'Don't inject Lysol': maker of household cleaner hits back at Trump virus claim (The Guardian)
The maker of a popular brand of household cleaner has urged users not to inject it into their bodies in the wake of commentsby Donald Trump at the daily White House briefing that injections of disinfectant might be a treatment or cure for the coronavirus. Lysol, which is owned by a British company, is widely used as a spray to clean household surfaces and has become a vital tool for Americans seeking to disinfect their houses and apartments during the pandemic. But the firm was clear no one should do anything else with its product, despite Trump's bizarre claims at his daily press conference on Thursday evening and which were denounced widely by health experts as "jaw-dropping".
Chuck Collins: Let's stop pretending billionaires are in the same boat as us during this pandemic (The Guardian)
Decades of tax cuts and billionaire-friendly public policies, our report found, helped US billionaire wealth soar over 1,100% between 1990 and 2018. Yet their tax obligations, as a percentage of their wealth, decreased a staggering 79% between 1980 and 2018. The billionaires may not have caused this pandemic. But extreme inequality and poverty are pre-existing conditions in this public health emergency. Not least, all that uncollected tax revenue could have funded a much more responsive public health system.
Squid are cephalopods in the superorder Decapodiformes with elongated bodies, large eyes, eight arms and two tentacles. Like all other cephalopods, squid have a distinct head, bilateral symmetry, and a mantle. They are mainly soft-bodied, like octopuses, but have a small internal skeleton in the form of a rod-like gladius or pen, made of chitin.
Squid diverged from other cephalopods during the Jurassic and occupy a similar role to teleost fish as open water predators of similar size and behaviour. They play an important role in the open water food web. The two long tentacles are used to grab prey and the eight arms to hold and control it. The beak then cuts the food into suitable size chunks for swallowing. Squid are rapid swimmers, moving by jet propulsion, and largely locate their prey by sight. They are among the most intelligent of invertebrates, with groups of Humboldt squid having been observed hunting cooperatively. They are preyed on by sharks, other fish, sea birds, seals and cetaceans, particularly sperm whales.
Squid can change colour for camouflage and signalling. Some species are bioluminescent, using their light for counter-illumination camouflage, while many species can eject a cloud of ink to distract predators.
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Alan J was first, and correct, with:
Two.
Randall wrote:
Squid have two tentacles
Mark. said:
Two tentacles.
mj answered:
For a total of ten appendages
The delicious cephalopods have two long tentacles in addition to their
eight arms.
Dave responded:
Two. Never had much to do with squids other than buying frozen squids to use as bait fishing off a pier on the Gulf of Mexico as a teenager. Didn't smell very good.
Photos: Giant squid and its natural predator the sperm whale | Size chart | Fantasy drawing of a giant squid attacking a ship which is unlikely since giant squids don't eat wood and live in deep water
zorch replied:
Squid have two tentacles. Two to grab you and like the Beatles, eight arms to hold you.
Deborah wrote:
I didn't know this - squid have two tentacles. I thought all those appendages were tentacles. Now I need to read about the difference between squid arms and tentacles.
Another unseasonably warm day ahead; getting out early on the bike while it's still relatively cool. I swear if I didn't have a calendar and some family and work and Master Gardener Zoom meetings scheduled, I wouldn't know what day it is.
Husband hit the jackpot at Costco and a local grocery store yesterday. We have enough paper products to last into 2021. I'm running out of space to store stuff. I guess this shit is real.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, said:
Squid have eight arms, two long feeding tentacles, and a fin on each side of their body.
Billy in Cypress U$A replied:
Two (2) tentacles and eight (8) arms combine as the ten (10) appendages of a squid which makes for a very scary giant sea monster of ancient legends.
Dave in Tucson responded:
I'm guessing today's answer is the eight tentacled Octopus,
Jacqueline said:
Squids have 2 tentacles, they're used to catch prey.
Barbara, of Peppy Tech fame answered:
Squid have two tentacles.
On another topic, I saw the attached photo on Facebook and had to share it with you. I've seen lots of Clorox and Lysol jokes online, but this is the first picture I've seen of how we could "bring light inside the body." Warning - don't try this at home!
