Ongoing coronavirus happenings

Because they don’t care about the health of their employees or their customers…

But it also appears to be untrue… see @mr_raccoon’s link above (which has the full unedited clip from C-Span). It was edited by Jimmy Kimmel’s show. It actually pisses me off, given how many destructive things that administration is actually doing, we don’t need to make shit up. That just feeds into the “both sides” narrative.

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Pseudo-documentary full of outrageous, verifiably false claims is still going viral, despite being repeatedly removed from YouTube and Facebook.
https://retractionwatch.com/2020/05/06/who-is-judy-mikovits/

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Local transit agency increases service from its completely bare bones every two hours in some open lines.

http://septa.org/media/transit-schedule-update.html

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I have performed “Puudutus”, so this gave me all the feels!

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Stephen Miller’s wife.

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I keep thinking that there’s no way that 45’s whole clique doesn’t have it; with all the international travel and no precautionary measures taken up until very recently.

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Makes sense.

“ Stephen Miller, who writes the majority of Trump’s speeches and spends copious amounts of time around the president, Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump.”

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How long is the incubation period, again?

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Two weeks?

Edit:
CDC

The incubation period for COVID-19 is thought to extend to 14 days, with a median time of 4-5 days from exposure to symptoms onset. One study reported that 97.5% of persons with COVID-19 who develop symptoms will do so within 11.5 days of SARS-CoV-2 infection.

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Yeah, I don’t get it…VPOTUS and POTUS likely have been exposed. They should be quarantining for 2 weeks. Not flying on jets and shaking hands, despite negative tests. Irresponsible.

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And doing all that without PPE on?

Who cares if the little people get sick?

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Not entirely false. The boxes he did deliver were apparently full, but he certainly asked about “lifting the empty ones for the cameras.” That’s a shit move.

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And afterwards, all two dozen of them drove home to the suburbs.

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Not according to the article? Seems like it was a joke he made after they had moved the full boxes in, which he did help with. He was joking about moving the empties and did not actually move them as a publicity stunt. He’s an asshole, but Kimmel’s folks were just playing to our expectations of the failures and cruelty of this administration, which I don’t find particularly helpful. It only gives the right ammunition to “bothside” this.

And despite actual moving boxes that were full, if Pence wanted to help, he could actually advocate for policies that are humane, and not this publcity stunt BS (which is what him moving in the full boxes actually contitututes). He’s still a failure as a human being, but just not the way it seems in the edited clip. :woman_shrugging:

[ETA] Here is the Root’s take on the whole thing:

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I hope the William Penn statue flipped them off while they were in town.

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Pence is probably taking lessons in “Ha, made ya look!” stunts from Trump, so he too can lead the media around by its nose.

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Probably so, but to be fair, I don’t think this particular incident is that deep. He just made a joke after they had already done the publicity stunt they came to do.

Kimmel’s team does not look good on this, though.

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I like Trump’s new 2020 slogan.

“Trump 2020: Fuck You Elderly Veterans”

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= tripping balls

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