I Got All Hacked Off This Morning
I read someplace that Trump was calling this the “Chinese” virus. I couldn’t stop with just rolling my eyes, shaking my head, and banging the desk with my fist.
The Amazing Racist just got my goat.
I have decided to call it TrumpVirus – he broke it, he bought it.
Any other ideas?
The Orange-crap-gibbon strain of viri of humanoid concentration.
1Abbreviate: O-C-V/H
TrumpVirus! I love it! Good thing so many have health insurance because of Obama Care.
2I kinda like the Trump Disease better, But I will yield to your superior wisdom.
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The Only Thing We Have to Fear is: Oligarchs, Bankers, MSM, RNC, Caligula cults, DNC and perhaps the entirety of the US Government.
Other than that… Fear Itself.
4TrumpVirus and trumpy* symptoms for any and all TMI situations. Can’t remember something? No problem, you’re just having a brief wave of trumpiness*. Need to apologize and don’t want to? No problem. “I’m feeling a little trumpy* so get over it.” With all due apologies to classroom teachers who once schools reopen will be facing too many choruses of “but Trump* said …”
If we have to wait until January to remove this scourge* be sure to make Moscow Mitch and all Republicons feel our rage at the polls in November. Hey Mitch, if you ask Speaker Pelosi nicely she’ll give you a second shot at removing Orange Fungus*. Today would be nice.
5TRUMP-16 virus? That is when it started and look at the destruction it’s caused!
6Hopefully, going all archaic, trumpsbane.
7And even more hopefully, not folksbane.
Trump*-1946 for the year of its* birth. Or, do we need to subtract 9 months from June to satisfy his* Teabangelical base?
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https://giphy.com/gifs/funny-lol-wtf-B4ORVnBvJCVvq
9My Bubba pointed out this morning, that the “Task Force” has moved Tony Fauci to the far fringes so that he won’t be in camera range while some yahoo is talking. Bubba claims the press has discovered that Fauci has these involuntary tics whenever he hears BS and idiocy. His face isn’t as diplomatic as his mouth.
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Accepting the Lifetime of Lying and Bungled Crisis Award Blame for Cheezit 45 is Susan Collins.
As Coronavirus Grips US, Critics Remember Susan Collins’ Insistence Pandemic Flu Funding Be Cut From 2009 Stimulus Package
11“Senator Collins went out of her way to stop funds from going to pandemic preparedness, and now Mainers are concerned because of Collins’ history of opposing funding for situations exactly like this.”
full article:
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/03/13/coronavirus-grips-us-critics-remember-susan-collins-insistence-pandemic-flu-funding
Hoaxavirus.
12Since the IQ4.5* maladministration likes to name viruses by location, we could name this COVID-19 after the ground zero for America – Merde-duh-Blowhole Virus. Another Orange Foolius maladministration member in quarantine, Press I-Am-Not-A Secretary Stephanie Grisham.
“White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham is self-quarantining after having contact while at Mar-a-Lago. Also Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney” who came in contact with his niece who came in contact at, you guessed it: Merde-duh-Blowhole.
Donnie* has always aspired to being first. How is that ground zero working out for you, Donnie*?
13Also noticed that when Trump started to wind up regarding a reporters question involving the New York Time, Pence quickly tapped him on the shoulder and basically stepped in front of him to provide a less stupidity loaded answer. And, the president let him.. Appears that the level of fear amongst the president and his staff are starting to pierce through some of the delusional fantasies. Finally. Probably temporary and selective breakthroughs, though.
14Do you know Mrs. Betty Bowers America’s Best Christian??? She suggested on FB that we should name the virus after him…but Swine Flu was already taken.
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Ohio gets a reprieve from politics
‘Appallingly Irresponsible’: Though Ohio Shuts Down Primary Election Over Coronavirus, Other States Go Forward
Edit: “Officials who promised that they had extremely serious plans to make voting in person in the middle of a pandemic safe were not telling the truth.”
Three of the four states which scheduled in-person primary voting for Tuesday—Arizona, Florida, and Illinois—are going ahead with it despite threats to public health from the coronavirus outbreak that spurred Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine to delay voting in his state until June.
Progressives and political observers found the decision to move forward with voting to be a mistake given the severity of the coronavirus.
“Trying desperately to urge people to take coronavirus seriously and to stay at home—and then holding elections and encouraging them to go vote at polling stations filled with poll workers and others: the opposite message—is appallingly irresponsible,” tweeted Intercept journalist Glenn Greenwald.
16full article:
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/03/17/appallingly-irresponsible-though-ohio-shuts-down-primary-election-over-coronavirus
States reporting COVID-19 cases, updated March 17:
Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
Florida
Georgia
Hawaii
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Washington
Wisconsin
Wyoming
Also:
Washington DC
Guam
Puerto Rico
Virgin Islands
So let’s all move to West Virginia, the only state not yet reporting infection. We will be safe and we will have good high-paying jobs in the coal mining industry, which Trump promised to save. And we know Trump always keeps his promises, don’t we?
17IQ 4.5 probably hides behind his KKK mask to limit exposure
18The Mask of the Orange Death.
