New York Paid $69,000,000 For Nothing

On March 27, with the country facing a potential shortage of ventilators, Trump Tweeted a demand to General Motors and Ford to “START MAKING VENTILATORS, NOW!”   

A Trump fan name Yaron Oren-Pines sensed an opportunity and responded to Trump's Tweet.  Oren-Pines, although an engineer, had no technical experience in medical devices, but he ended up recommended as ventilator vendor by Trump's White House coronavirus task force.  In desperation New York state, apparently convinced by the White House recommendation, placed a $69 million purchase order to Oren-Pines.  Facing the potential Covid-19 disaster, the state paid up front, even though they were paying $47 thousand per ventilator (three times the market rate).  

No surprise here - NO VENTILATORS WERE EVER DELIVERED.

A state official, speaking on background because he was not authorized to publicly discuss the terms of the deal, said New York entered into the contract with Oren-Pines at the direct recommendation of the White House coronavirus task force.

Nearly a month later, New York has terminated the contract, and the state is now trying to recover all of the money it paid the Silicon Valley electrical engineer. Officials refused to say how much the state had been able to claw back. “We are in discussions on a few remaining issues,” said Heather Groll, a spokesperson for the New York Office of General Services, part of the interagency effort to help New York get supplies.

Pence Sends Wife Out To Lie For Him

When Mike Pence (Vice-President of the United States, leader of the US Government's Coronavirus Task Force, good Christian?) visited the Mayo Clinic earlier this week, he graphically refused to follow the guidelines of his task force and the specific Mayo Clinic requirement to wear a face mask.  

Soon after the visit, photos of the maskless Pence surrounded by masked hospital staff and patients started showing up everywhere.  Pence's behavior was immediately called out by just about everyone.  It was an embarrassment even by the standards of someone who routine debases himself toadying to Trump.  Pence responded that he decided to not wear a mask and gave specific reasons why he chose to not abide by the rules.

“As vice president of the United States I’m tested for the coronavirus on a regular basis, and everyone who is around me is tested for the coronavirus,” Pence said, adding that he is following CDC guidelines, which indicate that the mask is good for preventing the spread of the virus by those who have it.

"And since I don’t have the coronavirus, I thought it’d be a good opportunity for me to be here, to be able to speak to these researchers, these incredible healthcare personnel, and look them in the eye and say ‘thank you.’”

To Pence, masks are for the masses who don't get weekly coronavirus testing at the office.  But, that argument didn't go over well, so today, our heroic vice-president sent his wife out to make a new excuse for him.  Her explanation is that the vice-president just plan didn't know that masks were required.     Humm...the  Mayo Clinic stated specifically that Pence's staff was informed of their mask policy, journalist travelling with Pence note that they were aware (and followed) the policy AND PENCE HIMSELF SAID HE DIDN'T WEAR A MASK BECAUSE HE FELT THAT HE DIDN'T NEED TO.  Yet, there was Mrs. Pence on Fox News lying that her husband wasn't aware he should be wearing a mask.  The Pence family - good Christians who are apparently unaware of:

"You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor" (Exodus 20:16).  aka The 9th Commandment. 

"A lying tongue hates its victims, and a flattering mouth works ruin."  Proverbs 26:28  

"Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices." (Colossians 3:9)

A Canadian Helps Trump Apologize

Finally! 

"Once Upon A Virus"

Here's an interesting take on the differences between the US and Chinese responses to the coronavirus.  It's from the Chinese perspective, but I suspect that it represents what much of the world sees in the Trump led US response to the pandemic.

China: We discovered a new virus.
America: So what?

China: It's Dangerous
America: It's only a Flu

China: Wear a Mask
America: Don't wear a Mask
... pic.twitter.com/Qxugv8z73J

— China Xinhua News (@XHNews) April 30, 2020

A Song For This Morning

It's not the events in our lives that determines our happiness.  It's what we make of those events that determines our happiness.

Another Trump Milestone

US deaths due to Covid-19 have now surpassed US deaths in the Vietnam War.  Trump to avoided service in Vietnam by lying and he now lies every day to cover up his failure to serve the country in the Covid-19 battle. 

