Here’s what a smart Trump would have done:
- Two months of hard containment in NYC, Washington, parts of Florida, and other hotspots to knock the epidemic back down to manageable levels. This is not going to be easy; the Chinese closed off Wuhan when it was at just 400 official cases, and the total number of cases still ended up expanding twentyfold. Nonetheless, the US does have the advantage of knowing much more about the coronavirus now than the Chinese did back in January, and of being a car-centric culture living predominantly in suburbia, which makes containment, all else equal, much easier.
- During this period, massively ramp up testing and monitoring, mask production, legally mandated mask wearing (as opposed to spreading misinformation about it), mobile messaging to warn people they had contacts with COVID-19 carriers, etc. – that is, all the things that have already become standard in China and South Korea, and which a putatively First World nation such as the US should be able to pull off as well.
- The economy will take a sharp dive in Q2, that’s now practically unavoidable (incidentally, I predicted as much a month ago). But it will then rapidly recover in the runup to November (China is reopening its economy right about now; the US can do it in May/June).
- Money printer go brrr! In the meantime, pay 75% of unemployed people’s former salaries (up to some limit) like a multitude of West European countries are doing. Reform America’s draconian sick leave laws. Even institute some kind of pandemic-limited UBI, outflanking the Democrats on the left. At a minimum, this would have brought in at least some of the Bernie Bros disillusioned with their boomers picking Biden for them. In the best scenario, it would have allowed Trump to finish off Conservatism Inc. and forge a new national, socially-oriented Trumpist consensus that transcends current ideological and demographic divisions.
Just a week ago, many of these ideas seemed realistic, even imminent. The collapse in GDP and employment was going to be a shock, but one that Trump’s legions of propagandists on FOX and MAGA Twitter could ascribe to Corona-chan and the Chicoms without too many problems (at least it’s working to date, with 53% of Americans approving of Trump’s handling of the Corona crisis).
Overall, things were looking up, but then, Trump was like:
So back to work you go, peons. Mammon needs you!
Our people want to return to work. They will practice Social Distancing and all else, and Seniors will be watched over protectively & lovingly. We can do two things together. THE CURE CANNOT BE WORSE (by far) THAN THE PROBLEM! Congress MUST ACT NOW. We will come back strong!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 24, 2020
This is really quite remarkable. Unless he changes course, imminently, Trump has just signed his political death warrant:
- He has presided over an almost uniquely botched response to COVID-19, and abandoning containment measures now will ensure it becomes much, much bigger – potentially 100,000’s of deaths, no matter how many snake oil cures Trump peddles.
- Literal decimation of his demographic base (silents and boomers). How’s Florida looking?
- After a few days toying with with UBIs and other social support measures, the decision has been to stick with the same ol’ crony bailouts that sank the GOP in 2008.
This is like that trolley problem ethical dilemma, except here the choice is between saving people or the trolley. The MAGA people have opted for the trolley.
Thing is, they won’t even save the trolley. Here’s what’s gonna happen, Jack.
- New cases are going to peak two weeks after the start of containment measures in NY and Washington.
- The Big Brains around Trump will see that, use it as justification to reopen the economy.
- The MAGA cultists will proclaim “Mission Accomplished.”
- Two weeks after that, the epidemic will take off again, prolonging the recession through all the way to November (who’s going to the restaurants or on cruises with the bodies piling up?).
- Counter-examples of states that successfully contain COVID-19 and then proceed to recover economically, not just in Asia but by then in much of Europe, will throw Trump’s failures into stark relief.
- Far out scenario: Blue states may outright defy Trump on abandoning containment measures, in which case they too would be doing starkly better than Red states (unless it also sparks a Constitutional crisis into the bargain).
Tx Lt Gov Dan Patrick says grandparents would be willing to die to save the economy for their grandchildren pic.twitter.com/wC3Ngvtsbj
— Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew_lawrence) March 24, 2020
If he really wants to go down this road, Trump had better start working on that casus belli with China fast – or even Biden’s corpse will beat him by 10% points come November.
Please keep off topic posts to the current Open Thread.
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Trump probably thought that with an economy humming along, stock markets high and low unemployment, he was going to cakewalk back into the white house for another 4 years. Now, that’s all changed and he’s vulnerable to much criticism and political attacks. He needs to slow down and think this one through better, think of what’s best for the country – I don’t know whether this is possible for him or not? His shooting off at the mouth without thinking might finally catch up with him.
So the Right wants Boomers to die to keep graph going up, and the Left wants Boomers to die so their bank account balance goes up. When are we going to get rid of these psychotic morons from power?
You’ve been more correct than me on this (though other than vastly underestimating First World White incompetence, overestimating spread in tropics, and not understanding the whole hospital capacity and shortages of basic medical supplies issues, I haven’t been wrong on anything, and correctly predicted the New York disaster to boot). But I do say I side more with Trump than with you here. Compensating the job creators is cheaper and more effective than massive compensation to workers, the lockdown should ideally last about 2-3 weeks before resorting to Korea-type test&trace, due to climate improving and vastly expanded testing cases are unlikely to take off again, and flattening rather than nuking the curve after the peak shouldn’t be too much of a disaster.
Possibly true, but I think it’d be more of a mixed bag. The blue states want to reopen, too, and don’t want to nuke their economies.
This whole idea that grandparents should die to improve the economy for their grandchildren rings so comically false to me given how cucked our ecomony is, how much forced wealth transfer there is to non-genetically related peoples.
I have a better proposal: let’s stop the gibs – period. That ought to provide the grandkids with a pretty nice economic cushion. We might be able to turn this shutdown into an annual month-long paid vacation, or come up with some nice birth incentives.
You undermine your credibility making so many specific predictions without hedging much. I suspect in a month you will admit this prediction was wrong. This situation is highly dynamic at this stage. The easy part of the forecast is now past
Nothing says “serious, sober analysis” like a dumb Coronachan meme before the post.
You have a weird interpretation of Trump’s tweet. He is calling on the Congress to pass his stimulus – which presumably contains a lot of the money printer go brrr stuff that you like. And he is absolutely right when he says “Our people want to return to work.” They do.
You have this honest, intelligent take on something that goes against what I think would be your preferred outcomes, but you keep to your simpleton HBD (the Ancient Greek IQ and reasons for Northern European late development are two I recently saw that are just totally sophomoric),.. I don’t get it.. and you’re even a “chorni zhopa” yourself to boot. Ni panimayu…
Good one. Agree. Thanks, AK.
fyi: St. Louis mortality distribution of Spanish flu epidemic was bi-modal. The second peak, stronger than the first one, occurred because of chamber of commerce pressure to lift the quarantine.
This may explain the Italian numbers with Covid 19.
Watch video at 47:30
https://youtu.be/Ig-Ty0ltY6k?t=2845
But if that malaria drug in combination with something else works trump will seem like a genius. Or like an idiot savant. I’ve read anecdotal stuff that it has been working with doctors in NY these last days.
Trump has an animal instinct that aligns with regular joes that has kept him from totally sinking so far, even if most of what he says is bait and switch. And this is coming from someone that would love to see him gone in 2021.
This is good for Russia, no? Trumpian strategy will inflict maximum damage to USA, allowing the infection to spread unhindered, and then Biden will put the country in lockdown. Bailouts to corrupt companies and FED moneyprinting will ensure dollar crash and spectacular economic implosion several years down the line.
What will be American debt to GDP ratio by the end of this year? Does anyone in US care anymore? They’ll have significantly smaller economy and trillions of new debt.
Trump is obviously correct that people need to return to work.
The problem for this, is a simple issue of lack of equipment – just people don’t have enough PPE to do what he wants, while killing the epidemic at the same time.
If every worker has gendine-coated gloves, full face respirators with P100 filters and voice diaphragm, and some hygiene training – then the economy could almost go back to normal (except eating in restaurants and things where you have to open your mouth).
With adequate equipment, the epidemic would die, while people were working at the same time. You can to the cinema with a respirator, you can go shopping, you can go to the office. It’s not nearly as inconvenient as people seem to think – after a century of R&D in them, the high quality ones are now very comfortable and light, with clear visors, and easy ability to speak. (There’s few jobs you couldn’t easily do in Dräger FPS 7000, Scott Promask, etc).
“Dulce et Decorum Est Pro GDP Mori!” Haha! At least some of us remember the classics.
Many potentially valid points. Some other points:
Alexander Hamilton – a famous opponent of free trade – once said, “Who would console themselves to the loss of an arm, with the consolation that they can buy their shirts for 40% cheaper?” Of course, the average American didn’t get 40% cheaper – check out drug prices lately? – but we sure did lose our arms, that is, we lost our ability to actually do things in our own defense.
It boils down to pension funds vs pensioners. If stock markets are not up soon, whatever old people are not killed by the virus would need to be run over with tanks on the streets once their pension checks stop arriving.
That said, UBI and fund bailout would have been a smarter way to go – printing money for this is easy. As it stands, anybody going to work would need to resolve to not contact anybody over 60 years old. not sure this is an option for many people.
Also, there will not be a sharp recovery after this, at least not without massive money money printing for the consumer ($5 trillion or more allocated for UBI). Service economies are like buying haircuts. If you experience hardship and have to go without haircut for 6 months, once your fortune improves, you will not go out and buy six haircuts you missed out on – you will only buy one. This will be a problem for GDP recovery. While workers or capital are not very important in modern economy, consumption must be sustained at all costs. No consumer = no economy.
No. Money is just a digital token that can be created (and destroyed) in any quantity required. Worrying about debt is like worrying about gold in your World of Warcraft account – you can if it makes you feel good, but it is not necessary. All this concern trolling about balanced budgets and the deficit is a show to make capital exporters feel good while they transfer their goods and services to the US. But really, capital exporters have no choice – US military is there to ensure that their debts are denominated in USD, and so is their trade.
Infinite amounts of debt can be financed at 0% or negative interest rates. People say American banks won’t allow negative rates because it will kill them. That is true. This is a battle we will need to win when we get there – Goldman Sachs and Friends vs Federal Government. It will be tricky since Goldman Sachs and Friends own Federal Government, but there won’t be a choice really. Big banks will need to be automated and nationalized. Given prevalence of algorithmic trading, we are mostly there already.
This take is so completely, 180 degrees wrong, it’s almost perfect. Even the periods and commas are wrong. Please encase this in glass so it can be displayed in the Museum of Wrongness.
There are a lot of people who want whatever Trump tells them to want. He could tell them they should cheer as he f**** their wife. They’d do it.
Would the number of obese Americans and drug addicts make the vulnerable number higher?
Is Karlin a Russian nationalist though? America imploding would be what any true nationalist wants, he seems to be more happy with the current status quo.
No they can’t, if your country starts approaching Zimbabwe levels of financial responsibility then there is only one way it can end. Even if the US military held a gun to every person in the worlds head to use the US dollar, the underlying worthlessness of the dollar would still not convince people.
pro producto toto domestico
Fortunately, two out of three words are Latin already. 🙂
That must be why the dollar is plummeting right now………….
“No consumer = no economy.”
No truer words — pity elites don’t get it….
Whoops, sorry, they do get it, their answer is DEBT….
Perhaps you would care to be more specific ?
With muh US military in full bitch-ass retreat in ME and Afghanistan, nobody is especially scared. Those still scared can turn to other players, which are ready and willing to welcome them into the fold.
^_^
And it
s not even a real UBI, but a sort of a tax credit/loan, which youll have to pay back later anyway, with margin on top.You are correct.
At some point the dollar supply & its value re other currencies could become so out of wack that people would simply refuse to use it/accept it.
Theoretically i suspect, it could be anytime — given the right economic/political circumstances.
You gonna elaborate or just leave us guessing?
Things cannot keep on going on this trajectory, there is simply no way. The people hoarding dollars are the equivalent to the people hoarding toilet paper, this is collective stupidity and not a sign of what should be done.
Putin doing his thing.
https://www.zerohedge.com/health/watch-putin-dons-hazmat-suit-rare-visit-covid-19-patients
(Cross-posted comment)
Actually, I wonder whether Trump will really go ahead with that proposal…
Easter Sunday is April 12th, 18 days from now.
If you consider the implied rate of current infections based upon current death-rates, you get some interesting results:
https://www.unz.com/runz/correctly-estimating-coronavirus-infections/
For example, I think roughly 200,000 to 250,000 NY residents are currently infected, a figure vastly higher than the official total. If that’s the case, I wouldn’t be surprised if the New York death rate has reached 500 per day by Easter, perhaps even 1,000 per day. Indeed, if the local health system has collapsed by then, those might be major underestimates.
If 1,000 New Yorkers are dying each day by Easter, maybe even Trump’s Wall Street friends will try to persuade him to change his mind about ending the national lockdown…
I suspect Karlin is something akin to a Russian liberal, he dislikes the USSR which essentially means he supports the American position on Russia. Despite some of its blunders, the Soviet regieme was direct opposition to American globohomo, the negative influences of capitalism on the psyche, etc. I fear “based Russia” wont survive after Putins era as much of the Duma is replaced by younger SWPLs reissiting their parents traditions
In any case, what this means if you have any serious holdings of cash or liquid assets, it is time to consider trading it for hard assets, like the 3 G’s … Gold, Ground, and Guns.
