OT Coronavirus: America in chaos, News and Updates. One million Americans dead and counting (23 Viewers)

[SlyPokerDog]

 

[BigGameDamian]

 

[tlongII]

That statement by Trump is actually correct if you go by the unofficial numbers I’ve seen.

 

[julius]

That statement by Trump is actually correct if you go by the unofficial numbers I’ve seen.

Trump is telling the truth, if you ignore facts, change the definition of the word truth, and forgo common sense.

 

[wizenheimer]

That statement by Trump is actually correct if you go by the unofficial numbers I’ve seen.

if trump is tweeting, or talking, there are lies there somewhere, flat-out or by omission...guaranteed

in this case, bragging about a country of 330 million slightly beating the pace of testing in a country of 50 million is pretty lame

by the way, there is no official count of testing in the US...the White house doesn't want one (I wonder why). But this website tries to track the numbers:

https://covidtracking.com/

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet...GdNC0ypEU9NbngS8mxea55JuCFuua1MUeOj5/pubhtml#

 

[Road Ratt]

 

[BigGameDamian]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bu...ks/costco-employees-testing-positive-covid-19

Costco Employees Are Testing Positive For The Coronavirus And Their Co-Workers Say Managers Aren't Being Transparent.

“Literally no one told us anything about it,” a warehouse employee in Colorado said about two coworkers who are sick with COVID-19.

 

[tlongII]

if trump is tweeting, or talking, there are lies there somewhere, flat-out or by omission...guaranteed

in this case, bragging about a country of 330 million slightly beating the pace of testing in a country of 50 million is pretty lame

by the way, there is no official count of testing in the US...the White house doesn't want one (I wonder why). But this website tries to track the numbers:

https://covidtracking.com/

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet...GdNC0ypEU9NbngS8mxea55JuCFuua1MUeOj5/pubhtml#

Yes that site is the source of USA information which validates his claim.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_testing

 

[BigGameDamian]

 

[Lanny]

I'm a Stella Artois guy myself.

I can't stand that beer.
Give me a Tsing Tao.

 

[PtldPlatypus]

Make of this what you will.

China’s Mobile Carriers Lose 21 Million Users as Virus Bites

 

[PtldPlatypus]

Jobless claims soar past 3 million to record as coronavirus sends Americans to the unemployment line

Americans displaced by the coronavirus crisis filed unemployment claims in record numbers, with the Labor Department reporting Thursday a surge to 3.28 million.

The number shatters the Great Recession peak of 665,000 in March 2009 and the all-time mark of 695,000 in October 1982. The previous week, which reflected the period before the worst of the coronavirus hit, was just 282,000

 

[yankeesince59]

Not at all unexpected.

 

[Shaboid]

I know that my experience is much less of a problem than a lot of peoples around the country that are losing jobs, suffering to feed their children, missing rent/mortgage payments.

I am lucky to be able to work from home. I will be able to take care of things for my brother (who just graduated in a field that is similar to that of this Hispanic Causing Panic guy), girlfriend (jobless), and myself.

The thing that upsets me is that I have been looking for jobs back in Oregon the last 3 months and was hoping to move back home and start a family. This has really thrown a wrench in that. Again, it is nothing compared to what others are dealing with.

That's all. My two cents.

 

[crandc]

I know that my experience is much less of a problem than a lot of peoples around the country that are losing jobs, suffering to feed their children, missing rent/mortgage payments.

I am lucky to be able to work from home. I will be able to take care of things for my brother (who just graduated in a field that is similar to that of this Hispanic Causing Panic guy), girlfriend (jobless), and myself.

The thing that upsets me is that I have been looking for jobs back in Oregon the last 3 months and was hoping to move back home and start a family. This has really thrown a wrench in that. Again, it is nothing compared to what others are dealing with.

That's all. My two cents.

Not nothing. Hope things work out for you in the future.

