BREAKING: Virus Kills Easter Bunny
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James Proudfoot Sun on a House, Dieppe 1937 Famous last words?! “I would love to have it open by Easter,” Trump said in an interview Tue
[See the full post at: BREAKING: Virus Kills Easter Bunny]Is there a regular address for someone that would like to write a paper check? Sorry to be so untech, but I just have a hard time making these things work. If you ever need a hand with a horse or a mule I am the guy to call. I wait for your posts every day. Never mind I found it!
Gratuitous verbiage added so I won’t be posting a link by itself.
So, just had a beer with neighbors, they on porch and me in driveway. A “normal” moment I have missed.
I put forward this question to them: “Do you think everything will go back to normal, almost just like before?” One said “Yes, people have a short memory. Soon this will be past us, the Dow will be right back up, our 401k’s will be right back up, corporations will be whole and it’ll be a memory, a blip. Universities with full classrooms back in business.”
But my cognitive (emotional?) bias says something different, that history shows us that at some point the authorities are NOT able to stitch it back together in a reasonable resemblance of the previous assemblage. Maybe it won’t be this time, but… But I’m certainly no fortune-teller.
It seems that the Fed will print their money, that corporations will be made “whole”, but, …
In my own experience I have had people occasionally play mind games with me, getting me to believe stuff that is further and further “out there” until one day a line is crossed and not only do I suddenly not believe the latest, but everything said prior is tossed out.
So I guess I put that question out here, certainly not that anyone knows for sure, but this was quite a bit on the “American way of life”. Going back to “normal”?
To me anyway, the future is fairly clear. Unless shelters are built, free healthcare provided, and sufficient food distributed to avoid starvation, sheltering in place (mitigation) will stagger along until something shatters it; unrest or the economy is restarted with a broken healthcare system continuing to kill patients and healthcare workers.
Until there is a vaccine or an effective antiviral treatment, the only alternative to expansion, waves of reinfection and continuous deaths is a public health regime (containment) based on universal paid coronavirus testing, rigorous contact tracing to identify new cases, and enforced quarantine of the infected (ill and asymptomatic). Two negative tests and the quarantine ends. The economy can be restarted with healthy workers who won’t spread the virus. This will not be forever only until there is an effective treatment.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/03/23/mass-testing-is-only-sustainable-solution/Plutocrats will fight spending money to keep the riff-raff alive. Neoliberals will hate the restoration of functioning national governments and the loss of freedom to infect others. A safe functioning economy sooner will cost much less now than later. Also, it will save western civilization.
Illargi’a advice, taken to heart: hold no debt; consume less; relocalize; increase community self-sufficiency; reduce dependence on centralized life-support systems.
After typing the above question I realized why this was important: simply hearing different possibilities of what the future might hold allows me to be better prepared mentally for whatever happens; it won’t be as big a surprise.
Sometime ago, I can’t remember where or when I read about an analysis of the average temperature in the US over a few days after 9/11. I thin the result was a 1 to 1.5 degree C increase due to the shutdown of the airlines. No planes in the sky, no high altitude exhaust particles.
With the global shut we are having, as well as the industrial shutdown, I wonder what we might experience in the coming weeks? Less particulates in the atmosphere means more incident solar radiation = more heat.James Proudfoot Sun on a House, Dieppe 1937
Lordy, lordy, what a beautiful painting. Fantastic light and shadows…As I have said a couple of times prior: there is no map going forward; we haven’t been here before.
One step/day at a time seems to be the best option…
Your leaders have all failed. Your society has failed.
Your life is fully in your hands; it always has been, but now it’s blindingly obvious.
I for one, wish everybody the very best; we’re not all going to survive this moment in our (human) history.
I’m at a loss to see how things can ever return to “normal”; whatever the hell that is…I find myself vacillating between two different virus trajectories. There is a part of me that hopes for a speedy solution to the pandemic, so as to sustain the least amount of damage to those that are most vulnerable; not only the old and the poor, but the small business owner sans K Street lobbyist, who might never recover financially.
The other part wishes for the pandemic to burn through the world with a destructive force, slowly grinding down the populations and power structures of all nations. A planetary cleansing if you would. A global reset that would provide the survivors a space in which to build a better world based on more socially responsible and equitable principles.
The neoliberal disease of unregulated greed already extracts a heavy toll on the planet and its inhabitants. Maybe this is what’s needed to set the stage for something better.
Governor Andrew Cuomo says we should all help New York because helping New York will teach us how to help ourselves when coronavirus hits us all weeks later.
This exhortation is reminiscent of a certain NYC mayor’s appeal to us all after 911.
There’s never any mention as to NYC’s assistance to the rest of us or any documented follow through.Would you choose a lung-wrenching respirator if there were an off-label, known-to-be-safe antimalarial which has proven to be effective, at least in some cases?
I felt so much easier when the chloroquine compounds were suggested: a treatment that defeats the virus in a week or less. Do the clinical trials, of course- but if I go in with The Virus, I want the soft treatment first before I am near-death facing a respirator: I don’t care if it is “approved”.
Easter will still happen. It’s a state of mind, not a thing.We have never live through a jubilee.
LOOK Its happening, HIDING BEHIND THE VIRUS. Its a jubilee for the connected elites.
All of that MMT money is being used to save the elites.We will be able to write the history books of what life is like after a elite jubilee
My read of history says the people are always worse off after a crisis due to the elites using the opportunity to steal more wealth from the people than they could get away with in normal times.
During a crisis, the normal checks break down allowing the elites to plunder without restraint.
Observing Washington and Ottawa, there is no crisis, it is business as usual.
Norminisanisland:
If you are talking global warming, I am all for it!
Send it my way please! I can’t wait any longer!
Yesterday, in Toronto we had a silent shot of snow!
I want to be able to step outside of my igloo!
Here is a prayer that may or may not be pertinent for these times:
Forgive us our secrets as we forgive those
Of our friends and our loved ones.
We only suppose our secrets are hidden from curious eyes.
Let us not be mistaken:
Our secrets breed lies.Forgive us our secrets as we forgive those
Of our experts and leaders, who wear them like clothes
To hide indiscretions; for power; for ill-
Let us not be mistaken:
Our secrets can kill.Started in 1983. Released into the wild today.
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