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His father was a lawyer, a judge and was later to become for 31 years, a congressman and chairman of the House Naval Affairs Committee during the Harding and Coolidge administrations. Smedley's Marine Corps career successes occurred while his father held that politically influential Congressional seat controlling the Marine Corps manpower and budget.
Forget the wings and key lime cake. Stay at home and live !
[NYT] It was an old-fashioned Southern funeral.
There was a repast table crammed with casseroles, Brunswick stew, fried chicken and key lime cake. Andrew Jerome Mitchell, a retired janitor, was one of 10 siblings. They told stories, debated for the umpteenth time how he got the nickname Doorface.
People wiped tears away, and embraced, and blew their noses, and belted out hymns. They laughed, remembering. It was a big gathering, with upward of 200 mourners overflowing the memorial chapel, so people had to stand outside.
Dorothy Johnson has gone over the scene in her mind over the last month, asking herself who it was who brought the virus to her brother’s funeral.
"We don’t know who the person was," she said. "It would help me to know."
During the weeks that followed, illnesses linked to the coronavirus have torn through her hometown, Albany, Ga., with about two dozen relatives falling ill, including six of her siblings. Ms. Johnson herself was released from an isolation ward to the news that her daughter, Tonya, was in grave condition, her heart rate dropping.
Like the Biogen conference in Boston and a 40th birthday party in Westport, Conn., the funeral of Andrew Jerome Mitchell on Feb. 29 will be recorded as what epidemiologists call a "super-spreading event," in which a small number of people propagate a huge number of infections.
This rural county in southwest Georgia, 40 miles from the nearest interstate, now has one of the most intense clusters of the coronavirus in the country.
With a population of only 90,000, Dougherty County has registered 24 deaths, far more than any other county in the state, with six more possible coronavirus deaths under investigation, according to Michael L. Fowler, the local coroner. Ninety percent of the people who died were African-American, he said.
The region’s hospitals are overloaded with sick and dying patients, having registered nearly 600 positive cases. Last week, Gov. Brian Kemp dispatched the National Guard to help stage additional intensive care beds and relieve exhausted doctors and nurses.
Ms. Johnson said that she assumed one of the guests had brought the virus to her brother’s funeral, where "you hug and you kiss and you embrace." But she had no more information than that.
"Really, there is no face to what is going on in Albany," she said.
[AmGreatness] CNN anchor Chris Cuomo announced Tuesday that he has been diagnosed with the coronavirus and is quarantined in the basement of his home. Cuomo is the third CNN to have tested positive for COVID-19.
"I have been exposed to people in recent days who have subsequently tested positive, and I’ve had fevers, chills and shortness of breath," Cuomo wrote in a post online, adding that he hoped he hadn’t spread the virus to his wife Cristina and his kids.
The anchor said he will continue to anchor his 9 p.m. program "Cuomo Prime Time" from his basement.
"We will all beat this thing by being strong, tough, and united!" the anchor added, sounding almost Trumpian.
Cuomo was at CNN’s offices in New York City last Friday, according to CNN media correspondent Brian Stelter.
On Monday, he anchored his show from his home where he interviewed his brother, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo.During the interview, Cuomo asked the governor if he was thinking about replacing Joe Biden on the Democrat ticket.
"Let me ask you something. With all of this adulation that you’re getting for doing your job, are you thinking about running for President? Tell the audience," Chris Cuomo asked.
"No. No," the governor replied.When Chris Cuomo pressed his brother further about a presidential bid, Andrew Cuomo continued to flatly say no, he hadn’t even thought about it.For the time being, Cuomo is "feeling fine," according to Stelter.
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I see I'm only the 38th 'view' for this article. Does no one give a hoot for this guy?
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No.
I don't wish anyone ill. But I don't really pay attention this guy and his fellow media hucksters these days. We need less noise, more signal. His ilk are mass producers of noise, lies and hysteria.
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That's some World Class jernoolism from the Daily Smail.
Still, the appearance of a massive Comet Of Doom helps fill in the missing parts of the "alarming portents and signs in the heavens" of the apocalypse.
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Comet Atlas? Will it shrug?
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It has it's own atmosphere?Heaven's Gate 2.0 - the only thing stopping the rush on jogging suits, Nike shoes is the quarantine. Well played, Mr. Trump
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Well, the "writer" didn't manage to work the word exponential in..
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Journalists exist because McDonald's doesn't hire everyday.
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The Brigham said in a statement that a “small percentage” of employee cases are linked to workplace exposure.
