#1
I can't forget Paul Powell, Illinois Secretary of State who died unexpectedly in 1970. In his tiny Springfield hotel room (not his home) they found $800,000 in cash. In shoe boxes, under the bed.
He was serving with Gov. Otto Kerner, who lived to go to prison.
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[AspenBeat] So here we are, the smart but cursed primate that is weirdly programmed to enjoy stimulation but to abhor the work that it requires.
That’s where fear comes in. Of all our emotions, the most powerful — and the most stimulating — is fear.
Moreover, fear is not just highly stimulating but is also easy to get. We can simply watch a scary movie or take a roller coaster ride. Or get hysterical about COVID killing us.
[Daily Caller] The Dispatch’s Jonah Goldberg slammed White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, saying Sunday that her behavior was "indefensible and grotesque." Couch: "Jonah? That's a mirror?" She assigned the WH correspondents homework. And it's a long weekend!
Anchor Chris Wallace was also critical of McEnany as he and Goldberg discussed her most recent press briefings on "Fox News Sunday." "Bad."
"Yep. Bad."
"Disgraceful."
"Indefensible."
"Grotesque."
[adjective]
[another adjective]
Wallace was actually first to take a shot at the new press secretary, referencing a Friday briefing during which McEnany had laid out the questions she believed the press should be asking. "I have to say that if Kayleigh McEnany had told Sam Donaldson and me what questions we should ask, that would not have gone well, Jonah," Wallace said. [Insert comment about boring new bungholes]
"I think her behavior is indefensible and grotesque," Goldberg replied. Ummm... Why?
"I think that what she has done is — there’s this cliche in Washington that President Trump wants Roy Cohn as DOJ, as attorney general. What Donald Trump wants in a press secretary is a Twitter troll who goes on attack, doesn’t actually care about doing the job they have and instead wants to impress really an audience of one and make another part of official Washington another one of these essentially cable news and Twitter laboratory arenas." Uhuh. So now hark back to the Good Old Days® of Sean Spicer and Sarah Sanders. What'd you guys have to say then?
Josh Holmes, who previously served as chief of staff to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, argued that the press actually put McEnany — and all Trump spokespeople — in a position where they were constantly being forced to defend themselves. No! But that cannot be?
"The confrontational nature by which journos pose the questioning is not really to obtain much information so much as to try to back them into a corner and I think she said, ’I’m not going to play that game,’ so yeah, it is completely different," Holmes explained. But... but... she can’t do that!
Wallace took one last shot as the segment ended, saying, "Let me just say, Sam Donaldson and me and the Reagan White House, we were pretty tough on the White House press secretaries and we never had our religious beliefs questioned or were lectured on what we should ask." Dude, it isn't just an audience of one.
#2
McEnany is very sharp. I've watched her flip through that binder full of 'gotcha questions' and prepared responses. I'll bet she updates it daily. She does her homework. I believe the Orange Man has found a winner.
#5
So are they admitting that they would also not report on such an obvious story for political reasons because that is what Kayleigh is saying without saying it and everyone in that room was smart enough to know that but danced around the elephant.
#8
Notional Review, The Atlantic, etc. are all vanity funded by people who could instead easily put orphans thru school or just donate to St. Jude's Childrens' Hospital. But they need to talk to the people who run your life...
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[Babylon Bee] LANSING, MI—Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer has ordered all citizens to barbecue indoors this Memorial Day.
The executive order restricts all Memorial Day barbecue celebrations to inside only.
"You're more than welcome to celebrate your freedoms with a barbecue as long as you don't go outside," she said, wagging her finger like a school teacher. "Naughty boys and girls hold barbecues outdoors where the big, scary coronavirus can get them. Good boys and girls barbecue inside where it is safe."
Anyone who disobeys the order will be put on time-out and sent to bed without any dessert. Those who continually disobey will be grounded and have their Nintendo privileges taken away.
At publishing time, sources had confirmed this restriction would likely be extended through Labor Day 2025.
[NYP] China’s "bat woman" researcher warns that the deadly coronavirus surfacing now is "just the tip of the iceberg" in terms of what humans may soon face without a global effort to prevent similar infectious outbreaks.
"If we want to prevent human beings from suffering from the next infectious-disease outbreak, we must go in advance to learn of these unknown viruses carried by wild animals in nature and give early warnings," Shi Zhengli, a top Chinese scientist specializing in viral transmissions from bats, told CGTN in an interview that aired Monday.
