[Whatfinger] Investigative reporter John Solomon revealed April 17 on Fox Business Network’s "Lou Dobbs Tonight" that his sources are saying a "handful" of indictments related to the FBI’s handling of its 2016 investigation into the Trump campaign is coming. One thing I’ve learned from following all the twists and turns of the ever-expanding "Spygate" scandal is that Solomon has excellent sources. He’s often been the first to reveal things from his sources that were later found to be accurate. In response to host Lou Dobbs’s reminder that we’re four years into uncovering evidence about what these plotters did in their attempt to take down a president, and yet not one person has been held accountable, Solomon replied: "I will say this: There is some fairly significant evidence at this very moment, this week, the last couple of weeks alone, that there is some criminal investigative activity that I think will result in some actions coming out. Today’s News Updates "So it’s not going to be a lot; don’t expect 10 or 12 indictments, but there could be a handful of indictments and much more information." Attorney General William Barr has stated several times that he expects U.S. Attorney John Durham and the team of U.S. attorneys he’s leading in probes of the various facets of the "Crossfire Hurricane" investigation to begin wrapping up their investigative work sometime in "late spring or early summer." If what Solomon’s sources are telling him is true, it suggests we’re about to see the story of the Spygate scandal shift to a completely different arena. Original article: Spygate Scandal Shifts to a Completely Different Arena https://www.theepochtimes.com/durhams...
[Whatfinger] Witness transcripts from the investigation into charges of Russian collusion against President Trump were supposed to made public by the House Intelligence Committee back in late in 2018. To date, they are still secret. One America’s John Hines has more on this.
[Federalist] As of April 15, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has reported 605,390 cases of COVID-19 in the United States. These have occurred across all 50 states and have resulted in 24,582 deaths. We are all feeling the effects of the pandemic. Schools are closed, businesses have shut their doors, and nobody knows what’s coming next.
While COVID-19 is one of the largest pandemics of the 21st century, you might be wondering how it stacks up to the terrible pandemics of the past. Let’s look at the 10 worst pandemics in human history.
10. The Great Plague of Milan: Italy (1629-1631)
Death Toll: 1 million
The Great Plague of Milan was a series of outbreaks of the bubonic plague (featured later in this list) that happened between 1629 and 1631. While numerous plague outbreaks occurred in Europe during the 17th century, this was one of the worst. The disease is thought to have been brought into the city of Mantua by French and German soldiers in the Thirty Years’ War, and it spread from there.
While the plague ravaged the country, some towns were spared. Ferrara in northern Italy did not experience a single death from the plague because it implemented strict border controls, sanitation laws, and personal hygiene practices. It even built state-funded plague hospitals outside the city’s walls to prevent larger outbreaks from single cases (although the disease was thought to be caused by corrupted air rather than a bacterium).
This is a rare example of effective disease control in history and is eerily reminiscent of what the world is going through with COVID-19. The Great Plague of Milan was so deadly, it is thought to be a major contributor to the decline in power of the Republic of Venice, which had risen to prominence during the Renaissance.
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This "pandemic" is about quarantine cultism. It's notable Fauci is skipping the WH briefings. He's on his way out, poor overworked bureacrapic mouthpiece.
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Bill Gates and WHO are reviewing Fauci'x résumé/CV as we speak.
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They are all going to be part of the bureau of Sodom...
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One can only hope. Then again, I've been waiting for the swamp to be drained and Hillary to be "locked up" and indictments from "Russia Gate". I mean, after all, Trey Gowdy said so.
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C(r)amgorou will hat you for pointing that out...
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Hate.
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Think of how many times over our collective many, many years where either we or someone we know was ill due to a virus. All we did was stay home, take what we could, and wait it out.
Except for, maybe, its level of contagion, why is this oh, so different?
Blog/Gov't Incompetence
Posted Apr 26, 2020 by Martin Armstrong
People who stand up to the overwhelming corruption that has seized control of our lives through the offices of government are demonized, arrested, killed, or thrown in prison on charges that make no sense and they are always denied a trial. Michael Mahon Hastings (1980—2013) was a journalist who was a vocal critic of the Obama administration, Democratic Party, and surveillance state they created. He called it a "war" on journalism which is one reason many see the leftist press seems to only support the Deep State is their attempt to overthrow Trump and always supports the exact opposite of what Hastings was trying to report. The leftist press is always now against the people advocating the surrender of our rights. This has gone way beyond simple liberal v conservative politics. This was an all-out war on journalism and they have surrendered.
