PLASTIC TURKEY: THE NEXT GENERATION. NYT, NBC Reporters Parrot Jimmy Kimmel’s False Accusation that Pence Delivered Empty Boxes of PPE.
(Classical reference in headline.)
WELL, THAT SHOULD STOP THE VIRUS, THEN: San Antonio City Council Bans ‘Chinese Virus’ as Hate Speech.
BUT HE’S NOT TRUMP, SO THAT’S OK: Media darling Cuomo mishandled COVID-19, killing thousands.
WHY NOT TAKE A BREAK FROM THE SERIOUS NEWS FOR A FEW MINUTES? Florida Man Friday: Full Speed Reverse!
HALF-WHITMER GETS SOMETHING RIGHT: Michigan Governor Clears Path for Automakers to Restart Production.
NOT MUCH CHANGE IN MY AREA, A WEEK AFTER REOPENING STARTED: Coronavirus in Tennessee: Elective surgery dates for hospitals set; 55 active Knox County cases, 272 total. “The Knox County Health Department reported three new cases on Friday, bringing the total case number to 272. Knox County reported 55 active cases on Friday, up from 52 on Thursday. The total number of recovered cases remained at 212. . . . There are three patients currently hospitalized due to COVID-19. Of the 272 cases, 36 of them have resulted in hospitalization at any point during the illness.”
They’re restarting elective surgeries, too.
NOTHING GOOD: What Would Happen if Democrats Passed Another New Deal to ‘Fix’ This Depression-Level Unemployment?
Flashback: FDR’s policies prolonged Depression by 7 years, UCLA economists calculate.
But it got FDR reelected three times so, omelets, eggs.
NOTRE DAME SOCIOLOGIST SHREDS HARVARD LAW PROF’S HOMESCHOOLING SCREED: Writing for the Institute for Family Studies (IFS), David Sikkink goes to the data and concludes Harvard’s Elizabeth Bartholet assumes “home” equals “prison.”
IT WAS LEG DAY, so I squatted again. Stopped at 275, which killed me last week. This time it’s left me a bit sore, but not jelly like last time, when climbing the three steps from my garage to my house was a killer. The gym (Gold’s) was busier than last week, but still pretty empty. I’m getting used to working out in a mask, but lifting in one leaves me blown as if I’d had a cardio workout. As a result, I’m taking things easy. One of my doc friends said that since he’s worn a mask for hours in the OR, he thought people complaining about working out in one were just whining until he tried it. Nope! Totally different thing when you’re exerting yourself hard.
GUN SALES COULD START UP AS SOON AS SATURDAY IN MASSACHUSETTS: “Massachusetts gun store owners could reopen as soon as Saturday thanks to a federal order that slammed Gov. Charlie Baker’s decision to close the stores during the COVID-19 shutdown, calling the move an ‘improper burden,’ on the Second Amendment. U.S. District Judge Douglas Woodlock said Baker failed to give a good reason for closing the stores. ‘There’s no justification here,’ said Woodlock during a virtual hearing on the case Thursday.”
OBAMA DEFENSE OFFICIAL EVELYN FARKAS ADMITTED SHE LIED ON MSNBC ABOUT HAVING EVIDENCE OF COLLUSION. “Farkas, a Democrat, is currently running for Congress in New York’s 17th district.”
NO, ONE LIFE IS NOT “PRICELESS”: Andrew Cuomo’s Morally Grotesque Rationale for Maintaining Covid-19 Lockdowns. Even the president is a better moral philosopher than New York’s governor.
NICE: Photography Life Just Released All of Their Paid Photography Courses for Free. “If you’re running low on free educational content and you’re eager to use this time to improve your craft, we have some good news. The website Photography Life hast just released all of their premium photography courses, usually $150 apiece, for free on YouTube.”
I REMEMBER WHEN BILLIONAIRES WERE BAD: Cuomo Faces Backlash For Enlisting Billionaires Eric Schmidt And Bill Gates To ‘Reimagine’ NY After Reopening.
KC JOHNSON: When Rules Don’t Apply. Joe Biden wants to deny accused college students the procedural protections that he demands for himself.
