As COVID-19 continues to dominate the news cycle, John Oliver looks at the various sources of misinformation about the disease - from televangelists and the right wing media, to President Trump himself.
For a brief moment, oil was trading at $.90/barrel, though it’s now up to $2.20.
re: #2 Dr Lizardo
WTAF?!
Oil at $0.13/bbl?
Buyers have nowhere to store it, so there is zero demand.
re: #4 PhillyPretzel
please keep in mind this is a commodity and being so prices can go up and down all day until there is a fix like the closing of the business.
Oh, I know - but I gotta admit, my jaw dropped when I saw that.
re: #5 Dr Lizardo
Same here. I will wait for the end of the trading day. Five o’clock.
This is scary, and understandable. WaPo
Patients with heart attacks, strokes and even appendicitis vanish from hospitals
Soon after he repurposed his 60-bed cardiac unit to accommodate covid-19 patients, Mount Sinai cardiovascular surgeon John Puskas was stumped: With nearly all the beds now occupied by victims of the novel coronavirus, where had all the heart patients gone? Even those left almost speechless by crushing chest pain weren’t coming through the ER.
I’m ready to offer to store crude at my office if you pay me.
Reverse Mad Max where Mad Max travels the road trying to force people to take his fucking worthless barrels of oil off his hands
— James Felton (@JimMFelton) April 20, 2020
Oil just hit $0 a barrel. pic.twitter.com/ueOLjMtRmc
— Joe McCann (@joemccann) April 20, 2020
Chester County, PA COVID-19 stats (as of yesterday)
Confirmed Cases: 915 (+38)
Tested: 4905 (+130)
Deaths: 42 (+4) [12 of these in a single township]
Doubling rate about 10-11 days, I’d say that it’s definitely flattening out from a week ago.
Caveat: Things might boom in a weak or two since there was that stupid “open up” protest today at the State Capitol.
I plan on hunkering down and staying in place. Since supply run today the greatest shortage is probably going to be patience with reading about people being stupid about pandemic response.
I thought masturbation was a Catholic sin.
And here you are right out in public.— The Cookie Doggo (@pelecookie) April 20, 2020
re: #4 PhillyPretzel
please keep in mind this is a commodity and being so prices can go up and down all day until there is a fix like the closing of the business.
Understood. But there’s low and there’s “During this time, I’ll throw in these kitchen knives for free.”
re: #10 goddamnedfrank
One thing I could never figure out about the Mad Max movies, who was drilling, extracting and refining all the oil and gasoline that they needed for all their custom vehicles? Because THEY woulda own Bartertown.
Wherein the know nothing GOP tries to claim oil worth $0 a barrel is valuable and that this isn’t a sign of economic collapse (it is).
There is zero demand. There’s all these countries producing oil, and they’ve run out of places to store it. There’s only so many refineries and refined oil that can store the oil on tankers or in storage tanks.
It’s now cheaper to keep the oil in the ground than to drill it, process it, ship it, and store it.
And it’s a sign that none of this will improve until covid19 is under control. Trump’s actions have guaranteed that wont happen anytime soon, and all the rosy predictions that the economy will again grow in Q3 and Q4 are based on containment and reopening for business when there’s zero evidence that we’ll have containment by then, or even enough testing to do so without running up the death toll.
re: #11 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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Just waiting for the head of the exchange to put the Duke Brothers seat up for sale…
Holy smokes. Oil price has gone NEGATIVE for first time in History in US.
-0.22 $ a 🛢. Insane: pic.twitter.com/UoCrCIdm7I— Joyce Karam (@Joyce_Karam) April 20, 2020
Has anyone checked in on Charles Koch to see if he’s putting the nitro tablets under his tongue?
“Facebook Will Ban Protests That Defy Government ‘Guidance’ on Distancing”https://t.co/lu7sopAuKl
— Mark Pitcavage (@egavactip) April 20, 2020
“… A Facebook spokesperson told Motherboard over the weekend that the social network would allow protest events as long as they do not fall afoul of government guidance on social distancing, but will ban ones that do.
“Unless the government prohibits the event during this time, we allow it to be organized on Facebook,” the spokesperson wrote in an email. “For this same reason, events that defy government’s guidance on social distance aren’t allowed on Facebook. “
…”
re: #15 The Pie Overlord!
One thing I could never figure out about the Mad Max movies, who was drilling, extracting and refining all the oil and gasoline that they needed for all their custom vehicles? Because THEY woulda own Bartertown.
1st movie, civilization still existed but was starting to crash.
2nd movie, scavenging what was left.
3rd movie, the cars ran on methane from pig shit. Max’s truck was pulled by camels at the beginning.
4th movie/reboot, there was a refinery called Gas Town.
Now trading at negative-8 bucks. Does that mean stores will pay you to take their gas?
Email from Tammy Duckworth:
I was proud to vote in favor of the CARES Act which is providing critical financial resources to families and small businesses struggling due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
But so many small businesses — especially those in underserved or rural areas — don’t have relationships with the big lenders who are distributing most of these loans. That means unless we take proactive steps, these underserved communities will be hit even harder by this economic crisis, just as they were during the Great Recession in 2008.
That’s why recently, several of my Democratic colleagues and I wrote a joint letter to Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and Small Business Administration Administrator Jovita Carranza, urging them to reserve CARES Act funds specifically for underserved businesses.
re: #23 Jack Burton
1st movie, civilization still existed but was starting to crash.
2nd movie, scavenging what was left.
3rd movie, the cars ran on methane from pig shit. Max’s truck was pulled by camels at the beginning.
4th movie/reboot, there was a refinery called Gas Town.
I liked the theory that Mad Max had eventually just become the person all unnamed heroic actions were attributed to. And that the stories, being retellings, were never completely what happened.
re: #25 TarHellion
Now trading at negative-8 bucks. Does that mean stores will pay you to take their gas?
These are the futures. And right now, there’s supply in the pipeline so to speak that was priced higher, which is what you’ll see at the gas pump for the next few weeks. But with slack demand, distributors aren’t going to be passing along the costs to consumers nearly as fast as when they pass along the higher costs. There’s always a disconnect when prices drop (wonder why that is…. /half).
re: #23 Jack Burton
1st movie, civilization still existed but was starting to crash.
2nd movie, scavenging what was left.
3rd movie, the cars ran on methane from pig shit. Max’s truck was pulled by camels at the beginning.
4th movie/reboot, there was a refinery called Gas Town.
Didn’t the little enclave under siege in the 2nd movie have a well and some refining capacity - thus the reason they were under siege? (They certainly were using natural gas jet-like flame throwers as part of their defenses.)
And the post-script was about how they were hauling barrels of the “precious juice” out with them on the bus while the others took the tanker truck off the other way as a decoy.
re: #26 retired cynic
Tammy Duckworth is a name I don’t often hear when speaking of our Deep Bench. She’s solid.
re: #29 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Didn’t the little enclave under siege in the 2nd movie have a well and some refining capacity - thus the reason they were under siege? (They certainly were using natural gas jet-like flame throwers as part of their defenses.)
And the post-script was about how they were hauling barrels of the “precious juice” out with them on the bus while the others took the tanker truck off the other way as a decoy.
Yeah, they did. IIRC the backstory of Mad Max 2, Papagallo had been a worker at that small refinery, so he established a colony of sorts there - and that’s why Lord Humungus was besieging the place.
re: #29 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Didn’t the little enclave under siege in the 2nd movie have a well and some refining capacity - thus the reason they were under siege? (They certainly were using natural gas jet-like flame throwers as part of their defenses.)
And the post-script was about how they were hauling barrels of the “precious juice” out with them on the bus while the others took the tanker truck off the other way as a decoy.
Yes but outside of that area, everyone was just scavenging gas from abandoned and wrecked cars.
re: #28 lawhawk
These are the futures. And right now, there’s supply in the pipeline so to speak that was priced higher, which is what you’ll see at the gas pump for the next few weeks. But with slack demand, distributors aren’t going to be passing along the costs to consumers nearly as fast as when they pass along the higher costs. There’s always a disconnect when prices drop (wonder why that is…. /half).
Specifically, those are the May futures which expire tomorrow, where you’d take delivery this month. Which should be approximately equal to the spot price. So yep, producers would pay you to take it off their hands now, except you have to store it and it’s your problem. June futures for Brent crude are around $25/bbl, so we’ll see what happens with those.
I wonder what weird financial consequences this is going to have, since this has never happened before.
covid-19 deaths are going to spike again because a bunch of stupid fucking “land free” toilet lickers won’t stay the fuck in their houses and our useless decaying game show host rodeo clown president is too weak and dumb to tell them not to. this is why we can’t have nice things
— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) April 20, 2020
re: #35 Belafon
Find me a warehouse, Myrtle! They’re gonna pay me to store all the oil!
Watch the headlines.
We’re only a few weeks away, I suspect, from executives in the energy sector warning that American oil companies will collapse without government bailouts.
Trump will be in a lose-lose position.
It’s coming.
11/11— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) April 20, 2020
Basically, it’s going to be a replay of Summer ‘08, only bailing out oil companies is gonna be a harder sell than bailing out banks and car companies. I foresee the Repubs having a very hard time arguing in an election year that the ideal situation is oil companies receiving a “no-strings” bailout.
re: #34 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)
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I posted that because this:
In an ABC News interview, Dr. Anthony Fauci warned those protesting stay-at-home orders that their efforts would backfire.
Said Fauci: “If you jump the gun, and go into a situation where you have a big spike, you’re going to set yourself back. So as painful as it is to go by the careful guidelines of gradually phasing into a reopening — it’s going to backfire. That’s the problem.”
re: #27 Belafon
I liked the theory that Mad Max had eventually just become the person all unnamed heroic actions were attributed to. And that the stories, being retellings, were never completely what happened.
I’m OK with that being the case for 3 and Fury Road. Mad Max 1 and 2/Road Warrior was directly linked. Roar Warrior was a direct sequel and nothing in it contradicted or retconned anything from the first film.
It was after those that George Miller stopped caring about logical consistency or continuity and just wanted to tell a cool story in that world. Thunderdome retconned the entire nature of the apocalypse for starters.
re: #27 Belafon
I liked the theory that Mad Max had eventually just become the person all unnamed heroic actions were attributed to. And that the stories, being retellings, were never completely what happened.
Robin Hood.
Arthur Pendragon
Mad Max.
re: #36 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)
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I thought that to myself watching the clip.
So, just out of curiosity, I tried to go on gasbuddy.com to see what prices were like, and I got a weird message I have never seen before:
Error 503 Backend fetch failed
Backend fetch failedGuru Meditation:
XID: 15237464Varnish cache server
I’m guessing it means their site is borked for some reason or other (despair??), can any tech-savvy Lizards translate this??
re: #44 Jay C
So, just out of curiosity, I tried to go on gasbuddy.com to see what prices were like, and I got a weird message I have never seen before:
I guessing it means their site is borked for some reason or other (despair??), can any tech-savvy Lizards translate this??
They’re probably getting bombarded with people checking to see if oil prices cratering means gas prices are doing the same.
re: #38 Targetpractice
Basically, it’s going to be a replay of Summer ‘08, only bailing out oil companies is gonna be a harder sell than bailing out banks and car companies. I foresee the Repubs having a very hard time arguing in an election year that the ideal situation is oil companies receiving a “no-strings” bailout.
Someone can go on the teevee and explain how much US taxes these companies have paid in the last few years. Tossing in the bullshit oil development tax credits and I’m pretty sure it’s in the negative billions.
If the last Koch goes bankrupt that will make my week.
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With oil prices this low, Exxon/Mobil was forced to lay off its Members of Congress.
re: #38 Targetpractice
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Basically, it’s going to be a replay of Summer ‘08, only bailing out oil companies is gonna be a harder sell than bailing out banks and car companies. I foresee the Repubs having a very hard time arguing in an election year that the ideal situation is oil companies receiving a “no-strings” bailout.
The media will support them, and they will sell it just like they sell borrowing trillions to give massive tax cuts to the rich.
re: #50 NO SMOCKING GUN!
The media will support them, and they will sell it just like they sell borrowing trillions to give massive tax cuts to the rich.
When that happens I am beating every single “embarrassed Republican” libertarian I know over the head with it. (The only positive thing I will be able to make out that sort of disastrous decision.)
re: #49 Kilroy was here
With oil prices this low, Exxon/Mobil was forced to lay off its Members of Congress.
Trump was so focused on saving coal that he didn’t even look at oil!
re: #37 TarHellion
Find me a warehouse, Myrtle! They’re gonna pay me to store all the oil!
$-35.20. I wonder when my company’s going to start storing them in the cubes of people who are working from home.
re: #46 Targetpractice
They’re probably getting bombarded with people checking to see if oil prices cratering means gas prices are doing the same.
I thought something like that: but “Guru Meditation”??
Are all gasbuddy’s IT people off in the yoga studio or what??
(Stolen with pride)
With oil prices so low, Saudis may have to economize by using hand tools to dismember journalists…
re: #47 ericblair
If the last Koch goes bankrupt that will make my week.
If anyone does, I’d rather it be a bunch of Russian Oligarchs that are using oil billions to try to take over the world (or at least position themselves as Eastern Hemisphere Hegemon) via chaos.
Installing idiots as the heads of state/government in the US, UK, and several other countries and helping prop up a Chinese house of cards… if that completely bites Putin in the ass and brings the whole scheme crashing down… I’ll throw a party as soon as it’s safe.
re: #48 Flying Squirrel Girl
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re: #48 Flying Squirrel Girl
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THEN: “Taking a knee during the anthem is an irresponsible way to protest!”
NOW: “Gathering in groups during a pandemic is my god-given right”— Jake Maccoby (@jdmaccoby) April 20, 2020
re: #50 NO SMOCKING GUN!
The media will support them, and they will sell it just like they sell borrowing trillions to give massive tax cuts to the rich.
It’s gonna be a seriously hard sell, especially after the Great Recession. Bailing out banks was already hard enough, and that’s a service industry that’s pretty much seen as a necessary evil in even the best of times. And voters at least tolerated the auto bailout if for no other reason than worry about their own car’s warranty being honored.
Oil companies? Voters may end up supporting a bailout, if only to avoid millions of jobs being lost, but there’s no way in Hell the media’s gonna sell them on a “no-strings” bailout. If Repubs seriously try to push that, they’re gonna pay a heavy political price.
The oil ticker at CNN is busted. The % down is so negative they dropped the hundreds digit.
re: #57 Jack Burton
If anyone does, I’d rather it be a bunch of Russian Oligarchs that are using oil billions to try to take over the world (or at least position themselves as Eastern Hemisphere Hegemon) via chaos.
Installing idiots as the heads of state/government in the US, UK, and several other countries and helping prop up a Chinese house of cards… if that completely bites Putin in the ass and brings the whole scheme crashing down… I’ll throw a party as soon as it’s safe.
See, that wouldn’t make my week: that would make my decade. Law of unintended fucking consequences indeed.
I’ve been thinking that while China is far more diversified than Russia, a tanked US economy would mean the shuttering of numerous factories in China, and that could mean social unrest the likes of which they’ve been trying to avoid since 1989. Of course, the average Chinese citizen is far better off than he or she was in the 1980s. Any number of scenarios are possible, including nothing much happening at all except that unemployment is managed and people go about their daily lives—that, of course, would be the best. When China goes through throes of social unrest, historically, it can get to be epic in violence and damage.
