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Yeah! You go shop those…

Yeah! You go shop those looted and burned out now-missing stores. Ha ha ha ha ha, hah.

Personally, I hope they…

Personally, I hope they remove all first responders. 100% of them. I only need the Second Amendment and some fire extinguishers. /s/ urban-prepper since 2006

Chicago Police Officers…

Chicago Police Officers shoot [European] man in video-recorded Red Line struggle:

https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2020/2/28/21158400/police-involved-shooting-man-grand-red-line-cta

Both cops were porky black americans attempting to murder a white man for no good reason. THERE WERE NO RIOTS. Black cops shot down an innocent white man for no valid reason.

Yet no riots and blacks didn't prostrate themselves before us. And their neighborhoods were not burned, so they still had grocery stores.

Next.

 

Didn't cost him his balls…

Didn't cost him his balls. Cost him a ball, at most.

All hail Sperg-a-tron 2020. Ball counter. Love ya brother. Sincerely.

They were under oath subject…

They were under oath subject to the penalties of perjury? I say lots of shit, that doesn't make it true. Or false.

Settle a bet...are we…

Settle a bet...are we talking about Esterhuas or Chris Doyle here?

Most definitely Chris Doyle. While I've led an extraordinary life, I am just not that interesting. I am going to keep it that way while speaking for an underserved community, mysort.

I thank God I do not worship…

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I represented USPS in its…

I represented USPS in its negotiations with Lance for USPS media representation mid-to-late nineties. I met Lance in person. His appearance would vary considerably day-to-day. Now, I believe his hyper-aggressive demeanor at times was at least partly a function of the drugs, doping and/or paranoia about being detected. I experienced the same thing with a roided-out workout partner once when I jokingly failed to pick up his shirt he’d slung over his shoulder and dropped during an intensive workout and next thing I knew was being suspended three inches above ground by my neck and his ridiculously over-sized arm as he was threatening to kill me for my failure. Drugs are bad, m’kay? In Lance’s case it cost him his balls. Gentlemen, need I say more?

As do Amazon, Google,…

As do Amazon, Google, Faceborg and all Five Eyes security apparatae. You recall the original film The Matrix? We live inside it. Even you, Comrade Hotel. Even The Orange One.

A part of my security…

A part of my security protocol when online is to always wear a condom. Religiously. Because you never know whether the person on the other side is icky and may give you cooties. I urge you to do the same and you should listen up! because I hold an advanced degree in computer science. (They actually gave me one of those paper thingies for a digital degree. Which for me is better than if they had awarded it digitally if you know what I mean, Vern.)

I'll take a doctor's opinion…

I'll take a doctor's opinion on the matter over an attorney's all day, every day.

Our Sopwith is an attorney. His opinion has been well-received here. Probably because he earned and applied a PhD in microbiology in addition to the JD. He's not alone on this site holding both an advanced STEM degree and a law license combined with industry experience. So there's that.

Not my authorship but this…

Not my authorship but this post reflects my view of where we are and where we are headed

https://old.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/gjxkam/what_will_undoubtedly_happen_from_a_macroeconomic/

May you live in interesting times.

Dunkirk

Paths Of Glory

Dunkirk

Paths Of Glory

Sink The Bismarck! (just for the title song)

There are some great Russian films, too, but I'm assuming most of you don't speak Russian like I do. Some good Finnish ones as well.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk…

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2020/05/16/neil-fergusons-imperial-model-could-devastating-software-mistake/

Not a whole lot of "science" behind this event. Fauci had 35 years, billions of dollars and thousands of employees with which to prepare. And yet here we are, gulag'd at home because CDC wasn't prepared for a pandemic. Science. LOL.

I plan a visit up there real…

I plan a visit up there real soon to shoot an animal in celebration of life’s precious nature. Just kidding. I am looking forward to reopening Isle Royale and backpacking there this summer. I miss Da Yoop.

