[Malankazooie]

Florida's governor (Ron DeSantis) has removed all restrictions. Florida is a popular retirement state. So, take a guess on how this turns out.

[Gorefest]

Corona-babies!

[Tiste Simeon]

Malankazooie, on 29 September 2020 - 05:26 PM, said:

Florida's governor (Ron DeSantis) has removed all restrictions. Florida is a popular retirement state. So, take a guess on how this turns out.

I mean that's a lot of trump voters dead, potentially...

[King Lear]

That's a shamefully shitty fucked-up thing to say.

[Aptorian]

It's an observation about Republican politicians hurting their own voter base.

[King Lear]

Then it's not only callous, it's inaccurate, considering the virus impacts people of colour at disproportionately higher rates in the US, and Florida is one of the most diverse states in the country. Florida isn't a deep red state, Desantis won by less than 1% in 2018.

But you know, dead old people who theoretically vote for trump. You're really going to try and convince people that wasn't being expressed as a good thing?


I just think it's so cute how many people went off at Amph in this thread for "fearmongering" when he expressed sympathy for the looming deaths in the UK because of complete government mismanagement, but speculating on potential dead Trump supporters is just 'observation'.

[Tiste Simeon]

Apologies I wasn't trying to be shocking or callous, but reading it again I can see how it appears to be that. As Apt says I was more observing that it seemed to me like the Republican politicians weren't doing their own base any favours. I wasn't saying it's a good thing and I was in no way celebrating more death.

I'm sorry that it came across that way and thank you for pointing it out to me.

[amphibian]

Heyo, Tiste thanks for taking King Lear's point well.

She has a great point about how the costs of the awful decision to open fully are going to be borne most by the people who almost entirely aren't DeSantis or Trump voters.

The staggering statistic of 1 in a 1000 black people in the country has already died of Covid-19 is true.

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Biden appears to be referring a recent study from APM Research Lab found that the Covid-19 death rate for Blacks is 1 in 1,020 (97.9 deaths per 100,000). The report notes that "if they had died of COVID-19 at the same actual rate as White Americans, about 20,800 Black, 10,900 Latino, 700 Indigenous, and 80 Pacific Islander Americans would still be alive."

https://www.nbcnews....282/ncrd1241499

[Malankazooie]

Oct. 1, so looking at the calendar. You know what's really a bummer? Halloween falls on a Saturday this year AND there is a full Hunter's Moon that night. So much fun trick r treating and mischief gonna be lost to this bullshit. Well, I guess the teenagers can still be up to mischief though, right?

[Obdigore]

Malankazooie, on 01 October 2020 - 06:22 PM, said:

Oct. 1, so looking at the calendar. You know what's really a bummer? Halloween falls on a Saturday this year AND there is a full Hunter's Moon that night. So much fun trick r treating and mischief gonna be lost to this bullshit. Well, I guess the teenagers can still be up to mischief though, right?

Don't answer the door or the teenage super-spreaders will give you covid.

[King Lear]

Tiste Simeon, on 01 October 2020 - 06:10 AM, said:

Apologies I wasn't trying to be shocking or callous, but reading it again I can see how it appears to be that. As Apt says I was more observing that it seemed to me like the Republican politicians weren't doing their own base any favours. I wasn't saying it's a good thing and I was in no way celebrating more death.

I'm sorry that it came across that way and thank you for pointing it out to me.

Thanks for this. I apologise for reading your comment in the worst possible light.




This comment from reddit has been shared around a lot since it was posted. It's reddit so of course there's not really any way to verify whether it's true but I've seen it resonating with a lot of people on different social media (honestly I'm feeling a bit haunted by this post, it's appearing a bunch of places).

When there's an emergency or some other awful thing happening, I go into robot mode and just do everything that needs to be done until it's done and just absolutely break down afterwards, which I imagine is pretty common. I feel like there's been no 'afterwards' for so many people. With an accident or even ongoing illness there's a process (even if it sucks). The sense of the world continuing around you is kind of galling when you're in or have just come out of crisis, but also almost protective because there's a sense of normality to return to. But now there's no normal after the illness and the death, and the illness and death just keep happening. All the rituals around grieving that allow you to have people around you and to process what's happening (whatever that looks like) are just gone. It sucks so much this happened on an election year as well. People just don't get a chance to catch their breath.

[Aptorian]

Trump and Mrs Trump tested positive for Corona.

https://www.cnn.com/...irus/index.html

Sending thoughts and prayers as we speak.

[Macros]

You see the problem with that is.

Let's assume everyone in the Cabal comes througH it fine.

What does this do for attitudes that covid isn't a problem?

[Tsundoku]

Aptorian, on 02 October 2020 - 05:10 AM, said:

Trump and Mrs Trump tested positive for Corona.

https://www.cnn.com/...irus/index.html

Sending thoughts and prayers as we speak.

May thoughts and prayers be as helpful as they are any other time.

Maybe now he could be or service - at least as a cautionary tale. Will his followers take it a bit more seriously now? Possibly, but I reckon only if Trump gets it BAD.
Gah, imagine if he only gets mild symptoms or is asymptomatic. That would just make him and his followers worse.

This post has been edited by Tsundoku: 02 October 2020 - 07:02 AM

[Traveller]

It's likely BS.

It will draw attention away from Biden, and I bet he's 'miraculously' cured right before voting time.

This post has been edited by Traveller: 02 October 2020 - 10:38 AM

[QuickTidal]

Traveller, on 02 October 2020 - 10:37 AM, said:

It's likely BS.

It will draw attention away from Biden, and I bet he's 'miraculously' cured right before voting time.

This is a very sad possibility that I would not put past the Trump camp. He's literally proven to be that cartoonishly evil.

This post has been edited by QuickTidal: 02 October 2020 - 11:51 AM

[Garak]

Yeah pretty sure it's BS on his part.

[QuickTidal]

732 cases in Ontario today...323 in Toronto, 141 in Ottawa, and 111 in Peel....these three places (the worst of which I reside in) need to be shunted back to Stage 2 before it's too late. This is only going to get worse.

[QuickTidal]

I made a post on FB about Boris, Bolsonaro and Trump all getting covid after downplaying it as world leaders....and this one friend I have who is a conservative most for the time...commented that it was "fake news"...never have I enjoyed blocking someone more. I'm so done with people like her. If this pandemic is the line I draw in the sand between whatever friendship we had, so be it...and I'm not sad at all about it. She's been on her last strike with me for a while now so I'm not surprised I had to do it.

[Malankazooie]

I'll be interested to hear if Trump is back on hydroxychloroquine. He took if for a week back in May, right? Which we all know was bullshit.