I’ll see yinz guys after surgery!
Day 17 of the Great American Lock-down
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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!
Go easy and rest up. Prayers to you and your family big guy.
Best of luck CW. You are in our prayers.
A coworker and her daughter were murdered over the weekend. Please post and share this everywhere you can so we can catch the suspect, her boyfriend.
https://www.kwch.com/content/news/Woman-girl-found-fatally-shot-in-S-Wichita-home-569238561.html
Good luck today CW.
@ right_wing2:
8 years old? I’ll pass it around when I get back, in the meantime I’ll pray for suicide by cop
@ eaglesoars:
I never met the daughter of course, but the mom was a very sweet lady. If they catch this guy, he is not gonna be very popular in prison. I don’t know which I’d prefer-suicide by cop, or seeing the bastard get the crap beat out of him in a jail cell.
Prayers for your speedy recovery, CW.
I’ll try to remember to put up a new thread in your absence and recovery.
Something lighthearted folks?
@ right_wing2:
oh, I’m all for saving taxpayer dollars.
I don’t have many followers, but I tweeted it asking for retweets.
Oh perfect. Just effing perfect
Britain’s attempt to ramp up mass coronavirus testing has been dealt a blow after key components ordered from overseas were discovered to be contaminated with coronavirus, the Telegraph can disclose.
Laboratories across the country were on Monday warned to expect a delay after traces of the virus were detected in parts due for delivery in the coming days.
‘overseas’
Coronavirus testing effort hampered by kits contaminated with Covid-19
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/03/30/uks-attempt-ramp-coronavirus-testing-hindered-key-components/
@ eaglesoars:
Thanks.
Even better…….
That viral story on FDA approving two-minute coronavirus test looks like a cruel April Fools’ hoax
The news was reported in a Reuters story that was reprinted by the New York Times, Axios, and many other outlets. The Washington Examiner also reported on the supposed development.
However, when I thought about writing about this breakthrough this morning, a few things struck me as odd.
All of the stories eventually led back to a press release issued by a company calling itself BODYSPHERE Inc. I’ve never heard of any such company, and all Google searches just referenced the story about the coronavirus test.
I then checked out the website of the company, and the only products listed were a COVID-19 test, medical masks, and hand sanitizer — all products that happen to be in high demand right now. The company’s Twitter page had no tweets before Monday.
So then I looked at the FDA webpage announcing Emergency Use Authorizations, and I did not find any reference to the supposed EUA for the BODYSPHERE test.
Finally, I contacted the FDA to ask if any EUA for BODYSPHERE had been issued and received an email back explaining, “No serology tests have received an authorization to test for coronavirus.”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/that-viral-story-on-fda-approving-2-minute-cornavirus-test-looks-like-a-cruel-april-fools-hoax
@ eaglesoars:
The components, which were from unnamed overseas countries, were sent to the U.K. by a company in Luxembourg
Lemme see, Can I get an egg roll with that?
RIX wrote:
HAR!!!
Those EU labeling standards sure come in handy don’t they?
eaglesoars wrote:
Oh yeah, they are so sophisticatated
@ RIX:
hey Rix, how are you and yours doing?
Listening to Rush’s podcast a day late….
He mentioned that you would think California, with its intense travel to and from China, would be the epicenter. It isn’t. Not even close. So he posits that maybe, just MAYBE, people in California already got the virus before it became public knowledge and survived.
Interesting idea. Because I do remember right around Christmas and after, everyone was complaining about this rather severe cold that was going around, where you were mildly sick a few days, really sick for maybe one day, and then got better, but then it “came back” in a milder form maybe a week or two later.
Sure would be interesting to find out how many of us here in the Golden State are already “recovered” and running around with the antibodies.
eaglesoars wrote:
Hi Eagle. Thank’s for asking. My wife is struggling with the disease , a lot of pain and anxiety.
It is Mesothelioma and the treatment regimine is intense.
She is battling about as well as anyone can, but loses it ant the tears come.
It is a mystery how she contracted it. This virus is especially dangerous for someone like her with
A preexisting condition like that.
She has a first rate medical team and they are encouraging. Because of my career Iknew who to go to.
I would like to say that we are great over here, but we are both positive.
My daughter gets married in early Fall and it’s killing my wife that she can not help out.
@ eaglesoars:
I forgot to ask. How are you and your husband doing?
@ RIX:
I’m sorry to hear that. Hubby was diagnosed with melanoma exactly 20 yrs ago yesterday. The anxiety is something we became all to familiar with and I wouldn’t wish it on anyone.
I thought the main/ONLY cause of mesothelioma is asbestos exposure? Is that in her background somehow.
