• Menu
  • Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Before Header

  • About Us
  • Lexicon
  • Contact Us
  • Our Store
  • ↑
  • ↓
  • ←
  • →

Balloon Juice

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

If you can’t control your emotions, someone else will.

He wakes up lying, and he lies all day.

If you thought you’d already seen people saying the stupidest things possible on the internet, prepare yourselves.

This has so much WTF written all over it that it is hard to comprehend.

These are not very smart people, and things got out of hand.

Narcissists are always shocked to discover other people have agency.

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

I did not have this on my fuck 2025 bingo card.

My right to basic bodily autonomy is not on the table. that’s the new deal.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

People are weird.

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

“What are Republicans afraid of?” Everything.

Republicans choose power over democracy, every day.

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

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

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

Dumb motherfuckers cannot understand a consequence that most 4 year olds have fully sorted out.

Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

Of course you can have champagne before noon. That’s why orange juice was invented.

Mobile Menu

  • Seattle Meet-up Post
  • 2025 Activism
  • Targeted Political Fundraising
  • Donate with Venmo, Zelle & PayPal
  • Site Feedback
  • War in Ukraine
  • Submit Photos to On the Road
  • Politics
  • On The Road
  • Open Threads
  • Topics
  • COVID-19
  • Authors
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Lexicon
  • Our Store
  • Politics
  • Open Threads
  • 2025 Activism
  • Garden Chats
  • On The Road
  • Targeted Fundraising!
You are here: Home / Healthcare / COVID-19 / Lord Help Me

Lord Help Me

by John Cole|  September 3, 20208:44 pm| 111 Comments

This post is in: COVID-19

FacebookTweetEmail

The people misusing the CDC data are going to give me a fucking aneurysm.

FacebookTweetEmail
Previous Post: «The Book of Trump: Chapter Three The Book of Trump: Chapter Four
Next Post: On The Road After Dark – There go two miscreants – Pictures From A Few Visits To Paris On The Road - There go two miscreants - Pictures from a few visits to Paris 7»

Reader Interactions

111Comments

  1. 1.

    schrodingers_cat

    September 3, 2020 at 8:46 pm

    Which people?

  2. 2.

    raven

    September 3, 2020 at 8:53 pm

    University of Georgia faculty were instructed not to alter the location or format of their class if a student tests positive for COVID-19, according to an email obtained by The Red & Black on Sept. 2.
    The email, sent on behalf of Provost Jack Hu and Vice President of Instruction Rahul Shrivastav, emphasized that if faculty are made aware that one of their students has tested positive for COVID-19, they should not report it to the rest of the students in the class.
    “Faculty should not notify others about the positive test as it may violate student privacy, even when a name is not specified in these messages,” the email said.

  3. 3.

    Elizabelle

    September 3, 2020 at 8:55 pm

    @raven:   That is such bullshit.  Do you think that policy will stand?

  4. 4.

    Chetan Murthy

    September 3, 2020 at 8:57 pm

    @raven:

    Vice President of Instruction Rahul Shrivastav

    Fuck.  A fuckin’ shonda, this jamoke is.  A shonda.  I’m embarrassed.

  5. 5.

    SiubhanDuinne

    September 3, 2020 at 8:58 pm

    @raven:

    So the UGA administration thinks it’s preferable that the other students continue to do … whatever they do, blissfully unaware that they may have been exposed and need to be tested? JFC.

  6. 6.

    raven

    September 3, 2020 at 8:59 pm

    @Elizabelle: Well, I have tons of faculty friends who are in and uproar (and blaming it on football) and saying it’s that the university administration. the fact is the board of regents set policy for all of the state institutions and they are appointed by Kemp so. . .

  7. 7.

    Mary G

    September 3, 2020 at 8:59 pm

    The book that comes out in five years or so will be gobsmacking.

  8. 8.

    Keith P.

    September 3, 2020 at 9:01 pm

    One of my neighbors keeps reposting the “CDC says only 6% blah blah” stuff on Nextdoor.  ND deletes it, so he reposts it along with a screed about how the establishment is pulling the wool over our eyes, etc. The shit gets pretty old pretty fast, and he’s reposted at least 5 times in the last 2 weeks.

  9. 9.

    trollhattan

    September 3, 2020 at 9:03 pm

    Today my kid is two weeks into college. On campus. So far so good but I won’t say it’s not nerve-wracking. The fires didn’t make it there, so we have that.

  10. 10.

    Baud

    September 3, 2020 at 9:04 pm

    @Keith P.: Good on ND.

  11. 11.

    raven

    September 3, 2020 at 9:04 pm

    @trollhattan: Where are they? My niece is a Banana Slug.

