OT Coronavirus: America in chaos, News and Updates. One million Americans dead and counting

Not at all unexpected.

 

I know that my experience is much less of a problem than a lot of peoples around the country that are losing jobs, suffering to feed their children, missing rent/mortgage payments.

I am lucky to be able to work from home. I will be able to take care of things for my brother (who just graduated in a field that is similar to that of this Hispanic Causing Panic guy), girlfriend (jobless), and myself.

The thing that upsets me is that I have been looking for jobs back in Oregon the last 3 months and was hoping to move back home and start a family. This has really thrown a wrench in that. Again, it is nothing compared to what others are dealing with.

That's all. My two cents.

 

Not nothing. Hope things work out for you in the future.

 

https://www.google.com/amp/s/footwe...cost-cutting-furloughs-stores-1202954598/amp/

Nordstrom Makes ‘Most Difficult Decision’ in 119-Year History, Will Furlough Some Corporate Employees

 

Yikes!!....Michael Rapaport must have had a little too much coffee before his "public service" announcement:

 

the White House, thru the NSC, had a good template for action on an epidemic/pandemic....and of course they ignored it, because, you know, science and stuff:

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/25/trump-coronavirus-national-security-council-149285

 

Popular Chinese Beer, baby!

 

I hope Andrew Cuomo sticks it straight up Trump's ass when this is done.

 

I blame free pornhub.

 

This article from The Atlantic is lengthy, but worth the read if you want to understand what we’re going to be facing for the next year or so.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/608719/

 

thanks for that article...it's excellent

how about this part of it:

Aspects of America’s identity may need rethinking after COVID-19. Many of the country’s values have seemed to work against it during the pandemic. Its individualism, exceptionalism, and tendency to equate doing whatever you want with an act of resistance meant that when it came time to save lives and stay indoors, some people flocked to bars and clubs. Having internalized years of anti-terrorism messaging following 9/11, Americans resolved to not live in fear. But SARS-CoV-2 has no interest in their terror, only their cells.

Years of isolationist rhetoric had consequences too. Citizens who saw China as a distant, different place, where bats are edible and authoritarianism is acceptable, failed to consider that they would be next or that they wouldn’t be ready. (China’s response to this crisis had its own problems, but that’s for another time.) “People believed the rhetoric that containment would work,” says Wendy Parmet, who studies law and public health at Northeastern University. “We keep them out, and we’ll be okay. When you have a body politic that buys into these ideas of isolationism and ethnonationalism, you’re especially vulnerable when a pandemic hits.”

 

I think that the author is sipping on the Kool-aid a bit too much if he thinks that our "American identity" is subject to "rethinking" as a result of this hit by a pandemic. Just like other major national emergencies, we'll tool up and develop vaccines, treatments and better supplies of medical equipment and hospital space, but once the emergency is over we're likely to slip back into our usual patterns of living for ourselves and enjoying life as much as possible. CDC needs to do a big evaluation of how they screwed up the essential test kit element that put us so far behind the eight-ball on this. It would be nice if our "leaders" in DC could stop playing political warfare long enough to take heed of this pandemic and establish better stores of needed supplies, emergency hospital space, and better plans and laws necessary for dealing quickly with events like this. I'm not holding my breath. There's just too much hatred and stupid concentrated in DC.

 

fixed where the quotation marks should go.

 

Thank you!