Well, I got my fancy new variable speed pool pump plumbed in. Gonna have an electrician do some rewiring at the main and pool box, and while he’s there twist up the wires to the pump tomorrow. As long has his quote wasn’t complete bullshit, and it shouldn’t be since he was out to the house to look at it, I’ll have replaced it for less than the cost of the pump at the pool store — thanks, Amazon! Should pay for itself in energy savings in less than 2 years.
I just kicked off a project (remotely, of course) with some co-workers from Bangalore. The highlight of my morning, “Hey, Brett. We totally forgot since we’re working from home and panic buying stuff, but tomorrow is a holiday, so we’re off.” It is all good, friends, thanks for the chuckle. Stay safe.
This seems like good news to me. I’d rather have my home LTV fall now than in 2-3 years. Prices are ridiculous. $200/sqft for these old houses?
Bernie sez, “I coulda done better.”
In Florida, at least, we are not seeing any acceleration of the Coronavirus. This is up less than 200 day-over-day, and 75 of the positives are out of state people come recently to Florida. Ratio of negative to positive continues to hold at about 9:1. Testing is also not shooting up by leaps and bounds. I also went out to look at the Johns Hopkins data-set, which the FDOH website uses for data outside of Florida. One of the interesting things about that data is that the US is one of the very few countries who has not recorded any “recovered” cases to the WHO. I have not yet discovered whether this is because the CDC does not have a definition of recovered, is sticking to a longer time-frame for asymptomatic “recovery”, or just hasn’t gotten around to reporting those numbers yet. Having some insight into how surveillance of this type works, nobody’s worried about that in the US right now because they’re still trying to get their arms around who is sick right now. What is important is that, globally, more than 1/4 of the cases in the big scary number are no longer sick.
What does this mean? Nothing really, but if Florida doesn’t see a huge uptick by the end of the week, double every 3 days would have us up from 1100 to 4400 positive cases by Friday. Again, a single cluster, one planeload who go out and infect a couple of grocery stores, could change this story. The numbers locally continue to be too small to shrink the error bars, but we continue to trend away from the worst-case scenario. As does everywhere except within 100 mile radius of the Empire State building and a 40 mile radius of Bourbon Street. Expect a few more flare-ups in relatively dense areas before this is all over.
Just a heads up, if you need a webcam that doesn’t send a second stream back to Beijing, Logitech is running out of them quickly.
Who needs a webcam? Besides cam girls… but the good ones have high tech equipment
Millions of kids who are now taking online classes.
And probably starting camgirl businesses too…
I’d like to hope that the remote learning helps to break the back of the teachers unions… but it probably won’t, as the parents would rather get that free daycare.
Why do you need a webcam to take an online class?
How do you expect to get a good grade if you don’t flash the teacher?
You bastard. Beat me to it.
Damn both your fingers, and better snark.
How else can a teacher get the opportunity to look down a girl’s blouse in these strange days?
How’s the professor supposed to grade students if he doesn’t know what they look like?
Why do you say that? Did Huwaei buy them out or something?
Logitech only sends a second stream to the NSA.
Are you saying that the 25$ cam I bought is sending pictures of my driveway to China? Some Commie in China knows when I get my mail!?!!
You’ve got mail, comrade.
Is that the movie where Tom Hanks is a Spy and tricks Meg Ryan into meeting him on a bridge?
We’ve been asked not to use video on conference calls.
Good for your overlords. The only thing worse then video is the people who use avatars on the work systems.
As it should be. It’s a complete waste 99% of the time.
Most video conferences are a waste of bandwidth. Unless there is some actual visual that needs to be discussed, voice-only is all you need.
Body language is communication. Of course you cannot read body language from a webcam so yeah, video conferencing is stupid.
Most
video conferencesmeetings are a waste ofbandwidthmy time.Correct answer ^
One of the good things, hopefully, to come out of this is people realizing how many meetings can be done with just a couple emails.
Or not at all. Back when I was “important”, I used to have 15+ meetings a day. People would want to spend an hour in my office even if the work was done in 10 minutes. I did a few things to tear my time back from them.
1. Schedule meetings in their offices and then stand up and leave when the work was done.
2. When we were in my office, I bought a huge hourglass (that was actually only 20 minutes worth of sand) and turned it over in the middle of the conference table when we started the meeting (a total asshole move and the most effective technique I ever used). People actually started talking faster and faster as the last grains were falling through. Oh, the sand is out. Nice meeting.
3. For meetings of 2-3 would say,’Hey it’s nice out, let’s walk while we talk.” and then speed walk while we held our meeting. Most people lasted about 10-15 minutes before they crawled back to their offices.
4. You have a powerpoint? Sorry, the projector is broken. Can you summarize what you wanted to show us?
5. You have a handout? Sorry, I don’t have my readers with me. Can you summarize what you wanted us to look at?
6. Fuck meetings.
I might try #2. I like it.
This seems like good news to me. I’d rather have my home LTV fall now than in 2-3 years. Prices are ridiculous. $200/sqft for these old houses?
This is not good for my nerves.
evenin’ Brett
Maybe there’s not a set standard and our recovery criteria are more strict than most other nations’ criteria.
I’m certainly not attributing it to some conspiracy. Most likely, it is either as you say, or the focus is just on defining the problem population rather than reporting on any positive progress.
Am I first? There is hope then!
Ehm sure
Hope is lost….
Nope.
My work internet is so slow.
Work internet? You actually went into an office? Or are you visiting us over the corporate VPN?
Yes and yes. Is that bad.
Look at mister really essential over here. I’ve been on WFH for over a week now, and per e-mails we received today that’s continuing until at least the second week of April at this point.
Yeah, ours was just extended to 4/6. Our office buildings are now closed because someone tested positive and they’re going to do a cleaning.
Our software company was designated “essential” because some of our customers sell products to health care providers.
Ackshually, I’m Mr. Too Broke to take an unpaid leave. I expect to take some unpaid days off next month though.
Sorry to hear that man. I’m on the support side, and thankfully the company I support is essential as well. But I know there’s lots of people getting unexpected unpaid time off now.
Thanks, but we’ll be fine, if we’re bit frugal. We even have a short cabin staycation planned next month. I hope to help out by also taking a few unpaid days. Right now it’s voluntary. We’re hoping to avoid layoffs of full time employees.
I just hope Mrs. TARDIS doesn’t get canned.
I’ve been asking to work from home, giving my asthma as a compelling reason, but have so far been rebuffed. Not being a salary employee being one of the main reasons given why I can’t. I learned today that my hourly-wage counterparts in our other location are working from home. I’ve been stewing on that info all day. Not sure what my next step is.
A call to HR?
Ours is through May 1
First…fifth…what’s the difference?
Half an order of magnitude?
You’re counting in base 8?
Meh, whatever.
Government math, amirite?
beats government meth.
Government meth has acetaminophen and benzene in it to prevent people from enjoying it.
When I see your avatar I think:
“Blue. No wait, yelloooooooooowwwww!!!!…..”
Eh — you never were too hot at short hops.
At least the randomizer Four installed isn’t still on…
Have y’all heard about this thing called Coronavirus? Apparently it was really bad in China.
Was? They’re talking about a second wave of infection because the ChiComs wanted to pretend it was over and cover up their ongoing incompetence.
No, what’s it like?
China seems to have 21 million fewer cell phone accounts now than it did a few months ago. Some people may have given up a work phone if they lost their jobs, but nowhere near that many.
The spin is that it is all the foreign workers who had work phones that gave them up. All 21 million of them…
Their population control efforts took a great leap forward.
Don’t forget their social scoring system. It could cost you your phone.
Well, I got my fancy new variable speed pool pump plumbed in. Gonna have an electrician do some rewiring at the main and pool box, and while he’s there twist up the wires to the pump tomorrow. – sounds like nonessential work to me should be banned ther ought to be a law
I would describe the history of the state of Florida as a master class in real estate fraud.
I blame thw spaniards myself
+1 fountain of youth
Where did you find the number of negative vs positive tests? I’ve been unable to locate that info for Michigan.
