A silly place
I am starting to think this planet is a bit messed up…once you go through the links, you will see what I mean.
- Nobody escapes from
Devil’s IslandJapan! “Japanese law does not allow suspects to have their lawyers present during questioning by prosecutors. Once charged, defendants are often refused bail by courts before trial.” - Dang…guess elections have (health) consequences.
- Looks like it is going to be a lot harder to be prosperous on The Bosporus! I miss the old days of having 1,000,000 lira notes…looks like I might not have to in the near future.
- Lest we get cocky, we still have Bernie. Just go away, you hateful and envious old crap-sack.
Convinced?
A First by any other name would smell as sweet.
So, still like sewage.
^
Cast your stones. Your persecution will make my deliverance on judgement day all the sweeter.
Are you expecting to die soon? Did you catch the China Virus? Something horrible happen?
Not really. Those links all talked about humans. The planet seems to be fine.
Pedant alert.
That’s not news.
No, it’s just an alert. Pffft.
You’re supposed to disable extra alerts so as to not drown out important alerts with chaff.
We have a constant running battle here about “alarm fatigue”: What bed/device alarms should be left on/turned off. At one point, they turned on all the available alarms as a demo, and apparently there were multiple alarms going off simultaneously.
Naturally, whenever we get sued, the fact that we turned some alarms off is Proof We Want To Kill Granny ™.
Doesn’t everybody want to kill Granny?
It’s a big problem in industrial control systems / HMI as well.
Think Homer Simpson’s dippy bird pressing the ACK button repeatedly.
That overlaps with my area – I’m the “monitoring guy”, and I try and beat the mantra into people:
– Is it urgent?
– Is it actionable?
– Is it real?
https://sre.google/sre-book/monitoring-distributed-systems/
Obviously, alarms at a hospital can’t be automated away (mostly?) and can’t be limited to “novel problems”, but I suspect parts of that otherwise apply.
These are all the alarms in patient rooms.
Is it urgent? Probably.
Is it actionable? Probably.
Is it real? Probably.
None of that matters when everybody just ignores the alarms because there’s too damn many of them. Why, its almost like an Iron Law in action:
When everything is a priority, nothing is a priority.
That’s . . . true, actually.
I have it on good authority that the planet will be be dead in another 20 years or so.
2 weeks
Will Lou Reed be dead then too?
Republic of Congo opposition leader and presidential candidate Guy-Brice Parfait Kolelas died of COVID-19 a day after the country went to the polls to choose its new leader, officials say.
That has to be some kind of record.
Doesn’t say whether or not he won, though.
Who’s counting the votes?
Yeah, I noticed that. I should go into journalisming.
It was the custard that did it.
“…Guy-Brice Parfait Kolelas…”
His nickname was…Peanut Buster Parfait
Thank god you specified the type of nut.
Elon should just ask Bernie if he’s still sore from the DNC rape of his nethers.
If there is anyone with the moral authority to call Bernie a vampire/leech/whatever, it is Musk. He has taken outrageous risks with SpaceX. He is entitled to outrageous rewards.
Disclaimer: I am well aware of the subsidies for Tesla and Solar City.
“Lest we get cocky, we still have Bernie. Just go away, you hateful and envious old crap-sack.”
I hate them both equally. People around here seem to forget Musk has a built a lot of his recent fortune off of government subsidization.
” around here seem to forget Musk has a built a lot of his recent fortune off of government subsidization.”
Hate the game, not the playah?
I have enough hate to hate both.
Some of that (not all) is worth it to provoke….reactions.
I forgive a lot of his failings due to his space aspirations.
Did he lobby for them? If not, then I honestly don’t have much objection.
In the game of government subsidization, Bernie wins.
Ya, no shit. Mutherfukker has never had a job outside of government.
He made a movie once, right? Just like that asshat fuck in GA, right? Two useless pieces of shit in the most powerful legislative body on earth. I’m starting to lean toward the GD America.
I will not allow you to besmirch a fellow carpenter, MutherFukker probably spent weeks in a real job.
Bernie was to carpenters what you are to intelligent, good faith arguments.
Go first yourself.
I want to see pay stubs and talk to his former boss. He was probably fired just like he was hucked out of the commune for being a lazy fuck.
You know as well as I that real carpenters work for cash, under the table, no pay stubs, never heard of the guy.
Money making idea for those of us in blue urban areas
https://twitter.com/northexpedition/status/1374042021581754369
LOL
The hero we need.
Zip guns!
flood the zone, get rid of automatic fire 2×4’s
I wonder if the weapons are required to be combustion, or can I build a cheap marshmallow air gun and sell that for $200?
Hairspray-powered marshmellow cannon.
You are harshing my mallow, dude.
“Space travel is an exciting idea, but right now we need to focus on Earth and create a progressive tax system so that children don’t go hungry, people are not homeless and all Americans have healthcare,”
Fuck. Off. Commie. Cunte.
The level of inequality in America is obscene and a threat to our democracy.”
That’s quite a leap. Like blasting off, even.
The inequality in this country is so bad that Americans below the poverty line are living better lives than the average person in nearly every other country.
Perhaps Mr. Sanders would like to explain why the trillions of dollars we’ve thrown at people who still can’t figure out how to take care of themselves (but can) haven’t solved the problem.
I suspect Bernie thinks Musk and the like just have big piles of money they swim around in, like Scrooge McDuck.
