For everyone here tasked with providing links over the past couple weeks, I am sorry I made fun of you for complaining there are nothing but Groupo Modelo branded links available. Now time for the show.
Out: The government sucks! In: Please lock us down, government.
el hombre de la gente.
Given what sometimes gets passed around in Mexico, Groupo Modelo brand plague might be the least of his worries.
I’ve been waiting on a celebrity to catch this and die. Still waiting.
I don’t know why, but I still like this guy.
Focus on what’s really important, that’s the Argentine way.
How do you bribe somebody with money that is worth more as toilet paper?
When this is over, I bet we could crowdfund the cost of a cruise ship, and create our own sea-steading Glibertopia.
90s ‘wry country singers’ don’t count?
Or Ken Shimura. He should be a household name for Glibs.
My thoughts exactly!
https://youtu.be/FJ7g0OQ0Y9w
More of his work for those who don’t know who he is.
A country singer to me may as well be a Russian, suicidal, feminist author. I don’t any of these people and probably never will.
Impresionante y valiente!
+¡
That’s a man, baby!
Men really make ugly women, most of the time. OTOH men will make most women, given the chance.
Have some eyebleach
I’m trying to imagine what news readers do that would require a difficult exam.
Hey, reading a TelePrompTer while feigning sincerity is complicated business!
“The less you know about something, the easier it looks.” — I read that somewhere once, and it stuck with me.
Dunning-Kruger Effect
Read out loud, without a discernible regional dialect?
Those teeth make me think xe was a prisoner from the Falklands War.
*raises eyebrows*
*looks over at side bar*
It’s on by default, now. You have to manually turn it off. We got links, that’s all that matter. You can always Ctrl+Plus and move it offscreen.
Oh, I’m sorry. Did the sidebar give you SARS2?
We’re going to have to put Potato in the quarantine tent…
That’s just the menses tent that we converted cuz TANFL.
Did you, commodious spittoon sanitize the tent after you used it?
We can’t take any chances. I’m calling STEVE SMITH with the iodine.
I don’t think you can catch anything from dried spunk.
Greetings from the latest mandatory stay-home order state.
June 10th! Damn…
Well, he had to upstage Gov Larry Hogan (MD), who also issued an order today.
Yeah i am waiting for Nevada to tell all yall to hold our beer and just shutdown for the year
From a contractor at my house today: “this will lead to violence… Sooner rather than later”
Did you call in a red flag on him?
I was going to, but he was within 6 feet of my phone.
Ola.
Bacon!
That’s a man, baby!
One of my in-laws, who we saw 17 days ago, has tested positive for WuFlu. I think we’re outside the incubation window.
Also, my sister, an NP at a GP doctor’s office, has been laid off. Some of her co-workers are getting hospital jobs but she has asthma and isn’t allowed around WuFlu. Interesting how there are layoffs in health care.
I’m down to 2 days a week because they have canceled all non-emergency surgery. Other groups have laid off their work force. We are trying to recruit them even though our hours are down so when the doors open we will be able to clear the back log. The idea is to empty out the hospital to make room for the flood of COVID-19 patients.
“they have canceled all non-emergency surgery”
So boob jobs are still going forward then?
Funny enough an out patient center was still going full steam until they ended up on the hospital system president’s radar.
Our “no essential surgery” order pretty much shut down the ASCs on day one.
Silver lining: those fuckers on our medical staff who divert patients to ASCs they invest in must be sucking wind on their investments now.
My plant shut down last week for 7 days. we started back up sunday night and are going to make steel for a week. After that, i dont know. I haven’t missed any work yet, but who know what will happen. 85 percent of what we make goes into automobiles. i can imagine that with the big 3 shut down we can continue to produce raw material for vehicles that arent being built.
welcome back
the weather you’ve been sending sucks: couldja wring a few more inches of water out of it before letting it drift on over ?
My yard is a swamp that rivals DC. The rain has been ridiculous this whole winter.
Mrs. Sensei, RN told me today their is demand for nurses here at $65/hour in the People’s Republic of NJ.
They askEd if any of us are willing to work ICU during this fiasco, but they didn’t give any details such as pay or position. I’m getting about 1/2 my hours so I’m not willing to go work in ground zero yet. Too many stories of people ending up on the vent after treating COVID-19 patients.
Hey – we are #2 here in NJ, but trying harder!
Staff on vents? What’s your take on the situation?
I’m hearing conflicting stories ranging from this is Armageddon in some hospitals to Covid is less dangerous the flu except to the elderly/infirm. I imagine there’s not many stories of ICU staff ending up on ventilators during flu season.
There have been a couple cases of people under 50 working in high risk areas ending up on vents. It may be because of chronic exposure vs single exposure. Also people walk around with undiagnosed issues their whole lives. Maybe these people had unknown lung/heart issues. Right now there are way too many variables to have an informed opinion.
Gotcha, thanks.
Hope you all stay healthy.
NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health has been doing yeomen’s work in compiling the current state of therapeutics, vaccine development, diagnostics, and other aspects of Covid-19
https://sph.nus.edu.sg/covid-19/research/
Latest therapeutics summary
https://sph.nus.edu.sg/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/COVID-19-Science-Report-Therapeutics-30-Mar.pdf
Great links as always. Have you seen this one – toggle between states to see estimated hospital resource needs, projected deaths, timelines, etc.
https://covid19.healthdata.org/projections
Unfortunately, the whole climate crisis industry has soured me on models. Finite Element Analysis (FEA) has a long history of application, testing and real consequences if the underlying models are wrong so models such as that I trust but when you run into human behavior and chaotic systems, not so much.
I have not, thank you! Just looking at a few states, it appears that shifting resources to hardest hit states (such as NY or FL) would be both possible and desirable. An unused ventilator elsewhere is not doing much good if it’s never going to be used, or if it could be used elsewhere with different peaks.
You really think Cuomo is going to return your ventilators when NYS crisis is over and the one in your state is just ramping up? Then again, it might depend on how many delegates you can release to him at the convention.
*pours more whisky*
Today, in melodramatic doom mongering
“We cannot let the cure be worse than the problem,” the president said last week, announcing that America would be “open for business” by Easter.
But senior public health officials including Dr Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, think this is no time to scale back social distancing.
If anything, they say, the economy needs to be shut down even further. Otherwise the virus will continue to escalate, inundating hospitals and causing far more deaths. America leads the world in coronavirus cases. Dr Fauci believes we haven’t yet felt the worst of the pandemic.
It may seem logical to weigh the threat to public health against the accumulating losses to the economy, and then at some point decide economic losses outweigh health risks. As Stephen Moore, who is advising the White House, warns: “You can’t have a policy that says we’re going to save every human life at any cost, no matter how many trillions of dollars you’re talking about.”
But this leaves out one big thing. The “trillions of dollars” of economic losses don’t exist on any balance sheet that can be tallied against human lives. An “economy” is nothing but human beings. So it matters whose losses we’re talking about – whose losses of life, and whose losses of dollars.
If it saves one life!
Here’s a question: How many of these “if it saves one life”-ers give a shit about keeping American troops in places like Afghanistan and Iraq?
An “economy” is nothing but human beings.
Missing: “Most human beings are nothing without an economy. As in, dead from starvation or exposure.”
Or suicide. People getting laid off and/or going broke is going to spike those numbers.
As it is, more people are dying each day of suicide in this country (when things are as they usually are, about 129 per day on average in 2019, for example), than they are now each day due to Covid-19. And economic stress will definitely raise those figures. But those numbers don’t count, I guess.
