Neverending Nightmare

Dr. Fauci might want to work on his bedside manner:

Fauci: COVID-19 is "almost your worst nightmare"

Oy. Can we go back to being told that one day it will just disappear, as if by magic?

His rationale:

"It's the perfect storm," Fauci says. "We often talk about outbreaks and pandemics, be they influenza or other pathogens, that have to have a few characteristics that make them particularly formidable. Well, this particular virus has that."

• For a public health official, this is "almost your worst nightmare," Fauci adds.
• He points out that SARS-CoV-2 jumps species, is a new pathogen with no known innate human immunity, and is a respiratory-borne virus that is "spectacularly efficient" at spreading from human to human and has a "substantial degree of morbidity and mortality, particularly in certain populations of people."

Plus, "the spectrum of involvement with the same pathogen is very unique," Fauci says.

• "I've never seen an infection in which you have such a broad range — of literally nothing, namely no symptoms at all, in a substantial proportion of the population; to some who get ill with minor symptoms; to some who get ill enough to be in bed for weeks and have post-viral syndromes; [to] others [who] get hospitalized, require oxygen, intensive care, ventilation and death."

The broad range of symptoms, from "none" to prolonged shortness of breath and then death, is weird. But my worst nightmare would include a bug like the Spanish flu of 1918/19, which had a special affinity for working-age people.

Not to be cold, but COVID is providing a bit of relief to Social Security and Medicare on the liability side (the absence of payroll and hence, payroll taxes, is a bit of a negative. Just a speedbump!). The Spanish flu would have buried them.

Comments

[Gentlejim]

When is Dr Fauci going to get a bag over his head and driven away in an unmarked van?

[anonamom]

When we go get him. Are you off this weekend? I'll drive south and meet you.

He is SO past his sell by date!

[MissMarple2]

I don't know, Gentlejim. I keep hoping that he wil come in with his doom and gloom and Barr will tell him they have tapes of him arranging bribes with Biden, so he's under arrest.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--Not to be cold, but COVID is providing a bit of relief to Social Security and Medicare on the liability side...--

Since even Neil Ferguson admits ~70% of the dead weren't going to make it to the end of the year regardless, "a bit" is correct, if not excessive.
40-50 million not paying in for even a few months however is quite a bit more than a bit.

[clarice]

https://www.mercatus.org/bridge/commentary/put-job

[DrJ]

MM,

From the last thread, you daughter is correct on kitty age and flea spotting. You may wish to check with you vet.

All of ours are over 15 years old, so it is no big deal.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Is this the Heather MacDonald essay in Imprimis people were discussing before?
Four Months of Unprecedented Government Malfeasance

[DrJ]

*your* Twice.

[peter]

Yes

[Gentlejim]

Anonamom,

I am off this weekend. ROADTRIP!!!!

Violet update:
The docs are pleased so far. Tentative plan is to come home Monday.
Dad and Violet thank everyone for everything. I’m hoping for no more updates until Monday after they’ve left Indy.

I thank you all for everything.

[Another Bob]

Hey rocco, quick question about jail/prison culture.

Used to be prisoners guilty of crimes against children would have a hard time from fellow inmates (and maybe steff?).

How about this clown:

https://newspunch.com/photo-of-blm-supporter-kneeling-on-neck-of-white-baby-investigated-by-sheriffs-office/

He up for some prison asskickings? Or doesn't it work that way anymore?

[Gentlejim]

Porch,
I hope all is well with dad.

[Captain Hate]

Fauci and his ilk are my worst nightmare. Tyranny of "experts".

[Melinda]

Did the Chinese Consulate in Houston Clandestinely Work to Stoke Racial Tensions in U.S.?

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2020/07/23/chinese-consulate-in-houston-may-have-helped-stoke-racial-tensions-in-u-s-n673348

[MissMarple2]

Melinda,

I still want to know if that virus was brought over here by diplomats and scattered in "hot spot" areas that the Chinese wanted to infect.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--He up for some prison asskickings? Or doesn't it work that way anymore?--

Don't know about elsewhere but the local state pen has a large section just for sex crimes, keeping them largely apart from the general population.

