I’m starting to get a little hostile over this whole thing. I’m a homebody. I love being at home. Tell me I have to stay home, and I want to climb Mt. Everest. And quit hoarding toilet paper.
Links, anyone?
That’s a damn long five minutes.
Wait, you named us after what?
This guy obviously didn’t get the ISIS travel advisory. Then again, Jihad waits for no germ.
They’d probably feel better if they fling some poo.
They can’t even get hijacking right.
Seems appropriate, given the times.
I’m alive, just working.
As long as that means income, get down wich your own bad self.
Yep. Just stopped in to wave hi to everybody.
*waves*
Oahi!
Just to one person, Oahus.
Go make some fat stacks, or some such thing.
Hi Mojo! You missed the Prince of Dorkness last night…
Oi! I resemble that comment.
You definitely have the better beard, but Festus’ lighting was sublime.
Howdy.
What do you call it when someone SugarFrees a picture?
Oh, now it works.
No edit function?
Born during lockdown, Raipur twins named ‘Corona’ and ‘Covid’
I suppose this was inevitable.
Yes, predictably bad.
‘Allahu Akbar’ Migrant Knifeman Kills Two, Wounds Seven in France
Practicing to be an austere scholar of religion.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/UyYn9pXMrFsFFaVz9
*sigh*
I’m trying to stop being agitated.
It’s not working.
Drinking helps… at least for a little while.
Alcohol amplifies existing emotional states.
I find it to be calming. *shrugs*
Try some other drug?
Shooting down all advice works in my experience.
I did not ask for advice.
When did that stop anyone here from giving it?
We’re a giving bunch.
I advise not giving advice.
I advise that nobody listens to Jarflax.
Who?
I think The Who advised taking all the drugs, the WHO advise trusting China, which is actually less healthy advice.
And the Guess Who want you to cut back on your sugar intake.
No Sugar Tonight.
I’m trying to stop being agitated.
It’s not working.
I know a guy who wrote a textbook titled “The Diagnosis and Management of Agitation”.
I can get you a copy if you like.
Is it a hollowed out book with a bag of weed hidden inside?
I like the way you think.
Stressed-out primates have taken to chain smoking cigarettes as the coronavirus crisis rages across the globe.
They can’t get their favorite beer anymore.
Venezuela accused the Resolute of an act of “aggression and piracy”.
So they proceeded to engage in aggression and piracy.
Cruise ship – 1, Venezuelan Navy – 0. That just makes me chuckle every time I think about it.
Yes, ram an icebreaker on the bow. Great idea.
Inspired by the apes:
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/47746423782_4035d27f40_b.jpg
I don’t want no one minute man.
https://www.sciencealert.com/incredible-amber-discovery-captures-two-flies-that-have-been-having-sex-for-40-million-years
I thought it was no short dick man? Talk about mixed messages.
L.A. County tells paramedics to delay transporting cardiac patients amid coronavirus
It’s not like time is of the essence. Commie Cough is the worst thing we are facing now.
Leaving them if they’re dead is one thing, it’s completely different getting them back and being required to wait five minutes before you can transport. My guess is the field guys will find a work around rather quickly.
We all knew it was bs anyway, but the if it saves just one life excuse is officially out the window.
I’m honestly surprised this was even published.
Your grey cat is my grey cat.
He did disappear for a couple of hours last night. Now I know he has been traveling to alternate dimensions.
He brings the gift of purrs and farts.
“Los Angeles County officials this week ordered paramedics to wait five minutes after reviving someone with cardiac arrest to see if their heart stops again before racing them to the hospital, a policy intended to reduce the number of high-risk patients flooding emergency rooms during the coronavirus pandemic.
The policy, which could apply to 911 patients with heart attacks and drug overdoses, as well as those with COVID-19, instructs first responders to wait and see whether a patient loses heart function again within five minutes after being revived. If so, paramedics will continue CPR in the field until a doctor tells them to stop because it is likely futile. CPR could continue for as long as 40 minutes, according to county officials.”
That’s just retarded. So the policy is intended to reduce the number of high-risk patients catching coronavirus in the cardiac suite of the ED because asystole has a better outcome?
“No man, no problem”
-Stalin
But you won’t accept help from Remington?
“We finally got some good news today,” Cuomo said during a press briefing this morning. “The Chinese government helped facilitate a donation of 1,000 ventilators that will arrive in JFK today.”
The donations originate with several Chinese foundations facilitated by Ambassador Huang Ping.
“This is a big deal, and it’s going to make a significant difference for us,” Cuomo said.
Jack Ma, Joe Tsai, the Jack Ma Foundation and the Joe and Clara Tsai Foundation reportedly contributed to the effort.
Breaking CCPV news
Wasn’t supposed to be a reply
They could be infected like smallpox blankets.
Are respirators supposed to run at 150psi?
Yeah, if you want to pop lungs like a balloon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xECUrlnXCqk
Must. Adjust. Sarcasm. Meter.
Corona patients be like
Trump was miffed during his presser today that Cuomo didn’t mention that the ventilators were obtained for NY by two close friends of Trump, who had done this at Trump’s urging.
Of course someone in the press yelled out “so are you upset unless people say thank you when you do something?”
Trump parlayed that in essentially saying you shouldn’t blame someone for your problems and then not credit them when they are helpful.
Well, time to fire up the grill.
Inspired by the previous thread:
Gay Perry
Chris Shiherlis
Doc Holladay
Scott
Nick Rivers
Chris Knight
Iceman
Dieter Von Cunth
Ray Levoi
Mad Martigan
And he shall Ray Levoi
And he shall be a good man.
??
If there is one positive to come out of Covid Madness, we’re getting a sweet deal on a new car… Too bad the auto market is teetering on the brink of collapse.
And the housing market, and the financial markets, and the non-essential business markets…
“A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic. When one dies, it is a tragedy. When a million die, it is a statistic.” – Stalin
“Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.”
― Mel Brooks
Yesterday I posted that a friend of my wife was making and selling Kungflu masks on Etsy and it was helping her get through a tough time. Several expressed surprist that Etsy would allow that. Well, not long after I posted that my wife got an email from Etsy (she sells a lot there) suggesting people start making masks to sell.
