KURT SCHLICHTER: "Never have so many with so much unwarranted self-regard spread so much bullSchiff so shamelessly."
If anything, he's understating....
Monday, March 23, 2020
Sunday, March 22, 2020
LET ME LEAVE YOU WITH THIS from PowerLine's Week in Pictures:
Given the Great Toilet Paper Crisis and the sheer idiocy of the week, it seemed appropriate.
Now go see the rest. There are some very good ones.
Given the Great Toilet Paper Crisis and the sheer idiocy of the week, it seemed appropriate.
Now go see the rest. There are some very good ones.
WUHAN FLU [CORONAVIRUS] UPDATE:
As of 6 pm EDT, the U.S. population was 329,424,761; approximately 329,263,031 (99.951%) were not infected with the COVID19 virus.
The world population was 7,638,282,250; of them 7,636,557,070 (99.977%) were also uninfected.
Get over it, doomsayers.
Here are today's charts:
Compared to yesterday I think it's safe to say that more people got sick and more people died, but the trends remain the same: confirmed cases still increasing, higher in the U.S., probably as a result of increased testing, but that is yet to be proven; and a relatively stable -- and low -- death rate.
The nightmare is yet to come -- the economic nightmare, that is -- unless Americans revolt and start reopening businesses in spite of government interference. I think that's going to start happening -- sooner rather than later.
As of 6 pm EDT, the U.S. population was 329,424,761; approximately 329,263,031 (99.951%) were not infected with the COVID19 virus.
The world population was 7,638,282,250; of them 7,636,557,070 (99.977%) were also uninfected.
Get over it, doomsayers.
Here are today's charts:
Compared to yesterday I think it's safe to say that more people got sick and more people died, but the trends remain the same: confirmed cases still increasing, higher in the U.S., probably as a result of increased testing, but that is yet to be proven; and a relatively stable -- and low -- death rate.
The nightmare is yet to come -- the economic nightmare, that is -- unless Americans revolt and start reopening businesses in spite of government interference. I think that's going to start happening -- sooner rather than later.
BABYLON BEE, yet not the Babylon Bee: Congress assures Nation they're working tirelessly to figure out how to take advantage of this crisis.
This time they were overtaken by reality....
This time they were overtaken by reality....
WUHAN FLU UPDATE FROM POWERLINE: "[T]he COVID-19 hype quotient is astronomical."
It is, and I place the blame squarely on the Deep State and their mainstream media camp followers (both varieties, Red and Blue). When this is finally over, these arrogant, ignorant, insufferable elitist bureaucrats and their media camp followers should be made to suffer by the people - at the ballot box, in the courts, and in the unemployment line.
But other than that, I'm perfectly happy....
It is, and I place the blame squarely on the Deep State and their mainstream media camp followers (both varieties, Red and Blue). When this is finally over, these arrogant, ignorant, insufferable elitist bureaucrats and their media camp followers should be made to suffer by the people - at the ballot box, in the courts, and in the unemployment line.
But other than that, I'm perfectly happy....
BREAKING NEWS: Due to the toilet paper shortage, Gov. Gavin Newsom [D(umb)-CA] just issued new regulations limiting California residents to one bowel movement per day. Residents are also required to use both sides of the toilet paper.
No, that's not the Babylon Bee; it's just me.
Given the shortages, though, it's time to resurrect a few outhouse jokes. Here's one:
No, that's not the Babylon Bee; it's just me.
Given the shortages, though, it's time to resurrect a few outhouse jokes. Here's one:
Why are outhouses always equipped with two yellow corncobs and one white one?And by the way I was at the grocery store yesterday. There was no toilet paper, but plenty of fresh corn on the cob....
The white one is used to see if the second yellow one is needed.
SPRING FORWARD in 2020 as the world begins to green up. This begins my 2020 weekly picture series as summer rolls around in the north Georgia mountains.
This is my usual 'wiew from the deck' picture. The 'butterfly bush' (so-called because it attracts all the butterflies) is already past full bloom. I took a picture last week to start the series, but lost both the picture and my enthusiam to thecoronavirus Wuhan flu panic.
This is looking down the driveway, which the weeds are already trying to take over since it's the only place on our property that gets a lot of sun. That will end (thankfully!)when the trees begin to fill out and the driveway/road becomes a tunnel.
Here's the fire pit area. It's still pretty clear from my taking the brush down a couple of years back, but I can tell it going to need another weed control effort again this year. The trees are still pretty much bare; no buds evident yet.
