outbreak! (ebola, sars, coronavirus, etc)

america is like the 1960s band that once ruled but it kept going

Cf. "We Built this Country" byJefferson Spaceforce

This is objectively true & impossible to deny now. The Q moving forward is

Having just come from an idle google of coronavirus+pizzgate, the similarity of tone is quite something.

sic nailing the Oz zeitgeist effortlessly in a couple of sentences, Walkley Award territory

withholding aid to California and New York

Now Michigan too - https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/trump-gretchen-whitmer-michigan-coronavirus-feud-032411002.html

this really needs to be a bigger controversy but everybody's too distracted atm with, y'know...tryin to fuckin' eat

I can't fucking believe we have this piece of shit running things. He knows damn well the states can't procure the shit on their own and that innocent people will die, but hey, it's their fault for living in a fake news state, amirite

I'm sure the people of Michigan who defected from Dem party in 2016 are going to show up for him in droves when 25% of their families die due to this

I was gonna say Michigan is lost to him now

2021 is gonna be awesome.

YAY, we're finally free of Trump! now we can go back to our lives!

oh we're in another bad recession! millions of people died!

thousands of positions are unfilled in various government sectors!

I mean....I'll still be happier than the opposite, but it feels like the new normal is every time a Democrat gets elected, they inherit a gigantic crisis.

Glad everything is ok Roz.

Meanwhile.

Things you didnt realize were true until they stopped - A South African refinery has stopped shipping gold to London because of a lack of commercial flights, adding to the disruption that’s upending the physical bullion market. @FelixNijinihttps://t.co/iCE7lccKaR pic.twitter.com/vklQWpDcq7

— Adam Tooze (@adam_tooze) March 28, 2020

IMO the US and other countries should do a reset, seize everybody's funds, then start everybody over with 20,000 dollars in their accounts.

including billionaires.

I think I remember reading that in U.S. distribution of GDP (obv different than redistributing assets) would be 50-60K per person

but rn i wld be down with 20 and my debt scrubbed

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/could-chloroquine-treat-coronavirus/

just FYI the hydroxychloroquine stuff isn't quackery (UMN started investigating it a couple weeks ago), it's just unproven and trump should have kept his mouth shut

Anyway first consult of the day was a capacity evaluation for a PUI and my second consult just now was identified as a PUI, so today's going well

O_o

The Washington Post reports:

In a gaggle with reporters, President Trump said he is considering a quarantine on New York, parts of New Jersey and Connecticut. He said he might make a decision later today. It comes as the United States has become the epicenter of the novel coronavirus pandemic, with more than 100,000 confirmed infections and nearly 1,600 deaths.

but first he has to follow through with his important plan to categorize the country into "high, medium, and low" risk areas. that way he can spend 5% of his time talking about quarantines and the other 95% focusing on how perfect the low-risk areas are

US have fucked it

utterly fucked it

some were asking could any country do worse than the UK's callous, lazy Herd Immunity bullshit.

trump: hold my steer

Just to be contrarian, it seems like plain fact that the "natural" level of spread is going to be different in differently structured places, and that given that we are not going to maintain this level of lockdown for six months I don't think there's any reason to think it's optimal to have the entire country on the exact same level of lockdown.

Is the big dummy sort of having to work now?

Does he still get hours of “executive time”?

xpost Yeah, really, it's best to think of each state as its own country. There is no one size fits all solution, different states (and their cities) will have different problems, to different degrees, at different times, calling for different solutions.

And maybe eventually enforced borders between them

In many cases, fingers crossed!

Sitting down to breakfast and perusing the weekly local papers that have accumulated. This one's from Feb 19th.
https://ibb.co/qJcWNJz

I like looking at the thread bump:

this seems scary: https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/19/asia/china-coronavirus-spike-intl-hnk/index.html

― JoeStork, Monday, 20 January 2020 21:03 (two months ago) bookmarkflaglink

We all gonna die and no one gives a fuck?

― nostormo, Friday, 24 January 2020 20:32 (two months ago) bookmarkflaglink

the population of the wuhan metropolitan area is like 20million and we're talking about only a few hundred cases currently, seemingly all or mainly from tainted meat consumption. i'm not worried

― bidenfan69420 (jim in vancouver), Friday, 24 January 2020 20:34 (two months ago)

Savage.

Gothamist:

When asked about Trump's remarks, Cuomo was disdainful and dismissive, telling reporters, "I didn’t speak to him about any quarantine... I haven’t had those conversations. I don’t even know what that means.​"

Another reporter asked if a "tri-state quarantine" was "a sound policy from your perspective or would you advise against it," Cuomo repeated, "I don’t even know what that means."

"I don’t know how that could be legally enforceable and, from a medical point of view, I don’t know what you would be accomplishing, but I can tell you I don’t even like the sound of it," he said. "Not even understanding what it is, I don’t like the sound of it.​"

Cuomo wasn't meant to like the sound of it. That was more Trump talking to his rural base who hate NY and the east coast, assuring them that he'd build them another wall to keep those China-virus-infected bastards away from The Real America (tm).

great interview with fauci, addressing many of the questions and worries expressed all over this thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8A3jiM2FNR8

thx for that

imagine if the press conferences were just a version of that, every day, with reporters asking the questions

RI and Kansas now have stay-at-home orders. Kansas!

That was more Trump talking to his rural base who hate NY and the east coast, assuring them that he'd build them another wall to keep those China-virus-infected bastards away from The Real America (tm)

Very true--and high on the list of incomprehensible things about that love affair is the awkward fact he's a New Yorker himself.

I believe that status has been revoked

we hated him first and he knows it

This is politics. He has no legal right. https://t.co/SLSCgt7FBs

— Richard M. Nixon (@dick_nixon) March 28, 2020

Article 4 of the Articles of Confederation; U.S. v. Wheeler, Crandall v. Nevada, etc.

— Richard M. Nixon (@dick_nixon) March 28, 2020

http://www.cnn.com/2020/03/28/weather/tornadoes-severe-storms-forecast-saturday/index.html

How do you deal with a tornado during this? Seriously.

Shelter in basement.

And I'm surprised Trump didn't threaten to quarantine California. We hate him too, and have a high rate of covid.

Nobody is saying that. (clearly)

Nobody is saying that. (clearly)

Nobody is saying that. (clearly)

Which how did that happen?

Soon enough this will be the case in the US too. National guard is already staging in cities like #Baltimore (2nd time in 5 years) & it's not just to deliver ppl food. #NotDying4WallStreet #MartialLaw https://t.co/7jrbTyuCEu

— Morgan Artyukhina (@LavenderNRed) March 29, 2020

USA
123,351-Total Cases
19,225-New Cases
2,211-Total Deaths
515-Day New Deaths https://t.co/Y0zt3Z19Cw

— illuminate (@myworldmysun) March 29, 2020

Martial law and deployment of National Guard are not the same thing xpost