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steve2470's JournalCritical care nurse Dawn has pleaded for the public to "stop it" after being faced with empty.....
https://twitter.com/BBCLookNorth/status/1240687667265843202
Hopefully people around the world will listen to her.
eta:
https://twitter.com/BBCLookNorth/status/1240741651259240458
Rick Wilson: "MAN, the energy Trump's agitprop machine is putting into 'China Virus' is astounding"
Stop taking the bait, and get back on Trump's incompetence and malfeasance.
Play smart.
https://twitter.com/TheRickWilson/status/1240352648341184520
Since he was/is a Republican attack dog/PR consultant, maybe he's onto something ?
Republicans and some independents seem to have gotten inured to Trump's NON-STOP LYING
Unless my memory is really faulty, didn't we used to expect our President to be honest ?
Or at least honest 99% of the time ?
The Republicans still in his cult seem to have embraced his non-stop lying totally.
We Democrats have rejected it.
Independents ? I don't know, but I'm guessing some percentage of them have embraced it.
If Obama had flat-out lied a tiny fraction of the amount that Trump lies, they would have
gone after impeachment with a vengeance.
I'll be so freaking relieved when we get a President who doesn't lie as easily as he or she breathes.
end of rant
Does Trump have early dementia or not ?
Simple question, regardless if you're a doctor or not. Yes, no, or I have no clue.
https://twitter.com/JohnMTalmadgeMD/status/1240134137085857792
Customer leaves $2,500 tip ahead of restaurant, bar closure
https://abc6onyourside.com/news/local/customer-leaves-2500-tip-ahead-of-restaurant-bar-closureCOLUMBUS, Ohio (WSYX/WTTE) — Sunday afternoon, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine announced that all restaurants and bars would be closing at 9 p.m.
Just hours before 9 p.m., a customer at Coaches Bar & Grill left a $2,500 tip.
His bill was just $29.75.
Coaches Bar and Grill said on Twitter, "When the going gets tough, the tough stay loyal. This loyal, amazing patron of Coaches on Bethel left the staff a $2.500 tip to help lighten the losses during this required closing of Restaurants & Bars in Ohio."
History of Pandemics
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/history-of-pandemics-deadliest/
A couple left a $9,400 tip at a Houston restaurant to help staff get through coronavirus shutdown
https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/17/us/houston-restaurant-coronavirus-tip-trnd/index.html(CNN) The staff at a popular Houston restaurant got a $9,400 tip from some regular customers who wanted to help them get by during the coronavirus shutdown.
The couple came for an early dinner at Irma's Southwest restaurant on Monday, after learning that all restaurants in the county would have to close their dining rooms and only offer takeout and delivery service, restaurant owner Louis Galvan told CNN.
"We didn't expect it, to be honest with you," Galvan said. "They left a gratuity for the entire kitchen and service staff, which is unexpected."
They left $1,900 in cash and put another $7,500 tip on a credit card, Galvan said. He said the couple wanted to be anonymous.
The bill for their meal was $90.12.
The husband left a note on the receipt that said "hold tip to pay your guys over the next few weeks."
During the quarantine, a pianist in Barcelona went to his balcony to play "My Heart Will Go On"....
After he started, a sax player in the building next door joined him.
I’m here for all of this...
https://twitter.com/RexChapman/status/1240127212528992256
Hope this gives people a smile
eta: For some reason the video is not playing here. It plays on twitter.com just fine. I dunno. Anyone know why ?
eta2: The twitter.com address is https://twitter.com/RexChapman/statuses/1240127212528992256 (just click that link)
A coronavirus cautionary tale from Italy: Don't do what we did
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/03/13/opinion/coronavirus-cautionary-tale-italy-dont-do-what-we-did/
A patient in a biocontainment unit is carried on a stretcher from an ambulance arrived at the Columbus Covid 2 Hospital in Rome on Tuesday.Alessandra Tarantino/Associated Press
ROME – “As in any war, we have to choose who to treat and who not.”
That was a headline on March 9 in Il Corriere della Sera, a leading newspaper in Italy, that informed us that hospitals in Italy’s north, the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak in our country, were being stretched thin and the health care system was on the brink of collapse.
An anesthesiologist at a hospital in Bergamo, one of the cities with the most cases of Covid-19, the illness caused by the new coronavirus, told the paper that the intensive care unit was already at capacity, and doctors were being forced to start making difficult triage decisions, admitting people who desperately need mechanical ventilation based on age, life expectancy, and other factors. Just like in wartime. The article was inexplicably placed on page 15, while the main headline on the newspaper’s front page relayed the political quarrels over the measures to curb the contagion.
WH Privately Backchannels Its Coronavirus Messaging to Conservative Social-Media Influencers
White House Privately Backchannels Its Coronavirus Messaging to Conservative Social-Media Influencers
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-white-house-privately-backchannels-its-coronavirus-messaging-to-conservative-social-media-influencers
As the coronavirus has worsened, members of the task force President Donald Trump has assigned to combat the pandemic have reached out to prominent conservative social media “influencers” and right-wing TV and radio stars to offer them private briefings and information sessions with Vice President Mike Pence and other top administration officials, The Daily Beast has learned.
The communications strategy began backstage at the Conservative Political Action Conference, the annual gathering that takes place just outside of Washington, D.C., and which happened to have an attendee diagnosed with coronavirus this year. The direct outreach occurred on Thursday, Feb. 27—the day after Trump tapped Pence to lead the task force. There, the vice president hosted an informal briefing on COVID-19 and the administration’s latest efforts, with several right-leaning personalities with large followings on Twitter and other social media platforms, according to a source with direct knowledge of the gathering.
The following Wednesday, Pence hosted another closed-door meeting with conservative “influencers,” with this one lasting for roughly an hour in the vice president’s office on White House grounds. The meeting was helmed by senior Trump administration officials such as Pence and Marc Short, the vice president’s chief of staff who previously served as Trump’s legislative affairs director.
According to three people with knowledge of the meeting, attendees included Fox New fixture and prolific MAGA tweeter Dan Bongino; former Trump adviser and current “War Room: 2020” podcast host Jason Miller; Newsmax TV host and Trump’s former press secretary Sean Spicer; former White House official and Sinclair “must-run” commentator Boris Epshteyn; Sinclair anchor and ex-Fox News host Eric Bolling; and former Rep. Jack Kingston (R-GA), a Trump surrogate.
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