Happy mid-week everyone. I hope everyone’s day has been great. I’m still trying to figure out WTF is going on with some work travel I was supposed to have at the end of the month. But other than that, everything is wonderful. This virus thing has just gotten weird to me. I can’t quite figure out what in the hell an appropriate response to this is, but I don’t think panic-buying bumwipe and turning kids out of class is it.
And speaking of inappropriate responses, banning free assembly of private citizens seems like a police-state move.
Oh noes, the Turks and the Russians aren’t going to fight anymore? Say it ain’t so!
Rains of molten iron… great Manowar album.
This seems sensible to me.
“This virus thing has just gotten weird to me.”
#metoo
Lowe’s has emailed me about the Coronavirus. It was a lot of words to just say “we’re still selling shit.”
Plastic wrap and duct tape?
Don’t forget hacksaws and trash bags.
I was making a SARS reference.
You think I wasn’t?
You clearly deviated from recommended procedures if you were.
Not everyone is lucky enough to have a whole body sized incinerator in their basement.
UCS just has a dirt floor in his basement.
The gloves help prevent blisters.
I think UCS is a “brick them up in the wall, go slowly insane” type.
Picks and shovels?
Yep. I’ve also heard from Avis that they’re still renting cars, and Best Buy and Staples are still selling the shit they usually sell. It’s quite a relief. I was so worried.
Target, Nordstrom, Enterprise, Southwest, Delta and my church are all committed to my safety.
So I got that going for me.
Which is nice.
BestBuy has ramped up cleaning measures and cares very deeply about their employees, I didn’t read down to find out how or how much.
“And speaking of inappropriate responses, banning free assembly of private citizens seems like a police-state move.”
It seems like something libertarians would argue over endlessly.
It does not.
Yes, it does!
This isn’t an argument; this is just contradition.
No, it isn’t!
I could just be arguing on my spare time.
What tradition?
The opposite of protradition.
As long as you don’t assemble pineapple and pizza.
Or mention a type of pizza that is commonly attributed to a large midwestern city.
Kansas City claims to make a Pizza?
They claim to make BBQ.
What? Screw you, fight me!
Detroit
Ohio Valley
Chicago
Quad Cities
St. Louis
I’ve had both Chicago Deep Dish and Quad Cities style pizzas.
I’m a big tent kinda guy
{pitches tent}
Quad Cities: Right on DJ’s. Wrong on Pizza.
+ 1 Move your arm up and down and make that choo-choo sound
The quad cities are four medium town/small cities.
Ohio Valley style pizza? Is that where they give you shakers of crushed oxycontin instead of parmesan?
https://www.atlasobscura.com/foods/ohio-valley-style-pizza
Square crust is baked with tomato sauce then taken out and covered with cold cheese and pepperoni. Let cool and serve
“Scientists identify rain of molten iron on distant exoplanet”
I wonder how the Guardian is going to blame that on Trump.
Trump doesn’t believe in global warming! Look at what happened!
“Wasp-76b is what astronomers call an exoplanet, one that orbits a star outside our solar system. Scientists have discovered that the local weather conditions include 2,400C temperatures, winds in excess of 10,000mph and a steady pelting of iron rain.”
So climate change?
That is totally metal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8ZqFlw6hYg
I’m guessing buying guns is one of the actions that turns Asians into whites?
Well, if you’re hispanic, it’s only after you shoot a black kid in a swing state.
I thought it was kick-ass grades and a strong work ethic.
Those too.
That’s what turns white kids into asians.
K pop
I was out pig hunting yesterday. The guide mentioned that the local gun shop reported that Asians were buying up guns. They might have a little more experience with societal breakdown than we do.
Roof. Headband. AK. Some assembly required.
Because the planet is so close in, it is “tidally locked” (like the Moon’s orbit about Earth) and only only ever shows one face, its day side, to its parent star, while its cooler night side remains in perpetual darkness.
Pretty lucky its day-side is the one facing the star. How weird would it be if the night-side was the one all lit up like it’s day.
I must be a science denier because I have a strong suspicion that it isn’t actually possible to be confident about this level of detail concerning an object you deduce from light and gravity fluctuations, you ‘observe’ from 640 light years away
I’m in the same line of thinking. Maybe they’re right, but if they’re deducing all of this based on 3 or 4 pixels of info, I’m quite skeptical.
Science…fiction?
I’m sure they sciences the shit out of this.
Sorry, Brett, but I have a breaking link!
Hillary Proves That Hillary Clinton Is Likable, But Never Asks What That Got Her
Goddamn, how much ketamine did they have to take to write this bullshit?
“theslot”
I’m guessing I don’t want to be anywhere near the slot of any Jezebel writer.
It’s sweaty and dark and occasionally there’s a penis staring back at you.
Sounds an awful lot like a glory hole.
Is there duct tape to prevent nasty scratches?
Based of my observation of feminists the frequency of penis sightings falls into a boolean distribution, if age 30 frequency is never.
I forgot about tags and used greater than an less than symbols.
If age is less than or equal to thirty, penis sighting frequency is always. If age is greater than 30, penis sighting frequency is never.
Dare I invoke the edit fairy?
One set of industrial strength, prescription, reality blocking ideological blinders.
Poor, poor HIllary. It’s all so unfair, SHE DID EVERYTHING RIGHT!! And now here she is, frustrated and limited to the occasional “suicide” to relieve her frustrations. She should be killing people by the thousands! It’s so unfaiiiirrrrrrrr!!!!!!
Nation To Use Coronavirus As Convenient Excuse To Quarantine California
Clearly they have been anointed by God.
Worst job? Hired as a trainer, had QA *and* support added on top. The boss (co-owner of the company) would stand behind me critiquing, and insisting I immediately change anything he didn’t like, while I’ve was typing the first draft of the reply email.
I had a sad history of working for crazy people. Not the good kind of crazy either.
Retirement is nice.
