Showing posts with label madhouse. Show all posts
Showing posts with label madhouse. Show all posts

Thursday, May 14, 2020

Dining Out Mannequin Style.

I'd rather there be empty space, without any artificial props, surrounding me rather than mannequins in a restaurant. Not that I have a mannequin phobia, I don't. I just find this whole idea odd. Besides, they're obviously going to be an attraction for children who'll want to climb and paw all over them. Yeah, that'll help decrease the spreading of anything infectious. 

If this idea of mannequins extends to the bars...well...then...I might end up talking all night thinking mistakenly that someone is really interested in what I'm saying.

Remember when not that long ago nude restaurants were the trendy cosmopolitan adornment of public dining? Now we're eating while wearing a Hazmat suit seated next to mannequins. Good times...Good times...

NY Post: Restaurant will use mannequins to fill seats — and enforce social distancing.

AP (via Archive): Dining with dummies.

This is surreally absurd not unironically...

Wednesday, May 13, 2020

Mask Shaming on the rise.


From, "why are you wearing a mask", to, "why aren't you wearing a mask".

Psychology, conflicting rules, misinformation and anxiety fueling bad behavior and violence, experts say[.]
Is that what experts say?

It's a madhouse out there...

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The Orange County Register Archived

Friday, May 8, 2020

San Francisco delivers alcohol, tobacco and teh pot to quarantined addicts.


San Francisco is using private donations to deliver alcohol, tobacco and medical marijuana to a few dozen people dealing with addiction as they isolate or quarantine in city-leased hotel rooms during the pandemic, officials confirmed Wednesday.

There are about 270 people, mostly homeless, staying in hotel rooms to recover from COVID-19 or to wait out possible exposure to the virus. Nearly a dozen people have received alcohol and more than two dozen have received tobacco, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

City officials said that private donations pay for the items, and that helping manage nicotine, opioid and alcohol cravings ensures that recovering people don't go out and possibly infect others.

Dr. Grant Colfax, San Francisco's public health director, said the harm-reduction approach is widespread and based on decades of sound public health policy.
"...decades of sound public health policy." Okay, then.

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Omaha.com Archived

Wednesday, May 6, 2020

Gov. Cuomo welcomes Bill Gates and the Gates Foundation as public school overlords.

Yeah...Gates is the guy to solve defects in the educational system. He he has the "blueprint". 

The public school system can learn much from college dropout Bill Gates, who stole the DOS operating system (originally CP/M), whose vaccine killed thousands in India and whose entire lifetime of MS Win OS contained vulnerabilities inviting hacking, screen freeze, crashing and, of course, "turning it off and on again" to restore its functionality...sometimes...maybe, if the planets were all in the required alignment and high tide was at just the right amplitude.

Read through NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo thread @ NYGovCuomo:


Look, Gates is no Aristotle or Jonas Salk. He never will be. Not even close. Whatever he says on any issue, at best, can be interpreted as a casual observation and quickly dismissed; certainly nothing ever seriously considered and practiced in health, medicine and education.

Tuesday, April 28, 2020

NY Gov. Cuomo wishes he'd had a bugle to blow in December.


New York’s governor, Andrew Cuomo, has said he wishes he had “blown the bugle” about Covid-19 earlier.
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When we heard in December that China had a virus problem,” he said, “and China said basically, ‘It was under control, don’t worry,’ we should’ve worried.

When China says, ‘Don’t worry, I have a fire in my backyard,’ you don’t hang up the phone and go back to sleep, right? You get out of your house and you walk two houses over to make sure I have the fire under control. Where was every other country walking out of their home to make sure China had it under control?”

Cuomo added: “I wish someone stood up and blew the bugle. And if no one was going to blow the bugle, I would feel much better if I was a bugle blower last December and January ... I would feel better sitting here today saying, ‘I blew the bugle about Wuhan province in January.’ I can’t say that.”
Typical Liberal...do nothing proactive. Wait until chaos hits then be reactive.

Cuomo didn't have any foresight into taking any action on his own? He had to wait to be told? Why did he believe China's "don't worry"? Why did he believe "China had it under control"?

