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Wow, Fauci has now come into line with Herr Docktor precisely, with 10x more than regular flu, but still under 1%. Seasonal flu probably doesn’t actually have a 0.1% fatality, as literally no one gets tested. It’s 0.1% among those who WERE tested, in a hospital. Since virtually everyone gets the flu each year, it would be more like 0.005% (15k vs 300M)
Since they were both the same scientists (Fauci) with the same experts each time, why would we believe the more panic conclusion instead of the less panic one? Just ‘cause? We have more data now than Jan 1st not, less, but now we’re more stupid and wrong? It’s always time to panic and surrender. Your rights. Your cash. Your family.
So I’m going to record all the names and all the articles for later. Will experts ever be discredited? A: Never. No matter how many thousand years or how many millions dead. We have 1,000 years of history supporting that. Google “Eugenics”
So Taleb’s model is garbage. All his base assumptions are wrong, as is usual with these things. First, Jan 25 is 60 days after the presumed origin, and 100fold more than 2k people already had it, 30k had probably already been killed, and those people had already flown worldwide for New Year’s. He also hadn’t the faintest idea who those people were. Third, the WHO and YOU both said “Don’t you shut those flights down, you racist pig!”
Even so, “shutting down travel” is equivalent to “shutting down the worldwide economy” on which the entire medical system depends for supplies, and will kill multiple thousands more than the flu. In addition, given 40 day hibernation and reinfection, with no antibodies, this would mean shutting down the planet for 40 x 3-odd cycles, or six months, plus re-shutting it every few months forever. That’s not my science, it’s theirs. So: good with shutting down all food, shoes, truck and tractor parts for half a year under a rolling unending totalitarian regime? Ah, Stalinism re-enacted, Socialism at its finest! As requested by schmarty-schmart “experts” worldwide. To save us from…? Sure hiding in your house is super-smart from one narrow perspective, but not for anyone who can see a fraction of the whole picture. It takes a second to see you’ll kill a hundredfold people of the virus by shutting the worldwide economic system and moving it to command-and-control by insiders, virtually forever.
So anyway, China now has no new infections, but is being infected from foreigners. Who do not infect people because there are no infections. Gotcha. WHO and CDC cheer and support this implicitly with all their expert might. CNN reports this without comment and the people believe it without question.
Yes, they didn’t test because they need a crisis to do what they’re doing. But what is it they ARE doing? Resetting the financial system while paying YOU, as the Fed is rolled into the Treasury, and markets are levitated, while businesses still exist for a while. Or not. You can fret that some money was mishandled right now, but there may be bigger things afoot, maybe?
“ 3-18 months in prison..”
So if you’re probably infected, we’re going to throw you into close quarters with a policeman, a judge, and other inmates. Gotcha. Your go-to fascism to lay hands on all resistance doesn’t work so well in the new era, does it? Who’s going to make them? Who’s going to guard them? Since your rules just created 30% more potential prisoners, are you going to build 30% more beds, or just let out the violent offenders instead? Government: made of stupid. Nobody’s going to obey anything except voluntarily, on a normal day, but especially now. You have the power, not them. Stop being a coward and start acting like it.
“After years of outsourcing manufacturing,”
Huh, almost like we should have domestic manufacturing, employment, and functional borders. Who said dat? For four years?
Oddly, his article doesn’t point up how much MORE exposed the Chinese system has become, how much worse they planned, nor that low oil prices are the greatest boon the economy’s seen in 60 years and will make this go better than anything else they could have done. I’d also guess he’s the guy who voted for government “help” in healthcare that made rules forcing healthcare out of it’s functional size and delivery in 1992 and into the hollowed out, devastated state it is now. And as I keep writing every day, it’s not unaffordable. Provided you have no job, or are not a citizen, you can get infinite health care for free. Only if you work or save do you pay.
“US May Be Headed For Highest Unemployment Ever (RT)”
We’ve had 15% unemployment since 2000, and +20% since 2008. That’s what 10M out of workforce means. As all Socialist systems. Prob over 30-40% for the shut down.
“Yet Another Rant on Coronavirus & Trump (Brad DeLong)”
Another expert who has no numbers but TDS. Okay, what if everyone already has it, Brad? What if it’s sub 1% as the experts now say? What if you kill 100M people via unemployment instead? Thought about that? NOPE! Besides, we are now testing, but since the WHO and China tests were 80% wrong, as predicted, we needed to invent and produce those tests first. He’ll also be first to freak out when the number infected is 15 million, because we bothered to start testing. Here’s some cat food, I’ll pull you out of your basement quaking when it’s all over.
“represents a massive upward transfer of wealth.”
All bailouts and particularly all inflations do this. That’s why each time they “help”, income disparity increases. No one learns, they demand more. “[Three weeks] will be too late for the nearly 3.3 million people” Why will it be too late? Did they die? Will their landlord not cash the check? Will they say, “I never heard of no national pandemic thingy”? No, it’s too late because you made it up in your imagination, wrote it down on paper, and can’t tell the difference.
“international solidarity has played a priceless role in enabling the government to rise to the challenge. China sent coronavirus diagnostic kits that will allow 320,000 Venezuelans to be tested,”
Wow, you’re right. Those totally wrong tests will be very helpful. Ah governments. Who caused this in the first place, then dithered for 4 months. If only we were like them.
“government quickly carried out a plan to contain the spread”
Genius! If only we had been like them! Oh wait, they did this in MARCH, a month after we did, and 2-4 months after the start of worldwide national daily news. Isn’t that like the most irresponsible timeline of any nation so far? And is anybody following it? No one pays attention to the government there for anything else. …Nevermind. Socialism is always good. You know, like in China!
Just like today’s pics, where the doctors who deny its existence have great gear up until they are hauled away and go missing, and where what we REALLY want is a Dow of zero to stick it to those fat cats. …While we therefore by definition make no gloves, ship no masks, sell no food, and shut off the heat to your house. #Winning! No Dow, living in caves, le plus maxium doubleplus good. That’ll larn them!
Let’s see if I can describe this properly: Commenter notes that the numbers we are seeing are 7 days in the rear view mirror. R0 notes that that we may have far more than 10x the number of untested or unsymptomatic cases. Let’s say NYC has 37,000. So if they’re doubling every 6 days that’s 75,000 x say 20x unknown/untested = 1.5 Million in NYC already have it. There are only 8.6M people in the city so we are 1/6th through.
Yet on the other side, the ICU/death cases, those are 100%. No one who needs the ICU waits 7 days just to keep the reported numbers in sync. So we are looking at ICU death numbers essentially 7 days ahead of the tested/reported numbers, and then never-reported, never-symptomatic which we know is wildly higher.
We have 280 NYC deaths. Per 1.5M people today’s estimated real infection. 0.018% death rate. If we are 1/6th through, 6 x 280 = 1,680 total deaths. Over say 3 months = 18.6 people/day. Normal death rate for NYC = 54,000. Even if those were all additional deaths — which is completely untrue, perhaps 80% would happen anyway because most people are over 70 and already have major underlying illness – that would add only 3%.
I can’t prove the exact numbers — and neither can they — but we can collectively agree, assume, and know this. So if I know this sitting in my parent’s basement, the WHO, CDC, Hopkins, Fauci DON’T know this? Oxford does. They published the study yesterday, which pretty sure BoJo, as head of state, read weeks ago. If he has the virus, why would he care? Virtually no one dies of it.
Would the Diamond Princess indicate this for anyone with passable math a month ago? 100% exposure among the 100% fatality group (over 60) and 11 dead of 2,670 passengers (assumes all crew are below 50) = 0.4% fatality among the only group who is at ANY measurable risk at all. Why do you think they locked them in and ran the test?
Look, I’m relatively weak at math as you know. But I did take competent math in grade school and retain it. I have a calculator function on my home computer. So do you.
You’re being conned. We’ve shut down a planet of 8 Billion for the deaths of one small town and you the people beg slavishly for open-ended martial law under Cheeto and give $6 Trillion leveraged 50:1 to the super-wealthy who will run that martial law and who are not subject to it, as always under Fascist, Socialist regimes. 4,400 Allies died on Normandy. Cuomo says he won’t let one death happen, not even for the sake of freedom, not for his country, not for any reason at all.
If only they showed such love when 30,000/year were being carried away, with all the morgues full and all the orphans left from only ONE cause during the 10 years of opioids in Kentucky and Arkansas. Can’t care/won’t care/didn’t care. But the death of ONE New Yorker! Why I say old chum! Math? Math says the life of a Coastal is now measurably 1,000x more important that the life of a Flyover. But we knew that for years. Sue Collins wrote a whole book on it.
If not a single person will risk themselves, will die for our principles of law, equality, and freedom who am I to say? Does any group who so cowers and begs and abandon their neighbors deserve better? We’re going to fight a war against a worldwide, invisible enemy and not lose a single man. If a single man is lost, or even risked, we’ll surrender all instantly, on the spot as we have a sub-0.4% chance of dying. Right? Sound good? Sign-up sheet is at the door. Let us all know which you choose, who you are.
“a study released by Oxford finds that perhaps 50% of those in the UK have the virus and the overwhelming number experience it like the normal flu and have little symptoms. The study suggests that fewer than one in a thousand of those infected with Covid-19 become ill enough to need hospital treatment.”
https://www.ft.com/content/5ff6469a-6dd8-11ea-89df-41bea055720bThat matches Denninger. And our determined delay with tests. Because once we have a denominator, we’ll realize everybody has it.
Another day we don’t admit we have a pretty solid cure?
Another day no one died in China?
Another day we pretend the official 400,00 cases are deaths and not cold symptoms?
Always a good day to panic, always time to surrender.
Never a good day for math.
37,461 US Traffic / Year = 9,365.25 / 4 months. Corona = 685, making your daily commute 13x as dangerous. Loooooooong way from Obama’s 12,000 H1N1.
Italy: 6,820 / 60M = 0.0113% and rates are dropping. Average age = 81
Still half as deadly as cirrhosis of the liver, the lowest cause of death listed.
http://www.healthdata.org/italyNow that we have the election-winning stimulus, can we admit we have a cure now?
“12 Experts Questioning the Coronavirus Panic”
https://off-guardian.org/2020/03/24/12-experts-questioning-the-coronavirus-panic/
Trust doctors, trust science, trust experts, right? Nope: Panic! Follow the WHO that told us to keep those airports open!“At Least 13 Patients Die from Coronavirus in One Day at New York Hospital (CNN)”
420 people die every day in NYC on average.
“China Just Sent 150,000 Test Kits to Prague and 80% of Them Didn’t Work”
Wow, hey, what did I say about trying to provide false tests to cause a panic? Gotta stir that pot!
“Personavirus: Greta Thunberg Says Its “Extremely Likely” She Had COVID-19 Despite Never Being Tested”
Not only can she see carbon dioxide, but can identify viruses with her naked eyes too. Superpowers! What’s that? She’s in a nation with socialized medicine and can’t get a test, just like everyone in America? Just what I thought to myself, too. If only we had Sweden’s system, we could be ignored by the government and killed in the streets, but with higher taxes and less freedom.
“NHS Could Soon Exceed Capacity – Chief Medical Officer (Ind.)”
But socialized medicine is infinite and free!
“Using the coin to fund government spending is often dismissed as an “accounting gimmick”
49 + 1971 = 2020. We’ve had nothing but accounting gimmicks since 1971. And now you worry? The system is going to cease and reset. Btw, this is classic MMT, print prosperity with no cost or consequences, same as universal health care supposes. Gold rises $100.
M95 masks: Maybe this is why we need manufacturing and employment in the U.S. with functional borders? But I’m sure the answer to get more mask machines constructed and turned on is Communism. They’re well-known for their material surpluses.
“UK Coronavirus Mass Home Testing to Be Made Available ‘Within Days’ (G.)”
Antibody tests may be important in a different way altogether: http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=238638
“How Did Spain Get Its Coronavirus Response So Wrong? (G.)”
Did they? So you’re saying we know everyone, have infinite material, infinite knowledge, and it’s preventable? In that case, I hereby give all authority over the outbreak to Giles Tremlett, Guardian Reporter. Or perhaps we can ask a different question: since so many places behaved as bad or worse, why haven’t they been affected? Is it for the above Denninger post? Discuss. Because their present, established theory makes less and less sense.
“How much of the recent bad rap is coming from Big Pharma, which can’t make a dime on the stuff?”
