the new mexicans I know (who are my dad's family and are all delusional Trumpists) are holding firm on their belief that this is a hoax by dems and will only affect horrible coastal elites.
― akm, Thursday, 12 March 2020 18:42 (four years ago) link
I knew there was no way baseball was really going to open the season on time but I'm honestly kind of shaken now that it's really happened.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 12 March 2020 18:43 (four years ago) link
this isn't a rapture; as tt said ages ago, it's much closer to a biblical pestilence
― strangely hookworm but they manage ream shoegaze poetry (imago), Thursday, 12 March 2020 18:44 (four years ago) link
speaking of new mexico: meow wolf needs to shut it down, right quick
― gbx, Thursday, 12 March 2020 18:44 (four years ago) link
Yes, if somebody gets a little bit out of control.“People know that they’re being watched,”
“People know that they’re being watched,”
The language he's using almost makes it sound like he's worried about people spreading it on purpose? Echoes of some other times in the past when infected people were treated like a malevolent "other"....
― turn the jawhatthefuckever on (One Eye Open), Thursday, 12 March 2020 18:51 (four years ago) link
I seriously cannot believe that Johnson came out of this meeting and said oh yeah so up to 10,000 people in the UK might already be infected and lots of people are gonna die but we’re not shutting anything down. My work is business as usual and we’re not being told to work from home yet. I’m scared and then embarrassed about being scared but I am.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 12 March 2020 18:57 (four years ago) link
never been more grateful to control my own work schedule
― strangely hookworm but they manage ream shoegaze poetry (imago), Thursday, 12 March 2020 19:00 (four years ago) link
uhhhhhhh
https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/touring/9333748/live-nation-global-pause-tours-concerts-coronavirus?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&__twitter_impression=true&__twitter_impression=true
― Bougy! Bougie! Bougé! (Eliza D.), Thursday, 12 March 2020 19:01 (four years ago) link
lol disneyland is specifically exempted from california's ban on gatherings of 250+
― mookieproof, Thursday, 12 March 2020 19:05 (four years ago) link
France shutting down all schools from Monday. From crèches to universities.
― Joey Corona (Euler), Thursday, 12 March 2020 19:09 (four years ago) link
Macron:
nos enfants et nos plus jeunes, selon les scientifiques tous, sont celles et ceux qui propagent, semble-t-il, le plus rapidement le virus
For real? He's essentially saying that younger people are more contagious on average.
― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Thursday, 12 March 2020 19:16 (four years ago) link
Our lot say the same. They don’t get sick so much, and it’s really mild when they do, but they are contagious as hell.
― stet, Thursday, 12 March 2020 19:17 (four years ago) link
just realized trump STILL hasn't declared a national emergency - despite repeated calls to do so from WA, and i would assume other places as well.
i thought about this while reading a MLB press release on the delay to the start of the season, which referred to the current "national emergency"
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 12 March 2020 19:33 (four years ago) link
Netherlands finally taking some measures as well. Ppl should WFH, don't seek out social contacts, schools are staying open though, all events w/ 100+ cancelled etc etc.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 12 March 2020 19:33 (four years ago) link
reports are that children are more likely to be asymptomatic but still contagious, right?
so if this starts going wild in elementary schools post-spring break, one asymptomatic kid in a classroom could send the virus home with all their classmates
argh
― mh, Thursday, 12 March 2020 19:41 (four years ago) link
lol aren't we still in a "national emergency" because of border crossings or whatever
― frogbs, Thursday, 12 March 2020 19:49 (four years ago) link
My own state is taking drastic steps w/52 confirmed cases:
Actually only 5 confirmed cases in OH so far, but wait 1 or 2 weeks
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 12 March 2020 19:57 (four years ago) link
All OH schools to close until April 3rd
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 12 March 2020 20:07 (four years ago) link
Los Angeles schools still open. As of less than 24 hrs ago still getting calls regarding how it was cool to send kids in despite oh idk canceling all field trips and not allowing anyone to attend school events who wasn’t student or staff. We’re keeping our kid home, up till the schools close (whispers of them closing Monday for three weeks which seems like not quite long enough...)
― omar little, Thursday, 12 March 2020 20:12 (four years ago) link
worried about the large, close-knit, multigenerational families of new mexico, esp if the kiddos are vectoring
― gbx, Thursday, 12 March 2020 20:30 (four years ago) link
the local public schools are announcing they'll be closed until at least march 30 following this week
― mh, Thursday, 12 March 2020 20:33 (four years ago) link
Pornhub is making their premium content free throughout Italy, to comfort those in quarantine, plus donating money to hospitals. (via Reddit) https://t.co/vVg63QBXl5— Eric Nelson (@literaryeric) March 12, 2020
― gramsci in your surplice (gyac), Thursday, 12 March 2020 20:34 (four years ago) link
Disneyland closes.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 12 March 2020 20:35 (four years ago) link
No idea how they got the number, but impetus for Ohio school closures is reportedly an estimated 100k infected, obviously most of them as yet untested.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 12 March 2020 20:40 (four years ago) link
i'm having trouble processing those two posts together within the same few minutes
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 12 March 2020 20:41 (four years ago) link
xp
today governor made a big announcement that schools are closed for 2 weeks beginning monday and state buildings will be closed to the public, and state employees who can telework are supposed to. i can only partially telework. i am taking tomorrow off for no reason and i want to grocery shop but i'm afraid it's gonna be a mess.
