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Originally posted by wcb6092:



It could have been people hoarding alcohol in anticipation of the stores being shut down

Nope nope. It’s me. I bought it and drank it.

More stupidity of releasing criminals: They were released again.

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Prisoners released from facilities to limit COVID-19 spread arrested again for crimes

"After being arrested again, all three men are back on the streets because of COVID-19 concerns in jails and will have to face their new charges at a later date."
https://komonews.com/news/coro...ted-again-for-crimes

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Fear equals control.

Control equals power.

Power equals money.

This is what I have been trying to convey to people. Major power grab. Most people just want to feel safe and are willing to give up their constitutionally protected rights to assuage their weaknesses. At some point we have to say fuck you if you are this stupid.

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Originally posted by ZSMICHAEL:
I suspect working from home for some people involves enjoying their cocktails all day long.

Puzzled. You say that like it’s a bad thing?

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Originally posted by ZSMICHAEL:
A perfectly reasonable explanation. Of course that is possible, but few states shut down the liquor stores.

Nobody shut down bogroll stores either.


eta: just realized you’ve chosen to cross-post same phrases into other threads. Apologies to our brethren if this looks like a repeat but I’ll only post once. Unlike some other cut-and-pasters.

I have an interest in a home rehabilitation and building business. The last several weeks we have been covered up with new project bids. These projects range from $10k to $100k. I finally realized that a majority of these projects are individuals who are now working from home and have additional discretionary cash because they are not paying for daycare. Who saw that coming?

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Nobody shut down bogroll stores either

^^^^^^^
I was not aware that there were establisments that exclusively sold toilet paper. Of course it could just be a Jackson thing.

Huge association of California churches are defying Newsom and also a very good interview with a Ca. Sheriff who refuses to enforce lockdown orders

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news...-problem/ar-BB13Oe7u

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Originally posted by midwest guy:
I have an interest in a home rehabilitation and building business. The last several weeks we have been covered up with new project bids. These projects range from $10k to $100k. I finally realized that a majority of these projects are individuals who are now working from home and have additional discretionary cash because they are not paying for daycare. Who saw that coming?

I know a crew of painters and remodelers and they're busy working in empty office buildings and businesses that would otherwise be occupied, squeezing in work they've had a hard time getting to or previously only did on weekends.

I went out yesterday and bought the stuff I needed to buy to do what I wanted to do. Somehow I escaped being either arrested or fined for going out to acquire "non-essential" materials.

I Am Legend!

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Originally posted by midwest guy:
I have an interest in a home rehabilitation and building business. The last several weeks we have been covered up with new project bids. These projects range from $10k to $100k. I finally realized that a majority of these projects are individuals who are now working from home and have additional discretionary cash because they are not paying for daycare. Who saw that coming?

You’d better enjoy it while it lasts.

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Originally posted by Rightwire:
Michigan just got 2 more weeks added to our sentence.

How Many Lives Will Politicians Sacrifice In The Name Of Fighting COVID-19?

During the current coronavirus lockdown, I’d pay good money to see just one public official be asked:

“How many lives are you willing to sacrifice to prevent one coronavirus death?”

Thomas Sowell has repeatedly written that in a world of scarcity there are no solutions, only tradeoffs. The lockdown debate has thus far focused on that tradeoff as one between saving lives versus a temporary blip in the economy.

As Tom Woods wrote recently, “We heard it from Andrew Cuomo, governor of New York, and plenty of people since then: if we save even one life with all these draconian measures, it will have been worthwhile.”

But there’s so much more to it than that.

The lockdown itself is costing lives, perhaps more so than the virus itself.

Opponents of the lockdowns do themselves a disservice in focusing almost exclusively on the importance of “reopening the economy,” as if financial self-interest were the only reason to lift stay-at-home orders and risk an acceleration of COVID-19 spread and deaths.

