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2020-04-27 Home Front: Culture Wars

h/t Instapundit
[Real Clear Energy] - Like the rest of the country, although far less than New York, California is suffering through the Covid-19 crisis. But in California, the pandemic seems likely to give the state’s political and corporate elites a new license to increase their dominion while continuing to keep the middle and working classes down.

Perhaps nothing spells the triumph of California’s progressive oligarchy more than Governor Gavin Newsom’s decision to off-load the state’s recovery strategy to a task force co-chaired by hedge-fund billionaire Tom Steyer. A recently failed presidential candidate, Steyer stands as a progressive funder. He is as zealous as he is rich. Steyer sometimes even found the policies adopted by climate-obsessed former governor Jerry Brown not extreme enough for his tastes.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-27 11:30|| || Front Page|| [11136 views ] Top

#1 Yes, of course. The Bay Area and California as Ground Zero have been absolutely hammered, destroyed I tell ya, by the Greatest Pandemic in Modern History.

As of April 26, total COVID deaths for Bay Area-Ground Zero counties
(SF/San Mateo/Santa Clara),
total pop. 3.5 million,
of which 800,000 Chinese
and >50,000 traveled to China recently = ...
drum-roll
... 174.

= 1:20,000 if you're scoring at home (or even if you're self-isolating)

And this result has next to zero to do with the sweeping lockdown that occurred MONTHS AFTER 50,000 or so traveler's brought the virus back to these counties from China

Posted by Lex 2020-04-27 11:49|| 2020-04-27 11:49|| Front Page Top

#2 If California had kept the nascent computer industry local they'd have the world by the ass now. Instead they have crapple and gurgle's HQs and give them pretty much whatever they want. And those HQs can go anywhere the moment a better offer surfaces.

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-04-27 12:02|| 2020-04-27 12:02|| Front Page Top

#3 Don't worry Lex. With Steyer driving your death rates will bounce.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-27 12:02|| 2020-04-27 12:02|| Front Page Top

#4 There's something in the RDs.

Posted by Skidmark 2020-04-27 16:51|| 2020-04-27 16:51|| Front Page Top

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