Florida Department of Health is voluntarily reporting it. YMMV in other states. Michigan does not seem to be reporting it. Much will depend on the reporting infrastructure in place. FDOH had really good pneumonia and influenza reporting and graphics already. Much of it paid for by federal funds for hurricane preparedness.
Go to the Johns Hopkins page and at the bottom of the Confirmed column is an admin tab. Click first on the USA number. Then switch to Admin 2 for state breakdowns.
Admin 3 is county breakdown.
Nice, I didn’t see that.
Roughly, whereabouts in MI are you? I’m in Lansing, fwiw.
Lapeer, where we’re apparently made of sterner stuff as we have zero reported cases.
Thx. See you at Honey Harvest maybe?
I’ve always wondered if you have a local sports team called the Lansing Boils?
The Lansing Lugnuts, whose existence still pisses me off. They shut down and urban-renewed a perfectly good ‘sleazy part of town’ to build a stadium and apartments, lofts, etc. Massive subsidy suck.
Maybe having the sleazy part of town just a few blocks east of the Capitol was too tempting and it had to go.
You’ve got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know… morons.
County health officials and Montana’s governor have urged the federal government to close the world’s first national park in order to stem the spread of the new coronavirus.
Health officers in Park and Gallatin counties sent separate letters Sunday to the Secretary of the Interior urging a temporary closure of Yellowstone National Park.
And Montana Gov. Steve Bullock wrote a letter to Yellowstone Superintendent Cam Sholly saying that keeping the park open promotes unnecessary travel and “undermines our efforts to reduce exposures and exacerbates risks for all Montanans.”
Meanwhile, the Livingston city manager has basically claimed authority to declare martial law and lock down the city of Livingston. I wonder if he imagines himself on top of a tank, like Dukakis.
Coronavirus be damned. I may die of apoplexy.
What?! People walking around outside? Under the Big Sky?! We can’t have that!
I may die of apoplexy.
That city manager might go from acute lead poisoning. Won’t someone up there get a craw full and go break the Big One off in him?
Seems like he has forgotten what happened to Livingston people who got too big for their britches. He better rewatch the movie “Rancho Deluxe”.
Bernie sez, “I coulda done better.”
Most of the wealth that makes up “wealth inequality” is on paper. It’d be nice if more people realized this.
You mean there aren’t Scrooge McDuck moneybins littering California?
See also:
Age cohorts
Income definition – specifically, inclusion of benefits/public assistance as income
Data set composition – e.g. inclusion of new arrivals/immigrants, seasonal workers, etc. with little to no income in the bottom quintile
I had to explain this to a relative recently. Loot the rich?
That wealth is in stocks. What do you think will happen to the value of that stock if the government starts seizing it? You might as well seize air.
She was at a complete loss as to how to process that or speak.
Even when it’s not in stock, it’s not super useful once confiscated. How do you equitably distribute a Bugatti Veyron? What is the government going to do with a 20-bedroom mansion in the sticks?
I’m sure government officials have children who love to drive fast cars. And a 20-bedroom mansion in the sticks can be turned into a sanatorium for inner party members.
I’m sure that never happened, and besides, that wasn’t real socialism anyway.
And it was a long time ago
“Bernie sez, “I coulda done better.”
Good grief Bernie, you’re like 80 years old. Give it up already. The Dodgahs are never moving back to Brooklyn, the Soviet Union is not coming back and your dream of communism is lost. Just give it a break, old man, and maybe enjoy a beer or something.
Power is an aphrodisiac, some old SOB once said. I’m thinking more like an illness, too bad not fatal after 1 term or 1 failed run for office.
As of Monday afternoon, Yellowstone was still open. Linda Veress, a park spokeswoman, said Monday that park managers are constantly evaluating the situation because “things are changing so quickly.”
That could change. Bullock’s office said it expects a decision will be made Tuesday morning.
The push follows the Interior Department’s decision to waive park entrance fees nationwide, a move that has drawn criticism from national groups who say it encourages people to flock to parks during a time when health officials advise against large crowds.
The Coalition to Protect America’s National Parks, a group of retired park officials, was among the critics of that decision.
Die, you fucking parasites, and take your Stalinist wealth destruction campaign with you to Hell, where you and it belong.
Parasitic organism are quite robust and thrive in many enviroments. They rarely choose to die voluntarily
So, I’m stuck at work supervising exactly 2 people. My fellow super is supervising none. What a waste.
Do you have your whip?
They took my whip from me. I have to use kind, soothing words now. I gave someone an OJI after raising my voice approximately 3 decibels after they made repeated fuck ups.
You could stop hoarding and give him one of your lackeys.
I first read that as “You could stop hoarding and give him one of your kidneys.”
Heh, me too
Have y’all heard about this thing called Coronavirus?
No. What is it, a hangover from drinking too much Mexican beer?
It’s a virus that makes a crown appear on your head, just like when you taste Imperial Margarine.
Yur old.
For the kids on this board not old enough to recognize what happens when you take a bite of Imperial Margarine.
Various versions of these commercials were everywhere from the 1950s until the early 1980s, always with the horn tribute and a crown appearing once you took a bite.
Do they even sell margarine anymore? I haven’t seen anyone using it in years.
Yeah, it is still there.
::hides Country Crock behind Greek yogurt in fridge::
Yes.
When I am making copycat recipes of restaurant food, the successful ones ALWAYS use margarine. If it involves cheese, it always involves Velveeta and margarine.
You are going to the wrong restaurants.
The biggest problem is that we’re not going to any for the time being.
When you do get back to going to restaurants allow me to suggest that you avoid those that use Velveeta for their cheese sauce.
Besides, everybody knows that everything is better with Blue Bonnet on it!
It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature!
It’s like Montezuma’s Revenge, only caused by bad beer.
Is there a good source of data for coronavirus deaths? Per day by country/state, not cumulative. I’ve found this. But it’s not very reliable–I know the latest MA deaths are not included.
I’ve found this site https://corona.help/ I wish there was better verification for the data, but whenever I’ve compared the number to news reports for specific days and locations they’ve matched up.
Another Glib linked this last week:
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
Yeah, I’ve found it tracks official numbers for Ohio, maybe a few hours behind which is pretty damn good considering the loe.
Up to 8 deaths. Well worth shutting down the state.
IKR? Insanity. I can’t even. Rage.
I can’t keep up the rage.
But much of Ohio’s official data are being paved down the middle, by a government that has no pride.
One of Hyndee’s stupider lyrics. A government WITH pride is worse.
Sorry, JB – I thought it was you – thanks, I use it all the time.
No worries:) Yeah, I find myself looking at it more than I should. I just want it all to be over!
Thanks, guys. Both sites look good.
I’ve been using this site for auxiliary data, I really want to get the yield charts per state to see if the various measures taken by each state bend the curve at a different time.
https://blog.datawrapper.de/coronaviruscharts/
It is mostly a different analysis of the JHU data.
“Is there a good source of data for coronavirus deaths?”
Yes, go to Realclearpolitics, it’s right on the front page.
The True History Behind ‘The Plot Against America’
You mean like when FDR interred the Japanese?
If Pelosi caved so quickly on this, the polling numbers must have been really bad.
Good. They’re gonna act surprised in November too.
Welcome to NJ.
I mentioned my town stopped processing all firearm related paperwork. Now the state has gone all in.
NJ Gov. Issues Exec Order to CLOSE Gun Stores and End Background Check System
It’s insane how broad the courts are willing to let the executives interpret emergency powers. In short, the courts have abandoned you. Pick a hill and die on it.
NJ Supreme Court has been far left for decades. Responsible for bankrupting the state with Abbott v Burke.
Thank you Christine Todd Whitman.
Yes, we know, you like abortion rights. But it isn’t mentioned in the State Constitution. So when she insisted on only appoint pro-abortion Judges, we ended up with a bunch who don’t care about the state constitution.
Authoritarians pass out from so much blood rushing to their erections.
At this point, its our best hope.
Rhetorical question:
If gun stores can be closed under a governor’s “emergency powers”, could xe order newspapers, radio stations, and TV stations closed?
The 4th estate wouldn’t allow it.
Unless it was to only shutdown dangerous places like Fox, and websites that were spreading fake news making the emergency worse. Then they would be all over it.
dangerous places like
Foxglibertarians.comThey’d jump at the opportunity to become the state house organ.
