Reinke Faces Life

A mother in Zimbabwe rescued her toddler from a killer croc this week by jamming her fingers up the reptile’s nose.

Source: Mom saves toddler from crocodile by sticking fingers up reptile’s nose

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That’s an impressive feat.  One of the reasons you never mess with a Momma Bear — of any species.

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There’s a lot of debate over the Swedish model of coronavirus response, but there are good reasons to think a Hippocratic approach to policy may pay off.

Source: In Sweden, Will Voluntary Self-Isolation Work Better Than State-Enforced Lockdowns in the Long Run? – Reason.com

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Imagine if the “voluntary approach” of protecting the vulnerable and not “locking down” can be shown to be more effective response?

Then, what will ALL the politicians, bureaucrats, and pundits say then!

Argh!

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Lotto tickets are OK, but not seeds? Residents baffled after Michigan bans purchases of ‘non-essential’ items https://www.ac2news.com/2020/04/lotto-tickets-are-ok-but-not-seeds-residents-baffled-after-michigan-bans-purchases-of-non-essential-items/

Geeee I wonder why?

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“If I choose to peacefully assemble, go to Church, go to a gun shop, take my family fishing, open my business, enjoy the outdoors, or exercise any of my constitutional rights, I should not be restricted from doing so by a would-be dictator,” Culp told supporters during a recent conference call.
— Read on apnews.com/61d9bbe247e03a90b8071d3529d35e31

Seaside Park police charged several people with violating the state’s social distancing orders over the last several days.Konstanti Apessos Jr., 21, of Manchester, was charged on April 12 with defiant trespass, petty disorderly persons offense, and violating the emergency orders for sitting on a

Source: Seaside Park Police Charge Man Sitting on Lifeguard Stand, Couple Walking on Boardwalk With Coronavirus Violations | Lavallette-Seaside Shorebeat

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General Brian Horrocks agreed a local truce and on April 15 sent Brigadier Hughes of the Royal Army Medical Corps — his top medical man — forward to reconnoitre the camp. Hughes drove along that remote forest road to Belsen not really knowing what to expect. Once he stepped inside, he saw at a glance the magnitude of the crime against humanity perpetrated there.

Source: Book captures wickedness a doctor witnessed as he struggled to decide who could be saved in Belsen | Daily Mail Online

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You can’t possibly read just this summary of the book and not be upset.

“Identity politics” leads to this particualr version of “man’s inhumanity to man”!

#neverforget

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The virus can live on cardboard packaging (e.g. a cereal box) for 24 hours, so if someone else has touched that item and put it back, or sneezed/coughed within six feet of the box, it could be contaminated.

Source: How to shop for groceries during COVID-19 – The Prepared

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I was thinking about this the other day when in <REDACTED cause I’m sure they all “restock”> and I saw the team member “reverse shopping” (i.e., putting stuff in a basic back on the shelves).

Now I wonder if they hold the stuff out for 24 hours or not?

And, what about the deli products she was “restocking” into the refrigerated “grab and go”?

Hmmm.

Now I’ve always take solace in the 98% never get infected rate, and the high percentage of “never got sick at all” or “just a little sick”.  And, there is so much that is just unknown about the virus, how it transmits (maybe it is by 5G? Laugh!), and who is really at high risk.

Maybe I’m naïve, but I think that the politicians and bureaucrats are totally clueless.  — Although Mario Cuomo seems to be shooting straight on this topic at this time. —  And Doc Fauci may have a political ax to grind — Hence, everything they “plan” must be taken with a LARGE grain of salt.

