[RedState] Someone’s getting nervous here, and I don’t think it’s the President.
The recent installation of Richard Grenell as ODNI has set off a firestorm within the intelligence bureaucracy and Congress. Democrats have decried his moves to clean up the political machinations and corruption going on within these agencies, even attempting to accuse the former Ambassador to Germany of "interfering" in the upcoming election. When Rep. Adam Schiff starts to cry foul and send angry letters, that’s a sign that the right things are happening.
"I take solace in my confidence that Mr. Trump will learn, even after the Senate confirms Mr. Ratcliffe and the president replaces still more professionals with less capable political loyalists, that gagging the intelligence community will be far more difficult than hushing the Justice Department or overriding the wisdom of our medical institutions," Douglas London, who retired from the CIA in 2018, wrote in a Monday op-ed for the New York Times.
London, whose last assignment was chief of counterterrorism for South and Southwest Asia, noted that despite Grenell "parroting the president’s politicized inaccuracies" on the coronavirus pandemic, "he has also failed at breaking the intelligence community’s determination to do its job."
To be frank, if this is how any significant number of intelligence officials think, their institutions need to be torn down at this point. This is yet another take on Chuck Schumer’s assertion that the CIA has ways of getting back at those that cross them. It’s tyrannical nonsense, proposing that unelected bureaucrats should somehow hold absolute power over the country’s decision making.
London continues by pushing the tired faux patriotism angle, which suggests that these career officials could never harbor biases, nor act on them.
In response to Grenell’s actions, we’ve seen targeted leaks, but one former official decided to speak on the record recently.
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Only one significant model appears to have been correct. But wasn’t. The University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation has actually been dramatically reduced and reduced.
Until, a few days ago, its projected death toll nearly doubled. Model upgrades, they said.
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Those are my principles models, and if you don't like them... well, I have others. -
Groucho Marx
[Daily Beast] Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said on Monday that the American economy needs to reopen quickly and that tens of thousands of more Americans may die from the novel coronavirus, insisting that Americans are "gonna have to" accept that.
Speaking to CNN correspondent Dana Bash on her The Daily DC podcast, Christie—who now works as an ABC News contributor—pushed for the reversal of stay-at-home orders in order to open up businesses and ramp up economic activity.
Confronted with recent models that now show that as many as 135,000 Americans will die due to decreased social distancing amid the pandemic, Christie essentially threw up his hands and said there really wasn’t a choice.
"Of course, everybody wants to save every life they can—but the question is, towards what end, ultimately?" Christie said. "Are there ways that we can thread the middle here to allow that there are going to be deaths, and there are going to be deaths no matter what?"
Echoing previous comments he’s made that the country cannot wait to reopen the economy, the former Trump transition team member asserted that "we’re going to destroy the American way of life" if people don’t immediately get back to work.
We will have to find a way to live with this thing and get on with our lives, resume trade and commerce and social mixing again, even as we redouble efforts to protect the elderly.
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False assumption. Not clear that more deaths would follow. Medical facilities have not been overwhelmed, and they are not going to be. That plus better treatment protocols means fewer, not more deaths.
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So, what would be the acceptable number of deaths in an actual shooting war with China? I don't think "sheltering at home" would get it done in our favor.
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And if you end 55mph speed limit (established because of the oil embargo) then more people will die on the highway. So lets move the goal posts but not based upon why they were put there in the first place.
[Hot Air] Good advice, but I can’t believe he’d willingly risk getting on the wrong side of his viewers by telling them something they don’t want to hear, no matter how much they need to hear it.
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I can’t believe he’d willingly risk getting on the wrong side of his viewers by telling them something they don’t want to hear, no matter how much they need to hear it.
I guess people who act ethically (long term self interest), instead of selfishly (short term self interest) are a puzzle for the author.
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Also they shouldn't throw that tea in the harbor without filing the appropriate EPA papers.
I believe what is being communicated to the deaf is that there are people willing to give the last full measure of devotion. The last hope that the officials understand that fundamental before it becomes more than a 'better pay close attention to this' moment. Unfortunately, those without any understanding of real human history are headed to Lexington commons. It only takes one 'we don't know who fired the first shot' moment and talking is all over.
