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Muda69

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  1. The ‘Orange Man Bad’ Disease: https://spectator.org/the-orange-man-bad-disease/ How true.
  2. Trump calls for $2T infrastructure bill as 'Phase 4' of coronavirus response: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-calls-for-2t-infrastructure-bill-as-phase-4-of-coronavirus-response *sigh* Nothing more to say anymore really. All politicians now believe the U.S. Dollar to just be play money. Our once great country is doomed, and our children and grandchildren are going to pay the price.
  3. By all means please list these individuals then. No, do you? Where is your handwritten list for all of us to see? Sorry that in your eyes I'm not a perfect libertarian like you must be a perfect little liberal/socialist.
  4. Our Liberties Have Value Too: https://www.cato.org/blog/our-liberties-have-value-too Rack this opinion piece. Spot on.
  5. The state of Rhode Island is now truly an island surrounded by the evil coranavirus: https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/albany/story/2020/03/29/rhode-island-ends-restrictions-on-new-yorkers-1269535 Rhode Island Door Knocks in Search of Fleeing New Yorkers: https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/rhode-island-door-knocks-in-search-of-fleeing-new-yorkers/2099052/ Our great country is falling apart, gripped by fear of a virus that hasn't infected, hospitalized, or killed as many people as common influenza. Thanks to our government and the scaremongering MSM.
  6. Police arrest Florida pastor for holding church services despite stay-at-home order: https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/30/us/florida-pastor-arrested-river-church/index.html The U.S. Constitution: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances." The Florida State Constitution: "SECTION 5. Right to assemble.—The people shall have the right peaceably to assemble, to instruct their representatives, and to petition for redress of grievances."
  7. Agreed. And it's an inferior product compared to traditional 11-man tackle football. The same with 9-man and 6-man (?!?!) versions. Play the game the way it was intended to be played at a competitive level or don't play it at all. All these watered down versions scream of desperation and the "everybody gets a trophy" mentality that so many here on the GID purport to abhor.
  8. Who said I was sad, Gipster? Yes, you should know all about reaping what you sow..............
  9. If you say so. Unlike you I don't have a "posse" on this forum. So I guess we all need to start individuals forum threads where each and every one of us specifically lists each and everything we personally condemn. Therefore there will be no question, right? Of course since I am an adherent of the Zero Aggression Policy, and sexual assault by it's very nature is an aggressive act against another individual, I'm already covered.
  10. lol, what a piss poor attempt at a strawman, gonzo. You fail. Again. I abhor sexual assault, no matter who does it. Definitely a possibility, as I have been saying for months now.
  11. Coronavirus: The California Herd: https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/03/coronavirus-pandemic-california-herd-immunity/ In a recent Oxford study, a heterodox hypothesis was offered questioning the widely circulated study of Neil Ferguson, an epidemiologist with Imperial College London. He and his team had offered a worst-case projection of as many as 2.2 million American and 510,000 British deaths. Ferguson has now emphasized the low-end estimates of death rates in some of his modeling, for example, suggesting that maybe only 20,000 in Britain may die from the virus, given how Britain has taken actions to curb and treat it. In any case, other models from the Oxford authors offer far less pessimistic hypothetical scenarios. In one, they suggest that viral infections in the U.K. might have begun almost 40 days before March 5, which was the first confirmed death there. If that is true, they argue, then to square the current figures of transmission, perhaps 68 percent of the British population would have had to be already infected by at least March 19 — reflecting a herd immunity that will radically curtail future transmission. Of course, without widespread antibody testing alongside testing for current infections, no one knows the number of past and present infections. Regardless, the Chinese notion that the world was not seriously infected until mid February increasingly seems mathematically unlikely. In the case of California, again, unfortunately, the state still should have had many things going against it, at least in terms of susceptibility to any pandemic infection that curbs its huge tourist and commercial travel with China. The state has the nation’s highest poverty rate (affecting over 20 percent of the population, or some 8 million people); the greatest number of homeless people, at somewhere over 150,000; and the most residents in the nation on some form of public assistance, one-third of the nation’s total. Over a quarter of the state’s population was not born in the U.S. Until recent bans, many frequently went to and from their countries of origin. It has the largest number of non-English speakers in the U.S., suggesting that public dissemination of key information might become far more problematic. The state is not especially healthy and rarely rates among the top ten states in terms of per capita health, by whichever metrics one uses. A decade ago, studies suggested that one in three admissions of those over 35 to California hospitals were suffering from either diabetes or pre-diabetes — a known risk factor for coronavirus patients. California ranks near the bottom when we count the number of available