SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19

[St1ck]

5 minutes ago, Lou said:

Because I told you

[St1ck]

8 minutes ago, Lou said:

Because I told you

Did you know the character he played in Out Of Sight and is the same character he played in Jackie Brown?

 

[Taylor]

38 minutes ago, mtangelsfan said:

Bad stuff = Trump

good stuff = not Trump

That's not what I'm saying. Much of what Trump is doing now is good. The point is, he took way too long while consistently downplaying the pandemic.

I don't disagree with 100% of what Trump does.

[Chuck]

39 minutes ago, Adam said:

We should

and a Nick Cage thread. 

[tdawg87]

I'm gay

[arch stanton]

6 hours ago, yk9001 said:

Where is here?

I can't understand why people can't state where they are.

Should we all know where Arch Stanton lives?

For those who only drop in during world crisis, I work in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia and my family lives across the causeway bridge in Bahrain. The bridge has been closed for 2 weeks so we’re stuck on opposite sides. 

[St1ck]

8 minutes ago, tdawg87 said:

I'm gay

And fat. Don't forget fat.

[St1ck]

13 minutes ago, Chuckster70 said:

and a Nick Cage thread. 

[ten ocho recon scout]

1 hour ago, arch stanton said:

For those who only drop in during world crisis, I work in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia and my family lives across the causeway bridge in Bahrain. The bridge has been closed for 2 weeks so we’re stuck on opposite sides. 

That sucks, man. Hang tough.

[yk9001]

I wonder if they do this in Japan?

https://mobile.twitter.com/PardesSeleh/status/1242197595583328258

[ten ocho recon scout]

If you dumb assholes are going to be immature and turn the pandemic thread into one about nicholas cage, all I can say is...

 

 

 

PUBES

[ten ocho recon scout]

8 minutes ago, yk9001 said:

I wonder if they do this in Japan?

https://mobile.twitter.com/PardesSeleh/status/1242197595583328258

To be fair, they probably do, but more as a fetish than a challenge.

[the dude abides]

23 minutes ago, yk9001 said:

I wonder if they do this in Japan?

https://mobile.twitter.com/PardesSeleh/status/1242197595583328258

Fuck him.  Hope he dies and does so quickly to free up his hospital bed.

 

[fan_since79]

Larry Kudlow: Stimulus bill to total $6 trillion. Includes $4 trillion for Fed to bail out whatever entities it chooses.
Yikes.

[arch stanton]

22 minutes ago, ten ocho recon scout said:

That sucks, man. Hang tough.

We're used to separation but my little one turns 4 on April 18 and she's probably not getting the party she was promised and she's gonna be pissed

[tdawg87]

24 minutes ago, fan_since79 said:

Larry Kudlow: Stimulus bill to total $6 trillion. Includes $4 trillion for Fed to bail out whatever entities it chooses.
Yikes.

Well the Dems held out for.... nothing. They benefit from this too.

Scum.

Now give me my stupid check so I can blow it on booze and hookers.

[Amazing Larry]

29 minutes ago, fan_since79 said:

Larry Kudlow: Stimulus bill to total $6 trillion. Includes $4 trillion for Fed to bail out whatever entities it chooses.
Yikes.

LOL. Chalking up all those lines in the 80’s really did a number on Kudlow’s brain. Shit’s gonna get weird when the dollar implodes. QE 4-evah bitches. 

[gotbeer]

33 minutes ago, fan_since79 said:

Larry Kudlow: Stimulus bill to total $6 trillion. Includes $4 trillion for Fed to bail out whatever entities it chooses.
Yikes.

Is this the same bill that was supposed to be $1.5 trillion.  Then the Dems made it $2.5 trillion.  Now it's $6 trillion?

And FYI, the federal budget for 2019 was $4.407 trillion.

[Lou]

2 hours ago, arch stanton said:

For those who only drop in during world crisis, I work in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia and my family lives across the causeway bridge in Bahrain. The bridge has been closed for 2 weeks so we’re stuck on opposite sides. 

I knew that.

Then again, I care. 

[Amazing Larry]

[Tank]

11 hours ago, well_red said:

I thought it was suspected early on that Pangolin or "Scaly Anteater" was the probably source at the Wuhan market.  Evidently its meat is considered a delicacy, its scales have therapeutic properties, and it is the most heavily trafficked mammal in the world!  Can't believe this thing exists. 

Seriously? Never heard of it until about a month ago.

