Great article from Ann Coulter yesterday.


I'LL HAVE THE CHICKEN TESTICLE SOUP - HOLD THE DEADLY VIRUS
by Ann Coulter
April 8, 2020



It’s probably a coincidence, but I notice that as businesses go under, jobs are lost, careers are ended and trillions of dollars are drained from the economy, the people most avidly pushing the coronavirus panic are doing quite well.

No politician or government official has taken a salary cut. To the contrary, dusty bureaucrats now find the entire country transfixed by their every utterance. Cable news hosts still make millions of dollars -- and now they get to work from home!

Annoyingly, though, journalists can’t seem to relay the basic elements of a news story: who, what, where and why.

First, who’s dying? It appears to be mostly the old, people with specific medical conditions and vapers.

To be sure, that’s not as important as daily updates on Chris Cuomo’s personal battle with the coronavirus, but it might be kind of important to the 17 million Americans who’ve been thrown out of work, many of whom are not elderly, immunocompromised or vapers.

Second, the “what.” What exactly constitutes a “coronavirus death”?

It turns out a person with Stage 4 lung cancer and a bullet through the heart will be counted as a “coronavirus death” if he also tested positive for the disease, OR merely exhibited symptoms associated with it (symptoms that are coextensive with the flu and pneumonia).

We’re told that, if anything, coronavirus deaths are being undercounted because the numbers don’t include those who die of it at home.

If so, then the death count also excludes those who die at home of other things, like heart attacks and poisonings. Many of these people might have survived -- except they were too scared to go to a hospital or couldn't find an EMT to take them there, per current edicts.

The “where” is: Where did the virus originate, and where did it first land in this country?

Despite the media’s best efforts -- DON’T CALL IT THE “CHINESE VIRUS”! -- people know that the virus began at a wet market in China.

But where did it start in this country? Washington state was the site of our very first case. Washington state is also 9.3% Asian. Even now, it has eight times more coronavirus cases per capita than neighboring Oregon (4.8% Asian).

Could it be that Chinese-Americans have more contact with the epicenter of this plague than other Americans? As the left always lectures us, BELIEVE THE SCIENCE!

The virus next leapt to New York (9% Asian) and New Jersey (10% Asian). The worst-hit borough of Manhattan is Queens. Guess which borough has the most Asians? Elmhurst Hospital in Queens is the worst-hit hospital in the nation. Elmhurst neighborhood: 50% Asian.

Notice a pattern? While it’s true that “viruses don’t have nationalities!” -- and thank you very much for pointing that out, media! -- the carriers of viruses do have nationalities.

Arguably, Trump had a reason to shut down travel from China other than “hysteria, xenophobia and fear-mongering", as Joe Biden claimed in a tweet on Feb. 1.

Of course, once it’s here, it’s here and can spread all over. Still, compare New York and New Jersey to, say, Montana and West Virginia.

Chinese virus deaths, so far, by population:

-- New York (9% Asian): 29 per 100,000

-- New Jersey (10% Asian): 13 per 100,000

-- Montana (0.9% Asian): 0.6 per 100,000

-- West Virginia (0.8% Asian): 0.2 per 100,000

Then there’s California, which alone among the four states with the highest Asian populations has relatively few coronavirus cases, probably due to its warm climate and little public transportation, among other things. In those respects, California is a lot like Texas -- which has about a third as many Asians and also about half as many coronavirus deaths (1.1 per 100,000 in California, compared to 0.71 per 100,000 in Texas).

MEDIA: Oh, why does it matter?

OK, OK, you’re right. But isn’t the prevalence of the coronavirus in states with high Asian populations at least as interesting as this recent article in The New York Times magazine?

Story summary:

Man with severe asthma gets coronavirus, has low-grade fever for approximately 10 days with muscle pain, nausea and fatigue, develops walking pneumonia per X-ray (no clinical evidence) ...

Recovers.

The End.

Finally, why? Why do we have to deal with this virus at all?

The media would prefer if you would stop asking this question, but Americans who didn’t have to die are dead because of Wall Street’s decision to merge our economy with the Chinese, who have unusual eating habits.

The Chinese eat wolf pups. But eating dog wasn’t weird enough. It didn’t give them a frisson of freakishness. They also eat bats, snakes and chicken testicles.

Husband: Oh, honey, golden retriever again?

[Kids groan]

Mom: Not tonight! For a special treat, we're having chicken testicles!

Kids: Aw, you're the best mom ever!

Tigers and rhinos are the most endangered species on Earth because Chinese people think rhinoceros horns and tiger penises can cure impotence. The Caspian, Bali and Javan tigers are already extinct because of this charming folk remedy.

Recently added to the endangered species list is the cute, cartoonish pangolin, the most trafficked animal is the world. Unfortunately, the pangolin’s scales are believed to cure any number of ailments, according to traditional Chinese medicine.

Where’s PETA?

The media are too busy covering for China. At least the Chinese aren’t white.

Although, it occurs to me that, despite America’s terrible toxic whiteness, one way our culture is superior to others is that we don’t believe lunatic nonsense that wipes out entire species or launches viral pandemics on the world.

Now back to Chris Cuomo’s riveting battle with the coronavirus.


http://www.anncoulter.com/colu...04-08.html#read_more

Has anyone checked on The Monkey since that last post of his?