The Uruk Hai will sacrifice whatever is necessary to please the old god Na’s’Daq
Dollars, society, economy are all mental constructs, they don’t really exist. In that way toilet paper is different, it is tangible, it exists.
We live in a mental world that we create and psychological rules apply: once we create something and get used to it, it cannot be discarded at will. In that way ‘dollars’ are safe, people see them as ‘money’ and we can’t comprehend a world without money. Thus we can’t comprehend a world without dollars unless something else steps up to replace it (not gold for god’s sake).
People hoard valuables in times of crisis – they will hoard dollars. Why not? What exactly would be an alternative?
It will not play out the way Trump plans and wants. Or his Wall Street friends. We are still in early stages, in the relatively pleasant early phase before the contradictions, hard choices and consequences accumulate.
The number of infected in NY is substantially higher than quarter million, but what matters is that most of them will have no serious symptoms. This is a bad flu, but it has triggered an unraveling around the world and that could only happen if the circumstances were already right for it to start to unravel.
By April 12 people could be dancing in the street in a post-corona euphoria, or they could be hiding in basements. It is largely up to them, it is a choice that the society will make and have to live with the consequences. There is no fate.
The people who did this are traitors to the highest degree. And yes, the majority of them are white men.
Keeping out foreigners and fighting the fed to own Cheeto Hitler.
It looks like the real mortality of coronachan is 0.5%, compared with 0.1 average for flu. Big enough to overwhelm ICUs but not big enough to make an economic impact, until morons shut down the economy.
Sure, nothing would have happened if WHO and CDC and Trump would have pushed for strict quarantine of China in early January when this would have mattered, but they say it’s somehow impossible to stop a virus from crossing the Pacific but it is possible to stop it spreading down a city block.
Such is life in a corrupt idiocracy.
With Soviet Coronavirus first born sacrifices YOU to Mammon.
Maybe it won’t be so bad for most parts of the country. Seattle was due to get as bad as Lombardy seven days ago. It doesn’t look that way based on the death trend. For comparison Lombardy went from 37 to around 100 from March 2 to March 5. In two Seattle counties, there are 110 deaths. It’s not because of aggressive containment. On Sunday, Seattle had the weakest mitigation measures among the earliest hit US cities. Seattle is also doing a pitiful job of testing. Maybe the virus is not so contagious outside of a specific set of conditions. However, NYC is not doing well.
That’s kind of what we’ve basically been doing for the last several decades or so.
You don’t need to be convinced when you are coerced. It buys the oil in dollars or else it gets the hose again.
This can go on for a lot longer than people think. First off, while reserve currency is not really needed today (we have this thing called Internet now where relative values of currency pairs can be tracked in real time without the need for 3rd party intermediate such as USD), foreign people can’t let go of the concept, and they want USD. This will continue for some time, and as such, they will need USD regardless of US domestic policy. US is an Empire, and as such, the rest of the world economies will burn before US economy is really threatened. Like Beckow said, it may not be a physical need, but a psychological need nevertheless.
More fundamentally though, hyperinflation generally requires three things:
Supply chain collapse (Weimar – loss of German Empire and industrial districts, Zimbabwe – replacement of competent white farmers with incompetent blacks, Venezuela – foolish factory nationalizations and failure to invest in oil company maintenance, Russia – new borders cutting off goods flow and government failure to support markets).
Worker wages going up. If toilet paper costs a wheelbarrow of money, some consumer must have a wheelbarrow of money to set this price.
How does this play out in the US:
Barring Civil War, supply chain collapse is not realistic either. Ironically, US is a service economy, haircuts do not require complex supply chains, so even a Civil War will have minimal impact on haircut prices.
US wages have gone nowhere in the past 20 years, and will continue to stagnate due to automation. When Hair Salon lady demands $1,000,000/hr in wages, she will be replaced with $20 buzz cut clippers working for 2 cents worth of electricity. Robots don’t care about money, and their cost is approaching near zero. Commodities are also dirt cheap. This is why hyperinflation is impossible in a modern economy. Technology is massively deflationary.
TLDR: despite USD being printed by the $trillions, hyperinflation is impossible in modern service economy due to robots not caring about currencies. Robots are free because you can simply borrow as much money as needed to buy them. Zero or negative rates take care of repayment. Absent external shocks (nuclear war blowing up automated factories), the future is deflation, and to achieve GDP growth, wage increases can not be counted on. Therefore, direct payments to consumers are required or Depression results.
The thing is that they still have nuclear weapons, and I don’t think anyone doubts they would use them to try to keep their empire. So the question is what is the best way to remove them?
I agree with that – events may well overtake Trump, thus “rescuing” him from his own blunders.
There was a recent article in bloomberg that said the attempts of nations like Russia/China to move away from doing transactions in USD as well as the Europeans trying to develop their own reserve currency is a serious threat to US national security and hegemony. The USD is the basis of US power and is what essentially keeps the US economy afloat. The bloomberg article said that Military Power is necessary to retain the status of the USD as the world’s reserve currency.
My boomer dad made a lot of money on the market in the last 2 days, having put a lot in after the drop. His faith in Trump has not been shaken.
Trump’s approval is at a record high of 49%, with 60% approval of how he is handling the crisis. This may not last if and when the shit hits the fan but so far his position is solid. Biden is nowhere to be seen.
Unions in the UK support the money going to the employers and not the employees. This is because it maintains their mutual relationships, so that employees remain employed post-crisis.
Also, it seems possible that the Wuhan Flu is a mere highly contagious cold and that most data and oddities from it are artefacts of testing (and hysteria) rather than some awful pandemic.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/oxmu2rwsnhi9j9c/Draft-COVID-19-Model%20%2813%29.pdf?dl=0
I don’t know what you are worried about, Biden will be just as loyal to Israel as Trump is.
Then why are there so many more deaths in Lombardy than there were last year?
Source?
https://westhunt.wordpress.com/2020/03/25/just-another-flu-in-bergamo/
No excess deaths in Italy
http://www.euromomo.eu/slices/map_2017_2020.html
14 vs 110, you must admit that is hardly a spectacular viral apocalypse. If China had say 50 million deaths by now that would be cause to worry, but they are clearly not close to such numbers. This is really is a lame “crises”, but if it destroys the US stock markets and economy then I am all for it.
all smart Playboy Playmates should have given me free unlimited blowjobs whenever i wanted. that’s where Hugh Hefner went wrong. not sending them all to me.
Anatoly’s comments make about as much sense at this point. this is the biggest overreaction in the history of the world. the virus has barely affected most states. it’s time to go back to work.
leave the actual decision making to the adults, internet pundit guys. no, you weren’t right. no, you weren’t ahead of the curve. yes, you are just twitter snark posters and yes, you were wrong this time. Ramzpaul is correct, you guys are not. strangely, he also has a real life, job, and kids, you guys don’t. funny how that happens so often. your exponential growth models were horseshit.
the real issue right now is that the US is on civil war footing. the Democrats see that the country is about to break and they’re making their move. shutting down entire states without any authority. shutting down any business they want. going after firearms. letting prisoners out of jail, but threatening to put you in jail if you ‘break quarantine’. Pelosi and Schumer seeking 1 trillion in pork for their voters and permanently changing the US social landscape with laws that have nothing to do with virus response.
who gives a shit about New York City? that’s not the entire country. what? i’m supposed to care what happens to 10 million Democrats 1000 miles away? my life hinges on what 10 million Trump haters in a city that produces NOTHING are doing?
WHO THE FUCK CARES.
there’s 300 million people NOT IN NEW YORK CITY and they make the country run.
most states can go about their normal business now. if New York City vanished tomorrow, we’d be hugely better off.
Escape From New York their asses if it’s that bad. build a wall around that cancer of America and let them deal with it for 2 months while the rest of us get on with it. stop every dumb fucking one of these New York City assholes from getting on a flight to Florida.
there’s like 12 Americans left there anyway. it’s a foreign city. who cares what happens there.
An increase of the death rate (by all causes) ten times? Seems pretty big to me…..
Hard to say.
Biden is clearly losing it upstairs. OTOH, there is a logic to keeping a low profile now. The obvious one – minimizing chances of contracting Corona – as well as disassociating from growing debacle.
Trump’s approval rating is meaningless. As Michael Tracey recently noted, G.W. Bush’s was 70% on the eve of the Iraq War.
Well, Bush only lost because of the fluke Perot candidacy. With Perot in, his loss was inevitable.
Like I said when we are talking about millions dead then it could be something, but 14 vs 110 is nothing. I would bet that if one looks at last 20 years you will find patterns of 10, 50, 100, 20, 15,… occurring.
Trump doesn’t actually expect the economy to reopen before Easter. It won’t. But having head-faked in that direction, while “the experts” shouted nooooooooo, can any political opponent later say that if Trump hadn’t shutdown the economy, this whole thing wouldn’t have been a big problem?
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/donald-trump-fifth-avenue-comment/
“Literal decimation of his demographic base (silents and boomers). How’s Florida looking?”
Decimation means 1 of 10 being killed.
So far this disease has racked up a measly 4000.
Yawn. Wake me up when it is 400k. Even then it won’t decimate his base.
Corona-Chan  gave her blessings to the 37-year-old British deputy ambassador and took him to her bosom. No other illnesses or pre-existing conditions were mentioned, though he looked very slightly on the overweight side, or at least a bit soft. I’m sure thirty-something diplomats routinely die of the flu, so it’s no big deal anyway.
https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2020/03/25/18/steven-dick.jpg
The shutdown probably saved lots of lives from traffic accidents and perhaps even the regular seasonal flu. But here’s the catch — it saved lives all around the country. The coronavirus deaths are concentrated in a small area. So we’ll be able to make lower boundary estimates of the number of people who would’ve died of the coronavirus without a shutdown, plus the number saved from other causes. The fact that the lockdown saves lives from other causes is an argument for it, not against it.
G.W. Bush, not H.W.:
https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1242846144339881984
More directly ironic case:
https://twitter.com/Yascha_Mounk/status/1242657146392784896
Do old people even vote Republican in NYC, Seattle, and California?
Not all old white people are voting Republican. A solid 1/3 are still Dems. I’d assume the tend to be very wealthy and living in super zips, like Pelosi.
So far it appears that the virus is hitting the Dem areas the hardest.
He just looks like a soft individual. He wouldn’t have survived childhood in the pre-vaccine, pre-antibiotics era.
Out of the millions of people who contract the flue each year, many have a similar profile to that poor chap and a number of those also die.
Perhaps millions already have Wuhan Flu, even as many as half of the UK population:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/oxmu2rwsnhi9j9c/Draft-COVID-19-Model%20%2813%29.pdf?dl=0
And therefore the ICU wards, unusually full of viral pneumonia and ARDS patients, while worrying, are just the very unlucky tip of a very mild disease that is only caught by tests in the more extreme (or famous) cases. It would certainly explain many of the oddities seen around the world in differential rates of progression, mortality and spread.
Out of the millions of people who contract the flu each year, many have a similar profile to that poor chap and a number of those also die.
Perhaps millions already have Wuhan Flu, even as many as half of the UK population:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/oxmu2rwsnhi9j9c/Draft-COVID-19-Model%20%2813%29.pdf?dl=0
And therefore the ICU wards, unusually full of viral pneumonia and ARDS patients, while worrying, are just the very unlucky tip of a very mild disease that is only caught by tests in the more extreme (or famous) cases. It would certainly explain many of the oddities seen around the world in differential rates of progression, mortality and spread.
Your use of the word “fact” is sorely lacking.
Technically speaking, though, if Iraq didn’t go down the shitter in 2003-2004, Bush’s victory margin in 2004 would have probably been larger–perhaps even much larger–than it was in real life.
The fact that the lockdown saves lives from other causes is an argument for it, not against it.
As I have been saying all along, the coronavirus is very likely to end up saving a sigificant number of lives — and the lives saved are primarily younger people with 30-40 years life expectancy at least, while those dying probably have life expectancy of 1-2 years at most. So there is likely to be a pronounced positive effect on overall life expectancy, rather than Karlin’s projected 2.5 year “permanent decline” in the US.
So why not make the lockdown permanent? By banning cars at night, for example, one would reduce traffic deaths by up to 50%. And who really needs to go out at night? And of course, we are already reducing deaths from influenza drastically: the CDCs statistics support the assertion that the measures taken against coronavirus have reduced deaths from flu in the US by 10,000 so far this year, a figure that will almost certainly continue to rise in the coming weeks.
And think of the benefits for the canals in Venice, which are the cleanest they have been for a century, if not longer.
I wonder if he could be gay.
I suppose “deputy” makes him kind of a minor official, but since it is Hungary, I can imagine that they could use a deputy to signal that Hungary should turn gay. And gays probably tend to a certain politics anyhow, so it is a badge of loyalty to globohomo.
