This guy Ruben Terlou is Dutch, but speaks fluently Chinese and has made several documentary series about China where he basically unscripted travels throughout the country and speaks openly with the regular people on the street. Very interesting, but as far as I'm aware there are no episodes with English subtitles on YT

has the skunk injected himself with bleach yet? and if not, what is he waiting for?

Does wearing a Sonic Nurse t-shirt help preventing the infection?

Tom Hanks Blood Is Being Used to Develop Coronavirus Vaccine

We might as well use his blood

if she’s got a needle full of bleach dotard sez yes :D

whose bloodtchu talkin bout willis?

From someone you have on ignore: https://variety.com/2020/film/news/t...234589978/amp/

oh lololol

using ryan’s privates :D

Fuck sake.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toron...ases-1.5539772

My mother is there. She is a confirmed case, but with very mild symptoms so far. I didn't even know that this was in the news until today.

Edit: That link is 3 days old. Now it is 46 covid deaths.

Fuck 'em. Darwinism. 46 deaths related to covid 19 (as I type this) at the not very large LTC home where my mother is (and she has tested positive). You Trumpkins want to challenge reality/science? FUCK YOU!!! GO AHEAD!!! Biden 2020, by way of attrition.

Why not Rita Wilson's blood instead? She went through the same PLUS she's looking GREAT! :D

Something positive for a change. From Paste:

Jane Goodall on Hope, Advocacy, Coronavirus, and Tiger King
"If we start making ethical choices every day, millions and billions of us, we move towards a better world."

A Virginia preacher believed ‘God can heal anything.’ Then he caught coronavirus.

Landon Spradlin went to Mardi Gras to save souls. He never made it home.

By
Peter Jamison
April 27, 2020 at 5:00 a.m. MDT

Every day Landon Spradlin was growing weaker, and now, on the morning when he would leave New Orleans for the last time, the 66-year-old preacher and blues guitarist was unable to load his bags into the white Ford F-250 that was supposed to carry him home.

Ric Lyons, a fellow musician who for weeks had played and prayed with Spradlin amid the Mardi Gras crowds thronging Jackson Square, packed the truck. Spradlin’s wife, Jean, settled in the driver’s seat. Spradlin eased into the cab beside her. Racked by fits of coughing, the ordinarily talkative street minister said little as the Ford rolled east on the Twin Span Bridge across the wide, bright expanse of Lake Pontchartrain.

The world had changed since the Spradlins crossed the same bridge weeks earlier to begin their annual New Orleans street ministry. The couple from rural Gretna, Va., had arrived Feb. 18, several days before President Trump declared on Twitter that the novel coronavirus was “very much under control in the USA.” They left on March 16, the same day the president would recommend that Americans stop gathering in groups of more than 10.

New cases of covid-19, the deadly disease once confined to central China, were emerging rapidly across the United States. Cities and states were beginning to lock down. After a teeming Mardi Gras, New Orleans had canceled its similarly boisterous St. Patrick’s Day celebration. The French Quarter was all but empty.
And the Spradlins were sick.

This happened to them almost every year: After the crowds and the music, the conversations and prayers with countless strangers, they would come home from Louisiana with some kind of bug. Landon had bad lungs, and when he began wheezing in the days after Mardi Gras he assumed it was one of the periodic visitations of bronchitis, pneumonia or severe asthma he endured. Jean, who is 63, came down with a slight fever and shortness of breath.

But there were, as always for the Spradlins, ample reasons for hope. An Air Force veteran, Landon had sought help at the New Orleans Veterans Affairs Medical Center. He was tested for the coronavirus, and the result was negative. The doctors diagnosed him with pneumonia and prescribed a course of antibiotics.

The Spradlins were also counting on a power greater than a Z-Pak or an albuterol canister. Their fervent brand of charismatic Christianity held that God regularly intervened in the world to alter the course of believers’ physical ailments.

“I don’t believe there are incurable diseases. God can heal anything,” Landon said during an interview at a 2016 motorcycle rally in Daytona Beach, Fla. “There are documented cases of God healing AIDS. God can cause limbs to grow out where they’ve been chopped off. God can raise the dead.”

A new malady had emerged as his Mardi Gras ministry ended last month. But not everyone acknowledged its threat. Three days before leaving, Landon — an avid Trump supporter — posted a meme on his Facebook page about the coronavirus, which at the time had killed about 40 people in the United States. The media, it warned, was trying to “manipulate your life” by creating “mass hysteria.”

etc etc...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md...navirus-death/

Beat me to the punch. I was offline when The Post Most arrived. Dear God, if you can heal and do anything, send me a 24/7 internet connection...

