Coronavirus
Students on Spring Break Swarm Failing to Heed Virus Warnings
Did you fail as a parent?
Are your ADULT CHILDREN IN SOUTH PADRE RIGHT NOW?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-16/students-on-spring-break-swarm-failing-to-heed-virus-warnings
Mobile Upload: We're Sick with Something
That’s what they call it when there aren’t tests available. ‘Unspecified acute lower respiratory infection.’
We think we have Coronavirus. The numbers are under-reported and the voice mailboxes to say “hey I’m sick” are full or to get a test are full. New Yorkers are being asked to stay at home if they’re not experiencing failing health conditions.
My symptoms feel like someone’s poured hot sand in my lungs, a lot like an asthma attack but with fiberglass fibers in my lungs. We have hot tea, elderberry, plenty of asthma meds, and food. We’re going to hole up for the next two weeks and see what happens.
Another Trump Bankruptcy
Infection rates of COVID versus Trump bullshit
Donnie, youre doing a heckofa job.
Who would have guessed that a game show host and a serial bankrupt couldn’t organize a response to a slow moving glacier of an international problem whose scope, scale, and threat has been delivered daily in 1080p for months now.
He’s awful, incompetent, and odious. It’s time to vote this fucker out.
Watch Trump's Incompetence Wither the Resolve of the Competent
Why is Trump so committed to spreading disinformation? Is he trying to kill off voters?
Mobile Upload: Trump: Odious as Harry Lime
The reason Harry Lime is so odious in “The Third Man” is because he spread lies and false hope during a health crisis. Hawking ineffective penicillin, he put lives at risk. Selling false narratives, puts lives at risk. One of the two men knows about pandemics. One is out of his depth and bereft the humility to admit it.
Mobile Upload: We can’t be trusted with AI or gene editing if this is our discipline level
Can’t happen to me I guess. It can.
HEB Crushes it in the Texas Pandemic
This isn’t the first time H-E-B has done a good job of managing a disaster—it played an important role in helping the Gulf Coast recover from Hurricane Harvey in the immediate aftermath of the storm—which led us to ask: How did a regional supermarket chain develop systems that allow it to stay ahead of a crisis as big as this one? We spoke with nearly a dozen employees, executives, and customers to better understand—in their words—how H-E-B has taken on its unique role in shaping its business around the needs of Texans in the midst of trying circumstances.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/food/heb-prepared-coronavirus-pandemic/
Witch Doctor Pastor of Prosperity Gospel Declares Covid Over with Magic Spell
Sometimes religion is so gross. This bozo televangelist outside of Dallas invoked a magic spell to end it. So…I guess pick your picnic outfits for next week.
You’ll face charges for yelling fire in a movie theatre. But this guy is dooming his viewers. How is that not illegal? What’s the difference between this guy and Jim Jones? Odds? That’s not a basis for jurisprudence. Oh and all the money he rooks is tax-free.
He then even has those psychopath eyes that glitter up when he’s mugging for the camera. Disgusting.
“You may say to yourselves, ‘How can we know when a message has not been spoken by the Lord?
Unfair to Trump
It’s…OK…..we saved…America…from her…emails. Wheeze Keep making….America great by reopening….malls……BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP
Mobile Upload: What the ever-living fuck? Is Republicanism a literal death cult?
Stop being a selfish maskhole for a few weeks and you can go back to shots at the beach…
City Lights Bookstore in SF In Trouble
City Lights on Columbus in North Beach, SF
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/iconic-san-francisco-bookstore-closed-coronavirus-may-never-reopen-n1180746
We all know SF died around 2005 and has been performance art of itself since.
Mobile Upload: It’s gotten this bad?
It’s gotten this bad? 80s looming fear of nuclear annihilation bad? We need Oscar Mayer baloney and Molly Ringwald and Duran Duran and Tab and hearts warmed by Stephen Spielberg bad?
Well… count me in. Miller Lites and Virginia Slims for those chasing the end faster.
Cheez Balls Ad
Pandemic Preparedness
Death Cultin'
I’ll see your Florida and raise you a Texas.
In Austin, at least 100 people gathered on the statehouse grounds in hats and shirts with President Trumps slogan, Make America Great Again. Some carried American flags, and few wore masks that are mandated by the city.
