Manic of a panic is geopolitical

[retina]

Originally Posted by kriesel

Right. And then one of their regulars stops by for a tan, or the cosmetologist wants one herself. Off to the ER or hospital burn unit she goes. https://rockymountainurgentcare.com/...evere-sunburn/

Those things are a stupid idea anyway. Pure vanity, zero brains.

[Dr Sardonicus]

Originally Posted by kriesel

Right. And then one of their regulars stops by for a tan, or the cosmetologist wants one herself. Off to the ER or hospital burn unit she goes. https://rockymountainurgentcare.com/...evere-sunburn/

I did say, "recreate" their businesses. The tanning salon would close up shop, notifying all its customers. No more cosmetologists on the payroll.

But I suppose some modification of the tanning beds would be in order, just to prevent anyone trying to sneak a quick tan in them. A hard surface with a pattern of reasonably sharp peaks would probably do the trick.

[Uncwilly]

Originally Posted by retina

Those things are a stupid idea anyway. Pure vanity, zero brains.

[Dr Sardonicus]

We care about the elderly. We value life in this country and when you start devaluing life, then you're in trouble.

-- Glenn Beck, 2009

I would rather have my children stay home and all of us who are over 50 go in and keep this economy going and working. Even if we all get sick, I would rather die than kill the country. Because it's not the economy that's dying, it's the country.

-- Ibid, 2020

[kladner]

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffsb&q=die...v167-1&ia=news

Also:
http://inthesetimes.com/working/entr...p-stock-market

“We must reopen the economy,” you say. “It is vital that we send people back to work,” you say. Well, it sounds important. By all means—you first.

The cure must not be worse than the problem, the president says. It is important that we not disincentive work, right-wing economists say. Keeping things closed could devastate the economy, business leaders say. These things are a tradeoff, you see.

Yes, some people will die if we put everyone back to work sooner than the health experts say. But these things are inevitable. And the economic damage could be awful if we don’t.

Okay. All of you line up, to report to work.
Lloyd Blankfein, the reasonable cheerleader for restarting commerce, you can be a doorman, throwing open the doors of your Manhattan office building for all the bankers to return to their desks. The doorman, who prefers not to die, can be the CEO of Goldman Sachs. That office is sufficiently large for social distancing, I’m sure.

[Dr Sardonicus]

Chicago Tribune column: Donald Trump's coronavirus pandemic death cult — everyone's welcome!

Enjoy!

EDIT: Oh, and the young are also being recruited into the death cult:

Mayor: Liberty U. 'reckless' to let students back amid virus

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Officials in Lynchburg, Virginia, said Tuesday they were fielding complaints about the hundreds of students who have returned from spring break to Liberty University, where President Jerry Falwell Jr. welcomed them back amid the new coronavirus pandemic.

"We could not be more disappointed in the action that Jerry took in telling students they could come back and take their online classes on campus," Lynchburg City Manager Bonnie Svrcek told The Associated Press.

[kriesel]

Originally Posted by Dr Sardonicus

I did say, "recreate" their businesses. The tanning salon would close up shop, notifying all its customers. No more cosmetologists on the payroll.

But I suppose some modification of the tanning beds would be in order, just to prevent anyone trying to sneak a quick tan in them. A hard surface with a pattern of reasonably sharp peaks would probably do the trick.

You mentioned a couple of steps modifying the tanning bed machine, and nothing else. Now it's more like kill the existing business, and replace it with an entirely new one. If this repurposing works at all, I think the way is to sell the beds to places with competent staff, such as hospitals and clinics for treating things that don't autoclave well, like say PPE. Which may not respond well to UV either; plastics tend to get brittle and discolored on exposure to UV. Most fabric or thread is polymer these days. (I've had leather gloves come quite undone, when feeding a wood stove with a hot bed of coals, because some of the thread MELTS from radiant heat transfer.)

[Dr Sardonicus]

Originally Posted by kriesel

Now it's more like kill the existing business, and replace it with an entirely new one.

What part of "recreate" didn't you understand?

[ewmayer]

Re. surface disinfection, Blast of hot air from a hair dryer should suffice to get that temp up to ~100C. I’ve also been using on e.g. package deliveries.

NC's Colonel Smithers has a sitrep from the UK:

Readers, not just those in Borislavia, will be delighted to hear that it’s not all gloom and doom in Borislavia. The rich and powerful are cashing in, so us plebs can expect some trickle down. When, I have no idea.

Let me summarise from well placed sources:

Tory and Brexiteer donor, Sir James Dyson, has just been given a contract to build ventilators, likely to be built in his Malaysian factory. Dyson, who was at school with NC’s Synoia, has amassed over 50,000 acres of farm land in East Anglia, the Thames valley and West Country, getting ready for the disruption in food supplies from the continent. His holdings surpass the Queen in England. That disruption of farm production has been signalled a bit in France, but not picked up elsewhere. My parents and I are aware due to our small holding overseas. Perhaps, Arizona Slim and other farming readers can chime in.

