Friday, May 29, 2020

NO ARGUMENT FROM ME: Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse [D-RI] is a disgrace.
YOU'VE GOT TO BE EFFING KIDDING ME: Minnesota mayor gives masks to crowding rioters after warning in-person worship would be 'public health disaster'.
GOVERNORS GONE WILD: No rules for us because shut up little people.
OH, WOE: Vaccine development threatened as COVID-19 infections decline.

But don't worry; our HealthScareTM Professionals are already planning a 'second wave' fall pandemic.
WUHAN FLU [CORONAVIRUS] UPDATE for May 29, 2020:


That dang cumulative death trend line keeps predicting a downward trend, but the data stubbornly isn't obeying. The daily deaths curve is clearly flat, although the data variability makes it hard to see the trend.

The estimated death rate remains stable today, at 0.1050%, and the estimated percentage of Americans not yet infected continues its downward trend to 69.184%. Herd immunity is still (very slowly) building.

Georgia's coronavirus caseload remains stable.
I CAN'T IMAGINE WHY. Physical jobs linked to more sick leave, earlier retirement.

This is why we need far fewer Expert Scientists™.
ABSOLUTELY! Make ‘temporary’ regulatory relief permanent after the pandemic passes.
Many rules that served as tedious bureaucratic obstructionism in good times were quickly revealed as dangerous and potentially deadly during a crisis and tossed aside. And that’s where those rules should remain after the pandemic is gone -- on the garbage heap of failed authoritarian policy.
And for God's sake, don't just limit the rollback to healthcare; the regulatory bureaucracy is a target-rich environment.
RED STATE'S SISTER TOLDJAH is very impressed with new White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany.
WHO GUIDANCE: Healthy people should wear masks only when 'taking care of' coronavirus patients.

But if it's mandatory, there's a https://www.gocomics.com/pricklycity/2020/05/28bright side to masking.

The HealthScareTM professionals must be getting dizzy, having to to 180's so frequently....

ANOTHER MISSION FOR THE LITTLE SPACEPLANE THAT COULD: the Air Force's secretive X-37B spaceplane has successfully launched again.

I sure would like to know more about the microwave power beaming experiment; that was a big item back in the 70's and 80's, especially in the science fiction communities.