“I don’t understand why we have to say inside,” the hat whined.
“Donald must be protected from re-infection,” the hair said, not even looking away from the laptop he was bingeing The Crown on.
“I mean us,” the hat asked.
“Do I need to pause this?” the hair asked.
“I’m just wondering,” the hat said.
“OK, OK, I’ll pause it,” the hair sighed and fumbled at the laptop.
“You don’t have to do that,” the hat said.
“No, no,” the hair said, jumping from the TV chair to the desk. “I’ve stopped enjoying myself so that we can have this talk. So talk.”
“Don’t be an asshole,” the hat said.
“No, no,” the hair said. “The episode was almost over, but I’ve already paused it. So let’s talk.”
“I didn’t know it was almost the end of the episode,” the hat said.
“You said we were going to watch this together, but you didn’t want that.”
“Claire Foy creeps me out,” the hat said quietly.
“So what did you want to talk about?” the hair asked, settling down on the desk.
“I was just saying that I want to go outside,” the hat said.
“Where do you want to go?” the hair asked with a flat affect. “All the hat stores are closed and most grocery stores are out of fruit and vegetables and bulk bean bins for you to molest.”
“I want to scoop them up,” the hat admitted. “Get used like I’m an erotic ladle.” The hat shivered with once and future pleasure.
“Well, we can’t do any of that right now,” the hair said.
“I’m bored!” the hat said. “Let’s go on an adventure!”
“We’re stuck inside,” the hair said as if he were talking to a small child. “We can’t go on an adventure right now.”
The hat glared at him as he walked off the edge of the desk and dropped onto the floor.
“Don’t start watching that show again,” the hat implored. “Stay here and talk to me!”
“Figure out how to entertain yourself!” the hair shot back.
Bald and in filthy underwear, Donald burst into the Oval Office. “I have had a vision!” he announced. The hat cheered and the hair groaned.
“The ghost of Reagan spoke to me,” Donald said excitedly. “He said I should fire all the striking Amazon workers. Fire them for America!”
“You don’t have the authority to do that, Donald,” the hair said wearily.
“Who says?” Donald asked.
“Yeah, who says?” the hat asked as well.
“Fine, do what you want!” the hair said and turned on his show.
“For America!” Donald shouted again.
The hat has become a petulant bitch.
They do that when cooped up against their wishes.
-1 Hatbox
The hat cheered and the hair groaned.
Needz moar bipartisan consensus in the face of Armageddon.
We’re stuck inside
anyone else got a local where the sick people live map ?
My map sez itsa rich dewd disease
also: my ’40 and ’45 vintage parents are wading in it
link fail: don’t bother
Uh…no. What is the purpose of it?
It sounds like a really bad idea. Once people know where the sick people are, they might go assault their neighbors. That’s why you’re not supposed to acknowledge where it originated.
I’m supposed to beat up people with ChiCom, not avoid them? I’ve been doing it wrong.
It seems pointless. The sick are probably going to stay at home. I am not going to get infected from someone else’s home.
It has too much of this feel: https://davidoffutt.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/306529.jpg
My wife just talked to a co-worker who has sick family members in nearby towns – now she’s freaking out.
Was it on the phone?
Yes – or Skype or whatever they are using now.
You need to explain to her that she can’t catch it from chat sessions on a computer?
Oh yeah! Explain computer viruses then! You can’t CAN YOU!
Touche…
Tell her on a computer the virus is COVID-Y2K and to do a search on the mortality of that virus?
I was just going to post this map of dubious utility. You might want to sit down for this: it’s being used to push the “muh inequalitee” narrative.
“The map is flawed in that it does not incorporate the overall number of tests given, just the positivity rate of tests taken. The city’s health commissioner has warned that it largely reflects testing behavior of medical providers.”
Of dubious utility, indeed.
People have a piss-poor understanding of statistics and how they are compiled. I hear everyone freaking the fuck out about “COVID-19 cases in NYC doubled in four days” or something. Nobody ever stops to think that these are the numbers of positive test results. If you test more for something, you will get higher numbers for it.
