They say an apple a day keeps the doctor away. Think that would work with apple pies?

Heh.

Trump is definitely a giant *ussy that somebody needs to grab. He's not the least little bit a strong leader because he's too busy prattling on and on about how somebody or something "done him wrong" and constantly spewing his hatred via tweet and demanding fealty, but that loyalty only goes one way. He has turned the GOP into a bunch of Flying Monkeys living in perpetual fear of the con behind the curtain. #Pathetic

Of course, Biden can't turn back the clock.

But, he most definitely can shut down this virus.

Ask me how ... :)

https://www.thedailybeast.com/qanons-home-8kun-is-implodingand-q-has-gone-silent?ref=scroll

This is fucked, why you let this shit permeate into small minds is staggering...

Only in America.

LL&P

I have a friend who lives in a town outside of NYC. He's a teacher and he contracted the virus back in March. He's in his early 50s and he did get sick, but fell just short of needing to be hospitalized.

Now he donates plasma regularly and he still has antibodies in November, so that seems like a good thing since there's uncertainty about their durability. On the other hand, he still has bouts of fatigue and his senses of taste and smell have still not returned to normal.

World O Meter has added a pop up menu on their site as of 11/11:

We and our (partners)

With your permission we and our partners may use precise geolocation data and identification through device scanning. You may click to consent to our and our partners’ processing as described above. Alternatively you may click to refuse to consent or access more detailed information and change your preferences before consenting. Please note that some processing of your personal data may not require your consent, but you have a right to object to such processing. Your preferences will apply to this website only. You can change your preferences at any time by returning to this site or visit our privacy policy."

Bottom line: You have the right to object to our spying on you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5A4MPcNIcCI

...40 seconds in, think to yourself, 'you lost, get over it'

;)

LL&P

"I wish I believed that will happen. As I read the Georgia results, both races were led by Republican voters who were diluted or split by third or marginal party candidates. In the runoffs I can only imagine the Republicans will win in a one-on-one with a single Democrat."

Perhaps. Though it was less true in the Purdue / Ossoff race, which was more one on one. Purdue got 49.7 percent to Osoff's 48 percent. The Libertarian Hazel got 2.3 percent, which is probably what kept Purdue under 50. Ossoff has a decent chance in my opinion.

The other race was quite different. Democrat Warnock got 32.9 percent of the vote, and Loeffler 25.9 percent of the Republican vote. Then there were a total of 18 !! others on the ballot, who all split the remaining vote. Including multiple other Republicans, Democrats, Independents and Green Party members. If you added just all the other Democrats votes in the race to Warnock, that would give him another 15.5 percent for a total of 48.4 percent. Again, very similar to Ossoff. So, will Georgians turn out out to elect their first black Senator, like they did for Obama, and tried to do for Stacey Abrams as governor?

It really is going to depend on voter turn out. Will Republicans turn out to vote without Trump on the ballot? Will Democrats keep up their sky high turn out in a non presidential election? Will it be more like the 2018 mid terms?

that is completely irrelevant to the main post, which is clearly about people getting sick due to the lack of pie.

JL

I just read this,

https://forums.ledzeppelin.com/topic/1350-houses-of-the-holy-cover-mystery-solved/

You'll have to tune in next week! These musicians are quite phenomenal - you really get the vibe of the classic albums and artists.

Not sure why more theatres in your neck of the woods or mine aren't doing what the Empire Theatre in Bellville is doing through this pandemic when we are all craving live music ...

I've been to the place photographed on both the inside and the outside of the album Houses Of The Holy. Outside: naked kids (there are really only two of them, a brother and a sister, merged together photographically) on The Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland. A couple miles away, there is a ruined castle perched on a seaside cliff, which is where they shot both the inside and the back of the album's cover. Totally cool!