(IMHO)

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Doorbell camera captures kindhearted FedEx driver sanitizing a package to protect an 11-year-old girl from COVID-19 after seeing family’s sign warning that she has an autoimmune disorder

• Carrie Blasi, 49, from Boca Raton, Florida, posted the warning sign for her 11-year-old daughter Emma, who has Type 1 diabetes
• The chronic condition puts Emma at a higher risk of developing life-threatening complications if she gets sick with the coronavirus
• When he saw the sign, FedEx driver Justin Bradshaw, 28, took the time to clean the package and write a note for the family assuring them it was sanitized
• Security footage of the heartwarming moment has gone viral, and Blasi started the Twitter hashtag #BeLikeJustin to thank him for his act of kindness
• Learn more about how to help people impacted by COVID

By ERICA TEMPESTA FOR DAILYMAIL.COMPUBLISHED: 14:07 EDT, 13 April 2020 | UPDATED: 15:07 EDT, 13 April 2020

Source: Coronavirus US: FedEx man sanitizes package to protect little girl with autoimmune disorder | Daily Mail Online

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#BeLikeJustin

What more has to be or could be said?

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What Not to Do https://cafehayek.com/2020/04/what-not-to-do.html

I responded with an analogy that I stole from my Mercatus Center colleague Dan Griswold (and which will appear later today at Cafe Hayek as a “Bonus Quotation of the Day”): America’s experience with the coronavirus no more implies that we should abandon globalization than does a power outage at your home imply that you should remove yourself from the electricity grid.

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Folks have to understand “comparative advantage” and the division of labor.

Our current problem is with the Gooferment’s FDA. (Delaying the various “miracles” in process by confusing diktats.)

Let’s get back to free market capitalism and “honest money”!

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The attached article is interesting. It seeks to dis middle America. Meanwhile the once golden state is hemorrhaging residents, is strangling businesses, (they are moving to places like Texas and Florida), is overly dependent on a wealthy class based in San Francisco and LA for tax revenue, and the state has a pension shortfall, kept off the books somehow, of over 1 TRILLION dollars.

Source: Gavin Newsom Declares California a ‘Nation-State’, Columnist makes the case that Cali isn’t a disaster

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California should secede!

CAL-EXIT!

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The crucial decision Trump will make is to choose the exact moment to reopen the country and the economy, without igniting a new spike in the pandemic that induces despair and causes a panic.

The president’s aides in charge of the medical crisis want the longest delay possible. His economic and political advisers, fearing Trump could be forced to run as Herbert Hoover did, at the nadir of a new depression, want an earlier decision to start opening up the country.

Action cannot long be delayed if we are to survive the medical crisis only to endure a longer and more costly economic crisis.

Source: Trump’s Presidency Hangs on One Decision, by Pat Buchanan – The Unz Review

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I’d roll the dice and say that DJT45 has NOT handled this crisis well.  (Primarily thanks to the media and the entrenched politicians and bureaucrats!)  So he has to restart asap and just hope the economy comes back like gangbusters.

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Also Monday, upon learning of Kaline’s death, ESPN did what it does best. It busied itself taking unwarranted, dishonest credit for breaking the news as per another of its force-fed, transparently self-promotional “confirmations” — as if anyone other than ESPN cared who “broke” such a story so much so that it would conflate and confuse credit for it.

Source: ESPN’s dishonest credit taking includes MLB Hall of Famer’s death

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ESPN takes credit for other people’s work?

That’s disgraceful.

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In accordance, engineer Brandi Gerstner used an X-Acto knife and a screwdriver to reverse the pump’s suction function so it expels air, rather than taking it in, reports WBALTV. She even rigged the impromptu breathing instrument so that it pumps air in accordance with medical oxygen intake standards.

Source: Engineers convert breast pumps into ventilators amid coronavirus-related shortage

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Let’s hear it for the “injineers”.

First CPAP machines converted; now breast pumps.

Great adaptation!

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Aging Holocaust survivors now have the chance to record their memories in a way that will allow future generations to literally ask them about their experiences, and see and hear their answers. 60 Minutes reports, Sunday.
— Read on www.cbsnews.com/video/project-lets-people-interview-holocaust-survivors-even-after-their-deaths/

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What a great innovation!

NEVER FORGET!

