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It’s been a grueling week. How about we divert our attention for a minute or two away from the COVID-19 pandemic?First, on the etymology (etymology - the study of the history of words, their origins, and how their form and meaning have changed over time; derives from the Greek word etumos, meaning true) of a couple of common computer related terms.Don’t even get me started on the etymology of “floppy.”My second offering is unrelated to etymology and only tangentially related to COVID-19 (which btw is correctly typed in upper-case as it is shorthand for CoronaVirus Disease originating in 2019 -...

Coronavirus Response – Too Many of the Wrong People In Charge While there are always exceptions, how do people get ahead in government versus how they get ahead in the private sector? Most people familiar with and experienced in both areas would probably agree with the following generalities: Government: Not screwing up, and time in service. (John/Mary would be good for this job. He/She has been here a long time and doesn’t make mistakes.) Private Sector: Being successful, getting things done that need doing. (John/Mary would be good for this job. He/She understands priorities, takes initiative, and finds a way...

As the COVID-19 pandemic has caused state, federal, and international governments to impose various degrees of "safer at home" orders to flatten the curve, at some point we will have to begin to discuss whether the cure (economic Armageddon) is as bad as, if not worse than the disease. While I won't question the medical rationale for making such recommendations, the question for Americans that must be addressed is, when and how will we exit the coronavirus turnpike? The economic impact of the national shutdown is estimated to displace upwards of 53 million American workers. What will be the impact...

One of the offshoots of being on the debate team in college, taking graduate level statistics as part of my masters and working as a lawyer, is an awareness of how one can make a case for practically anything, by playing around with evidence, numbers, analysis and language.  Coronavirus is a world-wide pandemic and should be taken seriously.  But the crisis should not be taken advantage of, nor should politicians manipulate definitions, data and diagnoses to achieve political aims.    Getting Down to Cases There is no such thing as a “case" of COVID-19. According to Merriam-Webster a “case”...

Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem (Music in The Bible) Psalms Psalm 145[a] A psalm of praise. Of David. 1 I will exalt you, my God the King;     I will praise your name for ever and ever. 2 Every day I will praise you     and extol your name for ever and ever. 3 Great is the Lord and most worthy of praise;     his greatness no one can fathom. 4 One generation commends your works to another;     they tell of your mighty acts. 5 They speak of the glorious splendor of your majesty—     and I will meditate on your wonderful works.[b] 6 They tell of the...

A new Oxford study said that millions of people in the United Kingdom (and therefore, in other countries) have likely already gotten the coronavirus, recovered from it, and are immune. But the mainstream media doesn’t want this information to get out, and some went to work quickly telling people “not to believe it.” A newer model, which predicts the progression of the novel coronavirus, set off governments’ reactions around the globe and has systematically ruined lives across the Western world (not because of the virus, but the reaction to it). pandemic produced by researchers at Imperial College London set off...

From commentary by Steven Mehl: Hydroxychloroquine's mechanism of action appears to be how it acts as a strong zinc ionophore (i.e. pushing extra zinc into the intracellular space) and allowing that zinc to inhibit the enzyme that the virus is using to replicate. Two other zinc ionophores that are over the counter are Quercetin (flavonol) and EGCG (found in high concentrations in "matcha" green tea) and also available as a supplement. Here is Dr. Zelenko's 'Zev' treatment regimen: Patients treated with three drug regimen: 1- hydroxychloroquine 200mg twice a day for 5 days 2- azithromycin 500mg once a day for...

A new day has officially arrived at the U.S. Intelligence Community. – Late Friday afternoon, President Donald Trump (I still never tire of typing those three glorious words) pulled the trigger on Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson, providing him with his walking papers effective at the end of this month. A more appropriate firing has never before happened to any employee of our federal government. Naturally, the corrupt coup d’etat supporters in our national news media went berserk. They all love Atkinson, given the key role he played in the whole fake impeachment hoax that distracted the nation’s attention...

Emergency room doctors and nurses many of whom are dealing with an onslaught of coronavirus patients and shortages of protective equipment — are now finding out that their compensation is getting cut. Most ER providers in the US work for staffing companies that have contracts with hospitals. Those staffing companies are losing revenue as hospitals postpone elective procedures and non-coronavirus patients avoid emergency rooms. Health insurers are processing claims more slowly as they adapt to a remote workforce. "Despite the risks our providers are facing, and the great work being done by our teams, the economic challenges brought forth by...

