Coronavirus - the new pandemic

[Mecha82]

So Hungary went rule by decree as a response to the emergency: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-52095500

Well that excalated quickly as well as is stupid.

[Madner Kami]

Again, this is the end of a longer standing process, not just a sudden happening. Hungary has been on the way to dictatorship since quite a while now.

[Fuzzy Necromancer]

Our Glorious Leader is ending federally funded 'rona testing
https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/04/08/829955099/federal-support-for-coronavirus-testing-sites-end-as-peak-nears?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=atc&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20200408

[Fuzzy Necromancer]

Also 45 is swiping medical equipment for Blue States and doling them out as favors to the Red States that suck up to him, as one does.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/ppe-and-ventilators-becomes-patronage-in-trumps-hands
I'm sure local 45 supporters on this forum will find a way to tell me this isn't happening or that it's perfectly acceptable, or both.

[Mecha82]

Well America are doomed with leader like that during this crisis. Then again this doesn't surprise me at all since I already knew that he doesn't care about regular Americans at all. And why should he. He is part of richest 1% so he and his friends have no problems paying from private healthcare.

[Madner Kami]

This is so british...

'Self-isolate': Dalek surprises residents of UK fishing village

Amid the coronavirus crisis, police and pranksters around the world are helping to spread good cheer

In difficult times, people are turning to all sorts of creative methods to bring joy (and a little bit of friendly fear) to those around them.

Exterminate/self-isolate

The public have been warned tougher measures will have to be implemented if people do not adhere to physical distancing rules, but no one expected it to come in the form of extraterrestrial villains.

Residents of Robin Hood’s Bay, near Whitby, were surprised to see a Dalek patrolling the streets telling people to stay indoors.

“By order of the Daleks, all humans must stay indoors, all humans must self-isolate,” the Doctor Who villain screeched as it zoomed along the street.

[...]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/06/self-isolate-mystery-dalek-orders-humans-in-the-age-of-coronavirus

[Fuzzy Necromancer]

[clearspira]

Well America are doomed with leader like that during this crisis. Then again this doesn't surprise me at all since I already knew that he doesn't care about regular Americans at all. And why should he. He is part of richest 1% so he and his friends have no problems paying from private healthcare.

The US has the top of everything. Top health facilities, top universities, top richest people, top military.

Yes the USA has the absolute best facilities, but it doesn't matter, as most Americans have absolutely zero chance of getting access. Ever.

The greatest con trick the 1% ever pulled on poor Americans to convince them that helping the rich is helping them - and yet anything that helps ordinary people get access to things the rich have, is called socialism, and is therefore bad.

This pandemic has exposed the holes in the US system unlike anything has before. Fortunately, due to how your election system works, only the rich actually have any chance at all of making the top job. And before anyone says it, yes, I do know that most prime ministers in Britain have been to Eton or a similar school and I do know that the NHS is not perfect. Whataboutism however does not change anything.

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

Breaking development

[Fuzzy Necromancer]

Hey, when it stops being relevant, I'll stop posting it.