NO THANKS TO THE NET-NEUTRALITY NITWITS: The Pandemic That Didn’t Break the Internet. Market-friendly policies let Americans stream to their hearts’ content, while regulation-heavy Europe has been forced to impose speed limits on streaming services due to high demand during the pandemic.
THIS IS TROUBLING: Pence Aide Tests Positive For Coronavirus.. “The news that one of Pence’s aides tested positive for coronavirus comes just one day after the White House announced that a military valet to President Donald Trump had tested positive for the disease.”
It’s especially troubling as Nancy Pelosi, third in line for the presidency, is holed up in her mansion, refusing to come to Washington as she awaits her moment.
HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE AS POST-EXPOSURE PROPHYLAXIS FOR CORONAVIRUS: “After a large COVID-19 exposure event in an LTCH in Korea, PEP using hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) was administered to 211 individuals, including 189 patients and 22 careworkers, whose baseline polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests for COVID-19 were negative. PEP was completed in 184 (97.4%) patients and 21 (95.5%) careworkers without serious adverse events. At the end of 14 days of quarantine, all follow-up PCR tests were negative.”
This sounds promising.
DON’T LET KAREN KILL YOUR COMMUNITY:
But now, Karen is queen of enforcing mask-wearing. Everyone must wear one at all times, even if they are not near other people. Karen takes to the Nextdoor message boards to complain about all the people she sees without one. Joggers are currently the main target, because engaging in a solitary exercise with a covering on your nose and mouth should apparently be easy, but that could shift at any time.
‘Why is this so hard?’, Karen asks. Yes, it’s hard for people to understand how we went from ‘masks are pointless’ to ‘masks are mandatory’ in a few short weeks with Karen lecturing us the whole way. Even now the World Health Organization suggests ‘if you are healthy, you only need to wear a mask if you are taking care of a person with COVID-19.’
It’s almost unfair that the term for this kind of busybody has a gendered name. Men can be, and often are, Karens.
Just ask CBS Chicago: CBS Chicago Slammed For Segment Harassing Ice Cream Truck Driver During Stay-At-Home Order, Encouraging Folks To Call 9-1-1.
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DISPATCHES FROM THE MANCHURIAN MEDIA: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Changes Anti-Epoch Times Headline Three Times, Removes More Than 300 Comments.
Take off to the Great Red North!
I THINK THAT STATES THAT GO BANKRUPT SHOULD REVERT TO TERRITORY STATUS FOR FIVE YEARS: Bankruptcy for States? It’s a Better Idea than You Think. With existing elected officials ineligible to serve in any capacity, or draw a state pension, during that time.
UPDATE: Michael Lotus writes:
Don’t do it on a fixed time. Make them reapply for statehood.
Also, critically, they lose Congressional representation during territorial status, which means that they would not be voting on any assistance, and would not be voting on readmission.
Bankruptcy for states is so obviously a good idea that is too bad it has not come up sooner. A default without any workout system would be a mess. Having the option of an orderly workout would give relief to all creditors. And it would give state governments a huge element of bargaining leverage in negotiations. Almost as importantly, subordinate units of government should be able to file for bankruptcy much more easily than they do currently, with states setting the rules. A uniform national system making municipal and county bankruptcy easy would also impose discipline which is absent now on local retirement obligations.
They shouldn’t get any presidential electors either, of course.
KIRA DAVIS: The One Act of Heroism We Never Acknowledge Is the Nuclear Family.
In these days of coronavirus, the word “hero” has been used non-stop to describe doctors and nurses working on the “front lines”. We’re even calling our teachers heroes. I guess I don’t mind all that much. I understand the sentiment. I suppose it’s quite easy to look at a picture of a tired doctor at the end of a long day in ICU and call him a hero for sticking out the job he gets paid to do. We can look at his fatigue, his crumpled scrubs, the lines on his face from his mask and we can see the sacrifice right there on his face. We can measure his impact because what he does has immediate outcomes in real-time.
It is far more difficult for some starry-eyed, millennial opinion writer with a brand new thesaurus and a gig at The New York Times to look at a father schlepping back and forth to his office job every day and see a hero. That writer probably sees a bored man, or a defeated man, or an uninteresting man who doesn’t have an immediate impact on those around him….certainly not the way a doctor does. His heroism is invisible, because you can’t make a commercial out of it. His service, his bravery is spread out over an entire lifetime, not just one crisis.
