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This is just a disaster. Epic disaster. If you vote for Trump in 2020, you are a bad person. Period.

Honest question, in what way(s) are they making it worse? Are they causing the spread of the virus? Is the President only doing what he says he's done to appease the media? Doubt it. The situation we're in (social distancing and the economic fall out) is because it is recommended by healthcare professionals. The media is just getting their message out.

<this is probably more suited for political, but since the article was in this thread...> Figured our friend Thurston would post this as its making its way through right wing media. You realize that anyone with an internet connection can post on Medium right? This guy isn't some epidemiologist, he is just a MAGA-phile who threw some fancy graphs together and was like "see, all the real experts are wrong and lying to us, I know what is really happening". Hell, Medium took it down today (and the article is now hosted at ZeroHedge). I mean read his conclusion of the article to see the slant he is coming from:

The media received intelligence about this virus two months ago. The media downplayed its impact for weeks. Stood at a podium and lied for weeks. As the virus spread and State and local leaders realized what they were dealing with, the media proclaimed it a hoax. As the media sat idle and failed to respond to the obvious, those State and local leaders formed their own plans. The media, instead of using its constitutional authority, bumbled and mumbled and delayed. All the while, the media proclaimed their actions were the best, and everything was fine. And now that we're in full blown crisis mode, the media is instead distracted with blaming those same State and local leaders rather than taking decisive action. See? It's all the media's fault.

Google taught me there was no such thing as a "wound up douche in the middle of the night"...

@QMany You guys, I think Rand Paul might be a d-bag.

People blaming the media instead of holding their party accountable are making this worse. People you love could die because Trump and McConnell are self-serving and you're trying to blame the media. Wake up.

They must have forced him, or done it when he wasn't looking. Because surely he wouldn't get tested on his own, because this is a hoax, and he's asymptomatic. Right?

Trump and the Republicans are going to do everything they can to ram their favorite legislation down our throats in this crisis. Americans should demand a clean bill with bipartisan oversight. Abstinence Only is 1) a pipe dream, that not even the most Christian of Christians adheres to, and 2) has NOTHING to do with this crisis. Why are they hiding it in this bill?

To be clear, I think any member of congress, R or D, who sold stock because of this should be investigated But this is just classic Trump.. Trump asked about senators who sold stock ahead of the market collapse: Trump: "I'm not aware of it" --then goes on to discuss it.---Lie Trump: "I guess it was Diane Feinstein and a few others" -note she's the only Democrat in this group of senators Reporter: "to clarify the group also includes Richard Burr...and Kelly Loeffler..." Then Trump goes on to accuse the reporter of failing to mention Feinstein's name, when that hypocritical a$$h@!e just did the exact opposite and mentioned only Feinstein's name earlier. This exchange in itself may not be a huge deal, but it's a perfect example of why I cannot stand that blubbering jacka$$ we call "mr president." https://www.mediaite.com/tv/trump-defends-senators-under-fire-for-pre-corona-stock-dumps-theyre-very-honorable-people/

Just embarrassing as hell.

You asked what disinformation you're disseminating. This post from Medium, for one. As @Red Five pointed out, anyone can post to Medium, so it's not a good source for unimpeachable factual information. And it's being debunked, because people are spreading it and others are believing it. That post on Medium? It's been taken down. It's full of errors.

I know I'm really gonna blow some doors off with this one, but Trump lied.

This guy is a professor at U of Washington (plus he has a book out this fall titled "Calling Bullsh**: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World"). Click on the tweet thread for a thorough takedown of the article.

https://streamable.com/yeouo

Soooo, it's NOT the media's fault for the media making things 100x worse??? I'm really f#&%ing confused...

1) I said "media" is making this worse 2) all these are examples of media in the form of articles or "journalists" on Twitter Why move the goalposts? All of these show both wild inaccuracies and incredible hypocrisy in the media, and they're not isolated. This was me scrolling Twitter for just 10 mins

No idea but if I had to take a wild guess it’d be Francois. Based on nothing other than I think the rest of our early enrollees seem pretty solid

This is why i stay out of those threads. It's so true!