It’s true they are…

It’s true they are underarmed and underarmored. Thankfully, the Whitmers of the ruling class puppets and billionaires’ slaves are driving the greatest arms buildup in U.S. history now as acquired by my fellow stock of straight, Christian European ethnics.

Even better though, we have recently acquired the means to build our own customized short and long barrels, with bonded and hardcast ammunition, and without identifying markings, so we can throw the weapon away and just build another one. Or three. Or one thousand.

And your sort cannot hope to put the genii back in that bottle EVAH. Cheers and goodnight, sweetheart.

Thankful your child has…

Thankful your child has pulled through with an excellent prognosis. My appendix burst decades ago and the experience was quite painful but here I am, typing.

Prayers today for you and your family, Xtra. And a separate prayer for the corn and its bounty. All things considered, may this be your best year on the planet yet and with even better to come.

I am rather fond of field… I am rather fond of field partridge with bush herbs sauced over campanelle pasta. I am patient prepping the bechamel, oh so creamy. What the coaching staff eats, I have no idea.
Look at my avatar and tell…

Look at my avatar and tell me what’s depicted is not ruggedly handsome for this station in life.

Just don’t ask about the outstretched finger. Two months locked down … it’s not so much appearance as the various primeval digital aromas. I truly suggest we don’t consider the finger, unless the context is excision on biological warfare grounds.

I am of course disregarding old man ear and nose hairs, the ones in full bloom, because their colorful and aromatic coatings appear to trap virii, bacteria, fungi and molds, larvae, bats, and some colonies of each.

Carry on, mind the gap.

how can an additional 30% of…

how can an additional 30% of "probable" deaths be attributes to COVID?

Political will and escapement of the consequences. We don't hold accountable those who lie to us anymore.

Because a minority of us are…

Because a minority of us are already tuned into your wavelength, kenneth. (REM) We're the ones with the guns. The number one contenders ... to tyranny by a pussified majority.

Arguably, we have bought…

Arguably, we have bought time to prepare our medical infrastructure, which despite the massive unnecessary money spent on healthcare (five times what we receive, it's a scam) with inanely poor preparation for an inevitable pandemic. In six weeks the US of A could have manufactured all the N95 masks and soap we need.

Do you have N95 masks? We put dudes on the moon in six years and you are telling me we couldn't have made vast numbers of N95 masks within six weeks? As a nation?

Time to go back to work and enjoy the summer days. Together.

Illinois does not ask me to…

Illinois does not ask me to wear a facemask to buy food. The state imposes wearing a facemask as a requirement of eating and surviving. I cannot enter a grocery store (Plum Market, I am loyal to A^2) without a face covering.

My wife received 50 grays of radiation and thus we were initially very concerned. Now by her permission I have fashioned a qualifying "cloth face mask" comprised of an old pair of BVD underwear combined with an old brassiere (hers but I'm gaining weight with the virus edicts).

I mock Governor Jabba The Butt and Mayor Hair & Nails every day. You are no more or less safe.

So if Texas state court…

So if Texas state court determines it does violate Constitutional rights you will be okay with that decision? It's up to SCOTUS formally, but moreso the citizenry.

Power derives from the gun…

Power derives from the gun. You could speed on the freeway all day long and never pull over unless those operating under the police powers could shoot you eventually. Our founders recognized this and gave us the right to keep and bear whatever arms we choose.

Read what I posted…

Read what I posted. Government can only quarantine sick people, and the burden of proof is on the government. Government cannot force me to remain in my home or wear a mask. Particularly a worthless mask.

You cannot impose mandatory…

You cannot impose mandatory testing. I have a Constitutional right to protect my personal medical data. This is established. It's your burden to demonstrate I carry the virus. Even though conceptually I _could_ carry the virus, you must prove I do or else you have no right to control my cooperation with medical testing. In fact, you may have an obligation to disclose why you are collecting my biological material.

