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calendar   Friday - March 13, 2020

Sure, Because China Lies About Everything

WHO: Europe Now COVID Epicenter

Europe is now the epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday, as more countries declared a national state of emergency over COVID-19.

More cases are now being reported every day [in Europe] than were being reported by China at the height of its epidemic,” director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.

He said 5,000 people have now died of the virus, calling it “a tragic milestone,” and urged governments to implement social distancing measures to slow the spread.

“Do not let this fire burn,” he said. ”Isolate the sick.”

China was burning the dead so fast that the pollution cloud could be detected from space. And then BING! just like that it was over? Not a chance. They’re hiding it, literally burying it, and you know they are.

But the EUropwienies can’t help themselves, they have to push the Socialist crap at the same time. So “isolate the sick”, but “keep the borders open”.

EU President Ursula von der Leyen has condemned some European countries for introducing blanket travel bans and border closures in response to coronavirus, saying: ‘The single market has to function’.

Austria, Slovakia and the Czech Republic are among the nations forbidding entry to anyone arriving from Italy or without a certificate of health.

“It is not good when member states take unilateral action because it always causes a domino effect and that prevents urgently-needed medical equipment from reaching patients and hospitals,” she said.

“It amounts to the reintroduction of internal borders at a time when solidarity between member states is needed.”


Solidarity, eh? You mean like when Italy put out the call for help and not one other EU country responded?

A top Italian official knocked the European Union for leaving Italy’s plea for medical assistance unanswered while the coronavirus outbreak cripples the country.

Italy’s permanent representative to the EU, Maurizio Massari, wrote an op-ed in Politico on Tuesday asking for aid from EU members. The Italian official said that while the EU has ignored Italy’s requests for aid, China has begun assisting Italy bilaterally.

“Italy, the European country struck hardest by the coronavirus, has done everything it can to contain and manage the epidemic,” Massari wrote. “We must ensure, under EU coordination, the supply of the necessary medical equipment and its redistribution among those countries and regions most in need. Today, this means Italy; tomorrow, the need could be elsewhere.”

“Italy has already asked to activate the European Union Mechanism of Civil Protection for the supply of medical equipment for individual protection,” Massari added. “But, unfortunately, not a single EU country responded to the Commission’s call. Only China responded bilaterally. Certainly, this is not a good sign of European solidarity.”


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 03/13/2020 at 11:34 AM   
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It’s National Emergency Day! Woo Hoo Wu Flu !!!

President Trump 3pm To Address The Nation

President Donald Trump plans to declare a national emergency on Friday over the coronavirus outbreak, invoking the Stafford Act to open the door to more federal aid for states and municipalities, according to two people familiar with the matter.

Trump is under increasing pressure to act as governors and mayors nationwide step up actions to mitigate the spread, closing schools and cancelling public events. The president said he will hold a news conference at 3pm in Washington.

The move would allow the government to martial additional resources to combat the virus, and also marks a symbolic turning point for the president, who has repeatedly compared the coronavirus to the seasonal flu and insisted that his administration had the outbreak under control.

The Stafford Act is how the federal government opens the disaster relief money faucet. However, once that lever gets pulled, expect the states to start locking things down even further.

The Stafford Act is a 1988 amended version of the Disaster Relief Act of 1974. It created the system in place today by which a presidential disaster declaration or an emergency declaration triggers financial and physical assistance through the Federal Emergency Management Agency[3] (FEMA). The Act gives FEMA the responsibility for coordinating government-wide relief efforts. The Federal Response Plan includes contributions from 28 federal agencies and non-governmental organizations, such as the American Red Cross. It is named for Sen. Robert Stafford (in Senate 1971–89), who helped pass the law.

Congress amended it by passing the Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000, in 2006 with the Pets Evacuation and Transportation Standards Act, and again in 2018 with the Disaster Recovery Reform Act (DRRA

Here’s Fox News with their report:

President Trump announced that he plans to hold a press conference Friday afternoon to address the coronavirus crisis, as concerns over the spreading outbreak wreak havoc on the economy and American life.

Fox News is told the president is expected to declare a national emergency.

