At this point, it’s impossible to take lock-down orders seriously.
16 thoughts on “The “Public-Health Emergency””
Whatever they can engineer to damage the country they will do because they think it hurts Trump. It just hurts Americans.
And pisses them off — which will help Trump.
At this point it’s very difficult to take government seriously. It’s clearly incompetent from top to bottom in most Western countries.
You’ve only just noticed? I thought it was obvious long ago.
Governments used to at least pretend to be competent, but the pretense was only possible because they didn’t have to deal with difficult problems. Now they do, it’s completely collapsing.
Always interesting to see what’s more important. I guess presently it’s supposed to be:
having a functioning economy < covid isolation < symbolic protests for the social issue du jour.
I think actually it is important that there are protests in Minnesota. Something pretty fishy happened. The police dragged out the arrest and might have backed out altogether without the protests. It shouldn't have taken four days to figure out that there was a crime worth arresting someone over when they started with eyewitnesses and video. And I think the possibility that this was deliberate, premeditated murder rather than accidental death needs to be explored. Apparently, the killer and victim worked at the same place for a good part of the previous year. That’s a personal connection that should be explored more deeply.
The fact that the other officers stood around unconcerned and calm tells me that they are trained to do this, and that it is standard procedure. A stupid standard procedure that doesn’t take human physiology into consideration.
There’s no standard procedure for pinning a helpless person to the ground for almost ten minutes. Keep in mind when EMTs arrived, Floyd could instead be going through processing at the precinct station, alive and well.
A stupid standard procedure that doesn’t take human physiology into consideration.
This might not be accidental or stupid. Floyd may well have been killed deliberately and efficiently. It’s very suspicious that the cop who killed Floyd worked at the same place as Floyd recently (see my link above). That’s a connection that I think warrants looking into. For example, the killer might have a personal grudge against Floyd, or Floyd might have been a risk to a racket the four cops were in on.
One would think that if these cops all wanted him dead, then they wouldn’t do it with witnesses filming.
What does the filming show? You can’t go much further than police misconduct. I doubt one can tell, for example, how hard the killer was pushing into Floyd’s neck from the video. Intent to kill looks much like police brutality. You would have to go to an autopsy and the police have some control over that and how it’s interpreted. Given that the prosecutors didn’t even bother to arrest the police officer in question until after three days of protests (and three nights of rioting), they probably aren’t going to look too hard.
And that might have been part of the plan. No one would expect police to deliberately kill someone while the camera is running. It certainly would be a decent defense argument should first degree murder ever become the charge, which seems unlikely.
I wonder what will come next? I assume the left wants Trump to deploy troops to the cities and gun down thousands of rioting looters, or maybe round up Antifa wholesale and throw the wankerish kids of upper middle class families in Guantanamo. But what if that doesn’t work? Is there some way their Deep State allies could engineer an attack on China under some pretext? That’d make me wish I had TV!
I spent the evening putting bags to ward off insect damage on apple blossoms that have “set fruit”. This is at a nearby elementary school, and yes, I had “cleared this” with the local parent-teacher group managing the garden and orchard at that school.
The parking lot next to the orchard appeared to be a carpool/staging area for a group of late-teen men. When a group of them left, another teen man in a minivan pulled up in a rush — it appears he got there late.
I didn’t ask what event they were attending, but a person can put the circumstances together and figure it could have something to do with the Protests. Yesterday when I drove home in late afternoon, I encountered on the cross street a caravan of rowdy, mainly white men of similar age, with BLM slogans and something about the deficiencies of “white science” marked in grease pencil on car windows, of shirtless young men seated on car window ledges leaning out open car windows waving encouragement to other members of their caravan.
From all I have heard, it was a little tense for me to be working within the rows of trees, but I figured that they would leave me alone, not hassle me in any way let alone ask what I was doing in the school yard.
I think there is a strong social response not to ask anyone doing any kind of ag work any questions, as in “dude, why are you sticking plastic sandwich bags on a tree?” The Protest probably offers much more fun and excitement than listen to some geezer explain why he is sticking sandwich bags on a tree?
If there is no spike in infections in two weeks there really is no justifiable reason to maintain the lockdown/quarantine. But hey, maybe I’m wrong. Must be the masks.
Apparently it is alive and well, because blue city leaders are making sure the jails are safe from the spread of COVID.
There is the problem of counting what is and is not a COVID-19 caused death. The problem is lumping in “COVID-19 related” death figures. This is wrong and is incorrect epidemiology. If you cannot obtain a solid diagnosis and cause of death, because there was a clear before and after result of SARS-CoV-2 viral infection and COVID-19 symptomatic triggering, then these numbers are simply medical masturbation. People can be infected with the virus and be asymptomatic or immune and still test positive. As an example, someone with a heart attack is rushed to the ER and dies. If they were tested and show positive for viral presence but otherwise w/o symptoms and clearly died because of hypertension related heart disease, that is not a COVID-19 related death and should not be counted as such. I’m afraid however that it is.
