OT: Suicide or genocide?

On 4/18/2020 1:25 PM, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Sat, 18 Apr 2020 12:51:31 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:

On 4/18/2020 12:47 PM, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Sat, 18 Apr 2020 08:24:55 -0700 (PDT), dagmargoodboat@yahoo.com
wrote:

On Saturday, April 18, 2020 at 9:27:07 AM UTC-4, Clive Arthur wrote:
Not a normally reliable news source, but the pictures probably don't lie.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8232253/Americans-answer-Trumps-call-liberate-states-governors-stringent-coronavirus-lockdowns.html

--
Cheers
Clive

Seems reasonable. The shutdown was to prevent hospitals from being
overwhelmed. Not to prevent people from getting sick, but just to
make sure they don't all get sick at the same time.

Well, we've managed that -- hospitals are underwhelmed -- so why not
get back to work?

About 40,000 Americans die in car accidents every year. Lots more are
grievously injured. But we don't shut the country down over that. (Or
ban cars, for that matter. Instead, we bail car companies out.)

Cheers,
James Arthur

Two ways to save a lot of lives:

Outlaw cigarettes.

Set the speed governors on all cars to 50 MPH.


The cigarette industry struck a devil's bargain with the states. Let
us keep giving millions of people emphysema and cancer and you get
more tax revenue.

From wiki:

According to a 2014 review in the New England Journal of Medicine,
tobacco will, if current smoking patterns persist, kill about 1
billion people in the 21st century, half of them before the age of
70.[9]


Why is no-one panicked about that?



Nobody has found a good way to codify "The wealthy get to do whatever
they want and the poor get the State's gun up their ass and their every
move controlled" into a coherent and acceptable written legal framework,
yet, though the United States has made the most advances in this area.

How did you acquire your proctological fixation?

I'll tell you my whole life story if you like you can read about it in
my upcoming anonymous autobiography.
 
On Saturday, April 18, 2020 at 1:28:09 PM UTC-4, jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Sat, 18 Apr 2020 10:15:56 -0700 (PDT), dagmargoodboat@yahoo.com
wrote:

On Saturday, April 18, 2020 at 12:47:22 PM UTC-4, jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Sat, 18 Apr 2020 08:24:55 -0700 (PDT), dagmargoodboat@yahoo.com
wrote:

On Saturday, April 18, 2020 at 9:27:07 AM UTC-4, Clive Arthur wrote:
Not a normally reliable news source, but the pictures probably don't lie.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8232253/Americans-answer-Trumps-call-liberate-states-governors-stringent-coronavirus-lockdowns.html

--
Cheers
Clive

Seems reasonable. The shutdown was to prevent hospitals from being
overwhelmed. Not to prevent people from getting sick, but just to
make sure they don't all get sick at the same time.

Well, we've managed that -- hospitals are underwhelmed -- so why not
get back to work?

About 40,000 Americans die in car accidents every year. Lots more are
grievously injured. But we don't shut the country down over that. (Or
ban cars, for that matter. Instead, we bail car companies out.)

Cheers,
James Arthur

Two ways to save a lot of lives:

Outlaw cigarettes.

Set the speed governors on all cars to 50 MPH.


The cigarette industry struck a devil's bargain with the states. Let
us keep giving millions of people emphysema and cancer and you get
more tax revenue.

From wiki:

According to a 2014 review in the New England Journal of Medicine,
tobacco will, if current smoking patterns persist, kill about 1
billion people in the 21st century, half of them before the age of
70.[9]


Why is no-one panicked about that?

Don't forget alcohol -- 88,000 annually.
https://www.cdc.gov/alcohol/fact-sheets/alcohol-use.htm

But there's a simple cure for this -- no need for a lock-down,
just eliminate food. Everyone succumbing to anything has, at
one point, eaten food. Eliminate food for a year or two, and
we eliminate all human disease, 100%.

Simple. What could possibly go wrong?

(And as a bonus, you eliminate income inequality at the same time.)

So let's continue preventing people from doing anything they'd do
to put food on their tables, and we'll save lives. It's for the
children.

Grins,
James

Chicago taxes cigarettes over $7 per pack. Many low-income smokers
spend over 20% of their income on cigarettes.

