[FoxNews] Veteran actor Brian Dennehy, known for roles in "Rambo: First Blood," "Tommy Boy" and "To Catch A Killer," died Wednesday at age 81.
The burly actor started in films as a macho heavy and later in his career won plaudits for his stage work in plays by William Shakespeare, Anton Chekhov, Eugene O’Neill and Arthur Miller. He died of natural causes in New Haven, Conn., according to Kate Cafaro of ICM Partners, the actor's representatives.
Known for his broad frame, booming voice and ability to play good guys and bad guys with equal aplomb, Dennehy won two Tony Awards, a Golden Globe and was nominated for six Emmys. He was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2010.
The award-winning actor has raised red flags numerous times during his career for falsely claiming he served in Vietnam. While Dennehy was a Marine for four years, he was never in combat during the Vietnam War, a fallacy he admitted in 1998.
“I lied about serving in Vietnam and I’m sorry,” Dennehy is quoted as having said. Writer B.G. Burkett, who made a career of unmasking phony military service claims, outed Dennehy in his book “Stolen Valor.”
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All you really need to know is pot dispensaries, which mostly didn't exist a couple years ago, are considered essential now. Getting your hair cut or your pants cleaned, not so much.
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I imagine in many cases their necessity is directly corollated to the amount of opportunity for graft via politicians
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If its from where you draw a living, it is 100% essential.
I think it is a real disservice to call the people who just weeks ago you trusted to feed you, cloth you, and make you feel good by looking good, as non-essential paupers.
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Life is unfair. Too bad.
Not sure why she has to pay for a cancelled treatment though. She probably isn't being entirely truthful (although Britain's medical system is well and truly effed up).
[medRxiv] The population-weighted prevalence was 2.81% (95CI 2.24-3.37%). Under the three scenarios for test performance characteristics, the population prevalence of COVID-19 in Santa Clara ranged from 2.49% (95CI 1.80-3.17%) to 4.16% (2.58-5.70%). These prevalence estimates represent a range between 48,000 and 81,000 people infected in Santa Clara County by early April, 50-85-fold more than the number of confirmed cases.
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So that implies, adjusting for demographics and geography, maybe 500,000-700,000 Californians have antibodies.
There have been 347 COVID deaths to date in California.
= Fatality rate of 0.5% to 0.75%... almost identical to the Diamond Princess case fatality rate's 95th % confidence level which the CDC estimated to be 0.63%.
[Arutz 7] - Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and a senior member of the Trump Administration's White House Coronavirus Task Force spoke with Fox News host Laura Ingraham.
"We don't have a vaccine for SARS or HIV. Life went on, right?", Ingraham asked.
Fauci answered unambiguously: "HIV/AIDS is very different. We have effective treatments. And SARS went away. So your comparison is misleading".
"But coronavirus could disappear too", Ingraham continued.
"These kind of viruses don't just disappear", Dr. Fauci answered.
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By the way doc, how many have died from AIDS/HIV? Just to compare to the body count we're running now. Why didn't we apply the same quarantine measures then as now?
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AIDS isn't transmitted by air either, though the 'experts' said we could all get it. Read the 'sky is falling' reporting from the 80s. I just want a number comparison and I suspect - 1. AIDS will be overall higher, 2. This virus will lose count as other underlying diseases (and their government funded operations) finally reappear after being buried by 'classify any death as related to' starts to become too obvious. If AIDS is much higher the obvious question will be why the isolation protocol wasn't instituted among the main population group that lead to so many deaths. When the obvious answer to that comes out, public health officials who scream wolf will have undermined their own legitimacy.
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Of course WuFlu is transmitted to the innocent nearby through no fault of their own. HIV/AIDS was transmitted through overt choices to commit the unsafe acts of unprotected sex and IV drug abuse. Simple lifestyle choices would have stopped AIDs in its tracks. WuFlu infects the innocent.
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Isolating the main effect population would have stopped the spread as well. Just as the reopening proposals for this event continue the isolation of elder care facilities. That's the point. AIDS is as much a political as a medical disease that shut down how you treat a communicable disease. Oh you can't do that to those people, but you can lock all of use down?
BOSTON ‐ The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is now "actively looking into" results from universal COVID-19 testing at Pine Street Inn homeless shelter.
The broad-scale testing took place at the shelter in Boston's South End a week and a half ago because of a small cluster of cases there.
Of the 397 people tested, 146 people tested positive. Not a single one had any symptoms.
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A complete gene sequence of the virus infecting these people should be done to determine if this is an asymptomatic daughter species of the standard China virus or if a large percentage of the human populace just doesn't experience non-trivial symptoms during a standard China virus infection.
