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It's not going to happen that way because states run their own elections and can make their own rules, and there are several (trigger warning, politics) who are ideologically opposed to letting everybody who is eligible to vote do so. The federal government can't force a state to adopt universal vote by mail any more than it can force them to stop. The only way the entire country would vote that way would be if all 50 states decided to by their own volition.

Oh it's very much topical. If we're going to safely conduct an election in November amidst a pandemic we should consider vote-by-mail. I know I am but that's because anybody can vote absentee in North Carolina and you don't need a reason. I think the chief executive of the United States having a sloppy meltdown over it is germane.

Can we get somebody pretending to be a doctor or some guy yelling in a pickup truck on YouTube to say this please

lol Florida is just outright lying about their numbers and firing people who don't go along with it See guys it's true that you can't trust what the government says, just not in the way you thought ;)

It's just the flu brah

Unless something changed or they struck a deal in the last few hours my understanding is that the Republicans aren't going to let it reach the floor.

Dead as dead can be in the Senate

If anybody has access to YouTube they're streaming the grown ups talking about COVID-19 response

Scientists had been warning about a novel coronavirus emerging from China as far back as 2007. This is new to the layperson but it didn't come out of left field at all. This thread has veered back into this direction again so I might as well say that I think the topic is inherently political, and unless you're talking strictly about the hard scientific aspects of it you can't avoid it. The actors in our federal government who craft our pandemic strategy are either partisans themselves or were appointed by partisans like the President. This is a large scale, high stakes stress test of the style of governance a lot of people in this country want.

Maybe someday there will be a joint research project between Harvard and Johns Hopkins or Stanford or one of the other big schools with a respected epidemiology program that can provide a ballpark figure for the actual number of people who were infected/died. But we'll likely never know for sure.

For the fiftieth time we're barely testing anybody As of 11 AM today the DHHS reports that NC has tested 186,362 people or about 1.8% of the state population: https://www.ncdhhs.gov/divisions/public-health/covid19/covid-19-nc-case-count We don't have an accurate number of infected people. Completely misleading bs argument.

Yeah my brother lives in Oregon. Once you get outside of the cities there are plenty of white supremacist nuts who could go toe-to-toe with any of the most wild-eyed psychos I ever encountered here in NC.

So basically what a bunch of people without a political axe to grind were already saying anyway

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They better make it snappy on Ivanka's next set of trademark applications if they know what's good for them

January 14: WHO release a statement that there is potentially human-to-human transmission and that investigations are underway. January 22: WHO Emergency Committee issued a statement confirming human to human transmission with a 25% severity rate for those infected. Following statements, occuring weekly/bi-weekly thereafter, emphasized transmission info. and severity rates. Initial tweet on January 21 January 22: When asked if there are worries about a pandemic, Trump responded: "No. Not at all. And we have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China, and we have it under control. It’s going to be just fine." January 24: "It will all work out well." January 30: "We have it very well under control. We have very little problem in this country at this moment — five. And those people are all recuperating successfully." January 31: “We pretty much shut it down coming in from China.” -- a partial restriction on entry, with no requirement to test or quarantine, that allowed 430,000 travellers to enter America. February 10: "Looks like by April, you know, in theory, when it gets a little warmer, it miraculously goes away." February 19: "I think the numbers are going to get progressively better as we go along." February 23: "We have it very much under control." February 24: "The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA… Stock Market starting to look very good to me!" February 25: “CDC and my Administration are doing a GREAT job of handling Coronavirus.” February 26: “The 15 (cases in the US) within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero.” February 26: “We're going very substantially down, not up.” February 26: "We're at the low level. As they get better, we take them off the list so that we're going to be pretty soon at only five people. And we could be at just one or two people over the next short period of time." February 26: "You know in many cases when you catch this it is very light — you don’t even know there’s a problem. Sometimes they just get the sniffles, sometimes they just get something where they are not feeling quite right and sometimes they feel really bad but that’s a little bit like the flu. It’s a little like the regular flu that we have flu shots for and we will essentially have a flu shot for this in a fairly quick manner." February 26: "This is a flu. This is like a flu." February 27: "We're rapidly developing a vaccine. The vaccine is coming along well, and in speaking to the doctors we think this is something that we can develop fairly rapidly." February 27: "It’s going to disappear. One day — it’s like a miracle — it will disappear." February 27: "The flu in our country kills from 25,000 people to 69,000 people a year. That was shocking to me. And so far, if you look at what we have with the 15 people, and they're recovering, one is pretty sick but hopefully will recover. But the others are in great shape." February 28: “We're ordering a lot of supplies. We're ordering a lot of, uh, elements that frankly we wouldn't be ordering unless it was something like this. But we're ordering a lot of different elements of medical.” February 28: "The Democrats are politicizing the coronavirus. ... They tried the impeachment hoax. ... And this is their new hoax." March 2: “You take a solid flu vaccine, you don't think that could have an impact, or much of an impact, on corona?” March 2: "We had a great meeting today with a lot of the great companies and they’re going to have vaccines, I think relatively soon." March 4: "Because a lot of people will have this and it’s very mild. They’ll get better very rapidly. They don’t even see a doctor. They don’t even call a doctor." March 4: "If we have thousands or hundreds of thousands of people that get better just by, you know, sitting around and even going to work — some of them go to work, but they get better." March 5: “I NEVER said people that are feeling sick should go to work." March 5: "The United States… has, as of now, only 129 cases… and 11 deaths. We are working very hard to keep these numbers as low as possible!" March 6: "I think we’re doing a really good job in this country at keeping it down… a tremendous job at keeping it down." March 6: "Anybody right now, and yesterday, anybody that needs a test gets a test. They’re there. And the tests are beautiful…. the tests are all perfect like the letter was perfect." March 6: “I like this stuff. I really get it. People are surprised that I understand it… Every one of these doctors said, ‘How do you know so much about this?’ Maybe I have a natural ability. Maybe I should have done that instead of running for president.” March 6: "I don't need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn't our fault." March 7: "I’m not concerned at all." March 8: "We have a perfectly coordinated and fine tuned plan at the White House for our attack on CoronaVirus." March 9: "The Fake News media & their partner, the Democrat Party, is doing everything within its semi-considerable power to inflame the Coronavirus situation." March 9: "This blindsided the world." March 10: "It will go away. Just stay calm. It will go away." March 11: WHO officially declared Covid-19 has escalated to pandemic status March 12: "But it'll be -- it'll go very quickly." March 12: "We'll be discussing some other moves that we're going to be making. And I think it's going to work out very well for everybody." March 13: [Declared state of emergency] March 13: "I don't take responsibility at all" March 17: "This is a pandemic. I felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic."

gubermint bad and dumb give me pie

stirs I have to say this new dedication to moderation you've assumed is quite inspiring, especially after the 8 years you spent screeching about Obama and how the Democrats were destroying the country every day in the Tinderbox. Really amazing stuff.

Everybody should check out the corresponding thread in the Tinderbox that started in February. Lots of great takes that have aged extremely well from several of the people hanging out in this thread.

We had a three month head start and the President ignored it, joked about it, and wouldn't listen to any of the warnings. That's it.

https://chapelboro.com/news/coronavirus-covid-19/governor-cooper-cancels-all-k-12-public-schools-for-next-2-weeks e: it's on Cooper's Twitter too

That's probably what's coming here soon minus the smoke shops of course. I mean it's a simple but effective concept. As few people out in public as possible = as few infections as possible = healthcare system is stressed over a longer period of time but the stress is less intense.

lol