Archive for 2020
April 22, 2020
HOW DEEP-CLEANERS KILL THE CORONAVIRUS.
CONRAD BLACK: Democrats Get Outmaneuvered By Trump’s Cunning.
But the president has flipped the table: he has met the public health challenge and is “flattening the curve.” And he has met the economic challenge with an imaginative economic package and now with a scientifically economic validated restart.
The Democrats — in a year when they can’t do anything right except sandbag Bernie Sanders, when they defended the infamous Chinese performance for a long time, and upheld the corrupt leadership of the World Health Organization — are still calling for Americans to hide like moles, whatever the financial hardship and the danger of starvation, severe economic loss, and public demoralization.
Don’t get cocky.
IF IT SAVES JUST ONE LIFE, IT’S WORTH IT: Woman’s Breast Implant Saved Her Life by Deflecting a Bullet, Case Study Shows.
Boobs. Is there anything they can’t do?
IN WHICH BATTLESWARM BLOG CREATES THE PERFECT VISUAL FOR NEGATIVE OIL PRICES: Less Than Zero.
INDIA SATISFIES THE SNIPERS: The post discusses India’s acquisition of the SIG716 sniper rifle. The post also examines the Indian military’s failed Indian Small Arms System (INSAS) “family” of 5.56mm infantry weapons (rifle, light machine-gun and carbine) design and manufacturing program. (Link fixed.)
VIKING SQUADRON IN THE SNOW: Viking crews and their vehicles from Armoured Support Group Royal Marines conduct snow and ice driver training at Setermoen, which is about 15 miles south of Bardufoss, Norway.
“EARTH DAY” TURNS 50. Half a century later, a look back at the forecasters who got the future wrong—and one who got it right.
Flashback: “Earth Day” Founder And Notorious “Unicorn Killer” Ira Einhorn Has Died In Prison At Age 79.
On the eve of 2011’s “Earth Day,” NBC stumbled into this headline and subhead to describe Einhorn: Earth Day co-founder killed, composted girlfriend. Ira Einhorn preached against Vietnam War and violence, but had dark side.
THE GLOBAL WUHAN VIRUS DEBACLE: It’s a preview of the 2049 Imperial World Order run by the Chinese Communist Party.
Beijing’s calculated deceit regarding the COVID-19 pandemic’s November 2019 origin in Wuhan, China, to its ongoing 2020 A.D. global massacre provides Planet Earth’s residents with a preview of the Chinese Communist Party imperial world order that Chinese President Xi Jinping has promised to buy, slap together when no one with a brain is looking or impose via raw military terror by 2049.
Read the entire essay.
NEWS FROM MY NECK OF THE WOODS: Coronavirus in Tennessee: 29 active Knox County cases, 199 total. “The Knox County Health Department reported three new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday, bringing the total case number to 199. There are now 29 active cases in the county as of April 22, up from 27 on Tuesday. The total number of cases grew to 199 from 196. The total number of recovered cases rose to 166. . . . Of the 199 cases, 28 of them have resulted in hospitalization at any point during the illness.”
Also: East Tennessee mayors urge public cooperation for phased reopening of economy.
CORONAVIRUS: ALL-CAUSE MORTALITY HIGHER THAN ACCOUNTED FOR. “These numbers contradict the notion that many people who have died from the virus might soon have died anyway. In Paris, more than twice the usual number of people have died each day, far more than at the peak of a bad flu season. In New York City, the number is four times the normal amount. . . . But the total death numbers offer a more complete portrait of the pandemic, experts say, especially because most countries report only those Covid-19 deaths that occur in hospitals.”
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Johns Hopkins University cuts salaries, expects layoffs as school projects $375 million in losses. “The university also will suspend its contributions to employees’ retirement plans for one year in fiscal year 2021 and place a freeze on employees’ salaries through June 2021, holding the faculty’s base pay at their current levels for at least a year.”
DON’T TRUST CHINA. CHINA IS ASSHOLE:
The mainland People’s Republic of China is both the biggest and worst part of the global supply chain. Since the latter won’t change under Communist rule, the former is going to have to.
ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Who Sounds Drunker: VodkaPundit Or Joe Biden?
BAIZUO RACISM IS A REAL PROBLEM.
The answer, by the way, is that in modern America race-talk is mostly a means by which white people compete for status with other white people.
UPDATE: Seen on Facebook: “The VP candidate will be Kamala Harris. Biden to attract the black vote. Harris to attract the white vote.”
IN THE MAIL: From Amity Shlaes, Great Society: A New History.
NEWS THAT MOST OF OUR PRESS CAN’T (OR WON’T) USE: How to cover Georgia’s Coronavirus reopening like a real journalist.
We’ve already seen plenty of journalistic errors in the coverage of this story since it broke over the weekend. The best example is CNN.com’s headline on the story that includes the phrase saying that the move, “… will likely please Trump,” thus ensuring that this issue will be seen as a yet another pro/con Trump dividing line where facts go to die. (HINT: Whether or not this move will “please Trump” is something that can be actually ascertained by asking the president about it at one of his daily news conferences. It could also be reported via sources, etc. You know, by using journalism).
We also have lots of supposedly objective journalists who have already gone on record, on social media and elsewhere, rooting heavily against, (and in some cases for), the Georgia experiment to succeed. Thus, anything those journalists write about how the Georgia reopening proceeds is hopelessly tainted by their all-too-public admissions about where they stand on the idea.
But so far, all I’ve done is give you yet another example of criticizing bad journalist conduct after the fact. However it’s a good jumping off point for the following three rules on how to cover this crucial Georgia reopening story fairly and accurately.
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TO BE FAIR, HE ALSO THINKS CUBAN HEALTH CARE IS FREE: Michael Moore Admits He Had No Idea Where the Juice To Power Electric Cars Came From.
THIS IS NICE. MAYBE YALE WILL DONATE THE $6,851,139 IN STIMULUS MONEY IT RECEIVED. Four Yale Law Students Create Coronavirus Stimulus Pledge To Encourage Charitable Donations.
Ha! Who am I kidding, right? I mean, it’s not like the Ivy League is as principled as Shake Shack.
Related: Harvard clashes with Trump over coronavirus relief, rebuffs call to return money. How dare you suggest we’re as principled as Shake Shack!
J.D. VANCE: End the Globalization Gravy Train: Donor dollars shouldn’t be made in China. “The Chinese state has unleashed a plague that, if we’re lucky, will merely be the worst in a decade rather than the worst in a generation. The CCP has lied and manipulated international institutions in a way that ensures the deaths of thousands of additional Americans. The virus has revealed an American economy built on consumption, reliant for production on regimes either indifferent or actively hostile to our national interest.”