Planning a wedding under these circumstances – your personal and this virus garbage – must be a challenge.
Hubby and I are just fine. As long as doggy day care stays open, I won’t be eating my gun anytime soon.
@ eaglesoars:
Asbestos is the only known cause of Mesothelioma. Where she got the exposure is a mystery.
Myself and most guys that I know had exposures. Summers I worked at the steel mills and did some
new construction insulation. But none of that applies to her.
I am glad to hear that you and your husband are doing well. The news is just nuts. I know that this pandemic is serious , but they keep looping hysteria.
Yeah, you knew this was coming
Biden: States Should Prepare for Remote Voting in 2020 Elections
https://truepundit.com/biden-states-should-prepare-for-remote-voting-in-2020-elections/
RIX wrote:
That is very strange, Rix.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2020/04/01/coronavirus-covid-19-china-radical-measures-lockdowns-mass-quarantines/2938374001/
@ USA Today
If I get the gist of this story correctly, the Chinese are built of better stuff than we are. They surrender their civil liberties much easier than us. Does it occur to USA Today that Chinese citizens have been groomed by the government to obey?
I am sure that hey think that they of course would be exempt.
hope CW’s surgery went well today.
This just keeps getting better and better
Biden Says He’s Considering Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer as Vice President Pick…
Gov Witless can’t even figure out how to do the paperwork to communicate w/the Feds
https://www.weaselzippers.us/446426-biden-says-hes-considering-michigan-governor-gretchen-whitmer-as-vice-president-pick/
Hopefully CW is out of theatre by now and getting the good stuff and resting in bed.
Prayers to you mate.
Best!
A Venezualan navy vessel rammed and tried to board a cruise ship, the Resolute, in international waters – and ended up sinking itself.
Nope, me neither
A statement from the RCGS Resolute on what happened with the Venezuelan navy which led to the sinking of the GC-23 Naiguata. The Naiguata attempted to divert the vessel from international waters and shot at and rammed the resolute.
https://twitter.com/ConflictsW/status/1245450808432439298
somebody is actually asking about migrant workers
What a bunch of pricks
Just now WHCA announces they voted to remove
@OANN from seat rotation in the White House briefing room: “We did this because a reporter for this outlet twice attended press briefings in contravention of this policy.”
WHCA = White House Correspondents Assoc.
not sure what policy they’re talking about but they are gunning for Chanel Rion
https://twitter.com/PhilipWegmann/status/1245489189333983233
ok, here we go
“Before the briefing began, a representative of the correspondents association asked OANN’s Rion to leave the room because it wasn’t her day to attend, but she refused, claiming she was there “as a guest of Stephanie Grisham,” the press secretary”
OANN reporter once again standing in back of WH Briefing in defiance of social distancing requirements set in place by @WHCA . OANN is in the rotation of reporters who get to attend briefings but seem to think they get to play by different rules & put safety at risk. #COVIDー19
https://twitter.com/PaulaReidCBS/status/1245474039444975616
eaglesoars wrote:
Interesting euphemism, especially when you remember that the press and powers that be in Formerly Great Britain always identify terrorists as “Asians”
@ AZfederalist:
Luxemburg. via Beijing
@ lobo91:
Are you noticing that people are getting a little buggy?
@ eaglesoars:
Just a bit.
After all, we just had a prison riot started by someone spreading a rumor that we were going to shoot all the inmates.
Believe it or not, Megan Lovell is actually capable of speech 🙂
@ lobo91:
hey, will you be able to toss up a thread if cw is slow to get back?
God. Found out at work today that when they found the mom and her little girl, she was holding her. What the hell kind of sick bastard murders a child, his daughter, while she’s in her mother’s arms?
Please, share everywhere you can. Facebook, Twitter, Email any social media you can.
https://www.kwch.com/content/news/Woman-girl-found-fatally-shot-in-S-Wichita-home-569238561.html
@ rain of lead:
As long as I’m home, I can. Can’t access the site at work, though, for whatever reason.
right_wing2 wrote:
HIS daughter??
@ eaglesoars:
Yes. His girlfriend, his daughter.
@ eaglesoars:
If he survives, he’s going to be REAL popular in prison. Large men are gonna take a shine to him.
The NYT has a video of the ER of Elmhurst hospital/NYC, given a tour by one Dr. Colleen Smith. A real horror show, yes siree.
https://twitter.com/timjhogan/status/1243000584254472195
Except there IS no ‘Dr Colleen Smith’. Tim Hogan, who posted the above, works for Amy Klobuchar.
And ‘Dr Smith’ appears to be a ‘simulator’. And what did NYT actually film?
https://twitter.com/ChristinePolon1/status/1245527612308385792
@ eaglesoars:
The same Italian hospital one of the major networks used last week?
right_wing2 wrote:
no prison.
