Well, for the moment, SP is home and keeping us busy. Nonetheless, I still wanted to dip my toe back in just so y’all would have at least an occasional dose of Jew. I was amused that, here in this very rural redneck part of New York, Red as can be (other than our little college town), Trump signs everywhere, the four physicians she had at the regional hospital were two Indians (call center, not casino), a Pakistani, and a black guy from Alabama. They all said that they loved living here and felt nothing but welcomed. I hope some Progressives come here from NYC to explain to them that they are hated and in constant danger of being lynched. Oh, and one of the India docs got me his mother’s recipe for dosa, which in a just world, would be our national food.
Yes, I’m celebrating SP’s presence here, but also celebrating today’s birthdays, which include a guy who wrote one of the best and most important books of the last 200 years; a guy who inspired a Beatles song; a man who managed true evil; a guy who designed the boxes that buildings came in; a guy who didn’t give a fock (but should have won a Nobel); a piece of shit who capped a career of failure by leaving us his idiot son; a brilliant singer of the most American of genres; a guy whose opponent was disarmed; my favorite football player to watch- and here’s why; a guy whose films leave me in a state of wonder- at why people think they’re any good; and a delightfully named baseball player who was damn fun to watch.
So here’s some Links, and if I have drugs fall out of my ass, my excuse is that I have been away on serious business.
Here’s the dumbest fucking idea yet from Team Blue to try to drum up enough extra dough to keep the government running for perhaps 10 or 11 minutes. “Unrealized.” Jesus H titty fucking christ.
Every time this asshole open his mouth, I get more sympathetic to the Russians. Say the, Vold, how about if you BUY shit you want instead of whining?
RACISM RACISM RACISM! Remember when he voted to lynch Clarence Thomas?
“This time, we’ve got him for sure!!!!”
Not news, but a link to some of the geekiest fun I’ve had in a long, long time.
If you can’t spell fluorine, don’t write about it. I will resist saying that this story is a nothingburger. Oh wait, I just did.
Old Guy Music is inspired by the impressive array of pill bottles in front of me.
“a brilliant singer of the most American of genres”
I like Sarah Vaughn, but there are plenty of genres just as American as jazz.
Anyway, glad to hear SP is well enough to be home.
Good news from OMWC. Good way to start the day.
welcome back.
Yup!
Morning, HS. Being an early riser and therefore sleeping at night, didn’t comment on the evening thread — but like the Proto-splosives avatar. You could fill in for Shirley Manson, it seems to me — if you get tired of blowing stuff up for fun and profit, I suppose.
Thank you, kind sir.
Unfortunately I am afflicted with the ability to detect even the slightest off-tune instrument or voice, but the worst voice ever myself.
So you won’t be seeing or hearing me onstage anytime soon. I am a hell of an A/V board operator tho.
I am a hell of an A/V board operator tho.
Could’ve used you last night. The sound board guy at the venue clearly had no clue what compression is or why anybody would need it. My ears are ringing this morning because of it…
Yeah, who needs low and high end? Just give me more mid-range!!! And fuck dynamics!
But this one goes to 11.
Oh, and one of the India docs got me his mother’s recipe for dosa, which in a just world, would be our national food.
The mom of an Indian friend finally, after much pestering, gave me her bread recipe. But she held me to a naan-disclosure agreement.
That was a puri pun.
He’s just trying to curry favor with you, obviously.
Really, it doesn’t matar.
Sure — but eventually these threads fennel down to Swiss and he brings out the mace.
Ghee whiz, I shoulda seen that cumin.
I’m sure Swiss will give me the what for when he awakens.
It’ll be instant korma.
Reminds me of the indian chef that refused to make traditional dishes. He was a naan-conformist.
These puns really chap my pati.
They have the opposite effect on me. I don’t know vada do without them.
*narrows gaze*
Hmmm, I’m not familiar with that Indian dish. Is it very pungent?
