Some Covid-19 thoughts
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UPDATED: Monday, September 29, 2025 18:59
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Originally posted by THG:
Hello JO753...
Howdy, THG.
Are you feeling that? Its like a shifting uv the firmament. An Earth quake without the shake.
My bro sent me a link to this video. Never herd it befor:
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Quote:DING! DING! DING! Give that man a cigar!
SIGNY:You can actually trace this back to the rich, greedy, overly optimistic BANKERS that lent these rich, greedy, overly optimistic oilmen everywhere ... not just Texas but Oklahoma, S Dakota, Pennsylvania etc ... tons of money to "invest" in a production technology that would only ever make sense at $60+/bbl. And then there are the rich, greedy, overly optimistic hedge funds that play games with oil futures.
And because the rich, greedy, overly optimistic BANKERS have so much money sunk into these ... literally... money pits, they can't possibly let them fail because then the banks themselves would go bankrupt, along with the hedge funds that are based on oil.
SECOND: When you make all these connections to so many different people in far flung places, then nobody is at fault, other than the "system,"
The system rewards bad behavior. When you have a system that rewards bad behavior (and punishes good) then bad behavior will result.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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Quote:The neighbor's kid was rewarded by the system when he stole a car: he received free transportation until the car ran out of gas. That was followed by free arrest followed by free prison for a year in Houston. When the kid stole another car, this time in Galveston, same thing happened in a very systematic manner. The kid just got out of jail after 12 months. If the kid hadn't gone to jail, he could have stolen 2,000 cars rather than 2. Let's extend the story to the whole world. I would say that the government, because voters are far too respectful of Capitalism, doesn't punish Capitalists often enough to make them behave and stop their annoying conduct, which is far worse than driving stolen cars until they run out of gas.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:DING! DING! DING! Give that man a cigar!
SIGNY:You can actually trace this back to the rich, greedy, overly optimistic BANKERS that lent these rich, greedy, overly optimistic oilmen everywhere ... not just Texas but Oklahoma, S Dakota, Pennsylvania etc ... tons of money to "invest" in a production technology that would only ever make sense at $60+/bbl. And then there are the rich, greedy, overly optimistic hedge funds that play games with oil futures.
And because the rich, greedy, overly optimistic BANKERS have so much money sunk into these ... literally... money pits, they can't possibly let them fail because then the banks themselves would go bankrupt, along with the hedge funds that are based on oil.
SECOND: When you make all these connections to so many different people in far flung places, then nobody is at fault, other than the "system,"
The system rewards bad behavior. When you have a system that rewards bad behavior (and punishes good) then bad behavior will result.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Originally posted by second:Quote:The neighbor's kid was rewarded by the system when he stole a car: he received free transportation until the car ran out of gas. That was followed by free arrest followed by free prison for a year in Houston.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:DING! DING! DING! Give that man a cigar!
SIGNY:You can actually trace this back to the rich, greedy, overly optimistic BANKERS that lent these rich, greedy, overly optimistic oilmen everywhere ... not just Texas but Oklahoma, S Dakota, Pennsylvania etc ... tons of money to "invest" in a production technology that would only ever make sense at $60+/bbl. And then there are the rich, greedy, overly optimistic hedge funds that play games with oil futures.
And because the rich, greedy, overly optimistic BANKERS have so much money sunk into these ... literally... money pits, they can't possibly let them fail because then the banks themselves would go bankrupt, along with the hedge funds that are based on oil.
