Posted by Emperor Wang Bummed at home. The lake is finally free of ice (at my end anyway). Normally everbody'd be all horny as fuck this time of year, just itching to get out there and meet someone new. And here we all are, jerking off at home. So astoundingly lame.

The memesters feel your pain.

Team 700... oh snap.

As U.S. coronavirus case numbers explode, testing is still a bottleneck, and there is a dire shortage of everything from low-tech face masks to high-tech ventilators. In New York City, a doctor at a hospital with 13 deaths in one day told the New York Times just days ago that the situation was “apocalyptic.”

Philadelphia area hospitals are now preparing for “the surge.” That’s a medical term referring not just to the deluge of patients, but also to how hospitals plan to do the near-impossible: provide adequate care without adequate resources.

“We anticipate we are no more than two weeks behind New York City,” P.J. Brennan, chief medical officer of the massive University of Pennsylvania Health System, said on Thursday. “Cases are doubling every two to three days. We had 46 confirmed cases last night. You do the math.”

» READ MORE: Philadelphia-area hospitals brace for the coronavirus surge: 'We are no more than 2 weeks behind N.Y.’

— Marie McCullough, Lisa Gartner

COVID-19 NEWS

ACLU calling out RI:

https://boston.cbs...police-quarantine/

Iran doesn't subscribe to the Hippocratic Oath.

https://www.nytime...-deadly-drink.html

Alas, poor Boris, I knew him well.
(not actually)

https://www.nytime...n-coronavirus.html

Posted by TacoJosh https://www.nwitim...-92218de03860.html Damn, Gary, Indiana has ordered a lockdown. I've been planning a trip with some friends for weeks now and we had decided that tomorrow would be the day. But now, I just don't know. As much as I want to do this trip, I'm just conflicted. They're still committed to it, but I'd hate to just bail out. Any of you guys still exploring during this pandemic?

Initially, I felt like you do, but I’ve read (from more than one reliable source) this warning: “If you don’t know whether or not you should go somewhere, there’s your answer. Stay home.”

As much as it pains me and as much as I feel certain I could manage a short road trip safely without contacting other people, lives are on the line and it’s just not worth the risk of being wrong.

I happened on this story about a cruise ship with 4 dead and 100 sick passengers and crew that is supposedly headed for Florida.

I looked up the ship and apparently it's going the wrong way.

https://www.kcci.c...d-america/31958873

NY, out of control...
https://www.thegua...ses-state-by-state

Posted by RescueMe1060 you were basically the sole reason the politics board was shut down.

Pretty sure it was because of me and Blackhawk.

Posted by blackhawk NY, out of control... https://www.thegua...ses-state-by-state

Are you feeling OK?

That link is not to Fox News.

Posted by Radio2600 Are you feeling OK? That link is not to Fox News.

Yeah... I'm in West Texas, a better state to be

Posted by blackhawk Yeah... I'm in West Texas, a better state to be

that's debatable.

Posted by Steed It would be much better if he died by his own hand, either suicide or by trying one of his home remedies.

... I always thought choking on one of his nightly cheeseburgers would be a poetically just finale.

RI is hunting down those dangerous NYers...
https://www.foxnew...coronavirus-refuge

I'm just waiting for this corona virus shit to be over so I can go to the store at 3 AM again. because I hate dealing with people at stores.

Also want to go to work and make $$.

No small wonder I bailed PA, it sucks...
https://www.foxnew...nnsylvania-experts

What good is life if you can't buy a goddamn cigar and bottle of whiskey?

Posted by blackhawk RI is hunting down those dangerous NYers... https://www.foxnew...coronavirus-refuge

Old news

Posted by Radio2600 COVID-19 NEWS ACLU calling out RI: https://boston.cbs...police-quarantine/

Posted by Radio2600 Old news

Incorrect. Last 17 hours.
The ACLU scumbags have been proactively interfering during a disaster.
It will be implemented, ACLU failed.

“Right now we have a pinpointed risk,” Raimondo said at a news conference Friday. “That risk is called New York City.”

Posted by Steed There is nothing funny about blaming Asian people for the global pandemic. Maybe we should start calling it the American virus considering how many cases are over there and how miserable the Americans are at healthcare. Or we could call it the Trump virus so that your clown of a president actually starts concentrating on it. It may all just be ching-chong ding-dong, "no tickee, no shirtee" jokes to you, but a G-7 agreement failed because the Americans insisted on the term China virus, and a White House official actually said "kung flu." Fuck them for making Americans think that is acceptable.

Oh get the fuck over ya self.

Posted by Samurai that's debatable.

Actually I've been a bit concerned about you. Glad you're in a more rural part of the state.

Posted by blackhawk No small wonder I bailed PA, it sucks...

This isn’t the first time the citizens of PA got it handed to them. Although no liquor might be worse... hmm, coin toss.
https://www.google...ndemic-coronavirus

But in all seriousness, I used to run a drug/alcohol Tx center and the article brings up a very legitimate concern.
People die from withdrawals and the last thing doctors need to be dealing with is someone brought into ER psychotic and having DT’s in the midst of dealing with the current nightmare before them.

I really stopped by to drop off this cartoon:


It rings so true.