@Anatoly: Have you ever considered the possibility that, at least for the US, coronavirus or not, the US economy was already overdue for a recession either way? I mean, the last US recession ended in 2009 if I recall correctly, and that was over a decade ago! We were already in the longest non-stop economic expansion in US history (even beating out the golden 1990s), if I recall correctly.
Three days ago, a 28-year old employee of the International Monetary Fund suggested that the cost social distancing is exacting “on the economy” might be more important than “the human aspect of the disease.”
Not to be unduly skeptical, but can someone please identify where this 28-year old employee made this reference? If one does a Google search using the terms “on the economy” and “the human aspect of the disease”, all of the results one finds refer to this twitter reference. Same thing when I search Twitter.
I note also that there is no reference on the IMF website to the recent death of an employee from coronavirus, which one would expect to see.
As of two hours ago CNN is reporting a total of 2 deaths in DC, and from other sources one can easily confirm that the second death was three days ago (a 65 year-old woman with underlying health conditions). It is of course possible that he died in DC or Maryland, or perhaps he was on holiday somewhere. But in any event, it should be easy to identify him, especially since the press is all over cases of young people dying from coronavirus (“proof that the coronavirus does not discriminate by age”, etc.).
Yes, but I was expecting it to be a mild one, and in 2021-22. And I was expecting Trump to win. https://twitter.com/akarlin88/status/1214011597645131776
The gargantuan outbreak of New York is flooding New Jersey. It may get out of control.
If most Britons are infected, then that means COVID-19 actually has a crazy high r0 and it’s impossible to control its spread. Which begs the question, then, of how exactly we are seeing hotspots at all, instead of the entire world becoming Feb!Wuhan. How does the paper explain that?
I believe this is what those tweets were referring to:
https://en.dailypakistan.com.pk/25-Mar-2020/pakistan-army-officer-s-son-dies-of-covid-19-in-us
And it seems the deceased was 26, not 28.
Trump successfully pressurred the Fed to lower interest rates, because the alternative was stagnation or worse. Hence, the downturn started almost a year ago, when rate cuts started for “apparent” no reasoon. You would have thought that Trump and his sycophants at the Fed would have calculated the support to just enough appearance of growth until US elections. But Trump went greedy and got to near-zero interest before the first lockdown in Jew Rochelle.
Covid has nothing to do with the drop in Fed rates.
Now, Trump will blame all his failures on the China virus and on the Deep State Department. Americans are still far richer than what their IQ would allow for. (Most of them would die of hunger if taken to Romania.) So they will afford to be gullible once more.
I never thought that Bush Jr, who sent thousands of Americans to die for Israel, would be reelected. So why would Americans be smarter this time?
It is a short paper but you can skip to Figure 3. Their model works back from actual deaths. It then adjusts R0 and the proportion of the population likely vulnerable to severe disease to infer, within plausible boundaries, how many infections there probably already are and when the infections began.
As for why the whole world isn’t Wuhan in February, who knows? It seems that it might get that way of everywhere has as great conditions as Wuhan does for the spread of respiratory illnesses (cold, dry weather, a population who loves to crowd and spit everywhere.) The paper though would imply that Wuhan resolved of its own accord pretty much, by burning through the population. As for the rest of China – I don’t trust the CCCP much so don’t want to guess from their statements. It also doesn’t increase the R0 from already recognised limits, instead it contends that the initial UK infection was probably a bit earlier than currently reckoned, which makes sense given the many, many Chinese students flying into the UK all of the time.
Quarantining NYC now to prevent contagion is a good idea. Quarantining NYC after the virus to prevent a different kind of contagion would be an even better idea.
Wait, why only the smart ones? Is Karlin a cognitive elitist when it comes to playboy bunnies?
I believe this is what those tweets were referring to
What seems strange is that the only references I can find to his death, which reportedly took place in Washington, DC, are in Pakistani sources. But perhaps I am not looking in the right places, or perhaps tomorrow will see a deluge of such reports from US sources.
Also, of course, he may well have said what he is said to have said, but he doesn’t appear to have said it in any publicly-available manner. But then again, maybe I’m not looking in the right places.
And of course the confirmation that he died in Washington, DC and not suburban Maryland or Virginia is also a bit strange. All sources that I can find (which seem to be well after the Pakistani ones) indicate that there have been only 2-deaths from coronavirus in DC: “a 59-year-old man with a history of medical problems and a 65-year-old woman with underlying medical problems” (Washington Post, 1826 GMT today).
You are wrong about automation. Most people get haircuts so trivial that they could have done it themselves. Most people can pray to gods directly. But they still pay other people to cut their hair, lead their prayers, and suck their dicks.
My favorite example is those untouchable who the richer Indians call to pick up their feces, bare-handed or else.
As long as haircutting, sex, and defecation are intertwined with power games, there will service providers.
Also, automation is impotent. Few things can be done by robots. Their computerized brains are fudging more than ever. Today’s AI is less useful than the expert systems of the seventies, and dumber than the industrial robots that put together cars since the nineties. At least, those are doing one thing.
If?
They already are:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapons_of_the_United_States
My conspiratorial take is that Cuomo’s Covid-19 press conferences are a test balloon/trial run for him to be the surprise nominee at a very strange Dem convention.
Cuomo does seem to be gaining some traction among normies and the reddit hivemind.
Quarantining New York + New Jersey. The cluster is very very large.
Looking at this photo I wouldn’t be surprised if this person had a lousy diet, poor sleep habits, was pre-diabetic, had high blood pressure, and a resting heart rate near 100.
If you think I’m wrong about automation, you are welcome to try and invest in manned mall stores here in US – plenty of retail space available as they are going bust. My bet would be on Amazon and their automated warehouses though.
Automation already eliminated most jobs, if you define a job as activity that generates value. The world is $255 trillion in debt. Whatever it is we are doing when we “work”, we are clearly not generating value. Robots are a lot better at it than we are already.
That is a lot of people.
I wonder how you define “value”. I suppose it must ultimately be defined in terms of “who, whom”.
In which case, perhaps we should focus on who “who” and “whom” might be and how it is that they get to define what is valuable – or why they are excluded from such decisions.
And then perhaps we might drag some of that old rope out of the toolshed.
Very overweight young man without the hand strength to tighten the knot on his tie succumbs to an illness that most typically kills geriatrics already suffering from various other life threatening conditions.
National emergency!
I am trying to figure it out. I know your caplocks key is not broken because you capitalize US and personal names.
So why don’t you use capitals at the start of sentences? Do you like to make your writing more difficult to read? Or are you perhaps related to e.e.cummings?
In any case, I admire anyone who dares to kick against the oppression and tyranny of the orthography establishment. Good for you!
I think that the Corona virus is Trump’s conspiracy. Listen to this train derailment (I mean train of thought): Trump co-engineered the Corona virus – with the Chinese – in order to reduce the numbers of pensioners in the US.
Remember how they like to explain the need for continuous flood of immigrants from the 3rd world, because if they stop doing that, there will be no one to pay for the pensions. Well, if you eliminate the pensioners, then you don’t need continuous arrival of 3rd world hordes in order to pay for the pensions of dead people.
I wonder what excuse the “democrats” will come up with next in order to continue with their mission of hope for the 3rd world – which has led to many, many sleepless nights for these titans of humanism. Basically, this is all just one big Trump conspiracy to get rid of the immigration.
Careful now. Someone will call you a “MAGA cultist.” Anything other than a relentless, obsessive hatred for Americans is unacceptable here in the land of the instant internet expert on everything.
Would someone be so kind as to point out to me where Orange-man-bad has peddled any snake oil cures?
Thanks in advance.
I think that so far the response to the Corona virus outbreak has been one-dimensional. China is especially guilty of this kind of reaction to the Corona virus outbreak. I mean it’s only logical – one party system – one dimensional response. You understand what I’m saying? Total lack of imagination.
The US, on the other hand –multi party (OK, only 2, but they are working on it) system – multi-dimensional response. Everybody thinks that the US doesn’t know how to respond to the virus threat. It’s not like that at all.
Anybody can figure it out how to kill the poor virus, it’s not a big deal. The real genius lies in figuring out how to make money out of it. If anybody has a proven historical track record of how to make money out of unimaginable and totally unrelated situations (wars for example) – then it’s definitely US.
That’s why I think that they have hit a little snag with the virus. They are just trying to figure out how to make money out of this “unpleasant situation”. But this is where it gets tricky. If they find totally legit way to make money out of the virus – that pretty much kills the incentive to get rid of it permanently. Why kill the cash cow (it’s a figure of speech). Either way, expect a very unique and creative way of dealing with the virus by the US.
I am just fucking relieved that I left NYC when I did.
Fucking a. One of the best decisions I ever made.
Fuck Trump, everyone in his administration and all the fucks who thinks killing old people is OK.
That Texas governor deserves a public hanging.
https://youtu.be/Y7nZ4mw4mXw
See Malenfant’s link, plus search his name on Facebook, and you will find his page. Or just go to https://www.facebook.com/rshukr and you will find his post under it. (It’s public.) Until someone will take it down.
Just for the lazy, here’s Malenfant’s link:
https://en.dailypakistan.com.pk/25-Mar-2020/pakistan-army-officer-s-son-dies-of-covid-19-in-us
Many of us wouldn’t. And you cannot really tell based on a photo. I read somewhere that overweight San children (their weights are in a narrower band than with civilized peoples) had a slight disadvantage among the San, but once they moved into a town with Bantus etc., having a little extra weight helped them survive infections. (And they had lots more infections than in the wild.)
There are stories of asthmatic individuals succumbing to Covid-19. But, again, I didn’t think asthma was a lethal illness, not in the 21st century. So?
I would say about 20 kilos overweight, judging from the photo.
Yeah! A Pretty good proposal from the right wingers for achieving their desire of dismantling the “entitlements”. Well he can ask his own old folks to lead the way!
Its effects on the economy make it challenging to coin filthy lucre from it, but no doubt some are looking for a way.
1) Lockdowns cannot last very long. It’s not applicable if it’s endemic, because the lockdown cannot last longer than maybe 3 months.
2) You keep mixing up baseline scenarios with lockdown scenarios, also the endemic scenario with the first initial wave of the epidemic. You need to specify which you are talking about. Please also remember that you have been opposed to lockdowns from the get go. You cannot argue (what you seem to be arguing) that “we don’t need a lockdown, because this virus doesn’t kill anyone with a lockdown.” The 2.5 years was a baseline scenario (unlikely) with specific assumptions, like the CFR staying the same as in China, infecting as many people as the flu, etc. etc. You cannot say that “it will be lower because we will have a lockdown,” because we won’t have a lockdown permanently. Similarly, the LE lowering to 66 from 78 years had a specific condition: if we do nothing.
3) We heard the argument (I think you haven’t been making it, but some others) that “lockdowns kill people, too.” I guess you agree that that argument must be false, too, in light of the data.
4) The epidemic is not affecting (yet) whole countries. In Italy, it’s Lombardy. In Spain, it’s Madrid. So you need regional data. Maybe death rates are high in Lombardy (and super-high in Bergamo) but lower than normal in Sicilian villages (because of fewer traffic accidents, while there’s no epidemic there). As I can provide you links, mortality rates in and around Bergamo (according to the local mayor’s office) are several times higher than in normal times. I guess this goes into the Euromomo preliminary data, so mortality rates must be lower elsewhere. Do you disagree?
5) Statistical data occasionally get revised later on. These are preliminary data.
Sounds like something an English policy analyst might have said about the British Navy in about 1935 (when Britain still had the largest, most potent navy on the planet, and navies mattered).
The US cannot project power against anyone who has half-decent anti-shipping missiles (e.g., Oniks).
Anti-shipping missiles are to aircraft carriers (and guided missile frigates) what carrier-launched aircraft were to battleships and destroyers.
This is why the US takes great pains to ensure that it never provokes anyone enough to make them sink a US carrier.
US ability to jaw-jaw will collapse very shortly after the first US carrier gets sunk: thereafter all its fair-weather camp-followers will switch across to the queue of nations looking to kick the US in the taint.
Define ‘succumb’. Does ‘succumbed‘ mean ‘died of‘?
Or (far more likely given the lack of detail about the identity of the alleged 28 year old bureaucrat) is this Yascha (((???))) ① trying to conflate “contracted” with “die from”, or ② making the whole thing up?
Asterisks abound on every OHV (‘otherwise healthy victim’) anecdote: the odds against are simply too high. That’s not to say that the number of OHVs is zero, of course.
To whom?
A closed system cannot be ‘in debt’.
You’re perhaps talking about the liabilities of a subset of the human herd; there is (in fact there must be) an offsetting asset somewhere else.
Well I’ll be. Another military expert on Unz.
The U.S. only appears to be a paper tiger because we choose to follow specific rules of engagement. Take them away and the American military is capable of perhaps unprecedented levels of mass slaughter using conventional weaponry.
… which a putatively [sic] First World nation such as the US should be able to pull off as well.
Since when has the US government solved any nontrivial problem? Certainly not in the last 50 years. I don’t know where your optimism could have come from.
