#JAILTOTHECHIEF- Shit Just Got Real

[Jolene Benoir]

Hey, some of us have never set our sims on fire, nor dumped them into a pool with no ladder despite playing from The Sims to The Sims 4. I am curious about this new bug that means our sims pee fire. I haven't played in a few months, but am seriously tempted to see just how far I can shoot that fire.

Now, GTA is another story. Anarchy all the way, there. I've made over $200 million being a completely anti-social criminal. I really don't have much left to spend it on, unlike in the real world where apparently, those who have made such amounts never seem to be satisfied.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

"From the superstar lawyer... Read it....."
What the hell kind of lawyer writes anything like this? The guy who writes legal letters in Comic Sands, that's who.

Looks like this lawyer graduated from Prager University with honors.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Free]

Update on the wall...

People are sawing through and climbing over Trump's border wall. Now contractors are being asked for ideas to make it less vulnerable.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has asked contractors for help making President Donald...

www.chron.com

 

[Free]

Fuck this fucking fucker and his fucking fucker ways.

Trump: George Floyd Is Smiling Down at ‘This Great Day’

After touting new jobs numbers and mentioning the ongoing protests, Trump on Friday suggested George Floyd is “looking down” and celebrating “a great day for everybody.”

www.thedailybeast.com

 

[Free]

Fuck this fucking fucker and his fucking fucker ways.

Trump: George Floyd Is Smiling Down at ‘This Great Day’

After touting new jobs numbers and mentioning the ongoing protests, Trump on Friday suggested George Floyd is “looking down” and celebrating “a great day for everybody.”

www.thedailybeast.com

BTW, he's "touting" job numbers that show over 13% out of work. When Trump is in charge, everything is good news all the time.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

All this is temporary... there's a second wave of the pandemic coming, as surely as, from June 21 onwards, the days are going to get shorter and the nights longer, because lockdowns are ending too early, and businesses are reopening without implementing proper social distancing.

The point about lockdowns was supposed to be to prevent hospitals from being overwhelmed and to buy time, while getting the infection rate under control, to put in place a proper testing and contact-tracing system.

We in the UK have failed miserably at putting in place a system to test and trace before taking first steps to ease the lockdown -- prematurely, in most experts' view -- but the US isn't even trying and is reopening far too fast.

Come September and October, things are going to be looking really bad in the US, I fear.

 

[Romana]

All this is temporary... there's a second wave of the pandemic coming, as surely as, from June 21 onwards, the days are going to get shorter and the nights longer, because lockdowns are ending too early, and businesses are reopening without implementing proper social distancing.

The point about lockdowns was supposed to be to prevent hospitals from being overwhelmed and to buy time, while getting the infection rate under control, to put in place a proper testing and contact-tracing system.

We in the UK have failed miserably at putting in place a system to test and trace before taking first steps to ease the lockdown -- prematurely, in most experts' view -- but the US isn't even trying and is reopening far too fast.

Come September and October, things are going to be looking really bad in the US, I fear.

I think it depends what part of the country people are in. Governor Cuomo is proceeding cautiously and with an eye to the number of COVID cases and deaths. Most New Yorkers, as far as I can tell, are on board with the strategy and cooperating as far as masks and distancing. There are the assholes, like the racist counter-protesters, but most people agree with the Governor.
I don't know about NYC, though. I heard, from someone who went, that the protesters were masked and careful, but once the cops and the agitators get involved? Well, time will tell.
Meanwhile, I caught the end of a new item on my car radio that a vaccine would be available by the fall , distribution planned by September (I missed the part about which company's it was). Also, Dr Fauci, not known for being overly optimistic or a ray of sunshine, said there didn't have to be a second wave:

A second wave of the coronavirus outbreak in the United States “could happen” but is “not inevitable,” White House health advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci said Wednesday.

The U.S. can prevent another wave of Covid-19 as long as states reopen “correctly,” Fauci said Wednesday morning in an interview on CNN. “Don’t start leapfrogging over the recommendations of some of the guidelines because that’s really tempting fate and asking for trouble.”