  12. 12.

    MomSense

    September 3, 2020 at 9:05 pm

    I wish the lord would strike down this asshole. https://www.google.com/amp/s/wgme.com/amp/news/coronavirus/sanford-preacher-linked-to-outbreak-tells-followers-to-put-faith-in-god-not-government

  13. 13.

    Quaker in a Basement

    September 3, 2020 at 9:06 pm

    It’s like the old business about jumping off a tall building: “It’s not the fall that gets you, it’s the sudden stop at the end.”

  14. 14.

    Baud

    September 3, 2020 at 9:08 pm

    @MomSense: God puts his faith in Fauci.

  15. 15.

    Mary G

    September 3, 2020 at 9:09 pm

    Teri Kanefield is a good follow on Twitter for summarizations of books you don’t want to read yourself. She’s doing Melania’s “friend” today who claims to have been set up as the fall guy for the theft of inauguration money and adds this aside regarding the usual suspects:

    A lot of people are pointing out that @maggieNYT was one of the journalists who “broke” the false story about @SWWCreative.

    I should also point out that Ken Vogel, the other author, was pushing pro-Kremlin, Ukraine-Hunter Biden conspiracy theories. . . https://t.co/QDlc3Dd68R
    — Teri Kanefield (@Teri_Kanefield) September 3, 2020

  16. 16.

    Elizabelle

    September 3, 2020 at 9:10 pm

    James Madison U, in Harrisonburg, VA (beautiful area in the foothills, maybe 30 miles as the crow flies (over a mountain) from Charlottesville) — welcomed students on-campus, and just told them to head home and do virtual classes earlier this week.  COVID reared its head.

    I was a little surprised they opened at all.

  17. 17.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    September 3, 2020 at 9:13 pm

    @raven: Hope there’s no salt around. //

  18. 18.

    Mary G

    September 3, 2020 at 9:15 pm

    Trump: Nobody wants to see amputees.@BarackObama: pic.twitter.com/XZCjsS6SnQ— Dylan (@dyllyp) September 3, 2020

    Nice pictures of Obama hanging out with injured vets that Velveetamort would run away from.

  19. 19.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    September 3, 2020 at 9:17 pm

    @Mary G: Everyone knows when the sick and poor came to Jesus he turned them away and said “Losers!”.

  20. 20.

    Mary G

    September 3, 2020 at 9:19 pm

    Not even sure I want to know what caused this:

    AHHHHHH WHATTTT’— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 4, 2020

    Phew, it’s apparently about a basketball thing in Toronto. [Emily Litella voice] nevermind.

  21. 21.

    Keith P.

    September 3, 2020 at 9:21 pm

    @Baud: Part of me wants to engage the guy with a “Well, *I* have a co-morbidity, so FUCK YOU!”  but that’d just be giving him oxygen.

  22. 22.

    raven

    September 3, 2020 at 9:22 pm

    Penn State clarified comments made earlier in the week by Director of Athletic Medicine, Dr. Wayne Sebastianelli regarding COVID-19 side-effects among Big Ten athletes that have contracted the virus. The Centre Daily Times first reported the story on those comments Thursday morning.
    Speaking to the State College Area School Board on Monday evening during a prolonged conversation about the district’s own fall sports season, Sebastianelli mentioned that 30 to 35 percent of Big Ten players who tested positive for COVID-19 were also diagnosed with myocarditis, an inflammation of the heart that has long been connected to the coronavirus.
    At the time, Sebastianelli referenced a larger study, although which one was unclear at the time.
    “During his discussion with board members, he recalled initial preliminary data that had been verbally shared by a colleague on a forthcoming study, which unbeknownst to him at the time had been published at a lower rate,” Penn State said in a statement to ESPN’s Kyle Bonagura.

  23. 23.

    Immanentize

    September 3, 2020 at 9:27 pm

    @raven: That is beyond beyond.  So much for any fealty to academic freedom which faculty crap their pants over if they are told to teach before 10am.

  24. 24.

    Immanentize

    September 3, 2020 at 9:29 pm

    @raven: I have given this shit some serious thought.  I have to sleep now, so tired,  but can I share some ideas tomorrow?

  25. 25.

    Immanentize

    September 3, 2020 at 9:30 pm

    @trollhattan: my son the same.  Only Covid and a friggin hurricane so far.  But both have happily missed his campus….

  26. 26.

    raven

    September 3, 2020 at 9:32 pm

    @Immanentize: I ain’t goin nowhere.

  27. 27.

    joel hanes

    September 3, 2020 at 9:32 pm

    @schrodingers_cat:

    These people

  28. 28.

