CR: COVID-19 --Political Talk

[Bojack 2,082]

This Bill Mitchell guy seems so genuine and trustworthy.  

[Biff Tannen 45,741]

1 hour ago, henrygandorf said:

this tweet reads like sarcasm.  but it isn't.

Really?  JFC

[Biff Tannen 45,741]

Ha, first response is the Stannis fewer gif.  Well done.

[Anastasis 23,485]

51 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

yeah, suicide is going to be the hidden number in all of this

Yep, we don't have time to digest the psychological and mental health trauma of this for a while, but there is going to be some shit to work through and maybe some new diagnoses.  Something like post-pandemic stress disorder. 

[tantric superman 4,667]

42 minutes ago, henrygandorf said:

i've been tracking california total cases vs new cases the last week or so.

we've been steady #3 in total cases but have been around 5-9th in new cases, so i'm hoping this means the early shelter guidelines are actually helping.  it's only hope at this point, but who knows.  some are predicting la could be the next nyc.  i don't see how that's even possible.  i could see sf before la.

Just got off the phone with a buddy in Marin.  He said the reports there are pretty hopeful -- more linear than exponential, or something like that.

But he's an engineer. .

[cactusflinthead 27,602]

10 minutes ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

Who IS this guy? Is he for real?

https://yourvoiceamerica.tv/

 

[Bullneck 19,206]

44 minutes ago, bolverk said:

 

[RPM 26,354]

The death toll in rural areas is going to be massive. There was already a shortage of hospitals and damn near everyone has some sort of underlying condition. 

[The Royal We 3,072]

Daily deaths cut in half today according to worldometers, down to 264. I would love to be excited about that, but is it a glitch or do they update again before the end of the day?

[Bullneck 19,206]

20 minutes ago, cactusflinthead said:

 

Fucking mind blowing.  

[tchookem 3,908]

this tweet reads like sarcasm.  but it isn't.

Holy shit. That's for real?

[Mrs Whiggins 13,050]

7 minutes ago, cactusflinthead said:

https://yourvoiceamerica.tv/

 

Heavens, I clicked on your link. People pay 80 bucks a year to be members of this guy's 'club?' Every once in awhile I wish I could do the maths and figure out exactly how much money the grifters and hangers on have made off of MAGA. Diamond & Silk, this guy, Rush Limbaugh, Alex Jones, etc. I'm not counting the corporations and big big money, just all the little enterprises that are bringing it in with merch and schtick and the carnival shows.

[pyrohornIII 4,823]

 

13 hours ago, Anastasis said:

Anyone in government making decisions regarding distribution of emergency supplies based on political leanings needs a bullet in their head. 

I bet Puerto Rico agrees.

7 hours ago, Bama Chick said:

 

Fuck those dicks.

Our entire administration and all support non-clinical employees have been at the hospital every single day doing all we can to prepare and make our docs and nurses lives just a tiny bit easier if we can.

Now that we have multiple confirmed cases, all non-clinical are going on a rotating schedule starting tomorrow. Working from home some days and switching out as the only person in each department other days.

We don’t want to wipe out entire offices/departments if one person gets sick.

Those executives may not be treating patients but their asses should be on site.

We chose our careers. This is part of it.

 

Thank you.

 

5 hours ago, cactusflinthead said:

Goddammit 

 

So sad to hear.  It really doesn't hit home until someone you know and/or admire comes down with a severe case of it.  We should have a thread for cases and casualties.

[pyrohornIII 4,823]

7 minutes ago, RPM said:

The death toll in rural areas is going to be massive. There was already a shortage of hospitals and damn near everyone has some sort of underlying condition. 

And the bulk of them are Trumpkins and are still in denial, hence no social distancing.  The republican county chair and I had to meet to canvass the votes around the 10th.  He laughed off COVID19 as a bunch of "hooey" and said it would all be cleared up and gone away in April.    We got our first case in the county today.  I texted him the hooey is hitting kind of close to home now.     But he speaks for the bulk of these rural counties, regardless of age.   Uninformed and proud as hell of it.  

[RPM 26,354]

The one thing we may kind of have going for us in Wise Co is we have a 15 year old 150 room hospital that got forced out of business after 5 years in Bridgeport that is just sitting there empty. Nice to have that in reserve if Decatur gets overwhelmed. I'm sure they could have it up and running in hours.

