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Not going to lie. Some rare mornings I turn off the alarm and fall back asleep before hitting publish, and some other COB posts my draft.
I don't know who it is. I mean, I think we can pretty safely rule out Ace. Otherwise it is a mystery. Anyway, I want to thank that kind soul for occasionally publishing my generally content-less EMT when I am tooComments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: sock_rat_eez, we are being gaslighted 24/365 at March 22, 2020 06:01 AM (zlgJP)
Posted by: Skip at March 22, 2020 06:01 AM (ZCEU2)
Posted by: Hillary Clinton at March 22, 2020 06:01 AM (AsjQP)
Posted by: Skip at March 22, 2020 06:02 AM (ZCEU2)
YaHOOOoo news has a report up that "intelligence officials" are monitoring White Supremacist groups (OMG!!!) that had chatter about ways to spread the flu.
Back on Feb 17
Gezz, way to help out there YaHOOOoo.
Posted by: Bruce at March 22, 2020 06:05 AM (vd8XM)
Posted by: Vic at March 22, 2020 06:05 AM (mpXpK)
Posted by: JT at March 22, 2020 06:05 AM (arJlL)
Good Morning Morons today is Sunday, March 22, 2020. On this date in 2019 Mueller delivered his report on the Russian government's influence on the election of Donald Trump in the 2016 United States presidential election. It was a big nothingburger after the communists and the MFM had been drooling for a long time. And the SOBs have not given up yet after 1 year.
Posted by: Vic at March 22, 2020 06:08 AM (mpXpK)
Posted by: Vic at March 22, 2020 06:08 AM (mpXpK)
Posted by: Skip at March 22, 2020 06:08 AM (ZCEU2)
Posted by: Vic at March 22, 2020 06:08 AM (mpXpK)
Unbelievable that people think that way and that "reporters" and their editors let that go to press.
Posted by: m at March 22, 2020 06:09 AM (oGFm1)
https://tinyurl.com/t2plvtl
Posted by: Vic at March 22, 2020 06:09 AM (mpXpK)
https://tinyurl.com/td9a23s
Posted by: Vic at March 22, 2020 06:09 AM (mpXpK)
https://tinyurl.com/t3wyldr
Posted by: Vic at March 22, 2020 06:09 AM (mpXpK)
Posted by: Vic at March 22, 2020 06:10 AM (mpXpK)
https://tinyurl.com/ul5ttko
And that's it for today. Its still coronavirus all day all the time out there Morons.
Posted by: Vic at March 22, 2020 06:10 AM (mpXpK)
Posted by: Bruce at March 22, 2020 06:12 AM (vd8XM)
Posted by: Skip at March 22, 2020 06:13 AM (ZCEU2)
Posted by: Gmac- The light at the end of the tunnel is the Trump 2020 train. at March 22, 2020 06:14 AM (qZdIZ)
https://tinyurl.com/yx42tt4p
Posted by: lowandslow at March 22, 2020 06:15 AM (4thlk)
Posted by: Vic at March 22, 2020 06:16 AM (mpXpK)
Posted by: Skip
That's what I would like to know. When is it done? What numbers will be used?
It's like Climate Change right now. We need to do things until things get better.
When will we know when things are better?
We'll let you know
Posted by: Bruce at March 22, 2020 06:16 AM (vd8XM)
I told her about us canceling our trip to Florida because even the beaches were shut down.
She says, they had to. Because of all the spring break kids getting together and then getting the FLU and taking it back to wherever they came from.
Sooo, kids on spring break that can't go to the beach won't figure out another way to get together and swap fluids of some sort?
Posted by: Bruce at March 22, 2020 06:19 AM (vd8XM)
Posted by: Bruce at March 22, 2020 06:19 AM (vd8XM)
Posted by: Skip at March 22, 2020 06:20 AM (ZCEU2)
What do you reckon will be the media lies of the day re: the Chinese Commie Kung-Flu Cornholio Virus? All things lurid, hysterical, idiotic, and Orangemanbad, I reckon.
Posted by: Stu-22 at March 22, 2020 06:22 AM (kZT36)
Keep hearing months thrown around by the Democrat governors, you have
to explain to me how this state all of a sudden can pay unemployment for
3/4 of the state not working for a few weeks yet alone a few months.
Posted by: Skip at March 22, 2020 06:20 AM (ZCEU2)
Unemployment benefits are paid for by taxing the employers and they raise those taxes on the employer who lay people off.
Posted by: Vic at March 22, 2020 06:22 AM (mpXpK)
Posted by: AltonJackson
...and remember that we are not descended from fearful men
at March 22, 2020 06:23 AM (Ots//)
Posted by: Skip at March 22, 2020 06:25 AM (ZCEU2)
Never underestimate the stupidity of politicians. This will backfire on them in every way. They have a maybe a week if not days before the people start rejecting the over reaction of shutting down the economy.
Posted by: lowandslow at March 22, 2020 06:25 AM (4thlk)
White House briefing on Thursday and heard not a sober, confident
leader, but a salesman hyping unproven treatments, boasting of
non-existent achievements, and offering false hope instead of realistic
counsel."
--------------------
In many ways, this is the story of Barack Obama...in 2009. Except that the media didn't really report H1N1 in terms of terror and pandemic, and Obama was too lazy and clueless to bother with hype and boasting and false hope. Fore!
Posted by: Stu-22 at March 22, 2020 06:27 AM (kZT36)
Posted by: Skip at March 22, 2020 06:27 AM (ZCEU2)
Posted by: lowandslow
Wife and I used to go camping on our vacations.
I remember when it would be a rainy day, everyone more or less stayed in their tent or camper.
By day two...farg it, people out in the rain with or without rain gear.
Posted by: Bruce at March 22, 2020 06:27 AM (vd8XM)
Posted by: AltonJackson
...and remember that we are not descended from fearful men
at March 22, 2020 06:29 AM (Ots//)
In many ways, this is the story of Barack
Obama...in 2009. Except that the media didn't really report H1N1 in
terms of terror and pandemic, and Obama was too lazy and clueless to
bother with hype and boasting and false hope. Fore!
Posted by: Stu-22 at March 22, 2020 06:27 AM (kZT36)
And guess where the swine flu came from.
Posted by: Vic at March 22, 2020 06:29 AM (mpXpK)
What do you reckon will be the media lies of the day re: the Chinese Commie Kung-Flu Cornholio Virus? All things lurid, hysterical, idiotic, and Orangemanbad, I reckon.
Posted by: Stu-22 at March 22, 2020 06:22 AM (kZT36)
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As was noted above, they're already pushing a white supremacist link...
Posted by: No One of Consequence at March 22, 2020 06:29 AM (CAJOC)
Posted by: Gary M. at March 22, 2020 06:30 AM (wc3R3)
Posted by: Skip at March 22, 2020 06:31 AM (ZCEU2)
Posted by: Skip at March 22, 2020 06:33 AM (ZCEU2)
During Prohibition, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs a measure to make wine and beer containing up to 3.2 percent alcohol legal.
Did no know that!
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 22, 2020 06:33 AM (JFO2v)
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 22, 2020 06:34 AM (JFO2v)
Posted by: Vic at March 22, 2020 06:29 AM (mpXpK)
----------------
From pigs of unknown origin? White supremacists? Donald Trump?
Oh...right. It originated in communist China, too. Racist!
Posted by: Stu-22 at March 22, 2020 06:35 AM (kZT36)
Posted by: iso. day 5 at March 22, 2020 06:36 AM (WX+x0)
this situation is wholly overblown panic. Utterly. The staff with whom
I've spoken say the same.
Posted by: Gary M. at March 22, 2020 06:30 AM (wc3R3)
I have thought that now for a week.
Posted by: Vic at March 22, 2020 06:37 AM (mpXpK)
so far 9 people have been wounded and none killed thru Saturday 2:20 Am (numbers are usually slow)
Unless the were shot in their homes, will those wounded be charged with failure to shelter in place?
Posted by: Bruce at March 22, 2020 06:38 AM (vd8XM)
Posted by: Vic at March 22, 2020 06:39 AM (mpXpK)
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 22, 2020 06:40 AM (JFO2v)
Posted by: Vic
There money spends as good as anyone elses, and besides they had pictures of us doing naughty things.
...WHO are we? WooHoo The Flu...
Posted by: Bruce at March 22, 2020 06:40 AM (vd8XM)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez, we are being gaslighted 24/365 at March 22, 2020 06:41 AM (zlgJP)
Posted by: Vic at March 22, 2020 06:41 AM (mpXpK)
https://tinyurl.com/vmxskj6
Posted by: Skip at March 22, 2020 06:44 AM (ZCEU2)
Posted by: olddog in mo, uckfay ancercay at March 22, 2020 06:44 AM (Dhht7)
Posted by: Vic at March 22, 2020 06:46 AM (mpXpK)
https://tinyurl.com/s6zpvxz
This just gives me more reason this panic and shutdown is more about a election in November.
Posted by: Skip at March 22, 2020 06:49 AM (ZCEU2)
https://tinyurl.com/vmxskj6
Posted by: Skip
Good article.
Posted by: Bruce at March 22, 2020 06:50 AM (vd8XM)
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 22, 2020 06:50 AM (JFO2v)
Posted by: AltonJackson at March 22, 2020 06:52 AM (N0Inl)
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 22, 2020 06:53 AM (JFO2v)
38 Anyway the lethality of it just isn't panning out to be worse than the seasonal flu.
Posted by: Skip
That's what I would like to know. When is it done? What numbers will be used?
It's like Climate Change right now. We need to do things until things get better. When will we know when things are better? We'll let you know.
Posted by: Bruce
One bright spot in the governors' overreaction in shutting down the economy is that they've shot their bolt on control. Folks -- those with eyes and brains to see, anyway -- will be less inclined to believe that they need to ditch everything for the great myth of climate change.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 22, 2020 06:53 AM (pNxlR)
apparently, the 24 hour Walmart opens at 7:00
Posted by: AltonJackson at March 22, 2020 06:52 AM (N0Inl)
I think texas is doing 8 to 8 openings for most stores.
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 22, 2020 06:54 AM (JFO2v)
https://tinyurl.com/wf7ajsf
Posted by: Vic at March 22, 2020 06:05
----------------------------
Lady Dr on Fox was kind of negative about home testing kits. Said you really have to stick swab far up nose into nasal cavity. She said most prolly wouldn't do it correctly and there would be many false negatives.
Posted by: olddog in mo, uckfay ancercay at March 22, 2020 06:55 AM (Dhht7)
Posted by: AltonJackson at March 22, 2020 06:56 AM (N0Inl)
Posted by: Skip at March 22, 2020 06:57 AM (ZCEU2)
Posted by: cosmo 2.0 reset at March 22, 2020 06:58 AM (WX+x0)
President Donald Trump has offered exactly the opposite. He is a clear and present danger to the nation's public health, and he should resign immediately.
Another "newspaper" of record...
Posted by: Colin at March 22, 2020 06:58 AM (avLHh)
Just got off work and thinking about a tee time. Surely golf courses are still open.
Posted by: Traveling Man&&&& at March 22, 2020 06:58 AM (wbA/J)
Posted by: Traveling Man&&&&
A long as you golf by yourself
Posted by: Bruce at March 22, 2020 06:59 AM (vd8XM)
The Michigan Democrat's plan would be financed by having the Federal Reserve create new money on behalf of the Treasury. To skirt the federal debt limit, the U.S. Mint would create two $1 trillion coins, and the Treasury would deposit them in its account at the Fed.
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 22, 2020 06:59 AM (JFO2v)
Posted by: Bruce at March 22, 2020
Or each golfer drives their own cart.
Posted by: Traveling Man&&&& at March 22, 2020 07:02 AM (wbA/J)
So John Hopkins says ~27,000 cases and 340 deaths. That is probably much
more accurate than what the CDC is saying. I'll start reporting that
number.
-------
The Hopkins dashboard is drawing data from WHO and CDC...but it's also aggregating data from many other sources. So yeah, it's probably more reliable.
Posted by: Stu-22 at March 22, 2020 07:02 AM (kZT36)
Posted by: Traveling Man&&&&
And you don't touch anyone else's balls
Posted by: Bruce at March 22, 2020 07:02 AM (vd8XM)
Posted by: Skip at March 22, 2020 07:02 AM (ZCEU2)
Posted by: weirdflunky at March 22, 2020 07:05 AM (cknjq)
Posted by: Bruce at March 22, 2020 07:02 AM (vd8XM)
I don't swing that way, but whatever, NTTATWWT.
Posted by: Traveling Man&&&& at March 22, 2020 07:05 AM (wbA/J)
Posted by: Colin at March 22, 2020 07:06 AM (avLHh)
Posted by: Bruce at March 22, 2020 07:06 AM (vd8XM)
Posted by: Traveling Man&&&&
And you don't touch anyone else's balls
Posted by: Bruce at March 22, 2020 07:02 AM (vd8XM)
The old dont gimme no lies and keep you hands to yourself
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 22, 2020 07:06 AM (JFO2v)
Posted by: Traveling Man&&&& at March 22, 2020 07:07 AM (wbA/J)
So Italy just chalks up dead as having a case of corona!
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 22, 2020 07:07 AM (JFO2v)
Posted by: Skip at March 22, 2020 07:08 AM (ZCEU2)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 22, 2020 07:08 AM (nRk/c)
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 22, 2020 07:09 AM (Y6JyC)
Posted by: Skip
Joe Biden thinks that the ships should be sent to Iowa.
They can go right up the Mississippi
Posted by: Bruce at March 22, 2020 07:10 AM (vd8XM)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez, we are being gaslighted 24/365 at March 22, 2020 06:41 AM (zlgJP)
Do you have a link for that?
Posted by: m at March 22, 2020 07:10 AM (oGFm1)
Posted by: Heirloominati at March 22, 2020 07:10 AM (GC07d)
Posted by: Traveling Man&&&&
A long as you golf by yourself
Posted by: Bruce
"I'll be with you in a minute, Mr. Peabody !"
Posted by: JT at March 22, 2020 07:11 AM (arJlL)
Posted by: Skip
Politics. And mucho make work for me
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 22, 2020 07:12 AM (nRk/c)
20 million Californians are not going to get the Cornavirus in two months.
It's all driven by models modeling the absolute worst case scenario.
These model are absolute bullshit.
This bullshit virus is not the creeping death of the bible.
And it's more likely that many people being diagnosed with Covid, simply have the flu.
You know the flu, that 60 million Americans get and kills anywhere from 12-20k people a year.