“Could Joe Biden blunder his way into a war? Experts slam the President for mistakenly saying Putin ‘cannot remain in power’ and warn that despite White House efforts to clean up the mess – the Kremlin will have ‘got the message'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10656033/Experts-slam-Biden-unprecedented-call-regime-change-Russia.html
I’m starting think Obama might have been right that there is nothing Joe couldn’t fuck up.
The White House has already started to spin, and walk back everything he said on his european visit. Poor Strawberry must be having a rough week.
Maybe she faked her covid test to avoid this shitshow.
I strongly suspect she did, myself.
Biden’s become a security liability now. I have to imagine there’s talk of invoking the 25th. He’s a loose cannon in a way that Trump never even got close to.
Trump is an asshole with a big mouth, Biden’s a senile person with a big mouth (he’s also an asshole but that’s neither here or there). He isn’t even a rational actor.
Is Strawberry getting bruised?
His masters Xi and Klaus want a war, for different reasons, but they’re united in being for the destruction of the West.
Remember when Reagan’s senility would get WWIII started?
At least he was joking and knew it.
https://youtu.be/0VQgbMOezqA
I certainly do.
The media was in a total uproar even though it was an obvious joke and we weren’t on the precipice of a hot war like now.
Everyone knew it was a joke.
And this is some funky shit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJvslHHFyaM
Even obvious jokes or obvious war games could set off Soviet paranoia, but at least there were adults that realized pushing those is a bad fucking idea.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_H._Perroots
Good to see you back, OM, been a while, hoping SP is up and about and giving you what you deserve.
Raising taxes on unreported accumulated capitol gains (or whatever it’s called) will really help and we’ll stop those rich people from passing along their wealth. Amazing that von Mises and Hayek didn’t understand that.
“We’ll use the money to pay don’t the debt”
or down the debt but one works better in reality
She’s not exactly up (we have a hospital bed set up on the second floor where the bathroom is), but at least I’m able to care for her here. We’re in a holding pattern until we get up to the cancer center, theoretically next week.
Don’t know if she was able to get a message out to you, but your kind and wonderful note was greatly appreciated.
Magic pills for the win!
Thank you for that update.
I’m continuing to pray for you heathens, whether you like it or not.
Opening that door would really be hell on earth for the middle class — because like all taxes that start with “just the elite!”, it gets shifted down.
And performance bonus stock grants are already enough of a pain to deal with at tax time (mainly because the “management” companies can’t be bothered to generate clear tax reports for folks to use.. looking at you, Fidelity — you lazy bastards…). And then consider things like property — house appreciation would technically be unrealized income as well.
Sounds almost like moving towards “you’ll own nothing and be happy!” again…. gee, I wonder why……
If I wanted to destroy the USA in the fastest way possible, I’d make Joe Biden president.
Dubbed the “Billionaire Minimum Income Tax,” the Biden administration proposal, as highlighted in the document, aims to “ensure that the very wealthiest Americans pay a tax rate of at least 20 percent on their full income, including unrealized appreciation.”
Now we’re getting somewhere.
“Unrealized appreciation” is my greatest problem, and I’m pretty salty about the fact that people aren’t constantly appreciating me. Whoops, ‘scuse me, I’ve just been handed a note…
Oh, that kind of “unrealized appreciation.”
“Well, for the moment, SP is home and keeping us busy. Nonetheless, I still wanted to dip my toe back in just so y’all would have at least an occasional dose of Jew.”
Happy to hear that she is doing well and best wishes to y’all.
Daily dose of Jew? I just want (((them))) to stop walking in the middle of the fucking road when I have to drive somewhere on Saturday. I didn’t see any (((them))) crossing signs. Worst part is when you are driving right towards them and they just refuse to move even a little. They really do believe in that sky god don’t they?
They are related to geese, apparently.
Given (((our))) experiences of the past couple millennia, (((we))) have no illusion that sky god is going to protect (((us))).
My own sky god clan (Baptists) I was unwillingly indocrinated into at birth, called it ‘Faith’.
my own
“They burnt crosses every night all around us, and a man who’ll burn what he prays to, he’ll burn anything.” ― Shelby Foote, Jordan County
Now if we can just start expropriating the business assets of the wrongthinkers. We’re at war. It’s a matter of national security.
