Steve Yun posted:

cheap $30 thing I got signed by David carradine, who turned out to be a real weirdo in person

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

I'm in an inner city Melbourne suburb and I decided to chance a visit to Kmart the other day for some stuff I've been putting off getting for more than a month. Almost zero mask use, signs on the door about limited numbers allowed in the shop but no one actually keeping count, no one in the store bothering with social distancing, and best of all a staff member coughed up half a lung right as she walked past me. Awesome.

I'm going to go back to hiding in my house.


Also I saw a staff member wheeling around a big rack of clothes that had a sign on it saying QUARANTINE STOCK and putting it back on the shelves, I'm guessing it was returns that they'd put aside for a few days.

UnfortunateSexFart posted:

I'm in South Yarra.

It's extra scary for me since I stupidly bought an apartment that finishes construction in October. If Australia does get hit hard like other countries before then it could cost me my home.

Uglycat posted:

Steve Yun posted:

Why not hold church outdoors? You can still congregate and it’s what, 19x safer?

Bruce Hussein Daddy posted:

NC



I say let's open her up!

Victory Position posted:

this has the potential to create a schism of its own

this is way bigger than Vatican II and that's a shitshow that the paleo-Catholics are still complaining about

A Buttery Pastry posted:

I can't wait for the 2021 American antipope election.

Paradoxish posted:

We're gonna keep getting stories like that hairstylist and eventually nobody except the chuds will go anywhere and everyone's going to be like "we opened er up why economy no good "

Steve Yun posted:

My birthday is tomorrow. It be a zoom for several friends. I built a Russian prostitute that pees Pinot Grigio on Trump, which I will be drinking from during the zoom.

no I am the furthest thing from depressed. could a depressed person accomplish this? look at her. no.

Steve Yun posted:

My birthday is tomorrow. It be a zoom for several friends. I built a Russian prostitute that pees Pinot Grigio on Trump, which I will be drinking from during the zoom.

no I am the furthest thing from depressed. could a depressed person accomplish this? look at her. no.

Business Gorillas posted:

This is already happening lol. Some chud in Columbus made statewide news by OPENIN ER UP their lovely bar and they went viral. They closed again like 3 days later

703 posted:

Did they decide to add the ~500 meat packing employees who tested positive or lol if not

Boxman posted:

the gym by me (liberal enclave in a chud state) is going to be reopening soon. 10 people at a time, hour and a half long non overlapping appointments. everyone leaves then they shut down to disinfect everything.

Relevant Tangent posted:

African bishops are more likely to get their ducks in a row than the Americans. Our bishops are too busy with the kid rape cover-ups.

Bruce Hussein Daddy posted:

NC



I say let's open her up!

Steve Yun posted:

My birthday is tomorrow. It be a zoom for several friends. I built a Russian prostitute that pees Pinot Grigio on Trump, which I will be drinking from during the zoom.

no I am the furthest thing from depressed. could a depressed person accomplish this? look at her. no.

quote:

Bexar County Republicans on Friday afternoon set up camp outside San Antonio City Hall to call out local leaders for some of the mandates they�ve established during the ongoing pandemic.

Republican Party Chair Cynthia Brehm, along with many others, took to the mic, claiming their constitutional rights have been infringed upon by Mayor Ron Nirenberg and Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff, specifically deriding the recently passed anti-hate speed resolution and mask-wearing recommendations.

�They asked us to wear masks, and according to Attorney General (Ken) Paxton, this is unconstitutional. So if we don�t want to wear masks, this is our choice,� she said. �This is America, and we shouldn�t have to be forced or mandated to wear a mask.�

In a second clip below, a local Republican official says that �the chance of catching the China virus is 0.05%.�

2DCAT posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7gMkiOPSeA

Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:

Meanwhile in Texas

https://twitter.com/bubbaprog/status/1263937751872868353

https://twitter.com/bubbaprog/status/1263935118697062401

Rutibex posted:

just go find a heavy rock and lift it over your head. pushups are free.

Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:

Meanwhile in Texas

https://twitter.com/bubbaprog/status/1263937751872868353

https://twitter.com/bubbaprog/status/1263935118697062401

Boxman posted:

I miss swimming

not enough to risk my health and that of those around me, mind. But its not something easily replaced.

Boxman posted:

I miss swimming

not enough to risk my health and that of those around me, mind. But its not something easily replaced.

Goa Tse-tung posted:

you stopped?

A Buttery Pastry posted:

Swimming (in pools) is bad for your lungs, so it's an even worse idea than immediately apparent.

George H.W. oval office posted:

how

Trixie Hardcore posted:

Well like two months ago we were shoving tubes down everyone’s throats and now we know you can save a lot of lives by just flipping the roni patients on their tum tums instead. We don’t know if you’ll fare a better chance of surviving it two months from now but it’s absolutely possible. If you had to get HIV it was better to get it 1995 than 1985. A valid argument can be made for trying to avoid a new virus for as long as you can. Also, if you get it now you’re going to get hospitalized with the first wave of open er up chuds.

A Buttery Pastry posted:

Swimming (in pools) is bad for your lungs, so it's an even worse idea than immediately apparent.

MIT Technology Review posted:

Many of those accounts were created in February and have since been spreading and amplifying misinformation, including false medical advice, conspiracy theories about the origin of the virus, and pushes to end stay-at-home orders and reopen America. They follow well-worn patterns of coordinated influence campaigns, and their strategy is already working: since the beginning of the crisis, the researchers have observed a greater polarization in Twitter discourse around the topic.

A number of factors could account for this surge. The global nature of the pandemic means a larger swath of actors are motivated to capitalize on the crisis as a way to meet their political agendas. Disinformation is also now more coordinated in general, with more firms available for hire to create such influence campaigns. But it's not just the volume of accounts that worries [Kathleen M. Carley, the director of the University's Center for Informed Democracy & Social Cybersecurity]. Their patterns of behavior have grown more sophisticated, too. Bots are now often more deeply networked with other accounts, making it easier for them to disseminate their messages widely. They also engage in more strategies to target at-risk groups like immigrants and minorities and help real accounts engaged in hate speech to form online groups.

George H.W. oval office posted:

Yea looks like its indoor pool specifically and if you are doing it every day for long periods of time like a competitive swimmer. lol @ goons being in that category. go swim have fun.