Tim Hortons Man

Well folks it was nice visiting again but it's time to move on so adios and good bye!   BTW anyone else notice that Robert Murdoch just threw Trump under the bus!!  

Was watching an interview with Swedish Swedish epidemiologist Anders Tegnell and he made an interesting comment about epidemiologists (hat tip for google for figuring out what I meant) and how they will always go for the worst case scenario. Yesterday France joined Wales and  announced that all small shops must close, so what messages are European governments sending out?     DO NOT GO OUT STAY HOME SHOP ONLINE   So where do people first go when they want to order online, Amazon! And once you get in the habit of shopping online it's very difficult to go back. Why would I drive to the store to buy a box of Q Tips when Amazon will deliver it for free the next day!   **end rant**

  It's much worse than that. A comment I posted on Reddit.   Wow the incompetence of the Democrats never ceases to amaze me. So what is Fox News,most important, the most influential, and by far thhe most watched news program in America, doing now the election is mostly finished. It's running 7/24 baseless rumors that the election is being stolen. Whipping up a frenzy about how if we don't stop them the election will be stolen and the Democrats will impose socialism on America!   Soooo what is the Left doing to counter this propaganda?   Nothing!   Instead they are debating whether Hispanics/Latinos join Asians and be classified as white (aka racists nazis white supremacists) because they voted in big numbers for Trump?   While Biden did win the handwriting is on the wall for the Dems

Corona Newsletter from Hessenschau - excellent overview of what's happening in Germany, recommend following it.   https://mailing.hr-online.de/html_mail.jsp?params=QxGXh%2F4cGcldeh5%2FPd00neXnEgewhXMTph8seYVztaPObVToJGkZ2ZJXThs3%2FP6LG%2FBNsLrWiz%2B%2F4qtKW2WAkYpoqKf6wck%2FUGG2bKx3VX4%3D

good question, never thought of that one!

Oh man what a brilliant idea!   Universities are already ring fencing students minds lest they get influence by crazy dangerous radical ideas such as freedom of speech, freedom of thought, debate, democracy etc. but honestly, they really need to put up a firewall around the internet. Can you imagine the disaster if someone were to stumble across Lockdown Skeptics and started asking questions. Horrible!   Well Done Manchester Uni!     

    He may be unfit for office but for the Democrats this is Custer's last stand.  They should have crushed the GOP but they only held them to a draw. Trump has massively re-aligned politics in America. Long term unless the Dems change the future is very bleak. A small example, one Florida county 75+% Latino, should have been a cake walk for the Biden went overwhelmingly for the GOP. The issue with the Dems can be summed up in Arrogance, incompetence, and Socialism (wokeness). Reading the comments on twitter and what Rachel "The Doc" Bitecofer has been saying (even thought her election forcast was massively wrong) it's clear the Dems are in denial.   https://twitter.com/ZachandMattShow/status/1324518032719433728?s=20 Andrew Yang says Democrats need to improve their appeal to the working class: "In there minds the Democratic party unfortunately has taken on this role of the coastal urban elites who are more concerned about policing various cultural issues than improving their way of life."       BTW It was pretty much a given Biden would win the question was would it a massive re-alignment or barely a squeaker    

The numbers are increasing but the hospitals don't seem to be overwhelmed. From what I've read it's the same in the UK.   From the Great Barrington Declaration FAQs     the points and proposals seem to be quite reasonable but implementing them requires good governance, something sadly lacking in most countries. 

I think goes a long ways in explaining why the Blue wave fizzed out, I was expecting a blood bath for the GOP. Instead we'll see even more energetized. Win or lose Trump will be a round for a while     The big story of the night was that Trump gained in every demographic EXCEPT white men. Biden is probably going to win this thing because he gained with white men. The American people rejected woke intersectional identity politics, but of course the media will learn zero lessons                

Go figure part 2 and 3       and   Lee Drutman (@leedrutman) Tweeted: If you are trying to make sense of Florida’s vote to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour AND reelect Trump, I’d like to remind of the upper-left hand quadrant of this chart I made back in 2017. Lots of voters are socially conservative and economically liberal. https://t.co/zoTzXFjCME          

