maeve @maeve@girlcock.club

It speaks volumes, does it not that #Trump feels that his son in law #Kushner, whose only significant experience is as a slumlord, is eminently qualified to take on the world's most intractable crises?

I'll be going to the Hospital Saturday for blood tests for PSA, and for Testosterone level, given the components of that the male reproductive system are not working (and I prefer that they not). I wil refuse any suggestion of testosterone injections

#Transgender out member of the VA House of Delegates Danica Rohm, whom may the Goddess grant all blessings, steps in to defend a student whose teacher refused to use his pronouns, and to excoriate those delegates how tried to make the teacher a martyr. https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2020/04/teacher-demonized-trans-student-state-legislature-delegate-rose-speak/

Alzajeera review attempts to break the vicious and classist #hillbilly stereotypes and stigmata in America's Appalachian region https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/witness/2020/03/hillbilly-stereotypes-heart-appalachia-200331091307282.html

#Thailand imposes a national 10 pm go 4 am (2200 to 400) curfew to stem #coronavirus infections. The only exceptions are medical staff moving victims to hospital, medial supplies and medical staffers. I would expect the curfew to last through April at least. The PM has fiat authority https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-thailand-curfew/thailand-to-announce-nationwide-curfew-starting-friday-idUSL4N2BQ21F

edit: calls for WHO director to quit

#GOP accidental Senator Martha McSally, appointed by Arizonz gov and widely expected to suffer defeat in November, calls on #WHO director to resign, while tossing about redscare verbiage https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/02/mcsally-calls-on-who-director-to-resign-161327

Started treatment w/ Clonazepan last night, and this morning I can't type without substantial errors

Presidential son-in-law Jared #Kushner, whose sole qualification is a a slumlord, is put in charge of the admistration's #cornonavirus repsponce, fresh from rendering middle east peace plans a dog's breakfast https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/01/jared-kushner-coronavirus-response-160553

Be assured that workers will be called upon to offer their blood sacrifice to the gods of corporate profits long before it is safe to do so, whereupon their only defense will be the General Strike. Amercans are to conditioned to reject class solidarity, that 1000s will march like lambs to the slaughter.

Navy Commander of Aircraft Carrier USS Roosevelt, scence of a
#coronoavirus outbreak, is to be removed for revealing the medical condition of the sailors unde his command

"For such is the rash boldness of the uninitiated, that they will frequently set up some monstrous abstract principle, such as humanity, or tenderness, or the like idle folly, in obstinate defiance of all precedent and usage; and will even venture to maintain the same against the persons who have made the precedents and established the usage, and who must therefore be the best and most impartial judges of the subject." Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit

US #unemployment claims spike to 6 million last week, bringing the 2 week total to the verge of 10 million https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/02/weekly-jobless-claims.html

A #Catholic #transphobe, publishing in the right wing National Catholic Register, calls upon Catholic bishops to deny communion to politicians who support #transgender rights. The inclusion of the phrase "transgender ideology" is a dead giveaway. https://www.ncregister.com/blog/christianbrugger/should-pro-transgender-politicians-be-denied-communion

Current tests available for #coronavirus are registering high levels of false negatives, and persons with symptoms are advised to assume they are infected and infectious in spite of a negative test https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/01/well/live/coronavirus-symptoms-tests-false-negative.html

US has 200k confirmed #coronavirus cases, doubling the number in just a few days. How much of the spike is attributable to more available testing is not discussed, but seems unlikely to be a major factor https://www.macon.com/news/coronavirus/article241667816.html

Dr. Rachel Levine, #PA's Secretary of Health and a #transgender woman is praised for her work leading the state's efforts to fight #coronavirus https://www.forbes.com/sites/dawnstaceyennis/2020/03/31/a-trans-woman-is-leading-the-fight-against-covid-19-in-pennsylvania/#6d8ac3bb6a71

Experts fear that the DC Metro may be like NYC in terms of #coronavirus infection and lockdown, crippling the ability of the national government to respond to the pandemic https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/01/dc-leaders-fear-outbreak-cripples-country-159477

US Strategic National stockpile of protective gear (PPE) is reduced to zero. https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/01/politics/national-stockpile-shipments/index.html

World Health Organization (#WHO) stands by its advise that persons not infected with #Covid19 and not caring for infected persons not wear face masks. Here in #Bangkok, appearing in public without one will provoke anger https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/30/world/coronavirus-who-masks-recommendation-trnd/index.html