COVID-19 Megathread 5: The Trumps catch COVID-19

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Can we please consider naming the next thread

COVID-19 Megathread 5 : My Body, My Choice

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Does she think pregnancy is contagious?

Pregnancy usually involves ignoring the guidelines on social distancing and avoiding skin-to-skin contact. 

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Until we get a vaccine or a very strong treatment that will reduce the risk of mortality to a very low level socially distancing in masks in public are going to be a thing. This is kind of why I'm hoping that the Oxford vaccine ends up working because it works so we can get a vaccine by September life can start to go back to normal around election time and for the holidays.

 but until either one of those two things happen we just have to accept we're going to live in a new reality

The idea that any vaccine will be widely available before next year is crazy. Even if production started to ramp up while being tested, the logistics involved in vaccinating everyone quickly would prevent that.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

National Guard deployments to end 1 day before benefits would kick in

The Trump administration is ending deployment for 40,000 National Guard members helping with the coronavirus response. For many, it will end the day before they are eligible for federal benefits, according to a report from Politico, citing a senior FEMA official.

The "hard stop" is set for June 24. For thousands of Guard members, that will be 89 days into a deployment that started in late March to help states at nursing homes, setting up field hospitals and working at testing sites.

Politico reports that for every 90 days of serving during a federal emergency, Guard members can move up their retirement by three months (they must serve 20 years to qualify for a pension at age 60). They also can qualify for 40% off tuition at a public college or university after 90 days of service.

Yet another reason for people to not consider being in the Guard.  I can understand wanting to keep costs down, but ending their deployment literally 1 day short of them getting a benefit for taking three months away from their normal life is ridiculously cruel.  AT this point, if people want to serve, they should do so in the regular military instead of being screwed and jerked around by being in the National Guard.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

If you take the position that the first Amendment applies to state governments, then I don't see how forcibly closing places of worship is constitutional. I think the first and 2nd Amendments are just too broad the way they're stated.

The first Amendment doesn't exempt churches from generally applicable rules, regulations, and laws.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

The linked article is very interesting, not that long, and worth a read.

https://twitter.com/mims/status/1264503963518468098

As a working hypothesis, I'd conjecture that low transmission rates on airplanes might be related to how dry the air is aboard airplanes.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

https://twitter.com/NPR/status/1267709439467020288

 these bullsh**t health experts.
Del Tachi was 100% in calling our their absolute fakeness.

I should go to a protest with thousands of people but churches have a strict limit of 25.

The virus spreads easier indoors.

It's a catch-22. You either let corrupt public officials do whatever they want  or abandon public health. We're really at the point of no return on so many things.

That's a good way to put it, everything is such a mess right now.

That's an understatement. This is failure.

No. This is SPARTA!!!

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

America is great at handling stuff like this, albeit only in movies.

Unfortunately, Trump resembles President Whitmore from Independence Day less than he resembles President Camacho from Idiocracy.

More like the President from Canadian Bacon.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

If I died I'd be going straight to hell lol

Hell has made one extra space for you in July, 2020.

For citizens of Nashville, Tennessee, the end is nigh.

https://www.newsweek.com/tennessee-newspaper-apologizes-running-horrific-anti-islam-ad-1512415

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EbCu3cbX0AEqaem.jpg

This article was published in "The Tennessean" newspaper 21 June 2020.

On July 18, 2020, fundamental Islamic terrorists are going to detonate a nuclear weapon.

That will really cap off a big 2020.

And those fine people are not the only End of Times cult in Nashville either:



I must admit, I much prefer the town being over run by cats as opposed to the nuclear apocalypse.

You obviously never had to deal with litter boxes.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Winning.

https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1281521482091249664

Maybe this is why the Orange Clown commuted Roger Stone today.

Nah. Even if he were capable of thinking that strategically, there's much more important things from his perspective to bury in the news than some poll numbers.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Trump retweets:
https://twitter.com/chuckwoolery/status/1282499347117215745
https://twitter.com/chuckwoolery/status/1282500772027142144

I'd trust Chuck E. Cheese more than Chuck Woolery myself.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

COVID-19 deaths in Vietnam = 0.

That is bordering on unbelievable.

Even Australia has 108 deaths, but i guess the majority of our outbreaks were through rampant stupidity.

This just in from North Korea

07:07 - Confirmed active Cases: 1
07:08 - Confirmed active Cases: 0
7:25 - Confirmed active Cases: 1
7:26 - Confirmed active Cases: 0

Looks like they have a cure??

If you consider no one wanting to go there a cure.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

COVID-19 deaths in Vietnam = 0.

That is bordering on unbelievable.

Even Australia has 108 deaths, but i guess the majority of our outbreaks were through rampant stupidity.

This just in from North Korea

07:07 - Confirmed active Cases: 1
07:08 - Confirmed active Cases: 0
7:25 - Confirmed active Cases: 1
7:26 - Confirmed active Cases: 0

Looks like they have a cure??

If you consider no one wanting to go there a cure.

I just find it amazing that the Vietnamese are so organised that they have zero deaths.

Surely, they are not that organised.

Maybe they have a healthy lifestyle where they simply don't sit around getting fat and arguing with people on the internet because they think they are right.

They took it seriously early and mobilized their public to take steps.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Why does Brian Kemp despise Georgia so much? Where does it stem from, all that hatred against your own homestate?

It's hatred against local governments controlled by the opposing party.

If he allowed them to regulate masks, who knows what else they might do on issues more important to his party?

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

A disgusting Nazi couple at a MN supermarket:

To those who say "all Republicans are the same but just don't say the quiet part out loud", would this really be happening under a Romney, Kasich or Rubio presidency? Trump brings out the worst tendencies in people in a way that others just don't.

Racists existed before 2016 and would still exist if Mitt Romney was president.

Corporations racists are people too! 

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Couldn’t have happened to a better person.

It couldn't have happened to a more appropriate person, but it easily could have happened to a better person.