250 people died in New York from the plague yesterday, FWIW.
This is how some are making fun of the concern for the economy.
If only those dinosaurs had adopted Marxism, they’d have been OK.
“…announcing that America would be “open for business” by Easter.”
No, that’s not what he said. He said he hoped it would be, but it would depend on input from the medical community or something like that.
FUCK YOU AND YOUR ACCURATE REPORTING!
A riot is an ugly thing
Police footage from a Glib getting pulled over for breaking quarantine.
http://archive.li/f0aLb/3da09ecaa23a601bd156800ad1093a41cc801305.webp
Its not wrong…
“its for my prostate health!”
I bet we could crowdfund the cost of a cruise ship
Cruise ships: long, hard, and full of seamen.
If the government would have refrained from giving a few billion in corporate welfare to the cruise lines, We may have had a shot at buying a cheap cruise liner when this is over.
I thought they actually did stiff the cruise lines?
last i heard, the cruise lines were on the list of companies that get to privitize their gains and socialize their losses. I may be mistaken though.
Look on the bright side, now you can tell all your neighbors about how you paid for a cruise.
Late last week I read that Trump told them when they incorporated and registered their ships in the US he’d reconsider.
Fair point. Why should we be bailing out foreign companies?
The cruise lobby’s comeback was about the US jobs.
Because really, is there any cause not worthy of fucking over the American taxpayer?
Gun rights?
They are going to take it in the shorts for the next year. Shirly they will unload some inventory. I think it is a brilliant plan!
As of 3 days ago: Major cruise lines, several of whom saw the first outbreaks of coronavirus on their ships, will likely not see a dime of the $2 trillion stimulus package the Senate passed late Wednesday night.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/cruise-lines-excluded-from-senates-dollar2-trillion-stimulus-bill/
Congratulations, lady, you’re in the control group
For the last three weeks, 57-year-old Ann O’Connor has avoided leaving her home in Paradise Valley, Arizona, due to the Covid-19 pandemic. As a cancer survivor with asthma, she is considered high risk for severe illness, and she wants to do her part to stop the virus’s rapid spread.
But others here are not taking the same precautions. O’Connor’s house looks on to a private golf course, and she spends her days watching foursomes tee off, buy refreshments and pile into golf carts. She sees neighbors greet each other with hugs.
“It’s really disconcerting because you just see these people and there’s no social distancing,” O’Connor said in a phone interview from her home. “It is like a huge, sick experiment,” she added about the lack of consistent action across the country.
Waah waah waah. Whycome the gummint no make me live forever?
Ann ? It IS a huge, sick, experiment. They’re testing the limits of their control before people start pushing back.
This whole charade is a dry-run for November when Trump gets re-elected.
/applies more foil to self
For the last three weeks, 57-year-old Ann O’Connor has avoided leaving her home in Paradise Valley, Arizona, due to the Covid-19 pandemic. As a cancer survivor with asthma, she is considered high risk for severe illness, and she wants to do her part to stop the virus’s rapid spread.
Look, i think as a matter of morality you should do what you can to stop getting at risk people sick. But she’s not trying to stop the spread. She’s trying to not catch it. Seems very much like a “Hey i’m miserable, why arent those people forced to be miserable too”
It’s really disconcerting that she’s a high-risk case and others aren’t…?
If her jurisdiction were more community-spirited, it would have a snitch line for businesses not complying with shutdown orders…
https://www.9news.com/article/news/local/next/colorado-stay-at-home-covid-19-violations/73-31f35367-a0a4-4f25-b85e-bd2774f17eae
This is good…AZ has a population of about 7.3 Million and currently has 1157 confirmed cases. Barely putting us in the top 20 but I am sure we’ll get leapfrogged by VA any day now…
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
Unless my math is off, means there are 158 cases per 1 million…I like out chances.
Locked down because our county has an incidence of less than .01% of the population. Fuck that shit-weasel.
“But we don’t know the extent of the infection without extensive testing.”
“Where is the pile of dead bodies?”
PA testing is returning 90% negative. Who TF are they testing?
Politicians and rich people?
Sounds like they’re testing the wrong people. They need better testing procedures.
They’re using the Chinese test kits.
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8165815/Demi-Rose-displays-peachy-derri-fuchsia-thong-bodysuit-poses-fridge.html
Having sex with her must be like trying to plug in a bedside lamp when you can’t see the outlet behind the mattress; just poking around looking for the hole.
The best part about banging a fat woman? No matter what part you grab, it feels like it could be titty.
-some comedian or other
The old “roll them in flour and look for the damp spot”
Still fattening the curve.
In an interview on Sunday with CNN affiliate CNN Brasil, Bolsonaro called preventive measures, such as banning mass events, “hysteria,” and said that the economy came first. “When you ban football and other things, you fall into hysteria. Banning this and that isn’t going to contain the spread,” he said.
“We should take steps, the virus could turn into a fairly serious issue. But the economy has to function because we can’t have a wave of unemployment,” he added.
Refreshing sanity.
*Pictures the sanitary conditions in a Bogata prison* *Shudder*
Massachusetts has 8 new coronavirus deaths today.
• 8 new deaths were reported for a total of 56. These include:
• Male, 60s, Middlesex county, preexisting conditions, hospitalized
• Female, 80s, Essex county, preexisting conditions, hospitalized
• Female, 70s, Norfolk county, unknown preexisting conditions, hospitalized
• Male, 60s, Essex county, preexisting conditions, hospitalized
• Female, 70s, Suffolk county, unknown preexisting conditions, hospitalized
• Female, 70s, Bristol county, preexisting conditions, hospitalized
• Female, 70s, Middlesex county, preexisting conditions, hospitalized
• Female, 60s, Suffolk county, unknown preexisting conditions, hospitalized
Say what you want about Massachusetts, but it doesn’t hide this information.
To date, however, in MA there are 32 of unknown sex. Looks like someone didn’t past anatomy
I asked the corpse for it’s preferred pronouns…
Guys. Because liberty has failed us in this crisis, and freedom is too feeble to save us from this doom, what do you do? Abandon liberty or consign humanity to death?
embrace socialism.
So, consign humanity to death it is, then.
That boot is only in your face because it loves you.
Trading freedom for security. Got that out while not laughing
(cringes)
Embrace it to death. Squeeze the tyranny out like the last turd after taco night.
Latter. I won’t abandon liberty as an ideal, but this situation has made me realize just how much the average Homo sapiens prefers comfortable slavery to dangerous freedom.
Freedom! Horrible, horrible freedom!
Can I pick C? C is go long on ammo, rope, and woodchippers and profiteer the Boogalooo
I still have no idea who this guy is.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8167991/Tiger-King-fans-wild-pictures-resurface-key-character-ONSTAGE-Britney-Spears.html
He was the libertarian candidate for governor of Oklahoma in 2016.
got 19% of the vote in the finale
Exotic, not Antle in the article; Antle’s in CHS
I thought his campaign manager seemed like an OK guy.
Then he stays on after the election with the very train-wreck he had diagnosed earlier: what’s that all about? Maybe he just liked the gay farm crew, NTTAWWT.
I noticed his reading lines off a cue card; that was the flimsiest part of what I wanted to enjoy as a documentary of a shitstorm, but the veneer pealed off * sad trombone sound *
Hell if he was the type who didn’t need a cue card he could have just run for governor himself 😉
Latest therapeutics summary
You can’t fool me. It’s incurable. Everybody who gets it dies.
