Hunker Down Diary – 11apr20 (updated 12apr20)

George Rebane

Today is HD35 for the Rebanes.  And all things considered on our ridge top overlooking Deer Creek Canyon and the Central Valley, we are doing well.  We’ve gone out twice now for groceries and haven’t even come close to hitting our ‘large scale emergency’ stash.  We continue to meet online with our respective organizations, and there has been plenty of time for books and projects.  Most of you have caught a whiff of my squiggly pushing projects, specifically in epidemic spread modeling and testing.  Playing different scenarios through these models has been both revealing and educational (I’ll share some of these in the by and by.)  

I am a dyed-in-the-wool numbers guy and confirm daily that people who don’t know the numbers on any given issue, don’t know what they’re talking about.  And knowing the numbers is just the start on the road to understanding anything in the public arena – then you run into things like different utilities to support decisions, and various collections of knowledge shared by decision makers.  What is most frustrating to me is how little our government bureaucrats know what is going on, and what it takes to gather such knowledge.

The medical industry has never impressed me, quite the opposite.  They are primarily good-hearted technicians and journeymen operating in the dark, trying to follow dated rules and regulations while suffering through the usual human frustrations and weaknesses.  As covered elsewhere, their mistakes cause around 200,000 deaths annually.  The only hope to make that industry more beneficial to society is to allow its practitioners to have more freedom to devise and apply better methods for healing, and allow entrepreneurs easier access to bring the fruits of their labors to bear on the sick and suffering.  Instead, we appear to be going exactly in the opposite direction both by bumbling and on misguided purpose – half of us want to supersize regulatory control and apply central one-size-for-all planning.

In any event, these trying times are at the same time for me frustrating, illuminating, and corroborating.  I start my breakfast with the 11apr20 WSJ headline ‘US Coronavirus Death Toll Passes Italy, Becoming World’s Highest’.  Now that is not only a nothingburger, but also a load of crap that is echoed by all the other ‘journalistic’ outlets.  You figure out what kind of message that is supposed to deliver to the millions of innumerates taking in the news this morning.  Italy’s population is about 61 million and their deaths today number 18,849, while America’s population is about 330 million and ours number 18,860, making their per capita death toll 3.09 per 100,000 and ours 0.57 per 100,000.  Their death rate is about six times ours.  Unless you’re numerate, you don’t have a clue that raw numbers about anything do not convey information, they are just naked data waiting for come context, in most cases a denominator, to make information out of them.  Such headlines are nothing but specious blather. (here)

Speaking of deaths, if anyone drew a graph of the number of deaths, or better yet, the world’s death rate plotted over years, C19 wouldn’t register an identifiable ripple.  And compared to other recorded major causes of deaths, C19 is definitely and by any means not anything outstanding – it’s a third-rate killer.  Save for a couple of real historical pandemics, the real people killers, day in and day out, are governments and their politicians.  These regularly kill their citizens by the tens of millions and cause untold misery on those about to die and the survivors.  And for soothing the ignorant and panicky palettes of their citizens, each developed country’s government (save perhaps Sweden and China) is prepared to destroy its economy – insane!  The US, of course, is leading the way.

In America our C19 epidemic once more illuminates the dysfunction of big government that, as employer of last resort, is run mostly by hubristic idiots.  In recent weeks they have again demonstrated that they are both ignorant and irresponsible beyond belief in how they have ignored looming and easily foretold threats to our nation.  And the bigger the government, the more right/lefthand problems they have, and the less chance there is of holding anyone wielding power responsible.  We have again demonstrated this in spades.

Finally, to put a ribbon on the ongoing national disaster, we have the Democratic Party using this epidemic as their latest tool to torpedo Trump and his administration as it has mobilized the country to fight an enemy against which no leader here or elsewhere has had any experience during their lifetimes.  They have now perfected the art of turning accusations into evidence in the media.  The demonic Dems (as I’ve pointed out elsewhere) demonstrate daily that what’s bad for the country is good for their politics and their perfidious plans to make America into a large-government socialist state.  If their machinations result in a few more tens of thousands of deaths, well, it’s like Uncle Vissarionovich told us long ago about breaking eggs and omelets.

After all is said and done, I am anxiously waiting for the day when the pharaohs will again let our people go.  And having finished this rant, I’m now going into my forest and split some more firewood.

