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I thought I might be right on the edge of a new thread, so I’m gonna math this one up:
Geeky math time in the age of corona:
The Fibonacci series is an exponential function. If you look at the the ratio of F(n)/F(n-1), this has an asymptote at approximately 1.618034 (which is the golden ratio). if you look at F(n)/F(n-2) it’s 2.618034, which means it more than doubles in two days.
If instead of starting with [1, 1] (we’re starting with one here to represent the first sick person) and add F(n-1) + F(n-2), we start with:
[1,1,1] and add F(n-2) + F(n-3), we get a sequence that grows at about 2.325 every three iterations, leading to a value of 35,676,949 on the 64th iteration.
[1,1,1,1] and add F(n-3) + F(n-4), we get a sequence, that grows at about 1.8189 every three iterations, leading to 206,897 on the 64th iteration.
Thus, even these very slow starting sequences are exponential in nature. These are also decent examples to show how even an every third day doubling can grow really large.
$1 billion for breathing machines - my god, we can’t afford that. It could cut into that $170 billion tax break for real estate tycoons https://t.co/uNSuIBBqfW https://t.co/iSaVdyIZy5 pic.twitter.com/s814s9j00B
— Drew Harwell (@drewharwell) March 27, 2020
Seems so simple. Buy the respirators. Save lives. Nope. pic.twitter.com/lzewaikBLw
— Scott Edwards (@EddySr1728) March 27, 2020
Nebraska population: about 1,900,000 people.
Number tested: 1,900.
The Omaha man was later identified by his son in a Facebook post as Ralph Marasco.
Marasco, a longtime Omaha real estate professional, died in his home Tuesday from what was originally thought to be heart disease but was actually the result of COVID-19, Marasco’s son Nico Marasco wrote.
Nico Marasco also warned those who had been in contact with his dad to self-quarantine for 14 days, per the advice of the Douglas County Health Department.
A funeral Mass with a celebration of Marasco’s life is planned for his birthday, July 11, 2020.
Governor Ricketts (R) is expanding his executive order to close bars and restaurants and cancel elective surgeries to several counties.
Pulp Fiction, haven’t seen this in at least a decade. I’ll never forget the first time I saw it. 1994, an AMC in the River Oaks in Houston. It was so packed, people were sitting in the aisles. Resurrected John Travolta’s career.
One hour ago on FOX News Channel (video, 0:33)
Rudy Giuliani promotes Hydroxychloroquine with a mixture of Zinc on Fox News pic.twitter.com/dxHA2LlNRP
— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) March 28, 2020
re: #7 Ace Rothstein
Pulp Fiction, haven’t seen this in at least a decade. I’ll never forget the first time I saw it. 1994, an AMC in the River Oaks in Houston. It was so packed, people were sitting in the aisles. Resurrected John Travolta’s career.
Yet another black mark against Tarantino… / 1/2
re: #8 Anymouse 🌹🏡
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Encouraging the base to poison themselves to own the libs.
My wife’s brother is a high school science teacher in Texas. His school is closed, and teaching students is supposed to happen over the Internet.
He has no idea how he’s supposed to do that (he has a cell phone but no computer, and neither the state nor the school district will provide him with one).
More evidence that the world ended in 2016 and we are in hell pic.twitter.com/ZcqlimLEyN
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 28, 2020
GodDAMN but Arizona is fucking this up in more than one way.
First we have the Arizona Department of Health telling doctors and hospitals to basically not test anyone.
Then we have Banner Health, the largest hospital system in the state (in fact, the largest *employer* in the state) not providing adequate personal protective equipment.
So what we’ve got is we’re going to have overflowing hospitals, doctors and nurses getting sick while Gov. Doug Ducey continues to refuse to shut the state down.
And then there’s this—a gun humper asked our idiot congressman, Andy Biggs, to work on tax credits for owning and purchasing guns. I told the guy tartly: ” No. I don’t think your manhood substitutes should get any sort of tax credits.” He then posted this in response:
I pointed out to him that I’d been harassed by *professionals* (Scientology) and this was pretty weak. Then I posted it to my Facebook. :)
re: #11 Anymouse 🌹🏡
My wife’s brother is a high school science teacher in Texas. His school is closed, and teaching students is supposed to happen over the Internet.
He has no idea how he’s supposed to do that (he has a cell phone but no computer, and neither the state nor the school district will provide him with one).
Where’s he at?
I went out today for a few things (mail, bank, milk, take-home lunch), dropped into the Target because I was passing it — and they had hand sanitizer! Two ounce bottles, one per customer, but it will last me a while. I only need it when I’m out, if then. So I’m happy.
Paper products were completely cleaned out of the store again. I thought we were getting over that. On the other hand, although soups were low, I found a bunch of cans of the soup I’ve been looking for and grabbed two.
(I plan to stick my head in in a few days to see if they have more hand sanitizer. Two two-ounce bottles isn’t hoarding, is it?)
re: #12 Ace Rothstein
When did Obama or Hillary become security in Benghazi?
— ya_boi_”expendable”_wimpy (@datboiwimpy) March 27, 2020
LINCOLN - Today, Governor Pete Ricketts issued a statement following confirmation of the first two deaths in Nebraska due to coronavirus (COVID-19).
“Susanne and I send our condolences to the families who lost their loved ones today,” said Gov. Ricketts. “I encourage all Nebraskans to keep these families and all families impacted by coronavirus in their thoughts and prayers. This is a reminder for all of us to practice the ten-person rule, exercise good hygiene, and to stay home if you’re displaying flu-like symptoms.”
re: #18 Anymouse 🌹🏡
Alvin.
I’m curious how he’s been teaching the past decade. I know the teachers here have been required to maintain a school website to provide assignments, lecture materials, and answer emails. They do have to be cognizant of those who don’t have internet connections at home, but so much of the education even before this was online.
re: #20 Belafon
I’m curious how he’s been teaching the past decade. I know the teachers here have been required to maintain a school website to provide assignments, lecture materials, and answer emails. They do have to be cognizant of those who don’t have internet connections at home, but so much of the education even before this was online.
I can’t say.
I presume he could answer E-mail with his cell phone. As for the school Website, I took a look at it. They have very little in the way of on-line lessons there.
re: #21 Anymouse 🌹🏡
I can’t say.
I presume he could answer E-mail with his cell phone. As for the school Website, I took a look at it. They have very little in the way of on-line lessons there.
If he has a computer in the school, I might suggest that perhaps it could come home for the duration? He’d have to get internet but if he has cable they can send a new modem/router and not need new wiring.
Time for some more “Dark Shadows.” We’re up to the arc where a parapsychologist holds a seance to try to understand why Elizabeth Collins-Stoddard is in a coma (in soap operas, “coma” is the trope for “contract negotiations with the actor”).
Meanwhile, Victoria Winters is starting to pull together the threads that show Laura Collins is actually a phoenix, and is about to kill David in a fiery rebirth.
re: #23 Anymouse 🌹🏡
Time for some more “Dark Shadows.” We’re up to the arc where a parapsychologist holds a seance to try to understand why Elizabeth Collins-Stoddard is in a coma (in soap operas, “coma” is the trope for “contract negotiations with the actor”).
Meanwhile, Victoria Winters is starting to pull together the threads that show Laura Collins is actually a phoenix, and is about to kill David in a fiery rebirth.
…and you haven’t gotten to the good parts yet.
re: #22 William Lewis
If he has a computer in the school, I might suggest that perhaps it could come home for the duration? He’d have to get internet but if he has cable they can send a new modem/router and not need new wiring.
Most of the schools I work with are using some combination of google classroom, google docs, google meetings and more lately zoom. If that is the case he can probably get away with a cheap ass chromebook. Bet he could grab a refurbed one for $70.
Alt Right and Alt Left should just hurry up and f*ck.
So tired of the flirting.— Bianca DeLaRosa (@BiancaNDelarosa) March 27, 2020
re: #26 Dave In Austin
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Ha, I was out walking the dog earlier and had the weirdest thought. If I caught covid19 and kicked it, the last restaurant I will have ever been to was the Post Office Pub where I had a mediocre burger and cup of chili.
Am interesting provision in the stimulus:
A provision requiring companies to “make a good-faith certification that the recipient will remain neutral in any union organizing effort for the term of the loan” would apply to businesses employing between 500 and 10,000 workers.
Bad time to be named Rona
— Stop acting like this is normal (@goddamnedfrank) March 28, 2020
Professor Pamela “Nostradamus” Karlan, ladies and gentlemen. https://t.co/HtiM5998U0
— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) March 28, 2020
re: #31 gocart mozart
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I almost want Cuomo to call Trump, and ask him what it would take to get the necessary equipment, and tape the whole thing.
