1. Is it possible that Joe Biden had a mild stroke back in December/January, and his dementia-like condition goes back to that?
Generally, I've started to believe this is possible. You'd have to line up off-time, and video tapes of his appearances. The one thing I would agree upon....he's getting worse as each week goes by.
2. What should we be doing during self-quarantine?
I would follow five rules: (1) Don't do anything illegal. (2) Reserve your drinking to after 12-noon. (3) Don't overdose on CNN. (4) Ensure your gas-grill is clean and operational. (5) Avoid temptation.
3. Whats the statistical relationship between virus deaths and higher use of testing?
Well....the more you test, the more likely the infection rate rises (maybe double or triple) but that number also lessens the death statistical averages....meaning more people infected but a lot less dead. If you are a mass hysterical news journalist.....you'd prefer as few tests as possible (in case you were curious).
4. Does the bump up on unemployment checks mean anything?
No. You could be in a company doing a two-week furlough (no pay) and sign up for state benefits.....only to reactivate yourself in two weeks....leaving the furlough side and working once again. The system wasn't made to really handle these kind of conditions.
5. Are dead people getting the Trump-checks?
Yes. It's not a problem, unless dead people are spending the Trump-checks.....like for hookers or booze.
6. Is Hunter Biden still working for that Chinese company?
Well....technically, his name is still listed with them. Maybe he sent them a note to resign, and they just haven't received it yet. Lets be honest, without that pay-check....he might be California-dirt-poor (better than Alabama-dirt-poor).
7. Is it true that Ford is making a wrist gadget that will warn you if you are within 1.5 meters of another person?
Yes. The problem is....in a town of 20,000.....you'd need twenty-thousand of these, and force each person to wear them. It just ain't going to happen.
8. Have we hit the peak of the virus-chatter in DC, between Trump and the Democrats?
No.
At some point in the next sixty days, I expect several Senators and Representatives to fall ill from the virus, and this 'rotating circus' will disappear from the public stage. After a dozen or so are buried.....things will quiet down in DC for the remainder of the year, with the exception of campaign chatter.
9. What's the path of new movies for 2020?
You better prepare yourself for virtually all movies scheduled for the summer to be pushed to spring of 2021. There's even talk that a bunch of theaters will never re-open, and that down-streaming of new movies will be cooked-up in some fashion. Even the Marvel productions are likely to get pushed back a year or two on their schedules.
10. Is it possible that a bunch of the 'old-guys' from Middle-Eastern countries that run things.....will die off, and trigger some massive stability problems?
Well....there's talk over a minimum of five countries getting into stability problems (Iran for example is a prime target). Things might get a bit interesting.
Friday, 17 April 2020
Why 21 January Matters in Virus History
This is the day that the WHO started a daily 'report' that tracked the numbers of the COVID-19 virus.
What's interesting about this day....is that you already had the virus showing up on the west coast of the US, and in Italy (Lombardy/Milan region).
In simple terms....on this day of 21 January.....it was too late to control or isolate the virus.
The announcement of the Pandemic? Well....11 March. Yes, almost 7 weeks after daily WHO reports started up.
Just curious things that you ought to keep in your mind.
What's interesting about this day....is that you already had the virus showing up on the west coast of the US, and in Italy (Lombardy/Milan region).
In simple terms....on this day of 21 January.....it was too late to control or isolate the virus.
The announcement of the Pandemic? Well....11 March. Yes, almost 7 weeks after daily WHO reports started up.
Just curious things that you ought to keep in your mind.
Thursday, 16 April 2020
Cuomo Math Quiz
You woke up this morning and came to realize this math quiz problem. The governor says that 30,000 ventilators aren't necessary.
Then he says that 100 went to Michigan, 50 went to Maryland, 435 were actually non-operational (meaning they were broke and waiting on parts), 888 were Chinese-made and only ran for 33 minutes before they overheated and had to be turned off for 3 minutes to cool, and 3,207 were actually in a unknown basement storage in Long Island that only three union guys know the actual physical address and they want $8,000 each to give you the address.