“Health care workers are among the groups prioritized for COVID-19 testing at the Brigham. As a result, we would expect a higher number of identified cases among our employee population. The percent of health care workers tested who are positive for COVID-19 at the Brigham is 50% less than the positivity rate of the general population that has been tested,” the statement said.
So it's not the zombie apocalypse, yet?
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If I was conspiracy theorist, I'd guess the gene-engineered coronavirus wasn't supposed to escape the lab in Wuhan, but was supposed to be released in USA in time to affect the 2020 elections.
[Bloomberg] "Due to lockdown, most of the transmission that's actually happening in many countries now is happening in the household at family level," Mike Ryan, head of health emergencies at the World Health Organization, said in a briefing on Monday. "Now we need to go and look in families and find those people that may be sick and remove them and isolate them in a safe and dignified manner."
Wuhan began quarantining all mild cases in makeshift hospitals converted from offices, stadiums and gymnasiums in early February, a move that helped dramatically slow the spread of the virus. The city where the virus first emerged last December has successfully contained the outbreak, according to official figures that show few new infections
...does WHO really believe official Chinese figures after all that has happened?
even as the pandemic accelerates in other countries.
Liang said his team advised Italy to follow China's lead to forcibly isolate patients with mild symptoms from their families. In China, a study of one province showed that 80% of cluster infections originated from people told to rest at home, according to Xiao Ning, a researcher from the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention who was part of the team. Want to know what happened in China? Ask some Chinese in Italy.
This wouldn't work as well as lockdown, because of asymptomatic spreaders.
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Somebody ought to take a cluebat & beat the idea of "perfect is an enemy of good" into Dr Ryan and his friends. Some fatalities should be authorized in advance.
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Said "removed infected" will contaminate the mode of transportation, their new place of isolation After contaminating their original home compounding the problem. It works for a few infected, but for thousands the logistics are impossible. Idiot...
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) ‐ When Nima Amraa returned to the Gaza Strip from neighboring Egypt earlier this month, she was surprised to learn she was being placed in a makeshift quarantine center set up by the ruling Hamas group.
But her initial jitters turned to fear when two fellow travelers in another facility tested positive for the coronavirus ‐ the first cases to be confirmed in Gaza.
"Once there were cases of the virus spreading, we started to feel afraid and disappointed," Amraa, a 30-year-old journalist, said by phone from quarantine, where she has spent a week and a half sleeping in a room with five other women and sharing a bathroom.
The virus found a way into Gaza, even though the Mediterranean enclave has been largely cut off from the world by an Israeli-Egyptian blockade since Hamas militants seized it 13 years ago.
On Monday, the Health Ministry said a new case was confirmed among the quarantined, bringing the total to 10. It added all of them were in good condition and receiving care at a special field hospital.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WMBF) ‐ South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster issued an executive order on Monday that closes all public access points to the state’s beaches.
The executive order also closes all public boat ramps, landings and other access points on the state’s lakes, rivers and waterways.
"As a result of behavior observed this past weekend by the Department of Natural Resources and SLED, it has become necessary to close public access to our state’s beaches, and to close boat ramps and landings on our state’s lakes, rivers and waterways,"McMaster said. "This is unfortunate for those who chose to responsibly follow the instructions of our public health officials, but it is a necessary action to prevent the spread of this dangerous virus."
According to the S.C. Beach Access and Water Quality Guide, there are more than 360 public beach access points in Horry County alone.
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2020 Myrtle Beach Bike Week Spring Rally will begin on Friday, May 8, and ends on Sunday, May 17. (If not cancelled due to common sense and good judgement)
Gov. McMaster taking precautions for an upcoming annual event? A significant number of MB residents schedule their vacation and leave town during bike week. Might not be an option this year.
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...MB - the Redneck Rivera it may be, but it's one of my favorite places on the planet - has ordered all hotels/timeshares/whatever else people stay in to be closed and empty by Sunday the 27th. The bikers may be faced with very determined SCHP and MBPD at checkpoints telling them to turn around. (Have also heard that within a week or so, MB will officially announce that Bike Week has been cancelled, but the city's staying mum on that.)
Mike
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I'm told the beaches and walking paths have been closed in the Florida Palm Coast region--I don't know about other parts of Florida or if it is a statewide edict.
[US Department of Defense] Top U.S. military athletes are in Wuhan, China, participating in the 2019 Military World Games, which promote peace by uniting service members from nations around the globe through sports.
Same link has nifty COVID-19 update. Evidently asking the obvious question never entered anyone's mind at DoD.
