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Posted 4 years ago on March 17, 2020, 7:40 a.m. EST by elf3 (4203)
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Instead of freeze rents and mortgages and quarantine the public as our government falsely ensures youth that young people aren't dying when other countries are telling us - yes young people are in fact dying from the disease (healthy ones) - banks and investors are plotting to buy our homes underneath us while we are forced out of work by the dying economy or perhaps dying ourselves. Our system is sick.

Young people - your government is lying to you to keep you working so the rich have time to pull their stocks and escape onto their rafts. Remember Titanic? Young healthy people can get sick and die from this. They already are. You are just serving them their dinner and playing the music for them as they head to safety before you drown on the fluid in your lungs.

truth = # they are getting away and signing your death warrants as you serve them

And to American journalists - since when did it become your job to prevent a panic? (or coddle the stock market?) Your number one job and your only job and principle as journalists as far as I'm concerned is to provide the TRUTH. Have you lost sight of this and your journalistic integrity? The American system was born on journalism and truth being the main check and balance on our system of government. Perhaps government has always been corrupt. but the WRITERS - they used to be pure. Journalism is failing now bunch of sell outs.

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[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 1 year ago

"Another lesson of the pandemic is that when any of us is exposed, all of us are. Universal, effective and affordable healthcare makes us all stronger and safer. The simplest way to achieve that is Medicare for All." - from:

ad iudicium?!

[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 2 years ago

"Understanding Anti-Vaxxer Suspicion of Government Mandates & Corporations"! - by Prof. R. D. Wolff:

"Professor Wolff breaks down why many in the United States distrust government mandates & - the long history of private, medical capitalism influencing our public health." A very important PoV in a <6m video.

e tenebris - lux?

[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 2 years ago

"'America’s Frontline Doctors', a right-wing group founded last year to promote pro-Trump doctors during the Corona Virus pandemic - is working in tandem with a small network of health care companies to sow distrust in the Covid-19 vaccine, dupe tens of thousands of people into seeking ineffective treatments for the disease & then, sell consultations & millions of dollars’ worth of those medications. The data indicate patients spent at least $15 million, & potentially much more - on consultations & medications combined."

fiat lux et fiat justitia ...

[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 2 years ago

"Electronic Monitoring Has Widened Its Net Amid COVID" by J.Kilgore & E.Sanders:

quo custodiet ipsos custodes?

[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 2 years ago

Consider ... "Instead of doubling down on its “sanctions” - the United States must cease this deadly and illegal economic war on the world. Global resistance to sanctions is growing and as the multipolar world arises ... the USA could find itself isolated and prosecuted for its actions. For the well-being of the world, people in the United States have a responsibility to stop this escalation & demand an end to sanctions." from:

fiat lux ...

[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 1 year ago

"Cuba, despite its economic limitations, has historically punched above its weight in public health policy.

"The Caribbean nation has a COVID-19 vaccination rate of more than 90 percent, despite limitations on importing precursors and equipment to develop its own vaccination program.

As "The lawmakers said the Cuban vaccines, produced at reduced cost with limited infrastructure,could assist the Biden administration’s goal to distribute cheap and effective vaccines worldwide.

Further “US sanctions on Cuba directly impede these goals - not only by harming the country’s ability to vaccinate its own population but also -- by placing obstacles in the way of Cuba’s ability to produce and distribute its vaccine to other countries that continue to face shortages,” wrote the Democrats.

However "Still, the lawmakers recognized that Cuba’s vaccine success has yet to be fully verified by the international medical community, despite evidence of its success." - from:

fiat lux et fiat justitia!

[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 3 years ago

''Origin of COVID-19: Ecological, Historical and Geopolitical Perspective''

A long read, which ends ... ''Whether the virus emerged due to accidental release from ostensibly well-meaning but dangerous researches on highly pathogenic organisms or due to a secret biowarfare act is not clear. From the available information so far, it is more likely that there was probably an accidental release of the virus from a laboratory engaged in “biodefense” (biowarfare) research. It is also not clear where exactly this laboratory might be.

''The experience with “emerging” infectious diseases like SARS, MERS, Ebola and others should have given humanity sufficient lessons to adequately prevent and manage COVID-19. Perhaps official explanations of the origin of these emerging infectious diseases and existing medical guidelines and modalities on how to manage them are fundamentally flawed. If the existing paradigm is mistaken, then the current practices in the management of the pandemic are also flawed and perhaps more importantly, preventive measures to forestall future pandemics will also be flawed. All theories, including the so-called “conspiracy theories,” that might offer rational explanations must be examined and investigated seriously without pre-judgement. The precautionary principle should be the norm in the assessment of risks. A truly independent international investigative group should be organized to do this.! ALSO FYI ...

respice, adspice; prospice ...

[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 3 years ago

''America First, COVID-19 Pandemic and Global Humanity'', by Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD.

which ends - ''We desperately need to re-organize our thoughts and genius for unity and coordination to pool the humanitarian resources to fill the political gaps of egoism and anarchy between inept patriotism and its global outreach to restructure our policies and practices, to extend humanitarian help to all those who needed most, not the weapons of mass destruction, not the claims of individual greatness, but new revitalized sense of One Humanity ready to protect the present and future of human civilizations.''

dum spiro, spero ...

[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 3 years ago

''It's no accident Britain and America are the world's biggest coronavirus losers'' - by Nesrine Malik:

''Even before the pandemic hit, both nations had been stripped of the people and systems required to respond effectively.'' & ''As the bodies pile up, the failure of the US and the UK will be somehow spun into victory. The triumphalism will intensify; that is certain. So, the only question now is how many will continue to believe it?''

veritas vos liberabit!

[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 3 years ago

"CoronaVirus may Kill ‘No More Than 3.4% of Our Population’ says Upbeat GOP Senator"! - by: Jonathan Chait:

OMG!

[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 3 years ago

"The Anti-Vax Movement’s Radical Shift From Crunchy Granola Purists to - Far-Right Crusaders" by Keira Butler:

as "Since the start of the pandemic, suspicion of the government has converged with a broad refusal to accept scientific evidence - one that has been enabled by President Trump &, it’s given the groups new points of reference: They have railed against Shelter-In-Place orders & masks. And in these radicalized spaces, misinformation thrives. Members share articles about how to cure the virus with vitamin C, and they pass around conspiracy videos like “Plandemic,” which argues that Covid virus is a moneymaking scheme perpetrated by an exclusive group of elites. Some individuals, speculate there is no virus at all.

"Members of Facebook anti-vax groups now regularly post pro-Trump messages and videos.The group "Michigan for Vaccine Choice" shared a Trump campaign video that reassures voters that the president wouldn’t force Americans to get a coronavirus vaccine once it’s developed.The group "Indiana Coalition for Vaccine Choice" invited users to a Memorial Day “Freedom Rally” cosponsored by the Conservative Alliance and the local chapter of the tea party. And many groups are littered with references to "QAnon" the conspiracy theory group, whose adherents believe, among other things, that a secretive elite group wants to unseat Trump."

Two linked articles that warrant the time it'll take to read them but I am recommending both of them now.

e tenebris, lux ...

[-] 1 points by beautifulworld (23767) 3 years ago

The Anti-Vax movement and QAnon conspiracy nonsense re. Covid is just capitalism at work again.

People think they're onto something cool, something anti-establishment, something healthy and better for them, but really, once again, they're simply being exploited by profiteers who have figured out how to pander to their fear!

From the Ali Bheland article:

"Ghafari says some skepticism of the medical community is a natural reaction to a history of groups being spurned and ignored, pointing to communities of color who have been mistreated by the medical system. But she noted what’s happening in wellness influencer circles, which are often dominated by well-off white people, as something different.

“When I see this behavior happening, there’s a level of fear going on, particularly in the white community. They feel out of control, they don’t know who to trust, and it’s manifested in this manner,” she said. Ironically, their pronouncements create new problems by spreading harmful, untrustworthy misinformation to large groups of followers. “It’s distributing,” she said."

And the complete lack of respect for science, from the 1st article:

"The Trump administration has actively encouraged this kind of science denial: Doctors and scientists are intellectuals to be regarded with suspicion. By May 2019, Trump himself had publicly attacked science 100 times by Scientific American’s count. And the coronavirus has thrown a spark into that powder keg, as Americans watch scientists learn about the disease in real time, sometimes making big mistakes publicly. “Now it’s clear that science is messy,” Reich said. “If you’re being told you can’t go to a grocery store without a mask, and you’re reading conflicting reports, it becomes easy to question the validity of science.”

Why does Trump do this? Because it creates chaos and he can rule in chaos. He cannot rule in order. Because when things are ordered it becomes so obvious how fkng out of place he is.

Americans don't mind being stupid and ripped off as long as in their minds they are superior and right about everything, even if they're being taken. Ignorance is bliss.

Thanks for these excellent articles and for all the work you do.

[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 3 years ago

"Trump Hammers Cuba While Cuba Cures the Sick!"..by Medea Benjamin:

Had to link to that article after reading it. Thanx for your excellent excerpts and

points above & for your support and encouragement. Solidarity to U and yours.

pax, amor et lux ...

[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 3 years ago

"CoronaVirus was present in U.S.A. weeks earlier than the scientists and public health officials previously thought, raising questions about the pandemic origin." - from ...

e tenebris, lux?

[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 3 years ago

"'Pathetic': Congress Passes Covid Relief Bill ... With Billions in Gifts for the Wealthy & $600 Checks for the Working Class"! by Jake Johnson:

"You're getting a one-time $600 check to survive a pandemic, but hey, at least lobbyists can get their three-martini lunches delivered."

fiat justitia ...

[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 3 years ago

"U.S. COVID-19 relief package causes ‘$500 million for Israel’ to trend online" .. by Ben Samuels:

e tenebris, lux?

[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 2 years ago

NB: "PCR tests are NOT ‘a fraud’!

MULTUM in parvo!

[-] -1 points by grapes (5232) 3 years ago

Where's the World Hell Organization's investigational report into the origin of this novel virus, huh? Still nonexistent !

Redfuckgina used its "state sovereignty" to block investigational access forcing a wait until the entire world except for a few places such as Antarctica has been overrun by the CCP virus so that Redfuckgina's CCP's Xi Jinping's decision to disperse the CCP virus en masse worldwide using the global Chinese diaspora as its unwitting mules returning from celebrating Chinese New Year directing Redfuckgina's bioweapon becomes Poohwashed and tracing virus' origin becomes scientifically infeasible ( RNA degrades quickly in non-frigid temperatures--this is why distributing the messenger RNA ( mRNA ) vaccines can become a challenge for warmer areas of the world without excellent cryogenic refrigeration equipment. Belarus seems capable of making much refrigeration equipment so with the billions of dollars-worth-of-dissent-suppression-fund { due-to-Belarus'-election-having-been-STOLEN } Putin has given Belarus, Belarus has an excellent business opportunity in exporting refrigeration equipment it may produce to much of the world using the capital bestowed by Putin.)

Every country has some ability to handle a small number of cases of a novel disease, including the U.S. ( perhaps 20 cases ) but the number of 48 cases ( a few cases turned out not to be the novel virus when testing became available but confirmed cases from the Wuhan wet market remained near 40, quite a large number already to overrun most countries' novel disease containment ability ) is just too large a number from a single site to be masked by this containment ability. Besides, we all know that Lombard of northern Italy was hit very heavily early, likely due to in-flown [often in halcyon days the designer-brand-buying] Chinese "tourists" escaping from the impending Wuhan lockdown. Redfuckgina didn't halt international flights but banned ALL of its domestic flights in order to vector the [gucci, gucci, "vaffanculo, con aferesi iniziale"] bioterrorists.