Did anyone tell Dandruff Stalin we HAVE a “Progressive” tax code?
a progressive tax system so that children don’t go hungry, people are not homeless and all Americans have healthcare
A tax system addresses none of those issues. Since we have zero qualms about issuing trillions in debt, I’m thinking you can’t really even blame them on lack of spending (resulting from lack of tax revenue).
It’s almost like you can’t control what people do with their money on the individual level.
Or what they do with *my* money.
I have a feeling that people like Sanders are a large part of why Musk wants to get TF off this planet. Everything he is doing, including Tesla and the solar stuff, is aimed at building a real workable colony on Mars.
I’m no Musk fanboy in the sense of those who hang on his every word and think he can do no wrong, but I think he’s doing the right things, and I want to see more like him. There’s even a real chance that we’ll be seeing actual colonization in a reasonable time frame, which we never would have if access to space were solely the realm of governments.
I really fear what might happen when it becomes clear that a Mars colony could succeed and escape the grasp of the current powers of the earth (see what I did there).
I have good eyes but its hard to see what you did from 165 million miles away.
Even harder to stop me from doing it at that distance.
Spooky…
This is one of the themes behind the Expanse. Mars wanted to break away from the United Nations led Earth and were on the brink of war until the Martians allowed the Epstein Drive to be sold to the Earthers which expanded humanity’s reach in the Solar System.
I agree, with Mars colonization it wouldn’t be as easy as “I’m walking West and you fucks can fuck off” that our forefathers in America had it.
Still think how much of a drain it would be on Earth if the pioneers left for Mars. And once all the neer-do-wells had left, how much worse it would be back here. You know the Karen’s would be telling everyone “If you don’t like wearing a mask, why don’t you just go to Mars?”
It’s not as easy to leave it all and get to Mars, but the corollary is that it’s also not easy to send thither Swarms of Officers to harass the People, and eat out their Substance.
I already know that story, it’s a good one….
“colonization”
Who is responsible for delivering the smallpox blankets to the Martians?
The U.S. State Department rejected the torture claim as unlikely
I like the forced confession part of this article.
I’m not a huge Musk fan, but I’d love to see him challenge the worthless old commie to build one Tesla in a 24-hour period.
A Falcon 9.
Just challenge him to chop some wood, tote a few gallons of water and make supper. Bernie was kicked out of a commune for being too lazy. A full slate of chores like the ones I proposed would send him to the fainting couch.
Musk for all of his crony capitalism does produce shit while Sanders never produced a goddamn thing in his life. For all of his wisdom about how the corporations are evil and how we should redistribute wealth, if you threw a balance sheet or an P&L Statement in front of this asshole, it would be like trying to read the Navajo language.
That’s something that always irked me about the Political Science majors in college. They all had these grand schemes built out of how they would build society and how the corporations and wealthy would pay for it all but couldn’t even tell you the difference between revenue and profit.
What I think about Musk’s crony capitalism is that he’s playing the game, not for profit, but to eventually get out of the game, and help others get out of that game as well. It’s a play on the “capitalists selling us the rope we will use to hang them)–use the cronyist status quo to finance the escape from cronyism.
My father in law was a General Counsel for a major manufacturing company in Northeast Ohio and told me once that his company had to hire lobbyists for Columbus and DC because if not their competitors would have an advantage but also politicians will send regulators to hassle you until you buckled and played the game.
I presume the dead presidential candidate in Congo didn’t win.
Yet. Didn’t win yet.
Unity, healing, etc.
The federal prosecutor who oversaw the Justice Department’s investigation into a Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol said that some rioters may be charged with attempting to overthrow the government.
Michael Sherwin appeared on “60 Minutes” on Sunday, two days after he stepped down from leading the investigation into the riot. He left open if former President Donald Trump is expected to face charges related to the riot. Earlier this month, Sherwin stepped back from his post as acting U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C., for a replacement picked by the Biden administration.
Sherwin told “60 Minutes” host Scott Pelley that from what the he saw leading the investigation, he expects at least some of the rioters arrested following the storming of the Capitol to be charged with sedition.
“I personally believe the evidence is trending toward that, and probably meets those elements,” Sherwin said. “I believe the facts do support those charges. And I think that, as we go forward, more facts will support that.”
If there were any facts supporting sedition charges, they would have been leaked already. There’s no there there, you lying cunts.
Go ahead, charge them with sedition. Then we can move on to charging with treason all members of Congress and other government employees who have violated their oaths of office.
I still don’t get the whole “sedition” thing, and hopefully if it comes to it, it will be impossible to prove. Is there a part of the Constitution that says if you occupy the capital, you are in charge? Or were they supposedly there to kill and/or kidnap members of Congress? What with their dozens of guns, zero of which were confiscated.
he expects at least some of the rioters arrested following the storming of the Capitol to be charged with sedition.
Remember not a year ago when pretty much anyone who understood American history regarded the Alien and Sedition Acts as a national disgrace?
I haven’t changed. The world has just gone insane.
^ This. In the AM linx, I posted that 5 years ago, if you said, “I think election integrity is important and we should investigate any funny business to make sure people are confident in the system”, nobody would bat an eye. But say that now, and you’re a white supremacist and can get banned from social media.
Let me ratchet up expectations now that I don’t have to deliver on them!
Throw on charges of Logan Act violations for good measure.
