So, I live in a really small coastal town. Normally we get the summer people in late May, early June. About 9-10 days ago, (just before the weekend) all the NY and NJ plates started showing up, obviously not self-quarantining, shopping in the local grocery store.....and today, we had our first case of Covid-19.....a…

I lean towards wearing masks myself, although good luck actually finding any surgical masks for sale (and don’t buy any N95 masks unless you’re donating them to a hospital or clinic or need them for work).

My hunch is that the CDC is only not recommending it because they know that we don’t have enough for even the hospitals right now. But by and large, Asian countries and even some European countries are seeing that widespread mask adoption by the public has helped slow transmission. Masks catch the droplets expelled by…

Clearly he died because

This would have to be one of the dumbest bio-weapons ever created.  Untargetable, unreliable, and certain to infect its user.

The much vaunted American capitalism and industrial might is actually very fragile.

There’s no point in agreeing on any sort of ‘stimulus package’ that effectively bankrupts the poor and middle class while giving gigantic handouts to wealthy and huge businesses. One should not let perfect be the enemy of good, but one should not let awful be it’s ally either.

You: “Alexa, don’t listen for X minutes”

Maybe he should let the invisible hand of the free market decide whether he makes it or not.

Do we look stupid?  What a simple excuse for a cushy lone “cell” away from genpop.  Bullshit.  

You must not know any anarchists. The ones I know are tireless community organizers and activists and deeply moral people.

He’s cranky because he’d rather be home firing off tweets about “Sleepy Joe” and “Pocahontas” but now he’s forced to sit through briefings and meetings about things that don’t concern or enrich him, which for him is intolerable. The stock market literally plunges WHILE he’s speaking, which is without a doubt…

Without access to testing, the numbers are kept low.  No tests, no positives.

Yeah, this is great. They’ll send you to a testing site....that has no tests.

Honestly, this makes me want to abandon google more than anything else. I get that it’s a way to look good to people paying attention, but they should just let the administration continue to be the flaming shitbag it’s been since day one

This is the sort of gross incompetence and hubris that guides techies and management consultants into thinking they can “hack” or “game” in the realm of medicine and healthcare. It’s the same sort of blind idiocy that gave us Theranos.

Everyone at my hospital is still going to work. Got as close as a patient with it in isolation in the room next door, I believe. Have the weekend off. Back Monday.

Don’t worry, if you’re insured you can’t catch anything from people who are uninsured. That’s just science!

Rich People Have Always Been Assholes During Plagues

Really? How many sick days are mandated by the federal government for all workers?