Message from VA. “Stay home, stay safe, stay connected”
Multiple choice, I will choose the one that most reflects my values/beliefs
Message from VA
and shut them gun stores !
Mammary Monday sez ‘inoculate us with your injection’.
http://archive.li/7XBJZ
Not a great collection.
On the other hand #8, #24, and #29 are OK.
But she’s not trying to stop the spread. She’s trying to not catch it.
Exactly. She should probably not be out there playing golf. That’s not the same as “Nobody should be allowed to play golf.”
A distinction depressingly few people understand.
Like you’ve never met someone who’s viewpoint is if I’m going to suffer, everyone is going to suffer.
Looks like our (AZ) Governor will be announcing
shelter in placehouse arrest this afternoon.All the cool governors were doing it and yours didn’t want to be left out.
as someone predicted, since the majority of governors are Republicans, the majority of the shithead autocrats at the end of this will be Republicans
Lies. No one saw that coming.
Team R: Chinese products will kill us all, therefore suspend rights!
Team D: Trump will kill us all, therefore suspend rights!
Team L: Everything is killing us, so it isn’t really suspending rights it is preserving them and actually the shut down is super libertarian because now you can get cocktails to go.
Team me: Get off my lawn.
I’ve been hearing that. I look forward to the armed protest outside the governor’s mansion.
Its not like those clowns have jobs to go to at the moment.
Im betting that a lot of these guys already have sedition paperwork drawn up, in case someone dare question their authoritah en masse.
Is it social distancing or setting up interlocking fields of fire?
Look for whether it is called ‘shelter in place’, ‘safer at home’, or other
https://www.abc15.com/news/state/stay-at-home-order-issued-for-arizona-to-combat-coronavirus-spread?_amp=true&__twitter_impression=true
The order itself is linked in the article. You are allowed to go golfing…
Yet, oddly, gyms are not allowed to have outdoor classes.
I can’t go to my gym, which routinely sanitizes all of its equipment due to prevalence of ringworm…but golfing is okay.
Fuck the golf lobby
But I am sure you need to maintain proper Leper Length.
Abandon liberty or consign humanity to death?
Mass graves for everyone!
The F2F meeting discussed March 26,2020 @ https://www.glibertarians.com/2020/03/allow-me-to-introduce-myself-part-2/ has been moved to teleconference
Thanks again to:
Gustave Lytton
invisible finger
Nephilium
Ozymandias
Pine_Tree
R C Dean
Scruffy Nerfherder
Sensei
Tres Cool
You realize I’m going to Zoombomb that with furry porn, right?
You’re just trying to get more people to come.
phrasing
Go for it.
F2F
Que?
It’s a three way with a female and two other females.
*Reviews guest list*
Are they all just there to watch?
Kink shaming and/or assuming gender, Mexi? I can’t even.
Furry 2 Furry; hence HM’s generous offer of an informational slide show.
Invited to a meeting. Unspecified number of other attendees. Told will be capped at ten. Told temperatures will be taken by non-contact. Where the meeting is, if the cap is reached, do not see how ten people will be kept at least two to three metres apart.
Meeting now teleconference instead of Face TWO Face
Utah broke 800 confirmed cases today. this is getting serious.
something like 4 hundred in Arkansas with a half dozen dead. Im not terribly worried.
Vegas is fucked. Just got a report that our Air Traffic is down 70%.
From the article about Venezuela:
‘though she felt “terrible” for doing so,’
Does Arkiely Perfecto have Wuhan flu?
To those already living in lock down states, any stories on being questioned about why you are out? Now that MD is “locked down,” am I going to be questioned about home improvement store trips?
People pretty much ignoring it here in Kansas. They threatened to start finding people this weekend. I haven’t heard of anyone getting in trouble. Surprisingly heard a lot of cops are refusing to enforce it.
* Start fining people *
I guess finding works too
There are plenty of Karens on social media who are screaming that Lowe’s is not essential. That is of course, until they have a plumbing issue.
Seems perfect for the ‘woman yelling at cat’ meme
Remember that meme? From the carefree, innocent days of a couple of months ago?
I’d say home and auto repair is essential. Of course I might be biased. I finished the bathroom but I still need to do the laundry room. I figure home centers are probably fairly safe — huge spaces, lots of air.
Just say you’re looking for TP.
Not yet.
On the other hand, Sununu’s “stay-at-home” order has many exceptions so I’m not sure what the point is beyond giving the cops excuses to fuck with people.
What more point do you need? /FOP
Heh. After reading this article, I expect harsher enforcement soon.
No issues here in PA.
The streets are pretty dead, but there are still people walking around in Philly. I haven’t been questioned, but the street people (probably 50% of the people outside) have been getting pretty aggressive. I rarely see cops in my area anyway. I assume they mostly chill at the tourist spots.
If I do get questioned, I’ll just say I’m going to the store I guess?
Ron Swanson permit
https://i.etsystatic.com/10663604/r/il/7db3a0/1296855583/il_794xN.1296855583_wbyg.jpg
In my neck of the Bay Area there are lots of people out on walks or on bike rides. More kids than I’ve ever seen. Much less traffic. No hassles from the cops, even though I’ve seen a few on my bike rides. It’s been kind of nice, in a lemon aid out of lemons sort of way.
It’s incredible, actually. Paths are crowded, kids are out playing everywhere.
Honestly, it’s like a cheesy ad for awesome neighborhoods.
My 4 year old daughter and I were kicked out of a park by cops while playing on a tennis court. She said, “I don’t like policemen.”
Chill out with the crime, guys.
“The best way to help police officers is to not commit a crime,” Turner told reporters during a press conference on his city’s latest efforts to combat the deadly illness. “Until the coronavirus is resolved, criminals, take a break.”
“Stay home and don’t commit any crimes. Thay way, they will stay safe and out of jail and police offers will stay safe and go home to there families,” the mayor added. “Crooks, criminals, you chill.”
Let’s get sushi and not pay!
“Until the coronavirus is resolved, criminals, take a break.”
Come’on guys, I know you have no regard for your fellow man and are anti-social, but for the good of everyone, please give it a break.
Air traffic is down, you say?
The state’s busiest airport has seen a roughly 80% drop in travelers since the beginning of the spread of COVID-19 in Montana, a sharp turn in what was projected to be a record-breaking year.
“It’s a ghost town here,” said Brian Sprenger, director of the Bozeman-Yellowstone International Airport. “We’re at levels we haven’t seen for at least 25 years.”
Sprenger said the airport is serving about 20% of the passengers it normally does this time of year. Parts of the concourse are closed so airport staff can focus on sterilizing the areas passengers will go through. He said there are “very few” international travelers coming into the airport — in part because of the travel restrictions and advisories imposed by the U.S. and international governments.
What a surprise.
Still one of my favorite airports on the planet.
Ford to build 50k ventilators in 100 days.
I heard they are going to call them: respintorators
el Pinto: they’re lime green and each one comes with a free 8track of CCR’s greatest hits
Mine was pumpkin orange and the last eight track that worked was Queen’s Live Killers and it has a sun roof.
Mine was also orange – Safety Orange.
I taught a lot of people how to drive manual transmission in that car.
My Pinto was the first “modern” car that I’d owned. Previous cars were all 1964 or before but my 72 had side marker lights and disc brakes (front). I had the smaller engine, 1600cc, and could get close to 40MPG on the highway, remarkable for the time. The rear-end collision stuff was hype. The Pinto was about average on collision stats. Publicity killed it, much like Nader’s negative (and false) hype killed the Corvair.
