shoebat--2020-04-15--Major Retailers Are Refusing To Pay Rent To Landlords In New Trend

When one can not pay his bills , what does one do ?
Does one simply stop paying ?
Try that most places and one will end up in court .
But according to Business Insider , there is a new trend of lessees in the form of major corporations simply refusing to pay rent for retail space due to the virus-related situation .
Retail companies across the US are grappling with a global pandemic that ’ s forcing them to keep their stores closed , drying up business , and putting their futures at risk .
The US is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ end in sight and some retailers , who are growing increasingly concerned about depleting cash reserves as sales drop off but expensive store rents remain , are shifting the financial burden elsewhere by refusing to pay their landlords .
Refusing to pay rent puts landlords , who have their own mortgage payments and loans to worry about , also at risk of failure , and greater pressure on the companies that finance them – the banks , hedge funds , and pension funds – which is likely to have wider economic ramifications , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a small group of retailers are so far reported to have refused to pay rent .
Among these are the national chains – Staples , The Cheesecake Factory , and Mattress Firm .
In Europe , H & M , Primark , and Adidas ( though it went back on its decision ) have done the same .
But industry experts and insiders painted a gloomier picture of the breadth of this crisis , which could see considerably more retailers refusing to cough up on their rent in the next few months .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ is there is no reason why they should abate the rent or why the responsibility should entirely fall on them .
“ It is not our fault that this is happening , ” he said .
“ Deferral is our preferred avenue , ” he added .
We think it ’ s fair .
When things come back and they start doing well , they will have the money to pay us back.
” ( source ) Now in fairness to the companies , they do have a point .
All major restaurants @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , even profitable ones .
If one factors this in , a month , two , three , or more loss is a major blow to their bottom line .
Naturally , it would be in the renter ’ s interest to negate or lower their rent payments , and a lot of landlord are frankly selfish or just cash-strapped too on borrowed money , so they can ’ t afford to lower it .
The problem here which this exposes is the interconnected nature of the debt web that is enmeshed over @ @ @ @ @ @ @ all people can pay , but like the derivatives market , it falls apart when payments become seriously jeopardized , leading to a crisis of who-pays-what that takes years to clear up in a court .
Overall it is long-term disastrous in pursuit of short-term profit because it links debt with profit in a dangerous “ race to the bottom ” .
It is true that the restaurants and real estate owners need to work together , but this is more than about them .
This is about how the two are tied @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and as one trips , the other also will inevitably fall .
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When one cannot pay his bills, what does one do? Does one simply stop paying? Try that most places and one will end up in court. But according to Business Insider, there is a new trend of lessees in the form of major corporations simply refusing to pay rent for retail space due to the virus-related situation.
Retail companies across the US are grappling with a global pandemic that’s forcing them to keep their stores closed, drying up business, and putting their futures at risk. The US is weeks into the lockdown with no clear end in sight and some retailers, who are growing increasingly concerned about depleting cash reserves as sales drop off but expensive store rents remain, are shifting the financial burden elsewhere by refusing to pay their landlords. Refusing to pay rent puts landlords, who have their own mortgage payments and loans to worry about, also at risk of failure, and greater pressure on the companies that finance them – the banks, hedge funds, and pension funds – which is likely to have wider economic ramifications, experts say. In the US, a small group of retailers are so far reported to have refused to pay rent. Among these are the national chains – Staples, The Cheesecake Factory, and Mattress Firm. In Europe, H&M, Primark, and Adidas (though it went back on its decision) have done the same. But industry experts and insiders painted a gloomier picture of the breadth of this crisis, which could see considerably more retailers refusing to cough up on their rent in the next few months. … Maloney said the general consensus amongst landlords is there is no reason why they should abate the rent or why the responsibility should entirely fall on them. “It is not our fault that this is happening,” he said. “Deferral is our preferred avenue,” he added. We think it’s fair. When things come back and they start doing well, they will have the money to pay us back.” (source)
Now in fairness to the companies, they do have a point. All major restaurants run on very, very tight margins, even profitable ones. If one factors this in, a month, two, three, or more loss is a major blow to their bottom line. Naturally, it would be in the renter’s interest to negate or lower their rent payments, and a lot of landlord are frankly selfish or just cash-strapped too on borrowed money, so they can’t afford to lower it.
The problem here which this exposes is the interconnected nature of the debt web that is enmeshed over society. The web works well when all people can pay, but like the derivatives market, it falls apart when payments become seriously jeopardized, leading to a crisis of who-pays-what that takes years to clear up in a court. Overall it is long-term disastrous in pursuit of short-term profit because it links debt with profit in a dangerous “race to the bottom”.
It is true that the restaurants and real estate owners need to work together, but this is more than about them. This is about how the two are tied together by ropes of borrowed money, and as one trips, the other also will inevitably fall.
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shoebat--2020-04-15--Four Weeks Annihilates Eleven Years Of “Growth”

‘ The economy has recovered ’ was the line declared in 2009 , and for the next eleven years , the false recovery was supported by the Federal Reserve Bank through monetary printing in the same way that a lazy bodybuilder inflates his muscles with steroids .
However , all false things must collapse , and such is what happened recently as new data indicates that eleven years of ‘ growth ’ was wiped out in the last four weeks according to Business Insider .
Economists expect that a report due to be released Thursday from the Labor Department will @ @ @ @ @ @ @ all jobs created since the Great Recession in just a matter of weeks as the coronavirus pandemic continues to slam the economy .
The median consensus estimate from economists is that US weekly jobless claims will be 5.46 million for the week ending April 11 , according to Bloomberg data .
That would be a slight decrease from the 6.6 million claims filed in the week ending April 4 , the first week that record unemployment filings have declined since coronavirus layoffs began .
Still , the consensus estimate would bring total filings @ @ @ @ @ @ @ million over the course of four weeks .
That means in about one month , the US economy will have erased all of the jobs created since the 2008-2009 recession .
( source ) This was not growth .
This was parasitism masquerading as growth .
Real growth is not easily wiped out .
A plant that has rooted itself to soil does not easily die .
In fact , some plants ( honeysuckle , wild blackberry , and wild onion to name a few ) are so strong that one can uproot @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pile , only to return a year later and find that the plant thrown to the waste has established new roots in the location where it was disposed of , for its roots were so strong it was able to survive a major displacement .
Only a plant without any real root system , or strong roots , will die quickly after a long period of growth .
The same can be said about the economy .
The damage today is not new .
It was made over a decade ago , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ being allowed to crash and naturally heal .
The economy was a dead plant years ago .
It is just now that the people are beginning to realize it because it is being made obvious .
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‘The economy has recovered’ was the line declared in 2009, and for the next eleven years, the false recovery was supported by the Federal Reserve Bank through monetary printing in the same way that a lazy bodybuilder inflates his muscles with steroids. However, all false things must collapse, and such is what happened recently as new data indicates that eleven years of ‘growth’ was wiped out in the last four weeks according to Business Insider.
Economists expect that a report due to be released Thursday from the Labor Department will show that the US has wiped out all jobs created since the Great Recession in just a matter of weeks as the coronavirus pandemic continues to slam the economy. The median consensus estimate from economists is that US weekly jobless claims will be 5.46 million for the week ending April 11, according to Bloomberg data. That would be a slight decrease from the 6.6 million claims filed in the week ending April 4, the first week that record unemployment filings have declined since coronavirus layoffs began. Still, the consensus estimate would bring total filings for unemployment insurance to more than 22 million over the course of four weeks. That means in about one month, the US economy will have erased all of the jobs created since the 2008-2009 recession. (source)
This was not growth. This was parasitism masquerading as growth.
Real growth is not easily wiped out. A plant that has rooted itself to soil does not easily die. In fact, some plants (honeysuckle, wild blackberry, and wild onion to name a few) are so strong that one can uproot them and throw them in a burn pile, only to return a year later and find that the plant thrown to the waste has established new roots in the location where it was disposed of, for its roots were so strong it was able to survive a major displacement.
Only a plant without any real root system, or strong roots, will die quickly after a long period of growth. The same can be said about the economy. The damage today is not new. It was made over a decade ago, and its rot was covered up instead of being allowed to crash and naturally heal.
The economy was a dead plant years ago. It is just now that the people are beginning to realize it because it is being made obvious.
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shoebat--2020-04-15--CDC Admits A Lot More Medical Care Professionals Are Dying Of COVID-19 Than Being Reported

