Whether it means anything or not it would appear that China is open for business again.

 

They are not letting anybody in though and Taiwan did well!

G'night everybody!

Thinskin

 

Good old stumbler. I hope he never leaves.

 

Up to now Trump has had an unusual run of good luck. It has also been undeserved, considering Trump's egregious intellectual, psychological, and moral deficiencies. I have a feeling Trump's luck has run out and that the American people will see what the inhabitants of civilized countries have long seen about Trump: he is vulgar, ignorant, and unqualified for his position. I want Trump to fall hard, taking the Republican Party down with him.

 

You should be afraid of your own ignorance...

I do believe it's 'reap what you sow'....

I really don't know how many people travel to the Netherlands, however the US is the busiest country in the world when it comes to international travel.

The US is also the third most populated country in the world.


As of March 12, 2020, there have been 1639 confirmed cases and 40 deaths due to coronavirus COVID-19 in the United States.

Not bad for a country of 350 million people.

So you can take your anti-American hatred and stick it up your hypocrite ass....

 

We are comparing apples to oranges here. Unless we standardize how and how many people are tested we cannot do an accurate comparison of cases from country to country. I was speaking to an Italian Nederlander here who told me that he feels the rate of infection is so much higher in Italy because they are testing so many more people there than here. I don’t know.

But I do know that simply identifying people with the virus does precious little to combat it.

So what do you do with that info? Do you quarantine these people against their will and if you do will that not discourage people from being tested.

Do you force them to be tested? Is that ok?

I’m much more concerned about what this is doing to investments. This is likely to throw the entire world economy into a major recession or worse.

Many may get sick and perhaps a small percentage of them will die but if the economic engine of the world is deeply scarred then one can truly expect social upheaval snd regional wars that can draw in the bigger players.

And the death rate from these and and the inevitable diseases that accompany wars will be many times in magnitude greater than the deaths caused by this virus.

 

By the way, the Spanish flu killed millions but I’ve not seen a single historical artifact that blamed President Wilson for the spread of the disease nor have I seen a single historical artifact suggesting that the markets at that time were so deeply affected in an atmosphere so much worse than today’s.

 

Anytime....but I am watching Deadwood with girl right now!

ts

 

I doubt there are any members of Congress that terrifies bankers and Trump administration officials more than Rep Katie Porter. And this was just huge. And she warned him ahead of time this was coming more than once.

‘I did the math’: Katie Porter gets Trump CDC head to commit to making coronavirus testing free

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/03/i-...to-commit-to-making-coronavirus-testing-free/

 

PornHub is offering free subscriptions to everyone quarantined in Italy during the coronavirus outbreak
insider@insider.com (Julia Naftulin)
INSIDERMarch 12, 2020, 1:44 PM CDT


"Forza Italia, We love you! PornHub has decided to donate its percentage revenue from ModelHub platform from March to help Italy during the outbreak," the PornHub press release read.

Crystal Cox/Business Insider

• PornHub is now offering people in mandated quarantine in Italy free premium subscriptions until April 3 as a way to help them cope with being cooped up inside indefinitely.
  
  
• The platform is also donating profits from its ModelHub platform to Italy's coronavirus containment efforts.
  
  
• Staying inside for long periods of time can lead to feelings of irritability and sadness, but virtually connecting with humans can help.
  
  
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PornHub is now offering people in mandated quarantine in Italy free subscriptions to its site as a way to help them cope with being cooped up inside indefinitely.

The free subscriptions will be available until April 3, providing those who sign up with access to the site's premium content, the Daily Mail reported. PornHub also said that they'll be donating money from its ModelHub platform, where erotic creators can sell their content, to Italy's coronavirus containment efforts.

"Forza Italia, We love you! PornHub has decided to donate its percentage revenue from ModelHub platform from March to help Italy during the outbreak," the PornHub press release read.

As of Thursday, March 12, Italy's death toll from the coronavirus outbreak was 631, and there have been at least 10,000 reported cases of COVID-19. This makes Italy the second-most affected country after China, and spurred government officials to enact a country-wide lockdown of its 60 million citizens to prevent further coronavirus spread.

If people in Italy break the mandated quarantine, they could be fined or arrested, Business Insider previously reported.

Connecting virtually could help mitigate the negative effects of quarantine
But staying in inside for so long can lead to stir craziness, or feeling irritable, sad, or frustrated, from having limited human and outside contact.