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Matches the sewage test they did in Boston. Infected people are some 100 times higher than reported. Which means most people will have no or very mild symptoms. Good news for opening the economy back up.
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How can the frontline state of California, with 40m population, a third of them impoverished, many with bad health -- and with the nation's largest homeless population -- how does CA have only 347 cases?
That's one of the lowest fatality rates in the world.
Can it be true that millions of coastal Californians were not exposed to the virus? There were about 10,000 travelers from China to California every single day between December and March 11 of this year -- and thrice-weekly direct flights from Wuhan itself to San Jose!
The lockdown is not the main reason for California's success. Californians living and working in the main employment and tourist centers were exposed continuously for at least 10 weeks at the beginning of the year.
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Fred has a secret stash of forbidden words that prevent posting, most related to sp4m. There is also the rule that no more than two links are permitted per comment. Possibly you ran into either of those, g(r)omgoru.
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Fusion cuisine is cuisine that combines elements of different culinary traditions that originate from different countries, regions, or cultures.
It does not include the preparing and cooking of food by the nuclear combining of hydrogen (deutrium and tritium) atoms into helium. This is what is called culinary overkill.
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JERUSALEM (AP) — As a child in Hungary, Arie Even survived the Holocaust by taking shelter along with his mother and brother after his father was shipped to a notorious concentration camp.
Even’s well-connected grandfather found them refuge in a Swiss-protected home in Budapest before they were rushed to another shelter, under the cover of night, thanks to the Swedish embassy and the efforts of famed diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, who saved tens of thousands of Jews before mysteriously disappearing. The next day, Even’s grandfather was shot to death and his body was dumped in the Danube River.
Later in life, Even overcame multiple heart attacks, surgeries and even a brush with a cholera epidemic during a family visit to Spain. But he couldn’t escape the wrath of the global coronavirus pandemic that has been plaguing the globe.
On March 20, the 88-year-old became Israel’s first coronavirus fatality after he was infected by a visiting social worker at his Jerusalem assisted-living facility.
China’s Wuhan raises COVID-19 death toll by 1,290, up 50%
[IsraelTimes] China’s coronavirus ground-zero city of Wuhan abruptly raises its death toll by 50 percent to a total of 3,869, admitting that many cases were “mistakenly reported” or missed entirely.
The adjustment, detailed in a social media posting by the city government, adds 1,290 deaths to the tally in Wuhan, where the global pandemic emerged and which has suffered the vast majority of China’s fatalities from COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus.
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I love the use of commas in the 'cases' column for the US and France.
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My, my! The writer of the "Trials Halted" could hardly restrain herself from giggling. Different dosages, different combinations of drugs, some of which cause heart arrhythmia, and not enough improvement for the TDS sufferer. Journalism.
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[ZeroHedge] A Facebook fact checker who has 'debunked' articles suggesting that COVID-19 may have leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) has a giant conflict of interest; she worked at the institute - which is now suspected of accidentally leaking the hyper-virulent virus which has killed over 130,000 people and cast the global economy into chaos.
Danielle Anderson, who works at Duke University's NUS Medical School lab in Singapore, also contributes to Science Feedback - which Facebook has been using to slap "False Information" labels on articles claiming that COVID-19 may have originated at the Wuhan institute - where Anderson worked with bat coronavirus.
A quick search of Anderson's publications reveals no fewer than nine collaborations with Dr. Peng Zhou - a Wuhan scientist experimenting on bat coronavirus (the mention of whom may result in a Twitter ban)....
Anderson has been adamant that the lab adheres to the highest standards of safety, and that COVID-19 simply couldn't have accidentally been leaked by her colleagues.
"I have worked in this exact laboratory at various times for the past 2 years. I can personally attest to the strict control and containment measures implemented while working there," Anderson writes in one such 'debunking' of a New York Post article that claims "China [is having] a problem keeping dangerous pathogens in test tubes where they belong" while Science Feedback cast doubt on the Post's claim that "evidence points to SARS-CoV-2 research being carried out at the Wuhan Institute of Virology."
Except, they were carrying out SARS-CoV-2 research at that exact lab, according to new reports in the Wall Street Journal, the Daily Mail and Fox News.
An April 9 report in the Journal reveals that COVID-19 is genetically identical to a coronavirus found in a horseshoe bat "collected by hazmat-clad scientists from the Institute of Virology in Wuhan."...
Anderson further peddled the now-debunked wet-market theory in a paper she co-wrote in The Lancet, which reads: "While recognising the tremendous effort by the China CDC team in the early response to the 2019-nCoV outbreak, the small number of team members trained in animal health was probably one of the reasons for the delay in identifying an intermediate animal(s), which is likely to have caused the spread of the virus in a region of the market where wildlife animals were traded and subsequently found to be heavily contaminated. Unfortunately, what animal(s) was involved in transmission remains unknown."