"If we don’t study [the viruses], there will possibly be another outbreak," warned Shi, whose was dubbed "bat woman" by the press because of her research involving the mammals. "I mean, we go entire weeks without observing proper safety protocols. Anything could happen!" *chortles*
#2
"If we want to prevent human beings from suffering from the next infectious-disease outbreak, we must go in advance to learn of these unknown viruses carried by wild animals in nature and give early warnings,"
Or we can say and do nothing for weeks, months. Vast quantities of PPE can be clandestinely purchased in advance of a full outbreak. Outside inspectors and researchers can be prohibited from visiting Wuhan and learning more. A vast disinformation campaign can be quickly assembled to blame animals, Gaia, and westerners.
She did stop short of recommending universal mail-in ballots for the upcoming election.
#12
If the Chinese really mean to do germ warfare, we will have to smoke their entire country. And The phone call to the Russian Premier will be interesting.
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#13
"We are putting 21,000 megatons in. We will consider it a sign of good faith if you put in 18,000 megatons."
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[Breitbart] Universities are beginning to cut sports programs as budgets continue to be devastated by the coronavirus. However, one professor thinks that those schools are using the pandemic as an excuse to cut sports programs they wanted to get rid of anyway.
B. David Ridpath, associate professor of sports business at Ohio University and interim president of the Drake Group, a national nonprofit advocacy organization, blasted the schools looking to cut sports to make up for budget holes.
"There’s a lot of fat that can be cut before sports being dropped," Ridpath said. "I think dropping sports is basically a knee-jerk reaction, and many of the schools are using the pandemic as an excuse for something they already wanted to do. There may come a time where dropping a sport is a viable solution, but it should be the last one and based on many different things.
"Dropping a sport and saying you are doing it for gender equity, I think, is an excuse," the professor exclaimed.
Looking a the programs that have been cut, it does appear that men’s programs have been hardest hit.
"All but three of the 15 programs that have reportedly been eliminated at Division I colleges," the paper notes, "including Cincinnati, Old Dominion, Akron, Central Michigan, East Carolina, and Florida International are men’s sports, which are often the first to be trimmed as schools, especially those with football programs, strive to comply with Title IX, the federal law requiring gender equity for participation and scholarship opportunities."
There are reportedly 499,217 student-athletes in the U.S. system of higher education, the more programs that are cut, the more of these students who will not be paying tuition, the paper reminds readers.
"Dropping these sports, you’re likely losing bodies, and that counts against your overall enrollment," Ridpath noted. "Enrollment is going down nationwide, and (colleges cutting sports) are not really looking at the whole picture here."
The cuts seen already including four sports cut at Akron, the elimination of baseball at Bowling Green, an end to the men’s indoor and outdoor track and field programs in Central Michigan, and the suspension of men’s and women’s tennis at Green Bay, the paper said.
#7
When I was at CWRU I accidentally saw a down of one college football game while looking out a high rise window near the stadium.
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#8
Back to A&Ms, practical studies that the state needs for commerce and health, a return on investment. Let private institutions cover the rest without public subsidizes.
#9
Dunno, seems to me some colleges are sports teams with a library attached for show. Read that a winning football team was a real money-maker.... you didn't think all those wymyn's studies programs paid for themselves did you?
#11
Just go ahead and start formal minor leagues for football and basketball and stop treating illiterates to free degrees.
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#12
Good. Cut away. To paraphrase a recent article, this crisis is just accelerating things that were already in motion. And NCAA football...what a racket.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
05/26/2020 9:13 Comments ||
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#14
It will be fun to watch college sports boosters and forever quarantine nuts wandering around in circles muttering to themselves.
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#15
The biggest and best football programs are profit centers. Their universities use them to fund the expensive campus recreational and athletic facilities used by tens of thousands of ordinary students who don't play competitive sports.
What will likely happen is that football + women's sports will survive and maybe even thrive. But those men's sports that are not revenue-generating will be whacked. Say goodbye to some/all of: men's rowing, water polo, lacrosse, wrestling, gymnastics, fencing etc.
[And wasn't it the CDC which was trying to cook the books by inflating the deaths by, a-hem, COVID-19?]
[Conservative Review] Most people are more likely to wind up six feet under because of almost anything else under the sun other than COVID-19.
