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The objectivist mind?

Or, perhaps, are some of them only playing one in the White House and on Fox News?

For those however who really are hooked on moral and political objectivism here, I suggest they peruse this…

1] For one reason or another [rooted largely in dasein], you are taught or come into contact with [through your upbringing, a friend, a book, an experience etc.] a worldview, a philosophy of life.
2] Over time, you become convinced that this perspective expresses and encompasses the most rational and objective truth. This truth then becomes increasingly more vital, more essential to you as a foundation, a justification, a celebration of all that is moral as opposed to immoral, rational as opposed to irrational.
3] Eventually, for some, they begin to bump into others who feel the same way; they may even begin to actively seek out folks similarly inclined to view the world in a particular way.
4] Some begin to share this philosophy with family, friends, colleagues, associates, Internet denizens; increasingly it becomes more and more a part of their life. It becomes, in other words, more intertwined in their personal relationships with others…it begins to bind them emotionally and psychologically.
5] As yet more time passes, they start to feel increasingly compelled not only to share their Truth with others but, in turn, to vigorously defend it against any and all detractors as well.
6] For some, it can reach the point where they are no longer able to realistically construe an argument that disputes their own as merely a difference of opinion; they see it instead as, for all intents and purposes, an attack on their intellectual integrity…on their very Self.
7] Finally, a stage is reached [again for some] where the original philosophical quest for truth, for wisdom has become so profoundly integrated into their self-identity [professionally, socially, psychologically, emotionally] defending it has less and less to do with philosophy at all. And certainly less and less to do with “logic”.

…and honestly confront the possibility that it is applicable to them.

Or, sure, maybe the convictions of some of them here are mostly an act they put on for any number of personal reasons. As part of the job for example.

But, having gone through my own personal withdrawal from objectivism, I can attest to how amazing it is when one is able to rationalize almost anything they say or do away. There is simply too much invested in believing that “I” am in sync with the “real me” in sync with the “right thing to do”.

No one wants to embody a crumbling “I” in the face of something so horrific as the coronavirus.

Trust me on this.

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Brace yourself, America:

[b]'Two of the Trump administration’s top health officials issued grave warnings to the American public Sunday, saying the next week — when the outbreak is expected to reach its peak in places like New York — will be “our Pearl Harbor.”

“The next week is going to be our Pearl Harbor moment,” said the United States surgeon general, Dr. Jerome M. Adams, on the news show “Meet the Press.” “It’s going to be our 9/11 moment. It’s going to be the hardest moment for many Americans in their entire lives.”

His dire warnings were echoed by Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, who urged Americans to “buckle down” on the news show “Face the Nation.”

“This is going to be a bad week,” he said, adding later: “It is going to be shocking to some, it certainly is really disturbing to see that, but that’s what’s going to happen before it turns around.”’ [/b] NYT

Also…

[b]'During CNN’s “State of the Union,” Gov. J.B. Pritzker of Illinois projected that his state’s peak was expected toward the end of April. As of Saturday, Illinois had reported 10,000 infections and 250 deaths, and has begun setting up makeshift hospitals.

Mr. Pritzker accused the Trump administration of not reacting quickly enough to the warnings of the seriousness of the virus released by intelligence in January and February.

“If they had started in February building ventilators, getting ready for this pandemic, we would not have the problems we are having today and, frankly, very many fewer people would die,”’ he said.[/b]

Yo, Maia, Turd’s reaction please.

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The LL Bean guy who’s making those masks is actually considering making fashionable masks with different styles and colors and shit. Hey why not, right? If this is gonna be the new thing, might as well make it a little more exciting with fully customizable face masks. Say a little about yourself with your face mask. I mean you do that with your shoes and hats and scarves and you don’t think that’s silly. Mowk my words; if stylish face masks start trending and people start wearing them, you will too. Eventually.

So start thinking about how to customize your face mask so it has some personality and says something about you.

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Next up: Designer ventilators.

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No that’s not a marketable or even practical idea. If you need a ventilator, you’ll be in a hospital… not hanging out at the mall with a portable ventilator.

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Let’s run it by Mr. Reasonable first.

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He did once say that he could play blues guitar like nobody’s business. Those weren’t his exact words but that was the gist of it. So I’ve prepared a simple three chord progression in a blues scale for him to lead over. This might draw him out.

vocaroo.com/nhteJ7swIvE

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Irony on steroids:

“Britain’s prime minister, Boris Johnson, who was hospitalized with persistent coronavirus-related symptoms, was moved to intensive care on Monday after his condition worsened, his office said.” NYT

If you know what I mean.

