[APNEWS] Prosecutors on Tuesday charged a teenager with fatally shooting a University of Wisconsin physician and her husband, who were the parents of his girlfriend, and leaving their bodies at the school’s arboretum.
Khari Sanford, 18, was charged with two counts of party to the crime of first-degree intentional homicide, use of a dangerous weapon. A friend of Sanford’s, 18-year-old Ali’jah Larrue, was charged as an accomplice and faces two counts of party to the crime of first-degree intentional homicide. Bail for each was set at $1 million. Sanford’s attorney, Crystal Vera, declined comment, while Larrue’s attorney did not immediately respond to a request for comment Tuesday.
According to the criminal complaint, Sanford’s girlfriend was the daughter of the victims, Dr. Beth Potter, 52, and her husband, 57-year-old Robin Carre. Joggers found the victims at the arboretum, a research and popular recreational area, near the Madison campus on March 31.
Autopsies found both victims were shot in the back of the head, apparently the night before their bodies were discovered. Several spent shell casings were found around the victims. Potter was wearing pajamas and socks but no shoes in the chilly weather, while Carre wore only underwear, the complaint said.
A friend of Potter’s told Sherlocks that the couple had moved their daughter and Sanford out of their house and into a rental home because they were not following social distancing rules amid 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... outbreak. Potter’s supervisor at University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics said Potter’s medication put her at greater risk of infection and that she needed social distancing.
Hours before the killings, Potter told her friend that her daughter told her "You don’t care about me" and "You don’t talk to me" as she and Sanford were moving out, and that Potter was "clearly frustrated" during the conversation, the complaint said.
A classmate at Madison West High School told Sherlocks that he overheard a discussion between the victims’ daughter and Sanford in a ceramics class shortly before school was canceled last month, in which she told Sanford her parents had "bands" of money and that they were rich. The friend said "bands" likely meant thousands of dollars in cash.
The friend told Sherlocks that Sanford appeared excited and frantic when he stopped by his house on March 31 and made a phone call to Larrue. Sanford said to Larrue he had heard on social media that one of the victims was in the hospital and possibly alive, the friend said.
"I swear I hit them, how did they survive," Sanford allegedly said. The friend said Sanford got off the phone and told him he had shot the people at the arboretum "in the back of the head" and that Larrue was with him. When the interview was conducted, authorities had not said publicly how the victims were maimed.
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Make trendy interracial adoption > give the kid advantages she never would have had otherwise > she invites her murderer into your house.
How very woke...
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Invites your murderer into your house...
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One has to wonder if the parents actually thought this arrangement would ever end well.
Obviously a bit late now, but the counsel of a good attorney, followed by the filing of a well written restraining order (openly shared with local police), might have, I say might have.... prevented this tragedy.
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The witness allegedly heard Sanford say, “I swear I hit them how did they survive” and was “excessively sweating.” He “made statements on the phone indicating he was scared that a victim could have survived that would implicate him in the homicide,” says the complaint.
Routine police tactic which can result in panic and incriminating statements from persons of interest.
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Must have had quite the bit of planning and coordination to get the victims out of the house, wearing their bedclothes, over to the arboretum and down the path - all without being seen...
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The adopted daughter is neither of those pictured. Her Facebook page is still up — at some point someone responsible will shut it down, but of course her parents are dead and can’t see to it themselves.
[Daily Herald] Arlington Heights police on Thursday released doorbell video of the harrowing early moments of a weekend home invasion that left one would-be robber dead and another charged with murder.
The 66-second video, obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request, shows the two men -- wearing face masks and gloves -- approaching the house on North Evergreen Avenue just before 2 p.m. Saturday.
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When China and the US were letting each other tour their ships years ago, a couple sailors I knew said the Chinese had a very minimal to no knowledge of fire fighting and damage control. They still have a very caste like system where only the lowest are trained in those activities.
The US learned the hard way in early WW2 that every sailor was a fire fighter and damage control worker and all of our boys and girls are trained in it.
Estimates from those sailors on the survival of a Chinese ship that was hit was poor, where a western naval ship would be able to survive and get back to port while being able to fight.
From what little we can see of the pics, the fire fighting skill of the people there was very poor and it looks like the fire spread pretty well along most of the ship.
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..what I noticed is that they are often locked into linear thought patterns. That they're very good at. There is less ability to 'think outside the box' or make intuitive jumps in logic or reasoning.
How will he survive? Cut back on haircuts?
[NY Post] Sports Illustrated has fired one of its highest-paid writers after he complained about coronavirus-related pay cuts that were revealed by the magazine's publisher last month.
