Ongoing coronavirus happenings

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Save Ferrets!

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Asshole Pres makes America look bad.

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Thank you for posting - I haven’t heard about it. This is so pathological I don’t have words for it. It’s obviously not there yet, but it seems like it’s going in the direction of cruelty WWII-era Nazi Germany forces reveled in.

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The supreme court livestreaming a case about the president hiding his tax returns that might reveal the extent of his hush payments to a pornstar because of a deadly pandemic that could easily wipe out the judges (except maybe RBG who could possibly outlive us all)…

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This was the only way I was able to get a home inspector. All of the requirements for selling my house were done before the virus hit (except post-inspection repairs, which could not be done because that work was non-essential). The inspector for my condo was only working on unoccupied places.

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Headline excited me briefly, but turns out they’re not talking about Trump.

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On Saturday, a local newspaper published the number of deaths, positive test results, and negative test results for Philadelphia and surrounding counties. Based on that, just under 3% of the population in my county have been tested. People are having protests for the right to get a haircut. :astonished: :mask:

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Well that regulation worked for only a few hours

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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/annals-of-reopening-2

Net approval ratings of governors vs Trump (latest polls)

Governor Trump Difference
MA +74 -41 115
NY +69 -31 100
OH +74 -3 77
CA +45 -29 74
ME +34 -21 55
PA* +44 -7 51
NC* +40 -3 43
MI* +38 0 38
TX +38 0 38
WI* +36 -1 37
AZ* +23 -4 27
FL* +20 -6 26
GA* -9 0 +9

The starred states are the seven key presidential battlegrounds—the states that will decide the next president of the United States.

Note: woah! I don’t realize there was a pseudo-markup, or whatever it’s called, for tables!

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BBC is reporting that the true number of coronavirus deaths in the U.K. could be 50,000

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It was always in the Markdown standard but I seem to remember it didn’t use to work in Discourse

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That Moscow Mitch has already said will never see the light of day. Nice try, though.

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The stupid is infectious.

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What doesn’t kill rural folk just makes them stronger!

:pensive:

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Not so much 2020 Twitter as just 2020 in general.

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