As Heather Mac Donald wrote in this recent American Greatness piece,

“The focus on saving ‘just one life’ from the coronavirus, as Cuomo put it in March, to the exclusion of all other considerations likely will prove a catastrophic failure of policymaking.”

“The devastation to individuals’ ability to flourish or even survive may soon become irreversible,” she added.

Indeed, the lockdown itself poses significant health risks of its own, including countless deaths. The public has been bombarded with constantly changing models purporting to show the massive amount of coronavirus hospitalizations and deaths that will ensure should lockdown restrictions be lifted.

But where are the models projecting the deaths and suffering resulting from the lockdown itself? Why are our rulers so intent upon keeping those tradeoffs from entering the public debate over the lockdown?

Research has clearly shown a positive correlation between increased unemployment and suicide rates. A study published by The Lancet found that “the relative risk of suicide associated with unemployment was elevated by about 20–30%” in their study period.

The study further attributed roughly forty-five thousand suicides per year worldwide to the mental and psychological toll of unemployment.

The hope for many laid-off workers is that their unemployment will be temporary, but there remains great uncertainty about just how long this will last. The longer this economic shutdown and its consequences last, the more suicides there will be.

Loss of life from substance abuse will also increase. As the substance abuse rehab clinic Recovery Ways notes, “One study from 2017 found that every time unemployment rises by one percentage point in a given county, the rate of opioid deaths increases by 3.6 percent and the rate of emergency room visits increases by seven percent.”

And in a very bitter case of irony, the anxiety and stress caused by the reaction to fight the spread of the coronavirus can actually weaken the immune system and make people more vulnerable to contagion. As reported at Healthline.com:

But if you repeatedly feel anxious and stressed or it lasts a long time, your body never gets the signal to return to normal functioning. This can weaken your immune system, leaving you more vulnerable to viral infections and frequent illnesses. Also, your regular vaccines may not work as well if you have anxiety.

Also accompanying the global economic crisis triggered by the coronavirus lockdowns will be mass starvation. Although the US will suffer increased deaths from the economic hardships, the pain felt globally will be far more severe.

An April 16 Reuters article highlighted a UN report warning that

economic hardship experienced by families as a result of the global economic downturn could result in hundreds of thousands of additional child deaths in 2020, reversing the last 2 to 3 years of progress in reducing infant mortality within a single year.

Warning of a “pandemic of starvation, illiteracy and poverty” resulting from the government lockdowns, this April 22 New York Times article noted that in third world nations, “Polio eradication campaigns are being suspended. The same is true of vitamin A distribution, which saves children’s lives and prevents blindness. School feeding programs have often been shut down along with schools.”

In Bangladesh, the article noted a survey that found that “Four in 10 respondents had three days’ worth of food at home or less.”

The mass hysteria and panic is also leading many people with serious health issues to dangerously avoid hospitals because of unwarranted fear of infection. Such avoidance can lead to serious and sometimes irreversible illnesses that were entirely preventable.

Moreover, as a Stanford doctor wrote in this article in The Hill, “People are dying because other medical care is not getting done due to hypothetical projections.”

“Most states and many hospitals abruptly stopped ‘nonessential’ procedures and surgery,” the doctor wrote. “That prevented diagnoses of life-threatening diseases, like cancer screening, biopsies of tumors now undiscovered and potentially deadly brain aneurysms.”

“Cancer patients deferred chemotherapy. An estimated 80 percent of brain surgery cases were skipped. Acute stroke and heart attack patients missed their only chances for treatment, some dying and many now facing permanent disability,” he continued.

Tom Woods further pointed out an article in the UK’s Sunday Express that concluded that “increased cancer fatalities will result from the redeployment of health resources caused by COVID hysteria.”

According to Richard Sullivan, a professor of cancer and global health at King’s College London and director of its Institute of Cancer Policy, “The number of deaths due to the disruption of cancer services is likely to outweigh the number of deaths from the coronavirus itself.”