The commitment to the nuclear family is one of the most heroic acts in our culture and yet it remains invisible…to the media, to celebrities making thirsty social media posts thanking the “heroes” four times a day, to our elected officials. In fact, the traditional family seems to only ever be insulted and derided in pop culture these days. I suppose that is because so many of our coastal reporters and celebrities don’t have families of their own. They don’t know how to quantify the sacrifice it takes to raise a family and maintain a marriage. It just looks like a relic of a different era to them, instead of the essential foundation of a healthy and prosperous society.
Needless to say, read the whole thing.
THIS IS GOOD NEWS, OF COURSE, BUT SUGGESTS THINGS MAY HAVE BEEN OVERSOLD IN THE BEGINNING: U.S. Field Hospitals Stand Down, Most Without Treating Any COVID-19 Patients.
But I see it as evidence that President Trump’s swift and effective action has saved millions of lives.
FLORIDA’S CORONAVIRUS RESPONSE SHOWS US WHAT WE MIGHT HAVE DONE DIFFERENTLY:
As the coronavirus approached its peak in New York and other hard-hit parts of the country, many people looked to Florida as the next hot spot. I was one of them. I argued back in April that Gov. Ron DeSantis’s hesitation to adopt early, statewide preventive measures could become problematic, given the rising number of confirmed cases in heavily populated areas, such as Miami, and rural hospitals’ lack of preparedness.
But the anticipated disaster never occurred. The worst of the state’s outbreak has thus far been contained in a handful of populous South Florida counties. The average of new cases has steadily declined over the past few weeks, and the average of new deaths has largely plateaued.
The question is: Why? How did Florida avoid what seemed like an inevitable crisis, while other parts of the country have floundered? We might not know for a long while yet. But for right now, there’s something to be said of Florida’s strategy and the way in which Floridians responded to it.
Read the whole thing; though note how the media is distorting the responses of New York and Florida’s governors:
WHEN YOU’RE RICH, YOU CAN LEAVE YOUR PROBLEMS TO THE LITTLE PEOPLE: Democrats fume over having to clean up Bloomberg’s mess.
By the way, I want to point out that after spending a billion dollars on a vanity campaign, Bloomberg has been nowhere to be seen as Americans everywhere are suffering during this pandemic.
UPDATE: To be fair, a friend points out that while Bloomberg’s been awfully quiet, Bloomberg Philanthropies is doing Covid work.
CHRISTIAN TOTO: Michael Moore Hearts Extinction Rebellion. Here’s What They Do. “Does the filmmaker support destruction, violence and hurting a reeling economy?”
IN THE MAIL: Starship Troopers (Turtleback Binding Edition).
MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: The Second Cold War: Oops, We Did It Again. “‘The Capitalists will pay us to make the rope with which we will hang them.’ – Deng Xiaoping, apparently.”
This is the first of a multipart series available to just our VIP members, and I hope you’ll use that VODKAPUNDIT discount code if you’ve been thinking of becoming a supporter.
FIGHT THE POWER: University of Michigan law students devise legal challenge to governor’s stay-at-home order. It’s fairly rare to see law students taking on Democrats’ policies. And this seems quite a fair description of Whitmer’s work in general: “The more we assessed the executive order, the more irrational it looked.”
IT’S GOOD TO BE THE NOMENKLATURA: Democratic congressman said opening California beaches was ‘reckless.’ Then he was seen at a private beach.
THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS, AFFIRMATIVE ACTION EDITION: Are Spaniards “Persons of Spanish Culture”? A strange affirmative action classification in Boston suggested that the answer is no.
Until Pritzker shut down the state’s restaurants and bars, they employed more than 500,000 Illinois workers. The only employers with more workers are the state and local governments.
And he has yet to offer leadership for business owners who are obligated to pay state and local taxes, and who, through no fault of their own, are hemorrhaging money because he shut them down.
Pritzker has granted himself immense state emergency powers. But he hasn’t demanded the Illinois General Assembly meet and act, and the state tax code is written largely by the legislature, though local governments set their own levies.
