I stole this

From a post that the Mrs. saw on facebook, where I refuse to play.

Why my brain hurts

The Rules:

1. Basically, you can't leave the house for any reason, but if you have to, then you can.

2. Masks are useless, but maybe you have to wear one, it can save you, it is useless, but maybe it is mandatory as well.

3. Stores are closed, except those that are open.

4. You should not go to hospitals unless you have to go there. Same applies to doctors, you should only go there in case of emergency, provided you are not too sick.

5. This virus is deadly but still not too scary, except that sometimes it actually leads to a global disaster.

6. Gloves won't help, but they can still help.

7. Everyone needs to stay HOME, but it's important to GO OUT.

8. There is no shortage of groceries in the supermarket, but there are many things missing when you go there in the evening, but not in the morning. Sometimes.

9. The virus has no effect on children except those it affects.

10. Animals are not affected, but there is still a cat that tested positive in Belgium in February when no one had been tested, plus a few tigers here and there…

11. You will have many symptoms when you are sick, but you can also get sick without symptoms, have symptoms without being sick, or be contagious without having symptoms. Oh, my..

12. In order not to get sick, you have to eat well and exercise, but eat whatever you have on hand and it's better not to go out, well, but no…

13. It's better to get some fresh air, but you get looked at very wrong when you get some fresh air, and most importantly, you don't go to parks or walk. But don’t sit down, except that you can do that now if you are old, but not for too long or if you are pregnant (but not too old).

14. You can't go to retirement homes, but you have to take care of the elderly and bring food and medication.

15. If you are sick, you can't go out, but you can go to the pharmacy.

16. You can get restaurant food delivered to the house, which may have been prepared by people who didn't wear masks or gloves. But you have to have your groceries decontaminated outside for 3 hours. Pizza too?

17. Every disturbing article or disturbing interview starts with " I don't want to trigger panic, but…"

18. You can't see your older mother or grandmother, but you can take a taxi and meet an older taxi driver.

19. You can walk around with a friend but not with your family if they don't live under the same roof.

20. You are safe if you maintain the appropriate social distance, but you can’t go out with friends or strangers at the safe social distance.

21. The virus remains active on different surfaces for two hours, no, four, no, six, no, we didn't say hours, maybe days? But it takes a damp environment. Oh no, not necessarily.

22. The virus stays in the air - well no, or yes, maybe, especially in a closed room, in one hour a sick person can infect ten, so if it falls, all our children were already infected at school before it was closed. But remember, if you stay at the recommended social distance, however in certain circumstances you should maintain a greater distance, which, studies show, the virus can travel further, maybe.

23. We count the number of deaths but we don't know how many people are infected as we have only tested so far those who were "almost dead" to find out if that's what they will die of…

24. We have no treatment, except that there may be one that apparently is not dangerous unless you take too much (which is the case with all medications).

25. We should stay locked up until the virus disappears, but it will only disappear if we achieve collective immunity, so when it circulates… but we must no longer be locked up for that?

Are you pissed off about the quarantine yet?

How 'bout now?

Professor Yitzhak Ben Israel concludes in his analysis summary paper that the data from the past 50 days indicates that the closure policies of the quarantine countries can be replaced by more moderate social distancing policies. The numbers simply do not support quarantine or economic closure.

We might not have people lying to us.  But we most certainly have panicked politicians destroying the economy for fear that they might lose their jobs.  And the "experts" have confirmed once again that if "X" is an unknown quantity, and a "spurt" is a drip of water under pressure, then an "expert" is an unknown drip under pressure.

But sure, trust the government and listen to their "experts"

Because they would never falsify data, would they?

 A report from the New York Times on Tuesday suggests that as bad as the situation in New York City is even worse now—with one caveat. According to their report, New York City "sharply increased its [coronavirus] death toll by more than 3,700 victims on Tuesday, after officials said they were now including people who had never tested positive for the virus but were presumed to have died of it." 

What? People who never tested positive for the coronavirus are being counted in the official death toll? Why would they do that?

Folks, our entire country is being shut down, with numbers out of New York Fucking City being cited as a reason why we all have to stay in our homes while business after business gets destroyed, and they are FUCKING LYING TO YOU ABOUT THE REAL NUMBERS!

This is fake data, being used to push draconian measures to deal with a virus that doesn't kill nearly as many people as you are being told it does.

Transgenderism is a mental illness.

And it apparently makes you rather violent.

Some of the threats targeted Rose’s family, publishing her address and the names of her parents while calling her “a transphobic white trash Nazi” and threatening the livelihoods of her family.

This is why everyone should know how to use a firearm.  Because Leftists hate you and want you to die.

Church Music

Does Liberalism cause mental illness?

I think it's the other way around.  Being mentally ill makes you more "liberal", politically speaking.  That's why you see hoards of Leftists melting down mentally and emotionally on college campuses around the country.  Because they're mentally ill first, and Leftist second.

They have charts and graphs.  Go look.

So much for that "Healthy at any size!" nonsense, eh?

The biggest risk factor for Kung Flu hospitalization is being obese.

For months, scientists have been poring over data about cases and deaths to understand why it is that COVID-19 manifests itself in different ways around the world, with certain factors such as the age of the population repeatedly popping up as among the most significant determinants. 

Now, one of the largest studies conducted of COVID-19 infection in the United States has found that obesity of patients was the single biggest factor in whether those with COVID-19 had to be admitted to a hospital. 

I can think of a few reasons why this might be the case.  Obese people are at higher risk for diabetes, which was one of the huge factors in death from the Kung Flu in New Orleans.  Also, being obese leads to various other diseases that affect the cardio-pulmonary system, and this virus hits your lungs hard.  If you have any condition that makes it harder to breathe or for your heart to pump, it's going to make this virus nail you even harder.

I guess the bottom line is that you need to not be fat.  But that's been common knowledge for decades now. 

Anti-Pope Jorge Bergolio vomits up more Marxist bullshit

I'm so tired of this communist douche-tool.