A: All of it, plus some bonus TDS. Also fewer people will die if it’s easy, quick, and available. That’s always a deep sorrow, right Greta? And if so, we won’t restart the economy, fewer will die, and Cheeto will be re-elected. It’s always worth killing infinite people to unseat Cheeto.
“Trump’s Deadly Mistake in Comparing Coronavirus to Flu (IC)”
I’m sorry, what’s the difference except that COVID is much less deadly and we have a cure?
“California Sees 1 Million Unemployment Claims in Less Than Two Weeks (CNBC)”
Faster and more deadly than COVID. Yet we ache, beg, cajole, harangue, to kill people via the economy. Good work, people! Crime, murder, and suicide rates should spike shortly.
“US High Court Rejects Call To Free 736 Detainees At Risk From Coronavirus”
As you see, not here, but elsewhere, as they empty the jails onto the public with no jobs and no oversight. Guarantee for crime. The SEP Field, “Somebody Else’s Problem”, the most powerful invisibility cloak known to man. No, Daddy Government, that will make it MY problem as I get stabbed instead. Thanks.
Staying home: Will kill us all, not the Dow. WE are the ones who turn the economy that WE depend on for our lives. It doesn’t come from a magic Keebler Cookie tree, a magic Ventilator Goose, and a magic Bean that grows refried taco fillings. YOU do that work so if you stay home, YOU will die. And so will all your neighbors. So keep it up, schmarty-peoplez! Farmers will be happy to keep that food in the field, and riggers will be happy to keep heating oil in the wells, since that’s your hope and prayer for the Dow.
Socialism: “The system where everybody lives at everybody else’s expense.” Killing workers since 1867.
“Coronavirus Stimulus Package to Exceed $6 Trillion – Kudlow (NYP)”
Yes, because he keeps telling you there’s a cure, and you say he’s stupid. The cure keeps curing, and the media says it’s wrong. This just needs to run long enough to get the stimulus to win the election, and long enough to collapse the banks, the Fed, and reset the monetary system.
If you’re reading about the cure, same as I am, why isn’t there a cure? It doesn’t exist until all known liars, CNN, Maddow, Brian Williams, reports it from the moon? This is identical to the “14 day” quarantine when it’s been 40 since Jan 1. Nevermind WHO, CNN, just keep not reading, keep reporting known-false facts.“Share Buybacks, $4.6 Trillion Driver of Stock Market Bubble, Are Toast (WS)”
Glad to hear it but it hardly matters. The entire system, the US$ are all being re-created.
“New York City: “..56% of all the coronavirus cases in the United States, as well as 60% of all new cases..”
Couldn’t happen to a nicer set of guys. They get it from being the most anti-environmental on the planet, the furthest from nature, the richest livers, and with the most money and therefore most air travel. Ah Babylon, Babylon, falling in a day. Meanwhile, Pa Kettle in Dry Husk, Kansas doesn’t seem to get it because he lost the car when NAFTA was passed. So cry me a river.
“White House Tells New Yorkers Who Leave State to Self Quarantine (USAT)”
I’m sorry: if they were “self-quarantining” why would they be leaving the state? They wouldn’t be leaving their house. But more on fake quarantine theater. Matches our fake security theater.
“United States Could Become Coronavirus Epicenter – WHO (R.)”
Today’s episode of “Bad at Statistics”. The U.S. is a larger nation, and therefore has more people than France, Italy, etc. That literally means we must mathematically have more cases, pending its extinction. China is lying and everyone from the President to the Janitor is playing along like bobbleheads, but I’m quite sure with 21 Million missing cell phone accounts they’re probably ahead of us by a few. Anyway, “Breaking Story: Larger nations have more people than smaller nations! News at 11.” Ah, but the feels, the feels! Ignore math: run around!
“[Korea] comparatively little disruption and just 125 deaths,”
Funny ol’ world. Not in Japan, Korea, Austria, Thailand, Russia, Africa… Just in THESE nations. Your story has no science in it, so you want to try another explanation?
“EU Shrugs Off US Sanctions, Gives Millions in Coronavirus Aid to Iran (ZH)”
They sure did. But not to Greece or Italy. Remember this one from 2018?
Iran’s Foreign Minister Threatens to Expose Western Diplomats Who Took Bribes to Create the Iran Nuclear Deal
Gotta have priorities!
“EU Urged to Evacuate Asylum Seekers from Cramped Greek Camps (G.)”
Great! To where? London? 737s to New York?
“Czech Borders May Remain Closed for Two Years, Says Top Official (ExpCZ)”
They’re not closed now, to say nothing of two years from now. Except for all the exceptions of all the thousands of critical things, all the shipping, all my pals, and shopping trips to Paris, they’re totally closed. Bet.
“Bolsonaro Says He ‘Wouldn’t Feel Anything’ If Infected with COVID-19 (G.)”
Most people who have it don’t feel anything either, and I’m pretty sure he can get better than chloroquine. Head of State: Think he might know something we don’t? Nope! We’re way smarter and better informed, and he’s a fool. We watch CNN! Haven’t been wrong yet! Just ask them!
“Australian Doctors Warned Off After Prescribing Hydroxychloroquine (G.)”
Press going at it, trying to prevent a cure and keep expensive pharma sales high and maximum people killed. People: it’s a PRESCRIPTION. That means it is by nature and by law, a CONTROLLED substance that is only to be used UNDER ADVISEMENT and overseen ONLY by a Doctor’s license. Not to be popped into a tequila chaser by the handful. LIKE. EVERY. OTHER. DRUG. ON. EARTH. So…thanks to irresponsible doctors, etc, people with Lupus are running short too. And I won’t even get into the fish food story whose only similarity was the word “Quine” …They should have tried “quinine” tonic water instead, it’s safer and more effective than the “quine” they used.
Anyway, all theater, none of it matters, 1971 + 49 = 2020. As long-known.
7 x 7 = 49
1971 + 49 = 2020Cuomo says he will not sacrifice a single New Yorker to save the Republic. What a pal! That’s the kind of spirit we need to win this war. Who do we surrender to next? A: Fear, of course. Fear is the mindkiller. Clearly.
“It took 67 days from the first reported case to reach the first 100,000 cases,”
Cases mean nothing. I have a “case” of the common coronavirus flu every year and don’t notice. We’ve had 17,000 deaths in 4 months. There are 100,000 deaths every 4 months from influenza. Tortoise and Hare race sure has a long way to go to catch up. It’s 83,000 deaths short of “normal” “unimportant” “unreported” “ignored” deaths. Keep trying. However, if we shut the economy down we can kill way more than 400,000 a year. Too late. That was more “experts” in the CDC, Fauci et al.
“If everyone’s infected, there’s no more need for lockdowns.”
Yes! Your numbers mean N O T H I N G because you have no denominator for your numerator. We’re about to find that out in the U.S. as (accurate) testing appears.
“The US went from 409 cases two weeks ago to … 100,000 line in a few days,”
Yes, and we only barely crossed the line of deaths that occur in NYC in one DAY (~402). Oh noes. 402 / 330 Million = 0.000012. You know, on par with sharknadoes. AND we’ve now responded and already have an easy and solid treatment.
“Coronavirus Treatment Developed By Gilead Granted “Rare Disease” Status (IC)”
As predicted, Fauci is going to slow our response, get more infected, then fight FOR $300k respirators and violently AGAINST $50 cholorquine. The media is doing everything they can to support this. “If you drink a gallon of choroquine you’ll diiiiiiiiiiiiiie!!!” (Thanks NBC, “Not News Network”) Yeah, and a gallon of caffeine or whiskey too. Ah, experts! Anything to lie, murder, and increase profits. Don’t see that happening. We’re not in the mood to humor them right now.
“‘Miracle’ Malaria Drug Saved Us From Coronavirus, Claim Americans (DM)”
Nope, Trump is dum, false hope, shut down the economy and get people into ICU on $300k respirators.
“War Couldn’t Stop Parliament, So Why Should COVID-19? (Aus.)”
Maybe it would be a mercy to shut down, instead of being so soft we’d give up our worldwide rights for the death rate of one day of traffic because a flickering box told me so. We make up fantasy problems from our heads and accuse and persecute others for psychotic inventions. Maybe a society like that should fail and be taken over by actual men. Because apparently no one has heard of “teleconferencing”. Invented in the 90’s? …The 1890’s, with the “telephone”.
“Ecuadoreans Print 3-D Protective Gear for COVID-19 Doctors (Telesur)”
No we should absolutely NOT be doing this. The reason we don’t do this is because it’s way slower and more expensive.
“Unlimited purchases announced and stocks tank. Is that the end of the line?”
It’s been over since Sept 14th, 2019. We were always going to have a financial reset and a new currency since 1971. Here we are. You money means nothing to me. Carter, aside from inflation being “mysterious forces moving in mysterious ways” said inflation is “too much money chasing too few goods.” So now that the ports are closed and we have no goods, we’re going to print…More…money? And when MORE money doesn’t magically create goods – because FACTORIES do, WORK does – we’ll print MORE money? Hey, I think I’ve seen this movie before! In Argentina, Zimbabwe, Hungary, Germany, Russia, France…
But go ahead, print more money and hand it out to the people. You will anyway. No one will learn otherwise.
“Fr. Giuseppe Berardelli … has died”
This is because he knows life and death and doesn’t cower in fear. Like apparently everybody else does. But remember kids: Christians are evil and bad m’kay?
“you have direct access to whatever the WHO says”
Yes, but this was the WHO and CDC experts that had representatives in China, were dead wrong, repeated #CCP talking points about “no human transmission” and argued violently AGAINST stopping air travel in January. With ‘experts’ like these… It was only telling the experts to go stuff themselves anything got done at all.
As now. Finally someone’s catching on that shutting down the worldwide economy forever MIGHT be more dangerous than the Flu? That sounds familiar, (I said it the first day 3 months ago) but it was too useful to cause/cover the inevitable “everything bubble” that hit critical mass Sept 14th, 2019.
And we were told, and denied violently by the media, we would respond, bat next, and change things. Trump: “we have a line on an easy cure, hopefully it will work“. Media: “No! Everything’s terrible! Everybody’s going to die! Nothing is happening! Despair, all ye who enter here!” Now is that really sensible? They’re just mad their latest coincidence has been cut off at the knees, and easily countered, or so it seems right now, there’s a lot of work left to do.
“nobody knew, and nobody could have known”
Like about everything, but in this case, the CDC had a hard line on a vaccine 10 years ago back in the SARS days and firmly stopped it. No vaccine for you! They had masks and equipment like normal response teams do, and after Obama’s botched H1N1 days (12,469 deaths), never re-stocked. Now for 1/30th of those deaths it’s the end-of-the-world, erase-the-Constitution, give-up-your-rights catastrophe. Funny, I don’t even remember the H1N1 “pandemic” (Official! Expert!) because it has no effect whatsoever on me, the country, the economy, or anyone. We don’t pick on Obama waiting a year and causing 12,000 deaths because it doesn’t matter. It’s a joke. 0.02% case fatality rate)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_flu_pandemic_in_the_United_States“they should have ordered a billion dollars in respirators at the end of December, but when the first victims died in China, and the WHO was notified”
The WHO was the one who told us NOT to order those respirators. Why? Because “There was no human to human transmission.” The #CCP, who pays WHO salaries, said so, and so we believed them. Since they were there, I can only assume they were watching Pron in their hotel rooms like their cohorts in the SEC. It was pretty hard to miss.
“Is anyone keeping track of those patients listed as “recovered”
Yes. They can reinfect again and get it worse. A feature of the biovirus.
Humans lost 60,000 of 90,000 in Marseilles in the last outbreak of Plague 66% death rate. THAT’S a pandemic. We lost 200,000 a day for four years in 1917. We lost 60 Million in WWII in a world of only 2.3 Billion. Still here. Geometrically more than ever, much to everyone’s hatred and disdain. With a life so much easier and better everyone is bored and inventing drama and problems and invisible Russians and Nazis just for something to do. You are the human raised by humans. Life and death are your heritage. You’d have to kill 210 Million worldwide to match WWII and we recovered instantly. So, like the “environment”, who are you worried about? The world? The Childrens? Or your own sorry skin? Sorry to inform you, but you’re going to die anyway. C.S. Lewis pointed this out when they spoke of all the deaths in WWII. Sorry, with or without the war, mortality is always 100%. They died anyway. What are you saving with most dying over 70? A year? Three years? This is life. A gift that comes with death.
That’s the real reality we should stop lying about. That’s what we could overcome fear of and unseat the “experts” who get us all killed every year or two.
