Friday, March 06, 2020
Not especially interesting
Earlier I noted that this part of town is not panicking about the Branded Swine Flu. Still the same today. No masks, no signs of 'isolation', no discussion of the topic.
No empty shelves in Safeway, nothing out of stock, BUT one little piece of Security Theater. The checkers are wearing latex food-handling gloves. Today's checker spoiled the act by blowing his nose into a rag and stuffing the rag back under the register. No problem, it's just Theater.
Semi-related, one vaguely encouraging sign from elsewhere. All paid opinion-mongers in the world are working for Soros, running the usual Robust Debate on this topic. There is only one side. The "opponents" are not arguing about the premise, merely bidding up the panic and bidding up the kill count. But the unpaid folks, EVEN INSIDE THE WORLD OF STOCK DEMONS, are not fooled. This item at ZH tries to kill common sense along with Deplorables, but many of the commenters are knocking down the premise with proper uses of statistics.
Labels: Entertainment, Heimatkunde
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