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Re: COVID-19/corona virus mega thread/prepping thread
« Reply #2950 on: May 13, 2020, 09:35:01 PM »
These guys claim 92 percent of Cook County (Chicagoland) from the virus had pre-existing medical conditions.

https://wirepoints.org/wirepoints-analysis-reveals-92-percent-of-cook-county-covid-19-victims-had-pre-existing-conditions-wirepoints/
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Re: COVID-19/corona virus mega thread/prepping thread
« Reply #2951 on: May 13, 2020, 10:05:35 PM »
Virtual slots?

Call in, give the casino a credit card number, they have a worker pick up tokens and put them in a machine for you and, if "you" win, you can pick up your winnings at a drive-through window.

Wrong kind of slots. Think more along the lines of - well - you can figure it out! ;)

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« Reply #2952 on: May 13, 2020, 10:08:58 PM »
Wrong kind of slots. Think more along the lines of - well - you can figure it out! ;)

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Re: COVID-19/corona virus mega thread/prepping thread
« Reply #2953 on: May 14, 2020, 12:15:07 AM »
Wisconsin Supreme Court rules that the governor's "stay at home" order is unconstitutional:

https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2020/05/13/here-we-go-wisconsin-supreme-court-strikes-down-states-stay-at-home-order-eric-holder-among-dems-pissed-about-it/

... with the usual reaction from the usual suspects.
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Re: COVID-19/corona virus mega thread/prepping thread
« Reply #2954 on: May 14, 2020, 12:32:36 AM »
Wisconsin Supreme Court rules that the governor's "stay at home" order is unconstitutional:

https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2020/05/13/here-we-go-wisconsin-supreme-court-strikes-down-states-stay-at-home-order-eric-holder-among-dems-pissed-about-it/

... with the usual reaction from the usual suspects.


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Re: COVID-19/corona virus mega thread/prepping thread
« Reply #2955 on: May 14, 2020, 12:43:25 AM »
Wisconsin Supreme Court rules that the governor's "stay at home" order is unconstitutional:

https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2020/05/13/here-we-go-wisconsin-supreme-court-strikes-down-states-stay-at-home-order-eric-holder-among-dems-pissed-about-it/

... with the usual reaction from the usual suspects.


I tried to read the actual ruling.  Made it about 20 or 30 pages before my eyes glazed over; I will try again tomorrow.  It's good.  I was wondering if they would bring up the separation of powers issue, and they did.  It wasn't the governor's order, it was made by Secretary of Health Andea Palm on her own authority, and she exceeded her authority; also didn't follow the laws for making a "rule".  (they go into a lot of detail about what a rule is)
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Re: COVID-19/corona virus mega thread/prepping thread
« Reply #2956 on: May 14, 2020, 09:09:15 AM »
A little light-hearted fun during the virus.  :laugh:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFVHaus_pjI&feature=emb_logo

Edit: Switched the link to Youtube so you wouldn't have to deal with the over the top TDS stuff at the rest of the original link.
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« Reply #2957 on: May 14, 2020, 11:02:53 AM »
Great for morale

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    New York City’s health commissioner blew off an urgent NYPD request for 500,000 surgical masks as the coronavirus crisis mounted — telling a high-ranking police official that “I don’t give two rats’ asses about your cops,” The Post has learned.

    Dr. Oxiris Barbot made the heartless remark during a brief phone conversation in late March with NYPD Chief of Department Terence Monahan, sources familiar with the matter said Wednesday.

    Monahan asked Barbot for 500,000 masks but she said she could only provide 50,000, the sources said.

    “I don’t give two rats’ asses about your cops,” Barbot said, according to sources.

    “I need them for others.”

