PLAYPEN: Covid-19 Everything Political

[Peter McLennan]

Hey, my key board is going to shit on my laptop.  It has been, more and more frequently, typing the same character twice with a single punch, especially the space bar.  I would get it replaced, but we're under this stupid thhing called quarantine.

How peculiar that it only does that on those two words.

[JoeKitchen]

How peculiar that it only does that on those two words.

I'll own up to it now. 

Yes, I was unknowingly using loose for lose.  With that said, my keyboard  is going and the vowels (the most used keys) are the ones being most effected, alonng with "h." 

[faberryman]

What seems crazy today could be mainstream tomorrrow...facetime anyone?

I attended the World's Fair in 1964. That's when Bell Labs introduced the videophone. I thought it was a bad idea at the time. Who wants to have to shower, shave, and get dressed just to answer the telephone? It would be worse for women. They would have to put on makeup and do up their hair. And in most cases it is just going to be a marketing call from Marriott or someone trying to sell you an extended warranty for your car. Now we have Facebook and Zoom with green screen replacement backgrounds so no one knows that the last time you picked up your apartment was when you took out the Christmas tree. It is understood that the person at the other end in the crisp white shirt is just wearing his underwear. I have had some Zoom calls with my doctor. I swear he is running Zoom in a window, and eBay as the main application so when I am talking he can avail himself of the opportunity to try to score some masks. Progress?

[JoeKitchen]

Joe, we beat you.  I booked Monday, Tues and Weds for next week.  The plant officially opens up again on May 4 but these 2 units need to ship on April 30 so if I dont shoot them they won't have replacements to shoot until July. 

The building we will be working in has been sanitized twice since the 24th of March, has not been worked in since and it will be empty. The two motorhones will also be fully sanitized.  We won't be seeing anybody from the Plant and will be working totally alone.

We were originally schedlued to shoot these the week of May 11 after the plant had reopened but quite frankly it seems far safer to me to do it prior to the reopening.  So we decided to go for it. The county were the plant is located has had only 211 cases and 4 deaths so its pretty clean.  If the units are clean ( and we will clean them also) and we don't have any human contact this might be quite safe.

Well, it has been raining nearly like every day. 

I envy studio shooters sometimes, sometimes. 

[Peter McLennan]

  The left owns the airwaves.

I'm not agreeing with you, Alan, but why exactly is that? 

How did it happen that "the left owns the airwaves?  Was it some kind of unseen insurrection?

[Manoli]

Trumpy says it was just a bit of 'old fashioned sarcasm'. Oh ...

ITM, back on the ranch Twitter, Toilet Duck and Dettol are trending and Reckitt Benckiser (aka Dettol) themselves and others have been forced to release several public warnings. 
Here's a reminder of the word

'ultracrepidarian';

One who consistently offers opinions and advice on subjects way beyond their understanding.

[faberryman]

I'm not agreeing with you, Alan, but why exactly is that? 

How did it happen that "the left owns the airwaves?  Was it some kind of unseen insurrection?

Like Trump, you can't take what Alan says literally. I have no idea what he really means, but I know it is not that the left owns the airways. Maybe it is just an exaggeration like the left owns some of the airwaves, I would agree with that. Always searching for areas of agreement.

[JoeKitchen]

Like Trump, you can't take what Alan says literally. I have no idea what he really means, but I know it is not that the left owns the airways. Maybe it is just an exaggeration like the left owns some of the airwaves, I would agree with that. Always searching for areas of agreement.

It's not that the left owns the airways, it's just that they own the news media.  For some reason, the type of people attracted to journalism are lefties.  I dont know why, but 80+% of journalist identify as liberal and Democrat.  This is why the media is always biased for the Dems. 

This is also why talk radio is almost always conservative with liberal version usually falling flat.  Since the liberals own the media, they have no need for an alternate news source, hence why talk radio is pointless for liberals.  However, for conservatives it provides a benefit, to avoid the slant of the left. 

[chez]

Biden is doing well because no one is seeing or hearing from him. Biden is not really "selling" anything from his basement bunker.

He's playing smart. He's watching Trump disintegrate all by himself without the need of external stimuli.

[chez]

I'll own up to it now. 

Yes, I was unknowingly using loose for lose.  With that said, my keyboard  is going and the vowels (the most used keys) are the ones being most effected, alonng with "h."