Any suggestion to the contrary is now deemed 'False Information' by Facebook, thanks to the highly conflicted Danielle Anderson and crew over at Science Feedback.
[TOWNHALL] One day after the Department of Justice filed a statement of interest supporting a Mississippi church in its lawsuit against the city government for a ban on drive-in worship services, the mayor relented, saying those types of gatherings are now acceptable.
"Today, given the definitive guidance from the governor, in the city of Greenville we will allow drive-in and parking lot services in the city — so long as families stay in their cars with windows up," Greenville Mayor Errick Simmons said Wednesday in a presser.
The Democratic mayor said his decision came after speaking with Republican Gov. Tate Reeves, who told local leaders across the state that drive-in services are OK so long as social distancing guidelines are followed. Reverses ban and makes drive-in church service attendance mandatory.
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DOJ was going to come down on his head. The local voters will probably give him head.
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As the old saying "Too stupid to pour p**s out of a boot with instructions on the heel". This idiot should have congratulated them for their ingenuity and would have had their votes in the next election.
[MontanaDailyExpress] In what might be one of the most over-the-top and draconian responses to coronavirus yet seen in Montana, Valley County is mandating that people wear government-issued pink arm bands in under to purchase products inside of stores. The measure, enforced by the Valley County Health Department, insists that store-owners keep customers out unless they have the pink arm-bands, which denote the customer has been in the area more than 14 days and submitted to quarantine protocol.
According to the flier produced by the Valley County Health Department, out-of-towners who lack the government-issued armbands will be prohibited from stores and residents are notified to call law enforcement if they do not comply. Outsiders must wear yellow stars
The health department even issued a script to warn customers to flee, saying, "You are violating our Governor’s and Valley County’s Health Officer’s orders. I am happy to shop for you with curbside delivery. I will get the items for you and bring them to your car. If you don’t cooperate, you will force me to call law enforcement."
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Is there a contest going on to see who can issue the most extreme, unreasonable, unconstitutional ukases? If so, please give someone the gold medal and halt the competition.
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Gov. Witless already won. Gold, Silver and Bronze.
She's the Michael Phelps of the Shitshow Olympiad.
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Do they require you to ring a bell shouting UNCLEAN UNCLEAN once you are diagnosed?
Or do they have a Star of David and say "Jude" on the armband?
Or how about a mark on the forehead with numbers on it?
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Well, we are lucky there. The forehead number was supposed to be 666 but upon more detailed analysis it was determined to be 667, due to omitted decimal round off. That was a close one.
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another Y2K error
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Or how about a Bill Gates chip that confirms you've been given a shot of Dr. Mengele's beetle juice.
[BBC] The work that Bletchley Park and MI6 did during World War Two, was instrumental in the allies’ victory.
But until now, there hasn't been any video showing what life was like on the sites dedicated to this work.
This all changed when a piece of film was anonymously donated to Bletchley Park Trust, providing an unprecedented insight into the lives of those there.
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Those were an absolutely fascinating group of young people. Many of the rooms remain as they were at war's end, a virtual time machine. When all of this unpleasantness finally ends, I highly recommend a visit.
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Yes, Whitehall. Another virtual time machine, with maps, phones, cots, just as they were. It was said that Churchill had planned to die there, had the Nazis taken London.
For those who say Putin is our friend
[CBS] A U.S. surveillance aircraft flying in international airspace over the Mediterranean Sea was intercepted by a Russian fighter jet on Wednesday, the Navy said in a statement. The 6th Fleet said the Russian SU-35 flew within 25 feet of the U.S. P-8A Poseidon plane in an "unsafe" high-speed, inverted maneuver, putting the American "pilots and crew at risk."
"While the Russian aircraft was operating in international airspace, this interaction was irresponsible," the statement said. "We expect them to behave within international standards set to ensure safety and to prevent incidents."
The Navy said the incident lasted approximately 42 minutes and the crew of the U.S. P-8A aircraft reported wake turbulence following the interaction.
Citing the 1972 Agreement for the Prevention of Incidents On and Over the High Seas, the Navy said "unsafe actions increase the risk of miscalculation and potential for midair collisions."
Last June, another U.S. aircraft flying over the Mediterranean Sea was intercepted three times by a Russian fighter jet.
...he is a hero, some say that his IQ is questionable as he was reportedly using WeChat groups to coordinate his coup attempts. Source: https://t.co/bE8bCsTPZ6
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A purge is still notable. This could mean that Xi felt (justifiably or not) threatened enough that he needed to wipe out the rest of the CCP's power brokers all at once. That would almost certainly hasten China's return to a Maoist-style political state, which no Chinese person other than Xi has seemed to want before this. If the economy crumbles to that degree as corrupt military corporate state transfers to outright communism, China will be unable to become a peer to peer power against the US.
