Welcome weary Covid-19 travelers from south of the border, across blue waters in Africa, in China, but not India.
That said, diversity is a politically congruent (“=”) dogma. Yes, Democrats can abort the baby, cannibalize her profitable parts, sequester her carbon pollutants, and have her, too. A little redistributive change, a military junta, a threat of cancellation, will force a consensus of Americans, too, to take a knee.
they shipped as much hcq as much possible, apparently they were forced to use the more expensive remdesvir, rather than their own hcq, and we’ve given them the cold shoulder
I don’t know why the spike in India is occurring. I do know that diabetes is an epidemic there, and despite the heat, quite a number of people don’t get enough sun (especially Muslim women).
Trump’s travel ban on China ‘probably’ saved lives but knowing what we now know the case for it is weaker. It was already here by then.
Joe was always a bit “slow”. So it took him 14 months to catch up to Trump.
It’s only hypocrisy, if the end does not justify the means.
The left’s end is always justified. The right’s end is never justified because by definition it’s an obstacle to the left’s end.
So only people on the right can be hypocrites. Just like only white people can be racists.
Heads we win, tails you lose… See?
Send them HCQ
Think China as the reason for the spike.
They were using HCQ to good effect in the Mumbai slum. What’s going wrong now is what we don’t know.
@Kate:
All of them. Nobody middle class or up would be caught dead in the sun unless playing cricket.
Serum Vitamin D is very low in most of them + shockingly poor diets. And we on the Evil Far Right who like to notice stuff enjoy pointing out that a country with more than 1B people which produces virtually zero Olympic medals in any sport is unlikely to be a repository of strong genetic fitness. Add to that that they were pretty easily conquered by anyone who came along throughout much of history. The British only recruited for *their* Indian Army from several ‘Martial Races’ — everyone knew the rest weren’t worth even trying with.
Still, the numbers of sick and dying at present are nothing serious when scaled for population. In age of mass media social media mass hysteria and estrogenification of society, however, it’s going to come over as a huge catastrophe. Folks should look up the last Bengal Famine during WWII. But Indians speak English and love to bleat and blabber the latest Globalist Bugpeople talking points, so my advice for next month or two is tune out anytime you see an Indian pop up on any of your screens. There’s plenty of them and a few less would be no bad thing otherwise they end up living next door to you ;P
It’s right to ban flights. Should have been done a fortnight ago like it was here. No racial groveling with the Chinese. Plus they know that Indians are incredibly unhygienic people and once they have got a bug there’s not much stopping it. You don’t want them around you once the game is afoot.
Given their notoriously bad personal hygiene and weird notions of personal space and religiously sanctioned swarming behaviours and genetic and medical weakness and huuuuuge population, I can’t of a bigger source of likely viral mutations — one day we’re going to roll that die one time too many.
Zaphod,
“they were pretty easily conquered by anyone who came along throughout much of history.”
There was a notable historical exception to that pattern. This guy, one Alexander the Great tried to invade and conquer India.
He utterly failed and retreated back to Babylon.
As for the Brits rolling over India, they were at the height of their power facing a disunited India. For all India’s cultural flaws, they’ve endured as one country for far longer than we.
@GB:
The Portuguese, Dutch, French, Brits rocked up around the time that the Islamic Invasion Steamroller was just past its apogee. As for Alexander, there is such a thing as too much to digest in too little time. His men had had enough. Had he started with India, he would have rolled over it and petered out in Persia. Unless of course India gave them all dysentery and they @#$% themselves to death on the spot — an outcome perfectly possible and one I only just dodged myself. Unless you’ve been there, the filth (even when paying to try to avoid it) is unbelievable.
Anyway John Company didn’t have much trouble picking off little bits of India here and there and pretty soon they were talking Serious India.
I went for a stroll through what’s left of Tipu Sultan’s summer palace in Bangalore once. Interior walls are endless frescoed fleur-de-lis. Lot of French mercenaries in his employ. Every adventurer and his dog was all over the subcontinent for a long time because agrarian societies without impregnable natural borders make good prey for rougher sorts.
Sure they’ll be around long after us. More fool us. In the short term while we’re still around, we’d be wise to keep them from coughing and sneezing all over us.
I have a theory that three races will still be around at the heat death of the universe:
1) The Vietnamese: Indigestible.
2) The Koreans: Hatred of the Japanese can keep you going for a long time.