My wife is making a couple for us. Wish i could find some fabric with the Rolling Stones tongue logo.
Guess I could wear my spray painting resperator.
Where’s the plague doctor masks?
Etsy. No, really.
Related:
I like this – https://www.etsy.com/listing/565465423/red-plague-hard-enamel-pin
I like it. The black one is even cooler.
Ahhh yes it is. I couldn’t make out what the red one was supposed to be.
They should make a yellow one.
Masque of
I’d take the Rocky Horror Picture Show lips mask.
I so want to go out in this mask.
LOL “uh…”
HA! That would be hilarious…as long as you maintained the proper distance.
We have a spare mask…this #$%&bird who flubbed taking over for ZARDOZ.
That picture reminds me of the third episode of “Blake’s Seven”.
Reposting from dead thread.
So the Mikey likes it kid is now a girl, but is still called Mikey.
The life kid is now a girl? Or the real Mikey is mtf?
Yes and not sure.
Life? I thought Mikey was Kix.
No. This is Kix.
Reposting from dead thread.
Are you cereal?
golf clap
/snort. ?
Do you have a link?
This from about a year ago:
https://groovyhistory.com/mikey-likes-it-life-cereal
It’s a shame he died from eating Pop Rocks while drinking Pepsi.
Dude, you lie. Everybody knows Mikey died from a combination of pop rocks and soda back in the 80’s.
Thanks for that music link, Spud! I hadn’t heard that tune in 30+ years since I gave my vinyl away. Actually got a little dusty in here…
Should have named the kids Hitler and Stalin if you’re looking for edgy.
Also, best Led Zepplin song.
Wrong.
This https://youtu.be/gqQelCIGYMI
Or this https://youtu.be/pNo1nS_JV5k
+1
That is not even close.
The correct answer is When the Levee Breaks.
Of course, its a cover.
?? How about this one?
?Still wrong.
I think he may have played edge
Good one.
I saw The Song Remains The Same in ’78 at the carriage square theater in Oxnard. If you’ve ever seen pics of the Endless Wave skatepark, the tall walls with red painted columns behind the bowls were the back of that theater. I walked about 5 miles to see the midnight showing.
Forever, the entire album of Houses of the Holy will be the greatest songs by Zep for me. Ain’t never changing my mind on this. I can only imagine if I’d have had my shit together enough to actually make a it to a live show!
sample
Reposting from dead thread.
When hospital employees are furloughed these days in the areas with few CV cases, are they getting paid by the employer?
Furlough usually means no pay but still get benefits, health care, etc.
Wifey is getting all the goodies even if she goes in for half an hour. I don’t know how this is sustainable.
My company is giving the techs that are still coming in to work a $1k bonus.
Hell, I’ve been paid for twelve years now, and I don’t do anything useful.
Shh don’t say that. You will make people start to consider whether any of us are worth paying.
Our company has a simple policy: keep coming to work and you’ll keep having a job and keep getting paid.
Silicone Saturday is not donating ventilators to New York.
http://archive.li/XdE4j
Too bad cause 16 25 and 31 are causing some heavy breathing.
Careful. Cuomo may issue an order to
stealborrow without permission, your ventilators.#18, #28, #34,
40 is auditioning to be the future Mrs. Chafed.
So, what happens when you shut down all the bars? Draft beer sales die.
19th amendment Version 2.0
Whodathunkit
Question for the CO glibs. Are the pot stores open? Asking for a friend.
Not in CO, but IIRC they were originally deemed non-essential, which caused a run on the stores, so they were deemed essential.
They are open in CA
As far as I know they are. I don’t frequent them though so cannot confirm with experience.
Did anyone yet share the most amazing thing to come out of the zoom chat last night, Hyperbole’s conspiracy board?
How dare you!
Lol glad he shared a full pic of it.
OMG. Wish i could have made it.
Love that Hyperion is an “Impostor”
I loved the Bear 1, Bear 2… and the Glibbed-out Mt. Rushmore.
Perfect!
Epic.
Dammit. Was everybody there? I’m kicking myself for missing it.
It was quite something.
I saw it behind him the short time I was there but never got a chance to ask. Did he finally open up about it later? Loved the tinfoil and the board. Hats off to Hyperbole, it was a nice touch. Did anyone ask him how many copies of Catcher in the Rye he owned?
Me and Rufus are “Canuppet”?
OMG!
That is fine art!
LOL
I did not make the board. Must try harder.
Me either and I even posted pics of my carpentry hoping for criticism. I feel ignored.
You’re there.
The sheep, right?
No it’s him, I just (in the words of bad TV and Movie writers) enhanced the image. The sheep are linked to CJ and then CJ is linked to a jelly fish and the dung beetles.
LOL……so I am. Seriously nice work! And seriously, how many copies of Catcher in the Rye do you own?
Just the normal amount.
Suspicious answer.
1 per Beatle?
Stocking up for the next toilet paper shortage?
Eskimo!
Sorry I missed it.
Excellent. I have totally escaped detection.
That’s easier when you’re invisible.
*taps side of nose, winks at Not Adahn*
That’s dedication, people. He must have spent hours on that bit. I thought I was a little OCD but I bow to the Contrarian for his slow-burn joke. Masterful!
Yep. That is kick ass.
4 bears and 2 hypers. Sounds legit.
But where are all the dog and cat avatars?
Ha! I just saw me…by the clowns.
??
Most of it was just random but I planned that bit.
I don’t blieve you.
Sounds about right.
That is beautiful.
I thought my tin foil MGGA hat would have gotten more attention.
The Hyperbole. Bringing the Glibertarians closer, one push pin at a time…
XOMG!! LOL
Beautiful.
BRILLIANT!
You’re just pleased because you get to sit at the Right Hand of Glib!
That is awesome! I couldn’t make it out last night.
Is it good or bad to be joined by a green line?