Grant Wahl, one of the preeminent soccer journalists in the country, was making more than $350,000 a year but was getting hit with a 30-percent pay cut as part of cost cuts last month that included the firing of 31 people at Maven, the magazine's publisher since last fall, according to sources. The blood-letting resulted in about 6 percent of the staff at SI being let go. That's not a man's hand, that's a banded Kingfisher's claw.
Prior to his axing on Friday afternoon, Wahl had been blasting management for the cuts in a series of Instagram posts in recent days. Management struck back, branding him an ingrate in a memo that was circulated to staffers.
"We've decided to direct what would have been this person's salary into additional severance pay and health benefits for those laid off who need it most," Jim Heckman, CEO of Maven, said in the memo obtained by The Post.
"To complain about a personal pay cut when 31 others had lost their jobs is incomprehensible in light of the sacrifices others made to help limit layoffs and maintain liveable salaries for our staff," said the memo. "Such a me-first attitude is not part of the tradition and culture Maven is committed to maintaining."
Although the memo did not reveal the writer's name, a source close to the situation said it referred to Wahl. The memo said the fired staffer was paid "over $350,000 last year to infrequently write stories that generated little meaningful viewership or revenue."
Wahl himself revealed on social media he was fired on Friday morning with no severance. It followed a series of Instagram posts in recent weeks that were picked up on Twitter that blasted management for the cuts.
"Who would take advantage of a pandemic to permanently reduce someone's salary beyond that pandemic," Wahl wrote. "Maven and James Heckman would."
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[Bing] Brazilian health officials confirmed the first case of COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, among the remote Yanomami tribe in the Amazon.
The Yanomami tribe is made up of approximately 38,000 people and is considered to be the largest relatively isolated tribe in South America.
Brazilian Health Minister Luiz Henrique Mandetta said at a press conference on Wednesday that a 15-year-old boy from the indigenous tribe has tested positive for the disease.
Brazilian health officials confirmed the first case of COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, among the remote Yanomami tribe in the Amazon.
Health Minister Luiz Henrique Mandetta said at a press conference on Wednesday that a 15-year-old boy from the indigenous tribe has tested positive for the disease.
Mandetta said that the case was "worrying," particularly because of the remote community's separation from the outside world.
According to Brazilian newspaper Globo, the boy was admitted to the intensive care unit at a hospital in Roraima, Brazil's northernmost state located in the Amazon region, on April 3. He reported shortness of breath, fever, chest pain, and sore throat.
According to Globo, the boy first tested negative for the disease but later tested positive. He remains in the ICU.
The Yanomami tribe is made up of approximately 38,000 people and is considered to be the largest relatively isolated tribe in South America, with over 9.6 million hectares (2.3 million acres) of land along the Venezuelan border.
The tribe has dealt with deadly outbreaks of infectious disease, including measles and flu, in the past when military agencies, miners, and religious missionary groups exposed the tribe to diseases they had no immunity to.
According to Globo, respiratory disease is already the leading cause of death among native populations in Brazil. The country's health ministry has created a national crisis committee in order to monitor the impacts of COVID-19 on indigenous people and prevent further spread. One might ask the question: How much contact does this tribe have with the outside world? If none, then one might question the mechanism for transmission of COVID-19. The question arises also: "Is the virus really 'novel' or has it always been with us? If the virus has always been with us, then why has it had a worldwide outbreak now? If remote tribes get this disease, then what is the value of social distancing and isolation? I'm an engineer not a biologist or microbe specialist, so maybe these questions are naïve.
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Eu viaje a Amozonia. The tribes cross paths with modern Brazilians frequently. Want to go to a pristine remote beach? take a boat that carries large number of people up the Amazon to the ocean and dissembarque, load up on a tractor pulled tractor that goes down a trail to a pristine remote beach. The tractor will from time to time go around a tribal native and his water buffalo that is pulling a wagon of items he just traded mangoes or many othrr of the amazing jungle fruits for at the boat landing. Brazilians trade with China who deliver ship loads of 'made in China' to Belem, etc to the very people who love remote beaches. And the hospital staff did not allow the virus to be transmitted at the hospital as Besoeker ignorantly insinuates. I know caretakers in medical fscilities on the Amazon who most have large families of their own and are consumate professional caretakers for theor patients and would not put their patients or families at risk when they return home each day.
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Raj, my better half is an Amazon mulher from Belem. Green eyes, blonde hair, light tan skin, 7 beautiful Amazon sisters. All in excellent athletic condition and with spicey latin tempers (Their grand father came over from Portugal) if you in need of correction. A real Amazon woman is special.