Hey, it destroys the economy and punishes the right people. What’s not to like?!
Remember that retirement fund you used to have? We’re all in this together.
You just have to learn how to do math, billionaires == the middle class.
Well, if inflation keeps at this rate… soon enough, soon enough. Pretty sure most of the mid to upper middle class are millionaires by net worth these days (heck, by unrealized gains of property in a lot of places if nothing else…). Could you have imagined that back in the ’70s?
If you’re middle class and not planning to have ~1 million in just retirement savings you’re probably not going to do too well in the near future.
just so y’all would have at least an occasional dose of Jew
You’d give us just the tip, but you don’t have that any more.
Opera clap.
I thought (((they))) were like a catamaran and hardly every tip.
As part of the plan, a 20% minimum tax rate would be placed on U.S. households worth more than $100 million, with more than half the revenue coming from households worth more than $1 billion.
“This minimum tax would make sure that the wealthiest Americans no longer pay a tax rate lower than teachers and firefighters,” the document stated.
We wouldn’t want the tax attorneys and accountants to starve, would we?
I swear I thought we already had an alternative minimum tax.
Sure but we don’t have an alternative, alternative minimum tax.
Autodesk the 800 pound gorilla that drives me nuts.
Glad you to see you around here and my best to SP.
Welcome home, SP, and welcome back to the weekend links, OM! ?
Additionally, the document claimed the minimum income tax will “make America’s tax code fairer and reduce the deficit by about $360 billion in just the next decade.”
“In effect, the Billionaire Minimum Income Tax payments are a prepayment of tax obligations these households will owe when they later realize their gains,” the document said. “This approach means that the very wealthiest Americans pay taxes as they go, just like everyone else, and eliminates the inefficient sheltering of income for decades or generations.”
How did the tax code become riddled with loopholes and inefficiencies?
Nobody knows. These things just happen.
https://giphy.com/gifs/giffffr-tyttpHduQdg3d6O8jAs
Not link related — but it has been 30 minutes.
I’d just like to know when the Internet of Things got snuck into my life and my major items (cars, appliances) became self aware.
The gorram *day* my bonus dropped into hands… the fridge ice maker line sprung a leak and BOTH car batteries suddenly decided to die. “He has money! Time for us to be try to be replaced!” I figure they’ll just try to kill me in my sleep soon….
“Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy”
Stop picking on Hunter’s crack dealer, corruptocrats needz love too.
yup
How’s about a list of delightfully named baseball players?
Rusty Kuntz
Coco Crisp
Milton Bradley
Jim Walewander
Johnny Wockenfuss
Anyone else have some favorite baseball names?
Not baseball, but once after doing employee training I was going over the attendee list to make certificates.
I noticed one guy’s name was Richard Rash.
Also, my former cardiology practice had a Dr. Bruce Hymon. He named his daughter…..Tara.
Johnny Dickshot
Without getting into nicknames (including Mudcat, Possum, and Oil Can), my favorites of recent note are Braves farmhand Wonderful Monds and the kid from Brett L’s neck of the woods, Twins pitcher Boof Bonser.
Then there’s Joe Biden’s favorite ballplayer.
Catfish Hunter in that category.
Johnny Bench always struck me as a perfect name for a baseball player.
Pete LaCock?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_LaCock
Shoeless Joe won this one a century ago
but the best racing name is easy to guess
worth mentioning: Fireball Roberts was prophetic
Randy Johnson – the Big Unit
In Fort Lauderdale…thanks for the drunk birthday Zoom last night!
Damn work. I miss all the fun.
I’m so happy SP is home. Now go destroy some cancer!
5 6
7 2
Pretty sure that’s my first 2.
6 7
5 4
Pretty sure that’s my first 2. blind luck or did you suss it out from your first guess?
First guess gave me 4/5 with 3 in the right spot. Suss’d.
It was like that for me, but after two guesses. And that made the top right word easy to guess too. I was one letter off on the top-left on my fifth guess, but the wrong guess gave me the bottom-left word.