Who here has ever smoked? I'd like to know

I smoked for a short period. Quit when I was in the Navy and was assigned to a ship in over haul. When at sea cigarettes were $ .85 a carton. ( eight and a half cents a pack ) So lots of sailors smoked and had run out of Sea Rats, so were bumming cigarettes.

I could afford cigarettes for myself ,but could not afford cigarettes for everyone. So quit smoking and took up drinking coffee.

Dan
Fatalities at 112ppm from a 1515ppm detection recorded
--

John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc

Science teaches us to doubt.

Claude Bernard
 
On 4/18/2020 2:10 PM, dcaster@krl.org wrote:
On Saturday, April 18, 2020 at 1:28:09 PM UTC-4, jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Sat, 18 Apr 2020 10:15:56 -0700 (PDT), dagmargoodboat@yahoo.com
wrote:

On Saturday, April 18, 2020 at 12:47:22 PM UTC-4, jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Sat, 18 Apr 2020 08:24:55 -0700 (PDT), dagmargoodboat@yahoo.com
wrote:

On Saturday, April 18, 2020 at 9:27:07 AM UTC-4, Clive Arthur wrote:
Not a normally reliable news source, but the pictures probably don't lie.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8232253/Americans-answer-Trumps-call-liberate-states-governors-stringent-coronavirus-lockdowns.html

--
Cheers
Clive

Seems reasonable. The shutdown was to prevent hospitals from being
overwhelmed. Not to prevent people from getting sick, but just to
make sure they don't all get sick at the same time.

Well, we've managed that -- hospitals are underwhelmed -- so why not
get back to work?

About 40,000 Americans die in car accidents every year. Lots more are
grievously injured. But we don't shut the country down over that. (Or
ban cars, for that matter. Instead, we bail car companies out.)

Cheers,
James Arthur

Two ways to save a lot of lives:

Outlaw cigarettes.

Set the speed governors on all cars to 50 MPH.


The cigarette industry struck a devil's bargain with the states. Let
us keep giving millions of people emphysema and cancer and you get
more tax revenue.

From wiki:

According to a 2014 review in the New England Journal of Medicine,
tobacco will, if current smoking patterns persist, kill about 1
billion people in the 21st century, half of them before the age of
70.[9]


Why is no-one panicked about that?

Don't forget alcohol -- 88,000 annually.
https://www.cdc.gov/alcohol/fact-sheets/alcohol-use.htm

But there's a simple cure for this -- no need for a lock-down,
just eliminate food. Everyone succumbing to anything has, at
one point, eaten food. Eliminate food for a year or two, and
we eliminate all human disease, 100%.

Simple. What could possibly go wrong?

(And as a bonus, you eliminate income inequality at the same time.)

So let's continue preventing people from doing anything they'd do
to put food on their tables, and we'll save lives. It's for the
children.

Grins,
James

Chicago taxes cigarettes over $7 per pack. Many low-income smokers
spend over 20% of their income on cigarettes.

Who here has ever smoked? I'd like to know

I smoked for a short period. Quit when I was in the Navy and was assigned to a ship in over haul. When at sea cigarettes were $ .85 a carton. ( eight and a half cents a pack ) So lots of sailors smoked and had run out of Sea Rats, so were bumming cigarettes.

I could afford cigarettes for myself ,but could not afford cigarettes for everyone. So quit smoking and took up drinking coffee.

Dan

There's a gentleman on YouTube who tries new-old-stock military rations
from the 50s, 60s, and 70s.

Some things have gone pretty bad but some materials are still very
edible/usable, particularly the canned peanut butter, even vacuum-sealed
military peanut butter from 50 years ago seems as good as the day it was
made.

Camel unfiltered in unopened soft packs from the 50s are apparently
better than any modern cigarette. Not better for you of course, but aged
like cigars.

Here's a US Marines C-ration beefsteak from 1971, you don't want to eat
that.

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swa-CZsfKnI>
 
On 4/18/2020 9:26 AM, Clive Arthur wrote:
Not a normally reliable news source, but the pictures probably don't lie.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8232253/Americans-answer-Trumps-call-liberate-states-governors-stringent-coronavirus-lockdowns.html

The pictures are sometimes hilarious, like the guy who says "Covid-19 is
a LIE" but is wearing a mask and suit.

The woman (I think?) holding what looks to be a Bible with a patch on
their jacket that says "Natural Born Hellraiser." A true disciple of the
Lord I am sure.

gosh Trumpers really will do just about anything for their 15 minutes.
 