There goes the Volunteer Fire Department siren again. Kyrie eleision.
Russia is fooked. Oil bottoming, CV decimating them… might have to pull back on the troll farming and subterfuge.
re: #64 Belafon
The oil ticker at CNN is busted. The % down is so negative they dropped the hundreds digit.
I’m not a finance guy and this is getting super weird, but it looks like a lot of paper traders are desperate to unload their contracts before they expire and then they DO have to deal with tanker cars full of crude showing up on their doorsteps.
We need to move off gasoline onto a carbon-neutral fuel, but everything is likely crashing now. It would be ironic if the pandemic deals the fatal blow to the oil industry. And it would also deal fatal blows to certain national economies. Looking forward to the end of Putin’s reign but he is a brilliant manipulator so he will likely find some way to survive this collapse, assuming the other oligarchs don’t take him out.
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re: #70 BigPapa
Russia is fooked. Oil bottoming, CV decimating them… might have to pull back on the troll farming and subterfuge.
Naah, I’m guessing they’ll be more likely to double down: after all, there won’t be too many other “growth industries” in the Motherland in the near-term…
re: #58 lawhawk
It’ll be like the government cheese giveaway in the 1980s!
Something tells me that when the bailout of the oil companies does happen, there won’t be any wingnuts making jokes about “Government Oil.”
re: #77 Targetpractice
Hmm. There may be a few jokes.
re: #75 Jay C
Naah, I’m guessing they’ll be more likely to double down: after all, there won’t be too many other “growth industries” in the Motherland in the near-term…
Yeah, I remember Bill Browder McFaul telling a joke he said represents the Russian psyche: “a jinn appears to a Russian man and tells him that he can wish for anything he wants and he’ll get it, but his enemy will get the same thing; so he says, ‘ok, I wish to have my eyes put out.’” (Or something like that.)
re: #78 PhillyPretzel
Hmm. There may be a few jokes.
Probably. After all, the Big Three Bailout was orchestrated by the Dubya admin, yet wingnuts to this day attribute it solely to Obama.
re: #79 Barefoot Grin
Yeah, I remember Bill Browder saying telling a joke he said represents the Russian psyche: “a jinn appears to a Russian man and tells him that he can wish for anything he wants and he’ll get it, but his enemy will get the same thing; so he says, ‘ok, I wish to have my eyes put out.’” (Or something like that.)
The variant I recall is that the enemy gets double what he gets. So the man wishes for having one of his eyes put out.
Weren’t the oil companies raking in billions in profits just a few short years ago?
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I though my stock app died when I saw -$36.47 on the oil chart, then I checked CNN Money, and yep.
re: #80 Targetpractice
Probably. After all, the Big Three Bailout was orchestrated by the Dubya admin, yet wingnuts to this day attribute it solely to Obama.
The GOP and Fox News will promote, and the media will uncritically report, that the fossil fuel industry are great American companies that employ millions, the economy will be permanently crippled without them, they are critical for national security, yada, yada.
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— Lemon Harangue Pie (@Pie_Overlord) April 20, 2020
re: #84 NO SMOCKING GUN!
The GOP and Fox News will promote, and the media will uncritically report, that the fossil fuel industry are great American companies that employ millions, the economy will be permanently crippled without them, they are critical for national security, yada, yada.
And then, by next spring, will be accusing Biden of “socialism” for thinking that the companies should have to show some loyalty to the country by paying additional taxes or in some way supporting the economic recovery.
re: #75 Jay C
Naah, I’m guessing they’ll be more likely to double down: after all, there won’t be too many other “growth industries” in the Motherland in the near-term…
The thing about the troll farms: it’s cheap as far as warfare goes. The IRA is a 3 or 4 story office building: chump change to run per year as opposed to navy ships and air power.
He bought off Trump and helped him get elected for less than the price of 1.72 F35’s.
re: #71 ericblair
I’m not a finance guy and this is getting super weird, but it looks like a lot of paper traders are desperate to unload their contracts before they expire and then they DO have to deal with tanker cars full of crude showing up on their doorsteps.
That’s basically it. So the real reason oil is at -$40/barrel (yes, negative 40) is because there’s a place in Oklahoma which is running out of space. West Texas Intermediate crude needs to be settled there.
Brent Crude isn’t doing as badly because it doesn’t have as many limitations on where it can be settled.
The real reason oil futures plunged on Monday
re: #17 Joe Bacon 🌹
Just waiting for the head of the exchange to put the Duke Brothers seat up for sale…
FUCK HIM!
You know, if the Trump administration was smart, they would be using this as an opportunity to completely fill up the Strategic Petroleum Reserves (currently we are around 75 million barrels below capacity), which would in turn serve to alleviate the pressure of overabundance which is being caused by COVID-19 reducing travel by a whole lot.
But then again, it’s been well established time and again that Donald Trump is not a smart man.
re: #18 lawhawk
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— I’m Mary F’in Poppins Y’all (@Rocheyberts) April 19, 2020
re: #90 Vote Cthulhu - No longer the greater evil!
You know, if the Trump administration was smart, they would be using this as an opportunity to completely fill up the Strategic Petroleum Reserves (currently we are around 75 million barrels below capacity), which would in turn serve to alleviate the pressure of overabundance which is being caused by COVID-19 reducing travel by a whole lot.
But then again, it’s been well established time and again that Donald Trump is not a smart man.
An article on WaPo is making that argument right now.
re: #90 Vote Cthulhu - No longer the greater evil!
You know, if the Trump administration was smart, they would be using this as an opportunity to completely fill up the Strategic Petroleum Reserves (currently we are around 75 million barrels below capacity), which would in turn serve to alleviate the pressure of overabundance which is being caused by COVID-19 reducing travel by a whole lot.
But then again, it’s been well established time and again that Donald Trump is not a smart man.
“It’s the job of the states to keep the reserve full.”
(As states buy oil for their own reserves, FEMA steals it to restock the national supply.)
re: #90 Vote Cthulhu - No longer the greater evil!
You know, if the Trump administration was smart, they would be using this as an opportunity to completely fill up the Strategic Petroleum Reserves (currently we are around 75 million barrels below capacity), which would in turn serve to alleviate the pressure of overabundance which is being caused by COVID-19 reducing travel by a whole lot.
But then again, it’s been well established time and again that Donald Trump is not a smart man.
Another thing, if gas prices remain low, is that a different administration could have used this as a safe time to raise federal gas taxes when it’s _less_ harmful*, and keep them when the crisis is over. We really do need to move from fossil fuels.
India used a similar oil price low to reduce _subsidies_ on certain types of fuels, which were a massive drain on the budget, and mostly being taken advantage of by the middle classes and the rich.
*With rebates for essential workers of course.
re: #90 Vote Cthulhu - No longer the greater evil!
You know, if the Trump administration was smart, they would be using this as an opportunity to completely fill up the Strategic Petroleum Reserves (currently we are around 75 million barrels below capacity), which would in turn serve to alleviate the pressure of overabundance which is being caused by COVID-19 reducing travel by a whole lot.
But then again, it’s been well established time and again that Donald Trump is not a smart man.
Forget the myths that the media has created about the White House.
The truth is, these are not very bright guys…
420.
This is probably the most excessive thing I’ve ever seen when it comes to cannabis consumption.
Happy 420 to all my stoners around the world….a blunt a day keeps the demons away #420 pic.twitter.com/g1l19BD47E
— KING (@jackfrost8) April 20, 2020
re: #90 Vote Cthulhu - No longer the greater evil!
You know, if the Trump administration was smart, they would be using this as an opportunity to completely fill up the Strategic Petroleum Reserves (currently we are around 75 million barrels below capacity), which would in turn serve to alleviate the pressure of overabundance which is being caused by COVID-19 reducing travel by a whole lot.
But then again, it’s been well established time and again that Donald Trump is not a smart man.
They were trying to do that back when the oil futures were at $30. They backed out of that plan and instead suggested that producers rent the space instead.
Neither plan looks good especially since producers need to pay someone to take it off their hands. Trump’s options are to essentially bail out oil producers and piss off most Americans, or not bail out the oil producers and watch his oil masters beat on him.
Fuck Trump. He fucked all of this up, and the oil companies don’t deserve or need bailout.
But for Trump’s failed actions, he could have limited the downside risk of the economic effects of covid19. Instead, he took the worst possible actions and guaranteed spread, and maximized the carnage.
so this guy:
Before President Trump tapped Adm. Brett Giroir to be the nation’s “coronavirus testing czar,” he was the head of vaccine development at Texas A&M University. And in 2015, he was given the choice of either resigning or being fired from that job because he wasn’t acting like a “team player,” the Washington Post reports.
rando commenter creating context:
There are literally dozens of Admirals and Generals who are logistics experts that Trump could chose from, and he manages to pick a guy who failed so bad he was forced to resign. If sucking and doing the absolute wrong thing were equivalent to getting a hole in one, Trump would be playing a Kim-Jong-Un 18 hole round of golf where he cards a final score of 18. Statistically totally impossible but somehow he’s doing it.
while other rando points out the logic:
But after eight years of work on several vaccine projects, Giroir was told in 2015 he had 30 minutes to resign or he would be fired. His annual performance evaluation at Texas A&M, the local newspaper reported, said he was “more interested in promoting yourself” than the health science center where he worked. He got low marks on being a “team player.”
Donald spots a kindred spirit.
re: #97 teleskiguy
Duuuuude, that’s crazy.
re: #93 stpaulbear
75 million barrels of capacity? We produce about 12.5 million barrels per day. That means that given the glut, we’d max out the SPR in some fashion of rental or purchase within a week.
re: #90 Vote Cthulhu - No longer the greater evil!
You know, if the Trump administration was smart, they would be using this as an opportunity to completely fill up the Strategic Petroleum Reserves (currently we are around 75 million barrels below capacity), which would in turn serve to alleviate the pressure of overabundance which is being caused by COVID-19 reducing travel by a whole lot.
But then again, it’s been well established time and again that Donald Trump is not a smart man.
Even a blind squirrel yadda yadda. Trump’s been calling to fill the SPR for weeks.
re: #97 teleskiguy
420.
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Just got the not at all surprising news that Kentucky schools are out for the rest of this school year. I will also not be surprised if remote learning continues in the Fall.
re: #70 BigPapa
Russia is fooked. Oil bottoming, CV decimating them… might have to pull back on the troll farming and subterfuge.
They are going to need to keep a few if they want to knock off Donnie and blame it on the Dems. Someone has to stroke these dimwits correctly so they “understand” who assassinated their leader. Then civil war 2. Total USA unrest. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!
re: #33 ericblair
I wonder what weird financial consequences this is going to have, since this has never happened before.
he biggest players will get bailed out because they have been blessed with Freedom from Moral Risk.
This is Late Stage Capitalism/Mercantilism you know, the Free Market is just for show…
re: #102 Dread Pirate
I’m restocking the stash today.
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Gah. What I’d give for some place selling edibles or gummies within easy driving distance of here. I’m a lightweight, I don’t need much … < pouts >
re: #110 William Lewis
Gah. What I’d give for some place selling edibles or gummies within easy driving distance of here. I’m a lightweight, I don’t need much … < pouts >
They deliver to the door too….
America, what a country!
The Covid Count for my friends has risen to 12.
5 passed away
3 recovered
4 in hospital.
re: #84 NO SMOCKING GUN!
The GOP and Fox News will promote, and the media will uncritically report, that the fossil fuel industry are great American companies that employ millions, the economy will be permanently crippled without them, they are critical for national security, yada, yada.
What’s good for Standard Oil…
re: #82 Eclectic Cyborg
Weren’t the oil companies raking in billions in profits just a few short years ago?
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Again, bootstrap shortage. Can’t be found for any price.
re: #102 Dread Pirate
$57 for an eighth??? That’s… expensive. You in Cali? At the local weed store here in Colorado prices are $35/eighth for top shelf flower, $27/eighth for regular kind bud.
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re: #84 NO SMOCKING GUN!
The GOP and Fox News will promote, and the media will uncritically report, that the fossil fuel industry are great American companies that employ millions, the economy will be permanently crippled without them, they are critical for national security, yada, yada.
Then I want the oil companies to forgo their subsidies permanently also.
re: #116 Omar Comin’ Yo
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re: #117 Eventual Carrion
Then I want the oil companies to forgo their subsidies permanently also.
LOL, not going to happen.
re: #119 Joe Bacon 🌹
I had piss test roulette for years. I feel your pain.
re: #92 NO SMOCKING GUN!
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And Joe Joe the Monkey boy with the flag wrapped around him like a security blanket.
Happy 420
— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) April 20, 2020
I’ve been thinking all day about my future in the photojournalism business, particularly in sports that’s the biggest chunk of that income. I think that even if the NFL starts on time, I’d be surprised if still photographers will be allowed. Same with all other major sports until there’s a vaccine, which would be next MLB opening day at the earliest. That’s a full year, and that may be an optimistic projection. I’ve already settled that I will not be shooting any baseball or basketball for the rest of 2020.
Authorities filled a skate park in Venice Beach with sand to deter people from gathering there amid coronavirus-related restrictions. Although the park had been closed, groups were continuing to gather at the park, disregarding social distancing. https://t.co/9RWzWzZjLx pic.twitter.com/sk8NvMM4MU
— ABC News (@ABC) April 20, 2020
re: #95 aatharuv
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India used a similar oil price low to reduce _subsidies_ on certain types of fuels, which were a massive drain on the budget, and mostly being taken advantage of by the middle classes and the rich.
*With rebates for essential workers of course.
There you go, abolish subsidies. They have been making historic profit for years and we have given them subsidies as if they are an ailing, fledgling business. Fuck them.
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re: #129 teleskiguy
DO NOT FOR ANY REASON DO IT.
re: #129 teleskiguy
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re: #129 teleskiguy
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re: #129 teleskiguy
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re: #134 Joe Bacon 🌹
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re: #132 teleskiguy
I’m not suggesting you do any. If I was in your shoes I’d be a very good boy.
So far oil seems to be holding at $.26 a barrel
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You know what they don’t test for in urinalysis tests? LSD and psilocybin mushrooms.
re: #126 Ace Rothstein
I’ve been thinking all day about my future in the photojournalism business, particularly in sports that’s the biggest chunk of that income. I think that even if the NFL starts on time, I’d be surprised if still photographers will be allowed. Same with all other major sports until there’s a vaccine, which would be next MLB opening day at the earliest. That’s a full year, and that may be an optimistic projection. I’ve already settled that I will not be shooting any baseball or basketball for the rest of 2020.
That’s gotta suck. You do really good work too from the things you’ve posted and from my own meager attempts at sports photography. Doing artsy-fartsy landscapes like I do doesn’t make any money but that’s ok since it isn’t my job unlike you and sports.
Which is the better investment? 🤔 pic.twitter.com/D6qtkFhAvY
— brandon wenerd (@brandonwenerd) April 20, 2020
Thank you to the lizards that recommended Steady Clothing face masks last week.