On Easter Sunday, Pope Francis sent a letter to leaders of social movements promoting "structural changes" to the "economy of exclusion and inequality." Among other things, he encouraged these activists to use the coronavirus crisis as an opportunity to spur radical change and launch a "humanistic and ecological conversion." He also endorsed the idea of a universal basic income (UBI), championed by former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang.

Marxism destroys the human soul.  Socialism, Communism, all forms of Marxist ideology destroy religion, destroy charity, destroy altruism.  The poison that anti-Pope Jorge Bergolio is preaching goes against everything the Church stands for.  I am sick and tired of watching the so-called head of the Church, this Marxist moron, this papal impersonator, spewing forth the same type of bullshit that's been destroying the Church from within for decades. 

Jorge Bergolio is not the pope.  Pope Benedict XVI is the one and only true Pope, and Jorge Bergolio is an imposter.  A Marxist sodomite put in place by evil men to do their bidding on this earth.  He has his reward on this earth, as do his enablers. 

Taiwan tried to warn us, the Chi-Coms are garbage, and the WHO is a Chi-Com puppet

This could have been headed off at the pass if it weren't for politically correct globalist bullshit.

Apparently, Taiwan sent an email in December to the WHO warning them about the occurrence of a new disease in China and asking for more information. That information being investigated that early in the game could have saved tens of thousands of lives. Instead, Taiwan was ignored.

So how many people have lost their jobs because of China, the WHO and other various actors who are all now trying to blame Taiwan, Trump, Republicans, and anyone who actually tried to stop it?

Perspective

So this is more for Christmas than Easter, but it's still beautiful.

I hope you all have a wonderful Easter

Get together with the family that you can.  Enjoy this day.  Christ is Risen!

Yeah, I'm working.

Gonna be working tomorrow as well.

Blogroll is to the right.

The media is a flaming dumpster fire of toxic garbage

And Jim Acosta is a retarded jackass flinging gasoline about while the dumpster burns around him.

Every time I think the media can't get any worse, they prove me wrong.

The thug government of socialist dictatorships

Now in American flavor!

In a Friday night, holiday weekend document dump, we're now learning that before the Mueller investigation began, the FBI knew that at least part of the ridiculous so-called Steele dossier was based upon planted Russian disinformation.

So the FBI, which is part of the federal government, KNEW that the entire case against President Trump was bought and paid for Russian propaganda produced by the Clinton campaign.  It was garbage from the start.  And they ran with it, because attacking a threat to their power was more important than upholding the Constitution of the United States, and the laws they swore to uphold.

So much for representative government, eh?

I don't know if any part of the FedGov has fallen so hard and fast as the FBI. 

This right here is just part of why America is the best country on earth

KelTec is 3D printing masks for health care workers.  That would be the firearms company, KelTec.  Printing masks for hospital workers.  That use HEPA filters so they will actually protect people.

If you follow the link, at the bottom of the page are links that go to the mask designs so that you can print out your own masks.  Instructions are included, as well as what filters will fit what masks.  For example, this design uses a HEPA filter from a Roomba. 

The government, being generally staffed and run by small-minded socialist assholes, has forgotten one of the key rules of leadership:  GET OUT OF PEOPLE'S WAY.  Let people work, and watch what they can do.  Like create masks to protect people out of things they have laying around the house.

Dear Government Establishment - Fuck you, and I hope you die screaming

So we're being told that all the hell we're going through is mandatory.  It needs to happen!  We need to do it to flatten the curve!  And oh by the way, fuck the veterans while we give billions of dollars to our friends!

• $10,804,687,000 for international development

• $350,000,000 for refugee resettlement

• $93,000,000 Congress ($25 million of which is for "salaries and expenses")

• $75,000,000 for PBS stations

• $75,000,000 for the National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities

• $75,000,000 National Endowment for the Humanities

• $50,000,000 for the Institute of Museum and Library Services

• $25,000,000 for the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts

• $7,500,000 for the Smithsonian Institution

And how many veterans could that money have helped?  How many small businesses could that money have helped?  How many people would be able to pay their rent under this government-mandated lockdown, rather than watching the government bring in even MORE people to put on the public dole?

When these mandatory orders start getting ignored, you don't have to wonder about why.  Reading that list of giveaways, millions and millions of dollars going to Leftist bullshit, while veterans are losing their livelyhoods?  My vision went red for a while....

This is your daily reminder that the publik skool sistim is a flaming dumpster fire

Via Liberty's Torch comes this little instructional nugget.

I see only two possibilities and the first is abject stupidity on the part of the Department of Education and the Department of Labor, both of whom have a hand in determining how and what our children are taught.  The second, and sadly, most likely, is a concerted effort, a conspiracy if you will, to reduce the population’s ability to read and, also, to comprehend what it reads.

You would be better off buying the Narnia series and reading it with your kids, rather than subjecting them to the Marxist drone indoctrination that the publik skool sistim puts out.  Read the whole thing.  It's infuriating.

The Very Polite Bear

Gotta be Canadian.

"Experts" say that Wyoming isn't Social Distancing, proving that "Experts" are fucking morons

Have they been to Wyoming?

This is, of course, moronic. Living in Wyoming is the definition of social distancing. It's a place where you need to drive 50 miles just to get a Snickers bar. If anybody gets through this mess, it'll be places like Wyoming. Any competent grader would give the state an A+++, not an F.

I don't know if this is just because these so-called "experts" have never been to Wyoming, which makes them fucking morons for trying to talk about their standards as applied to the state, or if they're just really that fucking dumb, which is entirely plausible.

There are states where the only other people you might see for hours are people on the interstates.  Wyoming.  Montana.  Both the Dakotas.  Iowa.  Nebraska.  Kansas.  Oklahoma.  Hell, there are parts of Texas where once you get off the interstate you won't even see another car for hours.

Social distancing?  Please.