Go figure   According to the exit poll, Trump did better in 2020 with every race and gender except white men. Change from 2016: White Men -5 White Women +2 Black Men +4 Black Women +4 Latino Men +3 Latino Women +3 Other +5 https://twitter.com/jonkay/status/1323991843059761159?s=20          

Watching Biden my impression is Gore vs Bush, Trump has made it very clear he'll fight to the bitter end, Biden, let's all chill, relax and see what happens. It¡s no wo der the Dems can win for losing  Glen Greenwald on this   https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-us-inability-to-count-votes-is?r=15yob&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=copy

Read somewhere that there is 50 different elections each with its own rules. States controlled by the Dems make voting easier, states controlled by Rep make voting tougher. If the GOP keeps the senate won't matter who wins as nothing will get done. The GOP will block everything but tax cuts

So our final 'window visit' at the care home before lockdown didn't go according to plan.   Text for those who don't want to go to FB. Stuff like this is only going to make it harder to enforce the rules.   So our final 'window visit' at the care home before lockdown didn't go according to plan. When you are faced with irrational responses your actions become irrational. When you are repeatedly told 'we're just following the rules' and those rules have kept you away from your loved one for about 8 or 9 months, you question those rules.   When the rules - like so many in this period of our history - are purporting to be in place to 'protect' but yet are causing untold damage to physical and mental health then you start breaking the rules.   Yesterday my 73 year old Mum, pushed into the care home to hug my 97 year old Grandma who has dementia. She then quietly wheeled her out.   My Mum, is a trained nurse and wishes to care for my Nan at home. We only have Power of Attorney for my Nan's finances. Not for her wellbeing. Before lock down we could over come this by visiting my Nan regularly. Now we can't. My Mum was arrested because she refused to take my Nan back to the care home. It feels like we are living in the worst Kafka-esque nightmare. People in masks coming to take your relative away from you.   I find myself for the first time in my life on the wrong side of the law.   I have tried to go through all the 'official channels': written countless letters to MPs, Public Health, the Care home... I have signed petitions, spoken to social workers, we raised a 'safe guarding' concern at the beginning of lockdown due to my Nan's clear deterioration but this was inexplicably dropped and 'disappeared'. When she became ill at the care home and was admitted to hospital we asked that she not go back. Yet she was discharged from hospital behind our backs and without our consent. When your voice feels lost in a labyrinth of bureaucracy, when you are informed by the police that you are not on your relative's relevant paper work(!!), when the system is so clearly failing, we have to stand up and reform it. The police were as kind as they could be, they had a hard job. I thank them for trying their best and de-arresting my Mum so we could go home together.   The issues are with the 'guidelines' and with so much fear preventing creative problem solving. Relatives need to be given key-worker status. They need to be allowed into their relative's private bedroom to visit, feed and care for their loved ones.   I share this story and these two short videos (the second one I recorded by accident but the audio is clear) to highlight to as many people as possible that sometimes the rules aren't right. Sometimes the rules need challenging and changing.   It is my hope that if enough of us live from our hearts, act from our hearts and speak our truth fearlessly from our hearts, this inhumane situation will come to an end. Please share.

Expecting Biden to win a squeaker but it's only due to absolute luck. Trump should have been another Carter.  I highly recommend following @RachelBitecofer  for on this theme.   Some interesting links for political junkies.   Expected outcome (no link) Biden Wins GOP holds Senate and blocks everything Biden does for the next 4 years (via twitter).  http https://twitter.com/ChicagoPhotoSho/status/1323874930467966977? 20 https://twitter.com/ChicagoPhotoSho/status/1323874930467966977?s=20   Jesus H christ. I got this way wrong. I thought child separation policy would result in latino wave for Dems. I mean, that should be a deal breaker for anyone but..   https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1323875437295112195?s=20 https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1323875437295112195?s=20   This is really, really horrifying. Informed pollsters have known for a long time there would be a huge blue shift in Pennsylvania that could wipe out a seeming ~15 lead for Trump as later votes come in. For the RNC to be pulling this crap is just unconscionable.   More to come     https://twitter.com/ChicagoPhotoSho/status/1323874930467966977?s=20 s://twitter.com/ChicagoPhotoSho/status/1323874930467966977?s=20