my PET scan is clean other than neck. Good. CT shows some nodules in the lungs. ENT asked, ‘where did you grow up…Yeah he says…”this is common in the Beaver Valley. nothing to be worried about.” Making shit tons of steel back in the day does have a cost. these are benign and not worth further comment. i saw them. so faint, barely there…and then i reminded him that i hd pneumonia 8 times and was ICU’d twice….oh, he says. that makes sense too. i quit getting sick/bronchitis/pnuemonia 8 years ago…stared taking zertec on august 31 and kept taking it until the first freeze…avoid the black mold of rotting vegetation. for years i got sick at EXACtlY the same time every year.
my case us a t tumor board monday, med onc tuesday, ENT wedenesday…surgery just after that with chemo/rads.
it is an open!
whew.
ok, gotta plan!
so what’s going on?
did we just tip over?
everything just got cancelled
no fans in the stands
all the girls archery tournys have been cancelled and practice is looking real iffy.
social distancing…
that’s a real thing now
people are legit scared now
with new, faster, testing kits, the case number is going to climb quickly
https://apnews.com/f20e530ae6dfe4926f81a11905425e2b
“Both the President and Vice President had almost no interactions with the individual who tested positive and do not require being tested at this time,” Grisham said.
uhhh…
almost no is not a no….
https://apnews.com/a123df57403757910e63ca01fde2f322
Sweeping travel bans cascaded around the globe Thursday, walling off countries and even entire continents, keeping people inside their homes, and slowing the engines of commerce to stem the coronavirus pandemic. Markets collapsed with the growing realization that there would be no fast end to the uncertainty.
Italys national health care system is imploding
https://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/health/2020/03/12/one-case-coronavirus-confirmed-knox-county/5034487002/
Coronavirus burial pits so vast they’re visible from space
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/iran-coronavirus-outbreak-graves/
uhhh
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/03/trump-and-pence-posed-with-bolsonaro-aide-who-tested-positive-for-wuhan-coronavirus/
ever see a world economy just come to a complete stop?
it’s happening in real time
E3, a gaming con just cancelled and that one in in June.
https://www.weaselzippers.us/445356-fed-to-pump-more-than-1-trillion-to-keep-economy-afloat/
CW, are they going to do any sentenel lymph node surgery? It’s been 20 years since I last marched this march, so I don’t know how things have changed.
Just got an email from the place where I buy my gold and silver from
As you all know, the effects of coronavirus (COVID-19) have accelerated what is now a precipitous decline in equities. Access to liquidity in the markets has become an issue, and all asset classes are being affected – including precious metals. This historic turn of events has created a demand shock in the physical precious metals industry. Following years of slow to moderate sales following the Greek crisis in 2015, the entire industry has been cautious to build large inventories. This includes the United States Mint, which experienced a terrible production decline of Silver American Eagles, down to only 14.9M ounces minted in 2019.
As of this morning, the United States Mint is out of Silver American Eagles, and the backlog is tremendous. To ramp up manufacturing production to meet demand will likely take weeks, if not months. If the US Mint is forced to suspend operations due to coronavirus, it remains unclear how drastic the impact will be to the supply chain. Making matters worse, it now appears that imported supply from Europe is going to be cut off. As it now stands, other products are being bid up to help fill that void.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/03/09/this-is-masochism-russia-wages-an-oil-war-against-saudi-arabia-us-amid-coronavirus-concerns/
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/03/11/democrat-response-to-coronavirus-end-trumps-travel-bans-on-china-iran/
rain of lead wrote:
Italy’s public hygiene is medieval. Venice is an open sewer. Somebody called into Larry O’conner and said there’s never any toilet paper in the restrooms, – and there aren’t enough restrooms, use your imagination – people fill their water bottles from the public fountains, feral dogs are everywhere, and nobody picks up after the pets they own.
Willow just snagged my garlic bread
the house of mouse just closed
it’s like all at once, the entire world just lost it’s mind
Hey Coldwarrior
…… are you go9ing to watch the first One Day International in the Chappell-Hadley Series from the Sydney Cricket Ground.?No spectators however and only TV coverage due to the Carrona scare.
Best of three ODI Tests. The Black Caps are on fire after demolishing the world champions, India ….. BUT …. the Aussies are merciless when playing at home, even though the lack of crowds will remove a bit of their ‘home town advantage.
any sports games with no spectators will be very dull and ratings will suck
rain of lead wrote:
The Sydney Cricket Ground has great atmosphere but without 40,000 Aussies screaming for Kiwi blood, that will be absent.
