I tried to flag one of silby’s posts but got an error message saying “where’s the lie tho”
― Garu you just posted flange (wins), Monday, 9 March 2020 08:39 (four years ago) link
confirmed case on Lesbos as well as a member of staff of London Underground
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 9 March 2020 13:12 (four years ago) link
not sure how much longer the “contain” situation in the UK can obtain tbh
Cobra weirdly deciding that “spread is inevitable” but sticking at contain for now.
― stet, Monday, 9 March 2020 13:14 (four years ago) link
Also two cases in Shetland so there goes my patronising-but-deep-seated view of the islands as rural idylls and places of escape.
― stet, Monday, 9 March 2020 13:15 (four years ago) link
De Blasio this morning with advice in contravention of every other source I have read (infection requires a “direct hit to the face”, virus “only survives on surfaces for a matter of minutes”)No, fuck your subway
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Monday, 9 March 2020 13:16 (four years ago) link
I think people should be able to post the occasional link to a dodgy right wing site. My bubble can handle it.
― o. nate, Monday, 9 March 2020 14:39 (four years ago) link
So last year 37,000 Americans died from the common Flu. It averages between 27,000 and 70,000 per year. Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on. At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of CoronaVirus, with 22 deaths. Think about that!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 9, 2020
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Monday, 9 March 2020 14:57 (four years ago) link
definitely a good tweet to revive when this things has spread to millions globally later this year
― majority whip, majority nae nae (m bison), Monday, 9 March 2020 14:59 (four years ago) link
he should've just put Good Cuck USA! to save himself the logic.
― Yerac, Monday, 9 March 2020 15:00 (four years ago) link
My workplace (West Chelsea, about 150 employees, open office plan) did not ring the work-from-home bell like I thought they would. This, coupled with de Blasio's seemingly false claims about commuter safety this morning, has me pretty fucking stressed. I can tell you I'm not fucking coming in after today but I'm not sure exactly how I'm gonna play it
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Monday, 9 March 2020 15:00 (four years ago) link
any decent place with decent HR will not fight you about anxiety issues. They are probably monitoring and if enough people request to work from home, they will be pushed to finally pull the trigger on it.
― Yerac, Monday, 9 March 2020 15:04 (four years ago) link
BREAKING: A D.C. priest has Coronavirus. He offered communion and shook hands with more than 500 worshippers last week and on February 24th. All worshippers who visited the Christ Church in Georgetown must self-quarantine. Church is cancelled for the first time since the 1800's— Sam Sweeney (@SweeneyABC) March 9, 2020
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 9 March 2020 15:04 (four years ago) link
my group is on unofficial 'feel free to work from home if you wanna', but some believe it will be mandatory soon
― mookieproof, Monday, 9 March 2020 15:06 (four years ago) link
i'm on official "i'm working from home and not telling anyone, doubt anyone will notice"
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Monday, 9 March 2020 15:12 (four years ago) link
Ireland cancelling all St Patrick’s day parades!
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 9 March 2020 15:15 (four years ago) link
I saw this old food delivery guy coughing and spluttering while he was getting out of his car last night. Might have just been a smoker's cough, but good lord, I'd still be throwing that takeaway straight into the bin if it was arriving at my house.
― calzino, Monday, 9 March 2020 15:18 (four years ago) link
“Work from home” is fine and good if you are a professional person on a salary at a job that does not require your physical body. But it generally just slows the spread of disease for a small, privileged class. How many wage workers, teachers, medical personnel are fucked by the loss of income? It just sucks.
― rb (soda), Monday, 9 March 2020 15:20 (four years ago) link
I would imagine most businesses that rely on such workers won't bother shutting down or changing things up much at all, just issuing "anti-flu best practices" or whatever. I'm not worried about loss of income for them as much as I am that workers in those industries won't have the luxury of effectively reducing the risk of exposure.
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Monday, 9 March 2020 15:23 (four years ago) link
― rb (soda), Monday, March 9, 2020 10:20 AM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
boom this is why we need paid sick leave. (and M4A).
― majority whip, majority nae nae (m bison), Monday, 9 March 2020 15:24 (four years ago) link
like at this rate, im also thinking about if we have to cancel classes this spring, how many kids wont be able to take their exams to graduate, their AP tests, go to graduation, shit.
oh yeah, for sure. it is a fucking mess.
gig economy people without benefits, uber/lyft drivers, hard to see how they aren't fucked at some point. wish someone would have pointed out the problem with these paycheck-to-paycheck jobs before a crisis happened!
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Monday, 9 March 2020 15:26 (four years ago) link
the USA- every man is an island.
