Scrofula is when tuberculosis breaks out in the neck. For centuries, the only cure was for the king to touch the patient. Sposed to have some magical effect. Sounds like neolithic thaumaturgy, to me, from where we set today. Back then, they had no way of knowing. Then came the enlightenment, germ theory, inoculations, and such not more effective magic. Voltaire, I read, became skeptical of the king's touch when Louis XIV's mistress died of scrofula despite "being well touched by the king." Leave it to the French to find a bon mot. Still, even today, well post-Voltaire, we see all around us people willing to blame disease on, and attribute cures to, rulers. Me, I can accept 15 days to flatten the curve... except for the plain fact that, these jackalopes, you give them an inch, they will take a mile, every time.
The Scandinavian peninsula is shared by Sweden and Norway, One faces the Baltic; the other faces the North Atlantic. Other than that, similar people. One side of the mountains, they locked up tight, cause scientists told them to. The other side, they just rode it out, cause scientists told them to. Similar stats on this disease so far. We'll see how it ends, cause Norway is going thru round two, like the rest of Europe; while Sweden has that herd immunity. Across the North Sea from them, Britain tried to ride it out at first. Then they chickened out. Now they are locked up again in round two.
Best test case I can think of is Mumbai. You got a city with 20 million ppl cram-jammed all together. The city is divided in two by this sharp line:
On that far side are programmers. They are gonna come here, buy a motel, send their daughter to med school, and she's gonna be your anesthesiologist. On this near side is shanty town. They're pickin trash and begging. India took it serious; sent out military with billy clubs to enforce lockdown. Beat you up if they found you on the street. Tech support, programming, maybe they put up with some of that. Shanty town, not an option. They gotta go scrabble or starve. Nor is social distancing in the cards when you got 12 sleeping in a room. Guess which side counts more covid deaths? Guess which side has herd immunity?
Look, the problem with the science is the the. Even as simple a thing as masks: Sounded like a good idea. Logical sense. Good science. Yet recently I have read articles from JAMA, Lancet, WHO, and whatchamacallit from American College of Physicians and Surgeons... all saying masks don't work. Even CDC said the only good that masks definitely do is that they make people feel like they're doing something. That "feel like" is good enough for the slaves of their feelings to place their confidence in a masked man hiding in his basement to rule them according to the dictates of the science. Why not? Still makes logical sense, despite the stats don't work out.
Who knows this disease? Even now? At one point, you had to eat a bat; then you didn't. We worried could our dogs spread it; then they couldn't. At one point, you could catch it off a surface; then it would not survive on a surface. Though masked monitors still continue to wipe down surfaces, cause we are incapable of learning, have to just double down. Hell, at one point, NY needed a hospital ship and 40,000 ventilators. Nope. Who knew, in January, that those with Neanderthal DNA were more likely to die, or that those over 6 feet tall were more apt to catch it, or that seniors on daily aspirin nearly never cack off from it? Who knew this stuff? How many lives were saved by locking up and waiting for a 90% effective vaccine? We don't know, cause we haven't seen vaccine work, yet, and there's a massive profit incentive to say it will work. Either it will, or it won't. We don't know. Meanwhile, the merchants of panic continue to sell a bumper crop.
The crisis will continue until we convince ourselves there is no king's touch.
“It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)
I just read an article that some experts are predicting that between treatment advances and multiple vaccines becoming available that the virus could be almost eradicated by next summer
A friend of mine went to Costco in Nashville yesterday. On his way into the store he saw a man coming out pushing one of those flat, low carts for large items. 3 small items, and the rest was piled high with toilet paper.
Here we go again, morons on the march.
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I was in Costco yesterday and the paper aisle was empty. I think the freaking TP shortages are worse than Covid... One of these days I'll give up and get the bidet.
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A friend of mine went to Costco in Nashville yesterday. On his way into the store he saw a man coming out pushing one of those flat, low carts for large items. 3 small items, and the rest was piled high with toilet paper.
Here we go again, morons on the march.
Just now returned from BJs here in DullAware. Same morons lined up from the front down to the meat counter at the end of the store then all along the meat counter and button hook back to the dairy.
