Fear and Loathing, a Rat Flu Odyssey

[mock1]

Mutherfukker ain't gonna cure cancer, ain't gonna cure deficits, ain't gonna cure jack fuck.
He poo-poo'd this shit until it had overtaken America. His bullshit blaming it on Democrats and his continued denials had FOX news assholes telling their fucktard viewers it was a fukking conspiracy and that allowed the virus to infect thousands more while nothing was being done about it.

What would make me happy? Someone putting a load of coronavirus right between his eyes for those reasons and a million other reasons. Yes, I can't stand the mutherfukker. Virtually ANYONE could have and would have done better.

FKNA!!!

[rideit]

PREACH

[Toadman]

Amen!

[Ted Striker]

But what do you really think?

[teleee]

Mutherfukker ain't gonna cure cancer, ain't gonna cure deficits, ain't gonna cure jack fuck.
He poo-poo'd this shit until it had overtaken America. His bullshit blaming it on Democrats and his continued denials had FOX news assholes telling their fucktard viewers it was a fukking conspiracy and that allowed the virus to infect thousands more while nothing was being done about it.

What would make me happy? Someone putting a load of coronavirus right between his eyes for those reasons and a million other reasons. Yes, I can't stand the mutherfukker. Virtually ANYONE could have and would have done better.

FKNA SPLAT for president!

[splat]

Personally, I bet the Trump team was killing time and Americans while dumping billions in stocks between the lot of them per this guy's advice: https://www.propublica.org/article/s...s-preparedness

[rideit]

Is it public record if a president divests?
I wonder what his kids did...

[liv2ski]

^ Heh. Thx for that.

@Spats, let me elaborate. Sending everyone $1000 (and hey, $500 for the young ‘uns!) will do absolutely nothing to mitigate the virus spread or the effects of the disease on people. Comparing it to curing cancer, even mentioning curing cancer when discussing that bald-faced attempt at bribery is something only the most craven of Trump dick-suckers would attempt.

Yup, the assholes screaming for all the bailouts on the shoulders of tax payers can go suck a bag of dicks. Companies need a bail out = stock for the corresponding amount held be the US Treasury and seats on the board held by AOC and crew. The irresponsible buybacks that left you with no rainy day fund are your fuckin problem. Now deal with the reaming the average American will give you via the UST/FED. Will never happen though as the fix is in for the sheeple. Same as it has always been.

[Benny Profane]

Pennsylvania is closed

Go home

Well, shit, they closed the liquor stores, so, fuck them.

[ill-advised strategy]

The churches, homeless shelter, and library are all closed....
And today the public transit agency I work for just announced free bus fare. So now every bored laid off person will cram on the bus with homeless people trying to stay warm cramming together with the fragile elderly who need the bus to get to food/medicine/dialysis etc.

Continuing to operate strikes me as irresponsible but understandable in some sense. Making the thing free, which effectively turns us into a rolling homeless shelter, is indescribably reckless given the number of vulnerable and/or elderly people who also use the system.

I’d like to see the people who decided this sit on the bus getting coughed and sneezed on by drug addicts for 8 hours. I’d like to find the coughing-est smelliest bedbug-having-est sickest-ass vodka-soaked one and march him right into my bosses office...”hey Buford here wanted to thank you in person for the free ride to the place where he collects half-smoked cigarette butts outside the methadone clinic! Give her a hug Buford!”

[Benny Profane]

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Thank you. I'm learning a lot in isolation. I just reread Gravity's Rainbow, but still getting that intro down to Jimi's live Hey Joe, Winterland. After that it's back to copying Great Masters.

[Benny Profane]

The churches, homeless shelter, and library are all closed....
And today the public transit agency I work for just announced free bus fare. So now every bored laid off person will cram on the bus with homeless people trying to stay warm cramming together with the fragile elderly who need the bus to get to food/medicine/dialysis etc.

Continuing to operate strikes me as irresponsible but understandable in some sense. Making the thing free, which effectively turns us into a rolling homeless shelter, is indescribably reckless given the number of vulnerable and/or elderly people who also use the system.