    Immanentize

    September 3, 2020 at 9:34 pm

    @raven: Every beautiful smart woman I ever loved told me that.

  29. 29.

    NotMax

    September 3, 2020 at 9:37 pm

    @BillinGlendaleCA

    “And yea, He turned His gaze upon the lame and that halt, and thus spake: ‘Eww, nobody wants to look at that!'”

  30. 30.

    NotMax

    September 3, 2020 at 9:39 pm

    @NotMax

    Verily, stupid fingers.

    the halt, not that halt

  31. 31.

    Gin & Tonic

    September 3, 2020 at 9:39 pm

    @Mary G:  The “basketball thing” is in Florida, but it involved the Toronto team.

  32. 32.

    Ken

    September 3, 2020 at 9:39 pm

    @NotMax: Variant texts of the Book of Trump already?

  33. 33.

    Gin & Tonic

    September 3, 2020 at 9:41 pm

    @Immanentize: I’ve been blessed to have just one beautiful smart woman for the last 50 years.

  34. 34.

    raven

    September 3, 2020 at 9:45 pm

    @Immanentize: You ain’t goin no where. . . 

  35. 35.

    LesGS

    September 3, 2020 at 9:49 pm

    @Mary G: Teri Kanefield is terrific (as is Heather Cox Richardson, whom she often refers to). I don’t twitter, but I follow Kanefield on her website, https://terikanefield-blog.com/

  36. 36.

    Jeffro

    September 3, 2020 at 9:52 pm

    @Elizabelle: My (undergrad) alma mater!  Yup, they just charged right into it – no pre-arrival Covid-19 negative test required (unlike UVA and others), not a whole lot of tough-love guidance to students, no real plans for shifting students into quarantine dorms, etc etc.  Oopsie.

    And now everyone’s going home ‘temporarily’…the word that went out is that they may resume in-person instruction and campus life in early October.  Fat chance of that.

    JMU had a great reputation for being student-friendly, always took great care of its students, earned “most recommended” awards, etc.  I have a feeling that reputation won’t be the same going forward.

  37. 37.

    Ken

    September 3, 2020 at 9:52 pm

    @Keith P.: Yeah, a country where over 40% of the adult population is obese and another 35% is overweight shouldn’t be casual about co-morbidities.

  38. 38.

    Aleta

    September 3, 2020 at 9:57 pm

    @MomSense: This  is also good reporting: https://www.themainemonitor.org/the-preacher-and-the-outbreak/

  39. 39.

    Sab

    September 3, 2020 at 9:58 pm

    @Immanentize: My favorite professor in college scheduled all his classes at 8 am to keep enrollment down. I took every one and aced them all.

  40. 40.

    Elizabelle

    September 3, 2020 at 10:00 pm

    @Jeffro:   I was surprised Madison opened when they did.  They’re a bit of an outlier there, no?

  41. 41.

    NotMax

    September 3, 2020 at 10:01 pm

    The other umpty-ump thousand would take up half the internet.

    40 of Trump’s biggest broken promises

    @Ken

    Consider it a one-off engendered by the text of Bill’s comment. The distended frippery I find clunky and monotonous.

  42. 42.

    schrodingers_cat

    September 3, 2020 at 10:03 pm

    @joel hanes: Thanks.

  43. 43.

    randy khan

    September 3, 2020 at 10:07 pm

    @Keith P.:

    If it’s the same CDC meme I’ve seen, it literally makes no sense if you have the slightest idea how health statistics work.  Among many other things, it calculates the death rate as a percentage of the population, not as a percentage of the people who contract the disease.

  44. 44.

    TaMara (HFG)

    September 3, 2020 at 10:12 pm

    Today, Covid-19 has laid its finger of death on my family, I’m heartbroken and don’t have the energy to hate these horrible, horrible people.

    Is it any wonder why they will happily vote for a disease of a human that calls our honorable military dead and injured, “Losers and suckers”

    I’m done for tonight. Maybe tomorrow I can find some outrage…

  45. 45.

    Jeffro

    September 3, 2020 at 10:14 pm

    @Elizabelle: Yes.  I don’t have a whole lot of insight into why they were so relatively blasé about the whole thing, but whew.  Someone or someones were clearly not following the science, the varieties of problems that were sure to occur, and…well…there they are.

  46. 46.

    Mousebumples

    September 3, 2020 at 10:15 pm

    @TaMara (HFG): *hugs* I don’t know if that helps, but I’ll be thinking of you and your family. Feels like not enough, but my sympathy is with you.

  47. 47.

    Jeffro

    September 3, 2020 at 10:15 pm

    @TaMara (HFG): We’ll hate the horrible people for you, and we are so sorry for your loss, TaMara.