3) The Thais: People invade… Live in a fertile agricultural crossroads you tend to get this. Thais bend over… Invaders get bored… Thais compose new glorious retconned history about how they defeated the Invaders and never were subjugated and make domestic blockbuster movies about their great victories. Rinse. Repeat.
I seem to have left some people out. On scale of Eternity, I suspect even God grows weary of Lawyers ;).
For all India’s cultural flaws, they’ve endured as one country for far longer than we.
Only if you fancy Europe has endured as ‘one country’. The Mughal dynasty spread over nearly the whole of the subcontinent at its peak, but I think that situation lasted only about 80 years.
What’s going wrong now is what we don’t know.
Areas which do not get burned over in one round get burned over in the next. If their reported data is accurate, they haven’t been hit that hard the last year (recorded deaths per million have been about 1/10 th those here).
Learn from the Left, People. Facts don’t matter. Feelings do matter.
No matter what you think about Covid and masks and blah blah blah… You’d have be an idiot to want more Indians invading your country, stealing your tech jobs, roachifying more motels, and fellating their merry way to within a heartbeat of the Presidency.
So… every time you interact with a Leftist this month, express profoundly deep concern about Covid Mutant Variants in India 🙂
@Art+Deco:
Yep… Lots of ‘Dry Tinder’.
There are also weird seasonal effects. Respiratory ailment deaths in Northern Hemisphere are mostly a Winter / Spring Single Spike Thing. Respiratory ailment deaths in Southern Hemisphere are mostly a Spring / Summer two distinct Spikes Thing. We don’t know exactly why this is so. This in normal times when there isn’t mass hysteria like there is now. I guess people will be arguing about factors a century hence if there’s anyone left who can read.
Yep. The upper crust Indians at the call centers eat well and can afford toilet paper. Most of the population, not so much. Diet, diabetes, crowding, a magic man for health care, and dirty vegetables for lunch. Sounds perfect. But it must be their “Capitalism”, or maybe they didn’t treat their remaining Muslims with proper deference. The upper crust doesn’t mix with the gutter people who are unlikely to fly anywhere.
Sounds like the Dems are caught in their own fantasy world. Last time I went to Europe (quite a while ago) I just had to show “proof” of my vaccinations. Dems have been telling so many lies that they wouldn’t believe anything that Indians say about vaccinations.
The Indians that are here may just have to stay a while longer and collect more of our cash until their replacement arrives. Alyernatively, if Mao Tse Lung keeps up in “South Asia”, it will protect more American jobs from digital coolie labor.
@Mike-SMO:
There’s some mind-bogglingly serious wealth in India. Call Centre work is lower-middle class cringe stuff and nobody wants to stick around in it. You’ll find tech types in Hyderabad and Bangalore far, far better off than that. Worth realising too that while an an Indian in India might appear to earn much less than in the West, on purchasing power parity basis it’s another story and many prefer to stay there and be waited upon hand and foot rather than have to be bused into Palo Alto every day to work from somewhere else. Some significant percentage of all the gold that’s ever been mined sits in the treasuries of just a few South Indian temples. Just a whole different scale and universe. Unfortunately this also applies to the filth, ordure and general beastliness they inflict upon each other. Indians don’t do moderation or reasonableness.
In a better world, they’d stay right there where they belong and devote their talents to improving the lot of their country rather than moving to the West where they just annoy everyone.
The best thing about India, come to think of it, is that it Annoys China. That’s no bad thing 🙂
I have to agree with comments above about Indian lack of hygiene. It’s overwhelming. I knew Indians in India who said their expat relatives wouldn’t come home to India to visit because it’s too dirty. And as to those who can afford to fly to Western countries: Don’t fly Indian Airlines. Even on a Western carrier, the bathroom situation on a long flight can get bad. This is from personal observation.
But India as “one country” is a very recent phenomenon. A Brahmin lady told me one evening that, while she hated many aspects of the British rule, she had to admit that India would not have become a country without them. Pre-Mughal, it was divided by squabbling rulers, each of whom thought it his duty to conduct warfare on his neighbors.
(I think that when “Biden” said “UNITY” “he” really meant “UNIONS”. Makes sense when “EQUALITY” was so easily, and seamlessly, fundamentally transformed to “EQUITY”….or when “No More MALARKEY” so quickly become “MORE BS”.)
Welcome weary Covid-19 travelers from south of the border, across blue waters in Africa, in China, but not India.
