New York will raise taxes on the coronavirus to encourage it to flee the state.
Category Archives: Political Commentary
The FDA’s Death Toll
It’s long past time to track it.
Bureaucracy kills.
[Update a while later]
I should add that, when this is over, we should have a national commission to review all federal regulatory actions and legislation, and see how much of it is still necessary (if it ever was) and how much of it is actively harmful (e.g., plastic-bag bans) with little benefit/cost ratio. At least we never got that nonsense at a federal level. So it would also be useful to examine state-level regs, for info purposes for those states. But unfortunately, contra bulls**t claims from the Democrats about being the “party of science,” this nonsense will likely continue.
The Biden Allegations
The Economist is covering the story, even if US media refuse to.
A Fit Of Sanity
San Francisco (!) has reversed its plastic-bag ban, and instead (finally) banned reusable bags.
Hopefully this won’t be temporary; it was always stupid.
[Update a few minutes later]
Katherine was prescient (as was I).
The Latest From Ilhan Omar
She seems nice.
I wonder what the appeal was to the guy whose marriage she broke up? Is she great in the sack or something?
Innovation, Privacy, And Nature
How the pandemic will change our views of them.
Spain And Italy
…have been abandoned by the EU.
Between this and Brexit, I don’t think the EU will survive.
Big Pimping
We really are living in the Crazy Years. Children are no longer allowed any period of innocence.
Hollywood’s “Trump Is Hitler” “Argument”
It’s even more pathetic now. We joke about TDS, but they really are deranged.
A Vaccine Is Coming
…and it will work.
But not in time to prevent everything that’s happening right now.
Also, a cure is in the works, but again, not soon enough to prevent all the economic destruction.
Faster, please.
[Update a few minutes later]
Did the virus originate in a Chinese lab, and why is it crazy to ask?
I don’t think it is, which is not to say that I (yet) believe it did.
[Update a while later]
Ignoring the rant at the end, I wonder if this is for real?
https://healthimpactnews.com/2020/dr-rowen-ozone-reverses-critically-ill-covid-patients-in-china-and-very-rapidly/
I take it somewhat seriously because Patricia had it done to prepare her for a surgery a few months ago, and it did seem to help. It only costs a hundred bucks or so (she paid out of pocket), but I don’t know how capable we are of ramping it up.
[Update late morning]
How permanent will the changes to the healthcare industry be?
Some of the regulatory relief should certainly remain. I expect to see a lot more telemedicine, which is all to the good.
[Bumped from earlier]
[Afternoon update]
A new flu inhibitor? Unfortunately, while promising, it too won’t help with the current crisis.