Edited May 18, 20205 yr by victoria foxton

 

In more depressing COVID news, crew on the USS Theodore Roosevelt, who had previously had the virus and were thought to be in the clear, have begun to test positive AGAIN after exhibiting symptoms:

 

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/16/uss-theodore-roosevelt-sailors-test-positive-coronavirus-261873

 

Face it: Until we get new leadership that respects science, and/or a WORKING vaccine, we will NEVER get out of this. Americans now are far too selfish to do as they are asked.

I took my first walk beyond my curb in two months through abandoned Beverly Hills over the weekend (masked, of course). Ain't touched [!@#$%^&*]! It was surreal. People are still mostly doing it right here. Other places, it varies wildly. My industry remains dead, but I'm most worried about friends struggling with their states or jobs' poor decisions elsewhere.

 

Meanwhile:

 

 

3 hours ago, Wendy said:

Face it: Until we get new leadership that respects science, and/or a WORKING vaccine, we will NEVER get out of this. Americans now are far too selfish to do as they are asked.

 

ICAM.

 

  

  

Edited May 19, 20205 yr by victoria foxton

Despite my upbringing of being taught never to say I hate anyone, I swear, these folks are making me start to hate people.

 

Humboldt County coronavirus protester’s ‘slaves’ sign goes viral https://t.co/eEwQSEPvt4

— Times-Standard (@eurekaTS) May 19, 2020

That makes me want to vomit. What is that saying - the cruelty is the point? The apology just makes it even worse, as you know she doesn't mean a word. 

48 minutes ago, DramatistDreamer said:

Despite my upbringing of being taught never to say I hate anyone, I swear, these folks are making me start to hate people.

 

Believe me, @DramatistDreamer, I know how you feel.  I don't know which is worse: the fact that she displayed the sign, or the fact that she doesn't apologize so much as she passes the blame.  ("It wasn't my sign!  Someone handed it to me!"  Yet, there she was, arguing that she was a "free human being," who wouldn't be controlled by anyone.  Isn't it ironic?  Don't you think?)

 

It literally makes my blood boil to witness such jackholes equate minor inconveniences with three centuries of slavery and segregation.  You think being asked to wear masks and gloves is a slippery slope toward being controlled entirely by the government?  Take it from someone whose ancestors were runaway slaves; you ain't seen nuttin' yet!

Edited May 19, 20205 yr by Khan

Oh, I know not one word of that faux apology was real. I needed to vent but I've long accepted that people like that will never change. 

 

Speaking of impatient idiots,

 

Georgia church closes two weeks after reopening as families come down with coronavirus https://t.co/sDSsR836bQ

— Jeff Jarvis (@jeffjarvis) May 19, 2020

A top Florida Department of Health data manager alleges she was forced to resign from her job maintaining the state’s COVID-19 portal because she refused to change data that would “drum up support for the plan to reopen” amid the pandemic https://t.co/IsLv0ymyYg

— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) May 19, 2020

 

 

  

I love how the Internet has taken to calling that Costco "customer" "Kevin."

 

But seriously.  As y'all know, I live in "the great state of Oklahoma."  For years, there was a movement of sorts to get our state government to reverse a rule that prohibited drivers from operating any motor vehicle while shirtless.  I don't know whether they were successful in getting the law struck down, but it doesn't surprise me now to see people refuse to wear masks (even though private businesses are well within their rights to ask patrons to do so).  It frustrates and angers me, but it doesn't surprise me.

 

 

  

Mike Schultz chatted with one of his favorite nurses about his treatment being sedated and intubated there.

"I thought only a week had gone by," he told BuzzFeed News.

That's when she let him know he hadn't been in the ward for one week — he'd been there for six. https://t.co/PRQjY34QLc

— Liz Farmer (@liz_farmer) May 19, 2020