Redfuckgina is the Red Dragon ( in the dirty haze being cleansed by the Chinese people's 2.8-billion lungs' filters,) Mother of False Religion "world peace, peaceful reunification, 2019: promise to maintain Hong Kong's long-term prosperity, 2020: where's Hong Kong, huh? on a Saturday Night Live hahaha show inside Redfuckgina?," propagating Globalist Fascism a.k.a."Socialism" with "Chinese characteristics." "Kings of the earth" committed adulteries with Redfuckgina.

Oh, the dozing-off Jiang Zemin hasn't been executed by Winnie the Pooh with an antiaircraft gun yet. Redfuckgina respected the elderly and tolerated their "personal freedom" to ignore Pooh's boring platitude address with ending slogans, more than the DPRK did its elderly. I sympathize with what he probably felt, as I'd once felt the same about British formalities in Hong Kong ( Meghan wasn't stupid about the pressure of being a British royalty; welcome back to "the land of the free, and the home of the brave." "They" don't really hate our freedom but "they" hate the "in-your-face" superiority in innovations our freedom had produced via the creative destruction in our system; how many of the FAANG companies are still adolescents requiring parental guidance, after a long hard initially and hot full-day hike from Mui Wo along Lantau Island's south shore, stopping for a drink of the life-sustaining substance flowing down the mountain stream from a soapy bathing 99-44/100%-pure "angel" ? "Does she play basketballs ?" )

As Taiwan has proven its worth in the face of this pandemic's onslaught from the nearby Mainland China, it's obvious that the Chinese in Taiwan inherited the glorious Chinese culture, not Mainland China, which had rendered itself rather worthless and crude by an imported violence-underpinned ideology ( represented by cameos of huge-luxuriant-bearded men in Red parades' banners.)

Taiwan has largely returned to normal with only a few hundred cases of CoViD-19 since the beginning of the pandemic. Hong Kong did rather well, too, as did Singapore. These are places where Chunghwa 中華 culture still holds some sway, unlike the greedy Mainland China where "money is god" for a godless imported foreign ideology. "Mao had to die for China to rise" was a truism uttered by the prophets in the darkest days of fake Communism in China. It came true, didn't it ? But the Christ-nailed-to-the-imaginaries-aXis Shittism is zombie brain-powered !

If postwar Japan could answer the consumers' call for making a pair of extremely sharp scissors worthy of cutting fancy and expensive materials by applying its fearsome centuries-pedigreed-with-slicing-clean-through-multiple( 5 was the highest grade number attained )-prisoners-into-halves-with-a-single-stroke military swords' technology, Belarus can "beat swords into plowshare" ( per U.S.S.Russia's old-time visionary "atheist" statue erected in bronze in U.N. headquarters' garden ) to answer the coming call for refrigeration equipment ( e.g. for making dry ice ) to distribute and store the mRNA vaccines.

It's much easier to destroy than to build something worthwhile. I admire a bidét, a boyhood baptismal portal connecting me to God, after my drinking a tall glass of freshly squeezed orange juice ordered in thanksgiving for me ( for being one of the two "testicles" taking the honored place of and representing our missing-from-wedding-banquet family head.)

Upon having the onset symptoms of potential CoViD-19 such as headache and soreness at the back-and-topside of the mouth near the throat, ensuring one has adequate amount of vitamin-D and drinking tea with tangerine rinds ( or other citrus fruits' : I often ate oranges' rinds with pith for nasal decongestion because it's most available to me and I love eating oranges ever since my earliest childhood days with Sunkist(R) oranges but kumquat kernels are extremely sour, definitely not what I initially mistook kumquat as being just "tiny oranges;" I also ate lemon rinds { "exhaust" from Dad's lemon tea } without any ill effect, same for kumquat rinds { sweet and fragrant !!! but too little and only seasonally available }; tangerines are a good compromise between its being reasonably available and very palatable--often largely sweet all over ! ) may well be worth a try to avoid the more severe symptoms. Black Friday shopping has definitely spread some type of infections around so medical things are going to turn really terrible soon in days and at most week(s) ahead like "The Lord of the Flies," by William Golding. "What are you going to do about it ?"

[-] 0 points by grapes (5232) 3 years ago

How is it racist? Which is the minority or marginalized people being discriminated against in my comment? Chinese is a majority if not the majority. They're not marginalized if they could infect the entire World with SARS_CoV-2 in such a short time interval.

Relative to the Chinese and Indians, Americans are a minority and marginalized by the great oceans, a bit like Manhattan's being an island flanked on its sides by the Hudson and East Rivers.

Talking about from where the virus had originated doesn't make much sense anymore due to the CCP's successful cover-up behind "state sovereignty." Why do we suddenly start hearing of China's vaccine now but not much earlier when China was far ahead of other countries and had the vaccine on hand, hogging it for domestic use only to wait for killing off the foreigners and their economies ? Competitive pressure--as the U.S. companies may well dominate this vaccine market soon with its mRNA vaccines. China's adenovirus-based vaccine may require more large-scale safety testing than an mRNA vaccine which tends to have little other extraneous ride-along genetic material, such as that from the vehicle of an adenovirus. Of course, mRNA vaccines have a cold-temperature distribution requirement that some nefarious malevolent party or parties, even nation-state(s), may be trying to blow up so that their adenovirus-based vaccines may be reserved a market in the developing countries.

Where did the ripple start after waiting for a long time when it has already been reflected from the edges of the pond a few times ? It's here. It's there. It could be everywhere. No one knows and no one cares anymore. Generally speaking though, it's best to reduce human-animal contacts to minimize cross-species jumping of zoonotic viruses. An AK-47's imprecise close-range blasts can still suffice to kill [mostly developing countries'] people and in fact much preferred by rebels' and revolutionaries' guerilla armies worldwide due to AK-47s' high tolerance of the deviations of their parts, being cheap, not requiring exquisite technology, and widely available with less arms-control restriction. Don't use AK-47s for long-distance assassinations if repeated precision and accuracy are necessary but killing unarmed civilians en masse at close range or assaulting in an ambush is an easy job for AK-47s. The U.S.S.R. was great at valuing quantity over quality and it worked well against Nazi Germany. Over the long run though, quality may eventually matter.

Quantity has its limitations. I could buy a thousand made-in-China faucet washers and install them one by one into my still leaky faucet and none of them would stop the leak ! It's like wearing pin-holed condoms to fuckings to jack up the bonUs of the MBA Dick by saving a little material (0.1 millimeter of rubber on the washers) from each over a large number of condoms. Sooner or later, one gets a bastard !

[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 3 years ago

Confucianism & a Mandarin Class that's been meritocratic - for many hundreds of years, are really the essential elements for understanding ancient AND modern China but it seems such things are beyond your wit and curiosity, as no doubt U prefer reactionary tRUMPianisms like - "China Flu; Kung Flu" etc. given the b-s language U do use! Prejudice is as prejudice does & does not just have to be directed at ethnic minorities, U dolt & China's history & culture are older than the CCP, who are today's Mandarins.

I do no more than glance through your rambling screeds .. which use derogatory, idiotic and prejudiced language, along with what seems to be allusions from a wannabe sex-pest. I don't like or read your BS gropes and even this reply - is more than U deserve.This forum-post and thread are about COVID but I leave these links about China - on the slim chance that U'll read and digest them, without brainfarting ..

respice, adspice, prospice et ... re. above and below, fk off!

[-] 0 points by grapes (5232) 3 years ago

Quality of the intention is superior to the quantity of the capabilities.

One who is pure of heart, sees, but can do nothing is superior to the one who has evil intention and is capable of doing many things ( as promised in the bilateral "dialogue" between the U.S. { or previously U.K. regarding Hong Kong } and Red China which "resolves" things through never-ending "dialogues" to defer taking substantive actions and often prescribes the same "resolution" method for international conflicts stalling or blocking the taking of any de-facto substantive actions. Yeah, "state sovereignty" can cover up "national security" threat ! I frankly agree that the female receptionist asking me the intimate question, "Did you have Aetna ?" threatens "national security"--{ I thought to myself, " Who's ???na? Hmm, the 'na sounds like a female Indo-European name because 奶 means "milk, breast, lady," so I absolutely didn't penetrate that volcanic Venus XXXna ! Maybe Ἀβαδδών did the gamut of my first kindergarten's vocabulary book but not me. He might have provoked a lava flow of backyard Aetnas. Beware of a 0.1mm-too-short rubber washer making a cock/tap/faucet leak again after repair. We have A.S.S. left upon North America by Africa when they separated from each other." } )

I learnt this from my Mom. It's why I wore a jade stone coin hung upon the blessed-by-my-spiritual-godfather silver chain around my neck as a child for years ( while doing yet another { besides roaming the many square miles of mountainous "backyard" including 495m/1624ft.-tall Lion Rock and 603m/1978ft.-tall 飛鵝山 } baby-boomer special { i.e. without any adult supervision and subject to being kidnapped but the survivors learnt to evaluate, judge, and decide from the school of hard knocks' lessons such as "Skeleton Pit," real men's and HE-MEN's scenic routes and "shortcuts"... } : rummaging and playing in the neighborhood garbage dumps to which my neighborhood-boy playmate had introduced me.) A "monkey king" must wear a restraint while playing above and near the Crystal Palace.

[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 3 years ago

Consider "COVID19 may not have emerged in Wuhan - says leading virus hunter" by Nicola Smith:

"Scientist who discovered origins of SARS, says scientists must cast their net wider in hunt for origins of the pandemic." + I have still no idea WTF any of your B-S actually means gripes! Maybe Stop Spewing?

temet nosce et veritas vos liberabit!


PS: No idea wtf, the b-s below is either tbh, as grapes', anti-China posts are as loony as ever. [4 Oct.21]

[-] 0 points by grapes (5232) 2 years ago

I have made a breakthrough discovery utilizing Redfuckgina's brilliant and glorious history-altering mind-warping innocent-smearing information-warfare Poohwashed technology: the SARS-CoViD-2 virus originated from the Cosmos.

Think about why we have studies after studies after studies after studies after studies after studies after studies after studies after studies after studies to arrive at the important conclusion about anthropogenic climate chaos, etc. Money talks and shit walks. Duh.

Gulf of Mexico hurricanes devastate -- as predicted. The U.S. West Coast is turning into a desert like what Australia's outback had done before after the arrival of Homo "sapiens sapiens," as "fire, fire, burning bright, in the forest of the night; what immortal hands or eyes, could frame thy fearful symmetry ?" -- as predicted. In Montana, Glacier National Park's glacier is melting and disappearing -- as predicted. Norfolk, Virginia and Miami, Flori-duh get seawater floodings -- as predicted. Oh, the solution to pollution is dilution.

Red China is still perfecting its millennia-old engineering terrace-farming technology on the steps of Manhattan's subway stations. Goodbye, Kahului. Goodbye, Bearclaw.

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[-] -1 points by grapes (5232) 3 years ago

I'm actually looking for a Chinese Lunanaut to bring those rock samples from the other side of the Moon to a tour in the U.S. "within two years." Hopefully, they can be analyzed by N.A.S.A.'s Lunaologists. It's great if Chinese "Doctor from Brown" ( the U.S. had a Doktor von Braun, a captive from Nazi Germany who was rather cheerful about surrendering himself and his rocket engineers and even broke an arm in a car accident rushing to meet his U.S. captors; he was gaining a far more substantive sponsor than Nazi Germany by coming to the land of his childhood idol, Professor Goddard, who had pioneered liquid-fuel rockets ) or equivalent can present a two-year plan for blasting a few taikonauts to the Far-Side of the Moon and have them collect videos and rock samples, come back to Earth, safely alive and well. The U.S. landings on the Moon some half a century ago never visited the Far Side.