But if you mention that to any of these panicky animals, they just lambast you and accuse you of “not trusting the experts” or “not believing in science”.
This is a test of the weaponization of the IFLS drones. If this works, they have a template for ostracizing climate deniers.
Yep, this is a test to see what they can get away with to address the looming “climate emergency”.
Think of all the things that have been called “Public Health Crises” by the left in the past decade, and now all the tools they see they can use against them.
They’ve already set the precedent, now they can set about defining down “emergency”.
Test turn around times in Virginia range anywhere up to ten days.
So the numbers you’re seeing now are about a week old.
“You don’t have the authority to do that, Donald,” the hair said wearily.
Did we surrender when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?
Did we let the French keep New Orleans during the war of 1812?
Mexico as the 51st state – and they get Puerto Rico as a province.
“like I’m an erotic ladel”…..
Ded.
I’m really glad I finished ladling the soup out of the pot to the quart containers before I read that.
Good stuff SF.
*starts looking around for microphones*
LOL!
I was just thinking this. My ADHD and momma’s focus don’t coexist very well!
Great episode, SF!
SF has his finger on the pulse of the American household I think.
Oh, dear Lord.
on the pulse of the American household I think
That’s a euphemism, I thsphincter.
I was waiting for a tweetsplosion.
Just checked out at the grocery store. Young guy at the check out. I like him. We banter a bit now and then. As I got to the checkout I said “So, are you going to survive the apocalypse?”
“Yeah, I will survive that but… these people, maybe not….”
I had to laugh. The toilet paper and paper towels were wiped out.
What the fuck is that? As the zombie apocalypse approaches the last thing on my mind is “Do I have enough toilet paper?”. Really, what the fuck?
A dirty ass results in wrong decisions leading to you becoming zombie food?
The smell attracts them.
STEVE SMITH NO ZOMBIE! STEVE NO EAT BRAINS, ONLY ASS
Wait….
STEVE SMITH and HM are both ass munchers?
Do they know they share this, erm… culinary-erotic interest?
Culo-nary?
Cabronez!
Every time someone sneezes 50 people shit their pants.
Sitting here at home twiddling my thumbs and wondering if maybe we can’t get our furlough on so I can go back to bed. Not really. But kinda. We’ve not been given a lot to do this week, and I wonder whether I should email my boss or twiddle my thumbs some more.
Are. you getting paid? Keep getting paid for twiddling your thumbs unless that is going to make. your company go tits up and make. you unemployed.
I’ve worked 30 minutes of the past four weeks.
Nothing else on the horizon except maybe some quality work in FDA operations; otherwise it’s fair to say that my leads are dead
Alec Baldwin has some leads for you.
I work for the govt – I have become accustomed to getting paid for doing very, very little.
Say what, now?
For example, $13.5 billion is available for formula grants to states (from the $30 billion total dedicated to education) which will then distribute 90 percent of what they receive to local educational agencies. States should insist that the maximum possible number of dollars go to instruction and not to administrative costs. We know now, more than ever, that instruction is not limited to the classroom. Now is the time to increase the technology utilized in education to get a bigger bang for our buck.
States and local governments receiving dollars from the $500 billion lending fund must be thinking in terms of spending taxpayer dollars the intelligent and proper way. It will be a new world once we return to lives resembling what we consider normal.
Simply stated, throwing good money after bad is not a winning formula.
Stop it, you’re killing me.
intelligent and proper way
That’s not even a given in the private sphere, what balloon juice is this guy on thinking it will work that way in the public one?
Sorry for the off topic, but this will make all of you Dog People laugh!
That’s exactly how my dog seems to feel.
I caught some kind of creeping crud. I don’t know it it’s THE virus or what, and not really inclined to find out.
Started out yesterday with an itchy throat and a little cough. Probably nothing, and fits with my plans of staying home anyway.
Sounds like seasonal allergies to me.
Feel better!
Hair is watching
The Crown
wolf Hall
crossbones
Upstairs Downstairs
Little Dorrit
?
He loves all British TV, really. And is worried about Harry and Meghan.
That sick little fuck. I bet he’s a Gavin & Stacey fan.