Orlov:
“The year was 2040, and the global coronavirus pandemic was in its 20th year. A young couple was on a date, walking together. They did not hold hands, embrace or kiss but maintained a distance of at least one meter between them and wore eye protection and face masks, as prescribed by law. It had been a long time since they were able to meet, because one or the other of them had a cough, or sniffles—a seasonal allergy, or perhaps a slight cold—and such symptoms made it necessary for them to exist in complete seclusion, their food and other necessities delivered by robots. Pale and weak after their lengthy period of isolation, they strolled and squinted in the bright sunlight, in the recently sanitized, secure space of the promenade, in full view of security cameras, and listened to the shrill high-pitched squeaks emitted by a loudspeaker system that were intended to scare away bats. They were at all times being chaperoned by AI software which sounded an alarm whenever they came too close to each other or, God forbid, actually touched.” (Much more)
http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2020/03/bat-eating-troglodytes-of-wuhan.htmlTHX-1138 meets Logan’s Run. Ah, perfection! Hydra style. Hail Hydra! A world of perfect cleanliness and order.
“in the latest desperate effort to halt the coronavirus epidemic.”
Could they just not add “desperate”? Here’s a nation that has 30% of things wide open (critical) including the post office (transmission), clearly they are 1,000 miles from “desperate.” Read a book. Stop lying.
On that, they’re talking about a hundred coffins. In a real pandemic, that’s a luxury long past. They killed 100 times that in two hours. In 1862. 200? 200,000 were lost in a day in the Somme over 100 years ago. We survived that few worries. And you’re going to impress me with this? The snowflakes, oh the snowflakes.
“they don’t say who gets to be tested, and who doesn’t.”
Because media can’t make “phone calls” and get “statements” the point is that they have now got a standardized test that works quickly on U.S. standardized lab systems. That means they will ramp up wildly now and EVERYONE will shortly have a test. But no one knows when because it involves feedstock, factories, trucking, etc. As we won’t have 330M tests on the 30th that means they WILL be rationed, but on a furiously sliding-scale as the test quantity increases by thousands per hour. And those test will also be (relatively) accurate and not cause a nationwide panic. You know, more than already for the number who die of natural causes in the self-same New York, every day. But hey, give up your rights for it if you want to.
“Doctors Given New Guidelines On Choosing Which Patients To Treat (Ind.)”
All this has existed every day since Hippocrates practiced medicine back in Kos. Sorry to introduce you to everyday reality of “limits” and “costs” this way, but trust me, the world is full of them. If you didn’t triage cases, you’d instead destroy humanity by paying for 80% of ICU ventilator beds to sit empty for 50 years, just in case. You’re a human, raised by humans: this is what it’s like.
“Airlines Appear To Come Up Short In Bid To Win Cash Grants In Rescue Package (R.)”
Dore had a different statement. Why would we bail out the Airline’s sh–ty, toxic service so they can pay employees instead of having the employees get unemployment plus $2k in stimulus? I mean, other than running those billions through their books so they can extract salaries and bonuses from them? And don’t they tell us little people “How irresponsible you don’t have more than $500 savings for an emergency! Why aren’t you smart and responsible like us?” Then having wasted 100% profits PLUS 200% in new debt to make reckless stock buybacks, come to us with your problems.
There’s no problem. Airlines aren’t going to end, they would just change owners from feckless morons to the 3rd baggage handler that’s actually worked a day. So here’s his solution: Fire everyone on the board. The fact they need a bailout says all they need to know about their abilities. Audit the books with a fine-tooth comb and claw back all fraud and breeches of fiduciary duty. Jail the multiple felonies that you find in their books. Take the bailout in form of equity swap that you can later sell at a profit. Then turn to the next companies and say, “Any of the rest of you f—ers want a bailout?”
Again: point is, if they ALL went bankrupt. TOTALLY. Tomorrow Joe Pilot would buy up the assets and be the new owner and start flying by Thursday. It just won’t be run by feckless morons who stole company assets. It’s super easy, people. It’s called “Capitalism.” Try it some time.
“Americans have completely lost sight of what a hero is” Mulvany says that a “Hero” according to the NY Post, is “a guy who does his job.” That’s appropriate, since nobody does theirs, and it is now indeed exceptional. Just like the Soviets. If you add the same system with the same crooked incentives. Just as predicted in 1954.
“Russia Ready to Send 100 Specialists Including Virologists to Italy (Sp.)”
An easy offer because they’ll say no. But they forget that everyone in Italy is ALREADY a Russian spy. And Britain, and America, and Trump, and all the Progressive candidates…
“It is so effective”
It’s so novel, unusual, unprecedented, and unnatural that it just HAS to be from natural causes. Nice bait and switch looking at the outside instead of the payload. And the “computer model” thing is so stupid it sounded smart. They want to explain how Wuhan had published open papers crowing about their “chimera” virus spliced from three parts, that lives in bats, exactly like this one, 2 years ago? And, um, Science? If SARS hasn’t been seen in years, how is it out in the wild mutating?
Which leads to today’s celebrity roast of experts, Richard Epstein (NYU) “Don’t Expect Millions To Die From Coronavirus”
Not only can you not possibly have smooth exponential growth since behavior immediately adapts, but blast from the past where an ‘expert’ epidemiologist wrote him in 1985 that all human life would die of AIDS by 2015. Still here. That’s their “math” and “models” for you, smart enough to use calculus, but not smart enough to realize what you put in the garbage can is in the garbage can. Like 30 years of AGW models? Anyway, discusses how this self-regulates, like all natural systems. If not, we would have all died every 200 years for the last 100,000 years in a row. Bad. At. Math. You’re fired.
So sure, be careful. Life is dangerous. You won’t get out alive. But don’t lose your rights and your family fortune for things that are 0.1% and under. The real threat, the Panicdemic.
“In Sweeping Power Grab, DOJ Seeks Ability To Detain People Indefinitely Without Trial”
“3% of Americans believe they are currently infected with COVID-19 (mathematically impossible), full-on panic is blocking our ability to think clearly and determine how to deploy our resources”
Besides, aren’t these the ‘experts’ who told us just last month to be overjoyed at a massively lower population? To agitate for and enforce at the earliest opportunity to save us all? Cheered by prepubescent children?
‘I want you to panic’, they say. But we don’t. And we shouldn’t. Apocalypticism is a luxury of the new elites for whom crises are often little more than opportunities for the expression of their decadent disdain for modern society. To the rest of us, [it is just a] problem.”
“It must indeed be tested for its actual effect on coronavirus. says not Fauci but the law.”
Not so. In another amazing coincidence, earlier this year, Cheeto signed “Right to Try” laws on FDA drugs used for purposes other than their official stamp. Fauci is just annoyed he can’t push more fear, be more self-important, and revolving-door over to Pfizer as a hero after slowing response enough to kill six digits like the WHO and CDC have done every step so far. But that’s what happens when you dramatize and sensationalize.
In any case, legally, we’re good to go. Of course we would be anyway, they just make up the law with their mouths and can change it in 10 minutes the same way. Which we would. That’s why they need to put in obstacles ahead of time, or in this case, remove them.
We’re still on ramp-up, and people are in danger, but how about that “April” thing, huh? Apologies accepted. Now who are all these Doctors who wrote home prescriptions for Chloroquine when you can’t use it unless you have it, and as an immune suppressant is dangerous enough to use in a hospital under monitoring, to say nothing of at home as a ignoramus. I’d like to have a talk without them about legality of prescriptions and sapping the national pharmacy for amusement while elsewhere critical cases may be in shortage. Are these the same guys who wrote 30k opioid prescriptions in a town of 3k?
“One fist of iron, the other of steel
If the right one don’t get you, the left one will.”If you missed it yesterday, 8.1 Million cell phone accounts are missing in China.
“Beijing has helped the US buy time in its efforts to combat the coronavirus by providing “timely information”
Timely and also entirely false, while paying the WHO to make sure it stayed false, and the maximum number of flights to the U.S. could occur. With help like this… But what am I saying? It’s always governments “helping! Helping so much!” But there’s an answer: more government help!
“China has been accused of suppressing information in the early stages”
Well, let’s see, they keep pushing back patient zero to October, and locked up all the early-warners in jail. Is this really just an loose “accusation” from the pandemic creator-in-chief? Me no think that will fly.
“We hope that the United States will respect objective facts,”
We are. That’s why we know you’ve been lying for 16 critical weeks, putting the world in fatal danger. We’re not mad at it happening, although we probably should be: we’re mad at you putting everyone else in danger for petty politics.
“shirk its responsibility to China,”
We have a responsibility to China? When did this start? Where was their responsibility when their mercantilism caused 20% unemployment and 30,000 opioid deaths a year?
“Trump argues that the phrase “Chinese virus” is “not racist at all,”
Meanwhile, in looking-glass world of Yale, a reporter genuinely and honestly took actual time to ask Trump – in the middle of a self-declared “war” – whether he believed calling it “Chinese food” was racist. Only when he says it of course! Because the rest of us use the term…well, I’m at a loss to even IMAGINE a term we could use instead for “Food as it comes from China”. And if a measles come from Germany, we call them the what measles? And if the virus comes from the Hantan River in Korea we call it the Hantawhat virus? And if the flu is from Hong Kong, we call it the what flu? And if it’s from Wuhan, China, we call it the — well, I wouldn’t know, since the NYT and Wikipedia have erased those search terms from their web sites. No joke.
…Because that’s the bestest, most important thing to do right now, virtue signal about what we should call Kung Pow Chicken. Definitely DEFINITELY don’t go down and volunteer at the hospital or food bank or anything.
If only stupidity were a fatal illness, the whole press corps would be in intensive care. Unfortunately, it’s also communicable. But by all means, please waste all our valuable time with your ignorant, infantile questions and problems while the adults are dying.
“And if everything we do saves just one life,”
This is the liberal ethos, where we kill the 99 to save one. Apparently they’re just that bad at math. I would like to save one, but I won’t kill five to do it. I’m not a Utilitarian, but I’m no dumb either. Anyway, it’s already too late. We’re going to kill not 99, but many multiples of one because of the economic reset. But that was coming anyway. In the meantime, let’s see how many thousands he can kill trying to save that one.
“ New Best Friends:”
Since they’re all aligned on dictatorial power merging corporation and state, I’ll take a pass on this one. It works well at first, not so later on. Call me in 5 years if you think this was a good plan, when there’s no opposition to President Pence.
“ Trump’s Approval Rating Soars During Handling Of Coronavirus“
This is alright, they’re probably just catching up to the reality that he’s just an average douchbag and not Hitler. Too bad the world had to end for reality to club them raw and senseless into that awareness. However, we don’t need any one-party systems. Thanks to them, the DNC leadership breathless for a barely-conscious Biden, we’re getting one. The Liberal boards are like, “I’ll never vote for Biden (or any NeoLib), and I’m so disgusted I might vote for Trump just to screw them.” Ouch. So…a one-party system is the answer? We were barely above zero on the uniparty system we had, don’t make it worse.
His response is boring, barely average, and he’s still lying daily with the CDC and WHO. I understand that, but it’s still a fail. I just sound like I’m pro because – four years in a row – I have to challenge the psychotic unhinged conspiracy theories that try to re-write events that happened only days, hours ago, Im a sucker for the #Truth like that. Tim Pool just did a video on this, blast from the past, like Jan 30th, when the whole media piled on his having ANY response, and parroting like they were guzzling Chinese…but this is a family show. It’s enough to point out that the media was wrong, put millions in danger, didn’t care then, and are lying about it now. Statistically least trusted of any source on earth for COVID? The media. Our supposed informers. And yet they’re salty about it! We trust random cartoons on Faceboom more than you and the experts because those random cartoons were more accurate that you. How bad do you suck? How dumb/clueless/complicit do you have to be? P.S. learn to compose sentences and call sources on the phone.
“[Biden] listed a litany of false and misleading statements”
Sadly this is true. AND his response WAS cut-and-paste Trump’s response. Mostly because it’s obvious and there aren’t a lot of choices here. SMDH. What are they thinking except – and the Whooooooooole Left points out – they’d rather have Trump than any Progressive. 1,000x But why not? Apparently Trump is now to the Left of Clinton/Biden on stimulus, bailouts, foreclosures, and since he’s a Clinton Business Democrat, always has been. Remember when Obama sent those checks and said we wouldn’t foreclose and we’d take equity stake in any bailout? Me neither, that’s why Clinton lost.
