Danny’s gonna be fine
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Washington does stay home order finally
Moscow Mitch has 200+ bills sitting on his desk now. Do you think he’s going to allow anything to happen if a bunch of GOP senators go down? Right now he’s not allowing phone-in voting, but that might change depending on how things shake out:
1: Equal numbers of D and R Senators get sick = business as usual (nothing gets brought to the floor)
2: More R Senators get sick, giving Ds an effective majority = Mitch allows remote voting for a few things, but still brings ~0 bills up for discussion
3: More D Senators get sick, giving Rs a supermajority = “Let’s bring some votes to the floor!”
There is absolutely zero chance the guy who stole a Supreme Court seat allows Ds to have a majority
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So the US lasted a week in quarantine and now we are throwing in the towel. Expect for businesses to expect their employees back to work in another few weeks.
Going to put a lot of medically vulnerable people (and their healthy loved ones) in a tough spot.
Just found out the number of Coronavirus inpatients in my hospital has increased <1 per day this past week. I’m hearing similar things from friends at other big hospitals around Seattle. I think Washington’s numbers, at least as a proxy for total number of cases is pretty real. It’s a shame red states are going to follow Trumps lead and have a sustained mass casualty situation on their hands next month, but I guess that can’t be helped.
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Well, that’s promising for sure.
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Do you think this is all due to social distancing in the area? (It sure didn’t seem like some people were taking things seriously around Seattle based on pictures that were posted today.)
I’m going to issue a controversial one time:
Trump has somehow managed to escape everything by sheer dumb luck and incompetence.
I hope his stupidity this time results in that this virus decides it’s had enough fun and burns itself out very soon. I know Trump will be screaming about how he was right all along about getting the economy going quickly, and I’m willing to accept that to ensure none on my family or friends die.
So one (more) time for Trump to be successful by being incompetent.
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Welcome fluff. Hope you become a frequent poster.
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I’ll take that deal too. And then start working hard on getting the fuck out of this nuthouse.
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Probably. I guess other possibilities exist such as R0 being larger than previously thought and the virus being much less dangerous. That would take a large portion of the population becoming immune without symptoms and never achieving a viral load our tests can pick up. It could just be variance. It could also be we’ve exhausted our supply of nursing homes for the virus to ravage.
I don’t know what people have been doing, but I’m on a rush hour ferry that is usually packed and there are 12 cars on board (200 car capacity).
Which ferry route is that empty right now?
Seattle-Bremerton
Look at the ferry holding areas right now. Empty everywhere.
https://www.wsdot.com/ferries/vesselwatch/CameraDetail.aspx#term7
Just another anecdote. A friend who works at a grocery store on the southwest coast of Florida says there are 80 employees. Few have been wearing much in the way of protection. None have caught the virus. I guess though its fair to say its still early in the process. It seems like we’ve been dealing with this for a really long time. But it hasn’t been long. It won’t surprise me at all if they start dropping out sick.
Florida is hot right now, if that matters.
Anyone order chocolate in the mail? Does it melt and become unpleasant?
That’s crazy to me but good to hear people are taking it seriously. I don’t miss sitting in that ferry line during rush hour.
Some Texas dude was on Fox telling the senior citizens watching to sacrifice their lives so they can save the economy for their grandkids
Lol boomers sacrificing anything.
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I’m surprised there hasn’t been a “boomer 401k replenishment” bill
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Just had a scary thought, but if the Dems cave and the stimulus package is a joke with the majority of funds going to corporations and very little going into the hands of the most needy, does that mean that we have to shift and start rooting for lockdowns to end, businesses to reopen, and the masses going back to work?
Statistics show that each % rise in unemployment leads to tens of thousands of deaths and we might be talking about a 20-30% unemployment rate in some places. If people are getting very little in the way of assistance from the government, then this could lead to far more deaths than coronavirus itself.
It sucks that we have to decide between which way to kill our people, but I don’t have a lot of confidence that our government will look out for the most vulnerable. If that’s the case, then it be better off having sick people return to work rather than hundreds of thousands dying in their homes with no access to food.
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