Wuhan Coronavirus: Megathread - Got too big

[Not Really Here]

Omg I thought it was "richard pound" but no, his official, recognized public name is "Dick Pound"! Some parents have no pity!

Also, attached is a "survival guide for quarantine: how to avoid dying of boredom" a spanish mayor has posted. It's filled with cool links for anyone who might be bored. Take a look!

Richard William Duncan "Dick" Pound

Dick Pound - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[XYZpdq]

from some random crazy guy's twitter in response to local con postponing

http://archive.vn/PwVcC

 

[Big Nasty]

Here in Sweden, I've read rumours about ghetto immigrants thinking that COVID-19 is something that only attacks chinks and whiteys. Anyone heard similar tales?

The news tonight revealed that there seems to be a factual basis for these rumours:

So far, at least 25% of those who have died from COVID-19 in Sweden have been of Somali ethnicity.

 

[Non-Expert!]

They're still trying to dick measure and grandstand in the middle of a fucking pandemic. It shows in the bills being proposed by both parties.

You'd think they'd focus on, ya know, the American people instead of their own interests?

I hate this country sometimes.

This country genuinely sucks. All of these bills are just a shit sandwich. Banks own this country. It is a government for the banks, by the banks. The Banks and Trumps Chosen people.

How about you not speak for those who make that a month, that 1200 covers the money I had to drain from my savings to get ahead on rent and stock up on non-perishables because of this shit show.

PS : Anyone who says the democrats did good can go straight up fuck themselves. If more is needed later than we can pass another fucking bill, how about we help people right the fuck now and see if we need more.

In reference to my earlier post, let me make myself abundantly clear, lest you got my points garbled up in politics.

YOU need the help, NOT me. I would vote against a booster check cut for my family, the Karens and the pensioners, in favor of a more sustainable plan, moving forward, for people like Wal-Mart wage slaves.

My bill would::
▪ obligate Wal-Mart etc. to cover your medical, 100%.
▪ guarantee you six weeks paid leave, no questions asked. No sick leave, just paid time off.
▪ guarantee you a raise schedule. And you would have a tenure that builds up, as your time invested increases, even if you are as dumb as a post. You would be very hard to fire.
▪ guarantee a pension, to supplement SS, down the line.
▪ offer wholesale prices on food, even if paid with EBT, to all employees and retirees from the corporation.

What the Republicans have to offer is a shit sandwich that favors Reagan's chosen people: the Karens and pensioners, while leaving the poor even more destitute. What we really need to do is hold corporations accountable for how they treat their employees. Already the welfare system supplements most minimum wage earning households. That is how Wal-Mart etc. get their "amazingly low prices."

It is a complete scam.

I am not saying that people shouldn't get a handout. But I want it to be fair, and help people who are at risk of dying in the streets in places like New England or Michigan, during this crisis.

 

[The best and greatest]

I didn't even begin to address commercial real estate, which dwarfs apartment rental real estate both in terms of sheer money and in terms of numbers. What are the banks going to do when businesses start missing their mortgage payments? Repo the business? The banks don't want the fucking businesses' property, they want the money, but as things stand at this moment they're not going to have much fucking choice. At east that would give them a theoretical asset on a balance sheet to point to instead of a definite and ongoing loss.

Yeah this is something I was thinking about too. What are the odds that this corona virus signals the final end of the in-person consumer goods retailer?

 

[737 MAX Stan Account]

The news tonight revealed that there seems to be a factual basis for these rumours:

So far, at least 25% of those who have died from COVID-19 in Sweden have been of Somali ethnicity.

Too low for my liking.

 

[ConfederateIrishman]

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Pelosi's Wu Flu bill is over 1,400 pages long, and take three guesses as to what she and all the other lunatics started jamming into the bill. This is, uh... 99% of this has nothing to do with the pandemic. You're seriously going to pump the brakes on the entire economy for stuff like "corporate board diversity", "conducting risk-limiting audits of results of elections", "early voting" and bailouts for the USPS?

Section 404, Community news papers
Section 706, Green house gases
Part 8, Audits of elections
Section 160001, Collective bargaining for federal employees
Section 704, Airline Carbon Emissions
Section 140001, Debt forgiveness for the Post Office

And that's just what people have dug up so far. Is this really the time for this shit?

Where is a Caesar when you need him to put the Senate in their place?

 

[rando0675309]

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Pelosi's Wu Flu bill is over 1,400 pages long, and take three guesses as to what she and all the other lunatics started jamming into the bill. This is, uh... 99% of this has nothing to do with the pandemic. You're seriously going to pump the brakes on the entire economy for stuff like "corporate board diversity", "conducting risk-limiting audits of results of elections", "early voting" and bailouts for the USPS?

Section 404, Community news papers
Section 706, Green house gases
Part 8, Audits of elections
Section 160001, Collective bargaining for federal employees
Section 704, Airline Carbon Emissions
Section 140001, Debt forgiveness for the Post Office

And that's just what people have dug up so far. Is this really the time for this shit?

As much as I hate that senile old fuck Reagan, I have no choice but to quote him...

"I didn't leave the Democratic Party. The party left me."

Judging by what I see here and on social media, thankfully I'm not the only one who feels that way

 

[EmuWarsVeteran]

Is it possible to maintain social distancing in a street riot? Because I kinda feel like marching on washington now.

All you need is a gun, a bullet, and a good escape plan...

