lol, i missed this post in your other thread (it’s hard to keep up with everything)
I lived for ~40years caring way too much about what other people thought. Now? fuck it. I’s weird, now I get way more angry when i see criticism of looks/sexism directed toward others than toward myself.
You can make a legitimate argument that a modern totalitarian govt is superior to open democracy if you choose preserving human life as your primary metric (after all the horrible purges and stuff when things settle down). We are just too stupid to be left to our own devices.
No I’m not saying that’s the most important metric.
Sure there’s probably some argument that more people die of stress or something w/e don’t @ me.
Trump probably wasn’t paying attention all that close. Like, the idea that administrative procedure would keep THIS administration from getting something done is laughable when you look at how little he has respected any other judicial procedure or even court orders. Sorry, your administration is out there ignoring subpoenas and giving the courts the middle finger, you don’t get a pass on something of this magnitude if your excuse is that the Administrative Procedure Act isn’t flexible enough to handle a pandemic.
How about this video shot this week at the most crowded surf break in the entire world, which can get up to 800 guys in the water with the right conditions over a half mile stretch.
Pro surfing cancelled all contests in every league for several months, including the opening stop on the world tour that was set to start next week at this very spot, the unfortunately and actually seriously named “Corona Open Gold Coast”.
Best comment I saw somewhere from this video was “Where’s Parko?” and someone replied “Hiding!”. Joel Parkinson is a world champion and local who lives right out front of this wave and smartly sat this session out, when normally he’d be getting the best waves and filling his own highlight video.
I see that a second conspiritard has made his way over there. Because at a time like this we really need to signal boost Alex Jones disinformation as much as we can.
Another thing that that article ignores is that the APA and administrative rules aren’t self-enforcing. If the CDC or FDA bent the rules, or ignored procedure in this instance, someone would have to file a lawsuit to stop them from proceeding, and it would be very difficult for any random person to even have standing to file a suit (unless the relevant statutes provided a way, I have no idea). So, it just reenforces how absurd it is that THIS administration allowed esoteric regulations get in the way of this effort. Even an administration that wanted to follow the procedure could almost certainly find some paper-thin legal justification to give them cover. I don’t consider myself a spectacular attorney by any means, but I’m relatively certain that I could sit down and come up with some coherent, defensible strategy to give.the people cover to the shit done that they needed to do.
“There are significant numbers of people who have died but whose death hasn’t been attributed to the coronavirus because they died at home or in a nursing home and so they weren’t swabbed,” said Giorgio Gori, mayor of the town of Bergamo [in Northern Italy].
Gori said there had been 164 deaths in his town in the first two weeks of March this year, of which 31 were attributed to the coronavirus. That compares with 56 deaths over the same period last year.
We should all take note of every single one of these absolutely craven shitty media outlets that start using “China virus” or “Wuhan virus” ever!
Fuck all of these REPUBLICAN & MSM arseholes! CALL THEM OUT WHENEVER THEY GIVE ANY LEEWAY TO THAT SHITE.
Edit: …Oh and ANY Democrats who do the same as well, obv. I assumed obv it’s the GOPers, as always, and then the media start fall in line with the firehose of bullshit. But some Dems are in there too!