Sunday, February 16, 2020
Saturday, February 15, 2020
China reports coronavirus deaths jump to 1,665 and cases climb to 68,500
The death rate therefore jumps from 2.29% last night to 2.43% tonight.
In a global pandemic covering 40% of the global population, that adds 4 million deaths right there.
Would you look at that, he posted it at 2:29pm, too: We have to kill 2.29% of the population in order to save it
152300 / 66492 = 2.29 current coronavirus death rate
Get your affairs in order: If Harvard professor is correct about global coronavirus pandemic, expect 68-136 million deaths worldwide in 2020, dwarfing deaths from ordinary influenza
Harvard epidemiologist Marc Lipsitch told The Wall Street Journal that
"it's likely we'll see a global pandemic" of coronavirus, with 40 to 70
percent of the world's population likely to be infected this year.
"What proportion of those will be
symptomatic, I can't give a good number," added Lipsitch, who is
the Director of the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics at the
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Others have recently estimated that the virus could hit 60 to 80 percent of the world's population.
More.
Current deaths from coronavirus officially are 1,523 out of 66,492 cases, a death rate of 2.29%.
Global population currently stands at 7.44 billion.
A 40% pandemic would infect 2.976 billion people, with 68.15 million deaths at a 2.29% death rate.
An 80% pandemic would infect 5.952 billion people, with 136.3 million deaths at a 2.29% death rate.
100 years ago this year the Spanish flu infected 500 million people, 27% of the world, killing at least 17 million, a minimum death rate of 3.4%.
Man-made virus theory of coronavirus as similar to HIV by Indian scientists withdrawn
Conspiracy theories spreading online have claimed that the virus, which has claimed almost 1,400 lives in China, was made as a biological weapon and released by accident. ... Its mutations appear to be
natural evolution rather than any bizarre or unexpected changes,
according to Dr Trevor Bedford at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research
Center in Seattle, Washington. ... One of the triggers of the man-made virus
theory was a scientific paper published by researchers in India which
said the virus looked suspiciously similar to HIV. The paper has since been taken back but the rumours it started continue to circulate online.
The story promotes the missing link theory of transmission from bats to humans via an unknown animal.
60,000+ cases.
1,523 dead.
Friday, February 14, 2020
Is George Will dead? 5 more years of Trump will mean more utter gridlock, the very definition of his brand of conservatism.
But George Will is nowhere to be found, and is seldom discussed.
Is he dead?
He of all people should be ECSTATIC that Trump and the Democrats keep fighting, day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year. After all, he continuously praised gridlock to high heaven when Barack Obama was president.
But George never appears in my copious, daily reviewing of who's who, saying what's what.
OK, I'm too cheap to pay for WaPo.
I also have standards.
The truth is the more the two sides fight, the fewer the opportunities they have to come together, "get something done" for the American people, and pick our pockets.
We've had way too much pocket picking.
Surely George Will must be keeping quiet these days, repentantly pondering the Ineffable Truth of Trump?
If you plan to vote for Trump in November, dear KAGA, remember to make sure you split your vote to keep Republicans from controlling the US House.
It is under the circumstances Nancy Pelosi at the helm in the House who makes Trump great again, every frickin' day after all, along with Cocaine Mitch in the Senate.
Little new bad spending should pass if this arrangement is maintained indefinitely.
Little new bad spending should pass if this arrangement is maintained indefinitely.
Honestly, don't make me laugh. Kevin McCarthy is not an alternative.
Chuckie Schumer?
A horror show on two legs.
We need more of the current gridlock so that the US Senate judge confirmation machine keeps on spitting out Trump appointments, the only thing Trump seems relatively good at.
So vote for Martha McSally in AZ, for example, who beat Bernie Sanders to the punch when she recently called CNN's Manu Raju a political hack.
So vote for Martha McSally in AZ, for example, who beat Bernie Sanders to the punch when she recently called CNN's Manu Raju a political hack.
Times that try men's souls bring out the best in heroes, and Martha has risen to the occasion. Yes, a brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrt! from the gun of her A-10 Warthog would have been better, but hey, politics is war by different means.
The best part of Martha winning won't simply be warming a seat along with loser Bernie in the US Senate, but when every time he votes not to confirm a judge she does, and nothing much else gets done.
We must continue to keep George happy, and silent.
We must continue to keep George happy, and silent.
Comey off the hook, now McCabe: The Department of Justice should be abolished, along with the FBI, CIA, NSA, NSC, Dept. of Defense, DHS . . .
Bunch of goddamn ass-covering criminal thieves and liars.
The judge in the Roger Stone trial should be removed from the bench for allowing bias-tainted Tomeka Hart on the jury
Amy Berman Jackson, Obama appointee and former defense for U.S. Representative Democrat William J. "Cash Bribes in My Freezer" Jefferson, who served 5.5 years in the joint.
The only thing saving industrial production in this country since 2007, up less than 5%, has been fracking to mine oil and gas
It has had little to do with Trump or Obama either way, political support or no political support.
The only thing giving an additional recent boost to oil and gas was the 2015 bipartisan agreement to end the oil export ban, signed by Obama.
Industrial production from all mining categories is up almost 17% 2015-2019, and a whopping 53% 2007-2019.
Industrial production from coal mining, a subset of this like oil and gas, is down over 39% since 2007, and 21% since 2015 despite Trump's promise to restore the industry. Industrial production from base metals mining is up less than 3% since 2007. Industrial production from gold and silver mining is down almost 15%.
Industrial production from crude oil mining is up a whopping 140% since 2007, and from natural gas 79% from 2007 through November 2019 on an average basis.
Otherwise it's a sorry picture.
Industrial production from manufacturing is down 1.3% 2007-2019, despite Trump running on bringing manufacturing back to the United States.
And industrial production from electric and gas utilities has grown a paltry 2% 2007-2019.
It's all mining of crude oil and natural gas.
If the anti-capitalist climate kooks get their way, we're all in big trouble.
Thursday, February 13, 2020
Liberals are 60% more likely than conservatives to have formal diagnoses of depression, 30% more likely to have self-diagnosis
Liberals are 60% more likely than conservatives to have formal diagnoses
of depression, but only 30% more likely to have a self-diagnosis of
depression.
More.
Wednesday, February 12, 2020
Whoever started the idea for offspring to leave home at age 18 or 21 is evil genius
-- Genesis 2:24
And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?
-- Matthew 19:5
For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;
-- Mark 10:7
For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
-- Ephesians 5:31
A nation of brothers, a nation of usurers
Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury: Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy brother thou
shalt not lend upon usury: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all
that thou settest thine hand to in the land whither thou goest to
possess it.
-- Deuteronomy 23:19f.
Yoram Hazony didn't invent the reasoning: They inherited it from Saul the Pharisee, the co-opter of "Christianity"
Being chosen means you get to tell everybody else what to think, what to do, and how to do it. Of course, there's a charge for that.
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[I]f the root is holy, so are the branches. But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, a wild olive shoot, were grafted in their place to share the richness of the olive tree, do not boast over the branches. If you do boast, remember it is not you that support the root, but the root that supports you. ... For if you have been cut from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these natural branches be grafted back into their own olive tree. ... For the gifts and the call of God are irrevocable.
-- Romans 11:16ff.
Tuesday, February 11, 2020
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