Living on Manufactured Fear.

The Shelter in place has me going
bonkers , nervous , confused
about what is going on .

WELCOME  to the UN-REAL world of living in fear . Right now , yes  I am scared , worried . I know with the massive shutdowns so many people are going to hurt financially. I do care , (1)>>but are we living under a manufactured fear ? Every now and again the reality of what is happening hits, the extraordinary measures that are being taken across the world, the sense that what can kill you cannot be seen, the mandatory, claustrophobic lockdowns, and it all feels profoundly psychologically uncomfortable. The State and local governments have looked themselves into total shutdowns and "shelters in place" regarding the Corona Virus aka COVID-19 . The Stock Markets trembling . Many institutions are closed  perhaps a month or longer . There is so much Fear and anxiety about a disease can be overwhelming .that it's driving people to brink by empting out mega grocery stores throught the United States . Food rashions , water , milk and yes the ever elusive Toilet Paper  vanishing . Is all that fear , just maybe an over reaction ? I think it's a 50 to 50 split. Yes that we have to be cautious about the virus , we don't exactly know much about with the exception of the few that have become infected with it , have recovered . Remember as far as we know the virus is transmitted by a person who is infected to another person with risk factors . The numbers don't add up when you account for massive financial losses, increased costs of goods while unemployment skyrockets. Everything going crazy . It makes ask questions more often.  (2)>>WE still don't have much data from China , since the Chinese Government said not so much to the wolrd , besides using the virus for a massive cover up ,  that for China the virus has slowed down to a point of only a few cases [ if you want to believe China]  . Either way I started to look at some of the peculiar things about the outbreak .  (3)>>First according to the CDC this also one of the worst flu seasons in years,  (the weeks ending February 8, 2020 and March 7, 2020) were reported to CDC during week 10. Three were associated with influenza B viruses; one had a lineage determined and was a B/Victoria virus. Here we go→ Now with all this Flu stuff going around is, HOW DO TELL THE REGULAR FLU APPART FROM COVID -19? So with a drum roll . HERE I think that its possible that many of influenza -  Viral pneumonia  cases may have been mistaken for COVID-19 virus . I think the CDC needs a good test kit to determine the differnces between the two , most part we may be in for a strong flu season intermixed with a COVID-19 breakout ,  with that,  the medical establishment may be quickly rushing , confusing the public on what is the regular flu and more dangerous COVID-19. While This "pandemic" has proven without a shadow of a doubt that if people are told there is a threat by the media, and doctors, and people in suits, they will panic like the stupid creatures they are. Have you been to the grocery store lately? Have you coughed or sneezed around a group of coworkers and noticed the reaction?

An economic stimulus package for reelection ?

I have a bad habit of picking out things . A bit paranoid , gut feeling that something is at work in our little world .  (4)>>MAYBE  am' being a bit of a conspiracy theory~ist .  With That keen sense . Trump admin is using CV breifings as low key campaign commercials in place of rallies? Trump’s re-election campaign is emphasizing the actions the President has taken to contain the virus so far, from tapping Vice President Mike Pence to lead the government response to the virus to restricting travel to the U.S. from China, South Korea, Italy and Iran. (5)>>Trump's lack of response at first may have set off overblown assumptions.

  AND  if Donald Trump pulls this off and if he actually sticks the money in the hands of the American people and he doesn't just go and bail out the big corporations now some of them are going to need to be bailed out the airlines are particularly hit really hard right now and if they don't get a bailout for the airlines you know this was something that wasn't a mistake they made this wasn't like the banks getting greedy over leveraging doing all of these things this was the the airline industry taking a hit for a completely out-of-control unknown variable that nobody could have ever foreseen coming .so I am not at all against bailing outthe airlines I'm not at all against bailing out various big businesses thatare gonna be hit you know some retailers restaurants small businesses definitely and that's all part of the economics timulus package that they're puttingtogether they're looking at bailing out kind of everybody but guess what the American people included and that is huge finally we're going to be looked at we are going to be considered in the bailout the American people if Donald Trump does that Wow I think that scary thing okay something scary to think about because I think that would just get him reelected. So far, Trump has taken a beating over his handling of the pandemic. The economy is tanking, and just 46 percent of Americans believe the federal government is doing enough to confront the coronavirus, down from 61 percent last month, according to an NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll. Few people trust what Trump is saying about the pandemic, according to the same poll. 