Now down to the pond. It's pretty this time of year, with the growth along the water's edge pretty killed off by the cold. But be not discouraged, it's beginning to come back. There's more brush cutter work today, and lots of work behind the dam where the pond overflowed in recent heavy rains (I just yesterday recovered two 50-foot sections of 4" drain pipe which had washed a couple of hundred yards down the creek in the 'flood'.
Our new addition this year is the fountain that was installed by our neighbor a couple of months ago. In the late afternoon there's always a rainbow showing in the mist. I hope that'll last (we need a few rainbows these days) but my guess is that it will go when the trees fully leaf out.
And lastly, our house, taken from the dock. It's late afternoon, so the slope is mostly in shadow. The leaf growth hasn't started yet, but as the summer goes on the house will slowly disappear. The tree you can see leaning is dead. It'll probably come down this year, but at most it'll displace a squirrel or two and take out part of the stair rail if I don't have it attended to first.
Until next week, then - unless as seniors we're confined inside the house by thecoronavirus Wuhan flu police.
This is my usual 'wiew from the deck' picture. The 'butterfly bush' (so-called because it attracts all the butterflies) is already past full bloom. I took a picture last week to start the series, but lost both the picture and my enthusiam to the
This is looking down the driveway, which the weeds are already trying to take over since it's the only place on our property that gets a lot of sun. That will end (thankfully!)when the trees begin to fill out and the driveway/road becomes a tunnel.
Here's the fire pit area. It's still pretty clear from my taking the brush down a couple of years back, but I can tell it going to need another weed control effort again this year. The trees are still pretty much bare; no buds evident yet.
Now down to the pond. It's pretty this time of year, with the growth along the water's edge pretty killed off by the cold. But be not discouraged, it's beginning to come back. There's more brush cutter work today, and lots of work behind the dam where the pond overflowed in recent heavy rains (I just yesterday recovered two 50-foot sections of 4" drain pipe which had washed a couple of hundred yards down the creek in the 'flood'.
Our new addition this year is the fountain that was installed by our neighbor a couple of months ago. In the late afternoon there's always a rainbow showing in the mist. I hope that'll last (we need a few rainbows these days) but my guess is that it will go when the trees fully leaf out.
And lastly, our house, taken from the dock. It's late afternoon, so the slope is mostly in shadow. The leaf growth hasn't started yet, but as the summer goes on the house will slowly disappear. The tree you can see leaning is dead. It'll probably come down this year, but at most it'll displace a squirrel or two and take out part of the stair rail if I don't have it attended to first.
Until next week, then - unless as seniors we're confined inside the house by the
Saturday, March 21, 2020
PROFOUND STUPIDITY: shut down all 'non-essential' businesses.
ESSENTIAL QUESTION: If all 'nonessential' activities must be shut down, why are state and federal governments still operating?
ESSENTIAL QUESTION: If all 'nonessential' activities must be shut down, why are state and federal governments still operating?
WUHAN FLU [CORONAVIRUS] UPDATE: Here's today's chart.
There have been no significant changes that I can see since yesterday. The totals are growing, as expected, but the trend lines haven't significantly changed. Note that I've changed the scale on the upper chart (and will continue to do so as the totals change). The part to hammer home is that even though the confirmed number of cases is growing, the death rate is remaining steady or declining. Globally, 99.2% if those infected survive; in the U.S. it's about a 99.8% survival rate.
One final thing I should have noted is past posts is that 'serious' cases (which I take to be hospitalizations) and 'recoveries' are seriously lacking in the U.S. data (go to the Coronavirus Dashboard website to see). If there are so few 'serious' cases -- 60 nationwide -- then why all the hype about shortages of ventilators and hospital beds? There's a certain ripeness for conspiracy theorists, but I'm always mindful of Occam's Razor -- simple incompetence is the most likely answer (17,650 of the 25,239 confirmed cases are from the 6 states that have been Democrat strongholds for nearly forever).
That said, the comment isn't relevant to the data in the charts above.
There have been no significant changes that I can see since yesterday. The totals are growing, as expected, but the trend lines haven't significantly changed. Note that I've changed the scale on the upper chart (and will continue to do so as the totals change). The part to hammer home is that even though the confirmed number of cases is growing, the death rate is remaining steady or declining. Globally, 99.2% if those infected survive; in the U.S. it's about a 99.8% survival rate.