Hastings was most likely murdered. His last story was entitled: "Why Democrats Love to Spy On Americans", which was published by BuzzFeed on June 7, 2013. The day before the crash, Hastings emailed friends that he was being investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Hastings said that he was "onto a big story", that he needed to "go off the radar", and that the FBI might interview them.
WikiLeaks announced that Hastings had also contacted Jennifer Robinson, one of its lawyers, a few hours prior to the crash. According to the LA Weekly, Hastings was preparing a report on the CIA at the time of his death which may have been to the unconstitutional surveillance of American citizens domestically. His widow said that her husband’s final story was a profile of CIA Director John O. Brennan.
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Even Jeffrey Epstein, who was not a whistleblower but probably a blackmailer, posed way too much of a threat to everyone who was influential. He was certainly not a pedophile which is molesting children pre-puberty. He was taking girls 16 and 17 to most likely entrap various people where he could use that info for political blackmail. The list of influential people in his circle was amazing. There was NO WAY he would be allowed to go to trial. He was unquestionably murdered.
Rubbish! Everyone knew Epstein had a self-esteem problem, few friends, a fear of flying, cash flow difficulties. There was only one way out for him.
[National Review] On the menu today: The possibility of another wave of Americans moving out of the big cities, the likelihood of some future pandemic further down the road, and how the Red America—Blue America divide is likely to be altered when we emerge from this crisis.
THE COMING DE-URBANIZATION OF AMERICA
Yesterday on my work Facebook page, a reader asked, "Why is it that the places Covid-19 show up the most are in Democrat controlled areas?" As much as I’d like to believe that all the troubles in the world can eventually be traced back to Bill de Blasio, I responded, "Probably because ’the places it shows up the most’ are large densely-packed cities with a lot of international and domestic air travel and high use of mass transit, where Democrats have been winning elections more than Republicans for at least a generation and in many cases several generations."
You can split red and blue America in a lot of ways — race, age, religiosity — but arguably the strongest factor is geography. The "Big Sort" that Bill Bishop described has been at work for two decades. Sure, there are conservatives and Republicans who live in big cities and inner-ring suburbs, just rarely in the numbers that could make a difference. And there are progressives and Democrats who live in rural areas and exurbs, but again, rarely in the numbers that could make a difference in elections.
Kevin Williamson has noted that conservatives often don’t even try to persuade city-dwellers of the value of their ideas, and lapse into a casual to overt contempt of life in the big city.
Meanwhile, it is not hard to find examples of urban progressives looking at rural America with a combination of contempt, disdain, pity, smug superiority . . . heck, it’s not hard to find urban progressives who see suburbanites as somehow inferior and worthy of scorn, never mind residents of small-town America.
At some point the coronavirus crisis will end, but one of the extraordinarily difficult lessons of this ordeal is that the catastrophic scenarios that sound like something out of science fiction can happen in real life, and that the vast majority of us are at the mercy of fate in these scenarios. As mentioned last week, whichever way SARS-CoV-2 jumped into humans — a lab accident, wet markets, exotic-animal trader, a farmer using bat guano for fertilizer — it can happen again with another virus. Right now, as you are reading this, all around the world, scientists are working on dangerous viruses and pathogens in biosafety-level four, three, and two labs. Almost all wet markets are still open in China; all around Asia, the often-illegal trade in exotic species continues with minimal impediments; and farmers all around the world continue to use guano as fertilizer, prompting human beings to go into caves, and risk exposure to viruses that no human being has ever encountered before. Those viruses will probably be less deadly and contagious than SARS-CoV-2. But someday, humanity could encounter one that is even worse.
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IMO, one of the main benefits of Covid is that it exposed the fact many on the Conservative/Libertarian Right are just as stupidly dogmatic as their Left wing counterparts.
Plagues that killed 50% of urban population of Europe didn't stop urbanization - your piddly Covid with 2% - 10% mortality will?
#2
Nice thought, but since it's written by NR, I won't read it, ever. That and shit from Powerline - fuck Steve Hayward with a nine iron, fuckin' ban happy pansy.
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Remember to adjust for noise introduced by the Imperial College Bullshit Factor -- accordingly, reduce official COVID fatality projections by two orders of magnitude
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0.05% = fatalities : population. Not CFR/case fatality rate or fatalities : diagnosed cases.
Will probably end up more like .025% or 0.03% nationwide i.e. 100,000 US deaths max.
Which doesn't offset the >100,000 needless deaths from diversion of resources from cancer etc patients and from tens of thousands of deaths of despair -- suicides, addiction, domestic violence, violent crime - caused by mass impoverishment + destruction of tens of millions of livelihoods
[Strategic Culture Foundation] Open Borders and Free Trade induce national suicide slowly and gradually, without the victims waking up to what is going on until it is too late. But the coronavirus has brought home with global clarity that human societies need governments and regulated borders for their own survival.
