After Mocking Trump For Suggesting Hydroxychloroquine Might Be Effective Against Coronavirus, Media Starts To Admit That Maybe It Is

But they're not crediting Trump, and they're not admitting their own stupidity and lies, and the social media monopolies will not be banning their accounts for having promoted dangerous Fake News.

After repeatedly mocking President Trump for suggesting on March 19 that hydroxychloroquine could be an effective treatment for coronavirus, media organizations have begun acknowledging that the drug -- now approved for emergency use to treat coronavirus by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) -- may be useful after all.
Journalists and top Democrats have beaten a similarly hasty retreat from their previous claims that Trump's ban on travel from China was both xenophobic and ineffective. But media outlets' misinformation on hydroxychloroquine was unique because it involved not simply policy disagreements but also suggestive medical advice and directives that could have dissuaded some from seeking certain treatments.
"Malaria Drug Helps Virus Patients Improve, in Small Study," The New York Times reported this week, adding: "A group of moderately ill people were given hydroxychloroquine, which appeared to ease their symptoms quickly, but more research is needed."
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat, went from threatening doctors who prescribed the drug with "administrative action" to requesting that the federal government ship her state some. Other state leaders have followed suit, including Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak, also a Democrat.
It wasn't always considered acceptable to use that kind of optimistic rhetoric, however.
"Trump peddles unsubstantiated hope in dark times," read a March 20 "analysis" by CNN's Stephen Collinson. Saying Trump was "adopting the audacity of false hope" and embracing "premature optimism," Collinson charged that "there's no doubt he overhyped the immediate prospects for the drug" because the FDA had not provided an explicit timeline on approving the drug to treat coronavirus.

The media's also now admitting that Trump's earlier statement that the fatality rate from the Wuhan Flu would maybe be lower than 1%... also may be true.

After they accused him of "lying." About what was stated as being a hunch or guess.

Guesses and hunches which depart from CNN's and the NYT's guesses and hunches are now "lies" which require censorship, deplatforming, and possible prosecution.

Watching the media response to President Trump's handling of the pandemic has been an educational experience for anyone who has been paying attention. It seems no matter what actions the President takes or what comments and opinions he offers, somebody at the major cable networks and newspapers is standing by to jump all over him. Unfortunately, on several notable occasions, Trump has turned out to be right. And then comes the embarrassing moment when the media talking heads have to reluctantly deliver the same news.
One key example of this phenomenon popped up a few weeks ago when the President offered an opinion about the mortality rate for the novel coronavirus. At that time, Dr. Anthony Fauci was estimating it to be "around two percent." Some other medical authorities had put the figure as high as 2.6%. Trump declared that he thought it was going to be considerably lower, "way lower than one percent," specifying that this was just "a hunch" that he had.

That was all it took. The press was all over him. He was "misleading" the nation. He was "contradicting the medical community." Trump was "at odds with what health experts are saying." But yesterday, CNN found themselves describing the mortality rate for the virus in new terms. Oops.

The media's insistence that only the alleged "facts" they claim are true are permitted to be publicly uttered has now been extended to cover hunches, guesses, estimates, and speculations.

Anyone who Subversively departs from the media's approved (allowed) range of guesswork risks severe penalties.

The media are leading this country to the edge of a revolution, but it's not the revolution they have in mind.

The media has been eagerly attacking everyone else's right to free speech -- Wait until we have our turn.

You're not the only people capable of inflicting punishments for speech, Media.

@CNN, as ever, leads the media in jumping the shark. pic.twitter.com/zeXYk2kyNa
— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) April 1, 2020

Posted by: Ace at 03:49 PM

Comments

(Jump to bottom of comments)

1 Unwillowef

Posted by: Embarrassing Stain at April 03, 2020 03:49 PM (y0S2P)

2 Wow. A first after commenting below I thought I was going to be willowed.

Off to get the Yorkies

Posted by: Embarrassing Stain at April 03, 2020 03:50 PM (y0S2P)

3 huh? the media.....mea culpa?

never

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 03, 2020 03:51 PM (d7Ww2)

4 Wow. That doesn't sound like the media I know.

Posted by: 6-4-3 Turn Two at April 03, 2020 03:51 PM (NMkO+)

5 But they're not crediting Trump, and they're not admitting their own stupidity and lies...

==

that's OK. Trump will remind them.

Posted by: runner at April 03, 2020 03:52 PM (zr5Kq)

6 Great.

Can we get the fuck back to LIFE now?

Posted by: deplorable unperson - sanitized for your protection at April 03, 2020 03:52 PM (pyXq5)

7 The yappers will be here soon.

Posted by: Embarrassing Stain at April 03, 2020 03:52 PM (y0S2P)

8 Pray to see the official CFR reflect this in the future.

Posted by: it begins... at April 03, 2020 03:52 PM (MRjKr)

9 Trump Cure

Posted by: x at April 03, 2020 03:52 PM (nFwvY)

10 I'm ready to revolt! I'm revolting!!!!

wait a minute....

Posted by: Weasel at April 03, 2020 03:52 PM (MVjcR)

11 Was smelling a nood
Now to read the content

Posted by: Skip at April 03, 2020 03:52 PM (ZCEU2)

12

Alternate Assho Post Title:

Fish Tank Cleaner Approved By FDA To Ameliorate Chinese Flu Sickness

Posted by: Soothsayer, very senile at April 03, 2020 03:52 PM (yDBK2)

13 Ace is telling us to drink fish tank cleaner!

Posted by: I am an asshole at April 03, 2020 03:53 PM (H5knJ)

14 The only thing leftover for Michigan and Nevada is fish tank cleaner.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at April 03, 2020 03:53 PM (ch6++)

15 Number of correction notices we'll see = 0

Posted by: sock_rat_eez, we are being gaslighted 24/365 at April 03, 2020 03:53 PM (cqteU)

16 >>> Off to get the Yorkies
Posted by: Embarrassing Stain

Yorkies, Corgies. Eh, I've heard it both ways.

Posted by: 6-4-3 Turn Two at April 03, 2020 03:53 PM (NMkO+)

17 Anyone got a cigarette?

Posted by: Margins at April 03, 2020 03:53 PM (vg8iE)

18 A second look at Fish Tank Cleaner Lady, then?

Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 03, 2020 03:53 PM (iuFgi)

19 Aren't Schumer, Palsi, Burnie, and Donkey-Chompers begging to have Trump Nationalize industries?
Let's nationalize social media.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at April 03, 2020 03:53 PM (pw+jk)

20 ace, I tweeted this based on Axeman's comment

Shun the #Hydroxychloroquine! 'Tis naught but Trumpcraft most vile!
- The "pro-science" Left right now

https://twitter.com/votermom/status/
1246102344795856896

Posted by: vmom 2020 at April 03, 2020 03:53 PM (G546f)

21 I notice that they've stopped stating as fact that Trump and Pence "literally do not believe in science!"

Or maybe I've just managed to escape such idiotic comments from the Left. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at April 03, 2020 03:53 PM (bDqIh)

22 Expert is asshoe.

Posted by: Fortcoins at April 03, 2020 03:54 PM (JbL9Q)

23 Of course they reacted with "Orange Man Bad and Stupid and Smelly and Always Wrong" no matter what Trump says. Of course they end up with egg on their faces because reactions like that don't take into account reality and they end up having to backtrack.

This happens because they are emotionally children, very young, very spoiled, immature children.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Quarantine Special - Free Delivery of Lockdown Laments from The Outrage Outlet! at April 03, 2020 03:54 PM (s6M7E)

24 Being a Leftist means never having to say your sorry
D. Prager

Posted by: Skip at April 03, 2020 03:54 PM (ZCEU2)

25 Wall, blindfolds, cigarettes, rifles, beer, vodka, party.

Some assembly and chronological order required.

Posted by: clutch cargo at April 03, 2020 03:54 PM (8B6Ng)

26 Trump was right and the leftards are lying sacks of rat shit. Nothing changed.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at April 03, 2020 03:54 PM (o2MD2)

27 First!

Posted by: freaked, vicationaniac at April 03, 2020 03:54 PM (Tnijr)

28 First?

Posted by: freaked, vicationaniac at April 03, 2020 03:54 PM (Tnijr)

29
Ailing takes me away?
No?

Is it already old?

Posted by: Soothsayer, very senile at April 03, 2020 03:55 PM (yDBK2)

30 First!

Posted by: freaked, vicationaniac at April 03, 2020 03:55 PM (Tnijr)

31 Just like Cuomo and his bullshit to cover for his own unpreparedness and dereliction, the media's opining on this treatment is starting to stink like a rotting corpse.

BTW. Apparently in NY you still have to be admitted to a hospital to get this treatment. They won't let doctors prescribe it

Posted by: Hesco Gypsy, staring from 457 meters at April 03, 2020 03:55 PM (wElh/)

32 13 Bareeeel

Posted by: vmom 2020 at April 03, 2020 03:55 PM (G546f)

33 South Park still alive after 60 years? SP more informed than these MSM clown car wrecks.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at April 03, 2020 03:56 PM (mPyi0)

34 People who are the very definition of stupid making scientific claims on the basis of orangemanbad.
That seems odd.

Posted by: Northernlurker at April 03, 2020 03:56 PM (Uu+Jp)

35 "21 I notice that they've stopped stating as fact that Trump and Pence "literally do not believe in science!"

Or maybe I've just managed to escape such idiotic comments from the Left. . ."

The new line is Trump "was forced to accept science."

The truth is he had to pretend to accept a hoax to survive politically because this is and always has been an op.

This very well may tank the economy permanently and end capitalism (freedom ceased to exist some time back).

There has to be a reckoning.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at April 03, 2020 03:56 PM (puu6v)

36

The MFM is still running with their "experts" claiming that it doesn't work and only causes bad side effects. They cannot admit that Trump was right about this. And if this doesn't work and stop this virus the MFM will conveniently try to rewrite the story on this

Posted by: TheQuietMan at April 03, 2020 03:56 PM (W/gIX)

37
Shouldn't we have all been clued in a long time ago when we realized all Goldfish were immune to the Chinese flu?

(not serious)

Posted by: Soothsayer, very senile at April 03, 2020 03:56 PM (yDBK2)

38 31
Thats great that the New York leftards withhold treatment from other New York leftards. I approve.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at April 03, 2020 03:56 PM (o2MD2)

39 Outstanding work, (H5knJ) !

Outside the barrel, no one can hear you Reeeee !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez, we are being gaslighted 24/365 at April 03, 2020 03:56 PM (cqteU)

40 This happens because they are emotionally children, very young, very spoiled, immature children.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Quarantine Special - Free Delivery of Lockdown
Laments from The Outrage Outlet! at April 03, 2020 03:54 PM (s6M7E)

===
I'd say children act much better than the media.
The media is more like tween mean girls. They act horribly, just like the media.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at April 03, 2020 03:56 PM (pw+jk)

41 So I guess the "false hope" and "snake oil" are in fact, regular hope and a legitimate, possibly efficacious, therapy. Amazing.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at April 03, 2020 03:57 PM (87EdW)

42 I had to unfriend a friend's husband (she's an ER doctor, he's the stay at home dad) two weeks ago because, even though they were fighting over the use of this drug (this was two weeks ago!), Trump was still definitely an idiot.

Posted by: Roxanne, Roxanne at April 03, 2020 03:57 PM (xU7mE)

43 25 Wall, blindfolds, cigarettes, rifles, beer, vodka, party.

Some assembly and chronological order required.
Posted by: clutch cargo at April 03, 2020 03:54 PM (8B6Ng)

I saw Wall, blindfolds, cigarettes, rifles, beer, vodka, party open for Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young, Merrill, Lynch, Pierce, Sacco and Vanzetti at the Fillmore East in '71.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 03, 2020 03:57 PM (pS94+)

44 I volunteer the media for the placebo part of the control group. They would have wanted it that way.

Posted by: clutch cargo at April 03, 2020 03:57 PM (8B6Ng)

45 This HCQ news is only now being acknowledged by the media because they are planning their next attack on Trump:

Now that he admitted that over 100K people could die in the USA because of COVID, they will accuse him of scaring the economy into a deeper recession than there would be if he didn't say anything at all.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 03, 2020 03:57 PM (iuFgi)

46 I mean the bar has gone down to Third World levels for a while, but jeebus, will that airhead MI governor pay *any* price for such clumsy, obviously stupid and politically motivated buffoonery? Regarding a literally life-saving issue during a national crisis?

I probably don't want to know the answer.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 03, 2020 03:57 PM (El6T/)

47 I don't know how anyone thinks that we can survive as a nation with as poisoned an information stream - aka the Media - as we have.

After this is all done there needs to be a reckoning. A reckoning done with extreme prejudice.

Posted by: LGoPs the former boyscout who now shouts Broken Arrow!, Broken Arrow! at April 03, 2020 03:58 PM (j42ZK)

48 If Trump has some actors or med student in white lab coats at the press conference the MSM would have gladly talked up hydroxychloroquine. Because a white lab coat makes you an expert that must be listened to, right?

Posted by: Ripley at April 03, 2020 03:58 PM (MxEKc)

49 Anything Trump says is a lie. Automatically.

Rachel Maddow, case in point.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at April 03, 2020 03:58 PM (oVJmc)

50 Say, I wonder if there is any connection between CNN being reflexively anti-Trump and their ratings?

Nah, can't be.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 03, 2020 03:58 PM (ZLI7S)

51 Ace, good ole Twitter got into the censorship business too on HCQ, forcing Laura Ingraham to delete a tweet about it on March 30 (Breitbart) :

Twitter has forced Fox News host Laura Ingraham to take down a tweet reporting on news that the malaria drug Hydroxychloroquine has been used to successfully treat sufferers of the Chinese virus in New York City hospitals.

https://tinyurl.com/t53cbv3

Posted by: GnuBreed at April 03, 2020 03:58 PM (Z4rgH)

52 24 Being a Leftist means never having to say your sorry
D. Prager

Posted by: Skip at April 03, 2020 03:54 PM (ZCEU2)

-------------------
Bingo

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at April 03, 2020 03:58 PM (ch6++)

53 Wait. I thought Snake Juice Diet Guy had the cure?

Posted by: Hesco Gypsy, staring from 457 meters at April 03, 2020 03:58 PM (wElh/)

54 They're offering one thing: FEAR

Not news
Not facts
Not truth
Not information
Not understanding
Not discussion

Raw, bloodshot eyes, foaming mouth fear

And, at the very least, they deserve to burn in their towers of fear and lies they've built

They stoked this fear to turn it on us--that is their plan

It will be turned on them and they'll never see it coming

And when it does, they will get my sympathy equal of the honesty they dealt

Posted by: RoyalOil, Vicroy Canadian Territories at April 03, 2020 03:58 PM (vPKfA)

55 Would a media not blinded by hatred to the point of stupidity yield a more, or less effective Trump? It's very possible their hatred is the whetstone to his success.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at April 03, 2020 03:58 PM (87EdW)

56 Substantiated hope is okay. Unsubstantiated? Hell no, Mr. Trump!

Posted by: JuJuBee, just generally being shamey at April 03, 2020 03:58 PM (COzlW)

57 46 I mean the bar has gone down to Third World levels for a while, but jeebus, will that airhead MI governor pay *any* price for such clumsy, obviously stupid and politically motivated buffoonery? Regarding a literally life-saving issue during a national crisis?

I probably don't want to know the answer.
Posted by: rhomboid at April 03, 2020 03:57 PM (El6T/)

She did it to get noticed by the Biden campaign.

Ooh Ooh pick me for a suicide mission!!!!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 03, 2020 03:59 PM (pS94+)

58 Sorry about the margins. I didn't know you could blow them via signature line. Thoughtless of me, but not intentional. Mea culpa.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 03, 2020 03:59 PM (H5knJ)

59 The Hospital ship docked NYC is almost empty because they won't send non-Coronavirus patients there to free up space . That tells me it's not as dire as they claim.

Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at April 03, 2020 03:59 PM (YT5Rb)

60 I was hoping for a Team America II with better puppet private parts.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at April 03, 2020 03:59 PM (mPyi0)

61 "there's no doubt he overhyped the immediate prospects for the drug" because the FDA had not provided an explicit timeline on approving the drug to treat coronavirus.
---
Never give up the con.
Never give up the con.
Never give up the con.

Posted by: Axeman at April 03, 2020 03:59 PM (Eicbe)

62 Is it too late to get the folks folks from Lanchestershire?

Posted by: Goatweed at April 03, 2020 03:59 PM (iR3Gu)

63 Revolution is right. I was already starting to get pissed at all of this. Then the homo guv closed schools for the rest of the year, and set me off again. Still almost a month to go til 4/30 and we are shedding more jobs than viruses. No I don't want wuhu lung rot and am tempting fate by saying this but we better get this country going again in May.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 03, 2020 03:59 PM (r+sAi)

64 Their "facts without evidence" are deemed fact for at least 5 news cycles. But when Trump suggests something "might work, looks good", he is a liar, pushing dangerous ideas, totally incompetent" for the same 5 news cycles.

Except Trump's idea was evidence based, their fake facts that he is lying are Trump Derangement inspired.

And I hear that Birx lady claimed the shutdowns have saved one million American lives already. I think these thought leaders are way too invested in their models and long term shut down, "for your own good children, obey obey obey, and kneel, while you are at it, behold the marvelous powers of BigGov. "

Same with Fauci now saying we most stay lock down (locked up) till there are zero new cases. (and still no talk of HCQ+ success)

Posted by: illiniwek at April 03, 2020 03:59 PM (Cus5s)

65 Now that he admitted that over 100K people could die in the USA because of COVID, they will accuse him of scaring the economy into a deeper recession than there would be if he didn't say anything at all.

And if he did say nothing, they'd call him a failure for that.

The MSM is playing the 'damned if he does, damned if he doesn't game', but never get called out for their own flip flops that they have to go through to do it.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at April 03, 2020 03:59 PM (oVJmc)

66 I have been trolling twatter leftists to.promise not to take the Trump cure if they get sick

Posted by: vmom 2020 at April 03, 2020 03:59 PM (G546f)

67 New york state still not recommending its use so trump won't look good. Democrat gov. in wisconsin finally gave in last night.

Posted by: raimondo at April 03, 2020 04:00 PM (ZUQH4)

68 Take your Trump medicine, bitches!

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at April 03, 2020 04:00 PM (+0AKE)

69 Medication appears to really help virus victims, but lets not get our hopes up ~ the enemedia

Posted by: Dr. Kildare at April 03, 2020 04:00 PM (HO4be)

70 53 Wait. I thought Snake Juice Diet Guy had the cure?
Posted by: Hesco Gypsy, staring from 457 meters at April 03, 2020 03:58 PM (wElh/)

Dr. Howard (Dr. Fine Dr; Howard) with Balance of Snake Oil.

I loathe that fucking commercial. Makes Karz 4 Kidz sound like the Brandenburg Concerto.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 03, 2020 04:00 PM (pS94+)

71 If these reporters in the daily briefings were actually, oh, I don't know... Intellectually honest and curious... They would ask Trump "Are you or any of the task force taking HCQ as a preventative measure?" And if they say Yes, then the followup: "Are you considering a nation-wide roll-out of this to get us back to work?" But of course, they aren't so we will never see those questions.

Posted by: Joseph Dickerson at April 03, 2020 04:00 PM (KTq2u)

72 "45 This HCQ news is only now being acknowledged by the media because they are planning their next attack on Trump:

Now that he admitted that over 100K people could die in the USA because of COVID, they will accuse him of scaring the economy into a deeper recession than there would be if he didn't say anything at all."

They are trying this now and it is what they always planned to do. Fauci's bullshit nonsense is now being attributed to Trump. People have started to notice the numbers...well, they aren't there so now the over-reaction has to be attributed to Trump.

He needs to announce new guidelines to reopen the economy before the middle of the month.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at April 03, 2020 04:00 PM (puu6v)

73 What drugs does Senile Joe take so he can remember his name for interviews?

Posted by: Northernlurker at April 03, 2020 04:00 PM (Uu+Jp)

74 Now that we're closing in on the cure (or at least treatment) of the virus, it's time to get serious about what we're going to do about the economy.

This is so much bigger than people think.

The solution needs to match the size of the problem.

Posted by: jwest at April 03, 2020 04:00 PM (mrrpT)

75 PS...You don't "believe" in science.

Science represents a methodology of determining the truth about certain aspects of reality. That can be investigated and verified. Some things are still unknowable. Ahem.....dark matter, whatever that is.

It's not belief or faith, like religion.

And no, the science is really NEVER settled, because skeptical scientists (at least the good ones), will continue to question what even they themselves have come to accept.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative....menace to society at April 03, 2020 04:00 PM (vcOmj)

76 I mean the bar has gone down to Third World levels for a while, but jeebus, will that airhead MI governor pay *any* price for such clumsy, obviously stupid and politically motivated buffoonery? Regarding a literally life-saving issue during a national crisis?

I probably don't want to know the answer.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 03, 2020 03:57 PM (El6T/)

Oh yeah, the price is Biden is floating her as his possible running mate.

Posted by: GnuBreed at April 03, 2020 04:00 PM (Z4rgH)

77 Being a Leftist means never having to say your sorry
D. Prager

Posted by: Skip at April 03, 2020 03:54 PM (ZCEU2)

Because like MiniTrue they are constantly rewriting the story to fit their narrative. So why apologize when the story will change when needed?

Posted by: TheQuietMan at April 03, 2020 04:00 PM (W/gIX)

78 TWITTER MUST BE NATIONALIZED FOR OUR SAFETY.
Then taken apart and sold for $3.58.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at April 03, 2020 04:00 PM (pw+jk)

79 Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 03, 2020 03:59 PM (H5knJ)

I fixed it. Although you might not like the edit.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 03, 2020 04:00 PM (dLLD6)

80 How goes the Allahpundit suicide watch?

Posted by: Axeman at April 03, 2020 04:00 PM (Eicbe)

81 Our media is pure garbage. Only one celled idiots listen to them.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at April 03, 2020 04:01 PM (jvt6t)

82 Here's my most recent Covid story.

Have a friend is has been exposed to the Covid. Doctor ordered her some Plaquenil and Zithromax having heard good things about it possibly being an effective treatment. Fucking CVS pharmacy refused to fill a legal prescription because and I quote: "That's not a FDA approved treatment."

Good I hate CVS and I hope they go out of business.

