How COVID-19 is affecting society

[Rose Karuna]

Trump is lower than a snake full of buck shot. He just aired a campaign video during the latest briefing.

Still not one word of sympathy to the sick, dying, or families of the dead. Fucker.

Even an amoeba would have more empathy than Trump does.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Hasta la vista, motherfuckers:

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

I just saw another article complaining about the teenagers on spring break. That's just dumb. Those teenagers were doing the responsible thing.

If you are in a low risk population, like the average teenager is, your goal should be to get corona as fast as possible, so you can develop antibodies, because as you get older, your risk goes up. Doing it on spring break is a great idea, because that limits your exposure to your parents and older relatives, who are probably much higher risk than you. When you return to your home town, you have antibodies, so you can take an essential job and maybe even support your family if they are a rough time financially. Also, super high risk grannies wouldn't have to be working cash registers so much.

In fact, I think that if we wanted to build herd immunity fast, the best place to start would be for the government to sponsor a 3 week long spring break, and lower the drinking and marijuana age to 16 for those 3 weeks. Let them go nuts, tell them to all get infected and recover before sending them home to work essential jobs, with extra disaster pay. Beef up hospitals in the area for the few who might have complications, of course, but generally, let them have a blast.

They would probably wear masks and wash their hands constantly just to be rebellious, but it's worth a try.

When I was a kid, they used to say the same thing about chickenpox - namely, that we needed to get it as early as possible in order to get it over with and develop that lifetime immunity. Of course, now they're realizing that people who had chickenpox in their younger years are at risk of developing shingles in their later years.

We don't know what the long-term consequences are of COVID-19 infection. This seems, in that light, a very foolish and irresponsible proposal.

 

[Lady Darnk Juniorette]

 

[Essence Lumin]

Funny but fake.

Florida man died from meth overdose before he was eaten by alligator

 

[Fionalein]

Hasta la vista, motherfuckers:

Not happening in Germany... I observe no reduction in printed ads in my mailbox.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

I have to acknowledge my own ambivalence about this trade-off, despite the personal cost of any other "solution". Perhaps there is no good answer, no Door #3 that somehow gets us out of this without body blows to society.

In a brutal way, past pandemics were more straightforward -- everyone died at home. There wasn't a medical infrastructure to protect, so the survivors buried their dead and moved on. There wasn't any expectation that your old frail grandparents or your cripplied sister would survive; compromised people died young.

This article analyses the issue in some detail, suggesting it's not simply left-right or lives vs economy issue, and certainly shouldn't be reduced to "restart the economy asap" vs "as long as it takes."

The choices we make about coronavirus are way more complex than 'lives v the economy' | Zoe Williams

Any debate about easing the lockdown cannot be boiled down to a fight between the left and right, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

www.theguardian.com

As so often, I think it's helpful to break down the issue into specific problems faced by particular groups of people as a result of the emergency, and to try think of ways of remedying those specific issues for people in that particular position, rather than to look for grand, simple solutions.

 

[Sean Gorham]

I'm getting a lot fewer robocalls nowadays. Anyone else? You'd think the pandemic wouldn't affect robocalling since the actual humans taking any calls could probably work from home.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

I'm getting a lot fewer robocalls nowadays. Anyone else? You'd think the pandemic wouldn't affect robocalling since the actual humans taking any calls could probably work from home.

India's busted a number of scam call centers lately.

 

[Casey Pelous]

I'm getting a lot fewer robocalls nowadays. Anyone else? You'd think the pandemic wouldn't affect robocalling since the actual humans taking any calls could probably work from home.

I noticed it too.

I figured that Sternly Worded Report the FCC issued to no fanfare whatsoever back in February did the trick.

Whatever happened, I'm glad they've slacked off.

 

[Aribeth Zelin]

As I understand Christian doctrine, the first two panels are consistent with Christianity.


The third panel smells of straw. Death is a blessing in Evangelical settings for “The Lord is calling me home.”

The final panel is Islamic:

Ayah al-Isra` (Children of Israel, The Israelites) 17:36

A more pithy version:

I believe it is also Judaic, and more traditional Christian [and Catholic]. Hence the joke about praying to God to win the lottery [repeatedly], then complaining and having God say 'You need to buy the lottery ticket'...

Basically, don't be lazy and expect God to work extra hours because you can't be arsed to do what you can for yourself.

 

[Tracer]

These photos show the staggering food bank lines across America

America's hunger is being captured by photographers across the country.

www.motherjones.com

 

[Lexxi]

Yeah, they had us all sign a wah agreement. Which was silly because we did not have a choice. Anyway a lot of thought went into security. I obviously can not prevent it if my spouse uses my computer when I am not home though (it also produces awkwardness if her laptop breaks). Most things require 2 factor authentication though so there is less of a problem.

There is so much security on my work laptop that there have been days, and this isn't a joke, that I couldn't log-in with the correct security stuff in place. It was never a full day, more like 10 to 50 minutes. Layers upon layers. Like certain shared drives only allow access to certain people (since day 1, there have been drives I should have access to but do not - I haven't fought hard to regain access as I do not really need access except for 5 to 10% of a work week), and the software we use requires its own security login stuff.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

And since security is a pain in the ass, that's why everything's so vulnerable.

 

[Essence Lumin]

My little local bank attempts good security but fails. They won't allow cut and paste into the password field on their app so I have to resort to using an easy to type password rather than something randomly generated by lastpass.

 

[Sredni Eel]

...And the mutiny begins.
California governor outlines plan to reopen in conjunction with West Coast states

 

[Kara Spengler]

Trump is lower than a snake full of buck shot. He just aired a campaign video during the latest briefing.

Still not one word of sympathy to the sick, dying, or families of the dead. Fucker.

If it is any consolation he admitted to a room full of reporters the wh produced that video. Anyone would describe it as a campaign video. Basically, he is on record as breaking the law.

 

[Kara Spengler]

I'm getting a lot fewer robocalls nowadays. Anyone else? You'd think the pandemic wouldn't affect robocalling since the actual humans taking any calls could probably work from home.

I am getting a lot more actually. The strange thing is they are almost always coming on my work line ... where I never got them before.

 

[Free]

Caught in the act of "being black while helping:"

Video: Black Miami doctor who tests homeless for COVID-19 handcuffed, detained outside own home

Miami police officials are investigating the detainment of Dr. Armen Henderson, who was handcuffed by a patrol sergeant outside his own home as he loaded up supplies to tend to the city’s homeless population during the COVID-19 pandemic.

www.kiro7.com

 

[Free]

And there goes another one.

Defiant pastor who kept church open despite coronavirus warnings dies a week later from COVID-19 - LGBTQ Nation

He told the congregation he'd keep preaching “unless I’m in jail or the hospital" because "people are healed" in his church.

www.lgbtqnation.com