Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

If you’re pissed about Biden’s speech, he was talking about you.

Roe isn’t about choice, it’s about freedom.

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

T R E 4 5 O N

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

The willow is too close to the house.

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

Consistently wrong since 2002

Republican obstruction dressed up as bipartisanship. Again.

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

Republicans do not pay their debts.

“Squeaker” McCarthy

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires republicans to act in good faith.

I was promised a recession.

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

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COVID-19 Coronavirus Update (International) – Wednesday/Thursday, April 8/9

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    Amir Khalid

    Today’s worldometer numbers for Malaysia: 109 new cases, running total 4,228; two deaths, running total 67. Health \Ministry DG Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah reports there were more patients recovered than new diagnoses in the latest daily numbers*, which is heartening news.

     

    *Daily numbers are reported as of noon Malaysian time.

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    raven

    A note from a friend on evil facebook.

     

    As of yesterday, around 5,600 US citizens have been repatriated from Peru since it closed its borders on March 16. We are beyond thankful to be among them, but we got very lucky. The US Embassy arranged for our pick up in a town 3 hours away, and up until the day before we had no means of getting there, since Peru banned all travel. By chance, we found a guys name on a Facebook chat and this VOLUNTEER, traveling with his wife and 2 small children, took it upon himself to organize us and arrange for a bus with permits for people in his area. Many people were not able to get to their meeting spots, and that could have easily been us.

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    YY_Sima Qian

    The Chinese province with the fastest growth in cases is Heilongjiang in northeastern China: over 100 confirmed cases over the past week, with an even greater number of asymptomatic ones. All of them Chinese nationals fleeing Russia.

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    WereBear

    @YY_Sima Qian: I think this will be the next phase in the US: people in areas handling it badly will try to flee to where it’s under control. I don’t know what governors in the sensible states will do then.

    We already have an informal system to swap medical support to where the problems are; which is not only compassionate, but should help with the dangers of people panicking and trying to flee.

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    OzarkHillbilly

    Revealed: 6,000 passengers on cruise ships despite coronavirus crisis

    Dozens of fatalities have now been linked to cruise ships, with both passengers and crew dying while at sea and after disembarking. Yet, according to analysis using the ship-tracking site CruiseMapper, at least eight ships remain at sea with passengers – including one vessel on which 128 people have tested positive for coronavirus.
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    Cruise industry representatives say they were caught “without warning” by the pandemic. But operators continued to launch cruises as late as mid-March – after the World Health Organization declared the outbreak a pandemic – and companies have been accused of failing to disclose the scale of ship-born outbreaks before allowing passengers to disembark.

    As far back as early February, outbreaks were detected on cruise ships. The Diamond Princess was quarantined in Japan on 4 February after an outbreak onboard which eventually claimed at least 10 lives.

    At least six ships which had coronavirus outbreaks set sail from the US after the CDC advised against cruise travel on 8 March – including two that departed after the WHO’s pandemic declaration.

    Yeah, and they want a bailout?

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    YY_Sima Qian

    @WereBear: That would take coordination at the federal level, which is not just missing in action, but being outright counterproductive.

    China has now closed all land border crossing with Russia. As a matter of policy, China is only allowing entry of citizens, and is doing 100% screening and mandatory 14 day quarantine of all returnees. Taiwan, Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore and Vietnam have implemented similar policies. In Feb. and Mar. many Chinese cities were mandating that all out of city visitor needed to self-quarantine for 14 days, enforces by neighborhood committee workers and community volunteers. Not sure how this would work in the US.

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    PenAndKey

    In Hong Kong, people who have been exposed to coronavirus can get sent to government quarantine centers for isolation — even if they don’t have any symptoms.

    While I understand the rationale from a strictly utilitarian perspective I’ll be honest, I’m thankful I live in an area where forcing people into quarantine isolation centers for potentially being exposed isn’t happening. The whole “we’re going to sacrifice you for the greater good” idea practiced by many cultures and organizations in the world has always struck me as amoral, at best. It might be necessary but I guess that’s why I’m not qualified to make the calls.

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    Skepticat

    The Bahamas has 40 confirmed cases, five recovered cases, and seven deaths. They’ve just revised the emergency order to require people to wear a face covering when they leave the house, and the complete lockdown for the holiday goes into effect this evening.

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    EmbraceYourInnerCrone

    @OzarkHillbilly: Since almost all cruise lines choose to flag in other countries, to avoid U.S taxes, labor laws and environmental laws, they don’t deserve a bail out.

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    BobS

    There’s a lot of very wealthy Americans- it would be nice to see one of them give that kid $9M for being a good citizen.

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    opiejeanne

    @BobS: That kid has a “donate” button on his page that reads: “Buy me a coffee”.  So we ought to all buy him a coffee.

    I’ve been using his website to track the virus statistics for Washington since early March, and he’s done a great job making sense of the chaos of the reporting in this state. There were 5 days when we went without any reliable information, no reports on new cases or deaths, because the state DoH system was overwhelmed by unnecessary data being delivered by private labs.

    He lives just outside Seattle, on Bainbridge Island.

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    middlelee

    @OzarkHillbilly: This annoys me for the same reason I was annoyed when the Fox Blonde lamented the inability of women to get their nails done.  “I know people are dying…but these women can’t get their nails done.”  I probably have the quote a little wrong but my reaction to that statement  was “Oh for christ sake. Nail painting is not fucking rocket science.”  I did my own for 30 years before I gave up nail polish because I decided it wasn’t healthy.

    And of course there isn’t anything wrong with sex toys if that is someone’s bent but again, it’s not rocket science and probably the original DIY project.

     

    This is a day it’s good I’m in isolation because everything is pissing me off.

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