Diaries
Coronavirus: Irony Edition
Submitted by gjohnsit on Fri, 03/27/2020 - 8:06pm
Tulsi Gabbard throws away her integrity
Submitted by FreeSociety on Fri, 03/27/2020 - 6:20pm.
Tulsi Gabbard had always seemed to me like the rare exception to the rule.
Friday Photography - On The Bay ...
Submitted by janis b on Fri, 03/27/2020 - 6:07pmeverything looks normal, the tides come and go, the birds peck around, the setting sunlight illuminates the valley. But for us these are uncharted waters, and for many it will hold much pain. My wish is that the pain recedes in time and a new chart is drawn, one less harmful to all of life.
The Evening Blues - 3-27-20
Submitted by joe shikspack on Fri, 03/27/2020 - 3:48pm
Saudi regime is headed for disaster
Submitted by gjohnsit on Fri, 03/27/2020 - 2:35pmThe soon-to-be demise of the Saudi monarchy has come about from two stupid wars of choice that they intentionally started.
It couldn't have happened to a more deserving group of criminals.
The Oil Price War
Human sacrifice is not good for the economy, and neither is class warfare
Submitted by Cassiodorus on Fri, 03/27/2020 - 12:23pmWednesday in The Guardian online there was a piece by Jonathan Portes titled "Don't believe the myth that we must sacrifice lives to save the economy." This is an attempt to rationally rebut the notion that "the economy" is some kind of god or gods which demands continual human sacrifice if the un
the weaponization of coronavirus: more evil than ever
Submitted by wendy davis on Fri, 03/27/2020 - 10:39am
Xi, not China this time; how coy of him:
‘Blame Xi, not China, for the impact of the coronavirus’, Austin Lowe, Opinion Contributor — 03/25/20, the hill.com (two paragraphs of a propaganda piece)
“To refer to the coronavirus as the “Chinese virus,” as Trump and other members of the GOP leadership have, is deeply problematic. It is also misleading. The severity of the virus has nothing to do with action or inaction by the Chinese people; on the contrary, many Chinese citizens should be lauded for their efforts to sound the alarm on the issue.
Open Thread Friday 3-27-2020
Submitted by studentofearth on Fri, 03/27/2020 - 5:36am
My county is has 15 confirmed cases of COVID-19. Testing is still very limited in Oregon and we are in a partial lock down. Some optimization if we follow the guidelines may not overrun our capacity of hospital beds. This will go on for several weeks and every few days there area a few more restrictive orders.
Blackrock: Being on both ends of a scam
Submitted by gjohnsit on Thu, 03/26/2020 - 11:38pmThe Federal Reserve on Tuesday hired BlackRock Inc. to steer tens of billions of dollars in bond purchases. Again.
Heroes in a 1st world country that looks more like a 3rd world one
Submitted by snoopydawg on Thu, 03/26/2020 - 10:47pmHeroes.
.@nytimes has video from a hospital in Elmhurst, Queens. It is horrifying.
“We had to get a refrigerated truck to store the bodies of patients who are dying.”
“Five ventilators...there’s a mythical 100 ventilators out there that we haven’t seen.” https://t.co/zARPofu6pS pic.twitter.com/JxKl46H5RC
— Tim Hogan (@timjhogan) March 26, 2020
COVID-19 update: the eyes may have it but the nose knows. A hot topic: fever
Submitted by Alligator Ed on Thu, 03/26/2020 - 10:18pmTime for serious contemplation once again about the flourishing pandemic. A recent essay entitled the nose knows has been submitted for your erudition. Loss of the sense of smell, which sensation is called olfaction, is called anosmia. Hyposmia is a milder form of diminished olfaction.
After watching a Youtube Video
Submitted by doh1304 on Thu, 03/26/2020 - 9:36pmActually after watching the first two minutes of a youtube video. I won't give you a link because the video is not really the point and I don't want to enable an idiot, but the gist is that the Democratic response to the "stimulus bill" is so bad that the person is voting for Trump.
She's deluded, but right.
How I spent my summer vacation...quarantine, I mean
Submitted by Alligator Ed on Thu, 03/26/2020 - 8:44pmI have climbed out of the muck in my swamp long enough to write a non-political essay which hopefully will shed light on the current social-isolation = self-quarantine many of us are experiencing. Now being rather new at this business, the unfolding of forced solitude is a new experience. What's that old saying? Something like you can't teach an alligator new tricks--or sum thin' like that.
DIY Masks
Submitted by edg on Thu, 03/26/2020 - 7:54pm[This essay is adapted and expanded from a comment I made in another essay.]
One of my businesses is an online vacuum cleaner supplies store. I just tested HEPA vacuum cleaner bag material for breathability when used as material in a do-it-yourself face mask. It turns out that HEPA is extremely difficult to breathe through when attached to the face with a good seal. It will not make a good DIY mask.