One more thing.  As the 11apr20 Union now informs us (on page 2) that testing is widely available in our community.  Does anyone know what to do with their test result today, how about tomorrow?

[Update]  I got curious about the deaths graph and did a bit of research.  Here’s the drill.  As of today, the total worldwide C19 deaths number 108,858.  This number, as we have read is a bit overstated, but let’s take it as reported.  Some countries are already beginning to see the cases curve bending downward, which means that the death curve will soon follow.  But let’s really be pessimists and assume that 10 million will die before C19 bites the dust.  So what impact is that globally?

Well, I show here the latest data for the rate of worldwide deaths over the last 70 years (here)  The vertical axis shows annual deaths per thousand people.  Without the C19 deaths added, the 2020 number is 7.612 per thousand.  (Today’s world population is about 7,835,000,000.)  Were we to add 10 million C19 deaths to that (again the wrong thing to do since these are not marginal deaths, many of these people would have died anyway this year since the virus is hardest on the oldest), the 2020 death rate would ‘spike’ to 7.622 per thousand (gasp!).  OK, it’s not a really a spike.  It’s more like you couldn't see the change on the graph if we moved it up from 7.612 to 7.622, a 0.13% increase.  And even with that ridiculously high number dying of C19, half of our political leadership is willing to plummet the nation into a depression with screams of ‘People before profits!’  We live in the land of idiots; tell me it isn’t happening.

On a cheerier note, I split about eight huge rounds this afternoon and made a very large pile of firewood that should take us to the end of the fireplace season.  The Rebane policy is a fire every day/night from start of October to end of May.  And here's the updated copy of the paper I wrote years ago on wood fires - Download WoodFires_v200303

[more update] And here is more on the bullshit that we’re being subjected to by the ‘experts’.  Fasten seatbelts before reading.  H/T to reader.

[12apr20 update]  For completeness I should mention that I am very much in favor of large scale C19 antibody/antigen testing.  Why?  Because such testing for more enduring/endurable immunity in a population are not snapshots the results of which could literally change overnight.  Getting a measure of those having been exposed to C19 and recovered gives healthcare workers and policy makers an idea of how much benefit we can expect from the inevitable rise of herd immunity.  Such measures can be incorporated in the more capable epidemic spread models - e.g. Epidyne.  (more here)  From this link I have copied a useful table of comparative C19 symptoms.

And here is another take on C19 and other happenings that take a more reasoned view on this Easter, a Christian holiday that was not even mentioned this morning on National Propaganda Radio which instead featured two hit pieces on Trump.

Comments

[Don Bessee]

PBS has serious TDS -

https://www.foxnews.com/media/pbs-yamiche-alcindor-mocked-for-confronting-surgeon-general-after-his-remarks-offended-online-critics

;-)

[scenes]

"The medical industry has never impressed me, quite the opposite."

My general theory is that once we figured out clean drinking water and sewage disposal, the rest of it is chipping away at the margin. At this point my main hope is for the large data people more than it is state of the art research, hopefully 'radiologist' disappears as a job title pretty soon. Even the futurists are an issue since looking like Aubrey de Grey at age 55 is nothing to shoot for.

[Steven R Frisch]

https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data

[George Rebane]

DonB 1212pm - that woman is truly a 24kt asshole and represents everything that's wrong and evil about the lamestream and progressives.

scenes 1245pm - yep, that about covers it. Until we really know how to beneficially mess with our double helix, nibbling at the margins is all that's going on. And when they allow the machines in to start all diagnosing and prescribing, then that will dramatically lower the casualty rate. And when we get them to start doing surgical procedures, then ... . And ... . The solution lies in trans-humans; we are but a brief stepping stone in the evolutionary schedule.

[Bill Tozer]

"The medical industry has never impressed me, quite the opposite."

They don't call it "practicing medicine" for nuthin'

[George Rebane]

StevenF 1256pm - Found your data link in the spam folder. Thanks for sharing it. Looking at it, I see that those data mavens are part of the group that doesn't understand the difference between data and information. Quoting, say, raw death numbers doesn't really say much as I've described above.

[Bill Tozer]

Hoarding my dollars like toilet paper. Might interest Scenes and the Good Doc. The velocity of money.

A “CANNONBALL RUN” FOR THE ECONOMY?

