and also
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Thereâs a 2 1/2 minute compilation video currently on Twitter of Karens coughing and spitting and generally being horrible people, but I wonât be sharing it.
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Wow. I am agog!
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Trumpâs daughter Ivanka called it âa beautiful feat of endurance and loveâ on Twitter.
JFC, they were forced into a desperate ordeal as they tried not to die.
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Steve Buscemi playing God as an alcoholic narcissist
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Jeeeeesus⌠Thatâs horrible stuff.
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Behind the Bastards: Rudolf Steiner: The Racist Who Invented Organic Farming and Waldorf Schools
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Sunday, May 24, 2020
SHAME
I donât like the genre of shaming individuals or the participants in random crowd shots for their behavior. I donât mean MAGA idiots who are doing the pandemic version of rolling coal and deliberately being assholes to retail workers asking them wear masks or similar. Go ahead and shame them. But otherwise the problem is with the people who lead us. Trump. His people. Bad governors. Poor media outlets. Even the âgoodâ advice during all of this hasnât been consistent, and this is mostly a collective problem. Getting mad at someone for not wearing a mask outside isnât really getting mad at the right thing, especially if there arenât any clear rules/guidelines about mask wearing or even a way for people to easily obtain masks.
It sucks, of course, but you canât really expect people to be better than their leaders and, well, have you seen our leaders lately? Not good, folks, Not good!
Emphasis mine.
Went on a walk in the woods with the kid today. Saw one other couple wearing masks. Busy trail. (Now that I think of it, some of the mountain bikers might have had some, but Iâm not sure.). This is not a particularly MAGA town, and hiking not a particularly MAGA activity, but there has been no mask guidance here, and the Stateâs contribution to our countyâs Reopening Fever! guidelines had been to sue them.
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Really, really hope for our new colleague (two kids) that she managed to get a flight out by now. She should have started in the first of April.
I was in contact in February, and I told her not to worry since to the best of my knowledge, there were zero fatalities in children, I was sure she could fly out, and the situation here was ok-ish so she didnât have to worry about getting infected here at the moment.
They had to postpone the flight, and then everything went south.
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Brilliant. Stealing that right now. 
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Returning Danes cause 6km âcorona queueâ at Swedish border
So many Danes were returning from Sweden and Bornholm on Sunday night, that a six-kilometer long traffic jam formed on the bridge linking the two countries, forcing police to call in reinforcements to handle border checks.
https://www.thelocal.se/20200525/returning-danes-cause-6km-corona-queue-on-border-bridge
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Not really much point to masks for walking in the woods, unless youâre a non-family-unit walking closely together, or the trail is so crowded that you spend protracted times standing (or walking) close to strangers. Even if the trail is so narrow that you occasionally have to pass within a metre of someone, the likelihood of you infecting them is small. (See this discussion on transmission.)
Having said that, I do really really hate it when a cyclist or jogger passes close to me when Iâm out walking, in a way I didnât before the pandemic. Claire Calman has been ranting about this in some funny columns, eg
Two metres: For some of us, 2m is equivalent to just over 6½ ft. If youâre a young, healthy jogger, however, 2m = approximately 1½ feet. No-one is quite sure why this should be. One theory suggests that perhaps itâs to do with the perceived refraction of light during motion, which makes a runner unable to judge distance accurately and therefore run past you with no attempt to leave a gap. Or it could be something to do with being a selfish tosser. Teams of scientists are working on these rival hypotheses as I write.
It seems to be common in some areas for people to excoriate others who are walking barefaced on empty streets. This has happened to my wife, and to healthcare workers in the UK returning from work late at night. Thatâs the point where local policy or convention passes beyond rational interpretation of scientific guidelines and becomes religious dogma. The problem with that is that it then gives ammunition to the anti-mask covidiots.
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Good grief. I understand the Danish idea that residents should be allowed to return (and of course there is no bar to them going to Sweden), but hasnât Denmark instituted a quarantine for returning travelers? If they enforce that (as theyâre doing in Norway) it should discourage people from taking short trips to Sweden and keep these numbers down
I sympathize with your colleague, as my flight home was canceled and I have had no luck putting together an alternate itinerary that avoids an overnight stay in a Covid hotspot.
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BTW, the tweet you linked is the earliest source I could find. Anyone any info on the source of this pic? Where is that? (Obviously and sadly, the US - but where there, and on which occasion are these people doing this? Mass?)
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Could it be, given the constraints that the pandemic places on them, that some reporters will dig deeply into matters like electronic voting machines with compromised data security, gerrymandering, voter suppression especially in neighborhoods of color, etc.?
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In February we had not seen fatalities in kids. Now, not so much. Unfortunately, whether due to dramatically increased sample size or actual change in the virus, peds is taking a hit too.
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Maybe, if their corporate masters allow it.
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Burn:
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