Hoarding toilet paper? Really?
I wonder if there is a correlation between hours spent on facebook and twitter to the amount of toilet paper stocked in the house?
Stupid People Open
by coldwarrior ( 202 Comments › )Filed under Open thread at March 14th, 2020 - 10:30 am
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We're not easily offended and don't want people to think they have to walk on eggshells around here (like at another place that shall remain nameless) but of course, there is a limit to everything.
Play nice!
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prepare/prevention.html?CDC_AA_refVal=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cdc.gov%2Fcoronavirus%2F2019-ncov%2Fabout%2Fprevention.html
no mention of toilet paper hoarding.
WASH YOUR HANDS AND STAY HOE IF YOU ARE SICK!!!!!!!!
that might be too easy for the dumber people in our populaton
moar stoopid
https://www.wandtv.com/news/executive-order-in-champaign-could-include-banning-sale-of-firearms/article_a433c8c6-64b1-11ea-8475-2f1a7f3b3aee.html
@ coldwarrior:
humans are smart
people are stupid panicky animals
rain of lead wrote:
i have never seen this level of idiocy.
NeverTrumpers are afflicted with a special kind of stupid. They ascribe to Trump supporters attributes we don’t actually have. Here is Brett Stephens:
The coronavirus has exposed the falsehood of so many notions Trump’s base holds about the presidency: that experts are unnecessary; that hunches are a substitute for knowledge; that competence in administration is overrated; that every criticism is a hoax; and that everything that happens in Washington is B.S. Above all, it has devastated the conceit that having an epic narcissist in the White House is a riskless proposition at a time of extreme risk.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/13/opinion/trump-coronavirus-emergency.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage
I never heard or saw any of this – because it never happened. What also never happened is Brett Stephens moaning about an ‘epic narcissist in the White House’ when the Lightbringer occupied the place.
And, predictably, the vile Rick Wilson
I don’t know the day of reckoning, but I suspect the people who sank into their fear of Trump, who defended every outrage, who put him before what they knew was right, and pretended this chaos and corruption was a glorious new age will pay a terrible price.
They deserve it
https://www.redstate.com/nick-arama/2020/03/13/never-trump-rick-wilson-says-the-quiet-part-out-loud-hopes-all-you-trump-supporters-pay-a-terrible-price-because-you-deserve-it/
What does ‘sank into their fear of Trump’ mean? Me neither. But I know I don’t take ‘political POVs’ from sexual harassers who send out tweets “Does he pay you double for anal” to female Trump supporters. And I have zero respect for the NeverTrumper men who didn’t beat him like he owes them money for it. That this excrement still has a place in their pantheon says all I need to know about all of them.
What they are fighting is a chimera of their own failures and impotence. It’s telling that they have to drape all of it around us, instead of wearing it themselves.
https://newcriterion.com/blogs/dispatch/compared-to-what
@ eaglesoars:
They are insecure adolescents who cant stand to no longer be the cool kids.
Trump made them pull off their masks and show how much they loathe us…we real Americans.
Another win for the red flag laws
Police shoot dead ‘anti-government militia man’ in his home amid claims he was ASLEEP when they opened fire from OUTSIDE his house in raid that also left his girlfriend wounded
The department’s news release on Friday says tactical unit members were serving a ‘high-risk’ search warrant around 4.30am when one of the unit’s officers fatally shot Lemp.
Police detectives recovered three rifles and two handguns from the home. Lemp was prohibited from possessing firearms, police said.
‘Detectives were following up on a complaint from the public that Lemp, though prohibited, was in possession of firearms,’ the release says without elaborating.
Except he had no criminal record. This is the second time in Maryland.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8110889/Lawyer-Man-asleep-police-fired-house-killing-him.html
As I posted in the previous thread: Compare and contrast the numbers and reaction to H1N1 in 2009, and the stats and reaction to COVID19. This focus on sensationalism is irresponsible on the part of the media.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/03/13/sen-bob-casey-easier-get-ar-15-coronavirus-test/
Good. As it should be.
@ eaglesoars:
Premeditated murder
@ Canoe Convoy:
2009 was VERY VERY BAD
coldwarrior wrote:
[cough cough]Year 2000[cough cough]
@ AZfederalist:
Oh yeah….
The new law allows doctors to practice in states where they are not licensed. Good move, except…they didn’t do it for RNs…the people who carry out the orders.
They almost got it right
Spain to follow Italy into lockdown, US expands travel ban
https://apnews.com/1dde718068517f188b3fa65a7edcbf86
no Masters, no F1, NZ v Aussies cricket called off.
jeeze.
Because Hubby went to Mar-a-Lago some idiot told him to get tested. I talked him off the ledge, but this is still a good source if anybody needs it. By state
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/coronavirus-testing-information-covid-19-tests-according-state-health-departments-n1158041?cid=sm_npd_nn_fb_ma&fbclid=IwAR3aAPzBI_lAYHUTeRhzJd8tnN0PIa2FsxQRili8XKgSxUVW29jZCliZgnc
I’m in Pa and am fully expecting a shelter in place order to happen this weekend or early next week affecting state government operations. Several local municipalities have closed their twp/boro offices until further notice, and are only conducting “official business” via phone, or email. The Governor has already approved special leave allowances for state workers if officially quarantined.
Maybe I’m the dummy in the room and don’t fully understand the risk (not unusual) but the official world-wide reactions seem grossly disproportionate to the information available regarding the situation? My spidey senses tell me something else is going on.
Brick wrote:
yep
coldwarrior wrote:
Removing the regular distractions…makes it harder to hide things. 🙂
@ Brick:
gonna hafta play a bunch of golf i guess.
ok by me
the kanucks ratifies the USMCA.
bigger news than corona and lime virus
@ coldwarrior:
Tried golf for a season…not very good at it. Pissed me off. I’ll stick to recoil therapy, and fishing. 🙂
coldwarrior wrote:
western gov’ts conspire to tank the global economy? Tell me how that one works…..
coldwarrior wrote:
Another stroke in the “W” column for GEOTUS. And a 1985 point market rally yesterday. Excuse me…9%+. (We only show the absolute value numbers when they decline.)
Our 401k gains have never looked better.
https://www.weaselzippers.us/445465-reporter-for-chinese-govt-run-media-outlet-gets-flagged-trying-to-enter-wh-press-briefing-with-trump-pence/
Is Rodan still around? I owe him a HUGE apology regarding Trump. I mocked him a good bit during his first run up. He was right. I was wrong.
@ Brick:
i cant even get him on the phone, so he’s placed himself in his own seclusion
Brick wrote:
you noticed that too.
US *must* now close its northern border b/c Trudeau, not halting flights from China, has made Canada a border state with #WuhanFlu-source-China.
coldwarrior wrote:
The Black Caps had better be on the ‘last plane into NZ’ today!
HEH!
🙂
Otherwise it’s 14 days in the ‘cooler’ for the lot of them. They deserved it too after their normal collapse against the demon fast bowlers that the Aussies use to terrify the Kiwi Top Order batsmen.
HEH!
🙂
Aussie Infidel wrote:
truth.
rain of lead wrote:
yep.
he’s a feckless pony-boy
@ coldwarrior:
a lying dog-faced pony soldier
rain of lead wrote:
that too.
😆
The Latest: Israel closes restaurants, malls to stop virus
https://apnews.com/fd1743f8b54b17310cc6e4b3445f2914
Brick wrote:
@ coldwarrior:
@ eaglesoars:
hmmmm.
A substantial up-tick in arrivals of the millionaire / billionaire class to NZ. Nominally we average one private jet billionaire arriving per day nationally. Yesterday in a low season we got 5 jets arriving. They get Customs cleared on the aircraft and then get straight into their cars. No mixing with the potentially infectious hot pool in the entry customs halls.
Lots of mere miooionaitrs attempting to buy NZ bolt-hole properties. Too bad they weren’t watching the news . That particular a venue was withdrawn ages ago when China attempted to buy the country. They failed.
Those billionaire class individuals with foresight complete with families and granny in tow are arriving to take up residence, mostly in Queenstown in the deep south and Russell/ Bay of Islands in the winterless north. Hollywood appears to be on the move! Those who didn’t think ahead only get 3 month vitiator visas and are now looking for luxury accommodation to rent.
Still only 6 known cases( all from overseas) with half almost over the effects and no suggestion of community infections yet! Eventually it’ll arrive but plans are in place to flatten the Bell Curve of infection numbers, to allow the Health System NOT to be overwhelmed. Isolation of exposed individuals is still being carried out at Whangaparoa Military Camp at the top of the Whangaparoa Peninsula. Self Quarantined people who have been at risk remain about 7,000 at home waiting their 14 days.
Australia is way further down the track as they didn’t clamp down on inbound travel as NZ. People suspected as having the virus and requesting tests are being placed in halls on chairs 2 metres apaand are required ti wear masks. The wait can be as long as 3-4 hours in some cases!
pool = poloi
coldwarrior wrote:
Trudeau was bought and paid for by the Chinese.
I can’t understand the Canadian political psyche. I thought that Canadians were tough self sufficient types. Alas not so! They are late urban socialist types who hired an elitist man-child with mummy issues! The Kanaks snow deserve what they deserved.
Close the back door to them Trump.
late = latte
Grrr bloody predictive strikes again just when you think it’s behaving itself!
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
the only cricket on now is the hideous paki professional league and i’m not watching that.
ipl starts next month tho
Aussie Infidel wrote:
They’re FRENCH. Except in the western part.
@ eaglesoars:
pretty tough gaelic hard-asses in the maritimes as well
Here’s Selena Zito on what’ happening on the Strip in Yinzer Town, with a guest appearance by the co-owner of Penn Mac, Rick Sunseri.
Portrait of Pittsburgh at the dawn of a pandemic
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/portrait-of-pittsburgh-at-the-dawn-of-a-pandemic
“Hoarding toilet paper? Really?”
I watched a man stuff a shopping cart full of TP into his Porsche today.
Nuts.
@ eaglesoars:
we’ve been there every week for the past 3 because the hospital that i go to is just across the river (yeah…mrs coldwarrior works in a union hospital and her bennies are better than mine).
we’ll be back next week. brunch at roland’s seems to be a thing for us now
@ Buckeye Abroad:
that aint gonna work at costco!
@ coldwarrior:
No Costco or Sam’s club here mate, but the “Hamsterkauf” (hoarding) is bizarre to watch. You’de think the Russians were crossing the Oder.
Update on the shopping situation in Houston. Visited Target and Walmart.
No toilet paper, paper towels or normal bottled water. The designer waters i.e. “Smart Water” are available. No Gatoraid/Poweraid.
Cleaning products either none or very few.
Processed slice meats seem to be scarce so are eggs. However cheese, bacon, sausage and fresh meat low but there is some.
Milk, sour cream, yogurt, butter etc stock is OK.
Bread… Got Naan, Pita and a fresh baked Italian loaf from Walmart. Cookies and other sweet baked goods freely obtainable.
Beer and wine, shelves looked normal.
Some canned goods sparse. For instance only two cans of corn on the shelf but a shit load of creamed corn. However there were plenty of canned goods generally. So it looks like people are not stocking up for a time when we are without power for a long period of time.
I got everything I needed to stay alive until Monday, I could have stocked up on food supplies to last me months. As I said most things were available.
Only thing I could not get, and it is not essential, was Hydrogen Peroxide. I have been using it to sterilize the kitten’s feeding bottle. But they are now at the age where just “clean” not “sterile” is good enough.
So, what is this toilet paper panic all about?
Also an interesting fact. All “feminine hygiene” shelves fully stocked. I would have thought panic buying would have been across the full spectrum of consumables but obviously it is not.
Buckeye Abroad wrote:
mrs coldwarrior finds this TP hoarding very funny because i joke with her about about how much toileytna bumaga that we always seem to have on hand.
@ Possum:
fascinating to watch, and painful how stupid many humans are
eaglesoars wrote:
But the Vancouver types are a pack of socialists!. Canada has the ‘coast disease’ . Both coasts are infected with socialists
🙂
Buckeye Abroad wrote:
HEH!
🙂
Some of the Chinese borders who defended on Coles in Melbourne asked if they could get their money back!
I kid you not. Coles just said that there is plenty of toilet paper in stock and you bought it … you own it!
🙂
This may help explain the high rate in Italy
Italy has a very larger number of Chinese workers specifically from an area called Wenzhou. @eshow1969 noted virus rates skyrocketing there in February. Wenzhounese make up a significant number of European businesses of Chinese diaspora
.
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Many Italians in Northern Italy sold their leather goods and textiles companies to China. Italy then allowed 100,000 Chinese from Wuhan/Wenzhou to move to Italy to work in these factories, with direct Wuhan flights. Result: Northern Italy is Europe’s hotspot for Wuhan Coronavirus
https://twitter.com/DVATW/status/1238073137813749762
And they all went back to China for the Lunar New Year, then back to Italy.
@ eaglesoars:
ahhhh!
thanks for that, i was wondering…
@ Possum:
I just returned from our local WalMart, and it’s pretty much the same here.
I just saw last night that the Dallas International Guitar Festival has been rescheduled. It was supposed to be April 30-May 2nd. Now it’s July 31-August 2nd.
I’m hoping I don’t have too much trouble with my plane and hotel reservations
I’m sure the MSM will gnash its collective choppers in frustration, but Trump’s test results are negative.
In case you were wondering about lib/prog math skills, Bernie’s campaign manager clears that right up
500 mil Americans go bankrupt from medical debt every year
https://twitter.com/AGHamilton29/status/1238970597457223689/photo/1
every one, every year.
STUPID PEOPLE
@ Aussie Infidel:
Don’t forget the Golden Horsehoe (western part of Lake Ontario). Get out of that area and things turn blue conservative real quick.
@ eaglesoars:
these people have real problems with the powers of 10 etc
https://blog.opentable.com/2020/covid-19-coronavirus-restaurant-industry-data/
In the United States and United Kingdom, we see a 20 percent reduction in total seated diners vs. last year. (All declines cited here are on a year-over-year basis.)
shit, thats huge
shops on the edge, ARE gonna go under
@ rain of lead:
we tend to use door dash much more often now than going to a sit down
@ coldwarrior:
so grub hub has a new “no contact” feature
the driver will text you when they drop your food off on your porch
@ rain of lead:
i guess that works if you are quarantined. but i like to do a cash tip
I think a month from now, everything is going to be very different. Not in an ominous, or foreboding way…just…different. Can’t put my finger on it, though.
mrs coldwarrior called and said the local walmart is decimated.
https://triblive.com/local/pittsburgh-allegheny/coronavirus-didnt-stop-the-st-patricks-day-celebrations-in-pittsburgh/
good on yinz!
@ Brick:
i think a lot more people are gonna be pised off at the left/media
coldwarrior wrote:
which probably precludes them from learning to code….
@ coldwarrior:
Mrs. Brick came back from the local Giant, Karns, and Dollar General a couple of hours ago. The goal was to get some office snacks for her girls at work, and a quart of milk for my coffee this week.
She reported same as everyone else. Bread, Water, TP, Paper Towels, and pasta…all nada. No milk for me, but she did find some of those single serving tiny creamer cups like you get at restaurants. Everyone was nice and polite, but she said there was a weird vibe at each place.
Our Giants are normally open 24hrs – but they’re changing their hours and won’t be open overnight anymore for the foreseeable future.
She also told me that if I want anything we don’t already have, I’ll be getting it myself. Nope, I think we’re good Bebbe. 🙂
here’s a thread from a med guy who has been reading thru the literature published this week on treating COVID-19
https://twitter.com/davidasinclair/status/1238972082756648960
Chloroquine is predicted to prevent orf1ab, ORF3a and ORF10 from attacking heme (red in red blood cells) and inhibit the binding of ORF8 to heme. Although 99% of the virus is seemingly stable, what’s disturbing is ORF 1 and 8 are mutating the fastest…
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.
https://twitter.com/davidasinclair/status/1238972090889449472
@ eaglesoars:
I wonder if that includes what I already take?
I’ve been on 400 mg of hydroxychloroquine for about 8 the past months for arthritis
coldwarrior wrote:
That particular kettle is definitely approaching a rolling boil! Here’s the thing though…I think it’s going to get to a point where anybody with the slightest bit of honesty and a functioning moral compass will have to pause and think “Maybe, we got this wrong?”
When that happens, we can either spike the ball and do the I told you so dance, or we can be like pull up a chair, glad you could make it, we’ve been waiting for you.
Anyone after that still trying to jam sticks in the spokes, it’d be fair to say they’re serving a darker, non-compatible agenda…write-offs.
@ eaglesoars:
you’ll need plenty of gin to get that med down….and limes…and tonic water
lobo91 wrote:
yours a much weaker dose.
@ Brick:
mrs coldwarrior stopped at walmart on her way back from the hospital…
she called me laughing on the phone about how she was having moscow flashbacks.
@ coldwarrior:
I wouldn’t want to take much more. It has some fairly nasty side effects
lobo91 wrote:
truth
@ coldwarrior:
I already have to go in once a year for a retina scan to check for damage
@ rain of lead:
https://bunkstrutts.files.wordpress.com/2020/02/lyin-dog-faced-pony-soldier.png?w=768&h=600
lobo91 wrote:
somebody just told me there are about 500k Chinese in northern Italy.
eaglesoars wrote:
Nearly twice
Chinese Tycoon Ren Zhiqiang Who Criticized Xi’s Response to Coronavirus Has Vanished
https://twitter.com/niubi/status/1238974530808315906
May his memory be a blessing
When Italy asked for urgent medical supplies under a special European crisis mechanism no EU country responded. Fearful of its own shortages, Germany initially banned the export of medical masks and other protective gear. 3M, a producer, said the German restrictions had made it impossible to supply the Italian market. Berlin subsequently relaxed the export rules, but then Austria closed its borders to people arriving from Italy unless they could prove they were virus-free.
The rebuffs are nourishing resentment that Italy has been abandoned by its European friends. It is a perception that has taken root over a decade, of a currency union that lacks collective solidarity and stifles growth as Italy confronted migrant flows from Africa and the Middle East. This, in turn, has fuelled the rise of Eurosceptic nationalists such as far-right firebrand Matteo Salvini.
https://www.blogmocracy.com/2020/03/14/stupid-people-open/#comment-40986
Happy Ides of March. Unless of course if you are related to Julius Caesar!
🙂
Also the birthday for the NZ Military Intelligence Corps. I attended the birth and my Core # is #002. My Corporal/ Clark had to do all of the paper work so it was only proper for Cpl Radford to be the Corps first member. The Director (DMI) was #017…… being ex Armoured Corps that is understandable …. politely late.
🙂
The Honourary Colonel has a reserved Corps number #007 of course.
HEH!
🙂
The story goes that had Julius listened to his IO, he’s have had up to date intelligence and wouldn’t have attended the Senate that morning with his ‘mates’, and wouldn’t have got himself skewered.
🙂
@ eaglesoars:
China stepped up, tho
On Thursday, they finally arrived — from Shanghai. The China Eastern flight brought a medical team and 31 tonnes of supplies including ventilators.
STUPID PEOPLE
@ eaglesoars:
Beware the Hun!
Especially where his own self interest is involved.
Looking to see whether this produces an Italexit.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Cicero thought he suspected what was up. Thought he could talk his way out of it.
eaglesoars wrote:
Typical. A Commander who thinks that he can do his own Intel analysis ‘on the fly’, and blows off his IO who is the professional who knows the enemy’s mind. It’s part of his bloody job!
Been there more than once.
Then you get a Commander who appreciates his INTEL Group listens to them and actually participates inside the Intelligence Cycle and Directs the Intel focus based on what he’s learned so far.
The difference between a One Man Band type of a Commander and a true Commander.
eaglesoars wrote:
Hopefully he caught a flight out to some distant, safe land
@ eaglesoars:
The ‘true commander’ slew all before him in the most cunning and surprising way before the enemy even knew that he was in trouble!
Cut off the POL, food and ammunition, destroying the enemy’s logistics and surprise his artillery with a totally unexpected counter artillery fire from a quarter that he hadn’t even considered (ships) and no matter how many men the enemy has left, it’s just a long walk home for them.
🙂
HEH!
🙂
AZfederalist wrote:
Just as long as he doesn’t try to fly into Queenstown in his exec jet!
🙂
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Seige of Alesia (sp?). I mean if you forget about the human carnage, that thing is like a magnificent ballet.
Our ‘lil Olde 1st. NZ Brigade was ‘the meat’ served up for a Singaporean Division for what was supposed to be an attritional battle. Seeing we were out numbered 5:1 everyone thought it was all over except for the shouting and Singaporean victory parade.
We KNEW the terrain like the back of our hand There were only two possible routes one on the East Coast where the 6th Singaporean Div was concentrated and a very narrow convoluted West coast road where we did a very fast dash at 0230 one dark and stormy night. God amongst the Singaporean Logistics tail and totally trashed it then withdrew back north as all of the cross Peninsula roads were destroyed by engineers with pre-placed explosives to slow / prevent Singaporean armoured pursuit. Then the Navy totally destroyed the Singaporean Divisional Artillery because we knew that there was only two possible sites big enough to handle a Division’s worth of artillery. We had ID-ed that site just before sunset the day before by NZSAS patrols.
Air supplied the coup d’gras as lines of dry vehicles lines of the Singaporean retreat routes back south
As you say … it was a thing of beauty.
🙂
@ eaglesoars:
After that 3 day rout of the Israeli trained Singaporean 6th Infantry Division we had to suck it up and sit through an immobile attritional battle that slowly ground down the Brigade (Battle Group) so that the Singaporean Commander didn’t lose face.
The whole proceedings were to get the Singaporean army ready for an invasion of the Malay Peninsula. Singapore has its infantry based in the city state with all of its armour (well most of it anyway) based in Southern Thailand … waiting. Training of the Singaporean artillery is done in NZ and there is a Regiment of armour based in Taiwan where armoured Corps head several times a year to exercise.
The 6th Division did a follow up visit to NZ ‘s Southern Alps where we discovered that Singaporean Staff Officers can’t appreciate VERY steep ground by counting grid lines, at all well.
HEH!
🙂
You should have seen their faces when they did a map-ex and then went onto the real ground to seen how their plans would have worked out.
They were more interested in getting to the Christchurch Casino after that little embarrassment!.
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
I have to go to bed, but post how many hours the whole thing took, I’ll check back in the morning.
nite.
one more thing – the COVID-19 is suspected to have been here for months before China came clean. People – hundreds – on twitter are saying they or family members had an unidentifiable respiratory illness with same symptoms. Recovery times vary, but looks like 6 weeks avg.
All up the 1 NZ Brigade routing of the 6th Singaporean Division took 66 hours in total, when we were allowed to use our brains.
The rest of the scripted (face saving Singaporean ) attritional battle took 10 days to grind down the 1st NZ Brigade to non-operational status.
The Singaporean attitude to Logistics is typical of Israeli training. Load up with everything you need for a week and when it’s all gone …. walk home.
We carried out a separate Operational Logistics Ex with NZ Logisticians helping their Singaporean counterparts. At one stage along a single Divisional re-supply route, it was calculated that the trucks were parked nose to tail for miles and it would have been faster getting supplies through by passing the boxed hand to hand! Seriously!
🙂
Singaporean Logistics planning is terrible….. just like the Israelis who taught them!
eaglesoars wrote:
Janes Defence Review is assessing that China had 50,000 infections a day at one stage!
Good news for the death rate as a denominator like that means that the death rate is akin to ordinary flu. The fly in the ointment is that Corona Virus spreads in a stealth mode for weeks with few or no symptoms.
Greetings from the Alleghany front
just checking in as I sometimes do during big happenings
for a vicarious dose of lucidity
Get well CW
morning y’all
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/03/14/escalating-quickly-hoboken-nj-announces-city-wide-enforced-coronavirus-curfew-all-citizens-must-stay-in-their-homes-10pm-to-5am/
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2020/03/14/autoworker-who-clashed-with-joe-biden-gets-rifle-engraved-with-ar-14-and-youre-full-of-st/
There’s a name for this form of government, but we’re not supposed to use it…
A https://www.weaselzippers.us/445467-de-blasio-you-know-we-need-to-nationalize-businesses-to-fight-the-wuhan-virus/
https://www.weaselzippers.us/445482-following-louisiana-georgia-postpones-democratic-primary-amid-coronavirus-concerns/
https://gunfreezone.net/spain-goes-full-emergency-powers-because-of-the-wuhan-virus/
eaglesoars wrote:
i had sniffle/sneeze/sore throat for 5 weeks in nov/dec.
so did most of the Er where i worked
Scott Madsen wrote:
thx scott!
This was O’Hare airport, terminal 5. 6hour wait for bag, another 2-3 for customs
https://twitter.com/BrookeGMcDonald/status/1238986272137502720
coldwarrior wrote:
I’m gonna have to reschedule my recon mission to Knoxville, I think. I was due to leave next Sunday. But the Knoxville Hilton (not where I was staying) has let staff go, etc. I’m a classic target for this bug (old, suppressed immune system) and if I get sick/die – my family is in deep kimchee. My husband is starting to need help, there is no way he can take care of the heathen beagles. They would have to be given away – and that would kill him right there.
So, this one time I don’t get into my stubborn/stupid mode, I guess.
OTOH, if Trump wakes up today and sez he thinks the election should be postponed, I bet this thing goes away yesterday.
@ eaglesoars:
smart move at this point.
how much of the recon can be done online? a lot of laces have vids and i’ll bet an agent would love to help yinz.
eaglesoars wrote:
gospel
coldwarrior wrote:
I’ve already done that, I’ve spent 4 months doing it. I have houses/developments organized by zip code/major highway routes. This was to go down and actually see the ‘hoods, do the actual driving to the closest vet, grocery store, etc., from each site on the ‘possible’ list. We already have 2 agents lined up to help us with a ‘tour’. My sister lived there for awhile while her daughter was in school there and she was doing the ‘back roads’ thing. Also, visiting Mafia Princess.
But it is what it is. There are these creatures that absolutely depend on me and that’s non-negotiable. Suck it up.
Heads up Pennsylvania people! Cuz you know this won’t stay in Philly
‘Somber Time,’ and Sober for Some: Pa. Liquor Stores to Close in Philly Suburbs
Gov. Tom Wolf said he was not shutting down the state-run liquor stores on Friday, but by Saturday the state said it would shut down all stores in Philadelphia’s four suburban counties.
https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/somber-time-not-necessarily-sober-pa-liquor-stores-to-remain-open-for-now/2326173/
Good morning.
National Day of Prayer. Take a moment and acknowledge that for which your grateful, if you’re so inclined.
Canine games. So, Dammit dog happily brings me about an 18″ plug end, section of electrical cord dangling from her mouth. And the search begins to see what no longer works. It’s hew new interactive hoooman guessing game.
This from the local rag..
More local gov’t. facilities closing to public.
https://www.pennlive.com/news/2020/03/growing-list-of-central-pa-municipal-buildings-closing-to-public-over-coronavirus-concerns.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=pennlive_sf
But the engineered virus was simply a modification to an existing animal virus, so I don’t get it
Editors’ note, March 2020: We are aware that this story is being used as the basis for unverified theories that the novel coronavirus causing COVID-19 was engineered. There is no evidence that this is true; scientists believe that an animal is the most likely source of the coronavirus.
https://www.nature.com/news/engineered-bat-virus-stirs-debate-over-risky-research-1.18787?WT.mc_id=TWT_NatureNews
eaglesoars wrote:
Add this…http://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/event201/
(note the sponsors)
..and the 2003 and 2007 patents on prior corona viri…
It’s almost as if, this was…planned?
Also curious that during the President’s corona speech when asked about the origins..he says “we all know where it came from.” And within 24 hours Bill Gates steps down from at least 2 noted positions.
Probably just coincidence.
@ eaglesoars:
There’s also “no evidence” that their statement is true, either. It’s just a claim referencing unnamed “scientists.”
@ Brick:
It wasn’t planned. Gov’t don’t deliberately tank the global economy. As for Trump saying we know where this comes from, the question he was responding to was about China denying they are the source. Trump was just nailing China.
I’ve seen speculation about the Gates move, but I don’t make much of it. Pandemics HAVE been predicted and so far this one doesn’t even come close to SARS.
But what about the patents? I didn’t know you could patent a virus.
Did you find the source of the electric cable break? I assume it wasn’t plugged into anything, or Dammit dog is lucky not to have been electrocuted.
@ eaglesoars:
Totally agree! “Government(s)” of people, for people, by people in the purest definition would never do such a thing. In the near future, keep yourself open to the idea that over the last several decades the public “people in charge” weren’t really running the show.
And yes! Dammit dog severed my son’s laptop charger. 🙂
Brick wrote:
AHAHAHAHAHA!! Who’s a GOOD DOG!!
Don’t worry, I am no dummy about the Deep State. But that’s not this
@ eaglesoars:
Trump’s pressers are onion skins. There’s always another layer.
Deep State is multi-national, multi-generational, and have no loyalty but to themselves and who they serve. The ongoing crackdowns against MS-13 actors is depriving them of the arm’s length, much needed “muscle” to keep wayward players in line, and “fix” things. See Seth Rich, and more recently, Jeff Epstein.
Or, I could be wrong.
Brick wrote:
Prolly not.
This is a very good write-up on why some diseases seem to come and go with the seasons
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/03/why-do-dozens-diseases-wax-and-wane-seasons-and-will-covid-19
So now it is reported that, after destroying his life & the life of his wonderful family (and many others also), the FBI, working in conjunction with the Justice Department, has “lost” the records of General Michael Flynn. How convenient. I am strongly considering a Full Pardon!
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1239242219019735042
@ eaglesoars:
“Top. Men.”
lobo91 wrote:
where the hell is Durham?
@ Aussie Infidel:
“They were more interested in getting to the Christchurch Casino after that little embarrassment!.”
Spent a few hours in that casino back in October 2007. Fun night.
Downloaded Folding@home again. Figured now that I went through a month of hell and finally upgraded my memory, power supply, and added a second video card, I can afford to run it in my downtime.
Fed cuts rates to zero
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/economy/fed-cuts-rates-to-zero
Buckeye Abroad wrote:
I was tasked by the Commander Land Forces to ensure that our Singaporean friends did not get into any trouble at the casino.
At the end of the night of riding shotgun over them I had a two bucks coin in my pocket, popped it into a machine as I exited the building and scored a Jackpot. My only gambling the whole night.
🙂
Buckeye Abroad wrote:
You do know that the Casino was knocked down after the Christchurch earthquake! Fortunately it didn’t pancake and all the gamblers won big time and got out alive.
eaglesoars wrote:
Trump could say that the election is postponed until 2030 , just for the entertainment value of seeing all of the talking heads exploding simultaneously.
🙂
I’d pay good folding money to see that.
Even if it was n jest!
HEH!
You see me now a veteran of a thousand Wal-Mart wars
I’ve been living on the edge so long
Where the winds of limbo roar
And I’m young enough to look at
And far too old to see
All the scars are on the inside
I’m not sure that there’s anything left to me
Don’t let these shakes go on
It’s time we had a break from it
It’s time we had some leave
We’ve been living in the flames
We’ve been eating up our brains
Oh please don’t let these shakes go on
You ask me why I’m weary, why I can’t speak to you
You blame me for my silence say It’s time I changed and grew
But the war’s still going on, dear, and there’s no end that I know
And I can’t say if we’re ever…
I can’t say if were ever gonna be free
Don’t let these shakes go on
It’s time we had a break from it
It’s time we had some leave
We’ve been living in the flames
We’ve been eating out our brains
Oh please don’t let these shakes go on
You see me now a veteran of a thousand Wal-Mart wars
My energy’s spent at last
And my armor is destroyed
I have used up all my weapons and I’m helpless and bereaved
Wounds are all I’m made of
Did I hear you say that this is victory?
Don’t let these shakes go on
It’s time we had a break from it
Send me to the rear
Where the tides of madness swell
And been sliding into hell
Oh please don’t let these shakes go on
Don’t let these shakes go on
Don’t let these shakes go on
@ rain of lead:
I guess daytime is OK. Virus must only spread at night.
/s
coldwarrior wrote:
Not thinking she’s looking for that kind of place.
sunlight truly is the best disinfectant
https://medium.com/@ra.hobday/coronavirus-and-the-sun-a-lesson-from-the-1918-influenza-pandemic-509151dc8065
Put simply, medics found that severely ill flu patients nursed outdoors recovered better than those treated indoors. A combination of fresh air and sunlight seems to have prevented deaths among patients; and infections among medical staff.[1] There is scientific support for this. Research shows that outdoor air is a natural disinfectant. Fresh air can kill the flu virus and other harmful germs. Equally, sunlight is germicidal and there is now evidence it can kill the flu virus.
rain of lead wrote:
Yep. My Dad has always said that even when it was really cold outside, calves born and run out in the pasture always did better than if they were brought inside into the barn.
Jeebus
Italy reports 3,590 more coronavirus cases, its biggest one-day increase
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/public-global-health/487667-italy-reports-3590-more-coronavirus-cases-its-biggest
Aussie Infidel wrote:
I did not know that. Damn shame.
eaglesoars wrote:
I don’t understand
Meanwhile, immediately after the Federal Reserve decision, the U.S. equity futures plunged on Sunday evening. Dow Jones Industrial futures opened lower by 1,040 points, or 4.5 percent, while the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite were down 4.4 percent and 4.6 percent, respectively.
https://saraacarter.com/fed-cuts-rates-to-zero-dow-futures-respond-negatively-tumbling-1000-points/
My moronic governor just closed schools for two weeks. Still no verified cases in my state. Four undergoing testing currently.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
Ours are closed for the next 3 weeks, starting tomorrow
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
That is seriously stupid.
The Law of Unintended Consequences is about to come the Governor’s way!
Remember that children have found to be resistant to exhibiting the symptoms of this virus. They have been locked away together generating a nice little infection centre.
Imagine all of the kids now at home.Unsupervised !
parents are working and can’t afford to stay home soo…. Guess who steps up to do the childcare?
Grandparents.
Those most vulnerable to Covid-19 looking after the super-spreaders.
What could possibly go wrong?
🙂
If you look likely to be the child minders ensure that the little darling have first been isolated for 14 days BEFORE arriving to stay! Hopefully in a semi isolated environment where essentials are remotely ordered and delivered … after being decontaminated. A spray of 3.5-5% bleach in water or 65-70% alcohol based decontaminant is necessary. School with gramps happens daily just like ordinary school but because it’s one on one or one on a few, you can get the work done in as little as 3 hours and the ankle biters get the rest of the day off to do as they want indoors or outside as long as they do NOT make external contact with neighbours. Go ride a bike or whatever but keep their safe distances!
🙂
Enjoy the new normal for a while.
🙂
I’m just hoping that they don’t quarantine the prison. I really don’t want to be stuck there for 2 weeks.
I’m seeing in the Twitterverse that the first dose of Covid-19 vaccine to be trialed here…TOMORROW.
walked 18 with my bro at my CC. then dinner and drinks with his wife and my wife and kids in the club.
things is good.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/03/15/now-is-not-the-time-to-forcibly-close-restaurants/#more-186491
Supermarkets are closing early and opening late while trying to stem panic and fulfill customer demand. Now is exactly the wrong time to limit food choices and push more people into those retail food stores.
No advance notice. No time to prepare or plan… just an immediate order.
Imagine what will happen tomorrow morning in Ohio and Illinois at grocery stores.
lobo91 wrote:
NOT 2 weeks but 2 weeks AFTER the last case is removed from the prison !
Little ray of sunshine is me!
🙂
Buckeye Abroad wrote:
You can’t keep a good casino down for long however.
There is a brand new casino where the old one stood. Twice as good!
🙂
Brick wrote:
Coronavirus vaccine starts clinical trials in the US on Monday – but it will be up to a year before it is ready for use
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8115201/Government-official-Coronavirus-vaccine-trial-starts-Monday.html
eaglesoars wrote:
So I guess we all just shut down for a year
rain of lead wrote:
And disinfect. Needed fresh veggies, hopped over to Wegman’s. They’re new hours starting tomorrow 6 am – 11 pm. That cuts an hour at either end so they can disinfect.
There was almost zero fresh meat – or they had already moved it to the back so they could clean the shelving. I have stuff in the freezer, I’m ok. Zero toilet paper, got more paper towels. Most of the fresh stuff was fine – no potatoes, tho BUT got my lovely watercress and all the greens and fruit I needed.
And chocolate. So we’re good.
@ coldwarrior:
hey, why did futures tank after the Fed cut the rate? Because now they’re out of ammo? I’m not getting this………..
@ eaglesoars:
When you figure that out…find out why precious metals rode the same roller coaster DOWN during last week’s breaker tripping, triple dip?
Brick wrote:
They went down AFTER they went up = which tells me it became a sell situation for people who needed cash. That kind of movement always triggers margin calls.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
Wasn’t there some ‘team’ we were folding for?
Joe says his VP pic will definitely be a woman and SCOTUS pic will definitely be BLACK woman.
I dunno. If gender is a social construct, maybe that opens the field up a bit…
eaglesoars wrote:
I was listening intently to Joe and for the life of me I couldn’t understand the points he was trying to make. It sounded like gibberish and a bunch of truncated talking points connected by …. well nothing really.
The poor guy has totally lost it.
You could see in Bernie’s eyes just a hint of compassion. He knew that Joe was drowning in his own confused words, all on his own …….. why hold his head under?
🙂
Brick wrote:
Dow back up just a smidgeon under two thousand!
Amazing
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
To me it looked as if the market went south of 23000 , realised that was waaaay too far and bounced back a second time now to what appears to be the current floor.
But what the hell do I know?
🙂
I just had a run in with the local jag off cops for using a laser to aim my telescope.
@ coldwarrior:
I won
Effing jagoff
Aussie Infidel wrote:
focus group jargon
Oil selling $31 – $33 a barrel currently
Trump must be looking hard to keep the frackers in business long enough to pick up the up-side.
FINALLY , mostly due to embarrassment I think the local gas stations have dropped their prices a whole …. drum roll …. 7 cents a litre!
Bastards!
coldwarrior wrote:
Whaaaat?
Do you mean the cops pointed their LASER at you while you were using your scope?
@ coldwarrior:
Ohhh NOW I understand.
They were trying to complain about you using your green LASER to aim your scope.
I suppose they gave you some story about targeting aircraft with a green LASER.
Morons!
Sheesh!
eaglesoars wrote:
Sounds as if Joe’s focus group was ‘pissed as farts’ in that case!
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
I asked the wad what year he got his pilot’s license.
And if he understands how to read a sectional.
And then I told him to call his boss and let me talk to him.
He refused. So I called his boss at home.
I win
Aussie Infidel wrote:
They already planned for that. He said not to let them stay with grandparents. Or send them to daycares. Employers are to give “liberal” sick days and vacation days. Crash the economy.
Also, Liberal logic in action. Keep the kids out of school. Yet, he wants them all to go to school to have free breakfast and lunch.
coldwarrior wrote:
Wait until you tell them that you are attempting to bounce your green LASER off the moon’s reflectors. They will charge you with targeting ET! and causing eye damage to Small Greys!
coldwarrior wrote:
Oh I wish I could have heard THAT conversation!
HEH!
🙂
right_wing2 wrote:
Yeah, but I just went anonymous for now since I can’t remember anything anymore.
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
Seriously?
Your shit for brains governor actually suggested that?
In that case I’d move states in case he declared nuclear war on Lichtenstein
🙂
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Yep and all the schools have sent out the notice. THey want as many kids as possible to attend free breakfast and lunch at the designated schools. Ingenious.
eaglesoars wrote:
I can just see Joe patting his VP’s arse and ‘smelling her hair’.
Creepy Joe at his best!
I do hope the poor lady never gets to see Joe’s party trick. You know the one involving his curly leg hairs.
🙂
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
Obviously your Governor has a VERY poor belief in his electors and their ability to care for their children.
Oh the hubris of the ‘would be’ elite class.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
He’s a liberal. Two prong assault. Crash the economy. Boost the numbers on an entitlement program. Win/win.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
Actually we had a similar problem here in NZ with the socialist Prime Minister.
A ex military organisation that I belong to was providing uniforms, sports gear and breakfast and lunch to a free Charter School for poor kind. The school has only been in operation for 4 years and it’s now in the top 20 schools in the country. The kids were the worst of the worst academically and now they sent 5% to university 10% to the armed forces and the balance all get apprenticeships with local businesses, because the employers know what they are getting… good guys and gals.
So PM Ardern and her loopy Cabinet tried to abolish all Charter schools and force these kids back into hell hole schools run by the socialists teachers’ union. Alas several of the Charter Schools were Maori Charters and some were doing very well too. Ardern was called a RACIST and she quickly backed off. So Our pet military Charter School survived, thank goodness.
Got to see ray tracing in action in a game while playing today, so cool. Kind of a geek thing, but it was so awesome seeing light and shadow react like the real world.
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
Still everything’s relative mate. You’ve only got a State in the thrall of a liberal! We have a whole country in the thrall of a socialist PM.
The only thing that keeps Ardern in check is her conservative / populist NZ First Party coalition.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
You were lucky. I’ve seen situations where those helping the schools were called racist and the ones destroying it were called the heroes. Happened with some native charter schools in my area. Totally reversed reality. The charters folded and the kids were put back into the failed leftist system.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Yeah, governor dipshit also swore that if elected he wouldn’t run for anything else. Now that he’s termed out, he got one phone call from Schumer and lo and behold he’s now running for Senate. And no one on the left is calling him out on his hypocrisy.
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
Great Plan!
NOT
Where does the moron think he’s going to raise his tax?
so I’ve been feeling sorry for myself about my plans being put on hold. Then I read this…..
In my state they closed all the restaurants, except for take-out, two days before my girlfriends birthday, three days before mine. Most of the birthday cards I have received this week included restaurant gift cards.
After a embarrassingly low game last week at my bowling league, I practiced daily to get my average up from 74 to 90 (at great expense); league games are now cancelled indefinitely. (90 is a good score in candlepin)
We cancelled a flight booked on JetBlue; because we purchased ‘trip insurance’ we get ten percent back in cash, sixty percent in “Travel Bank” credit and lose the rest. If we hadn’t bought trip insurance, under the state of emergency, we would have gotten 100% back.
And I just renewed my gym membership, which is now closed.
I turn 70 on Thursday. As a friend from high school emailed me; “You were 20 in the Seventies; and 70 in the Twenties”, Happy Birthday.
ugh
2 emergency medicine doctors, one in New Jersey and the other in Washington State, are in critical condition as a result of coronavirus, the American College of Emergency Physicians said
https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1239323007685996546
@ eaglesoars:
The provisions of Force Majeure will do that kind of shit to you. You never think that the Force Majeure conditions will ever kick in …. until they do!
Have a Happy Birthday Eagles. Why not go on a picnic instead and Bar-B-Que steaks and have a cake and all the trimmings?
Even if you have to sit 6 feet away from your guests
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
These are the times when medicos earn their stripes.
I don’t envy their $$$$ one little bit!
Aussie Infidel wrote:
NO NO!! That wasn’t me, that was just some guy on another blog moaning about what this shutdown has done to his life.
I just had to postpone my recon trip to Knoxville, is all. I’m royally pissed, but I can’t risk it.
I’m going to bed. Hubby and I decided tomorrow is a Vaycay. No work. Make it a long weekend.
@ eaglesoars:
Good for both of you Eagles
🙂
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
Me too.
coldwarrior wrote:
Y’all ain’t seen nothin’ yet. They’re just getting started.
bout time
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/03/nashville-business-owners-defy-mayor-and-remain-open-say-order-to-close-bars-and-restaurants-on-broadway-is-unconstitutional/
so, all these buisnesses that are being forced to close and all of the employees that will lose income….they get a tax break. right?
snort
thought so
Just got back from the grocery store. Their hours are now 6-11. There were about 100 customers, not too bad. But nothing had changed from yesterday evening, there were no overnite deliveries. They’ve changed their checkout lines protocol. You don’t pick your line, you get in line and go to the first available.
There is a lot of meat, just not the stuff you prep yourself. It’s all cold cuts or their pre-prepped meal. However, I did snag the St. Pat’s corned beef dinner. That will hold us for 3 days.
NO POTATOES!! What’s up with THAT?
Still no toilet paper. BUT they had 2 of their 12-pack tissues, limit 2 to a customer. As there were only 2 left, I just took one.
Cleaned out of frozen veggies. But my freezer is ok, I think.
The funniest thing – as you drive into the shopping center to get to the grocery store, the first place is LA Fitness Center. The parking lot was PACKED. I’m not usually up at 6 am, so I don’t know if that’s the norm or not, but I do know there are a lot of obsessed people around here. I got a Nordic Trak for less than a membership there. jeez.
I’m going to see if I can grab a hour.
So, Capitol Complex Harrisburg is down and out for 2 weeks for non-essentials who cannot telework…which unfortunately/or fortunately depending on how you look at it, is all of my people in both sections.
I was headed in and MY boss called and said don’t bother, but stand by.
https://www.oa.pa.gov/Pages/AlertDetails.aspx
So now…we wait…for it to hopefully warm up sufficiently, grab Dammit dog, hop in the boat, and go fishing. 🙂
@ eaglesoars:
Toilet paper? What is that of which you speak? Harder to find than a snipe.
I had no luck yestery, so I will try again today.