It violates the US…

It violates the US Constitution. Our governments can quarantine ill denizens. Given the rights under the Bill of Rights and so-called penumbras, they cannot constitutionally quarantine healthy citizens. Burden on governments is to prove conclusively a given individual is dangerously unhealthy. If you argue we can do that, realize the end of the road that line of argument is we can lawfully lock up Nisei and Jews. Also Planned Parenthood providers and clients. Depending on the zeitgeist du jour (thank you Stephen Tonsor, late emeritus and my friend).

Z Man at the Zblog: https:/…

Z Man at the Zblog: https://thezman.com/wordpress/?p=20367#comments

Vox Popoli at http://voxday.blogspot.com/ and https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGJNdaSwFeP3pLd1MhN0dRg
Pleased you approve. Zero…

Pleased you approve. Zero fiction. I'm not an extraordinary man. However I have lived a freakishly extraordinary life. Cancer informed my fiancee and me early that we would not be having children. She recently forfeited a 9cm column of boob, and we've been addressing cancer and Cancer Inc. for twenty years.

Which has freed us in certain respects including financial. Ever wonder what it's like to spend three weeks climbing glaciers and mountains on the Antarctic continent? I have done that. Solo motorcycle across rural Africa and Russia? Done them. Navigate outrageously expensive racing yachts (not mine) around the world? Yep, me. Ate sunrise breakfast atop the gas envelope of a hot air balloon and then slid down the skin past the gondola shouting C-YA! (some Swedes did it first, we copied) Been there done that.

All 7 continents, 50 states and 100+ countries as well as all the oceans including Drake Passage. We haven't visited outer space. Yet. (Nor will we given age and technology, and I'm not inclined although she is.)

I used to pilot my body…

I used to pilot my body through the atmosphere and jump off various noteworthy tall objects. Still have a couple of rigs in the gear room at home. I once clocked 303 mph on my pro-Dytter while trying to beat Felix Baumgartner at the world freefall speed record. (I failed, it’s actually difficult to fall straight down on your head.)

Back then, I was routinely driving long distances on some roads at 150 mph/240 kph sustained. No tickets, I don’t care to describe how I avoided prosecution in some instances but I do enjoy challenges. And then I turned 40, and I began to realize that I was going to kill somebody eventually if I kept at it, driving like a booze runner during Prohibition, because nobody is consistently speed-worthy. Today, I am that piker in the slow lane shaking my fist and shouting through the windshield to get off my lawn.

As such, I realize that if we wanted, we could install engine governors on new cars and demand they be phased into older vehicles. This would save lives, a lot of human lives, problem being only a minority of Americans would support this intrusion on their driving practices. When I was young and more stupid, the first thing I would have done upon taking delivery of a new car would be to remove the governor. Just because. I am not alone in this respect.

Last Fall I lost an old friend, a colonel in the USMC and a giant bear of a man. Enroute to the Pentagon, my friend wrapped his fancy British racing motorcycle around a road sign and decapitated himself in the process.

Perhaps our future AI-piloted cars will handle increased speeds. We as human beings however perform best under 80 mph over land. Unless we’re drunk and riding in golf carts, and then the threshold is around 8 kph, I hear.

Dad had dropped out from M…

Dad had dropped out from M Engin to become the top disc jockey in Grand Rapids and “wisely” invest his meager pay in a race car. He would later become a successful finance guy but at the time I was eight or nine we were still recovering from his earlier career choices and lived frugally.

Dad’s boss gave him tix to a nothing game but it was my first one and I thoroughly enjoyed the Meechigan Stadium experience under Bo. A wealthy alumnus took interest in us by halftime and invited us to a fancy event post-game the man hosted at an A^2 banquet room.

Despite our poor dress the man seated us at his table and lavished us with anything we wanted to order. We’d been taught not to take advantage of kindness but I got to eat flaming steak diane and flaming bananas foster prepared tableside, and I had never even heard of those foods before.

Hours later the alum took us to his car and presented us with jerseys and an M flag, in fact, I still have the flag today. The entire event the man kept telling me, “someday young man you will go to Michigan!” Now about that actual game on the field the only thing I recall is that we were the victors. As for me and my future the wealthy alumnus was absolutely correct, I did go to Michigan and the aMaizeing treatment the man gave my Dad and me definitely contributed to my matriculation.

