Fear and Loathing, a Rat Flu Odyssey

[Adolf Allerbush]

He’s approaching the point where I wonder if those around him are starting to truly consider the 25th amendment. If there is a god, Trump will get the virus and die. Not holding out hope.


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Imagine if the GOP actually removed him from office during impeachment? I have to think we'd be in a similar situation, with pence trying to pray the disease away. At least he may have listened to experts and had prepped to the extent he could have in February.

[MakersTeleMark]

Maybe, but you can tell something about a person by the quality of their handshake.

Agreed.

[Ted Striker]

Imagine if the GOP actually removed him from office during impeachment? I have to think we'd be in a similar situation, with pence trying to pray the disease away. At least he may have listened to experts and had prepped to the extent he could have in February.

Pence's only talent is obsequiousness. He's otherwise an empty vessel.

But I agree that he would've been more likely to heed expert advice. The rare case where a nothing is better than a negative.

[MakersTeleMark]

I disagree. Pence is a scary mf.

[old goat]

Maybe, but you can tell something about a person by the quality of their handshake.

Maybe--like how macho they want to appear, how much they think they have to prove. Most doctors have "weak" handshakes because they shake hands with a lot of old, fragile people.

My fear is that after Trump declares the country open and the governors keep things shut a lot of Trumpers will open their businesses, get together in tightly packed groups, etc. in defiance of the governors and the governors will be forced to start arresting people or to back down. Things could get very political and very ugly. Good to see that there are Republican governors who aren't afraid to stand up to Trump.

[Bunion 2020]

^^^

When the Rat Flu was still a bit of an abstract I was thinking how China would handle an epidemic. They are a brutal regime and they would do what it takes to arrest the spread. That is what they tried and it seemed to work. Now they are exploring the move to normalcy and it doesn't sound like it is going that great.

Juxtapose that with the land of the free and the home of the brave. Exactly what I expected is starting to happen although I am impressed that people have had as much patience as they have had. We will be our own worst enemies and demand that life return to normal and a lot of people will die. And it will be explained that to have stayed the course would have been even more destructive and people starving is worse than people dying due to respiratory failure even those no one was actually starving other than the people who were already starving before any of us heard of Rat flu.

Meanwhile this like everything else with become a team sport.

[east or bust]

me today:




anyone else?

[rideit]

I kinda went the opposite, and put a bunch of stuff on e-bay. And stuff is selling fast.

[splat]

I disagree. Pence is a scary mf.

Pence calls himself 'Rush on decaf'.

Rideit- what qualifies as stuff that sells fast?

I doubt it was ski/board gear.

I make sure I go out in the yard and do something every day to move my landscaping forward.

[Adolf Allerbush]

I kinda went the opposite, and put a bunch of stuff on e-bay. And stuff is selling fast.

Seriously? I've got a pile of stuff to get rid of.

[LongShortLong]

Why are you sucking WHOs dick? Corrupt as shit. A Chinese shill at this point.

Let me guess. You could care less, as long as OrangeMan isn’t re-elected. You’d cut your mothers throat if it helped your little political agenda that no one gives a fuck about, but makes you look cool on an internet skiing message board.

Who's sucking what? Orangeman is upset because WHO is among many organizations sounding warnings for the last 4 months that orange man was too dumb to listen to. The Russian troll media deceives you.

Taiwan restricted travel from China in December
China locked down a very large city in January
Japan and Korea both reported imported cases in January
WHO began issuing daily situation reports in January

Certainly many US government agencies noticed these red lights flashing and much more. I'm certain the government has more than a few competent epidemiologists who knew exactly what was happening. Maybe it's the US Government that's so fucking corrupt, especially at the top.

[BCMtnHound]

me today:




anyone else?

Lots of that in the neighbourhood, but then the local waste transfer station started putting an attendant at the gate to 'request' that only bagged household garbage, and pre-sorted household recycling be taken in. No scrap metal, used oils and paints, no brush and organic yardwaste. Only until this COVID thing passes...
Kinda fucked and I wish the local town, the regional district, and prov wildfire service sit down together and discuss. Everyone at the very least is cleaning their yards after a long winter, the Environment ministry has put in an order curtailing and yardwaste burning (reduce smoke until the forest ministry can issue the same order after Apr 15 - fire season). So what are people doing with the waste? Burning it in defiance of the smoke order, or dumping it off some backroad. And of course there is a big push to reduce fuel loads and firesmart the community; grassfire season is already in swing just south of us towards the desert. More than just COVID to worry about as the season progresses.

