March 2021 Current Events

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TCD: Nov 13, 2002; Every step, a fucking adventure.

boop the snoot posted:

I went on a long walk with Monty this last weekend and walked through Del Ray, a little enclave of Northern Virginia.

I don�t think I�ve ever seen restaurants that crowded. Even in the before times. No masks anywhere, even on people walking around.

Pandemic is over!

I'm near Del Ray, and at least a few weeks ago, mask usage was quite high for non-restaurant customers.

My wife's friend group are back to meeting every Saturday for brunch, kids are in school, life is normal.

# ? Mar 30, 2021 16:24

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# ? Apr 23, 2024 14:20

Best Friends: Nov 4, 2011

FrozenVent posted:

Guidance is based on acceptable risk, risk levels are set politically.

Right, it's clearly driven by political concerns. Here and Britain have had some of the worst corona responses on the world, and the public response has been to trust the structures that led to this even more in both countries. It's completely bizarre. At least here it's partially explainable (if not defensible) by there being a partisan switchover, so lots of people who saw the gov response as bad now see it as great despite very few policy or personnel changes.

Edit: and to be clear, the fault isn't just the CDC and Fauci, it's on every state as well. But these have been unquestionably failures.

# ? Mar 30, 2021 16:26

Stravag: Jun 7, 2009

St louis has a bunch of people walking around and sitting in close proximity in restaurants without masks or just refusing to put one on until theyre grabbing the door handles/ stepping into the elevator. Its weird how much of the world people think is their own home until they see another person. Still have a bunch of assholes that stand 2 inches from the elevator door and try to push their way in while people are getting out so covid didnt even manage to kill off that many of the idiots

# ? Mar 30, 2021 16:27

Sacrist65: Mar 24, 2007; Frunnkiss

ASAPI posted:

I've been saying this lately. He is either a total genius or has the absolute best marketing people ever. It doesn't hurt that he is completely owning everyone on twitter/instagram.

Martin being the entire right wing media ecosystem.

# ? Mar 30, 2021 16:28

pantslesswithwolves: Oct 28, 2008; Ba-dam ba-DUMMMMMM

CRUSTY MINGE posted:

He's in the new Logitech commercials, too.

Because webcams need spokespeople.

The thousands of people who started an OnlyFans over the past year agree with you.

# ? Mar 30, 2021 16:31

CRUSTY MINGE: Mar 30, 2011; Peggy Hill
Foot Connoisseur

It's amazing how porn takes over every market it even remotely encroaches slightly upon.

# ? Mar 30, 2021 16:39

shame on an IGA: Apr 8, 2005

Lemniscate Blue posted:

What is wrong with that man's face? I don't think I've ever seen a real person who gave me the uncanny valley effect before.

He's taking Unknown Hinson's (wasn't actually an) act to its logical conclusion

# ? Mar 30, 2021 17:02

RFC2324: Jun 7, 2012; http 418

CRUSTY MINGE posted:

It's amazing how porn takes over every market it even remotely encroaches slightly upon.

You have that backward. Porn is usually there first, and grudgingly allows other stuff space.

# ? Mar 30, 2021 17:02

boop the snoot: Jun 3, 2016

TCD posted:

I'm near Del Ray, and at least a few weeks ago, mask usage was quite high for non-restaurant customers.

My wife's friend group are back to meeting every Saturday for brunch, kids are in school, life is normal.

It was weird because I live in walking distance and around my areas everyone is pretty good. I think it might be a matter of just being hyper aware of the people who are maskless.

# ? Mar 30, 2021 17:21

Vincent Van Goatse: Nov 8, 2006; Enjoy every sandwich.; Smellrose

something something the pivot to centrism will happen any minute

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1376859249448529920

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/biden-announces-diverse-set-of-judicial-noms-in-first-tranche-of-picks-for-the-bench

quote:

Biden Announces Diverse Set Of Judicial Noms In First Tranche Of Picks For The Bench
By Tierney Sneed and Matt Shuham

Among the nearly a dozen nominees for the federal bench that President Biden announced Tuesday is a Black female judge who is also on the short list for an eventual Supreme Court nomination.

U.S. District Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, who Biden will seek to put on the powerful U.S. Court of Appeals for D.C., topped the list of judicial nominations unveiled by the White House. Tuesday�s announcement included Biden�s selections for 10 other vacancies and the list marks the first tranche of judicial nominees of Biden�s presidency.

