Ongoing coronavirus happenings

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Liberty President Jerry Falwell Jr., one of Trump’s earliest and most ardent supporters, has speculated on Fox News that coronavirus may have been the work of North Korea

Wait, hasn’t Trump written to his best buddy Kim offering to help NK with its covid response?

Why would Trump want to help the country that made it? Or was that China? Gosh, it’s so hard to keep all these ludicrous conspiracy theories straight…

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I have the feeling some people in my neighborhood have been flushing those not-really-flushable wipes. There’s a sewer cleaning crew out on the corner and the lid’s off.

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I heard a news report yesterday, Alabama is at less than 20% utilization on ventilators.

Also:

NEW: Cuomo begs federal govt. for ventilators, says “for the life of” him he doesn’t understand reluctance to use DPA “What is happening to New York is going to wind up happening to California and Washington state and Illinois.”

California, New York, Washington state, Illinois. Kind of seems like that question answers itself.

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Meanwhile Gov. Inslee is about 20 minutes away from issuing a don’t-call-it-shelter-in-place shelter-in-place order for Washington State that will go into effect tomorrow. Really looking forward to that since I can’t get to the grocery store until payday at the end of the month…

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… but our overall response to the situation must meet a minimum level of depravity avoidance. #TrumpFailsBasicHumanityTestAgain

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Seems likely.

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So some sort of bill is about to pass in Congress?

I wonder if Dems managed to scrape anything at all for the little (99%) people out of Republicans.

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You mean “little corporations” right?

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Start at about 1:30 for Rachel’s intro - 3:20 for Klobuchar’s on screen.

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Oh no! Which neighborhood? (Checks outside my window, just in case.)

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I’m in the far southwest suburbs… fortunately, my immediate neighbors are sensible types. I can’t vouch for further down the street anymore, though.

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TYWKIWDBI has a piece today on how mail has been disinfected in previous outbreaks:

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Hey Falwell…

pretty-pink-finger

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You’d think more recent plumbing infrastructure (most of the city’s plumbing is well over 60 years old now) would help, but nothing works if you’ve got idiot neighbors. One up-side to septic tanks is that you have only yourself to blame if it gets clogged, and you’re the only one affected.

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I’m pretty sure this sewer is at least as old; I’m in the oldest part of my town.

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