And frankly, that would be good news for everyone outside of China.
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You know they have to be thinking about it. Emperor Xi's big plan is an even bigger bust. The always rickety economy is heading down hard, so hard even they can't hide it.
By thoroughly up-screwing the Wuhan virus, regardless of whether it was an intentional act or simple idiocy, the once unthinkable. highly charged idea of decoupling is now a voluntary act devoid of political stance.
They may be commies, but they are not imbeciles. They have a problem that is more immediate than communism or poverty, and that's the not too bright tyrant, wanna be emperor.
[Ynet] World stock markets made a super-charged sprint towards an 11% weekly gain on Friday - their second-best of all time - after U.S. President Donald Trump laid out plans to gradually reopen the coronavirus-hit U.S. economy following similar moves elsewhere.
The bulls were in business. Additional reports that patients with severe COVID-19 symptoms had responded positively to a drug made by U.S. company Gilead Sciences had helped Tokyo and Seoul both surge 3% as Asia took a widely-expected slump in Chinese GDP data in its stride.
Europe's main markets and Wall Street futures made 3% gains in early European trading too, putting the pan-regional STOXX 600 up more than 7% for the week and MSCI's 49-country world index up 10.5% already.
[CSMonitor] Panic buying at supermarkets spiked in the first weeks of COVID-19 lockdowns. But the food supply chain has since adjusted, making further shortages unlikely.
“I think the entire American public is getting a lesson in the supply chain,” says Mike Troy, editorial director of Progressive Grocer. “I bet they wish they weren’t.”
They might especially wish they weren’t if they knew, say food supply experts, that the lessons they’re getting are likely wrong.
To reduce such uncertainty, says Mr. Mejia-Argueta, “we have to remember that the episodes we’re hearing about are local, and expected.”
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration insists there are no nationwide shortages of food, though inventories may run low in grocery stores before restocking. “Food production and manufacturing are widely dispersed throughout the U.S. and there are currently no widespread disruptions reported in the supply chain,” it reported last month.
Before the pandemic, 54% of U.S. food dollars were spent on meals away from home. Now suppliers are scrambling to redirect food from restaurants and food service to retailers for at-home eating, a sudden and unprecedented shift in consumption.
Take bacon, for example. Doug Baker, an executive at FMI, the food industry association, points out that “the 20 pounds of bacon intended for food service may be repackaged under a store brand in 1 pound consumer packages.” But that doesn’t happen overnight.
Likewise, logistics resources are being diverted into food transport. “One of the hardest parts now is how to move cargo from its source to where people need it,” says Mr. Mejia-Argueta. “More truckers are needed, so truckers are being diverted into the food supply system from other sectors that are momentarily quiet.” Trucks that used to carry auto parts might now be hauling flour.
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"simply see headlines about rotting vegetables and shuttered slaughterhouses."
Oh, for halfway responsible and intelligent media. May be too much to hope for.
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Journalists treat context as a deep mystery incomprehensible to mortal minds, especially their own. The rush on TP in the US was because they failed to report that we make 95+% of our own, and now the closure of a slaughterhouse or two is being turned into the shutdown of the entire food sector.
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I am kinda gettin tired of ramen and frozen pizza.
[Army Times] Following criticism over its handling of federal emergency payouts related to the coronavirus outbreak, the military-focused financial company USAA announced Thursday it will no longer seize customers’ checks to cover existing debts and will refund any past such actions. "Existing debts" = Overdrawn Accts
The move comes after a report in the American Prospect that the insurance and banking firm was taking veterans’ and military family members’ stimulus checks — some totaling $3,000 or more — to settle existing account balances and debts. Company officials initially defended the move as permissible under federal rules.
The checks were part of a $2 trillion economic stability package passed by Congress last month designed to help families cover immediate debts and expenses related to the coronavirus outbreak, which has sickened more than 600,000 Americans and closed down numerous businesses indefinitely.
More than 22 million Americans have filed for unemployment benefits in the last month, according to the Department of Labor.
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Like AARP, you are a traitor to your fellows if you don't sign up.
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Actually that's the credit card business. Why do you think besides skimming the interest rates stay high? Give cards to totally unqualified people who run up debt and then discharge it. Other users bear the cost, not the company. Don't give the cards to any applicant and they're declared racists and elitist (which they may be indeed), but its not good PR.
BTW, to our uniform personnel who are in debt, failure to honor just debt is the basis for UCMJ action. Have to make good faith effort to avoid such action.
