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March 30, 2020 06:31 AM UTC

Monday Open Thread

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  • by: Colorado Pols

“A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.”

–J. R. R. Tolkien

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    1. And his minions are moving into the ranks of the "very worst" at their jobs, too.  WaPo's Jackson Diehl is certain Pompeo’s pandemic performance ensures his place among the worst secretaries of state ever

      The American Conservative agrees:  A Failed Secretary of State

      "Take Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf’s inability, in late February, to tell a Senate committee how many cases of coronavirus there were in the U.S., how many respirators and ventilators were available, or how the disease was even transmitted."

      Or Veterans Administration: 

      “As soon as the outbreak began, President Trump directed this administration to hit the ground running. In fact, before there was even a single confirmed case in the United States, the VA was already conducting emergency preparedness exercises. And thanks to the president’s decisive leadership, VA facilities have enough supplies to handle an influx of patients,” Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie writes in the Military Times.

      Examples?

      • We’ve already administered more than 800 tests, and we’re ready for thousands more, if necessary.
      • Sadly, we are seeing cases where our heroes have tested positive for the coronavirus. In those cases, we are providing them with the care that they need and that they earned while serving our country.
      • To prevent the spread of the virus among these veterans, VA has adopted a “no visitor” policy, except for when patients are in the last stages of life in a hospice unit.

      And about that "enough supplies" line: 

      “At the Department of Veterans Affairs, workers are scrambling to order medical supplies on Amazon after its leaders, lacking experience in disaster responses, failed to prepare for the onslaught of patients at its medical centers.”

  2. Speaking of fairylands.  Even by low standards, this is some crazy shit. 

      2. #WhiteProsperityJesus is pleased. Take a gander…Copeland is in 1st place (by a factor of 7).  #winningwhilekillinggrandma

        This struck a nerve this morning as a friend of our family lies in ICU with COVID gasping for air. She’s spent every Sunday at church and wouldn’t kill a mouse (and she’s not the Copeland-type).  I’m harboring a special disdain for these carnival barkers today. 

        8 Richest Pastors in America

        Kenneth Copeland, (net worth $760 million) who leads the “Believer’s Voice of Victory,” TV show and network, is a giant within the Word of Faith branch of Pentecostalism. Kenneth Copeland Ministries operates on a 1,500-acre campus near Fort Worth, TX, equipped with a church, a private airstrip, and a hangar for the ministry’s $17.5 million jet and other aircraft. Copeland resides with his wife Gloria in a $6 million church-owned lakefront mansion. Copeland, who is of partial Native American descent, converted to Christianity in the 1960s. His first dream was to be a recording artist. His “Pledge of Love” made No. 12 in the Top 40 in 1957. 

    2. Ummmmm . . . 

      Ok???!

      . . .  We now return to to our regular, the-coronavirus-is-god’s-righteous-judgement-on-those-evil [pick one, or all:  non-tithers, nose pickers, junk scientists who teach global warming, socialists, tofu eaters, Prius drivers, women who wear pants, gayz, gun controllers, green new dealers, open-borders lunatics, vegans, humanists, 2016 Clinton voters”]-programming.  Don’t touch that dial! . . . 

      [oh yeah, and: . . . dial touchers]

        1. If we count all of the homophobia he's been peddling for decades, people like him are at least partially responsible for the high suicide rates within the LGBT community, not to mention the AIDS crisis (gay cancer).

          1. Michael: I was working in my social services job here in Colorado in the 1980s during the AIDS epidemic. The multi-drug cocktail to keep H.I.V. under control hadn’t been invented yet. A few did recover on their own. But, for most, the diagnosis of H.I.V. or A.I.D.S. was a death sentence. Was just a matter of time.

            And while they were dying from H.I.V itself, or from one of the opportunistic diseases that arose from compromised immune systems, the far right wing preachers like Copland continually shouted out that A.I.D.S. was God’s “punishment” because they were homosexuals (the term “gay” was just coming into use). I always thought that the worst disease was the severe mental illness of these phony christians (my not capitalizing “christians” is intentional).

            1. I couldn't agree more. Growing up in a Catholic household and having family that lived the faith in a very different way it makes me ill to watch these carnival barkers.  I realize my own church has its own demons – I'm in the progressive camp ala Papa Frank (and even he has a few things yet to tend to in my opinion). 

    2. Duke, most YouTube videos don’t have the “embed” option anymore, which allows one to just copy the embed code and paste it on the  source screen.

      I don’t know whether that’s a YouTube policy change or if I’m not seeing embed options because I’m mostly using an IPad these days, or some other reason. Pseudonymous is still virtual-distancing, so he can’t ‘sprain it Ashe usually does. 
       

