Our world may have been turned upside down in the last month, but the good news is some things never change! Even in a pandemic, women are still getting screwed.
Hello to all the people of Little Green Footballs.
Greetings from the greater Tokyo area.
We here are not in lockdown, but my company has ordered me to work from home — I have a pre-existing condition that puts me in the high-risk category.
Many folks here think an avalanche of cases is about to hit. I hope that’s not true, but I’ve slowly and quietly built up my larder so I can hold out — if I have to — for a good four weeks. My diet would be boring as heck, but I should be able to hack it.
Good luck to you all.
And then on top of everything else, TWO of the power strips feeding my desktop computer system decided to fail at the same time tonight, leading to a few moments of panic when I thought my computer had died.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 2, 2020
Yep. This is what happens when you give Republicans the benefit of the doubt — they turn it into a weapon. https://t.co/rEaBW3Wip5
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 2, 2020
“Good health is a prerequisite to the enjoyment of ‘pursuit of happiness.’ Whenever the miracles of modern medicine are beyond the reach of any group of Americans, for whatever reason…we must find a way to meet their needs and fulfill their hopes.”
— John F. Kennedy (@JohnFKennedy) March 18, 2020
I’m now being told I might get results on my Coronavirus test this Friday. I took this test the morning of March 21.
— Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) April 1, 2020
.@gopelpaso is headed by a tin-foil-hat wearing freakazoid nut sandwich. El Paso County GOP pilloried after asking in social media post if COVID-19 is a hoax https://t.co/8kKp0ODizR via @colo_politics
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) April 2, 2020
El Paso County’s seat is Colorado Springs, where the headquarters of Focus On The Family is located.
And of course, the person who posted this paranoid drivel is all like I’M JUST ASKING QUESTIONS, STUPID LIBTARDS! WAKE UP SHEEPLE!
“I posted a question. I’m sorry people couldn’t answer it,” [El Paso County party chairperson Vickie Tonkins] said. “Don’t get all offended.”
[…]
Tonkins acknowledged to Colorado Politics that she called the coronavirus outbreak a “psyop” on her personal Facebook page — “you bet it is,” she responded to a friend’s post saying “to me Coronavirus is psyops” — but denied she was making that case in the post on the county party’s page, which she controls.
“I have my own opinion,” she said. “It was not an opinion, that was a definition.”
She said she deleted the post on the party’s page after people complained.
“People get so offended these days. You try to make people think, but if they don’t want to and they’re going to get offended — I have so many things I’m battling right now, it was not one of those hills I want to die on.”
Something else that is impossible to find right now is a webcam.
U.S. Navy does not rule out punishing captain who criticized coronavirus response https://t.co/Zi2QetiUvD pic.twitter.com/YhQsFOMYXD
— Reuters (@Reuters) April 2, 2020
hi.
A fifth person died from Covid-19 in Nebraska today. She was from Madison County (northeastern Nebraska), a woman in her seventies.
Community transmission cases were detected today in Antelope County (northeastern Nebraska) and Lincoln County (near me in western Nebraska).
State Directed Health Measures (basically, shut it all down) were issued tonight for fifteen more counties, including Lincoln and Arthur (Arthur County is the fifth-least populated county in the USA, with only 465 people. also in western Nebraska just east of me).
At this point, I think the governor can just dispense with the DHMs and lock down the whole state to try to limit the spread.
dhhs.ne.gov
re: #7 teleskiguy
These are your people. Millions of @GOP people believe paranoid nonsense like this, what with them being steeped in toxic talk radio and garbage media like Infowars and @gatewaypundit for years and years. Republicans have made their bed with this sludge, now sleep in it.
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) April 2, 2020
News: US government has requested 100,000 body bags. Pentagon will draw some initially from stockpile of 50,000 it maintains, and is looking into buying more, sources tell @ACapaccio. Somber preparation as Trump officials project as many as 200k Americans may die of coronavirus.
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) April 1, 2020
re: #9 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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— (((IntheNumbers))) (@ItsNumbersMan) April 2, 2020
This is what happens when an entire political party is convinced that a pandemic virus is a liberal Democratic hoax. #GOPDeathCult https://t.co/CvNzWGLp3R
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) April 2, 2020
re: #12 Dread Pirate
And conservatives (yes I’m painting with a broad brush) will simultaneously deny all this is happening and claim Democrats did it.
George Orwell called it “doublethink”: The ability (for a conservative) to hold mutually-opposed opinions and believe both absolutely.
re: #14 teleskiguy
Not everyone who has the flu develops symptoms, and it’s true for SARS type viruses as well.
Very local news: My wife filled in an IRS Form 1040 today to make sure they get our address.
It doesn’t take very long to fill in the form with a whole bunch of zeros for taxable income.
You can have the symptoms of COVID-19 in Arizona, but you can’t get a test for love or money. It’s shameful as hell.
Train engineer arrested after attempting to run a train off tracks toward USNS Mercy
…When the CHP officer contacted Moreno, he allegedly made a series of spontaneous statements, including, “You only get this chance once. The whole world is watching. I had to. People don’t know what’s going on here. Now they will,” according to court papers.
In his first interview with port police, Moreno admitted crashing the train, saying he was suspicious of the Mercy and believed it had an alternate purpose related to COVID-19, such as a “government takeover,” according to prosecutors.
Moreno allegedly stated that he acted alone and had not pre-planned the attack. While admitting to intentionally derailing and crashing the train, he said he knew it would bring media attention and “people could see for themselves,” referring to the Mercy, according to the affidavit.
re: #19 Amory Blaine
I posted that on Facebook and one of my lawyer buddies from college remarked that there is a specific law against “train wrecking.” Yeah it’s terrorism.
Local man sues parody cow and mom alleging his reputation is worth something 🐮#ShutUpDevin https://t.co/cth3GfSiTf
— Devin Nunes’ cow 🐮 (@DevinCow) April 2, 2020
re: #14 teleskiguy
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Kemp should resign. A public official that goddamn stupid is a menace to public safety.
Hope you come back, Dr. Desai.
(Something tells me Dr. Desai won’t be asked back.) pic.twitter.com/dtDFzzcXUf— Jeffrey Wright (@jfreewright) April 2, 2020
re: #20 mmmirele
I posted that on Facebook and one of my lawyer buddies from college remarked that there is a specific law against “train wrecking.” Yeah it’s terrorism.
That’s what happened to the Missouri man who hijacked an Amtrak Sunset Limited train in eastern Nebraska. The douchecanoe was one of the people from the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville. His stated goal was to kill all the black people on board.
He was subdued by three train conductors; it took the sheriff’s department thirty minutes to arrive because real rural.
He was convicted of federal terrorism charges.
re: #14 teleskiguy
JFC, I recall reading about asymptomatic COVID-19 transmission in February. And this asshat ignoramus really said he just learned about it in the last 24 hours?
FFS.
re: #25 Dr Lizardo
JFC, I recall reading about asymptomatic COVID-19 transmission in February. And this asshat ignoramus really said he just learned about it in the last 24 hours?
FFS.
It’s hard to watch the news or read anything with one’s head that far up their own ass.
Anyone know what Cheddar is? I just noticed it is a new news channel on my fios lineup. Wondering if it is worth checking out? Interview with Scaramucci right now
re: #25 Dr Lizardo
JFC, I recall reading about asymptomatic COVID-19 transmission in February. And this asshat ignoramus really said he just learned about it in the last 24 hours?
FFS.
“Hecuba’s daughter” quoting CNN on LGF on JANUARY 21:
The nation’s top infectious disease doctor says a study published Thursday night shows people can spread the Wuhan coronavirus before symptoms set in.
There’s no doubt after reading this paper that asymptomatic transmission is occurring,” said Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases. “This study lays the question to rest.”
In the study, which was published in the New England Journal of Medicine, German researchers described four business associates who became infected through asymptomatic transmission.“They were in workshops together, they went to the company canteen together,” Dr. Camilla Rothe, an infectious disease specialist in Germany who co-authored the paper, told CNN.
A woman from Shanghai met with German business associates at a company near Munich on January 20. The Chinese woman was healthy during her visit to Germany.
Within eight days, four employees of that company were diagnosed with Wuhan coronavirus. None of them became seriously ill, but Fauci said there was concern that they would pass along the infection to someone who could develop life-threatening complications.
Chinese health authorities said earlier this week the Wuhan coronavirus could be spread while people were asymptomatic, but the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it had not seen evidence of that.
re: #28 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
So it was known about - or at least strongly suspected - since at least January of this year, shortly before the lockdown in Wuhan. And somehow, inexplicably, Gov. Kemp is publicly stating he only learned about this in the last 24 hours?
*ultimate facepalm of facepalms*
Conservatives still don’t understand higher math like addition.
Because those would be on top of the regular number of deaths, chowderhead.
Why would a country that has close to 3 million deaths per year need to “request 100,000 body bags” and then “draw initially from a stockpile” as if there’s a national shortage of body bags. You ppl really outdo yourselves trying to sensationalize this.
— Mike Slocumb (@mike_slocumb) April 1, 2020
re: #27 danarchy
Anyone know what Cheddar is? I just noticed it is a new news channel on my fios lineup. Wondering if it is worth checking out? Interview with Scaramucci right now
Cheddar is a financial channel. Founded by the guy who used to run BuzzFeed
re: #30 Dr Lizardo
So it was known about - or at least strongly suspected - since at least January of this year, shortly before the lockdown in Wuhan. And somehow, inexplicably, Gov. Kemp is publicly stating he only learned about this in the last 24 hours?
*ultimate facepalm of facepalms*
That’s because he is a conservative.
He lied. He didn’t “just learn about it in the last twenty-four hours” unless he’s been living in a sealed can.
Conservatives lie and kill their people throughout history, in every country where they gain and maintain power. Always.
re: #34 Anymouse 🌹🏡
That’s because he is a conservative.
He lied. He didn’t “just learn about it in the last twenty-four hours” unless he’s been living in a sealed can.
Conservatives lie and kill their people throughout history, in every country where they gain and maintain power. Always.
Just more proof that American Republicans have mutated into Soviet Communists.
“While anchors were on air calling the whole thing a hoax … we were having daily meetings on how to prepare for a 9/11-like scenario,” one Fox staffer told The Hollywood Reporter: https://t.co/OZa4PR8n3y
Yet, Fox watchers think *the rest* of the media is misleading them: https://t.co/gcqf6gBHxJ— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) April 2, 2020
re: #36 teleskiguy
That cut of two clips of Sean Hannity together is brutal; too bad conservative voters won’t see it.
re: #32 Anymouse 🌹🏡
Conservatives still don’t understand higher math like addition.
Because those would be on top of the regular number of deaths, chowderhead.
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Alaska update: Wednesday, 4/01/2020 1700:
New cases - 10
Total cases - 143
Deaths - 3 (No Change)
Juneau now at 10 (+1)
Unable to find any numbers on how many have been tested in Alaska.
re: #36 teleskiguy
LOL, “You work less than CBD oil.”
Anybody else remember the days of Jade Helm conspiracies when Alex Jones would claim President Obama had ordered 100k body bags? Yeah, thanks you right wing psycho f*ucks.
— 🌎☄️ (@BestButterCup) April 2, 2020
re: #40 Cheechako
Alaska update: Wednesday, 4/01/2020 1700:
New cases - 10
Total cases - 143
Deaths - 3 (No Change)Juneau now at 10 (+1)
Unable to find any numbers on how many have been tested in Alaska.
You can find them at DHSS Alaska.
dhss.alaska.gov
There is a chart about halfway down the page showing cumulative tests from state and commercial labs.
Alaska is way ahead of Nebraska.
re: #37 Dread Pirate
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I’m thankful that, in the last few days, my dad has seemingly stopped watching Faux News and spent most of his time off catching up on 15 years of The First 48.
re: #32 Anymouse 🌹🏡
Why would a country that has close to 3 million deaths per year need to “request 100,000 body bags” and then “draw initially from a stockpile” as if there’s a national shortage of body bags. You ppl really outdo yourselves trying to sensationalize this.
Because in normal times, people die at a rate that allows for them to be put into coffins.
The Cosmos is sending a comet for my birthday. Maybe very bright, maybe not.
It was detected by the automated near-Earth object system in Hawai’i when it was nearly 300,000,000 miles away.
Newfound Comet ATLAS is getting really bright, really fast (Space)
It is hoped by amateur astronomers and skywatchers this will break the twenty-five year drought of bright comets visible from the Northern Hemisphere.
In our latter years we’ll all sit back and remember the Great TP Shortage of 2020.
re: #43 Anymouse 🌹🏡
You can find them at DHSS Alaska.
dhss.alaska.govThere is a chart about halfway down the page showing cumulative tests from state and commercial labs.
Alaska is way ahead of Nebraska.
Thanks for the info - have it booked marked.
As far as cases go, on a per-capita basis, I think AK is ahead of NB.
re: #49 Dread Pirate
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re: #49 Dread Pirate
In our latter years we’ll all sit back and remember the Great TP Shortage of 2020.
A conversation from the year 2068:
“Grandpa, why do you like sitting outside so much?”
“Well sonny, because once - and not that long ago, it seems - it was illegal to be outside.”
re: #49 Dread Pirate
In our latter years we’ll all sit back and remember the Great TP Shortage of 2020.
“I fought in the Great Corona War of 2020. I was in the trenches the whole time, my trusty N95 mask on as I sanitized every surface within an inch of its life. Why, I remember the time I nearly died telling a guest that we had no coffee! You don’t know terror until you’ve seen a caffeine addict go cold turkey. The horror…the horror…”
Scoop: Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu shared with his cabinet a video he claimed was evidence of Iran concealing coronavirus deaths by dropping bodies in garbage dumps. Hours later, his office realized it was actually a clip from a 2007 Hallmark mini-serieshttps://t.co/IkTpIfzfOl
— Axios (@axios) April 1, 2020
It’s like conservatives don’t realize that their countries actually have professional intelligence services.
Or did, before the conservatives took over. https://t.co/0Ei6kgJG7Y— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) April 1, 2020
Earlier today, WWII veteran Bill Lapschies’ family carried balloons, cake and signs outside the Edward C. Allworth Veterans’ Home in Lebanon, Oregon, to celebrate his 104th birthday. It’s been 19 days since he last had symptoms of COVID-19.https://t.co/ZpUGBZY8M7
— VoteVets (@votevets) April 2, 2020
re: #54 Targetpractice
“… You don’t know terror until you’ve seen a caffeine addict go cold turkey. The horror…the horror…”
I’ve tried that a coupla times and it was the worst withdrawal of my entire life…
re: #55 Anymouse 🌹🏡
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So is that they realized their mistake and fixed it themselves…or got caught and came up with this BS excuse how they didn’t realize that the clip was from a movie?
re: #58 Targetpractice
So is that they realized their mistake and fixed it themselves…or got caught and came up with this BS excuse how they didn’t realize that the clip was from a movie?
The persons responsible were severely promoted.
re: #54 Targetpractice
“I fought in the Great Corona War of 2020. I was in the trenches the whole time, my trusty N95 mask on as I sanitized every surface within an inch of its life. Why, I remember the time I nearly died telling a guest that we had no coffee! You don’t know terror until you’ve seen a caffeine addict go cold turkey. The horror…the horror…”
We barricaded ourselves in our homes as we prepared to fight the Second Battle of Rush Creek. Instead of Native Americans, tens of thousands of cattle prepared to storm and burn the town.
The horror of bovine wave after wave swarming across the river to attack and burn along the North Platte.
re: #58 Targetpractice
So is that they realized their mistake and fixed it themselves…or got caught and came up with this BS excuse how they didn’t realize that the clip was from a movie?
From the Axios article:
According to two ministers who were on the call, Netanyahu said his national security adviser, Meir Ben-Shabbat, had shown him the video.
Many of the ministers asked to watch the video, and Netanyahu asked his national security adviser to send it to the entire Cabinet.
The video had been shared by Iranians on social media over the last week, and it was passed on to Netanyahu without any confirmation of its authenticity.The prime minister’s office didn’t deny this account. It said the video had only been sent to three Cabinet ministers who requested it and were told it came from social media and its authenticity was unclear.
re: #61 Anymouse 🌹🏡
From the Axios article:
Well, I guess it’s a good thing that nobody of any importance saw this before it was authenticated.
