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Originally posted by roberth:

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:
These autocrats need to be reigned in by their state legislators. This is appalling what's happening across this nation.

Colorado is right there too.

I hope the citizens remember and vote these fuckers out of office at the next elections, or run recalls now.

[sarcasm]But they are saving our lives.[/sarcasm]

This power grab is also happening in my little beach front community of Dare County NC. They posted police at the 3 bridges to restrict access to only full time residents....who are fully allowed to leave the island, shop in the big cities and return...

Several of the Non Resident Property Owners (NRPO) Have filed a federal lawsuit against these little tyrants. Hopefully they will prevail..

https://www.obxtoday.com/top-s...DM_cI77eVl5VUrdRx_FE

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Originally posted by Fenris:

[sarcasm]But they are saving our lives.[/sarcasm]

LOL But of course they are.

This is all about trying to unseat President Trump, any other reason, factual or not, is a distant second.

fucking CNN

they should be thrown out of the WH press briefings

https://twitter.com/i/status/1246950013705637890

CNN’s @JDiamond1
asks President Trump why he ‘promotes’ Hydroxychloroquine.

Trump: “I want to save lives. I don't want it to be in a lab for the next year and a half as people are dying all over the place... only CNN would ask that question. Fake News.”

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Originally posted by roberth:
The CDC Confesses to Lying About COVID-19 Death Numbers

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Can any government statistics on COVID-19 deaths be trusted?

It is an open question now that we are learning that the highly respected, world-class Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has been lying to us.

I've suspected this all along. They're giving us all these numbers and we're simply accepting them. Well, actually, some of us aren't accepting these numbers. I don't trust anything the government- that's local, county, state and federal- tells us about this farce.

The majority of Americans are accepting these dire numbers and have had their lives altered because of this idiotic overreaction of all these bureaucrats who exaggerate everything because they fear for their jobs. We have to say that there is going to be 2.4 million deaths in the United States because God forbid that anyone in a position to do so should give us a more reasonable estimate. No, blow these fucking numbers up until there's no way to underestimate. And, hey, look, our extreme preventative measures stopped 'X' number of peple from dying, right? No, all you did was shit some gigantic number out of your mouth, then celebrated our 'victory' when we didn't come close to your fantasy figure. Get it?

These ignorant, self-serving bureaucrats have protected their own stupid asses, and in the process, fucked up our lives and fucked up the best economy any person living right now shall ever see.

The tragedy of all this is not the virus itself; the tragedy of all this is the innate stupidity and FEAR of human beings being used against us by those in power. You'll see. When all is said and done, the truth will come out, and you will see that all this closing down of everything, and the inculcation of Americans to hiss and recoil in horror when another person gets within ten feet of them is such a travesty, we should wrap up this mess by publicly hanging some bureacrats.

Tax revenue for cities and states must be collapsing as expenses increase with unemployment etc.

Those on the edge will go over- It'll be interesting to see this unfold.

^^ The Fed has been buying municipal bonds left and right.

Dems are actively trying to keep the economy down.

Dems block McConnell bid to swiftly approve $250B more for small business fund

https://www.foxnews.com/politi...help-fails-in-senate

A $250 billion urgent request to shore up a depleting small business fund failed to pass the Senate Thursday after Democrats objected to the measure pushed by the White House and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

With lawmakers home and social distancing, McConnell sought to pass the cash infusion swiftly Thursday by unanimous consent with a skeleton group of senators, but Democrats blocked the effort because they want add-ons to help businesses in disadvantaged communities and an additional $250 billion in funds for other priorities.

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Originally posted by parabellum:
we should wrap up this mess by publicly hanging some bureacrats.

If only...

Had to make a grocery run yesterday afternoon. Noticeably more vehicles on the road than the previous couple weeks and driving through neighborhoods noticed quite a few people (6+ adults and not to mention the kids running around) hanging out in driveways having a beer.

I don't expect people to continue on with this "distancing" stuff past the next week or two.

I was picking up some groceries in a local Publix this morning and there was a really funny scene.

In order to facilitate social distancing, aka "stay the fuck away from me," the aisles have six foot markers (that's almost a fathom!) and the aisles are now marked for one-way traffic, with arrows on the floor, and big X markers at the no-entry end of the aisle. Essentially, you go one way in an aisle, and the opposite direction in the next aisle. Even numbered aisles are eastbound and odd numbered aisles are westbound.

That helps to keep people separated, except for brain damaged or entitled people, like the millennial female who was going the wrong way in an aisle this morning. I was going the correct way, and was following (with appropriate separation) another dude. As said dude approached the wrong-way female, she started shouting at him, "Six feet! Six feet!"

He responded, loud and clear, "If you paid attention to the direction of traffic there would be no problem with six feet."

Millennial female just kept shouting, "Six feet! Six feet!"

Dude grabbed his crotch and said to her, "I got your six feet, right here," as he passed her with maybe two feet between them.

I cracked up, funniest exchange I have seen this week.

She glared at me, I said "He's right, you know," as I pointed at the directional arrows on the floor.

Now it was my turn to be the Bad Guy, as she started shouting at me, "Six feet!"

I had no more words for her, just kept laughing, which made her more angry and frustrated. Simple pleasures in hard times, that was the most fun I have had in quite a while.

I'm seeing the same thing here, increasing numbers of people on the roads.