Here's the idea: If it didn't work, double down.
“It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)
“It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)
Well my test came back negative. That’s going to be another issue with straining testing sites and supplies. Those of us who get sick then have to prove it’s not corona.
Side note, I talked to a friend in Austria Saturday night and they’re back into lockdown til after Christmas. Bars, restaurants, and schools closed.
Blasted back to the Purple tier with @NorCalR1. I fear for the sanity of the populace, my Wife freaked out this morning when the refrigerator light burned out, thinking the whole fridge had gone with it. Everyone's on edge and pulling apart.
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My first thought was ,..... F*** Mike Thompson for drawing the guard goose-stepping at The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Then I looked at more of his cartoons. All characters drawn walking, seem to have an extended, stiff/straight forward leg, and do not appear to be obviously goose-stepping as they are not in uniform. So now I think he's just ignorant, and doesn't understanding that an American soldier, regardless of the cartoonist's artistic style, should not be drawn like that.
Governor Tom Wolfe in PA wants you to wear a mask indoors for Thanksgiving dinner. Anyone crossing the state border is supposed to show a negative Covid test result or else quarantine two weeks.
This is not "helping my country".
“It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)
The Oregon dictator Kate is locking Oregon down for 2 weeks and encouraging neighbors to report their neighbors if they hold large gatherings.
We got a notice at work that employees are "encouraged" to report other employees and call OR OSHA if proper procedures are not followed.
Some of this is sounding vaguely familiar. 1940s Germany maybe?
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Take scrofula seriously
Scrofula is when tuberculosis breaks out in the neck. For centuries, the only cure was for the king to touch the patient. Sposed to have some magical effect. Sounds like neolithic thaumaturgy, to me, from where we set today. Back then, they had no way of knowing. Then came the enlightenment, germ theory, inoculations, and such not more effective magic. Voltaire, I read, became skeptical of the king's touch when Louis XIV's mistress died of scrofula despite "being well touched by the king." Leave it to the French to find a bon mot. Still, even today, well post-Voltaire, we see all around us people willing to blame disease on, and attribute cures to, rulers. Me, I can accept 15 days to flatten the curve... except for the plain fact that, these jackalopes, you give them an inch, they will take a mile, every time.
The Scandinavian peninsula is shared by Sweden and Norway, One faces the Baltic; the other faces the North Atlantic. Other than that, similar people. One side of the mountains, they locked up tight, cause scientists told them to. The other side, they just rode it out, cause scientists told them to. Similar stats on this disease so far. We'll see how it ends, cause Norway is going thru round two, like the rest of Europe; while Sweden has that herd immunity. Across the North Sea from them, Britain tried to ride it out at first. Then they chickened out. Now they are locked up again in round two.
Best test case I can think of is Mumbai. You got a city with 20 million ppl cram-jammed all together. The city is divided in two by this sharp line:
On that far side are programmers. They are gonna come here, buy a motel, send their daughter to med school, and she's gonna be your anesthesiologist. On this near side is shanty town. They're pickin trash and begging. India took it serious; sent out military with billy clubs to enforce lockdown. Beat you up if they found you on the street. Tech support, programming, maybe they put up with some of that. Shanty town, not an option. They gotta go scrabble or starve. Nor is social distancing in the cards when you got 12 sleeping in a room. Guess which side counts more covid deaths? Guess which side has herd immunity?
Look, the problem with the science is the the. Even as simple a thing as masks: Sounded like a good idea. Logical sense. Good science. Yet recently I have read articles from JAMA, Lancet, WHO, and whatchamacallit from American College of Physicians and Surgeons... all saying masks don't work. Even CDC said the only good that masks definitely do is that they make people feel like they're doing something. That "feel like" is good enough for the slaves of their feelings to place their confidence in a masked man hiding in his basement to rule them according to the dictates of the science. Why not? Still makes logical sense, despite the stats don't work out.