Tulsi Gabbard sells out to Joe Biden's Rigged Nomination .

 (6)>>I LIKED TULSI GABBARD . But she turned into a big sell out by endorsing Joe Biden!!! To the surprise of seemingly everybody,What, she picked Sleepy Creepy Joe ???  What absolutely shocked everyone was Gabbard immediately giving her endorsement to Joe Biden. That move blindsided the establishment, Bernie Sanders supporters, and Gabbard’s own supporters.  WHAT IT SHOWS ? Is that it could be really rigged  for certain .Apart from Biden and Sanders, Gabbard outlasted all of her Democratic rivals to become the third remaining White House hopeful in what began as a historically diverse and crowded pack of candidates. The DNC hated her and  ended her campaign. Gabbard qualified for the last debate but then they moved the goalposts on her and she was out. No way to treat a woman but they had to protect senile Biden.  Gabbard closely tied the reasons for her withdrawal from the race to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, saying that “the best way that I can be of service at this time is to continue to work for the health and well-being of the people of Hawaii and our country in Congress, and to stand ready to serve in uniform should the Hawaii National Guard be activated.”The Democratic primary voters had chosen Biden, Gabbard said, and she had faith in his character. “I’m confident that he will lead the country guided by the spirit of aloha, respect, and compassion, and thus help heal the divisiveness that has been tearing our country apart,” she said. With Tulsi out , this means we will not see a woman running for President for a long while . It's sad . You can't trust the system , and Gabbard's selling out  is the perfect example .

NOTES AND COMMENTS [ REFERENCES] 
(1)>>but are we living under a manufactured fear ?  Fear of the coronavirus is almost as great a threat as Covid-19 itself, the disease it causes. Exacerbated by the media and social platforms, hysteria makes the crisis seem even bigger than it is. It’s not. And it’s important sometimes to remind ourselves, and others, of this simple fact. The phenomenon of mass toilet paper-buying is a symptom of hysteria. Even as Federal and State governments jump with preventive measures, such as banning mass events, "hysteria,"  It’s something that we as humans are prone to (think: the Salem Witch trials), but it’s also something that the internet – a self-creating entity – has provided a fertile landscape for the Government going out of control to contain a illness.   Avoiding fear creates space for further panic, isolation, loneliness, depression, and hopelessness. For mass media, insurance companies, Big Pharma, advocacy groups, lawyers, politicians and so many more, your fear is worth billions. And fortunately for them, your fear is also very easy to manipulate. We’re wired to respond to it above everything else. If we miss an opportunity for abundance, life goes on; if we miss an important fear cue, it doesn’t.  (2)>>WE still don't have much data from China. While the vast majority of cases and deaths are still occurring in mainland China, Covid-19 has already made its way to at least 25 other countries, including the US, Malaysia, Egypt, and Canada. Markets are on edge. Businesses and cruise ship itineraries have been interrupted. Cities and countries are responding with unprecedented quarantines and travel bans. The whole thing feels a lot like the 2011 pandemic film Contagion. But the crucial question is which interventions in China were the most important in driving down the spread of the virus. Epidemiologists say China’s mammoth response had one glaring flaw: it started too late. In the initial weeks of the outbreak in December and January, Wuhan authorities were slow to report cases of the mysterious infection, which delayed measures to contain it .(3)>>First according to the CDC this also one of the worst flu seasons in years. The CDC doesn't test everyone who has flu symptoms to be certain they really have flu, rather than some other viral infection. Still, the CDC estimates are reckoned to be pretty accurate, and they are updated regularly. So far this season we've had between 30 and 40 million illnesses in the United States. Remember this the FLU! not COVID -19 . Of that number, about half were ill enough to seek medical care, and between 300,000 to 500,000 people required hospitalization.   see https://www.healthline.com/health-news/what-to-know-about-the-flu-season-right-now  (4)>>MAYBE  am' being a bit of a conspiracy theory~ist .   Well I have had comments that my blog sounds a bit like a blog  panders to conspiracy . Yes, it might seem that all the elements are there . When I started my blog a few years ago . I was taking on unchartered waters in the political field , satire , opinions , commentary and philosophy .  (5)>>Trump's lack of response at first may have set off overblown assumptions. I think what people blameTrump for is his lack of caring to learn what the virus is capable of. From the outset he claimed it wasn't a threat and wasn't serious, that it would magically disappear, and that the Democrats were using it to try and damage him. On March 2nd, some 6 weeks after trump first spoke on the virus, he publicly asked doctors of a flu vaccine would work on coronavirus. Can anyone say that question doesn't show an extreme lack of understanding to what the world is dealing with? This mindset, in my view, severely hampered our nations preparedness for the crisis. There is no reason we shouldn't be testing more people per day than any other country. Whether or not die hard trump supporters believe everything he says is besides the point. We are a nation of 320+ million people and they all take queues from the president and look to him for leadership. (6)>>I LIKED TULSI GABBARD . I wrote about Tulsi in my blog a few  times , in my last post March Opinion's 2 . Tulsi shared my views against American regime change wars , she during the dabtes had a vary valid argumnet . Not only that she exposed most of her Democrats who were siding with Republicans in regards the war in Iraq . This all led the Washington Post to describe Gabbard as “the Democrat that Republicans love and the DNC can’t control.” The paper mused in 2015, “The question now for party leaders is how they handle a young, rising star who is as much a wildcard as just about anybody in their party.”  The possibility that Gabbard will run as a third-party candidate in the general election future , perhaps splitting the Democratic vote . She has previously denied that she would do so, but it would be especially difficult for her now to turn around and campaign against a candidate she has endorsed.

