If you care to take a quick glance past your favourite internet memes and cliches you’ll see it’s quite reasonable to wonder if people are applying the same risk precautions to other areas of their lives.
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So they’re bucking the authority of the far-right fascist president, imposing quarantines, and distributing free food and medication to the poor people who need it?
Umm… When they’re done, can we invite these gangs to the good ol’ US of A?
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As far as COVID-19 containment, yes. Nothing would surprise me at this point. Trump still manages to say something stupid, offensive, absurd, etc at every presser that somehow still shocks me. Publicly admitting on camera that he told Pence not to call MI and WA was pretty amazing. That would have ended 44 presidencies, would have stopped them dead in their tracks.
Imagine FDR being like, “December 7, 1941, a day which shall live in… Ah, nevermind, fuck it, that governor of Hawaii is a real piece of shit!”
Imagine JFK being like, “Let Cuba have the missiles and if they launch some at Florida, we’re just going to go full BugsBunny.gif because that governor is a real pain in the ass!”
Imagine George W. Bush being like, “Stand on a pile of rubble with a bullhorn? Fuck that, they didn’t vote for me!”
Totally normal with this asshole, though.
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Clinical test though. They’re following Vo’s example. If we don’t population test this group how will we ever learn the true symptomatic rate of 65+ year old deplorables?
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Looks like some slightly good news here, that’s 2 weeks after lockdown. Apparently the slowdown isn’t fast enough though, stronger measures are expected to be announced later today.
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Whatabout! (Checks notes…). Everything else in every day life!
Preferably on a split screen while he is talking about how great he’s doing and how peachy-keen everything is.
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In Florida, they’ve been holding the NOS button down for days on end…
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Yeah but people all over the country have governors who are mean to Daddy. The Villages have a governor who worships the ground he walks on.
An outbreak in the Villages that kills tens of thousands is literally the difference between Trump being elected and not elected and he knows it. Every available resource will go to the Villages to try to keep that from happening, at the expense of nearly everyone else in the country.
Edit: And I think tens of thousands is fair given the average age and comorbidity factor of the residents of the villages.
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I was grinding online poker all day, but I guess there was a “living room concert” to raise money for charities?
I saw some of it going around on social media, and Alicia Keys’ performance was heartbreaking because of what it made me think about.
“I sing a song for the hustlers… student doctors, the people on the front lines, knowing they don’t get to run…”
There are likely to be student doctors thrust into this who a couple months ago had their whole lives laid out in front of them, and now they’re going to be fighting COVID-19 without proper PPE. Many will get sick, some will die, they will understand that risk profoundly every time they walk into the hospital, and they don’t get to run away. The same applies to all the nurses, doctors, retired nurses/doctors, etc who get thrown into the front lines.
(Sorry for the Fox News feed, couldn’t find it from anyone else. I assume it was on a bunch of channels.)
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This was actually a little reassuring.
Dave grohl was really good too.
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Starting Wednesday it will be mandatory in Austria to wear a mask in supermarkets and other public places where people congregate. The masks will be handed out for free in supermarkets. Alternatively, make-shift mouth and nose guards can be worn.
Chancellor Kurz explicitly referenced Asian customs and practices during his announcement.
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UF is doing a study and recruiting asymptomatic as well as symptomatic people for testing. It’s first come first served, don’t have to live there, and if you have had as little as a cough in the last 2 weeks that counts as symptomatic. So by design they’ll find a lower percentage of infected, they’re looking for the actual rate. Even though the sample is self selecting it still has some value.
Testing at hospitals and state run drive thru test sites in FL is still rationed. No fever no test.
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My local Chinese supermarket in lol florida has been doing this for 2 weeks now.
Does being downwind actually have an impact?