I did not have Prince Charles on my Covid-19 Bingo card.

I do have Glenn Beck, though.

COpied this from some stranger dude on the internet:

Prohibit buybacks and executive bonuses for 5 years from any company receiving bailouts. Demand a limit to corporate salaries to 400 thousand ( US presidential salary) for 2 years, limit outsourcing, outlaw unjustified firings, and force paid sick leave as a condition for any US company to receive Coronavirus relief taxpayer funds. Demand full and immediate transparency to a dictatorial Congress appointed Financial Control Board about taxpayer fund use as a prerequisite to periodic scheduled partial fund disbursements (just like Republicans did to Puerto Rico). Oh!, and drug test their executives, you know, to please the so called conservatives.

Why the Democrats slowed down the bill:
• McConnell’s bill includes a $500,000,000,000.00 corporate slush fund for CEOs and the ultra rich to be given at the discretion of Treasury— while leaving workers, families and children out to dry.
• McConnell’s bill has weak stock buyback language that can be waived by the Treasury Secretary; executive compensation limits only last for two years; language on worker retention is weak and includes easy outs for companies; there are no assurances in the language that workers will benefit.
• The bill doesn’t protect workers from being fired, even by companies that get millions of dollars.
• The bill provides little transparency of the lending done by Treasury (amount and to whom?).
• There are no specific provisions to protect from individuals from eviction, foreclosure or forbearance.
Other Major Problems:
• No money for state and local governments.
• No additional SNAP funds.
• No OSHA language to protect workers.
• No expanded emergency leave provisions.
• Only 3 months on Unemployment Insurance – this is an insufficient length given the scope of the crisis.
• Direct Payments are not available to the millions of people who did not file a return in 2018 or 2019.
• No money to help with the treatment of the uninsured.

She’s also in trouble in her district.

I heard the Rams cut everybody.

Trump’s Coronavirus Calendar

https://therecount.com/watch/trump-coronavirus-calendar/2645515793

Re: “Lifting people out of poverty.”

I think the mistake people make…and it’s really dead easy to see why they make it…is that capitalism is obviously good because we have cars, air conditioning, microwave ovens, and smartphones.

Of course they attribute those products to capitalism because we didn’t have them prior to capitalism, and communist countries did not have widespread consumer goods available.

Why on earth would it ever occur to anybody that those things could have…WOULD have…been developed under another economic system. By and large, very few humans question the facts of their existences. You know…we have the entire human mindset to go up against (zn might disagree with that), but I just see humans as very limited creatures.

I was at a store yesterday purchasing a snake because my drains are clogged and we can’t shit or shower at home until I fix it, and I’m sick of renting them every year or two. Tree roots get in my lines, and as expensive as snakes are, long term it makes more sense to just buy one of ’em. Anyway, the 40-year old checker was talking to the 30-year old guy right in front of me in the checkout line, and they are both talking about how coronavirus is overblown and shutting down the country is a panic-stricken over-reaction.

And I’m just looking at two physically-fit single males with no dependents, and maybe no parents they care about, just believing that their world view is universal.

My musical director was under chemo last year, and has a heart something-thingie plugged into her chest. One of her sons has a respiratory weakness, and one of her daughters has immune deficiency. Three people in one house who could die if they catch covid-19 if the hospitals are full because the two fuckfaces in line in front of me won’t alter their behavior in any way.

Then there is all the doublethink and hypocrisy that is so common in humans. People just don’t think straight. They don’t question their assumptions. They are not even aware they HAVE assumptions. So…how are we supposed to get around when the entire culture shares an ideology and believes that they don’t?

Doublethink

nittany ram wrote:

I work in a hospital so I go to work as usual. I’m QA Supervisor and Microbiology Lead for the clinical lab. As you can imagine we’ve been especially busy with COVID-19 stuff (my hospital provides drive-up specimen collection for people suspected of having it).

I thought there was a big shortage of tests. I was wondering how Idris Elba got tested when he claims he has no symptoms.

Coincidentally, I ordered a submarine from Bazooka for ten comics and a buck, or something like that.

It was a spring loaded submarine that fired a torpedo an inch or so when I pushed a trigger. I remember being pleased. I sank many a Nazi battleship with it.

nittany ram wrote:

I’m not sure I buy any of it. I sent some spit to 23 and Me last month and found out I have more Neanderthal DNA than 66% of their clients. If I have all that troglodyte DNA, then why did I need braces when I was a kid? I’d like to see your precious James Nestor answer that!

Do you have any recollection of getting punched in the face a lot in school?

I read that even as more test kits come in, our facilities can run only about 1,000 tests/day anyway.

But since there is nothing much that can be done for patients apart from IVs and comfort care, I’m not sure testing really makes that much difference. I don’t know what can be done except for everyone to stay away from crowds, wash hands all the time, and stop breathing.

I hope RBG is in a bubble tent.