I wish my life was half as interesting as the other afternoon links authors make it out to be. I am heading to the beach this weekend, my wife and kids left this morning. We will have both grandmothers there for Mother’s Day. When you’ve lost mom and grandma’s support for social distancing and shelter in place, its a dead letter.
This is a smart idea. I wonder whether the Hat or the Hair came up with it.
Gee, how DID this terrible unemployment situation come to be?
These whiners have clearly never been to Houston in the summer.
Florida Man did something good?
Sorry Maduro caught your goons.
It’s like they watched too many action movies.
Happy Mother’s Day! Festive masks for all.
A few weeks ago, I saw an internet ad for a wolf-face mask and a number of dog-face masks. Since then, I’ve been hunting the internet for a sheep-face mask. I may have to settle for a plague doctor mask.
That said, I dread saying this, but I can almost see being stopped by the cops for being insufficiently supportive of our new diktats.
The people who get the joke won’t wear them. But I’d contribute to a fund which distributed free sheep masks to hysterics for the lulz.
Maybe in your land of the free some people may choose not wear a face mask. Here, it’s mandatory in all stores and even outdoors if you cannot stay away 6 ft. from others. In my town wearing a face mask is mandatory outdoors, always, no exceptions.
Masks still aren’t required in NH. I went grocery shopping at Wal-Mart today. About 75% of people were wearing masks.
In my town wearing a face mask is mandatory outdoors, always, no exceptions.
That’s the part that I find genuinely absurd. Outdoors is the place you’re least likely to need a mask. It’s where you’re least likely to transmit anything if you have it.
‘genuinely absurd’ depends reason masks mandatory
I choose to wear a RWB bandana, doubled-over, while in the grocery store etc. I know it’s public health theatre.
Would never harsh on anyone choosing not to wear a mask in those venues.
Cheers!
“Maybe in your land of the free…”
Wow, that’s disappointing. Had thought you better than that. Good to know…
“… I’ve been hunting the internet for a sheep-face mask.”
Close: https://www.amazon.com/IDO-Balaclava-Protection-Headwear-Motorcycle/dp/B07KP7L61W
And there it is:
https://www.teepublic.com/mask/9810634-reusable-and-washable-face-mask-cute-sheep-face-un
And here is what you are looking for:
https://www.teepublic.com/mask/9810634-reusable-and-washable-face-mask-cute-sheep-face-un
Here is exactly what you want:
https://www.teepublic.com/mask/9810634-reusable-and-washable-face-mask-cute-sheep-face-un
Here it is:
https://www.teepublic.com/mask/9810634-reusable-and-washable-face-mask-cute-sheep-face-un
With that, I give you this.
I wonder whether the Hat or the Hair came up with it?
Are there strippers?
Gee, how DID this terrible unemployment situation come to be?
It’s a dadgum mystery.
Not really. Obviously Trump ruined the economy.
I actually have read people making that very argument.
The top trending Twitter hashtag yesterday was TrumpDepression. The talking points got out quickly. Every single death and lost job is Trump’s fault, so sayeth the DNC operatives with bylines.
Gee, how DID this terrible unemployment situation come to be?
One of the rare occasions where I posted a link earlier in the day.
We are beyond Great Recession and into Great Depression II — Electric Boogaloo
Cool linsk, bro!
Beaches? It’s May 8th, and there’s snow falling from the sky here in Cleveland… at least it’s not sticking to the ground yet.
Yes, beaches
More beaches
Wherever you are, there is plenty of salt.
Plenty of salt
Sorry, Neph.
It was in the 60’s yesterday. The girlfriend and I walked up to a local frozen custard place as a treat.
More a minor bitch then any real issues, looks like we may be in Spring weather by next weekend. That’s probably better, as we get patios opening up on the 15th for bars and restaurants.
To be fair, it is Cleveland.
/tosses a match in the Cuyahoga to stay warm.
So the CEO says WFH will run at least into next fall and probably into next year.
So, I need to my shit off the dining room table and into some “permanent” location.
And as soon as you get it all set up, the plans will change again!
My company announced that my office won’t reopen when the governor’s cower-in-place order expires. The company will make a decision afterwards as to when the office will reopen. When it reopens, we will be limited to how many people will be in the office and we must wear masks while in the office.
Fuck it. I’ll just keep working at home.
Masks required until we hit CDC phase 3 (widely available vaccine).
Work from home likely until we hit CDC phase 3.
I wonder home much the company is saving on utility bills right now as the entire office staff (engineers and administrative offices) are at home spending their own dollars on utilities.
My company is still WFH for the foreseeable future. Regardless of what the companies we support do for their offices (right now some are open, with masks and gloves mandatory).
I think the biggest loser out of this mess is going to be commercial real estate as companies that were initially against WFH realize how much cheaper it is.
Yes
They are screwed
Whoa… you at least have an end. Well, except it is not really an end. “Widely available vaccine”?
A widely available vaccine against a virus family for which there has never been a successful vaccine.
I’m just thinking of all the viruses we haven’t yet discovered a vaccine for. Fuckin-a. I’m never getting back to the office at this rate.
They’re all gonna make us get vaccines that don’t fucking work, aren’t they?
That is insane. Does the CEO get a golden parachute for running the company into the ground??
I work for a multibillion-dollar utility. With the exception for jobs such as running electric generation plants, where the staff is currently sequestered to keep them running and linemen out in the field, everyone is working from home. We were told it may be months before we stop working from home. For our business, it works very well. And I as others have, I think they must be saving a lot on water, TP electricity and the like. On the flip side, a lot of customers have stopped paying their bills in addition to idled meat processing plants and the like have reduced revenue, but the working from home thing has been a big plus regarding our ability to seamlessly provide electricity and gas to our customers, not a negative.
Without New York City, Covid-19 was basically a non-event in the U.S.
Thanks for the dirty subways they are just now starting to clean. And thanks de Blasio and Cuomo for forcing nursing homes to accept infected people – that’s the opposite of how quarantines work assholes.
It still amazes me that they let people ride in those germ tubes even during their peak. And only decided to clean them this week.
Essentially it’s the most efficient way to get around the city. You get used to it, but never enjoy it.
Naturally during the de Blasio administration things gone significantly down hill.
This “improved” cleaning, other than mopping the train floors and removing trash, is for show. It’s a way they can get the homeless off the trains without looking like they are kicking the homeless of the trains.