COVID-19 has affected many people , including medical professionals .
However , according to a recent study by the CDC and reported by the UK Guardian , the number of people dying from COVID-19 has been gravely underreported .
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released the infection tally on Tuesday and said 27 health worker deaths have been recorded , based on a small number of test-result reports .
Officials stressed that the count was drawn from just 16 % of the nation ’ s Covid-19 cases , so the true numbers of healthcare infections and deaths are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ data provided by states most closely tracking the occupations of people with the virus suggest that healthcare workers account for about 11 % of all Covid-19 infections .
“ We wanted to spotlight healthcare providers because they are the national heroes now caring for others with this disease at a time of great uncertainty , ” said Dr Anne Schuchat , principal deputy director of the CDC .
“ We know their institutions are trying to provide material to help them work safely , but already thousands have been infected.
” ( source @

COVID-19 has affected many people, including medical professionals. However, according to a recent study by the CDC and reported by the UK Guardian, the number of people dying from COVID-19 has been gravely underreported.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released the infection tally on Tuesday and said 27 health worker deaths have been recorded, based on a small number of test-result reports.
Officials stressed that the count was drawn from just 16% of the nation’s Covid-19 cases, so the true numbers of healthcare infections and deaths are certainly far higher.
CDC officials said data provided by states most closely tracking the occupations of people with the virus suggest that healthcare workers account for about 11% of all Covid-19 infections.
“We wanted to spotlight healthcare providers because they are the national heroes now caring for others with this disease at a time of great uncertainty,” said Dr Anne Schuchat, principal deputy director of the CDC. “We know their institutions are trying to provide material to help them work safely, but already thousands have been infected.” (source)


shoebat--2020-04-15--From The Common Man To Doctors, Nobody Knows Anything About COVID-19

One of the points that I have consistently made at Shoebat.com about COVID-19 is that what makes the pandemic so dangerous is that nobody really knows anything about what this disease is .
There are eight strains running about , some that seem to have killed people , some that are harmless , and no clue as to what strain is where killing who .
The Los Angeles Times has alluded to this problem , saying that a lack of government data is causing problems for the public and doctors alike .
As the novel coronavirus continues to claim hundreds @ @ @ @ @ @ @ victim of the crisis is emerging : government transparency .
Much of what we know about COVID-19 in nursing homes and senior facilities did not come from public agencies , but private sources : relatives , staff members and administrators .
“ I want updates , ” said Christina Valencia , whose grandmother was among the several people testing positive for the disease at a nursing home in Redondo Beach .
“ You should have a right to know how many residents are positive.
” Californians are in the dark about more than @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of personal protective equipment , or PPE , is lacking , upping the anxiety of healthcare workers .
Coroners aren ’ t releasing information about deaths .
Until recently , California was not releasing information about the racial breakdown of people who were infected and killed .
Government confusion has undermined public understanding of the crisis , and has potentially compromised California ’ s response , some health and civil liberties experts argue .
But there are few rules for what cities and counties must disclose and little direction from California ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Newsom , on what must be communicated in an urgent moment .
Dr. Richard Jackson , who served as California ’ s state health officer under Gov .
Arnold Schwarzenegger , said it ’ s crucial that public health agencies and political leaders keep residents informed by sharing data on local hot spots , infection rates and demographics in their communities .
“ As the general principle , the public has a right to important information that would influence their own health , ” said Jackson , a professor emeritus at the UCLA @ @ @ @ @ @ @ transparency , some experts said , is essential for maintaining public trust amid the catastrophe .
“ Mistrust is the enemy of good public policy and certainly good public health policy , ” said Jeffrey Kahn , head of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics .
With California waging a blitzkrieg campaign to fight back the fast-moving pandemic , state and local agencies are overwhelmed , and some difficulty sharing information is inevitable .
Yet California ’ s halting release of key knowledge is alarming groups that look out for the vulnerable @ @ @ @ @ @ @ American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California sent Newsom a letter requesting more transparency about the pandemic ’ s effect on people of color and other at-risk groups .
“ From what we ’ ve seen thus far , we know that this virus has been impacting black communities and we have no idea what is necessarily happening here in California , ” said Abre ’ Conner , staff attorney for the ACLU of Northern California .
“ We ’ d like to see more data now , today.
” Conner said the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ needs to come from the state , which she argues is best suited to set perimeters , instead of leaving counties and cities to make their own decisions .
“ California is really behind the ball in ensuring there is comprehensive data available , ” she said .
“ We don ’ t have any data , we don ’ t have any accountability.
” ( source )