…just a tap from behind
Edselators.
That’s some explosive news.
Ford: Found On Respirator Dead
Lol
Damn!
You’ve got to ask yourself one question: Do I really want a ventilator built by the UAW?
Not one made on Monday or Friday
100 days huh? So what are they going to use them for then?
Sell them to China?
Yes, seems a bit slow.
So one of the world’s biggest manufacturing companies hopes it can build 50K ventilators in 100 days.
Yet according to my Facebook feed, Trump is incompetent because he couldn’t make 30,000 ventilators appear out of thin air in one day.
My question is: What are the actual ventilator-making companies doing?
banging on the critical component supplier for more parts (the real issue someone pointed out here days ago)
but he can’t ship them even when he ramps up because the extras go to F and GM to justify Orangeman’s flex
They’re hoarding them of course.
Making face masks. ?
Don’t get too excited. My F150 has already had a shit ton of recalls.
My Excursion’s radio shuts off when you shut a door. It eventually will come back on when the door sensor sorts itself out, then quits again for some reason. I can’t find that “switch” in the fuse panel or I would jump that damn thing.
It’s (the radio’s algorithm) probably looking for a bit on the buss from the body controller
the “radio” (the radio’s ePROM) is “on” the entire time regardless of whether the LED have its facia lit up
but it’s not sending anything to the speakers. If it’s always done that, that’s what the code requires and you’ll need to wait for popular demand to secure new code that can be flashed. If it’s not, it’s going to be a nightmare as Goober wades through the body sensors to figure out what’s going on (what’s not going on).
It’s the sensors. And this goober is having a hell of a time finding what does what. It has to do with that neato thing Ford did in the 2000 ish models where the radio will stay on until you open a door. That thingamajiggy “clicks” (I can hear it) in the fuse panel when the radio shuts off. The door ajar sensors are on the bottom of the latch assembly inside the door panel so not easy to fiddle with. Saw one youtube suggestion to hose the things out with wd40 and it might free them up. Made it worse. lol….I will probably update the radio, has a cassette deck fer crists sake, and hardewire that mo fo direct to the battery.
Impossible. There are only x number of ventilators and we’re all gonna die.
I’ve had it with the disingenuous cunts.
On a Monday afternoon press call, Everytown president John Feinblatt told reporters that the group is taking two steps; urging governors to ignore the Department of Homeland Security guidance and order gun stores closed, as well as sending DHS a letter urging them to reverse this decision.
Feinblatt claims that ordinarily Bloomberg’s anti-gun group wouldn’t support the closure of gun stores, because they support responsible gun ownership, but “these are anything but normal circumstances.” Feinblatt also launched an absurd attack on the National Rifle Association by asserting that no matter what the NRA says, “you can’t shoot a virus.” Obviously the NRA has said no such thing, and the countless Americans who’ve become gun owners for the first time over the past month aren’t trying to shoot their way out of being infected. They’re concerned about the safety and security of themselves and their families, but to hear Feinblatt tell it, they’ve all just succumbed to a massive propaganda campaign by the National Rifle Association.
In fact, the NRA and the Trump administration were the two big bogeymen throughout the call with reporters. Moms Demand Action’s Shannon Watts claimed, “the gun lobby has fear-mongered to stoke gun sales throughout this pandemic, pedaling the lie that more guns make us safer. The Trump administration just gave that myth its seal of approval, proving once again that President Trump cares more about lining gun dealers’ pockets than saving American lives.”
Feinblatt claims that ordinarily Bloomberg’s anti-gun group wouldn’t support the closure of gun stores, because they support responsible gun ownership,
Oh fuck off you liar.
they support responsible gun ownership
I.e. no private gun ownership.
the gun lobby has fear-mongered to stoke gun sales throughout this pandemic, pedaling the lie that more guns make us safer.
someone is stoking fears, and pedelling lies about guns…
as someone predicted, since the majority of governors are
Republicanspoliticians, the majority of the shithead autocrats at the end of this will beRepublicanspoliticiansTry that on for size.
Evil corporation lays off workers after taxpayer bailout so they can give bonuses to their fatcat execs. Oh, wait…
“The Covid-19 Advisory Committee was broadsided today during our conversation with [Kennedy Center President] Deborah Rutter,” the orchestra’s coronavirus committee told musicians in an email, obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. “Ms. Rutter abruptly informed us today that the last paycheck for all musicians and librarians will be April 3 and that we will not be paid again until the Center reopens.”
The $2 trillion bailout dedicated $25 million for the Kennedy Center, in order to “cover operating expenses required to ensure the continuity of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and its affiliates, including for employee compensation and benefits, grants, contracts, payments for rent or utilities, fees for artists or performers.” The Kennedy Center apparently did not interpret that $25 million as extending to the National Symphony Orchestra, its house orchestra.
A veteran member of the orchestra, who spoke to the Free Beacon on condition of anonymity, slammed the Kennedy Center’s duplicity. “It’s very disappointing [that] they’re going to get that money and then drop us afterward,” the musician said. “The Kennedy Center blindsided us.”
https://www.nj.com/coronavirus/2020/03/gun-shops-are-now-considered-essential-businesses-in-nj-gov-murphy-says.html
Try to control your rage at the last sentence.
Typical statist ‘tard
Whatever it takes to stay open.
Easy, I’m not reading anything the shithead has to say!
You’re no fun.
“Gun shop owners, who were experiencing a spike in sales in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, believed they are considered essential because they supply weapons and ammunition to current and retired law enforcement.”
Standard issue gun control in California – exempt not just current LE, but retired as well. Gun control-freaks may be stupid, but they aren’t that stupid.
The tree of liberty is dying of thirst.
*pours out a forty on liberty’s grave*
Won’t work. That is not what that particulat plant craves.
Unfortunately, I cannot get my Belorussian passport in their Washington, DC embassy. It’s more complicated, I already checked last night and I was born in that country.
I want to party with that dude.
I think he’s already had one too many.
Throw in some Ukrainian hookers and I think we’ve got the hero we need.
I’m with this guy. I never saw any viruses at the hockey rink either.
The president of Belarus is insisting that vodka and saunas will cure the coronavirus — while claiming nations that have gone into lockdown are in the throes of a “psychosis,” according to reports.
He might be on to something.
IFLS!
https://freebeacon.com/latest-news/woman-who-ingested-fish-tank-cleaner-was-prolific-donor-to-democratic-causes/
If this is true, she definitely poisoned him on purpose.
Interesting.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/elections/betting_odds/democratic_2020_nomination/
While Senile Joe is still the prohibitive favorite, his betting odds have dropped about 10 points in the past couple of weeks and Fredo (not Herself or Grandpa Gulag) is in second.
Love that Warren nosedive. Lol.
If he actually is allowed the nomination we might get our first first term senile president:
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/latest_polls/
It’s a long way out but the polls don’t look good.
Starting to look like Joe and not Fredo is going to take that fishing trip on Lake Tahoe.
I thought Fredo was the TV guy not the governor guy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ouHIe-RNhU
I wouldn’t stand between the nomination and Herself, just sayin’.
City of Cincinnati: 1,700 furloughs to help cover COVID-19 budget shortfall
Its a start.
It does not appear they have shut down the street car…
It has to continue hemorrhaging money, to prove what a great idea it was
So our enlightened EuroSoc friends all have universal health care. Every country (except for Germany) has death rates at least 2x higher than the evil, capitalist United States of Amerikkka. In the case of Spain and Italy, the death rate is more than an order of magnitude higher.