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BREAKING: Treasury now says Social Security recipients who don’t normally file tax returns will NOT have to file to get the $1,200 check.
Treasury reversed course after pressure from Democrats, some Republicans and media/advocates. pic.twitter.com/rnHECLm01L— Heather Long (@byHeatherLong) April 1, 2020
Let’s see how many actually go to jail, though.
North Carolina Insiders Risk Criminal Probe After Exposure to Sen. Burr (Barron’s, by Howard Fischer, a former SEC investigator)
Viruses are not the only danger that spreads by contact. Members of the Tar Heel Circle, an organization of “influential North Carolinians” that advertises its special access to “top leaders and staff from Congress, the administration, and the private sector,” may soon find that potential civil and criminal exposure has reached them after their close contact with a prominent elected official.
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re: #63 Anymouse 🌹🏡
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It’s good to know that, in this time of crisis, our government can still be trusted to fuck up seemingly simple tasks in truly royal fashion.
re: #65 Targetpractice
It’s good to know that, in this time of crisis, our government can still be trusted to fuck up seemingly simple tasks in truly royal fashion.
I don’t receive Social Security, but with no taxable income I fit into that category.
Our tax form is already filled in, so I will mail it tomorrow anyway, since it’s the IRS which is managing this.
Well, that one is out of commission for the foreseeable future.
Nearly 3,000 sailors to leave carrier amid virus outbreak (AP)
re: #61 Anymouse 🌹🏡
The prime minister’s office didn’t deny this account. It said the video had only been sent to three Cabinet ministers who requested it and were told it came from social media and its authenticity was unclear.
basing national security on social media
I truly despair for the fate of the human race
re: #68 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
basing national security on social media
I truly despair for the fate of the human race
I can see Twitter and Facebook launching private intelligence services. 1/2
re: #8 Belafon
Something else that is impossible to find right now is a webcam.
Yup. I think that I accidentally got the last Razor Kiyo in the Amazon system. Can’t say I am impressed either. Spent the last week trying to get it to broadcast into OBS Studio without success. Plus it has a ring light and when that is on, it is like looking at the eye of sauron.
You might want to try brick and morter electronics shops to see if they still have any logitechs around.
(video, 1:55)
Kelly Rihn, Gold Star Daughter of U.S. Army SP4 Joel Coleman, talks about honoring her dad and how The Wall has helped her heal. She says the network she has now is a gift. Her dad lost his life in 1966. Today is his birthday. https://t.co/rqkCbQJ3v9 pic.twitter.com/P0rtQXLjr9
— Vietnam Vet Memorial (@VVMF) March 31, 2020
Those still needing tp might check out Industrial Cleaning Supply places. Many are still open and some will sell to the general public. The downside is you probably have to buy a carton of 60, 80, 96 rolls. Which is likely a 6-12 month supply of tp for one person.
In the Washington DC region at least some Daycon warehouses will do this.
re: #69 Anymouse 🌹🏡
I can see Twitter and Facebook launching private intelligence services. 1/2
21st century Pinkertons
re: #67 Anymouse 🌹🏡
Well, that one is out of commission for the foreseeable future.
Nearly 3,000 sailors to leave carrier amid virus outbreak (AP)
IOW, at least as large a loss as a torpedo hit might cause….
re: #72 ckkatz
Those still needing tp might check out Industrial Cleaning Supply places. Many are still open and some will sell to the general public. The downside is you probably have to buy a carton of 60, 80, 96 rolls. Which is likely a 6-12 month supply of tp for one person.
In the Washington DC region at least some Daycon warehouses will do this.
The only one around here is Bluffs Sanitary Supply in Scottsbluff. I’m not sure whether you can actually walk in and buy stuff. I know the village has them deliver stuff to the village hall, and they have a Website to order massive amounts of toilet paper.
They also have this on their main page:
PLEASE UNDERSTAND THAT ANY ORDERS FOR CLOROX ITEMS, DISINFECTANT SPRAYS, OR HAND SANITIZERS WILL NOT BE FILLED AT THIS TIME!
PLEASE CALL US AT[no phone numbers allowed] WITH QUESTIONS ABOUT AVAILABILITY.Practice Social Distancing
Wash your hands for 20 seconds often
Drink warm liquids
Eat a balanced diet
Get plenty of rest
Stay safe during this unprecedented time!
And. Here. We. Go.
Residents in a region of central China have been ordered back into their homes and are only being allowed to leave with a special permit, over fears of a second wave of COVID-19 in the region.
The South China Morning Post has reported that about 600,000 people have been affected by the sudden lockdown in Jia county in the Henan province, adjacent to the Hubei province where the virus originated in December.
The Hong Kong-based newspaper said all businesses - except supermarkets, hospitals, food markets, petrol stations, pharmacies and hotels - had been closed.
And local authorities had put in place curfew-like measures.
Only people with special permits are being allowed to go to work, and these residents must have their temperatures taken before they leave the house and wear face masks once outside.
Here’s the original article from the South China Morning Post: scmp.com
Shit. Then again, a second wave has been widely predicted by epidemiologists.
re: #67 Anymouse 🌹🏡
Well, that one is out of commission for the foreseeable future.
Nearly 3,000 sailors to leave carrier amid virus outbreak (AP)
“President Trump has characterized the federal government’s efforts to address the COVID-19 outbreak as a ‘war’ that he is intent on winning.
In related news, the USS Theodore Roosevelt was effectively put out of commission when the crew needed to be evacuated after 200 seamen tested positive for the COVID-19 virus. The carrier has been evacuated and will undergo sanitation efforts to remove all traces of the virus. No word when it will be returning to service or if another carrier will take its place.”
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re: #76 Anymouse 🌹🏡
The only one around here is Bluffs Sanitary Supply in Scottsbluff. I’m not sure whether you can actually walk in and buy stuff. I know the village has them deliver stuff to the village hall, and they have a Website to order massive amounts of toilet paper.
They also have this on their main page:
Looks like they also list paper towels. But, as you point out, a lot of the sanitizing and sterilizing materials are out of stock everywhere.
Which reminds me, I should plan on a trip to the Catoctin Creek distillery to get some aloe flavored everclear, I mean hand sanitizer.
re: #78 Targetpractice
“President Trump has characterized the federal government’s efforts to address the COVID-19 outbreak as a ‘war’ that he is intent on winning.
I guess he figures that bombing Teheran would be the modern-day equivalent of the Doolitle Raid on Tokyo…
re: #67 Anymouse 🌹🏡
Well, that one is out of commission for the foreseeable future.
Nearly 3,000 sailors to leave carrier amid virus outbreak (AP)
Didn’t you see Battleship? Recruit a half dozen old farts and a female Sea Scout and you can get that thing to sea and work at least one successful cat shot.
Here comes another winter storm system. Spring is still on hold.
re: #81 Decatur Deb
Didn’t you see Battleship? Recruit a half dozen old farts and a female Sea Scout and you can get that thing to sea and work at least one successful cat shot.
Didn’t you see Red Dawn? Just draft the militias and send them into service!
re: #83 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Didn’t you see Red Dawn? Just draft the militias and send them into service!
We need them to protect the Northern border from the RCMP.
Ugh:
Overnight
Freezing drizzle likely, mainly before 4am. Cloudy, with a steady temperature around 28. North wind around 15 mph.
Thursday
Snow likely, possibly mixed with freezing drizzle, mainly after 5pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 30. Blustery, with a north wind 15 to 20 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New ice accumulation of less than a 0.1 of an inch possible. New snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible.
Thursday Night
Snow likely, mainly before 9pm. Cloudy during the early evening, then gradual clearing, with a low around 15. Northwest wind 10 to 15 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New snow accumulation of less than one inch possible.
Friday
Sunny, with a high near 40. Northwest wind 10 to 15 mph becoming light and variable.
re: #85 Anymouse 🌹🏡
We are going to 46 in the next couple hours. That will be our lowest temp until Dec.
Our local political activist groups have gone totally silent in the last week. I hate to intrude on anyone’s panic and real-world problems, but we need to start thinking about how to bump-start actions for the Nov campaigns. I will try a few emails, but I know some of us are fucked job-wise.
re: #87 Decatur Deb
Our local political activist groups have gone totally silent in the last week. I hate to intrude on anyone’s panic and real-world problems, but we need to start thinking about how to bump-start actions for the Nov campaigns. I will try a few emails, but I know some of us are fucked job-wise.
We don’t really have political activists groups around here. I am going to get involved later in the year with “Postcards to Voters” programme.
A state senator: The courthouse — w/50 folks home in quarantine — needs to close. Too many officials are hoping rather than acting in the face of a virus that doesn’t yield to hope.
A public defender was more succinct: “It is time to stop f@#%&*g around.” https://t.co/o57SCjNVvr— Todd Cooper (@CooperOnCourts) April 1, 2020
“In another courtroom, a defense attorney was urged to go home after he sweated and coughed his way through a conversation. ‘Can’t,’ responded the attorney, a solo practitioner. ‘Don’t have health insurance.’” https://t.co/UKqHVZ7paJ
— Senator Megan Hunt (@NebraskaMegan) April 2, 2020
re: #88 Anymouse 🌹🏡
We don’t really have political activists groups around here. I am going to get involved later in the year with “Postcards to Voters” programme.
We have several communities in an overlapping coalition. Yankees/Civil-Rights era Blacks/LBGT/Religous Left/even Freethinkers. It’s very hard to hold together in the best of times. The State Dem party has been gnawing on its own leg for the last couple years.
re: #90 Decatur Deb
We have several communities in an overlapping coalition. Yankees/Civil-Rights era Blacks/LBGT/Religous Left/even Freethinkers. It’s very hard to hold together in the best of times. The State Dem party has been gnawing on its own leg for the last couple years.
Our state Democratic Party has been getting their crap together since Jane Kleeb took over.
This is disgusting. Kelly Loeffler sold even more stock than we thought after her private Coronavirus briefing- nearly $19 million.
How much PPE would that buy?
She would know- she took money out of retail & INVESTED IN A COMPANY THAT MAKES PPE.
https://t.co/N5AvUEpP7v— Katie Hill (@KatieHill4CA) April 1, 2020
re: #91 Anymouse 🌹🏡
Our state Democratic Party has been getting their crap together since Jane Kleeb took over.
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We have at least two factions that spend all their time and money trying to sue each other out of existence. And we need to re-elect Doug Jones in the face of that.
re: #92 Decatur Deb
We have at least two factions that spend all their time and money trying to sue each other out of existence. And we need to re-elect Doug Jones in the face of that.
The only thing you have going for you with Senator Jones is it seems the GOP is at each other’s throat as well.
The CDC has approved our protocol to decontaminate and reuse N95 masks using UV light. Many hospitals around the country are adopting this procedure to stretch the thin supply of masks. Great story by @JoeChiodo of @KCTV5 in Kansas City about how it works. https://t.co/E9MD0886YK
— Nebraska Medicine (@NebraskaMed) April 1, 2020
re: #93 Anymouse 🌹🏡
The only thing you have going for you with Senator Jones is it seems the GOP is at each other’s throat as well.
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With any luck they’ll make Coach Tuberville the candidate. He’s no Roy Moore, but he might be stupid enough to beat if Trump creates enough national revulsion.
re: #94 Decatur Deb
With any luck they’ll make Coach Tuberville the candidate. He’s no Roy Moore, but he might be stupid enough to beat if Trump creates enough national revulsion.
You could get Roy Moore again.
re: #95 Anymouse 🌹🏡
You could get Roy Moore again.
Too late. He bombed out in the first GOP primary, leaving a moron and a plausible (Sessions) for the virus-delayed run-off. They will probably pick the retired Auburn coach.
This cat waving a passerby is the only thing you need to see today 😊pic.twitter.com/KhMxL4zLii
— Akki (@akkitwts) March 18, 2020
Things are getting tight around here.
Sidney Regional Moves to Essential Staffing (Goes to the Sidney, Nebr. Sun-Telegraph)
Sidney Regional Medical Center (SRMC) announced recently the move to “essential staffing” as a precautionary measure.
Essential staffing is a general definition for reducing staff to only those needed during emergent situations, yet being able to provide patient care. The decision to decrease non-essential personnel at this time was made through consulting with the medical staff and the Panhandle Public Health District (PPHD).
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When quarantine is taking its toll🙄
(laylathechocolab / IG) pic.twitter.com/HXjzvp0Bpn— The Puppies Club (@thepuppiesclub) April 1, 2020
Just looking through the local newspapers’ obituary pages, notice after notice says “services will be held at a later date” due to the ban on gatherings larger than ten people.
The same is happening in my family from my aunt’s death a couple weeks ago in Michigan.
One of the times people want to get together (a funeral service) to grieve, they cannot.
Weld County started April with more than 300 positive cases of coronavirus and a death count at 13, according to numbers released Wednesday evening from the county health department.The Weld County Department of Health and Environment reported a total of 331 cases of the rapidly spreading virus, which led to a worldwide health crisis.
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Weld County Goes Over 300 Coronavirus Cases, 13 Deaths Countywide from Covid-19 (Greeley, Colo. Tribune)
I was going to go on a spring break trip to NYC with my daughter’s high school band today. https://t.co/JePqHSb0xc
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) April 2, 2020
re: #102 NO SMOCKING GUN!
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I’d had plans to take a week’s vacation in May. Doesn’t look like that’s gonna happen now.
re: #103 Targetpractice
I’d had plans to take a week’s vacation in May. Doesn’t look like that’s gonna happen now.
Ditto with our trip to Canada and Germany. I would have spent my birthday in Germany.
Well, we might still get a comet for that.
In legend, comets are often harbingers of disaster. I’d say we have one of those now.
North Carolina has delivered a very clean public information portal. And all the info displayed in a daily update pdf flyer
Pretty striking is that 43% of their identified COVID-19 patients are in the 25-49 yo age group
COVID-19 North Carolina Dashboard
Daily flyer
re: #103 Targetpractice
I’d had plans to take a week’s vacation in May. Doesn’t look like that’s gonna happen now.
Over here, I’d say the tourist high-season is finished. Prague’s gonna take a big hit as result, as well as other popular tourist destinations like Česky Krumlov and Telč.
Who knows? Maybe next year we’ll see a mini-boom, as pent-up demand is unlocked. Of course, that would depend greatly on the worldwide economic situation as well - a lot of tourists to Czech Republic tend to come not only from other countries in Europe, but we get a ton of tourists each and every year from China, South Korea and Japan (also, we’ve been seeing more tourists from Vietnam over the last three years).
On the other hand, if the global economy sinks into Great Depression levels, yeah…..then all bets are off.
My cousin shared a picture of a newborn calf from her farm - reminding me that springtime & new life continues on… pic.twitter.com/Op6lJRTQnK
— Senator Kate Bolz (@katejbolz) April 1, 2020
State Senator Kate Bolz is running against Rep. Don Baker (R-NE2) for his seat if you want to throw a couple Soros Bux her way.
re: #102 NO SMOCKING GUN!
I was going to go on a spring break trip to NYC with my daughter’s high school band today
Feel for ya.
I will not get to see my kids next week at Easter (and son’s 14th birthday) because they live with their mom in France and the border is closed…
re: #25 Dr Lizardo
JFC, I recall reading about asymptomatic COVID-19 transmission in February. And this asshat ignoramus really said he just learned about it in the last 24 hours?
FFS.
news is delayed getting into Georgia
re: #106 Dr Lizardo
We’re likely to see a mini-baby boom …
re: #109 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)
news is delayed getting into Georgia
It’s insane isn’t it? Kemp is what I call a Trump Governor. Someone who owes their high office to Trump. It’s what makes Kemp, Ivey, DeSanittis, & Reeves different from Hogan, Baker, & DeWine.
— Bodega Cats (@Bodegacats_) April 1, 2020
In the category of “conservatism kills”:
‘Shoot them dead’ — Philippine leader says won’t tolerate lockdown violators (CNBC)
Key points:
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has warned violators of coronavirus lockdown measures they could be shot for causing trouble and said abuse of medical workers was a serious crime that would not be tolerated.
The Philippines has recorded 96 coronavirus deaths and 2,311 confirmed cases, all but three in the past three weeks, with infections now being reported in the hundreds every day.