One of the points that I have consistently made at Shoebat.com about COVID-19 is that what makes the pandemic so dangerous is that nobody really knows anything about what this disease is. There are eight strains running about, some that seem to have killed people, some that are harmless, and no clue as to what strain is where killing who. The Los Angeles Times has alluded to this problem, saying that a lack of government data is causing problems for the public and doctors alike.
As the novel coronavirus continues to claim hundreds of lives across California, a secondary victim of the crisis is emerging: government transparency. Much of what we know about COVID-19 in nursing homes and senior facilities did not come from public agencies, but private sources: relatives, staff members and administrators. “I want updates,” said Christina Valencia, whose grandmother was among the several people testing positive for the disease at a nursing home in Redondo Beach. “You should have a right to know how many residents are positive.” Californians are in the dark about more than nursing homes. Information about the availability of personal protective equipment, or PPE, is lacking, upping the anxiety of healthcare workers. Coroners aren’t releasing information about deaths. Until recently, California was not releasing information about the racial breakdown of people who were infected and killed. Government confusion has undermined public understanding of the crisis, and has potentially compromised California’s response, some health and civil liberties experts argue. But there are few rules for what cities and counties must disclose and little direction from California’s top officials, including Gov. Gavin Newsom, on what must be communicated in an urgent moment. Dr. Richard Jackson, who served as California’s state health officer under Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, said it’s crucial that public health agencies and political leaders keep residents informed by sharing data on local hot spots, infection rates and demographics in their communities. “As the general principle, the public has a right to important information that would influence their own health,” said Jackson, a professor emeritus at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. Such transparency, some experts said, is essential for maintaining public trust amid the catastrophe. “Mistrust is the enemy of good public policy and certainly good public health policy,” said Jeffrey Kahn, head of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics. With California waging a blitzkrieg campaign to fight back the fast-moving pandemic, state and local agencies are overwhelmed, and some difficulty sharing information is inevitable. Yet California’s halting release of key knowledge is alarming groups that look out for the vulnerable and disadvantaged. Last week, the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California sent Newsom a letter requesting more transparency about the pandemic’s effect on people of color and other at-risk groups. “From what we’ve seen thus far, we know that this virus has been impacting black communities and we have no idea what is necessarily happening here in California,” said Abre’ Conner, staff attorney for the ACLU of Northern California. “We’d like to see more data now, today.” Conner said the requirement for local data collection and release needs to come from the state, which she argues is best suited to set perimeters, instead of leaving counties and cities to make their own decisions. “California is really behind the ball in ensuring there is comprehensive data available,” she said. “We don’t have any data, we don’t have any accountability.” (source)
This is what makes COVID-19 dangerous- that there is a lot of misinformation or even what seems to be disinformation floating about. There is no clear picture as to what is happening.
Could there be, and perhaps is there some ‘fear mongering’ with the virus? Absolutely yes.
However, there is also undeniable proof that people have gotten seriously sick and died from it in ways that they should have not, given their circumstances.
What is COVID-19? If we cannot clearly identify (a) the strains that are causing the problem to the public, (b) where these strains are, and (c) determine what the effects of this illness are, how can anything be determined to be safe?
What is more important? The serious potential of a wider pandemic- something not uncommon to human history -or economic problems resulting from a fragile, falsely-supported economy that needed to collapse anyways for the good of the country long-term?
The virus is not good, but one also must look out for public health and welfare. This is not to say abuses will not happen, but until there is a clear handle on what is going on, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
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shoebat--2020-04-15--Forget YangBux, Will There Be The “Emergency Money For The People” Act Passed?

Former Democrat Presidential nominee Andrew Yang made a famous promise of $ 1000 dollars per month to every American citizen .
But Yang has nothing on what may come soon , for as CBS News Pittsburgh reports , a recently proposed bill may pay out $ 2000 checks to every American per month until the COVID-19 crisis passes , giving new meaning to not the term YangBux , but the “ Emergency Money for the People Act ” : Two House Democrats have introduced legislation that would give millions of Americans $ 2,000 per month during the coronavirus pandemic .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Money for the People Act .
t was introduced by Rep. Tim Ryan , D-Ohio , and Rep. Ro Khanna , D-Calif. “ The economic impact of this virus is unprecedented for our country .
As millions of Americans file for unemployment week over week , we have to work quickly to patch the dam – and that means putting cash in the hands of hard-working families.
” The act would expand relief to more Americans and includes a $ 2,000 monthly payment to every qualifying American over the age of 16 until @ @ @ @ @ @ @ A one-time , twelve hundred dollar check isn ’ t going to cut it , ” said Rep. Ro Khanna in a press release .
“ Americans need sustained cash infusions for the duration of this crisis in order to come out on the other side alive , healthy , and ready to get back to work .
Members on both sides of the aisle are finally coming together around the idea of sending money out to people .
Rep. Ryan and I are urging leadership to include this bill in the fourth @ @ @ @ @ @ @ American working class.
” Pennsylvania Congressman Mike Doyle was an original co-sponsor of the bill .
More than a dozen other members of Congress also support the bill .
Congressman Ryan says the bill also fixes a bug in the CARES Act to ensure college students and adults with disabilities can still receive the payments even if claimed as a dependent .
The Emergency Money for the People Act additionally recognizes that not everyone has a bank or a home address to receive a check – so it allows individuals to get this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pre-paid debit card , or mobile money platforms such as Venmo , Zelle , or PayPal .
( source )

Former Democrat Presidential nominee Andrew Yang made a famous promise of $1000 dollars per month to every American citizen. But Yang has nothing on what may come soon, for as CBS News Pittsburgh reports, a recently proposed bill may pay out $2000 checks to every American per month until the COVID-19 crisis passes, giving new meaning to not the term YangBux, but the “Emergency Money for the People Act”:
Two House Democrats have introduced legislation that would give millions of Americans $2,000 per month during the coronavirus pandemic.
The new bill is called the Emergency Money for the People Act.
t was introduced by Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, and Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif.
In a press release, Congressman Ryan says:
“The economic impact of this virus is unprecedented for our country. As millions of Americans file for unemployment week over week, we have to work quickly to patch the dam – and that means putting cash in the hands of hard-working families.”
The act would expand relief to more Americans and includes a $2,000 monthly payment to every qualifying American over the age of 16 until employment returns to pre-COVID-19 levels.
“A one-time, twelve hundred dollar check isn’t going to cut it,” said Rep. Ro Khanna in a press release. “Americans need sustained cash infusions for the duration of this crisis in order to come out on the other side alive, healthy, and ready to get back to work. Members on both sides of the aisle are finally coming together around the idea of sending money out to people. Rep. Ryan and I are urging leadership to include this bill in the fourth COVID relief package to truly support the American working class.”
Pennsylvania Congressman Mike Doyle was an original co-sponsor of the bill. More than a dozen other members of Congress also support the bill.
Congressman Ryan says the bill also fixes a bug in the CARES Act to ensure college students and adults with disabilities can still receive the payments even if claimed as a dependent.
The Emergency Money for the People Act additionally recognizes that not everyone has a bank or a home address to receive a check – so it allows individuals to get this money through direct deposit, check, pre-paid debit card, or mobile money platforms such as Venmo, Zelle, or PayPal. (source)


shoebat--2020-04-15--The Covid-19 Crises And Rise Of Anti-Establishment Radicalism

In this video I compare the 2009 economic crises in the EU and the economic predicament that Europe is heading @ @ @ @ @ crises and how they both presage a new wave of anti-establishment radicalism :

By Theodore Shoebat
In this video I compare the 2009 economic crises in the EU and the economic predicament that Europe is heading to due to the covid-19 crises and how they both presage a new wave of anti-establishment radicalism:
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shoebat--2020-04-14--Joe Rogan Declares That The Democratic Party “Has Made Us All Morons With This Joe Biden Thing… I Wo

Joe Rogan Declares That The Democratic Party “Has Made Us All Morons With This Joe Biden Thing… I Would Rather Vote For Trump Than Him.”