So the question is.....how many do you really have, that work, and are within the state of New York?
But the bigger question is.....can the governor himself do this math quiz?
Then he says that 100 went to Michigan, 50 went to Maryland, 435 were actually non-operational (meaning they were broke and waiting on parts), 888 were Chinese-made and only ran for 33 minutes before they overheated and had to be turned off for 3 minutes to cool, and 3,207 were actually in a unknown basement storage in Long Island that only three union guys know the actual physical address and they want $8,000 each to give you the address.
So the question is.....how many do you really have, that work, and are within the state of New York?
But the bigger question is.....can the governor himself do this math quiz?
Vent-A-Truck
It came up in the news this morning....Twitter via NY Governor Cuomo.....he's shipping 100 ventilators to Michigan, and 50 to Maryland.
So I had this reality TV series idea.
You have these four trucks which are loaded with ventilators, and crossing the country.....24-hours a day....7-days a week.
They arrive at some PR ceremony where this mayor has pictures taken with the ventilators.....then he slips them out of the back-door to another team, to take them overnight, to another mayor, who has another PR team to take more pictures.
Over a one-month.....over 3,000 mayors would sign for ventilators and claim great success.....while the four teams keep the ventilators continually moving.
I'd put the show on the History Channel.....right after Amish Mafia.
So I had this reality TV series idea.
You have these four trucks which are loaded with ventilators, and crossing the country.....24-hours a day....7-days a week.
They arrive at some PR ceremony where this mayor has pictures taken with the ventilators.....then he slips them out of the back-door to another team, to take them overnight, to another mayor, who has another PR team to take more pictures.
Over a one-month.....over 3,000 mayors would sign for ventilators and claim great success.....while the four teams keep the ventilators continually moving.
I'd put the show on the History Channel.....right after Amish Mafia.
The Odds You Might Be in a News Cult
Generally, there are supposed to be only religious cults. Over the past decade, some folks have come to the general idea that philosophical cults can also exist. So I've come to the point of suggesting that 'news' cults may exist as well. They require seven conditions:
1. Opposition to any critical thinking or reasoning capability.
2. A preference exists to isolate people from beliefs or core groups.....then penalize them or throw fear into their heart for disbelief.
3. Often seeking to gain 'pure' loyalty to an idea, a focus group, or political agenda.
4. Continual use of references, data, or news to disconnect you from your family, social atmosphere, or political beliefs. This often means using polling data to convince of a overwhelming loss, or a overwhelming victory.
5. Challenging your mind on factual data. This generally means creating alternate timelines which aren't factual, or laying out some fake story which seems true but lacks facts.
6. The extreme cult members will never see the paycheck-problem arriving until it's too late. They wake up....go into work, and then get told that no one is watching their product, and 15-percent of the 'team' have to go. These people dismissed.....go out and find that a unrecognizable 'path' lays ahead, and their whole life was dependent on them selling cult-news, which oddly doesn't sell anymore.
7. Finally, the cult-news team wants you so desperately to see them without regard to their behavior or audacity. When you hint that that you are 'normal' and get corrected....the automatic reaction is to correct the person suggesting this, and let them know that they are just plain 'stupid'. Even after a dozen events where behavior or audacity are noted....the cult-guy/gal still believes in their cult message.
The question to ask now....is there a deprogramming for this? Maybe, but you'd have to go and spend a full year in Wyoming or some small Georgia town.....talking to regular people, and I just have some doubts that cult folks would be that eager to accomplish that.
1. Opposition to any critical thinking or reasoning capability.
2. A preference exists to isolate people from beliefs or core groups.....then penalize them or throw fear into their heart for disbelief.
