Sunday, March 29, 2020

Nancy Pelosi implored everyone to visit Chinatown.



Here is a link to the Guardian article.

Now she's blaming Trump for letting people die? Pelosi criticizes Trump response to pandemic: 'As the President fiddles, people are dying'

For at least a week on the local news Nancy and London Breed were calling us all xenophobes.

9 comments:

  1. Capital of Texas RefugeeSunday, March 29, 2020 7:16:00 PM

    A somewhat more usable and better map of cases than the buggy JHU map.

    Counties in Wyoming, Montana, South Dakota, North Dakota, and Nebraska that were previously free of this stuff have now had their first cases, along with the country that I'm still looking to move to once this is all done.

    That country remains stable in terms of their case numbers, and those numbers have not grown for a few days, meaning there's hope for this not getting out of control there.

    This could be a lot worse: the French overseas territories in the Caribbean look like they're starting to get hit really hard. Saint Martin (the French side), Guadeloupe, and Martinique almost have as many cases together as Taiwan.

    The Dominican Republic now has roughly four times as many cases as Taiwan.

    So very glad not to be in Miami, but North Florida's not looking so great now, is it?

    And yet even these numbers contain lies: there's a county I know of that should have a little red dot, but it doesn't because they're claiming the case was from New York rather than being a case in that county.

    So just because some New Yorker chose to visit and contaminate the area around him isn't enough to put a little red dot on the map there ...

    In a few days I'll be back in North Florida, and I really am not looking forward to this shit. Thankfully my assistant did a lot of my shopping for me (as well as eating up a bunch of my food), because otherwise I'd be looking forward to a fridge with some near-expired stuff in it.

    As for this "sheltering in place" crap, I don't think "the blonde" as I sometimes refer to her will object to some of that for a few days. :-)

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  2. I don't really know how those islands are going to survive. The cruise industry is dead. It's probably how they got infected the first place. Those ships were typhoid Mary's.

    Why not stay in Montana? It seems more your speed.

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  3. Capital of Texas RefugeeMonday, March 30, 2020 10:37:00 PM

    Yo, leaperman, I hear you like medical papers ...

    Nitric oxide inhibits the replication cycle of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus.

    Someone let the Australians know about this.

    They could make putting extra beetroot on their burgers a national priority. :-)

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  4. Capital of Texas RefugeeMonday, March 30, 2020 11:00:00 PM

    "Why not stay in Montana? It seems more your speed."

    Not Montana, a lot of those people really are socialists, they just don't know it and pretend they aren't when they vote for assholes like Max Baucus.

    But here's why: nearly every county in America has closed its court house or is in the process of closing it.

    I need legal paperwork filed to move my domicile out of Florida, especially since I filed legal paperwork in Florida to establish my domicile through a Declaration of Domicile filing, and part of that means I need a working Florida legal system at a county level instead of courts being closed.

    And that's actually just the start of it, because there's even more stuff to file with several "courts of relevant jurisdiction", along with some other stuff for personal security, services, and so on.

    Besides, if we need to move more stuff to East Coast ports, I'm still in the general area.

    The "American Western Redoubt" area's more for when there are functioning airports that don't look at you as if you're The Devil's Own Special Plague just because you have a damned allergy to all of the pollen blowing around. :-)

    Until then, yeah, motherfuckers, I can shelter in place ...

    But if Florida Man starts acting a little bit crazy, I might be needing to make a delivery somewhere in Wyoming again.

    HELLO, FDA BEETCHES, WHERE'S MY GALLON OF PURPLE DRANK?

    Oh, yeah, now that these restrictive laws are looking like public nuisances, how long will it be until I can order a gallon of Purple Drank at the pharmacy in order to soothe my supposedly sore lungs?

    GET ON IT, FDA
    NOBODY LIKES YOU NOW, FDA
    EVEN THE CDC AVOIDS YOU
    THEY ACT LIKE YOU HAVE COOTIES, FDA
    IF MY DOG PLAYED WITH YOU, FDA
    I WOULD QUARANTINE MY DOG

    :-)

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  5. Capital of Texas RefugeeTuesday, March 31, 2020 2:45:00 PM

    So instead of being honest and giving every taxpayer back $1200 of his or her money ...