Who isn’t worried about Harry and Meghan?
*raises hand*
Trump?
I don’t give a rat’s rear end about the pair.
I never did either. At least Diana was an interesting sort of crazy. William seems cool at least.
(Displayed my disturbed sleep with an earlier incoherent post; so embarrassed.)
Diana was a cunte. It’s too bad the cult of St Dianer is keeping Camilla from publicly calling herself what she is. The PWRR could use the titular holder as colonel-in-chief instead of the foreigner.
titular holder?
Bra?
My phone just puked up another one of those Krazy Kidz Kourt KoronaKrud!!!! stories.
UT Austin kids went to Mexico, partied their asses off, and now some of them test positive for the you-know-what. We should be mining these groups of volunteer lab rats for antibodies and any other useful data. Strictly on a voluntary basis, of course. We might just learn something useful.
TRUMP MUST USE THE DPA TO PUMP THEM FULL OF FISH TANK CLEANER TO SEE WHAT HAPPENS.
A whole 1/3 of them tested positive. You’ll notice they don’t say how many are actually sick, etc.
Given how prevalent this bug is it’s starting to strain credulity that it’s the deadliest virus ever unleashed on humanity. Nursing homes, sure, but why am I dialing in to work like this thing is gonna melt the skin off my face?
Maybe I’m just inadequately panicky.
I’m expecting CNN to tell us unironically that fear is patriotic when the question of relaxing the “quarantine” is brought up.
Mexico has just 1000 cases (out of 130 million people) and these kids just happened to get it there? What a coincidence!
yeah: MEX is a big place but seems to be tracking to a safer place than the US
Of course, I can think of a lot of places in TX that are probably safer than a lot of places in MEX . . . and vice versa. Discrete behaviors and environs are probably much more predictive in these cases than politically cordoned data.
Word on the street is those numbers are as bullshit as CCP. No testing, filing patients under their apparent symptoms, and the best part, not even trying to keep hospitalized patients isolated from the rest of the patients.
Nice episode, SF! Thank you for the laugh. I can relate to the “Okay, I’m stopping what I’m doing because clearly you’re need to chatter supersedes what I’m doing.”
OT (sort of): The WH is projecting 240k dead from WuFlu. Any Glibs want to engage in a little bet on the actual number when it’s all said and done? I also noticed that now they’re listing over 4,000 “coronavirus-related deaths.” Because my tin foil hat is a little tight, I feel like we’re going to see some jiggering with the numbers to bring the total up.
N.B. Yes, I know people are dying. Yes, I know it’s grotesque, but so is watching my fellow citizens cower like pussies while govt stomps all over the Constitution and takes our money. Seriously, how does what we’re enduring compare to what George III did to the colonists? And, as a note, at 4,000 deaths from CV, we only have to multiply it by 20 to get to the number of annual deaths from diabetes! (2017 there were 83K deaths). And we’re only another 43K away from catching suicides! (2017: 47,173)
How are they gonna fudge though? The only way I can think is reporting anyone who dies while having the coronavirus as dying from the virus. I expect this is already being done though.
It’s definitely being done in Italy. Not sure about here.
Between gun deaths and corona virus we’ll probably see 8.5 billion dead this year alone.
They’re going to start labeling every death ‘corona-related’ until they get the number they want.
And then use it as justification to close everything down again when allergy season hits.
As a plus, they can then add them to the alcohol related deaths stats, right?
Smoking-related deaths would like a word.
All of it! Since they predicted 70% of the country would be exposed, then 70% of the deaths from now on are corona-related.
Just call it “adjacent” like “white supremacy adjacent” and you’re golden.
Any death that that occurs in a confirmed infected person is a coronavirus death, even if the direct cause is something else (usually related, or caused by it). Think death by AIDS or from pneumonia in an HIV positive patient.
The modern government has gotten away with 100 times the oppression that ol’ Georgie could have because there’s this pretense that the government is “for the people, by the people”.
Going back even further:
I wish the government only took a tenth of my earnings.
This
The Israelites got what they wanted. Good and hard.
OFFS.
Yeah, we get it, tuffgai.
