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12:02 AM
@TimStone mixed with coughing
 
 
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3:59 AM
Oh yay. Betsy DeVos will be at tomorrow's White House coronavirus briefing.
We're saved.
 
@Jolenealaska yeh that's not going to cause more panic buying
 
5:16 AM
“We don’t need a backup. We need a Tom Brady,” says Jay Inslee about Trump
Someone else running a clip of him saying “We need a Tom Brady” in the Seattle market is how he will lose re-nomination, I promise
 
 
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11:21 AM
Boris Johnson CV+
 
Tim
12:13 PM
I save food from garbage
Am I good?
 
 
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1:26 PM
@Jolenealaska as in he can add something to his Job CV? or does he have COVID-19?
 
BoJo has it
Moral is: don’t shake people’s hands in s hospital
Even if that is not how he got it it is a bad idea
 
> “We went back and looked at voting in 1918,” said Anita Dunn, one of Biden’s top advisers, “where of course turnout was down, but the election was still held, and Congress was still seated.”
Okay but also there was one other thing significantly different about that election
 
> I don’t think the public wants to hear criticism of Trump right now
 
Just insane
 
Buddy either campaign or get out of the way
 
Where do these people contract these brainworms?
The President is a clear and present danger to the health of the entire country "Ahh,,,but,,,does that really matter right now?"
 
1:47 PM
@TimStone the center for american progress
god fucking dammit
> When the teen became ill, his parents took him to an urgent care center and were turned away because he didn't have health insurance, Parris said.
Our health finance system just killed a teenager, the first known case of a juvenile dying of the virus
 
Stonks are bad again
Dow is down 933
 
Dow Jones rollercoaster go weee
 
2:14 PM
@TimStone i mean, it's not really a rollercoaster, it's a turbulent ocean, but if we sink we all die
 
@Unionhawk Isn't this illegal (in addition to being completely unethical)?
 
@MBraedley no, an emergency room has to stabilize a patient (but does not have to treat them once they're stable), but an urgent care facility does not have that requirement
 
Needs a bigger version
There we go.
(This is in response to the US non-requirement to treat)
 
@Unionhawk They should. Let's ignore the privatization of what should be a public good for a second and just consider that this is tantamount to negligent homicide.
 
2:37 PM
@MBraedley Welcome to the US, where cops don't even have a requirement to help people
 
@MBraedley Can't find Unionhawk's original post, so:
Why are you standing in the way of profits?
 
 
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3:53 PM
> Joe Biden coronavirus ad praises Ronald Reagan, seemingly forgetting his handling of the AIDS crisis killed thousands t.co/qKmWeROb0l
Ah,
 
Any truth to what trump said? I mean I doubt it but
 
@Elva It's not that unlikely that producing ventilators by car companies doesn't work very quickly or well. So it wouldn't surprise me if that is the truth, though I wouldn't bet on the car companies overpromising against Trump just taking some very optimistic guesses as hard facts
 
Yeah, given that people seem to be willing to tell Trump what he wants to hear (i.e. hospital executives) it's hard to say what exactly happened but the one thing we do know is that no one knows what the hell 'Invoke "P"' means
And also whatever they told him he was only half listening anyway
lol rekt
 
@TimStone he explains that in a later tweet
 
Under pressure from opposition parties and dozens of business groups, Trudeau said Friday that Canada will increase wage subsidies for small businesses from 10 per cent to 75 per cent. thestar.com/politics/federal/2020/03/27/…
 
4:53 PM
the defense production act
 
@MadScientist Ah, okay
I mean
That still doesn't make any sense
But data accepted
 
He could force them to convert more production lines with it, and maybe also set the price, not sure about that
Future historians will have fun decoding Trumps rambling statements, there'll probably be guides for translation ;-)
@TimStone the factory Trump wants to reopen to produce ventilators is one GM already sold, and Trump tweeted about that sale
 
Amazing
 
though the tweet doesn't indicate the deal went through, so I'm not entirely sure about this
I missed at first that the announcement of the sale in his tweet wasn't final
 
Tim
I am sad. I didn't get any vegetables
 
5:41 PM
Rumours floating around that a local grocery store had an employee test positive for Covid-19, and so the store is now closed.
cc @MBraedley Superstore in Bedford
 
@Wipqozn I don't go there at least.
 
Tim
6:04 PM
I can live without meat, but I can't without vegetables
 
6:17 PM
Oh no, say it ain't so
> Until two weeks ago, Airbnb was a gentrification juggernaut, devouring homes and watching profits snowball. A McGill study published last year found that Airbnb likely removed 31,000 homes from the Canadian rental market and that hosts here made $1.8 billion in 2018—a 40 percent jump from the previous year. Many of those same hosts can't fill a single unit now; the coronavirus flushed them out.
Seriously, fuck Airbnb
I mean I suppose it's original purpose as for spare rooms or for renting your place out while travelling. but like, fuck how it's contributed to the housing crisis.
 
yeah the long term rental market has seen a spike in tourist towns lol
Weird it's almost like Airbnb does indeed impact rent prices
 
> According to Inside Airbnb, a project that scrapes data from the Airbnb website, 64 percent of the over 23,500 Airbnb listings in Toronto were for entire homes or apartments on March 16. That means they’re likely operating in violation of local bylaws—short-term rentals here are only permitted in the host’s principal residence.
 
at least the cancellation policy got relaxed so hosts just suddenly didn't get the money on their upcoming bookings lol
 
> "When we talk about impact on housing, the hosts we’re concerned about are the ones who are renting multiple houses or apartments,” said Murray Cox, the activist and programmer behind Inside Airbnb. “They’re the ones taking housing off the market, displacing residents looking for long-term housing, and raising the cost of housing.”