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/04/a-cannonball-run-for-the-economy.php

Dear Diary. Went outside and sniffed the air. Looked at the beauty and the tops of trees gently swaying in the light breeze. Just the top branches. Waited, sure enough the breeze picked up a slight bit. Nope, ain’t worth it. Burn Day or not, it’s not a burn day for me.. God gave us brains to use, and it’s a perfect day for other chores. :)

[Steven R Frisch]

Posted by: George Rebane | 11 April 2020 at 02:53 PM

A lot of data there George, some of the graphs do measure on a per capita basis and conform your observation that Italy is roughly 5 times more per capita than the US.

[L]

Steve, there is indeed a lot of data there. Unfortunately, there are also a lot of 'hockey sticks' there too, and that's certain notice to the wise to don their skeptic hats. Scary, but not necessarily informative (or even true- or I should say accurate).

[Gregory]

Stevie,

Multiply the China infections and deaths by 15 to 50 before making national comparisons.

The virus isn't named C19 George, it's literally SARS-CoV-2. If the WHO wasn't trying to obfuscate the disease's origin, it would have just called it SARS-2, or SARS-2019.

[Don Bessee]

These are the entitled assholes who will screw it up for everyone -

https://www.yahoo.com/news/report-cowboys-prescott-hosts-party-235135610.html

;-)

[Walt]

Another prime example of why to ridicule anyone who says socialized medicine is the way to go. "Be more like Sweden" they say.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/04/11/swedish-document-elderly-coronavirus-patients-not-prioritised-intensive-care/
"A document from the Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm has revealed that Wuhan coronavirus patients over 80 and those over 60 with multiple organ failure will not be given priority for intensive care."

"The concept of “biological age”, which can be assessed as either higher or lower than a patient’s chronological age, is also mentioned in the document as a potential guideline."

"Along with patients over the age of 80, those 60 to 70 who have multiple organ failures will also be moved out of intensive care. The document states that any patients in those categories that experience organ failure while in an ICU could also be taken out of intensive care, as well, Aftonbladet reports."

If that's the case, then elected politicians, no matter their
ranking in the elitist tree, must be held to the same standard.

[George Rebane]

Gregory 433pm - On this blog much used things are labeled with minimum literal strings that also minimize delimiters. On RR "literally SARS-CoV-2" is C19 - live with it.

[Bob Hobert]

Thanks, Walt. I readily picked up on the part where I have only 6 more years to live. In Sweden, if there's a crowd at the hospital and I need to get in.

[Don Bessee]

Chi com sars incubated in Wuhan is the fact of the matter and should be labeled as such.
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The State Department has halted refugee resettlement in the midst of the coronavirus crisis, though a handful of “emergency” refugees have been resettled over the last week.

Refugee contractors have a vested interest in making sure as many refugees are resettled across the U.S. as possible because their annual federally-funded budgets are contingent on the number of refugees they resettle.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/04/11/coronavirus-crisis-refugee-agencies-lobby-for-mass-immigration-to-u-s/

;-)

[Don Bessee]

Does anyone think the fakenewsmen sharing national security information with the chi coms is in our interest? The pentagon told the folks in the fields to not share mission readiness. We can absolutely flush the fleet if needed in spite of the chi com sars and the socialist dems.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/more-10-us-carriers-crew-test-positive-virus-014817533.html

;-)

[Bill Tozer]

Might be off topic, but does indeed have a C-19 tie in. Maybe better put under ‘VDH nails it,’ but also under the Great Hunkering down in the here and now. Here it goes

It’s no surprise to anyone with two brain cells left that the lamestream is struggling for relevancy and to be taken as the final word to be listened to. They must tell us what to think, how to think it, and why you are a bad person if you don’t submit your mind to their biased group think.

But, the fight for relevancy carries over to the Climate Emergency Crisis Doomsday scenario as well. Tons of jokes about how refreshing it is not to hear from Greta as the issue of the very survival of the planet is pushed aside....for now. Greta thinks she can shame China into a cease and desist cutting down forests and bamboo to save the planet, not realizing China makes toilet paper from bamboo as well. Oh, the Eco-nazis are against toilet paper, lol. Explains the TP holding and fights over the last roll on the shelf.

****But, but, but THE REAL STORY is the progressive Little Piglet David Hogg worshipping nutcases are seizing the moment while we are quarantined at home to ram through emergency bans on guns and ammo via Governors. Not everywhere, basically just the Blue Wet Dream wack job states.

