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Apocalypse Fatigue: Why Won't At-Risk Boomers Panic About the Wuhan Virus?
[Buck Throckmorton]
In the past week, a story that keeps getting written and re-written by young journalists is the stubborn refusal of older Americans to panic about the Wuhan Virus. Pretty much every story reads: “Why is it that a healthy young American like me - in the demographic most likely to survive Coronavirus – is panicking right now, while my Boomer parents/grandparents, who are highly vulnerable to death by Coronavirus, refuse to panic or radically change their lifestyle?”
Here are just three examples. No need to click – they all read the same.
BUSINESS INSIDER: “Frustrated Millenials Say They Can’t Get Their Aging Parents to Cancel Their Cruises, Stop Going To Church, And Take Coronavirus Seriously”
VOGUE: “Why Are So Many Baby Boomers in Denial Over the Coronavirus?”
BUZZFEED NEWS: “How Millennials Are Talking To Their Boomer Relatives About The Coronavirus”
Overpopulation and Global Famine: This was promised not just globally, but domestically too. We were supposed to have run out of food and descended into global starvation a long time ago. All the experts agreed.
Day Care Center Child Molestations: This hysteria sent many innocent people to jail. Local and national media fanned the flames with accounts of “numbers growing daily” and videos of anguished parents. It was a fraud perpetrated by highly credentialed “experts” who believed that pretty much every child exposed to an adult had been molested. The children just needed help remembering it. Those of us who saw through the hysteria were muzzled, because to question the veracity of the hysteria invited accusations that you too were a child molester. It was like Salem in 1693. The bravest journalist I’ve ever read is the WSJ’s Dorothy Rabinowitz, for daring to unravel the terror and how it spread.
Killer Bees: We treat it as a joke now, but we were promised an invasion of swarming “Africanized” bees that would kill livestock and children. It was soon going to be unsafe to even go outside in the southern US without thick layers of protective clothing. All the experts agreed.
Killer Mold: Toxic mold in the ‘90s was kind of like radioactive waste, only deadlier. Or at least that’s what the media had us believing. The terror of discovering mold in schools was met with media alerts, school shutdowns, and local TV stations filming panicked parents as they picked up their crying children, just moments before the tikes were engulfed by the attacking mold.
Global Cooling: A “consensus of scientists” assured me this was real, and that its impact on agriculture would probably lead to my death by starvation.
Global Warming: According to “scientific” predictions from yet another “consensus of scientists,” the Arctic should now be ice free, snowfalls a thing of the past, and New York’s West Side Highway under water.
It goes on and on. Acid Rain. Peak Oil. Ozone. Alar Apples. Y2K.
Maybe the Wuhan Virus is finally “The Big One.” But after decades of the media fraudulently screaming “APOCALYPSE IS IMMINENT!!!” it is not irrational for Boomers to dismiss the latest hysteria. In Aesop’s fable about “The Boy Who Cried Wolf,” the moral of the story isn’t that the townsfolk should have believed the boy, the moral is that the boy shouldn’t have destroyed his credibility by falsely screaming wolf time and again.
Should seniors – and everyone - be super vigilant about hygiene and sanitizing right now? Absolutely. But should they engage in hair-pulling hysteria as demanded by young know-it-alls? Of course not.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Hesco Gypsy, staring from 457 meters at March 19, 2020 05:21 PM (bGY3H)
Posted by: TakeFive at March 19, 2020 05:23 PM (V5VAm)
Posted by: Social Justice Worrier at March 19, 2020 05:23 PM (dqLtq)
Posted by: jayhawkone at March 19, 2020 05:23 PM (ZD+J8)
Posted by: Matthew H Iskra at March 19, 2020 05:24 PM (0MpOC)
As my Father mentioned a time or two, "I may have taught you everything you know, but I haven't taught you everything I know."
Posted by: 11B40 at March 19, 2020 05:24 PM (evgyj)
Posted by: JTinKC at March 19, 2020 05:24 PM (FoSz+)
That said, no, this is not the end of the world.
Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at March 19, 2020 05:24 PM (JRaU+)
Yeah, they used to really screech about Rush Limbaugh using the phrase "the myth of heterosexual AIDS", and of course Rush was right.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 19, 2020 05:24 PM (ZGrMX)
Posted by: DanMan at March 19, 2020 05:25 PM (kFOoV)
Posted by: Bicentennialguy at March 19, 2020 05:25 PM (iydjf)
that really put a massive damper on my teen years
hey who was the doc who kept claiming it was going to decimate the heterosexual population too???
Fox or F-something?
Posted by: THE_BlackOrchid_STATE! at March 19, 2020 05:25 PM (j9HX3)
1- What fucking crisis son?
2- I've been shot at. Do you think I'm scared.
3- You're interrupting my beer asshole.
Posted by: Hesco Gypsy, staring from 457 meters at March 19, 2020 05:25 PM (bGY3H)
Posted by: pawn at March 19, 2020 05:25 PM (PveK5)
Posted by: YIKES! at March 19, 2020 05:25 PM (t6XCL)
they know how important it is to get the most out of your days!
and not sit and panic - ugh shelter in place
I hate that term with the fury of a thousand suns
Posted by: THE_BlackOrchid_STATE! at March 19, 2020 05:26 PM (j9HX3)
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at March 19, 2020 05:26 PM (oVJmc)
or the GMO insanity which prevents the growing of Golden Rice in countries which sentences millions to blindness
and on and on and on
Posted by: 2nd Amendment Mother at March 19, 2020 05:26 PM (8JEZG)
Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at March 19, 2020 05:27 PM (CPk08)
Posted by: garrett at March 19, 2020 05:27 PM (m2cNh)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at March 19, 2020 05:27 PM (pw+jk)
Posted by: tubal at March 19, 2020 05:27 PM (90T4r)
Posted by: bill in arkansas at March 19, 2020 05:28 PM (C1Lsn)
First a shot of Jameson then a beer.
FTW!
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 19, 2020 05:28 PM (e+rs5)
Posted by: garrett at March 19, 2020 05:28 PM (m2cNh)
My response is: you kids apparently enjoy shitting your pants weekly over some new fear or gross offense.
I'm from the generation where that was a sign of weakness and stupidity, so I'm not going to live that way.
Posted by: Gem at March 19, 2020 05:28 PM (65i3Q)
Y2K and Its Digital Meltdown
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 19, 2020 05:28 PM (pNxlR)
Posted by: Fortcoins at March 19, 2020 05:28 PM (JbL9Q)
Posted by: DanMan at March 19, 2020 05:28 PM (kFOoV)
Posted by: deadrody at March 19, 2020 05:28 PM (V9901)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at March 19, 2020 05:28 PM (7rVsF)
HIV / AIDS
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 19, 2020 05:28 PM (pNxlR)
Then on the other hand, they've got stories out about Millennials themselves being to cavalier about this, going out on spring break and all that shit.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at March 19, 2020 05:28 PM (rCwaK)
Posted by: Ripley at March 19, 2020 05:28 PM (MxEKc)
Posted by: Ben Had at March 19, 2020 05:29 PM (MRP6A)
Posted by: garrett at March 19, 2020 05:29 PM (m2cNh)
Posted by: Gem at March 19, 2020 05:29 PM (65i3Q)
Posted by: tubal at March 19, 2020 05:29 PM (90T4r)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at March 19, 2020 05:29 PM (pw+jk)
Nuclear Armageddon
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 19, 2020 05:29 PM (pNxlR)
Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at March 19, 2020 05:29 PM (CPk08)
EXACTLY
this is the other side of "victim chic" or whatever - this weird trend where young people tout their "issues" and wear them as badges of some sick kind of honor
you're supposed to be STOIC. and GRATEFUL. and have pride! like real pride not "victim group pride"
Posted by: THE_BlackOrchid_STATE! at March 19, 2020 05:30 PM (j9HX3)
Posted by: JebPilled at March 19, 2020 05:30 PM (QUqEV)
I don't get. I am seeing people in their 60's, 70's and 80's not even paying attention still
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 19, 2020 05:30 PM (vEIlU)
Older Americans have been immunized against panic. Also, the CDC, which has not been adverse to inciting panic, reports a total of 171 deaths from sea to shining sea. We have been told the number of dead would escalate dramatically dead this week. Older Americans also can read.
I'm not so sanguine about these snowflakes, though. Over the last few years they have just veered from panic to panic, some of it over blatant hoaxes, and never paused. Apparently if social media says it is time to panic, panic.
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at March 19, 2020 05:30 PM (puu6v)
That was at the dawn of the PC era and it took a while for the narrative to change. Ryan White and a few others not in this group were paraded in front of Congress to PROVE everyone was at risk.
But, some good did come out of it. The blood supply was cleaned up.
Posted by: TakeFive at March 19, 2020 05:30 PM (V5VAm)
Posted by: Grey Fox at March 19, 2020 05:30 PM (nBq51)
Posted by: Fortcoins at March 19, 2020 05:30 PM (JbL9Q)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at March 19, 2020 05:30 PM (7rVsF)
The olders and betters have seen it all and probably have seen the worst thing in their lives they've probably ever had to endure: A Jimmy Carter Presidency.
For them, this is nuttin'.
Posted by: Two Weeks From Dick Punching NeverTrumping Shitheels at March 19, 2020 05:30 PM (+dsLj)
No one gets out alive kiddo and the BS hype being foisted of on you is someone trying to get paid for word count without actual knowledge of the facts.
Plus I ain't skeerd of no damn virus that's less deadly than the flu.
Posted by: Gmac- The light at the end of the tunnel is the Trump 2020 train. at March 19, 2020 05:30 PM (qZdIZ)
Posted by: The man who would be Paul Drake at March 19, 2020 05:30 PM (FsgBK)
they're Gen Z and good for them
they're young, they should live life!
Posted by: THE_BlackOrchid_STATE! at March 19, 2020 05:30 PM (j9HX3)
Posted by: Drc at March 19, 2020 05:30 PM (vbaSG)
Posted by: pawn at March 19, 2020 05:30 PM (PveK5)
Now, get off my lawn.
Posted by: 13times at March 19, 2020 05:31 PM (K3B2k)
Posted by: CN at March 19, 2020 05:31 PM (ONvIw)
Posted by: mnw at March 19, 2020 05:31 PM (Cssks)
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 19, 2020 05:31 PM (d7Ww2)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at March 19, 2020 05:31 PM (7rVsF)
Posted by: the boy who cried woof at March 19, 2020 05:31 PM (Tnijr)
I love that man.
Posted by: Marcus T at March 19, 2020 05:31 PM (VpIIl)
Vietnam
Arab Oil Embargo
Children disappearing from every block (milk carton photo campaign)
Disco
Posted by: Gref at March 19, 2020 05:32 PM (AMIL/)
they're Gen Z and good for them
they're young, they should live life!
Posted by: THE_BlackOrchid_STATE! at March 19, 2020 05:30 PM (j9HX3)
Couldn't agree more. They have many long years ahead in which to be miserable.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at March 19, 2020 05:32 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at March 19, 2020 05:32 PM (7rVsF)
Posted by: tubal at March 19, 2020 05:32 PM (90T4r)
I rattled off just about the same list of hoaxes to a younger co-worker just last week. Y2K was what did me in. We spent nearly a year doing almost nothing else but preparing for the end of the world. Then my father-in-law died suddenly Christmas of 99. His funeral was NYE day. Completely forgot about Y2K until the fireworks going off at midnight woke us up. Thought 'Huh. I guess the world isn't going to end.'
People have lost their friggin minds about this virus.
Posted by: NavyMom at March 19, 2020 05:32 PM (EYMQq)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at March 19, 2020 05:33 PM (7rVsF)
As a grade-schooler, I remember reading about it in the paper and was horrified that they were coming to get us.
I also vividly remember global cooling and because of that scare, rail on the "global warming" crowd that frequent my towns local newspaper website.
I have no patience anymore for anybodies BS. I feel old.
Posted by: Dansgirls at March 19, 2020 05:33 PM (V25ON)
And stay off our lawns.
Posted by: filbert at March 19, 2020 05:33 PM (NiXyF)
I told her "Sweetie, only human beings get sick from it"
Posted by: kbdabear at March 19, 2020 05:33 PM (qAR6u)
Yeah, they used to really screech about Rush Limbaugh using the phrase "the myth of heterosexual AIDS", and of course Rush was right."
Yep. And even back then, the academics who noted the same now-established fact were destroyed by snowflake forerunners.
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at March 19, 2020 05:33 PM (puu6v)
The Boy Who Cried Wolf should be required reading for ALL of these young "journalists."
Posted by: Tom at March 19, 2020 05:33 PM (9ruCj)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at March 19, 2020 05:34 PM (pw+jk)
Here's another real one for the pussified punks:
Us: stared nuclear holocaust right in its goddamned face. You: get PTSD because someone forgot to call you "xim".
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 19, 2020 05:34 PM (tLWGd)
Posted by: Hole in the Ozone at March 19, 2020 05:34 PM (yL25O)
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at March 19, 2020 05:34 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Northernlurker at March 19, 2020 05:34 PM (Uu+Jp)
Two - because I'm old enough to have seen enough bullshit, and this is bullshit. This is a a month of bad weekends in Chicago in casualties. It's a recognizable bullshit panic being employed by the American media, which fuels a lot of other media, to bring down an administration they hate. Same for the problems in England. You know how many people England loses to freezing to death every winter? Look it up.
Posted by: DamnedYankee at March 19, 2020 05:34 PM (e284m)
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And let's not forget that crap about the apples. What was it Avilar?
Posted by: TakeFive at March 19, 2020 05:34 PM (V5VAm)
Posted by: Tom at March 19, 2020 05:33 PM (9ruCj)
Instruction manual. Like 1984.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at March 19, 2020 05:34 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at March 19, 2020 05:34 PM (puu6v)
Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at March 19, 2020 05:35 PM (CPk08)
We're still recovering from the 1987 stock market collapse.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at March 19, 2020 05:32 PM (7rVsF)
...
Ooooh. Black Monday, wasn't it?
Posted by: TexasDan at March 19, 2020 05:35 PM (yL25O)
Posted by: fran at March 19, 2020 05:35 PM (CYcMV)
Posted by: Sooner at March 19, 2020 05:35 PM (YkGG9)
Posted by: Eisenhorn at March 19, 2020 05:35 PM (F6tBH)
"Duck and cover!" The Cuban Missile Crisis. The Fall of the Soviet Union. Jimmy Carter.
Posted by: mrp at March 19, 2020 05:35 PM (Pqytn)
Posted by: NCKate at March 19, 2020 05:35 PM (la6X5)
Posted by: Eyegore at March 19, 2020 05:35 PM (aKsyK)
Posted by: Boomer T-Shirt at March 19, 2020 05:35 PM (+nWCH)
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And let's not forget that crap about the apples. What was it Avilar?
Posted by: TakeFive at March 19, 2020 05:34 PM (V5VAm)
Alar. It's mentioned in the post.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at March 19, 2020 05:35 PM (NWiLs)
JWM.
Posted by: jwm at March 19, 2020 05:35 PM (HnUoF)
She already had a larder to see her through the apocalypse, because when you've been through what she has you understand that bad things can happen to good people and you plan accordingly.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 19, 2020 05:35 PM (Dc2NZ)
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at March 19, 2020 05:35 PM (N39Ws)
Not hair pulling hysteria. My parents need to stop going shopping every day like they are used.
My mother is a chronic shopper. If she runs out of milk, store. Something is on sale somewhere, store.
Luckily stores are starting to close around them.