Hmm, as I come to think of it, why taikonauts should go so far to the Moon. Robots can do a lot these days and they don't need to eat or drink simplifying much logistics. A human presence in outerspace should thus be justified on a different basis. I think that the survival of the human species is a sufficient reason. It may make sense to build a close to Earth space colony of an eventually completely self-reproducing and self-supporting nature to hedge against a global mishap making the Earth uninhabitable for a prolonged period of time. The Lagrange Point locations seem ideal so building L1 may make sense. Maybe taikonauts are a terrible choice for this space colony, considering how polluted that part of Earth has already become. Making L1 into yet another dump makes little sense. Morality comes with the people. It's in the culture.

Here's an advice for [¿Iran?] how to live with a Big Brother, as I've learnt by being the "license to roam" little brother. Going head to head against him made no sense at all { except for eating gourmet chicken butts, I certainly out-ate my weight class ! but the mere thought of my so-called substantive victory nauseated me for more than a decade and I suspect that I had even grown some premature white hairs due to it.} I always lost. Impressing him in other ways definitely worked. Zoologists say, "it's all about food and sex." My advice is, "for the motile males, it's really about sex and food, in that order." Girls and young women were important to an adolescent young man but he had a "he-man" problem. Having and taking care of a little brother made him much more enticing and sexy to the females. If you don't believe me, just see how Kim Jong-un's father Kim Jong-il had gained favor with Kim Il-sung to inherit his "hermit/haram kingdom." You won't catch me talking of the married Obama showing commitment to a porn star on a golf course. Why is that, huh ?

I was a male child back then so I was certainly [instinctively] preprogrammed for sex as any male was but the "sex" part was, to say the very least, me punching a bit "over my [sex-pre-literate] head," so food came to the fore: chewing gums and ice-cream cones ( amongst other "experience" goodies such as movies, beach and island outings, fishing trips, bicycle and motorcycle rides, visit to a U.S. aircraft carrier { perhaps the U.S.S. America (CV-66), unsinkable in U.S. Navy's underwater-attacks' target practice so it had to be scuttled, to rest deeply in the seawater off of Norfolk, not far from Newport News where Dad got his load of U.S. coal bound for England, likely to Liverpool to fuel British Navy ships defending Great Britain and/or to make warm hearth, warm coffee, instead of cold hearth, cold tea for that eternal British obsession, yep, teatime, which in those very early days of WWII shortly after 9/1/1939 during northern Europe's extremely cold winter of 1939-1940 and years earlier than the Laconia incident during which the British didn't tell the Americans but who should have known better onsite that German U-156 and other U-boats were on a Red-Cross rescue mission towing hundreds up to thousands of survivors of its torpedoing and sinking the Laconia, carrying its crew, Italian POWs, Polish-soldier guards, British soldiers and passengers, nearly had a U-boat turn him into shark food, } N.A.S.A. presentation on its then-upcoming lunar landing plan for Apollo-8 and beyond.. [and a few potential baddies] ) seemed to be pretty good bargains.

[-] 1 points by beautifulworld (23767) 3 years ago

Trump: Slow down Covid testing. He says this to benefit himself to make it appear that there are fewer cases then there actually are.

"During a campaign rally in Tulsa, Okla. on Saturday, U.S. President Donald Trump told thousands of supporters he had asked U.S. officials to slow down testing for the novel coronavirus, calling it a “double-edged sword” that led to more cases being discovered."

This is actual evil doing. It is reprehensible behavior and it shows no respect for the 120000 plus Americans who have died from Covid and their families, many of whom, as we know, are people of color.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFwxvHEg2tM

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-stop-coronavirus-testing-right-now-have-very-few-cases-2020-6

Trump is a very sick puppy and those that follow him, not much better.

[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 3 years ago

"Seven States report record COVID19 hospitalisations" by Helen Sullivan:

"Dr Anthony Fauci warns of ‘disturbing surge’ in cases; China gets approval for human trial of vaccine; first death in Australia for a month." + From your BI link ...

"States like Florida, Oklahoma, Arizona, Arkansas, and South Carolina have seen upticks in new cases. According to NPR, there was a 185% increase in new cases in Oklahoma as of Monday morning compared with two weeks ago. South Carolina saw a 156% increase, and Arizona saw a 145% increase.

"Arkansas, Oregon, Florida, and Nevada all had increases of more than 100% compared with two weeks ago, while Louisiana, Alabama, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Utah had increases between 39 and 60%."

caveat!

[-] 1 points by beautifulworld (23767) 3 years ago

COVID is surging in 30 states!

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/30-states-see-surge-in-coronavirus-deaths/

Unbelievable mismanagement! Criminal! Thousands are dying unnecessarily.

[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 3 years ago

"Trump Isn’t “Failing” on COVID Testing. He’s Carrying Out a Brutal Plan"! by Wm Rivers-Pitt:

From which ... "The Republican-controlled Senate went home today after once again failing to come up with a compromise stimulus package to help the millions of people whose lives are falling apart around them because of the pandemic. There is still no emergency unemployment benefit - even as 1.2 million new unemployment claims were announced this morning.

"One of the many looming side effects of mass unemployment, is the potential for mass evictions. The longer Congress waits to help people who are about to Lose Their Homes ... the more likely it is that a terrifying number of people will be put out on the street.

"Losing a home or being forced to move makes it much harder to vote; the change of address, perhaps no address at all, could leave many people unable to cast a ballot in November.

"Cui Bono? At this point, you don’t even have to ask."

CAVEAT!

[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 3 years ago

"Trump’s New COVID Adviser Is Pushing Herd Immunity, Which Some Liken to Eugenics" by Sharon Zhang:

"The strategy would involve letting COVID-19 spread nearly unmitigated - which could cause over a million deaths!"

sic transit gloria mundi!

[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 3 years ago

"Trump’s “herd immunity” policy and right-wing terror", by Andre Damon:

"On Tuesday, Newsweek (see above) reported that two Trump administration officials said the White House supports the Great Barrington Declaration, a statement advocating the mass infection of the population with COVID-19 through a policy of “herd immunity.”

"The declaration comes out of a meeting organized by the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER), a right-wing libertarian think tank centered in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. It calls for governments to “build up immunity to the virus through natural infection,” discourages remote work, and promotes mass gatherings where the virus can spread. The implementation of this policy would mean death on a massive scale.

"The “herd immunity” policy is condemned by all reputable health authorities, including the World Health Organization. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Monday called such a policy “unethical.” He added, “Herd immunity is achieved by protecting people from a virus, not by exposing them to it. Never in the history of public health has herd immunity been used as a strategy for responding to an outbreak, let alone a pandemic.”

"But this is precisely the policy that has been implemented by the Trump administration and other governments throughout the world.

"The Washington Post quoted a White House official as saying, “The plan [the Great Barrington Declaration] is endorsing what the president’s policy has been for months.”

"If the White House believed “for months” that efforts to contain the pandemic are counterproductive, then its refusal to take basic measures to stop the spread of the pandemic in January and February must be seen as malicious homicide. Based on the belief that mass infection of the population is a good thing, the White House deliberately and knowingly carried out policies that have led to over 200,000 deaths in the US."

omnia causa fiunt!

[-] -1 points by grapes (5232) 3 years ago

We are still beating Sweden which aimed for herd immunity without lockdowns. I recall that Bernie wanted us to emulate Sweden's generally better social system. Our Red States are lighting up gloriously red on the coronavirus map. Go Red for Trump !

It's clear by now that trying to contain the coronavirus at its source in Wuhan was a correct Nationalist move despite its being global in potential benefits. Wuhan was under Redfuckgina's state sovereignty so Trump needed to play nice for Americans to gain access in order to try to help the people there with PPEs. We didn't anticipate how disgustingly shitty the CCP acted so here we find ourselves with the yellow bird.

Here are the companies which U.S. workers looking for work can send their résumes. India has electrified more using coal so it's not like these "highly skilled" people of the correct skin colors cannot telecommute from there. There are probably millions upon millions of these previously U.S. trained workers abroad ready to be hired.

Globalist idiot Biden wanted to increase the number of H1-B visa foreign workers. Trump, Trump, Trump ! Hahaha... The No-Such-Agency can detect and intercept attempts to undercut U.S. import/export laws, right? How does it know whether the information is "munitions"?

Why has North America become so devoid of many large native-to-North-America animals? Camels, horses, cheetahs, giant ground sloths, etc. were all here and became extinct. Why did they all disappear? I think that North America is really a gigantic cemetery occasionally experiencing catastrophic events to wipe out its fauna. Nature knows how to do wipeouts, including those of the indigenous peoples. Which continent has the most dinosaur fossils? North America. Why? There was an inland sea in the middle and western part of the prehistoric North America. California's western part was an ancient offshore island chain which "slammed" into the mainland, thus creating the North-South running mountain ranges to harvest water moisture evaporated from the nearby Pacific Ocean driven high up to the cooler atmosphere above to cool down to the dew point to make clouds and rains which run down the watershed to create one of the most productive agricultural valleys of the U.S. Do you see why people live in Beirut whose map is here? Water and seaport. San Francisco is a "Beirut-like" seaport. A East-West running tall mountain range ( for cooling water vapor moisture to dew point ) near an ocean ( source of much water ) close to the tropics ( for heat to evaporate water to make water vapor moisture to be driven up the mountain range by seasonal winds ) can do even better in distilling ocean water to make freshwater. It's the Himalayas. A few billions of people live in its watersheds. A home dehumidifier or air-conditioner works similarly as a natural distiller for making freshwater: try identifying its corresponding parts ( water and heat, wind, cooling, watershed.) We live in the leftover "shadows" of the collision between Theia and proto-Earth which gave Earth the highest mass among Sol's rocky planets, and its molten core ( tectonic movements making mountain ranges get their thrusting-up energy from the heat of the core.)

I've just banned an entire continent's worth of dark-skinned H1-B visa holders originating from south of the Southern Ocean from working in the U.S. to give more "highly paid" ["at least 15% more than U.S. workers"] job opportunities to U.S. workers. Trump, Trump, Trump ! He gives jobs to Americans. This is the "October surprise" turning into a New Year expected [guess how the Business interest overpowered the Nationalist interest for this pandemic] 》 Gift《.

[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 3 years ago

So are U going to vote for Trump? Can u try to briefly explain the whys & wherefores of that please?

What does "we are still beating Sweden" mean? Do U know USA has by far the most cases & deaths?

Why d'U think Wuhan was "source" of the Corona Virus? Who has all the strains? Clue: It's not China!

"What's The Deal?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ny9yWK8Mak from the film DJT had banned.

Btw, https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/media-isnt-biased-against-trump-biden-liberal-news.html !

And finally ... why d'U keep adding to your initial reply & d'U think that anyone else but U is reading it?

multum in parvo?