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Good advice. At this point the nation is at serious risk of another round of civil strife similar to what we saw in the 1850s. Best not to encourage any latter-day John Browns.
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I can’t believe he’d willingly risk getting on the wrong side of his viewers by telling them something they don’t want to hear, no matter how much they need to hear it.
AP and Hannity were the biggest drum pounders about constitutional rights ets during Clivon Bundy deal, until he said an ungood word, and they just swished their hands and walked away.
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Just because he does not like the optics, just because guys with guns make him nervous, and just because he has a TV show to spout his opinion, it does not supersede their constitutional right to carry arms, dress as they want, and peacefully assemble. I think they look like idiots, but its their right, and is scared the crap out of the Governor! 2nd amendment seemed to serve its purpose, Hat tip to the authors of our constitution.
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Hannity on Fox has become almost uwatchable. I do DVR his show but I generally skip his monologues, which are repetitive in the extreme. Then, when he has a good guest (or guests) on, he appears to be icapable of just asking a question and getting out of the way. Instead, we get a two, or three, or five minute litany of stuff we've already heard a hundred times, leaving guests very little time to get a word in edgewise. It is my dream that someday one of his guests will get so frustrated that they'll scream "SHUT UP AND LET ME TALK, SEAN!" or just quietly take off their mic and walk away.
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Hannity is a whiner. "Look what the left is saying / doing / plotting now! No fair!!"
When Palin (full disclosure, I'm not a Sawah fan) put a bullseye on a piece of campaign literature, leftists screeched as one "Incitement to violence! Cast her out!!" When Obama said "They bring a knife, we bring a gun," the left grinned and nodded as one. When lockdown protesters open carry (I feel it's not the best choice, but it is a legal, Constitutionally guaranteed choice) it's "bad optics." When Black Panthers showed up at polling places in Philly with AR-15s and riot batons, nary a peep.
The "We don't want to be like them" argument is absurd. Don't want to be like them how? In control of the narrative? Pointing out we won't be steamrolled? Willing to say "whatever it takes?" Willing to exercise our Constitutional rights instead of mocking the Constitution?
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[Breitbart] Failed Trump challenger Hillary Clinton (D) on Tuesday warned that "Americans will suffer" as the Trump administration signaled it is engaging in "preliminary talks" to shut down the coronavirus task force.
"It appears the plan is, shamefully, to have no plan. Americans will suffer. We must replace this administration in November," Clinton said in response to the reports:
Vice President Mike Pence told reporters on Tuesday that the administration is having conversations regarding the "proper time" to shut down the task force.
"I think we’re having conversations about that, and about what the proper time is for the task force to complete its work," Pence said. "And for the ongoing efforts to take place on an agency by agency level."
Despite Clinton’s assertion of there being "no plan," the vice president said the White House is "discussing a transition with FEMA and other agencies for a task force turnover in late May or early June, suggesting that Memorial Day weekend would be a possibility," as Breitbart News reported.
"It really is all a reflection of the tremendous progress that we’ve made as a country," Pence stated.
[AIER] Human well-being, of course, requires being alive. And this well-being rises with greater physical health and with reduced risks of having one’s health put in peril. Life, health, and physical safety are unquestionably good and, hence, worthy to pursue. The sciences of medicine and epidemiology are, in turn, useful sources of information for pursuing these goods.
But physical health and safety are not of infinite value; they are not "priceless." The same is true for life itself.
When stated so starkly, this observation strikes many people as being plainly mistaken. Yet everyone, every day, through his or her actions proves its truth. Every day every person acts in ways that demonstrate that he or she has many preferences that differ from, and sometimes are in competition with, the preference for survival and good health.
Here’s a familiar but useful example. In almost all cases when you travel in an automobile you increase your chances of being killed or injured. If you’re the driver, you also increase your chances of killing and injuring other people — your passengers, other drivers, and pedestrians. Yet you nevertheless choose to travel by automobile, thereby proving that you value the increased convenience and speed made possible by automobile travel over either not making the trip at all or making it by some less-perilous means. To choose to travel by car is to choose to put your own life and the lives of many others in greater danger.