[jimmyk]

You think Fauci will get “fact checked” by the WaPo? Magic 8 Ball says “Very doubtful.”

[peter]

from the last thread, prayers for Porchlight and her familiy, glad to hear there's progress.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--Fauci and his ilk are my worst nightmare. Tyranny of "experts".--

The most disgusting thing about progs running the institutions is not morons like Fauci or imbecilities like climate crises or mask crises or the crisis de jure. We'll always have morons and imbecilities.
It's having to listen to dipshits without two neurons to rub together bloviating about "heroes" like Fauci and "settled science" when they wouldn't know science if it bit their arse with sabre tooth tiger fangs.

[peter]

Ann Taylor, Loft, Justice, Lane Bryant, all of which have the same parent company, filing for bankruptcy, with many stores to close. There was a time when my wife shopped at AT and Loft quite often because their clothes fit her well.

[peter]

My son may very well not be going back to college this fall. He was in the process of transferring from UVA to Boston College. However, he doesn't feel like it is worth it to go to college if all of his classes are going to be online, and if student interaction and socializing are going to be hampered by all the ridiculous rules. Can't say I blame him. In other words, he's taking an involuntary gap year. Really a shame. He's been a good student, but the college experience has not been very pleasant for him at all.

[Gentlejim]

I quit shopping at Lane Bryant when they went all “skinny” suits. Wait a minute, that was Brooks Bros, sorry.

[Extraneus]

Sad, peter. Probably a smart move, though. Mine graduated last year, luckily for him I guess.

[Another Bob]

Peter, my wife was an Ann Taylor as well.

[jimmyk]

he doesn't feel like it is worth it to go to college if all of his classes are going to be online, and if student interaction and socializing are going to be hampered by all the ridiculous rules.

The same for my daughter. She's going to try to rent an apartment with friends and get a job or internship somewhere. My hope is that companies recognize the opportunity of a slew of students taking a year off and create positions, as they do in the summer, but we'll see. We're very pissed off at these universities all caving to the panic.

[Captain Hate]

Willowed

And the son (who you knew Rocco right?) was in prison 2 years longer for no reason.

Martha Coakley, who lost to Scotty Centerfold, dragged her disgusting wrinkled ossified ass as long as possible before springing him. I'd like to think that was the deciding factor in the race although she was a loathsome candidate in just about every other way.

[Extraneus]

I couldn't relate to all the Brooks Brothers talk, but it hearkened me back to a nice night-time winter walk past all the beautiful Christmas window displays in the big name stores near Central Park, NYC.

I decided to check out Barney's. I'd always heard of it as a high-end place. Didn't know anything more about it.

Men's dept. was 3rd floor, so we took an elevator. The first thing I see when the doors opened was a mannequin with a pink plaid sport jacket. A clearly gay man asked if he could help and I asked for the leather jacket section, since I could have been open to buying a nice leather jacket.

The first one I tried on, totally gay, was priced at $3,000.

We spent a few more minutes taking in the once-in-a-lifetime scene and left.

[Jane]

Peter,

A gap year can be a great thing. I took one at CU to get my residency and lower tuition. No one thought I’d go back. One big ship of fools. It’s very good to be in the world, work for a living and grow up a little at that age.

[Jane]

Peter,

Didn’t you already have one at BC?

[JimNorCal]

MissM: "I still want to know if that virus was brought over here by diplomats and scattered in "hot spot" areas that the Chinese wanted to infect"

We'll never know but the Chinese DID accuse US military of bringing the virus to China when they attended some competition.
If the Chinese are like Dems then they accuse others of what they do themselves

[MissMarple2]

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/07/23/notes-from-fbi-briefing-used-to-spy-on-trump-campaign-released/

[jimmyk]

Good segment with Berenson and Kerpen on Laura, though it would have been better if Laura shut up and let her guests speak more.

https://twitter.com/ingrahamangle/status/1285966852477378561

[Comanche Voter]

Well Fauci is well past his sell by date. Can't keep his stories straight. And as for the governors--Cuomo, Newsom, Whitmer et al, there's not a nickel's worth of value in any of them.