  48. 48.

    mad citizen

    September 3, 2020 at 10:16 pm

    @NotMax: Broken promises maybe, but he passed the Veteran Care Act of 2014.  Why he said so yet again in tonight’s rally.  (See aaron rupar’s twitter for many excellent clips of the superspreader Latrobe event.

  49. 49.

    TomatoQueen

    September 3, 2020 at 10:18 pm

    @TaMara (HFG): Get some rest tonight then please tomorrow tell us about them. I’m so sorry. My hand to yours.

  50. 50.

    SiubhanDuinne

    September 3, 2020 at 10:22 pm

    @TaMara (HFG):

    Oh no, TaMara. I’m so dreadfully sorry. Please take good care of yourself and come back only when you feel like it. In the meantime, may your family member rest in peace, and may all the rest of you be comforted by good memories.

  51. 51.

    Mary G

    September 3, 2020 at 10:23 pm

    @TaMara (HFG): Oh, no. I am so sorry. Let us know if we can find animal videos or help in any way. I know we can’t, but know you are loved.

  52. 52.

    NotMax

    September 3, 2020 at 10:27 pm

    Following Dolt 45’s train kiddy car of (for lack of a better word) thought, I guess the firefighters who dashed into the World Trade Center were also “losers.”

  53. 53.

    Elizabelle

    September 3, 2020 at 10:27 pm

    @TaMara (HFG):   So very sorry to hear.  Take care of yourself and your family, and please check in with us when you are up to it.

    My condolences.

  54. 54.

    Bill Arnold

    September 3, 2020 at 10:27 pm

    @Keith P.:

    One of my neighbors keeps reposting the “CDC says only 6% blah blah” stuff on Nextdoor.

    These are people who are deeply confused about causality.[1]
    Joke’s on them, because those people didn’t die of those co-morbidities either; they died of being mortal fleshy humans!

    [1] Causal Inference in Statistics: A Primer – Judea Pearl [2]
    [2] Causality is over-rated!

  55. 55.

    Jeffro

    September 3, 2020 at 10:30 pm

    I think we have done this here at Balloon Juice multiple times, but I’ll give Rampell the credit for using her platform and putting together a tight op-ed: Here’s How to Put trumpov’s Failures Into Numbers Republicans Can Understand.

    The number of lives lost to covid-19 is roughly equal to the death toll of 60 9/11 attacks…or about 46,000 Benghazis. Somehow, for years, the four tragic deaths in Benghazi consumed the agenda of six GOP-controlled congressional committees and the programming of the most-watched cable news channel. But today, a deadly shock magnified by government ineptitude that has led to 46,000 times as many lives lost “is what it is.”

    Similarly, perhaps we could put recent jobs changes into perspective by using much-ballyhooed, Trump-approved benchmarks.  For example, shortly after winning the presidency in 2016, Trump took credit for saving approximately 700 jobs at an Indiana plant run by Carrier.  Last week alone, though, 1.6 million people newly applied for unemployment benefits. That’s the equivalent of 2,300 Carrier plants.

    It’s really well done and a nice return to form – bravo, Ms. Rampell!

  56. 56.

    NotMax

    September 3, 2020 at 10:34 pm

    @Jeffro

    125 Titanics. And counting.

  57. 57.

    Aleta

    September 3, 2020 at 10:36 pm

    @TaMara (HFG):  ?

  58. 58.

    gwangung

    September 3, 2020 at 10:46 pm

    @TaMara (HFG): ❤️

  59. 59.

    Auntie Anne

    September 3, 2020 at 10:46 pm

    @TaMara (HFG): I am so sorry!  ❤️❤️❤️

  60. 60.

    Jeffro

    September 3, 2020 at 10:47 pm

    trumpov is melting down on Twitter right now, trying to deny/explain/lie about his calling US service members “losers” and I for one am excited at the prospect of him stroking out while doing it.

    Keep the focus on Mr. Unfit, nation’s media!  All the stories are true, everything out of his mouth is a lie.

  61. 61.

    Emma from FL

    September 3, 2020 at 10:47 pm

    @TaMara (HFG): I am so sorry.Take your time. Hold your loved ones close and grieve together. Breathe deeply. Share happy memories. In times like these, it’s important to step away from the melee and focus on the really important things.

  62. 62.

    Redshift

    September 3, 2020 at 10:48 pm

    @TaMara (HFG): Oh, I’m so sorry!

  63. 63.

    scribbler

    September 3, 2020 at 10:48 pm

    @TaMara (HFG):  Such awful news TaMara.  My condolences to you and your family.