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Yes, the very same Wuhan, China. I have to wonder if anyone in DoD has done a Health and Welfare update on our US service members who made this trip ?
Would I be going out on a limb to assume DoD will not be participating in future Wuhan, China events ?
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Win if can, lose if must, but always cheat...
https://www.scmp.com/sport/outdoor/health-fitness/article/3034402/chinese-orienteering-team-caught-cheating-military
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Thanks - did my last jump with 82nd. Nightime mass tac drop - full battalion.
Still slugging it out here in Hong Kong. Tough environment to say the least. Just about every week is something - rarely good. Entries, HS, dangles - full court press. Glad I play defense.
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Rope jumper here. Did a static-line square from 5k feet down at Quantico once. Lopo's at the end, knees went bad, pay jumper only. Pretty cool video. You may know the guy who jumped the Horse Sojur flag. Again, be safe and take lots of happy snaps.
[NEWSWEEK] The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the use of two anti-malaria drugs to treat patients infected by the new 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... On Sunday, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said in a statement that chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine could be prescribed to teens and adults with COVID-19 "as appropriate, when a clinical trial is not available or feasible," after the FDA issued an Emergency Use Authorization. (EUA) That marked the first EUA for a drug related to COVID-19 in the U.S., according to the statement.
According to Johns Hopkins University, over 720,000 cases have been confirmed, more than 34,000 people have died, and over 152,000 have recovered since the pandemic started in China late last year.
Both chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine are used to treat diseases including malaria, and have "shown activity in laboratory studies against coronaviruses, including SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19)," the HHS stated.
"Anecdotal reports suggest that these drugs may offer some benefit in the treatment of hospitalized COVID-19 patients. Clinical trials are needed to provide scientific evidence that these treatments are effective."
Under the EUA, health care providers and patients must be given fact sheets outlining the known risks and drug interactions of the medications.
The HSS said it accepted 30 million doses of hydroxychloroquine sulfate from an arm of the pharmaceutical company Novartis, and one million of chloroquine phosphate from Bayer Pharmaceuticals to be used for treating hospitalized COVID-19 patients or in clinical trials.
Study raises hope that blood plasma can treat coronavirus patients
[BIZPACREVIEW] A preliminary study released Friday found that blood serum from people who recovered from 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... was effective at treating critically ill patients, raising hope that the technique will curtail a pandemic that has already killed more than 30,000 people around the globe.
The study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, looked at only five patients, and the authors of the report acknowledged the need for more extensive research. But it showed promising results, and health officials have already expressed optimism that blood transfers can be used to fight the new coronavirus strain.
"That’s one of our top priorities," Dr. Anthony Fauci, the U.S. government’s top expert on infectious disease, said in a March 20 interview regarding clinical trials for convalescent serum.
Fauci expressed confidence in the technique because it has proved effective during other pandemics, including the Spanish flu outbreak in 1918 and the SARS outbreak in 2003.
All five patients in the study, conducted in Shenzhen, China, have dramatically improved since receiving injections of blood plasma from recovered patients.
The patients, who ranged in age from 36 to 65, were all on ventilators suffering from acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) when the were provided plasma treatments.
Body temperatures normalized within three days for four out of the five patients following plasma transfusions, according to the study. ARDS in four of the patients cleared up within 12 days of the transfusion.
Three of the patients were taken off of ventilators within two weeks of the treatment. Viral loads also decreased in the patients, and their scores on a test that gauges potential organ failure showed improvements.
USNS Comfort arrives in NYC
[NYPOST] The USNS Comfort hospital ship arrived in New York Harbor on Monday morning to aid in 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... fight.
Dispatched Saturday by President Trump from Naval Station Norfolk in Virginia, the craft arrived at Manhattan’s Pier 90 at 10:42 a.m., as helicopters hovered above and a few dozen onlookers braved social-distancing regulations to catch a glimpse.
The vessel has a capacity of 1,000 beds, sorely needed as the contagion continues to strain the capacities of brick-and-mortar facilities.
NYC sees a coronavirus death every 2.9 minutes
[NYPOST] 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... corpse count in New York City surged to 914 on Monday afternoon, accelerated by six hellish hours that saw the tally spike by 124 ‐ or one death every 2.9 minutes.
As of a 10:30 a.m. update from City Hall, the five boroughs had seen 36,221 confirmed cases of the contagion, with 790 confirmed fatalities.
But by 4:30 p.m., the number of cases had ticked up to 38,087 ‐ while the deaths went kaboom! to 914, according to City Hall.
Of the more than 38,000 cases, 7,741 patients, or about 20 percent, are hospitalized, the statistics show.
