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My brother is in the ER with shortness of breath. Both my parents probably have it too. My mom was actually sick enough to get sent home from the hospital she works at and await a call for the test. gently caress.
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Richard Bong posted:My brother is in the ER with shortness of breath. Sorry man My old man is still fighting it. Fevers/hallucinations but no lung issues yet.
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# ? Apr 7, 2020 00:36 |
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https://twitter.com/mjs_DC/status/1247301011947085825 https://twitter.com/mjs_DC/status/1247302760242036738
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# ? Apr 7, 2020 00:37 |
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But we shouldn't pack the court lol, wisdom from both primary contenders, yes. Also lol https://twitter.com/nichheger/status/1247284924111106048 EDIT: https://twitter.com/bcburden/status/1247305870217797632 Richard Bong posted:My brother is in the ER with shortness of breath. Fingers crossed he's treated with oxygen and can go home safe and sound. Old Boot fucked around with this message at 00:47 on Apr 7, 2020 |
# ? Apr 7, 2020 00:41 |
EBB posted:Santa Clara County sent an e-mail to us today: Would you like $1000? Know where an old ventilator is? Greatest nation on earth (tm) having local nobodies hold cash rewards for nonfunctional parts that some craftsman can spiff up into functional lifesaving devices. The best government is the least government!
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# ? Apr 7, 2020 01:03 |
Just yesterday a friend, generally a pretty smart guy, said to me "I just want the least government involvement possible" You got your wish dude, look where it got us!
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# ? Apr 7, 2020 01:05 |
This is cool, relatively new in science twitter. Could prove to be toxic in humans but this kinda thing makes me more hopeful than chloroquine. https://twitter.com/timothysheahan/status/1247228816478490624
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Something this crisis is revealing is a mindset among many Americans that I've thought about previously, but hadn't quite put into words on paper. There is a general sentiment among these people that "America is Great." If you ask them why, they'll of course rattle off a variety of platitudes—freedom, democracy, markets, ARE TROOPS, etc. But for the most part, the fact of America's Greatness is treated as a given, threatened only by ~the libs~, terrorists, and other extremely vague enemies. There are many reasons, of course, why the United States is such a powerful, wealthy, and influential country: Two and a half centuries of expansion, reform, industry, and luck. It happened because people built systems that were refined over generations, often through bloodshed, whose benefits are now so taken for granted and spared so little thought that to the average person they may not exist at all—even if these systems have an immense impact on their daily lives. But for the "America is Great" crowd, greatness is not a series of deeply interconnected systems and circumstances—greatness simply is, and even when they acknowledge those systems it's as an obstacle to further Greatness rather than an underpinning reason for it. The United States didn't win World War II through intense preparation, close cooperation between industry, the government, and labor, and the mass sacrifice and bloodshed of American, British, and (especially) Soviet blood—we did it because we were just that great. The United States didn't outlast the Soviet Union in the Cold War because the Soviet system was filled with deep, irreconcilable flaws dating back to the Stalin era and exposed by war, changing political winds, and economic crisis—it was because we were always destined to win, because we were great. And on, and on. And because greatness is a given, they don't have any interest in how it came to be or what it takes to maintain it—and they assume that no matter what they do, it will always be there—so long as a goddamn socialist doesn't get into office. Nowhere is this more evident than in the response to COVID-19. A common question you often hear is "How could this happen? How could the richest and most powerful country on earth lack ventilators and protective equipment? How could we be so unprepared?" The answer, of course, is simple: We were unprepared because the administration, now almost entirely filled with loyalists to a man whose campaign slogan is "Keep America Great," did not believe preparation was necessary. They believed that the sheer fact that America was great would protect us and shepherd us through the crisis, with no expense or sacrifice required. And even now, as the crisis deepens, their focus isn't on saving lives and protecting the American people, without whom there would be no America—but on protecting "The economy," an arbitrary number made from imaginary dollars that, in their final sense, are mere pieces of paper or digits on a screen. Hundreds of thousands of may die, but they worked hard to protect what mattered—and after all, wouldn't millions more have died if America wasn't Great? The firing of Captain Crozier, and the response by the Naval Secretary, is a microcosm of this attitude. Crozier, who has been a naval officer since before I was born, and in command of one of the most powerful warships ever built, recognized that each of his hundred thousand nuclear-powered tons of his vessel was worthless without the lives and health of his sailors. Faced with a crisis, he did what he had to do to protect his crew, temporarily ceasing operations to ensure the ship and her crew could regain combat status as quickly as possible while maintaining safety and morale. But in response he has been intensely criticized and removed from his post—not for not acting sooner and more decisively, but for "violating operational secrecy" and leaving our country open to exploitation by vague, undefined enemies. For in the minds of those who believe in America's inherent greatness, it does not matter how effective the ship is, or whether the crew lay dying of preventable disease—only that they do it out of sight, belowdecks, and that the ship remain sailing. There is a quote I sometimes think about, one I've used before. In 1941, the British Army had lost the Battle of Crete. Tens of thousands of soldiers were stranded on that Mediterranean island, their only hope lying in an evacuation force protected by the ships of the Royal Navy. Sailing without air cover, the ships were hideously vulnerable to German air attack, and several warships were sunk. But at the height of the battle, when asked whether to call off the evacuation, Admiral Cunningham replied: "It takes the Navy three years to build a ship. It will take three hundred years to build a new tradition. The evacuation will continue." In the end, three cruisers and six destroyers were sunk—but fifteen thousand men were rescued. If you count from the Declaration of Independence (Though even that document has roots over a thousand years deep), it has taken nearly two hundred and fifty years to build America to what it is now: Three hundred and fifty million lives, connected together not just by lines on a map or pieces of paper but by a shared belief in the idea of America. They are what makes, and have always made, America 'Great' — if it ever truly was. But the people who believe in America's inherent greatness don't see that. All they see is the ship. 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Arrath posted:Just yesterday a friend, generally a pretty smart guy, said to me "I just want the least government involvement possible" https://twitter.com/CoreyRobin/status/1247217056128348161
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Acebuckeye13 posted:Something this crisis is revealing is a mindset among many Americans that I've thought about previously, but hadn't quite put into words on paper. Did you write this? Nice stuff.