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^Both Lex. She grew up on the Amazon as the daughter of a high level Brazilian Military officer. Works out 1 hour a day every day, excellent business person, and she can do things physically that I have never seen any other woman do with her toes. You may use your imagination...
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first tested negative for the disease but later tested positive
So he was sick with something symptomatically similar and then caught Wuhan Flu in the hospital?
"We lived at the junction of great pirana rivers in Roraima, Brazil. Where Indians still appeared out of the wilderness to walk the honky tonks and brothels of Frontera Street."
[Daily Mail] Analysis of the strains showed type A - the original virus that jumped to humans from bats via pangolins - was not China's most common. Instead, the pandemic's ground-zero was mainly hit by type B, which was in circulation as far back as Christmas Eve.
Type B was also the dominant strain across large parts of the United Kingdom and Europe, but has not made it to Australia.
Type C was an offshoot of Type B, mutating from the secondary strain and spreading to Europe and Australia via Singapore.
Scientists believe the virus - officially called SARS-CoV-2 - is constantly mutating to overcome immune system resistance in different populations.
The likelihood of infecting others is highest during the incubation period since the host is active and unaware.
Selection favors those variants that maximize the incubation period, ideally skipping the symptomatic period altogether.
Other questions:
Will current RNA and antibody tests identify all of these new variants?
Does an infection with one variant confer immunity to other variants?
Conversely does the diversity of Wuhan virus descendants who are immunologically similar but not identical play a role in triggering a catastrophic immune system overreaction?
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The Krakatoa volcano in Indonesia has reportedly erupted, spewing plumes of ash 15km into the air.
There were reports of a loud boom heard 150km away in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta, around 11pm local time.
#Krakatoa#volcano has erupted in Indonesia with ashes sent several kilometres into the air.
It is most famous for in 1883 having one of the most deadly volcanic eruptions of modern history. The eruption also affected the climate and causing temperatures to drop over the world pic.twitter.com/Qp4a2hkIj2
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References to the volcano being located in Indonesia are pure racism.
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Let’s see now
Locust swarms check
Global pestilence check
Volcanic eruptions check
Standing by for a major earthquake in a major metropolitan center near you check
How’s about another nuclear accident oh the forest fire in Chernobyl check
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Another day of the #coronavirus pandemic saw the global death toll pass 94,000, although there were tentative signs of hope that the crisis was peaking in the United States and Europe, AFP reported.https://t.co/LZ3mOcDfNzpic.twitter.com/UEcuQamLUK
About 450 sailors from Teddy Roosevelt have now tested positive for Covid-19 and 65% of the crew have been taken off the aircraft carrier and moved ashore in Guam, Navy says
Increase of 547 new COVID19 cases 30 deaths in last 12 hours; India's total number of #Coronavirus positive cases rises to 6412 (including 5709 active cases, 504 cured/discharged/migrated and 199 deaths): Ministry of Health pic.twitter.com/Utp2gOPfSQ
This is insanity. I calculated that 100 bodies could easily be put in a 40 ft refrigerated trailer. Then take them to a crematory and work them down. This burying them in a park can be a health hazard and ruin open space that will be needed once the pandemic is over. There is nothing dignified about mass burials in the middle of the city. Proper disposal of infected bodies is a health necessity, which overrides all the niceties of a funeral and burial. It is tragic, but the public health comes first in this tragic situation.
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NY State (not NYcity) Maximum useage of facilities occurred April 8, 2020.
[NYPOST] A fierce April snowstorm knocked out power for hundreds of thousands of people in Maine as it swept through the state Friday morning.
The National Weather Service in Caribou said just after 9 a.m. that 32 percent of all power customers ‐ more than 266,000 people ‐ in the state were without power as a result of the storm.
Some areas north of Portland took the brunt of the storm, with more than 7 inches of snow, according to the weather service.
Central Maine Power asked its customers "to be prepared to be without power for likely more than a day."
"Strong winds and heavy snow overnight have caused numerous outages," the provider tweeted. "Our crews are working quickly and safely to restore power."
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[LawAndCrime] Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) and several of his neighbors ‐ whose properties on the Gulf Coast of Florida have private beaches ‐ have filed a federal lawsuit challenging a county government ordinance which temporarily closes all beaches. The county took the step in response to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. Huckabee and his neighbors claim the order prevents them from "being able to use or even set foot in their own backyards."
The lawsuit, filed Monday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida against Walton County and its sheriff, claims that the local government's efforts to enforce the social distancing measure violates the property owners' constitutional rights.