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They are talking about checking accounts, not insurance. If your BofA account is overdrawn and the USG puts $1200 in it, they will take it too. This is a bullshit hit job on USAA, which by the way, refunded 20% of premiums to their insured customers...
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Good point, Besoeker. Of course, self-reporting will go a long way. But we've been down this road before with the mortgage insanity 10 years ago or so and the bankruptcies that followed.
I thought USAA had a good reputation. But, it is a business.
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USAA may be top flight in regard to their. banking business (I have no way of knowing), but many of us in Real Estate despise their lending arm. They treat contract closing dates as optional, and move at a snail's pace. I've heard customers complain about their home insurance products as well.
[CNBC] Weekly jobless claims data to be released on Thursday is expected to show that another 5 million people filed for unemployment benefits, bringing the total to over 22 million in just a month.
Some economists say the unprecedented surge in unemployment claims could be peaking. 22 million lives disrupted to save ... where's the math?
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Excess suicides will be well above the Y2k flu...
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Based on studies of the Feeat Depression's impact on the suicide rate, we can expect an increase on the order of 22% . That's about 10,000 additional deaths from suicide alone. Many times that number from other conditions caused by stress and despair.
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The extreme slowdown in the economy should not be attributable only to the govt.
Absent any govt action many people would have sheltered in place, drastically limited their travel, etc.
However, all the effects can certainly be blamed on China.
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Thanks Lex and B; we will be OK; my primary customer has been hounding me to work for them and after the way this layoff went down, any hesitation I had about working for 'the dark side' in my former plant just went out the window. (ethics and knowing where all the bodies are buried, etc, etc, etc)
[The Conservative Treehouse] Most Americans were not aware food consumption in the U.S. was a 55/45 proposition. Approximately 55% of all food was consumed "outside the home" (or food away from home), and 45% of all food consumed was food "inside the home" (grocery shoppers).
Food 'outside the home' included: restaurants, fast-food locales, schools, corporate cafeterias, university lunchrooms, manufacturing cafeterias, hotels, food trucks, park and amusement food sellers and many more. Many of those venues are not thought about when people evaluate the overall U.S. food delivery system; however, this network was approximately 55 percent of all food consumption on a daily basis.
The 'food away from home' sector has its own supply chain. Very few restaurants and venues (cited above) purchase food products from retail grocery outlets. As a result of the coronavirus mitigation effort the 'food away from home' sector has been reduced by 75% of daily food delivery operations. However, people still need to eat. That means retail food outlets, grocers, are seeing sales increases of 25 to 50 percent, depending on the area. Much more on the supply chain dislocation at the link.
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Approximately 55% of all food was consumed "outside the home" (or food away from home), and 45% of all food consumed was food "inside the home" (grocery shoppers).
I guess cooking programs are very popular right now.
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Restaurants are like department stores. A very bad value. But while few can sew nice clothes, anyone can learn to cook. And if you cook, you will learn to not eat crap.
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MM, I'm a decentish cook and this has taught me one very important thing.
Restaurants allow you to decide what you want to eat at the last minute and if there's more than one of you it's more than twice as important.
Cooking requires that you have all ingredients at hand and ready to go. Did you KNOW that you wanted pork chops 4 dinner in the morning when they had to start thawing? Did you still want them at 5:30 when you had to start cooking them?
If you have the disposable income (we're retired) restaurants have some real advantages. I've yet to have a really good Pizza from a regular home kitchen. 8^)
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The GF and I love eating in restaurants too. They serve an important role. I would never argue otherwise. But I still grill the meanest steak and if I say your restaurant chili is good you are getting a serious compliment.
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Ironically, the stuff that's hardest to make at home is often disappointing at restaurants.
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MM, I'll go head to head with you on the steak.
I do a mean Rib eye in different variations, but, that's fine for 3 or 4 days a week, what about the other days? Oh, sea-food is another problem.....8^)
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If any of you are ever in the Boston area, I have a buffalo wing recipe that's worth the trip. Let's put it this way - I'm so confident with this recipe I'd love to go up against Bobby Flay on one of his shows. granted I'd get my ass kicked but it'd be a lot of fun.
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Most Americans were not aware food consumption in the U.S. was a 55/45 proposition. Approximately 55% of all food was consumed "outside the home" (or food away from home), and 45% of all food consumed was food "inside the home" (grocery shoppers).
Yup. Some restaurants are going into the grocery business as they are getting ingredients grocery stores are sold out of.
Restaurants are absolutely critical in the tourist industry. They are a huge part of the entertainment industry. They can make or break the prestige of an area; a great restaurant is a draw or attraction.
Wife grew up catering for harvesters, which I'd throw catering into the restaurant category. Me, let's just say I have favorite knives for the job. Wife says I'm the best short order bachelor cook she's ever come across, being able to take random ingredients and leftovers and have a good eat.