I wonder whether Germany is pulling off better numbers or if they’re pulling off some kind of covid death related classification trickery.
Jagermeister and apfelkorn are preventatives.
Dirndls.
https://tinyurl.com/yx6jek9p
More refreshing than many of the pneumatic and tattooed ladies seen in the archives.
Yeah, she’s cute.
I’ll be obeying the stay in bunk order.
That looks like a cheap tourist Dirndl.
She should take it off.
Better Dirndls.
I’m wondering whether they might be stricter with the count, too. All we get here are basically “died with”, instead of “died from”. Maybe they’re trying to differentiate, and (at least to some degree) only reporting excess deaths.
The famous German precision. You could be right.
TOS has an article about Germany’s numbers.
https://reason.com/2020/03/30/early-and-broad-testing-helps-explain-why-covid-19-looks-less-lethal-in-germany/
And why we didn’t follow suit.
https://reason.com/video/the-coronavirus-testing-debacle-stems-from-decades-of-bad-fda-policy/
TOS still has some good stuff. Imagine that, if you test more people the death rate of the virus goes down. But here, by god, we are ruining the economy on bad data based models. Awesome.
I think it has more to do with their “wonderful” public transit system, to be honest.
Hmmm, hadn’t thought of that. Good point.
So not only did he play hide-the-hangnail with some unsuspecting staffer, he stole from firemen, pretty much the only universally adored public employees on Earth.
http://archive.li/eXacD
The DNC-MSM is currently weighing Fredo’s prospects while devising a plan of how much they’re going to expose or cover this up.
But he rode Amtrak to work like a regular schmuck so he must be one of us. Actually, a friend who used to be a lobbyist for Big Telephone took the train from Wilmington to Washington many times and would see Joe boarding and acting like his shit don’t stink.
What dem isn’t associated with a corrupt union boss?
Remember the CovidActNow site that was outed the other day by the Federalist? A lot of the graphs I am seeing, especially ones used during the Gov here’s presser for stay at home order came directly from that site. They are updating it every four days now and adjusting their doom. I don’t trust those fuckers a bit. They have changed it since the first time I looked at it a few days ago.
Try this one instead.
That is a good site. They also make the point that there is probably many more cases out there not tested which would make the death rate much lower.
I try to make this point to people and I might as well be speaking Martian.
They can’t grok you.
During yesterday’s White House briefing, Dr. Birx referenced this site (I also linked above) and stated their models match official government models, but developed independently. VERY different from the CovidActNow site.
https://covid19.healthdata.org/projections
During yesterday’s White House briefing, Dr. Birx referenced this site
When first reading that I thought “Wow, way to go Glibertarians.com!”
Maybe while calling for the first internet quarantine.
The site I linked is the site many Gov’s have been using to plan their attack on their
citizensthe virus and it was way off. The site you just linked is off by a substantial number for CO. How does your states actual conditions compare to what was projected for today?It looks like the model predict ~3x current number hospitalized. I’m not sure how many ICU beds we have in-use.
Looks like we are around 7x less than projected. If “all beds needed” means for covid patients. I have no idea how many other people are in the hospitals. And they have it going up by 400 hospitalizations a day. We don’t have 400 in the hospitals now. My unprofessional armpit opinion is we are close to peak now in most places because we were two months (?) late in testing. They start graphing data based on when they have x amount of confirmed cases and project from there, when we all know we had hundreds if not thousands of cases prior to the first test ever being given. Who knows. I could be wrong. I have been on most things the exception being trusting the Government.
2x for my state on total hospitalizations. Seems to be tracking for ICU, but there’s about 25% more capacity for ICU beds according to the states actual numbers. 20% less available total hospital beds.
Takeaway: there’s garbage data in one or both places.
Yeah, according to your site we should have 304 hospitalizations by now. We only have 92. And that was with strict compliance with a lockdown.
Just like with climate models, they never pan out if you roll it back to a certain point in time and compare the model’s predictions with actual results. But doG forbid you question the model.
400 times a day? If she’s at it for 12 hours, that’s once every 2 minutes. Bullshit.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/love-sex/woman-who-masturbated-400-times-19910713
Also: becoming a camgirl healed her sex addiction? Isn’t that a little like an alcoholic becoming a sommelier?
Seems like her dominant arm would be positively Schwarzeneggerian if that was true.
I hate everyone in this story. I also give it about a 80% chance of being unmitigated bullshit that never happened.
Seems fake as hell and something that some journalo could easily be spoon fed to prove how awesome the govt is during this shutdown.
He must have some kind of psychic link with her medical facilities’ supply room. Good for him.
And now the trooper doesn’t have masks that were issued so he could do his job.
Look at Mr. Pessimist!
Why not look for the silver lining? Now that the trooper doesn’t have a mask, he can blast anyone he pulls over who might cough or sneeze and legitimately use the “I feared for my life” excuse.
Win for the state trooper!
I was thinking the other way. Mr Infected Trooper can infect everyone he pulls over instead of wearing his mask to limit onward transmission.
Unstated: Law enforcement has a higher priority for N95s than hospitals.
There’s 576 confirmed cases, 260 recovered, 10 deaths in MN. This is bullshit.
I believe 7 of the 10 were in nursing homes.
Bullshit, indeed.
Also, I think most cases in Twin Cities, she’s in Duluth
as she traveled from work in Duluth for a break in Minneapolis
So she was not sheltering in place. She was driving into the epicenter of the Minnesoda Plauge Prairie. I’m sure she was heading back to Duluth after she picked up the virus.
So yeah, a doctor decided she deserved some me time in Minneapolis instead of sheltering in place, but you rubes need to hide in your house and you should be grateful we’ve allowed you to go outside for exercise.
But, but, but last week we only had 1 death! Now it is 10!
Now, if the doc had had a dog in the car……..
That trooper’s name? Albert Einstein.
And everyone stood and clapped.
Jesus wants you to get BLAZED.
https://christiancannabis.com
Pretty sure he never said anything about it one way or the other.
Seems like her dominant arm would be positively Schwarzeneggerian if that was true.
She must have forearms like Popeye.
Or she owns a Sybian and/or Hitachi Wand.
Not one of these?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hF4OlKKrFfI
Or maybe one of these?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jby0I-zLj9c
A better riot.
Riot-a-billy
Nice.
Hey Tundra, here’s those ribs I smoked yesterday. Pork Tenderloin today:)
https://imgur.com/a/CQhF4LY
Damn.
*salivates*
Nice smoke ring.
How was the pull? Right off the bone or a bit of resistance?
I find I prefer a bit of resistance on the bone. The amount of sauce dictates how firm the grip needs to be.
“The amount of sauce dictates how firm the grip needs to be.”
Exactly opposite.
I find that a firmer grip yields more sauce. ;^)
A little resistance. Bark was perfect. Was really happy with how they turned out.
Excellent
Im gonna fire up the smoker (again) for a brisket either tomorrow or the next. Maybe ribs with it too
A potential riot
What happened to those guys. I remember lots of attention awhile back.
No idea. I didn’t follow them farther than that song.
Overseas riot
Quiet. I mean, quite.
Riot, the unbeatable high…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WBWT1gg9sI
I’m ashamed that Im linking this, but Riot is the theme-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IqH3uliwJY
Lot of parents taking their children out for strolls to the park or the courts. Don’t they realize that deadly virus could blow in on the breeze and strike their children dead at any moment?