There were cheers at the sight of Alex Jones, the founder of the website Infowars, which traffics in conspiracy theories. There were chants of Fire Fauci, in reference to Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the federal governments top infectious disease expert.
https://nypost.com/2020/04/18/hundreds-flood-florida-beach-as-florida-reopens-some-parks/
Mobile Upload: What Real Presidents Say
You know Trump’s going to pass the buck to the states when a general pandemic proves better than him.
Mobile Upload: Pre-anniversary, pandemic haircut from wife
She’s amazing
COBOL's Back (again)
https://www.inputmag.com/tech/ibm-will-offer-free-cobol-training-to-address-overloaded-unemployment-systems
Sneaky setup for “Hidden Figures 2?”
I learned the basics of COBOL in order to be prepared for the Year 2000 bug (“Y2K”). Didn’t really need to be done, but I was thankful to appreciate a different paradigm of computation.
But those check printing machines still run on it and we’re about to stimulus a lot of those machines back to life.
Passing the Buck All Around
However, she said the responsibility would fall on businesses to ensure it was done in a safe manner.
“That’s up to them to figure out. I don’t own a casino,” Goodman, who previously called the closure of nonessential businesses “total insanity,” said in an interview on CNN.
http://hill.cm/RJArYBS
As I imagined the world of zombie horror I never thought wed see a scene where the humans voluntarily chum the streets with brains, hobble themselves, and toss their guns in rivers but….OK boomer.
The cognitive dissonance of boomers realizing their self-numbing myth of exceptionalism will be studied for decades. I think it explains why Trump so failed to get ready: he just couldn’t imagine that the world could ever get that bad in a way that couldn’t be bought out, blustered away, or mythologized away.
Trump Recommends Bleach Injections..I can't make this up
“And then I said, supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or some other way, and I think you said you’re going to test that, too.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-suggests-injection-disinfectant-beat-coronavirus-clean-lungs-n1191216"
Trump will later recant this not because he realizes it was a moronic, cruel, and ignorant thing to say, but because he worries he’s going to cut into his golf buddies’ profit margins on proprietary drugs.
Germany and the Pandemic: Superior Leadership by Merkel
The Secret to Germany’s COVID-19 Success: Angela Merkel Is a Scientist
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2020/04/angela-merkel-germany-coronavirus-pandemic/610225/
We got a game show host so I guess…that explains why its a clown parade?
Competently-Led Nation Eases Restrictions
https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/04/25/844720581/praised-for-curbing-covid-19-new-zealands-leader-eases-country-s-strict-lockdown
New Zealand musta had a strategic reserve of Lysol. Good job, Jacinda Ardern.
Men of Good Fortune
Theorists of revolution have pointed out that such outcomes occur when a people feel that its expectations for themselves and for their children have been thwarted. That is exactly what has happened to the white working class. Of course, it is harder to fool black people. James Baldwin had a genius observation about why black people don’t have a midlife crisis. Why? Black people never believed in the American Dream, but white people do. White people wake up when they are 40 or 45 years old and realize there is no place for them. That is why suicides are highest among white middle-aged men.
Mobile Upload: I won’t lament the world getting back underway
I won’t lament the world getting back underway. I just wish we could do it in a way such that this could be seen still. A giant jellyfish, coasting through the canals of Venice.
Mobile Upload: Let’s open restaurants and beaches!
What are they thinking…
Riots for the Right to Superspread
I sit here in the American Corona Mecca agog at whats happening in the rest of the US. Few cities are like nyc, so I get it; maybe some think this is an over there or filthy city of filthy people thing. But like so many movements in America, it starts in NYC first: disco, abolitionism, Jimmy Choos. It then diffuses like lung vapor coughed up and slowly, inexorably settles.
My street bookseller has a memorial on 96th street. Colleagues mothers and mother in laws are gone. I can hear the dry coughs by the closed windows down 94th and 93rd streets.
The Begging of the Vulnerable
I’m one of the people all of this social distancing is helping to stay alive, so far. I belong to the group of people—the infirm, the weak—who certain conservatives have said should offer themselves up to the coronavirus. I’m part of the “cure” that mustn’t be worse than “the problem,” according to Donald Trump. Glenn Beck seems to think we should show our patriotism by volunteering to be killed by the virus rather than “kill the country.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/06/surviving-cancer-coronavirus-pandemic/610594/
Conservative commentator Caitlin Flanagan on her life as a vulnerable in this pandemic.
