwards every measure taken seems too little, to late”.
re: #315 William Lewis
Amen. Give every American adult $2000 before any airline, cruise line or etc gets a single cent.
It appears they’re both in the same bill that’s being worked on.
It better not get to stage 6. If this country ever institutes an internal passport, neither Trump nor Bernie will even ask for it to be repealed during peacetime. Biden at least 70-percent would, but Bernie’s people are kind of vocal they’ll actively sabotage him.
— (((Chrysi Cat))) [no, Karen is STILL my sister!] (@chrysicat) March 17, 2020
re: #354 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Yet another problem
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And a big serious question: if the ARC is asking for blood donations from “healthy residents”, how does one know if they are “healthy”, in the absence of adequate testing?
I mean, I’d be happy to spare a pint or two of the old B+, but without being able (AFACBD) to tell if I’m infected or not, it would be a waste of my (and their) time - and blood.
re: #358 John Hughes
I can’t remember who said it, but I think I read something on the lines of “before the pandemic every measure proposed seems alarmist, afterwards every measure taken seems too little, to late”.
On that note:
The coronavirus pandemic isn’t a ‘black swan.’ It’s a gray rhino.
A “black swan” is the term of art for something that is highly improbable, even unimaginable…
The gray rhino is the massive two-ton thing with its horn pointed at you, stomping the ground and getting ready to charge — and, most important, giving you the chance to act.
Day 4: Pasties @CHOW @imjeffreyw pic.twitter.com/1lqMmlaAiO
— Lemon Harangue Pie (@Pie_Overlord) March 17, 2020
re: #349 John Hughes
Yes, but they’ve announced a reduced service (which is a bit odd, reduced service means
increased promiscuity(*), right?)((*)In the French(**) sense of the term, of course…)
((**) In French “promiscuity” means closeness(***))
((***) so, not so different then…)
(Ed: Stop it with these bloody footnotes).
Boston just put its system on a reduced (Saturday-level) schedule. We have the same concerns about crowding; the 455 bus that runs from Salem to the Wonderland Blue Line stop in Revere is often very crowded on a normal Saturday. Weekdays are impossible. And the commuter rail doesn’t have many trips in the early morning, so people are pushing back.
It wasn’t that crowded on the bus when I was food shopping yesterday, but that’s my fear. Delivery is a luxury service—let’s be frank about that! I and a lot of neighbors and friends cannot use that service.
re: #364 The Pie Overlord!
How do you make pasties?
re: #343 Flying Squirrel Girl
I wonder if this is some sort of fuckery, like “We *wanted* to go bigger, but were pressured to accept what the House passed. It’s not our fault you didn’t get more, blame the dems.”
Or, alternatively, the Senate Republicans spent the weekend trying to figure out how to lard the House aid bill with their favorite corporate giveaways and/or fat-cat tax breaks, but ran into the problem of bad optics: and probably figured out it wasn’t worth the hassle right now.
After all, there are eight months til the election: plenty of time to load up the porkbarrel….
Jesus fucking Christ.
EU warns of pro-Kremlin disinformation campaign on coronavirus https://t.co/NcVrCbKUa3 via @financialtimes
— UsHadrons (@ushadrons) March 17, 2020
re: #335 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
These are photos for the history books.
Love in the Time of Corona
Part of an email from Cinemark:
Cinemark
Dear Valued Guest,
I cannot thank you enough for your loyal support of Cinemark Theatres. The entire Cinemark team cares deeply about our guests, employees and communities, and we have made the incredibly difficult decision to close our U.S. theatres to ensure we are playing our part to slow the spread of Coronavirus (COVID-19). Each of our theatres will be closed beginning Wednesday, March 18, until we believe it is safe to once again welcome moviegoers to our auditoriums.
re: #329 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
That’s a really good message. Thanks.
I particularly like this part:
At this time I would ask/challenge the teens/20s who are home from school to contact givingdupage.org to sign up to help those who are vulnerable(people with illness, those in their 60, 70, and 80’s). Older residents should not be in stores, getting prescriptions, and in crowded places. Now is the time for Leadership. If you’re a youngster living in an apartment building, wipe off all the door knobs, offer to help your neighbor - NOW is the time. Step up. I’m calling on businesses to send home any sick workers, and take ALL precautions afforded to you such as gloves for food handlers. Willowbrook may be the first infected in DuPage, but we will not be the last.