Queens remains the hardest hit borough by a sizable margin, with 12,756 cases, or just over a third.
Brooklyn (with 10,171 cases; 27-percent) comes in second, followed by The Bronx (6,925; 18-percent), Manhattan (6,060; 16-percent) and Staten Island (2,140; six-percent).
Monday’s horrifying leap followed a similar period on Sunday in which 98 deaths were logged.
During a press briefing earlier Monday, Gov. Andrew Sonny Cuomo reported that the Empire State as a whole had been hit by 66,497 diagnoses, with 1,218 deaths.
New Jersey National Guardsman had died from #Covid_19; "Today is a sad day for the Department of Defense as we have lost our first American service member - active, reserve or Guard - to Coronavirus" - @EsperDoD
J&J, Moderna sign deals with U.S. to produce possible coronavirus vaccines
(Reuters) - The U.S. government has cut deals with Johnson & Johnson (JNJ.N) and Moderna Inc (MRNA.O) and said it is in talks with at least two other companies to expand manufacturing capacity within the United States for vaccines to prevent the new coronavirus even before safe and effective ones become available.
The executive order also closes all public boat ramps, landings and other access points on the state’s lakes, rivers and waterways.
"As a result of behavior observed this past weekend by the Department of Natural Resources and SLED, it has become necessary to close public access to our state’s beaches, and to close boat ramps and landings on our state’s lakes, rivers and waterways,"McMaster said. "This is unfortunate for those who chose to responsibly follow the instructions of our public health officials, but it is a necessary action to prevent the spread of this dangerous virus."
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the use of two anti-malaria drugs to treat patients infected by the new coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
So afraid to do their job that they wait for Trump to tell them what to do.
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but HCQ and CQ are not approved as a prophylactic.
Probably we don't have enough of the drug to do that.
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/\ The greatest sin for any bureaucrat is to do anything "Original". By following hallowed procedure the bureaucrat can avoid any risk to their job while actually never having to do anything productive.
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I've not seen where Nevada or Michigan governors have lifted the 'arrest orders' for doctors using these drugs yet.
Maybe that news was lost in the haze.
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First person who dies in spite of getting the drug will be "Trump's fault." Class action lawyers looking at nailing Trump for failure of leeches on George Washington's deathbed...
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Henry Ford Hospital (Detroit) has issued treatment guidance that includes both HCQ as well as remdesivir
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Assuming chloroquine is even partially effective, it will save thousands of lives, and because the media has tied it to Trump he'll get the credit. Total backfire.
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Tocilizumab, which is marketed as Actemra is now being tested in Italy for Covid19.
It is, like HCQ, already approved to treat rheumatoid arthritis.
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I should have added that Tocilizumad is, I think, more costly than hcq and you would need to take more anti biotic with it than you would with hcq
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Re: bureaucrats, they all realize that if you don't do anything at all, you will never do anything wrong--and therefore can't be criticized in the annual reviews.
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A bit of perspective, from the CDC. For the period ending March 21, the U.S. CDC reports -
CDC estimates that so far this season there have been at least 39 million flu illnesses, 400,000 hospitalizations and 24,000 deaths from flu.
That's the regular, old fashioned seasonal flu, kiddies, not the Chinese Plague (AKA COVID-19).
And -
Nationally, the percent of laboratory specimens testing positive for influenza at clinical laboratories continued to decrease while ILI [influenza like illnesses] activity continued to increase. More people are seeking care for respiratory illness due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
Indicating the usual spring decline of the flu. However, because of the pandemic, more folks who might have stayed home with the drugstore medications are now calling the doctor, fearing they have COVID-19) Weekly U.S. Influenza Surveillance Report [see Key Points]
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Low dose hydroxychloroquine (Plaquenil), in combination with azithromycin (Z-pak) may just be working. 3 sources I have found:
Research virologist in France followed his initial small test with a better documented one and showed similar success with 60 patients, only 1 death, 86yo who was "highly advance" before treatment, all the others have recovered.
Also Dr. William Grace Lennox Hospital NYC (100+ cases treated): ‘Thanks to hydroxychloroquine, we have not had a death in our hospital.’
And then there is Dr. Vladimir Zelenko. Amazing if true, but a bit skeptical until data published. He is a board certified MD family medicine long in practice in the Haisidic community. He defines success as “Not to die.” He has directly diagnosed/tested and treated 699 patient, zero patients died, zero patients intubated, and four hospitalizations.