I am off to bed. nite.
@ eaglesoars:
CHINESE REGIME
After Chinese Tycoon Goes Missing, Growing Criticism of Xi Leadership Hints of Factional Infighting
BY NICOLE HAO
March 29, 2020 Updated: March 29, 2020
Print
Chinese tycoon and princeling Ren Zhiqiang was recently detained after he publicly criticized Communist Party leader Xi Jinping for mishandling China’s response to the epidemic.
Soon after, Chinese democracy activists exiled overseas circulated open letters—purportedly signed by Chinese entrepreneurs and retired senior officials—calling on Xi to enact systematic reform.
The letters’ veracity could not be confirmed. But analysts believe that rumors of such dissent demonstrate that factional infighting within the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is intensifying, as Xi faces mounting criticism over the way China handled the virus outbreak.
Ren Zhiqiang
Ren, 69, is a successful real estate tycoon in Beijing. His father Ren Quansheng was a deputy minister of commerce before he retired in 1983. As a descendant of a former senior official, Ren is considered a Party princeling.
In addition, Wang Qishan, Chinese vice chair and one of Xi’s strongest supporters, was Ren’s mentor in middle school. Wang was a teacher at the middle school Ren attended.
Ren is known for being critical of the Chinese regime. On Feb. 19, 2016, Ren posted on Weibo, a Twitter-like Chinese social media platform, that “the surname of all Chinese media is the CCP, and the media do not represent people’s interests”—meaning the media answers to the Party.
At the time, Ren was criticized by Chinese state-run media. The Party also punished him, announcing that it would monitor his behavior for a year. If he committed further “wrongdoing,” he would lose his Party membership.
On March 8, Chinese netizens shared an article written by Ren. Though it was deleted in China, the article was quickly spread overseas by activists.
Ren wrote: “This virus outbreak just verified that the surname of all [Chinese] media is the CCP, and Chinese people have been abandoned [by the Party].”
Ren explained that the regime did not react promptly to stop the virus from spreading. He said authorities also lied to the public. As people were unaware of the virus’s contagiousness, they unwittingly spread the virus further.
Ren called Xi “a clown who insists on being an emperor, even after he has been stripped of his clothes.”
On March 12, Ren disappeared from the public.
Epoch Times PhotoTedros Adhanom, Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) attends a meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China on January 28, 2020. (Naohiko Hatta – Pool/Getty Images)
On March 25, VOA (Voice of America), citing information from Ren’s friends, reported that Beijing authorities detained Ren, as well as his son and secretary.
The report quoted an insider as saying, “Nobody is allowed to interfere with [Ren’s case], influence it, or beg for pardon for him. It’s possible that Wang Qishan isn’t allowed [to help Ren] either.”
Citing an anonymous insider, the VOA report said Ren did not post his article online; he had shared it with 11 other Chinese entrepreneurs in his circle of friends. Then, some of them shared the article with more people. Eventually, it was leaked online.
Chen Ping
On March 21, another CCP princeling and billionaire Chen Ping, posted an article on WeChat, a popular social media platform. He claimed that it was drafted by anonymous citizens.
The article explained why they were not satisfied with the current regime: growing pressure on the private sector; the lack of rule of law, freedom of expression, and free press; and the regime’s repressive policies toward Hong Kong and Taiwan.
The article said that Xi, as the Party’s leader, should take responsibility. The citizens urged the Party to set up a meeting with the Politburo, a committee of senior Party officials, to discuss whether Xi was still qualified to be the leader.
The citizens suggested that the meeting be led by premier Li Keqiang; chairman of the political advisory body, Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) Wang Yang; and vice chair Wang Qishan.
Epoch Times PhotoThe Chinese Communist Party’s Politburo Standing Committee members (L-R): Han Zheng, Wang Huning, Li Zhanshu, Chinese leader Xi Jinping, premier Li Keqiang, Wang Yang, and Zhao Leji meet the press at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on October 25, 2017. (WANG ZHAO/AFP via Getty Images)
Entrepreneurs and Senior CCP Officials
Several days later, on March 26, an overseas Chinese activist Yijian Piaochen posted on Twitter a letter, which he said was co-signed by more than 50 Chinese entrepreneurs. He redacted the signatures, saying he wishes to protect their identities.
This letter was addressed to Xi: “Due to the impact of the virus, the global economy has been damaged and China has arrived at a crossroads, in which [Chinese people] have to choose which path to take.”