March o·pin·ion-s. PART 2.

Tulsi Gabbard .

Tulsi Gabbard might be the only
woman left for the Democrats in the 2020
race , but Democrats don't
Like her .

(1)>>Rep. Tulsi Gabbard needs to survive . I like  Tulsi , many have not heard her message clearly, she was called by most of the Democrats a bit strange .Clinton did not actually say that – in an interview on the Campaign HQ podcast Clinton said Gabbard was being groomed by Russians for a potential third-party run – and Gabbard’s campaign presumably knows this, but she has continued to fundraise on the back of the nonexistent accusation.   While many seem to bemoun (2)>>Amy Klobuchar endorsing Biden . She is the seocnd to the last (2.1)>>woman along with Warren that tried to become a American President .Sadly for America in the 21st Century . She is the last women to run for President until 2060 AD .The Hawaii congresswoman’s presence on the debate stage was becoming a headache for the (2.2)>>Democratic party as she uses the platform to appeal to isolationists, dissatisfied liberals and even conservatives who have decried "endless" wars . Tusli message is vary popular with those who are tired of the crazy way the our American government is going out of control. The republicans and the democrats are overwhelmingly on the same page when it comes to promoting the noxious delusions associated with the very same perversity which is called american “exceptionalism” and which is most perversely manifest in their devotion to the perverse “manifest destiny” of global, militarized corporate capitalism. NOW if Tulsi wasn't in the race do you think that people would have the awareness of our regime change Wars the way they do now no not even close right I don't think I don't think so at all I didn't we had to rely on Bernie's voice about ending these wars nobody would have their consciousness raised. That win doesn’t put her in contention for the nomination — she’d need 1,990 more delegates to become the nominee — but under the rules for the last Democratic debate, it would get her on the stage. Still, it’s not clear if she will be invited to the next Democratic debate on March 15. Now about it that's my opinion and I think you know once again I think we're both in the same page when it comes to Tulsi Gabbard her voice is necessary and vital vital so I just want to let you know [ she is a woman still in the political race ] Tulsi Gabbard is qualified to be in the debates  and the next debate  she won a delegate in America Samoa.  
California rigged 2020 Ballots.

