Coronavirus - the new pandemic

[Antiboyscout]

Whoops, meant 1200. Typo. ^^; point still stands.

Anyway, When Essential Workers Earn Less Than The Jobless: 'We Put The Country On Our Back'

https://www.npr.org/2020/07/01/882957793/when-essential-workers-earn-less-than-the-jobless-we-put-the-country-on-our-back

Are you arguing against the welfare state? I would think you of all people would be all for expansive unemployment benefits.

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

Well I mean that's not how I interpreted what he said. Coming from him I mean, I get how you mean it.

[Darth Wedgius]

Hey, good news! Hydroxychloroquine may help after all. It needs to be given early in the disease progression, which makes sense if it's being used to avoid immune system overreaction.

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/02/health/hydroxychloroquine-coronavirus-detroit-study/index.html

[J!!]

[Fuzzy Necromancer]

Being President is a hard job and this was an historic challenge. But that’s the job. It’s on you. You may not be at fault but you are responsible. You can imagine good presidents of the past and bad struggling under the weight of this crisis. He’s done none of that. His battle has been running away. It’s all been a matter of blaming states for not having enough ventilators or tests, making covid denial a centerpiece of his movement. His whole record in the crisis has been denial and then finding nonsensical arguments that a crisis befalling the country to which he was elected head of state somehow has nothing to do with him. The states have to fend for themselves and the federal government has to take care of itself, as though the federal government is anything but the expression of and protector of the people who collectively make up the states.


And then he just decided he was done. He got bored. It wasn’t fun anymore.
He shuttered his largely ineffectual task force and moved on. He wanted rallies. He branded a new “transition to greatness.” He made masks a sign of being a Democrat and a wuss.

But COVID hadn’t moved on.

None of this had to happen. It is a failure of cataclysmic proportions. It has many roots. It has revealed many insufficiencies and failures in our society and institutions. But the scale of it, the unifying force of it is a man who never should have been president, who has abandoned his responsibility to lead and protect the country, making it every state for itself, a chaos only organized by a shiftless and shambling effort to help himself at all costs at every point.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/catastrophe-2

[Draco Dracul]

Well the death spike is here

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

That's a false equivalency.

[Fuzzy Necromancer]

How so?

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

How so?

Because it's not an alien. It'd be more like the X-files black goop, but yeah not mind controlling obviously.

[Fuzzy Necromancer]

So, there's a push to get kids back to school, even though it will certainly kill them, and the teachers. I guess we've been okay with both of them being gunned down en mass so it's not a huge leap.