“health is not a commercial asset but a basic right,”
No it is not. Because you cannot compel doctors to work as slaves. Is it a social good? Yes. But not a right, because rights by definition cannot trample other rights. Next this will call for Medicare for All, after 10 governments in a row botched their responses and are right now getting thousands killed. The answer is to give MORE power to the ones who crashed the bus! While that bus is still smoking and slipping downhill!
“Larry Brilliant says he doesn’t have a crystal ball.”
This sounds smart but also isn’t. He proposes a fantasy event which cooperatively has exactly the size and scale of his own imagination. It therefore follows his rules and is a definition “pandemic.” However, is he instead proposing we can stop nature (and man, but I repeat myself) from ever creating another large disease? And we’ll all die of being eaten by Tribbles instead in a Star Trek future? Religion of Progressivism, thinking we are larger, smarter, bigger than nature. We’re not. We are part of nature and our blue planet, and animals that are subject to it. We will die. In singles, and also in numbers.
“rumors of impending martial law are blatantly false”
Uh, what do you call lockdowns in Baltimore, San Fran, and New York? Not technically martial law, but if you’re arrested when you do anything without permission, and the Army is enforcing it with Humvees and no court system, call it a spade. Luckily we’re feeling cooperative right now, and why not?
“CoronaBonds To Hold The Payments System Together”
Get a grip. No one’s going to pay their bills for a year: the system is not going to BE held together. It’s going to be reset, as required, with a forced jubilee and a new monetary structure, as forever planned. As Cheeto was desperately trying to set up for three years against all opposition to life and health. So anyway, take all this and throw it out the window. I’m not going to pay my bills and you aren’t either. The first attempts to restart the system will probably fail. It’s all going to change, and it ain’t My Corona. It’s you. You did this, you set this, you pulled hard for lifetimes, crushed generations, jailed people and insured this for 40 if not 100 years. Congratulations, “Tomorrow Finally Comes.”
And he may go to Thailand, but I might try Nebraska. His weather’s better but it doesn’t pay to be a “Stranger in a Strange Land.” Your money is nothing now, or soon.
Another day, another lie and denial from China, another day the WHO, which gets funding from them, agrees.
Apparently 8.1 Million Chinese cell phone customers have disappeared from the rolls.
But don’t worry: I’m sure they all just accidentally cancelled service and there were only 3 thousand people affected. That’s why the factories are still closed 4 months later.
And there are NO new cases in China! Anywhere. Hallelujah! Except anywhere on social media you can find front-door notices in every town that “Two people in this building were found, the area is quarantined.” I mean except for two new people in every block, no new cases anywhere. WHO applauds! CDC Ignores! Ah, and it seems like only yesterday they were telling us “China’s studies confirm Corona has no human transmission” “China’s efforts have completely contained” and my favorite hit, from January 2020, “Don’t close those airports Mr. Trump, you racist, unscientific hack (the Chinese said so)”.
Experts!
Experts who just missed 8 Million empty seats appearing, which I could suspect from my La-Z-boy in my basement 4 months ago, from open news that was sprayed down and censored within an inch of its life. Lucy got some ‘splainin’ to do!
Not possible: otherwise the BAD one would have gone to the U.S. first, or at least as well. Although we are now hearing odd, suspicious case in the U.S. months before China, not proven and apparently wouldn’t inoculate against the military strains as usual, which WOULD be smart. Or so it seems.
Deniability? Of course! That’s the whole point of this TYPE of thing, instead of nukes. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t THREE players: The West, China and Co, and the Derp State. If Russia and China think it’s the black hats, it’s not the same, but it’s also deniable for us if it IS the same.
Like I said, the 1st strangest thing from Day 1 was that China did NOT think we did it. That means they believe as a cast-iron lock they know WHO did do it, and it’s not us. Why? Far as I can tell, they believe it came from Wuhan labs, seeming accidentally (no one has been purged). But that doesn’t mean it did, just that THEY, with a million times more info, think so. However, does it make sense, is it His/Marine General’s style for US to release it? Not really. We’d do it, sure, but not in this way. So then you have a third party. Holed up in Iran? Seems like somebody was really mad at Iran lately.
In today’s celebrity roast, of experts being so full of it their eyes are brown:
“An amateur dared to question a celebrated psychological finding. He wound up blowing the whole theory wide open.”
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/nick-brown-smelled-bull?utm_source=pocket-newtabAaaaaaaand that means, just like Mr. Lancet and Mr. NEJM, no one checked. “Trust me! I’m an Expert™!”
As we listen to 24/7 “Experts” on the news, from the WHO and CDC who know what I know, and are demonstrably lying as their story is de fascia illogical, and somehow we still believe every word. RussiaRussiaRussia. We’reallgonnadie!!! …Even though we have a cure. As predicted.
Well, a day after they granted Trump unlimited dictatorial powers and signed his mega-money super-duper mail-check economy “Huuuuge”, they name the cure for Kung-Flu. 40 people peer reviewed on chloroquine, in France, 100% cure.
Huh. Who knew? You know, that if you created a biovirus in Ft. Detrick, run it through Chapel Hill, to Harvard folks, exported via Canada (most now arrested), landing at the lab in Wuhan, then probably mishandled, that no one would create such a thing without also creating a cure for the home front. Ah but “Never let a good crisis go to waste”, right Rahm?
And who wants to take the blame for the inevitable financial reset, planned for 40 years? Nobody, that’s why they’ve been feverish to gin up a war, and in fact started 15 of them since 2001, including open WWIII in Ukraine and Syria. But those were the good old days, it’s not the 20th century anymore, boys, you’re all doddering dinosaurs of destruction.
Same with bailouts. Last century, when the monetary capture was on the upswing. On the downswing – that is now that you’ve completely destroyed all manufacturing, skills, and work ethic – the only thing that matters is real goods, not your garbage promises, i.e. paper money, paper notes.
“L-strain and S-strain coronaviruses were quite different in some parts of their genome, so one could not be a “parent” of the other. It appears that there are more strains”
Two strains, one dangerous, one “not”. Ding. And somebody wandering around the world with a drone and a briefcase. Ding. Of course. However, “Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face.” You think you can have a war and not get hurt? In these days? The implications were always obvious and the first (okay, 2nd) thing I thought.
Oh, and back with U.S. testing, that would show the U.S. already had it, and didn’t want to admit it? So is that WHY they shut down Ft. Detrick, long manned by black hats? With their pals imbedded in the CDC and CIA, WHO and everywhere else? You know, Rod Rosenstein’s sister, Mueller and Hatfill, other fun and nonsense going back decades?
“What’s happening in Italy today will very likely happen to your country … in a week,”
Not if they’re two different viruses, as known, and not if we have a common cure, as known.
“France Tightens COVID-19 Lockdown Restrictions to ‘Max 2km From Home’ (RT)”
In good French fashion, you have to fill out a form to leave your home. I don’t know about the French, but I don’t see that working here. We have a few million illegals driving without licenses, the rest are doing illegal drugs while carrying illegal guns. But, sure, print up some paper if it makes you feel better.
“Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday night ordered residents in America’s largest state to mostly stay at home,”
Uh, yeah, above. Doubt it. This from a state that didn’t care about medieval diseases and a runaway homeless population. At the same time, the police promised to stay home. But I’m sure MS-13 won’t be up to anything with masks and gloves required outside and empty stores everywhere.
“Baltimore Mayor Jack Young urged residents to put down their guns and heed orders”
Oooooh. It’s against the LAW? When you put it that way… Unbelievably powerless and inept. Have been for decades, killed more people than 10 coronas, no one cared or acted before now. Now they think adding “pretty please”? Hey go arrest your Mayor if you want to make a start. News: they already did.
“4 GOP Senators Implicated in Stock Dumping Scandal (RawS)”
We’ve already established open insider trading is legal for them. …Of course not in the Constitution, which says you can’t make two different laws for different classes, but they’ve been doing this my whole life. Nothing new. Why care now?
“Senate GOP Coronavirus Bailout Bill Caps Executive Pay at $425,000 (CNBC)”
I thought Cheeto and the GOP existed only to make the rich richer. Why cap? And now they’re far “left” of Pelosi and Schumer on family checks, foreclosures, etc. Was the media lying about them? Huh. While Pelosi, DNC, all trying to STOP the shutdown, STOP the checks? Whoda knowd?
“South Korea Success in Virus Control Due to Acceptance of Surveillance”
It’s always a good time to promote fascism and end the Constitution.
“Everyone in Iceland Can Get Tested for the Coronavirus (BF)”
Everyone can test but us? Why? Not for any practical or scientific reason. Maybe because without a crisis you can’t get dictatorial powers and $10T in money to pay voters?
“1,238 are in New York. A lockdown is the only option.”
Nope. Americans won’t do this, and New Yorkers even less. You could post machinegunners in the streets and strafe them on sight, and they’d only shoot back. Americans don’t follow or obey anything, anytime, ever. Or rather a critical 20% something percent. And would they die of it? Sure, but they don’t give a f–k and will spit in your eye if you bug them.
So have fun with your proposed lockdown boys! Probably work as well as telling them they can’t have guns and drugs, that is to say somewhere less than zero.
That said, does it make more sense our “slow, lack of action” in an attempted lockdown? All it’s going to do is show how useless, inept, small, and outgunned the government is, as we already know every weekend in Chicago and Baltimore. …Where more people die each month than all the Coronovirus.
For Who do Voodoo, Archdruid (sidebar link) astrology:
“the coronavirus outbreak will sicken a lot of people and cause a significant death toll, but run its course fairly quickly and leave few lasting impacts.”
Exactly what I expect and also Cheeto — with his inside information from Ft. Deitrick — put his neck on. How many? Remember a million deaths is nothing, forgotten (See Hong Kong Flu) but I’d doubt 50k. So…logic is that we take 250,000 – 1,000,000 million illegal immigrants a year and barely notice, but the loss of 3,000 will be catastrophic and break us? Logic please. We just took 20 (30?) years of minimum 250k/year or 5,000,000 illegals, yet reducing by 100 people is The Final Hale-Bopp Burn it All Down I Surrender End of Everything. But it’s always a good time to surrender to anyone who barely asks. That’s #Winning!
Again, not saying some number won’t die, just that even losing 10% worldwide had hardly any effect on the 1920s. You may be a snowflake, but most people are pretty tough.
“Scientists Say Mass Tests in Italian Town Have Halted COVID-19 (G.)”
Tests halt disease? Do tell, this will save us a bunch of time and money.
This contradicts the article above, so they want to see the deceased? Dress the body? Without a space suit? I’m guessing that is not quarantine-ready procedure, and the testing will be of no help if the whole family toddles in to say goodbye, and the apartment, and the lorry, and building…
They’re missing that testing is basically useless since the only thing that matters is whether they need immediate medical care. With airborne infections, 40 day non-symptom quarantine and 9 days on surfaces, you’re not going to stop anything. But they’re mad the UK doesn’t want to join us in wrecking the economy and running around with our hair on fire.
“UK Failures Over COVID-19 Will Increase Death Toll, Says Leading Doctor (G.)”
Certainly. As always. However shutting down the economy will kill far more. Horton’s focus is medical deaths, not non-medical deaths or the continuation of the British people and state.
“failing to act when Chinese researchers first warned about a devastating new virus”
Funny, back then you were telling me it was an unhinged conspiracy theory to listen to some random researchers on YouTube. How times change. Now they were NOT just random noise but we all should have listened to them. Over your screeching objections. And if we moved our whole societies on such light evidence every time, what would become of us? Ah, but there’s always time for complaining and criticizing, re-writing history, and never any time for work. So, Mr. Lancet, what have you been doing with yourself during the 80 years since biological weapons of WWII and the 20 years since SARS? Goofing off figuring out which bathroom 0.001% of the population should use. Top priority while 30,000 a year die of opioids and 79,535 deaths per year from Diabetes.
“The dollar resumed its relentless climb against major currencies”
Ideal, as now we can keep dropping new $2T initiatives without lowering the price at all. Yet. We’re still in a monetary reset and it’s all going away shortly. Markets will be shut for the reboot, and big machines take pony engines and a team to start. This one’s never been stopped and started before, so should be entertaining.
“Misunderestimate: Banks Are Going to Drown in an Ocean of Defaults (Black)”
Banks are going to go bankrupt and close their doors. They are not going to foreclose anything for the near future. So should you pay them? It will disappear anyway. Everyone on earth is making the same calculation now. Are they going to come down here and make me, or are they too busy? No change for most: they weren’t paying before now anyway.