I live near a busy road, it was very quiet all day mid-March, traffic has been ramping up in the last 2 weeks, now there is a little "rush hour" in the mornings too.

https://www.washingtonpost.com...f170df8f8_story.html

President Trump is preparing to announce as soon as this week a second, smaller coronavirus task force aimed specifically at combating the economic ramifications of the virus and focused on reopening the nation’s economy, according to four people familiar with the plans.

The task force will be made up of a mix of private-sector and top administration officials, including chief of staff Mark Meadows — whose first official day on the job was last week — Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and national economic adviser Larry Kudlow, a senior administration official said.

Meadows is likely to lead the task force, though no official decision has been made, two senior administration officials said.

The economic task force — which will be separate from the main coronavirus task force, despite having some overlapping members — will focus on how to reopen the country, as well as what businesses need to rebound amid catastrophic conditions. The goal is to get as much of the country as possible open by April 30, the current deadline Trump set for stringent social distancing measures.

The economic task force will not meet every day, like the large one, and is expected to have a more informal feel, with many of the meetings held over the phone and as in-person briefings with the president.

An announcement could come as early as this week, although within the West Wing, there were previous plans to announce this second task force earlier this week — and those were delayed.

The White House declined to comment

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and then the Wash Post goes on and on that

" The second task force adds yet another layer to an already unwieldy bureaucratic coronavirus response process within the White House"

blah blah blah

It might be time to buy some stock.

What's a good pitchfork manufacturing company?

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Originally posted by WaterburyBob:
It might be time to buy some stock.

What's a good pitchfork manufacturing company?

Or a source for tar and feathers...or maybe good sturdy rope

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Originally posted by V-Tail:

Dude grabbed his crotch and said to her, "I got your six feet, right here," as he passed her with maybe two feet between them.

I cracked up, funniest exchange I have seen this week.

She glared at me, I said "He's right, you know," as I pointed at the directional arrows on the floor.

Now it was my turn to be the Bad Guy, as she started shouting at me, "Six feet!"

My god, that had me laughing out loud. Only way to make that story better is if you repeated his insult towards her. Thanks for that.

I’m completely fed up with all of the daily press briefings. I don’t give a damn anymore about anything other than when will this stop. Nothing else matters anymore. Everyone’s doing a great job, great, thank you, thank you. Here’s some fake numbers, flatten the curve, horrible deaths are on the way, stay at home, here’s Birx and Fauci, blah, blah, blah. Everyday it’s the same thing.

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Originally posted by braillediver:
Tax revenue for cities and states must be collapsing as expenses increase with unemployment etc.

Those on the edge will go over- It'll be interesting to see this unfold.

Yes it will. And not only is sales tax revenue currently collapsed, property tax revenue is next. It will take a little bit for housing prices to come down. Sellers still want to get what they could have gotten on March 1st. But houses are sitting, people do not have money, and prices will be forced to come down. And when prices come down, so does property tax revenue.

Its the rule of diminishing returns. The first time they say something it has an effect. Not so much the 100th time. I just can't watch the "news" anymore. I try, with the hope they'll say something of value or interest. My interest not theirs. But then their agenda gets in the way so all they do is waste my time. Over and over, and I'm too stupid to accept it.

But if we just save one life, right?

Coronavirus could drive half a billion people into poverty worldwide, warns Oxfam

The fallout from the coronavirus spread that has killed more than 83,000 people and wreaked havoc on economies around the world could push around half a billion people into poverty, Oxfam said on Thursday.

The report released by the Nairobi-based charity ahead of next week's International Monetary Fund (IMF)/World Bank annual meeting calculated the impact of the crisis on global poverty due to shrinking household incomes or consumption.

"The economic crisis that is rapidly unfolding is deeper than the 2008 global financial crisis," the report found.

"The estimates show that, regardless of the scenario, global poverty could increase for the first time since 1990," it said, adding that this could throw some countries back to poverty levels last seen some three decades ago.

The report authors played through a number of scenarios, taking into account the World Bank's various poverty lines - from extreme poverty, defined as living on $1.90 a day or less, to higher poverty lines of living on less than $5.50 a day.

Under the most serious scenario - a 20% contraction in income - the number of people living in extreme poverty would rise by 434 million people to 922 million worldwide. The same scenario would see the number of people living below the $5.50 a day threshold rise by 548 million people to nearly 4 billion.

Women are at more risk than men, as they are more likely to work in the informal economy with little or no employment rights.

"Living day to day, the poorest people do not have the ability to take time off work, or to stockpile provisions," the report warned, adding that more than 2 billion informal sector workers worldwide had no access to sick pay.

The World Bank last week said poverty in East Asia and the Pacific region alone could increase by 11 million people if conditions worsened.

To help mitigate the impact, Oxfam proposed a six point action plan that would deliver cash grants and bailouts to people and businesses in need, and also called for debt cancellation, more IMF support, and increased aid. Taxing wealth, extraordinary profits, and speculative financial products would help raise the funds needed, Oxfam added.

Calls for debt relief have increased in recent weeks as the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic has roiled developing nations around the world.

In total, governments around the world would need to mobilise at least $2.5 trillion to support developing nations.

"Rich countries have shown that at this time of crisis they can mobilize trillions of dollars to support their own economies," the report said.

"Yet unless developing countries are also able to fight the health and economic impacts the crisis will continue and it will inflict even greater harm on all countries, rich and poor."

(REUTERS)

https://www.france24.com/en/20...-world-bank-epidemic