This Is Fine

5:19 AM

so the UFOs were real

I mean I didn't have any reason to doubt the video being actual footage really

but still pretty crazy

wait that was in 2017???

time moves too fast I thought that was only a year ago

oh the later ones did get released in 2019 (by the Times)

wow Harry Reid says that there's more

> Pentagon releases Navy footage of “unidentified aerial phenomena": "It only scratches the surface"

BradC

1:47 PM

President’s intelligence briefing book repeatedly cited virus threat

> U.S. intelligence agencies issued warnings about the novel coronavirus in more than a dozen classified briefings prepared for President Trump in January and February, months during which he continued to play down the threat, according to current and former U.S. officials.

> For weeks, the PDB — as the report is known — traced the virus’s spread around the globe, made clear that China was suppressing information about the contagion’s transmissibility and lethal toll, and raised the prospect of dire political and economic consequences.
But the alarms appear to have failed to register with the president, who routinely skips reading the PDB and has at times shown little patience for even the oral summary he takes two or three times per week, according to the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss classified material.

This should be shocking, but it is 100% not a surprise at all.

2:35 PM

He definitely said the thing about disinfectant but I don’t think he meant bleach

I mean it doesn’t matter

but somehow it seems to have turned into bleach rather than hand sanitizer

(Both are idiotic ideas)

Memor-X

@Stormblessed because i think people are reminded of people suggesting you could cure autism by drinking bleach

and that insane idiocy is of the same line as injecting disinfectant

well, drinking bleach is easier

4:29 PM

I’m not buying lean R Texas

not going to flip this time

maybe 2028

4:45 PM

I am sure it will happen but not for a while

5:02 PM

I am not sure about this. Some US pundits and media (a Joe Rogan's interview with Tim Pool) accused China for hiding information of virus for several days (3 or 6?) in Jan, and even talked about starting a war.

I learned about the coronavirus outbreak in early Dec when I saw news report that likened its infectiousness to SARS. I learned that the virus was new, requiring more research study, and different people even in the local and central governments of China had conflict opinions on the virus, and some who downplayed the crisis might be either lack of information or have personal interests involved.

US media in Dec did a fantastic job in reporting the disease to the Americans, with an always skeptical view. But now all the news looks like Americans were not prepared because of misinformation from China

Some Americans even vowed to nuke China on their Facebook, which sounds like having fun

This is a bit extreme.

What was the first time when you realized the severity of the virus?

5:27 PM

@Tim Looking at my phone records, I would say Feb 25th.

That's the day I called my dad to say that CNN wasn't overstating it.

Wash your hands often, stay home as much as possible etc etc

The news that I remember read in early Dec was very sensational, and I spread the news to some people that I knew

I was aware of bad things happening in China, but only vaguely.

My perception was that Americans knew about the virus but didn't care much because it didn't happen in US

Maybe by Christmas

"sensational" in the same way in most US news report about China

5:33 PM

I wouldn't say I didn't care, only that I didn't suspect that it would be catastrophic.

Thanks. I am a bit worried about the rising nationalism in US

There's plenty to worry about on that count.

It has long since reached critical mass.

It's a bigger concern for me than the virus.

The country will survive the virus.

5:58 PM

@Tim I don't think I really cared about it until there was a case in my state, around late January

However, I don't think I was really all that concerned until stuff happened like schools closing and then a lockdown. I still went to a big event around March 1

I was kind of concerned there, especially because there were a bunch of people wearing masks

I heard about it in December

@Jolenealaska there is definitely going to be a recession in my opinion

Mitch McConnell does not seem to understand this, and he is trying to not help states and force them into bankruptcy

and if he keeps the Senate but Biden wins the presidency I doubt he will do really anything