"If we think about loneliness as this adaptive response kind of like hunger and thirst, it's this unpleasant state that motivates us to seek out social connections just like hunger motivates us to seek out food," lead study author Julianne Holt-Lunstad, a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Brigham Young University, previously told Insider.

Holt-Lunstad said that connecting virtually with others could help mitigate some of these negative effects because video chats "maintain those connections without potentially putting ourselves at risk of being exposed to the virus."

It's possible, then, that watching porn could help generate virtual human contact, in addition to spending time with those you're quarantined with, to make the experience less anxiety- and depression-invoking.





I wonder when they will offer this to the rest of the forced quarantine nations?

 

The Wuhan Coronavirus, Democrats, and the Media – The Left Needs to be Inoculated from Bias with the Facts
Posted at 6:29 pm on March 12, 2020 by Brad Slager



(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

The complaints about Trump’s response are uniform but the criticisms are completely infantile.


House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy recently sent out a notice that instructed people where they could go for updated information on the outbreak that has dominated the news. ‘’Everything you need to know about the Chinese coronavirus can be found on one, regularly updated website.’’ It was both a vital contact point to what the government is doing, as well as a sound rebuttal to the constant bleating we are served about how the administration is doing little in response.

Recall the narrative that persisted for some time that Donald Trump fumbled because he called the virus a ‘’hoax’’? This was a detail widely repeated among media types, to the point that it became accepted as a fundamental fact of this outbreak story. The curious detail – these ‘’journalists’’ never provided the quotation from the president saying this. That is because he never said those words, but recall the enthusiasm our truth merchants had in repeating this canard.

It has been the patter in the press and with the pols. Nancy Pelosi, in knee-jerk fashion, responded to the minority leader critically. Was there a factual error or some other flaw in the information delivered? Not at all. She instead resorted to a petulant, childish retort as we have seen in recent days that mentioning the point of geographic origin of the virus was somehow racist.


Nancy Pelosi

✔@SpeakerPelosi

Bigoted statements which spread misinformation and blame Asians and the Asian American community for #coronavirus make us all less safe. @GOPLeader must delete this tweet and apologize immediately.






The nation is under a widening cloak of panic in reaction to a building pandemic but instead of aiding the cause and looking to clarify and aid the populace Pelosi is more interested in scoring political points and burnishing her own party’s optics. In much the same way Chuck Schumer took to the Senate floor and delivered a vitriolic rebuke of the president, accusing him and the administration of sloth and stasis, in defiance to the actual activities we have witnessed from the White House.

This has been the regular activity coming from the left; the Democrats have led the anti-Trump cheers for weeks now, and the members of the media have been shaking their pom-poms in time with the hysterics. For Pelosi to criticize our leadership by echoing the desired request not to blame China as made by the Chi-Com government is all the reason to ignore this woman. She is not the least bit interested in providing leadership in this crisis, only desiring to score political points.

There is no better example of Trump being placed in the ”Damned if he does-or-does-not’’ position than on the issue of containment of the virus in regards to foreign travel. In the New York Times Ross douthat speculated how Trump was guilty of an ”underreaction’’ to the outbreak, one that could undermine his entire leadership.

“Trump is in danger of losing his presidency because when the great test came, in the form of a virus carried by global trade routes from Communist China, he didn’t take the danger seriously enough.”

Soon after Trump banned travel from China, and just today he announced stopping all travel from European countries, save for Great Britain. The reaction– Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders declare this once called-for action makes Trump a xenophobe. But were this only blatant contradiction from these leftist elitists on the matter.

One other common complaint from the medical experts in the press has been that the Trump administration was not relying on medical experts to address the scourge. Of course, to say this they needed to ignore the surgeon general appearing on nearly every news program on Sunday to outline the plans of addressing the scourge — and they did indeed ignore him.

But with that complaint being made there has been no shortage of reporters turning to non-medical ‘’experts’’ to get their impressions and opinions of the virus. Take this exchange delivered by Manu Raju–


Manu Raju

✔@mkraju

Asked Pelosi if she thinks Trump should be tested after his interactions with Doug Collins and Matt Gaetz.
Pelosi: “Tested for what?”
me: coronavirus
Pelosi: “Oh, I thought he should be tested for a long time now.”
And she walked off




Trump needs to only deal with medical professionals, but CNN can ask an untrained politician to diagnose a third-party with no examination, and it is treated as if it is news. This is almost the nadir of sophomoric behavior.

