Where will she park and carry packages and groceries from?

An article I saw said the streets will still be open to residents. It’s just closing them to through traffic and keeping the heavy traffic on the arteries.

OK, through traffic, that's a help.

We still are not getting enough N95 masks to the front lines.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/a-...er/ar-BB13ROGF

The ones we bought got "diverted at customs." I hope Trump gets a decent price from the Russians for them.

There's a factory in Texas that had 4 idle machines for making N95 masks. back in January he was getting orders for a couple thousand a month when suddenly he got orders for 700,00 in a week. He alerted the the government to this buying frenzy from overseas and offered to provide them to our country before exporting. First they ignored him then insulted him. Our government was buying them from overseas through American brokers for between $5 and $6 each. After the politically connected brokers pretty much exhausted their connection they finally gave the Texas dude an order for 1 million masks. He's charging them $0.79 each... and still has 4 machines standing idle.

First potential tropical storm appears to be headed for the gaggle of empty cruise ships hiding out at sea. It may form in two days. So far, most ships are remaining.

First four storms will be Arthur, Bertha, Cristobal and Dolly.

Meanwhile, the Port of Miami has all docks full of cruise ships. Maybe being resupplied? Or maybe preparing to restart operations?

From financial news, these cruise ship lines did not have problem raising money. Despite cries of bankruptcy, large corporations (even foreign cruise ship companies) can obtain all money needed from American financial markets. Its the little guy who banks tend to ignore.

Trump is in PA trying to gin up the anti-mask crowd. Lil'G started her vacation today. Unfortunately, one of her boys spiked a fever during her last shift and apparently a staff member had to go home with a fever today. 3 kids are being tested one negative so far...

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Verry ingteresting... if not yet clinically proven.

I've always thought that I could hold up under waterboarding for somewhat longer than average because I use a neti pot so often. It's basically just willfully drowning yourself in saltwater--but boy does it get the job done (the neti pot, I mean, not the torture.)

You should send that to the CIA as a suggestion for inclusion in their interrogation resistance program.

Hmmm... sounds like an easy change to make.

Worst tea ever, though.

Up your nose with a rubber hose.

****shudders****
**winces**
***shudders some more***

I honestly think I'd rather prep for a colonoscopy.

Let's do some experiments. I've got this secret facility in Hungary where we can test you without any outside interference or knowledge that might interfere with those tests.

We have 8 people from my workplace on PTO waiting for test results.

This took longer to hit us than I expected.

uh oh.

at your workplace can y'all space yourselves apart? Reduce exposure? I hope so.

Be safe man.

We're bleaching anything that even slows down.

As of May 20 all 50 States are in the process of opening. I can be back in homes as of next week pending testing and training. I'll likely be tested 2x per week.

Guys please be careful and keep away from people. You never know who is infected.

Yeah, my boss has it. I just got the nose thing, so I am working in isolation until results come back.

Our state here (Qld) is opening up from today so anyone can go anywhere within the state now, but the borders are still closed between the other states. We've had 0 new cases for several days now, and only 1 or 2 or 0 for the last few weeks. Only 5 active cases at present. I think our state governments in general did well in containing the virus, but our federal government are a joke. If it weren't for the state Premiers, we'd be in a mess right now.

My business has tanked though. No weddings or parties for a few months, and almost all of the weddings from this year have moved to next year, so financially things are pretty tight except for the financial packages available through centrelink (our government welfare office). Things are starting to pick up a little bit now that there's a little more certainty. So that's good.

Is the competition - an instant Las Vegas wedding featuring Elvis - back in business yet?

Must-have personal protection wear...
 

I'm so tired of all this virus topic. I'm just waiting for 2021th lol, I believe it will be much better than 2020th.

Me, too. But there's still six months of 2020 to live through, or die from.

Isn't 2021 when COVID-20 is scheduled?

You know what else is unhealthy, getting rammed by an SUV. These are screenshots from a video of these two vehicles plowing into protesters. Came down the street side by side and a pretty good clip, not a 1mph push them back move. The video could be speeded up but hit hard enough to send bodies flying.
I put arrows pointing to a pole at the lower right. Using that pole for reference you can see how far they moved in like two seconds.

just the beta release

This guy survived...

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And the forecast...

CDC June 12th, 2020

~This week CDC received 17 individual national forecasts.

~This week’s national ensemble forecast suggests that there will likely be between 124,000 and 140,000 total reported COVID-19 deaths by July 4th.

~The state-level ensemble forecasts suggest that the number of new deaths over the next four weeks in Arizona, Arkansas, Hawaii, North Carolina, Utah, and Vermont will likely exceed the number reported over the last four weeks. For other states, the number of new deaths is expected to be similar or decrease slightly compared to the previous four weeks.

So, it turns out that having a real estate agent/politician prescribe medicine isn't really the best option.

https://apnews.com/33f67f8aa5ef2280215087f8e5364017

Kinda makes you wonder about Commander Bonespur's diminishing capacity.

If only.

I do not wonder.

I feel those that support him also do not wonder.

I'm certain our confident conclusions are 180° apart.

