Ongoing coronavirus happenings

Lest we forget, South Korea has drive-thru testing locations. Drive-thru! Pull in, get tested, drive out. And they’re testing 20,000 people a day. That’s close to triple the amount the US has tested in a month.

People here are dying, all to protect corporate profits.

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A week ago he was finally asked point-blank about his decision to gut the CDC’s pandemic response team. His answer began “I just think this is something […] that you can never really think is going to happen…” then he went on and on about how great he’s been at responding to a crisis no one could have possibly foreseen.

Of COURSE people foresaw this kind of crisis—that’s the reason there was a pandemic response team in the first place.

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Look for someone (or multiple someones) to start shorting stocks as soon as the press conference is over.

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The worst part is that Americans invented the drive-thru.

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OohBurn|nullxnull

Nah, I know, none of this is actually funny at all, but it’s that or cry :woman_shrugging:t3:

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I plotted the U.K. government Coronavirus data and the total number of intensive care beds given in a newspaper article (in the Independent) - it looks like we’ll hit a crisis in about two weeks if things continue on the current trajectory

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it’s david lynch(^h^h^h) cronenberg for the win.

( edit: you know. one of those davids. we have the best davids. really the best. even the canadian ones. ahg. :joy_cat: @smulder. @teknocholer. sorry. thanks. )

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Birthplace of (among other innovations) the drive-thru marriage and the drive-thru divorce.

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Attack of the Clones is not a documentary, but it was based on real events

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:question:

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There is, of course, always a tweet.

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@RickMycroft was joking (lightly) about dirty televisions. and that’s an aspect of the movie videodrome.

debbie harry’s ( blondie ) lips come out of the television. people get sucked into televisions. it’s a trippy ( and sometimes disturbing ) movie.

joking in these times is an iffy thing. i like trying to have a light mood when there are circumstances i can’t control. i know it runs some people the wrong way sometimes. hopefully not crossing any lines here.

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Trump said in his afternoon speech that there is a possible bailout of affected industries, here’s a South Park take on it to remind everyone:

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videodrome is david cronenberg not david lynch

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Yeah, me too. Until the last one drops.

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