If you voted in the March Primary you have some of the people who somehow kicked into the Non- Partisan ballot . The  (3)>>California ballot this year was so confusing that many people recieved the wrong party ballot , some could not vote for a Presidental Candidate of their choice . The current Attorney General, Democrat Xavier Becerra, is only the latest in a line of attorneys general who have exercised this power without even a pretense of impartiality, instead skewing ballot language to lead voters towards their preferred political outcome.  The biggest thing for any election is voter turnout. Remind your voters that its election day. Remind them before election day so that they get registered to vote. Remind them again on election day. Offer to get them to the polls if they don't have transportation. There's a lot of voters sitting at home who forgot to register to vote, forgot its voting day, don't have time to vote, or don't have transportation to the nearest polling station. You win elections by getting these people to the polls. Illegal voter roll purges are called “voter suppression” in media sources, but at what point should someone call it election rigging? The latter sounds much worse and the former is typically dealt with by suing the responsible state or other jurisdiction for voting rights act violations. Come to California to see what’s going to roll out across America in time to guarantee a progressive landslide in 2020. California’s Democrats didn’t just aim to pad their supermajority in the State Legislature. They weren’t going to be satisfied with a sweep of every elected state position, including governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, attorney general, controller, treasurer, insurance commissioner, and superintendent of public instruction. 
Prop 13 , a failed attemp to raise Taxes .

California Gov. Newsom , along with State Senator Steve Glazer, State Senator Nancy Skinner, Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, Oakland Unified School Board President Jody London and other education leaders are all in support of Propsition 13, the pnly statewide measure on Tuesday’s ballot.  This "Prop 13"   being sold as “Closing Special Loopholes.”  “This would allow ‘portability’ of the tax base for property owners 55+, severely disabled, victims of natural disaster and victims of hazardous waste contamination to move to any county in California and transfer their tax base, which sounds great. But did you know that we already passed Propositions 60 and 90 that allow that – if a county chooses to participate, only 10 counties choose to participate.  To be clear though, this would remove the requirement to buy at equal or lesser value to qualify for the tax base transfer – but if you actually do the math, it is still a huge tax base increase. “Old Prop 13” and “New Prop 13”, which is a General Bond issue, not a Property Tax Issue. It had the potentual to stay as a tax on one property tax bill for a long time. The other ‘loophole’ is the parent/grandparent to child/grandchild tax base transfer already in effect through Propositions 58 and 193, but listen to this… this would force the heir to physically move into their deceased loved ones home to transfer the tax base.(4)>>Supporters say that

GOV. Newsom tried so hard to pitch Prop 13
as a school bond measure , but failed
with Tax payers .

Prop. 13 would create a $15 billion bond to build, repair and modernize schools, from kindergarten through public colleges and universities.This proposition should not be confused with the other Prop. 13 but the fact it looked similar to— the landmark 1978 landmark initiative that cut property taxes, transformed the state’s finances and has since become a topic that most politicians won't touch because it would involve raising taxes on homeowners.  The drafted law was Bad  . It meant More taxes (property) , the ballot measure contained sneaky provisions, voters should reject it, even if they favor the idea of the bond measure itself.  . Probably will focus on medium to good schools rather than less well off schools (just based on history) Prop 13 is unique in that it changes the rules for distributing funds. Instead of a first-come-first-served basis that favors well-off schools, it purposefully distributes funds on a needs basis. Also, while it  would have resulted in higher property taxes, it bans districts from levying development fees on new multi family developments near transit centers, and reduces such fees on all other multi family developments. I think this means a more fairly spread out tax to fund schools, that lowers barriers to affordable housing.   This Prop 13 will gop down in history as a "bait and switch" tactic not only for consumers , but school districts as well.

The Corona Virus Over Reaction .Hype and Facts? OR WHAT?