I'm sick of this bullshit.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 22, 2020 07:12 AM (FVrDO)
Posted by: logprof at March 22, 2020 07:12 AM (oZuI0)
Posted by: Bruce at March 22, 2020 07:12 AM (vd8XM)
What's goin' on?
Red wine reserves = severely depleted
Vodka - holding strong
Bourbon - no worries at all
I may neeed another lime or two before they sound the all-clear.
Posted by: Heirloominati at March 22, 2020 07:13 AM (GC07d)
Posted by: Bruce at March 22, 2020 07:14 AM (vd8XM)
Posted by: Heirloominati at March 22, 2020 07:13 AM (GC07d)
You need a coconut, then you drink it all up....
Posted by: Shadout Mapes, now with more sanitizing power at March 22, 2020 07:15 AM (PiwSw)
Actually a good 2 foot blizzard would probably work wonders here in the North east LOL
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 22, 2020 07:15 AM (nRk/c)
Posted by: Traveling Man&&&& at March 22, 2020 07:16 AM (wbA/J)
This is not what I imagined. I don't even get to shoot anybody.
I want another end of the world because this one is just pathetic.
Posted by: weirdflunky at March 22, 2020 07:17 AM (cknjq)
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 22, 2020 07:17 AM (Y6JyC)
So we got that going for us
Posted by: Bruce at March 22, 2020 07:14 AM (vd8XM)
WUT? I haven't looked at the forecast yet. Just keep piling on the crappy news why dontchya!
Posted by: My life is insanity at March 22, 2020 07:17 AM (Z/jzm)
Posted by: Shadout Mapes, now with more sanitizing power at March 22, 2020 07:15 AM (PiwSw)
You put the Lime in the Coconut then you drink it all up.
Posted by: Traveling Man&&&& at March 22, 2020 07:17 AM (wbA/J)
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 22, 2020 07:18 AM (Y6JyC)
Posted by: Traveling Man&&&&
Yay!!
There were some golfers out on the local course on Friday. I'm hoping my new knees will allow me to be able to do that this summer
Posted by: Bruce at March 22, 2020 07:19 AM (vd8XM)
Posted by: Heirloominati at March 22, 2020 07:20 AM (GC07d)
Posted by: Bruce at March 22, 2020 07:19 AM (
Are you still in therapy? How is recovery going?
Posted by: My life is insanity at March 22, 2020 07:20 AM (Z/jzm)
A terrified nation...
We are? Says who? Everyone in my neighborhood with whom I have spoken is calm and dealing with issues as they occur.
On the other hand, my idiot SiL in Connecticut has dialed her usual histrionics up to 11, but she's a rabid anti-Trumper.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 22, 2020 07:21 AM (pNxlR)
Do you have a link for that?
Posted by: m at March 22, 2020 07:10 AM (oGFm1) "
Top story at https://www.dailymail.co.uk
Posted by: sock_rat_eez, we are being gaslighted 24/365 at March 22, 2020 07:22 AM (zlgJP)
I might find a lime at the store, but no coconuts unless discharged by a migrating swallow
Posted by: Heirloominati at March 22, 2020 07:23 AM (GC07d)
Posted by: Bruce at March 22, 2020 07:19 AM (vd8XM)
Good luck!
I had a bad twinge in my knee late yesterday evening. It seems to feel better today. Have got three (3) three inch screws in my left hip.. had since '98 after a fall at work. Doesn't seem to affect my game...it's always bad, ha ha.
Posted by: Traveling Man&&&& at March 22, 2020 07:23 AM (wbA/J)
Posted by: teej at March 22, 2020 07:23 AM (Jvty4)
I would say people are more angry than anything else.
Just wait until 5 million people have no job in a month if this nonsense is not stopped.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 22, 2020 07:24 AM (FVrDO)
Does Russia have coronavirus under control? According to information released by Russian officials, Putin's strategy seems to have worked.
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 22, 2020 07:26 AM (JFO2v)
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 22, 2020 07:26 AM (Y6JyC)
Joe Biden thinks that the ships should be sent to Iowa.
They can go right up the Mississippi
Posted by: Bruce at March 22, 2020 07:10 AM (vd8XM)
"And be sure to bring plenty of relief supplies of paste with you!"
-- Ol' Puddin' Head
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 22, 2020 07:26 AM (pNxlR)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 22, 2020 07:26 AM (O4024)
Aruba, Bahamas, come on pretty momma
Thanks for the earworm.
It's a goodun'.
Posted by: teej at March 22, 2020 07:23 AM (Jvty4)
I always hear the Cameltoe version of that tune in my mind's eye.
Weird.
Posted by: Heirloominati at March 22, 2020 07:26 AM (GC07d)
fucking worthless pieces of shit
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 22, 2020 07:28 AM (JFO2v)
I would say people are more angry than anything else.
Just wait until 5 million people have no job in a month if this nonsense is not stopped.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 22, 2020 07:24 AM (FVrDO) "
Well, that's the desired result ... but I don't think its gonna work out the way they hope for, at all.
About 2 more weeks before their house of cards comes completely apart, to the sound of wailing and gnashing of teeth, and Sun-In-His-Hair sails on to 4 more years of singing the songs and counting coup.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez, we are being gaslighted 24/365 at March 22, 2020 07:30 AM (zlgJP)
Posted by: My life is insanity
Not in therapy anymore. Just a 6 to 12 month recovery.
6 months is up on the 25th of this month, so it won't be 6 months.
Stuff still hurts at times, but the warmer weather coming I'll get my bike out and start riding. I've been following the my therapists things to do when I "graduated" from therapy and they seem to be working. I guess at 65, it's going to take a bit of time
Posted by: Bruce at March 22, 2020 07:30 AM (vd8XM)
Posted by: m at March 22, 2020 07:10 AM (oGFm1) "
Top story at https://www.dailymail.co.uk
Posted by: sock_rat_eez, we are being gaslighted 24/365 at March 22, 2020 07:22 AM (zlgJP)
Thanks, sock! I use AdBlocker, so I can't see that site. That site is trash; the spin is over the top and lurid on every story.
Posted by: m at March 22, 2020 07:31 AM (oGFm1)
126 CNN
Does Russia have coronavirus under control? According to information released by Russian officials, Putin's strategy seems to have worked.
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 22, 2020 07:26 AM (JFO2v)
They're believing Russian claptrap? Of course Russia has it under control ("You hear that, Vlad?"), just like Communist China has it under control. And Iran, too!
Now do you see what America's fallen standing in the world is costing us? Do you? Do you?
Our betters need to be quarantined as though they were lepers. Get their lies out of the communication loops.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 22, 2020 07:31 AM (pNxlR)
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 22, 2020 07:32 AM (JFO2v)
Posted by: t-bird at March 22, 2020 07:32 AM (xSo9G)
Posted by: MHK at March 22, 2020 07:33 AM (iQIUe)
Posted by: Vic at March 22, 2020 07:33 AM (mpXpK)
Posted by: Vic
The guy that flips the switch can't do that from home?
Posted by: Bruce at March 22, 2020 07:34 AM (vd8XM)
Posted by: Bruce at March 22, 2020 07:30 AM (vd8XM)
I'm still surprised that I don't recover from stuff as fast as I used to. I guess 59 isn't really the new 40.
Posted by: My life is insanity at March 22, 2020 07:34 AM (Z/jzm)
Posted by: Redenzo at March 22, 2020 07:35 AM (E7vND)
Trash.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez, we are being gaslighted 24/365 at March 22, 2020 07:35 AM (zlgJP)
Posted by: MHK at March 22, 2020 07:33 AM (iQIUe)
You missed it . It was the 19th
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 22, 2020 07:36 AM (JFO2v)
Gonna be abright sunshiney day here, and increasingly warmer through mid week. I might get something in my eye and not see working by Wednesday.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 22, 2020 07:36 AM (Xesvh)
Posted by: CN at March 22, 2020 07:36 AM (ONvIw)
Posted by: CN
To not do so would have been racist
Posted by: Bruce at March 22, 2020 07:37 AM (vd8XM)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez, we are being gaslighted 24/365 at March 22, 2020 07:37 AM (zlgJP)
Posted by: JAS at March 22, 2020 07:39 AM (2BZBZ)
Posted by: One of the quiet ones at March 22, 2020 07:39 AM (2GPSc)
The NYC Department of Health issued a two-page memo Saturday listing its advice on how people can enjoy a healthy sex life while still protecting themselves from being infected with coronavirus.
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 22, 2020 07:39 AM (JFO2v)
Posted by: JAS
If I'm retired, do I hafta?
Posted by: Bruce at March 22, 2020 07:39 AM (vd8XM)
Posted by: JAS at March 22, 2020 07:40 AM (2BZBZ)
Let's smile and be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 22, 2020 07:40 AM (u82oZ)
If you want to lock down your state and close the airline industry, go ahead.
Do not tell me that "I" am doing this out of "my sense of personal responsibility."
He doesn't want to put mandates on business. Except for airlines, I guess.
He can propose whatever he wants. Just don't blame it on me.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at March 22, 2020 07:40 AM (8IOEj)
Posted by: JAS at March 22, 2020 07:41 AM (2BZBZ)
Posted by: My life is insanity at March 22, 2020 07:41 AM (Z/jzm)
131 Media tells me 2 grams of chloroquine will kill me. Daily does is about 200 mg or ONE TENTH of 2 Grams.
Ted Lieu (Dipshit, CA) had a Twitter post telling folks they had not better take hydroxychloroquine on their because of bad juju side effects. He was inundated with replies calling him a stupid ass because it can only be obtained via prescription from a physician.
He's just part of a, dare I say it, a wave of deniers. The really snippy ones get super pissy about the added antibiotic in the treatment: "Trump so dumb -- doesn't he know that antibiotics don't act against viruses!" Pointing out that an antibiotic is included to prevent side effects like pneumonia buys you the snippy rejoinder, "Oh, are you a physician, now?" Read the fooking French study papers, jackasses.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 22, 2020 07:41 AM (pNxlR)
Posted by: StellasTwoCents at March 22, 2020 07:41 AM (KSBDE)
Posted by: Joe Biden at March 22, 2020 07:41 AM (PiwSw)
Posted by: torabora at March 22, 2020 07:41 AM (iIjTz)
Posted by: Joe Biden at March 22, 2020 07:41 AM
and all this time I thought it was his pact with the devil.
Posted by: One of the quiet ones at March 22, 2020 07:42 AM (2GPSc)
Posted by: JAS
Some do, I just don't want to go back to it!
Posted by: Bruce at March 22, 2020 07:42 AM (vd8XM)
That's Spring for local TV weathermen.
Seen the new fashions yet?
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at March 22, 2020 07:43 AM (8IOEj)
Posted by: Skip at March 22, 2020 07:43 AM (ZCEU2)
Then watch to see what he does.
I'm cruel but he's from the other tribe so it's okay.
Posted by: torabora at March 22, 2020 07:44 AM (iIjTz)
I might find a lime at the store, but no coconuts unless discharged by a migrating swallow
Posted by: Heirloominati at March 22, 2020 07:23 AM (GC07d)
African or European?
Posted by: Mandy P., lurking lurker who lurks at March 22, 2020 07:44 AM (G91sh)
We went from zero to complete panic in a week, even before the first death was reported.
In the span of less than a month we've decided to shut down large swaths of the US economic engine over 200 or so deaths.
At a similar time interval during the 2009-2010 H1N1 pandemic we had 5 million infections, 22 thousand hospitalizations and 1000 deaths.
And we didn't shut down our economy over it.
The stats for this bullshit virus scare are rounding errors compared to H1N1.
We are being played and this is a scam.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 22, 2020 07:44 AM (FVrDO)
Posted by: torabora at March 22, 2020 07:45 AM (iIjTz)
No special hours for seniors, in a totally unnecessary lockdown, (1 case in the county), and without the college student stockers. They were sent home with the closure of the dorms.
So, was open borders a good idea? Was helping China a good idea? Not a particularly happy camper.
The good news is; in November, I thought it would be a bad flu season, and stocked up. Including a gallon refill on hand-sanitizer, TP, OTC drugs, and paper towels. So we are good there.
Have a great day, everyone.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 22, 2020 07:45 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Weasel at March 22, 2020 07:45 AM (MVjcR)
Posted by: Skip at March 22, 2020 07:43 AM (ZCEU2)
My favorite locally owned diner closed yesterday. Apparently the carry out thing wasn't working. I feel for them. I sure hope they can ride this out.
Posted by: My life is insanity at March 22, 2020 07:46 AM (Z/jzm)
The same things we do every flu season. Alittle common sense and courtesy for your fellow workers and citizens would go a long way to slowing this down.
YMMV
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 22, 2020 07:46 AM (Xesvh)
Listened to all of it, live.
What I heard was not the same as what the media is reporting.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 22, 2020 07:46 AM (O4024)
Posted by: MarjBaldwin at March 22, 2020 07:47 AM (C3tIt)
Posted by: Bruce at March 22, 2020 07:47 AM (vd8XM)
Posted by: Skip at March 22, 2020 07:43 AM (ZCEU2)
My favorite locally owned diner closed yesterday. Apparently the carry out thing wasn't working. I feel for them. I sure hope they can ride this out.
Posted by: My life is insanity at March 22, 2020 07:46 AM (Z/jzm)
I got some wings and pizza yesterday. Added a $20 tip.
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 22, 2020 07:47 AM (JFO2v)
If I'm retired, do I hafta?
Posted by: Bruce at March 22, 2020 07:39 AM (vd8XM)
Voices of folks such as us (I'm retired, too) will be all the more powerful, especially if we can score an on-mike report with credulous jackasses in the MSM.
Us: "You took our jobs!"
MSM: "Look! #orangemanbad's actions threw retirees out of work!"
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 22, 2020 07:47 AM (pNxlR)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 22, 2020 07:47 AM (O4024)
Then watch to see what he does.
I'm cruel but he's from the other tribe so it's okay.
Posted by: torabora at March 22, 2020 07:44 AM (iIjTz)
That IS evil. And funny.
Who'd be the person to do it?
Posted by: m at March 22, 2020 07:47 AM (oGFm1)
He's just part of a, dare I say it, a wave of deniers. The really snippy ones get super pissy about the added antibiotic in the treatment: "Trump so dumb -- doesn't he know that antibiotics don't act against viruses!" Pointing out that an antibiotic is included to prevent side effects like pneumonia buys you the snippy rejoinder, "Oh, are you a physician, now?" Read the fooking French study papers, jackasses.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 22, 2020 07:41 AM (pNxlR) "
They're starting to lose it completely; this time they were really going to bring PDT down and restore the rule of the Smart People ... and it's failing again !
