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Xenocides
Jan 14, 2008

This world looks very scary....


Snowglobe of Doom posted:

She is egging him one, reverse psychology is the only thing that works against him and the most surefire way to get him to chug a bottle of hydroxy live on TV is have a woman tell him he shouldn't do it

:sickos:

Only one mistake. She did not tell him he shouldn’t drink bleach.


ThisIsACoolGuy posted:

I'm not expecting a vaccine or anything absurd this year but just any good news would be nice.

The President is possibly about to try to commit suicide in a fit of pique and we are probably going to see the President start screaming about how much fatter his enemies are.

Oh, and someone needs to tell John Oliver to buy more Fox commercial time for a commercial on the dangers of morbid obesity and use a Trump caricature lookalike slamming down fried chicken and burgers as a model of the “unhealthy danger zone”. Then wait for the fun.

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Alan Smithee
Jan 4, 2005


A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...
the president's doctor's are giving him grape juice and telling him it's hydro

doctor sex cake isn't calling the shots anymore

Xenocides
Jan 14, 2008

This world looks very scary....


Alan Smithee posted:

the president's doctor's are giving him grape juice and telling him it's hydro

doctor sex cake isn't calling the shots anymore

He needs to be told that repeatedly so he looks into it and fires anyone who cares enough about ethics to not poison him.

bollig
Apr 7, 2006

Never Forget.

bollig posted:

Just went and got an antibody test. I'm already ~85% sure that I had it back in February, I had a bad fever for 4-5 days, headache, cough, felt exhausted and had 0 appetite (literally only ingested Gatorade for that time, tried eating ramen and just nope, it was really weird) and I had flown internationally (from Seattle) like a week or so before. I also was a little short of breath for two or three weeks after that from time to time.

But I'll know in ~48 hours whether or not I had it. If I test positive on the first test they send it to a lab where they triple check that I had it. I forget to ask like who made the tests, but I'll ask when I get my results.

tested negative

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

sucks to be right

bollig posted:

tested negative

Whoops, hope you hadn't been making plans to get out and do stuff in the assumption that you had antibodies

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS
https://twitter.com/latimes/status/1262370919240003584

Excellent troll face.

IncredibleIgloo
Feb 17, 2011





I guess I don't understand what is so pressing about a haircut? How is that the one item that seems to be make or break for these people?

hemale in pain
Jun 5, 2010





how long do you think it took them to drink the alcohol supply for the guests? my bet is 2 weeks. i sure as hell would have.

Hopper
Dec 28, 2004

BOOING! BOOING!
Grimey Drawer

I guess he was all ears when Trump said to open up.

monkeytennis
Apr 26, 2007


Toilet Rascal

IncredibleIgloo posted:

I guess I don't understand what is so pressing about a haircut? How is that the one item that seems to be make or break for these people?

Have you even seen my hair.

Alan Smithee
Jan 4, 2005


A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...

monkeytennis posted:

Have you even seen my hair.

I dont want you to die

not even for that

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS
If the libs were driving hundreds of miles to get their hair done, you know that their masculinity and sexual orientation would be called into question.

There Bias Two
Jan 13, 2009
I'm not a good person

I'm still not wanting to leave the house for anything except food, despite everything reopening here.

I feel expected to move on with my life and get on with things that need to be done, but it doesn't seem safe or right to do so. The world outside has become completely divorced from reality, and I don't know what to do.

Iron Crowned
May 6, 2003

by Hand Knit

There Bias Two posted:

I'm still not wanting to leave the house for anything except food, despite everything reopening here.

I feel expected to move on with my life and get on with things that need to be done, but it doesn't seem safe or right to do so. The world outside has become completely divorced from reality, and I don't know what to do.



On the way home from work, I drive by a fairly popular bar/restaurant. The past two months it's been empty save for a few cars from staff members and the occasional pick up order. Yesterday was the first day I drove past since Ohio allowed outdoor seating on Friday, and the parking lot was packed.

Friday, Ohio allows indoor seating, we're hosed.

hemale in pain
Jun 5, 2010




There Bias Two posted:

I'm still not wanting to leave the house for anything except food, despite everything reopening here.

I feel expected to move on with my life and get on with things that need to be done, but it doesn't seem safe or right to do so. The world outside has become completely divorced from reality, and I don't know what to do.

