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Wednesday, May 20. 2020JobsI spoke with one of my local pharmacists today. He was harried. I asked him what was up. He told me all four of his assistants had taken a leave from work, then got copies of their unemployment papers from the government. They are all getting $1600/week from COVID unemployment, and he only pays them about $1000/week. He is an immigrant from Russia. He was not happy with the situation. Stereotypically cranky Russian. Asked me "Where is the work ethic?" How did he even know about that old fashioned phrase? Related: 68% Of Unemployed US Workers "Are Eligible For Payments That Are Greater Than Their Lost Earnings"
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Government Announces Lockdown Of All Fast-Food Restaurants To Prevent Heart Disease Here are the Chinese 'propaganda' centers currently operating in the US WHICH IS MORE RACIST—HIKING OR JOGGING - or running? All or Nothing - How a selectively pedantic media is trying to rewrite history about the sloganeering of #MeToo U.N.: Stop Using Gender-Based Language. Social Media: Shut Up. ‘I am in their crosshairs’: John Brennan says he hasn’t been interviewed by John Durham — yet Ben Smith’s NYT Critique of Ronan Farrow Describes a Toxic, Corrosive, and Still-Vibrant Trump-Era Pathology: “Resistance Journalism” Why is the CDC a failure, with their ballooning budget? Mission creep Ticket to Cancel - Travel and entertainment will need to find new ways of doing business. This Is The Most Desperate Hour For Small Businesses California: Give Us Money Or We'll Fire Cops and Firefighters Jerk. He wants people in Alabama to help the richest and most profligate state in the US? California’s Budget Bust-Up - The Golden State’s record-breaking deficit owes as much to its progressive politics as to the virus lockdown. Tucker: The time for mass quarantines has passed Crenshaw nails what’s fueling deep partisan divide, and why the Left’s in ‘no rush’ to re-open America Failures of an Influential COVID-19 Model Used to Justify Lockdowns Will Americans Submit To A Second Lockdown? Ummm, no Trump Cutting More Regulations to Boost Virus Recovery What the Cold War Can Teach Us About Deterring China Tuesday, May 19. 2020Tuesday morning links
Their Happiness Hurt My Feelings Vice: “White Supremacy Led To the Climate Crisis” House Democrats Say Trump-Russia Obstruction Investigation ‘Ongoing’ – Could Result in New Articles of Impeachment! How ‘collusion’ conspirators tried to oust President Trump On Trump-Hatred Gallup: Trump Approval Rating Higher Than Four of the Last Six Presidents, Including Bush and Obama New York’s emergence as the epicenter of the coronavirus was far from inevitable. Grandma Killer: Andrew Cuomo Murdered 5300 Elderly New Yorkers But He's a Hero Because He's a Liberal Psychopath Wuhan Virus Watch: NYC Mayor de Blasio’s Memorial Day Threat – Fence Off Beaches, Pull Swimmers Out of Water Social Distancing Is State-Mandated Humiliation. Change My Mind China slaps an 80 per cent tariff on drought-affected Australian exporters starting TODAY as brutal punishment for push for COVID-19 inquiry Monday, May 18. 2020NYC and NYS with virus
How and why they dealt with the pandemic - compared with California: Two coasts, one virus
Time to be scared is overScott's podcast: "The time to be scared is over; the time to be smart begins." He also suggests that nursing home COVID death numbers be separated from others. Makes sense to me.