Posted by: Darth Randall at April 03, 2020 04:01 PM (/Njku)

83 >.If Trump has some actors or med student in white lab coats at the press conference the MSM would have gladly talked up hydroxychloroquine. Because a white lab coat makes you an expert that must be listened to, right?

It was the reverse with Dr. Birx: she was lauded by the Left for her competence, but then she went and defended Trump on something last week and suddenly she's being "cancelled" by the blue checkmarks like Joe Scarborough and Joe Lockhart for helping Trump LIE.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 03, 2020 04:01 PM (bDqIh)

84 Posted by: I am an asshole at April 03, 2020 03:53 PM (H5knJ)

A most cromulent edit

Posted by: RoyalOil, Vicroy Canadian Territories at April 03, 2020 04:01 PM (vPKfA)

85 I have little doubt that in short order the NY Times will discover they were 'for' Hydroxychloroquine in January and could not get the word out because Trump was suppressing the use in the US.

I like how the sponge brains in Hollywood are screaming that Trump is killing people without any specifics on what he did that he shouldn't have or what he didn't do that he should have. I guess he is killing people in some non-specific or easily defined way that defies description using the English language. The Harry Reid Paradigm of Criminal Prosecution, I guess.

Posted by: JB1000 at April 03, 2020 04:01 PM (geO1h)

86 I want to know how many government workers have lost their jobs. Or is it only the private sector that suffers?

Posted by: LGoPs the former boyscout who now shouts Broken Arrow!, Broken Arrow! at April 03, 2020 04:01 PM (j42ZK)

87 73 What drugs does Senile Joe take so he can remember his name for interviews?
Posted by: Northernlurker at April 03, 2020 04:00 PM (Uu+Jp)

Essence of PrePubescent Puthy Jooth.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 03, 2020 04:01 PM (pS94+)

88 Posted by: Darth Randall at April 03, 2020 04:01 PM (/Njku)

what state?

Posted by: vmom 2020 at April 03, 2020 04:01 PM (G546f)

89 >Being a Leftist means never having to say you were wrong

Posted by: DB- just DB, under house arrest at April 03, 2020 04:01 PM (iTXRQ)

90 Sorry about the margins. I didn't know you could blow them via signature line. Thoughtless of me, but not intentional. Mea culpa.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 03, 2020 03:59 PM (H5knJ)

Apologies only make the barrel more angry.

Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at April 03, 2020 04:01 PM (YT5Rb)

91 Think about it:

You've never heard of a FISH getting Covid-19, have you?

Case closed.

Posted by: zombie at April 03, 2020 04:01 PM (N9G0H)

92 "25 Wall, blindfolds, cigarettes, rifles, beer, vodka, party.

Some assembly and chronological order required.

Posted by: clutch cargo at April 03, 2020 03:54 PM (8B6Ng) "

Wait, what ?

No torches ? No pitchforks ?

I thought sure there were torches and pitchforks in there somewhere !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez, we are being gaslighted 24/365 at April 03, 2020 04:01 PM (cqteU)

93
"there's no doubt he overhyped the immediate prospects for the drug" because the FDA had not provided an explicit timeline on approving the drug to treat coronavirus.
---
Never give up the con.
Never give up the con.
Never give up the con.

Posted by: Axeman

You remind us of the movie Glenn Gary Glen Ross.
Is there another film that does better at illustrating the tactical sliminess of today's Fake News?

Posted by: Soothsayer, very senile at April 03, 2020 04:01 PM (yDBK2)

94 86 I want to know how many government workers have lost their jobs. Or is it only the private sector that suffers?
Posted by: LGoPs the former boyscout who now shouts Broken Arrow!, Broken Arrow! at April 03, 2020 04:01 PM (j42ZK)

==========

Their jobs are funded.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 03, 2020 04:01 PM (zZbCU)

95 Quick! Someone do an archive on the Science Magazine blog on the attack on Dr. Raoult before it gets stealth-edited or memory-holed.

Let's see how long that post stays on their website.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 03, 2020 04:02 PM (iuFgi)

96 Why were they trying so hard to disprove the use of hydroxychloroquine?

Why don't they want a cure?

Posted by: batterup at April 03, 2020 04:02 PM (K4I9O)

97 I loathe that fucking commercial. Makes Karz 4 Kidz sound like the Brandenburg Concerto.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 03, 2020 04:00 PM (pS94+)
------------

Call Roto-Rooter, that's the name
and away go troubles down the drain!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at April 03, 2020 04:02 PM (WEBkv)

98 Hydroxychloroquine + azythromicyn + zinc + vitamins C and D, are the way to "bend the curve" down to zero NATIONWIDE in about 3 weeks.
This is not rocket surgery, there have been multiple examples of it working in multiple countries for 3 weeks now. The FDA and CDC are dragging feet on this because the get off on the power and attention.

Posted by: Pissed off Patriot at April 03, 2020 04:02 PM (JNTt1)

99 Trump you magnificent bastard, I read your book!

Posted by: rammajamma at April 03, 2020 04:02 PM (SwWMX)

100 Anyone hear more about Joe's diddle ee? I didna think so.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at April 03, 2020 04:02 PM (o2MD2)

101 I'd be angry about the edit and all, but we all know it's accurate.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 03, 2020 04:02 PM (H5knJ)

102 How goes the Allahpundit suicide watch?

Less successful than Epstein's, unfortunately.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at April 03, 2020 04:03 PM (oVJmc)

103 I'm waiting for the official call "OK this stuff really works and we should be using it" to ram down the throats of some really obnoxious, stupid, and arrogant doctors on Twitter who threw a wingding when I suggested we should try this stuff.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 03, 2020 04:03 PM (KZzsI)

104 Oh yeah, the price is Biden is floating her as his possible running mate.
Posted by: GnuBreed

If she floats, isn't she a witch??

Posted by: Bozo Conservative....menace to society at April 03, 2020 04:03 PM (vcOmj)

105 97 I loathe that fucking commercial. Makes Karz 4 Kidz sound like the Brandenburg Concerto.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 03, 2020 04:00 PM (pS94+)
------------

Call Roto-Rooter, that's the name
and away go troubles down the drain!
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at April 03, 2020 04:02 PM (WEBkv)

At Pierson Ford we stand alone,
at Fairport and El Cajon...

And I'm from Brooklyn ("CRAZY EDDIE" INSANE!!!!")

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 03, 2020 04:03 PM (pS94+)

106 If the Purple Lipped Messiah had suggested HCQ the hymns of praise would be nauseating.

Posted by: Northernlurker at April 03, 2020 04:03 PM (Uu+Jp)

107 Trump : The sun will come up tomorrow.

CNN : Trump, without evidence, states star located in our galaxy will rise tomorrow.

Posted by: Dr Spank at April 03, 2020 04:03 PM (xoAW1)

108
This one always reminds me of a certain lady:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3hBYTkI-sE

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 03, 2020 04:03 PM (II2Y0)

109 Sorry about the margins. I didn't know you could
blow them via signature line. Thoughtless of me, but not intentional.
Mea culpa.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 03, 2020 03:59 PM (H5knJ)

Apologies only make the barrel more angry.

Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at April 03, 2020 04:01 PM (YT5Rb)

===
As with leftists, never apologize.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at April 03, 2020 04:03 PM (pw+jk)

110 Let MSM torment the 20% who watch them.
The rest of America knows that they are lying, adulterating, bed wetters.

Looking forward to the great rectification of names in 2021.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 03, 2020 04:03 PM (N+GSq)

111 104 Oh yeah, the price is Biden is floating her as his possible running mate.
Posted by: GnuBreed

If she floats, isn't she a witch??
Posted by: Bozo Conservative....menace to society at April 03, 2020 04:03 PM (vcOmj)

==========

But, very small rocks float. And cherries!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 03, 2020 04:04 PM (zZbCU)

112 The Hospital ship docked NYC is almost empty because they won't send non-Coronavirus patients there to free up space . That tells me it's not as dire as they claim.

************

CNN Headline Tomorrow:

Trump causes more global warming and threatens endangered species by sending unneeded hospital ship burning carbon fuel that kill dolphins and bunnies

Posted by: Two Weeks From Piercing Nipples at April 03, 2020 04:04 PM (+dsLj)

113 I fixed it. Although you might not like the edit.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 03, 2020 04:00 PM (dLLD6)
----------

At the expense of one, comes the merriment of many.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at April 03, 2020 04:04 PM (WEBkv)

114 One more time!

Posted by: Santo Gold at April 03, 2020 04:04 PM (Tnijr)

115
Wall, blindfolds, cigarettes, rifles, beer, vodka, party.

Some assembly and chronological order required.
Posted by: clutch cargo at April 03, 2020 03:54 PM (8B6Ng)

No. Traitors get hanged by the neck until dead.

Firing squads have an element of honor about them. The final cigarette, the refusal of the blindfold, "Shoot straight, you bastards. Don't make a mess of it.", standing there looking your executioners in the eye as they pull the trigger.

Hangings are sordid and nauseating.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 03, 2020 04:04 PM (EGyGV)

116 >Why were they trying so hard to disprove the use of hydroxychloroquine?

Why don't they want a cure?
Posted by: batterup

because Trump must be defeated by any means necessary

Posted by: DB- just DB, under house arrest at April 03, 2020 04:04 PM (iTXRQ)

117 I can't help noticing that selling lottery tickets in SIP area is considered an essential service.

Posted by: Ripley at April 03, 2020 04:04 PM (MxEKc)

118 Why don't they want a cure?

No excuse to crash the economy if there's a cure.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - hiding out in the secret mountain lair at April 03, 2020 04:04 PM (SchxB)

119 This is not rocket surgery, there have been multiple examples of it working in multiple countries for 3 weeks now. The FDA and CDC are dragging feet on this because the get off on the power and attention.
Posted by: Pissed off Patriot at April 03, 2020 04:02 PM (JNTt1)

And that sweet sweet pure cream moola topped with chopped nutz and a cherry. They are salivating over their next budgets.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto at April 03, 2020 04:04 PM (kXoT0)

120 And I'm from Brooklyn ("CRAZY EDDIE" INSANE!!!!")
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 03, 2020 04:03 PM (pS94+)
----------

Cal Worthington and his dog spot.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at April 03, 2020 04:05 PM (WEBkv)

121 what state?

Posted by: vmom 2020 at April 03, 2020 04:01 PM (G546f)

Texas.

Posted by: Darth Randall at April 03, 2020 04:05 PM (/Njku)

122 Their jobs are funded.

By the very same private sector businesses and workers that are being decimated - under government orders.

Posted by: LGoPs the former boyscout who now shouts Broken Arrow!, Broken Arrow! at April 03, 2020 04:05 PM (j42ZK)

123 Unsubstantiated hope? I don't think that CNN guy knows what hope means.

Reminds me of that scene from Pale Rider where the bad guy worries that The Preacher will give them hope.

Posted by: Quint at April 03, 2020 04:05 PM (hHxp2)

124
96 Why were they trying so hard to disprove the use of hydroxychloroquine?

Why don't they want a cure?

HELL NO they don't want a cure.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at April 03, 2020 04:05 PM (oVJmc)

125 Oh yeah, the price is Biden is floating her as his possible running mate.
Posted by: GnuBreed

If she floats, isn't she a witch??
Posted by: Bozo Conservative

BURN THE WITCH!!

Posted by: rickb223 at April 03, 2020 04:05 PM (Oqufv)

126 Firing squads have an element of honor about them. The final cigarette, the refusal of the blindfold, "Shoot straight, you bastards. Don't make a mess of it.", standing there looking your executioners in the eye as they pull the trigger.

Hangings are sordid and nauseating.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 03, 2020 04:04 PM (EGyGV)

Either method is fine with me, then draw and quarter the body.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto at April 03, 2020 04:05 PM (kXoT0)

127 JJ and GnuBreed, while 99% of the 1,238-dimensional explanations of many things these days remind me of trying to talk sense to Soviets who believed Izvestiya, that explanation for the MI governor's actions makes actual sense.

That it *can* be true - that pulling stupid stunts on life-and-death matters during an emergency can actually be any kind of path to political advancement, even if only within the party - is stunning confirmation of national degradation. Guess we'll see.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 03, 2020 04:06 PM (El6T/)

128 119 This is not rocket surgery, there have been multiple examples of it working in multiple countries for 3 weeks now. The FDA and CDC are dragging feet on this because the get off on the power and attention.
Posted by: Pissed off Patriot at April 03, 2020 04:02 PM (JNTt1)

And that sweet sweet pure cream moola topped with chopped nutz and a cherry. They are salivating over their next budgets.
Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto at April 03, 2020 04:04 PM (kXoT0)

Budget? Hell they are salivating at the prospect of a permanent state of emergency to impose totalitarian socialism.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 03, 2020 04:06 PM (pS94+)

129 And the guv of Nv. saying no to prescriptions because "people may horde it"; turns out people were -Nv. Dept. of Corrections

Posted by: pahound at April 03, 2020 04:06 PM (M1DxT)

130 If HCQ is finally established as a cure can we have a Punch a Reporter for Truth Day.

Posted by: Northernlurker at April 03, 2020 04:06 PM (Uu+Jp)

131 Firing squads have an element of honor about them.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur

Not when they are on their knees next to a ditch and take a .22lr behind the ear.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 03, 2020 04:06 PM (Oqufv)

132 oh, and lets see the estimates of lives saved by Trump going against DeepState and shutting down many flights from China. I say 20 million lives saved ... wtg Trump.

He has great campaign material there with Biden and the others berating Trump for that dangerous and ignorant action. We need a lot of after action reports/studies ... political yes, but was there sedition? People paid to spread China lies and keep the virus spreading, then spreading more propaganda about how great China was at stopping the virus.

Tim Pool says China had their "agents" around the world buying up necessary supplies, masks and such, in January I think. There seem to be other indications of China prepping for such action ... as if their control of the supply chain was not evidence enough of intent to conquer the world.

Posted by: illiniwek at April 03, 2020 04:06 PM (Cus5s)

133 Budget? Hell they are salivating at the prospect of a permanent state of emergency to impose totalitarian socialism.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

A permanent State of Fear.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative....menace to society at April 03, 2020 04:06 PM (vcOmj)

134 The MEDIA LIED AND PEOPLE DIED. LITERALLY PEOPLE DIED BECAUSE OF THE MEDIA'S HATRED OF TRUMP.
MANY (not all only like 98% of them) SHOULD BE SHOT ON SIGHT.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at April 03, 2020 04:07 PM (pw+jk)

135 Have a friend is has been exposed to the Covid. Doctor ordered her some Plaquenil and Zithromax having heard good things about it possibly being an effective treatment. Fucking CVS pharmacy refused to fill a legal prescription because and I quote: "That's not a FDA approved treatment."
__________________

The FDA issued an Emergency Use Authorization allowing the drugs to be used to treat the China virus last month.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at April 03, 2020 04:07 PM (k4dH2)

136 Posted by: Darth Randall at April 03, 2020 04:01 PM (/Njku)

Go to a different pharmacist - they can refuse to fill RXs but most don't.
if necessary break up the RX and fill the hydroxychloroquine at one pharmacy for your new dx of RA and the zpak the next to treat your festering rash

Posted by: batterup at April 03, 2020 04:07 PM (K4I9O)

137 Cal Worthington and his dog spot.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at April 03, 2020 04:05 PM (WEBkv)

I remember Cal. With his supermarket (literally) of cars.
He sponsored the late night monster movies till the wee hours.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at April 03, 2020 04:07 PM (o2MD2)

138 Lets face it, there's no graft in the Chloraquine solution. Nobody will get rich making and selling it, nobody will get rich helping process it, nobody will get rich promoting it, nobody will get rich expediting the approval process, etc.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 03, 2020 04:07 PM (KZzsI)

139

Here's my most recent Covid story.

Have a friend is has been exposed to the Covid. Doctor ordered her some Plaquenil and Zithromax having heard good things about it possibly being an effective treatment. Fucking CVS pharmacy refused to fill a legal prescription because and I quote: "That's not a FDA approved treatment."

Good I hate CVS and I hope they go out of business.
Posted by: Darth Randall at April 03, 2020 04:01 PM (/Njku)

what state ?

Posted by: runner at April 03, 2020 04:07 PM (zr5Kq)

140 Wait! I thought I was the assho!

Posted by: Weasel at April 03, 2020 04:07 PM (MVjcR)

141 And tomorrow the media will be "We were calling for HCQ since January! Trump wouldn't listen!"

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 03, 2020 04:07 PM (dNzKv)

142 The media doesn't realize that there's been a sea change in most people's attitude toward Trump even BEFORE his rising to the occasion with this Virus.

Scarborough and the rest are still treating Trump like it's 2017--as if Russian Collusion is going to take him down any minute.
It's really pathetic.

But don't tell them.

Posted by: JoeF. at April 03, 2020 04:07 PM (CqE5x)

143 I am deeply saddened New Yorkers may have needlessly died because they were avoiding Trump.pills.

Posted by: Regular joe at April 03, 2020 04:08 PM (6/uwW)

144

Fake News is still using the 1 million cases "worldwide" figure, today, with the implication that 24% of all the cases in the world are here in the USA.

Posted by: Soothsayer, very senile at April 03, 2020 04:08 PM (yDBK2)

145 I mean the bar has gone down to Third World levels for a while, but jeebus, will that airhead MI governor pay *any* price for such clumsy, obviously stupid and politically motivated buffoonery? Regarding a literally life-saving issue during a national crisis?�

I probably don't want to know the answer.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 03, 2020 03:57 PM (El6T/)

This issue alone should guarantee Trump the win in Michigan, and therefore the election. It won't, but that's also a reason that Fake Americans absolutely have to be Dealt With as a matter of public policy.

Posted by: trev006 at April 03, 2020 04:08 PM (0HpOW)

146 >>PS...You don't "believe" in science.

Right?

That's what made their slander extra stupid.

Some people don't believe in the political Left's AGW hysteria (the degree of the threat, the cause and their solution), therefore they are accused of not believing any of the science behind it, which is then further characterized at not believing in any science. It is all so ridiculous.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 03, 2020 04:08 PM (bDqIh)

147 I remember Cal. With his supermarket (literally) of cars.
He sponsored the late night monster movies till the wee hours.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at April 03, 2020 04:07 PM (o2MD2)
---------

How about Earl Shibe?

*Yeah, I might be a bit older than 29*

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at April 03, 2020 04:08 PM (WEBkv)

148 107 Trump : The sun will come up tomorrow.

CNN : Trump, without evidence, states star located in our galaxy will rise tomorrow.
Posted by: Dr Spank

More like:

Trump, in Anti-Science Tirade, Promotes Misperception that the Sun "Rises," When in Fact the Earth Is Just Rotating

Posted by: zombie at April 03, 2020 04:08 PM (N9G0H)

149 If the President, VP or any of the administration is or isn't taking the drug it has no bearing on everyone getting the drug as a preventive measure. Heard doctors treating Wuhan patients are but this isn't socalism if 1 gets it everyone has to.

Posted by: Skip at April 03, 2020 04:08 PM (ZCEU2)

150 If HCQ is finally established as a cure can we have a Punch a Reporter for Truth Day.
Posted by: Northernlurker

Every day should be a Punch A Reporter for Truth Day.

Actually, is it the reporters, or the Hairy Reasoners that read and produce "the news"?

Posted by: Bozo Conservative....menace to society at April 03, 2020 04:08 PM (vcOmj)

151 134 The MEDIA LIED AND PEOPLE DIED. LITERALLY PEOPLE DIED BECAUSE OF THE MEDIA'S HATRED OF TRUMP.
MANY (not all only like 98% of them) SHOULD BE SHOT ON SIGHT.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at April 03, 2020 04:07 PM (pw+jk)

The media will be responsible for a hell of a lot more deaths than the Oriental Pox.

I dread seeing the suicide statistics for this year.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 03, 2020 04:08 PM (pS94+)

152 138 Lets face it, there's no graft in the Chloraquine solution. Nobody will get rich making and selling it, nobody will get rich helping process it, nobody will get rich promoting it, nobody will get rich expediting the approval process, etc.

No Patent, No Profit.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at April 03, 2020 04:08 PM (oVJmc)

153 Media is asshole!!

Posted by: Tonypete at April 03, 2020 04:09 PM (Y4EXg)

154
Firing squads have an element of honor about them.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur

Not when they are on their knees next to a ditch and take a .22lr behind the ear.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 03, 2020 04:06 PM (Oqufv)

Well, a single neo-NKVD apparatchik isn't really a "squad".

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 03, 2020 04:09 PM (EGyGV)

155 So are Chinatown New Years parades a good thing yet? Asking for a friend.

Posted by: Pancy Nelosi at April 03, 2020 04:09 PM (qlTN9)

156 Every claim that Trump made which turns out to be true, the media and Dems will take credit for and burn doughnuts in the infield over their smartness.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 03, 2020 04:09 PM (dNzKv)

157 I am deeply saddened New Yorkers may have needlessly died because they were avoiding Trump pills.

****

You're welcome.

Posted by: Darwin at April 03, 2020 04:09 PM (+dsLj)

158 Again I ask how many people in Michigan died because Whitless threatened doctors, regarding THE treatment most effective against the Wuhu flu?

Also, was it that long ago that the screed DOCTORS NOT POLITICIANS should make medical decisions?

Posted by: Axeman at April 03, 2020 04:09 PM (Eicbe)

159 *pours one out for D-Lamp*

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 03, 2020 04:09 PM (NWiLs)

160 How about Earl Shibe?

*Yeah, I might be a bit older than 29*
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at April 03, 2020 04:08 PM (WEBkv)

He'll paint ANY car for $29.95! (any masking is extra) heh.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at April 03, 2020 04:10 PM (o2MD2)

161 I have been trolling twatter leftists to.promise not to take the Trump cure if they get sick
Posted by: vmom 2020

Add in not taking the stimulus check since he isn't their president.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 03, 2020 04:10 PM (Oqufv)

162 And thus they will attempt to impeach him again for all this.

Posted by: buzzion at April 03, 2020 04:10 PM (Z7lwY)

163
Open Question: Is Bill's or Al's version of "Ain't No Sunshine" better?

After years of introspection on this burning issue, on the morning of the man's death, I had to answer "Bill."

But it was a really tough call.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 03, 2020 04:10 PM (II2Y0)

164 I caught the Dallas County judge and the Harris County playing telephone with the lockdown deal two weeks ago. Now Dallas guy ups his term of lockdown to May 20.

Ms. Harris County announces April 30th.

My take? the dam breaks the weekend of the 11th of April.