26 March 2020, the day every chairlift on the continent stood idle.
I hate this timeline. All North American Ski Resorts Are Now Closed Due To COVID-19 https://t.co/KO2L5xHnH9 via @UnofficialNet
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) March 28, 2020
Remember those snowmen I do for my mother-in-law every year? Working on this year’s…
Friday night and we are really living it up here. pic.twitter.com/TsD4dyOPXc
— sylk (@sylk) March 28, 2020
This is why people need to calm the entire fucking way down. If Trump is polling this badly vs Biden now, at the peak of the rally to the flag effect, then he’s fucked when the true scale of this horror show slowly seeps its way into the smooth brains of the average American.
In a head-to-head presidential matchup, Biden is up by 49-40% over Trump.
Biden’s advantage grows to 25 points, 57-32%, in close counties (where Hillary Clinton and Trump were within 10 points in 2016). https://t.co/WB33JApoUW— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) March 28, 2020
re: #35 goddamnedfrank
This is why people need to calm the entire fucking way down. If Trump is polling this badly vs Biden now, at the peak of the rally to the flag effect, then he’s fucked when the true scale of this horror show slowly seeps its way into the smooth brains of the average American.
On review, that’s pretty inconsistent.
“Everyone calm down there’s a horror show coming.”
Fuck it, you go into dystopia with the rhetoric you have, not the rhetoric you wish you had.
Criminal negligence with known or obvious risks to human life and safety resulting in death is a felony, punishable from 3 years—life in prison.
Because this is intentional (criminal intent) this is also subject to manslaughter.
These are crimes against humanity.
It’s genocide. https://t.co/IO9DIDRG2d— Trinity (@TrinityResists) March 28, 2020
WHY ARE WE ALLOCATING EMERGENCY AID FOR THE ARTS?
Screamed by people who have been watching Netflix, reading books, and playing video games for 18 hours/day.— Jamie Ford (@JamieFord) March 27, 2020
re: #37 ckkatz
My Corona Home - (“Kokomo” Parody Song)
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They had to; because Weird Al refused to do “My Corona”…
So Trump’s openly admitting that he’s withholding help from those states that refuse to kiss his ass.
The governors of California, Oregon, Washington, Michigan and New York just need to say, “Really? OK, fuck you Donnie, we’re withholding our Federal tax dollars until you give us our supplies.”
Trump clearly thinks he’s some kind of king. It’s time to put this fucker in his place.
But how hard could it be?
You just tell your lessers to fix everything, then you bask in the glory of solutions you had nothing to do with and could never understand.
Isn’t that the way most of the 1% spend their days?— Uriel (@sickendun2death) March 28, 2020
re: #8 Anymouse 🌹🏡
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Just because it’s god damned important to understand that a drug designed to treat parasitical protozoans is not, in fact, likely to be useful in treating viral infections. For like a hundred reasons.
If you are thinking “what harm could a little chloroquine do to my COVID pts?” or “worth a shot right?”In vitro data favorable 4 chloroquine in Chikungunya too - see what happened. Quote below from @ScienceMagazine. Link to primary paper in reply https://t.co/78TgyZ7s5K pic.twitter.com/bzRg2vXJ81
— Venk Murthy (@venkmurthy) March 23, 2020
In Trump’s Secret Realm of Dream Reality, he proposes a cheap, simple solution that you can get from any pharmacy for a couple of bucks that whips the virus overnight and we are all back to work by Easter.
And he is buoyed to a second term on a wave of gratitude and admiration.
Hell is other people sleepwalking through life
— Stop acting like this is normal (@goddamnedfrank) March 28, 2020
re: #48 goddamnedfrank
Hell is other people sleepwalking through life
Hell is a sleepwalking leader thinking he can impose his dream reality on real life, and those who go along with him to gain his favor
Someone please tell me that we’re all just living in some dystopian satire, like the film Brazil:
On Friday, President Donald Trump signed into law a record $2 trillion stimulus bill to help those suffering from the coronavirus pandemic — part of which involves one-time cash payments being sent out to tens of millions of American households.
But according to The Wall Street Journal, Trump wants those checks to be sent out explicitly in his name.
“Mr. Trump has told people he wants his signature to appear on the direct payment checks that will go out to many Americans in the coming weeks, according to an administration official,” wrote Siobhan Hughes and Natalie Andrews. “Normally, a civil servant — the disbursing officer for the payment center — would sign federal checks, said Don Hammond, a former senior Treasury Department official.”
re: #51 Dr Lizardo
Someone please tell me that we’re all just living in some dystopian satire, like the film Brazil:
Do not let anybody think this is in any way normal…
re: #52 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Do not let anybody think this is in any way normal…
It’s certainly not normal. Trump’s megalomania is off the charts right now.
This applies with small units as well as command of a full unit, something Donald Trump seems incapable of in the nation’s hour of need.
Something you learn when taking command of any Army unit, no matter size or scope of reaponsibility:
You own it, on day one.
No matter what your predecessor did or didn’t do…you own it.
If you don’t like those rules, don’t take command.— Mark Hertling (@MarkHertling) March 28, 2020
I think this may be my first non-political post in months. Not quite the first non-political Tweet, but the others have been less worthy of signal-boost:
Hello pic.twitter.com/aWd91nUwDU
— elton the cat (@orangeofaman) March 26, 2020
And unfortunately, since he was a rescue, we can’t pass a clearly-positive-for-survival trait like that on, because the first requirement when you bring him from the shelter is neutering. I want to try cloning him and letting the clone breed sometimes.
— (((Chrysi Cat))) [no, Karen is STILL my sister!] (@chrysicat) March 28, 2020
things like that creep me out…(not necessarily in a bad way, but still creepy…most any sort of chimera gives me the willies)
Winter weather advisory just was upgraded to a Winter Storm Warning. (Who cancelled Spring?)
…WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON MDT TODAY…
* WHAT…Heavy snow. Total snow accumulations of 4 to 8 inches,
with locally higher amounts possible.* WHERE…Box Butte, Banner, and Morrill counties.
* WHEN…Until noon MDT today.
* IMPACTS…Expect dangerous travel conditions. Be prepared for
icy, snow covered roads and low visibilities in falling and
blowing snow.
re: #57 Anymouse 🌹🏡
Winter weather advisory just was upgraded to a Winter Storm Warning. (Who cancelled Spring?)
It’s that danged weakened polar vortex.
At any point where it should be keeping arctic air in the, y’know, Arctic, it can break down and let it drop as far south as north Florida.
And yes, that’s due to anthropogenic climate change as the marginally-warmer Arctic air is no longer so different from the air south of it to make the vortex circulate properly.
I just hope that the hurricane-with-snow we both lived through _last_ year is a one-time event; we don’t need more storms with eyewalls over the centre of the continent.
Iran reports their fewest daily deaths since 24 Mar. Their new case report is less than the prior day, but is still second highest.
re: #57 Anymouse 🌹🏡
Winter weather advisory just was upgraded to a Winter Storm Warning. (Who cancelled Spring?)
Temps in upper 60’s today but parts of Germany are expecting snow as of tomorrow…
Local history article in today’s regional newspaper.
The only automobile tunnels in Nebraska go from the valley floor in Scottsbluff to the summit of Scott’s Bluff National Monument.
Building the road to the summit was a Great Depression works project. The Star-Herald has an article on the project, including photographs from the construction.
re: #56 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
things like that creep me out…
The first tweet is admittedly a bit Uncanny Valley, but as a furry I think as long as things remain mammalian, I’m more comfortable around most human-animal mixes than a lot of the population.
If you mean my cat having real hands…
…I need to find a glove for another reason. Have at you, Sir!
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re: #61 Anymouse 🌹🏡
Local history article in today’s regional newspaper.
The only automobile tunnels in Nebraska go from the valley floor in Scottsbluff to the summit of Scott’s Bluff National Monument.
Building the road to the summit was a Great Depression works project. The Star-Herald has an article on the project, including photographs from the construction.
Infrastructure week in Nebraska
re: #63 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Infrastructure week in Nebraska
There is an article in the Omaha World-Herald plugging the fact that Nebraska is also the only state in the United States where every home is powered by publicly-owned electric utilities (none dare call it socialism here though).
I’m off to bed. My wife warned me she is wearing Christmas camouflage pyjamas (red, white, and green camo), so I might have trouble finding her. /s
#ICanNotDieBefore I see @realDonaldTrump being dragged out of the White House. pic.twitter.com/CuvFXDqlzn
— Mark (@MarkStoX) March 28, 2020
Spain reports 6,529 new cases, their lowest in five days. Hopefully that means their quarantine efforts are working. 552 more deaths, also their lowest in five days.
re: #66 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Spain reports 6,529 new cases, their lowest in five days. Hopefully that means their quarantine efforts are working. 552 more deaths, also their lowest in five days.
Germany’s rate of doubling is slowing: 47.5K cases with 300 fatalities as of today vs 25K /100 on March 22.
But it still means that they will most likely reach 100K cases and 1000 fatalities by Easter…
So some news agency, not a major one, is running a headline that Queen Liz has tested positive.
I don’t see that info from any reputable sources yet, though. Perhaps someone confused Liz with her son or her PM.