The national police chief on Thursday said police understood that Duterte was demonstrating his seriousness about public order, and no one would be shot.
BREAKING: Spain sees a new daily record of coronavirus deaths, with 950 victims in 24 hours. Total fatalities since the crisis began now exceed 10,000 https://t.co/hJPYa0c2cc
— El País English Edition (@elpaisinenglish) April 2, 2020
#CoronaVirusUpdate 🇩🇪
JUST IN: Positive news from Germany, rate of new cases slowed for 5th day, rising by less than 10% from one day to next
Last 24 hours - 6,156 new cases taking total infections to 73,522
Death rate stands at 1.2% much lower than many other EU countries— Darren McCaffrey (@DarrenEuronews) April 2, 2020
UK coronavirus death toll rises by 563 in biggest day-on-day increase, bringing total to 2,352https://t.co/PR8ac0xGz3 pic.twitter.com/lqtEExJ8rl
— ITV News (@itvnews) April 1, 2020
re: #112 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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Oh me? I’m just chilling on some boxes thinking about how I’m going to get the cats of the world and storm Jeff Lowe’s zoo like the Bastile.
—U.S. death rate increased ~33% today due purely to #COVID19
—NY: 7,900 more cases, 83,900 total
—NY: 4.3/1,000 residents confirmed
—NY: 505 more residents died today alone
—NY: 2,200 residents dead, 43% of total 2/https://t.co/spkvgG0VpQ— Charles Gaba (@charles_gaba) April 2, 2020
re: #109 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)
news is delayed getting into Georgia
Or, of course, he is lying out his ass.
Odd, there is a crew outside mowing grass and trimming. Hard to see that as “essential” though I can see how it can done while maintaining social distancing.
This fellow debunks a whole string of myths (lies):
Myth: Cancel your newspaper home delivery. You can catch COVID from contaminated paper.
Truth: Just wash your hands and make sure the paper is giving you accurate balanced news.
Cancel it if it’s sensationalizing the facts; not because of a perceived COVID risk.— Faheem Younus, MD (@FaheemYounus) April 1, 2020
re: #70 ckkatz
Yup. I think that I accidentally got the last Razor Kiyo in the Amazon system. Can’t say I am impressed either. Spent the last week trying to get it to broadcast into OBS Studio without success. Plus it has a ring light and when that is on, it is like looking at the eye of sauron.
You might want to try brick and morter electronics shops to see if they still have any logitechs around.
I’ve been looking at the places around here that are online, Best Buy, Target, Office Depot/Max, Walmart, Fry’s, Staples, and none of them have one in the Metroplex.
After that string of cheery news I just posted, I’m going to go hide in bed. Catch y’all later.
BREAKING: Panic in White House as scientists confirm loss of taste could be symptom of COVID-19 pic.twitter.com/h5y6PFTOmv
— The Poke (@ThePoke) April 2, 2020
re: #14 teleskiguy
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“any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice”
— ashley williams (@ag_dubs) April 1, 2020
The level of incompetence shown by that governor is easily at the level where it deserves criminal prosecution, if not more extreme action.
But I’m going to try to avoid recommending violence while people need to be physically distancing themselves.
re: #72 ckkatz
Those still needing tp might check out Industrial Cleaning Supply places. Many are still open and some will sell to the general public. The downside is you probably have to buy a carton of 60, 80, 96 rolls. Which is likely a 6-12 month supply of tp for one person.
In the Washington DC region at least some Daycon warehouses will do this.
Maybe look at WW Grainger if they’re still shipping if you can’t find anything local.
6.6 million unemployment claims THIS WEEK.
6.6 MILLION.
Don’t know if the immunity certificate is true… And yes “Papiere Bitte” does have an unsavory history.
Ich weiß nicht, ob vorgeschriebene Papiere in Deutschland eine gute Idee sind. https://t.co/nA2ABWECm6
— Russian Active Measure (@EmilyGorcenski) March 30, 2020
re: #117 Anymouse 🌹🏡
Trumpists like Brit Hume are going on about how the NY death toll is conflating and inflating deaths by attributing anything and everything to covid19. The US now has over 1250 Benghazis worth of deaths thanks to covid19. Since Benghazi is the only thing the GOP seems to give a shit about when not trying to strip away women’s right to abortion or redistribute wealth to rich from everyone else via tax cuts, or denying people their right to vote, it makes sense to frame the death toll in a context they care about.
I know that’s a bit flip and insensitive to those who are actually dying from this, but it’s killing people all across the globe and especially here in the US where we’re seeing people of all ages and health statuses dying of this. Influential artists, doctors, and servicemembers are dead. EMTs, transit workers, janitors, and retirees. Nursing home residents and leading members of the community.
It doesn’t give a crap about your politics, only that it spreads easily and states that are trying to self-isolate are going to have a better time of it the sooner they do so than those that aren’t. I keep seeing how FL and GA are in a race to see which one will have the most idiotic take out of this, and while FL is leading, GA is closing the gap.
No word on when FL is closing its border to GA residents, because there’s all kinds of evidence that there’s a hotspot along the border. DeSantis is more concerned about NYers flying in than the GA or AL resident coughing and hacking up a lung as he drives along the back roads to and from his friends over the border.
re: #129 lawhawk
Trumpists like Brit Hume are going on about how the NY death toll is conflating and inflating deaths by attributing anything and everything to covid19. The US now has over 1250 Benghazis worth of deaths thanks to covid19. Since Benghazi is the only thing the GOP seems to give a shit about when not trying to strip away women’s right to abortion or redistribute wealth to rich from everyone else via tax cuts, or denying people their right to vote, it makes sense to frame the death toll in a context they care about.
I know that’s a bit flip and insensitive to those who are actually dying from this, but it’s killing people all across the globe and especially here in the US where we’re seeing people of all ages and health statuses dying of this. Influential artists, doctors, and servicemembers are dead. EMTs, transit workers, janitors, and retirees. Nursing home residents and leading members of the community.
It doesn’t give a crap about your politics, only that it spreads easily and states that are trying to self-isolate are going to have a better time of it the sooner they do so than those that aren’t. I keep seeing how FL and GA are in a race to see which one will have the most idiotic take out of this, and while FL is leading, GA is closing the gap.
No word on when FL is closing its border to GA residents, because there’s all kinds of evidence that there’s a hotspot along the border. DeSantis is more concerned about NYers flying in than the GA or AL resident coughing and hacking up a lung as he drives along the back roads to and from his friends over the border.
What excuse number are we up to now, to shield Dear Leader from any consequences for the spread of the virus and the deaths?
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any more stories about British tobacco developing a vaccine or was that another April Fool?
I have to say that the tradition really fell flat this year.
Or I might have posted that it was a genetic engineering firm in Milan that came up with the vaccine.
Name of the company?
Genitalia
Interesting chart. It argues that a Czech requirement for everybody to wear masks effectively and significantly reduced the rate or Covid-19 infection there:
Impact of masks on a log plot: After 2 weeks about 2X. Look at the case rate/death rate in the US, divide by 2: We could have had 100,000 cases less, 2,500 deaths less.@nntaleb https://t.co/xNNcEQA3sD
— Yaneer Bar-Yam (@yaneerbaryam) April 2, 2020
re: #57 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
It’s the headaches. OMG the headaches.
re: #93 Anymouse 🌹🏡
The only thing you have going for you with Senator Jones is it seems the GOP is at each other’s throat as well.
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How does this unplug the general dust that plugs up the little square thing that you breathe through? It doesn’t. This may “cleanse” the mask of the virus particulates but it isn’t something that makes the mask functional to be used again. Those things are wearable for like four hours before they’re plugged up and you can’t breathe any longer.
What’s saddest to me is I don’t believe anything that’s coming out of the CDC anymore.
re: #129 lawhawk
Trumpists like Brit Hume are going on about how the NY death toll is conflating and inflating deaths by attributing anything and everything to covid19. The US now has over 1250 Benghazis worth of deaths thanks to covid19. Since Benghazi is the only thing the GOP seems to give a shit about when not trying to strip away women’s right to abortion or redistribute wealth to rich from everyone else via tax cuts, or denying people their right to vote, it makes sense to frame the death toll in a context they care about.
I know that’s a bit flip and insensitive to those who are actually dying from this, but it’s killing people all across the globe and especially here in the US where we’re seeing people of all ages and health statuses dying of this. Influential artists, doctors, and servicemembers are dead. EMTs, transit workers, janitors, and retirees. Nursing home residents and leading members of the community.
It doesn’t give a crap about your politics, only that it spreads easily and states that are trying to self-isolate are going to have a better time of it the sooner they do so than those that aren’t. I keep seeing how FL and GA are in a race to see which one will have the most idiotic take out of this, and while FL is leading, GA is closing the gap.
No word on when FL is closing its border to GA residents, because there’s all kinds of evidence that there’s a hotspot along the border. DeSantis is more concerned about NYers flying in than the GA or AL resident coughing and hacking up a lung as he drives along the back roads to and from his friends over the border.
The whole “Oh it’s just New York and or California” attitude that many of these have pisses me the fuck off. New Yorkers are still Americans despite the propaganda that FNC loves to feed to their asshole viewers who love to thumb their noses on them. And this of course was the same network that exploited New York’s 9/11 experience to attack the patriotism of those woh opposed the Bush doctrine and Islamophobia. Brit Hume can kiss my ass and I hope FNC is discredited as a result of how they acted during this pandenmic. Scumbags from the top down.
re: #133 plansbandc
It’s the headaches. OMG the headaches.
IMO, some of the withdrawal symptoms of caffeine are on par with the withdrawal symptoms of nicotine.
Video related:
Someone on Twitter linked to this piece by David Roth on The Baffler. It’s from 2017 (right after Charlottesville), but I went back and read it again because Roth had Trump absolutely pegged.
To understand Trump is also to understand his appeal as an aspirational brand to the worst people in the United States. What his intransigent admirers like most about him—the thing they aspire to, in their online cosplay sessions and their desperately thirsty performances for a media they loathe and to which they are so helplessly addicted—is his freedom to be unconcerned with anything but himself. This is not because he is rich or brave or astute; it’s because he is an asshole, and so authentically unconcerned. The howling and unreflective void at his core will keep him lonely and stupid until the moment a sufficient number of his vital organs finally resign in disgrace, but it liberates him to devote every bit of his being to his pursuit of himself. Actual hate and actual love, as other people feel them, are too complicated to fit into this world. In their place, for Trump and for the people who see in him a way of being that they are too busy or burdened or humane to pursue, are the versions that exist in a lower orbit, around the self. Instead of hate, there is simple resentment—abject and valueless and recursively self-pitying; instead of love, there is the blank sucking nullity of vanity and appetite.
This is what an asshole is, and lord knows Trump is not the only one in his business, or our culture, who insistently bends every incident or issue back towards his sour and jealous self. Some of the people who do this even care at some level about the broader world, but because they are assholes believe that the solution to that world’s problems lies in paying more attention to one particular asshole and his or her ideas. Trump is not one of those people. The rest of the world is an abstraction to him, a market to exploit; there is no other person in it who is real to him. They’re all supplicants or subjects, fans or haters, but their humanity is transparently not part of the equation. What other people might want, or indeed the fact that they could want at all, is crowded out of the picture by the corroded and corrosive bulk of his horrible self.
There is no room for other people in the world that Trump has made for himself, and this is fundamental to the anxiety of watching him impose his claustrophobic and airless interior world on our own. Is Trump a racist? Yes, because that’s a default setting for stupid people; also, he transparently has no regard for other people at all. Does Trump care about the cheap-looking statue of Stonewall Jackson that some forgotten Dixiecrat placed in a shithole park somewhere he will never visit? Not really, but he so resents the fact that other people expect him to care that he develops a passionate contrary opinion out of spite. Does he even know about … Let me stop you there. The answer is no.
The answer is always no, and it will always be no because he does not care. Every lie, every evasion, every massive and blithely issued shock to the conscience Trump authors will only ever be about him. He will never be embarrassed by any of these things, because he cannot understand anyone’s response to them except as it relates to him. Slavery? That’s another thing that his very dishonest enemies want to blame him for. Racism? He’s been accused of it, and honestly it’s so ridiculous, so ridiculous. History? He’s in the business of making it, baby. Violence? Not his fault. People protesting? He doesn’t know them.
Also - look at the photo on that page and tell me that Preznit Junk Food hasn’t picked up 2 or 3 suit sizes since then.
re: #135 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
The whole “Oh it’s just New York and or California” attitude that many of these have pisses me the fuck off. New Yorkers are still Americans despite the propaganda that FNC loves to feed to their asshole viewers who love to thumb their noses on them. And this of course was the same network that exploited New York’s 9/11 experience to attack the patriotism of those woh opposed the Bush doctrine and Islamophobia. Brit Hume can kiss my ass and I hope FNC is discredited as a result of how they acted during this pandenmic. Scumbags from the top down.
1. It’s a hoax
2. It’s just like the flu
3. It’s Obama’s fault.
4. It’s Biden’s fault.
5. The death numbers are inflated.
6. There’s nobody at the hospitals, crisis is fake
7. The Impeachment got in his eyes
8. Democrats didn’t warn us either
9. Trump is doing great
10. Trump always took it seriously.
11. The stockpiles were depleted.
12. It’s only in NYC and CA.
13. Governors are blowing it, need to buy their own stuff.
14. Not Federal Government responsibility, not a shipping clerk.
15. Trump was just being positive
16. The models are wrong it’s all really not that bad.
17. We might have had 18 million dead like in H1N1 but Trump banned flights from China so we’re good.
18. Close the borders.
19. Trump inherited an obsolete system.
20. Testing drivethrus at Walgreens
21. My Pillow guy
22. At least Trump sent Rush an autograph of the stock market increase the day after his Walgreens dog and pony show so there’s that
re: #133 plansbandc
It’s the headaches. OMG the headaches.
I was doing my caffeine withdrawal at a friends house, he has a collection of literally thousands of DVD’s lining the walls from all eras and genres, but I spent all afternoon just flipping through the remote because I could not be bothered to get up to fetch one, and besides, I did not have the concentration to watch a whole film in one go…
Unemployment claims nearly doubled from a week ago. And next week is likely to be even worse than this week. pic.twitter.com/A1k9RSDy0g
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) April 2, 2020
The Trump induced cataclysmic collapse continues. Next week is likely to see even more file for unemployment insurance. 10 million jobs vaporized in 2 weeks. Many of them will be out of work for months, because the companies they work for will no longer exist thanks to Trump’s incompetence in dealing with the crisis at the outset. Every day of delay was a day lost trying to contain covid19.
Howie Forman is indicating that SK is continuing to test more than 10,000 a day to hold on to the hard fought containment of covid19 there. We’re testing nowhere near as many people on a per capita basis in a bunch of states compared to what they’re doing in containment.
Aggressive testing works. It saves lives.
South Korea tested 10K today. At this low level of outbreak, this is remarkable. They remain aggressive in testing, identifying cases, & contact tracing. We need to prepare for this, if we want to get back to a new normal. 2/2 pic.twitter.com/EdlfxGIVeU
— (((Howard Forman))) (@thehowie) April 2, 2020
Trump fucked all of this up, and Fox continues to spew an endless series of excuses for the rising body count. Trying to frame any of this as a win if we keep the death toll under 100,000, let alone 1 million is bugnuts insane. It never had to get to this point.
Trump’s complete and total failure and refusal to listen and implement the health experts advice is costing everyone dearly. His actions had the exact opposite effect - it vaporized the economy instead of stabilizing it. He could not have done any more damage had he tried.
re: #138 Sir John Barron
23. chloroquine, you forgot his “miracle cure”
re: #138 Sir John Barron
1. It’s a hoax
2. It’s just like the flu
3. It’s Obama’s fault.
4. It’s Biden’s fault.
5. The death numbers are inflated.
6. There’s nobody at the hospitals, crisis is fake
7. The Impeachment got in his eyes
8. Democrats didn’t warn us either
9. Trump is doing great
10. Trump always took it seriously.
11. The stockpiles were depleted.
12. It’s only in NYC and CA.
13. Governors are blowing it, need to buy their own stuff.
14. Not Federal Government responsibility, not a shipping clerk.
15. Trump was just being positive
16. The models are wrong it’s all really not that bad.
17. We might have had 18 million dead like in H1N1 but Trump banned flights from China so we’re good.
18. Close the borders.
19. Trump inherited an obsolete system.
20. Testing drivethrus at Walgreens
21. My Pillow guy
22. At least Trump sent Rush an autograph of the stock market increase the day after his Walgreens dog and pony show so there’s that
There are so many people in this world whose hot takes I never want to hear again after this.
re: #142 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
There are so many people in this world whose hot takes I never want to hear again after this.
but you will…
In Swedish CoViD-19 news, Karolinska University Hospital is to begin trials with plasma from people who’ve recovered from CoViD-19:
dagensmedicin.se
re: #110 Anymouse 🌹🏡
We’re likely to see a mini-baby boom …
People without kids: “Huh? Why? What does being a first child have to do with anything?”