“I will be having a news conference today at 3:00 P.M., The White House. Topic: CoronaVirus!” he tweeted.

The announcement comes as major sporting and other events are called off or postponed, businesses across the country institute telework policies, government buildings and schools shutter and other disruptions rock the nation, amid efforts to curb the transmission of the virus.


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 03/13/2020 at 11:19 AM   
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calendar   Thursday - March 12, 2020

Oh Puh Leazze AOC

As Usual, AOC Is FOS

AOC shows up on Fox News, claiming voter suppression is what caused her boy Bernie to lose in Michigan. Uh huh. “Rampant voter suppression”.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., strongly implied Thursday in her first sit-down interview with Fox News that Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., lost this week’s Michigan primary because of voter suppression.

“Special Report” host Bret Baier broached the topic by mentioning an appearance by Sanders at the University of Michigan that drew around 10,000 people before asking Ocasio-Cortez, a Sanders surrogate, “How can you say the progressive position is still prevailing nationwide when Joe Biden is winning so much?”

“Well, I think one thing that isn’t being talked about is the rampant voter suppression in this country,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “Right there in Ann Arbor, where we had that rally, those kids were waiting three hours in line to vote in Michigan. And so when we talk about who’s turning out and who’s not turning out, we absolutely need to be clear.”

According to the Fox News Voter Analysis, Democratic primary voters under age 30 were still a source of strength for the Vermont senator in Michigan, but he won just 13 percent of seniors – and more than twice as many seniors turned out as young voters.

Baier asked Ocasio-Cortez to clarify her voter suppression claims.

“You’re saying that you think voters didn’t get to vote that wanted to vote in Michigan?” Baier asked.

“Absolutely. You know, obviously, there’s also more that we need to do in terms of turning out youth voters,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “We need to make sure that we’re inspiring young people to turn out. But when you do turn out, you should not be waiting three, four, seven hours in order to vote.”



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Now here’s a funny thing. Michigan has absentee voting for their primary. Approaching a million absentee ballots were requested.

As of 8 a.m. Monday, 12 hours before the deadline for requesting an absentee ballot at an election clerk’s office, the number of absentee votes already cast for the 2020 Michigan Primary was 712,851, according to data from the Michigan Secretary State.

That’s of a total 970,290 ballots requested, meaning 73% of ballots have already been filled out and returned.

It’s 314,808 more ballots than were cast at the same time in 2016, for a 79% increase.
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At the start of the last day to request absentee ballots 970,290 had been requested, more than 474,000 in the 2016 Michigan Primary, for a 96% increase.

So not only are absentee ballots available, they can be requested and submitted up to a mere 12 hours before the primary polls open. And people in Michigan are using them nearly twice as much as they did last time.

So cut the shit bar girl. Your old dufus lost because he sucks. Not because of any “rampant voter suppression.”

Well, maybe your Twinky-Dink Snowflakes didn’t vote because they were too stupid and too lazy to make the teensy tiny effort to get an absentee ballot ahead of time. You can get the form online. But OMG!!!! You have to print out a paper form, sign it, and then mail it in. With a stamp. Which means maybe finding a mailbox or going to the Post Office. Or finding the county clerk’s office, going there, and dropping it off. Like, that’s totally gross. So Boomer. Disenfranchisement!! Voter Suppression!!!!


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 03/12/2020 at 06:38 PM   
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Bears Rampage On Wall Street

Markets Tank. Worst Drop Since 1987.

Dow down 10% in one day; drops 2352.60. NASDAQ and S&P 500 both down about 9 1/2%.

This is on top of losses earlier this week and some recovery the day after.

Airlines and cruise ship companies hit severely, losing 17 - 36%. Hotel booking companies also hit.

Stock markets in Europe and Asia also hammered.

U.S. equity markets cratered Thursday despite another flood of liquidity from the Federal Reserve after President Trump suspended travel from Europe for 30 days in an effort to contain the spread of the corona10 percent.

The S&P 500 entered a bear market down about 8 percent while the Nasdaq did as well dropping nearly 8 percent. Trading in U.S. equity markets was halted briefly just minutes after the opening bell when the S&P fell by 7 percent.