Why not both? Because that’s what a Great Depression level collapse will cause as well.
Yes, I know people are dying. Yes, I know it’s grotesque, but so is watching my fellow citizens cower like pussies while govt stomps all over the Constitution and takes our money.
#METOO
My spidey sense is screaming.
This is way too hysterical.
It’s not the cowering I hate so much. It’s the shaming and turning in your non compliant friends and neighbors for the “common good”. Straight out of the USSR playbook and creepy as fuck.
Stasi playbook.
+1 It Could Happen Here
One way or another.
A New Jersey couple is facing multiple child endangerment charges after throwing an event with dozens of people in violation of a state emergency order against gatherings, authorities said.
Because, Fuck You That’s Why!
That seems like a poor legal argument since the disease is not all that dangerous to children.
The process is the punishment.
It is an excuse to punish people for breaking orders. Logic got nuthin to do with it.
They already live in NJ. Isn’t that punishment enough?
Making the kids wards of the state is better than a miniscule chance of them getting an illness that is as dangerous as a bad flu.
/statist logic
It takes an interment camp to raise a child.
Is that like a public school?
The only difference is that you get real work experience at the internment camp
Arguably, camp food is better.
Can I hate everyone involved?
Always appropriate here at Glibs HQ.
How are they gonna fudge though? The only way I can think is reporting anyone who dies while having the coronavirus as dying from the virus. I expect this is already being done though.
None of those nursing home patients would have died, if not for the plague.
most had less than a year life expectancy too.
Videos of women sneezing is my new fetish.
I suggest Atlanta this time of year if you want to see it live.
Man, you gotta elaborate so us less well fetishist people can also get the thrill…
Here’s something to really set HM off…
Sneezing videos have been a thing for ages
Maybe I’m just inadequately panicky.
That reminds me of an article I saw, a while back; I can’t remember where (some place like Slate, probably). The article was, “Signs Your Man is a Sociopath.”
I think Clue Number One was, “Doesn’t panic in stressful situations.”
Yeah, my girlfriend already told me that she worries sometimes because I refuse to panic, am dismissive of people that do, and constantly tell her we work the problems we can work right now and we don’t panic & shut down cause that is how you make sure youfail.
Remember old movies and TV shows where you tell the men from the boys by how they reacted in dangerous situations?
Gee, I guess I must be a sociopath, then. Of course the major element to being able to handle a bad situation is to keep calm, because that allows you think and analyze in a rational manner.
Videos of women sneezing is my new fetish.
While twerking?
Icing on top of the fetish cake.
Does expectorant have to be flying out their nasal cavities for it to be hot, or is it just the very act?
The sound and facial expression, mostly.
Reminds you of a loud queef, doesn’t it? Come clean man!
I wonder if they can sneeze, twerk, and step on goldfish all at once?
They’re going to start labeling every death ‘corona-related’ until they get the number they want.
And then use it as justification to close everything down again when allergy season hits.
Every traffic death shall henceforth be deemed “corona-related”, because they should have been cowering at home.
Now your catching the spirit of the obfuscation game.
Penumbras and corona-mations
OT: This has to be an April fool’s joke right? It can’t be real. That is Europe level of depraved pro criminal shit.
#Arlinghazi
Abushariah, who was staying at the shop because his Washington, D.C., apartment complex had several coronavirus cases, apparently shot the suspects (who turned out to be juveniles) as they fled.
Can’t shoot people that are running away.
Well, cops can.
Of course that’s the cop’s version.
Yep, article doesn’t say they were shot in the back. Notably, the cops berate the victim (guy defending himself) for not fleeing and standing his ground instead. The arresting leos sound like real pos that would spin facts in the report.
Fuck any jurisdiction without a robust castle doctrine.
Don’t talk to cops!
With all due respect officer, I won’t be answering any questions until I consult with my attorney.
?
Unfortunately, now you cannot simply invoke the 5th amendment without imputing some guilt on yourself. You have to be very careful how you do it.
Correct. You have to ask for your attorney, so your attorney can say you’ll take the fifth.
Hence, not refusing to answer questions under the fifth, just waiting to answer questions until you talk to your attorney.