The co-signed had nine demands:
enact government reform;
reject far-leftism;
realize universal suffrage in China;
give the private sector the same privileges as state-run businesses;
protect entrepreneurs’ property;
provide stimulus relief funds to people impacted by the virus;
ask officials from Wuhan and the National Health Commission to take their responsibility for the epidemic;
release detained dissidents; and
re-evaluate the case of whistleblower doctor Li Wenliang, who was punished by local authorities for spreading information about the virus.
Another Chinese activist based overseas, Laodeng, tweeted on March 26 that he received a letter addressed to Xi that was co-signed by five retired Party officials. Other democracy activists also posted similar information.
Laodeng said that these officials are former CPPCC chairman Li Ruihuan; former premier Wen Jiabao; former vice premier Li Lanqing; former secretary of the CCP secretariat office Hu Qili; and former vice premier Tian Jiyun.
As of press time, none of them have publicly confirmed or denied the existence of this letter.
It is unclear whether these letters truly exist and if Xi has received them.
U.S. -based China affairs commentator Tang Jinyuan said the rumors of dissatisfaction toward the Xi leadership indicate that the current crisis has led to factional infighting within the CCP.
In particular, “some people [within the Party] are worried that there will be chaos in Chinese society” due to the virus, and thus, may want certain Party officials to take the blame for any potential fallout, Tang said.
Thanks yinz! Doing well, a little sore. Waiting for rounds, prolly home tomorrow
@ coldwarrior:
*fistbump*
glad to know things went well
@ coldwarrior:
Awesome news!
coldwarrior wrote:
Great news!
damn groucho was da man
The Laws of My Administration
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSsUoxlSADk
heh
“pop goes the weasel”
https://victorygirlsblog.com/vermont-says-target-and-costco-sales-of-clothes-toys-and-beauty-supplies-is-non-essential/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/04/were-thinking-about-doing-that-president-trump-now-considers-limits-on-domestic-flights-and-passenger-trains/
https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-spoke-of-coronavirus-in-sotu-pelosi-tore-it-up-called-it-manifesto-of-mistruths
Hi, CW, great news!
Aussie Infidel wrote:
yeah, that’s always the problem with being Leader for Life. Life can get short, fast.
here we go
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/04/01/survey-two-thirds-dont-feel-comfortable-going-to-polling-places/
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/04/01/president-trump-announces-major-drug-interdiction-effort-targeting-central-american-cartels/
@ right_wing2:
hey, what’s up with your job situation?
So if they’ve started using hydroxichloroquine in NYC, why haven’t we heard anything?
@ eaglesoars:
I gues it hasn’t started yet
https://www.livescience.com/hydroxychloroquine-prevent-covid-19-study.html
Guggi wrote:
Jesus Christ on a crutch! Cuomo said it was going to start last Tuesday. That’s 10 days ago. They want ‘clinical trials’ his entire damn city is a clinical trial, they’ve got doctors writing scripts for themselves and their families.
If you start with the meds, maybe the ventilators aren’t such a bit deal, are they?
Hi Guiggi, how’s life treating you? Hubby and I are fine, just two old geezers puttering along…….
They may have a vaccine. Pittsburgh. they will be applying to FDA for ‘new drug’ status, start clinical trial in months
https://wjactv.com/news/local/upmc-unveils-potential-covid-19-vaccine
The paper, which appeared in EBioMedicine, is the first study to be published after critique from scientists at outside institutions that identifies a possible vaccine for COVID-19, health officials said.
“We had previous experience on SARS-CoV in 2003 and MERS-CoV in 2014. These two viruses, which are closely related to SARS-CoV-2, teach us that a particular protein, called a spike protein, is important for inducing immunity against the virus. We knew exactly where to fight this new virus,” said co-senior author Andrea Gambotto, M.D., associate professor of surgery at the Pitt School of Medicine. “That’s why it’s important to fund vaccine research. You never know where the next pandemic will come from.”
@ eaglesoars:
That’s my boys!
coldwarrior wrote:
I know!
eaglesoars wrote:
I’m doing fine, just board. Good to hear that you two are also fine.
I’m concerned how this is going along. The economy all over EU – maybe with the exemption of Sweden – is in ruins and the government spending is rising faster than you can follow. We throw around the Billions like confetti.
@ coldwarrior:
Hi, coldwarrior, how are you doing? Recovering already?
Guggi wrote:
Everyone is. But this will be over. My concern is the upcoming election in November. There is a big push for voting by mail, which is nothing other than voter fraud.
The governor of my state, Virignia, has declared a lockdown until June 10 – one day after the Republican primary.
If they get away with it, the virus will look like a cake walk. The lines outside the gun stores are 3 deep.
@ eaglesoars:
Voting per mail hasn’t changed much in Austria.