People with kids: “I feel seen.”— Winston Chang (@winston_chang) March 25, 2020
Trump is setting some impressive records. Worst stock market quarter ever! Ten million jobs vaporized in two weeks! And Trump is #1 on Facebook (whoops, that one is false)!
re: #145 sagehen
People without kids: “Huh? Why? What does being a first child have to do with anything?”
a lot. with our first-born, I had time (and patience) to hang out and twiddle my thumbs and wait while she learned to button her coat and tie her shoes on her own, by the time kids 2 - 4 came along, there was just not enough time in the day to wait for everyone…
re: #143 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
but you will…
Of course I will. What I want and what I’ll get are two different things.
re: #121 Belafon
I’ve been looking at the places around here that are online, Best Buy, Target, Office Depot/Max, Walmart, Fry’s, Staples, and none of them have one in the Metroplex.
I just checked B&H, Adorama, NewEgg and BuyDig. And those are all out until at least the end of April. Newegg claims to have the Logitech 922 for $200 through ‘Corn Electronics’, close to twice the list price. But I did not click to see if it actually is in stock.
Maybe get a cheap laptop or smart phone and somehow connect and use that camera?
re: #146 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Trump is setting some impressive records. Worst stock market quarter ever! Ten million jobs vaporized in two weeks! And Trump is #1 on Facebook (whoops, that one is false)!
The arguments I am hearing is that this is a “black swan” and “no leader could possibly do everything right”.
This is a dire situation, but it is not like we did not have a warning period.
and as for the rest…we have no leadership in this crisis.
re: #100 Anymouse 🌹🏡
Just looking through the local newspapers’ obituary pages, notice after notice says “services will be held at a later date” due to the ban on gatherings larger than ten people.
The same is happening in my family from my aunt’s death a couple weeks ago in Michigan.
One of the times people want to get together (a funeral service) to grieve, they cannot.
We had to cancel services for my dad on March 21 after he added on the 7th. We expected a lot of people too. And elderly. It was just me, my mother, and brother (who flew in from Texas) at the cemetery. 2 days after my father passed, the memory care facility he was in went on complete lockdown. No family visitation. No communal dining. No activities. All residents to remain in their rooms at all times. Mom is still in contact with a few staff there. We made new friends during his stay. They’re overwhelmed but thankfully nobody has the virus. They acted way before any of the other facilities in the area, who are now dealing with the virus. Dad really had a thing for impeccable timing.
re: #150 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The tangerine toddler is up and wailing about how Chuck Schumer is complaining about his slow rolling aid.
….have been stocked up and ready long before this crisis hit. Other states are thrilled with the job we have done. Sending many Ventilators today, with thousands being built. 51 large cargo planes coming in with medical supplies. Prefer sending directly to hospitals.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 2, 2020
The feds are the backup, and the backup failed to even mobilize until after the crisis overwhelmed the states. Instead of mobilizing to head off the collapse of health care systems, Trumpists wanted the states to collapse first.
Fuck the GOP.
I can tell you from personal knowledge of these conversations (not Baker but other personnel at the NY Times): it’s about access.
— A.J. Delgado (@AJDelgado13) April 2, 2020
re: #152 lawhawk
Morning Joe had Chuck Schumer on and the orange toddler was apparently watching.
remember this from just 5-6 weeks ago?
you know what else will never wash out of the history books?
approximately 250k americans unnecessarily dying on your watch coupled with a litany of the things you did (golf, rallies, firings, dismantling expert panels), didnt do (declare an emergency, dpa, coordinate a purchasing/procurement campaign back in january), could have done, should have done, shouldnt have done (relying on Jared??????, the my pillow guy????!!!)
you will forever be know as the president who got impeached a month before so fundamentally tanking the response to this pandemic.
re: #152 lawhawk
April 2: “Massive amounts of medical supplies, even hospitals and medical centers, are being delivered directly to states and hospitals by the Federal Government. Some have insatiable appetites & are never satisfied (politics?). Remember, we are a backup for them…”
March 19: ” The Federal government is not supposed to be out there buying vast amounts of items and then shipping. You know, we’re not a shipping clerk.”
re: #153 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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Ayep. It’s not simply about press passes, it’s about getting in on the “palace intrigue” circuit through “sources,” it’s about getting invites to all the big social gatherings, about “exclusive” interviews, and all sorts of other things that are used to determine if you’ve a future in journalism…or if you’re riding a desk while the ass-kissers get their names on the “big story” bylines.
re: #155 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)
remember this from just 5-6 weeks ago?
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you know what else will never wash out of the history books?
approximately 250k americans unnecessarily dying on your watch coupled with a litany of the things you did (golf, rallies, firings, dismantling expert panels), didnt do (declare an emergency, dpa, coordinate a purchasing/procurement campaign back in january), could have done, should have done, shouldnt have done (relying on Jared??????, the my pillow guy????!!!)you will forever be know as the president who got impeached a month before so fundamentally tanking the response to this pandemic.
Trump will get his wish. He will be in the history books because he will be remembered as an example of the reactionary response to Obama. Not as a builder. Not as a thinker. Not as an unifier. But as an egotistical asshole who put his own ego above the country’s interests in a pandemic.
Other CoViD-19 news from Sweden:
Östra Sjukhuset (Eastern Hospital) in Gothenburg is ceasing trials with hydrochloroquine after it apparently can cause the opposite effect from the intended one.
I hope there is a price to pay for Didier Raoult for this.
re: #158 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Trump will get his wish. He will be in the history books because he will be remembered as an example of the reactionary response to Obama. Not as a builder. Not as a thinker. Not as an unifier. But as an egotistical asshole who put his own ego above the country’s interests in a pandemic.
Since the hundreds of thousands of casualties seem to be inevitable at this point I can only hope that the loss is not in vain. In that it leads to the GOP getting obliterated into a rump party that then drains away from there.
Sort of how it took a 4 year long civil war to end slavery in this country. (Though it can be argued that it was not eliminated, but simply went “dark” via Jim Crow. But at least something was started then that we continue to support and fight for.)
re: #150 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The arguments I am hearing is that this is a “black swan” and “no leader could possibly do everything right”.
This is a dire situation, but it is not like we did not have a warning period.
and as for the rest…we have no leadership in this crisis.
Except South Korea did get it right. Their first reported case was the same day as ours, and they have a grand total of 169 deaths. We had six times that many yesterday.
re: #105 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
North Carolina has delivered a very clean public information portal. And all the info displayed in a daily update pdf flyer
Pretty striking is that 43% of their identified COVID-19 patients are in the 25-49 yo age group
COVID-19 North Carolina Dashboard
Daily flyer
even more striking: NINETY PERCENT of deaths are male.
re: #161 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Except South Korea did get it right. Their first reported case was the same day as ours, and they have a grand total of 169 deaths. We had six times that many yesterday.
SK also is working against a much higher population density. Fewer people, but many more per square mile.
re: #162 steve_davis
even more striking: NINETY PERCENT of deaths are male.
Tobacco is a sacrament in NC and a few other states.
re: #159 Teukka
I hope there is a price to pay for Didier Raoult for this.
Right wing radio is full on hydrochlorquine pumping. This is all because Trump said so, and to protect Trump, they all run with it as serious.
re: #118 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Or, of course, he is lying out his ass.
Whether it’s pig ignorance or craven lying why in Earth do you say that out loud in front of cameras?
re: #164 Decatur Deb
Tobacco is a sacrament in NC and a few other states.
I was up until recently a totally casual smoker, maybe 2-3 cigarettes per week. I have since given even that up just to be on the safe side as I am male, 60+ and relatively fit but no picture of health.
re: #166 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)
Whether it’s pig ignorance or craven lying why in Earth do you say that out loud in front of cameras?
Because when offered the choice between looking criminal or incompetent they always choose the latter.
re: #126 sagehen
6.6 million unemployment claims THIS WEEK.
6.6 MILLION.
That’s 10x the “record” in 1982
Some happy news this Thursday ☀️ last week 97 tiny hawksbill sea turtles, hatched on a beach in Paulista, Brazil. These critically endangered turtles had a clear path to the ocean due to Coronavirus restrictions. #happynews pic.twitter.com/OOq8szZijc
— SW London Greenpeace (@SW_London_GP) April 2, 2020
A phone call between President Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden is in the works to discuss the coronavirus pandemic. “Our teams will be in touch and we will arrange a call,” Biden’s deputy campaign manager said. https://t.co/Cg9fQe9nXX
— CNN (@CNN) April 2, 2020
One of the interesting items in that story about the creation of the FDA is that Teddy Roosevelt tried to take credit for the creation of the FDA even though he opposed it up until women showed up in large numbers to change his mind.
Here are the results from the first organized trials of drugs to treat the coronavirus. So far, there’s no cure. https://t.co/19zj2UJ22H
— MIT Technology Review (@techreview) April 2, 2020
CNN seems to think we are in the 4th wave of this outbreak.
I’m confused.
The Covid-19 pandemic is already in its third disruptive wave in the United States. First came a few cases on the West Coast, culminating in the tragic nursing-home outbreak in Washington state. Next, the ongoing health care calamity in New York City, where the shortage of diagnostic tests, protective equipment and ventilators has helped make the crisis almost unthinkably worse.
Then last week, other large American cities, including Detroit, New Orleans, Chicago and Atlanta, saw the giant wave crash over them. The endless stream of new, very sick patients. The lack of tests, masks, gowns and ventilators.
re: #170 Belafon
One of the interesting items in that story about the creation of the FDA is that Teddy Roosevelt tried to take credit for the creation of the FDA even though he opposed it up until women showed up in large numbers to change his mind.
I didn’t know that about TR.
re: #138 Sir John Barron
1. It’s a hoax
2. It’s just like the flu
3. It’s Obama’s fault.
4. It’s Biden’s fault.
5. The death numbers are inflated.
6. There’s nobody at the hospitals, crisis is fake
7. The Impeachment got in his eyes
8. Democrats didn’t warn us either
9. Trump is doing great
10. Trump always took it seriously.
11. The stockpiles were depleted.
12. It’s only in NYC and CA.
13. Governors are blowing it, need to buy their own stuff.
14. Not Federal Government responsibility, not a shipping clerk.
15. Trump was just being positive
16. The models are wrong it’s all really not that bad.
17. We might have had 18 million dead like in H1N1 but Trump banned flights from China so we’re good.
18. Close the borders.
19. Trump inherited an obsolete system.
20. Testing drivethrus at Walgreens
21. My Pillow guy
22. At least Trump sent Rush an autograph of the stock market increase the day after his Walgreens dog and pony show so there’s that
The guy trades in excuses
re: #172 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
CNN seems to think we are in the 4th wave of this outbreak.
I’m confused.
So are they.
re: #174 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)
The guy trades in excuses
#1282. The media overhyped it.
#190898. The media didn’t warn us.
re: #147 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
a lot. with our first-born, I had time (and patience) to hang out and twiddle my thumbs and wait while she learned to button her coat and tie her shoes on her own, by the time kids 2 - 4 came along, there was just not enough time in the day to wait for everyone…
So… exponential?
re: #176 Sir John Barron
#1282. The media overhyped it.
#190898. The media didn’t warn us.
#3667 It’s Biden’s fault
#5678 I didn’t want the pandemic team “sitting around.”
re: #172 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
CNN seems to think we are in the 4th wave of this outbreak.
I’m confused.
SRSLY: so, apparently, are some reporters at CNN: Unless I’m mistaken*, there haven’t been “three” or four “waves” of COVID-19, but that we are just (still) in the middle of the first one: that the “wave” - at least in the US - is still building and is probably several weeks away from cresting. If we’re lucky.
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re: #150 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The arguments I am hearing is that this is a “black swan” and “no leader could possibly do everything right”.
This is a dire situation, but it is not like we did not have a warning period.
and as for the rest…we have no leadership in this crisis.
These guys haven’t done *anything* right
RIP, Ellis Marsalis.
— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) April 2, 2020
My 83-year-old grandpa just learned how to text and this is the greatest day of my entire life. pic.twitter.com/Z823Q7c8et
— Lily Herman (@lkherman) April 2, 2020
re: #180 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)
These guys haven’t done *anything* right
We’ve been devoid of presidential leadership the past three years and change. Completely.
The talent in NOLA is taking a big hit I’m afraid.
re: #181 Dave In Austin
Deserves a better parade than NOLA can muster.
re: #174 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)
The guy trades in excuses
Truman: The buck stops here.
Trump: I don’t take responsibility at all.
re: #158 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Trump will get his wish. He will be in the history books because he will be remembered as an example of the reactionary response to Obama. Not as a builder. Not as a thinker. Not as an unifier. But as an egotistical asshole who put his own ego above the country’s interests in a pandemic.
Ignoble and ignominious
re: #187 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)
Ignoble and ignominious
I just hope we all learn some shit from this.
re: #186 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Truman: The buck stops here.
Trump: I don’t take responsibility at all.
Are there clips of Truman saying that? It would be a great ad for Team Biden to use.
Verbatim quote from my 8-year-old, delivered with maximum earnestness, as I tucked her in: “I think the only way I can make it through this very difficult time is with the emotional support of a puppy.”
— Pamela Colloff (@pamelacolloff) April 2, 2020
yep
re: #190 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Are there clips of Truman saying that? It would be a great ad for Team Biden to use.
They already did one timeline ad with him saying it. It would actually be pretty good putting his quote next to Truman’s.
re: #190 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
re: #186 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Truman: The buck stops here.
Trump: I don’t take responsibility at all.Are there clips of Truman saying that? It would be a great ad for Team Biden to use.
Not sure whether old Harry actually recited that as a quote: but it definitely WAS a sign he kept on the Presidential desk….
ETA: See # 192: sorry, never mind
re: #192 Belafon
They already did one timeline ad with him saying it. It would actually be pretty good putting his quote next to Truman’s.
Oh that’s great. Hadn’t heard that but yes that’s a good ideaa.
re: #149 ckkatz
I just checked B&H, Adorama, NewEgg and BuyDig. And those are all out until at least the end of April. Newegg claims to have the Logitech 922 for $200 through ‘Corn Electronics’, close to twice the list price. But I did not click to see if it actually is in stock.
Maybe get a cheap laptop or smart phone and somehow connect and use that camera?
ummmmm
Banks are expecting millions of applications from small businesses on Friday. Some fear a disaster that could dwarf the failed kickoff of the Obamacare enrollment web site in 2013.
— Zachary Warmbrodt (@Zachary) April 2, 2020
In a letter to Treasury and the SBA, the Independent Community Bankers of America said the 0.5 percent interest rate mandated by the administration for the small biz loans was so low that for many banks “it will not be economic or feasible to participate in the program.”
— Zachary Warmbrodt (@Zachary) April 2, 2020
Banks told Treasury Tuesday that verification requirements for the loans could lead to substantial delays — weeks or more as they establish the necessary procedures. If you want rapid deployment, they said, make it automated and don’t require banks to verify borrower info
— Zachary Warmbrodt (@Zachary) April 2, 2020
re: #191 Backwoods_Sleuth
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“Out of the mouths of fools and children, you shall hear the truth”, etc. etc. etc.
— 🐄 Teo 🐄 (@Teukka72) April 2, 2020
Say what you will about the virus, it doesn’t have free will or malevolent intent. It is neither evil nor good. Then, there’s this evil running loose in the world, forcing governors to make hostage videos praising him: https://t.co/26X1KqRW02
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) April 2, 2020
The screenwriter of “Contagion”:
“I never contemplated a federal response that was so ignorant, misguided and full of dangerous information. I thought our leaders were sworn to protect us. I don’t get to write this story this time.”
