DL Open Thread: Sun., March 22, 2020
Everything Falls Apart, Ctd. Where are the masks? We hear the daily platitudes from Trumpence, but the masks don’t come. Trump prefers to let ‘market forces’ work. And blame everyone but him. JEE-zus. Again, stop giving Trump free air time for his propaganda. The networks show they have learned nothing from their coverage of his campaign events. It’s not news that the President lies, stop showing him lying. It’s nothing but free media for his reelection campaign. BTW, this type of limited testing will do nothing to prevent the virus from spreading. Face it, we’re screwed. 26,747 cases and 340 total deaths here. And counting.
Guess Who Isn’t Getting Counted In Coronavirus-influenced Census. If you guessed people of color, you would be correct. I doubt that that’s by accident. We need to keep a close eye on the shit that these criminals pull under the cover of the coronavirus.
“Holy Shit, This Is Not The Flu”. You may not want to read this, but you should. Then reexamine the risks you are willing to undertake.
Kentucky Rethugs Pass Voter Restriction Law Under Cover Of Coronavirus. Not even a pandemic can stop the ongoing criminal enterprise that is the Rethuglican Party.
Carney Closes Beaches. DMV Changes Procedures. DMV goes to ‘kiosk, drive-through and emergency appointment only. Dealer paperwork can be dropped off for processing and picked up when notified. Inspection lanes will remain open as no personal interaction is required, and the drive through windows at each location will have additional staff working to process DMV-related transactions. At no time will there be more than 10 people permitted in DMV lobbies.”
What do you want to talk about?
Oh fuck. That Mother Jones Article….
“It first struck me how different it was when I saw my first coronavirus patient go bad. I was like, ‘Holy shit, this is not the flu.’ Watching this relatively young guy, gasping for air, pink frothy secretions coming out of his tube and out of his mouth. The ventilator should have been doing the work of breathing but he was still gasping for air, moving his mouth, moving his body, struggling. We had to restrain him. With all the coronavirus patients, we’ve had to restrain them. They really hyperventilate, really struggle to breathe. When you’re in that mindstate of struggling to breathe and delirious with fever, you don’t know when someone is trying to help you, so you’ll try to rip the breathing tube out because you feel it is choking you, but you are drowning.”
If Delaware liquor stores close, which seems likely, we need an emergency legalization of alcohol deliveries.
I wrote about the possibility of alcohol delivery last week to Stephanie Hansen and Quin Johnson. Got a nice reply from Stephanie who told me that they wouldn’t be having any meetings for a while but heard nothing back from Johnson!
They can still talk to each other via phone, messenger, Facetime, Skype. How do they have the nerve to simply say, “Oh, we’re not meeting”? The people’s business has become more urgent than ever. Allowing the media to create a “leadership class” was a huge mistake. These folks are not landed gentry. And our State Senate is not a House of Lords…
Are the politicians stupid enough to close the liquor stores? Sure, they were stupid enough to let the beaches stay open last week. Would the effect be minimal other then creating a black market for booze overnight? Yep, there’s just not all that much traffic at liquor stores. Are we playing a too little too late game with the virus? Absolutely and thousands will die because of it. Trump continues to spew lies as a cover story as the clowns of the media lap it up and regurgitate it on the TV. The game stops when Americans start dying by the hundreds and then by the thousands. Hope the blame lands where it belongs for a change.
Is there a tax we can pay to make the Coronavirus go away like you can do with global warming?