New Coronavirus - COVID-19

[freebeard]

I should be archiving my old signature lines. One or two back it was:
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Gold [something something] Kings
Silver [something something] gentlemen
Barter [something something] peasants
Debt[something something] slaves

[Xist]

freebeard, go back and read my post. I talked about each of them.

[freebeard]

I talked about each of them.

I saw the two members of ISIS. Where were the FSA and SETF? The larger point is that McCain was there when the picture was taken, and the identity of the building in the background.

Baaaack on topic. Bill Whittle pointed to the HealthWeather charts that are relevant.

https://www.producthunt.com/posts/coronavirus-tracker-2

The raw data are from a smart thermometer app, Kinsa.

[Xist]

You are imagining things if you see ISIS members in random pictures.

Originally Posted by Xist

That was Salim Idris in the picture and he was in the Free Syrian Army, which was fighting a dictator guilty of war crimes. I have not read anything good about Assad or bad about the FSA.

That is Mouaz Moustafa in the picture. He was part of a PBS article about a refuge camp: Most aid to Syria’s Rukban camp has been blocked for more than a year. Here’s why

This was part of what he said during one of his appearances on C-SPAN: Political Imprisonment

What is the problem with him?

What does the building have to do with anything? I do not know who the guys on the left were, but compare your picture with the ones that I found on Business Insider and they are different men.

The ones on the right aren't terrorists.

This article details most of the ways that Turnip caused his own September 11th: He Could Have Seen What Was Coming: Behind Trump’s Failure on the Virus. However, it does not mention Turnip disbanding Obama's pandemic response team in 2018.

[S]ome of the team members were reassigned to roles that included pandemic response

Partly false claim: Trump fired entire pandemic response team in 2018

We have had 20,580 deaths in the U.S.

The 9/11 attacks killed 2,753 people in New York City at the site of the World Trade Center and 2,977 nationwide in the attacks that occurred in New York City, Washington, DC, and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

New York City's coronavirus death toll officially passed the number of people killed during the 9/11 attacks

Since the start of U.S. military operations in Afghanistan through mid-2019, nearly 2,400 American servicemembers have died.

Coalition casualties in Afghanistan

Wikipedia says that 4,491 Americans died in Iraq. Casualties of the Iraq War

That totals 12,621.

I do not know what the total to date is, but the New York Times estimated that the September 11th attack and two wars cost $3.3 trillion in 2011.

How much is coronavirus costing us? Well, there was that $2.2 trillion stimulus bill and they are working on a smaller one.

It will be smaller, right?

I am sure that the 16,000,000 million jobs lost [so far] have been expensive, too, plus all of the millions losing wages.

“The first rule of virus economics is that you gotta stop the virus before you can do anything about the economics,” Goolsbee said. “If we’re spending trillions, I don’t understand why we’re not throwing hundreds of billions at the things we need to stop the spread.”

Trump actually warned that universal vote-by-mail could expand the electorate so dramatically that “you’d never have a Republican elected in this country again.”

[Democrats] could insist on funding for zero-emissions geothermal drilling projects that could employ laid-off oil workers. They could insist on reviving an Obama stimulus program for solar and wind projects that helped launch renewable power in the U.S. and put thousands of installers to work. And if Republicans balked, they could insist on undoing that $170 billion real estate tax cut, or for that matter undoing the firing of that Navy captain who tried to protect his seamen from the virus. The House could pass a bill with any or all of those popular demands, then put the pressure on McConnell to send it to Trump’s desk as quickly as possible.

As long as Democrats are terrified of looking like obstructionists, Trump won’t have to worry about obstruction.

5 Increasingly Hardball Versions of the Next Stimulus

[freebeard]

They could insist on reviving an Obama stimulus program for solar and wind projects that helped launch renewable power in the U.S. and put thousands of installers to work.

The story goes back much further than [#44].

Originally Posted by DDG

A Brief History of White House Solar Panels
https://www.thoughtco.com/history-of...panels-3322255
The first solar panels were placed on the White House more than 30 years earlier by Jimmy Carter (and removed by the very next administration.) George W. Bush installed a system on the grounds, but they weren't technically on the White House roof itself.

The Tumultuous Saga of Solar Panels on the White House ...
https://understandsolar.com/white-house-solar-panels/
The Tumultuous Saga of Solar Panels on the White House. Over the last 40 years, solar panels have been installed and removed on the White House under three different presidents, starting with Jimmy Carter installing panels and Reagan removing them less than 10 years later.

[cough]Solandra[cough]

[Xist]

freebeard,

Well don't you have an entitled little opinion. Just had to make sure that everyone who doesn't care knows exactly how little ol extra special you feels. DAW

[freebeard]

Personal attacks get tiresome. All I asserted (not opined) was that [44] didn't start the fire.

[Xist]

Oh sorry, context. A video posted and I just wanted to wish everyone a happy Easter without interrupting what I was doing to watch the video, and I got that response.

A bit non-sequitur, eh?

Happy Easter!

President Obama picked lots of losers. Fisker Karma was another.

Was there an actual reason that Reagan removed the panels? I could not imagine any problems that would require more response than unplugging them.

"Mr. President, do you still have solar panels on the White House?"
"Yes, they are still connected!"

Technically true, they would have been physically connected...

That article that I posted which shared the various ways that Turnip messed up the coronavirus response listed politicians that tried to add pet projects to the 2009 stimulus bill.

I hope that we don't have any of that and that there is proper oversight of how all of this money is spent. I was glad that there would be adult supervision for how the $2.2 trillion would be spent, but then Turnip fired the IG.

[freebeard]

Apology accepted.

[freebeard]

I'm more of an apatheist, but I totally support this:

Almost exactly a year after a devastating fire ravaged the centuries-old Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, an Easter mass marking the crucifixion of Jesus Christ took place on Good Friday.

Although the procession was limited to just seven people because of the country-wide Wuhan coronavirus lockdown in France, the return to the damaged house of worship at the Île de la Cité on the Seine was broadcast nationwide to 67 million viewers.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet//ellie...later-n2566764
Electrical fire, my *ss. It was the 41st church to burn.
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Here, incremental changes in American life caused by the coronavirus, which originated in communist China, may bring about qualitative changes that transform America into a freer country.

When circumstances force people to distinguish between the critical and the superfluous, the process is truly "radical": it trims away all obstructing the root of things. The pie-in-the-sky thinking of the past will be replaced by recognizing the need to make hard choices.

This will impact consumer demand for goods and services.

https://www.americanthinker.com/arti...s_america.html

The final suggestion is moving the Federal capital out of the swamp.
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Here's what Brian Stelter does't understand about Federalism.
www.westernjournal.com: Report: These Are the States Responding Most Aggressively to COVID and Least Aggressively

Interesting that right after New York and Washington DC are Alaska and Hawaii.
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www.thegatewaypundit.com: REPORT: 30%-50% Of Patients In Chicago Tested For COVID-19 Already Have Antibodies In System

Testing at a hospital in Chicago found that 30-50% of patients who have been tested for COVID-19 have antibodies in their system, which means they likely already had the virus and are immune, at least for an unknown period of time.

“A phlebotomist working at Roseland Community Hospital said Thursday that 30% to 50% of patients tested for the coronavirus have antibodies while only around 10% to 20% of those tested have the active virus,” Chicago City Wire reported on Thursday.

More people with antibodies than antigens.
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freebeacon.com: Planned Parenthood Asks Supreme Court to Ease Virus-Related Abortion Restrictions/

More lives saved from abortions than lost to COVD-19?