Muda69

Why don't you move to Lincoln County NV if you love watered down tackle football so much?

Meh, 8-man football. Not the real game of American tackle football.

Well played CVS, well played.

I'm sure the governors of all fifty states had zero to do with those numbers. TDS.

If a simple observation equals an "answer" then yes. But most intelligent people would not equate the two, unlike you.

IU student files lawsuit, seeks reimbursement after class moved online due to coronavirus https://www.indystar.com/story/news/education/2020/05/08/iu-student-files-lawsuit-seeks-reimbursement-after-classes-moved-online-coronavirus/3094828001/ An interesting case.

Since I'm not a member of the Libertarian Party I can't answer for them.

Why yes, only the GOP side of the uni-party has ever staged an action for PR purposes.

Andrew Cuomo's Morally Grotesque Rationale for Maintaining COVID-19 Lockdowns https://reason.com/2020/05/07/andrew-cuomos-morally-grotesque-rationale-for-maintaining-covid-19-lockdowns/ It's becoming increasingly clear these politicians insistence on maintaining lock downs is more about controlling the populace and the power it gives those officials.

https://mises.org/wire/governments-are-real-price-gougers Talk about the pot calling the kettle black! Let’s consider the circumstances of Pusateri's price gouging, but let’s also consider the circumstances related to the price charged by the government for its so-called universal healthcare system. This seems appropriate in light of Ford’s concern about providing adequate healthcare resources during the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to Pusateri’s price gouging. Pusateri's charged $30 for Lysol disinfecting wipes, which is roughly ten times the prepanic price. In contrast, as I have written before, the cost of socialized healthcare in Canada in 2018—approximately $4,389 per capita—was twenty-three times the cost of private healthcare in the early twentieth century, measured by how long a person must work to pay for healthcare. And that’s a conservative estimate. At this point, someone might say “Ah, but the high price of health care is not caused by the government's monopoly. Rather, it reflects the rising cost of modern medical technology.” This argument is unconvincing. There are many complex products—e.g., computers—for which competition and technological innovation produce lower prices. The government's price gouging is more than twice as bad as Pusateri's price gouging. Unfortunately, government price gouging—through taxation—is hidden from view because healthcare is free to consumers at the point of service, whereas consumers must pay Pusateri's directly for their disinfecting wipes. Because the phrase “price gouging” has ominous implications, it should only be used to describe a situation where people are forced to pay a specified price, such as when the government forcibly taxes people for healthcare. This is not the case with Pusateri's, which cannot legally force people to buy disinfecting wipes. If no one buys disinfecting wipes from Pusateri's, they will eventually lower their price. On the other hand, if people voluntarily purchase the wipes, Pusateri's higher profits will prompt other retailers and manufacturers to increase the supply of wipes to meet the increased demand, which also leads to lower prices. This is the effect of competition in an unhampered market. It is equally important to remember that if you pay Pusateri's $30 you know for certain that you are getting what you pay for—the disinfecting wipes. Not so with the government's socialized healthcare, as revealed by the Fraser Institute's 2014 study: Justices of the Supreme Court of Canada have noted that patients in Canada die as a result of waiting lists for universally accessible health care. Our analysis estimates that between 25,456 and 63,090 (with a middle value of 44,273) Canadian women may have died as a result of increased wait times between 1993 and 2009. As we can see, Canadians have universal access to waiting lists, but not to actual healthcare. Thus, socialized healthcare is best described as a government scheme which forces you to purchase a product which you may not want or need at a price which the government dictates, raises, and confiscates annually. Then, the government often refuses to deliver the product, without refunding your purchase price, while forbidding you from purchasing a replacement product from competitors elsewhere within its jurisdiction. Therefore, Ford’s holier-than-thou complaint should not be directed toward Pusateri's,1 but toward the government itself: "It is absolutely disgusting that the government forbids competition and lines the pockets of highly paid bureaucrats by forcibly price gouging the public on healthcare that is often denied to them when they desperately need it." Anyone with a rudimentary understanding of economics can see that Ford's diatribe reveals a political double standard. Understanding the economics of so-called price gouging in the private sector requires us to turn a deaf ear to politicians. Instead of complaining about price gouging and empty store shelves, we should learn how market participants filled those shelves in the first place—before the onset of panic buying. This will enable us to consider so-called price gouging—and the government’s response to it—with the proper context. I promise you that young teenagers can easily understand these basic economic principles, which is probably why the subject matter is not properly taught in government schools. After all, we can't have all those graduates questioning government policies. It is therefore ironic that the government's school closures present a golden opportunity for parents to educate their own children, including in basic economic principles, which is not a difficult task, even for the younger ones. Yep, virtually anything government gets it's finger into becomes higher in price and lower in quality.

