Prickly City by Scott Stantis for June 21, 2020

It’s not always easy to be living in this world of pain

You’re gonna be crashing into stone walls again and again

It’s alright It’s alright

Though you feel your heart break

You’re only human

You’re gonna have to deal with heartache

Just like a boxer in a title fight

You got to walk in that ring all alone

You’re not the only one who’s made mistakes

But they’re the only thing that you can truly call your own

Billy Joel

Pay close attention to where those acts of kindness come from. That’s our common humanity. And pay attention to the cruelty (I’m looking at you, trump), for that’s the inhumanity.

You know what is really stupid?

Politicians and their followers believing that they know more than the smart doctors and other smart people actually studying the new Coronavirus.

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A new report from Scripps Research finds that up to half of all people infected with COVID-19 show no symptoms, and many of them could have lung damage without realizing it.

The Scripps Research report was trying to understand how people without symptoms can spread coronavirus, but researchers made a startling discovery.

“Three studies that I’ve looked at studied asymptomatic people. Interestingly, all the people look and feel fine, but when researchers did a CT scan doing an image of their lungs, in 50 to 100% of the cases, they actually found abnormalities,” said Daniel Oran, of Scripps Research.

“When they look at these CT scans, it’s hazy — looks like you’re looking through a dirty piece of glass. What that means is there’s something abnormal about the lungs.”

Oran, one of the authors of the report, analyzed data of coronavirus patients from around the world. They found that 40 to 50% of people who test positive for the virus are asymptomatic.

“We know that about half of all infections are spread before people have symptoms, so it’s important to know that distinction.

The truth is, whether you’re asymptomatic or presymptomatic, when you look and feel fine you still can make others sick,” Oran said.

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https://fox40.com/news/coronavirus/study-finds-covid-19-can-damage-lungs-without-showing-symptoms/

Day 59 of the Georgia Economic Recovery. Mr. Trump must be winning over the leftists, as noted by AOC. Unfortunately they were trapped in their slave states after ordering tickets to the Tulsa Rally and were unable to attend.

“trapped in their… states”

Nope, can’t possibly be that the Trump campaign lied, nor that no one from, say Texas, or Georgia, Louisiana, or Oklahoma, or Arkansas, or any of the actual ‘slave States’ were somehow prevented…

That is a level of delusion, I can’t even…..

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Day 1248 of the Right Wing control of the Presidency, Supreme Court, and both Houses of Congress.

With a somewhat Left tilt for the House only, 537 Days ago.

Are you better off than you were on Jan 19, 2017?

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492 days ago since the National Emergency declaration concerning the Southern Border of the United States (Proclamation 9844), to bypass congress’ refusal to pay for the wall.

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Another day of Trump’s vanity wall…

While the Fed lawyers work to take Federal land, National Park land, and Privately Owned land first…

…settle on the price later.

…From the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico.

IOW, people suck — except when they don’t.

More new normal:

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“Now, the general says, SIR! We can leave the stage. I said, great, General, let’s go, I’ll follow you! And he goes like this, right here, Sir! I said, General there’s no way I can make it down that ramp without falling on my ass, General. So, I said, is there like something else around? Sir, the ramp is ready to go! So, now I have a choice. I can stay up there for another couple of hours until I’m rescued OR I can go down this really steep, really … really, really, really, it’s an ice skating rink, it’s brutal, so I said, General, get ready because I may grab you so fast. Now, he’s standing there, big strong guy, and he’s got these shoes, but they’re loaded with rubber on the bottom, ’cause I looked, the first thing I did I looked at his shoes, then I looked at mine, very, very slippery. So, I end up saying, Okay, General, I will only grab you if I need you and the stage was higher than this one and the ramp was probably ten yards long, this was a steel ramp, it had no handrails, it was like an ice skating rink!”— President of the United States, Donald Trump, last night at his rally, telling a heartwarming tale of red-blooded American courage about that one time he risked his life walking down a ramp with the help of the Army.

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The final comment was from Jim Wright on FB.