His product is, imo, crap, but his workflow is legendary. He’ll probably make a show where he does literally every job including catering. Won’t require a single soul other than himself.
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WHO chief defends agency’s handling of pandemic
Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said countries should have listened to the agency after it declared a “Public Health Emergency of International Concern” on 30 January, when there were 82 cases outside China and no deaths.
“The world should have listened to WHO then, carefully,” he told reporters.
"We advised the whole world to implement a comprehensive public health approach, and we said: ‘Find, test, isolate, and do contact tracing.’ You can check for yourselves: countries who followed that are in a better position than others.”
US President Donald Trump ordered the suspension of US funding to the agency after accusing it of “severely mismanaging and covering up the spread of the coronavirus”.
BBC
Sad! Not winning
Trump’s daily briefings may be over - why?
After three days without a coronavirus task force briefing, the White House now says they will take on a new format as the president prepares for a Monday evening press conference instead. Why the change?
Part press briefing, part grievance-airing, all Trump spectacle, the daily coronavirus task force show, broadcast live from the White House for the past month, appears to be over.
At first, the high viewership appeared to be translating into improved overall public approval for the president, prompting some of the president’s critics - who considered the events more style than substance - to demand the news media stop covering them.
As the US death toll from the virus mounted and the economic hardship worsened, however, the president’s job numbers once again declined.
The criticisms culminated last week in widespread outrage and derision after he suggested that scientists research using disinfectants and light to destroy the virus inside a human body.
Some White House aides had been urging the president to back off from the daily briefings, and at last he appears to have agreed.
Despite enjoying the national spotlight, the president may have acknowledged that the events were doing more political harm than good.
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I was once dispatched to park Tyler Perry’s car (Rolls Royce). He took one look at me, laughed, and parked his own car.
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I’ve got to agree with bolded. I’m just astonished by his success from the shit he puts out. Obviously he’s got a feel for these things that I can’t possibly understand.
I thought he did do a good job in Gone Girl, though.
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That seems weird. What was it about young Riverman that projected an aura of car parking incompetence?
Ohio’s going to start requiring masks for employees and customers next week as they start allowing some businesses to reopen. I expect this isn’t going to play well with the trumpkin crowd.
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I watched Get Out with a decidedly African American crowd at a suburban Atlanta theater.
There were joke lines in there I wouldn’t have gotten without that audience.
(I know, not Tyler PerrY, but there is lots of music and comedy that I don’t readily get due to age and blinding paleness- as in I’ve been told I’m a distraction playing skins and not in the good way).
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Maybe Riverman is Asian and Tyler Perry believes in racial stereotypes about Asian drivers.
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Just tell them they are allowed to shoot maskless people in self-defense.
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Did Perry have something to do with that one? If so, I may need to reassess. That movie was great.
Edit: Ok, re-read you post and it seems like you’re saying he had nothing to do with it.
My lazy-ass modeling has this going to 1.3M confirmed cases in the US, the projection is still creeping upwards every day I run the numbers.
USA#1 has eclipsed 1 million confirmed COVID cases.
Again, the article says not necessarily Covid but the evidence points that way.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article242314111.html
I’m getting 1.6M. I’d really like to see what opening looks like with near 100% mask compliance but expect that’s not what’s happening.
Nothing but muh freedom will be good enough for them.
We’re in a tough crunch between businesses going out of business/running out of money and the resulting massive loss of jobs and this virus. If they wanna open up sporadic customer businesses and see how it goes why not at this point. There’s no winning here, it’s all trying to minimize losing and it’s starting to be a tough argument. An annoying issue is the longer you stay shut down and the curve starts to flatten, the more people start chanting to open it back up.
So only another 300K cases? Is that assuming we kept everything shut down?
I would like to build my next house out of whatever is holding up this stock market
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It’s assuming the curve continues to follow its current course. If everyone starts opening up, that could change things.
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I moved from Florida to Tennessee over past 2 days. I thought Florida was bad but holy shit Georgia and Tennessee are much worse.
Before I left, I made sandwiches and had water. My plan was to drive straight to Nashville area (8-9 hr drive) without going inside any building other than to go to bathroom. I stopped to get gas in Tifton, GA. While filling up with gas, I saw 10-15 people go in and out. Not a single person was using a mask. They were social distancing though for the most part. There were signs on the highway in Georgia saying “Isolate the Elderly.” Georgia is 
all in on letting people die.
Tennessee is a little better but not much. At least they have signs saying to stay home and no unnecessary travel. Today, I stopped at the grocery store to get food for a week. I saw maybe 5 people with masks on. Easily 50 people without them. Half the workers were using masks. Traffic looked normal. Parking lot at Lowe’s was almost full.
Even in LOL Florida, all the employees at Publix wear masks, and they have aisles set up in one way direction around the store. And a lot of places only allow a small number of people into stores. I’ve seen nothing like that in Georgia or Tennessee.
I moved to Tennessee to save money. My rent/bills in Florida was $1200 a month. Now it’s $300. (Not counting food) I won’t need to work and can self quartantine til a vaccine.
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