Grifting trash.
NEW: Kim Guilfoyle, chair of the Trump-RNC joint fundraising effort, held a lavish Mar-a-Lago birthday party the same weekend as the RNC donor retreat.
And Trump donors were asked to help pick up the tab. https://t.co/znNVLIK8NZ
w/@SteveEder & @kenvogel:— Nick Confessore (@nickconfessore) March 17, 2020
Republican-ruled West Virginia had found the successful way of not reporting coronavirus cases: not testing people. Now it’s over: one of the only 84 people who have been tested is infected https://t.co/UMBtx21Id2
— Alfons López Tena (@alfonslopeztena) March 17, 2020
Hello from Glasgow, Scotland! I’ve been working at home since last Friday. My work is lucky enough to be one of those sorts of companies that work with different clients, and so we have each a company laptop so we can do working on-site. Thus, we’re capable to work from home if needed. Last Tuesday, we were advised to take out laptops home with us each day, just in case we needed to work from home. Two days later, we were advised to work from home, So, I’ve been working from home since Friday.
So, over the past three days of working from home:
* Over those three days, the amount of people in our company working from home has gone from 50%, to 75%, to basically everyone.
* Every morning, the work has a general meeting on Microsoft Teams. It only lasts about 15 minutes, but you see all these people you know from the office, alone and in their home environments, and it feels really weird, because we’re still acting as a team.
* Went the local Lidl’s yesterday at lunchtime. No loo roll, no shaving foam or gel, no pasta- apart from Pot Noodle.
* Had to go into the office today to pick up something. Only one other people in the office, and he was going to leave in about 15 mins. I was there less than 5 mins.
* Glasgow city centre noticeably quieter than usual
* Some drink/food places shut, but a lot that are still open no longer accept cash payments, but contactless card payments.
* There might be no loo roll in the big supermarkets, but the local newsagents are well stocked. (I was able to get loo roll and shaving foam there.) That might not last too long though…
* Went to my Mum’s (Who is 79) today and set up Skype on her laptop, and we had a lot of fun doing a test call to each other. If the country does need to go into lockdown, at least I’ll be able to Skype her, and we’ll be able to see each other’s face. Even then, it felt like a helluva risk to go to her house at all.
So I’m chilling out tonight with some music.
re: #371 Backwoods_Sleuth
I particularly like this part:
Me too. That was especially nice. I hope the kids step up.
Dude has been going to work. Just a few minutes ago they found out that one of his associates’ wife has been exposed.
Office is getting fumigated tomorrow.
Shit.
re: #332 Belafon
But I’ve decided we’re going to go on and vote as soon as the Senate can get permission to vote on the bill that came over from the House
Get Permission????
What fucking “permission”???
re: #366 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
How do you make pasties?
Well, you get a 1 1/2 inch circle of sequined paper…
I’d think anyone under 50 should by this point, because whose student loan wasn’t ever placed in abeyance?
— (((Chrysi Cat))) [no, Karen is STILL my sister!] (@chrysicat) March 17, 2020
re: #352 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Tested while not being symptomatic.
Just like any regular non-connected person can be tested…
oh…wait…
re: #368 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Jesus fucking Christ.
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Now we know where those slick denier and conspiracy memes come from. This is a media-based form of biological warfare.
re: #325 goddamnedfrank
Put the corned beef brisket, cabbage, onions, potatoes, etc in the Instant Pot with some beer.
Happy St Patrick’s Day!
I did take out from a place called Shamrocks. There were a couple of us waiting in our cars for our orders to be done, and a car with a couple of guys all dressed in green hopped out of their car and went to the back door of the bar. Came back in a few minutes and took off. Probably going to try to find another bar that’s open.
I pass a shitload of bars on my drive home on W 7th St. A couple of them had some down-&-outers hanging out in front like they didn’t know what else to do with their evening. It was pretty weird seeing St. Paul almost vacant on St. Pat’s day.
My employer Bill Penzey is closing all 70 of his Penzeys Spices stores today. I work part time and was told he’ll give us paychecks for at least two pay cycles taking an average of what we have worked in the past.