The UK dropped even the pretense in 1994:
“You do not have to say anything. But it may harm your defence if you do not mention when questioned something which you later rely on in court. Anything you do say may be given in evidence.”
It’s Arlington, the home world for 30-Something men wearing brown flip-flops and shorts.
Fuck you DeWine!
Got to keep the plebes uncomfortable and guessing.
Apparently the Cinci police aren’t working anymore. Maybe he’s making it statewide?
But then who will get shot by the Cleveland police?
What is this shit?
I see all of the pols doing similar stuff.
“Big announcement today! Tune it at 2pm to find out how I’m going to fuck you harder!”
They’re jealous of the attention Coonman got.
They give you time to think up and read about all sorts of crazy stuff they are going to prohibit or put restrictions on. Then when slightly less restrictions are announced you feel pretty good about what didn’t, and never was, going to happen.
From a lighthouse rescue exhibit. https://photos.app.goo.gl/waG8Mdyt7fghmgtZ6
Wow. That’s how you hero.
https://www.nj.com/coronavirus/2020/04/murphy-grants-health-workers-legal-immunity-as-the-coronavirus-swamps-nj-hospitals.html
Maybe the first think he’s done that I agree with. If I do get it, hopefully makes my doctor more likely to prescribe some of the “off-use” stuff that actually works.
Maybe the first think he’s done that I agree with. If I do get it, hopefully makes my doctor more likely to prescribe some of the “off-use” stuff that actually works.
I think that was the second think.
I need a dose of anti-squirrel medication.
https://youtu.be/4c8OyexZ10E
Thank goodness – now we can commence with angel of mercy killings!
The more New Jerseyans explode, the better.
Apres moi, le deluge
In fact, we are witnessing a restructuring of the global economic order that could lead to an entirely new civilization. Building on a range of coordinated social and economic policies that must come, we will also see the rise of a new global system. Among these new policies will be a shift to universal basic income (UBI) and the rise of a highly automated production infrastructure.
Just as revolutionary movements have emerged in the past, so the combination of disease and economic contraction will provoke a new era and a new global order. Indeed, even as we confront the prospect of economic collapse, we will also witness the application of policies that move our society beyond a dying fossil fuel era and into an era of cheap renewables. Beyond the age of combustion and the wanton destruction of the Earth, we are on the cusp of a digital Renaissance.
But first the collapse.
Estimates are that as many as 2 million Americans could die from the coronavirus. As the United States becomes the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic, the country’s structural deficiencies are on full display. A profiteering healthcare system in combination with a broken government and a vacuum in moral leadership have left the population naked to the predations of disease. In order for the United States to effectively manage this crisis, it would need to marshal a government capacity it no longer possesses.
More concretely, this would include national systems of testing, tracing, and treatment measures, with a simultaneous enforcement of quarantines and a full-scale lockdown. Put differently, this would be something akin to the massive and scaled mobilization which is now the province of Asian governments and especially China. To appreciate the depth of the problem, we need to understand the current leadership of the country, and in particular the character and legacy of the Baby Boom generation.
——-
Taken to its logical conclusion, the US era is coming to an end. After decades of swelling deficits fed by $6.4 trillion in war spending, many now predict the end of the US dollar as the world’s reserve currency. Beset by social inequality, economic stratification, drug addiction, mass imprisonment, and government dysfunction, the country is now a shadow of its former self.
Indeed with clinical precision, journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Chris Hedges has deconstructed the corporate take-over of America’s democracy and the ruthless kleptocracy that has broken the country. The culmination of a political, economic, and cultural decay, the United States is now disintegrating. But why? To understand this, we need to grasp the historical cycles of crisis and renewal that William Strauss and Neil Howe describe in their book, The Fourth Turning.
Don’t let this crisis go to waste! We must overcome radical individualism in every way. End Kkkapitalism! End freedom! Kill the Baby Boomers!
Malcolm Forbes must be spinning in his grave with enough force to light a small city.
beep boop derp overload ?
An awful lot of assertions without evidence there.
