Maggie's Farm

A sort-of unusual lady from Northampton, MA - a ghetto of lefties and LGBT culture - reports honestly on her pain  (h/t SDA). Losing friends over political disagreements is disgusting:

Doctors At University of Pittsburgh Medical Center: We’ve Developed a Vaccine Against Coronavirus

And they can scale it easily. Pitt is one of the great American medical centers. If they say it, they mean it. Quite remarkable speed, but most people in urban and suburban areas have been exposed now anyway, naturally vaccinated.

Coronavirus death rate much lower than previously reported, study says

Forget the politics and forget the hate and the hateful media. As Scott Adams says (and as I observe), the American people almost entirely come together in positive ways when the going gets tough. We might not be a family, but we're a team. Team America.

That is when it matters. Petty politics and sniping are for the good times, not the challenging and sacrificial times. Nobody is worrying about pronouns or the weather now, thank goodness. Unfortunately, there are more important issues.

The USNS Comfort arrives in NYC to take some of the pressure off.  Why so few hospital beds in the USA? Because government limits them.

Here.

- Abbott Labs device approved for 5 minute testing of COVID-19
- 99% of hospitals are NOT overwhelmed
- 80% of coronavirus deaths were overweight
- CNN is being HORRIBLE in their coverage
- Mike Cernovich MVP for information on coronavirus crisis
- WHO lies to public that masks don’t help

Ballsy guys with hopeless jobs but doing their best, and a good glimpse of Congo

...  the biggest threat to mankind that the world has ever seen: the COVID-19 virus, also know as the Chinese flu, which to date has killed—are you ready—276 people in the United States, almost all of them over 80, almost all with serious co-morbidities.

Two-hundred-and-seventy-six people! And yes, that frightening number will rise. It will be 400, 500 before you know it. Maybe when all is said and done, we’ll see 1,000-1,200 identified who have died from complications that can be traced to this respiratory illness.

Meanwhile, somewhere between 22,000 and more than 50,000 people have died from the seasonal flu in the United States this year. Why is there no panic about that?

Via Hot Air:

 Nuclear households, it seems, are where we are all intuitively expected to retreat in order to prevent widespread ill-health. ‘Staying home’ is what is somehow self-evidently supposed to keep us well. But there are several problems with this, as anyone inclined to think about it critically (even for a moment) might figure out – problems one might summarize as the mystification of the couple-form; the romanticisation of kinship; and the sanitization of the fundamentally unsafe space that is private property…

Like butchering a White Tail deer, but much bigger. I've done lots of deer, but never with power tools.

Via Powerline commenter:

Via a senior GOP aide, Schumer/Pelosi now pushing these demands amid pandemic-fueled economic collapse:

1) Unprecedented collective bargaining powers for unions

2) Increased fuel emissions standards for airlines

3) Expansion of wind and solar tax credits

This is not the time for these childish games. 

VDH: The Virus is Not Invincible, But It’s Exposing Who’s Irreplaceable

When your refrigerator goes out under quarantine and your supplies begin to rot, do you really need another rant from Maxine Waters—or do you rather need a St. Michael Smith and St. Uriel Mendoza to appear out of nowhere as the archangels from Home Depot to wheel up and connect a new one?

I have not the faintest idea what the ordinary Chinese person on the street would say, if speaking truthfully. I know it is a different culture with different rules, and certainly without Western values and morals. As I may misunderstand it, a culture without the Western ideal of the individual except for those in power.

 How The Chinese Regime's Silencing Of Whistleblowers Turned A Local Outbreak Into A Global Epidemic?

I am in favor of decoupling from the China behemoth. That means you too, Wallmart, and you too, Apple. And all of the pharma companies that manufacture there.

 After viewing this, a reader commented "This makes me see how much my life sucks." The old guy is full of vitality and good cheer. Readers know how much I admire his life planning.

Order take-out or home delivery meals. A grateful tip is also always required. 

These workers are suffering. 

NYT Admits, at Last, That Its 1619 Project Is Wrong

From Most Important Coronavirus Question: Will I Get Sick And Die?, this is Dr. Fauci:

 “If one assumes that the number of asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic cases is several times as high as the number of reported cases, the case fatality rate may be considerably less than 1%. This suggests that the overall clinical consequences of Covid-19 may ultimately be more akin to those of a severe seasonal influenza (which has a case fatality rate of approximately 0.1%) or a pandemic influenza (similar to those in 1957 and 1968) rather than a disease similar to SARS or MERS, which have had case fatality rates of 9 to 10% and 36%, respectively."