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

Wednesday, April 15, 2020

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

Tuesday, April 14, 2020

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

Monday, April 13, 2020

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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Don’t waste time on fools

Sunday, April 12, 2020

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

Saturday, April 11, 2020

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

Friday, April 10, 2020

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

Thursday, April 9, 2020

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

Wednesday, April 8, 2020

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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Project lets people interview Holocaust survivors even after their deaths – CBS News

Tuesday, April 7, 2020

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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News media, liberals mock conservatives for early pandemic comments they made themselves | Just The News

Monday, April 6, 2020

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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