BBC: China pneumonia outbreak: COVID-19 Global Pandemic

[TK]

[Bang]

Prediction:
within 4 days Trump will wonder aloud whether one or more of these would help COVID 19 patients:

1. Shooting the virus as it gathers in the lungs (may be said in variation of "Ventilating the chests of these people", or " the NRA has been working on an interesting theory")
2. Zyklon B
3. Drowning the virus by filling the lungs with water. 
4. Inhaling flames
5. Flattening the body with a steamroller or a large stone to squeeze the virus out.

 

~Bang

[The Evil Genius]

[LD0506]

[No Excuses]

Imagine being so bad at your job that doing this is a necessity:

 

 

The “both sides” reflex of the media industry really left them unprepared for the avalanche of Trumpian BS we’re living under.z 

[FanboyOf91]

 

[Cooked Crack]

His supporters now have the official line to run with.

[Cooked Crack]

 

 

 

 

[twa]

1 hour ago, The Sisko said:

 

 

You've gone on about the UV stuff and now this.

 

the oleander extract has been under testing for covid use for awhile

 

 

Edited April 24, 2020 by twa
dbl post

[Jumbo]

given what "conservatism" has degenerated to in this nation i have a hard time with anyone who still thinks it's a brand to associate yourself with or worth defending in any way at any level, really, other than in 'philosophical' political discussions

(that's just a general comment)

 

i think that would typically be considered an extreme position even now and certainly pre-bush2

 

sometimes "extreme" is one of the qualities of the best choice available and i keep succumbing to the idea that we're actually well past that point

 

ideally, there will be a large enough movement at ballot boxes across the nation to defang the gop as thoroughly as possible and that such a hoped-for voter reaction will be honestly tallied and recorded and the results upheld...then it will take social and political movements of great energy, resolve, and commitment to end the ugly influences that underlie so much of the gop party and a majority of its constituents

 

then maybe the intelligent aspects of classical conservatism can regain some respect and we can finally concentrate on fixing the dems

 

pie in the sky wishful thinking, but it's a saturday morning...i mean friday.... and the sun is out and the air is clean and that stimulates sunny thoughts

[FanboyOf91]

 

[Sacks 'n' Stuff]

This reminds me of the time George Bush asked if we could make airplanes out of nerf after 9/11. TWA was all, “they already make footballs out of nerf so it’s not that far fetched.”

 

edit: I kid. I love twa. I love everybody today. Chase Young injected directly into the bloodstream cures everything.

Edited April 24, 2020 by Sacks 'n' Stuff

[The Sisko]

23 minutes ago, twa said:

the oleander extract has been under testing for covid use for awhile

Fine, but I wanna know what you think about the primary focus of your lord and savior’s cures, the disinfectants? Maybe a treatment idea from a very stable genius is what we need to bring this liberal hoax “pandemic” to an end.

 

[ExoDus84]

You know, I dont want to sound too harsh, but I say if people are dumb enough to run out and take shots of lysol because our degenerate, dementia-ridden moron of a President tells them to, then so be it. I think the human race is long overdue for a Darwin-esque purge to cleanse the gene pool of abject stupidity.

 

The tide pod munchers are holding us back.

[twa]

4 minutes ago, Sacks 'n' Stuff said:

This reminds me of the time George Bush asked if we could make airplanes out of nerf after 9/11. TWA was all, “they already make footballs out of nerf so it’s not that far fetched.”

 

composite foams are a thing in aviation, especially wing designs.

metal foam is actually kinda cool

[Jumbo]

1 minute ago, Sacks 'n' Stuff said:

This reminds me of the time George Bush asked if we could make airplanes out of nerf after 9/11. TWA was all, “they already make footballs out of nerf so it’s not that far fetched.”

 

 

you need to read a post i made just a few back in this thread and then edit your gratuitous violation

 

if you were only going for humor in a good-natured way, that's different, but the timing's bad  so still edit

 

[Dan T.]

14 minutes ago, Jumbo said:

given what "conservatism" has degenerated to in this nation i have a hard time with anyone who still thinks it's a brand to associate yourself with or worth defending in any way at any level, really, other than in 'philosophical' political discussions

(that's just a general comment)

 

 

Read this piece from conservative columnist Michael Gerson:

 

The GOP has reached its sad, inevitable destination

April 23, 2020

 

When I think I have reached the bottom of my dejection about the state of public health and of the economy, I can always turn to the state of the Republican Party and go lower still.