Anyone who gives Wyoming low grades for social distancing is a blithering idiot, and you can rest assured that any other data they try to put out is just as full of shit as they are.

Remember how many times I said.....

That the reign of that Jug Eared Shitstain, Barry Hussein OBumblefuck, would damage this country in ways we wouldn't be able to fix?

That pathetic fucking moron blew threw the supply of N95 masks in 2009 and never replenished them.  Too busy fucking this country over with Obamacare to notice, I guess.

More common sense

Regarding the Kung Flu numbers.

Look, if some people need to be quarantined, then I suppose they have to be quarantined.  But to shut down the entire country over this is...  well...  bullshit.

"But Dave, people could die!"

I've contracted pneumonia three different times from breathing in mold from three different Army buildings.  You know who gives a shit?  Nobody except my wife.  Do you think anything is going to be done about those buildings?  Hell, no.  Why not?  Because it would cost too much money for those precious Democrats to spend that they would rather give to illegal aliens and welfare queens.

And this country will let them do just that.

Let's be blunt, shall we?  This thing kills the old, the infirm, the fat bastards with diabetes, the three pack a day smokers.  It attacks the lungs, so any condition that makes it hard for you to breath makes this worse.  So let's quarantine those people if we need to do so in order to keep them safe.

But that's no reason to shut down the country, eliminate jobs, destroy businesses, kill careers.  To torpedo the economy.

We are not China.  We are not Italy.  Stay Calm.  Wash your Hands.

Read this. All of it.

And ponder.

"We people of the 20th and 21st centuries are so proud to have gotten rid of religion and be free of so-called superstitions, we being scientific and reasonable and so on, but isn't the truth that we are not as "free" from faith as we convince ourselves we have become, having turned to the State (l'état-providence in French) and made it our religion instead?"

The Kung Flu death numbers are inflated

As I said earlier, Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics.

Look, I have family that are at risk from death if they contract the Kung Flu.  I get it.  But if you have cancer, and then the Kung Flu comes in and hits you, did you die of the flu or did the flu just finish was the cancer started?

"Oh hey, look, this guy has multiple conditions that have basically sent his immune system into a crater and he's got less than a year to live at best, but it's totally the Kung Flu that killed him!"

The hysteria and fear created by people who want you scared and hysterical are going to do more harm than the actual virus.

Lies, damned lies, and statistics

Many of the models used to estimate the Kung Flu spread are as flawed as climate change models.

Davis found that the actual numbers of hospitalizations on April 1 were a fraction of the numbers projected by the IHME model. The problem with the model, he discovered, is that it uses New York and New Jersey data and applies it to the rest of the states.

The actual numbers range from a low of 9% in Tennessee of the projection to a high of 50% in Virginia. Here are some examples:

I can't fault someone for looking at the worst case scenario.  It's what emergency managers are paid to do.  But there's a difference between saying "This is the worst cases scenario", and "This is what is going to happen no matter what."

Can someone tell me why small towns with no Kung Flu cases are shut down?  Can we open up Cashton, Wisconsin?  I understand that New York is a basket case of virus vectors, but Worley, Idaho is not New York.

Why are we using numbers from a virus vector hot spot to shut down all the country?

I are a good english talker!

I've made a few mistakes in my spelling, and more than a few in my grammar, but I'm not nearly as bad as the people who are supposedly getting an education.

Only 41 percent of graduate students tested in 2003 could be classified as “proficient” in prose—reading and understanding information in short texts—down 10 percentage points since 1992. Of college graduates, only 31 percent were classified as proficient—compared with 40 percent in 1992. “It’s appalling—it’s really astounding,” said Michael Gorman, president of the American Library Association and a librarian at California State University at Fresno. “Only 31 percent of college graduates can read a complex book and extrapolate from it. That’s not saying much for the remainder.”

I remember having to correct one page essays from graduate students.  Not four or five page essays, ONE PAGE.

DOUBLE SPACED.

TWELVE-POINT FONT.

ONE INCH MARGINS.

And I had to go in, make my corrections and send it back to them.  

At this point, if the Army wasn't paying for my college, I wouldn't be going.  I would not spend a dime out of my own pocket for it.  And I'm not going to waste my time going to a brick-and-mortar school.  In short, if it doesn't gain me a skill that I couldn't get from reading online, I'm not paying for it.

Read the whole thing.

Hat tip to Mr. Baker.

A co-worker sent me this

It's appropriate.

I know it's not Christian

But I don't have any pity what so ever for these walking sacks of garbage, after what they've done to this country.

Our media is garbage, and the only reason they can be called garbage is because to call them shit-infesting parasites is an insult to all parasites out there.  So now they're getting laid off.  Good.  LEARN TO CODE, BITCHES!

How many times must people be told

Don't Trust Commies.  Ever.  The Chi-Com propaganda is that they have a lid on new Wuhan Flu cases.  It's bullshit, as usual.

Keep in mind that China is saying they've topped out at just over 3,300 deaths.  The USA is going to surpass that sometime this week.  Now ask yourself - what are the chances that a shithole commie country with half the population stuck in the middle ages and sitting in the streets will have less death from a contagion than the USA?

Maybe they list the deaths differently there.  After all, when you've welded people into their apartments and they die of starvation, they didn't die of the Wuhan Flu, did they?

I'm actually OK with quarentining NYC.

Can we throw in Los Angeles and San FranFreakShow as well?

There's actually a lot of places I would love to quarantine from the rest of the USA.  But that's just me.

Utah weather

Woke up to a blanket of snow on the yard.  By 1300 it was warm and dry enough to mow and edge.

Utah weather.

Extended period of activity

Well folks, I'm going to be rather busy for the foreseeable future.  Posting will be light.  I won't be cut off, but I won't be doing my usual volume.

Anyone who wants to co-host a blog, let me know.