What if he had been "told" or warned to "do something" in December? Do you think Cuomo and NYC Mayor Kaiser Wilhelm would have taken any steps to protect the public? Would they have canceled the Times Square New Year's Eve Countdown? Not for a second - - - too much revenue, too much political backlash.

What do you think the reaction would have been had President Trump cautioned Cuomo and Wilhelm to cancel New Year's Eve in Times Square? Do you think they would have listened to him? I don't. They would have told him to "butt out", "don't be telling New York what it should or shouldn't be doing."

So Cuomo knew "something" was up in December yet did nothing to protect the people of his state. Sounds like he heard about a fire in China, hung up the phone and went back to sleep.

Now, he wishes he'd had a bugle to blow. I'm sure many New Yorkers are quite happy to today tell Cuomo what he can blow.


Washington Examiner: Cuomo's fourth term.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo is set to cruise into a fourth four-year term as governor of New York, a feat no Democrat has ever accomplished in the state.
I have a terribly low supply of sympathy for people who continue to cut themselves and then whine that they're bleeding and why won't someone help me?

If Cuomo and Wilhelm smelled smoke and suspected a fire, and did nothing about it - which is what they did - it's no surprise now that both are blaming Trump and the federal government for not acting sooner.

Kaiser Wilhelm was telling people in March to still go out on the town.

This is the standard operating procedure for Liberals: BLAME OTHERS FOR THEIR FAILURES.

New York, you're going to put Cuomo in office for another four years? Please don't whine to the rest of the country as you slide further into the depths of madness. I can't garner much sympathy for people who continue sitting in filthy, dirty bathwater and don't have the common sense to get out of the tub on their own.

Consider this a Bugle Blowing Warning Alert.

Sunday, April 26, 2020

Bill Gates Shills for China. "They missed some things."


During an interview that aired on Sunday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS,”  Microsoft co-founder and co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Bill Gates argued against a focus on China for allegations it mishandled the early stages of the coronavirus breakout and could have act early to have prevented the global pandemic.

Gates said it was not timely and it was also a “distraction.”

“I don’t think that’s a timely thing because it doesn’t affect how we act today,” Gates said. “You know, China did a lot of things right at the beginning, like any country where a virus first shows up. They can look back and say they missed some things.["]
 "[China] missed some things..."? It's like Gates is pulling an Ilhan Omar, "Some people did something."

China lied to the world about the timeline of the Coronavirus and, "they missed some things," is how Gates describes it? I guess it's not like rebooting a country would work. Turn China Off and On again? Will that fix things, Bill?

In other Gates-related news (I know he exited MS long ago), the April 14 Win Patch fixed a bunch of vulnerable stuff. Forbes:
The April 14 Patch Tuesday updates included fixes for a total of 133 vulnerabilities, including seven critical security flaws in Windows 10.
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And bugs there seem to be, with one cumulative security fix[.]

Friday, April 17, 2020

University of Cambridge study says coronavirus started months earlier and not in Wuhan. Human contagion began in September.

Devon LiveReport claims coronavirus started months earlier and not in Wuhan .
Scientists have cast doubt on everything we thought we knew about the origins of the coronavirus. A new report from the University of Cambridge claims to shed new light on the initial outbreak in China.

It has so far been widely accepted that the Covid-19 infection originated in a wet market in the Wuhan province late last year. But the new research suggests it may have started farther south and was spreading among humans as early as September.

The findings have been published by the research team in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - although have not been peer-reviewed. They cite a "network" of infections that has thrown existing knowledge into doubt.

"The virus may have mutated into its final 'human-efficient' form months ago, but stayed inside a bat or other animal or even human for several months without infecting other individuals," University of Cambridge geneticist Peter Forster said on Thursday[.]

"Then, it started infecting and spreading among humans between September 13 and December 7, generating the network we present in [the journal] Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences [PNAS]."
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By counting the various mutations of the virus, they were able to get closer to figuring out when the first human was infected by a strain closest to a virus spread among bats.

They found hundreds of mutations, indicating that the virus may have been spreading quietly in host animals for years before finally infecting humans.

A coronavirus typically acquires one mutation a month.