I am thinking they have been through a lot, too. My dad on a sub in the Navy during a more recent war. My mom raising 6 kids during all of what they witnessed.
Which is fine. I'm not pulling hair either. I just want them to do the most simple things right now. They have been saying for weeks "it's not around here." It took a doctor to tell them to stay home, but that didn't last long.
My dad has been going through multiple bouts of cancer. After going through chemo to kill one, he is on meds for another. I think he's in the YOLO mode.
I just don't want to lose my parents, so I'm a bit selfish here.
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 19, 2020 05:35 PM (vEIlU)
Posted by: Ripley at March 19, 2020 05:35 PM (MxEKc)
Right around the time, I think, that "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" came out in theaters.
Imagine that...
Posted by: Dansgirls at March 19, 2020 05:35 PM (V25ON)
Posted by: Northernlurker at March 19, 2020 05:35 PM (Uu+Jp)
The boomers are freaking out because they're most at risk and those pesky kids don't give a damn.
Posted by: Manco at March 19, 2020 05:35 PM (he2ZZ)
Posted by: CN at March 19, 2020 05:31 PM (ONvIw)
+++++++++++++
Taekout's still available...
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 19, 2020 05:35 PM (hYcqw)
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at March 19, 2020 05:35 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Emmie at March 19, 2020 05:35 PM (ouBhA)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at March 19, 2020 05:36 PM (7rVsF)
Rant: My God, we get it! We get it! Please stop repeating every God Blessed thing! Repeating the same instructions and warnings again, and again, and again, and again, and again is NOT HELPING!!! It is annoying as all get out! If you don't have anything new to say just say "We have nothing new, we will let you know when things change and then take the opportunity to just SHUT THE HECK UP!
We'll get through this, it isn't the end of the world, and you aren't going to get a medal or special recognition for sending out the forty-fifth memo saying "Remember to wash your hands" - you may get a response you were not asking for.
Rant Off.
Posted by: Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet Is Sponsoring Methcalibur - The Musical!! at March 19, 2020 05:36 PM (aRg0N)
Us: WE WERE OUT AND ABOUT ALL OVER THE PLACE ALL DAY, EVERY DAY, AS KIDS AND OUR PARENTS WANTED IT THAT WAY!
Millennials: Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 19, 2020 05:36 PM (pNxlR)
Posted by: tubal at March 19, 2020 05:36 PM (90T4r)
Pfffft.
Hey, when I was a young kid, we spend at least once a week in first grade practicing "duck and cover".
It was pretty much common knowledge among my second graders that the Russians were going to drop atomic bombs on our cities. Our worst fears were confirmed in 1962 with the Cuban Missile Crisis.
And our older cousins and neighbors knew a real virus - the polio virus - that would mysteriously cripple some kids and adults while missing others completely.
So pardon us baby boomers for not getting all worked up for some lousy Chinese virus. We've seen much worse, and lived through it.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at March 19, 2020 05:36 PM (sy5kK)
Posted by: Sooner at March 19, 2020 05:36 PM (YkGG9)
Really don't mind if I sit this one out.
(Apologies to IA)
Posted by: Pete Seria at March 19, 2020 05:36 PM (7ZQe3)
When I was in grade school ('57-'63) we had H-Bomb drills. We were lined
up and paraded down into the tunnels that were built beneath the school
when the building was constructed in 1957. Once we were down there they
shut off the lights, and we had to stay silent for about fifteen
minutes in the dark while the air became stifling, and damn near
unbreatheable. We had CONELRAD (sp?) civil defense spots on television,
H- bomb preparedness, Bomb shelters, and an air raid siren every
Saturday at noon.Que up the remainder of the list just posted.
JWM.
Posted by: jwm at March 19, 2020 05:35 PM (HnUoF)
I'm a little younger than you, but remember those drills from the early 70s.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at March 19, 2020 05:36 PM (N39Ws)
Posted by: Ben Had at March 19, 2020 05:36 PM (MRP6A)
Posted by: the boy who cried woof at March 19, 2020 05:37 PM (Tnijr)
Right now, we're dealing with a stack of unknowns. Once the biggest becomes a known (the mortality rate) a lot of the reaction will change.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at March 19, 2020 05:37 PM (zZbCU)
Sigh.
Posted by: Mama AJ at March 19, 2020 05:37 PM (wSGZR)
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at March 19, 2020 05:37 PM (puu6v)
Posted by: YIKES! at March 19, 2020 05:37 PM (t6XCL)
I just heard they are going to track down anyone spreading false rumors and have 1st ARMOR drive their m1a1's through their fucking living rooms then have 1st CAV Red Team moo up with some M777 fire. Douche.
Posted by: Hesco Gypsy, staring from 457 meters at March 19, 2020 05:37 PM (bGY3H)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 19, 2020 05:38 PM (KP5rU)
you may get a response you were not asking for.
Rant Off.
Posted by: Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet Is Sponsoring Methcalibur - The Musical!! at March 19, 2020 05:36 PM (aRg0N)
My fist was clean when it knocked your teeth out.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at March 19, 2020 05:38 PM (7rVsF)
Didnt read the linked articles, but Id wager a roll of TP on that
Posted by: McCool at March 19, 2020 05:38 PM (sZaoP)
Posted by: Northernlurker at March 19, 2020 05:38 PM (Uu+Jp)
"The Day After."Wait, you mean everybody dies?
Yes.Everybody??
Yes. Some immediately, some horrifyingly by radiation sickness. But yes, everyone.
Posted by: Zod at March 19, 2020 05:38 PM (yvnmY)
Right now, we're dealing with a stack of unknowns. Once the biggest becomes a known (the mortality rate) a lot of the reaction will change."
It's happening even now. Every day the confirmed case number rises and the morbidity very incrementally increases.
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at March 19, 2020 05:38 PM (puu6v)
Mayan calendar
Planetary alignments (good at least every ten years)
Secret bible decoding (good at least every 15 years)
Posted by: InspiredHistoryMike at March 19, 2020 05:38 PM (x8Q/V)
Posted by: tubal at March 19, 2020 05:36 PM (90T4r)
The exact same attitude that a soldier must have going into battle.
"You're already dead, dude, might as well get this party started!"
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at March 19, 2020 05:38 PM (sy5kK)
____________
They're MILLENNIALsplaining, BUZZsplaining, and VOXsplaining?
Posted by: ShainS at March 19, 2020 05:38 PM (kyz/M)
Posted by: Chicken Little at March 19, 2020 05:39 PM (BDQo0)
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at March 19, 2020 05:39 PM (puu6v)
Posted by: the boy who cried whoops at March 19, 2020 05:39 PM (Tnijr)
One, we were all going to die of the ice age.
Two, we would run out of oil by 1980.
Three, Pollution would make the air unbreathable in 10 years.
Four, DDT would kill us all.
Five, Overpopulation would kill us all.
Six: Trees would be depleted causing oxygen to be depleted, which would kill us all.
TOP.
MEN.
Posted by: Two Weeks From Dick Punching NeverTrumping Shitheels at March 19, 2020 05:39 PM (+dsLj)
Posted by: TexasDan at March 19, 2020 05:39 PM (yL25O)
spreading false rumors and have 1st ARMOR drive their m1a1's through
their fucking living rooms then have 1st CAV Red Team moo up with some
M777 fire. Posted by: Hesco Gypsy, staring from 457 meters at March 19, 2020 05:37 PM (bGY3H)
This is a false rumor.
Posted by: Zod at March 19, 2020 05:39 PM (yvnmY)
I clean my alar-covered irradiated GMO apples with radon from CFC-based aerosol cans.
I love living dangerously.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 19, 2020 05:39 PM (EGyGV)
Posted by: The Boy Who Cried Wolf at March 19, 2020 05:39 PM (vQX+5)
Posted by: Marcus T at March 19, 2020 05:39 PM (VpIIl)
Posted by: tubal at March 19, 2020 05:29 PM (90T4r)
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Okay Boomer.
Posted by: bluebell, who is "29." at March 19, 2020 05:40 PM (/669Q)
____________
They're MILLENNIALsplaining, BUZZsplaining, and VOXsplaining?
Posted by: ShainS at March 19, 2020 05:38 PM (kyz/M)
Arrogant little bastards, aren't they?
Posted by: tubal at March 19, 2020 05:40 PM (90T4r)
Posted by: garrett at March 19, 2020 05:40 PM (m2cNh)
I'd rather die living my life than as a freaked out shut in, afraid to visit friends and family.
This is not Captain Tripps. Not even close.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo. Yes, you. at March 19, 2020 05:40 PM (ifmtJ)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 19, 2020 05:35 PM (Dc2NZ)
+++++++++++++++
My dad maintains some serious supplies. He and my mom could probably eat for a year. Not well, but eat. We jokingly (because we're not) refer to it as the "Mormon Store."
But there was never a blizzard or a power failure where we had a problem, even holed up for days. Like all things, "prepping" can be done to excess but it is also reasonable to lay in some supplies for a bad event. I am bad at this myself, in part because of space (I have little).
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 19, 2020 05:40 PM (hYcqw)
Posted by: April at March 19, 2020 05:40 PM (OX9vb)
Wolf came out with big smile, closing more shit today
I didn't know anything here was left open! but not anymore according to that asshat
Posted by: THE_BlackOrchid_STATE! at March 19, 2020 05:40 PM (j9HX3)
This is kinda funny because reading Instapundit you would get the idea that the situation is exactly opposite.
The boomers are freaking out because they're most at risk and those pesky kids don't give a damn.
Posted by: Manco
They just showed "Spring Breakers" on the beach in Florida who weren't to concerned about it. One guy said they should be worried about hunger and poverty instead of Corona.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 19, 2020 05:40 PM (aKsyK)
What's this?
Harveywood Celerys sing "Imagine"
I didn't watch it, but is it one of those stupid celery "psa's" where it's edited to show each of them say a word, over and over?
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at March 19, 2020 05:40 PM (8lLxM)
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at March 19, 2020 05:39 PM (puu6v)
Nah, just those Heaven's Gate weirdos.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at March 19, 2020 05:40 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: tubal at March 19, 2020 05:36 PM (90T4r)
Heh, I'm having my head frozen next week!
Posted by: Joe Biden at March 19, 2020 05:40 PM (2N7oZ)
There were the nuclear attack duck under the desk drills. That led to the joke of "Put your hands behind your head, push your head down, and kiss your ass goodbye"
The 50's and 60's also had the UFO mania, if we didn't nuke each other we were going to get invaded by Martians
Posted by: kbdabear at March 19, 2020 05:40 PM (qAR6u)
Posted by: tubal at March 19, 2020 05:29 PM (90T4r)
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Okay Boomer.
Posted by: bluebell, who is "29." at March 19, 2020 05:40 PM (/669Q)
Oh, Priceless!!
Posted by: tubal at March 19, 2020 05:40 PM (90T4r)
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 19, 2020 05:40 PM (QzF6i)
Posted by: YIKES! at March 19, 2020 05:40 PM (t6XCL)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 19, 2020 05:41 PM (WI7YS)
Posted by: Mary Wilbur at March 19, 2020 05:41 PM (artIV)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at March 19, 2020 05:41 PM (7rVsF)
Posted by: pawn at March 19, 2020 05:41 PM (PveK5)
Posted by: Hesco Gypsy, staring from 457 meters at March 19, 2020 05:41 PM (bGY3H)
This is kinda funny because reading Instapundit you would get the idea that the situation is exactly opposite.
The boomers are freaking out because they're most at risk and those pesky kids don't give a damn.
Posted by: Manco
They just showed "Spring Breakers" on the beach in Florida who weren't to concerned about it. One guy said they should be worried about hunger and poverty instead of Corona.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 19, 2020 05:40 PM (aKsyK)
Yeah, they seemed Real Worried.
Posted by: tubal at March 19, 2020 05:41 PM (90T4r)
Posted by: Pete Polarek at March 19, 2020 05:41 PM (C1NyB)
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 19, 2020 05:41 PM (JFO2v)
Me too with the Killer Bees scare. Was scared to death by desciptions of how the bees were gradually making their way northward, since we lived in southern AZ at the time and would be the first US region overcome by them.
Always had a fear of bee stings anyway. And I don't like bugs.
Posted by: Hands at March 19, 2020 05:41 PM (786Ro)
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at March 19, 2020 05:39 PM (puu6v)
C'mon. The Hanson Brothers weren't that bad.
Posted by: Joe Biden at March 19, 2020 05:41 PM (2N7oZ)
"The ozone layer."
The hole in the ozone closed up. You can thank HAARP.
Posted by: the boy who cried whoops at March 19, 2020 05:39 PM (Tnijr)
The Marx brother with the horn?
Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 19, 2020 05:41 PM (9jt1l)
I was just an average kid doing average fun kid stuff, playing apartment tag, scuffling, climbing trees, riding bicycles, just kid stuff. Children were to protected after 1990. It is sad. Bet most haven't had anything more than a hangnail.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at March 19, 2020 05:42 PM (pw+jk)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy - #CancelChina at March 19, 2020 05:42 PM (HaL55)
The boomers are freaking out because they're most at risk and those pesky kids don't give a damn.
Split fifty-fifty in my social circles. I took note early on and started preparing, best I could, when neither of my parents thought it was important. I introduced them, and my extended family to Dr Campbell's videos, at which point both my mother and my millennial sibling in the healthcare field suddenly started taking it very seriously indeed. Meantime, the younger folks at church were just laughing it off until a couple weeks ago.
But, as I said, Vox gives the "If it feels good, do it" generation to complain about their screwed-up children, so it must be true.
Posted by: Grey Fox at March 19, 2020 05:42 PM (nBq51)
***********
Anybody remember the doomsday threat of equine oral herpes? Was quite the hubbub until an old country veterinarian came up with a cure.
You guessed it. They called him the pox man of the poor horses' lips!
Posted by: Muldoon at March 19, 2020 05:42 PM (m45I2)
Posted by: the boy who cried whoops at March 19, 2020 05:42 PM (Tnijr)
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 19, 2020 05:42 PM (JFO2v)
Posted by: 6-4-3 at March 19, 2020 05:42 PM (+FPkr)
I didn't watch it, but is it one of those stupid celery "psa's" where it's edited to show each of them say a word, over and over?
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at March 19, 2020 05:40 PM (8lLxM)
As if being stuck inside wasn't torment enough...
Posted by: kbdabear at March 19, 2020 05:42 PM (qAR6u)
https://youtu.be/_ds9u0O6X8o
Posted by: Citizen of Bureaustan at March 19, 2020 05:42 PM (ldmQR)
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HERE'S THE TRUTH BEHIND IT ALL:
Bill Gates and Barack Obama released a docuseries on Netflix called PANDEMIC in January right before the Wuhan virus was "discovered."
The docuseries pushed the need for the Gates' Foundation to receive funding to carry on virus research to prevent the next PANDEMIC!
Bill Gates funded the Wuhan lab in China that released the Wuhan virus. Bill Gates' was a member of China's Academy of Sciences who built the lab and he was awarded their highest honor.
The Wuhan virus was originally developed at the University of North Carolina by NIH grants approved by the Obama administration in 2012.
The NIH defunded the UNC research in 2016 so the Communist Chinese scientists left UNC and took their work to the NEWLY BUILT Wuhan lab in 2017 - funded by Gates & pals.
The head of the Harvard Chemistry department, with ties to Gates and Epstein, was arrested for accepting bribes from the Communists. Did Epstein know what was coming?
The Pirbright Institute, funded by Bill Gates, owns the "patent" on the Coronavirus genetic sequencing. They did simulation testing on a global PANDEMIC in 2018.
