I'm starting this thread as a side discussion of all things Corona Virus related. I understand that this is going to be discussed in almost all other topic threads but we could collect news and other items here. 

 

At work, many conferences have been cancelled.

NBA - Suspended.

NHL - About to be suspended. 

NCAA March Madness - Playing - no crowd. 

 

Political Rallies have been cancelled. 

Travel bans. 

 

Rita Wilson and Tom Hanks tested positive. They're in Australia where testing is available. If they were in the US, they wouldn't have been tested. 

On 2020-04-28 at 1:47 PM, Mr Dee said:

CBC News Alerts - 
Canada's national coronavirus modelling forecast shows that  as of Monday morning, the median age for an infected person is 52, with a gender breakdown of 55% female and 45% male. Percentage of cases requiring hospitalization is 17.1%, with 5.5% of cases resulting in death.

 

Here's an article about how more men are dying from COVID-19 than women although the article doesn't mention the rates in Canada:

https://globalnews.ca/news/6738088/coronavirus-deaths-men/

Edited April 30, 20205 yr by Jacquie

1 hour ago, do or die said:

Actually, most of these States opening up, don't even meet the stated criteria of the recently announced Federal Government guidelines..... for doing so.   Direction, leadership....nada.

We always heard that he was such a dynamic business genius that was going to lead the nation to greatness once again. I wonder how many are believing that to be the case now.

13 minutes ago, J5V said:

We always heard that he was such a dynamic business genius that was going to lead the nation to greatness once again. I wonder how many are believing that to be the case now.

In his former hometown of New York everyone in business knew he was a fraud, a charlatan if you will. He is a con man who defaults on loans, doesn't pay workers, constantly sue and/or threatens legal action and is a wretched human being. One of the all time losers of the world 

...................and they did, now they will pay for many years to come

Edited April 30, 20205 yr by bustamente

45 minutes ago, bustamente said:

In his former hometown of New York everyone in business knew he was a fraud, a charlatan if you will. He is a con man who defaults on loans, doesn't pay workers, constantly sue and/or threatens legal action and is a wretched human being. One of the all time losers of the world 

...................and they did, now they will pay for many years to come

What was America to do? The alternative was Hillary Clinton.

Gotta go through the entire thread. People watching too much Faux News.

Edited April 30, 20205 yr by FrostyWinnipeg

Someone needs to smack the chiclets out of Kurshner's mouth with his "mission accomplished " message today

https://www.cbs17.com/news/check-this-out/georgia-scraps-drivers-test-allowing-teens-to-get-license-with-just-parental-approval/

38 minutes ago, J5V said:

What was America to do? The alternative was Hillary Clinton.

She would have done a much better job.  Trump's  base can chatter all they want about Ben-Ghazi & emails as loved ones get sick or die. 

Clinton would have been just fine as a President. Never mind compared to Drumpfy. And Biden, comparitavely, will seem like Obama 2.0

Feel kinda bad for my southern neighbours, their two main choices is between two rapists. 

2 hours ago, J5V said:

What was America to do? The alternative was Hillary Clinton.

Dafuq?

I have no love for HRC, but to say that she was equally bad? give your head a shake man. She 100% would have been a much more competent and less corrupt choice than the asshat-in-chief. 100%.

 

Tell me I'm wrong- with evidence. For every negative thing you can name for HRC, I can easily give you a litany of the same **** trump has done. 

3 hours ago, bustamente said:

In his former hometown of New York everyone in business knew he was a fraud, a charlatan if you will. He is a con man who defaults on loans, doesn't pay workers, constantly sue and/or threatens legal action and is a wretched human being. One of the all time losers of the world 

...................and they did, now they will pay for many years to come

Holy ****... you're right he actually managed to bankrupt 'mericuh. 

Once again... Initially shocked... take a moment and then realize that is totally on brand. There has to be a word for that...

1 hour ago, Noeller said:

Clinton would have been just fine as a President. Never mind compared to Drumpfy. And Biden, comparitavely, will seem like Obama 2.0

Even if HC was horrible, like Carter bad, she'd still be better then Trump.

Trump makes horrible politicians look better.  ex Ford, Johnson, Duterte, Putin

The problem with Hillary is, she had it in the bag ... until she didn't. How in the world did she not manage that? I think the world still reels in shock when they realize who the prez is.