:-)

-CW

It's not the least bit prescriptive; it's a list of organizations and resources that serve as a starting point for getting involved in registering Georgia voters up through December 7th and getting out the vote. Presumably, one would try to connect with the group or groups that best represent his/her/their concerns, priorities, and opinions.

It was a fantastic concert!

Tickets, physically distanced at the theatre in Belleville (limited to 50 people), cost about 50 bucks and you donate the same, or not, if you're watching the live stream at home on your big screen TV.

Next Wednesday, it will be Led Zeppelin's Houses of the Holy and the following week, Let It Be!!!!!!

Does that GOTV effort involve a public education campaign Re. stimulus and shutting down the virus vis-a-vis what Democrats will do if they make up half of the senate whereas what R's will block if they win even just one of these Georgia senate seats?

It's a long shot, but get out your wallet, if you can, and/or volunteer so we can have a run at success. I have.

Yeah, I thought of that unintended consequence of increasing the R vote ... but, I wasn't talking about an influx of money other than directly into the hands of the people of Georgia!

I was thinking more about some sort of public education campaign that would focus on how hard it would be to get Republican senators on board with the notion of helping the citizens of Georgia to cope with having lost jobs and income and that a Democrtic senate would ensure that all Georgians will get the financial assistance they need to see them through the worst of the epidemic and that Democrats will act ASAP with the necessary health measures to shut the virus down so people can get back to their lives and livelihoods.

If this sort of singular message doesn't resonate with the people who will be voting for Georgia's senators then, I guess you are all up the proverbial creek without a paddle ... :(

I wish I believed that will happen. As I read the Georgia results, both races were led by Republican voters who were diluted or split by third or marginal party candidates. In the runoffs I can only imagine the Republicans will win in a one-on-one with a single Democrat. I'd guess that the more outside money pours in, telling Georgia voters it's their job to save the national Democratic Party rather than to vote their own state-focused preferences, the more they will vote to spite the outside money.

We might add that, even in the new year, the likelihood of a full-scale federal relief bill covering unemployment, debt, rent, state obligations, and liability protection, is very low or even lower, depending on the Senate's ultimate make-up after the Georgia elections.

Hopefully, Biden and Harris and all of their surrogates in Georgia will soon be out in force driving that very point home - if Democrats win both seats, the Republican obstructionism will end and people will receive the support they need to see them through to the end of the pandemic restrictions to their lives and livelihoods.

Perhaps with him gone from the White House, the numbers in the red states might begin to improve. Utah's Republican governor finally gave in and issued his first mandatory masking order this week. Utah is currently the 7th-worst state in the nation, per capita. We'll have to see if it starts moving in the other direction after a few weeks of masks being mandatory in public.

Unfortunately, the absence of Trump and the presence of Biden, along with mandatory mask orders, will not be enough to bring the virus under control in any American state, territory or island.

From what I have been able to learn about this virus and how it spreads, I think the only option left for the US right now are lockdowns. That is the only way to get control over this virus and bring the numbers down to levels that are manageable and then, as the lockdowns are released, the implementation of very basic public health measures - widespread and rapid turnaround testing, case identification and isolation, tracing all contacts and quarantining all contacts, cluster investigation - in order to sustain the low levels of transmission and allow lives and livelihoods to restart while we wait for the mass distribution of vaccines.

Without doing all of this, it will be virtually impossible to break the chains of transmission and I shudder to think what will happen over the course of the next two and a half months.

We might add that, even in the new year, the likelihood of a full-scale federal relief bill covering unemployment, debt, rent, state obligations, and liability protection, is very low or even lower, depending on the Senate's ultimate make-up after the Georgia elections.

Trump has been blowing smoke over there and over here his ultimate goal, herd immunity, was casually grazing on the weakly paid.

Lovely.

LL&P

Agreed, again.

One would think this would have been a splendid opportunity to hone in on the central issue of American healthcare chaos.

Monetizing healthcare is obnoxious.

You get what you pay for isn't the last thing on your mind when you can't afford to live.

LL&P