Tory MP and former minister, Liam Fox, collects £100,000 p.a. in dividends from a firm selling covid 19 test kits at £120 apiece.

Private hospitals have about half of their beds reserved for NHS patients. As non emergency operations have been postponed, these hospitals, which are overrated according to my military doctor dad, were looking at big losses. Their use by the NHS in this emergency is a bail out by stealth.

Yesterday, two dozen children were taken into emergency care in Buckinghamshire alone. All of them are being placed through investment firm intermediaries. Depending on the child’s needs, the firm, often a hedge fund based in Mayfair, can collect £500 – £5000 per week and give the individual carer a tenth of that. These activities are kept under the label “special situations” funds. Corporate welfare / socialism for the rich is alive and kicking.

The CEO of NHS England, Sir Simon Stevens, was at Balliol College, Oxford, with Johnson. After Oxford, he joined United Health in the US as a lobbyist. According to the civil service grape vine, at crisis committee meetings, the pair are often ashen faced, look lost, seem out of their depth and wondering what they signed up for.

The supply of escorts is down. Why? About a quarter of escorts are nurses. Another quarter are teachers.

Last, but not least, and the icing on the cake, the Blairites will be back in charge of the Labour Party next month. That nice remainer Sir Keir Starmer is funded by, amongst others, the vultures who want to loot the NHS and other public services. Labour’s health spokesman, Jonathan Ashworth, speaks of “Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition”. Although not a colonial, the colonials here will recognise his cringe. He was one of the jerk offs undermining Corbyn, but Corbyn did not have the nous or courage to attack his enemies. The vultures are smart enough to get / co-opt Labour to do their dirty work and not push through a full privatisation, so the process will be gradual and by stealth. Get ready for the MSM narrative that the state failed when the crisis has eased and the public wants answers.

[kladner]

Leonardo Flores is a Latin American policy expert and campaigner with CodePink.

These media outlets painted a picture of a coronavirus disaster, of government incompetence and of a nation teetering on the brink of collapse.

You would think that this was a description of our abyssal situation here in the GOUSoA. I believe that psychologists call this "projection" to assign one's own failings to others.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/54076.htm

Within a few hours of being launched, over 800 Venezuelans in the U.S. registered for an emergency flight from Miami to Caracas through a website run by the Venezuelan government. This flight, offered at no cost, was proposed by President Nicolás Maduro when he learned that 200 Venezuelans were stuck in the United States following his government’s decision to stop commercial flights as a preventative coronavirus measure. The promise of one flight expanded to two or more flights, as it became clear that many Venezuelans in the U.S. wanted to go back to Venezuela, yet the situation remains unresolved due to the U.S. ban on flights to and from the country.

Those who rely solely on the mainstream media might wonder who in their right mind would want to leave the United States for Venezuela. Numerous outlets—including TIME magazine, the Washington Post, The Hill, the Miami Herald, and others—published opinions in the past week describing Venezuela as a chaotic nightmare. These media outlets painted a picture of a coronavirus disaster, of government incompetence and of a nation teetering on the brink of collapse. The reality of Venezuela’s coronavirus response is not covered by the mainstream media at all.

Furthermore, what each of these articles shortchanges is the damage caused by the Trump administration’s sanctions, which devastated the economy and healthcare system long before the coronavirus pandemic. These sanctions have impoverished millions of Venezuelans and negatively impact vital infrastructure, such as electricity generation. Venezuela is impeded from importing spare parts for its power plants and the resulting blackouts interrupt water services that rely on electric pumps. These, along with dozens of other implications from the hybrid war on Venezuela, have caused a decline in health indicators across the board, leading to 100,000 deaths as a consequence of the sanctions.

Regarding coronavirus specifically, the sanctions raise the costs of testing kits and medical supplies, and ban Venezuela’s government from purchasing medical equipment from the U.S. (and from many European countries). These obstacles would seemingly place Venezuela on the path to a worst-case scenario, similar to Iran (also battered by sanctions) or Italy (battered by austerity and neoliberalism). In contrast to those two countries, Venezuela took decisive steps early on to face the pandemic.

As a result of these steps and other factors, Venezuela is currently in its best-case scenario. As of this writing, 11 days after the first confirmed case of coronavirus, the country has 86 infected people, with 0 deaths. Its neighbors have not fared as well: Brazil has 1,924 cases with 34 deaths; Ecuador 981 and 18; Chile 746 and 2; Peru 395 and 5; Mexico 367 and 4; Colombia 306 and 3. (With the exception of Mexico, those governments have all actively participated and contributed to the U.S.-led regime change efforts in Venezuela.) Why is Venezuela doing so much better than others in the region?

[kriesel]

Originally Posted by Dr Sardonicus

What part of "recreate" didn't you understand?

None.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/recreate