Ongoing coronavirus happenings

So the Rockefellers are behind the conspiracy? Wow, this takes me back to the conspiracy theories of my childhood. How quaint!

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My impression from the grocery store tonight…

There were people wearing masks, some improvised, but lots not wearing one. I also noticed that the people without didn’t take distancing seriously, or ignored it. Ontario isn’t anywhere near opening up. Doug Ford, praise zen!, is talking about a gradual opening up, with lots of guidelines and rules.

I think that a lot of people have jailbreak fever, caught from Trumpland, or reports from Europe of places weeks ahead of us testing those waters. They think that soon we’ll be back to normal, not realizing that opening up means being even more careful to compensate for less self-isolation.

Ugh, this will be a tragic mess. I think I’ll start shopping at 8am.

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I’m sure that they really mean the (((Rockefellers))).

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I remember in the 60s that the one thing that the extreme right and left could agree on was that Rockefeller was the root of all evil, trying to create a world government in which all regular people would be slaves. This was stuff right out of the Protocols, with the antisemitic bits lightly whited out. (And then people associated with him did create the Trilateral Commission; make of that what you will.)

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(The Norwegian health department spokesperson suggests that elementary children have spread the virus less while in school than at home, because they are more structured in school. For context, we are in the 2nd week of Norway’s careful reopening of elementary schools.)

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So, it’s the Libs’ fault yet again.


Edited to add, because I’ve already got two posts in a row…

From the excuse she gave at your link:

Recently, I had to choose between insulin and food, and I chose the insulin, which helps me stay alive; however, that left extraordinarily little money for food after paying for medical insurance and insulin.

So, this means she’s going to vote a straight Democratic ticket this November, right? Right???

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Yep, Purplecat is really Upton something there.

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Like a preacher, they really make the Sin Clair.

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Thread.

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Now “in stereo”.

Reuters: Malaria drug touted by Trump for coronavirus fails another test

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/health-news/malaria-drug-touted-by-trump-for-coronavirus-fails-another-test/ar-BB13KQ4Z?ocid=spartanntp

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Slavitt is great. He outlines (incidentally) what made Trump such a bad businessperson while showing how badly he’s managed the pandemic response. A good business leader sets a strategy, including investments, timelines, milestones, and contingencies. What Trump did is throw the strategy out the window as soon as he got nervous. Just like a bad businessman.

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These notices are posted on end caps behind where you check out; I doubt many people even notice them.
I am torn between I’m good with, in effect, tipping workers in this terrible time and holy shit, Ocean State, how fucking sleazy.

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My issue is that one never knows for sure
if the associates are truly getting the 2%, or if the 2% service charge is used to offset the $2 raise? I’m sure there is someone holding the store accountable?

Also, some shoppers may be unemployed and watching their money. A couple dollars extra isn’t a lot for me, but it may mean everything to someone else. And having them advise the cashier that they decline the surcharge is kind of shitty.

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… and somehow we seem to have found ourselves in that world in which slothful stupidity, bumbling greed and incompetence; it turns out - could be even more dangerous than outright malice and evil could ever hope to be

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Fucking this :point_down:

It’s all just posturing. “Opening the economy” won’t get people to buy shit if they are too scared to leave their house. Maybe if Trump didn’t spend so much time with his thumb up his ass we’d be in better shape now.

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