outbreak! (ebola, sars, coronavirus, etc)

going to a bar is 9/10, so it's good the pubs haven't reopened

|||||||| 7/10 activities are what the pros use to warm up for their morning workout

FWIW we don't tip our bar staff here so they'll have to catch the rona without that sage advice.

The pubs will have been open for a month by the time that restaurant scheme kicks in, so if it's causing the second spike we'll know by then. The real problem in the UK in August is likely to be people deciding to travel halfway across the country for a holiday, and that's going to be particularly hard on areas like the SW, which has so far got off pretty lightly all things considered.

*leans in close enough to smell the bartender's ear wax*

do you wanna have a conversation about tipping while the government subsidizes me to spread coronavirus to your patrons

haha, sorry. got really into that scenario. honestly, 2020 should be the year for ttrpgs, roleplaying in real life, LARPing, and incredibly long single-player adventures.

FWIW we don't tip our bar staff here

Thank God or I'd have been bankrupt several times over by now.

Jim Harbaugh, on moving forward with plans for fall football season: "COVID is part of our society. It wasn’t caused by football or caused by sports. There’s no expert view right now that I’m aware of that sports is going to make that worse."

— Austin Meek (@byAustinMeek) July 8, 2020

I heard the first case of COVID happened when someone ate a football

a level of willful ignorance that only makes sense within the context of these past five years

you skipped harbaugh's next paragraph

“We talk about the sanctity of life, yet we live in a society that aborts babies. There can’t be anything more horrendous.”

We talk about the sanctity of life, but you know what? Fuck it.

some say that conservatives stop caring about human lives at the moment of birth. but not jim harbaugh, because he suffered over 900 violent head injuries while attempting to tossing an oblong slab of dead animal at post-birth humans

oy vey, jimmy

Oy vey indeed. Is there anyone involved in football that isn't terrible?

Kaepernick

unless you mean, currently

Rodgers has good political views when he's not afraid to share them

re: harbaugh

Jim Harbaugh doesn't believe the COVID experts!
*1,100 RTs*

Whoa whoa, that took off, what I mean to say was Jim Harbaugh DOES believe the COVID experts
*18 RTs* pic.twitter.com/ljTMRZFso1

— Michael Proppe (@mikeproppe) July 8, 2020

i wonder if he knows what pregnancy is caused by.

covid-19 iirc

could be an overinflated football.

Is there anyone involved in football that isn't terrible?

i think top college football coaches are an awfulness unto themselves

at least in the nfl the players get paid a little and none of the coaches are public employeees

wasn't there a map recently of all the top paid public employees in each US state and it was all fucking football coaches?

Here are Jim Harbaugh's responses to today's coronavirus-related questions, how they've affected the offseason/the potential of a season happening (or not happening), etc. pic.twitter.com/1L2Y2MY1wn

— Orion Sang (@orion_sang) July 8, 2020

his actual quotes are not half as bad (probably not taking COVID seriously enough for most of the folk on here but not COVID denialism)

I was more bummed out about his abortion comments.

wasn't there a map recently of all the top paid public employees in each US state and it was all fucking football coaches?

― Yerac, Wednesday, July 8, 2020 1:26 PM (ten minutes ago)

yeah, but as far as I know intercollegiate athletics departments tend to be self-funded. The football coach's salary isn't written into the state general fund budget.

they should have enough money to pay women to be surrogates for all the fucking babies they want to make and raise.

hey guys good news, on 7 july there were only *checks notes* 50,000 new cases in the united states

fuckin yikes

I think 50,000+ cases a day was a milestone passed on July 1st. we're over 55,000+ today according to the worldometer website and 60,000 according to CBS and CNN

xps i don't think that's quite right about how athletic depts are funded, silby

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ccap/2014/12/12/who-actually-funds-intercollegiate-athletic-programs/#7767399217af

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I guess I really only know my employer, I guess as it says here the intercollegiate athletics dept is "the only school in the Pac-12 conference that doesn’t benefit from a student fee for athletics (at other schools, revenue from student fees range from $2.5-10M annually)."

they probably pay a lot of their revenue back to campus in taxes and recharge fees and so forth.

Not that college football is good; actually it's bad

but yeah there's no tax or student money going to our particular football coach, at least I can be happy about that.

hey guys good news, on 7 july there were only *checks notes* 50,000 new cases in the united states

fuckin yikes

― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, July 8, 2020 6:12 PM (one hour ago)bookmarkflaglink

I think 50,000+ cases a day was a milestone passed on July 1st. we're over 55,000+ today according to the worldometer website and 60,000 according to CBS and CNN

― Dan S, Wednesday, July 8, 2020 6:27 PM (one hour ago)

actually, we crossed 60,000+ today for the first time and went straight on up to 62,751.

2020 continues: Unknown pneumonia deadlier than COVID-19 hits Kazakhstan: Chinese Embassy

HAPPENING NOW: FDA agents raiding a house affiliated with a Bradenton online church accused of selling bleach as a “miracle #COVID19 cure.” Wheeling out lots of big blue barrels. @wfla pic.twitter.com/OAh8AP2ShI

— victoria price (@WFLAVictoria) July 8, 2020

american discourse, 2020

Patriarch Mark Grenon sent me this statement called the FDA a “criminal organization.” Jail records show at least two of his sons are currently in federal custody. @wfla pic.twitter.com/qU0uykZASM

— victoria price (@WFLAVictoria) July 8, 2020

doing self care by injecting bleach

the true 2020 ending for that reporter would be for her to just quit the day job and immediately promoting www.quantumleap.is for profit and spiritual bonuses

2020 continues

not saying you're doing this but it would be great if ppl didn't obsess over every possible potential future pandemic long before they're actually pandemics, that shit is all over FB

One pandemic not good enough for ya?

he's right though, we all should watch Quantum Leap, that show holds up!

friends of mine are freaking out about the bubonic plague nothingburger and the G4 pig flu thing. the latter is a much more concerning thing obv, as they say it has markers of a future pandemic, but it's not imminent or anything and they're monitoring it for a reason. kind of pointless to stay up sweating at night over something that hasn't infected a human yet.

re: plague, I just think my average friend doesn't know how to read a Wikipedia article.

"weird, people in the 14th century die of things that we have medication for nowadays, how bout that'

there are always stories like these going around but ppl rarely notice them. now that we're in the middle of a pandemic they're attuned to notice them more.

yeah, too much time to read basically

This refusing to get testing thing is spreading in concerning ways. Do people think if they don't get tested they aren't a danger to others? I realise in some cases that its people fearing testing positive and having to leave their precarious job and maybe never getting it back or (in the case of Victoria) the justified fear engendered when cops in masks turn up on your doorstep asking to stick something up your nose

This is just one example that's maybe a bit more egregious:

https://www.businessinsider.com.au/us-airlines-hong-kong-cancel-testing-coronavirus-2020-7

it's actually pretty hard to get a test around here (2 hours wait if you're in line at 6am) and, except for one weekly shopping trip, i'm totally homebound. at the moment, i don't see the point in taking a test that is being rationed to people needier than me.

i've been tested twice and i'm going to keep doing it anytime someone who knows a friend who has an uncle who has a sister who has a roommate with COVID even so much as farts in the same zip code as me

mostly because I am susceptible to the psychosomatic so I will always be convinced I have any symptom if suggested enough