According to the complaint, the county, its sheriff, its code enforcement officers, and the South Walton, Fla. Fire District "have been and are currently patrolling and occupying the private beachfront properties" without permission and threatening to "arrest or fine Plaintiffs, their family members, or invitees on their private properties."
The plaintiffs have requested that the court issue an injunction blocking the county from enforcing the ordinance. They argue that the order was illogical and would actually increase the spread of the virus.
"The Amended Ordinance is arbitrary and capricious. The Amended Ordinance purports to be designed to ‘prevent the spread of COVID-19' yet it has the opposite effect," Plaintiffs wrote. Per them:
"The Amended Ordinance prevents the Plaintiffs, many of whom own residences along the beach, from utilizing their own backyards to quarantine or stay safe at home. The chances of a family or landowner catching or spreading COVID-19 is far less in his or her own private backyard (where no one else should be less they be trespassing) than traveling to the grocery store or hardware store or other essential business."
Huckabee and his neighbors asked the court to declare that the ordinance constitutes a "temporary taking" of their private property in violation of the Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and to issue an injunction rendering the ordinance unenforceable. The Plaintiffs also asked the judge to grant them "just compensation and attorney fees" from the county and sheriff.
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The issue cuts both ways. On the one hand I'm not that fond of the beach itself being privately owned. I'm always happy when the courts kick some lefty in the nuts over trying to do that as has been happening in California. OTOH, once they are telling you what you can do in your own back yard, who actually thinks it will stop there? Wasn't it always lefties crying about "don't tell me what I can do in my own bedroom?" Well, how bout the living room and kitchen then too? The thought crime crowd is already trying to decide what you can and can't do inside your own head.
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I hear ya, but private property is private property, be it the beach or on 5th Avenue in NYC.
But, exactly, just where does this end? People a little here and a little there is o.k., until it's too late.
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I'm pretty conservative when it comes to private property rights, but I'm reminded of Colorado, where landowners are required to allow access to fishing streams. They can own the land you have to cross to get to the stream, but the stream is public property. If there's a fence, the property owner has to install a gate or a set of steps to get through or over the fence.
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Florida beach law - The state constitution says all beaches below the “mean high-water line,” or the wet sand, are public. Court cases have found that the public has the right to the dry sand parts of beaches in two instances:
One is if the public has established a “prescriptive easement,” using a particular beach for the past 20 years without objection from private landowners.
The other is through “customary use,” which is the “ancient,” peaceful use of the beach by the public.
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My personal thinking is, if you want to be NIMBY you better be able to afford and obtain a title to that back yard.
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[NATIONALREVIEW] On March 26, the Justice Department indicted Maduro and 14 of his associates on drug-trafficking charges, based on long-documented evidence that regime officials have enriched themselves through the cocaine trade. By offering a $15 million reward for Maduro’s capture and placing similar bounties on the heads of other key regime figures, U.S. law-enforcement agents hoped to spur action against the regime within the country. The American Enterprise Institute’s Ryan Berg tells National Review that Venezuela ...a country in Central America that sits on an enormous pool of oil. Formerly the most prospereous country in the region, it became infested with Commies sniffing almost unlimited wealth. It turned out the wealth wasn't unlimited, the economy collapsed under the clownish Hugo Chavez, the murder rate exceeded places like Honduras and El Salvador. A significant proportion of the populace refugeed to Colombia and points south... watchers in the U.S. had pushed for indictments for a long time, but policymakers never found the opportune moment. That changed in March, as oil prices collapsed following the breakdown of OPEC+ talks between Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... and Russia. Oil makes up 98 percent of the Venezuelan economy, and the revenues from it have provided the socialist government cover for decades of economic mismanagement. "Once the geopolitics flipped in the U.S’s favor, the administration decided to accelerate the pace of its actions against the Venezuelan regime," Berg says.
Maduro had already suffered a blow when President Trump imposed sanctions on Rosneft for facilitating the Venezuelan oil trade. The Russians attempted to channel Venezuelan oil through a different subsidiary, TNK Trading International, but the Treasury Department swiftly moved to sanction that entity as well. And the shock from 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... pandemic brought the price of oil so low that the Russians have now ceased operations in Venezuela altogether.
