I noticed the 'personal responsibility' drop in as well, and it's doing a lot of the heavy lifting in that sentence. I took it as his way of saying, no matter what happens, this is your problem, not ours. Don't worry, Republicans, the government is not here to help.

Another Chicagoan here. As a bartender, I’m pretty fucking worried about opening indoor seating and bars. We’ve done well because it’s been outdoor seating at restaurants only, until recently. Bars only opened a week ago and indoor seating is only open as of yesterday, and the city itself is still seeing 2-300 new…

Here in GA we were actually on a 14-day trend of rising cases when they started reopening the state (in April!). Now the state gov’t is telling faculty and staff at state colleges and universities that they have to resume in-person classes in August and they aren’t allowed to require students to wear masks. There are…

Year long Jersey Shore resident here and there is a large party going on at a house on my block. There has to be 50-75 people there and not one person is wearing a mask and everyone is drunk and close together. So, I agree that there will be a spike here in two and a half weeks after the 4th. 

By the way, and I’ve mentioned this several times before, but when the epidemic was starting to hit the US, the Daily did an interview with the NYT reporter covering the disease. It was a really stark interview, and one of the few times the host showed breaking in the face of the reporter’s view of the situation and…

Florida Gulf Coast here. We aren’t in a hot zone, but I’m afraid we haven’t yet peaked. It’s amazing how many people I see in the grocery store not wearing a fucking mask. They are readily available now, so there’s no excuse other than assholery. We aren’t going out much at all and have only eaten out once (outdoors,…

I’m in MA, and we are in 2, slowly entering the beginning of 3 next week. We’ve done pretty well, Gov. Baker has been great. 

Yeah, open things up. No social distancing. No spread of disease.

now lets so how people will wear masks to keep it safe. 

Added to this, the issue of reopening is that infections and the situations that exacerbate them are not always predictable. I live in a county with a far lower incidence of Covid-19 than the surrounding counties. At least, that was the case around ten days ago.

Here in Florida a contributing factor was definitely the happy up talk state and local officials were spouting every day.

I can hardly wait the White House’s reaction when the Northeastern states move to stop travel from the infected states.

Speaking of New York, I was very happy to read this report this morning confirming that the Black Lives Matter protests over the past month haven’t caused a spike in new coronavirus cases in NYC:

Pence is an idiot, he misread his talking points notes and failed to correct himself of that mistake. The talking points said “fattened the curve” not flattened.

This is such a checklist of “lazy version of BSDM where nobody has heard of the word consent” that I thought you were making it up. Honestly, even in bodice-rippers, consent is the entire sexy still point of the characters’ turning world. It’s one thing to portray an antagonist as so frenzied with lust and desire that…

I was actually thinking of Otto from A Fish Called Wanda when I wrote that.

You creeped me out in one sentence. 

I can’t stop laughing about them writing a kidnapper stating that he would never do anything against his victim’s consent. I can only imagine the screenwriters high-fiving each other after that, thinking how they reflect the many deep layers of the guy.

At this “how to be gentle” line, I began singing aloud: “Tale as old as tiiiiime, true as it can beeeee, barely even friennnnds, then somebody bennnnnds, unnn-expec-ted-lyyyy.” It was the most enjoyment I got from watching this terrible, terrible film.

I know that she’s in her early 30s and completely fine dating a guy pushing 50, but in every photo he just looks like her dad.