Welcome back, kittens. Welcome to another episode of 2020. We’re here to cover Justin Trudeau’s Covid-19 briefing today, and to respond to the demand of literally none of your requests for a Seventh Generation Bingo Card. Play one or play them all; it’s 2020 and nothing matters anymore.
The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; The centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world; the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere.
To date, labs across ๐จ๐ฆ have tested 11,739,689 people for #COVID19, w an average ~3.3% positive overall. Over the past week, on average 74,596 people have been tested daily (w 7.4% +ve), as #publichealth#TestandTrace.https://t.co/ZArmpJMAM3
Holy crap, Alberta has an almost 10% Positive rate! Alberta is fucked. Tent field hospitals and trench graves lie in their future.
Here’s our video for today:
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau addresses Canadians from outside his home in Ottawa on the federal government’s response to the ongoing COVID-19 (coronavirus disease) pandemic.
Fewer than 650 views. Canada is clearly not in ANY MOOD for another Covid-19 briefing. But here we are, kittens. We happy few are one in our esoteric taste in edutainment in 2020.
We are later-calling the COVID briefing bingo for today, for lo, we were still asleep when the briefing itself happened. If someone wants to pay us The Big Bucks (like, any. Any bucks. We’re not proud) we’ll be happy to not sleep through two different alarms. One is using the royal “we” of course. We have no idea why. One has no idea why. One and we blame the multiple alarms.
Whatever.
We or I am of the mind or minds that we or I or all of us have run out of Paul Naschy werewolf movies and rather than re-use the titles of the many ones which have been re-titled, we are moving on to Bela Lugosi movies, several of which ALSO boast multiple titles. Movie laundering: it’s just like money laundering only you only make 4%, not 30%. Bela was hot.
Bela could Get It.
So today’s briefing bingo is named after the officially Worst Movie of All Time, Plan 9 from Outer Space. That’s NUMERAL nine. Because we fancy like that.
Here are our cards. Mark one or mark them all. Nothing matters anymore.
and all of our other Covid Briefing Bingos are on the category page.
And our CPAC video. Do we think they’ll ever reply to our message? No, kittens. No, we do not. But it’s okay. We’ve still got our poetry.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau addresses Canadians from outside his home in Ottawa on the federal government’s response to the ongoing COVID-19 (coronavirus disease) pandemic.
Man, even the CPAC captioning team is half-assing it these days.
Today’s briefing bingo, which is really yesterday’s briefing and today’s possible bingo, is brought to you by the Paul Naschy movie The Mummy’s Revenge. Why ask why? It’s 2020 and nothing makes sense anymore.
More and more I believe when I’m dreaming is when I am most awake
Here’s our video of the briefing, which took place as we mentioned, yesterday. I was busy having a life, okay? It was quite a refreshing change, and I’m sure I was deeply missed by all briefing participants. Would a retweet KILL YA?
But I’m over that.
Here’s our CPAC video:
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau addresses Canadians from outside his home in Ottawa to provide an update on the federal governmentโs response to the ongoing COVID-19 (coronavirus disease) pandemic. He announces that Major-General Dany Fortin will lead the federal governmentโs vaccine distribution team. The prime minister also comments on his conversations with premiers regarding the COVID-19 vaccine rollout. He says, if everything goes well, most Canadians will be vaccinated by September 2021. The previous day, public health officials said they were expecting to be able to vaccinate three million people by March 2021. Trudeau also announces $542 million funding to help First Nations, Inuit and Mรฉtis communities and groups establish their own child and family services systems.
And here are our bingo cards. Yes, I need to Get On that seventh generation card, but at this point I figure we have until at least June, so there’s no particular rush.
And all the previous bingo episodes are on theย Briefing Bingo Category page.ย Which might as well just be the main blog page, because I’m putting nothing much else here these days.
Me in high school: WHY AM I SPENDING AN HOUR A DAY LEARNING ABOUT A SUBJECT THAT WONโT HELP ME IN REAL LIFE?
Me now: Oh boy a new episode of my podcast about dolphin social hierarchies
This is the only year in recent history when the question “What’s new?” qualifies as trolling.
To begin, we have “Begins in English” and “Facial Hair” and “Back at Rideau Hall” and “Outerwear”. Methinks those suit colour squares are going to go unchecked until, say, March or April. I bet he’s cheating and not even wearing the jacket under that coat, as would we in his place.