Pritzker also hasn’t told homeowners what he’d do, if anything, about paying the property bills they’ll be getting in July, even if they’ve lost their jobs.
Most government operates on the Goodfellas principle: “F*** you, pay me.”
I’M SURE HIS SCHOLARLY WORK IN EPIDEMIOLOGY IS CAUTIOUS AND CORRECT: Yale prof promotes ‘Trump death clock,’ says COVID-19 ‘getting awfully close to genocide.’
Notice he’s not interested in Bill “take the subway to a theater” De Blasio. But when taxpayers tire of supporting this sort of thing, we’ll be told it’s because of “anti-intellectualism.”
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Betsy DeVos Brings Back Due Process and Libs Lose It. “Liberals are aghast that DeVos has brought fairness to a previously nightmarish situation. Rather than objectively assess the new rules, they’re miffed that their least favorite Cabinet member dared touch something that The Lightbringer instituted. “
REALCLEARINVESTIGATIONS: New Red Flags Emerging From FBI’s Handling of Michael Flynn’s Case. “FBI supervisors, however, are not supposed to rewrite other agents’ 302 forms. Nor are 302 forms supposed to be edited by FBI personnel who were not present at the interview, and both of these things happened in the Flynn case.”
UPDATE: Is it still “conspiracy theory” when there’s an actual conspiracy?
Related: Barr: FBI set Flynn up in an illegitimate “perjury trap” — directed by top brass.
ANOTHER UPDATE: Also related:
TREAT THE NEWS WITH SKEPTICISM: Walla Walla County retracts claim about ‘coronavirus parties,’ says they never occurred. “Officials in Walla Walla County are retracting their claim that some people held parties in which they intentionally exposed themselves to the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. Meghan DeBolt, the director of the southeast Washington county’s Department of Community Health, issued a statement late Wednesday saying her earlier remarks were incorrect.”
DON’T JUST CUT ‘EM, SLASH ‘EM: ‘Sober look’ at public payrolls urged as bailouts tax system.
The warning comes after Boston’s public payroll was posted by the Herald showing 8,000 employees who earned $100,000 or more last year. While first responders are on the front lines of the pandemic, others in Boston have not been furloughed.
“We are faced with a crisis. By necessity, the state and City of Boston must find places to tighten the belt. They have an obligation to do it now,” said Greg Sullivan of the Pioneer Institute, who once was the state inspector general. . . .
Out of the 8,000 city employees who took home six-figure pay last year, 31 recorded gross pay of $300,000 or more and another 700 workers clocked in at $200,000 and up, records show. There were also two large workers’ compensation settlements in 2019 for $772,000, to a school employee, and $401,000, to a council worker. . . .
The budget-tightening talk comes jobless numbers show one in four in Massachusetts are unemployed.
“This is the emergency we’ve talked about that would prod reductions,” he added. “What Congress is looking to provide states and cities is mind-numbing. We need to start now to get serious.”
It’s also why lockdowns can’t continue much longer, even in hard-hit states.
WE CAN DO BETTER THAN THIS, AMERICA: Record gun sales for second month, over 7M this year. We can make it 8.
HARD TRUTHS: Rand Paul Has a Frightening Reality Check for States Keeping Their Residents in Lockdown.
“We have no money, we have no rainy day account, we have no savings account. The three trillion that we’ve already passed out is imaginary money,” said Paul.
“It’s being borrowed, basically, from China. So the irony is we got the virus from China and now we’re going to be more dependent by borrowing more money from China,” continued Paul.
“The only thing that recovers our economy is opening the economy,” said Paul. “It’s not a lack of money, it’s a lack of commerce. If you let people have commerce, if you let them trade, if you take them out from forcible home arrest, our economy will recover. But if you keep everybody under home arrest and say you cannot practice your business, you cannot sell your goods, there will continue to be economic calamity.”
Let’s get back to work.
WHAT’S THE MANDARIN FOR GLEICHSCHALTUNG? EU envoy says removal of phrase in op-ed in China newspaper ‘regrettable.’
The European Union ambassador to China said on Thursday it was “regrettable” that part of an opinion piece co-authored by 27 European ambassadors and published in the official China Daily had been removed before publication.
