Archive for 2020
February 17, 2020
SEEN ON FACEBOOK: “Donald Trump (R-Queens) vs. Mike Bloomberg (D-Davos).”
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CORONAVIRUS UPDATE: ‘Danger of getting coronavirus now is just minusculely low.’ “If China can contain their outbreak much better than they are and prevent wide distribution, we could avoid a global pandemic. If they don’t, we’re gonna have a global pandemic. We’re teetering right on the line of what’s going to happen.” Plus: “Another thing that we don’t know is why, with a respiratory-borne illness, are there virtually no children getting infected. I mean, there are no cases of kids less than 15 years old. Does that mean for some strange reason they’re not getting infected, or the illness is so mild in children that we’re not noticing it? It’s very clear the median age is 56 or 59.”
Apple Will Miss Revenue Target Because of Coronavirus.
Boston Marathon Officials Carefully Monitoring Coronavirus.
Runners Devastated After Coronavirus Curtails Tokyo Marathon.
Cathay Pacific Airways Sees “Crisis” As Coronavirus Reduces Traffic.
Chinese health report says tens of thousands of new coronavirus cases have been mild.
Coronavirus among medics more widespread than reported, research Shows.
China reports 1,886 new virus cases, death toll up by 98.
All Our Drugs to Treat the Coronavirus Depend on Chinese Suppliers.
UPDATE: First link was wrong before. Fixed now. Sorry!
WELL, THAT JUST MEANS THEY’RE CLOAKED, OBVIOUSLY: SETI search of interstellar Comet Borisov finds no sign of alien ‘technosignatures.’
WELL, THERE GOES THE ROLLING STONES’ NEXT TOUR OF CHINA: Cocaine does not kill Coronavirus, despite viral imagery to the contrary.
Related: All Our Drugs to Treat the Coronavirus Depend on Chinese Suppliers.
More: Apple expects coronavirus to impact March quarter revenues. “The statement released Monday is likely to trigger dips in stock prices when the market reopens Tuesday after being idle for Presidents Day.”
WHAT COULD GO WRONG? Without Britain, the European Union Lurches Towards Its Own Army.
Meanwhile, in a reconsideration that would mark a significant shift, senior German officials are questioning whether Berlin should not give itself nuclear capacity. A senior member of Angela Merkel’s CDU party made a case for the EU to create its own nuclear deterrence capability, while other media contributors argued for Germany to have its own arsenal.
The next “European Civil War” will be quite a barnburner.
ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: Mike Bloomberg blasts ‘Bernie Bros’ in new campaign ad.
Flashback: Bernie Bro James T. Hodgkinson, Attempted Assassin Of Steve Scalise, Already Being Erased From History.
THAT’S OKAY, IT’S NOT LIKE OLD PEOPLE ARE BIG VOTERS: Bloomberg Caught On Tape Saying the Elderly Should Be Denied Medical Care Because of Cost Overruns.
HE’S GOING TO HAVE TO SPREAD MORE MONEY AROUND THE MEDIA AND THE DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP TO GET PAST THIS: Bloomberg says many ‘black and Latino males’ don’t ‘know how to behave in the workplace,’ in newly uncovered 2011 video.
DE BLASIO TAKES NYC BACK TO THE 1970S: Graffiti artists tag NYC subway cars from top to bottom.
HMM: No need for ‘blanket measures’ on virus: WHO. “The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Monday warned against ‘blanket measures’ over the novel coronavirus outbreak, pointing out the epidemic outside China was only affecting a ‘tiny’ proportion of the population. It also said that – with a mortality rate of around 2 per cent – Covid-19 was ‘less deadly’ than other coronaviruses such as Sars or Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (Mers). WHO officials rejected the suggestion that all cruises should be halted to avoid risking a new nest of infection like the one on the coronavirus-hit Diamond Princess off Japan.”
A KNIFE ALWAYS WORKS: First Look: Buck Knives Ground Combat Collection.
IT’S HARD TO BLAME HOLLYWOOD — THESE ALL-FEMALE REBOOTS ARE ALWAYS BIG HITS: Vin Diesel Says an All-Female Fast & Furious Spinoff Is Definitely Happening.
GOOD LUCK WITH THAT: Why Democrats should come together — and support Trump.
BABSON COLLEGE HAS A SAD RECORD: Babson falsely claimed it was ‘cooperating’ with Massachusetts State Police over professor’s ‘threatening’ Facebook post.
SCHRÖDINGER’S CORONAVIRUS: Head of Wuhan hospital who caught coronavirus is ‘still having treatment’ say health officials — after Chinese media reported he died.
And in the Boston Herald: Emergency preppers on coronavirus: Get supplies ready, take the virus seriously now.
OH, TO BE IN ENGLAND: UK Teen Fined, Under House Arrest for Asking Trans Police Officer’s Gender.
Flashback: British Cops, on the Lookout for Trolls, Ask Public to Report ‘Non-Crime Hate Incidents.’
In 2018, when British cops were threatening social media critics after the NHS banished 23-month-old Alfie Evans to the Spartan hillside, British ex-pat Charles C.W. Cooke tweeted, “Michael Brendan Dougherty pointed out to me that police in the U.K. spend all their time on Twitter threatening people with jail time for frivolous things, and now I can’t stop seeing it.”
As a wise woman once wrote, “There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals one makes them.”
