And if you need more proof that it is time to re-open the country: Dancing Nurses.

I don’t know you, but if the medical personnel that is supposed to be in the frontlines is doing this, maybe the threat is not as bad anymore as we are being told. (Some jurisdictions excepted)

 

As I said, some locations have been working their asses off but it appears a lot of hospitals could be now taking care of regular patients and they only are not doing it, but having personnel sent home because we need the space and money for the Dancing Nurses Troupe.

I kept my mouth shut since I saw this a couple of weeks ago because I figured some were just releasing tension. But videos with empty beds and clearly fresh and bored people who had the time to create a dancing routine indicate that we are now officially in the Bullshit section of the emergency.

 

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Goodbye Boeing

I feel like I’ve been picking on Boeing a lot.

I’ve criticized their woke advertising.

I’ve criticized their failures for the Starliner lack of testing.

I want to make it clear that I have no personal animus towards Boeing.  I not a disgruntled ex-Boeing employee.

I am an engineer in an aerospace city with a passion for defense and space exploration.  I should be a Boeing fan.

My problem is that Boeing, to me, exemplifies the C-Suite corporate rot that occurs when executive level management disconnects in their brains the shareholder value of the company from the company’s core competencies of producing a quality and safe product.

An aerospace company should make air and spacecraft that complete their missions without incident.

To do that requires engineers and technicians that take pride in their work and do their job well.  That requires management to promote a culture of quality and to go to bat for the engineering and test teams when they demand test data, and to value the input of people who try to warn the company of problems.

When you don’t have that, you get shit like this:

Boeing finds debris in fuel tanks of many undelivered 737 MAX jets

Um… what?

Boeing Co (BA.N) has found debris in the fuel tanks of dozens of undelivered 737 MAX jets amid ongoing inspections as the Chicago-based planemaker struggles to restore the trust of airlines and the wider public in the grounded fleet.

This is not restoring trust.

Boeing found debris in the fuel tanks of about 35 aircraft, a company spokesman confirmed on Friday. A person familiar with the matter told Reuters that more than 50% of the undelivered 737 MAX jets inspected thus far have had debris found in them.

Foreign object debris, an industrial term for rags, tools, metal shavings and other materials left behind by workers during production, has been a quality-control issue for various Boeing aircraft, such as its KC-46 tankers.

This week, an internal memo seen by Reuters showed that Boeing found debris that could pose potential safety risks in the fuel tanks of several 737 MAX aircraft in storage and waiting to be delivered to airlines.

That plane is never going to fly again.

I doubt there is enough money to bribe Congress to authorize the sale of a plane with an autopilot that likes to take a nosedive into the dirt and has a coinflip’s chance of having some shit in the fuel tank get sucked into the engine.

This is probably why it was announced:

Boeing said it burned through $4.3 billion in the first quarter and will cut 10% of its workforce

Boeing announced Wednesday that it burned through $4.3 billion in cash in the first quarter and posted a $641 million loss, as the company braces for a prolonged impact on the aerospace sector from the COVID-19 pandemic, combined with the ongoing 737 Max crisis.

This is about 16,000 people.

Don’t bullshit me that this is COVID-19 related.

Yes, flights are down.  But aircraft have a fixed service life.  All this does is delay the purchase of new aircraft by some period of time.  Once normal flight operations resume, aircraft turnover will return to normal.

And don’t tell me “in the post COVID world, fewer people will fly because of the risk.”  I was told that after 9/11 too and that lasted a year.

Furthermore, the government of the US and other countries in Europe are still pushing fuel efficiency standards for aircraft that will necessitate the purchase of new planes.

This loss is the 737MAX and the reputation for failure that Boeing is developing coming home to roost.

This meme says it all:

 

The current downfall of Boeing is a masterclass in how not to run a company.

If anything will save Boeing, it is a return to a focus on producing quality aircraft by creating a corporate culture of quality and performance that goes all the way up to the top levels of management.

Not one that cuts tests, hides bad data, and hires people who leave rags and garbage in fuel tanks to save money.

If Boeing’s valuation does crash into the ground like a malfunctioning 737MAX, I’ll be happy to buy the company with the cash in my change jar and run it as an engineer, not a stock price.

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Masterful job by Trump *chef’s kiss*

Some dumb journalist asked Trump about the allegations of sexual assault against Joe Biden.

Trump pulled the greatest move ever.

The TDS media now has two choices:

1. Do the unthinkable and agree with Trump that false allegations of sexual assault happen.

2. Reflexively disagree with Trump and paint Biden into the corner of saying false accusations don’t happen so Biden must be guilty.

This is just a masterpiece in fucking with the media.  I’m sure talking heads are squirting blood out of their eyes trying to figure out how to respond to this.

 

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And we have data on how bad the lockdown is and it’s more than just the economy

From Oregon Live:

Oregonians have died at rate well above average since mid-March, but tie to COVID-19 unclear, state data show

More Oregonians died the past month than is typical in mid-March and early April, according to data released by state health officials, but fewer than half the excess deaths were officially connected to coronavirus.