I bike everywhere so i still can go out and avoid contact with most people. i'm from the uk though and when i went to america like 4 years ago bike infrastructure didn't seem to exist in florida. just lots of huge awful roads with stupidly big shopping malls in the middle of nowhere.

i know your country is a big place though so maybe it differs where you live .

central dogma
Feb 25, 2012

Come to the Undead Settlement in the next 20 mins if u want an ash kicking
You can leave the house, wear a mask, and practice social distancing all at the same time.

There Bias Two
Jan 13, 2009
I'm not a good person

central dogma posted:

You can leave the house, wear a mask, and practice social distancing all at the same time.

Not when you actually have to go somewhere crowded and public to take care of things that should still be shut down, like administrative buildings. There's no way people are going to be properly socially distancing at the DMV, for example.

Cacafuego
Jul 22, 2007

Burt Sexual posted:

Contact tracing in Florida must be non existent
:lol: Florida is fine, just fine:

Cacafuego posted:

Woman who designed Florida's COVID-19 dashboard has been removed from her position

As Florida starts to reopen, the architect and manager of Florida's COVID-19 dashboard, announced she'd been removed from her position, Florida Today reported.

Rebekah Jones said in an email to CBS12 News that her removal was "not voluntary" and that she was removed from her position because she was ordered to censor some data, but refused to "manually change data to drum up support for the plan to reopen."

Jones made the announcement May 5 in a farewell email to researchers and other members of the public who had signed up to receive updates on the data portal, according to Florida Today. She said that for "reasons beyond my division's control," her office is no longer managing the dashboard, involved in its publication, fixing errors or answering any questions.

Florida's COVID-19 dashboard, created by a team of Florida Department of Health data scientists and public health officers led by Jones, was praised by White House officials for its accessibility, the Florida Daily reported. But over the last few weeks, it "crashed and went offline, data disappeared with no explanation and access to the underlying data sheets became difficult."

Jones told CBS12 News that since she's been removed, the dashboard still hasn't been fully repaired.

CBS12 News reached out to the Florida Department of Health for comment and is waiting to hear back.

Also, if you want to see the Shock Doctrine being unveiled right before your eyes, here’s another great example:

Trump to Tap New Company to Make Covid-19 Drugs in the U.S. - The New York Times

quote:

Trump to Tap New Company to Make Covid-19 Drugs in the U.S.
The Trump administration on Tuesday will announce one of the largest-ever contracts to bring pharmaceutical manufacturing from abroad to a new plant in Virginia.

Peter Navarro, President Trump’s trade adviser, who is working on issues related to the global supply chain, last month during a coronavirus briefing at the White House.

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration will announce on Tuesday that it has signed a $354 million four-year contract with a new company in Richmond, Va., to manufacture generic medicines and pharmaceutical ingredients that are needed to treat Covid-19 but are now made overseas, mostly in India and China.

The contract, awarded to Phlow Corp. by the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, meshes President Trump’s “America First” economic promises with concerns that coronavirus treatments be manufactured in the United States. It may be extended for a total of $812 million over 10 years, making it one of the largest awards in the authority’s history.

“This is an historic turning point in America’s efforts to onshore its pharmaceutical production and supply chains,” Peter Navarro, Mr. Trump’s trade adviser, whose White House portfolio includes the global supply chain, said in a brief interview on Monday evening. The project, he said, “will not only help bring our essential medicines home but actually do so in a way that is cost competitive with the sweatshops and pollution havens of the world.”
It was unclear why the administration decided to award such a large contract to a new company when an entire industry exists — known as contract manufacturing — that makes drugs for other companies. However, manufacturers that operate in the United States generally make finished products using raw ingredients imported from elsewhere. They do not make the raw ingredients.

And Phlow markets itself in boldly nationalist terms. “The United States’ drug supply chain is broken,” its website declares, “becoming dangerously dependent upon foreign suppliers for our most essential generic medicines.”

