Archive for 2020
March 16, 2020
CORONAVIRUS: Amsterdam’s ‘Red Light’ district shuts, long lines for marijuana. “The government ordered all restaurants, cafes and schools shut down until April 6. The measure included the famous Dutch bars selling hashish and cannabis and strip clubs, Health Minister Arie Slob said. They were told to stop serving customers at 1800 (1700 GMT) on Sunday…The number of confirmed coronavirus infections in the Netherlands rose by 176 to 1,135 on Sunday, with 20 deaths, the Dutch National Institute for Public Health (RIVM) said.”
TIRED: THERE ARE NO LIBERTARIANS IN A PANDEMIC. WIRED: THERE ARE ONLY LIBERTARIANS IN A PANDEMIC: From relaxed TSA rules to speedy FDA approvals, the coronavirus is forcing authorities to admit many of their regulations are unnecessary.
GOTTA BE SURE YOU’RE EXPOSED BEFORE YOU GO HOME TO INFECT MOM AND POP AND THE GRANDPARENTS: Cornell Coronavirus Plea to Students: Stop Partying! “Hosting or attending a large party is exactly the opposite of what you should be doing in this moment.”
JOE HILDEBRAND: Why the death of the Democratic middle will deliver Trump’s win. “Democrat voters have a choice between a genially demented candidate and a genuinely deranged one but the most embarrassing part is that both of them are more electable than painfully self-pitying senators crying sexism from their east coast estates.”
I was at Sam’s Club around noon on Sunday, and while the crowds weren’t awful, staples were hard to find and the meat selection was minimal.
BIDEN THUMPS BERNIE AT ONE-ON-ONE DEBATE, BUT CREATES PROBLEMS FOR LATER:
In effect, Biden was calling for nationalized health care — but just in dealing with the virus. No one, he said, should have to pay for coronavirus treatment.
Biden moved toward Sanders’ radical views several times during the debate, which was an interesting choice, since his relatively significant lead in delegates and enthusiasm might have suggested it was time for Biden to pivot toward the center.
Instead, he said he would institute a 100-day ban on deportations if he became president and would not insist that local police turn over arrested illegals to the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.
When it came to energy policy, Biden said he would ban “all new fracking.” And here we have an example of the long-term trouble he might have caused himself.
That stance is a more moderate position, perhaps, than Sanders’ vow to end all hydraulic fracturing immediately. But Biden expressing deep antipathy toward the innovations that have brought new life to the economy in the critical swing state of Pennsylvania, just to take the most potent example among many others, is a giant substantive gift to Trump in the general election.
As is this: Biden Goes Extreme: Give Oil Industry ‘No Ability’ To ‘Continue To Drill’, Take ‘Millions’ Of Cars Off The Road.
HMM: Anti-inflammatories may aggravate Covid-19, France advises. French minister says patients should take paracetamol rather than ibuprofen or cortisone. Paracetamol is equivalent to acetaminophen, better known as Tylenol.
Related: Was excessive death rate from 1918 flu driven by excessive aspirin dosing?
OH: Gillum’s Overdosed ‘Friend’ Was Actually a Gay Sex Worker. “Gillum was found in a Mondrian South Beach Hotel room in Miami Beach with Travis Dyson, a 30-year-old who identifies himself as a ‘pornstar performer,’ according to WPLG, which cited his profile on a gay male escort website called Rent Men.”
MISSION CREEP ON STEROIDS: The CDC was Fighting Racism and Obesity Instead of Stopping Epidemics.
CRAZY LEFTY WEIGHS IN: ‘What I like about coronavirus’ by Slavoj Žižek. “I think that Europe is so weakened that it will not be able to react in a unified way, and that’s what I mean when I say coronavirus gives a new chance to communism.”
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THEY’RE ON THE OTHER SIDE: House Dems: Let Convicted Terrorists Work for the TSA!