Data from Worldmeter

There Will Be An After and We Will Have to Deal With It

Seven years ago, after my first trip to Cape Town, I searched for websites that would provide me with some insight into a place that I found incredibly fascinating. One gem my search turned up was a blog, written by Susan Hayden that is deeply insightful about life in South Africa and often incredibly moving.  Her latest post deals with the psychological impact of a global pandemic.  Not the current coronavirus event, but the 1918 Influenza Pandemic (Spanish flu).  This pandemic killed 500,000 of the 7 million inhabitants of the South Africa.  Susan's great grandfather was one of the survivors.  That event not only impacted his life, but its consequences rippled through the lives of his children and their children.  Something to consider as we face life after Covid-19.

For as long as I have known anything, I have known that my paternal grandfather, Richard Radford-Hayden, lost both of his parents to the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918. Orphaned together with his little brother, Harry, at a very young age, this lethal and mysterious virus brought to our shores by ships and which – for reasons we’ll never understand – targeted the young and healthy, constituted the dark backdrop of my father’s family history.

Some Good News - #5

We can get through this if we realize that we are all in this together.

Trump Has No Time for His Victims

The only word I can think  of that describes Trump's behavior during his administration's daily coronavirus "shows" is dispicable.  During hours of his blovating he has spent 0.5% of his speaking time showing any sympathy or concern for the ten of thousands of American fatalities caused by his failures. He has spent 100 times as many minutes in self praise.

Over the past three weeks, the tally comes to more than 13 hours of Trump — including two hours spent on attacks and 45 minutes praising himself and his administration, but just 4½ minutes expressing condolences for coronavirus victims. He spent twice as much time promoting an unproven antimalarial drug that was the object of a Food and Drug Administration warning Friday. Trump also said something false or misleading in nearly a quarter of his prepared comments or answers to questions, the analysis shows.

Pence Defies Mayo Clinic Policy and Goes Maskless

What is wrong with these people?  Of course Trump won't wear a mask.  His ego won't allow it. Also, he understands that any concession he makes to the potential hazard of Covid-19, means he won't be able to claim (like some of his Fox news allies) that the whole thing was blown up by the fake news media and Democrats.  Pence knows that if he dons a mask, Trump will be mad at him, so he does what any good sycophant would do - he flouts the policy of the Mayo Clinic and goes maskless.

That's not leadership, it's moral cowardice.

Trump Knew and Did Nothing - 1,022,259 infected, 57,862 dead (11:07 PDT)

By late February 2020, Trump had been warned that the Wuhan coronavirus was very likely the pandemic that his administration had been cautioned to prepare for even before he took the oath of office in 2017.  Not only did Trump ignore the warning, he also forced the government to downplay the potential dangers of the virus.  Because he didn't believe or understand the warnings he did virtually nothing to prepare the country for what was coming.  On February 25, Dr. Nancy Messonnier, sounded a warning  in a call with reporters:

“We want to make sure the American public is prepared,” she said, then put it in personal terms by saying what she told her children that morning: “We as a family ought to be preparing for significant disruption to our lives.”

Trump wanted Mesonnier fired for having the integrity to put out a warning to the country.  Trump's senior aids had seen the reports and knew what was coming, but since Trump was unwilling to act, they did nothing to warn the public or mobilize to fight the coming pandemic.

...senior officials knew the coronavirus was an extreme threat to Americans. Thanks to information streaming in from U.S. intelligence agencies for months, officials reportedly believed that a “cataclysmic” disease could infect 100 million Americans and discussed lockdown plans. The warnings were given to Mr. Trump in his daily brief by the intelligence community; in calls from Alex Azar, the secretary of health; and in memos from his economic adviser Peter Navarro.

But the White House did not want the American public to know.

The president’s stated concerns were specific. He didn’t want to upset the markets or China during trade talks, and it appears he may have also simply been in denial, counting on his personal hunches and luck.

Covid-19 Vaccination and the Mark of the Beast (No Kidding)

Right wing anti-vaccine zealots are already taking up arms against any future Covid-19 vaccine.  To them any potential vaccine will be "from the pits of hell" or "THE MARK OF THE BEAST."  Why is even the most sensible public policy turned into a culture war battlefield?   

Why does this have to be part of the culture war? It isn't a case of "both sides have retreated into their opposing camps," unless you consider it a partisan stance to want to get a vaccine in order not to die or kill someone. There are sensible people on one side and conspiracy-addled menaces to society on the other. We have to hope there aren't enough of the latter to be dangerous.

Nashville Neighbors

Twice a week this crew does an hour long courtyard concert at an apartment complex in Franklin, Tennessee.   Folks come out on their patios and balconies to sing along and enjoy the show.  These are really good musicians playing for free for their neighbors.