Importantly, your choosing to travel by automobile is not evidence of your rejection of science, of your irrationality, or of your being blinded by some dodgy ideology. Your choice, instead, is evidence that the outcomes and experiences valued by human beings include more than physical well-being. Your choice is evidence also of the reality that additional increments of many of these other outcomes and experiences — things such as convenience, comfort, time, pleasure, excitement, helping others, contentment, enlightenment — are very often worth more than are the increments of health and safety that are sacrificed by pursuing additional amounts of these other outcomes and experiences.
To recognize this fact (!) about human preferences is to recognize that epidemiologists and other natural scientists are emphatically not scientifically able to determine what is for us — the many individuals who comprise society — the best response to COVID-19. While information supplied by these scientists is useful and should play a role in determining public policy, no such information, regardless of its accuracy, is sufficient to reveal to us or to governments what the ’best’ response is. To suppose that it can play this role is akin to supposing that your family physician can scientifically determine when, for how long, and for what reasons you ’should’ travel by automobile.
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[Town Hall] - If it acts, the Free World has the opportunity to condemn another communist dictatorship to Karl Marx's dustbin of history and avoid a war with a totalitarian superpower circa 2035.
The Chinese Communist Party knows the COVID-19/Wuhan virus pandemic has exposed its imperial war to conquer the world, so it is frantically engaged in psychological and political damage control.
Why? The strategic exposure (a cruel pun) of Beijing's goal occurs at least 10 years too early. If the CCP and Emperor/President/Dictator Xi Jinping just had another decade of gross domestic product growth; of military modernization; of intellectual property theft; of trade rigging; of bribing crooked EU and American politicians and Ivy League academics; of stroking elite U.S. media; of narrative warfare crafted to undermine democracy and erode free speech -- with another 10 to 15 years of unrestricted "all lines of operation" warfare, China could hogtie America and have the military power to dominate Asia and the western Pacific.
Federalist via Instapundit
If a foreign nation harbors hegemonic ambitions, tells us technological superiority is key to achieving them, and pilfers our intellectual property to accomplish it, aren’t our leaders duty-bound to do something about it?
Communist China is just such a nation, posing just such a problem for America. Yet the notion that we ought, for example, to harden our schools against Chinese penetration in strategically significant areas seems to vex some of our betters.
...A recent Pew poll showed that nine-in-10 Americans view China’s power and influence as a threat, with 62 percent believing it constitutes a major threat. Yet Cotton came under fire, with the likes of Obama administration national security official Ben Rhodes perversely claiming it is in part because of China hawks like Cotton that China has advanced its technological capability relative to America. Does a hypothesis that USA "elites" are in love with Chinese money - and use their transnationalism as an excuse - merits serious consideration?
...Protecting America against a bellicose, rapacious, and regressive CCP is neither self-defeating nor xenophobic, but eminently sensible. As the Senate homeland security subcommittee noted in a November 2019 report on China’s Thousand Talents Program, China seeks to be the world leader in science and technology by 2050. It is engaged in a whole-of-society effort to achieve it, with an emphasis on military-civil fusion.
This includes the Thousand Talents Program, one of more than 200 such recruitment programs the Communist Chinese regime uses to incentivize people to export valuable research and development fruits to China. Under that program, China has recruited more than 7,000 "high-end professionals"—among them several Nobel laureates—including Chinese nationals.
Chinese students are coming in ever-greater numbers to study in America. In the 2018-2019 school year, a staggering 369,548 such students attended U.S. colleges and universities. Consistent with Rhodes’ view, the Obama administration allowed these numbers to mushroom from 127,628 during 2009-2010, to 350,755 in 2016-2017.
while the vast majority of students and researchers from China are in the United States for legitimate academic reasons...the Chinese government uses some Chinese students—mostly post-graduate students and post-doctorate researchers studying science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)—and professors to operate as non-traditional collectors of intellectual property.
While most Chinese nationals may be genuinely here to receive an education, the risk remains. As a senior U.S. official told Reuters in 2018, "Every Chinese student...has to go through a party and government approval process...You may not be here for espionage purposes as traditionally defined, but no Chinese student who’s coming here is untethered from the state."