Bill Gates and Barack Obama docuseries marketed the need for a global "universal" vaccine to replace all other flu vaccines. I believe it will be designed to deliver a human chip via nanotechnology.
12,469 people in the US died of H1N1 flu (from Mexico) under Obama in 2009, many of them children, because he waited 6 months to do anything & never closed the border.
The media said nothing about fatalities from H1N1 but is creating a huge panic around the 20 US deaths from the Wuhan virus to destroy the US economy before the election.
Over 36,000 people in the US have died from the common flu this year and the media says NOTHING about that - but is creating a huge panic around the 20 US deaths from the Wuhan virus.
18 out of the 20 total US deaths from the Wuhan virus have come from a nursing home in Kirkland, Washington - the home area of Bill Gates.
Half the staff at that nursing home have been infected with Wuhan virus. They appear to be the carriers. The nursing home draws employees from a large Chinese population across the border in Canada. I believe Gates is placing carriers in vulnerable locations for the narrative and funding.
Right after the first deaths were reported in Bill Gates home area, the Governor declared a national emergency and Congress approved over $8 billion - even though Trump asked for only a quarter of that. Much of the funding will flow to Gates' global partners.
Suddenly Bill Gates says his "foundation" will offer in-home testing kits where you swab your nose with a Q-Tip and send it to his labs. How convenient!
19 out of the 21 who tested positive on the Princess Cruise ship were CREW MEMBERS. Meaning the crews are carriers and are infecting passengers. Who put them there?
The virus started in South Korea because the leaders of a "doomsday" cult went to Wuhan, China and went back and infected 8,000 of their members. Who paid them to do that?
Iran's leaders suddenly became infected after Iran's foreign leader met with John Kerry in Munich and laughed about the virus on camera. Almost like he was told to go home and create panic.
All those videos out of Communist China of them disinfecting the streets, people dying on the streets and thrashing bodies - were all fake and sent out by Communist propagandists.
Real videos show Hong Kong freedom fighters being rounded up in handcuffs and sent off to the "hospital" where it's likely their organs are harvested and they are cremated.
Real videos show elderly people in Communist China trapped in buildings and left to die with no food.
Real videos show that Communist China installed major NEW surveillance cameras and technology to monitor people on the street & in their offices since the virus was released.
Real videos show the Chinese people yelling "IT'S ALL FAKE" from high rises as the Communists pretend to care for them on the streets below.
They are now forced to use an app which tells them when they can come and go and tracks their every move. How did the Communists suddenly develop this technology in a month? This was part of the plan.
After Trump closed travel from Communist China in January, the Chinese blamed the US and threatened to hold back our pharmaceuticals unless we opened travel back up again. They didn't expect him to do that - that thwarted their plans to seed the US with more cases.
I believe the virus is no more dangerous than the common cold - but has been engineered to be highly infectious and impact the elderly and sick. Thankfully, it is NOT affecting children and young adults like pandemic flu does.
I believe the virus was unleashed by the Communist Party to scare people back into their homes and stop the Hong Kong and Taiwanese pro-freedom protests.
I believe the virus was unleashed by the Communists to crash the US economy and drive people away from Trump rallies.
I believe the virus was unleashed to help the Communists assert global control and to cull the elderly and weak.
ALL respiratory viral outbreaks peak in March and end in April. I believe this one too.
The SARS Coronavirus panic dropped the market 20percent in March 2003, under Bush, and it came roaring back even higher by July. In other words, they've done this before to a Republican administration before an election.
Now the fake news is trying to distance Wuhan from the virus -- and so is Communist China. That means we're right over the target.
Every single one of my statements has been reported by numerous sources. This is not a conspiracy. This is real.
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 19, 2020 05:42 PM (vEIlU)
Heh, I'm having my head frozen next week!
Posted by: Joe Biden at March 19, 2020 05:40 PM (2N7oZ)
All available evidence says it already is frozen.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 19, 2020 05:42 PM (pNxlR)
I've seen attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate.
These millennials are pussies
Posted by: Gman at March 19, 2020 05:42 PM (+n7qB)
She already had a larder to see her through the apocalypse, because when you've been through what she has you understand that bad things can happen to good people and you plan accordingly.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 19, 2020 05:35 PM (Dc2NZ)
THIS.
I keep thinking of our parents who lived through all that and how they would get us through every damn scare the press threw at us growing up. What breaks my heart is to see the fear in people that is out there right now.
Yes, let's be cautious, especially around and for the most vulnerable, but let's not stop living.
Growing up, one of our neighbors used to lament how soft younger generations were. Any time she heard someone worrying about current events, she would tell them to , "Stick your thumb up your a-- and deal with it."
Posted by: RondinellaMamma at March 19, 2020 05:42 PM (8/7u2)
Posted by: pawn at March 19, 2020 05:41 PM (PveK5)
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I didn't
Posted by: mrp at March 19, 2020 05:42 PM (Pqytn)
Posted by: Hawkpilot at March 19, 2020 05:43 PM (THbjj)
Posted by: Hands at March 19, 2020 05:43 PM (786Ro)
They are absolutely convinced that 1.) Trump, not China, is responsible for the Chinese Virus. 2.) the earth is going so warm that the Oceans will swallow up entire cities 3.) Guns are bad and need to be entirely removed from society and a whole host of other looney beliefs.
There isn't a day that goes by where my wife isn't at her wits end because her mother keeps mouthing off about Republicans.
In a way I'm glad this virus is in the news. They were slated to spend the night here before and after a trip to Greece. Their trip was cancelled. Yay me.
Posted by: Dansgirls at March 19, 2020 05:43 PM (V25ON)
Posted by: Zod at March 19, 2020 05:43 PM (yvnmY)
Posted by: Northernlurker at March 19, 2020 05:43 PM (Uu+Jp)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at March 19, 2020 05:43 PM (7rVsF)
Ok, so I was just a kid. Give me a break.
Posted by: TakeFive at March 19, 2020 05:43 PM (V5VAm)
Posted by: wth at March 19, 2020 05:43 PM (v0R5T)
"Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists", which has always been a communist propaganda rag, not any kind of scholarly scientific journal.
For one, "atomic scientist" isn't even a thing. It sure sounds impressive, though.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 19, 2020 05:43 PM (tLWGd)
You had a typo in your handle. Should either be "DNC" or "PRC".
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 19, 2020 05:43 PM (WI7YS)
You can only be young once, but you can be immature forever.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at March 19, 2020 05:43 PM (sy5kK)
***********
Anybody remember the doomsday threat of equine oral herpes? Was quite the hubbub until an old country veterinarian came up with a cure.
You guessed it. They called him the pox man of the poor horses' lips!
Posted by: Muldoon at March 19, 2020 05:42 PM (m45I2)
Same as downtown, 25 bucks!
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 19, 2020 05:43 PM (JFO2v)
BREAKING: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has introduced legislation to provide as much as $1,200 per person and $2,400 per couple in the U.S. amid the coronavirus outbreak.
Saying lawmakers won't go "anywhere" until they take action, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Thursday introduced legislation to provide as much as $1,200 per person and $2,400 per couple in the U.S. amid the coronavirus outbreak.
The draft legislation, obtained by Fox News, would provide minimum payments of $600, and aid would be phased down at income thresholds of $75,000 for individuals and $150,000 per couple. Additionally, there would be $500 payments for each child.
The rebate amount is slated to be reduced by $5 for each $100 a taxpayer’s income exceeds the legislation's threshold. The amount is therefore reduced to zero for single taxpayers with incomes exceeding $99,000 and $198,000 for joint filers. The IRS will determine income based on taxpayers' 2018 tax returns.
Posted by: Tami at March 19, 2020 05:44 PM (cF8AT)
Right now, we're dealing with a stack of unknowns. Once the biggest becomes a known (the mortality rate) a lot of the reaction will change."
It's happening even now. Every day the confirmed case number rises and the morbidity very incrementally increases.
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at March 19, 2020 05:38 PM (puu6v)
Sounds like you need to go hide somewhere. Good grief.
Posted by: Sooner at March 19, 2020 05:44 PM (YkGG9)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 19, 2020 05:44 PM (Dc2NZ)
Posted by: mrp at March 19, 2020 05:44 PM (Pqytn)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 19, 2020 05:44 PM (vEIlU)
Posted by: YIKES! at March 19, 2020 05:44 PM (t6XCL)
Posted by: TexasDan at March 19, 2020 05:44 PM (yL25O)
Fucking hysterical idiots. If you're going to get it being outside, we might as well all become "Bubble Boys"
This will do wonders for those who will go nuts if they can't go outside for some beach time
Posted by: kbdabear at March 19, 2020 05:44 PM (qAR6u)
Posted by: deplorable unperson - sanitized for your protection at March 19, 2020 05:44 PM (LJes8)
Posted by: 6-4-3 at March 19, 2020 05:42 PM (+FPkr)
Not in my book. Hope he has fun. I sure did, years past.
Posted by: tubal at March 19, 2020 05:45 PM (90T4r)
Nuclear war!
Red tides
SARS
Bird Flu
Russian collusion
World War III with Iran (that was only January of this year and already totally forgotten)
Domestic terrorism
And so many many more.
God, so many times we have been expected to panic.
Posted by: dude at March 19, 2020 05:45 PM (hpbeA)
Posted by: bill in arkansas at March 19, 2020 05:45 PM (C1Lsn)
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 19, 2020 05:45 PM (JFO2v)
To borrow from Farmer's Insurance,
"It's because we've seen a thing or two".
Posted by: rickb223 at March 19, 2020 05:45 PM (mndtc)
DC sniper (the white van that turned out to be a red Buick.)
Posted by: The man who would be Paul Drake at March 19, 2020 05:45 PM (FsgBK)
Posted by: the boy who cried whoops at March 19, 2020 05:42 PM (Tnijr)
If only.
Posted by: Webb Hubbell at March 19, 2020 05:46 PM (2N7oZ)
BUT
None of them have done that.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at March 19, 2020 05:46 PM (pw+jk)
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 19, 2020 05:46 PM (d7Ww2)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at March 19, 2020 05:46 PM (7rVsF)
order to find the two things I needed(not needed but wanted) and when I
told my son, he was appalled. Did I wipe everything down. God, I
touched all those things that other people touched. He said he ahdn't
been out of his apartment in 3 days. Of course, he's newly married and
both he and his wife are working from home.I'm more likely to die of
boredom or lonliness before the coronavirus.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 19, 2020 05:40 PM (QzF6i)
I'm still going into the office. Every day those who telecommute get another micro-managing burden assigned to them (they haven't had cameras installed in their houses yet to make sure they are working) whereas I live two miles from the office and once I get there it's just me, one secretary, and the division chief and noting special to put in or do to prove I am working.
Posted by: Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet Is Sponsoring Methcalibur - The Musical!! at March 19, 2020 05:46 PM (aRg0N)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 19, 2020 05:44 PM (Dc2NZ)
May the gods brotect them.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at March 19, 2020 05:46 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Northernlurker at March 19, 2020 05:46 PM (Uu+Jp)
Posted by: TakeFive at March 19, 2020 05:46 PM (V5VAm)
Posted by: dude at March 19, 2020 05:46 PM (hpbeA)
#Winning
Posted by: Zod at March 19, 2020 05:43 PM (yvnmY)
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There's a reason for that. Same reason that frozen cauliflower and frozen lima beans are still plentiful.
Posted by: bluebell at March 19, 2020 05:46 PM (/669Q)
Racist.
Posted by: deplorable unperson - sanitized for your protection at March 19, 2020 05:46 PM (LJes8)
Posted by: Jewells45 at March 19, 2020 05:47 PM (dUJdY)
Recipe by Zod:
ScotchKahluaChocolate syrupEgg noodlesCake flourCanned salmonDrink umbrellasCup O' SoupOyster sauceAlien rubber facemaskair horn
Posted by: Zod at March 19, 2020 05:47 PM (yvnmY)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 19, 2020 05:42 PM (vEIlU)
++++++++++++++++
That is wheels-within-wheels stuff, right there.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 19, 2020 05:47 PM (hYcqw)
The amount is therefore reduced to zero for single taxpayers with incomes exceeding $99,000 and $198,000 for joint filers. The IRS will determine income based on taxpayers' 2018 tax returns.
So it's mostly for Democrat voters.
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at March 19, 2020 05:47 PM (8lLxM)
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 19, 2020 05:47 PM (JFO2v)
#Winning
Posted by: Zod at March 19, 2020 05:43 PM (yvnmY)
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There's a reason for that. Same reason that frozen cauliflower and frozen lima beans are still plentiful.
Posted by: bluebell at March 19, 2020 05:46 PM (/669Q)
Lots of Creamed Eels, too.
Posted by: tubal at March 19, 2020 05:47 PM (90T4r)
Me too with the Killer Bees scare. Was scared to death by desciptions of how the bees were gradually making their way northward, since we lived in southern AZ at the time and would be the first US region overcome by them.
Always had a fear of bee stings anyway. And I don't like bugs.
Posted by: Hands
I remember them being called "Africanized" bees. How racist can you get!
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 19, 2020 05:47 PM (aKsyK)
Posted by: Ripley at March 19, 2020 05:47 PM (MxEKc)
that really put a massive damper on my teen years
hey who was the doc who kept claiming it was going to decimate the heterosexual population too???
Fox or F-something?
Posted by: THE_BlackOrchid_STATE! at March 19, 2020 05:25 PM (j9HX3)
Long before the gubbermint proclamations, it became common knowledge on the street that as long as you kept two hard things out of your body - a needle in your arm, or a dick up your ass - you probably weren't going to catch AIDS.
The details were later.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at March 19, 2020 05:47 PM (sy5kK)
Posted by: Bubba Clintoon at March 19, 2020 05:47 PM (EgshT)
He's saying just the opposite. The mortality rate is decreasing. The morbidity rate is the number of people infected/sick.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at March 19, 2020 05:48 PM (rCwaK)
Why haven't all "non-essential" government agencies been shout down?
Why are lawyer's offices still open?
Posted by: kbdabear at March 19, 2020 05:48 PM (qAR6u)
It'll be on a sliding scale, higher fee for those who have previously openly mocked her.
Posted by: Muldoon at March 19, 2020 05:48 PM (m45I2)
Posted by: Jewells45 at March 19, 2020 05:47 PM (dUJdY)
Have an extra dozen. Send them right over, Jewell!
Posted by: tubal at March 19, 2020 05:48 PM (90T4r)
IIRC the Japs even made a movie remotely related to it. In 1982!
https://youtu.be/Kq8oTGWozjg
Posted by: Hands at March 19, 2020 05:48 PM (786Ro)
So the more taxes you pay*, the less relief you get from McConnell and the Republicans?
*Because you earned more.
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at March 19, 2020 05:48 PM (8lLxM)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 19, 2020 05:48 PM (Dc2NZ)
Ain't no Gen X governors. All Boomers. All shitting the bed.
Shall we start guessing the ages of the panic mongers here ? Pretty sure a certain guy from Lower LA is NOT a Boomer. Pretty certain a committed toker, boater, and New England poster as well as a recent Corona Convert is. We can go on if anyone likes.
The thing is - the late stage of the Boomers prepped the battlefield for this.
Posted by: We're All Gonna Die at March 19, 2020 05:48 PM (71st6)
Posted by: csmats at March 19, 2020 05:49 PM (X5VFN)
Posted by: Northernlurker at March 19, 2020 05:49 PM (Uu+Jp)
Posted by: dude at March 19, 2020 05:46 PM (hpbeA)
...