Joe ( -- Vote Blue, No Matter Who -- ) wrote:
Just because I don't participate in the quiz every day doesn't mean I don't read Marty's page every day. I do.
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During the 1950s, Jamaican bar and dance-hall owners traveled throughout the United States looking for the best records to play. In these battles of the sound systems, a system owner with a good record would try to keep it secret from other system owners. Often, the system owner would either scratch the name of the producer and the title of the song off the record label or would paste a false label with a false name and a false title over the original record label.
Roy Henderson once sang with a small-town choral society in Yorkshire. At the end of the concert, the conductor asked what he thought of the choir. Of course, Mr. Henderson replied that it was a very good choir, and the conductor said, "Aye, an' I don't mind tellin' ee that we 'ad four basses ready to taak thy part if tha'd conked out."
Composers
John Philip Sousa composed "The Stars and Stripes Forever" in 1896, while returning from a European tour. While he was on board ship, it seemed as if a band were playing in his head, and when he reached land, he wrote down the music the band had been playing. He felt strongly about the title - when his music publisher wanted the title to be "Stars and Stripes," Mr. Sousa insisted that the word "Forever" remain in the title. Of course, this became his most famous composition, and it remained a part of his concerts until the end of his life. Paul Bierley, an expert on Mr. Sousa's life and music, says, "He would have been tarred and feathered if he didn't play it. When the March King came to town, you had to hear 'The Stars and Stripes Forever.'" On March 6, 1932, Mr. Sousa conducted a concert in Reading, Pennsylvania. The last composition his band played was, as you would expect, "The Stars and Stripes Forever." Later that day, at age 77, Mr. Sousa died.
Dan Penn and Spooner Oldham wrote a number of R&B hits of the 1960s, including "I'm Your Puppet," "Dark End of the Street," and "Sweet Inspiration." They worked hard, but their method of delivering their songs to the musicians was unusual - they wrote late until the night and early the next morning, then they left the pages on which they had written their songs on the floor for the musicians to pick up later. Mr. Penn says, "It was kinda like, take that! We worked hard, we wrote a good song, now there it is! You pick it up! Bend over!"
Composer Giuseppe Verdi, composer of La Traviata, Aida, and Otello, was greatly loved by the Italian people. When he was old, he entered a buffet at a railroad station, and all present stood up with their hats off until he sat down. After he had finished his meal, all present stood up again and lined his path to the train with their cloaks, which Verdi stepped on as he bowed and acknowledged his countrymen's compliment.
Famous bandleader and musician Tito Puente once guest-starred on The Simpsons. When he met Alf Clausen, who conducts the music for The Simpsons, Mr. Puente immediately asked, "What I want to know first is, am I going to tell you what to do or are you going to tell me what to do?" Mr. Clausen said, "Well, I'm a really good listener," and Mr. Puente replied, "All right, you tell me what to do."
Bullies are common in English boarding schools. Edward Elgar showed up for his first day at school when a bully asked him for his name. He replied, "Edward Elgar," but the bully snapped, "Say 'Sir'!" So he said, "Sir Edward Elgar." Later, after becoming a world-famous composer, he was knighted.
Sarcastic? No. No more than he was joking when he asked Russia to interfere in the 2016 election!
Playing with the reporters? No. We saw him turn to Dr. B and say what he said about trying injecting disinfectants! Saw it live with our actual eyes!
And news reporters are saying Lysol has actually been getting calls about ingesting their product. That's plural! CALLS from idiots about ingesting Lysol! As one talking head said, as a parent one of your big fears is your child getting into cleaners so you lock them away and you live with the phone number of the poison control center on your refrigerator. Yet Idiot-in-Chief suggested people ingest rubbing alcohol or Lysol, and some of them are actually considering it.
As awful as that is. As sad a commentary as it is on how fearful we are; as sad a commentary as it is on the intelligence of his supporters, if this brings his daily "LOOK AT ME" disinformation sessions to an end, totally worth it. I just hope it doesn't kill anyone the way his premature push on governors will get more killed.
Linda >^..^<
We are all only temporarily able bodied.