The entry into bear market territory was the fastest on record for the S&P and Nasdaq as tracked by the Dow Jones Market Data Group.

Stocks briefly trimmed some losses, before selling resumed after the New York Federal Reserve injected $1.5 trillion of fresh liquidity into the bond market.

The decline was the worst since the Black Monday crash of 1987 when the index lost 22 percent of its value in a single day


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 03/12/2020 at 03:23 PM   
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Everybody Is Kung Flu Fighting

“We have rung the alarm bell loud and clear”
- Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO director general


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Someday, hopefully in April, this will all pass, and things will be normal again. But it may not be until May or June or later. And things won’t be normal anytime soon.

Maybe the massive shutdown of daily life will prove to be an overreaction. Maybe the virus, while contagious, isn’t that harmful. But the die is cast. Everything is shutting down.

No more hockey either. Like the NBA, the NHL just canceled the rest of the season. Aww crap.

And that’s about that needs to be said, other than random reports from here and there as the bodies pile up. If they do. And I hope they don’t. But “social distancing” is going to be the new watchword for the next few months.





I’m going to go to the grocery store again and buy up lots of everything that can be frozen or stored. If there is anything left. Because I’m a cynical semi-pessimist, I fully expect to encounter a near-panic situation when I get there.

Oh, the Dems came up with their own Mo Gibbs Wish List package too -

House Democrats late Wednesday unveiled a 124-page spending measure to address the coronavirus pandemic meant to aid workers and families set to have their lives disrupted.

Lawmakers are expected to vote on the bill Thursday and, while it is poised to pass under the House Democratic majority, it’s not clear yet whether Senate Republicans will take it up before Congress is set to adjourn for a week-long recess.

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said earlier Wednesday the price tag for the measure would be in the billions. A summary released by the House Appropriations Committee included some of the costs.

The House measure includes provisions that would entitle workers to paid sick leave and added time off for coronavirus patients and and establish a federal funding for “emergency leave” for people quarantined by the illness or caring for others affected.

It also would expand food stamps and unemployment insurance for those impacted by the coronavirus and the school and business closures it has caused, as well as aim to provide meals to children who normally get lunch at school. The measure also provides aid to states coping with increased medical costs for the poor.

Well, I suppose that won’t hurt, and it’s all fiat currency anyway, so what the heck.

I was going to post yesterday on how NYC and Seattle are planning on keeping their schools open no matter what, as they’re more social assistance centers than they are learning institutions. Let’s see if that idea lasts longer than the first provable school kid infection vector.

... and the stock market is tanking again OF COURSE.  >2000 points down one day, >1000 points up the next, now it’s down >1800 points and it’s not even 10am. Aside from being totally overvalued, the market is totally over-reactive. It’s all a dream anyway, so why not just dream “and then the wicked witch Wuflu put the whole castle to sleep for 100 years 60 days”, AND JUST PARK IT.

U.S. stocks plummeted at opening Thursday after President Trump’s speech Wednesday night failed to calm investors’ fears about the coronavirus.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 7.43%, for a loss of 1,749 points, at opening.

The S&P 500 and Nasdaq composite were also down at opening, 6.62% and 6.49%, respectively.

At the market opening, the price for crude oil is down by more than 7% and trading at roughly $30 a barrel.


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 03/12/2020 at 08:53 AM   
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calendar   Wednesday - March 11, 2020

Ach Crivens, I got nearly all of them

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We never had a party line phone, but when I was young, you only needed to dial 4 numbers to get anyone in my town, pay phones still cost a nickel in some places, and you gave your local phone code with words or letters. “Murray Hill 6, 1458” “PE5-1234”.

And forget Green Stamps. Blue Stamps, and those booklets full of Plaid stamps you saved and pasted to drive across the county to the redemption center to get free stuff. Different stores gave out different kinds of stamps.

Howdy Doody went off the air when I was really small. Fine by me; I always thought it was phony and lame.

And before the TV test pattern came on, usually the one with the Indian Chief at the top, the network played the national anthem. And then there was no more TV for the night. If you knew your stuff, you could use the test pattern to adjust your TV to get the sharpest picture. They needed adjusting every few weeks I think.