As oil revenue dries up, cutting off illicit revenue could push the regime toward insolvency. To that end, the U.S. Southern Command has moved three destroyers, a littoral combat ship, and surveillance aircraft into the Caribbean to interdict drug shipments in and out of Venezuela. The mobilization of some of the military’s most expensive assets marks a dramatic break from the diplomacy-driven anti-Maduro efforts of the past year. "This is about as pressure-intensive as the U.S. government can get," says Berg. Squeezing the regime’s finances could cripple Maduro’s ability to buy off military personnel, spurring long-awaited defections. But Frank Mora, a former Defense Department official, points out that the extent of Maduro’s dependence on drug money is unclear, and maintaining SOUTHCOM operations will incur continuing costs. "I don’t think that these assets can be deployed for more than 4‐6 weeks," Mora says. "There’s a maintenance cycle, a deployment cycle, and these assets are required elsewhere," which adds urgency to SOUTHCOM’s maneuvers.
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That must be the really "tough decision" Pres. Trump mentioned in the presser on Friday. Well, we'll just see what Fauci, Gates, and other deep-staters have to say about that!
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If this weren't too important to play politics with, I'd say that Trump should demand a roll-call up-or-down vote of Congress on whatever he proposes. No hiding on this one.
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Of course Trump can't demand anything. Congress will do what it does.
Since MaligNancy runs the HoR ..........
I'm not sure how much of this he controls.
I will point out that tomorrow is Easter. Didn't DJT mention Easter as a goal early on?
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Trump is no match for these Democrap bozos. I hope he does re-open (or, recommends to the governors) the country (where rational) ASAP.
And although his opponents will attack him no matter what (unemployment, health care, etc., affected or not by COVID-19), I just can't see how he should be worried about 'numbers' for the next election given the gravity of the current situation. But, nobody is saying his opponents are rational.
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It's too easy to choose the "safe" option of perpetual adult timeout.
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There are already people who are fed up with the lock down. If enough people say "screw it," I don't see the people who want to be good little stay at home serfs coming out in vigilante bands to do anything about it. At that point there aren't enough cops to arrest all the people who decide to come out and I really don't think the appetite to get the national guard involved nationwide is there.
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There is a shortage of masks, fever thermometers, and testing kits, and etc. If Trump can figure out a way to address those problems and get more drugs and a vaccine into the pipeline, he can sodomize Nancy on the White House front lawn.
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Remember your lock down was done by your governor, not the Prez. Heh. Like I said, prepping the battlefield. With all the models now bogus with a major flattening out, he can say he wasn't the one who panicked and put you into incarceration.
"One year later the WHO acknowledged it had exaggerated...."
[Mises.org] Mexico's president Andrés Manuel López Obrador has been reluctant to impose mandatory "social distancing" orders on the Mexican population. According to USNews, López Obrador "has maintained a relaxed public attitude" toward COVID-19, and the Mexican government did not impose a ban on "nonessential" work until March 30, long after health officials in other countries insisted Mexico must do so....
The Mexican government is right to be hesitant to shut down Mexican businesses. The distance between a "normal" economy and grinding poverty is a lot smaller in Mexico than in a wealthy country like the United States or Germany. While mandatory lockdowns in rich countries will cause mass impoverishment‐complete with all the usual mental and physical health problems that accompany it‐the stakes are even higher in a middle-income country like Mexico.
Moreover, many Mexicans are already suffering from the mandatory shutdowns in the US. In 2019, for example, Mexicans working in the United States sent more than $39 billion back to Mexico. This is a vital lifeline for many Mexicans, and these remittances are likely to be decimated by the government-forced shutdown....
WHAT MEXICO LEARNED FROM THE H1N1 PANIC
This isn't the first time Mexicans have been commanded to lock down their economy to battle a disease.
During the H1N1 pandemic of 2009, Mexican officials closed schools for a week, locked down various businesses, canceled movies, concerts, soccer games, and "virtually forced the entire population to wear ineffective face masks." Mexico experienced 390 deaths out of a population of 120 million.
This had devastating effects for Mexico's economy, especially its tourist industry....
It may be that many Mexicans will fear COVID-19 more than they feared H1N1. But in Mexico, many are also familiar with the hardships poverty brings, and fear of being destitute may trump fears about the disease. Although wealthy Americans with secure employment and luxurious lifestyles like Anthony Fauci continue to insist mass unemployment is merely "inconvenient," few Mexicans have the luxury of such blasé thinking.
[FoxNews] What Berenson is promoting isn’t coronavirus denialism, or conspiracy theories about plots to curb liberties. Instead what Berenson is claiming is simple: the models guiding the response were wrong and that it is becoming clearer by the day. Seasonal flu would be ending about now, due to the warmer weather.
