The Coronavirus Thread

[Cunt]

Even with the prospect of grim death PLUS public opprobrium, lots of horny fuckers had unprotected sex throughout the whole AIDS crisis.

I think people expecting high compliance and cleanliness of humans, has not spent much time cleaning up after humans.

Disgusting barely-civilized primates with clean fingernails and dirty mouths.

[Sean Hayden]

--I knew it! Darned China Communist Party virus.

[Cunt]

Rumours are that Birx quit over being caught showing lack of care about the virus. If true - good for her. That's dignified.

It does show that those 'in the know' aren't great at compliance either though. I wonder if people will keep on moralizing about it...

[Sean Hayden]

It is a moral issue, just some folk can't be told anything they do in the name of freedom might also be unethical.

[Cunt]

It is a moral issue, just some folk can't be told anything they do in the name of freedom might also be unethical.

Freedom IS unethical.

Interesting thought you've given me there. (no ethics to a 'free' animal defending itself against your attack, for example)

I'm off to chew on it.

[JimC]

All through our evolutionary history, there has been tension between two motivations; for the good of the individual, and for the good of the tribe. In modern times, different societies come to different balances of these two. In normal circumstances, the balance a particular society evolves functions well enough, and suits their cultural milieu. When major events such as the coronavirus erupt, the balance in some societies may be found wanting...

[Cunt]

One side seems to favour more panic, more dire predictions.

The other seems to think itself different.

[JimC]

I wasn't speaking of "sides"...

[Cunt]

Doesn't matter what you were speaking of, my point is that both sides will see much the same thing, especially of the 'other side'.

[Scot Dutchy]

Covid demands seriousness, not this government's theatre of the absurd

Even Boris Johnson’s attempts to reassure look like distress flares from a clown marooned on a fantasy island

When a political crisis reaches a certain pitch, emergency and absurdity start to sound the same. “The main message is: please don’t travel to Kent,” Grant Shapps, the transport secretary, declared in a live press conference on Monday evening. It made perfect sense in context. Kent is the hotspot for a new variant of the coronavirus. France had sealed its borders. The prime minister offered reassurance that the nation’s food supply was secure.

This used to be the stuff of science fiction or satire. Only with the full run-up of 2020 could such a script land in a news broadcast. The acclimatisation to extreme events is becoming more shocking than the events themselves. There is a numb horror on realising that the preposterous has become normal.

Boris Johnson tried to sound unperturbed that the M20 had mutated into a lorry park for obstructed freight. He reminded his audience that the government had been “preparing for a long time for exactly this kind of event”. As luck would have it, a monstrous snake of traffic on the approach to UK ports mimics the scenario in which Britain leaves the European Union without a trade deal. A calamity inflicted by fate turns out to be indistinguishable from something the prime minister was planning to inflict as policy. This was meant to be comforting. When asked about the state of Brexit negotiations, the prime minister laughed.

It was an eloquent moment. Nothing about the situation is funny, except when Johnson’s touch makes it darkly ridiculous. He has a quality of anti-gravitas that extends to the whole cabinet. Their collective inadequacy is hiding in plain sight. It is not even hiding. It fills the screen completely, obscuring even the memory of competent administration.

When Priti Patel was asked about failures of pandemic management today, she declared: “The government has consistently this year been ahead of the curve in terms of proactive decisions on coronavirus.” It is hard to draft a more precise inversion of the truth. The home secretary’s calculated cynicism comes from the same place as the prime minister’s spontaneous laughter. They express the same contempt for the audience.

[NineBerry]

I've read that the US Corona stimulus bill contains a Latin language demonic invocation of Satan. The gates of Hell will open in Washington as soon as the bill is signed.

[Cunt]

I've read that there is a few hundred for Americans, and lots more for causes in other countries, plus laws around streaming illegal content becoming a felony.

But then again, no-one has really read the bill, so it doesn't matter what is in it, just what people think is in itt.

[NineBerry]

The thing about the satanic incantation sounds very convincing to me

[Cunt]

Did you see the funding for Pakistani gender education? THAT'S stimulus!

[Brian Peacock]

The pressure to ignore social distancing is 'uge' right now. How are my fellow 'mericans coping? Do you have an understanding family, or a bunch of Trumpian loons who protested masks, and think you're being crazy to follow CDC guidelines?

The virus is exerting telepathic pressure on the population to mingle...

You mean like the toxoplasmosis parasite causes infested rodents to fall in love with the cats that prey upon them, the Capitalist parasite infests the pychie of the gullible conservatives causing them to fall in love with the oligarchs and corporatists who gave them the plague in the first place?