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Update: Boris is on oxygen, but not on a ventilator… his condition remains unchanged.

Dominic Raab is now Acting Prime-minister

Breaking news: Michael Gove: the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, is now in self isolation, due to a family member displaying symptoms.

An end to self-isolation is very unlikely in the foreseeable months.

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England’s Donald Trump.
Back then as it were…

youtu.be/n3NAx3tsy-k

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14 mins ago - Boris Johnson is “responding to treatment” for coronavirus as he spends his third day in hospital. The prime minister was being kept in St Thomas’ Hospital in London “for close monitoring” and remained clinically stable, Downing Street said. Downing Street said he was not working …

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Virapolitical contest:

Joe Biden holds a 4-point lead over Trump in a new national poll, which comes a day after Bernie Sanders suspended his presidential campaign.

According to the Monmouth University poll, Biden attracts the support of 48% of registered voters, while Trump stands at 44%. The result is similar to Biden’s 3-point lead over Trump in a poll released last month.

With Sanders dropping our of the race, such head-to-head polls between Trump and Biden have taken on a heightened level of significance as America looks ahead to the general election in November.

However, national polls do not reflect the state-by-state nature of presidential elections. Hillary Clinton famously won the popular vote in 2016 but lost the electoral college, handing Trump a victory.

From guardian

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Was 310, now 1,373

Spain 3,261
Italy 2,375
France 1,804
Germany 1,379
Portugal 1,369
U.K. 895
Canada 548

World 203

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Here we go again!

“Trump seeks to reopen much of U.S. next month” WP headline

'Experts fear a possible covid-19 resurgence if Americans return to their normal lives before the virus is truly stamped out. But President Trump wants a strategy for resuming business activity by May 1, if not sooner.

So…

1] will the health experts manage to talk him back as they did with the Easter Sunday gambit?
2] if not, what actual power does he have to bring this reopening about?
3] if he does succeed in bringing it about, what will the consequences be?

Many in Trumpworld will jump on an assessment like this one: washingtonpost.com/opinions … story.html

In other words, that dire predictions are just not being matched by the reality of the pandemic itself.

Yet another rendition of this:

There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don’t know we don’t know.

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Here we go again, continued…

[b]'New federal projections show a spike in infections if shelter in place orders are lifted at 30 days.

Stay-at-home orders, school closures and social distancing greatly reduce infections of the coronavirus, but lifting those restrictions after just 30 days will lead to a dramatic infection spike this summer and death tolls that would rival doing nothing, government projections indicate.

The projections obtained by The New York Times come from the departments of Homeland Security and Health and Human Services. The models use three scenarios. The first has policymakers doing nothing to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus. The second, labeled “steady state,” assumes schools remain closed until summer, 25 percent of Americans telework from home, and some social distancing continues. The third scenario includes a 30-day shelter in place, on top of those “steady state” restrictions.'[/b] NYT

That’s the gamble that Trumpworld is considering. Which scenario?

And then the “unknowns” embedded in the “wave” theory. What happens if, in the Fall and Winter, the next big wave does hit?

For example, just in time for the November elections.

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What to believe? Who to believe?
Then what and who to trust?

For example:

washingtonpost.com/politics … us-deaths/

[b]'To advocate for a quick or immediate return to America as normal, one must figure out how to rationalize the fact that this week alone, tens of thousands of people have died of covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus that emerged in China last year. You can’t simply say, “open up the economy and let the bodies fall where they may.” Instead, we get two different arguments: “open up the economy because the number of deaths is comparable to other causes,” or “open up the economy because the number of deaths isn’t a high as suggested.

‘The second argument has been fairly common recently, advocated by people such as former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly and current Fox News personality Brit Hume. Hume in particular has repeatedly suggested that the number of covid-19 deaths being recorded is inflated because people who have preexisting conditions such as cancer are dying and having their deaths attributed to the virus.’[/b]

That’s always the predicament for most of us. Those folks who do not have access to “deep state” data, and who are not privy to the “behind the curtain” politics that play out as those in power and/or with power jockey to game the system to their own advantage.