And then Ben and Jerrys became the first woke firm ever with Rainforest Crunch.
Posted by: TexasDan at March 19, 2020 05:49 PM (yL25O)
(Fast forward twenty years, post-food-apocalypse. Zod, creased with age, cackling, smoked-oyster oil dripping down Aqualung cheeks, cradling bluebell's brainpan in an oily palm)
"Alas, poor Bluebell..."
Posted by: Zod at March 19, 2020 05:49 PM (yvnmY)
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 19, 2020 05:46 PM (d7Ww2)
Remember the sombrero. The well off Mexico that was going to kill the Gulf. The well was spewing raw crude for months. Ships that came back to port (in US) were washed down with diesel!
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 19, 2020 05:49 PM (JFO2v)
Someone called Islam the Koranovirus.
I plead guilty to stealing that.
Posted by: logprof at March 19, 2020 05:49 PM (oZuI0)
Posted by: Tami at March 19, 2020 05:49 PM (cF8AT)
I bet social distancing doesn't apply to attending the McCain funeral.
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at March 19, 2020 05:49 PM (puu6v)
No wonder we're mostly immune to bs, with all the exposure we've had.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez, we are being gaslighted 24/365 at March 19, 2020 05:49 PM (zlgJP)
Posted by: Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet Is Sponsoring Methcalibur - The Musical!! at March 19, 2020 05:46 PM (aRg0N)
The millennials in my office are freaked out and working from home (or so they say..I wonder because they never answer their damn phone when I call); all us 'older' workers are in the office calmly carrying on. With precautions but no panic.
Posted by: IC at March 19, 2020 05:49 PM (sYDum)
Posted by: Les Kinetic at March 19, 2020 05:50 PM (+fPHo)
Posted by: TexasDan at March 19, 2020 05:49 PM (yL25O)
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I ate a bug.
Posted by: River Tam at March 19, 2020 05:50 PM (Pqytn)
Posted by: Jewells45 at March 19, 2020 05:50 PM (dUJdY)
BTW, even before the Wuhan, Italy's health care was not great. I spent 6 days in a tiny village hospital in Fivizzano. I had vertigo after a fall in Paris. I was ready to leave the hospital after the second day--because I was so much better. However, my watercolor workshop host refused to let me come back to the property--a 16th Watermill because of his insurance.
In that hospital:
* No AC
* No screens on the window--bees flew in and out all day
* No phone or TV
* When my family, the travel insurance folks, or the American Embassy called about me, the switchboard would say no patient by that name and hang up
* No hospital gowns (which was nasty because I had thrown up all over myself. They eventually brought my luggage and so I had my nightgowns and robe. BTW, I would hand wash those nightgowns and hang them out the window to dry.
* No emesis basins--they would just give me one of those blue pads to barf into
* No soap/washcloths/towels--they would give me a starched/ironed bedsheet to dry off with. Lucky for me, I had my own soap.
* My cell phone had no bars because a tower was down. Strangely enough, my Kindle always had bars, so at least I could get bars.
I refer to that time as my Little House on the Alps adventure.
So, if you think Italy was a modern country fully prepared to deal with Wuhan, you would be wrong.
Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto at March 19, 2020 05:50 PM (kXoT0)
Posted by: Ripley at March 19, 2020 05:47 PM (MxEKc)
When a problem comes along (You must whip it)
Before the cream sits out too long (You must whip it)
When something's going wrong (You must whip it)
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 19, 2020 05:50 PM (JFO2v)
Too bad the media (for the useless Republican Party) didn't whip up a frenzy about that ...
Posted by: ShainS at March 19, 2020 05:50 PM (kyz/M)
Posted by: Ben Had at March 19, 2020 05:50 PM (MRP6A)
No love for Y2K?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 19, 2020 05:50 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Muldoon at March 19, 2020 05:50 PM (m45I2)
I will print this one to file for future reference.
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at March 19, 2020 05:50 PM (LWu6U)
Sigh.....
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 19, 2020 05:50 PM (QzF6i)
lol i think it was just a typo he meant to say the mortality rate is DECREASING incrementally
Posted by: THE_BlackOrchid_STATE! at March 19, 2020 05:51 PM (j9HX3)
Posted by: lucky larry at March 19, 2020 05:51 PM (iFNqj)
Shouldn't people whose income has not been affected at all be exempt from this?
Welfare checks have not been interrupted, so why should they get $$ when someone who made over $99K in 2018 get 0?
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at March 19, 2020 05:51 PM (8lLxM)
All of Aesop's Fables should be required reading in elementary school as they help explain human nature.
There's a reason why stuff like that isn't taught or even referred to anymore: that takes away from the required time learning how to put a condom on a banana.
Priorities.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy - #CancelChina at March 19, 2020 05:51 PM (HaL55)
have seen the worst thing in their lives they've probably ever had to
endure: A Jimmy Carter Presidency.
For them, this is nuttin'.
Posted by: Two Weeks From Dick Punching NeverTrumping Shitheels at March 19, 2020 05:30 PM (+dsLj)
OMG I almost spit out my wine. You win the internet today!!!
Posted by: Cicero Skip at March 19, 2020 05:51 PM (FIrEF)
Former UN ambassador Haley resigns from Boeing board, opposing government aid
Posted by: Tami
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Where do you stop with this aid? Just send out a fleet of crop-dusters to sprinkle 20s and 100s over the land?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 19, 2020 05:52 PM (vQX+5)
Posted by: Romeo13 at March 19, 2020 05:52 PM (NgKpN)
Same here. I'm the only one there but after three days of working from home I started going a bit nuts.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 19, 2020 05:52 PM (EgshT)
Posted by: Cannibal Blob at March 19, 2020 05:52 PM (7ZMbn)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at March 19, 2020 05:52 PM (7rVsF)
Posted by: Rocky Lombo's Pancreaus at March 19, 2020 05:52 PM (noepH)
Posted by: bluebell at March 19, 2020 05:46 PM (/669Q)
Lots of Creamed Eels, too.
Posted by: tubal
You can get all of the frozen Brussels Sprouts and riced cauliflower you want.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 19, 2020 05:52 PM (mndtc)
I remember in the 70's (being a huge car buff) reading that we'd be completely depleted of oil by 1999. This was pretty much consensus, again. I remember thinking damn, I had really planned I should be making enough money by then to buy my Jaguar, and I'd get to drive it for a year or two before we were forever out of gas?
And of course, the Population Bomb. Gas didn't matter, because by the turn of the century, there would be billions of people overrunning the planet. Famine, disease, war were all inevitable as we plunged into a new stone age.
Can't even name all of the diseases that were going to wipe us out. And pushing all of this crap? Our talking head betters, with all the insta-experts they'd bring on.
Seriously, the guy with the sandwich board and Bible on the corner is just as in-touch with reality as the rest of them.
Posted by: clutch cargo at March 19, 2020 05:52 PM (8B6Ng)
Ain't no Gen X governors. All Boomers. All shitting the bed
.
=======
That's fear of losing the next election, not fear of Wuhoo flu.
Posted by: The man who would be Paul Drake at March 19, 2020 05:52 PM (FsgBK)
I'll raise you "Silent Spring," which did kill millions of Africans after DDT was outlawed due to that hoax.
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at March 19, 2020 05:52 PM (puu6v)
Posted by: Ben Had at March 19, 2020 05:50 PM (MRP6A)
I had a summer job clubbing baby clams.
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 19, 2020 05:52 PM (JFO2v)
Posted by: bluebell at March 19, 2020 05:46 PM (/669Q)
Lots of Creamed Eels, too.
Posted by: tubal
...
Hovercrafts full of 'em.
Posted by: TexasDan at March 19, 2020 05:53 PM (yL25O)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 19, 2020 05:53 PM (Dc2NZ)
*I never claimed to be smart.
Posted by: April at March 19, 2020 05:53 PM (OX9vb)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at March 19, 2020 05:53 PM (7rVsF)
I forgot
* No eating utensils unless I begged
All of the things I was doing without were supplied by a patient's family.
My niece and her husband were flown to Italy to get me by the travel insurance.
Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto at March 19, 2020 05:53 PM (kXoT0)
The long forgotten Summer of the Shark in 2001 is one I often use as one of the purest examples of a media hysteria made out of whole cloth.
Not saying this is like those but of course we are not going to freak. The modern version of young people think everything is new and unprecedented. The press tells them this every day and there is no reason to fact check it.
We grew up with the Cold War. They grew up with everyone trying to outdo each other on social media and get clicks and likes. Of course the default is hysteria.
Posted by: Quint at March 19, 2020 05:53 PM (n13/j)
A. Leftists, believing nothing, are capable of holding two mutually-exclusive beliefs simultaneously, and working themselves into a spittle-flecked rage defending one or the other as they choose.
Posted by: hogmartin at March 19, 2020 05:53 PM (t+qrx)
Do welfare people actually file tax returns? I didn't think they did (nor anyone on Social Security who doesn't exceed the tax free amount), but could be wrong.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 19, 2020 05:53 PM (tLWGd)
Posted by: Ben Had at March 19, 2020 05:50 PM (MRP6A)
Bearded clam getting very rare. Most smooth now.
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 19, 2020 05:54 PM (JFO2v)
Posted by: getting the banned back together at March 19, 2020 05:54 PM (pma2j)
Posted by: Axeman at March 19, 2020 05:54 PM (Eicbe)
I'll raise you "Silent Spring," which did kill millions of Africans after DDT was outlawed due to that hoax.
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at March 19, 2020 05:52 PM (puu6v)
Read that too.
Posted by: Northernlurker at March 19, 2020 05:54 PM (Uu+Jp)
Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto at March 19, 2020 05:50 PMAmen fellow traveler born in 1950
Posted by: Cicero Skip at March 19, 2020 05:54 PM (FIrEF)
Posted by: Gridlock at March 19, 2020 05:54 PM (/DLXk)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 19, 2020 05:34 PM (tLWGd)
Panics can be helpful, though.
Taking Y2K as an example, one of the side-benefits was that the whole world had to scrap their old computers, and get new ones with upgraded microchips and operating systems. That ended up setting the table for us to have world-wide networks of servers that provided the backbone of the cloud that we all know and love right now.
The Great Wuhan Coronavirus Scare could get us to do several things:
1. When we finally get the all-clear to out of our homes, it can dramatically increase the value of personal interactions over virtual ones.
2. We will finally reassess the ways that our children learn. Yes, state-funded daycare does have its advantages, but there are a lot of tools out there that can encourage life-long learning, and learning outside of the traditional box for our kids (and adults).
3. Society is more than just government doing things for us. We will look at the bartender, waiter, grocery clerk as more than just a provider of a service, that we impersonally transact for. These are people that make livings, buy things, support families. If it brings us closer to acknowledging what all levels of society do for us, we'll ultimately prove Margaret Thatcher right about what a society really is.
4. We'll think about whether the highest and best use of corporate profits is to buy back one's own stock at artificially inflated prices, only to have nothing in the larder when the poop hits the fan and people get laid off. It's insane that not only do people not have more than a couple of weeks savings to tide them over, but corporations as well. It's an eye-opener.
5. The grand experiment in willy-nilly globalization will be judged to be a failure. Trump will be shown to be a Cassandra that people will end up actually listening to.
There are probably many more that we can't see right now, but this is a huge opportunity for us.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at March 19, 2020 05:54 PM (iuFgi)
"Killer Bees: We treat it as a joke now, "
If I recall correctly, it was treated as a joke then. Didn't SNL thoroughly mock the idea at the time?
Posted by: Gooshy at March 19, 2020 05:54 PM (xW6A1)
Posted by: ShainS at March 19, 2020 05:50 PM (kyz/M)
What do you think my job was?
Posted by: Bob Dole at March 19, 2020 05:54 PM (2N7oZ)
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at March 19, 2020 05:51 PM (8lLxM)
++++++++++++++++
Because that's where the votes are!
Posted by: Willie Sutton, Political Consultant at March 19, 2020 05:54 PM (hYcqw)
That's a scary story but I fully believe you.
Health care there is medieval
not even it's probably slightly worse than Italian medieval, more like Northern African medieval now
Posted by: THE_BlackOrchid_STATE! at March 19, 2020 05:54 PM (j9HX3)
Posted by: Vlad the impaler, whittling away like mad at March 19, 2020 05:54 PM (d6mdH)
Posted by: Mama AJ at March 19, 2020 05:54 PM (wSGZR)
Brohalla. I am so stealing that.
Posted by: Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet Is Sponsoring Methcalibur - The Musical!! at March 19, 2020 05:55 PM (aRg0N)
Posted by: Jaqen H'ghar at March 19, 2020 05:55 PM (5fSr7)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 19, 2020 05:55 PM (tLWGd)
Posted by: batterup at March 19, 2020 05:55 PM (K4I9O)
GEOTUS should say in the next presser, "People just stop licking Chinamen and all will be well."
Posted by: NZFrank with a M2 at March 19, 2020 05:55 PM (bgJ0E)
And HALF of us died to gun violence.
And, the ozone layer! Armageddon!
Oh, and we're supposed to be in an Ice Age right now!
Posted by: Romeo13 at March 19, 2020 05:55 PM (NgKpN)
--On a sports talk show, of all things (hey, I wanna escape the madness), there was an interview with Dr. Drew.
He said Italy is not comparable. ~99% of the deaths had pre-existing conditions, and the average age of the deaths was just under 80.
Dr. Drew just said, calm down and listen to Dr. Fauci, not talking heads. Fauci has worked through AIDS, SARS, Ebola, all that shit.
Posted by: logprof at March 19, 2020 05:56 PM (oZuI0)
Posted by: ShainS
This one kills me because Perot was only half right. He was worried about Mexico, not China. These are two very different animals. Mexico was about off-shoring low value add manufacturing while China is about IP theft and low level war.
I still think Perot was an ass, and I have been anti-china trade since Bush I
(He is like Tesla (the original). He was all for AC back when AC was insane since it really was unsafe (before modern plastic insulators) and impractical (back when electricity was replacing gas companies for lighting.) and I think tesla never understood how any of it worked - he was a charlatan, but now he is deified.)
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at March 19, 2020 05:56 PM (LWu6U)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at March 19, 2020 05:56 PM (7rVsF)
Brohalla. I am so stealing that.
Posted by: Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet Is Sponsoring Methcalibur - The Musical!! at March 19, 2020 05:55 PM (aRg0N)
Panama City AssStache
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 19, 2020 05:56 PM (JFO2v)
I'm trying to figure out how a Progressive Tax system is put in Reverse when it comes time for the government to "rebate" taxpayers??
The more you earn, the more taxes you pay.
Then, in an National Emergency, the more you earned, the less government relief you get back?
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at March 19, 2020 05:56 PM (8lLxM)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 19, 2020 05:56 PM (aKsyK)
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at March 19, 2020 05:56 PM (puu6v)
My niece and her husband were flown to Italy to get me by the travel insurance.
Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto at March 19, 2020 05:53 PM (kXoT0)
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Sherry, what a crazy story! I'm glad you wound up being okay. Think if it was something really serious. Yikes.
Posted by: bluebell at March 19, 2020 05:56 PM (/669Q)
we have been holding at 17 cases for 2 days
no deaths
like one in 10K people
things becoming more normalized
but still no buttwipes
Posted by: REDACTED at March 19, 2020 05:57 PM (rpxSz)
Posted by: Bill R. at March 19, 2020 05:57 PM (wzzJf)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 19, 2020 05:55 PM (tLWGd)
Do not stick candy corn in your pee hole!