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee is going to announce a ban on gatherings and events of more than 250 people in virtually the entire Seattle metro area, according to an Associated Press source, in an attempt to stop the spread of the new coronavirus.
This authoritarian action has no logic.
It is Seattle. They have a Lenin statue.
I’m going to church this weekend. If the WSP wants to arrest me, Jay can enjoy the optics.
Based on what the infectious disease expert said in the Rogan link that Scruffy linked this morning, it actually does.
So, what’s your worst job?-
This doesn’t seem so bad compared to other jobs I’ve had.
Maybe something got lost in translation because I don’t see the “humiliation” they’re claiming in the article. Or it’s just the usual sign-of-the-times fake “outrage”.
They should have lowered the dispenser a six more inches. Then it could be labelled as humiliating.
No that would be awesome.
“Ooooh yeah baby, that’s the spot!”
When you say “human dispenser” I assume it’s being dispensed out of an orifice. This was just a dispenser mascot.
“human dispenser”
Peter North to the white courtesy phone…
We’re starting to see some Corona effects. This week both me and Mrs TOK walked right in to doctors appointments where we’d normally have to wait. Now my hockey league championship in Michigan has been cancelled. We still have the Disabled Hockey Festival In April in Pittsburgh but my gut’s telling me that will be cancelled too. Like Brett, I’m not sure what to think.
Pretty gruesome but within the realm of possibility for the ChiComs.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/03/11/experts-china-carving-lungs-out-of-political-prisoners-to-treat-coronavirus/
TW: Breitbart
Things just get better. https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/china-credibly-accused-of-organ-harvesting-atrocity/
Would not surprise me. They are already credibly suspected of harvesting skin and kidneys from still-living prisoners and dissidents. Still-living at the start of the procedure, that is.
Worst job: shoe store. It was a nightmarish hellscape of old people feet and psychotic bosses.
Everyone should work retail at some point in their life. It effectively burns away any fluffy, happy, optimism and replaces it with the armor of cynicism.
Wal-mart did that for me.
Don’t let Mojeaux see that!
I am 100% serious about this:
I have been trying for 30 years and haven’t been able to capture how awful it was in prose. Bits and pieces, yes, but not the entirety of the grinding tedium and the incompetence and occasional outright insanity of the people supervising me.
+1 The Devil and Miss Jones
(NB: The title has “and”, not “in”.)
Have you tried epic poetry or interpretive dance?
Penis puppetry. It’s the only way.
Have you read this?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_Office_(novel)
My problem is that I just don’t drink enough.
We use fiction to transmit truths because direct communication is insufficient to the task. Thus, Al Bundy.
I have been trying for 30 years and haven’t been able to capture how awful it was in prose.
Your author origin story is not quite what I would have expected.
Or a job in fast food.
I’ve done fast food, retail, consulting, IT, temping, and inventory. The inventory job was the worst of the lot.
I did the inventory thing back in the day, can confirm.
Pussies. I worked at a pharmacy. Imagine counting bazillions of pills…
Yes, but if it hadn’t been for you, old man Gower would have screwed up that prescription and killed that kid with poison. You’ve had a wonderful life.
I never worked retail. Well, I worked for a retail electronics store as an installer.
As bad as retail is, hotel desk clerk is far worse. I had to get out of it for my sanity because I didn’t like what it was turning me into.
No doubt in that job they told you there ain’t no sanity clause.
One of my early retail jobs was at a windsurfing shop. I was often tasked with running the swimwear department where northside hotties would try on bikinis and step out to ask me how they looked. If by “armor of cynicism” you mean colossal boner, then yes, I dealt with that a plenty.
I would add that everyone should work as a tax preparer in a H&R Block type store. I was forever jaded with that being my first job out of college.
+1 Al Bundy
Faster and more accurate. You win this round.
*twirls mustache*
Al Bundt sound like a guy who makes awesome cakes, though.
Feathered Bundt will get you stoned to the bejeezus belt.
Are you Al Bundt?
I prefer Al Streusel.
I am not an artificially intelligent cake pan.
I’d be a lot cooler if you were.
It would make so much more sense.
The cake is alive
There is nothing cool about a sugar free cake pan. I’m sorry, but if your cake does not contain sugar it is not cake.
“So, what’s your worst job?”
1) Cleaner of the grease trap at a summer camp kitchen.
2) Hoeing soybeans / detassling corn
3) Overnight group home attendant/janitor/cook
Morbid, but not the worst: digger of graves
1. Door to door encyclopedia sales
2. Vacant house clean outs
3. Cleaning a College bar, would be in second place except I also bartended there and that part was awesome.
Their fears are ridiculous. It’s not like anyone would round up Asian Americans and put them in camps.
In the midst of the Russian collusion hysteria, I couldn’t come up with a good reason why they wouldn’t put Russian Americans in camps if it guaranteed removal Trump from power.
Worst job? Telemarketing. I quit after a week.
“So, what’s your worst job?”
This really toothy one I got from a not-particularly-attractive neighbor after too many tequila shots about 10 years ago.
Still pretty good though, amirite?
It’s like pizza…
You may want to see a doctor about that.
Well, it’s been 10 years.
Crusty with a lot of cheese and red sauce?
On the plus side of everyone’s Coronapocalypse insanity:
I looked today and you can get two round trip tickets to Tokyo plus a week in a 4-star hotel for ~$3400 bucks out the door. If you wanna do some international travel, now’s the time.
On the other hand, they won’t let you back into the country afterwards.
Feature not bug?
i wonder when they just shut down flights altogether.
Israel is getting more aggressive:
Tourists will need to leave Israel as part of new travel restrictions
I’m flying out Saturday and coming back Friday. Hopefully I won’t be quarantined in Costa Rica. Although I guess there are worse places to spend 2 weeks.
You’ll be sent to their outsourced quarantine facility. It’s in Siberia.
They’ll have to shoot me before I’ll go anywhere cold. It’s a death sentence either way.
I’m reading that there’s a 3log reduction in the viability of the coronavirus outside the body in hot and humid weather.