Queen Elizabeth tests positive for coronavirus: report
Queen Elizabeth II has tested positive for the novel coronavirus, Buckingham Palace confirmed in a release a few minutes after Prime Minister Boris Johnson revealed he tested positive for coronavirus.
Who has a signing ceremony in the middle of a pandemic that’s killing Americans? Donald Trump. That’s who. https://t.co/R8bKIykObe
— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) March 27, 2020
Fixed it.
↔️ pic.twitter.com/aQm7nri5xx— Santa Claus, CEO (@SantaInc) March 27, 2020
re: #72 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)
Not Social Distancing
They are relying on “moral distancing”. These are all very likely to be worse people than the kid bagging your groceries. And they like it that way.
re: #67 Teukka
So, this scrolled by in my facebook feed. Humor is getting really dark these days…
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That’s bleak.
Funny, but bleak.
re: #67 Teukka
So, this scrolled by in my facebook feed. Humor is getting really dark these days…
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I had to steal that.
OMG! I got it! This is the last hurrah after not going to the grocery store for two months. It’s the FUCK IT “goodbye cruel world” recipe. pic.twitter.com/ObZUTJ63wd
— Yeah Sure WTF Ever (@YeahSureWhatev2) March 28, 2020
re: #71 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)
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If even one person in that room is infected it could mean the First and Second in command along with the Senate Majority leader and a host of other people could be taken out.
— FieldMedic (@FieldMedic4077) March 27, 2020
If he gets COVID, and then 3 days after he’s written off, comes back, I’m panicking ‘cause that almost certainly means Revelation had a lot right, and the second half of the Tribulation is upon us.
— (((Chrysi Cat))) [no, Karen is STILL my sister!] (@chrysicat) March 28, 2020
Talk about someone who deserves a medal of Honor.
March 27 COVID Update: Coming after dinner.
A few gems today. Things I can happily reveal. Today is actually a lot about some of the best things we’re doing. The good news will lag what we see on TV. I was downbeat 2 weeks ago before most and am more upbeat today.1/— Andy Slavitt @ 🏡 (@ASlavitt) March 28, 2020
Confirmed cases: 230 41 new cases
Deaths: 4 1 new
Twin Falls City/County has confirmed an additional case but doesn’t indicate if said case was in the city or one of the surrounding communities.
I was lucky at the supermarket today. I managed to find some Clorox wipes.
re: #36 goddamnedfrank
On review, that’s pretty inconsistent.
“Everyone calm down there’s a horror show coming.”
Fuck it, you go into dystopia with the rhetoric you have, not the rhetoric you wish you had.
I just read that the GDP may contract much as 50% and the jobless rate could hit 30% by summer. 14 million people could lose their jobs. No question that is the D word.
Disgust for Trump aside. I don’t think George Washington would survive numbers like those.
A bit of humor?
a coronavirus patient is lying in bed in the hospital, wearing an oxygen mask over his mouth and nose. A young student nurse appears and gives him a partial sponge bath.”
“‘Nurse,’ he mumbles from behind the mask, ‘are my testicles black?’ Embarrassed, the young nurse replies, ‘I don’t know, Sir. I’m only here to wash your upper body and feet.’ He struggles to ask again, ‘Nurse, please check for me. Are my testicles black?’”
“Concerned that he might elevate his blood pressure and heart rate from worrying about his testicles, she overcomes her embarrassment and pulls back the covers. She raises his gown, holds his penis in one hand and his testicles gently in the other. She looks very closely and says, ‘There’s nothing wrong with them, Sir. They look just fine.’”
“The man slowly pulls off his oxygen mask, smiles at her, and says very slowly, ‘Thank you very much. That was wonderful. Now listen very,very, closely: …….Are - my - test - results - back?”
re: #81 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)
lol. Thanks. :)
“I don’t want to see any of you out there, I run my toe up the crack of yer ass” #janeygodleyvoiceover #nicolasturgeon #COVIDー19 pic.twitter.com/ujvbxy1DS8
— Janey Godley (@JaneyGodley) March 22, 2020
re: #71 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)
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re: #35 goddamnedfrank
And yet there are fucknuts like Geraldo who continue to treat Trump like he’s goddamned Patton leading an epic fight.
Epic awfulness.
His failures started in January by refusing to treat as a crisis.
It continued in February with inaction.
By March, he was still dragging feet and refused to push aggressive testing.
His failure means 1700+ are dead and counting.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) March 28, 2020
A factory in South Korea is now making 350,000 COVID-19 test kits a day - almost as many as the country has used in the entire outbreak so far. Daily output will increase to a million next month.
https://t.co/pjr8m9oS0i— Laura Bicker (@BBCLBicker) March 27, 2020
Rapid, point of care diagnostics open up opportunities for shifting to more targeted control strategies. We’re not there yet, but this is another piece of the puzzle. https://t.co/wdvFLi3jIt
— Caitlin Rivers, PhD (@cmyeaton) March 28, 2020
Luckily it’s not Greg Abbott.
re: #24 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!
…and you haven’t gotten to the good parts yet.
seriously. that show doesn’t even really begin until the third season.
re: #85 lawhawk
And yet there are fucknuts like Geraldo who continue to treat Trump like he’s goddamned Patton leading an epic fight.
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The big problem for Geraldo is that the stunted “rally ‘round the flag” effect is not doing anything for Trump on the election stage, certainly not in swing districts that he needs to hold to win an EC victory. And that it’s still early days, with the peak expected to be weeks or months out still.
My friend works at Mount Sinai and is sharing this around. Help if you can. pic.twitter.com/hwkqEUHR1l
— Rebecca Fishbein (@bfishbfish) March 26, 2020
re: #87 Belafon
And yet Trump’s still dragging his feet on basics - getting to 1 million tests, let alone the 4 million promised, and the equipment and gear health workers and public safety people need to do their jobs.
re: #28 danarchy
Ha, I was out walking the dog earlier and had the weirdest thought. If I caught covid19 and kicked it, the last restaurant I will have ever been to was the Post Office Pub where I had a mediocre burger and cup of chili.
re: #56 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
things like that creep me out…(not necessarily in a bad way, but still creepy…most any sort of chimera gives me the willies)
creeped me out in a bad way.
re: #89 Targetpractice
The big problem for Geraldo is that the stunted “rally ‘round the flag” effect is not doing anything for Trump on the election stage, certainly not in swing districts that he needs to hold to win an EC victory. And that it’s still early days, with the peak expected to be weeks or months out still.
He just told Michigan to fuck off cause his feefees were hurt
Michigan!
re: #93 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)
People in battleground states will see Trump’s failure in full technicolor display - complete with the body count, the economic wreckage, and incompetent handling of the disaster from every aspect.
What has been done to date to contain the disease is in spite of Trump, not because of him. He’s led from behind at every step, and every effort at the GOP rewriting the history needs to be rebuffed.
They do not get to set the narrative.
I honestly expected more from the Toronto Star.
So it’s now Just Let Everyone Who’s Going To Die Go Die Already, is it?
Bye Mom.
Bye Dad.
Bye Grandma.
Bye Grandpa.
Bye sis, bro, neice, nephew.
Oh, and those “drains on society”? Eff em.
You’re disposable. Profits must be maintained!— Yeah Sure WTF Ever (@YeahSureWhatev2) March 28, 2020
it’s the weekend so im gonna spend it outside in the yard
feeding some things
growing some things
pruning / cutting / caring for some things
you’re not just sitting in your home waiting for the infection to knock on the door like the pesach plague
isolating, distancing, avoiding contact isn’t doing nothing.
it’s vital.
Critical to this thing working.
Something most(?) everyone can do with, truly, moderate or little inconvenience.
If your home life is feeling somewhat ‘normal’, then maybe it doesn’t feel like much of a contribution.
It is huge.
re: #96 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I honestly expected more from the Toronto Star.
At what point, for example, do physical isolation and economic shutdown do more harm than good?
yeah. pandemics are so goddamned inconvenient
im not gonna read this thing
i’ll just say this - at what point? way way way more than a couple of fucking weeks.
Watch this.
Join me, as I do a LIVE reading from my book, #TheLiddleestPresident.
Available NOW on Amazon Prime, Barnes & Noble, Kindle, iBooks, and Kobo Books.https://t.co/JR41aNv36I https://t.co/Gfs6boSKxO— BrooklynDad_Defiant! (@mmpadellan) March 21, 2020
Been posting memes instead of comments because my comments would all basically be variations of Fuck Trump.
Even though I expected Trump to be an unmitigated disaster, he’s managed to exceed that expectation. Worse, I see too many fellow Americans still drinking the Kool-Aid and considering him a leader; it’s stunning.
While I’m at high risk due to age and health problems, I find myself more worried about family members. Disaster Don has put us all at risk for the sake of his ego, greed and narcissism. And his supporters and the Republican party do the same.
