36 Replies to “Wuhan Flu”

  1. I have family in the White Rock area, minutes away from the boarder that haven’t purchased gas in Canada for years. Boy are they in for a wallet shock.

    2. Maybe not as much as you think. Gas prices seem to be crashing pretty hard around here.

      1. Agreed, now under 1.10 in Victoria. Still too expensive, but it’s never been cheaper since the Costco opened here. Has to be cheapest since 2008. These prices will last longer
        With the dollar now at 69, those savings in the states are reduced.

  2. Earlier this evening, I was listening to an Internet radio show originating from near San Francisco. According to the host, the California governor is going to call out the National Guard.

    Maybe Kenji can confirm this.

    1. When Daddy did it nearly 50 years ago, this country still had something resembling an army. Considering that we now have a junkyard air force and a junkyard navy, how would Prinz Dummkopf’s WMA be enforced? Oh, I forgot: he’ll simply hire some PLA mercenaries or recruit some Antifa graduates, won’t he?

  4. My father is in a nursing home in the United States. It’s possible now that if the Wuhan virus murders him that I will not even be able to attend the funeral (assuming there’s a funeral at all).

    All Justin Trudeau had to do to stop this was halt non-essential travel from Red China when he had the chance. He refused. Now the White House will, correctly, be treating Canada like a province of Red China.

    Now I’m mad. And not at president Trump.

      1. Pardon my French, Kate, but good fucking god. I’m honestly wondering how Blair et al. manage to dress themselves in the morning. Asking illegals to “self-isolate”? I mean, I’m totally sure these lovely people will be willing to follow our laws and regulations and recommendations.

        I’m not normally one to spout the violent-speech thing, but even if they didn’t do this at first (which they should have) at this point, they really need to form a platoon or so of combat-veteran army troops ten metres from the border, fully equipped. Loudspeakers. Order the approaching people to halt. Fire a warning volley. Order them to turn around or they will be shot. Fulfill the threat. Rinse and repeat as necessary.

        We need no legal justification to repel invaders, especially those that are a legitimate danger to our country and society. Full stop.

        1. I mean, I’m totally sure these lovely people will be willing to follow our laws and regulations and recommendations.

          That reminds me of what happened soon after I started my teaching position. I split a course with a colleague and he, being my senior, insisted that we give the same exam to both sections, even though the respective lectures were held at different times.

          “Oh, they’re responsible gentlemen,” I was told, “They’ll keep silent about the exams.” Since I was the rookie there, I reluctantly went along with it.

          Sure enough, guess what happened? Yup. Certain people couldn’t keep their big yaps shut or copied the exam questions without my catching them in the act.

          The following term, I started giving separate exams if I had more than one section of a course and, later, I simply brought my groups together into a single room at the same time, trading lecture time with one of my colleagues.

          1. Sheep need a sheepdog. There’s a reason for the plethora of aphorisms that have risen up over the years in the sense of “Give a person an inch…” and its like. People just can’t help themselves. I don’t think I can even claim the behaviour diminishes with age, once it’s instilled strongly enough into a person’s character.

            People taking things that aren’t nailed down isn’t a racial problem, it’s a cultural and/or moral one. Using ill-gotten gains of one sort or another (“hey, what’s that on your monitor?”). Someone left the spray washer running on their credit card, but I turned it off before using it. I can’t say I wasn’t tempted to wash on someone else’s dime “to teach them a lesson”, but I’m not a thief. Opportunities are all over the place.

  6. At this point I don’t think any of this has anything to do with mitigating the spread of the corona.

    If that was the case they would not have kept open doors in virtually every western nation until the virus had a good toe hold.

    This is about collapsing the western economy. And they needed to import the virus to do so.

    And this from a guy who sold his stocks, stockpiled goods, and quarantined his family almost two months ago.

    1. If that was the case they would not have kept open doors in virtually every western nation until the virus had a good toe hold.

      We can blame political correctness for that. Closing the borders would have resulted in howls of “racist” and “bigot”.

  7. No, those perjoratives are just effective blunt instruments to allow the ruling class to do as they please, enabled by a corrupt and compliant media.

    Same media who gave PM blackface banana pants a pass.

    Racist and bigot are applied only to the right.

  8. Look on the bright side. The Mohawk Trading Company will be doing a roaring business for the next few months. They may actually have to build a distribution center and open a ferry service.
    Unless they get stopped by the American side.

