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Covidiot
Urban Dictionary’s most popular, recent definition of “covidiot” defines the offender as “someone who ignores the warnings regarding public health or safety” during the worldwide coronavirus outbreak.
The times they are a changing..............................
After each moon landing the Astronauts had to be decontaminated but why?
Whenever westerners invaded a newly conquered land, many of its native inhabitants became sick and of those, a large percentage died because they had no natural defense/protection against such diseases as smallpox and the like.
Fast forward to current time. Could this virus and earlier ones like SARS be the result of alien visitations? Could it be that the Chinese are just the whipping boys for these viruses so that the authorities need not explain the true cause of the outbreak to the masses?
Food for thought only...
Whenever westerners invaded a newly conquered land, many of its native inhabitants became sick and of those, a large percentage died because they had no natural defense/protection against such diseases as smallpox and the like.
Fast forward to current time. Could this virus and earlier ones like SARS be the result of alien visitations? Could it be that the Chinese are just the whipping boys for these viruses so that the authorities need not explain the true cause of the outbreak to the masses?
Food for thought only...
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Dr. Oz...
There are lots of unimportant people in this world who slip into obscurity and only surface when they say things that are absurd and attention getting. Ted Nugent is a good example. Dr. Oz is another. I first heard about him two months ago when he stated Americans didn't need to wear masks in public. Now he's back apologizing for a comment about reopening schools despite the trade-off of an increase mortality rate.
Oz, it's not the children who will die. It's their parents and grand parents. If you would have thought it out, you wouldn't have to be doing the backstroke. Unless, saying something stupid/dangerous is your only way to get back in the news.
A generation ago, record companies were forced to put warnings on CD's that contained material deemed to be offensive. Parents could look at the cover and know it wasn't for general consumption. Similar is the movie and TV ratings G for general audience, PG for parental guidance, etc. At the beginning of every TV show is where you will find this warning.
It's my opinion they need to add another letter to the rating/warning system. I'm suggesting M for Moron. That way when Oz comes on someone's talk show you will already be tipped off to change the channel!
Oz, it's not the children who will die. It's their parents and grand parents. If you would have thought it out, you wouldn't have to be doing the backstroke. Unless, saying something stupid/dangerous is your only way to get back in the news.
A generation ago, record companies were forced to put warnings on CD's that contained material deemed to be offensive. Parents could look at the cover and know it wasn't for general consumption. Similar is the movie and TV ratings G for general audience, PG for parental guidance, etc. At the beginning of every TV show is where you will find this warning.
It's my opinion they need to add another letter to the rating/warning system. I'm suggesting M for Moron. That way when Oz comes on someone's talk show you will already be tipped off to change the channel!
'Trump is killing his own supporters' – even White House insiders know it
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On Sunday, initially at least, there was no White House briefing on the president’s public schedule. But the bad news kept coming. Coronavirus deaths continued to climb and reports of the heartland being unprepared for what may be on its horizon continued to ricochet around the media.
In the words of one administration insider, to the Guardian: “The Trump organism is simply collapsing. He’s killing his own supporters.”
Members of the national guard, emergency workers, rank-and-file Americans: all are exposed. Yet Trump appears incapable of emoting anything that comes close to heart-felt concern. Or just providing straight answers.
Rather, he is acting like Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederate States of America: repeatedly letting governors know the burden of shoring up their sick, their doctors and their people falls on their shoulders first. The national government? It’s the world’s greatest backstop.
Remember when the Republican party freaked out about Barack Obama and the US “leading from behind” abroad? Remember the howls that evoked from GOP leaders? Those days are gone. Welcome to what Martin O’Malley, a Democratic former governor of Maryland, calls the “Darwinian approach to federalism”.
Trump is telling NFL owners he wants the season to start on time. He is disregarding Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advice on wearing facemasks in public. And he is touting untested coronavirus cures live on national TV.
Think Trump University on steroids, only this time we all stand to be the victims.
When Dr Anthony Fauci says there is no evidence to back up Trump’s claims surrounding hydroxychloroquine, an anti-malaria drug, pay attention. The fact Jared Kushner is on the case is hardly reassuring. He’s the guy who thought firing James Comey was win-win politics and promised Middle East peace in our time.
While all this is going on, the Wisconsin Republican party is giving America a taste of the campaign to come in the fall. Right now, the Badger State GOP is fighting in the US supreme court efforts to extend mail-in voting for this Tuesday’s Democratic primary.
In other words, voters will be forced to choose between foregoing their rights and risking their lives. Democracy shouldn’t work that way.
Back in the day, Republicans looked upon absentee voting as a valuable adjunct, a key piece in the party’s election day arsenal. Not anymore. Instead it is a dreaded foe, a fact readily admitted by Trump on Fox & Friends this week. If the US were to adopt mail-in voting, said the president, “you’d never have a Republican elected in this country again”.
For good measure, Trump later declared from the White House: “I think a lot of people cheat with mail-in voting.”
