Fear and Loathing, a Rat Flu Odyssey

PB · 09-13-2020, 01:57 PM

Waaaaaaay too late.

And, students locked up for 2 weeks?!?!?!?!? BWAHAHHAAHHHHHAAAAAAA
In a time of heretofore unheard of stupidity, this takes the cake.

**Smoova** · 09-13-2020, 02:13 PM

Originally Posted by Rideski

Attachment 340013

LIBERATE MICHIGAN STATE!

**Bunion 2020** · 09-13-2020, 02:40 PM

WTF its just the flu, those kids will be fine. Harden the fuck up. Rub a little spit on it and get back in there.

**Rasputin** · 09-13-2020, 04:14 PM

Originally Posted by Bunion 2020

WTF its just the flu, those kids will be fine. Harden the fuck up. Rub a little spit on it and get back in there.

Exactly, it'll buff out.

**Benny Profane** · 09-13-2020, 04:47 PM

Originally Posted by old goat

It was on the same page. The fact is, you don't give a shit what anyone else has to say.

Jezuz, mf, give it a rest. This thread flies by faster than the TDF peloton. Is there some sort of rule that I have to go back and read everything, like the boring med science gobleegook SOME people post to impress us with their overpaid pre med education?

**Benny Profane** · 09-13-2020, 04:49 PM

Originally Posted by bodywhomper

What about the staff and households?

That's the point. They're trying to save staff lives, especially older faculty, those poor bastards, who cant afford to retire yet.

**I Skied Bandini Mountain** · 09-14-2020, 09:38 AM

I didn't realize the downwinding caused such long term damage.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1305164232346959873

**I Skied Bandini Mountain** · 09-14-2020, 10:02 AM

Mom!!

https://twitter.com/i/status/1305532684899360769

**Benny Profane** · 09-14-2020, 10:57 AM

It's either watch football or drink. But, someday, we'll have both back, together. MAGA!

**Benny Profane** · 09-14-2020, 11:13 AM

Holy crap. From the NYT.

Trump Health Aide Alleges Broad Conspiracies and Warns of Armed Revolt

Michael Caputo, the assistant secretary of health for public affairs, told a Facebook audience without evidence that left-wing hit squads were being trained for insurrection, and he accused C.D.C. scientists of “sedition.”

WASHINGTON — The top communications official at the powerful cabinet department in charge of combating the coronavirus accused career government scientists on Sunday of “sedition” in their handling of the pandemic and warned that left-wing hit squads were preparing for armed insurrection after the election.

Michael Caputo, 58, the assistant secretary of public affairs at the Department of Health and Human Services, said without evidence that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was harboring a “resistance unit” determined to undermine President Trump.

Mr. Caputo, who has faced criticism for leading efforts to warp C.D.C. weekly bulletins to fit Mr. Trump’s pandemic narrative, suggested that he personally could be in danger.

“You understand that they’re going to have to kill me, and unfortunately, I think that’s where this is going,” Mr. Caputo, a Trump loyalist installed by the White House in April, told followers in a video he hosted live on his personal Facebook page. Mr. Caputo has 5,000 Facebook friends, and the video has been viewed more than 850 times. It has been shared by 44 followers.

The department said in a statement: “Mr. Caputo is a critical, integral part of the president’s coronavirus response, leading on public messaging as Americans need public health information to defeat the Covid-19 pandemic.”

Mr. Caputo said Monday, “Since joining the administration my family and I have been continually threatened” and harassed by people who have later been prosecuted. “This weighs heavily on us, and we deeply appreciate the friendship and support of President Trump as we address these matters and keep our children safe.”

Mr. Caputo delivered his broadside against scientists, the media and Democrats after a spate of news reports over the weekend that detailed his team’s systematic interference in the C.D.C.’s official reports on the pandemic and other disease outbreaks. Former and current C.D.C. officials described to Politico, The New York Times and other outlets how Mr. Caputo and a top aide routinely demanded the agency revise, delay and even scuttle the C.D.C.’s core public health updates, called Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports, that they believed undercut Mr. Trump’s message that the pandemic is under control.

