Syrah 5/15/2020 6:48:39 AM

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How creepy is this lockdown getting?

https://www.wethegoverned.com/governor-inslees-informant-army-heres-the-snitch-list/

lucius septimius 5/15/2020 7:53:17 AM

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buzzsawmonkey 5/15/2020 8:05:27 AM

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Reply to lucius septimius in 2:

Someone putting the quease in your cuisine?

lucius septimius 5/15/2020 8:21:05 AM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 3:

Dunno.

To be honest, I've felt out of sorts for about two months.

JCM 5/15/2020 8:22:10 AM

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Up to midnight troubleshooting a database issue.

Figured out the problem.... not sure yet on the solution.

Email out to FAE (Field Application Engineer)

JCM 5/15/2020 8:22:39 AM

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Reply to Syrah in 1:

Apply with King Inslee to be a Stukach now!

doppelganglander 5/15/2020 8:33:23 AM

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Reply to lucius septimius in 4:

Digestive problems, mood problems, other things? Every time they come up with weird new COVID-19 symptoms, I wonder what else it might cause in some people. 

lucius septimius 5/15/2020 8:37:55 AM

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Reply to doppelganglander in 7:

To be honest, I just feel beat up.

Occasional Reader 5/15/2020 8:55:27 AM

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doppelganglander 5/15/2020 9:00:35 AM

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Reply to lucius septimius in 8:

You have plenty of non-COVID reasons for that. I do think you should be tested, though, because your mom is high risk - honestly,  I'm surprised her doctor didn't insist on it. 

Syrah 5/15/2020 9:23:54 AM

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Reply to JCM in 6:

for all of those people who said and would say, “it can’t happen here.”  Well, here it is. It is happening. This is how easy it is to slide into a “Dr Zhivago” nightmare.

Inslee’ goal of creating an “Army” of contact tracers, using cell phone data to track people and having to report our names, phone numbers and email addresses for going to a restaurant is getting police state, stalker creepy.

Syrah 5/15/2020 9:26:09 AM

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There are a lot of small businesses that exist on the very edge of profitability. 

This extended shutdown is going to wipe a lot of people out.

JCM 5/15/2020 9:31:54 AM

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Reply to Syrah in 11:

When I go to a restaurant my name is Bob Ferguson my phone number is (360) 753-6200

Syrah 5/15/2020 9:33:54 AM

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Yesterday, I noticed that one of our local auto parts store has closed up for good.

i was in there just days before the shutdown. My brother needed to buy some battery cables for a used car he had just bought. They were busy. We had to wait line for service.

they had been here for 35 years  it was the kind of place where people posted pictures of their car projects on the wall, from hot rods and race cars to refurbished antiques  

Yesterday, their windows were papered over and the sign out front explained why.

buzzsawmonkey 5/15/2020 10:03:25 AM

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Reply to Syrah in 14:

I believe I floated some of my ideas for the creation of a New Homestead Act, and for "urban wagon trains" as a means of encouraging private-sector revitalization of economically devastated inner-city areas, some months before Virus Madness hit. 

The idea was to encourage groups of talented people to "pioneer" some of these areas with the idea of being able to build new neighborhoods and obtain homesteads by putting in some years of work.

I'm beginning to wonder whether such ideas could be enacted, not on a federal level, but by consortiums of "red states," to improve their areas particularly by opening up their states and luring entrepreneurs who want to escape the strictures being imposed by the Democrat governors and mayors in places like New York, Illinois and Michigan.  Such an initiative might cause a huge population, commercial and talent shift that would reshape the entire country.

doppelganglander 5/15/2020 10:05:10 AM

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In #11 Syrah said: This is how easy it is to slide into a “Dr Zhivago” nightmare.

If anyone forces me to allow strangers to live in my house because I have spare bedrooms, I'll burn the place down. That's the scene in Dr. Zhivago that sends me over the edge.

doppelganglander 5/15/2020 10:08:25 AM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 15:

As long as they pledge to vote red, that would be awesome. Unfortunately, they'll just bring blue state problems with them. And I say that as a Yankee carpetbagger. 

buzzsawmonkey 5/15/2020 10:33:37 AM

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vxbush 5/15/2020 10:44:32 AM

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In #18 buzzsawmonkey said: Goober-natorial loon Andrew Cuomo has extended his Kill New York order to the middle of June.

The data absolutely does not support that. They are way down on the curve. This is now criminal behavior. 

buzzsawmonkey 5/15/2020 10:47:38 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 19:

Data?  He ain't got no data.  He don't need no data.  He don't have to show you no steenking data!

buzzsawmonkey 5/15/2020 11:11:37 AM

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Interesting.  Got an email notification yesterday that a longtime prof at my school had passed away from coronavirus.

Got a correction email today that he had, in fact, died not from coronavirus but from a heart attack.  

Maybe the false death reportage in NYC is beginning to crack around the edges.

Occasional Reader 5/15/2020 1:05:36 PM

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In #18 buzzsawmonkey said: Goober-natorial loon Andrew Cuomo has extended his Kill New York order to the middle of June.

It's become a fetish for the Left.  Truly.  

Even beyond the "power-mad" aspect in the case of a Governor, they just seem to now derive some sort of kinky thrill from this whole thing. 

lucius septimius 5/15/2020 2:03:06 PM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 22:

Peggy Noonan's column today (and I rarely read her any more since she became an Obamunist) bemoaned the class conflict over the shut downs.  And for once I agreed with her.  She put the onus entirely on the "protected" classes and their (1) willful ignorance of the plight of ordinary people, and (2) condescension towards the same. The conclusion was surprisingly blunt:

Meanwhile some governors are playing into every stereotype of “the overclass.” On Tuesday Pennsylvania’s Tom Wolf said in a press briefing that those pushing against the shutdown are cowards. Local officials who “cave in to this coronavirus” will pay a price in state funding. “These folks are choosing to desert in the face of the enemy. In the middle of a war.” He said he’ll pull state certificates such as liquor licenses for any businesses that open. He must have thought he sounded uncompromising, like Gen. George Patton. He seemed more like Patton slapping the soldier. No sympathy, no respect, only judgment.

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer called anti-lockdown demonstrations “racist and misogynistic.” She called the entire movement “political.” It was, in part—there have been plenty of Trump signs, and she’s a possible Democratic vice presidential nominee. But the clamor in her state is real, and serious. People are in economic distress and worry that the foundations of their lives are being swept away. How does name-calling help? She might as well have called them “deplorables.” She said the protests may only make the lockdowns last longer, which sounded less like irony than a threat.

Occasional Reader 5/15/2020 2:22:39 PM

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"Was it "over" when the Italians bombed Harwich*?!  Hell, no! And it ain't over now! 'Cause when the going gets tough... the tough get going! Who's with me? Let's go!"

-Winston "Bluto" Churchill

* hat tip: Insty