PLAYPEN: Covid-19 Everything Political

[JoeKitchen]

Let me peddle some more "extreme right-wing propaganda," this time from an obscure alt-right site:

https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2020-04-19/sweden-says-controversial-covid-19-strategy-is-proving-effective?fbclid=IwAR27jbMi7qIJFt48sh7eCfex2XypFnKCg0ke6xgShOgPWLOJEdNJeMTLefM

Sweden Says Controversial Covid-19 Strategy Is Proving Effective

Come on Slobo, you should know better, you just need to give it two more weeks, as with FL. 

And if Armageddon does't come, you need to give it another two weeks, and so on.  After all, eventually you'll get to the end of the world. 

[chez]

More madness:

https://www.foxnews.com/us/california-citys-coronavirus-restrictions-include-37-tons-of-sand-atop-skateboarding-park

California city fills skate park with sand to deter rule-busting skateboarders

The lengths totalitarians would go to ensure obedient, subdued population!

Well what do you do with Covidiots?

[chez]

Come on Slobo, you should know better, you just need to give it two more weeks, as with FL. 

And if Armageddon does't come, you need to give it another two weeks, and so on.  After all, eventually you'll get to the end of the world.

Joe, what are you and Slobo sitting on the net and spewing when you could join the other Covidiots and protest. Talk is cheap, let's see some action.

[JoeKitchen]

Joe, what are you and Slobo sitting on the net and spewing when you could join the other Covidiots and protest. Talk is cheap, let's see some action.

I have a stove to clean and a floor to mop.  But I will be bike riding later today without my mandatory mask.  I'm pretty certain I can ride a lot faster then most cops too, especially since they use mountain bikes. 

[Craig Lamson]

Feel good story of the decade!

News Media Outlets Have Been Ravaged by the Pandemic
Roughly 33,000 workers at news companies in the U.S. have been laid off, been furloughed or had their pay reduced. Some publications that rely on ads have shut down.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/10/business/media/news-media-coronavirus-jobs.html

[chez]

I have a stove to clean and a floor to mop.  But I will be bike riding later today without my mandatory mask.  I'm pretty certain I can ride a lot faster then most cops too, especially since they use mountain bikes.

I've been doing between 50k and 75k daily through back country meandering roads. No need for masks here...but some wear them. Saw this lady at a grocery store wearing a large green garbage bag with head sticking out of a cutout, full mask, hat and full length yellow dish gloves.

It worked...everyone gave her 20' clearance.

[Robert Roaldi]

I've been doing between 50k and 75k daily through back country meandering roads. No need for masks here...but some wear them. Saw this lady at a grocery store wearing a large green garbage bag with head sticking out of a cutout, full mask, hat and full length yellow dish gloves.

It worked...everyone gave her 20' clearance.

Too funny.

I wonder what kind of Covid gear Dollorama is buying up for their Halloween display this year.

[JoeKitchen]

I've been doing between 50k and 75k daily through back country meandering roads. No need for masks here...but some wear them. Saw this lady at a grocery store wearing a large green garbage bag with head sticking out of a cutout, full mask, hat and full length yellow dish gloves.

It worked...everyone gave her 20' clearance.

As would I. 

[elliot_n]

Feel good story of the decade!

News Media Outlets Have Been Ravaged by the Pandemic
Roughly 33,000 workers at news companies in the U.S. have been laid off, been furloughed or had their pay reduced. Some publications that rely on ads have shut down.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/10/business/media/news-media-coronavirus-jobs.html

Yes, brilliant news for photographers.

[William Walker]

Let me peddle some more "extreme right-wing propaganda," this time from an obscure alt-right site:

https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2020-04-19/sweden-says-controversial-covid-19-strategy-is-proving-effective?fbclid=IwAR27jbMi7qIJFt48sh7eCfex2XypFnKCg0ke6xgShOgPWLOJEdNJeMTLefM

Sweden Says Controversial Covid-19 Strategy Is Proving Effective

I would like to know what Israel is doing...

[Craig Lamson]

Yes, brilliant news for photographers.

No skin off of my back...

My work has been on hold since this started.  Lets share the pain.

[Peter McLennan]

Feel good story of the decade!

News Media Outlets Have Been Ravaged by the Pandemic
Roughly 33,000 workers at news companies in the U.S. have been laid off, been furloughed or had their pay reduced. Some publications that rely on ads have shut down.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/10/business/media/news-media-coronavirus-jobs.html

Excellent!  Just what we need.  Less information and fewer jobs.

[Craig Lamson]

Excellent!  Just what we need.  Less information and fewer jobs.

Couldn't happen to a more worthy group.  They can share the pain too.

[JoeKitchen]

Excellent!  Just what we need.  Less information and fewer jobs.

Dont know if you have been paying attention, but mainstream media is dead, left, right and center, this is just quickening the rot. 

Podcasts are the future. 

[Alan Klein]

Couldn't happen to a more worthy group.  They can shane the pain too.

If Sleepy Joe wins, no one will watch cable, it'll be too boring and all the bigshot talking heads will lose their jobs.  That would be the sweetest revenge.

[Slobodan Blagojevic]

It is ok for Manoli to call me "extreme right wing," "alt-right" and such, he is certainly entitled to his opinion, but my professor called me something else today:

a "conservative contrarian badass"

I like it... will use it going forward.

[John Camp]

I retired at 59 after working and paying taxes for 45 years.
I didn't waste my life so I have saved for my retirement and can now spend it doing what I like.

I have friends who are still working at age 75 and will die where they work.
What is preferable?

Well, since you asked, dying where you work. I'm 76, and I'm talking about contracts four years out. On the other hand, I never did work that I didn't like, because I refused to. 8-)

[John Camp]

Good riddance. Pork production is among the most cruel of mankind's enterprises.

I agree. I only posted that to point at a major economic disruption. I'm a veggie, myself.

[faberryman]

I have a stove to clean and a floor to mop.  But I will be bike riding later today without my mandatory mask.  I'm pretty certain I can ride a lot faster then most cops too, especially since they use mountain bikes.

As I understand it, the PA mandatory face mask order only applies to workers and shoppers in essential businesses like grocery stores and pharmacies. I don't think you are required to wear a face mask while riding your bike.

[John Camp]

Let me peddle some more "extreme right-wing propaganda," this time from an obscure alt-right site:

https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2020-04-19/sweden-says-controversial-covid-19-strategy-is-proving-effective?fbclid=IwAR27jbMi7qIJFt48sh7eCfex2XypFnKCg0ke6xgShOgPWLOJEdNJeMTLefM

Sweden Says Controversial Covid-19 Strategy Is Proving Effective

From the site you reference:

Sweden’s unusual approach to fighting the coronavirus pandemic is starting to yield results, according to the country’s top epidemiologist.
Anders Tegnell, the architect behind Sweden’s relatively relaxed response to Covid-19, told local media the latest figures on infection rates and fatalities indicate the situation is starting to stabilize.

Gasp! He's discovered he was correct!

On the Worldometer statistics site, the Covid-19 "countries" page, the most comparable European country to Sweden in number of cases is Austria. Austria has a population of about 9 million, Sweden about 10. Austria had 14,749 confirmed cases, Sweden had 14,385. Austria had 452 deaths, Sweden had...1,540.

I didn't choose a Scandinavian country to compare to Sweden, because it would have been unfair. As almost all sites say, the other Scandinavian counties have far few cases and deaths than Sweden.