"In February I was worried about the virus. By mid-March I was more scared about the economy. But now I’m starting to get genuinely nervous," he tweeted this week. "This isn’t complicated. The models don’t work. The hospitals are empty. WHY ARE WE STILL TALKING ABOUT INDEFINITE LOCKDOWNS?"
Berenson argues that those models have social distancing and other measures baked into them. As for further proof, he says that outside of places like New York there has not been a national health crisis that was predicted -- nor are there signs that the level of lockdown in various states has made a difference.
"Now we're in a bad spot because there's clearly a dangerous political dynamic right now -- the economy is in freefall, a lot of people are hurting. If we acknowledge what is clearly happening ... the people who made these decisions, I think there's going to be a lot of anger at them, so they don't want to acknowledge it, so they say 'oh it's the lockdown that saved us,'" he says. Maybe it's time to panic the other way.
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Given that happened in countries that didn't panic soon enough (e.g. Italy, Spain, Netherlands) - a issue that the genius who penned the above never considered (have problems pulling his microcephalic head from his parochial ass?) ...
What a fucking disgrace. We used to be a free people, right? 'It's for your own good' has been the justification for this sort of petty thug jackbook behavior for how many decades now? I am nearing the end of my fuse with this lockdown bullshit...
[Daily Mail UK, via Gateway Pundit] - Police in Beverly, Massachusetts set up a one-way sidewalk so residents can practice ’social distancing’ and threatened to fine anyone walking in the wrong direction.
Police in Beverly, in the north of the city, have mandated that locals who are walking in opposite directions along bustling Lothrop Street must now use separate sidewalks so that they are not brushing up against one another.
Pedestrians must now walk against traffic and failure to comply with the new directive could result in a $100 fine.
It comes as the state of Massachusetts struggles to slow the spread of COVID-19, with at least 16,790 confirmed cases. Beverly is located in Essex County, which has at least 2,100 cases. Nice misinformation there - conflating the number of Chink Virus cases for a county whose population (790,638 as of 2018) is quite a bit larger than the town of Beverly itself (41,635). On a pro rata basis then, we are talking about a stupid and draconian measure to avoid contact with residents of a city with 111 confirmed cases. Utter fucking insanity.
[Indiatoday.in] India has approved the first list of 13 countries that are set to receive covid-fighting drugs from India, including the anti-malaria drug, hydroxychloroquine or HCQ.
The first list includes 13 countries -- US, Spain, Germany, Bahrain, Brazil, Nepal, Bhutan, Afghanistan, Maldives, Bangladesh, Seychelles, Mauritius and the Dominican Republic.
Speaking to media on Friday, Joint Secretary in the Ministry of External Affairs, Dammu Ravi, said, "A lot of requests for HCQ were already there and taking into view domestic stock and requirement while keeping a sufficient buffer, a decision was taken by the Group of Ministers to release some of the surplus medicine for export purposes."
Dammu Ravi informed that there will be two more such consignments of the coveted drug that will be exported to foreign nations.
Amid apprehensions whether India had sufficient hydroxychloroquine stock itself, the health ministry informed that in the coming week, India will require 1 crore tablets for domestic use and current stock stands at over 3.28 crore.
The United States had asked for 48 lakh (4,800,000) tablets of hydroxychloroquine. India, meanwhile, has sanctioned 35.82 lakhs tablets along with India 9 metric tonne (MT) API (active pharmaceutical ingredient), as per their request.
Besides the USA, only Brazil, Canada and Germany are expected to get 50 lakh tablets each of hydroxychloroquine in the second consignment.
In the first consignment, Brazil will receive 0.53 MT of API and Germany, 1.5 MT of API.
Bangladesh is set to receive 20 lakh tablets of hydroxychloroquine, Nepal 10 lakh, Bhutan 2 lakh, Sri Lanka 10 lakh (not in the first consignment), Afghanistan 5 lakh, and Maldives 2 lakh.
The MEA said that the countries were shortlisted on first come first serve basis.
India will also be exporting a total of 430 million tablets of paracetamol.
The countries slated to receive paracetamol from India are the UK, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and a few African nations.
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Concerning HCQ, a lot of places test it - how come we hear nothing one way or another?
The ration supplied to the Sindh government under a contract of around 10,800 bags was found to be underweight and substandard, an inquiry conducted into the matter showed.https://t.co/RuQSxbcU2Bpic.twitter.com/e90yXHfThf
h/t Instapundit
[South China News] - Researchers in Shanghai hope to determine whether some recovered coronavirus patients have a higher risk of reinfection after finding surprisingly low levels of Covid-19 antibodies in a number of people discharged from hospital.
