> Private equity firm with ties to Kushner asks Trump administration to relax rules on loan program

@TimStone assuming fear of COVID-19 doesn't keep people away for fear that they'll be too close to people

@Stormblessed i would say almost half going by the share News Crop had in the Australian Associative Press (+40%) which provided free press to other media outlets. Nine Entertainment Co. which is owned by the Packer family owned another +40% of it and the rest with Seven West Media (who half own Yahoo7 with Yahoo)

Top Bernie Sanders campaign people, including Pramila Jayapal and campaign manager Faiz Shakir, are telling him he should drop out

Liquor license of Walmart in Evergreen Park (near Chicago) suspended after two employees die of coronavirus

fuck Walmart

@MadScientist all most all the food pantries are closed

The perfect presidential stump speech

> For all of you young kids out there dreaming of running for president, make sure someone takes a picture of you holding a shotgun (confidently, safely and correctly) now.

> Salata said Michigan’s presidential primary March 10 could be a possible factor in the state’s elevated cases, because large gatherings of people make it easier for the disease to spread. Ohio canceled in-person voting on St. Patrick’s Day.

> In an extraordinary snub on Saturday, Wisconsin’s Republican-led Legislature shrugged its shoulders at an eleventh-hour call from Gov. Tony Evers to halt in-person voting, gaveling in and out of a special session in seconds without taking action.

why

like just why

their primary is completely done

they don't have any reason that makes any amount of logical (if bad) sense to make the primary go on

> President Trump approves disaster declaration in Delaware; 593 confirmed COVID-19 cases

Boris Johnson is in the hospital, they say it's just a precaution

I'm not entirely sure I'd believe that, I would suspect that they'd hesitate to do that right now unless they are actually worried

> A 4-year-old female tiger at @BronxZoo named Nadia has tested positive for COVID-19, according to the @TheWCS

Queen Elizabeth has given her first Royal Speech in times of crisis, over 8 decades after her father addressed the nation at the start of WWII

@TimStone Updated, 673

Cuomo's numbers yesterday seem... odd

He was saying 600 new hospitalized in the state

NYC reported 900

Hmm lot of talk about whether Bernie should stay in or drop out but if I were Bernie Sanders I would simply make my coronavirus mask a realistic Biden costume and take his place after locking him up with four years' supply of ice cream

> We are learning much about the Invisible Enemy. It is tough and smart, but we are tougher and smarter!

Ah imagine being outsmarted by a thing that's literally not alive

COVID-19 Response: New Jersey Urgently Needs COBOL Programmers (Yes, You Read That Correctly

> That’s what the State’s Governor, Phil Murphy, apparently meant today, when he said at a press conference that the State needed volunteers who with “Cobalt” computer skills to help fix 40-year-old-plus unemployment insurance systems that are currently overwhelmed as a result of COVID-19-related job losses.

I, for one, am shocked that the government hasn't properly invested and maintained it's infrastructure for helping those in need, and I'm equally shocked they refuse to pay anyone to fix it.

Also finding COBOL programmers willing to work for free is rather laughable. No one with experience in COBOL is looking for any sort of work. They're all getting paid truckloads in the banking industry, which is built on languages like COBOL.

So sad

@Unionhawk numbers are all behind each other

I saw that the CDC’s numbers for deaths are like 2000 behind what the Washington Post has calculated

Counting is really hard when there are limited tests

@Wipqozn New York does too

Er Connecticut

> Ms. Steffens said that Connecticut has had to resort to recruiting retirees who knew how to program in COBOL, a nearly extinct computer language. Connecticut and four other states are involved in a joint project meant to overhaul their systems but it will not be finished before next year, she said.

And you need a fax machine to apply (in New York)

> ‘Zoombombing’ is a federal offense that could result in imprisonment, prosecutors warn

do not do that, thank you