Althouse: Sunrise, 6:10.

April 19, 2020

Sunrise, 6:10.

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... actual sunrise time — 6:09.

(Talk about anything you want in the comments.)

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Anne-I-Am said...: You know who else is over this insane shut-down? The nation's house cats, who are willing to have zillions die, if it means their staff will get out of the house.; 4/20/20, 12:20 AM
Mark said...: I now have over 20 cans of tuna. About 20 protein bars. A big tub of protein powder. Four cans of corned beef hash. A dozen cans of soup. One can of spam. And other stuff. I figure I could go two months if need be.; 4/20/20, 12:20 AM
narciso said...: Its like zero dark 30, the quest the investigation was interesting (of course i know elements were fictionalized) i liked jessica chastain in that one, but shes found ways to continually irritate; 4/20/20, 12:21 AM
Yancey Ward said...: I still watch "Homeland", but the show is shadow of itself from that first season. This season so far is just bad. No other way to put it. I thought it still good until the 2016 election result mucked up their plot line for that season that was in production just prior to the election itself. When Shelob lost the election, the writers tried a 180 to salvage their plot plans, but it just made a mess. Those who watch the show will know what I am talking about.; 4/20/20, 12:22 AM
Anne-I-Am said...: William,

Well....Ozark really wasn't that far off. I have a bipolar brother. When they go manic, they get impulsive, impossible to reason with, they have flights of fancy, they imagine they are invincible...it was believable to me.

What wasn't believable was that he was on a med that caused impotence. None of the newer bipolar meds do that. I am not even sure that lithium does that. That was a stupid plot point that didn't need to be in there. Bipolar people go off their meds all the time when they feel good. EVERYONE goes off their meds when they feel good. There doesn't need to be a reason. That guy wore my ass out.; 4/20/20, 12:24 AM
Mark said...: Joe Pera's girlfriend is a survivalist with a bunker with two years worth of food and medicine.; 4/20/20, 12:24 AM
J. Farmer said...: @Lewis Wetzel:

But . . . how certain are you of this? We are in a non-linear region of the curve. What happens if the Chinese demand for American debt ceases, through policy or market forces?

I have no way of quantifying level of certainty. As for Chinese demand on American debt ceasing, that would mean nothing to us.; 4/20/20, 12:25 AM
Anne-I-Am said...: Yancey,

Yes, they were all set to have Hilary in charge! And then, boom. So they made their female president as close to their imagined Trump as they could. It all went south.

They have gotten to wrapped up in the characters and lost the story. The story was what was engaging--it was a realistic (ok sort of) look at what Islam is capable of. Now it is just melodrama, America bad, Muslims misunderstood, blah, blah, blah.

Have you seen Fauda? Bay Area Guy and I have been talking about it. Israeli. Much more realistic. And not that you care, but the male characters are kinda hot.; 4/20/20, 12:27 AM
Yancey Ward said...: I just finished binging the 3rd season of "Ozark" on Friday night. I wondered about the bipolar guy, too, but then I don't have any real experience with such people. I did find it odd that he became child-like in his thinking when he went off the meds, and had meant to read up on the disorder. Of course, he wasn't in the manic phase during the last trip with his sister- that was the depressive phase.; 4/20/20, 12:27 AM
Churchy LaFemme: said...: I have seen "The Princess Bride" so many times, I know what the next line is pretty much in the entire film. This is a film people will be watching 50 years from now, like "Wizard of Oz"- it is simply timeless.

Well, who is watching The Wizard of Oz today? Neither of my nieces have seen it. They haven't seen The Princess Bride Either. And I bought copies of both for them. They just have no interest in watching either.; 4/20/20, 12:28 AM
Yancey Ward said...: I have not seen it, but it is on my radar.; 4/20/20, 12:29 AM
Jon Ericson said...: A picture of my favorite teevee star; 4/20/20, 12:30 AM
Yancey Ward said...: You will have to watch it with them, Unknown.; 4/20/20, 12:30 AM
J. Farmer said...: Its like zero dark 30

I love Kathryn Bigelow. She's probably the best female director working today. She still doesn't get enough credit for her directing in Point Break. The surfing scenes, skydiving, and especially a foot chase through Santa Monica are masterfully done.; 4/20/20, 12:31 AM
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Churchy LaFemme: said...: You will have to watch it with them, Unknown.