A team from Fudan University analysed blood samples from 175 patients discharged from the Shanghai Public Health Clinical Centre and found that nearly a third had unexpectedly low levels of antibodies.
In some cases, antibodies could not be detected at all.
...All of the patients had recently recovered from mild symptoms of the disease and most of those with low antibody levels were young. The researchers excluded patients who had been admitted to intensive care units because many of them already had antibodies from donated blood plasma.
...The team also found that antibody levels rose with age, with people in the 60-85 age group displaying more than three times the amount of antibodies as people in the 15-39 age group.
...Huang said 10 of the patients in the study had an antibody presence so low it could not even be detected in the laboratory.
These patients experienced typical Covid-19 symptoms including fever, chill and a cough, but might have beaten back the virus with other parts of the immune system such as T-cells or cytokines.
#4
Considering the diverse and important role helper T cells play in the immune system, it is not surprising that these cells often influence the immune response against disease. They also appear to make occasional mistakes, or generate responses that would be politely considered non-beneficial. In the worst-case scenario, the helper T cell response could lead to a disaster and the fatality of the host. Fortunately this is a very rare occurrence.
[The National Interest] Key point: The Oxcart’s stealth features never proved adequate to avoid detection by Soviet-built radars.
Analysis of Week’s photos located the USS Pueblo near Wonsan anchored next to two patrol boats‐and also revealed that Pyongyang had not mobilized its troops for war. This led Johnson to rule out plans for a preemptive or punitive strike in favor of diplomatic measures which eventually saw the ship’s abused crew released nearly a year later.
On October 30, 1967, a CIA spy-plane soared eighty-four thousand feet over Hanoi in northern Vietnam, traveling faster than a rifle bullet at over three times the speed of sound. A high-resolution camera in the angular black jet’s belly recorded over a mile of film footage of the terrain below‐including the over 190 Soviet-built S-75 surface-to-air missiles sites.
The aircraft was an A-12 "Oxcart," a smaller, faster single-seat precursor variant of the Air Force’s legendary SR-71 Blackbird spy plane.
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I call BS on this one:
The A12 was a prototype for SR71
A stands for Archangel
12 was the twelveth design variation
Why send this model when the SR71 was perfectly capable?
Don't make no sense!
[Stars & Stripes] KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany ‐ German firearms manufacturer Heckler & Koch has shipped the first batch of its new M110A1 Squad Designated Marksman Rifles to the U.S. Army.
Between 5,000 and 6,000 of the new rifles will be delivered to the Army through mid-2021, a company statement said.
The SDMR will add much-needed capabilities to virtually every squad in the Army, making it a top priority for the company despite the difficulties caused by the coronavirus pandemic, HK-USA President and Chief Operating Officer Michael Holley said in the statement.
The new weapons system will replace modified M-16s and 1950s-era M-14s, used over the past decade in the conflicts in Afghanistan and the Middle East.
#5
M-14 was my best long range success at the Edson Range at Camp Pendleton. 500 yards slow fire in the prone position. Iron sights and Dog target, 20/20.
#6
I have a Springfield M1A. I bought both Jerry Kuhnhausen's books and have read a few articles by Gus Norcross. It can be a very accurate rifle but it takes work. I recommend both authors to anyone who works on their own M14 / M1A.
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Bula Defense in Cleveland, OH makes everything needed for a true left handed M-14 style rifle.
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I predict SPC Susan Tentpeg will have a challenging time toting the M110A1 and ammo
No problem B'. Got to recall those old B&W films from the days of the old British Empire. "Gun bearer, bring me my gun!" For 'diversity' you know.
Ever see old B&W photos from WW2. Two medic stretcher bearers carrying a WIA. Look today, four medic stretcher bearers carrying a WIA. Guess why? /rhet question
[GreatGameIndia] A Montana based physician has blown the whistle on how the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is exaggerating the COVID-19 death toll by manipulating Coronavirus death certificates. Dr. Annie Bukacek, MD, is a longtime Montana physician with over 30 years of experience practicing medicine. Signing death certificates is a routine part of her job.
In a brief video presentation, Dr. Bukacek blows the whistle on the way the CDC is instructing physicians to exaggerate COVID 19 deaths on death certificates:
Few people know how much individual power and leeway is given to the physician, coroner, or medical examiner, signing the death certificate. How do I know this? I've been filling out death certificates for over 30 years.
More often than we want to admit, we don't know with certainty the cause of death when we fill out death certificates. That is just life. We are doctors, not God. Autopsies are rarely performed and even when an autopsy is done the actual cause of death is not always clear. Physicians make their best guesstimate and fill out the form. Then that listed cause of death… is entered into a vital records data bank to use for statistical analysis, which then gives out inaccurate numbers, as you can imagine. Those inaccurate numbers then become accepted as factual information even though much of it is false.