I heard a cosmetics manufacturer is coming out with a line of makeup that's highly facemask resistant. I don't know which one; but, their slogan will supposedly be: Uneasy, Wheezy, Wretchedly - COVIDGIRL.

Neener neener neener...

They've had a series of breeches. They are looking at their quarantine implementation.

A good article from a top epidemiologist about our realistic outlook.

Some choice quotes:

In that light masks look to be a big deal.

https://www.pnas.org/node/931542.ful...Z6_Jq3eUlfn0x8

Our results show that the airborne transmission route is highly virulent and dominant for the spread of COVID-19. The mitigation measures are discernable from the trends of the pandemic. Our analysis reveals that the difference with and without mandated face covering represents the determinant in shaping the trends of the pandemic. This protective measure significantly reduces the number of infections. Other mitigation measures, such as social distancing implemented in the United States, are insufficient by themselves in protecting the public. Our work also highlights the necessity that sound science is essential in decision-making for the current and future public health pandemics.

It's very hard for folks in Shitkicker MT or NM that don't know anyone who has died or even gotten sick from it to dismiss the constant barrage of conspiracy theories on the net.

Good point.

It's also very easy to dismiss people as fools for believing conspiracy theories, but if you are exposed to enough of it, often coming from sources you trust (family and friends retweeting bogus shit they've been fooled by and of course, ya know, Fox) while simultaneously seeing what appears to be the collapse of legitimate journalism (the President of the United States calling out fake media) - you will more than likely start to view these things less critically and be more accepting of a general sense of suspicion and worry.

I have a cousin closer to NYC whose wife is increasingly frustrated by the conspiracy whack jobs in our family. Our county will likely be the last rural county in PA to go green because we've murdered a bunch of nursing home folks with our shitty attitudes. We're just far enough from NYC to believe we're safe.

Fun fact I learned yesterday: if you call the paramedics for a completely non-COVID reason, they will stand on your porch arguing for 5 minutes that you should carry the patient downstairs to them so that they don't have to enter your home. I get that they have a hard job right now, but Jesus fucking Christ.

If their clothing (protective gear) is contaminated they'd bring it into your house. If your house is contaminated then they and their equipment gets soiled.
And it's not like they charge thousands of dollars. Oh, they do.

Besides, you just have to drag grandma down the stairs not up. Oh wait, you gave her a room in the basement? Bummer. ;)

I hope you learned this second-hand...:(

First hand, unfortunately, but everyone's fine now. There's a bunch of stuff that led up to it, but long story short, Minifob had a sudden crash in blood pressure that caused him to pass out in my arms and stop breathing for a short bit. I got him to the floor and breathing again, albeit erratically, within 15-20 seconds or so. Utterly terrifying, and Mr. Clod and I stayed in his room all night in shifts, but the combination of causes was very identifiable, so there's no concern it will happen again. The paramedics did eventually come upstairs once they understood that the "breathing problems" had nothing to do with COVID and he had in fact tested negative for it just a week ago.

Wow. Rough experience. Sorry Clod.

Asshole tourists with no masks are coming back out to the coast. My town had to pass it's own ordinance requiring masks, so the shopkeepers didn't have to be the "bad guy" in asking people to wear a mask. Locals are now engaged in a "debate" about whether masks are a good idea-- a fact that NO SCIENTIFIC EXPERT disputes. But thanks to oRaNgE dAdDy, a public health crisis is now a ƒucking political issue.

I want to be clear that I mean this in the most offensive way possible-- if you vote Republican and contribute to the current climate of anti-intellectual zombies that are actively TRYING TO SPREAD a deadly virus by avoiding a simple, easy solution, please kill yourself so I can piss on your grave.

Oh, and the local fascists have doxxed my address and made death threats against me online. Because I said they shouldn't threaten to shoot protestors. Because they believed that aNTiFa iS bUsSiNg iN pRoTeStOrS tO sMaLL tOwNs.

Can't the locals just wear diving masks and scuba tanks or something? That way they'll still get those tourist dollars.

and dump the bodies in the ocean.

Shit, I would imagine so!

Glad he's doing better.

Apparently EMS don't have to do their jobs if it's Covid? The only paramedic in my family is kinda typical for around here, they aren't afraid of the "flu" and are weirdly offended by masks. As PA begins growing cases again, I'm wondering when NYS puts PA on the quarantine list and I end up unemployed.

One ply, two ply, three ply,... more
 

My buddies Mom, a right wing nut herself, got into an altercation with a truck load of mask-resistors at an Ice Cream shop. I guess it's big news on FB because these guys are fighting oppression. Strange times.

The fit and breathability of the mask are just as important as the filtration. Possibly more important.

If the fabric weave of the mask is too tight, with a really high thread count, or too many layers, it just acts as a diverter to funnel your breath out the sides and around your nose. Nothing gets filtered.

Nothing new. Nazis in 1930 Germany were also fighting this same oppression.

Did they have strawmen in the 1930s?

From the first article I linked:

Seems like they were looking at expendable clothing as a common denominator.

You left out frequency of washing.