1609

Guess everyone just got sick of winning

1610

I wonder how many Trump voters, buried deep down in their subconscious, yearn for the time when the biggest issue facing the nation was the color of suit the President wore that day.

1611

In their mind though that was certainly impeachable, there were dozens of other ways Obama was destroying America as well.

1612

Suit was fine, but didn’t he eat some fancy French mustard?

1613

He also liked arugula.

1614

Which, much as I love Obama, I agree is downright wrong. That stuff is disgusting. It’s the sort of plant where it seems like your taste buds are trying to warn you “this stuff is poisonous” I don’t see why anyone likes eating that stuff.

1615

I was thinking that would make a devastating ad. On the other hand, it’s just so grim it shouldn’t need ads. I mean, if the American people can’t kick this shithead out after all this, I will just give up hope for humanity. Try to start a new civilisation on Mars or something.

1616

Arugula is great, it gives lettuce some taste. It make salads good instead of depending on soaking with salad dressing and pouring cheese and bacon bits on it. Now Kale, that’s poison.

1617

Arugula is better than iceberg lettuce, which is all crunch and no flavor.

Spinach also makes a good salad green.

1618

Absolutely. My go-to salad is fresh spinach, thin sliced onion, which you salt to get it to “sweat” for a bit, then olive oil and lime juice to taste, maybe some granulated garlic (or fresh if you want to take the time), and maybe a bit of parmesan/romano cheese. Yum.

1619

Trillion-dollar recovery figures being bandied about and industries being bailed out willy nilly and the market is still down a bit today.

We’re running out of levers to pull to fix it. I feel bad for individuals who are still selling - they’re almost certainly taking huge losses due to fear.

1620

Any company that did it should not get a cent of of anything to help in this economy. Sell the stock you never she have been able to buy back with The ridiculous tax cuts and borrowing.

1621

Interesting idea by this CEO on how to save the economy. It’s not going to happen though.

1622

I mean he’s probably right. It’s happening anyway, but in a piecemeal fashion.

It’s just a big, hard pill to swallow.

1623

Not really a CEO, in the usual sense. He’s a hedge fund manager. Pershing Square is mainly famous for betting big on Valeant (oops) and betting big against Herbalife (not wrong, but not profitable either).

1624

I think there’s only one lever with a sustainable effect: cure the forking virus. Right now, we don’t know if we’re all shut down for another 60 days, or another 18 months. Once we know there’s an effective treatment of some kind, and that it’s widely available, the market will soar.

1625

There’s a man who is scared. Rightfully so.

1626

Cure? Unfortunately there are few cures for viruses in general. If our hope is for a cure, well, we’re boned.

What we need to be able to leave our houses is testing. It’s the only way to get the virus back under control. Lockdowns are a result of the failure to establish a testing regime early. Until we can do mass tests to identify and isolate the infected we will continue to need to isolate everyone as much as possible.

1627

Give me a break… an effective treatment, a protocol, a drug cocktail that inhibits replication to the point where the disease is no longer fatal.

1628

Okay, even with this criteria if we simply wait for that we’re boned. Testing is the only thing that will end the lockdowns and it’s the only thing we can feasibly deploy soon. Therapies will be great too, but therapies don’t usually work for everyone, at least not with the same effectiveness, and do not stop the spread. Therapies generally come in one someone is severely ill and has already been infecting others.