A comparison between the original op-ed uploaded onto the EU embassy website and the one published on Tuesday by the China Daily showed that in a sentence beginning, “But the outbreak of the coronavirus”, the words that followed – “in China, and its subsequent spread to the rest of the world over the past three months” – were removed.
“It is regrettable that part of the sentence about the spread of the virus has been edited,” EU Ambassador to China Nicolas Chapuis told reporters at a briefing.
Predictable, too.
NEIMAN MARCUS BECOMES 2ND MAJOR RETAILER TO SEEK CHAPTER 11 BANKRUPTCY:
The move by the 112-year-old storied luxury department store chain was announced Thursday and follows the bankruptcy filing by J.Crew on Monday. Experts believe there will be more to come even as businesses start to reopen in parts of the country like Texas and Florida.
Related: Nordstrom permanently closing Sacramento mall store as COVID-19 hammers economy.
Sadly, Websites such as DeadMalls.com are going to have plenty of opportunities for updates in the next couple of years, as shopping malls lose their anchor stores and restaurants.
GET WOKE, GO MORALLY BROKE: Inside Nike: Sources share claims of sexism, cheating, abuse at the world’s wokest brand.
ANDREW CUOMO’S MORALLY GROTESQUE. Andrew Cuomo’s Morally Grotesque Rationale for Maintaining COVID-19 Lockdowns.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo continues to show that he cannot be trusted to properly weigh the costs and benefits of COVID-19 lockdowns. While conceding the unavoidable tradeoff between lives and livelihoods, he insists that preventing even one death is worth any amount of economic pain.
“The faster we reopen,” Cuomo told reporters this week, “the lower the economic cost, but the higher the human cost, because the more lives lost. That, my friends, is the decision we are really making.”
Cuomo misleadingly implies that the economic burden of lockdowns—lost jobs, shuttered businesses, a precipitous drop in spending and output, unemployment at a level not seen since the Great Depression, tens of millions of Americans struggling to pay their bills and feed their children—is not a “human cost.” Who is hurt by this suppression of economic activity? Robots?
Given Cuomo’s cavalier treatment of nursing home patients, it’s not clear that he’s really that interested in preventing deaths.
GO AHEAD, BITE THE BIG APPLE. DON’T MIND THE MAGGOTS. Call it DeBLOVID-19: Mayor Urged NYCers to ‘Go On With Your Lives’ as City Became Cesspool of Infection.
What, you thought I could only do Steely Dan references?
JOEL KOTKIN: One Nation, Under Lockdown, Divided By Pandemic.
The last thing this polarized Republic needs is, well, more polarization, but that is what we are contracting from the pandemic. Americans, irrespective of region, broadly want the same things, such as safety, a return to normalcy, and an end to dependence on China for medical supplies, but they differ in the depth of their experiences with the pandemic.
Rather than rallying the nation, COVID-19 has amplified every fissure in this society from class to race, but perhaps most of all regarding geography. This reflects, in large part, the different experiences felt in various localities and the differences in how economies function from region to region.
On one hand there is the New York City urban area, which has suffered roughly 40 percent of fatalities, and bore the brunt of the crisis. Places outside New York with the most deaths have been central cities such as New Orleans and Detroit, where the vast majority of deaths have been endured by African Americans living in crowded, low income districts. . . .
To the political divide, add a major geographic one. Huge parts of the country have been barely impacted by the virus but almost everywhere has been hit by the lockdowns and social distancing policies. Not surprisingly, extending lockdown orders seems far less compelling in places where the pandemic’s impact has, so far, been minimal.
Read the whole thing.
TIM CARNEY: If you want people to keep being okay with lockdowns, don’t make them feel lied to.
Those of us outside of the New York area have done exactly what we were told we had to do. We “flattened the curve,” and now we’re being told that this flattened curve is a sign of our failure and a reason we need to stay in lockdown.
Unless you want to demolish all faith in public health authorities, don’t make them into liars by moving the goalposts and declaring that a flattened curve is a sign of failure. It would be even worse to poison this with partisan politics by asserting that the government leaders who totally failed to flatten the curve, and then who spread the virus to the rest of the country, are success stories.
It reeks of culture-war politics against Middle America.
This chart at Axios seems to make the point that New York state and the Europeans have turned their ship around, while the rest of America hasn’t. . . .