Those reports, deemed “the holiest of the holy” by one former top health official for their international respect and importance, have traditionally been so shielded from political interference that political appointees see them only just before they are published.

Mr. Caputo on Sunday complained on Facebook that he was under siege by the media and said that his physical health was in question and his “mental health has definitely failed.”

“I don’t like being alone in Washington,” he said, describing “shadows on the ceiling in my apartment, there alone, shadows are so long.” He then ran through a series of conspiracy theories, culminating in a prediction that Mr. Trump will win re-election but his Democratic opponent, Joseph R. Biden Jr., will refuse to concede.

“And when Donald Trump refuses to stand down at the inauguration, the shooting will begin,” he said. “The drills that you’ve seen are nothing.” He added: “If you carry guns, buy ammunition, ladies and gentlemen, because it’s going to be hard to get.”

Mr. Caputo’s installation at the agency was a White House move to assert greater control over Alex M. Azar II, who has been Mr. Trump’s secretary of health and human services since 2018. His job is to coordinate the messaging of an 80,000-person department that functions as the center of the American public health bureaucracy and includes the Food and Drug Administration, the C.D.C. and the National Institutes of Health, which lead the government’s pandemic response.

**bennymac** · 09-14-2020, 11:27 AM

That guy has gone off the rails

**Meathelmet** · 09-14-2020, 11:39 AM

Originally Posted by old goat

It was on the same page. The fact is, you don't give a shit what anyone else has to say.

You have to cut Benny some slack, he is like Sleepy Joe.
The world whizzes by, faster and faster every day.

**liv2ski** · 09-14-2020, 11:42 AM

Originally Posted by bennymac

That guy has gone off the rails

And his base is frothing to get crazy with him. Shit could get real this November. Do I need more .223 & 9mm ammo?

**funkendrenchman** · 09-14-2020, 12:19 PM

There's nothing else that could have been done..... but how bout that stock market?

**jono** · 09-14-2020, 12:48 PM

Originally Posted by Benny Profane

Mr. Caputo on Sunday complained on Facebook that he was under siege by the media and said that his physical health was in question and his “mental health has definitely failed.”

No argument there

**huckbucket** · 09-14-2020, 01:21 PM

"Caputo moved to Russia in 1994, after the fall of the Soviet Union, and was an adviser to Boris Yeltsin. He worked for Gazprom Media in 2000 where he worked on improving the image of Vladimir Putin in the U.S. He moved back to the U.S. and founded a public relations company, and then moved to Ukraine to work on a candidate's campaign for parliament."

If half of the info on his wiki page is true then the guy is a fucking scumbag.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Caputo

What looks like "off the rails" to some is just SOP to others.

**I Skied Bandini Mountain** · 09-14-2020, 01:32 PM

Any normal world and this guy is escorted from the building by security.

**XXX-er** · 09-14-2020, 01:35 PM

https://gizmodo.com/anti-maskers-for...GTvOXaX0QTLWNE

things are different in Indonesia

**glademaster** · 09-14-2020, 02:17 PM

Originally Posted by liv2ski

And his base is frothing to get crazy with him. Shit could get real this November. Do I need more .223 & 9mm ammo?

You're a Canadian, what you need to do is get your ass up there. Screw any of your relatives that can't get in with you and go. I have a coworker who is married to a Canadian woman, their kids obviously have dual citizenship. When it was announced the border was closing back in March, she took the kids and went to stay with her parents in Golden, BC. Smartest thing they could have done. It sucks that he probably won't see his wife or kids for a couple years, but he said it was a family decision. Trust me, if I had a way out, I would have taken it yesterday.

**Harry** · 09-14-2020, 02:35 PM

Originally Posted by I Skied Bandini Mountain

Any normal world and this guy is escorted from the building by security.

In a normal world, a guy who is probably a Russian KGB agent would never get appointed to a high level position in the US Government.

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