Posted by: sock_rat_eez, we are being gaslighted 24/365 at March 22, 2020 07:48 AM (zlgJP)
Posted by: StellasTwoCents at March 22, 2020 07:48 AM (KSBDE)
Posted by: olddog in mo, uckfay ancercay at March 22, 2020 07:48 AM (Dhht7)
Posted by: MHK at March 22, 2020 07:48 AM (iQIUe)
Posted by: Mrs. Leggy at March 22, 2020 07:49 AM (Vf4Y7)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez,
I never in a gajillion years would have thought we would need to be instructed that washing our hands is a good idea.
Posted by: Bruce at March 22, 2020 07:49 AM (vd8XM)
"There are citizens of the United States, I blush to admit,... who have poured the poison of disloyalty into the very arteries of our national life....Such creatures of passion, disloyalty, and anarchy must be crushed out."
pg 122. The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History. John M. Barry. Penguin Books. 2005.
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 22, 2020 07:50 AM (Y6JyC)
My two cents
Posted by: Skip at March 22, 2020 07:50 AM (ZCEU2)
reaction, you certainly have a better plan than all of the world
leaders, scientists and medical authorities."
How about everything we've been doing without the mandatory shutting down of businesses and the stay at home orders? Do you have any evidence those policies are slowing the spread enough to justify the harm they're causing to the economy?
Posted by: lowandslow at March 22, 2020 07:51 AM (4thlk)
Posted by: Mrs. Leggy
The new Cubs channel here is showing the Road to the Ring. Complete games of when the Cubs won the series.
It's nice, especially if you're a Cub fan
Posted by: Bruce at March 22, 2020 07:51 AM (vd8XM)
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 22, 2020 07:52 AM (JFO2v)
We are being played and this is a scam.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 22, 2020 07:44 AM
I've been reading your posts for days and for the most part agree with you. The thing that keeps me from jumping fully onboard is what we saw out of China: Armed bands of police grabbing citizens and throwing them into vans, arresting those who were in public w/o masks, boarding up people in their homes for weeks, the supposed crematorium sulfur dioxide numbers in astronomical range, barricading entire cities, train stations empty. To my knowledge, they've never reacted in a similar manner to the regular flu. So something is different, just based on what we saw coming out of China at the height of it over there.
Posted by: One of the quiet ones at March 22, 2020 07:52 AM (2GPSc)
His extreme measures now to fight coronavirus are nothing but cover for authoritarian extensions of state power.
Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at March 22, 2020 07:52 AM (H8QX8)
Posted by: My life is insanity at March 22, 2020 07:41 AM (Z/jzm)
I didn't see it, either, and I watched the press conference yesterday. Fauci was moving around a lot: shifting his weight from foot to foot in sort of a limbering-up way, and tucking his head forward, and for a while, putting a forefinger into the neck-band of his shirt as if it were too tight or he was getting too overheated--that last one was a bit worrisome!
Posted by: m at March 22, 2020 07:52 AM (oGFm1)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at March 22, 2020 07:52 AM (LHvlS)
Wife often wants a whole chicken, no animal like that but lots of thigh and legs, and did get small boneless skinless chicken breast.
Posted by: Skip at March 22, 2020 07:54 AM (ZCEU2)
Posted by: lowandslow
My sister replied to me on that,
"Just think how bad it would be if we didn't do that!!"
Okay, I'm going to think that there would have been no more deaths, does that count?
Posted by: Bruce at March 22, 2020 07:54 AM (vd8XM)
Listened to all of it, live.
What I heard was not the same as what the media is reporting.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 22, 2020 07:46 AM
It never is.
Anna's quote especially fitting:
"There are citizens of the United States, I blush to admit,... who have poured the poison of disloyalty into the very arteries of our national life....Such creatures of passion, disloyalty, and anarchy must be crushed out."
Posted by: One of the quiet ones at March 22, 2020 07:55 AM (2GPSc)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine
My sister did admit that she had to turn off MSNBC and start walking the beach more
Posted by: Bruce at March 22, 2020 07:56 AM (vd8XM)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at March 22, 2020 07:52 AM (LHvlS) "
Rant away, no problem !
That's one of the functions we perform here, audience for getting stuff off our chests.
Hope it gets better !
Posted by: sock_rat_eez, we are being gaslighted 24/365 at March 22, 2020 07:57 AM (zlgJP)
Posted by: Skip at March 22, 2020 07:58 AM (ZCEU2)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at March 22, 2020 07:52 AM (LHvlS)
Vent away! Sorry to hear you need to. Distancing myself with a walk, or immersing in a new project helps me.
Posted by: My life is insanity at March 22, 2020 07:58 AM (Z/jzm)
Part of Italy's coronavirus death rate seems o be their accounting methods.
You die on the E/R table from an automobile accident, and your corpse tests positive for the Woo Flu?
Another tic mark in the Coronavirus Death column.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 22, 2020 07:58 AM (O4024)
Seems weird we have to explain to people that every policy have a risk reward factor we need to consider, even if the risk is a higher death toll. Heck we do it for speed limits.
Posted by: lowandslow at March 22, 2020 07:58 AM (4thlk)
We are being played and this is a scam.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 22, 2020 07:44 AM
I've been reading your posts for days and for the most part agree with you. The thing that keeps me from jumping fully onboard is what we saw out of China: Armed bands of police grabbing citizens and throwing them into vans, arresting those who were in public w/o masks, boarding up people in their homes for weeks, the supposed crematorium sulfur dioxide numbers in astronomical range, barricading entire cities, train stations empty. To my knowledge, they've never reacted in a similar manner to the regular flu. So something is different, just based on what we saw coming out of China at the height of it over there.
Posted by: One of the quiet ones at March 22, 2020 07:52 AM (2GPSc)
Thanks for this.
Posted by: m at March 22, 2020 07:59 AM (oGFm1)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 22, 2020 07:44 AM
And Trump bought into it. But I understand that he really had to. That is the reality of the emotional corruption of our media age. I don't fault him. The test will be how he winds it all down. An awful momentum is growing not only for increased authoritarianism in all aspects of society "to protect the people," but also to crush small businesses and expand the welfare state.
"The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants." Albert Camus
Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at March 22, 2020 07:59 AM (H8QX8)
Posted by: Skip at March 22, 2020 08:00 AM (ZCEU2)
Got the last box jumbo pasta shells and some ricotta cheese. Gonna whip a big batch of Italian stuffed shells this week.
Posted by: olddog in mo, uckfay ancercay at March 22, 2020 08:01 AM (Dhht7)
Just imagine five years from now, when in-depth research and investigative reporting shows that a disproportionate number rounded up and no longer findable are revealed to actually be political dissidents.
And that Chine saw an opportunity to do some population house-cleaning.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 22, 2020 08:02 AM (O4024)
This seems to be about providing cover for Chinese and WHO dumbassery and for the failures of socialized medicine than anything else.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 22, 2020 08:03 AM (Xesvh)
Posted by: Skip at March 22, 2020 07:58 AM (ZCEU2)
CDC spent last 10 years worrying about guns and overweight people. USDA spent last 40 years telling people to eat grains and sugar.
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 22, 2020 08:03 AM (JFO2v)
Every general in battle is going to lose people, that is the nature of the business. But you have to exept that and move forward.
Posted by: Skip at March 22, 2020 08:03 AM (ZCEU2)
Posted by: Skip at March 22, 2020 08:00 AM (ZCEU2)
I'm not sure I can bear to read that, now; but thanks for the info; maybe later. A "newsperson" opting for "no news." Yikes.
Posted by: m at March 22, 2020 08:03 AM (oGFm1)
Unless shelter-in-place actually ends virus transmission, humanity currently has no widespread weapon against it other than personal immune response.
Sure, wash your hands, etc. It helps you. But virus still exists in the wild.
ONE study says 80% Americans get infected, 2.2M die which is less than 1% if we rely solely on washing hands and social distancing.
For those that survive, anything from "did I have it?" to wow that sucked for two weeks.
Result, it is a waiting game on the vaccine. It will be approved sooner than you think...it must.
Not sure that throwing open the doors will make nervous people suddenly start travelling and shopping any time soon.
Posted by: Lurking Guy at March 22, 2020 08:03 AM (Rs1MW)
Posted by: Skip at March 22, 2020 08:00 AM (ZCEU2)
They wanted to stop his rallies. Now they want to stop his press conferences. Why doesn't she just come out and say she wants to kill him.
Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at March 22, 2020 08:04 AM (H8QX8)
I am 70 as is my wife and we want you all to go back to work. Most of us stay home and it's not a burden.
Posted by: 20th century silver at March 22, 2020 08:04 AM (WX+x0)
Posted by: t-bird at March 22, 2020 08:04 AM (1+J19)
Posted by: m at March 22, 2020 07:59 AM
You're welcome. I'm trying to keep my perspective here and just let this thing play out. Compared to Bender, I have much less at stake economically, so I absolutely understand his anger and frustration (and that of so many others. Watching our economy crash is very damned painful.)
But, I check several of the high risk boxes so I shan't be lackadaisical about isolating myself and taking extra measures to keep from being infected. Just in case.
Posted by: One of the quiet ones at March 22, 2020 08:05 AM (2GPSc)
Posted by: goatexchange at March 22, 2020 08:06 AM (iUjXP)
Unless shelter-in-place actually ends virus transmission, humanity currently has no widespread weapon against it other than personal immune response.
Sure, wash your hands, etc. It helps you. But virus still exists in the wild.
ONE study says 80% Americans get infected, 2.2M die which is less than 1% if we rely solely on washing hands and social distancing.
For those that survive, anything from "did I have it?" to wow that sucked for two weeks.
Result, it is a waiting game on the vaccine. It will be approved sooner than you think...it must.
Not sure that throwing open the doors will make nervous people suddenly start travelling and shopping any time soon.
Posted by: Lurking Guy at March 22, 2020 08:03 AM (Rs1MW)
Question #1: Did you get a flu shot this year?
Question #2: Do you have serious underlying condition ?
Without know these how can we know what is really going on!
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 22, 2020 08:06 AM (JFO2v)
Posted by: Bruce at March 22, 2020 08:07 AM (vd8XM)
Posted by: weirdflunky at March 22, 2020 08:07 AM (cknjq)
I believe China used the viral outbreak to tamp down on protest and internal discord, this internal operation led to vast amounts of FUD being spread world wide and is what has primarily driven the panic.
Italy's experience has also added to this panic.
Italy has a shit healthcare system no matter what anybody tells you, they also have one of the oldest populations on the planet. The vast number of deaths are old people.
And as far as how I would mange this crisis, it would be to treat it like every other viral outbreak such SARS, MERS, Hanta, Avian Flu, Swine Flu, etc.
We did not lose our shit and cripple ourselves over these outbreaks.
If you want to treat the COVID outbreak in a more aggressive manner.
If I was the President, I would militarize the effort and invoke posse comitatis and other congressional acts to allow the military to take control of the efforts in the states.
I would turn military bases around the country, 800 in all, into hospitals, triage and quarantine centers for the worst cases.
I would have the fedgov/military work with the states to get the resources they need to deal with any local gaps in anything that is required to fight it at the local level.
What I would not do is allow any Governors to shut their states down and issue shelter in place orders that are going to do nothing to stop the spread but will cripple the economy, which is happening and will only get worse as this thing goes on longer.
This could have been managed, it wasn't, everyone panicked, now everyone is going to suffer.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 22, 2020 08:07 AM (FVrDO)
Posted by: Mrs. Leggy at March 22, 2020 08:07 AM (Vf4Y7)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 22, 2020 08:02 AM (O4024)
Exactly. The virus was just a pretext. Good practice, in any case. Janet Napolitano really, really wanted to do that with us when she ran DHS.
Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at March 22, 2020 08:07 AM (H8QX8)
Moving into Sunday. Originally I was going out to the grocery at 7, but since I can go tomorrow morning just as easily, I'm having some breakfast. Then I'll go out and wash the car, and I may take a look in at Walmart. Again, no rush; I have food and supplies.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 22, 2020 08:08 AM (rpbg1)
Posted by: Skip at March 22, 2020 08:00 AM (ZCEU2)
They wanted to stop his rallies. Now they want to stop his press conferences. Why doesn't she just come out and say she wants to kill him.
Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at March 22, 2020 08:04 AM (H8QX
First it was "look how stupid he is!" Then the approval #s come out higher than they wany, now it's "shut him up!"
Posted by: My life is insanity at March 22, 2020 08:08 AM (Z/jzm)
Didn't Bernie have a co-sponsor for the two post offices he named? That person has done as least as much for America as Bernie has.
Posted by: t-bird at March 22, 2020 08:08 AM (1+J19)
The disease is amazingly infectious.
20% of the infected need hospitalization...and a ventilator for a week to survive. If the beds and ventilators aren't available the infected usually die.
Italy is a comparable nation medically and it lost almost 800 people in 24 hours yesterday. Our cases are tracking what theirs did in numbers... especially in New York.
You swamp the medical staff with the bug it's even worse. Mistakes and lack of sterile PPE lead to staff infection. That's at play in Italy too.
This thing is a real Stephen King novel playing out in real time.
The way we react determines the end game total fatalities.
With enough beds staff and ventilators we get the least body count. So our efforts have to be directed at minimizing the infected and maximizing our beds and treatment...and to the latter chloroquine seems to be a game changer.
And in the late Fall....a vaccine for the surviving uninfected will be available.
I'm modestly worried...will people self isolate in enough numbers to blunt the spread. In my California town of 10000 there were still non-essential business' open Saturday. I ordered Buick parts from the dealer, bought a jack from harbor freight and shopped at an auto parts store and Ace Hardware. I avoided close contact but touched door handles, shelf's, products, and money. The city only has one reported victim so far. I figure I took a chance with odds still in my favor.
Be careful folks.
Posted by: torabora at March 22, 2020 08:08 AM (iIjTz)
Posted by: Weasel at March 22, 2020 08:09 AM (MVjcR)
Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at March 22, 2020 08:10 AM (H8QX8)
really had to. That is the reality of the emotional corruption of our
media age. I don't fault him. The test will be how he winds it all down.
An awful momentum is growing not only for increased authoritarianism in
all aspects of society "to protect the people," but also to crush small
businesses and expand the welfare state.
"The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants." Albert Camus
Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at March 22, 2020 07:59 AM (H8QX
And I still ask how much of this shit will go away after the scare is over? A couple of communist mayors now have the ability to confiscate private property and forbid the sale or transfer of guns. Will they give that up? I doubt it.
