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... He comes out and says he never realized how interactions with police are so stressful for the average Negro male. Say what? Puleeze, my man.
Don't get me wrong, if he means it, and is prepared to work to improve things, it's good news. But I thought most turtles lived above, not below, large rocks.
Sure, the rates of Negro crime, including violent crime, against Whites, and even much more (access ?) against other Blacks, is quite at the top of the list. For every Black killed by police, hundreds, yes hundreds, are killed by other Brothers. As with the increases in {CO 2} since the industrial "revolution", the line has been sloped upward, especially since the Negro migration from the South, the decreases in Jim Crow policies, the Democrat public assistance fiasco ruin of the intact Black family, and the rise in Democrat rule in municipalities.
Negroes in my family, when asked about this, agree. But not without eyes up to the ceiling. Maybe the epiphany will spread about in the ranks of the Republican Party, then generalize onto the lefties, and we can finally take an important turn in MAGA. MAGA should have lots of facets. Not exactly rocket science, but perhaps it is a bit of brain surgery in a few right places.
Biden will be more of the same old, especially with a Negro female running mate. Don't take my words for it, just look who's running almost all American mid to large sized municipalities. Where the real action has been for decades.
At least with Red Man Bad, for complex dynamics, in term two, a chance exists.
But as with the past several years, for their own nefarious reasons, his ideas could come down from JC Himself on high, and the Democrats will reflexively fight it all, tooth and nail.
Turtles and ducks. We are lucky that the Donald lets almost all of this roll off his back, like drops of scummy pond water.

I check the Florida statistics every few days and no longer have hope the number of new cases will decline. We are required to wear masks in the showroom I'm working at. The clients coming in also wear masks. The same for outside appointments.

This weekend at the model airfield, masks are optional and all of us maintained distance. Thankfully no one in my circle of contacts has been directly affected. A few guys my age all agreed they no longer go out to restaurants and don't order delivery. Grocery shopping only when necessary and all their meals are cooked at home.

This is what we do for now.

I bought 100 surgical masks a few months ago and another 100 came in 2 weeks ago. My boss and I made a sales call Friday... he forgot to bring a mask and I supplied one for him. Accidentally, I left my mask in the office, I had to resort to an N95 mask I was keeping for emergency. A year ago I was wearing them for drywall patching and sanding project. I forgot how restrictive they are compared to the surgical masks. However, they didn't fog my glasses. I'm waiting to try the cloth variety. This may encourage me to rethink my sewing machine & mask experiments.

Travels on Saturday, took me to the house I recently sold. My (ex) neighbor was holding several storage bins of tools and collectables of mine and it was time to retrieve those items. Construction at my old house was going as expected. I chatted with the new owner. She and her remodeling crew were doing electrical upgrades and fitting for central air conditioning. While my neighbor and I had masks, none of the remodeling people wore any.

The house is in Dade County... one of the hot-spots for the state of Florida where people who test positive have the highest concentration of COVID-19.

Please don't misjudge me. Up until last year I was pretty normal but this year things have gone hectic. I get in my car and I put a few drops of alcohol on my hands and wipe them. I go to see a client and as soon as I get back to the car it's a few more drops of alcohol on my hands.
Grocery shopping? It's the same addiction to alcohol.
It seems that everywhere I go a visit with alcohol is only a few steps away.

We already know the meat packing industry has been hit with workers affected by COVID-19. One major company is Tyson Foods that employs more than 120,000 workers. They were forced to shut down several processing plants after workers tested positive for the virus.
I suspected the same for farm workers and tonight I see the same. One story claims when a worker on a farm in Tennessee fell ill to the virus they tested all 200 workers and found they were all infected.
These are hand picked fruits, berries, and vegetables.
Something to consider when you put a pack of fresh strawberries in your grocery cart.

As reported in the New York Times yesterday, the results are in from the first carefully controlled trial
which exposed 821 people to others with Covid-19. No difference from the control group.
"What have you got to lose ?" Time, money, hope, and side effects, including heart problems.
Plus, it may prevent you from taking something that does work.