@ Guggi:
Day 1 post surgery…sore…I fell food tho
@ coldwarrior:
{{{{coldwarrior}}}}
Good to hear
Guggi wrote:
how to you control fraud?
The Democrats are frothing at the mouth for it. No identification required, no controlled counting, no controls at all.
@ eaglesoars:
Interview this morning for a customer service position with a heavy equipment company. It doesn’t sound like it pays as well as what I’m making now which isn’t saying much. But it’s better than nothing.
I have an interview next Wednesday with a dental insurance company.
Other than that, I’m still sending out resumes and hoping to find something soon. There is a possibility that we’ll get an extension on the close date because of coronavirus.
@ right_wing2:
I’m surprised ANYBODY is interviewing. Good luck, keep us posted.
It would really be too bad is Samaritan’s Purse just up and left your shithole city to its fate, you useless piece of garbage
Bill de Blasio to ‘Monitor’ Samaritan’s Purse Coronavirus Emergency Hospital for ‘Discrimination’
https://pjmedia.com/trending/bill-de-blasio-to-monitor-samaritans-purse-coronavirus-emergency-hospital-for-discrimination/
eaglesoars wrote:
We have all of this.
Guggi wrote:
The Dems want to FORBID all of this. As far as they’re concerned, you’re quite welcome to come over here and vote anytime and if anyone tries to stop you they’re racist and un-American.
@ eaglesoars:
Apparently it’s nearly impossible for a black person to get any kind of photo ID. I guess they were all born out in the fields while mama was being whipped.
@ coldwarrior:
Wow! Didn’t expect to hear back from you for days. Night nurses are taking good care of you, ya? (I put in a good word while I was in medical gulag.)
@ right_wing2:
Or at least that’s what Democrats seem to believe.
@ right_wing2:
Of course they do.
I’m beginning to think this virus bullshit may not have been an accident
United Nations Proposes New “Global Currency”
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/united-nations-proposes-new-global-currency/
rain of lead wrote:
Part of Mass and Colorado have done this too. One step to go banning in store sales of essential goods. Full on communist dictatorships. This needs to be stopped. This is one step too far. When mommy state starts dicatating what is and isn’t essential then they can do whatever they please.
huh
The United States Navy is expected to relieve the captain who sounded the alarm about an outbreak of COVID-19 aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt.
Capt. Brett Crozier, who commands the Roosevelt, an aircraft carrier with a crew of nearly 5,000, was relieved of his command on Thursday, but he will keep his rank and remain in the Navy.
.
.
The official reason for Crozier’s relief of duty is a loss of trust and confidence, according to the officials who spoke to NBC News
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/military/navy-expected-relieve-captain-who-raised-alarm-about-covid-19-n1175351?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma
@ eaglesoars:
…at least long enough for his retirement packet to be processed
@ lobo91:
what’s the issue here? chain of command? publicly showing his ship was vulnerable – which was something that occurred to me at the time, but what do I know?
@ eaglesoars:
What I read said something about not doing enough to keep his concerns from being made public
coldwarrior wrote:
Great to hear. You are in my thoughts and prayers.
Guggi wrote:
You don’t have a corrupt democrat party. This is nothing but an opportunity to commit massive vote fraud.
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
“Vermont Says” or “Vermont Governor Says”. This may be all well and good, but it seems like some legislation would be required to do something like this, not just an imperious decree. “Do this because I said so” seems kind of throwback to 1775
lobo91 wrote:
Bingo. Top-line ships like carriers are supposed to be at battle ready all the time. If you have a massive sickness outbreak, that is a serious breach that an adversary could take advantage of
AZfederalist wrote:
The bad part is that The Blaze had pics of some of the stores and they have just gone along with it without any legislation. THey removed all of the items and put up caution tape witht he words “No non-essential shopping by order of the Governor”.
@ AZfederalist:
Here we are in a period of increased tension with China, and one of the 2 carriers in that part of the world is now out of commission for at least several weeks.
I’m guessing that we’ll see either Nimitz or Lincoln spin up quickly and head that way. Both are in port now on the west coast.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
When this is all over the civil liberties that we are surrendering will be precedent.
I have noticed that Dem pols are very enthusiastic about dictating.
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
OK, by order of the Governor is a good touch — it provides a target and focuses blame. Somebody who really needed something in that aisle is going to remember that come election time.
Stores are going along with it right now because it is the path of least resistance, they don’t have to pay lawyers or face regulators or inspectors out for vengeance. Let sales drop too much and they’ll start pushing back
AZfederalist wrote:
It’s Bernie Sander’s Vermont
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2020/04/02/president-trump-sends-letter-to-sen-chuck-schumer-i-never-realized-how-bad-a-senator-you-are/
@ Twitchy
You have to read this letter that Trump wrote to Schumer.
