The rumor is that North Korean leader Kim Is Jong is dead or a vegetable, and this that his sister, Kim Yo Jong is taking over the country.

Back in 2018 during the Olympics, I covered the media’s fawning love affair with Kim Yo Jong.

Well, brave yourselves to see it again.  We’re getting a preview from a few people on the Left, but the news of Kim Is Jong’s death isn’t official yet.

North Korea is going to have a Woman leader before the United States of America! Let that sink in!

— Tom D'Angora (he/him) (@TomDangora) April 25, 2020

Yo Jong wasn’t elected.  She is the grand daughter of the man who appointed himself supreme leader, who gained and held power by killing between 1.6 and 3.5 million people and plunging a nation into totalitarian tyranny and grueling poverty.

Never mind that her father and older brother maintained the family’s power through persecution and mass murder.  Never mind that she has been known to call for the execution of people by anti aircraft gun.

Nope.  She’s a woman and is going to be a woman leader before America has a woman president and that’s ALL that matters.

America is worse than North Korea because we didn’t have the female progeny of genocidal dictators ascend to power without and election.

Of course I’m going to be reminded about the first axiom of politics.

If Obama killed all of his opponents and made Malia empress for life, CNN and MSNBC would have called it a wise move.

If Trump sommuch as endorsed Ivanka to run for Congress, we’d hear non stop about political dynasties as an existential threat to  America.

Frankly I’m getting really fucking tired of that God damn axiom.

Every Lefty who praises North Korea for having a female leader before the US needs to be taken out into a field and shot with a fucking anti aircraft gun the way the Kim family loves to do.  If North Korea is so great and Woke, they should experience the North Korean system first hand.

Patients ignored chest pain for days only to arrive at the hospital in cardiac arrest. Other patients ignored seizures until their situation became more severe. And a study by the Cleveland Clinic found a 38% decrease in patients presenting to the hospital with stroke and heart attack symptoms since onset of the pandemic.

As fear of being exposed to the novel coronavirus consumed the public, it also kept people away from seeking critical medical attention, several doctors told Gov. Ron DeSantis this weekend during a two visits to hospitals.

Doctors join DeSantis in appeal to non-COVID-19 patients to return to hospitals

About frigging time!

The last several days days I have been listening to MDFD Rescue calls and while the usual culprits of vehicular and other accidents are almost unheard of, all sorts of pains (Chest, abdominal, etc) weaknesses, blood pressure bouts, etc were all over the place. It was one long list of emergency medical calls, one after the other.

And it was not just people not wanting to go to hospitals, but many people cannot get themselves checked out because their doctors have their practices shut down.  One follow up I was supposed to do was shut down because it was not deemed an emergency and I have to wait till medical practices are fully restored.

And the other sword we have hanging about our heads (IMHO) is labs. Most of the commercial labs are just mass processing Pandemic samples and one wonders if they will have time to do the regular stuff at all.

We probably won’t know for many months about preventable deaths caused because we went ape-nuts and we ignored the regular killers.

Atlanta Teen Allegedly Shot and Killed by Stepfather After Refusing to Shelter in Place

A 16-year-old Atlanta boy was allegedly shot and killed by his stepfather following a domestic dispute over the teenager’s refusal to comply with directives to shelter in place amid the coronavirus pandemic, the Atlanta Police Department said in a statement provided to PEOPLE.

De’onte Roberts was shot in the chest late Wednesday evening during a fight with 42-year-old Bernie Hargrove, authorities said. He was taken to the hospital but later died of his injuries.

His mother told police that there had been an argument earlier in the day when Roberts would not follow his parent’s requests to remain home and comply with Georgia’s shelter-in-place directives.

It depends.

If the powers that be want to boost the Coronavirus death statistics to grab more power, it will be.

It seems the story about the Nursing Home in NY I posted about yesterday continues to get more macabre:

The first coronavirus patients admitted to a Queens nursing home under a controversial state mandate arrived along with some grim accessories — a supply of body bags, The Post has learned.

An executive at the facility — which was previously free of the deadly disease — said the bags were in the shipment of personal protective equipment received the same day the home was forced to begin treating two people discharged from hospitals with COVID-19.
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Within days, three of the bags were filled with the first of 30 residents who would die there after Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s Health Department handed down its March 25 directive that bars nursing homes from refusing to admit “medically stable” coronavirus patients, the exec said

Coronavirus patients admitted to Queens nursing home — with body bags

And all of the sudden I am having this feeling that people of authority in NYC are playing Operation T4? Or at least they are playing hot potato and spreading the virus even more around the city in a sick game of Misery Loves Company.

Senator Chris Shit-for-brains Murphy decided to Tweet about the college draft.

He reiterated some points about college football that I’ve heard before and I absolutely fucking hate with a vehement passion.

I’m glued to the NFL draft like most other sports fans, but it just reminds me how immoral the football syndicate is.

College football trains players for the pros, pays the trainees nothing, and forces them to endure 3 years of head trauma before getting a single paycheck.

— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) April 25, 2020

Hard not to notice all the shots of filthy rich, almost exclusively white coaches, GMs, and team presidents, drafting almost exclusively African-American players who have been forced to work for free for 3 years in order to get a shot to be chosen.

— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) April 25, 2020

Fuck college football player and everyone along with them tho think that they are so fucking special that they should get pro player salaries while in college or should be able to be drafted out of the freshman years in college.

If professional football is like any other profession, then college football players are effectively students majoring in football.  The time they spend playing in college is training to be professional football players.

This is no different than engineering students who spend four years working on a degree in engineering training to be professional engineers, or medical students training to be doctors, or nursing students training to be nurses, or even education majors training to be teachers.

Medical students, nursing students, education majors, law school students all have to do unpaid or internships as part of their education.

My wife had to do a semester of student teaching.  My sister had to spend a semester in a hospital.  My dad clerked for judges.  That is part of the accreditation.

I did two years of unpaid work under a PE in order to get my PE.  As a doctoral student I did research for companies and all I got was a discount on my tuition.

Playing college ball is the unpaid internship of the college football major.

Yes, the university makes money off of them.  The university made money off of me when I wrote grant proposals and white papers that brought in funding for research and equipment.

I’m tired of the bitching.  Football players should not be treated any more special than any other students who are required to do internships or student work to earn their degree and place in the professional world.

I’ve thought about this and have two sollutions.

One:

Colleges should create a BA in Football.  Any student who makes the team should be allowed to major in Football.  Forget making college football players pick a degree in some other subject.    Teach them game strategy, some sports medicine, the economics of football, personal money management, etc.  The stuff that a pro ball player needs to be successful.  Just admit that those kids are there to try to be pro ball players and stop bullshitting them and us with having them cheat to pass classes they don’t care about in degrees they might never use.  If they don’t get drafted, it sucks to be them, but lots of kids graduate with useless degrees too.  Not every kid with a journalism degree ends up a talking head on CNN or MSNBC.

Two:

End college football the way we know it altogether.  Spin it off as minor league like baseball.  I like this idea more because I really hate the fact that in many states, the highest-paid state employees are the millionaire salaries of the state’s big-school football coach.  In Alabama, Nick Saban is a state employee making an $11.125 million in salary.

Let the NFL create a minor league that young players can join out of high school and let it be easier for cities to create minor league franchises.  The let those coaches and players earn their money in the private sector.

I’d prefer the latter approach, but whatever we do, we need to stop treating college football players like they are pros getting screwed.  They are not.  They are students training for the pros and should be treated accordingly.