Its hydroxychloroquine, in combination with azithromycin (Z-Pak), an antibiotic to treat secondary infections, and zinc sulfate, over a period of 5 days for routine cases. Cost is about $20. Apparently the doses are low enough to control for prolonged QT risk.
Of course this method doesn't get any researchers glory or grants, doesn't enrich drug companies since these are easily and quickly and cheaply manufactured generic drugs 50+ years old, and since it can be used now, off label, it doesn't reinforce the power of the FDA bureaucrats in DC.
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gov of Michigan who wrote letter threatening docs who use hcq now says it was misunderstood and she now asks the US gov to supply MI with hcq
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Of course, if in 25 years, someone who took hydroxychloroquine for the Wuhan flu and survived comes down with cancer or something, lawyers will be all over them trying to sue.
And blaming Trump, of course.
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^Posted for tomorrow :-)
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For #22
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There is a great YouTube video of Bob Hope and Jimmy Cagney dancing together that is a real show. Cagney was an excellent dancer and Bob wasn’t bad himself
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You are very welcome, Procopius2k. I recently discovered that on the YouTube page there is an arrow thingy that says Share. If you click on it, it offers, among other options, Embed. Click on that, highlight the code string that pops up, then click on COPY at the bottom of that screen to copy it to your clipboard... and from thence to paste it into the Rantburg comment box.
So you aren’t actually much behind me on the learning curve. There is even a Start At option, but I’m not yet ready to go as far as Herb McCoy in these things.
[janes.com] The Venezuelan government has announced that its Simón Bolívar (VeneSat-1) satellite is no longer operational, without citing specific causes. The platform was an important component of the country’s defence and telecommunications sector.
In 2018, then-head of Venezuela's National Anti-Drug Office (Oficina Nacional Antidrogas: ONA), General Juan Grillo stated that, “thanks to Simón Bolívar, we have connected our radars, which allows us to identify whether an aircraft is carrying out illicit activities or not.”
“Due to a fault, the satellite will no longer carry out its telecommunication operations,” a brief 25 March communique by the Venezuelan Ministry of Science and Technology explained.
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If you actually read about what's going on with the satellite, it's out of its intended orbit and tumbling. Could be the result of a systems failure, or impact with space junk, or, yes, intentional meddling. I don't think the X-37B is moving in the same altitude band though, and it wouldn't make sense to risk it to go after such a meaningless target.
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it wouldn't make sense to risk it to go after such a meaningless target.
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If you were going to takee a chance on losing an X-37 (and that's always a risk when you manoeuver a remotely piloted craft near an unpiloted satellite moving many thousands on miles per hour) you'd pick something strategic that would make waves.
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Made in China. Prematurely failed. Any surprise here?
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All the fuses and circuits blew out from Bolivarian Rage.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Azerbaijani military attempted to infiltrate the Armenian Army’s positions in the Noyemberyan area of the Tavush Province, the Armenian Ministry of Defense reported this evening.
"At 7 p.m. today #Azerbaijan launched a subversive incursion attempt on the #Armenia’n positions of Noyemberyan, Tavush. Armenian Army thwarted the attack, two soldiers were lightly injured," the Armenian Ministry of Defense tweeted this evening.
According to the ministry, the Azerbaijani forces also targeted the villages of Baghanis and Voskevan, which resulted in a child being maimed.
"Armenian forces will respond appropriately against the Azerbaijani aggression during the #COVID pandemic. The full responsibility of the consequences falls on #Azerbaijani side," the ministry added.
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#BREAKING: North Korea said on Monday that it had lost all appetite for dialogue with the United States and warned that it is now compelled to pay back “the pains the U.S. has imposed on our people.”
— Global: MilitaryInfo (@Global_Mil_Info) March 30, 2020
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China just told Pudge to knock it off with the fraternization.
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A restaurant in a Pittsburgh suburb back when I lived there had their sign reading "Cajun blackened pit bull" until the Boro council made them take it down.
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So, I'm curious: can anyone actually make a case for China controlling North Korea?
Like I posted Herb, go read up on 2 thousand years of Chinese - Korean history. China has a long memory. What once was theirs belongs to them as far as they're concerned. Quit avoiding having to do the hard reading so you can just wave your hand and dismiss any counter argument as ad hominem.
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#14 (a) Koksan, (b) KPAGF artillery. In 1987, several M-1978s were supplied to Iran, and used during the Iran–Iraq War. When using rocket-assisted projectiles, a range of almost 60 kilometres (37 mi) could be achieved
If they had 60 km in 1987...