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 03/11/2020 at 08:18 PM   
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Who says it’s so

Kung Flu is now officially a Global Pandemic

The President is giving a speech about it right now. Travel restrictions against China, first Federal travel restriction ever.

Trump to take “strong but necessary actions”: NOBODY comes here from Europe. Exemptions only for Americans AFTER they’ve been screened. Right now it doesn’t apply to the UK.

No insurance co-pay for getting tested. Tax cuts, workers comp.

$8.3 Billion in funding. So on and so forth. “Social distancing”, schools closed. “This is not a financial crisis, just a short moment in time we all have to get through together. “

The outbreak of the novel coronavirus that’s now sickened more 100,000 people across the world has officially been declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) — weeks after WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters in February that the outbreak of the virus, and the disease it causes --COVID-19-- “absolutely” had the potential to become a pandemic.

“WHO has been assessing this outbreak around the clock and we are deeply concerned both by the alarming levels of spread and severity and by the alarming levels of inaction,” Tedros said during a Wednesday press conference. “We have therefore made the assessment that COVID-19 can be characterized as a pandemic.”


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 03/11/2020 at 08:02 PM   
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stuffed, like cabbage

We went floor shopping today and found some solid bamboo flooring we really like. Ok, we liked the “camaru” and “koa” wood boards better, twice as thick for twice the price, really strong and durable, but they’re maybe a little too up-market for a condo like this. But what we found is much better than anything that Lowe’s or HD has. So it will be really nice when it gets installed.

Of course, there’s a whole cascade of things we have to do before we’re ready for the floor guys to get to work. Aside from cleaning this place up, and cleaning this place out, we have to get the cat fixed. We love the little beastie inside out, but she goes into heat every few weeks all year long, won’t shut up for an hour, claws all the furniture, pukes on the rugs every damn day, and sprays on our stuff. And we have some stuff that’s way too good to be piddled on by some horny little cat. So it’s time. We tried to do this when she was a kitten, but her health was poor and we almost lost her in the surgery. She turned blue and stopped breathing and the doc had to stop, bring her back, and sew her up. I really hope she’s up to it by now, 3 years later. But we have to take the risk or else we’ll be living in decrepit soiled conditions and cat piss stink. No thanks.

So as long as we were down there, we hit the polish deli. OMG. I could have dropped $500 in a flash. They had such a great selection of all kinds of yummy stuff, from massive kielbasa to fresh ham to all kinds of pieroges, fresh bread, candies, all kinds of freshly made things from stuffed cabbage to potato pancakes to cheese to those Polish cookies with a name I can’t pronounce. Plus all kinds of imported Polish food in cans and jars. We got beets, 8lb of various massive kielbasa, polish sauerkraut with carrots, barilki (chocolate candy barrels filled with whiskey) and a whole selection of freshly made frozen pieroges. And we cooked it up when we got home, and ate like starving pigs. OMG. I did one coarse kielbasa on the grill, along with a couple pork chops we had that needed cooking. Ate that with some of the sauerkraut after adding a small amount of caraway seeds, and some lightly pieroges with butter and sour cream. Horry cats, I’m stuffed, and we have leftovers for days. So good.


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 03/11/2020 at 07:31 PM   
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Smells Like Fascism And Slave Labor

NY Governor To Use Prison Labor To Make Hand Sanitizer

Nothing wrong with the government entering the capitalist arena with an unfair advantage, right? Corner the market and take over the means of production. Maybe it starts with hand sanitzer in NY, but what’s to stop them from expanding into anything and everything in any state?

Fascism? Nah, couldn’t be.

New York state announced Monday that it is using prison labor to produce its own hand sanitizer product in an effort to contain the spread of the deadly coronavirus.

“We are introducing New York State clean hand sanitizer, made conveniently by the state of New York,” said Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) said in a press conference. Cuomo claimed that the sanitizer is superior to others because it contains 75 percent alcohol.

“To Purell, and Mr. Amazon and Mr. eBay, if you continue the price gouging, we will introduce our product, which is superior to your product,” said Cuomo. “And you don’t even have the floral bouquet, so stop price gouging.”

