How dangerous is the Coronavirus

New calculations on the fatality rate for Corona 19. It's not that bad.

Remember that dam that broke in Michigan? The Attorney General sued the owners to raise the water level to protect some mussels.

A window into an American nightmare: homelessness. A long article in the New Yorker.

Van Gordon Sauter was president of CBS news. He says the media is irretrievably biased and it's too late to change. His solution is for them to just fess up.

White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany is giving the press a hard time. They are crybabies.

Stanford coronavirus research: Did politically-motivated scientists hype their speedy study? Probably you remember the news about the study; it said that lots of people were walking around who had already had the Corona-19 virus and thus the fatality rate was widely overstated. This article says that their study was flawed, however, recent reports are that the fatality rate is much lower than thought--maybe 0.4% which is close to the same answer the flawed study came up with.

Problems within the CDC: mission creep and wasteful spending left them unprepared for a pandemic.

We are making bread at our house.  With a little experimentation, we have come up with a delictious recipe that requires almost no effort, a modification of the "crusty, no-knead bread" Drop me a note and I'll send the instructions: doug@crice.com . This prompted me to read this article in the New Yorker about making bread in Lyon.

 President Donald Trump fired Intelligence Community (IC) Inspector General (IG) Michael Atkinson in April. Atkinson claimed the president fired him for passing on the report of the Ukraine “whistleblower” to Congress — the report that led to Trump’s impeachment.  A CIA employee argues that Atkinson was corrupt and refused to help real whistleblowers.

Biden placed a wreath on Memorial Day.  Looks like he used a stunt double.

Here is a fun series of videos illustrating preservation of the species.

Hydroxychloroquine and Zinc

The Left has become what it once loathed, from Victor Davis Hanson.

I sent to the out-patient clinic last week to  have my hand worked on. Even my prep nurse knew that Hydroxychloroquine requires zinc to cure Corona 19.  If my nurse knew that, how come the CDC doesn't know that yet?

Cuomo mismanaged the Corona 19 crisis and killed thousands in nursing homes.

Canada is even more politically correct than the US. The activists got a real estate agent fired for criticizing Allah Akbar.

Democrats have abandoned civil liberties in the Flynn case.

The Blue Angels are flying around to honor health care workers. Here's a cool photo of one getting refueled in the air.

A couple of dams broke in Michigan, a tragedy, but the cool part of this video is how the interpreter manages to yell in sign language.

An interesting article in the New Yorker about the Twilight of the Iranian Revolution.

A cool photo of a waterspout.

Alice Ball's treatment for leprosy was used for over 20 years, but she was not given credit because she was African-American.

Planned Parenthood got millions of dollars from the small business loan program.

I have always known that one day science would cure fat, probably too late to do me any good. You know someone that eats prodigiously, yet remains skinny. As you might have known, there's a gene for this.

This Victor Davis Hanson article is a few months old now, but it pushed one of my hot buttons and should serve as a warning to any liberal who thinks the government can run anything these days.

Hydroxychloroquine

For Hydroxychloroquine to cure the virus, it needs to be combined with an antibiotic and zinc.  None of the trials where it didn't work included zinc, including this new one from he NIH.

The Simpsons predict the future. This chart includes all the predictions made during the Simpsons TV series including the election of Donald Trump. Mouse over the lines for the details.

A scene from a cartoon: a coyote chasing a roadrunner.

The carouser and the great astronomer. It’s a fine line between oblivion and immortality.

CNN put together a panel of experts to discuss the Coronavirus. Ridicule followed when they included Greta Thunberg.

Here is a fun blog from a fellow conservative: Roger Anghis. Unlike mine, this one has lots of original commentary on the contemporary political scene. Scroll down for a list of subjects.

The Atlantic has a review of Biden's virtual rally. It didn't go very well.

The media is nearly universally negative toward Trump, yet his followers remain favorable toward him. Why isn't the media campaign working?

Another epidemiologist who argues for letting people out and about has his video removed from YouTube.

How did America react during the pandemic of 1969? They went on with their lives, even Woodstock.

Someone committed a crime in the Michael Flynn case. It wasn’t him.

Politico has a different take on the Tara Reade story.

Every Tom Hanks movie rated from worst to best, a list that will suck you in.

May 18 was the 40th anniversary of the eruption of Mt. St. Helens. Here's a popular level perspective from a local newspaper. Here's a more technical discussion with a slide show of the eruption and how it improved volcano science.

The FDA demonstrates its stupidity once again. Bill Gates is sponsoring at at home test for the Corona Virus. It apparently works, but the FDA is objecting to the fact that people are being told of the results. You wouldn't want people to know they are sick, would you?

Biden has included former Senator Dodd in his VP selection committee. Dodd was featured in the "waitress sandwich" story by the late, great Michal Kelly who died in Iraq before he could finish his career of pummeling Democrats.

Rand Paul at the Senate Hearings

The TV Corona doctors testified in the Senate. Rand Paul had really insightful questions for Dr. Fauci.

Germany's efforts to eliminate CO2. Their first mistake was dismantling their nuclear power plants, which greatly increased the burning of coal to make electricity. Nobody dies from nuclear power, while thousands of people die from coal, either mining it or breathing it. Liberals are so divorced from rational thought.

Norway has an advantage in going carbon neutral: lots of hydroelectric power. Here's a fun article about electric cars in Norway. They are using the time-honored European method of taxing people to get people to buy cars they wouldn't otherwise purchase.

Is this the cure for global warming? Using synthetic spinach cells and sunlight to convert CO2 into sugar.

Peter Piot spent his life fighting viruses. " I have devoted my life to fighting viruses and finally, they get their revenge." He caught the Wuhan Flu.

