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From News4SA:

San Antonio City Council unanimously passes resolution denouncing COVID-19 hate speech

City Council unanimously passed a resolution that denounces the use of terms like ‘Chinese virus’ and ‘Kung Fu Virus’ as San Antonio continues to fight against the spread of COVID-19.

The resolution condemns any hate speech, violent action and the “spread of misinformation related to COVID-19.”

This is from the text of the resolution.

WHEREAS, COVID-19 is a public health issue, not a racial, religious or ethnic one, and the deliberate use of terms such as “Chinese virus” or “Kung Fu virus” to describe COVID-19 only encourages hate crimes and incidents against Asians and further spreads misinformation at a time
when communities should be working together to get through this crisis;

The city denounces this as hate speech but doesn’t as of yet assess penalties for saying it, not that they could.

Recently we learned that the Chinese government deliberately lied about the Coronavirus so that they could have time to buy up and horde medical supplies from around the world before the epidemic turned into a pandemic.

That is the epitome of evil in regards to a viral outbreak.

There is no excuse for attacking people of Asian descent in the United States, but this desire to curb free speech in the US and provide cover for the Chinese Government is obscene.

The Coronavirus crisis isn’t any more of a justification to violate free speech than it is any other right, but that is what happening.

I have been leaving this story behind because frankly I thought it was silly, but now it is starting to look like good old South Florida politics. A few days ago, somebody revealed that when he was 14 years old and living in a bad neighborhood of Philadelphia, Sheriff Tony shot and killed a man trying to kill his brother in a home invasion. The case was deemed self-defense and no charges were ever brought.

This story was not vox populi simply because Tony did not go out there sharing what must have been a traumatic event. Besides the initial “ZOMG! He killed somebody” he is being beaten in the press because he failed to mention in his affidavit for the job of Sheriff. Now this being Florida, land of the Self-Defense and Castle Doctrine, people have gone mostly “So what?” at the revelation and if any, the response has been “Good for him!”

Since that did not take, now we have (intro breaking news music) pictures of the Sheriff some years ago posing with hot topless chicks in a party.

Now, remember what I said a whole back when Scott Israel was kicked out for screwing up both the Ft Lauderdale Airport shooting and then Parkland: The Powers That Be in Broward County, namely Debbie Wasserman Schulz, were going to do their utmost to re-elect the disgraced former sheriff and I do believe these attacks come from that cabal.

So we wait for the new scandal against Sheriff Tony to emerge. probably they have a video of him spitting on the sidewalk or turning right on red.

PS: I don’t care for Tony. He is a gun grabber and he can go back to Philly for all I care. But sure is fun to see the show in Broward County.

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Hat Tip Jim K.

And they will be flying right above my house.  I will try to get video.

From the Daily Mail:

REVEALED: 66% of New York state coronavirus hospitalizations are people staying at HOME and NOT essential workers – which begs question: Does lockdown even work?

The majority of people who are still being hospitalized with the coronavirus across the state of New York are staying at home and are not essential workers, new data has revealed, prompting the questions of whether or not lockdown even works or for how much longer it will be necessary.

In a study of some 1,000 new patients admitted to New York hospitals over the last week, 66 percent were staying at home and 18 percent had come from nursing homes, meaning they either became infected by going out to get groceries or other essential items, or from seeing people outside of work.

Or… people locked down in buildings with recycled central HVAC and common hallways, stairwells, elevators, laundry facilities, and mail rooms spreads the virus more than being outside walking past a person who is infected.

New York’s apartment culture is apparently  far more dangerous than living in a single family home and going to work in a mid size Middle American town.

Everything about this virus shows that New York City is the infected asshole of America and the rest of the country should not suffer because of the way those people live.

From The New York Times:

Travel From New York City Seeded Wave of U.S. Outbreaks

New York City’s coronavirus outbreak grew so large by early March that the city became the primary source of new infections in the United States, new research reveals, as thousands of infected people traveled from the city and seeded outbreaks around the country.

The findings are drawn from geneticists’ tracking signature mutations of the virus, travel histories of infected people and models of the outbreak by infectious disease experts.

“We now have enough data to feel pretty confident that New York was the primary gateway for the rest of the country,” said Nathan Grubaugh, an epidemiologist at the Yale School of Public Health.

During crucial weeks in March, New York’s political leaders waited to take aggressive action, even after identifying hundreds of cases, giving the virus a head start. And by mid-March, when President Trump restricted travel from Europe, the restrictions were essentially pointless, the data suggest, as the disease was already spreading widely within the country.

Acting earlier would most likely have blunted the virus’s march across the country, researchers say.

“It means that we missed the boat early on, and the vast majority in this country is coming from domestic spread,” said Kristian Andersen, a professor in the department of immunology and microbiology at Scripps Research. “I keep hearing that it’s somebody else’s fault. That’s not true. It’s not somebody else’s fault, it’s our own fault.”

Geneticists have analyzed and shared more than 2,000 samples of the virus from infected people. As the virus infects new people and replicates, it picks up mutations along the way. These mutations typically do not change the behavior of the virus, but they can provide a signature of a virus’s origin.

Most samples taken in Texas, Ohio, Louisiana, Idaho, Wisconsin and many other states carry distinct mutations that can be traced back to viruses introduced into New York.

Over all, Dr. Grubaugh estimated, infections spreading from New York account for 60 to 65 percent of the sequenced viruses across the country.

So New York spread the virus to most of the rest of the United States because New York failed to lock down much earlier.

The Mayor and Governor have exacerbated the problem through every ridiculous possible policy.

They forced nursing homes to take sick patients creating elderly death centers.

They kept the subways open  creating underground transmission tubes.

Then the New York based media forced the rest of us to lockdown because of New York’s mishandling.

Lastly, volunteers who traveled to New York to assist their hospitals have to pay income tax in New York from employers out of state.

When all is said and done, New York will have destroyed any and all good will it has from the rest of the country.

Next time, the rest of the US will just watch as New York burns and all we do is make sure nobody escapes to spread whatever it is to the rest of us.