no coronavirus thread ?

[mrd]

:olo: was gunna ask the same... doesn't he have meltdowns on the daily? Was it the "total authority" one?

[xer0s]

Daily occurrence...

[Whiskey 7]

Reported cases

9 Apr 1,501,685

11 Apr 1,700,378

13 Apr 1,853,464

15 Apr 1,999,019

Source

[Doombrain]

Best thing on tv at the moment.

[seremtan]

https://www.newsweek.com/stimulus-check ... em-1497916

wtf :olo:

[phantasmagoria]

He's decided to make the World Health Organisation the villain now

[Whiskey 7]

https://www.newsweek.com/stimulus-checks-may-delayed-trump-requires-us-treasury-print-his-name-them-1497916

wtf :olo:

OMG!

[vesp]

The ego is just astounding. Last night's briefing was hilarious as well... reeling off names of companies from a bit of paper, and the constant deflection of any responsibility at all. There always has to be someone else at fault because it's impossible that he could have done anything better!

[Κracus]

There's a quote of his from 2005 that states to never accept responsibility for your mistakes and to always find someone else to blame... As I write this it sounds like no one would ever say this as it's obviously terrible advice but then this IS Trump we're talking about.

[Captain]

Best part is, the checks go directly to the banks and the treasury has assured them there's nothing to prevent the banks from taking the money and paying off customers' debts with it. The people will get $0. Capitalism :olo:

https://prospect.org/coronavirus/banks- ... pay-debts/

[Transient]

Are you fucking kidding me.

[Don Carlos]

He's decided to make the World Health Organisation the villain now

He isn't entirely wrong with some of his arguments. Lots of countries ignored the WHO and closed borders/restricted travel. It went against the guidelines set out by the WHO so their reluctance to make that call and tell countries to restrict travel has without doubt cost lives.

At the same time I can also see that the WHO might have been led down a path that didnt strictly represent the truth or scale of what was occurring.

[Scourge]

Best part is, the checks go directly to the banks and the treasury has assured them there's nothing to prevent the banks from taking the money and paying off customers' debts with it. The people will get $0. Capitalism :olo:

https://prospect.org/coronavirus/banks- ... pay-debts/

Got mine. :shrug:

[Captain]

They'll come in direct deposit if you set up your taxes to direct deposit last year.

However if you didn't then it won't.

Also if you have a court order for judgement due to collections that would normally result in garnishment of wages the banks can take the money and directly apply it to that somehow since it's technically a tax credit. It is not protected from private creditors like social security, etc. You are protected against garnishment from federal and state garnishments for things like taxes owed and federal student loans that you have defaulted on, except for some instances like child support.

Need groceries? Oops, looks like you have a loan so we'll just prepay into that for you. Don't forget your monthly minimum payment though.

Love,
America

[Lieutenant Dan]

The wife and I saw ours deposited last night. Luckily the memo didn't mention Trump's name.

[mrd]

The US is such a dumpster fire... holy hell in a hand basket.

[Whiskey 7]

If you have 4 minutes, this makes interesting viewing

George W. Bush Urged Us to Prepare for Future Pandemics in 2005

[youtube]uSDC5L7qYUc[/youtube]

[seremtan]

there goes your stimulus check

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/ ... seize-1200

[MKJ]

That just sounds like a bank bailout with extra steps.

[seremtan]

basically Trump just did to indebted Americans what the Troika did to Greece :dts:

[Whiskey 7]

Reported cases

9 Apr 1,501,685

11 Apr 1,700,378

13 Apr 1,853,464

15 Apr 1,999,019

17 Apr 2,178,149

Source

[seremtan]

well fuck me even the death figures are an undercount:

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detai ... -countries

[Doombrain]

sub wall.

[obsidian]

Since when has containing a pandemic become a partisan issue? A bunch of fucking children upset because they’ve been told it’s bedtime.

[Ferrao10]

There's this guy Christian Drosden seen more and more often on german public TV lately. [...]

"We have to get the 1:3 infection rate down to 1:1." - Stagnation, no more spread of the virus.
"If 1:3 keeps going we will hit our (hospital-)capacity-ceiling within 6 months."
"We have to spread those numbers of new infections over a course of 24 months. That, we can handle.

We made it.
Took us 2 months but we made it. And we did good.
We are down to 1: 0.7 by today.

We have to keep it at that. 1:1 - 1:1.2 is the absolut maximum we can handle with the global situation of protective gear at the moment.

Fingers crossed.