There is already a counter-narrative circulating that national COVID-19 case numbers (not explicitly defined) are only going down because NYC numbers are pulling the rest of the country down. It purports to show that cases in RoUS (Rest of US) are rising once you take away the DeBlasio effect.
‘counter-narrative’ to ‘counter-narrative’:
Here’s How Much New York City Is Skewing America’s Coronavirus Numbers
By Tyler O’Neil May 07, 2020 5:17 PM EST
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/tyler-o-neil/2020/05/07/heres-how-much-new-york-city-is-skewing-americas-coronavirus-numbers-n389007
H/T Drake
NYC hurts, not helps, collective Wuhan flu stats
Thanks.
Shithole. I was in and around JFK in December, too.
Spread of COVID-19 from NYC outwards probably explains a fair amount of Central Canada’s elevated CCP-virus infections as well. I’m looking at you, Pearson International and Trudeau International.
Next town over has a drive-in theater. I doubt with even more than two people per car you could get more than 200 people in there.
I grew up in a town with a drive-in. It was glorious. And they had some of the best fried chicken I’ve ever had.
Go to the drive-in, sneak in some booze, get some chicken and a contact high from the cloud of weed smoke hanging over the entire lot, get laid when the second movie starts and all the families leave. And it was like maybe 10 bucks for the whole night. It was perfect as long as you remembered the bug spray.
and the rubber.
This drive-in is right next to the regular theater, same movie snacks from the same stand inside. I think I went there to see The A-Team, but had to sit through Prince of Persia first.
What does a drive-in have over watching at home though?
I have a very Glib drive-in story which I’m going to tell you all some day.
My older brothers snuck me and my twin in. Yes, I have a twin but he refuses to be nicknamed Eggcellant.
Christ
Now I miss the drive in theater
I saw Towering Inferno at a drive in. I think that was my only drive in experience
I saw Debbie Does Dallas at a drive-in. Good times.
Meanwhile, in California
Though she’s getting in what work that she can, Poma doesn’t think the counties’ reopening will be long-term. “There’s no way we can go by the health regulations in this industry,” she said. “I don’t know how to do a six-foot-away haircut.” Like others, Poma is conflicted.
“It’s rough,” she said. “Our country worships the money god so much that we will put our health on the back burner. But livelihoods, people are closing down. I can’t imagine if you don’t have any sort of anything to fall back on.”
She knows too that by operating while the state’s order is still in effect, she risks the state taking away her license. Already this week, the state regulatory boards have begun flexing in the rural communities that reopened early. On Tuesday, state alcoholic beverage control officials were in Yuba and Sutter, asking licensed locations to shift to takeout dining, and to close in-house dining voluntarily. John Carr, a spokesman for the state agency, said while agents could discipline and file administrative action against businesses that do not comply with their requests, “we hope for voluntary compliance.”
Newsom could choose to enforce the state order more stringently in the coming days. Previously, he’s leaned toward education rather than enforcement, but when photos of packed beaches in southern California made headlines around the country, he ordered all beaches in Orange county closed for a weekend. Even then, however, law enforcement aimed not to arrest people violating the order.
Across the state, cases have continued to rise incrementally, but numbers have not reached the doomsday predictions initially projected by state experts. As of Thursday, only 3,334 patients with confirmed cases were hospitalized statewide, along with 1,347 with suspected cases. State health officials have repeatedly pleaded with Californians, however, not to become complacent with their efforts, and to recognize that it is because of their actions that the numbers are where they are.
For some in communities like Yuba and Sutter, however, the state is taking it too far. “I feel like the state’s a little overdramatic,” said Steve Lewis, a tattoo artist at Artistic Temple Social Club in Marysville. After weeks of no work, Lewis is just happy he can pay his bills again.
What we need is some good old-fashioned bureaucrat-on-bureaucrat warfare. They can shoot it out in Sacramento, right on the capitol steps.
I tried to come up with a funny reply, but all my brain is doing is showing me pictures of punching people. Weird.
Is it too obvious to point out that people’s health is damaged by poor nutrition, losing a home, losing a job, etc.?
They always tell us this stuff matters when it comes to making a show of “standing up for the little guy” when in reality, they could not care less about helping anyone but themselves.
I wish we could get scare quotes thrown in any time someone say “experts.”
Like here. And duh cases have continued to rise. That’s the biggest BS part of this all, as if things are going to suddenly disappear. As soon as this virus infected patient X it became a part of human experience from here on out.
On another note, I’m tired of being surly about all of this, but it is a PITA to try to put on a happy face.
Re surliness, that’s where the mask comes in. ?
True story, the first time I wore a mask through all of this shit-show was on Tuesday. I went to do a home health visit yesterday, wearing a mask for a second time, but took it off half way through because old people can’t hear clearly when the person talking to them is wearing and f’ing mask.
What?
Exactly.
These were old people that make Fourscore look like a spring chicken.
(I kid. I kid.)
I had a few seconds of joy, then the gut punch
Thanks for that, BD, my memory is still good and I never forget
**Pulls at collar** *Gulp*
Many apologies…
I’ll see myself out…
I am serious. And don’t call me surly.
Relevant
They want twelve bucks for a creepy smily face on a popsicle stick!?! Jiminy Cricket!
Money is a symbol, she is correct about that. However it’s not a symbol of ‘God,’ it’s a symbol of a certain amount of production that somebody, somewhere produced. If it wasn’t, we literally could just crank up the printing press and send ourselves into the land of unfathomable wealth.
So if you print twice as much money without increasing any production, that money is now worth half the production of what it was.
Bigger liars: Gun control advocates or Global warming advocates?
Why not both?
(I’ve been slammed with work so not much Glib time this week.)
The correct answer is ‘yes’.
*shakes head sadly*
I forgot to toss in coronatards
The answer is still yes.
Still yes.
Going with Global. And it’s CLIMATE CHANGE you shitlord.
I may have this whole thing mixed up. Why am I splitting wood if the climate is getting warmer?
Always the last one to get the word. Damn it!
We’re not looking at a few industries that have frozen up, but really a whole economy.
It’s not exactly a shock that we’re facing mass unemployment at a moment when entire states and industries are effectively shut down. But the new jobless figures do suggest that the government’s coronavirus response has fallen short in at least one key way.
*unintelligible shouting, sound of glass shattering*
Just ignore the fact that nobody I know who has gotten laid off or let go due to Coronavirus has actually received their unemployment check. You can’t go the grocery store with your release letter and get credit.