That's not the way it works in practice. They get two votes, I get one. We never end up watching anything I want to watch.; 4/20/20, 12:32 AM
Yancey Ward said...: Pauley Perrette is just smoking hot.; 4/20/20, 12:33 AM
Anne-I-Am said...: Unknown,

With all the time we have on our hands, you can press to win one now and then. They will not regret watching Princess Bride.

Yancey,

I found the bipolar brother in Ozark totally believable. Maddening, and thus, believable. Whether depressed or manic, the pathological thinking is striking. Globalizing. Catastrophizing. Those are part of depression. (I know from personal experience.). The manic phase is terrifying, when it is someone you know and love. As I said earlier, the only think that struck a wrong note with me was the idea that he went off his meds because he was impotent. People go off their meds. No reason. I feel good. I don't want to take medicine. Whatever.

The only meds that people take religiously are pain meds. Because, duh.; 4/20/20, 12:37 AM
Big Mike said...: Governors who try to make this a hurdle for reopening won't reopen until 2030.

And of course they’d be gone NLT November 2022; 4/20/20, 12:42 AM
narciso said...: Its kind of a cracked fairy tale, but better than into the woods that we performed in college drama class or wicked do they have to turn everything inside out; 4/20/20, 12:43 AM
Churchy LaFemme: said...: Yeah, perhaps. I will make it a point to try for TPB again next time.

But my point remains: Have many people under 30 seen Oz or TPB?; 4/20/20, 12:48 AM
narciso said...: thats not how time works; 4/20/20, 12:49 AM
Known Unknown said...: Ozark spent waaaaaay too much time on the brother. What should've been a 2.5-episode subplot became the entire raison d'etre for the show.

Stupid.

Also, why would you fire a gun into someone's head at close range while that person is standing next to people you don't want to have killed accidentally by a refracting bullet?; 4/20/20, 12:52 AM
stephen cooper said...: My cats always liked having me around.
I simply do not believe those people who say cats want to be left alone.

Also and trust me on this ---- I hated the Princess Bride.

I watched it with some friends who loved it and I asked them, at the end - what is the point of making fun of fairy stories, as if they are beneath you? Why not just tell a real story without always acting like you are making fun of people who enjoy stories?

And they were all like, you don't get it, do you.

And I let them win the argument, as I almost always do, because I do not care if I am right or wrong.
The only time I argue as if I really cared is when people tell me I am an idiot for saying God loves us all.
In those arguments, I feel the way about God that a big brother feels about his little brother when ill-behaved kids are bullying him.
Not that God needs my help, of course.
And of course I always feel so so sorry for anyone who would even come close, even just rhetorically, to thinking they can persist in their bullying enough to try and bully God. YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW STUPID so many people can be, unless .... well unless you have lived long enough,

and then of course you would be surprised at how many people know so little and have so little understanding .....
Just as I am surprised that there are people who live with cats who, the people think, are thinking in their cat hearts that they do not want the peoples around as much as possible.
OR MAYBE MY CATS WERE SPECIAL FOR WANTING ME AROUND AS OFTEN AS POSSIBLE
probably not, though, I am not special, so why should my cats have been special?
My dogs, on the other hand ----- dachshunds, schnauzers, chow chows, poodles, coonhounds, Tibetan terriers, Bichons, PBGVs, optimates .....amazing, amazing, amazing. I miss them so much.; 4/20/20, 12:52 AM
Drago said...: Yancey Ward: "I still watch "Homeland", but the show is shadow of itself from that first season. This season so far is just bad. No other way to put it."

Bosch Season 6 just dropped on Amazon; 4/20/20, 12:56 AM
Anne-I-Am said...: Stephen Cooper,

I did not see The Princess Bride as making fun of fairy stories. Not at all. But rather, as having fun at adult's expense, who would try to explain away all the magic. The magic is there at the end, when Andre the Giant catches the Princess as she leaps.

And...it was a joke about the cats. Lighten up, Francis.; 4/20/20, 12:58 AM
narciso said...: Well next week is the final episode so carrie might as well go all shaheed, andrew kaplan goes in to some of her backstory before season one.; 4/20/20, 12:58 AM
stephen cooper said...: in principle, the cats want the peoples around, trust me.

in principle, they think we attract birds.; 4/20/20, 1:00 AM
Anne-I-Am said...: Drago,

Watched the first 3 of Bosch. At first was all ready to punt because "White Supremacists! Survivalists!" But they managed to pull out of THAT nosedive and move on to something more complicated and interesting.