Well I'll side with you Joe...who gives a crap about proper use of words on this forum as long as the message is clear. There are times I'm on my phone finger pecking at the tight keys, hitting wrong letters and can't see exactly what's displayed because of the sun glare.

[faberryman]

It's not that the left owns the airways, it's just that they own the news media.  For some reason, the type of people attracted to journalism are lefties.  I dont know why, but 80+% of journalist identify as liberal and Democrat.  This is why the media is always biased for the Dems. 

This is also why talk radio is almost always conservative with liberal version usually falling flat.  Since the liberals own the media, they have no need for an alternate news source, hence why talk radio is pointless for liberals.  However, for conservatives it provides a benefit, to avoid the slant of the left.

Fortunately, I don't drive much so I don't listen to radio very often. I used to listen to Rush Limbaugh but one day someone called in and said "mega-dittos" for the eight millionth time, and I nearly lost it. It's like Trump saying "tremendous". You can only hear it so many times before you snap. So now I have the radio set on the classical station and the volume on low. I really need to remain undistracted when driving.

[JoeKitchen]

Fortunately, I don't drive much so I don't listen to radio very often. I used to listen to Rush Limbaugh but one day someone called in and said "mega-dittos" for the eight millionth time, and I nearly lost it. It's like Trump saying "tremendous". You can only hear it so many times before you snap. So now I have the radio set on the classical station and the volume on low. I really need to remain undistracted when driving.

Bigly is what does it for me.  Tremendous is a word, but bigly makes me cringe. 

[Alan Klein]

Joe, we beat you.  I booked Monday, Tues and Weds for next week.  The plant officially opens up again on May 4 but these 2 units need to ship on April 30 so if I dont shoot them they won't have replacements to shoot until July. 

The building we will be working in has been sanitized twice since the 24th of March, has not been worked in since and it will be empty. The two motorhones will also be fully sanitized.  We won't be seeing anybody from the Plant and will be working totally alone.

We were originally schedlued to shoot these the week of May 11 after the plant had reopened but quite frankly it seems far safer to me to do it prior to the reopening.  So we decided to go for it. The county were the plant is located has had only 211 cases and 4 deaths so its pretty clean.  If the units are clean ( and we will clean them also) and we don't have any human contact this might be quite safe.

May 4th.  That's the date I picked weeks ago for people to re-open.  In any case good luck.  If no one's been in there for more than three days, even if there were virus on the srufaces of stuff, they die.  That might be a good business to start right now. Mr. Sterilization.  Provide daily cleaning for shops and offices.  Give a free box of surgical masks for new customers.    You go in and spray the premises with antiseptic spray called "The Trump Solution - Cleans Inside and Out" 

[Alan Klein]

I'm not agreeing with you, Alan, but why exactly is that? 

How did it happen that "the left owns the airwaves?  Was it some kind of unseen insurrection?

Surveys and polling of reporters show that 90% say they're Democrats.  The major influencers in the media are liberal, left, Democrat, and socialist (for others).  They include CNN, MSNBC, NBC, CBS, ABC, The Washington Post and the NY Times. Their philosophy tends to be liberal.  Interestingly, Trump is more a Democratic than Republican.  He doesn't believe in fiscal responsibility, one of the hallmarks of Republicanism.  He believe in debt, printing, inflation, and other non-starters for financial conservatives. Before he became president, he was a pal with more democrats than republicans.

[Craig Lamson]

He's playing smart. He's watching Trump disintegrate all by himself without the need of external stimuli.

He has no choice, his outlet is his basement bunker nad even when he does go live, even with the help of the MSM, he sounds like a moron.  Good thing for him, noone is really watching.  It will get really hard for him once he has to actually be present and talk.  You guys think Trump can speak, just wait

[Manoli]

Well lookie here...  maybe a Trump knows more than you and the press on this.

Yep, you're right - all sarcasm and fake news ?


Revealed: Mark Grenon, leader of group peddling bleach as coronavirus 'cure' wrote to Trump this week saying chlorine dioxide ‘can rid the body of Covid-19’ days before the president promoted disinfectant as treatment.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/24/revealed-leader-group-peddling-bleach-cure-lobbied-trump-coronavirus

The leader of the most prominent group in the US peddling potentially lethal industrial bleach as a “miracle cure” for coronavirus wrote to Donald Trump at the White House this week.