We just got my wife’s first one today… It was backpay for the last 3 weeks.
I got my $1,200 check a few days ago. Used it to replace the entire powere steering system replaced in my 1994 Ford F150 4×4. Thanks federal government. Of course I pay multiples of that amount in taxes every year, but it’s still appreciated.
According to VoxEU, stay at home has only a minor impact. https://voxeu.org/article/unemployment-effects-stay-home-orders
‘Brett set out to find America, the real America’
SugarFree, official? biographer of Brett L
But then again, who hasn’t? Gone to look for America, that is?
CNN?
Even Duckman searched for America.
‘The title character is portrayed as a lazy, incompetent, self-serving, morally unscrupulous, sexual deviant. The fact that he is also remarkably clueless (as a parent and detective) is much comic fodder for the character.’ https://duckman.fandom.com/wiki/Eric_Duckman
You know who else was ‘incompetent, self-serving, morally unscrupulous, sexual deviant’ ?
Everyone who works here?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_government_of_the_United_States
Newsom often refers to California as a “nation-state” in his daily briefings, to give “a sense of the scale and scope” of a state with the world’s fifth-largest economy and a population of almost 40 million.
“We recognize that one size does not fit all,” he said. “You can’t manage a state this large, this diverse in every way, shape or form ethnically, racially, religiously, on the basis of geography, without recognizing a bottom-up construct.”
But he has repeatedly stressed that California must be united in its response against coronavirus.
“In the final analysis, it’s my way or the jailhouse.”
“Our state is too diverse, a one size fits all solution will not work. So here is my one size fits all solution.”
And it’s final.
Lagos, Nigeria
population – 21 million
size – 452 sq.mi.
California
population – 40 million
size – 163,696 sq.mi.
l0b0t to Gov. Newsome – “OK, Boomer.”
Great Emperor Newsom. Now do gun rights.
Who wrote that shit?
‘Imagine if you can the country and culture in which such words were not merely spoken, but followed by actions that led to the independence of the colonies and the establishment of this (once great) Nation. If the total number of dead were a justification for the cessation of rights, then there would be no United States at all. Imagine if every day the colonial papers had published a running toll of the dead in every battle against the British, if instead of public advocacy for Freedom, we had public advocacy for subservience… never mind, you don’t have to imagine: it’s what we have now.’ — Ozymandias
‘The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word ‘crisis.’ One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger–but recognize the opportunity.’ — John F. Kennedy
‘No, what is unprecedented about the current crisis has little to do with the novel coronavirus itself. What is unprecedented about this crisis is that the human race has changed. So much so that lessons drawn from past plagues are of little use in the current crisis.’ — Quentin du Plessis
How restore culture?
The same way it was built in the first place. Seriously. Culture does not come out of nowhere, it takes persons (not people) making values real and active. In one sense culture is continuous — we’re never without one (not that it is or ever has been unitary). Culture changes, and it changes through the acts of individual persons, who may or may not be acting in concert. Tipping points arise when a ‘sufficiently large’ number of persons enact and embrace values not previously held broadly within a culture. Sometimes cultures fracture and fragment, sometimes they don’t, but they always change over time. It began to congeal into those values we hold dear in fewer people than we are today. If we don’t do it, who will?
‘Culture changes, and it changes through the acts of individual persons, who may or may not be acting in concert. ‘
But what acts can Glibs do to move the ‘Overton window’ of ‘the culture’ in desired direction?
Should be ‘acts’ with quotes
We’re doing it, or at least some are. Based on reports here (I know, I know), some are being brought around to ‘our way of thinking’. Getting Ozy’s vaccine book printed and distributed. Supporting the IJ.
The ‘Overton window’ is not nailed in place, and doomsayers to the contrary notwithstanding, it doesn’t only move in one direction.
This is demonstrated by the flowering of a ‘culture of freedom’ starting with Bastiat and the ‘Scottish Enlightenment’ and proceeding through a goodly chunk of the 19th century.
For all it’s many flaws, there has never been a better time to be alive. We each need to do what we each can to keep that arc rising. If we don’t, who will?
Not disagreeing. Hoped ‘what we each can’ > ‘Getting Ozy’s vaccine book printed and distributed. Supporting the IJ.’
IMNSHO, there are no ‘big things’ that can be done. That’s not how cultural change happens, by and large. An avalanche starts with a bunch of small rocks, not one big boulder. So to speak 😉
Not to say big things shouldn’t be tried when opportunity presents itself, but there are lots more small things, and they add up. Once a big thing can be identified, it gets done. The small things have to be nurtured, and, sadly, are easily overlooked in the search for the ‘world changing action that will bring about’ whatever it is that’s wanted.
Or to quote Edgar Pangborn, from the short story “My Brother Leopold”:
Yet there is a City of Light. I said to those who
followed and heard me: There is a battle of
Armageddon, where good and evil confront each
other for a decision, not for all time but for the time
that you know; and there is a City of Light on
earth, built by your labor, not for all time but for
the time that you know. Every day, every night the
battle of Armageddon is to be fought, and won or
lost; see that you find courage. Every night, every
day something is given to the building of the City
of Light or taken from it: see that your share is
given, and with goodwill. The battle is within you;
the city is for your kind, not for all time but for the
time that you know.
Thanks.
Very nice. Thanks.
‘
Crisitunity!
JFK and his speech writers didn’t do any better with Chinese than they did German jelly donuts.
Chinese word for “crisis”
The primary meaning of the second character in wēijī, pronounced jī, (机; 機) is not “opportunity”.[3][10] Sinologist Victor H. Mair of the University of Pennsylvania states the popular interpretation of wēijī as “danger” plus “opportunity” is a “widespread public misperception” in the English-speaking world.[9] While the first character wēi (危) does indeed mean “dangerous” or “precarious”, the second character is highly polysemous and does not, in isolation, translate as “opportunity”.[9] The confusion likely arises from the fact that the character for jī is a component of the Chinese word for “opportunity”, jīhuì (機會; 机会, literally “meeting a critical point”).
Nice link.
JFK (and his speech writers) screwing up Chinese and German donuts with equal aplomb!
President Donald Trump is thirsting to hold campaign rallies again. And among his campaign and White House advisers, a possible solution has been discussed that could allow for such MAGA gatherings even in the midst of a global pandemic: the mostly defunct, rural tradition of the drive-in movie theater.
That is not a bad idea.
Thanks to the coronavirus crisis, the United States is now facing its highest unemployment rate since the Great Depression.