Posted by: Vic at March 22, 2020 08:10 AM (mpXpK)
I really think I have had the flu only once in my life and in the late 1990s.
Posted by: Skip at March 22, 2020 08:11 AM (ZCEU2)
Posted by: lowandslow at March 22, 2020 08:11 AM (4thlk)
Stop televising, right? Kind of obvious they're not the news anymore, treating Trump like an exposé of Jeffrey Epstein.
Posted by: t-bird at March 22, 2020 08:11 AM (VP1E6)
Not all heroes wear capes.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 22, 2020 08:11 AM (ZLI7S)
Weasel make sure you get headphones for her, or her ear protection
Posted by: Skip at March 22, 2020 08:12 AM (ZCEU2)
Posted by: George Kaplan at March 22, 2020 08:12 AM (MX4n0)
Posted by: My life is insanity at March 22, 2020 08:08 AM (Z/jzm)"
Exactly !
Posted by: sock_rat_eez, we are being gaslighted 24/365 at March 22, 2020 08:13 AM (zlgJP)
Posted by: torabora at March 22, 2020 08:13 AM (iIjTz)
White House briefing on Thursday and heard not a sober, confident
leader, but a salesman hyping unproven treatments, boasting of
non-existent achievements, and offering false hope instead of realistic
counsel."
The author is, of course, a CNN COMMENTATOR.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at March 22, 2020 08:13 AM (oVJmc)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 22, 2020 08:14 AM (O4024)
Posted by: torabora at March 22, 2020 08:13 AM (iIjTz)
#Metoo
Posted by: My life is insanity at March 22, 2020 08:14 AM (Z/jzm)
Posted by: Weasel at March 22, 2020 08:16 AM (LzJu3)
Posted by: Thomas Bender
It will be more like25 million. And they will be told by the MSM it was due to Trumps overreaction and/or doing too little and they should punish him a the polls.
Posted by: Ripley at March 22, 2020 08:16 AM (sGobE)
Italy is in no way comparable medically to the United States. It has a third world health system.
Ease up on the histrionics.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 22, 2020 08:16 AM (dLLD6)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 22, 2020 08:16 AM (dkvcO)
Posted by: Weasel at March 22, 2020 08:09 AM
Does Weasel dog know about this?
Posted by: One of the quiet ones at March 22, 2020 08:16 AM (2GPSc)
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at March 22, 2020 08:16 AM (oVJmc)
hair on fire over the Ebola virus, the H1N1, SARS, etc. which were an
order of magnitude more lethal, but we have to shut down entire states
and wreck the economy over a virus that may or may not be more
contagious but less lethal?
This seems to be about providing cover for Chinese and WHO
dumbassery and for the failures of socialized medicine than anything
else.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 22, 2020 08:03 AM (Xesvh)
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Why do otherwise reasonable people keep claiming the responses to H1N1 and SARS were anything other than public health disasters?
The Obama administration was utterly incompetent. The only upper bound on the death toll was what the Grim Reaper felt like taking that season.
The media covered it up because they were in the tank.
This wasn't any "Keep Calm and Carry On," because the war effort required it.
And 12,000 *extra* people died.
How many Wacos is that? That's three 9/11 attacks.
And now we shrug it off as no big thing.
Here is Michigan the taverns have not yet been closed for a week
In 2013 we had an ice storm that knocked out power for more than a week. I was out for 8 days.
We get a blizzard here about once a year that shuts down *everything* because the streets and highways are completely blocked.
There may be a time to panic over economic damage, but now is not that time. We haven't even reached the end of a regular season game.
I get it, it sucks if you're shut down. I'm losing a crap ton of money as well, but things could be much, much worse, so I'm choosing to be optimistic. We will get through this.
And Hillary isn't our president.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 22, 2020 08:17 AM (cfSRQ)
I feel like the abbey dwellers in "Masque of the Red Death".
More coffee, servant!
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 22, 2020 08:17 AM (Z+IKu)
Does Weasel dog know about this?
Posted by: One of the quiet ones at March 22, 2020 08:16 AM (2GPSc)
----
Of course! She sings along!
Posted by: Weasel at March 22, 2020 08:17 AM (MVjcR)
Look at the acceleration of cases in NY.
A two week isolation burns the disease out.
Posted by: torabora at March 22, 2020 08:17 AM (iIjTz)
Posted by: Mr. Peebles
No it isn't!!!
/s
Posted by: Bruce at March 22, 2020 08:18 AM (vd8XM)
Posted by: Skip at March 22, 2020 08:19 AM (ZCEU2)
2) I don't have serious underlying conditions (some lung scarring from prior bouts of pneumonia)
In a flu season, many get vaccinated, (and have collateral immunity from prior years that can lessen severity).
Vaccine. Just cant figure out the logistics, vaccinate 150 million people in 30 days??
Posted by: Lurking Guy at March 22, 2020 08:19 AM (Rs1MW)
Posted by: Ripley at March 22, 2020 08:16 AM (sGobE)
The same media that completely ignored the collapsing unemployment numbers and soaring levels of workforce participation will now be screaming every percentile increase in jobless claims from the rooftops.
Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at March 22, 2020 08:19 AM (H8QX8)
Posted by: My life is insanity at March 22, 2020 07:41 AM (Z/jzm)
I didn't see it, either, and I watched the press conference yesterday. Fauci was moving around a lot: shifting his weight from foot to foot in sort of a limbering-up way, and tucking his head forward, and for a while, putting a forefinger into the neck-band of his shirt as if it were too tight or he was getting too overheated--that last one was a bit worrisome!
Posted by: m at March 22, 2020 07:52 AM (oGFm1)
One of Fauci's responses was when Trump called up Pompeo to speak and he made a joke about State being "Deep State."
Posted by: Mainah at March 22, 2020 08:20 AM (/X580)
Posted by: Skip at March 22, 2020 08:20 AM (ZCEU2)
It appears the trigger was similar to what happened in Florida. People were asked to voluntarily socially distance and avoid large public gatherings and instead many largely ignored the request. Bondi Beach in Sydney was the most noted where people treated the situation as a normal Saturday and packed the beach.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 22, 2020 08:20 AM (ZLI7S)
Posted by: Skip at March 22, 2020 08:21 AM (ZCEU2)
More coffee, servant!
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 22, 2020 08:17 AM (Z+IKu)
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Should have saved that for the book thread!
No kidding, I thought the same.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at March 22, 2020 08:22 AM (WEBkv)
Posted by: Skip at March 22, 2020
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Miss Linda keeps asking me, "How are your lungs?" I reply smartly, "Still have two, as far as I know."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 22, 2020 08:22 AM (rpbg1)
First, scripture readings in lieu of mass.
Second, magazine/ammo inventory and group loading session.
Finally, we watched "Kelly's Heroes" to cap off the night.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 22, 2020 08:22 AM (cfSRQ)
So some guys need to get out the house and one of the guys reopens his bar between 5PM and 11PM, doesn't tell anyone but word spreads among other guys and they come in. Then some hours are expanded, and a few more places start doing the same. More and more places open up.
Then some asshole gets sick and claims that one of these bars or restaurants was where he got it. The lawyers move in knowing that the juries are made up of hysterical and easily scared men and women.
The owner settles out of court and loses all of his savings.
This is the America we inherited.
Posted by: 🐧 at March 22, 2020 08:22 AM (uYQjf)
Posted by: JackStraw at March 22, 2020 08:20 AM (ZLI7S)
Write those people off, Australia. In the open air, awash in UV radiation? They're as good as dead.
Posted by: hogmartin at March 22, 2020 08:23 AM (t+qrx)
Posted by: no good deed at March 22, 2020 08:23 AM (MmFTx)
Posted by: Skip
I get one every year for the past 15 or so.
I've had flu and bad colds in the past, and they can knock me out for a week or so.
The shots probably haven't stopped everything though.
Posted by: Bruce at March 22, 2020 08:23 AM (vd8XM)
H1N1 did take root and killed 12000. Oblabla's jawbone response should have gotten him impeached.
I don't know how anyone can discount this attack. We conservatives mourn every abortion but some are just sanguine about a flu death... Which like abortion is nearly always avoidable.
Chose life.
Stay put.
Posted by: torabora at March 22, 2020 08:23 AM (iIjTz)
Posted by: ghbucky at March 22, 2020 08:24 AM (s9Eo8)
Posted by: Tami at March 22, 2020 08:24 AM (cF8AT)
Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at March 22, 2020 08:24 AM (H8QX8)
Not quite right.
Globally up to 20% are requiring hospitalization or home care with oxygen support via various delivery methods.
6-8% are buying vents and some of those could be managed by non-vent BUT we are venting as the non-methods aerosolize viri like a motherfucker and it's safer for staff to vent them.
Those that do need vents are very very very ill and at high risk for death... just like A, B, H1N1, SARS, MERS and rebar through the head patients.
Posted by: Ima Pseudonym at March 22, 2020 08:24 AM (FHCBU)
Posted by: t-bird at March 22, 2020 08:25 AM (VP1E6)
Posted by: no good deed at March 22, 2020 08:23 AM (MmFTx)
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Thank you. It's a small bright point in all of the darkness.
Posted by: Weasel at March 22, 2020 08:25 AM (LzJu3)
And the media has become unwatchable.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 22, 2020 08:25 AM (O4024)
Is the I- 15 lined with crucified Christians outside Las Vegas?
Posted by: JAS at March 22, 2020 08:25 AM (2BZBZ)
So, they ask us to self isolate, etc. Unfortunately, most people won't be inconvenienced or are sure it's no big thing, so they go on with their lives as usual. Hence, we go into forced shut downs.
I am of the mind that I know a whole lot less about this than the experts. I assume this is serious due to entire Countries shutting down, risking their economies and disrupting society to buy more time for cures, etc. I understand that this is going to be painful and perhaps devastating for millions so I'm going full on patriot. Hopefully, we get this under control and can get back to work soon. We will pick up the pieces and get on with it. Pain is necessary, misery is optional. Shit happens in life and your character is best evidenced by your ability to inspire others to keep going when it gets hard. I could bitch all day about stuff but gets me absolutely nowhere.
Posted by: StellasTwoCents at March 22, 2020 08:25 AM (KSBDE)
Posted by: Skip at March 22, 2020 08:21 AM (ZCEU2)
Me either. Figure I've had enough foreign substances in my body in my 29+ years, most less toxic.
Posted by: One of the quiet ones at March 22, 2020 08:25 AM (2GPSc)
After you head to sea to scuttle your ships can I bang all your hot MILFS and desperate daughters?
Posted by: Joe Blowme at March 22, 2020 08:26 AM (2bBZE)
I hope that's true for Chinese Lung Rot. It sure wasn't for MERS. Middle East Respiratory Disease.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 22, 2020 08:26 AM (ZLI7S)
Avoidable?
Tough to avoid a virus. Other then the usual precautions you should take during cold and flu season.
Posted by: Bruce at March 22, 2020 08:26 AM (vd8XM)
A highly questionable assumption.
Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at March 22, 2020 08:26 AM (H8QX8)
Posted by: bill in arkansas at March 22, 2020 08:27 AM (C1Lsn)
Posted by: Les Kinetic at March 22, 2020 08:27 AM (+fPHo)
Posted by: bill in arkansas at March 22, 2020 08:27 AM (C1Lsn)
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Yep.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at March 22, 2020 08:28 AM (WEBkv)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at March 22, 2020 08:28 AM (LHvlS)
The flu you catch your body has limited but some ability to fend off with some antigens.
Thanks to your previous flu shots and actual infections...
This flu is out of the bat community of virus and you don't have any residual immunity. Don't catch it. Don't spread it.
Stay put.
Posted by: torabora at March 22, 2020 08:29 AM (iIjTz)
Posted by: EveR at March 22, 2020 08:29 AM (ZZDMQ)
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This is no doubt Trump's biggest challenge. I can only think of 9/11 being worse (in terms of what a modern president has had to face). Aside from the Depression, that is, but even then the situation was different. Trump is in a very bad situation here. He has to ride the panic, because that's what the media has created. And he has to delicately balance calming the wholly whipped-up hysteria the MFM created, with trying to keep the whole country from going under economically. With zero help from the press, whose only job is to make him look as bad as possible. I don't envy him. The economic ramifications are incalculable right now. I don't know how we get out of this positively. I can only hope and pray we can, he can. I know one thing beyond a shadow of a doubt. I know he cares and I trust him.
Damn the media. Damn them all to the eternal fires of hell. And I mean that.
Posted by: Lady in Black at March 22, 2020 08:29 AM (JoUsr)
Posted by: Surprise Anal Platypus at March 22, 2020 08:30 AM (2bBZE)
bar between 5PM and 11PM, doesn't tell anyone but word spreads among
other guys and they come in."
I've already seen bars around here that have a closed sign in the window but have a half dozen cars in the parking lot. I'm sure they're just helping the owner clean or something.
Posted by: lowandslow at March 22, 2020 08:30 AM (4thlk)
They will say that because they are liars. Its the low life tyrants in the various states, counties and cities that are ordering martial law without actually ordering martial law.
And many places are closing just to avoid the lawsuits, and the fact that their employees are finding reasons now to come to the office.
Posted by: 🐧 at March 22, 2020 08:30 AM (uYQjf)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 22, 2020 08:30 AM (O4024)
I'm developing a new board game mod called "Death Peddlers Of Catan". If I can just get it pushed out before I croak, my surviving family members will be set for whatever life they have left since WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!
Posted by: f'd at March 22, 2020 08:30 AM (Tnijr)
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
Posted by: ghbucky at March 22, 2020 08:30 AM (s9Eo8)
Posted by: Skip at March 22, 2020 08:31 AM (ZCEU2)
Posted by: Farmer Bob at March 22, 2020 08:31 AM (87EdW)
Posted by: torabora at March 22, 2020 08:32 AM (iIjTz)
Soon will come blaming the US for re-infecting them.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 22, 2020 08:32 AM (ZLI7S)
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
Posted by: ghbucky at March 22, 2020 08:30 AM (s9Eo
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Another thing outsourced to China we cannot trust.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at March 22, 2020 08:32 AM (WEBkv)
Posted by: Lady in Black at March 22, 2020 08:32 AM (JoUsr)
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
Posted by: ghbucky at March 22, 2020 08:30 AM (s9Eo
I must admit I like the barely concealed contempt in Trump's voice when he says CHINE-uh.
Posted by: One of the quiet ones at March 22, 2020 08:32 AM (2GPSc)
Posted by: no good deed at March 22, 2020 08:23 AM (MmFTx)
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Thank you. It's a small bright point in all of the darkness.