Disinformation Testing: "Plandemic"
https://www.politifact.com/article/2020/may/08/fact-checking-plandemic-documentary-full-false-con/
As we approach an election season where disinformation campaigns will be part of the strategy of actors foreign or domestic, “Plandemic” is a chance to get our bullshit detectors calibrated: its SARS telling us to get our hospitals and playbooks in order for a day when something worse will come along (COVID, say).
Also: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/09/technology/plandemic-judy-mikovitz-coronavirus-disinformation.html?referringSource=articleShare
...man skeptical of coronavirus gets infected, changes opinion
https://www.wptv.com/news/coronavirus/jupiter-man-skeptical-of-coronavirus-gets-infected-changes-opinion
Even after you discover you’re right, you’ve likely done damage by spreading. You might survive, but the weaker might not. How can people be so selfish?
Note, he is a rideshare driver. Possibly the worst possible vector for spread.
“My wife’s on a ventilator. It’s been like that for three weeks, and it’s tough. It’s sad,” said Hitchens.
He thought this might be a government-planned distraction. I’ll wager he’s been drinking some disinformation from right-wing “alternative” media.
Texas Hospitalizations Surge
https://www.kut.org/post/texas-reports-record-breaking-covid-19-hospitalizations-state-reopens
I hope my family stay safe.
Houston Ailing
Open for business as usual!
Texas: 5000 New Cases in a Day
https://www.fox26houston.com/news/governor-texas-surpasses-5000-new-covid-19-cases-in-a-single-day-for-the-first-time
My God, in 9 days (probably less), at this rate, Texas will tie with New Jersey
the co-epicenter of the pandemic that was much closer to ground zero. You are doing it wrong, Texas. This individualist-uber-alles ideal is out of hand.
Mobile Upload: Cafeteria > Sports > COVID
Maybe the reason COVID is surging in Harris county is because the paper of record’s lead story is about a cafeteria and the video inset is about someone who gets paid a lot of money to run around. The story about “hey, were shitting the bed with regard to pandemic discipline” is THIRD.
Mobile Upload: "Gosh why can’t they just follow the law?"
“Gosh why can’t they just follow the law?”
Huh, Trump Rally is a Superspreader Event. Imagine that.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/health-official-trump-rally-likely-source-virus-surge
Feeeeed your lives into his bottomless gaping maw!
Florida Peaks
Florida records more than 15,000 new COVID-19 cases in one day, the highest single-day increase in any state
http://hill.cm/F1QvJd4
Eloi eloi
New York Going the Right Way
New York City reports zero COVID-19 deaths for first time since pandemic hit
http://hill.cm/tSnUjGp
Good news!
Herman Cain, Trump supporter, anti-masker, Dies of Covid
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/herman-cain-businessman-gop-presidential-candidate-dies-coronavirus/story?id=72076546
As Phyrrus said: if I own the libs so successfully once again, my cause shall be lost.
Trump on Axios interview
Trump on Axios interview. Thoroughly cringe-worthy.
Social Collapse
https://gen.medium.com/i-lived-through-collapse-america-is-already-there-ba1e4b54c5fc
Collapse doesn’t feel like collapse. I guess it’s like drowning, you don’t look like “what drowning looks like.”
Trump, Shocker, Gets Coronavirus
Trump says he ’learned a lot’ about coronavirus during treatment: ‘This is the real school’
He got it by ignoring and mocking every scientist as part of his “anti-authoritarian” brand. And now he’s celebrating his foolhardiness as a virtue.
He is an egomaniac who wouldn’t put his ego aside long enough to help me and my city as we watched our neighbors die. He is not fit for a renewal of this highest position.
His ego was in the way while a quarter million Americans died. He taunted those who, owing to the lack of leadership he offered, did the one thing they could - wear a mask.
Stable
Nothing screams “very stable genius” like having your latest day’s conference calls summed up by a right-leaning bastion as being an outline for Nero, Mussolini, or Cersei Lannister.
Mobile Upload: Trump loves 70's Disco
Trump, whose choices in court and legislations are targeted to undermine marriage equality warms up the crowd to what scientists call “Literally the gayest song ever.”
Money quote: It is haunting to see Trump pick the Village People to amp his crowds. But there’s something oddly predictable about it, too.
Reminder: this guy said COVID WAS UNDER CONTROL AND WORKED TO HELP 80 9/11s-worth OF AMERICANS DIE.
Irony is clearly dead.