I kinda went the opposite, and put a bunch of stuff on e-bay. And stuff is selling fast.

All that stuff usually gets sold via garage sales around here. Of course that isn't happening either. But the old boomers and old towne folk won't likely migrate to the online garage sale, so they are stressing every Saturday morning, with the garage door open and their precious junk collectibles gazing out longingly at the street, dreaming of freedom.

[Adolf Allerbush]

Who's sucking what? Orangeman is upset because WHO is among many organizations sounding warnings for the last 4 months that orange man was too dumb to listen to. The Russian troll media deceives you.

Taiwan restricted travel from China in December
China locked down a very large city in January
Japan and Korea both reported imported cases in January
WHO began issuing daily situation reports in January

Certainly many US government agencies noticed these red lights flashing and much more. I'm certain the government has more than a few competent epidemiologists who knew exactly what was happening. Maybe it's the US Government that's so fucking corrupt, especially at the top.

A lot of people are falling for the same idiocy KenJong has repeated. Trump and Faux will just keep trying different messages until something stick with the base. They're brainwashed...no joke. Ken will be defending the idiocy shortly, or some other Trump supporter...not to go all political, but Ken's started it with that stupid shit.

[altacoup]

Pence's only talent is obsequiousness. He's otherwise an empty vessel.

But I agree that he would've been more likely to heed expert advice. The rare case where a nothing is better than a negative.

Seriously? You do know he didn’t heed any expert advice when there was a big HIV crisis in Indiana while he was governor. When the people elect a political party to run government that doesn’t actually believe in government you get a shitty government.


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[XXX-er]

“well if you like XXX so much, write a check ”.

I will also take an e-transfer

[frorider]

President Donald Trump's name will appear on checks sent to millions of Americans to combat the economic effects of the coronavirus in a last-minute Treasury Department order, a senior administration official confirmed to CNN on Tuesday.

JFC.

[altasnob]

Per Washington Post, first time a president’s name appears on an IRS disbursement. Treasury officials claim that adding the name won't delay the funds but the code must be changed to include the president’s name, and the system must be tested. “Any last minute request like this will create a downstream snarl that will result in a delay,” said Chad Hooper, a quality-control manager who serves as national president of the IRS’s Professional Managers Association.

[bobz]

Tyson Foods in Burbank WA has been the source of over half the cases in W2 and a great many in Tri-Cities.

Tri-Cities area Tyson plant sees cases continue to rise; will remain open

A big plant in Iowa joins the Covid war on bacon: 186 positive tests at the pork plant, bringing Louisa Co. IA's case rate to 11th place of all counties nationwide, ahead of NYC.

[Crusty]

Defunding WHO is just another tRump marketing play. Eventually WHO will release a report explaining why the USA has 5% of the worlds population and 30% of the Covid cases. When they do, Trump will say the report is retaliation for the loss of funding.

[LongShortLong]

Defunding WHO is just another tRump marketing play. Eventually WHO will release a report explaining why the USA has 5% of the worlds population and 30% of the Covid cases. When they do, Trump will say the report is retaliation for the loss of funding.

He did the math. (already 30%? 600K USA, 2M World, Ah to be free!)

[SkiBall]

I’ll be interested to see how the rest of the world responds. Hold back vaccine info from the USA?


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That’s ok, we’re going to Jared.

[KQ]

Per Washington Post, first time a president’s name appears on an IRS disbursement. Treasury officials claim that adding the name won't delay the funds but the code must be changed to include the president’s name, and the system must be tested. “Any last minute request like this will create a downstream snarl that will result in a delay,” said Chad Hooper, a quality-control manager who serves as national president of the IRS’s Professional Managers Association.

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[toast2266]

Defunding WHO is just another tRump marketing play. Eventually WHO will release a report explaining why the USA has 5% of the worlds population and 30% of the Covid cases. When they do, Trump will say the report is retaliation for the loss of funding.

Isn't WHO funding allocated by Congress? So this is just round 2 of Trump holding up congressionally delegated funds. I'm sure the impeachment will stick this time around. /s

[Lvovsky]

Makes Trump getting a golden shower seem downright vanilla by comparison.

ah those were simple days

[m2711c]

There's always F. M.

no static at all...