Posted by: Weasel at March 22, 2020 08:25 AM (LzJu3)
Try covering this for 2 to 3 hours every morning. Wifey will love you long time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1bFr2SWP1I
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 22, 2020 08:33 AM (JFO2v)
Posted by: no good deed at March 22, 2020 08:33 AM (MmFTx)
Posted by: Smug White Whine Mom at March 22, 2020 08:33 AM (2bBZE)
More importanly, why are trans-women so under-represented? This is transphobia of the worst kind!
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at March 22, 2020 08:33 AM (oVJmc)
As well as a whole lot of other small changes in business and sanitation practices being implemented.
Lots of little changes begin to add up.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 22, 2020 08:33 AM (O4024)
Posted by: Skip at March 22, 2020 08:34 AM (ZCEU2)
Posted by: Skip at March 22, 2020 08:19 AM (ZCEU2)
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I did my bit for science by opening maraschino cherries seven years past their "use by" date. I'm perfectly fine!
Granted, alcohol was used to disinfect.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 22, 2020 08:34 AM (Dc2NZ)
Posted by: no good deed at March 22, 2020 08:33 AM (MmFTx)
NYC health dept published 2 page doc on how to stay sexually active in these times.
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 22, 2020 08:34 AM (JFO2v)
In other cities, if you can walk to the store, you can enjoy robbing the store. The police aren't anywhere to be found and won't come out even when asked to fill out a report.
America.
Posted by: 🐧 at March 22, 2020 08:34 AM (uYQjf)
Posted by: AltonJackson
and remember that we are not descended from fearful men
at March 22, 2020 08:35 AM (nbj1Q)
Posted by: Lady in Black at March 22, 2020 08:35 AM (JoUsr)
As well as a whole lot of other small changes in business and sanitation practices being implemented.
Lots of little changes begin to add up.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 22, 2020 08:33 AM (O4024)
tighty whiteys make great mask and flap allows for food and drink!
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 22, 2020 08:35 AM (JFO2v)
Posted by: no good deed at March 22, 2020 08:33 AM
Not to mention the idiots with 2" long nails having them painted with little corona-viruses and the folks pouring Dawn into their bathtubs, holding onto the towel rack and then pretending like they're on a treadmill. I weep for humanity.
Posted by: One of the quiet ones at March 22, 2020 08:36 AM (2GPSc)
Posted by: Skip at March 22, 2020 08:36 AM (ZCEU2)
Posted by: no good deed at March 22, 2020 08:36 AM (MmFTx)
Posted by: f'd at March 22, 2020 08:36 AM (Tnijr)
Well My package is bigger than my nose, but hey if it works?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 22, 2020 08:36 AM (nRk/c)
Posted by: IrishEi at March 22, 2020 08:36 AM (sGotD)
Posted by: Lady in Black at March 22, 2020 08:32 AM (JoUsr)
I was at Lowes yesterday, people in good spirits. Bought 8 Leyland Cyprus. Going back today for more.
Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at March 22, 2020 08:37 AM (H8QX8)
"This wouldn't have happened if Hillary Clinton had won"
Shark has been jumped...
Posted by: Tami at March 22, 2020 08:37 AM (cF8AT)
so, I survived the Walmart trip
what'd I miss?
Posted by: AltonJackson
and remember that we are not descended from fearful men
at March 22, 2020 08:35 AM (nbj1Q)
Alton you actually died on that trip. You are in state now where your lifeless body is piled on the heap but your brain still think you are alive.
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 22, 2020 08:37 AM (JFO2v)
So wear your underwear on your face until the masks are ready, right?
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at March 22, 2020 08:37 AM (oVJmc)
infested ruins of Pensacola.
Posted by: Farmer Bob at March 22, 2020 08:31 AM (87EdW)
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Local guns stores are out of ammo and starting to run out of actual guns.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 22, 2020 08:37 AM (cfSRQ)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 22, 2020 08:37 AM (O4024)
Posted by: Ghost of Qassem Soleimani at March 22, 2020 08:37 AM (iyDXQ)
Posted by: Skip at March 22, 2020 08:37 AM (ZCEU2)
Alton you actually died on that trip. You are in state now where your lifeless body is piled on the heap but your brain still think you are alive.
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 22, 2020 08:37 AM
that explains a few things
Posted by: AltonJackson
and remember that we are not descended from fearful men
at March 22, 2020 08:38 AM (nbj1Q)
Who would try that case?
Posted by: ghbucky at March 22, 2020 08:38 AM (s9Eo8)
"This mess is going to get people to do an inventory of things that
really matter.
Posted by: bill"
Like all the the cutesy figurines, Americana knick-knacks and folksy wall hangings in Hobby Lobby and other places. A least 90% Made in China. I don't need any of that garbage, more than ever.
Posted by: Ripley at March 22, 2020 08:38 AM (sGobE)
Max Boot has a piece in the WaPo:
"This wouldn't have happened if Hillary Clinton had won"
Shark has been jumped...
Posted by: Tami at March 22, 2020 08:37 AM (cF8AT)
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Did he quit the GOP yet?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 22, 2020 08:38 AM (cfSRQ)
"This wouldn't have happened if Hillary Clinton had won"
Shark has been jumped...
Posted by: Tami at March 22, 2020 08:37 AM (cF8AT)
thats jumping the entire aquarium!
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 22, 2020 08:39 AM (JFO2v)
Posted by: Skip at March 22, 2020 08:39 AM (ZCEU2)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 22, 2020 08:39 AM (Dc2NZ)
Posted by: Vic at March 22, 2020 06:10 AM (mpXpK)
thought the CDC site said they don't work weekends
government job and all
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 22, 2020 08:39 AM (BiNEL)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 22, 2020 08:38 AM (cfSRQ
*******
Better question is, did his brain run away from home
Posted by: Ghost of Qassem Soleimani at March 22, 2020 08:39 AM (iyDXQ)
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at March 22, 2020 08:37 AM (oVJmc)
And remember, skid marks go on the back of the head.
Posted by: jsg at March 22, 2020 08:40 AM (Aeowy)
Posted by: f'd at March 22, 2020 08:40 AM (Tnijr)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 22, 2020 08:40 AM (nRk/c)
The new GOP platform in Ohio: Poverty for All!
Posted by: Huck Follywood, hunker in the bunker at March 22, 2020 08:41 AM (NVYyb)
Posted by: Skip at March 22, 2020 08:41 AM (ZCEU2)
Trump reported yesterday that Haines was shifting manufacturing from underwear to masks.
So wear your underwear on your face until the masks are ready, right?
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at March 22, 2020 08:37 AM (oVJmc)
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I saw a lot of people with masks yesterday.
None were the N95 but you don't actually need them. Anything, even a cloth can help. All the idiots saying "only pros need masks" were lying.
As usual, they figured they had a good reason - to keep panic-buying at a minimum. But of course now they've been shown to lie so no one will trust them.
In a health crisis.
Because idiots.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 22, 2020 08:41 AM (cfSRQ)
And remember, skid marks go on the back of the head.
Posted by: jsg at March 22, 2020 08:40 AM (Aeowy)
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What, and wear my underwear inside-out?
I would never commit such a fashion faux pas!
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at March 22, 2020 08:41 AM (WEBkv)
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 22, 2020 08:34 AM (JFO2v)
Hahah...too funny.
Stay classy New Yawk.
More coffee.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 22, 2020 08:41 AM (Z+IKu)
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at March 22, 2020 08:37 AM (oVJmc)
And remember, skid marks go on the back of the head.
Posted by: jsg at March 22, 2020 08:40 AM (Aeowy)
******
yellow in the front & brown in the back
Posted by: Ghost of Qassem Soleimani at March 22, 2020 08:41 AM (iyDXQ)
Asking for a friend.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 22, 2020 08:42 AM (O4024)
"This wouldn't have happened if Hillary Clinton had won"
Between this one and the CNN idiot's screed, it looks like the order for finger-pointing at Trump has gone out.
This probably follows the polls indicating the public thinks he's handling it well. They're desperate to change that and they're becoming unhinged to do it.
(It's worth pointing out that Hillary has a long
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at March 22, 2020 08:42 AM (oVJmc)
Posted by: Actually inside the Beltway at March 22, 2020 08:42 AM (Rs1MW)
Hillary would have easily gone the Barky route, nothing done until
thousands were dead and letting Chinese have a rotating turnstile into
the country everyone would have it.
Posted by: Skip at March 22, 2020 08:41 AM (ZCEU2)
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Hillary's response would have looked a lot like Canada's.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 22, 2020 08:42 AM (cfSRQ)
Posted by: My life is insanity at March 22, 2020 08:42 AM (Z/jzm)
Posted by: REDACTED at March 22, 2020 08:42 AM (rpxSz)
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at March 22, 2020 08:42 AM (oVJmc)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 22, 2020 08:42 AM (ptqGC)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 22, 2020 08:40 AM (nRk/c)
Biggby Coffee sent out an email reminder that they are "open for carry out", which I read as "open carry".
Posted by: hogmartin at March 22, 2020 08:42 AM (t+qrx)
Posted by: Ghost of Qassem Soleimani at March 22, 2020 08:41 AM (iyDXQ)
We are all a bunch a sick bastards here, but think about this: Basically WE are the most normal ones on the planet. LOL
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 22, 2020 08:43 AM (nRk/c)
http://covid19stats.global/state/
Posted by: Skip at March 22, 2020 08:43 AM (ZCEU2)
Posted by: rhennigantx"
So religious services banned but orgies OK, as long as everybody has a mask
Posted by: Ripley at March 22, 2020 08:43 AM (sGobE)
Posted by: f'd at March 22, 2020 08:43 AM (Tnijr)
Knowing you might die by suicide with 2 coronaviruses to the back of the head will do that.
Posted by: jsg at March 22, 2020 08:43 AM (Aeowy)
If they are saying that Trump is offering "false hope" and that the quinine "won't work".
Trump should then ask them, "Apparently you know the future and the real numbers. State them for us now, and if they severely overestimate the number, will you willingly cease operating?"
"How do you know the quinine won't work? And if that is proven to be a lie, will you compensate Americans for their losses?"
Because we know, like every single time they forecast a hurricane with millions of dead bodies swept out to the sea, and the hurricane fizzles out to a tropical storm and there are no casualties, its like nothing ever happened and they never reported anything about a hurricane.
In other words, the MSM has zero responsibility and the only consequences that they would receive are us shunning them.
So how many times do we have to be lied to and we keep buying their product?
Posted by: 🐧 at March 22, 2020 08:44 AM (uYQjf)
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When we emerge from the New Dark Ages, "Somewhere Over The Rainbow"and "Tiny Bubbles" will be the new anthems, preserved by Weasel and other like-minded brave souls, much like the monks or Ireland preserving the great written works of western civilization in the 1100's.
Posted by: Muldoon at March 22, 2020 08:44 AM (m45I2)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 22, 2020 08:43 AM (nRk/c)
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Not normal.
Resilient.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 22, 2020 08:44 AM (cfSRQ)
Posted by: f'd at March 22, 2020 08:43 AM (Tnijr)
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I would drop dead of fright!
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at March 22, 2020 08:44 AM (WEBkv)
"This wouldn't have happened if Hillary Clinton had won"
Shark has been jumped...
Posted by: Tami
I agree with him but for significantly different reasons.
Posted by: Puddleglum at March 22, 2020 08:44 AM (lBbig)
*******
hahahahah That was the punchline to the Pollock joke how do Pollocks know how to where their Undies
Posted by: Ghost of Qassem Soleimani at March 22, 2020 08:44 AM (iyDXQ)
In our continuing effort to eat a balance meal, we took a salad with us to the McDonalds, drive thru. And after ordering the nuggets (For Protein) we tailgated in the parking lot.
Lots of positive comments from there about how it almost looked fun.
We may start a national trend.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 22, 2020 08:45 AM (O4024)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 22, 2020 08:45 AM (ptqGC)
Posted by: Skip at March 22, 2020 08:45 AM (ZCEU2)
Until we reach that point, it's all kabuki theater.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 22, 2020 08:45 AM (Xesvh)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 22, 2020 08:42 AM (ptqGC)
wouldn't mind seeing a couple young doe myself
without skirts
Posted by: REDACTED at March 22, 2020 08:45 AM (rpxSz)
Posted by: 🐧 at March 22, 2020 08:45 AM (uYQjf)
Posted by: no good deed at March 22, 2020 08:46 AM (MmFTx)
am learning to play the ukulele to entertain her and keep her spirits
up.
Posted by: Weasel"
If that doesn't work, try banjo. Or violin. Yes, listening to somebody learn to play violin is always heartwarming.
Posted by: Ripley at March 22, 2020 08:46 AM (sGobE)
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An infinite number, apparently. Feels like an addiction to me.
Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at March 22, 2020 08:46 AM (H8QX8)
Asking for a friend.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 22, 2020 08:42 AM (O4024)
Ummmmmmmm.....Yes.
Posted by: Zombie Pol Pot at March 22, 2020 08:46 AM (Z+IKu)
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Meet Rachel Levine, one of the very few transgender public officials in America - The Washington Post
********
Secretary Of Health in Pa. Thanks to that Fucktard Go. Wolf
Posted by: Ghost of Qassem Soleimani at March 22, 2020 08:46 AM (iyDXQ)
Posted by: 🐧 at March 22, 2020 08:47 AM (uYQjf)
Posted by: Skip at March 22, 2020 08:47 AM (ZCEU2)
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at March 22, 2020 08:42 AM (oVJmc)
OH NO! The Clintons got Mr. Peebles!!!
Posted by: Tami at March 22, 2020 08:47 AM (cF8AT)
Knowing you might die by suicide with 2 coronaviruses to the back of the head will do that.
Posted by: jsg at March 22, 2020 08:43 AM (Aeowy)
Cov-9mm is almost always fatal
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 22, 2020 08:47 AM (BiNEL)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 22, 2020 08:45 AM (Xesvh)
Sidebar question: I wonder how many illegal aliens we're treating for this?
Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at March 22, 2020 08:47 AM (H8QX8)
Yes their salads are not bad at all...but all I got was a Cappiccinno this AM. But the staff there was smiling and get this...They spoke ENGLISH
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 22, 2020 08:48 AM (nRk/c)
Asking for a friend.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 22, 2020 08:42 AM (O4024)
https://tinyurl.com/ud75cxr
Posted by: jsg at March 22, 2020 08:48 AM (Aeowy)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 22, 2020 08:48 AM (ptqGC)
Posted by: Skip at March 22, 2020 08:48 AM (ZCEU2)
Posted by: Ghost of Qassem Soleimani at March 22, 2020 08:46 AM (iyDXQ)
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Well, makes it possible for it to see both sides of this gender related illness, right?
