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The California Herd
Virus thoughts from VDH. I don’t buy the 1-2% number. I think it will ultimately be shown to be much lower than that.
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More from VDH: Viral Prerequisites and Nationalist Lessons in Time of Plague.
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Why herd immunity is not a solution, at least not without a vaccine.
I agree on principle, but I continue to believe that the ratio of infections to deaths is much less than one percent.
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Time for a second opinion.
The CCP
The CCP has been lying from the beginning, and continues to, yet their media organs the NYT, WaPo, CNN et al continue to carry their water, because Orange Man Bad.
Mark Levin said on his show last night that the Soviet Union never damaged our country (and the world) the way that the CCP has. I’m not sure that’s true, if you look at the decades-long damage it did, but it certainly never killed people and destroyed wealth this quickly.
[Tuesday-morning update]
The Chinese Communist Party versus America.
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Why China must be held accountable.
I’d start by recognizing Taiwan.
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How China’s lies brought the world to its knees.
Meanwhile, In Potential Future Catastrophes
Good progress in validating an asteroid-deflection code.
I’ll have a lot more confidence when we get out there and establish some ground (so to speak) truth.
The Virus
…has exposed Americans’ disconnect from reality.
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Nancy Pelosi and the politics pandemic.
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Goodbye, Green New Deal.
Set aside, for the moment, any reservations you might have about the coronavirus-emergency regime, and set aside your views on climate change, too, whatever they may be. Instead, ask yourself this: If Americans are this resistant to paying a large economic price to enable measures meant to prevent a public-health catastrophe in the here and now — one that threatens the lives of people they know and love — then how much less likely are they to bear not weeks or months but decades of disruption and economic dislocation and a permanently diminished standard of living in order to prevent possibly severe consequences to people in Bangladesh or Indonesia 80 or 100 years from now?
Not a prayer.
[Update later morning]
Yes, the president is not wrong: Pelosi is a sick puppy.
The Media
The American people think it’s been doing a terrible job of covering the coronavirus. The American people are right.
Remaining U.S. Hospital Capacity
A hard look.
I’m unlikely to be killed by this thing, but I don’t want to even get it, let alone be hospitalized.
[Wednesday-morning update]
Why that doomsday scenario is likely way off.
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[Wednesday-afternoon update]
Bob Zimmerman doesn’t think that this will overwhelm our national hospital capacity. Though it does seem to be doing so in New York city.
Five Needed Paradigm Shifts
…revealed by the pandemic. The latter two are particularly important.
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Related: A litany of useless laws have been exposed as well.
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The coming age of dispersion.
We’ve been wanting to get out of the city for a long time. Most people don’t realize how large and empty the American west is, including California itself. New technology is going to make it increasingly possible and affordable to live comfortably off the grid.
America’s Micro And Macro Efforts
…to combat the epidemic. At the least, it’s an interesting experiment.
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Meanwhile, the Manchurian media.
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South Korea infections are dropping; what’s the key to its success?
Basically, testing and tracing. I’ll feel better once there’s a lot more testing going on here.
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When will it be over, and how will be know? TL;DR, it’s about getting R naught below 1.
Meanwhile, despite the slow start, there’s a lot we can be proud of.
Bankruptcies
Bernie’s press secretary says that 500M American go bankrupt each year.
I think that’s the same number that Sleepy Joe says are killed by gunshot. Are they shooting themselves after going bankrupt, or what? And how can there even be that many when we were all killed by the end of Net Neutrality and the Trump tax cuts?
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Why can’t “liberals” do arithmetic?
Partly, I think, because they are not in fact liberals.