Wednesday Reads: Wash your hands…
Posted: March 11, 2020 | Author: Minkoff Minx | Filed under: 2020 Elections, just because |38 CommentsSo, the night went as planned:
I don't feel like gloating I feel extremely relieved but still wary because there's still a long way to go for America to be safe again.
— 🆘Rev Magdalen |This Machine Dismantles Patriarchy (@revmagdalen) March 11, 2020
WATCH: Joe Biden in election night speech: “I want to thank Bernie Sanders and his supporters for their tireless energy and their passion. We share a common goal, and together, we'll defeat Donald Trump; we'll defeat him together.” pic.twitter.com/KM9XCOxOwB
— NBC News (@NBCNews) March 11, 2020
I could never get up and say that about Bernie and his Bro’s…
“The power to make hope and history rhyme”
This has all the feels!! And OMG that hug at the end!! That hug!!The hug alone healed me.
I need more of this!! #Healing #Biden2020 pic.twitter.com/2YyIjpxt3v— Mystery Solvent (@MysterySolvent) March 11, 2020
Bernie Sanders is not expected to speak about tonight's results. Get the latest on the Democratic primaries. ⬇️ https://t.co/AHiyWv0MUd
— HuffPost (@HuffPost) March 11, 2020
.@joebiden projected winner in Michigan! ….continuing the winning M state streak: Minnesota, Massachusetts, Missouri and Mississippi!
— Amy Klobuchar (@amyklobuchar) March 11, 2020
There are 89 delegates at stake in Washington State where polls have closed. Follow live results as they come in. https://t.co/N4fmeLuQgl
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) March 11, 2020
There are murmurings that Sanders will drop out tomorrow or Thursday.
— Alex Mohajer (@AlexMohajer) March 11, 2020
Bwahahaahaha!
However, if Bernie does that…it just makes the stunt he pulled in 2016 even more disgusting.
Also, about 2016:
Becoming more obvious that tons of people who voted Bernie in ‘16 were really just voting against Hillary Clinton. Demoralizing on several levels. https://t.co/c53LlwTWjm
— Molly Knight (@molly_knight) March 11, 2020
White men hate Hillary a lot more than they hate Biden. This makes me relieved for 2020 and pissed still for 2016. https://t.co/RiZqjZ5Uoj
— Federico Chispas (@dfsparks) March 11, 2020
One thing is proven tonight with tremendous finality — 25 years of demonizing Hillary Rodham Clinton really worked in 2016.
— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) March 11, 2020
also thank you to @JoyAnnReid for stating one obvious thing tonight; being a woman hindered Clinton & Biden being a man is helping his case.
— Daniel Aubry (@Aubs89) March 11, 2020
So, Sanders perceived ability to create a big coalition was an effect of men’s sexism in 2016. https://t.co/fzngEo9njF
— Kara Van Cleaf (@kvancleaf) March 11, 2020
And this tweet from Ezra is especially, what is the word…fucked? Coming from his misogynistic jerk:
Following the Clinton-Sanders race with the Biden-Sanders race is almost like a natural experiment in — to put it gently — the role gender plays in voter preferences and judgments about electability.
— Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) March 11, 2020
“To put it gently?” Ezra can piss off.
Meanwhile:
The look on this brother’s face when Biden tells the redneck he’s full of shit 😭💀 pic.twitter.com/kZbjg7bdM6
— chris evans (@notcapnamerica) March 11, 2020
Btw, in CA, the Sanders lead over Biden fell from 7.1% to 6.7% in today's counting.
— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) March 11, 2020
House Majority Whip James Clyburn told NPR he wants Joe Biden to choose an African American woman as his running mate if he becomes the Democratic presidential nominee. https://t.co/P45WVJRg45
— NPR Politics (@nprpolitics) March 11, 2020
While everyone's focused on the POTUS primary, remember we have so much ground to make up in state legislatures the run-up to redistricting next year.
It's great to see Democratic candidates continuing what we started in VA in 2017 by flipping state legislative seats #RedToBlue! https://t.co/mVOkS7Iqrg— Danica Roem (@pwcdanica) March 11, 2020
In other news:
— Drawing Daily USA (@DebatePorridge) March 10, 2020
JUST IN: Three TSA officers at #SanJose Int’l Airport have tested positive for #coronavirus. TSA: “all TSA employees they have come in contact with (them) over the past 14 days are quarantined at home.” #SJC #airtravel.