They just emailed me that the masks I ordered (last Friday) are on the way. Yay!
— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) April 20, 2020
re: #126 Ace Rothstein
I’ve been thinking all day about my future in the photojournalism business, particularly in sports that’s the biggest chunk of that income. I think that even if the NFL starts on time, I’d be surprised if still photographers will be allowed. Same with all other major sports until there’s a vaccine, which would be next MLB opening day at the earliest. That’s a full year, and that may be an optimistic projection. I’ve already settled that I will not be shooting any baseball or basketball for the rest of 2020.
I would have thought the opposite. I can imagine them going too far on the personnel allowed. But every place that was buying your work will still want it maybe more because the fans can’t be there. That should up the media appetite. But I’m totally ignorant of the circles you run in. Very sorry to hear this might put you out even then. Could it be you are “essential” as a street journalist, able to comply with distancing? Good luck really wish you well.
“Would you like anything to drink?”
me (trying to be frugal):
“17 fucking barrels of crude oil please”— James Felton (@JimMFelton) April 20, 2020
There all good but how about these two? pic.twitter.com/HoWy2QGZOo
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) April 20, 2020
I like this onehttps://t.co/FtbyBJY9iN
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) April 20, 2020
According to the yahoo ticker, oil lost 300% of its value today.
re: #150 NO SMOCKING GUN!
and Kitco still has oil at $.26 a barrel
re: #150 NO SMOCKING GUN!
According to the yahoo ticker, oil lost 300% of its value today.
It’s twice as far underwater as it started out today?
Covidiot wanted by the local sheriff’s department.
Fuckin’ people, man. “…[suspect] went on a rant of how the employee was falling for the ‘media hype.’ The suspect then allegedly got between a customer and an employee and purposely coughed on the products that the other customer was purchasing.” https://t.co/7LZJfpMHRU
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) April 20, 2020
re: #97 teleskiguy
420.
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They should at least distribute goggles before doing that…
re: #151 PhillyPretzel
and Kitco still has oil at $.26 a barrel
Imagonna say that number is a placeholder at this point. What’s the suicide rate in the Permian Basin and in Houston right now?
re: #102 Dread Pirate
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re: #150 NO SMOCKING GUN!
According to the yahoo ticker, oil lost 300% of its value today.
re: #151 PhillyPretzel
and Kitco still has oil at $.26 a barrel
re: #155 Dave In Austin
Imagonna say that number is a placeholder at this point. What’s the suicide rate in the Permian Basin and in Houston right now?
Before we hear the cries “pics or it didn’t happen”:
Only 8% of people Mississippians say the state has “gone too far” with social distancing & our shelter-at-home order.
The other 88% say the response is appropriate (45%) or hasn’t gone far enough (42%), per Millsaps/Chism.
This ABC News “coast-to-coast” framing is ridiculous. https://t.co/zQGAP4Ojnp— Ashton Pittman (@ashtonpittman) April 20, 2020
Here’s a page I wrote up about Greg Sargent’s column today in the Washington Post.
Echos of Tea Party bad craziness.
re: #159 Backwoods_Sleuth
Ashton Pittman
@ashtonpittman
Only 8% of people Mississippians say the state has “gone too far” with social distancing & our shelter-at-home order.
But what to dog and cat Missisippians say?
So, has anyone figured out what exactly Trump and Putin and BoneSaw agreed to? Did they decide to end the world?
re: #158 Teukka
Before we hear the cries “pics or it didn’t happen”:
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Many years ago, I lived in Venezuela when oil hit $11/bbl, and the country imploded. They’re in worse shape now, and the head of PDVSA (state oil co) is apparently missing.
Mexico, Ecuador & Bolivia are going to take a real hit too.
Nigeria, Malaysia, the UAE, Iran, Iraq & of course Russia are all heading for the abyss.
re: #158 Teukka
I think they broke the %-o-meter thingy.
I’m hoping we get someone to say “But if we’d been doing the Green New Deal, we’d be having to figure out where to store the excess wind.”
Conservatives already attacking the Denver nurses who blocked the anti-social distancing protesters, on Facebook and YouTube. Calling them “Democrat Operatives” and “Fake Nurses” because “they’re not in the hospital helping patients.” There is no bottom with these people.
From last thread:
re: #432 Barefoot Grin
I remember reading somewhere that the later crusades had a whole lot less to do with religion than with the fact that western Europeans got their first taste of spices and really good food and that was an inducement to return.
I listened to a ‘Great Courses’ series of lectures on the History of Food recently. It was like dining with an interesting and entertaining dinner partner.
The lecturer talked about everything from the Roman use of fish sauce, through the spice trade driven discoveries, to how Aztecs served their human sacrifices. He also talked about the cultural, political, sociological, psychological and theological issues.
It really made me appreciate how even a meal can be an experience in human history and culture. I found it a fascinating set of lectures.
While I like ‘Great Courses’, I cannot see paying full price. It might be available for free through your public library. For those going that route, it is available through Audible. Several times a year, it is on sale for 70%-90% off ‘list price’ at Great Courses. Generally I prefer listing to audio only as video requires a large commitment of time to sitting and watching.
re: #165 Belafon
more batteries. Turbines are generators batteries are use for storage. Similar to solar.
So I’m hearing a lot about the oil price so I just checked it and … pic.twitter.com/lRYhOXXl4k
— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) April 20, 2020
Remember this pass and shot?
His arm was so good that he was a natural for the inbounds pass for, perhaps, the greatest shot in UCONN history. I mean, just look at that pass. It’s full court, right on the money. And he barely put much into ithttps://t.co/qFmXwuT7Pf
— Sam Stein (@samstein) April 20, 2020
Anyways, Burrell had a fine NBA career but clearly nothing crazy special. But for us Hamden-ites, he is a legend. And now, everyone gets to see him being Jordan’s dog.
— Sam Stein (@samstein) April 20, 2020
re: #168 PhillyPretzel
more batteries. Turbines are generators batteries are use for storage. Similar to solar.
I get that. I mean it literally.
What I’m waiting to see is what happens when all the loans that have been given to the fracking companies go bad.
The world’s largest investment banks have provided more than $700bn of financing for the fossil fuel companies most aggressively expanding in new coal, oil and gas projects since the Paris climate change agreement, figures show.
The financing has been led by the Wall Street giant JPMorgan Chase, which has provided $75bn (£61bn) to companies expanding in sectors such as fracking and Arctic oil and gas exploration, according to the analysis.
The New York bank is one of 33 powerful financial institutions to have provided an estimated total of $1.9tn to the fossil fuel sector between 2016 and 2018.
Since then, they doubled down with another $2 trillion in loans.
That’s $4 TRILLION that just went belly-up. And that’s just the frackers. Exxon, Shell, etc. were in for another $6 trillion.
Banks are about to take a hit. If you can, get your money out in the form of cash, SOON.
re: #158 Teukka
Before we hear the cries “pics or it didn’t happen”:
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Crabs, the bad kind https://t.co/4XZ2meOtVN
— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) April 20, 2020
re: #165 Belafon
I’m hoping we get someone to say “But if we’d been doing the Green New Deal, we’d be having to figure out where to store the excess wind.”
Well, there is Trump complaining that you can’t turn on the TV if the wind isn’t blowing.
re: #172 Khal Wimpo (not drinking damn fish tank cleaner)
What I’m waiting to see is what happens when all the loans that have been given to the fracking companies go bad.
Since then, they doubled down with another $2 trillion in loans.
That’s $4 TRILLION that just went belly-up. And that’s just the frackers. Exxon, Shell, etc. were in for another $6 trillion.
Banks are about to take a hit. If you can, get your money out in the form of cash, SOON.
Imagine if they had gone through with the Keystone pipeline…
re: #172 Khal Wimpo (not drinking damn fish tank cleaner)
Banks are about to take a hit. If you can, get your money out in the form of cash, SOON.
Seems a little bit too much scare there.
Another round of bank consolidations and re-liquidifying (is that word?) is likely.
But money is an abstract since the invention of the Feds, and the FDIC insurance still means $100k is recoverable. The Treasury will simply print more and the Fed distribute enough to cover all insurance claims.
re: #165 Belafon
I’m hoping we get someone to say “But if we’d been doing the Green New Deal, we’d be having to figure out where to store the excess wind.”
That issue has been solved: use the excess power to run an air compressor and literally store the excess wind in tanks to run the generators when the wind dies down.
re: #165 Belafon
I’m hoping we get someone to say “But if we’d been doing the Green New Deal, we’d be having to figure out where to store the excess wind.”
Not to mention how to deal with the skyrocketing cases of wind cancer.
re: #158 Teukka
Before we hear the cries “pics or it didn’t happen”:
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“The unusually large difference in price between oil now and then has traders filling up tankers and setting them adrift. The bet is that the coronavirus pandemic runs its course and later this year demand for oil—and thus its price—will jump.”
re: #177 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Imagine if they had gone through with the Keystone pipeline…
Getting this feeling pretty hard today.
This pandemic is exposing a lot of the lies that America has been telling itself for the last 40 years. About capitalism, health care, “greed is good,” and the wisdom of rich folks.
I look forward to the Fox News higher-ups, Sinclair Broadcasting, OANN, Breitbart, et al. getting dragged through the streets behind jeeps & strung up from streetlamps. The “Full Mussolini” for these savages. They have destroyed the U.S., and strangled the world with useless debt for what? 50 people?
re: #178 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Seems a little bit too much scare there.
Another round of bank consolidations and re-liquidifying (is that word?) is likely.
But money is an abstract since the invention of the Feds, and the FDIC insurance still means $100k is recoverable. The Treasury will simply print more and the Fed distribute enough to cover all insurance claims.
Maybe. But the US government is already drowning in debt. How much more can be shoveled in before the whole machine just breaks down? What happens when the entire banking system locks up and the cash machines stop spitting out $20s?
Branson is only a minority owner at this point. Still, Australia may lose it’s only meaningful competitor to Quantas.
re: #183 Khal Wimpo (not drinking damn fish tank cleaner)
Maybe. But the US government is already drowning in debt. How much more can be shoveled in before the whole machine just breaks down? What happens when the entire banking system locks up and the cash machines stop spitting out $20s?
Banking software can handle more zeros. Not sure how many, but if the software handles 64 bit words, then quite a bit more.
re: #177 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Imagine if they had gone through with the Keystone pipeline…
this close:
re: #183 Khal Wimpo (not drinking damn fish tank cleaner)
Maybe. But the US government is already drowning in debt. How much more can be shoveled in before the whole machine just breaks down? What happens when the entire banking system locks up and the cash machines stop spitting out $20s?
you mean an unprecedented, who could have seen it coming, no one ever planned for this, kind of event?
re: #172 Khal Wimpo (not drinking damn fish tank cleaner)
What I’m waiting to see is what happens when all the loans that have been given to the fracking companies go bad.
Since then, they doubled down with another $2 trillion in loans.
That’s $4 TRILLION that just went belly-up. And that’s just the frackers. Exxon, Shell, etc. were in for another $6 trillion.
Banks are about to take a hit. If you can, get your money out in the form of cash, SOON.
Yep - like the old saying goes, shit rolls downhill.
re: #186 Teukka
Like, the look in the poor animals eyes, it has seen some bad shit…
The 33 Dumbest Signs From “Reopen” Protests Across The U.S.
Not sure BuzzFeed captured all the dumbest ones.
re: #186 Teukka
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next time we write a user manual be sure to include that seatbelts are not intended for eagles.
re: #170 gocart mozart
Looked up to see what Scott Burrell doing now and he is the head coach at Southern Connecticut after spending the 1990s mostly sitting on the bench for the Chicago Bulls and not getting along with michael Jordan.
re: #186 Teukka
That’s the stare when you discover exactly who and what most of your neighbors are.
Time to call it a day. Have a good one, Lizards and stay healthy.
re: #195 Dr Lizardo
Time to call it a day. Have a good one, Lizards and stay healthy.
Here likewise!
re: #81 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
The variant I recall is that the enemy gets double what he gets. So the man wishes for having one of his eyes put out.
That’s it. Much funnier that way.
re: #180 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Not to mention how to deal with the skyrocketing cases of wind cancer.
Windmillinoma is a scourge. We must find a cure.
re: #191 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
The 33 Dumbest Signs From “Reopen” Protests Across The U.S.
Not sure BuzzFeed captured all the dumbest ones.
serious question:
if you wont wear a mask - as many of them say they wont - can a business refuse them entry?
and does it matter whether there’s a state order or not?
my business, my property, my employees, my responsibility for their safety
re: #199 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)
No shirt no shoes no service.
You as a business owner can make your own dress code.
Shirts must have collar.
No jeans.
No hats.
No sports team jackets ( gangs)
re: #37 TarHellion
Find me a warehouse, Myrtle! They’re gonna pay me to store all the oil!
I’m trying to remember the famous economist that this actually happened to. This guy was trading corn futures, but he couldn’t find a buyer. He therefore was forced to take delivery of the corn.
re: #201 Sherlock Hound
This is one reason why I absolutely refuse to trade commodities.
This is a form of human sacrifice. https://t.co/eAwsavy98w
— Adam Serwer🍝 (@AdamSerwer) April 20, 2020
Nordic American Tankers wound up closing up 20% for the day. I reckon folks expect their dance card to be full for a spell.
Later all, stay safe!
Alas, the very next game, Christian Fucking Laettner deprives them of their rightful place on the Final Four.https://t.co/266SSNdD6e
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) April 20, 2020
RCMP investigator: there are “in excess of 19 victims” in Nova Scotia’s mass murder rampage https://t.co/Aw1D8WpIv5
— Tim Bousquet (@Tim_Bousquet) April 20, 2020
re: #206 Mike Lamb
It gets better:
MORE: Gov. Kemp says local action from cities and counties cannot be more or less restrictive than this plan outlined by the state pic.twitter.com/tUbbHoD1oN
— Jennifer Bellamy (@JBellamyTV) April 20, 2020
IOW, if your city or municipality wants to enact more protections? Too bad, fuck you, state says you can’t, too bad, so sad, we’re all in this death march to economic bliss together.
This is sad. But with these “protests”, and Trump with Fox news lying through their teeth about the virus, prepare to see a lot more obituaries like this one.https://t.co/zdGOPKRGIE
— Phil Plait (@BadAstronomer) April 20, 2020
This is not going to go well.
Gyms?! Bowling Alleys?!
A month and a half of restricted contact will be undone in the first week. https://t.co/bsMQrFNPmU— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) April 20, 2020
Emerging cluster of cases in North Dakota: 128 cases associated with one energy plant in Grand Forkshttps://t.co/38NvOpylOY
— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) April 20, 2020
From The Washington Post PA has over 1300 deaths from this virus. Philly has over 300 deaths.
re: #187 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)
this close:
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Reminds me of the people who lost their homes in Kelo v. City of New London.
They got eminent domain’d for a commercial redevelopment, supposedly on the grounds that tax revenues from the proposed business park would be enormous.
