Sunday Inaction

Resume Social Distancing! I wonder what church attendance will look like today?

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[MissMarple2]

Maria Bartiromo
@MariaBartiromo
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Coronavirus social distancing in US a ‘last ditch effort’: Infectious disease expert http://ow.ly/tKmE30qqbwg @MorningsMaria
@FoxBusiness

[Melinda]

Meanwhile, the IL perspective:

Dan Proft
@DanProft
Pritzker and Lightfoot move to shut down everything other than Tuesday's election because, as @John_Kass writes, "Elections are politics. And in Illinois, there is nothing as serious as that." #twill chicagotribune.com/columns/john-k…

https://twitter.com/DanProft/status/1239532986497937409

[MissMarple2]

Trump 2020 Landslide Victory
@Sunrise51052
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POTUS Schedule 3/16/20:

10:00 am: Trump participates in a video teleconference with G7 Leaders on coordinated action in response to COVID-19.

11:30 am: Trump participates in a video teleconference with Governors on partnership to prepare and respond to COVID-19.

[Neo]

Perhaps, it's time to slaughter the lamb and place it's blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts

See Exodus 12:23

[MissMarple2]

https://www.foxnews.com/tech/cyberattack-hits-department-of-health-and-human-services-report-says

[clarice]

Very light traffic today again in DC..Lovely sunny day.

[MissMarple2]

https://thefederalist.com/2020/03/16/mexico-is-dangerously-unprepared-for-the-inevitable-wuhan-coronavirus-outbreak/

[MissMarple2]

David Vance
@DVATW
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Mar 12
Many Italians in Northern Italy sold their leather goods and textiles companies to China. Italy then allowed 100,000 Chinese from Wuhan/Wenzhou to move to Italy to work in these factories, with direct Wuhan flights. Result: Northern Italy is Europe’s hotspot for Wuhan Coronavirus

[jimmyk]

We'll see, iggy, but my guess is that even with all the measures in place, the number of cases will continue to grow, and we'll be many more weeks in this shutdown mode. Hypothetically we could probably stop the growth by an extreme solution like curfews and no social interaction, but that's impossible. So now a process that might have taken weeks will take months.

I'm not completely wedded to that view, but it seems plausible to me.

[sbwaters]

jimmyk, yardstick of weeks or months misrepresents the task.

The goal isn't to defeat the virus by isolation but delay it.

Shutdown mode will likely end sooner as effective treatments are validated and possibly a vaccine created.

[KevlarKid]

My brother is a vested employee at the Belagio in Las Vegas. He is a professional chef considered a line employee of which there are thousands in that small city unto itself.

They were furloughed March 12th indefinitely. Estimates for getting called back to a Belagio operating at normal capacity is 2 months. He's signed on with a boutique restaurant to ride it out.

[MissMarple2]

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/16/navarro-to-bring-executive-order-to-trump-on-foreign-dependency-on-drugs.html

Good. Maybe NOW people will listen!

[JimNorCal]

The connection between Italy and China
https://donsurber.blogspot.com/2020/03/red-china-gave-italy-money-and-virus.html

[MissMarple2]

Christian Datoc
@TocRadio

UPDATES: White House coronavirus task force briefing has been moved from 10:30 am to 3:30 pm -- VP said Sunday to expect new "recommendations to the public" on social distancing to be laid out in this one (i.e. closing restaurants, bars etc...)

[rse]

I have a new post up http://invisibleserfscollar.com/pandemics-utility-as-a-massive-shared-meaning-making-tool-to-force-widespread-systems-thinking/

The NZ paper I mention was promoted last week by NYU's GovLab and I have been working on the cybernetic nature of learning standards for a while. It all fits together a la engrenage and that's rarely coincidental.

[KevlarKid]

clarice: here's some info on VIT D and immune response. VitD is indispensable in revving the immune system. Liquid drops or gels are best supplemental forms. FYI. keeping you and yours in our prayers out here. -Kev

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3166406/

[KevlarKid]

Elsewhere in “First Call”

• ProFootballTalk.com is suggesting that the coronavirus crisis might slow construction on the Raiders’ new stadium in Las Vegas. That could make the Raiders go back to Oakland for another season. The Chargers and Rams may have to stay in their current Los Angeles stadiums, too.

Meanwhile, God had other plans.

[Jane]

We need to stop all Canadians from entering since they are still letting planes in from China (Via Insty). The snow birds better get moving!

[JimNorCal]

MissM's 10:07
Amazing that Italy, with its colossal unemployment, would allow that sort of massive foreign worker deluge.

[Extraneus]

After Being Discovered Wasted and Naked in a Hotel Room With a Gay Male Escort and Bags of Crystal Meth, Andrew Gillum Says He Will Withdraw From Public Life…

The FL governorship would have been a stepping-stone to the White House.

