Sorry if you were thinking it was all Trump's fault....but you might want to sit down and think about the three:
1. New Orleans Mardi Gras was allowed to continue on. That was a serious blunder.
2. Spring-break in Florida was allowed to continue on. That was a serious blunder.
3. NY City saying 'no big deal' back in Feb, and suggesting that mass transit by subway was not a problem. The enclosed cars simply helped to spread the virus around the whole city.
If those three events had been attended to.....our virus-count right now would be one-quarter of what the numbers are. In each case, a mayor or governor could have done something, but failed.
If March Madness had been allowed? Oh, we'd have 20-percent more victims on the board. If baseball had opened up on schedule, toss on another 20-percent.
Thursday, 9 April 2020
Wednesday, 8 April 2020
What I Predict
Somewhere in the 1860s to 1880s....as Europeans started to arrive and settle out on the great plains of America....a new term was created: 'Prairie Madness'.
No one can say what journalist or intellectual started the phrase, but it generally meant that the isolation, living conditions, extreme weather and 'nothingness' had your emotions bottled up.
Depression would start up, and alcohol consumption increased.
I expect toward the end of April, that COVID-madness will be coined by some journalist. A dozen-odd experts will appear on CNN to say they are experts on the topic, and spend hours describing the conditions. Some people will go then and spend years in therapy....trying to get over the disease.
Then along the way, someone over at Fox News will coin the phrase China-virus madness, and some guy at NPR will coin the phrase Corona-madness.
No one can say what journalist or intellectual started the phrase, but it generally meant that the isolation, living conditions, extreme weather and 'nothingness' had your emotions bottled up.
Depression would start up, and alcohol consumption increased.
I expect toward the end of April, that COVID-madness will be coined by some journalist. A dozen-odd experts will appear on CNN to say they are experts on the topic, and spend hours describing the conditions. Some people will go then and spend years in therapy....trying to get over the disease.
Then along the way, someone over at Fox News will coin the phrase China-virus madness, and some guy at NPR will coin the phrase Corona-madness.
This Baseball Plan
This week, there's chatter over the plan put out there for major league baseball. Basically, all 30 clubs would be sent to Phoenix and they'd play in eleven fields around the city.....staying in local hotels the whole summer, and avoid contact with fans (yep, no fans allowed in the parks).
Only people in the stadium? The teams, coaches, administrative staff, telecast crowd and umpires.
The day would be planned out with not only double-headers, but back-to-back games with teams A/B, followed by teams C/D.
Some folks suggest that they'd make up for the lost 35-odd games by adding a dozen double-headers to the schedule, with some of these parks having three games in a single day.
The public? No one is saying much. It's a bit of a shock.
Only people in the stadium? The teams, coaches, administrative staff, telecast crowd and umpires.
The day would be planned out with not only double-headers, but back-to-back games with teams A/B, followed by teams C/D.
Some folks suggest that they'd make up for the lost 35-odd games by adding a dozen double-headers to the schedule, with some of these parks having three games in a single day.
The public? No one is saying much. It's a bit of a shock.
Advice for White House 'Correspondents'
1. If you get picked to ask a question, and you start off a long-winded 150-word 'statement' (not the question itself) and then reach the 12-word question itself....the people at home now grasp what you attempted to accomplish. It's like that stupid Vegas magic act that was supposed to be ultra super-secret, and they figured out that the 'mechanism'. So cut the 'statement' and just ask the stupid question.
2. When you utter the phrase....'some scientist said' or 'a expert said'....then you fail to mention the guy's name, you've just proven the fact that you didn't do your homework. All the President has to do is ask you.....who is the scientist or expert? Then you look extremely foolish because you don't have the name.
3. Thinking that you 'train' the President and teach him leadership qualities? You, a mere journalist....having leadership or management qualities? Oh please, what a joke.
4. Prepare yourself for this.....a large segment of the nation now watches the White House 'product' in its entirety. So if you look super-foolish, and it used to be that the network would just that delete that stupidity out....well, the rest of us see the whole segment and just laughing. So you might to be at the top form of your game.
