Jul 7, 2020

COVID-19 Update

The Death Rate ticks up by about .005, and the date we see 150,000 dead gets closer by 10 or 12 days.

It should be obvious that just doing the basics - semi-quarantine, masks, hand-washing and staying out of enclosed spaces - makes a huge difference.

In every country in the world where they've stuck to the program, they're getting a better handle on it than we are.

And still, there's a big bunch of folks who insist on believing the media is overhyping this thing - that it's "not as bad as they say it is" - that "we just need to get out there and let our natural immunity work its wonders and blah blah blah."

I will never understand how we let ourselves get so fooled by such foolish people.




Today's "Irony Is Dead, part


The institute promoting the “laissez-faire capitalism” of writer Ayn Rand, who in the novels “Atlas Shrugged” and “The Fountainhead” introduced her philosophy of “objectivism” to millions of readers, was approved for a Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan of up to $1 million, according to data released Monday by the Trump administration.

The Ayn Rand Institute: The Center for the Advancement of Objectivism in Santa Ana, California, sought to preserve 35 jobs with the PPP funding, according to the data.

The institute advocates the Russian-American writer’s philosophy and “applies its principles to many issues and events, including ones Rand herself never discussed,” according to its website. It “focuses on areas that have a long-term multiplying impact on the direction of our culture — notably, education and policy debates,” the website says.

Remember when Trump told us we were going to Mars?
Shit - we can't even go to Europe now.

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