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Damn!Went to grocery store yesterday that required masks. Instant asthma, foggy glasses, had to keep moving it to smell the produce, voices were all muffled. Worst of all, the place was filled with faceless zombies. We are hardwired for smiles.
We have entered the world of the living dead. But, gee, we’re safe, right? Safe is all there is, right? Better to be safe in Hell than to cough in Paradise, right?
Oh- and no masks with no social distancing didn’t cause The Virus to spread during our little riots. That’s so precious! God loves riots!“Mongo see stars!”
I take that to mean you liked it- so glad! If it was the only thing computers had ever been used for, I’d say it was worth it.
For those who haven’t taken a peek, maybe “acid trip” was a poor simile. With more detail than the universe, I think it is a philosophical work…but is it art?Isn’t it grand that all the youngsters are now getting Covid in the summertime? Bring on the cases! The death numbers are dropping!
After all, if immunity is not bestowed by getting it, A VACCINE CANNOT WORK.Re the elections in the US: they will be contentious, to say the least, and the people fighting each other to champion such “leadership” is low comedy, indeed.
“Data from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis shows that total savings deposits at US banks jumped sharply as the coronavirus outbreak surged in March and April.” Business Insider 14 May
I saw this a while back (somewhere else). andt it surprised me. The idea was that Americans were saving their checks. I recall Lagarde tsk-ing people for saving instead of spending, and current interests rates are punishing to savers, but apparently Americans will save, given a chance (and nowhere to go to spend it.)
Bosco: I see your lemniscate and raise you “The Hardest Mandelbrot Zoom Ever In 2014,10^198 : New record – 350 000 000 iterations”. It’s an oldie but a bestie.
Y’all have seen it, I’m sure, but it’s a lovely revisit.
New computer and still can’t do links, but goggle the quote and take a nine minute acid trip. It’s my absolute favorite Mandelbrot zoom because the aim is so good.
If you have never seen it you’re in for a treat.
Just wasting time on this very sweet summer night.Lincoln County, Oregon, has exempted non-white people from a new order requiring that face coverings be worn in public — to prevent racial profiling. (NY Post June 23)
Fauci on masks- People had bandanas, gingham, and sewing machines back in March, too.
I look for them when I go out-
Sometimes it takes a while.
But when I see one I return
That happy gracious smile.Thanks for your reply. You are a front line reporter. What you report is what I hoped, and I am so happy to hear it.
Those who must go to the ER right away- is it the same syndrome? Do all your severe respiratory cases test positive? It keeps nagging at me that we have two things going on here and we are ignoring one of them by putting it under the same umbrella as sarscov2.
There seems to be a syndrome that turns blood to glue, but I see no reason to presume it is sarscov2.Huckleberry Finn keeps getting ousted, but always comes back. Huck chooses Hell over racism.
Deaths are increasing- Remdesivir is now being touted – there’s even a nasal spray.
“Remdesivir: (Major) Coadministration of remdesivir and hydroxychloroquine is not recommended. The antiviral activity of remdesivir was antagonized by chloroquine phosphate in a dose-dependent manner when the 2 drugs were co-incubated at clinically relevant concentrations in an in vitro study.”
(Prescriber’s Digital Reference)
WebMD says HCQ must not be used if using remdesivir. (’cause the remdesivir won’t “work”!)
How convenient. I swear they are manufacturing death to keep this virus going. I was skeptical when I read that the DNC wants a second wave to defeat Trump, but they DO hate him that much.If Clinton had shown some grace in her concession (or EVER!), we might not be worried about civil war. Hatred and rage make a lousy platform.
John Day: have you used HCQ+? Does it work?
Depersonalization started with pagers. (Feel free to go back further.) The pager beeped and Very Important People rudely interrupted their social group to answer it. Technology beckoned and we answered, “Yes!”
Computers followed on the heels of television to make our screentime productive. And we said, “Yes. Yes!” Telephones went mobile soon after, and once again people felt the tech out-privileged the social group and took calls, saying “Yes, yes. Yes!” Then they all melded together and the Singularity didn’t need to be wired into heads- it was glued to the palms of our hands. People could attempt conversation but one -eventually all- would rudely scroll and text and take calls, saying, “Yes, yes, yes, oh yes!”One day, somebody modelled that we were all going to die (something we tend to deny) unless we let the screens run our lives- socializing was banned and masks hid our emotions. We had to be tracked and monitored For Our Own Good. All necessary interaction could be done by the screen. School, work, parties, the doctor, worship, rituals, government mandates.. We never had to touch each other again. Soon we’ll be chipped like all the Things in the Internet thereof, and danger may come but we’ll feel no fear. Heaven?
And we said “Yes! Yes! Yes! Ohhh YES!”
