[Guns America] What are we to believe with the numbers coming out of China? The World Health Organization this week declared a global pandemic. How is that possible with only a few very closely guarded infections in countries outside of China, and only about 500 people killed in China by the epidemic?
Somebody is wrong or lying. Either the WHO should not have pulled the trigger on calling it a pandemic, or the Chinese are lying. None of the information adds up. But there have been glances at what may be the true picture of what is going on in Wuhan.
Look at the above image. It is from a recent article on a recent article on Zero Hedge. The picture is a screengrab from the website Tencent, and their official "Epidemic Situation Tracker."
There are two images next to each other in the picture, with the same data, one day apart. On the left it shows the numbers for February 1st, 154,023 infected, and 24,589 dead. Then the next day, on the right, the numbers are severely reduced to what were the official government numbers of the day.
Meanwhile, out of Wuhan, there are reports that the crematoriums are running 24/7, and burning 100 bodies per day. The government has banned funerals. The people are dying, and they take them immediately out to be burned.
Here in the US, things are as normal. Even the stock market has recovered on news that a vaccine is on the way.
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could be that a first
wave of the virus was especially lethal as it infected Wuhana
as the virus mutated successive waves have been less so
it happens sometimes that the transmissibility and lethality of successive waves of a virus change
this happened with the 2009 h1n1
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The last thing I saw on the subject suggested that the drugs to affect retroviruses were being effective because they were both retroviruses, and didn't rely on closer similarities.
#7
grom - please explain. I don't pretend to understand this stuff, but a quick Google search says that the drugs involved are both protease inhibitors. These inhibit the virus's ability to replicate itself. From what I see, they aren't changing the host at all.
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Sorry, I was wrong - I thought of something else. It is virus specified protease. But, if it has a similar active site & inhibitor is active site directed, than it may work on different types of viruses. My guess, they tried it because they have it and, what do they've to lose? And it worked. A few months from now, we'll see a paper explaining why it worked.
[The Hill] Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) shocked his fellow Republican senators and surprised much of the nation on Wednesday with a dramatic floor speech announcing he would vote to convict President Trump on the impeachment charge of abuse of power.
Romney announced his decision in a nearly empty Senate chamber just hours before the Senate voted to acquit Trump and after fellow GOP colleagues such as Sens. Susan Collins (Maine) and Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) had already announced they would not vote to convict Trump.
Just as surprising as his vote was the intensity of the 2012 Republican presidential nominee’s language.
While other Senate Republicans chided Trump for "inappropriate" conduct, Romney said "the president is guilty of an appalling abuse of public trust" and "a flagrant assault on our electoral rights."
"The grave question the Constitution tasks senators to answer is whether the president committed an act so extreme and egregious that it rises to the level of a ’high crime and misdemeanor.’ Yes, he did," he said.
#7
Remove him from all committees and responsibilities. Pierre Defecto can sit in the back row by himself
That's my initial reaction too. I think Cocaine Mitch is playing it perfectly by not mentioning these kinds of punishments, knowing that they could use the occasional Romney vote here and there. Otherwise Romney should just switch parties and get it over with.
#14
He hopes to take back the Republican party in 2024 for his kind, thinking the current situation results only from the presence of The Donald. After all, everybody he respects loathes the man.
#15
I am more disgusted by his invoking his god than I am buy his vote. God does not require or support petty, selfish, childish vengeance. If yours does, lose him.
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#14 He hopes to take back the Republican party in 2024 for his kind
Agreed. But Pierre is so f---ing clueless, as usual.
Someone needs to tell this clown that his time is over.
Trump & Boris Johnson have put a stake through the heart of the Global Grifter Era.
It's behind us now. Rear-view mirror.
No turning back to the China-worship and private-equity financial-engineering and money-fiddler's economy that nearly destroyed our countries' working middle class. Gone. Not going back there.
[cue fellow Angel Moroni-fan Donny Osmond, crooning] Go away, little girl.
