HOSPITALS ARE FULL

VUMC ran out of hospital beds Wednesday, and Dr. Karp believes it will happen again.

“We are converting units as best as we can, we are using units for overnight stays whenever we can, we’re putting patients in short-stay areas whenever we can. All of the hospitals are full and I think this is the message- this is not just Vanderbilt,” he explained.

Vanderbilt, running out of beds, postpones non-urgent surgeries (newschannel5.com)

Damn, that is awful! How many people are sick with the Chink Flu at Vandy Hospital?

Less than four weeks ago VUMC’s 7-hospital system was caring for a total of 10 patients admitted for COVID-19. By Thursday, a total of 83 patients were battling the virus in VUMC hospitals, according to an internal memo.

Wait one second, this hospital, Vanderbilt hospital, the premier and biggest hospital in Tennessee has only 83 beds?

I believe they are trying to bullshit themselves into more funding by participating the COVID Theater of Fear.

And I am sure that magazine is not capable of holding more than 10 rounds, right?

An exercise in futility.

Oh sweet Louise… The Outpost Armory.

Saying that the place is huge would be shortchanging it. The pic above just shows less than half of the building. And then you walk in and start crying, OK, I did.

What you see in the back on the right is their range. I saw IIRC 14 lanes, top of the line and later I found out they even have two 100 yard positions. Yikes!

You may know the owners as they also build some rifles you may have heard about:

Yup, those Barrets.

And this is Carl the guy who will be responsible for my death or early divorce because he keeps taking me to places like this. This photo is taken from almost one end of the store and the middle is what you see at the end: The entrance to the range.

They had just about any kind of gun imaginable plus ammo, knives and the rest of everything that could make a shooter happy.

This is just a part of the rifle wall.

And a view of the range from outside.

This broke my will and I was ready to break coinage, but unfortunately the little guy was not for sale.

Price wise? Even Gun Country Tennessee is showing the drought prices. Some things I saw that were less than back in South Florida and even online.

I need to hit the lotto.

This is why, even vaccinated and supporting vaccinations, will rabidly stand against government health mandates. Lockdowns are not science anymore but a tool of absolute control. If you have done the same thing 5 times already and did not work, what in Hera’s name makes you think this time will work? The answer is: They know it won’t work for whatever they sold you it was needed but it is working charmingly for their purposes.

Back in the US, we need to wrestle away control from the ultra politized CDC and let the individual states come up with their own strategies for vaccination and disease control. The Center for Disease Control should be nothing more than a Federal Health Costco where states go to get their supplies and maybe a roasted chicken or a hot dog to go; no mandates, no directives, specially from people who probably were ranked 101 out of the bottom 100 in Med School or worse: have zero medical expertise but are experts in Red Tape and Making Shit Up.

If this pandemic proved something was the wisdom of President Reagan”

“The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the Government, and I’m here to help. “

No kidding, Ronnie.

This 12-year-old wrote a letter to her school board in Duval County, Florida, urging them to mandate mask-wearing in schools to protect all students and staff, but mostly her little brother. https://t.co/tm5JJwBOKf pic.twitter.com/3MUGqaNsFS

— CNN (@CNN) August 4, 2021

Holy shit.

As of the most recent data, the total number of COVID deaths under 17-years old was 337, out of more than 600,000 total COVID deaths in the US.

I read somewhere else that most of those children had severe underlying medical issues like very bad asthma or leukemia.    Normal, healthy children are not threatened by COVID.

And yet this family rushed out to have their 12-year old vaccinated and have their 10-year old double masking.

When you listen to these children, you can tell they have been raised in an environment of fear and paranoia.  They see other people, especially non-masked people, as nothing but a threat to them.  They live their lives in a constant state of worry about COVID.

Beyond the physical harm that double masking does to a young boy who should be running around outside in the sun, this is causing severe emotional damage to these children.

They will never have normal lives and normal human interactions.

They have been convinced that they need to force everyone around them into a useless mask for their own safety.

