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JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

White supremacy is terrorism.

Fuck the extremist election deniers. What’s money for if not for keeping them out of office?

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

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We are aware of all internet traditions.

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

Not all heroes wear capes.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

Second rate reporter says what?

And we’re all out of bubblegum.

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  2. 2.

    Another Scott

    Our red buds in NoVA are starting to bud today.

    And raven posted downstairs!

    That’s about all I’ve got.

    :-/

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  5. 5.

    Martin

    My wife made cookies. They’re wonderful. I’d share but social distancing…

    And its raining in SoCal which remains bigger news than Covid, despite all of us being unable to go out.

    Animal Crossing New Horizons comes out tomorrow. My daughter only needs to survive the next 8 hours and 20 minutes.

  6. 6.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    BREAKING: Tulsi Gabbard suspends her campaign and endorses Joe Biden.

    Has hell frozen over too?

  8. 8.

    cain

    We engineers are all trying to use our skills to help out.  https://helpfulengineering.org/ – the slack is full of people coming together to help build masks, respiratory machine parts, new ways of doing respiratory machines from other sources.

    All hands on deck. I joined merely to give money and help fund them.

    our rich are completely detached.. they should be coming together and help pay for masks and what  not? I thought private enterprise was sooo much more efficient in all this. Looks like our masters of the universe are not that great at helping society at large.

  9. 9.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    I went to my old hometown and took a hike that my dad and I used to often take.  It’s a waterfall in a park that we used to hike in alot.  I’d not been down there in 43 years.

  10. 10.

    JPL

    I was able to order both dog food and hall’s lozenges online so that’s good.    OH, and I purchased 24 vacuum cleaner bags and now and looking for a tutorial on how to convert them into masks.   My good news kinda sucks doesn’t it.

  12. 12.

    Lacuna Synecdoche

    @Martin:

    My wife made cookies. They’re wonderful. I’d share but social distancing…

    … has become unexpectedly convenient?

    I want cookies, dammit!

  13. 13.

    Marcopolo

    Tulsi being more responsible than Bernie. Who coudanode.

    At our house we are blessed to have a steady income so we’ve made a weekly schedule for take out from our favorite places.

    It’ll be a change normally we eat out every couple weeks. Looking forward to some really good chocolate desserts.

  15. 15.

    zhena gogolia

    I resisted watching Stephen Colbert’s Covid-related bits, but I watched his monologue where he’s sitting on his porch and it was really funny and really good. He hits just the right note — not mindlessly making light of it, but managing to be quite funny anyway, without a studio audience. It reminded me of his masterly performance in front of GWB at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, where he kept going despite the absence of laughter. He really is a master.

  22. 22.

    debbie

    @Mary G:

    My local CVS has something similar.

    I’m taking tomorrow off to find wipes, paper towels, etc., and I bet none of the lines will be spaced correctly. ?

  23. 23.

    dmsilev

    @Marcopolo: I’m planning on doing the same thing. Just bought lunch at one of my regular places (at 3:30. Sigh. Today was a bloody mess.) and am going to try to order dinner out twice a week or so.

    The local government here is putting together a convenient directory of all places offering carry out or delivery, including places that didn’t usually do so. Might be worth checking if your area is doing something similar.

  25. 25.

    The Dangerman

    @Martin:

    My wife made cookies. They’re wonderful.

    OK, that’s it, I’m calling it. It’s a Ben and Jerry’s night and the store better not be sold out. I know store runs are supposed to be for emergency rations, but … Ben and Jerry’s should qualify, right?

    Life’s too short (damn, that used to be kinda funny) for non-premium ice cream some nights.

    Thanks, Martin’s wife.

  28. 28.

    Cheryl Rofer

    Yay I finished cleaning my house!

    I started on the weekend. It usually takes a day with many breaks in between. Everything seems to take longer these days.

    But I always feel good with a clean house.

    And the kitties are fed

    ETA: Also should have a big post up tomorrow on the Imperial College modeling study.

  29. 29.

    Benw

    Lots of great bands are live-streaming on social media. Search up Parsonsfield on FB or IG and listen to some delightful live folk Music every afternoon!

  30. 30.

    Mike J

    Good news for me, my bi-weekly  club level sailing race is on for this weekend.  We’ve amended the Racing Rules of Sailing:

    18.2(a) When two boats are overlapped, the outside boat shall give the inside boat social distance, unless rule 18.2(b) applies.