Now we are no longer human, and having sold out our humanity for safety, we deserve every last rotten thing that comes along. The proud (with different rules) will inherit the earth, each one using as much as a million once did. The few Meek remaining will comb garbage dumps for rare earths. A privileged few Meeks will live in full health until their kidney or liver or heart is needed.
Well done, species. (Cue illustration from Canto 34: Lucifer, King of Hell: He looks frustrated. He didn’t want soul-less creatures devoid of Will, did he? Where is the suffering in those who feel nothing? Where is the free will to crush in those who forgot how to say “NO”?)My apologies to Joyce, who comes to me via a Rodney Dangerfield movie.
Civil war…
It depends on how August pans out, economically. It looks bleak, and it will be hot.It’ will be hard to have elections in a nation of homeless people. The Erinyes will step in. Then it will get nasty.
The US gov will start wars elsewhere to “unite” the people and give them things to do. US “allies” might find pro-American State Forces will face angry citizens refusing to “help” the US. The US will use bombs and sanctions to compel allies to join. The civil wars spread worldwide as food grows scarce and sides- many, many sides- form, dissipate, and form anew.
We’ll see weapons we never saw before.Bunker hunting will become everyone’s favorite sport. Everyone who was going to die of covid will have done so.
On a happier note, people will start hugging and kissing and hanging out again. Hands will be shaken, songs will be sung together. Food will be shared over candlelight, if you’re lucky enough to have either.Hatred of Trump is not a platform, but I find friends and family thinking it is, and if I don’t agree I become the object of their fury..
That civil war that looms on the November horizon won’t stay in the US. It will be the first World Civil War.
This is what smart phones and globalism have wrought.
Hyperbole, yeah, but it’s late.We flattened the curve, The Virus is not going to disappear. If you want to protect yourself with masks, more power to you. If you want to avoid gatherings- okay. But if you want to take a chance and catch it and rely on the knowledge that there is a reliable treatment if you think you have caught it, you are adding to the community immunity.
Masks, ANTI social distancing (as they call it over at The Slog) no parties, no contact, no wooing, no singing, no laughing, no sports, no FUN…’til when? What does that future look like?
They can do this with the flu, you know. Every fall we will all don masks, stay away from each other when the months are long and dark, cancel Holidays and the fabric of society’s biggest push. We will make fun taboo when fun is needed most. If you think fun is trivial and worth foregoing to prevent death… you haven’t learned about life at all. The very young are taking this in- coming up is a generation of scolders and bitties who are hungry to steal from the future to protect themselves NOW.
Where else have I seen that? Boomers?? They refuse to retire, and think the fact that their house keeps going up in price is a good thing even as their kids and grandkids scramble for housing. Kids stuck at home and you’re getting A LITTLE TIRED of them? Pooh. Been there done that. Don’t bring them here- it’s dangerous. Didn’t save enough for times like these? Talk to your Uncle Sam.
The least the “keep the lockdown going” tribe needs to see is that there is another tribe that is willing to take the risks of life and go ahead with NORMAL. Normal is not dead. Normal is what will happen regardless of the anxious, death-phobic, numbers-ignorant folks who think if we just deny living long enough, death might pass us by.
I’m at a loss. What next for the cocooners? When will they crack out and fly, because that’s what life demands? It’s dangerous out there.
Thank goodness.Here’s something that is not the same old same old: Gene Drive Files. It’s a website that covers the following. [I still haven’t got links down.]
“Gene drives are a gene-editing application that allows genetic engineers to drive a single artificial trait through an entire population by ensuring that all of an organism’s offspring carry that trait. For example, recent experiments are fitting mice with ‘daughterless’ gene drives that will cascade through mouse populations so that only male pups are born, ensuring that the population becomes extinct after a few generations.”What fun! We’re gonna chop out links in the Great Chain of Being!
[I got this from over at Rappoport today.]I’m so happy you finally made it to Greece, RIM. May the gods smile on you and leave you be so you and your group may flourish.
Tyler is one real person? I thought “he” was plural.
One person’s excitement is another person’s anxiety.
On cspan right now: “National Guard and Operation Warp Speed Confirmations”. Hunh?
Warp Speed is the vaccine/treatment program. I really don’t want to listen to the hearing, but confirmations of who for what? What’s the national guard have to do with it? I don’t like this at all.Vitamin D levels turn out to be clinically significant. That’s why everyone had to stay indoors. No mention of sunscreen as a cause for low D levels. I’m surprised rickets hasn’t returned.
Gen. Gustave Perna (Warp Speed COO nominee) saying he’ll make sure operations move quickly.