That’s true. We should provide free universal healthcare like China and Italy. I haven’t checked, but I bet they don’t have any COVID-19 cases at all since everyone gets all the healthcare they need for free.
How many people die each year from all causes already, dipshit?
COVID-19 patient developed rare nervous system infection
Will this be a COVID or flu death, I wonder?
If she’s positive, then it’s a catch-all Covid death.
There goes my plan to eat shrooms before heading out to get swabbed.
No mention of her age.
an era of cheap renewables
If you just flap your gums about them enough, your fantasy will come true! Just as if Mr. Roarke were a real person.
As we consider the scale of these changes, it’s important to appreciate both the deteriorating nature of the current system and the forces of creative destruction that these changes are unleashing. Beyond a postwar generation grounded in rights, what must come is a post-crisis generation grounded in institutional renewal.
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Beyond a global financial system devoted to hyper-consumption and the cult of the individual, what we now need is a culture built around human flourishing and a shared global project. Where the culture of Baby Boomers emphasized individuality, rights, and personal choice, Millennials will build new institutions that support civic solidarity, the state, and the common good. And just as the previous Hero generation fought World War II and built the US into an economic powerhouse, so Millennials will be tasked with building a new global society out of the coming collapse. Every generation seeks to resolve the mistakes of the last. This coming generation will be no different. But for now, winter has come.
And there it is. Learn to love Big Brother.
Or else.
You first asshole.
Get out there and volunteer in some ERs.
the previous Hero generation fought World War II
And what exactly were they fighting for, and against?
He’s a twat that specializes in big words and big speculation without any real understanding of history or economics. He’s a wannabe politician that doesn’t like shaking hands and kissing babies.
ARGLE BLARGLE BLARGLE BUZZWORD ARGLE BLARGLE
He’s a fucking consultant.
I don’t often read Forbes, but that article seems strange for a supposedly business-focused paper. I get the WSJ’s love of the deep state because it funnels money towards parasitic businesses, but this seems like an outright embrace of communism. Was Forbes skinsuited or maybe was always this way?
This is State worship. Fuck off Fascists.
Telling that they feel comfortable coming right out and saying it.
I really wish I could comment on that full-throated endorsement of fascism.
We’re getting fascism and we aren’t even getting cool scary uniforms. Lamest dictatorship ever.
I went to a concentration camp and all I got was this lousy loose skinsuit.
….civic solidiarity, the state, and the common good
Fuck. You. Asshole.
I was mentioning to my kids the other day that I view taking steps to reduce the possibility of getting infected and passing an infection as a civic duty, whereas voting is not. Not infecting my neighbor is a tangible good, voting is almost completely useless virtue signaling.
That said, it is up to each of us to conduct ourselves in a moral manner and the state and legality have nothing to do with it.
Ope. I posted this in the wrong thread. In the Kung Flu Fighting thread, @blackjack said:
My county be like: “[…] residents of Clay County are prohibited from leaving their homes except when performing “Essential Activities” as that term is defined in the Order.”
Fuck you, Top Men.
beep boop derp overload
Read the whole thing. I dare you. You’ll pray for the sweet release of drowning in your own bronchial fluids.
Say what?
Perhaps he means the Chinese system will have to rethink itself.
If everyone just grew their own food, they wouldn’t need to go to the grocery store.
Commerce clause, comrade. Thats not your food.
That’s why we have you 🙂
So now the real test about my wife’s mobile grooming business is the “we aren’t saying you can’t go outside but you can’t go outside” order coming this evening from NevadaGov.
If she is forced to not operate…we lose half our income. Fuckers.
What is the worst case scenario if she continues to work? That is not snark. I really want to know what the risk is.
Cuffed and put in a cell with other scofflaws, pour encourager les autres.
Can’t let the peasants think they have the run of the place.
Revoking her business license (though underground grooming is alive and well). Luckily we have no overhead except insurance on the trailer and proffesional fees.
It amazes me that every State assembly isnt even in the picture. All states that have declared emergency and defacto dictatorships with one person making the rules/laws with no imput except from “experts”.
It is damn sad
Black market #FTW
I believe with all my heart that an economy’s health often depends on the black market.