(via @PostOpinions)https://t.co/FItye3HKB5— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla) April 2, 2020
re: #196 Backwoods_Sleuth
ummmmm
Welcome to pandemic response, small business edition.
In my training on mass dispersal of medicine in CERT, one of the things we were taught was that you really cannot worry at that moment about whether the person you just gave meds to was someone you’d already given it to before. It’s way more important to get the medicine out. My suggestion in the loan case is allow businesses to apply, and collect just enough information that the claims can be investigated when things calm down.
re: #178 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
#3667 It’s Biden’s fault
#5678 I didn’t want the pandemic team “sitting around.”
5678.. well muster the army the week before we invade. Plenty of time to train
re: #203 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)
5678.. well muster the army the week before we invade. Plenty of time to train
We’ll have plenty of time to get everyone together after we’re invaded.
re: #132 ckkatz
Interesting chart. It argues that a Czech requirement for everybody to wear masks effectively and significantly reduced the rate or Covid-19 infection there:
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Living here as I do, I have to say, it seems to be working. It was the suggestion of Dr. Roman Prymula, the government’s chief epidemiologist.
UPDATE: Cruise ship with sick passengers and sister ship will be allowed to dock in Florida; foreign nationals will be taken to sanitized buses to transport them to waiting charter planes. https://t.co/MoUTuGtBHt
— Breaking News (@BreakingNews) April 2, 2020
re: #196 Backwoods_Sleuth
ummmmm
I was going to say they should make the loan process something run through the federal and local governments, but then we’d see whites getting loans way easier than minorities.
Washington sends Beijing free medical supplies while China runs price-gouging scam on U.S. states. China donates free medical supplies to Russia. The U.S. buys medical supplies from Russia and denies it was humanitarian aid. Did we just buy back our own supply? https://t.co/YYbL88zOYE
— Zev Shalev (@ZevShalev) April 2, 2020
re: #126 sagehen
6.6 million unemployment claims THIS WEEK.
6.6 MILLION.
Has any take in world history aged worse than Wilbur Ross saying coronavirus would be good for jobs? https://t.co/EAJqCYuo3Y
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 2, 2020
re: #185 Decatur Deb
Deserves a better parade than NOLA can muster.
The idea of a virtual 2nd line just don’t move me.
This one made me lol pic.twitter.com/wgTXpDzWAg
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 2, 2020
“In other words, the Army’s projections on Feb. 3 for the worst-case scenario in the coronavirus outbreak are, as of this week, the absolute best-case scenario–if not a miraculous one.” https://t.co/CQgAPXXeDs
— Molly McKew (@MollyMcKew) April 2, 2020
re: #210 Backwoods_Sleuth
Lots of bad takes in this. Lots of people who I hope are rightfully seen as charlatans and bullshit people after this.
re: #213 Backwoods_Sleuth
Do we know what Trump was doing on 2/3? I’d love to see the tweets and if he had a rally.
re: #210 Backwoods_Sleuth
Mr. Slippers is an unmitigated human turd.
re: #211 lizardofid
The idea of a virtual 2nd line just don’t move me.
Having said that, if the family decides to put something together, I would like a link.
What a well-groomed bat. #selfcare #easternredbat #austinbats #atxbats #urbancanopy #leafbats pic.twitter.com/nT6PVZYEvW
— Austin Bat Refuge (@AustinBatRefuge) April 2, 2020
re: #220 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)
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He doesn’t get any points from me for realizing this. Maybe if he actually listened to our IC people instead of being a fucking asshole who thinks he knows everything and needed constant rallies during his deserved impeachment along with FNC jerking him off constantly, we wouldn’t have lost so many people and about to lose more. He made this worse and I hope his final days are haunted by the people whose deaths he caused through his selfishness.
If anything they are going to INCREASE production if only 2 try & keep money, ANY money flowing into THEIR economies. They don’t give 2 shits abt ours & would LOVE to see our oil production shut down in order to boost their economies at OUR expense. YOU’RE A FUCKING IDIOT! https://t.co/pz1EjzD5NG
— Michele: Out of the Closet and into the fire (@michele_out) April 2, 2020
I’m no economist and no, I didn’t spend the night at a Holiday Inn Express, so the above tweet is just my two cents.
re: #210 Backwoods_Sleuth
Ah, but that’s assuming we kept the machines running and let sick people go out and….wait
re: #216 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Do we know what Trump was doing on 2/3? I’d love to see the tweets and if he had a rally.
Trump held rallies on:
—Jan 9th
—Jan 14th
—Jan 28th
—Jan 30th
—Feb 10th
—Feb 19th
—Feb 20th
—Feb 21st
—Feb 28th
He golfed on:
—Jan 18th
—Jan 19th
—Feb 1st
—Feb 15th
—Mar 7th
—Mar 8th
But sure, impeachment (ended Feb 5th) is what stopped him from responding to the coronavirus 🙄— Andrew Wortman (@AmoneyResists) March 31, 2020
re: #226 Belafon
Thanks. Fucking lazy disgrace he is.
re: #132 ckkatz
Interesting chart. It argues that a Czech requirement for everybody to wear masks effectively and significantly reduced the rate or Covid-19 infection there:
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But other things aren’t equal — in particular, shelter in place.
Republican Logic: everybody needs to pay more for gas because we have to help out the oil industry, they barely made $3.2 BILLION in the last quarter!
Also Republican Logic: We can’t pay a little more in taxes so that everybody can have healthcare. That’s socialism! https://t.co/abQmj4Bw6B— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) April 2, 2020
re: #228 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!
But other things aren’t equal — in particular, shelter in place.
Here, we can go to the supermarket, pharmacy, bank (and oddly, the florists) and we can still go to work (work-from-home is being strongly encouraged) but that’s it. Pubs, cafes, cinemas, music halls, restaurants, libraries, etc., are all closed until at least the middle of May. And we have to wear a mask when we’re outside. The equivalent of a $500 fine if you don’t.
OAN gets the boot: Trump’s favorite outlet expelled from White House press briefings https://t.co/sTbDljV322
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) April 2, 2020
Gee, that’s too bad.
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But seriously - you’ve got our ‘correspondents’ flouting the rules, refusing to leave the briefing room because you’re ‘a guest of Stephanie Grisham.’
This ain’t a fucking rock show with VIP access. Another data point proving that OANN is fucking amateur hour.
re: #231 makeitstop
Gee, that’s too bad. ///
But seriously - you’ve got our ‘correspondents’ flouting the rules, refusing to leave the briefing room because you’re ‘a guest of Stephanie Grisham.’
This ain’t a fucking rock show with VIP access. Another data point proving that OANN is fucking amateur hour.
Buh-bye. I said, buh-bye. Buh-bye now.
re: #229 Backwoods_Sleuth
Republicans smugly talk about how they understand economics better than liberals. This is the third time in my life alone that we’re cleaning up a GOP made economic mess on the presidential level. Clinton had to clean up Reagan and HW Bush’s messes, Obama had to Bush’s, and now Biden’s likely going to get stuck doing the same for Trump. People better not get fucking amnesia.
Two thoughts:
1. Going to take more than a few corks to stop a cat
2. Just how much wine has been drunk in this household? https://t.co/rOwItSq9ti— Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) April 2, 2020
re: #223 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Trump’s an incompetent know nothing, and he thinks that the oil war is going to stop because he’s involved himself? Saudis have everyone over a barrel because they have the cheapest oil to produce, and they will keep pumping to bring revenue in. If they cut production, they lose. Everyone loses if they stop production, even though the supply is growing exponentially as the economy sputters to a halt thanks to Trump and his failure to aggressive act here in the US.
Oil prices will continue plummeting as demand wanes. There’s no way these countries will reduce their production, not when this is essentially their sole source for revenue.
Wombat zoomies courtesy of Wildlife Victoria on FB (attn @darth) pic.twitter.com/g8225ohxRF
— the woods are lovely dark and deep (@rAdelaidegrl) April 1, 2020
re: #235 lawhawk
I can’t recall the numbers, but I do believe Saudi Arabia’s break-even point is way lower than Russia’s.
If oil got down to $10/bbl, Russia would quickly find itself on the brink of economic armageddon.
re: #222 Sir John Barron
Sounds like it’s time for another BENGHAZI hearing.
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today’s electoral-vote.com:
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) is not a one-trick pony. After starring in the “Impeachment of Donald Trump” show, he is back in the news again. He wants to create a commission to study why the country was unprepared for COVID-19. His model is the commissions that looked into Pearl Harbor and 9/11, so we can learn from the mistakes that were made.
Of course, Schiff already knows the answer: Donald Trump pooh-poohed the whole thing because he felt talking about it and taking action might hurt his reelection prospects. Mix in a bit of the Republican philosophy of “Government is not the solution; government is the problem” and it doesn’t take a blue-ribbon commission to figure out what happened.
But Schiff is not interested in getting the answer he already knows. He is interested in pointing out to the voters that Donald Trump is the problem. If the Senate has to agree to the commission, it won’t happen, but if the House creates it on its own, it could. It could be staffed with Democrats, plus some well-known never-Trump Republicans, plus Rep. Justin Amash (I-MI) to make it look bipartisan. But make no mistake. It is not about finding out the “elusive truth.” It is more about the old game of pinning the tail on the elephant. (V)
re: #162 steve_davis
even more striking: NINETY PERCENT of deaths are male.
Male death rate is striking, although Italy reports 70%. I’m not so sure about the age group figures, about 36% of the population is in that age group, I think, and it’s not unreasonable to think that they get out and interact with other people more.
re: #237 Dr Lizardo
I can’t recall the numbers, but I do believe Saudi Arabia’s break-even point is way lower than Russia’s.
If oil got down to $10/bbl, Russia would quickly find itself on the brink of economic armageddon.
If economic trouble comes to Russia, I’m hoping that it makes Putin a scared man. I would not shed a tear if he got the Ceausescu ending after all the fucked up shit he’s done.
You know that @Twitter is broken when they mark a Holocaust remembrance account that has been featured in the @nytimes, @washingtonpost @11thHour @TheView and dozens of other media outlets as “restricted” content… https://t.co/oyDQPiEJ7p pic.twitter.com/RZLqvX7PoC
— 𝚁𝚞𝚜𝚜𝚎𝚕 𝙽𝚎𝚒𝚜𝚜 (@russelneiss) April 2, 2020
re: #238 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)
today’s electoral-vote.com:
Who wrote this? The author seems butt-hurt.
re: #238 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)
today’s electoral-vote.com:
It definitely needs to happen. And we shouldn’t move on because Trump voters will be butthurt by the truth that they supported strongly a guy who at best was criminally negligent here.
re: #240 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
If economic trouble comes to Russia, I’m hoping that it makes Putin a scared man. I would not shed a tear if he got the Ceausescu ending after all the fucked up shit he’s done.
I’d pretty sure “getting Ceausescued” is exactly what Putin’s most afraid of.
re: #244 Dr Lizardo
I’d pretty sure “getting Ceausescued” is exactly what Putin’s most afraid of.
Good, I hope that little man is petrified. His fingerprints are everywhere. They’re in Brexit, in the rise of Bolsandaro in Brazil, here, and the other “populist” movements throughout the world that made authoritarianism acceptable.
It’s definitely not because I’ve hidden the key… https://t.co/y3wM2svIZB
— Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) April 2, 2020
re: #237 Dr Lizardo
I can’t recall the numbers, but I do believe Saudi Arabia’s break-even point is way lower than Russia’s.
If oil got down to $10/bbl, Russia would quickly find itself on the brink of economic armageddon.
I think Saudis breakeven was about $3 per barrel. It’s far lower than everywhere else. US shale is about $73 per barrel. Russia’s arctic costs are $120 per barrel, but $12 onshore (not counting transportation costs) Cost of production.
The Saudis have everyone over a barrel.
re: #242 Sir John Barron
Who wrote this? The author seems butt-hurt.
they are (mostly) objective most of the time
they admit that sometimes they get a tad bit snarky
Fucking Lakewood NJ residents need to straighten up and fly right. They’re going to get more people killed. A group of 50 attended a funeral there, despite state rules. A couple of those cited were there from NY too.
Here’s Seema Verma suggesting that one reason South Korea has been so effective in responding to the coronavirus is because it isn’t a “free” country like the United States pic.twitter.com/ortfUBBYri
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 2, 2020
re: #240 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
If economic trouble comes to Russia, I’m hoping that it makes Putin a scared man. I would not shed a tear if he got the Ceausescu ending after all the fucked up shit he’s done.
he won’t - and if he is backed into a corner, he is more likely to create some other distraction involving the military
re: #248 lawhawk
I think Saudis breakeven was about $3 per barrel. It’s far lower than everywhere else. US shale is about $73 per barrel. Russia’s arctic costs are $120 per barrel, but $12 onshore (not counting transportation costs) Cost of production.
The Saudis have everyone over a barrel.
Especially since his Royal Highness’ proxies in the US have Iran clamped down.
re: #235 lawhawk
Trump’s an incompetent know nothing, and he thinks that the oil war is going to stop because he’s involved himself? Saudis have everyone over a barrel because they have the cheapest oil to produce, and they will keep pumping to bring revenue in. If they cut production, they lose. Everyone loses if they stop production, even though the supply is growing exponentially as the economy sputters to a halt thanks to Trump and his failure to aggressive act here in the US.
Oil prices will continue plummeting as demand wanes. There’s no way these countries will reduce their production, not when this is essentially their sole source for revenue.
Yep. And tRump thinks that by signalling that OUR oil industry is in trouble and needing help, these Counties will REDUCE production? Correct me if I am wrong, but didn’t the Saudis do this to us back in the eighties (increase production, flood the market) to kill U.S. domestic production because we could buy oil from them cheaper than we could produce it ourselves?
re: #240 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
If economic trouble comes to Russia, I’m hoping that it makes Putin a scared man. I would not shed a tear if he got the Ceausescu ending after all the fucked up shit he’s done.
Maybe: but more likely the Khrushchev scenario: a “regretful” “retirement” to a nice comfy dacha somewhere (Siberia comes to mind) with heaps of honors: but oddly unreliable Internet access….
That moment on 2/28/20 when @realDonaldTrump told me to be quiet as I asked him if the CDC had overestimated the risk of COVID19 pic.twitter.com/4G5inCmWEh
— Brian J. Karem (@BrianKarem) April 2, 2020
re: #248 lawhawk
I think Saudis breakeven was about $3 per barrel. It’s far lower than everywhere else. US shale is about $73 per barrel. Russia’s arctic costs are $120 per barrel, but $12 onshore (not counting transportation costs) Cost of production.
The Saudis have everyone over a barrel.
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Damn. Yeah, they have the world over a barrel - and no one can do shit about it. Even if oil got down to $6/bbl, they’d still be making money. Meanwhile, the Russians would probably start eating each other.
re: #252 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
he won’t - and if he is backed into a corner, he is more likely to create some other distraction involving the military
You never know. The Russian people took care of one czar. Maybe this czar will find himself scared shitless if it’s something he can’t control. Putin is and has never been 100% invincible in Russia.
re: #231 makeitstop
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But seriously - you’ve got our ‘correspondents’ flouting the rules, refusing to leave the briefing room because you’re ‘a guest of Stephanie Grisham.’
This ain’t a fucking rock show with VIP access. Another data point proving that OANN is fucking amateur hour.
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The only way to define OANN is an Anti-social cult with malignant intent for humanity. Their American-White-Nationalist propaganda defines their agenda and their disregard and contempt for society and the world in general defines each member of this organization personally.
re: #255 Jay C
Maybe: but more likely the Krushchev scenario: a “regretful” “retirement” to a nice comfy dacha somewhere (Siberia comes to mind) with heaps of honors: but oddly unreliable Internet access….
That’s fine with me too.
Rep Jim Clyburn D-SC will chair the bipartisan panel. Pelosi compared the oversight plan to the Truman Committee, which rooted out waste and fraud during World War II.
