are you afraid of the coronavirus?

[Adre]

Trump: “Testing may be overrated and the reason for the high number of US cases.”

Yes, folks, that’s what he said yesterday. With a straight face. This is the moron who controls the world’s most powerful military force. Sleep well, America. Your leader will keep you safe and sound.

 

[Pookie]

"When you test, you have a case. When you test, you find something is wrong with people. If we didn't do any testing we would have very few cases."

 

[DeluxAuto]

Trump: “Testing may be overrated and the reason for the high number of US cases.”

Yes, folks, that’s what he said yesterday. With a straight face. This is the moron who controls the world’s most powerful military force. Sleep well, America. Your leader will keep you safe and sound.

"When you test, you have a case. When you test, you find something is wrong with people. If we didn't do any testing we would have very few cases."

https://i.imgflip.com/41koxb.jpg

 

[Wrong Element]

I think the time is long overdue for Fauci to pull away from the Trump clowns, attach himself to one of the governor consortiums pulling states together to work the issue, and sound off loud and clear.

Fauci has had this job since the dawn of the AIDS epidemic, so it's pretty clear he believes in the importance of his current work and wants to do it until he retires (which at age 79 could be any time, I suppose).

Trump: “Testing may be overrated and the reason for the high number of US cases.”

Yes, folks, that’s what he said yesterday. With a straight face. This is the moron who controls the world’s most powerful military force. Sleep well, America. Your leader will keep you safe and sound.

The funny thing about Trump is that while he's obviously extremely dishonest about virtually everything, where you sometimes get the truth from him is when he casually admits to political motivations that a career politician would have the sense to keep to himself. Go all the way back to the beginning of March, when he admitted he didn't want the cruise ship to dock because it would increase the number of cases on our books (back when 1000 total cases still seemed like a lot). It was completely crass and heartless, but that doesn't register with him.

 

[Fermina_Daza]

So, always be at peace with your actions. Easy enough.

“I repent nothing.”
— Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel

 

[bodysong]

March 11, 2020 38 people died of coronavirus

A week, ago. the coronavirus deaths count was more than 74, 000 lives

Overnight- Wednesday evening at midnight, the US death count from 84, 000
(give or take a few hundred lives) lost to coronavirus, to having a death toll
from the novel coronavirus pass 85,000 in the US on Thursday

https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...-coronavirus_2

May 15, 2020

Friday night, death count is 87, 000

An Axios-Ipsos poll found that the death toll has become a political issue

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/15/coronavirus-death-toll-right-denies-figures

bodysong comment- you don't say!

 

[Saint_Ann]

May 16, 2020:

No one died of CV19 today in this county.

 

[Liar]

Trump: “Testing may be overrated and the reason for the high number of US cases.”

Yes, folks, that’s what he said yesterday. With a straight face. This is the moron who controls the world’s most powerful military force. Sleep well, America. Your leader will keep you safe and sound.

The US ain't even testing all that much.

 

[Liar]

March 11, 2020 38 people died of coronavirus

A week, ago. the coronavirus deaths count was more than 74, 000 lives

Overnight- Wednesday evening at midnight, the US death count from 84, 000
(give or take a few hundred lives) lost to coronavirus, to having a death toll
from the novel coronavirus pass 85,000 in the US on Thursday

https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...-coronavirus_2

May 15, 2020

Friday night, death count is 87, 000

An Axios-Ipsos poll found that the death toll has become a political issue

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/15/coronavirus-death-toll-right-denies-figures

bodysong comment- you don't say!

My first thought was "five bucks it hits 90k by the end of the day".

And now I think I might be a sociopath.

 

[Ziggins]

Humans are still the most dangerous species.

 

[FL30]

Marielle

https://imgur.com/gallery/xXuMzkD

 

[FL30]

Brian Lee Hitchens - God will save me

https://imgur.com/gallery/BAhesvl

Didn't believe in the virus before, now in hospital, he believes it

 

[butters]

https://imgur.com/gallery/BAhesvl

Didn't believe in the virus before, now in hospital, he believes it

how many others did he infect because of his stupidity?