Fuck. It’s due to the government’s overreach and stupidity.
A combination of heat and humidity so extreme that it’s unendurable isn’t just a problem for the future — those conditions are already here, a new study finds. Off-the-chart readings that were previously thought to be nearly nonexistent on the planet today have popped up around the globe, and unyielding temperatures are becoming more common.
Snow predicted for northern New Hampshire and parts of Maine tomorrow.
Despite recommendations from health officials, DeSantis did not implement a statewide shelter-in-place order until April 3. But recent data reveal that the state shut itself down anyway. Floridians began staying home en masse in mid-March, according to cellphone data obtained by the Wall Street Journal, and many businesses decided to close their doors voluntarily. By March 15, Floridians’ mobility had declined by more than 50% statewide, and in Miami-Dade and Broward counties, it had declined by more than 80%.
Huh. What was it the South Dakota governor said? Something about she ” trusted South Dakotans to exercise personal responsibility to keep themselves and their loved-ones healthy.
There’s a massive difference between voluntary action and coerced action, even if they’re the same behavior. I don’t understand why that’s so hard to figure out. Yes, people would have drastically curtailed their presence in public over this. But, they would have done so in a way that fits their particular circumstances, that minimizes the costs of their avoiding contact. That still would have resulted in some pretty rough economic consequences. But, nothing like what we’re about to face.
I don’t understand why that’s so hard to figure out.
People taking voluntary action might take the wrong action.
Which raises the question of who decides?
“The state has recorded six deaths amid the pandemic”
I see. In that same time period how many deaths were there from all causes combined?
Of this explosion of new infections how many are asymptomatic, how many with mild symptoms, how many hospitalizations?
The hysterical article doesn’t mention any of that.
It is becoming pretty clear to me that this ‘crisis’ is manufactured. Really, after so many Trump scandals there were outright lies manufactured out of thin air how can anything the political class or media class say be believed? I just automatically assume it is all lies. Hell, even Stormy Daniels admitted her scandal never happened.
Keep your powder dry boys and girls.
In that same time period how many deaths were there from all causes combined?
SSSSHHHHHH!!!!
I wonder if now that they’ve helped successfully crater the economy, those in the media are hanging “Mission Accomplished” banners?
Yeah, amazing
Amazingly enough, masks seem to be turning into one more emblem of our political polarization. Wear one and you are taking the virus and the social distancing prescription seriously. Refuse, and you signify something else that may be denial or even defiance.
Refuseniks. There oughtta be a law.
Oooh goody, another mind-reading article!
I’m okay with being defiant.
I’m headed towards belligerence now.
Nice avatar, N00b.
Anyone else getting people wearing masks while … teleconferencing?
I am not surprised.
What I am getting are all the celebrities pleading for people to obey and stay home while they are not wearing a mask. They are portrayed as being home alone themselves yet there is a cameraman, a sound man, a lighting man and likely a makeup artist, director etc.
This whole thing is theater.
Before goalposts shifted, justification ‘obey and stay home’ ‘flattening the curve’.
US minus New York City past that point. See for example (H/T Drake) https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/tyler-o-neil/2020/05/07/heres-how-much-new-york-city-is-skewing-americas-coronavirus-numbers-n389007
If ‘obey and stay home’ without value, then ‘obey and stay home’ is ‘theater’ in sense of ‘security theater’ for passenger commercial air travel.
What?
‘What?’ = no or ‘What’ = not understand question?
I WAS TOLD THERE WOULD BE NO MATH!!1!
Did anyone else get an “add these two numbers to prove you’re not a bot” question? When logging in here?
I suspect more WordPress treachery.
Did anyone else get an “add these two numbers to prove you’re not a bot” question? When logging in here?
Yes. But since the answer was 42, I think the system is trolling us.
No… but can you please point out all the pictures that contain a traffic sign?
Yesterday. Not today. So far.
Needs even more testing.
AFL-CIO President Trumka is on CNBC right now railing-on about worker safety, OSHA on a “starvation diet” and no enforceable guidelines.
Why ‘more testing’? Testing = leading cause cases Chinese flu
Re the Dems’ $2k/month proposal: Insert JPG of power strip plugged into itself here. (I would if I could find it.)
If Trump had reined in his sharp tongue he might not have lost the House.
“We’re out of fax paper, can you fax us more so we can receive your message?”
Electronic ouroboros,
Duckduckgo is your friend
Don’t forget this one
With children like these, maybe Mister Granger was right: ‘Children should be seen and not heard and preferably not seen.’
‘Fourteen years ago this month, during the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in Indianapolis, Laura Glass, a 15-year-old Albuquerque High sophomore, laid out her plan for slowing the spread of pandemics.’
‘Her project, based on computer simulations of human interaction, impressed the judges enough to win her third place in the medicine and health category at the Intel fair that year.’
— By Ollie Reed Jr. / Journal Staff Writer
Updated: Sunday, May 3rd, 2020 at 12:05am
https://www.abqjournal.com/1450579/social-distancing-born-in-abq-teens-science-project.html
How a 9-Year-Old Boy’s Statistic Shaped a Debate on Straws
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/19/business/plastic-straws-ban-fact-check-nyt.html
“Why don’t you put her in charge?!?”
—Hudson
Odds these kids, unlike Ripley, anti-firearm?
Friday Funbags features deploratits.
http://archive.li/8rbWm
BEST CHIVE GALLERY EVER!
Smells fishy to me.
Are we drinking on the interwebs tonight?
Seems like everything is opening up just in time for me to escape Virginia.
S’okay – the Feds won’t be opening offices anytime soon. I’m just hoping my favorite BBQ joint in NC is open in the next couple weeks (it’s 100% outdoors, except the kitchen, so don’t see why it wouldn’t be)
Can they close all the offices permanently? Please?
What BBQ place is that (I live in NC)?
Hubba Hubba in Flat Rock
Can we begin including butthole bleaching as well as waxing in the Real America?
And chugging.
Butt chuging after an anal bleach?
I think that’s how teenagers are avoiding the virus. Instead of vodka, they’re butt chugging bleach. Because Trump told them to. Or something. I don’t understand it, but it’s the only thing that makes any sense.
It checks out. I cannot think of anyone that was (for my age group) that was on TV that could make me go agaisnt common sense…maybe CKY2K or Jackass like kids these days and their “influencers”.
I bet if a bigtime instagram thot bleached her anus and then did a beer chug….even if fake…..kids today would do it.