The 4th estate wouldn’t allow it.
How many divisions do they have?
Hey Mojeaux, if you’re around I sent you an email yesterday at around 6pm.
Should pay for itself in energy savings in less than 2 years.
How’d you manage that?
It was really inefficient before.
as long as Glibs are setting world records, I’m onboard
Charges admission to the pool.
$1.25/day cheaper to operate. $950 to do the whole deal.
The theory is that with a single speed pump you have to run it at full power 6-8 hours a day for good sanitation. With a two speed or variable speed pump you can run it at a high power setting during the peak usage times, and then run it at a much lower flow rate outside of your peak usage.
My 1HP pump that I put in 19 years ago died last season, and I replaced just the motor section with a 1.5HP variable speed pump and upgraded the impeller to the 1.5HP spec.
That change allowed me to run the system at lower RPM for the same peak flow and power draw but with a lower noise level. So we run the pump for longer during the day but at lower power draw, which keeps the chlorine feeder and skimmer working.
I didn’t care about the $$ savings, but the quiet running modes
I’m keen on frequency drives and pumps although I’ll admit to not having much experience above 1,000 HP.
The big lesson for me today was that pools are a spike load; I would have never guessed it.
https://twitter.com/quill18/status/1242337829956526080
Sigh.
I suppose I shouldn’t be flabbergasted that people are trying to blame Trump for that.
Titty Tuesday is soaking wet.
http://archive.li/lN32R
7 and done.
27.
She’s pretty special.
Peak derp? Don’t kid yourself, there’s no such thing.
President Donald Trump appears to have made his choice in the awful dilemma posed by the coronavirus pandemic — whether to destroy the nation’s economic foundation in order to save lives.
In his zeal to fire up American prosperity after helping to trigger an unprecedented self-inflicted economic meltdown, Trump is already losing patience — weeks before the virus may peak.
“Our country was not built to be shut down,” the President warned on Monday. “We are going to be opening up our country for business because our country was meant to be open.”
“We are going to get it all going again very soon,” he said, without setting a timeline — though he previously called for rethinking the White House’s guidance on social distancing next week.
——-
Trump’s change of emphasis previewed a building confrontation inside his own administration — between public health officials using the science of epidemiology to battle Covid-19 and political and economic officials desperate to save an economy that is fundamental to basic life and Trump’s reelection hopes.
President Cartoon Villain thinks of nothing but his own re-election. We know this because the people at CNN think of nothing but preventing it. If the Yellowstone caldera were to blow next Tuesday, a CNN new crew would be preening themselves in the smouldering ruins explaining how it was all Trump’s fault.
“Our country was not built to be shut down,” the President warned on Monday. “We are going to be opening up our country for business because our country was meant to be open.”
Trump flip flops on border position.
“helping to trigger an unprecedented self-inflicted economic meltdown”
wut
If he had waved his magic wand months earlier and
made the CCP not criminally incompetentkept the novel coronavirus off America’s shores without ever banning anyone or anything (because that would be racist), through the appropriate application of SCIENCE! ™, then this never would have happened.an economy that is fundamental to basic life and Trump’s reelection hopes
One of these seems a lot more substantial than the other.
I’m hearing about the first incidences of people refusing to pay their contractors for work completed.
Here it comes.
Refusing, as in unable to pay? Or unwilling?
Usually unwilling at this point, pretending to be unable.
Cops are driving around and yelling (I presume) at groups to disperse or something (I can’t make it out). You know, they could do something useful while they’re at it and tell all the hot-rodders with their stupid modified mufflers to give it a fucking rest already.
Throw some water at them.
Oh wait that is disrepsectful.
Here it would be busting teenagers for smoking… Serious crime stuff.
“From 12 midnight today, the entire country will go under a complete lockdown to save India and for every Indian, there will be a total ban on venturing out of your homes. Therefore, I request you to remain wherever you are in this country,” Modi added.
A coworker of mine in India says there are water shortages where he is. I’m going out on a limb here and will say this lockdown won’t help with the water shortages.
“Modi shuts down India after learning Hindu’s can get Covid-19”
-Shika Dalima
Who’s going to feed them?
. . . aaaaaaaaaand cue the Unintended (HAH!) Consequences.
The first lesson in how government stupidity will probably end up killing more people than the Wubonic Plague.
They can always eat the first ones to die.
Imagine…the smell.
When I mentioned the lockdown coming in a work chat, my Indian co-worker said it was better to be safe at home then outside where the danger is. That’s a mindset I don’t understand. I’m older then him, and have my parents in the area (they’re both high risk for this, his family here is all well out of the high risk categories). I don’t see any danger or risk from me going outside. Telling me I have to stay inside just makes me want to go out more.
Go outside you’re allowed, I’ve been outside a dozen times today haven’t been shot once.
But how many people have you shot?
I don’t even own a
TVgun.What I want to do is go to the local bar, grab a couple of pints, and joke about all this shite.
Can’t do that. But yes, we can go outside. Just the concept of it being dangerous outside, I don’t get. I’m in suburbia. I’m probably in more danger of hitting a deer with my car then dying of the COVID.
Perhaps you should take this as an opportunity to think about your dependency issues? maybe cut back on the beer a little bit. Contemplate adopting moderation as a way going forward.
/looks back at ~40 lb weight loss.
The beer has been cut back, quite a bit. It’s unusual for me, but watching everything get shut down, two vacations cancelled so far, I’m in the mood for random social contact with strangers. Perhaps some light conversation.
Now that it’s gone, I realize I did a lot of my socializing at the gym.
Same.
I didn’t realize how necessary my interactions with people at the gym were.
Especially the hotties…
Or being hit by a deer…
Or being hit on by a deer.
I still remember one bike ride a deer decided to run along side me. “Awww… how cute”, people who don’t know what a deer can do would say. So there’s a 1,500 lb animal running alongside of me, and I’m wearing spandex and a helmet. If it turns and decides to run through me, it wins. If I try to break quickly, I may spook it. I stopped pedaling, let the thing get some distance, then watched as it cut where I would have been riding.
They grow some big deer out your way.
1500 pounds is moose territory.
Actually three hundred pounds over the top range of moose territory.
Yeah white tail run a bit less than people do weight wise. Not to say it couldn’t have killed you because wild animals are almost always stronger lb per lb but they aren’t that big
This past summer I had a deer jump out in front of me on my bike. I had to brake hard to not hit it.
Scared the shit out of me. I’ve taken out a couple in a car with no more than an “aw shit!” but with just me and my bike I would definitely be on the losing end of the encounter.
So… I could claim a typo, but that would be lying. It’s now even more abundantly clear that I’ve never been hunting. I just knew several friends who had their cars destroyed by deer either from hitting them (or getting hit by them). It looked about that big running next to me though…
This will be interesting. At least in some parts of India, people regularly take malaria preventatives.
““From 12 midnight today, the entire country will go under a complete lockdown to save India and for every Indian, there will be a total ban on venturing out of your homes. Therefore, I request you to remain wherever you are in this country,” Modi added.”
I work with a few Indians, and that is pretty damn funny going by what they tell me. No one there will even obey any traffic laws and if they get a ticket, I was told they throw it into a mud hole and that’s the end of it. There’s much more, but I won’t go into it.
Guy is just posturing, there’s nothing he can do.
Free Staters continue to meet despite ban
One of the leaders of the libertarian Free Keene group, Ian Freeman, said he won’t comply with New Hampshire’s order to limit public gatherings, calling the order “outrageous.”
Freeman said Gov. Chris Sununu’s order is a violation of the right to assemble. The ban on gatherings of more than 50 people in New Hampshire is part of the state’s emergency actions taken to combat the spread of COVID-19
“It’s also a violation of the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,” Freeman wrote on the Free Keene website. “In order for many humans to be happy, they need to be around other people. We are a social animal.”
Libertarians happy around other people? Check this guys credentials.
Speak for yourself dude
It’s like this. I’m perfectly fine staying away from most other humans most of the time. I just don’t want anyone telling me I have to.
Crazy Libertarians are trying to kill us all!
Well, I mean, it’s what they do. How else do we get rid of government and roads?