> Airbnb says having multiple listings doesn't necessarily imply wrongdoing and has disputed the reliability of third-party data scraping.
Honestly fuck like, Uber, Airbnb and all these companies so highly contributing to fucking up the planet
 
I mean for definitions of "wrongdoing" they aren't wrong I guess
But the definition required is "it's legal" not "it's right"
 
6:22 PM
And also fuck governments for not actually addressing these issues
> Whether they're doing it by the book or not, these multiple-listing hosts were making a killing. According to the McGill study, they generated almost half of all Airbnb revenue in 2017.
> Jay said he’s since had to reduce his rates to “lower than motel prices” to stay competitive. He's also started requiring at least a 10-night commitment from guests and is billing his unit as "perfect for self-quarantine."
 
won't somebody think of the airbnb hosts who want to keep their passive income source
 
Trump tweeted that Massie should be expelled from the Republican party for holding up the bill
 
Tom sucks real bad lol
Which is to say he's a normal northern kentucky republican
 
But by that logic Trump should be for you know, not doing anything for weeks while it was known to be spreading
> ...& costly. Workers & small businesses need money now in order to survive. Virus wasn’t their fault. It is “HELL” dealing with the Dems, had to give up some stupid things in order to get the “big picture” done. 90% GREAT! WIN BACK HOUSE, but throw Massie out of Republican Party!
I know it has been said many times but this guy is simply not good at writing tweets, especially for someone who writes them all day
 
Oh god who would tom even be replaced by
some newport commission guy
good lord
 
6:33 PM
@Stormblessed Ah, the best words
 
@Yuuki ಠ_ಠ
 
9:09 PM
USA has over 100k cases now.
 
9:22 PM
@Wipqozn USA #1!
Okay, I guess per capita we're like #10. We'll work on it
 
xD Sterno
 
Oh I guess Hannity is next then.
 
Yeah, it's extremely unclear what she said that was different than anyone else on the network!
 
Gotta sacrifice someone
 
9:30 PM
@Sterno I believe in you
 
9:51 PM
Bad line go up lot
 
@Nzall that's maybe one of the most promising things to use that is available very quickly, but it probably doesn't help if this gets out of control as I strongly doubt you can scale that up very far. But it's probably a good target for the severe cases when you can actually manage to flatten the curve
 
Yeah I saw that there was a request for recovered folks to get tested for antibody count and donate plasma
 
@Nzall yeah I knew the number was big and over 4 times the record from the 80s but it really makes one realize how completely uniquely bad this is
 
Navarro will coordinate use of the defense production act
 
10:01 PM
I don't see Fauci. I can turn this press briefing off
 
I think he was there when they entered
 
Damn it, now I have to watch
 
I should stop watching them, but I can't somehow
 
10:17 PM
> BREAKING: 2,000 Chicagoans will get $1,000 in rent relief under new city COVID-19 plan, mayor says
nice, as we all know
there are 2,000 people who live in chicago
and average rent is $1,000
🆒
 
He's still delusional and thinks the US will handle this much, much better than the rest of the world
 
He's talking about sending ventilators to other countries
calling the governor "the woman in Michigan"
"governors have to be appreciative"
 
10:33 PM
@MadScientist again
 
@Unionhawk like, seriously, the graphic misdirection that CNN does with their on-screen graphic is just as misleading and damaging as the outright lies told by Fox
 
He's saying that Florida is doing really well
I strongly doubt that
 
11:03 PM
if I understand this right, those rates of positive tests are terrifying
As a comparison, Germany has around 6% positive out of all tested samples
And in NY they're very likely only testing the more critical cases
So some part of this could be a bias because they're not testing people anymore that don't have severe symptoms
 
@MadScientist It's insane that he just straight up admitted that he's willing to let people die because someone wasn't nice enough to him
That was obviously the case, but to just casually admit it, my god
 
@TimStone I wouldn't go that far, but just because he didn't explicitly say that. But he was close enough to that in the Mafia kind of way
Listening to these press conferences is entirely insane if I compare them to the German ones
 
11:20 PM
So Trump signed the stimulus bill and just said "Oh yeah we're going to ignore some parts, of this, the law"?
Very cool and normal
 
@MadScientist I suspect they're entirely insane compared to nearly every other developed country.
 
@Wipqozn I'd guess so, but I'm not watching every country ;-)
 
@MadScientist Ha! Fair point!
I know they seem insane compared to Canada
 
For Germany, the general updates are done in a press conference by the German equivalent to the head of the CDC. The information density is a lot higher than those Trump conferences
 
@MadScientist Higher information density than a Trump conference seems like a low bar though.
 
11:26 PM
@Wipqozn well, an order of magnitude or so ;-)
Fauci is on
 
> "We're aware there was an event, I don't know the exact number, but in the range of about 50 people at a social gathering on St. Patrick's Day and it's likely this is where our case was exposed to COVID-19," Dr. Robert Strang told reporters.
Fuck people are stupid. Why would you think throwing a 50 person party would be a great idea in this situation?
 

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