Costa Rica is the place to be.
That doesn’t sound right – an environment that’s all wet and 98.6 degrees should be perfect for it.
You’re confusing viability with necessary conditions for reproduction.
An individual coronavirus is only viable for a few minutes in the human body after it is created.
I’m not confusing anything – just making at ill-constructed joke at the expense of overwarm, overhumid locales.
I confess it was niether funny, nor scientifically accurate.
If the US falls while I’m going, I’m going to be king of the ashes when I return.
If they ban international flights to the US, you can always fly to Tijuana and walk across. There’s a bridge from the airport that goes over the border.
A Florida Man emerging as king of the ashes sounds about right. I’d imagine Florida Man is uniquely suited to thrive in Mad Max type situations.
My guess, not long now. Was it on the AM links thread where I read that Milan’s airport has been shut down for the time being?
And even though it’s closed the Milan Malpensa airport will still find a way to lose people’s luggage.
Paid business? Otherwise it’s not dirty cheap.
https://www.jal.co.jp/jp/en/info/2020/other/200309/
Worst job? Pet store at the mall. I think I lasted 1 or 2 days.
Door to Door sales. One night of slams and fuck-offs.
Turks and Russians are still fighting….just not in Syria right now.
Also…you think Seattle is suspending the constitution. NJ says “Hold my Beer”
Worst job: reception for a scumbag DUI attorney. The stress, lying constantly, collections calls… ugh.
Ron Bell?
Nah, a tiny defense firm. The guy was nice enough, but his practice sucked.
Wanton Wednesday asks why you’d only want one when you can have more?
http://archive.is/OYwJf
Worst job: Evening shift at 24-hour child care center from Hell. Not sure I lasted more than one or two shifts.
You encapsulated horror in ten words. Well done.
Speaking of horror, worst < one day work assignment: Way back when I had delusions of becoming a teacher, I was subbing. One winter morning I got a call asking if I could fill in for a little while at a residential school for emotionally disturbed kids. It had snowed heavily, and the regular teacher (who lived one county over) had to shovel in front of his garage to get his car out.
The school was out in the country near the small Indiana city where I lived. As I approached it, I saw a large 19th-century building on a snowy hillside. I felt as if I were driving into a Dickens novel.
I was in charge of six middle school-aged boys – about five too many. Most memorably, at one point one boy lifted one of those all-in-one chair desks over his head and went after another kid with it. Discarding any common sense or instinct for self-preservation, I grabbed it.
I graciously declined any future opportunities to sub at that school.
Heh. Mrs. pistoffnick worked at a place called “Kids Come First”.
First off the name – ewwwwww.
Second, the parents would sometimes leave kids there for 12 or 18 hours. The kids obviously didn’t come first in parents minds.
That’s worse than the Michael Jackson Clothing Store joke.
“All boy’s pants half off.”
Worst Job: Amusement park area “host”aka trash boy
Could be worse. Could be piss boy.
Close. Cleaning amusement park bathroom stalls and urinals is down there at the bottom of desirable things to do.
I’ve actually liked most of my jobs, but I did quit my sole foray into the restaurant world after a few weeks. I realized that I really didn’t want to know what happens behind the scenes.
My best job was probably running cars around the country for a high-end European dealership. I still can’t believe they trusted a 17 year old with a Porsche…
Let’s be real, can you really trust anybody with a Porsche?
My best job was probably running cars around the country-
So that’s why Vanishing Point resonates with you so much.
Absolutely. I logged a lot of miles before I was 18. It was a glorious job. And there were times where the combination of caffeine and white crosses definitely made me feel like Kowalski.
I got pulled over several times, though, by troopers who thought it was suspicious that a little kid was driving a really nice car (possibly quite fast).
After that I made sure to carry a letter from my boss.
I got pulled over several times, though, by troopers who thought it was suspicious that a little kid was driving a really nice car (possibly quite fast).
I had an experience like that. My first job out of college was as a editorial assistant for a business publishing company in the LA area. Several of their magazines were related to the automotive industry – Auto Rental News, Automotive Fleet, Fleet Financials, Limo, etc. – and they used to get press cars from the manufacturers. Most of them were ordinary cars, but sometimes we’d get fancy ones – even an Acura NSX once. The execs would take them for a week or so each, then mid-level editors, and so on down the line. Being the low man on staff, I’d get maybe a day or two with them.
So we had this Jaguar XK8 convertible in what one of the editors called “arrest-me-red”. I worked in Torrance and lived in Long Beach, and the direct route home was taking the 405 to the 710. However, since the traffic on that route was always awful, I started taking the back route on 110 onto Terminal Island and then over into Long Beach. Since Terminal Island is just the port of LA, there isn’t much traffic there. Well, shortly after crossing over the bridge, I got pulled over in that Jag for going 75 in a 55. That car was so smooth, fast, and quiet that, with the lack of traffic, I honestly had no idea I was going that fast. So here I am, a scruffy 23 year old with a Virginia driver’s license (even after almost a year in CA, I hadn’t bothered to get a new one) driving an $80,000 car that had no plates or registration, just a letter on Jaguar letterhead saying that my company was authorized possession of the vehicle between two sets of dates. I had no business cards, being a peon, and no way to prove I worked there. That cop made me sit by the side of the road for over an hour while he tried to track down my boss to verify who I was and that I had the car legitimately.
And then, on top of it, the ticket was like $300 at a time when I was making all of $22K paying rent of $800. Fuckers.
I still take the back way to Long Beach. They’re building a new bridge that costs some ridiculous amount of money
Doing roofing and construction for your 6 ft 6 alcoholic uncle with anger issues. Worst job I’ve worked.
Worst Job: You remember that scene in Platoon where they were burning the refuse out of latrines? They still do that.
My f-i-l has said that the smell of burning diesel and shit is by far his most vivid memory of the Vietnam War.