A pretty funny satire: “I’m pleased to announce that, even though the velociraptors are still on the loose, we will be opening Jurassic Park back up to the public!” Click on the headline for more fun stuff.

Hypocrisy. Nearly 100 Hollywood celebrities smeared Judge Kavanaugh but refuse to support Tara Reade.

Truth has never been a left-wing value. Lying is morally acceptable as long as it serves the left's goals of defeating opponents and attaining more power according to Dennis Prager.

Obama said that there is no precedent for the Justice Department withdrawing the Flynn motion. Law professor Jonathan Turley begs to differ (see previous entry).

Secretary Pompeo arrived in Israel with a red, white, and blue face mask.

Hawaii's top national guard officer warned of civil unrest if the lockdown isn't lifted so the economy can recover.

The story of women flight attendants who served in the Viet Nam War, without recognition.

Remember those two emergency room doctors

Remember those two emergency room doctors that made a video saying that the Corona Virus lockdown was a mistake. The video was viewed 5 million times. It was widely criticized, most people jumping on the fact that their math was wrong, others saying they were just trying to promote their business. None of the criticisms I read addressed the science. Well, here's a Nobel-Prize winning Stanford scientist who says the same thing.  The original story about the doctors is in the April 28 issue of this blog, and you can find another copy of the censored video here while it's still available.

Here is more on the mistaken lockdown by Dennis Prager, bringing up the starvation issue.

When you analyze the continuing lockdowns, it turns out that most of the politicians ordering lockdowns are Democrats. It's a power thing,

James Cagliano worked for the FBI for 25 years. He is now a CNN legal analyst, so he is an unlikely person to make this statement: "Michael Flynn was railroaded by Comey's FBI".

More here on Flynn. This author says that America doesn't have a justice system anymore.

Here's a grisly video of a Preying Mantis taking on a Murder Hornet.

A 1996 court document makes mention of Tara Reade's claim of sexual harassment in Biden's office.

The top 10 women on Biden's choice for VP candidate.

Here's some hypocrisy for you. Betsy DeVos has modified Obama's use of Title 9 to punish sexual misconduct on campus. Biden promises to revert to the previous approach if elected while using a different standard for Tara Reade.

The real "Lord of the Flies". Six boys shipwrecked for 15 months. What happened?

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Samaritan's Purse

Samaritans Purse is packing up and leaving New York City after helping with the fight against the virus. Homosexuals are celebrating. This article almost reads like a parody; be sure and get down to the last sentence.

In late February, biotech company Biogen had a conference in Boston. More than 100 of the 175 attendees were infected with the Corona virus.

Yellowstone Park is closed, but you can take this drone photographed tour. Check it out.

Trudeau announces ban on 1,500 kinds of assault weapons in Canada. The honest people will sell them back to the government, the crooks will drive across the border.

Usama bin Laden wanted to assassinate then-President Barack Obama so that the "totally unprepared" Joe Biden would take over as president and plunge the United States "into a crisis", according to documents seized from bin Laden's Pakistan compound when he was killed in May 2011. What did bin Laden know that the Democrats don't know?

Here's something new and scary: giant hornets are invading the US. Originally in the NYT reprinted here.

The Indian maiden disappeared from the Land O' Lakes butter. The writer's father, a native American, did the original artwork. He says she was never a stereotype.

Biden isn't qualified to be President. One symptom is his premature statement that he would pick a woman as Vice President, putting political correctness over picking the best candidate. Why Biden's choice of a running mate has momentous implications, an article in the NYT reprinted here.

Lisa Bloom is a Biden supporter, but she believes Tara Reade.

Michael Moore made a documentary exposing alternative energy. Now the cancel culture is coming for him.

The Onion, not the Babylon Bee on Biden. My advisors told me to say they aren't true.

A judge rejected the women's soccer players claim they were paid less than men because it turned out they made more money than the guys.

NPR on the Wuhan Flu

Careful listeners have determined that NPR is quite liberal. I suspect they would deny it, but consider NPR's spotty report on the Wuhan labs.

Canada is trying to ban use of hydroxychloroquine, but New Brunswick has adopted its use. Take a look a this graph of the cure rates for different areas. The ascending curve shows more cures. Here's a similar result comparing Ireland (no HC) and Turkey (Yes HC).  Here's more from the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons. Dr. Fauci's statement that we should wait for double-blind randomized tests is killing people.

Washington State came within one vote of releasing the "Green River Killer" from prison to protect him from the Wuhan Virus.

The Media Research Center (MRC) analyzed the news coverage on ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, NBC, and PBS between March 25 and April 27. During that month-plus period, these networks devoted a paltry 27 minutes and 31 seconds to Reade’s sexual assault allegations. By contrast, ABC, CBS, and NBC morning and evening news shows dedicated nearly six hours to Ford’s accusations against Kavanaugh in the twelve days after Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) went public that there was an unspecified allegation against the Supreme Court nominee.

Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer on Tuesday issued a warning to residents after seven registered sex offenders who he said were “high-risk” were recently released from custody early amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

There has been some buzz in the news about "reinfections" in people cured of the Wuhan Flu, creating concern that there was no immunity to be achieved with the disease or with inoculations. Turns out this isn't true.

Rainbow meets lightning in Idaho.

Amazingly, the NYT ran a story "Why Won’t TV News Book Tara Reade". The Times has a paywall, but you can read the story here.

Why did the PPP loan money go to big companies instead of the small ones it was claimed to help?

The April 26 issue of Doug's Blog (scroll down) had a story on using Pulse Oximeters for early detection of Wuhan Flu. Here's an article on how they work.

Remember "Anonymous", the person inside the Trump organization who wrote an editorial and book very critical of Donald Trump.  Here's the inside story of the search for that person's identity.