The CDC just came out with a report that should be earth-shattering to the narrative of the political class, yet it will go into the thick pile of vital data and information about the virus that is not getting out to the public. For the first time, the CDC has attempted to offer a real estimate of the overall death rate for COVID-19, and under its most likely scenario, the number is 0.26%. Officials estimate a 0.4% fatality rate among those who are symptomatic and project a 35% rate of asymptomatic cases among those infected, which drops the overall infection fatality rate (IFR) to just 0.26% — almost exactly where Stanford researchers pegged it a month ago.
#1
In case of unknown like CV-19 was in February, one has two choices.
You could assume the worst case scenario and act accordingly - like the People of Israel.
Or, you could assume the best case scenario - like the swine of Sweden.
Less than 300 dead in Israel, more than 4000 in Sweden. Enjoy your feeding trough.
...Trying to figure out how to make Trump look bad for it.
Mike
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#8
Let's see in a year what the relative excess deaths are...
The whole point of lockdowns for this shamdemic was to stop the health services being overwhelmed (they were nowhere near and the transfer of resources killed more than COVID did) not to prevent people getting COVID.
The COVID government over-reaction mirrors the cytokine storm over-reaction of the immune system that kills.
#9
Forever quarantine rapidly replaced gerbil worming as religion for the irreligious because the sacrament was so much more readily accessible.
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#10
The 'media' has been screaming fire in a crowded theater for a couple months now. Time to start talking 'media control' as much as they talk 'gun control'. I'd start off with making the libel laws singular, all equal before the law, no two tier public vs private. Then like any other business subject them to liability for conveying a false or fabricated 'product'.
#11
Easier to just ignore the media. It should now be standard practice for lawyers to impeach the testimony of anyone who says they believe what the media spews out.
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#12
"And you believed this why? Please don't insult the judge and jury by saying you believed it because it was on the front page..."
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#13
Sweden and Israel have many different parameters that influence their total deaths besides just public policy response to the virus. Two big ones would be climate, and age distribution which are both very different and both favor Israel.
See Israel age structure
and Sweden age structure
#15
Upwards of 70 percent of the Covid19 death toll in Sweden has been people in elderly care services (as of mid-May 2020). We summarize the Covid19 tragedy in elderly care in Sweden, particularly in the City of Stockholm. We explain the institutional structure of elderly care administration and service provision. Those who died of Covid19 in Stockholm’s nursing homes had a life-remaining median somewhere in the range of 5 to 9 months. Having contextualized the Covid19 problem in City of Stockholm, we present an interview of Barbro Karlsson, who works at the administrative heart of the Stockholm elderly care system. Her institutional knowledge and sentiment offer great insight into the concrete problems and challenges. There are really two sides to the elderly care Covid19 challenge: The vulnerability and frailty of those in nursing homes and the problem of nosocomial infection—that is, infection caused by contact with others involved in the elderly care experience. The problem calls for targeted solutions by those close to the vulnerable individuals. - cite
#18
Ford County, Kansas
Big food processing node, facilities and transportation
1600 cases out of 40,000 population*
2 hospitalizations
0 deaths
*three or four months of counting, whenever they started counting. In fact, Kansas has more or less quit official stat keeping; updates are sporadic and the shoulder shrugging well hidden.
#20
Give it a rest, g. We dispatched that bogeyman of yours weeks ago.
Again: the national and American state tallies for COVID are completely inconsistent and cannot be meaningfully compared.
This fact alone undercuts all the BS we've heard about non-existent causal relationships between this or that government measure and the actual infection and fatality rate. Our policymakers are sleepwalking in a fog of garbage data.
Re. Sweden, their extremely comprehensive and overly cautious statistical approach is guaranteed to yield significantly higher numbers than their neighbors -- or any other nation or political entity. For starters, Sweden counts nursing home deaths; most countries - e.g. Norway - and many US states until recently did not.
Given that somewhere around half the deaths worldwide have occurred in nursing homes, it should be obvious that, relative to global averages, Sweden is OVER-counting while many nations and American states - most egregiously New York State - have been UNDER-counting.
State after state, nation after nation around the world is now revising its numbers to correct their stupid and inaccurate methods. Sweden has not done so because they never gamed their numbers to begin with.
Even the CDC has now admitted in effect that Dr. Ioannidis, Dr. John Lee and others were right to call BS on their funny numbers and hallucinatory models.
#26
I admit. I admit everything. There is no coronovirus. It's all subliminal messages sent by Bill Gates via Windows 10. It's all a plot to destroy American economy. In fact not a single person outside USA suffered from coronovirus. It's all false news promulgated by UN.