In all, 245 more Oregonians died during the five weeks between March 16 and April 19 than during those same five weeks in 2017, 2018 and 2019, on average. During those five weeks, 78 Oregonians died from COVID-19, according to the state health authority’s official count.

What is clear: Nearly all the above-average deaths occurred at home, among Oregonians both receiving and not receiving hospice care.

In the first full week of April, 47% of deaths in Oregon occurred at home, 7 percentage points more than the three-year historical average. As deaths at home rose, the share of residents dying in hospitals declined.

People are not going to the hospital.

I get that. I had an issue a couple of weeks ago and I wrestled with the idea of going to the ER.

Most of the staff was nice but some nurses acted like I was wasting space in the hospital if I didn’t have COVID.  A hospital that just furloughed 2,000 people and was empty.  Empty.

There has been previous discussions about this.  It was noticed by the Cleveland Clinic that ER visits were down.

The New York Times published an article:

Where Have All the Heart Attacks Gone?

It says the same thing.  ER visits for emergencies like heart attacks, strokes, and other illnesses are down.

People are scared they are going to get COVID at the hospital and the narrative that has been pushed a is that only COVID patients are important.

As a result mortality for other conditions are up.

People are dying at home because they are not going to the hospital when they feel chest pains or have some other illness or injury.

This is driving empty hospitals to furlough workers and makes bored nurses post infuriating TikTok videos.

Outside of a few hotspots it seems that more people will die at home of everything but COVID because they are scared or ashamed of going to the ER than will actually die of COVID.

We put so much effort into saving the lives of hypothetical COVID patients that never materialized, we killed a lot of people with heart attacks, strokes, and appendicitis.

This is a nightmare and some decision makers should pay the price for it.

 

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Needless Jew-baiting from the Washington Post because of Coronavirus

This is from the Washington Post:

Israel deems women’s ritual baths essential, leaving some conflicted over virus risk

Oh those stupid Jews, putting their rituals above other people’s lives.

It can’t be a coincidence that this would be published the day after that sentiment was the narrative in New York City following the police mishandling and breakup of an Orthodox funeral.

So tell me more about these dangerous religious Jews.

Even as Israel closed down its public sphere to stem the spread of the coronavirus, the government deemed that some 700 of these ritual baths, or mikvahs, were essential and permitted them to remain open along with supermarkets and pharmacies. When most of the country was completely locked down for the Passover holiday, the women’s mikvahs were not.

How dare Israel try and preserve some religious rituals during COVID.  Don’t those Jews know this is when governments are supposed to stamp the religious communities into the ground and punish them?  Except for Muslim celebrating Ramadan, they get free food.

Dvora Eiferman, the official at the Ministry of Religious Services overseeing public mikvahs, said that even when emergency measures were imposed in mid-March, shuttering stores, restaurants, gyms and ritual baths for men, and later when synagogues and other religious spaces were closed down, it was clear the women’s mikvahs would remain open.

“We are talking about the most important ritual, a basic need, and there was no choice but to keep them open,” she said.

No.  Riding knee deep in a vagrant’s effluvia in a crowded subway is essential.  A religious ritual isn’t.

Those Jews just keep risking people’s lives for their own silly observances.  This is why they keep getting kicked out of countries.

Except…

Israel is ranked as the SAFEST country to be in during the outbreak.

For a country of over 8.8 million people, its had less than 16,000 cases and only 219 deaths.  New York City has had nearly as many deaths as Israel has had cases.

That is because international experts agreed that Israel got “ahead of the curve” on fighting the virus.

COVID really makes Max Brooks’s World War Z look extremely prophetic, because in the book Israel survived the zombie apocalypse with fewer casualties than nearly any other nation.

That book really should be required reading because its hit the nail on the head with everything from China’s origin of the virus and spreading it with lies and mishandling to Israel’s survival to celebrity uselessness to rich people needing to learn to scrub toilets to the economic collapse of the nation.  It is perhaps the most accurate and well researched complete fiction ever written.

But I digress…

And here is the kicker from the WaPo article:

The Israeli government, in keeping mikvahs open, issued new safety guidelines. These require women to register in advance, allowing the mikvah attendant to track those entering and have time to clean the bath between appointments. The chlorine levels in the baths must be measured after every two or three immersions. While women would previously shower on site in private bathrooms before entering the mikvah, such preparations are no longer permitted on the premises.

So far, there are no reported cases of women who have become infected at a mikvah in Israel, according to Mitchell Schwaber, director of the National Center for Infection Control.

So they have new safety protocols, allowing only one woman in at a time, the water is chlorinated to disinfect it, and there have been no cases of virus transmission in a mikvah.

So exactly what the fuck was the purpose of this article and why did the WaPo feel the need to publish that headline in the USA?

To make the Jews in Israel and religion Jews by extension look bad.

That can be the only reason.

This is the Left getting out in front of everyone calling Bill de Blasio an anti-Semite by making religious Jews look like they put ritual over safety, and therefore what the mayor did was right.

This is some Jew-baiting bullshit from the Washington Post.

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