Of course there is also the $200 million lost in unemployment fraud to a Nigerian scam but hey what’s a couple hundred mill!

Well King Jay just doesn’t know the perfect is the enemy of the good, and I have it on good authority that “It’s good to be the King.”

Here in Benton County we’ve had 59 COVID-19 (China contagion) deaths so far.

Mel Brooks that is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXT-nYHOLsUb

What Calvin Coolidge said: “You see ten problems rolling down the road at you, nine of them will roll into the ditch before they get to you”. The trick is identifying the tenth problem. Social hypochondria has been quite pronounced in this country for 50+ years now. It was certainly present as early as 1967, when Paul Ehrlich was able to find a publisher for The Population Bomb, a flagrantly silly book.

To offer a little praise to King Jay the nursing home deaths in WA have not been insane like states like MN and PA and since my mom is swept up in this at her facility I have been following it pretty closely. Still a high percentage of deaths from nursing homes but not crazy high like some states.

In fact if he had laid off draconian measures a few weeks ago and stopped the incessant moralizing I would say he did an ok job but as it just goes on and on and on it is inexcusable.

Art Deco has often said “What about Japan?” and their low fatality rate from the China contagion. Well this article claims that Japan uses hospitals and nursing homes in a basically different way than western countries including the US. Also most of the deaths from the virus are the elderly. Here is a quote from the end of the article:

“As I have argued in this article, I think that one reason why Japan has seen few deaths from the novel coronavirus is because there have been few cluster infections at nursing homes. Cluster infections at nursing homes are very dangerous. The medical system in Japan is without doubt dependable, even compared with those overseas. Moreover, it is unlikely that the nursing care system will collapse, as some fear.

The fact that Japan has seen few coronavirus deaths should not be viewed as accidental or miraculous. It may be important to consider strategically reorganizing the fields of medical care and nursing care.”

https://jmh.usembassy.gov/20200520144135/

The article is cited in today’s Powerlineblog.com

Cuomo sending elderly patients from hospitals back to unprepared nursing homes certainly flatlined their curves.

Did I see you say you were in Moses Lake so do you live in Grant county because I believe they got there phase 2 variance. As I live in Pierce county we may never get to phase 2 if they don’t change the rules. We need to average something like 7 cases a day for three weeks or something and we have had several days of 4 or 5 cases but then it will be a 20 or something (in a county with around 900,000 pop. remember) and blow our average. Of course all they need is to find a few more gun shot victims to label as Covid and we will be closed forever.

What a joke.

Presumptuous to assume you speak for “most” people IMO.

Commissar Inslee created a four phase re-opening (couldn’t possibly have used the federal 3 phase approach, as that wouldn’t have shown the proper resistance to President Trump.

Our county of 99,000 has applied for a variance for an early transition to phase 2, but didn’t meet the criteria of .71 new cases/100,000 per day over a two week period. So instead of the maximum of 9 new cases required, we had 10 new cases.
Another criteria is additional testing. We also need to increase testing. So the county health department is encouraging everyone with any symptoms to be tested. Also all health care workers will now be regularly tested.
At the state level testing has increased and the number of confirmed cases has dropped from 8% to 6%.
In addition our county has to implement a project to test the approximately 83 people in the county how are homeless, though for that the state gave the county $388,000. Some of that money is also being used to formally create a homeless encampment in our town of 25,000. Right now the city council is wrangling over where to put the camp.
I think the state’s new motto is Blue State Resistance Forever!

Confessions of a reformed grammar nazi
https://www.theguardian.com/media/mind-your-language/2014/nov/14/mind-your-language-grammar-nazi
Rather than sneering at their grammar and spelling mistakes, I’ve learned to give people the benefit of the doubt

People’s reactions to poor use of grammar are manifold: quiet smugness, mock derision, actual derision, outrage and on-the-spot correction (usually accompanied by derision or a cursory tut for your troubles) probably constitute the most common. But while mockery and outrage may have their place – David Cameron’s pledge to make children illegal in a recent Twitter gaffe could well have incurred both, while the state of grammar teaching in schools and an application for a writer’s job replete with errors might trigger the latter – it’s the smugness at others’ mistakes and the accompanying assumptions we make that we ought to reassess.
[snip]
chortling at a grammatically challenged friend whom you may have put on a pedestal by warrant of their intelligence is surely a sign – albeit a subtle one – of our implicit desire for others to fail, or to look daft, lest we one day have to experience the same fate and feel like we’re the only ones exposed to such dismal humiliation.
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it’s often the case that declaring oneself a “real grammar nazi” can mask a crude form of one-upmanship, one that finds its basis in unsolicited pigeonholing of others and a hidden self-righteousness such that you wouldn’t otherwise find in them.

Feel better now?