Edited March 30, 2020 by RPM

[Biff Tannen 45,741]

21 minutes ago, pyrohornIII said:

And the bulk of them are Trumpkins and are still in denial, hence no social distancing.  The republican county chair and I had to meet to canvass the votes around the 10th.  He laughed off COVID19 as a bunch of "hooey" and said it would all be cleared up and gone away in April.    We got our first case in the county today.  I texted him the hooey is hitting kind of close to home now.     But he speaks for the bulk of these rural counties, regardless of age.   Uninformed and proud as hell of it.  

You should text him again that he’s a fuckhead whose party is responsible for a lot of death, due to sheer stupidity. 

Edited March 30, 2020 by Biff Tannen

[RPM 26,354]

1 minute ago, Biff Tannen said:

You should text him again that he’s a fuckhead whose party is responsible for a lot of death, due to sheer stupidity. 

Actually, I would suggest they hold a pancake breakfast fundraiser.

[Pancho 44,995]

13 minutes ago, RPM said:

The one thing we may kind of have going for us in Wise Co is we have a 15 year old 150 room hospital that got forced out of business after 5 years in Bridgeport that is just sitting there empty. Nice to have that in reserve if Decatur gets overwhelmed. I'm sure they could have it up and running in hours.

I’m from Gainesville originally.  Both Bridgeport and Decatur can suck it. 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(but seriously I hope those fine folks of wise county are keeping safe.)

[Jhawkmvp 1,490]

3 hours ago, triplehorn said:

100,000-200,000 deaths?  He's making it sound like peaches compared to 2.1 Million.  We should be grateful for his acumen, foresight, and steady hand.

Meanwhile SK has a total of 152 deaths managing this fight almost twice as long.

My family thought I was crazy for returning to South Korea during the height of the outbreak here. When my first flight got canceled back, they thought I would stay in the USA until this whole thing blew over. Instead, I hopped on a plane back to SK the next day. My reasoning was that it would hit America much harder than SK eventually. First, America's president and administration are a bunch of frothing morons who were not preparing or taking things seriously at the time (the end of February). While SK at that time was massively testing and implementing measures to slow the spread of the outbreak there. Second, SK has universal health care and the USA doesn't, so in SK people, when they get an inkling of any kind of illness, they head to the doctor so cases would get found out quicker and are isolated, compared to the USA where many people avoid going to the doctor unless they are very sick just due to cost, even when they have health coverage. Third, Koreans are group oriented, which has drawbacks at times, but in this case is a huge positive because they do things to protect the group like wearing masks to protect others, easily accepted social distancing, and they are cleaner than Americans, in general, so hand washing/sanitizing is easier to implement. Whereas, many Americans hate being told what to do or having their movement restricted, even to help themselves and others. Throw in that the average Korean is in better health than the average American and their medical system was less likely to be overwhelmed due to less people having complications that make COVID-19 more deadly.

The people here have handled it much better than Americans. No runs on supplies. Stores have masks and sanitizer for sale.  Stores still have everything they always had here, including TP, just there are less people out on the streets running around as people stay home as much as possible. And when they go out most are wearing masks.  I could still get it (we all very likely will be exposed to it sooner or later before a vaccine or cure is developed), and possibly die here. But at least I know I will be tested, cared for, and at the end ventilated, if it comes to that.

Hope you and yours remain healthy and avoid the worst of this pandemic. Take care and good luck..

[RPM 26,354]

3 minutes ago, Pancho said:

I’m from Gainesville originally.  Both Bridgeport and Decatur can suck it.

It's ironic that the feud between them is what shut the hospital down. Decatur was afraid to lose business.

[CooterBrown 18,029]

The one thing we may kind of have going for us in Wise Co is we have a 15 year old 150 room hospital that got forced out of business after 5 years in Bridgeport that is just sitting there empty. Nice to have that in reserve if Decatur gets overwhelmed. I'm sure they could have it up and running in hours.

Who’s gonna run that hospital? There will shortly not be enough medical staff to run existing hospitals.

