For sure.
What are your thoughts on landlords?
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Malcolmâs looking very androgynous in that photo.
Pushkin Industries, a wholly owned subsidiary of Vandelay Industries.
You should have replied âwanna screw?â Be curious what her response would have been.
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Conspiracy theory: Vaccine is created but is designed to sterilize people. It skips all testing phases and is given free of charge to people in Los Angeles and NYC starting with minorities.
Yup. Eugenics making a comeback by the end of 2020.
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Fixed. Not sure what happened. Was supposed to be in reply to danspartan post about Washington state getting Q-tips instead of nasal swabs.
If you think Stephen miller doesnât have a cork board with red string connecting this in his basement you are crazy.
A guy here died at 49. No health issues. Itâs rare but happens.
In smarter places where they actually wear the masks and donât reopen bars and clubs.
Turkeys health ministry says 41 more people have died from Covid-19 in the past 24 hours, bringing the death toll to 4,096.
The daily death toll is the lowest registered since the end of March.
Minister Fahrettin Koca tweeted on Saturday that 1,610 new infections had been confirmed, bringing the total number of cases to 148,067 in the country of 82 million people.
Fifteen provinces, including Istanbul, are on a four-day lockdown, one of a series of temporary and regional lockdowns Turkey has instituted to combat pandemic, the Associated Press reports.
People under 20 and above 65 have been stuck at home for weeks, but are now allowed to leave for a few hours on allotted days.
Other easing measures have gone into effect, including the opening of malls, barbershops and hair dressers. The number of provinces under lockdown on weekends and national holidays has dropped from 31 to 15.
Also Saturday, Turkeyâs tourism minister Mehmet Nuri Ersoy told private broadcaster NTV he hoped for domestic tourism to begin after 28 May, subject to coronavirus statistics continuing on a downward trend.
French health authorities reported 96 new coronavirus deaths on Saturday, bringing the total to 27,625, the fourth highest in the world.
The health ministry said the number of people in hospitals fell to 19,432 from 19,861 on Friday and the number of people in intensive care units dropped to 2,132 from 2,203 on Friday.
Italyâs coronavirus death toll has risen to 31,763, as a further 153 deaths were reported, its lowest 24-hour increase in deaths since 9 March.
Lombardy, the region most severely affected by coronavirus, registered 39 deaths, down from 115 on Friday, my colleague Angela Giuffrida reports.
New infections rose by 875, up by 86 from Friday, with 399 of the cases in Lombardy.
The day before, 242 deaths had been reported, the Civil Protection Agency said, while the daily tally of new cases increased to 875 from 789 on Friday.
The countryâs total official death toll now stands at 31,763 the agency said, the third highest in the world after those of the United States and Britain.
Italy has 224,260 confirmed cases of Covid-19 to date, including the deaths and 122,810 survivors.
People registered as currently carrying the illness fell to 70,187 from 72,070 the day before.
There were 775 people in intensive care on Saturday, down from 808 on Friday, maintaining a long-running decline.
Some beaches in Greece, France and Italy opened today, and there are various reports that people wasted no time to take the opportunity.
More than 500 beaches reopened across Greece, although with strict physical distancing rules, and citizens in Athens flocked to the cityâs shores, according to MailOnline.
Government guidelines state no more than 40 people are allowed per 1,000 sq metres (10,750 sq ft), while umbrella poles have to be 4 metres (13 ft) apart, with canopies no closer than 1 metre.
The Spanish government will seek to extend its coronavirus state of emergency for the last time until late June, the prime minister, Pedro SĂĄnchez, said on Saturday as the countryâs daily death toll reached a near eight-week low.
âThe path that we are taking is the only one possible,â Sanchez said at a news conference, saying he would ask parliament for an extension of about a month until the end of June when most of the hard-hit nation should be returning to normality, according to Reuters.
Spain first introduced a state of emergency decree on 14 March. Officials say that while the outbreak has been brought largely under control, restrictions must stay in place a bit longer as the lockdown is gradually phased out.
The countryâs Covid-19 death toll rose by 102 to 27,563 on Saturday, the lowest daily increase since 18 March. Confirmed coronavirus cases climbed to 230,698 from 230,183, the health ministry said.
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So some explanation on the Washington State gets a box of Q-tips story:
Supposedly the company making the swabs packaged them in Qtip packaging because itâs all they had. A memo from the Feds was supposed to precede the shipment letting the state know that they were indeed polyester tipped swabs, not cotton q-tips. Also, I guess the swabs for this stuff are usually sterile and individually packaged. These arenât, so the state first has to test them to make sure they arenât compromised, and then they have to spend time individually packaging them.
âThe packaging used (comforts for baby cotton swabs) for a portion of the initial FEMA production does not accurately reflect the contents,â a memo signed by company President and CEO John B. Nims said. âBe assured that the printed packaging does contain the FDA approved sterilized polyester spun swab for specimen collection of COVID-19.â
But the way the swabs arrived in Washington this week â 22,000 in bulk, packed into the scores of mislabeled boxes â puzzled state health workers, Schuler said. The nasopharyngeal (NP) and nasal swabs widely used for specimen collection typically come individually wrapped in sterile packaging to avoid contamination.
âHaving boxes full of swabs in bulk raises questions about sterility and whether we can use them at all,â Schuler said.
The state must now conduct quality assurance tests before determining whether and how it can use the swabs to enhance the stateâs coronavirus testing, he said. That could involve taking laborious steps to individually package each swab before distribution, what Schuler described as âjust another obstacle in a wild saga to expand testing.â
The whole story is worth reading. I guess the feds pledged to supply weekly shipments that would amount to almost 600,000 swabs total, but the state has so far only received about 60,000.
Just a well oiled machine.
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CA WOAT STRIKES BACK
As I think wookie pointed out pretty much LA county is where this is raging. Most of Cali has it mostly under control at this point. The people not staying at home stats in this article would be interesting to see by metro.
The deplorables I see on Facebook have a new talking point. Previously it was that the lockdown was unnecessary to begin with. Now theyâre saying, well ok it was necessary but the curve is now flat, danger is over, full economic opening immediately.
Like, hey, I wore my seatbelt last week and I didnât die, ergo I donât need to wear it anymore and Iâm going to drive faster.
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Also they canât decide whether density is bad and thatâs why NYC was so hard hit or density is good and thatâs why South Korea was able to control things.
âThey can âget toâ their people betterâ
Those would up to safety who give liberty purchase deserve
NEITHER
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Just got back from a two hour walk around Manhattan. Great weather, and lots of people out but not too crowded. Was able to maintain spacing walking down the East River Esplanade and down 5th Ave (along side of Central Park). The large majority of people were wearing masks. Makes wearing a mask feel like an act of solidarity with my fellow New Yorkers.
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Yea this has been a talking point for a while for them actually.
Something like, hey Libtard the lockdown was to flatten the curve so hospitals wouldnât be overrun, thatâs flattened and hospitals are fine, but we canât stay closer forever!
Edit: also there is some shit like âthey lied and said it was to flatten the curve cuz clearly they just wanted all of our freedoms and thatâs why the narrative is changing to âwe have to stay locked down to save livesâ. People die everyday yo!
Edit 2: essentially they are saying that the goal was never to save lives just to prevent hospitals being overrun, essentially that if we had unlimited hospital capacity, a lockdown would never have been needed period. Sigh
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