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 19, 2020 05:57 PM (JFO2v)
Posted by: Cicero Skip at March 19, 2020 05:57 PM (FIrEF)
Posted by: Northernlurker at March 19, 2020 05:57 PM (Uu+Jp)
BECAUSE WE HAVE BALLS.
We're not a bunch of f***in' snowflakes who melt at the first sign of real adversity while signaling our courage by campaigning for the Existential Threat Of Today - mf-ing **pronouns**.
Can I make it any clearer for you over-privileged monkey privates?
Posted by: GWB at March 19, 2020 05:57 PM (3ghq6)
Then, in an National Emergency, the more you earned, the less government relief you get back?
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at March 19, 2020 05:56 PM (8lLxM)
++++++++++++
Yes, you got it.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 19, 2020 05:57 PM (hYcqw)
Circus peanuts, candy corn, and fruitcakes will become the basic units of the new currency.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 19, 2020 05:55 PM (tLWGd)
*jumps into car to shop*
Posted by: Cannibal Blob at March 19, 2020 05:57 PM (7ZMbn)
I felt like a conquering hero getting my hands on some toilet paper and Paper towels
Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at March 19, 2020 05:57 PM (dKiJG)
Posted by: the boy who cried whoops at March 19, 2020 05:58 PM (Tnijr)
Heh, I was a scum sucking IT sales puke for a few years in the late 90,s. The money flowed, at least it started off my bike and gun collection.
Posted by: NZFrank with a M2 at March 19, 2020 05:58 PM (bgJ0E)
I wonder about ppl who just started working (fresh grads of 2019)
Posted by: vmom 2020 at March 19, 2020 05:58 PM (G546f)
Posted by: Bill R. at March 19, 2020 05:57 PM (wzzJf)
the US govt paid them to do that. Just like they added poisonous alcohol to alcohol to kill Americans in the Prohibition.
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 19, 2020 05:58 PM (JFO2v)
Has no one told the president that the people who attend his rallies will be giving their money to people who attend Democrat rallies?
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at March 19, 2020 05:58 PM (8lLxM)
...
but still no buttwipes
Posted by: REDACTED at March 19, 2020 05:57 PM (rpxSz)
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C'mon that's Mass, you have plenty of libs walking around.
Posted by: Axeman at March 19, 2020 05:59 PM (Eicbe)
My kids wanted me to get excited about the premise of the Handmaid's Tail on TV a few years ago..
^yawn^ had to explain to them that was wrought from the era of Reagan and the "danger" of the silent majority.. not from Trump..
"but.. but.. it could really happen now!"
gimme a break.. all of the so-called crises end up being big yawners..
I ain't saying I don't care about catching the Wuhan Flu.. I do.. I just turned 69 yesterday.. but spare me the anguish..
And, now we find out a 50 yr old drug gets rid of it!
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at March 19, 2020 05:59 PM (CjFDo)
Posted by: THE_BlackOrchid_STATE! at March 19, 2020 05:59 PM (j9HX3)
Dr. Drew just said, calm down and listen to Dr. Fauci, not talking heads.
How many hit songs did Fauci have?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 19, 2020 05:59 PM (aKsyK)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 19, 2020 05:59 PM (tLWGd)
Posted by: The man who would be Paul Drake at March 19, 2020 05:59 PM (FsgBK)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at March 19, 2020 05:27 PM (pw+jk)
This is not a joke or an exaggeration.
I have seen it with my own eyes.
A couple of years ago, I witnessed a small group of friends meet. One guy was very upset. Said he almost died. Friends said WHAT!?! One friend, a girl, said "didn't you rent a car and drive into the Cascades over the weekend?"
"yes"
"what happened?"
"I was way up in the mountains, on a gravel road, and I got a flat tire. My cell phone had NO BARS! It was starting to get dark, and luckily a pickup drove by and saved me!"
One guy, who I later heard he grew up in Montana, spoke up after a few seconds of silence, said "Um, why didn't you just change the tire?"
Kid freaked out, shouting "I'm not a mechanic! I don't know how to fix cars!"
The rest of the crowd, mostly women, laughed out loud at him.
These were young Amazon employees, for what it is worth.
This is the world we live in today.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at March 19, 2020 05:59 PM (sy5kK)
I know some one who knows some one who knows some one who knows some one who says you're full of shit.
Posted by: I'm that some one at March 19, 2020 05:59 PM (/LQkF)
Posted by: Jaqen H'ghar at March 19, 2020 05:55 PM (5fSr7)
I still can't believe we lived through Net Neutrality.
Posted by: LASue at March 19, 2020 05:59 PM (LaluL)
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 19, 2020 05:59 PM (QzF6i)
But my friends who actually work and pay taxes, won't get much at all, based on their income last year, even if they HAVE been affected by Wuflu.
T'ain't right.
Posted by: lizabth at March 19, 2020 05:59 PM (L3Rsz)
Posted by: Bill R
Those were some trips!
Posted by: rickb223 at March 19, 2020 05:59 PM (mndtc)
Posted by: millennial journalists at March 19, 2020 05:59 PM (l3+k2)
Man, I was lucky to survive the 70s.
Posted by: deplorable unperson - sanitized for your protection at March 19, 2020 05:59 PM (LJes8)
Mexico spraying paraquat on their weed in the 70's, and we still smoked it.
Posted by: Bill R. at March 19, 2020 05:57 PM (wzzJf)
*tokes*
"hey, man you said it had paraquat on it!"
Posted by: Cannibal Blob at March 19, 2020 06:00 PM (7ZMbn)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at March 19, 2020 06:00 PM (7rVsF)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
I managed a lot of computer engineers back then - no it was not real for 95% of the people that panicked. My fucking dad bought a generator for crying out loud.
It was real in the sense that a lot of consultants were asked if it was real, and they said "Yes - pay us tons of money and we will fix." but what they means was pay us a bunch of money and we will check to see of there is any chance that a little used application might have a format error and look funny next year which we could fix then, but it will not allow us to buy that new house if we wait.
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at March 19, 2020 06:00 PM (LWu6U)
Posted by: JT at March 19, 2020 06:00 PM (arJlL)
I do think there is a bit of hyperbole going on about Italy right now though they obviously have serious problems and are not looking very good. But it was probably one of the five most popular countries in the world a few months ago. I didn't realize the Chinese liked it so much.
Posted by: Quint at March 19, 2020 06:00 PM (n13/j)
Posted by: Humphreyrobot at March 19, 2020 06:00 PM (LhqWc)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 19, 2020 06:00 PM (WI7YS)
We're not a bunch of f***in' snowflakes who melt at the first sign of real adversity while signaling our courage by campaigning for the Existential Threat Of Today - mf-ing **pronouns**.
Then STFU about climate change
Posted by: REDACTED at March 19, 2020 06:00 PM (rpxSz)
I had to learn that shit in SCHOOL
Posted by: THE_BlackOrchid_STATE! at March 19, 2020 05:59 PM (j9HX3)
++++++++++++++
What kind of 'tarded school made you learn Esperanto?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 19, 2020 06:00 PM (hYcqw)
The Handmaid's Tail would be a good title for a porno.
If they still bothered with titles and scripts for pornos, that is.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 19, 2020 06:00 PM (tLWGd)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 19, 2020 06:00 PM (r+sAi)
Posted by: Abby at March 19, 2020 06:00 PM (SM/op)
Words of wisdom there, my friend.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 19, 2020 05:59 PM (tLWGd)
How many millions in government funds were spent in studies to figure this out?
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at March 19, 2020 06:00 PM (sy5kK)
Posted by: Fritz at March 19, 2020 06:01 PM (ATCV4)
Posted by: ghbucky at March 19, 2020 06:01 PM (s9Eo8)
Posted by: t-bird at March 19, 2020 06:01 PM (cfSLd)
Posted by: deplorable unperson - sanitized for your protection at March 19, 2020 05:59 PM (LJes
Don't forget ants.
Posted by: WOPR at March 19, 2020 06:01 PM (qI+4l)
lol Catholic school!
i guess the missionary nuns were into it
Posted by: THE_BlackOrchid_STATE! at March 19, 2020 06:01 PM (j9HX3)
Ain't no Gen X governors. All Boomers. All shitting the bed
.
=======
That's fear of losing the next election, not fear of Wuhoo flu.
Posted by: The man who would be Paul Drake at March 19, 2020 05:52 PM (FsgBK)
Most of the Governors who've been most active i this are either term limited or not up for election for another few years.
Posted by: Surfperch at March 19, 2020 06:01 PM (tVQUs)
Posted by: Northernlurker at March 19, 2020 06:01 PM (Uu+Jp)
Same here. I'm the only one there but after three days of working from home I started going a bit nuts.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 19, 2020 05:52 PM (EgshT)
........
Me too. I'm the only one here, it's nice and quiet.
Posted by: wth at March 19, 2020 06:02 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Cannibal Blob at March 19, 2020 06:02 PM (7ZMbn)
Why should a couple get $2000 when sharing living costs and I only get
$1000 having to pay for the same kind of living costs because I'm a
widow and live alone? Food is a minor cost when compared to mrtgage and
utilities. Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 19, 2020 05:59 PM (QzF6i)
You may have Zod's check.
There are some conditions.
Posted by: Zod at March 19, 2020 06:02 PM (yvnmY)
Yeah, these payments should be very targeted. It should go to people who are affected most by this. Although if they want to wave the amount I owe in taxes this year I'll gladly go for that
Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 19, 2020 06:02 PM (9jt1l)
Posted by: Jaqen H'ghar at March 19, 2020 05:55 PM (5fSr7)
I still can't believe we lived through Net Neutrality.
Posted by: LASue at March 19, 2020 05:59 PM (LaluL)
You just think you did!
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 19, 2020 06:02 PM (JFO2v)
Hear, hear!
the math on this
just isn't working for me
because I can math
Posted by: THE_BlackOrchid_STATE! at March 19, 2020 06:02 PM (j9HX3)
Posted by: Bill R. at March 19, 2020 05:57 PM (wzzJf)
Oh man, paraquat.
IIRC around the same time in CA we had the Mediterranean fruit fly. So they'd do spray flyovers in the middle of the night.
My dad had just bought a new Jaguar. It was in a carport, but that #$%& spray floated around and got on the car. Absolutely destroyed the 7-step lacquer finish, thousands and thousands of little pits. He got rid of it. Thank you benevolent government.
Posted by: clutch cargo at March 19, 2020 06:02 PM (8B6Ng)
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 19, 2020 06:02 PM (QzF6i)
Posted by: bluebell at March 19, 2020 05:56 PM (/669Q)
Amen and it was my cardiologist's fault. He insisted that I start on a new and different BP med, which, lowered my BP to where I passed out just after I had crossed the Seine on my way to the Louvre. I missed seeing the Louvre, which, was the main reason I included Paris. So I got to go to a hospital in Paris and two in Italy. I call that part my European Hospital Tour.
Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto at March 19, 2020 06:02 PM (kXoT0)
Posted by: Northernlurker at March 19, 2020 05:49 PM (Uu+Jp)
Too busy being the tail gunner to worry about a seatbelt.
Posted by: WOPR at March 19, 2020 06:03 PM (qI+4l)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 19, 2020 06:00 PM (r+sAi)
I'm quite proud of how we, as a nation, are responding to this and the way people are pulling together. We're going to get through this, pick each other up, and then rip the fucking beating heart out of China's economy.
Posted by: ghbucky at March 19, 2020 06:03 PM (s9Eo8)
Why should a couple get $2000 when sharing living costs and I only get
$1000 having to pay for the same kind of living costs because I'm a
widow and live alone? Food is a minor cost when compared to mrtgage and
utilities. Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 19, 2020 05:59 PM (QzF6i)
You may have Zod's check.
There are some conditions.
Posted by: Zod at March 19, 2020 06:02 PM (yvnmY)
Pelt is the universal trading platform.
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 19, 2020 06:03 PM (JFO2v)
Wolf is in his second term
he just likes punishing us
Posted by: THE_BlackOrchid_STATE! at March 19, 2020 06:03 PM (j9HX3)
So the Republican Cucks and the President will
be giving $$ to non-taxpayers and the airlines.
Wonderful.
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at March 19, 2020 06:03 PM (8lLxM)
people who are affected most by this. Although if they want to wave the
amount I owe in taxes this year I'll gladly go for that Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 19, 2020 06:02 PM (9jt1l)
Nonsense. Those of us who don't need the checks should receive the checks so that we can increase our comfort a bit more during this time of acute stress for others.
Posted by: Zod at March 19, 2020 06:03 PM (yvnmY)
There's something to be said for having a universal language for a worldwide church.
The thing is, I remember when they called that "Latin". And I'm not even Catholic!
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 19, 2020 06:03 PM (tLWGd)
Posted by: REDACTED at March 19, 2020 05:57 PM (rpxSz)
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C'mon that's Mass, you have plenty of libs walking around.
Posted by: Axeman at March 19, 2020 05:59 PM (Eicbe)
I'm not wiping with them
totally rust my bunghole out
I might need it later
Posted by: REDACTED at March 19, 2020 06:03 PM (rpxSz)
*********
Wasn't there a documentary film about that?
"The Silence of the Clams"
Posted by: Muldoon at March 19, 2020 06:03 PM (m45I2)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 19, 2020 06:03 PM (EgshT)
Posted by: mrp at March 19, 2020 06:03 PM (Pqytn)
Posted by: Northernlurker at March 19, 2020 06:04 PM (Uu+Jp)
I had to learn that shit in SCHOOL
Posted by: THE_BlackOrchid_STATE!
heh
I tried to learn it in HS - got bored
like low rent Spanish
Posted by: vmom 2020 at March 19, 2020 06:04 PM (G546f)
I think we've done a poor job of teaching self reliance. People panic because they don't know how to deal with the change.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 19, 2020 06:04 PM (Lqy/e)
This is the world we live in today.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at March 19, 2020 05:59 PM (sy5kK)
++++++++++++++
I'm an older millennial and trust me, you can find both.
Example: a friend of mine and I changed a tire for a girl when we were in high school. It went fine.
Another example: a different friend of mine and I went to a movie. It was snowing. He left his lights on. We got out of the movie theater to a dead battery. We got a jump from a friendly lesbian couple and headed off. He drives down to the mall, parks outside of Sears, and turns the car off. My other buddy and I asked him what the hell he was doing. His answer: "the battery died. I have to go get a new one."
It took my other friend and I 15 minutes to explain the basics of an alternator and rechargeable batteries. He didn't entirely believe us, but took us at our word when the car started back up (barely).
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 19, 2020 06:04 PM (hYcqw)
Posted by: Hands at March 19, 2020 06:04 PM (786Ro)
Posted by: Jewells45 at March 19, 2020 06:04 PM (dUJdY)
Posted by: HickoryDickoryDick at March 19, 2020 06:04 PM (gkb3h)
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis at March 19, 2020 06:04 PM (sWM8x)
oh come on Pope Alexander! I know you have to be at least Catholic!
Posted by: THE_BlackOrchid_STATE! at March 19, 2020 06:04 PM (j9HX3)
That sure is bigoted.
Posted by: Axeman at March 19, 2020 06:04 PM (Eicbe)
The president's payroll tax exemption was a perfect idea -- it would go directly to the people affected.
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at March 19, 2020 06:04 PM (8lLxM)
My mother (Silent Generation): She's 84. She says she's lived a good life, and if this is it, this is it, better than spending years in a nursing home unable to walk or feed herself. She also told me that if God had really wanted her, he would have taken her by now. Other factors: my father is dead, all her brothers and sisters are dead, some of her nieces and nephews are dead, all her old friends are dead, and every time she makes a new friend at her retirement living situation, they die too.