(5)>>So Far China created the "monster virus", you just can't "BUY" into the Bat Soup story .I feel for the people who are sick with this virus, I hope that there would be a cure fast enough . NOW it seems we are dealing with unknowns .   (5.1)>>There is so much PANIC and Misinformation that is driving people crazy . I gather from " our government ?"CDC  that they are NOT EXACTLY SURE how the virus is transmitted [ ASK CHINA FOR INFO 😂PLEASE !!!]  In the New York Post, Steven Mosher, a regular critic of China’s population control measures, has stoked the leakage rumor, using an array of detailed clues that Chinese labs’ handling of deadly pathogens can’t be trusted. Similar rumors have also been running rampant in online forums in China. NOT PEEP FROM OUR STATE DEPARTMENT FOR INVESTGATING. The Covid-19 bioweapon conspiracy theory has not only failed to be debunked; it even seems to be getting a second wind, and prominent politicians from countries around the world are embracing it. Educated People should be  "suspicious" about how the virus emerged . Which has been the subject of being debunked as a  conspiracy theory , but it is far from it .  In the United States, Cotton isn’t fully letting up on his suggestion last month that the virus was a Chinese military creation. In a Fox News interview in February, he appeared to suggest just that, before walking back the idea, sort of. (In a series of tweets, he said the bioweapon theory was just one of several hypotheses.) Bioweapon or not, Cotton still believes someone is responsible for the pandemic, someone Chinese. The South China Morning Post on February 20 debunked yet another news of the virus escaping from the lab in China. The media, in general, is doing its best to provide factual reporting despite the lack of reliable facts from Trump. Trump misstated the severity of the threat, blamed concerns on the Democrats, placed Pence in control of official statements, (except Trump), and made a highly questionable statement about people going to work with the virus. Most media outlets are getting facts as they can and trying to report them accurately. Most of the items I’ve seen are updates on cases diagnosed or suspected and quarantines. What does lead to panic is when the information isn’t given out accurately. To ignore it, should it happen, that we see friends and relatives getting sick and dying from it while the government paints a rosy picture of it is going to make people concerned more about what’s really happening and why the government is lying about it than it would be if they just told the truth to start with, or admit they’re still working on it than claiming a vaccine or a cure is ready next month. It seems that our whole society is being turned upside down , like institutions shutting down, multitrillion-dollar losses for the American market, far exceeding the entire economic impact of 9/11 in one week. The list goes on . Later on my next writing I am going address how this crisis can be haulted . Remember it's a virus . Clorox and Lysol can kill it , that's a clue worth looking into.


NOTES AND COMMENTS :

 (1)>>Rep. Tulsi Gabbard needs to survive .Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) to urge the Democratic National Committee (DNC) to allow her onstage for the next primary debate after newly released qualifications for the event barred her from participating.“@JoeBiden @BernieSanders I’m sure you would agree that our Democratic nominee should be a person who will stand up for what is right. So I ask that you have the courage to do that now in the face of the DNC's effort to keep me from participating in the debates. #LetTulsiDebate,” Gabbard tweeted late Friday night. Here Tulsi stresses the fact that there might some bias towards her : 

To keep me off the stage, the DNC again arbitrarily changed the debate qualifications. Previously they changed the qualifications in the OPPOSITE direction so Bloomberg could debate. I ask that you stand w/ me against the DNC’s transparent effort to exclude me from the debates.
— Tulsi Gabbard (@TulsiGabbard) March 7, 2020