 

[BigGameDamian]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/footwe...cost-cutting-furloughs-stores-1202954598/amp/

Nordstrom Makes ‘Most Difficult Decision’ in 119-Year History, Will Furlough Some Corporate Employees

 

[wizenheimer]

Yikes!!....Michael Rapaport must have had a little too much coffee before his "public service" announcement:

 

[wizenheimer]

the White House, thru the NSC, had a good template for action on an epidemic/pandemic....and of course they ignored it, because, you know, science and stuff:

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/25/trump-coronavirus-national-security-council-149285

 

[Hobbesarable]

I can't stand that beer.
Give me a Tsing Tao.

Popular Chinese Beer, baby!

 

[BigGameDamian]

I hope Andrew Cuomo sticks it straight up Trump's ass when this is done.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

 

[PtldPlatypus]

I hope Andrew Cuomo sticks it straight up Trump's ass when this is done.

You have strange fantasies, dude.

 

[CupWizier]

You have strange fantasies, dude.

I blame free pornhub.

 

[e_blazer]

This article from The Atlantic is lengthy, but worth the read if you want to understand what we’re going to be facing for the next year or so.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/608719/

 

[wizenheimer]

This article from The Atlantic is lengthy, but worth the read if you want to understand what we’re going to be facing for the next year or so.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/608719/

thanks for that article...it's excellent

how about this part of it:

Aspects of America’s identity may need rethinking after COVID-19. Many of the country’s values have seemed to work against it during the pandemic. Its individualism, exceptionalism, and tendency to equate doing whatever you want with an act of resistance meant that when it came time to save lives and stay indoors, some people flocked to bars and clubs. Having internalized years of anti-terrorism messaging following 9/11, Americans resolved to not live in fear. But SARS-CoV-2 has no interest in their terror, only their cells.

Years of isolationist rhetoric had consequences too. Citizens who saw China as a distant, different place, where bats are edible and authoritarianism is acceptable, failed to consider that they would be next or that they wouldn’t be ready. (China’s response to this crisis had its own problems, but that’s for another time.) “People believed the rhetoric that containment would work,” says Wendy Parmet, who studies law and public health at Northeastern University. “We keep them out, and we’ll be okay. When you have a body politic that buys into these ideas of isolationism and ethnonationalism, you’re especially vulnerable when a pandemic hits.”

 

[e_blazer]

thanks for that article...it's excellent

how about this part of it:

Aspects of America’s identity may need rethinking after COVID-19. Many of the country’s values have seemed to work against it during the pandemic. Its individualism, exceptionalism, and tendency to equate doing whatever you want with an act of resistance meant that when it came time to save lives and stay indoors, some people flocked to bars and clubs. Having internalized years of anti-terrorism messaging following 9/11, Americans resolved to not live in fear. But SARS-CoV-2 has no interest in their terror, only their cells.

Years of isolationist rhetoric had consequences too. Citizens who saw China as a distant, different place, where bats are edible and authoritarianism is acceptable, failed to consider that they would be next or that they wouldn’t be ready. (China’s response to this crisis had its own problems, but that’s for another time.) “People believed the rhetoric that containment would work,” says Wendy Parmet, who studies law and public health at Northeastern University. “We keep them out, and we’ll be okay. When you have a body politic that buys into these ideas of isolationism and ethnonationalism, you’re especially vulnerable when a pandemic hits.”

I think that the author is sipping on the Kool-aid a bit too much if he thinks that our "American identity" is subject to "rethinking" as a result of this hit by a pandemic. Just like other major national emergencies, we'll tool up and develop vaccines, treatments and better supplies of medical equipment and hospital space, but once the emergency is over we're likely to slip back into our usual patterns of living for ourselves and enjoying life as much as possible. CDC needs to do a big evaluation of how they screwed up the essential test kit element that put us so far behind the eight-ball on this. It would be nice if our "leaders" in DC could stop playing political warfare long enough to take heed of this pandemic and establish better stores of needed supplies, emergency hospital space, and better plans and laws necessary for dealing quickly with events like this. I'm not holding my breath. There's just too much hatred and stupid concentrated in DC.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

Yikes!!....Michael Rapaport must have had a little too much "coffee" before his public service announcement:

fixed where the quotation marks should go.

 

[BigGameDamian]

 

[Shaboid]

Not nothing. Hope things work out for you in the future.

Thank you!

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

Make of this what you will.

China’s Mobile Carriers Lose 21 Million Users as Virus Bites