I ended up on this article after clicking around in the Bernie NYpost story…
The “Billionaires Aren’t Liquid” Argument is BS
Lombard credits are bank loans that are backed by pledged assets, mostly securities or life insurance policies. Banks require that the securities pledged be “readily marketable.” In the case of most billionaires, the stocks they own fall under this category, but let’s be real: when you’re a billionaire, there isn’t much a banker wouldn’t do. Since it is backed by assets and therefore rather safe, a Lombard credit usually bears a low-interest rate.
Debt financed wealth tax, what could go wrong?
Why did you follow a medium link? You had to know what you’d find.
I’m afraid to click through – I suspect I will be dumber for having read that.
I can’t wait to see the Bee’s take on that Bernie/Musk feud.
Rule Britannia something something.
Dr Mary Ramsey claimed on Sunday that social distancing and other practices like wearing a face-covering would go on for “quite a long period of time”.
“People have got used to those lower-level restrictions now, and people can live with them, and the economy can still go on with those less severe restrictions in place.
“So I think certainly for a few years, at least until other parts of the world are as well vaccinated as we are, and the numbers have come down everywhere, that is when we may be able to go very gradually back to a more normal situation,” Dr Ramsey said, according to the BBC.
“We have to look very carefully before any of these restrictions are lifted,” she added.
t least until other parts of the world
Don’t be bashful, Mary. Just come right out and say the restrictions will remain until your Chinese masters give you the all clear.
^This.
We need to wear them until we have been beaten down enough to not protest the next step.
I don’t even know what the next step is yet, but we’ll be told it is necessary because of variants and we’ll all go along with it.
Always moving the goalposts, those people. First it was two weeks to flatten the curve, now it’s until every Khalahari bushman and uncontacted Amazonian tribesman is vaxxed.
“We are in a moment in American history where two guys — Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos — own more wealth than the bottom 40 [percent] of people in this country,” Sanders tweeted on Thursday. “That level of
Bernie has never heard of entropy, I guess.
[insert disclaimer regarding the fine-tuning of inheritance taxes and estate law]
We should really do something about that Rockefeller guy.
Unclear How Bad Mass Shooting Is Until Authorities Release Details Of Everyone’s Skin Color
Happiest Place On Earth Bans All Expressions Of Happiness
Study: Majority Of Americans Grossly Overestimated COVID-19 Hospitalization Rates
Very similar to the survey on police shootings. Yet, the people who mention the real numbers are guilty of “misinformation”.
What do you expect when messaging was atrocious and getting accurate data from our betters was like trying to get OMWC to leave the day-care center? Couple that with a media all too happy to display death trackers on their websites, you end up with a woefully uninformed populace.
I find the reporting funny. Even in a story where the only actual data say liberals overestimate the virus more than conservatives, they focus on conservatives “underestimating” the virus (with no data).
Propaganda works.
“Space travel is an exciting idea, but right now we need to focus on Earth and create a progressive tax system so that children don’t go hungry, people are not homeless and all Americans have healthcare,” Sanders said in response to Musk’s tweet. “The level of inequality in America is obscene and a threat to our democracy.”
tl;dr- “We’re not done fucking this planet up.”
Dumbasses, you always establish an escape plan before going scorched earth.
That’s what he fears. Can you imagine how he’ll screech when Elon Musk lands the first colony ship on Mars and tells the US, UN, etc, to fuck off?
What a glorious day that will be.
I’ll be in my space bunk.
I don’t know what Bernie is griping about. The last “stimulus” bill is basically UBI for breeders!
Damn white supremacists, capitalist shitlords just dumping kids on the front lawn of these poor single women! They could at least dump healthy ones and not defects that cost extra.
I know what you are saying, a tax credit just hits at the end of the year. Not this one!
I’m glad we’re back to paying poor people to have more kids.
You know that shit is going to become permanent.
Let’s see if those dummies will fall for the “vote for me and I’ll send you a $2000 check” trick again!
They should name it the Hunter Biden Baby Mama Tax Credit of 2021. It’s an honor!
Concord, NH closes schools
The Concord School District abruptly canceled school on Monday after a flood of teachers and other district staffers called in sick one day after many received the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine.
Parents in the SAU 8 district received phone calls, emails, and text messages notifying them there would not be school at just before 6:30 a.m. The alerts stated it was due to the level of teacher absenteeism across the district. The decision was made as principals began fielding calls from educators early on Monday that they were sick.
School Superintendent Kathleen Murphy said the closure was more than just teachers though — many staffers, including district office employees, also got shots Sunday, and reported adverse reactions to them.
“It was related to vaccine shots,” she said of Monday’s school closure. “We received notice from a number of staff, teachers, education assistants, and district staff who we were sick, so we were unable to open school in a safe manner.”
This happened in our district. One day off. Then back to work.
They could’ve staggered the vaccines, but then they’d have to delay the opening overall.
The current hospitalization rate for COVID-related illness in the United States hovers between 1 and 5 percent, but 41 percent of Democrats, 28 percent of Republicans, and 35 percent of independents or members of other political parties said there is a 50-plus percent chance that someone with the Wuhan virus will need to be treated at a hospital.
Why would they overestimate the number so badly?
It’s a conundrum.
Worth reading…
“The Campaign of Lies Against Journalist Jesse Singal—And Why It Matters”
https://quillette.com/2021/03/18/the-campaign-of-lies-against-journalist-jesse-singal-and-why-it-matters/
Seconded. It’s a good read.