3. Often seeking to gain 'pure' loyalty to an idea, a focus group, or political agenda.
4. Continual use of references, data, or news to disconnect you from your family, social atmosphere, or political beliefs. This often means using polling data to convince of a overwhelming loss, or a overwhelming victory.
5. Challenging your mind on factual data. This generally means creating alternate timelines which aren't factual, or laying out some fake story which seems true but lacks facts.
6. The extreme cult members will never see the paycheck-problem arriving until it's too late. They wake up....go into work, and then get told that no one is watching their product, and 15-percent of the 'team' have to go. These people dismissed.....go out and find that a unrecognizable 'path' lays ahead, and their whole life was dependent on them selling cult-news, which oddly doesn't sell anymore.
7. Finally, the cult-news team wants you so desperately to see them without regard to their behavior or audacity. When you hint that that you are 'normal' and get corrected....the automatic reaction is to correct the person suggesting this, and let them know that they are just plain 'stupid'. Even after a dozen events where behavior or audacity are noted....the cult-guy/gal still believes in their cult message.
The question to ask now....is there a deprogramming for this? Maybe, but you'd have to go and spend a full year in Wyoming or some small Georgia town.....talking to regular people, and I just have some doubts that cult folks would be that eager to accomplish that.
Humble Observations: 16 April 2020
1. Is there a serious disparity with blacks and health?
Statistically, the answer is generally yes....but it also has a dozen factors which figure into this.
First, a lot of this is dependent on where you live. In rural areas of the south.....blacks and whites (yep, it doesn't matter) are getting marginal 2-star care, and it's because of where you live. The same can be said for areas of Idaho, New Mexico or the Dakotas.
Second, a fair sum of blacks have a diet which isn't helpful, and they frankly don't want your advice on eating carrots, salads, or less sugar.
Third, if you counted in alcohol consumption and drug-use, black males might be regarded as a high-risk group for health issues when they get into their 50s and 60s.
It's fair to talk about this disparity, but at the end of the discussion....other than handcuffing some folks and dragging them along, what exactly do you intend to do.....to equalize or change the outcome of this data?
2. True or false: Did the CIA actually warn their workers around six weeks ago NOT to take the anti-Malaria drug Hydroxychloroquine for the virus?
Yes. They made up a health note and suggested 'their' people NOT take the drug. It's a bit odd and to be honest, the CIA normally doesn't ever offer health advice other than suggesting you should quit smoking, and you should lessen your alcohol consumption.
So it's a bit odd that their health-nurse or health-doctor spoke up on this topic and suggested this.
I would also suggest that once this got put out.....a bunch of CIA folks probably asked stupid questions, and the whole thing disappeared real quick.
3. Is it possible in NY City to be shot forty-two times, and the Coroner assigns death by COVID-19?
Yeah, that's pretty much the case.
4. Is it just odd that some governors and mayors are coming across like miniature Hitler-figures?
Listen, for some of these people, it's the first time in their life that they've had to manage something or write down some directives, so it's a learning process.
Now, it would bother me that a year from now....they haven't learned any lessons, and they are still acting like miniature Hitler-figures.
5. Wasn't it just pure 'evil' for Trump to show that 4-minute video at the press conference?
Oddly, it's a video of news people saying things....NOT him or Biden. If they hadn't said all those foolish things, he'd have nothing to show.
6. Is there any proof that masks are that beneficial?
Ironman would say so.
7. Would a 'President Hillary Clinton' be up and doing the virus press conferences like Trump?
No. She would appoint the VP to carry the load. Most of the reason is this coughing issue of hers and she wouldn't last more than fifteen minutes before sipping water and trying to prevent the cough. Eventually, some idiot would have asked if she had the virus since she's been cough so much.
Please note, this was a hypothetical question, and a hypothetical answer.
8. What will happen to the WHO once the Trump order is effective.....to cut off the US contribution to their budget?
Well...$400-odd-million is the budget factor, and I'm guessing that they will have a little meeting and appoint some idiot to come up with an emergency plan to lay off people. Naturally, the more worthless people will likely stay on for the next six to twelve months, until the bosses realize that they've kept the wrong people.
