Lots of alligators of all kinds this morning, so just a quick one (might post something new later today or tomorrow to catch up with the news). But just a general comment… I don't know who fucking reversed the tachyon flow, but this is dumbest timeline ever.
"A new 'Star Wars' series is in the works at Disney Plus, Variety has learned from sources. The series hails from Leslye Headland, the co-creator, showrunner, and executive producer of the critically-acclaimed Netflix series 'Russian Doll.'" Many outlets have called this a "female-focused" Star Wars series, which has promptly caused me to change my head cannon of the first 6 films to the "sausage-fest" Star Wars series.
"The Atlantic hurricane season is likely to be very active, fueled by very warm ocean temperatures in the tropics, according to several forecasts including a report released April 16 by The Weather Channel… A total of 18 named storms — nine of them hurricanes — are predicted in the season starting June 1, according to the Atlanta-based weather forecasting company, which is owned by IBM. That’s higher than the seasonal average of 12 named storms, including six hurricanes, determined by the U.S. National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration."
"Apple Inc is planning to fix a flaw that a security firm said may have left more than half a billion iPhones vulnerable to hackers." Oopsie.
"The ultimate purpose of Starlink, of course, is to serve high-quality internet to customers anywhere on Earth, ranging from the deep winter Arctic to the middle of the Australian outback – places that are fundamentally underserved." I really hope the price is actually affordable, better than DSL, and available to us ruralians. (insert gif of "I mean, it's one banana, Michael. What could it cost? Ten dollars?" here)
"The Florida Aquarium celebrated Earth Day this year by announcing a history-making accomplishment that could help save the United States' only living coral barrier reef from extinction. For the first time, scientists at the aquarium's Center for Conservation reproduced ridged cactus coral in human care." That's great, but a zoo is not the wild and the problem is not with the coral themselves.
"Overall, about 20% of Covid-19 patients treated at Northwell Health died, and 88% of those placed on ventilators died, according to the study." That ain't good. But to be fair, again, many people put on ventilators don't survive just like many people who receive CPR don't survive.
"Trump's numbers on the flu have come into question, but even by his own cited numbers, there have now been far more deaths from COVID-19 — in less than two months. As the chart below shows, the curve nationally is hardly flattening by that measure." Jazz hands.
"Health care providers in coronavirus hot spots will receive $10 billion in bailout funds as early as next week, and hospitals will soon receive money for treating uninsured patients, the Trump administration said Wednesday." And what about the rural hospitals who mostly shut down waiting for a surge that hasn't happened (yet)? Apparently there is money for them.
"German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday warned the battle against the coronavirus was in its early stages and that the pandemic looked set to be part of life for the long term."
"Shortly after his televised comments (saying we'd have test shortly), Azar tapped a trusted aide with minimal public health experience to lead the agency’s day-to-day response to COVID-19. The aide, Brian Harrison, had joined the department after running a dog-breeding business for six years. Five sources say some officials in the White House derisively called him 'the dog breeder.'" Hell of a job, Alex. (Grokked from Random Michelle K)
"The boss of Ryanair says the airline will not resume flights if it has to keep middle seats empty to fight Covid-19, calling the idea 'idiotic'… Michael O'Leary said he was hopeful 80% of flights could resume by October if travel restrictions are eased in July." Good luck with that. Fly Coronavirus Air, the cheapest fare anywhere.
"California has been approved to borrow what is expected to be billions of dollars from the federal government to pay unemployment benefits to those left jobless by the coronavirus pandemic, raising concerns about the cost of repaying the debt."
From Fox News… "President Trump said Wednesday that he's instructed the U.S. Navy to 'shoot down and destroy' any Iranian gunboats harassing American ships, in the wake of a tense encounter in the Persian Gulf." "Um, sir," said the big man in his crisp uniform, huge muscles, tears in his eyes, "you don't shoot down boats. They aren't flying." Also, this would give the Iranians cases belli.
Meanwhile in Wisconsin… "Brian Westrate, the treasurer of the Republican Party of Wisconsin, posted to a private Facebook group for organizers and some attendees of the Madison rally… 'Ok folks, I implore you, please leave Confederate flags and/or AR15s, AK47s, or any other long guns at home,' Mr. Westrate wrote. 'I well understand that the Confederacy was more about states rights than slavery. But that does not change the truth of how we should try to control the optics during the event.'… In an interview, Mr. Westrate acknowledged writing the post and said it may be futile to ask the rally participants to limit the variety of their political motivations." Well, at least they're now admitting to it. "'All indications are that these are manufactured protests,' Ms. Rhodes-Conway said. 'They are seeking attention. I think they are getting more attention than they deserve.'" (Grokked from Laura J Mixon)
How dumb is the president? "After hearing presentation President Trump suggests irradiating people's bodies with UV light or injecting them with bleach or alcohol to deal with COVID19." There's video. Where he said this. On camera. In front of a crowd. Now, besides the utter stupidity of these suggestions (seriously, don't do these) showing us the president doesn't have the sense God gave geese, is him saying that his medical advisors said they "would look into it." That's the level of dysfunction here. No one, none of his advisors, was willing to correct the president by saying, "Mr. President, that would kill people." Instead they knew they couldn't do that. They couldn't tell the president the truth. Expect them to try and walk this back or explain it away. He will kill us all.
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