The government’s response to the threat of the coronavirus has been unprecedented. The question of whether or not the response has been warranted has boiled down to saving lives versus “restarting” the economy. Many opponents of the near universal lockdowns have been accused of wanting people to die just to save a few points in their Wall Street portfolios.

This is absurd.

The lockdown is costing lives. A lot of them. The economic fallout will cause more waves of deaths, especially among poorer nations. Preventable deaths and health problems are spiking, because scarce medical resources are being reserved for predicted waves of COVID-19 cases that largely aren’t materializing.

In a recent tweet, libertarian podcaster and comedian Dave Smith posed the question that needs to be asked but is thus far being ignored:

Sadly, it’s beginning to look more and more like our rulers don’t even want to publicly acknowledge these tradeoffs, or that they ever will.

Nothing in life is free; there are always tradeoffs. That includes the coronavirus lockdown. Saving “just one life” from the coronavirus is not costless. Unfortunately, the true nature of these costs is being ignored and reduced to mere temporary economic inconvenience.

As Woods concluded, “It isn’t just that we want to go out and get a haircut, as these geniuses keep saying. It’s that we’re against destruction.”

https://www.zerohedge.com/heal...me-fighting-covid-19

But....we were all supposed to be hospitalized and die.....


Georgia reports lowest number of COVID patients in a month. https://www.foxnews.com/politi...-patients-in-a-month


Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp announced Saturday that the state had the lowest number of hospitalized coronavirus patients it has seen in just over a month.

"Today marks the lowest number of COVID-19 positive patients currently hospitalized statewide (1,203) since hospitals began reporting this data on April 8th," Kemp tweeted.

"Today also marks the lowest total of ventilators in use (897 with 1,945 available). We will win this fight together!" he added.

Kemp moved forward with his plan to reopen the state late last month, despite initial opposition from President Trump.

"Now, with favorable data and approval from state health officials, we are taking another measured step forward by opening shuttered businesses for limited operations. I know these hardworking Georgians will prioritize the safety of their employees and customers," Kemp previously tweeted. "Together, we will weather this storm and emerge stronger than ever."

Georgia was the first state to reopen any nonessential businesses and the decision also drew backlash from local politicians and health officials, who warned that reopening the state too soon could lead to a possible surge in new coronavirus cases.

In the state of Georgia, there have been more than 32,500 confirmed cases of the virus and over 1,400 deaths, according to Georgia's Department of Public Health.

As of Saturday, there were more than 1.28 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the U.S. and over 77,000 deaths.

Italian leader calls out fake virus death numbers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...kao&feature=emb_logo

Wish that would happen here.

According to the Japanese news, we lead the world...

Might want to watch this one before it goes bye bye.

Why are Google & YouTube so Afraid of Dr. Dan Erickson | Sebastian Gorka Radio - YouTube

https://youtu.be/ASyKpxpHrA0

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Italian leader calls out fake virus death numbers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...kao&feature=emb_logo

You CAN extrapolate this to the US but not exactly, and find the numbers the CDC issued “accidentally” last week nearly match. The CDC has two columns, those that were tested positive and died, and those that were only assumed to have had the Wuflu but actually died of other morbidities. CDC Stated on day last week 37k dead at the time the “official” numbers were 75+k. Looks like there is a lot of lying going on, as has been stated several times previously.

Well, the silliness continues.....While the PGA Tour has not resumed play yet, the Wyndham Championship is scheduled for here locally (Greensboro) in August. Yesterday the idiots running it here announced that all attendees will be required to wear masks. It usually draws huge crowds for the weekend rounds so imagine trying to enforce that and what about players? Why should they not have to as well? I hope if it is held, the dumb asses lose millions in revenue from poor attendance.

Employees at my job are not adapting well to the mask requirement. One left early yesterday because she kept getting dizzy. Another guy almost passed out multiple times and one woman got sick a couple times. My job is often physically demanding so I walk off in a corner, pull the mask down and take a few deep breaths. I’ve gotten light headed many times. Guess we’re all suffering from CO2 toxicity.