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- PhanLo0
Even Ben Shapiro thinks Big Don's drug selling was a load of shite.- Probably made some money on the short term though.PhanLo
- Possibly contributed to veterans deaths in some cases.
https://twitter.com/…PhanLo - Good feeling, just a good feeling...PhanLo
- Why not sue the orrange guy for this anyway for trying to sell snake oil?!grafician
- oh wait yes, he's not responsible for whatever he says, yes, only in 'murrica!grafician
- He should get the jail. Bobo is silent.PhanLo
- you need to use zinc with it apparently, not mentioned in reports.shapesalad
- And Brawndo and silver.PhanLo
- Nairn5
Has anyone here in the UK looked into the 'community is kindness' and 'please believe, these days will come to pass' posters?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-en…
I'm very curious to know who's paying for them to be rolled out. There's plenty out there about the Whys and Whos involved, but the question of who is actually paying for all of these to be plastered all over our cities is a little more opaque, I've found. Or, rather - haven't found.
- Soros?Gnash
- https://www.jackarts…
it‘s in the image captureuan - I assume Her Maj's Gov't is paying for it, evidence of the slightly Orwellian structures that stay mostly just out of sight here in our little Isle.Nairn
- @uan - yeah, I know who's involved, I just don't know who's paying for it. That seems to be the most interesting question. These things are EVERYWHERE.Nairn
- they probably using spots they didn‘t sell in a creative comunal wayuan
- I just asked a friend who used to be involved in bill posters what they'd pay for a campaign, and even back of the envelope working, this is costing £100ksNairn
- I somewhat doubt an agency is taking on that cost for some inscrutable gainNairn
- keeping business going...artists, printers, hangers...they‘ll reboot better after shutdownuan
- Nope - these bill posters are now taking up all the prime spots everywhere I look here in North LDN.Nairn
- they ‚own‘ those pots. that‘s their business. https://www.jackarts…uan
- "May they never be deemed low skill again".... hmmmm, Ok.robotron3k
- Nyc has similarmonospaced
- #YourSpaceOrMinested
- Seems like a Hillsong kinda move?thumb_screws
- Weird to call doctors and nurses low skilledGnash
- Priti Patel seemed to think they were low skilled. Keeps coming back to haunt herPhanLo
- indeed phan.fadein11
- imbecile0
Bipartisan Deal Reached On $484 Billion More Coronavirus Aid
https://www.npr.org/2020/04/21/8…
Negotiators have reached an agreement to add roughly $484 billion in new funds to bolster the already-record-breaking coronavirus response legislation.
The latest deal, negotiated between Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and top leaders in Congress, includes $322 billion in additional money for a small business loan program that ran dry within two weeks.
- "Trump (the Company) Asks Trump (the Administration) for Hotel Relief"grafician
- https://www.nytimes.…grafician
- More money for Ruth Chris and Virgin Airlinesinstrmntl
- Krassy5
Shame List: Here are the largest public companies taking payroll loans meant for small businesses
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/21/…
- We don't care mate, this is "only in america" shit, let's just post relevant corona info, that's why we visit QBN latelygrafician
- Not.grafician
- If nobody is checking were the moneyz going, go on, have a blastgrafician
- I’ve never heard of any of these.monospaced
- capitalism wins agains!utopian
- elahon31
A-fucking-men
- +100%********
- This is the only kind of language the has a remote chance of getting through to them. Too bad governors can't communicate on the same level.ayport
- They need to be more like Italy's mayors.Akagiyama
- @aka, you mean naked and on horses?Gnash
- Trying to fight irl idiots with online messages on facebook...grafician
- Assuming his in NY. You want him to travel cross states to talk to them face to face?pango
- Meeting them IRL would defeat his argument.********
- Stop putting "ass' after adjectivesFax_Benson
- +1,000,000monospaced
- A'theFuck'menwhatthefunk
- @Fax_B: Well in this case the apartments probably do smell of ass. I'll allow it!********
- The communist gets praised on QBN <jazz hands>Hayoth
- But wait, you can't tell people what to do with their bodies about abortion?Hayoth
- We’re all waiting for the punchlineMrT
- hahahaha "who you gonna shoot? The virus?" hahahahahafooler
- Look. The resident bigot and chief cunt just compared abortion rights to a temporary lockdown advice during a pandemic. Par for the course you silly bitch.monospaced
- And after all these years still hasn’t bothered to look up his favorite word to throw around. Fucking tool.monospaced
- Not many of those idiots gonna read it but yes amenNBQ00
- he still doesn't understand the word communist.pango
- @pango and he never will.