“governments have been told to take a back seat”
Haven’t seen this in my lifetime. It’s non-stop protected monopolies, insider contracts, payoffs, and bailouts. I have yet to see this “competition” we read about, and I’m not as young anymore. Certainly not since GM took out the Tucker with the government’s full support and approval, but probably since Carnegie and Mellon while Abe Lincoln was still warm and Astor was still a thing.
Next important thing I realized:
When everybody’s thinking the same thing, nobody’s thinking.
So Cuomo, deBlasio, MSNBC, DNC stars, now all demand Trump be given Stalinist dictatorial powers with no parameters and no end date?
Liberals lost in “Save me Daddy government”, government, authoritarianism is always the answer to everything, let’s give power, responsibility, work, to anyone but me, therefore to Orange Hitler. I guess because according to them he’s done wonderfully so far.
Conservatives lost in Trump having the power to clean things up, make arrests, cover story, etc., although no visible actions toward justice have taken place in 3 years running.
He did this for 100 dead nursing home residents and 10,000 Dow points that weren’t there when he started, to take possession of the entire United States, all its businesses, resources, and military, with the approval of every man, woman, and child, clearly the best deal since the Manhattan Indians.
You can vote yourself into slavery, but ask yourself: what unpleasant actions you would have to take to get back out? So is Liberty and the American experiment worth a million lives? 300,000? 3,000, as last time? No, we would sell our entire heritage, our freedoms and our children’s slavery for less than 100 men, over 70. The shrieking demand for that sale of pottage is deafening.
I’m all for saving people over 70 on general principles, but that price is too high.
Luckily, I am a human. That means my rights and abilities are inalienable. Their power depends exclusively on whether I feel like complying.
@Parents, the system doesn’t scan content as far as I know, but it can be flaky. Log out and back in and it usually comes clean. There are regular problems with posting (multiple) images, but common use usually comes through.
I realized at least one important things I’m missing:
No sense following cases, that only shows how many tests are run.
No sense in following deaths, that only tells you how able the medical system still is.
Only follow serious/critical, which tracks the severity of the event on the public, on the resources. Only number that matters.“Global Powers Unleash Trillions of Dollars to Stem Coronavirus Crisis (R.)”
So they’re transferring MY money to you, or especially THEM, via inflation? Whatever, I knew they were going to anyway. MONEY means N O T H I N G. Only resources, real things, beds, doctors, time, etc have meaning. But they pretend they can make more of those while taking them FROM me and other workers, to the rich and non-working, and the people cheer. No doubt because they’re not working, and you always get the vote of Peter to rob Paul. Meh. Indifferent. It can oil the gears. And also expose how money has no value, no meaning, no purpose, no point, and reset the system to honesty. …Via hyperinflation. As targeted 40+ years.
Speaking of, that’s why the market can go up. We have no market anyway, just 99 & 44/100th rigging. So what’s the difference? We can have a price as devoid of real economy as casino chips and pokemon cards. It will be sidelined and replaced with something else, viz:
“What are the ramifications if the Fed Put doesn’t work anymore? Central Banks will need to move on.”Move on from markets, now that the government has totally, utterly corrupted and ruined them. Total destruction! Not a lick is working here anymore! Our work is done!
“Why is it so important to stop this crash?”
A: because my pals would lose money, duh. The roads, power lines, rails, factories, workers, machine tools, would all still exist. The country would be not a whit poorer. However in bankruptcy the assets would have new owners. And I would not be one of them, so it must be stopped at all costs. With your tax dollars. To me. And the people cheer!!! Save me daddy government, save me! Give all the power to government, to Trump personally! Right, deBlasio? What could go wrong??? Do nothing, do no work, take from others. Step 3: Profit!
“Companies such as Boeing that cut corners and blew money on buybacks”
This had always been illegal – and rightfully so – until Clinton? Rule change, not law. Anyway, anyone could see it should be illegal, and could be again, but if you make it legal to steal, don’t be surprised if the bank is empty. All of us said so, and 100 other things like Glass-Stegal. But who coulda knowd? Every dumbest hick in all America. But not Yale and Columbia and Harvard, with Summers and the Bernank. You can visit them in their palatial estate in the Caymans and give them whot-for, I’m sure they’re just eaten up with regret.
“I’m not opposed to the government stepping in to help in an emergency. That’s why we have government.”
If they do, if they CAN, 100% guarantee they WILL, always the rich, who have the seat, who have the ear, and always always always 100% at the expense of the poor. You’ll notice that yet another of the 10,000 things NOT authorized to government in the U.S. Constitution. They have zero mandate, zero authority. Because they knew if you give them the slightest authority they will corrupt, pick (buy) winners and losers, and the real and only loser would be the people, and their uncorrupted vote. Take away their power TO help/bail/decide/favor and you have Capitalism again. Add that power to the government and you have guaranteed Socialism/Fascism, but I repeat myself. And here we are, and here the people demand their own destruction.
Hoover noted this in his biography, the first thing that happened crash of ’21 (he was Secretary at the time) was rich guys came into his office whining like little babies, demanding all sorts of awful ends unless he gave them money and bailed them out of losses they could easily take. Embarassing. And expensive to the people who actually WORKED and DIDN’T make dumb, reckless decisions.
And the usual suspects, Boeing, Hotel Paris Hilton, Carnival Cruise, Casinos. No doubt Harley Davidson. Critical stuff.
“Mnuchin Warns Senators of 20% US Unemployment without Coronavirus Rescue (R.)”
I thought he was handing out money. Handing out jobs is something only the private sector can do. Remember the last “helping” bailout where “shovel ready” went forward with $1.5M paid/job? Oh and Solyndra went down. Hey, wait, I thought people were supposed to stay home; now they drive to work too??
If you want to “help” with bills, fine, but don’t pretend you’re creating jobs when the roads and bars are closed.
Because, always partisan, one article:
“Washington Post Columnist Jennifer Rubin Says “There Will Be Less Democrat Deaths” Than Republican” because they are old and dumb and in FoxTV denial vs. next article:
“Spring-Breakers Pack Florida & Texas Beaches as Pandemic Threatens Societal Collapse” as they are young and Liberal.
Seems like being unconcerned and unaware is an equal opportunity human trait.
“Capitalism is dead.”
Does that mean I can’t work and make stuff anymore? I can’t trade it with my neighbors? The government has the time to come down here and stop me?
No. The government isn’t going to do jack. That means there’s nothing BUT capitalism, as I help my neighbors while governments run around with their hair on fire and try to obstruct me. THEY aren’t going to provide food, because they do jack all day, don’t make food, and have never done anything productive in their lives. –I– do. And we’ll keep doing it, as always, regardless of what they spout off, pretend to control, regardless of whether it’s legal or they make us criminals in the black market, we will always produce and share with our neighbors. With free exchange. One that gives us resources for charity. They won’t. They will do what they always do, what they do best: steal stuff and kill people.
If they vanished, I’d hardly notice. If they did, we’d all be so localized the virus would quickly vanish. So go ahead and ask THEM for your food, for your help, for your test, instead of me. They’ll tell you to get lost: we’re busy eating your food and providing NO services, as per Toronto.
I’ll be here, illegally if necessary, with all the things you need to get by, at considerable work and risk to myself. Decide who’s the villain here and which system you prefer.
Uh-oh, they declared war on Corona. Hope that goes better than the War on Poverty, the War on Drugs, the War on Terror, the War on War…
Another day, another day China doesn’t ‘fess up and claims no one died. Everyone plays along more completely and slavishly than Google and the NBA.
“they will spend, trillions this time, bailing out banks and large companies that only exist to a large extent because they were bailed [out]”
Yes, but it will dissolve the parasitic system they depend on with the dilution of money and financial reset. Live by the sword and die something something… Ending that is a GOOD thing. How do you end the powerful? Feed them rope. “”Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad” –Longfellow 1875
I mean, clearly fighting more powerful enemies head on hasn’t worked. In fact, it’s quite obviously stupid. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_War
“Pray for Italia” And their 0.003% death rate? I mean, okay.
“Richard Horton, editor of The Lancet, tweets: “32% admitted to ITU with 15% mortality.”
That’s not what China says. Where did you get your information? Or are you keeping two books, not telling us, and saying we must trust you? According to China, with 1.2B people, if Britain got all 3,000 of their deaths, it would STILL be a 0.0045% death rate. Not sure if that rates above or below vending machines but maybe being attacked by a Channel Halibut. Want to come clean now or is the drama and panic too intoxicating?
“A suppression strategy, along the lines of the approach adopted by the Chinese authorities,”
China says it’s done and over, they’re cleaning up. Now no one believes them, but if so, why are you citing them as a source? Also next line, we already have at least two solid “cures” (treatments). So what’s with sticking to the idea of a vaccine that can’t come in time, and from SARS is already proven not to work but probably wound? You just like stupid or are you illiterate too? (Shuddering to ask if he’s also on the “14 day quarantine” still.)
Experts: Okay, in “Today’s lambasting of ‘experts’” the Herr Docktor Cooking Channel, the “experts” all advised last month NOT to shut down air travel to China. Trump overruled them, and the screaming, always the screaming… This came out when it was just cited like yesterday as an example of how “unscientific” the administration is. …Because he did the right thing that any idiot with a lick of common sense would do, but Harvard and Yale couldn’t figure out. And tried to kill us all. A G A I N . And this is a BAD thing, apparently? They want to advertise this? Whiskey Tango
So…Lancet…hey aren’t you the guys whose editor said maybe half of your papers were false and unrepeatable? Trust us. We’re the Experts™. Who tried to kill you and your family. Only yesterday.
“Americans Get a Taste of Life Under Sanctions (MPN)”
Apparently Americans have never had anything real happen to them and this for sure isn’t going to break through either. Had a guy I know yesterday go to the grocery store, just ‘cause, you know, lunch, a bit peckish, why not go out instead of stay home, and wanted to know why the salad bar wasn’t open. Are you for real kidding me right now? When I told him, hey, you know that news you read every day, all your facebook friends, memes, full access to apple news, etc, he said “how long is this bs going to last?” I dunno, sir, between 30 days and forever?
But you know from how everyone has endless time for complaining and drama that t’ain’t nothing going on here yet, y’all. Whine, complain, b—h, blame, surrender, couch. ‘Cause I sure ain’t going to leave my couch and DO anything while I’m still have a breath to whine and complain instead. Especially about that salad bar. Have we no standards??? Think of the humanity! Iceberg ahead!
“the federal government needs to take over the supply chain right now.” -deBlasio
Translation: AOC’s full-communism for Green Policy failed, so we’re going to try for full communism again with the next plausible excuse. P.S. we’re so mind-bendingly stupid, and such blinding blood-crazed zealots, that we didn’t notice if you nationalize all things on earth Donald J. Trump with have complete control over everything as a Stalinist dictator. Over us. And apparently we want and demand that. Right now. Tzzzzt, tzzzt, calling all synapses, fire!
“Spain Takes Over Private Healthcare Amid More Lockdowns (G.)”
The same government who didn’t do anything and didn’t see it coming and was too late? I’m sure when it’s your case in the hospital room they will push your doctor aside as they did Dr. Day, won’t do anything, won’t see it coming until it’s too late. That’s just #Logic! I want MOAR! Thank you sir, may I have another?
Ah, but there’s a solution: moar CDC, more experts, more government, even in the #SameSentence as we say Cheeto and the government f’d it all up! Right deBlasio?
And you wonder how my keyboard wears out typing #A.n.t.i.L.o.g.o.s., the opposite of all Logic.
“Mitt Romney’s Coronavirus Economic Plan: $1,000 To Each American Adult (Vox)”
Well if you want instant retail commodity inflation in toilet paper, that’s a good idea. Not that it matters much: we’re about to do a monetary reset anyway. Beats a #Monopoly bailout.
“I believe in my brother and friend Xi Jinping, and I believe in Chinese help.”
Says a guy about to be taken over by China instead of by Brussels. Paging Serbia: it’s Hungary on the phone who says they still want to exist as a nation and a people.
“EU Calls for 30-Day Ban on Foreigners Entering Bloc (G.)”
But, but, that’s a hateful, racist, Nazi war crime death bad think forever! Borders, rules = bad. No rules, no consequences, every man for himself = good. No rules you can’t tell me what to do reality is optional: That’s our god!
“Can Russia Use the Coronavirus to Sow Discord Among Americans?”
No, but the DNC and media will. RussiaRussiaRussia! Forever and ever, until Baron’s grandchildren are accusing Chelsea’s great-grandchildren, and Russia is in Alpha Centuri and hasn’t had to lift a finger in 100 years.