Politics is the Art of the possible.
That’s too much – we known government has all of our details – so it should have quarantined at risk people.
Pensioners and the infirm, and let the rest continue work!
If things will be further going the way it are going now in US, there will be shitload of dead overweight or straight out obese middle aged truckers and farmers, also maybe port workers. In effect, this may increase automation rates because there will be shortage of such workers very soon, whom are not so easily and momentarily replacable.
Automation technologies are almost already there and the biggest hurdle for adopting it en masse so far was fear of losing jobs (e.g. there were protests of port workers in Cali when port companies tried to fully automate ports and even some kind of legislative ban followed, if I’m not mistaken) and this fear will be removed altogether as job holders will be losing not just jobs, but their own lives and working health in droves from SARS 2.0.
Yeah, just like in prison how inmates hoard cigarettes instead of money. Will we soon be trading toilet paper for blow-jobs? That’d be a trip! Then I’d get to choose between wiping my own ass and having some other dude toss my salad! 😀
I think that A123 is afraid that Biden will attack the wrong country for him.
Actually, they’re disproportionately (((white))) men.
US military strength mainly comes not from the soldiers but the engineers. It might not be difficult to persuade the soldiers to behave beastly, but it will let down most of the engineers if without a good cause. You seem to think the Rules of Engagement is just a bad burden, but it actually has a purpose.
On a related note, Poppy Bush’s (that is, George H.W.’s) approval rating was around 90% immediately after Desert Storm in 1991, and he still lost re-election the following year.
the 3 rocks are flying through space and will flash light on the earths inhabitants.a bright light unlike anything seen before and then we shall all ask.
who are we that walk as kings and devour all the gifts of life.
stop sucking upto trump.
The “flight into the dollar” is a sentiment caused by the the somewhat lower probability of being bombed by the Usual Suspects. Wait until the seizures (or NIRP) begin.
Medium-term you can no more circumvent productivity than you can the rocket equation or the First Law … IOW look where the physical gold is going – the trade will follow.
-> Opium War 2.0
This is a out Truth, not facts. Also, my kid died of the current epidemic sounds better than he died snorting cocaine of a hooker’s tits.
I’ll take your word for it that about the Facebook post, I don’t use Facebook.
But I am still waiting to see evidence that he died in Washington DC from coronavirus, as reported in Malenfant’s link.
When I checked this morning and discovered that there had indeed been a third death yesterday in DC from coronavirus, I was sure that this must have been referring to our 28 (or 26) year old IMF staffer. But lo and behold, it turns out that the third victim was a “75-year-old female with underlying health conditions”. And as far as I can tell, all of the news reports of his demise still come from Pakistan, doesn’t this strike you as a bit odd if he died in Washington DC, and is a prime “diversity” candidate (in terms of both age and ethnicity) that the press would jump to highlight?
Get real, Karlin.
This whole thing is just being used as a scam to destroy small businesses and make us buy all our crap from Bezos.
https://www.inquirer.com/business/philadelphia-garden-centers-coronavirus-shutdown-big-box-20200326.html
Andrew Cuomo is claiming that 80% of New Yorkers will be infected even with a lockdown. So, what’s the point of a lockdown?
The real point is that corona virus doomers make snarky comment at the deaths of people who preach real caution as opposed to hype.
There’s a word for this, and the word is “troll.”
Having looked at the data for that election, Perot clearly cost H.W. the election.
That said, I would have preferred a Perot presidency to either of those two “New World Order” retards, Bush and Clinton. But Perot didn’t do enough to win. He merely did enough to cause a Bush loss.
The main point is to spread and slow the infection over longer timeframe, because there is huge difference whether 80% will be infected in 1-2 months or over 6-8 months or more.
Also all kinds of GDP fetishists seem to be completely oblivious to human capital costs such as the wealth of a single highly trained proffesional in his sphere of knowledge:
r/Coronavirus/comments/fowy0p/32_prominent_economists_from_both_parties_sign/flhodl5/
H1b and other foreigners continue to replace white Americans even during this crisis.
He did a bad job if this virus is designed for that, because 700, or x,000 whatever the final score is won’t have much of an effect on the overall pension scheme.
Okay, but you’ve just described a quarter or maybe even half of people his age.
No you’re not. The moment you try they’ll stick that ‘conventional weaponry’ up your collective asses and make you squeal.
Spare me. The vast, vast majority of doctors are scummy flunkies who are less intelligent and carry less responsibility than a car mechanic.
Perhaps you would care to give one of your careful analyses to the situation where QE leads to a state where it extends where the assets are principally debt owed by Treasury to the Fed for financing the deficit.
On top the young Pakistani working for the IMF, there was also a 21 year old woman from the UK with no known underlying health conditions (according to relatives, I suppose we will have to wait for an autopsy to see if this was actually the case) who died while being infected with CV.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/health/chloe-middleton-death-coronavirus-buckinghamshire-a4397551.html
Doctor (the good one from the minority of doctors, if you want) was just an example here – the same regarding human cost capital can be said about nuclear/hydro/coal plant operators, engineers/designers/highly qualified operators of real manufacturing sector, truckers, farmers, water/wastewater systems operators/repaimen etc – all those people make the real foundation of any civilised system today. Mass death of lawyers/banksters/politicians/realtors essentially won’t change anything in essence, but those previous people are crucial and must be saved at all costs.
The stock market has been overpriced for years…Covid-19 was the pin that pricked the bubble…it was going to happen anyway.
This is quite crazy to be honest, even alt-media is now inundated with the same crap that legacy media is talking about. Which just goes to show that the latter will always dictate the agenda.
This whole flu panic is manufactured and being used for nefarious purposes.
This is 2020.
Only a psychopath will think this is moral dilemma and pose this as a trolley problem. It is an insane false dichotomy that only white people can come up with. Filial piety is quintessential human emotion that seperate human from animals. It is subhuman to let your grandparents die so you can keep your job and go to a football game. It is totally inconceivable for any Chinese to think in such a manner and no sacrifice is too big to save people’s lives. This is why China shut down, the economy was never even on a consideration. You really have Psychopaths running America or that white Americans are themselves psychopaths. I don’t see any Hispanics or even blacks suggesting such immoral things.
What is the US economy anyway? We get to see its true nature and the fragile sand castle it is. It is a bunch of snowflakes going out and doing some frivolous and unnecessary activities. WTF. It is so myopic since the loss of millions of lives will lower GDP in the long run.
causes belli? China should go on the offensive and take the opportunity and start a preemptive war with America to end this insane regime for the American people.
Please reread the post in question carefully: https://www.unz.com/akarlin/corona-cost/
2.5 year loss in life expectancy is if Corona retains its current age-specific mortality profile, and keeps infecting 10% of the population each year (i.e., acts like the flu). A scenario that some epidemiologists think is realistic.
After that it’s mere arithmetic.
America needs to look inwards for her enemies, and what she needs now is a Sulla “No friend ever served me, and no enemy ever wronged me, whom I have not repaid in full”. Probably proscription also, now that would be a sweet thing.
It is the right analogy but people will stop playing Warcraft altogether or spend real money ( gold) to buy robux if it is easily attainable and everyone has enough fake money\credits in their account to get whatever they want. No one wants to play that game if you are already a Lv99 wizard before you even know how to play.
Money, as a unit of account and measuring stick must accurately represent the value of objects in reality. Flooding money in the system distort reality and ultimately destroy the economy. Like all the good things in life, scarcity and supply determines value.
One thousand per day, hmm. It’ll free up a lot of rent-control, rent-stabilized apartments. It’ll be a great boon to Trump’s rentier class. No wonder he is slow walking this one. Hail Discord!
The mistake was to treat this virus differently than the viruses of every flu season.
Even flu season results in the deaths of scores of thousands of people in America but the fear-monerging attending this flu season has wrought great destruction and the reasons for the wildly wrong response (to save lives) is silly as any normal man can respond – then why haven’t you done this every flu season and will you do it in the future for every flu season?
It is especially funny to see the self-important man from New York, Cuomo, talk about his every life that can be saved must be saved and apply those faux claims to his support of abortion
Chinese people, famous for their concern over human life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFifWw6DGz8
I don’t give a shit what Cuomo says.
NY needs a lockdown because the situation there is out of control, as it was in Wuhan. Once cases there are suppressed, the situation can be adequately contained with softer measures – as proved by all the East Asian countries.
But if right-wing Americans are so determined to prove themselves subhumans relative to East Asians who am I to object, not my fight at the end of the day.
In support of your position, here’s the perspective of “Jack D,” possibly the single most frequent iSteve commenter, with almost 16,000 comments totaling 1.8M words:
https://www.unz.com/isteve/so-uh-what-just-happened/#comment-3794347
Keep in mind that “Jack D” hails from a particular Caucasian subgroup…
Absolutely. One prediction was that it would kill millions ! So far that has not happened. Another was that it would tank Q2 (DUH) and a third is that Q3 will improve which takes a real genius to conceptualise and visualise (LOL) In addition he always lectures us on what who would have done if they were smart. This guy seems to write about nothing other than the Corona virus. I imagine he reads up every article he can find and then re-compiles it into another load of bollocks (no insult intended to you Sir) with infantile cartoons and endless charts and graphs etc. Russia has produced many fine writers. I am afraid he is not and will never be one of them.
Our primary crop is small alfalfa mixed hay. I can sincerely ask “what shutdown?” We are still selling and delivering hay. Our Timac representative is still delivering seed and fertilizer. Timac is still providing spraying services. All the equipment dealers are open for repairs and parts. So once again what shutdown? It is just impacting the professional services. Ones we never really needed to begin with. Trump wanting to reopen by Easter isn’t just about the GDP or stocks. It is about rebooting the greatest “mother may I” and ponzi scheme. Without that, the one world order just might be in jeopardy. We can’t have that.
Also a lot of old people are still working in skill based trades and agriculture. Go ahead kill us off, which you might not due to most of us are coming from the Germanic tribes. Germans and Swiss German are doing pretty good right now. Brits aren’t really dying that much either. Now wouldn’t that be a hoot if we really were the master race in a immunity kinda a way.
Congratulations! Brilliant!!!!
The “job creators” are consumers, which are… the workers.
Please reread the post in question carefully
I will certainly do that, time permitting.
Meanwhile I will note that the sub-title of your post was “Permanent 2.5 Year Drop in US Life Expectancy – It’s Just Like the Flu, Brah!”
I have watched Kim Iverson’s 3 recent videos. For those who haven’t heard of her, she’s a progressive and former supporter of Tulsi Gabbard. Per Kim, as the cat is already out of the bag and cannot be stopped, and since there may not be a safe vaccine for possibly two years, she says that the only solution is Heard Immunity. Per Kim, a growing number of experts are coming to the same conclusion, and she backs up her position with facts.
Governments CANNOT (at least I hope not) successfully lock frightened people in their apartments indefinitely in a vain hope to Flatten The Curve. How could the economy possibly sustain 30-40% unemployment for months on end anyway? Once the amount of new cases goes down and restrictions are lifted, the amount of new cases will then rise exponentially again, as those who stayed locked inside will have no immunity.
Kim has received considerable sharp criticism and threats of censorship, almost all from the Left, for her brave stance. (She did not mention death threats, though it would not surprise me). If you haven’t heard of Kim, her videos are on YouTube, but with everyone in the grip of Mass Hysteria from never-Trumpers, who knows for how much longer.
I’m hardly an expert myself. If you pick at my comment, please note that I see no sense in rebutting your arguments. I just follow the opinions of those who seem most reasonable. To me, Kim’s solutions make far more sense than those of the Chicken Littles who dominate the democrat party and the left wing mainstream media.
Another ordinary day at the office . . .
https://d3fy651gv2fhd3.cloudfront.net/charts/united-states-jobless-claims.png?s=ijcusa&v=202003261302V20191105
US Initial Jobless Claims
Some grandparents prefer to see their grandchildren flourish than eke a little more mostly unwell existence…
I guess one shouldn’t have expect anything else from a culture with a history of literally eating its babies…
A war to put a quarrelous dragon lady in charge of every household? To reduce life to a souless sterile trudge towards mindless acquisition and fulfilling every half-remembered senile dream of those teetering on life support?
There’s a reason why migration is from China to America, despite popular protestations in America, and it isn’t because China is some moral utopia.
But the real point is that people objecting to this and making suggestions in different ways are looking for more data, considering opportunity costs and playing with other potential solutions. This is how complex problems are thought through by adults. Not simply spouting some idiotic Confucian cliche.
That shouldn’t be a surprise, when one considers that his two SENIOR advisors are his son-in-law slumlord Jared, who had to get his wife to get Daddy to threaten sanctions on Qatar, unless someone there ponied up some serious shekels to invest in his failing enterprise at 666th Fifth Avenue. The other advisor is his failed fashion maven daughter Ivanka.
Trump should immediately have the Treasury Dept sanction COVID endlessly, hoping that it will fail.
Then he should use his Big Weapon, his morning tweet storm to poke fun, deride and call the Covid names, like the bumbling idiot does every day to others.