Corcraft Products, operated by New York’s Department of Correctional Services, Division of Industries, is manufacturing the product and expects to pump out 100,000 gallons weekly.

How about that, they already have their shell corporation set up.



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A typical countertop bottle of hand sanitizer is 8 fluid ounces; 8 fluid ounces is a cup, 16 cups to the gallon, so 100K g/wk means 1.6 million bottles of the stuff per week. While that sounds like a lot, there are tens of millions of people frantic to buy as much as they get their hands on ASAP.

So let’s look at a basic Build A Factory kit. It really isn’t hard or expensive to set up an operation like this in a matter of hours when you’re the government.

Assuming 24-7 emergency production and a slight amount of product wastage, 100K gal/wk is 600 gallons per hour, the output of 3 small factory size mixing tubs (think surplus dairy tubs), and a simple bottle filling assembly line that can flow 160 bottles per minute. That’s pretty slow. Break the flow into 5 or 6 parts and the fill rate is down to under 26 seconds per bottle. That’s a slow rate even for manual labor using a turkey baster to fill them. Honestly, this is hardly bigger than a garage sized effort.

A small factory based in a closed grocery store - like all those A&Ps sitting around empty - could churn out 10 times as much with hardly any automation or computerized process control. Easy to ramp that up to 1000 times the original expectation with a dozen tubs, process control systems, automatic injection bottle filling. (seriously, you could just take over a beer plant which is 95% similar process. And they can churn 10s of thousands of bottles per hour. In a true emergency you’d even use the beer bottles, just to get the product out the door faster) With flow control systems and hydraulic agitators you don’t even need mixing tanks. Just pump it all together as you need it. Especially given the ease of funding it with tax money, the vast amounts of subsidized ethanol available, and all the labor supply you could ever want. The only (no pun intended) bottle necks I can see are in the plastic extrusions to make the bottles and pump caps, and the printed cardboard boxes to pack them in. But with “emergency powers” the State could co-opt them immediately.

Yup, let government take over the means of existing production and it can ramp up insanely fast. Probably make the trains run on time too.


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 03/11/2020 at 10:41 AM   
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an odd thing to say

Former primary candidate Andrew Yang threw his hat in the ring for Joe Biden, saying he was the party’s “prohibitive nominee”. I’m pretty certain that Mr. Yang didn’t mean to say “presumptive”.

Mr. Yang had been a Bernie Bro, but now he’s part of the “Joe-mentum”.

Yang indicated that Sanders no longer has a viable path to the Democratic presidential nomination.

“I say this having supported Bernie Sanders in 2016. Bernie was an inspiration for me, inspired my run. But the math says Joe is our prohibitive nominee. We need to bring the party together. We need to start working on defeating Donald Trump in the fall,” Yang said.

But “prohibitive”? That means inhibitory or extortionate. Prohibitive rules stop you from doing something. Prohibitive prices not only stop you from buying something, you walk away mad, going “$39.99 for a 3oz bottle of Purell? Who da fug do these thieves think they’re fooling?? I’m never shopping in this dump again!!”

So what is Yang saying here - either directly or as a Freudian slip - that Joe’s their guy even though it will cause them to lose? They chose this one knowing that people won’t vote for him, or that they expect the backlash to cost them plenty of other seats because the public is so offended? That doesn’t sound like much of a ringing endorsement to me.

OTOH “We choose to lose” is one amazing campaign slogan. If you’re a total idiot.


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 03/11/2020 at 09:45 AM   
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calendar   Tuesday - March 10, 2020

Mama Mia

Italy Shuts Down. Rest of world not far behind.

In addition to the Red Zone, in which the northern third of Italy is in lockdown, the Italian PM Giuseppe Conte delivered a speech in which he specifies that damn near everything is off limits everywhere ...