All needed to be said. George W would not have done it.
You gotta read this. Trump wrote a letter to Schumer and he SCORCHED him.
If you spent less time on your ridiculous impeachment hoax….
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/letter-president-donald-j-trump-senator-charles-e-schumer/
coldwarrior wrote:
Welcome back Cold.
Feeling a little sore …. you big sook!
HEH!
🙂
Seriously. It’s great to see you back mate !
eaglesoars wrote:
@ RIX:
@ coldwarrior:
Steve Mosher is dogged in his exposure of this research on the virus origin. As he notes, it helps that Chinese researchers have left a clear paper trail.
https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/disappeared-chinese-research-paper-traced-covid-19-to-china-biolab-in-wuhan
These bastards were as sloppy and unprofessional covering up their foul deeds, as they were securing a Level 4 Bio- Lab !
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
Ouch!
THAT’S gotta leave a mark!
🙂
ya know, we REALLY need to clean house
Far-Left Media Group Asks FCC To Censor Trump Press Conferences
https://thefederalist.com/2020/04/02/far-left-media-group-asks-fcc-to-censor-trump-press-conferences/
eaglesoars wrote:
Oh. Never mind. You can’t fix stupid
The sooner we jack China out of this country the better!
Bastards!
Nationalise the bloody company and send Liu away with a token $1 in his pocket as he’s deported.
This is war by other means and China seems to believe that only it can shoot. That is incorrect and soft power warfare is now de regeure and anything goes!
An Australian private hospital system owned by a Chinese investor has laid off 800 staffers and might close altogether in the middle of the coronavirus crisis, according to reports.
Healthe Care was purchased by CHINESE BILLIONAIRE LIU DIAN BO in 2015 and now serves as Australia’s third-largest private hospital operator in Australia with 34 clinics nationwide.
After the federal government suspended all elective surgeries to focus treatment for coronavirus patients, Healthe Care began laying off employees and is now “putting in doubt 8000 beds” if state financial aid is not delivered, 9News reports.
“We have received no firm proposals,” the company said in a letter to staff.
“Regrettably, this has driven us to these immediate actions.”
State and federal governments are “locked in crisis talks to keep doors open” at Health e Care and other private hospitals as the coronavirus crisis grows in scope.
“The important thing is that we keep beds open, particularly ICU beds,” said Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack.
Health Minister Greg Hunt blasted the firing of nurses as an “astonishing breach of faith.”
China’s direct impact on the health and security of Australian citizens has been highlighted repeatedly during the coronavirus outbreak.
Massive supplies of critical medical gear have been hoarded by major Chinese companies in Australia and other countries and flown to China during the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak, as Infowars reported days ago.
https://www.newswars.com/chinese-owned-hospital-system-in-australia-lays-off-800-staff-amid-virus-crisis/
RIX wrote:
That’s just it. This whole affair has been a perfect chance to test how far they can push and see what we will accept in the name of “emergency”. Now, phase two is “how long”.
“Famous conservative philosopher Sir Roger Scruton argued that “intellectuals are naturally attracted by the idea of a planned society, in the belief that they will be in charge of it.” Trouble is, the intellectuals are in charge – and only an intellectual could think that our jobs, social relations, and institutions can be temporarily put into hibernation and then brought back to life via government edict. This is why shared sacrifice is so important. Those developing the ideas and policies which are putting Australians out of work must themselves have skin in the game and feel some of the pain of their own decisions and advice.
“One suggestion is that for every one tenth of a percentage point increase in the unemployment rate (such as from 5.5 per cent to 5.6 per cent), is accompanied by a one per cent cut to the pay of senior public servants. And if the unemployment rate goes above seven per cent, the Secretary of the Treasury and the Governor of the Reserve Bank must lose their jobs.”
https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2020/04/australias-other-plague-incestuous-intellectuals/
I think if Trump tries to open up the economy, they’ll make sure he gets sick
No I did not sleep w/my tinfoil hat on
Discharge soon. Nor bad. Bilateral radical neck resection and a removal of right lingual tonsil cancer. No pain meds except a little tylenol.
So far so good.
morning y’all
@ coldwarrior:
Good to hear!
Was part of that stimulus package an act of Congress requiring that EVERY damn commercial on the airwaves find a way to mention COVID-19?
@ coldwarrior:
Yikes! They didn’t have to cut muscle, then? Very good.
So I hit the grocery store at 7:28 am. Two people were walking out w/toilet paper. YAYY!!! Nope. They got the last pkgs.
