123,287 people dead.
Let's just start there.
123,287 people who have been victims of an insidious virus enabled by uncaring, leechlike supplicants.
Yes, I mean Donald Trump.
Fine, I also mean COVID-19. Unlike Trump who loves to play favorites, it is a virus that does not discriminate - oh, how I wish it could. A virus that, if viruses could smile, would have its own Instagram page with nothing but shit eating, soul eating grins of itself as it claims another victim.
US cases of COVID jumped a full 25% in the week ending June 21. That is only compared against the preceding seven days. 25%. We now count 2,411,408 positive coronavirus cases in the United States, but then, given the Mango Marauder is now firmly on the record that "I don't kid" about slowing down testing, we really know fuck-all about how many have had it, have it now, or will have it. Testing is still a unicorn for most people.
Hospital ICUs are reaching literal critical mass. This morning Houston Children's began accepting adult patients as the regular hospitals are maxed out. In the past day, Texas has reported 3,653 new cases. 84% of ICU beds in Arizona are now full, and we are now at 10.5% of all tests coming back positive. We have added 3,593 new cases in the past 24 hours. On Memorial Day 818 hospital beds across the state had COVID or COVID suspected patients. Today? 2,146. But hey, Trump, come on down!
I sit here in Phoenix just stymied by the fact he is not only coming down here, but holding a rally in a church as I type. A church where two imbeciles claim they have magic COVID eradicating equipment installed. (The manufacturer of said Magic Air boxes came out today stating these two religbeciles are full of shit and the system HAS NEVER BEEN TESTED ON COVID.) This is a state where, until finally conceding to pressure, our douchebag of a governor had no mandatory mask requirements despite cases absolutely surging. Friday when he relented and allowed mayors to make their own decisions? Mask requirements implemented immediately in city after city - not that it means much in a red state peopled with idiots who support Martha McSally - she of the give-everyone-$4000-to-go-on-vacation genius. With no penalty, the same idiots who have refused to wear them will continue to refuse to wear them.
Again, if only this virus could precision strike the imbeciles just begging to be infected and leave the rest of us out of it...
Florida, another state led by a mouthbreathing incompetent, Ron DeSantis, is being deluged with new cases. 75% of their ICU beds are full. 3,286 new cases since yesterday. But fear not, frustrated housebounders, Disney will be opening in a couple weeks! Heck Universal, Legoland, and SeaWorld already are!
100 students from Ohio headed out to Myrtle Beach two weeks ago. So far 17 have tested positive for COVID. Young people are adding to the numbers in a very concerning uptick. All that initial oh-it-is-an-old-person's-virus garbage? GARBAGE. This virus DOES. NOT. CARE. If you have lungs, you are a candidate.
These are FACTS. And FACTS do not give two shits squashed in a waffle iron whether you like them or not.
Serious question for those of you who still mocking those of us wearing masks, being careful - What have you got to lose by taking precautions with us?
Do not give me that "precious freedoms and liberty" bullshit either. Every single day you do things that are mandated in this society. Speed limits, seatbelts, car insurance. Driver license, ID to fly or cash a check. You cannot go into a store with your dick swinging like a cat toy. Yet somehow, you all manage to live just fine with those rules in place. But a mask? Get the fucking fainting couch out, Miss Scarlett! You all have the vapuhs.
Because we are saddled with a complete waste of oxygen in the White House, no true leadership, and have been openly, now admittedly hamstrung at every turn in this pandemic, we now find ourselves in a worse position than when we began paying attention months ago. Because of so many science denying, selfish pricks who stomped their feet and cried about precautions being taken for their protection, we are facing a tsunami and nowhere to run.
For our efforts, the EU is on the verge of closing its borders to US citizens. And they should. We have abysmal testing rates (currently 88,543 per million - only 8% of our population - we rank 190 out of 215), the largest number of cases, the largest number of deaths, and we have no plan to make it better. None. All we have is a Big Mac stuffed Hefty bag who does not give a damn how many more die.
That means YOU. Yes, idiot with a red hat on your empty head. This can of Cheez Whiz in a ferret wig may fire his verbal guns at liberals, but he does not care at all what happens to you either. You are a means to an end. You are the food he feeds his ego. You are chaff, dear MAGAts, not wheat.
The truth is harsh - we are coming up on the end of supplemental unemployment that has kept millions afloat the past months. We have no provisions for additional stimulus to help struggling citizens. We have inadequate testing, almost nonexistent tracing, and no vaccine. And we have allowed the most ignorant among us to reopen the floodgates of this virus.
Think wearing a mask is stupid and doesn't do anything? Think again. Researchers used a laser scattering chamber to be able to view aerosol droplets emitted by the simple act of SPEAKING. Picture on the left, no cover. Picture on the right? A PAPER TOWEL. A simple fucking paper towel made that much difference.
Under that? Watch the difference between no mask and a mask.
The picture above shows speech droplets, which are believed to be the key transmission vector for COVID-19, with vs without a paper towel face cover. As you see, nearly all droplets are blocked.
— Jeremy #Masks4All Howard (@jeremyphoward) June 19, 2020
Here's a video with a cloth covering, from this NEJM paper: https://t.co/QoGBBZpQEa pic.twitter.com/HGqz3U7NQU
This is not some conspiracy to enslave you, deprive you of liberty, keep you down. It is all about the very real virus, with no real cure, and the meager steps you can take to try to insure you can continue to enjoy LIFE, LIBERTY, and THE PURSUIT OF YOUR CRAPPINESS.
Just because you cannot see something, does not make it not real. Serious question - how many of you believe in God? Have you ever seen this deity in person? No, you have not, yet you will wave your Bible, and champion your Christiandom at every turn. You demand others respect what could easily be written off as a fairy tale, a myth, a good story. You have no proof, yet you believe with all your curdled heart.
Well, we have proof COVID-19 is real. We have enough dead bodies to fill the biggest stadium IN THE WORLD with our country's dead alone. If you can so steadfastly believe in a God you can't see, and you believe that every life is precious (as you love to grandstand), doesn't that mean you should be doing everything you can to not only protect the life He gave you, but the lives of those around you?
I know, I know, too much logic for a Tuesday. Hell, when it comes to you people, it's too much logic for any day ending in, well - day.
I just hit refresh again. 123,463 dead. That's the truth. You may not like it, but there it is. So, one last question for you life loving, God fearing, science deniers, especially the ones currently squashed together in a church listening to Trump ramble on about no one knowing what the 19 in COVID-19 stands for (2019, you astronomically stupid fuckwit)...
WWJD? He would listen to the experts He gave us and wear a fucking mask.
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