Ongoing coronavirus happenings

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Walmart CEO says we’re in the ā€˜hair colour’ phase of panic buying

Perhaps, like the Passover, we shall find this provides the common societal basis for a new ritual.

When the lifting of the COVID-19 lockdown is celebrated in 3000yrs the rituals will involve each of these products in sequence, one for each week:

  • First, sanitize our hands to recall the moment when we all realized this was going badly.
  • Second, drink a shot of toilet paper moonshine to recall the time when TP was too precious to waste.
  • Third, a slice of ham, because by week three fresh meat in the fridge wasn’t looking too good.
  • Fourth, leavened bread, because we had all rediscovered baking.
  • Fifth, everyone colours their hair a bright new shade to celebrate the hope that this too shall pass…

I’m sure there will be more ritual steps before celebration closes and everyone goes out for a bag of ritual groceries, ritually greeting each neighbour at their house on the way, asking if they need anything from the shop…

:thinking: Maybe I’ve been locked in a bit long and need a walk…

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Wait until the DWP declares him fit to work…

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Wait until the DWP declares him fit to work

Hopefully, for everone’s safety, Johnson gets pensioned off as demonstrably past his useful working life. :thinking:

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Don’t forget the ā€œHanging of Satanā€:

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Don’t forget the ā€œHanging of Satanā€:

I’m sure there will be lots of schisms and local variants on the rituals… :thinking::roll_of_toilet_paper::bread::slightly_smiling_face:

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Let there be infinite diversity in infinite combination.

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If USPS is gone, all that vote by mail stuff goes away. Win! (Fucking asshole)

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It’s always been on the agenda on the right to try and privatize mail. Nice huge grift and break unions at the same time.

Engineering a crisis is just the opportunity they’ve been waiting for. Except that the Constitution gives power to Congress, not the Executive. Keep a close eye on what they try and slip into the next bill.

Also - call his bluff and make him veto a bailout for small businesses.

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Tl;dr: the ā€œhopefulā€ one on remdesivir is the same one I commented on earlier, no useful information came out of it other than ā€œit doesn’t seem to kill people.ā€ Which brings us to the hydroxychloroquine study. It kills people. That is rather less hopeful.

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No mention of the blindness? Or does that only happen after long-term usage?

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Ha, that’s awesome.

Come on now.

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She’s making sure we ALL are socially distant! Even in our art…

Wow! Someone made a cardboard cut out! :rofl:

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Heh!

I wonder if those paintings are both at the Art Institute? I remember that the first one is.

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I dunno… I’m familiar with them both, but am not sure where they are… I’d guess the first one is in France? The American Gothic might be at the Art Institute?

It’s a great meme, tho.

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ā€˜You have to move, you can’t sit down,’ says a resident who cleaned his own favela in Rio.

Together with his brother Tande, Thiago Firmino says that he collected R $ 3.500,00 from his friends and bought sprayers to use in the neighbourhood.

Thiago and Tande Firmino diluted 30 liters of bleach and spent 5 hours disinfecting the alleys of the slum where they live.

ā€œWe are saving lives. The favelas are the last place to receive any kind of benefit. So, we have to move, we can’t sit down, ā€says Thiago.

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