Bummer: Some Restaurants Aren’t Ready For Bat Soup Virus Re-Opening

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Georgia’s governor said they could reopen. More than 50 restaurateurs said in a newspaper ad they’re not ready

Owners of more than 120 of Georgia’s most popular restaurants announced this week they won’t be reopening their doors just yet, despite getting a green light to do so from the governor.

Gov. Brian Kemp said customers could again go to restaurants for dine-in service starting April 27 as long as eateries put in place measures to mitigate staff and guest exposure to coronavirus. The state has, so far, had more than 27,490 infections and at least 1,169 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University.

In a full-page advertisement in a local newspaper, more than 50 restaurateurs said they would hunker down a little longer.

“We pledge ourselves to act as custodians of the public’s trust,” the statement reads. “(…) Recognizing that each operator faces incredibly difficult decisions on the path ahead, we affirm the fact that public safety is the top priority as we navigate the challenge.” (snip)

“In order to have that long-term thinking, it’s very challenging to do so, especially when you’re losing money or the state is running out of money,” he said. “At the same time if we want to avoid further pain down the road my feeling is we have to incur a little bit more pain now.”

And then

As governor eases COVID-19 restrictions in 77 counties, some restaurants not ready to welcome back diners

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Some in central Iowa, like Baldwin, are eager to again welcome customers for table service. Others say they need more time to prepare their physical spaces and staff to ensure they’re reopening under the safest possible conditions that won’t contribute to a new spread of virus activity. Some say they’re having difficulty restocking certain food items and obtaining enough disinfectant.

You’re getting a smattering of that all across the country, with not just restaurants, but gyms and such. And, you know what, places that are not ready don’t have to open. But, many are demanding that others do not open. That the lockdown rules remain in place. They’re attempting to put their beliefs on others and take away their Constitutional Rights. Think of the beach. Why is it not open? Certainly, they can allow people to go and sit on the beach as long as they social distance. Heck, make it 10 feet apart. 15. How does that hurt anyone? Why can’t people people be free to live their lives within the social distance rules? Physical separation. We do not have to be locked down.

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If All You See…

…is horrible evil carbon pollution filled beer, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Feral Irishman, with a post on something that made him laugh.

It’s Corona week!

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

Patriotic Pinup

Happy Sunday! Another fantastic day in America. The sun is shining, the birds are singing, the the curve is bending down in a lot of places around the country. This pinup is by Ted Withers, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Jo Nova highlights a study on Bat Soup Virus and vitamin D
  2. America’s Watchtower notes the hundreds of Bat Soup lawsuits headed to the courts
  3. Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiller covers the cops showing up because a lady let her child play
  4. Blazing Cat Fur notes the “assault weapons ban” in Canada, which includes shotguns
  5. Chicks On The Right covers another allegation of improper sexual behavior by Joe Biden
  6. Cold Fury discusses going to work, going to jail
  7. DaTechGuy’s Blog covers why Dems are struggling with Tara Reade’s accusations
  8. DC Clothesline discusses the NY Times admitting Obama sent spies into Trump camp
  9. Geller Report News highlights the leaked “Five Eyes” dossier on China’s Bat Soup coverup
  10. hogewash has data on bending the curve
  11. IOTW Report brings your cute story, with a dog crashing a weather man’s broadcast
  12. Jihad Watch features Muslim migrant violence increasing in Sweden
  13. Just One Minute discusses more mainstream reports of Bat Soup being released from a lab
  14. Legal Insurrection covers the #MeToo hypocrisy of Democrats
  15. And last, but not least, Moonbattery notes Michigan handing out condoms and lubricants for Bat Soup

As always, the full set of pinups can be seen in the Patriotic Pinup category, or over at my Gallery page (nope, that’s gone, the newest Apache killed access, and the program hasn’t been upgraded since 2014). While we are on pinups, since it is that time of year, have you gotten your “Pinups for Vets” calendar yet? And don’t forget to check out what I declare to be our War on Women Rule 5 and linky luv posts and things that interest me.

Don’t forget to check out all the other great material all the linked blogs have!

Anyone else have a link or hotty-fest going on? Let me know so I can add you to the list. And do you have a favorite blog you can recommend be added to the feedreader?

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Say, Who’s Up For A Post-Bat Soup Virus New World Order?

Seriously, this won’t give the conspiracy theory folks ammunition, right? Because it’s not like former Obama State Department Policy Planning Staff member Edward Fishman is putting it to print, right?