I think my favorite part is all of the twidiots listed in the picture – substack authors I have never read and likely never would, even under the most generous description of their ‘work’.
If Musk can start the process of getting humans into space colonization, I’m for it.
We may need a back-up planet or so in case things don’t work out on this one.
He is building the transportation infrastructure. He knows people who can afford to pay their own way. The moon, while more practical in some respects, is too close. The cost of training and deploying troops to Mars to quash the colonial rebellion will be…astronomical.
“Get yoah ahs to Mahs!”
I don’t think there’s any real value to space colonization.
That hasn’t always stopped colonizers in the past.
Antarctica is at least 1000x more habitable than Mars and remains unoccupied but for research purpose.
There are huge differences in both exploitable value and travel time in the pre colonial Americas vs Mars.
Rendering the environment even as livable as the harshest conditions on Earth would take inconceivable investment and new technologies for a place that has nothing of value is not close enough for economic exchange using any conceivable means of transportation.
The Earth really doesn’t face an existential threat from climate change and — contrary to the Expanse — it will never be close to overpopulated.
It is really impossible to even conceive of right now anyone living on Mars except to gather research.
Maybe some day some new technologies will make it worth consideration, but Elon Musk is really just a popular goofball with multiple companies that are built on houses of cards if you ask me.
I think we will be many generations dead before anyone truly is ready to colonize Mars, if ever.
Mars isn’t (officially) claimed by various nations that have pretty effective told everyone else “hands off” and is far enough away that if a sustaining colony could be planted (which is a big if, I grant) that said Terran governments can’t do much about it.
I don’t doubt that if Antarctica wasn’t effectively a Trans-National Park someone would have tried to exploit resources on it… and that someone else would have set up a shop to sell stuff to that someone, etc.
“The Earth really doesn’t face an existential threat from climate change and — contrary to the Expanse — it will never be close to overpopulated.”
I was thinking more in terms of a scenario where a really big war breaks out and some countries use their nastiest weapons – nukes, bio, whatever else they have up their sleeve.
But I will allow that I, personally, do not have the imagination to envision how massive colonization could be accomplished in the near future.
+1 The Expanse
Such a great show. 20x better and more realistic than Star Trek.
I’m enjoying the hell out of it.
True, but I don’t think realism was the gist of the original. Each show was a standalone theme.
I didn’t see it mentioned, yet:
Foochy is soon to be the subject of a children’s book. If anybody deserves deserves a hagiography in simple words and short sentences, it’s Foochy.
You’ll have to find the link on your own. It’s too nauseating to look at a second time.
“There once was a petty tyrant maned Tony. Tony lied about AIDS. Tony lied about masks. He lied about contact and vax. Do as I say, not as I do, Tony cried. All the while, Granny died.”
What? You used “vax” and never rhymed it with “tax”?
This is why I don’t write children’s books.
Lets see…
“There once was a petty tyrant maned Tony. Tony lied about AIDS. Tony lied about masks. He lied about contact and vax. ‘We can fix it all with more spending and tax!’ Do as I say, not as I do, Tony cried. All the while, Granny died.”
Do you have a link to that?
Death to Foochy?
*waves*
Hi, Preet!
Preet’s an Edward Norton fan? Who knew… 😉
I don’t even know what the next step is yet, but we’ll be told it is necessary because of variants and we’ll all go along with it.
Mao Suits. With gps tracking capability.
Don’t forget the teledildonics built into seat of the Mao suit, so they can literally rape you based on social credit algorithms.
Let’s not give them ideas, though I would imagine that they’ve thought of much worse.
STEVE SMITH suit?
Mandatory vaccines and vaccine passports.
This came up during today’s company “Town Hall”. They, at least, were pretty clear that they won’t mandate that we become guinea pigs.
Of course, I still refuse to enter the office if masks are required. I am not talking on the phone all day with a damp piece of cloth strapped to my face.
Spice up your cornhole fun.
Hey now!
Sorry, Sean, but I don’t go in for these backdoor shenanigans.
(Partial) quote from the website:
“Booze really DOES go to your head! Drunken behaviour including slurring and staggering is caused by alcohol changing chemicals in the BRAIN and not the liver”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9389449/Drunken-behaviour-caused-alcohol-breakdown-products-produced-BRAIN-not-liver.html
No shit.
A sobering discovery.
I’m going to need more proof before I believe it
My research is inconclusive. More funding is needed… for study… and days off.
*Mass narrowed gaze*
Those Daily Mail stories are intoxicating.
Eh, they always seem to gin up questionable content.
I was going to go with a gin joke too, but you beat me to the punch because I was too sloe
Junipersonally, I get left behind sometimes too. Don’t feel bad.
You guys are so cuke-y.
I’ll be here around supper time, with my can of dinner and a bunch of lies!
Got to the morning lynx too late to respond to Banjo’s admonition to be the squirrel.
Maybe it’s just me, but the photo on that page instantly reminded me of this.
Enactment of Tonio’s labor
*repayment to edit fairy
Once again, being a writer for the Bee couldn’t be an easier job.
I’d be all for Minnesoda’s proposed bill to spend $457M to end systemic racism if they promised that once spent we would all agree that it worked and no one could ever talk about systemic racism again.