74
63
6 5
4 7
7 4
8 5
4 3
7 6
That’s a good score.
7 5
8 9
Not good, but done in less than 3 minutes.
5 6
4 7
5 6
7 3
So, the Spousal Unit and I were trying out Wordle for the first time the other day (TL;DR: it’s okay, but not exactly something I’d feel like doing all the time), but we found the “codes” you folks have posted above much more confusing — when we tried to look up “Wordle scores,” everything we found didn’t look anything like the 2×2 matrices youse are posting.
Anyone wanna briefly explain them to me?
Quordle.com
https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2022/03/26/lloyd-amarsingh-jim-hunt-upper-darby-drexel-hill-havertown-shooting-murder/
“In his arraignment documents, Amarsingh said he was unloading his firearm while listening to loud music at a stop light. He was celebrating a recent unemployment payment when the gun went off during the shooting.
Amarsingh said he had his seat reclined, firearm in his right hand, and while using his left hand to remove the magazine, the gun discharged.
Amarsingh then pulled the firearm’s slide back to eject the live round and said the firearm released a second time. ”
Uh huh. Sounds legit. 🙄
Whoopsie!
Now THAT is a magic bullet!
“Misfiring twice,” “released a second time.”
Things happen when you’re celebrating your unemployment check. Surely you’ve seen those Middle Easterners celebrating with their AK. You et a nice surprise, you celebrate
Apparently Amersingh had had a job, unless it was his baby’s mama’s check.
I’m still getting used to the decocking lever on my Beretta. I keep it chambered with the hammer down, but it’s always a little unnerving to drop the hammer on a live round even if it’s designed to do it safely.
News you can use
The chaos of war is now behind them, but the truth is, they’re not entirely safe outside Ukraine either.
“For predators and human traffickers, the war in Ukraine is not a tragedy,” UN Secretary General António Guterres warned on Twitter. “It’s an opportunity – and women and children are the targets.”
Trafficking rings are notoriously active in Ukraine and neighbouring countries in peace time. The fog of war is perfect cover to increase business.
Karolina Wierzbińska, a coordinator at Homo Faber, a human rights organisation based in Lublin, told me children were a huge concern.
Many youngsters were travelling out of Ukraine unaccompanied, she said. Patchy registration processes in Poland and other border regions – especially at the start of the war – meant children disappeared, their current whereabouts unknown.
Always on message.
Homo Faber.
*snickers*
“asks if they’re afraid of Moscow”
Moscow has command of 6,000 nuclear weapons. Sometimes reasoned fear is the prudent choice: just because your pulse rate goes up when a guy sticks a .38 in your ribs at the ATM doesn’t mean you’re a pussy.
Good to see you back, Old Man. Better days ahead, I hope.
Miss seeing the Zoom crew, but soon, soon…
This hydroponics stuff grows amazingly fast, I mean like nothing I have ever seen. I’m going to expand my little operation quicky now, buying more units now and learning how to make my own. No, not weed, get your minds out of the gutter you dopers and dope fiends. I’m talking about something even more valuable than TP, food, the kind you can eat and maybe even be able to afford for another year, just gotta keep the power on…
Really want to try a micro-aquaponics indoor setup (need a shed sooner or later anyways), but just not enough free floor space in the house yet (and I hate having direct sunlight through any of my windows).
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/hEOV0IA8SeK8tE19WQUJnA.UAPIQ9383bwTutntpUcw3V
Two Krakens and an Orange long-tail scorpion.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/new-zealand-massey-universitys-queer-fat-studies-lecturer-fatlicious-feminist-dies-suddenly-sleep-42/
Fatlicious.
*lights Tres signal*
And yet people will continue to justify their unhealthy choices. Which would be fine with me if they didn’t insist we celebrate those choices.
Interesting choice of words…
BBIPOC? Do I want to know?
Just stick with QUILTBAG
Looks like white supremacy won this round.
WE OUT HERE!
Thats a big larger than my comfort zone, but I like a challenge. Wood.
However, since she’s passed my pronouns for this: would/have.
I bet she’s never seen a caucasian dick in her life.
