How COVID-19 is affecting society

[Sean Gorham]

“Leader of the free world”

That’s one title/expression I hope will finally disappear.

It didn't disappear. It got taken out behind the house and shot in the head.

 

[Free]

It didn't disappear. It got taken out behind the house and shot in the head.

 

[Shiloh Lyric]

Zaida Gearbox Shiloh Lyric Just one more thing about Centralia... I know the area very well. If you still want to go, and get the most out of it, now that graffiti road is gone, here's what you do:

Next to Centralia is a town called Ashland. It's a typical run down old coal town, less than 5 minutes from Centralia. There's a few bars, and a mom and pop pizzaria down town called Fabrizios. Stop in at that pizzaria for a late lunch when it's quiet (I highly recommend their brushetta). Sit at the bar, tip the barkeep well, and ask them about Centralia. They will tell you all the legends and history of the place, and what's still there. You can still see two old grave yards, and the old masonic cornerstone is there. If you go to the big pile of rubble, you can put your hand in a vent that puts out hot, wet steam all year round, but be careful if you do. That steam can burn if you leave your hand there too long, or put your hand in the hole too deep.

Edited to add: Talk to the people in Ashland, but for gods sake, stay away from Centralia residents! There are still a handful up there, and they aren't friendly. Just leave them be. Try to respect anything you think may be a property line.

Thank you. I've been to that area several times. Just have never actually been to Graffiti Road. We usually go to Elysburg to Knoebel's at least once a summer, and have stopped at Ashland a couple of times just doing that. Then, when my mom lived above Lockhaven up until a few years ago, I always took that way, also.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Thoughtful article in The Times:

How coronavirus will change the world for ever | News | The Times

How coronavirus will change the world for ever From the rise of surveillance to the retreat of globalism and death of cash, the pandemic’s impact may be felt for decades, Catherine Philp writes Cather...

www.evernote.com

It seems to be essentially a survey of what very experts and think-tanks have suggested are likely to be the long-term effects of covid-19, in areas ranging from the structures of global power and influence, to the world and national economies, to domestic taxation and to the prospects for Universal Basic Income, the future of cash and of homeworking.

It suggests -- and I think it's significant it's a sober, Conservative and establishment paper like The Times saying this -- that, whatever the US government has to say about it, many foreign governments already consider, on the basis of the last 3 years in general and the last 3 months in particular, China to be a more reliable and consistent global partner than is the US.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

a more reliable and consistent global partner than is the US.

Also, for fuck's sake.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Also, for fuck's sake.

Exactly.

Sadly, it came as absolutely no surprise, along with his other exploits

US allies express dismay over US handling of global medical supply chain

Other countries complain the US is outbidding them, as a German official accuses its ally of “modern piracy.”

www.vox.com

Covid-19: Trump sought to buy vaccine developer exclusively for US, say German officials

The US president, Donald Trump, made secret overtures to the German company CureVac—one of the leading contenders to create a covid-19 vaccine—in the hope of luring it to the United States, say senior officials in the German government. Germany’s Welt am Sonntag newspaper reported that the...

www.bmj.com

The Times' article to which I linked suggests

Kurt Campbell and Rush Doshi, of the Council on Foreign Relations, observe that the pandemic “has amplified Trump’s instincts to go it alone and exposed just how unprepared Washington is to lead a global response”.

Global orders have a tendency to change gradually at first then all at once, they add, suggesting that the virus could be a “Suez” moment for the US, marking its decline as a world power.

I wonder if there isn't something in that Suez parallel.

We shall see, I guess.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

I'm not convinced that China will be any less of an abusive boyfriend than America's been.

Add: Fear of China's election meddling triggers reforms across Pacific

 

[Ranma Tardis]

Mass graves, it is enough to break your heart.

 

[Essence Lumin]

Mass graves, it is enough to break your heart.

I'm surprised they do that. Here in Portland, if someone dies with no money, no family or friends they cremate the body.

 

[Free]

I'm surprised they do that. Here in Portland, if someone dies with no money, no family or friends they cremate the body.

I believe it's so that if family for the deceased is discovered at a later time, they can exhume the body and place it in their care for burial elsewhere, perform whatever rites they follow, etc.

 

[Free]

He just cannot help himself. And what else is he gonna do, get a real job?!

Alex Jones gets warning from FDA for pushing phony coronavirus cures online

Infowars founder Alex Jones has received an official warning from the Food and Drug Administration for peddling phony coronavirus cures online.In a formal letter to the alt-right television personality on Thursday, the agency ordered Jones to stop telling viewers of his widely watched broadcasts...

www.rawstory.com

 

[Cristiano]

This completely gutted me. I have tears running down my face right now.

In her dying days, a woman with coronavirus repeatedly talked to Alexa about her pain | CNN

A nursing home patient in Michigan spent her final days talking to her Amazon Echo Show about the pain she was experiencing as she battled coronavirus.

www.cnn.com

 

[Jopsy Pendragon]

Other than trumpraging, I've been pretty calm and detached during this pandemic. But this... this got the water works flowing suddenly.

Coronavirus Healthcare Workers Are Putting Their Photos on PPE So Patients See Their Smiles

If I were sick being treated by people rendered anonymous in all but name, it would make me feel even more isolated and miserable. Being able to at least see what the person looks like behind the mask would be tremendously re-assuring.

You'd think for someone who spends so much time behind avatars that masks wouldn't bother me so much.

But they do.

 

[Jopsy Pendragon]

He just cannot help himself. And what else is he gonna do, get a real job?!

Alex Jones gets warning from FDA for pushing phony coronavirus cures online

Infowars founder Alex Jones has received an official warning from the Food and Drug Administration for peddling phony coronavirus cures online.In a formal letter to the alt-right television personality on Thursday, the agency ordered Jones to stop telling viewers of his widely watched broadcasts...

www.rawstory.com

EVERY fraud pushing a COVID-19 cure should be promptly 'volunteered'' to being exposed to COVID-19 to demonstrate its efficacy.

 

[Arkady Arkright]

I'm sure his children have some lovely condos to sell them.

For some reason entirely related to old age and a filthy mind, I read that as "I'm sure his children have some lovely condoms to sell them."

 

[Arkady Arkright]

I can relate. I have been working from home off and on for years. My husband retired about 18 months ago and yes, it's almost exactly how you describe it. Except he watches Gold Rush instead of Criminal Minds. Also, it's Florida and he doesn't always wear clothes. Needless to say, I had to put black tape over the camera in my laptop. At Christmas, he bought me a sign that lights up and it says "in the zone", so we've come to an agreement, if the sign is on, then I'm busy and whatever it is, needs to wait.

I recall someone who's husband decided to retire early and was then hanging round the house all day saying "I married him for life, not for lunch !".

 

[Innula Zenovka]

I recall someone who's husband decided to retire early and was then hanging round the house all day saying "I married him for life, not for lunch !".

"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him to fish and he'll bore you about it endlessly but at least it gets him out of the house".

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

 

[Erich Templar]

"Imagine there's no people..."