I was in the store for 28 mins. When I walked out, there was a line to get in that wrapped around the back. They are limiting the # of people in the store. This isn’t a big box store, this is Wegmans.
Trump has to open this place up. Fauci is recommending a nat’l shutdown. Fauci needs to go find a corner to be quiet in.
open question for the blog
after my vacay is over on sunday…do I go back to work?
I DO have a job to go to.
with momcat being as compromised as a person can be, do I risk it?
a family member did have it and reported how horrible it was.
really torn here
@ rain of lead:
That’s a really good question.
This would be a terrible situation
@ rain of lead:
If you DON’T go back to work, will you have a job to go back to when this is over?
Also, is there some place/how you can work and self-isolate?
I can take up to two weeks of unpaid leave due to CV concerns
its retail, regular service counter
should I go full mask and gloves, what if the company can’t provide them and I can’t get them?
and if I do take two weeks, do I wait a week or start it asap
so many questions…..
@ rain of lead:
I would contact your employer today and ask what the current protocols for your organization are at this time. If they are not permitting anyone to be on-site, then ask what they are doing for employees that are essentially on hiatus. If they are, ask if you can report to work as usual and request some sort of authorization that you are “essential” (it’s a loose term – I’m considered “essential” only because I’ve already said I prefer to work at the office rather than from home so the firm gives me my travel papers).
Edited because while I was typing my original answer, you gave information as to your job’s nature.
@ The Barbarian:
I did just look at the company website for updates and I do have some viable
options
just gotta pull the trigger and decide how I want to play this
eaglesoars wrote:
Fauci was projecting American deaths at up to two million not that long ago.
Now he has scaled back to anywhere from 100,000 to 200,000 lives.
That is a hell of a swing.
https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2020/04/03/area-expert-tom-nichols-just-cant-bring-himself-to-admit-that-maybe-tom-cottons-covid19-questions-were-valid-after-all-craps-on-cotton-instead/
@ Twitchy
Police arrest a clearly hardcore criminal. The perp was somehow violating social separation guidelines by paddle boarding alone. The dastardly offender did not have proper social separation from the Pacific Ocean!
This pandemic is serious for sure , but there is an over the top civil liberties grab.
The Dem governor in Michigan has issued an executive order making it illegal for a doctor to prescribe
Hydrochloriquine. However abortions are essential or something.
https://www.weaselzippers.us/446515-trump-calls-out-schumer-one-of-the-most-highly-respected-people-in-the-military-is-in-charge/
@ Weasel Zippers
Trump bitch slaps Schumer.
ok, so digging around, my company will give two weeks pay for a gov mandated
shut down
but I work in an essential service (gas station)
gotta find out if I would still qualify
coldwarrior wrote:
Good news
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
I think we have a legitimate case for arrest of these clowns. I just realized that they have another plan here. This is the opposite of “social distancing”. Instead of people spreading throughout the stores while waiting to get to the “essentials” they are now herding them all into one small area. They are trying to force people into a small area INCREASING risk. This will also create an illusion of shortage causing panic, causing actual shortage, causing riots. They could be arrested under public safety infractions.
My big worry right now is that a small business owner who decides they have lost everything and have nothing else to lose is going to decide one of these little dictators is “non-essential” and remove them permanently from the board.
Apparently Candace Owens is looking at a run for office.
Well my city has decided to follow the California model of taking the homeless (who already take the “social distancing” model to the extreme and herd them all together and endanger them by shoving them in our metrapark center. (That’s our big convention hall, concert/rodeo arena, I don’t know the generic term). And to make it better they are going to take the people who are suffering from domestic violence and other issues and shove them in with the homeless. This can’t possibly go wrong.
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
depends on what the goal is doesn’t it. That looks like a lot of birds with one stone to me
https://www.wgrz.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/gov-cuomo-to-sign-executive-order-to-take-ventilators-from-upstate-hospitals-for-nyc-hospital-coroniavirus-covid-19/71-167d9b23-c847-4d5f-9279-270bcac25871
https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2020/04/03/voter-integrity-group-joins-legal-challenge-to-new-mexico-mail-in-election/
@ lobo91:
now I want some coffee from a can
Walmart will begin limiting the number of customers who can be inside the store at any given time.
https://abc13.com/coronavirus-walmart-shopping-social-distancing/6074623/
@ rain of lead:
WILL?? WILL?? They already are. I was there today. I snuck in by diving under the yellow BOO! tape. Got toilet paper tho, so I win.
@ eaglesoars:
well… i been on vacay so I have not been to my store in about 3 days
@ rain of lead:
you may be in for a shock….