Joe Rogan runs a well-known podcast online and has for some years .
In a recent podcast with Brandon Schaub , he said that the Democrat party “ has made us all morons with this Joe Biden thing… I would rather vote for Trump than him .
I don ’ t think he can handle anything.
” Rogan ’ s statement is not unique , but it is a good observation of what is happening in the political process right now regarding the 2020 election cycle .
Trump had the upper hand for a long time , but as noted @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of his political capital on his practically complete abandonment of MAGA in favor of essentially doing the opposite in many aspects .
I have detailed these examples before , but regardless if one likes Trump or not , what he claimed he would do as president versus what he actually did speaks for itself .
It is , ironically , representative of Trump ’ s history of bankruptcies , except this was political instead of fiscal .
In order to win , Trump needed to go against somebody for whom there would be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ legitimate chance of influencing people in a serious way .
The Democrats seem to want this too , since a Trump 2020 victory likely means a Democrat 2024-2032 victory and given world events , the chance of giving themselves a new FDR-type candidate while Trump , given his actions with the COVID-19 stimulus bill , put the country on the road to bankruptcy and receive blame for it from historians .
It does not matter if he was one in a long line of persons who supported policies that lead to the fiscal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the chance it will happen on his watch and he will be stuck holding the “ hot potato ” is very high .
If perception is as or more important than reality , than the facts of Trump ’ s current actions ( such as the continued debt expansion and the COVID-19 bill ) and his perception among the public , especially among Millennials and Zoomers , will likely not portray a favorable image of him .
Joe Biden is thus a Democrat candidate that fits well for the job .
Biden can @ @ @ @ @ @ @ statements .
He has odd behaviors .
He shows serious indications of major cognitive decline .
He is not well and should be resting at home instead of on a political campaign trail .
People can see that Biden is sick .
If forced to choose between Biden or Trump , many Democrats would rather either not vote or simply choose Trump .
This is why Trump is likely going to win .
It is not even because people like Trump so much as they did in 2016 , but in classic American @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the clear “ lesser of two evils ” choice .
Rogan ’ s logic is representative here of the classic American voter mentality , and said without irony or insult .
It is a reasonable statement that he makes , and not without sound logic .
However , it is also the choice that Democrats want because they want to lose as it serves their long-term interests .
Remember these days- especially Republicans who say that Democrats are just “ dumb ” and the party is “ falling apart.
” This is not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ stronger than it ever has been , as it has the money and physical numbers as well as demographic distributions to threaten major Republican strongholds for the last fifty years such as Georgia , North Carolina , and Texas .
Numerically speaking , they already hold the larger quantity of voters .
They already are at a notable advantage .
In Rogan ’ s words , a debate between Trump and Biden would be like a fight between Mike Tyson and a three-year-old .
Biden will be crushed and the Democrats know it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ It will make for a great political show and will dishearten their base .
If Trump wins in November , expect some fast changes to come .
Picture a major political purge of the Democrat party , a new leadership , and an immediate rebuilding of a ‘ revived face ’ of the party , which already was in progress .
This is the party that will run for office in 2024 , and will likely win .
November 3rd , 2020 will not be interesting .
November 4th and after is when @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to help support the work of this site .
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Joe Rogan runs a well-known podcast online and has for some years. In a recent podcast with Brandon Schaub, he said that the Democrat party “has made us all morons with this Joe Biden thing… I would rather vote for Trump than him. I don’t think he can handle anything.”
Joe Rogan: The Democratic Party “has made us all morons with this Joe Biden thing… I would rather vote for Trump than him. I don’t think he can handle anything.”
pic.twitter.com/IDYJCwRX2F — Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) April 4, 2020
Rogan’s statement is not unique, but it is a good observation of what is happening in the political process right now regarding the 2020 election cycle.
Trump had the upper hand for a long time, but as noted before, he seriously squandered a lot of his political capital on his practically complete abandonment of MAGA in favor of essentially doing the opposite in many aspects. I have detailed these examples before, but regardless if one likes Trump or not, what he claimed he would do as president versus what he actually did speaks for itself. It is, ironically, representative of Trump’s history of bankruptcies, except this was political instead of fiscal.
In order to win, Trump needed to go against somebody for whom there would be no chance of him ever having a legitimate chance of influencing people in a serious way. The Democrats seem to want this too, since a Trump 2020 victory likely means a Democrat 2024-2032 victory and given world events, the chance of giving themselves a new FDR-type candidate while Trump, given his actions with the COVID-19 stimulus bill, put the country on the road to bankruptcy and receive blame for it from historians. It does not matter if he was one in a long line of persons who supported policies that lead to the fiscal insolvency of the nation, but that the chance it will happen on his watch and he will be stuck holding the “hot potato” is very high. If perception is as or more important than reality, than the facts of Trump’s current actions (such as the continued debt expansion and the COVID-19 bill) and his perception among the public, especially among Millennials and Zoomers, will likely not portray a favorable image of him.
Joe Biden is thus a Democrat candidate that fits well for the job. Biden can’t win. He makes strange statements. He has odd behaviors. He shows serious indications of major cognitive decline. He is not well and should be resting at home instead of on a political campaign trail. People can see that Biden is sick. If forced to choose between Biden or Trump, many Democrats would rather either not vote or simply choose Trump.
This is why Trump is likely going to win. It is not even because people like Trump so much as they did in 2016, but in classic American politics, he is being presented as the clear “lesser of two evils” choice.
Rogan’s logic is representative here of the classic American voter mentality, and said without irony or insult. It is a reasonable statement that he makes, and not without sound logic. However, it is also the choice that Democrats want because they want to lose as it serves their long-term interests.
Remember these days- especially Republicans who say that Democrats are just “dumb” and the party is “falling apart.” This is not the case. The Democrat party is stronger than it ever has been, as it has the money and physical numbers as well as demographic distributions to threaten major Republican strongholds for the last fifty years such as Georgia, North Carolina, and Texas. Numerically speaking, they already hold the larger quantity of voters. They already are at a notable advantage.
In Rogan’s words, a debate between Trump and Biden would be like a fight between Mike Tyson and a three-year-old. Biden will be crushed and the Democrats know it, and they hope it happens. It will make for a great political show and will dishearten their base.
If Trump wins in November, expect some fast changes to come. Picture a major political purge of the Democrat party, a new leadership, and an immediate rebuilding of a ‘revived face’ of the party, which already was in progress. This is the party that will run for office in 2024, and will likely win.
November 3rd, 2020 will not be interesting. November 4th and after is when things will become interesting.
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shoebat--2020-04-16--South Dakota And Coronavirus, And How Conservatives Don’t Care If You Die

A South Dakota pork processing plant is now a major center for coronavirus infection .
Why ?
Because the Republican @ @ @ @ @ policy :

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shoebat--2020-04-16--Stop Complaining About Social Distancing And Churches Getting Closed Down. This Is Not ‘Unprecedente