The modes of execution will…

The modes of execution will be sublime. Each attempting to outdo the prior one in twisted cruelty. Something I would pay to stream while locked down.

There are reports that he is…

There are reports that he is alive but no brain function

That condition hasn't slowed down Biden.

The remaining sections…

The remaining sections distilled

Part II: You Have Cooties!

Part III: Bad Cooties, Bad

Part IV: If Cooties ---> Administer IV Or Else

You remind me why I peruse the MGoBlogs. Because microbiology has been more interesting than Michigan football for the past twenty years. In any event, thanks Sopwith.

Keep it strictly secret…

Keep it strictly secret until you are ready to launch. Need to know basis under trade secret agreement. Organize as a corporation asap. If you or your spouse holds appreciable assets never, ever sign a personal guarantee. Don't sacrifice time with your children for a hypothetical goldmine. Accept you probably will not get rich but what the heck try anyway. Good luck. - musings of a patent lawyer 20+ years in-sport

+1 for "not just one field…

+1 for "not just one field of expertise." There is more to this event than a ferkin' virus and its associated low death rate.

1. Passengers were not…

1. Passengers were not permitted to leave their cabins.

Crew circulated around the vessels and sequentially entered passenger spaces. Crew subsequently bunked with fellow crew members. Some pax violated quarantine. Granted, contact was reduced much like it is in some office and machining spaces.

2. But if we open up over a longer time horizon, exponential infection growth rates will return

Yes, exponential infection growth rates shall return. All we did is extend the time horizon. Because until herd immunity develops, every instance you remove foot from the brake pedal the infection rate accelerates. Just as it does with other droplet-spread infections.

3. more on that ship became asymptomatic spreaders once on land

Sure, and some contracted fullblown Covid 19 once on land. Because contact tracing informs that some were exposed back home. The data on this relies on self-reporting and it’s not very trustworthy.

4. HAVE FINALLY BROKEN THE BACK ON EXPONENTIAL GROWTH OF INFECTION RATES in the United States

False. Once states “reopen” by next fall (or at any other time in the future) most of their infection and associated rates will accelerate exponentially. You cannot “break the back” of mass viral infections until herd immunity is achieved. All we’ve experienced for our efforts is to smooth the acceleration and spread it out into the future. We need herd immunity, which forced home stays only serve to delay, or else a vaccine and the odds of creating a successful vaccine are between Slim and None and Slim is on vacation.

Sunlight is a powerful disinfectant. Time to circulate about in most locales and generate your natural vitamin D.

However we had no business…

However we had no business shutting down our economy and imprisoning healthy people – these aspects derive from sheer paranoia – and the fact governments are extending unconstitutional stay-at-home executive orders under guise of “flattening the curve”

Despite decades of attempts, no vaccine has ever succeeded against a coronavirus. Apart from pharma marketing hype, there is no reason to believe that a vaccine is possible.

By “flattening the curve” you provide your medical infrastructure with additional time to prepare and not much else. Herd immunity cannot develop if the population is locked up. Suicides, obesity, deferment of “elective” medical procedures, malnutrition and other morbidities resulting from home confinement will damage and kill far more people than Covid 19 over time.

(which will balloon almost immediately once the orders are lifted and interstate commerce resumes at scale)

It’s inevitable that enforcement of social distancing measures will abate. With no herd immunity, the rate at which folks will contract Covid 19 will increase, thus, the curve will steepen again.

demonstrates the concerns today are overblown"

We have bought time for the medical infrastructure to prepare. Some people will die from Covid 19 ten and twenty years from now. Concerns today and going forward are overblown because these deaths are going to occur unless an effective vaccine is developed and this is unlikely.

I didn't know it was possible to read a sentence with this many contradictions

You should get out more. Take a nice hike.

When you bring lots of…

When you bring lots of people together in close quartered working environments, it is inevitable a bunch of people will get sick.

