'Literally why it's so great' — Republicans, probably.
― coco vide (pomenitul), Friday, 27 March 2020 15:34 (four years ago) link
well, you heard the man, let's get this thing back up and running
https://i.redd.it/xsn79wrgw6p41.png
― a struggle to make meat-snacking fit (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 27 March 2020 16:14 (four years ago) link
jesus christ thats grim
― majority whip, majority nae nae (m bison), Friday, 27 March 2020 16:17 (four years ago) link
it really is
― Karl Malone, Friday, 27 March 2020 16:17 (four years ago) link
all the older women are probably like "speak for yourself, old man."
― Yerac, Friday, 27 March 2020 16:27 (four years ago) link
I don't need to see the rest of his body to know he doesn't do a lot of stepping up, period.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 27 March 2020 16:29 (four years ago) link
i feel like someone's kids stopped calling him.
― Yerac, Friday, 27 March 2020 16:32 (four years ago) link
I volunteered for DC's Medical Reserve Corps last week (apparently social workers are considered healthcare providers these days, and tbf I did train in an ICU). Got a text this morning summoning me to a 4-hour training to do screening and testing. Which obv I am OK with or I wouldn't have volunteered, but really does it have to start at 8am?
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Friday, 27 March 2020 16:33 (four years ago) link
lol that would totally be my reaction. "I am totally happy to put my life on the line to help people, but does it have to be at 8am?"
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 27 March 2020 16:34 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8ZChHuelyg
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 27 March 2020 16:59 (four years ago) link
it's ok if I pass awaycut myself into piecesthis is my last resortit's ok if I pass away
― love will keep us apart (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 27 March 2020 17:06 (four years ago) link
Matt DC's question wasn't whether the virus is currently hitting any countries worse than the USA at present (answer to *that* question: it is) but rather, whether any country is handling the crisis worse than the USA (answer seems no).scottyfrommarketing.jpg
― Dollarmite Is My Name (sic), Friday, 27 March 2020 17:15 (four years ago) link
just wondering, for people outside of the US and GB, do you also have prominent media people who actively try to make the situation worse, every single day?
Rush Limbaugh: Health experts are part of the the "Deep State"“We didn't elect a president to defer to a bunch of health experts that we don't know. And how do we know they're even health experts?"https://t.co/LG0hBNwRr8 pic.twitter.com/LOW5mCdILw— Media Matters (@mmfa) March 27, 2020
― Karl Malone, Friday, 27 March 2020 17:22 (four years ago) link
i wonder if anyone in the administration has -- from a purely utilitarian viewpoint -- considered the value of (redacted) the president in order to potentially save more lives with a brief pence presidency
― majority whip, majority nae nae (m bison), Friday, 27 March 2020 17:24 (four years ago) link
who has a history of solving problems
...by declaring bankruptcy.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 27 March 2020 17:25 (four years ago) link
are prominent media voices in other countries advocating for coming up with some sort of "job assessment" for public health experts in the government, right now?
― Karl Malone, Friday, 27 March 2020 17:30 (four years ago) link
just fucking die, rush limbaugh
As a fairly old person I know it would be okay if I passed away, if only because I know that is part of the deal with being alive in the first place. But I'll be damned if I think it's okay for me to die so the fucking stock market won't tank. It's called getting your priorities straight, you meme guy. Get your head out of your ass.
― A is for (Aimless), Friday, 27 March 2020 17:30 (four years ago) link
get your head out of your ass, meme guy, and get it straight into rush limbaugh's ass. then start twisting, biting, and pushing your way up through his body as far as you can
― Karl Malone, Friday, 27 March 2020 17:33 (four years ago) link
"it's ok if I pass away" but maybe not ok to ask him not to go out and do all the people-adjacent things he likes to do regularly and infect other people too
― a passing spacecadet, Friday, 27 March 2020 17:35 (four years ago) link
Why are you including GB there? What's Rush Limbaugh got to do with us?
― Bridge Over Thorley Waters (Tom D.), Friday, 27 March 2020 17:44 (four years ago) link
You belong to the other country most inflicted by dumbass blowhards, afaict
― Karl Malone, Friday, 27 March 2020 17:48 (four years ago) link
uh, no offense. i think the USA is #1 by a longshot on that
― Karl Malone, Friday, 27 March 2020 17:53 (four years ago) link
Aussies may have something to say here.
― A is for (Aimless), Friday, 27 March 2020 17:56 (four years ago) link
this is the real olympics
― Karl Malone, Friday, 27 March 2020 17:56 (four years ago) link
try to give away your medals!
*USA, draped in the glory of gold, enters the ring*
― Karl Malone, Friday, 27 March 2020 17:57 (four years ago) link
anyway, i'm just wondering if, for example, the most popular radio host in italy is telling everybody that it's an overblown hoax and not to trust public health officials
― Karl Malone, Friday, 27 March 2020 17:58 (four years ago) link
India? Brazil?