I think when you come from a generation where your elementary school classmates died, on a regular basis (I grew up hearing about how mom and dad's classmates died from diptheria, polio, unexplained illnesses), you're a little more stoic about death. Also, it has never crossed my mother's mind to doubt that God and heaven are real. It definitely crossed my dad's, but not hers. She's ready to go whenever it happens, whether it's corona virus or a car accident this afternoon.
Posted by: the other coyote at March 19, 2020 06:04 PM (Oy2Ew)
You may have Zod's check.
There are some conditions.
Posted by: Zod at March 19, 2020 06:02 PM (yvnmY)
+++++Go on. I'm listening
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 19, 2020 06:05 PM (QzF6i)
Posted by: GnuBreed at March 19, 2020 06:05 PM (XF4b8)
The Paolo has come at an intriguing point in the conversation, yes?
Posted by: Paolo at March 19, 2020 06:05 PM (cfSLd)
Posted by: deplorable unperson - sanitized for your protection at March 19, 2020 06:05 PM (LJes8)
Posted by: WOPR at March 19, 2020 06:05 PM (qI+4l)
Posted by: 6-4-3 at March 19, 2020 06:05 PM (+FPkr)
I think it is a problem that these millenials think they are the only ones who are sane though, and they seem to think anyone with any experience other than theirs is an idiot.
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at March 19, 2020 06:05 PM (LWu6U)
Posted by: vmom 2020 at March 19, 2020 06:05 PM (G546f)
a virus we probably won't get and might not even know that we ever had. We aren't the same country that fought the Cold War, and given recent years I'm not at all certain we won it and the communists lost.
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at March 19, 2020 06:05 PM (puu6v)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 19, 2020 06:03 PM (EgshT)
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It sure would for me. I won't touch 'em. Same as if I had to survive on cauliflower or lima beans. "Adios, bluebell."
Posted by: bluebell at March 19, 2020 06:05 PM (/669Q)
> The Handmaid's Tail
The Handmaid's Tail would be a good title for a porno.
If they still bothered with titles and scripts for pornos, that is.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 19, 2020 06:00 PM (tLWGd)
The Lusty Argonian Maid, by Crassius Curio
Posted by: Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet Is Sponsoring Methcalibur - The Musical!! at March 19, 2020 06:06 PM (aRg0N)
I still can't believe we lived through Net Neutrality.
Posted by: LASue at March 19, 2020 05:59 PM (LaluL)
You just think you did!
indeed. life is an illusion, reality doubly so.
Posted by: Screentime, noted New Warrior at March 19, 2020 06:06 PM (sGtp+)
Posted by: lizabth at March 19, 2020 06:06 PM (L3Rsz)
Millenials I know personally are not worried.
Posted by: Hands at March 19, 2020 06:06 PM (786Ro)
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at March 19, 2020 06:06 PM (6eEQ+)
I have apocalypse fatigue.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at March 19, 2020 06:06 PM (WEBkv)
Posted by: Tami at March 19, 2020 05:44 PM
This is shit. So another giveaway of my money. I worked through over thirty years of crappy markets and failing companies, overtime not seeing daylight for months on end to earn my current salary. FU turtle. Everyone or nobody. I prefer nobody.
Posted by: banana Dream at March 19, 2020 06:06 PM (l6b3d)
Posted by: wth at March 19, 2020 06:06 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 19, 2020 06:07 PM (WI7YS)
Well, in theory. Heh.
Even in my day, the Pope having a bunch of illegitimate children hanging around raised a few eyebrows. But they kept their mouths shut, if they knew what was good for them.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 19, 2020 06:07 PM (tLWGd)
A diet of circus peanuts would surely be a harbinger of the End Times.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 19, 2020 06:03 PM (EgshT)
"Crisis peanuts."
Posted by: Zod at March 19, 2020 06:07 PM (yvnmY)
Posted by: Jewells45 at March 19, 2020 06:07 PM (dUJdY)
Posted by: bluebell at March 19, 2020 06:05 PM (/669Q)
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"But you haven't had them cooked the way I cook them!"
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at March 19, 2020 06:07 PM (WEBkv)
thirty years of crappy markets and failing companies, overtime not
seeing daylight for months on end to earn my current salary. FU turtle.
Everyone or nobody. I prefer nobody.
"Spreading the wealth around."
Posted by: deplorable unperson - sanitized for your protection at March 19, 2020 06:07 PM (LJes8)
Posted by: Axeman at March 19, 2020 06:08 PM (Eicbe)
Posted by: FloridaMan at March 19, 2020 06:08 PM (ognLP)
Posted by: Little Boomer at March 19, 2020 06:08 PM (6fu25)
Posted by: bluebell at March 19, 2020 05:56 PM (/669Q)
Amen and it was my cardiologist's fault. He insisted that I start on a new and different BP med, which, lowered my BP to where I passed out just after I had crossed the Seine on my way to the Louvre. I missed seeing the Louvre, which, was the main reason I included Paris. So I got to go to a hospital in Paris and two in Italy. I call that part my European Hospital Tour.
Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto at March 19, 2020 06:02 PM (kXoT0)
The sickest I ever got traveling was in Paris. Got a stomach flu, sleep for days type thing. I was in a little hotel run by nice French family. I woke up and went to dinner and passed out. The next thing a doc is sticking needle in me and an IV over in my arm. Slept for 2 days. Wake up goes to business meeting to close deal. Get on plane and company sends with with bag of food. Wine, bread, Charcuterie, cheese. I feed all of biz class. I sleep for 4 days when I get home.
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 19, 2020 06:08 PM (JFO2v)
My mother (Silent Generation): ... Other
factors: my father is dead, all her brothers and sisters are dead, some
of her nieces and nephews are dead, all her old friends are dead, and
every time she makes a new friend at her retirement living situation,
they die too.
is her name Jessica Fletcher?
Posted by: Anachronda at March 19, 2020 06:08 PM (sGtp+)
Posted by: Northernlurker at March 19, 2020 06:08 PM (Uu+Jp)
Posted by: vmom 2020 at March 19, 2020 06:08 PM (G546f)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 19, 2020 06:03 PM (EgshT)
I may be alone on this, but circus peanuts sound pretty tasty right about now.
Posted by: Surfperch at March 19, 2020 06:08 PM (tVQUs)
Posted by: deplorable unperson - sanitized for your protection at March 19, 2020 06:07 PM (LJes
+++++++++++++++
"Obama's low-calorie Wealth Spread - You Won't Believe It's Not Earned!"
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 19, 2020 06:08 PM (hYcqw)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 19, 2020 06:04 PM (hYcqw)
Some people are completely clueless in that way, not sure they ever clue in. I've had tenants like that. The thought of a circuit breaker tripping or taking a broom handle to move the blades of a garbage disposal so it'll turn...
They're the same ones that hang on every word coming from MSNBC or CNN...
Posted by: clutch cargo at March 19, 2020 06:08 PM (8B6Ng)
Posted by: HickoryDickoryDick at March 19, 2020 06:09 PM (gkb3h)
Posted by: Ben Had at March 19, 2020 06:09 PM (MRP6A)
Posted by: kbdabear at March 19, 2020 06:09 PM (qAR6u)
Posted by: vmom 2020 at March 19, 2020 06:05 PM (G546f)
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Because we shouldn't be expected to be mechanics.
Posted by: Axeman at March 19, 2020 06:09 PM (Eicbe)
he took their honor away
they have nothing left but lies
Posted by: REDACTED at March 19, 2020 06:09 PM (rpxSz)
Gas rationing
The frickin' 55 mph speed limit
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at March 19, 2020 05:36 PM (7rVsF)
I CAN'T DRIVE 55!
Posted by: Sammy Hagar at March 19, 2020 06:09 PM (sy5kK)
Posted by: ghbucky at March 19, 2020 06:09 PM (s9Eo8)
Posted by: Fritz at March 19, 2020 06:10 PM (ATCV4)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 19, 2020 06:10 PM (LxTcq)
Posted by: Jewells45 at March 19, 2020 06:10 PM (dUJdY)
Hee goes to rich friend for $$$.
Cries begs on his knees.
Friend says you will spend money on horses.
No I got horse money, I need hospital money.
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 19, 2020 06:10 PM (JFO2v)
We live in stupid times getting stupider.
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at March 19, 2020 06:10 PM (6eEQ+)
Posted by: 13times at March 19, 2020 06:10 PM (K3B2k)
Posted by: Fritz at March 19, 2020 06:10 PM (ATCV4)
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Hmm.
Camp Chef has a pellet cooker I've had my eye on.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at March 19, 2020 06:10 PM (WEBkv)
you know what - I am so used to wild conspiracies actually turning out to be true that I can believe most of that
Posted by: vmom 2020 at March 19, 2020 06:10 PM (G546f)
Posted by: Muldoon at March 19, 2020 06:10 PM (m45I2)
Posted by: bluebell at March 19, 2020 06:05 PM (/669Q)
I could share your headstone. Just chisel my name in small print in a corner.
Posted by: GnuBreed at March 19, 2020 06:10 PM (XF4b8)
Posted by: bill in arkansas at March 19, 2020 06:10 PM (C1Lsn)
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 19, 2020 06:11 PM (JFO2v)
That cynic? Many adjectives describe the Borja clan, but not 'pious'.
That reminds me. Heavy Metal put out a Borgia comic series a few decades back. Lots of nudity, debauchery, and all the rest of it. Still couldn't disguise that the Borgias were about the only force protecting Rome and the Church from being overrun by foreigners and/or subverted by an Italian mafia.
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at March 19, 2020 06:11 PM (ykYG2)
Posted by: Ha at March 19, 2020 06:11 PM (fNWtj)
________________
Yep, as kids we did the drills where we had to run into the school hallway and curl ourselves up into balls against the wall, with our arms covering our heads, in preparation for the nuclear strike that the Russkies were sure to drop on us. They also made us watch films in class about how to survive nuclear fallout.
We've been dealing with "apocalypse imminent" since we were in kindergarten. We know the drill, and we know not to panic.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer at March 19, 2020 06:11 PM (k4dH2)
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*horks daintily into kerchief*
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes
LOL !!!!
Ok, ya got me !
Posted by: JT at March 19, 2020 06:11 PM (arJlL)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at March 19, 2020 06:07 PM (WEBkv)
What's your recipe for circus peanuts?
Posted by: hogmartin at March 19, 2020 06:11 PM (t+qrx)
Posted by: Jewells45 at March 19, 2020 06:10 PM (dUJdY)
oh wow
insane
Posted by: vmom 2020 at March 19, 2020 06:11 PM (G546f)
The Lusty Argonian Maid, by Crassius Curio
when she eats burritos, she gets a bit of noble gas?
Posted by: Anachronda at March 19, 2020 06:11 PM (sGtp+)
Posted by: hogmartin at March 19, 2020 06:11 PM (t+qrx)
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Knock out the clown and steal his.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at March 19, 2020 06:12 PM (WEBkv)
Yesterday I was telling my grandchildren how when AIDS was the boogeyman, the "experts" were assuring us it was caused by mosquitos, and As far as I know, nobody ever figured out what caused polio.
What they know and what they say they know are not equal. The media is scarier than the Chinese flu.
Posted by: Chillin the most at March 19, 2020 06:12 PM (lonOK)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 19, 2020 06:12 PM (cfSRQ)
Posted by: Ben Had at March 19, 2020 06:09 PM (MRP6A)
New Home Autopsy Kit??
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 19, 2020 06:12 PM (JFO2v)
____________
They're MILLENNIALsplaining, BUZZsplaining, and VOXsplaining?
Posted by: ShainS at March 19, 2020 05:38 PM (kyz/M)
Is this similar to when Obama instructed them to talk with their parents about OCare when visiting home at Thanksgiving?
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at March 19, 2020 06:13 PM (sy5kK)
Posted by: mrp at March 19, 2020 06:13 PM (Pqytn)
Posted by: hogmartin at March 19, 2020 06:11 PM (t+qrx)
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Knock out the clown and steal his.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at March 19, 2020 06:12 PM (WEBkv)
now thats funny
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 19, 2020 06:13 PM (JFO2v)
But this Senior Driver sticker was a new low. Why do I think some Millennial stuck that on their grandparents car?
Posted by: Quint at March 19, 2020 06:13 PM (n13/j)
Posted by: kemp at March 19, 2020 06:13 PM (g9dL3)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 19, 2020 06:12 PM (cfSRQ)
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Woo hoo! Lottery tickets here I come!
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at March 19, 2020 06:13 PM (WEBkv)
I think we've done a poor job of teaching self reliance. People panic because they don't know how to deal with the change.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 19, 2020 06:04 PM
Go buy a 6 point socket to fit the nut and a 12 inch breaker bar. Put the socket on a nut with the handle of the breaker bar at the 9o'clock position and stand on the handle. If you weigh a hundred pounds that is 100 ft lbs of torque, and the socket won't slip off like those cheap ass handles that came with the car.
Posted by: Cicero Skip at March 19, 2020 06:14 PM (FIrEF)
Posted by: kemp at March 19, 2020 06:13 PM (g9dL3)
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As you become older, that becomes less of an issue.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at March 19, 2020 06:14 PM (WEBkv)
So Obama's gonna send out billions in free money again? And those of us
in the top tax bracket who pay for everything won't even get any? LET IT
BURN.
Posted by: HickoryDickoryDick at March 19, 2020 06:09 PM (gkb3h)
Yep. I'm not getting a nickle of that Corona Cash.
Posted by: Mr. Morango at March 19, 2020 06:14 PM (2N7oZ)
My in laws are 86 84. Retied dairyman his boss. They went to the mall food court to eat after church last Sunday. That's what they wanted and we were not going to convince them to do otherwise. If they truly felt like the Wuhan Chinavirus was a threat I suppose they would stay home.
Whose skeered? WERE NOT SKEERED!
Posted by: You don't know me but I identify as a Boomer at March 19, 2020 06:15 PM (frWv2)
Sorry, my USB port spit them back out.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 19, 2020 06:15 PM (EgshT)
Posted by: Jewells45 at March 19, 2020 06:15 PM (dUJdY)
They're the same ones that hang on every word coming from MSNBC or CNN...
Posted by: clutch cargo at March 19, 2020 06:08 PM (8B6Ng)
After Katrina, a couple of guys I know well signed on as a FEMA repair crew for the many trailers they put up as temporary shelter.
They got FREQUENT work orders to go out and replace lightbulbs. "Hey, this way we don't even have to pay for the bulb!" Sigh.
Posted by: GnuBreed at March 19, 2020 06:15 PM (XF4b8)
Posted by: deplorable unperson - sanitized for your protection at March 19, 2020 06:15 PM (LJes8)
Posted by: Ben Had at March 19, 2020 06:15 PM (MRP6A)
Really don't mind if I sit this one out.
Really don't mind if you sit this one out.
My words but a whisper - your deafness a SHOUT.
I may make you feel but I can't make you think.
Your sperm's in the gutter - your love's in the sink.
So you ride yourselves over the fields and
you make all your animal deals and
your wise men don't know how it feels to be thick as a brick.