/too much?
Nope. Just right.
“Larger than my comfort zone…”
Now that’s a first.
*clicks link*
Woah.
I’m guessing her doctorate was in something other than medicine.
Whatever happened to “Light the John signal?”
*snort*
relevant to OMWC’s links
Glad SP is able to be home, Old Man
Cool link, bro!
It was relevant to the links, you have to admit…
Stupid tablet:
https://instapundit.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/pulp_fiction_biologist_03-26-2022.jpg
When he was a kid, my uncle used to go see The Three Stooges whenever they were in town. They would appear on stage, in character, and do a few skits, followed by a Q&A session. Then, they would make themselves available for autographs. The line to get Larry’s autograph was long, and the line to get Moe’s was longer. But longest of all was the Curly queue….
I love a good pun. But that crossed the line.
When will we take education seriously in this country?
After weeks-long walkout, a major teachers’ strike in Minneapolis has ended — at least for now — with a deal between the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers (MFT) and the Minneapolis school district.
As the Minneapolis strike ends, however, another is starting: Public school teachers and support staff in Sacramento began their own walk-out on Wednesday, which has shuttered schools for 40,000 students across the K-12 district. Other teacher strikes in Sonoma County, California, and Illinois also took place earlier this year as part of a wave of protest against underfunded classrooms, low wages, and Covid-19 protocols.
Much of the fighting between educators and district officials have been squarely rooted in the issue of funding. Teachers and school support staff, like those who’ve been striking in Minneapolis, are demanding better salaries, mental health support, and safer in-school pandemic protocols. In response, district officials tend to argue they don’t have enough money to make those kinds of investments.
Some educators and advocates say those statements are just an excuse.
“We’ve been talking about this for years. This is not new,” said Becky Pringle, president of the National Education Association, the country’s largest teacher’s union. “And here’s the reality. When you consistently underfund our public schools, it compounds.”
According to Pringle, the underfunding of the country’s schools became even more profound in the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic. As with other school districts across the country, Minneapolis has struggled with school reopenings during the pandemic, with educators bearing the brunt in class as they encounter a lack of support from school administrators with implementing Covid-19 health protocols and providing mental health support for both staff and students.
I can see why they are stuck on masks. I’d be ashamed to show my face in public if I were a teacher.
I saw that earlier, didn’t see the part where and how much the tax payer pays. Only has 29-30K kids, big tax base.
New Zealand – Dr. Cat Pausé, a Massey University ‘fat studies’ lecturer died suddenly in her sleep this weekend.
Will they bury her in a 5.000 gallon fuel storage tank?
After the rendering…
From the ded thread for Ted S and HE on meetings, minutes, and Yes Minister:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=85fx0LrSMsE
Stupid tablet
A lot of people seem to be addicted to ’em these days. Gobble ’em down by the handful, as far as I can tell.
But an increasingly disenchanted workforce, particularly among educators, could spell disaster for the country’s public education system in the long run. A February survey by the NEA found 55 percent of responding members are considering leaving the teaching profession earlier than they had planned, representing an increase from 37 percent of educators saying the same thing in August.
Good. Burn it right to the ground.
“Schools are starved for funding,” they claimed without evidence.
Meanwhile, headquarters has been expanded three times in the last decade to fit all the new administrators.
https://www.primaryarms.com/anderson-manufacturing-complete-m16-bolt-carrier-group-with-nitride-finish-am-10-08-m16-nit
On sale. $59.99 for 24 hours.
Serious
Washington state plans to ban most non-electric vehicles by 2030, according to a newly signed bill by Gov. Jay Inslee.
The bill says that all vehicles of the model year 2030 or later that are sold, purchased, or registered in the state must be electric.
Wheeeeeeee!
Good luck with that
I’m interested in how they plan on forcing everyone to buy a new vehicle
He doesn’t care. This is the same asshole, from a rural district, votes for the 1994 gun control bill and got tossed for it. Rather than slinking away, he moved to a more liberal district and ran again (one more data point that carpet baggers should be permanently disqualified from office).
Welcome back, OM. Hope you all are doing better.
