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I am sure the same story was similarly published in other media, but this is the one I found first.

An Arizona woman says she and her husband thought it was safe to take chloroquine phosphate as a coronavirus treatment because of statements the president has made.
A man has died and his wife was in critical condition after the couple ingested a formulation of chloroquine phosphate, a malaria drug that has been rumored to treat the deadly coronavirus, that is used for cleaning.

Banner Health, an Arizona-based health care provider, announced the death Monday afternoon. A spokeswoman later said the woman was in stable condition and expected to recover.

According to a hospital spokeswoman, the couple, both in their 60s, took the drug as a “preventative measure” to reduce their chances of contracting COVID-19.

Arizona Man Dies After Taking Drug Trump Promoted As Possible Coronavirus Cure

Damn! How that happen? Did their doctor prescribe the medicine without the proper dosage? What happened here?

The woman told NBC she had heard President Donald Trump talk on TV about chloroquine as “pretty much a cure” for coronavirus. “I was in the pantry stacking dog food and I just saw it sitting in the back shelf and thought, ‘Hey, isn’t that the stuff they’re talking about on TV?’ And it was,” she said.

Wait, what? What was that medication doing back there with the dog food in the pantry?

However, a Banner spokeswoman said chloroquine phosphate can be formulated in different ways – as a human medication, but also as an aquarium cleaner. What the couple had was the cleaner, not meant for humans.

The woman said she and her husband mixed a teaspoon of the substance with soda and drank it.

They drank aquarium cleaner! Are you kidding me? God knows what other stuff it has inside and these two idiots thought drinking it was the right thing to do rather than the Darwin Finalist example it ended up being. You know? Clorox has water, but you won’t see me chugging a gallon of the thing if I am thirsty.

Now, the author of this article,  Jessica Swarner knew this. She knew that the couple drank something not meant for human consumption, yet she chose to carefully word the article in a way that would reflect negatively on the President.  Mention it is not a medication but a cleaner do not happen till the fourth paragraph.  “Arizona Man Dies After Taking Drug Trump Promoted” is not even an ‘accurate but not the truth’ title but a blatant lie.  The President never said that people should ingest fish tank cleaner, in fact he has not even said anything about people taking the medicine but only that he feels hopeful it will help cure the victims of the Wuhan virus.

Fish tank cleaners are used to remove the scum that occur in aquariums. I wonder if there is a version for newspapers because we sure as hell it is needed.

Buddy Robert G posted this in Facebook and it seems to be an appropriate comment:

Well, ain’t that nice?  It is crap like this that makes any Floridian develop a nice strain of contempt and repulse for anybody with a NY accent.

As of this hour (8:09 pm) Florida has 1,227 confirmed cases (half of those in Miami-Dade and Broward counties) and a total of 18 deaths. For a state that has a huge population falls within the parameters of dying from Wuhan virus and a lot of them living in assisted living facilities, only 19 deaths is momentous.  yes, I know that number will not hold and we will see more of our elderly dying, but what we don’t need is a combination of the stupidly irresponsible to ad to the danger.

What in God possessed New Yorkers that might be infected, to hop in a flying cylinder that uses recirculated air so all passengers shares a wee bit of Wuhan Virusauce, and then come here to share even more Wuhan Virusauce with the locals just because you did not want to stay quarantined in your city.

And of course, you have nothing in your second home, rental, Time Share or Airbnb, so you need to go to the stores and buy the items you already had in New York but didn’t bring and while shopping, once again  sharing Wuhan Virusauce with fellow shoppers.

But I disagree with De Santis. Do not quarantine them for 14 days and release them but do the lockdown and ship their asses back to NY.

From the New York Post:

‘We should blow up the bridges’ — coronavirus leads to class warfare in Hamptons

Yes, absolutely.  I really don’t need to know more than that, but I am curious.

It’s all-out class warfare in the Hamptons.

Don’t tease me.  It’s not “all-out class warfare” until there is a body count.

The year-round residents, the locals who serve and clean and landscape for the super-rich in the summertime — and put up with all manner of entitlement and terrible behavior in exchange for good money — are silent no more.

“There’s not a vegetable to be found in this town right now,” says one resident of Springs, a working-class pocket of East Hampton. “It’s these elitist people who think they don’t have to follow the rules.”

The elite never follow the rules.  That is the surest sign you’ve made it as an elite. Once you can own your own rape island or have despots funnel hundreds of millions of dollars into your money laundering scheme of a foundation you know you’ve made it.

Every aspect of life, most crucially medical care, is under strain from the sudden influx of rich Manhattanites panic-fleeing, bringing along their disdain and disregard for the little people — and in some cases, knowingly bringing coronavirus.