Who knows this disease? Even now? At one point, you had to eat a bat; then you didn't. We worried could our dogs spread it; then they couldn't. At one point, you could catch it off a surface; then it would not survive on a surface. Though masked monitors still continue to wipe down surfaces, cause we are incapable of learning, have to just double down. Hell, at one point, NY needed a hospital ship and 40,000 ventilators. Nope. Who knew, in January, that those with Neanderthal DNA were more likely to die, or that those over 6 feet tall were more apt to catch it, or that seniors on daily aspirin nearly never cack off from it? Who knew this stuff? How many lives were saved by locking up and waiting for a 90% effective vaccine? We don't know, cause we haven't seen vaccine work, yet, and there's a massive profit incentive to say it will work. Either it will, or it won't. We don't know. Meanwhile, the merchants of panic continue to sell a bumper crop.
The crisis will continue until we convince ourselves there is no king's touch.
death toll in my state just hit ten thousand, glad I'm not one of them.
These days people are living longer and longer. Unnaturally so, one could say. Nature seems to be trying to correct that.
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Well, I'm not volunteering.
I just read an article that some experts are predicting that between treatment advances and multiple vaccines becoming available that the virus could be almost eradicated by next summer
I'm hoping for major advances before next year's MKE herf.
shades of Trump behavior
Governor Gavin Newsom reportedly ignored own COVID guidelines at birthday party
https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Gavin-Newsom-COVID-birthday-party-Napa-gatherings-15725725.php
Its fine, do as I say not as I do. My "rules" are only for the peasant people.
MOW badge received.
Rules are for the governed, not the governors.
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A friend of mine went to Costco in Nashville yesterday. On his way into the store he saw a man coming out pushing one of those flat, low carts for large items. 3 small items, and the rest was piled high with toilet paper.
Here we go again, morons on the march.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
I was in Costco yesterday and the paper aisle was empty. I think the freaking TP shortages are worse than Covid... One of these days I'll give up and get the bidet.
At any given time the urge to sing "In The Jungle" is just a whim away... A whim away... A whim away...
Our Costco limits to 1 per customer.
They're limiting here too, I hear.
Just now returned from BJs here in DullAware. Same morons lined up from the front down to the meat counter at the end of the store then all along the meat counter and button hook back to the dairy.
Here's the idea: If it didn't work, double down.
County I live in fell back two tiers to purple today. Major restrictions which I believe will be here for a while.
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Yeah, I hear ya. I think my county will be following suit... and just when I was beginning to feel a little freedom to do things... 😣
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Hmmm. That might be interesting but it flashes past so quickly one doesn’t get a chance to know...
Thanks for trying, though...
Well my test came back negative. That’s going to be another issue with straining testing sites and supplies. Those of us who get sick then have to prove it’s not corona.
Side note, I talked to a friend in Austria Saturday night and they’re back into lockdown til after Christmas. Bars, restaurants, and schools closed.
Blasted back to the Purple tier with @NorCalR1. I fear for the sanity of the populace, my Wife freaked out this morning when the refrigerator light burned out, thinking the whole fridge had gone with it. Everyone's on edge and pulling apart.
Nonsense. Complete nonsense.
Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.
we did too, dropped to tier 3.
MOW badge received.
Double secret probation
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My first thought was ,..... F*** Mike Thompson for drawing the guard goose-stepping at The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Then I looked at more of his cartoons. All characters drawn walking, seem to have an extended, stiff/straight forward leg, and do not appear to be obviously goose-stepping as they are not in uniform. So now I think he's just ignorant, and doesn't understanding that an American soldier, regardless of the cartoonist's artistic style, should not be drawn like that.
Governor Tom Wolfe in PA wants you to wear a mask indoors for Thanksgiving dinner. Anyone crossing the state border is supposed to show a negative Covid test result or else quarantine two weeks.
This is not "helping my country".
Maybe some day we'll be done flattening the curve.
Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.
The Oregon dictator Kate is locking Oregon down for 2 weeks and encouraging neighbors to report their neighbors if they hold large gatherings.
We got a notice at work that employees are "encouraged" to report other employees and call OR OSHA if proper procedures are not followed.
Some of this is sounding vaguely familiar. 1940s Germany maybe?
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