  32. 32.

    Scout211

    Good news for my family:  BIL, who is in ICU at Florida Hospital with lung infection just tested negative for COVID-19.  So he is still in ICU, but not in air-borne isolation, so my sister can visit him.

    We are all so relieved.

  33. 33.

    debbie

    @Cheryl Rofer:

    My excuse for not dusting is that I don’t want to disturb whatever viruses are all over my furniture. At least I’ll know they aren’t swirling around in the air.

  35. 35.

    A Ghost to Most

    The FUCK sign with the death’s head is just the spring accessory to dress up our front door

    : Runs to garage, looking for wood to carve. Envisions brass death’s head:

  37. 37.

    David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch

    @Baud: Putin sees the value of his assets melting.  Knows economy runs better under Democrats.

  40. 40.

    PsiFighter37

    NYT headline says that the Senate GOP plan includes ‘large corporate tax cuts’. Fuck those assholes. Their solution to everything is raining money upon big companies. I hope Nancy Smash laughs in their face and passes something before the Senate does.

  42. 42.

    White & Gold Purgatorian

    Did some digging in the garden this afternoon. Planted some spinach seeds. The lettuce is almost big enough to start harvesting (yay!) but the real happy news comes from the tomatoes: 3 of them are about to bloom! Yes, great big buds on the Juliet and both Whoppers and it’s only March 19. So happy. We may need that garden produce this year, unlike normal times when it is nice but not necessary.

  43. 43.

    trollhattan

    @PsiFighter37:

    Obama used to riff on tax cuts being the Republican solution to virtually everything. It was very funny and reminiscent of Chris Rock’s “put some Tussin on it!” routine.

  47. 47.

    debbie

    @PsiFighter37:

    At his press conference, Trump declined to promise that he would insist bailouts not be diverted to CEOs and their ilk or used for stock buybacks. We all know how this will turn out.

    I must say I was surprised that he had dropped the “Chinese” from “Chinese Virus.” Someone got through to him.

  51. 51.

    Mary G

    Not exactly happy, but I was comforted by this post on Chuck Wendig’s blog: It’s Okay That You’re Not Okay

    Shit’s fucked up. It just is. As I noted yesterday, it’s as if we’re witnessing the ghost of normalcy rather than normalcy itself — it died so fast, it hasn’t yet left this plane of existence, and so it lingers, refusing to be banished until an exorcism finally sends it packing. These are abnormal, bizarre, confounding, dipshitted, batshitted, extraordinarily fucked-up times.

    You don’t have to be okay with that.

    You probably shouldn’t be okay with that.

    More to the point, you also don’t need to do it all. You don’t need to get it all done. You don’t need to clean your house from top to bottom. You don’t need to homeschool your kids into super-geniuses. You don’t need to write King Fucking Lear or discover a new scientific principle. You don’t need to be happy. We’re all in mourning from the death of normalcy. We’re all knocked off balance, like someone just kicked your bike as you were riding it. You ended up in the ditch. We’re all in the ditch with you. It’s okay to just sit here in the ditch for a while and say, “Fuck.” It’s okay to wait before you stretch, before you stand up with a groan and see what’s broken. It’s okay to sit on your couch and gorge on bad TV. It’s okay to read a shitty book. It’s okay to not finish the shitty book. It’s okay to let your kids be kids and just tell them they’re on spring break right now. You don’t need to be an A+ parent, and they don’t need to be A+ kids, and you don’t need to be an A+ spouse. Christ, you don’t even need to be an A+ human. Aim for B, maybe B-, C+, just hold it the fuck together.

    Forgive it in yourself and forgive it in those around you, too.

  52. 52.

    Barbara

    @Marcopolo: The plan here is twice a week to visit my local cafe for as long as it’s open. Still dining in for now but diners are seated far apart.

  59. 59.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    Here’s a post someone left on my FB page today. I thought it was good.

    Daily Quarantine Questions

    1. What am I grateful for today?
    2. Who am I checking in on or connecting with today?
    3. What expectations of “normal” am I letting go of today?
    4. How am I getting outside today?
    5. How am I moving my body today?
    6. What beauty am I either creating or cultivating or inviting in today?
  65. 65.

    trollhattan

    Back to the office first time since last week to check out my shinyold, slow and tiny laptop and do some not-from-home stuff. Pretty empty, I should work there.

