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Now that Japan has reported that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is in a persistent vegetative state, are we allowed to call him Supreme Leader Kim Chi?

New Delhi: Not a single rupee will be lost to Chinese firms who provided faulty COVID-19 test kits to India as the orders have been cancelled and the payments not made, the government said on Monday amid a controversy over the issue.
Coronavirus test kits made by two Chinese companies Guangzhou Wondfo Biotech and Zhuhai Livzon Diagnostics have been found “under-performing” by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), the government said.
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Several states, including Rajasthan and West Bengal complained about the new test kits, saying they had only 5.4 per cent accuracy.

Centre Cancels Chinese COVID-19 Test Kit Orders, Says Won’t Lose A Rupee

That is a 94.67 percent inaccuracy.

But that is what you get for buying medical supplies from the people that manufacture things that end being sold in the Dollar Stores.

International Wokeness:

China creates virus.
China loses control over the virus.
China fails to tell other countries about the virus.
China bullshits other countries about the virus contagiousness.
China sells defective protective and diagnostics equipment to other Countries.
China makes billions out of the pandemic they created.

But for the Other Countries we are the enemy? Fuck them, let them die woke.

I love the book World War Z, by Max Brooks.

It’s amazing to see how some of the things he wrote about for a zombie apocalypse have come true, in milder ways, during the Coronavirus outbreak.

Take this article from the New York Post:

Rich people doing chores for first time: ‘It’s been a complete shock’

Kenneth Mark never had much time for domestic duties. The dermatologist, who runs three high-end practices in Soho, the Hamptons and Aspen, Colo., typically spends “north of 60 hours a week” jabbing patients with Botox and fillers. His housekeeper of 20 years keeps his home in order, and when his first son was born last year, she became his nanny as well.

“She really takes care of everything,” Mark, 50, tells The Post. “She cleans the house and also watches the baby. She is almost like a house manager, cleaning lady and nanny rolled into one.”

So for the last month, he’s been on diaper duty.

“It’s been a complete shock to our normal day-to-day life,” says Mark, who is still paying his housekeeper/nanny despite being unable to lean on her services. “I’m doing way more than I would under normal circumstances.”

Across the country, elites like Mark have been struggling to figure out how to deal without Jeeves during the COVID-19 outbreak.

Others, like Mark, find themselves in the awkward position of doing chores for the first time ever.

“You want to talk about the great equalizer?! People like us take things for granted,” says Seth MacFarlane on a recent episode of HBO’s “Real Time With Bill Maher.” “We take our housekeepers for granted. Things like laundry and changing the cat box . . . Even figuring out how to do floors. My God, it’s a hell of a lot harder than making TV.”

I have read this before.  Almost exactly.

It is Arthur Sinclair’s first interview in Chapter 5 of World War Z.

I found it described our reconstruction efforts rather well. “Talent” describes the potential workforce, its level of skilled labor, and how that labor could be utilized effectively. To be perfectly candid, our supply of talent was at a critical low. Ours was a postindustrial or service-based economy, so complex and highly specialized that each individual could only function within the confines of its narrow, compartmentalized structure. You should have seen some of the “careers” listed on our first employment census; everyone was some version of an “executive,” a “representative,” an “analyst,” or a “consultant,” all perfectly suited to the prewar world, but all totally inadequate for the present crisis.

These are the people the New York Post is writing about.

Now for my favorite part.

Yes, there was racism, but there was also classism. You’re a high-powered corporate attorney. You’ve spent most of your life reviewing contracts, brokering deals, talking on the phone. That’s what you’re good at, that’s what made you rich and what allowed you to hire a plumber to fix your toilet, which allowed you to keep talking on the phone. The more work you do, the more money you make, the more peons you hire to free you up to make more money. That’s the way the world works. But one day it doesn’t. No one needs a contract reviewed or a deal brokered. What it does need is toilets fixed. And suddenly that peon is your teacher, maybe even your boss. For some, this was scarier than the living dead.

Once, on a fact-finding tour through LA, I sat in the back of a reeducation lecture. The trainees had all held lofty positions in the entertainment industry, a mélange of agents, managers, “creative executives,” whatever the hell that means. I can understand their resistance, their arrogance. Before the war, entertainment had been the most valued export of the United States. Now they were being trained as custodians for a munitions plant in Bakersfield, California. One woman, a casting director, exploded. How dare they degrade her like this! She had an MFA in Conceptual Theater, she had cast the top three grossing sitcoms in the last five seasons and she made more in a week than her instructor could dream of in several lifetimes! She kept addressing that instructor by her first name. “Magda,” she kept saying, “Magda, enough already. Magda, please.” At first I thought this woman was just being rude, degrading the instructor by refusing to use her title. I found out later that Mrs. Magda Antonova used to be this woman’s cleaning lady. Yes, it was very hard for some, but a lot of them later admitted that they got more emotional satisfaction from their new jobs than anything closely resembling their old ones.

This is why celebrities are on social media and trying to be part of a COVID-19 benefit concert.

Nobody needs them.  They have no vital skills at the moment.  They are trying to stay relevant in the world that has more pressing needs.

A guy who can mop a floor in a hospital with disinfectant is far more useful than some warbling asshole on Instagram.  They know it and we know it.