This will be a good thing for the Kiwi Black Caps as the Aussie home town advantage will be absent.
I doubt that a lack of spectators will much affect 5 day Test Cricket as it’s a week of cricket feast where you can float in and out and watch when there is a particular node of crucial action. Test Cricket is very Strategic and it ebbs and flows over 5 days. It’s like chess when compared to checkers (One Day Internations) that are all drama and great for spectator participation.
5 Day Test Cricket = Chess
ODI Cricket = checkers with blood!
T 20 Cricket (20 overs each team) = Cage fighting with bats!
🙂
rain of lead wrote:
watch some asshole start shooting………and I mean a country
eaglesoars wrote:
Actually the Italian North is not too bad when it comes to hygiene …. except for the doc shit… and Venice’s canals (open cesspits).
Just wait until Carona gets its claws into Southern Italy where the demographic is ancient and the whole place is like a rubbish tip with monuments.
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
Yup.
That crossed my mind as well.
People … and governments …. do crazy things when they get scared and desperate.
Just look at Russia / Saudi Arabia. Both live off their oil.
The Saudies can turn it on and off like a spigot whilst the Russians have weather, remoteness and very long pipelines making their oil quite a bit more expensive.
Forget the Russian Mean Break Even Point but Saudi used to be about $12 Mean Break Even Point a while back!
@ eaglesoars:
The Russians are in for a hammering and an angry Russian is not good for your health. I’m guessing that Russia will facilitate Iranian ‘help’ to the al Houthy rebels in Yemen who will attack the Saudi infrastructure and cyber control systems, and stir up civil liberties movements inside Saudi.
rain of lead wrote:
I know – the kids were all set to go fly to Disneyland tonight as Football Savant Offspring’s Dad was taking them all to the House of Mouse and then to San Diego for a couple days. Whole trip is off.
eaglesoars wrote:
Rocky was famous for the snatch and grab of a ham sandwich.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
the link that rain posted to the wattsupwith that article said it was Russia that chose to open the spigot, not KSA. That wasn’t my understanding, I thought it was KSA. Russia didn’t want to give up market share, but this just slit their own wrists. They cannot sustain low prices, KSA can.
Ok, here’s the new IMPEACH TRUMP narrative.
He delayed testing to hold down the infection figures so he’ll be re-elected.
This is a Nat’l Public Radio interview w/Politco reporter, Dan Diamond.
Someone named TERRY GROSS is the NPR interviewer
GROSS: Are there cuts the Trump administration made to the public health infrastructure that have left us more undefended? For example, wasn’t there a National Security Council health task force that was disbanded under Trump?
DIAMOND: That’s right. The president famously axed a team in the White House about two years ago that was focused specifically on pandemic preparedness. He cut funding for a program that predicted when viruses could jump from animals to humans basically around the same time that this new coronavirus appears to have jumped from animals to humans in China.
So now we’ve established that Trump’s attack on the Deep State are at fault.
Now we come to the ‘hang him’ part
But at the same time, Secretary Azar has not always given the president the worst-case scenario of what could happen. My understanding is he did not push to do aggressive additional testing in recent weeks, and that’s partly because more testing might have led to more cases being discovered of coronavirus outbreak, and the president had made clear – the lower the numbers on coronavirus, the better for the president, the better for his potential reelection this fall.
Trump tried to hide to truth about Americans dying from the plague so that he can be re=elected.
This is a very long piece, there are lots more highlights than what I’ve put here. I just noted what placed personal responsibility on Trump so that they can try to remove him from office again
https://www.npr.org/2020/03/12/814881355/white-house-knew-coronavirus-would-be-a-major-threat-but-response-fell-short
<When the history of this epidemic is written, we'll find it started with a massive coverup by Donald Trump who suppressed testing for political reasons
https://twitter.com/waterse75502493/status/1238194507117715463/photo/1
Keep in mind that so much of the pressers they’ve held have been about how there AREN’T ENOUGH TESTING KITS
But you’ve got to get that narrative out there
I’d just like to add that ‘interesting times’ was never on my bucket list.
@ eaglesoars:
In information warfare you have to read between the lines and keep a weather eye for key words like:-
…. For example, wasn’t there a ….