The bottom line is clear, societies that have had open borders to previous major centers of infection and transmission, like Iran and Italy which kept open strong flows of people to and from China in the early stages of pandemic, suffered exceptionally badly. Countries obsessed with maintaining liberal values and open borders like France, Germany, the United Kingdom and the U.S. also suffered disproportionately.
Countries that have allowed their domestic industry to decay have found they cannot now produce the crucial equipment they need, from respirators to gas masks. Countries with strong manufacturing bases like China, or with a prudent nationalist sense of preparing ahead for emergencies like Russia, have done far better. The shortage of respirators in Britain has become more than a national scandal: It is a national shame. That is another inexorable consequence of the pernicious doctrine of Free Trade.
I documented this history in some detail in my 2012 book "That Should Still Be Us".
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Countries with strong manufacturing bases like China, or with a prudent nationalist sense of preparing ahead for emergencies like Russia, have done far better.
Sorry to rain on his parade, but Chinese numbers are a lie and Russia is getting hammered even as we speak. It's countries what took the new coronavirus seriously - and have responsible (adult) population what escaped with minor ravages.
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Glad to see these countries wasting money trying to obtain N95 masks. Cargo cult morons.
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Do consumers desire cheaper products or not? Consumers drive the train, not the other way around.
And maybe unions should be a little less demanding with their wage demands.
And maybe government can overhaul a pathetic tax code.
And....
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Look at the daily new infection curve for each of the 50 US states, note when (or even whether) each state imposed Stay At Home policies -- that date is indicated on each lockdown state's curve -- and ask yourselves what the correlation is between the lockdowns and the shape of the infection curve.
[Zero Hedge] Steve Meyer, an economist at consultant Kerns & Associates, said hog farmers don't have extra pens and feed yards, that is why many of them are starting to cull herds. He said overcapacity is everywhere in the farming industry and resulted in the dumping of products:
"Nobody wants to do this," Meyer said. "It's not as easy as dumping milk on the ground like the dairy guys do. It's not as easy as breaking eggs in a broiler operation and eight weeks later having fewer birds on the market. We have a 10 month chain from the time until the pigs hit the market."
Food shortages could occur "two weeks from now in the retail outlets," warned Dennis Smith, a senior account executive at Archer Financial Services.
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The processors are dragging their feet to try to keep prices up -- two weeks ago they were complaining the restaurants weren't open so the choice cuts of beef weren't selling at their regular price.
The closures I've heard about account for maybe 10% of the national capacity -- a pain, but not crippling.
And remember -- food processing is a key industry. They've never been shut down.
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There's an ideal time to slaughter hogs or beef cattle, but you can adjust feeding schedules and cut back on breeding and go on from there.
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What country are we living in? Why are we tolerating this idiocy?
To be safe from infection, people working in meat packing plant need PPE as good as the one medical personnel is using. Plus frequent breaks and a places to spend these breaks - because one can't function very long in protective clothing. Plus daily checkups. You decide what kind of country you're living in.
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Meat packing workers seem to avoid e. coli for the most part though tons of meat products are thrown away every year because of e. coli contamination.
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A contact in Europe says the local grocery store is fully stocked with "bath tissue". Not one hint of hoarding or supply issues. The only thing (generally) is that prices have gone up on some items. NFI.
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Shelves were full of everything paper, except TP, which was only half full yesterday. Meat counters, dairy, all full
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About the only thing I'm seeing an improvement in is facial tissue and in more than one shop. I did witness paper towels once. And TP once in Walmart, a very very cheap (generic) version. But, they had some....one and only time.
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The biggest shortages are in convenience foods -- the easier it is to prepare, the harder it is to find. Pastas, rice, canned vegetables, beans -- those are were I still see empty shelves. Pre-made (heat and eat) food seems to be under stress; spot shortages of some things, but that varied from store to store. Based on what's being promoted, producers may be favoring "family size" packages, but I'm not sure supply chains and promotions have been able to react that fast.
Produce looks fine. I'm not an early shopper, and I can still find what I need.
Both shops had plenty of paper goods, including name brands.
The first few weeks cheaper beef and any chicken were hard to find, but that seems to have shaken out.
I shop twice each week -- once for my dad and once for myself. I hit a national chain store and a local store; if absolutely necessary I'll stop at another just to get what my dad wants. This week the only substitution was picking a different brand, and I had to pick up one item with my shopping. For myself, I grab usually have a list, but if necessary I can adapt to what's available.