[RPM 26,354]

2 minutes ago, CooterBrown said:

Who’s gonna run that hospital? There will shortly not be enough medical staff to run existing hospitals.

National Guard, FEMA, whomever. It's existing extra capacity.

[workswithseed 2,111]

7 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

when does the border shut down start ?

 

Sounds racist.

[Hornius Emeritus 12,488]

1 hour ago, The Royal We said:

Daily deaths cut in half today according to worldometers, down to 264. I would love to be excited about that, but is it a glitch or do they update again before the end of the day?

 

What?

At the end of yesterday there were 30,861 deaths.

There are currently 33,976.  That's a difference of 3,115.

 

[6th Street 6,508]

50 minutes ago, Jhawkmvp said:

My family thought I was crazy for returning to South Korea during the height of the outbreak here. When my first flight got canceled back, they thought I would stay in the USA until this whole thing blew over. Instead, I hopped on a plane back to SK the next day. My reasoning was that it would hit America much harder than SK eventually. First, America's president and administration are a bunch of frothing morons who were not preparing or taking things seriously at the time (the end of February). While SK at that time was massively testing and implementing measures to slow the spread of the outbreak there. Second, SK has universal health care and the USA doesn't, so in SK people, when they get an inkling of any kind of illness, they head to the doctor so cases would get found out quicker and are isolated, compared to the USA where many people avoid going to the doctor unless they are very sick just due to cost, even when they have health coverage. Third, Koreans are group oriented, which has drawbacks at times, but in this case is a huge positive because they do things to protect the group like wearing masks to protect others, easily accepted social distancing, and they are cleaner than Americans, in general, so hand washing/sanitizing is easier to implement. Whereas, many Americans hate being told what to do or having their movement restricted, even to help themselves and others. Throw in that the average Korean is in better health than the average American and their medical system was less likely to be overwhelmed due to less people having complications that make COVID-19 more deadly.

The people here have handled it much better than Americans. No runs on supplies. Stores have masks and sanitizer for sale.  Stores still have everything they always had here, including TP, just there are less people out on the streets running around as people stay home as much as possible. And when they go out most are wearing masks.  I could still get it (we all very likely will be exposed to it sooner or later before a vaccine or cure is developed), and possibly die here. But at least I know I will be tested, cared for, and at the end ventilated, if it comes to that.

Hope you and yours remain healthy and avoid the worst of this pandemic. Take care and good luck..

Do you work for a memory maker? 

[AngryDragon 270]

46 minutes ago, Jhawkmvp said:

My family thought I was crazy for returning to South Korea during the height of the outbreak here. When my first flight got canceled back, they thought I would stay in the USA until this whole thing blew over. Instead, I hopped on a plane back to SK the next day. My reasoning was that it would hit America much harder than SK eventually. First, America's president and administration are a bunch of frothing morons who were not preparing or taking things seriously at the time (the end of February). While SK at that time was massively testing and implementing measures to slow the spread of the outbreak there. Second, SK has universal health care and the USA doesn't, so in SK people, when they get an inkling of any kind of illness, they head to the doctor so cases would get found out quicker and are isolated, compared to the USA where many people avoid going to the doctor unless they are very sick just due to cost, even when they have health coverage. Third, Koreans are group oriented, which has drawbacks at times, but in this case is a huge positive because they do things to protect the group like wearing masks to protect others, easily accepted social distancing, and they are cleaner than Americans, in general, so hand washing/sanitizing is easier to implement. Whereas, many Americans hate being told what to do or having their movement restricted, even to help themselves and others. Throw in that the average Korean is in better health than the average American and their medical system was less likely to be overwhelmed due to less people having complications that make COVID-19 more deadly.

The people here have handled it much better than Americans. No runs on supplies. Stores have masks and sanitizer for sale.  Stores still have everything they always had here, including TP, just there are less people out on the streets running around as people stay home as much as possible. And when they go out most are wearing masks.  I could still get it (we all very likely will be exposed to it sooner or later before a vaccine or cure is developed), and possibly die here. But at least I know I will be tested, cared for, and at the end ventilated, if it comes to that.

Hope you and yours remain healthy and avoid the worst of this pandemic. Take care and good luck..

