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Oh, I know - but even if it's purely for a "I don't want them to be able to do that even though I'd be fine with it if it were my party" rationale, it's important that they ultimately shoot it down. They didn't post 9/11 because of an incredible pressure to "unite" + Bush's insane approval ratings post 9/11. Trump has gotten a big boost in approval ratings himself from coronavirus (lord knows why, he has been somewhere between bad and terrible in his response to the crisis), so I fear that the Democrats will once again not resist in the face of a crisis. Might be one of those times where our extreme polarization may save us, but we'll have to wait and see. Congress has also been busy trying to push through breaking end-to-end encryption with the EARN IT act. A disaster if they pass that through, too.

The Trump administration wanted to suspend constitutional rights as well. I pray that the Democrats don't 9/11 ourselves and go along with it again like last time.

Hungary transitions to dictatorship in face of coronavirus crisis? Prime Minister granted unlimited legislative power with no time limit.

I don't necessarily love her music, but I do really like her voice. I'm in the process of learning to like her music as well.

You/we sure picked a heck of a time to not be dead.

Michigan State Rep. Isaac Robinson dies of coronavirus. For those of us here that get sick (and it is statistically very likely at least some of us will), keep in mind that the line between "I'm alright, hanging in there" and "welp I guess I'm dead" is notoriously thin with this thing. There have been a number of cases where people thought their sickness was manageable and not getting worse for a few days, and then suddenly were overwhelmed and dead within just a few hours. Be very proactive in monitoring yourself (...and loved ones if they get sick). Going to the hospital during a pandemic sucks with all the risk factors, but if you're legitimately going to die at home anyways, you might as well try.

Wait, it's...the work PC that is a security risk to your home PC? If that's the case, sure, VMing is a good idea. Having a work-provided VPN would probably be a more elegant solution, but given that you aren't already on it and apparently the work network and PC is more or less totally unsecured, I assume it's not an option. Using something like Sandboxie to remote in might also be an option for something less resource-intensive than a VM (and Sandboxie is totally free these days), but I'd probably feel safer with the full-blown VM.

I'm sorry, but could you very clearly state what you're trying to accomplish? I just don't have a good enough idea of what you're trying to do to provide any kind of input.

Nurses Die, Doctors Fall Sick and Panic Rises on Virus Front Lines Over 200 health workers at a single NYC hospital have fallen ill. Unlike China, we in the 'first world' don't have the equipment to do this.

Rock 'n' roll artist Alan Merrill of coronavirus.

The Twitter-level pandering in shows has gotten pretty bad among the big studios (Disney, for example, is hilariously terrible in this respect). I don't have any problem with LGBTQ characters (after all, I love Steven Universe which is composed almost entirely of them and I love them all!), but I really, really don't enjoy obvious pandering and token inclusion via poorly written and uninteresting characters and storylines. When a jarring and annoying character or character "twist" like that shows up, I just have to keep reminding myself that it's the bad writers' fault for making bad characters, and not anybody else's. Just like how women were very often written one of a select few ways throughout certain eras of cinema, so too are we going through a period here where companies are eager to show how progressive they are through lazy passive progressive character-writing (...instead of like, you know, actual interesting and consistently written and set up characters that exhibit a number of traits and mannerisms that make their character, LGBTQ or not, fun as well as believable, and hopefully relatable when appropriate).

90s country artist Joe Diffie of coronavirus.

Similarly, I try to never use laptops, but happened to see a deal on a relatively low-end-but-surprisingly-solid Ryzen one for $200 a few months back and decided what the heck - never wanted a gaming laptop anyways for heat and ergonomic reasons. Very glad I did, because teleconferencing has suddenly become a must for everything. It came with a budget SSD, and I replaced the RAM with 16GB (came with 4GB) and it has actually since become a shockingly well-performing laptop.

My sister, who thought she was getting over the virus finally a few days ago, told me she think she's relapsing, as she's started having really bad coughing and breathing again. I've heard of some such relapse cases, and from the sounds of it are at least sometimes fatal. Used to have three sisters, hoping I won't be down to one anytime soon. Can't do anything to help her. She says she's planning on going in tomorrow if it stays like it is right now.

Lately, I think we're all starting to think a little more like Guard Dog regarding the federal government...

@"chinese virus": pence was recently insisting to other world leaders that they call it the "wuhan virus", they didn't give a crap and he looked like a fool for it, so probably? @asians: please no, it's already hard enough to find good asian food here, I just found a good little mom & pop vietnamese place a couple of months ago and they're probably going to go out of business because of this

Story I saw: https://www.vox.com/2020/3/25/21193803/trump-to-governors-coronavirus-help-ventilators-cuomo

Trump says he'll withhold critical supplies from blue states unless they start being nice to him. Yeah, contrary to what I said a few weeks ago, maybe I would prefer if he died of coronavirus, I'm not totally sure at this point anymore, really.

glad to hear there'll be a good RLM episode out of it

I'm "excited" to see what the death rates for Florida will end up being - big population centers, high percentage of old people, everybody there seemingly not giving a crap, no testing, big tourist destination, certain to be a lack of critical supplies and health personnel, and a government that's saying everything is great and don't worry about it. Not because I want anybody to die, but more out of a morbid fascination for "what will this thing do in a situation where literally everything that can go wrong is going to go wrong".

A little under half the population thinks it'll all be over by Easter, and a significant portion of that will probably be planning on gathering en masse in their local churches. Killing off your voter base through misinformation is a bold idea, Trump - we'll see how that works out for him.

Correct. The death rates in Spain and Italy are absurdly high which suggests they're badly behind on testing as well, but given our own failures, it does not bode well for us.

U.S. has overtaken China for official confirmed cases numbers. Mind you, the Chinese numbers are almost definitely cooked...but so are ours (although more likely by incompetency/lack of resources to test). Really wish I didn't know so many people that worked at hospitals right now, including family members...

Actor Mark Blum of coronavirus.