@MadScientist Supporters recycling his bragging about what he has done?

I hate that oil is dying right now but the government will save it

oil is only 5 dollars a barrel

twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1244049631886970881

Very effective ad strategy imo

They shouldn’t have started naming generations with X

Now what is supposed to be after Z?

What’s supposedly particularly bad about Bill de Blasio? His approval was really low when he was running and the news always kept mentioning how much everyone hates him.

@Stormblessed AA

@Nzall Yeah I was thinking that is probably it

“Builders” is a dumb name for a generation so I hope that we don’t switch to only having dumb names and no letters

In 50 years Ok Builder doesn’t have a good ring to it too

@Stormblessed Gen C (for covid)

Rip

lol

Well I guess that explains how she had such easy access to the liquor

> To prepare for pandemics, the U.S. worked with a small company for years to advance a low-cost portable ventilator. It fell apart after a multi-billion dollar company bought the firm. The new executives saw the project as not sufficiently profitable.

Ah, buy and kill for uhh things meant to prevent you from dying hmm

Hmmm, even though Santa Clara county has the most number of cases total, San Francisco has more per capita. Quite worried here.

:(

> Whistleblower data suggests Saudis are tracking cellphones inside the US. There are "millions of secret tracking requests" Senator @RonWyden responds: "An authoritarian govt may be reaching into US wireless networks to track people inside our country.”

I mean

Yes

And also the Saudis

Did not have "David Brooks wants us to screw our way to flattening the curve" on my pandemic bingo

I mean

FBI learned of coronavirus-inspired bomb plotter through radicalized US Army soldier

> Ahead of Tuesday’s incident, Wilson “espoused white supremacist ideology” and “made a threat that if any agent attempted to [search his property] they should ‘bring a lot of body bags,” said the FBI alert, distributed to state and local law enforcement agencies in the region on Wednesday.

> According to charging documents filed at the time in Topeka, Kansas, Smith allegedly planned to travel to Ukraine to fight with the violent far-right group Azov Battalion; suggested targeting then-Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke; proposed bombing the headquarters of a still-unidentified news network; and distributed bomb-making tips online.

> “With the current COVID-19 pandemic, Wilson decided to accelerate his plan to detonate a [car bomb] to cause severe harm and mass casualties,” the FBI said in its alert. “Wilson may have also believed the additional stress on society posed by the COVID-19 pandemic provided unique opportunities to exploit.”

Wake up America, it's profits over people to some

> In other words, according to the president of the United States, hurting the economy is a far bigger problem than millions of Americans potentially losing their lives.

Which in turn led me to this...

Coronavirus: Teenage boy whose death was linked to COVID-19 turned away from urgent care for not having insurance

> A 17-year-old whose death was initially linked to the novel coronavirus despite not having any previously reported health conditions was denied treatment at a California medical facility over his lack of insurance, according to the mayor.

Do Americans healthcare workers just like, not care at all about saving peoples lives? Like this is fucked.

nothing happened

I definitely didn't have a follow up to far above typed out that I didn't send

nope

Not untrue though

So apparently Trump is bragging on Twitter about checks notes The ratings his daily briefings about COVID-19 get.

> Welp. "As of Friday, Dr. Eppes said, nearly a dozen Liberty students were sick with symptoms that suggest Covid-19, the disease caused by the virus."

price_is_right_fail_horn.mp3

@TimStone but capitalism

he's just outright lying from the start now, stating they're testing more than anyone else and that is the reason the number of cases is so high, and that they have one of the lowest mortality rates

lol @ March 15 vs March 28

make up your mind

what are you manufacturing consent for, Joe is good actually, or we should install Cuomo

pick one

@Unionhawk It's so recent that one article shows up in the "Also By" widget of the other.

@Unionhawk I mean I guess if you were someone fine with the status quo it did seem like he could limp across the line until he managed to somehow fumble checks notes the President willingly letting Americans die from a pandemic

If I were a politician I would simply not be terrible at the politics part

At least Fauci convinced Trump to extend the mitigation to the end of April

They had already extended federal telework guidelines that far anyway so that would have been a fun mixed message

He has been corrected and made fun of so many times about "scourge". WTF? Does he think he's going to change the way the rest of the English speaking world pronounces it?

I think they managed to truly scare him with the 2.2 million deaths in case of no mitigation at all

@MadScientist yeh i can actually say he's lying because Australia has 16, last updated ~16 hours ago

@Memor-X CFR in Germany is half of the US, and I assume South Korea is below the US as well

but can get you his core base will defend him like going "oh but it's per capita", real self delusion because Trump wouldn't even know what that is (even then i would think the US is higher)

@MadScientist i think South Korea can boast testing more people and getting less results

like yes, more testing is going to ramp up the number of infected but that's only because you has so many going untested

@MadScientist At the current rate, end of April won't be long enough. 2 incubation periods (4 weeks) without community spread, but the safer bet is 5 weeks without any new cases (or a new case rate so low that it's basically 0 and none of them through community spread). The end of May might be optimistic for most of the US.

@RedRiderX also it links to a recommended article about Biden polling at 49 to Trump at 40

One poll does not mean much but still looks very odd to see in the middle of the page on an article about how Biden is a weak candidate

lol he tried to cut someone off but the next reporter wasn't having it

Also saying he didn't say the thing that he definitely said and was being quoted back to him

We really need to ask him who exactly advised him to "ride [the pandemic] like a cowboy" and let 2.2 million people die

Because 1) wtaf 2) wtaf

@TimStone wait what’s that number from?

@Stormblessed From today's briefing. CNN just repeated it after the briefing.

It's a worst-case scenario from the models.

If we hadn't done anything.