Corona Virus Begins Presidential Campaign; Says it Has United Americans
NEW YORK – The pathogen addressed the media at a press conference today. “My fellow Americans, our dreams are like our children, which in my case are billions of nearly identical copies of me. We must move forward, not backward, and always twirling, twirling towards freedom, just as my RNA fragments insert themselves into the unzipping genomes of your epithelial cells.” When asked on its economic policies, the microbe responded that the business of America is business. “I dream of an America with crowded streets, packed schools, and bustling cities. We are stronger together, and by ‘we’ I mean me.” On the subject of its susceptibility to malaria drugs, the protein-encased section of genetic material said that “I will not dignify such fake news with a response. The important thing is that we all come together, very closely, and eat raw bats.” There is no record of the candidate’s further remarks as the press corps were either dead or incapacitated.
Corona is neither old enough to run, nor a natural born citizen!
Drastic times call for drastic measures! Rules were made to be broken! Just look at the actions of Cuomo the Unforgettable.
Which one? Fredo or Andy the Unforgivable?
Andy, but an honorable mention for Fredo, the soul sherpa:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mC7vIP_5p10
Corona was born in a secret US military lab before it moved to China so therefore it is a US Citizen
I demand to see the long form birth certificate!
jet fuel cant melt corona!
The virus came from the grassy knoll!
NASA is faking the pandemic on a soundstage!
Elvis faked his death to cover up his past work on the virus!
Earth is flat, therefore China is entirely made up.
Yeah! He’s only 19!
Status as stupid primate confirmed. (at least in my case)
Wait. This Coronavirus is actually a test to determine the dumbest primate? I think we are loosing…
Just cracked a Duck Rabbit Jillian and split it with the wife. Farmhouse sour ale. Great stuff.
We’re through the looking glass, people.
I just got a robocall about COVID-19 impacting the “Latino community” and what steps to take.
It was in English.
My phone has been silent. I haven’t even gotten spam calls.
Now that I think about it, I have been getting fewer spam calls lately.
I’m still getting the Chinese lady saying something about banks over music. Just about every call that I don’t recognize the caller for, and so don’t pick up.
Latino? Don’t Travestis matter?
Amusingly, even gender non-binary still has a gender.
How are you and your mom doing?
Good. Thanks for asking. I feel way better now than Wednesday/Thursday. Mom swears she feels fine.
Huzzah!
Thanks. Although with the long incubation periods, I’m still worried about my mom.
Excellent.
It was from that Sharpshooter guy. Bet on it.
How much did you give him?
I tried to go to Lowe’s today, but there was a line to get in, so I bailed.
A line? Why?
Only letting in a few at a time.
Ahh. I saw Target was going to start doing that, too.
When I went to the “big city” last week they were limiting people in HD to 150. There was a small line.
I had commented on the nearest Home Depot doing that.
My wife said when she was at Safeway yesterday they had everyone with their carts in a single row spaced six feet apart, with a person directing them every time a cashier opened up (as opposed to lines behind each cashier like normal). According to my wife the line went “all the way back to the milk section”.
N.B. you probably all know this, but supermarkets are designed to have milk at the farthest point from the entrance, because so many people show up only wanting to pick up milk, but will have to travel past so many other things they’ll be unable to resist buyin more things.
They’re doing that at the local Albertsons, too. They’ve also blocked the entrance and barricaded off all the aisles except one on the line side, so to get in line you have to go to the back of the store and then head down the ‘line’ aisle, which also happens to be the the toilet paper/paper towel aisle, so the shelves are completely empty on one side.
My Lowes had no restrictions at all – other than spit guards at the cash registers and tape on the floor for the queues.
For those who are interested, I’ve set up the virtual happy hour for next Friday, starting at 19:00. If anyone is willing to be an alternate host, and has a zoom account (any level), reach out at my handle at Google’s mail and I can add you.
Thank you so much for doing this
Not a problem at all. I used it on a regular basis for work, and have the account (for the month at least).
Ya, thanks for doing that Neph. It was nice to see you people I spend the most time with these days. In spite of me needing a haircut and looking like a homeless guy.
I’m really pissed I missed seeing all you people. And yes, Neph; a big thanks for doing this.
Nobody saw me, the secret service made Donald give up any device with a camera.
Heh. I had fun, and was drunk AF when it was over. In case you noticed, there WAS a 55″ TV behind me.
I stood up and fell into it.
Laissez les bons temps rouler!
Sounds expensive. You may not want to do that every time.
No biggie. He’s got a Trump Check coming his way.
I havent turned it on to see the devastation yet. But I can clearly see the crystal is warped.
Jugsy, as a manager for a number of properties, often messages me with “Someone moved out and left all this junk here. You want it?”
That Emerson TV was a freebie.
Ralph Waldo made some good teevees.
I drank way, waaay too much. It was a helluva week.
#metoo
I was still sober.
I can send you my ‘drinking gloves’ for next week.
Has Jimbo been around today? He seemed pretty drunk by the point when I called it a night.
Well, we know he’s not out biking.
Well played.
I should have gone out biking today, but I’ve got my virtual ride starting tomorrow. I’m hoping that the leader board and competition help get me out of the chair and into the saddle again.
So you downloaded the Peloton app ?
Nope. I generally use the Ride With GPS app, and based on the e-mails, they aren’t really validating the distance rides (they’re happy with screen shots). There’s no prizes for distance, so it’s not like it really matters.
Good song.
Thank you!
Lots of masks on at the store. Bunch of dorks.
Lol. Armed robberies are about to go up.
And the cops are too busy rounding up joggers and parties to go after robbers.
“partiers”
Thank goodness. I thought my dungeon group was gonna get gnabbed.
They are addressing the real menace.
/rolls eyes
So far, Cali gov Newsom hasn’t been too bad on covid (mostly leaving it to cities/counties), but this pisses me off:
Note how he uses aid, grant, and loan interchangeably.
1200 pages of regulations to determine whether any particular dollar is a grant, loan or conditional grant reverting to a loan. That way you can pass out enormous amounts of cash and then forgive the people you like, and bury the ones you do not like in debt.
Don’t forget about the “possibly forgivable” loans.
I can smell the fraud from here.
Here in California? Unpossible. Look at our shiny new bullet trains.
/throws smoke bomb and runs away
How the hell are people still taking cruises when most of us can’t go to a bar or get a haircut?
https://www.foxnews.com/us/coral-princess-dock-miami-coronavirus
I think they’ve been asea for close to a month now.