That said--my wife and I both turn 77 this year--and we look at the modal distribution of deaths from the "KungFlu" in our community--so we stay cautious and mostly isolated.

But it's an interesting virus-and since it's seemingly only been around since late last year (in humans at least) there's a lot left to learn about it. It's hard to tell how lethal it's been in the USA since so many cases are asympomatic. But I've seen figures that lethality is as low as 0.5% which would make it just a bit more lethal than "regular" flu that shows up each year. But it's apparently also very very contagious. I'm not certain that people know just how it spreads--face masks of course are one thing---but do we need to be disinfecting every surface that anybody touched? And we haven't had the time to learn what happens down the road (sequelae) to a Wuhan Virus infection where the patient recovers.

As Donald Rumsfeld---and Dick Cheney, both voted in as Darth Vader or the Devil by progressives said, it's the unknown unknowns that will get you. And right now there are plenty of unknown unknowns where the Wuhan Virus is concerned.

[Extraneus]

Dems are joyous that Trump can't do rallies or even have the Jacksonville convention. This is a show of weakness on their part.

Unlike them, we wish the Dems would have a convention. COVID is a good excuse for avoiding the pandemonium they know would happen.

I think they're about to experience an epic ass-kicking.

[CCGirl]

CH, we call her Marsha Coakley here in Mass. Ted Kennedy’s son called her Marsha, and Howie Carr ran with it. Charlie Parker started with Biden calling him that. What’s the deal with these dems where they can’t get a name correct? Well they don’t get much right, but they sure know how to win around here. Sigh

After getting out and working and such I am sorry I had the poor me thing going this am. All is good and I count my blessings every day. Sorry about that!

Hair cut was great. My stylist told me a woman was telling her she was racist because she is white and what she needs to do (pretty bold considering the person has sharp scissors and one’s hair in her hands). Anyway my stylist said she replied, “You are talking about you right, not me?” Anyway they argued while she was cutting her hair! Must have been quite a scene. Very proud of stylist as she told her to read Thomas Sowell.

I was confronted by a customer while at the post office. He told me he felt unsafe in my store because some customers weren’t wearing masks, and there “were a lot of people in the store.” Thank God I had a bandana over most of my face because I am sure I swore under my breath. I told my brother and he said, “Then don’t come the fuck in!” It never seems to end.

Glad people are feeling better.

[CCGirl]

Peter and Jimmy K, as you have probs read here we are in the same boat. Son, at my urging, decided to stay with the online classes. He will be a senior and college has been for lack of a better phrase, “not very college like.” I suggested he finish up and then move on with his life. Youngest is told she can’t be on campus, but likely will be next semester as she will begin nursing clinicals. It’s all such an incredible overreaction. This age group is so low risk.

CV and wife, I would be doing the same as you if I was your age. That makes sense. The school and college thing is a complete shit show. I hope these colleges get defunded and everything else. I also think they are awful to lay off the custodians and such and not take a pay cut at the top. Shame on them.

[lurkersusie]

Fauci First pitch

https://twitter.com/BarstoolBigCat/status/1286436181442473984

[Rocco]

AB,

Yeah, that creep won't last very long. I doubt the blacks will stick up for this scumbag. Kids are usually off limits but maybe there are some blacks who'll defend him?

Racial tensions in jail are a huge problem. I can see the white gangs putting heat on the black gangs to take care of their problem or else they will. BLM pc crap won't fly in jail among the cons anyway. But maybe things have changed?

[CCGirl]

Seriously?! That pitch was hilarious! What a maroon!