Some states will leapfrog, some won't. I'm glad I'm in one of the ones that won't.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

I think it depends what part of the country people are in. Governor Cuomo is proceeding cautiously and with an eye to the number of COVID cases and deaths. Most New Yorkers, as far as I can tell, are on board with the strategy and cooperating as far as masks and distancing. There are the assholes, like the racist counter-protesters, but most people agree with the Governor.
I don't know about NYC, though. I heard, from someone who went, that the protesters were masked and careful, but once the cops and the agitators get involved? Well, time will tell.
Meanwhile, I caught the end of a new item on my car radio that a vaccine would be available by the fall , distribution planned by September (I missed the part about which company's it was). Also, Dr Fauci, not known for being overly optimistic or a ray of sunshine, said there didn't have to be a second wave:



Some states will leapfrog, some won't. I'm glad I'm in one of the ones that won't.

Coronavirus: AstraZeneca to begin making potential vaccine

AstraZeneca says it could provide two billion doses of a potential vaccine, helped by backing from Bill Gates.

www.bbc.co.uk

But assuming it works, and everything is in place by September, you've still got to distribute and administer all those vaccines before they can do any good -- think testing, PPE and ventilators.

 

[Romana]

Testing and PPE go without saying for anyone who has any sense. As for ventilators, they won't slack off, at least not here but Dump could keep playing tricks confiscating them as well as PPE.
And I'd like to see them come up with some definite treatments that to improve people's chances. The figure I heard was 80% mortality for ventilator patients.
I have a DNR in place, but that terrifies me, having seen my aunt die of pneumonia.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Testing and PPE go without saying for anyone who has any sense. As for ventilators, they won't slack off, at least not here but Dump could keep playing tricks confiscating them as well as PPE.
And I'd like to see them come up with some definite treatments that to improve people's chances. The figure I heard was 80% mortality for ventilator patients.
I have a DNR in place, but that terrifies me, having seen my aunt die of pneumonia.

What I meant was, think of the omnishambles that the US government made of getting testing kits out, and then getting them admistered, and then the results analysed and communicated back to patients, and getting PPE into hospitals and ventilators in the right place.

We did badly enough in the UK, and are paying for it, but you did even worse.

Vaccines are going to be just the same, I'm sure.

 

[Romana]

What I meant was, think of the omnishambles that the US government made of getting testing kits out, and then getting them admistered, and then the results analysed and communicated back to patients, and getting PPE into hospitals and ventilators in the right place.

We did badly enough in the UK, and are paying for it, but you did even worse.

Vaccines are going to be just the same, I'm sure.

At this point Dump is frantic for something that will make him the hero here, so it wouldn't be in his interest to stand in the way or even punish blue states the way he likes to. Of course, he's so unbalanced and goddam petty who knows. Or his family greed could get in the way. He sure has been sabotaging himself with his handling if three riots.
I think the state governors are better prepared now for both the virus and him mucking things up. Also, members of Congress up for reelection might be (should be) having second thoughts about continuing to fall into lockstep.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

At this point Dump is frantic for something that will make him the hero here, so it wouldn't be in his interest to stand in the way or even punish blue states the way he likes to. Of course, he's so unbalanced and goddam petty who knows. Or his family greed could get in the way. He sure has been sabotaging himself with his handling if three riots.
I think the state governors are better prepared now for both the virus and him mucking things up. Also, members of Congress up for reelection might be (should be) having second thoughts about continuing to fall into lockstep.

I hope so, but the simple logistics of getting all those doses out of the factories and out to local hospitals and physicians to administer is going to be quite a challenge, because all the states are going to want them at the same time, and everyone is going to want to be vaccinated as soon as possible, and people are going to have to develop a policy on who gets the vaccines first and who has to wait-- the most vulnerable? medical workers and other people at a high risk of infection (including both staff and inmates at state and federal prisons)? people in essential jobs?