#23
"Romney said 'the president is guilty of an appalling abuse of public trust' that would be YOU, Pierre] and 'a flagrant assault on our electoral rights.'" [Read the Constitution, jack@ss, just like you swore you would when you took your oath of office. 'Waaahhh, my feewings are hurt,' is NOT a high crime or misdemeanor, no matter what you think.] IDIOT. >:-(
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[Free Beacon] As establishment Democrats grow wary of a Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) nomination, MSNBC anchor Chris Matthews raised the possibility of Rep. Adam Schiff (D., Calif.) emerging as the Democratic nominee during a contested convention.
"How about Adam Schiff?" Matthews asked during a discussion about the primary nomination. "Could they all agree let’s give it to Schiff?" "I got a tingle!"
Schiff, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, has gained notoriety for leading the Democratic impeachment of President Donald Trump. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) made Schiff the lead impeachment manager for the Senate trial, which is expected to end with Trump's acquittal Wednesday.
Matthews raised the possibility of Schiff's nomination after asking his panel whether anyone could receive the nomination if it's not decided by the time of the Democratic National Convention this July. He was told the nomination "could go to anyone," whether they ran in the primary or not.
Matthews made the comment during a discussion on whether former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg could emerge as an acceptable alternative to Sanders, who has gained momentum in the early primary states.
"Bernie is a tough fighter. He doesn't look like a guy who is going to quit and give his marbles to somebody else," Matthews said.
Former Democratic congressman Steve Israel agreed, telling Matthews, "We may be going to Milwaukee without a clearly established nominee."
Winners and well-intentioned nonpartisans get to share their opinion:
[The Hill] The House has its share of infamies, great and small, real and symbolic, and has been the scene of personal infamies from brawls to canings (good times. Good. Times.)
But the conduct of Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) at the State of the Union address this week will go down as a day of infamy for the chamber as an institution. It has long been a tradition for House Speakers to remain stoic and neutral in listening to the address. However, Pelosi seemed to be intent on mocking President Trump from behind his back with sophomoric facial grimaces and head shaking, culminating in her ripping up a copy of his address.
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Pelosi broke the law. See 18 Code US 2027 establishef 1868 and is still the law. That was THE ORIGINAL document presenyed to her, The Speake, by ths POTUS.
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I would have thought the original document is on file in President Trump’s office, while what the honourable Speaker of the House and Vice President Pence were given were merely ceremonial copies so they could follow along as the president spoke.
#5
From the video they looked like double-spaced lines of Pica-12 (sized for blind people) lettered "information copies". The official one is probably single-spaced, fancy letterhead, signature and all that official stuff.
#6
TW. Daily speeches to Congress are entered into the Congressional Record and a copy must be presented to the Senate and the House by the person speakibg before both chambers. Pelosi tore up the House Congressional Record copy presented by the speaker.
#9
In the UK Bercow the dismally partisan ex-speaker has not received anything after leaving his position, it's normal to get something and most deserved it.
#12
The lawmaker asked that after conducting the ethics probe, the committee make referrals to the Department of Justice “for further investigation and prosecution.”
Pelosi, Gaetz alleges in the letter, “appears to be in violation” of a law that prohibits willfully destroying paper or documents “filed or deposited” in public office.
#14
This was like a lawyer in a jury trial making faces during his opponent's closing argument. It might feel good in the moment, but the jurors -- 37 million American viewers -- hate it.
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#15
The House Speaker represents not her party or herself but the entirety of the chamber.
She is too blinded by her arrogance for this realization. Resignation? Ritual suicide is also acceptable.
#16
She won't resign. The only hope is that after November she'll become the House Minority Leader.
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#17
She's doing a news conference right now - deranged and haggard
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#18
I watched a few minutes of the mad blathering fool it while on the stationary bike. She continues to credit the current economic upturn with the work done by Obama. Not certain who she thinks is convinced of that.
#19
She's barking mad. Lost all contact with reality.
Proof positive that these people - who, contrary to their BS about "glitches" in the Iowa "vote-counting app," really do know how to count heads and assess which way the political winds are blowing - know they are f---ed for November.
[American Thinker] - The very wrong energy policy being pursued in the U.S. and even more so in Europe has its roots in a 1987 report from the United Nations. Enemies general of the human kind, to be dealt with as wolves are.