On 4/18/2020 2:25 PM, bitrex wrote:
On 4/18/2020 9:26 AM, Clive Arthur wrote:
Not a normally reliable news source, but the pictures probably don't lie.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8232253/Americans-answer-Trumps-call-liberate-states-governors-stringent-coronavirus-lockdowns.html



The pictures are sometimes hilarious, like the guy who says "Covid-19 is
a LIE" but is wearing a mask and suit.

The woman (I think?) holding what looks to be a Bible with a patch on
their jacket that says "Natural Born Hellraiser." A true disciple of the
Lord I am sure.

gosh Trumpers really will do just about anything for their 15 minutes.

Well, anything but put in an honest day's work, that is.
 
On 4/18/2020 10:58 PM, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
Chicago taxes cigarettes over $7 per pack. Many low-income smokers
spend over 20% of their income on cigarettes.

Who here has ever smoked? I'd like to know.

I used to be a chain smoker. I was going through 50-60 cigarettes
a day before I quit in '91. My brand was one of the more
expensive ones and cost about US$0.20 for a pack of ten then. Now
I believe it's about $1.50. Adjusted for the difference in
economy, that might be roughly like $5 in the US.
 
On 4/18/2020 2:33 PM, Pimpom wrote:
On 4/18/2020 10:58 PM, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:

Chicago taxes cigarettes over $7 per pack. Many low-income smokers
spend over 20% of their income on cigarettes.

Who here has ever smoked? I'd like to know.


I used to be a chain smoker. I was going through 50-60 cigarettes a day
before I quit in '91. My brand was one of the more expensive ones and
cost about US$0.20 for a pack of ten then. Now I believe it's about
$1.50. Adjusted for the difference in economy, that might be roughly
like $5 in the US.

Cheapest cigarettes you can get in my state are currently about $11/pack
 
On Sat, 18 Apr 2020 14:30:36 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:

On 4/18/2020 2:25 PM, bitrex wrote:
On 4/18/2020 9:26 AM, Clive Arthur wrote:
Not a normally reliable news source, but the pictures probably don't lie.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8232253/Americans-answer-Trumps-call-liberate-states-governors-stringent-coronavirus-lockdowns.html



The pictures are sometimes hilarious, like the guy who says "Covid-19 is
a LIE" but is wearing a mask and suit.

The woman (I think?) holding what looks to be a Bible with a patch on
their jacket that says "Natural Born Hellraiser." A true disciple of the
Lord I am sure.

gosh Trumpers really will do just about anything for their 15 minutes.

Well, anything but put in an honest day's work, that is.

Grow and truck your food, and supply you housing and energy, useless
stuff like that.

--

John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc
picosecond timing precision measurement

jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com
http://www.highlandtechnology.com
 
On 4/18/2020 2:57 PM, John Larkin wrote:
On Sat, 18 Apr 2020 14:30:36 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:

On 4/18/2020 2:25 PM, bitrex wrote:
On 4/18/2020 9:26 AM, Clive Arthur wrote:
Not a normally reliable news source, but the pictures probably don't lie.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8232253/Americans-answer-Trumps-call-liberate-states-governors-stringent-coronavirus-lockdowns.html



The pictures are sometimes hilarious, like the guy who says "Covid-19 is
a LIE" but is wearing a mask and suit.

The woman (I think?) holding what looks to be a Bible with a patch on
their jacket that says "Natural Born Hellraiser." A true disciple of the
Lord I am sure.

gosh Trumpers really will do just about anything for their 15 minutes.

Well, anything but put in an honest day's work, that is.

Grow and truck your food, and supply you housing and energy, useless
stuff like that.

None of the "protestors" look like they're destitute walking around with
5 grand worth of tattoos and $2000 rifles, joyriding on 15k ATVs and
rolling 60k trucks acting like they're all going to go broke any minute
unless America re-opens on their say-so.

What a bunch of flag-wavin' Bible-thumping frauds.
 
On 18/04/2020 6:28 pm, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
Who here has ever smoked? I'd like to know.