Code for ‘This is a patsy question that we’ve agreed on beforehand to allow you to respond with an agreed narrative ……
…… predicted when viruses could jump from animals to humans basically around the same time …….
Code for, Actually these incidents were over a year apart but we are setting up a narrative and we’ll fudge the time line here in the hope that the hot poloi don’t notice. ……….
…… My understanding is ……
I’m about to tell a barefaced lie here, but I’ll hide behind a false commentary buffer and then later when the folks reading this shit forget the commentary context, I’ll elude to this narrative as proven fact.
…… that’s partly because more testing might have led to …… those weasel words such as ‘partly’ and an unattributed ‘because’ and ‘might have’ that slips right into sentences and make the whole shebang just some moronic ideologue’s unattributed and proven opinion, dressed up as if it’s written in stone!
These bastards are good at the propaganda game. They are lying arseholes of course but skilful arseholes.
Beware of reading their copy as anything more than rank propaganda.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
not to worry, I’m an expert by now.
rain of lead wrote:
As a history buff, it’s been on mine. However, I’m a lot closer to the bucket than you are, so I don’t have as much time at stake 😆
We’re conducting air strikes in Iraq again. Against ‘non-compliant militia’.
It takes some talent to come up with phrases like that one.
I interviewed for a different call center job this morning. It only pays $11 an hour, and I can’t afford a nearly $7000 a year pay cut.
As far as this coronavirus goes, we shouldn’t treat it lately by any means, but we’re going into full blown panic and meltdown mode.
@ right_wing2:
When will they make an offer, if they do? I mean, a pay cut is better than no pay. And can you look for another job while you do that one?
The Barbarian wrote:
Leia once ate an entire 6″ sandwich from Subway
Geraldo and Bongino are into it
YOU’RE A CHEAP SHOT ARTIST!!
YOU’RE A BULLSHIT ARTIST!!
Schools are shut down for three weeks here as of Friday afternoon. TP stocks at work are gone and none available in the pipeline. Did some grocery shopping here after work and the stores were insane. My personal pantry is well stocked and I am not worried about our home. Been planning and stocking for a few months now (pre-Corona actually).
Going to be working on my heavy metal stock piles this weekend, as well as reloading equipment. I am getting a real bad feeling about this whole thing.
Hell, I wrote a book and a bunch of stories about something like this, socially that is not what’s exactly happening now.
Told ya so…
MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: NPR Source Says Trump Blocked Coronavirus Testing in January to Aid His Reelection Chances By Keeping US Infection Figures Low
NOTE: Please RETWEET this—America needs to know what this monster did. Thousands of future deaths will rightly be laid at his feet.
We didn’t have test kits in January
linky (it’s Seth Abramson, surprise, surprise, writes for Newsweek)
https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1238216578161926145
@ eaglesoars:
Never mind the fact that that makes no sense.
How would “keeping US infection figures low” in January help Trump in November?
This isn’t China, where the government controls the flow of information. Something like that couldn’t be kept secret for months.
@ right_wing2:
eaglesoars wrote:
I agree.
ALWAYS keep one foot on the ground if at all possible when it comes to income.
Were talking about a $20 an hour minimum pay rate here in NZ currently which is about USD$17 an hour. Still NZ housing is about double the US cost ( in Auckland and Queenstown but a LOT less in smaller communities) and utilities are a bit higher too.
But that’s offset by free health …. kinda. Great if you’re about to die but not so good if you need anything that can allow you to survive whilst waiting in line. Family private surgical cover costs about $6K for two mature adults and another $1300 per year to belong to a former Staff Welfare scheme, that gives back 60c in the dollar for GP , physio, dental etc. You are also given a pension after 10 years in country that includes 5 years as a citizen. That comes out at $20K per year for two adults living together. No State Tax because there are no States! Average of the 4 stage individual taxes (Max is 33%) is 18-20%. Corporate tax is currently 28% but due to decrease and they get to write off a LOT such as R&D, business costs etc.
If you have to someplace NZ is a great bolt hole. Many US elites seem to think so too! You now need to become a resident or citizen before you can buy residential property or farms. No buying a bolt hole and then leaving it empty and flying back to where you came from!
🙂
Think about it!
PaladinPhil wrote:
and I’ve been thinking about that sequel and wondering if you’ll re-work it now
@ eaglesoars:
@ right_wing2:
Oh yeah!
And NO CAPITAL GAINS TAX so if you do up houses you can make around $200,000 per year with no tax on average per year
If you can’t survive under those rules then there is something seriously wrong with you!