Full statement: pic.twitter.com/jj7JKlRYBP— Ian Cull (@NBCian) March 11, 2020
JUST IN: US coronavirus cases top 1,000 on Tuesday night. https://t.co/2t92cCNGfi
— NBC News (@NBCNews) March 11, 2020
All 50 governors should announce how many kits their states received. Alex Azar is not being truthful. Shame on him. https://t.co/LsndyhhIDs
— Arden Messing (@arden_messing) March 11, 2020
Here’s a quick tutorial on proper hand washing technique. Remember: just give yourself a H.A.N.D.! 🖐 pic.twitter.com/elpjIsd5mk
— Dan White (@atdanwhite) March 10, 2020
Hope y’all enjoyed that little video message.
This is a REAL IMAGE of Venus with Earth & Moon in the same shot! Captured in orbit around Venus by @JAXA_jp's Akatsuki spacecraft Oct 2016! Venus is reflecting sunlight on left (dayside), while infrared heat penetrates its clouds on right (nightside). A magnificent perspective pic.twitter.com/m4Wz2vXmGh
— Dr James O'Donoghue (@physicsJ) February 29, 2020
This is an open thread.
I wonder if tRumpers has any effect on the outcome in North Dakota?
Nah, it was a caucus state…
Washington votes by mail, and ballots had to be in at the latest by yesterday. This means it’ll take a while to count them all. I voted early, and for Amy. Guess I should have waited and then voted for Biden. So far Bernie isn’t doing anywhere as well as he did in the caucus in 2016 when his bullying supporters made the whole caucus experience an ordeal.
Wow. Just WOW. :The Scream:
IOW, The subjects consented to be swabbed for the flu study and were not asked about being tested for anything other than the common influenza because back when the study was designed and started there was no corona virus epidemic. Research regs protect subjects from consenting to being tested for one thing but then used for other testing. For example, you agree to give blood for a study on clotting factors, but then the researchers test your blood for something else like HIV. That would be unethical. Glad the UW’s IRB made the right call and said we have a public health emergency, and we’re testing not for anything like HIV but for corona virus, go ahead.
“Clinical” labs are ok’d for quality and reliability to do testing for patients with insurance, MC, or MA coverage. Research labs are just as good but don’t go through the paperwork process because they’re only used for research.
We need Federal public health programs to get realistic!
Seconded 1000x.
Speaking of getting realistic, there’s a thread by Yascha Mounk on Italian doctors discussing the need for triage given overwhelmed hospitals.
It’s one big huge duh, but is causing conniptions on the twitmachine. And then — I’m guessing coming from the US — bright and clever people pointing out that “we don’t have socialized medicine so we don’t have to worry about that.”
The stupidity. It kills.
Socialized medicine: nothing to do with death panels. Triage: always when resources run low. Resources: will always run low when you’re TOO STUPID TO TEST AND TREAT AND PAY FOR SELF-ISOLATION SO YOU CAN SLOW DOWN THE EPIDEMIC.
/*must learn to stop yelling. must learn… must…. endless screaming*/
” if Bernie does that…it just makes the stunt he pulled in 2016 even more disgusting.”
And the following tweets.
It really does. It really really really does.
I just can’t get behind the coalescing around Biden. He just makes me sick. Him getting into the race to begin with, when Harris and Warren were already there, was pure sexism to begin with.
Now we have a choice between a treasonous kleptocrat criminal and a harasser. Cool, cool.
(Sure, the harasser is the lesser evil. As I say. Woot. Not.) (Yes, at least we’re rid of Bernie, who’s the only human on the planet who could have lost to the criminal.)
Yes, yes, yes. I will forever be angry that Bernie and his egotism kept us from the best President in a century.
He had no right to run as a Democrat as he said he’d never change to Democrat- he is admittedly a socialist, pure and simply. He just plays around with words.
I do not see Biden going two terms. I don’t think he wants to. I’m very curious what his VP selection strategy will be.