The litany of Department of Justice (DOJ) indictments related to Chinese efforts to exploit the American academy are a testament to this. When the FBI announced arguably the most prominent of all to date in January 2020, concerning eminent Harvard University professor Dr. Charles Lieber, an alleged contractual participant in China’s Thousand Talents Program, the DOJ also announced charges for two Chinese nationals.
...The CCP uses our freedoms and ambitions against us, whether in taking advantage of our openness and benevolence to infiltrate American universities, or capitalizing on our greed to influence our business world, and Hollywood. Why continue any policy that serves the CCP’s desired ends? $$$$$
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Yet the notion that we ought, for example, to harden our schools against Chinese penetration in strategically significant areas seems to vex some of our betters.
I blame investment portfolio revenue downturn for the "vexing."
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the likes of Obama administration national security official Ben Rhodesperversely claiming it is in part because of China hawks like Cotton that China has advanced its technological capability relative to America
That this poetasting pajama boy was ever a "national security official" tells us what we need to know about previous admins' foreign policy depth.
Future historians will be hard-pressed to find a parallel for our elites' unbelievable foolishness in building up a mortal rival and outsourcing our entire pharma manufacturing and other supply chains to such a hostile, aggressive, globally-ambitious rival.
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Chinese students pay top dollar. Corrupt universities are now dependent on their payments. Remove the Chinese students and universities will go bankrupt.
[Spectator] China got the P4 it wanted from La Belle France. The world got a pandemic.
The irony is that the crisis sickening France and ruining whole swathes of its economy arguably can be traced back 16 years to France and its desire, for largely geopolitical and commercial reasons, to cozy up to China. It chose to do that by providing the blueprints, technology, and knowhow for a sophisticated new virology lab in Wuhan.
Chestnuts are in blossom, but there are no holiday tables under the trees this spring as Gay Paree struggles with the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... . For the past seven weeks, its citizens have been confined to their homes, sans sidewalk cafes, sans restaurants, sans museums and everything else that makes the city a delight. The economy is on the ropes, with unemployment soaring and a drop of 6 percent in GDP in the first quarter. Among the tens of billions of euros the government of President Emmanuel Macron has spent to prop up businesses has been $8 billion to Air La Belle France — a virtual nationalization of the airline — with another $5 billion for that other national champion, Renault. Urgently needed restoration on fire-damaged Notre Dame cathedral has been neglected as locked-down workers are only now beginning to return to work.
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[National Review] At the start of the 19th century, America was a rural society that depended on boats and horses for its transportation needs. A century later, it was the greatest industrial power in the world. In the interim, the railroad had carried the industrial revolution across America, building the nation as we know it today.
Many nowadays forget this history, and the crucial role American workers, families, and communities played over generations in building our railroads and expanding them. And in the case of Palestine, in east Texas, that historical amnesia could have serious real-world consequences, as the Union Pacific Railroad now seeks to abandon its long-standing contractual obligations to the town.
In the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, Texas was still a vast and inaccessible frontier with only a few miles of railroads in the very eastern part of the state. Then Texans started building railroads, first expanding them to cover the rest of east Texas and then, eventually, across the entire state. With millions of acres in land grants from the state, and bonds raised for them by local communities like Palestine, the railroads took off, connecting local communities across the state and connecting the state to the nation.
At the heart of Texas’s growing railroads was Palestine, where local leaders negotiated with two early Texas railroads to create a rail juncture. As an incentive, the families of Palestine and Anderson County raised a bond of $150,000 — an enormous sum in those days — and the two railroads agreed to keep their general offices and other facilities in Palestine indefinitely. That agreement was signed in 1872, and within a year the railroads met at Palestine.
In the following decades, the railroads that serviced Palestine went through many reorganizations and changes in ownership. By the early 1950s, they had been acquired by the Missouri-Pacific railroad company. "MoPac," as it was informally known, reached a deal with Palestine in 1954 to modify the original 1872 shop agreement. Palestine agreed to release the railroad from the 1872 agreement if the railroad would agree to keep 4.5 percent of its employees in Palestine across several specific job categories. If MoPac breached the contract, then the original shop agreement would go back into effect.