“We are in some of the toughest days of this pandemic and we are going to have to hold on tight.”
Somebody took care of the scuff marks on the door, I notice. Doggy scuff marks or human scuff marks? Enquiring minds want to know, because it’s 2020 and we’re desperate for entertainment of any sort. Anyway, they’re gone.
According to extensive research during #COVIDCanada, Cdns want fairer, more just society. One that takes steps to unwind inequality. One that works towards greener economy & environment. The very essence of what PM & the many leaders spoke about#cdnpolihttps://t.co/b3virrKPOY
— Caroline (northernck on alternative sites) (@northernck) November 28, 2020
Now we’ve got “Rapid tests” and “PPE” as Trudeau rattles off some figures about how much of this stuff the government is sending out. And yes, new record high infection rates in several provinces, which is just like a daily thing now. Or rather, twice-weekly, as we only get the briefings on Tuesday and Friday. I might as well set my calendar reminders permanently at this point.
Oh, and one for Wednesday too!
We may not be able to host town halls like we used to, but I thought we could try something new – next Wednesday, @CAFreeland and I will host one virtually. Weโll need some questions from you, though, so click here to submit yours and sign up to attend: https://t.co/VVRmgoYXcTpic.twitter.com/D8xugJ4w7i
Trudeau is now “pushing responsibility to provinces” so mark that one off. He’s laying out just how the federal government is stepping up and, by implication, challenging the provinces to step up and use their budgets and their borrowing power to help their citizens.
I have a question to all the white supremacists out there : can you really claim that your race is superior when most anti mask protesters are.. White.., anti science and anti facts?? #COVID#COVID19#onpoli#cdnpolihttps://t.co/JYOa7ByChi
— Karen Woods ๆ็ท ๐บ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐จ๐ฆ๐ป (@KarenWenLin) November 28, 2020
And mark your “Vaccine” square. And “Team Canada” and “App.” There are 5.5 million people using it and 31.38ย smartphone owners in the country, so there is still a long way to go.
It's disingenuous to pretend that Canada and that provinces can't do this. We did it during H1N1 in a matter of weeks. Canada regularly get adults vaccinated against Flu and we do a great job between family practice clinics, pharmacies, schools, universities, workplaces #cdnpolihttps://t.co/YCIjkmVCr3
On the Seventh Generation square I should definitely have a square for “The Roommate breathes loudly through his nose to indicate disapproval of the fact that he has lost control of the remote control.” But that virtually guarantees I’ll have moved out by the time I post it.
Oooh, motivation!
He’s not finding a new way to give Canadians money, he’s just running down all the ways he’s already given Canadians money.
There is “We have your back.” And I totally have to put that on the Seventh Generation card before it goes stale. Remember “From Coast to Coast to Coast?” Once that got on a card it was never seen again. I’m more influential than I thought, clearly!
I don’t know my own strength!
That sounds like “Donc” to me, so mark that one. And he’s alternating between “flattening” and “bending” the dreaded Curve. Neither of those are squares yet, but we got “every step of the way” so mark that. Repeatedly. And I note that I’ve got the same square for “Briefing ends abruptly” twice on the Sixth Generation square.
And definitely “Thanks the Armed Forces” square is in action. And “Gesticulates” too. And now either the Prime Minister is warming up or Ottawa is cooling off, because you can mark your “Can see your breath” square. Well, that was gesticulation to a positively aerobic extent, let’s give it its due.
And there goes the moderator yelling at him to do it again, in French. Unilingual countries’ leaders have it way easier comparatively speaking. They don’t need to hire people to yell at them; their people will do it for free!
There’s your “Sign language interpreters swapped out” square, mark it. Not even 30 minutes into the actual briefing, inneresting.
And mark the “Drinks water” square and “Twinkleface.” If I were Justin Trudeau I would not be twinkling at the CBC, but it’s his call. And it does in fact look like he’s wearing a suit jacket underneath that coat, either pale blue or grey. We’ll see what colour the trousers are when he goes back inside.
Oho, plot twist! They are black! Surely Justin Trudeau would not wear a pale grey or blue suit jacket with black suit trousers (even if he would put brown shoes with a grey or blue suit, which is, again, JUST MORALLY WRONG). So, again, we are unable to tell you which if any suit colour square to mark off.
And that’s a wrap. No mask this time, I note. Not that it’s really necessary for a man to go from his front door to a podium and back.
See you Tuesday unless something happens. Or nothing happens. It’s 2020: anything or nothing could happen at any moment!