    Heh, heh.

  9. Lets face it, deep down nationalism (and patriotism) burns in most citizens. We’ve really been told its an evil, racist thing by the MSM and the Corrupt Liberal Party of Canada.

    https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/europe-is-closing-borders-amid-coronavirus-outbreak-they-may-be-hard-to-reopen/ar-BB11lUxq?ocid=spartandhp

    The WaPo reporting of Europe’s border closures. Solidarity? Not a chance. The Italians needed medical supplies and the Krauts and Frogs said nope. But the Chicoms came through for them. That’s a pot-stirrer for sure.
    A country needs to be able to feed itself. It needs a self-sufficient energy supply. And it needs to be able to protect itself. We are 2 of three in Canada. The Americans are a solid 3 of 3.

  10. Endless speculation in the press and online but finally some actual data even though very limited. It looks like the proverbal thinning of the herd…..nature in action …..

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in guidance issued to clinicians, has put the overall case fatality rate for patients with no underlying conditions at 0.9 percent. But the danger climbs with age and with chronic health conditions. For diabetics, the risk of death is 7 percent. For those with cardiovascular disease, it’s more than 10 percent, and for patients older than 80, the fatality rate is more than 14 percent.

    I don’t see how this is different from seasonal flu.

    1. Contagiousness and the asymptomatic period before one gets sick, turning the infected into virus spreaders, is the difference. Far more than flu. That compounds the death rate. See the rate of spread once it spikes?
      Read what’s happened in Italy. Once the hospitals are overwhelmed, doctors have to pick who has best chances of survival, the others, literally, are left to die.
      Do you still call this the flu? Have you ever heard of the flu causing those conditions?

  11. The Globe and Mail just published an opinion column by the nutbar Lawrence Martin, stating that the U.S. and Canada will not be able to cooperate on business-economic difficulties during the caronavirus crisis. The op-ed consists of a review of past trade problems, plus Martin’s lunatic ad-honimum attacks against Trump. Problem is, at the same time the Globe’s publishes this screed, the U.S. and Canada announced that they have agreed to close the border to all non-business traffic. Way to go Globe.

    A Lawrence Martin anecdote from a long ago. When Gorbachev announced his sweeping reforms during the 1980s, the Globe opened up its first bureau station in Moscow, installing Martin as bureau chief. So, Walter Duranty style, the Globe reporter acted like a press secretary to the new Soviet regime. Early on, Jewish-Russians began to agitate for emigration to Israel, including picketing the Kremlin. Right on cue, Lawrence Martin wrote a column attacking the Jewish dissidents. Mr. Martin, given his Walter Duranty track record, in later years got promoted to senior positions at the Globe.

      1. RIMcMT:
        Ah! Yes, that’s the question.
        But they don’t ‘decide’. They ‘deem’.
        Did you hear that California deemed Tesla an essential service?

  13. Border closure to non-essential travel announced and confirmed. No one will say for how long. I realise that is unknown but an initial minimum period would be nice to know. I have a couple of days booked in Kalispell and would like to know if I should cancel the room.
    Turdo simply danced around the question when asked.
    Checked DHS.gov and it didn’t help much either.

    1. One thing is sure, the sun will set at the proper time and there will be tomorrow.

      Yes, there will be a tomorrow, but Prinz Dummkopf will still be in charge.

  14. Sounds like a good argument.
    The problem of course is the politicians.

    They first have to consult their strategerists (sic) what’s the least offensive way to talk and behave.
    Their pronouncements reflect that.
    They rely on what “experts” say without giving a thought to examine what it is that theses “experts” say.
    Recent example was of the airhead in Ottawa saying “experts” told him everything was cool until the same “experts” said everything is not cool anymore. Sounds like the “experts” are prophets.

    “I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.”
    – Socrates

    It’s impossible to decide what the truth is and how will all this end.
    One thing is sure, the sun will set at the proper time and there will be tomorrow.

  16. Thanx for posting that.
    Simply AWESOME and stunning in its simplicity.
    Needs to be spread far and wide.
    Long overdue for some COMMON Sense in this Season of Hysteria & Utter madness that seems to have enveloped the planet.
    From one Bullshit Crisis to another.

    This is how FAKE NEWS is spread now aint it…??

    The argument he makes is 1000% Applicable to CLIMATE CHANGE as well.

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