More than 50 libertarians in one zip code? I call shennanigans.
Well, it is New Hampshire.
Bears expected to become active earlier than usual
Up to a month earlier than usual, the state’s bears are beginning to wake up from the winter of 2019-2020, with sows expected to bring forth more cubs than a year ago, says Andy Timmins, the bear project leader with the New Hampshire Department of Fish and Game.
“They’re definitely getting active, for sure,” Timmins said Monday during a telephone from his office at the District 1 Fish and Game office in Lancaster, “probably two to four weeks earlier than what we would expect in a more typical year with a more typical winter and people need to pretend it’s April 1.”
*yawns, stretches*
“Where are all the people?”
Dead from
Net NeutralityKavanaugh-RapistRussia HackingRussia CollusionUkranian CollusionCoronavirus“sows expected to bring forth more cubs than a year ago”
Sluts.
It just goes to show the need for more funding for Planned Parenthood in the stimulus bill.
Live bear cam feed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihHLhtJ6-oQ
Our neighborhood bear has already rifled through the garbage cans once. They will be stored inside the garage from now on.
I think I’ll put out a game cam around the bird feeders. Haven’t seen any evidence yet. I’ll take the feeders and sunflower seeds in April 1, a joke on the freeloading squirrels.
“Bears expected to become active earlier than usual”
First Wuhan Flu, then bears. It is truly the end times.
The new girlfriend just forwarded to me an email from a local doctor consisting of an hysterical plea to stay away from
the Forbidden ZoneBozeman, because you’ll catch teh cooties and die a horrible death. And so will everyone you know!I texted her back: “No offense, but [hysterical doctor] can kiss my ass.”
We’ll see what happens next.
Did you check to make sure that [Hysterical doctor] wasn’t also a super hot chick? cause that could lead to a bad misunderstanding.
Jeez, if you’re not going to practice social distancing, can you at least practice fecal distancing?
Right?
Trump talks about opening up the country again and (surprise surprise!) the market has its biggest increase in 90 years. Funny how that works eh?
Amazing that pumping FUCKLOADS of fiat into the economy doesn’t do shit, but lo and behold, getting the fucking government out of the way does.
My wife said if he does it, he’ll have earned her vote.
Mama is bored of the drama. I think a lot of people are.
I’ve been hearing the jump was because the 2.5T stimulus was moving along. I’ve long said Presidents get to much credit and take too much blame for the economy but how can a few sentences from Trump save Wall Street when he can’t even talk idiots into overdosing on aquarium cleaner?
“he can’t even talk idiots into overdosing on aquarium cleaner?”
But I thought he did?
“Klaatu… barada… necktie. Nectar. Nickle.”
“I’ve been hearing the jump was because the 2.5T stimulus was moving along”
This seems likely.
That was a big part of it. Trump’s comments probably gave it a boost as well.
They’d better open up the country again. All this talk about months long shutdowns is pure insanity. This might be a game for politicians right now but when people start losing jobs en masse and cannot feed their families, the politicians had better be in hiding and they can forget about their cushy existence forever.
This cant be emphasized enough.
People are scared. I can see it when I’m out and about. People working at the grocery stores, liquor stores, etc. They’re not afraid of the virus, they’re afraid some dickhead politician is going to go even more overboard and they’re going to lose their fucking job. Most people cannot survive for months with no income.
There is no goddamn way that a virus is more dangerous than millions of people losing their job.
Since coronapocalypse has dominated the news cycle for so long, does this give Grandpa Gulag an opening to try and mount a comeback? Or is he still toast?
I heard he is working with Gov Newsome on some criminal justice reform that he is hoping will up his chances.
He and everybody to the left of Obama has been yammering about how the virus “proves” the necessity of socialist medicine. I think he has an opportunity, but I’m also sure he’ll squander it.
Has he even bothered to show up at his day job recently?
If isocialist medicine is so good, why does his state have a shortage of health care?
Do they even address the situation in Italy & Spain?
That’s different because shut the fuck up.
Cuomo is the new savior. Biden will have to pick up enough delegates for the nomination and then they’ll switch him for Cuomo.
This! My lefty pals (none of whom actually live here in NY) are all aswoon over Rat-Faced Andy: The Mobbed Up Lawyer and his Newsbimbo brother on CNN yesterday.
does this give Grandpa Gulag an opening to try and mount a comeback? Or is he still toast?
I think Cuomo (guv, not fredo) has been spending hours each day practicing his surprised and humble acceptance speech for when the DNC draft him to be their candidate for the Presidency, based on his stellar performance in this, our most dire hour of need.
A notion scarier than a pandemic.
Perhaps SF can provide us an alternate timeline where this pandemic occurs under the reign of Herself the First.
A LinkedIn colleague today posted a clip of Gov Cuomo, with the caption “this is what leadership looks like”.
Best I can figure from social media right now is:
Cuomo saying something: The Perfect Leader
Trump saying the exact same thing: Bumbling Incompetent Moron
Cuomo is a corrupt, holier-than-thou, authoritarian, anti-gun, union-fellating, patronizing, douchebag sack of shit.
Ladies and gentlemen, Presidential timber.
Going through press briefings looking for audio, either a glib works in the White House or as ‘source’ for this (I think NPR) reporter.
“Surely this will get Drumpf!”
*proceeds to embarrass self and profession*
Again and again and again and
DET@NYY 1976-06-26
Close game through six, Fidrych vs Holtzmann
I’m shocked by how many of the Tigers I remember.
no RFQ in my inbox for 12 days now
Kenny Holtzman, there’s a name I haven’t thought of in a while.
Great nose.
I remember him throwing two no-hitters for the Cubs when I was a kid.
Also, I worked with his cousin Dr. Holtzman, a neurologist, in San Francisco about 30 years ago.
So, I ventured out on a mini-hoarding trip. I went in Fresh Market. Very few people in there and they have literally tons of food. I didn’t see anything out of stock. I got corn on the cob, a few avocados, some butter, some mushrooms, my wife’s diet coke. We don’t need much. Then I went next door and got beer. Place was empty. Lots of people out walking, not much traffic.
But when I was driving back, I started doing some reminiscing. When I was a kid in elementary school, I remember that every year there would be some sort of outbreak of something. Mumps, measles, chickenpox, pneumonia. All sorts of things like that. Every year and half the kids in my class would be sick. And I never once saw a school or a business or anything closed down.
Is it just my imagination, or have we really turned into a bunch of frightened sheep? I mean because if you’re 30 or younger you’ve probably never even seen a case of chickenpox, or measles, or any of that stuff. So maybe for youngsters who need to stay off my lawn, this seems normal. Like we’ve never seen a bad case of influenza, let alone the more exotic stuff I just spoke of.
When I was in third or fourth grade, they decided we all needed some inoculation – no permission slips, parental notification, or any of that crap. So every kid in the class was lined up and injected with some vaccine with one of those injector guns. I had blood running down my arm, other kids went back to class crying. No parent complained.
Yeah, I remember all of those inoculations too. And we still all got sick.
Seriously, Chickenpox nearly killed me when I was 6. There was a very virulent strain going around. I was in the hospitable for a while and I never remember being that sick in my entire life or since then.
But we would get them all. The measles, mumps, all of it. You were going to get it, it was like a right of passage. I remember me and my cousins having mumps, all 7 of us at the same time. Entire classes with German measles and we still didn’t close.
I do not recall getting any of them. Don’t remember if it was mumps or measles that my sister had, but my Dad caught it. He never had it as a kid. He was in his 30’s and it fucked him up good for awhile. I didn’t get it though. I remember in school someone always had something and ya, life went on. This is weird now.
When I was in 1st grade (1966) I got mumps and chickenpox back to back. The two things I remember are missing Halloween and getting to watch Batman. My first grade teacher stopped by with a small bag of candy “donated” by my classmates. POW! BIFF!
I need to dig up a good comparison of COVID-19 to H1N1, Swine flu, SARS & MERS.
My impression is that infection rates, etc. aren’t so wildly different.
If it were just the US losing their shit, I’d be more skeptical of motives, but other countries are also going for full-lockdown, so I assume I’m missing something.
