Posted on 03/16/2020 4:13:06 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
Why, in my day, we didn’t have things like schools and restaurants and food supply chains. – While “coronavirus” is a term that you and everyone you know has become intimately familiar with, to the two tired old Last Geezers Standing in the Democrat presidential field, it remains a mystery. In their spooky debate last night – which felt like a post-apocalyptic contest between two addled zombie hunters – Sleepy Creepy Uncle Quid Pro Joe referred to COVID-19 as “SARS”, while The Commie labled it “ebola.”
Biden also referred to the “H1N1” virus that killed more than 60,000 Americans on his own watch as Vice President as the “N1H1” – which showed how seriously he took it at the time – and called ebola “that thing that happened in Africa.” All in all, though, none of that and the other Biden gaffes on the night will be enough for Sanders, as the nation’s Unfrozen Caveman Senator held things together just enough to make his eventual nomination all but a certainty at this point.
Here’s the way the liberal hacks at Politico put it:
News-wise, there were two important takeaways. The first is that Biden did nothing to raise any fresh doubts about his electability. He was coherent, in control of his arguments in a way that he isn’t always, and aggressive enough against Sanders to keep the Vermont senator, who is rightfully respected as an excellent debater, on defense frequently. Sanders’ best hope was some kind of asteroid-like event that caused Biden to buckle on stage. It didn’t happen.
Yes, friends and family, Bernie Sanders, a man who looks and sounds like a cartoon character voiced by Mel Blanc and whose leftist ideas would make Vladimir Lenin blush, is now being portrayed by corrupt Democrat media toadies as “an excellent debater” as a means of propping up Quid Pro Joe in the public’s collective mind. Basically, because Biden managed to remain standing and remembered where he was for two hours, he’s the “winner” according to the Democrat/media propaganda machine.
Interestingly, despite Biden’s prior insistence that he and The Commie be seated for this debate, the format was changed at the last minute in order to make it coronavirus-compliant. The two grumpy old men stood a podiums carefully spaced 6 feet apart so they wouldn’t breathe on each other, but they couldn’t resist greeting one another with an elbow bump that was eerily reminiscent of a scene from “Grumpy Old Men.”
Debate in the time of coronavirus: An elbow bump greeting for Biden and Sanders | News | WTAQ
Happy Birthday Jack Lemmon!
It was nice that the two could get together for one last on-stage game of political canasta before Biden wipes the floor with Sanders in tomorrow’s primaries in Florida, Arizona, Ohio and Illinois and the DNC cancels the remainder of the campaign and summarily declares Quid Pro Joe its winner. Because that’s what’s about to happen over the course of the next two days.
With governors in major population states like California, New York, Ohio and Illinois now ordering the shutdown of bars and restaurants, and the CDC issuing an advisory discouraging any gathering of more than 50 people, coronavirus is, like it or not, turning America into your basic police state and shutting down our entire economy for at least the coming few weeks. Make no mistake about it: The actions of those four governors will soon be emulated by the governors in other states as the herd mentality takes over. These are politicians after all, and none of them will want to become a media target for straying from the coronavirus stampede.
While discouraging public gatherings and encouraging people to remain shut in their homes are moves that make sense in terms of trying to contain the spread of the virus, we must also recognize that these moves will now put massive more stress on grocery stores and the nation’s food supply chains that are already finding it impossible to meet stampeding consumer demand. Restaurants provide 35-50% of the daily meals serves in this country, and limiting them to drive-thru only or delivery isn’t going to do the trick.
We will soon be seeing lines at fast-food drive-thru windows that look like the gas lines we witnessed during the oil shocks of the 1970s, and the first guy who runs out of gas – or the electric charge in his Tesla – while waiting for hours in a line will cause it to back up for miles. If you think the shelves at your local CostCo or Albertsons have been empty over the past week, just wait till you see what happens to them when everyone rushes to the store to stock up on the stuff they need to cook their hamburgers and fried chicken at home, like your mom used to do.
Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York suggested on Sunday that the President might want to “activate the army” to help in dealing with the impacts of the coronavirus. This prompted many, including myself, to joke about Cuomo’s apparent expectation that the military can just shoot or nuke the virus.
But the reality – which he did not detail for the media – is that Cuomo knows that the actions he and his fellow governors took over the weekend are very likely to cause major disruption in food supply chains, a consequence that would inevitably lead to social unrest. That’s why he wants to have the army available to him – he’s anticipating the potential need to declare martial law.
Thus, the coronavirus and the measures being taken by the state and federal governments to deal with it, are about to provide the DNC with all the justification it needs for doing what the old Clinton freak James Carville advocated four days ago: “Let’s shut this puppy down and let’s move on and worry about November. This thing is decided. There’s no reason to keep it going, not even a day longer,” he said.
Expect the puppy to be shut down come Wednesday.
That is all.
Every single reservist that I know is being called up.
Interesting times.
I’m thinking we can see what the death count is in three weeks. That will tell us how well we have mitigated things at that point. If we do well enough this could be behind us in a couple months.
and Massachusetts
Biden. Coherent. Nope those two words do not fit in the same sentence. Biden hasn’t been coherent since the 1970’s, if ever.
Everything is being shut down.
Except our southern border.
We’re shutting down the country, the economy, everything for this boogieman who has yet to show up. There are currently 20000 deaths from the flu this season, AND NOTHING DONE. Let’s hold off destroying ourselves until such time as it’s warranted.
“– which felt like a post-apocalyptic contest between two addled zombie hunters –”
One of the Zombies has a son named “Hunter”, if that helps.
Here’s the way the liberal hacks at Politico put it:
News-wise, there were two important takeaways. The first is that Biden did nothing to raise any fresh doubts about his electability. He was coherent, in control of his arguments in a way that he isn’t always...
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Talk about setting a low bar.
There is no way the majority of hospitals in this country can handle a massive breakout these people are talking about. The hospital in our can handle about 250-350 people max. We are a fairly small county of about 115,000, well down from just 20 years ago before they closed the military fort here. That cost the county thousands and the cities and home sales went south for the duration because of it. Still our county hospital could not handle a breakout of even 1,000 people. They would be looking for bunk beds and cots and a high school gym to put the people in. But, the big question is where would the doctors come from.
The world class hospitals in Boston are influencing the quarantines. They will not be overrun with God as their witness!
Thus, the coronavirus and the measures being taken by the state and federal governments to deal with it, are about to provide the DNC with all the justification it needs for doing what the old Clinton freak James Carville advocated four days ago: “Let’s shut this puppy down and let’s move on and worry about November. This thing is decided. There’s no reason to keep it going, not even a day longer,” he said.
There are 5,000 hospitals in this country. Not 60,000.
Crap. 5,000 hospitals. 15 patients an hour each. 45,000. Times 24 hours. A bit over 900,000 seriously ill per day. If we have a million beds and empty them as fast as people get ill we could actually do this. I bet we are the only country in the world that can. That could be a serious National Defense achievement. If we are the only country in the world that can avoid being devastated by this it gives us a big leg up down the road.
Docs are important but techs and nurses will be not available.
Uh, not in VP.
Yup. Most of the doctors in our area are foreigners. We have a bunch of muslim doctors in our town. I think they come here for the $$$. If you see one and he needs to refer you to another doctor, you can count on it being another muslim Dr. They never send you to a white or black doctor from this country, always send you to a muslim, which I figure is a buddy of sorts. We have one moske here in our town, but I am unsure of exactly where they have it hid. We were told yesterday that all our local churches were being asked to close down and not have services. Ours complied. We are out until at least April and reevaluate then.
This is all a trial run for the Green New Deal. This is a milder version of how it will be like. In the new totalitarian America.
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