Anybody want a Corona?

[dimejinky99]

Glastonbury has been cancelled

[dimejinky99]

This is probably naive but can they not just pause all stock markets and all that globally and then on down to pausing mortgages and rent and stuff?

Surely in a time like this it should be done

[washing machine]

I do believe some banks are starting to get rolling on mortgage relief, Dime.

https://www.kxan.com/news/coronavirus/l ... ronavirus/

[McParadigm]

No, it’s what can they do differently now.

The mayor of Seattle wanted “mass tents” from the federal government to rapidly build shelters to house people in quarantine. The state of New York pleaded for help from the Army Corps of Engineers to quickly build hospitals. Oregon’s governor repeatedly pressed the Department of Health and Human Services for hundreds of thousands of respirators, gowns and gloves, face shields or goggles.

After so many pleas, President Trump moved on Tuesday to begin enlisting much of his government in what the White House had called for weeks a “whole of government” approach to the rampaging coronavirus.

Yet despite promises of a “whole of government” effort, key agencies — like the Army Corps of Engineers, other parts of the Defense Department, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Department of Veterans Affairs — had not been asked to play much of a role.

Even after Mr. Trump committed to supporting the states on Tuesday, the Army Corps of Engineers said it still had not received direction from the administration.

Much of that capacity is untapped. Hospital ships are at port. The Department of Veterans Affairs, legally designated as the backup health care system in national emergencies, awaits requests for help. The veterans department has a surplus of beds in many of its 172 hospital centers and a robust number of special rooms for patients with breathing disorders.

The sprawling system of emergency doctors and nurses ready to be deployed by the Department of Health and Human Services — known as the National Disaster Medical System — is also still waiting for orders, other than to staff locations where passengers offloaded from cruise ships are being quarantined.

Oregon sent a letter to Vice President Mike Pence on March 3 asking for 400,000 N95 masks. For days, it got no response, and only by March 14 received its first shipment, of 36,800 masks. But there was a problem. Most of the equipment they got was well past the expiration date and so “wouldn’t be suitable for surgical settings,” the state said.

[McParadigm]

I also like the argument that, sure, the administration dissolved most of our infectious disease response leadership, replaced countless experts with sycophants, worked hard to gut funding to response agencies, ignored pleas from states and epidemiologists to acknowledge and respond to the disease throughout crucial early weeks, suppressed testing efforts, and refused to take a central role in guiding supply distribution, setting states up to compete with each other over ventilators...but, like, really, they’re not doing that bad a job NOW are they and I mean only NOW so don’t go holding the past against them in your answer cos that’s the unreasonable thing here.

[blueviper]

Fucking scumbag

What's interesting is Dr. Fauci made a good point.

The flu has a mortality rate of about 0.1%

So far Corona is hovering 2 - 3%. He says for an example, let's assume it trends downward to 1.0%. That's still ten times higher than the flu.

Take Trumps 37,000 and times by ten. So the US could expect 370,000 deaths. So you would assume some or most of those were taking up hospital beds. Now think of all the cases that don't cause death, but require hospital stay. That probably puts people in hospitals at about 500,000 - 700,000 if we're being generous.

But let's keep spring break going in Florida!

It was nice to see everyone out and about in San Francisco during their shelter in place!

*shakes head*

[dimejinky99]

This breaks my mind.

This is US media. Appalling

[Strat]

This breaks my mind.

This is US media. Appalling

No, this is Fox news. not US media.

[reconstruction_ seeds]

Shutting down the US should be last resort? Elderly and immune system compromised could stay home awhile and wear respirators when going out?

[Bi_3]

This breaks my mind.

This is US media. Appalling

No, this is Fox news. not US media.

That’s like saying The Sun is equivalent to the BBC.




And here’s Larry and Boyd again showing motherfuckers how to lead:
https://governor.maryland.gov/2020/03/1 ... 19-crisis/

[bune]

Oregon sent a letter to Vice President Mike Pence on March 3 asking for 400,000 N95 masks. For days, it got no response, and only by March 14 received its first shipment, of 36,800 masks. But there was a problem. Most of the equipment they got was well past the expiration date and so “wouldn’t be suitable for surgical settings,” the state said.

I can tell you that from conversations we're having here those expiration dates don't mean fuck all anymore. maybe for a surgical setting, sure, but from a face-to-face care perspective they work as well as you need them to.

[dimejinky99]

This breaks my mind.

This is US media. Appalling

No, this is Fox news. not US media.

My admittedly poorly made point was it’s now an agenda from both extremes.


But only one side is doing this.

You guys are the only ones making it a fucking agenda based battle by the way.

[dimejinky99]

Fuck.

Bono has written a song about it

We are all fucked

[Strat]

This breaks my mind.

This is US media. Appalling

No, this is Fox news. not US media.

My admittedly poorly made point was it’s now an agenda from both extremes.


But only one side is doing this.

You guys are the only ones making it a fucking agenda based battle by the way.

Fox News and their conservative Ilk are REALLY good at making it a partisan issue on their own then blaming the other side of making it a partisan issue. Its quite fascinating how they create a problem then blame others for said problem.

America is dumb.

[tragabigzanda]

FUCK ICE

[dad]

This breaks my mind.

This is US media. Appalling

No, this is Fox news. not US media.

My admittedly poorly made point was it’s now an agenda from both extremes.


But only one side is doing this.

You guys are the only ones making it a fucking agenda based battle by the way.

Fox News and their conservative Ilk are REALLY good at making it a partisan issue on their own then blaming the other side of making it a partisan issue. Its quite fascinating how they create a problem then blame others for said problem.

America is dumb.

everyone in that clip is subhuman. such cult garbage.

[BurtReynolds]

Note Tucker Carlson wasn't in that clip. (He's been saying everyone else on the channel was wrong lol)

[BurtReynolds]

Update: https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps ... 7b48e9ecf6

Look at all the countries successfully preventing the spread.


(That was sarcasm)

[tragabigzanda]

FUCK ICE

[E.H. Ruddock]

perhaps

Well, he isn't wrong