― Yerac, Monday, 9 March 2020 15:29 (four years ago) link
one of the UK's pro political commentariat arseholes caught himself thinking aloud about how terrible it is that poor ppl on zero hour contracts will end up spreading COVID 19 to him because they can't afford to self-isolate.
― calzino, Monday, 9 March 2020 15:31 (four years ago) link
the good news here in the U.S. is our surgeon general who I just saw on TV appears to be very bright for a14 year old boy
― Webcam Du Bois (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 9 March 2020 15:37 (four years ago) link
easy mistake, but that's eric trump, and he's actually a very dumb 14 year old boy
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Monday, 9 March 2020 15:38 (four years ago) link
shit I thought I knew him from somewhere
― Webcam Du Bois (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 9 March 2020 15:39 (four years ago) link
― badg, Monday, 9 March 2020 15:39 (four years ago) link
xp he was showing how to do something called “bare hand wipe”?
― Webcam Du Bois (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 9 March 2020 15:41 (four years ago) link
One proof that deplatforming works is that I have no idea what Alex Jones is saying about all of this.
― ... (Eazy), Monday, 9 March 2020 15:44 (four years ago) link
false flag
― whistling (brownie), Monday, 9 March 2020 15:45 (four years ago) link
― Webcam Du Bois (Hadrian VIII), Monday, March 9, 2020 10:41 AM (nineteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
Please tell me this is not in response to the sudden run on TP
― Waifu-ed Around and Fell in Love (Old Lunch), Monday, 9 March 2020 16:02 (four years ago) link
I was jk
― Webcam Du Bois (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 9 March 2020 16:13 (four years ago) link
*does a bare shit in the woods*
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Monday, 9 March 2020 16:16 (four years ago) link
that's the pope iirc
― Webcam Du Bois (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 9 March 2020 16:22 (four years ago) link
But it generally just slows the spread of disease for a small, privileged class. How many wage workers, teachers, medical personnel are fucked by the loss of income? It just sucks.
agree with the implication of the second sentence, but the first sentence is just not true.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 9 March 2020 16:53 (four years ago) link
Love getting texts from almost everyone I know asking "Are you feeling OK?" Kevin shut the fuck up
― flappy bird, Monday, 9 March 2020 17:34 (four years ago) link
The good news that there is technology and infrastructure to enable study from home. The bad news is that this T&I is already proving inadequate to demand, and is nowhere nearly distributed equitably.
― Life is a banquet and my invitation was lost in the mail (j.lu), Monday, 9 March 2020 17:35 (four years ago) link
im guessing that this will accelerate the adoption of and bolster the infrastructure for wfh in our civil service, and many other areas where it should've been in long before now
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Monday, 9 March 2020 17:49 (four years ago) link
President Trump shakes hands with people after arriving in Orlando, Florida. pic.twitter.com/rGVDaa9JsA— NBC News (@NBCNews) March 9, 2020
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Monday, 9 March 2020 17:54 (four years ago) link
Oh please oh please oh please
― Fetchboy, Monday, 9 March 2020 17:54 (four years ago) link
Hey, at least he's putting his money where his mouth is. Hopefully his tiny hands too.
― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Monday, 9 March 2020 17:55 (four years ago) link
LOOOOL xpost Oh please oh please oh please
― Waifu-ed Around and Fell in Love (Old Lunch), Monday, 9 March 2020 17:56 (four years ago) link
Vanity Fair: “He’s definitely melting down over this”: Trump, germaphobe in chief, struggles to control the Covid-19 story
Last week Trump told aides he’s afraid journalists will try to purposefully contract coronavirus to give it to him on Air Force One, a person close to the administration told me.
― Sanpaku, Monday, 9 March 2020 18:09 (four years ago) link
not a big chait fan, but his likening trump to this guy was good
https://blakes1967catastrophe.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/amity-jaws1.jpg
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 9 March 2020 18:10 (four years ago) link
i have a suspicion that trump's manifest incompetence is hiding the fact that U.S. administrative capacity is really bad, and that even a supremely competent exec would have trouble containing or mitigating an outbreak given available institutions and tools— Max Read (@max_read) March 9, 2020
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Monday, 9 March 2020 18:11 (four years ago) link
Vanity Fair says that Trump’s definitely melting down every fucking week, I really wish people would stop believing their anonymously sourced center-cannot-hold bullshit.
― JoeStork, Monday, 9 March 2020 18:19 (four years ago) link
Trump is freaking out he's going to have to tap in to the strategic TP reserve.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 9 March 2020 18:22 (four years ago) link
What are the chances that a severe public outbreak in the US could be used to delay the election?
― Matt DC, Monday, 9 March 2020 18:27 (four years ago) link
About as good as Trump getting it and dying.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 9 March 2020 18:28 (four years ago) link