Greg, Get Under The Bus!
I wanna tell you something. Texas has been spared the worst of it because the big city mayors and county judges – almost all totally Democratic – shut this place down. But, it’s not over yet. Science people say that we won’t peek for another week and that’s why they are insisting everybody wear a facemark.
So, our local yokel sheriff, a graduate of Jerry Falwell’s university, is running for congress so he has political statements about everything. Did you know it’s un-American to wear a facemask because Typhoid Mary has a constitutional right to spit on you and only communists protect their children and their grandmother from damned fools who refuse to wear a mask.
Here he goes ….
Yeah, head first into an empty swimming pool.
We tried to explain to him that you wear a facemask to protect other people, but he insists that we wear it just to piss him off.
It’s becoming clearer that some people see avoiding testing as a way of suppressing bad news. The fewer tests given, the fewer identified cases and the faster everyone can be rushed to work. It’s a miracle, I tells ya, a miracle! Sweet Baby Jesus shouldn’t show up and cure the sick, but instead go out and smite the manufacturers of the tests! It’s the least He can do for our “Branch Covidian” brethren.
1The most populous urban areas seem to have the highest incidence of COVID-19 infections. This morning I read: “antibody testing is showing like 15%-20% positives in and around New York City, but only like 4% in the rest of the state.”
Sheriff Troy should be happy those liberal Democratic counties locked things down with restrictions, or it’s very likely unrestricted travel (possibly communist?) and lack of social distancing (freedom!) and a lower use of face masks (unAmerican?) would have brought people from Houston and New Orleans to his county, which so far has been spared, by his statistical seat-of-the-pants findings.
2If anyone is on Twitter, Teri Kanefield always, ALWAYS, has great information. Today, I learned “sadopopulism.”
https://twitter.com/Teri_Kanefield/status/1253371353169715200
3IMHO, when Government falsification response or faux reality can’t satisfy capitalism’s ravenous profit appetites any longer. What then?
https://imgc.artprintimages.com/img/print/saturn-devouring-one-of-his-sons-detail-from-the-series-of-black-paintings_u-l-p144wh0.jpg
Absolutely.
Edit: (Reuters) – Wall Street was in positive territory on Tuesday but surrendered strong earlier gains after a report that an experimental antiviral drug for the coronavirus flopped in its first randomized clinical trial. All three main U.S. stock indexes trimmed increases of over 1%, with the S&P 500 and Nasdaq briefly turning negative after the Financial Times reported that a Chinese trial showed that Gilead Science’s (GILD.O) remdesivir did not improve patients’ condition or reduce the pathogen’s presence in the bloodstream.
Gilead said the results from the study were inconclusive as it was terminated early.
Last Friday, Wall Street rallied in part because of a report that COVID-19 patients in a separate study had responded positively to remdesivir.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-stocks/wall-street-trims-gains-after-report-on-coronavirus-drug-trial-idUSKCN2251RK
4Another Republican damn fool who thinks he should be able to pee in the swimming pool regardless of the affects on the people who follow the rules.
5This is so rich, I might get diabetes.
1] It’s overreach to tell people, “Wear a mask. Who knows? The life you save might even be your own.”
2] It’s not overreach to tell women, “You must submit to long-distance travel, a waiting period — because you can’t possibly know what you want — so you have to sleep on it for 3 nights, unnecessary medical procedures and your government will gather all sorts of data on you if you exercise your constitutional right to control your own body.”
The hypocrisy, it burns.
6Traffic deaths per mile traveled are nowhere near where they were in the 60s. I guess we can stop wearing seat belts now – after all, they are literally a restriction on free movement.
7800 inmates in the good sheriff’s jails, and not a one has the coronavirus? Does he also indicate just how many of them have been tested? I bet $10 that exactly 0 of them have been – unless some of them got tested after being released.
8That boy sounds dumb enough to be pissed off by the sun rising in the morning
9Sorry this covidiot moronavirus is still giving you fits in Ft. Bend County. I really thought he was too stupid to live this long, never mind continue to be elected. And now he’s trying to move on up? God help you all.
10Perhaps Troy should have paid more attention in grammar class. “We will not trample on Texans rights to provide a false sense of security”. It’s good to know my right to give others a false sense of security is intact in Ft Bend County. I intend to wear a mask in any county to provide an actual barrier to c-19 breath of others.
11Texas has way more than its share of shallow, clueless idiots in positions of leadership. Isn’t it always interesting that “liberal” is a pejorative word in their universe. Yeah, I know they will have to look up the meaning.
12Here’s a fun headline:
“Trump aides explore ways to get a ‘frustrated’ president out of Washington”
Heck, I’ve been trying to think of ways to get him out of Washington myself.
Read it here:
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/trump-aides-explore-ways-get-frustrated-president-out-washington-n1189591
13I was told that wearing a mask was tempting satan.
14I has a confused. I thought the Chicoms were suppressing news about the truth about the virus but now Sheriff Nehls says it’s communist to advertise it with a mask.
15Maybe we can insist on going shoeless (and topless!) in restaurants?
16Ms JJ et al.,
You might make your idiot Fort Bend* sheriff aware that –right there in Richmond– and Columbus, TX, in 1867 [post-Civil War], —a strict quarantine saved countless lives— from an epidemic of yellow fever; –compared to many other Texas towns that year–.
* In 1867, Fort Bend had 10,576 residents, and Richmond was the county seat.
I’ve been skimming an old TX history book and ran across this account of an unusually severe YF outbreak [back then there were many yearly of various diseases].
This account certainly could smack that Rethuglikan fool right between his beady eyes on several layers of meaning, and it happened right there in his bailiwick.
https://archive.org/details/historyoftexasto00unse
“History of Texas..
Lewis Pub. 1895
P 242:
YELLOW FEVER.
The year 1867 was probably the worst sea-
son for yellow fever that Texas ever saw. About thirty interior towns and villages suffered an appalling mortality. It first made its appearance at Indianola*, early in July, which was probably the earliest for that year in the United States.
…
***It was said to have been successfully excluded from Richmond and Columbus by a rigid quarantine***, and also from Brownsville and Anderson till a very late period, though it finally broke out in both of the latter places.
The mortality was very great. In Galveston, for example, out of a total of 1,332 deaths reported during the epidemic, 1,134 were from yellow fever. ”
* Indianola [which doesn’t exist anymore due to several hurricanes] was one of Texas’ chief ports in that era [ranked 2nd iirc, after Galveston]. It was a major point for the waves of immigrants and goods coming to Texas then, and had been for ~25 years. Most German, Czech, and Polish immigrants passed through Indianola.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indianola,_Texas
[I’m always amazed by this stuff, I’ve worked or spent time in all of the places mentioned in just this comment, plus so many others.]
17Curious if after the recent corporate welfare bills passed ($2 trillion for just one) that this is a ploy so to enable businesses and states from passing on any benefits to workers?
18Under the “Law” as passed if the state lifts any shut down order does that mean that no worker can apply for extended unemployment any more since lack of work is no longer attributable to a shut down?
also for large businesses who have taken fundss if shut down is lifted does this mean that
a) That the loan they were awarded becomes a grant if they “retained” workers during the official shut down?
b) Those businesses can now proceed to lay off and fire personel with out risking disqualification from their corporate welfare?
Suzanne #3 … Thank you for introducing me to “sadopopulism”. I immediately went to Snyders talk. And am sharing it.
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