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Let's be honest, the bill was a mess. It incorporates a fair amount of open-endedness ripe for opportunistic corruption, and was set up specifically to benefit the companies more than the workers. It doesn't completely fail at its main purpose, but leaves much to be desired.

With that said, I can't imagine the democratic remix will be any better. We'll most likely get a weaksauce version of the current one with triple the gibs and an even less reasonable number attached.
What truly worries me is how long that will take. The government is already a sluggish machine, and it threatens to grind to a halt once again if an unacceptable counter offer drops from the other side of the aisle. A relief plan is a preventative measure, it won't do much if it arrives in two weeks when the poor already starved and the DOW's beaten the world record for deep diving.
 
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Memphis now has drive-through testing available
[also if MEMPHIS is able to get this done I see no reason why, unless you are a very small town, your place can't]
www.fox13memphis.com

Drive-thru testing for COVID-19 is now at Tiger Lane, officials says

Drive-thru testing for COVID-19 will soon be available at Tiger Lane.
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YMCA starts producing food since about 60% of the children in Shelby county rely on the food given by the schools
[the first link doesn't give the percentage, only that there are 60 sites, but the second link gives the percentage (but no source, though with Memphis I'm inclined to believe the figure]
The SCS was personally doing it until an employee tested positive
www.wmcactionnews5.com

YMCA taking over meal distribution for Shelby County Schools

SCS announced the transition Sunday. The school district suspended the program Friday after an employee of the meal program tested positive for COVID-19.
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YMCA taking over meal distribution for Shelby County Schools

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Coronavirus daily blog, March 22: Miss. reports 18 cases in DeSoto County - The Daily Memphian

Memphis: 66DeSoto: 18Tipton: 5Fayette: 3Marshall: 3Crittenden: 1
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Executive Order 17 mandates that restaurants and gyms figure out an alternate business model (signed Sunday morning at 11am no less) as well as allowing people to order alcoholic drinks in takeout/delivery
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Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee signs executive order mandating alternative business models for restaurants and gyms, lifts alcohol restrictions

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WJHL) – Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee Sunday signed an executive order mandating businesses across the state to utilize alternative business models beginning at midnight CDT on Mo…
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Someone had already archived this, looks like someone is in my old stomping grounds.

TN currently has 505 cases, with 167 of them being in Davidson County (aka Nashville) and 66 of them being in Shelby County (Memphis). Hamilton County, where Chattanooga is, despite being a uni town only has 8.

UofM Criminal Justice Instructor, currently teaching in Milwaukee, died from wu flu complications. He died in Milwaukee, but since he was a TN resident I don't know which state would add the death to.
www.fox13memphis.com

University of Memphis instructor dies from COVID-19 complications, reports say

The University of Memphis is mourning the loss of a criminal justice instructor.
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#zzz said:
Can't they........ i dunno pass another bill later? Or do they have a "one bill per emergency" limit?
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Well what normal human beings would do is make a whole lot of bills, one for each thing, vote on each, and be done with. Not these slimes. Bundle it all together and it fail so they can call each other names without taking responsibility at all.
 
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Maggots on a Train v2 said:
This means the disease can't be too bad yet, if banks are still willing to sign any loan backed only by a scribble on a canvas done 40 years ago by NYC's official token black man modern artist. The day rich white people start dumping all the shitty modern art at auction is when you know the boomerocalypse has finally arrived.
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It's just money laundering. Of course the bankers are going to cooperate with their buddies on something like that.
 
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Events today in my small kiwi town

- kid's daycare was cleaned out of kids by their parents within 15 minutes of the level 3 and future 4 announcement before lunch

- more people wearing masks and avoiding each other in stores

- pop up testing station at hospital that's drive through only

- supermarkets have Ministry of Health official at door

- most businesses already shut
 
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Brutalist said:
Let's be honest, the bill was a mess. It incorporates a fair amount of open-endedness ripe for opportunistic corruption, and was set up specifically to benefit the companies more than the workers. It doesn't completely fail at its main purpose, but leaves much to be desired.

With that said, I can't imagine the democratic remix will be any better. We'll most likely get a weaksauce version of the current one with triple the gibs and an even less reasonable number attached.
What truly worries me is how long that will take. The government is already a sluggish machine, and it threatens to grind to a halt once again if an unacceptable counter offer drops from the other side of the aisle. A relief plan is a preventative measure, it won't do much if it arrives in two weeks when the poor already starved and the DOW's beaten the world record for deep diving.
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And this is why this is going to backfire on the Democrats come election time.

People don't just want things to return back to normal. They want things to return back to normal now. The impatience of people is only going to get worse as times goes on, too. For the Democrats to shoot this bill down and then tell everyone to "wait" until they can figure something out? In a time of crisis?

This pandemic can't wait, to be frank. The economic reasons alone are why fast action is wanted and needed.

Again, these are really bad optics in an election year. Personally, I'm not super gung-ho about the bill myself. However, a fast track to something resembling solutions is what the American people are looking for right now. Agree with that or not, that's how the majority of Americans are seeing this right now.
 
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mindlessobserver said:
Oh boy. Tomorrows market opening is gonna be fun. The money printer may finally break
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Money.

Printer.

Go.

BRRRRRR!

Bunny Tracks said:
And it begins.

I wonder how many more countries are gonna drop out.
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Italy, easily. Spain and the UK, more than likely. The US, possibly. They care as much about image as China does, so it would be a blow if they didn't go to the Olympics.
 
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Brutalist said:
Let's be honest, the bill was a mess. It incorporates a fair amount of open-endedness ripe for opportunistic corruption, and was set up specifically to benefit the companies more than the workers. It doesn't completely fail at its main purpose, but leaves much to be desired.

With that said, I can't imagine the democratic remix will be any better. We'll most likely get a weaksauce version of the current one with triple the gibs and an even less reasonable number attached.
What truly worries me is how long that will take. The government is already a sluggish machine, and it threatens to grind to a halt once again if an unacceptable counter offer drops from the other side of the aisle. A relief plan is a preventative measure, it won't do much if it arrives in two weeks when the poor already starved and the DOW's beaten the world record for deep diving.
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It is stuff like this that makes a Dictator of the Roman Republic style seem very appealing.
 
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Absolutely top tier libertarian take.
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3119967d0c said:
Absolutely top tier libertarian take.
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How is she wrong though? How the hell is this even a libertarian response?

Panic buying doesn't help anybody. It's bad for the economy, too. Panic feeds into more panic; that's common sense.

Plus, panic buying is making the grocery stores more crowded. Bigger crowds = bigger the chance of this virus spreading more.
 
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LazyLizard said:
so moving the topic off politics what's the deal with pets? can they get sick with the virus or not? so far there's only 2 cases of dogs being diagnosed positive with the virus, the first one being a "weak-positive" whatever the fuck that means and then later after coming out of quarantine being tested again and showing as negative so who knows if it was a false positive to begin with and now another dog has gotten a positive test. it seems weird that only 2 dogs have gotten infected after months of the disease ravaging the globe and over 100k tests being done, you would think more than 2 cases would have been found so my hope really is that they were just false positives.
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Last I checked, the virus couldn't actually infect animals. It would just chill on their fur for a while.
 
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