If I’m not mistaken, MERS was many times more deadly than Corona. But back then, you didn’t have thousands of Chinese nationals flying all around the world every day.
MERS had an obscenely high case fatality rate (~35-40%), but it was much more difficult to catch.
Probably for the reason I just said, we didn’t have bat eating Chinamen flying around the planet by the zillions.
I’m just imagining a whole bunch of Chinese cosplaying as Ozzy Osborne now. All on a plane, going to a convention.
Social media panics.
That’s kind of where I’m at. On the one hand I think it’s a huge overreaction. On the other hand, Italy is truly getting hit hard. I also suspect there must be some intelligence coming out of China that says it’s a lot worse than the CCP is letting on.
I was an 80’s baby and will be turning 40 soon. I remember getting chickenpox, never had the measles. The BIG SCARES I remember being pounded into my head were Soviet nuclear attacks(get under your desks, kids! The radiation can’t get you there!), Rampant gang violence that makes most of today’s gangs look like rank amueturs, No Ozone, Acid Rain!!!, and since I grew up in a quasi doomsday evangelical home, Satanists and The Anti-Christ were always just a few years away from killing us all.
The disease stuff never really was much of an issue that was imported into my psyche.
“Soviet nuclear attacks(get under your desks, kids!”
Yeah, I lived through all that too.
The hiding under desks thing is to protect against rubble and glass, but ok.
Fair enough. Though I’d counter that if you’re in a building close enough to a blast that it’s falling down on you you’ll be pretty much fucked in a few hours regardless. 😉
Yeah. Unfortunately, read the Hiroshima and Nagasaki stories. Many of them would have been better off if they were killed in the blast.
You forgot AIDS.
Sex was going to kill us all.
Evangelical home. Sex was not discussed. At. All.
I keep making the mistake of looking at social media (Nextdoor is a gem right now). It’s like a train wreck, can’t look away.
My faith in humanity that was already tenuous at best is being severely tested. Anybody want to cheer me up?
How about a fellow making himself a wee pool.
https://youtu.be/QTLa9NlzmAQ?t=26
Love how he planted the flowers before anything else.
Nextdoor seems to be solely populated by Chicken Littles here as well.
This might cheer you up.
OMWC got a new truck?
Yep. That did it!
? Ya, if that doesn’t make you smile you are dead inside.
Puppies!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CemskuOg2g
I peed a little, good thing I’m working at home.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yqYv4K9v9c
?
Our local NextDoor in the Bay Area suburbs was up until now a place where you got recommendations for service professionals, sprinkled with some “those damn kids” and the occasional sharing of Ring Doorbell Camera tapes with scary minorities walking in people’s driveways.
But the past week it’s devolved into “the Virus is all Trump’s fault”.
Yes, Glibs is about the only place I want to be on the internet any more.
Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life
That was weird.
A Chinese cow-orker asked for the range and precision of my plumb bob.
I dunno Yao, gravity seems a little off today. Up is down, down is up That plumb bob could be up to 180 degrees off!
“A Chinese cow-orker asked for the range and precision of my plumb bob.”
Did you drop trou and offer to give her (or him) an intimate demonstration?
At last some good news, the cow workers have returned to work!
That’s how they drop in China. Bombs away!
*deuces
Have you seen the toilets in some parts of China?
https://www.travelchinacheaper.com/wp-content/uploads/Chinese-Squat-Toilets.jpg.webp
I was pretty amazed
a) I was able to drop bombs while people were watching the fat American
b) That they hit the intended target without collateral damage to my boots
c) That they were still solid bombs after drinking the local water
Pop up message: “Do you want to download Chinese toilet squats?”
No, I do not.
Mrs Fourscore was shocked ! Shocked ! when she saw those plus the pushy, shovey Chinese women fighting for next!
International Airport in Casablanca had those in the late ’60s, a younger Fourscore was still on a learning curve at that time.
Fascinating firearm factory footage. Hat tip: Warty.
Watched that this morning, so cool. So much tinnitus, so many lost fingers.
The next panic buy.
Shit just got serious.
https://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/peeps-manufacturer-shutting-down-production-coronavirus-outbreak
I thought essential items were going to be force produced by government decree. You can’t trust them!
OMG NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO NOT THE PEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEPS!!!
*rushes out to panic buy*
*rips plastic off to let age properly*
Ready just in time for Halloween.
Pro tip: The warming drawer under the over is perfect for aging those things.
Moisten marshmallow, roll in sugar, let dry.
Walla, problem solved.
That’s “voila” it comes from the cheese eating surrender monkeys.
When civilization collapses, we’ll all need one of these
I’m going to start building mine tomorrow.
Is that for getting rid of granny?
Cheering on shelter in place is cheering on a suspension of the 1st Amendment. By all means stay home to protect the elderly and at risk, but when you support Government when it orders people not to gather you are supporting tyranny.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
or the right of the people peaceably to assemble
My latest facebook post, I expect a shitstorm, I pray I am wrong.
SHUT THE FUCK UP LIBERTARD
Libertaritard?
RonPaultards
Paulistas.
Bully!!!!
FREEDOMTARD
Bat facts:
– They save the US about $22 billion/year in pest control costs because they eat so many bugs.
– They are the #1 vector for human transmission of rabies.
– Their wings are actually made of webbing between their fingers.
– They’re gross and Chinese people start pandemics by eating them in soufflés.
Bat eating is an important part of Chinese culture and it’s racist to make light of it. Also, it’s racist to suggest that Chinese people eat bats.
ANTI BAT-ITE!
Not having pet bats in your home is racist.
They don’t have the balls.
“…important part of (take your pick) culture…”
Fuck that. Raise cattle and wheat. Stop eating monkey assholes and pangolin peckers. Idiots.
L O L
Thanks for going to bat for the Chinese.
*narrows gaze*
I had a few laughs growing up by throwing very small rocks up near a very large barn light and watching small bats spiral toward the ground while trying to catch them. A few bats would even face plant on the ground in the attempt. Non stop entertainment for an eleven year old.
We lived in an old house when I was teenager, bats would occasionally get in to my bedroom and wake me up from the sound of their wings. I had a tennis racket beside the bed and could get one after a few swings. Wham, when they hit the concrete chimney! If they landed on a curtain I’d have to get out of bed to kill them. Probably over the summer I’d get 15 or more.
+1 Big Chill – “rats with wings”
Damn, dude. And here I thought I had it bad growing up in a basement bedroom having to kill wolf spiders all the time.
My FIL had a log home at the lake. Bats loved it. One fine summer day, he got the bright idea to plug the holes where they were getting in. I told him to wait until night time. He ignored me.
That night was quite the adventure when our friends the bats found out their exits were blocked. We must have killed/trapped a dozen of the little bastards. My wife still reminds me that one of the ones I smacked with the fishing net landed on the pillow next to her…
Bats are useful and very cute.
I would never eat a bat.
Hey, Mo. I mentioned up thread that I sent you an email yesterday. Around 6-6:30pm.
And I replied!
Check your spam filter.
Gotcha.
I may change my mind, though. You’re a sweetheart.
*blushes*
They are amazingly soft too. At least the little ones are.
i like bats. They are very cool animals.
Watching Trump’s press conference – he is talking about targeting Easter as the timeline – Fauci is squirming in the background as his career dissipation light just shifted into overdrive.
At Sununu’s daily press conference, he said he won’t sacrifice public health to the economy
Gov. Chris Sununu said if needed, he’ll maintain public restrictions in New Hampshire well past President Trump, who said Tuesday he wants the country to be back “open for business” by Easter on April 12.
“Whatever messages that are coming out of Washington, we are going to make sure we take care of the needs of New Hampshire first,” Sununu said during a briefing Tuesday at the New Hampshire Fire Academy.
If there’s no economy, you won’t be needing any of that health stuff, unless it’s enough of it to hide from all of the other destitute people grubbing for roots.
Also, I bet you that pussy will not dare destroy the state’s economy when every other state is back to work. He’ll need another line of work after that one.
Thanks, Trump. Now I might not get laid for a month. Opened my big mouth and said something about “You and everyone else praying to God this disease is conquered…maybe it’s appropriate that God answers at Easter time?” Big time stink eye. Couch looks real comfortable for tonite to practice social distancing.
