The Trump Pandemic

[Svartalf]

"He looks like a fucking bad big ass"

Only in America could one compare the President to anal sex and think it is a compliment.
...not that I have anything against it.

[Brian Peacock]

[Tero]

Chicken killing factory gets some regulation, probably not enough:
https://www.npr.org/2020/07/19/89275776 ... tion-rules

[Tero]

NPR
House hearing on COVID-19 vaccines: Also Tuesday, a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee holds a hearing on the efforts to develop coronavirus vaccines. Witnesses include AstraZeneca Vice President Mene Pangalos, Johnson & Johnson Head of Clinical Development Macaya Douoguih and Moderna President Stephen Hoge.

Dr. Anthony Fauci said Friday on PBS NewsHour that he's still "cautiously optimistic" that a vaccine will come online by the end of the year, with distribution in 2021.

https://www.npr.org/2020/07/20/89281264 ... icking-poi

[rainbow]

Dr. Anthony Fauci said Friday on PBS NewsHour that he's still "cautiously optimistic" that a vaccine will come online by the end of the year, with distribution in 2021.

Fauci is an AntiFa agent delaying the vaccine until after the election, so Trump can't take credit.
also he is being controlled remotely by 5G signals by the Deep State

[rainbow]

...plus Birx has been misleading poor ol' Trumpy:

Dr. Deborah Birx told Trump in April that the coronavirus would soon be gone and influenced the administration's push to reopen the economy and lift lockdown

https://www.businessinsider.com/dr-birx ... 020-7?IR=T

She didn't see that bus coming

[Scot Dutchy]

The best looking vaccine at the moment is this and it is non-American:

Oxford coronavirus vaccine triggers immune response, trial shows

Early results also indicate vaccine is safe, raising hopes it could help end pandemic

Hopes for a vaccine to address the global spread of coronavirus have been raised after Oxford University’s experimental version was revealed to be safe and to generate a strong immune response in the people who volunteered to help trial it.

After intensive research, Prof Sarah Gilbert, from Oxford’s Jenner Institute, said they were more than happy with the first results, which showed good immunity after a single dose of vaccine.

“We’re really pleased that it seems to be behaving just as we thought it would do. We have quite a lot of experience of using this technology to make other vaccines, so we knew what we expected to see, and that’s what we have seen,” she told the Guardian.

The prime minister, Boris Johnson, called the results “very positive news”, adding: “There are no guarantees, we’re not there yet and further trials will be necessary – but this is an important step in the right direction.”

The health secretary, Matt Hancock, said: “Very encouraging news. We have already ordered 100 million doses of this vaccine, should it succeed.”

De Herr Trump wont like it. I would not be surprised if CIA operatives are already stealing samples.

The EU have ordered 300 million doses.

[pErvinalia]

UK vaccines are the best vaccines!

[Seabass]

Woman Urinates On Floor After Refusing To Leave Verizon Store For Not Wearing Mask

[JimC]

She must have been really pissed off...

[Brian Peacock]

[Seabass]

Surprise! Trumpkins are stoopid.

People who refuse to wear a coronavirus face mask have LOWER cognitive ability, experts say

PEOPLE who refuse to wear a face mask to reduce the risk of coronavirus have lower cognitive ability, new research has found.

Choosing to follow social distancing rules may depend on how much information the working memory can hold, experts say.

Working memory is the psychological process of holding information in the mind for a brief period of time - typically, just seconds.

Scientists say its capacity is predictive of many mental abilities such as intelligence, comprehension, and learning.

The new study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, looked at compliance of social distancing rules in the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic.

Researchers at the University of California found people with higher working memory capacity have an increased awareness of benefits over costs of social distancing.

As a result, they also show more compliance when it came to following the guidelines during the early stage of the Covid-19 outbreak.

Weiwei Zhang, an associate professor of psychology who co-authored the paper, said: "The higher the working memory capacity, the more likely that social distancing behaviours will follow.

"Interestingly, this relationship holds even after we statistically control for relevant psychological and socioeconomic factors such as depressed and anxious moods, personality traits, education, intelligence, and income."

The researchers surveyed 850 Americans between March 15 and March 23 - the first two weeks the US declared a national emergency due to Covid.

People were asked to complete a set of questions about whether they were observing social distancing rules, their mood and feelings.

Personality variables, intelligence, and participants' understanding about the costs and benefits of social distancing practice were measured also.

Prof Zhang said: "Our findings reveal a novel cognitive root of social distancing compliance during the early stage of the Covid-19 pandemic.

"We found social distancing compliance may rely on an effortful decision process of evaluating the costs versus benefits of these behaviours in working memory - instead of, say, mere habit.

"This decisional process can be less effortful for people with larger working memory capacity, potentially leading to more social distancing behaviours."

He added that their findings suggest that policymakers need to consider people's general cognitive abilities when promoting compliance behaviours, such as wearing a face mask.

"The message in such materials should be succinct, concise, and brief," Prof Zhang said.

"Make the decision process easy for people."

https://www.the-sun.com/news/1134404/pe ... e-ability/

[Seabass]

Surprise! Trumpkins are evil.

Psychopathic traits linked to non-compliance with social distancing guidelines amid the coronavirus pandemic

New research provides some initial evidence that certain antagonistic personality traits are associated with ignoring preventative measures meant to halt the spread of the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2.

The study has been peer reviewed and accepted for publication in the journal Social Psychology and Personality Science. It is currently available on the PsyArXiv preprint website.

[...]

“This includes personality, or the study of important ways in which people differ. It was clear from reports in the media very early in the COVID-19 pandemic that some people were rejecting advice to socially distance and engage in increased hygiene. There can be many reasons for this, and I thought that personality may play at least a small role in it.”

“I knew that traits from the so-called Dark Triad (narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy) as well as the traits subsumed within psychopathy are linked to health risk behavior and health problems, and I expected them to be implicated in health behaviors during the pandemic. There is also prior research suggesting that people high on the Dark Triad traits may knowingly and even deliberately put other people’s health at risk, e.g., by engaging in risky sexual behavior and not telling their partner about having HIV or STIs,” Blagov told PsyPost.

“Early in the pandemic, and in subsequent months, there were numerous reports of individuals purposefully coughing, spitting, or even licking door handles in public, either as a way to intimidate others or as a way to rebel against the emerging new norms of social distancing and hygiene. I was curious whether the Dark Triad and psychopathy-related traits may help explain such behavior.”

https://www.psypost.org/2020/06/psychop ... emic-56980

[Sean Hayden]

It's more depressing than perhaps you realize. In my opinion we underestimate the extent to which these traits are hardwired, something that if ultimately proven true may mean a lot of our efforts to make things better are hopeless.*


*so, really, what else is new?

[Seabass]

It's more depressing than perhaps you realize. In my opinion we underestimate the extent to which these traits are hardwired, something that if ultimately proven true may mean a lot of our efforts to make things better are hopeless.*


*so, really, what else is new?

One need only look at countries in the developed world to see that things don't have to be this way. Our problems are cultural and historical in nature. We are not on average genetically more sociopathic than the inhabitants of developed countries.