Welcome back, kittens. Seems like we’re here every Tuesday these days, “here” being both online and at Rideau Cottage, the substantial, foursquare, and quite un-cottage-like brick home in which the Prime Minister and his family live. He’s working from home during this, the Second of the Waves, which is why we’re here, and I can’t find myself annoyed by it. God knows, I love to see a man in good outerwear.
It certainly beats the sterile briefing room that we have had since the start of the summer. We may never see Seymour again, but we have seasonal porchscaping instead, and that’s what I call an upgrade!
Yes, I’m taking joy where ever I can find it these days. even in seasonal porchscaping. I ain’t proud.
And yes, we are still naming these posts after old Paul Naschy werewolf films, because it’s 2020 and the idea that things are supposed to make sense is just so 2018. Today’s film is La Noche de Walpurgis, which translates as Walpurgisnacht, but I’m betting you don’t speak German any better than you speak Spanish, so The Bloody Pit of Horror blog gives us a full run-down of all the other names by which this movie goes. You know it’s a totally crap movie when it has aliases. If I were to release this movie I’d do it under an assumed name too.
aka: Blood Moon
… aka: Night of the Vampire
… aka: Shadow of the Werewolf
… aka: Walpurgis Night
… aka: Walpurgis Night: Wolf vs. Vampire
… aka: Werewolf Shadow
… aka: Werewolf vs. Vampire Woman, The
… aka: Werewolf versus the Vampire Woman, The
We’re going with the last name, because, again, why the fuck not?
Linus’ story is not even the story you are reading right now
Interestingly:
Did You Know
that great pandemics almost always coincide with great advances in the field of #philosophy? It's a #fact. So what are you doing staring slack-jawed at Netflix when you could be philosophizing for all you're worth?!? You could be the next Rando of Ephesus! pic.twitter.com/Miju5CWwT5
Here is your trailer, which is fun to watch while we’re all waiting for the briefing to start. And here is the full movie on YouTube, in case it’s really, really fucking late.
“Things happen that have never been seen by human beings,” so, basically #Peak2020. Perfect. “See it with someone you hate” oh man, ALL of the taglines from this movie work to sum up this year.
Now, to the cards. We’re overdue for the Seventh Generation card, and it’ll come one day, but that day is not this day. Sorry, kittens, you’ll just have to keep returning to the well. The blog. The RSS reader. The email subscription. I dunno, is the internet many places, or is it all one, and divisions purely arbitrary distinctions born of limited perspectives?
I am speaking, you understand, I am speaking only of the internet.
And all the previous bingo episodes are on the Briefing Bingo Category page. Someday we’ll even create a Covid-19 Briefing Drinking Game but we’re in the middle of a sobriety pledge right now (day off to celebrate Freed Jeremy Hammond Day) so get back to us in January.
And here is our actual video for today, which 848 people are currently watching. And now, half an hour late, even us.
We’re jumping into the middle of the questions, but you can tick your “Donc” square at least.
Mark your “Starts more than ten minutes late” square. So it’s not just us.
Yes, mark your “New porchscaping” square. And I guess if we’re also doing squares that rarely/never change, might as well mark off the “Facial hair” square too. Will we see “cleanshaven” again? I wonder. “Back at Rideau Hall” is clearly in play (cottage/hall, whatever, it’s on the grounds of Rideau Hall). And “Holiday decorations” too, so seasonal porchscaping is a twofer!
Oh yes, mark your “Outdoors” square too. And “Outerwear” as is only right and proper. Rideau Cottage does NOT count as “on location.” Not after all these months. And finally at 23:25, Trudeau emerges from the house to begin the briefing. Mark your “Mask” square.
It was nice of him to wait for me, really it was. And I almost would have made it on time, if I had one of those coffee makers you could program. But I don’t, so I was in the kitchen brewing some Kickass blend. Priorities!
I take my coffee like my take on twitter; dark, strong, mysterious, mostly bitter but with a subtle fruitiness. ๐
And yes, “Begins in English”. He usually only begins in French if the briefing is in Quebec.
Oh yay /sarcasm, new record daily highs of Covid-19 in multiple provinces. People, have you MET other people? Do you really like them that much, enough to potentially kill them? Even *I* would not go out and socialize with a group of people, and I HATE my roommate (I don’t, I just hate the fact that he lives here, in the house that he owns).