Smell often triggers memories, in all seriousness. The olfactory is the only sense where the environment comes in direct contact with the brain. All others rely on an indirect mechanism to fire the neurons.
It is the last sense to “go” as one gets older.
Oh fuck, I forgot all about driving the ‘Honey Wagon’ out to recover our unit porta-potties after the National Guard borrowed them for their two week annual training.
Specialist Murphy and Private Bobarian were very unhappy recovery specialists that day.
I’d rather play keyboards for the Grateful Dead.
You were shit-sucker six? My squad leader many moons ago worked in the OPFOR Intel section at NTC and they used the shit truck as an indicator as to where the BLUEFOR set up their FOBs.
Playing keyboards for the Dead had the same life expectancy as the drummers for Spinal Tap.
Worst job – working for two micromanaging jerks in large well known publicly traded financial services company.
I have also worked retail at full commission at Radio Shack (RIP) and as unionized worker at a grocery store and as bank teller. The bank job and grocery store gig were boring, but not awful. However, it gave me great respect for people who have to deal with general public.
The Myth Of “Moderate” Joe Biden
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee is going to announce a ban on gatherings and events of more than 250 people in virtually the entire Seattle metro area, according to an Associated Press source, in an attempt to stop the spread of the new coronavirus.
Hysterical ninny is hysterical.
Management signed off on my VAxit plan. Back in Texas by memorial day.
Final NoVa Glib meetup so I can meet you?
Certainly! April is probably best for me, and I can travel a bit. We met just down the street from me last time.
Good for you!
Hopefully the panic won’t disrupt the house sale nor the move.
Woot!
Congrats, trashy!
I’m jealous!
congrats!
We’ve upgraded from “Katrina” to “Chernobyl”.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/new-york-times-bret-stephens-coronavirus-trump-chernobyl
I guess next stop is “Holocaust”.
I thought that’s where we started.
The left is still going to hate you, Bret, you fucking dolt.
If I don’t end up with a significant raise after my review next week, I’m going to learn to weld.
Or I’ll learn to post…
But it’s already been “Holocaust” since about January 2017.
So I finished the Osterholm interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3URhJx0NSw
Takeaways:
OIsterholm seems to have a practical approach to the problem, but he acknowledges that there is most definitely a problem.
Covid-19 is primarily spread thru shared air, not from surface contact.
N95 respirators work, but there are not nearly enough to protect everyone and backorders currently stretch to over a year at current manufacturing capacity.
It’s highly contagious prior to becoming symptomatic at about 5 days.
Risk factors for complications include: age, obesity, lung issues, and high blood pressure
Mortality rate appears to be ten to fifteen times that of the standard flu. Viral pneumonia being the primary cause factor of death.
A vaccine is probably years away. The attempts at SARs vaccines were dropped when SARS went away, but the early tests indicated a poor antibody response that actually increased the complication rate of test animals.
Expect an event that lasts months (four or more). The main objective for disease control being not to overwhelm the health system.
Concerning other issues:
It’s not an engineered virus. Genetic studies indicate originally from a bat thru a pangolin.
Probiotics don’t do shit other than help you shit.
Vitamins don’t really help either.
It’s worth watching the entirety of it. He addresses a number of conspiracy theories and dispels a few rumors. There’s also an interesting subsection on CWD.
I did not watch it. Any talk of antivirals helping those more at risk?
No mention that I caught. Seems to be primarily symptom management.
Yeah, about the only advice I really caught (other than limiting exposure) was just to do everything you can to be healthy and keep your immune system strong.
(Rogan said drastically cut alcohol intake, but that sounds crazy)
There’s been use of one of Gilead’s antivirals. Spacing it at the moment and about to drive, but it’s under a compassionate care exemption that’s expecting to be ended and moved to a testing scheme. I’ve heard it’s been used successfully in one or two cases.
“Covid-19 is primarily spread thru shared air, not from surface contact.”
Yikes! Is that true?
Yes
It’s highly contagious prior to becoming symptomatic at about 5 days.
That’s not good.
So the quarantine doesn’t need to be two weeks?
You can be symptom free from 2-14 days.
One possible method would be proactive use of surgical masks or other barrier devices to prevent outward transmission of respiratory droplets. Doesn’t need to be N95 to reduce outward spray.
But goes against the current advice, there are several downsides to mask use, there aren’t enough surgical masks in stores, challenge of differentiating between N95 and lesser devices and the rationale, and cultural issues with mask wearing.
But since it’s airborne, surgical masks only limit the spread, not prevent.
Correct. And I what I’ve read elsewhere, airborne from exhalation/coughing/sneezing, not aerosolized (generally, certain hospital procedures can create aerosol dangers).
But if you prevent spread, you also prevent acquisition. And prevent above should probably be prevent or reduce the probability.
Just use bandanas like they did in the wild west. You never heard about old timey bandits and train robbers getting coronavirus, did you?
/grouchy old man voice
“We just got the gonorrhea. And we LIKED it!”
I’m going with this.
Should help a lot with the whole social isolation thing.
https://i1.wp.com/media.boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/mask.jpg?w=970&ssl=1
Not bad. But if you want social isolation, it’s hard to beat the medieval option.
The challenge is to keep this curve from going too high. If the timing is bad and the number of “serious but recoverable” totally overwhelm the hospitals, a lot of them are going to die. If we can stagger the cases over a longer period of time, not so bad.
Yeah, this is the aspect that got me worried. My daily commute to work is on a train line that runs into downtown from the god damned airport. I think I’ll be going back to cycling to work starting now.
Natural or engineered, I’m going to have a very hard time believing it didn’t come from the Wuhan Virology lab. That’s like saying a nuclear explosion or massive EMP that occurs 100 yards from the Los Alamos Lab was just a coincidental natural occurrence. I don’t believe in those kinds of coincidences.
I think the spread via air is not supported (one article) and extremely variable and untestable. This is a BL4 vector. There are only a dozen or so labs that meet that criteria to do real testing. Not this epidemiological inferences. Bullshit is what that is. They don’t know shit about the infectious ability of this virus. How many virus is need to cause infection. No one whats to test that.