David Vincent Williams is an American country music singer/songwriter. His songs have been recorded and released by major country recording artists, including “I’m Movin‘ On” by Rascal Flatts, Ty Herndon’s “Hands Of A Working Man” and James Otto’s “Just Got Started Lovin' You.” 

Dillon Dixon writes songs of troubled love affairs, dreams of a better life, and persistence in the face of hardship. Dillon has traveled wide, listened hard, and written from his heart, and throughout his work, Dillon's earnest passion and commitment to music has been evident in every word and chord.

R.K. Brown played the Bar scene, and on recording sessions around Atlanta for several years. Then at the age of 27 he landed a great opportunity to tour with world-renowned R&B Legend, Curtis Mayfield. On August 13th, 1990, Curtis was completely paralyzed when lighting trusses were blown down by heavy winds while performing at an outdoor venue in Brooklyn, New York.  

He now makes his living playing bass and singing for several bands including recording artist and hit songwriter D. Vincent Williams. He also plays on recording sessions around Nashville and produces in his own studio.

Emily Henline - I'm a lover of music, biased to boots, and addicted to coffee. Exciting new adventures and fun times are guaranteed when these things are combined.

Concerts are shown live on the Tamale Joe's Facebook page.

No Rush, Covid-19 Isn't Just Like the Common Cold

Coronavirus isn't the flu on steroids or as Rush Limbaugh says, just a media hyped version of the common cold. It appears to be a much more insidious disease that attacks people in multiple different ways.  A majority of hospitalize patients have classic advanced flu symptoms - respiratory congestion moving rapidly to pneumonia.   However, there is another range of symptoms that effect almost all of the body's critical organs and some very scary blood related symptoms that are truly frightening.  Another chilling factor of the disease is the rapidity with which it attacks the respiratory system - moving from modest symptoms to respiratory failure in hours.  Doctors and researchers are learning more about Covid-19 every day, but they aren't sure yet why the disease effects different people in so many different ways.

...For lay people like most of us the original story was that COVID19 was a viral respiratory tract infection. It was more deadly, less predictable in its course and had no known therapies to treat it. But broadly speaking a disease that attack the lungs, leads in severe cases to pneumonia and from there a cascading series of failures that can lead to death. Doctors had a more sophisticated but broadly comparable understanding. Four months plus into the history of the disease they know that COVID19 can attack most of the body’s major organs – heart, liver, kidneys, brain, et al. It’s far more insidious and copious in its range of potential attacks on the human body than they realized only six weeks ago.

A new emerging issue is how COVID19 attacks or disrupts a patient’s blood – specifically the delicate and critical balance of regulating when to flow and when to clot. When I first read articles about this I assumed these clotting issues were just part and parcel of the failure or near failure of the various organ systems. COVID19 attacks your liver or kidneys and clotting issues are just a manifestation of injury. But that does not seem to be the case. It seems to be a distinct way COVID19 attacks the body.

One Person Is Demonstrating for Life, the Other Doesn't Care if You Die

Perhaps it's time to reevaluate our values.  Are we demonstrating to make our country better or are we demonstrating because we are selfish, full of crap a**holes?  

Not A Sign of the Apocalypse - Yet Truly Amazing

Some say I'm at my best when I'm asleep.  But, I've never done anything as amazing as Prasenjeet Yadav pulled off the other night.

Yadav was asleep when this bright green meteor exploded over Mettupalayam, a small town in the mountainous Western Ghats region of southern India. But the time-lapse rig he'd set up on a nearby hilltop captured this beautiful image.

                                                                                                                                                                         PRASENJEET YADAV

Drinking Russian Cool-Aid Doesn't Kill Coronavirus

The anti-vaccination movement has grown over the years.  While still adhering to its libertarian roots it has now developed both a pseudo-science veneer and a radical religious right zeal.  Social media has provided the traction to turn what was once a fringe idea into a coherent movement despite it's incoherent message.   However, now the movements social media has a distinctly Russian accent.

In a research paper put out by the little-known in-house journal of InfraGard – a national security group affiliated with the FBI – experts warned the US anti-vaccine movement would also be connected with “social media misinformation and propaganda campaigns” orchestrated by the Russian government.

Since the virus hit America, anti-vaccination activists and some sympathetic legislators around the country have led or participated in protests against stay-at-home orders designed to slow the spread of the deadly virus... 

...such movements have received a boost in recent years due to their “alignment with other conspiracy movements including the far right … and social media misinformation and propaganda campaigns by many foreign and domestic actors. Included among these actors is the Internet Research Agency, the Russian government–aligned organization.”