Dr Ioannidis is the greatest scientist in the World (of warcraft).
#28
More fun and games, this time from Washington State, which has (grudgingly, indirectly, through a bureaucrat's remark) admitted its COVID fatality counts have been inflated by at least 22%:
“So our method that we use to give up-to-date counts related to COVID death is not our usual process for how we track data for deaths in Washington,” Dr. Katie Hutchison, Health Statistics Manager for DOH. “We had to modify what we normally do in order to quickly meet the data and informational needs of the pandemic. We’re aware that there is some confusion about how this works and whether or not this modified process is accurate.”
“Our dashboard numbers do include any death to a person that has [at any time] tested positive to COVID-19."
#30
See
Israel age structure
and
Sweden age structure
ECOnhzna dear, before you do the link thingie you have to type a bit of text and highlight it for the link to hold on to. Otherwise you did it perfectly. I just went into your comment and added some text so your links could be seen. It helps to click on Preview when you think you’re done, to check if you missed anything before hitting Submit.
#32
Quarantine religionists are going to need psychiatric long term care.
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#33
Admit it, this is a data shitshow.
Once the "experts" get ahold of the data, it's all platinum. Once they plug it into their models, all you rubes just stand back and keep your mouths shut.
/truth
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* With the proper "Experts" adjusting the data
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#35
For starters, Sweden counts nursing home deaths; most countries - e.g. Norway - and many US states until recently did not.
Lex which states aren't, weren't counting nursing home death?
Even the governors of New York and Minnesota who are murdering seniors have been counting them.
There is wide variation in the types of data that states are reporting.
Nine states report fully comprehensive data on cases and deaths at the facility level, including Illinois and Oregon.
Other states, including Michigan, Mississippi, and Pennsylvania, report data at the county level, citing privacy concerns about reporting at the facility level.
Three states provide data on facilities only, with New Mexico providing a list of facilities with reported cases, and Arizona and Maine reporting a total number of facilities.
There is also some variation in the types of facilities that states include in their long-term care facility counts. Five states report data on nursing homes only, while the remaining states report on long-term facilities more generally.
State definitions of “long-term care facilities” can include a range of settings, including assisted living facilities, personal care homes, and intermediate care facilities.
Michigan and New Mexico are the only two states to report on congregate settings more generally, without providing a breakout for long-term care facilities.
States also vary in their inclusion of residents versus staff in the reporting cases and deaths.
Eight states report data on residents only, 17 states report data on residents and staff together, and the remaining states do not specify who is included in their data.
States also varied in how often they update the data, with the majority of states updating the data daily. Kentucky and Utah provide the data via a daily press conference, and other states report that they update the data several times a week or weekly.
Seven states, including California, Illinois, and New York, did not clearly report how often their data was updated (Table 1).
typical long StrategyPage essay
Over the weekend LNA (Libyan National Army) forces began moving away from the capital, Tripoli, which they had trying to take since April 2019....What prompted the seemingly sudden LNA retreat was the refusal of the LNA leader to go along with a truce deal that the Russians, Turks and GNA were willing to accept.
A major factor in the Russian withdrawal was an economic and public health crisis back home.
Most Turks do not support foreign wars. a lot of interesting UAV stuff too - Russian anti air stuff has been pawned by Turkish UAVs but Turkish UAVs are being pawned by some Chinese weapons.
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Strategy Page is always worth reading. This is longer than usual though, so perhaps something to read over lunch.
The Crocodile would be Emmerson Mnangagwa, the chosen party replacement as president in late 2017 after Robert Mugabe was shoved off the throne.
[The Telegraph] The footage makes for uncomfortable viewing. Sobbing almost uncontrollably, her whole body heaving as she spoke, Zimbabwe’s youngest MP relived her ordeal at the hands of men she is convinced were agents of the state.
Arrested for having the temerity to take part in an anti-government protest on May 13, Joana Mamombe says she was taken into a forest and thrown into a pit with her fellow detainees, two female members of the opposition’s MDC Alliance.
For the best part of 36 hours, the women were allegedly beaten, sodomised with handguns and forced to drink each other’s urine.
For many Zimbabweans, the allegations levelled by Ms Mamombe, 27, carry overtones of the presidency of Robert Mugabe, who was ousted in a coup in 2017 and died last September....