What if you'd get nothing in this bill? Then what would you think? The point of voting against the bill is to stop the Repubs from doing stupid stuff like not giving money to the poor or lower middle class or giving bailouts to corporations with no strings attached.

he is just doing his job of tearing down the government. so what if some of the jobs he gets rid of might prove beneficial to america.

Given that the GOP strategy seems to be heaping blame on China, this seems somewhat significant. Once again the Trump administration incompetence has turned out to cost us.

No, they're actually doing their jobs and asking tough, fair questions while attempting to tamp down product. Trump knows there's plenty of contrarian rubes out there willing to criticize anyone else (the media) in an effort to remain fair and balanced™️. What exactly would you have them do to not "make things worse?"

How, with Abstinence Only? An idea that has been proven to fail in study after study?

Hoppin was the first one I thought of. Mike McGee was also a great one from Omaha North, but I think he played for Creighton or Michigan, then to the NBA.

Think of the people in your family. Grandparents, parents, aunts & uncles, older cousins. Teachers, bosses, older friends, acquaintances,, that really cool Checker at the grocery store who's 60+ but you like talking to. Those are the people most likely affected by this. Do the math: 4 Grandparents 6-7 Aunts & Uncles 2 Parents 2 In-laws 3-4 Older cousins 2-4 Teachers 2 Older friends 2 rando older acquaintances That's 20-ish people that you know, that you love or care about. Whose loss would leave a hole in your life, bigger or smaller. At 3.5% mortality rates, that's one or two of those people. Gone. Before their time. When they're gone, do you care that the Flu takes 30,000 other people per year? Does that affect your feelings about this in any way? And all you've gotta do to maybe make that not happen is practice social distancing. Or work from home for a month. Or miss a few Spring sporting events. Even if you don't believe any of this, even if you think it's all a hoax, if you could possibly keep one more of those people in your life by just doing what they're asking of you and washing your hands a few extra times, isn't that a small price to pay?

Thinking he might play off the ball sometimes. Could have Dalano or someone else bring the ball up when he is in the game. Should add another element to our offense!

From everything I have seen we are 11 days behind Italy and if you look at it it does kind of line up nicely with where Italy was 11 days ago. I don't think we will see a nearly 10% death rate but I definitely expect things to get much worse and we will probably see death totals higher than Italy just due to population difference. That said we are doing well right now as we haven't had a 100 death day which Italy did have on this day 11 days ago and most countries with our number of infections have seen. What that means, I don't know yet

who needs tp?

I've seen the broad strokes. It applies to employers with fewer than 500 employees. Those 50 and smaller (me) can apply for a hardship ruling and have it waived. I couldn't (or sure wouldn't want to) afford adding that much paid leave without the tax credit. But, if it's a true tax credit (meaning I'll recover the full expense) then I don't have a problem with it. And it sort of makes sense to do it that way to me.

Over reaction anyone? yeah. Young people are safe.

Copeland would be incredible under Hoiberg. 3 and D guy that would be able to play big or small. I’d love to see Wes Wilkinson or Ryan Anderson as well. I loved Anderson- one of my most under-appreciated huskers of all time

Well, technically it could be either as it is a sliding scale - the better the grades, the lower test score and vice versa. But he is definitely looking to get a better test score. And he apparently has now qualified to take the ACT with "accommodations".

Here is a list of free streaming (extended trials) from USA Today. https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/tv/2020/03/18/coronavirus-free-tv-movies-stream-you-quarantine-home/5074254002/ All Peloton content is free for 90 days. No CC required. https://www.onepeloton.com/app More workout videos https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus-free-online-workout-gyms-live-stream-classes-during-outbreak/

New warm-up routine for @QMany