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In Arabic, Inshallah means “Allah wills it.”

This idea of people being submissive to the will of Allah has lead to a dangerous fatalism in Islam.

I’ve seen it where Islamic workers don’t bother wearing PPE because if it’s Allah’s plan for them to lose their toes in an accident, who are they to question it.

Back in November of last year, I wrote a post about this phenomenon causing ammunition depots in Islamic countries to explode.

Again, I will quote the great text “Why Arabs Lose Wars.

Indifference to Safety:
In terms of safety measures, there is a general laxness, a seeming carelessness and indifference to training accidents, many of which could have been prevented by minimal efforts. To the (perhaps overly) safety-conscious Americans, Arab societies appear indifferent to casualties and show a seemingly lackadaisical approach to training safety.

So it is no shock to me what I read on CNN.

Ammonium nitrate stored in a warehouse linked to catastrophic Beirut explosion

A warehouse storing thousands of tons of unsecured highly explosive material has emerged as a possible source of the massive blast that ripped through the Lebanese capital on Tuesday, killing at least 100 people, injuring 4,000 and sending a shock wave across the city that damaged buildings and blew out windows up to 10 kilometers (6 miles) away.

Lebanon’s Prime Minister Hassan Diab said that 2,750 metric tons of ammonium nitrate, which is typically used as an agricultural fertilizer, had been stored for six years at a port warehouse without safety measures, “endangering the safety of citizens,” according to a statement.

Initial reports in state media blamed the blast on a major fire at a firecrackers warehouse near the port, that likely spread to nearby buildings. However, the Prime Minister’s account appeared to be backed by Lebanon’s General Security chief Abbas Ibrahim, who said a “highly explosive material” had been confiscated years earlier and stored in the warehouse, just minutes’ walk from Beirut’s shopping and nightlife districts.

A Muslim country improperly storing over 3,000 tons of explosives for six years in a warehouse adjacent to a shopping district?

Inshallah.

New York City health commissioner Oxiris Barbot resigned on Tuesday, after clashing with Mayor Bill de Blasio for months over the city’s coronavirus response.

“I leave my post today with deep disappointment that during the most critical public health crisis in our lifetime, that the Health Department’s incomparable disease control expertise was not used to the degree it could have been,” Barbot wrote in her resignation letter. “Our experts are world renowned for their epidemiology, surveillance and response work. The city would be well served by having them at the strategic center of the response not in the background.”

At a Tuesday press conference, de Blasio did not directly say whether Barbot was fired.

NYC Health Commissioner Resigns with ‘Deep Disappointment’ after Clashing with De Blasio

If the name sounds familiar to our readers, is because this lady has been in our posts before. Now she was the leader of NYC Health and she moans bitterly about the expertise going to waste. What expertise? Maybe this one from February 9, 2020?

What was the misinformation this health expert was denouncing? The “racist” and “dangerously” racist decision by President Trump to ban travelers from China on January 31st.

Almost 4 months later and de Blasio finally gets rid of this dangerous quack, but probably for something political rather than health-wise.

New York City has seen over 23,000 deaths and 231,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus. More than 2.5 percent of the city’s population has been infected.

Oh yes, so much for that “incomparable disease control expertise.”

I saw this clip from the Axios interview with President Trump about the coronavirus.

.@jonathanvswan: “Oh, you’re doing death as a proportion of cases. I’m talking about death as a proportion of population. That’s where the U.S. is really bad. Much worse than South Korea, Germany, etc.”@realdonaldtrump: “You can’t do that.”

Swan: “Why can’t I do that?” pic.twitter.com/MStySfkV39

— Axios (@axios) August 4, 2020

I really don’t give much of a shit about it except that the interviewer brought up South Korea.

Now I’m mad.

There are some good articles from Business Insider and National Geographic about what South Korea did to curb the spread of COVID as well as it did.

Some things were technical in nature such as rapid testing and contact tracing.

There are other factors such as the cultural norm of wearing a mask during sickness that is common in Korea, as well as Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and other Asian countries.

Public cleanliness is also a cultural norm that is different than in the US, such as Korea’s speed to disinfect public transportation vs. the NYC subway which is a sewer.

But much of the success of Korea has to do with it not being the United States.

Contact tracing like done in Korea could not be done in the US because we have HIPAA and value patient privacy.

The US is also a huge country.  Korea is one-seventh the size of Texas.  Half the Korean population lives in nine major cities.  They have less than one-sixth our population and are used to a central government as opposed to our federalist system.

But perhaps the biggest difference is the Korea and Japan were not afflicted with TDS.