But I'm not a bachelor. I like the spicey when other members think yellow mustard needs temperance, so restaurants are where I get to eat what I want. I like Indian and Thai, but, as stated, those ingredients are not in my pantry.
My first real job was dishwasher at 16, entry level job which taught me real life skills. It also filled my quota for doing dishes, which I will happily pay the restaurant to do for me.
Restaurants are where I try new foods, especially when traveling outside my cultural area.
Some residences don't even have kitchens, such as dorms, or the oven breaks, or it is 100 degrees outside and turning on the kitchen is a miserable prospect.
Restaurants are a great idea for the gathering of larger groups. Restaurants are a neutral ground for discussing business. Restaurants are nice for two people to spend some time together.
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My first real job was dishwasher at 16, entry level job which taught me real life skills.
My first job was also at a restaurant. I was 13 at the time - I lied about my age to get the job, as 14 was the minimum age, back when the minimum wage was about $2.65 an hour. They hired me to make salads, which was all well & fine, then they fired me because I started washing dishes after I made the salads. I'm like - 'you guys are fucked - I'm outta here'. I might have given them the 'you can't fire me - I quit!' line, but I don't remember it clearly. Talk about learning real life skills - the restaurant industry is ideal for that.
That said, I will never, ever again have a restaurant owner as a client - overly demanding, bitch about damn near every invoice I gave to any of them, and I got stiffed a few times on four figure invoices.
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No better motivation for a young person to stay in school and get a good degree than to hustle his arse through 10-hour days, on his feet, stinking of grease, as a busboy in a busy restaurant
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besoeker, unless you have underlying conditions I think you are safe. My wife works as an "essential" worker and we know we have been exposed but I'm still not worried about it. I live 1 mile from kennestone wellstar ad about 5 from the first case in GA.
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/\ Thanks Chris. Baldness, 12-15 lbs over weight, and recurring gout. That's about it.
[india today] India is in the process of supplying anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine to 55 coronavirus-hit countries as grants as well as on commercial basis, sources said.
In order to help other countries fight the pandemic, India has prepared a set of three lists of countries that would receive supplies of Hydroxychloroquine, an anti-malarial drug.
The list of countries to which India is supplying Hydroxychloroquine is Afghanistan, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Maldives, Mauritius, Seychelles, Sri Lanka, Dominican Republic, Madagascar, Myanmar, Zambia, Uganda, Burkina Faso, Niger, Mali, Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Ecuador, Jamaica, Marshall Islands, Syria, Ukraine, Eswatini, Chad, Republic of Congo, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Zimbabwe, France, Jordan, Kenya, Netherlands, Nigeria, Oman, Peru, Philippines, Russia, Slovenia, South Africa, Tanzania, UAE, Uzbekistan, Uruguay, Colombia, Algeria, Bahamas, Bolivia, Guyana, UK, US.
Oooohhh, that’s us at the very end of the list!
“As part of these efforts, Rapid Antibody Testing Kits (first lot of 3 lakh from Guangzhou Wondfo and 2.5 lakh from Zhuhai Livzon) and RNA Extraction Kits (1 lakh from MGI Shenzhen), all custom cleared yesterday late night have left this morning for India. In total, 6.5 lakh kits are on the way; should reach today (Thursday). Our Embassy in Beijing and Consulate in Guangzhou played a key role," a source said.
Sources told India Today that more testing kits are on also their way from South Korea. “We have also received quotations from UK, France, Canada, US, Malaysia, Germany and Japan," the source said.
Sources, however, said that PPEs would not be procured from China even as testing kits are being imported. There have been reports of many of the PPEs being found "faulty" and "sub-standard".
Another source, without naming which country the consignment is coming, said “a large consignment of PPE was arriving in India. It could be similar to the number of testing kits”.
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Posted by: M. Murcek ||
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#3
This is good. May things get better. Lockdown of course helps. It negates chances of spreading the vector, until a solution is found. It was astute of them to do that.
#4
According to "worldometers" Germany achieved the same a few days ago. Spain & Italy are almost there. On the other hand, non quarantine countries, like Holland and Sweden have a lot more new cases than recoveries. I fact, Sweden has more new cases per day than total recoveries. But at least, they've preserved their freedoms.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
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Again, the Swedish daily fatality rate peaked in the first week of this month and has been falling steadily since then. Sweden will not experience more than a few thousand fatalities from COVID.
Sweden's fatalities per million population is about 130 -- significantly lower than the rates for the U.K. and for Holland, and similar to the rates for the US and Ireland.