I've never had to touch any preps, even the emergency reserve toilet paper.
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Speaking of pigs, here is a song about four wet pigs by Greg Brown.
Here's a little song about four wet pigs,
Just a little song about four wet pigs.
Two are little, two are big,
They're all dancin' at the Mudtown Jig.
The two that're little, little as an ear of corn,
Two that're big are bigger than a barn,
Bigger than a barn, taller than a tree,
When they go to the factory.
Cut 'em into bacon, slice 'em into ham,
Chop 'em into hot dogs, squeeze 'em into Spam.
Throw their little eyes out in the rain,
Throw their little eyes out in the rain,
Throw their beady little piggy eyes out into the rain,
Pickle their feet and pickle their brains.
(Oooogh.)
Here's a little story about two wet pigs,
Standin' at the slop trough smokin' their cigs.
Wishin' to god they'd never get big,
Dancin' out their hearts,
Dancin' out their hearts,
Dancin' out their hearts at the Mudtown Jig.
(Dance little piggies.)
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Yeast. Apparently that sees seasonal peaks, and it hard to ramp up production
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Even the King Arthur Flour website is out of yeast at the moment. But Cooks Illustrated has a recipe for a sourdough starter that does not waste pounds of flour in the process, James. Link
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[Red State] Anecdotally I’ve noticed that the people who keep insisting on extended lockdowns are the people who are still getting paid. And you know which huge group is still getting paid? Government employees. I don’t know if there is something about being one of the lucky people to still have a paycheck that makes one grossly incurious, but it doesn’t seem like there’s a lot of empathy coming from the people in government right now. If you have a friend with a government job ask them if they think the economy should reopen or we need to quarantine through the summer. I’m willing to bet the majority will say we need to stay quarantined.
My own governor Gavin Newsom has been on television every day looking concerned and somber and telling us we may need to get used to this new normal. Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti is saying Angelinos cannot look forward to any kind of large gatherings until at least 2021. The entertainment capital of the world can’t have a sporting event until 2021? That’s half of Los Angeles’ economy right there.
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Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti is saying Angelinos cannot look forward to any kind of large gatherings until at least 2021.
Or when Trump loses the election, whichever comes first!
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Anecdotally I’ve noticed that the people who keep insisting on extended lockdowns are the people who are still getting paid.
But of course. Government hacks. Public university and school system hacks. And media hacks whose companies are taking in ad dollars thanks to the panic and hysteria they've fomented with their garbage non-reporting, lies and bullshit.
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Quarantine will be over in 2-4 weeks, last in big cities. Politicians will go overboard stating that it was their idea all along.
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You're absolutely right! I mean why should anyone who's like me (I help keep aircraft from running into each other) be paid for still working? Seriously, all you menial people don't deserve a paycheck. Oh, by the way, the writer is using POLITICIANS as examples, let me clue you in (whispers) they're not government employees. [disdain off]
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Now, AA5839, you're overreacting - just because some people don't realize that Economy is not just independent farmers & small businesses, doesn't mean they're bad people. Just incapable of coping with the lockdown (I'm trying not to be mean).😎
p.s. Lets abolish the, nonprofitable, US military.
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Ref #4: Purely a hypothetical; my non-gov't dentist (who must pay office rent, insurance, and utilities) sees 19 patients per day and makes $141,000 per year. Should he expect to make the same $141,000 per year seeing only two patients per day ?
Not to be unkind, but if the answer is 'yes' perhaps my dentist does not actually have a job, but rather a unique position of entitlement. What say you ?
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I'm giving serious thought to finding a way to fuck up this week's real estate tax payment (it's done through escrow), then write a scathing Rantburg-worthy letter to the jackoff mayor telling him exactly why.
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Notice when we have a budget fight/impasse in Congress and they furlough non-essential government employees, after its all over they get back pay for sitting at home and not working (not to be confused with those who during normal times do minimal or no work). Maybe if there was real pain, their empathy meter might rise. Nah, never mind.
[NYPOST] The random antibody testing of 3,000 people across the state of New York has delivered yet another blow to the faith we placed in the computer models that Governor Cuomo and President Trump used to shut down the economy and place all of America under virtual home detention.
The tests show 2.7 million in New York state have developed antibodies through exposure. Meaning, with 16,000 COVID-19 deaths, the state’s mortality rate is a little less than 0.6 percent. Nowhere near as lethal as the dire 3.4 percent death rate the World Health Organization was billing early last month, and these figures will keep changing as more data comes to hand.
