Seems a bit steep.
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“We’re in uncharted territory with pricing a new medicine, a novel medicine, in a pandemic,” Gilead CEO Dan O’Day said in a statement announcing the pricing for remdesivir.
…as he did a little jig and opened another bottle of Veuve Clicquot.
“We believe that we had to really deviate from the normal circumstances” and price the drug to ensure wide access rather than based solely on value to patients, O’Day said.
“What’s your life worth, buddy?”
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This is asinine: Murderer Ducey is attacking businesses for not acting as police to enforce mask rules he himself opposed and had to be forced into. He really is a piece of shit.
Dream City Church in north-central Phoenix, which hosted President Donald Trump’s rally Tuesday, has received a “cease and desist” order from Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich regarding claims church leaders made about safety ahead of the rally. In a video, church leaders said their facility had an air filtration system that would “kill 99% of Covid.”
Nearly 3,000 people, including Gov. Ducey and U.S. Sen. Martha McSally, crowded into the church to hear the president’s speech. Few wore masks.
Brnovich is an interesting character. Republican, but occasionally seems to be investigating things that he should, which is extremely unusual. Don’t know if he’s serious about it.
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This is actually how we try to parse things for my preschooler. She comments on people breaking the rules a lot. We try to tell her people make bad, stupid, or foolish choices without making those intrinsic characteristics of the person. So the parent who dropped off at daycare without a mask made a bad or stupid choice, but isn’t a stupid person. It’s actually hard to change our own phrasing. She’s decided, in her own, that a villian is someone who makes bad choices all the time and is selfish.
We’ll move onto willful ignorance when she is older. I’m not sure the concept will stick at age 3. Though it would be interesting to try.
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Something a little more lighthearted to offset the Mondays…
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I’m retweeting it just so I can find it on my phone easily.
This will be my new response to Covidiots. Played as loud as the phone speaker will go, with my hand cupped around the bottom to make it louder. I’ll be singing along, behind my mask.
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Mental age: about two and a half.
Now, what would I do with a child of this age doing something like this?
ETA: seriously, I really wonder if the approaches of violence-free education could work. Just scale it a bit.
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The Mutter has a new exhibit and youtube post about it that is quite timely about how not cancelling some parades led to sad times during the Spanish Flu outbreak.
Wear your mask people. I know it sucks but it beats the alternative of having a dirt nap.
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Great news for bank robbers in South Carolina
https://www.thestate.com/news/state/south-carolina/article243840347.html
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We have entered into the body horror phase of the pandemic
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Ear piercing seems like a very “nonessential” service.
O_o
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My my, thank you, most refreshing!
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Bonus, she never needs to look for her facemask before going out now.
Oh wow, body-mod facemasks! This totally needs to be the next big, “ZOMG I’m a Cyborg!” fad.
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Stupid me, I assumed this was some kind of bakery or cupcake shop, and imagined a freak accident involving a frosting cornet.
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Assault with intent to asshole? Seriously, that could potentially be a criminal complaint.
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Right. Wasn’t someone else charged with something for coughing on someone like that?
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Hey, if spitting is assault (and it is, in most states) then intentionally coughing on someone during a pandemic most definitely should be.
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