Thanks! I’m fine, really.
Just lurking ITT
― pophatte (admrl), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 21:15 (four years ago) link
hi adam!
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 22:22 (four years ago) link
Axios reports:
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shared with his cabinet a video he claimed was evidence of Iran concealing coronavirus deaths by dropping bodies in garbage dumps, two cabinet ministers tell me.
Several hours later, Netanyahu’s office realized the video had nothing to do with Iran, or with the coronavirus crisis. It was a clip from “Pandemic,” a 2007 Hallmark Channel mini-series.
https://wpln.org/post/racial-disparities-emerge-in-tennessees-testing-for-covid-19/
Sadly , no surprise that most of the testing facilities are in well-off white areas
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 22:25 (four years ago) link
xp omfg
― sleeve, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 22:36 (four years ago) link
sorry, probably already covered upthread, but:
do workers have legal standing to sue their employers for treating them inhumanely during this pandemic? thinking of this for my partner's dad, an auto engineer whose company keeps threatening to send everybody back to work, but of course it would also apply to millions of minimum wage workers who are being forced to put themselves at risk or resign. i guess, at a minimum, shouldn't the company be forced to give them proper PPE and/or enforce social distancing? if not, then they aren't providing a safe working environment, in my mind?
seems pretty clear in my book. predicting 9-0 supreme court blowout
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 22:48 (four years ago) link
Labor action will have better and faster impacts than lawsuits.
― silby, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 22:49 (four years ago) link
oh, for sure. just wondering about the lawsuits, though. you'd think all these companies would be weighing massive legal liability against getting cash flow for another couple weeks, but who knows
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 22:50 (four years ago) link
Welp the single day dip in deaths was indeed an anomaly as it almost doubled last night to 912 new deaths.
Given that 80+% of the cases are active, i think it's going to start exploding.
― narcissistic sleighride (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 23:28 (four years ago) link
“Absent of quarantine of every single person and shutting everything down for 12 days,” McGhee said, “you can’t stop it."
12 days. Bless his heart.
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 23:28 (four years ago) link
I'm sure he'd be totally fine with a strict quarantine. He just wants results!
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 2 April 2020 01:35 (four years ago) link
Afge, a federal government employees Union is suing the feds on behalf of federal government employees exposed to the virus
https://www.afge.org/publication/american-federation-of-government-employees-and-kalijarvi-chuzi-newman--fitch-sue-government-on-behalf-of-federal-employees-exposed-to-coronavirus/?link_id=0&can_id=4e730c41cf72734930a27d1a35b1a25c&source=email-afges-latest-coronavirus-updates-3&email_referrer=email_765963&email_subject=check-out-afges-latest-coronavirus-updates#.XoU_VKwMqB0.twitter
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 2 April 2020 01:42 (four years ago) link
that's quite a url, it would be the same if truncated before the "?" like so many other urls. I've been wondering with these what all of the rest is about
― Dan S, Thursday, 2 April 2020 01:58 (four years ago) link
sic to thread
― silby, Thursday, 2 April 2020 02:21 (four years ago) link
referring info for tracking
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 2 April 2020 02:21 (four years ago) link
https://thrivehive.com/what-is-a-tracking-link-or-url/
given the sheer amount of panic and anxiety that's come from this already imagine living through the black plague damn
― frogbs, Thursday, 2 April 2020 02:29 (four years ago) link
The black death solved that problem for a lot of people.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 2 April 2020 02:30 (four years ago) link
Worldwide cases will pass one million tomorrow.
― clemenza, Thursday, 2 April 2020 03:37 (four years ago) link
A million cases in 190 countries. Not bad for a plucky little virus that had never even met a humanoid until maybe late November of last year.
― A is for (Aimless), Thursday, 2 April 2020 04:04 (four years ago) link
US deaths topped 5,000 today, 40% of which occurred in the last 48 hours.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 2 April 2020 04:11 (four years ago) link
I'm tired of mask discourse and it hasn't even really started yet
― silby, Thursday, 2 April 2020 04:31 (four years ago) link
Spain registers 950 deaths in the last 24 hours, more than Italy ever registered in one day. Also surpasses 10,000 deaths now. They can not get the numbers down, it's grim.
― Hey, let me drunkenly animate yr boats in about 25 to 60 days! (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 2 April 2020 10:12 (four years ago) link
How is the growth in number of reported cases doing in Spain? If that's slowing then presumably the death rate will as well a couple of weeks down the line.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 2 April 2020 11:18 (four years ago) link
It's not really slowing, yet, according to https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/spain/
Also, Spain today said that during the last two weeks of full lock down, 900,000 people have lost their job o_O
― Hey, let me drunkenly animate yr boats in about 25 to 60 days! (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 2 April 2020 11:21 (four years ago) link
this, on where americans did and did not reduce their travel, is pretty interesting. and not least because cell phones might as well be rfid tags
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/02/us/coronavirus-social-distancing.html
― mookieproof, Thursday, 2 April 2020 12:13 (four years ago) link
https://abc7.com/officials-engineer-tried-to-smash-train-into-usns-mercy/6069395/
― Doubling down on out of date information (aldo), Thursday, 2 April 2020 12:25 (four years ago) link
ohhhhh...kkkaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyy
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 2 April 2020 12:36 (four years ago) link
who needs the letters 'O' or 'K' when you can have the letter 'Q'?