The case dragged on for years, finally decided in 2005. The homeowners lost, their houses were bull-dozed… and then in the crash the whole redevelopment got scrapped and it’s now an empty lot. For awhile, after Hurricane Irene, it was used as a dumping site for organic storm debris (dead trees, etc). The people who had to move — oh, well, too bad, so sad.
re: #211 Backwoods_Sleuth
Nothing against the people that do that work, but that list doesn’t seem essential business.
re: #206 Mike Lamb
Set a new date for the “peak” in Georgia…
To add…IHME has a new feature estimating when states can ease social distancing restrictions. They already seemed optimistic, particularly given that, nationally, we peaked (assuming we have even peaked) higher/later than IHME predicted. Anyways—IHME states that Georgia probably can’t consider relaxing social distancing until the second week of June. So…good luck everyone.
re: #208 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Nova Scotia RCMP Cst. Heidi Stevenson was passionate about policing and died protecting others from a mass shooter. https://t.co/F43YeR0Rr2— Cpl. Kerry Shima (@KerryShima_RCMP) April 20, 2020
Fuck the GOP.
Federal Appeals court rules that Texas can limit medication abortions during pandemic, all while the right wing lunatics claim that they have the right to expose themselves to covid19 and die or infect others with the disease. It was never about being pro-life. It was always about the control of women.
Meanwhile, the SCOTUS found that a jury must unanimously convict in order to find someone guilty of serious crimes - ending a practice in states like LA and MS that allowed split verdicts to still result in convictions.
He had a very toned corpse, and her nails were perfect.
re: #215 jaunte
Nothing against the people that do that work, but that list doesn’t seem essential business.
About a week ago I asked Wife if we still had that old electric dog clipper.
re: #212 Backwoods_Sleuth
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I have questions, because I imagine it takes some actual work to fuck up social distancing at a wind power facility.
The “worst” of the coronavirus is still to come, says World Health Organization chief https://t.co/4A5sFHOi5n
— Newsweek (@Newsweek) April 20, 2020
re: #221 Decatur Deb
About a week ago I asked Wife if we still had that old electric dog clipper.
Nice thing about using a shemagh as a mask - even pulled aside no one sees how long my hair has gotten :D
re: #223 Backwoods_Sleuth
I will take his word one DT’s any day. Now will the rest of the nation do so.
ExtremeTech wrote a story covering the Santa Clara tests about which I wrote that huge comment the other day:
How Deadly Is COVID-19? New Stanford Study Raises as Many Questions as It Answers
re: #222 goddamnedfrank
I have questions, because I imagine it takes some actual work to fuck up social distancing at a wind power facility.
I just realized, they probably drove whole ass work teams out to job sites in large vans ‘n shit.
re: #210 teleskiguy
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This children, is why we don’t break quarantine or social distancing recommendation for a pathogen with an unclear R0 between 1.3 and 4.7.
/1— 🐄 Teo 🐄 (@Teukka72) April 20, 2020
And you can be contagious without knowing it at all, what the people in the know call “asymptomatic carriers”.
The moral of this story is:
GRAB YOUR ANKLES.
/END— 🐄 Teo 🐄 (@Teukka72) April 20, 2020
That’s a super weird way to spell health & safety of Georgia’s citizens https://t.co/wPcYSm9GGW
— Ballerina X (@ballerinaX) April 20, 2020
Ah, Kraft Mac & Cheese: Neon Yellow comfort food.
NEVER MIND THAT GEORGIA HAS HAD 52 DEATHS *TODAY*. That’s 7% of the total statewide COVID-19 deaths *IN A SINGLE DAY*.
SO YEAH.— Andrew Heiss (@andrewheiss) April 20, 2020
My strategic stockpile is about three pinch hits. So I’ll be on the 420 wagon for a couple of months at least, as MA isn’t predicted to peak and start receding until mid June. This is not a problem. A nuisance, yes. Last night I watched the first half of Seven Samurai, then took a short walk, then watched the second half. I can definitely recommend the final battle in the rain with a slight buzz. The rain provides great texture to the action—just genius. I apologize if I wrote the exact same thing last night.
re: #139 Teukka
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That was much needed. Thanks.
“I don’t give a damn about politics right now” he says in an order that is precisely political, disregarding the heatlh of Georgians all for brownie points with Trump.
— Citizen K says “Wash Your Hands” (@Citizen_Kryptik) April 20, 2020
Also breaking: there is no way I’d go see my colorist or go to my gym, with the death toll from Coronavirus as high as it is, with the lack of wide testing and with no real data around why the virus is over indexing in killing Black people. https://t.co/IBY06HmUMs
— Soledad O’Brien (@soledadobrien) April 20, 2020
re: #222 goddamnedfrank
I have questions, because I imagine it takes some actual work to fuck up social distancing at a wind power facility.
Maybe didn’t adjust for increased distance if you were standing downwind?
North Carolina’s top health official said that the pandemic has resulted in more deaths in the state in less than a month than those the flu has caused since September. https://t.co/RdLqZ7LHex
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) April 20, 2020
This is Spencer and Penny. For the last five years, they’ve cheered on runners of the Boston Marathon. Today, even with the race postponed, they visited their usual spot along the route. And told everyone to stay strong and they’d see you soon. 14/10 for both pic.twitter.com/qjkvM7MelC
— WeRateDogs® (@dog_rates) April 20, 2020
Our town’s two hospitals provide care to about 6 SW Georgia counties. Stupidity crosses rivers.
re: #126 Ace Rothstein
I’ve been thinking all day about my future in the photojournalism business, particularly in sports that’s the biggest chunk of that income. I think that even if the NFL starts on time, I’d be surprised if still photographers will be allowed. Same with all other major sports until there’s a vaccine, which would be next MLB opening day at the earliest. That’s a full year, and that may be an optimistic projection. I’ve already settled that I will not be shooting any baseball or basketball for the rest of 2020.
For 10 years I was paid to attend NFL games, with a full stadium pass, and as part of my duties, expected to stand on the sidelines during the game.
So I got to know some of the photographers.
The NFL is so publicity oriented that at this stadium game photographers were given their own stadium tunnel room with internet link so after the game, photos could be immediately uploaded to the publication which hired them.
I would think that when the games resume, photographers will be included with the few people the NFL allow back on the sidelines.
MORE OF THIS, PLEASE!!!
Yet another new ad that doesn’t hold back using @realDonaldTrump’s own words, from @TeamJoe / @JoeBiden pic.twitter.com/TKDpxxTZZh
— Andrew Feinberg (@AndrewFeinberg) April 20, 2020
#BREAKING: Georgia @GovKemp announces that the following businesses can reopen this Friday…
Gyms
Fitness centers
Bowling Alleys
Body Arch Studios
Barber shops
Cosmetologists
Hair designers
Nail salons
Massage therapists— Niles Edward Francis (@NilesGApol) April 20, 2020
Note to self: Stay the fuck out of Georgia. Permanently, if possible.
I knew one of the deep red states would be the Guinea pig for this crap.
Watch Trump be 100% behind it until shit starts to blow up in their faces.
re: #200 Omar Comin’ Yo
No shirt no shoes no service.
You as a business owner can make your own dress code.
Shirts must have collar.
No jeans.
No hats.
No sports team jackets ( gangs)
No colors (biker bars)
A lot of the “liberate” footage is meant to make these events look big.
Here’s what the protest in Ohio today really looks like.
pic.twitter.com/0uxRuG0IxS— Joshua Potash (@JoshuaPotash) April 20, 2020
Some deep cuts from the archives. The “Kitty’s Back” jazz jam and a song off the new album called “Jungleland”. Check out Little Steven’s pimp outfit
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) April 19, 2020
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) April 20, 2020
— slight (@slight2112) April 20, 2020
re: #227 goddamnedfrank
I just realized, they probably drove whole ass work teams out to job sites in large vans ‘n shit.
It was a factory that made wind turbine blades.
Hey guys we’re gonna meet our Paris Agreement CO2 targets this year. So that’s nice!
— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) April 20, 2020
re: #211 Backwoods_Sleuth
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said it before
keep saying it
anyone can spread it
anyone can get it
anyone can survive it (what they’re all counting on) *see below
anyone can die from it
*NO ONE knows what permanent damage it might do to your heart or lungs
This is not going to go well.
Gyms?! Bowling Alleys?!
A month and a half of restricted contact will be undone in the first week. https://t.co/bsMQrFNPmU— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) April 20, 2020
re: #240 Decatur Deb
Our town’s two hospitals provide care to about 6 SW Georgia counties. Stupidity crosses rivers.
My grandfather (and my mother, of course) lived a county away from Alabama (it’s the county where FDR went for polio treatment at Warm Springs) and was fond of driving over to eat catfish and hush puppies at a little diner every couple of weeks. A man of endless curiosity, he was fond of saying “I’ll go anywhere in the world as long as I can sleep in my own bed at night.”
And another domino falls.
Tennessee Gov. Lee says he will not extend the state’s stay-at-home order and plans on reopening businesses next week. https://t.co/Vh21ObPFg3
— NBC News (@NBCNews) April 20, 2020
I can’t even think of anything pithy to say. This is just…
re: #244 Eclectic Cyborg
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Note to self: Stay the fuck out of Georgia. Permanently, if possible.
I knew one of the deep red states would be the Guinea pig for this crap.
Watch Trump be 100% behind it until shit starts to blow up in their faces.
My half sister, brother in law, niece, her husband, and two kids 3 and under are in ATL running out the clock while my niece finished physical therapy school. They are moving back to the Bay Area basically this weekend. Originally, they were going to move in mid-May. Needless to say, they are happy that they moved up their timeline.
It’s a helluva thing when the second wave starts before the first wave even starts to crest.
re: #255 Citizen K
And another domino falls.
I can’t even think of anything pithy to say. This is just…
Lee’s was never fully upright to begin with.
Gov Beshear says today Kentucky reports 102 new coronavirus cases, taking the statewide total to 3,050. Have we plateaued yet? We don’t know. ^JC pic.twitter.com/8tupJOMtbh
— Bluegrass Politics (@BGPolitics) April 20, 2020
Governor Mike DeWine said the state has formed a new task force, called the Minority Health Strike Force, in response to emerging statistics that suggest the COVID-19 virus is disproportionately affecting African Americans in Ohio.https://t.co/rF4clxYuim
— WCPO 9 (@WCPO) April 20, 2020
re: #255 Citizen K
And another domino falls.
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I can’t even think of anything pithy to say. This is just…
This is the spirit of Rolling Coal, just with more immediate mass suicide.
re: #242 Backwoods_Sleuth
MORE OF THIS, PLEASE!!!
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he never thought he’d have to, you know, work.
and he still isnt
Yet another new ad that doesn’t hold back using @realDonaldTrump’s own words, from @TeamJoe / @JoeBiden pic.twitter.com/TKDpxxTZZh
— Andrew Feinberg (@AndrewFeinberg) April 20, 2020
To no one’s surprise, Trump’s buddy in Brazil is going full on in calling for the rise of a dictatorship:
Brazil’s Bolsonaro Joins Supporters In Protest Against Coronavirus Measures
Brazil’s far-right President Jair Bolsonaro is the focus of a fresh outcry after taking part in a public protest against democratic institutions that included calls for a military takeover.
The president’s participation in the event has caused outrage among judges, human rights groups, lawyers and others, and comes amid growing controversy over his response to the coronavirus crisis.
[…]
re: #257 Barefoot Grin
It’s a helluva thing when the second wave starts before the first wave even starts to crest.
Sadly, this was pretty much inevitable. Republicans are incapable of governing, with very few exceptions.
So every red state whose governor follows Trump’s idiocy will get a devastating second wave right on top of the first one.
Sensibly run states are going to have to close their borders etc. vs. these red-state hellholes.
I have not had a manicure in six weeks and I started biting my nails again, something that I haven’t done since high school. So yeah I would LIKE to get my nails done thank you very much BUT I’ll do that at home (if I can even find a bottle of nail polish) and not risk the life of an innocent nail tech.
re: #260 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Is there any other R governor that has come close to DeWine’s performance?
Evening Lizardim from the warm and rainy wild north country. New numbers: 1134 new tested, up to 46850; 114 new positives, up to 2470; 9 new dead, up to 143. Minnesota governor Tim Walz said he talked with the Chaos Goblin over the weekend; he said they are “aligned” on getting test equipment and PPE to our fair state. He indicated that Trump offered very little in the way of reply when pressed on his “Liberate Minnesota” tweet last week, which is not surprising. Ecolab CEO Doug Baker joined the governor at today’s status update, representing the private-sector health industry in which we excel, stating that we will use all of our public and private options to get enough test equipment to start reopening the state - but that we will not do so until we get it.
The big boys get the big bucks and the little guys get the shaft. Same as it ever was. Trump’s big promises? Bullshit.
— Stephen King (@StephenKing) April 20, 2020
“Given that even rural and working-class white voters also tilt against reopening too quickly, this suggests that Trump’s appeals may be aimed at truly shriveling minorities,” @ThePlumLineGS https://t.co/a1em3t0PX4
— Eugene Scott (@Eugene_Scott) April 20, 2020
IOW, however small in number they are, they’re the ones either wielding or being afforded outsized influence and power to harm the entire rest of the country because they’ve been treated as the only real legit power & voice in America. #COVIDIOTS #COVID19
— Citizen K says “Wash Your Hands” (@Citizen_Kryptik) April 20, 2020
That seems to be just the problem, isn’t it? It doesn’t matter what the polls say, how many of us are willing to go along with what is necessary to combat this. All it takes is the right number of people in the right number of places to undermine it and send it all to shit because they’re afforded all the leverage and power.
And we’re all basically at the mercy of the whims of toadie state-level GOP leaders and handfuls of astroturf protestors that the press has universally decided really represents America and all the rest of us should just get fucked.
re: #266 Mike Lamb
Is there any other R governor that has come close to DeWine’s performance?
Hogan (Maryland) and Baker (Massachusetts).
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re: #264 EPR-radar
Sadly, this was pretty much inevitable. Republicans are incapable of governing, with very few exceptions.
So every red state whose governor follows Trump’s idiocy will get a devastating second wave right on top of the first one.
Sensibly run states are going to have to close their borders etc. vs. these red-state hellholes.
So I have to tunnel to the nearest Blue state. That’s 658 miles. (Starts tunneling.)
re: #255 Citizen K
And another domino falls.
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I can’t even think of anything pithy to say. This is just…
lets continue to be clear
this is NOT D governors vs R governors
it’s those relying on science and math vs those ignoring science and math
re: #260 Backwoods_Sleuth
Acting like an actual freakin’ governor of all of his constituents.
re: #264 EPR-radar
Sadly, this was pretty much inevitable. Republicans are incapable of governing, with very few exceptions.
So every red state whose governor follows Trump’s idiocy will get a devastating second wave right on top of the first one.
Sensibly run states are going to have to close their borders etc. vs. these red-state hellholes.
As soon as a couple of blue states do that, expect the Supremes to drop a 5-4 decision tearing the power to do so away from them. We all have to suffer together for the GOP sins after all, same as always.
re: #275 Citizen K
As soon as a couple of blue states do that, expect the Supremes to drop a 5-4 decision tearing the power to do so away from them. We all have to suffer together for the GOP sins after all, same as always.
Not going to matter. My town isn’t going to open up anytime soon, and I guarantee you Abbott will hear from people if he tries anything.
re: #275 Citizen K
As soon as a couple of blue states do that, expect the Supremes to drop a 5-4 decision tearing the power to do so away from them. We all have to suffer together for the GOP sins after all, same as always.