  64. 64.

    J R in WV

    September 3, 2020 at 10:50 pm

    @TaMara (HFG):

    So sorry to learn of your family’s loss.

    Take care, keep in touch!

  65. 65.

    danielx

    September 3, 2020 at 10:51 pm

    @TaMara (HFG):

    Terribly sorry.

  66. 66.

    Bill Arnold

    September 3, 2020 at 10:54 pm

    @NotMax:
    Hillary Clinton testified for 8 hours (11 but with breaks) about 4 Benghazi deaths. If my calculator isn’t broken, for the current death total, that’s 125 years at 8 hours per day and 365 days per year. Is Donald J. Trump up to it? Will we need to work out how to keep his brain alive in a jar? (We’re adding about 250 days of testimony per day.)

  67. 67.

    Elizabelle

    September 3, 2020 at 10:55 pm

    @Jeffro:   Trump didn’t write that tweet.  That’s his crack White House staff at work.

    I do not see how he comes back from this.  It is too believable, and we have seen pieces of this behavior over and over again.  Goldberg’s story puts it all together, with more detail.

    Some of those sources might go on the record in coming days.  Defeating this execrable traitor is that important.

  68. 68.

    Elizabelle

    September 3, 2020 at 11:00 pm

    Trump tells us he does not read The Atlantic.  Quel surprise.

    Weird statement in the dark from beside AF1.  Calls the Atlantic sources a bunch of losers.

    I hope this takes Trump down.  I think it will.  You don’t fuck with dead soldiers.

  69. 69.

    Elizabelle

    September 3, 2020 at 11:01 pm

    BriWi has the night off.  Steve (gag) Kornacki in.

  70. 70.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    September 3, 2020 at 11:01 pm

    they caught trump on the tarmac in NC, a story in a magazine “I don’t read” (as opposed to….. Hustler? Town and Country?…..) just some failures who failed in his administration who he got rid of

    smart way to talk about John Kelly when he’s already gone this far

  71. 71.

    Peale

    September 3, 2020 at 11:04 pm

    @Jeffro: Doesn’t matter. Seriously. The GOP does not care about veterans. They want to privatize the VA. They run bogus charities that are never investigated to “help veterans” and “support the troops” so that they can claim that its Democrats who spit on the troops when they come home. If I recall one of Trump’s early set of backers were just those types. Had that big fundraiser for him on the Intrepid or something. Bogus Veterans and 9/11 First responders charites that maybe build one ramp for one injured veteran so they can have a video to use when raking in the rest.  It doesn’t matter to the emo for the troops types. Because they know its the Liberals who spit on veterans in 1968.

  72. 72.

    NotMax

    September 3, 2020 at 11:06 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist

    just some failures who failed in his administration

    “Only the best people.”

  73. 73.

    Elizabelle

    September 3, 2020 at 11:13 pm

    @Peale:   Take the sackcloth and ashes somewhere else.

    Yes, this does matter.  It is going to peel off some Trump supporters.  Trump knows that.

    Trump has got a floor, and there are some morons who will always support him.  Who will not believe this story.  But they are maybe 35 to 40%, if that.

    I don’t see the swing states liking this behavior from Trump, either.  This will not draw voters to him.

  74. 74.

    joel hanes

    September 3, 2020 at 11:13 pm

    @NotMax:

    1/3 of the entire US combat death toll from the three years in which the US fought WWII

    In eight months.

  75. 75.

    joel hanes

    September 3, 2020 at 11:15 pm

    @Elizabelle:

    Trump tells us he does not read The Atlantic

    This, I believe.

    Trump is incapable of reading The Atlantic.

  76. 76.

    Elizabelle

    September 3, 2020 at 11:16 pm

    @joel hanes:   Yup.  No question there.

  77. 77.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    September 3, 2020 at 11:17 pm

    @Peale: I’m done predicting trump’s demise, political or… but if John Kelly wasn’t the source for this (and I’d bet half my quatloos he is), then he at the very least told the source to be a source. Kelly and Mattis trigger Beltway Daddy Issues in a way that Barry McCaffrey and William McRaven (that one being a real head-scratcher) don’t.

    Someone speculated here today that W might make a splashy statement against trump. I doubt it. There’s another Bush out there to restart the Oedipal cycle of that well-mannered but terribly destructive family. But i wouldn’t be surprised if Jim Mattis is planning to try a reverse Jim Comey.

  78. 78.