For the record, Trump voted by mail in 2018. In March, the Palm Beach Post reported that he had requested a mail-in vote for the Florida Republican primary.
There is nothing like populism marinated in wholesale contempt for the populace. In case Trump and the Republicans forgot, “We the People” are the constitution’s first three words.
Sadly, once again we are reminded that Ridley Scott and Russell Crowe’s masterpiece, Gladiator, is the movie for this presidency and its tumultuous times. In one scene, a senator, Gracchus, attempts to confront Commodus, the emperor, about a plague spreading through Rome. The emperor declines, threatens the senator and muses about disbanding the Senate.
On Thursday, Trump forced the removal of Captain Brett Crozier from his command of the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt, for having the temerity to plead his sailors’ case as more than 100 of them tested positive for coronavirus.
If you can leave your soldiers to suffer then no American is truly safe, no matter what Jeanine Pirro may say. Crozier left the ship to the cheers of the crew – then reportedly tested positive himself.
On Sunday, initially at least, there was no White House briefing on the president’s public schedule. But the bad news kept coming. Coronavirus deaths continued to climb and reports of the heartland being unprepared for what may be on its horizon continued to ricochet around the media.
In the words of one administration insider, to the Guardian: “The Trump organism is simply collapsing. He’s killing his own supporters.”
Members of the national guard, emergency workers, rank-and-file Americans: all are exposed. Yet Trump appears incapable of emoting anything that comes close to heart-felt concern. Or just providing straight answers.
Rather, he is acting like Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederate States of America: repeatedly letting governors know the burden of shoring up their sick, their doctors and their people falls on their shoulders first. The national government? It’s the world’s greatest backstop.
Remember when the Republican party freaked out about Barack Obama and the US “leading from behind” abroad? Remember the howls that evoked from GOP leaders? Those days are gone. Welcome to what Martin O’Malley, a Democratic former governor of Maryland, calls the “Darwinian approach to federalism”.
Trump is telling NFL owners he wants the season to start on time. He is disregarding Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advice on wearing facemasks in public. And he is touting untested coronavirus cures live on national TV.
Think Trump University on steroids, only this time we all stand to be the victims.
When Dr Anthony Fauci says there is no evidence to back up Trump’s claims surrounding hydroxychloroquine, an anti-malaria drug, pay attention. The fact Jared Kushner is on the case is hardly reassuring. He’s the guy who thought firing James Comey was win-win politics and promised Middle East peace in our time.
While all this is going on, the Wisconsin Republican party is giving America a taste of the campaign to come in the fall. Right now, the Badger State GOP is fighting in the US supreme court efforts to extend mail-in voting for this Tuesday’s Democratic primary.
In other words, voters will be forced to choose between foregoing their rights and risking their lives. Democracy shouldn’t work that way.
Back in the day, Republicans looked upon absentee voting as a valuable adjunct, a key piece in the party’s election day arsenal. Not anymore. Instead it is a dreaded foe, a fact readily admitted by Trump on Fox & Friends this week. If the US were to adopt mail-in voting, said the president, “you’d never have a Republican elected in this country again”.
For good measure, Trump later declared from the White House: “I think a lot of people cheat with mail-in voting.”
For the record, Trump voted by mail in 2018. In March, the Palm Beach Post reported that he had requested a mail-in vote for the Florida Republican primary.
There is nothing like populism marinated in wholesale contempt for the populace. In case Trump and the Republicans forgot, “We the People” are the constitution’s first three words.
Sadly, once again we are reminded that Ridley Scott and Russell Crowe’s masterpiece, Gladiator, is the movie for this presidency and its tumultuous times. In one scene, a senator, Gracchus, attempts to confront Commodus, the emperor, about a plague spreading through Rome. The emperor declines, threatens the senator and muses about disbanding the Senate.
On Thursday, Trump forced the removal of Captain Brett Crozier from his command of the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt, for having the temerity to plead his sailors’ case as more than 100 of them tested positive for coronavirus.
If you can leave your soldiers to suffer then no American is truly safe, no matter what Jeanine Pirro may say. Crozier left the ship to the cheers of the crew – then reportedly tested positive himself.
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The toilet paper virus – important changes to quarantine, week twenty
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The above authorisation confirms this blogger is officially registered to blog on social updates, and will be monitored closely by the authorities. Approval will be withdrawn from any blogger who expresses views contrary to law, order, health or safety.
(A side note – readers of a nervous disposition should jump ahead to the comment which will start ONE YEAR LATER)
*disclaimer* this blog - written in week four - intends neither to specifically amuse or alarm. It is a darkly cynical fictional extrapolation of the way long-term events could unfurl in, perhaps, an alternate reality. Comments will be posted in quick succession to drive the story. More cheerful opinions will then be very much welcomed.
The interview China tried to hide | Wuhan Coronavirus | Dr. Ai Fen
Dr Ai Fen, another Wuhan whistleblower doctor, disappeared after warning Chinese officials about coronavirus, 60 Minutes Australia reports.
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