Sweden's COVID results will be similar to those seen in countries that have decided to crater their economies -- but Sweden will be spared the even greater number of deaths of despair resulting from economic devastation.
btw G, did you spot this gem from the NYC data as reported by CDC?
through April 11
NEW YORK CITY
Deaths from all causes = 19,569
Percent of expected deaths (based on 3- year average) = 163
nb. No state in the union had a "percent of expected deaths" greater than 100. Only the city of New York.
Now calculate the "unexpected" amount -- i.e. 63%/163 -- and you get about 8,000 additional deaths this year in NYC. But COVID only accounts for 4,483 of those!
So that means NYC has seen ~3,500 additional, "unexpected" deaths at the same time as they've registered a similar number of COVID deaths.
Obviously, they shifted resources away from one group of vulnerable patients to treat another group -- and ended up killing them both, resulting in 8,000 additional fatalities vs prior years. Nice job.
#10
I go by worldometers. Just look at the graphs for Sweden - especially the one but the last. And, for Bucephalus' sake, learn to average over the 3 days cycle.
#12
^What you seeing is daily variation in a 4 - 6 day cycle. These cycles average keeps increasing. By the time Swedes will impose a lockdown - and they will. They'll have more per capita death (and economic destruction - the two go together) than Iran.
#17
Their population density isn't remotely comparable to Sweden's. Germany's 10x more dense, Israel's 20x.
The cultural differences are also very significant and are related to the landscape. The Swedes have an exceptionally large number of people living alone, and they display a streak of self-reliance.
We need to compare Sweden to another geographically large nation with low density, a strong Protestant ethos of self-reliance, and a Muslim minority between 6 and 10%. The US comes closest.
#18
I should say compare Sweden's fatality rate to ours -- and include the deaths of despair that will inevitably result from our destruction of our economy. Those will exceed the COVID deaths here; Sweden will be spared such fatalities.
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#17 Yet both have per capita death rates 1/10 of the Swedes (well 1/3 for Germans). It's just these useless math equations again, but infection rate INCREASES with population density.
Posted by: Frank G ||
04/17/2020 10:42 Comments ||
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Perhaps their leaders will buckle. I doubt it. Again, there are two battles, not one: they (and we) must not kill the economy, mustn't destroy the village in order to save it.
As NYC is already beginning to learn, a panicked response kills more people overall than a judicious and balanced one.
the countries report the data, no control on how they 'count'; also it is difficult to 'count'; also, the distribution within a country is important - NYC has, apparently, death rate per million population that is truly awful, some other places, e.g., Orleans parish in LA have similar death rates; however a lot of the USA has, apparently, comparatively minor infection rate and very low death rate
Posted by: lord garth ||
04/17/2020 12:04 Comments ||
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That's why we're not using examples from Turkey & Iran, Garth.
Why would Swedes & Dutch lie - to make themselves look bad?
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#24 Except that, it's, um, you know, NOT a total lockdown.
Pubs, shops and schools are still open in Swedenbut the government has barred gatherings of more than 50 people as well as visits to nursing homes.
This makes my point exactly: a targeted, selective, judicious and sensible application of restrictions is the right approach. Not a panicky total shutdown of all economic activity.
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Jesus, g, what is with you? No one here us arguing there should not be any restrictions.
Tight rules regarding anything and everything to do with eldercare, by all means.
A temporary ban in large gatherings, sure.
Wear masks, fine.
But don't willy-nilly shut down every single shop and office and throw 30% of the population out of work for months. The average shop or small business has enough cash for less than one month of operations.
That's normal. That's how the cash flow cycle works-- cash is oxygen to a capitalist economy.
Shut down business for 2 months, and you starve these businesses of oxygen. They DIE: and No, they don't magically rise up again after two months. Most are GONE. Ruined.
This is why sensible people look for a sensible middle course that avoids killing more people than will be killed by the virus.
New York City per CDC data is now killing nearly as many New Yorkers who need urgent care as are dying from COVID. Does that make any f---ing sense?
If you keep pretending that there is no sensible, balanced, selective and targeted middle course, then I have to assume you're arguing in bad faith.
#34
Now, Lex, whenever I said that? If you actually go through my posts all I said - I'm tired of people saying that quarantine isn't necessary, and what Swedes are NOT idiots. Let me summarize.
(1) The longer you postpone a quarantine - the harsher it's going to be - that's the essence of the bet I offered you on Sweden.
(2) Fauci is not a demon plotting to subvert your constitution - just a bureaucrat who screwed up at the beginning, but is doing a credible job since then.
(3) Epidemiological models are not wrong in their qualitative predictions - you have to flatten the curve.
(4) Ideology: whether Left or Conservative/Libertarian comes with blinkers (yes, I'm very disappointed in Sarah Hoyt).
(5) The highseeds who think they can just let the big cities die, are living in a fantasy. Without the coasts, the flyover America is dead too.