[Washington Insider] The United States cannot rely on China in a crisis. That is one of the clear lessons learned from the global pandemic.
The Chinese Communist Party lied about the virus, and people lost their lives and their livelihoods. China knew the risk, and the regime covered it up.
By the time the coronavirus hit America, China had hoarded the protective equipment we sorely needed. The Chinese government wouldn’t even allow U.S. scientists access to the country to help the world respond.
This is the frightening reality we face.
It is imperative for Congress to take all necessary steps to make sure our country is no longer dependent on China, especially not for critical medical supplies.
As a senator and as a doctor, I am committed to seeing that our nurses and doctors have our full support to care for patients on the front lines. This is not just a matter of public health; it is also a matter of national security. Our fighters in medical scrubs are every bit as important as our brave men and women in military uniform.
Clearly, the medical supply chain was ill-equipped to handle this epidemic. Surgical masks, gloves, and hand sanitizer quickly became scarce commodities. This situation cannot be allowed to repeat itself.
#5
America has already started to disengage. Remember Trump strong-arming Canada and Mexico over issues? A big part of that was to stop Chinese goods from being re-labeled and exported to the United States, a market the Chinese otherwise not have access to under NAFTA.
People who went completely bananas in a two month government paid vacation will give up cheap stuff?
Perhaps you misunderestimate the ability of Americans to hold a grudge. It's that Jacksonian thing.
Yeah, we like cheap stuff. But lately, the entire world has gotten a better idea of the actual cost of Made in China. A whole lot of people are going to be reading product labels more closely.
#6
Yeah. Everybody else has us all figured out. Then we make an atomic bomb. Then we use it. Twice.
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#7
Imagine how worked up The Good People™ would be if it came out an American lab had a virus that would sterilize all Chinese. Just imagine.
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#8
Many of us have known for many years that it is not in our best interest to be entangled with China. Sen. John Barrasso, like many in our elite political class, is a little late to the party. But I suppose we should welcome them if they really do finally get it.
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#9
Just researched online trying to find an American-made, electric chainsaw. When you get into details on the manufacturers websites, every one admits that they say made in USA in brochures but in the fine print is means assembled in American, from parts all over the world, and every stinking one of them list China as one of the parts manufacturers among others. Impossible to get an idea of what parts come from where but I suspect the vast majority are from the Chinese. Their strategy of undercut existing competitors in other countries, drive them out of business, and then carefully cut quality and reliability to ramp up the profit margin to cover upfront losses. Long view has eaten our manufacturing lunch when MBA jerks look for a fat quarter to pad their bonuses and never seem to notice market share erosion over years.
#10
Give up on the electric part and buy a Stihl or Husqvarna.
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#11
Sadly, so much manufacturing left the US that it will be a tough chore to find decent equipment that was "Made in the U.S.A.". Perhaps the next best alternative is to support our northern neighbors and try to find something Canadian. Hell, even Mexican...keep the dough in our continent, if possible. But, easier said than done most likely.
(Reuters) - Tim Harris was preparing to relocate for an assignment with energy services firm Halliburton Co (HAL.N) for the fifth time in 15 years when his career came to a halt.
A third-generation employee, Harris rose through the ranks at the top shale-oil services provider to oversee oilfield crews. He sailed through several busts, with the exception of a 9-month break in 2016.
But April’s historic price crash, which has left U.S. crude prices down 50% since January, put him and tens of thousands of oil service veterans out of work. The cuts have gone deep into the ranks of managers, taking seniority and skills gained through past downturns.
Such cuts, which are expected to accelerate this year, spell trouble for firms when it comes to restaffing and tapping know-how from prior busts, said some industry executives interviewed by Reuters.
Halliburton this month cut 22% of its headquarters staff while Schlumberger recently reshuffled its executive team and warned of "significant" expenses for job cuts this quarter. Oil major BP plans to cut half its senior managers in coming months.
Since March, some 66,300 oilfield jobs, or 8.5% of the sector’s workforce disappeared, according to an analysis by trade group Petroleum Equipment and Services Association. For all of 2016, when crude oil prices slumped amid a supply glut, employment in the sector fell 17.4%.
"Losing talented people is a concern," said Kevin Broom, a PESA director who did the analysis. "We’re going to need that knowledge and expertise when demand returns."
Harris has cut his oil ties, moving to Amazon.com, where he accepted an entry-level manager’s job in light of the 14.7% April U.S. unemployment rate.
