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2020-04-26 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Pandemic Exposes Liberalism's Free Market, Open Borders Road to National Suicide

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Posted by Besoeker 2020-04-26 01:02|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 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.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-26 02:39|| 2020-04-26 02:39|| Front Page Top

#2 Glad to see these countries wasting money trying to obtain N95 masks. Cargo cult morons.

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-04-26 10:44|| 2020-04-26 10:44|| Front Page Top

#3 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....

Posted by Clem 2020-04-26 10:57|| 2020-04-26 10:57|| Front Page Top

#4 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.

Can you say, zero?

Posted by Lex 2020-04-26 11:01|| 2020-04-26 11:01|| Front Page Top

#5 It's such a scam. Pathetic.

Posted by Clem 2020-04-26 11:05|| 2020-04-26 11:05|| Front Page Top

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