So there smarty pants! You can’t explain how not throwing money out the window isn’t a great idea!
Although, I might have to look into this guy as a write in vote from now on
“no one could ever talk about systemic racism again”
That’s what they said about electing Obama.
If you divide up that lump of money amongst the reported black people in Minnesoda, it is about $1600 per person. Round it up. You get a one time $2K check but from then on there will be no affirmative action carve outs, no minority owned business set asides, no lower admission scores for schools etc.
Maybe a better approach would be similar to the programs that pay kids to attend high school. Embrace the idea of paying people to meet basic minimums that everyone should be able to do on their own.
“We’ll pay every white person $500 every month that they don’t discriminate against minorities!”
“… there will be no affirmative action carve outs, no minority owned business set asides, no lower admission scores for schools etc.”
That’s adorable.
Yeah, the reparations proponents have already said, in no uncertain terms they consider reparations just the beginning. And I guess it makes sense, in a way. If you’ve discovered your target is an easy mark, why stop with just one shakedown?
“Once you have paid him the Danegeld
You never get rid of the Dane”
Racism never ends. Like sin, it’s never ending but there is no savior coming.
In other words, fat chance on that.
#StopAsianHate rally in Concord, NH
A diverse crowd attended a #StopAsianHate rally outside the State House to demand justice for the victims of recent shootings at massage businesses and to denounce racism, xenophobia and misogyny.
A few hundred people of all ages and varied racial and ethnic backgrounds gathered at the NH Solidarity rally with members of the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community in Concord, listening to speakers and waving signs.
The event was organized by the NH Asian American Pacific Islander Caucus of the NH Democratic Party in conjunction with the Kent Street Coalition.
Waitwaitwait….
Are there even Asians in Concord?
Yes
I always figured all the Asians in NH, like all the blacks, were up at Dartmouth.
Here is my theory – These gain ground because people feel they want to be part of something. Media and Government is all too happy to facilitate because if people stop chasing these pet issues, the people might actually turn their gaze towards the Capitol in a much more serious manner that would made the Grand Insurrection of 2021 look like the Boston Tea Party.
Keep them chasing laser points and you never really have to worry.
I hope they invited the presidents of Harvard and Yale.
Asians really should stop hating.
Oh MY!
Oh, the Babylon Bee.
I mean, I totally knew it was satire. I was just checking to see if anyone else knew.
Who can tell anymore?
Andrew has his own air force base?
Magistrate to rule on bail for Free Keene leader
A U.S. magistrate is expected to rule soon on a bail request by Free Keene leader Ian Freeman, who faces federal money laundering, fraud and conspiracy charges in connection with a Bitcoin-dollar exchange system.
Freeman has accessed $1.66 million worth of Bitcoin and had $178,000 in cash in his safe when his house was raided by federal authorities last week, prosecutors said on Friday.
Federal prosecutors also said Freeman has access to gold, silver, and possibly other liquid assets and cryptocurrencies. Freeman — who faces eight felony charges including money laundering, wire fraud and conspiracy — could tap those assets and use them to flee if a judge releases him on bail, prosecutors warned.
What That Other Site didn’t seem to realize is that “abolishing cash bail and replacing it with a holistic blah blah” is, in some cases, going to mean “hold him without bail.” The commenters warned about this, IIRC.
WSJ headline:
Biden Administration Officials Put Together $3 Trillion Economic Plan
*paywalled
“Priming the pump here, Boss.”
We’re so fucked.
No, we’ll pay that back. We only have to put a small tax surcharge on the Kulaks and hoarders.
That printing machine and going brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
As someone pointed out, at this point they’re using that money to buy more printing machines, to print more money, to buy more machines, to print more money…
an oldie but a goodie.
North Country Hospital consortium warns of second health crisis
Because patients are delaying or missing medical visits and testing during the pandemic, the head of the North Country’s three-hospital consortium is warning about the “next health-care crisis” coming as soon as 2022.
On Thursday during a Zoom conference, Tom Mee, the CEO of North Country Healthcare — which is composed of Androscoggin Valley Hospital in Berlin, Upper Connecticut Valley Hospital in Colebrook, Weeks Medical Center in Lancaster and North Country Home Health and Hospice Agency in Littleton — touted his organization’s pandemic response, including a heated, drive-in vaccine clinic at UCVH.
But he also echoed concerns voiced in New Hampshire and the U.S. about what Bloomberg.com in a Feb. 9 article by Emma Court called a “shadow health crisis” created by COVID-19.
“I don’t know when the bubble is going to burst but it is coming,” said Mee, adding that “we’re one to two years away” from hospitals in Coos County seeing an influx “that could have been prevented” of people with advanced, chronic health conditions.
Related: Fast Food consortium warns of new hunger crisis.
However, this guy isn’t totally wrong that the shutdowns have created potentially more health problems.
I know of two deaths from delayed care, and that just the ones I know about at my hospital.
a “shadow health crisis” created by COVID-19.
“I don’t know when the bubble is going to burst but it is coming,” said Mee, adding that “we’re one to two years away” from hospitals in Coos County seeing an influx “that could have been prevented” of people with advanced, chronic health conditions.
A “shadow health crisis” that people were warning about nine months ago. I guess they see the COVID funding drying up and need a new excuse to suckle on the government teat. That said, I’m not sure they’ve been given much choice. A hospital system that told the authorities to bugger off and continued providing healthcare as needed probably would have gotten screwed by the government for doing so.
