It’s Day 19 of Stilgherrian’s coronavirus isolation. People are starting to realise that things might be different in the Aftertimes, and some of them don’t like it. Also, God bless Jared Kushner.
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The prime minister offers a prayer for the national cabinet and says his faith gives him ‘enormous encouragement’
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"There will be death" -- Trump
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On the same day Larry Kudlow said coronavirus was “contained” on Feb. 25th, Trump’s campaign spox made an even more bold claim. “We will not see diseases like the coronavirus come here..and isn't it refreshing when contrasting it with the awful presidency of President Obama."
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It should not need to be said, but tests for new and novel illnesses cannot be developed *before* that illness is created.
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Goop's best and brightest...
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Here's Jared Kushner going for the world record of most meaningless corporate buzzwords used in a single one-minute video clip.
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JARED KUSHNER: "The notion of the federal stockpile was it's supposed to be our stockpile. It's not supposed to be states stockpiles that they then use."
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“The polling sucked. The campaign panicked about the numbers in red states. They don’t expect to win states that are getting blown to pieces with coronavirus,” a former West Wing official told me.
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“Today at my direction the commanding officer of the USS Theodore Roosevelt, Capt. Brett Crozier was relieved of command,” acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly announced Thursday at a Pentagon briefing.
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More than 120,000 people have signed a petition calling on the US Navy to reinstate the captain of a coronavirus-stricken aircraft carrier, after video emerged of his crew showering him with applause following his sacking.
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Sme workers will be seduced by the new dispensation, unaware that the cost to supposedly richer taxpayers is nothing compared with the cost to the future of the economy.
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"This only happened because of communism, people have to remember that" @peterjgregory3 on the latest Young IPA Podcast.
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NEW VIDEO: @GideonCRozner explains why the efforts by state and federal governments to control the health crisis created by the #covid19au outbreak risks creating as much bigger economic and humanitarian crisis. We must begin to end this lockdown now.
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Radical reforms — reversing the prevailing policy direction of the last four decades — will need to be put on the table. Governments will have to accept a more active role in the economy. They must see public services as investments rather than liabilities, and look for ways to make labour markets less insecure. Redistribution will again be on the agenda; the privileges of the elderly and wealthy in question. Policies until recently considered eccentric, such as basic income and wealth taxes, will have to be in the mix.
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City after city has fallen silent as desperate governments implore or compel residents to stay indoors in a bid to stymie the devastating spread of COVID-19.
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"If you are from another country and have lost your job and have waited this long, YOU ARE BEING IRRESPONSIBLE FOR DOING SO!!!!" the email, signed only by the company's "help and maintenance" department, reads. "Go back home to your friends and family and live through this crisis with their support as many non-Australians have already done."
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All persons under home quarantine will have to send their selfies every hour to Karnataka government.
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Twitter has cracked down on world leaders and media figures—though, notably, not Trump—for promoting untested cures, but other, more nuanced conspiracy theories are still spreading.
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A video, allegedly of the blaze in Aigburth, was shared on YouTube and Facebook, claiming a link between the mobile technology and Covid-19.
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An Australian astrophysicist has been admitted to hospital after getting four magnets stuck up his nose in an attempt to invent a device that stops people touching their faces during the coronavirus outbreak.
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Whatever you want to call it, masturbation is becoming a pandemic past-time. Social distancing measures mean sex toy sales are through the roof and touch-starved people are getting very handsy.
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Gates said the foundation would end up picking only one or two of the seven, meaning billions of dollars spent on manufacturing would be abandoned.
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Just in case you missed it on @jimmykimmellive , here it is in raw, uncut form for easy listening: “Stay the F*ck at Home.” Let’s all do our part to keep everyone safe and healthy! #STF@H @jimmykimmel @adammansbach @feedingamerica
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