― forensic plumber (harbl), Thursday, 12 March 2020 21:30 (four years ago) link
Wuhan now recording new infections in single digits for the first time since this started, according to the Straits Times. Apparently only fifteen new cases across the whole of China yesterday and, outside of Wuhan, six of the seven were infected abroad.
― ShariVari, Thursday, 12 March 2020 21:34 (four years ago) link
I'm sure Trump's solution will be to drown everybody who gets Coronavirus in the Pacific or Atlantic oceans
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Thursday, 12 March 2020 21:35 (four years ago) link
awesome news from Wuhan.
that's great news for china obv but it sounds like it only came with the sort of control measures that just wouldn't be possible in most other societies
― ymo sumac (NickB), Thursday, 12 March 2020 21:37 (four years ago) link
western liberal democracy really killing the game these days huh
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 12 March 2020 21:38 (four years ago) link
yeah, plus their government was initially slow to react and denied the existence of it at first, which lead to the epidemic explosion to begin with.
xpost yeah, pretty much never wanna hear how the US is the greatest nation again. we have a shortage of tests because our CDC decided to go rogue and then botched theirs, and our President insists we have the best tests, tests for anybody that needs them, superb tests
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Thursday, 12 March 2020 21:40 (four years ago) link
the tests were perfect
When it became a scandal that the United States simply didn’t have enough tests to screen people—and that an early version of the test was faulty—Trump said that the tests “are all perfect. Like the letter was perfect. The transcription was perfect.” It’s a telling comparison: His slow coronavirus response and his extortion of Ukraine are linked together in his mind as two things he needs to narrate as the opposite of what they are.
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 12 March 2020 21:44 (four years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ES8IxqCXsAICn45?format=jpg&name=large
― calzino, Thursday, 12 March 2020 21:46 (four years ago) link
feel like I'm bout to wake up Christopher Walken in Dead Zone style
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Thursday, 12 March 2020 21:47 (four years ago) link
good atlantic article about how the coronavirus was a failure of authoritarianism before it was a failure of democracy
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/02/coronavirus-and-blindness-authoritarianism/606922/
― ooga booga-ing for the bourgeoisie (voodoo chili), Thursday, 12 March 2020 21:53 (four years ago) link
yes there's enough failure to go around
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 12 March 2020 21:54 (four years ago) link
seems like america has the worst of both systems:-- an obsequious, authoritarian executive branch unwilling to face the unpleasant truth-- lumbering, conflicted legislature delaying needed relief (and to go deeper, unwilling to provide obviously beneficial social programs in general)-- population used to doing whatever it wants all the time, and not used to listening to credentialed experts about anything.
― ooga booga-ing for the bourgeoisie (voodoo chili), Thursday, 12 March 2020 21:54 (four years ago) link
yeah we go all in
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 12 March 2020 21:57 (four years ago) link
yet when it was Ebola, Republican Senators wanted like all of Texas put in a bubble.
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Thursday, 12 March 2020 21:57 (four years ago) link
america - don't talk to me til you're bleeding out of your every orifice
― ooga booga-ing for the bourgeoisie (voodoo chili), Thursday, 12 March 2020 22:01 (four years ago) link
This is just sad:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/12/coronavirus-iran-mass-graves-qom
― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Thursday, 12 March 2020 22:11 (four years ago) link
felt awkward clicking the "I'm okay with that" eurobutton
― silby, Thursday, 12 March 2020 22:14 (four years ago) link
Trump said that the tests “are all perfect. Like the letter was perfect. The transcription was perfect.”
lolol he seriously said this????? blows my mind that there's ppl who can't spot a pathological liar when they see one. He's sooo bad at it.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 12 March 2020 22:25 (four years ago) link
Like, uh, like my tax returns are perfecrt! I mean, perfect!
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 12 March 2020 22:26 (four years ago) link
America, where nothing can possibly go worng
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 12 March 2020 22:28 (four years ago) link
I saw him throw a perfect spiral
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 12 March 2020 22:28 (four years ago) link
saw Trump having a Pina colada at Trader Vic's
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 12 March 2020 22:38 (four years ago) link
what if this is the rapture― frogbs, Thursday, 12 March 2020 18:34 (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
― frogbs, Thursday, 12 March 2020 18:34 (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
I was thinking about that this morning. There are lots of people in or close to power who have been checking their watches for an apocalypse their whole lives and who wouldn't be minded to avert one.
― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Thursday, 12 March 2020 22:47 (four years ago) link