“Transportation is our state’s largest source of greenhouse gas emissions. There is no way to talk about climate change without talking about transportation,” Inslee said. “This package will move us away from the transportation system our grandparents imagined and towards the transportation system our grandchildren dream of.”
Purple wanders endogenous glory abacus.
‘By moving [back] to the transportation system our great great grandparents had (walking), our grandchildren will dream with envy the transportation system our grandparents had.’
Walking?
Yeah, that line made me immediately think of Homer Simpson being tasked by his brother with designing a car – https://youtu.be/WPc-VEqBPHI
rikshaws
Who’s going to tell them that Gaia will just laugh at little Oregon’s virtue signaling?
Two hundred years earlier the west was settled by folks with transportation with serious emission problems. Had to be careful where you walked.
Fossil fuel was great, until now.
Missed the 2nd half of the license plate discussion last night. When I moved from VA to WA with the Navy and switched to WA registration/residency (no state income tax) I missed the part where I was supposed to mail my license plates back to the DMV. Fast forward….5 years later, I’m finally back in VA and (off active duty) trying to get a VA DL. There was a month plus delay because apparently there was some hold on my SSN because my plates had never been turned in and I had to get that PITA cleared from my “account”.
*looks at pile of VA plates in garage *
Well, crap.
If you still have them (even if you’re not planning on moving back), may not hurt to call them and see if you can get a ticket # or something and then stick them all in one packet back to them to zero things out.
Today the Fourscores are celebrating 48 years of occasional bliss. Nothing is planned nor will there be anything spontaneous.
In a few days we have a dinner at a sit down restaurant , while we’re out shopping.
Congratulations!
Happy Anniversary!
nice!
Wow, congrats, that’s a fair share of years. Good job.
So happily married for 1xscore?
Congrats!
Thanks all. Mrs F deserves a lot of credit and I just pick up her tabs. Seems to work out
Congratulations to the both of ya! That is so romantic.
Congrats!
Congrats!!!!!
Amazing! Congrats to you and the most patient woman on the planet!
Congratulations!
Some wine perhaps? A little candlelight. Maybe a roaring fire? And see what comes up.
Listen to the experts
After one of the most turbulent periods in air travel history — loaded with new rules and regulations and plenty of unruly and disruptive passengers — airlines want to jettison COVID-era safety precautions for flights.
The CEOs of the nation’s leading airlines this week sent a letter to the White House urging the Biden administration to rescind pre-departure testing and vaccination requirements for international travelers and drop the federal mask mandate on flights, arguing that the measures are no longer necessary as coronavirus infections drop sharply across the U.S.
The precautions “are no longer aligned with the realities of the current epidemiological environment,” they said in the letter.
Epidemiologists aren’t so sure, saying it might be too soon to eliminate COVID-19 rules in the air. Allowing passengers to fly unmasked could also deter older and immunocompromised customers from traveling, while also hurting the airline business.
“It is reasonable to be having the conversation of when we should be relaxing these restrictions,” David Dowdy, a professor of infectious disease epidemiology at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, told CBS MoneyWatch. “When the [Biden] administration should respond by lifting those restrictions is a different matter. It may be a month or so too early to be making those decisions.”
Before COVID-19 protocols are lifted on planes, a threshold needs to be set for dropping precautions — and another for reinstituting mandates if virus cases start rising again.
“We need to determine ‘when do we relax precautions’ and ‘when do we reinstate them’ if we see cases go up again. Otherwise you could argue we would keep these in place until there is no COVID left on earth,” Dowdy said.
What if we just kill all the epidemiologists and bury them in an unmarked ditch?
Bury them?
Leave on the ice? In the desert? In the deep woods?
I must say, while not the most surprising thing, this still took me somewhat by surprise.
Most of us knew about Hunter Biden’s shady dealings in Ukraine, though the media still glosses over how tightly connected it is with Ukrainian politics and the exacerbation of tensions with Russia, but now it turns out H.B. was also heavily involved in, wait for it, virus research. I mean, what are the odds? The two most significant (manufactured) crises on everyone’s minds, and the sitting President just happens to be intimately connected with both (not that he remembers).