On the campaign trial, Biden vowed to bring more diversity to the federal judiciary � a vow that included a promise to put a Black woman on the U.S. Supreme Court. (There currently are no vacancies on the high court, but progressives are calling on Justice Stephen Breyer to retire at the end of this term, so Biden can choose his replacement while Democrats control the Senate.)

Brown Jackson is one of the judges that have been floated for a potential Supreme Court spot. For now, she has been selected by Biden to fill the D.C. federal appellate court seat left open by Judge Merrick Garland, who recently was confirmed as Attorney General.

Eight women were on the list announced Tuesday. The vast majority of nominees were people of color. Progressive legal advocates have also called on Biden to bring professional diversity to the federal bench, which is dominated with former prosecutors and big law alum.

Multiple judges on Biden�s list have experience has public defenders.

The nominations are Biden�s first dent in the federal judiciary after former President Donald Trump went on a four-year judge nominating spree, stacking the judiciary largely with young, ultra conservative judges and lawyers � some rated simply as �not qualified� by the American Bar Association � whose impact will be felt for generations.

In addition to three Supreme Court justices, Trump and then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) successfully confirmed more than 220 federal judges in lower courts. At the appellate level, Trump had around the same number of nominees confirmed in four years as former President Barack Obama did in eight.

McConnell bragged in 2019 about the vacancies left over from Obama�s years in office, which gave Trump an open field to make appointments.

�I�ll tell you why,� McConnell told Fox News� Sean Hannity, asked about the Obama vacancies. �I was in charge of what we did the last two years of the Obama administration.�

In addition to their conservative slant and generally young age, Trump appointees were also disproportionately white men.

Vanita Gupta, now Biden�s nominee to become associate attorney general, panned Trump�s first wave of judicial nominees in BuzzFeed News near the end of Trump�s first year in office.

�Trump�s nominees don�t just lack the necessary legal experience and work ethic, though both of these should be deal breakers,� Gupta wrote. �Many also lack the essential qualities of fairness and impartiality.�

Here is the full list of Biden nominees:

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson: Nominee for the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
Tiffany Cunningham: Nominee for the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Candace Jackson-Akiwumi: Nominee for the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Judge Deborah Boardman: Nominee for the United States District Court for the District of Maryland
Judge Lydia Griggsby: Nominee for the United States District Court for the District of Maryland
Julien Neals: Nominee for the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey
Judge Zahid N. Quraishi: Nominee for the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey
Regina Rodriguez: Nominee for the United States District Court for the District of Colorado
Margaret Strickland: Nominee for the United States District Court for the District of New Mexico
Judge Rupa Ranga Puttagunta: Nominee for the Superior Court of the District of Columbia

# ? Mar 30, 2021 17:40

Vincent Van Goatse: Nov 8, 2006; Enjoy every sandwich.; Smellrose

haha rocket go boom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myVvmb2dF9U&t=8356s

# ? Mar 30, 2021 18:26

Brute Squad: Dec 20, 2006; Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human race

Forget NFTs and crypto, i'm investing in LEGO.

French police on trail of international gang of Lego looters

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/30/french-police-on-trail-of-international-gang-of-lego-looters

# ? Mar 30, 2021 18:58

Platystemon: Feb 13, 2012; BREADS

Best Friends posted:

Right, it's clearly driven by political concerns. Here and Britain have had some of the worst corona responses on the world, and the public response has been to trust the structures that led to this even more in both countries. It's completely bizarre. At least here it's partially explainable (if not defensible) by there being a partisan switchover, so lots of people who saw the gov response as bad now see it as great despite very few policy or personnel changes.

Edit: and to be clear, the fault isn't just the CDC and Fauci, it's on every state as well. But these have been unquestionably failures.

Can you imagine if 45�s CDC had pushed the revision to three feet?