    Then dared a Costco run and while the lot wasn’t packed the store was really busy. They were restocking the aisle that normally has TP so none to be had, even if they had it in store which I never verified. Got a few needed items and got the hell out. Not everything on the list, but it’s March 2020, yo.

    Normally jammed midtown freeway was more like 2 a.m. Sunday. Everybody going 80.

    Can hardly stand the excitement.

    Spouse bought made-in-China “bamboo fiber” TP at the hippie coop. Don’t, if you don’t have to. In addition to the meager and rather rough roll it’s nearly an inch narrower than real ‘murican stuff. Next, I’ll probably discover we have bamboo sprouting in the sewer. By the willow.

  71. 71.

    Tim C.

    A few things,

    One, my efforts as a Teacher apparently have borne fruit. Several parents, many from my AP Government class have Emailed to say their kids miss me the most.   Other parents from other classes too. It’s something that matters to most of us teachers.  A lot.

    Second, my kids are actually getting more outside time, we have a small yard and the enforced, “Go out an play” is pretty much a great thing, the weather is awesome the last week we’ve been out of school.

    Third,  I’m beyond grateful my 70 something parents are doing better than John’s in terms of hunkering down and accepting the new reality.   It takes a burden off my mind.

    Stay safe out there fellow jackals.  This community is a good one.

  72. 72.

    Sister Golden Bear

    Wise words from my friend, and fellow cynical Gen Xer, especially for younger folks:

    i’ve lived through the AIDS crisis and 9/11, blackouts and hurricanes and a kidnapping and none of those things prepared me for this.

    so this is just to say, to the younger people who are freaking out: no one is prepared for this. it’s not because you’re young. it’s because there is and was no plan in place….

    i am not the one who can lighten the mood by any means but i am here if you don’t want to freak other people out about how gloomy and despondent you are. you will not freak me out with your pessimism or fear. these are my normals.

    a new normal will emerge, but these first days are a period of adjustment to change none of us wanted.

    we’re all making this up as we go. your core of self reliance, your ability to appreciate beauty, your love of the small things – all of these are muscles and this will strengthen those. lean into the growth, even into the fear. you are more than you know.

  75. 75.

    mrmoshpotato

    @trollhattan: Next, I’ll probably discover we have bamboo sprouting in the sewer. By the willow.

    You think the willow would allow that?  I would expect an epic beatdown of the bamboo.  I mean, the bamboo would put up a good, pokey fight, but…  Fuckin’ epic sewer battle!

  76. 76.

    debbie

    @raven:

    I liked the entire series more than I thought I would. Especially since they only gave 15 minutes to the Spangly Period.

  77. 77.

    something fabulous

    Let’s *make* it happy news! …My senior kitty Milo (working at his desk in April on the BJ calendar) just came home from his follow up visit at the vet. They gave him anti-nausea and antacid shots, sub-q fluids (and taught me how to do it, and supplies to take home to start), and though he is completely dopey and has that creepy fluids bulge, this is the first time he’s eaten like he’s hungry in more than a week, which is great news for his diabetes. We’ll take it!

    Also great: just paged through the calendar to remind self which month he’s on for this note and am reminded how fabulous it is. Great work! And lovely pets, y’all!

  81. 81.

    SiubhanDuinne

    Brad Paisley, huh?

    Wait … isn’t he … wasn’t he … the guy in a Balloon Juice rotating tag once upon a time?

     

    ETA: Like, he mentioned BJ on an episode of Prairie Home Companion or something?

  82. 82.

    lamh36

    Not “happy” news, but I am currently “in class” via Zoom conference software.

    Teacher is droning on and I’m tired AF trying to pay attention.  Which is much harder to do when the person teaching isn’t RIGHT in front of you.

  88. 88.

    Mnemosyne

    @something fabulous:

    Cats really do accept sub-q fluids more easily than you’d think. I think it makes them feel better quickly enough that  they can make the association between the bag o’ fluids and feeling better. Good luck!

  94. 94.

    p.a.

    @debbie:

    I must say I was surprised that he had dropped the “Chinese” from “Chinese Virus.” Someone got through to him.

     

    Probably took a few days of yelling at him that we need their expertise and production.  He will backslide.

     

    Good: found some tp for my GF’s 2 preschool grandkids, the ‘rents are running low, and a big pack of Ivory bar soap for me (the Alton Brown ‘how to wash your hands’ vid recommends it.)