Just to add on to this. The government there finds solutions when things do run short and implements it quickly.  Masks were in high demand so they set up a system so that people each week buy masks according to the last digit of their birth year on a specific day. Limit 2 and they cost a buck. 

[AngryDragon 270]

5 minutes ago, 6th Street said:

Do you work for a memory maker? 

Most Americans who work over there are English teachers but Jhawk could be an exception.

[PenelopeWitherspoon 19,142]

 

What?

 

At the end of yesterday there were 30,861 deaths.

 

There are currently 33,976.  That's a difference of 3,115.

 

 

nvm

 

[AngryDragon 270]

21 minutes ago, Hornius Emeritus said:

 

What?

At the end of yesterday there were 30,861 deaths.

There are currently 33,976.  That's a difference of 3,115.

 

I think he's specifically talking US deaths.

[6th Street 6,508]

The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) Tweeted:
Liberty University, which partly reopened its campus amid the coronavirus pandemic, confirmed they now have almost a dozen students sick with potential COVID-19 symptoms https://t.co/X3RmC2zpJd

[tx 3 putt 77,426]

11 minutes ago, 6th Street said:

The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) Tweeted:
Liberty University, which partly reopened its campus amid the coronavirus pandemic, confirmed they now have almost a dozen students sick with potential COVID-19 symptoms https://t.co/X3RmC2zpJd

[LABEVO 928]

3 hours ago, henrygandorf said:

i've been tracking california total cases vs new cases the last week or so.

we've been steady #3 in total cases but have been around 5-9th in new cases, so i'm hoping this means the early shelter guidelines are actually helping.  it's only hope at this point, but who knows.  some are predicting la could be the next nyc.  i don't see how that's even possible.  i could see sf before la.

SF was aggressive with shelter in place and many tech companies had wfh prior to that being implementing.  

SF has been the most proactive about preventing the spread of covid. 

[Bama Chick 28,596]

He's such a bitch

Nah, bitches get shit done.

He’s the infected yellow/orange discharge leaking from a diseased cock.

[Bama Chick 28,596]

I believe he legitimately doesn't remember saying it and therefore it wasn't true. he's a fucking cancer. 

Then these reporters should stop only quoting his words - play a fucking recording of his words right in his face.

Better yet, queue the gotdamn video up on an iPad and make him watch.

Get creative, press corps!

Y’all have figured out how to do the news from your basements during this mess - hauling in an iPad or iPhone to these briefings shouldn’t be a eureka idea from some rando Alabama woman on the internet.

[Bama Chick 28,596]

 

This story might be accurate but be careful of that Twitter account - they have a questionable rating from websites that fact check accounts for bias and clickbaity-ness.

No blue checkmark and lack of bio and affiliation is usually a giveaway of sketchiness on accounts that promote themselves as news.


https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/breaking911/

[bolverk 29,718]

23 minutes ago, Bama Chick said:

Nah, bitches get shit done.

He’s the infected yellow/orange discharge leaking from a diseased cock.

 

[Gengs1 2,583]

4 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

 

 

Excellent.gif

the faster that shit happens the faster we can fix the country 

[RPM 26,354]

1 hour ago, longhornmatt said:

Liberty University needs to get sued out of existence.

You can't beat science, motherfuckers!

 

[LongestHorn 759]

2 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

Respect for 5th SFG

[DixonHur 11,376]

4 hours ago, Jhawkmvp said:

My family thought I was crazy for returning to South Korea during the height of the outbreak here. When my first flight got canceled back, they thought I would stay in the USA until this whole thing blew over. Instead, I hopped on a plane back to SK the next day. My reasoning was that it would hit America much harder than SK eventually. First, America's president and administration are a bunch of frothing morons who were not preparing or taking things seriously at the time (the end of February). While SK at that time was massively testing and implementing measures to slow the spread of the outbreak there. Second, SK has universal health care and the USA doesn't, so in SK people, when they get an inkling of any kind of illness, they head to the doctor so cases would get found out quicker and are isolated, compared to the USA where many people avoid going to the doctor unless they are very sick just due to cost, even when they have health coverage. Third, Koreans are group oriented, which has drawbacks at times, but in this case is a huge positive because they do things to protect the group like wearing masks to protect others, easily accepted social distancing, and they are cleaner than Americans, in general, so hand washing/sanitizing is easier to implement. Whereas, many Americans hate being told what to do or having their movement restricted, even to help themselves and others. Throw in that the average Korean is in better health than the average American and their medical system was less likely to be overwhelmed due to less people having complications that make COVID-19 more deadly.