And it wasn’t all because we are perfect practitioners of self-isolation and hand washing.
The President’s 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... task force took into account those mitigation measures when it used an amalgam of models to predict that between 100,000 and 240,000 Americans likely would die.
A model from the University of Washington has since revised the projected corpse count to 60,000 down from an initial 162,000.
As of Friday, 51,000 Americans had bit the dust, and now the updated models are edging closer to grim reality.
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The next challenge is to re-open the economy, and Cuomo reportedly wants to spend money we don’t have on consultants, McKinsey & Co, to create — you guessed it — a computer model to tell him the best way to move forward.
It's just a crutch, you mental cripplemental defective logic-challenged man individual.
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^ Truth
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Magic numbers. The Whore of Babylon.
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There is something call the level of confidence. How sure are you of your models?
I'd like to remind those who keep arguing statistics in the face of model failures the old warning - crying wolf. It's an observation of human failing that hasn't change in thousands of years.
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...the state’s mortality rate is a little less than 0.6 percent. Nowhere near as lethal as the dire 3.4 percent death rate the World Health Organization was billing early last month
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Fearless prediction: a year from now we will analyze the data dispassionately, remove the noise, standardize the coding of fatalities, and discover that the lockdowns had next to nothing to do with the actual fatality:population rate in any given geography.
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America had had 40 thousand deaths and the bodycount is inreasing by two thosusand a aday so yunless there is _big_ slowdown the 60 thousand bar should be raeched in 10 daays
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The overreaction will cause more needless deaths than COVID actually does or could.
See NYC total fatalities this year and compare to the three prior non-COVID years. The spike in non-COVID fatalities is nearly as high as the spike that's been attributed to COVID
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The numbers are being skewed by attributing anything and everything to CV-19 for various reasons: financial and agenda
60,000 is still gonna be hit eventually
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^ this.
De-noise and standardize the data especially the coding methodology for fatalities before you conclude that country X or state Y has done a great job or an atrocious job in managing this thing.
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Despite this guidance from the CDC on "cause of death", that just tells me that doctors (not all) have no integrity. They either need to cite the correct cause of [unfortunate] death or else consider themselves as unethical and a disgrace to the medical profession. The days of AMA support from Big Tobacco are over. I think.
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#14 Unfortunately "big slowdown" is not coming. If you look at the graphs, JFM, a lot of the states are in the rising phase. And the med personnel becomes exhausted. And citizenry, exhausted by non accustomed lockdown, ignores quarantine rules.
USA, despite NYC experience, is like Italy was in mid-March, or France at the end of March.
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Grom - it's not slowing down, but it's not really rising either - daily new cases and deaths have been roughly constant for the last three weeks in the three jurisdictions I follow. I haven't seen a model that explains that.
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#21 (a) Thanks, Lex, that's what I was looking for.
(b) It says "shelter in place" on the graph - so no test.
(c) It doesn't say nada about compliance*.
(d) I commend "Cold vs. Warm Weather States" graph to you. Notice, exactly the same pattern - only diffs in amplitude.
(e) Let us compare Alaska to California - keeping (c) in mind.
#23
Obviously, Alaska ended the first wave, and California is not (I assume because the virus expanded from the coast - where hombres ricos live, to the state's interior).
p.s. Give 2 - 4 weeks (depending on hot/cold) for asymptomatic phase.
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#25 Wear your masks and get tested.
No different than condoms and STDs.
Which is why whenever there's a (perceived, not actual) spike in STDs we act swiftly to force the entire economy to shut down for months, destroy 1/3 of the population's livelihoods and create another Depression, right?
[VictoryGirls] Remember your Greek Mythology from high school? In Homer’s Odyssey, the hero Odysseus and crew were blown off-course and ended up at the land of the Lotus Eaters. The results were not pretty.
I was driven thence by foul winds for a space of 9 days upon the sea, but on the tenth day we reached the land of the Lotus-eaters, who live on a food that comes from a kind of flower. Here we landed to take in fresh water, and our crews got their mid-day meal on the shore near the ships. When they had eaten and drunk I sent two of my company to see what manner of men the people of the place might be, and they had a third man under them. They started at once, and went about among the Lotus-eaters, who did them no hurt, but gave them to eat of the lotus, which was so delicious that those who ate of it left off caring about home, and did not even want to go back and say what had happened to them, but were for staying and munching lotus with the Lotus-eaters without thinking further of their return; nevertheless, though they wept bitterly I forced them back to the ships and made them fast under the benches. Then I told the rest to go on board at once, lest any of them should taste of the lotus and leave off wanting to get home, so they took their places and smote the grey sea with their oars.
