Coronavirus

[vagabond]

This is a gambling forum,

Hang on. I missed this gem.

 

[stevek]

Vagabond, you ever been pistol whipped?

 

[vagabond]

No. Have you ever been pussy whipped?

 

[CASPERWAIT$]

No. Have you ever been pussy whipped?

Ive been pussy flogged, beaten and knocked unconscious

 

[reno cool]

This was my point. This doesn't seem to be a question at all for you. You seem pretty damn positive that the quarantine and businesses being shutdown is a mistake/wrong. Or am I understanding incorrectly?

I've been presenting my view that shutdowns are wrong for the people, at least in the way they have been done and presented. And also try to give some clues as to why it's being done.
Yes Trump caved. He knows he's not an expert and had to defer to others. It would take a hell of a man, bigger than Trump, to trust his feelings, and go against that kind of enormous pressure, and risk bearing the burden for everything. Especially that he knows, his haters will jump on him for any little thing they can imagine.
I'm currently watching Trump interviewed by the other sided scum bags, Fox. They are trying to get him to blame China, Russia, Iran for doing something ... And he's kinda fending em off. It's pretty amazing to see. The guy has some back bone, easily the most realist President in my lifetime. But he cannot stand up to the overwhelming pressure of the warmongers on one side and the crybabies on the other.

 

[reno cool]

Trump says coronavirus to peak ‘around Easter,’ slams Pelosi criticism in ‘Fox & Friends’ interview

President Trump, in an extensive interview Monday with “Fox & Friends,” predicted coronavirus cases in the U.S. will likely peak “around Easter” as he defended his administration’s decision to extend strict social distancing guidelines through the end of April – suggesting millions of lives...

www.foxnews.com

20:40 Trump response is great. The guy still tries to talk over him "well I believe it"

 

[roguejuror]

What's concerning is that high-profile people like Bill Gates have decided to believe in the Chinese numbers, which directly influences their thinking and decision-making.

I believe the Chinese numbers too as much as I believe the US numbers

If you followed how the Hubei lock down was executed we could see how towns and villages were barricaded down to the neighborhood and street level, people literally couldn't exit beyond their streets even in tiny villages with sentinels at every check point, 8 weeks like that with total non movement 5 of those weeks with grocery deliveries

now if we observe how they have ease those restrictions we can deduce epidemic level, nothing special about China

 

[Vegas Dave]

Over 500 US coronavirus deaths reported today, but at least we have My Pillow Guy at the White House!

 

[vagabond]

Grown ass men in NYC enchanted by the hospital ship. Social distancing be damned.

 

[Matty]

Oblivious ruhtards.

 

[Archie]

look at those fukers standing in the bike land with a dog

now that pisses me off

Steve, would you do the runner chick?

 

[stevek]

That one did require some thought. Good question Archie.

It would really depend on the conversation and how we click.

 

[reno cool]

Maybe can go another 2 weeks here, but a month? bad news

Italy Risks Losing Grip in South With Fear of Looting, Riots

As Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte fights to hold Italian society together through a crippling nationwide lockdown, the depressed south is turning into a powder keg.

www.bloomberg.com

 

[Vegas Dave]

look at those fukers standing in the bike land with a dog

now that pisses me off

Steve, would you do the runner chick?

I might have to make runner chick my new avatar. I think I'm in love.

 

[Vegas Dave]

^Literally 10 seconds after I post this, my fiance texts me to say "hi". How do they KNOW?!?

 

[Archie]

post from my friend's chicago cop blog

I can't imagine being a police officer in a big city during all this, in a shittily run bereaucracy


Twelve hour days are right around the corner it seems:

• About 6% of the entire Chicago Police Department was on sick leave Monday as the COVID-19 pandemic continued to have an impact on city operations.
  
  More than 800 Chicago police employees — most of them sworn officers, though some civilians as well — were out sick with wide-ranging ailments, but the increased numbers also were likely due to employees who took time off for precautionary measures due to the coronavirus, CPD officials said.

And then this fantasy number again:

• The department has more than 13,000 sworn officers and several hundred more civilian employees.

Who keeps spreading this number around? We haven't had over 12,000 since the Clinton money ran out around 2000. Now we're supposed to believe it's over 13,000? Someone has been smoking the airport stash of surrendered weed again.

We've heard OEMC is already cancelling 4th and 5th Period furloughs in preparing for the worst case scenario.

 

[Matty]

This is what I'm afraid of:

Why Asia’s New Wave of Virus Cases Should Worry the World (Published 2020)

After a surge in cases tied to international travelers, China, Hong Kong, Singapore and other places that seemed to have the epidemic under control have imposed stricter measures.

www.nytimes.com

Any country’s success with containment could be tenuous, and the world could remain on a kind of indefinite lockdown.

Even when the number of new cases starts to fall, travel barriers and bans in many places may persist until a vaccine or treatment is found.

We're in this mess for a long time, folks.

 

[reno cool]

Ah, never wanted to be home more

Belarus president plays hockey, says global coronavirus measures are result of 'psychosis'

Belarus president Alexander Lukashenko says the global response by other countries to the coronavirus pandemic is a product of "psychosis."

www.usatoday.com