Would be karmic retribution if the 5 Republican stamps on the court get the virus…
re: #273 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)
lets continue to be clear
this is NOT D governors vs R governors
it’s those relying on science and math vs those ignoring science and math
I notice that the worst governors have been the ones that owe their gubernatorial job to the Trump influence on the right. Baker, Hogan, & DeWine aren’t Trump influenced. DeSanittis, Ivey, Reynolds, & Kemp OTOH.
re: #253 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)
said it before
keep saying itanyone can spread it
anyone can get it
anyone can survive it (what they’re all counting on) *see below
anyone can die from it*NO ONE knows what permanent damage it might do to your heart or lungs
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I don’t envy your position at all. I’m gonna throw some numbers at y’all.. The R0 of SARS-CoV-2 is unknown, but believed to be somewhere between 1.3 and 4.7. So let’s make it simple, let’s say just one person at a reopen{insert state here} has it and is contagious:
Generation 1 (R0): 1.3 to 4.7 gets infected.
Generation 2 (R02): 1.7 to 22.1 gets infected by generation 1.
Generation 3 (R03): 2.2 to 103.9 gets infected by generation 2.
Generation 4 (R04): 2.9 to 488 gets infected by generation 3.
Generation 5 (R05): 3.7 to 2293.5 (SIC(!)) gets infected by generation four.
And so on, and so on, and so on, until a good vaccine or herd immunity emerges.
And the above figure is just the damage one damn person infected and contagious with SARS-CoV-2 can do. For a crowd of 10,000 infected covidiots? Numbers times 10,000.
For more generations than the 5 I presented?
R0g * n
Where g is generation number and n is initial infected population size.
I hate to say this, but the trigger of the gun has been pulled, the gunpowder in the cartridge has exploded, and the shot has left the shotgun…
re: #280 Eclectic Cyborg
No
campaign rallybriefing today?
If only.
Trump claims “some of the governors didn’t understand” their available testing capacity. He cites Republican Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, who has been vocal in talking about his state’s shortages of critical testing materials, and Democratic Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 20, 2020
All the red states are now openly killing their citizens. I live in Texas, and now I know for a fact that I won’t be shooting any sports until Fall 2021. As a matter of fact, I’m just going to throw all my shit online and sell it all.
re: #264 EPR-radar
Sadly, this was pretty much inevitable. Republicans are incapable of governing, with very few exceptions.
So every red state whose governor follows Trump’s idiocy will get a devastating second wave right on top of the first one.
Sensibly run states are going to have to close their borders etc. vs. these red-state hellholes.
you know maybe it’s not so much a rejection of science
maybe it’s simpler, and baser - pure political contrarianism (as always)
the R governors take their cues from trump
and trump just had to do the opposite of whatever the D governors were doing - Whatever it was
just coincidence that the D’s position is the medically sound one
re: #285 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)
you know maybe it’s not so much a rejection of science
maybe it’s simpler, and baser - pure political contrarianism (as always)
the R governors take their cues from trump
and trump just had to do the opposite of whatever the D governors were doing - Whatever it wasjust coincidence that the D’s position is the medically sound one
It all comes back to cleek’s law: “Today’s conservatism is the opposite of what liberals want today, updated daily.”
re: #284 Ace Rothstein
All the red states are now openly killing their citizens. I live in Texas, and now I know for a fact that I won’t be shooting any sports until Fall 2021. As a matter of fact, I’m just going to throw all my shit online and sell it all.
It’s better to be an unemployed photographer than an unemployed chicken-sexer.
re: #265 The Pie Overlord!
I have not had a manicure in six weeks and I started biting my nails again, something that I haven’t done since high school. So yeah I would LIKE to get my nails done thank you very much BUT I’ll do that at home (if I can even find a bottle of nail polish) and not risk the life of an innocent nail tech.
virtually every decision we make in the near future will be a risk analysis
is X worth the risk of getting infected? (forget spreading it)
discretion, options, desires. nope. not for me.
food and some necessities
the rest i can do without - certainly for a good long while.
or adapt.
This goes out to Brian Kemp: Camper Van Beethoven-Take the Skinheads Bowling. https://t.co/YZpKCfdCDc via @YouTube
— Malaclypse (@Mal_A_Clypse) April 20, 2020
re: #248 gocart mozart
Some deep cuts from the archives. The “Kitty’s Back” jazz jam and a song off the new album called “Jungleland”. Check out Little Steven’s pimp outfit
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kitty’s back is longer than jungleland!
re: #278 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I notice that the worst governors have been the ones that owe their gubernatorial job to the Trump influence on the right. Baker, Hogan, & DeWine aren’t Trump influenced. DeSanittis, Ivey, Reynolds, & Kemp OTOH.
see my below, that’s now above re their motivation may just be contrarianism
Trump gets General Salesguy to shill for his stupid fcking wall, which is not being built.
— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) April 20, 2020
re: #290 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)
kitty’s back is longer than jungleland!
and i always wished i could play like clarence
though i also wished i could play guitar like clapton, so…
re: #290 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)
Kitty’s Back is originally pretty long (7 minutes on the album) and is perfect for live long jams
re: #226 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
The Stanford Dr’s have the Hoover Stank all over them. Until I see other science support their studies I have no trust in it.
If there was ever a time to consistent and objective, it’s right now.
re: #294 gocart mozart
Kitty’s Back is originally pretty long (7 minutes on the album) and is perfect for live long jams
oh yeah
For fuck’s sake.
Trump touts the construction of The Wall. He asks Todd Semonite, the Army Corps of Engineers chief who was talking about pandemic-related matters, to provide a wall update since he’s already up there talking.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 20, 2020
re: #295 BigPapa
Proving that we can be properly, respectably, and respectFULLy critical of theories or conclusions that seem to agree with our pre-existing positions goes a long way to show others that we are driven by reason.
Sorry, couldn’t stop myself:
— Cursed Conspiraboomer Images (@conspiraboomers) April 20, 2020
re: #295 BigPapa
The Stanford Dr’s have the Hoover Stank all over them. Until I see other science support their studies I have no trust in it.
If there was ever a time to consistent and objective, it’s right now.
Hoover Stank was a one-hit wonder.
STOP COVERING THIS BULLSHIT. THERE IS NO VALUE WHATSOEVER TO THE PUBLIC GOOD COMING OUT FROM THE PRESIDENT.
INTERESTING, BIGLY!
Trump on the price of oil: “It’s a level that’s very interesting to a lot of people.”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 20, 2020
Trump on global supply chains: “Somebody years ago got this crazy idea: let’s build all over the place, and let’s have a screw for a car made in…a country that’s far away.”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 20, 2020
“…After Nabisco sent some factory jobs from the US to Mexico in 2016, Trump responded by saying he would no longer eat Oreos, a Nabisco product. His own products, according to a 2016 Washington Post investigation, are made in 12 foreign countries: China, Mexico, India, Turkey, Slovenia, Honduras, Germany, Bangladesh, Indonesia, the Netherlands, Vietnam, and South Korea.”
qz.com
Don’t look now, but Trump’s trying to blame Chinese travelers explicitly for Italy’s outbreak while casting himself as the stalwart defender saving us from diseased Chinese hordes.
Stupid is as xenophobia does.
Trump yesterday: “When I did the ban on China, they say a lot of the people that didn’t come in here went to Italy. You’ve heard that. That’s why Italy was hit so hard.”
Italy’s ban on flights from China took effect 3 days before Trump’s non-ban restrictions on China travel.— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 20, 2020
re: #288 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)
virtually every decision we make
in the near futuresince March 7th will be a risk analysis
…
Already being done. I’m in until my state says it’s OK. (I’m guessing June, dunno if June 2020 or 2021, one of them will be correct!)
re: #300 Barefoot Grin
Hoover Stank was a one-hit wonder.
Was hoping somebody caught that little nugget.
If @GovBillLee and @GovRonDeSantis @GovKemp re-open their states prematurely and their residents get sick and die, they should be forced to resign from office and be held legally liable for their negligence
— Kurt Bardella (@kurtbardella) April 20, 2020
Crimes against Humanity.
hey boys and girls, everyone’s not an idiot
A new Yahoo News/YouGov Poll finds that 71% of Americans are more worried about lifting the restrictions too quickly,while 29% are worried it will happen too slowly.
“A majority of Democrats (87%) and about half of Republicans (51%) agree that the country should only reopen once public-health officials are fully able to test and trace new cases and outbreaks—and most Americans (52%) recognize that the country is not currently conducting enough COVID-19 testing to track future outbreaks of the virus.”
screw it. i just went back and bolded the whole goddamned thing
re: #307 DodgerFan1988
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Crimes against Humanity.
Trump keeps claiming that we’re at war with the coronavirus. Okay, then, war crimes it is.
re: #305 Sherlock Hound
Already being done. I’m in until my state says it’s OK. (I’m guessing June, dunno if June 2020 or 2021, one of them will be correct!)
We’re down until well after our state says it’s OK. We live in one of those states.
re: #309 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Trump keeps claiming that we’re at war with the coronavirus. Okay, then, war crimes it is.
If it’s a war, his guilt moves from sedition to treason.
Trump is alleging people were talking about ventilators because they thought “there’s no way he’ll ever be able to catch this one,” but since “we’re now the KING of ventilators,” they’re saying, “We’ll get him on testing.”
Experts say testing is critical to ending the crisis.— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 20, 2020
It’s not fucking about you, you self-obsessed piece of shit.
three new cases in my zip code since 4/16
total: 23
the ‘town’ says about 100 total
re: #314 jaunte
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It’s not fucking about you, you self-obsessed piece of shit.
first they were all talking about airplanes and the air force
then they switched to the army and boots on the ground
now it’s the boats
dont worry. i know all about all this stuff
Trump is alleging people were talking about ventilators because they thought “there’s no way he’ll ever be able to catch this one,” but since “we’re now the KING of ventilators,” they’re saying, “We’ll get him on testing.”
Experts say testing is critical to ending the crisis.— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 20, 2020
When We All Vote
is holding its second Voting Rights “couch party” tonight. Michelle O, Tom Hanks, and others are sitting in.
To join:
mobilize.us
“You might get a deadly respiratory disease, but we’ll give you $500 if you keep showing up to work!” And people wonder why young people distrust capitalism more and more. https://t.co/vDB6Ws5fvl
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) April 20, 2020
Kind of getting lost in the details is how the global push toward right-wind extremism has made this pandemic worse, and yet probably will more firmly entrench right-wing extremism across the world (though I do wonder what private conversations are going on in central Asia and Africa about China’s “one-belt on-road” initiative).
We are officially 50 states https://t.co/cNAOua8wDn
— becky shmurda’s “hot karen” (@jesseltaylor) April 20, 2020
because, you know, the virus can’t cross state lines…
O_o
re: #309 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Trump keeps claiming that we’re at war with the coronavirus. Okay, then, war crimes it is.
But Trump likes guys who commit war crimes…
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“The governor of Maryland didn’t really understand. He didn’t really understand what was going on” — Trump begins the April 20 #TrumpPressBriefing by attacking Republican Gov. Larry Hogan of Maryland, who has been critical of the federal coronavirus response. pic.twitter.com/OTMwj6v5Sp
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 20, 2020
re: #321 Backwoods_Sleuth
because, you know, the virus can’t cross state lines…
O_o
If the virus can’t cross state lines, neither can illegals, who are much larger than viruses. Therefore, we don’t need no stinkin’ wall.
Trump suggests that demands for more testing, just like requests for ventilators, are part of a political conspiracy meant to take him down — not necessary measures to respond to a virus that has killed more than 40,000 Americans pic.twitter.com/uFFBnqwgQP
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 20, 2020
When white people march on state capitols with AR-15s, not a cop in sight.
When indigenous people demonstrate peacefully on their own lands, the full might of the US police state is deployed. pic.twitter.com/YdTh9rpP0r— Chad Loder (@chadloder) April 19, 2020
re: #325 Backwoods_Sleuth
OMG Does he really believe that stuff? ::: shakes head in disgust :::
Not only has it been less than three weeks since Kemp learned that the virus could spread asymptomatically, but he’s relaxing distancing measures despite Georgia not hitting the White House benchmarks for doing so. https://t.co/W7nMmiqtCg
— Philip Bump (@pbump) April 20, 2020
What could possibly go wrong? /
NEW: “FDA has been very cautious about the antibody tests,” Dr. Birx said last week.
I went & looked at filings.
Of 110 antibody tests, 96 are being marketed WITH NO FDA OVERSIGHT WHATSOEVER.
I guess there are different definitions of “cautious.”https://t.co/TFDjX8m0v5— Alexander Nazaryan (@alexnazaryan) April 20, 2020
LOL. The governor of MD secured tests by the half-mil today from a different country. https://t.co/anFXL6YQ2M
— Erica L. Green (@EricaLG) April 20, 2020
As well as endangering those who have no choice, by hook or by crook, once things open back up (barring any extra financial support that these states aren’t likely to give anyway).
— Citizen K says “Wash Your Hands” (@Citizen_Kryptik) April 20, 2020
“I’ve seen some of what’s playing out in America in countries riddled with bullet holes and craters where suicide bombers drove into a crowded market. Before they were destroyed, some of them were pretty nice, stable places.”
— Naveed Jamali (@NaveedAJamali) April 20, 2020
“I’m afraid this country’s decline into economic shambles will drive some to act on their darkest instincts.
I’m afraid too many people still think it “can never happen here,” even though I assure them it already is.”— Naveed Jamali (@NaveedAJamali) April 20, 2020
“Well, fuck.” - Every ER Doctor and Nurse in Georgia right now.
NEW: @NYGovCuomo is expected to issue an Executive Order allowing all registered voters to vote by mail in the special elections and primaries set for June 23.
The Governor recently expanded absentee voting, but voters had to apply. Now, ballots will automatically be mailed out— Zack Fink (@ZackFinkNews) April 20, 2020
South Dakota’s (white) governor didn’t shut down, and now the state has a huge outbreak including at a Smithfield plant where the company is blaming immigrants for having big families https://t.co/tcvHRVPKxH pic.twitter.com/7BkYG2GRNb
— Adam Serwer🍝 (@AdamSerwer) April 20, 2020
re: #335 Backwoods_Sleuth
Can SCOTUS strike this down, too?
It makes me sad to know that this is coming true. RT @rabihalameddine: Carl Sagan’s prediction pic.twitter.com/VvM9jlo54E
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) October 11, 2014
re: #331 Backwoods_Sleuth
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The president has told governors it’s their responsibility to get tests. So that’s what @GovLarryHogan and Maryland’s first lady did — they secured 500,000 tests from South Korea. https://t.co/nMjdrf1nYm
— Kathryn Watson (@kathrynw5) April 20, 2020
🎵 Hello, My Name Is David Brooks and I Lack Empathy🎵
I wrote a song from David Brooks’ perspective. pic.twitter.com/5CaYH4DpSg— Jonathan Mann (@songadaymann) April 19, 2020
hello, this is dog 🔊
(blacksvideos : tiktok) pic.twitter.com/O5phuE4Wyc— Humor And Animals (@humorandanimals) April 20, 2020
re: #246 Citizen K
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And this describes my memories of Olympia perfectly.