This bug is hardy, lives long than flu. It has definitely been engineered and different from wild type..otherwise we would have seen this before. My guess it was a research bug for doing studies of SERS or MERS.
He brings in some salient points about how long this may pandemic may last (months/quarters/half year). It aint going away so fast.
But he is making shit up and trying to selling a book and getting grant money.
Apologies for the stupid questions from the guy who last took a chemistry or biology class in high school:
What does that mean?
Is the hardiness what makes you think it’s engineered?
BL4 is a containment and safety protocol, generally reserved for the most infectious and deadly of diseases.
SN is correct. Flu is tested and manufactured in BL2 labs (2 levels lower). We would lose 2 or 3 log of Flu virus titer in minutes at room temp. There is some data that Corona virus can live hours.
Good stuff, thanks.
So what do you think about the strategies so far (closing shit, social isolation, travel restrictions)? Too little too late?
Maybe…but you gotta do something. I think it is not about ending the spread and more about managing the spread so it does not overwhelm the health system. More time..more research..improved strategies to isolate..better support for respiratory management for those sick or compromised. It is sound risk mitigation for something that little is known about.
Thoughts on travel?
Just cancelled trip to Cabo. Not worried about getting sick..just could not rationalize the 2 week quarantine and subsequent loss of business revenue.
Yep. That’s my dilemma.
What we don’t want to happen here.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/who-gets-hospital-bed/607807/
So, the first-world country of 60 million people cannot treat 10,000 patients with a bad kind of flu? Pathetic.
“Mortality rate appears to be ten to fifteen times that of the standard flu. “
Too early to make that call, at least in functional health care systems. I think mortality is going to wind up being on par with a bad flu strain.
So does the infectious disease medical director at my hospital.
Based on what I know (very little), there is the possibility that there will not be a corona season (like flu) but and ebbs and flows that puts constant pressure on the health system depending on the recovery times for those that need special care.
Well, I’m fooked. Nice knowing you all.
You can always start smoking or working with asbestos. Vaya con dios, mi amigo!
Social distancing may be your best friend right about now.
Worst job: working in a paper re-processing warehouse, which took great slabs of sheets and cut them down into the sizes you use everyday, like 8.5″ x 11″. My first task was to clear out all the weeds growing outside the building (the City of Toronto actually cited the warehouse operators for that problem), during a hot, humid and very polluted thermal inversion in Toronto summer of 1975. Second task was to repair all of the broken windows in a curtain wall separating the north side of the building from the rail line just a dozen yards away. Guess why the windows were broken? Every time a train would do a coupling/uncoupling outside the warehouse, the resulting shock waves blew a few windows out (some while I was standing next to them). Once you re-pointed ’em, the glazier’s putty remained soft enough for a year or two to deaden the shock . . . The third job was actually cutting the paper bales, with one of a series of bed-sized guillotines that were occasionally known to randomly actuate while you had your hands underneath the blade, re-positioning or pulling out the cut paper. The year before I got there, someone almost lost both his hands when exactly that happened, even though all the safeties were engaged.
Second-worst job: concrete crew. ”Strong back, weak mind” was a job prerequisite. It didn’t help that the crew chief was the company owner and made numerous costly mistakes over that time that we had to fix for no pay.
Third-worst job: Bridge maintenance crew, working for the Alberta government.
Fourth-worst: Night janitor during summer of ’78 at the University of Alberta while the Commonwealth Games were going on. People are very dirty animals.
Worst job – big box store rented-mule in pre-walmart day in rural Pennsyltuky. I was too young and stupid to deal with the shitty manglement and unsafe working conditions. Everything you see about anti-social homeless behavior on the west coast, my customers were doing decades before it was cool.
Democratic Establishment Screws Us Again
I should’ve known that Democrats would look at the current political landscape — which is tragically skewed to amplify and aid the BillyJoeJimBobs of this country — and decide that the easiest way to defeat Republicans was to simply become them. I should’ve known that there’s only one political party in this country, and that its only goal is to profit off your misery and then gloat about it. I also should have known that me saying such things wasn’t gonna make a goddamn speck of difference. No wonder Biden thinks Republicans will magically work with him once he’s elected. He IS one. If you think Bernie Bros are obnoxious online, wait till you get a load of the Biden Hive. They’re somehow worse than Biden himself.
I should’ve known that we are a nation of deaf ears, and that voters could agree with everything Bernie had to say while simultaneously refusing to vote for him. I should’ve known that the loudest voices in the room would be people who are like, “I’m more of a moderate… there are SOME things I like about a suicide pact.” I should’ve known all of that because I am an American, and this is how America works. It’s a land of false hopes, and the horrible irony is that those false hopes are the only thing around to keep a lot of us going.
Delicious tears.
I am scared to say it too loud, they might get a hint, but they never seem to talk much about policy. They make constant ad hominem attacks.
Attacking and threatening voters: a winning strategy in any election.
*Of course they aren’t trying to win an election. They are trying to secure their place in the progressive hive by virtue signaling “I am not one of the deplorables”
“tragically”
Yes, it’s a terrible place to live. Just terrible. Imagine if it was nice, we might have an immigration problem or something.
“I should’ve known that we are a nation of deaf ears, and that voters could agree with everything Bernie had to say while simultaneously refusing to vote for him.”
They were only acting like they agreed with Bernie to get you to shut up.
“It’s his turn.”
He is so close to enlightenment, and yet, so far.
MGM Resorts to close buffets at Las Vegas Strip properties amid coronavirus outbreak
Glad to know they’re looking out for my health as I proceed to touch cards, dice, chips, slot machines and Chippendales errr uh I mean strippers, yes female strippers no dudes whatsoever.
Dancers, LJW. They are dancers. Who is the state to draw a distinction between Katya of the Bolshoi and Kay-Tee of the Poledance Palace?