— Jacqueline Olson (@susackie) March 16, 2020
re: #380 Backwoods_Sleuth
Just like any regular non-connected person can be tested…
oh…wait…
In defense of this one, all of them were actively touching Utah Jazz players during their asymptomatic-transmission stage.—basketball is not as non-contact a sport as people would like to think.
It makes sense, and I think at least half of the states would allow it already.
re: #381 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Now we know where those slick denier and conspiracy memes come from. This is a media-based form of biological warfare.
I’m starting to think nuking the Kremlin isn’t such a bad idea.
re: #372 makeitstop
Grifting trash.
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re: #378 austin_blue
Well, you get a 1 1/2 inch circle of sequined paper…
gonna need lotsa sprinkles…
re: #386 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I’m starting to think nuking the Kremlin isn’t such a bad idea.
I assume Putin will try to annex Ukraine soon.
re: #385 Chrysicat
In defense of this one, all of them were actively touching Utah Jazz players during their asymptomatic-transmission stage.—basketball is not as non-contact a sport as people would like to think.
It makes sense, and I think at least half of the states would allow it already.
Lets ask that man in LA County who gave CPR to his wife about THAT…
guessing that doesn’t rate as high as a contact sport.
re: #387 Backwoods_Sleuth
sure looks like her Dorian Gray portrait is trying to reclaim its living host…
The effects of having to hang out with that repulsive little turd.
re: #386 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I’m starting to think nuking the Kremlin isn’t such a bad idea.
“Rods From God”. Erases the problem without the fallout.
re: #374 Alephnaught
Hello from Glasgow, Scotland! I’ve been working at home since last Friday. My work is lucky enough to be one of those sorts of companies that work with different clients, and so we have each a company laptop so working on-site. Thus, we’re able to work from home if needed. Last Tuesday, we were advised to take out laptops home with us each day, just in case we needed to work from home. Two days later, we were advised to work from home, So, I’ve been working from home since Friday.
So, over the past three days of working from home:
- Over those three days, the amount of people in our company working from home has gone from 50%, to 75%, to basically everyone.
- Every morning, the work has a general meeting on Microsoft Teams. It only lasts about 15 minutes, but you see all these people you know from the office, alone and in their home environments, and it feels really weird, because we’re still acting as a team.
- Went the Lidl’s yesterday at lunchtime. No loo roll, no shaving foam or gel, no pasta- apart from Pot Noodle.
- Had to go into the office today to pick up something. Only one other people in the office, and he was going to leave in about 15 mins. I was there less than 5 mins.
- Glasgow city centre noticeably quieter than usual
- Some places shut, but a lot that are still open no longer accept cash payments, but contactless card payments.
- There might be no loo roll in the big supermarkets, but the local newsagents are well stocked. (I was able to get loo roll and shaving foam there.) That might not last too long though…
- Went to my Mum’s (Who is 79) today and set up Skype on her laptop, and we had a lot of fun doing a test call to each other. If the country does need to go into lockdown, at least I’ll be able to Skype her, and we’ll be able to see each other’s face. Even then, it felt like a helluva risk to go to her house at all.
We were going to the Edinburgh International Harp Festival in early April, (She Who Must Be Obeyed is a damn skilled clarsach player, her axe is a Starfish 34-string Glenelle from the Davy’s up in Fort Campbell), but it got cancelled. Then were going to use our US -> UK tickets to just stay for a couple of weeks with SWMBO’s sister and our brother-in-law Robbie Thomas (founding member of Silly Wizard!) in Bedfordshire, but flights to the UK have now been cancelled.
We were also planning on visiting Gillean McDougall (late of BBC Scotland) an old dear friend of ours. This whole thing sucks.
re: #208 John Hughes
Throughout most of my youth (as I mentioned above) we were pretty sure that the extinction of the human race would come about because of the inability of the human race to reject E. Teller.
(P.S. his reference to the exponential function there? More Malthusian bullshit).
Not all scientists are nice guys.
Exponential growth on a planet having finite resources is a problem, even after the excesses of the social Darwinists are properly removed from the mix.
But that exponential shows up in more contexts than just the one Teller had in mind there. E.g., disease outbreaks and nuclear chain reactions, to pick some not-random examples.
