THE WORLD ISN'T WORKING

yo!.. a great leveller... innit!

in palookaville today..

a great plague has come..

and sucked away the sea..

and all around were swimming naked..

world leaders..

with their bezzels hanging out..

WORLD VIRUS II

since the last world virus..

we have made it to the moon..

we have put ourselves online..

we have home delivery..

of whatevva..

ARTIFICIAL DUMBNESS

we have created a world equality..

everybody is now equally dumb..

and the virus..

is now available to all..

ALL FOOLS ARE EQUAL

but some are more equal than others..

because of the..

all pervasive..

stupidity..

every continent..

and practically every country..

is in the grip of this thing..

there are some with better scores..

but these are few..

and far between..

DUMB AN DUMBER

it was dumb to let it get out..

and it was even dumber to let it get in.. 

it was dumb to have no plan..

and even dumber to have no kit..

LEADERSHIP : THE SHIP THAT NEVER SAILED

the dumb..

lead by donkeys..

are floundering..

in a sea of sickness..

A NEW WORLD PLAN

is needed..

for it is clear that plan has yet to be formulated..

it's not like it wasn't expected..

it has happened before..

but the new world stupid..

has prevented progress..

ARE ALL WORLD LEADERS DUMB?

well some are definitely..

dumber than others..

but no one will admit..

to their mistakes..

as party loyalty and national pride prevail..

 

IT'S A ONE WORLD VIRUS

with a one world solution..

but not a one world approach..

and some will fair worse than others..

PUT AWAY CHILDISH THINGS

all your horses and all your men..

are ineffective here..

CO-OPERATION NOT CONTAMINATION

make a new plan stan..

get off the quay lee..

stay off the bus gus..

don't let the virus free

COMING UP

the road to palookaville..

how AD changed my life..

how much is that virus in the window?..

HEY HEY RONA

yo!... the beat goes on ... innit!

 TempusFugit -

"Numerous comments in this thread about..

who deserves to be “bashed”..

and whose reported data is to be believed..

all of which ignores two essential facts about the Coronavirus narrative..

(1) 

Even the “truthful” data being put out by responsible/credible governments..

tells less than the whole story..

It helps to track trends and build sentiment..

but if you were to take a guess at how many people in, say, the US..

 have been infected up to now you could be out by a factor of five or even 10..

so any extrapolations from reported numbers are at best educated guesses..

As discussion of the origin of the virus or potential treatments has amply demonstrated..

covid-ology is still an imprecise science.

(2)

 The Coronavirus crisis has demonstrated the existence of a yawning leadership gap..

across virtually the entire globe..

Not only in the BRIC countries..

where each leader’s response to the emerging crisis..

has been egregious in its own way..

but also in so-called advanced democracies..

There’s little point rehearsing Trump’s imbecile mishandling of the situation here..

you couldn’t make it up..

yet it is in the process of hardening into an historical fact..

Boris Johnson got it seriously wrong too..

and no amount of bonding with the NHS..

over his recovery from the illness will..

divert attention from that when it comes to the post mortem..

Abe and Macron have lost all credibility with their respective voters at this stage..

Only a select few countries..

South Korea, Austria, Germany..

seem to have got it right..

And however much Trump’s attack on the WHO is to be deplored..

it seems that (a) it’s response in the emerging stages of the disease..

was highly coloured by political considerations..

when it should have been putting the world on red alert..

and (b) the organization charged with ensuring the health of humanity..

did not have a plan in place for how to organize..

a concerted response to an emerging pandemic..

or if it did it has yet to see the light of day..

But the point anyway at this stage..

is surely that everyone on this planet should be focused..

on doing what is necessary..

to get the spread of the disease under control..

so that we can all return to our “normal” lives..

whatever that may mean in the future..

Finger wagging, blaming and bashing are a worthless waste of energy..

There’ll be plenty of time for a reckoning in due course."


PORK SPAMMED

njbr

 

..the state is working with Tyson to test employees at facilities in Columbus Junction and Waterloo..

 

 and to trace their connections to others to identify community spread..

Testing was completed Friday in Columbus Junction..

 

where Tyson officials said..

 

two workers had died following an outbreak where at least 148 workers have been infected..

 

The plant has been closed since April 6 but the company hopes to reopen it next week.

Reynolds said 2,700 tests were sent to the Waterloo plant..

 

and they will be processed at a state laboratory over the weekend..

The outbreak at the Waterloo plant comes amid similar problems..

 

that have forced the closure of meat processing plants across the country..

 

including a pork plant in Sioux Falls, South Dakota..

 

where hundreds of workers have tested positive..

 

a beef plant in Greeley, Colorado..

 

where at least two workers have died..

 

and several meat plants in Pennsylvania..

 

where many workers are ill..

On Friday, Tyson announced four workers had died at a poultry plant..

 

in Georgia after being infected with the coronavirus..

Also Friday, there were 19 reported cases of the coronavirus..

 

identified at a large JBS pork plant in Worthington, Minnesota..

 

according to the union that represents most of the 2,000 workers at the facility..

 

State health officials said seven cases have been confirmed and the number is expected to rise..

 

The plant remains open.

marg54

"Your president is going to have blood on his hands..

 

for his thirst to put money and his re election before lives..

 

We can only watch what he is doing with shock and horror from Australia..

 

Our hearts go out to all Americans"

njbr

 

"WSJ...More than 160 South Koreans have tested positive a second time for the coronavirus..

 

a development that suggests the disease..

 

may have a longer shelf life than expected"

njbr

 

TOKYO (AP) — "Hospitals in Japan are increasingly turning away sick people..

 

as the country struggles with surging coronavirus infections..

 

and its emergency medical system collapses.

In one recent case, an ambulance carrying a man with a fever..