The report called Our Common Future is normally referred to as the Brundtland Report after Harlem Brundtland, a Norwegian Politician, and chairman of the committee that wrote the report. Mrs. Brundtland in the introduction to the report states that: "We became convinced that major changes were needed, both in attitudes and in the way our societies are organized."
...The Brundtland Report is often considered to mark the beginning of the modern sustainability movement. The problem with sustainability is that empirically it is just wrong. A business school professor, Julian Simon, wrote the book: The Ultimate Resource 2. His theme is that human ingenuity is the ultimate resource. We don't need to starve our economy by saving resources for future generations. Economic history shows conclusively that every resource scare is fixed by human ingenuity. Simon gives many examples. Good examples are energy shortages fixed by fracking or the impending famine fixed by genetic engineering in agriculture.
...Renewable energy is mostly applied to the generation of electricity. Electricity in the U.S. is generated by using coal, natural gas, nuclear energy and hydroelectricity. About 7% comes from wind and solar. Coal is well suited for generating electricity. We have vast resources and modern plants are nearly pollution free. But coal is being driven out of business by the Sierra Club that has a long running hysterical campaign against coal.
...Nuclear electricity does not emit CO2 or noxious substances. The fuel is extremely cheap, costing much less than already cheap natural gas. But, in the U.S. the nuclear industry has been driven to the wall by attacks from the environmental movement. Essentially, they have destroyed the industry with legal and political attacks, making it impossible to build new plants. Nuclear is prospering in Asia where they are short of indigenous fuel supplies. The environmental attacks are based on exaggerating controllable hazards such as radiation, bomb making and nuclear waste disposal.
...The promoters of renewable electricity advocate wind and solar electricity. There are other types of recognized renewable electricity but those are niche resources and are not scalable. Hydroelectricity is generally banned because the advocates of renewable electricity don't like dams. Wind and solar are scalable and you can have as much as you are willing to pay for.
Many states have established mandatory goals for what percentage of their electricity should be renewable. The leaders in what is a bizarre pursuit and the percentage of electricity expected to be renewable by 2030 are New York -70%, California -60%, and Nevada, Maryland and New Jersey, each at 50%. The catch is that it is easy to insert 5% or 10% wind or solar into the electric grid. The existing natural gas plants can compensate for the erratic and intermittent nature of wind or solar. The technical bottom line is that when the wind or solar starts being a bigger part of the grid, say 15% for solar and somewhat higher for wind, you run into difficulties. Solar and wind surge.
...Much of the waste and futility of renewable electricity is masked by federal subsidies amounting to about 75% of the cost of the plants. However, it seems that congress is losing its appetite to subsidize useless energy. The current subsidies are scheduled to decline and so far, congress is deaf to industry begging for a continuation of generous subsidies.
Kurt Schlichter at Town Hall
So, February 3, 4, and 5, 2020 were pretty much the most miserable three days in the history of the Democratic Party. I’m not laughing, really I’m not! You know how sometimes you have a bad day when nothing goes right? Well, these super-achievers managed to triple that streak. They are achievers in the same sense Hoover Snort Biden is an achiever.
Let’s start with Monday, February 3rd and the Iowa Caucuses. In their defense, it wasn’t like they had four years to get prepared to handle...counting. Oh wait, they did have four years to handle...counting. Okay, well, then in their defense they went to unionized failing government schools, so counting is hard. But not for the Republicans, who managed to count their votes just fine.
As of when you read this, they might still not have actual numbers. Audie Murphy Buttigieg, Crusty Commie Curmudgeon and Chief Sitting Bolshevik may well all still be claiming victory, while Gropey J’s handlers are likely still complaining about the process and Not Senile Joe himself is chasing an uppity squirrel around a Nashua park.
...Fresh from the hellish nightmare that was Monday came Tuesday with its own infernal events. The Iowa situation remained fluid, that fluid being similar to the hobo juice freely sprayed around Scat Francisco’s sidewalks. On Tuesday, rumors spread that Pete Rambo Buttigieg was linked to the mysterious app maker designated the fall guy for the caucus circus. Maybe it was true, maybe it wasn’t, but these are Democrats so it really doesn’t matter.