Or you can rant about it on the internet. I've heard hashtags can fix any problem in the world! Why, they can even cure cancer. Tweet away!

Yeah my morale is getting low. It's not cause corona. It's just cause my gov and opposition are fucking morons. Seems you muricans got the same issue.

Hey. I think there was a film about this... "strangers on a train" I think it was called.

 

[Anti Fun Aktion]

The Democrats are going to get lynched if they keep his up.

I wish that were the case, they got a quite a bit of dumb followers that take the bait like a guppy.

 

[LazyLizard]

Where is a Caesar when you need him to put the Senate in their place?

for every Caesar there's a Brutus willing to stab him in the back

 

[Ponderous Pillock]

UK Dailies:

83,945 Tested (+5605)
6,650 Positive (+967)

335 Deaths (+54)

2,433 London (New tracking figure)

 

[It's HK-47]

Oh. Well, I'm gonna' go out on a limb and assume that this advice was ignored, then.

 

[SpEd Kaczynski]

I just got off the phone with my wife. Her company just laid off half of their workforce, including her. Fuck. I have been hearing things like this from friends all day long but I wasn't expecting it to happen in my immediate family. I have a feeling that when the day is over and all the numbers roll in that this Monday will have been an employment bloodbath.

 

[Otterly]

So far, at least 25% of those who have died from COVID-19 in Sweden have been of Somali ethnicity.

Interesting. Got a link? Swedish is fine. That community is notorious for low vaccination rates and really high autism levels and vitamin D deficiency. Are we talking a geographically concentrated group or not?

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

My bill would obligate Wal-Mart etc. to cover your medical, 100%.
You would be guaranteed six weeks paid leave, no questions asked. No sick leave, just paid time off.
You would be on a guaranteed raise schedule. And you would have a tenure that builds up, as your time invested increases, even if you are as dumb as a post. You would be very hard to fire.

Wal-Mart covering my medical? No fucking thank you, our Insurance industry is already completely fucked because of corporations giving medical benefits instead of me being able to buy it from who I want. Wal-Mart can't even buy a fucking Android Tablet without paying 5 Figures on it when we have ones IN THE FUCKING STORE that work better than the ones they buy for 40 bucks a pop.

Six Weeks of paid leave? WE AREN'T CLOSING, Shit I don't need paid leave because of this stupid shit show because if I wanted I could pick up Over-time. We are literally doing more business despite our shelves being empty because we can't get product in fast enough. Hell we are getting an Extra Bonus because of the amount of business we are doing, in addition to getting Hazard pay.

And What the fuck does "Raise Schedule" have to do with THE FUCKING CARONA VIRUS EMERGENCY. That is what this bill is supposed to be dealing with. THE CARONA VIRUS. Not your fucking derangement about "Karens" a term which you are not fucking using correctly by the way.

How about you worry about actual fucking Solutions to the problem we are talking about in this thread instead of you reeing about "THE WAL-MART" like the stupid Union Shills that have legit come into my place of work to harass me while I am trying to do my job to sign up for their stupid ass fucking union scam. How about you worry about the actual businesses and people being affected by this.

 

[New Fag]

I just got some interesting info about a bit of ventilator production in the UK, a little engine factory in Brixworth was contacted to make ventilators (CPAPs) it took them a week from contact to build a prototype and get it tested and approved. They have an initial order for 3,000 and are expected to make 1,000 a week (or a month whichever is more realistic) once reaching full production. That's not a bad turnaround.

Some people are gonna be getting some top-notch breathing help

 

[Non-Expert!]

I just got off the phone with my wife. Her company just laid off half of their workforce, including her. Fuck. I have been hearing things like this from friends all day long but I wasn't expecting it to happen in my immediate family. I have a feeling that when the day is over and all the numbers roll in that this Monday will have been an employment bloodbath.

My deepest condolences. Is your mortgage in peril?

 

[HTTP Error 404]

I just got off the phone with my wife. Her company just laid off half of their workforce, including her. Fuck. I have been hearing things like this from friends all day long but I wasn't expecting it to happen in my immediate family. I have a feeling that when the day is over and all the numbers roll in that this Monday will have been an employment bloodbath.

We're already at what, 30% unemployment and rising?

 

[Godzilla1984]

215 Pages behind. /sigh

Northern Ontario Happenings
Sudbury records fourth COVID-19 case; woman had travelled outside Canada. Archive.

Ontario Happenings
London beer giant Labatt to produce hand sanitizer amid coronavirus pandemic. Archive.
Ontario ordering non-essential businesses to close. Archive.

Canadian Mining Happenings ⛏
Kirkland Lake Gold cuts back on activity, people at Detour Mine. Archive.
COVID-19 puts Musselwhite Mine in mothballs. Archive.

Mining Happenings ⛏
Newmont lowers 2020 guidance after halting four mines over COVID-19. Archive.
Lundin Gold Temporarily Suspends Operations at Fruta del Norte. Archive.
B2Gold halts mining in the Philippines, African operations unchanged. Archive.
Pan American pauses Argentina operations. Archive.
Bacanora’s Sonora project delayed to Q3. Archive.
Orocobre suspends operations in Argentina. Archive.
Congo’s key copper, cobalt provinces in two-day lockdown. Archive.

Metals Happenings ⛰
Gold price surges by most in history. Archive.

BAD GEOLOGY JOKE FOR THE DAY ⛰⛏
Q: What did the boy volcano say to the girl volcano?
A: I Lava You!

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