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Yer link is shite Jeffery.

That's not very much information.
Perhaps you can DM me with more.

I think he simply means it leads to "page not found".

I am writing to you from my bunker in the PNW...

The current virus that is disrupting our lives so profoundly is not as deadly as the black death or Spanish flu, but it is scary enough and has exposed many faults in our modern existence. We, as a species, learn lessons slowly and sometimes not at all. If we did (or, through sheer incompetence, do) nothing at all, eventually the majority of the population will be exposed and contract COVID-19. Given the state of our resources, upwards of 2% of the population will die therefrom, mostly the elderly and infirm (which, I think, describes most of us here at RR). This is not hyperbole or fearmongering. It just describes reality.

I don't think we'll get there, because the competent will force themselves into the fray and take measures. That is already happening despite the administration's efforts to undermine them. I think the vast majority of the voting population has now gotten an object lesson in the reality of Trump's incompetence and the dangers imposed therefrom. Whether that lesson will carry forward to the fall is still to be learned. Significant and largely irreparable damage has already been done, and will reverberate for a generation.

I expect, like 9/11 and the crashes of 1987 and 2008, we'll "get over it," eventually, and learn virtually nothing from it. We'll return to our bad habits of thinking and behavior and be as unprepared for the next crisis as this one. It's the human (and, particularly, the American) condition. Eventually, though hopefully not in my lifetime, it will prove the end of us as a species. See how optimistic I remain?

It's a link to a private Facebook page, directed to an audience I am not a member of. Lot's of people on Facebook share their content only with "Friends". Lot's of Facebook Groups are "members only" and their content cannot be shared outside the group. Facebook links are generally unreliable outside of Facebook, you can't lift images or videos successfully and are generally required to find a different source when sharing Facebook links outside of Facebook. People who aren't members of Facebook cannot see any Facebook link. And yes, they do exist. LOGTROLL!

However, if you want to steal an image or meme, you can simply click on it in your feed, then, when it loads, "save image as" down to your machine then use imgur or whatever to reblog it somewhere else(like here). That's probably too much information.

If anyone here wants to "Friend" me my name is Mark Kyle and I'm probably searchable on Facebook. I won't spam your newsfeed and usually share several clever memes each day.

Talk about "politicizing":

Republicans Think Basic Public Health Measures Radical Left-Wing Agenda

Republicans are accusing Democrats of loading up their Corona response bill with left-wing agenda items, but everything in the bill is a reasonable comprehensive public health measure.

I think I probably have it, by the way. Very mild so far, but we shall see. My immunosuppression supposedly does not harm my ability to react to new viruses, and indeed I have been recovering very quickly from colds (other corona viruses?) for a couple of years. They say I react slower to flu shots, but I do develop immunity. I tend not to have typical histamine reactions like drippy eyes or nose, with this immunosuppression. I can feel it in my chest, and have rails when I listen closely. No fever and my oxygen saturation is still about 95.

I have very good isolation, on our 10 acre ranch. Not going out anywhere. We assume my wife has it if I do, though she has no symptoms at all. If tests were available, I would take one. But not really necessary because I am isolating as if I am positive.

I can speak as someone that's been afflicted with and now volunteers for a support group for multiple diseases being spread thru climate change.

Most of those afflicted consider the CDC to be fully captured by capital interests. It's infuriating to see new victims coming in for information and reassurance that they are not going bat sh!t crazy about their doctor or for profit health insurance. You get used to the pattern but your hatred grows for the politics and economics of our KenTacoHut health care industry and idiots that support this vicious system, politically and economically speaking.

The medical industry is completely commodified at this point so good luck with your technocratic competency coming in to assert itself. One wonders how much liberal means testing would be involved before the patient decides it would be easier to just succomb to the darkness than fill out another form, income verification, residency status etc that is so cherished by that class of people.

Without any foundational apparatus of public health and the intense consolidation and competition between regional market healthco turf's I don't see a timeline sufficient to meet the health challenges and economic shocks that are expected to rapidly grow in the coming weeks.

I do see much opportunity for Klien's disaster capitalism though. Good time to be in cash.

Good luck with it. They say we'll all have it sooner or later, we're just trying to keep it slowed down until until government gets its sh*t together.

If we had a coordinated national health system and a functional government there would be contingency plans.

Corvid-19 symptoms are mostly all in the chest without the sneazy drippy snotty stuff.

That's the saving grace here. I may die, but at least everything is in cash.