Stop Complaining About Social Distancing And Churches Getting Closed Down. This Is Not ‘Unprecedented’ But Is Merely Standard Policy That Was Enacted In The 1918 Influenza Pandemic

During the Spanish flu of 1918 , quarantine rules were imposed ; businesses , sporting events , religious buildings like churches and synagogues and any place where people gathered together that wasn ’ t hospital related was shut down .
In some places , this lockdown lasted for months .
While hundreds of thousands of Americans died — to some extent because there were those who disobeyed quarantine rules — social distancing did work to prevent way more deaths that would have happened otherwise .
Like today , churches were ordered to shutdown .
In fact , pastors in 1918 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ churches for the good of the public ’ s welfare .
In an article published on November 30th by Rocky Mountain News , a publication out of Denver , Colorado , it reads : Here , the pastors did not say that they were being persecuted , but were willing to keep the churches closed for the good of society .
For another example , on October 15th , 1918 , the city of Cleveland ’ s Department of Public Welfare issued a decree stating : “ 1 .
All places of public @ @ @ @ @ @ @ picture houses , dance halls , lodge rooms , assembly rooms , public halls , pool rooms , bowling alleys , cabarets , and all other places used for general meetings whether public or private are hereby closed .
2 .
Public , parochial , and private schools , including night schools , also public libraries and art museums will close beginning midnight , Tuesday , October 15th 1918 .
3 .
If there is an increase in the number of cases of Spanish Influenza in the city of Cleveland it will be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ places where persons congregate .
In order to avoid necessity for further restrictions to prevent the spread of this disease , it will be imperative for those operating stores , factories , and shops to prevent patrons and employees from loitering or congregating in groups .
4 .
All public funerals and weddings are prohibited .
5 .
Under instructions from the State Department of Health , special caution is hereby given to persons operating restaurants , saloons , and cafes that loitering in these places must be strictly prohibited .
6 .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ public conveyances must be avoided to the greatest possible degrees .
During the prevalence of epidemic influenza all street cars , factories , offices , dining rooms , and rooms or places which must be occupied should be given the greatest amount of ventilation possible .
7 .
Special permission of the Commissioner of Health must be obtained for all open air meetings.
” From reading these rules , one can see that the current mitigation and quarantine policies that we are going through are not ‘ unprecedented ’ as we keep hearing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ imposed when the US was dealing with a dangerous virus over a hundred years ago .
When these policies were implemented in 1918 they were , in fact , unpopular .
John Grabowski , Case Western Reserve University associate professor of history , editor of the Encyclopedia of Cleveland History and historian at the Western Reserve Historical Society , noted that “ They were doing then exactly the same thing we ’ re doing now … It ’ s somewhat an eerily similar situation.
” Like today , Cleveland ’ s public health @ @ @ @ @ @ @ dance halls and churches .
But , due to people not social distancing , they were still many infections and deaths .
In Cleveland , between September and December , 23,600 people got infected and 3,600 people died .
In the end , 4,400 people in Cleveland died of the Spanish flu .
Worse than Cleveland was Philadelphia where social distancing measures were not done until two weeks after the first case .
Philadelphia allowed public events to go on for those two weeks .
The result was that in the last four @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Philadelphia died .
St. Louis implemented social distancing just two days after its first case and the deaths were a lot less than Philadelphia , having 2,900 deaths .
The initial response to the flu in Cleveland was similar to the general beginning reaction to coronavirus .
On September 22 , 1918 , Cleveland ’ s Health Commissioner Dr. Harry Rockwood warned Clevelanders of a Spanish flu outbreak .
The precautions that he recommended were lax , asking people to simply cover their cough and that sick people stay home .
Rockwood was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ out that the Spanish flu was merely a seasonal flu and that it was not a threat .
It was not until October 4th when Rockwood began to take seriously the numbers of those getting infected with influenza across Cleveland and compiled a list of precautions to fight the flu .
Those who were infected were isolated in a Ward of the City Hospital .
If children showed symptoms they were sent home and employers were urged to permit sick employees to stay home to recover , which was considered an extreme measure @ @ @ @ @ @ @ middle of World War One and workers were leaving wartime factories .
Today , people are going frantic about how quarantine policy is going to destroy the economy .
But , if you open up the factories in the middle of a pandemic , and you have millions of people infected , this will not help the economy either .
During the Spanish flu quarantine policy in 1918 , people were told not to think that they were helping to serve their country during the war , because if they went to the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and thus weaken the workforce .
An influenza advisory panel advised against working while ill , stating : “ don ’ t think that by doing so you are helping the country in its war efforts .
You may have influenza and spread the disease and thus deprive the nation of many men ’ s work .
It is therefore your patriotic duty to stay at home if you feel indisposed.
” By October 7th it was estimated by officials that Cleveland had 500 cases of flu .
The next day , thirty-eight @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Health officials in the city requested saloons and poolrooms to hang up posters with flu precautions that discouraged crowds.Theaters presented public health advisories about how to stop the spread of flu .
On October 9th , Rockwood ’ s concern was expressed when he told reporters , “ more radical steps are needed.
” The next day , Mayor Harry Davis , in the words of Mary Kilpatrick , “ ordered all theaters , movie houses , dance halls , night schools , churches , and Sunday schools to close within days .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ museums and libraries , cabarets , poolrooms and bowling alleys .
Public funeral and weddings were outlawed.
” It was a quarantine , and a massive measure of social distancing .
Schools were allowed to stay open as long as their rate of absent students did not drop below 10 % district wide .
Children began to ditch school and the schools had to close down .
Officials , seeing that youths were simply capitalizing on the situation to skip class , planned to reopen campuses .
But , hundreds of students were @ @ @ @ @ @ @ closed .
During this time , while all places of worship had to remain closed , some members of the Jewish community began to rebel against the quarantine rule and proceeded with synagogue services .
Two Jewish synagogues continued to have services outside of their temples and some were arrested .
Today not much has changed .
the Orthodox Jewish community in Israel and the US has had many examples of covid-19 infection due to their defiance to quarantine rules .
Not much has changed .
Just days ago some members of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ did a funeral procession defying quarantine rule : Eventually , places of entertainment and churches largely reopened while school closures remained .
While some stayed home in fear of infection , Americans by and large left their homes en-masse to enjoy themselves .
Chicago was still gradually lifting quarantine restrictions , but metropolitan centers like Kanas City , New Orleans , Cleveland and Seattle saw an inundation of people wanting to enjoy entertainment like boxing matches , theaters and baseball games .
The seats were crowded for these spectacles .
What made crowds @ @ @ @ @ @ @ First World War when Americans went to the theaters , the bowling alleys and sporting events to celebrate the end of the war .
But , it was not an astute decision to allow such crowding , since there would be eventually a second spike in influenza infection .
J. Alexander Navarro , assistant director of the University of Michigan Center for the History of Medicine and the co-editor of the Influenza Encyclopedia , noted : What the quarantine rules that were implemented in 1918 teach us is that they worked .
According @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , “ cities in which multiple interventions were implemented at an early phase of the epidemic had peak death rates ≈50 % lower than those that did not and had less-steep epidemic curves.
” Essentially , what these rules did was ‘ flatten the curve , ’ lowering the rate of infection so as to not overwhelm the medical infrastructure of the country .
Philadelphia had a devastatingly hight rate of infection because it did not follow protocol .
For example , the city did not cancel a World War One parade on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of a million people arrived to see the procession and hear the marching bands .
Within 72 hours of the parade , all of the beds in Philadelphia ’ s thirty one hospitals were filled .
By October 5th , about 2,600 people in Philadelphia died .
A week later , the number shot up to over 4,500 deaths .
Many of the city ’ s health professionals were serving in the war , and Philadelphia ’ s medical infrastructure did not have the capacity for such a level of infection and death @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s officials essentially shutdown Philadelphia , forcing almost all public places , including schools , churches , theaters and pool halls , to close down .
The death rate was so high that morgues were not able to keep up with the numbers of bodies .
It got so bad that families had to bury their dead on their own .
The prices of caskets surged .
The phrase “ bodies stacked like cordwood ” became a common saying .
Just as some today have been saying that covid-19 is a Chinese @ @ @ @ @ @ @ about how influenza was a biological weapon of the Germans .
But the real cause of the problem was the initial carelessness of the city .
Philadelphia ’ s health director , Wilmer Krusen , publicly affirmed that influenza was not a threat , and belittled it as “ old-fashioned influenza or grip.
” Basically , Krusen was saying that it was ‘ just a flu ’ , which is what many have said and have been saying about covid-19 .
It was Krusen ’ s trivializing of the threat that led to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ turn , the deaths of thousands .
Krusen belittled the situation knowing fully well that the country ’ s monthly draft call-up had been cancelled because army camps , such as the nearby Camp Dix in New Jersey and Camp Meade in Maryland , were full of infections from the deadly influenza .
Krusen did not want to tell the truth of the virus supposedly in fear that it would cause panic .
He was also pressured by corporate interests as he was under extreme pressure to meet bond quotas for the war @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Krusen tried to implement proper measures , according to Smithsonian Magazine : When Philadelphia finally did shutdown , the city ’ s publication , the Inquirer , complained on March 5th : “ The authorities seem to be going daft .
What are they trying to do , scare everybody to death ?
” Sailers in Boston who were infected were sent to the Philadelphia Naval Yard because ‘ there was a war to fight ’ , and within days of their arrival 600 men were in the hospital infected and two @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , 14 were infected , and the next day it was 20 infections .
Sailers , infected with influenza , were sent to New Orleans , Puget Sound Naval Yard in Washington State , the Great Lakes Training Station near Chicago , and to Quebec .
The virus traveled from base to base , from fleet to trains , and the war helped spread the disease that would kill 100 million people .
Howard Markel , director of the University of Michigan ’ s Center for the History of Medicine , did a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in containing 1918 influenza and showed how when St. Louis loosened up its social distancing measures flu deaths started to rise once again .
The study demonstrated how the second spike of deaths only appeared when cities got rid of their social distancing measures .
Markel stated : “ Among the 43 cities , we found no example of a city that had a second peak of influenza while the first set of nonpharmaceutical interventions were still in effect.
” The 2007 study by PNAS concluded that “ no city in our analysis @ @ @ @ @ @ @ battery of [ nonpharmaceutical interventions ] was in place .
Second waves occurred only after the relaxation of interventions.
” Many Americans complied with social distancing laws for weeks and , in some places in the country , for months .
According to Markel , a potential explanation as to why Americans complied easily was because they were used to diseases , and pretty much everyone had a relative , be it parents , aunts and uncles , who died of a disease .
People , in the words of Markel , “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ all the time .
There was a flu epidemic in the 1890s .
There was a bad polio epidemic in 1916 .
There were diphtheria , pertussis ( whooping cough ) , measles , chicken pox , and smallpox epidemics during that period … Contagious diseases and their deadly effects were part of people ’ s lives .
So they understood when the doctor quarantined them what that meant.
” Quarantine works .
And no , its not ‘ unprecedented , ’ but was done before and is part of anti-pandemic policy .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ of this site .
When you donate , you are not donating to just any commentary group , but one that is endlessly observing the news , reading between the lines and separating hysteria and perception from reality .
In shoebat.com , we are working every day , tirelessly investigating global trends and providing data and analysis to tell you what lies for the future .

