outbreak! (ebola, sars, coronavirus, etc)

Man, reading Reddit threads and it sounds like a pretty big clusterfuck somewhere. One credit union in Florida tweeted out that there was apparently some big IRS cock up with depositing the stimulus this time. Apparently 15-20 million people might be getting paper checks mailed out on the 6th, regardless of how you got the first one.

Mobile deposited mine, wiping my ass with it now

I got my check Friday night.

Got mine Friday w/ Ch@se.

seems wrong that brownie is with PNC

I still have an account with PNC and all I can guess is that when electronic transfers come in they get printed out and loaded in pneumatic tubes in some Pittsburgh basement and sent for further processing.

thats right

got mine via direct deposit on new year's day and it was so unexpected my first assumption was that my employer had fucked up my paycheck... used it to pay 20% of the medical bills I incurred during December, really could have used that $2k McConnell you fuck

Haven’t got mine yet but wasn’t eligible last time I don’t think as I was too new in the country but seeing as I filed a 2019 tax return (and had the refund deposited fine) I’m hoping it’ll come this time.

^^^alban caravan

i applied for to be a covid vaccinator, a paid role on an established union backed national pay scale and i didn't get it. fair enough. but now st john's ambulance are asking for volunteers to do the same thing. that's undermining health workers hard fought pay and conditions.

— gorgone girl (@The__Biscuit) January 5, 2021

Got a physical check last time, haven't gotten one yet. My mom got her money electronically New Year's Day.

Sounds like there is a massive screw up going on still, reading dozens of people between Reddit and Twitter that had their stimulus deposited within the last two days, paid some bills with it, only to wake up this morning to it having been pulled back out with negative balances. Of course there isn't any official information anywhere, but tons of second hand accounts of being told that there was something wrong on the IRS end with accounts.

Very cool!

I got a paper check last time, expecting the same this time. Or rather, I'm expecting the same thing I expected last time, which is nothing, and then I'll just be pleasantly surprised if I get anything.

^^ That's where I am, very fortunate to be in a situation where it's vital that we get it asap. Feel for all the people I'm reading who were already barely scraping by though.

Ha, oops. Still tired, "where it's NOT vital that we get it asap" that should read.

Yeah, I'm lucky to not actually need the money right this minute. If/when it arrives, great, I'll forward it to Visa.

People in LA: does it feel as grim as the data is indicating?

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/01/schools-staff-shortages/617465/

So grim

xp, my parents ask me this every week and i'm like "i don't know". i'm in LA and i have no idea because it's a hollowed out husk of a city with no street life at the best of times. it feels as alienating and isolating as always if you have the luxury of staying home. the difference is endless sound of sirens, and i feel extremely nervous doing anything with my kids that might result in an accident given the rationing of treatment (and the people walking around ERs in inflatable costumes).

i imagine if you live near a hospital or in a denser neighborhood or a less economically/racially segregated part of the city it's much more real.

the case count seems to have reached a peak fwiw but who knows https://www.latimes.com/projects/california-coronavirus-cases-tracking-outbreak/los-angeles-county/.

awesome! 1 in 50, or maybe 30 (I've seen this figure from clever ILXors) people in the UK have or have had COVID in the last 2 weeks. And now more than 60,000 new cases and best part of a thousand deaths. What the hell are we doing?

Continuing to vote Tory.

The best thing to deal with a Tory is a Tory. We must vote for more Tories

I have heard that “doom posting” and “catastrophising” are bad form so I am sorry but... this does not look like good news lads

The highest recent daily death number was on the 29 Dec, at 570, not 1000.
I wish the media wasn't so obsessed with the daily reporting date.

I mean, obviously that's still shit, but it's in keeping with the general numbers. We'll surely see a huge rise in a couple of weeks.

sorry, I thought this was the UK thread again

I wish the media wasn't so obsessed with the daily reporting date.

― kinder, Tuesday, 5 January 2021 bookmarkflaglink

My sense is that until literally the week before Xmas was cancelled the daily reporting figures (whatever it's problems) had completely dropped out of the conversation...and that's part of the problem, a responsible government would be saying the trend is going up so maybe locking down earlier and preparing pupils and parents would've been the decent thing.

They have totally fucked this up. Other countries are getting back to normal. Shops open. Schools open. People going to the countryside for their holidays. Fuck this. The Tories need to fucking pay for this. The worst part is obviously the thousands of people who have died or have been left with long-term health issues but nobody appears to care unless it's someone they know. But the knock-on consequences are that EVERYONE is now in the shit. They're not just victims of circumstance here because other countries have gotten out in front of it. I realise I'm not saying anything new here but I am just livid.

When will the fuckheads pay for their idiocy? Brexit? COVID? They can literally leave thousands of people to rot and die and the entire country unable to see their own families and kids can't go to school and we're all like, OK sure, why not, up 2% in the polls!!!???

I'm feeling that rage too
I hate that we're all subject to the decisions of these people

the US truly is the UK's offspring.

This is what unspeakably many have wanted all along.

When will the fuckheads pay for their idiocy? Brexit? COVID? They can literally leave thousands of people to rot and die and the entire country unable to see their own families and kids can't go to school and we're all like, OK sure, why not, up 2% in the polls!!!???

Feeling this lost. I feel like this all the time now

Lost = post

But lost too

the US truly is the UK's offspring.

pretty fly for an anglo guy

I was going to say Bush are the UK's Offspring

I don't know about that.

Yeah needs work. It's hard because the The Offspring are such a singular band.

Nothing is as singular as the sex in your violence.

TS: YEAHYEAHYEAHYEAHYEAH vs yeah yeah, yeah yeah, yeah yeah, yeah yeah

two nations divided by a common language

Brits prefer albumar bands

Anyone else still waiting on the stimulus? I know there was a huge issue with people that filed using TurboTax or H&R Block, but that wasn't us, we got the first one just fine, haven't changed a single bit of information since the last one and still haven't seen anything.

I'm saw the IRS released a statement yesterday that is a little unclear, but essentially says "lol sorry, if you didn't get it yet, you won't so you just have to wait and file it on your taxes". Just surprised the first one seemed to go relatively smoothly, but this round is an absolute cluster.

Old Lunch - 'Still Waiting (2 B Stimulated)'

Stim Mo B There

I mean, again, it's not dire for us, but reading the IRS subreddit is heartbreaking. So many people hanging on a thread already that aren't getting their stimulus because of IRS/HR Block cock-ups and the despair is palpable. People losing apartments, people that aren't eating so they can feed their kids, people openly contemplating suicide.

It's horrible, and it's why it's outright criminal that continued payments weren't made after the original one. $600 is kicking a can down the highway for many family units and NOT getting the $600/each is just that much worse.

really hoping SAnders can exert his might and convince people to support 2k PER MONTH PER PERSON

We're back up to over 1000 deaths a day in the UK, and more people are wearing masks it's true but social distancing has completely disappeared and shops aren't enforcing queueing or restricting numbers of shoppers in their shops. It doesn't feel like 1000 people are dying a day.