hospital beds per 1,000 population, at about 1.8. Likewise, its number of active doctors per 100,000 is similarly unimpressive, about midway among state rankings, at 276 per 100,000 — versus Massachusetts’s high of 450 and Mississippi’s low of 191. In most surveys of nurses per 100,000 population, California ranks near last (664). How, then, has California in the third month of known COVID-19 infections in the U.S. lost between 140 and 150 lives to it? Again, a number of experts have offered hypotheses. Is it a question of the statistical anomaly — as some have suggested is the case for Germany, which similarly posts few total deaths from the virus — given differences in how countries and perhaps even states record the chief causation of death (i.e., are some places listing COVID-19 as the cause of death, even when the decedent suffered from underlying chronic conditions)? Is California experiencing a brief lull, in the fashion of Japan, which likewise has suffered few deaths so far but may be posed to suffer far more? Is there a lag in ascertaining and determining deaths in a state that’s geographically huge and linguistically diverse, a lapse that will shortly cease, correcting such misimpressions with a radical increase in corona-associated deaths — as is now forecast for Japan and to a lesser extent Germany? Did California’s Draconian shelter-in-place policies that antedated many of those in other states simply arrest (so far) what should have been by now a lethal epidemic? Did California’s proverbial warmer weather slow down the virus? Did its suburban ranch-home lifestyle and the large open spaces in the Central Valley, Sierra Nevada, desert and northern counties make transmissions harder than it has been in, say, the high-density living of New York City? Maybe and maybe not. While testing tardiness might explain outliers in terms of California’s relatively small number of proven cases and lethality rates, it would not greatly affect accurate statistics of deaths attributed to the virus. If anything, as the number of known cases grows, the lower the lethality rate will likely appear. While California adopted shelter-in-place policies on March 19, other states did the same about the same time. And visiting a California Costco on any Saturday morning is a reminder of current mob frenzies. After a near-record dry and warm January and February, the state has been unseasonably cold and wet for most of March during the epidemic’s spike. True, California encompasses an enormous area, but it also is home to the country’s largest population and thus still ranks about eleventh in population density among the states. Some districts in San Francisco and Los Angeles are as densely populated as East Coast cities. One less-mentioned hypothesis is that California, as a front-line state, may have rather rapidly developed a greater level of herd immunity than other states, given that hints, anecdotes, and some official indications from both China and Italy that, again, the virus may well have been spreading abroad far earlier than the first recorded case in the U.S. —and likely from the coasts inward. So given the state’s unprecedented direct air access to China, and given its large expatriate and tourist Chinese communities, especially in its huge denser metropolitan corridors in Los Angeles and the Bay Area, it could be that what thousands of Californians experienced as an unusually “early” and “bad” flu season might have also reflected an early coronavirus epidemic, suggesting that many more Californians per capita than in other states may have acquired immunity to the virus. Here in Fresno County (1.1 million people), we are warned daily that we are the next hot spot. But as of late March, we’ve had no recorded deaths and only 41 known cases. The figure will no doubt multiply rapidly and geometrically, but it still seems incomprehensible that not a single death was attributed to the virus in its first 60 days of visitation. I live near the Kings County line in rural Fresno County (which is not so rural anymore, given urban sprawl from greater Fresno). There have been two recorded cases and no deaths among the county’s more than 150,000 residents. We won’t know the answers until antibody testing becomes widespread enough to determine who has already been infected, and who carried the virus without symptoms, and who wrongly attributed symptoms to the flu or a bad cold. Or epidemiologists will have to go over average daily pre-coronavirus death rates in California to determine whether, in comparison with past years, the state had any per capita spikes in deaths in October, November, December, and January, or an increase in hospitalizations attributed to the flu. In the meantime, for a few days at least, we are left with the California paradox. As with the apparent outliers of Germany, South Korea, and Japan, it reminds us that there are endless known unknowns about the origins, lethality, infectiousness, and patterns of travel of the coronavirus — and that today’s latest frightening statistical model is often superseded tomorrow by more realistic appraisals and theories, and then again rendered naïve by even more frightening new backlash models. Until now, without either widespread antibody or current-infection testing, the number of people who die from the virus in comparison to a given population base is about all we can rely on to determine the lethality of the disease. And in that regard, at least for a few days or weeks longer, California remains a mystery. It seem fairly clear that this strain of the Coronavirus has been in the USA for many months, mostly in California. And this 'herd immunity' has taken hold after an initial uptick of this strange "B-type influenza" in November of 2019. And I bet dollars to doughnuts this "B-type influenza" is COVID-19.