One final thing I should have noted is past posts is that 'serious' cases (which I take to be hospitalizations) and 'recoveries' are seriously lacking in the U.S. data (go to the Coronavirus Dashboard website to see). If there are so few 'serious' cases -- 60 nationwide -- then why all the hype about shortages of ventilators and hospital beds? There's a certain ripeness for conspiracy theorists, but I'm always mindful of Occam's Razor -- simple incompetence is the most likely answer (17,650 of the 25,239 confirmed cases are from the 6 states that have been Democrat strongholds for nearly forever).
That said, the comment isn't relevant to the data in the charts above.
MASS TRANSIT: the pandemic petri dish the Left loves.
For all you progressive urbanites,how does it feel to be home alone?
For all you progressive urbanites,how does it feel to be home alone?
Friday, March 20, 2020
IN MEMORIAM: After a long illness, Shadow finally departed for greener pastures on Monday.
That's him on the left with his sister Daisy shortly after we brought them home from the shelter in January of 2006.
Perhaps our other cats don't yet realize he's left -- his spot for catnaps on the bed remains empty.
Farewell, my friend. May the cat gods treat you well.
That's him on the left with his sister Daisy shortly after we brought them home from the shelter in January of 2006.
Perhaps our other cats don't yet realize he's left -- his spot for catnaps on the bed remains empty.
Farewell, my friend. May the cat gods treat you well.
WUHAN FLU [CORONAVIRUS] UPDATE: Here's today's chart.
Pretty much as I expected; the number of cases is rising as testing increases, death rate remaining relatively flat. I did expect (hope) the insanity would begin to taper off, but no, even deep northwest rural Georgia ran out of toilet paper today. (I blame the Floridians fleeing here to 'safety'.)
Yesterday's chart is here.
Pretty much as I expected; the number of cases is rising as testing increases, death rate remaining relatively flat. I did expect (hope) the insanity would begin to taper off, but no, even deep northwest rural Georgia ran out of toilet paper today. (I blame the Floridians fleeing here to 'safety'.)
Yesterday's chart is here.
STOP THE INSANE OVERREACTION! Here is a prediction:
[T]he deaths of Americans caused by the Wuhan flu bug will be dwarfed by the suicides committed by people whose life’s savings have been wiped out, whose businesses have been bankrupted, whose jobs have been lost, and whose prospects have been blighted by the insane overreaction we now see from our governments. That overreaction must stop. Right now. Before it is too late, if it is not too late already.Sanity is finally catching up.
SIMPLE MATH GUY (identified in this Instapundit post) may have passed exponientials in math with flying colors, but he obviously failed common sense in kindergarten.
In 'simple math' terms, an infection rate doubling every three days, as Simple Math Guy claims, would spread to 7 billion people (roughly Earth's entire population) in a mere 98.1 days. Since the first identification of the COVID-19 virus in Wuhan, China, was apparently on Nov. 17, 2019, by a little after midday on February 4, 2020, the entire world was infected.
Since we're all now infected, let's quit the hair-on-fire stuff and just get on with life. Have a good day.
P.S. For a commonsense approach to Wuhan Flu analysis, I recommend my two posts: here and here.
In 'simple math' terms, an infection rate doubling every three days, as Simple Math Guy claims, would spread to 7 billion people (roughly Earth's entire population) in a mere 98.1 days. Since the first identification of the COVID-19 virus in Wuhan, China, was apparently on Nov. 17, 2019, by a little after midday on February 4, 2020, the entire world was infected.
Since we're all now infected, let's quit the hair-on-fire stuff and just get on with life. Have a good day.
P.S. For a commonsense approach to Wuhan Flu analysis, I recommend my two posts: here and here.
AMMO GRRRLL writes on panic-stricken Arizona.
I ventured into my local Bashas grocery store which resembled either Venezuela or a 7-11 Store in Florida when a hurricane is already at Cat 5. The shoppers looked like they were on a festive field trip from an insane asylum – many wearing colorful long-sleeved rubber gloves, dousing themselves in sanitizer after putting each item in their baskets. Mind you, in the entire state of Arizona – not one of your smaller states geographically — as of this writing, there were 20 people with COVID-19, 5 in one family, and no deaths. That’s no, none, nada, bupkis. We were probably all in much graver danger from the plague of wrong-way drivers in AZ than from the COVID-19 plague.Gives new meaning to the word 'festive'....
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