“DOJ Drops Charges Against Russian Troll Farm for 2016 Election Meddling (L&C)”
Golly gee, because they had to post a lick of evidence? Kind of like Flynn, they “accidentally” “lost” “all” the “evidence”? But don’t worry, they will just keep saying it forever and ever, RussiaRussiaRussia, under my bed, shutting off my heat in Fargo, even here. Newsflash: Russia is the size of New Jersey. I think we can take them.
So Japan: ally, safe
China: enemy, hit
Iran, enemy, hit.
Africa: millions of Chinese, no systems at all, apparently bypassed. Que?
Italy? Ally, hit. But only the anti-EU, rebelling north? Apparently no one visits Sicily anymore?How about this: however this started in China, we quickly sent in drones and sprayed down the Iranian leadership with plausible deniability. Denying things is toxic like that.
Subtext: we could not do that without access to a known and certain cure. Yet the Iranians are not medically different (enough) otherwise. Iran is closed, but not so closed Turkey and Pakistan wouldn’t follow IMMEDIATELY.
The other sites are the defused Type II virus. Italy remains to be explained.
Orlov, “Closing the ‘Collapse Gap’ with the Soviet Union”
“Of course, if you happen to live in a country that was about to collapse anyway, this coronavirus could very easily do it in, but so could any other cough or sneeze. The first stage of collapse, out of a total of five stages, is called…
FINANCIAL COLLAPSE.
Oh, and in case you are wondering, running out and stocking up on toilet paper in response to a coronavirus threat is a symptom of an entirely different disease which can very well turn out to be fatal. Most curiously, it seems to affect the cerebral cortex via the rectum.”
Hey, Doctor, aren’t they supposed to listen to the “experts”? Medical professionals? M.D.s?
N O P E ! ! !
Not if it doesn’t confirm collective hysteria and bias. Regardless of who says it: P A N I C ! ! !
Because that always works out best.
(Data please? What’s with 1B people involved now and STILL no hard data?)
Hey, I’ve got an idea: let’s give this to the government; more government saves everything!
Second idea: let’s print money; money saves everything!Third idea: Let’s give money to my friends; that fixes everything!
Meanwhile, back in the real world…money grows on trees, masks and wheat do not.
I am still missing something important about it all. Don’t get lost in the thick of thin things.
Question: how can we have 100,000 cases and no one has solid parameters of how it works, what it is or isn’t yet? At first, sure, but after we’ve seen it for 90 days and a billion people? And China lying doesn’t help. We all know it wasn’t 3k cases there, would you like to tell the truth now? 300k? 1M? Nope. Anything but truth.Okay, why these specific few places? Each just about to protest? Iran, Christian Wuhan, France? Or not? Why NOT Japan? They are doing nothing especially useful. How do we have apparently two diametrically different fatality rates?
There’s a lot more going on here, and nobody’s telling the truth, most of all the WHO and CDC. I’ve got an idea: let’s give it to government and trust them! Always worked before! That’s how we got here!
Again, in other news, this is exactly the emergency we knew would happen, should have happened in ’99 and ’08, and was already happening in Sept ’19. What a clever thing that the virus is here to do to the markets and economy what was happening anyway? And give us all national emergency powers, including the National Guard in NY from Cuomo to Trump, a day I thought I would never see?
Now since we’re in the monetary reset that was ALWAYS coming, since Economist 1988, ALWAYS 40 years from 1971, here we are. Surprise!
You’ve got yourselves worked up. The death rate is still near statistical zero. Unless China wants to ‘fess up. We’ve gotten above vending machine crushing and into lightning strikes (US)? It’s not a jolly party but 1M in 1968 on a far smaller region no one even remembers. Like terrorists, you’re going to scare yourselves to death more than anything. Even in Italy, the death rate right now is 0.003% (1,800 / 60M) The economy can kill more than 1800 in a weekend. They sure did in Greece! They probably lose that many from medieval diseases in California.
We’re going to reset the economy and the currency. We always were. It wasn’t working and was killing more people than any virus. Here we are, ready to fix things anytime you want to stop.
“Listen to the experts, ignore the morons”
Geez, the experts ARE the morons if you haven’t noticed. Remember the “experts” up until now, the WHO saying China was awesome, Martensen was an idiot, banning him off the internet, mocking GOP Congressmen who took it seriously, presidents who had borders, repatriated supplies, and shut off air travel? Yeah THOSE experts. Who have been wrong 90 days running now, while of us on the internet with no special information except “logic” have been right. Cuomo only yesterday shutting ONLY New Rochelle, a city that lives by commute on the NY Subway, and there only the buildings. Experts. Advised by other experts. Any idiot from W. Virginia could see that was the world’s biggest cartoon fantasy since Fantasia.(1940)
Right now the experts don’t know more things about this than I can name, but varying fatality, quarantine time, spread rates, surface life, and accuracy of any test they’re providing should keep us busy enough for now.
Note: if the tests are still near 50/50 random, we don’t know anything, and more flawed data will make our expert decisions WORSE, not better. They are super-mad Cheeto won’t accept totally random tests that statistically will say 50% of the people have it in a population that has NONE. Wouldn’t that be a kicker? Instead he’s creating his own tests, ones that WORK and are under our control. That takes time, sorry. But going in the back and giving you a coin flip from the CDC won’t help. We also have a dozen “cures” which can be used, but they need to be tested, and things are in a rush, and would also scale. They keep picking on the “hot weather” but these things will happen by April.
Whatever. I’m going back to looking for that crucial thing I’m missing. Some part of it is still a snow job, but I don’t grasp it yet. Don’t get snow-blinded. Keep your eyes on your work.
#Work Ha! Forgot we don’t do that anymore, just criticize and complain.
“CNN contributor, Democrat Andrew Gillum unable to speak at hotel party. Also found: meth and alleged male hooker”
Serious voice: “THIS is CNN”!!
Totally predictable, been saying this for years. Decades.
Now I didn’t know the virus, although obviously that was one, but the avalanche is always going to fall down boom the same way. This is the same emergency as a financial panic, and since we were already boom-girder for Repos since Sept 14 was already rumbling.
The system has been long and intentionally undermined for decades to be just-in-time, to have no manufacturing, to make sure each and every item must circle the globe (and require international banking houses rentiers) to be completed to market, to have no warehouses, to have NO local support, local supply, local production. This was the major illegal: water, front yard gardens, chicks, milk. Swat teams, ban hammer, nothing we hate more on all earth than living things and food. As per Agenda 21 then 2020. By law, worldwide. Maximum population in cities. Laws against medicine, herbals, then trying to overload the system and reduce the number of doctors with Obamacare. Yes, they “promoted” health care, but in fact their plans added zero doctors and nurses, drove a bunch away, while the “money” went to insurers and administrators in clear PREVENTION of health at all costs. …While adding 300k new patients. Not a fan of such medicine here in the states, know our system too well, that aside from it being totally, completely illegal at the Federal level. Do it at the State level, totally fine, Massachusetts, which instantly went bankrupt as a bad example to others.
Anyway, given the system they painstakingly built against the CONSTANT objection of EVERYONE in the U.S. since Ross Perot, this was the ONLY POSSIBLE result. I thought it would be banking alone, but should have known, like ‘99, if the banks went down, there would be an event, planned or not, to divert blame by ‘01. The results MUST BE, lack of hospitals, lack of supplies, lack of preparedness, lack of resiliency. That’s just a normal day in a system of unemployment and debt. But also lack of work. Lack of responsibility, lack of morality, lack of community. Also tirelessly undermined and openly attacked with the most fury the system can muster, Swat teams, whatever, against any hippie or Amish that rears their unwashed head. It’s the monoculture future of THX1138 and Logan’s Run or bust.
So you do what you do, you get what you get. Surprise! If you still had 100 small-town shops, local chicken farms, church suppers, canning and wine in the basement, PTA meetings, community Boy scout rallies, Elk Clubs and bowling leagues with 1/3 debt-to-income ratio, no credit cards, you would weather this without much ado. But you didn’t. You moved into a condo, got all your food from Safeway, disowned your kids who are now in Arizona and Minnesota, with one in Korea, instead of sacrificing for each other, and now you pay the price. Not rocket surgery. No one cared.
So they were saying “don’t panic buy, just…blah blah.” Maybe a worldwide pandemic with a market crash IS the time to panic? Just maybe, THAT’S when the balloon went up? And that means ALL buying now, ALL preparing now, is “panic buying” that takes supplies from the mouth of others. The only time TO prepare that doesn’t harm your neighbors is BEFORE. Now that time is gone and everything you do hurts them to help yourself. What do you want me to say? YOU did this. En masse it could not POSSIBLY have been more obvious. Since Y2K everyone spoke of this regularly, delineating the exact parameters of the problem and solution, and did nothing. So now instead of settling back at home, with mom who doesn’t work, eating off last year’s Ball jars and 50# of sugar, you’re fighting in WalMart over more supplies that aren’t coming. Just like people have been telling you most of your life.
Didn’t take a pandemic to make that happen. It’s nothing unusual. Just a stop to the checkbook, a cutoff of massive, wasteful, profiteering international trade that was killing your home town and unemploying everyone anyway.
I could have told you this decades ago, and did. Nobody cared. When did the “Peak Prosperity” “Crash Course” come out describing how this was inevitable? 2002? The problem isn’t the virus. It’s you.
Why do I say that? To get up your nose? No, if that’s the problem, what’s the solution?
Good example why I’m not alarmed yet. Problem being, when it goes it will be fast. Here’s why Cheeto wanted some air speed, as opposed to candidate Cheeto, so when things happened he would have power/time to act. Imagine same crash from 10k, which is where it deserves to be.
Notable, more oversold than 20 years, maybe ever, but certainly a historic long time. Those things don’t last. From it you can see that adding ‘energy’ to the markets has another danger: impossibly fast flip-flop bullish to bearish which breaks derivatives, trading houses (Mnuchin probably bankrupted one in Chicago), and destabilizes the system. A system that was going down, and planned to anyway, but… Roughly equivalent to rocking the boat. Yes, in seas you may need to run the gunwales up to keep waves from coming in, but as you wildly flip the boat back and forth you also greatly increase the chance of capsize. Of course, if you’re PLANNING to capsize, as discussed for 40 years, the only way TO do this is to flip the boat back and forth. Capitalists are amazingly resilient and very clever and can adjust faster than you can order them about from a podium. They’re not going to sit still to be massacred. So take it any way you want, that’s the system report card.
The other first thing said in horror movies is a scientist who just created a new master invention, usually a life form, and then says, “I mean well. What could go wrong?” “Since 1813”
Did anyone check China’s masks to make sure there’s not a “present” inside? I would explain a lot about how they’re supercharged and no one else on earth is. (Unless China wants to come clean) Just as written about Jan 1st. Just before they had a worldwide pandemic planning, that shuts down the world economy, crewed by the same insiders shouting now, for a rogue “coronetvirus.” What a coininkydinky. Everything a coininkydinky.
“UP TO 37 DAYS,” not 14.
OMG, we knew that 2 months ago. THEY knew that 3 months ago. Yet they keep saying 14, which means nothing comes from nowhere.
Also, P.S., this plus the aerosol is why they can’t stop it. And also why having all 10 elements of an engineered virus is why it’s an engineered virus. If you didn’t believe the U.N. bioweapons expert when he said so last month.
Since no one’s tested or has symptoms, anyone have a death rate? Nope. Without both numerator and denominator, you have nothing. But yet we have to guess.
“Some countries still don’t take the situation very seriously and fail to aggressively contain”
Contain? Hahahaha, sure. But in any case, those who DON’T contain, as countries probably recover faster and better. That’s not a nice thing to say since they will also kill a % more people, mostly old or medical. What scale are we discussing? Micro or macro?
“Ohio estimated on Thursday that more than 100,000 people in the state have coronavirus”
Probably right, that’s what I’ve been saying. Number of deaths in Ohio? Zero. There’s your numerator and denominator. But it’s probably multiples of the flu, which isn’t safe. Say 300k? And sadly we wouldn’t notice. Unless you crash the economy, then 3M die, congratulations. And all those extra 2.7 million are totally voluntary, due to YOUR panic. (and 20 year selfish lack of preparedness since the ‘99 crash) So does that make Britain smart? Or dumb? If you’re on war footing, which China ALSO advised, then does it make sense now? Or do we just win with no hardship and no casualties? Do we sacrifice the whole nation, economy, AND pensioners trying to save people over 60? Hey, not saying those are GOOD ideas, I don’t really know, that’s why we advocate and vote. But they want NO casualties, NO hardship, NO work, and 100% whining, crying, and blaming.