Brian Schatz and Mazie Hirono are my senators. Yeah!
Toolsi is my congress critter. Most def not yeah!
re: #373 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Guess who they voted for by a margin of 42.2 points in 2016?
The director of the government’s Office of Personnel Management, who is 58, resigned abruptly “because of what two people familiar with the matter said was poor treatment from the 29-year-old head of the Presidential Personnel Office…” https://t.co/1kxc3uhdQS
— David Gura (@davidgura) March 17, 2020
West Virginia has one positive test out of a total of 84 tests, in a state with a population of 1.8 million. Guess what the fastest growing industry in West Virginia is? Drum roll, please….health care.
Day 4: It being my birthday, my mother told me the story again of how she thought I was a bowel movement. pic.twitter.com/Mx4ezqr5SC
— Alice Dreger (@AliceDreger) March 17, 2020
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BREAKING: @JoeBiden has won the Florida primary in a blowout win over @BernieSanders. pic.twitter.com/dRmmYKBBIM
— Christopher J. Hale (@chrisjollyhale) March 17, 2020
It’s over https://t.co/39xqzxlj1X
— The General (@generalunite) March 17, 2020
Very good. Watch this.
“If one person gets it and they truly isolate away from their family members then they don’t get it,” says Dr. Peter Lin as he explains how to self-isolate properly. “You’re supposed to be in one room, so you only contaminate one room.” pic.twitter.com/tKkCVM3luX
— Power & Politics (@PnPCBC) March 17, 2020
Many Americans won’t pick up on what happened here.
This wasn’t Trump celebrating a “loss” by MUELLER in a case in which federal law enforcement was prosecuting TRUMP’S ALLIES. This was a “loss” Trump celebrated in which the UNITED STATES was prosecuting KREMLIN TROLLS.
WTAF. https://t.co/JtBB4G7T6B— Seth Abramson (@🏠) (@SethAbramson) March 17, 2020
re: #374 Alephnaught
Went the Lidl’s yesterday at lunchtime. No loo roll, no shaving foam or gel, no pasta- apart from Pot Noodle.
Lidl’s around here is only letting in 2-3 customers at a time. Line stretches for miles, minimum 2 hours to enter.
I already bought all the pasta and loo roll :)
re: #407 Backwoods_Sleuth
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FL Dem Primary Results - 2.6% of precincts reporting (mostly early vote)
Biden: 57% (203,554)
Sanders: 20% (75,082)
Total Votes Cast So Far: 343,110
Full results here: https://t.co/AOgwtoMxNF— Decision Desk HQ (@DecisionDeskHQ) March 17, 2020
re: #412 Backwoods_Sleuth
Finish him. Bernie thinks he can stay to the convention with this? He’s intent on repeating his disastrous 2016 effort, and his backers aren’t going to tell him any differently.
re: #414 lawhawk
Finish him. Bernie thinks he can stay to the convention with this? He’s intent on repeating his disastrous 2016 effort, and his backers aren’t going to tell him any differently.
I can hear him, all the way here in TheBackwoods, yelling at Jane…
re: #408 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
The problem is that without testing, no one knows if the sniffles or cough or even mild fever is something other than covid19.
Health care workers and hospital staff are our first line of defense against Coronavirus — and they’re telling us they don’t have sufficient supplies.
President Trump must use his authority under the Defense Production Act to address this critical medical supply shortage. https://t.co/d0uTarH6UU— Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) March 17, 2020
This is the bill that includes unemployment insurance benefits, paid leave for some workers, food stamps, expanded Medicaid funding and free coronavirus testing
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) March 17, 2020
re: #395 William Lewis
“Rods From God”. Erases the problem without the fallout.
These will reduce the bandwidth of the NOC in St. Petersburg by 125%! Guaranteed.
re: #414 lawhawk
Bernie isn’t going to close on Biden heading towards the convention. He got creamed on Super Tuesday. He lost even more ground last week. Now he’s going to get another nail in his campaign coffin.
He’s the last one to know that it’s over.
I can’t stop laughing at this. Saw it yesterday and just watched it again.
The story of #covid19 so far… pic.twitter.com/TIFxCkzEgr
— Andrew Glover (@theandrewglover) March 14, 2020
re: #416 lawhawk
The problem is that without testing, no one knows if the sniffles or cough or even mild fever is something other than covid19.
