Accurate

ice cream funding for a certain (D) politician who told us to “party in Chinatown to fight xenophobic travel restrictions” during Covid-19

whats best about this.. is 1. true.. 2. the amount of conservative tears over the D doing their version.
Holy meltdown closest we have had to watching Hannity stroke out in a bit.

This post was edited by theCrossbones on Apr 22 2020 07:34am

good thing I'm not french then, unlike you bro.
Good thing I'm not a fatty loving chesseburgers too bro, unlike you.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/uk-coronavirus-death-toll-latest-update-new-analysis-covid-19-a9477761.html


I think that the discrepancy in how coroners select cause of death (with lack of testing) combined with the reporting lag would create a roughly comparable situation in some other first world countries (Germany could be an exception to this since they seem to have a lot of testing?). The actual death toll being roughly double the reported number seems to make some common sense to me.

Then of course you have other countries that are less free and less developed, where their ability to under report is much higher than that.

This post was edited by Kayeto on Apr 22 2020 02:31pm

https://www.thedailybeast.com/las-vegas-mayor-carolyn-goodman-embarrasses-herself-during-batshit-coronavirus-interview-with-anderson-cooper









She's so bold and brave.

She realized that factories and offices will be up and running again in a few weeks while the business sectors on which her city's economy rests will have to remain shut, or subject to crippling measures, for a long long time. Vegas is beyond fucked, and she knows it. What she's saying is sheer desperation.

Def feels like it. She can't tell the casinos to open and she has no plan. She's literally saying everything that comes through her mind because she has to idea what to do. Rarely have I ever seen such a bad interview, pretty sure she just lost her mayor seat with this interview. Tbh, the chances an incumbent stays in a period of crisis like this is probably lower but certainly it's over now.


In other news : https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-22/mcconnell-says-he-favors-allowing-states-to-declare-bankruptcy




I thought the Trump timeline was wack as fk, but 2020 is just on another level.


Corporate Republicans telling the world that businesses are too big to fail and we have to protect shareholders bonuses. But states? Meh, ok they can fail. I mean, they don't pay for our re-election campaigns, why would we care?

Loads of people here think the government and Boris are doing a good job, it's weird. How do all these incompetent leaders have better approval ratings from this crisis? For the record, I'd rather have Trump than Boris, and I don't like Trump. I had to grit my teeth and stay quiet while a guy in a meeting today was like 'Boris is doing a fantastic job, love everything he's doing on coronavirus and Brexit' and others were agreeing. They then started railing on Trump and the US death toll, at which point I reminded them the US has 6x the population of the UK so per capita our deaths are 3x higher (worse), and probably more due to lower testing per capita.