00:00 …all events are suspended, every type and discipline of sporting competition,
00:06 whether in public places or private.
00:10 Sporting events will be allowed… those with, let us say —
00:14 in which professional athletes participate,
00:20 or in the absolute category, where Olympic games, national / international events,
00:26 but either behind closed doors or open without the presence of the public.
00:32 In addition, all organized events are suspended,
00:36 as well as events in public or private places,
00:41 those events of a recreational, cultural, sporting, religious, or exhibition character.
00:49 But also suspended are all events in cinemas, theaters, pubs,
00:55 dancing schools, gaming rooms, betting rooms, bingo rooms, discotheques.
01:01 So we can no longer allow ourselves to be in these areas where people congregate…

Not that anyone is going to Italy: nearly all the cruise lines have stopped visiting, and many of the airlines are neither going there nor flying out. Italy is closed.

Israel is still open, but everyone who comes there from somewhere else goes into quarantine for 2 weeks. Everyone. From Anywhere.  Just in time for the Easter and Passover season.

Israel will quarantine anyone arriving from overseas for 14 days, a decision coming barely a month before Easter and Passover.

All St. Patrick’s Day parades were canceled in Ireland, including one in Dublin that typically draws half a million to its streets.

All schools in and around Madrid will close for two weeks. The rising number of cases around Spain’s capital “imply a change for the worse,” the country’s Health Minister Salvador Illa said.

Trying to send a message of confidence in the economy, French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife walked on Paris’ Champs-Elysees avenue. “I’m shaking hands using my heart,” he said as he waved to people while keeping a 1-meter distance from passersby.

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After earlier closing its land borders, Saudi Arabia cut off air and sea travel to and from Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Italy, Kuwait, Lebanon, South Korea, Syria and the United Arab Emirates. All Saudi schools and universities closed beginning Monday.

Qatar cut off travel to 15 countries and said it would shut down schools and universities beginning Tuesday.

Meanwhile back in the USA, at least a dozen more universities have sent their students home and shifted to online learning mode. Watch those numbers grow intensely in the next couple weeks. [ Then watch the primary schools lock the doors. And the malls and movie theaters close for a couple months. Hope you’re well stocked up with food and medications! ]

I have to wonder at the longer term implications of these universities going digital. This could be suicidal for them.

If every lecture for every class is now “in the can”, then why do they need to pay all those professors such big salaries? Why do they even need to have them around at all? Push it a bit further, and every campus in America becomes “matchbook college”, an old name for some of the original distance learning schools that used to advertise on matchbook covers. Why even have students in place? They can get drunk, have cheap sex, and silly protests at home.

And since any and every eager little Millennial will post those videos online, will this cause tuition to drop like a rock? Is this the beginning of the free college education Bernie is promising? If this online campus thing goes on until Christmas, then every Spring, Summer, and Fall course they offer will be taped and accessible, from Freshman English to post-graduate classes. And they’ve just put themselves out of business, aside from charging for the exams and the diplomas.


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 03/10/2020 at 10:07 PM   
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Extreme Measures

Let’s see how I can polarize the optics on this one. What the hex, I’ve been learning from the MSM. Ah, I know ... put it in the worst possible light ... weaponize it to the highest degree ...



Nazi NY Governor Cuomo Sends His Personal Army To Corral All Those Filthy Jews

Just days after the state assembly granted him unlimited emergency powers ...

New York is creating a “containment area” around a community in New Rochelle, in an attempt to limit the spread of coronavirus in an area that quickly became the state’s largest source of COVID-19 infections, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Tuesday.

“New Rochelle is a particular problem,” Cuomo said, describing the area as a cluster of cases.

“The numbers have been going up, the numbers continue to go up, the numbers are going up unabated — and we do need a special public health strategy for New Rochelle,” Cuomo said.

A synagogue in the city has become the epicenter of an outbreak in Westchester County — which accounts for 108 of New York state’s 173 coronavirus cases.

As of Tuesday, that synagogue is also at the center of a circle that extends for a one-mile radius, marking the state’s containment area.

The governor is calling on the National Guard to help maintain the containment area. Cuomo said the troops will be deployed “to deliver food to homes, to help with the cleaning of public spaces.”

The new policy will take effect Thursday and remain in place through March 25th.

This is one of the areas that was endemic with the measles last year. For months and months.