The moron has declared bankruptcy SIX times, so this latest screw-up shouldn’t be a surprise.
Since you’re obviously ignoring the way in which his point was intended in order to unsubtly insult him, I’m guessing his previous characterisation of you was spot on.
Imagine if youthful Ron could see bitter, old, un-individuated Unz now – trying to randomly blame Jews for everything, even a pandemic…
When a celebrity billionaire turned most powerful man in the world has done something major six times, you should probably consider if it is worth learning from.
Those uncomfortable with failure will not have much success.
Obviously being a boomer yourself, you have some personal stake in this debate, but what Jack D says is true. The ageing population of Europe and European-derived countries is a major hindrance. Many of the boomers dying in this plague already have one foot in the grave
Coronavirus is lifting a great burden from our shoulders, and the pragmatist should recognise this and embrace what is happening
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/EuthanasiePropaganda.jpg/200px-EuthanasiePropaganda.jpg
You are wrong my friend. This virus will kill millions just as Anatoly Nostradamus predicted. We are lucky to have him around to warn us ! That was what I believed when I read his carefully thought out analyses. That is why I went into self quarantine under my bed carefully going over his charts only to realise they were the new designs for Disneyland roller coasters. I was disappointed to conclude that the whole corona virus hocus pocus thing and everything Karlin barfs up about it is nothing but clap trap. My grandsons like his cartoon figures though which is about the only thing worthwhile about his “work”. I have printed up a supply and stored them in my washroom in case I run out of toilet paper. In the meantime I think I will relax like you and set my alarm at 400,000.
Only a low IQ moron calls a man who beat the Republican party, the Democrat party, and the media for the presidency of the USA an oaf. You are delusional if you beliueve your intellect is half of Trumps. You are a Poof with a capitol P.
If all those entities were actually fighting against him, he wouldn’t have won. The media would have simply ignored him as thy is far worse than negative coverage.
Imagine thinking some slimy New York billionaire who declared bankruptcy multiple times, is possible a crypto-Jew and is in bed with people like Sheldon Adelson is not an establishment figure.
Except the jew flu is fake Ron so hundreds of thousands of Americans won’t be dying. You turned out to be just like the rest of your tribe. You will be leaving the USA soon jewboy.
Well, at the end of the day, I certainly do not intend to lecture Americans on something that mostly concerns themselves (though people abroad would also be impacted by the US making itself into the global epicenter of the Corona pandemic – something that it is on the cusp of achieving).
But it is very weird to see the right-wing commentariat here, which is rather obsessed by things like the percentage white share of the US population, take such a blithe attitude towards the (relative) destruction of its own demographic base. OTOH it does seem to be a truism that the stupid get consistently beaten, so perhaps it will be perfectly justified.
I think Tony Carlin is a Globohomo and likes his job in the backseat. When he is not working and gets up to look out the window he becomes a Back Seat Driver. In US he is Monday Morning Quarterback.
The boomers are the only ones keeping the cucked conservative parties alive. The GOP are pathetic and the boomers are too scared embrace ethnic consciousness, this is why they are always talking about lowest black unemployment and legal immigrants.
This virus has made for an ideal ‘back door’ for the powers that be of implementing ‘wartime’ social and economic policies, something you would do if you were surreptitiously prepping global society psychologically and physically for WWIII.
In at least some places now in the United States with ‘shelter in place’ orders letters are being issued to people who do ‘essential work’. Should the virus linger how long will it before people are expected to show their ‘papers’ to police on request?
The US army’s new WWII era style uniforms are supposed to come on line this summer.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/03/26/the-coronavirus-war-economy-will-change-the-world/
The elderly are not the “demographic base” of anything.
Not saying that we should let them all die off – but the number of white births is what is important.
If that’s true, then the first places to isolate are the heavily Jewish communities, who have flaunted any recommendations on containing COVID.
But G-d forbid if one points that out, the ADL and its jack-booted thugs will kick you to the curb while shouting anti-Semite all the while demanding extra money from Congress’ corporate welfare package that will bail out the same damned banks we bailed out in 2009, but shhh! let’s not talk about that, we’re too busy buying toilet paper.
For those not in the know, Williamsburg is in Brooklyn, a walk across the famous bridge opposite Manhattan.
Why are we assuming that the sick and elderly, millions stuck in Gawd Awful nursing homes, wouldn’t rather die than continue to live life as a vegetable, in pain and with no hope of recovery? Does keeping them alive by all means necessary have anything to do with keeping the Medicare/Medicaid dollars flowing? We forget that Death is a Blessing, especially for those with one foot already in the grave, and is nothing to be feared.
It matters a lot how many people are in debt and how deep they are in debt. Because it puts lots of constraints on behavior. Whereas having lots of assets affects behavior to a lesser extent, because there are no hard constraints involved.
U.S. must collapse sooner or later to fix the World. No, not to tikkun olam it, but to really fix it.
In my mind I do not associate utilitarianism, eugenics, euthanasia with Jews and Judaism. At least I do not see Jews as prominent drivers of these movements. It is rather Protestantism and British and American scientism that created and pushed these movements. Probably E. Michael Jones has written about it.
So Jack D who many times demonstrated that he is a shameless Jewish sumpremacist does not manifest his Jewishness by this comment but rather his mimicry and ingratiation within the iSteve-ism where such convictions are common. As a Jew he is more likely to say first what everybody is already thinking but yet has gentile’s inhibitions to articulate it. So in this case do no blame Jack D, blame iSteve and his milieu.
Agreed.
My problem with Karlin’s analysis (and many others) is that he thinks Trump could have actually done something. Trump could find the cure for cancer tomorrow, but it would be “wrong”, and the Democrats and most of the Republicans would fight him tooth and nail. He campaigned on returning industry to the US, so there were tax cuts for corporations. Did the corporations use the money to re-invest, re-tool, or put it into R&D? No, they used it for stock buy backs to inflate CEO payouts on stock options. Had they done what they were supposed to, the situation would not be what it is, both economically and medically.
I read article last August. https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/the-real-reasons-why-the-media-is-suddenly-admitting-to-the-recession-threat/
I sent it to my investments guy, and he agreed with me that the criminals in the Big Casino were looking for an excuse, so I took steps to mitigate. COVID 19 is the excuse needed for the biggest wealth transfer of all time. Whatever the official narrative on COVID 19 is, regardless of which government is pronouncing it, you can guarantee it being bullshit.
Trump, like Warren Buffet, likely understands what is really happening.
Your article on life expectancy was a mistake. Life expectancy of dead people is zero. Life expectancy of survivors remains unchanged. Dead mothers can shorten life expectancy of their orphaned children but this is not what you were writing about.
The chosen (((whites))).
Yes, big cities in the US are mostly full of Leftist trash and their dusky pets. They can all perish slowly and painfully in the streets as far as we’re concerned…lol
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kathy-griffin-coronavirus_n_5e7c7fa1c5b6cb9dc19ae204?guccounter=1
Is that poetic justice or what?
🙂
It models a specific scenario where 10% of people get infected with COVID-19 with the age-specific mortality rates described here every year: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.04.20031104v1
This is under the assumption that COVID-19 becomes endemic, which is far from a marginal view amongst epidemiologists right now.
From there, it is all pretty simple life tables arithmetic.
Put another way, if a country was to experience the equivalent of ten flu seasons every year, do you dispute that life expectancy would go down somewhat relative to what it otherwise would have been?
https://youtu.be/T4VqP6JevFA
“if a country was to experience the equivalent of ten flu seasons every year, do you dispute that life expectancy would go down somewhat relative to what it otherwise would have been?” – But that’s not what you have stipulated because you can’t assume reoccurrence of this epidemic. You treated this epidemic as a singular event. A singular event does not affect life expectancy of survivors. And before it occurred for people who worried that they might die telling them than their life expectancy might change from 79 to 77.5 was totally unconnected to their reality and thus ultimately meaningless.
If you assume that every 10 years an asteroid will kill 20 million people then you could express it in terms of life expectancy but after a singular event of an asteroid hit the life expectancy of people who survived has not changed.
Writing the paper was a mistake.
a thread of the rails……
the insane crack first….
I watched all those entities trash Trump for almost two years. You are delusional if you think the mob wanted Trump.
Funny you should mention that:
https://www.gilead.com/utility/global-operations/europe/israel
https://theintercept.com/2020/03/25/gilead-sciences-coronavirus-drug/
To financial institutions that produce loans with a few key strokes. They count those loans as assets but they aren’t really – they are just future claims on labor.
It is inherently unjust that some people can create money with few keystrokes, and use that to claim other people’s lives. To ameliorate, basic income comes closest to at least partially addressing the problem.
or you could say the very same thing in the opposite. for those of us that try to look at things without partisan glasses on, a comment like this only makes one want to hang one’s head and sigh.
Trump has over 500 other successful enterprises including 17 golf courses.
Love it when the peanut gallery with 50 cents in their bank account beak off about Trump’s bankruptcies.
society at large looks down on people who claim to be able to predict the future.
but add some math…..
and presto!
reading palms is now cool.
It is all a lie, in Japan, life remains nmrmal.
The nations applying heavy pressure are not doing it for prophylactic purposer, but- only as an experment in how far they can bully their populatons.
Possible but unlikely – there isn’t really a scarcity as such, except shortage of consumers. I mean, energy is dirt cheap (electricity is $0.1/kwh oil is $20-30, gas is under $2), commodities are dirt cheap, and even money is dirt cheap but only for the rich.
Western corporations can borrow at 0% or negative rates, but instead of creating consumers through wages and building factories, they use that money to pump up their bosses digital wallets.
If corporate sector doesn’t want to create new consumer, then government need to step up. Consumption must go up, or GDP will fail to grow, with tragic results.
You’re quoting the Texas lieutenant governor Dan Patrick there Tusk, not our author Anatoly Karlin.
good grief. Orange Man Bad and all but…
“The US’s COVID-19 Death Rate Is Far Below the Rates in Italy and Spain”
https://mises.org/wire/uss-covid-19-death-rate-far-below-rates-italy-and-spain
The same banks that follow instructions from the ADL who is allowed to do business with them.
Buchanan, Cook, Derbyshire, Hudson, P.C., Roberts, Shamir, Godfree R., Margolis, Jones and Sailer are all at elevated risk because of their age. If each of them got infected then by Italian standards two of them would die.
As I’ve said here before (though Unz refuses to post stuff about Talmudic Noahide Laws), the elites do not care one iota about old folks when in a few years they’ll run out of SS/MC funding, and especially if these old folks are believers on Christ (because their Talmudic overlords want these believers decapitated anyway). They don’t even care if these old folks are Jewish, either. Finally, since us Boomers are probably more awake (and less “woke”) than Xers or Millennials, why not kill off as many of us as they can? Satan needs blood, and the Syn of Sat needs to provide it, right? As for the rest, the Talmud (can’t remember where) says in the end times there will be 8 or 80 or 800 or 2800 gentile slaves per Jew (the new “efendi”)…and, oh yeah, non-Talmudic Jews will be considered “gentile” as well…the more slaves for them, the better.
With a lot of white people no longer commuting to their workplaces, or taking flights, now would be a pretty good time to nuke US cities. Please wait for April showers to minimize fallout.
Of course, I don’t know how to advise you to deal with the counter-salvo. I suppose you should use your own best judgement. Maybe, pretend it was India?
Possible, I just spent a few minutes searching for him, and shared with you what I found. I might look into this later. I have found a couple of Facebook pages with the names of his purported mom and dad (though the latter without pictures), respectively, so if it’s a hoax, it must be elaborate. A more likely explanation is that he was a real person who really just died, but
A) he died of something else (though I believe the guy making the tweet in question is relatively well-known and wouldn’t just make this up – but maybe he didn’t vet his sources?), or
B) he died somewhere else (maybe in New York?), and the place of his death was merely conjecture, reported as Washington, D. C., because he lived there.
You can choose whichever to believe, or suspend judgment until further information comes out.
Elsewhere I read she was asthmatic. I don’t know if it’s true or not.
We were heading into a recession before the Corona Virus. Why should reopening the economy prevent the recessionary forces from continuing. Especially against a background of resurging infections. I suggest that we are not coming back from this any time soon. Trump is toast either way.
Besides, why would you care? Biden is hardly the people’s choice. Either way America’s problems will not be addressed.
As for elections this sacred cow is never attacked. We have two parties, entry of a new party is nearly impossible, and there is no way to reject both candidates and both parties. It has become exceedingly clear there is no choice. Stay home or vote for an obvious loser in lieu of a none of the above choice if you must.
Go for it, bat eating gook…lol
Bring your goofy Rooskie buddy with his PlaySkool sword. Or even better, just start flinging nukes around.
We have enough missiles in one Ohio Class boat to lay waste to most all of your cities. And we have 14 of those.
Let’s git it on!
You can choose whichever to believe, or suspend judgment until further information comes out.
Judgment suspended, I await your future update.
China, Russia and USA are on board with the ‘panic’.