Agree.
JJ – thanks for passing along the Venus/Earth/Moon picture. It’s just awesome.
I agree — it’s wonderous!
Bernie being the dog in a manger again.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2020/03/10/democratic-primaries/
Management doesn’t care about preventing transmission to staff, not realizing without healthy staff they can’t care for patients.
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/seattle-health-care-providers-scramble-to-ration-medical-supplies-as-coronavirus-cases-climb/
Welp – my company has an urgent business update meeting tomorrow. We are dependent on airline segments (flight segments) sold. It’s a worldwide company with offices everywhere. I expect we will be given the opportunity to take sabbaticals, etc. They’ve already been cutting payroll, even with senior leadership positions, prior to the pandemic.
Wondering if they’ll offer early retirement……
No way to meet by televideo? There are plenty of videoconferencing programs where you can share visuals and documents.
Early retirement? I’d be tempted to do that if they offered a good package. 🙂
Oh yes – the majority of our meetings are by Webex. A large percentage of us work from home, including me. I work with trainers and e-learning developers from all over the world. The company is headquartered in the UK.
Another possibility is an across the board pay-cut of 5% or such. They’ve done that before, after 9/11 IIRC.If an incentive to retire is offered, I’ll most likely do that.
This whole godawful process is giving me trauma flashbacks and new trauma.
If there is a Judgment Day, the media are in grave trouble. This witness for the prosecution will never stop talking!
In 2016, Bernie wafted on the wings of misogyny. No matter what, a significant percentage of his supporters, often the loudest and most virulent, (should that be virilent?) would never vote for a woman.
This year, that ‘threat’ has been averted early. I’d like Bernie to stay in the race because (I suspect) his ‘revolution’ will tail off without bogeygirl to keep them fierce. Eventually, he’ll be standing by the side of the road waving down the campaign bus only to have it whizz by and leave him in the dust. And nobody will even bother to wave back.
That video on handwashing is fairly good, but here are a few points to keep in mind:
Wash your wrists too.
Best to point your hands down when washing so that water flows downward and doesn’t splash further up your forearms.
Point hands down when rinsing, start rinse at wrists.
Don’t turn off the faucet (last touched with dirty hands!) with your freshly washed hands! Use a paper towel or if lever-style handles can often nudge them with your forearm to turn off.
Best to dry using paper towels or a fresh clean towel instead of one already used.
I went to a doctor’s appointment today. They asked me if I had been around anyone who was sick and whether I had been to another country recently. Last week in the same place they didn’t ask those questions. They had hand sanitizer everywhere. On Fri I have to go to a hospital for an MRI. I just hope no one there has the virus.
I drove home in the rush hour, and there was almost no traffic! We have 95 confirmed cases in MA and more than 1,000 people in quarantine. Most colleges are going to on-line teaching and they are talking about closing K-10 schools. I was supposed to go to a HS play tonight, but it was cancelled. In my apartment building there’s a sign saying that if you are sick or know anyone who is, you have to report it to the office. There are a lot of old people here.
It’s actually good, I suppose, that they’re doing that early rather than late. With the lack of testing, we have zero freeboard to count on.
Take care at the hospital! I’m sure they’ll know to keep everyone at least 3 ft apart.
Thanks. I’m starting to get really worried. The number of cases here is going up rapidly. The people who were at the Biogen conference were refused testing by the CDC and they ended up spreading the virus all over. They probably ate in restaurants, bought things in stores, rode public transportation, took taxis. It’s probably happening in other cities where it hasn’t been discovered yet.
It’s terrifying.
Oh, just great.
Welp, cue admixture of melamine wherever it calls for a white powder. :mega-eye-roll:
MRI?
I thought I read that It’s possible COVID-19 can last up to 9 days on plastic and cardboard.. based on the behavior of other corona viruses.
That’s what I’ve read too. Would think it’s less on cardboard or non-smooth surfaces, and if it gets sunlight or not.
Trump sounded like he was a death’s door in his oval office speech. I think he has the coronavirus.
Zomg. It wasn’t journalists who caught it on purpose to infect him! It was the henchman of a trusted and brilliant dictator! so unfair!