That said, diversity is a politically congruent (“=”) dogma. Yes, Democrats can abort the baby, cannibalize her profitable parts, sequester her carbon pollutants, and have her, too. A little redistributive change, a military junta, a threat of cancellation, will force a consensus of Americans, too, to take a knee.
they shipped as much hcq as much possible, apparently they were forced to use the more expensive remdesvir, rather than their own hcq, and we’ve given them the cold shoulder
I don’t know why the spike in India is occurring. I do know that diabetes is an epidemic there, and despite the heat, quite a number of people don’t get enough sun (especially Muslim women).
Trump’s travel ban on China ‘probably’ saved lives but knowing what we now know the case for it is weaker. It was already here by then.
Joe was always a bit “slow”. So it took him 14 months to catch up to Trump.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/04/today-in-slow-joe-replay.php
It’s only hypocrisy, if the end does not justify the means.
The left’s end is always justified. The right’s end is never justified because by definition it’s an obstacle to the left’s end.
So only people on the right can be hypocrites. Just like only white people can be racists.
Heads we win, tails you lose… See?
Send them HCQ
Think China as the reason for the spike.
They were using HCQ to good effect in the Mumbai slum. What’s going wrong now is what we don’t know.
@Kate:
All of them. Nobody middle class or up would be caught dead in the sun unless playing cricket.
Serum Vitamin D is very low in most of them + shockingly poor diets. And we on the Evil Far Right who like to notice stuff enjoy pointing out that a country with more than 1B people which produces virtually zero Olympic medals in any sport is unlikely to be a repository of strong genetic fitness. Add to that that they were pretty easily conquered by anyone who came along throughout much of history. The British only recruited for *their* Indian Army from several ‘Martial Races’ — everyone knew the rest weren’t worth even trying with.
Still, the numbers of sick and dying at present are nothing serious when scaled for population. In age of mass media social media mass hysteria and estrogenification of society, however, it’s going to come over as a huge catastrophe. Folks should look up the last Bengal Famine during WWII. But Indians speak English and love to bleat and blabber the latest Globalist Bugpeople talking points, so my advice for next month or two is tune out anytime you see an Indian pop up on any of your screens. There’s plenty of them and a few less would be no bad thing otherwise they end up living next door to you ;P
It’s right to ban flights. Should have been done a fortnight ago like it was here. No racial groveling with the Chinese. Plus they know that Indians are incredibly unhygienic people and once they have got a bug there’s not much stopping it. You don’t want them around you once the game is afoot.
Given their notoriously bad personal hygiene and weird notions of personal space and religiously sanctioned swarming behaviours and genetic and medical weakness and huuuuuge population, I can’t of a bigger source of likely viral mutations — one day we’re going to roll that die one time too many.
Zaphod,
“they were pretty easily conquered by anyone who came along throughout much of history.”
There was a notable historical exception to that pattern. This guy, one Alexander the Great tried to invade and conquer India.
He utterly failed and retreated back to Babylon.
As for the Brits rolling over India, they were at the height of their power facing a disunited India. For all India’s cultural flaws, they’ve endured as one country for far longer than we.
@GB:
The Portuguese, Dutch, French, Brits rocked up around the time that the Islamic Invasion Steamroller was just past its apogee. As for Alexander, there is such a thing as too much to digest in too little time. His men had had enough. Had he started with India, he would have rolled over it and petered out in Persia. Unless of course India gave them all dysentery and they @#$% themselves to death on the spot — an outcome perfectly possible and one I only just dodged myself. Unless you’ve been there, the filth (even when paying to try to avoid it) is unbelievable.
Anyway John Company didn’t have much trouble picking off little bits of India here and there and pretty soon they were talking Serious India.
I went for a stroll through what’s left of Tipu Sultan’s summer palace in Bangalore once. Interior walls are endless frescoed fleur-de-lis. Lot of French mercenaries in his employ. Every adventurer and his dog was all over the subcontinent for a long time because agrarian societies without impregnable natural borders make good prey for rougher sorts.
Sure they’ll be around long after us. More fool us. In the short term while we’re still around, we’d be wise to keep them from coughing and sneezing all over us.
I have a theory that three races will still be around at the heat death of the universe:
1) The Vietnamese: Indigestible.
2) The Koreans: Hatred of the Japanese can keep you going for a long time.
3) The Thais: People invade… Live in a fertile agricultural crossroads you tend to get this. Thais bend over… Invaders get bored… Thais compose new glorious retconned history about how they defeated the Invaders and never were subjugated and make domestic blockbuster movies about their great victories. Rinse. Repeat.