NO NO NO NO! No military!OT In the shunned NYT Science section, there is an article titled “Is That a Bot or Not…” One “Kate Starbird” was mentioned, and I bring this up because of where she works:
The University of Washington’s “Emergent Capacities of Mass Participation Laboratory”.
It’s nice to know such a place exists, isn’t it? /s
(The article concluded that it is very difficult to tell a bot from a human.)How about a little “lighter-hearted” Dore? Canto 19 “Dante addresses Pope Nicholas III” makes me giggle. What did Nick do to find himself in such a predicament?
Ah! Nepotism!
Kamala Harris??!! Well, she is a perfect match for the old law-n-order Biden…(speaking of nepotism…)Isn’t it nice that Powell is investing in corporate bonds for me? How considerate of him! Maybe he could buy some stocks for me, as well. And here I was thinking of getting out of “The Markets” altogether.
I used to sit in my grandparents’ attic looking at the engravings in the Divine Comedy. Dore’s stuff was pretty heavy for a little kid. You have a trove of apt illustrations at your fingertips, Ilargi. Some of them are mighty grim.
The DNC seems determined to get Trump re-elected. The saddest thing about having two incoherent candidates at the top of the tickets is that I think they understand each other.
The dead horse that is Russia-gate was too tough to swallow- even for those who are going to have to eat it, so they must keep beating it until it is tender, I guess.
NYC Blues
The words create fear. The fear creates stress.
The stress leads to symptoms. The symptoms progress.So he took to his bed, where his ailing increased.
He went to the doctor, and now he’s deceased.Ilargi-
I like it when you write instead of cite, and the thought-provoking comments here indicate others do, too.
Thanks.“Taken accountability” …”for the distress…”
Isn’t this everyone’s favorite “apology”? I’m so sorry —you feel that way.
Is “accountability” Aussie for “responsibility”? When used this way, what does either one mean?
Isn’t the right version: “it was my fault, and I have been fired.”
One syllable words have more punch.
Or is it: “Mono-syllabic vocabulary is inherently superior in expressiveness”?Yesterday I saw an ad on tv that is “letting” you buy fractional stocks- is that a thing? Sounds a bit like the shoe-shiner anecdote. Who wouldn’t want a piece of that action?
I’ll start with $5 worth of BRK.AOh- The video is an interview of a nurse who worked at NYC’s Elmhurst Hospital- the “epicenter of the epicenter”. Intubation is a key subject.
Concerning summertime Vit D: you not only have to exit your air conditioned abode, you will also have to forego the sunscreen for at least 20 minutes.
Concerning the future of starvation: so everything is going according to plan, right? Isn’t there a vaccine for that? /s
Concerning the Markets: it’s all funny money, anyways, and may go POOF before you know it.
Over at Ed Curtin’s site today there is a video that is very much worth watching. Rage and weep.Anyone out there- check on a video over at Information Clearing House called “Honey, I Shrunk Trump” under May 29, 2020.
I’m pretty sure you’ll laugh out loud.I just saw the Strib’s list of businesses that were damaged or destroyed- a few were favorites of mine. My wine store suffered heavy damage and looting. (I suppose I sound like a snoot there, but I really like the owner and his family who helps him run it.) What kind of condolences does one send to the victim of such a thing? It’s also notable that so many of the stores were standing in the way of urban renewal.
It’s going to be a fun summer? I cross my fingers.
I love heat and humidity, but I’ll wish this summer to be cool and drizzly.Biden? Good grief. He’s the best the DNC has? I made myself listen to Trump yesterday- those debates are going to awesome. /s And utterly incoherent.
On a different note- I was watching Dr. Michael Saag of U of Alabama on cspan this morning. He made it clear that HCQ was experimental and clearly did not endorse it yet…
Until a woman called and asked if he had used it when he was sick with the virus in March (as he had mentioned).
He did.
Facade and reality.RIM: When people are so afraid of sickness and death that they give up what makes life worth living- and now seem willing to embrace a surveillance state- I call that extreme. I did.
What you cite I call unbearable, terrifying- which is also extreme.
We are living in a monstrous social experiment. This will show up in those who are children now when they become adults. Some of those effects may be a fear of Others, and an inability to see their humanity, which may lead to the terrors you cite.On Taleb’s last point: Evasively stated. Humans are psychological beings. I’m pretty sure policy (decision)-makers ask “how will people react?” because they risk non-compliance if they ignore it.
The surveillance state that the medical experts want to roll out because of The Virus is already being resisted. They could have tried it right off the bat, but they would have risked extreme non-compliance: they had to whip up extreme fear first. Making policy without caring about the psychological ramifications is a hallmark of totalitarianism.
Medical Martial Law: “I’m cold. All of you, put a sweater on!”
