Waiting for Aqua to weigh in, as I think he knows the Aussie mindset better than I...

@Mik said in The USA is winning COVID-19:

Meh. Half the country thought Bush and Obama were bullshit too. No change there.

If you're CNN, etc., it's good for business.

It's Trump's fault.

@Jolly said in The Treasury Department Spied on Flynn, Manafort, and the Trump Family, Says Whistleblower:

The Treasury Department Spied on Flynn, Manafort, and the Trump Family, Says Whistleblower

Gowdy claims that there were unmasking requests on the morning of Trump's inauguration:

Link to video

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Here is help

@Horace said in Steven Mnuchin: No one should give their lives to increase the GDP:

If you hear it coming, don't think it's a zebra.

Hey - I hear hoof beats, I'm thinking the neighbor teen's stereo.

Hey Sam -- Glad you stopped by!

👋

Still waiting but I’m assuming I’m negative

This study seems to imply that we have only 1% infectivity

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/19/world/coronavirus-global-world.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

HI Cats Eye, good to hear from you.

Sorry that things are not feeling well for you, but I am sure you will get through this stronger than ever!!!

We will send positive thoughts to you

@Jolly said in I said this from day 1:

Let me state for the record...I very, very rarely will read a NYT link.

And I damn sure ain't gonna pay for the privilege.

It’s so valuable. I knew that story of the virus would be milked until the story of the economic disaster was worth more. The NYT acted as predicted. The trick will be to tie both to Trump.

I understand trying but like jolly I can’t begin to imagine.

I can’t breathe effectively through a cloth mask, just in normal activities. I tolerate it. I wonder because I am athletic I notice it more.

No, a puddy tat.

@LuFins-Dad said in Minnesota is winning ...:

Wait, if the Census is the mechanism used to determine the population, how can they calculate a reporting percentage? The denominator of that equation is what they are trying to determine!

In this instance, they are talking about the self response rate, i.e., the # of self responses divided by the number of surveys sent. The denominator is simply the number of surveys that have been sent out, and the Census Bureau knows how many they sent out.

@jon-nyc said in Anne Margaret Caster Glenn (1920-2020):

Here's more about her stuttering problem and overcoming it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/19/us/annie-glenn-champion-of-those-with-speech-disorders-dies-at-100.html

"Oh look John, a sq - sq - sq - sq - sq.. ah hell it's gone in a hole now,...."

Quote from Loki's link/article:
"I spoke with Howard Hill, the owner of Howard K. Hill Funeral Services located in Hartford, Bloomfield and New Haven, who told me he saw a 166% increase in at-home deaths during a 30-day period from March 15 to April 15, compared to a year earlier."

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.....They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. " - C.S. Lewis

She was an international student coordinator, and also worked part time at a private high school doing the same sort of thing for their international student program. She did not like dealing with unruly students and stupid host families, many of whom are just in it for the paycheck and don't want to be bothered with the student living with them.

@Rainman said in Is the air really cleaner since shutdown?:

the polar bear population will skyrocket and eat us all by 2025.

I figured that would just be July 2020

No clue, but I will be eager to hear how it turns out.