COVID-19 in America

[editor]

Inject disinfectant!

Trump Wants To Inject People With Bleach To Kill Coronavirus

After a presentation on the effectiveness of bleach and rubbing alcohol on killing coronavirus, Trump asked if people could be injected with disinfectant.

www.politicususa.com

 

[toblerone3]

What the fuck is going on here?

 

[Petcha]

Inject disinfectant!

Trump Wants To Inject People With Bleach To Kill Coronavirus

After a presentation on the effectiveness of bleach and rubbing alcohol on killing coronavirus, Trump asked if people could be injected with disinfectant.

www.politicususa.com

Actual massive lol. Black mirror can fuck right off. I've got the real world. It's far, far more surreal.

 

[SheilaNaGig]

I can't help feeling that some of these loons will start using their guns soon.

Somewhere way back at the start of all this I said something like "America is going to be a shit show.... and they've got guns."

It's going to get really ugly, I fear.

 

[Epona]

Inject disinfectant!

Trump Wants To Inject People With Bleach To Kill Coronavirus

After a presentation on the effectiveness of bleach and rubbing alcohol on killing coronavirus, Trump asked if people could be injected with disinfectant.

www.politicususa.com

It's stuff like this that contributes to my uncertainty about the difference between satire and serious, there doesn't seem to be much room for actual satire these days because reality is getting in there first with the shock comedy option

 

[BristolEcho]

It's stuff like this that contributes to my uncertainty about the difference between satire and serious, there doesn't seem to be much room for actual satire these days because reality is getting in there first with the shock comedy option

I know it's really difficult because it's utterly hillariours, but at the same time it's really not.

 

[tim]

... and wearing a face mask whilst doing it

Agent provocateur?

 

[petee]

Agent provocateur?

when all this passes, rightwingers will, dollars to donuts, use that line.
"liberal false flag"

 

[petee]

meanwhile, in wisconsin ...

 

[Dogsauce]

think it if you not logged into Shitebook that you cannot see them

I’m logged into shitebook. I can see the posts but the videos just briefly glitch to another image when I tap them, don’t play. On safari/iPad. Not sure we’ve had this type of content imbedded on here until recently. Twitter/youtoob stuff plays fine.

(apologies for tangent but it’s annoying!)

 

[two sheds]

For this one:

I get "Cannot load Facebook SDK. Disable any adblocker or tracking protection and try again."

But other facebook posts do display ok once I click them even though it says disable the adblocker, and then it says the link failed so I click that and it works. These ones there's no way it will display.

I've noted before though that I've go so many ad blockers and tracker blockers that I'm surprised anything plays.

 

[NoXion]

Got my browser pretty locked down, so I don't see any of the Facebook posts. Just an SDK error. Got the Twitter stuff blocked too, but there's still a link I can click if I have any need to see what it is. Maybe we need a new board rule or an alteration to the board software that requires people post an ordinary link when sharing such Facebook posts?

 

[yield]

Transcript - US coronavirus 'bailout' scam is $6 trillion giveaway to Wall St - Economist Michael Hudson explains | Moderate Rebels

Facing the Covid-19 pandemic, the US Congress rammed through the CARES Act — which economist Michael Hudson explains is not a "bailout" but a massive, $6 trillion giveaway to Wall Street, banks, large corporations, and stockholders. Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton discuss the enormous financial...

moderaterebels.com

21 April 2020

MICHAEL HUDSON: Just think of when, in the debates with Bernie, Sanders during the spring, you had Biden, and Klobuchar keep saying, ‘What we’re paying for Medicare-for-All will be $1 trillion over 10 years.’ Well here the Fed can create $1.5 trillion in one week just to buy stocks.

Why is it okay for the Fed to create $1.5 trillion to buy stocks to prevent rich people from losing on their stocks, when it’s not okay to print only $1 trillion to pay for free Medicare for the entire population? This is crazy!

The idea that only the rich should be allowed to print money for themselves, but the government should not be allowed to print money for any public purpose, any social purpose — not for medicine, not for schools, not for personal budgets, not for full employment — but only to give to the 1 percent. People hesitate to think that.

They think, ‘It can’t possibly be this bad.’ But those of us who have worked on Wall Street, for 50, 60 years in my case, that’s what the numbers show.

And that’s why you don’t have the media talking about actual numbers. They talk about, you know, just words, and they use euphemisms, and it’s the kind of Orwellian vocabulary, describing an inside-out world that they’re talking about.