MrBWS is Kleenex company’s poster boy because he is CONSTANTLY blowing his nose.
He’s waiting for someone to complain.
BTW, his company says sick workers should stay home and they can collect unemployment (there is no sick pay, nor is there paid vacation).
When they feel better, they need proof of a negative Covid test,which our union insurance will pay for (less deductible of course…O_o)
No idea where that test can be obtained, however, since electrical linemen aren’t sports stars or politically connected.
LA cases jumped by 50 today. Largest single day spike.
JHU: 6330 cases confirmed in US. 106 dead. 1.6% mortality rate (16x more deadly than seasonal flu. Cases continue increasing at exponential rate and the case tally is due to more cases and more testing. It isn’t leveling off. We have a way to go before then. It’ll be a week before we know whether leveling off is possible with the measures first going into effect in some states.
https://t.co/K5f2CjDrZz pic.twitter.com/XjHc7j8Agz
— Senator Megan Hunt (@NebraskaMegan) March 17, 2020
Keep your paws clean. Wash often with soap and water for at least 20 seconds, avoid touching your eyes, nose, and mouth, cover your mouth and nose when you cough or sneeze, and please stay home if you feel sick! https://t.co/JWqULwlbC5
📸: Mountain lion with raised paws. 🐾 pic.twitter.com/43ulFrw21l— National Park Service (@NatlParkService) March 17, 2020
reminder that dana bash also thought we should grade candidate trump easier on the debates because he was ‘a first time politician’
(thank u @existentialfish )https://t.co/H8Ko7ygU5L— darth™ (@darth) March 17, 2020
Those fukkin’ people are destroying America.
— Yeah Sure WTF Ever (@YeahSureWhatev2) March 17, 2020
Ray is feeling lucky he’s got one of his favorite humans home with him these days. Also feeling festive. Also I’m not on tik tok but if I was I’d make one that was just a St. Patrick’s day parade of ray only pic.twitter.com/RQrGNLliym
— Dorey Scheimer (@DoreyScheimer) March 17, 2020
re: #366 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
How do you make pasties?
Take a bunch of leftover meat or potatoes or veggies or whatnot.
Mash it up with egg & chopped onion & some jalapenos. USE A LOT OF SEASONING!
Wrap it inside a piece of puff pastry dough (Pepperidge Farm makes it)
Bake for 30 minutes at 400°
PASTIES!
i seriously just looked up at the date in my menu bar to check if it was still fuckin tuesday that worst of all days pic.twitter.com/0fLs3xS1YF
— darth™ (@darth) March 11, 2020
re: #51 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Sure, everybody makes mistakes when speaking.
But if you’re going to campaign on how Trump messed up the response to COVID-19, I think it is imperative that one gets the message correct.
Biden could have, should have, come out with a statement after the debate that he misspoke. But I don’t know if his close campaign advisors are as up on this pandemic as we hope.
Things are moving fast, as I keep repeating. Biden keeping up on things is going to require his staff to brief him more than once a day and keep him on target.
This is very problematic to me: ultimately Biden is a defensive pick by the Democrats, and came about for a lot of reasons, not the least of which is that Bernie poisoned the well once again. I do fear that Biden is not going to come off as sharp as needed against Trump. We are all betting on the idea that Biden is comforting to those in the middle who really don’t keep up on things. That gamble may pay off - a lot of people don’t like Trump.
I agree, ultimately Biden is a defensive pick by the Democrats. Myself, I really like Warren. But also like myself, I think there are many who are hoping Biden turns out to be the ‘best’ pick. He has the experience and know-how. His health needs to hold up.
Since it sounds as if Trump still wants a payroll tax holiday, a wonky point that is actually crucial: workers wouldn’t get any significant benefit from a cut in the employer contribution. We shouldn’t do this in any case, but definitely no employer cuts 1/
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) March 17, 2020
In the short run wages reflect explicit or implicit contracts; your employer won’t pay you more if its taxes go down. And the short run is what we’re talking about. So half of the rumored Trump payroll holiday is a pure giveaway to corporations (surprise!) 3/
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) March 17, 2020
So no payroll tax holiday. Just no — it’s a completely terrible idea. Just give people cash 5/
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) March 17, 2020
I’m a Dr.