Never less than 20 a day from 1974 to quitting in 1993

piglet
 
On Sat, 18 Apr 2020 13:56:49 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:

On 4/18/2020 1:25 PM, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Sat, 18 Apr 2020 12:51:31 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:

On 4/18/2020 12:47 PM, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Sat, 18 Apr 2020 08:24:55 -0700 (PDT), dagmargoodboat@yahoo.com
wrote:

On Saturday, April 18, 2020 at 9:27:07 AM UTC-4, Clive Arthur wrote:
Not a normally reliable news source, but the pictures probably don't lie.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8232253/Americans-answer-Trumps-call-liberate-states-governors-stringent-coronavirus-lockdowns.html

--
Cheers
Clive

Seems reasonable. The shutdown was to prevent hospitals from being
overwhelmed. Not to prevent people from getting sick, but just to
make sure they don't all get sick at the same time.

Well, we've managed that -- hospitals are underwhelmed -- so why not
get back to work?

About 40,000 Americans die in car accidents every year. Lots more are
grievously injured. But we don't shut the country down over that. (Or
ban cars, for that matter. Instead, we bail car companies out.)

Cheers,
James Arthur

Two ways to save a lot of lives:

Outlaw cigarettes.

Set the speed governors on all cars to 50 MPH.


The cigarette industry struck a devil's bargain with the states. Let
us keep giving millions of people emphysema and cancer and you get
more tax revenue.

From wiki:

According to a 2014 review in the New England Journal of Medicine,
tobacco will, if current smoking patterns persist, kill about 1
billion people in the 21st century, half of them before the age of
70.[9]


Why is no-one panicked about that?



Nobody has found a good way to codify "The wealthy get to do whatever
they want and the poor get the State's gun up their ass and their every
move controlled" into a coherent and acceptable written legal framework,
yet, though the United States has made the most advances in this area.

How did you acquire your proctological fixation?



I'll tell you my whole life story if you like you can read about it in
my upcoming anonymous autobiography.

I expect it will be a best smeller.

--

John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc
picosecond timing precision measurement

jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com
http://www.highlandtechnology.com
 
On Sat, 18 Apr 2020 13:50:29 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:

On 4/18/2020 1:28 PM, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Sat, 18 Apr 2020 10:15:56 -0700 (PDT), dagmargoodboat@yahoo.com
wrote:

On Saturday, April 18, 2020 at 12:47:22 PM UTC-4, jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Sat, 18 Apr 2020 08:24:55 -0700 (PDT), dagmargoodboat@yahoo.com
wrote:

On Saturday, April 18, 2020 at 9:27:07 AM UTC-4, Clive Arthur wrote:
Not a normally reliable news source, but the pictures probably don't lie.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8232253/Americans-answer-Trumps-call-liberate-states-governors-stringent-coronavirus-lockdowns.html

--
Cheers
Clive

Seems reasonable. The shutdown was to prevent hospitals from being
overwhelmed. Not to prevent people from getting sick, but just to
make sure they don't all get sick at the same time.

Well, we've managed that -- hospitals are underwhelmed -- so why not
get back to work?

About 40,000 Americans die in car accidents every year. Lots more are
grievously injured. But we don't shut the country down over that. (Or
ban cars, for that matter. Instead, we bail car companies out.)

Cheers,
James Arthur

Two ways to save a lot of lives:

Outlaw cigarettes.

Set the speed governors on all cars to 50 MPH.


The cigarette industry struck a devil's bargain with the states. Let
us keep giving millions of people emphysema and cancer and you get
more tax revenue.

From wiki:

According to a 2014 review in the New England Journal of Medicine,
tobacco will, if current smoking patterns persist, kill about 1
billion people in the 21st century, half of them before the age of
70.[9]


Why is no-one panicked about that?

Don't forget alcohol -- 88,000 annually.
https://www.cdc.gov/alcohol/fact-sheets/alcohol-use.htm

But there's a simple cure for this -- no need for a lock-down,
just eliminate food. Everyone succumbing to anything has, at
one point, eaten food. Eliminate food for a year or two, and
we eliminate all human disease, 100%.

Simple. What could possibly go wrong?

(And as a bonus, you eliminate income inequality at the same time.)

So let's continue preventing people from doing anything they'd do
to put food on their tables, and we'll save lives. It's for the
children.

Grins,
James

Chicago taxes cigarettes over $7 per pack. Many low-income smokers
spend over 20% of their income on cigarettes.

Who here has ever smoked? I'd like to know.


