Coronavirus Updates

[Cristiano]

Ransomware posing as a coronavirus app is threatening people for money

The coronavirus pandemic has created some confusing times. Trying to get a better handle on the situation, some people have looked to mobile apps to track the

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[Kara Spengler]

Trump's stimula bill (aka gifts to big companies) did not pass the Senate yesterday. Today could be another vote to get it pass.

Coronavirus stimulus bill fails in key Senate procedural vote

Democratic leaders warned that the bill did too much to bail out companies and not enough to help workers.

www.cnbc.com

Meanwhile I am sure I am not the only person planning to donate part of my check as soon as I know who they will short on this.

 

[Rose Karuna]

Ransomware posing as a coronavirus app is threatening people for money

The coronavirus pandemic has created some confusing times. Trying to get a better handle on the situation, some people have looked to mobile apps to track the

betanews.com

Senators allegedly dumping stock as the market tanks is why some people think senators shouldn’t own stock

As the economy slides toward a recession, some senators have already sold their stocks.

www.vox.com

It's stuff like this that sometimes makes me hate the human race.

I guess there will always be some people who try and profit off the blood and tears of their fellow humans. My only hope is that we as a society are smart enough to make pariahs of the scammers and profiteers and not heroes of them.

 

[Cristiano]

Donald Trump's lies about coronavirus drugs just got someone killed

...

www.palmerreport.com

 

[Salome]

Thank goodness.

 

[Maggy Hazelnut]

Meanwhile I am sure I am not the only person planning to donate part of my check as soon as I know who they will short on this.

Don't count on that money if you're on disability or social security as your only income. From everything I've read so far they're sending those checks only to people in a certain income range based on their tax filings from 2018. Those of us with no income other than disability or social security will get nothing. You see if either of those are your only source of income you don't have to file income taxes. So yeah, of course we'll be screwed out of that bonus money unless something changes before it's finalized.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Is anyone besides me wondering where he got all those masks? And if he had them already, why?

That's the first place I went. WTH is Facebook doing with a stockpile of 720,000 face masks?

 

[Kalel]

i pulled from facebook... there was lots of hidden stuff in the bill and other stuff that wasn't in it.

Why did Democrats stop the COVID relief bill?

Here’s why:

• The bill includes a $500,000,000,000.00 corporate slush fund for CEOs and the ultra rich — while leaving workers, families and children out to dry.

• The bill has weak stock buyback language that can be waived by the Treasury Secretary; executive compensation limits only last for two years; language on worker retention is weak and includes easy outs for companies; there are no assurances in the language that workers will benefit.
• The bill provides little transparency of the lending done by Treasury (amount and to whom to be hidden for 6 months).
• There are no specific provisions to protect from individuals from eviction, foreclosure or forbearance.
Other Major Problems:
• No money for state and local governments.
• No additional SNAP funds.
• No OSHA language to protect workers.
• No expanded emergency leave provisions.
• Only 3 months on Unemployment Insurance – this is an insufficient length given the scope of the crisis.
• Direct Payments are not available to the millions of people who did not file a return in 2018 or 2019.
• No money to help with the treatment of the uninsured.
• The bill does not provide adequate relief for the 44 million federal student loan borrowers."

i've also heard the check isn't free either you'd have to pay it back in taxes by 2021.

Anything to get the money back.. These people are truly horrible.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

This here is a double strike: Trump claims to have

a) a cure for corona brought to him
b) by a florida man!

(And of course it's a shitty Murdoch tabloid bringing that story.)

 

[Anya Ristow]

The company I work for is barely making payroll, and now our production facility has been ordered shut down.

I'll get paid this week, but as of today I am on temporary leave, as is everyone else in the company.

 

[Kara Spengler]

One way to test is to look for viral genetic material, but the other is to look for antibodies.

That would give you two different populations as the antibodies would still be present afterward, right?

 

[Kara Spengler]

What else do they have in reserve?

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

 

[Aribeth Zelin]

Here's the thing - there are two different aid packages - the Dem one is for everyone, and gives people a lot more money. Meanwhile, the GOP one only helps the middle class a little and the very rich a lot.

 

[Salome]

So...this is terrifying. Hospitals are showing a 20% average increase per day. In NY it’s 33%.

 

[Soen Eber]

I don't read the news anymore.

I just read the history of the late Roman republic and swap the names around a bit. Much easier and I get roughly the same results.

 

[Salome]

I keep thinking they can’t get any lower...

 

[Jopsy Pendragon]

Donald Trump's lies about coronavirus drugs just got someone killed

...

www.palmerreport.com

Struggling to find much sympathy for anyone that still believes anything that comes out of the Emperor of Bullshit's factless mouth-hole.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Two medical ethicists explain exactly what's wrong with Trump's cavalier "What have you got to lose?" approach -- quite a lot, it seems: Trump’s not a doctor. He’s only playing one on TV.

Trump’s not a doctor. He’s only playing one on TV. - The Washington Post

Opinions Add to list Trump’s not a doctor. He’s only playing one on TV. President Trump during a coronavirus task force briefing at the White House on Sunday. (Patrick Semansky/AP) By Ezekiel J. Emanu...

www.evernote.com

 

[Kara Spengler]

Thank goodness.

Whew! Imagine if the world did not have a competent leader?