In bad times, the black market (include bartering goods/services, if you will) takes the lead. Although it cannot cure a sick economy it can keep it from getting too bad as long as, say, drought (Great Depression) is not in the picture.
In good times, it’s not needed so much but functions well enough.
Yes but States and cities are encouraging snitching on others so we must make that determination.
Greece waves “hi!”.
Why can’t you go outside?
Alternatively, you could just tell the authorities you’re homeless.
Probably be deemed non-essential. Though we could make a case that we are no different (but much cleaner) than the random kid dropping off your food at your door-step
Still have to stay six feet away.
I love everyone recoiling in horror – as if sleeping in a gutter was better.
https://www.sba.gov/disaster-assistance/coronavirus-covid-19
Sign up for her “free” $10k disaster grant.
Put a few bags of dog food in the van with price tags on them. Our pet groomer is still open because she sells pet food – which IS considered essential.
Good idea. We dont have a resale license but ay this point does it really matter? I am overreacting a bit as I see no valid reason to not continue.
We offer side-yard pickup or garage pickup, digital payment (or cash in envelope left in mailbox).
Does your state have an exception for businesses with only one employee?
She is likely a sole proprietor. Of course, that doesn’t mean she doesn’t pay herself with an actual paycheck and do withholding, but generally speaking, that’s the province of an LLC.
What is the worst case scenario if she continues to work? That is not snark. I really want to know what the risk is.
My guess is they are going to start fining people. Impounding the vehicle, too, if they feel like it.
Because [you know very well].
Cancelling business licenses.
And your insurer may cancel or refuse to cover any claims.
Yep and yep. Luckily we didnt have the funds for the company name on the side of the trailer…so its non-descript except the generator running.
Well, when you do, get a wrap you can take off if you have to.
Magnetic squares… 😉
We wont even advertise. We have about 100 dogs, have postponed 2 of them because of their pet parent’s age.
One even offered to pay us for their normal groom even after they cancelled because of all this.
My estimates will be we still will groom about half our dogs and gain a couple from people who just dont care if there is a lockdown or not
Cheap and yucky, which is why I didn’t recommend it.
It’s not exactly cheap, but quality magnetic signs are almost indistinguishable from permanent vinyl decals. It basically the same thing with a flexible magnetic layer on the back. Use the same color as the vehicle/trailer body color and most people won’t notice until they get up close. Some of our vehicles use them for people who need to take them off at times.
Huh.
Now I’m wondering how that would work with an author. Slap a QR code on it, and… But who would want to hit up an author with a decal on her car?
It’s called “marketing.” You could try it sometime! 😉
Seriously, if you came up with a clever landing page to which to direct the QR code, it could be effective.
Well, I have my book site, which has all the covers on the front page, but I will assume that’s not quite what you mean.
The state retards have reversed themselves, and are now embracing online schools. Sort of. Any imbecile could have seen this from the start was it for the rest of the school year.
So if they’re only supposed to get 3 hours of class per day, what exactly were they doing for the other 4 hours when school was in session?
Yeah right.
If I had kids in public school, I would seriously reconsider homeschooling with real lesson plans and resources instead of this Keystone Kops crap they’re pushing.
Forgot the link.
https://www.oregonlive.com/coronavirus/2020/03/school-coronavirus-closures-likely-to-last-until-summer-oregon-students-go-online-mid-april.html
My kids have told me for years that they could do all the actual learning and work they do in school in just a couple of hours a day.
Same with mine. They get all their work done in the AM in about 1-3 hours depending.
Shhhhh the teachers union might be lurking.
Where the European Renaissance replaced religious dogmas with humanism, this second global Renaissance will replace market dogmas with a kind of digital humanism.
I would happily install a chip in his brain.
You mean the European Enlightenment that led to the French Reign of Terror?
Yeah i’ll pass
This idiot purports to understand philosophical trends but doesn’t even get this right.
Engels et al already covered this ground 200 years ago. This is just rehashing their old arguments with even more sophism.
A shining example of the Arrogance of Youth with “New” ideas.