Set absurd goals, somebody might actually make them happen. That’s a very Trumpian management method.
DJIA roars back to December, 2015
Woohoo?
If it is true that we can detect the antibodies for this disease after recovery with a blood test, here is my Glibbish fantasy:
McAfee cobbles together a startup that will provide accurate testing of blood for the presence of Corona antibodies. It is then found that while highly contagious, the Corona is nowhere near as deadly as the flu. The people demand criminal charges against any and all scare mongers. The leaders are marched into a live volcano. The rest are put into a Supermax which is then financed by a reality TV show. Viewers will be given prize money for devising ways to make guilty miserable. Methods to commit violent suicide to be provided.
I like the cut of your glib.
You’re one sick puppy. I love it!
i am eagerly awaiting a home antibodies test because i’m convinced i had this.
so that’ll be out like in 3 years i assume.
I would pay $250 per test for guranteed accuracy. I just want to know.
I went to a wedding at the end of Feb. About 100 got sick. 2 people tested positive for the flu. The rest had upper respiratory issues that lasted about 2 days with a low grade fever. The newlyweds skipped their honeymoon.
Ancapistan would’ve found a myriad of ways to handle this virus. Cost/benefit would be primary and voluntary groupings of people would’ve formed to do everything from live testing of vaccines to treatments.
I fantasize about that. Nice compound, medical facilities, utilities, food reserves: all tucked inside an impressive presidio.
Reality: dying after I melted down all the barrels defending the perimeter from the hordes who didn’t want to help me grind the wheat. The Little Red Hen dies on the wall ala Alamo, and morons eat her bread.
Dying do what you loved is what it’s all about.
I’d buy that for a dollar!
Gov. Chris Sununu said if needed, he’ll maintain public restrictions in New Hampshire well past President Trump, who said Tuesday he wants the country to be back “open for business” by Easter on April 12.
Fuck off, you Stalinist cretin.
https://blog.princelaw.com/2020/03/24/pennsylvania-governor-wolf-backs-down-declares-gun-dealers-are-life-sustaining/
Good, now reopen the liquor stores, you fucking assclown.
They closed the liquor stores?
Ya’ll can only wish you were in libertarian paradise or Maryland.
That was his first move. All Gov employees that I’m sure are still getting a check.
I can confirm that PA state gov employees deemed non essential are not working, yet still being paid.
If you need liquor, NH and MA liquor stores are still open.
I’m still well stocked for a while longer. ?
We are burning through the obscure stuff in the liquor cart. The Chinese poison I got on my last trip will be the last to go.
I’ve been using it to disinfect cuts and clean metal parts.
An excellent local bartender will make a cocktail out of your random crap
And they seem to be mostly empty. I think the hoarding has peaked for now, thankfully.
The offer stands for any PA glibs by the way.
Hyperion, when I was at the NH liquor store a few days ago, there was plenty of stuff in stock though I did see some evidence of panic buying. I took a quick look through their on-line inventory search tool, and it looks like they have plenty of the staples. They have shortened their hours: 11 AM to 6 PM Monday through Saturday. Sunday hours vary by store.
I don’t see any evidence of hoarding or panic buying in the area I was in today. It is a very upscale area and everything is expensive, so maybe that’s part of the reason. I noticed that Fresh Market even has stacks of 24 packs of bottled water, which they typically do not even carry. All of the shelves and coolers in the liquor store are full.
Meanwhile in NJ liquor stores are open and gun stores closed.
I saw your question on the last post.
The “armor” part was riffing on Suthen’s dragons line. But a level A suit looks like this
“front or rear entry options”
Giggity.
Good, now reopen the liquor stores, you fucking assclown.
OMFG drunks with gunz!
*hides under bed*
I grew up surrounded by drunks with guns and I survived that. That was the least of my danger considering the crazy ass shit we did on a daily basis.
This is what panic does. And they’ve just nationalized private health insurance.
The wonders of socialized medicine.
Trump’s fault
*deletes tasteless Weekend at Bernies hockey team joke*
My wife is bored and she is killing me with wonderful homemade foods. I think we have both gained a few lbs.
Two loaves of bread, home made pasta sauce, and chocolate expresso cookies.
Same here. I know I’ve gained a few lbs. I should go out and walk, but I’m a little depressed watching out disgusting political class crash the economy and scheme to steal more of our money.
I’m going to the office tomorrow to make sure it’s still there. I have 6 flights of stairs I can climb.
I’m actually allowed to go in if I want to. I have no inclination to do so.
A couple of weeks ago, my project manager and I walked to see a client in another building and did 8 floors of steps to get up to his office. I was breathing a little hard at the top and I walk a lot and run some too.
Daaaaaamn. That makes me more than a little jealous. When my wife gets bored, she finds projects for me to do so she can supervise.
Dude, I think it’s universal that 3 of the favorite words of married women to use consecutively is ‘you need to’. The 2nd favored 2 is ‘you didn’t’.
I remember my dad asking my sister one day, “How come every time you talk to me, you always start with, “Dad, you have to?'”
I had lost 20+ pounds and now I’ve probably gained half of it back. I sit around the house all day every day, surrounded by food, and all I want to do it eat.
I put on pants today! Briefly, to go get carry out bar food and a growler. But it counts!
Take the victory man! My day has been pants free.
Yeah, I think I put on pants today for the first time in 2-3 days. But same, only to get beer and a few food items.
Maybe our kindly overlords in government will make pants optional soon for us to go out and get our ‘necessities’.
I snapped the chute-clearing tool for my snowblower this morning. Wet heavy snow kept clogging the chute, and eventually I snapped the tool.
I’ve noticed that not shaving makes my face itch. Maybe I’ll shave tomorrow and see if that helps.
Same here. And I actually hate being scruffy.
What a hell of a zombie apocalypse! I can click a couple of buttons and have excellent Italian food from Miceli’s delivered to my door for less money than when it started. I get full pay for putzing around and home schooling my kid. He seems to be improving at a far faster rate than the school was doing, to boot.
I’ve been slacking on the shaving. I usually do it once a week…
No shirt. No shoes. No service. JB found the loophole.
Who’s brave enough to go read the comments at DU? Seriously, you should get some sort of medal for doing it.
Stupid is infectious.
It’s Tard Tuesday but I couldn’t bring myself to do it. I think I’m tarded out.
My next-door neighbor shuffled off this mortal coil last night.
A few days ago, we awoke to a large truck idling. It was the neighborhood fire truck/paramedic at the foot of the driveway next door. After a while, they wheeled him out with one of those chest compression devices.
We talked to his wife today. He didn’t make it.
There are dangerous things closer to us than coronavirus.
We lost a neighbor a couple of doors down last night, too.
Sorry.
That’s not good. You going to bring her some home cooked food? Or do Americans not do that anymore?
It was my first instinct but then I thought that might be weird with social distancing and all that. I will offer to run errands or something.
It’s Tard Tuesday but I couldn’t bring myself to do it. I think I’m tarded out.
There’s no such thing as tard hoarding. They scatter it to the four corners of the globe as fast as they can.
The latest from OH Gov. DerpWine:
“It became necessary to destroy the town to save it.”
I’ve heard similar before.
Yeah, sure if you assume that the virus is going to kill 20% of the population. There’s no evidence of anything like that so far. Otherwise, people losing their jobs are is much more dangerous.
Maybe DeWine didn’t learn the maths in school either.
“we have to pass the bill to find out what’s in it!”
And I heard Bill Cunningham on WLW today. He had his head so far up DeWine’s ass, its a miracle the microphone could pick up his voice.
Also, fuck DeWine’s wannabe statist, cop-sucking, daughter, and her FOP pals.
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Before this whole thing is over, it’s gonna hurt you Three Times As Bad!
C’mon people. That’s a good song right there. It’s got the rhythm section and dueling lead guitars of Skynyrd with Dale Kranzt’s searing vocals, in a very bluesy and interesting lyrical song. Not very apocalyptic, though.
How about this one.
If no one leaves a comment it’s only because they are so impressed that they silently enjoy it. It’s what I tell myself.
That’s why I keep on Smilin’ !