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at March 22, 2020 08:48 AM (WEBkv)
Posted by: Weasel at March 22, 2020 08:48 AM (MVjcR)
Only if you tape them very, very tightly to the face.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at March 22, 2020 08:48 AM (oVJmc)
My Go-To instrument is bagpipes.
Don't know a thing about how to play them, but with enough late-night practice, I will !
Posted by: 🐧 at March 22, 2020 08:48 AM (uYQjf)
Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at March 22, 2020 08:49 AM (7Fj9P)
Posted by: klaftern at March 22, 2020 08:49 AM (RuIsu)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 22, 2020 08:49 AM (ptqGC)
Weasel I'm warning you. If you start playing "Over the Rainbow" on that thing I'm going to come up there and go all Bluto Blutarsky on your uke. I think Weasel Woman would approve.
Posted by: f'd at March 22, 2020 08:50 AM (Tnijr)
momentum is growing not only for increased authoritarianism in all
aspects of society "to protect the people," but also to crush small
businesses and expand the welfare state.
"The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants." Albert Camus
Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at March 22, 2020 07:59 AM (H8QX
Difficult for Trump to wind it down. State and local officials have wound it up. Up to them to wind it down. Trump can lead, he can't dictate.
Posted by: Javems at March 22, 2020 08:50 AM (ofIwF)
Posted by: Huck Follywood, hunker in the bunker at March 22, 2020 08:51 AM (NVYyb)
Posted by: no good deed at March 22, 2020 08:51 AM (MmFTx)
Posted by: bill in arkansas at March 22, 2020 08:51 AM (C1Lsn)
I want a girl with a shirt skirt and a loooooooong jacket
https://tinyurl.com/tlb6e76
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 22, 2020 08:51 AM (Xesvh)
Posted by: AltonJackson
and remember that we are not descended from fearful men
at March 22, 2020 08:51 AM (nbj1Q)
Posted by: Javems at March 22, 2020 08:50 AM (ofIwF)
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Give them advice, warn them, state of rebellion, arrest and removal.
(I live in CA and I'm sort of hoping PDT skips right to step 4)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at March 22, 2020 08:52 AM (WEBkv)
I'll believe we're serious about this when the military begins
patrolling the borders to keep out infected illegal immigrants, we
begin exporting people who are here illegally, and rounding up and
quarantining urban campers to alleviate the likelihood that the
hospitals will be overwhelmed by infected patients requiring 24/7
respiratory therapy.
Until we reach that point, it's all kabuki theater.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 22, 2020 08:45 AM (Xesvh)
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New rule in effect yesterday: all non-legal residents entering the country will be immediately deported.
Even asylum seekers. No adjudication, immediate relocation.
ACLU will of course file, but it's going to be interesting to see them argue that we can let people freely enter the country with shelter-in-place orders in effect.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 22, 2020 08:52 AM (cfSRQ)
Posted by: Skip at March 22, 2020 08:52 AM (ZCEU2)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 22, 2020 08:52 AM (nRk/c)
On the other hand, my idiot SiL in Connecticut has dialed her usual histrionics up to 11, but she's a rabid anti-Trumper.
The Left has been hijacked into being an amplifier for the neuroses of mostly-unmarried upper middle class+ white women.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 22, 2020 08:52 AM (6XLoz)
As usual, they figured they had a good reason - to keep panic-buying at a minimum. But of course now they've been shown to lie so no one will trust them.
In a health crisis.
Because idiots.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 22, 2020 08:41 AM (cfSRQ)
I kept my supply of masks. Cancer patients are routinely told to wear them for their own protection, even when walking around a medical floor. If they were of no use they wouldn't be advised because they do somewhat restrict your breathing.
Posted by: CN at March 22, 2020 08:52 AM (ONvIw)
Bunch of pinch-faced asses.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 22, 2020 08:52 AM (ptqGC)
Posted by: klaftern at March 22, 2020 08:49 AM (RuIsu)
I hear you
Posted by: Tommy at March 22, 2020 08:53 AM (rpxSz)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 22, 2020 08:43 AM (nRk/c)
I hang around here for the abby normalcy
Posted by: Heirloominati at March 22, 2020 08:53 AM (GC07d)
Not weeks, not months.
Trump would not chose between the offered choices of
[ ] Hours
[ ] Days
His answer was 'somewhere between the two'.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 22, 2020 08:53 AM (O4024)
Posted by: Javems at March 22, 2020 08:50 AM (ofIwF)
"Let a thousand independent, but coordinated, tyrannical socialist bureaucracies bloom!"
Posted by: Zombie Chairman Moo at March 22, 2020 08:53 AM (BiNEL)
Posted by: CN at March 22, 2020 08:54 AM (ONvIw)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 22, 2020 08:43 AM (nRk/c)
Dammit NGU, I don't need any MORE scary thoughts so early in the morning.
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 22, 2020 08:55 AM (BiNEL)
FFS. Social media is like email. People say and do shit they'd never say or do face to face or in public.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 22, 2020 08:55 AM (Xesvh)
They chose to spend the money on some solar panel boondoggle.
Which promptly folded.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 22, 2020 08:56 AM (O4024)
Posted by: Huck Follywood, hunker in the bunker at March 22, 2020 08:56 AM (NVYyb)
Bunch of pinch-faced asses.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 22, 2020 08:52 AM (ptqGC)
You and I could probably swap neighborhoods and each feel like we haven't left ours.
These days around here there are multiple daily "Where can I find toilet paper!?!?" posts. Although a lot of posts about the virus invariably end up with Trump-bashing included in the comments.
Posted by: Vendette at March 22, 2020 08:56 AM (nRNOc)
Posted by: CN at March 22, 2020 08:54 AM (ONvIw)
NOT defending DeCommio, but if the truth be told, NO ONE and NO PLACE was prepared for anything like this. Sigh. After this is all over, it is time for some deep reflection and planning
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 22, 2020 08:56 AM (nRk/c)
Bet that (near) $1 billion "lost" by his wife's mental health project might come in handy now, too, eh?
Posted by: Lizzy at March 22, 2020 08:57 AM (bDqIh)
Posted by: Skip at March 22, 2020 08:57 AM (ZCEU2)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 22, 2020 08:57 AM (O4024)
thx, Eris
it's actually Edward Murrow, bitching about Joe McCarthy's righteous crusade to root out commies
I first heard it in the intro to Dan Carlin's most excellent Hardcore History podcast
longer bit:
We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep into our own history and our doctrine and remember that we are not descended from fearful men, not men who feared to write, to speak, to associate, and to defend causes which were for the moment unpopular.
Posted by: AltonJackson
and remember that we are not descended from fearful men
at March 22, 2020 08:57 AM (nbj1Q)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 22, 2020 08:58 AM (ptqGC)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at March 22, 2020 08:58 AM (flINI)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 22, 2020 08:49 AM
Mine too. They are planning to do the entire service online.
Posted by: Puddleglum at March 22, 2020 08:58 AM (lBbig)
ONE and NO PLACE was prepared for anything like this. Sigh. After this
is all over, it is time for some deep reflection and planning
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 22, 2020 08:56 AM (nRk/c)
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But they pretended they did.
They all had plans on file, and certified annually that they had been reviewed and were up to date.
They went to conferences and got full per diem, did some sightseeing and came home proudly checking the box for that particular requirement.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 22, 2020 08:58 AM (cfSRQ)
Excellent! I've used this time to pull some cabinets and a counter top out of the garage. They were in the house when we bought them and were taking up space. Cleaned out the garage and the basement. For the first time in 23 years, we have fully moved into a house. It's kind of amazing.
Posted by: no good deed at March 22, 2020 08:59 AM (MmFTx)
~~~~~
That's a big part of the problem I'm seeing in my neck of the woods. Incredibly, lots of people who have summer homes here came down to escape the mess in the big cities. They seem to think that since they're 50 miles away, they're safe from the virus.
Meanwhile we have more than 100 cases in this county alone, which also happens to be the county that saw four people from one family succumb to the disease.
Posted by: IrishEi at March 22, 2020 08:59 AM (sGotD)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 22, 2020 08:56 AM (nRk/c)
LOL yeah that'll happen with these crack monkeys.
Posted by: jsg at March 22, 2020 08:59 AM (Aeowy)
Yup.
However, one would *think* NYC, being a prime target for terror attacks, and IIRC, getting additional funding for prep because of this since 2001 might have made disaster prep more of a priority?
Posted by: Lizzy at March 22, 2020 08:59 AM (bDqIh)
"This wouldn't have happened if Hillary Clinton had won"
Three names I couldn't care less about. And I don't feel a need to read the article, because the premise is based on sitting around making up an ideal scenario and then projecting this onto a hero.
This is political fantasy fiction, otherwise known as propaganda.
Posted by: 🐧 at March 22, 2020 08:59 AM (uYQjf)
Which promptly folded.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 22, 2020 08:56 AM (O4024)
Comrade VIA, never forget, the easy graft is ALWAYS up front!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 22, 2020 09:00 AM (BiNEL)
I've been working this weekend since it's really hard for me to get stuff done while caring for the children, and my husband's company hasn't gone to telework. Unfortunately, my husband apparently didn't connect the dots yesterday that me working means HE needs to clean the damn kitchen and otherwise take care of the house. So I guess I'll have to do that today when I actually still have more work to do (there's no way I can tell him to do it without being really nasty, because I'm pissed off, and I choose not to be nasty to him even when EXTREMELY PROVOKED). Good thing I got all the laundry done on Friday because he sure as hell wouldn't have done it.
Posted by: Mrs. Peel at March 22, 2020 09:00 AM (rWZ8Y)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at March 22, 2020 08:58 AM (flINI)
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We should get together and jam.
Posted by: Weasel at March 22, 2020 09:00 AM (MVjcR)
lots of idiocy has to take place in order to make it happen. The four
rules of gun safety apply no matter how big the bullets are.
Good
morning roonz and roonettez! I was going to go out with the Mustang
group this morning but it's too cold for convertibles today, so I'm not
going to do it. Not to fear, we were just going to meet up and go for a
"destination-less" cruise around the area without getting out of our
cars. If they did it Friday when it was in the 70s and sunny here I
would have been all over it, but today, being overcast and chilly with a
chance of rain...not so much.
At least there is a book thread today. But I don't care what OM says, he can't make me wear pants.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 22, 2020 09:00 AM (ZXnzo)
Lost a lot of your command in battle have you? Tell us about it.
Posted by: VADM Collingwood RN - holding Nelson's rum ration at March 22, 2020 09:00 AM (9X60i)
Unreal.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 22, 2020 09:00 AM (ptqGC)
ONE and NO PLACE was prepared for anything like this. Sigh. After this
is all over, it is time for some deep reflection and planning
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 22, 2020 08:56 AM (nRk/c)
Yup...during the best of times I want the government to go away and leave me alone.
In the worst of times, same thing only twice as much.
More coffee.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 22, 2020 09:01 AM (Z+IKu)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at March 22, 2020 09:01 AM (flINI)
The problem is that if you continuously do absolute worst case planning, you wind being unable to do anything else, perhaps even to survive.
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 22, 2020 09:02 AM (BiNEL)
Posted by: StellasTwoCents at March 22, 2020 09:02 AM (KSBDE)
Posted by: f'd at March 22, 2020 09:02 AM (Tnijr)
********
I went to medical school with that guy. He transitioned much later in life, I think in his 40s. His practice prior to becoming Physician General of Pennsylvania was 'counseling' gender-confused adolescents. Some might call it 'grooming'.
Incidentally he looks like Benjamin Franklin.
Posted by: Muldoon at March 22, 2020 09:02 AM (m45I2)
Bunch of pinch-faced asses.
Posted by: Jane D'o"
Can't tolerate reading a "Be safe everybody" by people that would gladly ship me off to the camps for a PC/thought crime violation.
Posted by: Ripley at March 22, 2020 09:02 AM (sGobE)
Unreal.
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What's bad about boating?! That seems like an excellent form of social distancing (unless you need assistance from the coast guard).
Posted by: Lizzy at March 22, 2020 09:02 AM (bDqIh)
Incidentally he looks like Benjamin Franklin.
- - - -
Ewwwww
Posted by: Lizzy at March 22, 2020 09:03 AM (bDqIh)
ONE and NO PLACE was prepared for anything like this. Sigh. After this
is all over, it is time for some deep reflection and planning
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 22, 2020 08:56 AM (nRk/c)
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But they pretended they did.
They all had plans on file, and certified annually that they had been reviewed and were up to date.
They went to conferences and got full per diem, did some sightseeing and came home proudly checking the box for that particular requirement.
THIS. Since late 50's Polio.
The plans being implemented now are little changed, and ARE the plans from the 2009 H1N1 binders...
Human Institutional Memory is weak at the best of times, and ObamaCare chased so many medical professionals out, to be replaced with expense suits, we are now being managed by a guy that oversaw a sneaker factory last year...
Posted by: Ima Pseudonym at March 22, 2020 09:03 AM (FHCBU)
I've been working this weekend since it's really hard for me to get stuff done while caring for the children, and my husband's company hasn't gone to telework. Unfortunately, my husband apparently didn't connect the dots yesterday that me working means HE needs to clean the damn kitchen and otherwise take care of the house. So I guess I'll have to do that today when I actually still have more work to do (there's no way I can tell him to do it without being really nasty, because I'm pissed off, and I choose not to be nasty to him even when EXTREMELY PROVOKED). Good thing I got all the laundry done on Friday because he sure as hell wouldn't have done it.
Posted by: Mrs. Peel at March 22, 2020 09:00 AM (rWZ8Y)
I help as fast and quick as possible when she asks and then pester her for more shit to do. I know in about an hour and a half of that she'll give me money and tell me to go away.
Posted by: jsg at March 22, 2020 09:04 AM (Aeowy)
If we were really serious about this, people from the cities most affected by this would be quarantined. No travel outside the city.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 22, 2020 09:04 AM (Xesvh)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 22, 2020 09:04 AM (ptqGC)
"This wouldn't have happened if Hillary Clinton had won"
He's right, but not in the way thinks.
Posted by: Ripley at March 22, 2020 09:05 AM (sGobE)
Posted by: Skip at March 22, 2020 09:05 AM (ZCEU2)
Well off to the ICU for another 12 (14-15) hours of stomping out lives and saving diseases... pray for your medical folks...
