This is almost a work of performance art. Surreal.

I would use a different word.

Could be the plot of a young adult dystopian novel.

I don't imagine that mayor asked any Vegas residents their opinions before offering that shit...

Seriously though, Las Vegas is going to be Rapture except less badass because no one gets super powers

Tyson closes meat packing plant after 146 employees test positive for COVID-19

So essential we just let them die rather than adequately protecting them.

Satire is dead, and we laugh at its corpse.

Joke's on us. If we don't stand up and fight back, we'll be the corpses.

By the way, the full interview is 25 minutes, and every single thing she's saying in it is completely fucking insane. I'm less than three minutes in, and already she's said that she wants to reopen everything in Las Vegas, including sports games, arenas, casinos, hotels, restaurants, and conventions featuring out of town and out of state travelers.



Watch if you dare.

Mecha Lizard Karen

Actual thing that happens in the full interview: Anderson Cooper shows a schematic from a Chinese study that showed how in a restaurant, an asymptomatic carrier passed the virus onto nine other people because the air conditioning inside the restaurant helped spread the virus around the room.

The Vegas mayor, the moment Anderson says the word “China”, goes “Oh Anderson, this isn’t China, this is Las Vegas!”. Then she starts going off about Legionnaire’s disease and Typhoid Mary and Ebola, to which Anderson says that there wasn’t Ebola on the floor of Vegas casinos.

She responds, “Well we don’t know that.”

I mean, I get it. It will take 20 years for Vegas to recover economically if this goes on as long as I suspect it will. But still, shut up Mecha Lizard Karen. You gon' get people kilt.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2 ... e=facebook



We were very unprepared for anything like this, and it is like nothing we've seen.

Interesting. We know the ACE2 receptors in mucus membranes (nose, eyes, mouth) is where it binds, and we also know that's the main pathway to the lungs (I would imagine most of the virus would die if going to the intestinal track because of the sheer acidity, but there have also been cases of the virus being found in people's stool). To me, it almost seems as if the virus is, at times, not expressing itself in the lungs, but almost using it as a pathway to get to other parts of the body, which, when finally hijacking cells, would result in low oxygenation in those areas. Pretty scary, but at least we understand these symptoms better. If anything, these kind of results will prove the dire need to test asymptomatic people.

This should be world-changing information that further illustrates the need for widespread testing, quarantines, and stay at home orders, but I have absolutely zero confidence that this’ll shake most states off the paths they’re on to reopen ASAP.

But it is an inactive kind of virus; at least according to a German virologist. It will no longer be able to infect someone.

Speaking of other parts of the body and their party with Covid-19, there are also cases in which the brain had seen an infection; it had been discussed in the podcast of said virologist.

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Headline just now: "US government: Virus dies in sunlight and heat"

Good to hear that from a source that has already established itself as completely reliable.

"The life cycle of the virus shortens significantly in the opinion of the US government when exposed directly to sunlight and higher temperature and humidity. Those however are preliminary findings, says Under Secretary for Science and Technology at Department of Homeland Security William Bryan. In the tests, the durability of the virus on a dry surface such as a steel doorknob was examined."

That's cool considering scientists already announced two weeks ago that the virus isn't transmitted through surfaces. Good to know it will be harder for the virus to not transmit itself the way it doesn't transmit itself once it gets warmer.

"In the opinion of". Cool cool cool cool cool.

Trump holds hope that Summer will magically make the virus disappear, meanwhile warm countries with lots of sun still suffer from the pandemic.



Maybe I'm missing something here, but that's not what we've been told in Quebec, or even according to WHO. https://www.who.int/news-room/q-a-detai ... onaviruses

The virus can survive up to 72 hours on surfaces.

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News today is about a major outbreak in the Amazonas state of Brazil.

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Maybe bleach would help. Let us dump bleach on everything.

This world has becomes quite surreal as of late.

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I want to update this. There appears to be some kind of marginal immunity regarding coronavorius that appears to exist should someone have had an infection with a corona-cold-virus lately.

