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Today's News (2020/3/14) COVID-19 edition
Mar. 14th, 2020 11:33 pmBig headlines here are a combination of Trump's new travels bans and testing protocols being implemented without any preparation or pre-notification - including of airports affected, so now there are massive multi-hour-long jams of people shoulder to shoulder with no sanitation. It's a perfect coronavirus breeding ground, and now those people are going all over the place.
Second is that anti-social-distancing actions is becoming a thing on the right. It's basically "rolling coal," but with a contagious and often fatal pandemic virus.
One of the people doing it is famous chair thief, serial campaign finance law violator, and Republican gubernatorial candidate Tim Eyman, who has thus proven himself so deeply unfit for office that his status as Republican frontrunner can only be taken to mean that the GOP is now fully committed to fundamental unfitness for office as an ideal.
It's grotesque, and no one involved with the Republican Party should ever have office again.
Second is that anti-social-distancing actions is becoming a thing on the right. It's basically "rolling coal," but with a contagious and often fatal pandemic virus.
One of the people doing it is famous chair thief, serial campaign finance law violator, and Republican gubernatorial candidate Tim Eyman, who has thus proven himself so deeply unfit for office that his status as Republican frontrunner can only be taken to mean that the GOP is now fully committed to fundamental unfitness for office as an ideal.
It's grotesque, and no one involved with the Republican Party should ever have office again.
- Trump says he has been tested for coronavirus, expects results within days
- Japan confirms first case of person re-infected with coronavirus
- America Is Acting Like a Failed State
- US travel ban extends to UK, Ireland; Trump eyes US limits
- Yesterday, I spoke with doctors from one of the nation’s leading academic hospitals
- House Passes Bipartisan Coronavirus Relief Bill
[EDITOR: Unfortunately, McConnell the Vile took the Senate out on recess for the weekend. Because let 'em die, amirite?] - Trump is breaking every rule in the CDC’s 450-page playbook for health crisis
- Performative anti-social-distancing is now a Thing on the Right, 1
- Performative anti-social-distancing is now a Thing on the Right, 2
- Performative anti-social-distancing is now a Thing on the Right, 3
- This is the scene at O’Hare airport.
- Passengers stuck in long lines for immigration at DFWAirport
- Illinois governor profanely blasts Trump for public health crisis at O’Hare airport: ‘You need to do something NOW’