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Considering that when they targeted the ROK island a while back, a good chunk missed and those that hit were 25% duds, the sea of fire for Seoul may only be a mild forest fire.
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#17 So because things happened thousands of years ago it means it can't change today?
Says the guy who prays at the shrine of General Smedley Butler
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Still waiting for citations and arguments to prove that today's North Korea is a Chinese lackey.
So let me get this straight - you make a statement / assertion, P2k (and others) advise you to read some history, and now you're asking them to provide you with evidence that they're right? I'm pretty sure it's not gonna work that way.
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1. North Korea has consistently refused to follow China's model. The one that China introduced to Burma and the Burmese are going gangbusters with.
2. Kim Jong-Un purged all of his father's pro-China advisers. He wouldn't have done that if he was going to follow China's advice.
"Norks are a Chinese puppet" hasn't been true for decades. If they were, they would have opened up and become fantastically rich by now.
Prove me wrong. Cite sources. Present evidence. You know, argue.
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#6 But the Norks would have none of it
In this case history and other countries do not apply. Because Herb? NK is a dictatorship, has been for decades.
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IMO, the PRC relationship w NKor is somewhat like the relationship between an adult gangster
and a drug dependent child.
That's a most succinct description of this particular geopolitical situation.
Says the guy who prays at the shrine of General Smedley Butler
And that's a Snark of the Day.
I bet if we sent newly-appointed Ambassador Dennis Rodman to NKor with cognac, the aforementioned ribeyes and some "groupies", we could nudge Pudge a little further away from the Chicoms. Worth doing for the entertainment value alone.
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Communism is toxic. I encourage all who believe in "communism lite" to immediately begin taking 10% arsenic in their food and water to prove their point.
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Kim Jong-Un is a dictator? Really? I thought the consensus was that he is way, way, way too young to be leader and that he's more of a face man for the real power in North Korea.
A couple of blogs people might enjoy reading: https://www.38north.org/ and https://www.libertyinnorthkorea.org/blog/. Or not. I mean, people seem to despise learning new things and are sticking to their North Korea knowledge back when they served near the DMZ back in the 1970s.
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#24
And on schedule, out comes the chinese bellringer.
#27
I mean, people seem to despise learning new things and are sticking to their North Korea knowledge back when they served near the DMZ back in the 1970s.
Yeah...go to a party Erb.
How many will your Mom's basement hold?
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Ah .. bad choice of words.... Super Large is only those monster ones Musk is building at the Boca-Chica Texas beach.
Yesterday, he moved the lower part of a second stage to the launch platform. It is 9 meters across and about 40 or 50 high. That's a Super Large Rocket - serial number SN3
VIENNA (Reuters) - Austria will require shoppers to wear basic face masks in supermarkets in a bid to slow the still too-rapid spread of the coronavirus, Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said on Monday.
#2
I don't know why we are not doing this. I realize the WHO/CDC/NIS said a surgical mask will not protect *you* from the virus, but it will keep you from spreading it to others. Imagine a hospital operating room. Everyone is wearing a surgical mask so they don't spread their germs to the patient.
I'll wager the reason our Top Men said masks don't work is because no one thought to stockpile a bunch for the citizenry. A pity since they are cheap, non-perishable and don't need a lot of storage space. Same with latex gloves.
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supply. I would wear one if I had it and it's required. I have bandanas, but would like to not be shot
Posted by: Frank G ||
03/31/2020 18:59 Comments ||
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I have bandanas, but would like to not be shot
I hear ya! I was thinking about a bandana for this week's shopping trip but I'm not sure how to signify the difference between Bold Fashion Statement and Robbery-In-Progress.
#6
Apparently New York City, at least, would have a plentiful supply of face masks and such if China had not nationalized the American factory over there and confiscated NYC’s order as it was about to ship. Adding insult to injury, they subsequently sold the entire thing to Spain. Whether this was the shipment that mostly had to be rejected for not meeting standards is unclear to me.
[Arutz 7] - Israel Dog Unit (IDU) dog-handler Bram Settenbrino, who is presently quarantined with the coronavirus, volunteered to pilot test and train his personal weapons-sniffing service canine to detect the scent of the coronavirus.
Bram, who joins dozens of others quarantined with coronavirus in the Tel Aviv Dan Panorama Hotel that was recently converted into a quarantine facility by the Israeli defense establishment, said, "I'm in a rare position as I'm still diagnosed with coronavirus together with many others who have tested positive. It's a godsend that I happen to be a volunteer dog-handler of a service dog that is a trained cadaver and weapons-sniffing detection dog. That's what we do. And if I can make a small contribution to save many lives, I am happy to do that."