    Groceries and druggists should (taking their lives in hand I acknowledge) limit shoppers’ numbers.  It’s really difficult to maintain social distance in a market aisle when there are people everywhere.  Forget where I was but they were counting off to allow 25 in at a time.

  95. 95.

    trollhattan

    @mrmoshpotato: 
    The Worst!
    PPV is going to cover my Trumpcession losses post haste.

    My money’s on willow, but those bamboo shoots are awfully tasty.

  96. 96.

    Mnemosyne

    @WaterGirl:

    I once had a dream that Cole invited us all over to his house for a giant sleepover. It was actually really fun even though some people had to sleep in the hallway in sleeping bags.

  98. 98.

    WaterGirl

    I made chocolate cake with chocolate chunks yesterday, and I have only had it 3 times so far, so I’m doing pretty good, right?  I also have vanilla ice cream with it, but not much ice cream because it has to last.

  103. 103.

    Mnemosyne

    @p.a.:

    He has his frat kids over, so I think he doesn’t mind cooking for a crowd. He just doesn’t want people trying to make conversation all the damn time.

  104. 104.

    mali muso

    Ventured out to Costco today to make sure that we are well stocked with food supplies in the freezer and pantry.  There was a line to get in as they only allow a small number of people in at one time, but I only had to wait about 15 minutes.  No TP, sanitizer, paper products, wipes, etc. but I was just there for food anyways.  My low-level anxiety is much improved now that I have meat in the deep freezer, a 25 pound bag of rice and many cans of Spam and sardines.  It’s the little things… :)

  105. 105.

    Mary G

    Our 5 year old seems to have deemed himself the local virus warden.

    Over the fence to our neighbour:

    ‘JEAN YOU NEED TO GO INSIDE’
    ‘Okay I will in a minute’
    ‘YOU’RE OLD AND THERE’S A VIRUS’
    ‘I’m not that old thank you’
    ‘HOW OLD ARE YOU JEAN?’
    ‘I’m 68.’
    ‘THAT IS NEARLY 70 JEAN.’
    — Adam Bedford (@adambedders) March 19, 2020

  109. 109.

    Feathers

    One of my go-to rabbitholes on the internets is Lia Kim choreography videos.

    Lia Kim: Ed Sheeran – Shape of You

    Lia Kim: Starship – Nicki Manaj (Beginner’s Class)

    Lots more. 96 videos in 1Million Dance Studio Playlist. La La Latch, This is What You Came For, Drunk in Love, Redbone, and Down are some of my faves. She dances first, sometime alone, and then it repeats with other dancers, IDK if students or teachers. BTW, beginners in this context means one clear move per beat of the music.

    She’s Korean and her studio in Seoul seems to have reopened.

  110. 110.

    Heidi Mom

    @raven: Good movie!  Recalling conversations from some years ago, my candidates to replace Bogart and Bergman in Casablanca were Denzel and Juliette.  And I don’t know if this exactly qualifies as good news, but–two of my favorite actors, Kristofer Hivju and Idris Elba, are apparently doing OK with isolation-at-home after being diagnosed with coronavirus.

  115. 115.

    zhena gogolia

    @Baud:

    Reports from my friend in Moscow. It’s happy thread, so I can’t go into detail. Pretty much like here, only with even worse hospitals and national leadership.

  117. 117.

    Gin & Tonic

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:  A bit far for you folks, but I was pleasantly surprised by Darwin Falls in Death Valley. It was the middle of July, IIRC, and Badwater was ~120, but that was a real nice oasis. And nobody there.

    I think I’ve posted a pic or two from there, but right now I’m on the wrong machine to look for my photos.

  118. 118.

    zhena gogolia

    @lamh36:

    Not good news for my Monday class! I’ll try not to drone on. I think it’s going to be a kind of Monty Python sketch.

  120. 120.

    Gin & Tonic

    @zhena gogolia: Ukraine seems to have things reasonably under control. My son is ignoring the DoS advisory and staying in Kyiv, but he’s there until September-ish at least, and there are other complicating factors. Just means it will be a while before anyone from here visits him.

  125. 125.