— Jamie Dupree (@jamiedupree) April 2, 2020
re: #261 Backwoods_Sleuth
That committee is what made Truman a more well known figure. Clyburn is an excellent choice.
re: #258 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
You never know. The Russian people took care of one czar. Maybe this czar will find himself scared shitless if it’s something he can’t control. Putin is and has never been 100% invincible in Russia.
not invincible, but I believe he still has a firm grip on power
I do not see him being overthrown, at best shunted from office.
Our Nation is facing a public health crisis, yet millions of Americans remain uninsured. That’s why I introduced Ensuring Coverage in Public Health Emergencies Act of 2020 to provide for special enrollment periods during public health emergencies like the coronavirus pandemic.
— Senator Bob Casey (@SenBobCasey) April 2, 2020
re: #259 Florida Panhandler
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The only way to define OANN is an Anti-social cult with malignant intent for humanity. Their American-White-Nationalist propaganda defines their agenda and their disregard and contempt for society and the world in general defines each member of this organization personally.
I wonder who funds OANN anyway?
My new punk band is called Just the Flu. We are far worse than we think we are.
— Troy Johnson (@_troyjohnson) April 2, 2020
re: #242 Sir John Barron
Who wrote this? The author seems butt-hurt.
It did seem a little like that. But we’re not going to change the voters’ perception if we don’t have someone out saying “Yes, Trump messed up his response. More lives could have been saved if he’d acted sooner.”
re: #230 Dr Lizardo
Here, we can go to the supermarket, pharmacy, bank (and oddly, the florists) and we can still go to work (work-from-home is being strongly encouraged) but that’s it. Pubs, cafes, cinemas, music halls, restaurants, libraries, etc., are all closed until at least the middle of May. And we have to wear a mask when we’re outside. The equivalent of a $500 fine if you don’t.
And when Czech Republic had those rules in place, large swaths of the US still had nothing, which is why I say the usefulness of masks is not established by that comparison.
That said, people are moving toward the idea that face coverings should be worn when we’re out in public. I’ve brought out a nice scarf to wear in wild west holdup style when I shop — not while walking, I’m not within 10 feet of anyone when I do that.
re: #265 Sir John Barron
I wonder who funds OANN anyway?
This asshole:
Robert Herring is a California businessman who founded Herring Networks, Inc. that launched Wealth TV now known as AWE TV Network. He also owns the One America News Network.[1][2]
He was born in Rayville, Louisiana the son of a share-cropper. The family moved to California in 1948. After his father died, he dropped out of high school at age 14 and worked to support family. In 1964 he founded a small chain of pet shops in Los Angeles County. In 1972 he founded Industrial Circuits that he sold to Toppan Printing in 1988. He was the founder and owner of Herco Technology before selling the company in 2000 to Teradyne, Inc.
In March 2005, Herring offered $1 million to Terri Schiavo’s husband Michael Schiavo to release all guardianship rights to her parents so that they could keep her alive on a feeding tube.[3] He currently lives in the San Diego area.
The motherfather makes Rupert Murdoch look like I F Stone…
re: #268 Belafon
It did seem a little like that. But we’re not going to change the voters’ perception if we don’t have someone out saying “Yes, Trump messed up his response. More lives could have been saved if he’d acted sooner.”
Right, yeah I’m in favor of the commission. Just the author of this piece is whining that’s it’s just a blame game, etc.
re: #231 makeitstop
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Gee, that’s too bad.
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But seriously - you’ve got our ‘correspondents’ flouting the rules, refusing to leave the briefing room because you’re ‘a guest of Stephanie Grisham.’
This ain’t a fucking rock show with VIP access. Another data point proving that OANN is fucking amateur hour.
So my question is what force does this have? If they were already flouting the rules can the WHCA have them removed from the room? Wouldn’t that be the White House’s call? Fat chance Donnie will have them removed.
re: #235 lawhawk
Trump’s an incompetent know nothing, and he thinks that the oil war is going to stop because he’s involved himself? Saudis have everyone over a barrel because they have the cheapest oil to produce, and they will keep pumping to bring revenue in. If they cut production, they lose. Everyone loses if they stop production, even though the supply is growing exponentially as the economy sputters to a halt thanks to Trump and his failure to aggressive act here in the US.
Oil prices will continue plummeting as demand wanes. There’s no way these countries will reduce their production, not when this is essentially their sole source for revenue.
I think this has as much to do with their disagreement with Russia as with lower demand.
re: #231 makeitstop
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Gee, that’s too bad.
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But seriously - you’ve got our ‘correspondents’ flouting the rules, refusing to leave the briefing room because you’re ‘a guest of Stephanie Grisham.’
This ain’t a fucking rock show with VIP access. Another data point proving that OANN is fucking amateur hour.
They’ll be back. Trump will override the decision.
re: #239 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!
Male death rate is striking, although Italy reports 70%. I’m not so sure about the age group figures, about 36% of the population is in that age group, I think, and it’s not unreasonable to think that they get out and interact with other people more.
Plus woman are more likely to wash their hands frequently, use their Clorox or Lysol wipes, etc.
ETA: and women who wear a lot of makeup have years of training about not touching their face.
re: #264 Backwoods_Sleuth
I think any prior president, even if they’d opposed the ACA’s establishment, would have opened up enrollment. This is another thing that would be normal under any other president but we have to legislate it into affect with Trump.
re: #272 danarchy
So my question is what force does this have? If they were already flouting the rules can the WHCA have them removed from the room? Wouldn’t that be the White House’s call? Fat chance Donnie will have them removed.
I’m curious what the WHCA does when OANN flouts it. Write a sternly written letter?
re: #274 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
They’ll be back. Trump will override the decision.
Trump will allow them into the briefing room EVERY DAY, replacing other reporters who he thinks are “unfair” to him.
re: #276 Belafon
I think any prior
presidenthuman being, even if they’d opposed the ACA’s establishment, would have opened up enrollment. This is another thing that would be normal under any otherpresidenthuman being but we have to legislate it into affect with Trump (a sociopath).
re: #276 Belafon
I think any prior president, even if they’d opposed the ACA’s establishment, would have opened up enrollment. This is another thing that would be normal under any other president but we have to legislate it into affect with Trump.
but he knows he has the GOP’s full backing in doing so
so fuck ‘em all
re: #275 sagehen
Plus woman are more likely to wash their hands frequently, use their Clorox or Lysol wipes, etc.
ETA: and women who wear a lot of makeup have years of training about not touching their face.
That should affect the infection rate, not the death rate.
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Guess we need to broadcast this info much louder so some of these people can hear it while their heads are up their asses.
re: #275 sagehen
Plus woman are more likely to wash their hands frequently, use their Clorox or Lysol wipes, etc.
ETA: and women who wear a lot of makeup have years of training about not touching their face.
Men are all worthless and weak? /half but not quite?
re: #275 sagehen
Plus woman are more likely to wash their hands frequently, use their Clorox or Lysol wipes, etc.
ETA: and women who wear a lot of makeup have years of training about not touching their face.
Heh. Took me about a month to learn NOT to rub my eyes as it kept smearing my eye shadow.
Great, if aggravating, article on Buzzfeed:
This pandemic is NOT your vacation
“Wealth is the vector.” That’s what sociologist Tressie McMillan Cottom tweeted last week, in reference to the spread of COVID-19 across both the globe and the United States. Wealth is not the cause of every concentrated outbreak dotting the United States. But it’s the common denominator of so much of its spread outside of major urban areas. It’s the reason why so many of the coronavirus hot spots in the Mountain West — Sun Valley, Idaho; Gunnison County, Colorado; Summit County, Utah; Gallatin County, Montana — overlap with winter playgrounds for the wealthy. The virus travels via people, and the people who travel the most, both domestically and internationally, are rich people.
A party in the tony bedroom community of Westport, Connecticut, all the way back on March 5, became what one epidemiologist referred to as a “super-spreading event,” with infected attendees dispersing throughout Connecticut and New England, and one party-goer falling ill on a plane ride back to South Africa. In Idaho’s Blaine County, home to Sun Valley, more than half of the residential properties are second homes or rental properties, and more than 30,000 people fly into the regional airport during ski season alone. As of March 31, 187 people in the county of 22,000 have tested positive, including local emergency room physician Brent Russell. Two people have died. The town’s small hospital has two ICU beds and a single ventilator.
“People come here from all over the world,” Russell told the Idaho Statesman. “Especially this time of year. When I’m in the ER, I get people from New York, Washington D.C., San Francisco, Seattle. Every week there’s people from those places. Most likely someone from an urban area or multiple people from urban areas came here and they just set it off.”
All over the United States, people are fleeing urban areas with high infection rates for the perceived safety and natural beauty of rural areas. Some of them own second homes in those areas; others are paying upwards of $10,000 a month, depending on the area, for temporary housing. The common denominator among those populations is, again, wealth — either their own or their families’. They can flee the city because their jobs can be done remotely, or they don’t work at all. They either had a vacation house already, or they can afford to fork over what amounts to a second rent, or second mortgage.
I strongly recommend reading the whole thing but suffice to say I really, REALLY hate rich entitled people who think the rules don’t apply to them.
96 percent of coronavirus fatalities in Europe are 60 or older, WHO says https://t.co/fbIEk5sYn1
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) April 2, 2020
A map of where people did and didn’t observe travel restrictions. (Alt: A map of where people will be alive when this is over.)
Hasn’t been completely confirmed yet, but it appears that the Los Angeles train engineer who deliberately derailed in a Looney Tunes attempt to ram his train into the hospital ship that was ACROSS THE CHANNEL …
Putin essentially says Trump is a liar.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov refuted on Thursday US President Donald Trump’s claims about a phone conversation between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
“No. There was no such conversation.” pic.twitter.com/hYSHWOaihB— Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) April 2, 2020
The man is utterly incapable of telling the truth. About anything.
yes, the hospital ship is to take non COVID patients to free up hospital capacity
and then they will simply stuff everyone into the boilers and load more…
re: #290 Decatur Deb
A map of where people did and didn’t observe travel restrictions. (Alt: A map of where people will be alive when this is over.)
“It will absolutely save lives. But in order to really have a big effect with social-distancing measures, you would have had to move it back in time.”
re: #292 makeitstop
I wonder what courageous reporter will repeat this question until Trump answers it. Today.
Yeah.
Good one.
No I don’t.
On one will.
re: #292 makeitstop
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The man is utterly incapable of telling the truth. About anything.
accepting that makes things much easier
hell, he even lies about his lies. when confronted with video.
re: #293 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
yes, the hospital ship is to take non COVID patients to free up hospital capacity
and then they will simply stuff everyone into the boilers and load more…
‘the ship…is run by people’
re: #294 garzooma
At this point we are just writing the history of this event, not the instructions for its fix.
Anyone else want to take a dive into the QAnon sewers or Free Republic to see what they’re saying about the hospital ship?
re: #289 Patricia Kayden
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Average age of fatalities was 80 in Italy, last I checked.
re: #27 danarchy
Anyone know what Cheddar is? I just noticed it is a new news channel on my fios lineup. Wondering if it is worth checking out? Interview with Scaramucci right now
Some cheesy outfit
re: #292 makeitstop
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The man is utterly incapable of telling the truth. About anything.
Between DT and Putin, which do you believe?
re: #299 Khal Wimpo (not drinking damn fish tank cleaner)
Anyone else want to take a dive into the QAnon sewers or Free Republic to see what they’re saying about the hospital ship?
I don’t have to since brainwashed Q-Asshole relatives continually post the latest ‘breadcrumbs” and yes they believe the Navy ships are taking naughty Democrats to Gitmo…
re: #297 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)
‘the ship…is run by people’
If we could only spread the rumor on QAnon channels that the ship is there to SAVE THE RIGHTEOUS and that this is their LAST CHANCE to join the Great Awakening … and then it sailed away, chock-full of QAnons, headed for a seekrit island paradise where clones of Trump will rule in a benevolent paradise, and oh the libs will cry tears and wail & gnash their teeth …
Basically, invoke plan Marching Morons
(the solution to Idiocracy - available for free online!)
re: #300 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!
Average age of fatalities was 80 in Italy, last I checked.
That seems plausible to me. They have one of the oldest skewing populations in the world.
re: #305 Eclectic Cyborg
That seems plausible to me. They have one of the oldest skewing populations in the world.
Just behind Japan, IIRC.
Moving, but heartbreaking…
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re: #302 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!
Between DT and Putin, which do you believe?
It’s a flat-footed tie for ‘nope.’
re: #293 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
yes, the hospital ship is to take non COVID patients to free up hospital capacity
and then they will simply stuff everyone into the boilers and load more…
NYC hospitals are having to treat all patients as though they’re covid19 positive because unrelated cases are coming in and later present with covid19 too.
For instance, someone comes in with an injury, and then starts showing cough and fever.
re: #264 Backwoods_Sleuth
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i don’t understand this. you cannot get insurance through aca if you are unemployed. you can get medicaid, but many states didn’t expand medicaid, so that won’t help lots of folks.
re: #259 Florida Panhandler
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The only way to define OANN is an Anti-social cult with malignant intent for humanity. Their American-White-Nationalist propaganda defines their agenda and their disregard and contempt for society and the world in general defines each member of this organization personally.
Who has a cable need presence in places like Lansing, MI… The State Capitol of Michigan.
re: #311 steve_davis
i don’t understand this. you cannot get insurance through aca if you are unemployed. you can get medicaid, but many states didn’t expand medicaid, so that won’t help lots of folks.
Republicans want the disadvantaged to die. The Gospel of Ayn Rand demands that only the strong survive…and the weak must be culled…
Trump has one upped Dubya. He merely presided over the worst economic collapse since the Great Depression. Trump has achieved the worst economic collapse ever! And once again, a Democrat will have to clean up the mess.
FUCK Trump with a rusty pitchfork sideways. And that goes double for all the fucking GOPers.
Under new guidance given to EMS workers, cardiac arrest patients who cannot be saved in the field are to be declared dead and not brought to hospitals.
LISTEN LIVE: 1010 WINS’ 24/7 coverage of the coronavirus outbreak
The dire edict comes as emergency rooms and intensive care units are overwhelmed with critically ill coronavirus patients.
The Regional Emergency Medical Services Council of New York issued the new guidance; it applies to the five boroughs and Long Island.
Instead of being brought to hospitals for further revival attempts, as it used to be, patients are to be pronounced dead at the scene, according to the directive.
The guidance is part of an effort to focus on patients who are most likely to survive.
These deaths are directly attributable to covid19. Care across the board is suffering and the lack of resources means that more people will die of ailments that would otherwise be survivable.
Fuckers like Brit Hume are worried that the death toll was being inflated because of covid19 being labeled as a cause of death even if the person is asymptomatic.
Hope Hume or any of the other Fox crowd doesn’t get a heart attack and need 911 services in NYC, because they’ll show up to pronounce them DOA to focus on those who could survive.
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re: #314 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Trump has one upped Dubya. He merely presided over the worst economic collapse since the Great Depression. Trump has achieved the worst economic collapse ever! And once again, a Democrat will have to clean up the mess.
Voters better not get amnesia again. We’re not going to clean this up in a Congressional session or a presidential term. We also have to be aware that this is a new world. We need to lead but we need to listen too.
re: #284 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!
That should affect the infection rate, not the death rate.
It makes me wonder if there could be something even more basic going on. Men do indeed smoke more, so does that mean that the act of constantly touching your lips with the paper filter, which are covered with whatever your hands have touched, causes men to get an enormous load of the virus all at once, whereas perhaps women are being exposed to smaller loads, so that the virus doesn’t get a jump start? I mean, it might explain why NC specifically is running into that kind of a disparity, if it isn’t also reflected elsewhere to that degree.
re: #313 Joe Bacon 🌹
Republicans want the disadvantaged to die. The Gospel of Ayn Rand demands that only the strong survive…and the weak must be culled…
That’s only because you’re looking at it objectively. You need to look at it Objectively (tm). That way your selfishness will cure you, and by not caring about other people, you won’t get sick from them either.
Important piece from @rachjuramirez. A healthcare data firm has been trying to identify communities most vulnerable to a COVID-19 outbreak.
Harris County, TX, is highly vulnerable partly because of its “above average environmental health hazard.”https://t.co/BDjSJ4mp8g— Naveena Sadasivam (@NaveenaSivam) April 2, 2020
Oh joy.