    ... we get what is an undeniably socialist wealth redistribution scheme.

    I'd be surprised if you make less than $75k per year, so I'd also be surprised if you're getting any of this so-called "stimulus" from the US Government.

    But there are people who are loving DJ Twelve Hundred Dollar Jesus right now because they've been paid off with some of my tax money, your tax money, and so on.

    So Mises was right, and that's the joke: the father of Austrian economics says that pretty much all of you are socialists.

    DJ Twelve Hundred Dollar Jesus got his "specie circular" a few years before I expected it, but I definitely expected it.

    And while everyone seems to have a hand out to government to be bailed out of this crisis, don't forget that governments created the crisis, starting with a former imperial Asian power, then the United States, and then a Dudley Do-Right Western power before China got in on the act.

    By which I'm referring to the trail of development of this particular pathogen, not the current economic situation, although now they're linked inextricably.

    A tale of two countries then: Sweden says fuck it while southern Italy is ready for The Boogaloo.

    Seeing that the US Government's actions back in the 1940s have actually led to this crisis (the "Untold Stories" I'd referred to by way of music), I'm not actually seeing a problem with this particular regime feeling like it's being pushed against the wall.

    Once the euphoria of the quick rush of a little money stolen from others fades?

    What's happening in southern Italy actually can happen here, and I don't mean that Sinclair Lewis polemic decades ago about fascism.

    "... enjoying ice creams beneath a giant Thor statue in Mariatorget square ..."

    They're making me miss Stockholm that way, you know -- I used to live near there, near a T-Bana station where I could get into central Stockholm quickly.

    But I get the point: although the economy's a bigger animal, it can also be killed or hurt, so why would you let that happen?

    Who's putting a mask and gloves on the economy, or does it just have to take this shit literally lying down?

    Meanwhile, the roof's been blown off the sucker: physical gold demand is so high that nobody's able to meet it.

    But if you'd like some cheaper silver right now, there's plenty of it.

    Last night I picked up most of a roll of silver dimes as change given to me by a cashier -- apparently Duh Millennials know nothing about anything, and so this cashier didn't know that she'd given me around thirty dollars worth of silver dimes because she was out of dollar bills and quarters.

    One last thought: if I have COVID-19, but the symptoms are really, really mild, and that because of certain prophylactic precautions it came, fizzled, and went, do you think I'd go get a swab test even if Florida had more of them available?

    What could I honestly look forward to?

    I think free markets say that more people should get the virus, and that the market response to there not being enough medical care for this type of emergency is the better answer than hoping that centralized healthcare and socialist medicine can bail everyone out.

    Boris Johnson was right the first time: let the NHS collapse under the load of new cases, and let something better suited to emergent realities come into existence to replace it.

    It's just that herds of people don't like being referred to as herds by way of references to "herd immunity", so he's now unwillingly committed to preserving the NHS even if it sinks the British economy.

    So Boris Johnson's also a socialist after all.

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  6. "A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always count on Paul’s support." -- George Bernard Shaw

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  7. Meestah Ess, you'd quote a Fabianist at me at a time like this?

    That's just mean. :-)

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  8. I've been considering whether I should rob Peter and then also rob Paul on the basis that MC Twelve Hundred Dollar Jesus told me to do it ...

    AS A FREE MARKET ENTERPRISER
    I DEMAND LETTERS OF MARQUE AND REPRISAL
    AGAINST THE MAINLAND CHINESE

    *hoists the Jolly Roger on a cigarette boat with a rail gun on it*

    :-)

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  9. Oh, and ...

    "... after the Congress of Paris at the end of the Crimean War, seven European nations signed the Paris Declaration of 1856 renouncing privateering, and forty-five more eventually joined them, which in effect abolished privateering worldwide. The United States was not a signatory to that declaration."

    DJ TRUMP, GIVE US LETTERS OF MARQUE AND REPRISAL
    THE MAINLAND CHINESE MUST SETTLE THEIR DEBTS IN FULL

    :-)

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