Or NADIA DOUMIAFEYVA
Great show. I saw them in San Diego.
I am still highly suspicious that Hillary will swoop in to save the day. That is probably why they put the doddering moron as their soon to be nominee. “We have no choice now. Joe is just too far gone. Hillary will have to make the sacrifice.”
It will be glorious watching her get her ass handed to her a third time.
Worst job? Buser at a titty bar or sweeper/odd job guy at a grain elevator. The former, while the scenery was alright, had its distinct downside. Do you know how hard it is to clean vomit off of the velvet chairs in the private dance booths? As for the latter, nasty dirty work for shit pay and I probably had a lower chance of going boom when I was in Iraq in ’04.
https://palmettostatearmory.com/psa-angryjoe-14-ar-14-stripped-lower-receiver-preorder-item-8-10-weeks-delivery.html
Nice.
I am looking at this right now: ….Well shit. It isn’t on their website.
In the print catalog that I got out of my mailbox an hour ago Midway USA is selling surplus Beretta 81’s for 219.99
CDNN has some nice deals on used SIGs
Those 81s are pretty nice. I got one last year and love it.
“This virus thing has just gotten weird to me.”
Public officials telling the masses that the world is about to end every day for five decades may have created a collective shrug instinct among the general public, which might not be the best instinct when something serious comes along.
Also, this link contains a world map of coronavirus cases…
https://time.com/5800901/coronavirus-map/
most of Africa is gray, which I take to be a reporting thing. But why is the virus abiding by the Warsaw Pact? Russia has 10 cases, Ukraine 1, Hungary 9, etc.
This is better.
Corona virus is repelled by brutalist architecture.
But why is the virus abiding by the Warsaw Pact
Lower levels of international travel, perhaps?
While this is probably a good assessment, I like my explanation better
Russia closed it’s border with China a while ago.
Bullshit numbers and/or relatively little travel to there.
Maybe because it’s hot in Africa.
Heat and humidity might be an answer – I hope so we head into Spring.
I was referring esp. to Russia.
^Rhywun gets it.
That and I heard that when the Wuhan virus got there it was jumped by Ebola, malaria, and a bunch of other African diseases which kicked its ass.
Whoever chooses colors directly adjacent to each other on the Pantone chart for maps like that should be flogged mercilessly.
Questioning Joe’s Fitness ‘Disgusting Smear’
Bedingfield said, “I have to say this is a disgusting smear tactic, and this kind of thing is exactly why people want Joe Biden to be president. This kind of false, misleading, basically conspiracy theory, a desperate —”
Henry interrupted, “I’ll let you talk Hang on. How is it a smear tactic to ask you about a video where the vice president, in his own words, struggles to complete a sentence? How is that a smear tactic?”
Bedingfield said, “Ed, respectfully, how many times have you struggled to complete a sentence on air? That’s ridiculous. Let’s roll the tape. That’s ridiculous.”
Henry shot back, “I’m not running for president, Kate.”
I’m not super worried about Sundown Joe’s mental acuity, given what his party stands for. Why fret about the icing on a turd cake.
Neither is Joe. He said the other day he is running for Senate.
You can be symptom free from 2-14 days.
Obviously, we need to quarantine everybody who does not exhibit any symptoms.
tragically skewed to amplify and aid the BillyJoeJimBobs of this country
This will undoubtedly come as quite a horrifying revelation to the drooling moron who wrote that, but there are a lot of those BillyJoeJimBobs out there. Far more of them than paired lesbian mommies or genderswapped “theys”.
It is Xe’s.
I think it is hilarious that the wokesters so badly want to declare a shooting war on…..the people that grow their food, keep their electricity and water on and manufacture all of the guns and ammo.
50 guys with rifles and a light machine gun could shut down all of the interstates/airports in any major cities and the pinkos would be eating each other in a week.
I’ve trained and hung out with SF guys. Taking down a country with semi-trained locals is a lot of what they are trained to do. And we have a lot of those “Veterans” in the general public.
This is getting hysterical.
Wuhan virus, or something else?
I’m sure Quebec is immune because the virus doesn’t speak French.
The other night, I found myself on the periphery of a discussion about (grant-funded) solar power installations. I had to chew on it for a while, for some reason, but i finally settled on what it is which angers most: they (the people whose livelihood is based on this crap) have transformed the “means” into the end. For us, here in our Glibertarian bubble, energy is merely a means to an end: light after the sun has gone down, warmth in the winter, all that stuff. I want energy. Clean is okay, but affordable and reliable are mandatory.
The people who push “clean” energy couldn’t care less if it’s affordable or reliable, as long as they get their money up front from the scam.
That nails it. Yes, that is exactly it.
Also noting that what you just described is otherwise known as ‘a scam’.
My electrician buddy does nothing but solar right now. I asked him what would happen if the subsidies dried up. He said “Solar would be dead. I’d just go right back to regular commercial work.”
DOESN’T HE KNOW THE WORLD IS ENDING!?
Honestly, I want to solar PV and solar heat (as much as possible) just for the fun factor.
Fun as in DIYing the design and install and seeing just how much of my homes constant load (~300-400 watts mostly from my computers ) I can shift to PV and batteries.
Just have to wait for a couple of my neighbor’s trees that shade my roof about 70% of the time to croak first.
Look up Massie’s off the grid videos. He’s a true nerd.
Second this. Massie’s homestead is admirable. I really want something like his someday.
I’ve seen his setup. I don’t want to go quite that hard core.
Just enough to take on my standard always on load would be good enough for me.
50 guys with rifles and a light machine gun could shut down all of the interstates/airports in any major cities and the pinkos would be eating each other in a week.
A few strategically overturned semis, and “Escape From New York” would be a reality show.
Give me a break. The PR chop shops by Shea Stadium would strip those things to the axles in 3 to 4 hours.
So tomorrow the market shoots up 1000+ points again, right? Seems to be the trend.
I hope you’re right, but my gut says it will be another big drop.