    Mai naem mobile

    September 3, 2020 at 11:25 pm

    The US death toll of COVID19 is about the size of my city. I live in one of the smaller suburbs of Phoenix but keep in the mind the bigger ones are over 300K. Anyhow, when I think of my whole city wiped out, I mean it’s difficult to imagine. I believe it’s around 40 square miles pretty much all developed and quite a bit vertical. I can’t imagine seeing my neighborhood empty much less the whole city.

  79. 79.

    Another Scott

    September 3, 2020 at 11:27 pm

    @Jeffro: Made me look…

    I even sent Air Force One to bring his body, in casket, from Arizona to Washington.

    That makes it all better now, doesn’t it? “In Casket” even!! What more do You People want??! Why are you so ungrateful??!!!

    Grrr…

    Yet more evidence that he’s brain damaged.

    And it’s not even Friday yet… Will he make it to January? Or November?

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  80. 80.

    dmsilev

    September 3, 2020 at 11:27 pm

    @Peale: It does matter, on the margins. Will the sort of people who un-ironically enjoy John McNaughton’s “art” be swayed by this? No. Will a “well, I’ve been a Republican most of my life but this guy is embarrassing” type be swayed? Maybe. And it won’t take many of those to shift a swing state or two from Red to Blue. Or to swing a state that is marginally Blue into “safer from electoral fuckery” Blue.

  81. 81.

    Patricia Kayden

    September 3, 2020 at 11:28 pm

    My great grandfather Theodore Roosevelt jr (and his brother) are buried in Normandy. Even as sons of a president, born into privilege, they understood they had an equal obligation to serve this great nation.There is a “loser” here, but it is not anyone buried in Normandy. https://t.co/EHo0k4jRPu— Ted Roosevelt V (@RooseveltTed) September 4, 2020

  82. 82.

    Martin

    September 3, 2020 at 11:30 pm

    BTW, I 100% support the Georgia policy.

    Faculty are terrible at getting these kinds of policies correct – they are detailed and ever changing and faculty have too many other things on their plate. They will fail to notify students that didn’t attend class, they will miscommunicate, they will have no idea what to tell students that have concerns, etc.

    It’s much better to have that information go to an administrator who can *guarantee*  that the students are told the right thing, that nobody is missed in that information, and can follow it up with correct information for what the other students should do. Student health is an administrative function, full stop.

    If one of my faculty notified their class a student had Covid (and didn’t notify an appropriate administrator with that information) I would destroy them.

  83. 83.

    Another Scott

    September 3, 2020 at 11:30 pm

    @TaMara (HFG): Oh no.  :-(  I’m very sorry.  Condolences to you and your family and friends.

    Best wishes,
    Scott.

  84. 84.

    dmsilev

    September 3, 2020 at 11:30 pm

    @Another Scott: Oh. My.

    ….John a loser and swear on whatever, or whoever, I was asked to swear on, that I never called our great fallen soldiers anything other than HEROES. This is more made up Fake News given by disgusting & jealous failures in a disgraceful attempt to influence the 2020 Election!
    — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 4, 2020

    Who among us can doubt the sincerity of an oath sworn on “whatever, or whoever, I was asked to swear on”?

  85. 85.

    mrmoshpotato

    September 3, 2020 at 11:31 pm

    @Jeffro:

    @NotMax:

    @joel hanes: Yeah, but millions of selfish shithead children got what they wanted – not having to live through 4 years of a Hillary Clinton presidency!

  86. 86.

    dmsilev

    September 3, 2020 at 11:34 pm

    @Martin: Cosign this. We’ve been told, in no uncertain terms, that communication of such things needs to be done consistently and in full accordance with a long laundry list of guidelines and therefore let the designated office handle it. That office has been doing a pretty good job communicating COVID developments with the entire campus community since about April, so there is a fair amount of trust built up as well.

  87. 87.

    stinger

    September 3, 2020 at 11:38 pm

    @TaMara (HFG): Oh, TaMara, I’m so very sorry to hear this.

  88. 88.

    Martin

    September 3, 2020 at 11:40 pm

    @Elizabelle: Won’t matter. Not really. 6 hours ago the story was Trump telling his base to commit voter fraud (a felony) and now it isn’t.

    Conservatives won’t care because Trump still has their back, and that all they care about. If evangelicals will ignore ‘grab them by the pussy’, they’ll ignore this. This is how conservatism works – Trump is willing to punish those they want punished and they think he’ll protect them as well, and that’s all that matters. That he’ll turn on them immediately is something they’re too cowardly to address.

    To them Trump is power, and it will either be used to help them or to hurt them, and they’ll side with him believing it won’t hurt them. If demeaning veterans is how they stay on his good side, they’ll go with it. Just because they swore that vets were to be revered at all costs yesterday, doesn’t mean conservatives believe that today.

  89. 89.