Americans think “coup” is something that only happens in foreign countries.
https://twitter.com/GraduatedBen/status/1507741253349355520
Geez, the web of horribles linked together there….
Even Jeffery Epstein.
JFC, what a tangled mess.
I called COVID “the West’s Chernobyl” about a year and a half ago. Seems the incompetence and corruption on display at Chernobyl doesn’t even hold a candle to this.
Pure coincidences! Yet Ivanka walking past a Russian diplomat on a street in NYC is surely evidence that Trump is colluding with Putin to deny Hillary her throne.
Air quality on airplanes is generally good because planes are equipped with hospital-grade HEPA filters that constantly recirculate fresh air into the cabin. But the risk of transmission would increase substantially if most passengers, particularly infectious individuals, were to stop wearing masks.
Mercedes Carnethon, vice chair of the department of preventive medicine at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, said that for most healthy Americans who are vaccinated against COVID-19, eliminating masks on flights is unlikely to pose a serious risk. But the calculation changes if you’re seated near someone infected with disease.
“Air quality is good on an airplane. However, when you’re sitting side by side with someone who has a COVID infection, perhaps someone 10 rows behind you won’t contract it, but it won’t protect the person sitting next to you,” Carnethon told CBS MoneyWatch.
“If you roll back every mitigation strategy at one time, you have great potential to see an explosion of cases, and that’s risky,” she added.
When it comes to restoring confidence in air travel, Carnethon also said that ending mask mandates could end up having the opposite effect that airlines intend.
We’re looking at an explosion of cases. Obviously, because we have extensively documented the millions of deaths and hospitalizations which occurred as a direct result of air travel.
As for the “economic effect” (as if any of these so called experts give a flying fuck about that): how many people are there currently refusing to set foot in an airport or on a plane because of the panicdemic idiocy, versus those whose government-issue hypochondria would suddenly prevent them from traveling if forced masking were ended? They would presumably not be prevented from boarding for wearing a mask on their own initiative.
But the calculation changes if you’re seated near someone infected with disease
yup: true regardless; always was; always will be
*raises hand*
But I think we’re vastly outnumbered by the hypochondriacs.
Us too. The Bosslady and I were going to hit San Antonio for a week this spring, then the mask mandate was extended. So instead we’re driving to Destin.
After a day of wearing a mask I like to sit down and pick off the viruses with a tweezer. I take the ones from the inside that I have exhaled and then I take the ones from the outside that my anti viral cloth has stopped me from breathing. Then I sit down with the kids in the evening and we put them under our microscope to learn about all the viruses we have collected.
To be fair, do most people who got chicomvirus know where they caught it? So “scientists” can’t really say it came from riding in the plane, or going to your nephew’s birthday party, or participating in a BLM rally (oh, wait, I forgot that viruses boycotted BLM rallies). There’s just too many instances of people living together – spouses, children – where one person comes down with the vid and no one else in the family does.
Carri Chan, a professor of decisions, risk and operations at Columbia Business School, agreed that the testing requirement has been a more significant barrier to travel than the mask mandate.
“Certainly for international flights getting back to the U.S., there are people who are concerned about the financial ramifications of not being able to come back if they test positive,” she told CBS MoneyWatch. She also said that waiving the COVID-19 precautions could dampen travel demand from families with small children, who aren’t yet eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine.
That’s some mighty fine risk analysis, Carri. How many box tops did you have to collect to get your degrees?
Step 1: Organize society around “experts”
Step 2: Gut the institutions gatekeeping expertise
Step 3: Wear their carcass as a skinsuit while demanding respect
Step 4: Profit
(there is no need for the “???” step, this plan actually worked)
On first glance, I thought that was gutting and skinsuiting the experts.
waiving the COVID-19 precautions could dampen travel demand from families with small children
Has Ms Chan ever seen a small child get swabbed for covid? I suspect she doesn’t even have children.
Oh no, that would be awful to fly with no small children on board.