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Monday morning links Zoom is Now Worth More Than the World’s 7 Biggest Airlines Bailed-Out Colleges Should Be Forced to Cut Administrative Bloat How Concerning Are the Trump Administration’s New Title IX Regulations? How the FBI's intelligence experiment went wrong Plagues and Saints in history MC: Everything Important In Life Involves Tradeoffs COVID-19 Prevalence: John Ioannidis Responds to His Critics Why is a Social Worker Dictating COVID-19 Policy for the Country’s Largest County? Antibody Tests In Washington State Indicate The Coronavirus Was In The U.S. Much Earlier Than Thought Andrew Cuomo: Older People Are Going To Die From The Virus, No Matter What You Do Barstool Sports Founder: ‘When Did Flattening The Curve Turn Into Finding The Cure?’ Maher On OCD Pandemic Overreaction: ‘What’s The Point Of Life If You Can’t Live It?’ Colorado amends coronavirus death count - says fewer have died of COVID-19 than previously reported YouTube locked out an epidemiologist who disagreed with the WHO China's State Media Declares It Will Meddle in the US Election Against Trump Saturday, May 16. 2020Saturday morning links Samuel Pepys: The first pandemic blogger The ACLU’s Conversion to Wokeness How Dov Fischer learned to hate Sad story, but understandable. I do not hate yet, but I do get p-ed off often Transcripts: Clinton Aides Allied With Fusion GPS Pair After Election -- to Re-Push Anti-Trump Dossier Big Surprise! Nevada's vote-by-mail primary stirs fraud concerns, as unclaimed ballots pile up: 'Something stinks here' Duh CNBC: Get Ready For New Trump EO To Force Essential-Drug Production In US Good Florida Man Wonders: Why Does Cuomo Get Better COVID-19 Press Than DeSantis, When Florida Has Done So Much Better? Cuz "D" Coronavirus job losses are hitting these states the hardest What’s Next For Bat Soup Virus? A Massive Wave Of Bankruptcy Filings Head Of NYC Hospital System Urged De Blasio To Follow Herd Immunity Strategy DeB followed different experts. In hindsight, locking down NYC for 2 weeks might have been enough, and saved a lot of states a lot of trouble. Coronavirus Isn't Nearly as Deadly as We Thought. So Why Did the Lockdowns Happen in the First Place? Because of fear + lack of good data. Nobody's fault. Gov. Cuomo extends New York City’s stay-at-home order until June 13 Another Headline about ‘More New Virus Cases!’ That Ignores the Increasing Number of Tests Obviously - but not to reporters who know no stats "According to a CNN poll released this week, nearly three-quarters of Democrats said the worst of the crisis is still ahead of us..." Interesting... Related: The Lockdown Class War He tactfully does not include the comfortably retired among the paycheck population. Is this an optimist-pessimist thing, or a rich and poor thing? Or is it nothing? Friday, May 15. 2020Life on the upswing: A Maggie's Scientific SurveyIn my neck of the woods, traffic is up, bars are re-opening as speakeasies, Home Depot is full of customers. In other words, people are fed up. Many states are "opening up," whatever that means, but people are doing it regardless. Some of it is necessity, some of it is a refusal to live in fear, and some of it is people realizing that much of this is pointless. From my end, I am back in the office today, fishing this weekend, and getting together with friends on Sat. night. No masks - enough of that except for the supermarket which still requires them. Time's up for the extreme stuff. What are our readers doing this weekend? Quarantining, Soft Quarantining, or doing your best to get back to normal work, recreational, and social life?
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Half Of New York's 10 Regions Reopen TodayGood news, but I am waiting for NYC to reopen. Many states are going to look foolish with their extreme measures. It has been extreme enough already.