Not wanting to be left out in the wilderness to shout alone Matt Yglesias also weighed in with his attempt to undermine President Trump’s efforts and only extend the anxiety in the public. Is Matt looking to educate and inform? Oh hell no, we need to make the leadership in the country look incompetent, possibly leading to a disaster of unimagined proportions.


Matthew Yglesias

✔@mattyglesias

Trump’s one big crisis so far was Hurricane Maria and it was a disaster. And now what came for Puerto Rico is coming for all of us. https://www.vox.com/2020/3/12/21176750/trump-coronavirus-response-disaster?utm_campaign=mattyglesias&utm_content=chorus&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter …

Thanks, Matty. I’ll say it is a good thing you suffer from male-pattern baldness, as this will reduce your impulse to run through the streets after setting your hair on fire. Given Matt works at Vox, and thus loves explainers, I will allow a good acquaintance and a PR native with family down-island explain to him what actually transpired:


The FOO@PolitiBunny
· 14h

Replying to @mattyglesias
You realize Puerto Rican officials deliberately withheld aid to make him look bad, right? https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/briannasacks/puerto-rico-warehouse-disaster-supplies-discovered …

C'mon. This is a cheap shot even for you.


People In Puerto Rico Are Demanding Answers After A Warehouse Full Of Unused Emergency Supplies Was...
The governor has fired the island's top emergency management official and said some of the aid has been there since hurricanes struck the region in 2017.

buzzfeednews.com

Schadenfreudelish@aggierican

He should ask the governo-- oh wait, he resigned due to scandal. Maybe he can ask the CFO-- nope, he resigned due to pilfering funds the US allocated for hurricane relief. Oh, he can ask the adj-- never mind, they are in jail for withholding aid send by the Trump Admin.

Huh...




But those are facts, and they interfere with delivering a scathing message of Trump beiing incompetent.

This is what needs to be addressed when analyzing any of this type of media coverage — who are these players seeking to help with their messaging? Are you getting the sense that they are looking to serve the public good, delivering helpful facts to assist you in making informed choices in your personal life to prepare and measure the actual impact of this virus? Or is it a craven attempt to tear down the president and the administration, all in the goal of rendering Trump in preparation for the upcoming election?

That is, are they doing so in service to political power? In almost every example we see the latter is certainly in play. Way to serve the country and the public, you merchants of deception.

 

The first Chinese case can be traced back to November 17, 2019...........I am sure Xi will be reprimanding those that released these data!

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...november-china-government-records-show-report

Thinskin

 

A re-interpretation of mortality rates published in the Lancet yesterday using an incubation period of 14 days to re-asses the data has a mortality rate of 5.6% in China and 15.2% outside China so the Chinese are obviously doing something right that the rest of us are not!

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(20)30195-X/fulltext

A team of 20+ medics from China has arrived in Italy to help the Italians tackle their epidemic.

Thinskin

 

It is being reported by Reuters that covid-19 briefings and meetings have been classified secret by the White House.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...ronavirus-deliberations-sources-idUSKBN20Y2LM

This report evoked an immediate denial by the White House which in my experience means there is some truth in it.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...recy-of-coronavirus-discussions-idUSKBN2100G3

Thinskin

 

Trump and the White House are lying and the way we know is by all the disease experts that were prohibited from attending because they didn't have security clearances. They had vital information they had prepared and were then told they could not attend. They are the ones talking to the press. And how ironic is that. Neither Ivanka nor Jared Kushner could get security clearances but Trump overruled the FBI and made them issue them. Trump has also done that for multiple people in his administration. But keeps disease experts with vital information out.

Trump also doesn't want anyone around that will expose his lies. And speaking of lies here's another lie of conservatism. They pretend they are the party of personal responsibility but nothing is ever Trump's fault.

Trump Blames CDC and Obama for His Mistakes Over COVID-19

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-blames-cdc-and-obama-for-his-mistakes-over-covid-19?ref=home

 

Peter Dutton, Australian Official Who Recently Met Ivanka Trump and Bill Barr, Has COVID-19

https://www.thedailybeast.com/peter...-ivanka-trump-bill-barr-has-covid-19?ref=home

 

So lots of testing.........the bottleneck in testing is not taking the samples......it is RNA isolation which is a skill that universities and biotech companies have in excess......I hope they are mobilized.

Thinskin

 

The biggest World Wide Hoax since the Y2K bug. More hype than the Dixie Chicks crappy remake of Stevie Nicks "Landslide" , and Trumps Russian collusion hoax!