Sad.

So people are lining up for HOURS in their cars to get food from food banks.

The videos I see show most folks in the lines are driving fairly new cars.

This, needing food handouts, after a month with no work.

This, to me, says something about their lifestyle that they are in dire straights after only month with no pay income. Cant feed themselves after only a month or so. So apparently nos savings at all
Living on the edge, as it were.

Plus, one would think that if they are out of work, they’d be getting unemployment.

Or it possibly could be that they are just bored, I dunno. 

Question:

Is the SEC and the Ethics Committee going to investigate those 4 Senators (that we know of) that knew about the coronavirus issue and the Federal Government’s response….. and sold stock BEFORE everyone else found out? 

I would still consider that inside trading…..

Wouldn’t you?

We should DEMAND an investigation. 

Grumpy start

But when I walked out on my deck, there was a golden eagle juvenile sitting in the tree near me, practicing his cry.

He is getting there, but needs practice.

It was a pretty good moment, me watching him, him watching me, and hearing his practice.

Sometimes you gotta enjoy life’s little moments

AAANNND….the models are….

Wrong Again.

What a surprise, huh?

Well, just read the whole thing. Read the linked article too.

Remember, we were looking (at one point) at MILLIONS of people dying.
(That was the model).

Now it MIGHT be 65,000. If that.
(Not an insignificant number, mind you, but a far cry from MILLIONS).

And we have, effectively, destroyed our economy…first by shutting it down and then by injecting Billions of dollars that didn’t exist.

All because someone panicked and didn’t, you know, actually check to see if the model was valid.

Kinda like the whole Global Warming thing, only in fast forward, with deficit spending.

Note to all the new gun owners:

Buying a race car doesn’t make you a NASCAR driver.

Buying a saw doesn’t make you a carpenter.

Please, get some training on how to safely use your new heater.

‘Cause buying a gun doesn’t buy the knowledge nor skill to use it effectively nor safely.

(likely there is a gun club nearby that can help, or you can go to the NRA website  to find some training classes)

But please, learn to use that new tool you bought. They are, like a table saw, unforgiving to folks who don’t know how to use them safely…and the person you hurt might not be you.

Clear messages in this Coronavirus “Crisis”

Via my brother who got it from an unknown source (I think).

If u read this, u will see how insane this thing has become.

For those of you who are still confused, these are the rules:

1. Basically, you can’t leave the house for any reason, but if you have to, then you can.

2. Masks are useless, but maybe you have to wear one, it can save you, it is useless, but maybe it is mandatory as well.

3. Stores are closed, except those that are open.

4. You should not go to hospitals unless you have to go there. Same applies to doctors, you should only go there in case of emergency, provided you are not too sick.

5. This virus is deadly but still not too scary, except that sometimes it actually leads to a global disaster.

6. Gloves won’t help, but they can still help.

7. Everyone needs to stay HOME, but it’s important to GO OUT.

8. There is no shortage of groceries in the supermarket, but there are many things missing when you go there in the evening, but not in the morning. Sometimes.

9. The virus has no effect on children except those it affects.

10. Animals are not affected, but there is still a cat that tested positive in Belgium in February when no one had been tested, plus a few tigers here and there…

11. You will have many symptoms when you are sick, but you can also get sick without symptoms, have symptoms without being sick, or be contagious without having symptoms. Oh, my God.

12. In order not to get sick, you have to eat well and exercise, but eat whatever you have on hand because it’s better not to go out, well, but no…

13. It’s better to get some fresh air, but you get looked at very wrong when you get some fresh air, and most importantly, you don’t go to parks or walk. But don’t sit down, except that you can do that now if you are old, but not for too long or if you are pregnant (but not too old).

14. You can’t go to retirement homes, but you have to take care of the elderly and bring them food and medication.

15. If you are sick, you can’t go out, but you can go to the pharmacy.

16. You can get restaurant food delivered to the house, which may have been prepared by people who didn’t wear masks or gloves. But you have to have your groceries decontaminated outside for 3 hours. Pizza too?

17. Every disturbing article or disturbing interview starts with ” I don’t want to trigger panic, but…”

18. You can’t see your older mother or grandmother, but you can take a taxi and meet an older taxi driver.

19. You can walk around with a friend but not with your family if they don’t live under the same roof.

20. You are safe if you maintain the appropriate social distance, but you can’t go out with friends or strangers at the safe social distance.

21. The virus remains active on different surfaces for two hours, no, four, no, six, no, we didn’t say hours, maybe days? But it takes a damp environment. Oh no, not necessarily.

22. The virus stays in the air – well no, or yes, maybe, especially in a closed room, in one hour a sick person can infect ten, so if it falls, all our children were already infected at school before it was closed. But remember, if you stay at the recommended social distance, however in certain circumstances you should maintain a greater distance, which, studies show, the virus can travel further, maybe.

23. We count the number of deaths but we don’t know how many people are infected as we have only tested so far those who were “almost dead” to find out if that’s what they will die of…

24. We have no treatment, except that there may be one that apparently is not dangerous unless you take too much (which is the case with all medications). Orange man bad.

25. We should stay locked up until the virus disappears, but it will only disappear if we achieve collective immunity, so when it circulates… but wait…we must no longer be locked up for that?
🤪

Protests

People are beginning to realize that the Coronavirus crisis is, essentially, overblown.

Yes, it is a serious disease for some.
Yes, it kills people
They realize that.

They also realize that it isn’t the deadly pandemic that will kill one in 20 people as promised.
It isn’t spreading like wildfire.
The Hospitals are not overwhelmed.

also:

Despite the claims of running out of equipment, masks, and gowns, the hospitals are still equipped.
Despite they media hype, this isn’t worth destroying our economy.

And they are getting restless because, while they were willing to wait and see, they are realizing that it isn’t as forecast.
And they won’t stay home forever.

They also realize that everywhere isn’t like NYC. And that outside of dense urban enclaves, the rate of infection and death just isn’t there as forecast….even the rtes in large cities are not anywhere near the forecast. 
And that cities really, despite they hype, are not deathtrap hellholes.

And we are beginning to see the social manipulation taking place in the Media. And while we can be manipulated, it can only last for so long. After a wile, they begin to smell the bullshit for what it is.

Bet on it, the protest in Lansing and other places are just the beginning. May first–May 15th. People will say “enough”. Demand that things change. Take the chance to go back to work and to be productive and live their lives.

May 15th at the outside.
Bet on it.

Can’t see the downside

For the US, at least, of Trump defunding the US contribution to the World Health Organization.

Sadly, like the United Nations, they have become so political, so trend-following, that they have become effectively useless, at least on a macro scale. LInstitutions run by liberals and politicians generally go down that path, and the current WHO is a perfect example. The organization has fallen so far from where is was 50 years ago.

I am sure there is a downside for the US, I just can’t see it.