top of the heap to third world status in one generation

[Gry]

This Daring Brit’s Long-Lost WWII Diary Chronicles London’s Darkest Days

As Nazi bombs rained, an aging architect risked his life to protect the greatest symbol of England's resistance: St. Paul’s Cathedral. And he documented every moment.

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/...ondon-s-darkest-days?utm_source=pocket-newtab

 

[Gry]

Looks like my poor old laptop may have survived yet one cup of hot spilled in the keyboard yesterday.

Timing in life between my tea and the cats I share space with - was my timing which was off, not the cats.

Hardly lucid, staggering as if I were drunk.

Try to accept the basic indignity of being feeble with the grace that I see others do muster.

 

[CosmicCharlie]

From reading some of your links and what I’ve noticed.

All of the Politicians in the past 50+ years have sold us out more and more.

Now there isn’t even a way for us to make what we need to survive ourselves. There needs to be a return of production back to the USA which will take a long time.

It seems to me like many Politicians are still playing Politics and more worried about their own financial well-being.

All of them being so corrupt or so invested in “special interests” that they are blind to any other views or they just don’t care because they are so self centered.

I certainly hope this Virus takes a lot of them out. They have done nothing but destroy our country while personally profiting. Meanwhile the country’s infrastructure is falling apart and we can’t even get (much less make) the supplies we need...

 

[Gry]

From reading some of your links and what I’ve noticed.

All of the Politicians in the past 50+ years have sold us out more and more.

Now there isn’t even a way for us to make what we need to survive ourselves. There needs to be a return of production back to the USA which will take a long time.

It seems to me like many Politicians are still playing Politics and more worried about their own financial well-being.

All of them being so corrupt or so invested in “special interests” that they are blind to any other views or they just don’t care because they are so self centered.

I certainly hope this Virus takes a lot of them out. They have done nothing but destroy our country while personally profiting. Meanwhile the country’s infrastructure is falling apart and we can’t even get (much less make) the supplies we need...

An accurate assessment, but I sure do not wish for anything other than change for those who I do still love and respect.

 

[Gry]

I place a lot of the responsibility for the current condition of our country on former intel personal.

 

[h.h.]

Is Dick Pound an Olympic sport?

 

[Gry]

The Jewish Racing Driver Who Beat the Nazis

In the 1930s, Adolf Hitler funded the most powerful racing program in the world. An American heiress, a Jewish driver, and a struggling French automaker banded together to defeat them on the racetrack.

https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-cu...-who-beat-the-nazis/?utm_source=pocket-newtab

 

[Gry]

As I glance over the reviews of the day, and hear some of what was said, I wish could say any of it surprises me.
It does not. Any opportunity to spin. Going to be unbelievably expensive in term of how hard this will hit.
What we need to see are far more stringent quarantines, not a decreasing of them.

 

[Gry]

Are Hospitals Near Me Ready for Coronavirus? Here Are Nine Different Scenarios.

https://projects.propublica.org/graphics/covid-hospitals?utm_source=pocket-newtab

 

[Gry]

A source I feel pretty decent about for news is Thom Hartmann.

He has 2 kids with impressive medical degrees and careers ...

While I do not share all his values, I think his are basically

very caring and decent.

thom hartmann.com


I enjoy the fact that he seeks out conservatives

to be on his program .

 

[Gry]

Am just told the president stated he thinks this will all be 'over'

by Easter. That is just over 2 weeks.

I think we will see things just starting to get going.

An over abundance of caution is what is appropriate here,
that is not the advice we are being given here.

Please be real careful - many more will make it though this

if they just hunker down for a while.

 

[buzzmobile]

Am just told the president stated he thinks this will all be 'over'

by Easter. That is just over 2 weeks.

I think we will see things just starting to get going.

An over abundance of caution is what is appropriate here,
that is not the advice we are being given here.

Please be real careful - many more will make it though this

if they just hunker down for a while.

Here you go, Gry
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1242537995103846400?s=20

It's creepy. He's preparing us for a miracle.

 

[St. Phatty]

Am just told the president stated he thinks this will all be 'over'

by Easter. That is just over 2 weeks.

An infection involving 7 billion people is like a very big boat.

has a lot of momentum and is hard to turn.

Trends in motion today are not likely to cease. Rates of increase will eventually fall off. Right now the rates of increase - are increasing (referring to US death toll).

April 12 - wow that's 3 sundays.

400 x 5 x 5 x 5 ~ 50,000 = conservative est. of US death toll on Easter Sunday.

(rate of increase appears to be inching towards an 8 fold increase per week, but I'm using 5 ... a little optimism).

I recommend an Andrew Cuomo press conference.

 

[Gry]

Here you go, Gry
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1242537995103846400?s=20

It's creepy. He's preparing us for a miracle.

The window in which we can have an opportunity

for a more positive outcome is closing.

I am so sad with the choices I see being made.

 

[h.h.]

It’s a suicide pact.

Get angry or die.

 

[EsterEssence]

Are we going to have to start thinking our neighbors are going to break in and steal our toilet paper.

 

[Gry]

Pretty sure my neighbors will continue to bring me cat food, avocados and fruit juice.



A song for the world. I find the video selected delightfully appropriate !
The preying mantis and mushroom cloud bring a smile to my heart.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlqNbprAQ9U Bad Behavior ft. Myron Glasper w/ friends

 

[Gry]

Hear is the lovely little ditty which brought these gentlemen to my attention.

TROUBLE IN MY SOUL w/ Artwork Jammal,
who sadly is no longer with us. He did take himself home.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0X3Hug6V9E

 

[Gry]

The Sedan Also Rises

For decades after his death, Ernest Hemingway’s iconic 1955 Chrysler New Yorker was lost somewhere in Cuba—until a determined museum director caught a lucky break.

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-sedan-also-rises?utm_source=pocket-newtab

 

[St. Phatty]

The window in which we can have an opportunity

for a more positive outcome is closing.

I am so sad with the choices I see being made.

Kaiser playing Covid19 roulette with their workers' lives has got to be a terrible example of that.

This isn't low intelligence - this is negative intelligence - deliberately destructive.

A cat is theoretically less intelligent than humans, but they are still smart enough to sit beside a trap to protect their kittens. Not kaiser, they are pushing their patients towards the trap.

Same for NY state prisons - no masks for the guards - by edict.

kind of puts them in a bind - they might be afraid of quitting - not so many job openings right now.


Oh well while we're talking about a grim situation, I recommend the Macrovoices webcast -

Smart Young People, 2 of whom are Covid19 patients, report from Lake Como, Italy & Hong Kong.

They also report Persistent Chest Pain continuing months after the initial infection - in young people who were considered to have "good outcomes". Not a few cases. Dozens or hundreds of patients contacting Erik Townsend, one of the guys who started Macrovoices - who is also now a semi-recovering Covid19 patient.

Lenore Hawkins & Dr. Steve Bickel + Erik Townsend

https://www.macrovoices.com/

https://www.podbean.com/media/share..._share_ep&utm_medium=dlink&utm_source=w_share