Fast market crashes mean nothing, and points mean nothing, only %. That’s only telling you that computers trade quickly (no kidding, Sherlock), and there are no real people in the market (also duh.) This is why they’re not markets, and haven’t been in 30 years while you applauded.
“ I’d Rather Be in Italy Than US”
That’s interesting, but also he’s moving from a nation post-peak impact FROM a nation not yet peak. That has nothing to do with either of our nations, it’s selfish arbitrage. I’d rather be here, but I don’t live in New Rochelle either.
UBI as from yesterday, money, being a fantasy, is infinite. Real goods take work and are not. They’re proposing printing money and thereby transferring MY work to those who don’t work. As the old slogan goes. And that’s what caused the final spike in Wiemar, and the final complete loss of confidence in currency. But that’s been planned as 2018 since at least 1989, and you got a two year extension, so whatever. But if you want to more utterly destroy the poor than ever, go ahead and try it. Every single welfare transfer has made it worse before. It won’t matter, since they’ll just deny that was the cause after, and the destroyed, murdered poor will vote for it again, just like Zimbabwe and Argentina, for generations. Yes, Pete Townsend was wrong. Einstein was right “There are two things that are infinite, stupidity and the universe, and I’m not sure about the universe.”
“Could we fix health care with that?”
Therefore, NO. You CANNOT fix health care with money – and OBVIOUSLY!!! You fix it with doctors, nurses, clinicians…you know all those things Obamacare DIDN’T do, while they also added money, profit, administration, oversight, control of dissident medial records, obstacles, and paper-pushers at +10% p.a. for 12 years compounded. DOCTORS, silly. That takes 6 years. YOUR MONEY MEANS NOTHING TO ME, or to reality for that matter. Since reality is now optional, no one notices. THey’re saying “I’ve got money and we need food: why don’t we harvest TWICE at once, for 2020 and 2021, then plant twice?” A: because you’re a moron with the sense of a 3-year-old, that’s why. Back in the real world: Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall; pants first, then shoes, it’s not optional.
“Inject a trillion, see markets lose 10%. Never a better moment to end the Fed.”
…And that’s how – the ONLY WAY – to end the existing monetary system. He’s been at it for years now, discrediting the Fed, which richly deserves to be discredited, and has stolen 99% of the dollar, and the nation, in 99 years. So good, THIS apparently is what it takes to change people’s minds. Therefore THIS is what we do. As per Economist 1989. Also, anything the Fed “Wins” at means the rich only win, since they are the Fed’s sole constituency. Therefore the only way the working man wins is when the Fed LOSES. Loses credit and control. 1929 leveled income disparity. Why? Wages dropped uncomfortably, but Stocks, bonds, etc, dropped I N C R E D I B L Y. If you think about it, that’s the only POSSIBLE way. Because if the poor lose $50 they’ll all die. But the rich can lose billions and be fine. So that is what will happen.
“the loss of glyphosate would cause very severe impacts on UK agriculture”
Well too bad, it’s about to happen. Or where will you get the money and the product? From a bank? Through a factory, then a dock, a truck, a store? That’s going to slow down. They won’t get all the inputs they need. Aaaaaand now they’ve stopped all the cows, therefore all the manure, therefore all the self-seeds, therefore all the tractor parts, therefore all the…
“Migrants on the Greek islands are to be offered €2,000 (£1,764) per person to go home”
That’s the best war reparations I’ve heard of. Just can’t come from Greece but Germany, Britain, United States…
“Do her judges and jailers tell themselves they are the good guys?”
They tell themselves they, like all their peers in government and out, are against the Constitution, particularly the 5th (incriminating yourself, no coerced testimony and confessions) “Speedy trials”, and “Cruel and Unusual punishments.” Because they love and worship government, they believe in life sentences for common contempt-of-court, as per Armstrong as well. But why not? Half the country is against free speech, free religion, free assembly, self-defense, specific warrants with specific targets, juries, separation of powers, limited powers-of-government, i.e. jurisdiction, prosecuting attorneys required to share all evidence with the defense, and just about every other Federal law every written. In its place, will to power. Might makes right. They have the might right now, therefore we do whatever they say when they ask for our daughters. That’s the law!
The words of our first Federal Law aren’t important. They’ve been repeated until they have no meaning. It’s the concepts that matter.
“stuffing it with “goodies.”
It’s a Congressional bill: of course they stuffed it with pork. The bribe money’s cut off from other sides and the Cramers of the world didn’t get a heads up, although the WHO people did (we have the internet posts that show them knowing and holding the market door open as long as possible to let their insider trillionaires sell out).
Flip side, now $1.5 Trillion new dollars to insider golfing pals. Yay! No soup for you! The point ISN’T to help the economy; it never is. It’s to help the same 1st information insiders they helped get out of the market before declaring WHO. Well, at least the proposed Congressional bill – finally, and not yet done – offset unemployment, taxes, what-not, a little. At the same time realize this is Weimar’s point where they start printing to hand out paychecks to union workers. That is, inflation can go on a long time before it reaches the people. And also inflation doesn’t occur with employment (hardly ever, contrary to Keynes’ discredited dumpster fire) but in a WEAK economy like Brazil and Zimbabwe, specifically where there is a SHORTAGE of real goods. Check, check, check. But I’ve been telling you for years they were going to cause a monetary reset. 2018 was printed on the front page in 1989. 29 + 2 years. How much more lead time did you need? How about since the bank lockup in ’08? Prepared anything since then?
“China is pitching the storyline that SARS-Cov2 came from the US.”
Still very odd, what took them so long? I mean if I can find evidence it went through NC to Harvard to Canada to China, then re-edited in Wuhan, surely they can. I’m just a guy on the internet and I try not to look into things like that, just as they cross the transom.
But on that note, remember way back Bill Gates’ exact virus scenario? And guess which was the country named? Italy. Same as the internet chatter in 1 Jan. Funny ol’ world. Those tech guys boy sure are smart!
Okay, they played the “Pandemic” card on the economy and stock market. So that game of shutting down the economy, and therefore any physical response, is going forward. I wonder how that affects the pandemic bonds.
It’s also most of what they don’t talk about, like WHY are 10 different facilities infected? Why only in Washington? Anyone want to guess hyper-low wages=foreign workers? We’ll never know, because if that were true, they’d nuke the planet before admitting it.
So…30 dead. Wow, one weekend in Chicago, be still my heart. No one cared for the last 30 years. I guess they weren’t real people? Important people?
Because statistically no one has died, either U.S. or worldwide, (0.00005%) the key danger remains the economy, a thing actually could kill us. No one cares about that either. Keeping the lines open is mean, irresponsible, heartless. It’s a “war footing” but one where there’s no casualties or sacrifice, you know, a T.V. war, where people fade into the scenery, shout a lot at the walls, and all go home at the end. So to be “serious” about this, we definitely, DEFINITELY need to shut down the entire economy, make sure no one goes to work, no products and source materials move, and no food gets on trucks. In #OppositeLand, that’s #Winning! Or what do you want “them” to do?
A: I want mommy and daddy to do everything so I can sit and cry, complain, whine and criticize. You know, having taken no responsibility, made no plans, have no resources or pantry before now. It’s YOUR FAULT! Whatever “IT” is, it’s your fault. Feed me Seymour. So they say this is coming, they are shouted down as insane. They limit travel, they are lambasted. They post $10 Billion early, and it’s the wrong $10 Billion. They build a wall and scan airports and it’s cruel. They repatriate factories and it’s dumb. Then, having gone home, job well done, wake up the next morning: Whaaaaaaaah! Why is it only $10 Billion??? Why are the airports open??? Why don’t we have any factories??? You’re stupid: you never did anything to help!
“The airport thingy, the billions, the quarantining, the military bases….???” Whaaaaaaaaah! Shut up shut up! Feed me! I’m not responsible! I’m IRRESPONSIBLE!
Okey dokey. Thanks for doing nothing all these years, lifetimes for most. Calling me and anyone who worked or had a modicum of foresight for the obvious, two extra cans of beans suckers and lunatics. Here we are. What do you want me to do about it? I told you every day this would happen until you ran away and stopped listening, then I said it on the internets until you stopped listening. Now you think –I– can stop locusts, bad weather, and pandemics? The one guy who can do that is the one guy you won’t talk to, can’t even say his name with your mouth. So…here we are, and we’re neighbors. I hope that newer iPhone11 and Cable subscription was worth it, ’cause I’m just plumb out of words.
Well, you’re in luck because at the moment this ISN’T an emergency and ISN’T bad. Will they have a come-to moment, where their behaviour changes? Nope. Not on your life. The second it lets up, they’ll be mocking it and me all over again. And I’ll still be here, planting trees while you laugh, again, when we get a break in June.
Italian “minimal growth in living standards in two decades.”
Thanks, Euro. Extracting wealth from the poor since 2001! Killed waaaaaaaaaay more people than Corona already. The nations cheer! Don’t stop EU, we want MORE EU! World government even!
“What happened in Wuhan could happen here. Why do we think otherwise?”
Okay then Doctor: What DID happen in Wuhan? Mere 3,000 deaths in a city of 20 Million as reported? That’s 0.015% death rate. The flu. Would you like to alter your story now?
Reminds me of 9-11, we want to start a 20 year, $20 trillion dollar worldwide crusade and erase the U.S. Constitution for HALF the ordinary deaths of a single DAY. But O’Brien said so! In our 5 minutes of hate! People said, “this will change everything” and I was like WTF why? Do you have the slightest idea of how big and strong this country is? 3,000 people is a pinprick: go back to work and think about something important before you do something stupid. Ah, but they were all acolytes of Osama, who said:
“it easy for us to provoke and bait this administration. All that we have to do is to send two mujahidin to the furthest point east to raise a piece of cloth on which is written “al-Qaida”, in order to make the generals race there to cause America to suffer human, economic, and political losses without their achieving for it anything of note other than some benefits for their private companies. …So we are continuing this policy in bleeding America to the point of bankruptcy.”
Ah, if only we had known from him saying it publicly for years! And the quote being on national T.V. And all his detractors pointing it out! And screwing up 100% of each step to get here! Who coulda knoooooowd?
So if 3,000 was a rounding error, two days of one cause of death in one country (heart disease), how much less in China. …Again, unless you want to reject the official numbers, Mister Doctor fellow. Can’t have it both ways.
“The American immune system is not stronger than the Chinese immune system,”
That’s not what the ACE2 receptor chart said. So is it is or is it ain’t? Isn’t it enough to say it has a 0.01% rate and therefore 33k may die? Nope! They have to lie and make it MOAR! So if China DOESN’T have this death rate, and it is already dropping off sharply, where do you get the science that WE absolutely, certainly will? A: Out me bung-hole. Can I expect an apology if you’re wrong and crash the world-wide economy instead? Nope, that’s only for people like me. Being an expert means never having to say you’re wrong, even 30 years later. Ask East Anglia. And the OPCW. And the IMF. And…
Ah the trouble with constant non-stop lies that everyone believes every word although no one’s ever told the truth before. They are so in love with “leaders” and “experts” they haven’t noticed they’ve never been right in our natural lifetimes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority Haven’t we died from SARS, H1N1, Avian, Swine, Mad cow, Creutzfeldt–Jakob’s, and Ebola yet? 12x over at least. I know I died at least twice. Meanwhile male life expectancy drops and 30,000/year die of opioids and the nation applauds. They wear stupid red hats, you see. A public service really.
Now I don’t trust China’s numbers a bit but they set up three stadiums to deal with the flow and only a month later all three are reportedly closed. So they threw all their people in the ocean or it is over now? And if it’s over in 60 days and they’re still standing what does that say? Maybe that for the 100th out of 100 times in a row the media hype machine is lying? Just like terrorists, they exist somewhere but you won’t die from them?
That’s what Cuomo is saying, he just called out the U.S. ARMY to shut down a whole 1 MILE area. Yeah, ’cause Americans seldom travel more than one mile. On the Metro North, the nation’s busiest subway. And specifically only the BUILDINGS, not the 79,000 commuting people. And NOT the city of “Wall Street”. Nope, never. Clearly it’s his top concern. For the cameras. And the yummy disaster relief money for his pals. Does he look concerned to you? So does he know things you don’t maybe? Like da Cheeto?
“Pollution Cuts May Mean Coronavirus Saves More Lives Than It Costs (F.)”
Can’t please some people. First they want everybody dead, then they don’t. If this is true, we should have a Corona per year and save millions. Already should have a baby boom from everybody staying home.
