mediation remotely

Prediction: as part of a cost cutting initiative, all future mediation will conducted remotely.

I also predict that more than a few businesses will ask why a) they need to spend so much on office space, and b) why they have as many employees as they have and can that number be trimmed?

Governments will not ask why they need certain rules and regulations but do fine if they're suspended during a crisis.

Interesting thread. "The seroprevelance tests people randomly to test for possible antibodies" - either asymptomatic people, or people who Xi's disease didn't hit very hard.

Hold onto your hats. Get blown away with the first big seroprevalance report are coming out.

And the fatality rate just got bottomed out to influenza levels.

...

If the deaths are at 66 and the true infected population is 48K then the fatality rate is .14% !!

If the range is at the upper end and 81K people were infected then the fatality rate is not even .1%

https://twitter.com/justin_hart/status/1251163873039626244

Huzzah! Great news.

Sabotage. The quote is from part 5 of several.

11 unexploded shells in the fuel when just one should have enough to blow the B-17 apart.

The shells had been sent to the armorers to be defused but had then been rushed away by an intelligence officer.

https://twitter.com/gregjlewis/status/1249660918004420608

Government: what is it good for? it is Wisconsin, and they brought us John Doe secret investigations, so this isn't that far out. Hope they sue for conspiracy to deprive them of their civil rights.

Lawsuit: Wisconsin teen had severe respiratory illness doctors told her had likely been #covid19. She posted about it on Instagram. School complained to sheriff. Sergeant came to home and ordered her to delete posts or he'd arrest her and/or her parents.

https://twitter.com/pebonilla/status/1251145649506091008

John Doe

https://www.maciverinstitute.com/2018/10/five-years-ago-today-john-doe-raids-wisconsin/

Full dressed #Navy Master Chief standing in the water today on Emerald Isle NC after the beach & water were closed. LEO let him go and approx 3 hours later the town of Emerald Isle opened back up the beach & water to the public!

https://twitter.com/JohnBWellsCTM/status/1250991857045209088

Instapundit:

CONDITIONS AT MEAT-PROCESSING PLANTS NEED TO BE BETTER. IF THEY COULDN’T HIRE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS, THEY’D HAVE TO BE BETTER TO ATTRACT WORKERS: Beef processors are closing U.S. plants, warn of beef shortages and hoarding.

https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/366448/

More dangerous than Florida Man? Florida Woman scorned.

https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/florida-man-friday-burning-down-the-house/

11 unexploded shells in the fuel when just one should have enough to blow the B-17 apart. ~ from a post by I R A Darth Aggie at April 18, 2020 7:14 AM

The B-17 was a tough airplane. There are pictures of Forts coming back to base with wings and other control surfaces shot away, landing on one wheel, and with large holes in the fuselage.

It was generally considered much tougher than its stablemate, the B-24. The Liberator carried bigger bomb load and had a longer range, which is why it was used on the Ploesti raids, but the B-17's toughness made it legendary.

All-time favorite damaged military aircraft.

Conan: The B-17 was a tough airplane, but I expect a 20mm shell exploding _in_ a fuel tank would have ruptured the tank and flaming avgas would have been pouring out somewhere. It depends on where that was, but in many cases it would have caused more fires until either the cabin became uninhabitable or the airplane broke apart from structural damage. (The aluminum skin will actually burn at the temperature of burning petroleum. The framework probably won't burn or melt, but it will soften and lose strength.)

But explosive shells without explosive will only make a hole, and the B-17 could stand a lot of holes. The fuel tanks were "self-sealing". I think that was rubber cells inside a metal tank. A non-exploding hit might penetrate through the rubber, but it would probably also shift it so the inner and outer holes would not line up, limiting the leakage. Exploding shells did a lot more damage, and by the end of the war most fighters had been upgraded to 20mm, which was considered the smallest caliber that was practical to load with explosive and a contact fuse.

Sad, but necessary for many - with or without the crisis, of course.

"20 Ways to Prepare for The Loss of a Spouse."

https://blog.cheapism.com/death-of-spouse-preparations/#close

And the issue here is liability.

If you open the farm to give the produce away, there is a risk that in a couple of days someone will ruin your life with a lawsuit because the veggies game them diarrhea.

And there's also other farmers complaining to the authorities and here comes a bureaucrat with a hefty fine.

So, it's a no-win situation.

https://twitter.com/zenalbatross/status/1251327905747079170

Exploding shells did a lot more damage, and by the end of the war most fighters had been upgraded to 20mm, which was considered the smallest caliber that was practical to load with explosive and a contact fuse. ~ markm at April 18, 2020 8:40 AM

Yep. The reason fighters went to 20mm shells was the experience of watching even a .50 caliber do little damage. A spread of .50 caliber bullets wouldn't score a hit with all the bullets on a fast-moving enemy fighter. The ones that did hit didn't do enough damage.

While a 20mm cannon didn't offer as many shots as a .50 caliber machine gun, it did do more damage when it hit, especially one firing shells packed with explosives.

A lovely, plaintive decades-old song, for these times:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=T6fVDAjs9f0

The lead singer is Philadephia's Sheila Ferguson. After leaving the group in 1986, she wrote a soul food cookbook, which I've used a couple of times. She included a glossary - good to have.

UC Berkeley is offering their 'Science Of Happiness' course for free right now.

I can't post a link but if you waddle your plump little cursors over to

www_dot_edx_dot_org_slash_course

and look for The Science Of Happiness, you'll find it.

The course, I mean. Happiness not guaranteed.

Eleven weeks at four-five hours per week.

It's a mystery to everyone.

The French navy is investigating how the coronavirus infected more than 1,000 sailors aboard the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle, amid growing pressure on government leaders to explain how it could have happened.

https://apnews.com/fd1996b64f4cc3aeaa92b352bb7f5cce

@sixclaws

There are couple more issues. For individuals going out to the farm there is as mentioned liability, but also the road infrastructure is not designed for that much traffic. second, the farms often only have 1 or 2 crops at a time and are often in different fields.

For things like foodbanks, according to the investigator guy at the local news, the foodbanks don't have the appropriate storage for all the dairy and fresh foods. And where they were, there is a lack of trucks and distribution right now so getting the food into the city would be not be possible.

I did hear of a company that usually sold to restaurants is selling boxes of fruit & veggies to individuals by appointment.

The Chicago Sun-Times notes that Abbot Labs' recently-developed rapid test for Covid-19 is not widely available in Chicago, but in only some of their hospitals, urgent care facilities, university health centers, private physicians' offices and drive-up drugstores.

Trump, you Chicago-hating bastard! You've only sent out a half-million of the new tests and Chicago didn't get them all!

My god, how long has that man been running Abbot Labs, anyway?

Here are ten.

#11: HC workers may be inflating case numbers for hazardous duty bonuses.

Ah, here.