411 sounds like a good time to let it go

Posted by: DanMan at April 03, 2020 04:10 PM (XTiHL)

165 Every claim that Trump made which turns out to be true, the media and Dems will take credit for and burn doughnuts in the infield over their smartness.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 03, 2020 04:09 PM (dNzKv)
---
And never-ever retract their accusation that it was a lie.

Posted by: Axeman at April 03, 2020 04:10 PM (Eicbe)

166 I remember Cal. With his supermarket (literally) of cars.
He sponsored the late night monster movies till the wee hours.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at April 03, 2020 04:07 PM (o2MD2)

Me too. With his "dog" Spot that was like an elephant or a monkey.

Posted by: Jordan61 at April 03, 2020 04:10 PM (Ez6QX)

167 Maybe the rest of the country will wake up to the facts that we know so well; The media sucks they get almost everything wrong. The media is beyond biased they actively hate us and our values,

I do not and can not watch or listen to or read anything they have to say.

The media has finally jumped the shark. (i hope).

Posted by: USNtakim profoundly deplorable. at April 03, 2020 04:10 PM (0OmEj)

168 So are Chinatown New Years parades a good thing yet? Asking for a friend.
Posted by: Pancy Nelosi

Forget it Jake. It's Nancy Pelosi.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative....menace to society at April 03, 2020 04:10 PM (vcOmj)

169
How about Earl Shibe?

*Yeah, I might be a bit older than 29*
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at April 03, 2020 04:08 PM (WEBkv)

He'll paint ANY car for $29.95! (any masking is extra) heh.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at April 03, 2020 04:10 PM (o2MD2)

"No ups! No extras!"

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 03, 2020 04:10 PM (EGyGV)

170 157 I am deeply saddened New Yorkers may have needlessly died because they were avoiding Trump pills.

****

You're welcome.
Posted by: Darwin at April 03, 2020 04:09 PM (+dsLj)

At least now I can go back to scanning the obits to find an available apartment!

[sarc]

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 03, 2020 04:10 PM (pS94+)

171 Trump, in Anti-Science Tirade, Promotes Misperception that the Sun "Rises," When in Fact the Earth Is Just Rotating
Posted by: zombie at April 03, 2020 04:08 PM (N9G0H)

Dad gum it, child, that Earth is flat, flat I say...

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Foghorn Leghorn at April 03, 2020 04:11 PM (kXoT0)

172 He'll paint ANY car for $29.95! (any masking is extra) heh.
Posted by: Xipe Totec

---

No ups! No extras!

Posted by: Tonypete at April 03, 2020 04:11 PM (Y4EXg)

173 Sort of like the MSM calls people that are skeptical of climate change "deniers" (in order to make parallels to Holocaust deniers) can we call these people that were skeptical and flat out liars "hydroclorinique deniers" and that Trump supports are the "party of science"?

Posted by: Blago at April 03, 2020 04:11 PM (sjTfF)

174 Why don't they want a cure?

Posted by: batterup at April 03, 2020 04:02 PM (K4I9O)

To destroy the economy to get rid of OrangeManBad. And like all commies they don't care how many lives are ruined to achieve their political goals.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at April 03, 2020 04:11 PM (W/gIX)

175 @147 Earl Shibe!? Leave the windows down, we'll do the interior free!

Posted by: pahound at April 03, 2020 04:11 PM (M1DxT)

176 >> Oh yeah, the price is Biden is floating her as his possible running mate.
Posted by: GnuBreed

If she floats, isn't she a witch??

Posted by: Bozo Conservative....menace to society at April 03, 2020 04:03 PM (vcOmj)

Her more immediate worry is what Tank Abrams is plotting for her; she seems to be cut from Hillary-cloth. And you don't want to get wiped with that.

Posted by: GnuBreed at April 03, 2020 04:11 PM (Z4rgH)

177 Me too. With his "dog" Spot that was like an elephant or a monkey.
Posted by: Jordan61 at April 03, 2020 04:10 PM (Ez6QX)
-----
Or a tiger!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, USS Lone Fire at April 03, 2020 04:11 PM (g8Yc+)

178 Don't forget, they fucking LOVE SCIENCE!!!

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 03, 2020 04:11 PM (NWiLs)

179 138 Lets face it, there's no graft in the Chloraquine solution. Nobody will get rich making and selling it, nobody will get rich helping process it, nobody will get rich promoting it, nobody will get rich expediting the approval process, etc.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 03, 2020 04:07 PM (KZzsI)

The MSM isn't done yet. They still need to panic everyone into virtual conventions, mail-in ballots, and no in-person live debates between Trump and Biden.

Once those changes are safely in the bag, only then will the panic stop.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 03, 2020 04:11 PM (iuFgi)

180 86 I want to know how many government workers have lost their jobs.....
Posted by: LGoPs the former boyscout who now shouts Broken Arrow!, Broken Arrow! at April 03, 2020 04:01 PM (j42ZK)
----------------------------

There ARE some who are getting paid vacations though!
And it doesn't count against their annual leave days either!

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at April 03, 2020 04:12 PM (M/9m0)

181 174 Why don't they want a cure?

Posted by: batterup at April 03, 2020 04:02 PM (K4I9O)

To destroy the economy to get rid of OrangeManBad. And like all commies they don't care how many lives are ruined to achieve their political goals.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at April 03, 2020 04:11 PM (W/gIX)

Always remember: WE are OrangeManBad.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 03, 2020 04:12 PM (pS94+)

182 I'm glad we have the HCQ treatment but I'm banking on an expedited vaccine.

Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at April 03, 2020 04:12 PM (YT5Rb)

183

That utter rich girl shithead with the fake Michigan accent Shitmer had enough time to get shirts made, and go on that bimbo Noah's TV show while dicking around making this illegal, then legal...

Progressives are insane.

Posted by: Rev. Dr. E Buzz Miller, Lesbian at April 03, 2020 04:12 PM (lg/F7)

184 Have a friend is has been exposed to the Covid.
Doctor ordered her some Plaquenil and Zithromax having heard good things
about it possibly being an effective treatment. Fucking CVS pharmacy
refused to fill a legal prescription because and I quote: "That's not a
FDA approved treatment."

__________________

The FDA issued an Emergency Use Authorization allowing the drugs to be used to treat the China virus last month.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at April 03, 2020 04:07 PM (k4dH2)

serious question. Since when do pharmacies decide which prescription to fill and they ask what the illness is. The country is changing rapidly, almost daily but I have never heard of this.

Posted by: Quint at April 03, 2020 04:12 PM (hHxp2)

185 How much are media tags?
Do different outlets of media cost more?
There should be no enforcement of poaching when hunting media asshoes.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at April 03, 2020 04:13 PM (pw+jk)

186 164 - I'm pretty sure the guv's stay-at-home guidance/order is through Apr. 30.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 03, 2020 04:13 PM (H5knJ)

187 >> Why don't they want a cure?

"Trump's inaction/poor leadership on the pandemic KILLED people, he has blood on his hands!"

The more people who die the more weight their charges have. Also, the more urgency to DO SOMETHING such as nationalize the medical supply chain, order a nationwide shelter in place, etc.

This is like Fast and Furious, where more gun deaths in Mexico using US-sold guns = urgency to shutdown gun sales.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 03, 2020 04:13 PM (bDqIh)

188 Me too. With his "dog" Spot that was like an elephant or a monkey.
Posted by: Jordan61 at April 03, 2020 04:10 PM (Ez6QX)
-----------

One time it was a tiger and the tiger got a bit playful with Cal. He was laughing but, as the kids say today, "Dude!"

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at April 03, 2020 04:13 PM (WEBkv)

189 Sure is nice to have the windows open today, changing the air in the house.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Quarantine Special - Free Delivery of Lockdown Laments from The Outrage Outlet! at April 03, 2020 04:13 PM (s6M7E)

190 94 86 I want to know how many government workers have lost their jobs. Or is it only the private sector that suffers?
Posted by: LGoPs the former boyscout who now shouts Broken Arrow!, Broken Arrow! at April 03, 2020 04:01 PM (j42ZK)

The plan I've been pushing? I've modified it.

In the plan, I stated that not only would the National Debt be paid, but all mortgage, student, credit card and commercial debt would be paid off.

This was targeted to the middle class and designed to not only give the people the ability to reboot the economy, but the confidence to do it immediately.

My modification is that this is only for the private sector. No government employee, federal, state or local, would be eligible.

This is because no government employee was ever in a position where they would miss a paycheck, so no incentive is needed.

Posted by: jwest at April 03, 2020 04:13 PM (mrrpT)

191 He'll paint ANY car for $29.95! (any masking is extra) heh.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at April 03, 2020 04:10 PM (o2MD2)

LOL - in College, I drove a car with one of Earl's Specials on it! And it was "Scheib".

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 03, 2020 04:13 PM (V2Yro)

192 Gavin Gruesome made noises about the CA peak coming in the first couple weeks of May.
This is not good. Are they planning to keep people tied down through May!!

Posted by: PJ at April 03, 2020 04:13 PM (qlTN9)

193 Right, I thought FDA issued emergency directive on this, approving it on doctor's discretion.

And China buying up medical consumables in January makes sense, they were in the midst of their one epidemic. Not in itself any evidence of anything, or even a hint - but also no evidence *against* any particular speculation.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 03, 2020 04:13 PM (El6T/)

194 serious question. Since when do pharmacies decide which prescription to fill and they ask what the illness is. The country is changing rapidly, almost daily but I have never heard of this.
Posted by: Quint at April 03, 2020 04:12 PM (hHxp2)

yeah. i'd like to know.

Posted by: runner at April 03, 2020 04:13 PM (zr5Kq)

195 182 I'm glad we have the HCQ treatment but I'm banking on an expedited vaccine.
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at April 03, 2020 04:12 PM (YT5Rb)

I'm banking on Trump stating enough is enough. More damage, suffering and death will occur with a comatose economy than this Chi-Com plague.

END THE LOCKDOWN NOW.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 03, 2020 04:13 PM (pS94+)

196 Great. Jared "Knob" Polis wants everyone who goes outdoors to wear a mask. It doesn't sound like a direct mandate, yet, but it sure is leaning that way. He wants people who wear masks to be considered cool, and if you don't wear a mask, you must be an OrangeManBad person.

Posted by: Old Blue at April 03, 2020 04:13 PM (VNmG1)

197 The hospital I work at in NC is kind of like a ghost town. Non-essential procedures and appointments canceled. A few minutes ago I thought I saw some tumbleweeds blowing down the hallway...

Posted by: George Kaplan at April 03, 2020 04:14 PM (v9DK0)

198 They don't want a cure, they want a panic.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at April 03, 2020 04:14 PM (oVJmc)

199 One time it was a tiger and the tiger got a bit playful with Cal. He was laughing but, as the kids say today, "Dude!"
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at April 03, 2020 04:13 PM (WEBkv)

I thought I remembered there being a tiger too but I wasn't sure.

Posted by: Jordan61 at April 03, 2020 04:14 PM (Ez6QX)

200 Trump was packing stadiums.
They had to take that away.
Trump had the economy booming.
They had to take that away.
Trump is emerging as a real leader in a national crisis.
Now they will claim his inaction caused needless deaths.

Gawd I effing hate the media.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 03, 2020 04:14 PM (axyOa)

201 Even Fauci was kinda like "Nah. That stuff can be dangerous and we need tests and studies."

I don't know about you guys but I'm done with the "experts" as much as I am the media.

Posted by: Horus Hearsay at April 03, 2020 04:15 PM (DB16e)

202 192 Gavin Gruesome made noises about the CA peak coming in the first couple weeks of May.
This is not good. Are they planning to keep people tied down through May!!
Posted by: PJ at April 03, 2020 04:13 PM (qlTN9)

200 or so deaths out of a population of 40,000,000. 3 deaths per million. No way that that will increase exponentially.

The lockdown is an intentional strangulation of the economy.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 03, 2020 04:15 PM (pS94+)

203 Once those changes are safely in the bag, only then will the panic stop.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 03, 2020 04:11 PM (iuFgi)

The universities are panicked - about to start the avalanche of announcements to say the summer courses are online too. As soon as one of the big ones does it the rest will follow.

This may be one of the best things to come out of this whole mess - the scam of in-person necessity and the expensive edifices they created for administration will come to an end.

Posted by: batterup at April 03, 2020 04:15 PM (K4I9O)

204 196 Great. Jared "Knob" Polis wants everyone who goes outdoors to wear a mask.

THESE WOULD BE THE MASKS THEY TOLD US WERE NOT AVAILABLE, AND TRUMP WAS KILLING PEOPLE BECAUSE THERE WEREN'T ENOUGH???

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at April 03, 2020 04:15 PM (oVJmc)

205 I'm ok wearing a mask if the lockdown ends
fukit I'll wear a burka if that's what it takes

Posted by: vmom 2020 at April 03, 2020 04:15 PM (G546f)

206 serious question. Since when do pharmacies decide which prescription to fill and they ask what the illness is. The country is changing rapidly, almost daily but I have never heard of this.
Posted by: Quint at April 03, 2020 04:12 PM (hHxp2)

yeah. i'd like to know.
Posted by: runner at April 03, 2020 04:13 PM (zr5Kq)

For one thing, Michigan's Governor threatened doctors and pharmacists with losing their licenses over it.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Foghorn Leghorn at April 03, 2020 04:15 PM (kXoT0)

207 Doctor ordered her some Plaquenil and Zithromax having heard good things
about it possibly being an effective treatment. Fucking CVS pharmacy
refused to fill a legal prescription because and I quote: "That's not a
FDA approved treatment."

Your friend should tell the doctor, and consider reporting the pharmacist to the state board of medicine. That would appear to be outside the scope of a pharmacy license and crossing the line into practicing medicine without a license. Doctors don't like that.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 03, 2020 04:15 PM (NWiLs)

208 Sure is nice to have the windows open today, changing the air in the house.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Quarantine Special - Free Delivery of Lockdown
Laments from The Outrage Outlet! at April 03, 2020 04:13 PM (s6M7E)

YER GONNA LET THE BAD BUGS IN!!!

Posted by: Roland THTG at April 03, 2020 04:15 PM (88+cf)

209 "In the plan, I stated that not only would the National Debt be paid, but
all mortgage, student, credit card and commercial debt would be paid
off."

--

What about those of us who worked for years to pay off our mortgage and debts, and never had a student load?

Posted by: freaked at April 03, 2020 04:15 PM (Tnijr)

210 Current projection shows CA peak April 26.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 03, 2020 04:15 PM (El6T/)

211 The media sucks they get almost everything wrong.

Posted by: USNtakim profoundly deplorable. at April 03, 2020 04:10 PM (0OmEj)
---
I wrack my brain trying to think of *WHAT* they might have gotten right in the past 3-5 years.

Posted by: Axeman at April 03, 2020 04:16 PM (Eicbe)

212 198 They don't want a cure, they want a panic.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at April 03, 2020 04:14 PM (oVJmc)

They may wind up getting a revolution... AGAINST them.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 03, 2020 04:16 PM (pS94+)

213 This hydroxycq cure really screwed the Plannedemic. They could have suppressed it if the Beast were President.

Posted by: t-bird at April 03, 2020 04:16 PM (aKxkI)

214 205 I'm ok wearing a mask if the lockdown ends
fukit I'll wear a burka if that's what it takes
Posted by: vmom 2020

now you get it

Posted by: Achmed at April 03, 2020 04:16 PM (FZYNt)

215 These are the "Trump drugs" you have been looking for ...

Posted by: Christian Amanpour at April 03, 2020 04:16 PM (3aI0K)

216 Trump, in Anti-Science Tirade, Promotes Misperception that the Sun "Rises," When in Fact the Earth Is Just Rotating
Posted by: zombie at April 03, 2020 04:08 PM (N9G0H)

OMG! Drumpf is stoopid science denier! He thinks the sun moves! Everyone knows it is totally stationary!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 03, 2020 04:16 PM (dNzKv)

217 For one thing, Michigan's Governor threatened doctors and pharmacists with losing their licenses over it.
Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Foghorn Leghorn at April 03, 2020 04:15 PM (kXoT0)

she rescinded

Posted by: runner at April 03, 2020 04:16 PM (zr5Kq)

218 My modification is that this is only for the private sector. No government employee, federal, state or local, would be eligible.

This is because no government employee was ever in a position where they would miss a paycheck, so no incentive is needed.

Posted by: jwest at April 03, 2020 04:13 PM (mrrpT)

Your plan isn't bad; but what about the "moral hazard" of giving money to all the debtors, but giving nothing to everyone who lived responsibly and didn't get overloaded with debt? What about people who live in paid off homes, who have no mortgage debt, for example?

Unlike some talking head on TV, you do appear to realize that the debt does need to be paid off, it can't just be "forgiven" - that would cause even more economic chaos than there is already.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 03, 2020 04:16 PM (V2Yro)

219 The hospital I work at in NC is kind of like a ghost town. Non-essential procedures and appointments canceled. A few minutes ago I thought I saw some tumbleweeds blowing down the hallway...

In a few months we'll hear about the shortage of beds as all those delayed procedures get booked. And we'll hear that 'people are dying!' while they wait.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at April 03, 2020 04:16 PM (oVJmc)

220 Bitch set me up.

Posted by: Gretchen Half-Whitmer at April 03, 2020 04:16 PM (sjdRT)

221 205 I'm ok wearing a mask if the lockdown ends
fukit I'll wear a burka if that's what it takes
Posted by: vmom 2020 at April 03, 2020 04:15 PM (G546f)

Don't tempt them.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 03, 2020 04:16 PM (pS94+)

222 I am still convinced by the medias reactions that Leftists ate hoping to destroy Trump if the country goes down with him so be it

Posted by: Skip at April 03, 2020 04:16 PM (ZCEU2)

223 I'm ok wearing a mask if the lockdown ends
fukit I'll wear a burka if that's what it takes
Posted by: vmom 2020 at April 03, 2020 04:15 PM (G546f)

Oh, good, in this year's Chutes and Ladders game, you have advanced to voluntarily wearing a burqa by hitting a Chute.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Foghorn Leghorn at April 03, 2020 04:16 PM (kXoT0)

224 troll alert

Posted by: Rick in SK at April 03, 2020 04:17 PM (FZYNt)

225 This hydroxycq cure really screwed the Plannedemic. They could have suppressed it if the Beast were President.
Posted by: t-bird
-----
Plannedemic...I'm so stealing that!!!

Posted by: lin-duh at April 03, 2020 04:17 PM (UUBmN)

226 HEY, MUMR, IT MUST REALLY SUCK NOBODY READS YOUR POOPSMEARING, HUH?

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at April 03, 2020 04:17 PM (oVJmc)

227
They don't want a cure, they want a panic.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at April 03, 2020 04:14 PM (oVJmc)

-------

Correct. The Organs' motivation has been clear for some time. Hence, their attacks on every business that claims to be "essential," if they happen to be in a grey area... "disemploy the maximum number of Americans" is their marching order.

I even heard a local Vremya broadcast spreading fear about pick-up and delivery meals the other day, just in case some restaurant, somewhere, might be able to remain in business.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 03, 2020 04:17 PM (II2Y0)

228 Pzzpr seems nice. Wonder why he's banned.

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at April 03, 2020 04:17 PM (ykYG2)

229 I'm banking on Trump stating enough is enough. More damage, suffering and death will occur with a comatose economy than this Chi-Com plague.

END THE LOCKDOWN NOW.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 03, 2020 04:13 PM (pS94+)

Case fatality rate is holding steady at 30% here. Same with Western Europe. Probably best to hunker down until more data and research can be done instead of using assumptions and estimates on this thing.

Posted by: it begins... at April 03, 2020 04:17 PM (MRjKr)

230 If my debts are going to get paid off, I'm going to buy that Ferrari I've always wanted.

Posted by: freaked at April 03, 2020 04:17 PM (Tnijr)

231 @196

One problem.

You cannot buy masks anywhere.

And if someone does have masks they are now required to prioritize them for sale to emergency and medical providers.

So again, this all becoming comically absurd.

Posted by: Kreplach at April 03, 2020 04:17 PM (BiXrp)

232 217 For one thing, Michigan's Governor threatened doctors and pharmacists with losing their licenses over it.
Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Foghorn Leghorn at April 03, 2020 04:15 PM (kXoT0)

she rescinded
Posted by: runner at April 03, 2020 04:16 PM (zr5Kq)

Probably not within the scope of her authority to do so anyway.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 03, 2020 04:17 PM (NWiLs)

233 Mocking Trump is the media's reflex response. It bites 'em every time but they don't care, don't learn.

Posted by: zeera at April 03, 2020 04:17 PM (zUdXR)

234 $hit is unreal.

The silver spot right now is $14.38 and APMEX is selling silver American Eagles for $26.69. That is $12.31 over spot, almost double the price over spot.

I have never seen that high of a price over spot for silver in over 2 decades of buying from them.

Someone is buying up silver at incredible rates. Plus almost everything is on back order.

Somebody is making a metric $hit ton of money on this.

Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 03, 2020 04:18 PM (JUOKG)

235 >Great. Jared "Knob" Polis wants everyone who goes outdoors to wear a mask.

Fine. Send me some masks. because they're not available in stores or online.

Posted by: DB- just DB, under house arrest at April 03, 2020 04:18 PM (iTXRQ)

236 Since when do pharmacies decide which prescription to fill and they ask what the illness is. The country is changing rapidly, almost daily but I have never heard of this.
Posted by: Quint at April 03, 2020 04:12 PM (hHxp2)
-----
Recently, my insurer tried to make me change my blood pressure medicine, which I have been using for years with good results. I have no idea what that was about.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, USS Lone Fire at April 03, 2020 04:18 PM (g8Yc+)

237 bizarro is here, gibberishing

Posted by: runner at April 03, 2020 04:18 PM (zr5Kq)

238 What's funny is you can also get zithromycin for fish tanks over the counter, but chloroquine requires a prescription from a vet.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at April 03, 2020 04:18 PM (+0AKE)

239
Posted by: Quint at April 03, 2020 04:12 PM (hHxp2)

Surely you have heard of plan b? Remember when the lefties were trying to force the Pharmacists to fill the RX?
Pharmacists use their professional judgment - which most of the time is a good thing when your PHCP makes a mistake and orders a new RX without sconsiderign your current meds

Posted by: batterup at April 03, 2020 04:18 PM (K4I9O)

240 1. Find an area or better yet a whole state with an outbreak of Wuhan Flu. Tell naysayers to screw themselves.
2. Get them to cooperate by treating anyone infected and wants to with the Hydroxychloroquine + azythromicyn + zinc + vitamins C and D mix
3. Pray that it really does help those that are sick
4. When it does, let the world know and people in other, less cooperative states will be going after their government and media with pitchforks
5. Profit!