Unless that person was living in a nursing home in the northeast at the time of the heart attack, in which case it is definitely a heart attack.
Whatever they can engineer to damage the country they will do because they think it hurts Trump. It just hurts Americans.
And pisses them off — which will help Trump.
At this point it’s very difficult to take government seriously. It’s clearly incompetent from top to bottom in most Western countries.
You’ve only just noticed? I thought it was obvious long ago.
Governments used to at least pretend to be competent, but the pretense was only possible because they didn’t have to deal with difficult problems. Now they do, it’s completely collapsing.
Always interesting to see what’s more important. I guess presently it’s supposed to be:
having a functioning economy < covid isolation < symbolic protests for the social issue du jour.
I think actually it is important that there are protests in Minnesota. Something pretty fishy happened. The police dragged out the arrest and might have backed out altogether without the protests. It shouldn't have taken four days to figure out that there was a crime worth arresting someone over when they started with eyewitnesses and video. And I think the possibility that this was deliberate, premeditated murder rather than accidental death needs to be explored. Apparently, the killer and victim worked at the same place for a good part of the previous year. That’s a personal connection that should be explored more deeply.
The fact that the other officers stood around unconcerned and calm tells me that they are trained to do this, and that it is standard procedure. A stupid standard procedure that doesn’t take human physiology into consideration.
There’s no standard procedure for pinning a helpless person to the ground for almost ten minutes. Keep in mind when EMTs arrived, Floyd could instead be going through processing at the precinct station, alive and well.
A stupid standard procedure that doesn’t take human physiology into consideration.
This might not be accidental or stupid. Floyd may well have been killed deliberately and efficiently. It’s very suspicious that the cop who killed Floyd worked at the same place as Floyd recently (see my link above). That’s a connection that I think warrants looking into. For example, the killer might have a personal grudge against Floyd, or Floyd might have been a risk to a racket the four cops were in on.
One would think that if these cops all wanted him dead, then they wouldn’t do it with witnesses filming.
What does the filming show? You can’t go much further than police misconduct. I doubt one can tell, for example, how hard the killer was pushing into Floyd’s neck from the video. Intent to kill looks much like police brutality. You would have to go to an autopsy and the police have some control over that and how it’s interpreted. Given that the prosecutors didn’t even bother to arrest the police officer in question until after three days of protests (and three nights of rioting), they probably aren’t going to look too hard.
And that might have been part of the plan. No one would expect police to deliberately kill someone while the camera is running. It certainly would be a decent defense argument should first degree murder ever become the charge, which seems unlikely.
I wonder what will come next? I assume the left wants Trump to deploy troops to the cities and gun down thousands of rioting looters, or maybe round up Antifa wholesale and throw the wankerish kids of upper middle class families in Guantanamo. But what if that doesn’t work? Is there some way their Deep State allies could engineer an attack on China under some pretext? That’d make me wish I had TV!
I spent the evening putting bags to ward off insect damage on apple blossoms that have “set fruit”. This is at a nearby elementary school, and yes, I had “cleared this” with the local parent-teacher group managing the garden and orchard at that school.
The parking lot next to the orchard appeared to be a carpool/staging area for a group of late-teen men. When a group of them left, another teen man in a minivan pulled up in a rush — it appears he got there late.
I didn’t ask what event they were attending, but a person can put the circumstances together and figure it could have something to do with the Protests. Yesterday when I drove home in late afternoon, I encountered on the cross street a caravan of rowdy, mainly white men of similar age, with BLM slogans and something about the deficiencies of “white science” marked in grease pencil on car windows, of shirtless young men seated on car window ledges leaning out open car windows waving encouragement to other members of their caravan.
From all I have heard, it was a little tense for me to be working within the rows of trees, but I figured that they would leave me alone, not hassle me in any way let alone ask what I was doing in the school yard.
I think there is a strong social response not to ask anyone doing any kind of ag work any questions, as in “dude, why are you sticking plastic sandwich bags on a tree?” The Protest probably offers much more fun and excitement than listen to some geezer explain why he is sticking sandwich bags on a tree?
If there is no spike in infections in two weeks there really is no justifiable reason to maintain the lockdown/quarantine. But hey, maybe I’m wrong. Must be the masks.
Apparently it is alive and well, because blue city leaders are making sure the jails are safe from the spread of COVID.
There is the problem of counting what is and is not a COVID-19 caused death. The problem is lumping in “COVID-19 related” death figures. This is wrong and is incorrect epidemiology. If you cannot obtain a solid diagnosis and cause of death, because there was a clear before and after result of SARS-CoV-2 viral infection and COVID-19 symptomatic triggering, then these numbers are simply medical masturbation. People can be infected with the virus and be asymptomatic or immune and still test positive. As an example, someone with a heart attack is rushed to the ER and dies. If they were tested and show positive for viral presence but otherwise w/o symptoms and clearly died because of hypertension related heart disease, that is not a COVID-19 related death and should not be counted as such. I’m afraid however that it is.
Unless that person was living in a nursing home in the northeast at the time of the heart attack, in which case it is definitely a heart attack.