2/2 Over the past week, an average of 75,666 people have been tested for #COVID19 daily across Canada, with 7.6% of these people testing positive as #publichealth continues to expand #TestandTrace capacity to meet increased demands. https://t.co/ZArmpJMAM3
Now we have “Audio issues” and “Touches mic” and I should totally make a square for “Deja vu because we did this in the First Wave” for sending the military in to old folks’ homes.
Update on personal protective equipment, vaccines, and therapeutics: Since last week, weโve sent more than 2.9 million pairs of nitrile gloves to the provinces and territories. Weโve also sent out 4.6 million rapid tests over the past few months – and millions more are coming.
Weโve received more than 24 million syringes and needles, which weโll use when we have a vaccine. On that front, we heard promising news yesterday about AstraZeneca and Oxford Universityโs vaccine candidate. We already have an agreement for up to 20 million doses of it.
Weโve also signed an agreement for up to 26,000 doses of Eli Lillyโs therapeutic drug, and we have options for thousands more doses. This treatment was developed in partnership with Vancouverโs AbCellera Biologics, and is part of our support for researchers here at home.
He’s doing his OWN summaries on Twitter? How did I not notice until now? Great, thanks, you do my work for me!
“Every step of the way” and “Finds a new way to give Canadians money” squares active for yet another new rent subsidy and wage subsidy. And “Second Wave”.
You can only mark “every step of the way” once per briefing, no matter if he says it a dozen times. Which we might see today.
“Rapid tests” square is active. Trudeau is specifically mentioning the amount of money the federal government is pouring into Alberta. Recent polls have his approval rate there at 55% while the CPC premier’s popularity is down around 30%, so this is perfect game theory in action.
Seriously, Trudeau needs an “every step of the way” intervention.
And there’s your “App” square, half an hour in. 5.4 million Canadians have downloaded it so far. Be like Sasha. Sasha was asymptomatic, but had the app, and got a notification he’d been exposed, so he went in and got tested, only to find it was positive. He’d never have known otherwise.
For once, they didn’t swap out the sign language interpreters. The mind! It fairly boggleth!
I think I need to add a square for microphone bobbling to the Seventh Generation Bingo Card. Which I’ll be making today and posting probably Friday, when there will almost certainly be another Covid-19 briefing.
Meanwhile, in New Brunswick, things are getting fraught.
The real question now is who had their phone unmuted while they were in the bathroom for the presser
Tick your “Donc” and “You can see your breath” squares. There are over 900 people watching the video of today’s covid-19 briefing. FINALLY it seems like people are catching on to these, and of course I miss half an hour of it.
And your “Vaccine” square too.
“No one place gets done with Covid-19 until all places are done with Covid-19.”
Interesting. 2800 watching the CTV live coverage of the briefing today, vs about 1000 watching CPAC. And 3200 watching the CBC version too. But then, we’ve always been outliers. still, this is the MOST popular briefing we’ve seen in terms of viewership. I wonder why.
Oh, who am I kidding? It’s clearly that they want to play Briefing Bingo. RIGHT? [hint: the correct answer is RIGHT!]
Shout-out to the moderator, who does not hesitate to yell at the Prime Minister “And again in the OTHER official language” or words to that effect. Can you imagine the job listing? “Must be willing to yell at Justin Trudeau repeatedly.” How did O’Toole not at least apply?
Tick your “Building back better” square, even if it did come from a mere reporter. Also your “Drinks water” square. That was the PM. No idea if the reporters are drinking, but if experience is any guide…well…have you MET one?
Tick your “Twinkleface” square. No idea why he’s twinkling at reporters, but he’s twinkling. Mark it.
Mark your “PPE” square. I wonder how long they’ll have a glass of water on the podium? Ottawa’s bloody cold. To keep it liquid through the winter, they’ll have to replace it with vodka or gin, and wouldn’t THAT be a fun briefing? I really do have to get working on that drinking game.
I need a square for “layered outerwear” because I can see a tie, shirt, fleece jacket, and wool coat. I need a “Five Eyes” square, clearly. Good to see some questions around that. And mark your “Two Michaels” square.
“Coercive Diplomacy” should be a square. So far it’s only been applied to China, but it could have applied to Twunt’s administration as well. And mark your “My aunt calls during the briefing” square. Four Fucking Times. That’s a new personal best.
And that’s a wrap.
Meanwhile, in the US:
Itโs Tuesday before Thanksgiving so you should know that if the minimum wage had increased at the rate of productivity since 1960, it would be $22.50. Instead, itโs $7.25.