They walked into a CVS pharmacy, claiming to have a frightening illness and walked out with two cases of Corona beer, Coconut Creek police say. According to the arrest report, the two men told the clerk they “have the virus" and then took the cases of beer and several containers of detergent and left without paying. Cyriacks and Permenter sped off in a white Chevrolet van that was reported stolen in Fort Lauderdale, the arrest report said.

Wake up Americans! We are by nature a civil and law-abiding people, but what we are being subjected to is monstrous. As VDH reminded, 740 people die in California each day for a vast variety of causes. The virus has upped that number by four people a day. California has a population of forty million people. Is that a viable justification for destroying the livelihoods of multi-millions which will no doubt lead to far more death and destruction? Drs Fauci and Birx may be experts in their fields but their fields are not economics nor the preservation of the nation....

“Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding” (Proverbs 4:7 KJV).

Democrats want to mail every American a 2020 ballot and have people come to your house to pick up those ballots. Can you imagine? Can you imagine mailing out some 150 million ballots to every registered voter and having some politicized “organizer” pick them up? “Sir, I’m here to pick up your presidential ballot.” “I haven’t filled it out. You know, I’m not really paying attention.” “That’s no problem. Why don’t you let me help you with that.” Seriously, can you imagine? Or how about the very idea of these “organizers” in possession and in control of who knows how...

From November 2003 through July 2005, I worked in the prepaid cell phone and phone card industry. Most of my work was in BFE meth towns and urban ghettoes. I learned things about the poor in America you won’t want to believe… But this story needs to be told. The situation was horrible in 2005. The opioid crisis was already in full swing in rural Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, and Ohio. Back then, small towns in Western Kentucky had nothing going on. “Commerce” amounted to a Super 8 motel, a few gas stations, and fast food. If you were in...

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday endorsed observer status for Taiwan at the World Health Organization, pledging that he and the State Department will “do our best” to advocate Taiwan’s participation in WHO meetings. With the death toll from the coronavirus pandemic approaching 40,000 and climbing steeply, Taiwan’s involvement in the world’s foremost public health agency ought to be a no-brainer — not just because the island is home to 24 million people but also because it was one of the first to confront the new disease and has been highly successful in fighting it.

LA Sheriff Villanueva's official statement posted on Twitter 26 March, 2020. The Sheriff of Los Angeles County in California, Alex Villanueva, has backed away from his emergency order closing gun stores. This is the second time he has done so. This time he gives the Trump Administration the credit for opening the stores. From ktla.com: He said the move was prompted by memorandum issued by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Saturday that designated workers supporting the firearms and ammunition industry to be “essential infrastructure” workers.“Based on further input from the federal government, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department...

Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Republican challenger, Dalia al Aqidi, criticized Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for injecting race into the coronavirus pandemic discussion. “COVID deaths are disproportionately spiking in Black + Brown communities,” Ocasio-Cortez, who is a member of "the Squad" along with Omar, said on Twitter. “Why? Because the chronic toll of redlining, environmental racism, wealth gap, etc. ARE underlying health conditions.” “Inequality is a comorbidity. COVID relief should be drafted with a lens of reparations," she added. Al Aqidi responded by asking for evidence of Ocasio-Cortez’s claim and accusing the New York congresswoman of trying to divide the country. “Where is...

A New York doctor hopes to help his elderly COVID-19 patients with a treatment plan inspired by the success tentatively being reported with hydroxychloroquine — and which he says shows promising results. Dr. Mohammud Alam, an infectious disease specialist affiliated with Plainview Hospital, said 81 percent of infected covid patients he treated at three Long Island nursing homes recovered from the contagion.

Breitbart News compared projections of the number of regular hospital beds needed to treat coronavirus patients made in the Friday, April 3 iteration of the IHME model for nine states to the actual number of cumulative hospitalizations (a number that includes current regular bed hospitalizations, current ICU hospitalizations, previously hospitalized and released patients, and previously hospitalized and deceased patients) reported by the respective health departments in those states as of Thursday, April 2. These numbers, however, actually understate the degree to which the IHME model overestimates the number of hospital beds currently needed for coronavirus patients because the numerator–cumulative hospitalizations–includes...

The dust has settled on impeachment but only as a result of the current COVID-19 pandemic. Otherwise, the American public would still be subject to a relentless and exhausting rehashing of why President Trump should not have been acquitted by the Senate after the House of Representatives failed to convince the upper chamber on abuse of power charges. Now the pundits are pontificating and prognosticating ad nauseam about silly things like whether or not referring to the virus’s geographic origin (Wuhan, China) is racist. Meanwhile, the public continues to suffer as Congress waffles on the passage of legislation critical to...