My wife’s boss said we will be working from home for at least 30 more days.
It always comes down to violence and intimidation
A Florida pastor was arrested on Monday for holding services at a Tampa megachurch in violation of a public health order prohibiting large gatherings to stem the spread of the coronavirus.
Pastor Rodney Howard-Browne was charged with misdemeanor counts of unlawful assembly and violation of the public health rules, according to Fox 13, Tampa Bay’s local affiliate.
Howard-Browne’s apprehension came after he held two Sunday services with up to 500 attendees, even offering bus service to the church.
“His reckless disregard for human life put hundreds of people in his congregation and thousands of residents who may interact with them this week in danger,” said Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister, who issued an arrest warrant earlier Monday.
Something something we appreciate your co-operation.
Sheriff Chronister will protect you because God can’t or won’t. I wonder if Christian Science is outlawed in Florida?
So, now that MD has gotten woke and Fatty Hogan has declared martial law, they’re supposed to be able to enforce that and put you in jail for being out and about ‘for the wrong reasons’. This shit is exceedingly dangerous. There is a contagious complete lack of brain cells spreading exponentially among our political and chattering classes.
A little thought experiment.
Public executions for state and federal leaders if this doesn’t match up to projections.
Lifetime imprisonment and stripped of their possessions if it is, for tanking the economy.
Let’s see if they really buy into sacrifice everything to save a life.
Well, you’re gonna need civil-servant prosecutors to bring charges, and over-paid judges to seal the deal.
there’s your bottleneck
“Lifetime imprisonment and stripped of their possessions if it is, for tanking the economy.”
It won’t be they won’t be. They’ll say ‘Good thing our unconstitutional measures saved you!’. And the medial will carry their water.
The only good thing is that they will lose more public trust and it will be far more difficult to pull this shit in the future.
Right now it seems like they’re counting on them being able to use the Chinese Communist form of government as the preferable method. And gain, the media seems to be carrying their water in reaffirming this. Interesting times these are.
The Chinese numbers are clearly bullshit at this point. The problem is you can’t tell what is true and what isn’t there. Yet unquestioning acceptance of the CCP narrative continues.
The most frightening thing is the number of people wanting to rat out neighbors for not complying.
They just want to earn their informeller Mitarbeiter badge.
Fascist assholes can’t keep their boot off the neck for a day
https://www.oregonlive.com/coronavirus/2020/03/oregon-clarifies-temporary-suspension-of-self-service-gas-ban.html
The people whining at the possibility of being able to pump their own gas and avoid face to face contact has been epic, if depressing.
Meanwhile, New Jersey continues to treat motorists as too incompetent to pump their own gas.
Oregon and New Jersey are the only places I’ve been to in the last 30 years where you couldn’t pump your own gas.
What do they do with people at electric car chargers? Does someone else plug in the cable for you?
Hah! Not yet.
Technically diesel self serve isn’t banned either, but many stations won’t let drivers pump their own while some stations require driver to do it (more out of liability concerns for putting gas in the tank I think). Makes no sense.
It makes perfect sense to the SEIU.
Heh…a couple weeks ago I was accosted by a UFCW canvasser in my Kroger parking lot. She wanted me to sign a petition for $15/hr minumum wage. When I said “so the employer cuts everyone’s hours in half? Why do you want to screw your workers over like that?” she looked at me like I was Satan
“Let’s start a riot!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sV2r2VDUg3U
Trump: I know South Korea better than anybody
also Trump: there are 38M people in Seoul
why won’t he stop talking ?
If he couldn’t keep his yap shut leading up to the 2018 election, why would he start now?
Trump wasn’t on the ballot in 2018.
Yeah, he was and the GOP lost the House because of it.
Cut him some slack. The population of ROK is 51M and if you use the standard 3/5 ratio that everyone knows you apply to non-whites, that would whittle it down to 30M or so. So he had a rounding error and said Seoul instead of ROK. Give him a break.
I like it
I think that’s around 10 million. The entire country’s population is around 50 million.
Maybe he means South Koreans who have a Seoul, because gingers are very rare there?
It’s the first really nice day of quarantine so far. I went to work for a few hours, then drove home in light traffic.
It’s 72deg out here (in the sun). Good day to take off early.
I had to work today…it was 2016 traffic for Vegas and took me 15 minutes.
“I had to work today”
Good for you.
Our little community here are already cutting their staff since they’ve closed up all the public amenities like pools, gyms, parks, etc. Those people are in very real risk of losing their jobs. I hate this shit.
Either the panic is real and millions die, or certain people need to be hung from lampposts.
Was really nice here today also, right around 70 too. We decided to start cleaning off and fixing up our deck so that we have more space during martial law.
Everyone knows its Marshall’s Law.
Marsha, Marsha, Marsha! It’s always about her!
One of the more troubling trends I have seen is all local media for Vegas are on Government’s side. So much for being a watch dog.
Then articles like this are just begging the government to issue a lockdown order
https://www.reviewjournal.com/local/local-las-vegas/as-las-vegas-area-parks-get-busier-social-distancing-gets-harder-1993182/
Good observation, and not lost on our ambitious statists like Cuomo who’s polling at over 80 percent because he looks like he’s “doing something.”
Yeah, like everyone else is not falling all over themselves to look like they’re doing something. Maybe none of them look enough like a mafia kingpin?
Colorado liquor store under fire for putting “Thanks China” on their sign.
https://www.coloradohometownweekly.com/2020/03/19/louisville-liquor-store-under-fire-for-thanks-china-sign-during-coronavirus-outbreak/
Okay, whatever. But what really set off alarm bells is that the sign also said “Firestone $14.88” as an advertised beer price, and everyone knows that 14/88 is some Hitler shit. White supremacist confirmed.
‘Fuck you China’ would have been more appropriate’. The Chinese people are innocent of course, but the CCP are 100% responsible for this bullshit and should fully suffer the consequences from it. And I’m sure they will.
China is Asshole is also acceptable
Please.
Don’t forget the appropriate credit.
My bad. Ill flog one less today
Are they? I keep hearing conflicting reports (which means both sides have no idea) that it is/is not an engineered and weaponized virus. I have no idea what to believe because everything about this has been politicized and most of the people talking are proven liars.
A) If it is then the CCP must be punished.
B) If is from stupid assholes eating toads, bats and rat shit then that culture must be changed because it is a shit culture.
B) If is from stupid assholes eating toads, bats and rat shit then
that culture must be changed because it is a shit culturethe CCP must be punished for suppressing the truth and doing nothing to stop it from spreading beyond its borders.That too.
It could be both. There were reports of lab animals being sold as food.
Oh, I forgot about that.
Either way it is a shit culture. They are rat shit eating commies for fuck sake.
*Yeah, I am pretty pissed at the people responsible for this, and not just the ones in China.
I think it’s from the unsanitary conditions and the CCP not even lifting a hand to ensure first world sanitation measures. So, it’s both of those things. But as far as the peasant Chinese class, who number a billion or more, they’re innocent. They just want to eat and don’t know any better.
The government, it’s because they don’t value human life at all, outside the communist party, except for their slave labor, which they can easily replace even if millions die.
They could try animal husbandry and raising rice and wheat using modern methods. I am just spitballing here.
We think the muslim world is backward? They are only stuck in the dark ages. I keep hearing how China has come into the modern world but I see no evidence of it. Their society still operates exactly like it did 3000 years ago.