I’d like to see the people who decided this sit on the bus getting coughed and sneezed on by drug addicts for 8 hours. I’d like to find the coughing-est smelliest bedbug-having-est sickest-ass vodka-soaked one and march him right into my bosses office...”hey Buford here wanted to thank you in person for the free ride to the place where he collects half-smoked cigarette butts outside the methadone clinic! Give her a hug Buford!”

Yeah, but, the next step is no bus. You can't even recreate on a bicycle in Italy and Spain right now. They're trying to work exemptions for pros, who live on bikes all year round, but that's having snags.

[Whiteroom_Guardian]

When was the last time Pennsylvania was even really open anyway? 1980?

[ill-advised strategy]

By then I’ll be in the hospital hallway dying because I’m expendable compared to these hillbillies who ain’t never figgered out the birth control.
Well, she’s an obese chain smoker but a mother of 7....so into the hallway you go there childless blue collar labor expendable guy.

[Rideski]

Yup, the assholes screaming for all the bailouts on the shoulders of tax payers can go suck a bag of dicks. Companies need a bail out = stock for the corresponding amount held be the US Treasury and seats on the board held by AOC and crew. The irresponsible buybacks that left you with no rainy day fund are your fuckin problem. Now deal with the reaming the average American will give you via the UST/FED. Will never happen though as the fix is in for the sheeple. Same as it has always been.

This is a complex multifaceted thing so I can’t just agree or not.
For the cruise ships? Fuck them.
Some companies, not sure. If in the greater good of the people they were still around and could have oversight as you say, open minded.
For the individuals though, there’s soon going to be people experiencing hunger like you’ve never known in your entire life. If my tax dollars go to feeding a few mouths versus jet airplanes I’m fine with that. I’m not going to lose my house either way.

In a related subject spoken about earlier, I didn’t respond because I wasn’t sure, still not. But I don’t think it’s pessimistic to wonder if crime is going to spike, and if a small infusion of cash could mitigate that a small amount.

[CascadeLuke]

Mutherfukker ain't gonna cure cancer, ain't gonna cure deficits, ain't gonna cure jack fuck.
He poo-poo'd this shit until it had overtaken America. His bullshit blaming it on Democrats and his continued denials had FOX news assholes telling their fucktard viewers it was a fukking conspiracy and that allowed the virus to infect thousands more while nothing was being done about it.

What would make me happy? Someone putting a load of coronavirus right between his eyes for those reasons and a million other reasons. Yes, I can't stand the mutherfukker. Virtually ANYONE could have and would have done better.

Soo much this.
For me my guilty admittance is that once I understood the gravity of this pandemic and that It doesn’t have a political agenda and that he can’t tweet this one away — I believed that a certain percentage of the trump train would see him for what he is. A shitstain.
A guy can hope

[garyfromterrace]

Mutherfukker ain't gonna cure cancer, ain't gonna cure deficits, ain't gonna cure jack fuck.
He poo-poo'd this shit until it had overtaken America. His bullshit blaming it on Democrats and his continued denials had FOX news assholes telling their fucktard viewers it was a fukking conspiracy and that allowed the virus to infect thousands more while nothing was being done about it.

What would make me happy? Someone putting a load of coronavirus right between his eyes for those reasons and a million other reasons. Yes, I can't stand the mutherfukker. Virtually ANYONE could have and would have done better.

This.

Not that Trudeau did a hellovalot better, but at least Justin isn't an illiterate narcissist who lies whenever he speaks. My thoughts go out to our med staff, docs and first responders. Also nutmeg choi and any other mags this fucking thing may hit.

Oh, and I'm definitely not going to Boulder to see mother Abigail. Nor to Vegas (fuck you Randall).

Take care folks, and fuck you and your ilk Spats.

Hope we can make it through this.

[iceman]

Outbreak map: https://www.coronainusa.com

Not sure how useful it is but hey

[TBS]

Hot Damn, this thread moves faster than the virus. More than a page an hour.

MPPG and KQ - hang in there. Illegitimi non carborundum est - don't let the bastards wear you down.