Now get off my lawn!
I think you’re supposed to wait an hour before the chugging.
Due to the popular demand, I’ve set up the Virtual Happy Hour for tonight starting at 19:00 Eastern.
YAS
(next week, I’m-a rope my dad into joining when I’m down in the Free Land of South Carolina)
YES!
I refuse to futher participate in these because of the vicious calumnies leveled against me thereon.
“Cabela’s ad” was most particularly stingy.
Srsly? I’m totes the LL Bean, East Coast preppie type.
We don’t call you Cabela’s Ad, we call Tundra Cabela’s Ad
+2 Duck Boots
Strap a kayak on your back and a floppy hat with lures hanging off it…oh we are trying to get Tonio to come back. Nevermind.
Oooooh yeahs! Thanks Neph!
I promised to watch Tropic Thunder, so I may drop in after
There seems to be much wailing and gnashing of teeth among my proggie pals when they found out that among the businesses that applied for (and received) loans through the Paycheck Protection Program were … churches.
I can’t see why the full-time employees at Li’l Tots daycare over at the local synagogue who was just thrown out of work by government diktat shouldn’t get the same benefits as any other employee of a non- or for-profit enterprise. But I keep hearing “that’s different because reasons.”
If the government recognizes that churches exist, it’s an establishment of religion.
‘ ‘The government cannot directly fund inherently religious activities,’ argues Alison Gill, legal and policy vice president of American Atheists. ‘It can’t spend government tax dollars on prayer, on promoting religion [or] proselytization. That directly contradicts the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. This is the most drastic attack on church-state separation we have ever seen.’ ‘
However …
‘The SBA statement on the participation of faith-based organizations in the new loan program declares that some agency regulations ‘impermissibly exclude some religious entities. Because those regulations bar the participation of a class of potential recipients based solely on their religious status, SBA will decline to enforce these subsections and will propose amendments to conform those regulations to the Constitution.’ ‘
https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/04/06/828462517/another-break-from-the-past-government-will-help-churches-pay-pastor-salaries
‘I can’t see why the full-time employees at Li’l Tots daycare over at the local synagogue who was just thrown out of work by government diktat shouldn’t get the same benefits as any other employee of a non- or for-profit enterprise.’
What about none of them should get the ‘benefits’ because the money is not coming from voluntary donations? Politicians legislated program with a ‘but we still have checks left’ mentality?
Problem not whether or not churches should be eligible, but program exists for anyone to be eligible.
Sen. Ted Cruz Gets Haircut At Salon A La Mode After Owner Shelley Luther Released From Jail
Sununu deigns to allow dentists to reopen
Dental offices in New Hampshire will be able to reopen as early as Monday under new guidance from the state, the governor said Friday.
Gov. Chris Sununu said dentists were never ordered to shut down, but many did so voluntarily because of the risk of COVID-19. He said state health officials have worked with dentists and hygienists and looked at American Dental Association guidance to develop the state guidelines.
Sununu said it’s up to individual dental offices to determine when they will reopen. He said residents should call their dentists to determine when and how their procedures will be scheduled.
Huh. If King Sununu never ordered them to close, why does he need to issue “guidance” and why can’t dentists open before May 11th?
Sounds to me like there is a little more push back against King Sununu based on this article about public comments at the reopening task force meeting.
Sununu is no king. He is a clown prince.
I like that. I’ll switch to that. Thanks!
Good thing they have their priorities straight.
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/jim-treacher/2020/05/08/san-antonio-city-council-bans-chinese-virus-as-hate-speech-n389159
California tried blatant first amendment violations ten or so years ago. Whatchawanna bet those fucksticks are California immigrants bringing their banana republic monkey shit to Texas?
This one time, I got a speeding ticket in Texas, and wouldn’t you know it? When you mailed in your fine they get processed in California!
Mask, off.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/rachelsandler/2020/05/06/cuomo-faces-backlash-for-enlisting-billionaires-eric-schmidt-and-bill-gates-to-reimagine-ny-after-reopening/
On the one hand, this is upsetting the teachers unions. On the other hand, it’s Bill Gates. Hmm.
That son of a bitch.
That cocksucking son of a bitch.
Well, look. If New Yorkers voted him and won’t kick him out then they deserve whatever they get.
I don’t get this fetish for Bill Gates. He’s and asshole. Is he going to teach New York how to be assholes?
Central planners coming out of the woodwork
Schmidt is a Hillary cocksucker.
If I bumped into Billy G on the street I’d Arkancide him (two to the back of the head) on the spot and go quietly to the calaboose, knowing I had done the world a great favor.
Seriously I spent at least 3 hours this week dealing with Windows 10 updates.
Doesn’t Bill realize I have real work to do and don’t really care if the newest version of Teams is installed on the 4 computers in my lab
“Exclusive: 1996 court document confirms Tara Reade told of harassment in Biden’s office”
sanluisobispo.com/news/politics-government/article242527331.html?mod=article_inline
Holy crap. Someone at the SLO Tribune committed an act of journalism!
But what did she claim happened then? Is it the same as what she claims now?
The declaration — exclusively obtained by The Tribune in San Luis Obispo, California — does not say Biden committed the harassment nor does it mention Reade’s more recent allegations of sexual assault.
News you can use.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/love-sex/what-penis-stretching-work-how-21991326
Nope. Girth, not length.
There’s more than one way to stretch a cat.
It might not be long, but at least it’s skinny.
Short to tease, thick to please?
I’d pick chode over pencil any day.
I miss that show.
So Facederp only lets you deactivate your account for 7 days. When I logged in earlier this week, it was the same shithole crapfest. Deactivated for another 7 days.
You could delete your account.
GAY
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/11580159/boyfriend-says-he-is-not-gay/
Related.
If he asks you to peg him, then you’ll know.
Sounds more like he’s a whore.
Yeah, if she already has a problem with his adventures, she owes it to him to be honest.
This shooting of Ahmaud Arbery on foot running AWAY by the retired cop and cops brother Pursuing in a truck gets worse all the time.
When it happened in February, the cops told Ahmaud’s family that he’d been killed by a homeowner while breaking into a house. (He was shot on the street with three shotgun blasts and wasn’t in anyone’s home).
Only when the video and audio were leaked this week did we find what a pack of lies the burglary story was.
And then today we find out the DA didn’t press charges because she was friends with one of the shooters!!
