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Sunday, March 15, 2020

i also watched evan solomon question trudeau before i left, and noticed the disconnect pretty staunchly. trudeau has clearly been surroundin...

bernie seemed to be expecting an honest, gentlemanly debate on the issues. it just demonstrates the point. bernie's platform slays. i...

so, i got a pizza and tried to watch the debate, but cnn has made that somewhat difficult, unless you tuned in live (and i did not - i tuned...

actually, i'd like to see a random sample of people polled for testing for covid-19. randomly generate 5000 numbers. make sure they have...

i can't find an atheist urologist in southwestern ontario. that's the sad reality of it.

the problem here isn't access in the universal system. this is covered, and there's plenty of doctors that can do it. the problem is...

i should be able to walk into a urologist's office and have this dealt with in a couple of hours. it's a simple, routine practice - ...

i've been to specialists, regionally, that claim they have some kind of bullshit religious problem with it. so, i had to put in an appli...

i don't want them. i haven't wanted them for years. and, if i don't get a useful response when i see my doctor in may, i may ha...

i am taking the right kind of estrogen for what i want. i don't have any qualms about that. but, i'd like to completely elimina...

these trans people that you see on tv don't look the way they do due to hormones. they've had millions of dollars worth of plastic s...

they're claiming it's on "back order" and they'll have to call around. i think they're lying and trying to avoid o...

i do not want sharp spikes and mood swings. i want stability and constancy. and, i want to maximize the feminizing effects, which is done b...

i'm 40 years old. i looked better when i was 30, didn't i?

they're trying to push the generic estrogen on me at the pharmacy, again. i think they have some kind of deal with a distributor in ind...

only the companies that are running fully electric should be bailed out. let the ones running diesel fail. https://www.bbc.com/news...

they should build a wall to keep americans out, and then make americans pay for it. wait. that's....

do i have to find somebody with this and fuck them? is that it? do i have to reverse my no-sex policy to get infected with this?

i was totally reckless, too. some things i did on thursday: - smoked a pack of cigarettes - bummed or purchased cigarettes from multiple peo...

i got some sleep. i've been tired recently anyways. i didn't get that hot shower yesterday, though. i think that's a good idea.....

and, i'd like to hear the united states make a similar announcement. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/15/coronavirus-uk-over-7...

good. and, it's a potential export market. this is a very intelligent response. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/mar/15/coronav...

this may all be a process of trying to set an example. and, i'm not one for leadership, and don't tend to do what i'm told. but,...

i think this is the right request to make. there was also a request by the prime minister's mother - who was married to the prime minist...

well, i don't want to go drinking if i feel sick. i might have just picked up a head cold, i don't even know. i know i don't fee...

Saturday, March 14, 2020

what's happening in japan seems to be about the same thing that's happening in the united states - they're not testing people, m...

they're not flattening it, they're shifting it. people are delusional. you're going to get this. deal with it. https://www3.nhk....

you can't . https://www.macleans.ca/society/health/this-coronavirus-chart-shows-canada-is-not-flattening-the-curve-at-least-not-yet/

ok, let me get my laptop back up.

i'll be fine. i'm strong. the virus stands no chance against me. i have confidence in my phagocytes to win this battle and annihilat...

i'm not advocating denying service or anything. i'm an advocate of universality. the system should do everything it can. i'm jus...

who voted for trump? so, they kind of made their own bed. or, as it would be, reduced the number of them.

who voted to cut the health care system in countries like italy and canada? the boomers did.

it's harsh. sure. but, if i woke up tomorrow and there were 15% less people over the age of 65, i would see the net social benefit in th...

we could, honestly, solve a multitude of social problems by thinning their ranks a little. we're sitting on a demographic bulge that...

but, honestly? do i really care about old people? i don't generally get the impression that they care much about me. this is the "m...

ok, yeah - i've picked up a dry cough. good. let's hope it's covid-19 and i get the thing beat nice and quickly over what was a...

https://www-cdn.oxfam.org/s3fs-public/file_attachments/cs-true-cost-austerity-inequality-italy-120913-en_0.pdf

https://www.oecd.org/els/health-systems/Country-Note-ITALY-OECD-Health-Statistics-2015.pdf

there's all kinds of ominous articles like this that have been published over the last ten years. The country's largest doctors'...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-italy-health-awakenings-insight/indiscriminate-cuts-threaten-italys-healthcare-successes-idUSKBN0LZ0G3201...

it's a more cost-effective way to deliver health care, in aggregate. but, it's an easy target for fiscal conservatives, and there...

