Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

Peak wingnut was a lie.

In my day, never was longer.

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

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

And we’re all out of bubblegum.

I did not have telepathic declassification on my 2022 bingo card.

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

The GOP couldn’t organize an orgy in a whorehouse with a fist full of 50s.

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.

I was promised a recession.

The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

Let us savor the impending downfall of lawless scoundrels who richly deserve the trouble barreling their way.

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

After roe, women are no longer free.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

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

The republican caucus is already covering themselves with something, and it’s not glory.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

Hot air and ill-informed banter

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COVID-19 Coronavirus Update (Domestic) – Thursday/Friday, April 9/10

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People want to keep doing what they enjoy. And quite possibly some of these bookings are more about present cabin fever than actual future trips. (But I’m bitterly reminded of the righteous individuals who greeted the AIDS crisis by saying, Well, those people could just stop having sex, couldn’t they?)

… In the last 45 days, CruiseCompete.com, an online cruise marketplace, has seen a 40% increase in bookings for 2021 compared with 2019, said Heidi M. Allison, president of the company. Only 11% of the bookings are from people whose 2020 trips were canceled, she said…

In an analysis of the cruise industry, Swiss banking giant UBS wrote that cruise booking volume for 2021 was up 9% in the last 30 days compared with the same time last year.

The UBS report, issued March 31, said the bookings for 2021 cruise trips included people using their credit for canceled sailings but added that volume “still shows a surprising resilience in desire to book a cruise.”

AAA has also noticed an increase in cruise bookings beyond the numbers attributed to people rebooking canceled trips, said Paula Twidale, a senior vice president at AAA Travel…

“We are optimistic that once this crisis is behind us, travel will rebound quickly, which bodes well for 2021,” she said.

An online poll of more than 4,600 cruise passengers found that about 75% said they plan to either resume taking cruises at the same frequency as before or more often once the coronavirus crisis subsides, according to CruiseCritic.com, a cruise review site…

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, international cruise lines have had outbreaks — primarily of the extremely contagious norovirus, which causes gastrointestinal problems — nine to 12 times a year for the last five years. But the nearly 130,000 passengers sickened during those outbreaks represent a tiny fraction of the 74 million people that took cruises during that period…

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    rikyrah

    Trying to cover his lying, incompetent azz decision to allow Spring Break on Florida’s beaches ???

    The Governor of Florida — at a #COVID19 education meeting — just falsely claimed there have been no deaths nationwide of people under 25 "for whatever reason.""The data has been 100% consistent.""I've not seen any deviation on that."In reality, there have been hundreds. pic.twitter.com/56UTMuniHD— Kevin Cate (@KevinCate) April 9, 2020

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    Amir Khalid

    @rikyrah:

    At his daily Covid-19 press conference a few minutes ago, my country’s director-general of health mentioned that one of the latest deaths was of a 23-year-old woman. I find it implausible that no young adults in the US have died of Covid-19.

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    Kirk Spencer

    So I’m going to predict a second, larger size he that starts about two weeks after various governor’s and mayor’s are forced to lift restrictions. The reason it’ll be larger is all the idiots saying the forecasts were wrong and fighting or ignoring the reestablishment of restrictions

    Assuming may 1 lift that’s a summer of death.

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    Rusty

    @rikyrah: Even if this was true (which it’s not), young people never, ever, ever interact with older people.  Ever.  What an asshole.

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    YY_Sima Qian

    NYC digging trenches to temporarily bury bodies… I remember Iran doing something like that. The trenches on Hart Island can probably be seen by satellite, too.

    Why are people so opposed to cremation? That could ease the storage issue.

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    WereBear

    @YY_Sima Qian:

    Why are people so opposed to cremation? That could ease the storage issue.

     
    Like so many US problems, religion and people afraid of doing anything different from the way it has been done for generations.

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    sdhays

    @Amir Khalid:  I remember reading a week or two ago about a 17 year old dying in LA from COVID-19. Of course, I also seem to recall that he was without health insurance, so our medical “system” is partially responsible for killing him as well. Maybe that makes it “not count”.

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    Denali

    Thanks for the info. The Wired article on the history of vaccines was especially informative. Can’t imagine the current administration handling any vaccine production and administration effectively.  Look at how we botched the simple supply of PPE and ventilators. Why do they want to kill us all?

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    Tenar Arha

    @YY_Sima Qian: It’s a very big deal refusing to be buried & being cremated in Judaism. A lot of Jewish cemeteries have strict rules about who can be buried in them. I couldn’t put a marker for my father in the cemetery where my mother was buried because he insisted on cremation & my brother & I honored his wishes.

    Of course it’s not unheard of to have a marker wo a body, like if a person is lost at sea you can receive dispensation for a marker. If this goes on, there will likely be dispensations bc we’ll run out of room for temporary burials in some places.

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    MoCA Ace

    @Kristine:

    So reading the article it looks like Instacart does not “steal” the tips but gives them to the employee (sorry, “private contractor”)?  I want to use the service but no F’n way if the company is keeping even a penny of my tip.

    And Instacart employees need a rating system where they can score the customer… maybe that would fix those shitheads.

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    Ohio Mom

    YY Sima Quian: It may be that the US does not have enough crematoria capacity, in addition to the cultural reasons for sticking to burial, even mass ones. Obviously we don’t even have enough capacity for traditional American funerals.

    What a mess it will be if later on, if/when families want to disinter their loved ones from Hart Island and give them a “proper” burial in the family plot. I assume someone is keeping rough records of who is buried where.

    Another random thought: med schools might be facing a shortage of cadavers for anatomy classes. I doubt they are going to be accepting COVID19 bodies for safety reasons.

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    Ohio Mom

    Instacart is a miserable company to work for. Ohio Son did a short stint with them last year. Ridiculously high quotas for how many items in how much time.

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    Hkedi [Kang T. Q.]

    @YY_Sima Qian: So one of the reasons why people are being buried in trenches like this is because the local death industry is currently overwhelmed, and they have run out of standard and emergency storage.

    Second, as far a cremation is concerned, American cremation uses specialized equipment with limited capacity.

    Here is where I got most of this information from a kick-ass woman Caitlin Doughty who is a licensed mortician and author.

    Here is her video dealing with how to treat bodies in mass death situations.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qq6_xujk-fI

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    YY_Sima Qian

    Yeah, lack of cremation capacity would be a big issue. Chinese culture placed huge importance on burying the whole body, which is why traditionally emperors would grant honored officials sentenced to death to suicide by poison, while the hated ones would be decapitated or torn to pieces. However, on Mainland China cremation has become the overwhelming majority method of disposal of the deceased, through government regulation of cemeteries, did not want to “waste” valuable arable land for burial grounds.

    During the approximately three weeks of the height of the epidemic in Wuhan, the city had to bring in “volunteers” from neighboring cities and provinces to staff the three major crematoriums in the urban area, and run them around the clock, to keep up…

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