🙂
HEH!
Aussie Infidel wrote:
It’s $250k for singles, $500k for couples
lobo91 wrote:
Well, there are still a lot of people who honestly believe that Russia got Trump elected, so ‘government control’ can mean different things……..
@ eaglesoars:
I’ll probably hear in a week or so. Another interview scheduled for 3/17 at a local bank call center. And pending one with Cox, which would start at 15/hr I think.
@ right_wing2:
ok, that sounds better. Fingers crossed, but I know you must be terrified
Here’s a fun video of Geraldo & Bongino going at it
https://twitter.com/FuctupMike/status/1238292167011024896
@ eaglesoars:
Nope, no need to rework it. Just need to have my muse return from her sabbatical. I am so close to finishing it…
I has to go to bed. Just one observation from my recon mission to the grocery stores.
All those people who make their own all-natural, organic cleaning supplies from organic lemon juice they squeezed themselves and lavender oil grown from flowers in their back yard – you people sure found the Clorox/Lysol wipes/sprays in a goddamn hurry, didn’t ya?
Seriously, shelves full of that Method nonsense, there isn’t anything labeled ‘Clorox’ w/in 5 zipcodes.
nite
PaladinPhil wrote:
looking forward to it!
@ eaglesoars:
It’s frustrating as hell. I’ve been there 9 years, was up for Presidents Award which would have meant a trip to Mexico, working towards a lead position and they shut us down.
Awesome.
https://twitter.com/peterjhasson/status/1238213711900393473
h/t Octopus via DoD
eaglesoars wrote:
If you want to do it on your own and hire in the required subbies, then you can make about $200K per year over a 2 year period. If you do up and sell for your profit plus capital gain then you are considered NOT to be doing it as a business and therefore you do NOT pay tax on either the market profit plus the improvement capital gain. You can also get away with a one off … ” I didn’t know I couldn’t ‘handle the stairs’ excuse!
The $200 Kn per year tax free profit per year, is based on a ‘do-up of a former State house (brick and tile) in an up and coming ‘being gentrified’ or something smaller (3 bedroom and a single bathroom) house or semi-detatched in a good suburb.
If you buy say an 3 BR ex-State brick and time for say $750K and pump in say $150K then after two years you will get around ~$1.3 million tax free with your profit around $400 K total over those 2 years.
Alternatively buy say a semi-detached 2 BR 1 Bath in a good area for $700K, Spend $100K you will get $1.2 minion over a two year period.
Most do-ups include …. adding decks and double doors; turning laundry into a second bathroom; fitting drop in kitchen; Moving internal non-loadbearing walls to improve flow; Painting throughout; landscaping, adding a car port etc.
You have to hold for 2 years so that you are considered non-professional and therefore able to claim tax free status.
🙂
We’ve done 6 of these and if we can do it anyone can!
Daughter in onto her third and is well on her way to a mortgage free life.
You just learn to use the opportunities as they pop up.
BUYING WELL is the KEY!
Any for can sell.
@ eaglesoars:
Auckland has had a 15 month hiatus but is away again with an 12% value increase over the last year. For actual improvement capital gain is around 300%
i.e. for every $1 spent on improvements reaps $1.5-3 when you sell. The balance is actual capital gain.
the WHO has determined that COVID-19 is not transmittable through canine/human contact, and that any canines currently being held for observation should be released. In layman’s terms, that means that WHO let the dogs out).
CW, I have not been around her a lot lately. Just read the intro above.
It sounds like you are going through a medical episode right now.
Best wishes and prayers.
So apparently every news outlet is reporting that doctors in the U.S. are now struggling to find beds for all the sick people.
What utter drek.
@ RIX:
I’m not here to speak for CW, he’ll tell you himself, but this one has very good stats, some crap times with treatment up ahead, but every reason for an excellent outcome. Chin up.
How are you and yours doing?
Arts Technica guide to COVID-19, updated every day at 3 pm. Looks useful
https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/03/dont-panic-the-comprehensive-ars-technica-guide-to-the-coronavirus/
Aussie Infidel wrote:
yes.
theystart on the 23rd?
Aussie Infidel wrote:
gospel.
😆
@ eaglesoars:
chlorine and sunshine.
the best disinfectants of all time
@ RIX:
thanks…i’m gonna be ok. just a long haul
@ Aussie Infidel:
ahhh…ODI is on now in ‘archives’ on willow.
looks like this day is shot!
ok, now i am pissed!