The term "lotus eaters" has been regularly used to describe people concerned with nothing but their own pleasure without regard to practical issues or those who wish for such a utopia on earth.
From the dissolute scions of old money to the famous-for-being-famous, there has always been a segment of society who just want to party 24/7.
However, I don’t ever remember it being so blatant in an elected politician.
Mike
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· Apr 23, 2020
I agree with AOC. Work is a form of oppression. It’s just wrong. Let’s abolish it. After all, this lockdown has proven that we don’t really need work. Everything that is truly essential — Amazon and liquor stores — remains open. Let’s stay locked down forever!
Clifford D. May
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@CliffordDMay
Non-workers of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your supply chains!
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"When we talk about this idea of ’reopening society,’ you know, only in America, does the President, when the President tweets about liberation, does he mean go back to work. When we have this discussion about going back or reopening, I think a lot people should just say ’no,’ we’re not going back to that. We’re not going back to working 70 hour weeks just so that we can put food on the table and not even feel any sort of semblance of security in our lives."
Say, what? Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has sure meandered down the primrose path of derpitude on more occasions than even we wish to highlight. She is just the gift that keeps on giving ... like herpes. However, in what world does an alleged adult feel that refusing to step up and take responsibility for one’s own existence is anti-liberty?
She was born in 1989, making her an official Millennial, but even old Boomer me won’t judge a whole generation based on her 30-going-on-14-I-demand-endless-summer-vacation sentiments. Don’t you also love her WE are not going back to 70 hour weeks!? This cosseted whiner has never seen the fat-end of a 40 hour week. I’d take those odds to Las Vegas tomorrow, regardless of Anderson Cooper’s faux-outrage hand-flapping. The fact remains that the American worker puts in an average of 34.4 hours per week.
Oh, yes? You in the back frantically waving? Yes, I know what average means. There are and will always be people who work more and those who work less than the average. There are oodles of variables — by industry, profession, season, etc. However, there is little to indicate AOC’s implied OMG we are nothing but 70/hour/week wage slaves! excuse for considering work too icky to actually go back to is reality.
Obviously, she’s found her well-paid, albeit non-productive, niche in :::cough::: public service ::::cough:::: a satrapy of lotus eaters throughout history.
Is AOC a one-off though? Certainly, when polls show young Americans favoring the Santa Claus illusion of socialism over supporting themselves, it doesn’t bode well. And while 22 million Americans are currently out of work, many like AOC aren’t that interested in getting back anytime soon.
Jamie Black-Lewis felt like she won the lottery after getting two forgivable loans through the Paycheck Protection Program. [...]
When Black-Lewis convened a virtual employee meeting to explain her good fortune, she expected jubilation and relief that paychecks would resume in full even though the staff — primarily hourly employees — couldn’t work.
She got a different reaction.
"It was a firestorm of hatred about the situation," Black-Lewis said.
Hatred? At their boss, a small business owner, who jumped through hoops so they could still have a paycheck while home AND have a job to come back to?
Uh, yeah ...
The anger came from employees who’d determined they’d make more money by collecting unemployment benefits than their normal paychecks. [...]
"I couldn’t believe it," she added. "On what planet am I competing with unemployment?"
[PJMedia] Not only is Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari behind what several international observers are calling a "genocide" of Christians in his nation—but Barack Hussein Obama played a major role in the Moslem president’s rise to power: these two interconnected accusations are increasingly being made—not by "xenophobic" Americans but Nigerians themselves, including several leaders and officials.
Most recently, Femi Fani-Kayode, Nigeria’s former minister of culture and tourism, wrote in a Facebook post:
What Obama, John Kerry and Hilary Clinton did to Nigeria by funding and supporting Buhari in the 2015 presidential election and helping Boko Haram in 2014/2015 was sheer wickedness and the blood of all those killed by the Buhari administration, his Fulani herdsmen and Boko Haram over the last 5 years are on their hands.
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I have heard Obama's father was suited in Kenaya as Arab. More Arab blood than Balck. If true and had it been known Obala would have not even be elected to dog catcher in Coyote Gulch
But if trie (again) it would shed a new light on his pro-Islam and pro6arab policies
#5
From the Rantburg archives: back in 2013 former Muslim Brotherhood member Walid Shoebat shared Egypt’s accusation that Barack Obama’s half brother Malik Obama was in charge of the Muslim Brotherhood’s international investments. Malik (in full Abon’go “Roy” Malik Obama) was the best man at Barack’s wedding to Michelle, and head of the Barack H. Obama Foundation.