(2.2)>>Democratic party .The DNC has changed the rules for debate participation in more recent debates. When the primary started, a candidate had to have at least 1 percent support in at least three state or national polls or have raised money from at least 65,000 individual donors (spread over at least 20 states, with at least 200 donors in each of those states). As time went on, candidates had to meet both a polling and individual contribution requirement. Eventually, both the contribution and polling level thresholds became more stringent, leading to a number of candidates then in the race, like Sen. Cory Booker and writer Marianne Williamson, being excluded.  (2.1)>>woman along with Warren. A historic group of six women were vying for the Democratic nomination, leading many to hope the United States would elect its first female president in 2020.Today, the picture looks quite different: Five of those women have dropped out—most recently Elizabeth Warren, who failed to place better than third in a single Super Tuesday state. Tulsi Gabbard, the only woman left in the race, is averaging 1 to 2 percent in national polls. But even among people who recognize the enduring sexism women candidates face and will continue to face, there is impatience at the idea that Warren, or other women candidates, lose because of gender .  (2)>>Amy Klobuchar endorsing Biden . The whole things shows how much of fraud the debates are . It's about defeating Bernie Sanders and not exactly Trump. For a few months I've said that I do see the DNC srewing over Bernie again , if he shows up with a plurality. But I think I'm wrong. The party is exerting pressure to attempt to sway things as much as possible to the Biden side, and getting the other moderates to drop is the play. There are a whole lot of voters in Minnesota and elsewhere on Super Tuesday who will now vote for Biden, that would have voted for Klobuchar. If only two-thirds of her supporters follow her endorsement to a very similar moderate, that's still a bump of about 3-4% nationally, which can help Biden a lot in a closely contested race.I don’t understand how the DNC doesn’t realize that running Biden against Trump is the worst possible option. Trump already poison pilled Biden with his Ukraine/Burisma conspiracy nonsense in the eyes of many, regardless of whether it was true or not. Also, Biden will get cowed by Trump in a head to head debate.  (3)>>California ballot this year was so confusing that many people recieved the wrong party ballot.  THE big majorities of California voters now vote by mail,   California’s shift stems in part from a 2016 state law known as the Voter’s Choice Act aimed at making voting easier and more flexible for the state’s 20.5 million registered voters. California’s 58 counties can choose whether to participate. Five did so in the 2018 election cycle. Another 10 are making the leap this year. Combined, they account for half of California’s electorate. Under California law, the parties are allowed to decide whether to let NPP registrants participate in their presidential primaries; Democrats have said yes and Republicans have said no. But NPP voters are, logically if somewhat ludicrously, presented with blank presidential primary ballots because there isn’t any NPP primary — unless they ask for a Democratic ballot to send in along with the top-two ballot for state and local offices that everyone gets. The uncertainty spiked early this year after county elections offices mailed postcards to No Party Preference voters asking them which party ballot they wanted. The cards had just three options: The Democratic Party, Libertarian Party and the American Independent Party. Again, the GOP refuses to give ballots to NPP voters in presidential primaries unless they re-register. So many voters just got kicked out of a vary important election cycle.(4)>>Supporters say that Prop. 13 .  One of the reasons for the  failure of this School Bond issue is vary easy to explain.California’s tax rates are among the highest in the nation in all major categories except for property taxes. Foes of the measure claimed — and some still do — that limiting property taxes to 1 percent of the sales price (plus local bonds) and limiting increases to 2 percent a year would be the death knell for public services. Instead, tax collections at all levels have soared. Even property-tax collections have been way up given the state’s high values. Besides For starters, the bond was designed to scare voters about supposedly horrific and dangerous conditions in public schools. Those just happen to be the same conditions public school officials have failed to address over many years. They also are the same conditions that were supposed to be addressed by a $9 billion school-facilities bond that voters approved in 2016. So where did that money go ?. (5)>>So Far China created the "monster virus".  So the source of Covid-19 remains ambiguous, it should raise some concerns about it . The conventional, and most likely, view of the COVID-19 outbreak is that it originated in Wuhan, China, near the most sophisticated Chinese bioweapons lab and then proceeded into the world from there, leaving people to guess whether it originated in the lab and leaked, came from wild bats or snakes, or came from an exotic meat market. No matter what it is, this is hurting the economy world wide . Shutting the Markets , schools for examples , it makes you wonder if it on purpose . It could vary well test our American Healthcare system to a point . So I agree with Bernie Sanders on this one for a Universal Healthcare system .According to the Associated Press, hospitals have looked to measures like calling doctors out of retirement, setting up tent units  outside their main facilities, and even canceling elective surgery procedures. It remains to be seen how the virus can be stopped . (5.1)>>There is so much PANIC and Misinformation that is driving people crazy .  Shelves have been emptied across the world. Fights have broken out, trolleys piled high, and across the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, most supermarkets imposed a cap to limit the number of rolls a person could buy.  PLEASE NOTE !!!! BUYING TOILET PAPER IS NOT GOING TO HELP FIGHT CORONA VIRUS !!! ToiletPaperApocalypse. Secondly , The CDC has not a clue , as much as Homeland Security did after September 11th , 2001 . There just telling the public wrong how it spreads , but they know . Its a person to person contact . If you are near a infected person , your likely to catch it . Simple . All the washing , wall wiping is not going to do anygood . It's going to drive people crazy , hope to God that it will not lead to some kind of civil disorder because of panic within the general population .

March o·pin·ion-s.