[lyle]

Naked Athena is apparently still capturing the mind of the oh-so-woke-set in our trash media. I was gonna link to Twitchy but some here think it’s déclassé...😬

[lyle]

Dear You Know The Thing, Teh Fouch made Gaylord’s first pitch long normal, a feat I thought previously impossible. What a dick.

[Porchlight]

peter, I'm sorry to hear that. This thing has screwed up so many educations it's outrageous. And it's just getting started.

I'm sorry he didn't enjoy UVA.

But if it helps, he's in the same boat with so many others. If the gap year helps, maybe they can have a cohort that moves together back to college in person when this is all over.

[Porchlight]

Thanks again for the good wishes. My mom says my dad is now on antibiotics and they suspect some kind of infection (that was my first thought as well).

CPAP related? It explains pretty much all the symptoms, I think. I read that hyperglycemia can be a result of lung infections.

https://cornermedical.com/the-health-dangers-of-dirty-cpap-equipment/#:~:text=When%20inhaling%20moist%20air%20that,Pneumonitis

Thank you all again for holding my hand (virtually) during my earlier panic. I don't panic often, but when it comes to anything serious with my parents, I do. :)

[lyle]

Parents panic is completely justified, dear.

[MissMarple2]

Chad Pergram
@ChadPergram
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1h
Colleague Mike Emanuel Confirms that GOP UT Sen Mitt Romney will oppose the nomination of Judy Shelton to the Federal Reserve Board. She supports returning the dollar to the gold standard

[Captain Hate]

CH, we call her Marsha Coakley here in Mass. Ted Kennedy’s son called her Marsha, and Howie Carr ran with it.

I remember that; wasn't it Patches who said that? Poor guy, I'm sure he was under the influence of something...

[peter]

Jane, @ 6:40, he just graduated and is lost at sea, if you know what I mean.

[Extraneus]

CNN Calls Dr. Fauci's Wild Pitch '100% Accurate, Completely On Target'

[Captain Hate]

The real story

https://babylonbee.com/news/cnn-calls-dr-faucis-wild-pitch-100-accurate-completely-on-target

[CCGirl]

Yes Patches, and I think I have heard that since he left politics he has cleaned up his life, and has four children. I could have that all wrong as I really abhor the Kennedy clan. Always in the news here, and since Barack is on the Vineyard we get to hear about him as well. Grrr. Time to cook dinner. Hubs is grilling chicken with freshly picked zucchini and the first tender green beans!

[MissMarple2]

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/ex-flynn-deputy-kt-mcfarland-john-durham-has-cold-hard-evidence-that-will-lead-to-indictments

[lyle]

At this point, I can’t stand W but at least he got his pitch over home plate.

[lyle]

#twoweeksthistimewemeanit

[caro]

Porch, I am so glad you will go to bed with optimism and not dread. Hopefully all the tests will be negative. Thinking of you.

[MissMarple2]

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/united-states-files-complaint-forfeit-more-237-million-companies-accused-laundering-funds

[MissMarple2]

Robert Flores
@RoFlo
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1h
Dr Fauci is throwing a baseball tonight and Mariano Rivera is at a presidential briefing.
2020 continues to be weird y’all.

[MissMarple2]

WELCOME BACK BASEBALL! pic.twitter.com/dhLSfNkI7L

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 23, 2020

Video at link.

[caro]

My sweet hubby laughed at that pitch. He once threw out the opening pitch at an Astros game. He practiced. Who would want to be made a fool of like Fauci?

[MissMarple2]

Hearst president Troy Young resigns after a New York Times story documented worker complaints of "discrimination and tokenism" at the magazine. pic.twitter.com/orxIZsH4FM

— Alex Salvi (@alexsalvinews) July 23, 2020

Screen cap of the letter announcing his resignation at the link.

[Jane]

Ccgirl,

Are the Obamas on the Vineyard now? One of my best friends lives next door. I talked to him Sat and he had no idea. Of course, “next door” on the Vineyard isn’t what we are used to.