Oh I expect, the right-winger who wants freedom for himself but wants to
know everyone else's medical history in detail.

I'll take that as a yes from you.

--

John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc
picosecond timing precision measurement

jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com
http://www.highlandtechnology.com
 
On 2020-04-18 20:39, Phil Hobbs wrote:
On 2020-04-18 13:28, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Sat, 18 Apr 2020 10:15:56 -0700 (PDT), dagmargoodboat@yahoo.com
wrote:

On Saturday, April 18, 2020 at 12:47:22 PM UTC-4,
jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Sat, 18 Apr 2020 08:24:55 -0700 (PDT), dagmargoodboat@yahoo.com
wrote:

On Saturday, April 18, 2020 at 9:27:07 AM UTC-4, Clive Arthur wrote:
Not a normally reliable news source, but the pictures probably
don't lie.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8232253/Americans-answer-Trumps-call-liberate-states-governors-stringent-coronavirus-lockdowns.html


--
Cheers
Clive

Seems reasonable. The shutdown was to prevent hospitals from being
overwhelmed. Not to prevent people from getting sick, but just to
make sure they don't all get sick at the same time.

Well, we've managed that -- hospitals are underwhelmed -- so why not
get back to work?

About 40,000 Americans die in car accidents every year. Lots more are
grievously injured. But we don't shut the country down over that. (Or
ban cars, for that matter. Instead, we bail car companies out.)

Cheers,
James Arthur

Two ways to save a lot of lives:

Outlaw cigarettes.

Set the speed governors on all cars to 50 MPH.


The cigarette industry struck a devil's bargain with the states. Let
us keep giving millions of people emphysema and cancer and you get
more tax revenue.

From wiki:

According to a 2014 review in the New England Journal of Medicine,
tobacco will, if current smoking patterns persist, kill about 1
billion people in the 21st century, half of them before the age of
70.[9]


Why is no-one panicked about that?

Don't forget alcohol -- 88,000 annually.
https://www.cdc.gov/alcohol/fact-sheets/alcohol-use.htm

But there's a simple cure for this -- no need for a lock-down,
just eliminate food. Everyone succumbing to anything has, at
one point, eaten food. Eliminate food for a year or two, and
we eliminate all human disease, 100%.

Simple. What could possibly go wrong?

(And as a bonus, you eliminate income inequality at the same time.)

So let's continue preventing people from doing anything they'd do
to put food on their tables, and we'll save lives. It's for the
children.

Grins,
James

Chicago taxes cigarettes over $7 per pack. Many low-income smokers
spend over 20% of their income on cigarettes.

Who here has ever smoked? I'd like to know.

I did for a couple of years in high school, but never since.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

I grew up in an environment of inveterate smokers. I vividly
remember family parties where the room was blue with smoke. I
never smoked myself. I've always found it disgusting. It was
so bad, in fact, that until my forties I hated the very smell
of oranges because my father used to eat one while smoking
after dinner. The association of cigarette smoke and oranges
had anchored itself in my mind so strongly that it took me
well over twentyfive years to free myself of it.

That's not the only weird olfactory recollection I have though.
Smells have a way of jogging my memory, amazingly selectively,
in both good and bad ways.

Jeroen Belleman
 
On Saturday, April 18, 2020 at 8:25:00 AM UTC-7, dagmarg...@yahoo.com wrote:

Seems reasonable. The shutdown was to prevent hospitals from being
overwhelmed. Not to prevent people from getting sick, but just to
make sure they don't all get sick at the same time.

Well, we've managed that -- hospitals are underwhelmed -- so why not
get back to work?

We decided not to dance on the cliff edge, and it worked, we didn't fall into
the sea! So, why don't we go back and dance on the cliff edge!
 
On 4/18/2020 2:57 PM, John Larkin wrote:
On Sat, 18 Apr 2020 14:30:36 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:

On 4/18/2020 2:25 PM, bitrex wrote:
On 4/18/2020 9:26 AM, Clive Arthur wrote:
Not a normally reliable news source, but the pictures probably don't lie.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8232253/Americans-answer-Trumps-call-liberate-states-governors-stringent-coronavirus-lockdowns.html



The pictures are sometimes hilarious, like the guy who says "Covid-19 is
a LIE" but is wearing a mask and suit.