Off to off-g to check out the rest of the article.On the Chauvin (as in chauvinist?) thing- why are we concentrating on the victim? The poor guy got dug up before he was buried- and it will all figure in the trial to get the cop- the PERP- off. I don’t understand…this is about a LEO who did a reprehensible thing -on camera with an unmistakable look on his face (bet he wishes he had worn a mask)- and Floyd is in the spotlight.
Wrong!
Every night I go to sleep hoping I will wake up on a different time line- ’cause this one is too snarled to follow.HCQ: No wonder the little managers are scrambling to distance themselves from liability.
The Minnesota study admits it was not used as a treatment but rather to see if it was useful as a phrophylactic. I don’t know about the zinc. If this isn’t the throbbing red thumb that says it’s time to reconsider the hammering methods, I don’t know what is.
On a note I sing all the time:
There is nothing more important to a culture than to party (gather; hang out; assemble; meet; etc.). Nothing. I repeat: NOTHING.In good spirits we come together and share opinions- faces open. Without this, society falls apart.
If it doesn’t, it should.Dr D Rich-
SDD almost sounds like a tactic that could be used by destabilizers. And the world is ripe with the causes of it.Naming it was an enormous factor in where we ended up. A name for a syndrome that covers the entire gamut of symptoms of any disease (diagnosed with a non-diagnostic test) pushed out the research needed to discover the real culprit in institutions. There is an opportunity still being lost- like discovering Legionaire’s disease is specific to plumbing and moistness.
I am comforted by so many front-line MDs wanting an answer despite the doctrine handed down from the weasels. I am distressed that so many terrified people are only glomming onto “expert” advice that makes them more terrified. I want to comfort my friends: “you are in little danger”. They want to remain terrified. Why?In “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” the two protagonists are put on a bus to take them away from their goal of climbing Devil’s tower. Most of the round-ups fear the “deadly threat” and are compliant with their own removal. Our heroes take off their masks and realize it is a scam. They ditch the bus. They climb the tower. One gets to thumb a ride with the aliens. The other finds her son.
Let’s get off the bus.
There’s an economy to build that is skew from the fancy folks. Let’s get to it. Unmasked face to unmasked face; person to person, in little groups and in big gatherings. As humans have done forever: let’s ignore the weasels and get down to it.WES-
As of my writing last night, there were about 150 buildings that had been burned- mostly small businesses, mostly in Mpls, some in St.Paul. St Paul kept their police force out in full force; Mpls did not.The freeways and major arteries into the city are closed. St. Paul has blocked the bridges from Minneapolis.
Peaceful protestors were to leave at 8pm, but those who stayed are sitting down. The involved streets are all cops. In-city people I know are tense. The authorities are positive the agitators are outsiders- there are many “cars without license plates”.
In the endless breaking news, it is clear the left/right thing is specious- the locals want the bad actors out.
Walz is turning out to be a very shrewd politician. It’s a Minnesota thing- boring on the outside, ruthless on the inside. I think he knows the FBI knows what he needs to know but won’t tell him.
That this has spread to other cities smacks of conspiracy- or the months of lockdown, alienating masks, and thinking your fellow man has cooties (or that he thinks you do) has made people twitchy. And it isn’t even summer yet- today was 67 with a dew point in the thirties- a beautiful blue day. Next week we get upper eighties.It’s a salon. It’s a comfortable night at the bar. It’s snappy patter at lunch with those we come to know.
In itself it means nothing, but if you get something out of it, it’s pretty sweet.Logical conundrum of contact tracing: health care workers.
Work one day, stay home for two weeks?The least we can do is give nice, brown shirts to those noble contact tracers.
Stayed up late, got up early to watch my cities burn. It feels like we’ve been set up for this “prison riot”- by the insanity of LOCKDOWN for a lowly pathogen; by a police department who kept the rotten cops on board (higher orders?); by looters and incendiary agents provocateur.
Why no arrests of the four leos (esp.Chauvin)? “These things must be done CAREFULLY…” [picture cackling green witch].
I guess the species can’t wait to usher in the brave new world order.
This is a bad day, and it’s still early. Mushroom season is over.Suckers, dupes, and nincompoops
It seems we’ve lost our nerve.
Snitches, rats, republicrats-
We get what we deserve.Once again, the button says: “submit”.
RaiIs are cutting lines; some Targets are closed; some malls are closed, including the mall of America. The post office is suspending service to some areas. A building is burning right now- unknown, according to local Fox, which is the only station covering it much.
This breaks my heart.
Apparently we are the first city to distract ourselves with something not “covid”.
A long procession of protesters are peacefully walking on I-94.
The “riots” continue as peaceful protests vie for coverage. There’s a lot of rotten behavior going on.
I was born in and returned to the Twin Cities.