Terrible. I’m sure the city taxpayers will foot the bill and learn their lesson. Wait…
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8301035/Ex-cop-son-charged-MURDER-black-jogger-Ahmaud-Arbery-25-connection-him.html
Prison time for all, including the DA.
I’d want her flayed.
I say hang the DA and the two men. Publicly.
It’s the stereotypical small-town good ol’ boy network. I hear things like that and think, “This is why 2A.” I don’t think that’s what you’d call a universal reaction, though, and I suspect usual suspects will fall all over themselves to make this about keeping guns out of the hands of racist white rednecks rather than considering that maybe there’s a flaw in a system where the authorities choose whether to enforce law based on whether they’ve been to a cookout at the suspect’s home.
Yes
Yeah, I wish they wouldn’t linger on the race angle. This is more the “do we want a license to kill in the hands of thousands of bubbas who will never face a consequence for a bad shoot?” Kind if question.
But with so many worshipfully following Govt advice on covid, I don’t know if they can relate that kind of unchecked power to the power wielded by the gunmen.
I come from a multi-multi racial family. The whole thing had passed me by until a couple of my sisters started raisin hell about it. Then I started looking into it. As Scruffy noted, prison time for all, including the DA and the Sheriff.
Sometimes Florida Man makes you shake your head in disbelief.
Other times, Florida Man is an inspiration for us all.
Lol.
I demand the delivery guy set the pie down in the street, and then do doughnuts around it Ken Block style. All that tire smoke kills the virus!
Is this the delivery guy?
That’s funny. Took the edge off of my surliness… er… surlitude… Whatever.
I am giving a hearty recommendation for Trader Joe’s Pepitas Salsa.
Fuck Trader Joe’s. Never, never, never will I ever spend another cent there.
Apropos of nothing, I generally don’t like small dogs. Corgis are an exception.
I like some wiener dogs, but I wouldn’t get one due to their hip and back issues.
Haven’t had any hip issues with ours, but she has had a spinal condition from time to time.
*looks at our small dog-like creature*
Yeah, well, whatever… That’s just like your opinion man…
My mom had an Italian Greyhound for many years. She was tiny but stupendously fast.
Corgis and corgi mixes are adorable. The mix always looks like the other dog in the coat/markings but with the corgi body so it looks like the corgi is wearing, say, a German Shepherd costume. I want one so bad, but until my allergic son goes to college we shouldn’t get a dog.
something something foreseeable consequences something not unintended something
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2020/05/08/coronavirus-pandemic-boosts-suicide-alcohol-drug-death-predictions/3081706001/
The federal mental health czar is calling for more money to expand services
Never let a crisitunity go to waste, I suppose.
a new study estimates related deaths from alcohol, drug overdose and suicide could reach 150,000.
Well, it could, but that doesn’t mean it will.
I’ve worked with Czar Dr. McCance-Katz a few times over the past few years. She’s actually pretty cool and level-headed for someone in her position. I don’t think she’s doing anything more than recognizing there’s going to be enormous mental health challenges as the lockdown continues, rather than just seeking unnecessary funding.
*looks at empties in bin*
I’m doing my part!
Technology just keeps improving our lives.
https://nypost.com/2020/05/07/cyberpunk-2077-allows-gamers-to-customize-their-own-genitals/
Like the same developers did in the Witcher 3? Shocking!
All the Witchers…but yeah…who cares?
I remember sex scenes in the first two, but my recollection was the third being more…salacious.
Mmmm videogame porn
As if porn featuring real people wasn’t fake enough….geez…
Day 7 of Texas’s reopening. No increase in hospitalizations or deaths yet.
Thats because hospitals are covering for the governor /Karen
Not likely when the hospitals get a higher reimbursement rate for COVID patients.
I was assured that no medical professional would ever choose a coding that’s more lucrative. And there’s a paper trail so the FBI can suss out any fraud.
When my wife worked dental she told me all the tricks…code regular cleanings as deep cleanings, bill other customer’s insurance that paid well and never ask questions….it was fraud city and she refused and was sidelined for it.
Steal my Karen thunder why don’t cha
A week is a bit early to progress from exposure to hospitalization.
Not if the numbers go up. In that case one day is plenty.
Burning brush this afternoon before the end of the season. Or an excuse to sit out on a log and drink beer and eat campfire cooked hotdogs…
Went grocery shopping this morning. Less people wearing masks and they’re bringing their germbreeders in tow again. Also teenagers because they apparently have nothing better to do with their time. Traffic is almost back to normal. Home Depot parking lot was fuller than most Saturdays. Huge lot and at least half full. No line out the door but there was a serpentine set up for it. And once again, expediency wins out. To maximize line space they doubled it back so people are facing each other. Just like leaving those climate curtains on at doorways that blow air at high speed as people walk through….
My wife is so sick of being cooped up with our germbreeder that she kicked the two of us out and told us to go to the Home Despot. Traffic was worse than a normal Friday afternoon.
I take it the teenage girl cashiers havent been seeing many kids, because they went all googly eyes over trashtoddler and wouldn’t stop crowding around us.
Backyard garden update. The fig tree that was here when we bought the place is finally fruiting. I thought it was a baren tree for a bit but alas, figgy puddin for christmas!
Have a sizable bulb of garlic and the other is anemic. I think they are too close together. The scallions have rooted (thanks suthen for that suggestion) and the potato is starting to grow tubers.
Lime tree in the front never was happy where it was but this year it started to grow and develop. May be hope for it yet.
Gonna start planning out the next section with more tomato, broccoli, and peppers.
What was the scallion suggestion? I love green onions.
He mentioned that store bought are clipped 2″ from the rootball so just take one and replant.
Ah! I saw that elsewhere and decided to try it out. Good to hear from two sources that it works.
Potato is a bit harder because they might have been sprayed with an inhibitor…otherwise find one that is sprouting some tubers and plant. I think…time will tell on that one I think. Interwebs says to only plant the portion where its growing and cut off the rest.
Sorry on my phone…cut off where the potato is sprouting and bury that to start a new plant to start growing more tubers…I need a beer
Yeah, but. if you have potatoes that are starting to get soft/sprout what have you got to lose? I put a dozen in a couple of months ago and more than half sprouted. I harvest early and get marble to golf ball size. Those are great as additions to a salad or butter and pop in your mouth whole between bites of steak. They aren’t so good for potato soup as the skin to starch ratio is too high. I harvest on time and I will get the equivalent of the bag of full size potatoes I bought ini the first place.