In fairness, they might run into an Evergreen student in a ski mask, and you know those ann-teefers are terrorists, so the threat is real.
— Seth ↙️↙️↙️ (@Seth_Tribble) April 20, 2020
The US is the richest country on the planet. There’s easily enough money to keep everyone going (functionally, not at 100%) through a 1-2 month nationwide shutdown.
But that money would have to come from US plutocrats (a small fraction of their hoarded wealth).
To prevent this from happening, Republicans will gladly kill us all. No deviation from the dogma of terminal capitalism can be permitted.
Wholesale bulk 87 oct gas today: $0.71/gal. 😳
Misinformation has a cost. It can be measured.
Significant paper on the cost of misinformation. Basically, one standard deviation more viewership of Sean Hannity (denied seriousness of COVID) versus Tucker Carlson (took the pandemic seriously) is associated with in 20% more deaths at the county-level. https://t.co/7wDDXVOiu6 pic.twitter.com/lvHijnhOA5
— zeynep tufekci (@zeynep) April 20, 2020
re: #345 Dave In Austin
Wholesale bulk 87 oct gas today: $0.71/gal. 😳
Looks like the only place left to store gas is in everyone’s gas tanks. And then every place is closed so there’s no to reason to drive.
re: #333 Backwoods_Sleuth
We already have technicals.
re: #349 retired cynic
Well THAT didn’t work!
Asked about negative oil futures, Trump: “A lot of people got caught…a lot of people…not too happy because they got caught.” Adds, “It’s more of a financial thing than an oil situation.” He points out that futures for June are positive. He says the energy biz will be strong.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 20, 2020
Talking about the oil situation, Trump says the problem is that, essentially, “nobody’s driving a car anywhere in the world.” (Obviously, a Trumpy exaggeration.)
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 20, 2020
Asked if companies that reopen and have employees get sick will face liability, Trump says he’ll give us a legal answer when “we look it up.” Asked if they haven’t discussed this yet, Trump says, “Nobody’s discussed it, no, but we will. Now.”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 20, 2020
I’d like to hear Trump attempt to explain “contact tracing.” I’m sure he has no idea what it means.
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) April 20, 2020
re: #337 Eclectic Cyborg
Can SCOTUS strike this down, too?
don’t think so; the issue in Wisconsin was that the governor and the legislature didn’t agree.
I’m not crying you’re crying.
After noticing that Ken slept with a photo of his late wife every night, one of the carers at Thistleton Lodge presented him with this incredible gift… pic.twitter.com/Q1v8V8HUFS
— The Manc (@TheMancUK) April 20, 2020
Welcome to this infernal nightmare. pic.twitter.com/1EltANCeOD
— Black Metal Cats (@evilbmcats) April 20, 2020
“I didn’t get any money, that’s for sure.”
Weird how that was the first thing he said. https://t.co/DvIDgyaYi1— Laffy (@GottaLaff) April 20, 2020
Trump bashes Hillary Clinton for her role in the KORUS free trade agreement with South Korea.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 20, 2020
re: #15 The Pie Overlord!
One thing I could never figure out about the Mad Max movies, who was drilling, extracting and refining all the oil and gasoline that they needed for all their custom vehicles? Because THEY woulda own Bartertown.
Uh, in the case of bartertown it was methane from pigshit, under the control of Mater Blaster.
re: #361 Eclectic Cyborg
Daniel should get hazard pay for this.
Daniel kinda got broken a few days ago. He seems better now.
re: #358 jaunte
Since everything Trump says is a lie, that means he did get money from the SBA stimulus.
— The Fucking Cat (@TheFuckingCat) April 20, 2020
re: #25 TarHellion
Now trading at negative-8 bucks. Does that mean stores will pay you to take their gas?
This is oil, not gas. Does your car run on crude? (It can be done), or do you want to refine it yourself? (Some guys in Syria and Nigeria can tell you how to do it).
I cannot emphasize enough that groups of white men who show up with guns are not doing anything spontaneously because they’re bored.
These are organized groups of fascists.
They’re testing how far they can push the legal authorities and get away with it.— Alex (@JewishWonk) April 20, 2020
Asked why he thinks talking about testing is a “personal attack” given how there’s a bipartisan focus on this, Trump says, “It’s not bipartisan. It’s mostly partisan.” It’s bipartisan — and, critically, non-partisan, with experts emphasizing the importance of testing.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 20, 2020
He’s a failure and he knows it.
Speaking about per capita, how about the murder rate committed by bIack males in America? About 10 times higher than others. https://t.co/P9Lu1Appv0
— Mark Dice (@MarkDice) April 19, 2020
Of course, Conservatives are going with the “black people kills more than the Coronavirus” argument. But they’re not racist.
Trump repeats the most boring of his favorite false claims, the one about how there used to be a trade deficit of $500 billion with China, even up to $550 billion. (He adds that this money came “out of our hides.”) There has never once been a $500 billion deficit with China.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 20, 2020
He was inches from a clean getaway. But the Grievances needed to go for a walk. “They want the maximum so they can criticize…”
— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) April 20, 2020
re: #367 Teddy’s Person
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Wear a mask and gloves, General. You don’t want any of that shit on you.
.@GovRonDeSantis hasn’t spoken directly about #COVID19 with:
Tampa Mayor @JaneCastor
Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer
St. Pete Mayor @Kriseman
Ag. Commish @NikkiFried
Yes, they are all @FlaDems.
Yes, that should be irrelevant.
Yet here we are.— Kevin Cate (@KevinCate) April 20, 2020
re: #46 Targetpractice
They’re probably getting bombarded with people checking to see if oil prices cratering means gas prices are doing the same.
Hint: They’re not going to. The price of the raw material may have fallen, but there are still refining, storage an delivery costs.
re: #52 GlutenFreeJesus
Should have used a dremel.
re: #55 Jay C
I thought something like that: but “Guru Meditation”??
Are all gasbuddy’s IT people off in the yoga studio or what??
It’a a joke by ex Amiga users.
re: #309 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Trump keeps claiming that we’re at war with the coronavirus. Okay, then, war crimes it is.
Treason. Aiding the enemy
JFC
Trump says he hasn’t left the White House “in months” exempt to see off the Comfort ship. Told he held a rally in March, he says, “Did I hold a rally? I’m sorry.” He is professing ignorance of his February rally schedule.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 20, 2020
TRUMP: I took coronavirus very seriously
ALCINDOR: You held rallies in February and March
TRUMP: I haven’t left the White House in months
ALCINDOR: You held a rally in March
TRUMP: Did I hold a rally? I’m sorry pic.twitter.com/MPDK8lZAeD— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 20, 2020
Sure, Jan. https://t.co/zS9StaZaGd
— Molly Jong-Fast🏡 (@MollyJongFast) April 20, 2020
“Much of this feels like a Donald Trump re-election rally… Many people coming out to support the President, many are not wearing masks.”@miguelmarquez reports live from Harrisburg, PA as people defy state orders and medical experts while protesting coronavirus restrictions. pic.twitter.com/MVvo37wRVn
— CNN Newsroom (@CNNnewsroom) April 20, 2020
LATEST: As of 6:15 p.m. ET, April 20, there are 772,323 confirmed coronavirus cases in the US, and 41,824 deaths. https://t.co/UFNo5BhhL2 pic.twitter.com/tpu8ThaxUM
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) April 20, 2020
re: #366 Backwoods_Sleuth
US Republicans are proving that right wing political violence can be run as a stochastic terrorism operation.
OFFS
Trump suggests Democrats are responsible for the coronavirus outbreak being so bad in the US because they were allegedly preoccupied with impeaching him instead of investigating China in January pic.twitter.com/dGZwkHIz5D
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 20, 2020
Trump says he doesn’t think Larry Hogan needed to get test kits from South Korea. (Story: https://t.co/xULuJM43IY.) He says Hogan could’ve just called Pence about available capacity. He adds, “I think he needed to a get a little knowledge.”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 20, 2020
re: #318 teleskiguy
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“Smithfield Foods, Inc., is a meat-processing company based in Smithfield, Virginia, in the United States, and a wholly owned subsidiary of WH Group of China.”
Q where are you? The Chinese are in our back yard spreading the disease.
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re: #183 Khal Wimpo (not drinking damn fish tank cleaner)
Maybe. But the US government is already drowning in debt. ?
Nonsense. The US can have as much “debt” as it wants.
Trump’s very long “answer” didn’t include one word of sympathy for any of the dead. https://t.co/Iqps1iwyd2
— Lawrence O’Donnell (@Lawrence) April 20, 2020
The President claims the only reason “democrats and some others because they don’t know” want more testing is because they want to criticize him pic.twitter.com/TP6eVd6ndE
— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) April 20, 2020
Trump thinks the death toll will stop at 50-60,000.
We’re at 42,486 dead Americans as of today.— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) April 20, 2020
🌠👀🌠LOOK UP! 🌠👀🌠 Attention Stargazers! First Spring meteor shower peaks this week https://t.co/wEQPgUMeaB
The Lyrid meteor shower lights up the sky with 10-20 meteors per hour and peaks Wednesday! pic.twitter.com/7e9OocNN1X— Local 12/WKRC-TV (@Local12) April 20, 2020
re: #390 Backwoods_Sleuth
It is supposed to be clear on Wednesday. Maybe I will get to see it.
Gave her a tp tube to play with, and she proceeded to breathe through it like this for over a minute… pic.twitter.com/iIQntNjzWe
— Doggy (@IamActiveDog) April 19, 2020
BREAKING COVID NEWS. Virus displays the ability to amplify human error in its own case at the policy level. Some do show a lack of symptoms, particularly at the State level. Appears worse at Federal level. Careful observers see testing is needed, may not correlate to Rnaught.
— Manksy (@TheManksy) April 20, 2020
re: #392 Backwoods_Sleuth
Say awwwww
re: #358 jaunte
Translation: “I got my fat fingers in all of it and there’s not a god damn thing you can do to stop me from getting more.”
Or, you know, save lives you worthless piece of 💩.
— Yeah Sure WTF Ever (@YeahSureWhatev2) April 20, 2020
re: #381 Backwoods_Sleuth
5.4% lethality rate. American exceptionalism.
re: #304 Citizen K
Don’t look now, but Trump’s trying to blame Chinese travelers explicitly for Italy’s outbreak while casting himself as the stalwart defender saving us from diseased Chinese hordes.
Stupid is as xenophobia does.
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He’s probably right, but his timeframe is fucked up. Italy banned direct flights from Gynah three days before the US did.
Unfortunately, three to five weeks before that, a shitpot of Chinese seamstresses were flown into Milan to help prep the Haute Couture fashion houses for clothes that would be displayed at the spring season shows, as they do every year.
“I remember when I gave Trump the gun and warned you he’d shoot you with it. Turns out I was right. Centrists owned.”
— Roy Delfino (@RoyDelfino) April 20, 2020
re: #244 Eclectic Cyborg
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Note to self: Stay the fuck out of Georgia. Permanently, if possible.
I knew one of the deep red states would be the Guinea pig for this crap.
Watch Trump be 100% behind it until shit starts to blow up in their faces.
WTF is a body arch studio?
re: #389 Backwoods_Sleuth
The IHME model currently predicts a US death total of 60.3k.
That is probably from where Trump is getting that number.
But three things:
1) the IHME model has a large error range, two sigma all the way up to 140k.
2) the model assumes the shelter in place restrictions stay in place for many more weeks.
3) the model is only for the first wave. An expected second wave will happen after restrictions are lifted. The 60k is only for the first wave.
re: #401 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Does the model take into account that Trump is President?
re: #401 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
The IHME model currently predicts a US death total of 60.3k.
That is probably from where Trump is getting that number.
But three things:
1) the IHME model has a large error range, two sigma all the way up to 140k.
2) the model assumes the shelter in place restrictions stay in place for many more weeks.
3) the model is only for the first wave. An expected second wave will happen after restrictions are lifted. The 60k is only for the first wave.
4? Does not yet reflect the probable increase in people thought to have been infected.
Grocery store report:
The water (plain and sugar) is stocked pretty well.
The in-store bakery is keeping up with demand (at least by mid day).
The frozen dinner aisle is about 60% stocked. What I have noticed is that the significant deals are gone, most of the aisle is list price or only small promotional reductions.
Dairy is keeping up pretty well but there are empty spots on the aisle.
The paper isle is as barren as Mare Serenitatis
Customers and employees seem to be doing pretty well with keeping the social distancing. There is still a sense of being hurried, an uncomfortable feeling. This “new norm” is going to take a while to settle in.
Excuse me, Mr. President where does your daughter Ivanka’s business make its apparel and shoes? https://t.co/sVS9IpyqNB
— Peter Morley (@morethanmySLE) April 20, 2020
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell removes a face mask to address reporters on Capitol Hill amid the coronavirus pandemic. https://t.co/sfEWLxM0Jj pic.twitter.com/jPt4BwLP5s
— ABC News (@ABC) April 20, 2020
re: #403 Rightwingconspirator
4? Does not yet reflect the probable increase in people thought to have been infected.
Yes, but the IHME model is about hospital capacity use. So they tune the model based on hospital data.
So the percentage of asymptomatic and not-tested-but-infected will probably not change that much in another wave. Meaning, if right now only 10% of the infections are detected, then that incurs a known hospital use.
Until there is enough “herd immunity” where the testing for the virus is negative but the antibody test is not given, projections like this ought to hold.
What is needed are the results if antibody tests, such as those underway.
Journalist @nate_thayer just confirmed that the man holding this antisemitic sign at the Reopen Ohio protest on Saturday, April 18, is National Socialist Movement member Matt Slatzer.
You can read more here: https://t.co/Mn34lv36jC pic.twitter.com/Ofgbt5cqGc— AntiFash Gordon (@AntiFashGordon) April 20, 2020
VP Pence earlier today on call w/ govs responding to Hogan concerns about lack of access to federal & DoD run labs. “I think Larry, just to be real clear you give us a call, and as the needs evolve we’ll move heaven and earth to open up access to everything that’s on this list.”
— Katherine Faulders (@KFaulders) April 20, 2020
McEnany makes her first move. https://t.co/8FoiK2AUME
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) April 20, 2020
re: #400 goddamnedfrank
WTF is a body arch studio?
I think it’s the auto-correct version of a body art studio (tattoos and piercings).
re: #409 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Yes, but the IHME model is about hospital capacity use. So they tune the model based on hospital data.
So the percentage of asymptomatic and not-tested-but-infected will probably not change that much in another wave. Meaning, if right now only 10% of the infections are detected, then that incurs a known hospital use.
Until there is enough “herd immunity” where the testing for the virus is negative but the antibody test is not given, projections like this ought to hold.
What is needed are the results if antibody tests, such as those underway.
Right. The number of non or very minor symptomatic people explodes upward, little impact on hospital use. And at this far below hospital capacity in California, you can be far less sick and get in as compared to maxxed out. So we have more people that are less sick in. Hopefully a minor, noise level variable.