# ? Mar 30, 2021 19:02

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

https://twitter.com/JasonAbbruzzese/status/1375467385382125568?s=20

E

https://twitter.com/ParkerMolloy/status/1376930195953827857?s=20

That Works fucked around with this message at 19:21 on Mar 30, 2021

# ? Mar 30, 2021 19:18

Grip it and rip it: Apr 28, 2020

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

something something the pivot to centrism will happen any minute

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1376859249448529920

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/biden-announces-diverse-set-of-judicial-noms-in-first-tranche-of-picks-for-the-bench

There's almost 2 trillion dollars in student debt right? This poo poo doesn't do it for me, Joe main-street-shitlib

# ? Mar 30, 2021 19:31

Kazinsal: Dec 13, 2011

That Works posted:

https://twitter.com/JasonAbbruzzese/status/1375467385382125568?s=20

It's the entire Hamsterdam arc of The Wire, except real

# ? Mar 30, 2021 19:32

orange juche: Mar 14, 2012

That Works posted:

https://twitter.com/JasonAbbruzzese/status/1375467385382125568?s=20

The Wire was fiction

That Works posted:

https://twitter.com/ParkerMolloy/status/1376930195953827857?s=20

lol

# ? Mar 30, 2021 19:33

Defenestrategy: Oct 24, 2010

That Works posted:

https://twitter.com/JasonAbbruzzese/status/1375467385382125568?s=20

It's kinda cool in a way that covid has done some stuff to advance social issues a bit.

Note: would rather not have covid thing at all, but that's not the universe we live in. Don't have to hand it to isis,etc,etc,etc

# ? Mar 30, 2021 19:36

UP THE BUM NO BABY: Sep 1, 2011; by Hand Knit

Defenestrategy posted:

It's kinda cool in a way that covid has done some stuff to advance social issues a bit.

Note: would rather not have covid thing at all, but that's not the universe we live in. Don't have to hand it to isis,etc,etc,etc

Yeah, despite everything it's fine a good job of retiring and killing cops

# ? Mar 30, 2021 19:37

mlmp08: Jul 11, 2004; Prepare for my priapic projectile's exalted penetration; Nap Ghost

Best Friends posted:

The CDC is also saying that it's safe to be three feet apart in schools. Funny how science lines up so well with what politicians want and it's bizarre how the science changes so much country to country.

https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2021/p0319-new-evidence-classroom-physical-distance.html

Did you read that link in your post? That�s not at all what it says.

# ? Mar 30, 2021 19:39

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

https://twitter.com/JoeCurtatone/status/1376958802734514183?s=20

# ? Mar 30, 2021 19:48

orange juche: Mar 14, 2012

mlmp08 posted:

Did you read that link in your post? That�s not at all what it says.

reading the link would get in the way of the hot take.

Granted school boards are going to read the poo poo the same way Best Friends did and pack kids in like sardines, but what it says is basically "if your group of students is a cohesive unit that sticks together throughout the entire day (ex the same 21 students never encounter other students), and universal masking is followed, then they may be a minimum of 3 feet from each other. In all other cases(99% of students), maintain a minimum of 6 feet distance."

CDC should have worded it better, or just removed the reference to 3 feet entirely because 99% of school populations in the US do not exist in a world where they could meet the requirements for 3 feet spacing.

orange juche fucked around with this message at 20:07 on Mar 30, 2021

# ? Mar 30, 2021 20:00

Dum Cumpster: Sep 12, 2003; *pozes your neghole*

https://sa.www4.irs.gov/irfof-wmsp/notice Finally updated with my stimmy payment, April 2nd. Heads up for anyone else who didn't have a date yet.

# ? Mar 30, 2021 20:03

Best Friends: Nov 4, 2011

mlmp08 posted:

Did you read that link in your post? That�s not at all what it says.

???

quote:

In elementary schools, CDC recommends all students remain at least 3 feet apart in classrooms where mask use is universal � regardless of whether community transmission is low, moderate, substantial, or high.
In middle and high schools, CDC also recommends students should be at least 3 feet apart in classrooms where mask use is universal and in communities where transmission is low, moderate, or substantial.

# ? Mar 30, 2021 20:19

Basticle: Sep 12, 2011

I'm getting the J&J vaccine next tuesday :coal:

(I'm 36 in Ohio fwiw)

# ? Mar 30, 2021 20:20

facialimpediment: Feb 11, 2005; as the world turns

Is there a version of the COVID deaths per million that tosses out the numbers from March-April to 2020? I'm not really comfortable with pinning those months on any of the governors because those deaths were all when we had no idea how badly the states were infected pre-lockdown. Everything after that point seems fair game.

