CORONAVIRUS WON’T KILL THE CULTURE WARS.
Of course. In times of maximum chaos, people take comfort in what they know, and the modern left’s ideology is entirely framed by identity politics.
Archive for 2020
April 9, 2020
QUESTION ASKED BY VDH: Is the bad and self-negating behavior of so many of Trump’s enemies setting him up for an even more impressive victory in the fall?
Nobody should be cocky during the current ongoing chaos.
IT COULDN’T HURT: A top German doctor recommends whiskey to protect against COVID-19.
IF IT IS, YOU’D NEVER HEAR IT COMING: Could a Mach 5 SR-72 Spy Plane Already Be in the Sky?
IT’S ONLY A MODEL. BUT: Leading Model: New York Among 7 States Projected To Have Hit Its Peak.
WHEN PEOPLE TIRE OF SUPPORTING ACADEMIA WITH THEIR HARD-EARNED DOLLARS, WE’LL BE TOLD IT’S BECAUSE OF “ANTI-INTELLECTUALISM.” ‘Marxian economist’ professor doesn’t blame Trump for coronavirus ‘mess.’ He blames capitalism.
THIS IS WHY WE NEED A RE-OPENING PLAN: US weekly jobless claims jump by 6.6 million, bringing three-week total to more than 16 million.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Enough With the Social Distancing Soviet Freak Flag Flying. “There is a very real possibility that we could have pulled this off without the Eric Garcetti and Gavin Newsom types fetishizing their political authority.”
SO YOU’RE SAYING TRUMP HAS SAVED US ALL? CDC director downplays coronavirus models, says death toll will be ‘much lower’ than projected.
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IT IS UNWISE TO DEVIATE FROM THE PARTY LINE, COMRADE: Chinese coronavirus critic Ren Zhiqiang under investigation, Communist Party disciplinary committee says.
HERE’S A POINT IN FAVOR OF THE THEORY THAT LOW-IMPACT CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS ARE MUCH MORE COMMON THAN EXISTING TESTS INDICATE: Massachusetts sewage suggests more than 100K coronavirus cases in state: MIT lab.
Just one section of Massachusetts could have more than 100,000 coronavirus cases — many times more than the entire state has identified at this point, according to an MIT-associated study of local sewage.
Biobot Analytics, which is a lab associated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, published research this week that an analysis of sewage from a treatment facility in “a large metropolitan area in the state of Massachusetts” suggested that many more people potentially have the highly contagious disease than tests have confirmed.
“On March 25, the area represented by the sample had approximately 446 confirmed cases of Covid-19,” Biobot researchers wrote Wednesday in a post about their research. “Based on our sewage analysis, we estimate that up to 115,000 people are infected and shedding the SARS-CoV-2 virus.”
This would be great news, if true.
PATHOGENS DON’T SPREAD GEOGRAPHICALLY, BUT ALONG NETWORKS OF HUMAN INTERACTION: Coronavirus Invades Saudi Inner Sanctum: More than six weeks after Saudi Arabia reported its first case, the coronavirus is striking at the heart of the kingdom’s sprawling royal family.
HE SEEMS QUITE COMPETENT: Jared Kushner sped set up of drive-in virus testing, say officials.
TAIWAN HAS REALLY LOOKED GOOD DURING THIS CRISIS, but this is a brutal China subtweet:
CHANGE: U.S. Allows Google Internet Project to Advance Only if Hong Kong Is Cut Out.
Related: “Japan has earmarked $2.2 billion of its record economic stimulus package to help its manufacturers shift production out of China as the coronavirus disrupts supply chains between the major trading partners,” Bloomberg reports.
HARSH, BUT FAIR.
THE RETURN OF SCRAPPLEFACE: Biden Salutes Sanders for Starting a Movement.
He went there.