[-] 0 points by grapes (5232) 3 years ago

"Biden OR Bye Don? All else is fluff"

I'm very surprised that despite your having been here for years, you still don't seem to understand U.S. politics ! Maybe you haven't been following the political events and their causal relationship in the U.S. mainstream media ( but you did recognize the U.S. being a consequential nation alright as you wrote: "it's not without huge & long-lasting implications for USA's 99% and - the world at large." I concur so I urge my people to vote. )

Quite a few U.S. Presidents were assassinated while in office or resigned from office. Did that cripple the U.S.? Not really that much ( the President and the Vice President are generally from the same party so the domestic policies tend to stay unchanged but since the President is in charge of foreign policy such as personal chemistry and treaty formulations, a different person being in charge tends to have different personal chemistry and formulate different policies.) It usually had more effect overseas than domestically but there was still quite a bit of U.S. institutional inertia: as a country we are mostly mongrel immigrants or their descendants ( despite the claims of some people of "racial purity;" I actually have a rather low opinion of the "keeping the bloodline pure" people because they have far more inbreeding-related defects often resulting from an attempt "to keep the wealth and power within the bloodline;" { factors include geographical, religious, cultural, customary traditional inheritance and isolation } most societies had tried to encode restrictions into sexual-intercourse taboos even before biological science deciphered how heredity worked; ) we are the most religious people in the world but there are many religions we follow; we keep peace by recognizing that each religion's adherents shouldn't try using the state to impose their religion on others.

The big fight is actually over this "the soul of our nation" issue, not who the President will be ( both are real-estate tycoons/大亨們/タイクーン { Joe became a real-estate nouveau-riche after his Vice Presidency and Donald was an old-money-losing real-estate developer for decades--he's adept at "cutting the red-tape/corners" in New York's very heavily regulated business environment; having experienced British formality before, I do sympathize a bit with his having had so many rules to follow in order to build that he developed a knee-jerk allergic reaction to regulations as well as his understanding of the first rule for success 《 "first break all the rules;" get lawyers and fixers galore to clean up the mess; then throw a victory parade to celebrate, and move on 》 recognizing that all regulations can be overcome with money, connections, and of course, last but not least, his gourmet NY/NJ-fermented ドフ/dofu/tofu charisma; he should count himself lucky that he isn't living in Germany, his fatherland, anymore } by carrying a lot of debts so I'm very sure that mortgage interest deduction and investment-property { primary residence never got these allowances because they belonged to the worker bees who would surely fuck more to produce their replacement -- the U.S. didn't get a labor shrinkage despite the advent of the birth-control pill during the free-sex decade(s) spanning the period from pill, fucK, fucK, fucK... to AIDS; according to an IRS depreciation schedule, in 30 years the worker bees' residences will have essentially become "worthless" while the same ones held as investment properties would have flung off enough tax-sheltering benefits to build an entirely new set of such residences for the drone of 不周 and the drama queen of 扭約 } depreciation allowance will stay intact no matter who gets to be elected President ) but how partisan shenanigans may be resolved peacefully and authoritatively by an independent judiciary. Without the independence of the judiciary, we may well lapse into political assassinations of the various judges and justices. We the people certainly have ample means of doing so already ( even our most well-protected Presidents have been bumped off a few times.) We mostly don't have the intention so we still pride ourselves as "a nation of laws."

Trump held up the military aid to Ukraine for his personal political advantage but he eventually relented. Our institutions have run for centuries [ without a king or queen and that was a U.S. breakthrough which subsequently infected most major world powers except the U.K. which has a more "enlightened" "Magna-Carta" constitutional monarchy, one of whose kings was { in those days mercifully; the French invented the guillotine as a more organized and effective method of carrying out mechanized executions en masse during the French Revolution which was at least partly inspired by the success of the American Revolution in doing away with "divine rule" } beheaded centuries ago ] and we as every other people have our way of "disciplining" Do-tard, Re-tard, Mi-tard... I hope that we won't need to borrow the ways from Rustia or Redfuckgina.

Other peoples are still fighting for universal suffrage and votes which count but we the Americans already have near-universal suffrage so vote like a flash mob ! I abide by whatever my people's choice is in a just election but there'll always be a distinction between an office which I respect and the office holder who must earn my respect.

I think that I tend to respect the ones who turn out to be right [ to my surprise ]. For example, I respect George H.W. Bush's successful push for providing access to disabled Americans [ and in fact, a lot more others such as mothers carrying young children in strollers going up and down stairways, shoppers carrying goods in shopping carts as I had been one of these during my early years in Manhattan, delivery people pushing hand-trucks to deliver goods, etc.] When access had been made easier, it benefited many more than just the disabled Americans ( I liked the fewer traffic jams resulting from the delivery people stymied by the curbs as I was in my early years in Manhattan being a road hazard turning my full and heavy shopping cart around to pull up these curbs { yeah, Manhattan was absolutely packed with numerous curbs -- how many rungs are there on Jacob's Ladder ? more than the number of Manhattan curbs ? }; these delivery people and I were "disabled" alright.)

The GOP has exhibited symptoms of a weakening and dying party because it has sought to hamper voters' access by making it more difficult with deliberately slowing U.S. Mail, reducing the number of ballot-collection boxes, and rushing to confirm a Supreme Court Justice nominee within days of an election ( Moscow Mitch held off a previous nomination hearing for nearly a year claiming that the GOP needed voters' inputs first but now the GOP doesn't want any more voters' inputs -- Why ? ) The GOP is a dead-end party closing up to its end, with its membership now being highly recommended to "the Losers" in addition to "the previously Retard-I-Can'ts," now lighting up gloriously Red for Covidiotfefe.

[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 3 years ago

Trump's meltdown in Presidential Debate over the Abraham Lincoln comparison, should make folk think about what a chance for US' 99% Bernie Sanders was. The debate tonight was about choice between a GOP Fascist Demagogue Wannabe and a GOPlite Corporate Stooge!! Prepare for 2024 and try to note:

Stay stuck in Corporate Duopoly & mired in Corporate Main Stream Media or wake up - it is your choice! I am - "surprised that your having been here for years and you still don't seem to understand US politics" which is corrupted into the demoCRAZY deMOCKERYcy that's there for all to see, IF U've the eyes 2 C!

I actually did that rare thing for me & read your reply immediately above & - U won't be surprised to hear that I am none the wiser. U seem to revel in your refusal to imagine a better, more equitable future for all & that should tell U how managed your mind has become by Corp.MSM & generational 1% propaganda!

ergo, temet nosce!

[-] 0 points by grapes (5232) 3 years ago

Any wannabe is not quite that yet. Trump being a Fascist Tyrant wannabe means that he is not quite a Fascist Tyrant yet. He is a real-estate tycoon just like "Big Den" Biden now is after his Vice Presidency. Both were near zero or negative net worth at times. I don't hold Trump's only paying $750 in Federal Income Tax in recent years and zero for many years before because he surely had huge losses from his Taj Trump-Treasury casino, Trump Shuttles, and other defunct Trumpery such as Trump University. It's how our tax system works. He has been a genuine "Loser" in his multiple endeavors so he gets an "honorary participation award" for "striving." I have to say though that with the odds rigged against the players, it's extremely difficult to run a casino which doesn't turn a profit. It must have been due to "the Indians" of the casinos.

We Americans know how to blame others: in the 1980s, it's "the Japanese" killing our automobile industry. If you then asked why Americans bought Japanese cars instead of Detroit cars, you would have heard that Japanese cars had better gas mileage, more reliable, cheaper, far better ergonomics, etc.

Whose responsibility was it in U.S. car industry to provide these to the car buyers? The Detroit car companies' but they had captured the regulatory agencies so Detroit cars just stuck with low gas mileage while they maximized profits by not spending the developmental money for improvements. After the oil shocks of the 1970s, it became blatantly obvious that car gas mileage had become a very important consideration for the car buyers. Detroit was killed by corporate greed.

Detroit has a lot of unoccupied abandoned high-rise buildings but many of them have the problem of not having their copper plumbing anymore because they have been stripped away after the buildings were abandoned. The same will probably happen to China Ghost Cities' buildings.

I wish that we've had more "head in the sand" leaders because sound travels much faster through the ground than through the air so these leaders could have heard CoViD-19 chasing after them earlier and taken proper actions.

The proper actions need to change with the level of contagion. When there are very few cases, massive contact tracing and quarantines can work even if extensive testing is unavailable. Our White House wouldn't even consent to doing contact tracing after many cases were discovered in or near it. I guess that they didn't want to disclose who was fucking whom there. That's a "State Secret !" 》ich bin ein Frankfurter und sie ist ein Hamburger.《

Wearing masks is a no-brainer. I took one look at the other countries which did well in this pandemic--their people wore masks en masse. I knew that Hong Kong would have very few deaths ( 4 compared to New York's tens of thousands during the period I was looking ) once I read about a journalist's seeming complaint that he had to come out late at night in order to go around without wearing a mask because during the day the social pressure was there to push him to wear mask.

Lockdown is never a longer-term solution. It's to be used during the early part of the pandemic when we weren't knowledgeable about this novel virus' characteristics and behaviors and we were getting our defense ramped up such as for PPEs, disinfecting procedures, new ways of working without contagious contacts, etc. We must learn well what other countries' experiences are and formulate proper policies. It's foolish to disregard other countries' warnings such as those from northern Italy where Chinese customers were their best customers who had escaped with their CoViD-19 from the impending Wuhan lockdown.

It was a total national disgrace that various levels of governments and parties had to evade the federal government's potential seizure of their pandemic-fighting PPEs and other equipment. The federal government isn't yet another state ! Somehow I think there were people in the federal government who believed that the states were subservient to the federal government. They got it all wrong. The federal government is a servant of the states. What good is a stash of equipment owned by the federal government when the states have been overrun? There's no client to serve so the federal government has become unnecessary. There are indeed things that the federal government can do such as directing the states to issue mask-wearing mandates or at least give them masks to wear. The U.S. sailors occupying Japan post-WWII had condom rations so states should have got mask rations.

[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 3 years ago

Biden OR Bye Don? All else is fluff .. including whatever the fk U wrote up ^ there! + per the OP, see:

So once again ... a Fascist Tyrant Wannabe OR Neoliberal / Neocon Corporate "Globalist Idiot"?! Your choice, however it's not without huge & long-lasting implications for USA's 99% and - the world at large.

multum in parvo!

[-] -1 points by grapes (5232) 3 years ago

Learn about RNA's role in the diagram here showing the information transfer in the central dogma of biology. SARS_CoV-2 is a retrovirus meaning that it uses RNA for its heritability. RNA mutates at a much higher rate than DNA, which is the predominant macromolecular carrier of genetic information. RNA mutations are what gave rise to the different strains of the retrovirus but they ALL tracked closely to the Wuhan strain, testifying to Wuhan's founder status ( I agree with the CCP on this Wuhan origin but I disagree about the wet-market-origin hypothesis of all 48 suspected cases; after testing, a few cases turned out not to be of SARS_CoV-2; that still left 40-some cases to be attributed to a single source in the wet market; I just couldn't believe in that number, knowing fully well that the effort to set off a nuclear explosion with neutrons couldn't achieve an R0 much above 3; what the hell did the Wuhan market have to achieve an R0 of 40-some ?! Ridiculous wool being pulled over our eyes--there were pre-symptomatic/asymptomatic/post-symptomatic transmission, airborne transmission, or already multiple-viral-generation infections; all of which proved to be correct later on. ) RNA mutations in this retrovirus are analogous to the differences between corresponding words ( such as spelling differences ) in the different versions of the lyrics for the same song.

[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 3 years ago

So, Fascist Tyrant Wannabe OR Neoliberal/Neocon Corporate "Globalist Idiot"?! Your choice, however it is not without huge and long-lasting implications for USA's 99% and - the world at large.

Now cut and paste this: https://www.salon.com/2020/06/11/multiple-strains-of-coronavirus-are-now-circulating-in-the-us-heres-what-that-means/ but read it before U do - and try to see its implications.