China haz a sad

Apparently China doesn't like people associating that country with the Covid-19 Virus.  Which started in China.  Which the Chinese Communist Party tried to cover up.  And then the CCP destroyed test data.  And then the CCP forced a doctor to withdraw his findings because they didn't want the world to know about the virus.  And then the CCP pushed misinformation about the virus.  And the doctor who tried to warn the world ended up dying.

Folks, this is the Chinese Virus.  They started it, they withheld information about it, they covered it up until it broke free and they couldn't cover it up any more.

It's the Chinese Virus.  The Wuhan Virus.  The Kung Flu.  The Cantonese Cough.  General Tso's Sicken.

Fuck China, and fuck what China wants.

More common sense on the Chinese virus

And I just like the name "Birx" for some reason.

Dr. Birx said the coronavirus cases are currently concentrated in urban areas and the focus should be on getting medical resources into those areas from nearby parts of the state that are unaffected by the virus or from other places in the United States. Nearly 40 percent of the country, 19 out of 50 states, have reported early cases of the Wuhan coronavirus but, despite continued testing, are maintaining extraordinarily low numbers of infections, according to Dr. Birx. About 86 percent of people presenting with "significant symptoms" continue to test negative for the virus.

 


We're getting more data.  And that data says that while this is a significant virus, there's still no need to panic.  The more data we get, the more that we see how inaccurate the early models were.  I think a big part of that is the people making the models were using the data they had at the time, i.e. the data from China and Italy, neither of which can be trusted.

We've had one death in Utah from the Kung Flu, and that guy picked it up while traveling outside the USA.  Other locations have had more.  Apparently, New Orleans is getting hit hard.  I've been to New Orleans.  I could see a contagion starting there, just based on the climate and the actions of the folks who live there.  But should we shut down the entire country because people couldn't stay away from Mardi Gras?

We need to open back up, before the "cure" becomes worse than the disease.

More common sense about the King Flu

From Oxford, apparently.  They're of the same mind that I am - this virus has been in our countries since at least January, it's been running it's course for three months now, and the curve we're trying to flatten is skewed by bad data based on the fact that they're not counting all the infections that happened before they officially made it a "big deal".

How many deaths attributed to Influenza actually are the fault of the Wuhan virus?  Nobody knows.

I want to know who the fuck put that $25 million in the bill

Is there a list somewhere of who demanded what?  $25 million for the Kennedy Center?  Why?




You know who has a fuck-ton of money?  The Kennedy family.  Let them send $25 million to the organization that bears the name of their political legacy.

Shit like this is just even more proof that the parasites and anal warts infesting Washington D.C. don't fucking get it.  Crap like this is why Donald Trump is president.  Crap like this is why he'll win in 2020.  Because this country is essentially shut down, "for the greater good", and those fucking assholes want to give money to an organization that services rich people in the richest area of the country.

They can't help themselves.  They are incapable of just doing the right thing.  They literally cannot do it, no matter how bad it looks or how many people it hurts.  They are deeply flawed.  And that's the nicest thing I can say about them.  I want to know who put that $25 million in there.  I want their names.

I want them to answer questions, just like anyone else would have to do.

More panic buying

Ammo.com has a grand total of five options in 9mm ammo.  Five.  5.  Cinco.  They normally have tons of 9mm ammo online.  Today, they have five.

Lucky Gunner has two.  Dos.  Duo.  II.

I knew there was a run on ammo, but horry clap, people!

I went to Evanston on Saturday to pick up my cigar order.  Stopped in at Murdocks.  They had a few boxes of the self-defense hollow-point ammo, but all the cheaper ammo was gone.

Thank the good Lord I have plenty saved up.  I was thinking about picking up a few boxes more so my range trip wouldn't dent my supply, but I'm now looking around and wondering if I should just stay home and pet my ammo boxes while whispering "My PRECIOUSSSSSSSSS!"

Oh great. They have a deal.

At least McConnell told Pelosi where she could stuff her Socialist shitlist.

It's still two trillion dollars that we don't have being pushed out.  And I don't even want to guess what anti-freedom concessions the National Socialist Democrat Worker's Party managed to obtain.  The third and fourth order of effects from this should be just spectacular.

The data is coming in, and the data says not to panic.

First, LawDog and Don't Panic over Bad Data.  As he says, anyone who trusts the data put out by the Chi-Coms should have their License to Adult taken away.

Willing to bet that "Death by COVID-19" has overtaken "Death by Suicide" amongst wide swaths of Chinese dissidents, wrong-thinkers, political prisoners, and other folks deemed "undesirable" by the Chinese government.

Interesting data from the Diamond Princess and South Korea.  I still say that the Diamond Princess was the worst case scenario we could have come up with:  An at-risk population confined in close quarters with shared ventilation.  This is a floating contagion that should have killed everybody.  But the data doesn't show that.

So why is everyone getting their panties in a bunch?  Because the media is a toxic dumpster fire of garbage humans who care more about hurting OrangeManBad than actually helping this country.  As a side note, any program that has on the witless bartender yet again needs to be shut down as a "news" agency.  If you actually push the googly-eyed, horse-faced socialist as a serious thinker rather than the drooling retard that she is, you do not get to call yourself "news".  Or "serious".  Or any pleasant adjective.

This virus has been here long before the officials said it was.  We're not all dying in droves.  We're not building mass graves.  And the data that we can actually verify shows it to be a serious virus, but not the plague.  I wouldn't want my parents to catch it.  Hell, I wouldn't want to catch it.  But we are not all going to die in the next month.  Calm the hell down.

Yes, the data we can actually verify.  If Italy is labeling anyone who dies after being diagnosed with this virus a Wuhan Flu death, despite whatever the cause of death, then we can't trust the data from Italy.) (Oh look!  He guzzled five liters of wine a day and smoked three packs a day, but he got the Kung Flu so that's obviously what killed him!  Not.)  We could never trust the data from China.  We cannot trust the data from Iran.  We can trust the data from Japan and South Korea.  We can mostly trust our own data, so long as it hasn't been filtered through the shit-spewing parasites in the MSM.