[Sandy Daze]

This is a very useful article discussing the chinese movement into Italy, from 2108:

The Chinese Workers Who Assemble Designer Bags in Tuscany

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/04/16/the-chinese-workers-who-assemble-designer-bags-in-tuscany

all sorts of fascinating tidbits...

excerpt:

The Chinese firms gradually expanded their niche, making clothes for middle-tier brands, like Guess and American Eagle Outfitters. And in the past decade they have become manufacturers for Gucci, Prada, and other luxury-fashion houses, which use often inexpensive Chinese-immigrant labor to create accessories and expensive handbags that bear the coveted “Made in Italy” label. Many of them are then sold to prosperous consumers in Shanghai and Beijing. It’s not just Italian brands that have profited from this cross-cultural arrangement: a Chinese leather-goods entrepreneur I recently met with just outside Prato was wearing a forty-thousand-dollar Bulgari watch.

More than ten per cent of Prato’s two hundred thousand legal residents are Chinese. According to Francesco Nannucci, the head of the police’s investigative unit in Prato, the city is also home to some ten thousand Chinese people who are there illegally. Prato is believed to have the second-largest Chinese population of any European city, after Paris, and it has the highest proportion of immigrants in Italy, including a large North African population.

[Jim Eagle]

Mrs JiB and I were sitting on our terrace looking across the 18th fairway to our clubhouse and I thought out-loud "when will they close the clubhouse?".

10 seconds later we got an email that effective tomorrow the clubhouse is closed but you will be able to pick up food orders and take them home. Courses are still open for the time being.

Fourth straight day, no TP, Clorox or Hydrogen Peroxide at Publix unless you get up at 0600hrs and wait in line at the store.

[Marlene]

Yes,Gillum was *this* close to winning the FL governship. We dodged a bullet,because we would be hearing constant blah,blah about the next Obama.

[Marlene]

Jane,a neighbor just told hubby that all the Canadians she knows are leaving ASAP.

[Captain Hate]

Unlike Gaylord the unfree press can't hide Gillum's manlove.

[Jim Eagle]

We have Canadian members who are on a 6 month visa. What is the difference and why between 6 month visas and 3 month visas? My wife has a permanent residence visa which is unlimited.

[MissMarple2]

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
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Everybody is so well unified and working so hard. It is a beautiful thing to see. They love our great Country. We will end up being stronger than ever before!

[rich]

yikes ... even gold is down in the markets today.

afternoon everyone.

[Porchlight]

Thanks again for all the kind birthday wishes yesterday. So nice to see some of our longtime commenters here at JOM.

Anyone else getting scolded by People Who Know Better that they aren't panicking enough, or that their opinions aren't helping because PEOPLE ARE DYING RIGHT NOW?

Anything to keep you afraid and compliant.

[Jim Eagle]

Meanwhile in the UK, more drastic measures to be undertaken: [via The Torygraph]

"People aged over 70 face up to four months in self-isolation and the public risk being taken into jail or a £1,000 fine if they refuse to be tested or quarantined for suspected coronavirus. The emergency powers, expected to be announced this week, allow police in England and Wales to use "reasonable force" to detain people who are at risk of infecting others. The measures come as the widow of the UK's youngest coronavirus victim has spoken of her despair at losing her "life partner and soul mate", after he was named as retired police officer Nick Matthews. ​The UK's coronavirus death toll has risen to 35, with 1,391 cases, and immunology experts have criticised the Government's strategy to allow large numbers of people to become infected and develop "herd immunity" so the more vulnerable do not contract the disease. The British Society of Immunology warned the plan could have "severe consequences" and the Government appears to be distancing itself from the idea. The major development overnight came from the mayors of New York City and Los Angeles, the two largest cities in the United States, who said they were ordering restaurants, theaters, bars and movie houses to close in an effort to slow the spread of the virus. "

[Marlene]

Jack,I think the 3 month requirement has to do with health insurance eligibility for Canadians. Longer term requires a special health insurance policy.

[MissMarple2]

https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/487750-trump-is-empowering-local-pharmacies-and-transforming-healthcare-for-the

[Buckeye]

Porch

If you strap a pistola to your waist, nobody will give you that shit.

At least not to your face:)

[henry]

Coronavirus Update: @pzf
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BREAKING NEWS: NEW YORK NOW HAS 221 NEW CASES OF CORONAVIRUS. A TOTAL OF 950 CASES.

[henry]

Push that panic...

CNBC @CNBC
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New York Gov. Cuomo warns US won't have enough hospital beds for coronavirus pandemic cnb.cx/2UgRzmi

[clarice]

A Marin County cousin keeps moaning and attacking me because his girlfriend's kids have colds and he can't get them tested because (a) her doctor says it's just colds and (b) the test kits are not there right this minute, even though DJT said everyone who wants to be tested will be (ignoring that DJT said you shouldn't take the test right now until you have the symptoms).

[Extraneus]

Is it time for Trump to start taking some kill shots at Xi, or should he wait?

[Marlene]

The Canadians are probably worried that the border is going to close,so they're hitting the road.

