Thursday, April 09, 2020

Passover


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  1. California strikes deal to buy 200 million masks a month, says Gavin Newsom [Click] Go big or go home? Now all they have to do is keep the feds from stealing them.

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    1. Covid-19 is not flu. That whole point to wearing a mask during this epidemic is that you might have the disease without knowing it. I haven't heard of people having flu without being sick.

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    1. In re the second link--it just dawned on me that the newshounds are quoting Victor Davis Hanson, who is a right-wing historian, a showboat with no medical background, and a nutcase in my opinion. (He lives in a small town in Fresno County.) Of course he could be parroting what some medical acquaintance says, but he could also be talking through his hat.

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    2. I don't understand that 50% number in the first link. Unemployment is nowhere near that high and I would expect coronavirus to be reducing the amount people spend. Certainly it has for me. Maybe the reporter misunderstood and people were actually saying that _if they lost their jobs_ they wouldn't have enough savings to last a month.

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    3. Re the second article: A science fiction SMOF who attended the same Santa Rosa convention I did in December has mentioned that she was sick for weeks afterward. But she was tested at the time time and her disease was confirmed as flu.

      And the research study being mentioned will tell us essentially nothing about when SARS-CoV-2 started circulating in California. it will show that a lot of people have had the disease without knowing it, but not when they had it. And the idea California has had fewer reported cases than expected seems to rely on a comparison to New York. But New York is very much an outlier compared to the rest of the country. I haven't been following things there well enough to know what the explanation is.

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    4. Re the second article, once I realized whom the reporter was quoting, the more it looked like right-wing propaganda trying to minimize the seriousness of the pandemic. I should have slipped it into the electronic shredder.

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  4. When Trump Goes After Hunter Biden, Biden should go after Trump’s kids. [Click] “There’s enough [Trump] oppo here for a hundred campaigns. . .Biden just needs to be bold enough to use it, and strong enough to resist the initial fainting-couch faux outrage when he gives back as good as he got.” I can’t see Biden doing it, but maybe he could delegate it to attack dogs—like Nixon used Agnew.

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  5. Biden Courts Sanders’ Endorsement [Click] The difference in this headline and that of the source article is interesting. The original article is longer and has several interesting bits, but has a bit of a “Democrats in Disarray” slant.

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  6. Bernie’s Legacy Hangs in the Balance [Click] A not particularly bright column IMO, but it’s from politico.com, after all. But there is one bit I find rather interesting: “George McGovern, another movement politician, was routed in his effort to become president in 1972 but people immersed in that campaign—from Gary Hart to Bill and Hillary Clinton—were dominant figures in American politics for the next 45 years.”

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    1. Goldwater's presidential campaign wasn't particularly successful either.

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    2. Bill, surely you aren't comparing Bernie to Barry Goldwater?

      /duck and run/

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    3. Just another candidate who transformed his party without ever becoming president.

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  7. 'A disastrous situation': mountains of food wasted as coronavirus scrambles supply chain [Click] Like the Depression—no shortage of food, severe shortage of money to pay for it.

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    1. I remember my mother telling of the neighbor family that managed to scrape together just enough money to buy a hundred-pound sack of beans. That was their food for the winter.

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    2. We are seeing firsthand the folly of our wastefulness. I have never been so conscious of meal planning based on expiration dates. And I, too, bought some dried beans.

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    1. Glad you liked it, Cat. I figure to have a listen at it this evening. I hope the coronavirus doesn't take out many Sacred Harp singers--anywhere, but particularly in the South, where it was kept alive for so long. Even if my old ears can't bear the volume of the real thing, it is wonderful music--and a capella, like the Gregorian chants.

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    2. What a gift of love! The cloister is the heart of their worship.

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  9. listener, got the Snowflakes! Yum and many thanks!

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