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Its not just the UP, but all 7 Class 1 RR are under the Hunter Harrison PSM model, which basically ignores the small shipper in the search for the lowest Operational Ratio, in order to please the short term objective of investors. Less than carloads and occasional deliveries are rejected. BNSF is hestantly playing in this as their interchange of traffic is being impacted.
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If they broke their agreement, then the town should pass a tax on every train that goes through, 10% of the market value of all goods on the train should help them learn not to break contracts.
[American Thinker] In 1992, Ross Perot famously stated that NAFTA would cause a "giant sucking sound" as jobs and industries fled the U.S. for Mexico. For years, progressive Vermont's bloated bureaucracy has increased regulations, social programs, and income and real estate taxes in the fantasy that the rich can just be taxed more to achieve every imagined social good. But the COVID-19 crisis has pulled aside the fiscal veil, and now the Green Mountain State is careening into the red. A "giant sucking sound" is heard from Vermonters fleeing the state.
Vermont has stubbornly avoided funding its state pension system. It "boasts" the second highest per-pupil school costs in America, the fourth highest health care costs, and the fourth highest welfare benefits. Unsurprisingly, it also distinguishes itself as the 49th worst business climate and the only state to have its credit rating downgraded in 2019 — when economic times were relatively good.
Liberals scoff at supply-side economics (the idea that cutting taxes causes a "trickle-down effect" that boosts investment, income, and ultimately tax receipts). But taxes do matter.
Perhaps I missed it. How many are walking across the border to reside in Canada ?
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A "giant sucking sound" is heard from Vermonters fleeing the state.
The Middle Class inevitably get screwed by these reformersProgressives vermin because they, the Middle Class, have enough wealth to make it worth stealing and can't run away. The Poor can just drop "everything and run". The Rich have fluid assets and can afford to take a loss to relocate elsewhere.
[Japan Times] - The World Health Organization has been generous with its praise throughout this pandemic. China, Singapore and Ireland have all received plaudits for their handling of the coronavirus crisis.
Now that a new turning point is in sight, with the infection’s spread slowing and draconian lockdown measures being gradually lifted, the WHO is promoting the Swedish way of doing things. "Sweden represents a future model. ... If we wish to get back to a society in which we don’t have lockdowns," the WHO’s Mike Ryan said, praising the way Swedes are trusted to "self-regulate." The fact that WHO praises them is enough for me.
Sweden’s hands-off approach to lockdown has certainly been different to that of other countries, from France and Italy to the United States and China. Large public gatherings are banned, but restaurants, bars and schools have stayed open, and social distancing is encouraged rather than enforced by police.
Trust in the public is high, and so is the public’s trust in the strategy. Swedes seem happy with the global attention. "Many countries are starting to come around to the Swedish way," Anders Tegnell, the country’s chief epidemiologist, told USA Today.
But like so many stories of national exceptionalism in this crisis — the United Kingdom at one point was convinced it could avoid strict closures, painting them as unscientific, before eventually doing a U-turn — this one is debatable and premature.
U.S. President Donald Trump, no doubt annoyed at stories in the American media heaping praise on the Swedes, tweeted one obvious riposte last week, noting the high price that Swedes have had to pay in terms of COVID-19 fatalities. Sweden’s 2,586 deaths compare poorly with Denmark’s 452 and Norway’s 207. Taking population into account, Sweden has suffered more deaths per million people than the U.S. (although deaths aren't always counted in the same way).
When looking at all-cause mortality — which is probably a better gauge of the real level of coronavirus deaths — Sweden has been hit with "very high" excess deaths since the start of the year, according to the European body monitoring these statistics. In Denmark, they’ve been "low."
...We don’t know what other nations might have gone through if they’d followed the Swedish model — France estimates its own lockdown saved 60,000 lives. We also don’t know how much immunity has been acquired by the Swedes. An official report estimating that a third of Stockholm’s population would develop antibodies to the virus by May 1 was withdrawn after an error. Yet people accuse Nail Ferguson of pulling numbers from his ass.
