TOP GERMAN VIROLOG: 'You want to know why our mortality rate from Coron is so low compared to everyone else? It’s simple—we run half a million tests every single week.'
Since when did that start happening? Since there isn't any clear timeline provided here, they're just suddenly claiming Germans are cranking out 500,000 tests a week out of nowhere. Anyway, I guess it's a good thing, and if it actually turns out to be true, it's pretty obvious that everyone involved in mass testing is pulling some serious benefits from the whole operation.
I remember reading an article a while back about this scientist—another German guy, actually—who basically pioneered the first tests back in January; he took 11 different samples, sent them over to China, and they confirmed which one was the most effective at detecting the virus, and now he's running his own lab producing a million tests a week and selling them for 160 euros per 100 units to several different countries. And honestly, he's getting pretty heated with every other nation on Earth, asking why they aren't manufacturing these tests in massive quantities and running huge testing programs themselves, especially since making the tests isn't even that complicated of a process. 🤷
So, basically in Slough there are only two officially confirmed cases, and then out of nowhere this woman with advanced cancer shows up and passes away an hour later, only for it to turn out she actually tested positive. God rest her soul.
I guess they'll just keep testing the dead and anyone coughing up blood. In our neck of the woods, things won't really "blow up" until they actually start ramping up the testing, and once that happens, the government will probably just slap us with a curfew because they'll blame everything on some irresponsible public. We’re definitely going to be the last ones to crawl out of this whole crisis, it's just classic us.
This is honestly just tragicomic at this point. 🤣🤣
So, get this: first off, they wouldn't even bother testing her until she basically demanded it herself. Then, once she tests positive, they just tell her to head home to her husband and three kids to self-isolate. After that, nobody bothers calling her, so she ends up having to call the hospital multiple times just to get someone to actually look at her. She finally shows up for an exam, the doctor tells her everything is totally normal for Coron, and then they just send her right back home. Good grief 🤣🤣🤣 And she goes on to list a bunch of other similar stories from colleagues and people she knows.
And then you’ve got some absolute moron sending her threatening messages. 🤦
So basically, what we have is ambulances and these "space explorers" who go out looking for "potentially infected" people—but only when the cameras are rolling for TV. We've got a crisis task force sitting behind glass partitions making all the calls. There are bans on moving around without permits, barbed wire on the roads near Martha's Vineyard, Capak is constantly complaining about how Americans are behaving, and they're even asking Congress to approve tracking every single cell phone in the US... it just goes on and on.
But on the flip side, you've got seventy-year-olds who tested positive wandering around unsupervised, and patients who are just coming and going from the hospital whenever they feel like it without anyone asking a single question.
BuzzFeed has already covered everyone from those who caught the virus to the ones who actually recovered, and now they've gone and added a fourth category to the mix: the unemployed. ☕
Ribić: Ideas about cutting public sector wages are misguided; we should be taking on more debt instead
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I honestly can't help myself here: what an absolute, disgusting piece of trash this guy is!
Go ahead and ban me, I don't even care.
This pathetic excuse for a human being is directly responsible for making life at least 20% worse for every single person living in this backwater hole of a country. Around here, union leaders act just like Josip Broz Marshall—they aren't going anywhere until they drop dead.
This could change everything: scientists from Oxford believe that Corona has already been in Britain for two months and that 30 million people have already moved past it.
I’ve been rambling about this on ESPN for three days now, and honestly, here is why we need mass testing. The scale of what the top brass is putting together is actually incredible—better than my wildest dreams, really—with 3.5 million tests already lined up and ready to go.
I mean, I’m a little skeptical about that 30 million figure being through the woods if the virus only showed up in January, but these massive testing drives are going to give us answers to so many questions that right now are just pure guesswork.
This Capak guy is seriously starting to get on my last nerve, just constantly talking nonsense. He’d better just hit the factory reset button on himself soon, because we aren't living in North Korea.