Assclown countries like the UK, Sweden or the Netherlands aren’t.
Which tells me that the big boy countries have access to big boy information sources, and what they see makes them nervous.
I’m betting that this virus is, indeed, an artificial creation that escaped. They want to wipe it out because the risks here are enormous.
are all at elevated risk because of their age
Not correct — no one is at (significantly) elevated risk simply because of age. Of the current deaths in Italy (8,165), 98.6% have at least one pre-existing pathology, and more than 50% have 3 or more:
Pazienti con 0 patologie pre-esistenti 1,4 %
Pazienti con 1 patologia pre-esistente 21,4 %
Pazienti con 2 patologie pre-esistenti 26,1 %
Pazienti con 3 o più patologie pre-esistenti 51,2 %
http://www.salute.gov.it/portale/nuovocoronavirus/dettaglioContenutiNuovoCoronavirus.jsp?lingua=italiano&id=5351&area=nuovoCoronavirus&menu=vuoto
Even if you are right:
330MM * 50% infection rate * 0.5% = 825,000 deaths
For a new and highly infectious virus, 50% infection rate is too low.
Backing up to finish the guy/gal/kid you just hit with your car is standard procedure in China.
They lack empathy.
Notice how people ignored a dead kid?
Tell me these people’s lives in China should have any value to us?
They are barbaric, thieves, racists and liars.
The west should expel Jews and send them all to China.
They let the rest of the world, happily, get infected. That is exactly what the jews are doing in Gaza
We have never gotten the true story about numbers from China.
The actual death rate in Wuhan was probably 50,000 and the rest of Hubei was probably 25, 000.
How will we ever know if the CCP and clown Xi won’t tell us?
Corona-chan is apparently IQ sapping and spreading even faster than Karlin predicted into the commentators.
Yup they are nasty people, despite what the ///media\\ says. China is a nasty and hellish country, and if this wasn’t an escaped bioweapon, I have no doubt they sent infected people out to infect the rest of the world.
The gov is clearly hiding some information.
If this is not an escaped bioweapon, and is just the Kung Flu, then it is a massive hysterical over reaction.
However, the Chinese reaction, as well as American reaction suggests that this could be something different…
I’m not sure which theory I believe. Our elites are shrieking, womanly retards.
Confucius say, bat burger a day with side order of tiger penis just the ticket for optimal health.
Aaaasshoooole.
lol
I will respond to this since this incident was shameful and demonstrates the callousness of the Chinese. I won’t make any excuse for the 17 subhuman passerby who let that little girl die. I wish I was there to save that little girl. I was personally involved in a similar incident myself in China where me and a doctor ( both from Hong Kong) were the only people to help a delivery man who was the victim of a hit and run. Hundreds of people just stood there and did nothing, typical bystander effect.
I will just say that the unit of selection in evolutionary terms for the Chinese have always been at the family level and families relations are tight. Filial piety and family duty is of paramount importantance and thus it is inconceivable for me to put a family member at risk so I can get on with my life. That’s how we survived at the Malthusian limit for 2000 years. The dominance of family relations over other human relationships such as community and patriotism is at the root of the apathy and insouciance in modern China today. This stand in contrast to Caucasians where the selection seems happen at the level of the individual and also At the level of the race. I think most will agree that White people have much stronger racial consciousness than most other people. My own observation is that family relationships are often not as strong in white families. ( Italians aside) Estrangement from one’s biological parents is so much higher in America than anywhere I know of.
This is on the front page of euromomo.eu:
I’m sure real-time reporting of mortality data is a high priority right now in Lombardy.
How you can write something that so obviously runs counter to global immigration policies etc. and how you can project that onto “most people”, can only mean that deep down you just prefer white people. Funny, but not as funny as you repressing it under all of the hate from your previous post.
I think there’s something essential to that, which in some ways is very negative about Chinese culture in that it is very heavily based upon the family unit, to the extreme that it has led to ignoring any other goals. One of the Ming commanders who grew up with the Japanese, for example, was frustrated that Chinese troops really had little inclination to fight for the Emperor – if their families were threatened, they instantly deserted to protect their families instead.
The word Emperor meant “Son of Heaven”; the Japanese took it seriously and sought to die for the Son of Heaven – the Chinese in the same circumstance basically said that if he’s so awesome, he should be able to defend himself. Amusing as it is, such thinking helped lead to the fall of the Ming.
It has its positive aspects, of course, and is a central aspect of Confucian thinking(and possibly even before). It certain has a stabilizing effect but trying to draw inferences on how “humanity” is perceived by the Chinese without understanding the challenges of xiao versus zhōng throughout its history is futile. As the family clan has basically ceased in China, though, this also will mold and change.
Such an analysis is wasted on IQ80 commentators, though.
sorry my apologies for the inconvenience.
Of course it is a priority…it is a much bigger priority in fact. Do you know anything about how the world likely works?
and disclaimers are normal…
“Some grandparents prefer to see their grandchildren flourish than eke a little more mostly unwell existence…”
The most extreme example of this mindset probably comes from the Inuit. In times of hunger, the old and unwell would occasionally commit suicide by themself or via proxy, inorder to spare more food for the rest.
The trouble with life expectancy is that it doesn’t take many factors into consideration. For the last dozen or so years, we have heard about “people are living longer”, which is true, but there is a context.
All four of my grandparents were born in the 1870s. One grandmother died of TB at 59, the other at 96 of old age (her sister 103). One grandfather dropped dead of a heart attack at 68, the other of old age at 79. The average of that small sample is 73, slightly less than the average age of their children’s deaths. Many others have a similar familial histories. The number used until a few years ago by insurance companies was 78. An increase of 5 years over 120+ years.
Actuarial estimates use the dates people were born, and the dates they die and produce an average number to create life expectancy charts. A crapload of young people killed in wars lowers the average number. Fewer wars = longer life expectancy.
On the other side of the scale, in the financial world, like insurance companies and pension plans life expectancy is used to create financial models. Not considered in their arithmetic are medical advances. Thirty years ago, kids with cystic fibrosis would be lucky to live long enough to graduate high school. Today, they live into their 30s. They’ll never get life insurance or collect a pension, but they are part of the arithmetic. There are dozens more diseases or syndromes that now have extended life expectancy, including transplanted organs, cardiovascular and cancer patients. The other factor is that all of the people with these medical conditions or syndromes are immuno-compromised, and therefore at much higher risk than the general population. Their death rates will be much higher than the general population, if infected.
Simple arithmetic yes, but it’s more complicated underneath.
must be one of those Freudian slip then. Maybe I do prefer some of them and may be deep down, you have an Asian fetish. Who cares.
Look, the white people that hang out at Unz and writes hundreds thousand words of comments belong to a very special demographics and the views they espouse are anything but mainstream views. I definitely hate the individuals who manifestly, identify themselves as white people here. I admit I sometimes try to get under their skin by writing something outrageous.
But I also know that for every one of these nutters, there are another 5 other decent guy. That’s the problem with racism, there is much more variance at the level of the individual than on the racial level.
We MIGHT have more in common with each other than with members of our own race. e.g. An Asian fetish?
忠孝不能两全
I guess that’s a real moral dilemma. Not the fake one wher you sacrifice your grandmother so you can go spring breaking.
I’ve slept with East Asianz but then I consider sex to be the easiest way to make a genuine connection; and therefore friends. I am sure many have seen me the same way.
And this is what I generally like (connection) – lockdown is very hard for me.
Nonetheless, I don’t have an East Asian fetish at all. I wouldn’t mind if I did, but I don’t.
I do however find China souless and soul-crushing. It is the very opposite of Japan, which suffers from so much soul the entire place might just give up on life at any moment for their soulful suffering.
This is no insult to the many Chinese I’ve met who do not conform and, to be fair, if you’re winding up people on Unz.com for the fun of it then you’re probably a good-humoured individual.
America first!
https://scontent.fplq1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/90644514_2858071770944056_2940683293466558464_n.jpg?_nc_cat=111&_nc_sid=8024bb&_nc_ohc=jG8QYnXyP7gAX9kqXu6&_nc_ht=scontent.fplq1-1.fna&oh=454a5ff976468d7d9ac6975a3e4d59d9&oe=5EA3A154
Hey, Dannyboy.
Chill, bro. Just trying to get your attention and making sure you are keeping safe. You are so predictable and never fail to disappoint.
You must be fuming at the keyboard ready to start WW3 when you read “preemptive war”. haha…
Seriously, I know you are an old-timer so please look after yourself. Dying from the virus seem like a horrible death and I know you prefer going out in a blaze of glory (e.g. mass shooting?)
Yes, but you must not overlook that Confucius said that the Emperor could lose the Mandate of Heaven & that in some cases revolution is justified. I don’t have here the exact quote from Analects, but that’s what Confucius basically said. Cf. Wing Tsit Chan.
The Japanese have never- I may be wrong, just..- truly assimilated skeptical & humanist dimensions of Confucian teachings.
The EuruMOMO results for week 12 were released earlier today. For the first time they do show a sigificant rise for Italy above the “stratified baseline” but for Europe as a whole they are still showing deaths below “normal”, including in the 65+ years category.
https://www.euromomo.eu/bulletin_pdf/2020/2020_12_bulletin.pdf
For comparison, here are the results for week 11:
https://www.euromomo.eu/bulletin_pdf/2020/2020_11_bulletin.pdf
For 65+ here are the results for week 12:
https://www.euromomo.eu/outputs/zscore_country65.html
http://thesaker.is/interview-with-professor-didier-raoult-in-the-parisien-newspaper-22-march-2020/
http://thesaker.is/why-france-is-hiding-a-cheap-and-tested-virus-cure/
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/coronavirus-gordon-brown-calls-for-new-global-government-to-fight-impact-of-covid-19/ar-BB11JU79
I think you should read these 3 interesting articles about covid, “reading btween the lines” is enough to send shivers down ur spine.
I’m still waiting for this assertion to be supported.
They are the demographic basis of the current white majority in the US.
The longer they live, the more time whites have to preserve said majority.
perhaps he read one or more off these..?
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/coronavirus-gordon-brown-calls-for-new-global-government-to-fight-impact-of-covid-19/ar-BB11JU79
http://thesaker.is/why-france-is-hiding-a-cheap-and-tested-virus-cure/
http://thesaker.is/interview-with-professor-didier-raoult-in-the-parisien-newspaper-22-march-2020/
Trump is up to his neck in Conservative Inc. He is either too stupid or too feckless to notice the difference between his own campaign positions and the positions of Conservative inc. Not to mention that many members of Conservative Inc were Never Trumpers in 2016- a slight that he has never even brought up.
Theres crazy on the internet but that takes the biscuit.
Was family integrity protected by the law in China and later in Communist China? Did they have “the rule of testimonium domesticum?”
Or were they more like Bolsheviks who encourage family members denouncing other family members?
Bolsheviks’ position could actually resonated with Jesus revolutionary spirit for ‘a greater good’:
While the Catholic Church protected families and its role as the foundation of society at the same time it wanted to break up clannishness and tribalism so it have very severe laws concerning consanguinity:
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04264a.htm
The Church was prompted by various reasons first to recognize the prohibitive legislation of the Roman State and then to extend the impediment of consanguinity beyond the limits of the civil legislation. The welfare of the social order, according to St. Augustine (City of God XV.16) and St. Thomas (Suppl. Q. liii, a. 3), demanded the widest possible extension of friendship and love among all humankind, to which desirable aim the intermarriage of close blood-relations was opposed; this was especially true in the first half of the Middle Ages, when the best interests of society required the unification of the numerous tribes and peoples which had settled on the soil of the Roman Empire. By overthrowing the barriers between inimical families and races, ruinous internecine warfare was diminished and greater peace and harmony secured among the newly-converted Christians. In the moral order the prohibition of marriage between near relations served as a barrier against early corruption among young persons of either sex brought habitually into close intimacy with one another; it tended also to strengthen the natural feeling of respect for closely related persons (St. Thomas, II-II.154.9; St. Augustine, City of God XV.10).
Apparently it not always worked vide: Sicilians. Somebody did a study using the distance to bishoprics:
The Church, intensive kinship, and global psychological variation
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/366/6466/eaau5141
and in particular Sicily might be explained by Muslim rule:
Your comments about Chinese family and social philosophy are very appreciated.
Well 50C is higher than negative equity so those guys are probably beating Trump on real net worth.
not covered :
1) Virus doesn’t spread in warm and humid weather – this times right for low rate by November election
2) Trump can cancel any federal guidelines thus leaving it to local officials to put shelter in place regulations, etc in place, giving them the blame for further economic disruption
Karlin another doomer lol
Just today 3.5 million people lost their jobs while the number of new reported deaths is 266
Question for you genius How many of these 3.3 million will
1- kill themselves
2- die from stress exacerbating previous health condition
3- get addicted to drugs
4- suffer depression
5- divorce
6- break down psychologically
……
It is fair to assume that 3.3 m will be followed by many more
Bonus questions:
1- How many people died this year from flu in USA
2- What was suicide rate in years (1929-1933) following great depression
Life and death during the Great Depression
https://www.pnas.org/content/106/41/17290
For most age groups, mortality tended to peak during years of strong economic expansion (such as 1923, 1926, 1929, and 1936–1937). In contrast, the recessions of 1921, 1930–1933, and 1938 coincided with declines in mortality and gains in life expectancy. The only exception was suicide mortality which increased during the Great Depression, but accounted for less than 2% of deaths. Correlation and regression analyses confirmed a significant negative effect of economic expansions on health gains.