Not probably would have been screwed. Absolutely would have been screwed. And the biggest part of the problem is the TMITE panic- people with heart attacks and strokes weren’t even coming to the ED.
I’m tired of wokism. Can we play a few classics? I miss the simpler days of Climate Change.
Maybe I’m old fashioned, but intersectionality and systemic racism doesn’t hold a candle to basic “WE’RE ALL GOING TO BURN TO DEATH” alarmism. And no Climate Change advocate ever made me wear a mask.
Of course all this will just raise prices and hurt employment which will hurt those at the lower end of the wage scale thereby exacerbating income inequality, which the same people claim to care about. But they’ll just blame it on racist capitalism when their policies have the obvious consequences.
Tax cheats
More than 20% of the wealthiest Americans’ income isn’t being reported to the Internal Revenue Service, according to a new study that calculates U.S. tax evasion is far higher than previously estimated.
Random audits of the rich can detect some tax evasion, but the study’s authors found that the IRS easily misses income hidden in sophisticated ways, including in private businesses and offshore structures. Collecting all unpaid income tax from the top 1% would boost revenue to the U.S. Treasury by $175 billion a year.
“We stress that our estimates are likely to be conservative with regard to the overall amount of evasion at the top,” the authors wrote.
While many forms of income, including wages, are automatically reported to the IRS and easily uncovered in a basic audit, the profits of private businesses and complex investment partnerships are harder to track.
The hidden income at the top means that income and wealth inequality could be more skewed than researchers have previously estimated, the authors concluded. The study was conducted by two IRS researchers, John Guyton and Patrick Langetieg, and three professors: Daniel Reck of the London School of Economics, Max Risch of Carnegie Mellon University, and Gabriel Zucman of the University of California at Berkeley.
Obviously, a business owner should be taxed on gross receipts at prevailing statutory rates for ordinary income. Anything else is illicit tax evasion.
And all these uber rich are filling out their own tax returns using Quicken’s online tax software. No way they would hire several very smart accountants to structure things to avoid paying taxes. Why some of those accountants might even be smart enough to snag a job working at the IRS for a govt salary!
I think when they say “hidden” they really mean, “really smart tax accountants sheltered money in completely legal means, but we really think it should belong to us anyhow”.
Geez, the ASIAN HATE freakout hasn’t even died down and already TMITE is ramping up the next freakout that appears in every outlet with nearly the same wording.
Gabriel Zucman: The Hidden Wealth of Nations: The Scourge of Tax Havens (1995) Doctoral Advisor: Thomas Picketty
Max Risch: Washington Center for Equitable Growth
The rest of the gang is as you’d predict. You’d think Bloomberg, an ostensibly business-oriented publication would be more skeptical They aren’t.
You would also think they wouldn’t conflate avoidance with evasion.
Avoision! https://frinkiac.com/caption/S07E15/376809
elections have (health) consequences.
I blame Westernslopper
…agreed.
Does Fourscore have an email we can send well wishes too? And maybe some nudie pics?
That’s not the type of wood I expect from you.
I set up a temp mail account for him when I was setting up his chromebook. Jack4by20@gmail.com. His other personal email would 100% dox him so you will have to weasel that out of him yourself.
I just got done talking to him (to ask if he wanted to hear from you miscreants) and he said that the hospital staff was talking like they were going to be booting him back home in the next 4-8 days.
I really don’t have much more to share because it had to be a quick call on my end. He was in good humor though and says he misses all of you (but agreed I was the nicest, handsomest and wittiest of all Glibs – excepting himself of course).
Tell him today’s First was in his honor. I don’t dedicate Firsts often.
Thanks!
“…nicest, handsomest and wittiest of all Glibs…”
You forgot to include “most modest” in that list.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYKWch_MNY0
Mammary Monday has tits-a-poppin’.
https://archive.li/0Phy4
“1/ More on this soon, but GLAAD has added me to an “accountability list” of anti-LGBT figures. They took misleading Twitter scuttlebutt and treated it as true. They also used a professional headshot even I’m only allowed to use in certain contexts.”
https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1374022087233404930
“GLAAD Took False, Previously Disproven Internet Scuttlebutt And Used It To Justify Putting Me On A List Of Anti-LGBT Bigots (Updated)”
https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/glaad-took-false-previously-disproven
The gays are making enemies lists now?
People who said gay weddings were a slippery slope were right.
LOL
The should add their own name to the bigot-list.
“A dead giveaway about how performative the outrage from the media and people like Jim Acosta over Trump’s term is how muted they are today that the Biden administration is stopping them from accessing the border camps.
No anchors on CNN or The View crying. No publicity stunts of touching and weeping at the wall. There are no Time Magazine covers. Biden has frozen out the media completely, and they are perfectly fine with it.
ABC sent a crew to broadcast outside and they all went apoplectic”
https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1374026122392825861
I told a friend that the worst thing that could happen to corporate news is if Trump lost the election.
You’d think Bloomberg, an ostensibly business-oriented publication would be more skeptical They aren’t.
Bloomberg hates for-profit business enterprises as much as he hates guns, apparently.
Previously-uncontroversial budget nominee turns out to be controversial after all as Republicans notice her zeal for subsidized abortions –
https://nypost.com/2021/03/11/deputy-omb-nominee-shalanda-young-links-abortion-to-racial-justice/
“Your 2021 Fever Dream | ℌ??? ????? Ep. 3”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAt3eqL4RpA
https://twitter.com/shoe0nhead/status/1373249383882498049
Shoe needs a white pill.