The oil industry could struggle to re-hire experienced managers if other sectors rebound first, said Ron Ness, president of the North Dakota Petroleum Council.
Career website LinkedIn.com has dozens of goodbye posts from workers with 15- to 30-year careers in the oilfield, many with top firms Schlumberger, Halliburton and Baker Hughes Inc. More than two dozen tributes appeared recently from mid- to senior-level Schlumberger executives.
[Mises] Media pundits and politicians are now in the habit of claiming it was the pandemic itself that has caused unemployment to skyrocket and economic growth to plummet. The claim is that sick and dying workers, fearful consumers, and disrupted supply chains would cause economic chaos. Some have even claimed that economic shutdowns actually help the economy, because it is claimed allowing the spread of the disease will itself destroy employment and economic growth.1
Leaving aside the fact there's no evidence lockdowns actually work, we can nonetheless look to past pandemics—where coercive government interventions were at most sporadic—we should see immense economic damage. Specifically, we can look to the the pandemic of 1957-58, which was more deadly than the COVID-19 pandemic has been so far. We can also look to the 1918-19 pandemic. Yet, we will see that neither produced economic damage on a scale we now see as a result of the government mandated lockdowns. This thoroughly undermines the claims that the lockdowns are only a minor factor in economic destruction, and that the virus itself is the real culprit.
#3
^Let us, for a change ignore Sweden vs. its neighbors and look at Montana vs. Nebraska: 15 deaths per million vs. 77. I wonder what the difference is?
#5
/\ There were ZERO cases of CV-19 reported among the Sentinelese people of Montana and Nebraska. Not certain if that fact is relevant, but it is a fact.
#7
It's my bet that more have been killed by the redirection of virtually all treatment into "exciting" fighting covid rather than treating the actually sick.
Most of the excess mortality will come from people who died waiting for treatment that would normally be available!
In the UK the ONS estimated 55,000 excess deaths but 35,000 died with suspected covid (i.e. that's the absolute maximum that actually died from it).Therefore at least 20,000 out of the 55,000 died from the health service just not being there.
#8
Treating people with cancer, diabetes, heart failure or COPD is so boring. Not hero work.
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#9
Yeah, and I'm fed up with the commenter who says Chinavirus is "The Only Thing™" Get over it.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
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#10
He seems to need deprogramming.
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#11
Nebraska has meat-packing plants with workers who speak 40 different languages and must work to feed their families, as well as the essential service of feeding America?
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#12
In Nebraska 1/6 of the cases were in packing plants. Moreover, Montana has meat packing plants too.
#13
People say "meat packing plant." Have you looked at the mechanics of the work place? The lifestyles of the employees outside work. Yes. No. PhD epidemiologists have it all figured out. At a distance. With a mask. And a scarf.
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[Adventures in Capitalism] I have now run a few companies. Over time, I have experienced a repeated epiphany; which is that you never realize which employees are useless until they go on a vacation and nothing bad happens. Now, this isn’t a dig at good employees; good ones find ways to delegate their responsibilities and still check their emails—great ones work harder while on vacation. However, the bad ones often vacation themselves out of a job—oddly, those are usually the ones who keep reminding me about how valuable they are. Ironic right?
I bring this up because most employees just went on a 3-month forced vacation. As I speak with my friends, they’re all saying the same things;
-For 80% of employees, work from home went better than expected and my friends are now wondering why they need an office building and the associated expenses.
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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.
[Babylon Bee]
[Daily Caller] The Dispatch’s Jonah Goldberg slammed White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, saying Sunday that her behavior was "indefensible and grotesque."
[Babylon Bee] LANSING, MI—Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer has ordered all citizens to barbecue indoors this Memorial Day.
[NYP] China’s "bat woman" researcher warns that the deadly coronavirus surfacing now is "just the tip of the iceberg" in terms of what humans may soon face without a global effort to prevent similar infectious outbreaks.
[Breitbart] Universities are beginning to cut sports programs as budgets continue to be devastated by the coronavirus. However, one professor thinks that those schools are using the pandemic as an excuse to cut sports programs they wanted to get rid of anyway.
[The Telegraph] The footage makes for uncomfortable viewing. Sobbing almost uncontrollably, her whole body heaving as she spoke, Zimbabwe’s youngest MP relived her ordeal at the hands of men she is convinced were agents of the state.
[Washington Insider] The United States cannot rely on China in a crisis. That is one of the clear lessons learned from the global pandemic.