5. Asking a very detailed question, using the phrase 'worst-case' scenario....just leads the President to utter the response that he's working with the average to best case scenario. Your attempt to lead to the proper answer to make your people happy....failed miserably.
6. Finally, if you come off looking like you attempted to trip up the President....you ought to be barred from the next couple of conferences. No one likes that type of behavior in a chaotic crisis period.
2. When you utter the phrase....'some scientist said' or 'a expert said'....then you fail to mention the guy's name, you've just proven the fact that you didn't do your homework. All the President has to do is ask you.....who is the scientist or expert? Then you look extremely foolish because you don't have the name.
3. Thinking that you 'train' the President and teach him leadership qualities? You, a mere journalist....having leadership or management qualities? Oh please, what a joke.
4. Prepare yourself for this.....a large segment of the nation now watches the White House 'product' in its entirety. So if you look super-foolish, and it used to be that the network would just that delete that stupidity out....well, the rest of us see the whole segment and just laughing. So you might to be at the top form of your game.
5. Asking a very detailed question, using the phrase 'worst-case' scenario....just leads the President to utter the response that he's working with the average to best case scenario. Your attempt to lead to the proper answer to make your people happy....failed miserably.
6. Finally, if you come off looking like you attempted to trip up the President....you ought to be barred from the next couple of conferences. No one likes that type of behavior in a chaotic crisis period.
Tuesday, 7 April 2020
A Democrat's Nightmare Moment
Let's say that we get all the way to early October, and Joe Biden has not stepped to the side, and he will be the guy on the ballot in November.
For you....gazing at Joe's insane moments over the past hundred days.....saying some things that just don't make sense....you've started to pour more whiskey into your nightly cocktail.
It bothers you that Joe is showing some dementia issues.
It concerns you that the news media doesn't really notice this or say anything.
It annoys you that right after a Joe speech....some analyst has to come on, and wiggle around the words or phrases that Joe used....to convey something different.
It distresses you that the VP is continually talked about in a highly important way, without explaining that they might be in charge of the country in six months.
It irritates you that he's sounding like your crazy uncle who talks about his 'Nam-adventures' but he only spent six months in the National Guard in the 1980s before thrown out for drug issues.
It drags on your patience that Joe utters something almost daily that your 9-year-old son asks what he really meant.
So the question is....do you accept this scenario, stay home, or flip your vote to Trump?
For you....gazing at Joe's insane moments over the past hundred days.....saying some things that just don't make sense....you've started to pour more whiskey into your nightly cocktail.
It bothers you that Joe is showing some dementia issues.
It concerns you that the news media doesn't really notice this or say anything.
It annoys you that right after a Joe speech....some analyst has to come on, and wiggle around the words or phrases that Joe used....to convey something different.
It distresses you that the VP is continually talked about in a highly important way, without explaining that they might be in charge of the country in six months.
It irritates you that he's sounding like your crazy uncle who talks about his 'Nam-adventures' but he only spent six months in the National Guard in the 1980s before thrown out for drug issues.
It drags on your patience that Joe utters something almost daily that your 9-year-old son asks what he really meant.
So the question is....do you accept this scenario, stay home, or flip your vote to Trump?
This Aircraft Carrier 'Firing'
It's not a page one story.
Basically, the carrier 'Theodore Roosevelt' had a batch of Coronavirus occur. The numbers kinda overwhelmed the commander of the ship. He fires off a unclassified 'wordy' piece that goes beyond his boss, or his chain-of-command, and include twenty-odd other commanders. Basically, he wanted his sick folks removed from the ship and care be rendered as soon as possible.
Several things then occurred, but the chief thing.....this guy was 'fired'.
What he did wrong?
His 'script was simple. Just write a five-line confidential message to his boss, and inform him that the safety of the ship and mission was compromised. It was in the best interest to steam off toward the nearest US port, and dock. In the five to seven days that this would have required....he would have detailed out several hundred folks from the ship to carry on essential duties, and care for the quarantined folks on some indoor deck. He failed on the 'script', and just acted like he wasn't ready for the decisions required.