My general guess is that NY/Massachusetts/Michigan numbers are still dramatically high from that initial March-April surge before the governors shut poo poo down and implemented mitigations and mandates. I'd like to see those post-April numbers compared to people like Governor Noem of South Dakota, that just decided gently caress it and do nothing but own the libs because it's all a hoax with a cure worse than the disease please Donnie love me

# ? Mar 30, 2021 20:22

facialimpediment: Feb 11, 2005; as the world turns

FOIA is good.

https://twitter.com/MikaelThalen/status/1376653334396903428?s=19

# ? Mar 30, 2021 20:24

mlmp08: Jul 11, 2004; Prepare for my priapic projectile's exalted penetration; Nap Ghost

Best Friends posted:

???

Halfway there.

1: what you quoted directly contradicts the hot take post.
2: it�s a selective quote that foes not include the full context and recommendations and is very misleading!

# ? Mar 30, 2021 20:24

CRUSTY MINGE: Mar 30, 2011; Peggy Hill
Foot Connoisseur

Basticle posted:

I'm getting the J&J vaccine next tuesday

(I'm 36 in Ohio fwiw)

The VA didn't say what shot I was getting in their text appointment correspondence. I'd rather get the J&J shot since it's just one and no worrying about a timed second shot, but the VA will stick me with whatever they have, and I'm not complaining.

# ? Mar 30, 2021 20:30

Kazinsal: Dec 13, 2011

facialimpediment posted:

FOIA is good.

https://twitter.com/MikaelThalen/status/1376653334396903428?s=19

https://twitter.com/MikaelThalen/status/1376659029083058178

Goddamn, that may be the fasted returned FOIA on record.

# ? Mar 30, 2021 20:46

Platystemon: Feb 13, 2012; BREADS

Kazinsal posted:

Goddamn, that may be the fasted returned FOIA on record.

Are FOIA requests themselves subject to FOIA requests?

Let�s see if we can confirm this.

# ? Mar 30, 2021 20:56

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

https://twitter.com/jkbjournalist/status/1376982516352040962

# ? Mar 30, 2021 20:58

mlmp08: Jul 11, 2004; Prepare for my priapic projectile's exalted penetration; Nap Ghost

https://twitter.com/katebennett_dc/status/1376987517761773574?s=21

# ? Mar 30, 2021 21:06

Vincent Van Goatse: Nov 8, 2006; Enjoy every sandwich.; Smellrose

mlmp08 posted:

https://twitter.com/katebennett_dc/status/1376987517761773574?s=21

PUBLISH REAL NEWS YOU DOLTS

# ? Mar 30, 2021 21:10

Wasabi the J: Jan 23, 2008; MOM WAS RIGHT

Major Bitin'

# ? Mar 30, 2021 21:14

Proud Christian Mom: Dec 20, 2006; READING COMPREHENSION IS HARD

great another 3 pages of morons blaming everyone else but the dog

# ? Mar 30, 2021 21:15

Comrade Blyatlov: Aug 4, 2007; should have picked four fingers

i'm kinda happy that's the worst news coming out of the WH

# ? Mar 30, 2021 21:15

Hot Karl Marx: Mar 16, 2009; Politburo regulations about social distancing require to downgrade your Karlmarxing to cold, and sorry about the dnc primaries, please enjoy!

Comrade Blyatlov posted:

i'm kinda happy that's the worst news coming out of the WH

lol

# ? Mar 30, 2021 21:31

Best Friends: Nov 4, 2011

mlmp08 posted:

Halfway there.

1: what you quoted directly contradicts the hot take post.
2: it�s a selective quote that foes not include the full context and recommendations and is very misleading!

I said that the CDC says 3 feet distancing is allowable in schools. It says that.

My hot take is that that is obviously politically motivated, and yes, that is not on the CDC site.

# ? Mar 30, 2021 21:33

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# ? Apr 23, 2024 14:20

pantslesswithwolves: Oct 28, 2008; Ba-dam ba-DUMMMMMM

Proud Christian Mom posted:

great another 3 pages of morons blaming everyone else but the dog

Better that than the 30 days of hearings that Republicans will convene over this.

�Madam First Lady, when were you first aware of Major�s reactivity problem? Would you in fact state that he is sometimes not a good boy?�

# ? Mar 30, 2021 21:34

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