And it is good to hear that there is a clear progress and some surprising hope regarding a vaccine coming of china.
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/04/covid-19-vaccine-protects-monkeys-new-coronavirus-chinese-biotech-reports
One aspect of this is the effectiveness in treating the illness, but an even larger one is that there immune system does not overreact once it had been vaccinated and then has to deal with an affection. This kind of vaccination has seen this, according to a German virologist, a problem in other cases in regard on how the vaccine had been created. He called it a clear surprise.
(Only in German)https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/info/podcast4684.html
Episode 35

200 people in Germany had an illegal protest against coronavirus restrictions, which is pretty retarded to begin with, but then the cops kettle them, which is peak retarded. Good to know that for every dumb as shit conspiracy theorist there's a cop who's even dumber than shit.

-edit- 200 was the number of cops, number of protesters was 1,000.

Someone's a snowflake

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/sta ... 0898173953

I get the feeling it's always the same ~150k people that are pressing the heart on his tweets, just a hunch. The cult of personality is cancer pouring into the minds of so many in our country.

Bandcamp has another fundraiser on 1st May.

And on June 5th, and July 3rd.

They are just now closing parks in California. Was this not already a thing? I'm kind of shocked. They didn't fuck around here. On my day off last week I went to Home Depot. What an absolute pain the ass. I had to get in line behind about 20/25 people, as they are limiting the amount people in. They had a woman there and a security guard you did not want to fuck with. Not sure what the limit is, but one came out and one went in. Saw just a few people inside. I understand the purpose of it, still a pain in the ass.

Giant protest is happening in Michigan right now, with hundreds of rallyers storming the capitol building demanding that the state reopen.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politi ... s-n1196886

Look at all these selfish fucking terrorist pieces of shit. These are the kinds of people that compare being told to stay home for several weeks to ensure a pandemic doesn’t get worse than it already is to slavery and the Holocaust.

I guarantee you that if these were black people open carrying AR-22s into a state capitol building, they would have been shot on sight.

Good thing they're not protesting BLM or a pipeline through native land, then the cops wouldn't be so cool about all of it!

Fucking unbelievable!!!

My country's premier announced the phased reopening of the economy, starting on May 4th up until June 1st with revisions every two weeks. If things go south in the meantime harsher measures are enforced yet again. I already know that I'll be back to work on June 1st wearing almost the same protection gear than a health care worker. We'll see how it goes, hoping for the best.

30 million people newly unemployed in a country with no functional social safety net, I can definitely understand that they're pissed at the government. They should be pissed at the lack of a functional social safety net rather than the lockdown to protect their lives but I definitely don't blame them for being pissed when millions of livelihoods are ruined. People in my country still get their rent and their bills and their food paid when they lose their jobs, many in the United States really lose everything.

There are reasons for a lot of people to be mad at the government in this country, but those protesters have mostly turned out to be right-wing dingbats who think this is all some overstated hoax or whatever. A lot of the protests have been fueled by right-wing propaganda. And the flags and general attitude - the guns and whatnot - suggest these people are not the ones who are actually suffering the most right now. They mostly seem to care about "the economy!!!" more than lives and shit.

If they were protesting the lack of a security net, then I'd be more inclined to see the point... but smart people don't do dumb shit like those people are doing.

I guess it'll take until the death rate hits a million in the U.S until people realise the insignificance of who's this wing or that wing.

They still probably won't. The American right wing is so wrapped up in their own cultural and intellectual bubble that they just refuse to even attempt to understand anything that isn't already something they believe. Been that way for many, many years at this point.

BastardHead said something to me once about fascists that has rung very, very true the more I think about and see it in action: "You can't logic people out of a position they didn't logic themselves into." The position that so many righties here have un-logic'd their way into is that Covid-19 is an elaborate, deep state hoax designed to impinge upon their constitutional rights and, more importantly to many, make Trump look bad so he loses the upcoming election. Therefore, they will believe and accept without question any nonsensical "evidence" presented to them that confirms their bias, like WorldNetDaily articles saying that Bill Gates is harnessing Chinese 5G waves to make everyone pretend that there's a virus when there OBVIOUSLY isn't, and if there somehow is a virus, it's no worse than the flu or common cold and is actually much less deadly and infectious than what's being said because some dude who's obviously a quack to you and I said so in a poorly rendered Youtube video. The only way that any of these people will understand that these stay at home and social distancing orders aren't just there for show is when they or a loved one of theirs dies or gets seriously ill with Covid, and even then it's not a guarantee that they'll finally take the blinders off.

Imagine for one millisecond if armed Black Lives Matter protestors stormed a Republican-controlled statehouse. Just imagine.