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Corona beer suspends production due to coronavirus

Colleges nationwide suspend ACT/SAT admissions requirements

Online Learning Finds Its Moment. Covid-19 could force an overdue revolution in higher education.

"Unanticipated Shock" - Under Armour Lays Off 6,700 Workers, Stores Shuttered "Indefinitely"

Department Of Transportation Will Make Airlines Offer Refunds For Cancelled Flights

I am a New York food courier. Right now, it's worse than you think

What Everyone’s Getting Wrong About The Toilet Paper Shortage

After mocking Trump for promoting hydroxychloroquine, journalists acknowledge it might treat coronavirus

Is the coronavirus airborne? Experts can’t agree

Our Super Smart Elite Shines During This Pandemic!

Another hitherto unknown skill that the media believes it possesses is logistics. “Why hasn’t Trump commanded a million ventilators to appear?!” the reporters demand. It’s pretty easy to see where they might have gotten the idea that the moment one articulates a desire to possess something that it magically appears. Capitalism has pretty much made that a reality. If you want something, you can go to a store and get it 24/7, or you can go on Amazon and it’ll be at your Manhattan apartment in 48 hours. Since they have never built anything or transported anything or distributed anything, only benefited from the labor of the unhip people who do those things, it’s only natural that the delayed adolescents who make up our media class imagine that material goods can be simply wished into being. After all, for all practical purposes during normal times, because of the efforts of Americans they look down upon, material goods pretty much can be simply wished into being. But prosperity takes work, not that the media would know.

The Free Press Is Now a Propaganda Organ

Do the Media Hate Trump More Than They Hate the Virus?

A Sick Media - They use the coronavirus crisis to play propagandistic arbiters.

How About Another $2 Trillion For "Infrastructure"?

The Coronavirus: What Would Joe Biden Do?

Thanks to Trump's Emergency Order to Seal the Border, Illegal Border Crossers Are Being Deported Back to Mexico in an Average of 96 Minutes from Apprehension

Mueller’s hidden evidence: Translator exonerated Don Jr. in Trump Tower meeting. Infamous meeting did not focus on Clinton dirt but on Magnitsky Act, newly released FBI memos show.

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Filling out some paperwork for the Boss. Two companies, list employee FTE.
"You did it wrong. You're not supposed to combine companies."
I didn't. This company has x, and if you would have bothered to look at the paper, the other one has Y.
"Really! That many people I'm looking down on as Not very important to my world."

Now take that to the State & governors level. They have NO CLUE the details of what peoples lives actually are, and being destroyed.
Report is that the local hospital is mostly empty. Everything regular was canceled to make way for all the covids which don't appear to be showing up.

#1 Clue (for today) on 2020-04-04 10:01 (Reply)

That's great news. No serious illness in your area yet. Hope it stays that way. Maybe the shutdown is working as they hoped it would.

#1.1 Emu on 2020-04-04 10:29 (Reply)

Or, and, much more likely, the whole "sky is falling!" the reaction is MADE UP and RAMPED UP-----for the purpose of getting DJT out of office!

#1.1.1 Old Codger on 2020-04-04 11:25 (Reply)

I doubt that. Right now England and France are having record death rates from Covid-19. Do you really think some anti-Trump conspirators are killing them?

#1.1.1.1 Emu on 2020-04-04 18:36 (Reply)

The "free press" has been a propaganda organ of the Left for roughly 50 years now — it's nothing new.

#2 PubliusII on 2020-04-04 11:00 (Reply)

Do a search for Spanish American War + propaganda; i.e. the injection of "yellow journalism" into our political system. Many, many anti-Constitutional Acts and Amendments were passed once the media took sides.

#2.1 jma on 2020-04-04 18:01 (Reply)

re Department Of Transportation Will Make Airlines Offer Refunds For Cancelled Flights

That's flights mind you, not trips canceled because of The Virus.

Wife and I have a trip canceled, but since the flight is still available they get to keep our money as an interest free loan, until we decide to fly somewhere in the distant future. It's BS.

The B&B we had booked asked us to pay them even though we had to cancel for "future credit" on a stay, but we can't be making interest free loans to everyone, particularly if the B&B isn't in business when we travel there the next time.

Last night, the young lady that owns the hair salon here in town called at 10 minutes to 10 to see if I wanted to come in for a haircut scheduled for next week. She was told to close at 10 pm and not to reopen until May 11. Maybe. Her business doesn't make the kind of money that allows her to make mortgage payments with no income. She is looking to see what she qualifies for under the stimulus, but I doubt she does as well as the airlines. I hope this thing doesn't ruin her.

The irony is there haven't even been any cases where I live. It's BS.

If your employer is a taxpayer funded entity, this shutdown is no big deal and you can afford to advocate for it. You are in no danger of losing your paycheck. If you are an entrepreneur, or working in the private sector this could be a financially devastating as well as a life changing event.

#3 feeblemind on 2020-04-04 11:37 (Reply)

While I agree with your points I do feel that you missed something important. That is if there had been no shutdown that young lady in the hair salon would still be in trouble. People are choosing to not go to appointments and they were doing that before Gov Cuomo locked things down. This is going to be an economic disaster but it won't simply be true because of what the government did or didn't do. If they end the shutdown today I still won't go get my hair cut or touch a shopping cart or buy any fast food.

#3.1 IdahoBob on 2020-04-04 11:52 (Reply)

That's true. IdahoBob. There would, and has been be a real decline in her business. People are being panicked here as well. However, some people still choose to do business with her and a percentage of one's business is better than no business at all.

#3.1.1 feeblemind on 2020-04-04 12:38 (Reply)

I was gifted a printed sub to WaPo.

Now I wonder, do any WaPo printers or other employees have the virus?

What anti-virus precautions does WaPo take?

Is the virus being delivered to my door?

#4 James Graham (Link) on 2020-04-04 11:41 (Reply)

Yes, the virus comes to you direct from the WaPo on the pages of the paper. Your job is to set it on fire.
Don't bother to thank me -

#4.1 Dick Parks on 2020-04-04 12:00 (Reply)

New Wyoming Law Lets Local Ranchers Sell Cuts of Meat Directly to Consumers

https://reason.com/2020/04/04/novel-new-wyoming-law-lets-local-ranchers-sell-cuts-of-meat-directly-to-consumers/

Not sure this is a "game changer" as the article suggests, as I don't know how deep the market is for this, but deregulation is a good thing.

The way it works now, I can sell a cow to someone and haul it to the processor for them, but I can't have that same cow processed and sell the meat to that same person. The customer has to take the whole animal.

#5 feeblemind on 2020-04-04 11:50 (Reply)

With all the online learning going on, there's no need for diversity deans anymore.

#6 Sixtyville on 2020-04-04 12:36 (Reply)

What makes you think the internet isn't racist? Or rather, subject to re-interpretation as an instrument of the white male patriarchy? The diversity deans and feminism queens will still be there, I think it's just that the online customers will not be under such personal pressure to conform and agree. It's a good thing!

#6.1 Aggie on 2020-04-04 16:04 (Reply)

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