 

The Trump captivity of the GOP has reached its sad, inevitable destination: a failed presidency defended by a cowed party. As President Trump’s malignant narcissism and incompetence have been fully revealed — and can be objectively measured by the level of needless death from covid-19 — his approval among Republicans has remained strong. Across a continent filled with elected Republicans, only a few have taken a stand for sanity and effective governance.

 

Trump is, no doubt, in a perilous political situation. The activist right wing of his party has seized on social distancing as the health-care equivalent of socialism. The tea party fundraising machine has lurched into loud, clanking motion, trying to manufacture outrage against epidemiology. Some pro-life and pro-family groups have joined in the ill-timed promotion of social anarchy.

 

The president seldom defies the right-wing populists, and his immediate response was to identify with their anger. But this is a different political circumstance from any Trump has faced. In this case, pleasing the most vocal portion of his base puts another important constituency — older voters — at additional risk of painful, suffocating death. It is difficult to play both sides of this issue. And there are indications in recent polling that seniors have grown increasingly critical of Trump’s pandemic response.

 

Yet none of this is likely to change the minds of partisan Republicans. Some ignore or dismiss Trump’s cruelty and deception because conservative judges need to be appointed and the culture war needs to be fought. Some embrace his cruelty and deception because conservative judges need to be appointed and the culture war needs to be fought. And Trump naturally takes continued Republican job approval as an endorsement for his handling of the coronavirus crisis. In this way, Republican tolerance for Trump’s ineptitude and ignorance has made these traits more lethal.

 

It is sometimes useful to stare the worst possible political outcome full in the face. If Trump were reelected in November, he would place his stamp on Republican identity for a generation. The purges of dissidents would accelerate. Resistance within the party would dwindle from rare to vanishingly rare. A party of angry white people would head toward its demographic doom. And even then, Trump acolytes would probably reject ideological and racial outreach, preferring their resentments to the possibility of deliverance.

 

A reelection defeat for Trump would open up a small space for ideological reconsideration and renovation. Trump and his clan would not disappear. They would do anything they could to claw their way back to power. But if Trump loses, it will be because he alienated the suburban Republicans and independents that his party lost in the 2018 midterm elections. This would provide a window of opportunity for Republican leaders to combine a concern for the legitimate needs of rural and working-class whites with an agenda of upward economic mobility and minority outreach — and to do this while embracing the high cause of effective governance, capable of acting boldly to defend the health and security of the country.

 

Rest of it here:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/reforming-the-gop-begins-by-voting-democratic-in-november/2020/04/23/24d47534-8582-11ea-878a-86477a724bdb_story.html

 

The conclusion from this life-long, Heritage Foundation, Bush speech-writing Republican is that only a Trump defeat can save the GOP.

[Hooper]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-52406261

 

Remdesivir flops first clinical trial. I guess it's time to inject some bleach.

[Llevron]

1 hour ago, Cooked Crack said:

His supporters now have the official line to run with.

they have been running with the brietbart thing all day though so you just know they will be too embarrassed to changed excuses mid stream like that! 

[Die Hard]

2 hours ago, Bang said:

Prediction:
within 4 days Trump will wonder aloud whether one or more of these would help COVID 19 patients:

1. Shooting the virus as it gathers in the lungs (may be said in variation of "Ventilating the chests of these people", or " the NRA has been working on an interesting theory")
2. Zyklon B
3. Drowning the virus by filling the lungs with water. 
4. Inhaling flames
5. Flattening the body with a steamroller or a large stone to squeeze the virus out.

 

~Bang

 

Relating to #5, there was blood-letting and leeches not too long ago.

 

How about electroshock therapy? COVID won’t know what the F hit it!

Edited April 24, 2020 by Die Hard

[No Excuses]

41 minutes ago, Hooper said:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-52406261

 

Remdesivir flops first clinical trial. I guess it's time to inject some bleach.

There’s legitimate concerns with the scope and nature of the Chinese trial. I wouldn’t put much weight behind it, there are better structured trials happening in the US and Europe.

[visionary]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Califan007 The Constipated]

1 hour ago, Cooked Crack said:

His supporters now have the official line to run with.

 

 

 

[visionary]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited April 24, 2020 by visionary

[Die Hard]

2 hours ago, Cooked Crack said:

His supporters now have the official line to run with.

 

Remember that time that Donald Trump used sarcasm (in his Tweets, press briefings, interviews etc) ?

 

Yeah, me neither.

 

Where’s all that sarcasm.... when reporters are being ‘nasty’??

 

I mean, Trump’s idea of being clever is calling someone “shifty”.

Edited April 24, 2020 by Die Hard