The official ARS shelter in place tune is probably Not Gonna Let It Bother Me Tonight
I was gonna see what’s left of them on Friday, but now it’s postponed ’till November something. But, yeah, that’s a good choice too.
Have some gross generalization.
Meta.
*Wakes up, checks numbers* Japan as many confirmed cases a Luxembourg. *Scratches balls*
When you stop testing that’s what happens.
It would appear Abe learned from the Chicoms.
If you don’t test, you don’t have it. Math.
The masks and the bowing rather than handshaking might help too.
Didn’t work as well in South Korea.
Look at it per capita.
I thought they had it pretty much beat after the initial surge.
Per capita it’s roughly the same as the US.
And I also think they’ve stopped testing extensively.
I’m seeing Japan at 9 per 1 million and the US at 160 per 1 million. It’s not accurate, but where are you getting they are the same?
I was talking South Korea, not Japan.
*Gets another cup of coffee*
Carry on.
Is it 100% sober or drunk Straff that does math?
Cheer up, Koike is currently creaming her panties to lock you you guys down just like our governors here with their throbbing erections.
The news is saturated with them whinging about losing the Olympics. If they can pull off a 2021 Olympics, hopefully that’ll prove that you don’t need to spend 8 years planning those ridiculous events.
Glad that’s coming out of your wallet and not mine!
It became necessary to destroy the country to save it
“We are all Keynesians now” is a famous phrase coined by Milton Friedman and attributed to U.S. president Richard Nixon. It is popularly associated with the reluctant embrace in a time of financial crisis of Keynesian economics by individuals such as Nixon who had formerly favored less interventionist policies.
“I was the only non-Keynesian in the room.” –Keynes, after a meeting with the FDR cabinet.
So, I read a story about the first Hantavirus death in China. It basically said that this stuff is really rare, with less than 200,000 cases a year in the US. 200k! The next page was a super freak out about the chinkanese virus. 50k cases so far in the US. Nobody noticed the stark contrast. This was the bing feed, btw.
Link? That appears off by 3 orders of magnitude or so.
“We save our economy by first saving lives. And we have to do it in that order,” DeWine said.
Okay. After all, you’re still getting a paycheck. You’re in no danger of losing your home. You are completely immune to any consequences which might arise from your destruction of the lives and livelihoods of the peasantry. Take as long as you like.
Still watching to see if his haircut starts to look shaggy…
Well you can file a report online… or is that only for our brave civilians up here in Cleveland.
ATTN: Toxteth O’Grady – I posted a Rita Heyworth pose example in the photography post.
Look, this is how long [insert months/years] to save us from [inserts latest boogeyman]
It’s almost too late again!
“ If the United States intervenes immediately on the scale that China did, our death toll could be under 100,000.”
If you believe the Chinese numbers, sure, but we’re never going to weld people in their homes and fumigate whole downtown areas with God knows what. This longing for the Chinese model has just got to stop.
Look at the author. The guy is a human hating Malthusian piece of shit.
They’ve been painting for China since the USSR collapsed
“but we’re never going to weld people in their homes and fumigate whole downtown areas with God knows what.”
You sure about that?
They already have the Chemtrail apparatus in place.
*shakes fist at trails*
FUCK OFF, UNICORN TULPA!!!
Welcome to our loony bin.
Glad to be here.
If the United States intervenes immediately on the scale that China did, our death toll could be under 100,000
If anybody ever calculates the excess death rate from this, I would be willing to take the under on that 100,000 deaths.
I’d take that bet too, especially if a certain nonaquarium related drug actually comes into more general use. Supposedly the feds sent a bunch to New York and they’re going to try it out large scale.
“ If the United States intervenes immediately on the scale that China did, our death toll could be under 100,000.”
If we are going for the Chinese model shouldn’t we be disappearing any journalists that aren’t towing the government line?
“If we are going for the Chinese model shouldn’t we be disappearing any journalists that aren’t towing the government line?”
Yeah, pretty much that. Nailing people’s doors shut and letting them die and lying out our ass like a bunch of Chicom dictators.
Since when does he want to keep the elderly from dying?
Data for United States in 2018
Number of deaths: 2,839,205
I picked up my mini-14 this afternoon. The FFL gave me shit about buying a spray-and-pray rifle. I may not use him again.
On the other hand, they actually had ammo on the shelf. So I picked up a bucket of freedom on the way out as well.
Geeze what an ass
Screw that guy. They are great rifles.
Maybe he was making an attempt at a joke due to their perceived subpar accuracy. They used to have issues but they thickened the barrels and the problem largely went away. I have a Mini-30 and I love the thing.
I mentioned that I knew about the problems with the original barrels, but the new rifles were much better.
He said, “Maybe you’ll get lucky and it will be one of the good ones.”
On the way out, we were chatting about the shortage of ammunition. He told me the problem was the government had ordered a billion rounds so the manufacturers were putting the government orders ahead of consumers. I nodded, paid my bill, and left the store.
What’s spray and pray about a mini 14?
The early models had problems with barrel vibration. That problem was fixed long ago.
I have one and it is a tack driver.
I mean, the Mini-14 isn’t a sniper rifle or anything, but that’s not what it’s purpose is.
You sure it wasn’t an A Team joke?
I pity the fool.
to me ‘spray & pray’ means something completely different.
30 round magazine, place your selector lever on “auto”, fire all 30 rounds toward enemy, pray for success.
Suppose the death toll tops out at 10,000 or less. Politicians are going to crow that “the shelter in place” policy worked. Because all the other “normal” flu strains have traditionally caused more than 10,000 deaths each year, how long until some nanny comes along to suggest “let’s close down the country every flu season.” After all, this would save more than one life and would be totally worth it.
My guess is that “sheltering in place” works in the sense that fewer people would get it in the short term. Long term? I have no idea and the explanations they are giving are not convincing.
This is L.A., judging by the tents scattered around the sidewalks, sheltering in place is old hat.
“Politicians are going to crow that “the shelter in place” policy worked.”
They can crow all they want. It won’t work.
What will happen instead is that people will think ‘You made me stay at home and I didn’t need to. So fuck you, it won’t work next time’.
Sure, people are fine with government saving them, as long as they can still do whatever they want to, when they want to.
So are all the public indoctrination servers getting their full? I’d stay home for full pay and benefits.
I AM staying home for full pay and bennies. I’d prefer to be at work, truth be told, especially to keep all the local businesses open and making money.
I have that benefit, so far. But it’s not like I didn’t plan it and it just happened by accident.
And still, like I said before. I’ll go into the office every day right now, starting tomorrow, if these chickenshit politicians stop it and let people go back to fucking work.
I guess I’m just ready for some quiet time off. Maybe that’s my response to all the freaking out, and people trying to work the system to their advantage. I predict WARN notices will be sent within a week.
Or it’ll work for a few weeks until people really began freaking out over not making rent, at which point the politicians will began walking back their cower-in-place policies. And then the infection rates tick up, but what are you going to do, send people back home?
In 2017-18 the number of influenza deaths has exceeded 15,000. But that’s not how the flu mortality is counted by the CDC, instead that add up deaths from both pneumonia and influenza. And that, I guess, makes sense since pneumonia is the worst thing that happens if someone gets the flu. And fly is not always tested. Anyway, what’s the number of deaths from pneumonia and flu during the 2017-18 flu season? More than 111,000 (starting from the 48th week in 2017 to the 18th week in 2018). That’s the number that deaths from coronavirus should be compared to. Yes, the 2017-18 flu season was bad, but it wasn’t the end of the world.
“pneumonia is the worst thing that happens if someone gets the flu”
Not a scientist, but I’ve read a lot of studies. I think the worst thing that happens to someone with a virus, is the secondary bacterial infections. It’s the secondary bacterial infections that kills people a lot of the time, not the virus itself.
Also, in the West, we have an aging population. You know, there are a LOT more older people than ever before. A lot of older people already have compromised immune systems because they have all sorts of other Western diseases, like diabetes, heart disease, etc, and they are old, which in itself weakens your immune system.
So, not sure if I’m alone in this thinking, but wouldn’t a virus kill a lot more people on avg if that society has 10 million people over the age of 80, than it would in a society in which people over 80 was a rarity? Like 100 years ago?