Jeebus. That sounds like torture.
Torture AND an all-you-can-eat buffet!
https://static.parade.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/apocalypse.jpg
Not quite Sean-worthy, but even in the midst of a global viral pandemic, I managed to score some ribeyes.
https://postimg.cc/ZWzCKcn0
There seems to be less seasoning on the bottom one than the top.
I know this trick! If you switch them the one on top always looks
biggerspicier.Yummy.
The pepper goes on after you cook them.
*silent scream*
I thought maybe a nostalgia injection might help, so I put on some 80s TV. I got a chuckle out of the obvious esablishing shot of the american southwest with a caption reading “Central Asia”. But on a later scene, they’re looking at a ‘gas lab’ where something released into the atmosphere has killed all the nameless labcoated guys. So they make masks from a flannel shirt (as in just tie it around the face), leaving obvious gaps on either side of the nose and under the face. Now either the gas is toxic, so any inhaling it through the mask/gaps will kill them, or it displaced the oxygen, in which case the mask is useless.
I wish the nostalgia would kick in.
Episode 2 starts with silences on revolvers….
*silencers
Of the hollywood pfft pfft variety.
Airwolf?
McGyver.
Oh wow. At least watch a good 80’s show.
I know the words individually but as a sentence in this context, you make no sense.
Blame it on Ginger? Best of Seka?
That’s your choice for a good one? I say go short or super.
Good 80s show
Ted is correct and Neph is half right.
I was watching some episode of The Fall Guy recently…cringe worthy.
I was reduced to watching The Love Boat the other day. Sure enough, Charo was doing the “coochie-coo” before the first commercial break.
You guys aren’t even trying.
Not one of you mentioned the A Team. Go to your rooms.
Watched within the past five years, that’s too recent to watch again.
Great moments in Love Boat history
The A-Team proves how inaccurate the Mini-14 is.
Episode 3, runs into a pickpocket, and I snarling “just snap her neck” at the screen because I fucking hate pickpockets. Don’t give the brat advice on becoming a better thief, kill the thief.
All you had to do was snap your fingers. ..https://youtu.be/xsxDRY5qeeI
When you’ve lost Andy McCarthy…..
Granted he has a few “to be sures” at the end, but he’s hot….
I remember him in “Less Than Zero”….
Weekend at Bernie’s was his highpoint.
Not just FISA , but with this CCP virus, the US intelligence agencies once again showed how utterly fucking incompetent they are.
I’ve said it before and I will say it again. Kill FISA and dis-ban the FBI.
I love that Zeppelin tune.
I got take-out dinner from the local brewpub. They are tweaking their take-out system somewhat. Someone took my order off the bar where they put finished/ready orders and left with it. So, they had to quickly make up a new one for me. I got a lamb dish with two beers. The lamb was delicious. The beers were a barrel aged Scotch ale which I’m drinking now and is delicious. The other is a maple smoked porter. We’ll see how that is.
The brewpub folks are performing renovations on the bar area. Make lemonade from lemons.
Now for link commenting:
The two words may evoke fear and devastation in minds of others, but for the Raipur-based couple they symbolise triumph over hardships as the twins – a boy and a girl – were born during the ongoing coronavirus-enforced nationwide lockdown which has disrupted normal life.
The names, they said, would remind them about all the hardships they conquered amid the lockdown, ahead of a successful delivery on the intervening night of March 26-27 at a government hospital here.
That’s strangely optimistic.
A knife-wielding Sudanese migrant shouting “Allahu Akbar!” has stabbed two people to death and wounded “at least” seven others in France.
I wonder if this stabbing will be called a Coronavirus death.
PETA President Ingrid Newkirk said it was “cruel to willfully addict a chimpanzee to tobacco for human amusement.”
Just euthanize them instead.
I figured the chimp was just engaging in a post-coital smoke.
What type of whisk(e)y goes best with Baltic Porter?
I’d say Redbreast 12, but that is my go to non-cocktail whiskey.
Do you get that at Red Robin?
Mediterranean?
Depends on your preferences flavor wise. The Baltic Porter should have a rich and strong flavor to begin with, so you’ll want something either complementary to it, or more neutral.
It’s my go-to, but what do you think about a good rye? Maybe High West, or New Riff?
A rye could work well. Bourbon is popular for barrel aging since the barrels can only be used for bourbon once, it doesn’t always mean it’s the best choice though.
A Highlands one.
Try Glenmorangie.
Always a solid choice.
There can be only one.
I was wondering about Scotch. Just finishing the rye. Will try Glenmorangie next. Thanks, Swiss.
Need a mask? Improvise
https://mobile.twitter.com/jgerkinni/status/1244432708438306816
Those look sanitary.
https://i.imgflip.com/3t88x2.jpg
This seems appropriate here.
Wonderful.
That there is what you call “thinking outside of the box.”
?
?
Thinking inside the box?
Word with the security doods in my past life was a tampon fit a 9mm hole in you perfectly. They all carried them.
My buddies wife was an ER nurse. Whenever we’d embark on an adventure, she’d pack him a bunch of extra absorbent pads. She swore they were the best option for trauma to stop bleeding.
Alcohol tonight is half a bottle of soju mixed with some walmart fizzy flavored water (cherry/vanilla). Great stuff, and I’ll probably fall out of my chair in an hour.
Like Dr. Pepper?
https://www.walmart.com/search/?query=clear%20american%20sparkling%20water&typeahead=clear%20american%20spark
I freaking love this – 90% of the flavors are on the money. $0.57 for a liter bottle. I buy at least a dozen of these every time I hit the store – best ones are Cherry Limeade, Cherry Vanilla, Black Cherry, Key Lime, Oranges and Cream…. – so yeah, I assume it’s technically a clear, diet soda equivalent, but for zero calories, I don’t give a crap. They all taste amazing.
Stores like Harris Teeter have their own mixes too – for like $.60-.75 a bottle.
Target and Giant have “non-sweetened” versions – stay away from those.
My seltzer supply is dwindling with the panic going on. Giant Eagle had a 0 calorie sweetened flavor I picked up by accident once. The artificial sweetener flavor was the predominant flavor I picked out.