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But a review of three months of public comments by public health officials, news personalities and liberal figures show they made similar comments as those skewered by The Daily Show video but have escaped similar critique.
— Read on justthenews.com/politics-policy/coronavirus/news-media-liberals-mock-conservatives-early-pandemic-comments-they

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Two different standards? No kidding!

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This post appeared first on Daily Reckoning . “Failure to comply with this order will result in a $5,000 fine and up to one year in prison…” We woke this morning to this menacing threat. It came issuing from the loudspeaker of a prowling police cruiser.

Source: Urgent Questions

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The Case of the Diamond Princess

Dr. Ioannidis cites the case of the cruise ship Diamond Princess:

Projecting the Diamond Princess mortality rate onto the age structure of the U.S. population, the death rate among people infected with COVID-19 would be 0.125%. But since this estimate is based on extremely thin data — there were just seven deaths among the 700 infected passengers and crew — the real death rate could stretch from five times lower (0.025%) to five times higher (0.625%). It is also possible that some of the passengers who were infected might die later, and that tourists may have different frequencies of chronic diseases — a risk factor for worse outcomes with SARS-CoV-2 infection — than the general population. Adding these extra sources of uncertainty, reasonable estimates for the case fatality ratio in the general U.S. population vary from 0.05–1%.

That huge range markedly affects how severe the pandemic is and what should be done. A populationwide case fatality rate of 0.05% is lower than seasonal influenza. If that is the true rate, locking down the world with potentially tremendous social and financial consequences may be totally irrational. It’s like an elephant being attacked by a house cat. Frustrated and trying to avoid the cat, the elephant accidentally jumps off a cliff and dies…

If we assume that case fatality rate among individuals infected by SARS-CoV-2 is 0.3% in the general population — a mid-range guess from my Diamond Princess analysis — and that 1% of the U.S. population gets infected (about 3.3 million people), this would translate to about 10,000 deaths. This sounds like a huge number, but it is buried within the noise of the estimate of deaths from “influenza-like illness.” If we had not known about a new virus out there and had not checked individuals with PCR tests, the number of total deaths due to “influenza-like illness” would not seem unusual this year.

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Died. (Sorry to hear that!)

BUT did they die WITH the virus or BECAUSE of the virus.

This is a GIANT difference!

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People and politicians in the US are reacting very differently to the coronavirus pandemic—it all depends on the state you’re living in. South Carolina has recently come under fire after some people on Twitter shared photos of Americans who aren’t staying at home and are ignoring the social distancing advice.

Source: 31 Pics Of People Not Avoiding Contact In South Carolina Illustrate The First Stage Of A Tragedy

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Well it seems that there’s a lot candidates for the next Darwin Award.  Clean out the human pool for the “stupid” gene.

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The coronavirus epidemic may leave the economy in tatters, but economies grow back. What about Americans’ constitutional rights?

Source: A civil liberties pandemic – The Boston Globe

OUR HEALTH CARE system will eventually recover from the strain of the coronavirus pandemic. Our economy will recover too, notwithstanding the beating it is taking now.

Will our civil liberties recover?

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I don’t think so!

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Rhode Island has just over 200, and it has begun an aggressive campaign to keep the virus out and New Yorkers contained, over objections from civil liberties advocates.

Raimondo, a Democrat, said she had consulted lawyers and said while she couldn’t close the border, she felt confident she could enforce a quarantine.

Source: Rhode Island Police to Hunt Down New Yorkers Seeking Refuge

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Sounds like a violation of our Constitutional rights!

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Thursday, Mar 26, 2020Not to be overwhelming first thing in the morning, but I’ve got some good news and some bad news for you. The good news? Today is Thursday, which means we’re pretty damn close to the weekend! The bad news? Today would have been MLB Opening Day, and does the weekend even really count in quarantine anyway?

Source: HQ AM/PM

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I doubt that any of the “sports” empires have any debt, so are at little risk of bankruptcy.  Not so for other businesses or individuals.  I think a lot of places will NOT reopen and individuals will be ruined for life.