I’ve seen better movie presidents than Donald Trump...

7 hours ago, wanna-b-fanboy said:

Dafuq?

I have no love for HRC, but to say that she was equally bad? give your head a shake man. She 100% would have been a much more competent and less corrupt choice than the asshat-in-chief. 100%.

 

Tell me I'm wrong- with evidence. For every negative thing you can name for HRC, I can easily give you a litany of the same **** trump has done. 

A little story from summer of 2016, we have a store in MN and I was visiting the staff there in July 2016 while the Democratic Convention was on. We have staff from both sides of the isle and they were constantly at each other about this or that. In an effort to smooth things down and get everyone more focused on work we had a discussion about the pros and cons of each.

In the end the consensus was this. If Clinton and Trump were the best people that could be convinced to lead those parties the USA was fugged. Reasonable people in the USA knew that this period was going to be hard on the nation, they were just at a loss as to what to do about it. They knew then that by 2020 the nation would be a very divided and acrimonious place. 

There was nothing wrong with hillary clinton.... she just wasn't inspiring and would have been more of the same old same old. Trump was the outsider. Too bad people are too stupid to know that he only played a successful businessman on tv

 In reality he is a failure and wannabe mob  boss. 

Us got what they deserved it's just too bad it's ******* the rest of the world too.

What sank Hillary was that the majority of Democrats really wanted Bernie, but the party bosses moved heaven and earth in order to stack the deck against him, as they thought he was too left-wing, even though he was polling well. The Democrats who supported Bernie were bitterly disappointed and went silent, ensuring Trump's win. Even so, it took an intervention by their electoral college to overrule the popular vote, which was bizarre to say the least.

42 minutes ago, Tracker said:

What sank Hillary was that the majority of Democrats really wanted Bernie, but the party bosses moved heaven and earth in order to stack the deck against him, as they thought he was too left-wing, even though he was polling well. The Democrats who supported Bernie were bitterly disappointed and went silent, ensuring Trump's win. Even so, it took an intervention by their electoral college to overrule the popular vote, which was bizarre to say the least.

As much as I prefer Bernie to Hillary, this just isn't true.  Yes, the primary process had problems, but the margin of her victory was large enough. 

Despite what social media suggests today, most people in those heady days of 2016 were still centrists and I suspect that is still the preference today, despite the rhetoric.  Bernie Bros that either voted for Trump out of spite or sat out the election are either too stupid or too immature to realize that progress is slow when done peacefully and that the Republicans are more than willing to move things backwards.  

Bernie has successfully shifted policy discussion to the left and that is great. Democrats were afraid to label themselves as "liberal" less than 10 years ago, but now some are getting elected as Democratic Socialists.  That's progress.  I actually think that the U.S. can afford what he's proposing, but it's going to take a while to get there.  

 

Soooooooo......... COVID19?

1 hour ago, Noeller said:

Soooooooo......... COVID19?

The COVID 19 thread is back.  I did not move any of the political posts, I just deleted them. They have already been discussed ad nauseum, over in yonder rambling thread. 

51 minutes ago, Noeller said:

Soooooooo......... COVID19?

I came across a piece from Ed Yong, a staff writer from the Atlantic who covers science and did a piece on this gross plague.

The piece is called:  

Why the Coronavirus is so confusing: A guide to making sense of a problem that is now too big for any one person to fully comprehend.

It's a fairly long read but it does read and feel, at least to me, quite objective in a matter of fact way not  a all is great or all is bad type tone.

Sorry my lack of IT ability couldn't  insert the link.

Anyone interested I'm sure can just do a google search or insert the link for me with with my thank you in-advance.

3 minutes ago, HardCoreBlue said:

I came across a piece from Ed Yong, a staff writer from the Atlantic who covers science and did a piece on this gross plague.

The piece is called:  

Why the Coronavirus is so confusing: A guide to making sense of a problem that is now too big for any one person to fully comprehend.

It's a fairly long read but it does read and feel, at least to me, quite objective in a matter of fact way not  a all is great or all is bad type tone.

Sorry my lack of IT ability couldn't  insert the link.

Anyone interested I'm sure can just do a google search or insert the link for me with with my thank you in-advance.

here you go: