My county was locked down by a Republican County Commissioner for 22 new cases of Wuhan Flu…17 of these cases came from the same senior care home.
Day 14 of the Great American Lock-down
by coldwarrior ( 163 Comments › )Filed under Open thread at March 29th, 2020 - 10:03 am
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Play nice!
wow
morning y’all
rain of lead wrote:
tea party republican, back in the day.
i was not a big fan of ghurka cigars, each time i had one they either burned wrong or fell apart.
now, after 3 months in the humidor…well…not too bad. it seems they needed to rest on a bed of spanish cedar and mingle with cigars in a humidified box.
@ coldwarrior:
My county was locked down by a Republican County Commissioner for 22 new cases of Wuhan Flu…17 of these cases came from the same senior care homeMy county was locked down by a Republican County Commissioner for 22 new cases of Wuhan Flu…17 of these cases came from the same senior care home
It could be worse
STARTING APRIL 1ST TRUDEAU INCREASING CARBON TAX BY 50%.
https://twitter.com/LeonardRoxon/status/1244281118247002113
@ eaglesoars:
yeah, sure, that’ll help. /
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/03/28/ttrump-admin-names-gun-makers-retailers-essential-businesses-nationwide/
imagine romney or YEB! doing this
@ coldwarrior:
YUGE trust tell from the Trump admin!
@ Brick:
Good stuff
so momcat, the girl and I went here today
https://www.murfreesborotn.gov/DocumentCenter/View/370/Greenway-Map?bidId=
only place outside we could find that was open because all the parks were closed
so we strolled along the riverside then had some smoked wings and bbq sammichs
for lunch
bout like dis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kD-unyd10tM
@ rain of lead:
Zac Brown Band – “Knee Deep” Feat. Jimmy Buffett
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9n5G0qFBsHM
@ rain of lead:
loves me some smoked and dusted wings
MIT Will Post Free Plans Online for an Emergency Ventilator That Can Be Built for $100
https://scitechdaily.com/mit-posts-free-plans-online-for-an-emergency-ventilator-that-can-be-built-for-100/
Joe Diffie has died from ‘complications of COVID-19″
dammit
https://www.austin360.com/entertainment/20200329/legendary-songwriter-john-prine-in-critical-condition-with-coronavirus-symptoms?utm_source=web_push&utm_medium=referral
@ coldwarrior:
Earlier. Can you help clear up this question Cold?
coldwarrior wrote:
Chloroquine also seems to act as a zinc ionophore, that allows extracellular zinc to enter the cell and inhibit viral RNA-dependent RNA polymerase.[37][38]
Is this why the third leg of the 200mg Chloroquine (twice daily for 5 days) 500mg Azithromycin(once a day for 5 days) package is …. 200mg of Zinc Sulphate (once a day for 5 days) a day?
coldwarrior wrote:
I think the ‘boy genius is trying to crash the Canaduab economy so he can put in place his daddy’s socialist plans of long ago
coldwarrior wrote:
Oh for Suuuuure!
Lokkie… There goes another pig flying by!
coldwarrior wrote:
Just on the news of that pork loaded $2.2 trillion bill that the Dems held over the senate for an extra week. Folks remember that. AND al that pork. Dems and RINOS think the public are idiots. They a’in’t.
They remember who was on their side and who were playing dumb political games. This will rebound on the Dems BIG time in November
The folks are pissed with the pork bill and happy with Trumps declaration on gun manufacturers being essential workers.
A double Plus for Trump. Trump click up another 4 points on the polls!
🙂
Aussie Infidel wrote:
November is eons down the road.
I remember during the 1st Gulf War, we all thought Bush 41 was unbeatable
@ lobo91:
Leaked out today into the Ministry of Education briefing notes.
New estimate for the Lock-Down blows out from 4 weeks to a minimum of 6-8 weeks minimum.
The leaked it to slowly get the populous conditioned to face doubling of the time locked away.
The cops are estimating that we have 2-3 more weeks of quiet before the violence begins to ramp up with Domestic Violence cases spikin first.
Folks are scared here and by mid April the ‘cabin – fever’ will begin to show.
Some really dumb things going on like gas stations locking their toilets for staff only forcing long distance truckers to find alternate places to have a shit! The truckers are pissed off. Ministry of Internal Affairs totally dropped the ball on it and other Ministries are whistling looking at the ceiling and muttering … ” not out business” … so to speak!
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
Au Conraire Eagles.
WE are looking mis May here now for lifting the lockdown. Folks lives will still be getting back to normal (maybe) into August (maybe) and that’s just 3 months out from pulling the handle. When stuff this big happens even the most ‘forgetful’ citizens … REMEMBER …
🙂
@ eaglesoars:
To the other 98% it was just ‘stuff that happened on TV’.
This is happening to THEM this time
They will REMEMBER!
🙂
Aussie Infidel wrote:
point taken on that one!
@ eaglesoars:
What’s the mood on the East Coast so far Eagles?
Do you have a blanket lock down or is it being done State by State or even County by County?NYC sounds like a total disaster!
@ eaglesoars:
Any news out of the East of the Great White Land to the North? We have not heard a peep out of the boy-child down here.
I don’t know of any place that isn’t locked down on the east coast. The mood is pretty good, it’s just meh, get it done.
As for Trudeau et al, that Ukranian Nazi chick Freeland was grunting something at Trump about how Canada controls its own borders thank you very much, Trudeau is raising the carbon tax 50% on Apr 1, he’s still allowing flights from China and according to the media, all Canadians are racist bastards for blaming China. I think that about covers it.
I think the report from Janes Defence Review of just over 1% of the Chinese population infected is closer to the ‘official’ Chinese number. So that 40,000+ deaths is more believable given the Chinese perchance for barefaced lying!
https://therightscoop.com/more-evidence-china-is-lying-about-coronavirus-in-wuhan-incinerators-and-cremations/
@ Aussie Infidel:
I just saw a satellite pic of the emissions. They’re starting up the crematoriums again.
eaglesoars wrote:
How to win friends and influence people!
🙂
Are the French Canadians so totally in his thrall to the extent that they will die rather than kick the bastard to the curb?
eaglesoars wrote:
I was waiting the ‘dead cat bounce!
So much for Xi’s boasting. I am guessing that this will cost him a massive loss of face and he’d better be looking over his shoulder. Thug-ocracies don’t forgive losers!
Bad for business
doncha know!
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
URL site?
I’ll pass it on to some interested Aussies who may have missed it
🙂
Joe Diffie has died.
Here’s my fave – Bigger than the Beatles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zz6zIpW8z1w
@ Aussie Infidel:
It was twitter – I’ll see if I can find it again
Aussie Infidel wrote:
I found the tweet – dated Feb 8, which I missed first time around
@ eaglesoars:
Thanks Eagles.
Tide is low enough to go walk on the beach.
Later
🙂
The greatest troll in the history of mankind would be if Trump invoked the Defense Production Act and ordered the New York Times and WaPo to stop printing newspapers and start manufacturing toilet paper.
https://twitter.com/angela_tribble/status/1244427201115815936/photo/1
…The new danger was that when the peasants finally refused to deliver produce to the towns, the towns would go and fetch it. It had happened in Austria during the blockade. It had happened in the Ruhr and the Rhineland under the provocation of French militarism and enforced idleness. Now there were reports from Saxony -unoccupied Germany — that bands of several hundred townspeople at a time had taken to riding out into the countryside on bicycles to confiscate what they needed.
Anna Eisenmenger’s diary included a first-hand account of the plunder of Linz and its neighbourhood in Austria — the place which Hitler regarded as his home town. She transcribed a letter from her daughter who had been staying there for a few weeks with cousins who ran a small farm with eight cows, two horses, twelve pigs and the usual poultry:
When Money Dies: The Nightmare of the Weimar Collapse by Adam Fergusson
eaglesoars wrote:
Isn’t that what they are already doing? Granted it is toilet paper for birds and puppies, but it is toilet paper.
I hope Trump sees this in time for the next presser and just gives them all unvarnished humiliation
CBS News Caught Using Footage from an Italian Hospital to Describe Conditions in New York City (VIDEO)
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/03/cbs-news-caught-using-footage-from-an-italian-hospital-to-describe-conditions-in-new-york-city-video/
morning y’all
lotta news so let’s get started
Dem govs hardest hit
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/03/29/fda-issues-emergency-authorization-for-the-use-of-hydroxychloroquine-to-combat-coronavirus-effective-immediately/
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/03/29/new-york-mayor-bill-deblasio-announces-immediate-government-suspension-of-first-amendment/
WARNING
https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2020/03/29/photos-does-gov-andrew-cuomo-have-pierced-nipples-an-investigation/
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/03/29/mccarthy-pelosi-wants-fourth-coronavirus-package-with-liberal-priorities-take-the-opportunity-of-a-crisis/#
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/03/29/donald-trump-extends-coronavirus-guidelines-april-30/
heh
hehehehehe
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/03/not-gonna-happen-president-trump-tells-prince-harry-and-meghan-markle-us-will-not-pay-for-their-full-time-security-after-move-to-la/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/03/the-netherlands-recalls-600000-chinese-face-masks-comes-after-turkey-spain-ukraine-czech-republic-return-faulty-chinese-covid-19-test-kits/
where’s CJ? this is the kind of breaking news his blog used to be known for
/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/03/cbs-news-caught-using-footage-from-an-italian-hospital-to-describe-conditions-in-new-york-city-video/
on my #42 post…
were mosques mentioned?
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/03/globalism_gone_bust_italians_burn_eu_flag_vow_to_leave_eu_over_eus_lousy_coronavirus_response.html
https://legalinsurrection.com/2020/03/france-issues-rallying-calls-to-buy-french-as-coronavirus-erodes-eu-single-market/
these times, they are a changin
https://hotair.com/archives/jazz-shaw/2020/03/29/baltimores-population-drops-levels-not-seen-since-great-depression/
https://amgreatness.com/2020/03/27/thousands-riot-police-forces-battle-in-china-over-travel-restrictions/
and thats it
tons more stories out there but those are the ones I thought interesting
@ rain of lead:
Well, there’s this one, so……
Astrophysicist is taken to hospital with four MAGNETS stuck up his nose after trying to invent a coronavirus device that stops people touching their faces
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8166519/Astrophysicist-taken-hospital-magnets-stuck-nose-inventing-coronavirus-device.html
rain of lead wrote:
Lyrics:
Come gather ’round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You’ll be drenched to the bone.
If your time to you
Is worth savin’
Then you better start swimmin’
Or you’ll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin’.
Come writers and critics
Who prophesize with your pen
And keep your eyes wide
The chance won’t come again
And don’t speak too soon
For the wheel’s still in spin
And there’s no tellin’ who
That it’s namin’.
For the loser now
Will be later to win
For the times they are a-changin’.
Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don’t stand in the doorway
Don’t block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There’s a battle outside
And it is ragin’.
It’ll soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin’.
Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don’t criticize
What you can’t understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
Your old road is
Rapidly agin’.
Please get out of the new one
If you can’t lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin’.
The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The order is
Rapidly fadin’.
And the first one now
Will later be last
For the times they are a-changin’.
wasnt a big dylan fan until i turned 30 or so…then he started making sense
@ eaglesoars:
‘My partner took me to the hospital that she works in because she wanted all her colleagues to laugh at me. The doctors thought it was quite funny, making comments like ”this is an injury due to self-isolation and boredom”,’ he said.
and that, my friends, is why i work in the emergency rooms right there.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/03/29/this-too-shall-pass/#more-187806
sundance wins the internet
https://www.trustnodes.com/2020/03/28/debate-ends-over-chloroquine-as-france-officially-sanctions-usage
France officially sanctions prescribing Hydrochloriquine.
@ RIX:
That’ll piss off a lot on the left. Maybe the French are being paid off by the Russians too.
CBS caught pulling a fast one once again. Showing footage of ITALIAN medical crews working in a story about New York.
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2020/03/30/unacceptable-cbs-news-uses-terrifying-footage-from-italian-hospital-when-talking-about-covid-outbreak-in-nyc/
Damn. First the TANG Memos, now this….
@ The Barbarian:
I want Trump to bring it up at the presser today. oh please oh please oh please
Well, I just got the 3rd call today of people we know checking up on the old geezers to see if we’re ok or need anything.
It’s a bit of a shock to realize – yeah, we really ARE in that demo now, even tho we still function perfectly well. Ok, Hubby has slowed down considerably, but the man is 80, what do you expect. I’m still good, tho.
But I have to say, it’s very gratifying to realize people are out there who keep us in mind. Surprising but gratifying.
@ eaglesoars:
Same here. We have senior shopping hours on Thursdays so I go to about three different grocery stores. I was more than pleased when one person waiting for the Safeway to open last week asked me if I knew that the first out was for “seniors” only. Of course, they were wearing coke-bottle thick glasses. But still……
Well, that’s because nobody else wants to join
EU to begin membership talks with North Macedonia and majority-Muslim Albania
https://voiceofeurope.com/2020/03/eu-to-begin-membership-talks-with-north-macedonia-and-majority-muslim-albania/
ALBANIA??? And I didn’t even know there IS a ‘North’ Macedonia. What happened to the rest of it?
@ eaglesoars:
there is a reason for the term ‘balkanization’
coldwarrior wrote:
I think it’s the European version of the Hindu Kush. It means “don’t go there”.
right_wing2 wrote:
Yeah, they are Putins bitch.
https://www.redstate.com/nick-arama/2020/03/30/rachel-maddow-trump-not-telling-truth-about-hospital-ships-not-going-to-be-deployed-for-weeks.-check-out-their-arrival
@ Red State
On 3/20 Rachel Maddox mocked Trump saying that Naval Hospital ships could not be deployed for weeks.
Yet the Mercy docked in Los Angeles and became operational on 3/27, and thr Comfort docked today in NewYork.
That will not matter, they will forget that and go right to the next smear.
https://dailycaller.com/2020/03/30/joy-behar-jonathan-karl-trump-mentally-ill/
@ Daily Caller
Joy Behar tries to get Jonathan Karl to call Trump a head case.
This woman is the poster girl for twin beds.
Tn gov made a statment about further restrictions
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/03/30/coronavirus-cases-could-soar-blacks-latinos-and-native-americans/2917493001/
@ USA Today
In case you were concerned that the Media may not be able to make this virus racial, rest easy.
The free hotel paper USA Today wants you to know that it is “people of color at risk” and that is resources should go.
@ rain of lead:
https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/health/2020/03/30/tennessee-governor-bill-lee-stay-at-home-order-to-stop-coronavirus/2937429001/
@ rain of lead:
but pretty much all of that has been in effect around here anyway
Gutfeld is gonna punch Yawn Williams in the face.
https://www.wate.com/health/coronavirus/1834-cases-of-coronavirus-13-deaths-in-tennessee-in-latest-state-update/
@ rain of lead:
Meanwhile, New Yorkers ignore social distancing to go look at the pretty boat coming in to SAVE them:
https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2020/03/30/photos-of-crowds-gathered-to-watch-usns-comfort-enter-ny-harbor-shows-another-social-distancing-lesson-might-be-necessary-in-nyc/
This SO reminds me of the early 80’s and the AIDS epidemic in San Francisco. CDC finds AIDS is transmitted through blood and blood products. Don Francis is dispatched to San Francisco to explain to the “Gay Community” that sexual transmission is causing the epidemic. Recommends closing bath houses and other sexual haunts. Director of Public Health, Spineless Silverman, actually puts it to a VOTE of bathhouse owners and gay activists. Bath houses stay open. AIDS spread and people die.
Meanwhile, looking for a scapegoat, they decided to make it all Reagan’s fault that they were idiots.
Chinese ‘wet markets’ reportedly open back up, selling bats and dogs for human consumption
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/chinese-wet-markets-reportedly-open-back-up-selling-bats-and-dogs-for-human-consumption
@ Guggi:
China needs to be made a pariah country. If they want to eat offal, fine, but they get to become North Korea.
The Fed is estimating unemployment could hit over 30%. What will that do to Trump’s reelection?
right_wing2 wrote:
‘could’
Depends on when the jobs numbers get better. December is probably too late.
@ eaglesoars:
This isn’t going to be Bush/Katrina
coldwarrior wrote:
no. The numbers used in the models being quoted don’t/can’t take into account the pharma advances being made. I forget the numbers of hydroxochlorquine tablets en route but it’s significant. Plus the vaccine, plus people getting smarter about hygiene, plus warm weather.
The vaccine won’t help this cycle, but it will next. Probably. Mutations, etc.
I have to laugh. There’s this app called NextDoor where everybody in the ‘hood posts messages, pets lost and found, furniture for sale, etc.
Somebody busybody posted ‘You all have to PLEASE stop going to the grocery store!” Got asked how she knew we were at the grocery store if she wasn’t there herself.
@ eaglesoars:
I understand Israel has sent us something like 10 MILLION doses.
@ eaglesoars:
I could not agree more.
And the WHO needs its ass kicked as well.
The Barbarian wrote:
REALLY?? That’s gonna fuck China, isn’t it, who’s making noises about withholding the APIs.
Altho I know Israel is working on another drug? Also? I think the name of the company is Gilead.
OH CRAP!! I just found out the census deadline is tomorrow. I really should read those damn forms when they come in the mail…….
@ eaglesoars:
Meh. That’s probably just for the cheap online access where you can’t opt-out of answering their irrelevant questions other than Enumeration=x. Next they’ll send you the full form in the mail (probably COVID-19 infected) to fill out. After ignoring that, they’ll send out the canvassing agents (probably COVID-19 infected) so you can answer the Enumeration=x question then trespass them off of your property when they continue pressing for answers to the irrelevant questions.
YMMV.
/galt seems a good idea lately
https://hotair.com/archives/john-s-2/2020/03/30/la-seattle-announce-first-coronavirus-cases-among-homeless/
CynicalConservative wrote:
As long as it’s not Jehovah’s Witness, I’m cool…..
CynicalConservative wrote:
As long as it’s not Jehovah’s Witness, I’m cool…..But first I have to decide my ethnicity and gender…so many choices…….
@ eaglesoars:
I wrote in ‘Native American’ for race.
right_wing2 wrote:
I’m considering ‘Klingon’
eaglesoars wrote:
WASHINGTON — In late November 2018, just over a year before the first coronavirus case was identified in Wuhan, China, U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents at Detroit Metro Airport stopped a Chinese biologist with three vials labeled “Antibodies” in his luggage.
The biologist told the agents that a colleague in China had asked him to deliver the vials to a researcher at a U.S. institute. After examining the vials, however, customs agents came to an alarming conclusion.
“Inspection of the writing on the vials and the stated recipient led inspection personnel to believe the materials contained within the vials may be viable Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) materials,” says an unclassified FBI tactical intelligence report obtained by Yahoo News.
The report, written by the Chemical and Biological Intelligence Unit of the FBI’s Weapons of Mass Destruction Directorate (WMDD), does not give the name of the Chinese scientist carrying the suspected SARS and MERS samples, or the intended recipient in the U.S. But the FBI concluded that the incident, and two other cases cited in the report, were part of an alarming pattern.
https://news.yahoo.com/suspected-sars-virus-and-flu-found-in-luggage-fbi-report-describes-chinas-biosecurity-risk-144526820.html?soc_src=hl-viewer&soc_trk=fb
Hey CW –
Maybe you’re already tucked in for the night in prep for your surgery tomorrow. But in the event, you and yours are in our prayers. Sleep well, GET REALLY GOOD drugs, and update us when you can. Here’s a hug. {hug}
I’m out. Nite.
@ eaglesoars:
thanks, but its scheduled for wednesday
eaglesoars wrote:
Beagle
eaglesoars wrote:
So, I’d say the prototype was a failure
RIX wrote:
Actually she is the poster girl for separate bedrooms. In separate states. Not adjoining.
eaglesoars wrote:
Really?
I thought that what they were printing!
HEH!
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
30%? People will rebel over the restrictions before that happens. That would be the cure being worse than the disease.
eaglesoars wrote:
Really? I just got mine a week or so ago. Guess I’ll need to take a look tomorrow
rain of lead wrote:
He’s busy, and now you’re banned for asking. Double-banned.
https://thediaryofdaedalus.com/2020/03/30/little-green-footballs-content-is-not-just-a-little-thin-its-emaciated/
A nice Seattle woman politely suggested to a streetcorner evangelist that he should consider practicing self-quarantine during the virus shut down.
https://twitter.com/KatieDaviscourt/status/1243999112447459330?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
coldwarrior wrote:
Oh ! I thought you said it was April Fool’s Day April 1?
I’ll hold some smart arsed remark for a few more days in that case.
Stay icy mate!
🙂
Bunk X wrote:
Possession is such a nasty thing, especially when it bursts out in public.
Go play with your broom bitch witch!
🙂
coldwarrior wrote:
Aussie Infidel wrote:
I get to go in on the same day. Surgeon said they need to insert a small round ship’s window into my chest.
See you on the flip side, CW!
This is a fun lady.
@ Bunk X:
Tell me your name is not Tomy Stark!
🙂
Stay safe mate and all the very best.How long will they keep you in?
morning y’all
day 4 of staycation
{rain}
So you know that ‘stupid’ couple that ingested fish tank cleaner and tried to blame it on Trump?
Not so fast, Sparky. Looks like Wifey is a head case and may have offed Hubby
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2020/03/31/seems-fishy-techno_fogs-thread-on-wife-who-fed-her-husband-fish-tank-cleaner-blows-trump-bad-story-out-of-the-water/
@ eaglesoars:
shocked face
I haz one
@ eaglesoars:
As Oprah would say, “It’s her truth.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/03/democrat-rep-seth-moulton-withdraws-support-for-house-resolution-condemning-china-coronavirus-lies-bashes-trump-instead-video/
@ Gateway Pundit
Seth Moulton; this guy is a clown.