So, how many flaws can you spot in this totally sober and objective BBC article about Our Current Plague?
Here’s some to get you triggered:
So nice of them to care so deeply about the most successful country in the history of the planet.
I don’t care. They can say what they want. We are still us and they are still them. They can’t change that.
I noticed that a lot of things are in short supply in Europe but arrogance and sanctimony are not on that list.
lulz
There’s a fucking claim
Honestly, if too many companies start pushing for work from home, there’s going to be issues with the network infrastructure in quite a few places. If they’re specced out for a certain percentage of work from home, and you go massively over that, you’re going to have a bad time.
I’m guessing that the “please hold for an available operator” lever is the one that sees the most wear and tear:
https://twitter.com/michaeltinmouth/status/1237308267552034821
Charlie Gard agrees wholeheartedly.
If there was ever a case that illustrated that the NHS has nothing to do with healthcare and everything to do with control that was it.
Commies want power. That is all. They dont care about health, women or minority rights, social justice, equality, fairness etc etc.
Power and crushing anyone who is a threat to that power is all this is about. What better tool for control than a monopoly on healthcare?
So tomorrow the market shoots up 1000+ points again, right? Seems to be the trend.
My nervously quivering finger is slowly beginning to hover over the “buy” button of a couple of things I either currently own and want to cost-average down, or recently sold for a nice profit.
Dead cat bounce. Be careful.
I keep hoping that my office will close and force me home for a few weeks. Hasn’t happened yet. but fingers crossed.
Seriously, we really should be doing that to the extent possible. If you can work from home right now you probably should be doing that.
Currently, there is no federal sick pay in the US.
And…?
And so America will die, because Trump.
It’s like you didn’t even click on the link.
It’s the worst thing that could ever happen?
Or something
Little DOOMette is getting more adorable every day!
She really is.
She still looks vaguely disappointed in you.
Chicks sure learn that early.
I have this effect on women, what can I say.
I can’t seem to find any evidence covid-19 is airborne.
Just what Osterholm said.
Pretty fucking important distinction I would think.
Honestly I dont think they know much about it. Mostly guessing? Saying things for panic control?
What’s with the Chinese eating weird shit? Butthole of toad, dried bat, rat shit with black pepper and raw armadillo peckers never looked like food to me.
Of course they were going to catch some kind of cooties.
Careful there, you might summon something un-natural like.
Because it’s not. It’s transmission vector is droplets. It will not live if just picked up by the air and blown about on the wind. On the other hand, measles is an airborne disease. It can live in the air for 2 hours.
Worst job? Food service in University cafeterias when I was in school. Worse than vehicle gate attendant at state fair, out on the pavement, in August.
I once worked a summer job at the Miami Dolphins (and then Marlins) stadium as a parking attendant. That was brutal.
I’m trying to my son’s flights to return to school a week later. Can’t get through on the phone right now (supposedly they’ll change for free due to virus). Seeing one-way flights available for $28. That’s scary low.
I should buy a couple of vacations whether I use them or not
I looked at southwest earlier. Prices were about $20 less than normal one way. Not quite enough to pull the trigger, but not a bad deal.
Well, that’s before luggage, $25-50 each. Carry-on, that’s another fee. I suppose you’ll want cushions on your seat? Breathable air? These and many other amazing options are available, for a modest additional fee.
Flying him back and forth to school is a no frills affair. No luggage, no seat selected, no nothing.
If he wants an education, he should hitch hike.
So nice of them to care so deeply about the most successful country in the history of the planet.
Which brings me back to that fucking Frontline(?) biography of Henry Ford.
They desperately want to trash a man who pretty much singlehandedly created one of the largest and most successful industrial enterprises in history, and played a huge role in creating a vast market where none had previously existed. Henry Ford was a self-taught tinkerer, and a colossal asshole. Yeah, go with that.
He did as much for individual freedom as Sam Colt and John Browning.
Fight me.
But he was an anti-Semite, therefore nothing else he did matters.
Fix it again, Tony.
Fuck America, Fiat 500 and its progeny are the working man’s car.
A real working man drives a Deux Cheveaux.
You need a car that reliably takes you to work. Fiat is Italian for “broken”.
Theory:
a car can’t get you laid
but it can keep you from getting laid
Question for the
masses: what is empowerment and how is it different from freedom?If I had to give my best attempt at an analogy, I’d say that empowerment is to freedom as positive rights are to negative rights.
“Empowerment” is when government pays Right-Thinking People (directly or through an intermediary) to fuck with Deplorable Scum on behalf of (but never to any benefit to) Oppressed Masses.
“Freedom” is the same but when I’m the Right-Thinking Person.
Having options is freedom.
Also, words dont have meanings, meanings have words. The left, though not consciously aware of that does play games with words in order to confuse and conflate. If you look at whatever they are trying to cram down people’s throats you will notice that every single policy they have reduces or entirely removes your options. Every single one.
I dont listen to their gobbledy goop anymore. It is just gibberish that is impossible to interpret with certainty but it is a good bet that they mean the opposite of what they say. I look at what they do.
I think the academic left knows exactly what they’re doing with their word games, now their sheep on the other hand. Words are just labels. You can move them around to different objects and hope they stick, but they don’t change the underlying object. It still is what it is. Politicians love ambiguous words with multi-definitions or words that cover a large scope like “regulation”, where they can talk about different things to different audiences using the same words without getting caught in their lie.
I would agree with that insightful analogy. Empowerment is an aggregate of self-autonomy and self-efficacy; that is, do you have the ability to do something. Whereas, freedom refers to the relative state of constriction against doing something.
https://jacobinmag.com/2020/03/bernie-sanders-democratic-primary-results-joe-biden
Y’know, for being all about wokeness, that first picture is awfully white and male.
Doesn’t really challenge my presupposition that Bernie’s support is almost solely hipsters who spent 6 years getting worthless degrees and hate capitalism because they won’t get real money from their parents until those codgers finally kick the bucket.