Thanks to Mofro, multiverse, summit, Seano and the others I forgot for bringing the facts and science. Spats - notsomuch

I don’t know anything (yet) about OAN, but part of what she was referring to is that China is now “demanding we admit we started it”

China's foreign ministry accuses US military of bringing virus to Wuhan
China demands US take responsibility and disclose information about first domestic patient
https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3896257

Coming back this PM from a 90 min walk on singletrack located on USFS land (is that a hike?) I heard a piece on NPR that the Russians are starting another misinformation campaign centered on Covid. Blaming it on the US govt was one tactic mentioned.

I personally propose that all Trumpies reject the free money in order to show proof of their faith he can turn this situation/economy around.

Or to demonstrate their rejection of Socialism...

Including four rolls of TP doesn't exactly instill confidence: https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/17/us/gu...rnd/index.html

I thought this was a brilliant way to turn lemons into lemonade. Our local brewpub is giving away their produce which will otherwise spoil now that they are down to take out only.

Latest case and death curves. We're winning!!! U-S-A!!! U-S-A!!!

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How much of the increase in rate is due to more testing I wonder?

Oh fuuuck.

Reposting this for anyone who missed it: https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2020...se-coronavirus

Oh that was uplifting!

The correct phrase is "attention span of a gnat."

Or attention span of a flash bulb (for those of you who remember analog photography)

Boy, this thread really brings the stupid to the forefront. You have moved to the front of the dumbass line.

Enjoying this ad hominem phase. It’s kind of liberating.

^ Heh. Thx for that.

@Spats, let me elaborate. Sending everyone $1000 (and hey, $500 for the young ‘uns!) will do absolutely nothing to mitigate the virus spread or the effects of the disease on people. Comparing it to curing cancer, even mentioning curing cancer when discussing that bald-faced attempt at bribery is something only the most craven of Trump dick-suckers would attempt.

OTOH the money will help a shitload of low-paid workers in the hospitality business who now have no income. Ms TBS and I are using anything we get on takeout in our little village that depends on tourism. Besides, if Trump tries to take credit for this, you just have to say "Andrew Yang was pushing this idea months ago"

[DBdude]

Yup, the assholes screaming for all the bailouts on the shoulders of tax payers can go suck a bag of dicks. Companies need a bail out = stock for the corresponding amount held be the US Treasury and seats on the board held by AOC and crew. The irresponsible buybacks that left you with no rainy day fund are your fuckin problem. Now deal with the reaming the average American will give you via the UST/FED. Will never happen though as the fix is in for the sheeple. Same as it has always been.

a lot of restaurant workers are fucked because their career has been taken from them. yeah, they could have made a better career choice - so fuck 'em, right?

many other people are going to get laid off too because of the down turn in business - fuck them too

fuck all the companies too, while trump was pronouncing this was all going to blow over and it was a democratic party hoax - instead of working to reduce the consequences

i hope you get laid off and your company goes tits up

then who will need a hand out?

fucking cunt

[splat]

[DBdude]

^twat

and i fucking hate trump

[Rideski]

Coming back this PM from a 90 min walk on singletrack located on USFS land (is that a hike?)

Walk vs Hike assessment scale (a work in progress)

3 or more points constitutes a hike, less is a walk, NTTAWWT

Add a point if
You gained 1000 ft elevation
You stepped over rocks
You stepped over water bars
You stepped over tree roots
You stepped over a stream
You stepped over a dead animal
You had no cell reception

Deduct a point if
There was a machine graded trail
You were wearing cotton
You could see your vehicle the entire time
You were having a phone or text conversation

Deduct two points if
There was concrete or asphalt
You streamed Netflix during

[up an down]

a lot of restaurant workers are fucked because their career has been taken from them. yeah, they could have made a better career choice - so fuck 'em, right?

many other people are going to get laid off too because of the down turn in business - fuck them too

fuck all the companies too, while trump was pronouncing this was all going to blow over and it was a democratic party hoax - instead of working to reduce the consequences

i hope you get laid off and your company goes tits up

then who will need a hand out?

fucking cunt

If a company gets a bailout do you actually think the front line workers will receive a penny??.HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

[BobMc]

Another one...

https://www.thedailybeast.com/sen-ke...virus-briefing

Her husband is the chairman of the New York stock exchange. She was appointed to replace a retiring Senator from Georgia, was sworn in Jan 6th. Clearly the swamp is being drained.