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Lots of the agriculture heavy parts of the country. Particularly the parts that have the climate for significant corn crops. They tend to be poverty heavy and safety net light. It's corn hell because it's full of corn and kinda' hell to live in.

Ha ha ha.

Remember that 1 trillion dollar liquidity thing a little bit back?

They're going to do it again!

Every day for the next 30 days straight.

Like. It might not even be a bad idea, from what I'm seeing? Shit's basically monopoly money being used like that, it's a shitton of loans w/ interest that theoretically actually spends nothing, and might even net the Fed a profit.

But.

The optics.

The optics of doing this when the fuckers in the WH and Senate can't seem to pass or enact even basic fucking assistance for anything that isn't wall street. The sheer look of 'giving' thirty fucking trillion to fucking investors instead of the american public. Holy shit.

I'm just saying, but more than ever the solution to this shit looks like a nice outlay of fava beans and chianti, to deal with this unfortunate rich person malignancy America seems to have developed.

Nancy Pelosi is now several steps to the right of Donald Trump, arguing against strong support for those affected for Coronavirus while taking decisive action to insulate herself from the economic shock by selling her stock based on inside information. I want her recalled, or maybe impeached.

Also that, neither of those are actually happening. The latter in particular, unless folks have dug up something else, was fucking fabricated in relation to stocks that A) were expiring or some shit the day they were traded B) were traded prior to major briefings other congressfucks were caught dumping stock after and C) don't show any sign of being unusual in basically any goddamn way. We have congress folks showing signs of holy shit corruption (like that GOP fuck that voted against the stock act or whatever it was, dumped stocks immediately after a major briefing, and then proceeded to try to downplay the dangers of the crow plague in public), but pelosi doesn't actually seem to be one of them.

The former's basically the same goddamn thing. We have people comparing statements by pelosi days or weeks prior to shit trump said or major shifts in what's going on, to fucking nonsense word babble the shitgibbon isn't actually going through, while the house the pelosi's heading is consistently passing shit several orders more leftward than fucking anything the GOP or trump is actually doing, nevermind the mouth noises they're utterly not backing.

Eh, if wikipedia is accurate there's, like, actually a bunch of different aspects to depth perception, several of which don't actually require binocular vision. So you'd still have some sorts of depth perception with one working eye, just not the full suite, so to speak.

Also apparently biocular and binocular are different things, which I don't think I knew. Neat.

Hell, she did endorse sanders last time, iirc. So you could say that, but I'm not quite sure what the takeaway there is

Ah, mea culpa on assuming it was probably some obscure racial jab then, we get kinda overloaded with it here so rather than jump to corvid from coronavirus disease 2019 I'm like "wtf, is this some shit where people from one arbitrary part of the world said they were hawks and their chosen 'other' group from an arbitrarily nearby but slightly different part of the world were crows" instantly.

Yeah, it's literally just a corruption of covid into corvid which = crows. It's not exactly fair to crows, like, at all, but it's also the snappiest designation for the disease I've seen so far, involves less non-words than covid (and is less than a pain in the ass to type on a tablet than covid-19 or CoV-SARS-2 or whatever the hell it is), and has less genocide flavor than boomer remover or stuff in that direction. Crow plague rolls off the tongue well, and that's about all that's behind that.

Unless some jackasses somewhere have coopted it to mean something shitty, I guess. Until I hear word of otherwise I'm sticking with crow plague mostly 'cause I like typing it best, and little pleasures are how you weather disasters relatively sane.

I was not really expecting pandemic (experts were aware about risks caused by China) but I feel fully justified in being powerlessly irritated at China gov. Their terrible government structure and live animal markets are responsible for starting this mess.

EDIT: sorry, misspost (it seems that there is no way to delete)

They... really aren't responsible for that. Cross-species pandemics like this can arise basically anywhere human to animal contact occurs, which is more or less everywhere; china's behaviors may increase the chance somewhat, but the fact their population is goddamn huge is the primary reason shit seems more likely to hit a fan there.

So far as response and mitigation efforts go, they've also been one of like maybe three countries worldwide that haven't been entirely fucking everything up, alongside south korea and maybe singapore. It hasn't been 100% perfect by any means, but china's legit been doing more than just about any other country on the planet to reduce and contain the spread of the virus. You could say that that's more a condemnation of everyone else than it is praise for china and the few others that have taken legitimately meaningful effects to contain the crow plague (and I'd agree with you if you did), but they're not really to blame for happening to have lost the dice roll on viral mutation and then genuinely trying to deal with the situation once it became obvious what was going on.

all aboard the plague boat whoohoo

Seriously though, probably a good thing. As long as someone didn't go and name it Princess, too.

Yeah, I wrote that I hoped warm weather would have an effect, but in the back of my mind I kind of already know the answer will be "no".

Actually, from what folks have pieced together from available data, warm weather does seem to have an effect. Iirc it's something like a third of a percent reduction in spread per infected (R number) per Celsius increase, and about a fifth of a percent per percent increase in relative humidity, going by information collected in china. So if humidity jacks up about 80% and/or the temperature spikes about 40 or so degrees C, and stays that way, you'd probably see a pretty significant reduction in the rate of transmission.

But, y'know, the R value for crow plague is somewhere over 2, so, uh. It's no silver bullet.

E: Source, incidentally. It's not necessarily super great data or 100% generalizable, but there's apparent suggestion warm and humid weather does have some degree of mitigation effect on transmission.