We are the drain the swamp people

in the employ ~~ after they’ve seen 3p

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNuhlLBPR5c

Another good reason to end the shutdown and stop printing money.  Via The Daily Wire:

Half Of U.S. Workers Can Make More On Unemployment After Emergency Benefits

About half of U.S. workers can make more being on unemployment insurance than working after Congress hiked benefits in the aftermath of widespread shutdowns over the coronavirus.

Most governors in the United States have instituted an emergency stay-at-home order in the past six weeks to slow the spread of the coronavirus, shutting down large sections of the economy and forcing businesses to lay off and furlough tens of millions of workers. Businesses are tapping new emergency aid programs to hire back some of their employees, but a recently inflated unemployment insurance program is often beating what employers can offer, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Congress passed a series of emergency aid bills to help people who lost their paychecks and businesses who lost most or all of their customers through the pandemic period. Lawmakers created the Paycheck Protection Program to provide forgivable loans to small businesses contingent on them spending most of the money on fixed costs such as rent and utilities and hiring back or keeping most of their employees.

Many small businesses that have received loans are trying to rehire their employees or take them off furlough, severing their unemployment benefits. For about half of employers, getting their employees back on payroll means cutting off benefits that were better than what the employer can offer.

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“Our interior-cleaning staff are going to have to come back on the payroll rather than making the equivalent of $23 an hour to stay home,” said Tom Hoffman Jr., who owns several car washes in New York. Hoffman said that he typically pays staff $13 an hour, above the state’s minimum wage but far below the roughly $978 a week that unemployment benefits during the pandemic are expected to average.

Employers unable to entice their workers back on payroll may run into a situation where they have accepted a loan through the PPP expecting it to be forgiven, but they are unable to meet the threshold percentage for keeping workers employed.

“The unemployment benefits are so generous that in many places workers are telling their bosses they’d rather be unemployed than return to their jobs,” National Restaurant Association executive vice president Sean Kennedy told The Wall Street Journal. “It’s not that these workers are lazy, they’re just making the best economic decision for their families.”

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You wanna see “Fake News”? This is as amateurish an effort as we are likely to see…but it is a New York Newspaper…

A spike in New Yorkers ingesting household cleaners following Trump’s controversial coronavirus comments

The population of New York City is 8.3 million; the New York Metropolitan area is 26.3 million!

“An unusually high number of New Yorkers contacted city health authorities over fears that they had ingested bleach or other household cleaners in the 18 hours that followed President Trump’s bogus claim that injecting such products could cure coronavirus, the Daily News has learned.”

Is that not alarming?!

But get this…

“The Poison Control Center, a subagency of the city’s Health Department, managed a total of 30 cases of possible exposure to disinfectants between 9 p.m. Thursday and 3 p.m. Friday, a spokesman said.

Did you get that…30 cases??!!

The population of New York City is 8.3 million; the New York Metropolitan area is 26.3 million!

And 30 cases is an “unusually high number of New Yorkers”!!

There’s more:

“None of the people who reached out died or required hospitalization, the spokesman said.”

“But compared to last year, the number of cases was worthy of a double-take.”
According to data obtained by The News, the Poison Control Center only handled 13 similar cases in the same 18-hour period last year.

Thirty versus 13 is cause for a ‘double take’ ??? (Well, I guess that is an increase of a “staggering” 43%+”, and for a NY Daily writer that’s ’cause for a double take’.)

But there’s more!

Moreover, out of the cases reported between Thursday and Friday, nine were specifically about possible exposure to Lysol. Ten were in regard to bleach and 11 about household cleaners in general, the spokesman said.

About “possible exposure to”...Nowhere does it say anything about the people “ingesting” anything!!! Only in the headline of the story does it say that “health authorities FEAR…”!
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Veritaspac notes:

– The N Y Daily News is a liberal rag…excuse, “tabloid”

– This as close as Trump came to saying anything within a mile of the media slant: “And then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning? So it’d be interesting to check that.”

