D&D Coronavirus thread

Don't know if this was already posted but:

 

Pleaseeee get it again. Lulz.

 

Red Dawn is upon us.

Phase 2- Disappear Biden. Re-enter The Sanders

 

Tattoos tho, #YOLO

 

This is pretty cool but you can get around it by covering yourself in mud right?

 

Abbott on Ch.2:

I'm sure you've seen the reporting by the Texas Tribune that you admitted in a private call with lawmakers that reopening our state would lead to an increase in Coronavirus cases but we've been hearing you say the increase will be due to more testing.

What was so-called said in that private conversation is something I've stated publicly dozens of times and where I got that information is public statements made by doctors repeatedly. All I'm talking about is the known scientific information. When you do go about the process of opening up, it'll lead to more interactions with people. One way infectious diseases transmit is through interactions with other people. That's what you call common sense. Equally common sense is that we can reduce the transmission of COVID19 the more that we practice these safe practices of doing things like wearing masks, washing hands & safe distancing practices so we can continue to slow the growth of Coronavirus. People in Houston have done such a good job. The number has slowed so much in Houston, that's why we're proud that we'll have people involved in barbershops, hair salons, nail salons that will open up on Friday before Mother's day.

Bar owners and why they have to wait?

It's frustrating for any business owner who can't open. They have bills to pay, employees to pay & obligations. They're losing their business. We're working every day on strategies that will allow them to open up. Here's the difference between bars & restaurants. One thing about bars, if they're able to seat people separately away from others like in restaurants, that could be a strategy that works. Some bars are small & packed in. It's that intermingling in a close space that leads to transmission of infectious diseases. You don't want people in bars having to wear masks & stuff like that. When you go to restaurants, when you're sitting down eating, you don't have to wear a mask because you're putting food in your mouth. Just like you want to sip on a drink in a bar, there's complexities that we just need to visit with bar owners to figure out a way to open up while making sure they're not promoting the transmission of COVID19.

Salon owner in Dallas arrested & sent to jail for violating your executive order. You put out a statement, along with the Texas AG asking she be released. Lt. Governor Dan Patrick has even offered to pay her fines. If I'm a business owner & not allowed to open and I'm hearing this, what's stopping me from opening early?

Here's the deal that I made clear with regard to Harris County a week ago, we all urge people to wear masks. I pointed out the attempt in Harris County to impose fines or jail for not wearing a mask is the wrong thing. These aren't like criminal laws that exist. If you go rob someone, you get put in jail. These are laws intended to maintain control during a pandemic. We need to be careful that we're not infringing upon people's individual liberties. As a result, I believe it is wrong to arrest someone and put them in a jail, especially in a county like Dallas County where they articulated by their DA they will not arrest anyone and put them in jail if they steal something valued $750 or less and while they may be letting people out of jail because of COVID19 is absurd that they would put someone in jail who was simply trying to open up their business.

Another surge in summer? Any way to look forward and express the next steps should that happen and would that include closing businesses again?

First next step, as we begin to open up, we've created surge teams for any flare-ups. We've put these surge teams in, do massive testing, isolation and corral the Coronavirus in these areas. That can happen the next few months. You hear about a second phase. The real second phase people talk about is what could happen in the fall or winter when regular flu season comes back and more people are hospitalized from the flu, not COVID, from the flu. There's so many people hospitalized and lose their life every year just because of the common flu. You add that to what could be additional patients from COVID19, that's something we need to get prepared for and doing it in two ways. We're stockpiling PPE to make sure we have adequate supply and two, have already shown in Texas better than any other state to have the supply of hospital beds and hospital ventilators. Anyone who gets ill will be able to get taken care of.

 

One of Trump's personal valets has tested positive for coronavirus
By Kaitlan Collins and Peter Morris, CNN
Updated 10:51 AM EDT, Thu May 07, 2020
https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/07/politics/trump-valet-tests-positive-covid-19/index.html

 

de Blasio and Cuomo have as much to answer for as Trump:

“We now have enough data to feel pretty confident that New York was the primary gateway for the rest of the country,” said Nathan Grubaugh, an epidemiologist at the Yale School of Public Health.

The central role of New York’s outbreak shows that decisions made by state and federal officials — including waiting to impose distancing measures and to limit international flights — helped shape the trajectory of the outbreak and allowed it to grow in the rest of the country.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/07/us/new-york-city-coronavirus-outbreak.html?smid=fb-share

 

Yup federal officials dropped the ball AND trump took february off. Good thing that 'gateway' through europe to ny was shut down. Oops I mean trump didnt.

Cuomo is looking so good right now you might as well crown him king today. Trump knows it..the trolls here are scared already and fun feeble wmd lovers like you know it tra$$h0

 

appreciate your enthusiasm.

 

You should read this entire Twitter thread.

 

I've been feeling since this started that we would see violence and we are seeing that with the killing last week of a security guard who asked a customer to wear a mask to this. This is going to get worse.

https://abc13.com/mcdonalds-employees-shot-over-coronavirus-restrictions-police/6159614/

2 McDonald's employees shot after telling customer dining room was closed due to COVID-19, police say

OKLAHOMA CITY -- Two McDonald's employees were shot inside an Oklahoma City restaurant after the suspect became upset when she was told the dining room was closed due to the coronavirus pandemic, police said.

Oklahoma City Police Department said the 32-year-old female customer, whose name has not been released, got into a physical altercation with employees Wednesday evening, left the store and returned with a handgun.

One male employee was shot in the arm, another was hit in the neck and shoulder area and a third suffered from a shrapnel wound on his side. The suspect was arrested within minutes of the shooting.

McDonald's CEO Chris Kempczinski spoke on "Good Morning America Thursday, saying the two employees who were shot "are OK and they're going to have a full recovery."

"Obviously, it's a heinous crime, particularly because these two people were trying to really support public health," Kempczinski said. "I think what you're seeing in this situation is really what you're seeing in a variety of situations across the country which is this tension about opening, people's concern about it, but there's absolutely no excuse for violence, particularly gun violence."

This shooting is one of several instances of violence sparked by anger over coronavirus restrictions.

Last week, a woman, her adult son and husband were charged in the fatal shooting of a security guard who refused to let her daughter enter a Flint, Michigan, Family Dollar because she wasn't wearing a face mask.

And about 20 miles away in Holly, Michigan, a man was accused of wiping his nose on a Dollar Tree clerk's shirt when he was told to wear a mask Tuesday.