Like those of the Great Depression, I think that people will be “scarred” forever.

Maybe some good will come out of this disaster.  Like thrift, Dave Ramsey advocates no debt .  Like savings, to have enough in your savings to enable you to continue living at your “burn rate”.  Like being prepared, the Mormons keep a year in their pantry.

One can only hope.

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Europe’s largest gold refineries have struggled to keep up because of the region’s widening shutdown. Valcambi, Pamp and Argor-Heraeus are all based in the Swiss region of Ticino, near the border with Italy. Local authorities announced in recent days that production in the area was to be temporarily halted.

Source: EconomicPolicyJournal.com: Gold Bars in Short Supply Due to Coronavirus Disruption

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Gold in short supply is even going to be even “shorter”!

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“You’re going to get people furious, and they are,” Francesa said Tuesday while on the WFAN airwaves. “They’re going crazy everywhere. ‘How does he get elective surgery? I thought the hospitals closed elective surgery’ … And you know what? They’re right. The people are right.”

Source: Mike Francesa blames Mets ‘dummies’ as Noah Syndergaard surgery ignites coronavirus outrage

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Once again there are different rules for different classes.

“It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it! You, and I, are not in the big club.” — George Carlin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5dBZDSSky0

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Probably a bluff. (From The Wall Street Journal) “I don’t have a need for an equity stake,” Mr. Calhoun (Boeing CEO) said in a Tuesday interview on Fox Business Network. “If they forced it, we’d just look at all the other options, and we have got plenty.”

Source: Boeing wants a bailout, But without giving equity to the government in exchange

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No bailouts, PERIOD!!!

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I believe we saw something highly significant today: The Let’s-Trash-Trump-and-His-Economy press are reporting today’s incident as though TRUMP did something wrong. When Trump announced Chloroquine works both to prevent and to ameliorate the symptoms of coronavirus, Dr. Anthony Fauci of the massively commercially compromised National Institutes of Health promptly responded that it “hasn’t been clinically tested,” at which point Trump backed down and said it was “just his opinion.”

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-undercuts-fauci-on-whether-chloroquine-can-treat-coronavirus-2020-3?op=1

But guess what? The expert wasn’t right. It’s Trump who was right. Fauci is part of the conflicted, sold-out mob that moves endlessly through the revolving door between the NIH/CDC and Big Pharma, all anxious to create big profits by peddling a new vaccine (even “free” vaccines can be billed to and paid for by the gubbimint – including the ones that are only 40 percent efficacious and can cause more harm than good, which is a lot of them.)

Source: Vin Suprynowicz » Blog Archive » Who stood to gain by panicking the nation & shutting down our entire economy, over an epidemic that will likely kill fewer Americans than the ‘regular old flu’?

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DJT45 WAS RIGHT!

And, no one remembers that.

Sure he’s wrong a lot.  Maybe even he tweets a “whopper” from time to time.  (I think he uses Twitter to engage his opponents, like a cat chasing a red dot.)

But, the media is running “the sky is falling” 24/7.

I prefer a more reasonable, factual, less panicked media.

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Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI) said on “Fox News Sunday” that Republicans were to blame for an exemption in her order that allows places of worship to gather in groups of 50 or more during the coronavirus outbreak.

Guest host John Roberts asked, “One thing that kind of puzzles me is that you have limited groups of people to 50 or fewer yet, there is an exemption for places of worship. Why would a place of worship be any less likely to transmit diseases in a larger gathering than another place?”

Source: MI Gov. Whitmer Criticizes GOP for Failing to Ban Church Gatherings

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Perhaps some one should refresh their memory about the First Amendment.  You know the one about “freedom of religion”.  The Gooferment has no power to regulate churches.

Argh!

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An ambassador from China is lauding Hillary Clinton’s recent attack on President Trump. | Politics

Source: Chinese Ambassador Lauds Hillary Clinton’s Attack on President Trump

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Isn’t this a serious breach of diplomatic etiquette?

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