Posted by: Donny Brook at April 03, 2020 04:18 PM (J9A97)

241 NO Gibberish !

Posted by: runner at April 03, 2020 04:18 PM (zr5Kq)

242 For one thing, Michigan's Governor threatened doctors and pharmacists with losing their licenses over it.
Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Foghorn Leghorn at April 03, 2020 04:15 PM (kXoT0)

she rescinded
Posted by: runner at April 03, 2020 04:16 PM (zr5Kq)

I know, but, she scared them just the same. No one who has spent all those years and all that money to get such a license wants to lose it.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Foghorn Leghorn at April 03, 2020 04:18 PM (kXoT0)

243 ("CRAZY EDDIE" INSANE!!!!")

I lived there in the Crazy Eddie era. I forget, though, didn't that end in some kind of cocaine scandal?

Posted by: Bandersnatch at April 03, 2020 04:18 PM (gd9RK)

244 Is incoherent screaming a symptom of COVID19?

Posted by: Northernlurker at April 03, 2020 04:18 PM (Uu+Jp)

245 Trump : I believe Pluto should be a planet.

CNN : Trump, in anti-Science tirade, spits in the face of Top Scientists across the globe and threatens their children.

Posted by: Dr Spank at April 03, 2020 04:18 PM (xoAW1)

246 In all seriousness, there is less "moral hazard" in just sending every man, woman, and child in the US $2,000 for the duration of the crisis - at least that plan treats everyone equally. And no, we don't tax anyone for it, we effectively print it, and hope this ends before we create a hyperinflation.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 03, 2020 04:19 PM (V2Yro)

247 Doctor ordered her some Plaquenil and Zithromax having heard good things
about it possibly being an effective treatment. Fucking CVS pharmacy
refused to fill a legal prescription because and I quote: "That's not a
FDA approved treatment."

All of these douches from pharmacists, to RNs to CNAs and therapists all yell "I can't my license is on the line". No, If I order it, it is MY license, ficktwit, now do your damn job.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 03, 2020 04:19 PM (dNzKv)

248 Cal Worthington and his dog spot.
wasn't it Storm?

We had the poor man's Cal in Houston. Art Grindle.
Ol Art would have cars lined up ready for a 30 second spot and roll 'em through real quick.

If they didn't start he'd have guys pushing it past the camera and "That's $200 off the price on the glass!"

Or hit a car with a ball peen hammer and "That's $200 off the price on the glass!" after he hit it.

We could watch him during cartoons on Saturday mornings from my friends apartment in the 2016 Main building. Fun times.

Posted by: DanMan at April 03, 2020 04:19 PM (XTiHL)

249 This may be one of the best things to come out of this whole mess - the scam of in-person necessity and the expensive edifices they created for administration will come to an end.
Posted by: batterup at April 03, 2020 04:15 PM (K4I9O)

I have to respectfully disagree with this. I finished my associates and part of my bachelor's in-person, then when we moved I finished up at my same school with online courses. Online courses suck. You are basically teaching yourself, plus there's no interaction with fellow students and sharing of ideas. That's just my experience, of course.

Posted by: Jordan61 at April 03, 2020 04:19 PM (Ez6QX)

250 >Case fatality rate is holding steady at 30% here.
Same with Western Europe. Probably best to hunker down until more data
and research can be done instead of using assumptions and estimates on
this thing.

Posted by: it begins... at April 03, 2020 04:17 PM (MRjKr)

Imma hiring It Begins....Asshoe like me.

Posted by: Gretchen Half-Whitmer at April 03, 2020 04:19 PM (sjdRT)

251 bizarro is here, gibberishing
Posted by: runner at April 03, 2020 04:18 PM (zr5Kq)
-----------

It's almost like you summoned it...

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at April 03, 2020 04:19 PM (WEBkv)

252 Lol. The Babylon Bee. Trump's been binge-watching Netflix and just bought 17 tigers:

https://tinyurl.com/tdbhyf8

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 03, 2020 04:19 PM (ptqGC)

253 Leftists Upset That McConnell Might Fill SCOTUS Vacancy During Virus Crisis. McConnell: Yup.

Posted by: SMOD at April 03, 2020 04:19 PM (3aI0K)

254
One problem.

You cannot buy masks anywhere.

So now people will panic over the 'you must wear a mask' order, because none can be found.

Funny how the Left keeps moving the goalposts so the panic will continue.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at April 03, 2020 04:19 PM (oVJmc)

255 >>Your plan isn't bad; but what about the "moral hazard" of giving money to all the debtors, but giving nothing to everyone who lived responsibly and didn't get overloaded with debt? What about people who live in paid off homes, who have no mortgage debt, for example?

>>Unlike some talking head on TV, you do appear to realize that the debt does need to be paid off, it can't just be "forgiven" - that would cause even more economic chaos than there is already.

If mortgages are free I'm getting a much bigger waterfront estate. I mean, why not? It's free.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 03, 2020 04:19 PM (ZLI7S)

256 Trump : I believe Pluto should be a planet.

CNN : Trump, in anti-Science tirade, spits in the face of Top Scientists across the globe and threatens their children.
Posted by: Dr Spank
----
Pluto IS a planet!!!

Posted by: lin-duh at April 03, 2020 04:19 PM (UUBmN)

257 Hangings are sordid and nauseating.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 03, 2020 04:04 PM (EGyGV)

Case in point - no one watches an firing squad execution - hangings? Picnic time!

Posted by: Boswell at April 03, 2020 04:20 PM (32YRo)

258 "Unsubstantiated hope? I don't think that CNN guy knows what hope means."

I'd quibble a little ... "hope" can be substantiated, just not immediately available. The Hope of Jesus Christ returning would be an example.

But common usage is often more cynical/uncertain indeed .... "I hope we survive".

Posted by: illiniwek at April 03, 2020 04:20 PM (Cus5s)

259 Posted by: it begins... at April 03, 2020 04:17 PM (MRjKr)

30% mortality? Bullshit.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 03, 2020 04:20 PM (NWiLs)

260

I'm banking on Trump stating enough is enough.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton

I think you're right. Besides, a couple more weeks of this and the Natives Are Gonna Get Restless.

Posted by: Soothsayer, very senile at April 03, 2020 04:20 PM (yDBK2)

261 I'm here.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 03, 2020 04:20 PM (QzF6i)

262 256 Trump : I believe Pluto should be a planet.

CNN : Trump, in anti-Science tirade, spits in the face of Top Scientists across the globe and threatens their children.
Posted by: Dr Spank
----
Pluto IS a planet!!!
Posted by: lin-duh

And Grizzly Adams had a beard

Posted by: Rick in SK at April 03, 2020 04:20 PM (FZYNt)

263 You can wear a scarf or bandana. Masks are the same shit unless n95.

Posted by: dagny at April 03, 2020 04:20 PM (RwjKD)

264 I certainly hope the new serology tests are widely available soon and show something like "50 million already had this, its not super dangerous" . But I'm also so over hearing about how covid-19 is "less dangerous than the regular flu" I don't remember EVER hearing about a shortage of ventilators from a regular flu outbreak. I don't think Samaritan's Purse is in the habit of sending their portable hospitals based on FNM b.s. SP wants to have resources free to help if tornados wipe out towns this time of year.

And if hypertension is a serious pre-existing condition that means it wasn't the kung-flu that killed ya? High blood pressure is pretty common and it seems to me that most folks live with it for decades only having to take a daily pill and pay attention in case they need dosage adjusted down so they don't faint.

So even though the FNM are pushing panic trying to use the situation to strike back at us irredeemable deplorables that dared elect DJT by killing the economy, I do think this virus does qualify as a super flu. The damn Chi-coms should face serious retaliation for creating or at a minimum growing this damn pandemic with their lies.

Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at April 03, 2020 04:20 PM (T9Hmo)

265 I've cut back on my CNN viewing to nothing because .. they suck

Posted by: Christian Amanpour at April 03, 2020 04:21 PM (3aI0K)

266 For one thing, Michigan's Governor threatened doctors and pharmacists with losing their licenses over it.
Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Foghorn Leghorn at April 03, 2020 04:15 PM (kXoT0)

she rescinded
Posted by: runner at April 03, 2020 04:16 PM (zr5Kq)
---
But how many people could have been saved in the meantime? We are 3rd in deaths. Ahead of the sizably larger states of California, Illinois and Ohio.

I wouldn't ask these questions unless the national media didn't want to make timelines an issue.

Posted by: Axeman at April 03, 2020 04:21 PM (Eicbe)

267 I can, have a good industrial dust mask and am of the belief airborne is the least possible way I would get it. Hear 1 person in store cough but am not seeing people sneezing germs around.

Posted by: Skip at April 03, 2020 04:21 PM (ZCEU2)

268 I'm banking on Trump stating enough is enough. More damage, suffering and death will occur with a comatose economy than this Chi-Com plague.

END THE LOCKDOWN NOW.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton

Every bit of this.

Posted by: deplorable unperson - sanitized for your protection at April 03, 2020 04:21 PM (pyXq5)

269 Recently, my insurer tried to make me change my blood pressure medicine, which I have been using for years with good results. I have no idea what that was about.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, USS Lone Fire at April 03, 2020 04:18 PM (g8Yc+)

They have a list of preferred meds - it's called a formulary- that some providers have a hard time deviating from - there has to be evidence of medical necessity to prescribe something that is not on the list.
Like if your antipsychotic didn't work and the provider can justify why the new more expensive med is a better choice based on your symptoms

Posted by: batterup at April 03, 2020 04:21 PM (K4I9O)

270 261 I'm here.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 03, 2020 04:20 PM (QzF6i)

Are you sure? How do you know?

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 03, 2020 04:21 PM (NWiLs)

271 Pluto IS a planet!!!

It's Neptune's emotional support planetoid.

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at April 03, 2020 04:21 PM (ykYG2)

272 220
Bitch set me up.

Posted by: Gretchen Half-Whitmer at April 03, 2020 04:16 PM (sjdRT)

Yeah, Gretchen, that woman you see in the mirror did this to you! You should get even with her!

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Quarantine Special - Free Delivery of Lockdown Laments from The Outrage Outlet! at April 03, 2020 04:21 PM (s6M7E)

273 I've read several anecdotal articles about lupus or RA patients who couldn't get their hydroxychorquine. (Pretty sure they went looking for them via social media come-ons). Not a single one of these stories have mentioned that pharma companies are ramping up production, and that chlorquine is cheap.

Here's another thing these stories never mention -- other effective treatments for lupus:

NSAIDS
Coritcosteroids
BLyS-specific inhibitors

and for RA the list includes NSAIDS and Corticosteroids and about a dozen others I don't want to try to spell.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at April 03, 2020 04:21 PM (TXOkZ)

274 That article in The Hill had the MI governor at 60% approval.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 03, 2020 04:21 PM (Lqy/e)

275
Surely you have heard of plan b? Remember when the lefties were trying to force the Pharmacists to fill the RX?
Pharmacists use their professional judgment - which most of the time is a good thing when your PHCP makes a mistake and orders a new RX without sconsiderign your current meds

Posted by: batterup at April 03, 2020 04:18 PM

Whap!
Ooowww!!!
That's my sore ear Mr Gower. Please don't hit me again. Please.
You made a mistake!

Posted by: Diogenes at April 03, 2020 04:21 PM (axyOa)

276 I was told if I wore a medical-type mask (which I can't find anywhere) I'd be selfish, because only medical personnel should have them.

And I was told this morning by a TV doc that the cloth ones aren't safe unless they're being washed after every single use.

I'll go without. Guess I'll get tasered or something.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 03, 2020 04:21 PM (ptqGC)

277 Funny how the Left keeps moving the goalposts so the panic will continue.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at April 03, 2020 04:19 PM (oVJmc)

That's the plan.

Posted by: Roland THTG at April 03, 2020 04:22 PM (88+cf)

278 Governor of CO is asking all Coloradoans to wear cloth coverings when they are going out of the house to do things like go to the grocery store. However, the Governor says non-medical masks should be worn to save resources

Posted by: DB- just DB, under house arrest at April 03, 2020 04:22 PM (iTXRQ)

279 "A group of moderately ill people were given hydroxychloroquine, which appeared to ease their symptoms quickly, but more research is needed."

And that is how 99.95% of studies end.

Also, placebos can work in a small number of people, so even that can be helpful. Not a solution, of course, but in a crisis, you'll take anything you can get.

On this HyClQu use, who cares if every nuance isn't yet understood? It likely never will be because "studies". And don't get me wrong, a scientific method is essential to get the best/most out of any foreign chemical that is introduced to a body, but offering it to a populace under crisis when there's more than anecdotal evidence it can help is the best option. Just tell end users the contraindications and side-effects (like every other drug) and let them use it if they choose.

And don't be asshoe like Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer seeking political advantage at the expense of lives and reprieves from pain.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at April 03, 2020 04:22 PM (6eEQ+)

280 Heh - look at that glass!
https://tinyurl.com/yxxqddfq

Posted by: Lizzy at April 03, 2020 04:22 PM (bDqIh)

281 The good Senator Kennedy is on a tear on Cavuto's show.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 03, 2020 04:22 PM (ptqGC)

282 What about those of us who worked for years to pay off our mortgage and debts, and never had a student load?
Posted by: freaked at April 03, 2020 04:15 PM (Tnijr)

If you not only have a paid off mortgage, no student debt, no credit card debt and no consumer debt (car, home improvements, etc.) then the bulk of the country would consider you to be in the "rich" category, where the only thing you'll get is a pat on the back and perhaps a "good citizen" certificate that shows you contributed to the great crash of 2020.

The poor, who have no debt whatsoever, qualify for a one-time $10,000 payment.

Posted by: jwest at April 03, 2020 04:22 PM (mrrpT)

283 The hospital I work at in NC is kind of like a
ghost town. Non-essential procedures and appointments canceled. A few
minutes ago I thought I saw some tumbleweeds blowing down the hallway...

In a few months we'll hear about the shortage of beds as all those
delayed procedures get booked. And we'll hear that 'people are dying!'
while they wait.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at April 03, 2020 04:16 PM

---

Our local hospitals are laying people off because the State cancelled anything surgical that is non emergency. Big article in the paper about one hospital that just laid off 40 nurses because they have nothing to do because there aren't doing anymore colonoscopies and the like until this is over.

Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 03, 2020 04:22 PM (JUOKG)

284 "Always remember: WE are OrangeManBad.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 03, 2020 04:12 PM (pS94+) "

needs to be repeated boldly and often !

"Always remember: WE are OrangeManBad.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 03, 2020 04:12 PM (pS94+) "

Posted by: sock_rat_eez, we are being gaslighted 24/365 at April 03, 2020 04:22 PM (cqteU)

285 And Grizzly Adams had a beard
Posted by: Rick in SK at April 03, 2020 04:20 PM (FZYNt)

Grizzly Adams DID have a beard...

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 03, 2020 04:22 PM (NWiLs)

286 Trump : I believe Pluto should be a planet.

CNN : Trump, in anti-Science tirade, spits in the face of Top Scientists across the globe and threatens their children.
Posted by: Dr Spank
----
Pluto IS a planet!!!
Posted by: lin-duh at April 03, 2020 04:19 PM (UUBmN)
---
BURRRRNNN the Science-denier!!!

Posted by: Progressives at April 03, 2020 04:22 PM (Eicbe)

287 166 I remember Cal. With his supermarket (literally) of cars.
He sponsored the late night monster movies till the wee hours.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at April 03, 2020 04:07 PM (o2MD2)

Me too. With his "dog" Spot that was like an elephant or a monkey.
Posted by: Jordan61 at April 03, 2020 04:10 PM (Ez6QX)

He was in California for years, but finally the State Regulators ran him out of the state - so he moved over to Phoenix in the 70's and set up shot there, where he would have Advertising Duels with Tex Earnhardt and his Diving Mules. Ah, the Golden Age of Advertising!

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 03, 2020 04:23 PM (V2Yro)

288
So now people will panic over the 'you must wear a mask' order, because none can be found.

"Guess you'll just have to arrest me , officer."

*licks hands*

Posted by: deplorable unperson - sanitized for your protection at April 03, 2020 04:23 PM (pyXq5)

289 Your plan sucks jwest.

Posted by: freaked at April 03, 2020 04:23 PM (Tnijr)

290 Posted by: dagny at April 03, 2020 04:20 PM (RwjKD)

Yeah, my dishtowels have been working pretty good for that.

Polis is right, and given the importance of this issue he'll be governor as long as the state Constitution lets him.

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at April 03, 2020 04:23 PM (ykYG2)

291 I am Orangemanbad!

Posted by: Axeman at April 03, 2020 04:23 PM (Eicbe)

292 I know, but, she scared them just the same. No one who has spent all those years and all that money to get such a license wants to lose it.
Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Foghorn Leghorn at April 03, 2020 04:18 PM (kXoT0)

I understand. Maybe someone should have told her that she was practicing medicine without a license with that order. I can imagine the lawsuit that stupid woman had in store for her if she continued to doubled down on stupid. Even without FDA approval.

Posted by: runner at April 03, 2020 04:23 PM (zr5Kq)

293 275
Surely you have heard of plan b? Remember when the lefties were trying to force the Pharmacists to fill the RX?
Pharmacists use their professional judgment - which most of the time is a good thing when your PHCP makes a mistake and orders a new RX without sconsiderign your current meds

Posted by: batterup at April 03, 2020 04:18 PM

Whap!
Ooowww!!!
That's my sore ear Mr Gower. Please don't hit me again. Please.
You made a mistake!
Posted by: Diogenes at April 03, 2020 04:21 PM (axyOa)

You put something bad in those capsules!

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 03, 2020 04:23 PM (NWiLs)

294 I haven't trusted the media in ages, but I have finally come to intensely loathe them* and have decided during this situation that not only are they incredibly untrustworthy, they are also downright dangerous.

*Yes, yes, it's like, duh, but it takes A LOT for me to develop intense negative feelings towards people, a whooole lot.

Posted by: chique d'Epstein didn't off hisself at April 03, 2020 04:24 PM (0miBO)

295 182 I'm glad we have the HCQ treatment but I'm banking on an expedited vaccine.
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at April 03, 2020 04:12 PM (YT5Rb)
-----------------------
Let us pray!

The HCQ would be a big help for those seriously, but not critically, ill. It would free up ICU units, etc., and lower the death rate.

But I don't see it being used widely as a general prevention because it DOES have dangerous side effects with longer term use.
A vaccine, OTOH, .........

Let us pray!

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at April 03, 2020 04:24 PM (M/9m0)

296 They know the drug is effective, and they know the quarantine will be ending soon. That's why they are ramping up their new investigation leading up to Impeachment 2.

Democrats always telegraph their moves and they always overplay their hand.

Posted by: Science Dog at April 03, 2020 04:24 PM (P7iDO)

297 Recently, my insurer tried to make me change my blood pressure medicine, which I have been using for years with good results. I have no idea what that was about.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, USS Lone Fire

Go to goodrx.com and print out a coupon. if your bp meds are older generics, you'll probably pay less with a coupon than your copay. at least check it out.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 03, 2020 04:24 PM (d7Ww2)

298 Fine. Send me some masks. because they're not available in stores or online.

Posted by: DB- just DB, under house arrest at April 03, 2020 04:18 PM (iTXRQ)

Asshat was telling people that they can make cloth masks out of old t-shirts at the bottom of their dressers. They'll have plans on the website on how to do it. And if you go out without one, you just know that Karen will be there pointing and hissing like Donald Sutherland in Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

Posted by: Old Blue at April 03, 2020 04:24 PM (VNmG1)

299 *I hate me keyboard

Posted by: runner at April 03, 2020 04:24 PM (zr5Kq)

300 The silver spot right now is $14.38 and APMEX is selling silver American Eagles for $26.69. That is $12.31 over spot, almost double the price over spot.

I have never seen that high of a price over spot for silver in over 2 decades of buying from them.

Someone is buying up silver at incredible rates. Plus almost everything is on back order.

Somebody is making a metric $hit ton of money on this.
Posted by: Mr. Scott

____________

I actually do buy into the "tin foil hat" theory that paper markets for precious metals is complete bullshit and has been for a while.

If everyone demanded physical delivery, something tells me there would be a huge shortfall.

Posted by: Blago at April 03, 2020 04:24 PM (sjTfF)

301 I had a Cat Scan technician pull that "It's my license" crap on me with a patient who was having an aortic dissection that needed an immediate scan. He refused because the blood chemistry labs weren't resulted yet. Tried to tell me "You place the order doc, I decide if they get scanned or not, my license is on the line, here" I asked for his name so I could write it on the death certificate as the secondary cause of death after homicide. Then asked for his boss' name and said the patient was coming whether he was ready or not.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 03, 2020 04:24 PM (dNzKv)

302 And I was told this morning by a TV doc that the cloth ones aren't safe unless they're being washed after every single use.

So wash them? Idk, why that's a thing.

Posted by: dagny at April 03, 2020 04:24 PM (RwjKD)

303 291 I am Orangemanbad!
Posted by: Axeman

I am the Batman

Posted by: The Donald at April 03, 2020 04:24 PM (FZYNt)

304 >I understand. Maybe someone should have told her that she
was practicing medicine without a license with that order. I can
imagine the lawsuit that stupid woman had in store for her if she
continued to doubled down on stupid. Even without FDA approval.

Posted by: runner at April 03, 2020 04:23 PM (zr5Kq)

Imma be Vice Preezie. H8ter.

Posted by: Gretchen Half-Whitmer at April 03, 2020 04:24 PM (sjdRT)

305 1. This is like their worst nightmare. We used to joke that Trump could cure cancer and the Left would come out in favor of cancer -- well look at this.