The Springs resident says her friend, a nurse out here, reported that a wealthy Manhattan woman who tested positive called tiny Southampton Hospital to say she was on her way and needed treatment.

The woman was told to stay in Manhattan.

Instead, she allegedly got on public transportation, telling no one of her condition. Then she showed up at Southampton Hospital, demanding admittance.

That’s just evil.  Seriously.  How many people did that woman possibly infect because she decided she was rich enough to bypass the NYC quarantine and bring her disease to her summer resort home hospital.

“We’re at the end of Long Island, the tip, and waves of people are bringing this s–t,” says lifelong Montauker James Katsipis. “We should blow up the bridges. Don’t let them in.”

I highly recommend whistling while you do it.

“That small act reflects a lot of what we deal with in the summer,” he says. “Selfish. Disrespectful. Absolutely horrifying.”

“I’ve seen breathtaking acts of selfishness,” says lifelong East Hamptonite Jason LaGarenne, 42. “I saw one guy walk out [of a grocery store] with a cart full of carrots. Just carrots. Another cart was full of bottles of water and orange anti-microbial dish soap. If you’re a ridiculous person in general, I guess your ridiculousness is amplified by something like this.”

This comes as no shock to me.  The super-rich showing up in what they think of as exclusively their vacation spots and buying up everything depriving the locals of necessities.

The offseason, October through June, is sparsely populated and can be very isolating. During that time, local grocers only stock food and supplies for a severely reduced population. There is no FreshDirect, no Whole Foods, no door-to-door food deliver

I’ve never been to the Hamptons but this is something I’m familiar with this in Florida.  There are areas that are know for their spring break or tourist spots that during the offseason are practically ghost towns.

My grandparents used to own a vacation home in one of these spots on the Gulf Coast.  When we visited them during the offseason the community was very different.  It was just retirees and a city rolled up the sidewalks at 8:00.

If the Hampton locals were not planning for a tourist rush, they are only going to have on hand what they need for their small community.  Having people escape New York City and descend on them as a refuge without warning will drain them of their resources.

The South Hampton hospital is pretty small too.  It’s only a 125-bed hospital with eight ICU beds.  It’s not built to support a huge population year-round, especially during a crisis.

“The biggest problem — what really gets me going — is that they think because they’re all the way out [here], they’re safe,” says Katsipis. “But some of those people are sick, and they’re going out to bars and acting like they’re on vacation. What do these city people think — we have some imaginary, magical bubble?”

I’ve mentioned this before.  I love the book World War Z, and there is one chapter in which a security guard for a celebrity talks about the celebrities who hunkered down with private security in guarded mansions and partied while the zombie apocalypse was occurring.  It was fun until the zombies breached the walls of the compounds and the celebrities were all eaten.

I’m getting a strong whiff of that.

Then there is the famous story The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe.  The nobles have a party during the plague but the plague shows up and kills them all anyway.

I’m getting a strong whiff of that too.

Still, every local who spoke to The Post said their community has one thing going for it that the rich don’t have: They really look out for each other.

The super-rich believe that they are entitled to break quarantine and consume everything the locals have because of their money.

This is why the royalty always wanted to disarm their serfs.  They know they can only heap this casual abuse and disregard for the lives of those under them for so long before there is a peasant revolt.

One seems like it’s coming in the Hamptons.

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I had heard about the  Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act some time ago and I my first thought was “Why do we need it? How bad are lynchings nowadays that somebody thought it was the utmost importance that we make lynching a Federal crime?

And the answer is: It is not a problem.

I have been assisting doing research for a book that has me going through news articles from the USA through the years. One of the search subjects is the lynching of multiple suspects and I had gained a little insight on the subject. Lynchings, specially after the Civil War and almost through the end of the 19th century, were almost a weekly occurrence in this country. However the numbers are heavily reduced as we approach and enter the 20th century because of 2 things: Sheriffs that stood strong and had no qualms at dropping  people in a lynching mob and a very strong prosecution and trial of those persons engaged in lynching.  The moment that the court started to hand 20 year sentences for the extra-judicial killing of people (murder), the wide fervor of lynching started to disappear. It does not matter if the State only sent 4 or 5 of the 500 lynchers to the pen, the rest got the message loud an clear.

By the first decade of the 20th Century, it is almost impossible to find but one case of a multiple-subject lynching and the organizer and a couple of his friends ended up going to prison.  And yes, single individual lynchings continued, but also in a reduced numbers and not quite in the open as before.

This is the worst lynching in the history of the US. March 1891. It was a watershed moment, to coin a phrase.

