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crickets's Journal"Because no one had told them before."
This is what happens when you make a point of firing all of the people who could have told you. Funny how that works.
Now everyone can see the results when experts volunteer the vital information unasked and still are ignored.
There is no way to claim that the response is bumbling and bungled. The 'no real response' response is the plan, and along with a side of 'skim or steal all the profit you can!' it's quite deliberate.
Same - I figured the headline used a metaphor.
Literal hungry rats make me worry about people living on the streets.
Over the last few years Albany has been hit hard by tornados, a hurricane, and now this.
Neither article is behind a paywall.
Days After a Funeral in a Georgia Town, Coronavirus ‘Hit Like a Bomb’
Whether the initial carrier — the whodunit of infectious disease — matters at all depends on whom you ask. But the timing does matter. For 10 days the virus spread, invisibly, and no one knew it was there. By the time stringent social distancing was introduced, on March 22, it was everywhere.
How a small Georgia city far from New York became one of the worst coronavirus hotspots in the country
He called for a stronger federal response.
"I think that this crisis needs to be managed more decisively from a federal and state level," Mayor Bo Dorough told WABE, Atlanta's public radio affiliate. "I think we have, at a minimum, the whole country should be in a shelter-in-place position."
I live less than an hour away by car. I could not be more grateful for an information resource like DU. I think I had just enough time to stock up and settle in at home before it really got circulating. The town I live in and the surrounding area are taking this very seriously. All of the neighbors and friends I know are locked down. My town is very quiet and still, and has been so for at least a couple/three weeks. We are still bracing for the worst.
I am glad to hear that cases are starting to level off in Albany.
If I may gently make a request, next time you find a thread where folks start to pop off about how stupid people in red states are, when they crank up a somewhat gleeful conversation about how red states were asking for it and all the blue states should just secede and leave 'em behind like parking lot trash after a concert, could you maybe please wander back out of that thread instead of joining in? Adopt a tumbleweed today. Thanks.
We're all in this together, and we pull for the people in California, New York, Detroit, Chicago, everywhere we hear about people losing family and friends and having a hard time. It will eventually get better, but *sigh* there's a fair amount of worse coming along before the better gets here. We'll get through it together.
The first person who starts singing Kumbaya get a serious timeout though. That's just too much.
This could get ugly, and it was likely avoidable.
There's no excuse for the lack of leadership at the state and federal level that could have slowed or lowered case rates. I am upset on behalf of the workers who are falling ill.
That said, nobody is doing what they should to try to stop the break in food supply. Tons of milk are being wasted, crops are rotting in the fields, while meat supplies are growing chancy. There's no plan. There is no plan at all.
Hungry people can get really angry really quickly.
It couldn't possibly be on purpose...
Rebuffed for a MONTH.
Social distancing could and should have started in February or earlier. I don't understand why they gave him the power to muzzle the message when it was clearly their job to speak up and save lives. Thousands are dead and dying who didn't have to be because they didn't say anything when they should have.
I saw this last week and it just...
So there are portalets and a place to wash hands and shower. That's nice and all, but when the best you can do for a place people are allowed to stay is to point out the lines in a parking lot, there is a serious problem. This just makes me SO angry.
All those holier than thou 'christians' moaning about not going in to their actual churches for services as though they are more than mildly inconvenienced... When is the last time their congregation was raising funds for the hungry and homeless? When is the last time (or any time) one of the arrogant grifters standing in the pulpit preached about helping the less fortunate and then passed a plate to collect for those who really need it?
The US has billions in the budget, but not enough to see that people aren't sleeping on the ground a parking lot in the middle of a pandemic? Or anytime, really. This blind eye to the poor is a moral failing in our country. It is outrageous.
Tragically accurate.
Without having to actually admit that it's what he is doing, the policy and behavior coming from the White House and some Repub governors has caused as much of a 'wash through' as he could possibly get away with up to this point.
Tim Conway was legendary for being able to break up the rest of the cast.
He would rehearse a scene a little differently every time, and at least one skit on show night often had a complete surprise come out of nowhere. Poor Harvey Korman got the worst of it. I love that Vicki got him back good this time. Even Tim was just wrecked by her response.
I adore Carol Burnett
My favorite sketch, aside from Went with the Wind, is Tim Conway's Elephant Story (aka Vicki Lawrence's revenge):
Could you please share your thumbprint shortbread cookie recipe?
Sounds delicious, and I would love to make some.
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