And then President Trump gave the best State of the Union speech pretty much ever, spending much of it listing real achievements that help real Americans while Nancy Pelosi fumed behind him, offering a running commentary to her invisible friend. Trump played the Dems like Pete Townsend plays the guitar. Among the things Trump got them not to applaud for were:
Record low unemployment
Record high stocks
Fair trade
Minority children not being stuck in failing government schools
People fighting cancer
Law enforcement
Our military
Killing terrorists
Not killing babies
America
God
These may have been good looks on college campuses and in communist bookstores, but not so much in the United States. The speech was masterful, and when Pelosi tore it up, she highlighted just how owned she was for the whole world to see.
...Then February 5th came along and their impeachment collapsed into rubble. We all knew it was coming, but then ... poof. Gone. You tried to take out the king, and you failed. How lame.
Yeah, history will record that you managed to impeach Donald Trump. History will also record that Donald Trump beat you donkeys like rented mules.
...So, three bad days...okay, but the coming days will be brighter and better, right? I mean, you have a great candidate for...oh. Well, you’ll get a big boost with the economy...oh. At least you can still count on minorities to back you even though you never, ever perform on your promises...oh.
Come to think of it, you Democrats might look back wistfully at the last three days because it’s only getting worse for you from here.
#2
You ain't seen nothing yet, Lex. The "elites" won't give up their privileges without a fight - you do realize that there are millions not trained for anything productive - who hold high paying white-collar jobs due to being good party persons?
I still think that Cruella DeBotox's performance was more akin to a death rattle, the last rantings of a dying hag, than anything remotely rational.
These are like Portents of the End Times.
Surreal:
Bloomberg, spending half a BILLION DOLLARS to win the right to lead the supposedly anti-billionaire party.
Surging candidate in IA: a gay millennial with no experience whose name begins with "Butt."
Other leading candidate: Bloomberg's mortal enemy, a Lenin impersonator (though Ilyich at least could stand up straight, unlike the Hunchback of Burlingt- er Brooklyn).
This is a procession of freaks. A vision of Death and the Apocalypse.
Are we seeing the death rattle of the Global Grifter Democrats?
#4
I repeat, what about millions of incompetent school teachers, college professors, bureaucrats of the sprawling welfare state? You think they just give up and hunt for a job now done by a "undocumented immigrant" (they're incompetent to do anything else)?
#8
Seriously,reclaiming the schools and the culture will take a generation.
Actually, either civil war or a major economic collapse [can you say 22 Trillion dollar debt Mssr Louis XIV], would result in radical readjustment of limited funding possibilities and priorities.
#12
I am waiting for technology to become cheaper and the teachers' unions to simply price themselves into extinction. Why pay for a teacher when you can rent VR goggles and get a better product online? At that point the main purpose of going to school is babysitting and that doesn't need fancy credentials.
#13
I hope the Republicans don't get cocky over this. I've seen the pubs snatch (remember when that was still a verb?) defeat from the jaws of victory too many times. We should always operate as if we're 5 points behind and stay frosty.
#16
Just to be clear: in the POLITICAL realm, everything is going against the Global Grifter Uniparty.
Against China-grifting, against one-worldism, against mass immigration from Mexico or Africa & "sanctuary cities," against 3 Cups o' Tea and nation-building & Afghan Girls Can Code etc etc
Which means in the POLITICAL realm of parties and elections, There will almost certainly be a major political realignment during this decade.
In the CULTURAL realm, the story is reversed. Those of us who stand for our civilization, our history and our western cultural values are on the back foot.
The identitarians & media/hollywood SS clowns are riding high. They utterly dominate the media, the schools, the entertainment industry, even the LANGUAGE we use in our day-to-day discourse.
So if we are to take back control of our discourse and language, of our schools and universities, of our culture, it will take at least a generation. Maybe two. Maybe never.
#17
You might say, "OK but how can this schizophrenic divide - between the election results and the cultural landscape - continue? House divided against itself," etc.
But it can and does happen, again and again, that a society functions well enough with massive discontents between its rhetoric and its reality, or between the stories it tells about itself and the way power is actually acquired and applied in daily life.
We have such a disconnect now, and have had one for half a century. Our elites handle it through the age-old universal solvent: hypocrisy. Lies, BS, The Shitshow.
