• BrownieDog has beautiful eyes.

• Some neat stills in this short video.

Don't be like Alice. Don't let your brain get full.

https://dilbert.com/strip/2020-04-03

Social distancing for thee, no mee! aka, Suburban Stasi. Which can be shortened to SS. Huh.

i present to you karen: quarantine edition

https://twitter.com/jordylancaster/status/1245155728693886979

An amusing clip.

Kudos to whoever made this. The brilliance of finding the perfect song for each fall was outstanding. I laughed so hard at 1:00 and then at 1:33. Thank you for making this.

https://twitter.com/JasonGregor/status/1245407976598286337

Getty Museum encourages home-made recreations of classic art on Twitter, and they're good.

I'd post a link but the blog hates it when I do that.

The advantage of being American: you can utter a "GFY with a cactus" and generally remain free after speech.

The Great British lockdown this week has given succor to those inclined to the petit tyrannies common to countries of our curious pity.

Facebook groups have sprung up, leaping with the caps-locked indignations of women named Karen. “My neighbor has been outside TWICE today.” Such statements spin with exclamation marks, and interrobangs—“Should be locked up, if you ask me.”

One gentleman called the police on his neighbor, demanding his arrest for a suspected second jog of the day.

We are allowed out for an hour once per day. It’s like a Danish prison. Our neighbors, some at least, have adapted this lockdown into a Stanley Milgram experiment in which they swing the truncheons.

https://amgreatness.com/2020/04/02/petit-tyranny/

"A Condom Shortage Due to the Coronavirus Pandemic Might Happen—Here's What Experts Say You Should Do:
Condoms may be disappearing from store shelves soon—and other forms of birth control could also be affected by the pandemic."

https://www.health.com/condition/infectious-diseases/coronavirus/condom-shortage-due-to-pandemic

Quote:

...Most of the world’s condoms are produced in Asia, but many Asian production facilities provide critical raw materials to other manufacturers worldwide, explains Purdy. This means more shortages may occure in the near future—and not just of condoms.

“We are already hearing that some pharmaceutical manufacturers in India are now expecting to experience slowdowns due to a lack of the requisite Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs) from their Chinese suppliers,” says Purdy. “Over concerns of supply shortages, the Indian government has now prohibited manufacturers from exporting any products containing progesterone, a critical hormone used in many contraceptives."

If manufacturers are forced to source from new API suppliers, they have to follow the correct procedure—which can cause even more delay. “In some countries, the need to re-register products with the relevant oversight bodies can take months or even years,” says Purdy....

..."I think there will be concern over the supply of oral contraceptive pills (OCPs) and condoms, as so many of these products are manufactured overseas,” Rebecca C. Brightman, MD, assistant clinical professor of obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive medicine at The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, tells Health. “It’s a catch-22 situation—many people don’t want to conceive during a pandemic.”...

Hey, Amy! It seems your old friend Bank of America is trending, and not for a good reason. Bank of America is refusing Paycheck Protection Plan Loans unless you already have a debt with them.

And small business owners, who have the unspeakable gall not to have an existing loan from Bank of America are pissed!

Can we stipulate that Zoom is a fucking mess? and I've heard, but have not confirmed, that their development team is in China. A quickie googling of that question suggest it is true.

Zoom was secretly mining LinkedIn data and sharing it with some users.

https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/363576/

Oh.

There's absolutely no "religious prisoners" or "detention of a million Muslims from Xinjiang" in China. We urge the US to stop making political maneuvers & slanders.

https://twitter.com/MFA_China/status/1246096485801816064

Right, China is asshoe. Even the propaganda is stale and uninteresting.

A cruise ship sinks...no, is the rock on which an armed patrol ship sank itself on. The cruise ship was built to handle Antarctic cruises, so had an reinforce hull.

The Law of Gross Tonnage Applies

Am I a bad navalist if I can't stop laughing at this ... and cannot wait for the video?

https://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2020/04/the-law-of-gross-tonnage-applies.html

For those in lock down, some background on Canadian whisky.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/is-canadian-whiskey-good

> Can we stipulate that Zoom
> is a fucking mess?

Tesla kicked 'em off their machines this week.

> Even the propaganda is stale
> and uninteresting.

(Hi Artie)

Corona virus daily thread #36

And more "hysteria" for Ben, et al.

A friend of mine's wife has a Master's degree in Microbiology and has a book recommendation for people trying to understand pandemics and the spread of diseases:

Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic, Reprint Edition by David Quammen

I haven't read it yet, but I take her recommendation seriously.

Sorry for no link. Amy's software doesn't like me posting links lately.

Thanks Mpetrie. It is good to know the hysteria is self sustaining. Now to find a way a way to generate electricity from it . . .