Finally, Good News In These Hard Times

20 Replies to “Finally, Good News In These Hard Times”

1. Something good usually comes out of most events I think the climate brigade will be back to square one by the time this Chinese disease is over

   1. I would love to concur, but there’s way too much money to be made by these politicians, NGOs, fraudsters, etc. They all saw how rich filthy Al Gore got with his schemes. They want to get in on all the scams too. Nothing will stop these people.

2. I haven’t been that upset since I got my first BJ.

   1. and who’d blow with that action, and did you git chapped lips from it

3. As seen on Instapundit:

   Activists can either pitch in or get lost. We no longer have time for indulging the delusion that they matter.

4. Ask them how they like their free 30 day trial of the Green New Deal.
   No air travel, shut a huge proportion of the economy down, huge unemployment numbers, massive deficit spending.
   Ask them to explain how it would be any different from what we see today.
   And if they say ‘green jobs’ laugh in their faces.

   1. And then there are other deprivations such as no free champagne and caviar. These are indeed trying times…..

   2. Gang green jobs?

      – Uber Rickshaw
      – solar powered dirigible crew
      – storage battery firefighter
      – dead bat and dead bird picker upper

   3. Stan, very good , this is exactly what their green new deal would mean.

   4. Stan,that’s a good way of looking at it, a 30 day free trial, well said. I cannot convince the green zealots that IF we left all the oil in the ground as they want,the world would grind to a halt. Most I’ve spoken to have NO idea that more than fuel comes from oil, no f’ing idea that thousands of products including all their precious cellphones are made from oil.

      Seems to be a lack of knowledge also on how all products get to market,they don’t magically show up in the stores. I can dream that this utterly useless UN COP will be cancelled permanently, but know very well the lunatics will be back in force once this is over.

5. That is great news.

   Earlier SDA linked to a small study (62 COVID patients) pre-printed by MedRXiv (a controlled study with positive results for hydroxychloroquine). April 1st the NYTs wrote a positive article about that study, with a few caveats of course. SDA beats NYT to the scoop.
   https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/01/health/hydroxychloroquine-coronavirus-malaria.html

   You may hear about this later: Australian study finds common anti-parasitic drug kills Covid-19 cells within 48 hours.

   https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/world/australian-study-finds-common-anti-parasitic-drug-kills-covid-19-cells-within-48-hours

   I think HQC will be in wider use first. The global economy needs something to work. I have already heard of people here who are deeply depressed to the point of self harm.

   1. Canadian “experts” say not so.
      That’s what the airhead is telling everybody.
      In fact they threaten fines and jail if you don’t agree and demand the potentially life saving medication.

6. Well they’re hoping the damage to the US economy will be so great that Trump will be defeated in November and a Democrat prez will send delegates to the conference when it is finally held, and get back into the Paris Accord and start shelling out hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars while keeping the US economy in strangulation mode.

7. Let me get this straight, people are gathering in Scotland to worry about the weather being too warm?

   Now that’s funny. You’re kilting me.

   1. In November.

8. “Taxes won’t change the weather.” That’s a keeper!

9. I have a simple question about the Wuhan virus. When the outbreak first hit North America, Governor Cuomo introduced the concept of flattening the curve. He said we can’t change the number of people contracting the virus or reduce the number of deaths during the course of the infection. But we can delay the number of infections per day and this will prevent an over-run of sick people into the emergency health care system.

   A week or so later Trump’s White House doctors re-introduced the concept of flattening the curve. Ignoring the initial 2.2 – 2.8 million [modeled] death estimates from earlier models, Fauci introduced the double curve. 240,000 people who will die without social distancing and 100,000 people who could die with social distancing – although that lower number could be reduced depending on how hard we practice staying away from each other.

   A few days ago the Ontario Government released their own “death curve” modeling. Up to 100,000 will die unless we social distance from one another, where as little as 3,000 people might die if we stay 6 feet apart for 6 weeks. The model expects the virus to last 18-24 months.

   If you try and integrate the science behind the above 3 paragraphs it doesn’t make any sense. On one hand social distancing only delays the infection, it doesn’t prevent it. The revised model claims that social distancing dramatically reduces infection rates and therefore death rates. The newest model suggests the infection will last up to 2 years.

   To maintain such a low death rate over the 2 year infection period would we not have to social distance for that period of time, or is it that social distancing is important only at the start of the infection – after which separation (or proximity) has no affect on infection rates?

   Or, could it be that the original death rates were so grossly over-exaggerated that our governments have been moving the goal posts such as using social distancing as a way to walk down those [modeled] death rates to match reality?

   Even Justin Trudeau reminds us to practice social distancing but does not address this against the estimated length of the infection.

   1. Or, top heavy bureaucracies, who generally can’t find their own hindquarters with both hands and a map at the best of times, are completely befuddled, and a media, who’s only real job is to keep people viewing and clicking, have absolutely no reason to report anything remotely like facts.

   2. The slowing is supposed to help because ERs and ventilators won’t be overwhelmed. A slower release of the virus means that full medical care will be available for all instead of having to triage ventilator use. When the hospitals aren’t overwhelmed, survival rate goes way up.

      Plan or the worst, hope for the best. Hopefully the worldwide deaths for Wuhoo and the regular flu strains (which aren’t killing as many because of the Wuhoo precautions) will be a typical global flu total, and the increase in sunshine/vitamin D stops it in its tracks like it does a regular flu.

10. But climate change is deadlier than COVID-19! They should be risking everything to get togeather and tell the rest of us how to live!