For the first time in my life, I find myself hating with the heat of a thousand supernovas. And it’s taking a toll. Oh, and …
FUCK TRUMP.
One minute apart.
#BlueWaterBridge as of 9AM wait times to cross into the U.S. and Canada are less than 15 min. for cars and commercial vehicles. #MDOT
— MDOT BlueWaterBridge (@MDOT_BWB) March 28, 2020
Attn #BlueWaterBridge customers, essential travel restrictions are in effect. For questions concerning these restrictions please contact U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) or Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) #MDOT
— MDOT BlueWaterBridge (@MDOT_BWB) March 28, 2020
Privileged person Justine Bateman groused about Hillary Clinton. I didn’t tell her to put a sock in it…
Look, the number of times he said “Lock her up”, I’m thinking Clinton has every right to be snarky as hell. God knows the tangerine toddler doesn’t care about the country.
— Dee “Flatten The Curve” Holmes (@mmmirele) March 28, 2020
re: #103 mmmirele
Yes, do please lecture Hillary Clinton on proper speech during a crisis caused by a fucking ruthless sack of shit. Because being nice works so well to put a stop to this epic level shitshow.
Pelosi not invited to today’s WH signing ceremony on stimulus, per aide. She and Trump have not spoken in more than five months. More on that here: https://t.co/ickLNTZubI
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) March 27, 2020
re: #105 Belafon
Pelosi not invited to today’s WH signing ceremony on stimulus, per aide. She and Trump have not spoken in more than five months. More on that here
She would have stuck out like a sore thumb standing six feet away from all the other shoulder-to-shoulder Republicans.
I’ve been getting lots of questions on the direct payments and unemployment insurance provisions in the Phase 3 COVID-19 relief package.
Here’s a thread on the details and if you qualify for either.— Senator Chris Van Hollen (@ChrisVanHollen) March 27, 2020
So, since Duh Apocalypse isn’t going anywhere soon, would anyone like to share how the fuck they’re managing anxiety, depression and wanting to slap people upside the head?
Personally, I’m crying more than I ever have. Trying to keep it private so I don’t worry my kid and husband, but it’s hard. The pollen count here is almost SEVEN THOUSAND this morning which makes it hard for me to work outside without getting really nasty allergy symptoms, which means gardening isn’t happening and I’m behind. I hate being cooped up. Being scared isn’t helping. Once I feel better I think I’m going to start cleaning up the basement to create a craft and sewing space. Something. Anything. Gah!!!!…also a picture of a goofy doggo.
moron
So much of the Lamestream Media is writing and broadcasting stories with facts that are made up and knowingly wrong. They are doing it by quoting unnamed sources that simply do not exist. These are very dangerous & corrupt people, who will do anything to win. NAME YOUR SOURCES!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 28, 2020
….very often FAKE NEWS. Lamestream Media should be forced to reveal sources, very much as they did in the long ago past. If they did that, the media would be trusted again, and Fake News would largely be a thing of the past!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 28, 2020
Other than missing my girlfriend, I am holding up okay. She works for the German Federal Reserve, which means she has to go into the office (via public transportation) two or three days a week (they have alternating teams that work from home, but at least two people have to be in the office at all times to effect inter-bank transfers).
So I need to keep safe at home and go for walks in the vineyards. I do run into people there and have conversations at safe distances, but I realize that I get bored watching videos on my own: I will watch most anything with someone to watch it with, but on my own, I just find myself watching reruns of Star Trek series…
You want me to name my sources?
Okay. His name is John Barron.
Also, John Miller. David Dennison. And Carolin Callego. https://t.co/4iFLksN9fz— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) March 28, 2020
re: #111 Backwoods_Sleuth
The most corrupt, incompetent, and unqualified admin in our history is led by a guy who spends more time being a media critic than doing his job.
The consequences of this inattention to the job?
102,000+ cases and 1700+ dead as of this morning.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) March 28, 2020
as a dysentery survivor, i am always asking this pic.twitter.com/7F6usfZ1Ju
— Bobby Lewis (@revrrlewis) March 28, 2020
Bill Mitchell, who is a bulkshit artist, knows all about runny crap.
Some Dutch rail staff working from home… pic.twitter.com/J9F570xo4L
— Andrew Stroehlein (@astroehlein) March 26, 2020
re: #114 lawhawk
as a dysentery survivor, i am always asking this
Mostly dysentery treatment would be under foreign aid. Which the fucking asshole Mitchell I’m sure has no problem at all with cutting.
re: #95 lawhawk
People in battleground states will see Trump’s failure in full technicolor display - complete with the body count, the economic wreckage, and incompetent handling of the disaster from every aspect.
What has been done to date to contain the disease is in spite of Trump, not because of him. He’s led from behind at every step, and every effort at the GOP rewriting the history needs to be rebuffed.
They do not get to set the narrative.
I’m waiting for the ad that says,”Michiganders went Trump in 2016, and look what he did to them,” with repeats of his telling his people not to return their calls.
re: #96 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I honestly expected more from the Toronto Star.
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The article is paywalled, but we’re making hard choices every day, walking the path between stopping the epidemic cold by all sheltering in place (in which sick people die at home — no hospital care — and we all starve), and acting as if everything were normal (in which hospitals are overwhelmed and millions die). Does that article really say something other than that? From the little bit I could see, it doesn’t liik like it.
*asteroid approaches*
SCIENTISTS: If we don’t stop this, it will destroy Earth.
PEOPLE: Oh no. How many people has it killed so far?
SCIENTISTS: None yet.
PEOPLE, SUDDENLY ARMED WITH STATISTICS: Why, that’s fewer than traffic accidents! Fewer than vending machines! Fewer than— Ben Orlin (@benorlin) March 28, 2020
If you get a text, email or Facebook post with secret policy information supposedly from someone’s friend in a high-ranking government position or medical advice from someone supposedly at Johns Hopkins, Stanford or Harvard, please presume it is fake until proven otherwise.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) March 28, 2020
Irony Drinks Bleach, Stabs Self, Jumps Off Tall Building https://t.co/ftoQNfpZxF
— Gary Legum (@GaryLegum) March 28, 2020
A total of 1,019 people with coronavirus have died in the UK, and there are 17,089 confirmed cases of the virus, figures show https://t.co/V0VxBI0KZq pic.twitter.com/5vQLZoFejd
— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) March 28, 2020
Trump approves disaster declaration for Michigan amid acrimony with governor https://t.co/0Mxv05lpEC
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) March 28, 2020
History will remember you as a national joke — an illegitimately elected fascist — a global laughing stock who was willing to endanger thousands of his own supporters for his lackluster approval rating. Your descendants will have to change their last names. https://t.co/HLLD0RJe0P
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) March 28, 2020
re: #124 Backwoods_Sleuth
Alternate headline: Trump finally does his f’n job.
UK reports another 260 deaths, the most daily for them yet.
re: #126 Belafon
Alternate headline: Trump finally does his f’n job.
That’s getting way ahead of the facts — one declaration doth not a “doing your job” merit.
Do you have nothing better to do?
So bitching and HELP. You criminal idiot.— Yeah Sure WTF Ever (@YeahSureWhatev2) March 28, 2020
Hello all. So I was joking around with my wife about the day being disappointing from the beginning because no death notice with Donald Trumps name on it. Gallows humor. Then…
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Good morning. All is okay here. I’m bucking trends and trying to become a rare person that comes out of this having lost weight.
re: #129 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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re: #132 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Good morning. All is okay here. I’m bucking trends and trying to become a rare person that comes out of this having lost weight.
I’m having cake for breakfast.
re: #134 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!
I’m having cake for breakfast.
I go vegetarian for the six weeks leading up to Lent, not religiously or strictly but I have been doing it for the past twelve years or so and I am sticking to it.
Not necessarily losing weight but at least trying to rid my system of some of the hormones and antibiotics that get pumped into modern meat.
re: #134 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!
I’m having cake for breakfast.
Jealous! I had my new favorite breakfast though. Lentils, eggs, hummus, & cherry tomatoes. I did have a veggie burger last night which was quite good. I’m not going vegetarian but I do want to cut my meat intake down.
re: #136 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Jealous! I had my new favorite breakfast though. Lentils, eggs, hummus, & cherry tomatoes. I did have a veggie burger last night which was quite good. I’m not going vegetarian but I do want to cut my meat intake down.
unless a burger is coming off a grill, then I prefer a veggie burger.
re: #135 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I go vegetarian for the six weeks leading up to Lent, not religiously or strictly but I have been doing it for the past twelve years or so and I am sticking to it.
Not necessarily losing weight but at least trying to rid my system of some of the hormones and antibiotics that get pumped into modern meat.
Yeah I’m trying to eat less meat for that reason. Been walking more. Hoping I get to swim more. My drill sergeant kicked my ass last Friday for being lazy but that’s what younger brothers are for.