"it is better to burn out than to fade away"

this, i would propose, is a better way to understand the debate between herd immunity and "flattening the curve". i...

so, i made a choice to wait until i got back from the concert on thursday night before i reimaged the machine, because i figured i'd hav...

i've said this before: if there's anything in this universe worth worshiping, if there's any approximation to a deity, it's ...

one of the previous links points out that one of the things that "st patrick" is known for, apocryphally or not, is putting the s...

and, don't tell me that christianity is my history or i should embrace the identity of an irish catholic. that's a bunch of colonial...

our history has been erased.

i was hoping to find some documentation of the obvious solstice festival that st. patrick's replaced. i'm not going to do the math o...

so, what's more offensive? st patrick's day or thanksgiving? and, do you see the parallel i'm trying to draw, why there's a ...

https://www.learnreligions.com/st-patrick-and-the-snakes-2562487

https://metro.co.uk/2017/03/17/how-a-pagan-celebrates-st-patricks-day-6513439/

i'm going to start a petition to cancel 3/17 in favour of 3/14.

i suspect that most pi day events will attract at least 3 people. but, due to the coronavirus, i'd expect there to be much less than 4, ...

i'd still rather produce my own antibodies. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/biotech-quebec-city-coronavirus-1.5497043

this is a chart for the 1917 and 1918 (there were two viruses, not one) pandemics: so, there's a lot of differences. bu...

the numbers coming out of south korea are the ones you want to take more seriously, as they are an oecd country that has tested sufficientl...

Friday, March 13, 2020

no, you can't get "reinfected" by a virus. this is basic science. a virus is a protein, an enzyme, which means it's a str...

british press: 60% of britons will need to be infected to allow for herd immunity? this is irresponsible! british scientists: 70% of british...

i actually agree with the british tories. that's pretty rare.... the error that's being made in the underlying discussion around thi...

one of the best things you can do for your kids right now is exposing them to this, so they can beat it young.

i mean, we could carry out mass immunizations once we get a vaccine. but, if the mortality rate is less than 1%, it seems unnecessary. so, ...

the thing we want to avoid, specifically, is situations where older people are in contact with younger people. we actually probably want you...

does it make sense to close schools? you're probably worried about the kids. but, a large percentage of teachers and profs are older peo...

thank you for making the point that the focus should be on buying gear, not on "flattening the curve". single payer health care do...

the only thing to fear, is fear itself.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/covid19-travel-bans-1.5495919

science is an authority, and i will listen to science. but, the only authority that the state has over me is the threat of violence. it foll...

this puny, weakling virus will be annihilated by my superior immune system! ahahahahaha!

i'm an anarchist. you're probably not. but, you need to know when to step away from your need to control things, and this is one of ...

this is completely, utterly irrational. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/military-travel-halted-covid-19-1.5496537

https://www.vox.com/2020/3/12/21176669/travel-ban-trump-coronavirus-china-italy-europe

Canada's Chief Public Health Officer Theresa Tam confirmed that Canada is now advising against all international travel to limit the spr...

i am opposed to any bans on international travel coming in and out of canada. this is the first overreaction i've seen from this govern...

you guys ever read the stand? that was a perplexing night in detroit. the show was good. but, people are...confused. and don't want to l...

Thursday, March 12, 2020

they're going to have to wait for investors to redevelop some confidence in the market. there's lots of money out there, and, as i s...

stimulus isn't going to overpower fear. the experiment was interesting, but the outcome was obvious.

i haven't said much about the stock market recently. my arguments were always a little different. the way i see it, and this is bro...

sarah was (i guess still is.) about a half an inch taller than me, and she used to complain that she wanted me to be taller than her - altho...

i am a short 5' 8". so, it's closer to 5' 7". my father was a hair taller than me, and my mother is a hair shorte...

Wednesday, March 11, 2020

i just want to clear up a kind of a nasty misperception about the voting shifts in michigan that's been floating around through the msm ...

well, i would hardly consider two imported cases of a mild virus to be an emergency. this, like it is elsewhere, is an abuse of power. and, ...

but, the capitalist narrative is... according to capitalists, europe is struggling to contain the disease because they have thousands of cas...

even in italy, what they're saying is that the system is overwhelmed, and there aren't enough resources to test everybody. so, we kn...

see, this is a crass and stupid political response intended to deflect attention from america's failing capitalist catastrophe. the eur...

or, don't cancel church? no. you know what i always say about religious folks, but i'm just being an ass. you cancel church......

they're cancelling concerts here. it's hysteria. if you're going to cancel events, they should be events with lots of old people...

the coordinator at the divisional court has fabricated a motion, by excluding the affidavit i sent her and the documents attached to it. ...

fwiw. my opinion is that sanders is done. but, i think he should give the debate on sunday a serious go, and see what happens next tuesday. ...

we can control how much equipment we have. we'll have to act quickly, granted. and, the provinces have to fucking do it . but that'...

our hospitals need to update their gear anyways, right?

if you put a large amount of resources into "flattening the curve", and you fail, as all evidence suggests you will, then you'...