[tdawg87]

14 minutes ago, calscuf said:

Was just watching news from today on YouTube and some interview with Dipshit on the White House lawn.  He “But Flulary!”-ed.  Other than Chuck yesterday I hadn’t seen or heard a But Flulary! for at least 10-14 days.  So is it safe for me to assume Fox News is starting to But Flulary again?

They never stopped.

[Redondo]

8 hours ago, arch stanton said:

For those who only drop in during world crisis, I work in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia and my family lives across the causeway bridge in Bahrain. The bridge has been closed for 2 weeks so we’re stuck on opposite sides. 

Take care my friend. Hopefully this will be over soon and you can spend time with your family.

[Redondo]

Tlaib wants to hand out debit cards during coronavirus, mint trillion-dollar coins to cover cost

In an attempt to help ease the burden of the coronavirus pandemic on Americans, Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., released a plan last week for what is essentially a temporary universal basic income (UBI) that would be distributed to all individuals in the United States, including illegal immigrants, and be funded by the printing of two $1 trillion coins.

"Hey @realdonaldTrump, let's provide relief from this crisis for people by giving pre-loaded debit cards to every person in America," Tlaib tweeted over the weekend. "No additional debt -- we'll just mint two coins."

The plan, outlined on Tlaib's website, would send a debit card with $2,000 pre-loaded on it to every person in the U.S. and reload it with $1,000 every month "until one year after the end of the Coronavirus crisis."

Tlaib's plan tracks closely along the lines of former presidential candidate Andrew Yang's UBI proposal that made his campaign extraordinarily popular with a niche audience. But like similar proposals to combat the coronavirus from Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, and Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, Tlaib's handout would only be temporary, in contrast to Yang's $1,000 per month permanent UBI.

Tlaib would take advantage of an obscure provision in federal law that ostensibly allows the Treasury to mint commemorative coins to have the U.S. Mint make "two $1 trillion platinum coins" that would be purchased by the federal reserve "at full face value."

"This approach would preserve the historical separation between fiscal and monetary policy and avoid financial entanglement between the Treasury and the Federal Reserve which would eventually undermine the independence of the Fed," Tlaib's plan explains.

The idea of minting trillion-dollar coins was discussed during the Obama administration when the U.S. faced default on its debt, but was never taken very seriously. It risks inflation, but more significantly, according to its critics, such a gimmick would not be a good look for the U.S. internationally.

 

[Redondo]

Omar says she has 'radical idea' for combating coronavirus pandemic

U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar on Tuesday night suggested what she admitted may be a “radical idea” to help fight the coronavirus outbreak.

“All private hospitals should be made public for the duration of the virus,” the Minnesota Democrat wrote on Twitter.

She said a government takeover could help address “some of the pressures our healthcare system is facing.”

Omar offered no specifics on how the takeover of private property would be achieved, but critics on social media quickly reacted that Omar’s plan sounded like communism.

“Here is another radical idea,” one Twitter commenter wrote. “Let’s admit that communism doesn’t work and that it caused the #ChineseVirus.”

“So you can run them in to the ground?” another wrote.

“Spoken like a true Castroite,” a third commented.

Omar has given her presidential endorsement to Bernie Sanders, a democratic socialist from Vermont who has drawn criticism for past statements in support of the late Fidel Castro’s communist regime in Cuba, as well as Daniel Ortega’s socialist rule in Nicaragua.

Both Sanders and Omar have spoken in support relieving student debt and providing Medicare for All, proposals that critics have derided as giveaways for which taxpayers would foot the bill.

At Sanders campaign rallies, Omar has called for a "mass movement of the working class" to defeat President Trump and "Western imperialism."

Seizing private property from citizens is a hallmark of many communist and socialist governments.

About a year ago, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, another Democrat, pitched the idea of city government seizing some buildings from landlords in a proposal that critics derided as “straight communism.”

“My first reaction was: Is this communist Cuba?” state Assemblymember Nicole Malliotakis, who ran against De Blasio in the 2017 mayoral race, and is now running for Congress, told Fox News at the time. “I can say that as a daughter of Cuban refugees who fled Castro’s Cuba in 1959, this is what happened to her family, she had her home taken, my grandfather had his gas station taken.

“This is extreme even for Mayor de Blasio,” she added, “because we know that he has socialist leanings, but this is straight communism and I think it’s very scary to America-loving, democracy-loving people.”

Earlier Tuesday, Omar called for freeing ICE detainees and other prisoners amid the pandemic. Later, de Blasio said New York City's Rikers Island prison would release 300 inmates.

Rep. Omar introduces $1 trillion housing plan, says affordable housing is basic human right