@ eaglesoars:
She says they both took a “teaspoon”.
Yeah, my guess is HE took a teaspoon.
She took a couple of the crystals in some nutmeg.
@ RIX:
I imagine there’s some YumYum ChiCom cash in the slurp’s background.
The Barbarian wrote:
Would not be a surprise, would it?
I was afraid of this.
Migrant Fieldworkers in Florida Laid Off Due to Coronavirus Pandemic
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — Sixty-three migrant workers arrived in back home in Mexico after their contract was terminated with their employer
The fieldworkers were hired to pick berries for four months, but their contracts were terminated after two weeks. All of them were in the U.S. on a temporary H-2A visa.
Antonio Tovar with the Farmworkers Association of Florida said growers normally terminate employees during the peak fruit season because of economic hardships caused by disasters, such as the coronavirus pandemic.
“This is the first case that we have related to the illness,” Tovar said.
The U.S. Department of State deemed agricultural workers as “essential.” But the 63 employees said they didn’t feel that way.
“The contract didn’t work like we wanted too, and we’re just disappointed,” Antonio, one of the workers, said.
The U.S. Department of State made adjustments to help H-2A workers and employers during the pandemic including expanding “the categories of H-2 visa applicants whose applications can be adjudicated without an in-person interview.”
The workers said they tried to move to another job for an out-of-state grower in Georgia but were unable to come to a deal with their contractor.
The contractor did not want to comment on the situation.
The workers said per their contract they will be paid three-quarters of the agreed payment.
stock up
Chris Cuomo has tested positive
@ eaglesoars:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2020/03/31/chris-cuomo-tests-positive-coronavirus-covid-19/5094751002/
Here it is. He will blame Trump no doubt.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/03/uh-oh-democrat-rep-tests-positive-for-coronvirus-was-with-80-year-old-pelosi-three-days-earlier/
rain of lead wrote:
Oh, and WHO has been against remote voting? Fuck her.
@ Aussie Infidel:
Tomorrow’s just an outpatient thang for me. I had my surgical vacation four weeks ago.
Good
Today @RepBryanSteilof introduced a bill to rescind the $25 million in funding for the Kennedy Center. @SteveScalise is a co-sponsor.
https://twitter.com/PhilipWegmann/status/1245055472828366853
It’s behind a paywall so I can’t get to it, but the Telegraph has a piece on Neil Ferguson, the epidemiologist who fucked up the pandemic numbers. It isn’t the first time. Jordan Schactel has summarized
https://twitter.com/JordanSchachtel/status/1243976303696662529
This is brutal for the cult of the One And Only Expert: “Neil Ferguson, the scientist who convinced Boris Johnson of UK coronavirus lockdown, criticised in past for flawed research”
“Ferguson has been criticized in the past for making predictions based on allegedly wrong assumptions which nevertheless shaped government strategies and impacted the British economy.
“He was behind controversial research that triggered the mass slaughter of farm animals during the 2001 FMD epidemic, which cost the country billions of pounds.”
“He predicted that up to 150,000 people could die from bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, or “mad cow disease”) & its equivalent in sheep if it made leap in humans. To date, there have been < 200 deaths from human form of BSE & 0 deaths from sheep-to-human transmission."
Ending thread by reminding you all that his modeling is based on blindly making massive assumptions about COVID-19. Most important:
1) COVID-19 death rate at WHO astronomical numbers
2) Blind guesswork re asymptomatic spread
& he refuses to make his code open to public scrutiny.
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eaglesoars wrote:
that is a yuge no-no in the academic world
coldwarrior wrote:
I posted about this before. He said he hadn’t used it in 13 yrs and it was ’10s of thousands of lines of C code’
My hair ignited. C is for professional software developers, not hobbyists. I used it for years, I first learned it after 20 years in the field and it took me TWO YEARS to become proficient. Usually, I would need 6 months, max. It’s so close to machine language, they don’t even teach it anymore. Or so I’m told. Yes, anybody can write “Hello world”.
Now set up your 10 dimensional tables and start indexing them. Derivatively.
jackass
eaglesoars wrote:
damn!
Yeah, you should probably sit this one out, Witless
We’ve seen all too terribly the consequences of those who denied warnings of a pandemic. We can’t afford any more consequences of climate denial. All of us, especially young people, have to demand better of our government at every level and vote this fall.
https://twitter.com/BarackObama/status/1245007713387544576
Then he links to this POS article
Trump weakens fuel economy standards, rolling back key U.S. effort against climate change
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-03-31/trump-rolls-back-fuel-economy-standards
eaglesoars wrote:
Klingon!
