@TimStone i'm just imagining Pompeo going "look we've all seen it, my boss will alter any prepared speech so can we save some time and just indulge him"
@TimStone i really, really want to walk through that tweet to him and yell "FOR ONCE IN YOUR LIFE ACCEPT THAT YOU ARE NOT THE CENTER OF THE GOD DAM UNIVERSE AND THAT EVERYTHING ISN'T ALL ABOUT YOU"
There's probably a lot to say about the bill and giving money to big business but on the other side people are dying right this second so I guess at least they're not arguing over it for another three weeks
It's not enough but it was previously nothing so at least get the President to sign it before he starts throwing Rona Rallies idk
the title more or less explains it but someone, who i will quote the police as "an absolutely ########", thought it would be funny to walk into a police station, cough on a police worker claiming he has COVID-19 as a prank
yep, he was arrested and to face court over that "prank", the dipshit
the video also says there was another case of this where some guy coughed on a police officer when asked to do a breath test and said he had COVID-19 and that was a lie too
We shouldn't shame people for how they look but it remains surprising to me that Rick Scott has had so much success looking like he literally eats souls and also mismanaging the state of Florida
Well I'm sure the producer of Suicide Squad know what's right
You will be unsurprised that the banks made out in this bill, though I don't know that the latter two are necessarily bad things given that the government, especially in its current state, isn't good at doing things
Like theoretically it should be easy for the IRS to send you money but history has shown it is somehow not easy
@TimStone Okay, the full statement is marginally less dumb
He essentially says "Look we passed these protections, it'll be fine either way" which is not really true given how little the bill protects people outside the short-but-not-immediate term
The one thing that I wish we knew but never will is how much he believes any of this and whether it's because he's genuinely that dumb or because Jared is and assured him his feelings were right
SDNY doesn't have the authority to declare war, so it probably works out to something more like "Now there's an outstanding indictment, in case we ever get a chance to execute it"
> Officials don’t take these kinds of incidents lightly, given that grocery store employees already have a high risk of being exposed to the coronavirus. Cashiers can’t avoid coming into contact with customers, and one Whole Foods employee in Atlanta told the Atlantic that he overheard a shopper telling someone that he was “pretty sure” he had the virus but needed to get a few things before he went to the doctor.
Are American groceries even doing anything to protect their staff?
I know the ones around here have installed sneeze guards and the like.
@Wipqozn I can't say myself, I haven't been to the grocery store since this started. First my in laws were here from China and were doing the grocery shopping themselves. They went home last Friday when the State Department issued its final warning (my MIL contracted coronavirus en route), and we had two weeks worth of groceries at that time. In a few more days I will be going to the store for the first time since this started.
A 53-year-old woman who was arrested Tuesday and released on Wednesday was arrested again on Thursday morning for allegedly violating an order to self-isolate. cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/…
@TimStone Our (Alaska's) first death was the same. Alaskan in Washington.
We have a 25K fine for entering Alaska from anywhere else and not keeping immediately isolated for 14 days. AK and HI have a distinct advantage in this.
Without 100% containment (obviously impossible), it'd just start the cycle again once lockdown ends because there isn't enough herd immunity until either a ton of us get it or a vaccine is developed
@Sterno My vague hope is that there's a chance to do all the contact tracing and testing stuff properly after the initial wave is stopped, with only limited restrictions on bigger events
Cruises are horrible floating petri dishes even when there isn't a pandemic, and that story of the one where the toilets were overflowing with sewage…no thanks!
Reporter: "Mr. President, we see you've backed off the language 'Chinese virus'. Why is that?" Trump: "China blamed our soldiers, also they're great and we love China. Lots of trade deals. The best trade deals. Also, it's Obama's fault."
Yay! Fewer new cases in Nova Scotia today (5 for a total of 73 case compared to 17 yesterday), but also the first likely case of community spread (albeit isolated). https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/march-26-covid-19-nova-scotia-1.5510914
if only there was a way to make every person whos dismissing the number to experience what it would be like to watch someone they love choke to death slowly like those in Italy