SPOILER: Fortunately no one was hurt, and the hospital ship was several hundred yards from harm's way.

Prosecutors: Engineer deliberately ran train off tracks in attempt to smash the USNS Mercy...

What with all the breathless media reports of "US LEADS THE WORLD IN DEATHS!!11!!", it's important to remember that 1. China lies, and 2. The USA is a lot bigger than Spain.

Here's a chart of...

The House finally signed the Senate's bill today, and President Trump signed it into law right away...
...after smacking down one Republican grandstander for threatening to hold it up, just as hard...

From the Congressional Research Service:
COVID-19 and Stimulus Payments to Individuals: Summary of the 2020 Recovery Rebates in the March 22 CARES Act...

This article contains the full draft of the Senate coronavirus stimulus bill. It also contains the best summary I've found so far of what's in it.

Senate Releases Full Text Of $2 Trillion...

First, an important note: chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine (Plaquenil) are not the same drug! Chloroquine is a malaria preventative and treatment, Plaquenil is used as a second-line immunomodulator...

I don't understand Reagan-worship, either. He was right about the Soviet Union - "take a hard line and they'll crumble from within" - but Paul Volcker, whom everyone gives Reagan credit for, was a...

As I've repeatedly pointed out, we've known since 2004 that chloroquine has strong anti-coronaviral activity. The Chinese and Italian doctors who performed the trials on Covid-19/Wuhan patients...

Absolutely. Mylan is the corp. that jacked prices on EpiPens to the moon. They wouldn't be ramping up production of hydroxychloroquine unless they're sure there will be massive worldwide demand.
...

Two Africans hospitalized after self-medicating.
This should DEFINITELY stop the entire world's medical system from prescribing lifesaving medication under controlled conditions to people in direct...

(Reposting this because it's actual lifesaving information for the medical professionals reading this thread)

UW Covid team is going to use Hydroxychloroquine for all patients warranting hospital...

UW Covid team is going to use Hydroxychloroquine for all patients warranting hospital admission. We came up with this quick and simple guideline for QTc cutoffs during treatment. Feel free to adapt...

A strong economy benefits the incumbent President's re-election chances, and thus must be destroyed.

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Also, local transit outside big cities runs at such a tremendous loss that it almost...

"He's not doing anything for the working people of America who lost their jobs!"

President Trump immediately cancels interest on all student loans
President Trump immediately pauses all evictions...

President Trump could cure cancer and people would still be complaining that he put oncologists out of work! :cool:

Seriously: what would make you happy, in this situation?

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Other stuff...

It smells like poo in there. I'd probably catch the coronavirus.

1:14:50 VP Pence: All doctors and medical professionals can now practice across state lines.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSbVZT--lzk

President Trump Suspends Evictions and Foreclosures Until...

Today's figure is 7,038. (3/18/20)
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/cases-in-us.html
(There's a several day lag, since it takes a few days to test and report results.)
...

The Chinese Communist Party spent months covering up the Wuhan coronavirus and the extent of its virulence and spread.
The WHO has also been complicit with the CCP.
It's totally justified to call...

I agree. If I need to go out in a mask, I'll use my goddamn paint respirator. I'll look like Bane but it'll work.

All of you players on the front lines dealing with the masses panicking over a...

Sneeze droplets don't stay airborne for that long. They land on something eventually.

More importantly, infection is a game of percentages. Nothing besides an intact hazmat bubble suit will keep...

Oh hey, remember when I posted this?

How accurate is Covid-19 testing, and how much difference does it really make?...

Thank you for respectfully asking a serious question! Here's what I think:

***** SPECULATION FOLLOWS *****

These are ideas, not prescriptions. Feel free to contribute!

We know that Covid-19,...

Dude, easily a third of your posts in this thread are insulting the President, blaming him or our VP for Covid-19, or bagging on people who refuse to join you in the other two. I diagnose you with a...

I'll ignore your intentionally insulting implications ("something must be wrong with you, har har") and answer the question honestly.

1. Nothing's changed. I've always gone where the facts take...

Remember when I said this? (Which I clearly marked **** SPECULATION FOLLOWS ****)


Look what came out just last night!

Thanks to sequencing by @UWVirology, @CDCgov and @seattleflustudy we have...

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT

Covid-19 testing is not particularly accurate, even if you can get one.
https://www.tetongravity.com/forums/showthread.php/332958-Chinese-Rat-Flu?p=5927049#post5927049...

Only literal psychotics like you who are cheering on an epidemic and an economic crash to own #orangeman - and who can ignore that the entirety of Europe is doing far worse than we are, because he...

Yes*

* = Unless, as with the flu, warmer weather makes you much less likely to catch it. Unless not being around lots of other sick people makes its course less severe, or lets you develop...

For context, here are my posts from earlier in this thread, or the other Covid thread.
Lots of information contained here.
Feel free to judge me on completeness and credibility, especially in...

Optimism isn't allowed! :biggrin:
A common, dirt-cheap drug can't possibly do anything against this disease that has killed nearly as many Americans as (checks database) just committed suicide in...

The last time I posted about Ron Paul was 2009. You're like my obsessed stalker-y ex-girlfriend, except not nearly as good looking...especially ELEVEN YEARS LATER. Stop texting me, I'm not going to...

It's easy to believe that tests are magic and 100% accurate. That's not true.

https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2020/03/the-accuracy-of-covid-19-tests.html
"The accuracy of the current COVID-19 tests...

I'm going to keep posting facts and figures from official sources and scientists.

(Go believe Snopes if you want. A random schoolteacher who embezzled company money to spend on prostitutes,...

A few important pieces of information, some new, some from posts in the other thread.

No, the White House didn’t ‘dissolve’ its pandemic response office. I was there....

Pop Quiz: Which President signed HIPAA?

Also, you're going to claim that New York Times could have blamed it on #orangemanbad but didn't?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
This is the same paper that runs...

Also, we can bust yet another viral rumor:

Text message rumors of a national #quarantine are FAKE. There is no national lockdown. @CDCgov has and will continue to post the latest guidance on...

Meanwhile, if anyone wants to know who to blame for the slow test rollout in the USA, it's a combination of Washington State and a career CDC bureaucrat who's been there since at least 2011.
...

SPLAT! I'm great, thanks for asking. Still here, quietly doing what I do.



Appreciate the shout, man. I'm always around...I just don't post much anymore. Shoot me a PM if you want a better...

It's hard work being simultaneously outraged that the government has screwed everything up, and also that it isn't doing nearly enough!

You too, ice! Glad you're still around. I missed you by just a day or two in UT a couple years ago...maybe next year, since this year is very likely done.

Meanwhile, since we're on a new page, a...

Apparently the viral copypasta I've seen multiple times on here, about Seattle ERs being overwhelmed with Covid-19 cases, is bullshit.

https://twitter.com/CT_Bergstrom/status/1239348331186249728
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