No, it isn’t inevitable. The various cruise ship data show fewer than 20% pax and crew were exposed to coronavirus. Of those with detected antibodies, very few people got sick. Of those who did fall ill, only a small percent died. Cruise liners are petri dishes compared to most work environments.

The meat plant employees are majority immigrants who are often living at home under crowded conditions. They brought the virus from their homes and contaminated the locker rooms where they don their booties, smocks, gloves and other kit. The environment in the operational areas of the meat plants are not conducive to communicating disease.

WuFlu arrived in the U.S…

WuFlu arrived in the U.S. last year from both PRC and Europe. Somewhat different flavors of coronavirus that have continued to evolve. Covid 19 is a real disease, I contracted a bad case of it, and by February we should have closed air travel and immigration from affected countries. We also ought to have sheltered our most vulnerable demographics as determined from then-available data (age and medical comorbidities) and given these folks assistance from government, private industry and charity.

However we had no business shutting down our economy and imprisoning healthy people – these aspects derive from sheer paranoia – and the fact governments are extending unconstitutional stay-at-home executive orders under guise of “flattening the curve” (which will balloon almost immediately once the orders are lifted and interstate commerce resumes at scale) demonstrates the concerns today are overblown.

It’s time to get back to work, the infrastructure has had enough time to adapt, the supply chain which we all depend upon is breaking down. It's helpful to consider the overall U.S. death numbers from all causalities isn't going to be significantly higher in 2020 than if the WuFlu and related events never occurred. See you out and about.

The local brothel makes…

The local brothel makes house calls. It was mask and glove play at six-foot distance. Afterwards we disinfected in separate bathrooms. Pretty much like my married life except the money stretched farther. Thank you for the stimulus.

The entire population of the…

The entire population of the world isn’t particularly vulnerable to covid 19. It’s a big nothing-burger for most. The medical establishment is acquiring antibodies for all blood types. Gamma immunoglob is old technology, yet one proven to work well under circumstances and hence my original question for those medical folks who are knowledgeable and in position to contribute. No need to reply if you don’t know.

Why isn’t the medical…

Why isn’t the medical establishment testing the efficacy of gamma/immunoglobulin?

I’m a global trekker, at least until recently, and thus have been injected with practically every preventative travel vaccine imaginable, including rabies and Japanese encephalitis and other odd diseases. Some of those vaccines were accompanied by an gamma/immunoglobulin shot or three. I survived the pain of immunoglob injections (they’re thick as pancake batter and your body doesn’t like them) and avoided the infections during remote, rural expeditions to Africa, east and subcontinental Asia, and S. America inter alia.

And so I wonder why gamma/immunoglobulin isn’t being tested for therapy. Do any of you medical folks know why not? Forgive my lack of terminology, life sciences ain’t my thing.

My household contracted it… My household contracted it cusp of January-February when a Chinese national, I saw his passport, coughed what seemed like a quart of hot snot on my head and neck while descending to ORD. I promptly gave it to my wife, an immunocompromised cancer patient, without knowing I was infected. My wife suffered terrible feeling and dry cough but not much else. After more than one week I was coughing up handfuls of saturated bloody foam each hour or less. I wanted to die and have never felt so aweful before with exception of food borne illness contracted in rural Russia, in which both ends of my gastrointestinal tract were forcefully ejecting concurrently in various bathtubs. Said foam reverted to white, relatively dry and not colored like bacterial. Still felt like shards of broken glass bouncing around inside my lungs, and I’ve never smoked although I did operate an air hammer when young under terrible conditions. The virus and disease are real, however, our lockdown was the wrong response and Fauci should be lined up against a wall with Witmer, Lightfoot and Pritzker behind him and then …. My problem now is after weeks recovered my mental acuity is shot and I cannot sustain abstract thought, and my vocation as a patent lawyer requires abstract, as well as pre-infection and so what do I do? Deliver sub-par or chance that I may get things correct? This is where it has really zapped me.
"Candy bars. They usually…

"Candy bars. They usually come in a wrapper. Just like you... wrap a Christmas present. Christmas happens when it's cold. Cold, as in Alaska - that's... with polar bears. Polar bears... pola... polarity!" "Butt sex requires a lot of lubrication, right? Lubrication. Lubruh... Chupuh... Chupacabra 's the, the goat killer of Mexican folklore. Folklore is stories from the past that are often fictionalized. Fictionalized to heighten drama. Drama students! Students at colleges usually have bicycles! Bi, bian, binary. It's binary code!"