 

[spring-peeper]

'Deliberately Cruel': Millions of US Citizens Blocked From Stimulus Payments Because They Married Immigrants | Common Dreams

"We're flat broke. We don't know what's gonna happen."

www.commondreams.org

The block means that not only will the adult in the mixed status home not be eligible for their $1,200 check but the household itself will also not receive a $500 per child payment that was part of the CARES Act, bringing further economic woes to taxpayers as the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic continues.

 

[little_legs]

 

[ruffneck23]

America's Bible Belt played down the pandemic and even cashed in. Now dozens of pastors are dead

Right to worship emerges as battleground in looming culture war as many congregations hit hard by coronavirus

www.independent.co.uk

 

[two sheds]

Just came in to post that as "surprise news of the day"

 

[weltweit]

I don't expect many to consider science over religion in future, sorry to say ..

 

[two sheds]

Just came in to post that as "surprise news of the day"

However

As many as 30 church leaders from the nation's largest African American Pentecostal denomination have now been confirmed to have died in the outbreak

 

[gentlegreen]

It turns out Trump did get his bleach idea from MMS nuts.

Revealed: leader of group peddling bleach as coronavirus 'cure' wrote to Trump this week

Mark Grenon wrote to Trump saying chlorine dioxide ‘can rid the body of Covid-19’ days before the president promoted disinfectant as treatment

www.theguardian.com

 

[cupid_stunt]

I am amazed it's still legal to sell 'Miracle Mineral Supplement', the idea of drinking or injecting chlorine dioxide leaves me befuddled.

 

[existentialist]

I am amazed it's still legal to sell 'Miracle Mineral Supplement', the idea of drinking or injecting chlorine dioxide leaves me befuddled.

Freedom, innit. Freedom to poison yourself or infect someone with the 'rona

 

[High Voltage]

I am amazed it's still legal to sell 'Miracle Mineral Supplement', the idea of drinking or injecting chlorine dioxide leaves me befuddled.

I'm amazed, given the highly litigious nature of North Americans, that anyone selling MMS as a solution, isn't sued within an inch of their lives

 

[two sheds]

I'm amazed, given the highly litigious nature of North Americans, that anyone selling MMS as a solution, isn't sued within an inch of their lives

Unless the people suing them are already dead

 

[frogwoman]

The MMS nuts are real scum.

 

[rekil]

Transcript - US coronavirus 'bailout' scam is $6 trillion giveaway to Wall St - Economist Michael Hudson explains | Moderate Rebels

Facing the Covid-19 pandemic, the US Congress rammed through the CARES Act — which economist Michael Hudson explains is not a "bailout" but a massive, $6 trillion giveaway to Wall Street, banks, large corporations, and stockholders. Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton discuss the enormous financial...

moderaterebels.com

21 April 2020

Blumenthal and Norton's site. They had that Pepe Escobar freak on to gibber about bill gates and US bioweapon conspiraloonery. Ugh.

 

[yield]

Blumenthal and Norton's site. They had that Pepe Escobar freak on to gibber about bill gates and US bioweapon conspiraloonery. Ugh.

Yeah sorry it's a shit site rekil ! But Michael Hudson is great and doesn't get the recognition he deserves.

e2a Verso made a huge mistake doing that Blumenthal book

 

[petee]

I am amazed it's still legal to sell 'Miracle Mineral Supplement', the idea of drinking or injecting chlorine dioxide leaves me befuddled.

this is still up, somehow

Danger: Don’t Drink Miracle Mineral Solution or Similar Products

The FDA warns you not to drink sodium chlorite products such as Miracle Mineral Solution. These products can make you sick.

www.fda.gov

 

[Tankus]

Georgia , as of Friday the state has had 22,147 known cases, with 892 deaths ,It'll interesting to revisit these numbers in 3 weeks ...

let the experiment begin

 

[petee]

interesting report from GA

"Some companies will undoubtedly heed Kemp’s guidance in the coming days and gradually return to work. But The Dispatch reached out to nearly 20 small businesses in Georgia touched by the governor’s new plan. Not one told us they were reopening this week.

...

Shamrock Bowling Center in Dublin—a town of about 15,000 in the center of the state—posted on its Facebook page that it was staying closed for now. Michelle Roland—who manages the lanes with her stepdad—assumed the regulars would be furious.

“When I put that thing out, I was scared of the backlash that we would get from the people that are like, ‘Oh, y’all are just being crazy, this virus isn’t a big deal,’” she admitted. “But I did not receive one message like that. I couldn’t believe the overwhelming positivity we got.”

“Very wise decision. Your community can see you care,” one read."

warning, neocon website, but the reporting here is good.

Some Georgia Businesses Can Reopen. But Will They?

As Atlanta's mayor speaks out against the governor's plan, some business owners will stay closed out of caution and other concerns.

thedispatch.com