Reactionary RW Nationalism is the default position of 'head in the sand' conservatives everywhere, however it won't save U, U$A or deal with the Global issues we all face - COVID19, AGW etc. etc.!

respice; adspice; prospice et veritas vos liberabit ...

[-] -1 points by grapes (5232) 3 years ago

Trump is the best President that money can buy. He's not Biden who's been in the Beltway for maybe ¿forty years? [of biblical desert wandering duration] or so already. Trump was a change we could believe in, same as Obama. Trump could get buildings built in the highly regulated union environment of NYC. The FBI long knew of Trump's planning to work with the mob because Trump was timid at the time so he informed the FBI thus making his connection to the mob non-news. Trump has been in business in NYC for decades already. If the FBI, SDNY, NY State, or NYC, etc. had problems with Trump's doings, they've already got decades to prosecute and lock him up. Whatever they had was either deemed insufficient for prosecution, to lock him up, or he's innocent. Under our system of justice founded upon English Common Law, he's innocent "until proven guilty" in a court of law. As a sitting President, he was even impeached and acquitted. See, he was indeed clean-cut innocent, as determined by due process stipulated by the U.S. Constitution, the highest law of the land.

Death count rate was 591 for U.S. vs. 590 for Sweden: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/10/it-s-been-so-so-surreal-critics-sweden-s-lax-pandemic-policies-face-fierce-backlash, running neck to neck alright but... U.S. was still a tiny bit more. It's just too bad that the Science magazine article has been censored. I suspect that it just makes the U.S. look stupid in its schizophrenic half-asssed-pants-modest response to CoViD-19 with lockdown and "the we-can't-take-it-anymore ! throwing cautions to the wind" in the Californica and Florida sunshine on the beaches. With "the best healthcare system in the world," the U.S. averaged out to about the same death rate as Sweden which had a more even-keeled albeit-controversial response. Swedes knew when to "trim their sails" voluntarily and we Americans ( at least I ! ) knew when to run to the bathroom to discharge a diarrhea at warp speed. I didn't want people to drink tea set over night because it could give them stomach cancer but I did it anyway in my own desperation. I absolutely preferred getting myself breathing well again quickly despite the increased risk of getting stomach cancer decades from now ( my plan was to die before that, Hahaha ! )

I was watching China intently, partly due to its crackdowns on Hong Kong, partly due to my previous experience watching the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa unfold, and partly due to my belief that China was embarking on a mission to kill Earthlings en masse, as I had stated in a response to the climate protests of Greta Thunberg's cohort largely targeting the West. She and her cohort won't stand a chance protesting in China where the accelerated threats have emerged. Maybe their organs can also be sold at higher prices than adults to Middle-Eastern buyers ( who prefer Uyghur [Muslim-clean-living no-pork ! ] organs ) due to their probably having had fewer sexual intercourse partners than adults. China preferred selling Falun Gong members' organs for the same health-related reasons fetching higher sale prices ( since these people keep their bodies healthy and clean by not smoking and exercising regularly per their religion.)

Trump's foreign policy leadership protects people such as Greta Thunberg and her cohort, Hong Kongers, most Chinese mainlanders, Uyghurs, Tibetans, India, Nepal, Afghanistan, South Korea, Japan, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Oman, Philippines, Vietnam, etc. I know that Russia may hold a leash on Trump but that can be a good thing for lowering the tension in eastern Europe.

Putin knows that NATO won't attack Russia as long as Trump is the President. Actually in my opinion, it's just Putin's vivid paranoid imagination running wild conjuring up this crazy idea. I guess everybody including Putin loves a bogeyman/piñata ! I think that the U.S. has much better things to do such as "invading" our own still-much-undeveloped land formerly bought from Russia -- "Seward's Icebox ( or at that time Folly )" Alaska, rather than invading Russia but of course, Russia has already created much karma for itself before with its land grabs here and there, both near and far. The annexation of Crimea isn't worth its cost in sanctions.

A simple rule for all who aspire to become a global player: first become good friends with all of one's border neighbors. Imperial Germany had aspired to become one but failed to obey rules by bullying its border neighbors so things went terribly wrong. Russia and Red China went down the same path more recently. Crimea can be a de facto part of Greater Russia without Russia's annexing it outright.

Both my Mom and Dad could economically be a part of or have worked for the U.S. without being an official part of the U.S. so our family while in Hong Kong had actually been a part of Greater America going a long way back to at least WWII times starting with Dad's ill-fated U-boat-torpedoed involvement in hauling Appalachian coal from Newport News, North America to England to enable the people there to drink hot coffee { probably with the sugar from Cuba, too, because Dad was also involved later on with the hauling of the sugar for making Coca Cola(R) from Cuba to New Orleans } instead of cold tea during northern Europe's extremely cold winter of 1939-1940. Stalin's Soviet Union couldn't even convince ( think about what Russia had done to Poland and the tiny Baltic states before--it's karma ! ) its neighbor Finland to allow it and help it to defend Leningrad/St. Petersburg which was eventually laid siege to for nearly 900 days by the Nazi Germans, forcing some of its denizens to resort to cannibalism. Stalin's bullying tiny Finland caused the U.S.S.R. to be given a very bloody nose. I also had a huge fight with my Big Brother which required Mom's intervention to stop us. Nowadays both he and I recall us having had "a huge fight" but we both forgot what it was all about. It does sound rather silly by now, doesn't it?

Even the CCP itself claimed that Wuhan's wet market was the source of 48 cases. CCP wanted to blame the origin of the virus to only this market and nowhere else. There is "a preponderance of evidence" that Wuhan or its vicinity was the source of the outbreak. We cannot advance to "beyond reasonable doubts" due to the CCP's cover-up and hiding behind state sovereignty but Redfuckgina is guilty.

[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 3 years ago

You are full of RW $H!T tbh & U are watching way too much Corp. MSM.

Again, there is NO comparison between Sweden and U$A re. COVID19.

And again - where are all the known strains of CV19? Is it China? Nope.

Reprise this very thread if U really want to find answers or ... stay dumb.

et temet nosce ...

[-] 0 points by grapes (5232) 3 years ago

King flu is indeed very contagious. It's lighting up the red states so that they become gloriously red. Beware of the Big Red Dog looking for a carcass.

[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 3 years ago

So "If Trump Declares Martial Law due to Coronavirus, can he then Suspend the Election?"

caveat!

[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 3 years ago

''American Idiot - A Running List of The Dumbest things Trump has said about the CoronaVirus!''

''Welcome to a new kind of tension, all across the alien nation, where everything isn't meant to be okay!''

verum ex absurdo?!

[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 3 years ago

''Surveillance Will Outlast The Pandemic! Edward Snowden’s Warning'' by "CPH: DOX''

"Giving the government access to biometrics could open up alarming new ways for governments to spy on citizens," Snowden said. "They already know what you're looking at on the internet" - he said. "They already know where your phone is moving. Now they know what your heart rate is & what your pulse is. What happens when they start to mix these and apply artificial intelligence to it?''

''Protecting Americans where they live - ought to be the national security priority of our time. The existing national security state is incapable of fulfilling that imperative, while its leaders, fixated on waging distant wars, have yet to even accept that they have a responsibility to do so. Worst of all .. even in this election year, no one on the national political scene appears to recognize the danger now fully at hand.''

hmmmm et qui custodiet ipsos custodes?!

[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 3 years ago

“Please take this because I love you and I might die” : A COVID Tale'' ... by William Rivers Pitt:

''As COVID-19 makes its burn through the population - emblems of life and love are being hurriedly handed from one generation down to the next.''

momento mori - sed fiat justitia ruat caelum!

[-] 1 points by beautifulworld (23767) 3 years ago

So sad but also so beautiful.

Folks are giving away their most treasured items in case they die of COVID 19.

"It is treasure, the greatest walking stick of all time, and now it is mine because my mother wanted to give it to me in case she died of COVID-19.

I wonder how many exchanges like this are happening right now across the country, and the world, as COVID-19 makes its burn through the population. How many trinkets, necklaces, old coins, letters, journals, simple items of no real worth that are treasures nonetheless, like my grandfather’s blackthorn shillelagh, how many emblems of life and love are being hurriedly handed from one generation down to the next. No ceremony, no note taken of the import of the exchange, merely a “Here,” like a baton passed in full flight.

Please take this, because I love you and I might die.

Have you had that conversation?" From truthout above.

Love is the only way, it is the only thing that matters.

[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 3 years ago

In the dark daze of a Global Pandemic,

All I'll say now is - Please Don't Panic!

If it's a choice btwn "Fear and Love"

Then, I choose to be a Fierce Dove..

As I can't choose btwn 'Tragic & Magic'!

oremus ... ommmm ~*~

[-] 1 points by beautifulworld (23767) 3 years ago

We can change after COVID19 to make the world a better place. We can see it happening. We can drive our cars less, we can work from home more, work fewer hours, spend more time with our families, buy less shit, eat locally produced foods, eat less meat. This is doable and it would heal not only us but our planet as well.

From https://truthout.org/articles/coronavirus-shows-us-what-our-future-could-look-like-during-climate-crisis/ :

"It would be wise for our society to stay conscious throughout our response to the COVID-19 pandemic that — if approached in the right way — the overlapping of the two issues might mean that relief measures for the pandemic might end up helping society prepare for or even mitigate the climate crisis. Astronomical hospital bills for uninsured COVID-19 patients make the case for policies like Medicare for All; a logical response to coming massive layoffs is a green jobs guarantee or a Green Stimulus package. Vox climate writer David Roberts recently wrote that “the moral logic of coronavirus, if we’re willing to heed it, leads to more socialism.” Coronavirus, like climate, isn’t just about a singular crisis — it’s about multiple crises, stacked on top of each other, all at once. Those with continual exposure to air pollution are likely to be more vulnerable to the effects of coronavirus.

“Coronavirus has made so clear that global issues can’t be easily categorized as just a health issue or just an environmental issue,” says Dahl. “They really encompass our broader economy and encompass or entire social systems and ways of life.” Though Dahl isn’t confident that the pandemic will actually translate into broad public understanding of the scale of the global response needed for the climate crisis, she hopes that they will at least grasp some key lessons.

“It really has shined a spotlight on some of the ways that our society is not working, particularly not working for people in vulnerable groups,” says Dahl."

[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 3 years ago

So, "This State in India Shows Us Why Fighting COVID-19 Requires Working-Class Power"- by Samantha Agarwal:

ad iudicium!

[-] 1 points by beautifulworld (23767) 3 years ago

Collectivism overcomes Covid 19. It's simple as that, people working together and caring for one another can overcome the pandemic. No amount of profit will have any bearing. It is up to the people and working people for that matter.

I loved this article because it shows how the human spirit can come together and overcome. It is just one example but it's quite beautiful. We can all strive to be like Kerala imho:

https://truthout.org/articles/this-state-in-india-shows-us-why-fighting-covid-19-requires-working-class-power/

"Thinking on its feet, the district administration culled data from the family’s phones and from CCTV cameras in the area. Based on that, it developed a detailed flow chart of all of the exact locations visited by the patients along with approximate dates and times. The flow chart was then widely circulated on social media along with a hotline for those who may have come into contact with the family. The hundreds of calls the administration received in the days that followed helped it plug the gaps in the flow chart."

"Kerala’s approach to pandemic relief offers valuable lessons not only for India but also — perhaps especially — for advanced capitalist countries which have been hit the hardest by the outbreak."