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That Works posted:Did you write this? Nice stuff. It has far too many em dashes and italics to have been written by anybody else
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# ? Apr 7, 2020 01:17 |
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Australia's supreme court decided to get in on the "terrible loving decisions" bandwagon I guess. https://twitter.com/abcnews/status/1247316136963629057
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# ? Apr 7, 2020 01:33 |
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Milo and POTUS posted:What was that tweet that trump latched onto recently and it turns out the "person" he was obsessed with was in all likelihood a bot Which time? Oh recently. Not sure it happens so often.
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# ? Apr 7, 2020 01:36 |
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EBB posted:Santa Clara County sent an e-mail to us today: Would you like $1000? Know where an old ventilator is? Girlfriend is positive about the Bay as a whole but unsure about Santa Clara, they are getting hit hard. UCSF is still mostly empty but the current expectation is a peak late April, maybe 5 weeks left from the middle of last week. Something like that, with the hope being they have time to order more PPE/equipment.
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Acebuckeye13 posted:Something this crisis is revealing is a mindset among many Americans that I've thought about previously, but hadn't quite put into words on paper. Beautiful words, and I look forward to seeing you primary Biden from the center.
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# ? Apr 7, 2020 01:54 |
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https://twitter.com/sgtjanedoe/status/1247325535933521921?s=19
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Handsome Ralph posted:https://twitter.com/mjs_DC/status/1247301011947085825 Business as usual. There's no such thing a good republican
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# ? Apr 7, 2020 01:59 |
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Richard Bong posted:My brother is in the ER with shortness of breath. Best of luck to you though
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Acebuckeye13 posted:Something this crisis is revealing is a mindset among many Americans that I've thought about previously, but hadn't quite put into words on paper. Might steal and drop this a couple places.
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# ? Apr 7, 2020 02:01 |
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a recording of this was played on Chris Hayes tonight that ship sailed, completed its mission, returned to harbor, and is now in drydock
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Arglebargle III posted:llamao
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BUG JUG posted:Might steal and drop this a couple places. please credit me as "a weirdo on a dying internet forum" tia
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# ? Apr 7, 2020 02:03 |
Impressive words considering where they are coming from. https://twitter.com/mccaffreyr3/status/1247188902286209025
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ded posted:Which time? Oh recently. Not sure it happens so often. It might actually be the chloroquine bullshit. I have no clue anymore
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hahaha that's the secnav? motherfucker looks like the bastard child of McNamara and The Beast Rabban
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shame on an IGA posted:hahaha that's the secnav? What's more or less happened is that Donnie loves him because he's a BIG, TOUGH CHOPPER PILOT AND I KNOW CHOPPERS. Then, the usual thing happened, where the longer someone (with a weak will) spends with Donnie, the more he/she starts to sound like Donnie. So, he decided to make that idiotic statement to sound like a BIG, TOUGH CHOPPER PILOT and completely, utterly failed to read the room.
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# ? Apr 7, 2020 02:15 |
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Modly has now apologized to Capt. Crozier according to a tweet I saw just now in CSPAM.
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Mr. Nice! posted:Modly has now apologized to Capt. Crozier according to a tweet I saw just now in CSPAM. Lmfao
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# ? Apr 7, 2020 02:21 |
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Do you think any sailor gives a poo poo about these yahoos anymore after that one?
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That Works posted:Impressive words considering where they are coming from.
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# ? Apr 7, 2020 02:51 |
take that back
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# ? Apr 7, 2020 03:00 |
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Whenever someone higher up the chain says "the service has your back," you should watch out because you're about to get hosed.
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That Works posted:Impressive words considering where they are coming from. of course he's a ginger
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# ? Apr 7, 2020 03:22 |
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quote:Donald Trump has said he asked US pharmaceutical companies working on experimental coronavirus drugs to approach Boris Johnson’s doctors and offer their help, after it emerged that the British prime minister was in intensive care. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/07/trump-i-have-asked-us-pharma-ceos-to-offer-johnson-experimental-covid-19-treatments I can't believe Donald Trump is going to assassinate another head of state with HCQ poisoning
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# ? Apr 7, 2020 03:38 |
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Richard Bong posted:My brother is in the ER with shortness of breath. Sorry. That sucks. I hope they pull through.
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# ? Apr 7, 2020 03:46 |
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https://twitter.com/byPatPoblete/status/1247354041878921218 loving wowwwwwwwwwwwww
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# ? Apr 7, 2020 03:50 |
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Is it just me or does Modley have the worst hair plug job in history.
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EBB posted:Is it just me or does Modley have the worst hair plug job in history.
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# ? Apr 7, 2020 04:15 |
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Handsome Ralph posted:https://twitter.com/byPatPoblete/status/1247354041878921218 These motherfuckers probably feel safe because even though the correct answer to this sham of an election is massive protests and an occupation of the state capitol building (again) and honestly? this is the point where a full-blown riot is absolutely an acceptable response, people can't precisely for the same reasons they can't get out and vote: the goddamn pandemic. And by the time it's died down to the point where people can gather in large enough numbers, temperatures will have also cooled down to the point where it'll be hard to get enough numbers and energy for an appropriate response. loving bastards. Traitors to their state, their nation, and the people they represent.
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They would never betray their rich, white electorate
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