America

[Mikey Brown]

Didn't seem worth contributing to the actual COVID discussion thread, but there we go.

[canta_brian]

That a women has to be thick skinned but a man doesn't to replace perhaps the most thin skinned president of our times is an interesting observation

Quite.

And "screechy" has never been anything but a cipher for "not a man".

Anyone who doesn't think that women have any more obstacles than men might read Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez.

A friend has just passed on a copy to me.

[Son of Mathonwy]

Didn't seem worth contributing to the actual COVID discussion thread, but there we go.

The logical conclusion of right-wing libertarianism?

[Sandydragon]

The Mayor of Las Vegas is apparently happy to use her city as a giant experiment for doing fuck all to defeat the virus.

How do these people get elected?

[morepork]

The Mayor of Las Vegas is apparently happy to use her city as a giant experiment for doing fuck all to defeat the virus.

How do these people get elected?

Fuck my arse, what a complete idiot.

She should run for president.

[canta_brian]

The Mayor of Las Vegas is apparently happy to use her city as a giant experiment for doing fuck all to defeat the virus.

How do these people get elected?

Fuck my arse, what a complete idiot.

She should run for president.

Overqualified?

[Which Tyler]

[Son of Mathonwy]

Ironic that people who don't believe in evolution are most likely to end up with a Darwin award.

[Digby]

The Mayor of Las Vegas is apparently happy to use her city as a giant experiment for doing fuck all to defeat the virus.

How do these people get elected?

She might care to enquire in Brazil how things are going there. Also I wonder how things like social distancing will work in a place like Vegas, which in truth is often seemingly empty bar a small handful of places, when they've so many large rooms where you could fairly easily stand 2m apart but you'd all be breathing the same recycled air. Although on that last it'll apply to many office blocks too, most office blocks are fairly shit at cleaning their air con already and surely can't be set up to screen out covid

[Sandydragon]

The Mayor of Las Vegas is apparently happy to use her city as a giant experiment for doing fuck all to defeat the virus.

How do these people get elected?

She might care to enquire in Brazil how things are going there. Also I wonder how things like social distancing will work in a place like Vegas, which in truth is often seemingly empty bar a small handful of places, when they've so many large rooms where you could fairly easily stand 2m apart but you'd all be breathing the same recycled air. Although on that last it'll apply to many office blocks too, most office blocks are fairly shit at cleaning their air con already and surely can't be set up to screen out covid

Given how transient Vegas' population is, I don't see how reopening Casinos and so on would have any positive effect. It will only work when people can travel there and want to spend money. But I don't get the impression that the Mayor is too firmly grounded in reality.

[Digby]

The Mayor of Las Vegas is apparently happy to use her city as a giant experiment for doing fuck all to defeat the virus.

How do these people get elected?

She might care to enquire in Brazil how things are going there. Also I wonder how things like social distancing will work in a place like Vegas, which in truth is often seemingly empty bar a small handful of places, when they've so many large rooms where you could fairly easily stand 2m apart but you'd all be breathing the same recycled air. Although on that last it'll apply to many office blocks too, most office blocks are fairly shit at cleaning their air con already and surely can't be set up to screen out covid

Given how transient Vegas' population is, I don't see how reopening Casinos and so on would have any positive effect. It will only work when people can travel there and want to spend money. But I don't get the impression that the Mayor is too firmly grounded in reality.

Vegas doesn't really do reality, other than its whole is based on the abuse of labour. Without question one of the weirdest places I've been. Is she asking though for people to be able to travel as normal, or for some restrictions on the denizens of Vegas to be lifted? If she's asking for free travel to and fro Vegas she's not really just offering her city as a giant experiment

[Sandydragon]

She might care to enquire in Brazil how things are going there. Also I wonder how things like social distancing will work in a place like Vegas, which in truth is often seemingly empty bar a small handful of places, when they've so many large rooms where you could fairly easily stand 2m apart but you'd all be breathing the same recycled air. Although on that last it'll apply to many office blocks too, most office blocks are fairly shit at cleaning their air con already and surely can't be set up to screen out covid

Given how transient Vegas' population is, I don't see how reopening Casinos and so on would have any positive effect. It will only work when people can travel there and want to spend money. But I don't get the impression that the Mayor is too firmly grounded in reality.

Vegas doesn't really do reality, other than its whole is based on the abuse of labour. Without question one of the weirdest places I've been. Is she asking though for people to be able to travel as normal, or for some restrictions on the denizens of Vegas to be lifted? If she's asking for free travel to and fro Vegas she's not really just offering her city as a giant experiment

Its a very weird place. Looks great at night but travel in from the outskirts in day time and its a whole different matter.

key extracts here:

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/23/poli ... index.html

You can watch the good Mayor here live (not sure all of the interview has been included):

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... yn-goodman

[Coco]

Given how transient Vegas' population is, I don't see how reopening Casinos and so on would have any positive effect. It will only work when people can travel there and want to spend money. But I don't get the impression that the Mayor is too firmly grounded in reality.