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Georgia officials warn of 4-foot-long invasive lizards that eat 'anything they want' Norway to excavate first Viking ship burial mound in 100 years Getting Distance Learning Right - Once again, Success Academy leads the way. Climate Change Experts Explain to Insurers They Don’t Understand Risk Are Democrats Trying To Eliminate Proof Of Who You Are To Vote? Flynn Was Never Charged With Perjury, But Now Could Be Facing Charges…of Perjury The New York Times Surrendered to an Outrage Mob. Journalism Will Suffer For It. Pediatrician: Closed Schools Could Be Harming Kids' Mental Health Is Sweden's Herd Immunity Strategy the Best We Can Do? 36,000,000: America's Disastrous COVID Unemployment Crisis Deepens The ‘Just Stay Home’ Message Will Backfire. We need less extreme and more nuanced recommendations for navigating life during the pandemic. Los Angeles Will “Never Be Completely Open Until We Have a Cure.” Why Do Progressives Want To Keep The Economy Shut Down? "Science shows" - which science is that? World Health Organization doctor says coronavirus 'may never go away'
Revisiting of Sokolow v. PLO gives hope to victims’ families. The case, Sokolow v. PLO, has its roots in the bloody years of the Second Intifada – a terror wave that killed more than a thousand Israelis and dozens of Americans. Communist China Continues to Target American Creativity Rolling Back Iran in Iraq Thursday, May 14. 2020Safety ThirdOne of my favorite people to listen to, or read, is Mike Rowe. Lots of good, common sense. I've not always agreed with him, but I'm sure plenty of people don't agree with me all the time. It's all fine, as long as we understand each other's point of view. I completely understand Mike's, and respect it even when I disagree. Mike's podcast recently told the story of the Staplehurst Train Disaster, in which Charles Dickens played a prominent (and for a long time largely invisible) role. He spun from that to a discussion on safety, and covered his conceptualization of "Safety Third" as a means of managing risk. On my earlier post today, someone commented safety should always be most important. Here, Mike explains why that's simply not true. There are always other considerations. Read the article or listen to the podcast. Both are excellent. Lockdown disasters aheadThe Real Killer Is COVID-Lockdown-Driven Unemployment Experts predict 70-90,000 sucides in the US due to economic disasters, crushed dreams. Hope that is not true, but I no longer believe anything, especially from experts. Wrong about everything thus far.
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Lockdown or Herd Immunity? Is It Really a Choice?Mike "Mish" Shedlock provides a good review of the debate between what Sweden has done vs the rest of the world. There are many reasons, all legitimately different from cultural and societal considerations, why Sweden would be successful with their approach. But that doesn't mean every culture is unable to utilize variations on it to make it work for them. He swung, and missed, on that point. The primary discussion point is "what is a life worth?" There is a cost, or a value, to every life. It will vary based on relationships, love, and commonality. However, productivity of each life must also be considered. Losing a farmer and his family, so a farm that feeds 10,000 people goes abandoned, is far more damaging to society than losing the same number of people in a nursing home. Losing 20 doctors treating the virus is more damaging than losing 20 people who build apps. These are just simple facts of life. It's hard to swallow, and it's not something we want to consider, but it is very true. Nobody wants to see anyone die, and as a country we've directed resources to saving as many as we can through pharma and academic research. In addition, we've implemented social distancing, masks, and a variety of other methods to reduce or limit spread. All of this adds up to one thing. Reopening is the only option. Nobody knows enough about the virus to categorically state when we will, or how we will, be 'safe'. But 'safety' is no longer the primary issue we should be considering. Whether we like it or not, we are far past that point. Now we're talking about simple long-term survival. Thursday morning links Meaning WS is doing quite ok compared to Main St. CNN Host Who Talked About Russia Non-Stop For Years Wonders Why Right Is ‘Obsessed’ With Flynn Case No proof Russia hacked DNC "In case you didn’t realize how hard the writers at the Babylon Bee have to work to surpass reality." Coronavirus Vaccine: Reasons to Be Optimistic Sort-of maybe The lockdown is killing the business my wife and I struggled to build “The government disease doctor acknowledges he isn’t studying shutdown trade-offs.” Can't let doctors run the world We Need to Stop Running From the Virus. A North Carolina congressman and physician explains why. We could frame the “opener” vs. “closer” debate this way: openers wish to achieve herd immunity sooner rather than later, while closers wish to achieve it later rather than sooner. Enough With the Phoney ‘Lockdown’ Debate Why an added month of lockdown will devastate New York small businesses
Los Angeles Headed To Lockdown … Forever? California Universities Cancel ‘In Person’ Classes for Fall Semester 2020 To reopen, Washington state restaurants will have to keep log of customers to aid in contact tracing Makes zero sense As Lockdown Grows Political, Resistance Stirs in Rural Maine
Wednesday, May 13. 2020Rand PaulScott expains (podcast) why Sen. Rand Paul, MD, is the only intelligent person in the federal government. I agree. Scott: "Do you want the f-ing government to decide when you live or die?" Scott is aware the experts are flying in the dark. Scott's main blind spot is that he has become a wealthy guy with no need to ever work, and seems to assume that everybody has the money to live comfortably for a year or two without income. That's wrong. Good disctinctions between the childrens' table and the adult table.