I deeply believe this is the reason the Zombie Apocalypse genre was so popular.  So many people with valuable, sometimes life-saving, skills were tired of barely making ends meet while the most useless fucking people on the planet were making millions shaking their asses on TV.

To imagine a world in which the celebrity whos only appreciable talent is filling a bra gets eaten while anybody who can grow food, service a rifle, or keep an engine running is suddenly transformed into an indispensable national hero appealed to a lot of people.

I think the Coronavirus has made a little bit of that come true.  Hopefully when things return to normal, we won’t forget it and remember that truckers were far more vital to our nation that all of the movie stars put together.

A buddy of mine sent this to me:

Gov. Pritzker’s Executive Order makes criminals of unsuspecting gun owners

That might be a bit of the bold statement but I see where they are coming from.

Illinois Governor Pritzker issued an order that makes wearing a mask in public mandatory during the month of May.  The police can issue citations for people not wearing masks in public and that essential business can turn people away for not wearing masks.

That seems like some serious overreach, but here is where it gets worse.

According to (720 ILCS 5/24-1) (from Ch. 38, par. 24-1) Sec. 24-1. Unlawful use of weapons.

(a) A person commits the offense of unlawful use of weapons when he knowingly:

(9) Carries or possesses in a vehicle or on or about

his or her person any pistol, revolver, stun gun or taser or firearm or ballistic knife, when he or she is hooded, robed or masked in such manner as to conceal his or her identity.

So the question here is this:

If the Governor mandates that a citizen wears a mask for public health reasons, does that criminalize otherwise lawful concealed carry if the government decides that a medical mask conceals the carrier’s identity?

I did some searching and have not found an answer to this question.

Alabama doesn’t specifically prohibit carrying concealed while wearing a mask but does have a general anti-mask law, created during the civil rights era when Alabama was trying to fight off the Klan.  The Alabama Attorney General said that he was not going to enforce the mask law against people wearing medical masks during the Coronavirus outbreak.

I haven’t looked into concealed carry and masks in other states.

I’m not sure if Illinois would arrest a concealed carrier wearing a medical mask for violating 720 ILCS 5/24-1, I suspect that it would depend on the jurisdiction.  A downstate gun-friendly police department probably won’t, Chicago/Cook County might.

If it did happen, it would make one hell of a lawsuit, because the Governor would have effectively invalidated every residents’ CCW permit with his mask order, without due process.

I’m not going to panic just yet, but this is something to keep an eye on that I had not considered before.

The rumor is that North Korean leader Kim Is Jong is dead or a vegetable, and this that his sister, Kim Yo Jong is taking over the country.

Back in 2018 during the Olympics, I covered the media’s fawning love affair with Kim Yo Jong.

Well, brave yourselves to see it again.  We’re getting a preview from a few people on the Left, but the news of Kim Is Jong’s death isn’t official yet.

North Korea is going to have a Woman leader before the United States of America! Let that sink in!

— Tom D'Angora (he/him) (@TomDangora) April 25, 2020

Yo Jong wasn’t elected.  She is the grand daughter of the man who appointed himself supreme leader, who gained and held power by killing between 1.6 and 3.5 million people and plunging a nation into totalitarian tyranny and grueling poverty.

Never mind that her father and older brother maintained the family’s power through persecution and mass murder.  Never mind that she has been known to call for the execution of people by anti aircraft gun.

Nope.  She’s a woman and is going to be a woman leader before America has a woman president and that’s ALL that matters.

America is worse than North Korea because we didn’t have the female progeny of genocidal dictators ascend to power without and election.

Of course I’m going to be reminded about the first axiom of politics.

If Obama killed all of his opponents and made Malia empress for life, CNN and MSNBC would have called it a wise move.

If Trump sommuch as endorsed Ivanka to run for Congress, we’d hear non stop about political dynasties as an existential threat to  America.

Frankly I’m getting really fucking tired of that God damn axiom.

Every Lefty who praises North Korea for having a female leader before the US needs to be taken out into a field and shot with a fucking anti aircraft gun the way the Kim family loves to do.  If North Korea is so great and Woke, they should experience the North Korean system first hand.

Patients ignored chest pain for days only to arrive at the hospital in cardiac arrest. Other patients ignored seizures until their situation became more severe. And a study by the Cleveland Clinic found a 38% decrease in patients presenting to the hospital with stroke and heart attack symptoms since onset of the pandemic.

As fear of being exposed to the novel coronavirus consumed the public, it also kept people away from seeking critical medical attention, several doctors told Gov. Ron DeSantis this weekend during a two visits to hospitals.

Doctors join DeSantis in appeal to non-COVID-19 patients to return to hospitals

About frigging time!

The last several days days I have been listening to MDFD Rescue calls and while the usual culprits of vehicular and other accidents are almost unheard of, all sorts of pains (Chest, abdominal, etc) weaknesses, blood pressure bouts, etc were all over the place. It was one long list of emergency medical calls, one after the other.

And it was not just people not wanting to go to hospitals, but many people cannot get themselves checked out because their doctors have their practices shut down.  One follow up I was supposed to do was shut down because it was not deemed an emergency and I have to wait till medical practices are fully restored.

And the other sword we have hanging about our heads (IMHO) is labs. Most of the commercial labs are just mass processing Pandemic samples and one wonders if they will have time to do the regular stuff at all.

We probably won’t know for many months about preventable deaths caused because we went ape-nuts and we ignored the regular killers.