On the bright side, had this been done in America, the cops would have popped him like a zit the moment he starts yelling at them.

https://twitter.com/OdiliTime/status/1249602054252707840

These early COVID-19 deaths in the San Francisco Bay Area suggest that the novel coronavirus had established itself in the community long before health officials started looking for it. The lag time has had dire consequences, allowing the virus to spread unchecked before social distancing rules went into effect.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-04-11/bay-area-coronavirus-deaths-signs-of-earlier-spread-california

On reddit, there is a section called "Am I The Asshole?" where people explain their situation and want to know if they were at fault for how they acted. It's an interesting discussion, although it would be more effective if we could hear the other side.

This one struck close to home with me. A guy's 14-year-old son came out to his parents as gay. He claims he doesn't have a problem with it, nor does his wife and 16-year-old son.

However, the father's brother, the kid's uncle, does have a problem with it, and is homophobic by the OP's admission. However, he graciously allows his 14-year-old son to stay in his room when his homophobic uncle comes to visit. And his son doesn't have to accompany the family when they go to visit his homophobic uncle.

Gee, what a guy!

Oh, "fly by", not "drive by". Wew.

https://www.space.com/mercury-bepicolombo-stunning-earth-flyby-photos.html

A "stunt" you say? "some" you say?

A right-wing stunt to pin the blame for Covid-19 on the World Health Organization actually contains a useful notion. There is at least some reason to suspect that WHO knowingly and consequentially misled us.

https://twitter.com/WIRED/status/1249348255575662593

My favorite part of this pandemic is people who live in population density of 25,000 per square mile scolding people who live in a population density of 25 per square mile

https://twitter.com/iowahawkblog/status/1249697126843629569

This will work out well. I wonder how many will die in the food riots and following that, of starvation and/or malnourishment?

I’ve been warning about this for weeks now. The people throttling our economy have no idea how brittle the food supply chain is... and they have broken it.

“Smithfield shutting U.S. pork plant indefinitely, warns of meat shortages during pandemic”

https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1249656670717988867

I remember back when I had a minor league hockey team, and I stated that such and such player on an opposing team was a goon. Somehow he ended up on our team's roster, and I was asked how I felt about it.

"Oh, he's still goon, but he's our goon!"

Do you think people won't notice that liberal institutions and media outlets spent months maligning Brett Kavanaugh's defenders as misogynistic rape apologists, only to now invoke all their arguments to defend Joe Biden & demean Tara Reade?

Do you think people are that dumb?

https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1249442410112978947

Attn: Conan the Grammerian.

I see that the 10th Amendment is trending on Twitter. Nice to see the libs discover something that's been around since late 1791.

Food porn recipe:

https://twitter.com/DoubleTree/status/1248285190012755969

Good thing the internet is forever. Back on 09 March 2020:

Speaking at a White House press conference tonight to provide updates on the COVID-19 Coronavirus situation, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), told reporters if you are healthy, there is no reason to eschew cruise vacations.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/douggollan/2020/03/09/fauci-says-cruising-is-ok-if-you-are-healthy/#1c2b9cda2d4d

Karens gotta Karen:

The Rise of Karen-ism Means This Lockdown Nonsense Needs To End Soon

So, Bernie capitulated?

All beret. No Che'.

https://twitter.com/tillqi/status/1249767509143756807

"Quarantine News"

https://youtu.be/Oprtnqhvul8

Do you think people won't notice that liberal institutions and media outlets spent months maligning Brett Kavanaugh's defenders as misogynistic rape apologists, only to now invoke all their arguments to defend Joe Biden & demean Tara Reade? ~ I R A Darth Aggie at April 13, 2020 8:23 AM

In her refusal to castigate Joe Biden for the same "crime" as she freely and readily did Brett Kavanaugh, Alyssa Milano said she did not "...feel comfortable throwing away a decent man that I've known for 15 years...."

I think this highlights the root of the problem. We've made the political personal. Too many people don't associate regularly with people of differing political views. What about those people who've known Kavanaugh as a decent man for 15 years?

That the accusation in both the Kavanaugh and Biden cases is not supported by witnesses or by a demonstrable pattern of behavior matters not to Milano - nor to the New York Times - in Kavanaugh's case, but forms the bulwark of the defense of Biden.

That's why the friendship between Ginsburg and Scalia was so remarkable. Two people of widely-differing political persuasions being friends despite those differences is not an everyday occurrence these days. It should be.

As a society, we need to get to know, as friends and neighbors, people who voted for the other guy. Disagreement in political matters does not by default make someone an awful person undeserving of the benefit of the doubt. Atheists can be fine people; and so can Christians.

I can't believe Twitter is free:

https://twitter.com/cluu__/status/1249590191360053249

Patrick, until I opened it, I thought it was the father's idea for the boy to isolate himself that way.

Yes, it's a rotten situation, but it's almost never a good idea to let your kids order you to cut ties with people - especially close relatives - unless, maybe, we're talking about criminal behavior on the part of the other adult. (As the saying SHOULD say, "innocent unless proven guilty.")

As Conan pointed out, indirectly, you don't get people to change their minds by shunning them, even if staying friendly takes decades before it makes any difference.

In the meantime, unfortunately, I can't seem to open any comments at Reddit. How did the majority respond?

Lenona, it's not just that he's maintaining a relationship with his brother, it's that kid has to hide in his room or clear out when said brother comes over.

By all means continue the relationship... but make it more of the couples going out and don't have him in your home, unless maybe the son already has other plans or something. Kid shouldn't feel unsafe in his own home