So.....alongs comes Alyssa Milano
(The actress) “took to Twitter Thursday to share with fans just how much gun purchases have increased compared to this time last year, tweeting, “Americans bought over 2 million firearms in March of 2020, over a million more than this time last year. We have to keep each other safe by social distancing and washing our hands and not bringing dangerous firearms into our homes. #StopTheCoronavirusGunSurge #NoRA.”

Within the attached PSA, the actress says that while she understands that uncertain times can often lead to panic, she doesn’t believe “stockpiling weapons” is the way to cope and could have “dire consequences for our own personal safety and those around us.”

“The weapons that people are buying today could end up being used in household, schools, churches, bars and on our streets in the future,” she went on. “We all have to look out for each other, so please, please, please share this video to stop the coronavirus gun surge. We can’t lose anymore lives to guns during this pandemic or after it’s over.”

James Woods was having. none of that nonsense.

‘James Woods dismisses Alyssa Milano’s anti-gun PSA: ‘Buy more ammo!’

https://pagesix.com/2020/04/11/james-woods-dismisses-alyssa-milanos-anti-gun-psa-buy-more-ammo/

James Woods is my kind of guy. Look what he told the biggest gun grabber of them all, Ms. Shannon Watts, founder of Moms Demand Action a few years ago:

https://twitter.com/shannonrwatts/status/884574662159740928

[Steven R Frisch]

Posted by: L | 11 April 2020 at 04:24 PM

"Unfortunately, there are also a lot of 'hockey sticks' there too, and that's certain notice to the wise to don their skeptic hats."

We should always don our skeptics hat; but once the data proves the case we should act on the best possible data.

I hope those who fancy themselves statisticians and systems analysts here will weigh in with the obvious comment about "L"'s statement: that the efficacy of a graph is dependent upon the underlying data not whether or not the appears to resemble another graph you were once encouraged to question.

If the projection of the data looks like a hockey stick because of what it is measuring then it is a hockey stick.

[Steven R Frisch]

"Stevie,

Multiply the China infections and deaths by 15 to 50 before making national comparisons.

The virus isn't named C19 George, it's literally SARS-CoV-2. If the WHO wasn't trying to obfuscate the disease's origin, it would have just called it SARS-2, or SARS-2019."

I am providing a source, I will leave it up to you to interpret it in whatever completely bizarre, conspiratorial, illogical, addle, nasty, snarky, twisted, shoot the messenger, fashion you are habitually prone to.

[Walt]

Of course it was a DEM.
https://dailycaller.com/2020/04/11/judge-blocks-louisville-kentucky-drive-in-easter-record-license-plates/
"A federal judge granted a restraining order against a Kentucky mayor who promised to record the license plates of Easter church goers, calling the order “unconstitutional.”

U.S. District Court Judge Justin Walker granted the temporary restraining order (TRO) preventing Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer from blocking Easter drive-in-services at On Fire Church, the non-profit public interest law firm First Liberty Institute announced in a Saturday"

[L]

Steve @ 9:00. Yeah, well the problem is we're only seeing a small snapshot in time. A year from now the hockey sticks in each graph will be looking like bell curves of differing slopes and amplitudes and perhaps then will be useful for analysis. Now, not so much, they're merely alarming which is always the stock in trade of your side's attempt to convince the non-gullible that things are 'worse than we thought." Remember the danger of crying "Wolf!"

[George Rebane]

StevenF 900am - Apparently you are talking about me since I do have ample credentials in those fields. But what you don't seem to recognize is what I illustrated voluminously in the Epidyne scenarios.
https://rebaneruminations.typepad.com/rebanes_ruminations/2020/04/epidyne-at-first-blush.html

The initial part of all processes that at first grow exponentially and then terminate in a bell-curve fashion, at first they all look like unending hockey sticks to the uninitiated. L points that out in his 1027am.

And for some odd and now escaped reason, I was hoping to hear from you on the deaths data-to-information presentation in the above update to my commentary. Silly me.

[Bill Tozer]

Great homemade fire making story, Dr. Rebane. Warms the cockles of me hearth. Kinda neat that hearth and heart where once synonymous, if not the same word. Old English with Danish Throne influence, not old Irish. Two of the seven old Irish languages where never translated anything near accurately, including the Danish version in the mix. Cnut the Great and all that stuff.
Ok, I won’t be a nag and try to win a stupid argument.....The inner pyro in me can spend hours looking at dancing flames and the flickering glows of delight.