“…In a letter submitted to the EPA last week, environmental groups demanded to know why polluting facilities are now excused from complying with environmental regulations, even as their operations continue relatively unfettered. “What is the basis for presuming that the pandemic means companies can no longer comply with environmental rules while they continue to operate and process all other forms of corporate ‘paperwork’?” the memo asked.”
If Trump was an agent for a national enemy intent on damaging our country would he be acting differently?
re: #320 jaunte
If Trump was an agent for a national enemy intent on damaging our country would he be acting differently?
No. He IS carrying out Putin’s orders to destroy the United States.
Did not see the plot twist where Trump started making direct payments. https://t.co/fk74MFZcqj
— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) April 2, 2020
re: #319 jaunte
I live up near I45 and Little York. Al least the air here is not quite as bad as near all the refineries.
Narrator: But Joe realizes, of course, that this isn’t going to happen. https://t.co/jlF0wTekPO
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 2, 2020
I totally support Joe Biden for president. But damn, I really wish he’d up his game and stop talking about Trump as if he’s a normal politician.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 2, 2020
Hitler’s Brain In A Jar has stopped returning Dear Leader’s calls.
— Pere Ubu (@PereUbu7) April 2, 2020
This is incredible.
Not only did we buy Russian medical supplies that were delivered yesterday at JFK but Dmitriev (RDIF) from the Seychelles illegal meet among other things was involved. This had to be set up by Kushner. Mafia state dealing w Putins thug pic.twitter.com/BYEK2LOs4l— Olga Lautman (@olgaNYC1211) April 2, 2020
re: #327 jaunte
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I see this is another crooked deal set up by the Lord Privvy STEAL!
re: #227 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Thanks. Fucking lazy disgrace he is.
Per Daniel Dale, the only thing on the fat fuck’s schedule for 2/3 was lunch with the creepy fuck, Pence.
re: #328 Joe Bacon 🌹
He’ll steal the privies if they’re not welded to the deck.
re: #325 Charles Johnson
While I get what you’re saying, if Biden can use some diplomacy on trump to protect all of us, I’m all in. People are dying, shitty decisions are being made, I’m happy to take any improvement from anywhere.
re: #329 BeachDem
Per Daniel Dale, the only thing on the fat fuck’s schedule for 2/3 was lunch with the creepy fuck, Pence.
Mmmm hamburders.//
re: #316 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
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Voters better not get amnesia again. We’re not going to clean this up in a Congressional session or a presidential term. We also have to be aware that this is a new world. We need to lead but we need to listen too.
Voters will remember exactly what their national media tells them to. You cannot fix the problems with America without fixing its media culture.
re: #325 Charles Johnson
I think getting out there that people’s one possibility of getting health insurance right now is being blocked and possibly destroyed by the GOP is a good thing.
re: #333 Renaissance_Man
Voters will remember exactly what their national media tells them to. You cannot fix the problems with America without fixing its media culture.
I think they’ll also remember which of their family and friends aren’t alive to vote come November.
I say no mercy. Hit the GOP HARD. They OWN THIS. Tie it around their neck like the giant fucking Albatross it is.
Trump ignoring Blue states with the new Abbot quick test (waPo)
As Abbott Laboratories began shipping its new rapid-response tests across the country Wednesday, a new flash point emerged in the nation’s handling of the pandemic: where to deploy the covid-19 diagnostics that could be one of the most effective tools in combating the outbreak.
Some White House officials want to ship many of the tests, which were approved Friday and can deliver results in five to 13 minutes, to areas where there are fewer cases, such as rural states and parts of the South. But officials in hard-hit areas and some public health experts favor directing them to the outbreak’s current hotspots, arguing that delays in test readings have sidelined many first responders and health-care workers and made it harder to isolate the most contagious patients.
During a Tuesday meeting of the White House coronavirus task force in the Situation Room, Vice President Pence and other officials discussed diverting new tests to areas where there are relatively few cases, according to two individuals familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe internal deliberations.
They said the administration needs “to figure out the spread in places where we don’t quite understand it now,” according to one of the individuals present. The final consensus seemed to be, “Let’s send it to the South and low density areas.”
re: #54 Targetpractice
“I fought in the Great Corona War of 2020. I was in the trenches the whole time, my trusty N95 mask on as I sanitized every surface within an inch of its life. Why, I remember the time I nearly died telling a guest that we had no coffee! You don’t know terror until you’ve seen a caffeine addict go cold turkey. The horror…the horror…”
Fortunately we always had coffee in Vietnam, also marijuana, and nearly always beer. Never enough ice cream though.
re: #311 steve_davis
i don’t understand this. you cannot get insurance through aca if you are unemployed. you can get medicaid, but many states didn’t expand medicaid, so that won’t help lots of folks.
GOP plan working
re: #325 Charles Johnson
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I quite agree with your sentiments, but I also think Biden is doing the right thing here: he’s sounding competent and “statesmanlike” by making clear suggestions and trying to turn the discussion towards practical policy: and the more it contrasts with Trump’s lying, flailing and blathering, the better.
I’m sure Joe’s personal opinion of Our Esteemed Chief Executive (///) is probably lower than a star-nosed mole’s navel, but at this point (still far from the conventions, still less the election) keeping the discussion “elevated” is still (IMO) the best strategy.
And besides, the root of the problem isn’t Joe Biden “normalizing” Trump’s Presidency, it’s the “Mainstream Media” doing so….
re: #339 Jay C
I quite agree with your sentiments, but I also think Biden is doing the right thing here: he’s sounding competent and “statesmanlike” by making clear suggestions and trying to turn the discussion towards practical policy: and the more it contrasts with Trump’s lying, flailing and blathering, the better.
I’m sure Joe’s personal opinion of Our Esteemed Chief Executive (///) is probably lower than a star-nosed mole’s navel, but at this point (still far from the conventions, still less the election) keeping the discussion “elevated” is still (IMO) the best strategy.
And besides, the root of the problem isn’t Joe Biden “normalizing” Trump’s Presidency, it’s the “Mainstream Media” doing so….
Look at the ads too. They are hitting hard against Trump using his own words too.
re: #335 Eclectic Cyborg
I think they’ll also remember which of their family and friends aren’t alive to vote come November.
Unfortunately, I think not. I think if their media tells them Joe Biden personally killed their family members, the NYT will run a series of pieces asking questions about Biden’s involvement in pandemic preparation, and pundits on CNN will muse as to whether Biden’s dementia was apparent in 2007 when he emptied the federal stockpile of PPE, or whether it was malicious planning to make Trump look bad. And Americans will believe what they are told.
Newsflash:
I have been informed via a Safeway ad that there exists a brand of premium organic green tea toilet paper called Monkeylips.
Monkeylips.
That is all. I now return you to your regularly scheduled bunker programming.
(now going back two or three threads or so to catch up with the last 12 hours or so…)
re: #341 Renaissance_Man
Unfortunately, I think not. I think if their media tells them Joe Biden personally killed their family members, the NYT will run a series of pieces asking questions about Biden’s involvement in pandemic preparation, and pundits on CNN will muse as to whether Biden’s dementia was apparent in 2007 when he emptied the federal stockpile of PPE, or whether it was malicious planning to make Trump look bad. And Americans will believe what they are told.
yes, the magic balance fairy will be really throwing her weight about when it comes to establishing who is responsible for all those dead Americans…
re: #342 CleverToad
I wonder how they came up with name?
Wait…no. No, I don’t think I really want to know.
/
I like and respect HRC but we underestimated the animosity to her built up over years. Biden really doesn’t have that.
We’re all gonna die. https://t.co/2ysGCBiH7C
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 2, 2020
re: #341 Renaissance_Man
Unfortunately, I think not. I think if their media tells them Joe Biden personally killed their family members, the NYT will run a series of pieces asking questions about Biden’s involvement in pandemic preparation, and pundits on CNN will muse as to whether Biden’s dementia was apparent in 2007 when he emptied the federal stockpile of PPE, or whether it was malicious planning to make Trump look bad. And Americans will believe what they are told.
I see we’re back at forgetting how 2018 went.
re: #346 Charles Johnson
“But I’m so successful that I got to mary Donald’s daughter.”
re: #311 steve_davis
i don’t understand this. you cannot get insurance through aca if you are unemployed. you can get medicaid, but many states didn’t expand medicaid, so that won’t help lots of folks.
you can if you had insurance when you were employed
re: #284 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!
That should affect the infection rate, not the death rate.
The coronavirus is killing far more men than women
…But there are also underlying biological differences between men and women that may make covid-19 worse in men, several researchers pointed out. Years of research have found that women generally have stronger immune systems than men and are better able to fend off infections. The X chromosome contains a large number of immune-related genes, and because women have two of them, they gain an advantage in fighting disease, according to a recent study in the journal Human Genomics. Studies have also found that estrogen was protective in female mice infected with the virus that caused the 2003 SARs outbreak. During that epidemic, men had a much higher case fatality rate than women.
re: #348 Belafon
I see we’re back at forgetting how 2018 went.
I certainly haven’t. I wish people would realize that not all election cycles are created equal. Even saw a poll today that had Biden up in Wisconsin. And Wisconsin looks like the Obama-Trump state most likely to stay with Trump.
The number of new cases of the new coronavirus in Nassau and Suffolk counties is “troubling,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Thursday.
Cuomo led his daily coronavirus news briefing by reporting 1,033 new cases overnight in Nassau County, which now has 10,587 positive cases. Suffolk County had 1,141 new cases overnight, bringing the total to 8,746, Cuomo said.
Long Island has 21 percent of the state’s cases as of Thursday morning.
Fuck
Oh, that talking point about how Trump really did a good job by ‘cutting off flights from China?’
Also bullshit.
JUST IN: Travel data of passengers arriving in the U.S. from China during the critical period in December, January and February shows a stunning 759,493 people entered the U.S. https://t.co/cuPZK1Nzwf
— ABC News (@ABC) April 2, 2020
re: #336 Eric The Fruit Bat
Trump ignoring Blue states with the new Abbot quick test (waPo)
So Trump states get the tests; and the ventilators; and the PPEs.
Because their governors are “doing the right thing” (i.e., praising the guy who decides who lives and dies).
And then Red State Govs and pundits will tell us again how their president Did Everything That Could Be Done, and the rest of us are just whiners who refuse to take personal responsibility.
re: #354 makeitstop
Oh, that talking point about how Trump really did a good job by ‘cutting off flights from China?’
Also bullshit.
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And Biden did not call banning travel from China xenophobic. He called blaming Chinese people for Covid that but that doesn’t jibe with right wing reality that also ignores that It was Trump not his media critics praising Xi.
re: #339 Jay C
I quite agree with your sentiments, but I also think Biden is doing the right thing here: he’s sounding competent and “statesmanlike” by making clear suggestions and trying to turn the discussion towards practical policy: and the more it contrasts with Trump’s lying, flailing and blathering, the better.
I’m sure Joe’s personal opinion of Our Esteemed Chief Executive (///) is probably lower than a star-nosed mole’s navel, but at this point (still far from the conventions, still less the election) keeping the discussion “elevated” is still (IMO) the best strategy.And besides, the root of the problem isn’t Joe Biden “normalizing” Trump’s Presidency, it’s the “Mainstream Media” doing so….
re: #355 sagehen
So Trump states get the tests; and the ventilators; and the PPEs.
Because their governors are “doing the right thing” (i.e., praising the guy who decides who lives and dies).
And then Red State Govs and pundits will tell us again how their president Did Everything That Could Be Done, and the rest of us are just whiners who refuse to take personal responsibility.
I’m really tired of red state arrogance. The open contempt for the blue states and our citizens.
if everyone thinks you called it a hoax multiple times
and you’re trying to pretzel spin that you didn’t say it, or if you did, you didn’t mean that
maybe the problem is: you
- your history of using the word hoax over and over
- your history of changing your story in the face of video of you saying just the opposite
- your history of outright lying
Got an email from Sen. Chris Murphy about Read to Grow, soliciting donations to send books to kids in families that can’t afford them. I sent a few pennies along.
Argh. I can’t send the link. It has my info in it. Google: readtogrow.org
I was cleaning out the pantry and found all these boxes of different shaped pasta that had just a little bit left at the bottom.
Mac and cheese, from opened pasta in the pantry #StayHomeStaySafe #Resist #COVID19 #coronavirus pic.twitter.com/K80X8tSYRr
— Lemon Harangue Pie (@Pie_Overlord) April 2, 2020
re: #347 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I want that asshole on trial.
Agreed. Multiple times, if possible.
re: #322 Joe Bacon 🌹
No. He IS carrying out Putin’s orders to destroy the United States.
Overlaps with the fever dreams of some in the American evangelical community:
Shamain Webster, who lives in the suburbs outside of Dallas, has seen the signs of a coming apocalypse for a while now, just as the Bible foretold.
Kingdom would rise against kingdom, Jesus taught his disciples in the Book of Luke. Ms. Webster sees widespread political division in this country. There will be fearful events, and great signs from heaven, he said. She sees biblical values slipping away. A government not acting in the people’s best interest. And now this — a pandemic.
But Ms. Webster, 42 and an evangelical Christian, is unafraid. She has been listening online to one of her favorite preachers, who has called the coronavirus pandemic a “divine reset.”
“These kinds of moments really get you to re-evaluate everything,” she said. As everyone goes through a period of isolation, she added, God is using it for good, “to teach us and train us on how to live life better.”
For people of many faiths, and even none at all, it can feel lately like the end of the world is near. Not only is there a plague, but hundreds of billions of locusts are swarming East Africa. Wildfires have ravaged Australia, killing an untold number of animals. A recent earthquake in Utah even shook the Salt Lake Temple to the top of its iconic spire, causing the golden trumpet to fall from the angel Moroni’s right hand.
But the story of apocalypse is an old one, one of the oldest humans tell. In ancient religious traditions beyond Christianity — including Judaism, Islam and Buddhism — it is a common narrative that arises in moments of social and political crisis, as people try to process unprecedented or shocking events.
The original word in Greek — apokalypsis — means an unveiling, a revelation…..
March 1/April 1 pic.twitter.com/OqDvCrCfyx
— Scott Lemieux (@LemieuxLGM) April 2, 2020
re: #354 makeitstop
Oh, that talking point about how Trump really did a good job by ‘cutting off flights from China?’
Also bullshit.
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So that figure works out to about 8200 people coming in EVERY DAY for three months just from China??
Yeah, real strict “cutoff” there…..
About the ‘travel ban’ from China - actually, people entering from China were going to these airports:
Chicago’s O’Hare International
Dallas Fort Worth International
Detroit Metropolitan
Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International
Honolulu’s Official Daniel K. Inouye International
John F. Kennedy International
Los Angeles International
Newark Liberty International
San Francisco International
Seattle-Tacoma International
Washington Dulles
Look at how many airports on that list just happen to line up with COVID hotspots.
Nah, that’s just a sheer coincidence, I’m sure.
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When Tommy Chong calls you scatterbrained
Trump flailing around trying to figure out what to do in these trying times. He is so far out of his “understanding the problems” self that he just babbles on about nothing!
— Tommy Chong (@tommychong) April 2, 2020
re: #333 Renaissance_Man
Voters will remember exactly what their national media tells them to. You cannot fix the problems with America without fixing its media culture.
Remember that the DC Press Corpse is hell bent on keeping The Heinous Anus in the Oval Office for another term…and they will do the same for Princess Ivanka in 2024.
re: #369 Joe Bacon 🌹
Remember that the DC Press Corpse is hell bent on keeping The Heinous Anus in the Oval Office for another term…and they will do the same for Princess Ivanka in 2024.
Even at as the crisis deepens, he is still ratings gold…
Yes we are. Hell comes to us by our own doing.
Don’t you people have a Surgeon General that’s supposed to be that guy? Oh wait… https://t.co/EGIeDXlTQQ
— Manksy (@TheManksy) April 2, 2020
Up in NW MN across from Fargo ND.
Police: Man coughs on Moorhead grocery worker, blames minorities for virus
edit: He was arrested.
re: #320 jaunte
If Trump was an agent for a national enemy intent on damaging our country would he be acting differently?
