Coronavirus - the new pandemic

[Fuzzy Necromancer]

So Our Glorious Leader just admitted he wants less testing for Covid19 so the number of confirmed Covid19 cases go down.

If you are a Republican voter, I genuinely worry for your health.

[Darth Wedgius]

Let's see. Trump offered extension of the visas for TPS holders for three years, $800m in urgent humanitarian assistance, 2,750 more border agents and security officials and 75 new immigration judge teams.

In return, Trump would get spending for his border fence.

Did you miss the part where they'd already had that agreement... a year ago? Did you just fail to read downwards?

It's a touch ironic that the deal Mr Trump outlined - his wall in exchange for protection for certain childhood undocumented migrants and temporary resident aliens - was one the president walked away from last year, when Democrats were the ones instigating a shutdown.

After senators thought they had an agreement, the White House issued new demands for reforms to legal immigration.

Now Democrats are in control of the House, and the calculus has changed. Mr Trump's offer of temporary immigrant protection probably isn't any greater than the ones courts have already imposed.

Greeeaaaattt compromiser.

You didn't read your own article, did you? So instead he went back to that and pitched a hissy fit screaming he'd end DREAM if he couldn't get his wall.

I didn't miss either one. Whether they had an agreement earlier is logically irrelevant. And the offer of temporary immigration protection wasn't the only thing in the compromise, as I mentioned earlier.

You didn't answer my question, though. Are my facts wrong? or was my definition of "compromise" wrong?

Please, try to be honest and logical. If you need help, ask a friend.

[Fuzzy Necromancer]

[Fuzzy Necromancer]

Wall Street has had enough of the lockdown: “People will die. People do die,” says one investment banker. “People have to take responsibility for their own lives. And people do die. That is kind of what happens”

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/05/wall-street-has-had-enough-of-the-lockdown?utm_source=twitter&utm_social-type=owned&utm_medium=social&mbid=social_twitter&utm_brand=vf

This is like...the era of "evil things people were thinking all along and the cruelty of capitalism that passed largely under the surface being spelled out in the least subtle way possible"

[GreyICE]

I have yet to hear of an investment banker that could not improve the world with their passing.

[Captain Crimson]

It's almost as if this country with 300 million people in it... has a higher population than other countries.

Anyway, it's late, 3 AM, I'm off to bed, gotta bring home the bacon. Good night, fam!

[Fuzzy Necromancer]

You know better, Captain Crimson. What gives?

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

The sheer numbers are influenced I believe by population parameters, and generally it is true that prudent executive orders turned out to be quite crucial in this unprecedented event. Trump punctually is swimming in his administration's decisions with no apparent understanding of anything it handles publicly as indicated by his ever contradicting addresses. Also a bunch of people have compounding accounts of him throwing the football away from his entire team towards his own goal, but now accountability by fellow government or media is for the birds and social media is the last word on things for a great while as they develop, so I wait to see.

[Fuzzy Necromancer]

All I'm saying is that when fighting a global pandemic, it helps if your president isn't the stupidest fucking recklessly-impulsive pig-ignorant science-denying toady-hiring government-defunding incompetent dipshit on the planet. -Jeff Tiedrich

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

South Korea says that the people who tested positive for a second time are not infectious as far as they can tell.