The woman (I think?) holding what looks to be a Bible with a patch on
their jacket that says "Natural Born Hellraiser." A true disciple of the
Lord I am sure.

gosh Trumpers really will do just about anything for their 15 minutes.

Well, anything but put in an honest day's work, that is.

Grow and truck your food, and supply you housing and energy, useless
stuff like that.

what percent of Trumpers do you think work in those industries like
about 2% perhaps?

All the ones I know around here roll Mercedes and their Moms bought it
for them
 
On Saturday, April 18, 2020 at 9:47:22 AM UTC-7, jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:

Two ways to save a lot of lives:

Outlaw cigarettes.

Set the speed governors on all cars to 50 MPH.
 
On Saturday, April 18, 2020 at 9:47:22 AM UTC-7, jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:

Two ways to save a lot of lives:

Outlaw cigarettes.

Set the speed governors on all cars to 50 MPH.

The time was, tobacco was this nation's main export. The
nostalgia lingers, and so do a cadre of lobbyists and lawyers.

The 50mph thing would work fine in SF, but in Wyoming it takes FOREVER to get
anywhere if you slow down. There'd be revolt. There's counterarguments, too;
longer trips means more folk falling asleep at the wheel. It's completely possible
to die when a car abruptly stops from 50 mph, too; why not just use the speed range
our highways were engineered for?
 
On 4/18/2020 3:13 PM, bitrex wrote:
On 4/18/2020 2:57 PM, John Larkin wrote:
On Sat, 18 Apr 2020 14:30:36 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:

On 4/18/2020 2:25 PM, bitrex wrote:
On 4/18/2020 9:26 AM, Clive Arthur wrote:
Not a normally reliable news source, but the pictures probably
don't lie.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8232253/Americans-answer-Trumps-call-liberate-states-governors-stringent-coronavirus-lockdowns.html




The pictures are sometimes hilarious, like the guy who says
"Covid-19 is
a LIE" but is wearing a mask and suit.

The woman (I think?) holding what looks to be a Bible with a patch on
their jacket that says "Natural Born Hellraiser." A true disciple of
the
Lord I am sure.

gosh Trumpers really will do just about anything for their 15 minutes.

Well, anything but put in an honest day's work, that is.

Grow and truck your food, and supply you housing and energy, useless
stuff like that.


what percent of Trumpers do you think work in those industries like
about 2% perhaps?

All the ones I know around here roll Mercedes and their Moms bought it
for them

Look at this parade of real working-class people in the Escalade and the
Lexus, lol:

<https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2020/04/18/00/27336460-8228769-The_president_tweeted_his_support_for_the_protesters_just_a_day_-a-19_1587166116384.jpg>
 
On Sat, 18 Apr 2020 14:39:23 -0400, Phil Hobbs
<pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> wrote:

On 2020-04-18 13:28, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Sat, 18 Apr 2020 10:15:56 -0700 (PDT), dagmargoodboat@yahoo.com
wrote:

On Saturday, April 18, 2020 at 12:47:22 PM UTC-4, jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Sat, 18 Apr 2020 08:24:55 -0700 (PDT), dagmargoodboat@yahoo.com
wrote:

On Saturday, April 18, 2020 at 9:27:07 AM UTC-4, Clive Arthur wrote:
Not a normally reliable news source, but the pictures probably don't lie.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8232253/Americans-answer-Trumps-call-liberate-states-governors-stringent-coronavirus-lockdowns.html

--
Cheers
Clive

Seems reasonable. The shutdown was to prevent hospitals from being
overwhelmed. Not to prevent people from getting sick, but just to
make sure they don't all get sick at the same time.

Well, we've managed that -- hospitals are underwhelmed -- so why not
get back to work?

About 40,000 Americans die in car accidents every year. Lots more are
grievously injured. But we don't shut the country down over that. (Or
ban cars, for that matter. Instead, we bail car companies out.)

Cheers,
James Arthur

Two ways to save a lot of lives:

Outlaw cigarettes.

Set the speed governors on all cars to 50 MPH.


The cigarette industry struck a devil's bargain with the states. Let
us keep giving millions of people emphysema and cancer and you get
more tax revenue.

From wiki:

According to a 2014 review in the New England Journal of Medicine,
tobacco will, if current smoking patterns persist, kill about 1
billion people in the 21st century, half of them before the age of
70.[9]


Why is no-one panicked about that?