In an interview, Dr. Eric Edwards, the chief executive and president of Phlow, described the company as a “public benefit corporation” that was dedicated to having a social impact, and he said his firm also intended to create “the nation’s first strategic active pharmaceutical ingredient reserve” — in essence, a stockpile for pharmaceutical ingredients to be used in the event of drug shortages or an emergency.
“There are not a lot of people wanting to bring back generic medicine manufacturing to the United States that has been lost to India and China over decades,” said Dr. Edwards, who described himself as a “serial entrepreneur” as well as a physician. “You need someone like the federal government saying this is too important for us not to focus on.”

In a statement that the Trump administration plans to release Tuesday morning, Mr. Trump’s health secretary, Alex M. Azar II, called the initiative “a significant step to rebuild our domestic ability to protect ourselves from health threats.”
Phlow will lead a team of private sector entities that includes Civica Rx, a nonprofit created in 2018 by American hospitals to alleviate drug shortages; Ampac Fine Chemicals, a custom manufacturer of pharmaceutical ingredients; and the Medicines for All Institute, a nonprofit arm of the Virginia Commonwealth University’s College of Engineering that also receives funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Dr. Frank Gupton, the founder and chief executive of Medicines for All, sits on Phlow’s board.

Martin van Trieste, the chief executive of Civica Rx, is also on Phlow’s board. And another board member, Rosemary Gibson, is a senior adviser at the Hastings Center, a nonpartisan bioethics institute, who has frequently written and testified about the dangers of the United States’ reliance on Chinese drug manufacturing.

Dr. Edwards said his company would focus on “critical care medicines used to treat hospitalized patients with Covid-19,” including “medicines that are used for sedation to help patients requiring ventilator support, pain management and certain essential antibiotics.” Production has already begun at an Ampac facility, he said, while Phlow builds new plants.

China is the main global supplier of the raw ingredients used in many common drugs, including antibiotics like penicillin and painkillers like ibuprofen and aspirin.

In recent years, observers like Ms. Gibson have warned about dependence on China for raw pharmaceutical ingredients, pointing to the widespread recalls in 2018 of the blood pressure drug valsartan that were traced to problems at a single Chinese factory that made the drug’s active ingredient, which was contaminated with a possible carcinogen.

Dr. Edwards said Phlow was incorporated in January, though he began working on it last year, before the emergence of the coronavirus. The aim, he said, was “strengthening America’s supply chain and manufacturing American generic medicines at risk of shortage.” He planned at first to use advanced manufacturing technology to produce generic drugs for children. But he switched gears, he said, when the pandemic emerged, and responded to a request from the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority for proposals to use advanced manufacturing to assist in the Covid-19 response.

Dr. Edwards is also a founder of the pharmaceutical company Kaléo, which he created along with his twin brother, Evan Edwards, to sell the Auvi-Q, a competitor to the EpiPen, the emergency allergy treatment. The Auvi-Q, a talking auto-injectable pen, hit the market in 2013 as part of a partnership with the French pharmaceutical giant Sanofi, but Dr. Edwards’s company soon ran into roadblocks.
In 2015, the Auvi-Q was recalled after it turned out the product might not have been delivering the proper dosage of epinephrine, the medicine used to stop a dangerous allergic reaction. In 2016, Sanofi ended its relationship with Kaléo and returned the licensing rights. Kaléo relaunched the improved Auvi-Q in 2017.

In 2016, Kaléo ran into a separate controversy with its other product, Evzio, which was similar to the Auvi-Q but delivered an injection of naloxone, which can stop a drug overdose. That year, Kaléo quintupled the price of Evzio, prompting letters from members from Congress who wanted to know why the company had raised the price in the middle of an opioid epidemic. (The company said it did so to cover the cost of a patient assistance program that lowered the out-of-pocket costs for people who could not afford it.)

A spokesman for Phlow said Monday night that “Dr. Edwards departed Kaléo on good terms over one year ago and had no oversight of drug pricing during the end of his tenure.”

Tl;dr: instead of choosing an established company to bring generic pharma manufacturing back to the US (a good thing), trump chose a brand new company for the $350 million contract (a potentially very, very bad thing when you read the CEOs history above). This will inevitably funnel taxpayer money into the hands of a (more than likely) unscrupulous business person who will (no doubt) skim some of that sweet government contract money to personally enrich himself and his business partners.