Posted by: Ima Pseudonym at March 22, 2020 09:05 AM (FHCBU)
Posted by: Lizzy at March 22, 2020 08:59 AM (bDqIh)
Yes one would think...but transexual rights and PDT hating must come first
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 22, 2020 09:06 AM (nRk/c)
Posted by: Skip at March 22, 2020 06:13 AM (ZCEU2)
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Skip, that common sense shit is so passe... don't observe this thing in the context of every other illness you've observed in your life and conclude that it's an overreaction.
You're supposed to observe the panic exhibited by your feckless, power hungry ruling class of reflexive liars and then mimic it.
Duh.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 22, 2020 09:06 AM (II2Y0)
Posted by: StellasTwoCents at March 22, 2020 09:06 AM (KSBDE)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 22, 2020 09:06 AM (ptqGC)
Sure, but what's the opposite of that?
Because I think that's what de Blasio did. He had time to lose ~ $billion on a no tangible proof of anything mental health program but didn't stock up on face masks. This is on par with Bloomberg micromanaging soda consumption while regularly failing to get the snow cleared off the streets.
Posted by: Lizzy at March 22, 2020 09:06 AM (bDqIh)
"This wouldn't have happened if Hillary Clinton had won"
Shark has been jumped...
Posted by: Tami at March 22, 2020 08:37 AM (cF8AT) "
Well, in a way, he's right ... if she was preznit, they could be running dump trucks up and down the streets loading bodies off the curbs and the media would be singing kumbaya and telling us that everything was perfectly normal.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez, we are being gaslighted 24/365 at March 22, 2020 09:06 AM (zlgJP)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 22, 2020 09:07 AM (ZXnzo)
I'm getting pretty good with the vuvuzela if you need a backup player!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 22, 2020 09:08 AM (BiNEL)
Posted by: Skip at March 22, 2020 09:08 AM (ZCEU2)
Posted by: Ripley at March 22, 2020 09:02 AM (sGobE)
It's like reading the "CoExist" bumper stickers from people who believe my support for Trump disqualifies me from human existence.
Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at March 22, 2020 09:08 AM (H8QX8)
Posted by: Skip at March 22, 2020 09:08 AM (ZCEU2)
To avoid similar conflict, I vacuumed the whole house!
Just pressed the "Clean" button on Roomba and went back to goofing off on the computer.
Posted by: 🐧 at March 22, 2020 09:09 AM (uYQjf)
Nice. If I had access to a boat I would have gone out, too. We've been doing beach walks. Some minor crowds, but manageable -- could keep much more than the prescribed 6ft "social distance."
Posted by: Lizzy at March 22, 2020 09:10 AM (bDqIh)
Posted by: Skip at March 22, 2020 09:10 AM (ZCEU2)
they could be running dump trucks up and down the streets loading bodies
off the curbs and the media would be singing kumbaya and telling us
that everything was perfectly normal.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez, we are being gaslighted 24/365 at March 22, 2020 09:06 AM (zlgJP)
We'd have that Monty Python scene going on...but she wouldn't be riding down the street on her coconuts because she wouldn't want to take the chance of mingling with the riff-raff.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 22, 2020 09:10 AM (ZXnzo)
Posted by: no good deed at March 22, 2020 09:11 AM (MmFTx)
Posted by: Ima Pseudonym at March 22, 2020 09:05 AM (FHCBU)
Godspeed
Posted by: Voter theater. at March 22, 2020 09:11 AM (xXx5y)
That seems unwise.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 22, 2020 09:12 AM (ZLI7S)
ONE and NO PLACE was prepared for anything like this. Sigh. After this
is all over, it is time for some deep reflection and planning
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 22, 2020 08:56 AM (nRk/c)
---
But they pretended they did.
They all had plans on file, and certified annually that they had been reviewed and were up to date.
They went to conferences and got full per diem, did some sightseeing and came home proudly checking the box for that particular requirement.
THIS. Since late 50's Polio.
The plans being implemented now are little changed, and ARE the plans from the 2009 H1N1 binders...
Human Institutional Memory is weak at the best of times, and ObamaCare chased so many medical professionals out, to be replaced with expense suits, we are now being managed by a guy that oversaw a sneaker factory last year...
Posted by: Ima Pseudonym at March 22, 2020 09:03 AM (FHCBU) "
This !
Posted by: sock_rat_eez, we are being gaslighted 24/365 at March 22, 2020 09:12 AM (zlgJP)
That wasn't really meant as an apologia for DeCommieo, but there are unexpected severe events that ought to have been planned for, and there are extraordinary events that need immediate competent planning and an active response!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 22, 2020 09:12 AM (BiNEL)
people who believe my support for Trump disqualifies me from human
existence.
Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at March 22, 2020 09:08 AM (H8QX
The "Coexist" sticker on my (currently inoperative) Subaru is made with gunmakers logos.
You can get them every once in a while when someone puts the artwork up if you catch it before they get canceled for copyright infringement.Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 22, 2020 09:13 AM (ZXnzo)
I bet you a lot of those people who wanted it gone last year are happy it's still around today.
Posted by: Vendette at March 22, 2020 09:13 AM (nRNOc)
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at March 22, 2020 09:13 AM (oVJmc)
Posted by: JackStraw at March 22, 2020 09:12 AM (ZLI7S)
Heh! That's an understatement...
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 22, 2020 09:13 AM (Xesvh)
Posted by: Skip at March 22, 2020 09:14 AM (ZCEU2)
Posted by: Weasel at March 22, 2020 09:00 AM (MVjcR)
~~~~~
Can I join in with my tin whistle? Or I can bring my accordion if you prefer. Just call 1-800-MomPleaseNo and let me know.
Posted by: IrishEi at March 22, 2020 09:14 AM (sGotD)
Good for you. Hubby joined it mostly for recommendations for plumber, electricians etc. and he tells me there are some real nutballs there.
Posted by: Jewells45 at March 22, 2020 09:15 AM (dUJdY)
Yeh....masks.
Maybe if nothing else, we should keep a rather large supply of those on hand, where there are large population concentrations.
Like maybe, New York city.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 22, 2020 09:15 AM (O4024)
Posted by: no good deed at March 22, 2020 09:15 AM (MmFTx)
Posted by: davidt at March 22, 2020 09:16 AM (l3+k2)
Posted by: Ben Had at March 22, 2020 09:16 AM (V3fhb)
Yeah, I know, and that makes sense. It's just a great opportunity to comment on how incompetent some of these blue city/state leaders are -- the ones who would dictate how we live our lives if they could, yet they can't perform the core duties of their own jobs. I would bet de Blasio has dropped the ball in other areas of preparedness, not just face masks.
Posted by: Lizzy at March 22, 2020 09:16 AM (bDqIh)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at March 22, 2020 08:58 AM (flINI)
----
We should get together and jam.
Posted by: Weasel at March 22, 2020 09:00 AM (MVjcR)
*********
We need to find someone who plays the saw and 10 gallon plastic pail.
Posted by: Truck Monkey at March 22, 2020 09:17 AM (flINI)
Tough shit, you're stuck with the hair smelling paste eater.
Posted by: Jewells45 at March 22, 2020 09:17 AM (dUJdY)
If anyone is in need of toilet paper, and has a Sam's Club membership, you can order it online, at least for now.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at March 22, 2020 09:18 AM (CAJOC)
I read in Consumer Reports that some of the high end units do indeed report back to the manufacture on things like the size of your rooms, and the layout of your furniture.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 22, 2020 09:18 AM (O4024)
Posted by: JackStraw at March 22, 2020 09:19 AM (ZLI7S)
I'm stocked up pretty good for now but in case you didn't hear we are on lockdown effective Tuesday until April 24.
Posted by: Jewells45 at March 22, 2020 09:19 AM (dUJdY)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at March 22, 2020 09:17 AM (flINI)
~~~~~
I can play the comb too. I'm really quite the crackerjack.
Posted by: IrishEi at March 22, 2020 09:19 AM (sGotD)
The guy working so well with Trump and singing his praises?
Ha. Go with that, libs.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at March 22, 2020 09:20 AM (oVJmc)
Posted by: no good deed at March 22, 2020 09:20 AM (MmFTx)
The opposite of what we've done is do nothing. Italy went that way. Extrapolate Italy death toll to the US population and you get about 12 thousand dead in 6 weeks. Extrapolate the Italy hospital admissions and you get complete shut down of our health care facilities. That ain't the flu.
All the people who are now yelling "over-reaction" would be yelling "why aren't we doing something" if we had 12 thousand dead in 6 weeks, a crashed health care system, and no end in sight.
Nobody knows enough about this disease to know how contagious it really is or how lethal it really is if nothing is done.
Find one accredited epidemiologist on the planet that says we're over-reacting to a hoax and I will buy him/her and you coffee.
Also flu seasons are mitigated by vaccines and self imposed social distancing. Who goes to work when they have the flu? Who goes to school when they have the flu?
Posted by: VADM Collingwood RN - holding Nelson's rum ration at March 22, 2020 09:20 AM (9X60i)
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at March 22, 2020 09:21 AM (oVJmc)
I can play the comb too. I'm really quite the crackerjack.
Posted by: IrishEi at March 22, 2020 09:19 AM (sGotD)
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You're in!
Posted by: Weasel at March 22, 2020 09:21 AM (MVjcR)
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at March 22, 2020 09:23 AM (oVJmc)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at March 22, 2020 09:23 AM (flINI)
Posted by: Weasel at March 22, 2020 09:21 AM (MVjcR)
~~~~~
Thanks, Weasel! Putting the accordion in the car now since I'm gonna need it for the NoVaMoMe anyway.
Posted by: IrishEi at March 22, 2020 09:24 AM (sGotD)
I saw you mention that last night. What a fuckall mess.
Posted by: Ben Had at March 22, 2020 09:24 AM (V3fhb)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 22, 2020 09:26 AM (Xesvh)
Posted by: Ben Had at March 22, 2020 09:27 AM (V3fhb)
What he said.
I would only add that when NY is seriously talking about taking over the Javits Center as a makeshift hospital to handle the expected patient load this is not the flu. When Ford and GM are offering to retool and start making respirators, not the flu.
Is the world overreacting? Maybe. We'll find out when this is over. I don't know anyone who is enjoying this or who isn't going through some level of pain. Some of us more than others.
Keep calm and carry on.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 22, 2020 09:27 AM (ZLI7S)
Posted by: Ben Had at March 22, 2020 09:30 AM (V3fhb)
Heh. That's one thing I did not stock up on - treats. Remedied that earlier this a.m., so hopefully I can get deliveries. MA governor is still dead-set against shelter in place order.
Posted by: Lizzy at March 22, 2020 09:30 AM (bDqIh)
Glad you're stocked up!
(I placed an order from your site last night, so I'll look forward to it arriving in May, lol.)
Posted by: Lizzy at March 22, 2020 09:33 AM (bDqIh)
I think this virus will hit England very badly and the NHS is effed
Or rather, England will be effed by the virus via the NHS
Posted by: vmom 2020 at March 22, 2020 09:34 AM (G546f)
Posted by: IrishEi at March 22, 2020 09:24 AM (sGotD)
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Awesome. That's our musical act taken care of.
Posted by: bluebell at March 22, 2020 09:36 AM (/669Q)
Ugh. Oh, and good morning.
Posted by: Tonypete at March 22, 2020 09:37 AM (Y4EXg)
Not good.
Posted by: Lizzy at March 22, 2020 09:38 AM (bDqIh)
Or rather, England will be effed by the virus via the NHS
Posted by: vmom 2020 at March 22, 2020 09:34 AM (G546f)
But think of the free health care and the money they've saved!
Odd that the President cut off travel from the UK...
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 22, 2020 09:39 AM (BiNEL)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 22, 2020 09:39 AM (O4024)
The bag of M/Ms that the little girls next door dropped off have been eaten, with prejudice.
Posted by: Tonypete at March 22, 2020 09:39 AM (Y4EXg)
Posted by: Stats Inc at March 22, 2020 09:40 AM (/LQkF)
Posted by: Ben Had at March 22, 2020 09:40 AM (V3fhb)
Same with recreational weed stores.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 22, 2020 09:41 AM (O4024)
Posted by: Jewells45 at March 22, 2020 09:41 AM (dUJdY)
number of politicians doing
without necessities : zero
number of politicians demanding taxes in full
: all of them
Posted by: Stats Inc really pixy? at March 22, 2020 09:41 AM (/LQkF)
Posted by: no good deed at March 22, 2020 09:42 AM (MmFTx)
Posted by: Ben Had at March 22, 2020 09:43 AM (V3fhb)
Posted by: no good deed at March 22, 2020 09:42 AM (MmFTx)
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Yes. I cleaned half the garage the other day. Saving the other half for a treat this week.
Posted by: bluebell at March 22, 2020 09:45 AM (/669Q)
Posted by: Chillin the most at March 22, 2020 09:47 AM (lonOK)
Posted by: StellasTwoCents at March 22, 2020 09:02 AM (KSBDE)
And, *you* get a fine! And, *you* get a fine! And, *you*! And, *you*!
Posted by: HOAs at March 22, 2020 09:49 AM (DTX3h)
Posted by: Chillin the most at March 22, 2020 09:49 AM (lonOK)
L A radio sez "essential industry", still open and supplied, 200% + increase in biz.
Posted by: getting the cabin fever banned back together at March 22, 2020 09:50 AM (Fezp+)
Been working on getting the house on the market which will happen at some point though not sure when now. But we are just marching on.
Posted by: Jewells45 at March 22, 2020 09:50 AM (dUJdY)
they are already rationing ICU based on who will likely survive
patients of unrelated illnesses catching covid at the hospital
shortage of PPEs
https://twitter.com/votermom/status/
1241723702951239681
Posted by: vmom 2020 at March 22, 2020 09:53 AM (G546f)
Posted by: davidt at March 22, 2020 09:55 AM (l3+k2)
Posted by: no good deed at March 22, 2020 09:56 AM (MmFTx)
DiBlasio delayed shutting down schools because moms who get their kids fed at school is a key constituency. Then he flipped to wanting to shut down all businesses
Posted by: Ignoramus at March 22, 2020 09:57 AM (9TdxA)
Posted by: no good deed at March 22, 2020 09:57 AM (MmFTx)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at March 22, 2020 09:17 AM (flINI)
~~~~~
I can play the comb too. I'm really quite the crackerjack.