Don't panic.  Wash your hands.  And for the love of God, stop listening to socialist shit-stirring fuckheads who care more about hurting OrangeManBad than helping this country.

The Pelosi-Schumer bill is full of crap

And who knew that the reason Chuck Schumer is a hunch-back is because he's constantly bent over sucking Granny Rictus McBotox's dick?

You can go read the details.  Every time I think that the Democrats are a bunch of anti-American communists who can't go any lower, the go lower.

Pelosi and Schumer are garbage human beings.  They're fucking parasites in suits, sucking the life out of this country, and trying to destroy this country even faster now that we're dealing with the Kung Flu.

And every fucking Democrat senator who went along with this is an absolute boil on humanity's ass.

This pathetic fucking shitshow is why Normal Americans will be lining up to piss on Pelosi and Schumer's grave when they finally fucking shuffle off this mortal coil, and you can be damned sure that once their bodies are in the ground, Pelosi and Schumer will be spending eternity burning in hell for what they've done, both in the past and now.

They are foul, horrible, disgusting, contemptable people who deserve nothing good.

Anybody, and I mean ANYBODY who votes for this fucking Democrat-wet-dream garbage needs to be stripped naked and then tarred and feathered on national TV.

Well, isn't this just &^%$#@ great?

So after the Wuhan Kung Flu, we now get another bird flu from China?

At what point do we finally un-couple ourselves from this communist shithole?

Maybe, just maybe, outsourcing all our vital manufacturing to a communist dictatorship with medevil sanitation practices wasn't the best fucking idea, huh?

Trump sending chloroquine to NY

"What do we have to lose?"

See, this is why I like Trump.  He doesn't worry about what money the Big Pharma lobby is shoving in to his pockets, because they're not shoving any money into his pockets.  The Congresscritters who wrote Obamacare?  BIIIIIIIIG money.

But that question right there is the right thing to ask.  Will chloroquine kill any patients?  No, so long as you're not the idiot who took the version that was for aquatic parasites.

Seriously, we have this medicine.  Maybe it works, maybe it doesn't.  We don't have anything else to counter this virus.  If we give the patients chloroquine, they might get better.  They might not.  But if we do nothing, we already know what will happen, so what the hell do we have to lose?

I hope it works.  In the meantime, I'm taking the organic compound that chloroquine is based on, on a daily basis.  That compound is called quinine.  It's found in tonic water, and it goes well with gin.

China lied. People died.

The Chinese virus, which started in Wuhan, China, was covered up by the Chinese government until it was too big to cover up any more.  At that point, the globe was pretty much screwed.  The CCP knew about the Wuhan virus back in November.

Based on what I've seen, they might have known even earlier.  And as I've already stated, this bug was here in America by December, we just didn't know it was here because we assumed it was another flu virus.

Had a very interesting chat with some in-laws last night.  They went and visited their progeny in a large mid-west city in February, and the way they described the people on their flight was jaw-dropping.  There was at least one woman who was visibly, massively ill at the front of the plane, and at least half the plane was coughing and hacking the entire flight.  They got home and were absolutely hammered with some sort of virus.  103 fever, pains and aches, breathing issues.

Sound like any virus you might know about that's been in the news lately?

Folks, this Wuhan flu has been in America and making the rounds.  We're just testing for it now, which means we're finding cases that docs would have written off as an Influenza Like Illness back in January.  So the number of cases will skyrocket and the media will continue their shrieking, hair-on-fire panic and hysteria.

But it won't change anything.

If the media reported auto deaths in the same fashion that they report the Wuhan flu, nobody would drive.

Democrats, being Socialists, care more about power grabs than helping Americans.

But you knew this already.  I have to say, this $Trillion-plus boondoggle wasn't going to fix everything, and there were way to many give-aways of other people's money.  But it was an attempt to help.

And Granny Rictus McBotox doesn't give a shit.  She wants her government funded abortion.  She wants her political power.  She wants to shit all over Normal Americans and destroy their freedoms, so she's going to use a political crisis to do it.

The supposed bipartisanship to help the economic fallout from the Wuhan coronavirus fell apart on Sunday after Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi returned to DC

Coincidence? Probably not because the minute she gets back, shows off her “wishlist,” the Democrats vote no on a bill they negotiated.

Democrats hate America.  They really do.  And Nancy Pelosi is a soul-less hag.  She really can't go to hell fast enough.

More common sense about the Chinese virus

It is not as bad as you think it is, and it's nowhere near as bad as the media makes it out to be.

Now, this doesn't mean that I'm going to go visit dad if I've been exposed to it, because I'm still going to take precautions based on HIS statistics.  But I'm not going to die from this.  You are most likely not going to die from this.  This hysteria is manufactured.

Sent by my dad

He's been "quarantined", due to age and health reasons, but he hasn't caught a darn thing so far.  That's a good thing.  My dad's an introvert.  The older he's gotten, the more introverted he's become.  I'm somewhat following the same track, but he could be quite happy alone in the house for weeks at a time.  In other words, he's been preparing for social distancing his entire life.  "Oh, you mean I get to stay home, eat good food, and don't have to talk to anyone?  SOLD!"

The "conscious uncoupling" from China can begin now, thanks.

Tom Cotton puts forth a plan to bring drug manufacturing back to the USA.  Good.  About damn time.  Let's get our manufacturing of everything back here instead of letting a communist dictatorship do it.

If there's a silver lining to this whole Chinese virus panic, it's that people are finally waking up to just how much of our life has been shipped to China.  And they might actually start wondering who did that, and who profited off of it.

I do believe we were discussing this on Tuesday's post

Wuhan virus has been here since at least January if not earlier.

It’s not unreasonable, in fact, it’s necessary and responsible, to consider that COVID-19 has been in the states since the first of the year; that people suffering similar symptoms to the flu actually had COVID-19; and that the peak of the outbreak occurred last month. The number of people now testing positive for the virus does not mean that the outbreak is accelerating because the data is incomplete.

