my flu swab in january was not touching my brain, just barely inside my nose and it came back positive so I assume it's similar?
You’re referring to a rapid flu test. Sensitivity is 50-70% so up to half are false negatives. With covid-19 it’s going to be far worse is my guess given how little we know about it and how poorly sensitive nasophargeal swabs are to begin with. It’s better than nothing, it’s true. https://epmonthly.com/article/accurate-rapid-flu-tests/
You guys also realize that when enough Trumpers die in the coming months, Donnie is just gonna declare a war time emergency and suspend the election right?
It's his ultimate wet dream. He can't mobilize the fed govt to get ppe/vents/resp to hospitals, but he'll damn sure be able to leverage the fed govt at election time.
Just moved into a new apartment and I’m working on unpacking and putting stuff away. Effort just shifted from trying to find the TV cord to finding the vape juice. Stay tuned
Now refocusing efforts on eating an Oreo McFlurry I saved from last night’s McDonald’s door dash order
The no election scenario is actually pretty fascinating where we could end up with a scenario where *checks notes*, Patrick Leahy becomes the succession via pro tempore of the Senate since 23 Republicans on the Senate also have re-elections this year and we might end up with a default Democratic Senate.
saw something in the LA Times about an independent bookstore rehiring like 100 employees because online orders have surged buying books from indie bookstores is a top tier shopping move: helping local businesses while shunning Amazon https://www.latimes.com/entertainme...die-bookstore-powells-books-rehires-employees
I dont know if this is correct: By the Twentieth Amendment, the presidential term expires at noon on January 20th every fourth year. If there’s no President-elect or Vice President-elect by then, the Speaker of the House of Representatives (presumably either Kevin McCarthy or Nancy Pelosi) would become president. Of course, Congressional terms automatically begin and end on January 3rd, so if there hadn’t been congressional elections, there wouldn’t be any representatives and the President Pro Tempore of the Senate would become President. Right now that’s Chuck Grassley of Iowa. His Senate term doesn’t expire until 2023, so he’d still be in office to become president next January if needed. Some people think it’s unconstitutional for members of Congress to be in the presidential succession (the Constitution says Congress can designate “officers” to be president if the President and Vice President are both dead or nonexistent. But the term “officer” in the Constitution is normally used in reference to members of the executive branch). Anyway, if Grassley’s not properly in the line of succession, the next man in line would be Mike Pompeo, America’s extremely scrupulous and classy Secretary of State. There doesn’t seem to be any constitutional difficulty with him becoming president; he’s over 35, natural-born, etc. Next after him would be the awful Steve Mnuchin, the Secretary of the Treasury, then the Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, then the other cabinet secretaries in the order in which their departments were created. *As Adam Bright notes in the comments below, cabinet secretaries who lack the constitutional qualifications to be president (eg. Elaine Chao, Henry Kissinger, and Madeline Albright, who are not natural-born citizens) get skipped in the succession.
I’m curious how effective this am am be. Want it to be the truth but a quick stitch through FDA also makes me wonder its effectiveness tbh. I know we need answers now but I also don’t want to be ineffective.
People will get sick and then probably be left to die or survive on the spot. Hard to imagine ambulances taking them to hospitals and maybe harder to imagine the hospitals accepting them.
The Democrats have a 35-30 advantage in Senate seats not up for election in 2020. Chuck Grassley won't be president pro tempore at the time the Presidency becomes vacant if there are no elections.
The wreckage on the third world is months out and WHO/people won’t do a got damn thing about it. Wait til the reporting comes on in Africa or small Asian countries. These people have no options
No, because every member of the House of Representatives is up for election in 2020, as they are every two years.
the amount of people who dont understand LATER peak caseloads being a good thing is making me lose my mind
No the situation would play out as the Democrats would be the majority in the Senate since 23 Republican Senators are up for re-election (I haven't done the exact math on the scenario with every Senator up for re-election) so Grassley wouldn't be the pro tempore anymore.
it's like in Battlestar Galactica when the Secretary of Education becomes the president of humanity because everyone else is killed during the Cylon attack on the 12 Colonies
Then you get the super-political hellscape scenario in which states race to hold special elections to fill vacant seats in between January 3 and January 20.