[MissMarple2]

https://rightwingtribune.com/2020/07/22/hundreds-charged/

BREAKING: Hundreds Charged Worldwide In Takedown Of Largest Child Pornography Website

[Jane]

Caro,

You hubby threw out a pitch? I’m very impressed! Fauci was a joke!

[jimmyk]

He once threw out the opening pitch at an Astros game.

Cool, caro. I can imagine being nervous in front of that many people and messing up the throw, but these guys like Barry and Fauci should be used to big audiences. And of course there was no one in the stands today.

[Porchlight]

Wow, caro! That is super cool. Thank you for the kind words.

W nailed his post 9/11 pitch. No matter what's happened with him since, the left can never take that away, nor can they take away MomJeans's pathetic attempt.

[jimmyk]

The latest chapter in the saga of Mrs K's anonymous battle at her firm over PC crap: Today she got an email from the women's group that their next meeting would be on the book "White Fragility," which I guess is the new bible of "systemic racism," yada, yada. She feels she can't speak out, but she forwarded it to her ally who's higher up the food chain, and he sent it to the CEO and COO with the comment that it's unacceptable, offensive, should not be allowed on company time, and he wants to bring it up at the next operations committee meeting. Baby steps.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--I was gonna link to Twitchy but some here think it’s déclassé...😬--

So?

[Jane]

Good baby steps, Jimmy!

[Rocco]

Pressley's black opponent is married to a white dude. Only in MA!

Pressley Campaign Organizer Claims ‘White Vaginas and White Penises Jeopardize Your Melanin’

https://twitter.com/ElijahSchaffer/status/1284541132370829322?s=20

God help us!

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Here's lyle's Bucktoothnekkid Athena Twitchy link.
Some pretty funny comments.

[Jim Eagle]

Think about the visual of that pitch and Fauci's ascendancy in American politics. Another narcissistic incapable of even coming close to understanding us or even recommending a solution. Yet he is the 80-year-old nincompoop they want to listen too.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

I like Twitchy;
Here's a bunch of people cutting a guy I kind of hoped had developed a heroin addiction and was in a gutter somewhere, Nick Kristoff, a new bunghole for telling Rick Grenell Antifa is only burning part of Portland down, not the whole thing, so it's ok.

[Jane]

Where in MA is Presley, Rocco. Sounds like Springfield!
(How rude!)

[lyle]

I was just joshin’ about Twitchy, pard. 😎

Thanks for linking.

[Porchlight]

Good work Mrs. K! Everybody and their trans cousin is slobbering over White Fragility.

[lyle]

. He once threw out the opening pitch at an Astros game.

Wow! The very same one who emailed me B-day wishes yesterday? Sonufagun. 😉

[jimmyk]

via New Neo, Dersh on being persona non grata on Martha's Vineyard.

https://www.thenewneo.com/2020/07/23/dershowitz-on-being-ostracized-because-of-politics/

I guess it's easy to make fun of him for this, but (a) he doesn't seem to be feeling sorry for himself, and (b) he all but says he's starting to see the Democrats for what they are, much as . He's been saying he's trying to influence the Ds from within, and he seems to be coming to the realization that it's a fool's errand.

[jimmyk]

Oops, was starting to insert "much as William Jacobson discovered about his 'friends.'"

[Porchlight]

Belated happy birthday lyle!!!

July is a great month for birthdays. My dad and his first son have the same birthday (19th), my younger brother and his first son have the same birthday (2nd), which is also Mr Porch's birthday, and my daughter is the 27th and my mom is the 31st. Also both my grandmothers.

[MissMarple2]

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/07/23/exclusive-rep-louie-gohmert-instead-of-canceling-our-culture-its-time-to-canceldemocrats/

[Jane]

It was your birthday Lyle? Happy Birthday! You must be a teenager by now@

[Porchlight]

Yeah, Dersh probably was prepared. I would expect nothing better from the left.

[MissMarple2]

pic.twitter.com/gPAHGxgLKN

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 24, 2020

Another video of President Trump with the Little League and Mariano Rivera at the link. Four minutes.