By Theodore & Walid Shoebat
During the Spanish flu of 1918, quarantine rules were imposed; businesses, sporting events, religious buildings like churches and synagogues and any place where people gathered together that wasn’t hospital related was shut down. In some places, this lockdown lasted for months. While hundreds of thousands of Americans died — to some extent because there were those who disobeyed quarantine rules — social distancing did work to prevent way more deaths that would have happened otherwise. Like today, churches were ordered to shutdown. In fact, pastors in 1918 demanded that the government shut down the churches for the good of the public’s welfare. In an article published on November 30th by Rocky Mountain News, a publication out of Denver, Colorado, it reads:
“The quarantine regulations were made more stringent. No one but doctors and nurses will be allowed to enter sick rooms, and all houses must be placarded. A committee of ministers appearing for the entire clergy of the city have made representations to the mayor and bureau of health that the contagion is unchecked and that the strictest measures possible are demanded for the sake of public health. The ministers asked that all churches be closed until danger is passed. City officials have not given an answer to the request, but indications are that no further regulations will be imposed.”
Here, the pastors did not say that they were being persecuted, but were willing to keep the churches closed for the good of society.
For another example, on October 15th, 1918, the city of Cleveland’s Department of Public Welfare issued a decree stating:
“1. All places of public congregation including churches, theaters, moving picture houses, dance halls, lodge rooms, assembly rooms, public halls, pool rooms, bowling alleys, cabarets, and all other places used for general meetings whether public or private are hereby closed. 2. Public, parochial, and private schools, including night schools, also public libraries and art museums will close beginning midnight, Tuesday, October 15th 1918. 3. If there is an increase in the number of cases of Spanish Influenza in the city of Cleveland it will be necessary to issue additional restrictions covering all places where persons congregate. In order to avoid necessity for further restrictions to prevent the spread of this disease, it will be imperative for those operating stores, factories, and shops to prevent patrons and employees from loitering or congregating in groups. 4. All public funerals and weddings are prohibited. 5. Under instructions from the State Department of Health, special caution is hereby given to persons operating restaurants, saloons, and cafes that loitering in these places must be strictly prohibited. 6. The crowding of all elevators and all public conveyances must be avoided to the greatest possible degrees. During the prevalence of epidemic influenza all street cars, factories, offices, dining rooms, and rooms or places which must be occupied should be given the greatest amount of ventilation possible. 7. Special permission of the Commissioner of Health must be obtained for all open air meetings.”
From reading these rules, one can see that the current mitigation and quarantine policies that we are going through are not ‘unprecedented’ as we keep hearing, but are actual policies that were imposed when the US was dealing with a dangerous virus over a hundred years ago. When these policies were implemented in 1918 they were, in fact, unpopular. John Grabowski, Case Western Reserve University associate professor of history, editor of the Encyclopedia of Cleveland History and historian at the Western Reserve Historical Society, noted that “They were doing then exactly the same thing we’re doing now … It’s somewhat an eerily similar situation.” Like today, Cleveland’s public health officials in 1918 closed down theaters, dance halls and churches. But, due to people not social distancing, they were still many infections and deaths. In Cleveland, between September and December, 23,600 people got infected and 3,600 people died. In the end, 4,400 people in Cleveland died of the Spanish flu.
Worse than Cleveland was Philadelphia where social distancing measures were not done until two weeks after the first case. Philadelphia allowed public events to go on for those two weeks. The result was that in the last four months of 1918, 13,000 people in Philadelphia died. St. Louis implemented social distancing just two days after its first case and the deaths were a lot less than Philadelphia, having 2,900 deaths.
The initial response to the flu in Cleveland was similar to the general beginning reaction to coronavirus. On September 22, 1918, Cleveland’s Health Commissioner Dr. Harry Rockwood warned Clevelanders of a Spanish flu outbreak. The precautions that he recommended were lax, asking people to simply cover their cough and that sick people stay home. Rockwood was quoted in a news article as pointing out that the Spanish flu was merely a seasonal flu and that it was not a threat.
It was not until October 4th when Rockwood began to take seriously the numbers of those getting infected with influenza across Cleveland and compiled a list of precautions to fight the flu. Those who were infected were isolated in a Ward of the City Hospital. If children showed symptoms they were sent home and employers were urged to permit sick employees to stay home to recover, which was considered an extreme measure given that the US was in the middle of World War One and workers were leaving wartime factories. Today, people are going frantic about how quarantine policy is going to destroy the economy. But, if you open up the factories in the middle of a pandemic, and you have millions of people infected, this will not help the economy either. During the Spanish flu quarantine policy in 1918, people were told not to think that they were helping to serve their country during the war, because if they went to the factories they would only infect more people and thus weaken the workforce. An influenza advisory panel advised against working while ill, stating: “don’t think that by doing so you are helping the country in its war efforts. You may have influenza and spread the disease and thus deprive the nation of many men’s work. It is therefore your patriotic duty to stay at home if you feel indisposed.”
By October 7th it was estimated by officials that Cleveland had 500 cases of flu. The next day, thirty-eight households in the city were quarantined.
Health officials in the city requested saloons and poolrooms to hang up posters with flu precautions that discouraged crowds.Theaters presented public health advisories about how to stop the spread of flu. On October 9th, Rockwood’s concern was expressed when he told reporters, “more radical steps are needed.” The next day, Mayor Harry Davis, in the words of Mary Kilpatrick, “ordered all theaters, movie houses, dance halls, night schools, churches, and Sunday schools to close within days. In short order, so were art museums and libraries, cabarets, poolrooms and bowling alleys. Public funeral and weddings were outlawed.” It was a quarantine, and a massive measure of social distancing.
Schools were allowed to stay open as long as their rate of absent students did not drop below 10% district wide. Children began to ditch school and the schools had to close down. Officials, seeing that youths were simply capitalizing on the situation to skip class, planned to reopen campuses. But, hundreds of students were found to be infected and schools remained closed.