“US President Donald Trump’s efforts to “get NATO more involved in Syria,”
Huh? He was leaving Syria. That’s why y’all were mad; it was irresponsible, impeachable even. I know that wasn’t completed, but… But that’s Lindsey for you, can’t take the “Con” out of “NeoCon”. Back in the real world, we and Russia need to contain Turkey’s senseless ambitions as still fueled by Saudi and Israel. Personally, I’d leave it to Russia alone, but I can understand tag-teaming, especially with those two jokers ever-plotting. Using my tax money. Just another Wednesday in the Land of the Lost. Think I’ll go lick a banister.
I dunno. If you’ve ever worked in any business or industry or tried to get anything useful done, ever (naturally that excludes government), you could shoot every “leader” and no one would notice at all. Things would probably improve.
Since government is nothing BUT ordering people around, exclusively to do things that shouldn’t be done, like robbing some people to pay for killing others, then I suppose you would need leaders. But remember: THEY don’t do…anything. If they did any work, they’d be “Laborers”. You know, doctors, machinists, carpenters, toilet cleaners, drug dealers: honest work. They have the only job in the whole nation that we exclusively, by definition, don’t need. Even stockbrokers like Gordon Gekko are more useful: they put weak, stupid businesses out of their misery.
Ah, but as our founders said, anarchy or democracy (but I repeat myself) is no solution, so government we have. Somehow there must be a structure to pay the courts, be public liaisons with the military, and run the post office and patent office, at a loss, extremely badly. Other than that, I couldn’t be happier to hear every one of them has coronavirus. If they stayed home with hot orange juice we might save 500 bombs and 5,000 lives a week.
https://www.cfr.org/blog/how-many-bombs-did-united-states-drop-2016Of course if everyone didn’t love it — and them — as icons and our very gods to worship, WE would stay home and cut off their taxes, and save those 26,000 bombs/year while taking a well-earned vacation. …Then go back to working having fired them all with a 30% pay raise.
In any case, “Leader” is clearly synonym for “doesn’t do work”, “stole my paycheck”, “doesn’t know jack” and “doesn’t make good decisions” in every year of my experience. Congress is rated below “bedbugs” but edged out “ebola” for reason. My heroes.
Here’s the deal in America: I’M the leader. I’M the boss. The people are the boss of congress, not the employees. We don’t need you. You need us.
Success! Sentiment, which was 99% Bull positive last month is now +90% Bear negative. Okay! Shorts are in! Rocket is fueled and ready for launch. And here I thought we’d have to get under 20k and into April 1st. Silly billy. Not with computers and markets that are unrelated to anything real at all! Then it’s just bits and emotions. Almost like Crypto!
Over the 20% bear market level to lure the technical traders in, all systems go.
In other news, they detonated the last girders underpinning the petrodollar, as long-staged. I wondered why we played ball with MbS and Saudi arms, and now I know. I may not approve, but I understand why they played quid pro quo for this time when Cheeto would call the favor and hit the last oil mooring hard, freeing the dollar and the financial reset. Probably didn’t have Wuhan in mind when they planned it though.
“I have worked in Italy, UK and Aus” and America.
Huh? What credentials could he possibly have to make this legally possible? He’s an administrator, right?
Anyway, every death is a tragedy for someone, what’s the death rate? Are you taking the year’s average flu death rate and packing it into one month with one flu variety? We don’t know. If so, we’re like 100,000 deaths short.
“the outbreak has completely “killed” the country’s burgeoning tourism”
Yes, but then the Germans and Brits will be spending that money back home instead. You’re just adjusting the same economy in different directions that otherwise would be fine, but happening too fast. But I have an answer! Fascism! Central Planning! We will MAKE people keep having holidays in Italy by FORCE. You will go, Comrade, whether you enjoy it or not. I’m sure just like China’s totalitarian central planning shock force, this will totally work and contain both the virus and the economy. No? I thought violently ordering people around to maintain the status quo was the answer to all problems.
“Trump should be wishing that the Federal Reserve Bank had ignored his pressure to lower interest rates.”
Whisky Tango Foxtrot. He wishes we had higher rates so we could lower rates? Because the ALREADY lower rates aren’t lower rates? By this logic, we should wish we have 100,000 masks in warehouses so we don’t have them in hospitals. Then we could RELEASE them to hospitals and be MUCH safer.
Here’s an idea: if the economy is ALREADY hotter because of rates, wouldn’t that make it ALREADY stronger against headwinds? #AntiLogic.
“The pandemic is not only causing illnesses and straining health care resources”
Really? Where? Now bait-and-switch conflate world problems with U.S. problems, in classic CNN #AntiNews.
“Everyone should have access to health care right now” “It’s … only the humane thing to do,”
Thankfully the laws of physics have been suspended now and we don’t have to worry about who will pay for it and how it will work. And it’s lucky it’s humane, because, Mr. Ghitis, we ALREADY all have access to EXCELLENT health care. Just walk in. Especially if you’re bankrupt, illegal, or in prison, for only then can you get the BEST care. How much better can it possibly be? …We just don’t have an answer to how to pay for it. Which we don’t have now, didn’t have before, and have never had in human history. NHS is failing, Finland, Sweden failing, France, riots from raising taxes from failing, Canada, even shipping their surgeries here, still failing, China, communist system, failing. But it won’t fail this time! ‘Cause I thought in in my head and said it with my mouth. Laws of physics are voluntary, subject to my will. Speak my will to power, and lo! Gravity obeys! There was a certain Angel who said this, and next he had to move out.
“The Geek federation of hospital doctors”
I want to be part of this Geek Federation. Otherwise hired as their copy editor, a mythical beast now long believed extinct.
“iPhone sales in China a “doomsday type” like decline.”
It’s almost like they were dummies and the worst, most extractive company in the world and, despite stiff warnings both hyper-verticalized their whole supply chain to a single point of failure AND put in all in one nation, that ran open concentration camps, with a dictator-for-life, who had suicidal slaves work for you. So Progressive! So hip! All the cool kids love slavery, fascist dictators, and ethnic concentration camps for dissidents! Google said so! …These people drive me crazy.
How about this: Apple is a suck company that deserves to fail and be wiped from the earth for being stupid, stupid, stupid about 20 ways to Sunday to squeeze a fraction of a nickel from the blood of the poorest to the richest, most insider shareholders on earth. Companies that live that far out on the tree get cut off. Bye.
“Life is hard. But it’s harder if you’re stupid.” –John Wayne
“The publication of Vault 7 in early 2017 was the trigger for a major escalation in the US”
Again, he was not responsible for Vault 7…exactly…nor some of the other leaks The Guardian put out against his wishes and over his frenetic work. …But then blamed HIM for THEIR laziness and unconcern. Can we arrest The Guardian and give them the death penalty instead? Public service like? (A: sadly, no. They are still the press. Unlike Europe, China, Britain, Canada, Sweden, we still believe in free speech.)
“the establishment wing of the Democratic Party wants to put him in charge”
Nah, they’re going to have him retire the minute he picks HRC or Michelle as VP. As planned way back. Probably didn’t think it would get this bad, but it only helps their case. So who’ll be VP to the VP? Oh and remember, HRC never collapsed in public on a mild, breezy, 70f day and was bodily hauled off in black SUVs on camera. That was 4 years ago so she’s MUCH healthier now. Nope. Even though you saw it, asking questions is an illegal conspiracy theory. RussiaRussiaRussia. Now that Russian thing, everyone on earth is working for Russia, all 8 Billion of them, is totally true. They shut off my heat in Fargo! Oh wait, that was Wells Fargo, when their fake accounts and fake overdraft fees evicted me from my house. Welp, nothing to see here! Rachael Maddow’s on!
“oil plummeted 30% to $30.”
Yaaaaaaaaay!!! Too bad I can’t buy more. Might come in handy.
Btw, 1,200 Dow points is nothing anymore. Remember when it dropped 1,000 back at 10k? Yeah, now we’re at 30. So it’s still 1/3 as serious as then. They’ve been lulled by the bots rigging it such that even 200 is considered a big deal. Not. To equal ’08 it would have to drop 3,000 points a day, and have the trading halts kick in.
““These are truly dangerous times for all investors, but particularly for those holding large amounts of overvalued equity and property assets at fake economy prices.”
Certainly could say this every day for the last 30 years, and I have. Meanwhile real things like wheat and gas have never been cheaper. So your shelves are stocked, right?
“Putin stopped supporting MbS. Isn’t that a good thing? How much do we like MbS?”
No idea what’s going on there anymore. Turkey either. Probably somebody knows, but it’s all a double-double blind, double-cross double-reverse I’ve lost track. Let’s make it easy: They are killing people. That is bad. Stop.
“This resiliency of the consumer will once again support equities”
Bunch of problems. Sure, yes, the consumer came out in force, emptying his bank account. Only to buy toilet paper, not Teslas right now. However, there hasn’t been a connection between sales, retail, economy, debt, and stocks in a generation: 20 years, since 2001. Why start now? He didn’t notice? You’re fired.
“Even before the virus, Britain’s reality is devastating”
Maybe now with the Virus, they’ll finally care? Since the government will be kicked out of it and go back to neighbors helping neighbors, I suspect so. We’ll save 60% up-front dodging bureaucratic waste.
“wait for a less packed train”
I knew de Blasio was stupid, but this really takes the cake. I’d say he’s anti-science, but that would require understanding any sciencing to begin with. Ah, but what did I just say about government? On the plus side, I’m sure he’s been to a recent conference just like AIPAC and will join the people shortly, an equal-opportunity virus.
According to Varoufakis we should throw all borders open and not allocate resources? Maybe do it via central planning the way the WHO and de Blasio have? Brilliant! Tell you what, Yanis, take the door off your house and I’ll stay there while I’m ill until this whole thing blows over. What no? There are rules? Huh. Rules for me but not for thee, I reckon. You can do what you want with my resources, but I can’t do what I want with MY resources.
“Covid-19 may have pricked a bubble that was going to burst anyway.”
Yes, and whose cycle time was up to the day. It didn’t need a pin.
“Tyre Wear Produces 1,000 Times More Harmful Pollution Than Car Exhausts (BW)”
Another plan for me to live in caves while they buy 5,000 foot mansions at sea level. And I bet the death rate they will cite for this used-tire-dust is greater than Coronovirus. Almost everything is. And no one cared.
Who’s Fiona Hill? I’ve given up listening to idiots and liars for lent.
“The Russians didn’t invent partisan divides. The Russians haven’t invented racism in the United States,” Hill said. “But the Russians understand a lot of those divisions, and they understand how to exploit them.” So do the GOP and DNC, and they spent 16000x the “Russian” $10k in the ’16 election. Ah but #Facts. Why bother? Bernays long since showed facts matter least of all things on earth. Only the feels. And to her other point, we may seem divided, but Congressmen aren’t shooting pistols at down and beating each other with hickory canes in Congress, much though that might be wished. We could power a small city with the Pay-per-view.
“It was unclear how Russia was attempting to help the Vermont senator.”
Yeah, pretty “unclear”. And how Russia backs everyone in the race on every side, who hold every possible policy, including active Army Majors, even and especially ones that surround them with nukes, attack their allies, and embargo them as an act of open war. Because #AntiLogic! Our god.
“Biden’s cognitive decline.” What decline? He just doesn’t know his name, what campaign he’s running, or who his wife and sister are. Shouldn’t matter. The President hasn’t run anything important for decades. Clearly we should run an 80 year old with 5 heart attacks who can’t stand up for 30 minutes rather than a 40-year-old decorated woman-of-color Army Major centerfold surfer. That’s just common sense!
…You run out of words after a while. That is the point, of course. Of corruption, of injustice. The crooked abuser idiot sons of idiot sons can prosper only by attacking justice, because otherwise they would immediately sink to the bottom of the toilet where they belong. It’s only buying their way into Yale, to collude with other idiot sons that anyone would employ them at all.
But it so discourages the rest of us that we don’t defend the system, and therefore tolerate, encourage, condone injustice, abdication of duty that makes their lives possible. And makes our lives impossible. But it’s only because you all love injustice and won’t expose them, ridicule them, prosecute them, that they can get to a point of such immense and dangerous illogic. Then when they finally present their populist demagogue, the Final Solution from daddy government if only you say “Caesar is God”, you’ll be helpless, but the answer won’t come from him but yourself. Only from your own honestly, your own work, and your own religion, to choose #Logos over chaos, to choose work over theft, hard truths over comfortable lies. You can start anytime. This is your invitation.
