It was just the pin in the bubble.

There's your sign. Massive waste as we all know much more productive mills are sitting idle.

As expected after a power grab, just like 9/11.

Trying not to experience collapse, American style. Trying to outdo us in central economic planning won't work in the long run -- the USSA is #1 yanno.

Good to shame these sniveling worms.

Meanwhile they discount the numbers from the Swedes. The reality is that there's not a damned thing you can do other than delay spread IFF you quarantine the sickly quickly enough...but this already had spread by the time every country including Vietnam acted, so you can expect their actual "curve" to be identical to everywhere else in the tropics.

And it turns out it's not particularly deadly in the tropics, as India bears out. Mind you, it's not particularly deadly anywhere, just less so in warmer climes.

FUN

Making our pols look like the chimps they are.

Like everything else coming out of Brussels. Meanwhile, Trump is rolling back what little privacy protections with ISPs there were.

For being a general pain in their ass rather than anything of substance.

Sudanese proxies trying to prop him up against Turkish proxies now.

More bad news for Hadi. Wouldn't be surprised if the clown prince cuts the puppet strings soon.

Oh, just killing Africans while they get piled up like cordwood by malaria which we do nothing about. Nobody cares.

Mediscare compensation fueling the use of ventilators.

Criminal.

Coupled with production taking a dive. Good time to back up the truck on PMs and RE.

We're #1!!!!!

BONUS: Less than half of working-age Americans working.

Well, they support government uber alles all other times, so why not continue to go along with their own BTK.

Thanks to antibiotic resistance, and it actually being effective against viral pathogens.

...a few days later, Israeli television revealed that in November American intelligence had indeed shared such a report on the Wuhan disease outbreak with its NATO and Israeli allies, thus seeming to independently confirm the complete accuracy of the original ABC News story and its several government sources.

It therefore appears that elements of the Defense Intelligence Agency were aware of the deadly viral outbreak in Wuhan more than a month before any officials in the Chinese government itself. Unless our intelligence agencies have pioneered the technology of precognition, I think this may have happened for the same reason that arsonists have the earliest knowledge of future fires.

Digging a hole for your neighbor to fall into; the lord does ensure justice ensues.

Congressional rescue not currently in the cards.

Police chief lookin' for love in all the wrong places, and a "cop of the year" runs a CP ring. Like politicians, the only thing that seems to take them down nowadays is a dead boy; live girls don't seem to do the trick anymore.

Good reason to not get tested.

It's the citizens that are the problem. Damn straight, this is the world they chose.

It's a powergrab and a dunk on the peasants.