    Origuy

    Starting tomorrow at 12 EST and going through the weekend, a group of international musicians will be live-streaming from their Instagram accounts. There are Spanish, Scottish, and many others. It’s free, but there is a PayPal link to support the artists. More at https://stayathomefestival.com/

  135. 135.

    burnspbesq

    @Tom Levenson:

    indeed. Apparently Brad Paisley did a similar streaming show earlier, and Benjamin Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie is doing one at 7:00 Eastern tomorrow.

  138. 138.

    Citizen Alan

    @Baud: If I were a conspiracy theorist, I would say Hillary very efficiently destroyed Tulsi’s ability to serve as a 3rd Party spoiler, and so she decided (was ordered?) to make nice with the mainstream Democratic Party in order to preserve her viability in the future.

  141. 141.

    Baud

    @Citizen Alan:

    Hillary Clinton asked a New York court to throw out a lawsuit by presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard, who claims the former Secretary of State defamed her by saying the Hawaii Congresswoman was “a Russian asset” and “the favorite of the Russians.”

     

    “This lawsuit — which seeks $100 million in damages for a single passing remark made by Secretary Clinton in a 40-minute podcast interview about the 2020 election — is an effort by Rep.Gabbard to silence her political critics while making political headlines,” Clinton said in papers filed Friday in Manhattan Federal Court.

  142. 142.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Baud: ::shutters::

    @WaterGirl: Well, yeah.  But I’ve been talked down.  Somehow endorsing Biden is vital to the next stage in her grift and does not reflect poorly on Biden qua Biden.

  144. 144.

    Arclite

    @Walker:”I honestly did not expect that of Tulsi”

     

    Me neither.  Maybe the COVID19 response finally convinced her.

  145. 145.

    mrmoshpotato

    Biden crushing Wilmer now makes me happy.

    I’m also tempted to sign up for Twitter – to call Kyle a whiny-ass baby bitch.

    Such a great feeling to come upon a tweet as asinine is this and realize you’ve blocked most of the Berner replies. https://t.co/osI69n4Kj4— Hillary Warned Us of Apocalypse (@HillaryWarnedUs) March 19, 2020

  147. 147.

    Arclite

    @delk: “I don’t have to put out my “You Can’t Spell Tulsi Gabbard without LGBT” signs.”

    Her father was a local politician here and a vicious homophobe.

  148. 148.

    Arclite

    @Citizen Alan: “@Baud: If I were a conspiracy theorist, I would say Hillary very efficiently destroyed Tulsi’s ability to serve as a 3rd Party spoiler, and so she decided (was ordered?) to make nice with the mainstream Democratic Party in order to preserve her viability in the future.”

    That’s a good assessment.

  149. 149.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Arclite: True.  Putin’s orange bitch is still in, instead of fleeing the country, but the fewer Russki ratfuckers the better.

  153. 153.

    Chris Johnson

    I got some things :)

    I’m doing more music streams, techno and ambient jams, and a guy named Colin Benders who’s much more famous than me has also returned to music streaming! You might check out his youtube stuff if you like synthesis.

    Also, I have an unorthodox approach to apocalypse. If I think ‘what happens if my bank goes bust and the money is all gone’, I might respond ‘what tool did I always wish I had, that I never got, and now I technically could and still have something of a buffer financially?’ And the answer to that is, a Wacom Cintiq. Art tablet/monitor thing. So I will be trying to do visual arts and animation, hopefully it’ll work out for me. Also 3D stuff in Blender, which can also use a screen/tablet and it’s supposed to be so much better that it’ll be really interesting.

    The Cintiq takes some getting used to, but the picture is GLORIOUS. Which I guess of course it is, that’s the whole point. And it’s so much closer than I usually use a screen, that I gotta use my reading glasses :)

  154. 154.

    something fabulous

    @Mnemosyne: —and, too soon for good news. :(

    Just had a low blood sugar crash. Shoved a bunch of honey in his mouth and then he ate a bunch of his own food on his own, so will wait and see for a few minutes before choosing whether or not to go to the *emergency* vet for follow up to the follow up. Because of course the vet who just saw him is closed now; new shorter hours during these times. Arrrrrrrrrrrgh.

  155. 155.

    A Ghost To Most

    Thanks to AL, I’m sitting here with a brass sheet and a dapping block, banging out a comic death’s head for my new door decoration.

  156. 156.

    Anya

    Wut?Tulsi endorsed Biden? I am tempted to check Rose Twitter and Reddit just to watch the meltdown.

