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April 24, 2020

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wildswan said...: At Real Clear website there's a list of covid fatalities by state. Seven states have more fatalities than from flu and all the others about the same or less, sometimes far, far less.

New York has about 7x as many fatalities as from flu and Connecticut and NJ about 5x and 3x. The other states are Michigan, Massachusetts, Illinois and Louisiana. So the US as a whole shows shows more fatalities from covid than from the flu. But if you considered fatalities in 43 states excluding the seven above there have been far less. So, the evidence is in. We've flattened the curve. It's time to reopen in the 47.

Wisconsin had 262 deaths from covid, 762 from flu but won't reopen. We are unfortunate in our governor who would be happy to destroy us.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/coronavirus/country/united-states/

Joan, I take your point about other things, many of them more important, happening in Real Land. I simply do not know how we handle the left narrative domination unless we push back while also staying in touch with the good-hearted delusionals in our personal circle and our city and state who buy it all and while trying to drip facts into them a rate they can handle. We can't hand the main narrative and then, inevitably, the country's leadership over to the leftys by simply ignoring it all - that's the Romney / Charlie Sykes strategy.; 4/25/20, 8:01 AM
Jersey Fled said...: From the NY Post:

New York refused to send nursing home’s COVID-19 patients to nearly empty USNS Comfort

https://nypost.com/2020/04/24/new-york-nursing-home-denied-requests-to-send-covid-19-patients-to-usns-comfort/amp/

Coble Hill Health Center in Brooklyn has suffered 55 deaths due to the coronavirus disease.

By way of comparison, there are 11 states with fewer than 50 deaths as of April 24 according to CNN.

“We don’t have the ability to cohort right now based on staffing and we really want to protect our other patients,” Tuchman wrote in a chain of the emails reviewed by The Post.”; 4/25/20, 8:44 AM
Bruce Hayden said...: Interesting to me, that there are rumblings about pushing China Joe Biden out now. My guess is that the Dems had been trying to push it out beyond their convention. Pushing Biden out, and giving the nomination to anyone except for Crazy Bernie is going to be a problem, esp right after Sanders finally conceded to Biden. Can they do it without losing a lot of Bernie Bros?

My guess is that this move is being driven by the emerging Tara Reade scandal. Ann suggested a couple weeks ago that there wasn’t more evidence supporting her story about being raped by Biden than Blasey Ford drunkenly making out with a teen aged Brett Kavenaugh, which was ridiculous on its face, because there was no contemporaneous evidence really supporting Ford’s story. None. She couldn't be nailed down for the date, exact location, or even exact participants. Reade apparently told multiple people at the time (Ford apparently told nobody). And now it is looking like her mother called into Larry King right after it happened, and they apparently have the audio of that call.

Of course, there is the question why they couldn’t convince Reade to take one for the team. Feminist Democrats have been giving sexual assault passes to prominent Dem politicians for decades - probably since Teddy tried to jump the non-bridge on Martha’s Vineyard. By all indications, Reade should fall into that category, as did her mother. And yet, they aren’t shutting up, and there isn’t as much pushback as you would expect. Partially, it may because the Dems completely beclowned themselves with their scurrilous and fraudulent attacks on Kavenaugh. But it may be because everyone now knows that Biden probably won’t survive until the election as the Dems’ nominee. Instead of the soft glide into senility as many have expected, they may be reconciling themselves to using #MeToo and trying to resurrect some life back into the movement. It is hard to take Dems seriously about #MeToo allegations, when they have given their Presidential nominee a pass on rape merely because he is their candidate. Much of the country rightfully sees that as pretty gross hypocrisy.; 4/25/20, 8:53 AM
Bruce Hayden said...: 201; 4/25/20, 8:53 AM
Ralph L said...: Bruce, you turd!; 4/25/20, 9:24 AM
Michael K said...: Of course, there is the question why they couldn’t convince Reade to take one for the team.

Inflation. I think Mary Jo's family got $60,000. Not nearly enough today. Maybe a million would haver done it but too late now.; 4/25/20, 9:54 AM
Narr said...: The MSDNC will discover that Tara Reade's mother's college roommate's first husband told a racist joke, and this little episode will be memory-holed.

Narr
From #MeToo to #HeWho? in no time; 4/25/20, 10:57 AM
Bruce Hayden said...: Excitement on our end. New house. Last night was our first night in it. Roughly the same size as the old one, but laid out differently. My partner claims to like the floor plan better. She is the interior designer. I am not. But I don’t like the layout as much. We traded her sitting room upstairs for a Junior Master suite downstairs (looking to a time when stairs are problematic). Don’t mind that. But in the old house, the entry was enough wider that it doubled as a living room and dining room. This one just has a long, fairly wide, entry hall, that we probably aren’t going to do much with. That means no dining room, the marble dining room set is going into indefinite storage, the clawed up sectional from the family room is going to a friend of her daughter, and the nice living room furniture is going into the great room. What might have been a family room is now mostly just part of the kitchen with an antique oak table (from one of my great grandmothers - but with new oak chairs). The burgundy overstuffed leather furniture from the old loft is now too big for the new loft. Etc.