2. The only way to explain Pelosi is that she, and many of her friends fear prison.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at April 03, 2020 04:24 PM (LWu6U)

306 Cal Worthington?

Check YouTube where some pilots went all Cal to move some F-4 Phantoms off the lot.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 03, 2020 04:25 PM (xGPKX)

307
I'm banking on Trump stating enough is enough.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton

I went out to pick up a prescription and was listening to the sports guys on the radio. I think it is starting to sink in. Some football doctor was trying to say that they couldn't play if even one person had the virus. They are beginning to understand how ridiculous this is. They are now starting to talk about the "little people" associated with sports who are out of work and suffering.
Even though I am in the age range, I have been going out and about and there is hardly anyone in the stores. I did see some people in masks, but not everyone. The only empty aisle again was toilet paper.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 03, 2020 04:25 PM (QzF6i)

308 No matter how big the shark gets, it gets jumped.

Posted by: Les Kinetic at April 03, 2020 04:25 PM (+fPHo)

309 Question #1: Does Pluto identify as a thinking entity?

Question #2: Does Pluto identify as a planet?

Posted by: Axeman at April 03, 2020 04:25 PM (Eicbe)

310 If mortgages are free I'm getting a much bigger waterfront estate. I mean, why not? It's free.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 03, 2020 04:19 PM (ZLI7S)

Everything would be pegged to a date already past - Maybe March 1, 2020.

Posted by: jwest at April 03, 2020 04:25 PM (mrrpT)

311 297 Recently, my insurer tried to make me change my blood pressure medicine, which I have been using for years with good results. I have no idea what that was about.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, USS Lone Fire

Go to goodrx.com and print out a coupon. if your bp meds are older generics, you'll probably pay less with a coupon than your copay. at least check it out.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 03, 2020 04:24 PM (d7Ww2)

^This. Oh, and thank pharmacy benefit management companies for fucked up formularies and sooper-expensive drugs on your plan.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 03, 2020 04:25 PM (NWiLs)

312 END THE LOCKDOWN NOW.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton

I agree with you completely! that's the main reason I persist in pointing out how bad this is going to get if we don't. There's a lead time involved in these kinds of actions, and decisions; if we wait too long, it's too late to affect the course of future events. Everything becomes locked in stone.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 03, 2020 04:26 PM (V2Yro)

313 The universities are panicked - about to start the avalanche of announcements to say the summer courses are online too. As soon as one of the big ones does it the rest will follow.

This may be one of the best things to come out of this whole mess - the scam of in-person necessity and the expensive edifices they created for administration will come to an end.
Posted by: batterup at April 03, 2020 04:15 PM (K4I9O)

There's a whole lot of in-person indoctrination that goes on at colleges and universities. Get a friend to go to the Antifa or Communist or whatever meeting. Get brainwashed into preventing this or that speaker from appearing on campus.

I have done a lot of online classes and one thing I can tell you is the professors only discuss the course material--no political opinions are voiced. Why? Because those lectures are recorded, which leads to liability. Those same professors can't easily discriminate against students who are moderate or conservative because they don't necessarily know a student's politics.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Foghorn Leghorn at April 03, 2020 04:26 PM (kXoT0)

314 I guess those who can figure out how to improvise a mask survive. Darwin again.

Posted by: dagny at April 03, 2020 04:26 PM (RwjKD)

315 Trump : I believe Pluto should be a planet.

CNN : Trump, in anti-Science tirade, spits in the face of Top Scientists across the globe and threatens their children.
Posted by: Dr Spank
----
Pluto IS a planet!!!
Posted by: lin-duh at April 03, 2020 04:19 PM (UUBmN)
---
BURRRRNNN the Science-denier!!!

Posted by: Progressives at April 03, 2020 04:22 PM

Heh Heh Heh. Got 'em now.
Everyone knows Pluto is a dog. A good dog too. He used to fetch stick for Hunter when he was a boy.

Joey B

Posted by: Diogenes at April 03, 2020 04:26 PM (axyOa)

316 Great. Jared "Knob" Polis wants everyone who goes outdoors to wear a mask. It doesn't sound like a direct mandate, yet, but it sure is leaning that way. He wants people who wear masks to be considered cool, and if you don't wear a mask, you must be an OrangeManBad person.

Posted by: Old Blue at April 03, 2020 04:13 PM

I can only hope the polesmoker dies a painfully slow death from aids complicated by Wuhan flu.

Forgive me for that.

Posted by: Infidel at April 03, 2020 04:26 PM (/oG9s)

317 My son has a bunch of bandanas he uses as a sweatband back in the days of going to the "gym". I think I'd totally rock a Butch Cassidy look-

Posted by: pahound at April 03, 2020 04:26 PM (M1DxT)

318 Kind of funny, right now Trumpentwatters leads with praise for (illegal alien-loving, social engineering-friendly) Bank of America - while much of the twittersphere is reaming BoA over the way they're implementing the SBA loan program.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 03, 2020 04:26 PM (El6T/)

319 Imma be Vice Preezie. H8ter.
Posted by: Gretchen Half-Whitmer

Hi, Gretchen. Put down the glue. There you go. Good girl.

Posted by: runner at April 03, 2020 04:26 PM (zr5Kq)

320 Panama has implemented gender-based social distancing regulations to
help tackle the coronavirus crisis, but the move has raised "dread"
among members of the transgender community.
.. this just screams "I can't punch my way out of a paper bag"

Posted by: Christian Amanpour at April 03, 2020 04:27 PM (3aI0K)

321 I remember when an NBA basketball player was on the court with HIV and nobody had much of a problem with it. Or was it the Olympics?

Posted by: Tragic Johnson at April 03, 2020 04:27 PM (P7iDO)

322
serious question. Since when do pharmacies decide which prescription to fill and they ask what the illness is. The country is changing rapidly, almost daily but I have never heard of this.
Posted by: Quint at April 03, 2020 04:12 PM (hHxp2)

Pharmacies were cited for not refusing to fill opiate prescriptions when they knew or should have known its use was excessive or against ODG guidelines. So I guess that means they can refuse.

Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at April 03, 2020 04:27 PM (YT5Rb)

323 Andy "Nipples" Cuomo saying up to 4 million are going to get the coronavirus. Tells everyone it's coming and going to hit hard. A lot of NY hospitals are not getting hit. USNS Comfort has less than 30 patients. That's before we get to the bullshit way they are categorizing deaths as coronavirus.

Posted by: Hesco Gypsy, staring from 457 meters at April 03, 2020 04:27 PM (wElh/)

324 jwest : If you not only have a paid off mortgage, no student debt, no credit card debt and no consumer debt (car, home improvements, etc.) then the bulk of the country would consider you to be in the "rich" category, where the only thing you'll get is a pat on the back and perhaps a "good citizen" certificate that shows you contributed to the great crash of 2020.

See, sh!t like this is how you've been skating the 'troll' borderline for the last decade.

I'm in general agreement with you (and Hudson... and Marx) that consumer debt is a massive problem, leading to rebellions by the debtor class. Wasn't this a cause of Shay's Rebellion?

But your snide comment about people who were able to shake off the debt, which includes me, by insinuating that we somehow caused this coming crash by NOT racking up those debts... that's asshoe.

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at April 03, 2020 04:27 PM (ykYG2)

325 No Gobbledygook !!

Posted by: runner at April 03, 2020 04:27 PM (zr5Kq)

326 Still working my way through horde recommended books.

Two Years Before The Mast was pretty darn good. Thanks for that.

Reading Algernon Blackwood's novella The Willows. If you've not read it? Now is the time to do so. Do not look at reviews or summaries or browse goodreads. Do not ask for spoilers here. Going into it unawares is the best way to appreciate the book. Free at project gutenberg.

And here's my gift to the horde. A book no one here has ever read unless they found it on my archive.org page. The very short story called The Black Ravine by the Soviet era Ukrainian author Oleg Honchar. It's a wonderfully quaint story. Just go to archive.org and search books.

Posted by: 13times at April 03, 2020 04:27 PM (K3B2k)

327 200:Now they will claim his inaction caused needless deaths.

Too late. That libel is already out there. Also, Blood on His Hands, Negligent Homicide, and impeachment of course. It's hard to keep up with the crazy.

Posted by: Puddleglum at April 03, 2020 04:27 PM (MVR7y)

328 Everything would be pegged to a date already past - Maybe March 1, 2020.
Posted by: jwest at April 03, 2020 04:25 PM (mrrpT)

I agree with that, and the other comments - which I why I say seriously, a UBI with no means testing is far more fair than any of these plans.

Andrew Yang was right, he was just a little bit early.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 03, 2020 04:27 PM (V2Yro)

329 I have a whole package of masks in the next room. Damned if I wear one though. They are for mowing.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at April 03, 2020 04:27 PM (o2MD2)

330 Surely you have heard of plan b? Remember when the lefties were trying to force the Pharmacists to fill the RX?
Pharmacists use their professional judgment - which most of the time is a good thing when your PHCP makes a mistake and orders a new RX without sconsiderign your current meds

Sure, if the medication is going to knowingly terminate a human life and the pharmacist has a moral objection. But if that objection is "This medication isnt FDA approved for the medical condition you say you have" That is bullshit and should be sanctioned by the state pharmacy board. Possibly criminal prosecution if the patient later dies of the infection.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 03, 2020 04:27 PM (dNzKv)

331 Democrats are going Thelma+Louise over the Grand Canyon.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 03, 2020 04:28 PM (xGPKX)

332 @279

Not sure why you would need a large scale study for a drug that is used by millions of people around the world safely, effectively, with relatively few side effects just so it can be deemed safe for another use.

And in a time of a "Global Pandemic" I would think you would throw a little caution and regulation to the wind.

But apparently that's not going to happen in this situation and they intend to inflict as much pain and death as possible.

Posted by: Kreplach at April 03, 2020 04:28 PM (BiXrp)

333 289 Your plan sucks jwest.
Posted by: freaked at April 03, 2020 04:23 PM (Tnijr)

What part don't you like?

On top of the debt payoff, there is a (minimum) 4 trillion infrastructure program and it's paid for by selling off federal assets over the next 100 years.

Posted by: jwest at April 03, 2020 04:28 PM (mrrpT)

334 Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 03, 2020 04:23 PM (NWiLs)

Everyone loves a good Pharm Tech joke!

Posted by: batterup at April 03, 2020 04:28 PM (K4I9O)

335 325 No Gobbledygook !!
Posted by: runner at April 03, 2020 04:27 PM (zr5Kq)

Well, shit. There goes 98% of our shtick!

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 03, 2020 04:28 PM (NWiLs)

336 Recently, my insurer tried to make me change my blood pressure medicine, which I have been using for years with good results. I have no idea what that was about.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, USS Lone Fire

Go to goodrx.com and print out a coupon. if your bp meds are older generics, you'll probably pay less with a coupon than your copay. at least check it out.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 03, 2020 04:24 PM (d7Ww2)
------
I think I'm already getting as good a deal as possible - $25 for 3 months' worth. But thanks.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, USS Lone Fire at April 03, 2020 04:28 PM (g8Yc+)

337 I think the hydroxychloroquine is a big fucking deal!

Posted by: uncle handsy Joe at April 03, 2020 04:28 PM (JFO2v)

338 >>Everything would be pegged to a date already past - Maybe March 1, 2020.

How the hell is that fair? We are only going to pay the mortgages of people who already own a house? What about all the people who are just about to buy one, why do they get punished?

What about people who have already paid off their mortgages, their college loans, etc.?

I want less government intrusion in the private market not more.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 03, 2020 04:28 PM (ZLI7S)

339 [i
But I don't see it being used widely as a general prevention because it DOES have dangerous side effects with longer term use.

I thought it was only a 5-day course for the Hong Kong Fluey.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at April 03, 2020 04:28 PM (oVJmc)

340 I'm on 3 different BP-related drugs and the cost is almost nothing. Yes, try out any kind of prescription discount club and you might be surprised.

Posted by: Old Man Hypertension at April 03, 2020 04:28 PM (P7iDO)

341 Dumb journos think FDA is a magical god that confers efficacy once it's approved a drug. I guess when the medications on the market were still being developed, the were not working until the FDA waved its magic wand of approval.

Oh, and in a just world the governors of Michigan and Nevada would never be allowed anywhere near the levers of power.

Posted by: chique d'Epstein didn't off hisself at April 03, 2020 04:28 PM (0miBO)

342 Getting pretty sure first week(s) back everyone will be wearing masks if they can be found, even if your in a office.
I still don't believe the hype

Posted by: Skip at April 03, 2020 04:29 PM (ZCEU2)

343 270
261 I'm here.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 03, 2020 04:20 PM (QzF6i)

Are you sure? How do you know?

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 03, 2020 04:21 PM (NWiLs)

++++++Looks around. Who are you talking to then?

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 03, 2020 04:29 PM (QzF6i)

344 END THE LOCKDOWN NOW.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton

Every bit of this.
Posted by: deplorable unperson

and then some!

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at April 03, 2020 04:29 PM (LWu6U)

345 So i guess the kids won't be rolling houses except rich ones.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at April 03, 2020 04:29 PM (mPyi0)

346 "ucking CVS pharmacy
refused to fill a legal prescription because and I quote: "That's not a
FDA approved treatment."

giant lawsuit in the making ... maybe it was an isolated event. It IS FDA approved ... afaik. I mean they said it could be used, at least in some cases ... determined by the doctor.

Posted by: illiniwek at April 03, 2020 04:29 PM (Cus5s)

347 "Ask a Ninja" has good directions on how to make a ninja mask out of a t-shirt

Posted by: Corn Fed at April 03, 2020 04:29 PM (EA1BR)

348 Polelicker of Fagorado must have seen the Academy of Science fake news piece that claimed you can disseminate the virus by merely breathing.

Thank God we have got top men handling this crisis.

Top.

Men.

Posted by: Two Weeks From Wearing A Mask at April 03, 2020 04:29 PM (+dsLj)

349 Well, shit. There goes 98% of our shtick!
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 03, 2020 04:28 PM (NWiLs)

That was me chasing MUCK.

Posted by: runner at April 03, 2020 04:29 PM (zr5Kq)

350 Listening to Chris Plante on delay, a caller is explaining that in an Orangemanbad conversation with her mother, and they got into a conversation about "Constitutional", so the caller offered to back up her end of the conversation by sending her mother a copy of The Federalists Papers.

Her mother's response was "Don't you send that to me! I'm not going to read it!" "You don't have the RIGHT to change my opinion!"

Craziness.

The Federalist fucking Papers.

Posted by: Axeman at April 03, 2020 04:29 PM (Eicbe)

351 Even Fauci was kinda like "Nah. That stuff can be dangerous and we need tests and studies."

I don't know about you guys but I'm done with the "experts" as much as I am the media.

Posted by: Horus Hearsay at April 03, 2020 04:15 PM (DB16e)

Limbaugh went after him today. Basically said he's a bureaucrat who can't see past the bureaucracy of anything

Posted by: TheQuietMan at April 03, 2020 04:30 PM (3O/Dj)

352 " ...
If everyone demanded physical delivery, something tells me there would be a huge shortfall.

Posted by: Blago at April 03, 2020 04:24 PM (sjTfF) "

LOL, holding precious metals on paper, uhuh.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez, we are being gaslighted 24/365 at April 03, 2020 04:30 PM (cqteU)

353 "What part don't you like?"

The part about paying off everyone's debts. That's the stupidest thing I have heard all week and that's a high hurdle indeed.

Posted by: freaked at April 03, 2020 04:30 PM (Tnijr)

354 Recently, my insurer tried to make me change my blood pressure medicine, which I have been using for years with good results. I have no idea what that was about.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, USS Lone Fire at April 03, 2020 04:18 PM (g8Yc+)

Many contaminants and cancer agents reported in many of the generics. I had to change 3 times about a year ago.

Posted by: uncle handsy Joe at April 03, 2020 04:30 PM (JFO2v)

355 That was me chasing MUCK.
Posted by: runner at April 03, 2020 04:29 PM (zr5Kq)

You don't chase muck, you rake it.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 03, 2020 04:30 PM (NWiLs)

356 I have a whole package of masks in the next room. Damned if I wear one though. They are for mowing.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at April

Are you mowing dirt?

Posted by: LOL at April 03, 2020 04:31 PM (odrqb)

357
You put something bad in those capsules!
Posted by: Insomniac
-----
Says right there at the bottom of page 5,
"If you are allergic to Arsenic, do not take Arsenic."

Posted by: Arsenic Inc. at April 03, 2020 04:31 PM (CDGwz)

358 This may be one of the best things to come out of this whole mess - the scam of in-person necessity and the expensive edifices they created for administration will come to an end.
Posted by: batterup at April 03, 2020 04:15 PM (K4I9O)

Saw a piece recently speculating that EverGreen College is headed for bankruptcy - I expect a lot more smaller schools like it will do the same. When school is online, there's no reason to sign up for classes from some remote little college in the hills.

Grand Canyon University is one of the leaders in the online education field, they may do very well. The quality of your campus and longstanding "tradition" mean nothing to online education.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 03, 2020 04:31 PM (V2Yro)

359 Pharmacies were cited for not refusing to fill opiate prescriptions when they knew or should have known its use was excessive or against ODG guidelines. So I guess that means they can refuse.
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at April 03, 2020 04:27 PM (YT5Rb)

Not the same. State legislatures have put opiate monitoring programs into effect, and the medical professionals are obligated to follow state law. FDA approval is not an enforceable law.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 03, 2020 04:31 PM (dNzKv)

360 I think the hydroxychloroquine is a big fucking deal!
Posted by: uncle handsy Joe at April 03, 2020 04:28 PM (JFO2v)
---
And what I mean is DON'T TAKE ORANGEMANBADITOL!!

Posted by: Joe Sundown at April 03, 2020 04:31 PM (Eicbe)

361 Kathleen Kennedy Townsend's 40-year-old daughter and grandson are missing after going on a canoe ride to fetch a ball that went into the Chesapeake Bay. Okay, I can see a kid doing something like that but a 40-year-old? Stormy conditions, 2-3 foot waves. The stupid burns bright in that clan. All for a ball that probably cost $5.

Posted by: JuJuBee, just generally being shamey at April 03, 2020 04:31 PM (COzlW)

362 So the bloom is off Gretchen's rose?

Joe Biden wants to know.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis at April 03, 2020 04:31 PM (sWM8x)

363 The media has been eagerly attacking everyone else's right to free speech
_______

That has always been true, and inevitably so. Has there ever been an industry which liked having competition? Cartels gotta cartel.

Posted by: Eeyore at April 03, 2020 04:31 PM (ZbwAu)

364 320 Panama has implemented gender-based social distancing regulations to help tackle the coronavirus crisis, but the move has raised "dread" among members of the transgender community.
.. this just screams "I can't punch my way out of a paper bag"
___________________

You'd think transgenders would appreciate social distancing requirements.

After all, the greater the distance between them and normal people, the harder it is to tell that they're trannies. Up close, you can see the facial stubble and the Adam's Apple, etc., on the "ladies."

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at April 03, 2020 04:31 PM (k4dH2)

365 I'm banking on Trump stating enough is enough. More damage, suffering and death will occur with a comatose economy than this Chi-Com plague.

END THE LOCKDOWN NOW.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 03, 2020 04:13 PM (pS94+)

I sent email and physical letter to Gov Abbot with the same comments.

Posted by: uncle handsy Joe at April 03, 2020 04:31 PM (JFO2v)

366 Case fatality rate is holding steady at 30% here.....

Posted by: it begins... at April 03, 2020 04:17 PM (MRjKr)
-------------------------------
270,062 (known) cases and 6927 deaths.
Hmmm.
6927 divided by 270062 ....mmmm....carry the ...um...
Golly. I get 0.0256. IOW, 2.56%.

And that's with KNOWN, recorded cases as the denominator.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at April 03, 2020 04:32 PM (M/9m0)

367 >>> Online courses suck. You are basically teaching yourself, plus there's no interaction with fellow students and sharing of ideas. That's just my experience, of course.
Posted by: Jordan61

I would agree with this. My son is college freshman and started online course work this week. I know prior to being sent home he spent a lot of time in study groups for his classes to keep up, as the instructors are difficult to understand, and the material for his major doesn't necessarily come to him easily. He expects his grades to suffer this semester. I can't blame him.

Posted by: 6-4-3 Turn Two at April 03, 2020 04:32 PM (NMkO+)

368 Trump : What a beautiful sunset!

CNN : FUCK YOU MR PRESIDENT.

Posted by: Dr Spank at April 03, 2020 04:32 PM (xoAW1)

369 You don't chase muck, you rake it.
Posted by: Insomniac
----

Tell me about it.

Posted by: Hercules at April 03, 2020 04:32 PM (CDGwz)

370 END THE LOCKDOWN NOW.

I would make a banner out of this , with 6 foot letters and fly it in my front yard... if I could find an open Hobby Lobby.

Posted by: deplorable unperson - sanitized for your protection at April 03, 2020 04:32 PM (pyXq5)

371 How long do we Have to wear masks?

Trump....maybe in April.
Dims.......forever and ever.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at April 03, 2020 04:32 PM (mPyi0)

372 Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 03, 2020 04:27 PM (dNzKv)

What if your PHCP accidently prescribed cetirizine instead of sertraline- wouldn't you want the Pharmacist to catch that? and not give you a med that is mis-prescribed?

Posted by: batterup at April 03, 2020 04:33 PM (K4I9O)

373 @279

Not sure why you would need a large scale study for a drug that is used by millions of people around the world safely, effectively, with relatively few side effects just so it can be deemed safe for another use.

Posted by: Kreplach at April 03, 2020 04:28 PM (BiXrp)

The main focus would be efficacy for this new indication. It's also conceivable that there could be new safety issues in this population, which I think is unlikely.

But you are right in that there's no need for it to go through the typical very long and very expensive development and approval process.

Posted by: chique d'Epstein didn't off hisself at April 03, 2020 04:33 PM (0miBO)

374 "But your snide comment about people who were able to shake off the debt, which includes me, by insinuating that we somehow caused this coming crash by NOT racking up those debts... that's asshoe."
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at April 03, 2020 04:27 PM (ykYG2)

I don't know how you went from my theory that homeowners without debt don't need the bailout to them causing the crash.

If you don't think it's fair or right, what do you think would be?

Posted by: jwest at April 03, 2020 04:33 PM (mrrpT)

375 The media has been eagerly attacking everyone else's right to free speech

Their First Amendment Rights are Sacred.

YOUR First Amendment Rights are bullshit.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at April 03, 2020 04:33 PM (oVJmc)

376 I certainly hope the new serology tests are widely available soon and show something like "50 million already had this, its not super dangerous" . But I'm also so over hearing about how covid-19 is "less dangerous than the regular flu" I don't remember EVER hearing about a shortage of ventilators from a regular flu outbreak. I don't think Samaritan's Purse is in the habit of sending their portable hospitals based on FNM b.s. SP wants to have resources free to help if tornados wipe out towns this time of year.

