…say it ain’t so [DOT 24/3/20]

24/3/20 SplinterRIP 28

…sure, we shouldn’t compare apples with oranges…for starters it never goes well for the orange thing, here

ironic really, considering the privilege thing…

…so it’s curious that while the WHO has this to say

https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/advice-for-public

…& over in the UK they’re (temporarily re-)nationalizing the railways, sending everyone home (with, in a great many cases, 80% pay)

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/23/uk-lockdown-what-are-new-coronavirus-restrictions

…& giving this kind of advice

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/

…dotard mclardass is coming up with this kind of bullshit

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/23/politics/trump-coronavirus-15-days-social-distancing/index.html

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-says-governors-shouldn-t-be-blaming-administration-coronavirus-response-n1166131

…because fucking of course his dumb ass is…stupid is as stupid does, after all…& hateful stupid most of all

https://www.theroot.com/white-supremacists-had-plans-to-weaponize-coronavirus-1842445020

…still, at least they aren’t getting away with just all of it

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/abortion-in-ohio-will-continue-despite-attorney-general-order-to-stop/

…not that it feels like much of a victory when you have to answer these kinds of charges

False Claim That Pelosi Withheld Coronavirus Funds Over Abortion
not that she didn’t have some reasons…

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/congress-deadlocked-over-massive-corona-virus-stimulus-bill-talks-ongoing-n1166501

…whereas in other places other familiar faces are well & truly off to the races

Bibi steps aren’t as small as they sound…

…so…maybe not today…but anytime someone would would be just fine by me

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/23/politics/fauci-trump-science-interview/index.html

…& it’s only tuesday

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  1. Mrs. Butcher was watching the press conference last night (until she couldn’t take it any longer and changed the channel), and at one point she starts laughing uncontrollably. I had seen the early part of the conference so I knew that Barr was one of the looming goons standing behind Trump. I asked her if Barr rolled his eyes and she said yes. That part I wish I had seen.

    • Honestly, neither my wife nor I can stand the sound of Donald Trump’s voice. That nasally whine feels like someone is drilling into my ear. That’s completely separate from the idiocy that sputters incoherently from his orange maw.

      I thought it was just because I hate him so much, but Bloomberg’s voice is exactly the same. It’s just this “rich asshole” sound that I can’t stand.

      • I saw just enough of it to notice that whenever he was making a statement that was written for him (and probably told to please, for the love of God, stick to) he would just look down at the paper and read, like a kid in 4th Grade Social Studies. But, whenever he decided to go off script and just start spewing bullshit, he’d look up at the room. Mrs. Butcher was doing some of the play by play when I walked out of the room. She would tell me every time he went off script, which was roughly every 10 seconds.

  5. covid-19 may be deadly but it has a sense of irony…

    Rand Paul, Staunch Opponent of Coronavirus Healthcare Package, Diagnosed With Coronavirus

    Malcolm X ain’t never lie; chickens do come home to roost!

    And you would think that a senator from Kentucky would know that better than anyone.

    But as karma would have it, Rand Paul, who was the only senator to vote against an $8.3 billion emergency coronavirus package last month, has tested positive for the deadly disease also known as COVID-19. …

    https://www.theroot.com/rand-paul-staunch-opponent-of-coronavirus-healthcare-p-1842445538

  6. How the CDC’s Restrictive Testing Guidelines Hid the Coronavirus Epidemic

    As the coronavirus epidemic spread around the globe, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provided restrictive guidance on who should be tested, archived pages on its website show. While agencies in other countries were advising and conducting widespread testing, the CDC, charged with setting the U.S. standard for who should be tested for the virus, kept its criteria limited. …

    How did the testing guidelines change?

    Initially, the CDC recommended only investigating those who had symptoms and had recently traveled to Wuhan, China, or made contact with someone who may have the virus.

    As the outbreak worsened, it expanded the criteria for travel history slowly, but maintained its recommendation that symptoms be present, despite some cases having mild or no symptoms. …

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/how-the-cdcs-restrictive-testing-guidelines-hid-the-coronavirus-epidemic/ar-BB11xslQ?li=BBnbcA1

    I see someone’s fat and greasy fingers all over these restrictions…

    • Only indirectly through defunding and a late response to the pandemic.

      The fact of the matter is we haven’t/don’t have enough test kits or PPE to do the kind of widespread screening that would be optimal. So the initially strict and gradually relaxed CDC recommendations are a reflection on that fact.

  7. So a lot of…asshats for lack of better term and pushing some snake oil shit as cures. For example, Jim Bakker is pushing that classic silver scam.

    https://www.npr.org/2020/03/11/814550474/missouri-sues-televangelist-jim-bakker-for-selling-fake-coronavirus-cure

    Then there’s the president with his chloroquine cure.

    https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/23/health/arizona-coronavirus-chloroquine-death/index.html

    But I’m sure one of these works!

    https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/world-news/scientists-identify-69-drugs-to-test-against-the-coronavirus/articleshow/74782512.cms?from=mdr

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