but that’s precisely when it would be too late 
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I’m not saying I approve of the decision…
However, we’re small enough that monitoring is fairly easy. Compact geography plus low population density is a boon in this situation.
The potential local outbreaks in the early days were all stomped fairly quickly. It helps when you’ve got (a) a government willing and able to lock down entire regions when necessary, and (b) a social welfare system deployed to provide universal income support as long as required (i.e. nobody starves or gets evicted during lockdown).
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"Thousands gathered both in person and virtually on Sunday afternoon to mourn the more than 200,000 lives lost in the U.S. from COVID-19.
Twenty thousand empty chairs were set up on the Ellipse south of the White House in D.C. this weekend, with each one representing roughly 10 people who have died from the coronavirus." -WTOP
Note that the WH still has a barrier around it. Not for the corona virus, but for the people he considers a virus.
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That industry needs better alternatives than flights to nowhere. There’s so much free virtual content that I’m not sure countries offering remote tourism will be able to monetize it:
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A satisfied BoingBoing Store customer?
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Whoohoo! Herd immunity!
Oh.
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Here we go.
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Betcha he “relapses” before the week is out.
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I don’t know and I don’t care.
There were supposed to be stories Trump’s debate fiasco. There were supposed to be stories about commemorating 200,000+ Americans who died of this government’s intentional negligence. Instead, for the last week our oh-so-important-and-we-will-fight-for-youuuuuu-and-democracy-dies-in-darkness press have been hammering at the door of Walter Reed trying desperately to crawl further up Trump’s asshole.
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Maybe reel that bitter attitude in, just a taste; I didn’t do it.
It’s a well known fact that I have been hoping/wishing/praying/manifesting/whatever you want to call it that the orange fucker succumbs to something debilitating since 2016… and it looks the odds of that happening are getting better and better.
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Don’t be afraid of Covid. Don’t let it dominate your life.
I mean it’s really no surprise he took the Bolsonaro “I’m fucking invincible and COVID-19 is bullshit” road rather than the Johnson “COVID-19 is real shit and you all need to wake the fuck up” road.
It’s still absolutely infuriating, and incredibly dangerous.
Fuck.
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For him, as well.
I’ll be surprised if he doesn’t collapse from the effort of trying to maintain the façade of being “okay.”
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Yeah. This is just Act 1.
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Even more infuriating now after reading after he went back to the White House he climbed up the stairs to the balcony and removed his mask with staff standing right next to him then went back inside.
His nonchalance here is even worse than his previous inaction as far as I’m concerned. He’s moved on from saying COVID-19 is no big deal to an even more dangerous narrative of “I got it and I’m fine so don’t even worry about it”.
Meanwhile:
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Getting tested.
Had a sore throat and cough all weekend, felt like crap. Madam Mrs the Ratel scheduled a test for me.
The only place in town that was available today was on the far side of town (technically in a different city), but for as long as I’m suspicious we can’t hang out with my folks, so I went. Turns out, while she was setting it up, they changed the day on her to tomorrow, so when I got there the nurse on duty pointed out the day above the confirmation number.
There was no-one else there. In fact, getting to the testing was a pain in the ass: they way they had the parking lot laid out, if you pulled into the Walgreen’s parking lot you couldn’t get to the test, so I had to get out, then turn away from the Walgreens and go until I could make a u-turn, then come back and go past the Walgreens to another road, which then had a track I could take in to the part of the parking lot they had coned off for testing. I say this not to bring up my personal annoyance, but to point out that no-one else came through there for the entire time I was bumbling about trying to get in.
I’m just one guy, but it seems like there’s not a lot of testing available, and less going on, at least here.
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And exacerbated by everyone making this all about him and trusting to God or karma for some kind of half-assed justice. Oh well, maybe God will come through next time!
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Hope you feel better soon. Was discussing the various testing types and windows of opportunity with my family yesterday. In PA it takes a while (up to two weeks), but in DE they have self-swabbing tests that get results within two days.
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