outbreak! (ebola, sars, coronavirus, etc)

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

xp omfg

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

Labor action will have better and faster impacts than lawsuits.

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

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.

“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.

I'm sure he'd be totally fine with a strict quarantine. He just wants results!

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

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

sic to thread

referring info for tracking

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

The black death solved that problem for a lot of people.

Worldwide cases will pass one million tomorrow.

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.

US deaths topped 5,000 today, 40% of which occurred in the last 48 hours.

I'm tired of mask discourse and it hasn't even really started yet

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.

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.

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

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

https://abc7.com/officials-engineer-tried-to-smash-train-into-usns-mercy/6069395/

ohhhhh...kkkaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyy

who needs the letters 'O' or 'K' when you can have the letter 'Q'?

Wtf is that about

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.

i mean whey didn't he just say so?

At least there's no 5G waves causing covid on those islands.

Hey America, fuck you:

http://www.rfi.fr/en/europe/20200402-china-coronavirus-face-mask-france-stolen-us

yeah, that story has France inflamed. fuck the usa & its shithead citizens who think "america first"

Similar shit is reportedly going down in Quebec right now.

the american way: plan poorly---> panic---> throw money at the problem:

I m sure prayer is somewhere in there.

And fuck other countries over in the process, don't forget that part.

They should ask for the Statue of Liberty back.

Moreno has been charged with one count of train wrecking, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.

"Train wrecking" is a legal thing?

there is a lot of mystery in the federal criminal code
18 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

Doubt he'll be charged with anything terror related though.

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.

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.

1049 new deaths in the US yesterday.

On 3/10, there were only 50 total in the entire country.

Ugh

I'm tired of mask discourse and it hasn't even really started yet

― 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.

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.

get the picture in your head of what you think Cody Lee Pfister looks like

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http://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/03/30/us/00virus-antics02/00virus-antics02-jumbo.jpg

Last Wednesday afternoon, Margaret Cirko, 35, walked into a Gerrity’s Supermarket in Hanover Township, Pa., and started coughing on cases of fresh produce, baked goods and meat, the authorities said. Over and over, she was said to declare, “I have coronavirus, you are all going to get sick,” before attempting to shoplift a 12-pack of Coors Light.

xpost And there's a million of us just like me
Who cuss like me, who just don't give a fuck like me
Who dress like me; walk, talk and act like me