How COVID-19 is affecting society

[Pamela]

Heartening and infuriating.


Hopefully by Nov. citizens will be able to buy N95s and can more safely vote. Because by then ppl will be willing to crawl over broken glass.

 

[Clara D.]

Meet the Ignorant Cranks Behind Trump’s Big Hydroxychloroquine Push

A guy Jared Kushner found on Amazon, a quack, and Rudy Giuliani. What could go wrong?

www.vanityfair.com

 

[Eunoli]

Heartening and infuriating.


Hopefully by Nov. citizens will be able to buy N95s and can more safely vote. Because by then ppl will be willing to crawl over broken glass.

I am angry at Republicans that people are having to put their lives on the line to vote. I am angry at Bernie Sanders for keeping his name on the ballot so that people have to risk death to vote for or against him. I am furious at what has happened and is happening to our democracy.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

Don't blame Sanders. There are a lot of local candidates and issues including a state Supreme Court race on the ballot.

 

[Cindy Claveau]

I voted this morning. My very first mail-in ballot. Why the fuck is Tulsi still on the ballot!?!?

 

[Eunoli]

I voted this morning. My very first mail-in ballot. Why the fuck is Tulsi still on the ballot!?!?

I am pretty sure they stay on the ballot if they were still there when that state closed their sign ups and had made the cut. It doesn't mean they are still in the race.

 

[Cindy Claveau]

I am pretty sure they stay on the ballot if they were still there when that state closed their sign ups and had made the cut. It doesn't mean they are still in the race.

I know. It was an expression of disbelief more than an honest inquiry

 

[Aribeth Zelin]

I voted this morning. My very first mail-in ballot. Why the fuck is Tulsi still on the ballot!?!?

I'd wager its a lot like the Florida ballot last month - we still had every single original candidate on ours because they were set in stone in time for mail-in ballots.

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Also, applied for mail-in ballots for Aug primaries [because florida does split primaries] and the General. Didn't even ask me why, so.... fingers crossed

 

[Isabeau]

Some politicians are often using militaristic language when addressing the fight against the spread of the virus (notably Macron in France). One of our (ex) politicians noted how almost 90% of those on the frontlines were women in care/social services, in hospitals, hospices, elder-care homes, etc. yet the masculine form was always used. She was speaking about the discourse in French language of course (héros, anges gardiens, etc) but I couldn’t help seeing it in English also, just in more subtle ways. Anyhow, I found her comments about the way we use words like war, battle, fight, frontline, etc. interesting.

Also, I was reading this article about Vera Lynn just now. I’m not sure how many of you know her and the famous song “Well Meet Again”, the CBC used to sign off every night with “I’ll be seeing you” song. It’s sort of related to what I’m speaking about in how we view bravery, that it is something masculine, if you read what I’ve quoted,

We’ll Meet Again: how Vera Lynn’s song inspired everyone from Kubrick to the Queen

The ‘Forces’ sweetheart’ and national treasure has died aged 103. The story behind her best-known song is one of romance and British pride

www.telegraph.co.uk

Her show was popular around the world – earning her the nickname "the Forces' sweetheart" – but there were complaints back home that this “effeminate” music would soften up the troops. By 1942, the debate was filling the Telegraph letters page. “If our armed forces really like this sort of thing, it should be the duty of the BBC to hide the fact from the world,” wrote a reader from Bath. Rather than “spineless crooners” and “sentimental organists”, he thought they should listen to “something more virile”.]

 

[Eunoli]

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Some politicians are often using militaristic language when addressing the fight against the spread of the virus (notably Macron in France). One of our (ex) politicians noted how almost 90% of those on the frontlines were women in care/social services, in hospitals, hospices, elder-care homes, etc. yet the masculine form was always used. She was speaking about the discourse in French language of course (héros, anges gardiens, etc) but I couldn’t help seeing it in English also, just in more subtle ways. Anyhow, I found her comments about the way we use words like war, battle, fight, frontline, etc. interesting.

Also, I was reading this article about Vera Lynn just now. I’m not sure how many of you know her and the famous song “Well Meet Again”, the CBC used to sign off every night with “I’ll be seeing you” song. It’s sort of related to what I’m speaking about in how we view bravery, that it is something masculine, if you read what I’ve quoted,

We’ll Meet Again: how Vera Lynn’s song inspired everyone from Kubrick to the Queen

The ‘Forces’ sweetheart’ and national treasure has died aged 103. The story behind her best-known song is one of romance and British pride

www.telegraph.co.uk

This brings to mind the ‘masculine’ mindset of the Fascist movement in Italy. A sign of the times and times to come.

 

[Free]

Hrm.

The Coronavirus Crisis Has Changed Money Forever

The economic consequences of the lockdowns put in place to try to contain the spread of the coronavirus will stretch well into this century and the way money is created, distributed and spent will, for better or worse, never be the same...

www.forbes.com

Coronavirus is a modern pandemic the like of which the world has never seen—in its spread through a globalized, connected world; in the scale of government's response, and in how people are reacting on social media.

The economic consequences of the lockdowns put in place to try to contain the spread of the coronavirus will stretch well into this century and the way money is created, distributed and spent will, for better or worse, never be the same.

 

[Free]

This one I agree more with:

After virus fades, service industries may be changed forever

The coronavirus crisis is upending service businesses, and the crisis may permanently change the way Americans work, shop and socialize, even after the disease fades away

abcnews.go.com

 

[Pamela]

This one I agree more with:

After virus fades, service industries may be changed forever

The coronavirus crisis is upending service businesses, and the crisis may permanently change the way Americans work, shop and socialize, even after the disease fades away

abcnews.go.com

There will surely be some good changes that come out of this, tho I am not smart enough to to understand most of them, like financial and economic changes, but I believe smart ppl do.

I have long been shopping, ordering groceries and meals only just because the traffic here is insane. I have been working at home for eleven years. And if a whole lot more people did this in the future, there would be a lot less pollution and a lot less traffic. Extroverts probably like leaving home to work, but for most introverts working at home is the Holy Grail.

 

[Sredni Eel]

 

[Sredni Eel]

People are pissed.

 

[Sredni Eel]

But then there's Australians.

30 Australians Realize They Can Only Go Out To Take The Bins Out, Turn It Into A Special Occasion By Dressing Up In Their Best Clothes

 

[OrinB]

Bored artists take one look at the Queen and see "Green Screen!"

I'm imagining Beebo!

The Queen Of England Gives A Speech In A Green Dress And The Photoshoppers Know What To Do (35 Pics)

The Queen of England wears a green screen dress for a historic speech on Sunday and people on the internet waste no time making some royal memes out of it. Art & Design, Funny, Home & Design, Jokes, Memes, Photography & Digital Art

www.boredpanda.com

 

[Sredni Eel]

OMG the butthurt and outrage at the Queen being chromascreened. I got a tongue lashing from Marina Sirtis for suggesting I like to believe Queen Elizabeth would have a sense of humor about this.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]