Yeah.
I can live with Klingon…
Just as long as isn’t Borg!
Can’t stand those bastards!
🙂
More cool stuff
UC Berkeley chemists have created a hybrid system of bacteria and nanowires that captures energy from sunlight and transfers it to the bacteria to turn carbon dioxide and water into organic molecules and oxygen.
https://news.berkeley.edu/2020/03/31/on-mars-or-earth-biohybrid-can-turn-co2-into-new-products/
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/03/31/hard-drinking-aussies-told-to-stop-panic-buying-given-strict-buying-limits/
@ eaglesoars:
Reminder to Obama and Biden: Federal stockpile of N95 masks depleted during 2009-2010 H1N1 epidemic. Never replenished by Obama administration.
Two important things out of Birx/Fauci today
The models use available data and most of that data is coming from NY
As more data comes in, it gets fed into the models (and I’m assuming the models get adjusted when needed, altho that wasn’t said specifically)
That means the models are working with a catastrophic scenario that should paint and ‘gentler’ picture as time goes on
However, I’m pretty sure the models don’t have data from drug therapy so there’s one variable not included
eaglesoars wrote:
and Italy
The Barbarian wrote:
somebody should check to see if they bought scuba gear for the anticipated rise in sea levels
The Barbarian wrote:
He’s getting his ass kicked on H1N1. Plus reminders that the U.S. has decreased carbon emissions under trump more than any other country
coldwarrior wrote:
Except in “climate science,” apparently
lobo91 wrote:
Yeah, some of their code was leaked in the East Anglia email heist. It wasn’t in C, it was in Fortran, and it sucked too
This thing had better be over with by late September. They just announced the lineup for the Telluride Blues & Brews festival this morning, and if it gets cancelled, I’m going to be pissed.
Buddy Guy…Allman Betts Band…Luther Dickinson…Samantha Fish…Larkin Poe…Hannah Wicklund…
eaglesoars wrote:
Wow, sounds like Philip Hansen, doesn’t he?
eaglesoars wrote:
Actually, C gets quite a bit of use in various places. No one uses FORTRAN anymore. We have many tools written in C by both software developers and algorithm developers. It has kind of become the standard for R&D and development activities. Most analysts have migrated to higher level languages like MATLAB, and some of the scripting languages, but C is pretty widespread. C++ is also in use but comes with some baggage.
eaglesoars wrote:
Fortran???
E even I know how to code in Fortran.
It came out of the Ark!
🙂
AZfederalist wrote:
what? No epidemiologists, which is what Ferguson is? Yes, used by pros, as I said. Altho I’ve been told it’s no longer taught.
MATLAB is written in C/C++, so they’re only 1 level up, just using an interface w/handy functions in a library
At the time the climate geniuses were beginning to write code, they didn’t have a lot of choices; Fortran, Assembler, COBOL. Cobol simply didn’t have the functionality they needed (they thought), Assembler is basically machine language, so Fortran it was.
And the code snippets I saw were sad – what should have been coded as a run-time parameter was hard coded, for example. And they had zero concept of a ‘library’.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
I can read it, I’ve never actually used it. I had to work with some software with Fortran modules, but not many. It’s a pretty straightforward language as far as I could tell. The engineering/math version of COBOL
Supposed On-Line Dating Site:-
Great looking guy with 4 dozen toilet rolls looking for a spunky lady with a large number of bottles of hand sanitiser ……. for some good clean fun!
🙂
HEH!
eaglesoars wrote:
Yup.
Learned FORTRAN 4 when I was reading Mechanical Engineering at the University of NSW before ‘Pontius was a Pilot’.!
🙂
HEH
Yeah …that one ago!
eaglesoars wrote:
I don’t work in a medical field, so I can’t say
@ AZfederalist:
He may or may not be a decent epidemiologist – from what I posted above re problems with his previous predictions, probably not.
He is most certainly not a professional software developer
USPS warns it might have to shutter by June as $2 trillion coronavirus stimulus package provides no funding
gee, there goes Pelosi’s vote rigging scheme
https://fortune.com/2020/03/30/usps-postal-service-stimulus-package-no-funding-post-office-mail-delivery-could-shutter-june-coronavirus-relief-bill/
eaglesoars wrote:
Neither are the algorithm developers with whom I work. Code doesn’t have to be pretty to work.