We always get our SodaStream replacement CO2 at Bed, Bath, Beyond because coupons. They’re closed for the duration of the quarantinocolypse, so we had to use Target. Holy Mackerel, so much more expensive.
I wonder how long they’ll (BBB) will keep that going.
You would figure sleeping and bathing would be essential.
Soju is dangerous enough on it’s own for my drinking habits.
Jimmy Dore on Dave Smith’s Part of the Problem and there’s very little CCP Lung Butter Disease talk:
https://youtu.be/B3-XKKz4NT8
There was very little contentiousness between the two and a lot of agreement which is nice to see for a change.
Can someone explain this to me like I’m five? I’ve read that the yellow fever can survive on different surfaces for different lengths of time. Apparently, it can last much longer on plastic and metal, than on cardboard. Granted, a virus isn’t actually alive in the first place, but what kills it just sitting there?
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/0a/3c/36/0a3c36d91dddb3408be1e3eb0734ec2a.jpg
That’s not helpful if you are trying to manage limited resources.
I’ve had that shit on subscribe and save. I have a good supply.
I’m looking forward to the magic eraser shortages too. I’ll just laugh.
Also, the potential of a great swiffer shortage in 2022 does not scare me in the least.
Not everyone is you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmPhaG1ud38
Here’s a link to the journal article everyone’s referring to:
https://www.journalofhospitalinfection.com/article/S0195-6701(20)30046-3/pdf
I didn’t slog through it looking for that specifically but I assume it’s protective lipid layer degrades with time.
Thanks, I just read that. It looks like the spray cleaner next to my desk that “kills 99.9% of germs” is ineffective, as it looks like both active ingredients are some kind of benzalkonium chloride. I’ll have to go read the other cleaners.
I’m guessing the lipid layer oxidizes? So maybe surfaces less exposed to moving air would last longer.
Various alcohols, bleach, and hydrogen peroxide seem to be where it’s at. As far as the specifics as to how the degrading occurs over time with no biocidal intervention, I’m afraid I don’t have a sufficient background to even speculate.
I went to two different stores, last week, and two weeks before that, and they were all out of bleach, any cleaner with bleach, and spray alcohol disinfectant.
Same in my area but hydrogen peroxide can still be found. I think they sell that at a three percent concentration so you could cut it and it’ll still work well so maybe it’s worth searching around for that. I don’t know how well it plays with the things household surfaces are made of and fabrics and such though.
Most of us should be okay, then.
I am IMMUNE…if this Glenmorangie works…
Not at all. That’s a quat and quite effective. Partial list by EPA reg
https://www.epa.gov/pesticide-registration/list-n-disinfectants-use-against-sars-cov-2
I read that list too. It seems to conflict with that study. Although that study said they got paradoxical results.
That is interesting. It may be also the method of how the disinfectant works. Quats affect the protein structure rather than the entire entity so perhaps while still detectable, perhaps it’s no longer viable as a pathogen?
https://cen.acs.org/biological-chemistry/infectious-disease/How-we-know-disinfectants-should-kill-the-COVID-19-coronavirus/98/web/2020/03
That seems to be an estimation based on analysis of other existing coronaviruses. I’ve seen another one using sales-cov-2, but they also used a nebulizer to thoroughly coat the target surfaces.
Ah, got you, I didn’t realize there was a study out there specific to Cov2 but these findings should be close to what you see with that.
Yeah, similar but didn’t test the efficacy of disinfectants. The nebulizer part seemed a bit of egging the pudding to get results.
The sars-cov-2 virus is relatively fragile compared to some viruses that can persist for a long time. It’s a combination of chemical reaction, absorption into the material (like paper products), and carrier droplets I think. Just because it’s detectable, doesn’t necessarily mean it’s at a high enough level to cause an infection (which also requires contact to nose/mouth/eyes, it’s not absorbed via skin contact).
“(which also requires contact to nose/mouth/eyes, it’s not absorbed via skin contact)”
True, but people touch their face often….
Yes, but the transfer process doesn’t pick up 100% and it continues to degrade on your hands if you don’t touch your face right away.
OK, I’m just in a situation where I need to be as careful as possible.
Gotcha, yeah, I’d do the same.
My WAG is that it dries out faster on surfaces like cardboard instead of plastic or metal. Copper is used to prevent marine growth so I assume that property is related to the shorter half life when the virus is on it. My take away is that door handles should be copper plated.
Copper does have natural antimicrobial properties. The problem with copper is verdigris.
You’ll have to spend more time polishing your knob
*sigh*
Fine, I’ll be in my bunk.
Silver, kills bacteria, viruses and werewolves.
Well bacteria and werewolves anyway.
Really? I know about the latter, but not the former and middle.
Just don’t take it interally. you’ll turn blue.
Yeah, supposedly silver surfaces kill bacteria. Do not drink colloidal silver though, it does nothing at all, until you hit too high a concentration at which point you turn blue and your kidneys die.
I find it interesting that viruses survive a long time on stainless steel, which has an aura of being cleaner.
It’s only cleaner because it’s less reactive and you can use harsher cleaners on it (plus it doesn’t leach flavors into food). Surfaces with innate anti-microbial properties are more reactive in and of themselves.
Stainless steel has the ability to be cleaned, sanitized, and sterilized (they are different things) fairly easily, versus more porous surfaces.
I was not clear. I was thinking along the line that someone can look at a shiny stainless surface and think it is clean while it is covered with active viruses. Next they look at a dull copper surface and believe it is dirty whereas it has no active viruses on it.
When a daddy virus loves a mommy virus….
Daddy viruses are kinky and promiscuous. They’ll breed with any cell they can find.
Pandemic larpers are pissing me right off.
I can’t even properly snark right now.
https://m.imgur.com/gallery/8FHazRY
Swirlie the nerds.
Spent most of the afternoon playing with my caulk. We’re doing everything we can to make this house sellable… It’s up to God to provide a buyer in these nutty times.
I’m not quite pissed at all of this panic, but I’m so very done with it. Reasonable precautions? Fine. Being forced into the branch covidian lifestyle by governor kkklansman? Utterly degrading and offensive.
https://static.parade.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/coughy-filter-mask.jpg
Could have a better seal around the edges.
