[ilduclo]

Woman Responds To Companies Failing Because Of Coronavirus By Saying The Same Things Poor People Hear

https://www.boredpanda.com/boeing-sa...eople-in-need/

 

[The Soup Nazi]

From The Wire:

In praise of resilience
In the midst of the coronavirus crises, The Wire’s publisher Tony Herrington hails the response of the global experimental music community


Like every other member of the global independent experimental music community, The Wire, and the individuals who work for it, have been left reeling by the disruption caused by the coronavirus outbreak.

All around us, musicians and organisations, industry friends and acquaintances, fellow workers and travellers are suffering – without exception. For most of those who work in this particular cultural sector, life has always been marginal and precarious. Now, all the things that supported even that level of day to day existence have collapsed. Festivals and tours have been cancelled or postponed; workshops and teaching gigs have been suspended; the social spaces where music is transacted, from venues to clubs to record shops and beyond, have been forced to close their doors. As in every other sector of society, the community feels like it is under siege, taking one hammer blow after another. Nowhere is safe, no one is immune.

As events have accelerated in recent days, however, that initial sense of bewilderment and helplessness in the face of the various official responses, and their draconian effects, to the rapid spread of the virus has been overtaken by a new sensation.

Now, despite overwhelming levels of fear and anxiety, we see these self same individuals and organisations, this global independent experimental music community, rallying and working together, responding mutually and collectively with practical, positive solutions, utilising online tools and networks to fill the void opened up by the new protocols of social distancing and self-isolation, and the paralyzing effects of mass state lockdowns.

We feel humbled and galvanised by the levels of resilience and resourcefulness we are witnessing, and by the speed in which the community has responded, and how it is already starting to formulate new models and initiatives to support musicians and industry workers financially, as well as adapting existing networks to build new infrastructures through which the music can travel.

Like many other music and media organisations worldwide, we have been using our social media channels to post news and information on these remarkable and empowering community responses to the old world going into meltdown: go to @thewiremagazine on Twitter to find links to this emerging brave new world of live concert streams, DIY radio shows and podcasts, petitions, fundraisers and multiple online resources designed to give succour to embattled musicians, labels, venue runners, promoters, shop and festival workers worldwide.

No one is pretending that any of this is enough to replace what is being lost. Like every other sector of society, in the coming months and years the experimental music community will have to find new ways to adapt to this new state of being in the world. But it is a start, and the psychic and emotional benefits of all this combined activity and communal generosity are doing much to strengthen the resolve of all those affected.

For our part, we are attempting to maintain our sanity by ploughing ahead with work on the forthcoming May issue of the magazine. Needless to say, we have never had to produce an issue of the magazine in such straitened circumstances. All 434 issues of The Wire to date have been made by various generations of staff coming together in small offices for days and weeks at a time, collating the contributions of sundry writers and photographers and advertisers that have always been distributed globally.

Now we are having to find new ways to work together, not sitting side by side at desks in cluttered rooms, but remotely, separated from each other physically, but in many ways more connected than we have ever been. And so, taking courage from the example of our peers and contemporaries in this global experimental music community that we have never been prouder to be a part of, we carry on, we will prevail.

It’s sheer coincidence, but it seems entirely appropriate that the cover story of the May issue will take the form of a new interview with that great storyteller of hard times, Diamanda Galás, who is rising again with the reissue of her 1982 debut album The Litanies Of Satan and the release of a new piano and vocal piece titled DE-FORMATION. Like so much of Diamanda’s previous music, this new work concerns itself with how to confront the causes and consequences of plague and infection head on.

We have never felt closer to the music we report on, and the individuals and organisations that make it happen. We look forward to intensifying those relationships, drawing strength from them, in the coming months, online and in future issues of the magazine.

[ilduclo]

for all you fans of Ron Paul ( ?!? ) I give you his spin on the virus

http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives...onavirus-hoax/

[Skuj]

Originally Posted by The Soup Nazi

We can multi-task. Dotard fucking up fight against Covid-19, here. Dotard on its way to four more years (Joe, you and your phonograph better get those 90K votes from the Rust Belt back, DO IT), on the Dotard thread. Dotard saying Kim Gordon is no longer a 10, Sonic Gossip.