There have been unverified reports that the virus originated in a Wuhan lab where researchers were doing work into diseases in bats, but the new study doesn't support that.

"If I am pressed for an answer, I would say the original spread started more likely in southern China than in Wuhan," Mr Forster said.
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Devon Live Archived

Thursday, April 16, 2020

China's death toll spikes 50%. Authorities "delayed and omitted" fatalities.

RT: China’s Wuhan death toll spikes by 50% as authorities report 1,290 ‘delayed & omitted’ fatalities.

17 Apr, 2020 03:37 / Updated 8 minutes ago - published 10:35 MST
The Chinese city of Wuhan – ground zero for the coronavirus pandemic – has revised its fatality count, increasing the total by just shy of 1,300 deaths, which officials say went unreported due to “delays” and “omissions.”

Authorities in Wuhan added another 1,290 deaths to the city’s death toll on Friday, putting the overall figures at 50,333 infections and 3,869 fatalities in the virus’ first epicenter.

The revision was necessary to “address incorrect reporting, delays and omissions of cases,” city officials said, according to Reuters, with the new numbers increasing Wuhan’s death tally by some 50 percent.
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China’s comparatively low fatality figures – which never broke 5,000 overall – have prompted accusations from US officials, who insist the country vastly underreported deaths and new cases and that Beijing conspired with the World Health Organization to “cover up” the extent of its crisis. Little evidence has been brought to support the assertion, however.
I don't think we have any idea of what's really going on in China and we may never know the full extent of their "omissions". I wonder what the future holds for more reports of more Corona death "omitted fatalities"?

Social Distance Boating in Minneapolis during Covid-19.

Bring Me The News: How does social distancing work on a boat? Hennepin County has advice.
Only boat with those in your immediate household.

Do not invite guests onto your boat. This includes family members not in your immediate household and your favorite fishing buddies. (I've always found the best fishing trips were those with strangers who later turned out being serial killers. I didn't know at the time. - DD)

Go right from your house to the boat and back, avoiding all unnecessary contact with anyone during your trip. (WTF is this, "TWD"? -DD)

Do not use a beach, boat ramp or marina that is closed. (Now where's the fun in that? - DD)
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It was announced earlier this week that the State of Minnesota was loosening the requirements for its Stay at Home order so that more people in the leisure boating industry would be able to return to work. (It's okay for a group of strangers to hop onto a commercial, leisure boat but not okay for non-family members to join you on your personal boat? Hey, this makes perfect sense, I mean, we're talking about procedures created by Minnesota bureaucrats.- DD)
Run! RUN! Run from your vehicle or door to your boat, and the other way around. Don't look behind you. Just run! RUN! Keep moving! Faster! Just RUN! RUN-FUCKING-RUN!!

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Bring Me The News Archived 

Wednesday, April 15, 2020

Michigan gridlocks the streets protesting Gov. Whitmer's stay-at-home order.

From @ Craig D. Mauger, Twitter



Protesters inside their vehicles lined the streets around the Michigan Capitol Wednesday ahead of a noon rally to protest provisions of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's executive order that aims to protect public health during the coronavirus pandemic.

Several of the vehicles participating in "Operation Gridlock" sported American flags and MAGA (Make America Great Again) banners. A banner across the Capitol lawn read "Security without liberty is called prison."

Drivers laid on their horns repeatedly, and others had megaphones.

The protest is organized by the Michigan Conservative Coalition, which told supporters to "come ready for a potentially major traffic jam around the (taxpayer funded) Michigan Capitol Building."

A press release from the group warned attendees to "display signs, make noise and be disruptive, but stay in your vehicle so that the 'Whitmer police' cannot say you are ignoring the 'social distancing' order."
Good for Michigan! Gridlock those streets. Bring the state government to a standstill. Other cities and states with lawmakers and elected public SERVANTS with lunatics like Whitmer should be doing the same thing every single day. 

Pick any Blue state or a Blue city, run by a Blue governor or Blue mayor, and watch these Little Eichmanns revel in their power as they restrict freedoms and our rights.
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UPDATE: More images from Michigan protest via FOX News screen grabs:



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The Detroit News Archived

Monday, April 13, 2020

#FilmYourHospital - nothing much going on inside, either.