 

[Wrong Element]

My first thought was "five bucks it hits 90k by the end of the day".

And now I think I might be a sociopath.

Back when Ohio had exactly 16 counties (out of 88 total) that had not recorded a Covid-19 case yet, a few of us on Twitter had a bracket-style tournament where we guessed at which one would come out "victorious" (be the last one with no cases).



Qatar has become the first relatively populous country (population of at least 1 million) where at least 1 percent of the people have been diagnosed with Covid-19. The issue there is the crapholes that their temp workers reside in.

 

[bodysong]

ah, fuck!

A third wave ?



Then, again, that is probably an optimistic prediction, if the discussion is about America.
As it is, I am wishing that I saved some of my pre- 20's collection of dark silks and velvets.
Dressing, according to early episodes of Downton Abbey's funeral for the expected heir, and
her FWB - Victorian mourning seems appropriate, since it is 2020, not 1918, and this time-
Science was not allowed to intervene. 100 years of medical progress, wasted.

"We have, I call it, the super duper missile," said Trump.

"And I heard the other night—17 times faster than what they have right now,
when you take the fastest missile we have right now."

“I call it the super duper missile.”

An actual quote by the sitting president of the United States.

— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) May 15, 2020

He can't even be trusted with information about our defense system.

 

[FL30]

32 year old runner shares her experience having coronavirus

https://imgur.com/gallery/dJ6j3Jq

 

[Liar]

My first thought was "five bucks it hits 90k by the end of the day".

Aaaand I was right. Crud.

 

[FL30]

A fantastic thread with an easy, understandable analogy about reopening

https://imgur.com/gallery/VgAhAfo

 

[FL30]

herd immunity

https://imgur.com/gallery/coDDhsC

 

[bestone4ever]

Are we taking the Super-Duper Rocket to Operation Warp Speed?

 

[schism666]

even the idiots on gilligan's island listened to the professor and not the millionaire.

 

[Adre]

The new COVID czar. No problem here, right?:


“Former pharmaceutical company executive Slaoui stepped down from his position on the board of directors of biotech company Moderna Inc., based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. But he is still holding some 155,000 Moderna stock options, according to Security and Exchange Commission filings, worth more than $10 million as of Friday, reported Business Insider.

Slaoui’s economic interest in the company could influence government support for Moderna over other companies that may be more successful in their hunt for a vaccine.

Moderna last month also announced it received $483 million in federal funding for vaccine development, which sent its stocks up 15%, CNBC reported.”

 

[Carnal_Flower]

What are the chances his company makes Hydrochloroquine

The new COVID czar. No problem here, right?:


“Former pharmaceutical company executive Slaoui stepped down from his position on the board of directors of biotech company Moderna Inc., based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. But he is still holding some 155,000 Moderna stock options, according to Security and Exchange Commission filings, worth more than $10 million as of Friday, reported Business Insider.

Slaoui’s economic interest in the company could influence government support for Moderna over other companies that may be more successful in their hunt for a vaccine.

Moderna last month also announced it received $483 million in federal funding for vaccine development, which sent its stocks up 15%, CNBC reported.”

 

[Wrong Element]

A paradox of good government is that leaders get more credit for handling a disaster than they ever do for preventing a disaster from occurring:


After more than 6 weeks of closed schools and businesses, and staying at home, some people are wondering whether it's been worth it.

A new Drexel University study says it has paid off.

Drexel's experts from Urban Health Collaborative and the Big Cities Health Coalition used real-life numbers to estimate how many lives were saved, and how many hospitalizations didn't happen in 30 cities around the country

For Philadelphia, it estimates that 45 days of being shut down and doing social distancing spared 6200 lives, and kept 57,000 people out of hospitals than if life went on as usual.


https://6abc.com/drexel-university-shutdown-pandemic-coronavirus/6179990/

 

[schism666]

here's a great reason to be scared of the virus.

https://i.imgur.com/PdAhpj4.jpg?2