Really…? SMDH.
the fish that eats things 10 times its size:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcaIM-iC-Z8
And then it saves Pittsburgh.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fish_That_Saved_Pittsburgh
I can’t believe this is real. Am I taking crazy pills?!
Everyone was on drugs in the 70s.
I would like to present Zardoz as evidence.
If you can find a copy, watch The Day the Fish Came Out.
So they were gay fish?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Vn2xrSG24w
Well, in the movie, the military do play the part of gay tourists….
I think I’m going to hit the Del Taco drive thru later and NOT watch WrestleMania. An empty stadium and spread over 2 nights? So stupid
That’s how you draw a line in the sand.
Bernie Sanders and commy puppet shows
***
Their palaces of culture for the young people, a whole variety of programs for the young people, and cultural programs which go far beyond what we do in this country. We went to a theater in Yaroslavl which was absolutely beautiful, had three separate stages. Their cultural programs were put together by professional actors and actresses, including a puppeteer area. And the cost, the highest price of the ticket you can get was equivalent of $1.50.
***
A former Soviet on the Palace of Culture she remembers:
***
The palace, a beautiful pre-revolutionary structure, was named after Stalin’s henchman Pavel Postyshev. Postyshev presided over Red Terror, purges, and Holodomor, before himself falling victim to Stalinist repressions.
Toward the end of his life, the executioner, by then an alcoholic, was displaying symptoms of paranoia. He once decided that the flame drawn on the box of matches resembled the profile of Leon Trotsky and that sausages, when cut, have swirls similar to swastikas. He ordered the confiscation of all matches and a purge of the grocery.
***
Is that part of the beauty?
“sausages, when cut, have swirls similar to swastikas”
Bratzis?
Biden is so bad that noted thinker Joe Rogan will switch from Bernie to Trump if Biden is the nominee.
The maple smoked porter from the local brewpub is delicious.
Earlier today I played two rounds of Virtue Signal with a friend. It was fun.
Reposting this from a dead thread.
I still don’t get it.
How was office duty? Did you fill the trashcan with puke?
Honestly, don’t feel that bad this morning. Yakked up most of the vodka. At least 15 years since I puked from alcohol.
Chicken breast tenderloins came out well. I marinated them in Zesty Italian all afternoon to impart an appropriate, delicious flavor. What is the first thing the gf does? Ruins it by dipping it in garlic-parm sauce. That stuff is good, but you just don’t mix it like that. Anyway, I used my Smokey Joe for the cook. It’s a neat little grill and I get what Weber was/is going for (compact, portable, contained), but it seems like the lower vents should have been placed a bit lower to better facilitate the air flow.
I have a smokey joe. It is the camping grill. They work fine if you have a drill and a half inch drill bit. Drill three holes in the bottom of the thing.
I got it for when I want to use charcoal but don’t need to cook as much stuff (and to do smaller smokes), so less charcoal used. Got it temp’d good enough for chicken (and it should work fine for smoking with the airflow issue on the SJ Premium, so not gonna drill any holes), but I probably wont be doing any steaks on it.
I was ready to chuck mine until my cousin told me about the hole drilling upgrade.
I just finished The Tiger King.
I only hate the self-righteous “pass this legislation to shut down my competitors” lady and the filmmaker. The fat CI is almost on that list.
It’s kind of interesting how similar those people are to rennies, down to the cult leaders and how they interact with each other. I honestly didn’t find the show all that crazy.
Yeah. I knew one of the guys from this story. I hated the PETA woman and was not a fan of Doc Antle.
The knifemaker I worked for was in the Joe Exotic/Doc Antle mold. He cultivated a mystique about him, then got young stupid kids to move to his forge in BFE where they would “apprentice”for him. There was another, much younger guy trying the same thing, but was leavening it with more open grifts and embezzlement. Bill someone. Went by “The Goblin King.” Of course, a lot of people did.
Hrmm… More pre-existing meds might work. Why is everyone panicking again?
?
Why is everyone panicking again?
Fear-mongering by gov’t and “news” media?
Over 2 billion mentions in the media?
Careful, people might start eating their dogs’ heartworm medications.
Only if Trump mentions it.
You know why.
Today during Trump’s presser some smarmy lady reporter asked him about the eight state governors (all icky Republicans, of course) who hadn’t placed their states on lockdown, and why hadn’t Trump ordered them to do so?
Trump answered “First off, we have this thing called the Constitution…”
Wow, never thought I’d hear any President start a response by saying that. Very nice. And I’ll bet the people who only hear of Trump’s daily updates through the filter of the quick-editing sound bites of antagonistic commentators, will never know he said that.
Damn. Good answer. Why don’t I hear that more often?
Two months ago, Trump was threatening democracy. Now they’re mad because he isn’t acting dictatorially. But the press never changes: I’ve been reading how the Duke of Wellington was castigated in the press every time he had a setback in Portugal or Spain, and praised to high heaven by the same chaps when he had a victory over the French.
Not to defend the press because its still idiotic, but honestly this is universal. We all do this everytime we sit around criticizing the coach of our favorite team after a loss. We are all susceptible to Dunning Krueger.
OK. Thanks Hyperbole.
What… you mean Hue and Kitchens should be given another chance?
Whoever is next will be the same. Look at the Bengals and Marvin Lewis, everyone screamed and hollared until he was fired, then cheered and cheered.
2-14
Hue was just awful. The fact the team turned around right after he got fired isn’t a good sign. For Kitchens, he made a bunch of bad decisions (bad time management, challenges, etc.) and didn’t do anything to maintain team discipline. I’ll be happy with a winning season at this point.
I am old enough to remember when Cleveland hated Belichick before he become one of the most winning coaches.
Before he started cheating, you mean.
Twice in one day I gotta agree with Ted.
It’s down to 8 now? That asshole shitbag in Minnesoda is trying to bully his neighboring states into it. NoDak’s Gov is holding fast so far, but we’ll see if he has the fortitude to stick with it.
