Posted on 03/13/2020 11:11:42 AM PDT by Mariner
Yesterday's thread is here: http://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3823939/posts?page=1301
Texas Gov. Abbott Declares Statewide Emergency Over Coronavirus Pandemic
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3824267/posts
Ping to Nully
The Guy Who Claims He Invented Email Just Lost His Bogus Lawsuit [2017 story]
[This is the guy Rush is quoting as his expert on how Coronavirus hype is a deep state plot against Trump.]
A libel claim on the part of Shiva Ayyadurai, the self-identified inventor of email, was tossed out by a Massachusetts judge today, concluding a baseless suit filed against Techdirt back in January. According to the site, the judge also rejected Ayyadurais request to file an amended complaint.
Ayyaduraia Trump booster and Senate hopeful running with a race-baiting campaign hashtaghas long and loudly sought credit for electronic mail, at times by muffling competing, fact-based narratives through frivolous lawsuits. The latest suit took aim at Techdirt founder Mike Masnick over a 2014 blog post entitled Why Is Huffington Post Running A Multi-Part Series To Promote The Lies Of A Guy Who Pretended To Invent Email? and sought an award of $15 million in punitive damages, an amount likely to bankrupt the site. (Disclosure: Gawker Media, the former owner of Gizmodo, was likewise sued by Ayyadurai. The Gawker estate settled with Ayyadurai for $750,000.)
Judge Frank Dennis Saylor IV dismissed the suit for failure to state a claim on Ayyadurais part. A sensible conclusion, as nearly everyone but Ayyadurai points to technologist Ray Tomlinson as the inventor of email.
https://gizmodo.com/the-guy-who-claims-he-invented-email-just-lost-his-bogu-1801008908
Thanks for the new thread!
Virginias count so far today is 30, up from 17 yesterday.
Two days in a row where the number has almost doubled from the previous day.
Breaking: Ohio Cov-19 doubles to 13 up from 5. Live news conference now.
Seems Rush is running out of experts to support his BS story.
A new day, and 250 more deaths in Italy.
If they wanted to make the claim the left and Dems are wrongly trying to blame Trump, I get that and agree completely. But sheesh - Trump hurt himself with his early comments which actually contradicted his actions.
Rush is helping no one. But, he's too far in to back up now. So he'll continue with this theme.
4 new Cleveland Clinic, 4 new Cincinnati
If you look at S. Korea and China, there is a 19-21 day period of peak cases and then they come down the back side of the curve. We are on Day 11. People need to chill out and just let it run its course.
The problem LOOKS like the items are empty, but they are in the store BUT NOT STOCKED. Whole damn pallet of TP in the back but the shelves empty. This was 8 AM. Wife went at noon and got what I couldnt get at 8 AM. Gonna be like this for a while methinks.
Here!Bring Out Your Dead
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the Bring Out Your Dead ping list (formerly the Ebola ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
The false positive rate was 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the Bring Out Your Dead threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.
Gov Dewine along side Dr. Amy Acton and others. Dewine “tough time coming”
Same thing happened at our local market. Asked a manager and they’re running short of help because folks are staying home with the cold/flu/whatever, so it’s taking longer to stock and re-stock. Maybe that’s what other places, like yours, are running into?
Food banks “engaged”
That is going to become the bigger problem. Folks not coming into work.
Considering the important questions at the HuffPo - Coronavirus Fears Are Decimating The Sex Industry - https://www.huffpost.com/entry/seattle-sex-workers-covid19-coronavirus_n_5e69233ac5b60557280fbfce
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