I expect the House to have hearings and try another impeachment deal because of the order, but that's mostly a joke.
9. Any truth to the story that San Francisco's Board of Supervisors signed up to giving away 8,000-plus hotel rooms to homeless folks?
Yep, it was passed (unanimously) Tuesday evening. Emergency order....requiring the city to acquire a MINIMUM of 8,250 hotel rooms for three affected groups (homeless folks, medical folks, discharged virus patients). City is giving the managers roughly two weeks to acquire the rooms.
Cost factor? Don't even bother bringing it up....this will more or less crap out the city in a matter of twelve months. Figure the rough treatment by the homeless crowd.....the damages to the rooms, and the period of repair required.
I would forecast at least twenty hotels in the city will never be able to open and operate as a hotel again.....so this is a damages type future event, where a court will pay them the value of the building.
In simple terms.....you property owners in the city will be handed a bill in 2021....probably doubling your property tax.
Added to this....let's be honest, tourism in SF is dying at the present rate of homeless people crapping in the streets, so these hotels weren't expecting much of a trend for the rest of 2020 or 2021.
10. Does the President have TOTAL POWER over the states?
Unless the states declare that they have TOTAL POWER over Washington DC, the House, and the Senate.....then Trump is correct. The emphasis for well over a hundred years is that states wanted to deny they had any power or stamina.
It's kinda like the Marvel movie where Captain America could have picked up Thor's hammer anytime he wanted, but he chose to look puny and weak....until the right moment to act on Thanos.
So I put the ball back into the court of the fifty Governors and the 50 state-houses....do you want to correct the situation and finally let people know that you do have TOTAL POWER over DC, or do you want to play out the Captain America and the hammer routine....looking continually weak and ineffective? Your choice.
I don't think they want to show that they have more power than Trump, the House or the Senate has. Once you admit this 'power'....why would you need to funnel all this cash and tax revenue to DC for some fake TOTAL POWER gimmick there?
Statistically, the answer is generally yes....but it also has a dozen factors which figure into this.
First, a lot of this is dependent on where you live. In rural areas of the south.....blacks and whites (yep, it doesn't matter) are getting marginal 2-star care, and it's because of where you live. The same can be said for areas of Idaho, New Mexico or the Dakotas.
Second, a fair sum of blacks have a diet which isn't helpful, and they frankly don't want your advice on eating carrots, salads, or less sugar.
Third, if you counted in alcohol consumption and drug-use, black males might be regarded as a high-risk group for health issues when they get into their 50s and 60s.
It's fair to talk about this disparity, but at the end of the discussion....other than handcuffing some folks and dragging them along, what exactly do you intend to do.....to equalize or change the outcome of this data?
2. True or false: Did the CIA actually warn their workers around six weeks ago NOT to take the anti-Malaria drug Hydroxychloroquine for the virus?
Yes. They made up a health note and suggested 'their' people NOT take the drug. It's a bit odd and to be honest, the CIA normally doesn't ever offer health advice other than suggesting you should quit smoking, and you should lessen your alcohol consumption.
So it's a bit odd that their health-nurse or health-doctor spoke up on this topic and suggested this.
I would also suggest that once this got put out.....a bunch of CIA folks probably asked stupid questions, and the whole thing disappeared real quick.
3. Is it possible in NY City to be shot forty-two times, and the Coroner assigns death by COVID-19?
Yeah, that's pretty much the case.
4. Is it just odd that some governors and mayors are coming across like miniature Hitler-figures?
Listen, for some of these people, it's the first time in their life that they've had to manage something or write down some directives, so it's a learning process.
Now, it would bother me that a year from now....they haven't learned any lessons, and they are still acting like miniature Hitler-figures.