The data actually suggest, however, that the rest of the United States has succeeded at the assigned task, while New York has failed. That is, the U.S. minus New York has flattened the curve.
Both of those above charts mislead by not adjusting for population. The rest of the U.S. (not every single part, but the country, in aggregate, minus New York) has had a much slower rise. We may or may not have hit a peak. The peak will be later than in New York, Italy, or Spain, precisely because we flattened it. . . . Even if you assume that the rest of the U.S. is really on the rise, it still looks like New York is what happens when you don’t mitigate the spread, and that the rest of the country is a flattened curve.
Read the whole thing. And remember that the biggest public health resource is trust.
FROM SAM SCHALL: Risen from Ashes.
As a Marine, Ashlyn Shaw knows the day might come when she would not return from a mission. As an officer in the Fuerconese Marine Corps, she’s faced the difficult duty of sending the men and women under her command to their deaths. Both are nightmares she, and so many like her, live with. War is a cruel and costly endeavor, but one well worth the cost if it means keeping their homeworld free.
What Ash wasn’t prepared for was betrayal. Betrayal by members of her own government. Betrayal by certain members of the military. Betrayal by supposed allies. Betrayals that cost the lives of too many she cared for.
Unluckily for her enemies, that betrayal has cut too deeply to be allowed to go unpunished. Her enemies will soon learn how foolish they were to push her too far.
I DID NOT SEE THIS COMING: Astronomers find closest black hole to Earth.
RESPONSIBLE, PROFESSIONAL JOURNALISTS HYPING A FOREIGN-ORIGINATED DANGER? UNPOSSIBLE! Bug experts dismiss worry about US ‘murder hornets’ as hype.
Well, you see, people are starting to question the lethality and danger of Winnie the Flu, so now they need something else to scare us with.
GEE, GOVERNOR CUOMO WENT ANTI-ABORTION SO FAST I ALMOST MISSED IT: ‘How much is a human life worth?’ Gov. Cuomo outlines pitfalls of reopening too quickly.
Projection models have doubled the number of expected deaths in the United States due to COVID-19 because of reopening acceleration in many states.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo said during his daily briefing that the projection made by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation jumped from 60,000 to 135,000, which “reflects increased human mobility and the easing of social distancing measures in many U.S. states.”
“The faster we reopen, the lower the economic cost, but the more lives will be lost,” he said. He called every human life “priceless.”
Projections…. which have been wrong every time. But I’m sure Cuomo’s corrupt “health” machinery will find those deaths sure enough.
BEFEHL IST BEFEHL: I am ashamed of the police.
FORGET IT JACK. IT’S THE HUMANITIES IN THE TWENTY FIRST CENTURY. VOMITING UP WORD SALAD IS WHAT PASSES FOR SCHOLARSHIP: Academic Absurdity of All Time?
HEY, TEACHERS’ UNIONS: THIS IS WHAT YOUR SUPPORT OF LEFTISTS BUYS YOU. HE UNDERBUSSED YOU LIKE A PRO: Coronavirus-style remote learning could be schools wave of future: Cuomo.
FORGET IT JACK, IT’S CUOMO’S NY WITH THE HELP OF BILLY THE RED IN NYC. WELL DONE BOTH OF YOU. YOU MAY WIPE YOUR HANDS TO THE WALL TO SHOW EVERYONE WHAT YOU’VE MADE: Coronavirus nurse says ‘negligence’ has patients dying at NYC hospitals.
IT’S A COMMON, GARDEN VARIETY VIRUS. NOT EVEN IN THE TOP TEN HIGH SCORES WITH PLAYERS LIKE THE BLACK PLAGUE, SMALL POX, MALARIA, OR A BUNCH OF OTHER THINGS THAT HAVE KILLED HUMANS THROUGH MILLENNIA. OUR SUICIDAL OVERREACTION? THAT IS FOR THE AGES, THOUGH: Is the Coronavirus Unprecedented? Supposing any historians exist in the future we’re destroying, they’ll be very puzzled at the insanity. But some might find a clue in decades of post-apocalyptic fiction, and a desperate need to prove OrangeManBad on the part of those controlling the media narrative.