Fauci was appearing on CNN's New Day when he was pressed as to who he'd like to be the faux Fauci. He hedged at first, saying he didn't want anyone, but when Alisyn Camerota pressed him, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases faced a difficult choice.
To ease his path, Camerota suggested Ben Stiller or Brad Pitt.
"Oh, Brad Pitt, of course," Fauci told Camerota.Source
Tonight, Sunday:
CBS starts the night, as usual, with '60 Minutes', followed by a FRESH'God Friended Me', then the SERIES FINALE'God Friended Me', followed by a FRESH'NCIS: The 3rd One'.
NBC opens the night with a FRESH'Little Big Shots', followed by a FRESH'The Wall', then a FRESH'Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist', followed by a FRESH'Good Girls'.
ABC begins the night with a FRESH'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos', followed by a FRESH'American Idol', then a FRESH'The Rookie'.
The CW offers a RERUN'Batwoman', followed by a RERUN'Supergirl'.
Faux has a RERUN'The Simpsons', followed by a RERUN'Bob's Burgers', then a FRESH'The Simpsons', followed by a FRESHDuncanville', then a FRESH'Bob's Burgers', followed by a FRESH'Family Guy'.
MY recycles an old 'How I Met Your Mother', followed by another old 'How I Met Your Mother', then an old 'Big Bang Theory', followed by another old 'Big Bang Theory', then still another old 'Big Bang Theory', followed by yet another old 'Big Bang Theory'.
A&E has the movie 'King Kong', followed by the movie 'Journey 2: The Mysterious Island', then the movie 'The Scorpion King'.
AMC offers the movie 'Taken', followed by a FRESH'Killing Eve', another 'Killing Eve', then the movie 'Taken'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] PLANET EARTH: FROZEN PLANET - The Last Frontier
[7:00AM] PLANET EARTH: FROZEN PLANET - Autumn
[8:00AM] PLANET EARTH: FROZEN PLANET - Winter
[9:00AM] PLANET EARTH: FROZEN PLANET - The Epic Journey
[10:00AM] SILVER BULLET
[12:00PM] A KNIGHT'S TALE
[3:00PM] FACE/OFF
[6:00PM] SE7EN
[9:00PM] KILLING EVE - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 3
[10:00PM] SE7EN
[1:00AM] A KNIGHT'S TALE
[4:00AM] KILLING EVE - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 3
[5:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Trials and Tribble-ations (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', then a FRESH'Family Karma', followed by a FRESH'Watch What Happens: Live'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Tommy Boy', followed by the movie 'Wedding Crashers'.
FX has the movie 'The Martian', followed by the movie 'The Post', then the movie 'Hidden Figures'.
History has 'The Curse Of Oak Island', 'The Curse Of Oak Island: Drilling Down', followed by a FRESH'The Curse Of Oak Island'.
IFC -
[6:45A] The Incredible Burt Wonderstone
[9:00A] Dark Shadows
[11:30A] There's Something About Mary
[2:30P] Tropic Thunder
[5:00P] Zoolander
[7:00P] Old School
[9:00P] Hot Tub Time Machine
[11:15P] Old School
[1:15A] Hot Tub Time Machine
[3:30A] Mystery Science Theater 3000 - The Violent Years
[5:45A] The Three Stooges (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00am] Law & Order
[7:00am] Law & Order
[8:00am] Law & Order
[9:00am] Law & Order
[10:00am] Law & Order
[11:00am] Law & Order
[12:00pm] Saving Private Ryan
[4:00pm] High Plains Drifter
[6:30pm] Joe Kidd
[8:30pm] Pale Rider
[11:00pm] Unforgiven
[2:00am] Joe Kidd
[4:00am] Hogan's Heroes
[4:30am] Hogan's Heroes
[5:00am] Hogan's Heroes
[5:30am] Hogan's Heroes (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Saw: The Final Chapter', followed by the movie 'Jigsaw'.
More than 40 years since their last number one hit on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart, The Rolling Stones have landed at number one on iTunes.
