There is literally no point. She just cries about how I always have to be right, and that we'll never agree. I don't think you can truly understand how much poison Fox News has spread in this country without seeing it firsthand.
Coronavirus Thread
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Dr. Fauci, the guy face palming in Trump's CV19 briefings, and the dude in charge of the task force, seems like a genuine decent human being and excellent doctor trying to do his best in the face of this completely insane administration led by sub-human intelligence possessing man baby.
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So of course, the Trumpites are beginning to tear him down.
Ah man, why isn't he treating one virus like the other?
I mean, all diseases are the same, right!
I've been on the internet enough to know some people just refuse to listen, even when you make them think about it enough that they then instead try to deflect with some of that Fox News whataboutism or some Chewbacca defence etc.
But hey, if you're going to argue anyway, why not try...
I don't think they're going to take it seriously until some of 'em get taken off ventilators.
--Patrick
My youngest sister is an ER RN and the numbers scare the hell out of me.
That is a massive constitutional violation and will never happen. I'm not even saying it wouldn't be right, but it can't.
But we're living pretty post constitution if we're playing by gop rules
MI just officially shut down via Executive Order 2020-21, starting at midnight tonight and lasting until April 13th.
We could've avoided this if only people had taken common-sense precautions, but nooooo...
--Patrick
There are some exceptions (and they appear to be common sense ones - care for pets and family members, acquire provisions, etc), but MI is now closed.
We could've avoided this if only people had taken common-sense precautions, but nooooo...
--Patrick
I choose "What's the Emoluments Clause?" for 200!
I could see Colorado doing it. Polis has been trying to push to make Colorado do more widespread testing to make us fall in line with South Korea instead of Italy. (Also there's a lot of bio-med execs who have condos in Vail and Aspen who want their shit back, and one county is already getting testing on them. Theoretically as a way to more accurately track spread over time, but we know the truth.) 
That’s where Quebec seems to be. We aren’t far off here either.
I'd put it in the pics thread, but I feel like it should follow Frank's comment.
--Patrick
figmentPez
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Do Republicans really think that the mass deaths caused by ignoring health professionals are going to be better for the economy? I can't fathom how they think that. The resulting chaos would absolutely be worse for the economy than long term social distancing will be.
If one million poor people die, that just means less people taking advantage of the system.
To be clear, it means less consumers, scared consumers, higher civil unrest, labor shortage, more unpaid debts, an incredible domino effect of people dying from other sources that can't get treatment, and so on...but what a glorious moment in time for shareholders!
In some perverse way, perhaps we actually should hope that it gets so bad in the USA, compared to other countries that it'll cause a revolution...but it won't. It'll just get horrible, then return to normal as Fox and friends insists[strikethrough] you've always been at war with Eurasia[/strikethrough] it would all have been even worse with medical help or social security.
figmentPez
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It's not going to be one million poor people. It's going to be 5 or even 8 million people from every walk of life. It could collapse the economy completely.
But for a beautiful moment in time, they created a lot of value for shareholders.
--Patrick
GasBandit
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My county just issued a 2-week shelter-in-place order.
My company's COO thinks we can pass ourselves off as an essential service (since a lot of what we do involves building and maintaining data networks, so we're infrastructure, right?)... but it seems like quite a stretch to me.
Whatever, I am a programmer, I can work from home.
But our installers are looking really nervous.
My company's COO thinks we can pass ourselves off as an essential service (since a lot of what we do involves building and maintaining data networks, so we're infrastructure, right?)... but it seems like quite a stretch to me.
Whatever, I am a programmer, I can work from home.
But our installers are looking really nervous.
GasBandit
Staff member
Well, we're not a data center, per se. And the parts of our company (the networking stuff) which probably would fulfill the "essential services" requirement is maybe 10% of our business, and staffed by 4 people.
But the COO wants them to be the excuse why our much-more-lucrative AV department remains open and working, doing conference room, classroom, courtroom, public venue etc Audio/Video systems. Which is a little more of a stretch to call "essential."