Please stick to doing your actual job Mr. "so-called" president and stop pretending you know it all.
The truth is, that you are a dope !

The government employee quality epidemiologists at the WHO, (is my fat pension ready yet?), stopped their study of this issue early, raising ethical grounds.They claimed a slight increase of mortality in the non placebo arm of their analyses. Notably, the method of sequential trials doesn't seem to have been employed. And the specific causes of death could have been better characterized. The many biostatisticians at the New York Times might consider ongoing edumacation.
We now see growing new, more valid, evidence, beginning with the results of the largest study to date, that such differences may not exist. And even if these were there in the data, and true, if small, allow the use of a medicine, using prudent clinical judgment. As with nearly all agents to date. Even aspirin and acupuncture. I've blogged on the details of such, especially with the connections between heart and lung and inflammatory illnesses.
Trump Derangement-Hilary Deficit Syndrome may be progressive. Back to the drawing boards.
I again thank some here for both content of ideas, and ad hominem comments on physiognomy. Both entertain, have validity and are a clue to character.

HUGE DEVELOPMENT! … Now 3 International Studies Find Chloroquine with Azithromycin Shows 100% Success Rate in Treating Coronavirus in 6 Days!

There are now THREE international studies — China, Australia and France — that found that Chloroquine with Azithromycin Shows 100% Success Rate in Treating Coronavirus in 6 Days!

We have reported on the success of Chloroquine earlier today and this week.

President Trump announced on Thursday morning that the CDC had approved use of the drug in treating coronavirus patients.

But tonight we heard more from Rep. Mark Green, a former Army Flight Surgeon, that the combination of Chloroquine with Azithromycin cleared the virus in 3 days in 100% of the patients in the study.

That is THREE international studies now that show the success of the Chloroquine treatment.

Read more and watch:

Sure, the wonders of spring cheer many of us up. I have been experiencing my first real serious (not yet delirious) existential variety of clinical depression. No Azores this year, so far. Lock down and the excuse of sloth, put on a few Kg's. Too much choice in life. The vagaries of my kids' lives. And so on. Then C-19, to really put a little frosting on it all.
I used to wonder what such blues really were, and even doubted the validity of such, as I sent my charges on to electro convulsive treatments, after many things were tried, and failed. Including when, even drug combinations, weren't nearly enough. The sort of folks who can't be left out of sight for even a day or two, noose and pistols ever at the ready. This is the land of the free and brave, after all.
But it's a gift to really know in the flesh, that treetop depression exists, and more importantly, how it suits one. And my hottie doctor psychologist, of nearly two decades, now wants to use Zoom. I hate Zoom. So it's of to the apothecary. When things work, they usually continue to do so.
But my ex next door called excitedly to say she saw the first pair of these incredible penny weight critters. Off to the store to buy a colorful feeder, self mixing of "nectar", cheap gnome that I am, and it's now up among the other feeders, visible through the bay window, fascinating both Bravo and meself.
Instant lifting of mood. Even the fruit and berry blossoms, planting the garden, watching Bravo fearlessly chase the chimp monks, and fast paced walking weren't enough. But those little birds, arriving on the wing from some 7,000 KM away, to the same spot, easily fending of birds many times their size, in full helo form---now THAT is the rub.

I haven't experienced COVID-19 testing first hand. Should I need to, there are few centers near me, one being about a mile away. I see in local news, Home Depot has setup testing centers in their parking lots. I'll have to pass by one this weekend and see how many are in line.
Some people report there are no lines... does that mean less people with symptoms? That's a good thing in my book. If it's because people are apathetic, that could be a bad thing as asymptomatic carriers could unknowingly infect others.

A friend of mine works in a busy office and required to wear a mask when outside of his cubicle.

I heard one of the local manufacturing companies had a worker test positive. They shut down for 2 days and had a crew come in to sanitize the place. Routine testing is now required for the workers.

Testing, testing, testing... That's the only way to stay ahead of the trouble.