The people here have handled it much better than Americans. No runs on supplies. Stores have masks and sanitizer for sale.  Stores still have everything they always had here, including TP, just there are less people out on the streets running around as people stay home as much as possible. And when they go out most are wearing masks.  I could still get it (we all very likely will be exposed to it sooner or later before a vaccine or cure is developed), and possibly die here. But at least I know I will be tested, cared for, and at the end ventilated, if it comes to that.

Hope you and yours remain healthy and avoid the worst of this pandemic. Take care and good luck..

I totally relate to this post.  Replace SK with CR and you basically have my story.

We were put under a national quarantine on March 16 when we still had fewer than 400 cases, and 0 deaths. 

My Georgia resident, Trumpkin parents, apparently unfamiliar with the concept of preventative measures, freaked out because they assumed that meant things had to be extra bad here.  I told them I was better off here than back in the States...using basically the same talking points you listed...but I could tell they weren't buy it...socialism was mentioned.

Fast forward 2 weeks and the US has nearly as many deaths as we have total cases.

 

 

[DigglerontheHoof 21,243]

So this right wing, religious nut realtor from McKinney is suing McKinney so "non essential" businesses can stay open.  I let him know my thoughts, feel free to do the same:

https://www.derekvbaker.com/?fbclid=IwAR1dpYSdsRVvzwpmEwHJ84ftP5rZOtqu8A1GwHVTehuXDtpWRgobdSsQSe8

 

100% chance he's a trumpkin. 

[WhatTheBuck 28,798]

7 hours ago, 6th Street said:

The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) Tweeted:
Liberty University, which partly reopened its campus amid the coronavirus pandemic, confirmed they now have almost a dozen students sick with potential COVID-19 symptoms https://t.co/X3RmC2zpJd

Liberty University. Poison your body, poison your mind. 

[Mrs Whiggins 13,050]

Their idea of liberty and mine are not quite the same. They put the Bibbity in Libuhty:

 

[Hiphopopotamos 20,888]

Looks like Harris County cases doubled over the weekend - it has now overtaken Dallas county for most cases (445) in the state.

[The Royal We 3,072]

8 hours ago, Hornius Emeritus said:

 

What?

At the end of yesterday there were 30,861 deaths.

There are currently 33,976.  That's a difference of 3,115.

 

Sorry, I should have been more specific, I’ve been watching the new daily deaths in the US. This has been steadily increasing towards 1,000/day before taking a big step down yesterday. 

[Mrs Whiggins 13,050]

5 minutes ago, The Royal We said:

Sorry, I should have been more specific, I’ve been watching the new daily deaths in the US. This has been steadily increasing towards 1,000/day before taking a big step down yesterday. 

That IS good news, and I do hope the sheltering is having an effect on the curve and the spread. However, I am concerned that Corona is going to say 'hold my corona' when some of the Spring travel cases get going in another week. Our community is not at the two week mark from the conclusion of Spring Break for the schools and our cases have been steadily climbing and there have been some fatalities.

[Aqua Buddha 14,610]

8 hours ago, 6th Street said:

The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) Tweeted:
Liberty University, which partly reopened its campus amid the coronavirus pandemic, confirmed they now have almost a dozen students sick with potential COVID-19 symptoms https://t.co/X3RmC2zpJd

The ensuing class action lawsuit will be the end of that "university."

[Pescado_Rojo 19,428]

35 minutes ago, Aqua Buddha said:

The ensuing class action lawsuit will be the end of that "university."

[freyguy 4,289]

9 hours ago, 6th Street said:

The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) Tweeted:
Liberty University, which partly reopened its campus amid the coronavirus pandemic, confirmed they now have almost a dozen students sick with potential COVID-19 symptoms https://t.co/X3RmC2zpJd

Someone should be strung up over there...

[Patrick Bateman 3,932]

You weren't alone, Larry!  He's a Republican, too.