All my outside burn piles that burn god without a whiff of smoke are started with one match, no accelerants, save two Safeway Suitcases (paper bags). A source of pride. There is a system to my madness which parallels your campfire method. First kindling, then
dry brush branches, then oak sticks oak limbs, then when all the brush and smaller stuff is gone, the progressively larger stuff goes on. When the slightly green oak catches and burns, you got one hot fire, yet small. Stand too close and you will get sunburned and you can’t touch your pants legs. Then, the nighcap of rolling a big old log laying on the ground for years on top and you got yourself a two-day slow burn. Clean and barely a 3 gallon bucket of white ash. Love going out in the middle of the night just to sit and look at it for the longest time. It’s spell binding. Fire can be your friend or your enemy. I choose to embrace my friend.

Now, for a campfire song!
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Dear Diary. I have met more heights in the last week than I have since a 20 acre fire over the hill 4 years ago. Out walking, neighbors hopping on tractors fixing the Rocky road, kids on their dirt bikes buzzing around, and Dad’s working on old quads getting the old machines going again.

The most urgent matter for some wives is which neighbor has eggs for sell. Nobody wants to drive to Brunswick. Still haven’t made it past PV, myself. :).

[Don Bessee]

Screw the TP somebody get granny some silver bullets -

Stuck at home and unable to venture out to replenish her supplies, Veronesi was pictured standing at her window with a dry erase board in one hand that read “I NEED MORE BEER!!”

In her other hand was a can of Coors Light.

https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/pennsylvania-woman-coronavirus-beer-viral-photo

;-)

[Don Bessee]

More tru dat on the chi coms -

https://www.foxnews.com/world/coronavirus-scott-gottlieb-fda-china-not-truthful

;-)

[Gregory]

GR 812pm

On a standard QWERTY layout keyboard, SARS is easier and faster to type than C19, and it has the bonus of not hiding the link to China, even without Wuhan (the 2019 eruption) or Guangdong (the 2003 outbreak) of basically the same damn virus family.

SF 906am
"I will leave it up to you to interpret it in whatever completely bizarre, conspiratorial, illogical, addle, nasty, snarky, twisted, shoot the messenger, fashion you are habitually prone to."

What a snarky little boy you are!

China campaigned for the current WHO leader and they got what they paid for. In the case of the naming of the virus du jour, they got a name that was scrubbed of any reference to place or the genisis of the virus:
"From a risk communications perspective, using the name SARS can have unintended consequences in terms of creating unnecessary fear for some populations, especially in Asia which was worst affected by the SARS outbreak in 2003.

For that reason and others, WHO has begun referring to the virus as “the virus responsible for COVID-19” or “the COVID-19 virus” when communicating with the public. Neither of these designations are intended as replacements for the official name of the virus as agreed by the ICTV."
https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/technical-guidance/naming-the-coronavirus-disease-(covid-2019)-and-the-virus-that-causes-it

Doubleplusgood doublespeak.

In good Oldspeak, it's the Wuhan SARS.

[L]

We should double down and simply call it the Xirus.

[L]

(After the man who made it possible)

[Don Bessee]

Too ironic -

Police in Lima on Sunday arrested a Chinese citizen for illegally conducting rapid COVID-19 tests on the public with newly-delivered kits stolen from Peru's health ministry.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/peru-police-arrest-chinese-man-illegal-covid-19-231643779.html

;-)

[Don Bessee]

Sloppy cover up attempt by the chi coms -

The posts on the websites of Fudan University and the China University of Geosciences (Wuhan) were erased from online caches -- in a possible bid to control the narrative surrounding the pandemic, The Guardian reported.

The Wuhan university appeared to have published and then deleted posts about academic research that China’s ministry of science and technology needed to approve before publication.
Similar apparent censorship turned up in the form of deleted posts originally published on April 9 by the school of information science and technology at Fudan University in Shanghai.

“They are seeking to transform it from a massive disaster to one where the government did everything right and gave the rest of the world time to prepare,” Kevin Carrico, a senior research fellow of Chinese studies at Monash University, told The Guardian.