― Yerac, Friday, 27 March 2020 18:00 (four years ago) link
Aimless I'm not going to let your comment pass without telling you off. Don't die or I'll FP you
― kinder, Friday, 27 March 2020 18:01 (four years ago) link
It’s different for GB but the same, on reflection. Both our blowhards are defending the government, so for us it was first a defence of herd immunity and now a defence of shaky lockdown, which is at least an attempt to do something. The US lot seem to be defending however the fuck you characterise Trump’s approach, which is not.
― stet, Friday, 27 March 2020 18:03 (four years ago) link
Oh I am absolutely certain Italy has its fair share of obnoxious blowhards.
― Bridge Over Thorley Waters (Tom D.), Friday, 27 March 2020 18:08 (four years ago) link
I've seen rational, mathematical explanations of why this is so, here and elsewhere, but I still keep noticing the global death rate for closed cases keeps climbing--up to 17% now.
― clemenza, Friday, 27 March 2020 18:11 (four years ago) link
In France the main controversy over the virus concerns the “study” by Didier Raoult, an infectious disease doctor and professor in Marseille, “showing” that hydroxychloroquine is an effective treatment for the virus. He is a climate change sceptic.
― Joey Corona (Euler), Friday, 27 March 2020 18:19 (four years ago) link
come over to the USA, Raoult. your fake "study" will have to compete with our extensive manufactured bullshit industry, and your hydroxycloroquine findings will have to first compete in our tournament bracket of "climate change deniers who also dabble in epidemiology", which has over 60 contestants already signed up
― Karl Malone, Friday, 27 March 2020 18:29 (four years ago) link
if someone can manage to publish a list of the secret ingredients needed to make a coronavirus treatment that's made out of common cleaning materials, it'll immediately be worshiped on Hannity and retweeted to several dozen million people by the president
― Karl Malone, Friday, 27 March 2020 18:31 (four years ago) link
bleach and vinegar, briskly gargled
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 27 March 2020 19:07 (four years ago) link
I don't know what it means, but that is some kind of headline.
http://www.cnn.com/2020/03/27/business/walmart-tops-bottoms-sales-trnd/index.html
― clemenza, Friday, 27 March 2020 19:11 (four years ago) link
every day's a new day for the emperor
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/27/us/politics/coronavirus-trump-ventilators-gm-ventec.html
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Friday, 27 March 2020 20:21 (four years ago) link
not looking forward to the numbers in the US in the next couple of weeks...
― ||||||||, Friday, 27 March 2020 20:28 (four years ago) link
why worry about tomorrow when you can...
what was the phrase, again? anyway, the point is, don't think about the future and what might happen, or prepare for it.
― Karl Malone, Friday, 27 March 2020 20:31 (four years ago) link
For those curious how well their locality is practicing physical distancing, Unacast is grading states and counties using mobile phone data. covid19 social distancing scoreboard
― Sanpaku, Friday, 27 March 2020 20:42 (four years ago) link
Irish government just announced a full lockdown
"for a two-week period everybody must stay at home in all circumstances, except in exceptional circumstances such as work and to get essential goods"
― Number None, Friday, 27 March 2020 20:57 (four years ago) link
my county got an A rating!
― Mordy, Friday, 27 March 2020 21:00 (four years ago) link
Speaking of which, this is really le pompon:
https://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2020/03/27/de-yorarien-a-yakekchose-didier-raoult-figure-des-forums-de-jeuxvideo-com_6034716_4408996.html
― coco vide (pomenitul), Friday, 27 March 2020 21:01 (four years ago) link
that's a really neat link, mordy!
(chicago/cook county gets a B)
― Karl Malone, Friday, 27 March 2020 21:03 (four years ago) link
amazing to see the rural/urban divide
rural areas get a big fucking F in general, which i believe stands for FUCK YOU
― Karl Malone, Friday, 27 March 2020 21:05 (four years ago) link
Misread that as 'country' and was taken aback for a sec.
― coco vide (pomenitul), Friday, 27 March 2020 21:06 (four years ago) link
Rural areas will have less reliable ratings from the smartphone spyware company due to just having less data.
― silby, Friday, 27 March 2020 21:09 (four years ago) link
scottyfrommarketing.jpg― Dollarmite Is My Name (sic), Saturday, March 28, 2020 4:15 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Dollarmite Is My Name (sic), Saturday, March 28, 2020 4:15 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
To be fair to Scotty the states and territories keep rolling him and once rolled he stays rolled, announces it in a sook and then waits to get rolled the next day. He also clearly listens to his experts (even if some of those experts seem to be lunatic economists). Sad to say he might come out of this quite well, not because he is making the right decisions but accepting them when they are imposed on him. The lack of rent relief is a fucking scandal and I put that down to the Tory premiers resisting because of the mythical ‘mum and dad’ landlords, (and the very real politician and oligarch and party donor landlords).
The ventilator thing is a fucking scandal not least because whilst the number of ventilators is important the time is crucial and the cost is immaterial it’s money going through the economy (a stimulus if you will) and evening if some of it sticks to GM more will end up with workers and in the supply chain. Cost really doesn’t matter at this point.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Friday, 27 March 2020 21:18 (four years ago) link
hey they shut Ireland down
barely felt a thing
― ole uncle tiktok (darraghmac), Friday, 27 March 2020 21:20 (four years ago) link