19Interesting that WV has no Corona virus. Perhaps the number of remaining teeth has a correlation, or the fact that the virus is worse for old people. There aren’t any: they just look that way.
20I keep wrestling with “cutesy” names, but keep coming back to the proper name: Covid-19.
If you want to name the response: Trump Tragedy 2020, or hoaxaggedon, fine. Boss Tweet didn’t cause the disaster, he “merely” let it rage unchecked…
21slipstream @ 17 – try Avi’s site. https://ncov2019.live/
The recovery rate for China is 86% updated. For the good ol’ USA, with its piss poor private healthcare system and over priced care. The recovery rate is wait, what? – 1%.
US: 5,124 – confirmed -96 deceased.
22Global Recovery – 42%
I find it much more fun to call it CovfefeVirus
23AliceBeth @15, perhaps Mrs. Bowers can work with Rat Faced* or something rodent*. Although innocent animals deserve better, while IQ4.5* owns his* pathetic response to the current pandemic. He and every Republicon* who has fluffed this maladministration and its efforts to reduce government to non-functional deserve to have a symptom named after them. Real presidents have airports, national monuments and battleships named after them. This guy* should maybe be listed on a national brand of port-a-potties. The head on a ship can now be called a Donnie*.
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FYI: From the Weather Channel:
Higher temperatures affect survival of new coronavirus, pathologist says
Research from a laboratory-grown copy of the coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) that causes the COVID-19 illness shows that heat affects the virus and impacts its behavior, a top pathologist said new research has shown. But other infectious disease experts aren’t yet convinced.
“In cold environments, there is longer virus survival than warm ones,” Hong Kong University pathology professor John Nicholls told AccuWeather exclusively.
Nicholls and colleagues from a team at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China, previously produced a study, which was published in February and has yet to be peer-reviewed, noting the effect of heat. Their research is based on one of the world’s first lab-grown copies of SARS-CoV-2.
One recent research paper supported this assertion by pointing out the proximity of the major hotspots. The authors of the study, which was published last week, wrote that COVID-19 “has established significant community spread in cities and regions only along a narrow east-west distribution roughly along the 30-50 North latitude corridor at consistently similar weather patterns (5-11 degrees C [41 to 51 F] and 47-79 percent humidity).”
25Yes, TRUMPVID-45. I’m all about it. My beloved daughter-in-law is a Chinese native who recently became a US citizen. Her parents, as generous and kind as humans can possibly be, are in quarantine in Beijing. His continual labeling of this infectious agent as the Chinese virus is hateful, which he is. Every minute of every day. And he encourages hate, which is even worse. Someone recently talked about how Democrats loathe Trump. Is there some word worse than loathe? What I feel for him is worse than that.
26I saw someone call it the Cofefe-Virus.
27Orange Fever
28Swinish flu
Trumplague
John McCain’s revenge
Donzorrhea
Slime disease
Mal de mer-a-lago
Using “virus” implies a level of knowledge that his administration lacks – he’s already shown he has no idea of the difference between bacterial and viral infections.
So my vote is to use “disease” or “plague”. They give a connotation of something icky in the way “virus” doesn’t. Plus “plague” suggests rats, fleas, and the other parasites Trump has inflicted on us.
The TRUMP-16 modifier from Grandma Ada is great. I also like Buttermilk Sky’s list. Donzorrhea has the nifty undertones of diarrhea + gonorrhea. Maybe we need to build up the full list, and experiment to see which ones best make our local maggats’ heads explode?
29Linda Phipps @20, For some time I’ve been wondering about that West Virginia anomaly. I figure it could be two possibilities:
1. WV’s public health system lags way behind other states’ and just isn’t very aware of what might actually be going on.
2. WV is about the most homogenous and least diverse state, with a population [on average] –that is far less mobile than other places– [not to mention poorer, less educated, and strongly attracted to all the Rethug COVID-19 denial].
#2 is probably the main factor, with #1 adding to it.
Not to offend any WV’ers, but the state does have a rep almost as bad as AL, GA, MS, LA, etc. The only WV’ers I remember knowing, very few of them, really did fit the “hillbilly” stereotype, but that was 50+ years ago.
30Buttermilk Sky @28, All great nics for covid-19.
Donzorrhea might be best and ‘most catchy’, except that diarrhea isn’t a covid-19 symptom.
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31ByeDon/2020
[buhbye you sonuvabitch RAT45]
Is Ignorant B@#terd Flu taken?
‘Cause I really, REALLY like the sound of that.
32From an email from a Chinese epidemiologist (at ground zero) to his father, also a doctor, in Arizona.
Summarising: Heat kills the virus. He recommended hot beverages and soups. If unable to wash clothes, hang in the sun as the virus is killed by sunlight.
The size is very large (as viruses go) so special expensive filters (masks, etc.) are a waste of $$. Basics will do nicely.
Being large, it’s heavy so keep 6 ft away from coughers, sneezers, etc. It lives only 2 hours on skin (finger tips).
WASH YOUR HANDS!
It starts with a sore throat and moves on to pneumonia. If accompanied by fever – call your doctor!
Be wise, folks. Remember – germs don’t care about church.
33I like Corona-45 as a name.
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