  157. 157.

    mvr

    @lamh36:

    Not “happy” news, but I am currently “in class” via Zoom conference software.Teacher is droning on and I’m tired AF trying to pay attention.  Which is much harder to do when the person teaching isn’t RIGHT in front of you.

    Going to be that teacher in a week. Not happy about it but what am I gonna do?

     

     

     

  161. 161.

    David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch

    Updated 2 hours ago

    SACRAMENTO (KABC) — California health officials predict that about 56% of the state’s population — 25.5 million people — will be infected with the novel coronavirus within the next eight weeks, Gov. Gavin Newsom said in a letter to President Donald Trump.

    The letter, dated March 18, echoes a phone conversation with Trump on Tuesday in which Newsom formally requested that the Navy’s USNS Mercy, the largest hospital ship in the world, be deployed to California.

    Oy

  162. 162.

    A Ghost To Most

    Add Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-Greed) to the list of roycohnicans who dumped stock.

  163. 163.

    Jeffro

    Tucker Carlson currently throwing GOP Senator Burr under the bus for his insider trading after receiving a classified briefing on the real threat posted by the coronavirus.

    WOW.

    They get it.  They know they’re not going to survive this unless they go all-in on day-is-night, the GOP-is-the-party-that’s-always-been-on-top-of-this.  Sorry, Burr!

    Loeffler (who did the same thing) will be next.

  164. 164.

    SkyBluePink

    Just received word a friend’s husband received a liver transplant- very happy news!

  165. 165.

    Calouste

    I think in 2024 the Democratic party should have the superdelegates vote before the primaries to determine who is going to be an official Democratic candidate that is eligible to receive delegates. Anyone who doesn’t get 5% of the votes or finishes outside the top 6 or something like that doesn’t get any delegates. No further vanity runs by billionaires or foreign assets.

  167. 167.

    laura

    Roadie brother the elder works for a bass player who did a couple of duets with Brad Paisley for a cancer fundraiser in the San Francisco bay area a year ago. Thought he was a super swell fella and musician. I’d  request the song they rehearsed:

    “First Kiss, First Love, First Cousin.”

  170. 170.

    Anne Laurie

    SiubhanDuinne:Wait … isn’t he … wasn’t he … the guy in a Balloon Juice rotating tag once upon a time?

    IIRC, when Cole & Paisley were both teens, Brad used to play his guitar at Cole Senior’s Elderhostel weekends.  Cuz Paisley was another professor’s kid (at a different college) although he didn’t exactly advertise that bio during his early years in the country-music biz…

  171. 171.

    Anne Laurie

    @Jeffro: Can we get a thread on Burr/Loeffler/Inhofe soon, plz mods?

    There’s already been one downstairs from this, went up at 5:30pm.

  175. 175.

    burnspbesq

    Tucker Carlson is calling on Burr to resign. Didn’t see that coming.

    Another Republican senator, Loeffler of Georgia, has been found apparently trading on inside information.

  176. 176.

    HRA

    My youngest daughter works at the local University in a management position. Last week one of her workers came back from a vacation from China and said she had the flu there that she recovered from before coming back. She called in sick the next day saying the flu came back. Today my daughter said she is now going to work from home starting tomorrow. I have another daughter working at student accounts there. The provost has not shut down the entire school. Students are still living in the dorms. News now from another daughter living in CA. She is trying to see if she has to go to work. She is in the medical/technical field at a hospital.The governor just announced a massive shut down of the state. If I drank, I would need a drink now.

  179. 179.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @HRA:

    CA daughter just sent a photo of tanks coming into her mountain area from San Diego.

    oh boy….

  182. 182.

    WaterGirl

    @HRA: Others in the Anne Laurie Dubious Conversation thread are hoping for more information about the photo of the tanks.

    If you’re still around, maybe you can think about popping into that thread?

  184. 184.

    WaterGirl

    @Mary G:

    Our 5 year old seems to have deemed himself the local virus warden.

    Over the fence to our neighbour:

    ‘JEAN YOU NEED TO GO INSIDE’
    ‘Okay I will in a minute’
    ‘YOU’RE OLD AND THERE’S A VIRUS’
    ‘I’m not that old thank you’
    ‘HOW OLD ARE YOU JEAN?’
    ‘I’m 68.’
    ‘THAT IS NEARLY 70 JEAN.’
    — Adam Bedford (@adambedders)

    I am hearing that in the “I’m sorry, Dave, I can’t do that” voice from 2001.

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