The exterior of hospitals sure are quiet.

It seems many are quiet indoors also:


H/T, news and more videos at Philthy-Delphia.

Have you noticed the activity, or lack of it, near the hospitals in your area? Leave a comment. You don't have to give the name of the hospital, just a general idea of where (i.e. Tampa area, north Vegas, etc). Thanks!

Saturday, April 11, 2020

Who will be breaking the law on Easter? Be Rebellious!

We are breaking so many Covid-19 laws, ordinances and regulations tomorrow. Somewhere, in an undisclosed, semi-rural area southwest of the Twin Cities - or is that northeast? (feel free to track us, Google) - about 40 of us will be getting together for the day. This was planned over a month ago and we're going ahead with it.

There are a few, newer caveats implemented. Everyone agreed that anyone not feeling well, no matter how slight, won't attend.

A decontamination station will be at the home entrance, with hot soap and water, disinfectant, sanitizer, Clorox wipes (yes, someone actually scored some of those!), thermal temperature scans for the kiddies, three big kick-ass RAM extended-cabs will be blocking off the private driveway and me and two of my nephews will be guarding the gate with our AR-15s and other various firearms, including revolvers that we're likely to frequently twirl on our index fingers like cowboys.

Cousin Cletus is our designated sniper. He's also responsible for supplying the Tupperware of Spleef and in his possession at all times, he holds the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch.

This is the first time in my memory that restaurants won't be open for Easter buffets. An impact that is all too painfully harsh both economically and socially.

That places of worship are closed is truly sad. I've heard in the news some are holding services while people remain in their cars in the parking lot and I think that's an acceptable workaround - considering the circumstances - rather than indoor mass.

What are your plans for Easter? Family gathering? Small or reduced number of guests from past years? Isolation? Going on a cruise, maybe?

Will you be Breaking The Law?


All parties mutually agreed in canceling the running-chainsaw and cleaver-juggling contests, but that's more due to the weather forecast than fear of Coronavirus.

Friday, April 10, 2020

Police tell nudists they must wear face masks.

CNN Travel: Czech nudists told to wear face masks by police.
Face masks aren't mandatory everywhere, but strict rules on wearing them have been enforced in the Czech Republic -- even for nudists.

The European country has begun to relax restrictions imposed because of the coronavirus, but at the height of concerns late last month, police were called in to remind people that while it was OK to get naked in designated public places, mouths needed to be covered.

Czech law enforcers issued a warning after officers were called out on March 27 in the small town of Lázně Bohdaneč, east of Prague, because of complaints about maskless naturists basking in warm weather.

"Unfortunately, many of the sunbathing citizens were gathered in large groups, and some were not wearing face masks.," a police statement said. "Upon the arrival of the police, everyone agreed to respect the government regulation [that face shields are compulsory outside the home].

"Citizens are allowed to be without clothes in designated locations, but they still must cover their mouths, and only gather in appropriate numbers."
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CNN Travel Archived

Thursday, April 9, 2020

Public panic and frenzy - what's up?








Advisory: Adult language subtitles. (I think that's a first; an advisory based on subtitles):


How are things where you live? Are the store shelves being restocked a bit quicker? What's still hard to find? (Any type of hand sanitizer here). Are you seeing more and more people wearing masks? (I am, and far too many are just covering their mouth. I guess whatever makes you feel safe). Have you noticed if your local hospitals appear busy? Drop a comment.
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MSN (AP) Archived
Miami Herald Archived
Citizen Tribune Archived
WWNY-TV Archived 
VT Digger Archived

Monday, April 6, 2020

Do farts spread the Coronavirus?


Do farts spread the COVID-19 virus? Pants work just fine to cut off novel coronavirus transmission in farts, a Beijing district disease control center announced on Sunday.

In a lengthy and seemingly humorous yet serious article on its WeChat account, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) of Tongzhou district in Beijing clarified that farts, normally, do not constitute another transmission route of COVID-19, unless someone takes a good and rather close sniff of gas from a pantless patient.
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The findings made some worry that the virus is too "toxic" that farts could be a new transmission route.   