Posted by: Ian Anderson at March 19, 2020 06:16 PM (sy5kK)
Posted by: Northernlurker at March 19, 2020 06:16 PM (Uu+Jp)
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Not saying it can't happen, just saying that panicking over the possibility of it happening isn't going to help anybody.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer at March 19, 2020 06:16 PM (k4dH2)
I think we've done a poor job of teaching self reliance. People panic because they don't know how to deal with the change.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 19, 2020 06:04 PM
Go buy a 6 point socket to fit the nut and a 12 inch breaker bar. Put the socket on a nut with the handle of the breaker bar at the 9o'clock position and stand on the handle. If you weigh a hundred pounds that is 100 ft lbs of torque, and the socket won't slip off like those cheap ass handles that came with the car.
Posted by: Cicero Skip at March 19, 2020 06:14 PM (FIrEF)
I carry a Joe Gibbs racing 5000 dollar hand built gun with 2 50 gallon nitrogen tanks. I can change tires at a red light.
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 19, 2020 06:16 PM (JFO2v)
Killer Bees were not "Africanized", they were Bees of Color.
Posted by: wth
BOC's
https://youtu.be/jAT5ewOfwEI
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 19, 2020 06:16 PM (aKsyK)
Posted by: FlimFlammed at March 19, 2020 06:17 PM (ZTDnL)
They got FREQUENT work orders to go out and replace lightbulbs. "Hey, this way we don't even have to pay for the bulb!" Sigh.
Posted by: GnuBreed at March 19, 2020 06:15 PM (XF4b
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good grief. I've fixed things myself in an apartment I rented because I didn't want to wait for maintenance to show up.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at March 19, 2020 06:17 PM (WEBkv)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at March 19, 2020 06:13 PM (WEBkv)
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Statistically speaking, no one has ever won a lottery.
The odds are too great.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 19, 2020 06:17 PM (cfSRQ)
But I want to die with my face between a great set of boobs
Posted by: kbdabear at March 19, 2020 06:17 PM (qAR6u)
I'll keep looking
Posted by: kemp at March 19, 2020 06:18 PM (g9dL3)
Posted by: Ben Had at March 19, 2020 06:15 PM (MRP6A)
natural cat wood sounds like a porno based on CATS
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 19, 2020 06:18 PM (JFO2v)
There will be a place--not a very esteemed place, but a place--for you in Galt's Gulch.
Posted by: Zod at March 19, 2020 06:18 PM (yvnmY)
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 19, 2020 06:18 PM (kJM5r)
Posted by: Ladyl at March 19, 2020 06:18 PM (TdMsT)
Posted by: Ha at March 19, 2020 06:18 PM (fNWtj)
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 19, 2020 06:16 PM (JFO2v)
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"911 ... can I help you?" Caller: "I just heard automatic gunfire at the corner of .."
Posted by: mrp at March 19, 2020 06:18 PM (Pqytn)
Posted by: Muldoon at March 19, 2020 06:18 PM (m45I2)
Posted by: Northernlurker at March 19, 2020 06:16 PM (Uu+Jp)
I had to think about that for a sec. Yeah, I guess they are banned. How did we survive back then? I noticed recently that you can't get a sundae with nuts from Mcd's anymore, because of course you can't.
Posted by: Quint at March 19, 2020 06:18 PM (n13/j)
Posted by: Tuna at March 19, 2020 06:18 PM (gLRfa)
Posted by: Anachronda at March 19, 2020 06:18 PM (sGtp+)
Posted by: Daisy B at March 19, 2020 06:18 PM (vaFpc)
Posted by: Ben Had at March 19, 2020 06:18 PM (MRP6A)
There will be a place--not a very esteemed place, but a place--for you in Galt's Gulch.
Posted by: Zod at March 19, 2020 06:18 PM (yvnmY)
many are called few are chosen
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 19, 2020 06:19 PM (JFO2v)
Posted by: Colin at March 19, 2020 06:19 PM (bzBkm)
Posted by: TrivialPursuer at March 19, 2020 06:16 PM (k4dH2)
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We are in complete agreement.
However one must not confuse "panic" with hedging against catastrophic risk.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 19, 2020 06:19 PM (cfSRQ)
Posted by: Muldoon at March 19, 2020 06:18 PM (m45I2)
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ISWYDT
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at March 19, 2020 06:19 PM (WEBkv)
******
Photo op at the next Dem debate?
Posted by: Muldoon at March 19, 2020 06:19 PM (m45I2)
Posted by: Northernlurker at March 19, 2020 06:16 PM (Uu+Jp)
That is an interesting phenomenon. I lived on them as a kid, as did most all of my peers. Along with bologna sandwiches. Both forbidden foods for lots of kids these days.
Posted by: tubal at March 19, 2020 06:20 PM (90T4r)
More J-School math.
Posted by: klaftern at March 19, 2020 06:20 PM (RuIsu)
Posted by: Cicero Skip
And if ya weigh more than a hundred pounds, we won't tell anyone !
Posted by: JT at March 19, 2020 06:20 PM (arJlL)
Posted by: HickoryDickoryDick at March 19, 2020 06:20 PM (gkb3h)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 19, 2020 06:20 PM (WI7YS)
Its not really all their fault. Their parents sent them to schools that failed to teach them to think critically and independently, and filled their heads with trash.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 19, 2020 06:20 PM (KZzsI)
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I like the one I saw on a Cadillac driven by a little blue-haired lady:
"If you don't like my driving, stay off the sidewalk."
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis at March 19, 2020 06:20 PM (sWM8x)
Posted by: x at March 19, 2020 06:20 PM (nFwvY)
There was Killer Bees movies made, I still remember the great swarm of
bees Coming over the Gulf Coast to Texas. Made about the same time as
all the Towering Infernal movies were made. I think they turned bees
back, somehow with giant flame thrower maybe?
Posted by: Colin at March 19, 2020 06:19 PM (bzBkm)
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I remember watching their remorseless march northwards, and sometime in the late 70s they talked of an insecticide barrier across Panama.
And they jumped it!
I think Weekly Reader had lots of stories on it. Or maybe it was some kiddie science mag.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 19, 2020 06:20 PM (cfSRQ)
Yet, if we are to believe the numbers from China itself*, they've had only a few thousand deaths. Doesn't sound like the end of civilization, does it?
*yeah, right
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at March 19, 2020 06:21 PM (oVJmc)
Posted by: JC. Idaho bot. at March 19, 2020 06:21 PM (377Zs)
Posted by: vmom 2020 at March 19, 2020 06:21 PM (G546f)
Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at March 19, 2020 06:21 PM (dKiJG)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at March 19, 2020 06:17 PM (WEBkv)
Me too.
Posted by: Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet Is Sponsoring Methcalibur - The Musical!! at March 19, 2020 06:21 PM (aRg0N)
Posted by: Regular joe at March 19, 2020 06:21 PM (6/uwW)
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 19, 2020 06:21 PM (kJM5r)
Posted by: tubal at March 19, 2020 06:22 PM (90T4r)
Posted by: Humphreyrobot at March 19, 2020 06:22 PM (LhqWc)
Posted by: illiniwek at March 19, 2020 06:22 PM (Cus5s)
Statistically speaking, the odds are high that someone out of the pool will win the lottery. The odds of any particular individual winning are vanishingly small.
And the expected value is negative, anyway (save in some crazy cases). To put another way, the state is the house in the lottery, and it's far from a fair game.
The mob used to run lotteries all the time. It was known as the numbers racket. Don Corleone would never think of taking as a big a cut as the state takes out of the pool.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at March 19, 2020 06:22 PM (rCwaK)
northwards, and sometime in the late 70s they talked of an insecticide
barrier across Panama.
And they jumped it!
I think Weekly Reader had lots of stories on it. Or maybe it was some kiddie science mag.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 19, 2020 06:20 PM (cfSRQ)
Ranger Rick
Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at March 19, 2020 06:22 PM (DjiZK)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 19, 2020 06:22 PM (aKsyK)
Nebraska school lunches back when....
....wait for it....
Big-ass milkshakes. Chocolate or vanilla, no strawberry. In a (gasp) styrofoam cup. Maybe 16 ounces.
Posted by: Zod at March 19, 2020 06:22 PM (yvnmY)
Posted by: deplorable unperson - sanitized for your protection at March 19, 2020 06:22 PM (LJes8)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 19, 2020 06:22 PM (WI7YS)
Posted by: HickoryDickoryDick at March 19, 2020 06:20 PM (gkb3h)
I had corona virus back in the '50's. Got it from a toilet seat in Da Nang.
Posted by: Joe Biden at March 19, 2020 06:22 PM (2N7oZ)
However its also a logical fallacy to assume that because it hasn't happened yet, it must
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 19, 2020 06:23 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: Colin at March 19, 2020 06:23 PM (bzBkm)
There was Killer Bees movies made, I still remember the great swarm of
bees Coming over the Gulf Coast to Texas. Made about the same time as
all the Towering Infernal movies were made. I think they turned bees
back, somehow with giant flame thrower maybe?
that the one where they swarmed a volkswagen beetle, which they drove into a sports stadium where they cranked up the air conditioning and froze all the bees?
Posted by: Anachronda at March 19, 2020 06:23 PM (sGtp+)
1/2" drive cordless impact (with fwd and rev) under the seat. My knuckle-busting days are over.
Posted by: Fritz at March 19, 2020 06:23 PM (ATCV4)
Triopenin FTW!
Posted by: BackwardsBoy - #CancelChina at March 19, 2020 06:24 PM (HaL55)
********
No! Always go for the juggler!!
Posted by: Muldoon at March 19, 2020 06:18 PM (m45I2)
" !"
Posted by: The mimes at March 19, 2020 06:24 PM (rBtIz)
I will give you an answer, but first you must blow Michael Moore.
Posted by: Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet Is Sponsoring Methcalibur - The Musical!! at March 19, 2020 06:24 PM (aRg0N)
this year's is 2019
Posted by: vmom 2020 at March 19, 202
I get that.
It's dumb.
You may have made 100k in 18 but lost your job last week.
You get nada?
Wtf
Posted by: Ha at March 19, 2020 06:24 PM (fNWtj)
Posted by: illiniwek
Hurricane Camille in Biloxi in 68. A party got swept away.
Posted by: x at March 19, 2020 06:24 PM (nFwvY)
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I like the one I saw on a Cadillac driven by a little blue-haired lady:
"If you don't like my driving, stay off the sidewalk."
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis at March 19, 2020 06:20 PM (sWM8x)
they were profile me and everyone else driving down that sidewalk.
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 19, 2020 06:24 PM (JFO2v)
Posted by: Humphreyrobot at March 19, 2020 06:25 PM (LhqWc)
I think, for many boomers and older folks, living in a constant state of panic is less attractive than the potential of dying.
Posted by: Droopy at March 19, 2020 06:25 PM (XZPbq)
Just because nana and poppy aren't flipping out on twitter, snapchat, Instagram, as well as madly texting, skyping, and emailing others to keep them up to date on what they've done for the last 1.5 hours to prevent the Wuhan Flu-pocalypse doesn't mean they aren't taking it seriously.
Just a guess
Posted by: Lizzy at March 19, 2020 06:25 PM (bDqIh)
I was in Jr.High during the Cuban Crisis. Pretty scary but everybody carried on. Born during the polio epidemic. Now there was a scary virus!
Posted by: Tuna at March 19, 2020 06:25 PM (gLRfa)
Still, its a decent scare, would not be that hard to pull off to this day and I am surprised nobody has yet.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 19, 2020 06:25 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 19, 2020 06:25 PM (kJM5r)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 19, 2020 06:23 PM (KZzsI)
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True, but that's not in play in this particular scenario.
As for the Boomers, I don't think they're any braver than any other generation of old people.
Old people don't fear death as much because they live with it constantly. When you get over 70, shitting yourself over dying would be a full-time occupation.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 19, 2020 06:25 PM (cfSRQ)
Our Lord President called it a hoax and we blame the Chinese for downplaying it?
Pot meet kettle.
This thing is not a big deal for healthy people. But it's amazingly contagious. And if you have a bad immune system, it shreds your lungs. I'm not vulnerable to this thing. Neither are my kids. My parents though? I'm in Seattle and we lead the nation in deaths because one of the first places that this thing hit here was a nursing home.
Posted by: Seattle Slough at March 19, 2020 06:25 PM (IJG6N)
Nebraska school lunches back when....
....wait for it....
Big-ass milkshakes. Chocolate or vanilla, no strawberry. In a (gasp) styrofoam cup. Maybe 16 ounces.
Posted by: Zod at March 19, 2020 06:22 PM (yvnmY)
God's Country, sounds like. We had big 24 ounce bags of greasy potato chips we would share with the other kids, everyone reaching in the bag with their grubby kid hands. And we Lived!!!
Posted by: tubal at March 19, 2020 06:25 PM (90T4r)
Posted by: Regular joe at March 19, 2020 06:21 PM (6/uwW)
They need to calculate this a different way.
Not what people made over a year ago.
Posted by: Ha at March 19, 2020 06:26 PM (fNWtj)
No, no, no. The bees all died when the ocean liner capsized and everybody was all upside down.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy - #CancelChina at March 19, 2020 06:26 PM (HaL55)
Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at March 19, 2020 06:26 PM (DjiZK)
-----------------
HERE'S THE TRUTH BEHIND IT ALL:
Ok. I have just one question: why did Bill Gates decide to retire from being Chairman of the Board of Directors from the company he co-founded and is STILL it's largest single stockholder (1.36%) at the relatively young age of 64, just a month before this started?
Posted by: Ian Anderson at March 19, 2020 06:26 PM (sy5kK)
Posted by: deplorable unperson - sanitized for your protection at March 19, 2020 06:22 PM
In Search Of...
Toilet paper.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 19, 2020 06:26 PM (rBtIz)
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at March 19, 2020 06:26 PM (sy5kK)
Posted by: HickoryDickoryDick at March 19, 2020 06:27 PM (gkb3h)
Posted by: Millennial Sheep at March 19, 2020 06:27 PM (tLv2D)
No, no, no. The bees all died when the ocean liner capsized and everybody was all upside down.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy - #CancelChina at March 19, 2020 06:26 PM (HaL55)
And then they landed a concord in the middle of an earthquake.
Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at March 19, 2020 06:27 PM (DjiZK)
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 19, 2020 06:27 PM (kJM5r)
All of them were garbage. It's a riot to see now.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at March 19, 2020 06:27 PM (oVJmc)
But here's the kicker: you must shelter in place If you are sick, or feeling sick. They catch you out coughing, you got some explaining to do. You can go out for groceries and medical care.
Now that makes some sense, compared to ordering everyone to stay home.
Posted by: lizabth at March 19, 2020 06:27 PM (L3Rsz)
decide to retire from being Chairman of the Board of Directors from the
company he co-founded and is STILL it's largest single stockholder
(1.36%) at the relatively young age of 64, just a month before this
started? Posted by: Ian Anderson at March 19, 2020 06:26 PM (sy5kK)
Because conspiracy.
Resume your panic.
Posted by: Zod at March 19, 2020 06:27 PM (yvnmY)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at March 19, 2020 06:10 PM (WEBkv)
I can't say enough good things about Camp Chef. Friend from H.S. repped Traeger for years and years. So I've had lots of experience with them. Camp Chef solves a lot of little problems. I haven't seen the 2020 models, but to me, WiFi is getting borderline silly - I think it's on all the new Traegers.
I got the sidekick grill for mine, so I can do reverse sear. Not necessary, but nice to have if a bit pricey. For around $500-600 nothing touches them.
Doooo eeeeet!
Posted by: clutch cargo at March 19, 2020 06:28 PM (8B6Ng)
He said the relief would go to the middle class. So if you make more than that, I guess you're rich- right?
Once again "the middle class" gets to foot the bill and then gets it up the squeakhole when checks are being handed out.