News Item: Alabama Governor, Kay Ivey sets a less than aggressive course in the fight against spreading Coronavirus 19
My thoughts (originally posted on LGM):
Huntsville AL has the highest concentration of PHDs in America, courtesy of the US Government placing NASA, USACE, and a technology base there through policy decisions more than anything inherent in Alabama itself
Now all those smart and trained (elsewhere) people and the investments made by them and in them are at risk because the actions of the Alabama Governor
Recommend: Get the smart people artificially imported there, out of Alabama ASAP before Kay Ivey kills them all with denialism
Or tell her that U of Alabama will forfeit a football game if no action taken as she will be blamed. Priorities people.
re: #137 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
unless a burger is coming off a grill, then I prefer a veggie burger.
Yeah I hear ya. The thing is I’m discovering I can get a good meal without tons of meat as my protein. The only meat yesterday I ate was the bacon on my bagel egg sandwich I made.
re: #134 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!
I’m having cake for breakfast.
Be sure to eat it, too.
re: #139 So Cal Greek Hippie
Huntsville AL has the highest concentration of PHDs in America, courtesy of the US Government placing NASA, USACE, and a technology base there through policy decisions more than anything inherent in Alabama itself
Southern Man don’t need ‘em around anyhow!
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Social distancing is easy when you are out there in gloves, mask and spraying a light bleach solution from a pump sprayer. People say thank you. From a distance lol.
STL: Local nurse resigns after being told she can’t wear a mask around patients https://t.co/PpEGIkie7p
— Johnetta Elzie (@Nettaaaaaaaa) March 28, 2020
re: #140 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Yeah I hear ya. The thing is I’m discovering I can get a good meal without tons of meat as my protein. The only meat yesterday I ate was the bacon on my bagel egg sandwich I made.
Today it was broad beans with chili sauce, marinated feta and tomatoes with ciabatta bread.
Tomorrow lentil curry.
re: #144 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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re: #134 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!
I’m having cake for breakfast.
I just made raisin Bran muffins. It’s what’s for breakfast.
re: #145 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
For those lucky enough to own them this is a great time for the old LGF cookbooks.
Lre: #145 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Today it was broad beans with chili sauce, marinated feta and tomatoes with ciabatta bread.
Tomorrow lentil curry.
I sooo do not get people who think vegetarian meals are boring. I had tofu panang curry a few months back. Just as good if not better than with meat. I do love my shrimp tho.
re: #136 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Jealous! I had my new favorite breakfast though. Lentils, eggs, hummus, & cherry tomatoes. I did have a veggie burger last night which was quite good. I’m not going vegetarian but I do want to cut my meat intake down.
Most veggie burgers don’t agree with me, but if there is a choice, I order a portobello sandwich. The Claim Company’s Mother Lode offers that as an option — and now it’s the only one for me.
re: #149 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
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I sooo do not get people who think vegetarian meals are boring. I had tofu panang curry a few months back. Just as good if not better than with meat. I do love my shrimp tho.
It’s not that vegetarian meals are boring. When I eat, if the part of my taste buds that detects meat doesn’t get ticked off, then my body’s like “WTF, man?” Like if I just have fruit for breakfast, I’m left for a few hours feeling like I missed something.
re: #149 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
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I sooo do not get people who think vegetarian meals are boring. I had tofu panang curry a few months back. Just as good if not better than with meat. I do love my shrimp tho.
Marketing. Gotta keep people thinking that Meat is for Real Men, that vegetarians (and vegans even more so ) are boring, sanctimonious, condescending and hypochondriac…
Morning Lizardim from the mild and rainy wild north country. How go things among the lizardfolk as the state of Minnesota enters its stay-at-home advisory?
Impossible meat satisfies that craving. Black bean burgers do not.
re: #134 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!
I’m having cake for breakfast.
Breakfast has always been the most important meal of the day in my house.
I have not tried the impossible stuff yet, guess I will give it a spin on the grill at some point.
re: #152 Belafon
It’s not that vegetarian meals are boring. When I eat, if the part of my taste buds that detects meat doesn’t get ticked off, then my body’s like “WTF, man?” Like if I just have fruit for breakfast, I’m left for a few hours feeling like I missed something.
Gotta spice it up man. That’s how I do it.
re: #131 Teukka
Now playing in this Lizardims lair (did I post this before)?
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re: #153 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Marketing. Gotta keep people thinking that Meat is for Real Men, that vegetarians (and vegans even more so ) are boring, sanctimonious, condescending and hypochondriac…
It’s so stupid and this coming from a self described meat and potatoes guy. At my core I eat like a 19th century peasant who likes so called ethnic food.
re: #158 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Gotta spice it up man. That’s how I do it.
Tofu is great for absorbing the flavor of whatever it gets cooked in. I was a bit taken aback the first time I saw my GF making mapo tofu, with black bean sauce and ground pork (?!?)
Not much pork, but it really flavors the tofu wonderfully if it is done right.
re: #151 Hecuba’s daughter
Most veggie burgers don’t agree with me, but if there is a choice, I order a portobello sandwich. The Claim Company’s Mother Lode offers that as an option — and now it’s the only one for me.
I still miss the veggie burgers a place that went out of business long ago used to sell. They weren’t meat, didn’t pretend to be meat. On a sandwich with sharp cheese and lots of raw veggies. Delicious.
re: #158 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Gotta spice it up man. That’s how I do it.
I’ve yet to have a veggie burger that wasn’t thrown out. I keep trying and keep trashing them.
re: #163 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I’ve yet to have a veggie burger that wasn’t thrown out. I keep trying and keep trashing them.
One I had last night had a nice sweet chili topping.
re: #164 HRH Stanley Sea
Yes. That looks yummy. You are making me hungry.
Guilty secret - I’ve always loved veggie burgers. Not the Boca stuff, or now the “Impossible” stuff (wow that’s some ego in the name) that is designed to mimic the meat experience, but old-fashioned vegetables-crammed-into-patty-shape stuff that doesn’t look or feel like meat at all.
Melt a slice of cheese on them, throw in your standard burger toppings, squirt in a little hot sauce (I’m not a Tabasco man, but it actually works well with these), maybe another condiment on a fresh bun… just so good.
Tried the impossible whopper a month ago, and didn’t understand the point.
re: #160 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
It’s so stupid and this coming from a self described meat and potatoes guy. At my core I eat like a 19th century peasant who likes so called ethnic food.
I never liked meat as a kid, which drove my poor parents to distraction. Only thing I liked were bacon sandwiches (where you could hide it in the bread) and burgers from a joint called the Lure, because the patties were likewise so thin you didn’t notice them under the ketchup and pickles.
I eventually learned to eat meat and even like it, but then as a student, I became an economic vegetarian, I just could not afford to eat meat more than once or twice a week.
Then I moved to Germany where I was gobsmacked to find pork often as cheap as many fresh vegetables - and ubiquitous…but they are starting to catch on to vegetarian options here as well.
#BREAKING New #coronavirus numbers spike in FL
▶️3,763 known positive cases, up 565
▶️54 deaths, up 8
Live updates https://t.co/XNYmP5TcVi #COVID19 #coronavirusflorida @10NewsWTSP pic.twitter.com/8I8umUepeW— Josh Sidorowicz WTSP (@JoshWTSP) March 28, 2020
re: #167 NetworkKed
Guilty secret - I’ve always loved veggie burgers. Not the Boca stuff, or now the “Impossible” stuff (wow that’s some ego in the name) that is designed to mimic the meat experience, but old-fashioned vegetables-crammed-into-patty-shape stuff that doesn’t look or feel like meat at all.
Melt a slice of cheese on them, throw in your standard burger toppings, squirt in a little hot sauce (I’m not a Tabasco man, but it actually works well with these), maybe another condiment on a fresh bun… just so good.
Tried the impossible whopper a month ago, and didn’t understand the point.
Go read my comments above on the topic.
re: #167 NetworkKed
Same here, with spicy black bean burger as the base. I tried the impossible burger too, and it wasn’t an improvement.
re: #169 HRH Stanley Sea
That’s not a spike, relative to other states - lots of places getting 15%-25% daily confirmed case growth. IN’s number went up 50% yesterday.
re: #172 NetworkKed
That’s not a spike, relative to other states - lots of places getting 15%-25% daily confirmed case growth. IN’s number went up 50% yesterday.
Fish country is fairly well blowing up because the county issued an executive order telling stores that sell both essentials and non-essentials to cordon off their non-essentials because “other businesses are complaining because they are closed, but you are open.” Yeah, that’s their actual justification - unfair competition. As if people won’t go back to those stores once they reopen!
These poor people.
Costco in Staten Island, NY, has at least 4 employees who have tested positive for COVID-19 pic.twitter.com/OJN7wGu8rN
— Brianna Sacks (@bri_sacks) March 28, 2020
re: #173 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Fish country is fairly well blowing up because the county issued an executive order telling stores that sell both essentials and non-essentials to cordon off their non-essentials because “other businesses are complaining because they are closed, but you are open.” Yeah, that’s their actual justification - unfair competition. As if people won’t go back to those stores once they reopen!