"The state has also taken a number of important macro-level measures to curb the economic and mental hardships faced by the general population. A ₹20,000 crore ($2.6 billion) stimulus package announced on March 19 is enabling the early distribution of elder pensions, midday meals for low-income children and food grain rations for everyone respective of their economic status. It is also funneling ₹2,000 crore ($261.4 million) into a fund controlled by the Kudumbashree Mission to distribute low-interest loans, and ₹1,000 crore ($130.7 million) to bolster the state-run Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. And while the state is not undeserving of criticism for its treatment of the most precarious section of its workers — migrant laborers — it has, still, outperformed the rest of the country. Data recently obtained from the Home Ministry showed that Kerala, which constitutes merely 2.76 percent of the Indian population, has set up 69 percent (over 4,000) of the nation’s relief camps and shelters for migrant workers."

"The Kerala experience offers a valuable lesson to the U.S. left: Medicare for All — let alone a Sanders-type presidency — would be tremendously limited without militant working-class participation at all levels of society. Kerala’s impressive social-democratic achievements, including its battle against COVID-19 were undergirded by the robust participation of ordinary people. As we assess the post-Sanders landscape, the correct strategic question is not how to avoid descent into movementism at the expense of electoralism, but how can we build up independent movements which can act as levers for progressive electoral candidates, so that the best of Sanders’s policies may succeed."

[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 3 years ago

Historically Kerala was a matrilinear society & with a "Communist" influenced polity - it had highest the highest literacy levels in India & these factors, as well its very good primary healthcare means Keralan society has Social Resilience. Thanx for your substantive excerpts above & also fyi, consider:

fiat lux ...

[-] 1 points by beautifulworld (23767) 3 years ago

Flattening the Covid curve in Kerala, India.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/21/kerala-indian-state-flattened-coronavirus-curve

"The reason Kerala has managed to come out the other side so quickly is because of its strong public health system, clear risk communication and community participation."

"A severe lockdown was implemented before the national one: schools were shut, gatherings were banned, a stricter and longer quarantine than the national norm was deployed, and a few pious people who still insisted on praying in groups were even arrested. But this iron-fist approach was matched by socially valuable outreach policies. Supplies were home-delivered, midday meals from schools were sent to children even when schools were shut, regular and clear communication channels were established to dispel fake news, migrant labourers from other states were well taken care of, and mental health helplines were established across the state. The “break the chain” campaign to limit the Covid-19 spread was particularly successful."

Contrast this with America where we have "freedumb" or "freedom to be dumb" as our Covid cases rise out of control with Americans preferring to spread the virus that, yes, is mild for most, but leads to brutal death for some. Over 130000 deaths at this point and over 200000 projected.

https://covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-of-america

[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 3 years ago

Meanwhile "Trump Now Has Free Rein to Cook the Books When It Comes to COVID"..by William River-Pitt:

multum in parvo ...

[-] 1 points by beautifulworld (23767) 3 years ago

Masks can save 70,000 lives.

https://www.maskssavelives.org/

Pretty darn simple. Trump just doesn't care or have the will to make this the law.

[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 3 years ago
[-] 1 points by beautifulworld (23767) 3 years ago

Masks save lives!

https://www.maskssavelives.org/

Yes they do! Wear them now until the vaccine is widespread to save hundreds of thousands of lives. Don't be a Covidiot!

[-] 0 points by grapes (5232) 3 years ago

Perhaps CoViD-19 emissions could already be regulated under the existing Clean Air Act. One needs to remember always that it's our states which delegated some of their authorities to our federal government, not the other way around.

We went gravely wrong in this pandemic largely because our federal government doesn't know what its proper role is ( its civics knowledge is sorely missing.) It's not a superstate above or just yet another state beside our fifty states. It was created by the states to serve their common interests and solve interstate problems. It should lead by service, neither by lordship nor by kinship. Other countries which have already been really fucked up failed at recognizing this point. How did Redfuckgina lose so many decades of potential development relative to the other predominantly Chinese territories/states in East Asia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore, which are all well-off societies? One word explains it: "Secretary" [of the Central Military Committee] became "Emperor." Instead of providing service, Mao became His Majesty. This centralization-created lordship permitting abuse of power lies at the crux of the failure of Marxism, Stalinism, Maoism, Leninism, Communism, Socialism, etc. worldwide. Some Socialist countries are in fact the happiest and most well-off ones in the whole world but they have Socialism's practices serving their people instead of Socialism's lordship driving the people. Look up who sets the agenda in these happy countries. Regardless of how the agenda is actually carried out, be it a king, queen, prime minister, president, or chancellor, the setter is "the people !"

Working hard may well turn after a long while ( as absolute power corrupts absolutely ) into hardly working once the drivers have become alienated from the workers. Karl Marx did get alienation correct but during the evolution to Communism, the usurpers hijacked the centralized means of production--Communism has never been achieved and probably never will be. What the effort to realize it produced, was cumbersome bureaucracies for "redistribution," gruesome all-time-record tortures/deaths of tens of millions of people, and dejected people locked in the fear of families, friends, and neighbors spying upon and reporting them to the authority, with everything politicized. One who knows everything must keep at least one eye and probably the mouth shut--in Christianity, it's called Grace--or one can practice: "Don't know. Can't tell." I hope that the U.S. doesn't go down this stupid path purportedly to Communism via Socialism, but actually to the ash heap of history.

We have Russian-style management by installing "the toilet of shame" and blocking the sewage pipe to extract payments. Cloaca Maxima was plugged up just like in bygone but not bygone Soviet era, on Christmas Eve, with bucket after bucket of sewage overflow from the bathroom and kitchen for Yo Momma ( with Yo-Yo Ma virtuosity? ) to throw out through the balcony. It's an Act of Man, the Word made fresh by the Creator, with every breath you take ( hopefully, you are "on top of the situation" [as a royal jockey] in a "Happy Valley" harem. Wearing masks can turn "Gonorrhea Raceway" into the "Happy Valley" raceway, much beloved by many of the [British Colonial] Overlords, some probably members of the Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club.)

Here's a potentially useful for future defense historical narrative about the Battle of Hong Kong, fought against the Imperial Japanese Army. Glory to H.K. Vaginal-Line prostitutes for yielding partisan bioresistance !

Now I understand why Dad was talking about the unused condoms of the U.S. servicemen in occupied Japan and Mom was freaked out after she had found a few in my heavy-leather tote bag with a very strong heavy-leather shoulder strap which I later on bolted it broken near an attachment buckle. The occupying Americans didn't completely trust the Japanese not waging a post-surrender sex war. Men were in the "services" and they were issued military rations of condoms. Unused condoms usually meant either "Johnny" was an incel or he went raw ( i.e. [rudely] hatless in fraternization; U.S. Presidents all wore hats until John F. Kennedy came into the orifice.)

The tacit hoopla/concern back then was about/for the latter. Dad said that the average Japanese height postwar was much increased by the ¿massive? infusion of American semen ( the increase in height was probably due to the phenomenon called "hybrid vigor"--e.g. Obama was very much taller than either one of his alter racial parents; it was his tallness, sporting a fairly big round afro haircut, and being clad in a head-to-black-shoe-toe completely black attire { with the long-sleeved turtleneck sweater on top and black socks } which had caught my eyes as he smartly bounced up the steps.) He believed that the Japanese authority solicited for and encouraged the hybridization.

Grandma connected me to being in the "services" and wearing masks.

Our likely future President, Kamala Harris, politically attacked private U.S. charity's sending tons of Personal Protective Equipment { likely at our State Department's behest } to China, showed terrible judgment or worse by catering to the baser nationalist political instincts of Californicans when the pandemic engulfed the U.S. after Red China had de facto weaponized it to fly to the entire world; it's "conduct unbecoming of an officer," though not the only holder of an office who needs to be taught a very hard lesson similar to that taught to the British by an equivalent of the so-called Gonorrhea Raceway of Hong Kong: "Looking out for national interests may require global engagement".

Redfuckgina has been killing our planet, with its greatly increased CO2 emissions and its governing Communist Party kicking U.S. in the teeth { by banning U.S. company 3M from exporting its PPE production to U.S., banning all domestic flights but allowing international flights to proceed over the Chinese New Year holidays to spread the disease worldwide while peddling "no-community-spread" through the probably bribed World Health Organization's leadership: the Wuhan number of suspected cases of 48 and the case history of Germany's first CoViD-19 death showed the cover-up of the existence of communal and near-asymptomatic person-to-person spread } after we had tried to help Wuhan frontline medical people to fight and contain CoViD-19 spread; it means we m u s t g o t o w a r to defend Spaceship Earth by home-cleansing--i.e. setting many fires to create a fire barrier to contain the great bonfire of the vain Redfuckgina ( which even started a conspiracy theory that U.S. servicemen brought the virus there while blocking any investigation into the origin of the novel virus.) Australia was the leader pushing for an investigation so Redfuckgina went after Australia economically.

Who's more fitting and capable of setting many fires worldwide than Donald J. Trump? His presidential record proves his fitness to start fires worldwide, as he said on "The Apprentice": "You are fired !"

Globalist idiot Biden has buckled to corporatists to import more H1B workers ( benefiting Californica's nouveau riche via cheap teleimports after H1Bs' U.S. training. U.S. gets no taxes from Indian workers since we have no tariffs on teleimports; U.S. ends up as Detroit.) More H1Bs is bad for our people already out of work.

Even my kid learnt from the Applenlice and in a scolding tone fired three people ( two minders and the store clerk ) after gleefully hopping onto and spinning around a few times upon the cushy tall-back black executive chair in the office furniture store. The fired store clerk's jaw dropped.

Not every minder could be fired, though. Just ask the near-forever-Prince Charles ( or anyone else who has parents ) -- he'll forever be the Queen's baby in Her Majesty's eyes, no matter how old he gets.

[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 4 years ago

''The Other Potential Coronavirus Catastrophe No One Is Talking About''! - from ''The Canary'', UK:

''The US situation:

''Currently, the Centre for Disease Control (CDC) in the US is estimating that for coronavirus:

  • 160-214 million people in the US could end up being infected.

  • 2.4-21 million people could have to go into hospital.

  • 200,000-1.7 million people could die.

''This is an infection rate of between 48% and 65% of the population. The hospitalisation rate is between 0.7% and 6%.

"The Canary crunched the numbers using the SARS research & we found that for coronavirus - between 408,000 and 3,570,000 people in the US could experience severe ME-like symptoms a year after getting infected."

caveat!

[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 4 years ago

"Wall Street is pressuring key healthcare firms to hike prices over the CoronaVirus crisis. Audio here of bankers asking drug companies, firms supplying N95 masks & ventilators, to figure out how to profit from the Covid-19 emergency." - from:

WTabsoluteFk?! These greedy bastards should be exposed, prosecuted, jailed & - the key thrown away!

radix omnium malorum est cupiditas!

[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 3 years ago

"How a Lobbying Campaign Pushed the CDC to Relax Protective Gear Guidelines!" - by Jennifer Gollan and Elizabeth Shogren:

"A lobbying campaign driven by scarcity pushed the CDC to relax protective gear guidelines. Now tens of thousands of health workers are infected!"

Highly researched article by 'The Center for Investigative Reporting'. Please support these people &

e tenebris, lux!