You can do this with sweet potatoes also. You have to get them on time. On the farm where I grew up we would occasionally miss sweet potatoes and they would stay in the ground sometimes for years. I remember one about two feet long and 18 inches in diameter we figured had been there for four years. We had to use an axe to cut it open because it was so woody.
When you harvest your scallions cut them off a couple/few inches from the ground and leave the bulb in the ground. In no time at all. you will have new leaves sprouting and a whole new crop. Mine produce year round and I sometimes have to trim them because they grow so fast they get tough before I need them. I chop those up and make stock with them then toss the leaves.
Thanks! I was going to pull the whole thing out and replant if not used. Cutting and leaving the root in place sounds like a better plan.
They should grow like chives…clip what you need and they will come back. The garlic scapes are good also for this.
@Hayeksplosives from dead thread:
We’ve got as much of ours leveraged as possible. We did that on purpose after the Cyprus thing. Scared the shit out of us.
Now they don’t let us borrow any more and we’re nervous too.
…borrow any more of our assets from our 401(k)… They capped the borrow limit after that.
I have the TSP and I loaned against it right at the beginning because we had credit debt that needed to go away. Our math was…pay 400/month on interest for the CC or take a loan against the TSP and pay 75/month.
We can do that if one or the other gets canned. 400 a month not so much.
Exactly!
The tax hit we’d take if we pulled it all out though– OMG. I don’t know if it’s worth it but we’re scared.
Isnt the tax penalty waived right now? I’d be more afraid of the hit of selling low, but if you need it, you need it.
Think thats why she is borrowing against it not pulling it out.
Oh. I took her prior comment as saying that they had already hit the cap on the loan.
Nope rereading I think it was a borrow and capped. So you sir, are right
It was a borrow, and then some time after that (not long), they capped loans at X% of the account balance. Previous to that, there was no cap.
I would not take it out right now, no, not with the dip like this.
I didn’t know that the tax penalty was waived right now, but we don’t need it. Since we don’t, I’m not willing to pull it out in a dip.
The tax hit can be brutal, not just the 20% in front, but at tax time, it can be worse. I’m almost completely out of the equity market game and even the tiny bit I have in there has lost 25% of its value at last check. Terrible time to cash out unless you absolutely have to. And I have every confidence that situations like the one we’re in right now can breed a “now you see it, now you don’t” in IRA’s, 401K’s etc. practically overnight. The only saving grace is that the Beltway Bullies seem fine with printing fiat paper into oblivion. For now.
No, we’re not taking it out. We don’t need it AND it lost almost half its value overnight. Lastly, I’m not willing to sell in a dip, particularly with that tax bite.
I borrowed against the 401k too. Good deal.
I just have the uneasy feeling that my 401k will be seized by government and handed out for the greater good.
Oh, it will be. You can bet on that.
And as soon as the hints start becoming more than hints, you can bet that all assets will be frozen immediately lest there be a run. Because there would be.
All the more reason to get your assets (heh-heh, he said….nevermind) out of the system before they get frozen or inflated away.
I think they’ll force us all into Treasuries instead of a flat-out confiscation.
This
I keep thinking I should have done the same thing. The only bad thing is that you have to pay it back. I guess it all depends on how much of a loss you took vs paying it back. I haven’t been hit too bad because most of mine is in low risk, since I’m old. So I’m just waiting for retirement to roll around and find out that they’ve emptied the funds completely.
A light finally went off in my head. Anytime I hear/read about some elected official (or an appointed health commissioner like in Ohio) say, “out of an abundance of caution, we’re implementing (x).” Or, “it’s we’re looking out for the safety of all our citizens….”
It’s really just this.
Or this…https://youtu.be/wyif5jVBKWw
RIP in piece, sweet Bertram Crispin Reynolds III.
Just finished eating my pizza. I dont think I baked the crust long enough pre-dressing. I was going to use a half flour / half semolina recipe. I know I bought semolina sometime in the last year but it seems to hav disappeared so I just went with all purpose flour. Also, I got distracted and ini the pre-bake I didn’t get a chance to turn the broiler on for half of the time. I dont think the top side of the crust cooked enough and it ended up a bit doughy tasting.
For some reason I have been grouchy as hell today and very distracted.
Where is my vodka? *looks around*
Got a storage unit today, 10×25. Almost half price because it gets a little soggy on the floor, but she had pallets we were free to use, so XY and I put those down. Score. Now we gotta fill it. *looks in garage apprehensively*
Be careful with mold and mildew if there’s moisture in the unit.
Will do, thanks. I hadn’t thought about it, but that makes sense. I don’t think our stuff will be in there that long, but I’ll keep an eye on it.
That’s what we said, thinking it would be a temporary thing. 20 or so yeas later we finally emptied it out. And kept almost nothing.
Ours is stuff we use often enough that we would miss having it handy AND we are going to sell a lot of our stuff (mostly because we don’t like it). We considered another couple of options, but because reasons, we chose this route. It’ll do for now. I don’t expect we’ll be there more than a year or so.
“it gets a little soggy on the floor”
What’s leaking? Water damage will quickly escalate and destroy stuff. Can you fix it?
We’ve ensured that if a truly existential pandemic hits, we’ll be too poorly disposed toward public health measures to do anything about it. At least, I hope so.
“Mike Pence’s coronavirus taskforce spokeswoman Katie Miller tests positive for disease the day after Donald Trump’s valet – but president’s chief of staff calls White House ‘the safest place you can come”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8301519/Now-member-Mike-Pences-staff-tests-positive-coronavirus.html
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8302199/Demi-Rose-showcases-jaw-dropping-curves-TINY-silk-dressing-gown.html
Anna Paulina Luna showing off her qualifications for Congress.
@realannapaulina·
May 6
Birthday Beach Day !⛵️??
Ps clean oceans are my no. 1 priority!
https://twitter.com/realannapaulina/status/1258065147005935617?s=20
First time out of the house for us today, for 2-3 weeks. We took a daring expedition to the upscale marketplace. Almost everyone wearing masks. I saw only 2 people not wearing them. Besides that, things looked about the same as 2 weeks ago as far as traffic. But it’s raining a lot, so hard to tell if more people would actually be out now, or not. I think we’re going out again tomorrow to hit the local normal budget rate supermarket, getting a little low on a few things.
There are still plenty of things I can’t buy at the supermarket.
I’m still looking for an online source of non-food household supplies.