U.S. Field Hospitals Stand Down, Most Without Treating Any COVID-19 Patients https://www.npr.org/2020/05/07/851712311/u-s-field-hospitals-stand-down-most-without-treating-any-covid-19-patients

No, I'm not.

Keeping the purple paint factory in business I see.

Post-Lockdown: Insist on the Old Normal https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/post-lockdown-insist-on-the-old-normal/

“Community standards” now means no way are you to be allowed to decide for yourself. : https://spectator.org/the-youtube-memory-hole/

Has he collected your vote yet?

Still doesn't make the question any less valid: The U.S. Congress declared war on Vietnam?

It happened in Frankfort about 10 years ago.

COVID-19 wallops meat plant workers; shortages hit shelves, fast food https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/05/meat-plants-become-covid-19-hotspots-58-test-positive-at-one-plant/ The researchers also noted cultural and economic challenges to controlling disease spread in meat-processing facilities. For instance, one facility had workers who spoke 40 different primary languages. And “many workers live in crowded, multigenerational settings and sometimes share transportation to and from work, contributing to increased risk for transmission of COVID-19 outside the facility itself.” For these reasons, they concluded that these facilities are at high risk of outbreak, which “requires prompt action to decrease risks to workers, preserve facility function, and maintain the food supply.” Breaking the chain Once COVID-19 begins spreading in a meat facility, it could easily become a source of infection for the greater community—or vice versa. Of the top 10 metropolitan areas with the highest new confirmed cases per capita, five have meat processing plants with outbreaks, The New York Times noted Wednesday. Meanwhile, the United States has already begun experiencing shortages in certain meat products, including fresh beef, due to COVID-19-related closures and disruptions. Hundreds of Wendy’s fast-food restaurants have run out of hamburgers, and several grocery chains are limiting purchases of certain meat items, the Times reported Tuesday. The chairman of Tyson Foods took out full-page advertisements in the Times and The Washington Post last week warning that “the supply chain is breaking.” To better protect meat-plant workers, the researchers behind the MMRW report made several recommendations, such as slowing down the pace of production, installing physical barriers between work stations, screening employees for symptoms, requiring masks, offering paid sick leave, and stepping up sanitation and hygiene stations. However, workers have reported that meat companies have ignored health recommendations since the pandemic began, including failing to offer masks and other protective gear and encouraging people to work while sick. According to an independent tally of COVID-19 cases in meat-plant workers by Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting, there have been at least 10,800 cases from 170 plants in 29 states, including 45 deaths as of May 6.

How Big Will These Federal Programs Get? No One Knows. https://mises.org/power-market/how-big-will-these-federal-programs-get-no-one-knows The Fed’s most recent balance sheet update shows that only $19 billion from the PPP Liquidity Facility has been utilized thus far; therefore, we will continue to monitor this amount. Unfortunately, it could reach $600 billion in the months ahead. Both programs are unique because the public will be able to directly participate compared to other programs, in which most cannot, such as various Fed asset purchases, lending, and bond programs. However, a third program might include Main Street as well. This too has been expanded as of last week: the $500 billion Municipal Lending Facility (MLF). The population requirements were lowered to accept cities with 250,000 residents (formerly 1 million) and counties with 500,000 residents (formerly 2 million). This may spawn more grant programs and other “investments” that could sweep the country and trickle down to members of the public. Between the maximum capacity of these three programs, the Fed may contribute a $1.7 trillion increase to the money supply. How big the balance sheet will be by the time life returns to normal is anyone’s guess. Also keep in mind that the effect of the banks later pyramiding this money is rarely ever discussed. Nevertheless, all this debt raises another interesting question: How will we pay this money back? The Wall Street Journal recently posed a similar question to St. Louis Fed president James Bullard. When asked about “the inevitable day of reckoning,” he replied: We’re borrowing and we’re gonna have to pay that back in the future, so our future tax burden is that much higher. But can we handle it as a nation? I think we can. Should we take the advice of one of the most respected central bankers in the country? After all, we’ve been told that it was the Fed that brought us out of the last financial crisis. Surely, they can do the same thing again, only this time on a much larger scale…

The U.S. declared war on Vietnam?

Yeah, and I'm sure those are real names being used 100% of the time. How naive.

Clinton Central Bulldogs. Accept no substitute. https://www.amazon.com/Clinton-Central-Bulldogs-2013-Football/dp/B01M5GCNA7

Not a member of any posse, gonzo. Just an online acquaintance that I have known for many years. And disagreements can be healthy. Except in your case, where if you would ever disagree with BarryO you would be disagreeing with yourself...........