F1 has been cancelled until may.
Trump expected to declare nat’l emergency at 3 pm. I don’t know what that means, I think it’s about releasing federal monies for stuff.
Hubby is wimping out on me about the trip to Knoxille. People at Mar-a-Lago have tested positive, and he’s afraid to get on a plane with his heart condition.
I’ll go by myself if the people in Knoxville don’t mind, sheesh.
AHAHAHAHAHA!!
never miss a chance to grift.
The WHO has set up its very own gofundme….
“To give to the #COVID19 Solidarity Response Fund, go to http://who.int, and look for the orange “Donate” button at the top of the page”-
@DrTedros #coronavirus
https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1238497300462346241
This is personal account from a doc on the front lines in Seattle
https://twitter.com/Chenbariatrics1/status/1238328854264963073
There’s med jargon, don’t pretend to understand all of it, but the description of the course of the illness is interesting
Oh, ffs. This is not the Babylon Bee
Coronavirus: English local elections postponed for a year
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-51876269?at_custom2=twitter&at_campaign=64&at_custom1=%5Bpost+type%5D&at_medium=custom7&at_custom4=09EFEAC4-6542-11EA-9B62-0CC4923C408C&at_custom3=%40BBCBreaking
coldwarrior wrote:
Good!
Andrew Gilliam. Remember him? Ran for Gov Florida? DeSantis beat him.
Yeah, well, see, there was this PAR-TAY – wedding thing – he was at and somebody called the cops. Because somebody keeled over.
Well, it appears there was meth. And nobody was wearing clothes.
Yep, buck nekkid meth orgy comin’ right up!
Candace Owens is breaking the story
Here is the last page of the report which sites the crystal meth.
Guess Florida made the right move electing Governor Desantis
I am told @AndrewGillum and his buddies were naked when cops arrived, which is the reason a sex orgy is suspected, but not confirmed.
https://twitter.com/RealCandaceO/status/1238466426127564800
https://www.citizenfreepress.com/breaking/the-masters-postponed/
this is getting ridiculous.
eaglesoars wrote:
Same thing happened in 2001 due to foot and mouth.
coldwarrior wrote:
I think we skipped that and jumped straight to ludicrous speed.
Strict border controls really do work for the prevention of disease.
It is a pity the UK does not extend those border controls to humans.
In the UK Rabies does not exist.
CynicalConservative wrote:
His name escapes me right now, but some Dem Congress critter just went on a rant about how Trump should be providing the leadership to cancel all this, not leaving it up to individual orgs to make these tough decisions.
Which means Trump is the worst dictator EVAH, I think.
Rush just went on a rant, and I think he’s right. Just wait till this is over and things start returning to normal. Businesses open up, stock market recovers, people start living again. It’s going to be unstoppable and we won’t forget the people who did everything they could to tank this country just to get to Trump. Now they want him to cancel his rallies.
He just may have to. And that will make people even more pissed off at the people who are using this to get to him.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/03/confirmed-222000-flu-cases-and-22000-flu-deaths-in-us-this-season-and-1864-covid-19-cases-and-41-deaths-in-us-this-season/
a complete over reaction that is mostly politically driven.
coldwarrior wrote:
not mostly
PS10/ I don’t think we’ve ever, in our history, had such persuasive evidence that—after being warned of a grave and growing danger to the lives of millions of Americans—a US president decided to ignore and lie about that threat for political gain. There can be no greater scandal.
https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1238271166386769920
These people count on lack of reading comprehension. His previous tweets in the SAME thread say this:
PS3/ Of course, it’s Trump’s own extraordinary classification of his conversations with Azar—and coronavirus-response debates in the administration generally—that keeps us from knowing if anyone advised Trump to test aggressively in January. But it seems *impossible* no one did.
PS4/ Just so, we have no evidence that Azar told Trump coronavirus was a dire national threat in January, only to see Trump wait (inexplicably) until mid-February to form his vile opinion about the political (re-election) utility of artificially low coronavirus infection figures.
https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1238266692528156673
So, tweets 3 and 4 state there is no evidence, tweet 10 states “I don’t think we’ve ever, in our history, had such persuasive evidence ”
These people are insane, and I mean criminally insane.
@ coldwarrior:
That’s about a 2.2% fatality rate vs 9% for flu?