They can continue to do so because they completely, totally control the Means of (Cultural) Production. Every single top research university, all of our public schools and nearly all of the religious schools as well, every Hollywood or streaming film production studio, every broadcast network and every major news or publishing house: ALL of them are dominated by executive leaders, publishers, editors, producers, creative talent, teachers, professors, administrators who hate our traditional culture, our great men and our traditional values.
It will take many decades for this vast left-wing/identitarian mandarinate to be displaced. If ever.
#19
1. Teachers in a classroom can see how students are reacting to the material and tailor the flow. Haven't heard of a VR system that can do that yet.
(yes that does assume good teachers)
2. the political realm is totally off the leash and who knows what's gonna happen.
3. The epidemic Wuflu may be 100 times worse than reported bu the Commie Chinese so what that could/would/will do to all these equations only the Lord knows.....and I hope he's in a good mood.
#20
massive discontents between its rhetoric and its reality
* massive disconnects
(For Lex from Richard III, spoken by Pelosi)
Now is the winter of our disconnect
Made glorious summer by this son of New York;
And all the clouds that lour'd upon our House
In the deep bosom of the Senate buried.
Now are our brows bound with crowns of thorns;
Our bruised arms hung up for merriments;
Our stern alarums scorned at merry meetings,
Our dreadful marches reduced to pitiful whimpers.
Grim-visaged war hath smooth'd his wrinkled front;
And now, in additiion to mounting barbed steeds
To fright the souls of fearful adversaries,
He capers nimbly in a First Lady's chamber
To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.
#22
The amusing thing is that the 'app development' that helped set up the chaos was apparently a grift to funnel money to a bunch of retreaded Zero and Clintonia 'expert' staffers, who turned out to be - who'd guess it - incompetent. Metaphor and poetic justice all in one.
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#19 Teachers in a classroom can see how students are reacting to the material and tailor the flow. Haven't heard of a VR system that can do that yet.
What Alan said.
Don't know why - be it because these apps are designed by emotionally-clueless techies or for some other reason -- but our collaboration apps fail to replicate the intense exchange of information that results from two humans sitting across from each other, reading each other's eye movements, body language, posture etc in the same physical space.
Until that UX problem is solved,distance learning will lag -- and educational tech will not "scale."
[Breitbart] The University of Montana is facing criticism from leftists around the country after a white student won the university’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day essay contest. According to the school, only white students participated in this year’s contest.
According to a report by the College Fix, the University of Montana is facing criticism over its decision to name a white student as the winner of its Martin Luther King Jr. essay contest. The university has defended itself by criticizing those who have argued that white students should not be permitted to write essays promoting equality and justice.
There is another problem with the position of the university’s critics. Although the essays were reviewed by a panel of both white and black judges, only white students submitted essays.
Despite this, Facebook users were quick to criticize the University of Montana over the outcome of the essay contest. "If you tried to get more POC in Montana universities, this wouldn’t be a problem. Montana is incredibly hostile to non-whites," one Facebook user wrote. "People frequently mistook my older adopted child as our nanny, especially when we used her name ‐ Lupe. Montana is full of racists and confederate flag worshippers, and it’s time we talked about that."
In a statement posted to their Facebook page, the University of Montana defended the contest winner. The university argued that white students should not be precluded from honoring Martin Luther King Jr. or participating in the essay contest.
#4
/\ When a white left-wing Democrat from a majority black district was told that he couldn't join the Congressional Black Caucus " cuz' he has white cooties, ya' know! ".... *snicker* Not Racist, riiiight!
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Guns America] What are we to believe with the numbers coming out of China? The World Health Organization this week declared a global pandemic. How is that possible with only a few very closely guarded infections in countries outside of China, and only about 500 people killed in China by the epidemic?
[The Hill] Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) shocked his fellow Republican senators and surprised much of the nation on Wednesday with a dramatic floor speech announcing he would vote to convict President Trump on the impeachment charge of abuse of power.
[Free Beacon] As establishment Democrats grow wary of a Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) nomination, MSNBC anchor Chris Matthews raised the possibility of Rep. Adam Schiff (D., Calif.) emerging as the Democratic nominee during a contested convention.