[Mises] The US economy is imprisoned, most of the population is under house arrest, and the inmates in Washington are running the asylum. And yet while the nation appears to be walking the green mile, investors residing in the Wall Street cell block have been extended pardons from the market gods. Prisoners in the Main Street general population wing of the jail are stuck consuming gruel, manufacturing license plates, and marrying old maids with a dozen cats. The bats not only triggered a severe respiratory illness pandemic, but also sparked a serious case of insanity.
AMERICA IN ONE IMAGE?
Justin Horwitz, a Democratic strategist, tweeted a screenshot [in link]
that was meant to showcase "everything that is wrong with America." It featured CNBC’s Jim Cramer celebrating the Dow Jones Industrial Average’s best week since 1938 and a network chyron that read "More than 16M Americans have lost jobs in 3 weeks." The consensus on Twitter was unanimous: what the heck is happening?
On the surface, it does not make much sense. Today, millions of Americans are out of work, businesses are closed, and the gross domestic product is forecast to contract double digits in the first and second quarters. At the same time, the leading stock indexes have rebounded about 20 percent from their March 23 lows. Champagne is flowing on Wall Street, while blood is being shed on Main Street. Trying to grasp this market is like attempting to comprehend former vice-president Joe Biden speaking to the press.
Once you scratch that surface, you realize what is going on. It may not seem like a satisfying explanation, but at least you can understand the office water cooler talk between the bulls and the bears.
PAY IT FORWARD
Do you remember the annihilation that took place last month? The consecutive Black Mondays, the thousand-point swings, the margin calls, and the liquidation of trillions of dollars in assets? It was devastating to watch in real time for the faint of heart, especially if you are nearing retirement and desiring to spend the rest of your days sleeping in and eating cheesecake.
The March madness was pricing in the next quarter or two. Stock exchanges anticipated the rising confirmed cases and death tolls, the soaring jobless claims, the skyrocketing unemployment rate, the depressing earnings season, and every other piece of bad news relating to the coronavirus. This is why it seems befuddling when 6 million Americans file for unemployment benefits and the United States confirms 723 new deaths, but the S&P 500 jumps 2 percent.
Financial markets are always forward looking. Right now, the New York Stock Exchange is focusing on life after COVID-19, when society, it is hoped, returns to normal. There may be some detours along the way, but traders are assessing the future of the postcoronavirus world and searching for new opportunities to make a lot of money.
THE POWELL PUTSCH
And then there is the Federal Reserve System....
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May is it for me. I'm going to find someplace to get a damned haircut. Did everyone/anyone see that cartoon/joke where a supposed hooker leans into a car window and says 'I'll do anything for $50', and the car's occupant says "can you cut my hair?" I may (I do) have a low sense of humor but I thought that was hilarious. I comes in second only to the same picture entitled "how I met your mother".
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#5
Because markets are not really connected to actual economy?
#6
It's another game of speculation. It's a herd that gets spooked in an environment in which the signal is designed to spook. Chicken Little was the very first reporter.
#7
And when US T-bills pay around around 0%, money has gotta go somewhere, and that somewhere will be the stock market. I should think Europeans are not too keen on negative interest rates, either.
#9
Gold is bouncing around $1800-2000/ounce. The buying power of the dollar is not much if it takes ~$2000 to buy an ounce of gold. The govmint printing presses are running overtime.
#10
"Printing presses" are overheating. To simply dump a few trillion dollars into the economy is no small thing. Then, throw in the Repo crisis and bank woes in Europe, then you have gold potentially going through the roof.
I've read where 70% of USD cash (most 100's) are overseas with much of that in Europe. Europeans have a propensity of cancelling their currencies; the US never has. Wonder why there's a movement to go to digital currencies? Pelosi wants it, too. Hmmmm. Funny how it ties in to this COVID-19 spiel.
Printing presses are so 20th Century. Now the Fed magically creates money and distributes it by computer. Major banks and money houses exchange those magic dollars among themselves. If you use a credit card, you are also play a part of the magic money system. Now if for some reason the electricity goes out for an extended period of time, those printed bills and minted coins will have to be resurrected and a lot of houses of magic money will collapse.
[Daily Caller] Every Democrat in the Senate has refused to acknowledge the sexual assault allegations against 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden that were brought forward by a former staffer, even after new evidence lends credibility to the alleged assault.
The Daily Caller contacted every Democrat in the Senate, asking them if they would even consider the allegations by Biden’s accuser, Tara Reade, who has accused the then-senator of kissing her, touching her and penetrating her with his fingers without her consent in 1993. Each Senate office was given 24 hours to respond but not one did.