This is from Stephen King, the ‘author’, watching Trump’s presser
Note that Trump’s coronavirus team is all male, all old, and all white.
Deb Brix – white female, center screen
Seema V. – Indian/American, head of CMS, over Trump’s left shoulder I think
Dr Jerome Adams – black male, surgeon general
Reality has zero meaning for these people
market up 1985 pts, 9.3%, 23,185.62 at the close
coldwarrior wrote:
Not a bad ODI opener for the Aussies. Both openers got 50+ . The Kiwis reinvented their middle order collapse habit!
Game in an empty stadium. Aussies won by 76 runs.Looks as if the rest of the Chappell Hadlet ODI Series will be played in front of empty stadia.
🙁
eaglesoars wrote:
Stephen may be a noted author but he leaves his brain and good sense at the door due to his political blindness and ideological fascism.
🙂
Possum wrote:
Very true Possum!
🙂
rain of lead wrote:
Yup.
I couldn’t believe the WHO suggested strongly that animals domestic could be vectors….. with absolutely no evidence.
Has WHO got something against dogs and cats?
Sheeesh!
@ Aussie Infidel:
Who Let The Dogs Out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qkuu0Lwb5EM
they just closed my kids school for two weeks.
this is stupid
@ coldwarrior:
the girls school is closed for a week
and in even better news
one of her classmates father works at nissan and was exposed or has it
and this kid has been at school all week
so yeah, the stress factor at casa del rain went up a few notches
aaaand seasonal allergies come on like a cold with lots of coughing scratchy throat, sneezing etc
guess who’s been coughing all week
Zero cases in my state. Jackasses have cancelled prom, all musical and athletic events, and are considering cancelling graduation and the grad party..after we paid for all the graduation supplies and the party of course. Parents are FURIOUS.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
My wife had a training trip scheduled to Texas. That has been canceled too. She’s not happy since she gets Perdiem plus travel miles.
I might just be paranoid but since most of the organizations and people pushing this overreaction are liberals it really feels like this is an active attempt to use this to depress and crash the economy so they can fix the election in their favor. “Never let a crisis go to waste.” The overreaction is way out of proportion here compared to their last world ending virus scares. And it’s the schools and media pushing this with the help of dem politicians.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
several people (unasked) have said that this panic is being driven by the media
@ rain of lead:
people that have come into the store that I work at today
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/03/13/coronavirus-testing-coming-very-soon-theyll-be-an-app-for-that/
It’s free.
It’s an emergency.
What could possibly go wrong.
@ rain of lead:
Several strangers (including hospital nurses) expressed the same sentiment. On the other hand, the missus reports that the grocery store had been emptied of toilet paper AND paper towels.
Time to bring back the Sears catalogue.
@ Bunk X:
at work (WM) they brought out 6 pallets of paper goods
closed the aisles, stocked the shelves and 10 minutes later they were empty again
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
of course it is
The backlash is going to be epic
seems to fit
– If You’re Going Through Hell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l50L4GYhpLc&feature=youtu.be
@ rain of lead:
In California, the majority of hoarders are unarmed. Just sayin’…
right_wing2 wrote:
Nah!That’s a BS metric for ‘flu’.
More like 0.1% fatalities for nominal flu.
Frankly I do NOT believe the numbers for Corona . Because there are in a large percentage of cases either NO symptoms or very mild symptoms the actually infection rate numbers are MUCH larger . That makes the REAL proportion of fatalities Much smaller. That denominator is expected to be huge!
@ Bunk X:
21. Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Take his fish away and tell him he’s lucky just to be alive, and he’ll figure out how to catch another one for you to take tomorrow.
https://schlockmercenary.fandom.com/wiki/The_Seventy_Maxims_of_Maximally_Effective_Mercenaries
@ rain of lead:
Nice list of truisms.
@ Bunk X:
it comes from this sci-fi comic strip
https://www.schlockmercenary.com/
@ Bunk X:
the first one
https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2000-06-12
Evening, all. Been awhile. Looks like a slimmer cast of characters from my last time here. How’s everyone faring? CW, saw your recent Dx, felt it important to let you know will keep you in our prayers.
Interesting times in which we find ourselves.
@ rain of lead:
https://assets.amuniversal.com/3891c7a03b150138eb72005056a9545d
@ Bunk X:
heh, i love dogbert, he is such an asshole 🙂
If we’re going to close the border with Europe, then we’d better close the border with Canada. Fast.
