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Comedy and Death in the Time of Corona
Michael Che on fire...

Today I learned how to use Google to determine the beginning of allergy season.

... and people voted for Clinton. Who are the crazy and delusional ones now?

So much TDS in this thread mixed with fake news. It’s just fucking stupid.

"Trump supporters say God chose him to be president"

No, no, no. Can't you guys get anything straight through your bloody bias filter? It was Trump who chose Jehovah to be God.

That video is of some dumb made up event, actors acting like morons.

HEYYOU says

Unchecked Global Warming Could Collapse Whole Ecosystems, Maybe Within 10 Years"

Al Gore, 2007

HEYYOU says

"Jesus isn't coming back. He's sheltering in place."

As he should. Let the hair and beard grow a little longer.

That's how you ensure the virus dies out. The low density population areas are least at risk fo spreading the deadly strain of virus.

Eventually the virus quickly evolves or mutuates to another weaker virus strain (i.e., COVID - 2020 or COVID-20) where it is able to survive and replicate as a virus while not killing off its hosts.

The same goes with HIV. The strain has mutated so much that now many who are HIV + do not have to take Rx to treat it. NPR reported about this in 2013.

‘That Is What We Do’: The Power of Passover and Tradition Across Generations
The plague element of the Passover story feels real for the first time — the completely overwhelming feelings of fear, anxiety and despair. As sad as I am to be away from my family, it’s a worthwhile price to pay for having a Passover together next year.

It's satisfying to see all the leftoid fetishes crumbling right in front of our eyes:

- dense cities better than suburbs;
- public transportation better than personal cars;
- travel bans should never be imposed on anyone;
- borders should be absolutely transparent;
- we don't need no stinking manufacturing because we can all learn Java or interior design;
- families are obsolete;
- reusable shopping bags are better than single-use paper ones;
- there should be no copays or deductibles and everybody should feel free to flood the hospitals every time they sneeze or stub their toe (and get a nice hospital infection in return, just like they did in Italy).

Misc says

They realize that quarantining does not eradicate the disease. Vaccines for the flu are about 30% effective (I'm gonna guess the COVID-19 vaccine will be about the same). They also realize that it is absurd to close down the entire economy when there is an outbreak, as sooner or later the disease will reappear in the population.

Seniors are the most immediately at risk. Whereas few under 50, and almost none under 30, have died from the disease. It's those people you want spreading the dead viruses eventually to old folks.

The purpose of the quarantine is to flatten the rate of infection requiring hospitalization, something that few young people need at all but many old people will require.

That's why it makes no sense to close schools and workplaces, but allow seniors to gather and carouse freely. The opposite should be occourring.

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https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2013/03/15/174404133/more-patients-keep-hiv-at-bay-without-antiviral-drugs

Above is the link about how HIV has mutated to a much weaker strain.

It is an example how viruses constantly mutate or evolve to weaker strains in order to propagate or replicate without killing off all their hosts.

Looks like we may get another reprieve from unbridled decadence, just like we did in 2008 to 2012. That is one silver lining from what is happening now.

It provides an environment which does not encourage dumb economic decisions like buying this $7,000 motorcyle for a price of $29,000.

People think more wisely in terms of arbitrage until they largely forget the past crisis happened.

TEOTWAWKI says

- reusable shopping bags are better than single-use paper ones;

Personally, I love the "single use" plastic ones. I re-use them as my garbage bags. It completely mystifies me that people buy large, heavy duty garbage bags and then either use a new one (1/4 full) every other day or have a 20-pound stinkbomb in their kitchen after a week of use. However many "single use" grocery bags I bring home from shopping is how many bags I'll need to dispose of the trash.

Such pathetic litigation. Where is the re-incarnation of Michael Avenatti when we need him most.

The pandemic will die when all the inferior people are dead! Long Live The Pandemic!

Yep, my sister's mother in law whose a nurse.. got a fever of 103", bad cough a few weeks ago... she never gets sick. Test came back negative and she's feeling better. (Heard false negatives are common for the tests though).

My DNA test came back positive for Coronavirus and told me I was officially dead and had been entered into the statistics.

Yes, a student who was in my class tested positive. He is now fine, had corona on order of a normal cold severity. A doctor friend of ours also was tested positive 2 weeks ago (60+ yrs old, not a severe case), and I hear that another student whom I know is infected with corona. So 3 in my immediate circle.

Tim Aurora says

I think the Trump Republican party is entirely "White Party" (and a good % number of them are racist ).

What? Like this guy?

https://www.youtube.com/user/semajthethird

Or how about these ladies?

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCug1cL7vmUvYooOjXyHjsxQ

I get tired of people constantly saying that Trump is racist and his supporters are. They're anti-establishment. They want an end of all these stupid wars. They want the government to actually do something useful. We're tired of stupid wedge issues like gay marriage, and transgendered bathrooms, and non issues like how many genders there are. The Federal government has no business in ANY of these "issues".