I have a peeve. When NYC added deaths that had occurred over weeks, they added them to one day. I think Los Angeles just did something similar with our case count. 1500 in a day? I smell a test result backlog drop.
re: #375 John Hughes
Should have used a dremel.
That would be a huge fail. Trust me. He lets me trim… he just has a lot to say about it. lol
You mean INDIVIDUAL-1 Trump?
Perhaps you mean unindicted co-conspirator Trump?— freetoken fights fecking fascists (@freetoken) April 21, 2020
re: #407 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #376 John Hughes
It’a a joke by ex Amiga users.
God, my A500 was a wonderful machine in its day. Multitasking multimedia on a 68K processor with 1.5 mb of RAM could run rings around any PC or Apple. Only the Atari came close if you were doing music. The guru meditation numbers were put in during development of the A1000 to aid in debugging but it was kept in the shipping system.
Commodore. The Trump of computers - everything great it touched eventually was destroyed by their incompetence.
re: #414 Rightwingconspirator
The large data dumps in one day is something I expect. China did the same things.
Remember, daily reports of deaths are the deaths being reported on that day, that the deaths that occurred on that day.
Many times the tabulation of statistics is time consuming.
Post pandemic, I expect epidemiologist dissertations to dissect what the actual infected and the actual deaths are, in the US and around the world.
Harrisburg PA today - counter protest by health care workers
“Armed with nothing but signs and science, half a dozen medical workers from across the state showed up near the capitol in Harrisburg on Monday to counter the message of hundreds of “ReOpen PA” protesters calling for an end to coronavirus restrictions.”
re: #418 William Lewis
I had an A1000 and later bought an A2000, and tried a bit of software development on it (porting from another system’s BASIC program.)
Fascinating machines, way ahead of their time as far as graphics capability.
Yet as you noted, Commodore (which eventually was a Bahamian company with dubious folk on the board) was unable to do right by what it had.
re: #407 Backwoods_Sleuth
Reporter needs to get close with a doorknob as a microphone….
— Meanwhile in Canada (@MeanwhileinCana) April 20, 2020
So now because Georgia has reopened gyms restaurants hair salons movie theaters and massage parlors, employees are going to be forced to choose between getting sick or going hungry. The state is forcing them into two dangerous situations.
— Ethan Embry (@EmbryEthan) April 20, 2020
No state has seen what happens when they broach the 5-10-30% population infection rate. Keep an eye on Georgia the next two months and we will learn how bad COVID can be.
— Ethan Embry (@EmbryEthan) April 20, 2020
re: #418 William Lewis
Commodore. The Trump of computers - everything great it touched eventually was destroyed by their incompetence.
Made me sad when my A3000 w/68060 daughter board and video card that had 8 megs of RAM whirred its I a t whirr.
The stock machine was awesome, too.
This is how Walking Dead started. https://t.co/g8TzQVYzz3
— Giuseppe (@60th_Street) April 20, 2020
I promise you, the only reason states are opening things up today is because the bottom fell out of the oil market. Your life is worth something, but that something is worth less than a barrel of crude.
— Margaret and Helen 🌎 (@HelenPhilpot) April 21, 2020
re: #411 Backwoods_Sleuth
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No McNinny. To me he is “that fucking shit stain, orange, treasonous, criminal fuck wad waste of skin, oxygen and valuable resources”. The term “tRump” just covers all that more succinctly.
Request $1.9B in Feb, get $1.1B at end of Sept.
— A mad land this is indeed (@amadland) April 20, 2020
At the grocery store, there was reasonable stock of most things (no hand sanitizer that I could see), just one brand Of TP and one of paper towels, and not many packages of each.
And the TP was ON SALE.
you know matthew respect for the office https://t.co/fVUQ4IiDri?
— darth™ (@darth) April 20, 2020
Just want to let fellow gentiles know they aren’t fooling anyone when they do this and everyone knows their goal is to trivialize the Holocaust and reignite fear in Jewish people.
(We know what you’re doing with those Confederate flags too.) https://t.co/nvGyFswFp0— Cheryl Lynn Eaton (@cheryllynneaton) April 21, 2020
Mayor Garcetti says we have tested 100,000 people and still ramping up. Wow.
420.
Be sure to embiggen for the full cartoon.
Artist: Robert Crumb pic.twitter.com/zKGrUkfsjj
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) April 21, 2020
Nothing says stupid better than protesting stay at home orders while wearing a mask so you won’t catch what you claim doesn’t exist. #COVIDIOTS
— Margaret and Helen 🌎 (@HelenPhilpot) April 21, 2020
re: #426 Colère Tueur de Lapin
Made me sad when my A3000 w/68060 daughter board and video card that had 8 megs of RAM whirred its I a t whirr.
The stock machine was awesome, too.
Oh, that would have been a sweet machine.
I always lusted after the A4000/040 with a copy of the Amiga Unix - it was a decent System V R4 port and I had fantasies of getting the Video Toaster running under Unix. That would have been way out of my league, I know now, but it was an entertaining dream at the time.
re: #411 Backwoods_Sleuth
VP Pence earlier today on call w/ govs responding to Hogan concerns about lack of access to federal & DoD run labs. “I think Larry, just to be real clear you give us a call, and as the needs evolve we’ll move heaven and earth to open up access to everything that’s on this list.”
Mrs. Lapin works in one of those private-owned federal-contacting labs located on DoD property (Ft. Detrick) and her comment to that is just to burst into hysterics. Her lab is trying to get up and running on SARS-COV-2; they mainly do HIV, Hep C as their bread and butter, but worked on Zika and Ebola during those events. They own all the super super Abbott robots that are needed for genotyping, isolating, etc. RNA viruses and they are still trying to get it to work. Pence is full of shit.
Welp, I’m in Georgia and this shit is just damned stupid. None of these places have to be open. I’m so tired of spoiled stupid brats breaking everything.
My husband is medically fragile, if he catches this shit he won’t survive it, short of a miracle. I’m pissed.
The Congressional Black Caucus PAC is endorsing Joe Biden’s presidential bid, further cementing his support among the nation’s influential black political leadership.https://t.co/P4bpWihFmH
— The Associated Press (@AP) April 21, 2020
How do you know you dug too deep?
You see this.
“In the ensuing years, basic virology studies established that SARS-Cov depends on endosomal escape, that it buds from the Golgi apparatus, and that its receptor (ACE2) is itself glycosylated in the Golgi.”
Okay I’m done for today. Head just hurts.
I’m so old, I remember when Trump and every right-winger alive was pushing hydroxychloroquine.
Millionaire frozen-food heir Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson, currently hosting a primetime cable news show after getting fired by two other networks, has a lot of thoughts on privilege https://t.co/eI0UWU8sTn
— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) April 21, 2020
Why isn’t the federal government doing more to help states get more tests? Simple. Trump knows that more tests will mean more and more people test positive and then the death count will skyrocket.
re: #443 Rightwingconspirator
How do you know you dug too deep?
You see this.“In the ensuing years, basic virology studies established that SARS-Cov depends on endosomal escape, that it buds from the Golgi apparatus, and that its receptor (ACE2) is itself glycosylated in the Golgi.”
Okay I’m done for today. Head just hurts.
It comes from the cells pooper
re: #448 Ace Rothstein
He is playing a numbers game with people’s lives.
re: #431 unproven innocence
Mid-May.
The IHME has huge uncertainty bars for accumulated deaths in Georgia. Partly, I suppose, because Georgia has to date only partially implemented a shut-down.
With even those minimal stay-in-place orders weakening, there will be increases in a few weeks. But it may take a month before there is another surge, and deaths track behind infections by about two or three weeks.
What this means is that whatever bad effects of Kemp letting up on stay-in-place orders may be, these effects will not be immediate.
And what that means, in the minimal-thinking capacity right wing to which Kemp is playing, is that the cause and effect will be ignored.
re: #443 Rightwingconspirator
How do you know you dug too deep?
You see this.“In the ensuing years, basic virology studies established that SARS-Cov depends on endosomal escape, that it buds from the Golgi apparatus, and that its receptor (ACE2) is itself glycosylated in the Golgi.”
Okay I’m done for today. Head just hurts.
I remember that song by Phish!
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) April 21, 2020
Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall says the city is not ready to start loosening stay-at-home restrictions.
Find the latest updates on the #coronavirus in Utah here:https://t.co/YTsshpPW7m— The Salt Lake Tribune (@sltrib) April 20, 2020
If only they had taken the pandemic as seriously. https://t.co/nj1Hp5EKuU
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) April 21, 2020
Somebody found this Corgi puppy laid out in a shop surrounded by claret. They thought he’d been attacked and was hurt and bleeding…
Turns out he’d eaten and entire jar of Jam and passed out on the floor on a sugar rush
I can’t 😂😂😂
(Via FB Taylor Payne) pic.twitter.com/Wyd7PmEFOt— StanceGrounded (@_SJPeace_) April 20, 2020
“Why defend friend for free”
“We’re getting $1B from someone”
Then he accidentally slips some secret info or something because you can see it in his face.
Who offered Trump more than $1 billion and trump said no??? pic.twitter.com/X5935XcogJ— Sam Zee (@SamZComedy) April 20, 2020
Three nurses showed up to counter-protest the Arizona “liberate” rally.
They stood silently.
And the “liberate” crowd didn’t leave them alone. They stood in their faces and berated them.
These women are heroes, and deserve so much better.
pic.twitter.com/h3NrLfvN13— Joshua Potash (@JoshuaPotash) April 21, 2020
re: #449 Eventual Carrion
Right before that I saw an article about a Pentagon study. If true, getting the flu shot made you more susceptible to COVID-19 via viral interference. Reading through tomorrow.
sciencedirect.com
Some palate cleanser for a shitty day.
Sound on…lol pic.twitter.com/VagHrH8Yw3
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) April 21, 2020
re: #428 Backwoods_Sleuth
I promise you, the only reason states are opening things up today is because the bottom fell out of the oil market. Your life is worth something, but that something is worth less than a barrel of crude.
— Margaret and Helen 🌎 (@HelenPhilpot) April 21, 2020
This brings up something that in hindsight, seems blindingly obvious: Putin must also be bankrolling/amplifying this durr hurr lockdowns are tyranny!!11! astroturf movement in order to save his own economy.
Oh well, that was a nice civilization, sad to see it go.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 21, 2020
OK, sometimes not so fucking nice, but still. It tried.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 21, 2020
Meanwhile, lost in a hallucinatory hellscape of his own making, the president of the US retweets crude racist videos attacking his predecessor. More than once now.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 21, 2020
On 4/20 Oil is $0.69 a barrel. We did it folks. We did it. pic.twitter.com/rnzCXwKIoh
— Duncan (@dunkman) April 20, 2020
re: #369 DodgerFan1988
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Of course, Conservatives are going with the “black people kills more than the Coronavirus” argument. But they’re not racist.
As the numbers keep going up they’ll keep switching to the next X kills more than Corona…
Like they’ve been doing all along
“This is a significant victory against #JimCrow era laws whose only purpose is racial discrimination. Unanimous juries are a critical part of ensuring a more fair criminal justice system.” -SPLC’s Lisa Graybill on #SCOTUS abolishing split jury verdicts
Congrats @JusticesPromise! https://t.co/omK7PHI84v— Southern Poverty Law Center (@splcenter) April 20, 2020
— The Promise of Justice Initiative (@JusticesPromise) April 20, 2020
“Every judge must learn to live with the fact he or she will make some mistakes; it comes with the territory. But it is something else entirely to perpetuate something we all know to be wrong only because we fear the consequences of being right”
— The Promise of Justice Initiative (@JusticesPromise) April 20, 2020
“Not a single Member of this Court is prepared to say Louisiana secured his conviction constitutionally under the Sixth Amendment. No one before us suggests that the error was harmless. “
— The Promise of Justice Initiative (@JusticesPromise) April 20, 2020
“….In the end, the best anyone can seem to muster against Mr. Ramos is that, if we dared to admit in his case what we all know to be true about the Sixth Amendment, we might have to say the same in some others. But where is the justice in that? “
— The Promise of Justice Initiative (@JusticesPromise) April 20, 2020
re: #466 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
When a futures contract goes negative, that is a means of keeping people from selling said contracts, as they’d have to pay people to take them.
It does not mean, though, that the price of the commodity will be negative at that date.
If you are holding a contract that has a contract price that is negative, or zero, why would you sell it?
Because if one held the contract to maturity one will lose even more money at that time than selling it now for nothing.
The petroleum markets finally priced the reality that the pandemic is not going to be over by May.
re: #459 Rightwingconspirator
Right before that I saw an article about a Pentagon study. If true, getting the flu shot made you more susceptible to COVID-19 via viral interference. Reading through tomorrow.
sciencedirect.com
I certainly hope not; I had my flu shot in December.
re: #456 Omar Comin’ Yo
A possum broke into an Australian bakery
Regret Nothing pic.twitter.com/Qfv9WeX3L8— Barbara Waxer 🏳️🌈 (@barbarawaxer) April 21, 2020
Also, what the historic negative price indicates is that petroleum prices have been propped up for some time by sheer speculation.
Of course petroleum products will be consumed in May. But traders (and probably Putin and Mr. BoneSaw) have tried for some time to keep prices higher than the real demand will allow.
It finally became evident to the world of investors that the real demand is not going to be no where near as high next month that the oil-hawkers kept pretending.
re: #474 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Possum is textbook “Stupefied.”
re: #473 sagehen
I certainly hope not; I had my flu shot in December.
I had mine a couple months before that. Very bad news.
And I’m not feeling well. Two days now. No COVID19 symptoms, I don’t think. Massive headache and the runs. Lovely.
re: #458 Backwoods_Sleuth
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And they would still take care of you
Three nurses showed up to counter-protest the Arizona “liberate” rally.
They stood silently.
And the “liberate” crowd didn’t leave them alone. They stood in their faces and berated them.
These women are heroes, and deserve so much better.
pic.twitter.com/h3NrLfvN13— Joshua Potash (@JoshuaPotash) April 21, 2020
re: #429 Eventual Carrion
No McNinny. To me he is “that fucking shit stain, orange, treasonous, criminal fuck wad waste of skin, oxygen and valuable resources”. The term “tRump” just covers all that more succinctly.
You mean the MANGO MENACE, PUMPKIN PINOCHET, PUTIN’S BUTT BOY, PUTIN’S STOOGE or the MASS MURDERING ASSHOLE who botched the Covid-19 pandemic. @realDonaldTrump is all those. But he sure as hell isn’t the @POTUS in any way, shape or form. Oh, I forgot. A MFing GRIFTER/CONMAN. https://t.co/3FevzI6QNN
— Michele: Out of the Closet and into the fire (@michele_out) April 21, 2020
re: #482 Joe Bacon 🌹
Ah yes, Time Tunnel, where the white American male goes back in time and proves that indeed he is the rightful inheritor of all the world has done.
I remember one episode when they went back to some OT story, to see it happen. Classic religion-reifying American TV.
There will be a holocaust in red states as they reopen due to pressure from Trump and Fox News. Thank God for Governor Beshear.
re: #482 Joe Bacon 🌹
If only this worked and we could go back in time to keep Trump from being born…
I stumbled onto an episode of Time Tunnel a couple days ago
re: #477 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I had mine a couple months before that. Very bad news.