Bottom line
In the end there will not be millions dead (not even remotely close) while there will many millions unemployed in the midst of a great depression (if this lunacy is not stopped very soon)
Clowns like you who helped spreading the panic and fear among females and effeminate men should be held accountable for what you have done
I hope some among these millions will somehow find the way to exercise their vengeance
Chinese Communists held a society essentially trapped between traditional cultural mores and the essentially more evangelical ideas of Communism, which as you noted, indeed had a notion of greater good. Maoist and basically the “real Communists” settled the dispute by seeking to destroy culture and this was the most direct thrust of the “Cultural Revolution.”
For example, the effort to Destroy the Four Olds:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Olds
Or even more explicit anti-Confucian campaigns:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticize_Lin,_Criticize_Confucius
This isn’t just Communist, though. Chinese frustration with the backwardness of their society had been ongoing since at least the Late Qing, when the Chinese genuinely began to experience a sense of nationalism. Take, for example, the Madman’s Diary…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Madman%27s_Diary
What was to be this New Culture, however? Its easier to tear down than to build up. Christianity was in fact an answer for some, as the Nationalist Chiang Kai-shek took genuinely to Methodism and I think among the KMT elite, including my family, it had led to a great sympathy and feeling for Christianity since. However, it was disruptive to Chinese culture in a substantial way, as it demanded monogamy and as you can see from Chiang’s own life, that was not really a common expectation of upper class Chinese.
Japanese culture was in fact highly sought after – many Chinese leaders would actually have gone to Japan to study to learn, but after Japan invaded and especially after the Rape of Nanking, it became pretty much impossible to appreciate Japanese culture publically. You can’t in good faith loudly proclaim the awesomeness of people who just massacred an entire population of your people sadistically. Communism was thus another angle to drew the literari, often passionately and religiously, sometimes combining it with filial piety odd ways. One should note Mao’s wife dying for him:
As China has “normalized”, it has in many ways flowed back toward the Confucian mores in both good and bad, and often now with state support:
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1603487/xi-jinping-endorses-promotion-confucius
Of course, substantial parts of Confucianism that could have threatened them are gone now – as you noted, the idea of family members not being able to testify or accuse each other exists in the West, and even more strongly exists in Confucianism that explicitly indicates that loyalty to one’s father can surpass loyalty to one’s prince. At its greatest extent, it led to large familial clans with extremely limited loyalty to the Imperial Court.
Well, China doesn’t have an Imperial Court anymore, but it does have the gigantic bureaucracy and many dynastic trappings(including the ability to plea one’s case in Beijing) once again. But with the one-child policy and modernity, there isn’t really family clans to get in the way of centralization and the problems of xiao(loyalty to family) and zhong(loyalty to country) become less common.
Truly humanistic philosophies of universal love, I should note, are not alien to China. Mohism, for example, preached universal love:
I agreed to the first part without reading your last paragraph about starting a preemptive war with America. You are nuts by any standards and more so by Chinese standards.
I should note that the Chinese were very literal about the idea that the Emperor should prove his Mandate at times. For an example, during a heavy rainstorm that threatened to sink the fleet amid the clamor, the sailers implored their general Koxinga to step out and intervene with the “dragons” and “angry spirits” and use his authority under Heaven to command the elements to stop.
In some odd way, the Emperor had to act as a kind of shaman, and he had a responsibility “prove” his semi-divine status through perhaps mystical ability to provide better fortune, as opposed to enjoying the privilege of his semi-divine status.
I wanted to add – as Mozi was in 4th century BC, this concern of clannish versus universal love has been a debate that has been going on for a, let’s say, nontrivial amount of time.
Get over yourself.
As soon as Wuhun locked down anybody with any experience managing global supply chains knew what the future held.
You are a grifter, and a poor one at that.
Thanks a lot. I will look up the links.
Mar 25, 2020 How does the new coronavirus compare with the flu? Which one is more worrisome?
For comparison, in the U.S. alone, the flu (also called influenza) has caused an estimated 38 million illnesses, 390,000 hospitalizations and 23,000 deaths this season, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
https://www.livescience.com/new-coronavirus-compare-with-flu.html
I am glad that you agree it is nuts since it is the kind of language Pompeo and John Bolton would routinely use when it comes to Iran or Venezuela. I guess it is a display of leadership to talk about Regime change, preemptive war and liberating other people if you are American but you are a nutcase if you dare to suggest the same thing in retaliation. I guess this is one of those failed sarcasm attempts and people do take these war threat seriously and literally. Quite empowering to know I can start Ww3 in people’s head with my keyboard.
Dannyboy Crenshaw lays down the WWF Smackdown doctrine of geopolitics.
Good goy, now go fetch your check.
I have no problem underbussing BoomerCon warporn types like Dannyboy Crenshaw but wtf is with:
You’re not looking very hard. Try posting your “care more for your families” lecture (which I agree with, BTW) on Black Twitter or some site like The Root.
American Whites have our issues but you’re either trolling Whites with that or you’re not living around our minorities.
It reads like it is written by a human being but I have come to the conclusion that this particular commentator “ Just passing through” is a new generation of AI from Google and this is actually a Turing test. Unfortunately, its total lack of empathy and some level of human mimicry that resembles moral conscience ensures that IT failed the test. No human being or even subhumans in our evolutionary lineage can be so callous in the face of such tragedy. IT was also suggesting the genocide of Chinese on another thread. Only a machine absent of human emotions and empathy neural network would suggest we embrace the virus. I think the next stage of development for this AI is to subject it to some computer virus so it can learn what it is like to be human.
The NY trends do look like that. I’m reposting a comment w/ graph that utu just left on my own “calculation” thread:
Well, I find white people to be unbelievably immoral.
White people have a pathological desire to control and conquer the world. They are only interested in a world that serves them, and have to interest in harmony with other people.
White people loved the Chinese and their culture when they could make money off them. But now that the free ride is ending a lot of white people don’t know how to handle it.
A lot of the typical Anglo Divide and Conquer techniques haven’t worked, so now white people get all bitter and all they have left is schadenfraude.
You could see the excitement when they thought the Corona Virus was going to wreck China permanently.
Lol. And you call Asians soulless.
No, sounds pretty human to me. See for example,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crucifixion
And they actually nailed through people’s bones to do it, as shown by some remains.
And yet you’re not Jesus Christ, so you’re “moral standards” are worthless.
(((America))) is not white.
But is it insane by utu standards? You are the one who expressed overwhelming joy at the thought of a nuclear war between Israel and Russia.
Yeah, but most people didn’t know. Including Wall Street, which hit new all time highs during the Wuhan lockdown.
You are absolutely correct that there is a lot of family estrangement in western culture, especially these days. This is because unfortunately, a lot of today’s 60 and 70 year olds in western countries were horrible, horrible parents and so their kids nurse justified anger and resentment. Check out all the boomer memes.
What goes around, comes around. Western boomers as a generation are known for a lot of bad things.
NYC => Northern Italy
https://youtu.be/MKzLW5eWqo4
Ive always found the alt-right exaltation of japan to be cringe-worthy. Wanna know what I think is the real reason behind it? Its because alt-righters are highly conscious of the power of the “racist” smear, as a result of this they seek some kind of magical charm which can neutralize any potential accusation of white supremacy/hating other races; it just so happens that asians, and more specifically the japanese are just that magic charm. In their minds, alt-righters believe that they can ward off accusations of white supremacist beliefs/hating other races by bringing up their adulation of japan; it gives them a way of saying: “hey look at me, I can’t be one of those awful white supremacists who hates all non-whites since I respect a non-white culture like the japanese so much!”. Its really painfully transparent what their angle is though
If we consider white nationalism as a “religion” then japan-love would be one of the central sacraments to that religion since it performs such a useful role as a mechanism which allows for its adherents to more boldly proclaim white supremacy while also having a convenient anti-racist fig-leaf to hide behind. China obviously can’t be used since alt-righters (mistakenly) project their own western mindsets onto the chinese and see the chinese as an existential threat, however japan on the other hand is a perfect object of worship since it can be worshiped while at the same time not posing a threat since its been rendered effectively powerless and cucked by the US. I suspect that alt-righters almost view japan as a bit of a tragic trophy, a rightful “possession” of the west in the same way that spanish conquistadors might have viewed the broken aztecs.
With that being said, I do acknowledge that japanese culture does seem quite refined and sophisticated. This isnt just an alt-right delusion, there is an objective basis to this perception. However I think that alt-righters try to massively exaggerate the qualitative differences between the japanese and the chinese in order to help nurture their own psychological complexes and baggage. What’s my own opinion about the two cultures? Honestly chinese and japanese people both seem pretty similar. Japanese people do seem more genteel to me, and I guess some people might interpret that as a form of “soul”, however I have never got the impression that japanese people have this particularly vivid, deep and mysterious inner-world that alt-righters like to act the japanese possess. As for the chinese, they do feel more “raw”, practical and perhaps unpolished to me, but ironically I feel like that gives them more soul and not less.
I do think its important however to acknowledge that china is still a 2nd world country and japan on the other hand has been a 1st world country for quite a long time. Because of this there is a cultural lag, something which I see alt-righters foolishly overlook (or more likely they just ignore). Of course its easy to pin the chinese as being uncouth and barbarians, they’re literally a developing country, what the fuck do you expect? I never see alt-righters acknowledge this though since it would shatter their fiction that the japanese are inherently more human than the “soulless” chinese. I wouldn’t expect that level of analysis from alt-righters anyways though since alt-righters are more concerned about personal emotional gratification as opposed to the pursuit of truth for the sake of truth itself.
The uptick is there despite a full lockdown and only a small subset of the population being infected. Even in Lombardy, the vast majority of the population is not infected (or else how to explain the extremely high Bergamo mortality?), and outside Northern Italy there’s not even an epidemic of any sorts. Basically, it’s showing a flu-like mortality uptick despite having infected many fewer people (yet). Potentially, it’s going to infect many more (unless we do something drastic – the argument for lockdown).
Interesting. Many good points. Agree that these are mostly self-serving projections.
Very high quality post.
Agreed on all counts.
Cantonese and Taiwanese folk aside, the Chinese are much like Americans (read: “heritage Americans,” or “how Americans used to be”): They’re loud, brash, industrious, practical, and genuinely patriotic.
(A note on that: Most Chinese people — even people under 30 — have seen their cities and villages lifted out of poverty with their own eyes. Under the circumstances, it would be churlish not to love one’s country.)
When asked if they were willing to fight for their country, only 11% of Japanese said that they would. Japan is truly a cucked nation. In America, 44% said that they would answer the call. In China, that number is 71%. They’re as far above us as we are above Japan.
We were just like them, once.
Are you sure you’re not perfectly describing your own shadow….
If you can’t feel the stark differences between China and Japan then I probably can’t help you. I guess you’re probably not that good at reading social situations either. Perhaps one way though, would be to simply listen to tourist announcements in Chinese and Japanese. Maybe that will help.
As for the rest of your post, it has nothing to do with me.
“willing to fight for their country”
https://i.redd.it/lbttg62oeus31.jpg
From https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/dikz9r/percentage_of_people_willing_to_fight_for_their/
https://youtu.be/xWf8JcRsq9k
https://youtu.be/sckSb2-4vp8
What you insinuate as human morality is actually Christian morality. This has been the most devastating thing to ever befall the European peoples as it has made them weak and sentimental.
As another commenter showed in a video of a van running over a child in China, and multiple passers by ignoring the gravely injured child, Chinese have not yet fallen prey to these Christian values. If that is how they treat an in-group, just imagine how they will treat out-group!
The Jews are going to use Chinese as their footsoldiers to exterminate us, that is why they pass on US military secrets to China, like the IAI Lavi and the Python 3 missile.
What’s going on with Bulgaria?
Could we expose please expose Dan Patrick. For me he can go FIRST to the other side.
Unfortunately, the situation in US is now highly predictable in a very unpleasant way.
The number of positive tested cases doubles in NY every 3 days.
If resting was done on an adequate scale, a similar picture would emerge in Florida and Louisiana, California coming close behind.
Now, given that there’s no interstate lockdowns enforcement, the virus is still spreading.
In a couple of weeks, tens of thousands of people will require Intensive care treatments that the US hospitals cannot provide.
These people will die.
Some of rhe medical personnel taking care of them will get infected and also die, it has already started.
The death rate in Italy and Iran has been much higher than in China.
US will probably set up a new historical record.
Just wait a couple of weeks and let’s discuss it again.
That is if you and/or your loved ones aren’t in a hospital somewhere.
