Spud Demon

Embarkation was March 7. Wikipedia has some more info, including the governor of Florida saying they’ll “accept Floridians” from the ship (but not residents of other US states??).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Zaandam

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/01/us/holland-america-zaandam-cruise-ship-florida/index.html

I’m sure the truck was insured too. But I don’t know the ratio of the value of a load of commercial TP to a truck, maybe my speculation is way off.

There are 3 things going on right now in the toilet paper business.

1. People increasing their personal supply (hoarding) due to panic.
2. People using more at home because they aren’t going out.
3. People using less at businesses because they aren’t going out.

This was a load of commercial-sized rolls which they’re probably having a lot of…[Read more]

People staying away from hospitals because they don’t know whether they’re covered or not.  In this case the person actually went, got turned away, and died.  And we still don’t know whether it was Covid-19 or not.

?? I think if you are owed child support, you probably have at least one child, so 1200 + 500 * number_of_children as part of the stimulus.

Enforcing child support is a bipartisan goal. Under a Dem administration, they might just give the deadbeat parent’s money directly to the other parent. But I suspect with a Republican, the Treasury holds…[Read more]

I’ve been hearing:

1. Trump refused test kits from WHO.
2. Jared Kushner’s brother owns an “online health insurance” company that has a covid-19 test locating service.

I currently have flu-like symptoms, but the rules in my state wouldn’t even let me get close to a Covid-19 test. I did get a flu test at the ER (regular doc wouldn’t see me),…[Read more]

After her “present” vote on the articles of impeachment, it seemed like she might.

Fact check?  It took me a while to find anything on Wikipedia.

• No mention of Interferon on the Meningitis page
• No mention of Meningitis on the Interferon or Interferon Alfa-2b page
• No mention of Campa on any of those pages
• Finally I did a search for VA-MENGOC-BC and came up with this mention:

A vaccine for serogroup B was developed in Cub…

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Low oil prices normally help every sector of the economy except energy.  It costs less to run the factories, ship things, etc.

But before you get too happy, think about the shale industry.  Oh those poor frackers!  How will they feed all those hungry hedge-fund managers who depend on them?

It makes me even happier.

As long as the money isn’t being stolen from the Social Security Trust Fund, I’m OK with it.

Jesus performed that miracle using the power of Socialism.

Let’s spend a trillion dollars to make sure everybody is the same.

But if you have enough money to pay a doctor to say you have bone spurs, or you’re in a promising career path in an expensive college, don’t worry about it, you’re exempt from slavery.

We also have a COVID-12 pandemic brewing.  That will probably cause a large spike in the health care business in general, and the insurers set their take as a percentage of the total.

But yeah, the corporate-candidate comeback isn’t hurting their stock prices.

@ohiobarbarian

There is a kernel of truth in what she says — Bernie’s reps were part of the rule-writing. Whether it’s literally true that one of them wrote the actual compromise language I don’t know and don’t really care. Yes it was a compromise. Her point was that he should stick to it. I’d rather get rid of superdelegates altogether, but…[Read more]

Warren has seriously toned down her attacks on Bernie and is instead going for Bloomberg’s throat. This is good.

The way to play the situation correctly is to have Warren carry the feminist support and throw her delegates to Bernie at convention time, in return for the VP slot. Those people who voted for Hillary mostly because she’s a woman…[Read more]

Absolutely not. We put in the work to ensure power was returned to the grassroots, we will be following the rules set forth by the DNC. We will not bend on this, we will not change our rules. https://t.co/CZRwRnMxfg

— Tom Perez (@TomPerez) January 31, 2020