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Wednesday morning links Half-Time High School May Be Just What Students Need. For older students, the virus will change how the school day is structured. It’s about time. The Title IX Pendulum That Wasn’t Apple To Move A Fifth Of iPhone Production From China To India In Massive Supply-Chain Shift Trump To “Concast”: Fire Chuck Todd Over Barr Interview “Fraud”; NBC Admits “Error” The Real Reason Trump Didn't Name Obama's Specific Crime in 'Obamagate' "OBAMAGATE!" Trump Tweets Tucker Carlson's Crushing Breakdown Why The Former President Should Be Panicking Obama's Coup Attempt So What Was The Russia Hoax Really About? Twitter Takes Its COVID-19 Censorship Into Overdrive Facebook's Evidence-Free 'False' Rating “There Is Nothing from the CDC I Can Trust!” – Dr. Birx Tells Off CDC Director, Claims COVID-19 Mortality Rate Inflated By as Much as 25%! Has The WHO Done Anything Correctly? One More Example Of their Incompetence...Or Malfeasance (You Be The Judge) Germany’s Bild Newspaper Says ‘Lockdown Was a Huge Mistake’ The Wuhan Virus Lockdown is a Colossal Blunder Lancet: Lockdowns just delay the inevitable Dr. Fauci Testifies: Trump Admin Hit The ‘Accelerator In Every Aspect’ In Responding To Coronavirus Tuesday, May 12. 2020Tuesday morning Virus links
Let's return sanity to college admissions. Coronavirus pandemic gives us an opportunity. Rutgers University prof: Reopening the country is about killing black people Column: Americans are too afraid of risk. What we need in this pandemic is balance Social Distancing' is Snake Oil, Not Science Could help flatten the curve, maybe, but lengthen the pandemic Should Patients With Mild Cases Isolate At Home? Jacobson: The center did not hold under prolonged and arbitrary lockdowns, as predicted. We are at the inflection point I predicted two months ago would arrive in May. Reopening the economy is the only sustainable option. Scientists Pushing The Goal Posts Further …Vaccine Needed Before Normal Returns Don't hold your breath for that Americans create new economic threat with their own savings Steven Mnuchin: Reopening needed to avert 'permanent economic damage' to the public Some permanent damage has already happened. Seen it. Now Chinese Hackers Are Trying to Steal Coronavirus Research Duh Was there an emergency shutdown of the Wuhan lab in October? Whistleblower Chinese all died. Sheesh. Monday, May 11. 2020More VDH on China
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Always unhappy This Real Life ‘Lord Of The Flies’ Story Is Very Different From The Book 80 years ago, lethal Nazi T4 center began euthanizing Germans with disabilities How the World’s Only Feudal Lord Outclassed the Nazis to Save Her People Muslim Students Threaten to Kill Prof for Suggesting Islam Is Violent Why Don't I Hate Donald Trump? He tried to hate him, failed Mexico's president calls for investigation into Obama-era Fast and Furious Operation. The Mexican government is asking Washington for cooperation in discovering how Operation Fast and Furious happened This Oval Office Meeting Attended By Obama and Biden Was Key To the Anti-Trump Plot Dirty Dozen: The 12 revelations that sunk Mueller's case against Flynn Brian Stelter Flips Out That Fox Is Covering Flynn Dismissal Rather Than Virus. How dare people cover a huge, unprecedented in history scandal. Once again, it says something about CNN that they aren’t covering it. Jonathan Turley Rips Apart Obama’s ‘Leaked’ Statement About the DOJ and Flynn, and It’s Glorious WH Press Corps Learning The Hard Way – Don’t Mess With Kayleigh MC: Why Are Government Employees Supposedly Immune To Layoffs? FLASHBACK: NBC Prez Declared We Are Winning War With White House A war? My Blood Boils When I Think Of Hypocrite Neil Ferguson The coronavirus lockdown is a luxury many Americans can’t afford I think most Economic Lockdown Is the 'Catastrophe' Coronavirus in Minnesota California's Governor Keeps Moving the Goalposts to Reopening State. Why? Narrative Fail: 15 Days After Lockdown Ease, Georgia Sees Lowest Day Of COVID Hospitalizations Republican Governors Are Kicking The Butts Of Democratic Governors On Covid-19 Response Ten Reasons To End The Lockdown Now Don’t Let Karens Kill Your Community San Antonio: No Calling Chinese Virus “Chinese Virus” China asked the WHO to cover up coronavirus outbreak: German intelligence service EU Defends Bowing To Communist Chinese Censors Saturday, May 9. 2020Did the FBI commit treason with the Russia Hoax?Former Obama Official Admits She Lied About Having Evidence of Russian Collusion It was a coup attempt, wasn't it? But why? And, as Scott asks, what is the punishment for that?