We didn’t find anything we wanted today out of stock. I got some really nice looking sweet corn. Nothing looked low to me. But we’ll see how the regular supermarket looks tomorrow.
Bleach, disinfectants, paper goods have all been out of stock since the announcement in March.
Very little beef, bakery bread, dried beans, or frozen vegetables. I got the last bag of frozen peas. No buttermilk.
I can buy tons of beef, beans, frozen veggies right now. But I already have a lot.
Nothing there that we’re low on.
My wife is very vigilant about this stuff and because she has nothing else to do, she doesn’t work, she’ll just hit sites several times daily until she sees something back in stock and she’ll just order it. I’m lucky she’s in charge of household goods, because someone has to work around here.
sextoys.com
“I’m still looking for an online source of non-food household supplies.”
Amazon? They still low on stuff? I just went to Walmart, Home Depot, and the local supermarket and found everything I need.
The only thing I’ve had trouble finding is name brand toilet paper, but my wife found it on Amazon Pantry one day and she bought enough that I’d say we’re easy good for 6 months now. We have the cheap stuff too, but I’ve been using that for my petri-dish seed germination.
Ever try jiffy pellets? (As far as I remember they used to be called jiffy pots.)
Yeah, I have a lot of them and I use them. After the seeds germinate. I don’t like to waste pellets on seeds that may or may not germinate.
I use a folded up square of toilet paper in those little condiment cups with the lids to put seeds in and wait to see if they germinate. The ones that do, I move them into a jiffy pellet, or pete plug, or right into a pot or the soil, depending on what it is. I’ve been doing this for 30 years and that’s the best method I’ve found.
Amazon looks like they are still out of stuff, but they have bleach.
I’m telling you, you have to have nothing else to do, like my wife, and just keep cycling sites until you see ‘In Stock’ and pounce. It works.
Maybe your wife knows a good list of sites? Because everyone thinks Amazon.
For household supplies like you’re talking about, I think she mostly checks Amazon, Amazon Pantry, and Walmart. and Home Depot. Walmart delivers too you know.
She’s just almost OCD about checking it if she wants something.
OK, so does Home Depot.
I snagged 4 – 1lb packs of 80% lean ground beef this morning. They were on sale 3 bucks each because they were two days away from expiration. We have beef on the shelf up to expiration.
Yet the sugar was wiped out. What the hell are people doing with all of that sugar?
I know what my grandaddy would do with a shitload of sugar in tough times.
Well….now that you mention it….
My wife has a ton of sugar of all different types, as well as honey, Karo syrup, agave syrup, all that stuff.
I like Stevia, my wife hates it. I probably have a 10 year supply of it.
I go through about 50 lbs of sugar per year…bees and hummingbirds eat a lot. I dont touch the stuff myself.
I am puzzled as to what everyone else is doing now that they did not do before.
Hoarding?
Hoarding is always the best guess. Like TP, it’s not perishable, may as well hoard it.
I noticed a baking craze on twitter. It’s very difficult to find yeast.
Yeup.
Fortunately, I already had some in the freezer. Not enough to last for a while, but if I’m forced to bake yeasty things, I’ll have some at least.
That was the first thing that came to mind but it only takes a tablespoon or two to make a loaf of bread.
I use a teaspoon and a little bit of diastatic malt. Takes a little longer to rise, is all.
We had a Webex Happy Hour for my group at work yesterday. I nearly climbed through the internet to choke the idiot who thinks we all need to stay inside until there’s a vaccine. He then proceeded to show us the fancy dinner he was cooking with ingredients that must have fallen from the sky, because there’s no way he could have left the house.
They were having one of those today when I got done with a Skype call with my project manager. She said ‘It’s Happy Hour! You want to join?’. I said ‘Are you nuts? Have a good weekend.’. I should have joined with a N95 mask on, holding up this can of Corona.
There isn’t going to be any vaccine. If we can’t make one for the other corona viruses that cause colds then we cant make one for this one either.
Then we have to stay inside! Until
we get one!badorangeman is gone!You can safely ignore anyone who talks about a vaccine. They have no idea what they are talking about. Ask them to explain in detail what ‘the corona virus’ is.
My bet is that they have no idea that corona is a whole group of viruses, a few of which cause the common cold – another generalization that is inaccurate.
There is also the fact that it is, as you are saying, not a flu. It’s a cold like virus. And maybe the reason it’s so lethal (which is being greatly exaggerated) is because there’s no herd immunity to it, yet. How many people are the other cold type viruses killing? None, we all have antibodies for them.
This will all change when badorangeman is gone and you will hear no more of it, end of story.
“There is also the fact that it is, as you are saying, not a flu.”
I know, but it is too much fun to say ‘Flu Manchu’, plus it is the most apt name socially.
“This will all change when badorangeman is gone and you will hear no more of it, end of story.”
Truth.
At that time I will berate everyone that had TDS mercilessly. So many lives ruined, fortunes, businesses and careers destroyed over this nonsense. I will never let it go not until the day I die.
Yeah, a buddy of mine knew that, but was debating me on FB saying that monoclonal antibodies (MAs) will do the job. I didn’t want to rain on his parade or hurt his feelings by pointing out that creating a monoclonal antibody for COVID wouldn’t be any better than a vaccine, ’cause coronavirii actually attack epithelial cells in the respiratory tract first, which, for immune system active response purposes, are considered to be “outside” the body and therefore do not trigger an immune system response until it’s far too late. Not to mention the fact that neither MAs nor vaccines are considered to be 100% effective at the best of times. Thus, anyone who has their hopes pinned on either of these solutions has to say “we’ll end the lockdown if only (say) 10% of people would be unprotected by MAs/vaccines.” That makes no sense, since far less than 10% of the population would experience adverse/dangerous reactions if we simply let the coronavirus rampage through the population unchecked. If your vaccine/MA won’t protect 100% of the population, what are you waiting for?
“That makes no sense…”
Neither does anything else they are saying or doing, at least not in the context of public health.
Grrr. Took a toddler skull to the chin and ended up spitting out a chip of a tooth… The dentist is gonna love the payday when he fixes that one.
My wife’s kids bought her one of those robovacs for Mother’s Day. She’s so excited over that thing, she’s like a little kid.
We have one and love love love it.
https://twitter.com/baraGodzilla/status/1258682943716782080
OFFS!
“At the start female players get more money than guys—$1,900 versus $1,500—and collect $240 for passing go, rather than the usual $200.”
Equality!