25 May 2020

Thought For The Day - 25 May 2020 [update the second]

Just when one might have thought it was safe to go into the pool, we get this from The Very Unstable Lunatic.
Plans are being made by many thousands of enthusiastic Republicans, and others, to head to beautiful North Carolina in August. They must be immediately given an answer by the Governor as to whether or not the space will be allowed to be fully occupied. If not, we will be reluctantly forced to find, with all of the jobs and economic development it brings, another Republican National Convention site. This is not something I want to do. Thank you, and I LOVE the people of North Carolina!

LOVE them so much that he's willing to kill off as much as 10% of his most loyal sheep. Since the convention is scheduled for late August, the bodies will have piled up long enough before Election Day that every Republican will know that they've all been burned on the Altar of Dear Leader. So, go ahead The Very Unstable Lunatic, make my day.

[update]
This just in (are you surprised?)
Pictures posted on social media showed mostly unmasked people crowded together at ACE Speedway in Altamahaw, North Carolina, on Saturday.
"We're tired of being stuck in the house. I'm not afraid of this virus one bit," spectator Becky Woosley told CNN affiliate WGHP.
...
North Carolina recorded its highest single-day surge of new cases over the weekend

Looks like they're determined to kill themselves off. Just like the apocryphal lemmings.

And, oh yeah, may be The Very Unstable Lunatic should invite a passel of Bolsonaro supporters to his Convention. Birds of a feather, "it's just a small flu", and all that.

[update the second]
Here's a solution to the Convention problem.

The RNC indemnifies all attendees, such that RNC covers all Covid-19 medical costs not just for attendees but also anyone identified (by an independent organization) as infected by an attendee, up to 4 levels deep. Also, the RNC pays the survivors of any of those infected who die $1,000,000 tax paid. Fair's fair. You want the event, so you should pay the external/social costs of doing it. And, that's more than traffic control and security (the vanilla kind).

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