[-] 1 points by elf3 (4203) 4 years ago

Right but see how WS has turned this into a debate. Ever notice how everything becomes a debate with raging narcissists as you have to come up with a 7 page report that distracts everyone from the fact that they don't give a fux. Do we need reports based on everything Wallstreet and money hungry greed has ever done - ever? Are we still doing this after all these years not to mention history? Conveniently as people lay dying - wealth representatives (called politicians) forget all about this back and forth insanity. They are proven liars and we don't need to go on anything but the fact that these people don't care about other human beings. period and done. Do our deaths and poverty benefit WS - yes. That is all we need to know. We already have the answers. We just don't want to believe it. We are EXPENDABLE and there are people who consider other human beings nothing more than a RESOURCE. Are we going to sit and have a pretend debate with those people as they play their puppet show for us? Or are we going to call their Bullshit once and for all?

[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 4 years ago

Your "wealth representatives (called politicians)'' - is a great line & an important phrase & realization

tho' Trump denies responsibility - someone fired USA's Pandemic Response Team in 2018 to cut costs! That absolutely must have contributed to US' clear lack of preparedness for this once in a lifetime event.

So I'll now put something forward here & as controversial as it may seem, tRUMP may actually be more willing to do somethings for USA's 99% - because he is rich already & not wholly owned by US Banks & Corporations ... than the venal Democrap and Repugnant politicians, who will dance to the tunes of their paymasters! As such & even if it is for reasons of his narcissism & need to be liked & be popular, tRUMP may actually be more willing & able to pass legislation that actually helps America's 99% than the wholly owned GOP & GOPlite pols, who are such Corp. Banker Asskissing Prostitutes! Just sayin' + evidence...

Now, IF tRUMP - were to use an executive order to enact Medicare For All .. he would become the most unlikely hero of The 99% & thereby win a 2nd Term; guarantee his place in history & - destroy the Dems, who it must be said - are doing a good job of that themselves now, just by (s)electing Biden over Bernie!

The truth is that Fancy Pelosi, Creepy Joe & Obomber, are more interested in keeping Sanders out than beating tRUMP's ass and they'll only do a bare minimum for The 99%! Obama - was a master of this b-s and quite frankly The Corporate Controlled Duopoly Needs To Die and a 3rd, 'Peoples Party' start, asap!

et veritas vos liberabit!

[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 3 years ago

The CoronaVirus Horror Story - ignore it at your peril ...

In my reply-comment to elf3 above, I had a very rare moment of trying to think well of tRUMP but his behavior since then proves that he too will sacrifice USA's 99% at The Alter of Corporate Profits and allowing him any benefit of doubt'll only disappoint. Fancy Pelosi & Obomber won't raise voices tho'!

The WHO thinks that the USA will be the new epicenter of the COVID19 pandemic but Donald Trump seems to give precisely Zero Fucks about that, as long as The 99% keep going to work! The mthrfkr!

cave canem!

[-] 1 points by beautifulworld (23767) 3 years ago

Bernie Sanders LiveStream on PBS Newshour where he talks seriously about COVID 19 with several qualified doctors.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/watch-live-sen-bernie-sanders-holds-town-hall-with-health-experts

Nice this was carried by PBS. He may be President Sanders yet, as Joe Biden and Trump are both imploding.

[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 3 years ago

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Viva El Presidente Bernie Sanders!

multum in parvo ...

[-] 1 points by beautifulworld (23767) 3 years ago

COVID 19 deaths in early February.

So, hmm, 2 Californians' autopsies prove they died February 6 and 17 from novel coronavirus. What else don't we know? So, it was spreading through the community way earlier than we were told because these 2 people, RIP, never traveled to China.

How many more cases like this exist in USA?

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/22/us/california-deaths-earliest-in-us/index.html

Bernie has since handed the DNC primary to Joe Biden who sadly has been quite silent. At least, I haven't heard him say anything meaningful as we work our way through the worst crisis I can remember in my lifetime.

[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 3 years ago

Indeed "Bernie has since handed the DNC primary to Joe Biden who sadly has been quite silent" about "How many more cases like this exist in USA?" as he has been about just about everything else! Finally, re. your important link and points re.CV19 & "worst crisis" in living memory & beyond, please consider:

per aspera ad astra ...

[-] 1 points by beautifulworld (23767) 3 years ago

The human spirit endures. It endures with or without Bernie Sanders and at the end of COVID 19 it will endure and must be stronger than ever.

We mustn't forget our purpose on this earth is to make meaning of our lives. While this virus seems like and probably is the worst thing to happen to many of us, many worse things have happened. Let this be a wake up call to the need for a socialist future where all people count and all are cared for and where the human spirit soars.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7plNRs5kwgE

[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 3 years ago

''New York Removes Bernie Sanders From The Primary Ballot!'' (fkt up shit) .. by Danial Marans:

''The decision is a blow to the former Democratic presidential hopeful and his supporters in New York."

Indeed: "Let this be a wake up call to the need for a socialist future where all people count and all are cared for and where the human spirit soars" & may collective wisdom of US realize that: Dems R Fkt!

ecce homo!

[-] 1 points by beautifulworld (23767) 3 years ago

Bernie's back on the NY ballot. Yes!

"Judge orders Sanders, others to be reinstated on New York primary ballot"

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/496276-judge-orders-sanders-others-to-be-reinstated-to-new-york-primary-ballot

"The removal of presidential contenders from the primary ballot not only deprived those candidates of the chance to garner votes for the Democratic Party’s nomination, but also deprived their pledged delegates of the opportunity to run for a position where they could influence the party platform, vote on party governance issues, pressure the eventual nominee on matters of personnel or policy, and react to unexpected developments at the Convention,” she wrote."

That's saying it too kindly, it was freakin' undemocratic to remove Sanders and the others from the ballot! Period!

[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 3 years ago

'Biden is so fkt' that it can't be repeated often enough! Now check this out:

So of course stay on the scene ... Obi Wan Sanders! "You are our only hope"!!

MULTUM in parvo...

[-] 1 points by beautifulworld (23767) 3 years ago

Biden vs. Trump debates. Can anyone imagine how that is going to go?

Hence, "Political analyst makes plea for Biden not to debate Trump"

https://www.cnn.com/videos/tv/2020/08/01/should-biden-debate-trump.cnn

and

"Supporters Urge Joe Biden Not to Debate Trump"

https://www.newsweek.com/supporters-urge-joe-biden-not-debate-trump-applaud-hosts-canceling-over-covid-19-concerns-1522178

[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 3 years ago

"The Biden campaign and the attempt to “rescue” American hegemony" by Andre Damon:

et caveat emptor!

[-] 1 points by elf3 (4203) 4 years ago

The solution is - Quarantine all non essential workers. Freeze rent and mortgages. RUSH TO BUILD AND DELIVER RESPIRATORS TO HOSPITALS ASAP (not to mention masks and hand sanitizers). And set up emergency hospital space and buildings for when hospitals run out of room. Pay essential employees in health care and respirator and food production hazard pay from a government fund so they don't abandon their jobs and deliver rations to homes so people don't spread the virus getting food. LET THE STOCKS FALL. Because when this thing really hits - this will make sense - but it will be too late. TRUMP are you going to continue sit back and let Wallstreet profiteer of the deaths and economic destruction of average people? Is that how you want to go down in the history books? As the greediest most sell out incompetent president in American history? You can still turn this thing around right now there is time but it's running out - stop listening to your WS advisors - do the right thing. Iceberg straight ahead.

[-] 1 points by elf3 (4203) 4 years ago

as well as Government workers are keeping the private sector working on the front lines of the pandemic so we can continue to pay for them to sit home hording toilet paper and bingeing on Netflix while they determine we are EXPENDABLE and do nothing to help us. Um what are they going to do when we are too sick to move? Do they honestly believe there will be enough money to keep paying for their extended hiatus?

[-] 1 points by elf3 (4203) 4 years ago

History Repeats - our captain wanders around the ship as America pleads "What shall we do?" and the answer is to hold up a hand and say …"my test results come back next week" as he literally wanders off in the exact manner as the captain on the Titanic. Mothers look to their children and say "don't worry sweetie after the rich first class people sell off their stocks they will quarantine us and help pay our bills (there will be plenty of room in the boats for us all dear)" replace boats with the word RESPIRATOR.

[-] 1 points by elf3 (4203) 4 years ago

Ok boomers... just work your kids right into their graves. People with suppressed immune systems still forced to go to work in a grocery store for their insurance or deliver for UPS or Amazon. Do the rich think Americans are going to continue to tolerate more of the same when the American people are already talking about uprising? And that is the going conversation as the rich retreat to their secluded vacation homes to hide from the virus as they point and click on their stock trades - HOFFA I'M TALKING TO YOU as you leave Union workers out in the cold you corporate bought rat.

[-] 1 points by elf3 (4203) 4 years ago

and when it comes to it - no one is going to be able to pay their bills. So what do the rich think is going to happen - do they envision millions of Americans heading to the homeless refuge tent camps set up to help house all the new homeless as they buy up our family homes on the cheap? Who is going to buy your products when everyone is homeless? You think the government will be able to afford it? When all is said is done - America is going to eat the rich of this nation - the party is over and WALLSTREET you just don't get it. You think we will complacently stand in a line to our new encampments as you buy our homes? Nope PATRIOTS line up outside your mansions and outside the Whitehouse and force you to do the right thing. Democrats and Republicans will come together. We outnumber you. And the majority of people are humane. We will no longer tolerate this inhuman entity called WALLSTREET controlling our population and the system we employ.

[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 3 years ago

"A Seattle COVID19 Survivor gets a $1.1 million, 181-page Hospital Bill!" .. by Danny Westnmeat:

radix omnium malorum est cupiditas!

(love of money is the root of all evil!)

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[-] -1 points by grapes (5232) 4 years ago

The statistics show that younger people have lower chances of dying than older people. The underlying reason is that younger people have more lung capacity reserve ( healthy people generally possess five times the lung capacity for normal survival needs but it tends to degrade over time, some due to controllable factors such as smoking ) and less sensitivity in their immune systems.

CoViD-19's virus doesn't kill much by itself but the fluid left over after the initial viral infection in the lungs' alveoli can be infested by all kinds of bacteria and attacked by the body's immune system, the older the person, the more ferocious the attack usually, due to prior immune response experiences { I suspect that sepsis has a similar origin thus culling the people who have had prior infections so soap and clean water can reduce or prevent the occurrence of the very deadly sepsis }, thus causing more "debris and rubble" clogging up and solidifying the alveoli's gas-and-vapor-permeable ( to gases such as oxygen, carbon dioxide, and vapors such as water vapor ) membranes, making them inelastic and incapable of inflating and deflating to exchange gases. If oxygen cannot get through the damaged alveoli, the person might die of asphyxiation due to having insufficient reduced functional lung capacity.

Sometimes at least it's a rather quick ( and maybe even pleasurable--people were known to have killed themselves or others while pursuing this ultimate pleasurable high during sex and gone too far but some came back from the dead to tell the stories ) death: the person loses consciousness and falls down on the floor, having a few heavings and twitches, and then becoming motionless -- dead, after behaving a bit like a car running out of gasoline and sputtering to a halt.

As long as sufficient oxygen gets through the lungs to the rest of the body, the person may well live on. Hence, breathing a higher concentration of oxygen in the gases one breathes in can help by making the remaining functional lung capacity more efficient at delivering oxygen. Oxygen blockage may be circumvented.

[-] 1 points by elf3 (4203) 4 years ago

Thanks for the puppet show asshole - we're just trying to bring back humanity and empathy here. Really appreciate the people like you who make a special appearance to fight back against the stand for human decency. in favor of what cuz you know we are going on that same short walk to the grave apart from any pandemic right. This is what you do with your short time on Earth? Nice. Do you work for Veritas or something like it? Because I'm sure those Veritas mother fuckers have been torturing members of this movement from the moment we got legally got classified as terrorists for fighting to make this world halfway liveable for average people. Hacking us and shit. Do you ever ask yourself what if you are wrong? Oh I guess that is the entire fucking thing wrong with this world - people who just don't wonder if they are maybe u know....wrong? And don't care if they are either. I saw that movie - I think it was called Blade Runner or Robocop - anyway I'd rather not live in your shitty version of the future. Pick on someone your own size and I'm talking about your wallet (not your infinitesimally small grapes).