Looks like Titus Welliver lost a little weight. His sideburns are too long. And man, did he get a lot greyer.; 4/20/20, 1:00 AM
narciso said...: Hes like droopie the dog, god isnt about being down in the dumps being maudlin, now weve gotten a swelled head that makes us think we are masters of our own universe, if this hasnt put the lie to that.; 4/20/20, 1:01 AM
William said...: Claire Danes played crazy pretty convincingly in the first few seasons, but then it got to be schtick. I thought the craziness of the brother in Ozark was more of a plot device than a clinical description of the illness. Well, live and learn. At any rate, it was painful to watch him make increasingly stupid decisions.... What's the opposite of plot armor? You just knew he was going to die, but I expected he'd go out with a bigger bang....Ozark was intermittently well written, but if you stare too long in the plot holes, the plot holes start staring back at you.; 4/20/20, 1:03 AM
Anne-I-Am said...: Known Unknown,

Yeah--about the end of Ozark. I couldn't believe they didn't think of over-penetration. But...Hollywood types know zilch about guns.; 4/20/20, 1:03 AM
narciso said...: I dont recall that part of his novels, its like the new penny dreadful is all about nazis in 30s los angeles,really,; 4/20/20, 1:03 AM
stephen cooper said...: my name is not Francis.

Let's argue, though.
Peter Falk.
Mandy Patinkin.
Andre the Giant.

All of them talking as if they were making fun of people who talk that way. Maybe it was the director's fault.

I tried reading the book, too, I am not really into post-modernism.

Anne, this is the internet. There are people who say their cats do not like them, and they mean it. Those people need our prayers.

And I am glad you were joking about the cats, lots of people have cats who do not like them, because I like cats I am sensitive to that, I am glad you are not one of those people. I mean, I knew you were, but I am glad you are.; 4/20/20, 1:04 AM
Anne-I-Am said...: William,

Don't expect Shakespeare from Netflix.

I will only watch Ozark as long as I give a shit about the characters. As soon as I lose all sympathy for them, I'll turn it off. Breaking Bad and Sons of Anarchy jumped the shark for me in that way. I have no interest in watching people disintegrate.; 4/20/20, 1:05 AM
Yancey Ward said...: "Bosch Season 6 just dropped on Amazon"

Yes, been binging that this weekend. Finished the first 6 episodes. It is my favorite of the Amazon Prime original series.; 4/20/20, 1:06 AM
Anne-I-Am said...: Stephen Cooper,

I adore my cat. And he seems to grow ever more fond of me as he ages. I try not to think about losing him. He seems to have arthritis in his front wrists. I like to lie in bed with him on my chest, listening to him breathe. And look at the way the sun shines through the hair on his ears.

I really, really love my cat. He has been with me through so much terrible, terrible stuff. So much heartbreak. He anchors me back to the before-time. The before-heartbreak time.

Well. He is a good cat.; 4/20/20, 1:09 AM
narciso said...: Its like with latin dramas every other show is about the cartels, is that what you you want people to think. Thats why when something new like kara sevda which involves love triangles business scheming wven a little murder but imported from turkey people thrive to us.

I guess jack bauer was the closest thing to doron, the show became tedious after 8 seasonsm; 4/20/20, 1:10 AM
Anne-I-Am said...: I couldn't get into 24. The details bogged me down.

Kara Sevda? Will check it out. As it is, all these subtitled shows have me debating which language to learn next. Not a romance language...I've got French, Italian, and Spanish mish-mashing around in my brain. (I can read Portuguese, but it really is its own thing, spoken-wise).

German? Hebrew? Arabic? I attend a church where half the worshippers speak Arabic. It would be useful. But, I don't want to learn a new alphabet.; 4/20/20, 1:15 AM
stephen cooper said...: Anne-I-am, I am so glad to hear that, it resonates with everything you have previously said (that is, your benevolent affection and the reciprocated affection).