Settenbrino continued: "Additionally, even after I G-d willing recover, I'm less likely to contract coronavirus and am thus in a unique position to test and train with many coronavirus patients. I asked the head of the IDU as well as the staff at the Hotel to permit me to have my service dog ‐ Dana admitted to join me here so that we can commence immediate training under the auspices of expert trainers who will guide me. I know that the chances are slim, but what have we to lose?"
[YNet] - Israel has converted a missile production facility to mass produce ventilators and offset a shortage of the life-saving machines as the coronavirus continues to spread, the Defense Ministry said on Tuesday.
...The Israeli initiative is a collaboration between the defense ministry, state-owned Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) and medical device maker Inovytec.
...Some 30 ventilators have been delivered to Israel's health ministry, the statement said. It did not indicate how many machines it planned to produce daily or whether they were being made available for export as well as local use.
[BREITBART] Pope Francis ...Argentine liberation theologist, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio. He was elected pope in 2013. Rather than setting up shop in Avignon, where he belongs, the first Jesuit Pope chose to reside in the Domus Sanctae Marthae guesthouse instead of the papal apartments. He is big on climate change, against consumerism, and in favor of throwing a blanket over homosexual activity within the clergy. He's not real sure about the Resurrection, about Christ's divinity, and a few other things that would have gotten him burned at the stake a few hundred years ago, but he's hot for a certain South American Earth Mother Goddess... has warned of a possible "viral genocide" if governments prioritize the economy over the people, insisting that the state’s first task is to "defend the population." Preventing starvation is defending the population.
"I am edified by the reaction of so many people ‐ doctors, nurses, nurses, volunteers, religious, priests ‐ who risk their lives to care for and defend healthy people from contagion," the pope said in a handwritten letter sent Saturday to Buenos Aires judge Roberto Andrés Gallardo and made public in part by the state-run Télam news agency.
In his letter, Francis highlighted that "some governments have taken exemplary measures with well-marked priorities to defend the population."
"Governments that face the crisis in this way show the priority of their decisions: people first. And this is important because we all know that defending the people is an economic disaster," the pope wrote.
[FoxNews] Rodney Howard-Browne, the pastor of The River at Tampa Bay Church, argued his congregation was essential, on par with Walmart. However, law enforcement officials, who said they tried to reason with him, disagreed, charging him with "unlawful assembly" and "violation of public health emergency order," Fox 29 reported.
#5
I'm really of two minds about this. On the one hand, I think the whole reaction is a great overreaction and that services should go on as usual WITH HIGH RISK GROUPS TAKING PRECAUTIONS.
On the other hand, my church did vote to go virtual only for the foreseeable future, and it does seem to be working out tolerably well. Though it does seem weird to sit in my living room and sing along with the piano just hearing my wife and me sing.
Posted by: Tom ||
03/31/2020 14:57 Comments ||
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As long as they are not prevented during this emergency from holding virtual services that are readily available, and can go back to business as usual afterward, I don’t see that there is a legal issue. After all, teh Democratic Party and the Lions Club are equally prevented from congregating in large numbers during this time.
[ArutzSheva] Italy directs request to Israel's Health Ministry. Health Ministry in Italy asks to use Israeli Health Ministry's publicity video describing coronavirus infection chain.
[YNet] - Israel has begun testing a COVID-19 vaccine prototype on rodents at its bio-chemical defense laboratory, a source said on Tuesday.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the Israel Institute for Biological Research (IIBR), in rural Ness Ziona, to join the fight against the coronavirus pandemic on Feb. 1, prompting an easing of its secrecy as it cooperates with civilian scientists and private firms.
A source familiar with IIBR activities said that trials were already under way on rodents but declined to identify the kind of rodent. Hamas?
[Arutz 7] - ... "A man who was publicized as having died yesterday from coronavirus in Assaf Harofeh did not die of coronavirus," Kan Bet reported.
A test conducted in the hospital showed that the man, who suffered a pre-existing condition, had been suspected of being ill with coronavirus, but his test came out negative.
[YNet] - Testing in the ultra-Orthodox city of Bnei Brak show one in three are positive for coronavirus.
The city has a 34% rate of infection compared to neighboring Tel Aviv with 6% and Jerusalem with 10% of tests showing contamination.
Overall the rate of infection in Israel shows some decline while the number of confirmed cases in the ultra-Orthodox community is on the rise. Why am I thinking "Iran"?
BRUSSELS: As hospitals face an overload of COVID-19 patients struggling to breathe, innovative medical staff are turning to snorkelling masks from sports stores to stop their lungs collapsing.