Yesterday, the band dropped "Living in a Ghost Town," a surprise new song and accompanying video. Mick Jagger said he thought the tune "would resonate through the times that we're living in right now." He was right.
One day later, "Living in a Ghost Town" sits atop iTunes' song chart, well above recent efforts by Travis Scott, The Weeknd, Drake, Megan Thee Stallion and Justin Bieber.
"We cut this track well over a year ago in L.A. for part of a new album, an ongoing thing," said Keith Richards. "And then sh*t hit the fan [and] Mick and I decided this one really needed to go to work right now and so here you have it."
Tony Bennett lead a worldwide sing-along on Saturday afternoon of his classic ballad "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" to pay tribute to frontline workers in the fight against COVID-19.
People were encouraged to join in, from their porches, laptops, backyards, balconies and smartphones at noon Saturday.
San Francisco Chief of Protocol Charlotte Mailliard Shultz, who came up with the idea, said it would be "a morale boost and an opportunity to pay respect to all of our frontline workers and brave medical professionals."
Participants were encouraged to live-stream and record their performances on social media with the hashtag #SingOutSF.
Last fall, Billy Porter realized a presidential election was on the horizon and decided the time had come to motivate voters through song.
"I've always been a political artist," says the actor, singer and star of Pose and Broadway's Kinky Boots. "I came of age as an artist during the AIDS crisis and I've always used my voice in that way. So looking forward, I knew it was an election year and I wanted to find material that would speak to that process."
At the suggestion of his manager, Porter turned to Stephen Stills' "For What It's Worth," which Stills first wrote and recorded with Buffalo Springfield in 1966; it became their only hit the following year. Originally inspired by a Sunset Strip protest over a club curfew, which resulted in a clash with police, the song -with its nods to paranoia and guns - has transcended its time. It's become one of the go-to pop protest songs of the last five decades, covered by Led Zeppelin, Ozzy Osbourne, Lucinda Williams, Kid Rock, Rush, the Staple Singers, Nancy Wilson of Heart and many more.
"As the lyrics tumbled out, I quickly realized that my little song spoke to much more than simply a confrontation between a gathering of young people paying a last visit to a favorite music bar about to be demolished and a rather excessive number of LAPD riot police intent on dispersing the overflow crowd that had spilled into the street," Stills says. "I purposefully resisted the urge to rewrite or expand upon my theme and let the metaphors speak for themselves. Fortunately, succeeding generations have found something in it that touches them personally or alludes to their own sense of foreboding during tumultuous times."
Francois Clemmons, the performer best known as "Officer Clemmons" on "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood," says the beloved children's TV host Fred Rogers once encouraged him not to come out as gay.
"Franc, you have talents and gifts that set you apart and above the crowd," Clemmons said Rogers told him. "Someone has informed us that you were seen at the local gay bar downtown. Now, I want you to know, Franc, that if you're gay, it doesn't matter to me at all. Whatever you say and do is fine with me, but if you're going to be on the show as an important member of the Neighborhood, you can't be out as gay."
Rogers suggested that Clemmons marry a woman, telling him that he could "have it all if you can keep that part out of the limelight." Clemmons eventually wed La-Tanya Mae Sheridan, a decision he credits to that conversation with Rogers. The couple has since divorced and Clemmons now lives publicly as a gay man.
"Lord have mercy, yes, I forgive him," Clemmons told People. "More than that, I understand. I relied on the fact that this was his dream. He had worked so hard for it. I knew 'Mister Rogers' Neighborhood' was his whole life."
The U.S. has a quarter of the world's confirmed coronavirus deaths despite having less than 5 percent of its population
Americans are disproportionately dying from COVID-19, at least according to current statistics.
The U.S.'s coronavirus death toll surpassed 50,000 on Friday, with 15,000 of those deaths coming from New York state. That means the U.S. has been home to more than a quarter of the world's 192,000 deaths from COVID-19 despite the U.S. only making up about 4.25 percent of the world's population, writes The Washington Post's Greg Miller.