In his letter, Mark Grenon told Trump that chlorine dioxide – a powerful bleach used in industrial processes such as textile manufacturing that can have fatal side-effects when drunk – is “a wonderful detox that can kill 99% of the pathogens in the body”. He added that it “can rid the body of Covid-19”.

A few days after Grenon dispatched his letter, Trump went on national TV at his daily coronavirus briefing at the White House on Thursday and promoted the idea that disinfectant could be used as a treatment for the virus. To the astonishment of medical experts, the US president said that disinfectant “knocks it out in a minute. One minute!”

He went on to say: “Is there a way we can do something, by an injection inside or almost a cleaning? Because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it’d be interesting to check that.”

Trump did not specify where the idea of using disinfectant as a possible remedy for Covid-19 came from, and the source for his notion remains obscure. But the Guardian has learned that peddlers of chlorine dioxide – industrial bleach – have been making direct approaches to the White House in recent days.

Grenon styles himself as “archbishop” of Genesis II – a Florida-based outfit that claims to be a church but which in fact is the largest producer and distributor of chlorine dioxide bleach as a “miracle cure” in the US. He brands the chemical as MMS, “miracle mineral solution”, and claims fraudulently that it can cure 99% of all illnesses including cancer, malaria, HIV/Aids as well as autism.

Since the start of the pandemic, Genesis II has been marketing MMS as a cure to coronavirus. It advises users, including children, to mix three to six drops of bleach in water and drink it.

In his weekly televised radio show, posted online on Sunday, Grenon read out the letter he wrote to Trump. He said it began: “Dear Mr President, I am praying you read this letter and intervene.”

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/24/revealed-leader-group-peddling-bleach-cure-lobbied-trump-coronavirus

[chez]

He has no choice, his outlet is his basement bunker nad even when he does go live, even with the help of the MSM, he sounds like a moron.  Good thing for him, noone is really watching.  It will get really hard for him once he has to actually be present and talk.  You guys think Trump can speak, just wait

Well it looks like Trump can't even win over a moron...what does that make Trump. Biden just needs to lay low and watch Trump self destruct. A few months from now Biden will emerge from his bunker to clean up the mess Trump left behind.

[Peter McLennan]

For some reason, the type of people attracted to journalism are lefties.  I dont know why, but 80+% of journalist identify as liberal and Democrat.

This is also why talk radio is almost always conservative

So, the answer (also expressed more or less by Alan) is "for some reason". 

Really?  That's the answer?

If so, why is talk radio invariably right-biased?  Is that also explained by "for some reason"?

The same accusation is also frequently aimed at educational institutions.  Is academia also biased left "for some reason"?

[faberryman]

So Trump has supposedly clarified his injecting disinfectant remarks:

“I was asking a question sarcastically to reporters like you just to see what would happen”

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/494519-trump-says-remarks-about-heat-light-disinfectant-were-sarcastic

So help me out here guys, was he thinking outside the box or being sarcastic? It seems like the enigma decoder has slipped a cog.

[JoeKitchen]

So, the answer (also expressed more or less by Alan) is "for some reason". 

Really?  That's the answer?

If so, why is talk radio invariably right-biased?  Is that also explained by "for some reason"?

The same accusation is also frequently aimed at educational institutions.  Is academia also biased left "for some reason"?

Really Peter? 

As polls have shown, repeatably, 90% of journalists identify as liberal and/or democrat.  Why?  I dont know, nor need to know to explain why the media leans left.  It does by their own admission, just by the polling.  You cant have a 90% concentration of a certain type of individual in an industry and not have that industry biased towards those beliefs. 

By having so many left leaning people in the industry, the media unknowingly built a self-reassuring mechanism in their offices.  Since very few are there with different views, it becomes impossible for them to have any challenge to their points of view, which only make them feel more right.  Hence why you have the NYTs justifying why they went to town on Kavanaugh but have given almost no coverage to Tara Reid, who's story is more credibly then Blasey Ford's.  It make no sense objectively, but from their biased point of view, it does. 

And I did explain why talk radio is right based, but here we go again.  If you're liberal, the media already satisfies your needs from their inherent bias.  So there is no reason to go elsewhere to get your news, hence why liberal talk radio never really catches on.  I sure there are plenty of lefties that would like to start their own shows, but can never create the following that Rush did.  But if you're conservative, the media does not satisfy your needs, so you look for other outlets like talk radio and Fox News.  Simple.