Trudeau refuses to cancel direct flights from China. Today planes landed from Shanghai, Chengdu, Hong Kong, Beijing and other cities. Upon arrival, migrants are asked a question on a screen — in English & French — if they’ve been to “Hubei province”. And then they walk through.
https://twitter.com/ezralevant/status/1238633775090651140
coldwarrior wrote:
They just closed all public schools in NM for the next 3 weeks.
And we were informed this morning that all visitation is cancelled until the end of April in all NMCD prisons (including ours).
This is going to get interesting…
At least one good thing today: Larkin Poe released the first single off their upcoming album.
Too bad nobody’s going to be able to see them live anytime soon…
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Good choice of words. “Noted author”, not necessarily a good author, just a noted one.
/Never really did see the allure of his works.
eaglesoars wrote:
Imagine the reaction from all of those who now have 60 cases of toilet paper filling all their available storage space.
@ lobo91:
All government services and schools have shut down as of tonight here in Ontario. You might look at this as an over reaction, but I am thinking this is a smart thing. Cases here are popping up faster and faster. Stop the social interactions and you slow the spread.
Working in a grocery store has been interesting on so many levels. Our company is increasing shipments from the central warehouse so we aren’t running empty shelves. Main toilet paper manufacture is increasing production and we should be seeing results within a week about that.
Lot of people buying food stuffs is a good thing. If worse comes to worse, they won’t be starving at home because they didn’t go shopping.
Myself? I have been planning for over a year and just needed to increase a few supplies to make myself feel better. it was more a grocery trip than a panic trip. Wife is really loving my “paranoid” mindset now.
AZfederalist wrote:
Thank the good lord that I hadn’t taken a drink. 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀
New Zealand has just closed its borders to everyone who isn’t wiling to go into instant 14 days isolation. Only freighters can now port and crews must remain on board. Any and all inbound airline passengers will now be required to isolate for 14 days.
Internal air travel is being suggested as only in necessity. So far there are only 6 Corvona cases in country. One more entry from overseas attended church services at a small congregation and all partitioners are being contacted.
The $10 billion annual surplus is being added to with an additional $7 billion to support industry and especially small business. Tax holidays , Commercial tax deferrals and an upcoming permanent tax decrease brought forward by 6 months.
@ rain of lead:
We went to Dillons last night and they were out or nearly out of TP, paper towels, bread, yeast, flour, baby wipes, sugar, lunch meat, beans, onions, bananas, frozen potatoes and milk, and canned fruit/veggies were low.
Caution is fine. Caution is smart.
This is hysteria.
morning y’all
so here are some things not corona
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/03/wow-joe-biden-wanders-off-camera-during-live-town-hall-campaign-tries-to-cover-it-up-with-logo-video/
Joe Biden held a virtual town hall via Facebook live on Friday and it was a disaster.
https://theothermccain.com/2020/03/14/fear-and-loathing-in-south-beach-florida-democrat-rising-star-found-in-hotel-room-with-meth-and-gay-escort/
It turns out that this was an exceptionally successful strike because the U.S. military managed to take out yet another senior Iranian military commander:
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/03/despite_the_coronavirus_uproar_trump_keeps_the_pressure_on_iran.html
https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2020/03/13/splitsville-never-biden-movement-emerging-left/
https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2020/03/13/hayward-china-threatens-to-cut-off-medicine-throw-america-into-mighty-sea-of-coronavirus/
The real enemy. Time to cut ties.
Let’s smile and be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere
coldwarrior wrote:
This is excellent. China’s global aspirations are dead.
@ rain of lead:
Dementia
@ eaglesoars:
China is exposed.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/13/bitcoin-loses-half-of-its-value-in-two-day-plunge.html
Brick wrote:
hi brick!
i just saw you in the comment section. you should be free to post comments without approval now.
let’s do a new thread.
@ Aussie Infidel: Look at the numbers for H1N1, and compare them to the numbers of the present day virus. Also, compare the statistics for the more common flu with the COVID19. This is about getting clicks, and also about their opposition to Trump. It has little to nothing to do with COVID19.
AZfederalist wrote:
I’ve always been bored by his writing with a couple exceptions. Koontz and McCammon are far more engaging and thrilling.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
Best King wrote, IMHO, was the Dark Tower series (most of it) and The Stand.
coldwarrior wrote:
Thank you, sir. Let’s see if I remember how to do this. 🙂