How to Build the Post-Coronavirus World Order

International orders seldom change in noticeable ways. Just as Rome wasn’t built in a day, the Pax Romana was not a passing phase: it persisted for centuries. The order that arose from the 1815 Congress of Vienna didn’t fully unravel until the outbreak of World War I in 1914.

But at rare moments, confidence in the old order collapses and humanity is left with a vacuum. It is during these times that new orders are born—that new norms, treaties and institutions arise to define how countries interact with each other and how individuals interact with the world.

As the most far-reaching global disruption since World War II, the coronavirus pandemic is such a moment. The post-1945 world order has ceased to function. Under a healthy order, we would expect at least good faith attempts at international coordination to confront a virus that knows no borders. Yet the United Nations has gone missing, the World Health Organization has become a political football and borders have closed not only between countries but even within the European Union. Habits of cooperation that took decades to entrench are dissolving.

Well, let’s see, that’s rather because this is a disease that spreads through contact. Did Edward miss the part of about social distancing? Stay at home orders?

Five years ago, I represented the State Department in an inter-agency project to evaluate the future of the international order. We studied past transitions and discussed possible reforms. We recognized that the order was fragile and needed repair, but we also appreciated the power of inertia—it takes extreme moments for leaders to accept that the old order is broken and summon the will to forge a new one.

Now that extreme moment is here, and U.S. leaders have an opportunity that typically comes around just once or twice a century: They can build an order that actually works for our times—one that combats climate change, cyber threats and public health challenges, and that allows for the fruits of globalization and technological progress to be shared more widely. If, that is, they do it right.

No, no, nothing creepy about this. This is the kind of thing that gives people like Alex Jones wet dreams, yet, here Edward is saying that they want giant monster big world government, and will take advantage of the misery, fear, sickness, and even deaths of people to achieve it.

The coronavirus will arrest our lives longer than we’d like, but not forever—and when the crisis passes, the contours of the new order will take shape rapidly. To ensure that brief window is put to good use and not consumed by squabbling, U.S. and world leaders should begin collaborating now to formulate principles.

It would be foolish to expect President Donald Trump, who is one of the reasons that today’s international order isn’t working, to spearhead planning for a new one. We might have to wait for a more internationally minded president to form the institutions of the new order. But Trump’s presence doesn’t mean that valuable progress can’t happen in the meantime.

In other words, Trump would get in the way of instituting Modern Socialism, otherwise known as Progressivism (nice Fascism).

Despite temptations to find scapegoats for a pandemic that has already killed more Americans than the Vietnam War, U.S. leaders should be generous in aiding post-coronavirus recovery efforts around the world. Though Beijing doubtless bears blame for its suppression of early reports of the coronavirus, America and the world would be far better served by bolstering China’s public health system than by seeking to punish Beijing or embarrass it through racially insensitive epithets.

But, of course Edward is inclined to be nice to China.

At the same time, we need a revamped order among like-minded democracies—which, as a smaller group, can be more ambitious. The United States and its allies in Europe and Asia should come together into a council of democracies, expanding collective defense beyond the military realm to counter subtler menaces such election meddling, disinformation and financial coercion. On the economic front, it’s well past time for an international system that prioritizes human welfare over growth for growth’s sake. America, the EU, Japan and other democracies should seal new economic agreements in which increasing market access goes hand-in-hand with cracking down on tax avoidance, protecting data privacy and enforcing labor standards. Some level of pullback from globalization is inevitable and warranted. But absent planning now, that retreat will be chaotic and blunt, throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

That means the government runs the economy. Socialism. Never let a good crisis go to waste, right?

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If All You See…

…is a horrible carbon pollution infused beer causing desertification, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is A View From The Beach, with a post on the press being shocked by a double standard in the press.

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Study: Kids Do Not Pass Bat Soup Virus To Adults

So, let’s close all the schools and playgrounds

From the article

London: No child has been found to have passed coronavirus to an adult, a review of the evidence in partnership with the Royal College of Paediatrics has found.

Major studies into the impact of COVID-19 on young children suggest they “do not play a significant role” in spreading the virus and are less likely to become infected than adults.

While experts insist that more evidence is needed, they note there has not been a single case of a child under 10 transmitting the virus, even in contact tracing carried out by the World Health Organisation (WHO).

Public health officials in Switzerland have announced that under-10s can hug their grandparents again because they pose them no risk.