Regarding a few thoughts on the Corona- Virus. Here is the BIG problem with new diseases, however, is that experts are learning new information everyday and things change rapidly. Smart people make mistakes, and new information is constantly coming to light. We are suspicious of the latest outbreak of an (1)>>apparently bat-borne corona virus in China, which is destabilizing capital markets, China (to an extent at least) and stoking the anti-China feeding frenzy of CIA-linked media outlets like The New York Times. It should be noted that Chinese scientists have been studying this type of virus and anticipated the possibility that the next outbreak of a bat virus to human outbreak might well occur in China.The timing of this outbreak, coinciding with the Chinese New Year, is significant. China screwed it's self hard. And they are now trying to sell themselves as the big saviors of the world. None of this would have happened if they hadn’t hidden the virus from the world. And now trying to play the big heroes?  China’s health minister, Ma Xiaowei, warned Sunday that the virus seems to be (2)>>becoming more transmissible and the country—which has taken unprecedentedly draconian steps to control the virus—was entering a “crucial stage.”  Some health experts are worried that, as coronavirus spreads, too many patients will be stuck waiting for test results because of a limited supply of test kits available from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). While waiting, those patients would have to be kept in temporary in isolation in hospitals, taking up limited bed space. After a California woman tested positive for coronavirus—the first case of “community transmission” in the U.S., in which someone is infected in spite of no known link to travel abroad—infectious disease experts expressed concern that the disease is spreading undetected in other parts of the country.The Chinese government continues to censor news and social media. This not only keeps the rest of the world from knowing what’s going on, it also makes it harder for the government itself to keep track of what’s really happening, as opposed to what underlings are reporting to their superiors.That and officials in Wuhan aren’t testing very many people, and just sending them home. And a bunch of deaths are not being logged as Corona and just being labeled as pneumonia, and the bodies quickly burned. So the stats we have are very misleading. And it’s probably more infectious and more fatal than the official story.

Joe Biden's Comeback ?

Bernie Sanders big shake up could be slowing down . As I write we are going to start to see a few of the (3)>>Democrat candidtates dropping out of the race . Billionaire presidential hopeful Tom Steyer after he dropped out of the race on Saturday night. Steyer, whose net worth is estimated at $1.6 billion, spent approximately $252 million on his campaign, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Mr. Steyer, 62, had failed to capitalize on his investment of millions of dollars in South Carolina, where he had pinned the hopes of his campaign. Despite spending more than $191 million on advertising nationally, Mr. Steyer did not earn any national pledged delegates in Iowa, New Hampshire or Nevada, making South Carolina something of a make-or-break state for his continued viability. With nearly 90 percent of the votes counted here, Mr. Steyer had garnered less than 12 percent of the vote, although he told supporters he might pick up one or two delegates. Here comes back Joe Biden ,  the most recent South Carolina poll puts Biden ahead with 28 percent, Sanders at 20 percent, and everyone else below 15 percent. South Carolina has 54 delegates that are pledged based upon the primary results. Biden would be the only candidate who has beaten Sanders in a state, and he might even be leading in the delegate count. The hopes of candidates such as Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar would be waning, and the lesser-known candidates would be facing the tough task of making a strong showing in the Super Tuesday states. Futurewise → Trump is going after Biden later on , in this manner shows he's frightened of him and his ability to make him look the phony by comparison. Trump is no Stateman and Biden has been that with a long record in the Senate and White House. He is admired by our allies while Trump is held in disdain. Domestically, Biden's able to get moderate Republican support to Trump's trashing the GOP in their eyes. It's at least enough to swing a few Electoral votes.  I think Biden is the most threatening candidate towards Bernie (and his allies) out of any in the corporate democratic field, and as such, we need to avoid mixing up our very justifiable disdain for the man with too cocky of an attitude towards his prospects in certain states, and among certain voters. I agree that the establishment will eventually pick one candidate and give them the benefit of all their influence, and since everyone else kinda bombed, it will probably be Biden.

Super TUESDAY .

Generally, after these are done, it's clear who the candidates will be for Democrat and Republican parties. If the wins are decisive, the other candidates will either lose support, or choose to dedicate their support to the winning candidate so they don't waste money. We have already seen that  Amy Klobuchar and Pete Buttigieg endorsing Joe Biden . The battle will be between the 3 "B's" = Bernie , Biden and Bloomberg . BUT WE CAN ONLY GUESS that BIDEN gets the nomination since the Democrats again may have rigged it against Bernie all over again . (4)>>Rigged does not mean “unfair.” It means the outcomes are predetermined.  If they can't do well TUESDAY ,😂 then they may be too far behind to have a realistic chance at catching up.Bernie Sanders got blown out in South Carolina — but he’s poised to rebound on Super Tuesday, according to new polls released over the weekend.Sanders holds a big lead in delegate-rich California, and he’s also the favorite in Texas, these surveys show.The DNC actively sabotaged Bernie's campaign in 2016. That is fact. To be suspicious of them, especially after they purged themselves of progressives a couple years ago, started taking fossil fuel lobbyist money