Thank you, Dr. Fauci.

"OK Google, order more catnip!"

Animals learn new behaviors while sheltering in place.

OK..We'll Return Our Noble Prize

Today Trump demanded that journalist return their Noble [SIC] Prizes which he claims were awarded for fake news.  Couple issues there - Nobel Prizes (spelled correctly) are not awarded for journalism and no Nobel Prizes have been awarded to American journalists for anything written about Trump.  Pulitzer Prizes are routinely award to American journalist who provide insight into the corruption and incompetence of Donald Trump.  However, after some reflection this web site will return its Noble Prize to Trump.

“This is not nature’s revenge, we did it to ourselves."

Asian wet markets provide viruses excellent opportunities to migrate from wild to domestic animal.  Crowding both live and dead domestic and wild animals in unsanitary and unregulated conditions allows the vast number of animal viruses to move from wild species into the human food chain.  

When humans drag these animals out of the wild and stuff them into cages or lay their dead bodies out for display and sale, the viruses are given a free path into other hosts.  Human hosts who have not developed immunity to the viruses.  Our lack of respect for nature is the root of the current pandemic.  And, we will suffer repeated viral epidemics and potentially more pandemics if we don't change our relationship with nature.

Scientists are discovering two to four new viruses are created every year as a result of human infringement on the natural world, and any one of those could turn into a pandemic, according to Thomas Lovejoy, who coined the term “biological diversity” in 1980 and is often referred to as the godfather of biodiversity.

“This pandemic is the consequence of our persistent and excessive intrusion in nature and the vast illegal wildlife trade, and in particular, the wildlife markets, the wet markets, of south Asia and bush meat markets of Africa… It’s pretty obvious, it was just a matter of time before something like this was going to happen,” said Lovejoy, a senior fellow at the United Nations Foundation and professor of environment science at George Mason University.

Covid-19 isn't nature's revenge.  It is self-inflicted by human hubris.

The $35.6 Millions Dollar Walk

On April 6, Captain Tom Moore began a modest fund raising project. His goal was to raise £1,000 ($1,237) for Britain's National Health Service (NHS) care workers by then deeply involved in supporting Covid-19 patients. Captain Moore intended to raise the money by walking 100 laps around his garden. The walking path was all of 25 meter long and he planned to walk 10 laps per day. Doesn't seem to be that much of a challenge. Unless you're 99 years old and need the aid of a walker to get around.

Captain Moore's used his newly acquired Twitter skills, the global charity website JustGiving and media contacts to get the word out and the donations started. By April 10, the original £1,000 goal was achieved, so the target was raised to £5,000. After raising the goal to £500,000, it became apparent that goals were unnecessary. By April 16, Captain Moore had raised £28.8 million ($35.6 million). The money will be distributed to local charities to support NHS staff, Covid-19 patients and their families.

Donations since the pandemic started have been used to help set up wellbeing spaces in hospitals. These include sleep pods, reclining chairs and so-called "wobble rooms" - areas where staff have a safe space to release emotions after a traumatic experience, such as losing a patient.

Wellbeing packs including everyday items such as porridge, tea or hand cream have also been given to staff, which one charity member said was "like a hug in a box".

The money has also helped pay for electronic tablets that allow patients who are in isolation in hospital to have contact with their friends and family.

In the long term, the funds will be used in planning to allow people to leave hospital quicker and safely, and also provide mental health support for staff and volunteers involved in dealing with the pandemic.

But, Captain Moore wasn't done fund raising.  With a little help from his friends, he has gone on the record a musical single cover of the classic You'll Never Walk Alone that became Britain's fastest selling single of 2020.  Proceeds from the recording will add to Captain Moore's fund raising total.

The charity single, released to raise money for the NHS, racked up combined chart sales of 82,000 units – the fastest-selling single of 2020 – pipping the Weeknd’s Blinding Lights to No 2 with 69,000.

You’ll Never Walk Alone (Download here) will occupy its chart position at least for the next seven days, meaning that Moore will become the first centenarian to have a UK No 1. The second-oldest UK No 1 holder is Tom Jones, who was 68 years and nine months old when (Barry) Islands in the Stream reached the top in 2009. The success of You’ll Never Walk Alone makes Ball, at 57 years and nine months, the seventh-oldest musician to claim a No 1.

 Kind of a hard act to follow.