"If you can slow it down enough and flatten the curve, so the same number of people get infected, but over a much longer period of tim...

you know what? i think i can look away from climate change for a while, for days, for weeks, and that it's still going to be there when ...

you don't really think i forgot about climate change because i'm posting about other things right now, do you? do you think i'm ...

if you refuse to test people, you can manufacture what looks like a slower transmission rate. sure. and then you can tell people that your p...

but, none of the policies they've tried have been effective in slowing the spread; they've probably just increased transmission rate...

i self-identify as a nerd. i'm proud of it. but, i didn't sit at the nerd table. well, i'd drop by to say hi sometimes, but i fo...

https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/office-popularity-like-high-school_n_5a3030c3e4b07ff75afe2f48

the media is not afraid to be racist; the media thrives on racism. it divides people, as it manufactures consent for the ruling elite. that,...

there's an old cliche. "those who would exchange liberty for security will receive neither". the direct quote from franklin is...

https://jacobinmag.com/2020/03/joe-biden-gaffes-democratic-presidential-campaign-trump

https://theintercept.com/2020/03/09/it-was-democrats-and-their-media-allies-who-impugned-bidens-cognitive-fitness-yet-now-feign-outrage/

bernie shouldn't blame anybody but himself; he picked a foolish strategy to play, and it predictably failed. i saw this coming from mont...

seems like this guy has a hunch, too. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-strictly-by-the-numbers-the-coronavirus-does-not-...

Tuesday, March 10, 2020

listen. i didn't like the hillary clinton that emerged after her stint as secretary of state. i was particularly concerned about he...

i would expect bernie to stay in to try to influence the events at the convention, just like in 2016.

regarding michigan. 2016 results: 21% black turnout - 68% clinton, 28% sanders 70% white turnout - 56% sanders, 42% clinton 2020 results: 18...

i'm watching the nbc stream, and it's like soviet propaganda - they're looking right in the screen and saying the exact negation...

missouri is a place where the young people are leaving because there's no future there. there's no jobs. there's no opportunitie...

(i remember the berlin wall falling, fwiw. i was eight. but i remember it.) back in 2016, i keyed in a lot on missouri as an important swing...

ok. so, it's taken some time, but the press is cluing in. how many cases are there down there? thousands. tens of thousands... and, then...

so many of us want the authorities to take control, and think they can defeat complicated problems by writing and enforcing the right rules....

these researchers had a hunch that the number of cases in iran was dramatically underreported and did some math to deduce more convincing nu...

access to care is only useful if the doctors take the issue seriously. the story is still being written, but it seems like the system didn...

i got my motions scheduled. good...

thank you to popular science for writing the article for me. https://www.popsci.com/story/science/healthcare-paid-sick-leave-coronavirus/

so, we should expect cheap tp for a while, then, as demand falls to nothing, once supply recovers. i'd wait. https://globalnews.ca/news/...

the cause of the crisis in alberta is poor planning by decades of conservative governance.

what's happening in alberta is not an unexpected crisis, or an act of god - they were told this would happen, and they didn't listen...

i guess they should have listened when the smart kids predicted this twenty years ago, huh? they've made their bed. https://www.macleans...

again: this is a catalyst, not a cause. it should be allowed to run it's course. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/mar/10/deliv...

https://www.retaildive.com/news/the-impact-of-the-coronavirus-on-retail/573522/

i'm going to throw an argument out there about the fears of this hurting the economy, because it's 20th century thinking that isn...

it's a good excuse to ram through funding on carbon transition. https://www.macleans.ca/economy/economicanalysis/canada-needs-a-coronavi...

it's hard to criticize it, considering that they're right. this was predictable, and it's obvious where they're going with i...

i'm advocating finding ways around them. but, if you want to go right through them, if you want to be a socialist and win south carolin...

there's a white king and a black king, isn't there? everything that bernie sanders says about him reflects an understanding of the w...

was jesus a socialist revolutionary? i dunno. kind of. a bit. but, i know you're going to lose a lot of white people if you set up a pol...

it's a bunch of white people coming in from new york and trying to redefine their history in terns they don't recognize, or reject. ...

trying to present dr. king as a socialist rather than a reverend is the kind of thing that's going to confuse them and scare them off, a...

martin luther king may have had socialist sympathies, and he may have been surrounded by socialists, as well. but, he attracted people becau...

socialists used to understand the retarding effect of religion, and the necessity of breaking the power of the church. there's really no...

i would guess that a part of the reason that sanders does so poorly with black voters is that he reminds them of the activists in the 60s th...

this is a ridiculous article, as though citing a couple of people can be extrapolated to an entire subculture. it is true that these radical...

yeah - whoever was in here and jerked off on my bed also dismantled my firewall, and fucked with my system services. i'm going to have t...

i apologize. i suggested that it would be a clean split, and she would barely win, not that he would win. he won by 1.5%. so, that'...

in european history, there is a broad dividing line between the romans and the germans, going back thousands of years, with the celts linin...

my mother only ever spoke english. i'd guess her father ever only spoke english; his ancestry is scottish/welsh all the way back. her mo...

fwiw, i have no particular attachment to italy. i know i have italian ancestry, but i'd never identify myself as italian. i was not rais...

why is italy getting hit with mortality rates more similar to china and the united states than mortality rates comparable to other oecd cou...

they've done studies and concluded that people watching fox are actually less informed than people that don't watch the news at all....

so, you'll note that as more testing has been done in the united states, they've found hundreds of more cases and the mortality rate...

Monday, March 9, 2020

ok. maybe it was foundation. when i got home on friday morning, i didn't shower until after i'd slept. so, that is a possibility. it...