again, and voted down a rule that would have stopped utilizing big corporate donations, there's no reason to believe they're any less corrupt and conniving now. WE ARE going to see  SLEEPY JOE CLIMB .  PLUS it could be a vary interesting prospects for a Woman Vice President for both Bernie and Biden .  BOTH Democratic presidential candidates Joe Biden has at least four women in mind as potential running mates — but had a hard time remembering their names when an Iowa voter asked him. EVEN  Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in a new interview indicated that he may select a woman as his running mate as he seeks the presidency in 2020, Let's see what bcomes of the Democratic Party.

NOTES AND COMMENTS:

(1)>>apparently bat-borne corona virus in China. Chinese researchers investigating the animal origin of the coronavirus outbreak in China have said that the endangered pangolin may be the “missing link” between bats and humans.Bats are known carriers of the latest strain of the disease, which has infected at least 31,000 people and killed more than 630 worldwide, mostly in China where the outbreak started.A genetic analysis showed that the strain of the virus currently spreading among humans was 96% identical to that found in bats. Chinese leader Xi Jinping spoke about the need to contain the coronavirus and set up a system to prevent similar epidemics in the future.A national system to control biosecurity risks must be put in place “to protect the people’s health,” Xi said, because lab safety is a “national security” issue.Xi didn’t actually admit that the coronavirus now devastating large swaths of China had escaped from one of the country’s bioresearch labs. Wuhan Institute of Virology, either, since it is one of only two bioweapons research labs in all of China.The novel coronavirus, now known as SARS-CoV-2, may have escaped from that very lab, Even the deadly SARS virus has escaped — twice — from the Beijing lab where it was (and probably is) being used in experiments. Both “man-made” epidemics were quickly contained, but neither would have happened at all if proper safety precautions had been taken. (2)>>becoming more transmissible.  If this information is really accurate, this one is going to be pervasive. Thereis  no idea how many people sadly  will actually die from it, but it will probably be a lot, and I think we should start getting used to the idea that this virus is here to stay, and that everybody will eventually be exposed. Communicability without symptoms, and being spread by droplets which means it's in the air around infected people, it's like a virus with a cheat code. We have no defense against it. (3)>>Democrat candidtates dropping out of the race. As Super Tuesday approaches, the Democratic primary field continues to shrink. I foresee that if there is any woman remaining running for President in 2020 will be Tulsi . The polls suggest the race is a three-candidate competition among Biden, Sanders and Warren. The trio has been leading nearly every 2020 poll for months.   (4)>>Rigged does not mean “unfair.” It means the outcomes are predetermined.  It's somewhat ambiguous what people mean when they say "rigged" in the U.S. context. I don't think our elections are rigged (though I have some questions about that last governor's race in Georgia). The article is talking about perception that "the system" (meaning broadly the economy, the laws, the political process) is rigged, meaning biased towards those who are already wealthy and powerful at the expense of everyone else.However, it's worth noting that there are a spectrum of techniques that authoritarian regimes use to alter the results of elections so that they can remain in power, and many of those techniques are probabilistic. If they miscalculate how much they need to interfere, the ruling party can end up accidentally losing, and then they either have to allow democraticization or viciously crush the opposition in an open display of authoritarianism (which can result in sanctions, loss of foreign aid, or provoke a civil war). Sure, there are ways to ensure that the outcome is predetermined, like outright lying about vote counts. But if you want to fool the people or provide at least the appearance of democratic reforms to foreign observers, which are the main reasons some authoritarian regimes have elections in the first place, you don't want to have to make big changes to the vote counts. So they use propaganda, restrictions on freedom of speech and freedom of the press, surveillance of opposition groups, the creation of astroturf "opposition" parties, threats and intimidation, vote-buying, non-secret ballots to enable retaliation, voter suppression laws, using pretexts to disqualify ballots that vote the "wrong" way, etc. to make sure they're starting from a position where they're likely to win without straight-up ballot-box stuffing or lying about the results. But if they underestimate the strength of the opposition, massive turnout can actually result in the opposition winning.