Incidentally, you guys know Isha Sesay? She's a journalist who was mainly an anchor on CNN International (International Desk, NewsCenter, etc.) but also appeared on AC 360º. In mid-2018, she quit CNN saying basically that she'd had ENOUGH of talking about the motherfucking Dotard day in day out and that she'd actually DO SOMETHING, so she started a non-profit and has participated in several campaigns and events which actually, well, do stuff:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isha_Sesay#Leaving_CNN

Yeah, I'll try to do Dotard fucking up against Covid-19 here, of which there is a truckload of material, and Dotard being at 50% in the polls there. Inbetween these two threads there is some kind of alternate universe which inverses everything.

[Skuj]

Originally Posted by ilduclo

for all you fans of Ron Paul ( ?!? ) I give you his spin on the virus

http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives...onavirus-hoax/

Wow. Dotardness is very infectious.

Edit:

1) I'd love to ask him about how other countries of the world are treating this. Is it also hoaxism?

2) I did not know that Rand Paul is his son. This explains things further.

[ilduclo]

he was big sauce with the ignorant cynics back in the day, you know, the ones who don't know much but are ready to tell you all about it (libertarians)

[Bytor Peltor]

Originally Posted by Skuj

And Bytor, no amount of back pedalling will erase your Trumpian attitude/outlook in this thread from two weeks ago, when even then, others here were shaking their heads at you. (Thank you for not deleting those early posts.) So, how are things looking for Easter?

I haven’t back pedaled, my perspective changed based on what was happening around me! And I don’t delete!!!

We’ve had to cancel/postpone our families day before Easter get together because of the pandemic. This would be the third straight year for us to host it at our new home......we had 50+ last year.

Well, I now know someone who has DIED from coronavirus. We shared a mutual friend in High School, played pick-up basketball games together several times......he was a great guy with a wife and kids. This might be the death that forces local judges to lock everything down.

So thankful _slavo_ has made it home!

[ilduclo]

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[ilduclo]

VIRGINIA: Pastor Who Denounced Virus Response As “Mass Hysteria” To Hurt Trump Dies Of Coronavirus

https://www.joemygod.com/2020/03/vir...f-coronavirus/

[!@#$%!]

what is he going on about? just fucking put him on ignore.

[Skuj]

Bytor, your perspective changed when the TRUTH became obvious. Previously, you posted misinformation. I'm not letting you off the hook on this. We can do this all day.

I did a long hike today and thought about how preposterous that Ron Paul thing is/was. I mean, here is a fucking physician, and a POTUS wannabee, spreading that bullshit to a vast audience that is willing to buy it. Has he had some recourse in the days since? Who was it that said the GOP is the most dangerous organization in the world? Propogating such stupidity has consequences.

[Skuj]

Originally Posted by Robert Schunk

I would have to agree with Secretary Ross, as the entire world will have to rethink the system in which all supply chains lead to China and adopt more nationalistic trade policies.

Fucking hilarious.

Here's a newsflash: USA is now the epicenter of Covid-19. Meanwhile, China is getting back onto its feet.

How do you think this will work out?

[h8kurdt]

Originally Posted by Robert Schunk

I think it will work out with a lot of countries realizing they need to diversify their supply chains, with critical production taking place within their own borders to the extent possible.

That's basing it on the idea the businesses decide to stop going for the cheapest method of production. You think Trump will suddenly stop getting his hats made in China? Fuck no. Whatever makes the big wigs the biggest profit is all that matters.

Your idea of an isolationist Utopia just isn't going to happen.

[Bytor Peltor]

Originally Posted by Skuj

Bytor, your perspective changed when the TRUTH became obvious. Previously, you posted misinformation. I'm not letting you off the hook on this. We can do this all day.

Quote and reply!



Texas Governor Greg Abbott issues executive order to quarantine individuals flying in from NY, NJ, CT and New Orleans

[Bertrand]

Boris Johnson's been tested positive.
Too bad.

[greenlight]

Originally Posted by Bertrand

Boris Johnson's been tested positive.
Too bad.

just red it.

[_tunic_]

Also the singer of Rammstein is reportedly recovering at the IC in a Berlin hospital

[!@#$%!]

Originally Posted by _tunic_

Also the singer of Rammstein is reportedly recovering at the IC in a Berlin hospital

this is a little funny? and best wishes to the guy for a speedy recovery

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meanwhile, in the usa, financial stress tests show some states are woefully unprepared to weather the current recession/ upcoming depression.

https://www.moodysanalytics.com/-/me...tates-2019.pdf

journo's take (paywalled, but clear cookies & see):
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...3f0_story.html

[ilduclo]

Coronavirus dress from the Ikaka Trimp collection, WallMart $3.99 (imported from Wuhan)

 

[Skuj]

But everything will be fine by Easter!! Hang in there for just two more weeks!!