And if hypertension is a serious pre-existing condition that means it wasn't the kung-flu that killed ya? High blood pressure is pretty common and it seems to me that most folks live with it for decades only having to take a daily pill and pay attention in case they need dosage adjusted down so they don't faint.

So even though the FNM are pushing panic trying to use the situation to strike back at us irredeemable deplorables that dared elect DJT by killing the economy, I do think this virus does qualify as a super flu. The damn Chi-coms should face serious retaliation for creating or at a minimum growing this damn pandemic with their lies.
Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at April 03, 2020 04:20 PM (T9Hmo)

This is the second newsletter I am subscribing to today. Gonna have a full inbox.

Posted by: PennaLady at April 03, 2020 04:33 PM (8HBLI)

377
...after going on a canoe ride to fetch a ball...

Do you really believe that?
Why would you believe such a cockamamie thing?

Posted by: Soothsayer, very senile at April 03, 2020 04:33 PM (yDBK2)

378 353 "What part don't you like?"

The part about paying off everyone's debts. That's the stupidest thing I have heard all week and that's a high hurdle indeed.
Posted by: freaked at April 03, 2020 04:30 PM (Tnijr)

I have a brother in law with $3 million in personal debt that he has no way of paying, since he made some foolish, wildly optimistic business gambles. He would absolutely LOVE this "pay off all debts!!!" plan. Oh and of course he has no cash, he spent it all long ago.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 03, 2020 04:33 PM (V2Yro)

379 Are you mowing dirt?
Posted by: LOL at April 03, 2020 04:31 PM (odrqb)

I mow my share of dirt, unfortunately, also ragweed and sundry nastiness.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at April 03, 2020 04:33 PM (o2MD2)

380 FDA approval allows a drug onto the market, and regulates how the pharmaceutical company can market it. It does not regulate how a physician prescribes it.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 03, 2020 04:33 PM (dNzKv)

381 Today needs to be the day Trump looks at Fauci and says, "You been heah fo weeks. You go now."

That little attention-whoring gnome is killing this nation.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 03, 2020 04:34 PM (ptqGC)

382 Online courses suck. You are basically teaching yourself, plus there's no interaction with fellow students and sharing of ideas. That's just my experience, of course.
Posted by: Jordan61
----------

I was an early participant in what was then called 'Distance Learning".

Suck, indeed, biggly.

Posted by: Hercules at April 03, 2020 04:34 PM (CDGwz)

383 You pay...i bring any sign you want.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at April 03, 2020 04:34 PM (mPyi0)

384 Many contaminants and cancer agents reported in many of the generics. I had to change 3 times about a year ago.
Posted by: uncle handsy Joe at April 03, 2020 04:30 PM (JFO2v)
-----
Well *shrug* I've been using it for years, so I'm effed already. In any case, my physician's office was fine with me staying on it, when I discussed the matter with them. I'll take them over the insurer.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, USS Lone Fire at April 03, 2020 04:34 PM (g8Yc+)

385 Oops. /Manly Greek sock

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 03, 2020 04:34 PM (CDGwz)

386 END THE LOCKDOWN NOW.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton

100% My 29 odometer has rolled over twice now, but I'm willing to take the risk, happily. This is crazy. And every day that ticks by I'm convinced we've been conned. This is one mistake I don't want to look back on with 20/20 hindsight.

There's people my age and younger who've lost far more than the last crash. We've only got so long to start this puppy back up and turn before we get to the edge of the cliff

It's painfully obvious too many in DC along with their mouthpieces think it's all for the greater good, by any means necessary.

That said, my priorities have just been rearranged, and one of the first people I'm going after is whoever came up with the music loop for hold on Wells Fargo's customer service line. I'm going to need to drink heavily to forget.

Posted by: clutch cargo at April 03, 2020 04:35 PM (8B6Ng)

387
The corrupt and slimy Kennedy clan has a PR apparatus and the fake news to protect them, always.

It's always a Lie with these people, and then we find out the truth later. Always.

Posted by: Soothsayer, very senile at April 03, 2020 04:35 PM (yDBK2)

388 The movie Hang 'em High, the hangings in the town square was a festival. Looked like a carnival and the citizens and their kids enjoyed the multiple hangings. Pat Hingle was the hanging judge. Good times.

Posted by: azalea city at April 03, 2020 04:35 PM (WX+x0)

389 Today needs to be the day Trump looks at Fauci and says, "You been heah fo weeks. You go now."

---------

There is danger in giving these little-known technocrats too much of a publicity profile. They don't know how to handle it. They let it go to their heads. You run the risk that they let the limelight get to them.

Let the experts remain in the background. Would be good every once in a while to put them out there to the test. But not on a daily basis.

Posted by: SH at April 03, 2020 04:36 PM (C0xFb)

390 Online courses suck. You are basically teaching yourself, plus there's
no interaction with fellow students and sharing of ideas. That's just my
experience, of course.

Posted by: Jordan61

Our son is taking three college courses online, trying to complete his degree requirements. He hates it. He's the kind of student who gets more out of being in a classroom and interacting with fellow students, and his professor.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 03, 2020 04:36 PM (ptqGC)

391 >>Kathleen Kennedy Townsend's 40-year-old daughter and grandson are missing after going on a canoe ride to fetch a ball that went into the Chesapeake Bay. Okay, I can see a kid doing something like that but a 40-year-old? Stormy conditions, 2-3 foot waves. The stupid burns bright in that clan. All for a ball that probably cost $5.

Wow - thought it was just an ill-timed canoe trip, but to fetch a ball??? That is as stupid as her uncle skiing into a tree playing ski-football.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 03, 2020 04:36 PM (bDqIh)

392 @373

It's like falling off a boat and your drowning and you asking them to throw you a life preserver and them saying, "Can't this one is only partially inflated, I'm going to go below deck and see if I can find the air pump, be back in five minutes."

We don't got five minutes.

Posted by: Kreplach at April 03, 2020 04:36 PM (BiXrp)

393 Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 03, 2020 04:27 PM (dNzKv)

What if your PHCP accidently prescribed cetirizine instead of sertraline- wouldn't you want the Pharmacist to catch that? and not give you a med that is mis-prescribed?
Posted by: batterup at April 03, 2020 04:33 PM (K4I9O)

When there is a question about the drug or the dosing, they call the physician and ask. Also, that is a really difficult mistake to make. Hydralazine and hydroxazine? Maybe, but the e-prescription software prompts those kinds of things.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 03, 2020 04:37 PM (dNzKv)

394
The People need to rise up and decide May 1st is Back To Normal Day, or Back To Work Day.

Tell our governors to fuckoff and just back to work.

Posted by: Soothsayer, very senile at April 03, 2020 04:37 PM (yDBK2)

395 BREAKING on Coronavirus News Network: Trump on pace to kill more Americans with fish tank cleaner than Obama did with drone strikes. Developing ...

Posted by: ShainS at April 03, 2020 04:37 PM (CESUr)

396 Yeah, online courses suck. You can't tell if the student next to you has nice tits.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at April 03, 2020 04:37 PM (o2MD2)

397 It's a wonderfully quaint story. Just go to archive.org and search books.
Posted by: 13times at April 03, 2020 04:27 PM (K3B2k)

did that, and no dice. There is a book with a story called "the Cathedral by that author." Is the spelling correct?

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at April 03, 2020 04:37 PM (LWu6U)

398 Kathleen Kennedy Townsend's 40-year-old daughter and grandson are missing after going on a canoe ride to fetch a ball that went into the Chesapeake Bay. Okay, I can see a kid doing something like that but a 40-year-old? Stormy conditions, 2-3 foot waves. The stupid burns bright in that clan. All for a ball that probably cost $5.
----------------------------------------------------------------------

There is more to this because the story doesn't make sense.

Posted by: JoeF. at April 03, 2020 04:38 PM (CqE5x)

399 no interaction with fellow students and sharing of ideas. That's just my
experience, of course.

How will they learn to be ACTIVISTS and LAKE THEIR VOICE HEARD!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 03, 2020 04:38 PM (dNzKv)

400 The People need to rise up and decide May 1st is Back To Normal Day, or Back To Work Day.

Posted by: Soothsayer, very senile at April 03, 2020 04:37 PM (yDBK2)
---
Mayday!
Mayday!

Posted by: American Economy at April 03, 2020 04:38 PM (Eicbe)

401 Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 03, 2020 04:37 PM (dNzKv)

I am not for telling Pharmacists to "bake the cake" - go to a compounding pharmacy they tend to be more customer friendly than the big corporate ones.

Posted by: batterup at April 03, 2020 04:38 PM (K4I9O)

402 Our son is taking three college courses online, trying to complete his degree requirements. He hates it. He's the kind of student who gets more out of being in a classroom and interacting with fellow students, and his professor.

------------

To each their own - no?

I'd prefer the professorial approach for some classes, less for others.

When you get to it, any course (for me) is better when you have a good teacher / professor. And there are many. Real discussion is also better - when you should feel free to engage in argument. Sadly , that is not the case at many places.

Posted by: SH at April 03, 2020 04:38 PM (C0xFb)

403 "I have a brother in law with $3 million in personal debt that he has no way of paying, since he made some foolish, wildly optimistic business gambles. He would absolutely LOVE this "pay off all debts!!!" plan. Oh and of course he has no cash, he spent it all long ago."
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 03, 2020 04:33 PM (V2Yro)

He sounds like the type of person who this country will need immediately when the virus is gone. We'll need wildly optimistic small business people that have financial security and access to capital.

People who have lived well within their means for decades and who will be doubly cautious after this will not be much help starting a rapid recovery.

Posted by: jwest at April 03, 2020 04:39 PM (mrrpT)

404 >>There is more to this because the story doesn't make sense.

Whenever you get Kennedys around water it doesn't make sense.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 03, 2020 04:39 PM (ZLI7S)

405 Berlin pissed because Trump diverted 220,000 masks from Thailand to the US under the Defense Production Act.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 03, 2020 04:39 PM (Oqufv)

406 339---I thought it was only a 5-day course for the Hong Kong Fluey.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at April 03, 2020 04:28 PM (oVJmc)
-------------------------
Yes.
I meant it would never reasonably be used by asymptomatic people as a prevention. THAT would require long term use.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at April 03, 2020 04:40 PM (M/9m0)

407 There is more to this because the story doesn't make sense.

Whenever you get Kennedys around water it doesn't make sense.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 03, 2020 04:39 PM (ZLI7S)
---
A secretary drowned in knee-deep water.

Knee-deep water.

Knee-deep water.

Posted by: American Economy at April 03, 2020 04:40 PM (Eicbe)

408
The president's numbers are okay, not good, but okay, now. But that will turn rapidly in a couple weeks when people are sick of this shit and want change. Democrats know this.

Posted by: Soothsayer, very senile at April 03, 2020 04:40 PM (yDBK2)

409 Posted by: jwest at April 03, 2020 04:39 PM (mrrpT)

Yeah. No. If everyone was at 0 I can see alot of those very people jumping into something head first.

Posted by: thathalfrican - sucker free on my phone at April 03, 2020 04:40 PM (0wQE6)

410 Loozyana governor was on the talk radio just now, pre-empting Hannity, to say we are not taking the social distancing crap seriously. Understand, the average IQ of a SE Loozyana resident is below room temp when the A/C is on, but even they are seeing through this.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 03, 2020 04:41 PM (rpbg1)

411 Whenever you get Kennedys around water it doesn't make sense.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 03, 2020 04:39 PM (ZLI7S)
-------
How do you get your PT boat t-boned by a Japanese destroyer?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, USS Lone Fire at April 03, 2020 04:41 PM (g8Yc+)

412 You must be carrying a lot debt jwest. LOLGF

Posted by: freaked at April 03, 2020 04:41 PM (Tnijr)

413 >>A secretary drowned in knee-deep water.

>>Knee-deep water.

>>Knee-deep water.

John John made a water landing.

You'd have thought the President went down with the response to that one.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 03, 2020 04:41 PM (ZLI7S)

414 The media are leading this country to the edge of a revolution, but it's not the revolution they have in mind.

________

Prager had a good quip today -- that hopefully many more Americans will develop an immunity to the news media after this.

Posted by: ShainS at April 03, 2020 04:41 PM (o9UFo)

415 Wasn't one of their supposed justifications for not airing his press conferences the danger of airing his "misinformation". Fucking commie asshole fucks.

Posted by: ... at April 03, 2020 04:41 PM (T+/KY)

416 The main focus would be efficacy for this new indication. It's also conceivable that there could be new safety issues in this population, which I think is unlikely.

This coronavirus was engineered by the ChiComs to be dirty. It has effects everywhere. We dont want to start mass prescribing it only to find out that, sure, it protects your lungs, but it makes the virus attach your brain. This virus is a complete POS.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 03, 2020 04:42 PM (dNzKv)

417 I'm a civil servant, but my husband is in the private sector. Do we get half our mortgage paid off?

And no, I don't like any plan that rewards people who don't make smart decisions. I started working towards my goal of being financially comfortable in middle school, when I started taking all the advanced math and science I could and getting the best grades I could so that I could eventually have a career that would pay well enough for me to be able to have a modest home, a decent car, and go on camping vacations. (You will notice I don't have a M5, a mansion, or trips to the Monaco GP on my list.) I don't see why it's my problem that people who had the same opportunities I did failed to take advantage of them.

Posted by: Mrs. Peel at April 03, 2020 04:42 PM (rWZ8Y)

418 >>> The People need to rise up and decide May 1st is Back To Normal Day, or Back To Work Day.

Posted by: Soothsayer, very senile at April 03, 2020 04:37 PM (yDBK2)
---
Mayday!
Mayday!
Posted by: American Economy

This would be great way to turn May Day into an American Holiday.

Posted by: 6-4-3 Turn Two at April 03, 2020 04:42 PM (NMkO+)

419 END THE LOCKDOWN NOW.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton

100% My 29 odometer has rolled over twice now, but I'm willing to
take the risk, happily. This is crazy. And every day that ticks by I'm
convinced we've been conned.

No question about it.

Posted by: deplorable unperson - sanitized for your protection at April 03, 2020 04:42 PM (pyXq5)

420 Kathleen Kennedy Townsend's 40-year-old daughter and grandson are missing after going on a canoe ride to fetch a ball that went into the Chesapeake Bay. Okay, I can see a kid doing something like that but a 40-year-old? Stormy conditions, 2-3 foot waves. The stupid burns bright in that clan. All for a ball that probably cost $5.
----------------------------------------------------------------------

There is more to this because the story doesn't make sense.
Posted by: JoeF

They were probably given a canteen of fish tank cleaner.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 03, 2020 04:43 PM (Oqufv)

421 >>There is more to this because the story doesn't make sense.

Yeah, it's too stupid even for a Kennedy --- unless it turns out they were all drinking (not her kid). The one who skied into a tree was a long-time alcoholic.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 03, 2020 04:43 PM (bDqIh)

422 The Twitter setup where only the lefty opinion of the day is allowed and everyone else is deplatformed for hate is the Left's plan for the entire internet.

Posted by: ... at April 03, 2020 04:43 PM (T+/KY)

423 Loozyana governor was on the talk radio just now, pre-empting Hannity, to say we are not taking the social distancing crap seriously. Understand, the average IQ of a SE Loozyana resident is below room temp when the A/C is on, but even they are seeing through this.

------------

Tell him to Fuck Off.

If I die, I die.

Posted by: SH at April 03, 2020 04:43 PM (C0xFb)

424 A better plan is to send everyone a million dollar bill.

Posted by: some asshole on the Internet at April 03, 2020 04:43 PM (Tnijr)

425 Yeah, people and companies living and operating within their means not racking up debt piled on debt helping to inflate asset bubbles are the problem. /s

It totally not the other actors and companies who live and operate off of debt only to get bailed out at the end by the Fed monetizing their debt and destroying the futures of our children and grandchildren. Sure we should keep bailing out people and companies that fail. It's working great so far. Zero personal responsibility, accountability, and consequences are healthy for a society /s

Posted by: it begins... at April 03, 2020 04:43 PM (MRjKr)

426 WOW! I guess trump has screwed the pooch. (according to his oppo.) Do they REALY think their people would have done better for us? (sorry, if it doesn't benefit progressives, you lose)

Posted by: Boliver Shagnasty at April 03, 2020 04:43 PM (fJ+BQ)

427 Wasn't one of their supposed justifications for not airing his press conferences the danger of airing his "misinformation". Fucking commie asshole fucks.
Posted by: ... at April 03, 2020 04:41 PM (T+/KY)
---
Yep. And in particular they were upset because Trump had an estimation of his own, even though it's Fauci who has had to revise his estimates down.

Posted by: Axeman at April 03, 2020 04:44 PM (Eicbe)

428 I think in a week to 10 days, Trump will have to issue an order permitting certain businesses to open on a voluntary basis. Employees can also come in on a voluntary basis with the proviso that they still practice safe-distancing.

it's time to start wrapping this up.

Posted by: JoeF. at April 03, 2020 04:44 PM (CqE5x)

429 Fear is the MSM's and Democrats way of insuring the Trump is not re-elected.

Well, that and constant impeachment.

Posted by: shibumi in a tinfoil hat at April 03, 2020 04:44 PM (ZCiJZ)

430 The EU, unlike the FDA here, has refused to clear the "Trump drugs" for use in treating COVID-19, except for clinical trials.

https://preview.tinyurl.com/w3flo4r

Good. That leaves more of the drugs for us.

As posted above, the FDA issued an Emergency Use Authorization in late March, allowing the drugs to be used to treat COVID-19 patients.

https://preview.tinyurl.com/yxx2mk7a

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at April 03, 2020 04:44 PM (k4dH2)

431 Kreplach: "Not sure why you would need a large scale study for a drug that is used by millions of people around the world safely, effectively, with relatively few side effects just so it can be deemed safe for another use."

That's a good point. And HyClQu is an exceptionally tested drug as far as real-world use for its originally intended application.

And, yes, there are many dual-use drugs. I've had an ongoing prescription for one for about seven years now. Haven't used it yet, but it's there for the taking at my discretion. Perfectly normal, acceptable, and routine. HyClQu use should be a no-brainer. Alas, it always was until certain quarters decided that OrangeManBad suggested it showed some promise. Then they all went asshoe.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at April 03, 2020 04:44 PM (6eEQ+)

432 What if your PHCP accidentally prescribes you PCP?

Posted by: Chris M at April 03, 2020 04:44 PM (eAZVt)

433 Trump can argue with lawyers, and engineers, and politicians because that's his bailiwick. He cannot argue with doctors and scientists.

Going against doctors and scientists with common sense, technically, puts the lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans at risk.

He cannot do that.

But he can use this predicament to isolate China and promote manufacturing here in America.

Buckle up, it's less than thirty days and we will be the better for it.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 03, 2020 04:44 PM (WDPb/)

434 Some good cleaning info
https://tinyurl.com/yx52br6a

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 03, 2020 04:44 PM (r+sAi)

435 >396
Yeah, online courses suck. You can't tell if the student next to you has nice tits.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at April 03, 2020 04:37 PM (o2MD2)

This.

Posted by: Muad'dib at April 03, 2020 04:44 PM (sjdRT)

436 BTW, here are India's numbers (oddly enough the MFM hasn't been reporting the billion-persons' country's stats):
https://www.covid19india.org/

It's almost as if all the malaria medicine they administer is somehow helping the population. And while not First World, its government is much-more open than Red China's; and with a free press.

Posted by: andycanuck at April 03, 2020 04:44 PM (TQ/zJ)

437 Twitter is worthless.

Posted by: klaftern at April 03, 2020 04:44 PM (RuIsu)

438 At some point conservatives are only going to be able to communicate on the internet through total sarcasm.

"Boy this Chuck Schumer is AMAZING."

"Wow do I love this new bill by Democrats. So much spending!!! So glad they are giving Planned Parenthood so much money again!!! Butcher those.... I mean... Female Healthcare and Choice For All!!!! Yay!!!!"

Posted by: ... at April 03, 2020 04:45 PM (T+/KY)

439 Doctor ordered her some Plaquenil and Zithromax having heard good things
about it possibly being an effective treatment. Fucking CVS pharmacy
refused to fill a legal prescription because and I quote: "That's not a
FDA approved treatment."

Your friend should tell the doctor, and consider reporting the pharmacist to the state board of medicine. That would appear to be outside the scope of a pharmacy license and crossing the line into practicing medicine without a license. Doctors don't like that.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 03, 2020 04:15 PM (NWiLs)

I'm guessing she misunderstood and it was actually the insurance company refusing to pay for it. They do that all the time.
Her doctor should be able to straighten it out.

Posted by: db at April 03, 2020 04:45 PM (XUvmW)

440 Posted by: Mrs. Peel at April 03, 2020 04:42 PM (rWZ8Y)

Alot of people were sold a bunch of lies. Like having to goto college. Alot of people racked up a metric shit ton of debt believing that without a degree there are no good jobs.

The federal government didn't help in the aspect of taking over the loan process either but just an example.

Posted by: thathalfrican - sucker free on my phone at April 03, 2020 04:45 PM (0wQE6)

441 John John made a water landing.

You'd have thought the President went down with the response to that one.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 03, 2020 04:41 PM (ZLI7S)

He was going to be a candidate for POTUS had he lived. That was a given.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Foghorn Leghorn at April 03, 2020 04:45 PM (kXoT0)

442 Trump can argue with lawyers, and engineers, and politicians because that's his bailiwick. He cannot argue with doctors and scientists.

Going against doctors and scientists with common sense, technically, puts the lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans at risk.

-------------

Being a germaphobe must to some extent be guiding him - if only subconsciously.

Posted by: SH at April 03, 2020 04:45 PM (C0xFb)

443 Good. That leaves more of the drugs for us.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at April 03, 2020 04:44 PM (k4dH2)
---
That's what I said

Posted by: Raoul Duke at April 03, 2020 04:45 PM (Eicbe)

444 Yes. When can we get back to work? My idiot governor needs to get his head out of his ass.

Posted by: Mog Smash at April 03, 2020 04:45 PM (CgFRV)

445 Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 03, 2020 04:37 PM (dNzKv)

I am not for telling Pharmacists to "bake the cake" - go to a compounding pharmacy they tend to be more customer friendly than the big corporate ones.
Posted by: batterup at April 03, 2020 04:38 PM (K4I9O)

This isn't a "bake the cake" issue. It isn't forcing pharmacists to prescribe an abortifacient for its intended purpose of terminating a human life. It is about pharmacists doing their damn job. FDA approval does not preclude a medication from being used for another indication, therefore the rationale for refusal is invalid.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 03, 2020 04:45 PM (dNzKv)

446 Imagine if they had reacted this way with AIDS, and closed all the bathhouses and forced gays to maintain social distancing?

