Coronavirus thread

[Ph64]

A medical expert in one of my cases recently died from the coronavirus. Now I have to find a new expert...

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/30/health/n ... index.html

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/hea ... 093435002/

73 years old. Seriously? You are going to play that game?

Obviously he was a good surgeon... And a bad epidemiologist.

[Ph64]

[Ph64]

[clubgop]

https://apnews.com/3c1ea3456f7d906dabf3ed336f6c1ad0

3T bill through house - 1) DNC either believes there are no consequences to spends that kind of money, or 2) this is a coordinated effort to break the federal government to make way for new socialist government.

It's DOA in the Senate. Everyone knows this. This is a political ploy.

[heydaralon]

This is amazing.

[DBTrek]

Yep.

[Zlaxer]

https://apnews.com/3c1ea3456f7d906dabf3ed336f6c1ad0

3T bill through house - 1) DNC either believes there are no consequences to spends that kind of money, or 2) this is a coordinated effort to break the federal government to make way for new socialist government.

It's DOA in the Senate. Everyone knows this. This is a political ploy.

True - but they will “compromise” and get a 1.5T bill through.

[Zlaxer]

Yep.

This shit is right out of Atlas Shrugged.

[Hanarchy Montanarchy]

atlas shrugged is gay

[heydaralon]

atlas shrugged is gay

I am on the fence about Rand. I never read AS, but I did read the Fountainhead in High School. It really really resonated with me. It is a very preachy book, and there seems to be a fucking straight up rape scene in it where Howard Roarke takes Dominique by force, but I thought the character of Ellsworth Toohey was pretty spot on. I also like Howard's courtroom performances.


While Rand is not an amazing writer, she attempts to discuss the idea of the collective vs the individual. What do we owe society, and what does it owe us? In my opinion, giving these novels to a teenager will at least get them to think. They sure as hell are not going to think about any of these questions in public school or college.

That being said, Rand basically had a cult thing going. She also edited the shit out of some of her books like we the living, which had some passages that kind of undercut her own ideas.