COVID-19 2020

[Yada]

Here's my story for the day.

I got mail saying it's time to renew my driver's license ahead of my expiration in early May. Since I need the VA RealID to fly (my passport is also about to expire), I had to go in in person. I don't know if I'll be able to fly in June, but i wanted to make sure my license issues were taken care of today, before the possibility of everything shutting down (indeed they are now shutting down for at least two weeks) and me not having proper id to fly.

When I arrived at DMV shortly after opening, there was a line outside, and letting one person in for each person who went out. The line was about 30 long.

A short time later, someone tried cut the line and a Latina or maybe Middle Eastern looking woman (point is she definitely wasn't Chinese) reported him to the armed security guards. The guards asked the crowd if the guy indeed cut in line and it was confirmed. They booted his ass out the door.

As he was exiting, he muttered "fucking Chinese looking bitch." To which someone called out, "Hey stop that, that's no cool."  I then added "Go to the back of the line you ugly Flava Flav looking motherfucker."

And surprisingly, rather than leaving in embarrassment, Flav went to the back on the line and stood in the cold rain like the rest of us.

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/tsa-says-expired-licenses-ok-at-airport-security/index.html

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California issues statewide stay at home order

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Germany is winning


11,000 cases as of today...20 dead...mortality rate 0.18%

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Unemployment claims estimated by Goldman Sachs to skyrocket to 2.2 million from 280k

[sweetcell]

official count of COVID-19 cases in the US:
3/15: 3,680
3/16: 4,663
3/17: 6,411
3/18: 9,259
3/19: 13,000+
source

yeah, this is going well.

for the more visually-minded, this is what the curve looks like:



we should be at well over 20k tomorrow, and 100k by monday.

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Here's my story for the day.
And surprisingly, rather than leaving in embarrassment, Flav went to the back on the line and stood in the cold rain like the rest of us.

reads like the ending of an American classic

[Space Freely]

Germany is winning


11,000 cases as of today...20 dead...mortality rate 0.18%

Germany's numbers do sound a little weird. Only 2 in serious/critical condition, compared to 2500 in Italy, 800 in Spain, and 931 in France?

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official count of COVID-19 cases in the US:
3/15: 3,680
3/16: 4,663
3/17: 6,411
3/18: 9,259
3/19: 13,000+
source

yeah, this is going well.

for the more visually-minded, this is what the curve looks like:



we should be at well over 20k tomorrow, and 100k by monday.

God I hope not but am thinking same thing

I don’t know that most people can understand just how bad our government’s response has been

[challenged]

Digestive symptoms too!
Daughter in NYC is feverish and vomiting and not communicating in real time.

  https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus-digestive-symptoms-diarrhea-almost-half-of-patients/?fbclid=IwAR1R5wxGhRftGIMaNwldn3K3mGnTLg6Ek4EeAZonWMa_NrNa2Ho82mkG3W4     

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Wow Challenged...

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Wow Challenged...

Just got an update. Symptoms seem to be moderating.

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Christopher Moore on Twitter:

A modest proposal: Every time someone uses the term "China Virus" reply with , "you mean the Trump Virus" and continue to use the term Trump Virus for the rest of the conversation. You know how he loves putting his name on things, and with those tiny hands...
9:56 AM · Mar 20, 2020·Twitter Web App

  https://twitter.com/TheAuthorGuy/status/1241000555343839233     

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Wow Challenged...

Just got an update. Symptoms seem to be moderating.

That is very good news!

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Sometimes I am embarrassed


Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) Tweeted:
This is a moral evil, potentially a crime against humanity: knowingly suffocating a country with a massive outbreak of a fatal virus from obtaining basic medical equipment: https://t.co/g8rRbmqdCn