A bad luck I for one wish you not.
You might sadly be correct about Florida and Louisiana, but California was the first state in the US to go into full lock-down, almost ten days ago and is (I think) doing pretty well. That’s despite the fact that Silicon Valley was the original American epicenter of Coronavirus.
As I’ve pointed out, absent widespread testing, the best way to estimate (lagged) infections is by using the death-totals, which are reasonably solid:
https://www.unz.com/runz/correctly-estimating-coronavirus-infections/
Since there’s roughly a three-week period between infection and death, the impact of the CA lock-down hasn’t yet manifested itself, and I’m reasonably confident things are in pretty good shape.
I am genuinely fascinated with how your mind works and reality as you see it.
Can you describe just what utopia would look like to you ? Let’s assume all the other subhuman races beside “white” people and the usual suspects such as Jews have been exterminated and only people who looked similar to you exist, what’s next? Who is going to be next victim? We also get rid of democracy too so you have absolute power, What kind of society would you like to build?
We are at the cusp of the singularity and various scientific breakthroughs ( quantum computing, CRISPR, brain mapping ) to the extent we are able to transcend our humanity and control own genetic destiny in the next 50 years. We become gods, Homo Deus as one proselytizer like to put it. Robotics will solve most of the economic probLems. All of these petty human conflicts and internecine wars is going to pretty much fade away and become irrelevant in the next few generations. perhaps the biggest risk for humanity going forward ( may be in 200 years) is Another entity that think like you…an AI devoid of human emotions and unconstrained by morality. As in the Terminator, the Skynet will reach the same conclusion (as you did ) that most human beings are redundant and eliminated Us all..you and your beloved white people Included. this is the real existential crisis for humankind.
I implore you to look ahead of what is ahead of us and not only at the present.
Russian military medical personnel have started working in one of Bergamo’s hospitals in Northern Italy.
https://youtu.be/ERx5NO4krjg
Poland after kvetching much about Russian and Chinese help to Italy, and forbidding the Russian military medical Antonovs passing through its airspace en route to Northern Italy, has just accepted two cargo planes of medical supplies from China.
Maybe Mr Trump should ask for a few Antonovs full of Biodefense decontamination supplies and respirators to be sent to JFK and/or La Guardia?
I am sure Mr Putin would oblige.
The technologies you talk of are exist only in the realms of science fictions, the Chinese have still not managed to find the “smart gene” despite much money and effort being thrown at the endeavour via the BGI. The Chinese also don’t have the baggage of the Holocaust legend to weight down their efforts towards eugenic technologies.
If the Chinese develop this technology, they will never share it and use it for themselves to conquer the world, it would be insane to do anything else.
My ideal would would be an all Nordic world with eugenics as it’s key principle. This Nordic world would likely conquer the stars. We would have moon bases by now if the National Socialists had won, and people would be much better looking in general because of the pro-Nordic reproductive policies.
Your ode of thought is very similar to Steven Pinker who says everything is getting better and that we will all enjoy continually better living standards. This is untrue as life is a zero-sum game and if someone wins, other must lose. Chinese won by manufacturing things and lifting hundreds of millions out of poverty, White lost by losing their livelihood and falling prey to the Tribe of financial parasites.
All humans think alike to some degree and dominance is a key quality of humans, the Chinese are not a hegemonic behemoth like America was but when they become one, they will not be kind.
Whites need to end this cycle of “rise and fall” as this prevents peace of mind. After one cataclysmic race war, there would be eternal peace as there would be no divisions in the world.
That would be great news if California was getting the situation under control.
It would show the other US jurisdictions the right way to take care of this epidemic outbreak.
I am using your calculator to estimate the number of infected people since I read your article earlier this week.
Before that I was using a different approach and arrived to similar results +/_ 25%.
But your way of calculating is more straightforward.
I have shared it with friends and relatives.
So maybe your calculator will go viral (pun intended)…
Its a four letter word that starts with t and ends with l.
Other aspects include confirmation bias, and a feminine-leaning need for attention.
Well, there have been 83 deaths in Louisiana (the same number as California, although CA has nearly 10 times the population).
Assuming a 1% death rate and three weeks from infection to death, doesn’t that imply that 8,300 people were infected there three weeks ago? And wouldn’t you assume that they’ve infected others during those three weeks? If the doubling-time is 5 days, total infections would now be over 80,000. Applying the same analysis to Florida, suggests 30,000 current infections. If the doubling-time is actually 3 days, the totals would be vastly higher.
That’s why my methodology is convenient for getting rough infection estimates based upon known death totals:
https://www.unz.com/runz/correctly-estimating-coronavirus-infections/
Well if this virus mutates and starts to kill millenials and generation z, considering that the triumph of globohomo is due to them? And that they are the most pozzed generation?
Well, if CCCP did not disintegrate in 1991, we would be on Mars now.
Soviet Mars expeditions were planned for the end of the 90-ies.
Search for Project Aelita online in English.
Here’s a Russian language link:
https://tech.wikireading.ru/667
We don’t need National Socialism to have technological advances.
What we need is a society turned towards technological innovation.
Nazis had it, Soviets had it, Americans had it and now it’s the Chinese that have it at its’ maximum.
And I wish them well.
As a lifelong admirer of Russian Cosmist thinkers, I hope to live long enough to see humankind breaking from its planetary cradle (see Tsiolkovsky’s take on it).
Meanwhile in a real world, not paperplanned fantasy one, Sovoks couldn’t even land on a Moon, lol 🙂
It’s a meaningless question. It depends on the circumstances. Most people would probably fight for their country if their country was actually threatened with invasion. But they probably wouldn’t do so if it was going to be just another pointless stupid imperialist war.
Given that all of America’s wars since 1945 have been pointless stupid imperialist wars it’s depressing that 44% of Americans would still fight such wars.
The Japanese know that in the world of today they face zero military threats so it’s rational for them to be unenthusiastic about the idea of war.
The Chinese on the other hand know that they face an existential military threat from the US so naturally they’d be more willing to fight.
but Moscow’s aid is declared ‘useless
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8159225/Nations-rally-help-Italy-Germany-Russia-China-Cuba-dispatch-medics-supplies-Rome.html
Well, that’s a bit harsh.
First man made object to arrive on the Moon was a Soviet probe, so in that sense, USSR beat Americans to the Moon.
Soviet manned program was poorly thought out (they basically tried to to find employment for an obsolete nuclear bomb booster rocket, not so much send a man there), but the idea of sending people there was not really scientifically necessary (which is why Americans stopped as well).
Soviet robotic Moon exploration program was far cheaper and far more successful. Lunokhod drove around and conducted scientific observations, and sample return missions were done without the need for humans.
In terms of scientific value and cost/benefit analysis, Soviet moon program wasn’t too bad compared to American one.
That is what our Zion MSM says. It never wants to admit anything good about Russia.
Russia at least is doing something.
https://southfront.org/italians-were-dumbstruck-by-russian-specialists-speed/
And why should we return to the Moon? To prove to you envious petulant little tards that it can be done?
We did it six times for fuck’s sake.
I got a better idea. How about you and your Communist supermen do it?
Just once will suffice.
I’m truly sorry if I’ve offended your delicate sensibilities, snowflake.
I generally try to adhere to the wisdom of General Nathan Bedford Forrest.
Yeah, that’s why there are plenty of conspiracy theories about H. Ross Perot floating around out there. Personally though, I think he was a good guy and I, too, wish he had won that election.
Don’t really know how to respond except to say that I understand a bit now why you hold those views and that zero sum game mentality drives most of your thought process. Zero sum game is an economic concept which, as used in a colloquial manner, have been abused to the point it is used to justify any agenda. Most of life is NOT zero sum but governed by utility and comparative advantage. What you described of white losing their livelihood is a distribution problem. This is a separate issue which should be addressed with a universal basic income ( in your utopia…) Hundreds of million Chinese toiling to export manufacturing products lower the cost of these items such that more whites can enjoy these items. These chinaman are all working for you in exchange for the piece of paper from the US treasury. If you don’t realise it, they are still in relative poverty compared to the lifestyle you enjoy but it is better than absolute poverty. Both parties are happy. This is why it is NOT a zero game.
It is hard to deny that, in all likelihood, only one race will prevail in the final showdown between asian and whites. Genocide seems to be pretty much written in our DNA and much of our evolutionary history. There are no neanderthals, homo erectus or Denisovans because OUR common ancestors, Homo sapiens wipe them out. Yes, 50-80000 years ago, me and you shared an ancestor in Central Asia there is a blink of eye in evolutionary time. You and I would be black and pretty ugly then. Not trying to say we are brothers blah blah but trying to illustrate why your Nordic paradise will dissolve in a few generation as eugenic, evolution, associative mating eugenic create distinct populations ( 200 IQ vs 150 IQ) which ensure conflicts and inequality. The white utopia you are fighting is a stagnant equilibrium which is unattainable and doesn’t exist in nature. Colonisation of Mars and other planets ensure adaptations which will make the human race diverge again. Your white skin can’t deal with all the solar radiation in that thin atmosphere and the white race will become African black in 20 generations. This is why I ask you to think about the future and a bit beyond your own mortality. It is all futile and stupid.we are here for a very short time and all this animosity is so pointless.
P.s. all the technology I mentioned have already in progress and not science fiction.
https://www.scmp.com/tech/start-ups/article/3035204/chinese-researchers-hail-googles-quantum-computing-breakthrough-call
You think the Chinese is threatening your livelihood of whites? You should focus your genocidal tendencies on these thing which will be commercially available in 20 years.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vjSohj-Iclc
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_sBBaNYex3E
But it is you who made several announcements about you guys returning to the moon without anyone asking you people about it.
And then you just didn’t follow suit.
And no need to worry, soon enough Chinese “Communist” supermen will go there.
As for the reason why, maybe this might explain:
https://www.bbvaopenmind.com/en/science/physics/helium-3-lunar-gold-fever/
You have quite the complex about white people
https://www.unz.com/article/trump-as-cyrus-has-yahweh-grasped-him-by-his-right-hand/#comment-3648835
“Useful idiot Ross Perot enters the race. The exact repeat of play from 1912 election when the incumbent Taft was denied reelection by the third party run of Teddy Roosevelt to elect Wilson. Clinton is elected and just like Wilson does everything Wall Street wants. Clinton deregulates banking and sets the course for the neoliberal globalization.”
I’m just 3% Jewish. https://www.unz.com/akarlin/open-thread-7/
If you want to see cool Russian/Soviet space tech, look up Psyche mission by NASA. It will take off in a year or two and will study Psyche – metallic asteroid, in order to better understand planet formation. It also happens to be of immense value to people contemplating asteroid mining.
Spacecraft is being built by University of Arizona, and propulsion on it is SPT140 – Hall Effect (magnetic plasma) thruster, made by Russian Fakel.
For where the future is , TEM (транспортно энергетический модуль) is very interesting – a nuclear electric space tug. I really wish Roscosmos would prioritize that technical development.
If Putler reads this blog, he needs to squeeze Rogozin so that he stops wasting time and money on the same old orbital booster variants, and funds awesome groundbreaking technology such as nuclear electric instead.
Russia has the best plasma drives on the planet, and extensive space nuclear power experience. Combining the two technologies is an obvious direction to take.
Externally Confucianist, Internally Legalist. The nature of the Chinese state since the Han dynasty. An interesting note is that Mao was fan of legalism back when he was a teenager and wrote an entry in his diary defending Shang Yang.
I remember being in a night train between Piter and Moskva in 1994 and having as company a couple of guys from some closed down NII that lamented the demise of Soviet science.
One of them told us that they developed plasma thrusters where he worked.
He said that they had working proof of concept prototypes.
He said that it was absolutely unique and revolutionary.
He was more than bitter that his lab closed down.
Nice to know that a similar technology is finally being used.
Maybe it’s based on the device my passenger companion was talking about.
Not sure the dude survived the blessed 90ies though…
I’m afraid lying won’t change the facts, darling. Anyway, I seriously doubt we could return there, even if the tech was available. Leftoids like your kind have turned most of the country into PC pusified soft indoctrinated little children, incapable of the teamwork and spontaneous cognitive ability needed for undertakings like that. We have coons, twats, sodomites and pandering old geezers running things into the ground now. Just a matter of time before it all comes apart.
Pretty sure he’s Russian, so his “we” is different from yours.
Legalism pisses everyone off but its honestly quite functional.
Until people are tired of being pissed off.
Right, thanks for that. When I say we, I mean the USA.
If I had to bet any nation would put men on the Moon again, I’d probably go with Russia before China.
Russia is majority Christian, China is “whatever”…lol
It’s no accident that European Christian Civilization is the greatest in recorded history, or that The United States of America ( which Europe gave birth to) put a man on the Moon fifty years ago.
Atheistic Communism is stagnant and sterile. Unbridled Capitalism essentially ends up at the same place, albeit at a slower pace. There can be a third way, but I don’t think the Jewish Elite care very much for that.
The cope is strong in this one.
I always endeavor to say exactly what I mean.
You should do the same.