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:

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Originally posted by chellim1:

When can we get back to simply "social distancing" rather than the more medieval "sheltering in place"?
I'm getting tired of feeling quarantined.
/Rant

When? How about tomorrow?

Was everyone in that photo immediately fined $1,000 ????

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Originally posted by feersum dreadnaught:
https://pjmedia.com/instapundi...A1-978FB29D0AD2.jpeg

Those are not yesterday's Powerball numbers ;-) But that does look like Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
Why is everyone smiling? The guy in back with raccoon eyes farted?

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Originally posted by chellim1:
Was everyone in that photo immediately fined $1,000 ????

They sure as hell should have been, but they work for the gov't so they get a pass.

Gotta keep the serfs in line though.

That's incredible. Jesus.

People should flood the local and state police there with calls to demand that they go arrest and fine every single one of those ass holes. I'm sick and tired of the double standards and two sets of rules.

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Originally posted by feersum dreadnaught:
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COVID-19: Attacks the 1-Beta Chain of Hemoglobin and Captures the Porphyrin to Inhibit Human Heme Metabolism
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At first glance, I read "MEME Meatbolism", and thought, nooooo, the memes are the only part of this I am enjoying!

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:
That's incredible. Jesus.

16.7M. In three weeks. Or about 11% of the entire US workforce.

During the Great Recession, and the years 2008, 2009 and 2010, we only shed 10M jobs.

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Originally posted by lastmanstanding:
Number one. Why is there a deputy waiting to serve a summons on a vet tech?? As far as the masked lady looking for people to yell at really requires little if any explanation.

Think it was regarding a dog bite, but not exactly sure. Didn't seem like it was anything bad for the tech.

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If everyone is cooped up in their homes, sheltering in place, how is there still an increasing number of new cases?

Because people are not doing their part - they are not being socially responsible. Decree or no decree, people still need to do their part to prevent the spread.

I've been to the grocery, on walks, bike rides, Etc. I see people congregating like nothing is different. At the grocery for example two days ago, I saw a bunch of late teens standing around talking to each other within a foot of each other. These four people are probably going out and doing the same thing with other people throughout the day, and days. Not to mention the grocery cashiers who are not wearing masks or gloves.

I'm not panicked, I'm acting smart and responsibly. I wash my hands often. I try not to touch my face. I wear gloves and now face protection when at the grocery or other places where I may be in closer proximity to others. I limit my trips to these places as much as possible.

It's not that hard, but some people don't seem to be paying attention. This is in part why there are an increasing number of cases still.

I subscribe to a neutral news brief source called knowhere that a medical doctor friend of mine recommended (her specialty is public health and has set-up hospitals in Africa, the Carribean, etc). Based on the Worldometer data source (i.e. the one linked in this thread a bazillion times), they publish a "data in focus" in their daily brief and the unique stat that has caught my eye is "time for number of US infections to double" since it keeps increasing (i.e. a good thing). I haven't seen that stat posted so here are the last 4 Thursdays for comparison:

March 19:


March 26:


April 2:


April 9:

If Pope Francis had any credibility left, it is gone now.

https://www.breitbart.com/heal...over-climate-change/

Pope Francis said he believes the Chinese coronavirus pandemic is “certainly nature’s response” to humanity’s failure to address the “partial catastrophes” wrought by human-induced climate change.

Asked by British journalist Austen Ivereigh whether the COVID-19 crisis is an opportunity for an “ecological conversion,” the pontiff reasserted his belief that humanity has provoked nature by not responding adequately to the climate crisis.

“There is an expression in Spanish: ‘God always forgives, we forgive sometimes, but nature never forgives,’” Francis said in the interview published Wednesday. “We did not respond to the partial catastrophes. Who now speaks of the fires in Australia, or remembers that a year and a half ago a boat could cross the North Pole because the glaciers had all melted? Who speaks now of the floods?”

“I don’t know if it is nature’s revenge, but it is certainly nature’s response,” he added.

Asked whether the COVID-19 pandemic is nature’s way of taking “revenge” on humanity, the pontiff suggested that nature is calling for attention.

“Fires, earthquakes … nature is throwing a tantrum so that we will take care of her,” he said.

The pope is on dope.

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Pope Francis said he believes the Chinese coronavirus pandemic is “certainly nature’s response” to humanity’s failure to address the “partial catastrophes” wrought by human-induced climate change.
“I don’t know if it is nature’s revenge, but it is certainly nature’s response,” he added.

So... this Pope is now claiming that COVID-19 is "nature’s response” to our inadequate response to climate change?
Really?!?!
What a clown! What a socialist tool!
NOT MY POPE!

He is a socialist clown! Unbelievable!

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Originally posted by r0gue:

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Originally posted by kkina:For some it reminds you not to touch your face.

I wear rubber gloves to the grocery store for this reason. I know I won't rub my eye with my hand in latex gloves.

Rubbing your hands with cayenne pepper will do the same thing. It also worked to get my dog to stop licking her paws.

And cashiers wearing gloves prevents the spread, how? I watched the gloved cashier at my grocery store wipe her nose with her gloved hand while handling my groceries. Everything she touched was on those gloves and then it went to her nose. Everything she had in her nose was transferred to everything else she touched.

It really is up to individuals to protect themselves.

Virginia has some sites set up for antibody testing. My wife called and said she has asthma and type 2 diabetes. They said she should be tested.

She went this morning. They tested in a parking lot. Analysis took 5 minutes.

She has no COVID-19 antibodies in her blood.