We do know that Sweden’s COVID-19 journey hasn’t been exceptional. Like other countries, it has experienced a surge in deaths in care homes, where about one in three virus deaths are estimated to have taken place. Visiting relatives and staff are expected to "self-regulate" but, according to reports, they don’t always do so. The Swedes have also had a lack of systematic testing and equipment shortages.
Things might have been even worse without the Swedes’ demographic and cultural defenses. This is a population that does social distancing already in many ways. More than half of the country lives in single-person households, working from home is common and access to fast broadband is everywhere. In other words, they're dying out anyways - so they don't care.
...At the same time, migrant workers in the country are being infected disproportionately, according to a recent national survey. The hyper-individualist expectation to "self-regulate" looks too complacent for immigrant communities who lack access to information. Of course, the hyper-humanitarian Swedes will never dream of expelling the gimmegrants - but if they're dying anyway...
...Given that we haven’t reached the end of this pandemic, more circumspection might be in order. Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard once said: "Life can only be understood backward; but it must be lived forward."
As we approach a turning point in the crisis, it’s tempting to look back and single out winners as the model to follow. But we don’t know what’s going to happen next. None of us has lived through it yet. And that includes Sweden.
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Love the whispered aside:
(although deaths aren't always counted in the same way)
Right. When you're discussing tallies, how things are counted is just a minor parenthetical.
Here's a clue: Sweden is deliberately including every possible COVID-related death, be it in or out of hospital. Norway doesn't include deaths in nursing homes.
If you do an apples-to-apples comparison using the same methodology for attributions cause of death, and if you adjust for Sweden's significantly higher Muslim immigrant population, Sweden's fatality rate us only slightly higher than those of Norway and Denmark.
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Lex's comment mirrors a guy from Helsinki’s observations, re Nordlanders:
The numbers mean nothing since Sweden stopped doing tests long ago. It’s strange how a lot of people here have realized that Sweden just makes up crime statistics but haven’t realized that Sweden does the same at pretty much everything. No data, no problem is also the attitude of the rest of Scandinavia and Germany so their numbers can’t be trusted either.
Even deaths can be covered up because a lot of people who die are going to be elderly who haven’t been tested and they’re not planning to test most of the dead. Curiously the people who are dying after being tested positive are disproportionately migrants
I suspect that it turns out that Sweden is in fact doing it right that shielding the elderly instead of shutting down the economy is better in the end but it doesn’t mean that the disease is sparing Sweden or that the low numbers mean anything, to the contrary, they’ve decided to let it spread and to keep their estimates of the real number secret. We’ll maybe know them after the epidemic once they start publishing studies – but only if it does turn out to be the right bet.
If corona turns out to be deadlier then it will be the thing that pops the entire “Scandinavian model” bubble. People abroad have been making the mistake of trusting Scandinavian governments and their invented statistics because Scandinavian people are honest in person.
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I'd agree with the headline, but isn't it what they call a "strawman"?
It is a different approach which can be studied for future application.
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^(a) It is marketed as a miracle.
(b) You won't be studying it for future application cause, sooner or later, they gonna switch to a lockdown that makes California look like Texas.
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"Now, Sweden’s death projection via the IHME model has been downgraded significantly while many other locked down countries had theirs raised, including the United States nearly doubling. Sweden’s projection stands at 10,196 deaths." Today and similar information yesterday. Models wrong as usual. Global warming, Climate change all wrong. Polar Ice caps were to be gone now and oceans 300-400 feet deeper. Al Gore seems to be working with similar modeling. Garbage in garbage out.
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He's be unwelcome on the DC cocktail party circuit if he said otherwise.
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A potential (partial) apology/explanation of Wallace's weasel-ry:
He started going squishy during the Kavanaugh SS hearings, when he referred specifically to his school-age daughters. If they're enrolled in a left-leaning hothouse like Sidwell Friends, then he and his family are probably under hellacious social pressure to toe the Woke line in the Age of OrangeMan. Otherwise his kids may well be bullied, be given bad grades, denied help in applying to college or even be denied admission to elite schools.
