Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
Experts advise washing your hands to avoid Corona virus, at least 20 seconds, long enough to say the Alphabet or sing Happy Birthday.
I can’t believe Democrats have missed this opportunity to expand the welfare state. “Because of the wealth gap and income disparity that has existed in America since 1615, and cruelly perpetuated by the Bad Orange Man’s tax-cuts-for-the-rich-only, our most vulnerable people – the poor – who are disproportionately women and children and persons of color and LGBTQ+ – are ill-equipped to survive this deadly virus. They cannot afford to let the water run all day long. We must immediately allocate billions of dollars of Water Bill subsidies to help those who need help most. It’s a matter of survival.”
Although . . . maybe the Democrats are having an internal struggle and haven’t figured out which of their principles polls the best?
“Letting the water run to wash your hands wastes water. Millions of fish and precious woodland creatures will die of thirst as Americans steal their water and run it down the drain. This species-ist attack on the rest of the planet must end today. No More Handwashing!”
I’m so confused.
Joe Doakes
Don’t give them ideas, Joe.
Also, as a sidenote to Joe: women? LGBTQ? The poor? People of color?
No mention of transgender people?
Where are you making them invisible? When did you become transphobic. 
Joe, your white cis-gendered male privilege is on full display. You forgot about soap. Minorities, women, children and the trans-gendered need soap – and don’t even think of giving them Ivory (for multiple obvious reasons). They need the good stuff.
You are correct, Greg! They need good ol’ fashioned Fels Naptha! That’ll kill that virus right quick! 😂
Gosh Boss, that was my first reaction, but I have recently been exploring my more sensitive side. Now I am thinking locally sourced Yak-butter infused with Essential Oils.
After all the fire drills you’d think they’d be ready. Science and detail are this administrations strong points. We’ll be fine.
Let me be the first to suggest delousing stations for the poor.
Face it, China didn’t lock down 10% of the worlds population and shut down manufacturing for over a month based on a hoax!
The upside, China is seeing the best air quality it has had in 60 years.
Ah! The “hoax” hoax. I knew Emery would bite it and swallow it hook, line, and sinker.
The media believes every negative event must be spun into an anti-Trump story. The same idiots who believed Hillary had a lock on the 2016 election believe every word.
Heads-up. Bernie speaks TONIGHT at the River Centre. Free. Doors open 4:30, rally at 6:30.
Pence speaks THURSDAY at Intercontinental Hotel on Kellogg Blvd. Doors open at 3:00, speech at 5:00. That one is during the state hockey tournament so leave yourself time to find parking.
Cross posted, for more outreach.
What reason would the Chinese Communist Party have to impose a totalitarian lock-down on its people? I mean besides having an economy struggling from the tariff-war, with a block of citizens finding out they like money after all, and those pesky Hong Kong freedom-fighters giving the rest of the population ideas.
Woolly: How sad it must be believing that scientists, scholars, historians, economists and journalists have devoted their entire lives to deceiving you, while a real estate conman and reality TV host with years of known frauds and endless documented lies is your only beacon of truth and honesty.
Coronavirus by the numbers, as gathered by WSJ:
25% drop in container volumes in February at port of Los Angeles
92% drop in vehicle sales in China in first 16 days of month
200,000 flights to and from China canceled
Warren Buffett used to say that the #1 number he paid attention to was Port of LA/Long Beach container traffic trends.
Well, Emery, you hypocrite. I guess you forgot about all of the lies Obumbler told, over and over again. How sad it is that drooling little sycophants like you, believed every word. In fact, you continue to believe everything that your media masters tell you, because you’re too freaking lazy to do your own research.
I hope Emery’s numbers are correct, and that they cause China to implode in financial ruin without the US having to fire a single shot.
That’s how a modern strategic genius fights wars. Quarantine and tariffs.
It’s a good thing that more than a few manufacturers had started moving their production away from China, based on the tariffs.
Also, 92% drop in vehicle sales. Who are the 8% that said “wow, there’s this flu going on, and the country is under lockdown. Now’s a great time to buy a car!”
Woolly: How sad it must be believing that scientists, scholars, historians, economists and journalists have devoted their entire lives to deceiving you, while a real estate conman and reality TV host with years of known frauds and endless documented lies is your only beacon of truth and honesty.
Putting hard scientists in the same basket as historians, economists, and journalists is a mistake. scientists study the natural world. Historians and economists study past human behavior. Journalists tell stories.
And no one said that they devoted their lives to deceiving me. They are just wrong. A lot. About important things, like Trump’s election bringing on a worldwide recession, that Trump colluded with the Russians to influence the 2016 election, and that men sometimes have vaginas and can bear children, while some women have penises and can impregnate women or men who have a uterus..
You kidding, head-shaker? Nobody buys cars during the President’s Day Sale or the Labor Day Sale or the Boss Is Out Of Town And We’re Cutting Prices Like Crazy Sale. Those are obvious come-ons to draw suckers onto the lot.
But the “Ebola Close Out Sale – Everything Must Go Before We All Drop Dead” man, that was a terrific time to buy a car. And I’m betting the “Last Salesman Alive – Buy Before He Dies” sale is a close second. I’m surprised it was only 8%. You’d think there’d be more people willing to risk the lives of everyone they love to score a hot deal on a new set of wheels. I know I would.
I think that the people who panic sold on the coronavirus hype were the same people robbing the toilet paper aisle of costco.
They were literally trading equities for toilet paper.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb (the guy who literally wrote the book on black swan events) notes on his twitter feed that flu season ” . . . typically starts & ends with the school year.”
Why was the US was not preparing for the epidemic while it was hitting China?
Woolly commented: “[that flu season ” . . . typically starts & ends with the school year.”
It’s summer in the Southern Hemisphere, how’re they doing?
Coronavirus strikes US. Women and minorities hardest hit.
Emery is in his “everything that is bad is Trump’s fault” mode. Again.
It really is a kind of madness, like blaming the Jews for all the ills of the world.