Look At It This Way (#LAITW)

Why all the fuss this time? I’ve been asking myself that very question. We’ve been through several pandemics in recent history, including coronavirus variants. This article includes one thing I had not thought of, the internet. 24/7 panic food. I’m leaning toward “get the herd immunized asap and be done with it.” Or, I might be wrong.

Epidemiologist: Coronavirus could be ‘exterminated’ if lockdowns lifted

Anyone else feeling like you’re (re-)living Groundhog Day? Only 12,300-some to go! That’s how many Groundhog Days Bill Murray went through in the movie according to those who’ve done the math.

3/31/2021 Update: We’re at 384.

How about we call this summer break? Buys us 90 days of shelter-at-home. Then hopefully resume to finish this year, take a “spring break” at the end of summer, then start up the 20/21 year?

3/31/2021 Update: If only. At least we did go back in person in the Fall of 2020 here in Colorado Springs, CO.

“The Chinese authorities are engaged in a full-scale effort to rewrite the history of the coronavirus epidemic. Some in the West might be tempted to dismiss the significance of Beijing’s propaganda efforts. But they shouldn’t. The ever-expanding campaign to obscure the truth about the origins and details of the virus is risking lives.”

Full article.

On the first day of lockdown, my thoughts were about supporting theaters that were clearly going to be hit hard…

If you have tickets to a live theater performance that has been canceled because of the virus, please consider donating your ticket cost rather than asking for a refund. Generally, theaters and their people have little room for income aberrations, both big and small, profit and non-profit, paid and volunteer. Thanks for considering.

No one would ever need that, right?! Wrong. Zimbabwe let inflation get so out of control circa 2008 (231 million percent per year inflation) that they chose to print more and more money instead of dealing with the underlying cause. That meant higher and higher denominations in order to avoid literally covering the country in paper money.

That’s not the record, though. Inflation in Hungary peaked at a staggering figure of 13.6 quadrillion % per month in 1946! That’s 13,600,000,000,000,000%. The largest denomination bill was a 100 Quintillion note. Prices ended up doubling every 15 hours at the time.

Well worth the view… YouTube. Some notes:

How has the Democrat party who brought slavery, Jim Crowe laws, and the KKK held onto the black vote for so long?

America is not racist.

Abortion is murder.

The Left needs God.

Racially-motivated police brutality is a myth. The father-absence in the Black family is not a myth.

Democrats say put illegal aliens first, ahead of millions of blacks and hispanics at poverty level. I say build the wall.

I believe in the Black New Deal.

Stop obsessing over our past and focus on our future.

Idealize not sports heroes but black accomplishers.

Conservatives need to invade culture.

If conservatives can swing the minority vote by just 5%, we win.

Economist Thomas Sowell was on the show Coast to Coast (Fox Business Network). He explained why he toyed with socialism as a good idea once, and why he ultimately rejected it. Facts. When asked if he thought the U.S. would become socialist, he said, “I do have a great fear that in the long run we may not make it, and I hate to say that. And the one thing that keeps me from being despairing is, of course, we don’t know. There’s so many things we can’t possibly know, and so we may make it. But I wouldn’t — I wouldn’t bet on it.”

As Limbaugh said, “if you don’t have the facts — if you’re never taught the facts, if you are never taught the empirical data of truth — then you’re left to wallow in the rhetoric.”

Sad to think moving to socialism is any kind of possibility in the U.S.

Socialism for the Uninformed by Dr. Thomas Sowell.

Kinda gets back to the old adage, “Socialism works great until you run out of other people’s money.”

If demand outpaces supply, prices go up. Vice versa, vice versa. Socialism, which gives by taking, is doomed to failure. Always has been, always will be.

Did you see Oregon just passed the first statewide rent control? Oops. That won’t end well; see above.