There is no way you can know this, but it really really bothers me when people joke about their cats or dogs. Or horses, and so on.
I have almost never met anybody else who is as bothered by that as much as I am.
They cannot talk (at least they cannot talk around most people) and so they cannot joke back. That is what bothers me. Please do not be offended, you are obviously one of the good guys (not that you should really care what I think, but that is what I think).

and please don't call me Francis, my name is Stephen.; 4/20/20, 1:18 AM
narciso said...: Is that syrian influx or lebanese egyptian what not; 4/20/20, 1:18 AM
Anne-I-Am said...: Oh Stephen, the Francis joke was from the movie with Mr Ed. But I won't call you Francis again. It was just a gentle joshing to realize that people sometimes use humor.

I sometimes imagine our pets joking back. What would they laugh about, thinking about their humans? I think that would be very funny. I can imagine a couple of cats gossiping about their humans. I think my cat would laugh at my hair in the morning. And he would laugh at me having to stretch and do yoga to keep flexible--when it comes so naturally to him. And he would laugh at me wasting my time on vegetables.

Dogs? Hmm. Dogs would laugh at us being so serious. And worrying about what dogs eat!!!! And our insensitivity to SQUIRRELS!

I am not sure what horses would find funny about us. I do adore horses. It is a lasting pain to me that I never got to spend much time with horses after high school. Such beautiful, phenomenal beings.

Pigs are extremely smart animals. Inga thinks I am a pig. I did not take that as an insult.; 4/20/20, 1:25 AM
Anne-I-Am said...: narciso,

Antiochian Orthodox. Mostly Syrian. Some Lebanese.; 4/20/20, 1:26 AM
walter said...: Patriot on Amazon is worth a look.; 4/20/20, 1:34 AM
Drago said...: The US Sun now reporting half of all Los Angeles workers are out of work.

According to Ken B this is not yet an economic disaster.; 4/20/20, 1:49 AM
Anne-I-Am said...: Drago,

Where did all the Panic! Mongers go?

Well, I am off to bed. Have to pretend to work tomorrow.

Stay sane, brother.

Narciso,

Always a pleasure.; 4/20/20, 1:55 AM
J. Farmer said...: @Drago:

The US Sun now reporting half of all Los Angeles workers are out of work.

According to Ken B this is not yet an economic disaster.

The federal government needs to put more money in people's hands immediately.; 4/20/20, 2:00 AM
walter said...: Cali's unemployment pgm is a mess...especially with new Indy contractor regs.; 4/20/20, 2:20 AM
Achilles said...: Overall US death rate in 2020 lower than most years.

There is no pandemic.

The death counts are a complete fraud. They are just pumping the numbers with presumed cases.

This is the mildest flu season in years.

It is time to end this farce. As I have said all along millions have had this and we know who the at risk populations are. It is less dangerous to everyone else than the flu is.; 4/20/20, 3:25 AM
Joan said...: Late but wanted to pop in and say thanks for making my week-long furlough much more enjoyable. Back to work in the morning, huzzah!

For a short-ish binge, I *highly* recommend the Netflix series Kingdom. I finished it yesterday. Zombies done right, gorgeous production values, politics, loyalty, deception. Only 12 episodes in the first 2 seasons, and the turn it takes at the end bodes well for season 3.

FWIW, Stephen C., I'm with Anne-I-Am about Princess Bride. There is a tremendous amount of affection built in, both between the Grandfather and the Boy, and between the Grandfather and the story. The whole point of the movie is the Grandfather teaching the Boy the inherent value of stories like that, and it's a beautiful story of two people who fell in love, were separated, and then, against all odds, were re-united. There is a tremendous amount of love in the story, too, like the love of Inigo for his father, and the love between Inigo and Fezzik (Fezzik would just not give up on Inigo). I think you should give it another try, Stephen. It seems to me it would be right up your alley.

My cats are also extremely happy to have humans around all the time, and I am very happy they are here. They always cheer me up.; 4/20/20, 3:48 AM
Rory said...: "What would they laugh about, thinking about their humans?"