[Porchlight]

They can't stop bitching about the testing. Alternately, if you criticize the Vaunted CDC you Do Not Know What You're Talking About.

[Melinda]

Rich-

Margin calls. Corzine Rule remains in effect.

[sbwaters]

CNBC cherry-picking what cuomo said. Nothing new.

Wants army to be ready with portable hospital units if necessary. Planning to keep ahead of the curve is not panic.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Lombardy's new cases for Monday were 300 lower than Sunday and the lowest in nearly a week which marks the first decline in new cases in the epicenter of Italy's outbreak.
A peak or an anomoly?

[Jim Eagle]

marlene,

Thanks, I had forgot about the health insurance issue. Driving back Friday from Miami, I did notice quite a few Quebecois on the road going north:)

[Buckeye]

The fear mongering needs to stop.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--Is it time for Trump to start taking some kill shots at Xi, or should he wait?-

He should wait until it's under control here or Xi will brag about how they controlled it, why haven't we?

[Porchlight]

The fear mongering needs to stop.

This times 350,000,000.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

China's daily number is below 20 and south Korea's remains below 100.

[clarice]

exactly so, porch.

[Captain Hate]

Tell DeRINO to STFU. He's pleasing the libs, who will never vote for him, and pissing off his past supporters.

[James D.]

New York Gov. Cuomo warns US won't have enough hospital beds for coronavirus pandemic

It wouldn’t be possible to have enough beds for the worst case projections. How could we possibly have enough ICU beds for 3-5% of the population at once? Let alone enough doctors and nurses and other health care workers. We’d have to concert our entire economy and workforce to do that.

It’s like saying there aren’t enough firemen to put out all the fires if 5% of all the buildings in a city were on fire at once. Duh, obviously there aren’t.

[Extraneus]

As long as he gets a Moe Green over this, I'm willing to wait on the timing.

[henry]

barn doors, horses.

Coronavirus Update: @pzf
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BREAKING NEWS: Europe to close its borders to all foreign travel.

[henry]

Lyman Expand the House Stone, AKA 石來民 @lymanstoneky
3h

Research shows that warmer weather DOES reduce the spread of COVID.

This is excellent news!

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3551767

[Neo]

Explain ?

My friends in Ireland are upset that neighboring (British) Northern Ireland is keeping its schools open, even after Ireland on Friday ordered all schools closed.

Apparently some officials in Northern Ireland actually argued that, even if their people get infected in mass numbers, there will be a benefit because the Northern Irish then will have 'herd immunity' to protect them from a possible follow-up pandemic next year.

[Extraneus]

Europe to close its borders to all foreign travel.

What about refugees?

[Captain Hate]

Then there's this

NEW from @MittRomney:

"Every American adult should immediately receive $1,000 to help ensure families and workers can meet their short-term obligations and increase spending in the economy."

[lyle]

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/03/cdc-was-fighting-racism-and-obesity-instead-daniel-greenfield/

Progtard mission creep.

[hrtshpdbox]

900 new cases in NYC, wonder how many cases of regular flu there? I think I saw figures suggesting that the death rate for this particular flu that is now stopping society (can't remember humans acting this stupid for the last ten new flu's) is around 4 pct for those over 60, and they almost ALL seem to have preexisting conditions. But over the age of 80 it's something like 14%. It's rough to say out loud (apparently), but if you're over 80 there's got to be more of a chance that this is your last year anyway than if you were 60.

Imagine if Trump had said, "It's not a big deal, if you're old try to stay away from people for a while", and leave it at that, and stuck to it. I wish he had done that, even if it meant he wouldn't get reelected. History, I think, would regard him as brave, and correct.

[peter]

OK, Mitt, open up your checkbook and start writing. Do you need me to spell my name for you?

[hrtshpdbox]

That would come out to around 196 billion bucks, CH, I'm pretty sure Mitt is saying he'll fund it himself and not just make taxpayers pay for their own bailout.

[hrtshpdbox]

New thread.

[Stephanie Nene Not Your Normal Granma]

NEW from @MittRomney:

"Every American adult should immediately receive $1,000 to help ensure families and workers can meet their short-term obligations and increase spending in the economy."

BRILLIANT SINCE NO ONE IS GOING TO STORES AND MALLS AND THE FUCKING STORES, RESTAURANTS AND BARS ARE CLOSED. IDIOT!

[James D.]

I was just about to post something like that, Stephanie.

If we had, you know, actual reporters, they could ask Mitt and all the other folks pushing this idea what, exactly, people would be expected to spend the money on.

[Neo]

How China’s “Bat Woman” Hunted Down Viruses from SARS to the New Coronavirus

Wuhan-based virologist Shi Zhengli has identified dozens of deadly SARS-like viruses in bat caves, and she warns there are more out there
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-chinas-bat-woman-hunted-down-viruses-from-sars-to-the-new-coronavirus1/?utm_source=pocket-newtab
Tell me again how the US Army did this ...