I’ve been joking about how stores like Kohl’s and Belk are suddenly going to have grocery sections after this is over.
LOL.
LOL Okay that made me laugh out loud. https://t.co/2lt5xcR5aN
— John Aravosis 🇺🇸 (@aravosis) March 28, 2020
re: #167 NetworkKed
Tried the impossible whopper a month ago, and didn’t understand the point.
Which aspect didn’t you understand? The main focus of Impossible’s (that is the name of the company, so capitalize) marketing is really environmental. Mimic meat by using heme, but requires a lot less resource to make.
Does anyone remember the guy who tweets beautiful nature pics? Something like Emile Pompano or something like that… Anyone?
re: #179 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Oh I do recall that guy. Gotta go search.
AAAARRRRGG! Just tried to register for unemployment with the State of Nevada (Since I work in State, it’s allowed even though I live in Idaho). Got all the way to the page that asks for my employer. Clicked on them and it came back and said I wasn’t on the company rolls. Now I have to wait until Monday and call to get this fixed. I suspect the reason they couldn’t find me is they are using an outdated roster that has my dead name on it instead of my new legal name.
re: #175 Belafon
My son works at Stein Mart in a metro Atlanta warehouse. I don’t think they’re going to call them back to work, unless it’s temporarily to process any remaining shipments and then shut down. This company was bought by a private equity firm in January which makes it all but certain.
re: #181 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
If you need any support, let us know.
Oof.
You wanted a reality show host as a president, well now you’re on Survivor.
— Hoodlum 🇺🇸 (@HoodlumRIP) March 27, 2020
re: #182 A Mom Anon
My son works at Stein Mart in a metro Atlanta warehouse. I don’t think they’re going to call them back to work, unless it’s temporarily to process any remaining shipments and then shut down. This company was bought by a private equity firm in January which makes it all but certain.
We have a Stein Mart here in Rockwall. That place has been here longer than I’ve been. It has weathered a lot of shut downs. I’m curious what will happen after this.
I will not post what this makes me think about our impeached president. I like having an account here.
So I risked my life all day to save patients with COVID
and find out when I get home that the President is blackmailing governors with holding medical aid unless they are nice to him! If we don’t get rid of him a lot more people are going to die. #25theAmendmentNow— Moni (@sabrosa1) March 28, 2020
re: #184 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
If you need any support, let us know.
Thanks. I will. Like I said, I think the problem is an outdated roster that has my dead name on it. If I can’t get it fixed myself, I’ll call the HR director and see what she can for me.
So this happened:
Quarantined man runs out of his house unclad, bites 80-year-old woman to death in Tamil Nadu
A 35-year-old man who was put under home quarantine in the thick of coronavirus pandemic after he arrived back from Sri Lanka has been booked for murdering a women at a village in Tamil Nadu.
The man ran out of his house unclad and bit an 80-year-old women in her neck, the police stated on Friday.
She was admitted to a hospital on Friday, and passed away today after her state of health aggravated during aggravated, stated the police.
“The accused, Manikandan, has a history of mental illness for which he was treated in Madurai back in 2010. On Friday, he disrobed himself and ran from his home. He tripped and fell a hundred metres from his home and targeted the elderly woman, who was sitting outside her house,” a police officer told NDTV.
Sudden-vampirism so far has not been listed as a symptom of Covid-19.
re: #177 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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— joy is underrated as an artistic objective (@boldsurvive) March 14, 2020
incredible achievements while under quarantine:
shakespeare: wrote king lear
isaac newton: laid the foundations for his laws of motion
me: invented the peanut butter and jelly taco— Bob Vulfov (@bobvulfov) March 14, 2020
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Another good spot here.
the trump campaign does not want you to retweet this ad pic.twitter.com/YCt0qgQdSa
— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) March 28, 2020
Trump thinks he can stop these? I don’t think so.
re: #192 Charmingly Persistent
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re: #197 Charmingly Persistent
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So we’re making WWII comparisons? Alrighty then. Wash your hands, stay home, don’t hoard! Give it hell! pic.twitter.com/1dOo4faPCn
— Victoria Kositz (@evo_kositz) March 24, 2020
Seriously Haley what are you doing with these fish???!! #StardewValley pic.twitter.com/eEULxowJ3D
— Imani Gandy ☄️🌍🔥 (@AngryBlackLady) March 28, 2020
😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/POiMYY9ZVC
— Andie 🆅🅾🆃🅴 🅵🅾🆁 🅿🅴🅰🅲🅴 🗳️ (@Vote4USA2020) March 28, 2020
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re: #190 sagehen
I survived on the pb&j burrito from 1984-86 living off campus at University of Arizona:
Jumbo jar of Laura Scudders’ peanut butter from Price Club, my moms homemade strawberry jam and door to door sold tortillas.
re: #198 PhillyPretzel
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re: #203 goddamnedfrank
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re: #203 goddamnedfrank
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My go to when I studied in Galway was the chicken tender Dubliner cheese sandwich with strawberry preserves.
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re: #209 goddamnedfrank
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For the reality of what is happening, listen to Gov Cuomo’s press conference each day. Truthful, realistic and honest. Only downfall is the odd mentions of Trump - presumably so he gets the Fed help that is needed (the reality of life with a meglomaniac who must be praised regardless)
re: #209 goddamnedfrank
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re: #212 PhillyPretzel
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re: #209 goddamnedfrank
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re: #205 Charmingly Persistent
I’m on a meeting right now, not political. And there is someone who is not stupid, and means well on this topic, although she thinks DT is just splendid. But she is paranoid, and is very THICK, and is very heavy at hand. And another fellow who is an MD, with advanced degrees, and very bright, and thinks as we do, but he is also a bit that way. And between the two of them, it is a miracle if we get anything done!
re: #204 So Cal Greek Hippie
I survived on the pb&j burrito from 1984-86 living off campus at University of Arizona:
Jumbo jar of Laura Scudders’ peanut butter from Price Club, my moms homemade strawberry jam and door to door sold tortillas.
I missed you by a year, graduated in 1983…lived south of campus near 8th and Warren
Lunch used to consist of pb&j plus left over popcorn and Hawaiian punch from the Russian Club film nights…
8 more deaths in Florida, over five hundred more cases. But the alarming statistic for Florida is that the “hospitalized” cases went from around 406 to 526. The faster the hospitalized number climbs, the higher the death toll will be later.
re: #214 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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re: #217 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
8 more deaths in Florida, over five hundred more cases. But the alarming statistic for Florida is that the “hospitalized” cases went from around 406 to 526. The faster the hospitalized number climbs, the higher the death toll will be later.
Anybody see an Easter Resurrection coming in two weeks?
re: #219 goddamnedfrank
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Good article about a NY doctor balancing the importance of distancing (“Stay the hell away from everyone else”) with a hopeful message (“I think we’re going to be OK by the way”).
Minnesota’s numbers: 43 new cases, up to 441; 1 new death, up to 5; 30 currently hospitalized. 16,129 tests have been processed.
re: #224 retired cynic
Illinois doesn’t post until afternoon.
Ours come out at 11 AM Central Time the next day, reporting on yesterday’s numbers.
re: #216 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I lived at Ninth and Warren right on the corner!
Then moved a short distance to 7th and Cherry where we had an Elvis shrine in a chicken coop and sold football game parking
Kansas governor orders residents to stay home to curb virus
Kelly, a Democrat, issued the order for Kansas’ 2.9 million residents after at least 25 counties, including all of the state’s most populous ones, issued their own stay-at-home orders. Kelly said the new order supersedes the local orders.
[…]
Conservatives in the Republican-controlled Legislature said that Kelly overreached this month when she ordered all of the state’s K-12 schools closed for the rest of the semester and complained that the state’s economy was being damaged too much. Legislative leaders have the power to review — and revoke — her orders related to the coronavirus pandemic.
Kansas House Speaker Ron Ryckman, Majority Leader Dan Hawkins and Speaker Pro Tem Blaine Finch, all Republicans, said in a joint statement that the new order “will no doubt impact our families and our businesses. As members of the Legislative Coordinating Council we have a duty to carefully assess this executive order and the reasons for it. Over the coming days we will consult with the Attorney General, health care professionals, the business community, and the state’s emergency management team to make sure we are on the right path.”
“Pro-life” Republicans, again caring most about money.
I tend to use worldometers.info for my obsessive data needs, and lately they’ve been adding links to their state-level sources. From screenshots pasted here I know a couple of others are too.
Indiana (after some early missteps) dumps their numbers at 11 AM local. New York seems to be pushing multiple tranches through the day. Weekends things always slow down a little, and I think if we go back and look at the graphs we’re going to see underreporting on weekends followed by catching up on Mondays.
re: #228 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Over the coming days we will consult with the Attorney General, health care professionals, the business community, and the state’s emergency management team to make sure we are on the right path
Attorney General - She can do it
Health Care Professionals - Yes, and more, to save lives.