I think that my dog could do a bit about how long it takes me to leave the house after I've said we're going to leave the house.; 4/20/20, 3:53 AM
Kyjo said...: Achilles @3:25am, your link is borked. :(

Anyway, it’s turned out that Sweden’s approach hasn’t been the unmitigated disaster predicted by, well, thousands of its own scientists. Now, to be fair, I’ll note that, on a per capita basis, Sweden has had more deaths than the US, a rate of 152 per million vs. our 123 per million. We’d have ~50,000 deaths to date if we had same rate—but there’s no direct evidence that the stricter measures taken here are responsible for that difference.; 4/20/20, 4:03 AM
J. Farmer said...: @Achilles:

Your link doesn't work.

There is no pandemic.

Regardless of whatever else you think about the virus, what we are seeing currently fits any standard definition of "pandemic."

The death counts are a complete fraud. They are just pumping the numbers with presumed cases.

This is the mildest flu season in years.

Seasonal flu data bundles influenza and pneumonia. Very few flu deaths are laboratory confirmed. They are estimated using statistical models.; 4/20/20, 4:26 AM
stevew said...: Have you noticed that the high at-risk population - the old, the frail, the sick - continues to die, reportedly as a result of the virus? The Boston Globe has, they've published a "shocking" article about how the rare illness of the young is growing!

Meanwhile, Marty Walsh (Boston Mayor, no relation) tells everyone to "knock it off" with the outdoor activities. Yesterday was one of those glorious spring days in Boston. Lots of people out and about. Most that I saw were practicing social distancing, just not in their homes.

I note that the new metric or standard for determining when we can all go back to work is comprehensive testing of all citizens. Regularly and repeatedly. Classic goal post moving and rules changing mid-match. We were told we needed to flatten the curve, prevent the overwhelming of the healthcare system. Now we have to test everyone - an impossibility. Marty says we need to stop the virus completely before we can come out of hiding.

Too much dishonesty among government leadership.

Have a good day! I'll be on zoom meetings pretty much from 8:30am to 6pm. Days tend to fly by, and are remarkably the same from one to the next.; 4/20/20, 5:25 AM
Mr. Forward said...: I dug the first six episodes of "Chestnut Trees: The Revival". Saplings from nuts harvested from socially isolated surviving groves that might be blight resistant are finally available at a reasonable price.; 4/20/20, 5:37 AM
rehajm said...: Yah, Maahty is a peach. Threatening the landlords for daring to collect rent...but you fuckers damn well better have your quarterly property tax payments in on time!; 4/20/20, 6:17 AM
Shouting Thomas said...: Ulster County, New York, where I live has experienced 16 COVID-19 fatalities out of a population of 184,000.

Your chances of dying of COVID-19 in Ulster County are 1 in 10,000.

And we’re shut down.; 4/20/20, 6:24 AM
Shouting Thomas said...: Wisconsin lists 222 fatalities out of a population of 8 million.

A Wisconsonite’s chances of dying from COVID-19 are 1 in 40,000!

And Wisconsin is shut down.; 4/20/20, 6:29 AM
lb said...: Anne I Am.. one more in my opinion...we are realizing we use schools for daycare since the actual teaching is done in about 2 hours. Silver lining..maybe we can lay off a bunch of teachers and hire daycare workers for the second half of school days. Think of the savings in school buildings and administrators!; 4/20/20, 6:37 AM
Temujin said...: Anne-I-Am: "The GOP has done a terrible job of pulling people together here."

The GOP gave up out there a long time ago. I know there are fervent GOPers out there, but there are no strategic leaders out there. They quietly fume and they'll do so until the pain gets too widespread for even some of their liberal neighbors. Once the pain reaches tipping point, the reality will overtake the bullshit coming out of Newsom's team. Right now Newsom is working on his Presidential run in 2024.; 4/20/20, 7:03 AM
Kai Akker said...: If there is a global slowdown, with deflation, will that boost demand for US treasuries, driving down our cost of borrowing? [Lucien, 856pm]

Whose borrowing, the federal government? The Federal Reserve has forced the Treasury rates to all-time lows for years now, so government borrowing costs can't really get any lower. It seems to me that creditworthiness issues are about to hit. That will be especially true for corporations that need to borrow.; 4/20/20, 7:06 AM
Kai Akker said...: With DJIA futures down 400+ on a Monday morning, the rebound rally in stocks looks long in the tooth.; 4/20/20, 7:10 AM
Jersey Fled said...: Blogger Inga said...
“Fauci was still saying in mid February that the virus was no big risk to the U.S.”