The Chinese peasants learned living like that from being starved to death by Mao’s ‘Great Leap Forward’. They killed at least 100 million of their own people intentionally by starvation. So it’s no wonder they eat whatever gross unsanitary shit they can find.
Our own media are the biggest fucking liars on the planet. They keep touting how great the CCP is for lifting so many people out of poverty. Yeah, sure, the communist party members. The rest of the country live in squalid poverty, more than a billion of the poorest most destitute people on the planet.
Fuck the Chicoms, there is not one redeemable quality about them. They need to end sooner than later for the good of us all.
I will give all of that a hearty second, but it didnt just begin in response to the Great Leap. They have been doing for as long as the sun has been rising. If you ask them why you get “It is traditional”.
But as far as the peasant Chinese class, who number a billion or more, they’re innocent. They just want to eat and don’t know any better.
The ones who torture their food to death because the prolonged suffering of the animals makes the meat taste better? I don’t know what to call people who do that. My 5 year old knows better than that and her concept of morality is still fairly hazy.
I realize not all of the Chinese peasants routinely torture animals to death, but it appears to be a considerable enough proportion that this behavior is normalized instead of the perpetrators being put down on the spot.
Like I said, a shit culture.
So what about when a disease makes the jump from crawfish, crabs, cows, pigs (actually most likely of all)? Do we have to change our culture? Or is it ok, because it just happened naturally and those are normal foods? If so, what precisely makes bat wrong and pig right?
Bacon.
Serious answer…Why dont you eat raw armadillo peckers soaked in their own spunk? I know why. Because it is disgusting. Why is it disgusting? Because that is evolution’s way of getting you to avoid dangerous foods that contain pathogens and poisons. Nothing is just inherently disgusting by itself. Mother Nature taught you that to keep you alive so she can kill you in some other horrible way later.
Also, cows are raised for food because their nature makes them suitable for it. Pangolins? Not so much. They aren’t eating them because there is nothing else. They choose to eat that kind of shit and not because there isn’t anything else.
Food disgust is about custom and habit. The disgust response may protect you by making you less likely to eat unusual things, but let’s get serious here and face the fact that our personal food taboos are not somehow God given warning labels. Crawfish are pretty disgusting creatures, shrimp also, cheese is rotten milk, wine is rotten fruit, beer is rotten grain yet you consume them without a second thought.
-1 raw oysters
As I said there are some animals suitable for husbandry and most are not. We have thousands of years history relationship with the ones that are and have come to peace with the pathogens they carry.
I doubt we are going to come to a defiinitive answer on this question. It is probably a combination of those factors.
Some sick fucks put cream in their egg and cheese sauce, worthless philistines!
philistines
Gentiles?
Ebola probably required both bats and nonhuman primates as hosts to become the human-killing version. MERS probably required both bats and camels as hosts to become the human-killing version. SARS probably required both bats and civets as hosts to become the human-killing version. Wuhán flu probably required both bats and pangolins as hosts to become the human-killing version ( 🙂 unless it was genetically engineered to save Italy from its unsustainable elderly entitlements and elderly health care costs, to sour Italians on Italy’s assets being bought by the Chinese, and to increase the odds of a pro-democracy revolution in Iran by killing off the ruling elite of old people 🙂 ). Monkeypox probably required both rodents and nonhuman primates as hosts to become the human-killing version. HIV probably required both nonhuman primates (Simian IV) and members of the cat family (Feline IV) as hosts for IV to get the H in front for Human.
Although the major sources of catching leprosy are from skin contact with armadillos and with humans, from not-sanitized objects that came in physical contact with armadillos or humans, and from eating armadillo meat, leprosy does not spread as easily as the others mentioned here to produce epidemics or pandemics in areas where modern sanitation and modern medicine are available.
Tomorrow’s top story:
Little girls jumping rope heard to chant “ching-chong-chinaman sitting on a fence, trying to make a dollar out of fifteen cents” cuffed by local police, held without bail
“Chinese, Japanese, dirty knees, look at these!”
“right knee, left knee, weenie!”
Homey!!! Thank you SOOO MUCH for the link last night to Bonnie & Ruthie singing “Angel from Montgomery” – two of my favorite chirps! ::plants big virtual kiss on Tres’s (facial) cheek::
Also, in “too local” news, it looks as if they paved our rebuild-in-progress Donato’s parking lot today. Baby steps, but in the right direction!
Where are you at again BP? I know you are in the Denver area.
One good piece of news: the positives as a percent of people tested is staying flat, between 10-15%. Confirmed cases are going up because we are testing more.
STFU LIBERTARD, WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE!
/politicians and media
https://twitter.com/shoe0nhead/status/1244745429113286656
LOL
There’s always a silver lining.
This makes no sense. Anecdotal, to be sure, but my local rag said page views have doubled recently. That means more ad revenue coming in. I’m sure readership has skyrocketed to number not seen for a long time. I don’t get furloughs.
Well, I guess sports writers are kinda screwed right now…
They left their limited articles block turned on?
They turned it off for all Corona-related stories (and they are very generous with that definition) across all 15-ish (IIRC) of their papers. I was referring to embedded ads. They said subscriptions were up too, but I didn’t see a percentage.
Smarter than the local rag. They’re still doing that. Once it’s gone for the month, I go elsewhere.
It will never be over. There will always be a way for Top
MenPersons and their fellow travelers in the legacy media to present statistics in such a way as to justify some measure of increased control and rationing of everything from canned goods to ability to leave your house. The authoritarian ratchet has gone up several cocks this past week in the UK. I’m of course being predictably pessimistic and paranoid, but it’s hard to imagine this hasn’t ushered in a new era of rigid control over people’s daily lives here, much of which will be rationalised as necessary and reasonable long after the Chinese Flu threat has passed.several CLICKS! Autocorrect is trying to undermine the seriousness of my post.
‘Texas and Ohio were among the states who issued bans on abortions last week, claiming that they didn’t qualify as “essential” medical care during the coronavirus pandemic. But on Monday, a pair of federal judges both issued orders requiring clinics to stay open and provide their services for those who need it. The restriction of the constitutional right to have an abortion, Judge Lee Yeakel wrote in his decision for Texas, would constitute “serious and irreparable harm” to both the clinics and their patients.’
nydailynews.com/coronavirus/ny-coronavirus-judge-blocks-texas-from-closing-abortion-clinics-20200330-au24o4h2znbtfhpmj7qpzhxosq-story.html
Abortions for some and miniature American flags for everyone else.
Well, Your Flag Decal WontGet You Into Heaven Anymore
+1 Kang on The Simpsons
Talk about someone with range. How about on Star Trek when Kang said, ‘Only a fool fights in a burning house.’
The restriction of the constitutional right
…to free assembly, petition the government, bear arms….
Free exercise of religion
Travel
Contract
….association
Gustave kind hit on that tho.
Shitlords – only concerned with real words and not things found in penumbras and emanations! The Constitution is a spirit-guide, not some persnickity legalese.
Next Glibs debate? Does the Priveleges and Immunities clause truly cover abortion? Is abortion even a privelege? Is it possible to be pro-“choice” and yet be of the opinion that the reasoning behind the Roe decision was deeply flawed? Yes, but try explaining that to most of the pro-“choice” crowd. Did this already appear as a Glibs debate topic?
What is the argument that Privileges and Immunities applies to banning single-use plastic bags (physical object) and/or to conversion therapy (mental health/medical nontangible)?
A pair of federal judges that need to be stocking groceries instead of sitting on a bench.
Abortion is the most rock solid constitutional right.