And now two people across the Hudson River in Rockland County have it too. The same kind of people. Another 22 in self quarantine. The 2 guys were delivering food to that same community in New Rochelle over in Westchester. And they’re in Monsey ... another one of those communities. Which also went through the measles thing recently. And before that, the hepatitis thing. Oy vey, it never stops.

Health officials announced two residents who have been confirmed to have coronavirus potentially exposed others to the disease from February 28 - March 2 in Rockland County.
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“It was previously believed that these infected individuals had not worked as caterers during these events and it was only through the detective work of one of our investigators that this discovery was made,” said Dr. Ruppert. “Any person who believes they may have been exposed should contact their health care provider by phone right away. I also ask that anyone who becomes ill with this disease be completely forthcoming with our investigators, it is only with your help that we can prevent the spread of this disease.”

ROCKLAND COUNTY, NY — Two cases of coronavirus have been confirmed in Rockland County, County Executive Ed Day confirmed. Both people who caught the virus worked at a bar mitzvah service and celebration at Young Israel of New Rochelle.
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The synagogue’s rabbi has also tested positive for the virus.

The governor of any state is the nominal leader of that state’s National Guard. In effect, they are his army. And while they are Guardsmen, to the rest of us they are soldiers. I have no idea if these troops were sent to this task armed. I would really hope not, but being armed is what they do. And I do not know when the last time was, or if there ever was, an effort in this country to use troops to curtail the movement of citizens en masse. And there are a LOT of people in that one mile circle in New Rochelle. It’s super-suburbia, just north of New York City. And just like Lakewood NJ (where I fully expect the next outbreak to blossom, just like with the measles), and Monsey NY, it’s a very very Jewish neighborhood.

The very far Left leaning Democrat governor of NY, Andrew Cuomo, was just given nearly unlimited emergency powers by a midnight session of the State Assembly. They hardly even read the bill, just rubber stamped it in the middle of the night. For real. So much so that Progressives around the state were wondering out loud and online if they had gone too far. Fascism? Nazism? Where’s the line? And just a couple days later out comes his army to encircle the Jews? Horry Clap. These are some terrible optics even without the opportunistic slant.

Was it necessary? Probably, but who cares? Let no crisis go to waste: it’s Kristallnacht in NY. It’s what antisemitic Leftists do when they have unlimited power.


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 03/10/2020 at 03:26 PM   
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Harvard Becomes Newest Online Only Campus

Harvard: Pack It Up, And Don’t Come Back After Spring Break

Harvard University has told all students to move out of their dorms by Sunday, is canceling classes on campus and moving all courses online to try to “de-densify” the campus and limit any spread of the new coronavirus. 

“The decision to move to virtual instruction was not made lightly,” University President Lawrence S. Bacow said in a letter to students and staff that was posted online Tuesday. “The goal of these changes is to minimize the need to gather in large groups and spend prolonged time in close proximity with each other in spaces such as classrooms, dining halls, and residential buildings.”

The school is transitioning to online instruction for graduate and undergraduate students with plans to offer all classes online by March 23, he said. Harvard is also limiting non-essential meetings to no more than 25 people, he said.

Harvard’s spring break starts Saturday and ends March 22 and its spring term ends in late April. The university said students shouldn’t return to campus after the break.

Monkey see monkey doo, or “an abundance of caution”: other campuses follow suit:

On Monday, Princeton announced similar measures, telling students that classes would be taught online following spring break. As a precaution, Ohio State University President Michael Drake also told students on Monday that all instruction for its more than 68,000 students would take place online until the end of March, although none of the state’s three confirmed cases are associated with the university.

The University of Washington in Seattle told students last week it would move temporarily move online and resume normal operations by the end of March, affecting nearly 50,000 students.


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I don’t see many of the Mini Cooper cars around. I was behind one driving in town earlier. I think it was a 2018 Cooper S? Whatever, before the driver ever hit the brakes I noticed that the tail lights together make the Union Jack. When he did hit the brakes, only the cross of St. George lit up. Maybe the cross of St. Andrew is for the turn indicators? I dunno. But I thought it was pretty cool, and it’s something to post about other than the Kung Flu.

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