COVID-19 Megathread 3: Third time's a charm

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Maybe i missed a discussion during my 4 year absence but why do we create new threads all the time when we get to 100 pages? Is it a load time thing?

The site owner apparently wants threads capped around 2,000 replies. I don't know why he wants that.

Longish threads do cause a slowdown in performance, or at least did when the tradition began. No one's cared to test if that's still the case. Maybe Virginia could devise a way to test it.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

A group of young adults held a coronavirus party in Kentucky to defy orders to socially distance. Now one of them has coronavirus.

At least one person in Kentucky is infected after taking part at a "coronavirus party" with a group of young adults, Gov. Andy Beshear said Tuesday.
The partygoers intentionally got together "thinking they were invincible" and purposely defying state guidance to practice social distancing, Bashear said.
"This is one that makes me mad," the governor said. "We have to be much better than that."

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/24/health/kentucky-coronavirus-party-infection/index.html

This is insane.
By doing this, they not only jeopardize themselves, but their own family members and friends (not to mention the rest of their community).

Calling this a “coronavirus party” seems misleading, in that it obviously invokes “chicken pox parties” in which one infected kid deliberately infected other kids so they would all gain immunity in a controlled environment.  We’ve also seen “measles parties” pop up among anti-vaxxers.  Some people have suggested this might be a possibility for coronavirus, but it doesn’t sound like that was the goal here at all.

I considered the analogy to be to hurricane parties not chicken pox parties.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

I seem to quite lonely on my side of the aisle in my lack of outrage over no extra money going to those already receiving money from the government.  The money in this bill isn't trying to stimulate the economy (which isn't really feasible until coronavirus actually goes away anyway); it's trying to ensure that those who are temporarily unable to earn money and don't have the savings to tide them over are still able to procure essentials such as food and shelter until the economy returns to a semblance of normality. People already on unemployment, SSI, or SSD aren't having their cash inflow affected.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

A woman purposely coughed on $35,000 worth of food at a Pennsylvania grocery store, police said. She likely faces criminal charges for coughing, one of the primary ways the novel coronavirus spreads.

The unnamed woman entered small grocery chain Gerrity's Supermarket in Hanover Township and started coughing on produce, bakery items, meat and other merchandise, chain co-owner Joe Fasula wrote on Facebook.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/26/us/woman-coughed-on-produce-trnd/index.html

What is WRONG with some people???

Fun fact, if you know you have a communicable disease and you spit on someone with a political motivation, you can be charged with bio-terrorism.

And thereby forfeit your stimulus check.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

American politics is a bad Reality Show.

Reality shows are more real.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

He's not non-essential, he's very essential, just non-functional.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

The “pro-life” Party.

https://twitter.com/propublica/status/1243727045680680964?s=21

To be fair, people with cognitive disabilities often have difficulty accepting intrusive measures, even when they are well-intentioned. In a case where there is a shortage of the devices, it does make a degree of unfortunate sense to prioritize supplying them to people who won't actively resist being ventilated or try to take them out.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Governor DeSantis is a mass-murderer and must be tried for crimes against humanity.

These are the kinds of takes that keep atlas talk elections fun.

FTFY

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Our State AG has issued an advisory opinion that local governments have no authority to issue a stay at home order, only the governor can. He's also said he's not going to intervene to stop local governments from doing so, but he warned them that if they do, they might be vulnerable to lawsuits from private parties.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Trump rejects Obamacare special enrollment period amid pandemic

The Trump administration has decided against reopening Obamacare enrollment to uninsured Americans during the coronavirus pandemic, defying calls from health insurers and Democrats to create a special sign-up window amid the health crisis.

President Donald Trump and administration officials recently said they were considering relaunching HealthCare.gov, the federal enrollment site, and insurers said they privately received assurances from health officials overseeing the law's marketplace. However, a White House official on Tuesday evening told POLITICO the administration will not reopen the site for a special enrollment period, and that the administration is "exploring other options."

People who lose insurance from their old job can still enroll, so a special enrollment period is not particularly needed right now.