    SWMBO

    September 3, 2020 at 11:41 pm

    @TaMara (HFG): So sorry to hear this. Hugs to you and the rest of the family.

  90. 90.

    Mary G

    September 3, 2020 at 11:42 pm

    AP reporter confirms all of the Atlantic story:

    A senior Defense Department official I just spoke with confirmed this story by @JeffreyGoldberg in its entirety. Especially the grafs about the late Sen. John McCain and former Marine Gen. John Kelly, President @realDonaldTrump former chief of staff. https://t.co/ol2lhBbgv8— James LaPorta (@JimLaPorta) September 3, 2020

  91. 91.

    SiubhanDuinne

    September 3, 2020 at 11:46 pm

    @Mary G:

    She’s good. I don’t have a Twitter account, but I signed up for her blog. Looks interesting and well-written. Thanks for introducing me to Teri.

  92. 92.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    September 3, 2020 at 11:48 pm

    interesting….

    David Freedlander @freedlander
    Ann Romney will join Michelle Obama on TV to encourage people to vote this fall

  93. 93.

    Another Scott

    September 3, 2020 at 11:48 pm

    https://bluevirginia.us/2020/09/breaking-kanye-west-off-the-ballot-in-virginia

    Donnie’s people can’t do anything right. Fortunately, in this case.

    We still have to vote all the monsters out.

    Forward!!

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  94. 94.

    James E Powell

    September 3, 2020 at 11:51 pm

    @TaMara (HFG):

    Very sorry for your loss, T.

  95. 95.

    Another Scott

    September 3, 2020 at 11:58 pm

    President Trump on Ed Markey tonight: "They even elected a person that nobody ever heard of…”Ed Markey was first elected to Congress in 1976. One of his former donors? A businessman named Donald Trump… pic.twitter.com/T5PbF8qKwo

    — Matt Viser (@mviser) September 4, 2020

    The man has dementia. How much more evidence do we need?

    Yet more dangerous days are ahead. :-(

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  96. 96.

    dmsilev

    September 4, 2020 at 12:00 am

    Washington Post:

    The White House released a sharply worded statement defending Trump — who has insulted POWs, traded barbs with grieving families of the dead and said before he was president that avoiding sexually transmitted diseases was his own “personal Vietnam” — against accusations that he doesn’t respect the military.

  97. 97.

    Another Scott

    September 4, 2020 at 12:08 am

    Here’s my promise to you: If I have the honor of serving as the next commander in chief, I will ensure that our American heroes know that I will have their back and honor their sacrifice. Always. https://t.co/wMFHHscD51

    — Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) September 4, 2020

    This is how a President talks.

    138 days to go…

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  98. 98.

    gwangung

    September 4, 2020 at 12:10 am

    @Martin: Doesn’t matter if its the straw or not.

    It’s more like death of a thousand cuts. Every new story, every sin peels away a chunk of his support.

    In the meantime, we still act like we’re two down and this news will do nothing. We work like hell AND BURY THE BASTARD.

  99. 99.

    Tom Levenson

    September 4, 2020 at 12:12 am

    @TaMara (HFG): I’m so sorry.
    Condolences to you and yours.

  100. 100.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    September 4, 2020 at 12:15 am

    mike freeman @mikefreemanNFL ·3h
    Just remember, as you read this, Trump spent four years saying protesting NFL players were disrespecting the military.

  101. 101.

    catclub

    September 4, 2020 at 12:21 am

    @Jeffro: lets see.  1000 students pay tuition room and board for half a year: $10M lump sum the college needs  to pay their employees.

    That is if average is $20k per student per year

  102. 102.

    Steeplejack

    September 4, 2020 at 12:26 am

    On Lawrence O’Donnell’s show Zerlina Maxwell made the great point that Trump is just digging himself in deeper with his defensive statement(s). “I would never call our soldiers losers,” but then he immediately calls the article’s sources (including military officers) losers. She said that it is quintessential Trump to deny saying bad things about one person and then immediately say (the same) bad things about another person, and at this point everybody knows that’s his pattern.

  103. 103.

    James E Powell

    September 4, 2020 at 12:36 am

    @Steeplejack:

    What Trump says, what people say about what Trump says, and what Trump says about those people. That’s what’s been “news” for four years now in this degraded nation.

  104. 104.

    NoraLenderbee

    September 4, 2020 at 12:38 am

    @Steeplejack:  “No puppet! You’re the puppet!”

  105. 105.

    joel hanes

    September 4, 2020 at 1:06 am

    @mrmoshpotato:

    It wasn’t even the thought of living through an HRC Presidency to which they objected — they viewed (and some still view) voting as an exercise in identity-creation through brand choice — as if their self-expression was the critical thing, and the future of the nation secondary.

