5431

There are some concerns raised about that set up in the comments. Though no idea if that person truly knows what they are talking about.

5432

Fun times in Italy and, presumably, soon in the U.S.

I want to talk a little bit about what happens when people get sick.

When people get sick, the ambulance comes and picks you up and takes you to the hospital. I feel like if you go to the hospital now, it’s like going to go to hell. And if you end up in intensive care, you’re not going to talk to your family anymore, probably: Patients get a helmet with oxygen on their heads, so they’re not able to speak on the phone.

I read this story about an old woman who felt like she was dying. She had a helmet on and she wanted to say goodbye to her granddaughter. That doctor FaceTimed the granddaughter and the old lady got to say goodbye. And a few hours later she died. There are too many stories like that. Doctors are the link between families and patients. If you are lucky enough to have a good one who is very sensitive, they’ll use FaceTime or Skype or whatever to help you say goodbye or at least say hi to your parents or your family.

So you’re saying a good outcome is the doctor brings you a phone to FaceTime with your family. And then you die alone.

You die very alone. That’s another thing: This virus creates a block of solitude. It creates solitude in our families and the patients. And in the doctors, too, because they’re so busy. They say, we don’t even talk to each other. We are in our masks, gloves, gowns, and we are just working . Most of them, they don’t even go back home. They’re scared to be infected and pass the infection to the family.

5433

on one of my Brit forums the lads are like “having a meal down the pub whilst i still can and its packed”. They are all Gen Xers as well, not zoomers or millennials and their young, healthy lungs and hearts.

5434


5435

I think @ArmandoPenblade should be appointed minister of justice in the coming regime.

5436

Holy shit. After telling the public everything was fine and telling donors shit was going to hit the fan, numbnuts (Sen. Burr) sells off stock:

5437

This little number is climbing the charts

Currently at #8 on the Itunes chart.

5438

They knew, many of them, but they needed time to sort their personal shit before letting the peasants know.

5439

Per the John Hopkins map I believe global infections grew from around 197k - 242k in less than 36 hours. 45k increase

5440

The modern Republican reaction to a crisis. First, sell your stock. Then reassure the public things are fine while telling wealthy donors at a private club that shit is going to hit the fan. Lastly, focus on containment and mitigation of blame.

5441

The current FAA supervisor rumor is that the US may cancel all air travel and ATC services at the terminal level. Not sure for ARTCC/ACC, but could become VFR sub FL180.

5442

The Democrats sure are good at hoaxes.

5443

Worst case, your guys are out of power for a few years, during which you relentlessly block any legislation that might impede your capacity to accrue more wealth. Pretty soon you’re back in the saddle because “it’s time for change.”

5444

Is that not defined as “insider trading” in the US?

5445

I honestly don’t know where it falls. There was a law passed by Congress in 2012 dealing with it, which he voted no on, but it was watered down. I don’t know if it runs afoul of regular insider trading laws. It definitely should be illegal, and the fucker should rot in prison.

5446

It’s insider trading, but it probably wont matter.

And if it does, Trump will pardon him.

5447

The definition seems to be:

Insider trading is the buying or selling of a publicly traded company’s stock by someone who has non-public, material information about that stock. Insider trading can be illegal or legal depending on when the insider makes the trade. It is illegal when the material information is still non-public.

So I’m sure there’s a lot for the lawyers to argue about.

5448

Maybe. There is a relevant law, but good luck getting a prosecution for it unless it’s blatant and egregious. Like a lot of white color crime plausible deniability can be maintained up to and even perhaps including instances where they left a note in the margin saying “selling due to top secret briefing”.

5449

In the same press conference, minutes later, the head of the FDA said that they were only getting ready to start initial testing

5450


See this is where Romney’s plan seems better. $1k to everyone ignores having to prove you should get it. If some millionaire gets an extra $1k who cares? There aren’t a whole ton of them. With this system we’re going to have thousands and thousands if not millions of people who wont qualify or who need it because things were fine back in 20-fucking-18 and they got laid off last week and now they can’t make rent.