@George-K said in The virus in retrospect (a column from 2025).:

China five years ago, o

That sounds about right.

The idea of Evil Empire "foreign adventures" gets my attention.

@Jolly At this point we are forced to assume those people are commie spies.

@LuFins-Dad said in We’ll take them.:

@mark YEAH, so the federal government should pull them out of their ass... Tada, magic ass ventilators... Don’t hand me that bull. There’s been no one on this forum more against wasteful government spending and taxation than you. And having 30K ventilators in the national stockpile would have seemed wasteful. Hell, it still does

There's a lot of TADA! wishful hindsight among many people who know how government works, and are projecting some alternate reality about how fast government can move within our federal system.

Shucks, Hitler and Stalin bitched about people in their government not moving or producing fast enough...And they executed people to help speed things along...

@jon-nyc said in "This (virus) is not something the citizens of the US need to be worried about.":

What’s interesting is that the current right wing effort to discredit Fauci, which no doubt is the source of these clips, is ultimately motivated by a concern that he’s championing too strong a reaction.

The effort aligns his position more closely to Mr Trump’s

Therefore it is credit, not discredit

I'd be happy to help but I don't quite understand the problem. What does Google have to do with this site? You just bookmark this link or you remember http://www.the-new-coffee-room.club

Dawg

I agree the font is a bit small

That’s cool. They show up in Manhattan sometimes too.

Let’s hope the heat slows it down after all.

wtf?

@mark said in Growing all the time:

89th is here

Fixed

facepalm

'If you have an erection lasting more than four million years..."

I think I have seen maybe 1 mask during the last 2 weeks.

I don't get out much.

@LuFins-Dad said in Is the predictive model wrong?:

Florida is way too early to take anything from a 1 day aberration

Absolutely. We've seen 1 day dips before.

@Klaus I'm not sure I even qualify for mediocre.

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So, how concretely are they going to help you with this?

Wouldn't a full helmet for motor cycling also be a somewhat effective barrier?

Yes, very sad.

I have fond memories of a tape I once had with him and his son Bradford playing. The word that occurred to me was mellifluous, for both of them.