Great Depression Part the Second, brought to you by these assholes.
(Even if we and ours never catch this thing we’re so fucked.)
New official State Department directive:
My son, who lives in Vancouver (Canada), was just laid off this morning. He works for a big theater chain. He’s filing for unemployment, but I’m sure that won’t cover his and his family’s living expenses. We’ve told them they are welcome to drive down and join us in Washington, but who knows if his wife (non-US citizen) can even cross the border.
Good times.
Look, can’t we just focus on the good things Trump is doing in this crisis?
My little sister is a psychologist at the VA in Minneapolis. She was told today in no uncertain terms that she’s ‘essential’ and has to be at the VA hospital daily. The 14 other psychologists are working from home, but they’ve been recalled as of Monday because the hospital’s VPN failed.
She’s asthmatic as all hell so this is great.
State department waits until all international travel has been halted by the acts of every other country, then suggest that maybe we ought not to do it. Bravo.
We have a college freshman flying home from Newfoundland this Saturday. I hope they let her through.
Nesrie
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You don’t have to convince me about the difficulties of working with health insurance. I’ve been on the phone with them… for hours, both for work and personal reasons.
I just don’t want people thinking the hospitals are holding people hostages in their room because they’re not getting authorizations to send them home. This is the age of Social Media, you know how things… can flip in messages.
Don’t believe the government can help with that though. I spent 30 minutes dealing with an FSA charge, and why did that turn into hell on Earth, because the government/IRS became super concerned we were spending our own money on things we shouldn’t so we have walls erected that require walking auditors through what a paid in full discount means, aka the charge doesn’t match the statement because, well I got a discount which is all laid out on the statement I uploaded that they clearly didn’t read.
For those unaware and needing a pick-me-up, there’s a Happy Music for Scary Times playlist on Spotify created by @CLWheeljack (and which contains way too many tracks added by me, admittedly). Not everything will be to everyone’s taste, but that’s what the skip to next track button is for. :-)
(EDIT: fixed link)
Not a chance in hell I’m looking at it now.
I thought exactly the same thing when I saw Justin Timberlake’s name.
Guys, those artists have literally one track each, sheesh.
New cases in Massachusetts:
Monday: 33
Tuesday: 21
Wednesday: 38
Thursday: 72
Here we go…
Wonder what the ratio to total number of tested people looks like for the MA numbers.
Matt_W
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Actual count today 11,723. Predicted 10,400.
And helping to boost that count: per the COVID Tracking Project page 4pm ET data set lock-in, 27,500 new tests reported since yesterday in the US.
Almost 104,000 total tests now in the US.
Since Sunday, 76,000 tests run.
Glad to see testing happening!
Isn’t massive testing how South Korea is containing things?
And I bet it’s Hallelujah, which makes me want to claw my own face off, making me more susceptible to infection 🤣