– Breitbart’s take: “Trump was far from a model of clarity, but he did not actually propose injecting patients with disinfectant; he deferred to “medical doctors” to figure out how to apply Bryan’s research.”

– As one who actually watched the briefing, even that (‘far from a model of clarity’) doesn’t justify the stretch the media took on the comment, note again, “he deferred to “medical doctors” to figure out how to apply Bryan’s research.”

– This was Victor Davis Hanson’s observation: “Anyone who watches the entire press conference sees the context, and why the president is legitimately upset with the constant “gotcha” attempts while the nation has more serious concerns. But few in the nation do watch all of them. Instead the public gleans bits and pieces of them as carefully edited sound bites delivered by print and television media.”

– Writing in REASON magazine, Elizabeth Nolan Brown notes: “One article making the rounds, from the New York Daily News, is headlined “A spike in New Yorkers ingesting household cleaners following Trump’s controversial coronavirus comments.” But the article makes no mention of anyone deliberately consuming household cleaners. It simply states that 30 people called the city’s poison control hotline “over fears that they had ingested bleach or other household cleaners.”

Fearing that you ingested something doesn’t jibe with having intentionally consumed that substance.”            dlh

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• Shutdowns are good at devastating economies and prompting death dealing sequelae of their own   V’PAC

In addition to the post by dlh yesterday, here is a related article, this from the Wall Street Journal. We set forth two synopsis of the article from other publications due to the WSJ paywall.

The data says shutdowns are not better at saving lives

Do quick shutdowns work to fight the spread of Covid-19?

Joe Malchow, Yinon Weiss and I wanted to find out. We set out to quantify how many deaths were caused by delayed shutdown orders on a state-by-state basis.

To normalize for an unambiguous comparison of deaths between states at the midpoint of an epidemic, we counted deaths per million population for a fixed 21-day period, measured from when the death rate first hit 1 per million—e.g.,‒three deaths in Iowa or 19 in New York state. A state’s “days to shutdown” was the time after a state crossed the 1 per million threshold until it ordered businesses shut down.

We ran a simple one-variable correlation of deaths per million and days to shutdown, which ranged from minus-10 days (some states shut down before any sign of Covid-19) to 35 days for South Dakota, one of seven states with limited or no shutdown.

The correlation coefficient was 5.5%—so low that the engineers I used to employ would have summarized it as “no correlation” and moved on to find the real cause of the problem. (The trendline sloped downward—states that delayed more tended to have lower death rates—but that’s also a meaningless result due to the low correlation coefficient.)   . . .

T.J. Rodgers was founding CEO of Cypress Semiconductor Corp authored the above and this analysis that appeared today in the Economic Policy Journal.

Do Lockdowns Save Many Lives?; Lets Take a Look at Sweden  

T.J. Rodgers, the founder of Cypress Semiconductor, writes in The Wall Street Journal:

Sweden is fighting coronavirus with common-sense guidelines that are much less economically destructive than the lockdowns in most U.S. states. Since people over 65 account for about 80% of Covid-19 deaths, Sweden asked only seniors to shelter in place rather than shutting down the rest of the country; and since Sweden had no pediatric deaths, it didn’t shut down elementary and middle schools. Sweden’s containment measures are less onerous than America’s, so it can keep them in place longer to prevent Covid-19 from recurring. Sweden did not shut down stores, restaurants and most businesses, but did shut down the Volvo automotive plant, which has since reopened, while the Tesla plant in Fremont, Calif., was shuttered by police and remains closed.

How did the Swedes do? They suffered 80 deaths per million 21 days after crossing the 1 per million threshold level. With 10 million people, Sweden’s death rate‒without a shutdown and massive unemployment‒is lower than that of the seven hardest-hit U.S. states—Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Louisiana, Connecticut, Michigan, New Jersey and New York—all of which, except Louisiana, shut down in three days or less. Despite stories about high death rates, Sweden’s is in the middle of the pack in Europe, comparable to France; better than Italy, Spain and the U.K.; and worse than Finland, Denmark and Norway. Older people in care homes accounted for half of Sweden’s deaths.