Vegas doesn't really do reality, other than its whole is based on the abuse of labour. Without question one of the weirdest places I've been. Is she asking though for people to be able to travel as normal, or for some restrictions on the denizens of Vegas to be lifted? If she's asking for free travel to and fro Vegas she's not really just offering her city as a giant experiment

Its a very weird place. Looks great at night but travel in from the outskirts in day time and its a whole different matter.

key extracts here:

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/23/poli ... index.html

You can watch the good Mayor here live (not sure all of the interview has been included):

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... yn-goodman

I lived there from 89 - 97... great times... great experiences... met some great people.... but it was a planet all its own.

[Sandydragon]

Vegas doesn't really do reality, other than its whole is based on the abuse of labour. Without question one of the weirdest places I've been. Is she asking though for people to be able to travel as normal, or for some restrictions on the denizens of Vegas to be lifted? If she's asking for free travel to and fro Vegas she's not really just offering her city as a giant experiment

Its a very weird place. Looks great at night but travel in from the outskirts in day time and its a whole different matter.

key extracts here:

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/23/poli ... index.html

You can watch the good Mayor here live (not sure all of the interview has been included):

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... yn-goodman

I lived there from 89 - 97... great times... great experiences... met some great people.... but it was a planet all its own.

I can't being to image what it must be like growing up there, thinking that place is normal.

[Son of Mathonwy]

Its a very weird place. Looks great at night but travel in from the outskirts in day time and its a whole different matter.

key extracts here:

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/23/poli ... index.html

You can watch the good Mayor here live (not sure all of the interview has been included):

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... yn-goodman

I lived there from 89 - 97... great times... great experiences... met some great people.... but it was a planet all its own.

I can't being to image what it must be like growing up there, thinking that place is normal.

Yeah, it's a great place to visit - I have been more than once. But definitely not normal. Like, the opposite of normal.

[Coco]

Its a very weird place. Looks great at night but travel in from the outskirts in day time and its a whole different matter.

key extracts here:

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/23/poli ... index.html

You can watch the good Mayor here live (not sure all of the interview has been included):

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... yn-goodman

I lived there from 89 - 97... great times... great experiences... met some great people.... but it was a planet all its own.

I can't being to image what it must be like growing up there, thinking that place is normal.

Moved there to live with my boyfriend... he lived there (was from Burbank originally). Man did we party... good times my entire 20s... then reality sets in once you see people cashing their paychecks every Friday at the casino... only to gamble it all away... knowing they have a family at home depending on them. Its quite an eyeopener. Very sad. Had our daughter and decided it was no place to raise a child so moved back to So. Cali. I miss the weather though... I love the dry heat.

[Sandydragon]

I lived there from 89 - 97... great times... great experiences... met some great people.... but it was a planet all its own.

I can't being to image what it must be like growing up there, thinking that place is normal.

Moved there to live with my boyfriend... he lived there (was from Burbank originally). Man did we party... good times my entire 20s... then reality sets in once you see people cashing their paychecks every Friday at the casino... only to gamble it all away... knowing they have a family at home depending on them. Its quite an eyeopener. Very sad. Had our daughter and decided it was no place to raise a child so moved back to So. Cali. I miss the weather though... I love the dry heat.

One of the times I went, I spent time wandering around the casino floors. Not a massive gambler but sacrificed 5 dollars just for the hell of it. I remember this woman sat at a slot machine with one of those buckets of quarters just playing and playing . Her child, about 5 or 6 was asleep at her feet. One of those times you really can’t believe your eyes.

[Buggaluggs]

I used to go to Vegas every year with my wife to watch the US Sevens. They moved it LA this year. We'd stay outside of Vegas to the East at Lake Las Vegas. Really nice in Feb/Mar as its cool at night and not too warm during the day. Windy, though in the afternoons. Beautiful scenery and lovey walking trails.

[Coco]

I can't being to image what it must be like growing up there, thinking that place is normal.

Moved there to live with my boyfriend... he lived there (was from Burbank originally). Man did we party... good times my entire 20s... then reality sets in once you see people cashing their paychecks every Friday at the casino... only to gamble it all away... knowing they have a family at home depending on them. Its quite an eyeopener. Very sad. Had our daughter and decided it was no place to raise a child so moved back to So. Cali. I miss the weather though... I love the dry heat.

One of the times I went, I spent time wandering around the casino floors. Not a massive gambler but sacrificed 5 dollars just for the hell of it. I remember this woman sat at a slot machine with one of those buckets of quarters just playing and playing . Her child, about 5 or 6 was asleep at her feet. One of those times you really can’t believe your eyes.

Yep... and with slot machines in every gas station, grocery, and convenience store.. its really just too much.

[morepork]

America...what the fuck is wrong with you?

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52496514

[Digby]

Hey, that virus is going to be gone, eradicated, with or without a vaccine

[morepork]

I can't get my fucking head around this.

[canta_brian]

This will cheer you up I’m sure.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4 ... allup-poll

What on earth are they all approving of?

[Eugene Wrayburn]

This will cheer you up I’m sure.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4 ... allup-poll

What on earth are they all approving of?

ffs

[Son of Mathonwy]

This will cheer you up I’m sure.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4 ... allup-poll

What on earth are they all approving of?

ffs

Scared people rallying around the flag.