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Detect, Deter and Annihilate: How the Police State Will Deal with a Coronavirus Outbreak
Posted: March 16, 2020 by gamegetterII in Uncategorized
“Fear is a primitive impulse, brainless as hunger, and because the aim of horror fiction is the production of the deepest kinds of fears, the genre tends to reinforce some remarkably uncivilized ideas about self-protection. In the current crop of zombie stories, the prevailing value for the beleaguered survivors is a sort of siege mentality, a vigilance so constant and unremitting that it’s indistinguishable from the purest paranoia.”— Terrence Rafferty, New York Times
What do zombies have to do with the U.S. government’s plans for dealing with a coronavirus outbreak?
Read on, and I’ll tell you.
The zombie narrative was popularized by the hit television series The Walking Dead, in which a small group of Americans attempt to survive in a zombie-ridden, post-apocalyptic world where they’re not only fighting off flesh-eating ghouls but cannibalistic humans.
For a while there, zombies could be found lurking around every corner: wreaking…
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A Chilling Scenario and Some Valid Questions
Posted: March 14, 2020 by gamegetterII in Uncategorized
Well, out of an abundance of caution, Boo’s school is closing for the next two weeks. The week after that is spring break. He gets three whole weeks away from Our Lady of Eternal After School Activities.
The school gave every student a packet of worksheets on the first day of school for snow days and the like. I doubt there are ten days of instruction in that manila envelope.
So, in order to keep my sprog busy, entertained, and educated, I have worked up the following to keep him busy in mind, body, and spirit.
Week 1
- Research Project – What was John Moses Browning’s best invention and why? Minimum of 500 words.
- Reading Assignment – The Past Through Tomorrow by Robert Heinlein. There will be a test on Friday. (No, not the book. He’s not quite ready for that.)
Day 1
- Mathematics – Algebra problems based on…
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This Is a Test: How Will the Constitution Fare During a Nationwide Lockdown?
Posted: March 10, 2020 by gamegetterII in Uncategorized
“It takes a remarkable force to keep nearly a million people quietly indoors for an entire day, home from work and school, from neighborhood errands and out-of-town travel. It takes a remarkable force to keep businesses closed and cars off the road, to keep playgrounds empty and porches unused across a densely populated place 125 square miles in size. This happened … not because armed officers went door-to-door, or imposed a curfew, or threatened martial law. All around the region, for 13 hours, people locked up their businesses and ‘sheltered in place’ out of a kind of collective will. The force that kept them there wasn’t external – there was virtually no active enforcement across the city of the governor’s plea that people stay indoors. Rather, the pressure was an internal one – expressed as concern, or helpfulness, or in some cases, fear – felt in thousands of individual homes.
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Michael Bloomberg: The Democrat’s Billionaire Strawman? by Kit Knightly
Posted: February 24, 2020 by gamegetterII in Uncategorized
Is Micheal Bloomberg just in the Democratic race to waste a lot of money and make everyone else look good? From Kit Knightly at off-guardian.org:
Does the ex-NYC Mayor serve an important function for the other Democratic hopefuls?
The latest Democratic Primary debate was a cringe-worthy affair, even more than US political “debates” usually are, it left you with one burning question – Why is Michael Bloomberg in this race?
As all the Democratic candidates rush to outdo each other in terms of identity politics, wokeness and – for want of a better word – “leftist” credentials…why has a billionaire, highly unpopular former mayor thrown his hat into the ring? He must have know he was going to be a massive target last night.
And, indeed, he was.
They all took shots. Obviously Bernie Sanders was going to strike back after Bloomberg criticised him throughout the build-up to the…
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