Instead, we are all embedded in our own particular “set of circumstances”, hoping that when the chips do fall, they don’t fall squarely on us.

This part basically: nytimes.com/2020/04/09/opin … e=Homepage

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worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries

USA: 501,272 total cases

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Update number… I can’t recall.

For the forum hobos and anarchists, the page on the IRS site that you can post your direct deposit to the American IRS to get your check in, if you didn’t make enough to file the last few years.

irs.gov/coronavirus/non-fil … -info-here

I’ve done a search yesterday for Tab, noticed he hasn’t posted in a while.

Current updates regarding the treatment of coronavirus:

Micro Embolisms are a concern in the lungs, when pneumonia is present. Anti Coagulants are often used, but the oxygen reader they clip to your finger only reads the oxygen in your blood, not the ability of your cells to absorb oxygen. They have a separate way of testing for this, but may have to nudge the doctor with over reliance on the finger readings.

The Chinese attempt to end the Corona Virus has failed completely. I’m sure many of you saw the riots in Wuhan, flipping police vehicles. The Communist Party has banned reporting of new infections except in foreigners. It doesn’t matter color of skin now, if you are foreign you are considered a source of infection, but they are especially vicious against Africans. There has been mass buying of food across China, most cities only keep a two week supply of rice and grains on hand, and in many cases it is gone now. People are increasingly found dead on the streets, and many people can’t find their supposedly cured family members. They aren’t online or anything. Just vanished.

I’m seeing the first signs of deflation in the stores here for products not related to food. The midget Zero Sum keeps screaming about inflation but right now the manufacturing base is facing the opposite, a lot of people don’t have a need for large purchases. You see it on commercials too, going out of the way to guarantee risk for up to a year on buying a new car in delaying payments.

Corona Virus continues to get whittled down as predicted in western countries. US and Italy seems to be flattening the curve at about the same time. Expect for the next half year a game of wackamo as Corona Virus flairs up in micro hotspots. I’m expecting eventually meds prior to a vaccine will be given out as a ration by zip code to create a sort of herd immunity in such situations, first via places of employment then along bus routes and other tracing analytics, until finally they call fuck it and just pass it out to 10,000 people at once when they realize they can’t control it in emerging hotspots.

The underlining reason we will have hotspots is less because of internal US spread- that’s largely gonna be hammered away, but rather because of China which lacks a reliable rest for Corona Virus (their test is absolute shit) and they are increasingly traveling around the world again. We will get people from random nations infecting over and over. I recognize that looks precisely like the Chinese propaganda against foreigners, but point out the US has a very aggressive testing program that is much more accurate now, as well as a wider array of medications, and save for forum nitwits here, most trust the US medical system and FEMA to disperse medications. Currently the only way I see controlling the foreign influx is employment testing and area blanketing with antivirals till a vaccine goes mainstream. Way better than Chinese picking on Africans and beating the shit out of them on security footage. Africans tend to take antimalarial drugs so are unlikely to get it, it is usually the chines reporting then who are the more likely ones infected.

Japan is paying businesses to move factories out of China. US considering similar. WHO is likely to be defunded, starting next week. The nations the did best in the plague tended to be countries most critical and least trusting of China- Taiwan for example completely crushed the virus. South Korea moved early. US was later but still early. Outbreaks in San Francisco was quickly crushed, we have a lot of illegal Wuhan tailors working in fashion houses I used to guard, but most Chinese in San Francisco are pro Taiwan and the city locked down hard on everything. New York did not, most Chinese there are later immigrants from PRC era. The fashion industry in Italy is mostly ran by illegal Chinese immigrants from Wuhan. Iran absolutely and completely trusted in China and kept running flights a week after official lockdown to China, and Pakistan has open borders to China and Iran, and when they do test they get high numbers of infected.

Right now I’m guessing the US will have to test people wanting to fly to the US at airports overseas, using our 15 minute tests before international flights are resumed but this won’t stop private flights (I tried convincing Erik last year to fly with me to Mexico on a private jet I was getting a free ride on to go to a Donkey Show but he backed out. He likes Animal Porn, ask him- was gonna abandon him there if he said yes).

So that’s the current state of things. I’ve been doing a lot of hiking. Most of my face mask orders failed during the corona lockdown but one got through from Shenzhen of all places so I’ve had some good masks, wear in combination with safety glasses (it can get into your eyes).