Incest is bad, kids, don't do it.Continuity - The target audience for this common sense would love to be rid of us "elitist" assholes in NY anyway.CyBrainX
- MORE NAKED PEOPLE ON HORSES!Akagiyama
- Incest is bad, very bad.********
- which one of you is going to eat the cookie after this circle jerk?imbecile
- Is Hayoth the cookie?monospaced
- you sound hungry, benimbecile
- lol at top comment on imgur
https://imgur.com/ga…imbecile - Stupid comment********
- You were the one who brought up eating a cum covered cookie, not me. And special troll cunt points for trying to use a real name you sad sad child.monospaced
- @pango The word "the" confuses Hayoth.garbage
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- Nairn0
I have no idea whether or not there is anything in this, but by gosh this is a cool use of potentially-depleted resources...
'Airliners could have role as Covid-19 hyperbaric oxygen chambers'
- whatthefunk4
- Right. Let's not make this all about 'merica again. Because we all affected...worldwide...grafician
- that's what these self-centred morons fail to realize. when they say the government is doing this, which government? I mean they can't find their own country on_niko
- ...a map let alone anybody else's._niko
- Nobody would accuse you of making it about your country if you posted something from it. Also this site happens to have a lot of Americans alread ymonospaced
- And it’s not self centered or moronic to post American corona virus issues. The very idea that it is is moronic.monospaced
- Fucking Commies!utopian
- ask for refund.pango
- Oh, utopian ... stop spelling commies correctly! It's un-American!Continuity
- NBQ003
More tests just showed that Hydrocrap Trump talked about makes Covid even worse. And apparently ventilators aren't even good but causing more damage because too much pressure on damaged lungs.
- and male pattern hair loss is an indicator of COVID‐19 severity and current smokers are at lower risk of cytokine storms due to nicotine.kingsteven
- well, to be fair, i saw those tests weren't using zinc with it, which apparently is required.shapesalad
- Bennn2
Thousands of swabs ordered by Canada to test for COVID-19 have been found to be contaminated.... China sent them to us.
Contaminated with a fungus.
Thanks China!
They're still mad we locked up their Huawei exec Meng Wanzhou, maybe?
- Downvoted by Chinabots?NBQ00
- Downvoted by nbshapesalad
- Chinabots are everywhereBennn
- Lol, again with the dv’sGnash
- the swabs were approved by the Wuhan Health Organization********
- China strikes again!utopian
- contaminated with the Kung Flu virusKrassy
- tbh locking her up was a bit of a bitch move, Canada.********
- Bennn2
New study shows that in many countries, the estimated infection rates are generally less than 10%, often even 5%, a logical result of physical distancing measures, meaning that the risks of a rebound in new cases remain considerable.
- I think that’s a flattened curve, knowing that eventually most or all people will get it. I dunno anymore.monospaced
- it would be nice to see a link to this study... i'm fairly on top of things (i think i've read every such report) and haven't seen these figures.kingsteven
- i only have a french candian link: https://www.lapresse…Bennn
- wow, you have totally misrepresented this then. it's not a new study... it says that in absense of serology tests we need to assume 5% - 10%kingsteven
- i wouldn't even be drawing any conclusions from the serology tests it uses as examples. most of them are too small/ not randomisedkingsteven
- and wouldn't 5% of Canada be 2m, 2000 deaths would put the CFR at 0.1% - 10% puts the CFR at 0.05% (lower than seasonal flus)kingsteven
- allthethings1
Sorry guys, more USA shit. Two posts from Georgia, the first in a local paper.
https://decaturish.com/2020/04/d…
Dear Decaturish – Governor’s decision to reopen businesses is political murder
Decaturish.com Apr 20, 2020
Dear Decaturish,
You really want to know what I think about the governor’s decision to reopen many businesses closed by COVID-19?
