A couple of good videos here that show the stupidity of people and how that can impact the rest of society.


Stunning Visualization Reveals Where Spring Break Covidiots Traveled After Flooding Florida Beaches

https://www.zerohedge.com/heal...ter-flooding-florida

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Originally posted by AirmanJeff:

Kevin Durant

i could look up who that guy is but won't bother.

Interesting anosmia didn't make that triage list. Perhaps not clinically proven yet, but you can bet your bippy if I suddenly can't smell I'll pay attention to the rest.

When push Comes to Shove!

SOMETHING THAT INSTAPUNDIT COMMENTER BART HALL POSTED ON FACEBOOK:


Truckers are saying “fuck the log rules, I’m hauling” and they’re getting supplies to the stores. People are stocking the shelves all night and letting old people shop first. Folks are buying meals for truckers, who (obviously) can’t go through the drive-ups. Asking ’em what they want, then buying it for them.

Carnival Cruise Line has told Trump “We can match those big Navy Hospital ships with some fully staffed cruise ships”.

GM and Ford have said “hold our cars and watch this — we can make ventilators where we were just making car parts, starting next week” — by re-engineering seat ventilators which their engineers hacked together for a new purpose. In under a week.

In a project with which I’m loosely associated, a very-effective agricultural disease-control agent was re-purposed and re-labeled specifically for Corona-virus control by the FDA and EPA in under ten days, from initial request to distribution.

Restaurants and schools have said, “we’ve got kitchens and staff; we can feed the poor kids who used have school lunch.”

NBA basketball players have said, “Hold our basketballs while we write checks to pay the arena staff.”

Construction companies are saying, “Here are some high-end masks for medical staff and doctors”.

Distilleries are making sanitizer out of distilling “heads and tails” which are normally discarded. Nasty shit to drink, but effective sanitizer.

People are tipping grocery check-out clerks and thanking them for taking the risk.

Local, state, and county governments are taking control of everything the feds cannot do. Some are doing it wrong, but for the first time in decades … they’re doing it. Federalism is re-emerging, and the smallest unit of government is the individual and the family. This, too, is re-emerging after decades of dormancy.

As Japanese Admiral Isokuru Yamamoto said, after Pearl Harbor … “I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.”

I sense this has just happened. We have a wonderful country, the greatest single force for good in all human history. We have closed our borders, with good reason, yet we have top medical people now assisting North Korea in their response to the virus.

Many things have been re-set, and will never be the same.

By microbiological accident, we are living in profoundly transformative historical times.
Indeed we are.

^^^^ and a real leader driving it

^^^ Yet we just had a driver get written up for not having a paper log backup book to go with his electronic logs, even though his hours of service were compliant. Furthermore, the FMCSA just issued a directive that drug consortium policies remain essentially unchanged, their logic being that the rules were sufficiently flexible to begin with. Specifically, if you are trying to hire a new driver, he still cannot drive until the initial drug screen. Except the drug screeners are closed. So...

If you think the big hand of government is going anywhere, you'd be wrong. The people who get paid to regulate are still regulating. They want to protect their jobs too, so they're still interfering. Crisis be damned.

Two Questions:

1. Any news on the hydroxychloroquine tests?

2. Where do governors get the authority to ban use of a legal medication?

The best COVID 19 summary I have seen:

WSJ, March 27, 2020, Page R3

Excellent!

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Originally posted by Tn226:
Newsflash - It's all Trumps fault

Which is why it's a panic in the first place. But they have miscalculated. They have only allowed the country to see him what he does best.

Lead and win.

The take away for leftist will be that if they scare the populace bad enough, society will embrace the nanny state. This thread illustrates how effective it is even among somewhat conservative folks.

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Originally posted by tleddy:
The best COVID 19 summary I have seen:

WSJ, March 27, 2020, Page R3

Excellent!

Link?

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Originally posted by bdylan:
The take away for leftist will be that if they scare the populace bad enough, society will embrace the nanny state. This thread illustrates how effective it is even among somewhat conservative folks.

Indeed. We’ve witnessed clear cut violations of the 1st, 2nd, 4th, and 5th amendments and some people are slow clapping their way to tyranny.

The Constitution doesn’t have a “save grandpa” or “let the ICU thin out” clause.

Unfortunately, mark_a probably has it right.

Well Death week is almost over. It's Friday here in the Eastern Time Zone.

Oh Wait....

"They" moved death week to next week, so it haven't survived shit yet.

I wonder what happens the week after when I don't die this coming week either?

Looks like new guidelines are forthcoming.... https://www.foxnews.com/politi...ial-distancing-rules

Aaaaand... York County, PA is now under a stay-at-home order until April 6th. Wonderful. Thank you, Gov Wolf.

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Originally posted by tleddy:
The best COVID 19 summary I have seen:

WSJ, March 27, 2020, Page R3

Excellent!

Can you copy and past the gist of it for us?

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Originally posted by Chris17404:
Aaaaand... York County, PA is now under a stay-at-home order until April 6th. Wonderful. Thank you, Gov Wolf.

Where is the latest list - as of an hour ago:

The order now includes Allegheny, Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Erie, Lehigh, Monroe, Montgomery, Northampton and Philadelphia counties. As of Wednesday, those 10 counties accounted for 80% of the confirmed coronavirus cases in Pennsylvania.

Westmoreland County will soon be included in the stay-at-home order, sources from the county confirmed to Pittsburgh's Action News 4 on Friday.
https://www.wtae.com/article/s...g-allegheny/31900786

I’m hearing the stimulus passed...but can’t verify. Anyone else hearing anything? No access to television or radio now.