Don't forget alcohol -- 88,000 annually.
https://www.cdc.gov/alcohol/fact-sheets/alcohol-use.htm

But there's a simple cure for this -- no need for a lock-down,
just eliminate food. Everyone succumbing to anything has, at
one point, eaten food. Eliminate food for a year or two, and
we eliminate all human disease, 100%.

Simple. What could possibly go wrong?

(And as a bonus, you eliminate income inequality at the same time.)

So let's continue preventing people from doing anything they'd do
to put food on their tables, and we'll save lives. It's for the
children.

Grins,
James

Chicago taxes cigarettes over $7 per pack. Many low-income smokers
spend over 20% of their income on cigarettes.

Who here has ever smoked? I'd like to know.

I did for a couple of years in high school, but never since.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

I've used them to light firecrackers.

--

John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc
picosecond timing precision measurement

jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com
http://www.highlandtechnology.com
 
On Sat, 18 Apr 2020 21:10:05 +0200, Jeroen Belleman
<jeroen@nospam.please> wrote:

On 2020-04-18 20:39, Phil Hobbs wrote:
On 2020-04-18 13:28, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Sat, 18 Apr 2020 10:15:56 -0700 (PDT), dagmargoodboat@yahoo.com
wrote:

On Saturday, April 18, 2020 at 12:47:22 PM UTC-4,
jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Sat, 18 Apr 2020 08:24:55 -0700 (PDT), dagmargoodboat@yahoo.com
wrote:

On Saturday, April 18, 2020 at 9:27:07 AM UTC-4, Clive Arthur wrote:
Not a normally reliable news source, but the pictures probably
don't lie.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8232253/Americans-answer-Trumps-call-liberate-states-governors-stringent-coronavirus-lockdowns.html


--
Cheers
Clive

Seems reasonable. The shutdown was to prevent hospitals from being
overwhelmed. Not to prevent people from getting sick, but just to
make sure they don't all get sick at the same time.

Well, we've managed that -- hospitals are underwhelmed -- so why not
get back to work?

About 40,000 Americans die in car accidents every year. Lots more are
grievously injured. But we don't shut the country down over that. (Or
ban cars, for that matter. Instead, we bail car companies out.)

Cheers,
James Arthur

Two ways to save a lot of lives:

Outlaw cigarettes.

Set the speed governors on all cars to 50 MPH.


The cigarette industry struck a devil's bargain with the states. Let
us keep giving millions of people emphysema and cancer and you get
more tax revenue.

From wiki:

According to a 2014 review in the New England Journal of Medicine,
tobacco will, if current smoking patterns persist, kill about 1
billion people in the 21st century, half of them before the age of
70.[9]


Why is no-one panicked about that?

Don't forget alcohol -- 88,000 annually.
https://www.cdc.gov/alcohol/fact-sheets/alcohol-use.htm

But there's a simple cure for this -- no need for a lock-down,
just eliminate food. Everyone succumbing to anything has, at
one point, eaten food. Eliminate food for a year or two, and
we eliminate all human disease, 100%.

Simple. What could possibly go wrong?

(And as a bonus, you eliminate income inequality at the same time.)

So let's continue preventing people from doing anything they'd do
to put food on their tables, and we'll save lives. It's for the
children.

Grins,
James

Chicago taxes cigarettes over $7 per pack. Many low-income smokers
spend over 20% of their income on cigarettes.

Who here has ever smoked? I'd like to know.

I did for a couple of years in high school, but never since.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs



I grew up in an environment of inveterate smokers. I vividly
remember family parties where the room was blue with smoke. I
never smoked myself. I've always found it disgusting. It was
so bad, in fact, that until my forties I hated the very smell
of oranges because my father used to eat one while smoking
after dinner. The association of cigarette smoke and oranges
had anchored itself in my mind so strongly that it took me
well over twentyfive years to free myself of it.

That's not the only weird olfactory recollection I have though.
Smells have a way of jogging my memory, amazingly selectively,
in both good and bad ways.

Jeroen Belleman

I had three uncles that died of lung cancer. Wesley had one cancerous
lung removed, and then went back to smoking.

Smoking kills about half a million people a year in the USA. We should
panic about that.

--

John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc
picosecond timing precision measurement

jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com
http://www.highlandtechnology.com
 

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