You can read the details here: The Grisly Story of America’s Largest Lynching.

A buddy of mine sent me this because I apparently didn’t hit my quota for articles critiquing Leftist Jews last week.

From the San Diego Jewish World:

Are there enough hospital beds for Covid-19 and gun victims?

Yes, yes there are.  Hospitals may be busy but they are not overrun with sick people.  The one cause of the overrun in Italy was from people who did not have Coronavirus and had only mild symptoms but panicked and wanted tests.  This is starting to happen in US emergency rooms too.  If you are not having an emergency, see your primary care physician, don’t just rush over to the ER.

This is very different than the dire image the media is painting for us that the US is having people die in hospital parking lots like it’s some post-apocalyptic nightmare.

But I digress…

Baltimore Mayor Jack Young sounded a curious plea this past Wednesday: “We cannot clog our hospitals and their beds with people that are being shot senselessly because we’re going to need those beds for people infected with the coronavirus.”

Baltimore had a record homicide rate in 2019, of 57 per 100,000 people.  the overwhelming majority of those murders were criminals shooting other criminals over drugs or revenge.

Yet it seemed commendable nearly a month earlier when the House of Representatives passed the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act which, true to its name, would make lynching a federal hate crime.

It occurred to me that perhaps a century from now the House will vote to make gun violence a federal hate crime – thousands of bullet-ridden bodies later.

And this would accomplish what exactly?  Federal hate crime charges for some gang member killing another gang member because of money owed in a drug deal?

This is just stupid.

The perpetuation of gun violence is horrid enough, but soon gunshot victims could be competing with coronavirus patients for medical care. Not to mention patients for all other health woes served by hospitals.

Who could have predicted that gun control could not be more crucial? Of course, Republicans will likely deny that the coronavirus spread makes gun control compulsory, but it sure does. 

I would contend that Democrats reducing policing and letting criminals go free because of the Coronavirus is justification for expanding gun rights and concealed carry to law-abiding citizens.  Before the Coronavirus, assault and robbery were turned into catch-and-release crimes in New York and California due to things like Prop 47 and bail reform.  Add in the Cronoavirus and criminals can just about get away with murder.

When the massacre occurred at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh 17 months ago, what if the wounded were turned away from hospitals because there were no beds? The medical facilities were too consumed with treating coronavirus patients.

That’s a hell of a what-if.  Especially since that sort of emergency trauma surgery is treated in different rooms with different equipment than people in an ICU for a highly infectious contagion.

I wish [Baltimore’s Mayor Young] had emphasized national gun control legislation, the only means to prevent smuggling guns across state lines. Though gun control is not a panacea, it would cut off the supply of weapons.

Not just is not a panacea, it’s not effective at reducing gun crime at all.

The Republican response to gun control of prayers for the victims, which amounts to an empty gesture. compares to the anti-lynching bill’s impact. As lynchings of mainly black males swept the nation after the Civil War, Rep. George Henry White, the only black member of the House in 1900, proposed a bill to prosecute lynchings at the federal level at a time when such a law probably would have done some good.

I wonder if this idiot has thought his position through because the primary demographic responsible for shooting Baltimore’s black men is other black men.

It is always helpful to “send a strong message” against violence, but must it be limited to lynchings? Lynchings have for decades been nearly unheard of.

Lynchings could still happen today to blacks, Jews and anyone else, but gun violence is now the reality – whether it victimizes Jews at a Jersey City kosher grocery store and synagogues in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Poway, California, or African-Americans in the inner-city. Or anywhere else.

Ask the seven victims of Wednesday’s shooting rampage in Baltimore.

I had to look this up.  There was a shooting in Baltimore last Tuesday.  The suspects are still at large.  The police suspect gang involvement and not a racially motivated shooting.

The author is skipping over that little point and has jumped onto some spurious connection to lynchings and hate crimes.

Also, if he is worried about random violent attacks on Jews, he’s probably going to be surprised that those seem to be carried out mostly by black people in New York City.

Furthermore, given the random nature of those attacks and the way city and state has responded, not to mention the growing anti-Semitism of Federal Democrats, I’d put more faith in encouraging Jews to adopt concealed-carry than I would some punk in Crown Heights being brought up on Federal anti-Lynching law for punching a Rabbi unconscious.

Every single thing about this opinion is wrong, from the effectiveness of gun control, to the facts about most of the shootings in places like Baltimore, to the state of the US emergency medical system, to how he envisions his solution working.

This guy is just a Lefty who wants gun control and will use any excuse to get it and right now the Coronacrisis is the best excuse he has.