Now a review in partnership with the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) has found the evidence “consistently demonstrates reduced infection and infectivity of children in the transmission chain”. (snip)

While he said that it was possible children could infect others, there had not been a case to date and there was “no evidence that closing schools is an effective measure”. Further evidence from China showed when families had contracted the virus, children were “unlikely to be the index case”.

Early on, we knew that kids weren’t really having issues with Bat Soup. The only ones with issues already had underlying conditions. So, why lock them down? Sure, just in case. But, we keep learning more and more. There’s no reason to keep all this going full bore. It is just one study, but it adds to the growing body of evidence. Keep the schools closed, the parents have to stay home.

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California Group Calls For Other People To Donate Their Bat Soup Checks To Illegal Aliens

Strangely, the people who put this together aren’t saying how much of their own money they are putting into this. But, apparently, they need illegals to do their gardens and scrub their toilets

In CA: A call to donate stimulus checks to support undocumented families

Would you donate your $1,200 stimulus check to undocumented immigrants who aren’t eligible to receive the federal assistance?

Undocumented people — who comprise an estimated one in 10 California workers — are ineligible for the stimulus funding or unemployment insurance. Now, with millions of Californians laid off or working fewer hours as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, many undocumented people and their families are struggling and have no safety net.

The leaders of 805 Undocufund, a collective effort among community organizations in Ventura and Santa Barbara counties that provides disaster relief to undocumented people and families, are calling on people who haven’t been financially impacted by the crisis to donate their federal stimulus checks, reports Erin Rode for the Ventura County Star.

“We’re thinking of it in terms of equity and sharing the dollars that people receive from the federal government, because it’s about supporting undocumented families when they’re not receiving any other type of support,” said Eder Gaona-Macedo, executive director of Future Leaders of America.

These Open Borders advocates just never stop.

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Warmist Jane Fonda Wants Bat Soup Virus Money To Go To ‘Climate Change’

See, she doesn’t want the money to go to big business or fossil fuels companies. And she’s taken lots and lots of long fossil fueled trips to prove her point. BTW, how much of her own money is she donating? When is she going to make her life carbon neutral?

Jane Fonda demands coronavirus fund be used to stop climate change, not bail out oil billionaires

Environmental activist and actress Jane Fonda chose May Day to urge people to end the use of fossil fuels and protect worker rights.

She urged against corporate bailouts amid the current coronavirus pandemic. She believes that the government should instead set aside recovery money to develop green and sustainable energy and also a “level playing field” for workers.

During her climate change rally ‘Fire Drill Friday’ which was held online, Fonda said, “these historic sums of stimulus money aren’t going to happen again, maybe even during our lifetimes. And where they go and how they are spent will determine so much about what kind of future we have,” Breitbart reports.

“So while we insist on more funding to heal the effects of this pandemic, we must also insist that the money is used to lay the foundation for a clean, sustainable energy future as well as justice and dignity and a level playing field for all workers,” Fonda continued.

She should be telling the few people who are listening (as she continues to attempt to hijack St. Greta’s Fridays for the Future schtick) that they need to give up their own use of fossil fuels, and that she will start. That she’ll move out of her big mansion and into a tiny home, running off solar. Once again, this is the problem with Warmists: they want Other People to pay the price for their beliefs.

She had started her virtual rally by slamming POTUS Donald Trump and said that his administration is trying “to ram through bailouts for the already privileged and the powerful.” She also praised Democrats whom she believes “have fought to include financial aid for workers and small businesses, hospitals… but more, much more needs to be done.”

Ah, so this is really all about left-wing politics. Maybe she could go pose with the enemy again, just like during Vietnam.

In her virtual rally, Fonda also highlighted her stance on oil and drilling companies and their leaders. “We have to say ‘no’ to bailouts for corporate executives and oil billionaires and ‘yes’ to immediately protecting the most vulnerable among us.”

“Fossil fuel executives don’t give a fuzzy rat’s ass about workers or communities’ well being,” she shared. She also believes that there must be free coronavirus testing and free medical care for workers who have contracted the virus.

Interestingly, of all the sectors we are hearing complaints from, when it comes to the workers, the fossil fuels industry is not one of them.

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“Armed Protesters” Protest Across The Country, Strangely, No Violence

Here’s from Raleigh (no, I didn’t go, had to help a friend at that time, and I wasn’t happy, as mentioned in posts, with bringing firearms, which mixes the message)

Armed groups in downtown Raleigh protest virus-related restrictions

A small group of demonstrators, some carrying guns, marched in downtown Raleigh Friday afternoon to protest coronavirus restrictions and the statewide stay-at-home order.