I seem to have left some people out. On scale of Eternity, I suspect even God grows weary of Lawyers ;).
For all India’s cultural flaws, they’ve endured as one country for far longer than we.
Only if you fancy Europe has endured as ‘one country’. The Mughal dynasty spread over nearly the whole of the subcontinent at its peak, but I think that situation lasted only about 80 years.
What’s going wrong now is what we don’t know.
Areas which do not get burned over in one round get burned over in the next. If their reported data is accurate, they haven’t been hit that hard the last year (recorded deaths per million have been about 1/10 th those here).
Learn from the Left, People. Facts don’t matter. Feelings do matter.
No matter what you think about Covid and masks and blah blah blah… You’d have be an idiot to want more Indians invading your country, stealing your tech jobs, roachifying more motels, and fellating their merry way to within a heartbeat of the Presidency.
So… every time you interact with a Leftist this month, express profoundly deep concern about Covid Mutant Variants in India 🙂
@Art+Deco:
Yep… Lots of ‘Dry Tinder’.
There are also weird seasonal effects. Respiratory ailment deaths in Northern Hemisphere are mostly a Winter / Spring Single Spike Thing. Respiratory ailment deaths in Southern Hemisphere are mostly a Spring / Summer two distinct Spikes Thing. We don’t know exactly why this is so. This in normal times when there isn’t mass hysteria like there is now. I guess people will be arguing about factors a century hence if there’s anyone left who can read.
Yep. The upper crust Indians at the call centers eat well and can afford toilet paper. Most of the population, not so much. Diet, diabetes, crowding, a magic man for health care, and dirty vegetables for lunch. Sounds perfect. But it must be their “Capitalism”, or maybe they didn’t treat their remaining Muslims with proper deference. The upper crust doesn’t mix with the gutter people who are unlikely to fly anywhere.
Sounds like the Dems are caught in their own fantasy world. Last time I went to Europe (quite a while ago) I just had to show “proof” of my vaccinations. Dems have been telling so many lies that they wouldn’t believe anything that Indians say about vaccinations.
The Indians that are here may just have to stay a while longer and collect more of our cash until their replacement arrives. Alyernatively, if Mao Tse Lung keeps up in “South Asia”, it will protect more American jobs from digital coolie labor.
@Mike-SMO:
There’s some mind-bogglingly serious wealth in India. Call Centre work is lower-middle class cringe stuff and nobody wants to stick around in it. You’ll find tech types in Hyderabad and Bangalore far, far better off than that. Worth realising too that while an an Indian in India might appear to earn much less than in the West, on purchasing power parity basis it’s another story and many prefer to stay there and be waited upon hand and foot rather than have to be bused into Palo Alto every day to work from somewhere else. Some significant percentage of all the gold that’s ever been mined sits in the treasuries of just a few South Indian temples. Just a whole different scale and universe. Unfortunately this also applies to the filth, ordure and general beastliness they inflict upon each other. Indians don’t do moderation or reasonableness.
In a better world, they’d stay right there where they belong and devote their talents to improving the lot of their country rather than moving to the West where they just annoy everyone.
The best thing about India, come to think of it, is that it Annoys China. That’s no bad thing 🙂
I have to agree with comments above about Indian lack of hygiene. It’s overwhelming. I knew Indians in India who said their expat relatives wouldn’t come home to India to visit because it’s too dirty. And as to those who can afford to fly to Western countries: Don’t fly Indian Airlines. Even on a Western carrier, the bathroom situation on a long flight can get bad. This is from personal observation.
But India as “one country” is a very recent phenomenon. A Brahmin lady told me one evening that, while she hated many aspects of the British rule, she had to admit that India would not have become a country without them. Pre-Mughal, it was divided by squabbling rulers, each of whom thought it his duty to conduct warfare on his neighbors.
But Yoga….
Meanwhile, another day (of “pure corruption”) in the Life of “Biden”….
https://twitter.com/kerpen/status/1388655580630470657
H/T Ron Coleman twitter feed.
(I think that when “Biden” said “UNITY” “he” really meant “UNIONS”. Makes sense when “EQUALITY” was so easily, and seamlessly, fundamentally transformed to “EQUITY”….or when “No More MALARKEY” so quickly become “MORE BS”.)
Indeed “No More MALARKEY!” has become the Battle Hymn of the (“Biden”) Republic!!
https://twitter.com/HillelNeuer/status/1388596133556113413
H/T Ron Coleman twitter feed.