Lining up to be a hot lunch – Digby's Hullabaloo

Stay home.

The scene near Piedmont Park in Atlanta (10th and Monroe) on an 81 degree Saturday. No masks. Image: Charlie Gile.

TV and screen writer Bess Kalb can have the rest of my space this morning:

My dad is an ICU doctor treating COVID-19 patients. In the past WEEK he has set more “I’ve never seen a heart rate/RBC count/etc. like this” records than in his decades-long career. What this virus does to the body is like “sticking your finger in an electric socket.” Stay home.
— Bess Kalb (@bessbell) May 3, 2020

EIGHT. Eight blood transfusions.
— Bess Kalb (@bessbell) May 3, 2020

Young, healthy people are dying from a COVID-19 effect called a "cytokine storm." Basically, you make it off a ventilator (maybe!), you get your appetite back a little, you think you're turning a corner, and then your immune system rips through your lung tissue and you drown.
— Bess Kalb (@bessbell) May 3, 2020

There have been a few "Papa Bear"s or "Daddy-O"s in the cell phones who have tried to come in to hold the bodies.
— Bess Kalb (@bessbell) May 3, 2020

Send this thread to any idiot fucker who posts an Instagram at the beach or a crowded park. Tell them my dad says see you later.
— Bess Kalb (@bessbell) May 3, 2020

Healthcare workers: Share your stories (without identifiable details obviously) from the front lines. People are GALAVANTING out and about. Explain to them what they're facing. Or worse, what they're doing to a loved one.
— Bess Kalb (@bessbell) May 3, 2020

And here's how you can donate directly to frontline workers in the overwhelmed New York City hospital system, the epicenter of the outbreak in this country: https://t.co/C1AN6V2moS
— Bess Kalb (@bessbell) May 4, 2020

The scene near Piedmont Park in Atlanta on an 81 degree Saturday. pic.twitter.com/uj2idUjmL9
— Charlie Gile (@CharlieGileNBC) May 2, 2020

Protesters shouted "No more Newsom" and "Freedom" at a demonstration in Huntington Beach today.

Hundereds gathered to protest the stay-at-home order and closure of Orange County's beaches, both of which were issued by California's governor. https://t.co/sXEE9z111S pic.twitter.com/Xg70IqhTbi
— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) May 1, 2020

Matt Hooper (Jaws): I’m not going to waste my time arguing with a man who’s lining up to be a hot lunch.

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