Loosening environmental regulations — sabotaging ACA — promoting oil — this is standard GOP practice. Some mythical Republican President would NOT be handling these particular issues differently. However, they may have taken seriously issues related to a pandemic and intervened strongly at the beginning of this crisis to prevent it from becoming a catastrophe.
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re: #371 Rightwingconspirator
Yes we are. Hell comes to us by our own doing.
The SG is another Pence plant, IIRC.
re: #335 Eclectic Cyborg
I think they’ll also remember which of their family and friends aren’t alive to vote come November.
I say no mercy. Hit the GOP HARD. They OWN THIS. Tie it around their neck like the giant fucking Albatross it is.
I remember Grandma Bacon telling me that Republicans pinned the blame of Spanish flu on Wilson and the Democrats in the 1918 elections. The Democrats were slaughtered as “The Death Party”…
re: #336 Eric The Fruit Bat
We need more tests - both the industrial ability to test and get results back at hospital scale, and the fast tests that could help with urgent care facilities.
The fast tests will be deployed on Long Island at an urgent care in Farmingdale. They’ll be able to process about 100 tests in a day, each taking 15 minutes. In a 12 hour day, that means they’d be doing 8 tests an hour (2 machines).
Everywhere needs both kinds of tests. Lots more. The fact that they’re thinking of diverting one or the other kind to different regions shows how little the understand the crisis.
re: #112 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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Get within 6 feet of me and Ill fuck you up.
Lre: #370 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Even at as the crisis deepens, he is still ratings gold…
How about his ratings? Seriously can we not have all this negative crap about how Trump is gonna win and Ivankas gonna succeed him without a hitch? I’m sorry but it’s tiring as hell.
re: #379 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
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How about his ratings? Seriously can we not have all this negative crap about how Trump is gonna win and Ivankas gonna succeed him without a hitch? I’m sorry but it’s tiring as hell.
Seconded. We’ve already got a ton of shit news without making up our own.
We knew this was going to happen!
The White House Correspondents Association (WHCA) this week voted to expel Trump-loving One America News reporter Chanel Rion after she refused to follow pandemic social distancing rules — but now she’s been invited back just one day later.
OAN’s Jennifer Franco tweeted on Thursday that Rion “has been invited by [White House Press Secretary] Stephanie Grisham to attend today’s coronavirus press briefing, despite being voted out the rotation by the WHCA yesterday for violating social distancing guidelines.”
Trump needs his asskissers.
re: #379 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
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How about his ratings? Seriously can we not have all this negative crap about how Trump is gonna win and Ivankas gonna succeed him without a hitch? I’m sorry but it’s tiring as hell.
point is that the media are still not going to cover him the way he deserves to be covered, namely in the tons of shit that he spews.
re: #373 Hecuba’s daughter
Loosening environmental regulations — sabotaging ACA — promoting oil — this is standard GOP practice. Some mythical Republican President would NOT be handling these particular issues differently. However, they may have taken seriously issues related to a pandemic and intervened strongly at the beginning of this crisis to prevent it from becoming a catastrophe.
I don’t think Generic GOP President flat out ignores IC warnings about a potential pandemic and then goes golfing and to a rally. I mean generic Republicans are awful but Trump really is uniquely fucking awful in many ways.
They were playing “Circle of Life” on the radio here at work. Is that a song you should play during a pandemic?
re: #384 Belafon
They were playing “Circle of Life” on the radio here at work. Is that a song you should play during a pandemic?
is “can you feel the love tonight” any better?
More from Oversight: Specifics requests by states for equpiment are being unmet in a big way, per documents provided by FEMA. Here’s WV, for exmaple pic.twitter.com/L0ri8djsGg
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) April 2, 2020
And here’s DC: pic.twitter.com/K2YCIDowBl
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) April 2, 2020
re: #367 makeitstop
About the ‘travel ban’ from China - actually, people entering from China were going to these airports:
Chicago’s O’Hare International
Dallas Fort Worth International
Detroit Metropolitan
Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International
Honolulu’s Official Daniel K. Inouye International
John F. Kennedy International
Los Angeles International
Newark Liberty International
San Francisco International
Seattle-Tacoma International
Washington DullesLook at how many airports on that list just happen to line up with COVID hotspots.
Nah, that’s just a sheer coincidence, I’m sure.
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Those hubs fed domestic flights elsewhere, and connecting flights and all the rest. Because no one at TSA or Trumpworld thought to implement screening on all flights in the US. They aren’t screening domestic or international flights. They aren’t screening before anyone enters the TSA security theater screening lines. They aren’t screening at the airport departure gate. They aren’t screening domestic flights at all. They’re screening incoming international arrivals, only after they’ve been on a flight with other people who may or may not be showing symptoms.
There’s no actual travel ban to speak of. It’s vaporware when you realize that the flights are still going on and US citizens are able to fly domestic or internationally on the remaining active flights. Anyone claiming that Trump implemented a travel ban ignores that the ban didn’t stop flights or people entering the US with covid19 and that all the screenings have been haphazard at best.
re: #381 Joe Bacon 🌹
We knew this was going to happen!
The White House Correspondents Association (WHCA) this week voted to expel Trump-loving One America News reporter Chanel Rion after she refused to follow pandemic social distancing rules — but now she’s been invited back just one day later.
OAN’s Jennifer Franco tweeted on Thursday that Rion “has been invited by [White House Press Secretary] Stephanie Grisham to attend today’s coronavirus press briefing, despite being voted out the rotation by the WHCA yesterday for violating social distancing guidelines.”
Trump needs his asskissers.
watch, first question
re: #382 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
point is that the media are still not going to cover him the way he deserves to be covered, namely in the tons of shit that he spews.
Of course not but there’s no goddamned reason to act like we’re on our way to a repeat of 2016 while ignoring 2018 and the early primaries.
re: #389 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Of course not but there’s no goddamned reason to act like we’re on our way to a repeat of 2016 while ignoring 2018 and the early primaries.
I am not, but we still cannot reckon with the press coming to its senses before then…
Germany’s mortality rate is up to 1.25%. re: #383 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I don’t think Generic GOP President flat out ignores IC warnings about a potential pandemic and then goes golfing and to a rally. I mean generic Republicans are awful but Trump really is uniquely fucking awful in many ways.
I agree with you on that — I was just challenging the idea that destroying the ACA, damaging the environment, and promoting oil were Trump-specific initiatives. And Trump could not continue with his unique awfulness if the Washington GOP did not support him wholeheartedly.
Sorry if I sound snappy. It’s just. We are in April in a terrible pandemic and we’re already fretting November.
re: #391 Hecuba’s daughter
Germany’s mortality rate is up to 1.25%.
I agree with you on that — I was just challenging the idea that destroying the ACA, damaging the environment, and promoting oil were Trump-specific initiatives. And Trump could not continue with his unique awfulness if the Washington GOP did not support him wholeheartedly.
True enough.
This kind of proud, entitled, idiocy, by the people charged with managing this crisis, just destroys me. How are we going to get through this, with blockheads like this pulling the levers? https://t.co/ZpkhEwLK7R
— Tom Philpott (@tomphilpott) April 2, 2020
re: #381 Joe Bacon 🌹
We knew this was going to happen!
The White House Correspondents Association (WHCA) this week voted to expel Trump-loving One America News reporter Chanel Rion after she refused to follow pandemic social distancing rules — but now she’s been invited back just one day later.
OAN’s Jennifer Franco tweeted on Thursday that Rion “has been invited by [White House Press Secretary] Stephanie Grisham to attend today’s coronavirus press briefing, despite being voted out the rotation by the WHCA yesterday for violating social distancing guidelines.”
Trump needs his asskissers.
WHCA should put her chair on the podium next to Grisham.
re: #390 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I am not, but we still cannot reckon with the press coming to its senses before then…
Fair enough. I just think if the media is driving public perceptions of Trump and the GOP, I don’t think it’s working.
“Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.” pic.twitter.com/tGlKwy5GJU
— Foxfeather Zenkova (@foxfeather) April 2, 2020
(it’s really an emu hatchling)
re: #394 Backwoods_Sleuth
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This is the clown that got his kid to talk about how much their Dad loves Dear Leader.
NJ: 182 new deaths Thursday bring NJ total to 537, with 25,590 cases statewide
re: #392 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Sorry if I sound snappy. It’s just. We are in April in a terrible pandemic and we’re already fretting November.
All good, man. Most of us are in a similar predicament. I’m not not bothering to hide the fact I am seriously pissed off about a lot of what is happening right now. But I also need to protect my sanity too so I’m finding things to laugh at and relax me as I work through this.
re: #398 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Yeah: that’s what they want you to think….
…wait until the teeth come out
300 inmates and staff test positive in Rikers Island.
re: #401 Eclectic Cyborg
Same here. I was watching Rick Steves’s Europe on amazon. That is almost like being there.
Know nothing GOP Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has a new coronavirus scapegoat: the Super Bowl. This is the same idiot governor who encouraged Spring Breakers to revel on the beaches statewide until just a few days ago. https://t.co/FI0V0E74Hp
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) April 2, 2020
This was 50 days ago. https://t.co/zp4iuULd9R
— Kamala Harris (@SenKamalaHarris) April 2, 2020
re: #393 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Germany’s mortality rate is up to 1.25%.
People who were hanging on are starting to die.
But the good news is that the rate of doubling is decelerating…now every 7-8 days. When they get it to 10 days, that can be called progress.
What is SCARY is that Germany, with a population of nearly 83 million has fewer cases/fatalities (81K/1K) than New York State, with a population of 29 million
(92K /2.4K)
Wow, it’s hard to believe this guy turned out to be utterly incompetent and woefully incapable of leading his state in a crisis.https://t.co/hUfiTk2fNl
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) April 2, 2020
re: #397 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Fair enough. I just think if the media is driving public perceptions of Trump and the GOP, I don’t think it’s working.
yes, the hard reality on the ground is catching up with the New Media Reality and beating it (literally) to death
The Democrats have moved the convention to August 17th: thehill.com.
re: #388 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)
watch, first question
“Glorious Leader, may I have the honor of sucking your…”
re: #404 PhillyPretzel
Same here. I was watching Rick Steves’s Europe on amazon. That is almost like being there.
Rick Steves put the neighboring small town of Bacharach on the map, he lists it as one of the places you absolutely must visit when you come to Germany. God bless him, but none of those folks will be coming before the end of the season this year if at all…
A frontline doctor at a major NYC hospital told me he lost his first patient this morning to rationing of care — not enough ventilators to go around. The lack of supplies and testing is real — and costing lives — no matter what the daily reality show tries to sell you.
— Daniel Goldman (@danielsgoldman) April 2, 2020
re: #407 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
People who were hanging on are starting to die.
But the good news is that the rate of doubling is decelerating…now every 7-8 days. When they get it to 10 days, that can be called progress.
What is SCARY is that Germany, is a population of nearly 83 million has fewer cases/fatalities (81K/1K) than New York State, with a population of 29 million
(92K /2.4K)
Yes — but when competent scientists are trying to project the CFR here, they need good information from comparable first world countries. Of course, everything will be higher here because of Trump’s malignant influence on health care throughout the nation.
re: #401 Eclectic Cyborg
All good, man. Most of us are in a similar predicament. I’m not not bothering to hide the fact I am seriously pissed off about a lot of what is happening right now. But I also need to protect my sanity too so I’m finding things to laugh at and relax me as I work through this.
Me too. Played a drinking game last night with friends over Zoom. Watched Tiger King with my parents and kid brother too.
Cough Benghazi Cough https://t.co/l8qYFBhS1P
— Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) April 2, 2020
#Florida FINALLY acknowledging the massive number of deaths, all at once, due to #covid19. Shame on @GovRonDeSantis ! pic.twitter.com/3PShjlfiz0
— (((Howard Forman))) (@thehowie) April 2, 2020
re: #417 lawhawk
We all knew Florida was going to be a hot spot.
Oh my little stars and comets.
I’ve been talking with a chinese forge for a few months. They make reproductions of Han dynasty swords - both Jain and Dao. I have been wanting one of their dao for sometime but haven’t had the money.
A few weeks ago they ask me my contact information to put me on their testers list. I’m flattered and give them it and forget about it.
I’m making breakfast this morning and there is a knock at the door. Delivery guy doing the dump and run. I bring a long thin package in. Chinese characters on the customs forms. WTF?
Oh sweet light, it’s a Roaring Dragon Chu double handed Jian.
I have no clue why they sent me this glorious 100 cm of steel but I am tickled. Time to contact them.
Florida. Because infecting your neighbors is what freedom is all about. https://t.co/NjTr74n29Z
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) April 2, 2020
re: #417 lawhawk
Maybe a correction is in order? Florida Health is still reporting just 128 deaths.
re: #419 William Lewis
I have no clue why they sent me this glorious 100 cm of steel but I am tickled. Time to contact them.
Because you’re their Michonne. They know you’ll get plenty of good use out of it, and write them a nice Yelp review.
re: #421 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Maybe a correction is in order? Florida Health is still reporting just 128 deaths.
Whatever the tweet said, it’s been deleted.
re: #402 Jay C
Yeah: that’s what they want you to think….
…wait until the teeth come out
Emus are already worse than velociraptors. Cassowaries are even worse, being that they are basically heavily armoured combat emus with jungle training. The Australian Army conducted a war against emus around the middle of the 20th century.
And lost.
re: #234 Backwoods_Sleuth
Two thoughts:
1. Going to take more than a few corks to stop a cat
2. Just how much wine has been drunk in this household? https://t.co/rOwItSq9ti— Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) April 2, 2020
It took Shelby months to breach this obstacle
Hazardous opinion-It’s not too soon to talk about when, what and who can come out safely. Haphazard later would suck.
What if we start with an immunity test for almost everyone? It will be a finger prick blood test. Not invasive, not terribly hazardous to the medical pro administering. If you are immune you are off the hook for staying home. Problem is everyone immune becomes an economic super class of worker.
Where on that infection/fatality curve do we open up, perhaps in phases by industry or area? Well if we fragment the population that way we are trying to make a lot of companies “fly with one wing” so to speak. Or if all at once where do we need to be?
re: #381 Joe Bacon 🌹
We knew this was going to happen!
The White House Correspondents Association (WHCA) this week voted to expel Trump-loving One America News reporter Chanel Rion after she refused to follow pandemic social distancing rules — but now she’s been invited back just one day later.
OAN’s Jennifer Franco tweeted on Thursday that Rion “has been invited by [White House Press Secretary] Stephanie Grisham to attend today’s coronavirus press briefing, despite being voted out the rotation by the WHCA yesterday for violating social distancing guidelines.”
Trump needs his asskissers.
So, a meaningful response from the WHCA? A sternly worded letter? A minor expression of concern? Or do they just knuckle under since “access” is so vital?
re: #264 Backwoods_Sleuth
My Democratic senator! Casey has really stepped up since the Orange Menace was elected.
The other one - Pat Toomey, R, Spineless is useless at best, callous at worst.
Toomey has NEVER, repeat never, held an in-person town hall in or near Philadelphia, in his 9 years in office. Only shows up here for photo ops and pricey donor events.
Toomey was personally responsible for the tax scam bill provision eliminating the penalty for the ACA individual mandate, yes, the one being used to challenge the entire ACA…spit
re: #426 Rightwingconspirator
Hazardous opinion-It’s not too soon to talk about when, what and who can come out safely. Haphazard later would suck.
What if we start with an immunity test for almost everyone? It will be a finger prick blood test. Not invasive, not terribly hazardous to the medical pro administering. If you are immune you are off the hook for staying home. Problem is everyone immune becomes an economic super class of worker.
Where on that infection/fatality curve do we open up, perhaps in phases by industry or area? Well if we fragment the population that way we are trying to make a lot of companies “fly with one wing” so to speak. Or if all at once where do we need to be?
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re: #172 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
CNN seems to think we are in the 4th wave of this outbreak.
I’m confused.
You’re not confused. They are.
re: #190 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Are there clips of Truman saying that? It would be a great ad for Team Biden to use.
AFAIR he never said it, he had a little wooden sign on his desk that said it.
re: #381 Joe Bacon 🌹
Rion walks in, the rest need to walk out.
re: #410 Belafon
The Democrats have moved the convention to August 17th: thehill.com.
OH NO! Another month of Bernie.
re: #234 Backwoods_Sleuth
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