I’m about to separate from my family within my home for ?? months.
So that I can keeping treating you, whilst trying to keep my family safe.
It hurts.
No hugs from my girls, no cuddles from my partner.
PLS socially distance NOW, to make my sacrifice worth it.— Seema (@seemathewombat) March 16, 2020
re: #403 Backwoods_Sleuth
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SCOOP — The White House has hired a third (!) college senior to be a Trump administration official in a sensitive post, 4 people familiar w/ the matter told me. John Troup Hemenway has been temporarily hired on a 30-day detail to help PPO w/ DoD matters. https://t.co/qw4EKGWkM2
— Daniel Lippman (@dlippman) March 17, 2020
re: #390 Disloyal Archangel
Those look good!
Filling?
Leftover brisket.
I’m getting sick of brisket. I never thought I would say that, but here we are!
Thread. Read it.
COVID-19 March 17 Update: Every day represents a day like we’ve never had before. I talked to two hot spots hospital, a Comgressional briefing, WH calls, 3 states, 2 Cong committees & more to come.
Here’s my update to follow if interested. 1/— Andy Slavitt @ 🏡 (@ASlavitt) March 17, 2020
re: #436 Backwoods_Sleuth
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it also screws up your SS payment record, which determines how much your SS benefit will be when you retire.
Nobody mentions that pesky detail.
re: #438 BeachDem
And, of course…
I couldn’t get hired for an entry level position and they’re making fucking college seniors high ranking advisers to the POTUS?
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear ordered more businesses as well as adult day care centers to close and announced a new procedure for filing for unemployment online after the state website crashed under millions of visits. https://t.co/dvCZ1TLU7j pic.twitter.com/S5H9VumJQW
— WCPO 9 (@WCPO) March 17, 2020
a metaphor…
Frank the peacock has been displaying to a moldy pumpkin all day pic.twitter.com/DdNlnkjHaz
— Foxfeather Zenkova (@foxfeather) March 17, 2020
Bros: “Bernie still has a chance to-“
Democrat Voters: pic.twitter.com/IiFOt3ms3Z— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) March 17, 2020
If the airlines get $50 billion, we get $50 billion. I don’t want to hear a goddamned peep about how “we can’t afford it” to help us out.
And if the casinos get a nickel, we get a million.
re: #304 austin_blue
Austin (Texas, not Minnesnowta) just shut down bars. Restaurants my stay in business if they shift to delivery/pick-up only. Movie theaters, no. Taco and other food trucks, open, but outdoor seating limited to no more than ten people.
Time frame, immediate. Duration, unknown.
This is a very, very service industry dependent town. It’s going to fuck a lot of people over. Damn tough for them. We know lots of servers. Many are also musicians.
It’s also the right thing for the City to do to flatten the curve.
That is how it is here in PA. Bars, restaurants can only take-out or delivery, LCB state stores as of 9:00 PM tonight (the only place you can buy liquor outside of a bar) until further notice, and non-essential establishments (there is a list somewhere).
Don’t understand the state store closing. Grocers and convenience stores are open, and the state store is nothing but a liquor convenience store. Some convenience stores are now allowed to sell beer and wine (state stores carry wine but no beer) so if someone wants that it is available, but no liquor can be had it seems.
Joe Biden has begun receiving full Secret Service protection, according to a spokesman for the agency. https://t.co/KbqpurL3UV
— NPR Politics (@nprpolitics) March 17, 2020
oh
Trump’s company has closed down its Bedminster golf club, the club told its members on Tuesday. That appeared to make Bedminster the first Trump property to close because of the novel coronavirus. https://t.co/qA9X9xStMe
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) March 17, 2020
Pretty much the only places in FL where Sanders is taking more than 30% of the vote are the youngest counties (Orange, Seminole etc.).
In FL’s oldest county (Sumter), Sanders currently taking 9%.— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) March 17, 2020
God: Whatever *I* tell you to … what?
Paula: I’m collecting it for you
G: I don’t need money
P: Sure you do.
G: Seriously what would I do with it? BUY stuff?
P:
G:
Jesus: I could use a Gulfstream G700.