      At any rate, here is the link for your Genesis video. It’s pretty funny, and accurate.

  4.  

     

    I called this one on Saturday…

    While it is still not clear which communities are receiving more or less federal support — or how distribution decisions are made — the Post article suggests, anecdotally, that federal allocation of medical resources do not seem to target density of need, but rather the political makeup of affected communities.

    https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/3/29/21198704/emergency-covid-19-supplies-fema-states-federal-government

     

    1. Good thing Florida is getting all the supplies they asked for from the Federal stockpile…..

      TMZ" Florida Church Packed with Worshipers … Pastor Shuns Social Distancing

      The River Church in Tampa was packed to the gills with worshipers who clearly were looking for hope. Pastor Rodney Howard-Browne, who presides over the megachurch and has been reportedly defiant over social distancing, has claimed he'll cure coronavirus just the way he did with Zika.

      He has vowed he will never close his church

      1. Just saw this in the Twitterverse:

        "Sheriff Chad Chronister announces he has obtained an arrest warrant for Rodney Howard-Browne, the Pentecostal pastor at the River at Tampa Bay Church in Riverview, who ignored social distancing orders and encouraged the packed services held over the weekend. The warrant charges the pastor with reckless disregard for public safety and unlawful assembly in violation of public safety orders, both misdemeanors, according to sheriff Chronister. Chronister says the pastor should be in process of turning himself in. For safety reasons, they didn't want to storm the church service to arrest him."

         

  6. Out yonder where dirt ≠ people….

    Rural Coronavirus Cases Increase by 28% in Past Day

    Eighty rural counties had their first case of reported coronavirus on Thursday, bringing the total number of rural, or nonmetropolitan, counties with confirmed cases to 686. There are 1,960 counties in the rural classification we are using for these reports. That means 35% of rural counties now have cases of coronavirus.

    1. Does anyone have confidence this is going to be executed almost perfectly? She understands the exponential function? What does that even mean?  Does Ttumper the Easter Bunny (thanks Dio) have a magic time machine to take us back to early January? 

      Dr. Birx predicts up to 200,000 U.S. coronavirus deaths ‘if we do things almost perfectly’

      The White House coronavirus response coordinator said Monday that she is “very worried about every city in the United States” and projects 100,000 to 200,000 American deaths as a best case scenario.

      In an interview on “TODAY,” Dr. Deborah Birx painted a grim message about the expected fatalities, echoing that they could hit more than 2 million without any measures, as coronavirus casescontinue to climb throughout the country.

      1. It was a perfect phone call response!  Perfect!!

        You know if Ttumper’s spokesshills are saying this today, well, . . .

        . . . feeling just a little fucked right now . . .

        2. Yesterday he said  two million or 100,000 because the great job he's doing

          And today she is saying 200k

          tomorrow is 400k?  I get this exponential thing

           

           

      1. Totally true story here, although I do sorta’ hate to admit it . . .

        I was cleaning through my refrigerator last week, because I want to make especially certain right now that I’m not letting any food go bad so that I have to toss it out; no time for any kind of wastefulness.

        Anyway, I came across an unopened, and still factory safety-sealed, 24-oz container of Greek Gods greek-style yogurt (traditional, plain).  I grew up and lived among rural home canners and preservers of everything my entire life, so I opened it, looked closely at it, smelled it, put a spoon in it and found the consistency still good, and then tasted a bit — it was perfectly fine!

        The best-by date on the container?:  “26JUN19”

        So, last year’s unopened, sealed container of cultured plain yogurt in my frig (which I keep at 34°)? — I’m not recommending this to anyone, and YMMV!  Maybe I was just lucky, maybe the yogurt dieties are watching over my frig (it was Greek Gods brand, after all), maybe it’s a damn lactic miracle, who knows?

        All I know for certain is that I felt better eating it than tossing it.
         

         

        1. Ditto on not wasting food.  I grew up with a mother who was #2 of 13 siblings born Depression and post-depression.  Her creativity in turning left-overs into something new was second-to-none! To this day she can not throw food away. We’ve made the decision to use this time to clean up our pantry and finding several items well-past their expiration date but, like you, finding them to be just fine.  We’ve made a game out of it! 

          1. I’m still finishing off the last of a bottle of Italian salad dressing, that my last girlfriend wouldn’t eat five years ago because it was already “expired” then.

  8. If anyone knows the name Of a good business reporting at any of the local media, can you email it to me (david -at- windward dot net)? We have a really cool good news story. And we could all use the occasional good news story.

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