By reducing the supply of cheap labor, thus boosting the price of remaining labor? Which is why Old Right is #nevertrumping like mad, and what remains of working class will go to their fentanyl overdose clutching a MAGA hat?
Just spitballing, here.
Tucker Carlson’s answer to Medicare for All is that he wants Medicare for all. He was the one who sneered at “libertarians” and stated that Liz Warren on economics sounds like “Trump at his best”.
Shut up, Tuckertard!
Tuck you.
I dont care what someone else’s answer to medicare for all is. How about my answer? Less regulation and a free market. In places where that has happened prices for medical care are half or less than the current bureaucratic nightmare that dominates the market.
https://www.randpaul.com/news/obamacare-replacement-act-rand-paul
Not libertarian ideal, but better than anything any other elected pol has proposed.
Just being able to go back to what was available before is a good start.
I’d also loosen things up so those who want to go retail can.
I agree. Retail medical boutiques and a freer market in insurance. When people have options the market sorts out the best model in short order.
Of course the ‘medicare for all’ people are really saying ‘You won’t have any options’. Prices will skyrocket, quality will plummet….which is exactly what they want.
Yeah, that at least looks better.
Money is the cheapest way to pay.
You know it’s gonna be expensive when the plumber says “this is gonna be a nightmare”
*crosses fingers and hopes for a number with 3 digits before the decimal*
Dreamer.
Worst job- working for a crooked nanomanager, who got grant money by bribing a senator. I hated him, he hated me, and we left in great sadness because we loved living in that area so much. This made me hate him more.
Bright side of the Racist Anti-Chink Virus: I was supposed to go to a conference in Detroit. Two days after they sent out a note assuring us that the conference was definitely proceeding, they canceled it. So… no Detroit. This makes everything worth it.
-1 Dr. Klahn
I loved that movie-in-a-movie.
Fun trivia: I knew the girl who was in the courtroom scene and the guy who played Rex Kramer.
I think the second time I saw it was in the Netherlands. Dubbed in Dutch and subtitled in English.
Slightly surreal experience.
I just realized that they have reused the name Rex Kramer a couple of times.
I should wait 4 minutes, but suck it Liverpool.
I don’t care
But watching is what you do at ORD
Second beer. Guy next to me coughing uncontrollably
Can’t wait to see how everybody’s favorite sore winner spins this.
I am sure he is blaming the lack of golden goal.
Remember the silver goal?
I think it decided one game, at the 2004 Euros.
No I dont, what the hell was that?
If you scored a goal in the first period of extra time, you still played to the end of that period, and if the other team didn’t equalize you won.
Yeah it’s nuts.
Like this?
Best Chang is underhand serve ace vs Lindl.
Ugh I hate that underhand shit – the punk’d move of tennis.
Who’s that?
I blame Liverpool sucking for the last few weeks.
And Dortmund need to stop gutlessly selling off players.
Hey, somebody needs to train Bayern’s players.
I’m starting to wonder if the corona virus is the universe responding to LFC about to win the league.
You cannot win them all.
Worst job:
Processing plant maintenance crew. Alternated packing raw asbestos onto steam lines and scraping scum off of aerators in an effluent pond.
This virus thing has just gotten weird to me. I can’t quite figure out what in the hell an appropriate response to this is
Brett nails it.
Thomas Massie spoke on the floor today about the FISA reform bill
@RepThomasMassie
I just left the floor where I spoke out against the Patriot Act/FISA Reauthorization.
https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1237764463085989890?s=20
Update from ADVChina on the Modelo Bug. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P12W0FPco90
Thanks! Will finish it later. But was thinking about Cmilk’s earlier video when CGTN was running attaboy stories about this on YouTube.
I don’t know why people think serpentza’s wife is hotter.
Worst job: Covering asbestos heating pipes with unfaced fiberglass. Blowing fiberglass insulation into tight crawl spaces sometimes 18 inches or under. You could not be claustrophobic and I am not but sometimes when the temps got really hot in there and you were blocked in on three sides and had to slide over ceiling joists it got pretty scary.
Yeah, any small crawlspace work sucks. Even pulling wire gets bad. So many businesses here are just old homes in downtowns. Having to pull wire for a card reader through that junk is not a great time. I haven’t had the displeasure of blowing insulation down there luckily.
“down there”
Wait…I think he meant attic crawlspaces. I’ve never heard of blown insulation in ground crawlspaces.
Yes, that’s where I was thinking.
Maybe I need sleep?
Maybe not my worst ever, but the condos I worked for last job had a crawlspace under the buildings with an opening to ground level every 200 ft or so. There were no openings through the stem walls, just holes dug under them which one is supposed to crawl through. It would sometimes take hrs to get to your destination. We’d drag a sled with our tools behind us through the mud. Often, we would have to set up a sump to pump ground water (or water from a leak we were trying to get to) in order to get through the tunnels under the walls.
The mud was like an alien life form: it would get on a tool, that tool would touch another and then that would be coated, and so on. We’d wear those white paper suits and respirators and such- would take 10 minutes just to suit up.
Also, so many spiders you wouldn’t believe.
To listen to CBS, it’s the end of the world. We all die from virus,
global warmingTrump to blame. What do they expect him to do? Something, and lots of it, yesterday.They’ve moved on to the good news: Biden!, complete with a musical upswell.
Women and minorities hardest hit
This was much better than I was expecting:
Dave Rubin interviews the Auto Worker from the Biden video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5A6Auf5dZ5k
That guy sounds like a future politician
Added to the list, thanks!
Lol.
Ace discovered Q’s favorite golfer.
Once again, Glibs leads the pack.
Still, there’s some good stuff there.
“A racist Twitter mob came for me over a trivial math mistake. I’m not going anywhere.”
https://twitter.com/MaraGay/status/1237832854991765504
OFFS!
For one thing, it wasn’t trivial. For another, the only person I saw getting any shit about it was the white male.