Cramer is bald. Bald. Bald is synonymous with naked. Naked. Just like we all get naked. Naked greed, at the expense of American employees. Employees … Chains, chans ... it never ends.

Abuse? It’s been the… Abuse? It’s been the billionaire and now trillionaire plan since pre-1913. Certain folks, families and figureheads intend to consolidate all worth in their own hands with exception of a few caretakers. They are by nature narcissists and psychopaths. Unbounded pleasure, knowledge and control and the entire renewed planet plus the hoped-for notion of their own colonized planets for recreation. I used to laugh at the tinfoil hats conspiracists (Ron Unz et al.) until I actually examined the record and their claims. Feel free to castigate my tinfoil hat look, but please spend a few tens of hours analyzing our history and test the more-interesting claims. The smarter ones amongst you will eventually reluctantly concede the patterns. Right now, this is just yet another mopping up operation to hoover up assets and debts at scandalous pricepoints. I'm serious. 0.02
Chicago has now imposed a 9…

Chicago has now imposed a 9 p.m. curfew on the sale of alcoholic beverages. I feel like Bluto in Animal House, “they took the bar! The whole effing BAR!!!” Where’s Otter to toss you a whisky at times like this?

We’re beginning to plan deliberate violations of the stay at home orders here. Vulnerable demographics can remain segregated, perhaps with government and neighborly assistance, but life must go on and we are going back to work soon regardless of “expert” edicts. If our mayor can get her hair cut and pose immediately next to her stylist without mask and gloves, then we can jog through the park and meet and confer in person with clients while exercising appropriate protocols for reducing exposure. This event has been badly miscalculated, both in terms of severity and economy, and the folks in charge know it.

Good luck to those of you back in my home state. As for my fellow Chicagoans:  see you outdoors and at work, soon.

How does affluence correlate…

How does affluence correlate to assault and battery victimhood? Oh yeah, because assailants target perceived affluence. I'm defense-minded, not looking to exercise the itchy finger. And you don't want to know how that finger got itchy. Trust me on this in a time of depleted toilet paper stocks.

CoverZero, a few suggestions…

CoverZero, a few suggestions. First, welcome to lawful firearms ownership, it truly is a great community and you will be appreciated for looking after you and yours. Don’t be wedded to a particular brand, undertake some online research and poll the gun shop personnel. Then buy according to logical requirements with special consideration for availability and price of appropriate ammunition.

Glock is not magic, the 30 just works for me, I also own other brands. Even if you don’t anticipate daily carry, buy a kydex/aramid holster because you may need to carry during exigencies even if unlawful. Assuming available, also buy a storage safe, eye guard and ear protection – eventually, you will need the latter two for training, which you absolutely need even if ex-military (different environment) but understandably training is presently curtailed given the virus. Hitting a moving target is not the same as punching holes in paper targets. Know that if you discharge a firearm inside structure you are going to lose hearing permanently unless you protect the ears with inserts or headphones.

Don’t tell your neighbors you own, you want to behave as the proverbial gray man, unnoticed and a nothing object that doesn’t stand out to a potential pack of attackers (it’s seldom just a single assailant, usually packs of them). Unless you are careless, owning a firearm and not needing one is vastly superior to not possessing a firearm and needing one. A former professor at N’western of mine, Dr. Lee, was one of those folks atop the family dry cleaning business pointing shotguns during the Rodney King riots and their business was the only local establishment that wasn’t destroyed. Good luck and trust yourself with a gun even moreso than a ballot.