Business Community - Nope, we’re losing money
Emergency Management Team - Yes, to keep things from getting worse.
GOP - There you have it, the Governor overstepped her bounds and is going to kill people by keeping things closed.
re: #216 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Btw I was enrolled at school living in the dorms in 1983.
I was in school with Tony Francona and Steve Kerr. I never saw Kerr (big campus) but was inspired by his response to the tragic death of his parents. But I had 0800 classes and walking to them I would pass the baseball field and see Terry Francona our there every morning. And at 1600 when I would walk home to homework sessions, he was still out there.
No surprise either became successful coaches
re: #227 So Cal Greek Hippie
I lived at Ninth and Warren right on the corner!
Then moved a short distance to 7th and Cherry where we had an Elvis shrine in a chicken coop and sold football game parking
Damn…Did you live near the house with the painted palm trees and the Nancy portrait on the chair?
re: #173 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Fish country is fairly well blowing up because the county issued an executive order telling stores that sell both essentials and non-essentials to cordon off their non-essentials because “other businesses are complaining because they are closed, but you are open.” Yeah, that’s their actual justification - unfair competition. As if people won’t go back to those stores once they reopen!
That reminds me of my teens in Texas, when certain aisles in the grocery stores were roped off on Sundays to keep you from buying stuff forbidden under the blue laws. The blue laws got blown all to hell in the mid-80s when national corporations (like Target) refused to close on Sundays in the weeks leading up to Christmas.
re: #233 mmmirele
That reminds me of my teens in Texas, when certain aisles in the grocery stores were roped off on Sundays to keep you from buying stuff forbidden under the blue laws. The blue laws got blown all to hell in the mid-80s when national corporations (like Target) refused to close on Sundays in the weeks leading up to Christmas.
See, I can understand doing that in a case like that, or if the county demonstrated actual risk of infection due to people congregating to buy non-essential items, or enacting more sensible restrictions like limiting the number of people who can enter a store at a time. This is just a ham-fisted way for the local plutocrat to enforce his businesses’ domination.
re: #233 mmmirele
That reminds me of my teens in Texas, when certain aisles in the grocery stores were roped off on Sundays to keep you from buying stuff forbidden under the blue laws. The blue laws got blown all to hell in the mid-80s when national corporations (like Target) refused to close on Sundays in the weeks leading up to Christmas.
Most stores closed on Sundays when I was a kid because of those Blue laws. Then KMart built a second store on the south side of town and closed it on Saturdays instead, since the laws said you could only be open six days a week.
This fucker…
President Trump said he is considering a quarantine on New York, parts of New Jersey and Connecticut.
While not helping at all.
re: #233 mmmirele
In Philly former Mayor Frank Rizzo liked the idea of shopping with his family after church and that is how the Blue Laws were eliminated here in the city.
re: #233 mmmirele
That reminds me of my teens in Texas, when certain aisles in the grocery stores were roped off on Sundays to keep you from buying stuff forbidden under the blue laws. The blue laws got blown all to hell in the mid-80s when national corporations (like Target) refused to close on Sundays in the weeks leading up to Christmas.
I recall those days, Indiana forbade all liquor sales on Sunday (we drove the 12 miles to Line Liquors right across the Illinois border).
And in my early childhood, everything was closed except restaurants. Even my uncle’s gas station.
Trump will cast this to his marks in the usual way, to give the impression that NY is the bad actor:
US President Donald Trump has said he is considering imposing a quarantine on New York in a bid to slow the spread of the coronavirus.
What is he going to do when Florida is overwhelmed, which is probably less than seven days away?
And Louisiana, which will rapidly reach the point of not being able to handle their cases?
re: #239 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Trump will cast this to his marks in the usual way, to give the impression that NY is the bad actor:
What is he going to do when Florida is overwhelmed, which is probably less than seven days away?
And Louisiana, which will rapidly reach the point of not being able to handle their cases?
He’ll help them while letting NYers, et Al, die.
This is criminal. Completely. Criminal.
What Trump wants to do is pick all the counties around this country in which he has no chance of winning, make said places the villains in the eyes of those places where his support is the strongest.
Everything Trump does is for Trump.
Remember that.
There are ongoing shortages and lack of equipment across NYC metro area.@NYCHealthSystem @BilldeBlasio @SenSchumer https://t.co/bNUKE9ui0g
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) March 28, 2020
Need this to go far and wide; my brother’s friends family are in bad shape there.
BTW, two things that will never change in Germany are the shopping laws (no shopping on Sundays and legal holidays*) and speed limit restrictions on the Autobahn**
*those laws are shot through with exemptions for tourist areas, special events, “travel requisites” (which include booze, snacks and titty magazines), perishable items such as flowers and seasonal vegetables. And bakeries can be open up to three hours on a Sunday.
**70 % of Autobahn kilometers have no posted limit. There is a recommended speed limit of 130 kph. Which means that if you have an accident while driving in excess of that, you can be held at least partially liable for legal (and insurance) purposes.
— ace-o-aces (@aceoaces) March 28, 2020
re: #232 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I remember that place!. My hovel was a one room 1939 add on to a house built in 1899. Very small, and dirty but cheap and walking distance to school. There was a dirt yard that I started to pull weeds on and discovered a buried flagstone patio.
re: #242 lawhawk
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Need this to go far and wide; my brother’s friends family are in bad shape there.
I also just found out about a case of the first person I have actually met in real life with CV (a friend of a friend who lives in NYC at that)
Up to then, I could not say that I actually knew anybody who had it.
Shit.
Italy reports 889 more deaths, down slightly from yesterday’s high.
re: #245 So Cal Greek Hippie
I remember that place!. My hovel was a one room 1939 add on to a house built in 1899. Very small, and dirty but cheap and walking distance to school. There was a dirt yard that I started to pull weeds on and discovered a buried flagstone patio.
Sounds like our hovel, with sleeping porches out the front and back and a gravel yard near an arroyo.
re: #229 NetworkKed
I tend to use worldometers.info for my obsessive data needs, and lately they’ve been adding links to their state-level sources.
You call that obsessive? I managed to find (i.e. was pointed to) a couple of sites that give state level numbers over time so you can track trends:
Marc Pasila on tableau: allows you to pick states and compare trends. Has been a bit hinky lately.
Wade Fagen-Ulmschneider, computer scientist at U of Illinois: Allows you to pick trends one state at a time.
re: #244 Ace-o-aces
Exponential fucking growth. How does it fucking work?
These fucking ghouls don’t care. They don’t realize that the system can’t handle surges like this - because everyone cut and skimped on beds and gear because those are costs that have to be carried.
The American right has become a literal death cult. https://t.co/39S4kQVKgF
— ace-o-aces (@aceoaces) March 28, 2020
I keep seeing news about the $2 trillion aid package that Trump signed. The YT video I watched even had that in the title/description. But during the signing ceremony in the Oval, it was repeatedly described as slightly north of $6 trillion, including by Trump himself.
A few trillion here, a few trillion there, and soon you’re talking about real money —Everett Dirksen’s ghost
re: #248 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Was your place the tan units rented out by Harry and Gene the slumlords? ‘‘Twas right across the arroyo. And if so three cute girls lived there after you, who are now likely grandmas, so go figure
Red squares for distancing at HEB this morning. Entry to the store was rationed, we all stood at marked 6-foot intervals awaiting our slots while HEB staff explained their supply chain and stocking status. All checkout lines had a shield protecting the clerks. pic.twitter.com/ES30LeZvNj
— Alex Wild (@Myrmecos) March 28, 2020
BWS will be happy to see Dan Milbank taking a steamroller to Thomas Massie: Thomas Massie is a monster Republicans created, WaPo
Compare HEB social distancing procedure to this dysfunctional White House operations.
re: #254 jaunte
That is what my local Acme did too. The beautiful thing is that I go early in the morning.
re: #253 So Cal Greek Hippie
Was your place the tan units rented out by Harry and Gene the slumlords? ‘‘Twas right across the arroyo. And if so three cute girls lived there after you, who are now likely grandmas, so go figure
this was a dumpy little house with a unit upstairs and a storage space beneath. I heard it got torn down and rebuilt
re: #246 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I also just found out about a case of the first person I have actually met in real life with CV (a friend of a friend who lives in NYC at that)
Up to then, I could not say that I actually knew anybody who had it.
Shit.
My mom and dad were friends with the first casualty back in fish country, a 60-year-old man they knew from their previous church. He was extremely high-risk due to age and having a history of respiratory problems, including a lung transplant.
re: #247 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Italy reports 889 more deaths, down slightly from yesterday’s high.