[MissMarple2]

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
·
28m
Will be interviewed by @seanhannity tonight at 9:00 P.M. on @FoxNews. Enjoy!!!

[GUS]

Next Thursday, I'll be in the U.P. and in Far northern WI. On the WI side, there is a really good bar/restaurant not too many miles away.
Going into IRON RIVER is a necessity for anything you need. I can't wait to see all of the TRUMP SIGNS.

[Jane]

Gohmerts Bill is fabulous. I heard about ir earlier!

[lyle]

Thanks. July is a big birthday month in my family as well.

Heading down to the local SSA office to sign up for my benefits soon. Lord knows I hardly need the cash but if this stupid government is paying these effing asshoes to not work, then they can damn well pay me who’s worked since I was 15.

[Narciso]

Seems fair

https://mobile.twitter.com/willchamberlain/status/1286462815495229446

[Porchlight]

Do it, lyle.

My dad is on his way home. They have determined it a UTI, but he will follow up with full blood work with his doctor in a week. Of course there are the possible rona results to come but no one seems worried.

He just called me. Complimented the family home team for quick work. He's a fairly rare complimenter so that was nice. :)

[CCGirl]

Jane, I don’t think so. I just got caught up bitchin about the dem royalty around here! Kennedys always in the paper and news. Then MV was summer for the Clintons. Then Obama, and then they bought the waterfront estate since he stopped the rising tides. It’s so easy to go off an a tangent about these crooks.

Related, but just a story a customer told me. (Hope I haven’t already told this story). This was back a bit - whenever the riots were happening in Boston. That’s when he told me this had happened. He has an auto supply shop on MV, and he told me that after the Kavanaugh mess he was talking about it with some of the guys in the store, and that he was pissed about what the left did. He says that a man was in the store and he asked to speak to him outside. He gave him his business card and asked if he knew who he was. My customer said yes, and says the man told him he better shut up about Kavanaugh or he would have a mob outside of his business in no time flat. Says is was Sid Blumenthol. He said after that he got a gun and taught his wife how to use another one. True? I think so. Crazy story.

[CCGirl]

Porch, glad all is okay. My sister in law’s father had a uti and was a mess. He is 90 and also caught covid but never was hospitalized. The uti might have been worse. Now he just sleeps a lot. Poor guy.

[CCGirl]

Clarifying. He told me the story back when the riots were going on. This happened after the Kavanaugh hearings. Was that last October?

[Narciso]

Two years ago ccgirl.

[Porchlight]

Thanks, ccgirl.
Wow, that is a tough one-two punch for your SIL's dad. I hear that UTIs apparently can really be sneaky with older men. Apparently my dad's was significant but he had no idea.

[jimmyk]

Great to hear the good news, Porch!

[Neo]

Caught the latest Biden commercial with the sound off.
It looked like an ad for black masks.

[anonamom]

jimmy k, have your wife listen to Joe Rogan's podcast with James Lindsay, who does a fabulous takedown of White Fragility.

[Dave (in MA)]

Teh Fouch threw the worst first pitch I've ever seen, but at least this didn't happen.

https://www.nbcsports.com/chicago/video/ceremonial-1st-pitch-sox-game-may-be-worst-all-time

He looked manlier doing it than Big Mike's hubby, though.

[anonamom]

Porch, your dad sounds like he has a UTI.

I am sure they'll take a look at his urine.

[CCGirl]

Can’t keep track of all the nuttiness on the timeline lately. Seems to be fast and furious lately.

Yes it was tough, but it was early on in March. When we saw that a 90 year old was dealing with it at home we lost our fear of it. That’s also why I think I may have had it and was asymptotic.

Having said that, it is an unpredictable and unusual virus. Certainly one must stay ahead of the symptoms and take great care if needed.

[Narciso]

My first post here was about the slithery sid vicious, and his association with cuban regime agent phil agee, he pretended the latter was some kind of dissident. They collaborated on a thin volume of jfk conspiracy tales called govt by gunplay.