USA 5.66%
South Korea 2.24%
Taiwan 1.40%
Thursday, April 23, 2020
Remember how on Feb 24 Rush Limbaugh said there was nothing unusual about the coronavirus?
Here.
But now on Apr 21 this virus has become the complete opposite of the common cold and is quite unusual in Rush's estimation, really bad even, and so bad in fact it's a Chicom conspiracy to destroy the rest of the world.
"All I believe, the theory is that they saw how bad it was and they decided, we’re not gonna suffer this alone".
Rush Limbaugh is a complete joke.
Monday, April 20, 2020
Climate Update for KGRR March 2020
Climate Update for KGRR March 2020
Max Temp 63, Mean 66
Min Temp 17, Mean 7
Av Temp 38.6 Mean 34.1
Precip 3.27 Mean 2.46
Snow 2.8 Mean 9.0
HDD 808 Mean 954
HDD YTD 5325 Mean HDD YTD 5846
Using Heating Degree Days, the winter season in Grand Rapids, MI, year-to-date has been 8.9% milder than the mean.
As always, my mean data is from the beginning of the record, which in most cases means 1892. There are lacunae for some months in the earliest years.
Friday, April 17, 2020
Why do Drudge's "bombshell" stories always seem to end up coming from titty-rags?
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/coronavirus-began-months-earlier-not-21882132
The referenced study isn't even peer-reviewed yet, either.
"Coronavirus began months earlier and not in Wuhan, bombshell UK report claims"
Different faces, same materialist evil
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| Announces "stay at home" Mar 16, "cure worse than the disease" by Mar 22 |
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| Closes Hubei Prov. Jan 23, "actions taken to contain the virus are harming the economy" Feb 3 |
Tuesday, April 14, 2020
Laugh of the Day: Limbaugh and Hannity in flames as advertiser Ruth's Chris Steak House gets $20 million bailout from Trump in four days while Main Street waits and waits and waits
The Wall Street Journal reports:
The company, which operates or franchises 159 restaurants, had a profit of $42 million on revenue of $468 million last year.
The owner of the high-end Ruth’s Chris Steak House chain is among the first public companies to disclose it has received a government-backed loan to keep people on its payroll.
Ruth’s Hospitality Group Inc., a company with more than 5,000 workers, received $20 million in forgivable loans on April 7, according to a securities filing. That is four days after the Small Business Administration opened the application window on its $350 billion Payroll Protection Program.
Many small-business owners are still waiting for their banks to process an application or hear back about whether they qualify or will receive financial assistance from the PPP fund. The SBA says 1.1 million applications have been approved for loans worth $263 billion as of Tuesday afternoon. The average loan size is about $239,000 so far, the SBA says. Banks say only small portions of approved loans have been disbursed to businesses. ...
The loans were intended for businesses with fewer than 500 employees, but language in the $2 trillion stimulus bill allows restaurants and hotel chains to participate regardless of how many people they employ.
The maximum PPP loan is $10 million. Ruth’s said two of its subsidiaries each received $10 million SBA loans from JPMorgan Chase & Co. and would use the proceeds primarily for payroll costs. ... As of Dec. 29, Ruth’s employed 5,740 people, of whom 5,216 were hourly staff.
Monday, April 13, 2020
Saturday, April 11, 2020
We now know from TSA data that an average of 2 million air passengers traveled daily in the first 10 days of March 2020 when they should have been grounded due to coronavirus
The average for the same days in 2019 was 2.3 million per day, so while air travel was indeed down, it wasn't down very significantly, only about 13%. Obviously only a minority of the population acted prudently by refraining from air travel.
You can see from the graph how air passenger travel did not start to decline in earnest until after Mar 13 when Trump declared a national emergency. People simply abandoned air travel after that, out of fear.
Think what might have been had Trump only done it sooner.
Air passenger travel throughout February and March ensured that every corner of America would be deeply penetrated by China novel coronavirus 2019 because millions of people helped spread it everyday, everywhere.
We today have over 500,000 cases and over 20,000 dead in a matter of just weeks with the American economy also on its knees, all because Trump ignored pandemic warnings from his own administration as late as Jan 30.
So in exchange for letting a privileged minority of well-heeled jet-setters continue to travel at the beginning of the epidemic, the rest of us can't even go to church tomorrow for Easter services.
Let that sink in.
Sad doesn't even begin to describe it.
Friday, April 10, 2020
On the morning of March 10, Michigan had zero cases of infection from China novel coronavirus 2019
Tonight, April 10, we have 22,646 cases and 1,280 deaths, and we're afraid even to go grocery shopping.
They are limiting entry at Sam's Club to 300 at a time, and customers there today are wearing homemade masks.
They finally had toilet paper. And chicken. Still no butter, though.
Happy Easter.
Thursday, April 9, 2020
Has anyone on the right discussed how Trump and his Fed chair are destroying free market capitalism?
Of course not. When the right does it, it's OK, see. When the left does it, it's socialism or some damn thing. These suck ups say nothing except, "China, baaaaaaaad! America, goooooooood!"
The Fed is now buying EVERYTHING in sight in order to backstop EVERYONE. Today we learned it would buy in the municipal bond market, the commercial mortgage backed securities market, the might as well be junk bond market, and CLOs. That's not free market capitalism.
The Fed balance sheet is already past $6 trillion this week. Remember when it wasn't even a trillion back in 2007? Of course you don't. Remember when Bernanke promised to "normalize" it when the last crisis was over? Of course you don't. Guess who is promising the same thing again? Same Fed chair, different name. Jerry Powell.
It's bad enough the Fed has been long buying agency mortgage backed securities and Treasury securities.
Eventually it will buy stocks, too, now that it is buying anything and everything in the bond markets.
This is all bullshit. If you believe in capitalism, then you believe in bankruptcy. Nobody believes in that anymore, least of all Donald Trump. Otherwise he'd do something about it.
So America declares itself officially dead today, as it literally dies from a virus it willingly invited in.
How fitting.
Liberalism's mental disorder gets its death wish.
England is paying a heavy price for the seven weeks it wasted at the beginning of the outbreak as it unwisely flirted with herd immunity, which is what numbskulls like Rush Limbaugh want in the US
65,077 confirmed cases
7,978 deaths
Mortality rate 12.26%, nearly 3.5x worse than in the US
We'd have over 57,000 dead already at that rate.
We'd have over 57,000 dead already at that rate.
LOL: It's been "wuhan virus numbers" in Singapore at the Straits Times since the beginning of this outbreak, but the Brits gotta apologize
https://www.straitstimes.com/multimedia/graphics/2020/02/wuhan-virus-numbers/index.html?shell
British scientific journal Nature has apologised for associating Covid-19 with China in its reporting, saying that early coverage of the global health crisis by itself and other media had led to racist attacks on people of Asian descent around the world.
More here.
British scientific journal Nature has apologised for associating Covid-19 with China in its reporting, saying that early coverage of the global health crisis by itself and other media had led to racist attacks on people of Asian descent around the world.
More here.
Wednesday, April 8, 2020
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