im taking a mental health day from all the planning and the worrying, etc.

it’s been overwhelming so my brain needs rest.

i’m staying home of course.

!@#$%!, please take care of you and your family!

I would love to know all the possibilities and scenarios you’ve planned for, I’m sure it’s quite a comprehensive list.

Gotta go to grocery store today for fresh veg. We have N95 masks we bought for wildfire season, so that and disinfectant wipes are the order of the AM.

REP. ANDY BIGGS (R-AZ) VOTED AGAINST CORONAVIRUS BILL BECAUSE IT GIVES SICK LEAVE TO SAME-SEX PARTNERS, one of 40 Repul-blickan NO's.

Mr Biggs showing just how small he can be

From The Washington Post:
U.S. intelligence reports from January and February warned about a likely pandemic

Oh, so he did know it was going to be a pan— WAIT, no, this guy doesn't read dick.

First death in my country confirmed.

first death in Tiny Town, too.:(

shalom

shabbat shalom

Whaddaya mean "new"?

ikr?

That's fucked up. What is the population in Tiny Town? I understand the whole of Oregon is 4.2 million or so, with 114 cases confirmed as of yesterday. My godforsaken heckhole is 17.6 million or summat with 537 cases, 8 of which already sent home. The person who died was reportedly "an 82-year-old woman with multiple patologies"...

And what we meant is you're such a nutjob we're surprised you weren't already wasted 24/7. Can't believe I had to explain that. Come to think of it, no, I can...

I feel ya, Robert!

I should make this part of my signature......

My wife’s paternal Grandmother passed away Thursday, she was 96.

With Coronavirus limiting private/public events to 10 people in the State of Texas, the family has opted for a graveside all-in-one service this Tuesday at 2pm in Stonewall, Texas, about two hours North of Austin.

It’s a five hour drive from Nederland to Stonewall. No one in the family has much interest in staying in a hotel during this pandemic, so we’re going to drive five hours, stand outside at the old Texas cemetery (many graves from the 1700’s), for a quickie service, then drive five hours back. If someone in town is selling bbq, burgers or mexican, we might pick it up and go eat at Ladybird Johnson park to have a bit more time to visit with family coming in from around the State.

A 10 hour road trip with no restaurants open to the public, restroom breaks will be interesting. Sure, palatial size Bucees will probably be open for gas and such, just not sure what to expect in between the little country towns???

Outside chance no one goes and she is buried with no family present. My wife wants to make her Grandmothers casket spray, so who knows???

If the family doesn’t go now, we will pick a weekend down the line once this foolishness is behind us and we will spend a long weekend visiting, grilling and having one heck of a memorial service.

but drunkle bob is wasted 24/7!

right...

Has anybody read a serious analysis of why it is that people in Italy are dropping like flies? 800 GONE IN A DAY - fuck is this, WWII?

Last clip I saw showed them sheltered in their apartments, singing "It's Now or Nev—" ER I MEAN "O Sole Mio" out their windows...

nicfit already said

If you mean this post, he described the situation, not necessarily the reason.

From Business Insider, a couple of days ago:

'We need to protect our medical staff': Chinese doctors say Europe is making the same mistakes first made in Wuhan

no, this one:

http://sonicyouth.com/gossip/showpos...94&postcount=4

runaway infections, high median age, healthcare facilities slammed, etc

it all comes down to infection rate and availability of critical care

see:

the hammer and the dance

in a more elemental way it’s the root issue of economics, supply vs. demand

of respirators, really

and of oxygen in the body

they didn’t get a chance to reduce demand where it wouldn’t overwhelm supply at the onset, but we can

uncle lumpen living off the sweat of immigrant please enough about you

Got it, thanks.

ignored

SHUT THE FUCK UP ALREADY AND GO BACK TO YOUR DRINK Christ on a stick I'm this -> <- close to wishing you catch Coronavirus.

Let's get back to the zombie apocalypse, shall we?

Nobody can understand your arguments, you pompous twat. You're an AI that's been fed nothing but political science papers. Bad ones.

Ooops....I was looking for the China Virus thread, but I stumbled into Billie Eilish by mistake.

Omg We're Doomed Or Something

let’s just terminate this

https://youtu.be/k8hj_fKsgio

oooof...

GO AWAY DRUNKLE BOB

GO

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added to the ignore list

My state is closing schools from Tuesday!

Eesh, grim scene ahead for us. Given how long it took for the bars etc to be shut down I can't see the tide turning anytime soon either.

I don't mean to sound defeatist (is that the right word?), but I'm afraid many countries could end up with numbers similar to italy (I obviously hope it won't be the case, but what i read about other countries "reactions" and statistics like the data h8kurdt posted in the previous post aren't exaclty encouraging).
for the US, CDC data says this, updated to March 20 (Am I the only one who finds the fact that tey won't update data on weekends simply laughable?)





I'll check back on monday and see what their report says
( see here https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019...ses-in-us.html ), but from other sources those figures have already almost doubled in less than a couple days.
There's the risk of a steep rising curve in every country from the start of proper testing/reporting, basically. And in the weeks before proper testing a lot of people who died from flu-like symptoms could well have been infected with covid with nobody specifically checking for it before/after death.
Again, little disclaimer, I'm not a virologist nor a physician, I'm just trying to keep up with some infos I gather.
Don't take my posts in this thread as pessimistic/negative/sad , that's not my intention at all, I'm just sharing some data I find interesting.

And don't ask me to define interesting...

Internal memos by chief surgeon at New York-Presbyterian Hospital revealed new details about the coming threat

“Medical experts in New York do not expect the number of cases to peak for another 22 to 32 days”



NEW YORK now has 15158 positive COVID-19 CASES up 4812 since yesterday(Saturday)



NEW YORK GOVERNER: WE’RE LOOKING AT 4-6-9 MONTHS. “NO ONE CAN TELL YOU” PRECISELY HOW LONG CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC WILL LAST MONTH. “START TO PLAN ACCORDINGLY. IT’S GOING TO BE HARD. NO DOUBT.”

Military tanks have been transported on trains through San Diego since, like, forever.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRMVwWbjNM0


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXJXjPAub3Y


come on...
Now, if those tanks stopped in San Diego and "invaded" the streets of the city, well, that would be quite different.

huh? are you talking back to the kooks? i’ve put the fuckers on ignore, so i don’t know what’s going on lmao. i don’t need the stress right now.

i suggest everyone else does the same at this point because to dignify them with an answer is to give that madness wings.

and also, it distracts from useful conversations about reality.

if you can handle it—thanks for your public service. some poor innocent might believe the nonsense and become stupid through contagion.

but i think it’s probably best to just tag them red and cancel them

Bytor will soon be echoing Trump's cure:

https://thehill.com/homenews/adminis...nger-just-want