Saturday, March 7, 2020

Silencing . . .


(from It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis)
". . . ". . . everything that is worthwhile in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever. But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and of silencing them forever.". . . "



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Friday, March 6, 2020

Informed? . . .


(from https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/just-my-hunch-trump-contradicts-health-experts-coronavirus-n1151006#anchor-Expertssaythedeathrateis34percentTrumpsaysthatsfalse)
". . . The World Health Organization said this week that about 3.4 percent of coronavirus patients have died. . . Trump claimed that the WHO estimate was "false," citing a "hunch" he had. . . . "I think the 3.4 percent is really a false number — and this is just my hunch . . .

During a news conference at the White House last week, multiple health officials warned that the virus will continue to spread throughout the U.S. . . . Trump said the number of cases "within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero. That's a pretty good job we've done.". . .

Trump says a vaccine is coming soon. Experts say not so fast. . . During a coronavirus roundtable Monday with his task force and heads of pharmaceutical companies, Trump appeared to suggest that a vaccine for the coronavirus could be just a few months away. . . Fauci corrected Trump at the roundtable, explaining to the president that it would be more than a year by the time a vaccine was developed, tested and "deployable" for public use.". . .

Trump says coronavirus is 'like a flu.' Experts say it's 'multiple times' worse. . . Trump has also repeatedly conflated the coronavirus with the seasonal flu, downplaying the severity of the new virus.
. . Fauci said during hearings this week that the mortality rate of the coronavirus "is multiple times what the seasonal flu is."

Trump suggested that people infected with the virus could still go to work and make full recoveries. This is in direct contrast to what the CDC has advised people to do. . .The CDC has said people displaying symptoms should stay home and self-quarantine unless they are seeking medical care.

"People who are mildly ill with COVID-19 are able to isolate at home during their illness. You should restrict activities outside your home, except for getting medical care. Do not go to work, school, or public areas. Avoid using public transportation, ride-sharing, or taxis," the CDC website says. . .Trump later denied saying people could work while ill.

Trump says warm weather could 'kill the virus. . .  "I think it's premature to assume that," Dr. Nancy Messonnier, the head of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the CDC, said of Trump's claims during a call with reporters. "We haven't been through even a single year with this pathogen.". . ."



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Thursday, March 5, 2020

Wiser . . .



Wisdom, many wrongly feel,
Comes naturally with age.
The time frame's right
But, unaided, don't
Expect it at this stage.

It won't arrive automatically.
One has to work; one has to try
To develop, most emphatically.
No effort brings you no result.
No lethargy can you justify.


Wisdom
©2016 Raymond M. Jozwiak
From No Frills



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Wednesday, March 4, 2020

Promises. . .



(from It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis)
" . . . (President) Windrip had promised to make everybody richer, and had contrived to make everybody, except for a few hundred bankers and industrialists and soldiers, much poorer. He needed no higher mathematicians to produce his financial statements: any ordinary press agent could do them. To show a 100 per cent economy in military expenditures, while increasing the establishment 700 per cent, it had been necessary only to charge up all expenditures for the Minute Men to non-military departments, so that their training in the art of bayonet-sticking was debited to the Department of Education. To show an increase in average wages one did tricks with "categories of labor" and "required minimum wages," and forgot to state how many workers ever did become entitled to the "minimum," and how much was charged as wages, on the books, for food and shelter for the millions in the labor camps. . . "





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Tuesday, March 3, 2020

Pathology . . .


". . . Trump’s chronic inability to admit that anything on his watch is less than stupendously wonderful. This pathology is deeply ingrained in this presidency. It infects everything from his depictions of the economy to his insane demands of border officials, in addition to (as we’re now seeing) the government’s handling of a public health crisis. . . Highlighting this provides a way to integrate criticism of Trump’s management failures with an indictment of his hideous character flaws —his towering dishonesty and megalomania. In this telling, those failings are not just the latest ugly installment of the Daily Trump Show. They’re also shortcomings that threaten major real-world consequences. . ."






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Monday, March 2, 2020

Who's . . .

. . . 'politicizing'? . .

If someone wanted another to fail, he would encourage any and all of their bad decisions enthusiastically. The mere fact that lives (and possibly many) could be in danger, makes it all the more clear why a decision, which is perceived to be bad, would be criticized. It is far from 'un-American' to be concerned about the American population. And, obviously, "junior" is more than a little mixed-up.

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(from https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/01/coronavirus-mike-pence-donald-trump-jr-democrats-millions-die)
". . . criticised by contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination, the president said he had been referring to politicisation of coronavirus, not the outbreak itself. . . Rush Limbaugh, the conservative shock jock to whom Trump gave the Presidential Medal of Freedom, said: “The coronavirus is being weaponized, as yet another element to bring down Donald Trump.” . . . Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel said: “Democrats are using this for their political gain to try and stoke fear in the American people, which is shameful, wrong, and I think un-American.”. . . And Donald Trump Jr, appearing on Fox News, said: “For them to try to take a pandemic and seemingly hope that it comes here and kills millions of people so that they could end Donald Trump’s streak of winning is a new level of sickness.”. . ."
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Sunday, March 1, 2020

Tweaked . . .



. . . the mix a bit . . .



Can you hear all that I say
Beneath all clever wordplay?
Don’t think that I’m insulting you
That I don’t want your point of view
Working from limited base
So easily losing your place
Why feign a blatant expertise
With no obvious philosophies?

Do you know
What you want
To accomplish here?
Will you go
To the length you say you will
Or is this just all
Smoke and mirrors?

You may just set precedent
with every signal you’ve sent
Why don’t you learn the protocol
To no longer suffer this at all

Say what you mean if you mean it
Do what you feel in your heart
Make it real when you’re speaking your mind

Impressions churning and spray
Like repairs flowing away
Pushing downstream ferociously
Uprooting each obstacle you see


Smoke & Mirrors
©2019 Raymond M. Jozwiak
the 'hopefully-finished' demo




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