CAN ANYONE TELL ME THE WAY TO THE HOME OF THE BRAVE AND THE LAND OF THE FREE? BECAUSE I’M MIGHTY: Homesick.
BECAUSE IF THEY REPORTED THAT IT WOULD DAMPEN THE PANIC. AND KEEPING THE PANIC KEEPS THEIR POWER: Texas Nursing Home: Media Ignores Good News.
WHICH MEANS THE ENTIRE MASK THEATER IS EXACTLY THAT: THEATER. IF IT’S BEEN HERE FOR THREE OR FOUR MONTHS, EVERYONE HAS BEEN EXPOSED TO IT ALREADY. IT’S TIME TO GO BACK TO NORMAL. AND NO, NOT THE “NEW NORMAL”. THERE IS NO NEW NORMAL. THERE’S NORMAL, AND THERE’S BOOTS ON OUR NECKS, DESTROYING OUR ECONOMY AND STARTING A FAMINE: Mystery of Coronavirus Timeline Deepens.
And please, in the name of all that’s holy, if you don’t retain anything from this massive and costly debacle, remember: computer models are only as good as the data put in, and the assumptions made. And if you have trouble remembering, engrave “GIGO” on your forehead so you read it in the mirror every morning and remember “garbage in, garbage out.”
HAVING BEEN ACCUSED OF BEING A RUSSIAN ON SOCIAL MEDIA, LIKE “FASCIST” WHEN EMPLOYED BY A LEFTY, ALL IT MEANS ANYMORE IS “THINGS WE DON’T LIKE”: Biden Supporters: Dreaming of Russian Ties to Reade.
OF COURSE THEY DON’T. THEY TASTED POWER AND IT’S THE BREATH OF LIFE TO THEM: Elitists Don’t Want To Return To “Normal”.
BECAUSE, WHY NOT? WHY NOT HONOR THE GIVING GERMANY EVERYTHING IT ONCE WANTED WITHOUT A FIGHT? WELL DONE FRANCE. PLANT MORE TREES, YOU KNOW THE GERMANS HATE TO MARCH IN THE SUN: VE Day: Britain Celebrates, France Honors EU.
I GUESS IT’S GOOD? BUT THAT THIS STARTED AT ALL IS A MARK OF US BEING ON OUR WAY TO BANANAREPUBLICADOM: Flynn Case Officially Dropped By DOJ.
May 7, 2020
NEW DOCS TIE OBAMA INTO EFFORT AGAINST FLYNN, BIDEN ALSO IN ROOM. “[Susan] Rice confirmed in a prior memo that memorialized the meeting that both she and then Vice President Joe Biden were in the Room at the time Obama told Yates the information about Flynn.”
BLOOD ON CUOMO’S HANDS: New York’s coronavirus nursing home death toll didn’t have to be so high.
It’s long been clear the official numbers didn’t capture the coronavirus’ full toll in New York’s nursing homes — but the updated count was nonetheless appalling.
Yet Gov. Andrew Cuomo still won’t admit his administration was wrong to mandate that facilities filled with those most virus-vulnerable take in COVID-positive patients.
The new Health Department info released late Monday adds 1,700 presumed coronavirus deaths to the grim total, suggesting that COVID-19 complications have killed 4,813 residents of nursing homes and adult-care facilities — and that doesn’t include those who died in hospitals.
Cuomo downplayed the count Tuesday: “I would take all of these numbers now with a grain of salt,” since “what does a ‘presumed death’ mean, right?”
Considering how pessimistic Cuomo has been in other areas, such doubt seems self-serving. We know fatality rates are far higher than normal — and the coronavirus has proven most deadly to the elderly and those with certain preexisting conditions. Indeed, Cuomo admitted Tuesday, “We knew the nursing homes were going to be a target.”
So why on earth did his health commissioner, Howard Zucker, force nursing homes to take in virus-positive patients starting March 25?
Why, indeed?
CBS CHICAGO BLOWS THE LID OFF THE DANGERS OF…The Ice Cream Man? The budding H. L. Mencken received quite a Twitter ratio for his hard-hitting reportage:
SHEER HEART ATTACK: Brian May Hospitalized After Tearing Butt Muscle To Shreds While Gardening.
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