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at April 03, 2020 04:46 PM (LWu6U)

447 I was always happy when they said sulphur would help my gonorrhea but I knew better.

Arsenic my friends. Arsenic.

Here, pull my finger.

Posted by: Joe Biden, all but forgotten about at April 03, 2020 04:46 PM (Z+IKu)

448 412 You must be carrying a lot debt jwest. LOLGF
Posted by: freaked at April 03, 2020 04:41 PM (Tnijr)

I'm just an average small business person, who had about 3.6 million in positive net worth going into this thing. However, my portfolio has taken a hit (I don't even know how bad yet), my property has devalued (I'm sitting on a $600,000 condo that I have no idea who will buy it in the foreseeable future), the property in a restaurant that I'll never see any return on and my main business that has dropped off a cliff in the past few weeks.

This economy is not going to zoom back the way some think.

Posted by: jwest at April 03, 2020 04:46 PM (mrrpT)

449 John John made a water landing.

You'd have thought the President went down with the response to that one.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 03, 2020 04:41 PM (ZLI7S)

I've always believed--without evidence--that had he lived John John would have been elected Senator in place of Hillary, and President in place of Obama.....

Posted by: JoeF. at April 03, 2020 04:46 PM (CqE5x)

450 I think the people who want this to end to go back to work should volunteer to get infected and quarantine until they are officially declared recovered and cleared by doctors, both the doctor and patient would be liable if they infect anybody else though with severe fines and/or capital punishment.

Posted by: it begins... at April 03, 2020 04:46 PM (MRjKr)

451 The lockdown is an intentional strangulation of the economy.
J.J., I'm beginning to think so.

Posted by: PJ at April 03, 2020 04:46 PM (qlTN9)

452 He was going to be a candidate for POTUS had he lived. That was a given.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Foghorn Leghorn at April 03, 2020 04:45 PM (kXoT0)

That was before Darwin took a hand...

Posted by: Boswell at April 03, 2020 04:46 PM (32YRo)

453 https://www.thediplomad.com/
Broken Record

Lewis is getting fed up with the hype also, good short read as always

Posted by: Skip at April 03, 2020 04:46 PM (ZCEU2)

454 Dr Oz (yeah, I know) has been touting the use of HCQ each morning on Fox and Friends this week. Thing is, he a "Friend of Oprah" and is well-known as a celebrity doctor. Dr. Oz specifically called-out the nonsensical nature of the prohibition in NY: HCQ can only be used in NY in a clinical trial, he's been calling all the guys that would be conducting those trial AND, nope, can't find a clinical trial in New York.

Gov. Cuomo is still fighting the good fight to let as many New Yorkers die from the Wuhan Lung Rot as he can but he's not going to be able to resist letting doctors use HCQ much longer. People with some influence are beginning to notice.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at April 03, 2020 04:47 PM (00fXp)

455
Going against doctors and scientists with common sense, technically, puts the lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans at risk.

Posted by: Braenyard

"An assho is an assho is an assho."
-Shih Tzu

Most of these "scientists" and "experts" are bureaucrat hacks with political bias AND No Real World Experience.

Posted by: Soothsayer, very senile at April 03, 2020 04:47 PM (yDBK2)

456 I am allowed to prescribe Keflex to treat gout. It won't do a damn thing for the patient, but it isn't the pharmacists call to refuse to fill. They have not examined the patient, they are not clinicians.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 03, 2020 04:47 PM (dNzKv)

457 Oh good grief, they're setting fire to 5G towers in the UK now? Because some genius celebs figured out there's no 5G towers in South Africa, and they're not as sick as we are?

Brains! B-r-a-a-a-i-i-n-s!

Posted by: clutch cargo at April 03, 2020 04:48 PM (8B6Ng)

458 Fear is the MSM's and Democrats way of insuring the Trump is not re-elected.

Well, that and constant impeachment.

Posted by: shibumi in a tinfoil hat at April 03, 2020 04:44 PM (ZCiJZ)

And like everything else they do, it's not going to work.

I think in all the mayhem of the last several years (and the fact that we had 43 house members retire in 201

we haven't noticed that the Left has basically coopted Obama's Shit Midas powers.

Or perhaps Obama was just doing what the Left wanted him to do.... and - Plot Twist - they were Shit Midas all along.

Posted by: ... at April 03, 2020 04:48 PM (T+/KY)

459 I'm screwed no matter what the President says until Emperor Wolf says I can go to work.

Posted by: Skip at April 03, 2020 04:48 PM (ZCEU2)

460 This economy is not going to zoom back the way some think.

-------------

My thoughts too. There are just too many unknowns. Companies will use this as an opportunity to get rid of dead weight that always gets accumulated during a bull run. Capital that people saved for a long time and then risked to start a business the past couple years is gone.

Now I think there are many things we (as a country) could do to really spur a bull run like was found in the 50s and 60s.

Posted by: SH at April 03, 2020 04:48 PM (C0xFb)

461 "I'm just an average small business person"
Me too. Self employed for more than 30 years This whole situation sucks but I have worked to get in a position where I can take a hit like this. One of the things I didn't do was buy a $600K condo like a dumbass.

Posted by: freaked at April 03, 2020 04:49 PM (Tnijr)

462 And while not First World, its government is much-more open than Red China's; and with a free press.

Posted by: andycanuck at April 03, 2020 04:44 PM (TQ/zJ)

It's those foooking Brits what did it.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 03, 2020 04:49 PM (WDPb/)

463 Propagandists gonna propagandize.
Pussy ass Communist factions will not keep smoldering unless they keep fanning the coals.

Oh. By the way, Shepard Smith is still an horrible cunt.

Posted by: Denny Crane! at April 03, 2020 04:49 PM (KpUZP)

464 I am so tired of us being ruled by "Models". They will produce whatever outcome desired by the designer. Usually half assed thinking by people with no cognizance of the real world. Oh, what if we did this? (insert assignine assumption here)

Posted by: Boliver Shagnasty at April 03, 2020 04:49 PM (fJ+BQ)

465 Apropos of false hopes and quack nostrums, I ordered some maybe weightloss product from one of the clickbait pop-ups and then my text, email, and browser sessions were flooded with more ads from the same company. I had to go unsubscribe, cancel, block and do the other thing to make it all go away. I finally sent them an email saying that their annoying advertising was going to keep me from even considering ordering any other "natural", "organic", "not approved by the FDA" supplements, ever.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 03, 2020 04:49 PM (t82DG)

466 Sure they're a bunch of partisan political ahoes who are lying about being journalists, but I always thought when shi*t really went down and lives were on the line based on the information they provided they'd table politics.

These useless sacks of skin just saw deaths as another political opportunity. They are enemies of humanity and deserve to be treated as such.

Posted by: mikethemoose at April 03, 2020 04:49 PM (Y6UV7)

467 BTW, always call it the "Trump Cure".

Posted by: andycanuck at April 03, 2020 04:49 PM (TQ/zJ)

468 Jwest: Hang in there. Things are never as bad as predicted. The past is always better than predicted.

Posted by: Mog Smash at April 03, 2020 04:50 PM (CgFRV)

469 Posted by: freaked at April 03, 2020 04:49 PM (Tnijr)

Last three years the economy was cooking. A 600K condo purchase for someone with the means I can totally see.

Posted by: thathalfrican - sucker free on my phone at April 03, 2020 04:50 PM (0wQE6)

470 Did some say they are looking for some pussy ass?

Posted by: Sheppi Smith at April 03, 2020 04:50 PM (KpUZP)

471 Go back to work without PPE, slave! My 401k is taking a hit.
t. Boomer mindset

Posted by: it begins... at April 03, 2020 04:50 PM (MRjKr)

472 >>> 433 Trump can argue with lawyers, and engineers, and politicians because that's his bailiwick. He cannot argue with doctors and scientists. Going against doctors and scientists with common sense, technically, puts the lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans at risk.

I guarantee you that more lives depend on engineers being correct than doctors + scientists. Or the fact that doctors screw up with nearly 50% of every decision they make would have a larger impact.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 03, 2020 04:50 PM (l6b3d)

473 If Dr. Fauci was wrong in January about Covid "not being a problem for the US", why can't he be wrong in April about shutting down through the Summer?

Posted by: JoeF. at April 03, 2020 04:51 PM (CqE5x)

474 Wow - thought it was just an ill-timed canoe trip, but to fetch a ball??? That is as stupid as her uncle skiing into a tree playing ski-football.
Posted by: Lizzy at April 03, 2020 04:36 PM (bDqIh)

My second cousin used to be part of Kathleen's security detail when she was Lieutenant Governor. She came to Beverly's first wedding reception and I sat at the same table. Even though I've been a Kennedy hater since the 60s she was very personable and pleasant to talk with. Probably as dumb as a plank but I didn't have enough data to determine that.

Posted by: Captain Hate at April 03, 2020 04:51 PM (y7DUB)

475 "A 600K condo purchase for someone with the means I can totally see."

He's complaining about not being able to unload it. Sounds like it was outside his means.

Posted by: freaked at April 03, 2020 04:51 PM (Tnijr)

476 Q4 is going to be a monster.
Q1 2021 too.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 03, 2020 04:51 PM (WDPb/)

477 Dr Oz (yeah, I know) has been touting the use of HCQ each morning on Fox
and Friends this week. Thing is, he a "Friend of Oprah" and is
well-known as a celebrity doctor. Dr. Oz specifically called-out the
nonsensical nature of the prohibition in NY: HCQ can only be used in NY
in a clinical trial, he's been calling all the guys that would be
conducting those trial AND, nope, can't find a clinical trial in New
York.

Oz recorded a question for Fauci this morning on Fox and Friends about HCO. Fauci continued to poo-poo the idea of using it baring further controlled testing or something.

He's an annoying little fuckwit. He seems to be enjoying his 15 minutes way too much.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 03, 2020 04:51 PM (ptqGC)

478 We have a known cure for weeks (pretty much anyway) and yet there has indeed been an intense effort to deny it, and ONLY total shutdown is the cure. It is insane ... OR it is yet another in the series of ops against Trump (probably in the never let a crisis go to waste category).

Gates and others are out in full force, the ads and celebrities are pushing the "Be a Good Citizen, Stay Home" dogma ... incredible.

I think of Dr. Evil's son in one of the Austin Powers movies, where they have Bond, but they devise some elaborate scheme to kill him. The kid keeps insisting ... "just kill him now, here I'll do it".

I and many keep saying, hey, instead of the ventilators for a million, why don't we give them the treatment to cure them? Just cure them, don't make them suffer ... CURE THEM NOW, end the complicate months of shutdown and forcing companies to change production lines... just give them the damn CURE.

Posted by: illiniwek at April 03, 2020 04:51 PM (Cus5s)

479 Posted by: banana Dream at April 03, 2020 04:50 PM (l6b3d)

There's a book out there, can't remember the authors name or the book title, that chronicles all the mistakes made in medicine.

Posted by: thathalfrican - sucker free on my phone at April 03, 2020 04:51 PM (0wQE6)

480 since we are making predictions, I predict when this is over, the restaurants that were able to make it through will have overflow crowds for months, and gas prices will shoot back up fast.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 03, 2020 04:52 PM (r+sAi)

481 The lockdown is an intentional strangulation of the economy.

This is the kind of dangerous statemant that we're deriding the MSM for making.

Posted by: db at April 03, 2020 04:52 PM (XUvmW)

482
I am so tired of us being ruled by "Models".

All hail Twiggy!

Posted by: Old Man at April 03, 2020 04:52 PM (aKsyK)

483 Posted by: freaked at April 03, 2020 04:51 PM (Tnijr)

Maybe. Or maybe this forced recession has cratered his business and thus his means.

Posted by: thathalfrican - sucker free on my phone at April 03, 2020 04:53 PM (0wQE6)

484 466
Sure they're a bunch of partisan political ahoes who are lying about
being journalists, but I always thought when shi*t really went down and
lives were on the line based on the information they provided they'd
table politics.

Posted by: mikethemoose at April 03, 2020 04:49 PM (Y6UV7)

LOL, like how they used to routinely publish classified information when we were at war? Not being funny with you, but I can't remember the last time I thought the Left gave a fuck about human life or anything beyond their twisted commie goals.

Posted by: ... at April 03, 2020 04:53 PM (T+/KY)

485
https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/
5pm
PDT

Posted by: m at April 03, 2020 04:53 PM (55d/e)

486 Dollar Tree had paper towels aplenty, their big rolls for (surprise!) a buck, and more than a few 4-packs of TP and large single rolls too. They posted a note limiting you to 4.

Better than WM, who restricts you to 1 of any item.

I stopped off at Save-a-Lot, where I used to shop every week. The place looks kind of picked over. But they had plenty of frozen foods, a good amount of meat (I got some ground turkey @ 3.99/lb.), and other things.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 03, 2020 04:53 PM (rpbg1)

487 This economy is not going to zoom back the way some think.
------------------------------------------------------------------

Some parts will.
Others will lag

Some parts will take years

don't forget that Summer is coming and a lot of people are going to want to go on vacation

Posted by: JoeF. at April 03, 2020 04:53 PM (CqE5x)

488 The Model

https://youtu.be/TDLhBYqNzv8

Posted by: clutch cargo at April 03, 2020 04:53 PM (8B6Ng)

489 The media's also now admitting that Trump's earlier statement that the fatality rate from the Wuhan Flu would maybe be lower than 1%... also may be true.

God, I hope this is true.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 03, 2020 04:53 PM (8fB/R)

490 "The lockdown is an intentional strangulation of the economy."

It's an attempt to gain power and make everyone a ward of the State.

Posted by: freaked at April 03, 2020 04:53 PM (Tnijr)

491 I think the people who want this to end to go back to work should volunteer to get infected and quarantine until they are officially declared recovered and cleared by doctors, both the doctor and patient would be liable if they infect anybody else though with severe fines and / or capital punishment.

Posted by: it begins ... at April 03, 2020 04:46 PM (MRjKr)

And I think we should have just taken our losses and moved on, so there.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 03, 2020 04:53 PM (t82DG)

492 472 >>> 433>>>I guarantee you that more lives depend on engineers being correct than doctors + scientists. Or the fact that doctors screw up with nearly 50% of every decision they make would have a larger impact.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 03, 2020 04:50 PM (l6b3d)

That's not the point.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 03, 2020 04:53 PM (WDPb/)

493 >>It's almost as if all the malaria medicine they administer is somehow helping the population. And while not First World, its government is much-more open than Red China's; and with a free press.

How many people do you suppose they've actually tested in India?

Here's a recent report of what's happening in Ecuador. It's not Mexico, obviously, but probably a fairly representative example of what's happening in developing countries. Listen to the video, the number of bodies they are picking up off the streets don't jibe with 120 total deaths. It's way more than that.

https://tinyurl.com/ruqb6h9

Looks like they aren't doing much social distancing in Ecuador either.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 03, 2020 04:53 PM (ZLI7S)

494 The lockdown is an intentional strangulation of the economy.
J.J., I'm beginning to think so.

By the Chinese. There is nothing that they could have done better or more efficiently.

Fauci might as well be working for Xi.

Posted by: deplorable unperson - sanitized for your protection at April 03, 2020 04:53 PM (pyXq5)

495 https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/
5pm
PDT
Posted by: m at April 03, 2020 04:53 PM (55d/e)

5:45?

Posted by: JoeF. at April 03, 2020 04:54 PM (CqE5x)

496 5pm EDT (in about 5 minutes)

Posted by: m at April 03, 2020 04:54 PM (55d/e)

497 I think the people who want this to end to go back to work should volunteer to get infected and quarantine until they are officially declared recovered and cleared by doctors

--

Like tens of millions have since November.

Posted by: Moron Robbie got the Kung Flu Grippe at April 03, 2020 04:54 PM (1R1vy)

498 459 I'm screwed no matter what the President says until Emperor Wolf says I can go to work.

hey skip!

so, have you been listening to Dom at all? he's been having various state reps on - they have a plan to override Wolf already worked out, it's easy

what we need to do is communicate with our local rep or senator (state) and make sure they know we are PISSED and they need to get back in session and deal with Wolf! because they can. the federal congress was able to go in session remotely; they can too

anyway Dom Giordano - who I always thought was kinda boring - has been GREAT on this. he has some ideas for what we in PA can do. we can stop wolf! he's a pussy!

Posted by: THE_BlackOrchid_STATE! at April 03, 2020 04:54 PM (j9HX3)

499 Just talked to a doc friend. He opined that taking a vitaminD3 supplement would be a good idea for most people now, to boost the immune system. He is NOT a hair on fire Doc. Thus endeth my cheapeth medical advice.

Posted by: tubal at April 03, 2020 04:54 PM (90T4r)

500 If you are still with BofA, go get your money and get out. They added a requirement to have a credit card with them to get the SBA loans.

Posted by: Hazchic at April 03, 2020 04:55 PM (jyNft)

501 We have a known cure for weeks (pretty much anyway) and yet there has indeed been an intense effort to deny it, and ONLY total shutdown is the cure. It is insane ... OR it is yet another in the series of ops against Trump

Posted by: Illiniwek

--

If the cure is handed out, there will be no crisis in November.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at April 03, 2020 04:55 PM (Hcsoi)

502 The meat aisle at the store today was overflowing. I think some of that is being re-routed from restaurant suppliers. Bastards haven't dropped the price yet though.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 03, 2020 04:55 PM (r+sAi)

503 490 "The lockdown is an intentional strangulation of the economy."

It's an attempt to gain power and make everyone a ward of the State.

Posted by: freaked at April 03, 2020 04:53 PM (Tnijr)

They've backed Trump into a corner and he is using it to further his agenda. Just watch.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 03, 2020 04:55 PM (WDPb/)

504 Say, are Chris "Meathead" Cuomo and Brooke Baldwin going to say whether or not they are refusing HCQ treatment?

Posted by: Jeffersonian at April 03, 2020 04:55 PM (yX3gx)

505 I think Twiggy's dead

Posted by: DB- just DB, under house arrest at April 03, 2020 04:55 PM (iTXRQ)

506 497 I think the people who want this to end to go back to work should volunteer to get infected and quarantine until they are officially declared recovered and cleared by doctors

I would do this in a heartbeat

so let's get cracking! I will go first!

fuck this bug I'm not afraid of it. I'm afraid of My Fellow Stasi Americans tho

Posted by: THE_BlackOrchid_STATE! at April 03, 2020 04:56 PM (j9HX3)

507
From the behavior of what I've seen at the Costco and at the supermarkets is most people are indeed taking this seriously.

Posted by: Soothsayer, very senile at April 03, 2020 04:56 PM (yDBK2)

508 0 days since the last Kennedy compound fatality.

What a family. Didn't some chick get OD'ed over there not so long ago? It's a Chappaquiddick twice a year over there

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at April 03, 2020 04:56 PM (ykYG2)

509 "Maybe. Or maybe this forced recession has cratered his business and thus his means."

And now he wants his debt to be forgiven. I have no sympathy for that kind of attitude. If he hadn't bought his condo maybe he wouldn't be hurting so much right now.

I could have bought a half million dollar condo too but I didn't. I'll tell you what though jwest. I'll take it off your hands for $90k.

Posted by: freaked at April 03, 2020 04:56 PM (Tnijr)

510 nope- still alive
sorry
it's just Johnson, and this damn war...

Posted by: DB- just DB, under house arrest at April 03, 2020 04:56 PM (iTXRQ)

511 501 We have a known cure for weeks (pretty much anyway) and yet there has indeed been an intense effort to deny it, and ONLY total shutdown is the cure. It is insane ... OR it is yet another in the series of ops against Trump

Posted by: Illiniwek

--

If the cure is handed out, there will be no crisis in November.
Posted by: Vashta Nerada at April 03, 2020 04:55 PM (Hcsoi)

And THAT is going off the plantation.

Posted by: tubal at April 03, 2020 04:56 PM (90T4r)

512 They may wind up getting a revolution... AGAINST them.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 03, 2020 04:16 PM (pS94+)

It's time for us to do a Bastille Day on their ass.

Posted by: LGoPs the former boyscout who now shouts Broken Arrow!, Broken Arrow! at April 03, 2020 04:56 PM (j42ZK)

513 I'm not saying there's not gonna be some pain, but this is going to end better for the US than we think. Right now we're in the fog of war. When we get on the other side of the virus, and when Trump is reelected with the popular vote in tow, it's going to be very apparent that the country will be okay. Improved even.

Our greatest enemy is quite clearly within, and they can't stop telling everyone what and who they are. We were a lot worse off when they kept themselves hidden in plain sight. That genie is NEVER going back in the toothpaste tube.

Posted by: ... at April 03, 2020 04:56 PM (T+/KY)

514 461 "I'm just an average small business person"
Me too. Self employed for more than 30 years This whole situation sucks but I have worked to get in a position where I can take a hit like this. One of the things I didn't do was buy a $600K condo like a dumbass.
Posted by: freaked at April 03, 2020 04:49 PM (Tnijr)

As a fellow small business person, you should know that a "net worth" is what's left if you take all your assets and deduct all your liabilities. The condo is free and clear.

What my point was is that when this thing is over, the country is going to need small business people with the excess money to get things rolling again. Not shell shocked former small business people on the sidelines licking their wounds.

I can weather this just fine, on a beach, comfortable for the rest of my life. However, I would rather be part of the solution, hiring everyone back and adding to the payroll. That's not going to happen if I have any doubt about the future.

Posted by: jwest at April 03, 2020 04:57 PM (mrrpT)

515 Doctor can just say she has malaria and bronchitis. Fill the fucking script.

Posted by: dagny at April 03, 2020 04:57 PM (7Xal0)

516 On the bright side, traffic going to and from work has been amazing. I am literally saving 20 minutes each way.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 03, 2020 04:57 PM (t82DG)

517 I'm going to start a rumor that nicotine cures the virus.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at April 03, 2020 04:57 PM (+0AKE)

518
Oh good grief, they're setting fire to 5G towers in the UK now? Because some genius celebs figured out there's no 5G towers in South Africa, and they're not as sick as we are?

I think it was a protest against Huawei.