SECOND: When you make all these connections to so many different people in far flung places, then nobody is at fault, other than the "system,"
The system rewards bad behavior. When you have a system that rewards bad behavior (and punishes good) then bad behavior will result.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Maybe the kid should have sold the cars rather than drove them? Maybe then he would have been respected as a good Capitalist by the law. At least he could afford a far better lawyer than a Court appointed attorney. Trump, with the best lawyers money can hire, has never been jailed for his stealing. See "Legal affairs of Donald Trump"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_affairs_of_Donald_Trump
When caught, Trump returns the stolen items. He does not go to jail. The system lets him get away with this behavior time after time. The same happens to other Capitalists, except most don't get caught as often as Trump.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Originally posted by second:
Maybe the kid should have sold the cars rather than drove them? Maybe then he would have been respected as a good Capitalist by the law. At least he could afford a far better lawyer than a Court appointed attorney. Trump, with the best lawyers money can hire, has never been jailed for his stealing. See "Legal affairs of Donald Trump"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_affairs_of_Donald_Trump
When caught, Trump returns the stolen items. He does not go to jail. The system lets him get away with this behavior time after time. The same happens to other Capitalists, except most don't get caught as often as Trump.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
Hillary Clinton could tell you all about it.
Maybe we should ask Hunter Biden how capitalism works in Ukraine. Pretty good for him, apparently.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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The neighbor's kid was rewarded by the system when he stole a car: he received free transportation until the car ran out of gas. That was followed by free arrest followed by free prison for a year in Houston. When the kid stole another car, this time in Galveston, same thing happened in a very systematic manner.
Oh, you think the problem is that the laws don't get enforced?
Has it ever occurred to you that it's the laws themselves that need to be changed?
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Quote:I'm certain that kid stole many cars before he got caught. His attitude was that it's no big deal when the people get their cars back. It is not like he kept the cars forever. He simply used them for a few hours.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:
The neighbor's kid was rewarded by the system when he stole a car: he received free transportation until the car ran out of gas. That was followed by free arrest followed by free prison for a year in Houston. When the kid stole another car, this time in Galveston, same thing happened in a very systematic manner.
Oh, you think the problem is that the laws don't get enforced?
Has it ever occurred to you that it's the laws themselves that need to be changed?
Do you think the laws about speed limits should be changed? Texans get really angry if they think those laws would always be enforced. That would violate their right to drive! They like it when enforcement is random and seldom. Capitalists also like things exactly the same -- the law is just fine so long as their cheating is just as unlikely to be caught as a speeder is unlikely to be caught. And if the cheating is revealed, well, just pay back what you stole after litigating it for years. Trump knows this very well. See Trump University. He kept that case in court for a decade, only settling immediately before his inauguration. He had sworn he'd never settle.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_University#Settlement
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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The latest hospital death data show 17,337 people have died after testing positive for coronavirus across the United Kingdom as of this Monday.
But right now the true death toll from COVID-19 - the respiratory disease caused by the coronavirus - is likely to be more than double this, based on the FT’s analysis of excess deaths in recent data.
On Tuesday the Office for National Statistics reported that 18,516 people died in England and Wales in the week ending April 10, or 7,966 more than the five-year average.
While the ONS records mentions of COVID-19 in death certificates, the sheer volume of extra total deaths - including those that do not mention COVID-19 - means that the true toll from the disease is being undercounted, according to the FT analysis.
This indicates the “real” death toll from the coronavirus is now running around 41,000.
The ONS data on Tuesday provided concrete examples of the under-reporting of COVID-19 deaths.
The statistics showed deaths in care homes had doubled over recent weeks, but only 17% of the death certificates mentioned COVID-19.
Cambridge professor David Spiegelhalter told the FT that it was not credible that these extra deaths could mostly come as a result of indirect effects from the coronavirus lockdown, such as seriously ill people avoiding hospital.
www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-britain-toll-ft/ft-analy
sis-sees-uk-coronavirus-death-toll-at-41000-idUSKCN2240RV
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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COVID-19 and climate change: ‘The parallels are screaming at us,’ says John Kerry
Kerry said that a “baseline of truth” to advance scientific recommendations around COVID-19 and climate change is needed, but has at times proved elusive from the Trump White House.
“...It’s no coincidence that the same president who called COVID-19 a ‘Democratic hoax’ referred to climate change as a ‘hoax from China.’”
www.marketwatch.com/story/covid-19-and-climate-change-the-parallels-ar
e-screaming-at-us-says-john-kerry-2020-04-22
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