Clap Louder - No Magic Left in the Kingdom

How long will the world's Disney parks be dark?  Disney is the industries bell weather and as Disney goes, one can assume so go Universal, Six Flags and likely a large number of smaller regional/local amusement parks.  Imagine the opportunities for the coronavirus in situations like these.  Industry analysts opinions on reopening dates vary, but one at financial giant UBS is not optimistic of any Disney magic in 2020.

John Hodulik, the managing director of investment research at global financial firm UBS, estimated that health and economic concerns would keep the parks closed through 2020 in his report, titled "The Eye of the Storm." 

"We believe Parks' profitability will be impaired for a longer period of time given the lingering effects of the outbreak and now assume an opening date of Jan. 1 as our base case," Hodulik wrote. "That said, the economic recession plus the need for social distancing, new health precautions, the lack of travel and crowd aversion are likely to make this business less profitable until there is a widely available vaccine."

Worldwide Disney properties attract nearly 160 million visitors annually - averaging over 430,000 visitors per day.  Providing a safe environment for even a fraction of those individuals is going to be a massive task, assuming that people are willing to put themselves and their families at risk either in travel to or attendance at these parks.

Recent research shows the potential of the coronavirus for airborne transmission.   The virus can infect a large number of people in a short time as this study from a restaurant in China shows.

In this case the individual noted as A1 was asymptomatic on January 24, but the virus she carried was broadcast, in part by the restaurants air conditioning to both her companions at her table and to five other people at adjoining tables.  Does anyone every  visit a restaurant at Disneyland?

In another detailed study of airborne transmission, the capacity of the virus to infect a large number of people who spent time in close proximity to each other at a Korean call center certainly makes the idea of standing in long lines in shoulder to shoulder with a large number of people less than appealing.  

Workers in one section of the call center transmitted the virus to the extent that 94 of 216 ended up testing positive for Covid-19.  The critical factor was proximity.

There are millions of Disneyholics out there who visit the various manifestations of the Magic Kingdom faithfully and multiple times per year, often staying at Disney  hotels and spending multiple days at the parks.  They might still be willing to put their lives and the lives of their children on the line, but are their enough of them to keep the lights on?  Will they still be excited about a day at the park if they have to sign a waiver of liability form upon entry indemnifying Disney if they end up in the hospital due to a Covid-19 infection?

Those hardcore Disneyholics are going to need lots of counseling and therapy over the next eight months if Mr. Hodulik analysis is correct.

"refrain from touching other People's Balls." Words to live by.

Coronavirus or not, this is generally good advice.  But, considering that this sign is posted at a Georgia bowling alley some issues and questions arise.  

It is difficult to retrieve your own bowling ball without that ball touching other bowlers' balls. Once a balls is contaminated does that mean that as it flies around the lanes, it contaminates the pins, the equipment and all the other balls it contacts?  That's a lot of potentially contaminated stuff.

Unless the management has provided sanitizer at each lane, does the bowler need to go to the bathroom to wash his/her hands after each frame they bowl?  

Bowling is not usually a zen like activity.  It's a social activity.  Hard to imagine a few lines of bowling will be much fun with all the necessary cautions and hand washing.

...the middle ground between light and shadow...

I remember this episode.  It didn't end well.



It is the middle ground between light and shadow -- between man's grasp and his reach; between science and superstition; between the pit of his fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area that might be called the Trump Presidency.

He Didn't Say Disinfectant....He Said Diet Fresca

The fake news media got it wrong again.  Trump didn't say disinfectant.....  No, he said "Diet Fresca".   Apparently, the media doctored the video, but Trump makes a good case for the efficacy of Diet Fresca as a cure to Covid-19.

Trump impersonator @JLCauvin wants to clear some things up about that whole "disinfectant" situation: pic.twitter.com/PdNdtfLj5z

— Digg (@digg) April 24, 2020

Liars Lie - That's Not Sarcasm

Hey Trump, the attached video of someone using your words is sarcasm.  What you said yesterday was not sarcastic, it was ignorant.  Please have someone explain the difference to you. 

How to medical pic.twitter.com/0EDqJcy38p

— Sarah Cooper (@sarahcpr) April 24, 2020

This is someone calling you a liar.

“What you just heard is the President of the United States just lying right there.”

- @andersoncooper on Trump’s claim that he was speaking sarcastically when he suggested yesterday that sunlight and injecting disinfectants could help cure coronavirus https://t.co/Kur9fj60ym pic.twitter.com/soT1jiYsYw

— CNN Newsroom (@CNNnewsroom) April 24, 2020

Connecting the Dots Will Put You In a Box

Conservative talk radio host Jeff Kuhner commends caller Zack from Stoughton for thinking outside the box.