During this time, while all places of worship had to remain closed, some members of the Jewish community began to rebel against the quarantine rule and proceeded with synagogue services. Two Jewish synagogues continued to have services outside of their temples and some were arrested. Today not much has changed. the Orthodox Jewish community in Israel and the US has had many examples of covid-19 infection due to their defiance to quarantine rules. Not much has changed. Just days ago some members of the Orthodox Jewish community in New York City did a funeral procession defying quarantine rule:
Eventually, places of entertainment and churches largely reopened while school closures remained. While some stayed home in fear of infection, Americans by and large left their homes en-masse to enjoy themselves. Chicago was still gradually lifting quarantine restrictions, but metropolitan centers like Kanas City, New Orleans, Cleveland and Seattle saw an inundation of people wanting to enjoy entertainment like boxing matches, theaters and baseball games. The seats were crowded for these spectacles. What made crowds even bigger was the end of the First World War when Americans went to the theaters, the bowling alleys and sporting events to celebrate the end of the war. But, it was not an astute decision to allow such crowding, since there would be eventually a second spike in influenza infection. J. Alexander Navarro, assistant director of the University of Michigan Center for the History of Medicine and the co-editor of the Influenza Encyclopedia, noted:
“The cautionary tale is that these measures have to be kept in place a lot longer than people think. When you think you’re on the other side of that peak, really you’re just still flattening the curve … You haven’t really crested yet. We still have a population that is susceptible until you can get vaccines or until you get enough people who have gotten sick and recovered and have immunity, you still have a population of people who are susceptible to this novel strain.”
What the quarantine rules that were implemented in 1918 teach us is that they worked. According to a 2007 study done by PNAS, “cities in which multiple interventions were implemented at an early phase of the epidemic had peak death rates ≈50% lower than those that did not and had less-steep epidemic curves.” Essentially, what these rules did was ‘flatten the curve,’ lowering the rate of infection so as to not overwhelm the medical infrastructure of the country. Philadelphia had a devastatingly hight rate of infection because it did not follow protocol. For example, the city did not cancel a World War One parade on September 28th in which around a quarter of a million people arrived to see the procession and hear the marching bands. Within 72 hours of the parade, all of the beds in Philadelphia’s thirty one hospitals were filled. By October 5th, about 2,600 people in Philadelphia died.
A week later, the number shot up to over 4,500 deaths. Many of the city’s health professionals were serving in the war, and Philadelphia’s medical infrastructure did not have the capacity for such a level of infection and death. On October 3rd, the city’s officials essentially shutdown Philadelphia, forcing almost all public places, including schools, churches, theaters and pool halls, to close down. The death rate was so high that morgues were not able to keep up with the numbers of bodies. It got so bad that families had to bury their dead on their own. The prices of caskets surged.
The phrase “bodies stacked like cordwood” became a common saying. Just as some today have been saying that covid-19 is a Chinese bio-weapon, there were even news reports about how influenza was a biological weapon of the Germans. But the real cause of the problem was the initial carelessness of the city. Philadelphia’s health director, Wilmer Krusen, publicly affirmed that influenza was not a threat, and belittled it as “old-fashioned influenza or grip.” Basically, Krusen was saying that it was ‘just a flu’, which is what many have said and have been saying about covid-19. It was Krusen’s trivializing of the threat that led to the parade being allowed and, in turn, the deaths of thousands.
Krusen belittled the situation knowing fully well that the country’s monthly draft call-up had been cancelled because army camps, such as the nearby Camp Dix in New Jersey and Camp Meade in Maryland, were full of infections from the deadly influenza. Krusen did not want to tell the truth of the virus supposedly in fear that it would cause panic. He was also pressured by corporate interests as he was under extreme pressure to meet bond quotas for the war. As the contagion devastated the city, Krusen tried to implement proper measures, according to Smithsonian Magazine:
“After his initial failure to prevent the epidemic from exploding, Wilmer Krusen had attempted to address the crisis, largely in vain. He asked the U.S. army to stop drafting local doctors, appropriated funds to hire more medical workers, mobilized the sanitation department to clean the city, and perhaps most important, clear bodies from the street. It was too little too late. On a single October day, 759 people died in the city and more than 12,000 Philadelphians would die in a matter of weeks.”
When Philadelphia finally did shutdown, the city’s publication, the Inquirer, complained on March 5th: “The authorities seem to be going daft. What are they trying to do, scare everybody to death?” Sailers in Boston who were infected were sent to the Philadelphia Naval Yard because ‘there was a war to fight’, and within days of their arrival 600 men were in the hospital infected and two of them died. The next day, 14 were infected, and the next day it was 20 infections. Sailers, infected with influenza, were sent to New Orleans, Puget Sound Naval Yard in Washington State, the Great Lakes Training Station near Chicago, and to Quebec. The virus traveled from base to base, from fleet to trains, and the war helped spread the disease that would kill 100 million people.
Howard Markel, director of the University of Michigan’s Center for the History of Medicine, did a study on the role that quarantining had in containing 1918 influenza and showed how when St. Louis loosened up its social distancing measures flu deaths started to rise once again. The study demonstrated how the second spike of deaths only appeared when cities got rid of their social distancing measures. Markel stated: “Among the 43 cities, we found no example of a city that had a second peak of influenza while the first set of nonpharmaceutical interventions were still in effect.” The 2007 study by PNAS concluded that “no city in our analysis experienced a second wave while its main battery of [nonpharmaceutical interventions] was in place. Second waves occurred only after the relaxation of interventions.”
Many Americans complied with social distancing laws for weeks and, in some places in the country, for months. According to Markel, a potential explanation as to why Americans complied easily was because they were used to diseases, and pretty much everyone had a relative, be it parents, aunts and uncles, who died of a disease. People, in the words of Markel, “were all used to living through epidemics all the time. There was a flu epidemic in the 1890s. There was a bad polio epidemic in 1916. There were diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough), measles, chicken pox, and smallpox epidemics during that period … Contagious diseases and their deadly effects were part of people’s lives. So they understood when the doctor quarantined them what that meant.”
Quarantine works. And no, its not ‘unprecedented,’ but was done before and is part of anti-pandemic policy.
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shoebat--2020-03-15--Is It Possible That A Sodomite Democrat Politician Almost Killed Another Man By Shoving Too Much Met

