Author Archive: Stephen Green
March 17, 2020
I HATE THOSE THINGS: How do we stop people from blinding other drivers with aftermarket LEDs?
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: My Starbucks Is Closed and I Want All of You to Visit Me In Prison Because Reasons.
Just to make things interesting, I decided to go to the Whole Foods Market across the street and see how that hot mess was playing out.
Turns out, not so messy at all.
Americans were out shopping in a grocery store acting like normal Americans shopping in a grocery store.
No panic.
No hoarding.
No shoving each other about.
Just people shopping.
IT WAS GLORIOUS.
That’s been my experience, too.
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): As I’ve noted before, and as scholar Kathleen Tierney has documented, the press always emphasizes stories of panic and chaos, but the panic-and-chaos response to disasters is actually pretty rare.
PLAY IN THE SUNSHINE: Why you MUST get outside even when you are supposed to be social distancing.
CINEMA VERITAS: Regal Cinemas Closing All U.S. Theaters Due to Coronavirus.
FLASHBACK: Blockbuster Video at Home. “I might have more titles on hand than your typical Blockbuster. Back when Blockbusters were typical, that is.”
Now who’s the crazy one?
FASCINATING: An Effective Treatment for Coronavirus. “Recent guidelines from South Korea and China report that chloroquine is an effective antiviral therapeutic treatment against Coronavirus Disease 2019. Use of chloroquine (tablets) is showing favorable outcomes in humans infected with Coronavirus including faster time to recovery and shorter hospital stay. US CDC research shows that chloroquine also has strong potential as a prophylactic (preventative) measure against coronavirus in the lab, while we wait for a vaccine to be developed. Chloroquine is an inexpensive, globally available drug that has been in widespread human use since 1945 against malaria, autoimmune and various other conditions.”
This is a very in-depth Google Doc.
THAT’S DIFFERENT BECAUSE SHUT UP: Obama Played Golf the Same Day His Administration Declared H1N1 a Public Health Emergency.
March 16, 2020
TO BE FAIR, I ALSO BUY THEM WHEN THERE’S NO CRISIS: Displaying Total Cluelessness, Paul Krugman Mocks People for Buying Guns/Ammo During Wuhan Coronavirus Crisis.
MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: If it was a state-level actor behind Sunday night’s HHS attacks, what should our response be?
AND FOR OUR VIP MEMBERS: The Homefront: How Americans Cope with Coronavirus. “As this little essay was coming together, I thought I’d finish on a sour note about how the only real panic I’ve witnessed has been on the TV news and social media. Not any actual panic, mind you, but insipid, TDS-inspired fearmongering among our pampered chattering classes. But why bother castigating them for it, any more than you’d give a stern moral lecture to the scorpion for stinging the frog? The telling detail might be how little actual panic our panicky newsmedia has managed to summon. We the people are much better than our betters, it seems.”
If you’ve been thinking about becoming a VIP member, don’t forget that VODKAPUNDIT promo code.
YOU’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BLOG: 10 Ways the Left Has Politicized the Coronavirus Pandemic.
THIS DOESN’T SEEM ENTIRELY UNREASONABLE: New York City teachers threaten mass ‘sickout’ as schools stay open amid coronavirus.
DON’T BE STUPID ON PURPOSE: Americans are hitting bars and bragging about not social distancing.
THAT SEEMS LIKE TOO MANY TO ME. DOES THAT SEEM LIKE TOO MANY TO YOU? Math Is Hard: Bernie’s Press Secretary Says 500 Million Americans Go Bankrupt Each Year.
YOU USED TO NEED A BIGGER BLOG: Democratic Presidential Clown Car Update for March 16, 2020. “Between almost everyone dropping out, Biden continuing to rack up victories, and the Wuhan Coronavirus pandemic, almost all the air has been sucked out of the Democratic Presidential race.”
FINALLY: Space Force Just Received Its First New Offensive Weapon.
U.S. Space Force has begun operating a new offensive weapon system, an upgraded version of a ground-based satellite communications jamming system, for the first time in its short history. The first iteration of the Counter Communications System entered U.S. Air Force service in 2004 and the program has now gotten transferred to the newest branch of the American military.
The Space Force declared it had reached initial operational capability with the Counter Communications System Block 10.2, or CCS B10.2, on Mar. 9. The Harris Corporation, which merged with L3 Technologies last year to form L3Harris Technologies, had received the contract from the Air Force to develop this upgraded variant of the system in 2014.
“CCS is the only offensive system in the United States Space Force arsenal,” Lieutenant Colonel Steve Brogan, the Combat Systems branch materiel leader within the Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center’s (SMC) Special Programs Directorate, said in an official news piece about the system in January 2020. “This upgrade puts the ‘force’ in Space Force and is critical for Space as a warfighting domain.”
Faster, please. And more lasers.
WHEN YOU’VE LOST WAPO…: Yeah, That Joe Biden Ad Gets Four Pinocchios.
(Not a WaPo link.)
HMM: Cyberattack on HHS meant to slow coronavirus response, sources say. “As federal state and local governments focus on handling the current public health crisis, national security officials are also tracking other threats — in particular those posed by terrorist or extremist groups and foreign adversaries who may seek to take advantage of all of the attention being focused on the coronavirus and conduct an attack.”
OF COURSE HE COULD HAVE: California’s Governor Just Admitted He Could Have Removed Diseased-Filled Homeless Camps All Along.
BIDEN SAYS A LOT OF THINGS: Biden Claims America Would Be Better Prepared for Outbreaks If He’s Elected, Here’s Why He’s Wrong.
Every time Biden speaks I’m reminded of my grandfather’s favorite insult: “He’s a man of few words, but dear Lord, the turnover.”