Years ago, when the conversion from FORTRAN to C code was going on, one of the algorithm guys who was an old Fortran coder from the beginning was sweating having to learn C because that’s what the sim was being coded in and his stuff had to work with it. He came to one of the other developers one day smiling, “I’ve got this C stuff figured out! I found the GOTO statement!”
eaglesoars wrote:
Not going to argue with you on that. He appears to be an alarmist who takes great pleasure in the notoriety he gets with apocalyptic predictions.
AZfederalist wrote:
Point. Missed. This is a human endeavor and humans have to understand it and work with it. Tens of thousands of lines of code – which is what Ferguson claims he wrote – had damn well better be ‘pretty’ or it’s unfixable/unmaintainable. Even if it’s your own. I’ve had to go back to code I wrote 6 mos earlier and had to think again about what I had been doing/why certain decisions were made. So even if he is the only person who ever works with it, when he has to make mods/fixes, he’d better hope it’s ‘pretty’. I promise you, it’s not easy, not in C.
“I’ve got this C stuff figured out! I found the GOTO statement!”
unconditional jumps are discouraged in ANY language, but I allowed them on my team in certain design configs. Just label the bastards.
eaglesoars wrote:
FWIW, I’ve written C code during my career. Code needs to be modular, not pretty. Oh, and it has to pass test cases properly, if not, it’s garbage. The code base I am thinking of is many 10’s of thousands of lines of code. It is modular, some of the modules not “pretty” in terms a CS major would label them.
/Now, I haven’t seen what the epidemiologist wrote (apparently no one has). So a) he needs to let it be peer reviewed, or b) at a minimum, it has to be able to produce credible test cases to verify validity of the underlying algorithms. If it can’t do that, it’s garbage.
AZfederalist wrote:
modular is pretty
That’s one of the good aspects of the much-maligned COBOL. It enforces at least SOME modularity, altho god knows I’ve seen some rotten COBOL too.
I don’t know how this guy could get a peer-review on the code. Epidemiologts aren’t developers, developers aren’t epidemiologists. I would think there are enough case histories, tho, to see if the model successfully handles the regression analysis.
eaglesoars wrote:
And Ted Cruz TORCHES him
Bold: Obama calls for the overwhelming electoral defeat of Joe Biden & Nancy Pelosi, after they opposed & demagogued Trump’s China travel ban, which helped slow the coronavirus pandemic.
https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1245041855156404227
@ eaglesoars:
Wow, looking at the comments, Twitter is an open sewer. Where some of those people get their “facts” is a puzzle.
earthquakes in Idaho. All day,it looks like
bed.
AZfederalist wrote:
yeah, it definitely can be. But I’ve encountered some really interesting people from all over the world and WONDERFUL history sites and even authors I read that I get to talk to a bit. A sheep farmer in Ireland with dogs and a famous cat, a farmer in India that knows about water issues. I love it.
Terry Teachout’s wife died this evening. He’s the theater critic for WSJ, etc. Wonderful writer, has been writing about his wife, etc. And HE suffers from TDS, saying Trump blamed health care workers for the disappearance of PPE/masks etc. He wrote that even while she was dying. He just HAD to. Which is not supported by any fact, so even in my dotage, I’ve learned some hard lessons about human nature. TDS is like anti-semitism. It’s a pathology that satisfies a need.
And oldie but a goody…prayers, sweetie
eaglesoars wrote:
@ eaglesoars:
Hope someone warned them to watch for tsunamis.
My god, make the stupid stop. How I see things in my corner of the Great White North. Everything deemed non-essential is shut down. Public Health has decreed a maximum customer occupancy of grocery stores of 50 people. Toilet paper stocks are still low. Flour stocks as well still low. Lots of goods are manageable but mostly low.
We are getting families that are coming in to shop. Not school age kids, university age kids with their parents. Stupidity on parade. People are coming in daily to pick up groceries it seems, not new people, the same people. Almost as if it’s the only social outlet that they have.
Yesterday when I left work, people were practiscing social distancing while lined up to get into the grocery store. STANDING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FUCKING PARKING LOT THOROUGHFARE!!!! I had to blow my horn in order for them to get off their damned cell phone to move out of my god dammned way. I am sure that there is a smarter way to line up and such, not by acting like traffic pylons though.
We’ve been stressed to the max in the grocery store. First the panic buying then the limitations brought down by governments of all levels, then there’s the constant corporate changes coming down practically hourly.
Sales have been dropping, which means some departments have been slowly cut back that aren’t deemed necessary. Some staff members have opted to stay home for health reasons. It’s going to get ugly up here.