Posted by: Zombie John Paul Jones at April 03, 2020 04:57 PM (PtOP4)

519
The hyclq stuff is not a cure. It's effective at alleviating symptoms while (a healthy) person's immune system fights off the infection.

Posted by: Soothsayer, very senile at April 03, 2020 04:58 PM (yDBK2)

520 You can just hear the gnashing of teeth on the Left.

Millions of Trump supporters were supposed to die from this.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 03, 2020 04:58 PM (I2/tG)

521

The media and the Democrats have no soul. They are ghouls.

I thought the Kavanaugh hearings showed how dark and purely evil they are, but this, with people being loaded into refrigerator trucks. Moms and dads, sisters, brothers, aunts, uncles, and children being loaded into trucks. The Democrats are playing games. Egging on the tragedy, clapping with glee.

They have absolutely no guilt in reversing what they said from one day to the next.

This is what they have become. Exuding and projecting hate. Their very substance is hate.

I'm taken aback tbh. They are ghouls. My mother, a long time democrat was saying the same thing today. She is appalled and in shock at what she is seeing.

yep

Trump is going to win.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 03, 2020 04:58 PM (8fB/R)

522 What my point was is that when this thing is over, the country is going to need small business people with the excess money to get things rolling again. Not shell shocked former small business people on the sidelines licking their wounds.

------------

Scared money doesn't do any good

Posted by: SH at April 03, 2020 04:58 PM (C0xFb)

523 499 Just talked to a doc friend. He opined that taking a vitaminD3 supplement would be a good idea for most people now, to boost the immune system. He is NOT a hair on fire Doc. Thus endeth my cheapeth medical advice.

tubal this is great. I have my whole family on increase vitamin C and d3 supplements right now and have for two weeks. you have to gently ramp up the C or you get kind of stomach problems with it.

I am also stocked with elderberry extract and olive leaf extract - these support immunity as well. AND I have a bunch of little hylands bottles I'm not saying which one b/c it's not being hoarded yet! but it has a nice amt of quinine in it

and of course zinc! thankfully we had a lot of zinc b/c that is gouge-level pricing on amazon now.

Posted by: THE_BlackOrchid_STATE! at April 03, 2020 04:58 PM (j9HX3)

524 502 The meat aisle at the store today was overflowing. I think some of that is being re-routed from restaurant suppliers. Bastards haven't dropped the price yet though.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 03, 2020 04:55 PM (r+sAi)

My Krogers is overflowing with flesh too. And I am not referring to some of the customers.

Posted by: tubal at April 03, 2020 04:58 PM (90T4r)

525 They've backed Trump into a corner and he is using it to further his agenda. Just watch.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 03, 2020 04:55 PM (WDPb/)

Yep. It's becoming more and more evident why God decided to use Trump at this time.

Posted by: ... at April 03, 2020 04:58 PM (T+/KY)

526 >>> I am so tired of us being ruled by "Models".

Though, if those were to be Elle McPherson & Rachel Hunter circa 1987, I would be willing to acquiesce.

Posted by: 6-4-3 Turn Two at April 03, 2020 04:58 PM (NMkO+)

527 C-SPAN and the White House say 5pm EDT; no update on PDT's Twitter account.

Posted by: m at April 03, 2020 04:59 PM (55d/e)

528 Yeah, I was directly exposed to someone who had it. I spent 14 days in quarantine and now I'm ready to go out. This is getting to be bullshit. We have ~300 conformed cases in my zip. No deaths. All the deaths in the county were people who had other health issues and COVID 19 was present, but may not have been the cause.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 03, 2020 04:59 PM (VpIIl)

529 511 501 We have a known cure for weeks (pretty much anyway) and yet there has indeed been an intense effort to deny it, and ONLY total shutdown is the cure. It is insane ... OR it is yet another in the series of ops against Trump

Posted by: Illiniwek

Trump had to beat them with a bat for the testing to be approved.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 03, 2020 04:59 PM (WDPb/)

530 48 If Trump has some actors or med student in white lab coats at the press conference the MSM would have gladly talked up hydroxychloroquine. Because a white lab coat makes you an expert that must be listened to, right?
Posted by: Ripley at April 03, 2020 03:58 PM (MxEKc)

There's probably half-dozen physicians in mufti or uniform at the press conferences. Just not in labs or scrubs.

Posted by: Fox2! at April 03, 2020 04:59 PM (qyH+l)

531 451 The lockdown is an intentional strangulation of the economy.
J.J., I'm beginning to think so.
Posted by: PJ at April 03, 2020 04:46 PM (qlTN9)

Yes. I see it as more of an opportunistic swarming, a wilding, under the perfect virtue-signaling cover of public salvation. This opportunity fell into their laps, releasing the latent authoritarianism in every fucking politician combined with their seething resentment for Trump, and it's driving them to destroy the economy. As they see it, Trump's economy was an unnatural even unholy break from the globalist Baal temple.

Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at April 03, 2020 04:59 PM (H8QX8)

532 Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 03, 2020 04:58 PM (8fB/R)

The dems should forever be known as the Party of Death

Posted by: thathalfrican - sucker free on my phone at April 03, 2020 04:59 PM (0wQE6)

533 Trump presser in?

Posted by: rd at April 03, 2020 05:00 PM (+0uDE)

534 Going against doctors and scientists with common sense, technically, puts the lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans at risk.
---
You're a buffoon.

So is anybody who gets confused and takes a builder's opinion over a doctor's.

But fortunately, there is no practicum advice in statistical estimates, so it's not either or. Fauci had his estimates and Trump had his.

Posted by: Axeman at April 03, 2020 05:00 PM (Eicbe)

535 >>> That's not the point.
Posted by: Braenyard at April 03, 2020 04:53 PM

I know you're talking about the public impression of Trumps action. I think the public's hyper-inflated opinion of the musings of doctors and scientists unfounded to the extent it is.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 03, 2020 05:00 PM (l6b3d)

536 "The lockdown is an intentional strangulation of the economy."

It's an attempt to gain power and make everyone a ward of the State.
---

Technically they only need 50% +1, everyone else they ruin is gravy.

Posted by: Methos at April 03, 2020 05:00 PM (kOpft)

537 Fauci might as well be working for Xi.

Fauci is doing his job to the best of his ability. From a purely medical standpoint -- and he's not qualified to opine from any other standpoint -- he is absolutely right that we should stay in lock down until the virus is beaten.
Economic experts want to open the country back up immediately. And from a purely economic standpoint, they are right.
That is their job. To make recommendations based on their area of expertise.
Trump's job is to listen to all of their viewpoints and make a decision that makes sense for the overall benefit of the country. And he is doing a damn good job of that.

Posted by: db at April 03, 2020 05:00 PM (XUvmW)

538 "They've backed Trump into a corner and he is using it to further his agenda. Just watch."

I'm watching Pelosi, Schumer, Schiff, and their ilk use it to further their agenda. Trump has a hard row to hoe, but I believe he is up to it.

Posted by: freaked at April 03, 2020 05:00 PM (Tnijr)

539 A few years ago, my husband decided to buy the offices and warehouse in the commercial district where he was renting.

So now there's that.

The Five is up. Time for Juan's daily beclowning.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 03, 2020 05:00 PM (ptqGC)

540 "My Krogers is overflowing with flesh too. And I am not referring to some of the customers."

I went out and bough a beautiful roast, no problem. Had plenty to choose from. I also picked up some meat for an Italian Meatloaf

Posted by: Marcus T at April 03, 2020 05:01 PM (VpIIl)

541 A better plan is to send everyone a million dollar bill.
Posted by: some asshole on the Internet

WTF am I getting a bill for a million dollars for? Now what did we buy?

Posted by: rickb223 at April 03, 2020 05:01 PM (Oqufv)

542 A real disease being used as political cover for a coup and a revolution?? Oh, surely not!!!

Posted by: tubal at April 03, 2020 05:01 PM (90T4r)

543 513......when Trump is reelected with the popular vote in tow.......

Posted by: ... at April 03, 2020 04:56 PM (T+/KY)
--------------------------------
God willing, he will win the election.
But he certainly won't win the pop vote.
I don't think ANY non-D can do that anymore.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at April 03, 2020 05:02 PM (M/9m0)

544 The Fourth Reich has accused Trump of piracy.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 03, 2020 05:02 PM (E2o2V)

545 By the way. There was a line at the local McDonalds and pizza place. People are already getting sick of cooking. I bet half the people in my town never cooked before this...

Posted by: Marcus T at April 03, 2020 05:02 PM (VpIIl)

546 Posted by: db at April 03, 2020 05:00 PM (XUvmW)

Well said; Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 03, 2020 05:02 PM (WI7YS)

547

I vote for Kathy Ireland

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 03, 2020 05:02 PM (aKsyK)

548 >My Krogers is overflowing with flesh too. And I am not referring to some of the customers.
Posted by: tubal

ha ha yes
I shop at King Sooper (a Kroger chain) and they seem well-stocked except for the hoarders' favorites- TP, hand san, etc

but they were out of Campbell's Bean With Bacon soup which I like
and no jam
fvcktons of jelly, but no jam

Posted by: DB- just DB, under house arrest at April 03, 2020 05:02 PM (iTXRQ)

549 533 Trump presser in?
Posted by: rd at April 03, 2020 05:00 PM (+0uDE)

https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/
5pm EDT (scheduled) or thereabouts
PDT

Posted by: m at April 03, 2020 05:02 PM (55d/e)

550 534 Going against doctors and scientists with common sense, technically, puts the lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans at risk.
---
You're a buffoon.

And you, you're a genius.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 03, 2020 05:03 PM (WDPb/)

551 Nood.

Especially Kathy Ireland.

Posted by: Furious George at April 03, 2020 05:03 PM (9vQJW)

552 >>> I vote for Kathy Ireland
Posted by: Bertram Cabot,

She would complete the trifecta. But I didn't want to seem greedy.

Posted by: 6-4-3 Turn Two at April 03, 2020 05:03 PM (NMkO+)

553 NOOD Briefing.

Posted by: clutch cargo at April 03, 2020 05:03 PM (8B6Ng)

554 The dems should forever be known as the Party of Death

Posted by: thathalfrican - sucker free on my phone at April 03, 2020 04:59 PM (0wQE6)

They became the Party of Death when they whole-heartedly embraced abortion.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 03, 2020 05:03 PM (ptqGC)

555 Fauci and his compatriot are ghouls, who crawled out of their lightless crypts at the CDC. Or Pence invited them out. They are the antithesis of the Trump mindset.

Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at April 03, 2020 05:03 PM (H8QX8)

556 "WTF am I getting a bill for a million dollars for?"

Somebody has to pay for this shit.

Posted by: freaked at April 03, 2020 05:04 PM (Tnijr)

557 548

but they were out of Campbell's Bean With Bacon soup which I like
and no jam
fvcktons of jelly, but no jam
Posted by: DB- just DB, under house arrest at April 03, 2020 05:02 PM (iTXRQ)

I heard somewhere the jam workers were being quarantined.

Posted by: tubal at April 03, 2020 05:04 PM (90T4r)

558 Yeah, we all laugh at the media and say that "nobody trusts them anymore" and yet...

They have successfully created such a hysteria that gave President Trump no other choice but to crash the American economy.

I'd say they are all laughing their asses off at any of us who say they no longer have any power or influence.

So they lie. No shit. They've been lying for decades, going at least all the way back to Vietnam.

Why do they do it? Because they're successful at it and people believe them.

They helped build the narrative against an American war effort enough to where we retreated and gave up, they forced an American President to resign from office and now they've contributed to crashing the American economy.

They are going to keep on lying until they are no longer successful.

Considering our current situation, I don't see that happening anytime soon.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at April 03, 2020 05:04 PM (Do5/p)

559 JoeF.: "don't forget that Summer is coming and a lot of people are going to want to go on vacation"

Yeah, they're already on vacation. Summer vacation has been cancelled on account of Spring vacation. Wasn't the way it was planned, but it's the way it's happened.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at April 03, 2020 05:04 PM (6eEQ+)

560 Yes. I see it as more of an opportunistic swarming, a
wilding, under the perfect virtue-signaling cover of public salvation.
This opportunity fell into their laps, releasing the latent
authoritarianism in every fucking politician combined with their
seething resentment for Trump, and it's driving them to destroy the
economy. As they see it, Trump's economy was an unnatural even unholy
break from the globalist Baal temple.

Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at April 03, 2020 04:59 PM (H8QX

You and I are generally on the exact same page but let me please say the timing makes it *extremely* difficult for me to buy that this simply fell into their laps. I mean, how many of us predicted for the last three years that the Left would try to crash the economy somehow in 2020...? I did, and so did many many others.

This isn't cramming events of the world into a worldview, a la conspiracy theory. This is, "if the world is A, then B will happen". B has happened. Bigtime.

Seems too happy a coincidence, especially with China trapped in a corner since 2017 and being countered by Trump every which way.

Posted by: ... at April 03, 2020 05:04 PM (T+/KY)

561 You're a buffoon.

And you, you're a genius.
Posted by: Braenyard at April 03, 2020 05:03 PM (WDPb/)
---
I can at least distinguish one thing from another, and don't feed into herd hype.

Posted by: Axeman at April 03, 2020 05:04 PM (Eicbe)

562 539 A few years ago, my husband decided to buy the offices and warehouse in the commercial district where he was renting.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 03, 2020 05:00 PM (ptqGC)

I just built a new warehouse. Haven't finished it yet, it could be years...

Posted by: jwest at April 03, 2020 05:05 PM (mrrpT)

563 Just talked to a doc friend. He opined that taking a vitaminD3 supplement would be a good idea for most people now, to boost the immune system. He is NOT a hair on fire Doc. Thus endeth my cheapeth medical advice.

tubal this is great. I have my whole family on increase vitamin C and d3 supplements right now and have for two weeks. you have to gently ramp up the C or you get kind of stomach problems with it.

Posted by: THE_BlackOrchid_STATE! at April 03, 2020 04:58 PM (j9HX3)

I have a prescription for 10,000 UI/week.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 03, 2020 05:05 PM (8fB/R)

564 D Lamp was right.

Posted by: Foma Fomitch at April 03, 2020 05:05 PM (POnZ1)

565 535 >>> That's not the point.
Posted by: Braenyard at April 03, 2020 04:53 PM

I know you're talking about the public impression of Trumps action. I think the public's hyper-inflated opinion of the musings of doctors and scientists unfounded to the extent it is.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 03, 2020 05:00 PM (l6b3d)

It is, but the hyper-inflated opinion of doctors is a fact. And that many people will not die is not a fact. He has to deal with both.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 03, 2020 05:05 PM (WDPb/)

566 Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 03, 2020 04:47 PM (dNzKv)

Medication management is in their scope of services and Texas requires them to do a drug regimen review that includes evaluating "proper use"- remember a good number of Pharmacists are employees of corporations who set rules.

Posted by: batterup at April 03, 2020 05:05 PM (K4I9O)

567 Do you think people are going to go wild when this thing is over? I do.

It will be a riotous explosion of drinking, drugging, fucking and shopping, fueled by the stimulus money.

Posted by: JoeF. at April 03, 2020 05:06 PM (CqE5x)

568 https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/

"Starting soon"

Posted by: Fox2! at April 03, 2020 05:07 PM (qyH+l)

569 God willing, he will win the election.

But he certainly won't win the pop vote.

I don't think ANY non-D can do that anymore.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at April 03, 2020 05:02 PM (M/9m0)

Watch him do it.

Posted by: ... at April 03, 2020 05:07 PM (T+/KY)

570 519
The hyclq stuff is not a cure. It's effective at alleviating symptoms while (a healthy) person's immune system fights off the infection.
______________

While doctors using the drugs have reported that they seem to work better when they're given early on, we don't actually know yet if, or how, they help the sicker patients. David Lat, who blogs at Above the Law, was in the ICU with the China virus in NYC. He was on a ventilator for several days. His docs gave him everything, including the "Trump drugs." He was released from the hospital a few days ago.

Something helped. We don't know what it was, because he was given some of everything. Same is true for other critical patients who have recovered.

It may turn out that the "Trump drugs" don't help the sicker patients at all, or maybe it will turn out that it only helps in certain patients but not others. At this point, we just don't know.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at April 03, 2020 05:07 PM (k4dH2)

571 Fauci and his compatriot are ghouls, who crawled out of their lightless crypts at the CDC. Or Pence invited them out. They are the antithesis of the Trump mindset.

Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at April 03, 2020 05:03 PM (H8QX

Dumbest. Comment. On. This. Thread.

Posted by: db at April 03, 2020 05:08 PM (XUvmW)

572 My revenue was negative this month after overhead. Overhead is paying the staff and lawyers

Posted by: Mog Smash at April 03, 2020 05:09 PM (CgFRV)

573 I am just about ready to summon my internal Chuck Heston and tell Gov. Inslee Le Petomane to let my people go!

Inslee is an affront to God. Inslee is strangling my people and my country and the whole earth, but not forever. I tell you, the day Inslee falls, there will be a shout of freedom such as the world has never heard before. [to Inslee] May God grant me electoral vengeance.

Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at April 03, 2020 05:09 PM (e1mEI)

574 One of the symptoms is the lungs becoming clogged.
If the medicine alleviates that symptom the patient will quite probably be able to survive the virus.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 03, 2020 05:09 PM (WDPb/)

575 Dont get the Fauci hate. He is giving the advice he can give. It is up to Trump to balance it with other concerns.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at April 03, 2020 05:11 PM (svbBD)

576 Screw masks...get that test out that determine whether you've already had the Rona or not. Those that have can get their asses back in the cubicle...those that haven't can stay at home and play dress-up.

Posted by: Orson at April 03, 2020 05:13 PM (aoEI9)

577 Fauci is doing his job to the best of his ability. From a purely medical standpoint -- and he's not qualified to opine from any other standpoint -- he is absolutely right that we should stay in lock down until the virus is beaten.
Economic experts want to open the country back up immediately. And from a purely economic standpoint, they are right.
That is their job. To make recommendations based on their area of expertise.
Trump's job is to listen to all of their viewpoints and make a decision that makes sense for the overall benefit of the country. And he is doing a damn good job of that.
Posted by: db at April 03, 2020 05:00 PM (XUvmW)

Thanks for saying this. People will have different opinions based on their areas of expertise, temperament, etc. It's good to have both cautious and more optimistic /less risk averse opinions to weigh.

And although I have not been watching interviews or the press briefings, I've seen that Fauci pushes back when the press tries to pit him against the president.

Posted by: chique d'Epstein didn't off hisself at April 03, 2020 05:13 PM (0miBO)

578 Like tens of millions have since November.
Posted by: Moron Robbie got the Kung Flu Grippe at April 03, 2020 04:54 PM (1R1vy)

Proof? Not feelz because that is pure feelz.
All of this pure speculation based on feelings that it has been around since October or November. It does not fit with the current case fatality rate of 30% in America and Western Countries.

If so many people believe they have been infected then they should be begging to be reinfected again to prove they had it before along with the doctors pushing this assumption.

Back up your assumptions with actions. Get infected on purpose and quarantine yourself until medically cleared and sign a release that if you infect anybody else you are held responsible.

I say this because 2 people have complete destroyed SW Georgia. 2 people. There will be 1000 cases cases in the area by Monday at the latest. Hospitals is six different cities are having to take patients and that is expanding.

Posted by: it begins... at April 03, 2020 05:16 PM (a5D9R)

579 I REALLY want someone to explain to me, in a way that makes sense, why we have utterly burned our economy to the ground for something with a less than 1% fatality rate. It's criminal.

Posted by: Syracuse1989 at April 03, 2020 05:18 PM (yYc0Y)

580 And I'm from Brooklyn ("CRAZY EDDIE" INSANE!!!!")
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 03, 2020 04:03 PM (pS94+)

"Hey, Jerry! What's the story?"

I think he ended up doing time upstate.

Posted by: Fox2! at April 03, 2020 05:21 PM (qyH+l)

581 Dyker Heights.

Posted by: Fox2! at April 03, 2020 05:22 PM (qyH+l)

582 White House just went live.

Posted by: Fox2! at April 03, 2020 05:25 PM (qyH+l)

583 THere's a couple of minutes difference between the Fox tv feed and the White House live stream.

Posted by: Fox2! at April 03, 2020 05:27 PM (qyH+l)

584 USA case fatality rate right now is 36.8%. Official numbers. No estimates. No assumptions. Closed cases. So please go on how this has been in America since October and November with 10's of millions already been infected.

7004 dead
12,044 recovered

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

Posted by: it begins... at April 03, 2020 05:33 PM (a5D9R)

585 Meanwhile, commercials on their programs are promising to end restless leg syndrome with strange chemical concoctions that may or may not cause excessive flatulence, anal dirshchage, liver failure, or cardiac arrest.

TOTALLY WORTH IT!!! WE WILL RUN THOSE ADS!!!

Hydroxy what what? Save a life?
HERPDERP ORANGEMANBAD!!!

Posted by: Denny Crane! at April 03, 2020 05:53 PM (KpUZP)

586 Experts have knowledge not wisdom.
That's why we hired Trump

Posted by: Pj at April 03, 2020 06:00 PM (qlTN9)

587 Off to by Fish Cleaner Medicine.

Posted by: The Black Widows of the World at April 03, 2020 06:01 PM (+nWCH)

588 fuck you Jim Acosta. "Who dropped the ball?" how about the MSM, focusing on impeachment?

Posted by: vivi at April 03, 2020 06:04 PM (11H2y)

589 I have a prescription for Plaquenil plus a z-pack and can't get it filled at CVS or Duane Reade in NYC because "there's a national shortage and we don't have it in stock."
Ramp up that production, folks.

Posted by: Beverly at April 03, 2020 08:23 PM (RG4NU)

590 All those people who normally produce all the goods and services that the nation and world requires are forced to stay home. Many are scouring the internet, looking for news, hoping to get back to work. The smart ones are getting a really harsh education in the media's dishonesty and bias. The institutional media wanted to shut the whole country down because it's their only chance to impose socialism good and hard on the recalcitrant public and to hold onto the Dem majority in the House, defeat and remove Trump by hook or crook, and maybe, just maybe, grab the Senate. I don't think they are gonna get what they were hoping for.

Posted by: Nikola's Notion at April 04, 2020 02:48 PM (hrHLc)

Processing 0.05, elapsed 0.0677 seconds.
15 queries taking 0.0226 seconds, 599 records returned.
Page size 312 kb.
Powered by Minx 0.8 beta.