Jethro Tull frontman Ian Anderson is suffering from incurable lung condition, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

The British rocker, 72, was diagnosed with the disease, which causes reduced lung capacity and leads to emphysema and bronchitis, two years ago, but has been managing the condition with medication.

However, he told Dan Rather on AXS TV’s The Big Interview he fears COPD will eventually prevent him performing.

Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson suffering from ‘incurable’ lung disease

Just a couple of nights ago, I was watching Jethro Tull’s famous concert in Tampa back in 1976 and possibly one of the (if not the) most iconic flute solos in Rock history.

I am seriously hating 2020 not because the year but because time is inexorable and my musical idols are being caught in its grasp.

New York City is a God damned shit-hole run by the most evil and incompetent human beings to ever have American citizenship.

From ABC7 New York:

Coronavirus News: 26-year-old woman dies giving birth during peak of COVID-19 pandemic

A family is heartbroken after a 26-year-old woman died during childbirth at the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City.

Bruce McIntyre is a new father who should be celebrating the birth of his son.

Instead, McIntyre is drowning in sorrow after the mother of his son, 26-year-old Amber Isaac, died during childbirth.

That I’d heartbreaking.  Especially because maternal mortality in the US is so low.

The reason she dies is even more heartbreaking.

Her family says Isaac’s platelet levels had been falling since February, but she couldn’t see a doctor in person even though she was seven-months-pregnant because of the pandemic.

Isaac’s family says by mid-April, her condition worsened and she was finally admitted at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx.

Three days later, her family says doctors induced labor after learning that day she had developed HELLP syndrome.

She died during the procedure.

A woman suffering from pre-eclampsia is very high risk and should be under the watchful eye of a qualified obstetrician.

She wasn’t.

She sent her final tweet that day saying that she couldn’t wait to tell everyone about her experience dealing with incompetent doctors at Montefiore.

This woman was given no early treatment and poor care in the hospital because NYC prioritized COVID patients so much that a young woman with a life threatening pregnancy related condition was treated like garbage.

This death was most likely avoidable, had NYC cared about saving the lives of people not affected with COVID who were at risk of dying of something else.

So far, what we know is that NYC murdered the elderly with COVID and young people without COVID.

I have a feeling we’re going to find out that the situation there was even worse than this because of Cuomo and de Blasio.

NEW YORK – Several unions that represent police officers are asking the mayor to fire Dr. Oxiris Barbot after comments she made about the NYPD during a heated exchange with Chief of Department Terence Monahan at the height of the coronavirus outbreak.

Dr. Barbot, who regularly appears with Mayor Bill de Blasio at his daily coronavirus briefings, reportedly told Monahan: “I don’t give two rats’ asses about your cops,” after he requested 500,000 surgical masks for the NYPD, reported the NY Post. The exchange occurred during a brief phone conversation in late March.

Police unions call for ouster of NYC health commissioner

I keep saying that NYPD needs to suddenly develop a general case of Blue Wuhan* and let the place collapse. City Hall gives them the same amount of respect as the local gangbanger population.

And if the name of Oxiris sounds familiar to you, it is because you saw it here in a previous post about the mess in NYC:

I checked her creds and she is a pediatrician who has been a health bureaucrat for the past 17 years.

And that is all I am going to say.

Hat Tip to Mortar Girl Christine.

(*) Blue Wuhan sounds like a song by Linda Ronstadt. 

Divemedic shared a link from The Guardian that says: Covid-19: nursing homes account for ‘staggering’ share of US deaths, data show.

In the article, we find a link to the Keiser Family Foundation with Wuhan Virus data and how it has affected the US. Among that data, I found this:

About the only certain thing we knew about the Wuhan virus from very early was its predilection for the elderly and the sick.  Lack of preparation seems to be the norm for certain states which also include some basic bonehead moves that possibly helped with their body count.

Once this Wuhan V crap is “over”, I believe we are gonna be shocked about the amount of wasted time, money & resources we had. Just because some people in the “expert” side of things felt they needed to exercise their temporary powers.

Was a quarantine necessary? I am going to go with YES but only for about 2 weeks till we had a better picture of who was the most likely victim pool. After that, we could have gone back to “normal with adjustments” meaning we make sure the seniors and the sick were properly cared for. Economically and socially it would have been a shock, but not the disaster we are seeing right now.

And we have no idea what will be the health cost of those who were not able to go to a doctor or hospital because we shut down the health system to basically deal with one thing.

And we better learn fast because Flu season is coming.

I present to you, coronavirus, the Washington, DC story.

The big surge is always two weeks away. The peak is always next month. Trust the "experts," the big surge is definitely coming! Brace for impact!

There are now more hospital beds available than active COVID cases. pic.twitter.com/PWqwNV24Qd

— Jordan Schachtel @ dossier.today (@JordanSchachtel) May 13, 2020

A buddy of mine sent me this meme.

It really is amazing, isn’t it?

No matter how long we are locked down, the surge is always two weeks away.

This must be why CNN chose Greta Thunberg to be a Coronvirus expert.  No matter what we do for the environment, the apocalypse is always 10 years away.  When that 10 years comes and the world is fine, they just move the date back another 10 years.

No matter the prediction of doom and gloom, it’s always just ahead and that’s why we should listen to “them.”  That we never seem to reach the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow is neither here nor there.

Bill Gates floated the idea of billionaires creating some sort of Coronvirus relief fund.

Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez latched onto that idea with gusto.

The problem with her is that she sais shit that is so ridiculous to justify her greed for control over the private sector’s money.

If only there were some public fund billionaires could pay into along with everyone else that helps fund our infrastructure, hospitals, and public systems all at once.

It could even be a modest % of what they earn every year. We could have an agency collect it and everything https://t.co/g0vI45xnYG

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) May 13, 2020

If it helps, they could think of it as a subscription service to living in an advanced society.

Just imagine billionaires paying enough so teachers in the US don’t have to work multiple jobs and sell their own blood plasma to survive. Call me radical, but it might be worth it

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) May 13, 2020

It’s called taxes, but she knows that.

It’s not a subscriptions services for living in an advanced society.  There are lots of people on the low end of the spectrum (nearly half the country) who don’t pay net taxes but live in the country and enjoy its bounty anyway.

This is why I am a flat taxer to the core.  But I digress…

What is this bullshit about teachers having to sell their plasma just to survive?

Enough of this horseshit.

I found a state by state (plus DC) list of average teacher’s salaries from the NEA from 2017-2018.

It ranges from the low of Montana at $31,418 to the high of Washington DC at $55,209, with an average of $39,303.

A degree in education is a Bachelor’s of Arts.  For comparison, the average salary nationwide for a Liberal Arts degree is about $40,000.

It seems that teachers on average make right about what the average is for someone in the private sector with a BA.  Many states pay more than that, it’s dependent on the school district and its resources.

The idea that teachers are somehow unbelievably disadvantaged in salary and it’s because billionaires are not paying their fair share is wrong.  Especially since teachers’ salaries are not federal but local and usually from property taxes, where the wealthy do pay more because of their generally more expensive homes.

But as Miguel so often says, if her cause is righteous, why lie?