    Being able not to care about outcomes is one definition of privilege, which is why Black voters so often get it right and soi-disant leftists sometimes don’t.

  106. 106.

    Ian

    September 4, 2020 at 2:36 am

    @mrmoshpotato:

    Quit blaming the kids.  Old people voted overwhelming for Trump.  Young people voted for Clinton.  You know this.

    Agency, how does it work?

  107. 107.

    Jay

    September 4, 2020 at 3:27 am

    @Mary G:

    Toronto Raptors just hit 3 pts in the last 0.5 seconds to win 104 to 103.— sparethoughts (@sparethoughts1) September 4, 2020

  108. 108.

    Jay

    September 4, 2020 at 3:39 am

    @TaMara (HFG):

    so so sorry TaMara. We love you and are here for any support you need. And after your struggles with Covid,

    fuck 2020,

    fuck Covid,

    fuck Dumph and all his enablers.

  109. 109.

    HeartlandLiberal

    September 4, 2020 at 5:56 am

    My little brother called me yesterday from Alabama, to tell me he has bladder cancer, has had chemo, and will have to have his bladder removed. I told him I hoped everything would go as well as possible and he would be there to argue with for many more years.

    I had to really hold my tongue at the end of the conversation, because he launched into a defense of Trump trashing CDC and FDA guidelines for developing vaccines, because, as he put it, their bureaucracy were always slow and Trump just cut through the read tape.

    He then proceeded to quote the latest right wing myths on how we were getting treatment under control, and cases and deaths were falling rapidly.

    Le Sigh!

    I have kept in touch over the decades with both my brothers, who stayed in Alabama (we fled in 1969 after college), but it is sometimes hard, because they have both drunk the grape koolaid of the current incarnation of the GOP.

    And, given the current state of little brothers health, kind of hard to tell him to pok gai.

    Again, Le Sigh.

  110. 110.

    Miss Bianca

    September 4, 2020 at 10:33 am

    @TaMara (HFG): Late to this thread, but I am so sorry to hear it.

  111. 111.

    leeleeFL

    September 4, 2020 at 1:10 pm

    @TaMara (HFG):  Your loss is terrible and you should and must take the time to grieve, TaMara.  I am heartbroken for you and your Family.

Comments are closed.

Primary Sidebar

On The Road - Albatrossity - Flyover Country Spring 2
Image by Albatrossity (5/18/25)

Recent Comments

  • HinTN on Failure to Launch (Open Thread) (May 18, 2025 @ 3:05pm)
  • Formerly disgruntled in Oregon on Sunday Morning Open Thread (May 18, 2025 @ 3:04pm)
  • The Audacity of Krope on Sunday Morning Open Thread (May 18, 2025 @ 3:02pm)
  • Jay on Sunday Morning Open Thread (May 18, 2025 @ 3:01pm)
  • Formerly disgruntled in Oregon on Sunday Morning Open Thread (May 18, 2025 @ 2:59pm)

PA Supreme Court At Risk

Donate

Balloon Juice Posts

View by Topic
View by Author
View by Month & Year
View by Past Author

Featuring

Medium Cool
Artists in Our Midst
Authors in Our Midst
War in Ukraine
Donate to Razom for Ukraine

🎈Keep Balloon Juice Ad Free

Become a Balloon Juice Patreon
Donate with Venmo, Zelle or PayPal

Meetups

Upcoming Ohio Meetup May 17
5/11 Post about the May 17 Ohio Meetup

Calling All Jackals

Site Feedback
Nominate a Rotating Tag
Submit Photos to On the Road
Balloon Juice Anniversary (All Links)
Balloon Juice Anniversary (All Posts)
Fix Nyms with Apostrophes

Hands Off! – Denver, San Diego & Austin

Social Media

Balloon Juice
WaterGirl
TaMara
John Cole
DougJ (aka NYT Pitchbot)
Betty Cracker
Tom Levenson
David Anderson
Major Major Major Major
DougJ NYT Pitchbot
mistermix

Keeping Track

Legal Challenges (Lawfare)
Republicans Fleeing Town Halls (TPM)
21 Letters (to Borrow or Steal)
Search Donations from a Brand

PA Supreme Court At Risk

Donate

Site Footer

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

  • Facebook
  • RSS
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
  • Comment Policy
  • Our Authors
  • Blogroll
  • Our Artists
  • Privacy Policy

Copyright © 2025 Dev Balloon Juice · All Rights Reserved · Powered by BizBudding Inc

Share this ArticleLike this article? Email it to a friend!

Email sent!