How COVID-19 is affecting society

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

I think it has been mentioned before, but Trump's main business is hotels, golf resorts, and office buildings. Nearly all of them are shut down. He's going broke (again). That's why he wants stuff to re-open, body count be damned.

If only he'd sold it all and invested in a peanut farm.

 

[Govi]

A Russian friend told me this joke (this was while Brezhnev was still leading the Soviet Union):

Stalin, Khrushchev, and Brezhnev are all riding a train together. The train slowly comes to a halt and sits until finally Stalin says, "I know how to deal with this, let me handle it." He leaves the compartment and shortly after, all the train's crew are taken out and shot and a new crew is brought in. Still, the train does not move. Khrushchev says, "That didn't work. Let me handle it." He orders the crew to be rehabilitated and the crew returns after a while to their duties. Still, the train does not move. Brezhnev finally rises and says to the other two, "Comrades, I have the solution. Let us pretend that the train is moving."​

Trump is now saying: "Let us pretend that we are defeating the coronavirus. Pay no attention to all those dead and dying people behind my beautiful curtain of lies."

 

[Free]

Heh..

 

[Free]

Chef Floyd Cardoz, Who Elevated Indian Cuisine, Has Died Of Coronavirus

The 59-year-old chef, who became a cooking star in both the United States and his native India, died Wednesday of complications from COVID-19 in New Jersey.

www.npr.org

 

[Innula Zenovka]

NHS staff warned to hide ID after spate of targeted muggings

Robbers targeting doctors and nurses to obtain free food offered for tackling coronavirus

www.theguardian.com

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

 

[Free]

A little late...

 

[Free]

Fucking nazi vampires.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Thread

 

[Innula Zenovka]

The economy v our lives? It's a false choice – and a deeply stupid one

Calls to reopen America have disturbing intellectual roots. And the millions of deaths that could ensue would fuel a depression beyond our imagination

www.theguardian.com

 

[Brenda Archer]

How to turn Trump’s daily virus misinformation show into a vector for the truth | Press Watch

When Trump spreads misinformation, the networks need to show viewers, in real time, the correct information. When he lies and contradicts himself, they need to provide the necessary context as he speaks. When he puffs himself up, they need to remind viewers of his massive failures.

 

[Grandma Bates]

Some of the economic impacts of the pandemic will soon start to be announced in upcoming reports.


Edit to add: The (usual) Republican response has been to provide tax relief and direct support to the corporations letting people go.

 

[Fionalein]

Certainly that, but also he rightly believes that COVID will negatively affect his election chances, therefore COVID must be lied/propagandized into non-existence. His believers believe everything he says, so if he keeps them fooled all the time and gets no desertions in the states he won before, he'll be re-elected.

Nice planning, now if only SARS-Covid-19 cared wether someone believed in it or not ...

 

[Fionalein]

He has diabetis and is a health risk, if there is a God he will take this bad grape out soon, for:

"I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit." John15:1-2

 

[Sid]

I had a phone consult with my GP this week about a non corona related matter, and he urged me to be very careful because of being a diabetic.
He has a corona patient with diabetes at the moment and that patient is going trough a hell.

So yeah, diabetes can be a serious a health risk combined with the corona virus already.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

He has diabetis and is a health risk, if there is a God he will take this bad grape out soon, for:

"I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit." John15:1-2

I had to watch it twice to be sure, but I'm pretty certain that's a parody account.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

What happens to spread of virus if Trump loosens restrictions too soon?

The president wants to reopen the country by Easter – but the US would risk escalating the coronavirus pandemic

www.theguardian.com

Tl;dr -- For God's sake don't loosen the damn things, you bloody great orange nincompoop!

 

[Fionalein]

I had to watch it twice to be sure, but I'm pretty certain that's a parody account.

My bad, ... I grew so accustomed to the unbelieveable hillybilly shenanigans in Trumpistan I took it for real - It totally could have been as far as we've seen so far.