The Coronavirus first broke during the impeachment of Trump in the House and absolutely nobody in the media or Democratic party gave a fuck about anything but impeachment and if Trump actually pissed on a bed that Obama sleeps in or whatever provably false bullshit some hack FBI informant pulled out of his ass.

Then when Trump ended flights from China the Democrats called him a racist and a xenophobe and said everyone should go to Chinatown for a fucking party.

This was the MS-13 bullshit all over again.  Trump called a gang that has the motto “kill, rape, control” animals, so Pelosi had to call them lambs of God.

Then came the battle over hydroxuchloroquine.  Does it work?  Under what conditions does it work? What needs to be taken with it for it to be effective?  What are the risks?

Who the fuck knows.  Probably a few doctors but the media and Democrats had to destroy any hope of it working because Trump put his faith in it.

Then governors banned doctors from giving it off label, which is fucking obscene.

The Democrats for decades screamed “the government shouldn’t get between a woman and her doctor” when it comes to abortion but when it comes to the COVID, you’re God damned right thr government is going to get between a patient and their doctor.  A governor can decide you can’t take a drug that your doctor might give you even though you are dying and have no other hope because TDS.

Fuck you and your right to go to church, you have to social distance and be on lockdown.

But you can form a mob and riot in the streets as long as you scream “fuck Trump.”

Other countries have had a single l, unified vision for controlling the spread of COVID.  Their leaders were honest and transparent with them.  The virus was the enemy and it was defeated.

In the US, the popular vision driven by  politics  and the media was “whatever Trump says is wrong.”  Trump was the enemy.  All we were told was politicized bullshit.

The Democrats engaged in nothing but naysaying.  I still don’t have an idea of what their plan is or as other than everyone stay home until were all bankrupt and nobody dies of COVID ever again, which is absolutely infeasible.

If Trump said something factually wrong then give me the data and provide alternative solutions.  But the gross overreactions to Trump are so gross and such overreactions that I can’t trust that what they say is anything other than TDS.

COVID might be the immediate cause of death but politics and TDS are the proximate cause of death.

It has been demonstrated beyond a shadow of a doubt that winning elections and making the President look bad was more important than saving American lives and they don’t care a out the 158,000 COVID deaths as anything more than a stick they can beat Trump with.

I have reached the point where I am ready to take every elected Democrat politician at the state and federal level, for all 50 states, and pass them through the Decapatron.

Via Second City Cop:

OK, it is official: WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON IN MINNESOTA ?

Keith Ellison is the head Law Enforcement honcho in the state and he is advocating that there should not be a police investigation on rape cases. I am all for victim support, but to ignore that a rapist is out there and to impede cops to gather evidence and information is just plain idiotic. Or maybe there is a political shift like what happened in Europe where certain rape cases have to be ignored because cultural considerations.

What even worries more is the lack of shock in the faces of both females in the video: Rep. Karen Bass (D-Calif.) and  Yamiche Alcindor PBS White House correspondent for the PBS NewsHour. Then again neither one of them live in Minnesota

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Not a good omen for the fella.

AURORA, Colo. (CBS4) – The man accused of opening fire in the middle of an Elijah McClain protest on Interstate 225 faces more charges. The 18th Judicial District Attorney’s Office announced Samuel Young now faces four counts of first degree assault in addition to four counts of attempted first degree murder..
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…Young could face a maximum of 112 years in prison. His next court appearance is set for Aug. 14.

District Attorney Files More Charges Against I-225 Shooting Suspect

I am a bit surprised the additional charges were added. I was expecting no action and then a quiet deal with a reduced sentence perhaps a  misdemeanor serving full time or pleading a felony and some early release.  .

He is not going to serve the century, that is for sure. But it is going to be to the judiciary of Colorado to determine if he gets some decent prison time.  Truthfully I will be surprised if he is sentenced to anything more than 5 years,  and then getting out in half that.

Protestors on their way to harass the Seattle police chief ⁦@carmenbest⁩ at her home, encountered locals who were not in the mood to host protests in their neighborhood.

Protestor: “We are peaceful! You pointed a gun at my face!”

Resident: “That’s why you are peaceful.” pic.twitter.com/QU0FzwReNG

— Mike (@Doranimated) August 4, 2020

I find funny that individuals associated with a proven violent group decide to cover themselves with the shroud of pacifism. Bad news for them, regular people are not buying.

If they were smart, they would stay in areas they know they will get the appropriate favorable media coverage  and get away with the destruction of property, because even reporters don’t want them in their well manicured HOAs.