Thursday, April 09, 2020

HOA Tyrants in the Days of Coronavirus

Artists are used to humiliation.  We start with it and we are always ready to return to real failure, the bottom of the barrel, the destruction of our talent by alcohol or misery.  We live with the knowledge that, alongside Cezanne or Picasso, we are no-one, were always no-one, will be forgotten before we are in the ground.  Shame, doubt, self-loathing, all this we eat for breakfast every day.

“My guilt is all I have left. If I lose it, I have stood for nothing, done nothing.”

YOU’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BLOG: All China’s Lies. “A roundup on what China is lying about today.”



Time to put China on lockdown for its dishonesty amid coronavirus crisis.
But wherever the virus came from, China’s response was inept, dishonest and utterly inconsiderate of the rest of the world. A competent, honest response would have placed the world on notice much earlier. A China that cared about the rest of the world would have halted flights abroad while this disease was spreading, instead of allowing its citizens to spread willy-nilly around the globe.




THINKING AHEAD: More Australians are worried about the longer-lasting, societal effects of COVID-19 than their own immediate changes.



HOA Tyrants in the Days of Coronavirus


It has become accepted knowledge that America's intelligence agencies missed 9/11 warning signs — but that's not entirely true.  Signs were seen, but they impelled no action.  We were so convinced that the fall of the Soviet Union as the end of history precluded any need for urgency.  Yet, even if there had been, no one, at that point, knew how to react.
I don't think I need to remind everyone of what happened on 09/11/2001.
I share this vignette as a means of showing that there are always signs.  We, for whatever reason, miss them, or we ignore them for political purposes, or we refuse to believe them because they contradict the core tenets of our belief system.


Hong Kong Police Arrest Opposition Politician Under Colonial-Era Law - WSJ.

But don't you dare criticize the Chinese government


YOU REALIZED THIS NOW?  China Is Preparing to Start a War with America









Pope says coronavirus outbreak may be one of ‘nature’s responses’ to climate change The Hill


Get China out of your supply chain ASAP.


UPDATE: I tested one of those Chinese underwear masks and give it two stars out of five: Neither stylish nor particularly comfortable.