#JAILTOTHECHIEF- Shit Just Got Real

[Fionalein]

But he's right - hang the bankers.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Isabeau]

Where are all the “pro-life” idiots in all this?

 

[Free]

Where are all the “pro-life” idiots in all this?

Once you're out of the womb, all bets are off for them.

 

[Aribeth Zelin]

Meanwhile, my pro-life mum is not going to church, but she is still going to the SVdP society office to try and help people who need food or emergency help.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

Dealing with the whole medical system collapsing is pretty expensive too.

 

[Fionalein]

meanwhile in Texas...

Older people would rather die than let Covid-19 harm US economy – Texas official

free consumer tip by me: if you look for a sturdy pitchfork, ask an Amish blacksmith - they don't only make some of the world's finest farming tools, they even sell them

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

This made me happy: Watch Trump pretend to ask a question of a guest doctor at yesterday's news conference that was really just a rambling, long-winded, pointless dig at the media, and then watch her completely blow the phony question off - twice - and just keep giving actually useful information.

 

[Kara Spengler]

Where are all the “pro-life” idiots in all this?

Killing people. The rs love naming things the opposite of what they do.

 

[Kara Spengler]

meanwhile in Texas...

Older people would rather die than let Covid-19 harm US economy – Texas official

free consumer tip by me: if you look for a sturdy pitchfork, ask an Amish blacksmith - they don't only make some of the world's finest farming tools, they even sell them

They still had any in stock after that verbal diarrhea? That person certainly does not speak for their entire age cohort.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

The Trump Organisation is really hurting from the pandemic because of its heavy, very highly geared, investment in the hotel, club and leisure industries.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Cup his balls and maybe the feds will do their job.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Cup his balls and maybe the feds will do their job.

Trump privately appeals to Asia and Europe for medical help to fight coronavirus

Despite president’s rhetoric that the US would not rely on foreign nations for help, the administration has approached European and Asian partners

www.theguardian.com

 

[Fionalein]

Trump privately appeals to Asia and Europe for medical help to fight coronavirus

Despite president’s rhetoric that the US would not rely on foreign nations for help, the administration has approached European and Asian partners

www.theguardian.com

Cuba would help...

btw. can we call it "Trump's Virus"? Because nothing would piss him off more.

 

[Kara Spengler]

FU donnie. FU. While DC's mayor is doing all she can do the city is intertwined with federal areas, like parks, and he refuses to close everything. So even though a lot of locals are doing the right thing we have crowds near us. The virus does not respect jurisdictions.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

I think part of the problem is that people like this guy and his constituents simply don't yet understand the nightmare that awaits them, their families and friends, and their constituents.

As far as I can tell from what I read, a lot of commentators in the US who favour this approach are seeing Covid-19 simply as a particularly nasty form of flu which carries with it a high risk of death for older patients but will be, for most people, a very unpleasant and debilitating episode from which they will nevertheless recover.

That's true as far as it goes, but they aren't considering the full implications of all this.

This table shows the data to date about Covid-19 patients in the US who require hospitalisation:

Severe Outcomes Among Patients with Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19

Certainly the figures in the right-hand column, for case-fatality, suggest that the mortality rate for the disease increases dramatically with age, but the two central columns, for patients requiring hospitalisation and for patients requiring treatment in an ICU, tell a very different story -- that is, even if you're aged between 20 and 44, there's a 14% -- 20% chance you'll require hospital treatment, at the very least.

That is, to my mind, a not insignificant risk at the best of times, and this is not, of course, the best of times by a long way, since all these patients represent a demand for hospital care in addition to the regular demands placed on hospitals, at a time when the hospitals will be running with far fewer doctors, nurses, technicians and other medical staff than normal, as they fall ill from the disease.

And, of course, this similarly affects everyone who requires hospital treatment for something completely unrelated to Covid-19, since the increased pressure on hospital resources will affect them equally, with the added risk that, which in hospital, they'll themselves catch the disease, thus adding to their problems.

So it's not simply a matter of the grandparents selflessly sacrificing themselves so their children and grandchildren can avoid worst of the economic effects caused by a shut-down -- effects that are coming anyway, to a greater or lesser extent, because of the effects of the disease on customers and on the workforce -- but of everyone being forced, if the protective measures are lifted too soon (or not imposed at all), to cope with the devastating effects of the disease on anyone requiring hospital treatment for anything over the next few months.

I'm sure that this chap in Texas simply hasn't thought that through, any more than has Trump thought through -- or listened to anyone who's told him -- what US hospitals are going to look like come Easter.

 

[danielravennest]

They still had any in stock after that verbal diarrhea? That person certainly does not speak for their entire age cohort.

In an era when most people were farmers, pitchforks and torches were the easiest things to grab for a peasant uprising. Today it would be firearms and gasoline with lighters. If you really want a pitchfork-like device to poke people with, just duct-tape a large kitchen knife to a broomstick.

 

[danielravennest]

The Trump Organisation is really hurting from the pandemic because of its heavy, very highly geared, investment in the hotel, club and leisure industries.

Another Story about that: https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/real-estate/with-economy-sinking-trumps-own-business-is-in-peril

As if presiding over the threatened destruction of the US economy by the coronavirus pandemic is not enough, President Donald Trump is watching another financial drama: the Trump Organization hotel, golf course and real estate business that made him a billionaire. His five-star US and Canada hotels with more than 2,200 rooms are mostly empty, his golf courses in the United States, Scotland and Ireland are under pressure to close, and his cherished "Southern White House" - the beach-front Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida is shuttered.

That's the real reason he wants the country to re-open so soon. He's going bankrupt (again). Fortunately it is not his decision. It is up to the states, counties, and cities as to when to relax restrictions. The City of Atlanta imposed a "stay at home" order the other day. The county of which it is part closed all schools, parks, libraries, courts, and their own offices. Nothing Donnie says will change that.

 

[danielravennest]

Cuba would help...

btw. can we call it "Trump's Virus"? Because nothing would piss him off more.

The Donnievirus would piss him off more. He hates being called Donnie, because deep inside he's still a toddler with delusions of grandeur. So would "Trump Lies, People Die" signs.