And I’m not feeling well. Two days now. No COVID19 symptoms, I don’t think. Massive headache and the runs. Lovely.
Study is based on 2017-18 flu shots, and is mixed at best on virus interference. I wouldn’t worry about it.
To you, he’s not Trump, he’s PRESIDENT Trump! https://t.co/EIgPTPDIuO
— Kayleigh McEnany (@PressSec) April 20, 2020
OH LOOK HERE:
Obama filling out his “presidential bracket” now on ESPN. Don’t you have better things to do son? Like.. oh, I don’t know.. govern.
— Kayleigh McEnany (@kayleighmcenany) March 15, 2012
re: #482 Joe Bacon 🌹
Key and Peele had a skit where they went back in time to show what automatic weapons could do - it had the opposite effect. We got even more and bigger guns.
re: #485 NO SMOCKING GUN!
There will be a holocaust in red states as they reopen due to pressure from Trump and Fox News. Thank God for Governor Beshear.
Have to keep the bridges on the Ohio River available in case Kentucky ends up needing to evacuate north.
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re: #486 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
I stumbled onto a
n episode ofTime Tunnel a couple days ago
Never know where you might end up, I mean when.
re: #490 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Have to keep the bridges on the Ohio River available in case Kentucky ends up needing to evacuate north.
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We won’t have to. The legislative session is over, and they can’t reconvene until next year unless Beshear calls a special session. So he is calling all the shots for the next nine months.
This is… unconfirmed:
CNN: The US is monitoring intelligence that North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un is in grave danger after a surgery, according to US official with direct knowledge. @jimsciutto
— Shimon Prokupecz (@ShimonPro) April 21, 2020
re: #493 lawhawk
Did Trump accidentally infect him with Lindsey Graham?
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re: #491 wrenchwench
Never know where you might end up, I mean when.
As far as random time travel shows went, I always liked Quantum Leap. Fun show, often with a good message.
re: #484 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Ah yes, Time Tunnel, where the white American male goes back in time and proves that indeed he is the rightful inheritor of all the world has done.
I remember one episode when they went back to some OT story, to see it happen. Classic religion-reifying American TV.
Louis CK has a routine about how time travel is only for white men, because “OMG, sure, I can go to any time, I’d be fine, but what would happen to a black guy who goes back a couple of hundred years? Or a woman of any ethnicity? No no no no no. Time travel is definitely only for white men.”
Hey, photographers out here, I just put together a page that I hope someone here might find useful:
re: #493 lawhawk
This is… unconfirmed:
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Disinformation spread by the DPRK dead-leader wailers unit of the third inner-circle of the Juche Korean Workers Party. He actually just used his body to save the world.
re: #498 sagehen
Louis CK has a routine about how time travel is only for white men, because “OMG, sure, I can go to any time, I’d be fine, but what would happen to a black guy who goes back a couple of hundred years? Or a woman of any ethnicity? No no no no no. Time travel is definitely only for white men.”
The short lived series Timeless explored that idea in several episodes.
The doctor who performed the surgery pic.twitter.com/LP0pTKVScj
— Jr (@BeardownR) April 21, 2020
Horrifying reports about the pandemic from Rachel tonight.
re: #503 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Horrifying reports about the pandemic from Rachel tonight.
I’m still waiting for Florida governor to start telling the truth of what is happening in their nursing homes.
Also under-reported: other long term effects of Covid-19 besides death.
re: #504 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
I’m still waiting for Florida governor to start telling the truth of what is happening in their nursing homes.
Also under-reported: other long term effects of Covid-19 besides death.
I have not heard about long term effects. Do you have a link?
re: #484 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
There was also “7 Days” ….
Juanita Jean’s:
Y’all, it’s 4/20. I hope you left out milk and cookies for Willie Nelson last night.
re: #505 NO SMOCKING GUN!
I have not heard about long term effects. Do you have a link?
Not in only one link. Reports are anecdotal mostly, scattered around the world. But among the lasting effects are reduced lung capacity.
re: #501 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
The short lived series Timeless explored that idea in several episodes.
It gets explored in science fiction novels on and off. The main character in Connie Willis’ _Doomsday Book_ is a female time traveler.
re: #508 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Not in only one link. Reports are anecdotal mostly, scattered around the world. But among the lasting effects are reduced lung capacity.
That makes sense. But the economy!///
re: #506 Eric The Fruit Bat
There was also “7 Days” ….
HQ digital versions of which are still not available. Would have thought Amazon would have tried to get the owners to play ball.
7 Days was one of the few time-travel shows that tried to constrain the nature of time travel in order to keep from paradoxes.
Still, the story was about the all-American white male seducing the sexy Russian female.
NARRATOR: He makes himself look foolish. #resist #TrumpPressConf 🍊💩🤡 https://t.co/zAxhgXqQhL
— Lemon Harangue Pie (@Pie_Overlord) April 21, 2020
“It’s not a surprise most ‘essential workers’ are at the minumum wage. They’re most likely the ones who can’t afford to skip work.” pic.twitter.com/AHLj4Qlqzj
— Sophie Labelle (@AssignedMale) April 21, 2020
When do the insurance companies start weighing in on businesses in Georgia, SC, and so on who want to reopen before the actuaries think it’s safe?
Or that stupid mall in Nebraska?
(closed-circuit to Anymouse when he wakes up: Rachel Maddow showed a Scottsbluff Star-Herald clipping on her show tonight!)
The Return of the “Independent” Granfalloon, driftglass
So I’ll end this post the same way I ended my column from 2009:
Most newly minted “independents” seem to be little more than Republicans who are fleeing the scene of their crime, but at the same time still desperately want believe in the inerrant wisdom of Rush Limbaugh. They are completely incapable of facing the horrifying reality that they have gotten every single major political opinion and decision of their adult lives completely wrong, so instead they double-down on their hatred of women and/or gays and/or brown people and/or Liberals, and blame them for the miserable fuckpit their leaders and their policies have made of their lives and futures.
Like German soldiers after the fall of Berlin, they have stopped running away from the catastrophe they created only long enough to burn their uniforms…
Kim Jong Un is reportedly near death tonight, because 2020 wasn’t weird enough already.
— Palmer Report (@PalmerReport) April 21, 2020
re: #477 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I had mine a couple months before that. Very bad news.
And I’m not feeling well. Two days now. No COVID19 symptoms, I don’t think. Massive headache and the runs. Lovely.
some people have reported “the runs” prior to coming down with Covid-19. I had some in the middle of the infection. Unless you get tested or get more symptoms we don’t know. In the meantime drink plenty of liquids. Take care.
Holy shit I thought this was “Fake News”
🚨 North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is brain dead, according to two US officials. He recently had cardiac surgery and slipped into a coma, according to one US current and one former US official.@NBCNews confirms and adds to CNN scoop from me, @ckubeNBC @carolelee
— Katy Tur (@KatyTurNBC) April 21, 2020
re: #515 i(m)p(each)sos
National retail chains aren’t going to expose themselves to lawsuits by employees or customers who get sick from exposure at their establishments. People are going to be averse to going to these places. Multinational businesses aren’t resuming regular travel and returning to work as normal.
The GOP is guaranteeing that this will spread far and wide and prolong the stay-at-home orders nationwide.
re: #519 The Pie Overlord!
Didn’t Trump just recently claim he had called Kim?
re: #521 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Didn’t Trump just recently claim he had called Kim?
So? they are both brain dead.
Maybe Trump asked his master Putin to do in Kim, as a way of getting back at Kim for calling Trump a liar about the claim Trump made about receiving a nice note?
re: #520 lawhawk
National retail chains aren’t going to expose themselves to lawsuits by employees or customers who get sick from exposure at their establishments. People are going to be averse to going to these places. Multinational businesses aren’t resuming regular travel and returning to work as normal.
The GOP is guaranteeing that this will spread far and wide and prolong the stay-at-home orders nationwide.
Kroger has gone back and forth about face masks. I think they’ll be mandatory tomorrow.
re: #482 Joe Bacon 🌹
If only this worked and we could go back in time to keep Trump from being born…
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re: #519 The Pie Overlord!
I’ve deleted that last tweet out of an abundance of caution. Waiting on more info. Apologies.
— Katy Tur (@KatyTurNBC) April 21, 2020
Big brother is VERY CAREFUL with lil Bob. 😍😭😍😭😍 pic.twitter.com/ISGKi9FEl8
— Dr. Kate Dahlstrand 🦦 (@KateDahls) April 20, 2020
re: #518 I Would Prefer Not To
some people have reported “the runs” prior to coming down with Covid-19. I had some in the middle of the infection. Unless you get tested or get more symptoms we don’t know. In the meantime drink plenty of liquids. Take care.
Losing your sense of smell and taste is apparently also a preview symptom.
re: #517 DodgerFan1988
Wonder if someone screwed up a covid intubation?
re: #529 sagehen
Losing your sense of smell and taste is apparently also a preview symptom.
Sometimes.
but for me it happened after I was really sick. Covid is a strange one. and will be studied for years.
re: #529 sagehen
Losing your sense of smell and taste is apparently also a preview symptom.
I lost some of that 5 years ago. Cranial nerve damage, not preview symptom. So far.
re: #530 William Lewis
Kim was supposedly absent from a public celebration last week, which he was expected to attend.
“There are more important things than living”.
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Truly, no bottom to the depravity of the GOP and Fox. https://t.co/uQNYEOsFBK— Real Fake P0TUS (@RF_P0TUS) April 21, 2020
Dan Patrick’s fixin’ to Alamo that virus.
re: #532 wrenchwench
I lost some of that 5 years ago. Cranial nerve damage, not preview symptom. So far.
Wench! so good to hear from you!
I haven’t commented on Twitter because I found them not credible, but rumors have been circulating for a couple days that Kim is in a coma or brain dead. These are familiar rumors from previous bouts of his absence from public appearances; let’s wait.
— Ankit Panda (@nktpnd) April 21, 2020
re: #530 William Lewis
Wonder if someone screwed up a covid intubation?
More likely they were afraid to bring in foreign doctors and/or equipment (and the places they’d usually steal and kidnap them from were too crowded for a stealth theft and kidnap) during the cover mess.
re: #534 jaunte
Je$us?
Hypoxia, I would bet, is what is happening to many Covid-19 serious cases, and that will then affect the rest of the body, including the nervous system.
re: #535 I Would Prefer Not To
Wench! so good to hear from you!
Thanks. My internet service is still screwy as hell, and I won’t be here as much as I want to be.
re: #541 wrenchwench
Thanks. My internet service is still screwy as hell, and I won’t be here as much as I want to be.
That’s okay. We appreciate seeing you when we can.
re: #511 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
And don’t forget that Nick Search was a co-srar, acting like his real self…
JUST IN: President Trump says on Twitter he will sign executive order to “temporarily suspend immigration” into U.S. amid COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak, “in light of the attack from the Invisible Enemy.” https://t.co/iwlWdXZlI0 pic.twitter.com/rzjCc8G0we
— ABC News (@ABC) April 21, 2020
re: #542 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
That’s okay. We appreciate seeing you when we can.
Gosh. I seem kinda dopey, now…
re: #544 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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Which will do exactly jack shit, except for appease his bloated ego.
re: #62 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)
#GOP then: we’re the party of life! Protect every fetus!#GOP now: if 2 million people need to die so I can get a haircut and do my nails, so be it!
— Dan (@dbrozost) April 20, 2020
One can only hope. If the virus could take anyone other than Trump or Putin, let it be this guy.
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) April 21, 2020
The State Department has been practically begging immigrant healthcare workers to come here to help fight coronavirus and has been offering them emergency visa appointments https://t.co/5FOXKTizmm https://t.co/Paf7Lwfrww
— Evan Hill (@evanchill) April 21, 2020
re: #548 NO SMOCKING GUN!
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1. Trump
2. McConnell
3. Putin
4. Pence
5. Kim Jong-Un
So, okay, they were close. He’s still in the top 5.
re: #544 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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I hope he realizes that there’s no immigration from Covidia
re: #544 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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We have the highest number of C19 cases in the world.
Other countries should be banning us; not the other way around. https://t.co/bLD6jZCgQh— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) April 21, 2020
re: #516 retired cynic
Most newly minted “independents” seem to be little more than Republicans who are fleeing the scene of their crime, but at the same time still desperately want believe in the inerrant wisdom of Rush Limbaugh. They are completely incapable of facing the horrifying reality that they have gotten every single major political opinion and decision of their adult lives completely wrong, so instead they double-down on their hatred of women and/or gays and/or brown people and/or Liberals, and blame them for the miserable fuckpit their leaders and their policies have made of their lives and futures.
Like German soldiers after the fall of Berlin, they have stopped running away from the catastrophe they created only long enough to burn their uniforms…
from Driftglass
Fucking this and amen. I would very much like to have the entirety of this text tattooed onto the body of each person in the US political media that pushes the both-sides lie — one tattoo per infraction.
re: #551 aatharuv
I hope he realizes that there’s no immigration from Covidia
For half a second there, I felt like I was living in a Marx Brothers movie.
It was a great half second.
re: #554 wrenchwench
For half a second there, I felt like I was living in a Marx Brothers movie.
It was a great half second.
This is perfection 👏😂😂😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/6HIArUvPZG
— Hear Me Roar (@Stop_Trump20) April 20, 2020
Chinatown is a model of how to successfully deal with the Covid-19 virus. Our pudding-brain president should be praising them.https://t.co/fTQHGHfMt6
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) April 21, 2020
Gateway Pundit, Sued by Election Workers, Declares BankruptcyA onetime favorite, now just pathetic figure around these parts, Jim Hoft aka SMOTI ("Stupidest Man On The Internet"), has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in response to the defamation lawsuits filed against him to the same election workers that ...
Khal Wimpo (free internal organs upon request!)
The Pandemic Cost 7 Million Lives, but Talks to Prevent a Repeat Stall In late 2021, as the world reeled from the arrival of the highly contagious omicron variant of the coronavirus, representatives of almost 200 countries met - some online, some in-person in Geneva - hoping to forestall a future worldwide ...
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Once Praised, the Settlement to Help Sickened BP Oil Spill Workers Leaves Most With Nearly Nothing When a deadly explosion destroyed BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico, 134 million gallons of crude erupted into the sea over the next three months — and tens of thousands of ordinary people were hired ... Cheechako
Alone in a Bathroom: The Fear and Uncertainty of a Post-Roe Medication Abortion Angel tucked two white pills into each side of her mouth, bracing herself as they began to dissolve. Her deepest fears and anxieties took over. Angel had wanted to talk to a doctor before she took the pills to ... Cheechako
They Were Desperate to Get Pregnant. Then IVF Gave Them Extra Embryos. One morning last spring, Ashley Harrolle put her 1-year-old daughter down for a nap and went to the kitchen. She pulled up her fertility clinic’s contact information. It was time to make the call. In a freezer several hundred ... Cheechako
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Texas County at Center of Border Fight Is Overwhelmed by Migrant Deaths EAGLE PASS, Tex. - The undertaker lighted a cigarette and held it between his latex-gloved fingers as he stood over the bloated body bag lying in the bed of his battered pickup truck. The woman had been fished out ... Cheechako