The problem I would have worried about is that this is a nuclear-powered ship and you only have x-number of nuke technicians onboard. If all of them got the Coronavirus.....you wouldn't Seaman Freddy from the chow-hall to be dispatched to monitor the nuke controls.
I feel sorry for the guy, but it's often the case that when you have a fast-moving emergency situation....fifty-percent of people do the wrong thing, and can't react to fix their mistake....compromising the whole mess and hurting 'trust'.
Basically, the carrier 'Theodore Roosevelt' had a batch of Coronavirus occur. The numbers kinda overwhelmed the commander of the ship. He fires off a unclassified 'wordy' piece that goes beyond his boss, or his chain-of-command, and include twenty-odd other commanders. Basically, he wanted his sick folks removed from the ship and care be rendered as soon as possible.
Several things then occurred, but the chief thing.....this guy was 'fired'.
What he did wrong?
His 'script was simple. Just write a five-line confidential message to his boss, and inform him that the safety of the ship and mission was compromised. It was in the best interest to steam off toward the nearest US port, and dock. In the five to seven days that this would have required....he would have detailed out several hundred folks from the ship to carry on essential duties, and care for the quarantined folks on some indoor deck. He failed on the 'script', and just acted like he wasn't ready for the decisions required.
The problem I would have worried about is that this is a nuclear-powered ship and you only have x-number of nuke technicians onboard. If all of them got the Coronavirus.....you wouldn't Seaman Freddy from the chow-hall to be dispatched to monitor the nuke controls.
I feel sorry for the guy, but it's often the case that when you have a fast-moving emergency situation....fifty-percent of people do the wrong thing, and can't react to fix their mistake....compromising the whole mess and hurting 'trust'.
Next NY Problem
Last night, it came up as a new 'rumor' in NY City.....the New York City Council Health Committee met and suggested that they are looking at using city parks for temporary burial grounds.....(trenches will be dug for 10 caskets in a line) because the city morgues, funeral homes and cemeteries are so 'overwhelmed'.
I sat and pondered over this. Normally, upon death....a family member or friend of the family would go and 'claim' the body via some funeral agency within 24 hours....maybe 48 hours at the most.
Then you'd set up the arrangements and have the funeral in a matter of three to six days.
So, the real question here....are New Yorkers incapable of handling a simple task like this?
I watched some video two days ago....a NY funeral home director (some small-time operation). The guy had twelve dead folks in a room big enough for four folks. The director was at his wit's end.....he couldn't get families to react and make a decision on the arrangements. Some folks in his possession were on their ninth day of 'waiting'.
So to use a city park for a temp 'burial-ground'? I'd make a simple rule....you have five days to pick up your relative from a morgue and seven days to conduct the funeral. After those limits.....we (the city) bury your relative in a no-name cemetery in upstate NY. No temporary status or waste of city park land.
It's a stupid problem, but it's the type that you'd need to go and ask President Trump at the news conference what he's going to do about the dead bodies laying around NY City, and his response would be a direct....'well, just bury them'.
I sat and pondered over this. Normally, upon death....a family member or friend of the family would go and 'claim' the body via some funeral agency within 24 hours....maybe 48 hours at the most.
Then you'd set up the arrangements and have the funeral in a matter of three to six days.
So, the real question here....are New Yorkers incapable of handling a simple task like this?
I watched some video two days ago....a NY funeral home director (some small-time operation). The guy had twelve dead folks in a room big enough for four folks. The director was at his wit's end.....he couldn't get families to react and make a decision on the arrangements. Some folks in his possession were on their ninth day of 'waiting'.
So to use a city park for a temp 'burial-ground'? I'd make a simple rule....you have five days to pick up your relative from a morgue and seven days to conduct the funeral. After those limits.....we (the city) bury your relative in a no-name cemetery in upstate NY. No temporary status or waste of city park land.
It's a stupid problem, but it's the type that you'd need to go and ask President Trump at the news conference what he's going to do about the dead bodies laying around NY City, and his response would be a direct....'well, just bury them'.
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