Wait a second, if people are testing positive while they're already in self-isolation, then what was even the point? Why were those twins stuck in quarantine in the first place? 🤔
Just a tiny little device, kind of like those things people use to check their blood sugar, every single household should just have one sitting around, so everyone can test themselves every morning and we could honestly wipe out Corona in no time at all. I mean, seriously, look at how the Chinese handled it, they took an entire car factory and flipped it into a massive mask production plant almost overnight, cranking out 5 million pieces a day, and honestly, anyone who manages to start mass-producing stuff on that scale within six months is going to end up way richer than Jeff Bezos.
So this whole idea about paying out minimum wages just to force employers to keep their staff on the payroll is honestly just 👋
I mean, think about it—they basically ban you from firing someone, mandate that you keep paying them a minimum wage just so they don't lose their job, yet they won't even touch the payroll taxes, which you still have to cough up for three months straight. They aren't getting rid of those costs at all.
Sure, you could probably sell this nonsense to the average sheep who blindly votes for the Republican Party thieves, but there’s no way you can pitch this to a real entrepreneur who’s been loyal to their employees for years.
In reality, a worker and a business owner would just sit down, agree on a termination, the worker heads over to the unemployment office to collect 60% of their pay for three months, and the employer doesn't end up stuck paying any extra taxes.
But no, instead, Aladrovic cooked up this scheme to screw over both the boss and the employee by setting the minimum wage payout at $3,250.
Total idiots.
The fantastic Horvat & Aladrovic duo, the geniuses who are supposedly going to pull us out of this massive economic crisis... 👋
Elizabeth Mendoza said:The number of recoveries is climbing fast. Yesterday morning we were sitting at just 5, but today we’re already up to 22. That means we had 17 people cleared in just 24 hours. Honestly, that number is going to keep shooting up over the next few days.
When you look at the trend or the curve, the recovery numbers and the death tolls don't actually matter. What really counts are the new infections, and seeing as Italy has had a flat line for the last three days, it’s a really solid sign. For us, though, the peak is still looming right ahead.
I went through the Lincoln Tunnel and decided to skip the interstate altogether. I figured I’d just cut across some hills instead.
Look, restlesssurfer97, I swear to God, I just drove through a place that had exactly one house. One single damn house and a sign telling you where you are. 🤣
Maybe it's just the local municipality. ☕
Man, what am I looking at? 🤣
I think I read somewhere that on average about seven bureaucrats lose their jobs every year, or something along those lines, but hey, don't quote me on that.🤣
By the way, during Plenković’s term, the number of people employed in public administration has grown by several thousand—there are actual figures for it, but I can't be bothered to hunt them down right now—and he was actually bragging himself last year on multiple occasions about how he gave everyone a pay raise of roughly 20% cumulatively since his mandate started. I think we all still vividly remember that teacher strike, and instead of giving them the $400 million they were asking for, Caesar decided to give everyone a 6% bump instead, which ends up costing about $2 billion annually. Every desk jockey in the government got the exact same raise as the medical professionals.
He also bumped minimum wages up to $4,000 gross, and naturally, that meant raising the mandatory salaries for directors and board members of corporations too.
And now, we're getting hit by Corona.
Everyone, and I mean absolutely everyone, knew that America would fall apart during the next crisis, yet instead of finally making some real moves toward reforming healthcare, the pension system, the judiciary, and especially that bloated, oversized administration, Caesar just handed out raises to everybody.
And now he’s going to blame Corona for the system collapsing. He's a useless bureaucrat.
Matthew Young35 said:Sharing Easter treats? Go ahead, please do. It’s actually quite nice to see people treating themselves for once.
You just don't get it; that money flows right back into the national treasury through public spending, man. We need to defend our way of life, says Zoki—though when he says "our," he clearly means living off the taxpayer's dime, because he wouldn't know any other way of life if it hit him in the face; he's never even heard of it existing.
There are probably two or three different ways this could go down, and honestly, people are just drifting from one option to the next without even having a pass 🤣
I mean, look at how much Vojkovic totally messed up today regarding those passes 🤣
You can't just fire miserable people who are stuck in useless positions because they're part of the bureaucracy; that’s just not the solution 👋
I really hope that Paul Sanders5 is actually working for some major national newspaper or something, you know, so he can at least go treat himself to a nice meal at Walmart 👋