Here Are All The Senate Democrats Who Have Refused To Acknowledge The Alleged Assault:
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Plugz is their Mondale.
They're all taking cover now, waiting for 2024. None of them wants responsibility for anything so they're perfectly content to watch Plugz fall on his face in November.
American Thinker
It has been known, ever since 1984, that zinc is an effective virus fighter. That year a research study discovered that taking zinc gluconate lozenges early in the course of a common cold could shorten it. After a series of apparently conflicting research studies, a 2012 review of the literature concluded that taking zinc early reduces the duration of a common cold by an average of 1.65 days. Since colds are mild virus infections, it is clear that zinc has anti-virus properties.
...On April 7, two Belgian researchers, Amir Noeparast and Gil Verschelden, published a research paper in which they discussed the research results about the relationship between zinc deficiency and COVID-19. The evidence that they marshal is impressive:
1. Zinc deficiency is prevalent. "Up to a fifth of the global population is estimated to suffer from different degrees of Zinc deficiency. In the western world, Zinc deficiency is more prevalent among the geriatric population, and vegans/vegetarians as well as among people with certain underlying conditions. Notably, the early reports show that the elderly SARS-CoV-2 patients are among those with a higher fatality rate."
2. Women’s bodies make better use of zinc. "It is reported that among the geriatric female population, a gene polymorphism that leads to an increased immune response-mediated release of Zinc is associated with decreased IL-6 level" and thus reduced incidence of fatal Cytokyne Storms.
3. ARDS is more common in people with zinc deficiencies. "Zinc deficiency is associated with an increased risk of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) in humans."
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There are laws against the excessive use of emoticons. Or at least there should be.
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LOL. Little faces aren't so bad, but emoticons in excess are quite annoying. On some blogs, I block users who use more than two little rocket ships.
h/t Instapundit
[Spiked] - There’s not much to laugh about these days, but the news that smokers might be protected from Covid-19 is certainly one of them. With study after study showing that smokers are under-represented in coronavirus wards, the renowned French neuroscientist, Jean-Pierre Changeux, is working on a randomised control trial to test the effect of nicotine patches on Covid-19 patients.
Review of Evidence
...This week, a group of French academics published their study of 343 Covid patients, of whom only 4.4 per cent were daily smokers. According to the authors, the study ’strongly suggests that daily smokers have a very much lower probability of developing symptomatic or severe SARS-CoV-2 infection as compared to the general population’. This seems to have been the study that prompted Professor Changeux to go public with his research project.
People scoffed when Emmanuel Macron exempted tobacco kiosks from France’s lockdown on the basis that they provide an essential service. Who’s coughing now?
Far be it from me to preempt the conclusions of the professor’s research, but let us consider for a moment the policy implications of nicotine being the only tried and tested prophylactic for Covid-19. We could issue Lucky Strikes on prescription. We could #ClapForOurCigarettes every Thursday evening. The case for closing down Public Health England would be stronger than ever. We could open the pubs, but only to smokers and vapers. We might allow a few non-smokers in to enjoy the possible benefits of passive exposure, but only if they stand two metres apart. There is everything to play for. I'd really like to tell somebody "Can you please stop not smoking - it really bothers me!"
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.
[Whatfinger] Witness transcripts from the investigation into charges of Russian collusion against President Trump were supposed to made public by the House Intelligence Committee back in late in 2018. To date, they are still secret. One America’s John Hines has more on this.
Blog/Gov't Incompetence
Even Jeffrey Epstein, who was not a whistleblower but probably a blackmailer, posed way too much of a threat to everyone who was influential. He was certainly not a pedophile which is molesting children pre-puberty. He was taking girls 16 and 17 to most likely entrap various people where he could use that info for political blackmail. The list of influential people in his circle was amazing. There was NO WAY he would be allowed to go to trial. He was unquestionably murdered.
[Strategic Culture Foundation] Open Borders and Free Trade induce national suicide slowly and gradually, without the victims waking up to what is going on until it is too late. But the coronavirus has brought home with global clarity that human societies need governments and regulated borders for their own survival.
[Zero Hedge] Steve Meyer, an economist at consultant Kerns & Associates, said hog farmers don't have extra pens and feed yards, that is why many of them are starting to cull herds. He said overcapacity is everywhere in the farming industry and resulted in the dumping of products:
...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...
[Daily Caller] Every Democrat in the Senate has refused to acknowledge the sexual assault allegations against 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden that were brought forward by a former staffer, even after new evidence lends credibility to the alleged assault.