“There is a desire to a degree to deny realities that are staring at us in the face … that this is a massive pandemic that originated in a place that the Chinese government really should have cleaned up after SARS,” he added.

https://www.foxnews.com/world/china-coronavirus-research-block-narrative-documents

;-)

[Don Bessee]

Looks like the party parrots and their trolls overarched again! -

Fact check: NYC is not planning to use trenches in local parks as burial grounds

https://www.yahoo.com/news/fact-check-nyc-not-planning-155921275.html

;-)

[Bill Tozer]

Alexa, Check the kids homework for me. Alexa, homeschool the kids. Alexa...

[Bill Tozer]

Circling the barn again, but not sounding the alarm. My vote don’t matter in CA anyway. :)

California Governor Working to Give More Coronavirus Aid to Illegal Aliens

https://www.intellectualtakeout.org/california-governor-working-to-give-more-coronavirus-aid-to-illegal-aliens/

[Gregory]

Another wacky piece by the Trumpers at The Atlantic
How China Deceived the WHO

U.S. senators are calling for investigations and the president is threatening to cut off funding. What happened?

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/04/world-health-organization-blame-pandemic-coronavirus/609820/

[Bill Tozer]

Well done Deplorable.

‘Chinese Consulate Asks Wisconsin State Senator For Praise In Resolution. He Gives Them A Resolution They Won’t Forget.’

https://www.dailywire.com/news/chinese-consulate-asks-wisconsin-state-senator-for-praise-in-resolution-he-gives-them-a-resolution-they-wont-forget?
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Oh my, Those rascally Deplorables have created their mischief again. Make them stop!

‘OOPS! CNN Gets Pranked with Question About 'Stage-4 TDS' Allowed on Screen’

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/tim-graham/2020/04/12/cnn-gets-pranked-question-about-stage-4-tds-allowed-screen

[Bill Tozer]

Xi Jinping’s China did this

“The corrupt, criminal regime wasted 40 days blocking information while it crushed domestic dissent and ensured COVID-19 would become a global pandemic”

https://www.timesofisrael.com/criminality-and-corruption-reign-in-xi-pings-china/

[scenes]

"China has imposed restrictions on the publication of academic research on the origins of the novel coronavirus, according to a central government directive and online notices published by two Chinese universities, that have since been removed from the web.

Under the new policy, all academic papers on Covid-19 will be subject to extra vetting before being submitted for publication. Studies on the origin of the virus will receive extra scrutiny and must be approved by central government officials, according to the now-deleted posts."

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/12/asia/china-coronavirus-research-restrictions-intl-hnk/index.html

I expect that Trump is behind this somehow.

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There's something for everybody in this article, even our local Blue Mob. Unfortunately, it's longer than some Huffpo clickbait, so they are welcome to read it in bits and pieces.

https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/4/13/21214114/media-coronavirus-pandemic-coverage-cdc-should-you-wear-masks

[Bill Tozer]

My my. A Governor (Missouri?) looked at the stats for Wuhan Virus deaths in his state and announced his shelter in place plans to flatten the curve. The projections called for 600,000 deaths, then 450,000 deaths, then 62,000 deaths. Unfortunately, the Gov in his press conference did not realize he was citing actual ICU admittances and actual deaths which where declining when he announced his March 23 shelter in place order, The lowering death rates (not the projections) were from March 21, two days before his emergency shelter-in-place to lower the actual deaths.

Let’s drop the friggin projections and start looking at the data.

[Don Bessee]

Lets keep perspective -

https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2020/04/13/nolte-fauci-said-going-to-malls-movie-theaters-gym-okay-on-feb-29/

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/04/13/nolte-fauci-okayed-campaign-rallies-cruise-ships-healthy-march-9/

;-)

[Bill Tozer]

Dear Diary

The most worthless waste of money item to have given or received last Christmas was a 2020 planner.

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[Bill Tozer]

Dear Diary.

The Feds put $1,200 in my bank account. I don’t need the money, have not worked in awhile since (BC—before Coronavirus) and WTF is my government doing giving away somebody’s hard earned tax payer’s money????

We have moved so far from “And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country.”

“My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.”

I got money from the US Treasury that I neither asked for, requested, (same thing), or sought. Too much asking what our country can do for me. No sacrifice on my end. I am being paid for toil which I did not do, for recompense for injury i have not received.. I might send it back.

But, then again, the Biker Trust did lose half a million in the stock market very recently. Good thing stocks are only 40% of the portfolio.
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