Posted by: Hesco Gypsy, staring from 457 meters at March 19, 2020 06:28 PM (bGY3H)
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at March 19, 2020 06:28 PM (oVJmc)
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You know very well that Trump didn't call the virus a hoax. I think maybe you're not a particularly honest person. Like, maybe you're a fucking liar.
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis at March 19, 2020 06:28 PM (sWM8x)
Posted by: f'd, good morning cruel world at March 19, 2020 06:28 PM (Tnijr)
Yeah those movies both scared the living hell out of me, especially Threads. I was sure Reagan would nuke us all. Mom tried to tell me otherwise and calm me down but dammit I was young and knew it all!
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 19, 2020 06:28 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 19, 2020 06:28 PM (KP5rU)
Still, its a decent scare, would not be that hard to pull off to this day and I am surprised nobody has yet.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 19, 2020 06:25 PM (KZzsI) "
I remember that, it was my neighborhood Walgreens where that happened !
Posted by: sock_rat_eez, we are being gaslighted 24/365 at March 19, 2020 06:28 PM (zlgJP)
Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at March 19, 2020 06:26 PM (DjiZK)
Man could Shelley Fabret fill out a dress!
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 19, 2020 06:28 PM (JFO2v)
Posted by: x at March 19, 2020 06:28 PM (nFwvY)
Next thing you know the Chinese-owned Leftists will be breaking HonestCloud out of mothballs.
Posted by: deplorable unperson - sanitized for your protection at March 19, 2020 06:28 PM (LJes8)
Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at March 19, 2020 06:21 PM (dKiJG)
As long as the barrels are not pitted and the action functions normally you should be good to go. Just use light birdshot No#9 or similar. I have shotguns made in the 1870s that I still fire.
Posted by: NZFrank with a M2 at March 19, 2020 06:28 PM (bgJ0E)
Posted by: bill in arkansas at March 19, 2020 06:29 PM (C1Lsn)
Posted by: Boss Moss at March 19, 2020 06:29 PM (E2o2V)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at March 19, 2020 06:10 PM (WEBkv)
Oh yeah, the Woodwind comes with the grill, I got the DXL because it's a little bit smaller and was a cheap introduction.
Posted by: clutch cargo at March 19, 2020 06:29 PM (8B6Ng)
Seattle Slough has been an ignorant jackass since 2003, haunting right-leaning websites and spewing carefully memorized stupidity. Often wrong but never intimidated by the facts.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 19, 2020 06:29 PM (KZzsI)
There's a movie narrated by Orson Welles called 'The Man Who Saw
Tomorrow.' It's about Nostradamus. It's got a long string of
predictions that were going to kill us all.
All of them were garbage. It's a riot to see now.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at March 19, 2020
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Was there an "In Search Of" episode on him?
I remember Nostradamus being a big think in the late 70s/early 80s.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 19, 2020 06:29 PM (cfSRQ)
Posted by: Lizzy at March 19, 2020 06:30 PM (bDqIh)
Posted by: Eromero at March 19, 2020 06:30 PM (XhWtx)
Somehow I don't think that movie's message reached you
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 19, 2020 06:30 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: bill in arkansas at March 19, 2020 06:29 PM (C1Lsn)
No shame??? Definitely not a White Liberal then.
Posted by: tubal at March 19, 2020 06:30 PM (90T4r)
Yeesh. The Mini 14 from 1980 has a lot of design flaws and Ruger didn't give a crap about quality control. The action moves, the barrel is too thin and gets whippy, and the stamped front sight often damaged the crown. Even bad Ruger magazines caused issues. Not to mention Ruger's headspacing on the Mini 14 was different from one rifle to the next.
Posted by: bonhomme at March 19, 2020 06:31 PM (9t0Zz)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 19, 2020 06:25 PM (KZzsI)
Harder than it was then however. That introduced all the layers of tamper-proof cap protection which every $#$& product has now, from vitamins to salad dressing.
Now, I guess they'll have to put it on ice cream as well.
Posted by: clutch cargo at March 19, 2020 06:31 PM (8B6Ng)
My parents did the same thing and I was the same way.
Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at March 19, 2020 06:31 PM (DjiZK)
yeah, more recently, people could track them pretty closely ... a cat 2 tracking 70 miles away was no big deal. I wasn't there for any huge ones ...
Posted by: illiniwek at March 19, 2020 06:31 PM (Cus5s)
--
He did not call the virus a hoax. That's a lie.
Posted by: Lady in Black at March 19, 2020 06:31 PM (JoUsr)
Posted by: attila the thrilla at March 19, 2020 06:31 PM (w7KSn)
FEMA and the ARMY are deploying into the US.
Posted by: Boss Moss at March 19, 2020 06:29 PM (E2o2V)
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Isn't the Army, you know, based here?
Where are they deploying *from*?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 19, 2020 06:31 PM (cfSRQ)
sigh.
Posted by: Anachronda at March 19, 2020 06:31 PM (sGtp+)
Posted by: Ben Had at March 19, 2020 06:31 PM (MRP6A)
He's an old troll from way back in teh day. Not too bright, like most. He wandered off and we figured he got lost on his way to the bathroom. Seems like he found his way back, his mom must have got tired of hearing him whine.
Posted by: Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet Is Sponsoring Methcalibur - The Musical!! at March 19, 2020 06:31 PM (aRg0N)
I have a foxhole but I'm such a good shot that the great shot groupies won't leave me alone.
Posted by: Humphreyrobot at March 19, 2020 06:31 PM (LhqWc)
Posted by: HickoryDickoryDick at March 19, 2020 06:32 PM (gkb3h)
Posted by: clutch cargo at March 19, 2020 06:32 PM (8B6Ng)
Posted by: Muldoon at March 19, 2020 06:32 PM (m45I2)
Posted by: tubal at March 19, 2020 06:32 PM (90T4r)
just announced that he will enforce his massive shutdown orders
https://preview.tinyurl.com/t67p3ny
Posted by: vmom 2020 at March 19, 2020 06:32 PM (G546f)
And then they landed a concord in the middle of an earthquake.
That was after they flew it to Mars to drill a hole in it, right?
Mars the planet, not the Concorde.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy - #CancelChina at March 19, 2020 06:33 PM (HaL55)
If you didn't believe it, why did you say it? It detracted from your other points and in the choice between Biden and Trump there is no choice. I can't speak for others here, but there's
NO WAY I'd vote for Biden.
Personally, I think your time is better spent elsewhere than on here and I bid you a good night. You do seem pleasanter than the usual
Concern Troll.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 19, 2020 06:34 PM (WI7YS)
Posted by: Gaius Kilroynius at March 19, 2020 06:34 PM (tZoYC)
just announced that he will enforce his massive shutdown orders
https://preview.tinyurl.com/t67p3ny
Posted by: vmom 2020 at March 19, 2020 06:32 PM (G546f)
Oh FFS.
Posted by: Ladyl at March 19, 2020 06:34 PM (TdMsT)
Posted by: csmats at March 19, 2020 05:49 PM (X5VFN)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APUWOoUqQho
like it was yesterday.............
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at March 19, 2020 06:37 PM (sy5kK)
Posted by: Millennial Tommy Soy Boys at March 19, 2020 06:37 PM (1CjJc)
Posted by: kallisto at March 19, 2020 06:37 PM (TSMoA)
Posted by: Humphreyrobot at March 19, 2020 06:37 PM (LhqWc)
I'm not a troll. Back in 2012 I was the guy who paid for a rasmussen subscription and gave the daily Romney Obama poll numbers to everyone in the comments. Daveinfla plugged them into some poll unskewer thing he made, but of course we all saw how the unskewed poll theory worked out.
I'm not voting for Biden. I'm staying home again to let it burn.
Posted by: HickoryDickoryDick at March 19, 2020 06:38 PM (gkb3h)
Trump said the words, but Slough and others like him don't want you to read the transcript.
Here's the "hoax" language, "They tried anything, they tried it over and over, they've been doing it since she got in. It's all turning, they lost. It's all turning, think of it, think of it. And this is their new hoax"
But thirty seconds later Trump said, "And so far we have lost nobody to coronavirus in the United States. Nobody. And it doesn't mean we won't and we are totally prepared. It doesn't mean we won't..."
So it's a hoax, but Trump says we're prepared and some people might die? Maybe, just maybe, Trump wasn't lying later when he said he meant the media's reaction to it was the hoax and not the virus.
Posted by: bonhomme at March 19, 2020 06:39 PM (9t0Zz)
Posted by: Chillin the most at March 19, 2020 06:39 PM (lonOK)
Posted by: pawn at March 19, 2020 06:40 PM (PveK5)
______________________________________
Wow. Extremely well done.
Most profound thing I've read in way too many hours of slogging round the web today.
Thanks for that. Fricking brilliant.
Posted by: Boxx Culvert, in the return line with a box of panic at March 19, 2020 06:41 PM (wmfhQ)
Posted by: Humphreyrobot at March 19, 2020 06:42 PM (LhqWc)
Posted by: kallisto at March 19, 2020 06:42 PM (TSMoA)
Posted by: klaftern at March 19, 2020 06:42 PM (RuIsu)
Honestly, where the fuk do you assholes come from?
Posted by: Hesco Gypsy, staring from 457 meters at March 19, 2020 06:42 PM (bGY3H)
I'm 67 so probably wouldn't have much luck with that. I did get AAA. Back in the day, I changed the tire for my uncle when he and my aunt came out to visit. I at least know how to.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 19, 2020 06:43 PM (Lqy/e)
Well, yeah. Too bad about that. But we all understand that every living thing *will* eventually die, including each glorious, unique, and special one of us here on the blog. However, most of us aren't going to die from "This Current Media Orgy of Doom-Porn".
So yes, after a certain age --when our parents are gone and our pets are gone, when a good many of the kids we went to school with long-long-ago are gone-- we might indeed turn a little fatalistic and decide we don't want to be stampeded by the repeated alarums of the MFMSM.
Ultimately it's up to each of us to evaluate the risks and benefits of our individual choices, with due consideration given to how our actions might affect those around us.
Probably the closest guideline I can come up with is: "Don't be stupid; don't be selfish; and don't be a puppet." Of course, YMMV.
Posted by: Doo-Dah, Doo-Dah at March 19, 2020 06:45 PM (3h15O)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 19, 2020 06:45 PM (Lqy/e)
They know Millennials are the biggest bunch of idiots & ignoramuses ever assembled in one generation.
Posted by: aelfheld at March 19, 2020 06:47 PM (IxDhF)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 19, 2020 06:53 PM (WI7YS)
Posted by: Red Dye No.2 at March 19, 2020 06:53 PM (TQ/zJ)
Posted by: TeleSkier at March 19, 2020 06:55 PM (ua1m6)
Posted by: irongrampa at March 19, 2020 07:05 PM (KATBx)
#609 - I said goodbye to Instapundit last week and have not, nor will I, go back. I am only one, but a stand needs to be taken.
Posted by: JB at March 19, 2020 07:06 PM (SdfoC)
It's obvious what Trump was doing. He was lying, going against his own scientific advisors, in order to save Wall Street. Trump is in the travel business as much as he's in any business. This has hurt him and he had many financial reasons to hope this would blow over. But the Chinese had those same financial reasons to do the same. In both cases, it's the same dishonest, anti-scientific thing.
But don't claim he took this seriously when you, right here, are not taking it seriously.
China didn't take this seriously. And for that we can blame them. But those of us (hint, you) that are still not taking this seriously are not among those who should be pointing fingers. You are part of the same, anti-scientific problem.
Posted by: Seattle Slough at March 19, 2020 07:07 PM (IJG6N)
My first mortgage rate was 13%.
I sold my first house at a loss, and it wiped me out financially. I had to start over.
I watched military cars drive up to friends' houses to tell them their dad died in Viet Nam.
Buried my little brother who'd died of cancer.
My grandad had it worse - I can tell you what he's been through - I'll bet he wouldn't be hiding under this bed.
Life is uneven, and it can be devastating. You just get on with it.
Personally, I'm looking at the upside - when I get infected and then get better (odds are in my favor), I'll be immune!
Posted by: LilyG at March 19, 2020 07:09 PM (A/N4l)
Yep, Insta has lost it over this.
Posted by: LilyG at March 19, 2020 07:14 PM (A/N4l)
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at March 19, 2020 07:22 PM (DY3v8)
Posted by: REDACTED at March 19, 2020 06:00 PM (rpxSz)
Ain't ME pushing that crap!
Posted by: GWB at March 19, 2020 07:30 PM (3ghq6)
Coronavirus is the "actual" stand-in for the utterly bogus global warming catastrophe that the little shits have been pumped full of for twenty+ years.
Screw them. I survived KISS. I can take anything.
Posted by: jbspry at March 19, 2020 07:32 PM (TxuNs)
Besides, I already died of Net neutrality. But I got better.
Posted by: Just Lily at March 19, 2020 07:35 PM (rw1l7)
Posted by: JB at March 19, 2020 07:40 PM (SdfoC)
Posted by: jasonj at March 19, 2020 07:41 PM (qSQLQ)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at March 19, 2020 07:52 PM (Exv3s)
Posted by: ALH at March 19, 2020 07:55 PM (lntLM)
Posted by: Seattle Slough at March 19, 2020 07:07 PM (IJG6N)
Oh get stuffed.
Posted by: GWB at March 19, 2020 08:00 PM (3ghq6)
Posted by: vivi at March 19, 2020 08:03 PM (11H2y)
JWM
Posted by: jwm at March 19, 2020 08:06 PM (HnUoF)
Yeah those movies both scared the living hell out of me, especially Threads. I was sure Reagan would nuke us all. Mom tried to tell me otherwise and calm me down but dammit I was young and knew it all!
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 19, 2020 06:28 PM (KZzsI)
As my parents had a HO-HUM view towards violence on TV, they brought home a war movie on VHS one night in third grade. (Besides, I was asking a LOT of questions about why we were in Germany, things going on in the news, and so forth). They invited me to see it with them like it was a family movie night. The movie? The Day After. The first tell as to how horrifying that would be should have been "We know you'll be asking a lot of questions about what you're going to see. Ask away..." (It turns out just about every Army brat at my school had seen it before my third grade year was over.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at March 19, 2020 08:12 PM (Exv3s)
Posted by: DamnCat at March 19, 2020 08:23 PM (T4phK)
Its not that local politicians really intend this, its they don't see the harm (and will have their nannies, housekeepers and gardeners anyway). And they
Posted by: SF jeff at March 19, 2020 08:42 PM (kJqpv)
Posted by: blindside1973 at March 19, 2020 09:10 PM (SxTY3)
Posted by: scotsfury at March 19, 2020 09:34 PM (o2qR1)
Posted by: Colinsky at March 19, 2020 11:27 PM (1NSIm)
Posted by: Rbastid at March 20, 2020 01:08 AM (lYGOd)
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No, Sanders is pretty much done, so Trump will be re-elected.
Posted by: Midnight Rambler at March 20, 2020 01:21 AM (mgJUX)
Posted by: obsidian at March 20, 2020 11:59 AM (7+yqP)
Yep, I'll wash my hands, but it's rather silly to stop living to keep from dying.
Posted by: James ONeil at March 21, 2020 01:39 PM (wAa5X)
Posted by: My Shari'a Moor at March 21, 2020 07:46 PM (2RV6o)
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Kepler's Laws of Liberal Media Bias
John Kerry-- The Splunge! Candidate
"Divisive" Politics & "Attacks on Patriotism" (very long)
The Donkey ("The Raven" parody)