Three of the US’s top health officials, Dr. Anthony Fauci (head of the NIH’s infectious disease program and a member of the coronavirus task force), Dr. Stephen Hahn, (commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration), and Dr. Robert Redfield (director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) have gone into two weeks quarantine after having come into contact with people who have tested positive for covid-19.
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Charlie Brooker’s Weekly Wipe from back in 2015 explains the template used.
(Via Rob Beschizza)
Trump is desperate to improve his ratings as can be seen by him using the Lincoln Memorial as the setting for fielding softball questions from friendly Fox News personalities. But does he not realize that by reminding people of Lincoln, he just emphasizes how awful he is by comparison?
John Oliver walks us through the massive failure in the US to develop both diagnostic and antibody tests for covid-19.
Seth Meyers deconstructs the claims.
While producing her show from her back yard while practicing physical distancing, she discovers her inner bird lover.
Some of you may have caught that this was a riff on Sarah Palin’s famous response to Katie Couric about what media she reads, when she was running for vice-president in 2008.
Ah Sarah, Sarah! Has there ever been such an adept manufacturer of obfuscating word salads?
According to the satirical website The Onion, there are apparently problems with speaking in tongues during teleconference church services.
In an effort to reduce disruptions during a prayer meeting held by teleconference Tuesday, Pastor Terry McEvers of the First Pentecostal Church of God reportedly asked that any congregants presently speaking in tongues place themselves on mute for the duration of the service.
…“If we all fall to the floor and unleash our miraculous gift of tongues at the same time, then everyone will just be shouting their divinely inspired strings of syllables over everyone else, and no one will understand what’s going on. A big garbled mess like that won’t do anybody any good.” According to sources, the pastor went on to request that members enable video on their devices if they intended to take up serpents, because that’s something no one ever gets tired of watching.