Cacafuego fucked around with this message at 12:56 on May 19, 2020

Alan Smithee
Jan 4, 2005


A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...
so what happened to the PPE company that was like a crypto dude who flew in a private jet with his parents to see the PPE dealer who wound up not having the goods

does he get to keep the money no takesy backsy

bollig
Apr 7, 2006

Never Forget.

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

Whoops, hope you hadn't been making plans to get out and do stuff in the assumption that you had antibodies



Lol no. Wasn't even that cautiously optimistic.

Mozi
Apr 4, 2004

Forms change so fast
Time is moving past
Memory is smoke
Gonna get wider when I die
Nap Ghost
i'm glad that things are finally back to normal and we can put this virus thing behind us once and for all

sweet thursday
Sep 16, 2012

Mozi posted:

i'm glad that things are finally back to normal and we can put this virus thing behind us once and for all

What a historic month that was. I'm glad its over

Bronze Fonz
Feb 14, 2019




Chinatown posted:

i just call into zoom meetings now. conference calls have worked for decades. zoom is this a pathetic HR/cock stroking management idea that ITS DIFFERENT NOW and we all need to be on a video call.

its hilarious HR middle management corporate group-think fart smelling to say that zoom is something indispensable and groundbreaking. paradigm shift my smelly rear end in a top hat HR. its beyond parody and i hate that phrase.

Dear friend, have you tried video calls through the blockchain yet?


sweet thursday posted:

What a historic month that was. I'm glad its over

Time for shooters and hair cuts!

Gwyneth Palpate
Jun 7, 2010

Do you want your breadcrumbs highlighted?

~SMcD

Bronze Fonz posted:

Time for shooters and hair cuts!

Like, spree shooters? I wonder if a pandemic would keep a spree shooter indoors.

AreWeDrunkYet
Jul 8, 2006

Alan Smithee posted:

so what happened to the PPE company that was like a crypto dude who flew in a private jet with his parents to see the PPE dealer who wound up not having the goods

does he get to keep the money no takesy backsy

https://www.propublica.org/article/how-profit-and-incompetence-delayed-n95-masks-while-people-died-at-the-va

Probably doesn't get to keep the money, but obviously no actual consequences.

central dogma
Feb 25, 2012

Come to the Undead Settlement in the next 20 mins if u want an ash kicking

There Bias Two posted:

Not when you actually have to go somewhere crowded and public to take care of things that should still be shut down, like administrative buildings. There's no way people are going to be properly socially distancing at the DMV, for example.

I guess that's going to vary greatly by region/state/country. My locality has been excellent, people and employees have been respectful, and more people than not wear masks. And I live in the US, shockingly enough.

If people around you suck, then I'm sorry for you.

Pennywise the Frown
May 10, 2010

Upset Trowel
Trump hasn't tweeted a single thing today lol.

I still have no idea what's happening in my city in WI. The republicans opened everything up, the governor is playing it as cool as ever just saying "Well, this is what they wanted and I can't do anything about it but I'll try my best," my city immediately re-closed but then opened up <24 hours later after the ruling, and now I'm seeing on FB that some restaurants are opening up. I haven't been out in a few days so I don't know what's happening on the ground. I go to the gas station sometimes though and no one is wearing masks anymore.

:patriot:

Risky Bisquick
Jan 18, 2008

PLEASE LET ME WRITE YOUR VICTIM IMPACT STATEMENT SO I CAN FURTHER DEMONSTRATE THE CALAMITY THAT IS OUR JUSTICE SYSTEM.



Buglord

When can we call them prisonships

quidditch it and quit it
Oct 11, 2012


Pennywise the Frown posted:

Trump hasn't tweeted a single thing today lol.
:patriot:

Fingers crossed something vital has popped in his brain and finished the job.

FoolyCharged
Oct 11, 2012

Cheating at a raffle? I sentence you to 1 year in jail! No! Two years! Three! Four! Five years! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!
Somebody call for an ant?

central dogma posted:

I guess that's going to vary greatly by region/state/country. My locality has been excellent, people and employees have been respectful, and more people than not wear masks. And I live in the US, shockingly enough.

If people around you suck, then I'm sorry for you.

As a guy with a customer facing job the governor is forcing me back to and a state where the governor has actively subverted local safety ordinances, I have no sane way to do so. Being able to handle the pandemic responsibly has become a class privilege and whether or not you actually do so a political statement. The US is hosed.