Some anxious individuals also called for mass production of N95 facial mask-like protection for their bottoms.

The Tongzhou district CDC said it had clearly done their homework before writing the article, and they cited a fart experiment carried out by Karl Kruszelnicki and Luke Tennent a couple of years ago. Their findings were published on discovermagazine.com with the conclusion that pants can effectively screen out germs.

That is to say, as long as everyone is wearing their pants, there is no need to be worried that passing gas would cause a micro biological contamination risk.
Someone needs to ask Dr. Fauci about Covid-19 being spread by farts. Do we need ass-masks or do we wear pants over our head?


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Global Times Archived

Saturday, April 4, 2020

Questioning Dr. Fauci has nothing to do with his political ideology.

You can search it out on your own if you'd like, it won't take long. Quite a bit of feigned hostility on the web equating criticism of Dr. Anthony Fauci as being political. Because he's a Hillary fan (search it, it's true, he is).

No - questioning Dr. Fauci isn't politically motivated. Questioning Fauci on the Coronavirus and his assessment and degree of accuracy, and wondering if his modeling is correct, is based on Fauci's own past, fairly recent - and contradictory - statements:

Click image to enlarge.

The Hill via MSN "No need to worry." January 26, 2020.

USA MacPaper: Top disease official: Risk of coronavirus in USA is 'minuscule'; skip mask and wash hands. February 17, 2020.

Breitbart: "Tedrous, outstanding person." March 25, 2020.

PBS: What Dr. Fauci wants you to know about face masks. April 3, 2020.
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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus' Past

Nazret: Ethiopia: Tedros Adhanom played a key role in kidnapping of prominent dissident.

Ethiopian News and Views: Tedros Adhanom’s latest disruptive move.

The National Interest: China helps Put Tedros in charge of WHO.

OPride: The Case against Tedrous Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
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The Hill via MSN Archived
USA MacPaper Archived 
Breitbart Archived
NPR Archived

Friday, April 3, 2020

Mask or No Mask? And no ice cream - WTF?

To mask or not? Good luck finding them retail. I haven't checked online. I hate online shopping and avoid it like the plague. The Boss is checking online, I guess.

The Philadelphia Inquirer: Should you wear a mask in public?
...researcher, Jeremy Howard, pointed to findings in dozens of scientific papers that indicate even the most basic of masks can be an effective tool in reducing virus transmission. A simple mask can be made without sewing by tying together two layers of a cut-up cotton blend T-shirt and covering the face and nose with it, being sure to wash the covering after each use.
Jeremy Howard was also on Laura Ingraham's program tonight and a segment featuring DIY paper towel masks. Take two or three sheets of paper towel, keep folding it length-wise until narrow, staple the ends together including a rubber band being attached with a staple (or two). Unfold it, put rubber bands on your ears, cover your mouth and nose and there ya go, a disposable face mask.

A few days ago in one of the supermarkets - why, I don't know - the cheese aisle was virtually empty. Cheese? Cheese. Is this a precursor to some future cheese-hoarding-crowd mentality?

TP disappeared a while back, re-appeared and was scooped up like it was gold and now is being restocked and is usually available. Shelves of disinfectant, hand sanitizer, bleach or hydrogen peroxide are empty.

Haven't seen Vitamin C anywhere for well over a week. I think taking extra C is great, but I can't believe how it vanished so quickly, probably by many who until this moment, never believed in its benefits. Panic and frenzy sells; the Herd usually moves in predictable ways.


On the way home, I had to stop at a big-box store that sells groceries. The Mrs. called, asked me to buy her some vanilla ice cream. None to be found. WTF? The ice cream freezer aisle was virtually empty. The few actual ice creams available were oddball flavors like cotton candy and sprinkles, and I knew she didn't want that. I phone her, tell her no vanilla, she says to forget it. Being the Trophy Husband that I am, I went to another store that had ice cream in stock, (not a lot, but enough), and vanilla, so I brought some home.

What's the next commodity the public will enter into Frenzy Mode that will disappear off the shelves? I want to be ahead of the curve. Eye drops? OTC spray for jock itch? Green food dye # 3? Bac-Os?