I think we all do.
Yep, whatever it is I am wiped out today. I took a covid screen to make my employer happy (or compliant).
They were testing us every other week for most of this time. Now, they are all about the shots in the arm. They have no plans to resume testing at all. I refused the early shots and probably will refuse all of them until they have the J&J version.
^This, J&J or nothing, and the Boss is on my ass to get shot,
Who’s your boss STEVE SMITH?
I got tossed at my county vaccine drive-through:
I refused to check a racial identity on their fucking form.
Girl Child has her driver’s license. It is time to send her out on little adventures of her own, to the grocery store, QuikTrip, to work, whatnot. She’s very nervous about driving by herself. Her internship is quite a ways away and always traffic-filled, so I don’t think she’s going to want to do that by herself for a looooooooooong while. She’ll probably finish before she does that drive by herself.
In April, the school is going to go to 4-day-a-week instruction OR all-virtual. I don’t know what that virtual day is supposed to do, unless COVID realizes it’s free to wander the halls on Wednesdays. The COVID KNOWS.
Congratulations!
I think she’ll be fine.
Maybe Wednesday is wipe-everything-down-with-Lysol day. Despite the fact that that’s been shown to be a waste of time.
I don’t know if fomite transmission has been disproven, just that it is less than they thought.
Very negligible risk, if any, from what I can tell.
We have cases of anti-death graft spray piling up. Damn, the evil is pervasive. $$$
My neighbor’s daughter across the street basically got robbed of her senior year of high school. Basically sat in class 2-3 days a week while the teachers weren’t present and had them look at videos on their iPad. What’s even more rage inducing is that a lot of the kids have suffered as a result of this terrible attempt at hybrid learning. 70 percent of our property taxes goes to the school district and they fucked the kids out of receiving any education.
And congrats on your daughter getting her license. It’s an exciting and huge passage of life.
Looks like Fish’s friend won his court case.
https://www.theblaze.com/news/virginia-restaurant-owner-defies-governor
The ruling was on a preliminary injunction, not on the merits/demerits of the case. There will be more court action unless the State decides to drop the case.
It’s a good sign and I am not a lawyer (nor do I even own a TV) , but I don’t think he’s won, just that he can stay open while the courts decide the case.
Re-reading the article I see that you are both correct.
Truth
I need to throw some money at this guy’s restaurant.
No comment how the government is unmoved over its deliberate destruction of people’s livelihoods.
We’ve entered an age where an NFL QB can’t even get a happy ending with his massages without being sued for it. What is the world coming to?
I blame that Georgia kid. Fucking black widower.
I don’t want to be First in this world anymore.
A firstistential Crisis?
Say it Ain’t So, Bro!
I don’t want to be First in this world anymore.
There’s a solution for that.
I’m not..fond…of psychiatrists.
Me either. I’ll bet most are just ill themselves.
Poor Dr. Chet.
I had some fun today forcing a prog to explain to me why Jews aren’t Asian.
This is why I’m universally hated.
Because Israel is in Asia?
Last I looked, yes.
they’re tyred of your babel ?
ABC News actually did some actual news. Yes, Biden’s election is causing the border crisis:
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/migrant-border-crossing-biden-elected-not-trump
Tried to find the Youtube video but everything that comes up are propaganda pieces on how the Biden administration really means business on the border.
Jews, Turks, Iranians, Arabians, etc are all technically Asians. That’s why I think it is silly that the term “oriental” got sidelined as an archaic, offensive term, when it literally means “from the east”, which is what most Americans mean when they say Asian – East Asians only. If I remember correctly the term “Asia” originally meant Anatolia specifically and the near east more generally, so if anything Middle Easterners have a greater claim to be called Asian than people of East Asian descent.
I didn’t think “Jew” was a nationality.
It was in the Soviet Union.
Jews are as Asian as Hungarians.
Aren’t both model minorities depending on which day you are asking, anyway?
You see, the question isn’t why DC should be the 51st state, the question is why isn’t DC a state already?
You will never in a million years guess the answer –
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/opinions-the-battle-against-dc-statehood-is-rooted-in-anti-black-racism/ar-BB1ePEC7
There’s a very amusing joke in the article – it says statehood would make the “D.C. government…completely independent from congressional rule.”
Like all the other state governments!
If the DC residents were really worried about representation they would request retrocession back to Maryland, like Alexandria did when it returned to Virginia. But that’s not what this is about, it’s a purely partisan play to get the Dems two more safe Senate seats. If this goes through, the Republicans (if they had a spine) should, if they ever get the government back, abolish the capitol and send every department and agency currently located in DC to a different state and hold Congressional sessions via zoom, with the requirement that all Congress critters live and work in the districts they represent.
If they go through with DC statehood, expect the Supremes to cave entirely out of fear that court packing is next. Then expect the court packing to follow, anyway.
Because as usual nothing has changed since 1950.
No leaving the UK
The document reads: “The Regulations also impose restrictions on leaving the United Kingdom without a reasonable excuse (regulation 8).”
According to the new law, no one can “leave England to travel to a destination outside the United Kingdom, or travel to, or be present at, an embarkation point for the purpose of travelling from there to a destination outside the United Kingdom” without a reasonable excuse.