Dozens of law enforcement officers were also downtown, anticipating a large protest after recent ReOpenNC rallies. Legal gun owners were allowed to carry their weapons while they walked as long as they stayed off the State Capitol grounds.

Some of the protestors were from American Revolution 2.0, part of a national movement to reopen states amid the pandemic. The group had planned 52 protests across the country on Friday, according to its website.

“It’s a giant party. Let’s get together. Let’s have a good time. Let’s celebrate America,” Josh Ellis, who founded the grassroots group on April 8, said Thursday. “This is unconstitutional. It should never have happened and it should never happen again.”

“I really am only here for one reason and that is to be with like people that believe in civil rights,” said Lisa Molgren, a nurse from Pinehurst and a member of American Revolution 2.0.

“The rights that I want are not to be told when I can work, if I can work, what companies should be closed and why they’re being closed,” Molgren said. “Everything is changing in front of our eyes, and it seems that people have sort of decided that stay at home means do nothing, and I think it’s time we do something.”

It was a much smaller group than the Tuesday ReOpenNC ones, and the only thing that happened was some older gent coming out and talking out them about scaring people. That’s it.

There was no violence at the Michigan rallies, Ohio, Chicago, or anywhere else. Had there been, you would have heard about it in the big news services. NBC couldn’t report violence. Nor could the Washington Post or CNN (which rather buried the story, much like their Tara Reade stories).

Funny how right wing protests aren’t violent despite all the guns, eh? Oh, because left-wingers did not show up. AOC tweeted the other day

Think about how harshly & activists were debased, called rioters, & treated as a threat to society.

Now watch & examine how this MAGA-armed rushing of a state legislature is treated.

This is for those who still think racial privilege is a fantasy.

But, unlike those protests, there was no violence. Huh.

That said, leave the guns home. Stay on topic, which is re-opening the country.

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Saving The Planet From Hotcoldwetdry Demands Sacrifices

Interestingly, the members of the Cult of Climastrology who say this never tell us what sacrifices they’ve made

Saving the planet demands sacrifices just as Covid-19 does

Certain environmentalists have long argued that economic growth must end for the sake of the planet. “Degrowth” is concisely defined by one proponent, Riccardo Mastini, as “the abolition of economic growth as a social objective”.

Degrowth represents the view that sufficiently sharp reductions in carbon dioxide emissions cannot be achieved through new technology, pricing incentives or even major investment in energy and transport systems. The only thing that will work is economic growth itself coming to an end, permanently.

The pandemic is giving us a taste of what an end to growth might look like. So what lessons should we learn?

The lockdowns have indeed suppressed carbon dioxide emissions, but less than we might hope. The climate science website Carbon Brief estimates that emissions in 2020 are likely to fall by about 5 or 6 per cent relative to emissions last year. That would be the largest fall on record.

What might be a surprise is that it is not enough. If the cuts were compounded at that rate for the rest of the decade, we’d still fall short of what the UN Environment Programme estimates would be needed to restrict global temperature rises to 1.5 degrees. (A 2 degree target would be easier: five pandemics in the next decade would suffice.)

The writer, Tim Harford, isn’t particularly happy with all this talk about degrowth, especially since it would destroy everything. But, see, he’s only unhappy about talking about it

Fine. Yet if ending growth is not the objective, but the means to an end, might I suggest that it is not a very effective means? “Abolish economic growth” works as a radical political slogan, but when we’re looking for policy levers to pull we find ourselves coming back to specific taxes, subsidies, public investments and regulations. So why don’t we stop talking about degrowth and focus on the particular policies that might address environmental degradation?

We might find that those policies, applied with sufficient vigour to save the planet, would indeed have the side-effect of bringing economic growth to a halt. I doubt it. But the way to find out is to try; we might be pleasantly surprised at how flexible economic activity can be, and how much fun we can all have while respecting planetary limits.

See, don’t talk about doom, just implement it. Hey, maybe things won’t be bad. But, then again, it might, but, why not give it a shot? For The Planet, you know.

The virus has taught us that our way of life is more vulnerable than we might hope. It has taught us the importance of making sacrifices now to prepare for predictable risks in the future. It may even have reminded us that driving to work, or flying half way around the world for a meeting, are not always necessary, and of the joys of walking or cycling through quiet streets.

What has Tim sacrificed?

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