    Classy. She is truly the epitome of the type of leadership we expect from New York City these days.
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2020/05/14/nyc-leadership-right-here-nyc-health-head-rejected-nypd-mask-plea-i-dont-give-2-rats-asses-about-your-cops/
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Re: COVID-19/corona virus mega thread/prepping thread
« Reply #2959 on: May 14, 2020, 12:03:52 PM »
Great for morale
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2020/05/14/nyc-leadership-right-here-nyc-health-head-rejected-nypd-mask-plea-i-dont-give-2-rats-asses-about-your-cops/

I'm just amazed at the blatant stupidity of people in power.

I'm not amazed someone in power is hostile to the police. I AM amazed that anyone would be stupid enough to SAY IT to the police.

She deserves to be fired just for being that stupid. I see she's a doctor. Likely hubris played a role, too.
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Re: COVID-19/corona virus mega thread/prepping thread
« Reply #2960 on: May 14, 2020, 12:16:08 PM »
I've heard a couple of people (I think on podcasts/radio) saying that they wanted to go on a road trip, but all the public restrooms were closed. Seems odd to me, as I've used the restrooms at grocery stores and gas stations in the past few weeks.

Just now, a truck driver told me "all the restrooms in St. Louis" are closed. I didn't get a chance to ask the guy, so I don't know if he's talking about the city itself (where I don't often venture), or the outlying regions, like where I am right now.

What have you guys seen or heard? The truckers have to go #2 somewhere, right?
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Re: COVID-19/corona virus mega thread/prepping thread
« Reply #2961 on: May 14, 2020, 12:32:26 PM »
I've heard a couple of people (I think on podcasts/radio) saying that they wanted to go on a road trip, but all the public restrooms were closed. Seems odd to me, as I've used the restrooms at grocery stores and gas stations in the past few weeks.

Just now, a truck driver told me "all the restrooms in St. Louis" are closed. I didn't get a chance to ask the guy, so I don't know if he's talking about the city itself (where I don't often venture), or the outlying regions, like where I am right now.

What have you guys seen or heard? The truckers have to go #2 somewhere, right?
I run in the OH-IN-KY-TN region and haven't found closed restrooms at any of the Big 3 truck stop chains. So many Rest Areas are closed for reconstruction that I've stopped looking to see what they're like. Plus I run at night and going into a rest area at night is a good way to get blocked in by idjits just popping the brakes wherever they want. What I suspect that guy was talking about was shippers. Almost none allow a driver in the building anymore and either come out and get paperwork or have a cheap shed plonked down outside for some poor slob to serve as a single-point-of-contact like they should have been doing all along. Needless to say this lack of rest facilities becomes a problem when shipper keeps a driver stuck in a door for 4-8 hours.

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Re: COVID-19/corona virus mega thread/prepping thread
« Reply #2962 on: May 14, 2020, 12:49:07 PM »
What I suspect that guy was talking about was shippers. Almost none allow a driver in the building anymore and either come out and get paperwork or have a cheap shed plonked down outside for some poor slob to serve as a single-point-of-contact like they should have been doing all along. Needless to say this lack of rest facilities becomes a problem when shipper keeps a driver stuck in a door for 4-8 hours.

OK. The podcast folk aren't truckers, though, so I still wonder what they're talking about. Guess I might have to ask em on the twitters or something.
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Re: COVID-19/corona virus mega thread/prepping thread
« Reply #2963 on: May 14, 2020, 01:02:24 PM »
I've heard a couple of people (I think on podcasts/radio) saying that they wanted to go on a road trip, but all the public restrooms were closed. Seems odd to me, as I've used the restrooms at grocery stores and gas stations in the past few weeks.

Just now, a truck driver told me "all the restrooms in St. Louis" are closed. I didn't get a chance to ask the guy, so I don't know if he's talking about the city itself (where I don't often venture), or the outlying regions, like where I am right now.

What have you guys seen or heard? The truckers have to go #2 somewhere, right?

Early on in the pandemic Pennsylvania closed all their highway rest areas. IIRC, truckers complained and the state relented and re-opened the rest rooms.
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« Reply #2964 on: May 14, 2020, 01:16:30 PM »
I don't understand why truckers need rest area bathrooms (NSFW)?