This is clearly some sort of weird quasi-Munchausen by proxy, where the parents are being seen as being virtuous by turning their children into broken, mask-mandating, terrified husks afraid of a COVID boogieman.

This is precisely why the lockdowns have resulted in more child suicide than child COVID deaths.

And CNN promotes this as good.

This is atrocious.

‘I’ve Never Seen This Level of Fear.’ Why Asian Americans Are Joining the Rush to Buy Guns

Six months ago, Svetlana Kim was so scared of guns, she couldn’t even look at an image of one without feeling anxious.

If she was home watching a movie that suddenly depicted gun violence, the 47-year-old accountant would scramble to hit the fast-forward button on the remote. If she couldn’t skip the scene, she would shut her eyes, and her husband would gently put his hand over hers until the scene was over. Kim knew it was just a movie, but in those moments, she couldn’t help but feel like she was in the victim’s shoes, staring the shooter in the eye.

“My brain was always signaling danger. I just felt like, it’s here, it’s present,” says Kim, who blames empathy and imagination for her visceral reaction, since she has never personally experienced gun violence. “It was bad like that, and I couldn’t control it.”

That all changed when something scarier came along. Months into the pandemic, people who looked like Kim were being shoved and kicked to the ground, punched, stabbed and slashed, while doing everyday activities like walking around the neighborhood, shopping and riding buses and trains. One after another, unprovoked, racist attacks against Asian Americans being unfairly blamed for the COVID-19 virus started to increase in major U.S. cities. Kim wondered if she could be the next victim.

“It was a turning point when I saw that people just randomly got attacked based on their race,” says Kim, a Korean American, who lives in Downey, Calif.

On March 3, Kim went from being a “really anti-gun person” to the new owner of a Springfield Armory handgun.

After months of rising anti-Asian hatred, many others like Kim are having a change of heart about firearms. Tired of relying on bystanders for aid that sometimes never comes, more Asian Americans are bucking entrenched cultural perceptions of guns and overcoming language barriers to help fuel a spike in U.S. gun ownership. While there is no official data on firearm purchases by Asian Americans, a survey by the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) indicated that Asian Americans bought 42% more firearms and ammunition in the first six months of 2020 than they did in the same timeframe the year before. At Jimmy’s Sportshop in Mineola, N.Y., where guns and pepper spray have been flying off the shelves since the pandemic, gun purchases by Asian buyers have surged 100% due to recent fears of attacks, according to Jimmy Gong and Jay Zeng, the shop’s Chinese-American owners.

Asians have been historically underrepresented among gun owners, so much so that major national demographic surveys conducted on gun ownership trends in the past have left out Asians as a category entirely. A 2013 NSSF report on diversity found some reasons why. About 35% said gun ownership negatively impacts their ethnic community, while 38% said owning a firearm is not desirable in their culture, according to the report, which was based on a national survey of 6,000 white, Black, Hispanic and Asian adults. That was true for Reduta, who waited a year to tell his family that he had bought a gun. Kim still has not shared the news with her two sisters.

“Asians never like guns,” says David Liu, another gun shop owner who has seen a spike in his Arcadia, Calif. business. “They only buy guns after they’ve become a victim.”

I suspect that the Asian community was never that into guns because in most Asian countries, legal civilian gun ownership is either extremely restricted or non-existent.

Asian immigrants, therefore, have very little in the way of native gun culture.

The last line “They only buy guns after they’ve become a victim” is a significant point.  Even though the Asian community might not have a gun culture when they are threatened they adapt and arm themselves.

Good.

No community targeted for violence should be at the mercy of their attackers.

Meet force with force and defend yourself.

If you are a regular reader of this blog, you know where I am going to go next with this.

The Jewish community in America needs to take note of this.  Like the Asian community, the Jewish community has little to no native gun culture, having been systematically disarmed in Europe and then concentrated in non-gun-friendly locations like New York City.  And like the Asian community, we are also being targeted for hate crimes.  It’s time the Jewish community arm itself as well, to be prepared to face violence with violence and end the attacks that threaten us.