Fuck that bitch. Thanks to SloJoe our last summer trip to Mexico included a required Vid test to return to the land of the free. My friend and his family who joined us were not required to take one as they live in San Diego and found a cheap flight from Tijuana and walked across the border. Apparently the Vid comes in on direct flights, but if you fly into TJ and then walk across it gets destroyed by the land border. I had to hold down our five year old who went apeshit when we took him to the clinic in the small town near where we stayed. That, combined with the fear that one of us would somehow pop positive and then we’d get stuck down there for another five days having to figure out somewhere to stay seriously dissuade us from any international travel till they get rid of the theatre.
Random query:
While we’re obsessing about evil rich people and their hoarded assets exempted from taxation by loopholes, what do we propose to do about their “charitable foundations” which are nothing more than thinly disguised political activism operations?
Well that depends on the political alignment of the charity…
It’s either a noble organization defending our democracy or it’s trying to destroy our democracy and taking advantage of loopholes.
“The words of a president matter. They can move markets. They can send our brave men and women to war. They can bring peace.
And they can unleash the deepest, darkest forces in this nation — like Donald Trump has chosen to do.
When he said after Charlottesville that there were “very fine people on both sides” he gave license and safe harbor for hate to white supremacists, Neo-Nazis, and the KKK.
Those words stunned the nation and shocked the world….”
Aug 7, 2019
https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1159188880983240710
Wasn’t Trump talking about Confederate statue controversies and not neo-nazi rallies? But, in any case, inarticulate words from Trump that typically allowed TMITE to twist and misrepresent. Laughable how Biden does the same thing and we aren’t supposed to notice.
It wasn’t even inarticulate in this case. They purposely removed the surrounding language and willfully misrepresented it. The original statement was clear.
Now compare that with Biden’s absolute dipshittery in Poland that is actually put us all at physical risk.
Good thread on financial deplatforming.
https://twitter.com/crabcrawler1/status/1506779965890732045
But the risk of transmission would increase substantially if most passengers, particularly infectious individuals, were to stop wearing masks.
What if we were to cease the fallacious acceptance of masks’ effectiveness. Immeasurably small risk multiplied by zero remains immeasurably small.
Good morning, Old Man!
Good to have you back.
I’m not sure what Elon’s up to, but I’m not betting against him.
a guy who inspired a Beatles song
I laughed. Well done!
Oh… ok. ““With the US dollar’s dominance in question, here’s how China’s yuan could become a global reserve currency — and why it wouldn’t be all bad” by
@MktsInsider. Thread by @philrosenn.”
https://twitter.com/MktsInsider/status/1507740555329130500
Well, for the moment, SP is home and keeping us busy.
Good.
Dubbed the “Billionaire Minimum Income Tax,” the Biden administration proposal, as highlighted in the document, aims to “ensure that the very wealthiest Americans pay a tax rate of at least 20 percent on their full income, including unrealized appreciation.”
Fuck off slavers.
Ukraine needs just 1% of NATO’s aircraft and 1% of its tanks, he said, adding that it would be impossible to stop Russian attacks on the besieged southern port of Mariupol without enough tanks, armoured vehicles and aircraft.
Just the tip. It won’t lead to more. No sirree.
Ukraine needs just 1% of NATO’s aircraft and 1% of its tanks, he said, adding that it would be impossible to stop Russian attacks on the besieged southern port of Mariupol without enough tanks, armoured vehicles and aircraft.
We should probably send some “military advisors” too.
All that 1% would do is drag NATO into the conflict and then it would be 100% of its aircraft and tanks, and shortly thereafter 100% of its nuclear weaponry.
Say it in LBJ’s voice “Today I’ve ordered to Ukraine the Airmobile division…”
Hunter Bidens laptop and the corruption it exposes that out self styled elites encourage make me fiil like my giblets are being used like a speed bag.
Thanks and welcome back, Old Man.
SP coming home made me think of this song. Get better, ma’am.
The Datasaurus page is awesome; I’ve had occasion to direct more than one person to it, just to show the dangers of reading nothing but a dataset’s summary stats and drawing conclusions therefrom.