Monday, February 17, 2020
Trump's latest immigration joke on America: 375,000 illegals caught and released directly into US in fiscal 2019
The total 375,000 people released into the country are among 3.2 million who have been released by federal immigration authorities and are awaiting court hearings to decide whether they will removed from the country.
"Let them go! Let them go! Let them go!", they shouted at every Trump rally in 2016.
Ask the old blind man, he heard it, too.
Sunday, February 16, 2020
Death rate from coronavirus in China increases again, to 2.5%
There are 70,548 confirmed cases, and 1,770 deaths, according to Chinese authorities.
A 40% global pandemic and at this death rate would kill 74 million people worldwide, and about 8 million in the United States.
The Diamond Princess cruise ship, quarantined in Japan and with all passengers confined to cabin, has an infection rate of 9.6%, with 356 total cases of coronavirus out of approximately 3,700 passengers and crew and no deaths reported to date.
If the US observed similarly strict quarantine measures during a pandemic and achieved a similar infection rate of only 9.6%, there would eventually be roughly 32 million domestic cases of which about 800,000 would die at a 2.5% death rate, far surpassing total world deaths from influenza in a bad year.
The US has fewer than 1 million hospital beds available, dropping from 1.5 million in 1975 to about 931,000 as of 2017.
A pandemic in the US would present some of the same survivability issues faced by victims in China, where the sick are turned away simply for lack of space.
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.
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