Also, expect to see the number of Wuhan virus cases climb in the USA due to expanded testing.  Undersatnd that it'll be reported breathlessly by the same half-wit Democrat operatives as somehow new and dangerous, because they're morons parroting whatever line they think will hurt Donald Trump.  But what it will actually mean is that those cases were here all along, not dying, not turning into zombies, because this is just another virus that we have to fight off.

Anyways, this virus has been here for a while, which makes all of the official pronouncements of numbers worthless until they start to count the people who reported Influenza-like illnesses.

In all likelihood, the best thing that happened to control this was when President Trump stopped travel from China.

Always look on the bright side of life

Ms. Bookworm has a few thoughts.

I am more and more convinced that the hysteria over the Wuhan virus is being manufactured for the benefit of the Democrats and their allies.  Just like how the Democrat Media Complex is now screaming that calling the Wuhan Flu the Wuhan Flu is racist, despite the fact that this virus came from Wuhan and the Chinese government did everything wrong and caused a pandemic.

Don't worry, be happy!  And never trust the Chi-Coms.

More common sense regarding the Wuhan Kung-Flu

They had a perfect experimental petri dish to see what the Kung Flu did.  Here's the raw data.

In addition to the low rate of disease incidence (83% didn’t get it), the curious part of Figure 2 for me is that there’s not a whole lot of difference between young and old passengers in terms of how many didn’t get coronavirus. For example, sixty to sixty-nine-year-old passengers stayed healthier than teenagers. And three-quarters of the oldest group, those over eighty, didn’t get the virus. Go figure. Buncha virus resistant old geezers, I guess …

Next, slightly less than half the passengers (48.6% ± 2.0%) who got the disease showed NO symptoms. If this disease is so dangerous, how come half the people who got it showed no symptoms at all?

Don't panic.  Wash your hands.  This isn't the Black Plague or Flu-bola.

Has the Wuhan Kung-Flu been here all along?

I say "Yes".

Look, you cannot convince me that the Wuhan virus just suddenly appeared last October.  That is just when the Chi-Coms were unable to stop the spread of information regarding the Kung-Flu.

But people in China were getting sick long before that.  And I'm willing to bet that they were coming here, doing the tourist things, and passing that virus on to the people here.  Nobody was searching for it here.  It was just "Oh, you've got the flu.  Stay home."

I betcha.

If the DNC is a toxic dumpster fire of anti-Americanism

The GOP is a toxic dumpster fire of stupidity and greed.

At some point, if Republicans can’t provide a bold alternative, we need to ask: Why even have a Republican Party? Republicans talk tough against the Democrats whenever it doesn’t matter, but every time the ball is actually in play to pass major legislation during our most challenging moments, they sign on to whatever the Democrats want.

Donald Trump seems to be one of the few people in Washington D.C. who actually care about Normal Americans.  Which is why he's President, and the usual GOP clown car failed.

The GOP is still in the grip of the same losers who tried to foist Jeb! on us.  Pathetic, sniveling, craven pieces of shit who do whatever the Democrats want them to do, and it's infuriating.

We needed adults with backbones during this crisis.  We have wet, limp, brainless tapeworms.

If we get through this, it'll be because President Trump once again dragged the GOP to victory.

Globalism is the disease. MAGA is the cure.

Can't really add much to this.

If President Trump and MAGA conservatives can leave behind the Beltway, they can transform America.

The China trade, once a subject of bitter debate between those who benefit and those who lose, is now an undeniable threat. As the PRC threatens to impose export controls on medications, and, as we learn how long the coronavirus can endure on metal and plastic in a viable form, we have all the arguments we need for decoupling our economy from the Communist enemies who had devoured it whole.

Meanwhile, we can also take on political correctness. The Democrat insistence on condemning descriptions of coronavirus as the “Wuhan virus” as racist once again shows that they put their politics ahead of dealing with the threat. The more they’re triggered into spasms of political correctness, the more obvious it becomes that Joe Biden, who made a point of condemning politically incorrect references to the virus, would be hogtied by his party’s obsession with speech controls above all else.

And the Democrats have tried to shove through a bill all the pork-barrel projects that they can't get passed through normal means, including federal funding for abortion.

Here's what I want, just for once.  I want the President to take that bill and hold a press conference, and I want him to go through the most egregious points of that bill, and demand that fucking botoxed bitch explain exactly how funding abortion will help stop the Wuhan Kung-Flu.  Oh, you want millions for diversity centers at Tranny U?  How exactly will that stop the spread of the Wuhan virus?

Hammer.  Them.  In.  Public.

And then, after reading off item after item that are nothing but Leftist wet dreams, publicly declare that the Democrats don't care about the USA (which is true), the Democrats don't care about stopping the Wuhan virus (which is true), the Democrats don't care how many people die as long as they can gain political power from it (which is true), and that the Democrats need to stop their games and actually come up with a bill that does it's intended purpose; i.e. aid in the prevention of the Wuhan Kung-Flu.

I know, it's a dream.  But still, at some point if you refuse to speak the truth, you are going to be smothered by the lies the Democrats produce at a prodigious rate every single day.

A bit more sanity

Look folks, we're all gonna die at some point.  The Wuhan Kung-Flu might getcha.  Probably not.

It's a virus.  It belongs to the type of virus family that causes the common cold.  I guarantee that you know someone who's had it, and they didn't even know it because the symptoms are a sniffle, a sore throat and maybe some coughing.  In other words, a cold.

Here in Utah we have a big tourism economy.  Well, we did until it all shut down last week, but I digress.  We have people come from all over the world to hike the national parks, ski the mountains, and do what tourists do.

Do you really think that we magically don't have the Wuhan Kung-Flu in Utah?  Really?  What magic barrier do we have that kept it out as people from China and Italy came here to party and relax?

We are going to experience far more damage by the hysteria and panic caused by the Democrats and the Media (but I repeat myself) than we're going to suffer from the virus itself.  And that statement will be true even if we suffer 100,000 deaths from the Wuhan virus alone.