  12. I didn't blindly post, I read the entire article before posting. But's it's clear you didn't read it, judging from the links you posted: FTA: You fail. Again.
  13. Overnight, his business vanished: Farmers reliant on restaurants suffer during pandemic: https://www.indystar.com/story/news/environment/2020/03/31/farmers-reliant-restaurants-suffer-covid-19-pandemic/2924142001/ More proof these government edicts are quickly destroying the American economy. It needs to stop, government should not have this level of control of the market.
  14. ? Thanks for proving my point with those links. Where is ABC's righteous indignation about Mr. Biden's conduct regarding Ms. Reade? Where is NY Magazine's?
  15. COVID-19 Immigration Restrictions Make Labor and Food Shortages a Real Possibility: https://reason.com/2020/03/28/covid-19-immigration-restrictions-make-labor-and-food-shortages-a-real-possibility/
  16. Frankly you are a fool if you don't believe education is a business, and should be able to respond to market forces like virtually every other business. And the GID is primarily entertainment, would't you agree?
  17. Why Are the Mainstream Media Ignoring Tara Reade's Sexual Assault Accusation Against Joe Biden?: https://reason.com/2020/03/30/joe-biden-tara-reade-sexual-assault-media/ It would certainly appear to be the new rule, and only apply to the liberal side of the uni-party coin.
  18. This Business Is Suing the Government Over a Coronavirus Closure Order: https://reason.com/2020/03/30/this-business-is-suing-the-government-over-a-coronavirus-closure-order/ One can see thousands of these lawsuits, clogging up the courts, if the America doesn't "get back to work" soon. The government is destroying our economy, and our nation.
  19. And you would be wrong. But go ahead, keep believing that if it makes you feel better about yourself. However I will celebrate when government gets out of the education business entirely.
  20. Government shuts down the nation and destroys the economy. That leads to more massive borrowing, aka debt, to fund a record-setting "stimulus" bill that won't even come close to fixing the problem. Will just attempt to make us all more dependent on government, and it's a large scale experiment on UBI.
  21. https://reason.com/2020/03/30/tear-up-your-census-form-for-a-better-america/ I threw about my 2020 census form and did it online instead. And when asked the intrusive, nonsense question of (and I paraphrase) "What is your country of origin" after indicating I was Caucasian I simply typed in "none of your business" for myself and every member of my household.
  22. Country star Joe Diffie dead from coronavirus complications at age 61: https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/joe-diffie-dead-61-coronavirus Truly an American Icon, he will be missed. His song "John Deere Green" is IMHO one of the best country songs of the last 30 years.
  23. No, it's not. Not when you are already trillions of dollars in debt to begin with. Back to Work: America Has No Choice if It Is to Avoid Total Disaster: https://mises.org/power-market/back-work-america-has-no-choice-if-it-avoid-total-disaster This "just shut everything down" mantra by government is the intellectually lazy decision here, not "more debt = bad".
  24. I'm not a member of the "baby boomer" generation but you are exactly right, this is just yet another wealth redistribution scheme by the federal government. The thing is they already have enough other wealth redistribution schemes going that they are massively in debt, so they have to borrow against the future of our children and grandchildren.
  25. The Kernan-Shepherd report also advocated for the dissolution of county townships, all 1000+ of them. Government is better the more local it is, although I often wonder exactly what most county townships actually do these days. The township I currently reside in mostly just throws taxpayer money away. And here is a PDF to said report: http://indianalocalgovreform.iu.edu/assets/docs/Report_12-10-07.pdf
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