From The Washington Post:

it’s truly dawning on me today (lol) that this country is veritably fucked.

really, we’re in the hands of utter imbeciles. wtf.

just look at the stuff thar comes out of so many people’s mouths. just look.

with citizens like tessie and bytoad and skunky, supporting the atrocity we have going on... who needs enemies?? seriously??

we’re fucking toast.

toast.

That's the CDC talking, which although technically part of the Dotard administration has been in practice as removed from it as you or I.



YOU'RE AN ORWELLIAN CHARACTER YOU MCENANA PIXIE PIECE OF SHIT.

almost 67 million people, i think, voted for trump. SIXTY SEVEN MILLION. that’s about 8 new york cities worth of population, just full of trumpists. 8.

even of they lost by 4 million—it’s 67 million!

consider the critical mass of those numbers, realize there’s nowhere else to put them, and tell me that we’re not ultimately FUCKED.

Dildo Trump Jr. tests positive for Covid-19

There was no way we could have predicted that one, huh.

The quotes that I have been seeing from tesla genuinely worry me. He comes off as Giuliani-Squared. He has clearly gone off the deep end.

Jan 20th is a long way off! Apocalypse Fuckface only cares about one thing.

I thought 2016 was an atrocity. But after 4 monumentally incompetent years, he was competitive again.

Yes, we are fucked.

Oh, it's not an understatement to say he's absolutely next level

I'm sure this is fake news, but apparently, at the Virtual G20, Trump skipped the pandemic meeting to go golfing, and during other meetings he was simultaneously tweeting about the rigged election.

Yeah. It has to be fake news.

Amy the Handmaid's Reign of Terror has begun. I thought God was omnipresent anyway, so why does it matter where you worship your imaginary friend?

money.

It looks like the most important people and greatest country of all time is getting the vaccine first.

#take that America. Daft cunt

which vaccine?

putin already gave his to his daughter :D

HA!

I guess bbc news doesn't take the words of a Russian despot seriously.

I can still get my utterly justifiable beyond any doubt xenophobic rant on though aye?

hahahha yeah, nobody believes him.

and i enjoyed the rant just i don’t know which vaccine you meant. there’s pfizer, mrna, azn; and azn is closer to your supply lines (67% or 90% effective depending). we haven’t taken yours have we?

It's the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, 95% effective apparently. The government has ordered 40 million treatments which need to be taken twice so that's enough for 20 million people. So, roughly just under a third of the population. Treatment starts next week.

oh i just read that your regulators approved it first lololol

now i get what you meant

fine then— good luck with the mrna experiment, mutant! :D

Uh, you might wish to read:

Review report Corman-Drosten et al. Eurosurveillance 2020

It basically questions the validity of the science behind the most commonly used COVID-19 tests, thus drawing into serious questiuon the reality of the infection statistics we're hearing.

Due to the still pretty high infection rate, restaurants and businesses in the entertainment sector will remain closed in Austria until what looks to be at least January 7 - that includes gyms, for those that are physically inclined. Alpine cable railways however are allowed to open around December 24 already. And of course, churches are always exempt from any of the harsher measures.

There've been images of massive crowds lining up in front of the funicular last month (absolutely no distancing, whatsoever) and now it looks like the Conservative Party is once again trying to ensure that domestic ski-tourism is getting preferable treatment.

I wonder if it might have something to do with quite a few of their politicians demonstrably being in that business. Apparently, the 'rona can't get you when you're lining up to go skiing. Welcome to Asstria.

Sorry, needed to vent again. I'm all for being really careful and preventing exacerbating the already dire situation. But that should include being resolute in your measures and not dealing in preferable treatment towards stereotypical activities that still pose a risk and mostly just benefit specific parties.

Bring on the drugs. Here's hoping to some side effects akin to some kind of permanent dopamine explosion. Pensioners will be treated first so it's all eyes on them.

It's quite surrealistic that it's finally happening: I'm daydreaming of pubs and gigs and...pubs and gigs. What else was there before the pandemic again?

Bobby be pissing on my parade

o man, you gave it attention— why didja?

worse than a virus

Obama, Bush, Clinton to publicly receive COVID-19 vaccine

The point is to "prove safety" and "quell Americans' skepticism", but of course this could backfire: "Them pedophile deep state race war lizard people is gettin' the vaxxxine, but our Beloved Leader Apocalypse Fuckface ain't, so I ain't gettin' no vaxxxine!!! TRIPLE EXCLAMATION POINT!!!"

The Australian fund is not $1,993 a month; that's total bullshit.

It's hard for me to do the precise math from here, given that I can't only consider the, let's say, "cheque" each Australian is getting as a relief from this disaster; elements like tax exemptions, if there are any, have to be factored in as well, and there's also the matter that we're talking about a federal country and not all regions may be implementing the same measures. What I can say with a degree of certainty, inasmuch as it's been published by several credible media outlets, is that the federal government passed legislation for a $1,500 per fortnight wage subsidy for eligible employers; fine print exists everywhere, though.

In any case, I bet my collection of Go-Between albums that the fucking pandemonium circumstances are considerably better for the average Australian than for the average Unitedstatesean. Or for the average mook in my own country, for that matter.

Pretending that the graphic above is accurate for a moment.

According to https://www.worldometers.info/world-...ia-population/, Australia has 25,629,323 people of all ages.

25,629,323 * 1,993 = $51,079,234,760/mo total spending a month for relief.

Pretend we've reached the 1 year mark of consistency with this number.

Australian government has spent $612,950,817,120 for the year, for funding relief for EVERY citizen.

According to just https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/21/trum...ense-bill.html, Sitting POTUS authorized $738 billion for the US military alone.

That said, according to the same population site listed above, the US has a population of 331,002,651 which is considerably larger, so if we were to try the same monthly, for a year, it'd cost 7,916,259,401,316 for the year.

All hypothetical, but population differences do matter when comparing responses to issues, as well as other "normalized" systems. Australia already also has their own elevated taxes that pay for these things like their healthcare system, among others.

Giuliani has it.

(You cannot make this up.)

just saw!

i laughed

is this wrong? :D :D :D

(of course not)

let's hope that cunt dies

Brilliant!

William Shakespere among first Britons to receive coronavirus vaccine

and also

Next to Giuliani, Jenna Ellis contracts coronavirus as well

And I don't even like Metallica.

From Demand Progress:

Signed it!