It's important to note that it's hard to put a number on fatalities from a disease that has lacked widespread testing. U.S. municipalities have only recently started counting probable coronavirus deaths among their official tolls, while other countries haven't done the same. The New York Times recently estimated there are likely at least 25,000 additional deaths around the globe that can be attributed to COVID-19, whether those people died of the disease itself or because they didn't go to a hospital to receive medical care for another issue.
For Donald Trump (R-Deluded), it was the strangest and most news-making thing he could have done: instead of taking questions from journalists, dominating the nation's airwaves yet again, the US president gave a short pre-written statement and then stalked off the stage.
The abrupt end of Friday night's daily press conference, which has become a ribald, unruly and often shocking ritual in America during the coronavirus pandemic, was probably the clearest sign yet of how badly Trump's bizarre statements over disinfectant have shaken his administration.
Instead of going on the offensive after the world reacted with shock and horror to his Thursday night suggestion that the coronavirus might be treated by injecting disinfectant into a human body, Trump claimed he was being "sarcastic" and then retreated from public view.
But it was Trump's silence on Friday night that spoke volumes.
The National Republican Senatorial Committee sent GOP campaigns a 57-page document that urged them to blame China for creating the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the memo, published Friday by Politico.
A "short version" of the plan listed at the beginning of the document outlines how Republican senatorial candidates should refer to the pandemic.
"China caused this pandemic by covering it up, lying, and hoarding the world's supply of medical equipment," the document, which had been created by Virginia-based political communications firm Brett O'Donnell & Associates, read."China is an adversary that has stolen millions of American jobs, sent fentanyl to the United States, and they send religious minorities to concentration camps."
It directed candidates to charge their Democratic opponents with being "soft on China" and failing to "stand up to the Chinese Communist Party." It says they should tell voters they will "stand up to China" by bringing manufacturing jobs to the US and by pushing for sanctions on China for "its role in spreading this pandemic."
The memo, sent on April 17, according to Politico, tells candidates to avoid defending the president's criticized handling of the pandemic, except for a directive to remind voters of the president's decision at the end of January to place travel restrictions on people who had recently visited China. Rather than defending the president, it says the GOP candidates should pivot to offering criticism of China.
Shopper Lexie Mayewski is having a hard time finding frozen french fries in Washington, D.C.-area supermarkets in the wake of coronavirus-fueled stockpiling.
On the other side of the country, Washington state farmer Mike Pink is weighing whether to plow under 30,000 tons of potatoes worth millions of dollars that would have been turned into french fries for fast-food chains like McDonald's Corp, Wendy's Co and Chick-fil-A.
Their incongruent experiences underscore how America's highly specialized and inflexible retail and foodservice supply chains are contributing to food shortages and waste in the wake of demand disruptions from the COVID-19 pandemic that has killed almost 50,000 people in the United States.
Frozen french fry sales at grocery stores spiked 78.6% for the four-week period ended April 4, according to Nielsen data, resulting in shortages at many U.S. supermarkets.
Frozen fries are an ideal pandemic staple - offering comfort, convenience and long-shelf life for U.S. families accustomed to fast-food meals and school cafeteria lunches.
During a different pandemic, one 17th-century British naval administrator named Samuel Pepys did just that. He fastidiously kept a diary from 1660 to 1669 - a period of time that included a severe outbreak of the bubonic plague in London. Epidemics have always haunted humans, but rarely do we get such a detailed glimpse into one person's life during a crisis from so long ago.
For Pepys and the inhabitants of London in 1665, there was no way of knowing whether an outbreak of the plague that occurred in the parish of St. Giles, a poor area outside the city walls, in late 1664 and early 1665 would become an epidemic.
The plague first entered Pepys' consciousness enough to warrant a diary entry on April 30, 1665: "Great fears of the Sickenesse here in the City," he wrote, "it being said that two or three houses are already shut up. God preserve us all."
Pepys continued to live his life normally until the beginning of June, when, for the first time, he saw houses "shut up" - the term his contemporaries used for quarantine - with his own eyes, "marked with a red cross upon the doors, and 'Lord have mercy upon us' writ there." After this, Pepys became increasingly troubled by the outbreak.
He soon observed corpses being taken to their burial in the streets, and a number of his acquaintances died, including his own physician.
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