One shortage I haven't yet seen anywhere is in the cereal aisles. So far, they've been fully stocked, everywhere. Go figure.

I'm conscience of not touching my face, keeping distance from the gen pop as much as possible (always have, too many idiots) and use hand-sanitizer. I'm not sold on wearing a mask. Are you? Any items out of stock that normally aren't (other than the usual TP, OTC cold medicine, etc). Ice cream?

Tuesday, March 31, 2020

Are hospitals busy? #FilmYourHospital.

St. Luke's, Denver @ Brandon Bowser.

In the thread below, the following obvious and valid point is made and discussed: you can't judge what's going on in the inside by only seeing the exterior. Excellent point, makes sense. However, as you read through the thread you'll find Tweets from people who claim to have knowledge of what's going on inside. Many of them state the MSM are greatly over-exaggerating the hospital overload and some claim they've been asked to take time off and leave early some days, because things are so slow.

I haven't driven by a local hospital in quite some time. Have you? Does it appear busy or overwhelmed? Leave a comment.

Here's the full thread #FlimYourHospital@Brandon Bowser.

Some excerpts:
JUCCII MANE@JucciiMane -22h
Replying to @brandonBowser10
I work in a Radiology department in a hospital. My hours have been cut and I showed up to work today and have been told to not show up the rest of the week. It’s absolutely dead in our hospital. The media is LYING, AGAIN!

JUCCII MANE@JucciiMane -22h
The worst part of all this is I now believe that our hospitals are run by the same groups that run the media. We have 30 potential covid patients, I think only 3 are positive. But they won’t tell us which ones are the positives.

82ndVet@82ndVet -Mar 30
Replying to @brandonBowser10 and @JimDelRey
I’m furloughed tomorrow. So I will be doing the same here in CT tomorrow. I’ll be see the war zone for myself. [sic]

Q-baby@SuperPowersT -17h
Replying to @brandonBowser10  and @TruthSeekerQSD
Brandon, took your cue. Canton GA Northside Cherokee Hospital. March 30 2020. Crickets. This is a 544 bed university hospital that services north Georgia rural areas as well.

WarDamnEagle@Wardamn5 -22h
Replying to @brandonBowser10
Either they’re awaiting some randomly predicted #ChineseBioterrorism apocalypse incoming soon.. or.. there something MUCH bigger coming that they are preparing for that we the people don’t know about!

Robert Stones@Hontorstones -22h
Replying to @brandonBowser10
Same with many hospitals in Utah. Things could change but for now very little is going on and staff are having hours cut.

Candy THE END IS NIGH Truong@CandyTruong0122 -15h
Replying to @brandonBowser10
My brother's wife is a surgical nurse at Beaumont in Detroit. I was kinda shocked when she posted today she is going to be sent home because there's "no work".  2 days ago, this hospital was "almost at capacity"?

ChrisCunningham@Chris22748242 -14h
Replying to @brandonBowser10
I work at 2 hospitals in Minneapolis MN and both have been ghost towns for the past couple weeks.

Bill Pearlman@BillPRealtorPRO -20h
Replying to @brandonBowser10
I live in NY and this stuff is REAL.  I hope and pray it doesn’t come your way but don’t bet on it and don’t let down your guards. follow all guidance quickly.

Davidpingree101@davidpingree101 -18h
CA is not bad. I’m a firefighter here and hospitals are cleaner and emptier than I’ve ever seen them. Our call volume is down 60% also.

Randomness@Random2012756 -14h
Replying to @brandonBowser10
My sister in law’s hospital she works in is empty too - Jacksonville FL.

Josh Gondeiro@GondeiroJosh -22h
Replying to @brandonBowser10
My sister works at a hospital in fort worth, she said its slow there as well. In fact they were sending nurses home due to lack of patients. Dont believe every thing you hear from the msm.
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@Brandon Bowser (truncated) Archived

Tuesday, March 24, 2020

Coronavirus spreading, with and without social distancing.

Video simulation: Make sure to watch it until all action stops on the right-hand side and view in full screen mode.