The idea started in Italy, the European country worst-hit by the coronavirus pandemic, with hospitals in other nations taking note and adding their own specific medical parts to make it work.
One such is the Erasme Hospital on the outskirts of Belgium's capital Brussels. It is attached to the city's ULB university - and through it to a private spin-off, Endo Tools Therapeutics, whose knowhow in 3D printing for medical use has proved invaluable.
"They are to be used for patients with severe respiratory problems. The aim is to avoid having to intubate the trachea of the patient and put them on a respirator," said Frederic Bonnier, a respiratory physiotherapist at the hospital who also teaches at the university.
He spearheaded the design of a custom-made valve that fits to the top of full-face masks, where the snorkel is meant to go, allowing them to connect to standard BiPAP machines that feed pressurised air into masks.
This helps prevent the collapse of alveoli, lung air sacs needed for the intake of oxygen into our bodies and the exhalation of carbon dioxide. Pneumonia brought on by COVID-19 inflames the lung membrane and fills those sacs with liquid.
#5
Tired of hearing the word 'exponential' bandied about during this shit show. Probably 10% of a given company's employees can telecommute unless it's an IT service company or similar.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
03/31/2020 11:55 Comments ||
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As for school kids and college, oh, come on. We are not talking about heavy traffic.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
03/31/2020 11:56 Comments ||
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#7
Ah...innocents and deniers.
We are not talking about heavy traffic
Consider live video and audio from every student laptop as they chat with their friends, instructors or colleagues. ALL Wifi cellphones. Homebound movie streamers, broadcast TV accessed from the net, Pandora radio and tune sharing...perhaps geometric is a better term. Each household that had a single casual user now has 5 constant (2+2.5) with multiple simultaneous streams @5=50mbps.
#1
Are they going to stick a sparkler up some nurse's ass like NBC did with their faked pickup truck explosions?
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
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#2
Ah yes, the NBC pickup truck expose'. A nice reminder that the media have been lying bastards for quite some time now. There is nothing new under the sun.
[FreeBeacon] The Arizona woman who said that she and her 68-year-old husband ingested a substance used to clean fish tanks after hearing President Donald Trump tout chloroquine as a cure for the coronavirus has given thousands of dollars to Democratic groups and candidates over the last two years.
The woman's most recent donations, in late February, were to a Democratic PAC, the 314 Action Fund, that bills itself as the "pro-science resistance" and has vocally criticized the Trump administration's response to the coronavirus pandemic and held up her case to slam the White House.
Although local and national media outlets withheld the couple's names, the Washington Free Beacon established their identities through descriptions in local news reports, where the pair were identified by their first names and ages: Gary, 68, and Wanda, 61. The Free Beacon is withholding their identities at Wanda's request.
Federal Election Commission records show that Wanda has donated thousands of dollars to Democratic electoral groups and candidates over the past two years, including Hillary Clinton, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, and EMILY's List, a group that aims to elect pro-choice female candidates.
Wanda told the Free Beacon that she and her husband were both Democrats, not Trump supporters. They heard about the potential benefits of chloroquine, an antimalarial drug, in news reports. She decided at the "spur of the moment" to try taking it, but reached for a fish tank cleaner in her pantry that contains chloroquine phosphate, a different and deadly form of the chemical. The Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency authorization for the use of chloroquine to treat coronavirus on Sunday.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[AmGreatness] CNN anchor Chris Cuomo announced Tuesday that he has been diagnosed with the coronavirus and is quarantined in the basement of his home. Cuomo is the third CNN to have tested positive for COVID-19.
2020 Myrtle Beach Bike Week Spring Rally will begin on Friday, May 8, and ends on Sunday, May 17. (If not cancelled due to common sense and good judgement)
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...Argentine liberation theologist, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio. He was elected pope in 2013. Rather than setting up shop in Avignon, where he belongs, the first Jesuit Pope chose to reside in the Domus Sanctae Marthae guesthouse instead of the papal apartments. He is big on climate change, against consumerism, and in favor of throwing a blanket over homosexual activity within the clergy. He's not real sure about the Resurrection, about Christ's divinity, and a few other things that would have gotten him burned at the stake a few hundred years ago, but he's hot for a certain South American Earth Mother Goddess...
[FreeBeacon] The Arizona woman who said that she and her 68-year-old husband ingested a substance used to clean fish tanks after hearing President Donald Trump tout chloroquine as a cure for the coronavirus has given thousands of dollars to Democratic groups and candidates over the last two years.