Except that’s not entirely true."

USA Today article dated 2/17/20 headlined "Dangers of Getting Coronavirus Now Is Just Minisculely Low."

The point is that this was the assessment that Fauci was giving the President at that time.

Sorry, I couldn't get the link to work.

You really need to stop citing Snopes as a definitive source, Inga.; 4/20/20, 7:16 AM
J. Farmer said...: Whose borrowing, the federal government? The Federal Reserve has forced the Treasury rates to all-time lows for years now, so government borrowing costs can't really get any lower.

Precisely why we need another round of stimulus funding to get money in people’s hands and mitigate economic damage.; 4/20/20, 7:17 AM
Fernandinande said...: "Hataałii adéíst’į́į́’ ííł’ínígíí said a deadly and unseen sickness known as ch’osh doo yit’iinii, or ha’t’ííshíí na’ałniihi, was born from the ashes of the mammals and reptiles that burned in the Australian fires in 2019.

The hataałii, who asked to remain anonymous, said the ashes of the animals rose into the air and it weakened the ozone enough for cosmic rays to shoot an entity into the ocean that caused the earth to open up and release an energy that impacted fish and other marine life before reaching the surface.
...
The ghost-virus then began its journey infecting the world, hiding in the darkness, and making it very difficult for people to see.

The Centers for Disease Control gave the ghost-virus a name: SARS-CoV2, better known as COVID-19. Navajo Nation leaders named it Dikos Nitsaaígíí Náhást’éíts’áadah."; 4/20/20, 7:17 AM
Kai Akker said...: "Precisely why we need another round of stimulus funding to get money in people’s hands and mitigate economic damage."

$10-, $20- or $100 trillion?

When do we finally start to think big, like Amurricans, and go for quadrillions?; 4/20/20, 7:20 AM
iowan2 said...: Anne-I-Am said.

I will only watch Ozark as long as I give a shit about the characters. As soon as I lose all sympathy for them, I'll turn it off. Breaking Bad and Sons of Anarchy jumped the shark for me in that way. I have no interest in watching people disintegrate.

Then find 'Brockmire'
It starts with the main character hitting rock bottom, then things go really bad for him. It's funny as hell, Hank Azaria, is the lead, with Amanda Peet supporting.; 4/20/20, 7:23 AM
JohnAnnArbor said...: Nice horizon.; 4/20/20, 7:29 AM
J. Farmer said...: $10-, $20- or $100 trillion?

When do we finally start to think big, like Amurricans, and go for quadrillions?

We’ll probably need to spend at least another $2 trillion. That could pay for a direct cash transfer of $10,000 for everyone over 18 and under 65.; 4/20/20, 7:35 AM
rehajm said...: WTI crude May contracts are going for $11 this morning if you have a couple of empty storage tanks to spare...; 4/20/20, 7:38 AM
David Begley said...: WTI down 30% today. 1999 prices.

Road trip!; 4/20/20, 7:38 AM
David Begley said...: Agree re length of Bosch’s sideburns.; 4/20/20, 7:40 AM
Kai Akker said...: "a couple of empty storage tanks"

Our tanks will hold 28 gallons between them. We are going to top off!; 4/20/20, 7:41 AM
buwaya said...: Recommended - "Kingdom", on Netflix

Korean historical drama with zombies.
Well done.

But a note on the setting - the conflict in that show is, on one level, that of a Korean (one assumes Joseon period based on the costumes, but it makes no specific reference that I can tell) royal succession complicated by the "deep state" of that setting, the officialdom of the court and their security services. The prospective, legitimate new boss being unlikely to preserve the sweet status quo.

How apt, I thought. US politics since 2016 has been dominated by exactly the same conflict. This is, to be sure, not a rare situation in Asian history. China, Japan and Korea were regularly, in their various historical cycles, driven into internal conflict by the growth of court cliques and castes into their own power centers. The mandarins and the eunuchs and the court ladies and aristocratic clans that ran things (various combinations in different times and places) were, between them, usually bad news.

The US has been going through what might as well be an Asian imperial court crisis, as if it were in the latter days of the Ming dynasty.; 4/20/20, 7:46 AM
iowan2 said...: . Tell me how you think the nursing home population could’ve been better protected. Nursing robots?