“That’s literally what the president was doing yesterday,” Kuhner added. “That’s what a good chief executive does.”

Zack's outside the box idea is simple and easy for anyone to implement.  Zack suggests vaping bleach and other disinfection chemical to kill the coronavirus.

“I’ve been thinking about this thing,” Zack began. “I was a smoker for years, I smoked about three packs a day, and I never liked this new vape thing coming out with the nicotine in it, but I also have a bunch of friends with big cleaning companies.”

After hearing an ad on Kuhner’s program offering a disinfecting service during the pandemic, Zack said he started connecting the dots and wondered whether vape pens could deliver bleach and other disinfecting chemicals into infected lungs.

Let's face it.  If Zack has survive a three pack a day cigarette habit, vaping some bleach probably won't do much more damage to his lungs.

In New Zealand "Let Them Eat Cake" Is Government Policy

New Zealand residents returning from abroad are required to spend 14 days in quarantine.  This is government policy and it is strictly enforced.  Their oppressive government requires the returnees to be sequestered in luxury hotels at government expense.  One couple has made quite a splash on social media by photo chronicling their daily meals and desserts.  

While horror stories have emerged from similar compulsory quarantines in Australia, the New Zealand quarantine is creating envy among many, with glossy food-porn images of high-quality meals, and mini-fridges stocked with treats: “The government has a cake problem” the blog’s authors have said, adding that the whole process has been “really impressive”.

This Morning's Butcher's Bill

Covid-19 deaths will exceed US losses in the Vietnam War sometime early next week.

Covid-19 data from Worldmeters.

Paper Plates and Plastic Glasses

Social distancing is possible for restaurant servers.   It might be inconvenient for the served.

Restaurants in Georgia next week pic.twitter.com/bQQ10uEdBL

— The Resistance 🇺🇸 (@NightlyPolitics) April 23, 2020

Coronavirus In The Other Room

Is your cat plotting your demise?  I can't answer that, but I can say that it's unlikely that the Covid-19 will be the weapon.  Covid-19 has shown up in domestic cats, dogs, mice, horses, even tigers.  The likely vector of these transmissions were infected humans.  It is also highly unlikely that any of these animals would pass the virus on to humans.  

Coronaviruses are notoriously indiscriminate infectors. The number of different coronaviruses that exist in the wild number in at least the hundreds, with most likely inhabiting the bodies of bats. On the whole, members of this large family of viruses seem very capable of frequent hops into new species, including humans, making recent detections of SARS-CoV-2 in non-human animals somewhat unsurprising, says Linda Saif, a virologist and animal coronavirus expert at Ohio State University...

The felines most at risk, Sykes says, are probably those in the company of sick owners, who may be exposing their pets to high quantities of viral particles. Even then, infection isn’t a guarantee. Another recent study, which has yet to be published in a peer-reviewed journal, found no evidence of the virus in a group of cats and dogs that had spent several weeks cooped up with several SARS-CoV-2-infected humans...

There’s also no evidence that infected cats can shuttle the virus into humans, Sykes says. And while the researchers behind the new Science study noted that cat-to-cat transmission was possible in confined laboratory spaces, these artificial settings are poor proxies for the natural world, she says. Just because an animal can harbor a virus in its body doesn’t mean it will be good at spreading the pathogen.

Unhinged Crazy Uncle Finds Immediate Validation

Today during the daily Your Crazy Uncle Says Stuff show, the United State's crazy uncle mused about attacking the coronavirus in humans through both UV light and strong disinfectants.  He suggested that doctors might find a way to inject both the light and the chemicals directly into our bodies.

   Maybe by looking directly into the sun! pic.twitter.com/Y3QKJzW5ei

— KS #WATON #FSFA #FBPE 🏴‍☠️🇪🇺🐟🖐 (@Shieldmaid8) April 23, 2020

Trump's MAGA brain trust took to Twitter to validate his new found wisdom.

Trumpian Twitter hearing the news in real time 😐 pic.twitter.com/k17CiiXcho

— my test guinea (@stacyhere) April 23, 2020

I Don't Think That Word Means What You Think It Does

Is it any wonder that Tump thinks these MAGA fascists are "very responsible people?"

When Can Our Cats Get Back to Work?

It would be nice to get out of the house for a while.