And there's still no TP in the stores.

It looks like it's riding season again

I had one of those "DUH!" moments the other week, as I was looking at the weather report and scratching my head.

See, I always thought of Utah as "northern", because it's on the southern border of Idaho, and Idaho is "North", at least where the USA is concerned.  Mountains, colder winters, etcetera.  And because I spent much of my growing-up time in Idaho, I just naturally thought that Utah was North as well, especially when I lived here in the mid-90's for a few months and saw all the snow.

But take a gander at a map, and you'll see that Salt Lake City is just north of the Mason-Dixon line.  As in Maryland and Pennsylvania.  Which in the grand scheme of things isn't very North at all.  It's not Washington.  It's not Montana.  We're pretty much smack-dab in the middle of the country as far as latitude goes.  This state literally sits between Idaho and Arizona.

Which means that when I looked at the weather report and saw I could ride today, in the middle of March, I should not be surprised.

Good thing I take care of my riding leathers.

And tomorrow is the high and holy feast day of St. Patrick.  The boss has giving me permission to wear a kilt.  Muah-hah-hah!

Just a note - there will be no kilt on a motorcycle.  Not at 40 degrees.  I don't want to experience that kind of shrinkage on the interstate.

Stolen from Instapundit

Because I no longer have twitter.



But that's a good'un.

Here's a nice little slice of sanity

Amongst all the people screaming about how we're all gonna die in the next 30 days from the Wuhan Kung-Flu.

Keep in mind that despite any problems with paying for it, we have the best health care in the world right here in the US. Italy? Not so much, which is why their mortality rate is higher. China? Not even close. Iran? 7th Century medicine is not up to the task.

None of the people I know, including my 100 year old Mother in Law, are hysterical about this.

This is not the plague.  We're not all gonna die.  Wash your hands.  Don't trust the Chi-Coms to do anything other than grab and maintain power through any means necessary.  And remember that the Wuhan virus came from a communist country with single-payer health care, and has thrived in countries with single-payer health care like Italy.  I won't even go into what's wrong with Iran, because I don't have the time required to write it all down.

The EU is most likely fucked.  They have single-payer health care, which is essentially a death sentence to older folks under these situations.  They have millions upon millions of 7th century barbarians who wipe their ass with their hands and then go rape the local women, which is NOT a good thing for sanitation or hygiene.

We're not Italy, or any of the EU.  We're not Iran.  And we're not China, although the Democrats are working to change that as quickly as possible.  We will get through this.  Don't panic.  Wash your hands.

Truth

The media is a toxic dumpster fire of Democrat hacks and Leftist shills.  But I repeat myself.

More people are in danger from the panic being incited by pundits, politicians, and journalists than they are from coronavirus. You’d never know that if you turned on your TV.

You want to know why the media is now screeching that associating the Wuhan Flu with China in any way shape or form is "racist"?  Because their Leftist masters told them to do so.  The DNC or China, could be either, could be both.

Woke up to go to mass

Then remembered that there is no mass this weekend, as the diocese has cancelled them.  Said the Rosary instead.

This is just another way that the Latin Mass is superior to the Novus Ordo.  We don't glad-hand around while Christ is on the alter.  No shaking hands in the middle of the most important hour of the most important day of the week.

Off to clean the house more.

So it's a National Emergency

Because of the Wuhan virus.  By the way, every time you mention the Wuhan virus, make sure you call it by its proper name:  Wuhan virus.  Apparently, the Left is now claiming that calling it the Wuhan virus or Chinese coronavirus is racist.  Because in the twisted, drug-addled brain of a Leftists, naming something after where it first appeared is racist.  But that's life when you mainline Marxism with your meth, I guess.  So I'm going to call it the Wuhan virus from now on.  "Coronavirus" is a name for a family of viruses we've been dealing with for millennia now, and Covid-19 doesn't piss off enough Leftists.

Wuhan Flu.

Wuhan virus.

Wuhan coronavirus.

Chinese coronavirus.

Take your pick.  Use 'em all at once for multiple head-popping effect!  Call it the Wuhan Kung-Flu and see who's head spins off in outrage.  Then you'll know who you can trigger in a crowd.

By the way, when Trump blasts the CDC for their Soviet-style control on the Wuhan Flu test, he wasn't wrong.


The media continues to be a toxic dumpster fire of Leftist, Marxist propaganda run by walking pieces of human garbage.  Yes, I know I harp on this a lot.  But dammit, these people are absolute tools of both China and the DNC, and I'm going to scream back at them in the only way I can.

Every now and then, humanity forgets what it takes to survive. And then it gets hit.

Perfect example - a society struggles when basic things like sanitation get ignored.  Living in filth means risking an epidemic.

So San FranFreakShow allows public defecation and used needles on the streets.  What do you think will happen when Covid-19 hits the streets there?

There's shit on the streets of Seattle.  There's shit and piss all over Los Angeles, because the people there have forgotten some basic facts about life; do not allow drug addicts to shit all over the place.  There's already been Hep A outbreaks in LA and San Diego because of drug addicts shitting in the streets.  That should have been a wake up call.

I do think that there will be quite a few dead from Covid-19 in America.  Many of those deaths will be tragedies, but they will be caused by the absolute refusal to understand basic truths about life.  Covid-19 will be spread by societies that have forgotten what it takes to survive.  Or by people who just don't care, like the drug addicts shitting in the streets.

There are multiple posts about how the media is doing its absolute best to cause panic

Because panic hurts Trump and helps the Democrats, who can then say that Trump caused the problem, or isn't doing anything to help the problem, or any number of lies they've spewed.

Sarah Hoyt:

You can scream “racist” all you want, but nationalities are not races, and viruses don’t care. The end of this will be sensible border control. Sorry if you won’t like it, media, you brought it on yourselves. You could have treated this like you treated swine flu, and not hurt the economy, but your senseless fury against Orange Man Bad is leading you to all those unintended consequences…. We’ll enjoy them.  We don’t know about you.

