“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, 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
re: max's tweet, the thing is, when ebola hit during the obama administration that is very much what they found - very bad/non-coordinated federal governance regarding outbreaks. so the administration built a much more capable response and backed it up with funding and staff and governnance.
then trump came in and saw that it was something obama liked, and obliterated it for no reason (https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/01/31/coronavirus-china-trump-united-states-public-health-emergency-response/).
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Monday, 9 March 2020 18:32 (four years ago) link
that said, not saying the obama admin would have been able to "contain" coronavirus. but mitigation-wise, there's a direct line between trump's incompetence and the lives that are stake
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Monday, 9 March 2020 18:35 (four years ago) link
― Matt DC, Monday, March 9, 2020 2:27 PM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
discussed on the US politics thread IIRC. would require the cooperation of the states, who would be unlikely to give it.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 9 March 2020 18:35 (four years ago) link
the only way a germophobe like him could shake hands like that is if he was wearing normal human hand sized gloves over his tiny hands imo
― StanM, Monday, 9 March 2020 18:37 (four years ago) link
vanity fair voice: it's a dumpster fire and i'm living for it *cough*
― i am a horse girl (map), Monday, 9 March 2020 18:40 (four years ago) link
xpost FWIW he's also a death cultist, so
― Waifu-ed Around and Fell in Love (Old Lunch), Monday, 9 March 2020 18:40 (four years ago) link
Age breakdown of Italian fatalities463 have died (97 today) Of these:1% 29-50yrs10% 60-69yrs31% 70-79yrs44% 80-89yrs14% over 90yrs— James Longman (@JamesAALongman) March 9, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 9 March 2020 18:41 (four years ago) link
I mean, even under ordinary circumstances, he doesn't exactly live like he cares about continuing to live.
― Waifu-ed Around and Fell in Love (Old Lunch), Monday, 9 March 2020 18:41 (four years ago) link
xp I was interested to read that Italy’s population is like 25% people over 65? We have less than half that % in Ireland, but the Italian proportion is incredible.
― gramsci in your surplice (gyac), Monday, 9 March 2020 18:47 (four years ago) link
about 15% in US (~ 50M out of ~~327M)
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Monday, 9 March 2020 18:49 (four years ago) link
Isn't Italy one of the countries always listed as suffering from a population bust? It was either them or maybe France that actually had a Pr push to get people to have more kids,
BTW, I don't know where this "Trump is a germaphobe" stuff comes from. It seems as much BS as anything he's claimed. No doubt he doesn't even know what it means and just trots it out as an excuse.
"Show us your taxes!" "Sorry, can't, I'm a germaphobe. Meanwhile, watch me feast on fast food and have unprotected sex with porn stars."
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 9 March 2020 19:12 (four years ago) link
I was interested to read that Italy’s population is like 25% people over 65?
... and falling.
― Load up your rubber wallets (Tom D.), Monday, 9 March 2020 19:13 (four years ago) link
i only know about italy's population problems because of all those "move to this village and buy a house for a euro" things.
― Yerac, Monday, 9 March 2020 19:15 (four years ago) link
Trump's germophobia has been widely chronicled
― Webcam Du Bois (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 9 March 2020 19:16 (four years ago) link
why is that i, a person who would consider moving to this village and buying a house for a euro, never see these things
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Monday, 9 March 2020 19:17 (four years ago) link
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/07/07/donald-trump-germaphobe-1399258
― Webcam Du Bois (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 9 March 2020 19:17 (four years ago) link
https://1eurohouses.com/
new villages have campaigns every so often. xpost
― Yerac, Monday, 9 March 2020 19:18 (four years ago) link
xpost Yeah, I know, but he's hardly Howard Hughes.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 9 March 2020 19:20 (four years ago) link
xps Not France, could be Spain or Italy. France’s population is growing.https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/Europe_population_over_65.png/800px-Europe_population_over_65.png
― gramsci in your surplice (gyac), Monday, 9 March 2020 19:22 (four years ago) link