Don't underestimate the social pressure that is being brought to bear on any heretic working these days in the corporate / media / Deep State environment. It's relentless, and suffocating.
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:-(
been there meself
Sherman was wrong. War's hell is nothing compared to the SS hell that is being non-Woke with a family in today's deep-blue corporate/media/deep-state America
[NY Post] Two weeks ago, Gov. Andrew Cuomo was first asked about his policy that forced nursing homes to admit patients infected with the coronavirus.
“That’s a good question, I don’t know,” the governor answered, turning to an aide.
On Tuesday, Cuomo was asked about a report from the Associated Press that his team had added more than 1,700 deaths to the count of those who died in nursing homes, bringing the total to at least 4,813.
“I don’t know the details, frankly,” the governor answered, turning to an aide.
And if you are the governor of the state that is the national epicenter of the deadly outbreak, you don’t have the luxury of not knowing, or pretending not to know, about the horrendous carnage in nursing homes and rehabilitation centers. And if your policies contributed to that carnage, the decent thing to do is to own your mistakes and fix them.
In fact, Cuomo does claim to know something about nursing homes and COVID-19 patients. He says the former can refuse to take the latter.
“The nursing home has to make the decision,” he said Tuesday. “If they don’t think they can take care of someone, all they have to do is say no.”
In this case, he “knows” something that’s simply not true, according to nursing home executives. The March 25 order that forced infected patients on them allows for no exceptions and has not been changed.
The killer fifth paragraph still reads: “No resident shall be denied re-admission or admission to the NH solely based on a confirmed or suspected diagnosis of COVID-19. NHs are prohibited from requiring a hospitalized resident who is determined medically stable to be tested for COVID-19 prior to admission or readmission.”
Owners and managers said Tuesday they are not aware of any loosening of the policy. They also say that hospitals still are referring infected patients to them on a near-daily basis and they are expected to take them if they have an empty bed.
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They're taxing Samaritan's Purse workers that set up the field hospital in Central Park. Really building goodwill and ensuring outside help when the next disaster hits NY: "F*&k OFF!"
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Inform population of the other 49 states, if you visit New York, they will tax your income.
You might also want to avoid any air travel that connects through New York as well.
[AMERICANTHINKER] Has anybody but me noticed that we didn't have permanent campaigns under the caucus system? Which is not to say that no nonentities were thrown up, but the primary system seems to throw up more of them...
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Most likely never! It's beginning to looks like the average liberal/democrat are at the same or lower intellect level as Joe Biden.
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I hope not, I want that gibberish spouting idiot on the campaign trail. We have another Senate to hold and House to retake before we replace RBG and reindustrialize America. Donnie seems incapable of avoiding meaningless little sniping duels on Twitter that feed the MSM narrative that the Presidency is about personality not policy. We need Plugs as their candidate to be certain of keeping on the path of antiglobalization and national recovery.
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[Daily Beast] Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said on Monday that the American economy needs to reopen quickly and that tens of thousands of more Americans may die from the novel coronavirus, insisting that Americans are "gonna have to" accept that.
[Hot Air] Good advice, but I can’t believe he’d willingly risk getting on the wrong side of his viewers by telling them something they don’t want to hear, no matter how much they need to hear it.
[Breitbart] Failed Trump challenger Hillary Clinton (D) on Tuesday warned that "Americans will suffer" as the Trump administration signaled it is engaging in "preliminary talks" to shut down the coronavirus task force.
[National Review] At the start of the 19th century, America was a rural society that depended on boats and horses for its transportation needs. A century later, it was the greatest industrial power in the world. In the interim, the railroad had carried the industrial revolution across America, building the nation as we know it today.
[American Thinker] In 1992, Ross Perot famously stated that NAFTA would cause a "giant sucking sound" as jobs and industries fled the U.S. for Mexico. For years, progressive Vermont's bloated bureaucracy has increased regulations, social programs, and income and real estate taxes in the fantasy that the rich can just be taxed more to achieve every imagined social good. But the COVID-19 crisis has pulled aside the fiscal veil, and now the Green Mountain State is careening into the red. A "giant sucking sound" is heard from Vermonters fleeing the state.
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