So even before we heard of COVID-19, death certificates were based on assumptions and educated guesses that go unquestioned. When it comes to COVID-19 there is the additional data skewer, that is –get this‐ there is no universal definition of COVID-19 death. The Centers for Disease Control, updated from yesterday, April 4th, still states that mortality, quote unquote, data includes both confirmed and presumptive positive cases of COVID-19. That's from their website.
Translation? The CDC counts both true COVID-19 cases and speculative guesses of COVID-19 the same. They call it death by COVID-19. They automatically overestimate the real death numbers, by their own admission. Prior to COVID-19, people were more likely to get an accurate cause of death written on their death certificate if they died in the hospital. Why more accurate when a patient dies in the hospital? Because hospital staff has physical examination findings labs, radiologic studies, et cetera, to make a good educated guess. It is estimated that 60 percent of people die in the hospital. But even [with] those in-hospital deaths, the cause of death is not always clear, especially in someone with multiple health conditions, each of which could cause the death.
Bukacek refers to a March 24 CDC memo from Steven Schwartz, director of the Division of Vital Statistics for the National Center for Health Statistics, titled "COVID-19 Alert No. 2."....
#4
A big whine right now is that the US Postal Service never delivered 'bins' of timely-requested blank ballots to verified voters in a couple areas that trend 'blue'. The voters ordering the ballots online had requested them before the cut-off date and the City/County Clerks had mailed them promptly.
That was indeed a BIG blunder on the part of the USPS who knew about the time crunch, and who have not responded in a manner that I would call 'sufficient'. But since they're Fed employees, it's all Trump's and the Republican's fault.
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/\ Morgan & Morgan has mobilized and is headed to Madison as we speak.
#6
Had this discussion with a lefty I know. He gave the standard lefty spiel about how "more people would vote" if it were made easier (mail in ballots, early voting). I said, "no, it only means more votes will be cast. It says nothing at all about the number or additional voters or whether they are all legitimate." His eyes glazed over.
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One possible thing that could be done to minimize fraud is to have a bubble for "neither" to fill out. That way nobody can come along later and fill in the candidate of their choice.
#9
The only absentee ballots to be cast should be those for personnel on Federal orders to be someplace else in the world.
If voting is so important, then get your ass down there to the polls. Otherwise its not important. Do it like some other places. On a weekend and both days.
#10
^ this, but add bedridden to that list. With an affidavit swearing mental competency from the facility's head honcho. So somebody's neck is on the line.
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I think ballots should be sent by certified or registered mail.
Just include the cost in the budget.
I’m sure there will be a way around it, but my parent once asked for a ballot, never received it, but managed to vote anyway.
#12
Also, P2K, as you mention, if it's so important get your ass down to the polls. In many places that's a long walk both ways with the opportunity to be killed along the way. How many of the "I can't even make time on the way to or from work" crowd would go if there was actual hardship or danger involved?
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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.
[APNEWS] Prosecutors on Tuesday charged a teenager with fatally shooting a University of Wisconsin physician and her husband, who were the parents of his girlfriend, and leaving their bodies at the school’s arboretum.
...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...
One has to wonder if the parents actually thought this arrangement would ever end well. 
"Nice Rolex." 
[Daily Mail] Analysis of the strains showed type A - the original virus that jumped to humans from bats via pangolins - was not China's most common. Instead, the pandemic's ground-zero was mainly hit by type B, which was in circulation as far back as Christmas Eve.
[NYPOST] A fierce April snowstorm knocked out power for hundreds of thousands of people in Maine as it swept through the state Friday morning.
[LawAndCrime] Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) and several of his neighbors ‐ whose properties on the Gulf Coast of Florida have private beaches ‐ have filed a federal lawsuit challenging a county government ordinance which temporarily closes all beaches. The county took the step in response to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. Huckabee and his neighbors claim the order prevents them from "being able to use or even set foot in their own backyards."
...a country in Central America that sits on an enormous pool of oil. Formerly the most prospereous country in the region, it became infested with Commies sniffing almost unlimited wealth. It turned out the wealth wasn't unlimited, the economy collapsed under the clownish Hugo Chavez, the murder rate exceeded places like Honduras and El Salvador. A significant proportion of the populace refugeed to Colombia and points south...
It must be rebuilt immediately. Centrally planned urban government, education, universal language, equality of outcomes. How long must we wait ? 
