Seems like a smart thing to do, so probably never.
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Indeed. It’s also pretty outrageous that no one has been fired for the disastrous handling of the crisis. Heads should be rolling in the fucking street over this. Azar, Fauci, Redfield, whoever is in charge of the FDA, should all be out of a job, along with a bunch of career civil servants. Of course, Trump won’t fire anyone because then they’ll talk about how catastrophic his “leadership” was, and the chattering classes are afraid to call for accountability because they are clinging to the illusion that there are grown-ups in the room and the next guy might be even worse (not unreasonable).
The fact is, though, it’s not OK to have the response to this disease run by people who: (a) are corrupt, incompetent or both, and (b) even if they weren’t, have and deserve zero public credibility. They can’t even be bothered to come up with a fucking fall guy to pin the blame on.
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tl;dr Lol nothing matters.
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Not in my area yet, thanks though!
IDK, if Fauci keeps facepalming Trump during speeches I could see him exit. Trump literally cut into Pompeo to tell him what a good answer he gave praising Trump.
I imagine that a lot of people will be making up work later on.
I’m pretty sure I’ll be teaching during the summer (or at least part of it) to compensate for the schools being shut now.
Jfc dude
Christiana is a communal group of squatters. That’s cool. They openly defy a few laws from an extremely tolerant government. It’s not a country though.
I haven’t watched much, but from the little I’ve seen it seems like no way this Fauci guy lasts in Trump’s world.
It’s still the “smart individuals will save us narrative,” which I hope most of us have figured out is bs. It’s also important that he did it while breaking the rules, which changes it to “smart individuals will save us unless the government holds them back,” which is even more insidious.
It’s also just like great that a bunch of people bought 100ct boxes of masks back in early February so that now healthcare workers can’t get any. My 94 grandfather was sick enough to need someone to monitor him round the clock before this happened, now he gets to have lots of different healthcare workers come to his apartment without masks every week.
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If I can’t get my girlfriend to stop making plans for the next 6 months I might literally go crazy. I need to find a tactful way to explain that we’re not going anywhere cause no ones going anywhere for at least the next 6 months
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I’m not really good for relationship advice, but I am good at not fighting. I do it by not fighting.
I suggest a lot of head nodding now and “oh well, best laid plans” later.
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The FDA really did stop intrepid individuals from tracking the early stages of the epidemic in Washington. And, more generally, the government here is a gang of corrupt incompetents.
Perhaps local governments will save us instead. But the notion that the chunk of the government that’s responsible for response to pandemic disease is going to save us is delusional.
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Without knowing anything about her it’s impossible to give advice.
Some people need to keep doing and thinking normal things as a coping mechanism, in which case indulge her in non-committal ways.
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Apparently 10 positive tests in an assisted living facility in Redondo Beach.
Related to that health map I posted yesterday. Florida compares only to NYC in spike in fever data.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article241372271.html
Meanwhile state data shows that as health officials have struggled to expand testing for COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, more people are showing up in Florida’s hospital emergency rooms with fever and cough. For the past two weeks, hospital emergency room visits for cough and fever have risen steadily statewide and in South Florida, the state epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak, those cases have gone up even more than the state average, surveillance data published by the Department of Health indicates.
Have you tried to make it a money decision? Like let’s not make big plans until we see how things shake out with work, the markets, etc.?
Not to get all Buddhist, but have you considered that the source of your stress is not her making plans, but your antipathy towards her making plans? Let her make plans. It will either be possible/non-ruinous to follow through with those plans or it won’t. It’s not like she’s wasting all the Plan Mix or something, right?
And like someone else said, it’s probably as much a stress-management practice as anything else.
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The 2pm update also revealed that 7550 people have now been tested for the virus in Scotland.
That’s an increase of 778 in the last day.
Of those, 7228 tested negative with the rest - 322 - testing positive.
It comes as schools across Scotland closed down to help deal with the spread of the disease.
At her morning press conference, the First Minister said the advice to stop socialising is not “merely optional” adding “I know that there will be some of you who want to head out to the pub for a final night out.
"My guidance is crystal clear - please do not so this.
"This advice is not optional.
“It is it vital for own protection, for the protection of your loved ones and for the NHS”.
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One possible positive side effect- both of us are feeling great health wise. Wonder if the lack of daily exposure to other people’s germs is the reason?
Of course any allergy sniffles make me worried but I think a little bit of hypochondria is normal right now.
