Ongoing coronavirus happenings

[bryan]

@d_r

Surely there is something better in some episode of Star Trek.

Or a recent Marvel movie. But that would require people to not be holding their phone, so nevermind.

[smulder]

@alahmnat

Kudlow: “I just think the private sector is going to solve this disease as they have in the past. That’s what Americans do … We are a free country that believes in free enterprise.”

The private sector loves a new disease. The private sector will wait until everybody has it and then sell us a treatment that we need to take every day for the rest of our lives.

@alahmnat

“Regarding the containment issue, I will still argue to you that this is contained. It can’t be airtight but you look at the numbers here … in a relative sense, relative to our population, relative to ordinary flus … average risk is low.”

“I’m speaking nonsense because I need you to perceive us as succeeding even as we do nothing.”

[MalevolentPixy]

Cyndi Hayes (cyndilhayes)

[DukeTrout]

@smulder

The private sector will wait until everybody has it and then sell us a treatment that we need to take every day for the rest of our lives.

SAAS - Survival As A Service

[milliefink]

[MalevolentPixy]

Nina L. Diamond (ninatypewriter)

headdesk

[KathyPartdeux]

Florida Dead Man.

[docosc]

WHAT? I mean, seriously folks, do you just not want to survive? How is this even a thing???

[gatto]

@d_r

At the local hospital they’re trying to popularize an alternative greeting, hand over the heart (like the Roman salute, but open-hand). Surely there is something better in some episode of Star Trek.

jeebus people just bow already.

there’s a huge range of expression, and maybe a few people here and there ( including people in both the largest city on the planet, and separately the largest country ) who already do as a matter of course.

[milliefink]

Before the one we serve? So we can get what we deserve?

[anon62122146]

@docosc

WHAT? I mean, seriously folks, do you just not want to survive? How is this even a thing???

Florida Man doesn’t give a fuck. In between the gator wrestling tonight and the meth-addled Walmart rampage he’s got scheduled for tomorrow, coronavirus doesn’t even register.

Since Rick Scott got elected, their government is Florida Man, too.

[DukeTrout]

@anon62122146

Since Rick Scott got elected, their government is Florida Man, too.

Like many of Florida’s problems, he’s an invasive species.

born, Bloomington, Illinois, 1962

[docosc]

A political kudzu if you will.

[anon62122146]

@DukeTrout

Like many of Florida’s problems, he’s an invasive species.

born, Bloomington, Illinois, 1962

They should really report that to the Department of Fish and Wildlife. You ignore it for too long and it will get out of hand.

[anon50609448]

@d_r

At the local hospital they’re trying to popularize an alternative greeting, hand over the heart (like the Roman salute, but open-hand). Surely there is something better in some episode of Star Trek.

Jimmy Kimmel is promoting the “patell-o” where you nod and someone and then lift a leg off the ground to touch knees. I was shocked I could not find a gif.

[DukeTrout]

I was thinking snakehead.

[Wally]

@DukeTrout

What you won’t see in the US is people, for the most part voluntarily, staying home, not going to work, not traveling to see relatives, not taking planned vacations, etc.

But this is starting to happen. I’m seeing it, both personally among colleagues and in the news. It is looser in the USA, though. Not like China, where you might get shot if you try to fuck around with the government watchers stationed outside your apartment building.

We might face a “crackdown” if the epidemic becomes more than a few hundred or even low thousands of cases. Not sure yet.

[DukeTrout]

Some people are doing it. In China, it was everyone in the affected areas.

[KathyPartdeux]

SXSW canceled due to coronavirus after Austin declares 'local disaster'

[teknocholer]

@d_r

At the local hospital they’re trying to popularize an alternative greeting, hand over the heart (like the Roman salute, but open-hand). Surely there is something better in some episode of Star Trek.

I say again.