5. Wasn't it just pure 'evil' for Trump to show that 4-minute video at the press conference?
Oddly, it's a video of news people saying things....NOT him or Biden. If they hadn't said all those foolish things, he'd have nothing to show.
6. Is there any proof that masks are that beneficial?
Ironman would say so.
7. Would a 'President Hillary Clinton' be up and doing the virus press conferences like Trump?
No. She would appoint the VP to carry the load. Most of the reason is this coughing issue of hers and she wouldn't last more than fifteen minutes before sipping water and trying to prevent the cough. Eventually, some idiot would have asked if she had the virus since she's been cough so much.
Please note, this was a hypothetical question, and a hypothetical answer.
8. What will happen to the WHO once the Trump order is effective.....to cut off the US contribution to their budget?
Well...$400-odd-million is the budget factor, and I'm guessing that they will have a little meeting and appoint some idiot to come up with an emergency plan to lay off people. Naturally, the more worthless people will likely stay on for the next six to twelve months, until the bosses realize that they've kept the wrong people.
I expect the House to have hearings and try another impeachment deal because of the order, but that's mostly a joke.
9. Any truth to the story that San Francisco's Board of Supervisors signed up to giving away 8,000-plus hotel rooms to homeless folks?
Yep, it was passed (unanimously) Tuesday evening. Emergency order....requiring the city to acquire a MINIMUM of 8,250 hotel rooms for three affected groups (homeless folks, medical folks, discharged virus patients). City is giving the managers roughly two weeks to acquire the rooms.
Cost factor? Don't even bother bringing it up....this will more or less crap out the city in a matter of twelve months. Figure the rough treatment by the homeless crowd.....the damages to the rooms, and the period of repair required.
I would forecast at least twenty hotels in the city will never be able to open and operate as a hotel again.....so this is a damages type future event, where a court will pay them the value of the building.
In simple terms.....you property owners in the city will be handed a bill in 2021....probably doubling your property tax.
Added to this....let's be honest, tourism in SF is dying at the present rate of homeless people crapping in the streets, so these hotels weren't expecting much of a trend for the rest of 2020 or 2021.
10. Does the President have TOTAL POWER over the states?
Unless the states declare that they have TOTAL POWER over Washington DC, the House, and the Senate.....then Trump is correct. The emphasis for well over a hundred years is that states wanted to deny they had any power or stamina.
It's kinda like the Marvel movie where Captain America could have picked up Thor's hammer anytime he wanted, but he chose to look puny and weak....until the right moment to act on Thanos.
So I put the ball back into the court of the fifty Governors and the 50 state-houses....do you want to correct the situation and finally let people know that you do have TOTAL POWER over DC, or do you want to play out the Captain America and the hammer routine....looking continually weak and ineffective? Your choice.
I don't think they want to show that they have more power than Trump, the House or the Senate has. Once you admit this 'power'....why would you need to funnel all this cash and tax revenue to DC for some fake TOTAL POWER gimmick there?
Wednesday, 15 April 2020
The Dismal Awe We Have
Generally, if you want some insight on illicit drugs, you go to a dope-dealer or a licensed doctor.
Generally, if you want some information or insight on transmissions, you go to a mechanic.
Generally, if you want insight on women, you go to a honky tonk bartender, or someone who has been married five or more times.
So I don't have much in a positive way to say when I stand there and have to listen to some Hollywood idiot talk about anything other than their recent movie, or the renovation of their Hollywood mansion. Their insight on the environment, politics, the economy, or jungles collapsing in Peru...isn't of any value to me.
To be honest, I don't remember this being a big deal in the 1970s or 1980s. It just seems like some 'creatures' wandered out of the woods in the 1990s....got all hyped-up and then convinced the public that their opinion mattered.
Presently? I've reached the stage where the 'mute-button' seems to be helping me with this insight problem. I wish some Hollywood dimwit would come out and talk more about the mute-button, and convince people to use it more often.
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