Meanwhile, I drove from ND into MN today for the completely non-essential purpose of buying some beer. Of course, the brewery that makes it doesn’t see that travel as nonessential…
Based on Untappd, one other local craft beer store near me is open. I’m planning a trek there tomorrow.
One? Total?
I live in a craft beer store oasis. There’s two near me, and one is closed until at least Tuesday. The other is apparently still open and getting new items. We’ve still got the grocery stores, and there’s several breweries near me as well. So no need to panic… yet.
So, what you’re saying is, is that we’re fucked?
#cathynewmanquestions
Seriously…NoDak? I don’t think it’s possible to not be socially distanced in NoDak 100% of the time. I sure wouldn’t mind it, but I need more mountains.
Right? That is the single biggest reason the Gov keeps giving for not needing a shut-it-down- order. It’s superfluous.
Nice response, every time I want to hate him he does or says something like that.
Are you seeing a big influx in your hospital C? I’ve been working in one in SF a few days over the last weeks and my wife works at another one and they have both been way quieter than usual.
OT- saw you mention about vacuum sealing food. Which brand/model do you have and would you recommend it?
I’ve got a FoodSaver, and it works well for any standard (non-ground) meats and veggies. Anything that you’re trying to marinate will be an issue, as the liquid can interfere with the sealing.
It’s awesome for taking pound bags of pellet hops and breaking them down into 1 ounce packets that get stashed in the freezer.
I used it on some ground beef recently. I found some youtube chick who rolled it flat with a rolling pin after sealing. In what way does it not work well? (It’s still in my freezer.)
I ran into issues with the juices being pulled out during the vacuum process, and the liquid preventing the bag sealing. If the bag sealed, you’re good. So instead, I usually pick up the 1 pound ground beef at Trader Joe’s, and will toss them into the freezer.
Yeah, they sealed but one of them had some juice outside the seal. We’ll see.
I usually just use what I buy right away. That’s sometime kind of not working now.
Tossing the store package in the freezer is what got me into vacuum-sealing them instead – the beef came out tasteless.
The Trader Joe’s packs are individual pound blocks that are already vacuum sealed. They have them in multiple fat contents as well. Since they’re about the same price as the local grocery store, I just find it easier to pick them up when I hit up a TJ and toss them in.
Ah. That IS helpful.
Yup, I use a FoodSaver, the GameSaver model. It works well for things as long as you don’t try to package too many pounds per bag. It works ideally on 3-4 pound portions or less. I’ve noticed when I go above 5 lbs it doesn’t quite get as much air out as I would like, otherwise a pretty good home vacuum sealer. I bought bulk off brand rolls of plastic bag and they have performed well at about half the cost of the GameSaver originals.
I have a Cabellas vacuum sealer. It has a “wet” “dry” option. The wet seeming to heat the element hotter which kind of doesn’t make sense to me but whatever. Anything that is juicy I wipe any juice sucked out past the seal after the first seal and then seal again. Then again my lifestyle is not that hygienic and I don’t stress about such things.
Thank you all! Been doing freezer paper + freezer bags, but think it’s time to move up.
Hi KSuellington, I’m involved with a lot of hospitals, and every single one of them, including their ERs, are having very low census right now. Many staff are having hours cut. No one wants to go to the hospital unless they think they have the virus, and with everyone indoors, there’s far less accidents and trauma. With no ‘elective’ surgery — and that covers a lot of things that might not even seem all that elective but rather much needed, there’s very little surgery, and thus far less people needing to recuperate or go through initial rehabilitiation and physical therapy, for example.
Yeah, my nature tends to avoid an abundance of caution in general, so I know that bias. But the general reaction to this of closing most business is just absolutely over the top. I really hope people can come to their senses about this shit.
Do you have a link? I’d like to see that exchange.
///metoo
Here it is!
Thanks Reb’! Kudos (I guess) to the reporter for not rolling his eyes when Trump mentioned the Constitution.
Too local, but the Gov of North Dakota gives a (IMO) good explanation of why he hasn’t done it yet.
Bonus: the sign language gal is fun as hell to watch. I want to learn sign language so I can turn the volume off and just watch her.
That’s strangely sane.
It’s after 6 in Seattle and their 4-April update hasn’t come out yet. Wonder if they’re concerned about wildly fluctuating predictions, now that folks are watching and tracking them.
https://covid19.healthdata.org/projections
So that is projecting 1898 total deaths from CV in Ohio by 8/4. In 2017, Flu/pneumonia killed 2243.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/states/ohio/ohio.htm
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/coronavirus/louisville-placing-ankle-monitors-residents-exposed-coronavirus-who
Heard this one today: Uncle Ben. He’s a credit to his rice.
With grain power comes grain responsibility?
Mr. Ohm always remembered what his uncle told him; “With great power comes great resistance times great current squared”.
Et tu?
*narrows gaze*
Sounds like a pyramid scheme.
Could be.
And he slept and dreamed the second time: and, behold, seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk, rank and good.
And, behold, seven thin ears and blasted with the east wind sprung up after them.
And the seven thin ears devoured the seven rank and full ears. And Pharaoh awoke, and, behold, it was a dream.
OK, to both of ye…
*narrows gaze*
Reading that as narrows glaze.
Spudalicious:
If toilet paper is still an issue, Fred Meyer gets a dry goods shipment tonight. They open at seven am. There is a limit, of course, but nobody will stop you from going through the checkout multiple times, which I’m sure you are aware of.
Edit: I meant tomorrow night, dammit. Dry goods, tomorrow night.
A ‘right wing’ version of the story in one of the ‘Links of Viral Hostility’
https://www.jpost.com/international/venezuelan-warship-shoots-rams-into-german-cruise-vessel-before-sinking-623422
The Caine Mutiny, repeated…..
I walked Bella at 7:30, went to Kingman for 18 holes of golf, come back to my Home course and the Playgrounds and picnic canopies are shut down, and the hoops pulled from the Basketball thingies, and the Bathrooms are closed, BhC won’t close the park because it’s too big to seal off, at least we have Golf…. for now.
A great, real fun day with Deegan and Casey though, we crushed 2 courses today,
Making an early Costco run tomorrow. Lord help me.
