Virus thread, the political one.

[j44ke]

Also, what's Malania getting? A couple Tylenol and a pitcher of orange juice? She tested positive too.

[rwsaunders]

I guess that Notre Dame’s President believed that he didn’t need to follow the school’s guidelines while he was at the Rose Garden...

As we reopen campus and resume our central work of teaching and scholarship, the University is committed to taking every reasonable step to create a safe and healthy environment.
Scientific understanding of the COVID-19 virus is evolving rapidly, as are technologies and therapeutics to detect and treat it. However, until a vaccination is discovered or the virus abates, the best medical advice is that each of us must adopt habits and norms designed to prevent us from catching or spreading the virus. We are implementing a number of public health protocols including expectations regarding wearing masks, physical distancing, frequent hand washing, and other hygiene measures. These efforts will be accompanied by an extensive communications campaign and signage across campus.

https://here.nd.edu/policies/faculty...ccommodations/

[j44ke]

If Notre Dame has been suspending students for violating covid rules, then there should be similar repercussions for the president of the school.

[rwsaunders]

If Notre Dame has been suspending students for violating covid rules, then there should be similar repercussions for the president of the school.

Nah...Notre Dame will just issue a statement for Jenkins that says something like...”what happened at the Rose Garden (not wearing a mask while sitting a row behind Kellyanne Conway) does not reflect who I really am...”

[echappist]

I guess that Notre Dame’s President believed that he didn’t need to follow the school’s guidelines while he was at the Rose Garden...

As we reopen campus and resume our central work of teaching and scholarship, the University is committed to taking every reasonable step to create a safe and healthy environment.
Scientific understanding of the COVID-19 virus is evolving rapidly, as are technologies and therapeutics to detect and treat it. However, until a vaccination is discovered or the virus abates, the best medical advice is that each of us must adopt habits and norms designed to prevent us from catching or spreading the virus. We are implementing a number of public health protocols including expectations regarding wearing masks, physical distancing, frequent hand washing, and other hygiene measures. These efforts will be accompanied by an extensive communications campaign and signage across campus.

https://here.nd.edu/policies/faculty...ccommodations/

He believed that whatever transgression he committed could be easily absolved by the purchase of indulgences

[Clean39T]

He might be coughing but he is one happy camper.
The income tax problem goes away.
The debate disaster goes away.
He gets his Supreme Court pick out of sympathy.
His followers are holding candlelight vigils.
They’ll be spreading straw on the streets in front of the hospital to reduce the noise.

Not sure it works like that. There is plenty of time between now and election day for the chickens to keep roosting.

[vertical_doug]

I am waiting for the NJ Gov to issue court orders to require the donors at the NJ event to cooperate with contact tracing.

A third GOP senator has tested positive. I am thinking Schumer and Pelosi are glad they were not invited to the Rose Garden.

[Mark Kelly]

A third GOP senator has tested positive. .

Which means that the ceremony to introduce his SCOTUS pick may end up scuppering any chance of getting the confirmation through before the election.

If this keeps up I might have to start believeing in a god. I might go with Vishnu, he being the enforcer of Karma.

[WFSTEKL]

Also, what's Malania getting? A couple Tylenol and a pitcher of orange juice? She tested positive too.

Donny has the man-flu and is an entirely different disease.

[Chik]

Sorry, it's been a challenge to follow everything that's been happening, and I have a dumb question: who is Trump's running mate? Is it Pence?

[rowdyhillrambler]

Which means that the ceremony to introduce his SCOTUS pick may end up scuppering any chance of getting the confirmation through before the election.

If this keeps up I might have to start believeing in a god. I might go with Vishnu, he being the enforcer of Karma.

I was just saying that all of us Agnostics over here scratching our heads and questioning our beliefs.. maybe there is? And if so, apparently She has a sense of humor.

[Too Tall]

What patience? We don't know his true condition, and we don't know whether he's currently capable of any significant decision making. When do we decide? When he's on a ventilator?

There has to be a functioning head of state.

I was attempting dark humor....d@mn keyboards don't know how to accomplish a lopsided grin.

Yes Chik, Pence and he is Rapturous. << Too soon?

[Sbti]

Also, what's Malania getting? A couple Tylenol and a pitcher of orange juice? She tested positive too.

According to Tя☭mp, she's doing fine. Which I guess now means she's on a ventilator. Karma is coming for the Birther Queen too, and right soon. And reports are that the whole crime family disregarded the mask mandate at the Cleveland hotel. You know, where families of the patients at the hospital are staying.

[ides1056]

Thank you SNL.

Catharsis (from Greek κάθαρσις, katharsis, meaning "purification" or "cleansing" or "clarification") is the purification and purgation of emotions — particularly pity and fear — through art or any extreme change in emotion that results in renewal and restoration.

[ides1056]

He believed that whatever transgression he committed could be easily absolved by the purchase of indulgences

https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...16a_story.html

Eighteen faculty members attended.

That could get expensive.

[echappist]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...16a_story.html

Eighteen faculty members attended.

That could get expensive.

In that case, self-flagellation then

I hope at least some of the 18 wore a decent mask...

[echappist]

Which means that the ceremony to introduce his SCOTUS pick may end up scuppering any chance of getting the confirmation through before the election.

If this keeps up I might have to start believeing in a god. I might go with Vishnu, he being the enforcer of Karma.

Out of curiosity, what would happen if Trump were incapable to carry out his duties and Pence were to step up (albeit temporarily)? Specifically, who gets to become VP, and does that person need to be confirmed? Might that temporarily siphon off one vote in the Senate until a new VP is confirmed?

[monadnocky]

Thank you SNL.

Catharsis (from Greek κάθαρσις, katharsis, meaning "purification" or "cleansing" or "clarification") is the purification and purgation of emotions — particularly pity and fear — through art or any extreme change in emotion that results in renewal and restoration.

Of course, we use this term in clinical psychology to mean just this, but it is also amusing that a cathartic is any substance that makes you sh!t your brains out.
I enjoy the parallel.

[Too Tall]

Of course, we use this term in clinical psychology to mean just this, but it is also amusing that a cathartic is any substance that makes you sh!t your brains out.
I enjoy the parallel.

I love this place.

[rwsaunders]

Out of curiosity, what would happen if Trump were incapable to carry out his duties and Pence were to step up (albeit temporarily)? Specifically, who gets to become VP, and does that person need to be confirmed? Might that temporarily siphon off one vote in the Senate until a new VP is confirmed?

It’s pretty simple if tRump is unable to serve or dies, but it gets more complex if Pence is in charge...good explanation in the NYT.