County Judge lifted curfew for those under 18 today.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott lifting stay-at-home order April 30, and restaurant, malls, movie theaters can reopen May 1 with occupancy limited to 25%

Kids under 18 were curfewed, but 18+ were A-OK to go out? That's retarded - all evidence suggests the virus has a bigger impact on young adults and the elderly.

Y'ALL CAN HANDLE THE YOUTH!


Or something :D

lmao are you doing a beauregard impression?

A+++++++ will buy again :D :D :D

ReOpen NC leader says she tested positive for COVID-19

The fucking woman KNEW she had it and led a campaign that by definition meant she'd spread the virus around. DIE OF ASS CANCER YOU PIECE OF SHIT.

I was going for a twist on A Few Good Men, but that works too.

https://thehill.com/homenews/adminis...virus-outbreak

I'm guessing that the majority of Trumpkins don't care much for rice, beans, vegetables?

Things are getting better here in Spain, after some days with ~800 dead now we have 250-350, more cured than newly infected per day... we'll be able to go out and take the streets from the 11th may if nothing bad happens (avoiding crows obviously). A lot of encouragement to friends from other countries, especially the USA! There's light at the end of the road!

Yeah, the 11th of May is the date we've been given in my state too - I think we're doing a lot better than anywhere else. Especially given New South Wales, a date with many more infections than us, is already reopening :confused:

The message in Canada is....let's be vary cautious, and not fuck up all the progress so far.....we are not out of the woods yet.

I cannot help but feel that many places are jumping the gun. Especially some Trumpy States.

Pence tours Mayo Clinic without wearing a mask

I guess the Babyjeezus invisibly covered his face or something.

Meanwhile, in New Zealand...

So, can you spot the leader?

On a much, much lighter note, it's too bad the pandemic made Warner/HBO postpone the "reunion special" of Friends, a dumb show I never cared for but was looking forward to watching this time, only to know how in all that is fuck they would explain Courteney Cox's self-mutilation. "We're so sorry, Monica... We never thought Chandler would be an abusive husband..."

Mystery Syndrome Hits Children



Nashville Mulls 32% Property Tax Hike

As municipalities start weighing how to make up for sales tax revenue loss during the quarantine, I’m afraid property tax hikes will be the option many cities choose. Factor in how many haven't been working, already behind on their bills, the fiscal depression has yet to begin.

Once our Senators and Congressmen return to Washington DC (May 11, 2020), word is they will begin working on another stimulus package. I’ve heard four mentioned, the two front runners:

A) pay everyone’s rent & mortgage for a year, possibly two.

B) adults making less than $125k who filed taxes last year would receive $2k a month for a year, possibly two years. A married couple would receive $4k per month and $500 for each child under 18 that you claimed on your taxes.

This may sound nice in the short run, but it will probably have dire consequences down the road.

There's going to be a fucking civil war if Trump wins again (which I will admit is quite possible, given the apathy towards middle-of-the-road-Joe, and the steadfastness of the Night Of The Living Dead zombie Trumpkins, which we witness in these threads), and how the fuck long will Ruth hang on?

Another great one taken by this motherfucking virus.

This Kung flu is the least of our worries. Brace up for the economic aftermath that will soon follow. Stay safe y'all!

I fear the long-term economic costs of a prolonged lockdown far more than the virus itself.

prolonged lockdown was always the wrong way to do it.

now countries that faffed about and lied early on are fucked. hello from across the atlantic!

look at south korea for how the grownups did it

also: new zealand

Demonrail666:
Damn right, but we can't leave gramps and nanna out in the cold, now can we? This virus has just bitch-slapped us back to the 1920s!

the virus is the virus, what we did with it is squarely on us.

also, it’s not just old people who are dying. people in their 30s and 40s are dying too, often of bizarre strokes. eg see https://www.businessinsider.com/coro...s-clots-2020-4

plus, this is an rna virus, which means that it mutates fast: the more room to play we give it, the more we encounter the unexpected. and because the incubation period is long, there is no selective pressure towards less lethal forms.

True. First time I hear about people getting strokes! Damn!


I was reading earlier that the virus has done a better job at paralyzing the mafia worldwide, than Giuliani, Borsellino and Falcone ever did. Go figure!

Don't believe it. They're just biding their time, making irrefusable offers to distributers of hand-lotion.

I know. They started delivering free food throughout Italy the minute the pandemic hit.
Still, closed restaurants and no sport events crippled them for a while.

more like counterfeit breathing masks they sell at outrageous prices

and would you like some rubbing alcohol that fell off a truck?

Please DON'T. Somebody in the Dotard's White House came up with that.