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« Reply #2965 on: May 14, 2020, 02:29:42 PM »
I drove from Houston, Texas to Minnesota about 3 weeks ago.  About half on interstate highways and half on major US highways.  (there is a route that's all interstate, but I don't like it)  All the truck stops were open with restrooms available, and so were the highway department rest areas.  Most of the rest areas had all the indoor areas locked except the restrooms.  I doubt anything has changed much on that front in the past month.
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« Reply #2966 on: May 14, 2020, 03:13:39 PM »
Yeah the problem is at point of loading unloading. Some places have set up porta pottys and cleaning stations but not sure how many are doing that.

On the non communist side of MO almost everything is open.
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« Reply #2967 on: May 14, 2020, 03:28:51 PM »
Michigan Gov.: We may have to extend the lock down because feelings

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    Hours after the appearance, a reporter asked Whitmer during a press conference, “What proof do you have to show that that’s happening?”

    “I don’t have proof. I’m [not] following everybody home and taking their temperatures and watching them for two weeks,” the governor replied, later defending the claim by discussing the method by which the novel coronavirus spreads.

    “The way that it spreads is person-to-person contact, that it can stay in the air for a while, that when you’re closer than 6 feet, not wearing masks. It is when you are touching one another. We saw a lot of that at these protests at the Capitol. And that’s how COVID-19 spreads,” she said.
https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2020/05/14/guided-by-facts-and-science-michigan-gov-whitmer-says-backlash-may-necessitate-extending-lockdown-then-admits-no-proof-protests-have-spread-coronavirus/
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Re: COVID-19/corona virus mega thread/prepping thread
« Reply #2968 on: May 14, 2020, 05:15:21 PM »
Yeah the problem is at point of loading unloading. Some places have set up porta pottys and cleaning stations but not sure how many are doing that.

On the non communist side of MO almost everything is open.

Yeah, I'm probably going across the [Missouri] river tomorrow, to get a haircut.
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« Reply #2969 on: May 14, 2020, 05:19:38 PM »
So now that commie pinko liberal journalists might get laid off instead of deplorables, we'd better hurry up and open the *expletive deleted*ck back up and save their jobs!

https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2020/05/14/amen-sister-bethany-mandel-has-some-thoughts-about-blue-checks-suddenly-concerned-about-consequences-of-covid19-lockdowns/
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« Reply #2970 on: May 14, 2020, 05:22:01 PM »
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« Reply #2971 on: May 14, 2020, 05:24:02 PM »
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« Reply #2972 on: May 14, 2020, 05:31:41 PM »
Also, what is with this latest lefty fantasy that Trump and Biden will both be incapacitated by the virus, and Pelosi, who is frail and older than both of them, will step up and lead the country?

https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2020/05/14/kayleigh-mcenany-calls-out-nyts-maggie-haberman-for-misleading-tweet-quoting-her-remarks-about-donald-trump-and-mike-pences-health/
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« Reply #2973 on: May 14, 2020, 06:14:58 PM »
Also, what is with this latest lefty fantasy that Trump and Biden will both be incapacitated by the virus, and Pelosi, who is frail and older than both of them, will step up and lead the country?

https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2020/05/14/kayleigh-mcenany-calls-out-nyts-maggie-haberman-for-misleading-tweet-quoting-her-remarks-about-donald-trump-and-mike-pences-health/

Haven't they been bloviating about some variation of that since 2016 or '17; somewhere in there?
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« Reply #2974 on: May 14, 2020, 06:21:04 PM »
Haven't they been bloviating about some variation of that since 2016 or '17; somewhere in there?

Yeah, but I meant the virus specifically, because if she were ever to get her ass back to work, she's likely at higher risk than Trump or Biden, and most all the people below her on the succession list are Republicans.
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