Populist Fury

Politics now reign supreme in the US response to this crisis. Pandora’s box on that one has been opened. Lines have been drawn and sides taken. Now it’s about defending your team. Facts be damned.

I rewatched this movie the other day ?

I rewatched this movie the other day ?

The term refers to people that live way above their means. They earn $30k a year but appear to live the life of the rich. Expensive clothing brands, leasing BMWs etc. As Suze Orman put it: Young, fabulous and broke.

IDK how anyone can still consider CNN (or any of those other corporate "news" outlets) actual news these days.
 
It's time for all these authoritarian fear-based lockdowns orders to be lifted, especially here in Cali where the virus has a hard time spreading in our hot spring/summer weather. Young & healthy people should be out working & enjoying life ?‍♂️?‍♂️ Those still fearing the virus, the elderly, & the physically vulnerable, can remain on voluntary lockdown if they want... their choice, their right.
 
I #CovExited on May 1st, threw a small bday party for my BF on May 2, & been doing everything I want since then. We don't actually have to wait for permission from our self-serving government officials to live life! People are safer from SARS-CoV-2 out in the warm spring/summer weather than locked up inside anyway.

Sweden took the correct + courageous science-based approach in dealing with the SARS-CoV-2 virus ?
 
Those of us not brainwashed by our hysterical "news" media have been saying it since day 1.

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Glam Siouxsie ?

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Glam Siouxsie ?

Classic PSB ???

Classic PSB ???

Just received notice that the company I work for will implement a temporary 20% pay cut. Should I consider myself lucky? I don’t want to feel ungrateful as I know there are other who’s jobs were pulled from under them..... but fuck.

15% here.....it sucks, especially since monetarily it’s my car lease payment, but given what so many people are dealing with, I’m not going to complain. The alternative was to cut people to save 15%. I’ll deal with the reduced salary if it helps save jobs.

The same basis that the CDC and many cities require masks; Most infection is into the nose or throat. Any mask of any sort is going to be a lot better than none both for stopping your infection and your spread.

Has anyone bought face masks or anything else from the following site: https://www.g2best.com/ ?????
 
I'm wanting to order those 60 n95 masks for someone, but don't wanna get scammed. There's a SoKo site that sells KF94 & 3M carbon masks, but are sold individually, & I'm looking for a batch of 50+

Has anyone bought face masks or anything else from the following site: https://www.g2best.com/ ?????
 
I'm wanting to order those 60 n95 masks for someone, but don't wanna get scammed. There's a SoKo site that sells KF94 & 3M carbon masks, but are sold individually, & I'm looking for a batch of 50+

LA wemt to Safe At Home 3/11; NYC on 3/15

People still worshiping these so-called royalty creatures in the year 2020 is scary...

This is probably the best extremely concise piece I've seen. This political correctness of changing facts on masks and age needs to stop as does other PC lies. Pleasant or not, truth and facts are absolutely necessary. Let's make a deal with the youth: free college for so many pints of their antibody hemoglobin to treat boomers:
 
 
 
The noble lie about masks and coronavirus should never have been told
 
Matthew Walther
The WeekApril 4, 2020, 6:40 AM EDT
 
 
Those of you of a certain age will doubtless remember a time when it was universally acknowledged that wearing masks would not protect you or anyone else from the coronavirus pandemic. By "certain age" here I mean all living Americans born on or
before April 1, 2020, which according to my notes is when it became possible to express a contrary position in polite society.
 
This was always nonsense. The White House is now suggesting that all of us should wear masks whenever we leave our houses. We are even stealing vast stockpiles of them from the Germans, who have been wearing them in public for around a month on the rather more numerous occasions when their leaders exempt them from house arrest. People who can't get proper masks (apparently the kind people wear when they spray for bugs) are being encouraged to make their own. If nothing else, this has given tedious DIY addicts something else to be self satisfied about. No one cares how quaint and interesting you think the piece of cloth meant to protect you from a disease is, okay?
 
Whether the journalists and other apparent experts who enthusiastically spread this apparent lie about masks knew it was false is very much an open question. Some of us found it odd that the same people were also saying that masks should be reserved for use by medical professionals. If masks don't do anything, why do doctors and nurses need them? Are they an ornamental part of a dress uniform? The mind reels.
 
Regardless of the personal honesty of those involved in it, this propaganda campaign should never have been conducted in the first place. It is one thing to debate what should be empirical questions, such as the efficacy of wearing protective equipment in an attempt to forestall the spread of viral infections; it is another for people to bang on about whatever the latest current corona wisdom is with the same tedious certainty that not long ago made us a nation of Logan Act scholars and experts on the non-existent criminal law implications of the emoluments clause. These manias do roughly as much for public health as those kids — there was at least one in every first-grade class — who relentlessly ssshh everyone else in line do to improve schoolyard behavior.
 
The 180-degree shift in acceptable public opinion about masks is in line with how the rest of this crisis has unfolded. Masks won't help. Everyone needs a mask. It's not worth shutting down travel to and from China over the virus, and Trump is just being a xenophobe here. Trump should have done more to prevent the virus from coming to these shores. It's less dangerous than the flu; calling it less dangerous than the flu is a right-wing meme, perhaps even (one shudders) "misinformation." Human beings can't even transmit the virus directly to one another; it originated with animals in Chinese open-air "wet" food markets. Talking about the wet markets is racist, except when Dr. Fauci does it.
 
Can we please stop talking this way? As I write this our paper of record is all but publicly rooting for the failure of anti-malarial drugs that appear to have been successful in treating some coronavirus patients. It is not against "science," whatever that may be, for the president or anyone else to observe that certain medicines or treatments have worked. It is not for science, either. It's just a fact that may or may not have limited application depending upon what happens over the next few months. A bit more epistemic humility would be welcome all around.
 
As would more of what I will bluntly call adult behavior. We must put an end to the idea that the best way to get through this crisis is to say things we know are not true in the hope of getting people to behave a certain way. This means not saying masks are useless when what you really mean is, "Masks are in short supply, please consider before you start hoarding them whether you really need them at present and if so how many."
 
Ditto the painfully relentless attempts to give young people the impression that they are horribly likely to die from the new virus. Even in Italy, the country with the worst measured fatality rate so far, around 86 percent of all the deceased have been aged 70 or older, and 50 percent were at least 80. We do not need to zero in on statistical anomalies or otherwise engage in scaremongering. It should be enough to say, "Even though you are very unlikely to die from coronavirus, remember that you could contract the disease and spread it to more vulnerable people without even experiencing symptoms, so please don't revel with 5000 strangers at the beach and then run home to give Grandma a hug."
 
This is how grown-ups talk to one another.
 
https://www.yahoo.com/news/noble-lie-masks-coronavirus-never-104001181.html
 
And in fact requiring everyone in public to wear a mask, as Germany and several countries do, would stop most transmission of the virus from unknowing carriers.

DC hit 1000 cases today with it's 670,000 population. But it was a warm day and all the 20-somethings were parading in shorts and sandals with virtually no masks. Once the antibody test comes and tells many they are immune, there's going to be a revolt of the young. Hell hath no fury like young entitled yuppies in DC.

People still worshiping these so-called royalty creatures in the year 2020 is scary...

People still worshiping these so-called royalty creatures in the year 2020 is scary...

meaningless drivel, her family have not abided by the rules her govt have imposed on the rest of us.

then they should file for bankruptcy in their country of incorporation and let the chips fall where they may. Equity and bond holders should take the hit not the American public