[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 3 years ago

I can not reply to U here: http://occupywallst.org/forum/to-all-let-this-be-told/#comment-1078853 & that's because it is the end of the 15 replies on the mini-thread. More importantly however is the fact that I can barely read your 'wall of text' because of The Lack Of Paragraphing! I'd appreciate it .. if U would do that otherwise your heartfelt reply there becomes unreadable, much like the walls o' shit by gripes below this reply. I know that it's not very easy to do while writing here but please do it in ''edit'' Thanx in anticipation

et fiat lux!

[-] 0 points by grapes (5232) 4 years ago

Many of us are the [¿proud?] graduates of "Fk U," not the now-defunct "Trump U." Humanity and empathy are fine and grand, if accompanied by proper actions. The number-one rule in dealing with a crisis is to take a deep breath to calm the emotions. Then accept what has already happened ( free U education,) anticipate what may well happen based on actual knowledge, and steer accordingly to optimize the probability of attaining the ends, such as humanity and empathy. Breathing is essential for most lifeforms. Cash has been trash for a very long while so this crisis is really only a blowback ( the stores will probably still have the basic supplies despite our people's hoarding; they just need more cash or "manna from heaven" to buy the supplies.) In September 2019, thrombosis had already formed but heparin dissolved it and delayed others. Heparin seemed to have lost its efficacy in recent days, due to much of the tolerance ( i.e. expectations of the financial classes for evermore free-money bailouts from then "helicopter Ben" throwing huge bales of newly created cash onto Wall Street via low-interest rates; the Federal Reserve has lost most of its ammunition because the interest rates haven't been normalized so borrowers were favored over savers; naturally, there is now very little savings left { there was so much credit and there was so little cash left around relative to the nearly-always-growing inverted debt pyramid it shored up that the overnight U.S. treasuries repurchase agreements' interest rate spiked up to 10% in September of 2019 because the corporations which had made so much credit profits had to pay the U.S. Government with real cash/near-cash for their estimated taxes due at the end of the fiscal year } to cushion an inevitable jolt which biologists, epidemiologists, and fiction authors have been predicting for quite a while already; there's also the idiotic trillions of dollars of tax cuts in boom times so there may be very little fiscal stimulus possible without risking the longer-term collapse/devaluation of the U.S. dollar as the British pound-sterling had experienced before, while the British Empire was being disbanded before its ending in 1997 ) built up since the 2007-2013 Great Recession.

For all who can see through the golden piss, there is the shit/mierda of the gods therein ( some people probably laughed happily while going to their banks with that ). It's "freely given, freely take"--humanity and empathy given in equal opportunity alright. What saves a Christian? Faith. ( I do have an amendment to add to that, though--add in facts, plausible mechanisms, and probabilities; our future is fundamentally random but it does follow a knowable and somewhat controllable pattern, to be traversed one step at a time as if we're skating with our eyes cast upon where we want to go: only one step at a time is required--I fell many times learning to skate because my legs kept on swerving apart under my body away from each other so I shortly went splat although all that I had to do was to lift up a foot and take a step to where I wanted to shift my body weight; it's important to know where one wants to go and where one doesn't want to go { it was astounding how many "beautiful girls" in the words of my friend/companion had come to help me get back up onto my feet--splat, splat, splat, .. or my ¿bruises? attracted kind-hearted women; I wonder whether Dad's "unicorn horn" created in no-kidding Cape Town by South African apartheid had worked similarly } ) It's fine to dispense "opiate for the masses" because everyone is already an opiod addict, made so by the pleasure-reward bio-circuitry. An oxygen-generating/concentrating machine if used properly may very well ward off a suffocating death.

Dad used to say to me, "The alphabets know me but I don't know them." That explained why he urged me to learn "tea-time" because I "knew English" right after I had learnt the alphabets. He confidently told me that all English text consisted only of the twenty-six alphabets which I had already learnt ( i.e. 'a' for 'apple' and 'arm', .., 'z' for 'zebra' and 'zoo'.) Understanding needs a shared cultural background. It's why I emphasized, 》Ein Volk, ein Land, eine Kultur.《 ( i.e. "One people, one country, one culture.") It's the goal but we're not necessarily there yet.

If you truly believe and accept death, you will transcend your fear of death after you have emerged alive and well. Of course, your behavior will surely change after that. "One mustn't commit suicide for the fear of one's death ! "--paraphrasing Otto von Bismarck. If Bushit had heeded that advice regarding Saddam Hussein's having stashed WMD underneath his bed in his presidential palace, maybe we wouldn't have had the fiasco that Iraq is.

Trump's tariff war which caused a major backup and stockpiling of food by our farmers is a stroke of genius ( as long as we do manage to get them successfully delivered to feed our people despite the novel coronavirus' attack.) The U.S. dollar's valuation overseas doesn't matter much to our food supply as we produce most of it domestically. We do get some tropical fruits and groceries from our southern neighbors such as Mexico, Costa Rica, Chile, Colombia, Honduras, Guatemala, etc. It's why we shouldn't aggravate Mexico too much, for example, by calling names. Mexico has a drug violence problem to deal with which at times spills over to the U.S. We need cooperation with our neighbor Mexico to deal with that. The Drug War is a major conflict near our southern border with Mexico. We need the Texan swagger patrolling the border alright. Texass! Texass! Texass!

[-] -1 points by grapes (5232) 4 years ago

How a suffocating being died as I described is more than just a shitty vision. I saw how a pigeon was suffocated. Human beings also died in a similar way from CoViD-19 ( if media haven't censored the videos as death and sex are taboo subjects although they're integral parts of life--all beings with life die and most beings attain a form of "eternal life" through sex and potentially new births ). I don't know "the" future, for there are numerous ones, but I do know that in Pascal's Triangle, the numbers nearer to the midline are larger than the numbers at the extremes. A random walk down the triangle, as time goes on, tends to land near the middle rather than near any extreme. Pattern thus emerges from randomness. The probable tends to happen is the supreme law of the universe ( which states that the many possible "future [worlds]" are in thermal equilibrium with each other so statistical mechanics applies { use ¿Boltzmann distribution? or a variant such as ¿Fermi-Dirac distribution? What are the observable consequences of the type of the distribution? Is the conditioning of our "future [worlds]" governed by the law of distribution of bosons or [Enrico] fermions? } and the event-induced "collapse" of a quantum wavefunction is nothing more than what the rule of conditioned probabilities dictates ). A number of Americans will absolutely die as described.

I wondered about how dog-meat vendors prepared the furry dogs for sale after a dog had been clubbed to death inside of a burlap sack after much mayhem of yelping, barking, whining, and whimpering. After slitting its belly and eviscerating it, a triangular file for boring round holes was shoved through the mouth of the dead dog all the way through the carcass. It's then roasted over fire to burn off all of the fur in a rotisserie-like contraption to make dog-kebab. Voila! Roast dog was thus made available as meat for sale. From science, service.

Chickens' feathers were stripped off in a different way, though: by dipping the throat-slit ( the feathers on the chicken's pulled-back neck were first plucked off to expose its throat before slitting it ) blood-drained ( to make it ¿kosher? ) chicken into a bucket of gooey tar and then strip-plucking all of its feathers off. It's then cleaned/¿baptized? in a bucket of water. From religion, symbolic rebirth. Easter's coming.

We ate chickens ( I also ate the puny thighs and [match]sticks of the suffocated pigeon; I went on to eat its wing muscles after my Big Brother had explained that not all birds lived the same lifestyle--the pigeon wasn't a land rover like a chicken with much meat in its thighs but an air flyer with the huge muscles under its wings; "know and learn before making a wish"--tiny thighs and [match]sticks { it's not a chicken }, extremely sour kumquat { it's not an orange }, and cold { pre-microwave-oven-days } chickens for every breakfast could all be avoided.)

A modern American food-factory technique used carbon dioxide to "pacify" and suffocate the chickens en masse. Zyklon B (R) previously distributed from Hamburg, Germany, was definitely not used. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration isn't likely to approve using such a pesticide for slaughtering chickens.

If obesity ( in human beings, BMI > 30, but what's that number for different species of penguins? I presume that it must be higher due to the blubber normally needed by penguins to survive ) is a risk factor for death from CoViD-19, are penguins at risk? According to my Big Brother's avian lifestyle theory, they probably sport much blubber for heat insulation in order to live warm and well in the cold Southern Ocean, New Zealand, Patagonia, and Antarctica.

I picked my wallet ( when the dung beetle { whose relatives the shimmering colorful scarab beetles were "the jewels" found to be buried with Egyptian royal mummies of antiquity } rolls its ball made of the shit/mierda of the gods close-by, one needs to recognize that it's manna from heaven so cover your nose and take the gift; I was told that when "helicopter Ben" was throwing out bales of cash, I've got to get to the drop site--it's so very true and it explains why the information about where the drop site is must be classified to keep the information valuable to the select ones { when everyone knows, the information content, 《 as p approaches 0+, -p log p=0 for any logarithmic base, 》becomes worthless } but absolutely not understandable to "hoi polloi;" do you really think that no one knew that a pandemic was coming? on Wall Street, in Moscow, Washington, Switzerland, and Beijing, select people knew but the masses had to be kept in the dark to support arbitrage trading or 跑单帮, hadn't they? even the Associated Press had a wool pulled over its eyes believing in a much-later-than-fact non-China countries' date of knowing; truthiness was manufactured--it's why young Iranians were clogging up roads to go to beaches to party when they were let out of schools to curb virus' spread so Iran now gets a well-calibrated number of CoViD-19 deaths every day; people largely died of pneumonia, not the coronavirus so by suppressing testing, politicians look much better than the truth: "it's just a flu," "it's just pneumonia," "just wash your hands carefully," "warm weather will make the virus go away," etc. let's see whether equatorial Africa will be spared; April is coming soon to the U.S. when the weather will be warm to make novel coronavirus "go away, like a miracle," so let us prey ) and found two so-called "shark's teeth" ( unsurprisingly, not my infinitesimally small grapes, but of ¿aristocratic origin? ) of the eviscerated humongous "dogfish" ( previously thrown at me for both "food and sex" to "survive with pleasure," I guess... ) Dad told me of his experience in winter trying to dock and land in Hamburg, Germany, "It was so cold but I had to walk a mile on top of solid ICE to go ashore." From him who had spent so much of his life crisscrossing the Moon-sized now West American Salty Lake, I learnt perseverance so I would "walk a mile for a vertical smile." How many hamburgers I ate last year is by now classified as a CCP "state secret." There goes the smoking-and-coughing-with-¿CoViD-19? Marlboro(R) cowboy with laryngeal cancer riding into the sunset while muttering: ,,Vergiß nie, daß du ein Deutscher bist." This is the peoples' war, not that of a coughing mustang-herding smoking cowboy ( as mechanization has already made an older cowboy obsolete ) which involves crossing the Rio Grande violating the prime directive of the five-year exploratory mission to star systems. Let each dog fertilize its own favorite tree. Might not an old seadog pissing at its favorite fire hydrant in Hamburg, Germany's jurisdiction be frozen solid there by a deviant paranoid?