We should cheer for Sweden to succeed, not ghoulishly bash them. They may prove that many aspects of the U.S. shutdown were mistakes—ineffective but economically devastating—and point the way to correcting them.

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THE DATA ARE IN; STOP THE PANIC AND END THE TOTAL ISOLATION

FIVE FACTS BEING IGNORED BY THOSE CALLING FOR NEAR-TOTAL LOCKDOWN

(Some excerpts; entire article, including details in support of the ‘five facts’, can be found at the link above to The Hill)

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POTUS? in a mushroom hat

Aw No! Say it ain’t so, Joe.

Republicans, Trump supporters, conservatives… be warned!

‘Sleepy Joe’ is ‘our guy’ for the Democrat nomination. Don’t show America what he really is until he is ‘for sure’ their nominee!   Via PJ Media:

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This gal is more effective and a truer conservative than Tomi Lahren*  Well worth the few minutes.

Here is another COVID related commentary by her, now almost a month old.  The questions here were/are key and are now being answered, and not to the verification of lock-down strategy that has been implemented.

*Tomi who? Now relegated to asteriskville here anyway, she was the young celeb of a couple of years ago who lost credibility with conservatives when she announced she was  a “pro-choice libertarian” which translated means — indifferent, hostile to or a denier of the rights of unborn members of the human family, unable to comprehend human frailty and dependence, a cultural nitwit prone to arguments created in a theoretical bubble,  not someone you would trust your kids to because by their standards actions creating dependency by others are voidable by them at any time in a logical extension of their logic  framework visa-vi begotten children.

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On Wednesday we rather ‘unkindly’ reported on a story involving Richard Burr, a Republican (?) senator, who, because the GOP owns the Senate majority, at least for now, is Chairman of the Senate Select Intelligence committee (SSIC).

In our opinion, that committee may be the most corrupt in the Senate, and Richard Burr may well be the most corrupt Republican senator in a long time. (Note we said the SSIC may be the most corrupt in the Senate…not in all of Congress; as long the House has Pelosi, Schiff, Nadler, and most of the other Democrat leadership, Senate corruption can’t come close to being the most.)

Ms. Hemingway’s column appears in Thursday’s Federalist.

Senate Intel Committee Still Running Interference For Russia Collusion Nonsense     The report is yet another reminder of how the committee helped Democrats and other critics of President Donald Trump perpetuate the now-debunked theory that Trump was a secret Russian agent.

If our piece (“Barr ought to be investigating certain Senate Intelligence Committee members) in Wednesdays V’pac, left our readers with any questions as to why we made certain assertions, Hemingway’s column likely answers all of them.

It is long but well-written, deeply sourced, and both intriguing and scary as to just how much corruption is rampant in the US Congress and how much damage it is doing to our great country!.

Some highlights from Mollie Hemingway’s column:

– “A year after Special Counsel Robert Mueller concluded there was no evidence President Trump colluded with Russians to steal the 2016 election, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence issued its fourth of five reports in a slow-moving and muted investigation into the same matter. While the committee asserted in July 2018 that it agreed with a disputed Obama-era finding on Russia’s motivation for interfering in the 2016 presidential election, its highly redacted report on the intelligence community’s January 2017 claim was finally released Tuesday morning.

– “The report is yet another reminder of how the committee helped Democrats and other critics of President Donald Trump perpetuate the now-debunked theory that Trump was a secret Russian agent. The Senate’s Intelligence Committee is ostensibly chaired by Richard Burr, a North Carolina Republican who is currently avoiding questions about why he dumped stocks after receiving private briefings about coronavirus threats.

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And in order to enhance the situation: Resist everythin“g… Every level. F**k sh*t up.”

TN sends us this collection that goes a long way to explaining the hateful left’s demeanor toward “solving” the COVID 19 crisis that they helped manufacture and are in the process of aggravating “for all it’s worth.”

First up a clip from Frank and Claire Underwood  — House of Cards

Using fear for politics: “I’m done with trying to win over people’s hearts”

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pKODIrpFLQA

And they are embedded — remember this Project Veritas report (no relationship to V’PAC).  Go to link for more information.