It’s about making sure people can’t file unemployment. It isn’t about saving lives, certainly. It’s not about the peak of the curve. I think lots of people are going to ignore the governor and stay home regardless. This isn’t a decision being driven by epidemiology. It’s the rawest and most lethal of political decisions, and it will kill people.
Kemp is looking forward to the fiscal discussion in 2021 and 2022, when all of this really starts to hit. He got elected by out-yahooing the field. His base has been trained to view government spending as a crime, and he knows that he becomes politically vulnerable to an attack if he raises taxes. He is not capable of delivering a nuanced message around necessity, because his base doesn’t know how to hear it.
The state is staring at one million unemployment applications. It probably cannot pay those over six months. The unemployment fund has a reserve of about $2.6 billion. Last week it paid out about $42 million — which is about three times as much as it usually does. That figure will double in two weeks, give or take. Maybe more.
At that rate, the fund is empty in about 28 weeks. Probably less. Even if things improve later, that fund will run dry in a year, because unemployment isn’t going to return to 5 percent for a long time.
Georgians did the Kansas thing a couple of years ago and instituted a hard constitutional limit on income taxes of 6 percent. It cannot go higher without amending the state constitution. What that means is that there’s no easy mechanism for the state to accommodate an extraordinary expense, like this, without somehow telling Republican reactionaries that they must raise taxes.
Those reactionaries are the ones who will be protesting in front of the statehouse Friday when businesses start to reopen.
If there’s no state order calling for businesses to be closed, the people who are unemployed can no longer claim that their unemployment is involuntary, even if it would be utter idiocy for them to return to work. A hairdresser or a massage therapist cannot maintain social distance. But they can certainly file for relief ... unless the law says they can work.
“Gyms, fitness centers, bowling alleys, body art studios, barbers, cosmetologists, hair designers, nail care artists, estheticians, their respective schools & massage therapists.”
Not banks. Not software firms. Not factories. Not schools.
It is no coincidence that the businesses on this list are staffed by relatively poor people. Because that’s who he wants off the unemployment rolls. And if they die ... well, they’re mostly black people, or Asian, and poor, and an acceptable political loss for a Republican governor.
The purpose of this isn’t to open up these businesses. It’s to get the workers there off the dole. Work, and die. Or don’t work ... but you’re on your own. Because we can’t raise taxes to cover the time you spent trying to save your life and the lives of the people around you.
– George Chidi
George Chidi is a political columnist and public policy advocate
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- Yup. Fucking sociopaths._niko
- Thanks for sharing this. It's eye opening on multiple fronts.ayport
- Wow. Cold-blooded shit.mandomafioso
- Great writing and 100% accurate IMO.brandonp
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- allthethings0
Second. Mostly repeated, on Twitter, but skip to the end for the view of 2021.
- imbecile1
Coronavirus at meat packing plants worse than first thought, USA TODAY investigation finds
Coronavirus closed Smithfield and JBS meat packing plants. Many more are at risk. Operators may have to choose worker health or meat in stores.
https://www.usatoday.com/in-dept…
A rash of coronavirus outbreaks at dozens of meat packing plants across the nation is far more extensive than previously thought, according to an exclusive review of cases by USA TODAY and the Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting.
And it could get worse. More than 150 of America’s largest meat processing plants operate in counties where the rate of coronavirus infection is already among the nation’s highest, based on the media outlets’ analysis of slaughterhouse locations and county-level COVID-19 infection rates.
- Everybody should stop eating meat.
75% of new or emerging infectious diseases over the past decade originated from animals and principally from wildlife.nbq - ^
https://www.worldani…nbq
- Everybody should stop eating meat.
- PhanLo0
Got his death numbers wrong, but I enjoy the interactions, the crowd are actually quite interesting.