The document also suggests that anyone caught flouting the rules could face a whopping £5,000 fine.
Currently, Britons who are looking to travel abroad – with a reasonable excuse – must fill in a travel declaration form.
Oh Albion! Fallen into the Sea at last.,…….
They don’t even need to build a wall. How cool is that?
“The king indeed, by his royal prerogative, may issue out his writ ne exeat regnum [not leave the kingdom], and prohibit any of his subjects from going into foreign parts without license. This may be necessary for the public service, and safeguard of the commonwealth.”
https://lonang.com/library/reference/blackstone-commentaries-law-england/bla-101/
Coming soon to a federal government near you
Hard to think of it as anything but pure tyranny.
Covid – land has made for some really note worthy divorces lately.
ABC News actually did some actual news. Yes, Biden’s election is causing the border crisis:
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/migrant-border-crossing-biden-elected-not-trump
Tried to find the Youtube video but everything that comes up are propaganda pieces on how the Biden administration really means business on the border.
RE: Bernie. Can’t we just air drop him into Cuba?
No, that’s too close.
Airdrop him into Norktopia. Much better.
There’s no rich people to tax in those countries who don’t work for the government. Bernie called for taxing the rich there he’d end up with his head on a spike.
I’m not seeing any downside.
Just wanted to recommend a very nifty take on any prospective social credit system. Pretty cute and a message I approve of.
Shit, my score just went down from reading that.
prosperous on The Bosporus!
This here deserves a narrowed gaze.
How about just a lazy eye?
So I’m writing out a “life’s housekeeping chores” list for XX TD. This is what I put under things to know about having one’s own car. Please tell me if I missed anything or am wrong:
Get a dashcam. Keep it on at all times you are in the car.
If you get pulled over by a cop:
*Point your dashcam at the driver’s window so you can record the encounter.
*Call me or daddy on speakerphone so we can listen to the encounter. We will not speak.
*Don’t do anything else until he arrives at your window.
*When he gets there, he will ask you if you know why he pulled you over. Say no. Don’t say anything else.
*He may or may not tell you why he pulled you over. He will ask you for your license, registration (the papers you got at the DMV and the inspection certificate), and proof of insurance.
*Gather those calmly and give them to him without saying anything.
*If he asks you questions about where you’re going and where you’ve been, answer politely and truthfully, but with as few words as possible. “Work.” “Mom and Dad’s house.” “Laundromat.” “Shopping.” Do not say “party” or “a friend’s house.” Say you were with us. We will back you up. Don’t give long explanations. Don’t chat.
*If he asks you to get out of the car, ask if you are being detained and why. Politely say, “I don’t feel comfortable doing that” and don’t move. If you have to play the scared-girl card, do so.
*If he asks to search your vehicle, politely say, “I would appreciate it if you got a warrant first.”
*Do not say anything else. Cops are not your friend. They will twist anything you say into something bad.
*If you are arrested, the only thing you are to say is, “I want an attorney.” Remember, you have the RIGHT to remain silent.
*Do not swear, do not raise your voice, do not volunteer information. If you can, start crying immediately. Don’t make a big production. Tears and sniffles will do.
If you are in an accident:
*Pull over out of traffic if you can.
*Greet the other person politely.
*Exchange insurance information.
*Cops may be involved. If they are, they know they’re there to control traffic and provide a report for the insurance companies, not to harass anybody.
*If cops are not involved, you will have to call the police station (non-emergency number) and make a report for the insurance companies.
*If you are at fault, you may get a ticket.
Hands on the wheel at ten and two, unless the cop asks you to hand them something.
Dammit. I had that in my mind and then it just went poof.
Alternately put your DL and POI and your lawyers business card in a zip lock bag, hang it out the window and then lock the doors put on your headphones and listen to the smooth jazz of mister Charles Mingus until they let you go or your lawyer shows up.
I knew a guy that always kept a half pint of Jack in his glove box. I saw it once and asked. He said that if he ever crashed or got pulled over while drunk, he’d jump out of the car, open it and drink it down in full view of cops/witnesses. Then, he’d claim his inebriation was caused by that and nothing prior. Never knew if he ever tried it, but I found it interesting.
My lay reaction would be “how drunk must he be that he thinks he can cover it up with more drinking”?
Girl privilege.
Work it.
Do not remove your seat belt. If you have to take off your belt to reach for documents tell the cop, “I’m taking off my seatbelt now” and wait for an acknowledgement.
Excellent, thank you.
I always put my paperwork on the dash before the cop gets to my window, then keep my hands on the wheel. That way, I don’t have to reach for the glove box to get the docs.
Imma just add, and bear in mind it takes some degree of skill, it’s best to act like he’s just a normal person until it becomes apparent that he’s gunning for you. Talk about meaningless things that have nothing to do with any traffic violations, but convey a sense of equality between you. The weather or covid or something. If you go maximum “I ain’t giving you shit!” they take that as a challenge. That might cause them to especially remember every detail ( which hurts, if you plead not guilty.) Just don’t make a show of clamming up, somehow. Never ADMIT anything like speeding or what ever, just treat them like you would a fast food worker. pleasant and like you’re not afraid. Accept what they do and fight it later. Showing fear incites further investigation. Just my experience. However, once it’s clear what they are going to do, the gloves come right off. Like I said, it takes some skill.