And I certainly wouldn't put it past Trump to try to steer vaccines towards swing states, so he try to take credit for helping them, or to punish governors who have displeased him.

 

[danielravennest]

How has he not been struck by lightning yet?

Getting closer:


The Washington Monument is about 1/4 mile from the White House.

 

[Romana]

I hope so, but the simple logistics of getting all those doses out of the hospitals and out to local hospitals and physicians to administer is going to be quite a challenge, because all the states are going to want them at the same time, and everyone is going to want to be vaccinated as soon as possible, and people are going to have to develop a policy on who gets the vaccines first and who has to wait-- the most vulnerable? medical workers and other people at a high risk of infection (including both staff and inmates at state and federal prisons)? people in essential jobs?

And I certainly wouldn't put it past Trump to try to steer vaccines towards swing states, so he try to take credit for helping them, or to punish governors who have displeased him.

He's said he would deploy the military to distribute a vaccine. If he then plays games with the distribution, it would be really bad optics for him. I'm not sure how much of it is up to him anyway. And I don't think the vaccine is distributed entirely through hospitals. i’m sure the flu vaccine isn’t, and i’d think this would work the same way.
Distributing the vaccine is something the military might get behind. His trying to use them as a blunt instrument, however, is not going down well at all.
This is General Mattis's statement, and he's not the only one. I caught a glimpse of an array of headlines on the order of “the generals revolt” on the TV news.

READ: The Full Statement From Jim Mattis

Former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis issued an extraordinary criticism of President Trump's leadership, saying Trump has sought to divide Americans.

www.npr.org

 

[Sredni Eel]

Just a quick little thing about vaccines:

I live with a person who has worked in biopharm for over 20 years, and dealt with the FDA the entire time. A safe vaccine generally takes a *minimum* of 18 months to create, test, and then get approved. Even if companies are fast-tracking vaccines, there's no guarantee they will work or be effective, because they were rushed and not tested.

That said, half the people in this country will still refuse a vaccine, because reasons.

It's unclear if there will be a government mandate for everyone to get a vaccine, once it's actually available.

The school district I work for will be paying for antibody tests, because Stanford hospital/university is just down the road from most of the schools in Palo Alto. When a safe and efficacious vaccine becomes available, the entire staff will be required to get it.

 

[Casey Pelous]

Coronavirus: AstraZeneca to begin making potential vaccine

AstraZeneca says it could provide two billion doses of a potential vaccine, helped by backing from Bill Gates.

www.bbc.co.uk

But assuming it works, and everything is in place by September, you've still got to distribute and administer all those vaccines before they can do any good -- think testing, PPE and ventilators.

Interesting little tidbit I ran across the other day: We don't even have enough river sand -- which is apparently what is required -- to make all the vials for those doses. There seems to be a global shortage of river sand; because, of course there is, it is 2020. Do we have enough syringes? Nope. Enough people to do the job of quickly processing paperwork and vaccinating 200,000,000 or so folks just in the US, never mind the rest of the world? Not a chance. But we're working on it, right? Uhhhhhhhhhh ......no.

Not to mention there are enough TrumpChumps to bugger the deal by "bravely" refusing to get vaccinated, mask, social distance, or do anything else useful. Remember, in the face of the most blatant and visible display of colossal incompetence in, probably, the history of ever, with the predictably disastrous results, 40% of this great country's denizens STILL think that orange moron is doing a great job. Throw in another 10% or 15% worth of liberal-leaning anti-vaxxers, and chances of a quick recovery strike me as rather slender.

Whew. I'm in a bit of a funk today. Sorry.

 

[Free]

Interesting little tidbit I ran across the other day: We don't even have enough river sand -- which is apparently what is required -- to make all the vials for those doses.

Maybe they can make the vaccine into chewables.

 

[Sredni Eel]

Maybe they can make the vaccine into chewables.

Didn't the polio vaccine get administered on a sugar cube?