She wanted to move, so we did. Happy Wife, Happy Life, etc. She got scared in the old house in maybe November, and never slept upstairs after that. Which meant sleeping on the sectional in the family room. Which meant that I had to entice the cat upstairs every night, so he couldn’t attack, or even lick, her in the middle of the night. I handle waking up in the middle of the night, then going back to sleep just fine. She doesn’t. If she has had at least maybe two hours of sleep before being awakened, she won’t be able to fall back to sleep. Then, we face half a week of her getting up at 2 AM every day, and falling asleep in the evening (I am thinking of suggesting that non-48 medicine advertised with the blind dude on TV). The problem is that the cat, over that maybe 4 months, got ever more ingenious in evading our strategies to get him upstairs every night. I think that it was his peak entertainment every day.

He seems to love the new house as much as my partner does, but did try to hang out in front of her door this morning. I wouldn’t be surprised that that is where he is right now, having given up on me giving him affection, while attempting to comment here. Or maybe under the covers on my bed upstairs.

It is quieter here. Downstairs is almost as quiet as our house in MT. And it is a bit safer. It is gated, for automobiles, but there are no barriers to entry by foot from the desert to the south. And the shopping is, or at least will be, nicer - we are less than a mile from N Snottsdale. Met the neighbors on both sides. The one who lives to the west had just returned from a trip, by foot and baby carriage, from the Whole Foods, along with wife and 4 month old. It’s going to be pathetic if I have to shift my grocery shopping there, instead of one of the local Kroger’s chain stores, none closer than maybe 4 miles away. It is also 7 miles, mostly by freeway, to where her daughter lives. That is almost next door in the PHX area.

Still, it has been a pain. Took almost five months to close. And we still don’t have Internet or cable TV. Had an appointment with Cox to do an outside install, that got cancelled. After over two hours on hold, and three dropped calls, no one could explain the cancelled install. So, yesterday I signed up for Centurylink, installing Monday. Maybe an hour later Cox called to reset the install that had been mysteriously cancelled. That is now scheduled for Tuesday. Really wish we could get Dish here (HOA issues - but they did allow unsightly solar panels on some guy’s roof).; 4/25/20, 11:11 AM
Bruce Hayden said...: “The MSDNC will discover that Tara Reade's mother's college roommate's first husband told a racist joke, and this little episode will be memory-holed.”

My gut feeling is that that isn’t going to happen. Just a feeling, but I think that the decision is being made, right now, to push China Joe out now, instead of at or after their convention, which. I think, had been the plan. I would agree with you, except his senility issues make it ever more apparent that he isn’t capable of really running for President, and definitely not capable of doing the job, or probably surviving the stress of trying to do it very long. It probably doesn’t help him that he has such long and prominent ties to the ChiComs, including their having shoveled better than a billion dollars to his son to manage. Most everyone knows that it was a bribe by now. And his ChiCom buddies very much appear to be the ones responsible for unleashing the COVID-19 pandemic on the world. Almost any replacement nominee is not going to have such visible and lucrative ties to China.; 4/25/20, 11:23 AM
Narr said...: You're probably right, Bruce-- but my opinion of the D's is so low I may be blind to the cold realities you cite.

I've doubted that Biden would make it all the way, all along; but I don't have a sense of what's going on in D minds about this, and suspect (no more than that) a lack of agreement among the bigwigs as to how exactly to spin the ouster even if they can agree on doing it.

Who has the most to gain, among ambitious D's, from greater exposure of the China Connection?

Who has the most to gain, among ditto, from greater exposure of Biden's Badfinger problem?

Narr
Bidenfingergate!; 4/25/20, 11:54 AM
Narr said...: Joan, no, I haven't read the Wulf bio of A. v. Humboldt--just some older works, a mixed bag.

As soon as one of the two million-volume libraries I'm close to reopens I'll be on the lookout! Thanks for the tip.

Narr
Or maybe I'll screw up my courage and order a copy through the friendly local Amazon access tube.; 4/25/20, 12:01 PM
Ralph L said...: less than a mile from N Snottsdale

I thought the air was clean and dry in Arizona.; 4/25/20, 1:06 PM
Darkisland said...: Complete works of humboldt 4 volumes are available on kindle for $2.99

John Henry; 4/25/20, 1:07 PM