Posted by: IrishEi
Spoon Lady
https://youtu.be/_nLmM9kcBKs
Posted by: My life is insanity at March 22, 2020 10:02 AM (Z/jzm)
Posted by: Jewells45 at March 22, 2020 10:04 AM (dUJdY)
I once had a yeast strain starter that gave a bleu cheese tang to the sourdough, good stuff!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 22, 2020 10:04 AM (BiNEL)
Posted by: StellasTwoCents at March 22, 2020 10:07 AM (KSBDE)
Posted by: Chillin the most at March 22, 2020 09:49 AM (lonOK)
~~~~~
I'm looking forward to Mark Levin's interview with Fauci tonight.
Posted by: IrishEi at March 22, 2020 10:09 AM (sGotD)
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Wow, she's really, really good!
Posted by: IrishEi at March 22, 2020 10:31 AM (sGotD)
Turn it back on them.
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My sheep had comical looks on their faces. Whimsy for the holy family.
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hubby has that on
I turned on thenoisyoven vent
much better
Posted by: vmom 2020 at March 22, 2020 10:40 AM (G546f)
The professional virtue signaler are out in force. Hell our governor was handing out bagged lunches at drive through to people who won't feed their own damn kids. Can't feed em don't breed em.
Posted by: Cannibal Blob at March 22, 2020 10:44 AM (7ZMbn)
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we drove to the park yesterday with doggeh to walk
lots of ppl doing the same
I hope Gov Wolfitler doesn't hear about that
Posted by: vmom 2020 at March 22, 2020 10:44 AM (G546f)
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Omg. Sounds just beautiful. You. Have a kiln? Maybe we should have a thread to show some horde artists work occasionally. Would be fun and get us creating.
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Posted by: VADM Collingwood RN - holding Nelson's rum ration at March 22, 2020 09:20 AM (9X60i)
Good point.
Posted by: m at March 22, 2020 10:53 AM (oGFm1)
Then? Katie, bar the door.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at March 22, 2020 09:21 AM (oVJmc)
But how will we know?
Posted by: m at March 22, 2020 10:53 AM (oGFm1)
I moved on to making my own furniture.
Posted by: Ben Had at March 22, 2020 10:55 AM (V3fhb)
Posted by: no good deed at March 22, 2020 09:56 AM (MmFTx)
Hah!
Posted by: m at March 22, 2020 11:01 AM (oGFm1)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 22, 2020 11:01 AM (Lqy/e)
Posted by: JackStraw at March 22, 2020 11:04 AM (ZLI7S)
Quickest way to get riots is cut off food
Posted by: Skip at March 22, 2020 11:08 AM (ZCEU2)
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That's one way to keep Jonah Goldberg out.
Posted by: RDittmar at March 22, 2020 11:10 AM (HBDAR)
He's not giving much of a update. Quick mention up front about numbers and now he's bloviating about money, federal vs state power use need as the basis for funding, etc.
Posted by: vivi at March 22, 2020 11:15 AM (11H2y)
NY asking the Army Corps of Engineers to set up field hospitals indoors and outdoors in the javits center, Westchester, two on LI plus dorms for workers and now needs staff and supplies. Construction can start tomorrow.
Asking FEMA to set up four hospitals which include their own doctors and supplies.
Posted by: vivi at March 22, 2020 11:21 AM (11H2y)
Posted by: VADM Collingwood RN - holding Nelson's rum ration at March 22, 2020 09:20 AM (9X60i)
Good point.
Posted by: m at March 22, 2020 10:53 AM (oGFm1)
Given a few car wrecks on any one stretch of road in town the police chief can send more cruisers out there and when there are no more wrecks use it as proof that he needs more funds for more cruisers.
But he will only ask for more cruisers (and cops) because he has a limited stock to begin with.
It takes nothing for epidemiologists to demand that nobody leave their homes until everyone has expired due to old age.
Posted by: Burnt Toast at March 22, 2020 11:24 AM (1g7ch)
Posted by: Skip at March 22, 2020 11:26 AM (ZCEU2)
Posted by: Skip at March 22, 2020 11:27 AM (ZCEU2)
Posted by: vivi at March 22, 2020 11:27 AM (11H2y)
I think you are looking at the wrong metric. Watch the number of available ICU beds, ventilators and other necessary healthcare issues.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 22, 2020 11:28 AM (ZLI7S)
Screw you ABC, you helped cause this panic. You send them money from your enormous profits. I'm not feeling very charitable to suffering Dem base. Puke.
Posted by: Ripley at March 22, 2020 11:30 AM (MxEKc)
Hong Kong's struggle for independence sure disappeared from the news.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 22, 2020 11:30 AM (yQpMk)
I have a question.
With 15 thousand positive tests in the US... Wht does NY need 30,000 ventilators?
Posted by: fixerupper at March 22, 2020 11:30 AM (nw6Hr)
Plus NYC has a larger supply of knuckleheads so they have to over-react.
Cuomo is reminding younger people that they represent half of confirmed cases and they can transfer to older people who could die.
Posted by: vivi at March 22, 2020 11:30 AM (11H2y)
Posted by: Skip at March 22, 2020 11:31 AM (ZCEU2)
And the murder guns along the railings.
Posted by: Fox2! at March 22, 2020 11:31 AM (qyH+l)
I'm thinking of taking up the bagpipe during this crisis.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 22, 2020 11:32 AM (yQpMk)
Posted by: lizabth at March 22, 2020 11:33 AM (L3Rsz)
Posted by: vivi at March 22, 2020 11:33 AM (11H2y)
https://tinyurl.com/r2qadc4
Raise your hand if you think Donald Trump is part of the deep state plot.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 22, 2020 11:33 AM (ZLI7S)
Posted by: vivi at March 22, 2020 11:34 AM (11H2y)
Posted by: vivi at March 22, 2020 11:27 AM (11H2y)
If not a ride to the rescue when Joe the Grope flames out.
Posted by: Fox2! at March 22, 2020 11:35 AM (qyH+l)
Posted by: Skip at March 22, 2020 11:35 AM (ZCEU2)
Posted by: JackStraw at March 22, 2020 11:33 AM (ZLI7S)
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Nope. But please explain why NY need 30,000 ventlators.
Posted by: fixerupper at March 22, 2020 11:36 AM (nw6Hr)
So far in IL, we're not doing too badly.
Posted by: lizabth at March 22, 2020 11:36 AM (L3Rsz)
New cases 4,800.
Hospitalization. 13 percent; 1974 out of 15,168. Lower percentage than in the past.
NYS causes of death; 70 percent of deaths 70+ most with underlying health conditions.
80 percent of deaths under 70 had an underlying condition.
Posted by: vivi at March 22, 2020 11:39 AM (11H2y)
Posted by: Skip at March 22, 2020 11:40 AM (ZCEU2)
Posted by: Skip at March 22, 2020 11:41 AM (ZCEU2)
518 Is Britain still exempt from the travel bans?
No.
Posted by: no good deed at March 22, 2020 09:57 AM (MmFTx)
That only lasted for the weekend.
Posted by: Fox2! at March 22, 2020 11:42 AM (qyH+l)
Math.
Seriously, people keep referencing stats as if they are an end state instead of a work in progress. We are still ramping up testing but trends are emerging as we get early results. The results to date show we are still seeing exponential growth in the number of new cases.
You can predict the number of positive tests and from that the number that will need hospital care including ICU type services. Cuomo has been doing a fairly decent job on a daily basis showing the numbers and the projections over time based on infection rates. NY projects based on the trends that they will soon need double the capacity they currently have, approximately 50,000 new hospital beds with the accompanying medical staffs and equipment.
You know that old saying about amateurs talking about strategy and tactics while pros talk about logistics? It's an old saying because it's true.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 22, 2020 11:43 AM (ZLI7S)
Posted by: lizabth at March 22, 2020 11:43 AM (L3Rsz)
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Posted by: Skip at March 22, 2020 11:47 AM (ZCEU2)
Posted by: FoodWaterAmmo at March 22, 2020 11:48 AM (LXxM7)
I imagine that for all intents and purposes NYC/NYS is pretty much sealed off anyway.
Posted by: vivi at March 22, 2020 11:49 AM (11H2y)
Anyone here really believe that Italy has more Wuflu deaths then China or even Iran? Something doesn't add up. Either China and Iran are sandbagging the numbers or Italy is overstating them. And yes I know that Iran has fewer people, but they are truly a third world shit hole these days.
I'm putting my money on the first.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at March 22, 2020 11:50 AM (LHvlS)
Interesting numbers here. Particularly mortality rates, which are a lot of timing and other factors.
The number of recovered looks grim if you don't keep in mind that a person can die in days vs. weeks to be considered 'recovered.'
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at March 22, 2020 11:50 AM (oVJmc)
Posted by: Skip at March 22, 2020 11:53 AM (ZCEU2)
Iran's got 80 million people. That's a lot more than I thought, and a lot more than Italy (60M).
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at March 22, 2020 11:53 AM (oVJmc)
You'd be wrong. I just read on Breitbart UK still has flights landing from the hotspots.
Posted by: thathalfrican - sucker free on my phone at March 22, 2020 11:54 AM (IYHxL)
sure way to drive the numbers down
Posted by: vmom 2020 at March 22, 2020 11:54 AM (G546f)
Posted by: Skip at March 22, 2020 11:54 AM (ZCEU2)
Not anymore.
I wonder if we will ever get the real numbers out of places like Iran and other 3rd world totalitarian dumps.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 22, 2020 11:55 AM (ZLI7S)
I wonder if we will ever get the real numbers out of places like Iran and other 3rd world totalitarian dumps.
They're still counting ones that Mao killed.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at March 22, 2020 11:56 AM (oVJmc)
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We act like we dont do hospitalizations every flu season. Worst modern flu season was 2017 with over 800,000 hospitalizations nationally and 80, 000 deaths.
That years strain was H3N2... also a respiratory infection. I had it and it knocked me flat for two weeks. I personally knew 3 people that died from it.
Unless you can convince me that Covid is going to dwarf H3N2, im not buying into the hysteria.
Initial 60 day curves show the opposite. Flu dwarfs Covid... by a metric fuckton. . Its not an opinion. It what the "math" shows.
Posted by: fixerupper at March 22, 2020 11:57 AM (nw6Hr)
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Posted by: Tom Servo at March 22, 2020 12:06 PM (q3gwH)
Posted by: Skip at March 22, 2020 12:06 PM (ZCEU2)
As I've mentioned before, several times, the population density of NYC means we have a higher percentage of knuckleheads and assholes. That's why we can't have nice things.
Taking my temperature daily, had to buy printer ink and groceries yesterday and, did some errands yesterday and took a long walk. Called some friends, watched a LOT of TV.
I need to go to a laundromat and I"m spooked about it, due to crowding and all those stainless steel and plastic surfaces that germs love...but the news says that clothing can carry the virus, too.
I am running low on disposable gloves to use touchpads and I have to touch money. My local bank branch is closed. It's tough to be paranoid about everything all the time but it's also tough to try to do everything to feel safe. I never feel safe.
Posted by: vivi at March 22, 2020 12:07 PM (11H2y)
Posted by: Skip at March 22, 2020 11:40 AM (ZCEU2)
Start with just NYC - easier to control the perimeter.
Posted by: Burnt Toast at March 22, 2020 12:11 PM (1g7ch)
You will be fine
Posted by: Skip at March 22, 2020 12:11 PM (ZCEU2)
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Im not a microbioligist. If some MD says Covid isnt the flu, I dont have wherewithall to no the difference. Fine.
But Ive got a solid handle in math, stats, trend analysis etc. And the math says this response is unwarranted.
Posted by: fixerupper at March 22, 2020 12:11 PM (nw6Hr)
Posted by: Skip at March 22, 2020 12:12 PM (ZCEU2)
to produce ventilators. When you start repurposing entire industries to
respond to a health crisis that probably should tell you this is not a
hoax. Unless you think Trump is in on it.
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Trump has to manage the panic that America's enemies in the media, the CDC, and among the governors, have created.
At this point that's going to be primarily accomplished by empty, but expensive, shows of 'doing something.'
Posted by: Methos at March 22, 2020 12:12 PM (kOpft)
Posted by: Ghost Of Qassem Soleimani at March 22, 2020 12:14 PM (VYa0P)
Posted by: Skip at March 22, 2020 12:15 PM (ZCEU2)
*******
I think I had the Bad Beer Virus in Late November It was a Head cold type thing, but worse & ended up with Acute Bronchitis & went Med Xpress & got some what better & & 3 weeks late went to my PCP & got rid of the rest of the Bronchitis
Posted by: Ghost Of Qassem Soleimani at March 22, 2020 12:17 PM (VYa0P)
Now... I will say... If theres a silver lining to all of this its that maybe we as a country will stop treating the flu like its hayfever and theres norhing we can do about it. Washing hands, social distancing, QUARANTINING OF AT RISK PEOPLE, are all good steategies for sny communicable disease. But this response is way out of line.
Posted by: fixerupper at March 22, 2020 12:19 PM (nw6Hr)
Posted by: Ben Had at March 22, 2020 12:20 PM (V3fhb)
..and stay away from the internet and the news, and for the time being, this board. Talk of using the military to seal the exits is raising my blood pressure to an unhealthy degree.
later.
Posted by: vivi at March 22, 2020 12:20 PM (11H2y)
Posted by: vivi at March 22, 2020 12:21 PM (11H2y)
https://tinyurl.com/r2qadc4
Raise your hand if you think Donald Trump is part of the deep state plot.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 22, 2020 11:33 AM (ZLI7S)
A la Rosie the Riveter!
Posted by: m at March 22, 2020 12:21 PM (oGFm1)
We have a vaccine and treatments for the flu.
Do we have those for Wuhan virus?
Frankly we have no idea how many people are infected so continuing to say that is wrong. We won't know until the testing reaches a statistically meaningful number for a country of 320+ million people.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 22, 2020 12:39 PM (ZLI7S)
Pharmacies should have cotton ones that are not too clumsy
the main function of gloves is to remind you not to touch your face and to save your skin from completely drying out from all the handwashing and purelling
Posted by: vmom 2020 at March 22, 2020 12:41 PM (G546f)
Posted by: JackStraw at March 22, 2020 12:39 PM (ZLI7S)
A statistically meaningful sample is on order of 1500. IF the sample is a true random sample. It does not matter how big the pool is. 10,000 or 10,000 million. It does not matter.
If anyone doesn't grok that, welcome to the world of Dunning-Kruger.
Posted by: Burnt Toast at March 22, 2020 12:56 PM (1g7ch)
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But i thought you said math said NY needs 30,000 ventilatirs RIGHT NOW.
Make up your mind bruh.
Posted by: fixerupper at March 22, 2020 01:52 PM (nw6Hr)
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