Tim Aurora says

And while I have issues with the far left ( many Republicans here promoted Bernie as they did not want to face Biden)

Biden? Are you entirely unaware of his history? Either he will never end up as the nominee (what many people think), or he will never debate Trump. Biden is terribly corrupt, and even if he wasn't, he's entirely inappropriate with young women. On top of that, he was all in for promoting the Iraq War, and he's senile on top of that. He's just another Neocon. I would bet Trump wanted to face off with Biden because he's the next best thing to Hillary Clinton - to beat. He has all the issues the Clinton did.

The only candidates that had a reasonable chance was Tulsi Gabbard and Bernie Sanders - but they aren't war whores, or at least presented themselves as not being war whores so the DNC sank them both. I think there's not much chance of Biden winning, but we'll see. How can you stand these corporate politicians? We've only had one clone after another since George W. Bush. Just terribly weak presidents that just take orders. They were terrible.

Lawyers smelling a class action lawsuit where they reap massive rewards and clients get pennies... all of this with a giant kudos from Democrats everywhere!
Lawyers...

OccasionalCortex says

Well well well...turns out the Germans were outright lying:

https://outline.com/VPnHm8

link is broken

Like the Illuminati the Deep State is not a secret organization with nameless and faceless individuals. The Deep State is just a Spooky word to muddy of their crimes, but is a perfect description for what is the culture in Washington of Uneleceted officials, and Non Government organizations acting as decision makers, usurping actual elected officials.
They are a collection of agenda driven career Government workers, brought in with each President, and are left behind as relics of that administration to preserve and embellish and even weaponize if need be, previous administration's policy.
They can easily be pointed out, they are everyone that's not Trump or a Congressman or Senator, at every Committee hearing you've seen on TV since 2015.

We not need kid our selves either, the GOP is full of them as well. I don' think they are Satanic Evil Commie Fucks though.

Population Density of New York state is 416.42/sq mi. They're predicted to peak today.


Population Density of California is 251.3/sq mi. Peak is predicted for next week and is an order of magnitude lower than New York state. Also note that California has twice the population of New York.

ThreeBays says

The stay at home order also has that much more impact on flattening NY's curve -- you go from people mingling closely on packed subways to almost not mingling at all.

A good chunk of the country doesn't live this way though and doesn't want to be forced to do things because of a densely populated city is a cesspool. Wuhan is a similar sized city to NYC. We're basing national policy on places where people piss and shit in the street. You can find needles on the sidewalk. We're talking about some of the unhealthiest places to live WITHOUT this virus. Pollution, drugs, disease, etc.

You can't take a model for NYC and overlay it to Monroe, Wisconsin or like sized cities. Lock down the old people, and I'm taking a new stance here, lock down these shit hole cities. No flights in or out for the remainder of April. ZERO. Besides food and life support goods, no vehicle leaves these places without proof of what they are carrying.

Rich fucks who run this nation. Giant fucking club with idiotic priorities at times. Just look at left today at Newsome presser.

People are dying, some leftist fucktard starts asking about helping lgbt youth. Wtf brain dead retards.

Biden Cuts Hole In Mask So He Can Still Sniff People's Hair

I love raving, LibbyFuck tortured circular logic that always comes back to OrangeManBad.

Tim Aurora says

Fortwaynemobile says

Rich fucks who run this nation. Giant fucking club with idiotic priorities at times. Just look at left today at Newsome presser.

People are dying, some leftist fucktard starts asking about helping lgbt youth. Wtf brain dead retards.

This is a rant that has nothing to do with the topic. Not sure that I can explain everything in this world and that everything is black and white. The point is that "Deep State" is merely a crutch for this administration to ward of the bureaucratic oversight.

There is deep state. They spent a lot of energy and money, fuck ton of money trying to impeach trump, remova kavanaogh, remove Trumps allies. There is a rich fucks club that Trump will burn to the fucking ground so help him god!!!!

Tim Aurora says

I believe that all this Deep State talk to is to quash any resistance made by bureaucracy to follow the right protocol that opposes the Trump government and use it to incite the far right.The point is that "Deep State" is merely a crutch for this administration to ward of the bureaucratic oversight.

Who votes for bureaucrats? And no, neither Congress nor the President approved not only most policies, but the vast majority of them. Same with the hires.

The buck stops with elected officials, not civil servants.

The term for what you're discussing is bureaucratic resistance.

Another applicable problem is the Revolving Door issue, where high ranking "Civil Servants" switch between the Sector they're Regulated and the Regulatory Agency. This has profound impacts on Medicine, Food, even the Military (Retired Generals using their patronage/mentor networks to get certain contracts approved).

CEOs face similar problems when trying to reform Legacy Companies. "Not invented here! CEO is dumb!" "This is the way we've always done it!"

It's really amazing that TDS is so awful, we're seeing Progressive Democrats speak out in favor of the DC Influence/Corruption system they thought was invariably wrong and even wicked.