That's $15.25 per hour that's disappeared from the pockets of low income workers the past 60 years…
The thing about creating an army of losers, aka the Twunt/Q strategy, is that they continue to lose.
Over quarter million dead @POTUS@realDonaldTrump says nothing, dow hits 30k cause he's leaving so he tries to take credit. This man is a deranged narcissist
So, this is where we are, kittens. Back at Rideau Cottage, naming these posts after old Paul Naschy wolfman films. Will the pandemic endure so long that we’ll run out of Naschy movies and have to begin naming them after old episodes of Kolchak?
Here are your Covid Briefing Bingo cards so far, and YES, yes, I know. I have to get you the seventh generation sometime before the vaccine is released!
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau addresses Canadians from outside his home in Ottawa on the federal government’s response to the ongoing COVID-19 (coronavirus disease) pandemic.
And here’s the full text. Do they have a teleprompter at Rideau Cottage? Because I didn’t see him looking at any papers. And if they have one at his house, why don’t they have one in the briefing room they’ve been using all Fall?
As you can see, we are back at the old hangout, Rideau Cottage, and you can mark your square for “Seasonal porchscaping.” This is something people in Ottawa go in for bigly; being from BC I think at the very most I’d see a wreath and an inflatable Grinch, and that was in the whole neighborhood. We skipped over “Cottonwood fluff and insects” season altogether.
Pontificating for a moment I’d say that the return to Rideau Cottage means a) Trudeau is working from home for some reason. Self-isolating, perhaps? b) He’s not worried some Q-Twat will try to off him.
Let us begin, kittens.
Trudeau is in a hell of a mood. “I don’t want to be here. You don’t want me to be here. But here we are again. Cases are spiking.” This isn’t a speech on paper. He’s doing this off the cuff and memory. TBH these are always better. When it’s an emotional message, this way is better. He’s good at it.
1418 new cases in Ontario, largely in the Toronto, Peel, and York regions. Trudeau appeals to the citizens not to slack off on their precautions, not to have a dinner party (socially distanced or not), not to get together with friends.
The worst case scenario could see 60,000 new cases a day diagnosed in Canada. “The best way to protect the economy is to get the virus under control.”
https://t.co/S6SXbNFg73 "Tam said the worst case scenario, a spike to 60,000 daily cases, would occur if people became more sociable. Even if current restrictions on gatherings are maintained, new daily cases will jump to over 20,000 by Dec 31." #cdnpoli#StayHome or #MaskUp
Mark your “Outerwear” square, “Second wave” and “Starts in English” on a lighter note.
Trudeau explains that in the first wave we thought doing what kept us safe was bad for the economy, but now we know the opposite is true. Staying safe is the best way to support the economy. All the business supports have been enshrined in law now, thanks to a cross-party effort to pass it yesterday.
Yes, go ahead and mark your “stern teacher voice” square.
“Name-checks Dr. Theresa Tam” square active, mark that one off.
“They are heroes. They are going above and beyond ANYTHING they thought they were signing up for.” Trudeau asks people to think about the medical workers who face the unimaginable, every day.
Iโll be working from home as much as possible in the coming days, too. Because itโs up to all of us to do our part. We know what to do. We know it isnโt always easy. But we know it works. If you donโt have to leave your house, then donโt. #StayHome
Trudeau specifically challenges employers to let their workers work from home. And reminds everyone to download the app (the federal one, that works, not the Alberta one, which uh…).
Trudeau is calling out Alberta and BC about their non-adoption of the federal app. And good on him, because that is not merely stupid; it is actively preventing the federal government from saving lives.
Unfortunately, here in BC, we not only don't have the app, but our health experts' reason for stubbornly refusing to allow it's use is weak and makes little sense. They continue to simply state, "we're working on it." https://t.co/rGv3F64aPK
Sooper, my internet clogged up. Mark your “Technical difficulties” square. This thing is glitching hard; it’s like watching a briefing animated by Francis Bacon.
Surprise! It's not just "What the FUCK, man? What the actual FUCK?" which it surely could be. https://t.co/TFrJdeAAeU
Now Trudeau is offering condolences to the family of the Holocaust survivor who made it through WWII and came to Canada, raised a family, and recently passed away from Covid-19.
Trudeau says he’s working from home again, so he’s basically modeling the behaviour he wants to see from Canadians. Bully pulpit for the win. And mark your “Keeps the border closed” square, yay!