G:
J: What? Imma ride in tourist with the lepers? https://t.co/OukW8uLOVE— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) March 17, 2020
re: #450 Backwoods_Sleuth
Government bailout to follow in 5 4 3 2 1
One of the most shocking developments of the day was the number of Democrats here who expressed support for DeWine’s obvious ratfuck in Ohio, where Dems have been effectively disenfranchised from participating in the primary election.
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) March 17, 2020
because they are blue dogs, Bob
another trump record!
Mnuchin warns of possible 20% unemployment rate https://t.co/Wx42plw2lk
— Richard Hine (@richardhine) March 17, 2020
re: #406 teleskiguy
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Not the top priority right now, but before the President pushes through enormous bailouts, I’d like to know his actual financial holdings and how much it will benefit him personally. Crazy, I know.
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) March 17, 2020
solid plan, I can’t see how intensifying the spread of a pandemic in a state built on retirement communities and tourism could go wrong https://t.co/FslPxJeTGX
— kilgore trout, stonks autographer (@KT_So_It_Goes) March 17, 2020
re: #465 goddamnedfrank
So he got the election canceled but won’t do this? Flagrant fuckery
Which election? The Democratic one is going on in Florida.
re: #408 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Power & Politics
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@PnPCBC
“If one person gets it and they truly isolate away from their family members then they don’t get it,” says Dr. Peter Lin as he explains how to self-isolate properly. “You’re supposed to be in one room, so you only contaminate one room.”
I am honestly so glad that I’m single right now. I’m automatically self isolated when I’m at home and I don’t have to change anything other than trying to stop touching my face. I can’t imagine trying to self isolate like this Dr recommends with anyone else in the house.
This is perfect and needs to be shared around the freaking clock.
This is a perfect spot.
Run this over and over through November. pic.twitter.com/M0Kt43mDf5— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) March 18, 2020
re: #468 Disloyal Archangel
This is perfect and needs to be shared around the freaking clock.
The ads are coming for the orange shitface.
re: #464 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Florida Gov. DeSantis declines to issue an order to close the state’s beaches, despite coronavirus spread concerns; says that local governments can make their own decisions.
Insert joke about Amity here.
re: #457 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Florida for Joe.
Thank you, Florida! https://t.co/i0x0LE5xhs
— Joe Biden (Text Join to 30330) (@JoeBiden) March 18, 2020
re: #471 DodgerFan1988
Up big in Illinois too.
The Trumpian derposphere continues to rattle off the most dimwitted of articles. The MoonieTimes just ran a piece by Joseph Curl that is straight from the creationist playbook, namely, that Curl is incredulous at the projected infection numbers, therefore those numbers must be false.
We’re already seeing Bernieworld gear up for the complaints they’ll make about the legitimacy of today’s results. The Brie person is already saying we shouldn’t have had primaries today.
If Bernie was a decent person, he should drop out. But I’m afraid it’s gonna be ugly.— jen méndez (@jenmendez_) March 18, 2020
Chrissy caught a buzz during Lohn’s live stream and is past giving a fuck.
Has melania even thought about doing something with her be best shit during these times? I see regular ass awesome people on my timeline all day doing all they can to make people happy and this wifebot is working on whatever the fuck a tennis gazebo is
— christine teigen (@chrissyteigen) March 18, 2020
There it is.
National Weather Service Office, Cheyenne, Wyo.
Blizzard Warning in effect for southeast Wyoming and the Nebraska Panhandle on Thursday. Winter Weather Advisory in effect for Wednesday.
Good reporting here by the @coloradosun @jasonblevins This is how much Colorado’s mountain communities stand to lose without skiing, restaurants, bars and lodging – The Colorado Sun https://t.co/bNfzYNrLoK
— chris davenport (@SteepSkiing) March 18, 2020
A half a billion dollars. Gone.
BREAKING: Joe Biden is projected to win Florida. HUGE.
