Ricofoley

He's back to this shit again

GIVE ALL POT MONEY TO THE YAKUZA

I'm gonna throw out a guess that this dude is racist against black people but also super horned up for Beyonce, and this what happens in his brain when those two things collide with each other.

This is pretty striking, because I found Gottlieb's Twitter pretty early on, and I'd say up until this point he's generally been one of the more optimistic voices out there. At one point, he was saying that he thought we were going to be able to have a relatively normal summer leading up to a resurgence in the fall.

oh no

Remember the Simpsons episode with the comet where at the end Moe says, "Now let's burn down the observatory so this never happens again"? We're pretty close to that in real life at this point.

Mike Trout is reportedly thinking about it.

He's probably just watching TV and seeing the case numbers on the screen. I think that's what the whole "stop testing so many people" thing is all about. He just wants the bad numbers on the TV to go away. People respond to these like posts like he doesn't realize that the cases are still going to be there if we don't test for them. I think he knows that perfectly well, but if he doesn't have to see the numbers all the time he doesn't have to think about it.

lol

They're gonna put up a statue of Moe Green in the monument park

All the kids are radicalized

Well, yeah, obviously it's insane to even be talking about this NOW. I figured that went without saying.

Welp, looks like you guys have to deal with these people north of the border too. Good luck.

In the right hands, something like this could be a really cool new public space. Because it's Trump, it would be absolutely dogshit quality statues of like, Andrew Jackson, Roger Ailes, and the My Pillow guy.

oh wow

Which doesn't even make sense anyway, when the people pushing that line are the same people trying to pass balanced budged amendments to make it impossible for the government to incur any debt at any time. Lol, you think households don't have any debt?

It really is one of the most effective pieces of propaganda ever that so many people have internalized the idea that "we need to run the government like a business" is a thing that makes sense and is consistent with your interests if you're an average person. And it ain't just Republicans.

2016: "Only I can fix" 2020: "Learn to live with it"

Yeah, have there been any studies trying estimate how many people have long term effects like this? I haven't really seen anything like that reported on, and it seems like such an important question going forward.

I'm not gonna pretend like I have any real expertise to know for sure, but I think we can hope that there have been real changes in the protocols for long-term care facilities that have decreased the spread there since the beginning.

So we've gone all the way back around to "get mad at the Chinese until the virus goes away" as the plan?

Illinois is back up to 868 cases today after we'd gotten as far down as ~500-ish at the low point, but the positive rate has been holding at 2.6%, so testing is still increasing. It's been about a week since IL reopened everything indoors w\ limited capacity regulations that are maybe not being followed strictly. I got a bad feeling we're gonna regret that in another week or two, but I guess we'll see.

There's an alternate universe where everything's the same except that an NBC executive decides to pass when pitched with the idea for The Apprentice, and in that universe there's probably 100,000 more Americans alive right now.

I guess you can somehow contort an argument that if you personally feel that having a mask on during a church service is inherently altering the service then your rights are being infringed. Like you think it's an affront to God if all of the call and responses sound muffled or something, I dunno.