There's more from The Spectator and Victory Girls as well.  The bottom line is that the media here in the US of A is a flaming dumpster fire filled with garbage people.  And I don't mean the kinds of hard working folks who pick up your trash every week, I mean walking piles of breathing, talking garbage.  Democrat partisans who will do everything they can to destroy this country because Orange Man Bad, and (austistic screeching).  Filthy lumps of sub-human shit who hate this country, hate Normal Americans, hate you for refusing to submit to them, and hate Trump with such a fury that no lie is to gross for them to tell, no action is too corrupt for them to commit, all in service to their DNC lords and masters.

Cut the cable, folks.  Dump the dish.  Stop willingly accepting this crap into your homes.  The only way to hurt them is to cut off their cash flow, and dammit, they need to be hurt.  Get rid of your TV.  It wasn't until I stopped the flow of their propaganda into my home that I saw just how blatant and insidius their propagana is.  Now the only time I even hear any bullshit from anti-American assholes like the Commie News Network is when I'm stuch at an airport gate.


I don't know if I'll be happy until Brian Stelter is sobbing while he's dumping box wine into his Frosted Flakes and wondering where he can get a job next.

Steven Crowder did something like this

Irish conservatives set up website to snare various fascists and dictators with their own words and actions.  The Irish Antifa Project.

Many young people on the Irish Right have long claimed that there is institutional bias constantly working against them. However, it is only now that we can definitively say that this is not the case.

There is no institutional bias against young conservatives. There is an outright conspiracy against them. A conspiracy that starts at the lower levels of university life and leads all the way up, like a conveyor belt, to the NGO complex and the halls of the Oireachtas. Individuals brazenly abusing their positions of power trying to destroy their political opponents, with no fear of repercussions. It is with this series of exposés that these repercussions will finally start to materialise. 

And as usual, the cockroaches are scurrying away from the light.

The point that the Left refuses to see

OK, it's the sixth point they refuse to see, but it's one that you can bludgeon them with quickly.

Sixth, Democrats are ignoring a salient point about the coronavirus: it started in a country with socialized medicine (China) and is having its worst effects in two other countries with socialized medicine: Iran and Italy.  There's a bright, flashing message in that that American leftists refuse to read.

If socialized medicine was so great, the coronavirus would have never gotten as bad as it is, and people wouldn't be freaking out right now.

Top. Men.

The government knew within two weeks that the entire Trump-Russia Collusion hoax was utter and complete bullshit.

But they went on with the investigation anyway.

 This is our government.  A group of thugs, weaponized by the Left, trained to attack anyone that threatens their hold on power.

The NBA just cancelled it's season

My give-a-damn meter barely budged.  I do feel sorry for all the folks who work at the arenas, because they just took a massive hit to their pay checks.  That sucks for them.  But I haven't watched an NBA game in well over a decade.  Maybe fifteen years?  I don't know.  I refuse to watch what used to be a team game devolve into thugball for narcissists.  I think the only reason I know the Toronto team won the championship last year is because of talk radio being all gaga about it.  If you asked me to name a player, I'd have to say that dude who's now in Los Angeles that nobody will shut up about.

Everybody knows who the points leader in the NBA is.  Nobody knows who the leader in steals and assists is.  And it's the same guy who holds those records.  But he didn't talk shit, he didn't play trash.  He was the consummate professional.  And the average NBA fan just doesn't care about that very much.

So buh-bye, NBA.  I never missed ya, because I really don't give a crap about ya.

I'm dragging ass this week

As I get older, the multitude of 12 hour days repeatedly kicks my ass.  Not having a weekend or a day to get crap done kicks my ass.  Not having a recovery day kicks my ass.  So I apologize for the lack of coherent posting this week, but my ass is kicked.

I'm watching the continuing freak-out about Covid-19.  One of the training summits I was to attend in April has been cancelled.  I have a training later this month, and another in early April that are still on for the time being, but I wonder for how long.

The unit commander (who actually is a medical professional) went on a little diatribe during the last CUB, basically saying that at this point, 90% of the people in that room were going to contract the coronavirus, and of that 90% at least half of them won't even know they have it.  Of the half that actually feel sick, most of them will suffer a sore throat and some sniffles, but that's about it.  A small minority of them will actually have a fever.  And unless you are older or immuno-compromised, the risk of death from this virus is small.  The whole point being, Covid-19 is in America, it's going to spread because people are stupid, but the actual effects will be minimal.  In America.

In other countries where hygiene and sanitation aren't really a thing (like China or Iran), the effects are going to be much worse.  We in America can go by some Thera-Flu, stay home, drink hot tea and recover.  In China, they work you till you drop, then toss you in your front door and seal it behind you.  Health and Nutrition aren't exactly a thing in China, you get me?  Living in a society where people piss and shit in public means your immune system is already overloaded just trying to keep you alive from the toxic crap you're tracking in to your house, and now you add a respiratory virus on top of that?  Bad juju.  Here in America, where only liberal cities allow people to piss and shit in public, the risk is far lower.  In fact, the vast majority of cases that have popped up in America are either contracted overseas and brought back here (as is the case for the people from Utah who came down with it), or it's from people who live in cities where people piss and shit in public.  Seattle, San FranFreakShow, Lost Angeles, etcetera.

Wash your hands.  Avoid places that allow hobo druggies to piss and shit in public.  Don't panic.

The Liberal Hate Machine

Gab is tracking it!  We all know that Twatter is a cesspool of liberal politics, and a self-licking ice cream cone of hatred.  But it's nice to have it shown in data form.

The stock markets can't figure out what to do

And I'm buying more stock index funds, because as the idiots and losers shed their stocks in a panic, they just keep getting cheaper.  That market is going back up, folks.  And the big difference is that I'll have more of their money in my pocket when it comes to retirement.

To quote this post at Instapundit:  I haven't lost a dime.  I haven't sold anything.