Just a thought, appreciate anyone else who has an opinion on this.
Compared to about 3 million deaths annually, not too serious.
Thousands of foreign tourists leaving Cuba before border closure.
Why would they leave the best health care system in the world???
Sure they do. It’s why the Kung Flu death rate is 2x higher in Cuba than it is in the US, despite the fact that no one goes to Cuba, unlike the USA. Also, why haven’t they given the world that cancer cure that the media proclaimed they had back during the Obama admin?
I saw a press outlet making a big deal about a team of Cuban doctors arriving in Italy. They might be recalling that bunch pretty soon it sounds like.
How about a Cholorquine song?
This is the most obvious candidate for Official “Shelter-in-Place” song.
Not this?
Don Brown on guitar, ladies and gentlemen: Hernando MS at your service
Good ‘un! We used to medley that with this. (We did a fair number of…unusual medleys.)
Love that song. Funny that it’s about closing a nightclub and a no cruising law. Sounds so serious and strong, like the clarion call of generation. Just pissed that Johnny law won’t let them party on the sunset strip. Actually might be the single best song for today’s panicdemic, after all.
Wow! Would never have guessed that backstory. IIRC, I heard that Sandman was about Vietnam vets (or currently enlisted?) afraid to go to sleep because of their nightmares.
Thanks for that. I hadn’t heard it in for-fucking-ever. Captures the earlier seventies perfectly.
I thought maybe you would go with this?
https://youtu.be/KFq4E9XTueY
companion song.
Following the earlier links, I stumbled across some Skunk Baxter greatness, but that involved one of the columns in The Spreadsheet that I didn’t want to divide the Glibertariat over tonight, so some other night, maybe.
My submission:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Opzq-hxYgfE
Hey Everybody! Just got back from an Adventure, and I found this when i got home, nifty,
https://www.wunderground.com/wundermap?covid=1&lat=35.11&lon=-114.6&cm_ven=covid-map
W underground?
You’re pals with Ayers ?
I like my weather close up
Our strength.
Dumb question for you IT pros: why does this link open in the same tab (20%), but some open in a new tab (80%). I’m too lazy to right click open in new tab on all of them.
That, coupled with the new tendency to erase the new comments marker, leads me to right click and open in a new tab every time.
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It kind of mystifies me too. This one opens in a new tab for me. The images that are hosted on glibs almost always open in the same window. I think it’s a combination of WordPress configuration and browser settings.
It’s a browser setting. So if you’re doing it in the same browser all the time, it should always open in the same way, tab or new window, whichever you have it set at for that browser.
I get asked this question A LOT.
Or if it doesn’t open in a new tab or new window, it’s because the dev didn’t include target=”_blank” in the hyperlink. Which is something I always do. Although, you can still right click and force it to open how you want it to.
Which do you all prefer? Not that I’ll change.
New Window. Always. I hate tabs. There gets to be too many of them very quickly.
Exact opposite of Hyperion. I think tabbed browsing is one of the greatest advancement in browsers. If you want to start a new window, you can always drag a tab off the browser and onto the desktop to open it in a new window. Or right click and “New Window” instead of New Tab”.
I’ve had left-click not open the same way all the time in the same browser. Which is how I got to the middle-click option I mention above. So, I’m thinking Part II or your explanation must be the real problem…?
Can’t remember if I set this setting or if it’s an automatic thing, but [middle click] opens in a new tab 100%.
‘splain boots please?
Should’ve had them stomping on a face forever, but my skills be limited.
On neck?
Thank you. Figured glibs would get the reference.
Boots on the ground?
Oh man, what a day, what a week, what a month. Had to call the police earlier or it would’ve turned into an ugly situation with a couple methheads I kicked out my parents laundrymat. I avoid doing that at all costs, but the one crazy bitch had a six inch knife and I wasn’t looking to get into a knife fight and they were both unhinged and not listening to reason.
Just had an apartment manager who is on the best of days a nut totally lose his shit and start throwing things out his apartment and raving that he was gonna die. Just finished that job and I’m heading back home. And I was attempting not to drink tonite after overdoing it far too many nights these past crazy weeks.
Yikes! Do whatever you need to do to unwind from that!
it’s not about NEED!!!! why would anyone NEED a concussion grenade?
*watches news*
Are. you kidding?
Lo siento.
Go ahead and have a drink, you’ve earned it!
Jesus. It’s time to flee the area you live in.
I’m having a drink for/with you.
Snyder or Furley type?
Thanks guys. Appreciate it. How many murders, suicides and abused kids is this frigging virus panic going to precipitate? I’m an extremely stable (not quite genius) person. If you are already not playing with a full deck or have violent tendencies this hysteria is going to push a lot of those types over the edge.
Hantavirus. No. Just no.
https://nypost.com/2020/03/24/man-who-died-on-bus-in-china-tests-positive-for-hantavirus/
Hantavirus is very rare. Nothing to worry about at all.
Oh, it’s not the virus, or any virus for that matter, that I worry about.
Yeah, that was the top story earlier today. SMDH. The NYPost is in constant freakout mode like every other rag.
There goes my weekend.
“Kids, we need to talk for a moment about Krusty Brand Chew Goo Gum Like Substance. We all knew it contained spider eggs, but the hanta virus? That came out of left field. So if you’re experiencing numbness and/or comas, send five dollars to antidote, PO box……”
Greta.
https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1242531637340049409
HOW DARE IT GET HER SICK
All the News That’s Fit to Ptint
Man faces terror charges after coughing on grocery store worker
This about sums it up- “We will not take any non-compliant behavior,” Murphy warned.
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy had previously expressed anger at reports of people ignoring his stay-at-home order.
“We will not take any non-compliant behavior,” Murphy warned.
Oh, so a shoot to kill order on people seen outside? What an ass.
Respect my authoritah.
https://nypost.com/2020/03/24/coronavirus-turning-point-in-us-will-be-earlier-than-predicted-nobel-laureate-says/
A scientist using actual science?
Very similar to what Richard Epstein said in his interview with the Jacket last week.
BTW, I’m assuming you’re Tulip, no?
Tulip? I embarrassed myself for nothing? Usually I have a reason to embarrass myself.
Gray cat. Just a guess.
Huh? What? I was at the neighbors having a social distancing happy hour?
Straff thought our new Tulpette might be you in disguise because the avatar is a gray cat.
Sorry to disappoint, I am neither Tulip nor Tulpa.
That’s exactly what Tulpa would say.
Am now eying her with suspicion. I am married to her…
but Tulpa is an expert sockpuppeteer.
Okay, now “she” is laughing at my jokes. Something is very wrong here. Imma wait till she falls asleep and check for zippers.
A terroristic threat is a too much but the guy was acting like a twat and it’s not surprising that they charged him with something.
I concur, however making the process the punishment is too much. In that case I’d settle for 5 minutes out back with a baton (ideally wielded by whomever he coughed on) and everyone goes home.
I’m so proud of my wife. Despite having a progressive bent, she can sense when things are going to far. When I said at dinner tonight that COVID-19 has sure brought out the authoritarian streak in people, she agreed whole-heartedly. As one of three county supervisors, she will try to keep things sane here, if she can. She’s not convinced the county even has the authority to lock things down unilaterally; she also is one to go by the book and not usurp powers that aren’t there. Of course state rules would override those in the county, and she can’t do much about that.
Keep trying to turn her to Teh Dark Side (of Liberty).
She’s part way there already, thank goodness.
When Tres Sr and wife moved into a place with an HOA, step-Mom immediately got herself on the board.
“this way we can handle things from the inside!”
Diabolical.
That warms my cold, black, little heart.
The progressives and their media allies are doing everything possible to force Reynolds into a lock-down – yesterday’s press conference showed their true colors. Iowans are rule-followers when they see the logic. I do see problems here in Ames with the entitled, government, Boomer-class, who despite special shopping hours at many locations are doing what they want, when they want. Likewise, the “red truck” government workers at ISU seem to enjoy meeting in parking lots.
Our college has the most stringent lock-down on campus — nobody can go to work unless it is vital to preserve equipment, etc. Some other colleges at least allow you to go in if you stay away from others as much as possible.