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Why?Why Did We Treat Coronavirus So Differently Than Other Epidemics? Related: Economic Lockdown Is the 'Catastrophe'
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“Predictive models” rarely are predictive How can governments learn from their expert failings? Why do so many diseases come from bats? Many viruses originate in bats, but that doesn’t mean we should live in fear of them. How the 1619 Project slandered America Banish Wrong Thoughts In Higher Ed Week At Legal Insurrection Biden Pledges To Strip Students Of Due Process Rights On Campus Reinstated By DeVos Everyone Deserves to Live Under the Biden Standard Facebook's New Censorship Czar Is Anti-Trump Leftist Who Made Barron A Punch Line Kayleigh McEnany DESTROYS Liberal Hack Yamiche Alcindor and Fake News Media at Friday Presser New Red Flags Emerging From FBI's Handling of Michael Flynn's Case Related: BARR SPEAKS Where Does Lt. Gen. Flynn Go To Get His Reputation Back? Trump On Obama Officials Behind The Russia Collusion Hoax: ‘Hopefully They’re Going To Pay A Big Price’ A Key Obama Meeting Was Held to Ensure FBI Russia Collusion Probe Wasn't Discovered by the Trump Administration Trump: The ‘So-Called Journalists’ Who Received Pulitzer Prizes for The Russia Hoax Should Be Forced to Give Them Back New Documents Show Obama Involved In The Flynn Takedown Democratic congressman said opening California beaches was 'reckless.' Then he was seen at a private beach. Bad State Decisions about Nursing Homes Are Heavily Driving the Coronavirus Outbreak Reopening The Country Seen As Greater Risk Among Most Americans Coronavirus pandemic may lead to 75,000 "deaths of despair" from suicide, drug and alcohol abuse, study says America the Wuss - From Rugged Pioneers to Cowering Sheep. What happened to the American spirit? Worst Jobs Report In History: 20.5 Million Jobs Lost As Unemployment Rate Hits Record 14.7% Dalrymple: The Pandemic of Authoritarianism Nate Silver: 'Basic error' on coronavirus stories reveal media’s true goals To Speed Vaccine Development, Infect Me With the Coronavirus Niall Ferguson to Newsmax TV: China Screwed Up, Covered Up The EU has admitted it let China censor an op-ed by the bloc's ambassadors Friday, May 8. 2020Eric Adams for Mayor (of NYC)Good guy, likeable, mostly sensible and non-ideological. City Journal Podcast interview I do not agree with him about everything, but nobody agrees with me about everything.
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The Five Worst Types of Virtue-Signaling The Pulitzer and The Collapse of the Fourth Estate Facebook's New Censorship Czar Is Anti-Trump Leftist Who Made Barron A Punch Line THE PRESS SECRETARY THE WHITE HOUSE PRESS CORPS DESERVES Education Secretary Betsy DeVos Issues New Title IX Rules To Protect Free Speech, Due Process for Accused Students House intel transcripts show top Obama officials had no 'empirical evidence' of Trump-Russia collusion Justice Department dropping Flynn’s Trump-Russia case Study Reveals Most Critically Ill Patients with COVID-19 Survive with Standard Treatment Democrats hope killing the economy means an invincible voter base Tinseltown Moonbats Never Want to Go Back to Normal Are You A “Grandma Killer” If You Want To Reopen Now? Some states considering house arrest tech to keep coronavirus patients home The Left Is Not Going to Like This, but Trump Has Been Proven Right Over and Over Again
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