Sign language interpreter on the right has his groove on.
“We have a long winter ahead. Wear a mask. Keep your distance. Download and use the app. Avoid gatherings of all sizes. And know that together, being there for one another, we’ll get through it.”
And marks your “Drinks water” square. Now on to the questions.
Trudeau seemed to drop the posh French accent and get a little more vernacular, get a little more Quebec, when answering that question about “So what about Christmas?”
Mark your “Swaps out sign language interpreters” square. “We have your backs” really needs to be a square in this game.
Reporter asks if Trudeau if he’ll bring in some federal rules to prevent interprovincial travel, which he does not wish to do. “Not an idea I’m even contemplating right now.” Mark your “Pushes responsibility to provinces.”
The PM has been pretty clear with his messaging-stop trying to blame him for the premiers failure in messaging. Also can anyone point to one instance where an oppo leader actually got on tv to deliver the same message as the PM is doing now. I can't think of one. #cdnpoli
— Canadian Girl ๐จ๐ฆ๐บ๐ฆ (@julesiscanadian) November 20, 2020
You know, this man is just damn good at this off the cuff stuff. Knitting climate change into the pandemic response with specific examples and big-picture inspiration.
I cannot tell you how much I've come to respect him since all this started.
“We’re seeing a lot of people falling prey to conspiracy theories” and calls out the Conservatives specifically for pushing disinformation. Dang! FIRST BLOOD!
Revenue Canada had to come out to dispel this false claim levelled by #PostMedia & #CPC.
This is also the #CPC plan to take power, with the aid of US hedge-fund controlled Postmedia & other propaganda outlets, sow division via disinformation & propaganda. #cdnmedia#cdnpolipic.twitter.com/b8hq8SoFpU
โThis is not a fair situationโ Trudeau acknowledging the truth about the patchwork of Covid regulations across Canada. #cdnpoli#covidcanada I prefer this to BS.
Trudeau says he’s not advocating a national lockdown; he’s advocating listening to your premiers and local politicians. Which is a politically inspired way to make sure the negatives associate with anything and anyone other than the federal government.
Since we’re in outerwear seasons I think I should have a square for “Buttons” and one for “Zipper”. The zipper is a Canadian invention, did you know?
“Shout-out to religious holiday” of course, for all the references to Christmas.
“I think a lot of people are done with this,” says Trudeau, sounding VERY VERY DONE WITH THIS.
“It was a blunt object of a tool, a national shutdown. We’re seeing provinces using targeted shutdowns in a much better way. It’s unfair and it’s frustrating. YUP. No question about it. Everyone is sick and tired of this. We need to know that the end is in sight. We need to do one last big effort.”
"But in order to get through this winter without overwhelming our health systems, without losing too many of our loved ones, we need to do one last big effort these coming months and it starts with the coming weeks of really tightening up." #COVID19#coronavirus#cdnpoli
Oh yeah, we had “the path forward” several times, so mark that square. “Our focus is not on politics. Our focus is on Canadians.” You know, he’s so good at this I would almost even believe him, were I inclined to anything but goth angst these days.
Justin Trudeauโs address to the nation this morning was the most powerful speech by a Canadian prime minister I have ever seen. How lucky we are to have a real leader at a dark time like this one. #COVID19#cdnpolipic.twitter.com/Axs9HOwa5n
— ๐จ๐ฆ Simon ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ ๐๐ป (@montrealsimon) November 20, 2020
Mark your “Touches face” square as he listens to reporter ask if he can mandate specific ways to force people to use the app. He responds that it should be up to individuals, that making the choice is itself a meaningful act.
Last square is “Outdoors” of course which could have been your first square if you’d been paying attention at the start the way I wasn’t because I was too busy trying to get the coffee into me.
Meanwhile, in the US:
Trump-appointed judges rule that torturing LGBTQ youth is covered by the First Amendment: https://t.co/xr4QhnJRsx
You think chuds don't like "shutdowns" and masks? Wait til you see their reactions to knowing that BIPOC elders in the hood are getting vaccinated before 28 yo white incels.
To soften the blow of defeat Fox's Geraldo proposes naming the vaccine after Trump. "It would be a nice gesture to him and years from now it would become kind of a generic name. Have you got your trump yet, I got my trump, I'm fine. I wished we could honor him in that way." pic.twitter.com/fM8qwFhxF6
raincoaster 