4/19/20, 11:06 PM

I mentioned this sometime last week. We already know the process. Look at any SPF swine farrowing facility.
Property is gated, only persons with appointment allowed on property. Operational actions are isolated from patient areas.
Patient areas are shower in, shower out. Foot baths are used anytime persons travel between areas, add hand/arm washing stations. There are more processes.
The point is, we have decades of success keeping pathogens out of facilities.
I have a close friend that is on the covid floor at our local hospital. He was worried to start, but then his logical mind kicked in, went back to his training, education, and experience. Now he is calm, and recommitted to provided his patients the best care, and attitude they deserve. I don't ask for details, and he doesn't volunteer, but he has shared, every death involves extreme age, or 2 co mordities.

This lock down should have never happened. The experts were wrong. Statistics keep trending the same way, and Covid is just like the flu. Who knew?; 4/20/20, 7:46 AM
J. Farmer said...: @iowan2:

This lock down should have never happened. The experts were wrong. Statistics keep trending the same way, and Covid is just like the flu. Who knew?

I support the states beginning a staggered reopening with some restrictions (e.g. no large gatherings indoors) still in place. More antibody studies need to be carried out across the country. But I think we should avoid building narrative that it was all hype, a hoax, not a big deal, just like the flu, etc. There's still too much we don't know about the virus to reach those kinds of conclusions. People in high-risk categories will likely need to continue practicing social distancing, we shouldn't rule out the possibility of another wave of new infections. For those who experience serious illness but eventually recover, we still don't now what potential long-term impacts on the body could occur.; 4/20/20, 8:07 AM
Beloved Commenter AReasonableMan said...: I went to bed reasonably early and missed Drago's breakdown. Drago, it's over. Let it go. Trump is not getting reelected. After two failed presidencies in a row the Republicans need to regroup and think about how to create a competent presidency next time they gain power.; 4/20/20, 8:41 AM
Michael K said...: Drago, it's over. Let it go. Trump is not getting reelected.

Oh. OK. So I don't even have to vote. ARM and the ChiComs have the election fixed. Good to know.; 4/20/20, 9:15 AM
Anthony said...: I watched Blazing Saddles again last Friday. Greatest comedy movie ever, IMO. So many great lines. . . . . .that you can't repeat in public.

A friend of mine (female, Asian, very attractive) said something in French and I was exceedingly tempted to tell her that she uses her tongue prettier 'n a 20-dollar whore. Alas, no.

I think perhaps the only thing funnier than watching it would be watching it with a Millennial to see their reactions.; 4/20/20, 9:34 AM
MayBee said...: I don't know if anyone is still reading this thread, but the genius thing about the brother in Ozark is he is the one having a mental health breakdown, while at the same time he is the only one responding appropriately to what is actually happening. Usually the person in a manic episode will be the person accusing others of all these things that did not occur. In his case, he is saying exactly what did occur. He's horrified like a real person would be, and everyone else just wants him to accept it as they have.

It's genius.; 4/20/20, 9:54 AM
Jim at said...: Ulster County, New York, where I live has experienced 16 COVID-19 fatalities out of a population of 184,000.

Thurston County, Washington has 280,000 people.
Ninety two cases. One death.

One.

And we've been dealing with this shit since the end of January.

One. Death.; 4/20/20, 1:57 PM
hstad said...: Blogger Lewis Wetzel said...
J. Farmer said...
@Lewis Wetzel: So long as we have the income to comfortably service debt payments, we can borrow indefinitely...." 4/20/20, 12:01 AM

Well, that's somewhat true, but "...borrow indefinitely..." is a bit over the top.

My comment about "somewhat true" is that whenever people talk about "Debt Capacity" they only use one aspect to service "Debt" - "Income". Yes that is true "Income" is required but not the only availability to service debt in the USA. I will refer you to the 'Balance Sheet' of the USA. You do know that the Federal Government owns massive amounts of real estate, which can be sold to reduce the "Debt" to more manageable levels. Hell, in certain Western States the Feds own most of the State.; 4/20/20, 2:55 PM
stephen cooper said...: Joan - I will give it a try sometime in the next week or so.
if you are reading this, if I like it , I will include in my review the word Pleasanton, to make it easier for you to find.

If I don;t like it, I will be silent.; 4/20/20, 9:14 PM