Pitdragon
Jan 20, 2004
Just another lurker

FoolyCharged posted:

As a guy with a customer facing job the governor is forcing me back to and a state where the governor has actively subverted local safety ordinances, I have no sane way to do so. Being able to handle the pandemic responsibly has become a class privilege and whether or not you actually do so a political statement. The US is hosed.

i am truly surprised that we have managed to politicize a viral pandemic to this degree

Hazo
Dec 30, 2004

SCIENCE



Pennywise the Frown posted:

Trump hasn't tweeted a single thing today lol.

I thought that leaked schedule from way back said he usually sleeps late then watches Fox and Friends before rage tweeting whatever diarrhea they talked about on the show

Alan Smithee
Jan 4, 2005


A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...

Risky Bisquick posted:

When can we call them prisonships

hope the food is good

Rexxed
May 1, 2010

Dis is amazing!
I gotta try dis!

bollig posted:

tested negative

You probably had Influenza B; I had it in January and it was pretty much as you described symptom wise. It was the bad flu of the year and a lot of people probably mistook it for covid 19 if they caught it later on.

Pennywise the Frown
May 10, 2010

Upset Trowel

Hazo posted:

I thought that leaked schedule from way back said he usually sleeps late then watches Fox and Friends before rage tweeting whatever diarrhea they talked about on the show

Welp, you called it.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1262737181937938432

Rolo
Nov 16, 2005

Hmm, what have we here?

Rexxed posted:

You probably had Influenza B; I had it in January and it was pretty much as you described symptom wise. It was the bad flu of the year and a lot of people probably mistook it for covid 19 if they caught it later on.

I know several people who are doing gently caress all for covid because they say they already had it in January, despite the lack of a test and also everything else that says they’re probably not smart.

Big Beef City
Aug 15, 2013

IncredibleIgloo posted:

I guess I don't understand what is so pressing about a haircut? How is that the one item that seems to be make or break for these people?

You know what everyone has? Hair.
You know what everyone needs and can't get? Haircuts.

You know what's moderately annoying that you can easily commiserate with another person about? Not getting a haircut.

Wouldn't it be really loving great if you found something that was easy to bitch about to others to use as a rallying point to find common cause against how much this all sucks? Goddamn I wonder what could be used to market that common angle of frustration? What in the WORLD could that be, what similar thing shared by many people could be held up as an almost universal sign of inconvenient displeasure that is easily recognized and easily overcome by simply bitching, and therefor a good enough goal to shoot for to empower a large rear end group of people?

poo poo I wonder????

zer0spunk
Nov 6, 2000

devil never even lived

Hazo posted:

I thought that leaked schedule from way back said he usually sleeps late then watches Fox and Friends before rage tweeting whatever diarrhea they talked about on the show

weird, his first tweet was about fox and friends around 930. good to know i'm up before the president of my country.

also #presidentplump is trending and i can't wait to see his meltdown clapback..any minute now

Big Beef City
Aug 15, 2013


There have been side-by-side timelines of what Fox has on TV and what Trump tweets that go back years.
They'll broadcast something and he'll tweet the exact same thing within an hour or whatever, it happens constantly and has his entire presidency. There's notable gaps when he literally can't be watching TV for whatever reason and when you can actually see that he's been watching it live and everything, it's stupid.
It's your racist poo poo heap old family member watching TV and posting to facebook except literally to the world and running the country over it, it's phenomenal, he's such a troll and a kidder that guy. He really got me and my liberal 'goat', as it were, with how incredibly asinine and stupid he is. He really did.

Big Beef City fucked around with this message at 15:25 on May 19, 2020

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Bronze Fonz
Feb 14, 2019




Big Beef City posted:

There have been side-by-side timelines of what Fox has on TV and what Trump tweets that go back years.
They'll broadcast something and he'll tweet the exact same thing within an hour or whatever, it happens constantly and has his entire presidency. There's notable gaps when he literally can't be watching TV for whatever reason and when you can actually see that he's been watching it live and everything, it's stupid.

"There's notable gaps when he literally can't be watching TV for whatever reason"

God, I hate when they make me do this president poo poo with speeches and meetings and stuff, my show's coming on!

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