Gotta get sone of that sweet sweet TP…
I got 2 rolls at the Food Bank, odd but cool, in and out I guess,
Modern-day lobotomy.
https://americanmind.org/post/suffer-the-children/
Sounds fake.
Who knows. I did chuckle at all the walking stereotypes.
*starts reading……stops reading* I am angered out.
How did this get published by NYT
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/30/world/europe/coronavirus-governments-power.html
Oh… I see.
This makes no sense. First, why would you go to a constitutional lawyer on International Law? and second, who are these rights groups that seem to agree that the government should have these extraordinary powers?
*snort*
Wait…the NYT is advocating for greater state’s right and powers?
Orangemanbad exception to the goodness of Federal Power Law!
The South shall rise again!
/Old Grey Lady
Except for Abortion of course.
Those are the ones that say you can’t stop illegals from crossing national borders.
I am honestly wore out by news and I did not think that was possible. Hardcore behind the dumpster in the ally junkie for the shit. I decided to listen to this.
Wife made some awesome homemade apple pie so I had to make something to go with.
https://imgur.com/gallery/2rHVoYn
I love Apple Pie.
Yummers
Nice!
Looks good, I’m sipping on some Writer’s Tears now.
… D:
What? It’s a solid Irish Whiskey.
Yes, I did originally try it due to the name.
An excellent name for a spirit. I haven’t yet tried it but eventually will.
So, they’re irish writer’s tears?
That just makes it worse 😛
I feel strangely drunk. I don’t know if I’ll have any more tonight.
Neph, did you decide against another vid call for tonight?
*crosses fingers*
*please say no…please say no…*
heh – true dat
Or… “yes”. *shakes head in befuddlement*
Overdid it last night.
Dang, Rhy; you gotta stop by–to the chat we aren’t sure is even happening.
Let’s do this!
I need to clarify: “Please say no to deciding against it.”
Alright you bastards.
Here you go. Anyone else willing to take on hosting duties?
I’m in.
I can set one up, but it is 23:00 in my time zone.
Neph, I do have the basic (free) Zoom account, if that helps. I’m up for the night, so I can do the hand-over.
At least it’s not Screenwriter’s Blues.
Yum
Btw, love the avatar DEG. Jarmusch made some great movies, and that was likely his best, although I am partial to Down By Law.
I didn’t know he was involved with “The Outlaw Josey Wales”. Looking him up, I don’t think I’ve seen anything by Jarmusch.
My bad, I’m confusing westerns. Thought that was from Dead Man.
Maybe I should go watch that.
If you’re looking for a hallucinogenic western it is very good.
Endeavor to persevere.
Cheers y’all. Sorry I missed the happy hour last nite. I couldn’t do it till the kids went to sleep about 9 (Pacific time) and I thought you guys would be wrapping up by then. Sounds like it went to the late late.
Do not underestimate the drinkyiness of this crowd.
Thanks for the Glenmorangie vote; it paired well with the Baltic Porter.
A very drinky crowd indeed, and I’m sure the stress of these past weeks is only increasing the volume. I know it is here…
#metoo
#methree
So my two kegs would support about 5 Glib/Days?
While the rest of you are distracted by the beer I’ll be sneaking down into your cellar in search of the true malt.
*racks a shell into 12ga*
Kink-y
Oh my…
People that know things: How much truth is there to this meme?
I’m guessing fiddy fiddy like Obama.
Yes
“Directorate for Global Health Security”???
Well, it appears there was something along these lines, and/or, a position within FedGov, at the WH level. From what I can tell, the people involved don’t see a limit to the US FedGov power.
Well, NYC has been receiving $1 BN in gov’t aid annually to prevent another act of terrorism, and a biological attack would fall under that. But this has shown they’re dreadfully unprepared for mass casualty events.
https://money.cnn.com/2016/09/19/news/nyc-terrorism-cost/index.html
So fuck the CDC, the “expert in Hong Kong” can get his ass fisted too, for all I care.
I’ll never forget a photo I saw right after 9/11. Two NYPD armed for combat, except that the high-tech red-dot sights on their M-4’s were mounted backwards showing that they not only hadn’t trained with them but didn’t know what those were for.
Do you still have the link?
for 2001? That was a little while ago.
There was an outside chance.
There were/are pandemic response play-books created after SARS – most states didn’t prep per the guidelines. Obama’s administration clearly didn’t follow the prep recommendations, hence the 10-y/o out-of-code, unusable, and unreplenished items in the national stockpile.
Yes another bureaucracy would have stopped that virus. The CDC, HHS, USAMRID, and FDA weren’t enough. We needed one more and we would all be living the dream.
TSA. THE VIRUS IS IN YOUR SHOES AND YOU NEED GROPED!!!11!!!!
http://archive.li/u2pAa/7a580f90d129af649a0c05e86f1a512958384970.jpg
NSFW.
http://archive.li/WK30U/95d821e23b66239c0940791cfdcdbe8429992272.jpg
NSFW.
http://archive.li/ZS22Z/b3e63388bfebcc4803f91029ea848f30551c366c.jpg
NSFW.
http://archive.li/NOjME/0ca51e46e1e128f5e712bc3e0d636e47b4ecd4bb.jpg
NSFW.
Alrighty!
Glad I stayed up that extra few minutes.
And now you’re still up, right?
Digby’s golden age of ballooning.
https://laststandonzombieisland.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/valley-forge-balloon-1960.jpg?w=479
Mighty, indeed. That’s ballooning harder!
Looks just like every UFO I’ve ever seen.
?
So….lots of probing, then? ?
These are not the balloons we have come to expect from Q.
Next on my Itunes playlist was thisalbum,
Nice
I am ded, d-e-d ded. *flops over*
Sorry to hear that.
You had a good run
RIP in peace.
Context?
Media consumption, Peer Pressure, Role models more important than Parents, Teachers determining pro-individualism or pro-collectivism
13 Jan 2016 doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0147162
After accounting for other factors, farming country that grows wheat more pro-individualism and farming coyuntry that grows rice more pro-collective
9 May 2014 science.sciencemag.org/content/344/6184/603
More fear of getting infected with a scary microbe means more pro-collectivism less pro-individualism
26 Feb 2008 doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2008.0094