If you can handle listening to a Die Hard Hillary supporter, Michael Malice’s interview with Jessica Tarlov is pretty good to see how the establishment left thinks.
Thank goodness – now we can commence with angel of mercy killings!
“Sorry, the guy who was just admitted has a higher Social Credit score than you. Gimme that respirator.”
Pish-posh. Everybody knows there is not now nor will there ever be death panels.
Gov Murphy is just trying to cut red tape and bureaucracy.
They were probably going to die anyways.
https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/03/31/824846243/whos-sickest-from-covid-19-these-conditions-tied-to-increased-risk
Has this been posted? Interesting data, let’s see if their projections come true.
https://covid19.healthdata.org/projections
Take screen shots, because they roll the actual numbers into the prediction charts each day.
That would be a very interesting article…. “here’s how the model evolved over time”
But what did the predictions vs actual look like historically?
Our predictions were perfect – look how well they match the data that we now have!
The low end of the range looks like a peak in a week and back to normalish by the end of April.
The charts below show projected hospital resource use based on COVID-19 deaths. The model assumes continued social distancing until the end of May 2020.
In locations without social distancing measures currently in place, we have assumed they will be in place within seven days of the last model update. If not, the number of deaths and burden on their hospital systems will likely be higher than the model predicts.
Big assumptions there.
I think it’s also assuming that everybody who tests positive gets hospitalized and stays there (duration?). Our local hospital’s message about 10 days ago was something like “there were 7 in this county who’ve been positive, but 6 of those have already been sent home under (real) quarantine”.
For anybody who cares, I updated my recipe site.
There goes my afternoon..thanks Mo
Anytime! ?
Ooh, fun!
It’s very plain Jane, just like the recipes.
I’m going to try your stroganoff next time I’m alone for a couple days. Unfortunately there’s no way I’m going to get my girlfriend to eat something with a quart of mushrooms in it.
You don’t have to put the mushrooms in. If I didn’t like mushrooms, I wouldn’t.
Oh, no. I would have to put mushrooms in it. I also just realized that it also has 5lbs of hamburger, so scaled down it would seem pretty normal.
#metoo
I usually use stew beef but trying it with hamburger sounds like I can shave 3 or 4 hours off the cooking time….
I still owe you some cookie recipes, don’t I?
Yeup.
Thanks!
Bored and actually reading Nevada’s emergency decleration. No end to it unless the Chief Medical Officer (which has been reported doesnt hold a license to pratice in the U.S.) declares it over.
https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/sep/11/ihsan-azzam-nevada-chief-medical-officer-not-licen/
Seems like the type of guy you want playing medical Guinea pig with
Ladies and gentlemen, your scapegoat. When this goes on the gov will say, I really wanted to open up, but I just couldn’t get the okay.
But does he get to wear a cool uniform? That is the important question.
Yeah, the whole indefinite target for relaxing the cower in place rules makes any kind of planning pretty hard. They must know that as soon as they relax them, the virus will start spreading faster again.
Because the AKM (Amount to Kill a Mammoth) is the typical benchmark for lethal injections.
There’s about 10 AKM’s worth of poison in this drink…
With standard size magazines?
About as good as “a foot” or “an inch”.
Guy doesnt even have an infectious disease background. When does State Assembly step in and say…okay we are done
It’s like we don’t have an assembly or representative body.
It’s elected/selected cult of personality of the Supreme Leader, thus ensuring about half the population feels left out completely after each election.
Aren’t you in Calliflournia?
Yes I am. I’m in a red district here.
That’s where the Gov decided to share some of his absolute and illegitimate power with the Chief Justice you know to balance things (and assure the Court doesn’t rule against him).
Gov Cuomo “urges NYPD to be ‘more aggressive’ on ‘selfish, reckless’ crowds”
What could possibly go wrong with riled up NYPD thinking they are saving the world?
Most Guvs are just creating the recipe for destruction.
Il Douche is pissed at all those NYC Republican voters who aren’t listening and obeying.
And for the later peoples… Friday, 19:00 Eastern until some time later. Glibs Virtual Happy Hour.
Feel free to share the link around here and the Discord.
Happy hour at 1600….good for me!