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March 7, 2020

the media needs to black out the president.

stop asking him questions about this illness. he knows nothing.
he is trying to spin the few factoids that have managed to lodge in that old, moldy, disintegrating sponge of a brain to duck any blame.
he only cares about himself, and his power.

let him talk to fox, and hope that those that die listen to his advice dont infect too many other people.

just.stop.asking.questions.you.know.he.will.lie.about.

March 4, 2020

a warren/biden race going forward would be good for the party and the country.

warren pulled up short in a lot of places, but if you look at the combined not bernie/not joe totals, there is a significant chunk of the electorate that is still unsettled.
w bloomie out, i think she still has a path.
i think she should stick it out through the next few contests.

but i sure wish bernie would wake up and realize that his policy goals would go forward if he drops out, but it dies w him a little more w every delegate in his column.

i had a teenie tiny hope that bloomie was start enough to see it this way, but no. teenie, but i wonder what hawkfish would have said. did say, most likely.

imma go throw warren a few bucks now.

March 2, 2020

my bernie fan friends, please, if you vote tomorrow,

please give me you ear/eyes for just one minute.
please carefully weigh AALLLLL the pluses and minuses, and please consider voting for warren.

take the biggest lesson for us right now from 2016- do not nominate someone w high negatives.
do a head to head. a clear headed head to head.
i see zero warren minuses, and sooo many for bernie.
she is going to implement identical policies better.
she has a good grip on the intersection of race and class, where bernie sees none. that is why she has higher support among black women.

and then there is his health, WHICH.HE.IS.HIDING.

the one reason i didnt want hillary to run is that i did not want to drag her baggage from door to door. i didnt believe a bit of it. but if you are explaining, you are losing. period.

please do not make me explain the difference between democratic socialism and joseph stalin. dont make me explain why bernie keeps using the word free. dont make me explain the diff between m4a and the aca.

no good leader send an army into the deciding battle of an epic war w holes in their shoes, rocks in the rucksacks, and too few spavined, mangy, rented mules.

please give this foot soldier a banner i can carry w pride.

and if you care about what comes after, lets not burden ourselves w the hard work of revolution when our democracy has all the tools it needs to right this ship.

warren has what it takes to heal our wounds, and move us forward.

March 2, 2020

instead of advising how not to get cv, how about how not to spread it?

it strikes me that the subtle message of info so far is the self centered message of how not to get sick, yourself.

but i've seen little mention of how not to spread it. besides an offhand comment on the topic of masks, that those ones they give you in the doc's waiting room is that it keeps you from spreading it. but then poopoo the idea of wearing masks.
we should be telling people to get a couple of simple masks, and if you have any symptoms, wear the damn thing.

they are also spreading a bit of info that i dont agree w.
they say if you sneeze, to sneeze into your sleeve, your elbow. but then you wear that sleeve around for the rest of the day.
a young friend of mine went to the culinary institute, and they were told- sneeze into your hand, then immediately wash it. that makes much more sense.
sneezing down your shirt has also been mentioned, which is better, but not much.

but, how about telling people to carry a handkerchief? that's the ideal right there, but i guess they just arent a thing any more. but pocket packs of tissues, people.

a better descriptions of the typical course would also help. picking up those mild cases earlier is important. telling people that most people get over it is fine, but i am not hearing about the proper course of action. i feel like they are sending a message to tough it out, instead of one of- it's up to you sick people to do your best to keep it to yourself. here is what you need to do as soon as your nose starts itching.

also would like to hear it compared to the other cv's that we know of, which are cold bugs. when you say flu, despite repeatedly explaining that it is a respiratory illness, not "stomach flu", people would have a much better mental pic if you explained that this is a cold type virus, but more deadly.

selfish murika.


eta- et tu, du? 10 replies and 2 recs.
i rest my case.

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