― ☮️ (peace, man), Thursday, 2 April 2020 12:43 (four years ago) link
Wtf is that about
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 2 April 2020 12:45 (four years ago) link
Look man, I know this might be news to some of you, but those aren't really hospital ships. It's where they're taking the kids who were in the basement of Comet Ping Pong. And from there they are headed out to Epstein's REAL private island. The only possible way to free them is by crashing a train.
― ☮️ (peace, man), Thursday, 2 April 2020 13:02 (four years ago) link
i mean whey didn't he just say so?
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 2 April 2020 13:05 (four years ago) link
At least there's no 5G waves causing covid on those islands.
― pplains, Thursday, 2 April 2020 13:12 (four years ago) link
Hey America, fuck you:
http://www.rfi.fr/en/europe/20200402-china-coronavirus-face-mask-france-stolen-us
― Publius Covidius Naso (pomenitul), Thursday, 2 April 2020 13:22 (four years ago) link
yeah, that story has France inflamed. fuck the usa & its shithead citizens who think "america first"
― Joey Corona (Euler), Thursday, 2 April 2020 13:23 (four years ago) link
Similar shit is reportedly going down in Quebec right now.
― Publius Covidius Naso (pomenitul), Thursday, 2 April 2020 13:24 (four years ago) link
the american way: plan poorly---> panic---> throw money at the problem:
― Yerac, Thursday, 2 April 2020 13:27 (four years ago) link
I m sure prayer is somewhere in there.
And fuck other countries over in the process, don't forget that part.
― Publius Covidius Naso (pomenitul), Thursday, 2 April 2020 13:27 (four years ago) link
They should ask for the Statue of Liberty back.
― Bridge Over Thorley Waters (Tom D.), Thursday, 2 April 2020 13:30 (four years ago) link
Moreno has been charged with one count of train wrecking, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.
"Train wrecking" is a legal thing?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 2 April 2020 13:36 (four years ago) link
there is a lot of mystery in the federal criminal code18 U.S. Code § 1992.Terrorist attacks and other violence against railroad carriers and against mass transportation systems on land, on water, or through the air
― forensic plumber (harbl), Thursday, 2 April 2020 13:55 (four years ago) link
Doubt he'll be charged with anything terror related though.
― ☮️ (peace, man), Thursday, 2 April 2020 14:04 (four years ago) link
no it's just the name of the statute--it doesn't require you to be a terrorist. any intentional wrecking of a train is covered by the "and other violence" part.
― forensic plumber (harbl), Thursday, 2 April 2020 14:07 (four years ago) link
I dunno, I saw they were considering terrorism charges for that women who went around intentionally coughing on food in a grocery store last week.
― Unparalleled Elegance (Old Lunch), Thursday, 2 April 2020 14:08 (four years ago) link
1049 new deaths in the US yesterday.
On 3/10, there were only 50 total in the entire country.
Ugh
― narcissistic sleighride (Neanderthal), Thursday, 2 April 2020 14:08 (four years ago) link
― silby
if I hear one more goddamn person on social media talk patronizingly about how I need to wipe everything down before I enter my house, I am seriously gonna fucking lose my shit, it is just absolute paranoid OCD nonsense. masks in public, on the other hand, make a lot of sense to me.
― sleeve, Thursday, 2 April 2020 14:11 (four years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/01/us/coronavirus-terrorist-threat-felony.html
Right around the time the World Health Organization was declaring the novel coronavirus a full-blown pandemic, Cody Lee Pfister walked into a Walmart in Missouri and delivered his own public service announcement — of the twisted variety.Mr. Pfister, 26, looked directly into a camera and asked, “Who’s scared of coronavirus?” As if to answer his own question, he proceeded to lick a row of deodorants on a store shelf. For six seconds, he awkwardly slid backward, his tongue running from one brand of deodorant to the next.He appeared amused. And satisfied enough to post the video online. Horror ensued. Grossed-out viewers from as close as his small hometown, Warrenton, Mo., to Ireland and the Netherlands reported the video prank to the police. And soon Mr. Pfister was facing charges of making a terrorist threat.
Mr. Pfister, 26, looked directly into a camera and asked, “Who’s scared of coronavirus?” As if to answer his own question, he proceeded to lick a row of deodorants on a store shelf. For six seconds, he awkwardly slid backward, his tongue running from one brand of deodorant to the next.
He appeared amused. And satisfied enough to post the video online. Horror ensued. Grossed-out viewers from as close as his small hometown, Warrenton, Mo., to Ireland and the Netherlands reported the video prank to the police. And soon Mr. Pfister was facing charges of making a terrorist threat.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 2 April 2020 14:31 (four years ago) link
get the picture in your head of what you think Cody Lee Pfister looks like
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 2 April 2020 14:32 (four years ago) link
...................you're right!http://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/03/30/us/00virus-antics02/00virus-antics02-jumbo.jpg
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 2 April 2020 14:33 (four years ago) link