— BrooklynDad_Defiant! (@mmpadellan) March 18, 2020
With what looks to be higher turnout than 2016, it ain’t even close…
re: #474 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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BREAKING: Joe Biden wins the Florida Democratic primary, today’s biggest prize. Voting was hampered because hundreds of volunteer poll workers didn’t show up over virus fears. https://t.co/kjM1J04rio
— The Associated Press (@AP) March 18, 2020
take fucking seat berners…
Bernie Sanders now has his surrogates on TV claiming that Joe Biden is somehow putting people’s safety at risk by having the primary race continue. What the fuck? Sanders is the one who’s getting blown out and has already lost the race. Sanders can drop out or shut the fuck up.
— Palmer Report (@PalmerReport) March 17, 2020
Folks, I live on campus at Stanford University. In my community, I’m surrounded by scientists and doctors. If I sound alarmed, it’s because they are alarmed. The harm of moving faster as a nation is grossly outweighed by moving too slow. Right now, we are moving too slow.
— Michael McFaul (@McFaul) March 18, 2020
Ben Sasse gave a speech about the economic response to the coronavirus epidemic. He came back to his desk shortly after he finished and asked the chair to recess. No word from McConnell, which is unusual.
— Igor Bobic (@igorbobic) March 17, 2020
Mitch McConnell doesn’t care about our commonwealth or our country. He showed that last weekend to the country, and he’s shown that to Kentucky for the past 35 years. pic.twitter.com/RL4HhTWBdq
— Amy McGrath (@AmyMcGrathKY) March 18, 2020
Well, a blizzard ought to keep folks here in social isolation for a couple days at least.
Lydia Loveless will be performing in 25 minutes at stageit.com
She’s quite good so come and check her out.
re: #479 Backwoods_Sleuth
Brie was flat out tweeting that primaries were cancelled.
We can do elections in a disease epidemic. No one cancelled elections in 1918, when medical information was less advanced.
Thank you, Illinois! https://t.co/CzdD7EuPTE
— Joe Biden (Text Join to 30330) (@JoeBiden) March 18, 2020
kinda fascinating to learn that Elaine Chao was present for that meeting where the Obama admin briefed the incoming Trump team about the pandemic potential…
re: #481 Backwoods_Sleuth
take fucking seat berners…
I am so sick of this shit. Biden’s the one who closed down his offices in Pennsylvania when stupid fucking Bernie opened several new ones. I’m sick of these assholes. I hope after this Bernie Sanders is as big as a pariah as Trump is politically. Fuck him and his selfish ego driven revolution.
re: #489 Backwoods_Sleuth
kinda fascinating to learn that Elaine Chao was present for that meeting where the Obama admin briefed the incoming Trump team about the pandemic potential…
I think she was already Transportation secretary designee.
re: #491 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I think she was already Transportation secretary designee.
Fucking lot of good that did.
Trump in January: Coronavirus is ‘not at all’ a pandemic
Trump now: ‘I felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic’ pic.twitter.com/HmvzBVpWyR— NowThis (@nowthisnews) March 17, 2020
re: #492 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Fucking lot of good that did.
I’m explaining why she was there. I’m not defending her.
re: #493 Dread Pirate
Another moron I’m sick of him being gaslit. Bernie on the left, Trump on the right, I don’t want to be fucking stuck in the middle of a pandemic with either of you!
President Trump has crossed the delegate threshold Tuesday night to be the Republican Party’s presumptive presidential nominee in 2020, @NBCNews projects. https://t.co/1jmecoUdJv
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) March 18, 2020
re: #494 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Oh I know that. My comment was general not specific.
re: #496 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I’m not going to bet you the rest of my whiskey that he brags about this because I expect he will of course brag about this.
re: #498 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I’m not going to bet you the rest of my whiskey that he brags about this because I expect he will of course brag about this.
He’ll be congratulating himself for days.
re: #496 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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— Nicole 🗽🌊🇺🇸👩🏿🎓🎓⚖️ #TheResistance (@MzDivah67) March 18, 2020
re: #499 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
He’ll be congratulating himself for days.
That’s why I’m not betting anything. It’s a fool’s bet.
re: #17 mmmirele
Still trying to figure out if today is a dead cat or dead rat bounce on the stock market.
They were obviously responding to his tone. “Today’s the day he finally became presidential.”
News on coronavirus is moving fast. In an effort to help keep my constituents in the loop, I’m going to start doing regular evening updates on what’s happened over the past 24 hours. Here’s my first one ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/CPK1jLZEaF
— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) March 18, 2020
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