Oh, it is quite common for people to have scar tissue from this virus, reduces air supple with apparently permanent shortness of breath even in athletes.

And work has been increasingly done on tracking down the Chinese expats who bought out all the PPE in the US and Australia back in early January for resale at 10x to 50x costs. It isn’t all tongs, most are black market sellers who focus on avoiding Chinese Taxes- they used to hit San Francisco hard and IRS would scout my store. That was for luxury goods them (over $10,000), but now it is mass buying of emergency supplies and removing them from the shelves of one nation for resale in China. I’m aware France and UK had similar issues but not certain what is being done in those cases.

Expect China to lash out this year militarily, likely against Taiwan (unlikely to succeed) or increased naval actions, it needs more confrontation to take criticism away from Xi. Everyone expects this so it will likely be a few sterile grandstanding hits. I’m not seeing a scenario in the next year where China recovers. It has no way of tracking its corona infected, swears it conquered the disease and hunts foreigners down as scapegoats. That’s not a good sign for foreign investment. It will have warehouses for lease in exchange for foreign capital but I guarantee you it is bleeding wealth like crazy, and corruption is likely to skyrocket in this time of fast decline. It is like Japan prior to WW2 with the oil embargo thinking of hitting Pearl Harbor, but there is no one obvious place to attack to make all its woes go away. Unless of course China plans on attacking Beijing. This is unlikely. Traditionally when China enters a period of political fragmentation that leads to civil war, they go through a prolonged initial period of pretend unity when growing regional autonomy emerges. They rarely have outright violence in the beginning, and don’t think we are close to having the cliques that took control of China 100 years ago re-emerge for a few more years in a warring capacity- but even then they claimed unity. Expect the CCP to be around for quite some time, with a occasional Coup. It won’t be obvious at first which regions will be autonomous for a while. You’ll know it when Beijing insists on taxes already paid, and the US giving regional visas to residents of parts of China and threatening to sanction party leaders of other areas not getting along. That’s when it will first occur to the media something is up. The fighting will only be sporadic and will stop all together for periods of time and you will think it is over. It won’t be. They have a few thousand years of this behavior. It is very predictable.

I would strongly recommend to people viewing this website to avoid most people posting on this site, they don’t research shit and half are convicts with their heads up their ass switching between Communism, Anarchism and Fascist in a game of musical chairs, and their beliefs are mostly fake, delusional and designed to pass the time. The rest are on rather shaky ground for grasping the ideologies the claim to follow. Look at YouTube sites like MedCram. Avoid the dipshits here. They are a step away from alien autopsy stuff.

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And we thank you for that, T. G. Turd.

I actually did end up filing for 2019 real quick through one of those free online deals. I was in a hurry and on a smart phone so I didn’t itemize my deductions and shit, which I now regret. I ended up owing about four grand for 2019. I coulda got that down to around two-five if I had the patience.

But that wasn’t the point. What I needed was to get a direct routing number and an account into the IRS’s system so those niggas don’t have to track me down with a paper check. Incidentally to do this, I had to file for 2019.

We thank you nonetheless for this information, but it’s a little late… like everything else the trumpf administration decides to do.

Ohhhhhhhhh

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Consider…

[b]'Some organizers and demonstrators had affiliations with the Tea Party and displayed the “Don’t Tread on Me” logo that was an unofficial slogan for the movement. Others waved flags and banners in support of President Trump, who has pushed to reopen the economy.

But the size of the protests in places like Michigan suggested that anger over the no-end-in-sight nature of the lockdowns is not limited to the far right, and that the public’s patience has a limit. As anxiety, uncertainty and joblessness grow, the next few weeks will pose a test for governors and local leaders who are likely to face increased pressure to loosen some of the restrictions.

In Michigan alone, more than 1 million people — roughly a quarter of the state’s work force — have filed for unemployment benefits.'[/b] NYT

Will it come down to a choice between opening the economy back up and just accepting that thousands upon thousands more will die until we reach that crucial “herd immunity” point?

Or create a vaccine? On the other hand, even that is problematic: nytimes.com/interactive/202 … e=Homepage

In other words, a kind of “the old vs. the young world”. A world in which jobs become more important to those who, even if they are infected, are likely to experience mild or no symptoms at all. While the old and already infirm folks bite the dust. They “take a bullet” for the rest of us. The Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick approach to it all.

Yo, Turd, your own insights here please.