Facebook Follies of Friends and Families

[mongers]

Meanwhile we blew by South Korea in number of cases and deaths.

USA! USA!

UK too, lets call it the Transatlantic relationship for 'special' countries.

[Valmy]

Yep it is just an attempt by the Trump Administration to avoid what they most fear: accountability.

Well, according to Joe Scarborough it'll be effective because Trumps purposeful racism will draw media attention away from the woeful incompetence and ham fisted response. "Look at the horrible orange racist, so horrible!" versus "why doesn't the USA have a functioning testing apparatus and why are we so slow to respond at every stage?"

Yeah I wish people would not be distracted by that shit. I mean the biggest problem with Trump is not that he has shit character and he seems to exemplify all the worse vices of America in one person, I mean tons of very good administrators and bosses have those qualities. The problem is he is a terrible administrator and President.

[fromtia]

Yeah I wish people would not be distracted by that shit. I mean the biggest problem with Trump is not that he has shit character and he seems to exemplify all the worse vices of America in one person, I mean tons of very good administrators and bosses have those qualities. The problem is he is a terrible administrator and President.

Public Health is a basic function of government, for Trump and his people its absolutely an outside context problem. They are in the Whitehouse to make some money, dole out tax cuts, pack the judiciary and generally yuck it up pwning the libs and the snowflakes. Their supporters, especially older Republicans who we all thought might know better* have been loving every minute of their comedy president. I think we are all in for a really unpleasant lesson in just how incompetent these people are when they have to do actual governing. Its time for the liberal media in the US, and Fox as well to start focusing on elementary competence. Lets drop the "Trumps a bit uncouth" stuff, it's worthless.

The Jared Kushner stories alone are eye watering.

*My ex wifes Step Father is a Toxicologist (Specialises in getting paid by lawyers in carbon monoxide cases) and Trump lover. Well educated. Fox and friends and Hannity fanatic.

[viper37]

When in doubt, blame a foreigner.  If there aren't any left, invent one.

The essence of nationalism.

You mean like Albertans blaming Quebecers for all their problems?  Yeah.

[Valmy]

When in doubt, blame a foreigner.  If there aren't any left, invent one.

The essence of nationalism.

You mean like Albertans blaming Quebecers for all their problems?  Yeah.

Actually yes...exactly like that.

It is also why I continue to be worried about the EU, really easy for politicians to blame their own failures on the EU.

[viper37]

It is also why I continue to be worried about the EU, really easy for politicians to blame their own failures on the EU.

It's going to be really hard to do for the UK.

[Oexmelin]

Lets drop the "Trumps a bit uncouth" stuff, it's worthless. 

God yes. They might as well stop asking him questions - we all know it's BS anyway - and just start asking questions to people who still hold a shred of sense of accountability.

Every Trump's speech is something every teacher recognizes: the arrogantly self-confident bro who has not done the homework, not done the reading, but cannot help to commit to his usual swagger, even as he is asked to report on stuff well above the effort he put in.

[Syt]

[Admiral Yi]

The scales have fallen from my eyes!

[Malthus]

... because Mexicans are as much of a risk to the nation as a pandemic? 

[Syt]

... because Mexicans are as much of a risk to the nation as a pandemic? 

Well, my sisters worried about unvaccinated illegal immigrants bringing measles to the U.S., so ...

[Duque de Bragança]

... because Mexicans are as much of a risk to the nation as a pandemic? 

Well, my sisters worried about unvaccinated illegal immigrants bringing measles to the U.S., so ...

So they are not anti-vaxxers. Rejoice! 

[Maximus]

My family doesn't post much on facebook, so I'm spared a lot of this, but this made it out there and it's got me in a rage.

Back story: My cousin and her husband are missionaries in Tanzania. The husband, Jason, had Covid-like symptoms. They tried to leave to go to a hospital in Dar es Salaam, but the local authorities blocked them from leaving.

[03-20, 8:33 PM] Jason & Mel (Son): Our home is now calm tonight... Only God is the hero here.
[03-20, 8:33 PM] Jason & Mel (Son): The improvements over the last few hours has been exponential. Even Mel has made incredible progress. God is intervening.
[03-20, 8:33 PM] Jason & Mel (Son): We take turns sitting and standing by the heat until we are sweating very much and can't bare the intensity. And then we trade off.
[03-20, 8:33 PM] Jason & Mel (Son): This saves lives!!!
[03-20, 8:33 PM] Jason & Mel (Son): Forget the 56 thing, just get hot, probably mid 40s. Turn slowly, sweat profusely, breath deeply, until you can bare it. Repeat after 20 mins.
[03-20, 8:33 PM] Jason & Mel (Son): This virus can't stand heat.
[03-20, 8:33 PM] Jason & Mel (Son): All the prayers are being answered.
[03-20, 8:33 PM] Jason & Mel (Son): This info needs to get passed around. I think a woodstove is the biggest household weapon we have against this corona fear.
[03-20, 8:33 PM] Jason & Mel (Son): 23 hours ago I was almost dead... This is what God has done now.
[03-20, 8:33 PM] Jason & Mel (Son): Gods perfect love casts out fear. We need to know this virus is serious and evil. But it's biggest force is fear. Cast that out and this virus dissipates in hours.
[03-20, 8:33 PM] Jason & Mel (Son): We stumbled upon this quite accidently. Last night as I desperately fought for breath to live, I just kept stumbling through the house around the fireplace and kitchen trying to hang on to a measure of breath. The rest were holding me up, crying and praying, (and probably wondering who was going to cart my body out to the coffee field). Finally at 3am I was really fading so wheezed out my goodbyes as I slumped up against the fireplace. I told them no one was to do mouth to mouth on me because I didn't want the infection to increase in their lungs. As I sat there fading out to everyone's amazement I got so hot from the fire at my back that I started to sweat buckets and my lungs suddenly started opening up and oxygen came into my lungs. God intervened.
The rest quickly piled firewood on the fire and as I started to turn infront of the fire the virus started dissipating from my lungs.
[03-20, 8:33 PM] Jason & Mel (Son): I will mention the whole household came down with symptoms today. And the whole household has made exponential gains in the last eight hours. Most are sleeping peacefully now.
[03-20, 8:33 PM] Jason & Mel (Son): Now we have to wade through the coming days of bureaucracy and the most certain pandemic,  but folks. We need to run forth knowing that love will always conquer fear.
[03-20, 8:33 PM] Jason & Mel (Son): Oh yes, this virus literally stinks. Our house reeks like death, dead fish, decay. That's because as we hydrated, sweated, and medicated... This goop came out of our eyes, noses, lungs, pores. Truly terrible stuff.
[03-20, 8:33 PM] Jason & Mel (Son): When you have lived through this there is no middle ground to this virus. No mediocrity.
It's terrible
It's evil
It destroys
And it terrorizes
And yet it is the easiest thing to fix. Mimics the devil pretty much in every aspect.

[Syt]

Yeah, no money for unemployed slackers!

Meanwhile, this is Goldman Sachs's forecast for unemployment numbers next week:



https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-22/top-economists-see-some-echoes-of-depression-in-u-s-sudden-stop

[Zanza]

That Goldman-Sachs chart should be in the other thread. Millions losing their jobs is a relevant development.