Update from the front lines:
Our volumes continue to crater. We are down 50% overall, and declining. Phase 1 furlough (@15,000 hours per week, I believe) is already being goosed with a Phase 2 furlough (including managers and directors this time, and more furloughs of staff from some units). We are talking about furloughing executives and anyone else not already on a furlough plan for a day a week, as well.
Bizarrely, we have not had a STEMI patient in our cath lab for a week and a half, and we usually get around one a day, maybe two. What’s bizarre is, STEMIs are a kind of heart attack. Why the hell would people stop having heart attacks?
Mandatory masking for everyone in the building (the cheap earloop masks). We are fine for N95s. We are using chloroquine on our handful of patients, and they seem to be responding quite well. Our shop is now fabbing plexiglass shields to put over patients when we intubate them, to protect our staff. Clever.
Gov. Ducey issued a shelter in place order, but it looks to be purely cosmetic.
Thank your RC, and your staff, and the other healthcare Glibs.
How many people are we killing with this scare by causing them to defer seeking medical care for that numbness in their arm, or that odd lump?
From what we’ve seen, just about everybody.
No one presently wants to come to the ER unless they have a sore throat and difficulty breathing, people with other afflictions are afraid of catching the virus if they come onsite.
Good time for that home suture kit for your workshop lacerations, I guess (kidding).
just realized I read your comment incorrectly, Jarflax. People aren’t being killed by staying away from hospitals so much as they are just staying away, period.
But some percentage of those people would have gotten an early diagnosis with corresponding increased chance of survival of a heart condition, or a stroke, or cancer. That’s what I was getting at.
And you are correct, yet we will never know.
Bastiat knows!
Wow, I’ve been hearing about the low numbers at many of our group’s Emergency Departments across the country, but I haven’t heard about any drop in STEMI cases. Go figure.
It is amazing, that at a time where everyone on TV is talking about overcrowded hospitals, that so many sites nationwide are instead facing low census and the need to reduce staffing. Keep strong.
“our group”
I am curious what group that is. My son recently started working with ‘a group’ that owns more than 300 hospitals all over the country….I forget the exact number. Anyway he is probably going to be a big deal with them at some point in the near future. Wouldn’t it be funny if you and he ended up meeting in person.
My favorite ‘It’s a small world’ story – I spent some time in La Paz, Bolivia back in the 80’s. A few weeks after I got home I drove to New Orleans for some reason. There was a restaurant there that was famous for its beignets. I was sitting in there having breakfast when a hooker from La Paz that used to hang around near the house where I stayed came and sat at the table next to me. We had never had any direct contact or even spoken, just saw each other around We looked at each other and instantly recognized each other.
At that time you had to go to the middle of nowhere first, then keep going to get to La Paz, yet there she was.
Probably too late to catch you in this dead thread, Suthen, but we are a medical group that provides the docs and handles the operations for many ERs around the country (among other specialties) but we do not own any hospitals, we contract with hospitals. Hospital groups or ‘chains’ are a different business than we are.
On the other hand my brother got his pacemaker implant moved up to tomorrow from next week (in California).
Why the hell would people stop having heart attacks?
Because they are scared shitless of going to a hospital because it is known hospitals are full of plague patients and there are dead bodies in all the corridors. They ignore it and croak at home in a week or two.
People have always known that hospitals are full of diseases. No one ever want’s to go to the hospital. Also, it takes a week or two to die from a heart attack?
Most heart attacks don’t drop you on the spot. From what I hear from relatives that have had them had they ignored the initial attack and not went to the hospital for a stint or whatever the hell it is the heart doctors do, ya, they would have croaked not long after the initial one.
‘ down 50% overall’
from what date, baseline, or whatever?
https://www.oregonlive.com/coronavirus/2020/03/oregon-launches-stark-new-public-appeal-stay-home-dont-accidentally-kill-someone.html
This is disgusting. How about the number of people being killed and will be killed by these lockdowns? They want to talk about responsibility? They’re hands are blood soaked up to the elbows. Fuck them.
Don’t care much for the guilt trip manipulation do you?
How about the UK govt’s official slogan, ‘STAY HOME. PROTECT THE NHS. SAVE LIVES.‘?
It’s got “our socialised healthcare has to be rationed” right in there front and center.
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Yeesh. That font. Hard pass. I’d seen a color version on black somewhere, with a suitable serify caps font. Pretty dang cool anyway, I’m just being a dick to be consistent. Blessed are the tees makers.
Well, today was the first full day of WFH. Well, nearly full. I sat down at my desk later than I had planned to and also took a long lunch, but I managed to get 7 mostly productive hours in. After some early frustration I learned that hot-spotting off my phone is far, far better than trying to use HughesNet. Fucking waste of money.
I can’t hot-spot off my phone. The computer has to be connected to the router via ethernet.
Thankfully, before I left, I.T. gave me the last Wi-Fi adapter (or whatever the hell it’s called) they had, otherwise I wouldn’t have an option. Well, other than driving to Best Buy and buying a Wi-Fi adapter.
HugesNet? I think I still have a 56K modem around here Id be happy to send you….
Yeah, it’s brutal. 95% of North Dakota has access to broadband internet. That makes me a 5-percenter!
Bezos, Inc. is sending me a 4 monitor display stand because my desk is overrun. 2 displays connected to my computer. 2 displays connected to work’s computer and work’s little laptop. 2 separate keyboards, 3 separate mice.
There is no room for snacks!
Similar situation here. Only 2 mice though. Nobody needs 3 mice!
Okay gun glibs, I have a question.
In this hunting game, rather than fiddle with lisencing the brands, they renamed all the branding on the guns, but they are clearly copies of real firearms.
I am trying to identify a particular shotgun/rifle combo weapon. It’s a 16-guage side by side shotgun with a 9.something MM rifle underneath. Break action. Any ideas what the real version is?
Drillings are not generally production line guns, they are usually high end custom weapons.
There can’t be too many people who make them though.
German and Austrian gunsmiths in the XIXth century mostly I believe. I don’t know if anyone is currently making them, and they were more a German thing than English/American.
That would explain why I hadn’t heard of the style in real life.
Thanks.
https://www.merkel-die-jagd.de/en/products/guns/drillings/dr-96k/
I see. Thank you.
probably so
I remember J&I or Savage or somesuch made an O/U in .22/.410 and assume a world of other cute offerings in double barrels are made.
Wonder why we don’t call doubles zweillings.
I suspect “If you have to ask how much it costs you can’t afford it” applies here. Pretty guns though.
I remember seeing an article about it in American Rifleman many years ago. It was featured on the cover, but damned if I can remember who made it. A quick DDG search comes up dry.
If I remember right you could get 20/20/308 or 12/12/30-06
It was a very high end, highly engraved and very expensive gun
Alberta’s COVID-19 stats (I’m actually fairly impressed with these web pages):
https://www.alberta.ca/covid-19-alberta-data.aspx
Click on the interactive data button for more data goodness.
I’m surprised at these numbers: 690 confirmed cases, 47 hospitalizations, 17 ICU admissions, 8 deaths. In a province of 4.4 million people. The calculation of percentages, incidents per capita etc. will be left as an exercise for the student. :-/
Today was the first time I’ve bought a carton of cigarettes and the cashier thought I was a good person. Me: “I’m trying to keep Mom out of the stores and away from all this.” Cashier: “Tell her, I miss seeing her.” Aahh.
Sweet!
You aren’t all infected and/or dead yet? It’s been like a week since I last saw you.