To get some people itt to realise this, yes. The wider population is apparently still outside playing ball games and visiting elderly relatives, though.
Tom Hanks is uniquely poised to be a great spokesman to get the word out to take this seriously - as pretty much everyone likes him. Also it sounds like he’s gone through some rough parts - which will help drive it home how serious this is.
Central Nevada - emptiest place in the continental US - that’s where you want to be. You can frolic in the Basin and Range country to your heart’s content.
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The game show host deaths should start and end with Chuck Woolery.
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Maybe in the US, but elsewhere I doubt that moves the dial much.
Maybe. Watching the news is no indication of that though. News crews find the absolute worst example of something and show it around the clock. I’ve seen that one 20 something on the beach saying something stupid at least half a dozen times now and I’m not trying to watch the news. Yeah, people are out, but it’s way way way down where I have been. Unless someone shows me some stats, I prefer my observations to those intentionally trained on whatever is the most sensational.
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Probably not going to take anything. Don’t want it to react with that bootleg chloroquine I’ve been taking for the past week.
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I assume chloroquine is what you get when you put a teaspoon of bleach in a gin and tonic.
People always talk about most punchable face but that fucknut wins hands down.
Quite, hence apparently.
It is really hard to know how much behaviour has changed. Where we are it’s normally very quiet anyway, but Brits being Brits I’m inclined to think the news reports of contact sports in parks during the first sunny Sunday of the year aren’t totally unrepresentative.
Yes, it’s like side-by-side bell curves. The believers (taking it seriously) and the non-believers (not taking it seriously). The non-believers can do more harm if they are wrong than the believers can. And many states have implemented/suggested self-isolation/lockdowns. My county has issued a shelter in place order and most are abiding by it but compliance is far from 100%.
Anyway, the height of the non-believer curve is steadily decreasing as MSM/Fox have gotten on that particular bandwagon, however belatedly.
So all in all put me down for being in favor of a celebrity death (or near-death) from Covid.
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Playing for second
Yeah if you’re a Boomer who didn’t have adult offspring (adult children?) hammering at you for weeks before FoxNews finally pivoted, you’re way behind the curve right now.
I think it’s a Senate rule, but I’m unsure.
American doctors should try covering their faces with runner’s lube in the morning
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The threshold for a quorum is in the Constitution. The process of a quorum call comes from the rules of the Senate, which the Senate is empowered to establish. Robert’s rules are based on the rules of Congress (specifically the House).
I believe you are supposed to establish a quorum at the beginning of a session and this quorum is presumed to continue throughout the session, even though individual Senators may come and go, unless someone challenges it by asking for a quorum call.
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the Sky News stuff from Italy is terrifying
My solution is
- Freeze the economy. Like tomorrow. Everything. Rent, Mortgages, gas, food prices so there’s no price gouging, etc. Freeze it until 3 months after a vaccine is discovered.
- No one allowed outside their yard except to go to grocery store, pharmacy, or gas station. Sucks if you live in an apartment building but we need to contain this. Play some video games or take a walk at night when people are sleeping.
- UBI for everyone. $2K/month per adult until the freeze is over. $1K a month for minors. Married w/ 3 kids? You get $7K a month. Single mother w/ 2 kids? You get $4K a month. Doesn’t matter if you make $15/K a year flipping burgers at McDonald’s or $500K a year as a lawyer.
- Tax the shit out of the top 0.1% to pay for this after the freeze is over. 10 years, $10 trillion or whatever it is. The rich don’t like it? Too fucking bad. Maybe listen to scientists the next time they warn us about a pandemic. Seriously. You had the means to stop this 2-3 months ago if you actually believed it was a risk. You didn’t, so you ignored it. Fuck you. You had your chance. Now it’s gonna cost you money. If I make a mistake, it costs me money. Same thing applies here. Don’t like it? Too bad. Fuck you.
- At the same time, those the got sick but recovered can now re-enter society. Help w/ critical needs stuff like hospitals, morgues, whatever. As more people enter the workforce, expand as needed. Pay them at least $15/hr.
6, Everything Coronavirus related is free. Need a test? Free. Got sick and was on a ventilator for 24 hours? Free. Need medication? Free. It’s free, free, free. Don’t like it? Fuck you. It’s not about you making a profit. - Personal wealth is capped at $1 Billion. Sorry Billy Gates, you don’t need $106 Billion. You are now a poor like Mark Cuban or Jeff Bezos. Don’t like it? Fuck you. I don’t care. Your $105 Billion will make a nice little dent in that $10 Trillion bill. Thanks for paying. Maybe we’ll name a street after you. Be glad I’m not capping it at $100 million.
None of these ideas are mine. They are various ideas from various people but I agree w/ all of them. Make it happen.
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