This site from the U of Washington that compares disease levels to resources, is projecting a peak of 2,300 deaths per day in the US on 4/12. It also projects 80K deaths by August.
re: #251 Ace-o-aces
Because we all remember Jesus saying, after he killed the leper, “He’s better off in Heaven than being alive.”
re: #249 garzooma
You call that obsessive? I managed to find (i.e. was pointed to) a couple of sites that give state level numbers over time so you can track trends:
Marc Pasila on tableau: allows you to pick states and compare trends. Has been a bit hinky lately.Wade Fagen-Ulmschneider, computer scientist at U of Illinois: Allows you to pick trends one state at a time.
Might I suggest that you put up a page with all those links?
A FB friend from the East Coast posted that his CV test he took on the 19th came back positive. No symptoms for a week. Offered to help others as he assumes he’s now immune.
re: #258 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
A lot of that happened as school expanded. 1/2 of the 7th street where I lived, is now University property.
Many area crummy hotels nearby got renovated as privatized student dorms with the old coffee shop serving as meal center
re: #263 BigPapa
A FB friend from the East Coast posted that his CV test he took on the 19th came back positive. No symptoms for a week. Offered to help others as he assumes he’s now immune.
Not yet he isn’t. It has taken up to three weeks for some to show symptoms. And he can still give it to others.
I am giving consideration to a QUARANTINE of developing “hot spots”, New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. A decision will be made, one way or another, shortly.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 28, 2020
It’s too late to consider quarantining NYC metro area, because there’s tens of thousands of cases everywhere else, and interstate air travel has zero screening in place.
That’s on you and the DHS/TSA.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) March 28, 2020
BTW, a little insider info from Dr. Ace, your friendly primary care provider. It still takes about 3 days for most COVID-19 results to come back. That means all the data you see on the number of cases and deaths is actually lagging reality by at least 72 hours.
re: #265 Belafon
Not yet he isn’t. It has taken up to three weeks for some to show symptoms. And he can still give it to others.
He did get sick but has felt 100% for a week. Not sure when you’re not contagious but it seems you’re most contagious before and during onset of symptoms. Testing for both CV19 and antibodies will be imperative to be confident you’re not contagious.
re: #239 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Trump will cast this to his marks in the usual way, to give the impression that NY is the bad actor:
What is he going to do when Florida is overwhelmed, which is probably less than seven days away?
And Louisiana, which will rapidly reach the point of not being able to handle their cases?
Trump continues to get his information and plans from conservative “TV” experts who preach that that cure is worse than the disease. They all fit Oscar Wilde’s description of those who “know the price of everything and the value of nothing”. They promote a toxic ignorance that will continue to get people killed.
And Trump’s true medical experts seem to have a very limited ability to control his actions or his statements — they have certainly discovered as Mattis did, that Trump cannot process or retain any information that contradicts his personal views — that reality must conform to his perspective, rather than the reverse. Even in the midst of a war against an implacable foe who is deaf to his bluster, Trump follows Rove’s dictum: “We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality”
re: #246 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I also just found out about a case of the first person I have actually met in real life with CV (a friend of a friend who lives in NYC at that)
Up to then, I could not say that I actually knew anybody who had it.
Shit.
Right now the numbers say about 1 in 3000 Americans has tested positive for C19, and 1 in 150000 has died of it. Which feels about right - not all of us actively know someone who has it, but almost certainly someone we’ve met in our lifetime does. And the odds that we know someone who has passed because of it are lowish, but there are enough that the stories are starting to show up more frequently.
At current doubling rates, that’s probably going to be worse than 1 in 800 by this time next week. The damned idiots running the country have allowed this to spin out of control, and even places where there are shelter-in-place orders are doing it badly.
This is a disappointing turn of events:
CORONAVRIUS HALTS PRODUCTION… Only 2nd Time Ever
See’s Candies — perhaps the most iconic chocolatier in America — is facing a bittersweet ending (for now) … halting production because of coronavirus, which makes it a historical pause.
See’s made the announcement this weekend, saying it was temporarily closing up shop and suspending production of its famous chocolate sweets across the country. In their words, they say, “Given the current events with COVID-19, and our concern for the health and safety of our employees, we have made the decision to initiate an interruption once again.”
re: #267 Ace-o-aces
BTW, a little insider info from Dr. Ace, your friendly primary care provider. It still takes about 3 days for most COVID-19 results to come back. That means all the data you see on the number of cases and deaths is actually lagging reality by at least 72 hours.
Cases is lagging far more than that because there still isn’t nearly the test quantity needed. It’s very hard to tell how much - it’s probably not 10x higher than the confirmed number, but I’d be surprised if it wasn’t at least 2x.
I had not previously considered that the death numbers are lagging in that particular sense, though there has been an increasing amount of reporting that deaths are being undercounted.
Surprised to find a sleepy bee. Santa Monica Mountains
re: #251 Ace-o-aces
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As Duke Forrest said in M*A*S*H (the movie) after Hawkeye slugged Frank Burns, “Every time a patient croaks on him, [Frank] says it’s “God’s will” or somebody else’s fault.”
American fundamentalist conservatism in a nutshell, even back in the early 70s and before.
re: #248 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Sounds like our hovel, with sleeping porches out the front and back and a gravel yard near an arroyo.
I know of all of this but I spent my formative years in North Phx…….
Speaking of vomit-inducing images…
Backdrop for Trump speech pic.twitter.com/9xPsjReWn1
— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) March 28, 2020
Can’t shed any tears for this evil man…
— Calvin Neal (@chnealjr) March 28, 2020
re: #272 NetworkKed
Cases is lagging far more than that because there still isn’t nearly the test quantity needed. It’s very hard to tell how much - it’s probably not 10x higher than the confirmed number, but I’d be surprised if it wasn’t at least 2x.
I had not previously considered that the death numbers are lagging in that particular sense, though there has been an increasing amount of reporting that deaths are being undercounted.
It’s quite likely that deaths among people with pre-existing conditions who have not been tested have their deaths attributed to that underlying condition rather than coronavirus. What is really needed is the true death toll in China; they are doing a disservice to the world by not releasing that information.
re: #275 Dave In Austin
I know of all of this but I spent my formative years in North Phx…….
I used to spend summers with my sister up near 43rd and Northern avenue.
re: #262 Charmingly Persistent
Might I suggest that you put up a page with all those links?
Submitted.
Imagine covid19 to be a serial killer on the loose.
It’s a disease that strikes without warning, but leaves fingerprints only if you search for them.
Right now, NYC has a serial killer on the loose and insufficient testing, which means it’s now killed more than those killed by homicide for any year in the past decade. Within days, it’ll exceed the homicides from any year since 2000.
It wont be long before it exceeds the death toll from 9/11 in NYC alone.
That’s what exponential growth is about, and the insufficient testing is continuing to hamper fighting this.
So while Trump talks about quarantining NYC metro area, he’s ignoring that every fucking case anywhere in the US can cause an outbreak like seen in NYC with just time.
That’s how the serial killer known as covid19 functions. It spreads and kills as a function of time and incompetence.
THIS shot from @baltimoresun’s Barb Taylor of this morning’s fire at Urban Bible Fellowship Church. Wow. Read more here: https://t.co/inXN8RTMr5 pic.twitter.com/3wkIUvrbBi
— Emily Opilo (@emilyopilo) March 28, 2020
“We’re extremely fortunate that the church was not open at the time and we didn’t have any reported injuries.”
The RNC in Charlotte will not be canceled, Trump says | Charlotte Observer https://t.co/ohEVtoXSUS
— 💙*~*DONNA*~*💙 (@Dcl_60) March 28, 2020
re: #276 BeachDem
He had to be cajoled and chided and pulled kicking and screaming to do even this minimal step to help Americans in dire need.
He sees all of this as a reelection effort - how he’s doing a great job, and the failures are all someone else’s fault.
It’s his fault.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) March 28, 2020
re: #284 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
That photograph is tragically beautiful.
Also ironically a metaphor - Christianity in America is in destructive mode, with all the fundamentalists worshipping Trump.
re: #287 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Also ironically a metaphor - Christianity in America is in destructive mode, with all the fundamentalists worshipping Trump.
I guess that would make us moderate Christians firemen.
re: #279 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I went to Central HS 69’-73’
And spent a lot of time on Central Ave. on the weekends
re: #277 Joe Bacon 🌹
Can’t shed any tears for this evil man…
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re: #260 garzooma
This site from the U of Washington that compares disease levels to resources, is projecting a peak of 2,300 deaths per day in the US on 4/12. It also projects 80K deaths by August.
That site was very useful checking on the kids’ environments, scattered over 3 states. It is a little optimistic, perhaps, but will improve as more and better data is plugged in. (It shows Colorado, Florida, and Alabama are projected to not crash their medical resources, IF EVERYBODY DOES EVERYTHING RIGHT.
re: #282 jaunte
A metaphor for the times, and a soon to be award winning photo. Amazing shot.
re: #260 garzooma
This site from the U of Washington that compares disease levels to resources, is projecting a peak of 2,300 deaths per day in the US on 4/12. It also projects 80K deaths by August.
That projected total # deaths in US looks awfully terribly incredibly optimistic.
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