(6) A decision to ease quarantine (like any decision) is a balance between costs and benefits. Trump did both right & well to shove it over to governors.
(7) The old (post WWII) world order is dead - Xi's Gift is just the last nail. In particular, USA service economy is dead.
The prediction I made on Instapundit yesterday, that earned me great abuse: In a week of opening with a mask requirement, we'll hear complaints about how requiring masks is unconstitutional.
Within 30 minutes there was a comment bragging how he'd told off a cop for trying to enforce an "unconstitutional" mask order.
And I'm with you grom. I'm also disappointed in Hoyt, because a year ago she'd have chewed your ear about how she got sick from a Soviet bioweapons lab accident when she was a kid.
Posted by: Rob Crawford ||
04/17/2020 14:24 Comments ||
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The prediction I made on Instapundit yesterday, that earned me great abuse: In a week of opening with a mask requirement, we'll hear complaints about how requiring masks is unconstitutional.
Within 30 minutes there was a comment bragging how he'd told off a cop for trying to enforce an "unconstitutional" mask order.
Did any of your abusers admitted they were wrong & apologized?
#40
I just saw the April 17 IHME charts and discovered another possible reason for disparity of deaths. Texas has three times the number of ICU beds as NY and twice as many hospital beds. California is a bit less than Texas.
Public/private/military hospitals included? I don't know, but the difference between NY and TX is shocking, to me.
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Are those absolute figures or per capita figures?
I'm very pleased the USA is providing $5M for Palestinian hospitals and households to meet immediate, life-saving needs in combating COVID-19. The USA, as the world’s top humanitarian aid donor, is committed to assisting the Palestinian people, & others worldwide, in this crisis.
PJ via Instapundit
...Maybe we should be asking just how good these tests are? As many as 1 in 3 nasal swab tests have been a false positive or a false negative. In a pandemic, that's not very helpful.
...Is it bad testing? Are some people more or less immune to the effects of the virus? Is there something in the virus itself that needs to be "turned on" in order to sicken its host?
Despite thousands of researchers working night and day to find the answer to these and other questions, it may be months or years before we know enough about the coronavirus to combat it effectively. In the meantime, all we can do is be careful and try to stay out of its way. You would expect that some kind of modified social distancing policy and quarantining sick people would continue until a vaccine is developed or we understand enough to render the virus ineffective.
Never pass up the opportunity to tweet a useful infographic - this one on penetrative capability of air delivered 'bunker buster' weapons of the @usairforce ! pic.twitter.com/GVVmVZoC2E
#3
Seems like one could design a device with a series of timed shaped charges such that the leading edge of the charge shock wave 'excavated' an opening for another charge to come through to reach hard face before rubble closes in to dampen the effect of second charge - repeated as a long chain of charges.
[CollegeFix] Rickey Hall, vice president for minority affairs and diversity at the University of Washington, made the comments during a Zoom panel discussion hosted by PEN America, a free expression nonprofit.
“We don’t know where this virus originated,” Hall said. “It could have originated in the United States.”
The panel “Hate, Xenophobia, and COVID-19: How Should Higher Ed Respond?” featured several officials from different institutions of higher education.
#6
Will African-Americans swallow this crap the way so many of them swallowed that 1980s-90s urban legend about how the CIA created AIDS to kill off the ghetto?
#20
prime example of why tuition is so high and degrees so worthless.
during the shutdown universities could trim dead weight like this, but they won't
if anything, they will create even more busy body administrators. probably a Vice President for Pandemic Response. Tuition will rise accordingly.
Posted by: Bob Grorong1136 ||
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I would argue tuitions are high because of guaranteed student loans. Also, student loans are generally not discharged in a bankruptcy. Co-signers beware! (and why the banks love the Clintons)
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.
[medRxiv] The population-weighted prevalence was 2.81% (95CI 2.24-3.37%). Under the three scenarios for test performance characteristics, the population prevalence of COVID-19 in Santa Clara ranged from 2.49% (95CI 1.80-3.17%) to 4.16% (2.58-5.70%). These prevalence estimates represent a range between 48,000 and 81,000 people infected in Santa Clara County by early April, 50-85-fold more than the number of confirmed cases.
[ZeroHedge] A Facebook fact checker who has 'debunked' articles suggesting that COVID-19 may have leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) has a giant conflict of interest; she worked at the institute - which is now suspected of accidentally leaking the hyper-virulent virus which has killed over 130,000 people and cast the global economy into chaos.
[TOWNHALL] One day after the Department of Justice filed a statement of interest supporting a Mississippi church in its lawsuit against the city government for a ban on drive-in worship services, the mayor relented, saying those types of gatherings are now acceptable. 