Is It Possible That A Sodomite Democrat Politician Almost Killed Another Man By Shoving Too Much Meth Into His Rectum?

Former Democrat political candidate Andrew Gillum was caught with a sodomite prostitute , but also in a very compromising situation , after the prostitute appeared to overdose on crystal meth according to a report by way of the New York Post .
Andrew Gillum was caught in a room with more than just drugs .
The man who overdosed on crystal meth in a Florida hotel room with Gillum , a Democrat who made an unsuccessful bid for Florida governor , was an openly gay male escort with a profile on the website RentMen.com , Florida ’ s Local10 reported @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as a “ pornstar performer ” who offered services including “ gay massage ” Gillum has been married to wife R. Jai Gillum since 2009 .
Together .
the couple has three children .
The former Tallahassee mayor was found vomiting and intoxicated with Dyson at the Mondrian South Beach , according to a police report first obtained by the Miami Herald .
( source ) I have a serious question to ask here .
It may sound strange or gross , but I ask this in a serious way .
Did the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ shoved into his rectum ?
Seriously .
Is this what happened ?
We know that there was an overdose .
We know that he was with Gillum .
We know that the escort had meth on him .
We know that sodomites love to take meth because it gives them a “ boost ” of energy while it also has a tendency to contract the colorectal muscles , which they like because it make that region ‘ feel tighter ’ and also gives them the ‘ strength ’ to go on long bouts @ @ @ @ @ @ @ know that sodomites love to practice ‘ slamming ’ , which is shoving meth into the rectum before sodomizing each other , since it gets right into the bloodstream , increases the sensations , and tends to act faster .
If you desire to , you can read about the practice in our archives .
We know that people have died from putting drugs or alcohol into their rectums because it absorbs fast into the bloodstream and can poison a man .
We know that sodomites have died from doing such .
Now @ @ @ @ @ @ @ died from ‘ slamming ’ too much meth .
In fact , we can not say any cause definitively because However , the circumstances suggest the possibility of such because of the nature of the incident .
Again , since we do not have any clear proof , such things are subject naturally to the emergence of more and clearer evidence .
Cut this pattern has happened before , and it would be a serious error to refuse to consider such .
It is a disgusting and gross thing to consider , but @ @ @ @ @ @ @ something that so few wish to talk about .
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Former Democrat political candidate Andrew Gillum was caught with a sodomite prostitute, but also in a very compromising situation, after the prostitute appeared to overdose on crystal meth according to a report by way of the New York Post.
Andrew Gillum was caught in a room with more than just drugs. The man who overdosed on crystal meth in a Florida hotel room with Gillum, a Democrat who made an unsuccessful bid for Florida governor, was an openly gay male escort with a profile on the website RentMen.com, Florida’s Local10 reported Friday. Travis Dyson also identified himself as a “pornstar performer” who offered services including “gay massage” Gillum has been married to wife R. Jai Gillum since 2009. Together. the couple has three children. The former Tallahassee mayor was found vomiting and intoxicated with Dyson at the Mondrian South Beach, according to a police report first obtained by the Miami Herald. (source)
I have a serious question to ask here. It may sound strange or gross, but I ask this in a serious way.
Did the man overdose from having too much meth shoved into his rectum?
Seriously. Is this what happened?
We know that there was an overdose.
We know that he was with Gillum.
We know that the escort had meth on him.
We know that sodomites love to take meth because it gives them a “boost” of energy while it also has a tendency to contract the colorectal muscles, which they like because it make that region ‘feel tighter’ and also gives them the ‘strength’ to go on long bouts of sodomite activity without stopping.
We know that sodomites love to practice ‘slamming’, which is shoving meth into the rectum before sodomizing each other, since it gets right into the bloodstream, increases the sensations, and tends to act faster. If you desire to, you can read about the practice in our archives.
We know that people have died from putting drugs or alcohol into their rectums because it absorbs fast into the bloodstream and can poison a man.
We know that sodomites have died from doing such.
Now we cannot confirm that this person died from ‘slamming’ too much meth. In fact, we cannot say any cause definitively because
However, the circumstances suggest the possibility of such because of the nature of the incident. Again, since we do not have any clear proof, such things are subject naturally to the emergence of more and clearer evidence. Cut this pattern has happened before, and it would be a serious error to refuse to consider such.
It is a disgusting and gross thing to consider, but such is the reality of Sodom, something that so few wish to talk about.
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