Deep State Unmasked: State Department on Hidden Cam, “Resist Everything,” “I Have Nothing to Lose 

• Federal Employee for State Department: Resist everythin“g… Every level. F**k sh*t up.”

• Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) Embedded in Federal Government Positions, Actively Resisting

• Stuart Karaffa Does Work for DSA While on Taxpayer’s Dime: “I’m careful about it. I don’t leave a paper trail.”

• “I have nothing to lose. It’s impossible to fire federal employees.”

• Ethics Officer Fails to Recognize Breach on Ethics Form: “somebody just rubber stamps it and it goes forward…”


TN also forwarded a link to a Bing search of a common theme being pounded by the left.   Links are to the usual suspects.

US election 2020: Is coronavirus Donald Trump’s Katrina …

Tom Steyer predicts coronavirus will be President Trump’s …

Column: Is coronavirus Trump’s Hurricane Katrina? – Los …

The Coronavirus Isn’t Trump’s Katrina. It’s His Vietnam.

Katrina Commander Rips Trump’s ‘Slow And Not Decisive …

Is the Coronavirus President Trump’s Katrina Moment? – UT News

WATCH: MSNBC Host Nicole Wallace Hopes Coronavirus Tanks …

Coronavirus is Trump’s Katrina – Mike Cernovich  

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“Francis, like Guterres, has likened the response to environmental dangers to that of the coronavirus.”

On Earth Day, pope says nature will not forgive our trespasses 

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis made an impassioned plea for protection of the environment on Wednesday’s 50th anniversary of the first Earth Day, saying the coronavirus pandemic had shown that some challenges had to be met with a global response.

– Last year, after a synod of bishops from the Amazon region, Francis said he was considering adding a definition of “ecological sins” in the Roman Catholic Church’s Catechism, a compendium of teachings and rules.
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THAT’S FRANCIS: “NEVER LET A “CRISIS GO TO WASTE”

The organizer must become schizoid, politically, in order to slip into becoming a true believer. Before men can act an issue must be polarized. Men will act when they are convinced their cause is 100 percent on the side of the angels and that the opposition are 100 percent on the side of the devil. He knows there can be no action until issues are polarized to this degree.

Keep the pressure on, with different tactics and actions, and utilize all events of the period for your purpose.
— Saul Alinsky

* if any of them could sing maybe they could hit the road in a Peter Paul and Mary reprise

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A ‘”heartwarming” little story:

Fox News reported this little story this morning. Probably just an inspiring little fable during this difficult national crisis:

A young child is said to have texted Dr. Fauci, the lead ‘scientist/physician/pandemic expert’ on President Trump’s Covid-19 Task Force, asking if the “Tooth Fairy” could catch the Coronavirus and thus not ‘carry out its/his/her duties’.

Dr. Fauci, in his kindest bedside manner, responded to the child that “No, the ‘Tooth Fairy’ was not susceptible to the devastating disease that is sweeping tha nation, and the world, at this time.

The good doctor assured the child that she could leave her tooth in the usual place beneath her pillow and the Tooth Fairy would visit, as always, and leave his traditional gift in return for the tooth.

It was a story that brought a tear to one’s eye…Oh the humanity! Dr. Fauci, the healer, the scientist children and adults could look to without fear; he would lead the conquest of this awful pandemic.

HOWEVER, no doubt unsurprising to many of our readers, there are skeptics and cynics among us.

Thus, we have some thoughts:

– How was Dr. Fauci able to make this assertion? Without ‘testing’? Was the Tooth Fairy ‘asymptomatic? Did Dr. Fauci inquire of the “TF” if its family members were also ‘immune’? If so, could some of their ‘antibodies’ be harvested. Had the Tooth Fairy undergone quarantine at some point to assure that there was no contagion?

Could a vaccine be developed from possible ‘immunity qualities’ possessed only by “fairies’…’tooth and other’?

Should there be ‘clinical trials’?

So many questions! So much we don’t know! Is Dr. Fauci not giving us the whole story?    dlh

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