@ rain of lead:
@ eaglesoars:
mrs coldwarrior says ours is limiting shoppers too
County public health limited number of shoppers to 50 per big store here last week. Before that we were limiting it to 100. Store manager was going bug nuts trying to get answers and reasoning from the bureaucrats he talked to. At least the blanket ban applies to all stores here.
eaglesoars wrote:
You know what those dastardly Christians are like! (sarc)
🙂
What with their Charity and all that pushing Hope thingie.
They are capable of anything!
HEH!
🙂
@ rain of lead:
you may be in for a shock….
As for this ventilator stuff – if they started using the hydroxochlorozuine, they could keep people off the fucking things and send them home.
Pandemic over.
bedtime, nite
coldwarrior wrote:
Great to hear mate!
Stay frosty!
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
This terrifies the Left.
They thought they could use this to bring the Trump economy down..
If the virus can be suppressed America can get back to work and that will rain on the Dem’s parade.
These grubs would like to see death and misery just as long that they can gain Power.
Bastards! Typical of ALL amoral Leftist morons.
eaglesoars wrote:
G’nite Eagles
🙂
coldwarrior wrote:
A bunch of Kiwi code cutters here has devised a free APP that manages queues. You arrive at a store or on the way to the store and you tell them your name and they give you a Line Number and approximate time to arrive FIRST IN LINE. You then get a 5 minute warning text. Drive up and walk right in and do your shopping with LOTS of personal space around you.
Lines and problems of social spacing have vanished overnight.
The APP is free to any company who want to use it.
@ rain of lead:
@ eaglesoars:
See my 143
🙂
RIX wrote:
Victoria Police in Melbourne forced the typical grey haired ‘little old lady’ to MOVE ON when she crossed some type of social (its) taboo by sitting on a public beach under her beach umbrella sipping a flask of coffee whilst reading a book.
I have no idea who the nasty little fascist copper was but he should be ashamed of himself. There was a hue and cry but it was swept under the carpet by the Commissioner.
Officials like this need to be publicly named and shamed in the media.
…. otherwise we just nuke ’em’ from orbit …. it’s the only way to be sure ! ”
🙂
HEH
RIX wrote:
You think you’ve got it bad?
The cops here are moving along rock fishermen and anyone in a boat except commercial fishing boats that are considered an essential industry. The excuse is that they do not want to have to deploy the Coastguard to rescue them from the tide in case they get into trouble.
There are a few beach fishermen on ‘our beac; everyday and they seem so far to be exempt from being moved along. How is sitting in a beach chair with a rod risking anybody? So far the cops are just cruising past lest the whole Bay rise up in indignation and force them to walk 8Km back to their station in Thames barefoot.
🙂
Aussie Infidel wrote:
These kinds of crises are very useful for helping identity those with latent totalitarian tendencies
Russia has apparently found the key to keeping people inside 🙂
MI6 75 years on
Interesting
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-50840818/i-was-a-teenage-code-breaker-at-bletchley-park
Pink Freud is sick.
thinks she picked it up in Louisiana. She’s in Texas now.Aussie Infidel wrote:
That is sheep to the slaughter. Bullshit.
I’m not going to be able to sleep
@ eaglesoars:
If you can’t sleep this will guarantee it Eagles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoLw-Q8X174&feature=youtu.be
Here they are. Our self appointed elites, fresh off their private jets, deep in plotting the next stage in their planning.
Immediately images of ‘target rich environments’ walls and suitable applicants spring to mind.
Gates and his degenerate witch of a wife right in the thick of it!
SPIT
🙂
so why does NYC insist it is the model for what’s coming to the rest of the US
when it’s transportation system looks like this and why isn’t the subway shut down?
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/363703/#respond
Why are all the models for this virus not distinguishing between geographical areas?
And why is the z-pac not being thrown at everything early? There is every evidence that this works and keeps people off the last-ditch ventilators yet every body is bitching about ventilators when they aren’t THROWING what everything has shown works and don’t give me any crap about ‘clinical trial’, all of NYC is a fucking clinical trial.
This is garbage.
@ Aussie Infidel:
yeah, Barbarian clued me into Event201. I’m not ready to go all paranoid, pandemics have been a ‘thing’since The Decameron.
I am tied down. I know exactly what I would do if I were on my own. But I’m not. There are living creatures that depend on me – and my sister has just started chemo for her own cancer – I am not my own agent.
Fauci’s bullshit about the drug regimen is just that. If you’ve got a pandemic that is about to take down civilization you don’t squeek about clinical trials and models.
The American people are not lab rats. And the sooner we ‘get that, the better we’ll come out of this. I am not ABOUT to live on my knees, but I’m well aware that it is exactly what some people are counting on.