 

and difficulty breathing was rejected by 80 hospitals..

 

and forced to search for hours..

 

for a hospital in downtown Tokyo that would treat him..

 

Another feverish man finally reached a hospital..

 

after paramedics unsuccessfully contacted 40 clinics.

The Japanese Association for Acute Medicine..

 

and the Japanese Society for Emergency Medicine..

 

say many hospital emergency rooms are refusing to treat people..

 

including those suffering strokes, heart attacks and external injuries."

WORLD LEADERS GET SICK

yo! ...an tired... innit!

here in palookaville...

THE VIRUS GAMES RAGE ON

folks is gettin sick..

they sick of bein cooped up..

sick of bein outta work..

sick of bein..

out of touch..

mostly though..

they sick of losin loved ones..

when ordinary palookas get sick..

they all get sick in the same way..

but team leaders

WORLD LEADERS ALL GET SICK IN THEIR OWN WAY

boris is sick..

he sick with the virus..

donald is sick..

he sick of media criticism..

vladimir is sick..

sick of the fallin oil price..

xi is sick..

sick of bein blamed fo a 

BIG YELLOW VIRUS

some sick thing they have in common..

they sick of not bein able to play..

with they train sets..

with they airplanes..

with they ships..

with they soldiers..

without they parades..

and  they banquets..

they feel small and alone..

and they all sick to death..

of the virus games.. 

WHATS REALLY SICK

is the doctors an nurses and the carers..

bein made ta play..

without the proper kit..

WOULDN'T IT BE NICE

if the team leaders..

could put aside their differences..

and agree a

common playbook..

and co-operate..

to bring these games..

to an end..

IT AIN'T OVER TIL THE FAT VACCINE SINGS

we here in palookaville..

look to our leaders..

to recover..

their sense of humour..

an set about..

sharin out the popcorn..

and all the stuff..

needed for a..

vaccine to be developed..

before the games get..

out of hand..

COMING NEXT

Sing a song of sixpence,
A pocket full of rye..


Four and twenty pangolins
Baked in a pie..

When the pie was opened..

The virus began to sing..

Wasn't that a dainty dish
To set before the king?

The king was in the counting-house..

Counting out his money..

The queen was in the parlor..

Eating bread and honey..

The maid was in the garden..

Hanging out the clothes..

Along came a virus..

And snipped off her nose..

Sing a song of sixpence,
A pocket full of rye..

Four and twenty million..
Baked in a pie..

When the pie was opened..

The dead began to sing..

Wasn't that a dainty dish..

To set before the king?

FAULT LINES

yo!... not me... innit!

here in palookaville...

we ain't bigots...

if the facts change...

we change our mind..

AS GOOD AS WE GET

we can only read up an...

try ta make sense..

the real truth..

is hard ta find..

NOT THE FED

there see..

that wasn't so hard..

was it?

from tim duy 

Tim Duy's Fed Watch

The Federal Reserve wants to kill your recession call.

Look, I understand, in the finance and economics world we are used to a crisis being about us. 

But, this time it isn’t about us, as least not directly. 

This was as pure a shock to the national and global economies as one could imagine. 

One little tiny thing – you can’t even see it! – blew it all up overnight.

Unlike the last two cycles, the shock did not originate in the financial sector and spill over into the real economy. 

It originated in the real economy and spilled over into the financial sector. 

Neither is built to accept this level of damage. 

Just like I can’t blame my iPhone for shattering if I drop it from the roof of a ten-story building, I can’t blame anyone for what is happening in the economy. 

The phone isn’t made for that, just as the economy isn’t made to not be put to work.

From a macroeconomic perspective, there is no moral imperative to assign blame. 

There is no moral imperative to root out bad actors. 

There is no moral imperative to “punish” someone in the pursuit of “creative destruction.” 

In this situation, there is simply no reason to think that the activities that of 150 million people – our friends and neighbors– were just six weeks ago seriously misaligned.

The only moral imperative is holding together the economy so that those 150 million can resume their lives as quickly as possible.

The only moral imperative is working to prevent another...

15 million people from losing their jobs.

OUR FAULT THEN

Renowned conservationist and activist Dr Jane Goodall..

is hoping the coronavirus pandemic will be a wake-up call..

warning the crisis is a result of human disregard..

for nature and animals.

 Dr Goodall said we should have known a pandemic-like coronavirus was coming..

because other viruses..

such as SARS and HIV..

also jumped the species barrier from animals..

Both SARS and COVID-19 are types of coronavirus 

and have been traced to live animal markets..

or wet markets..

in China.

But Dr Goodall said the loss of animal habitat..

and intensive farming are part of the problem..

making it easier for viruses to spread from one animal to another..

and then to humans.

"We have to learn to think differently about how we interact with the natural world,"

 she said..

"And one of the problem..

is that as more and more forests have disappeared,..

so animals themselves have come in closer contact with each other..

"Most of these viruses that jumped to us have come through an intermediary..

So there's a reservoir host..

like a bat and in [the case of COVID-19]..

it's thought to have jumped into a pangolin..

and then into us."

Dr Goodall equates the human disregard for nature..

as also the root cause of..

climate change. 

DENIAL

so

If the world were perfect, it wouldn’t be.

we saw this comin..

we did nothing to prepare..

ok grounding all airplanes..

would have been a bit unpopular..

ta say the least..

but it would have stopped the virus travelling abroad 

and the airplanes are grounded now..

anyway.. 

we

did not lock down the social world..

but it is now locked down..

anyway..

we did not order..

PPE..

more medical staff..

more beds..  

more mortuaries..

we did not warn..

the old..

the sick..

the vulnerable..

SWEET FUCK ALL

yes..

sfa

SEND NOT TO KNOW FOR WHOSE FAULT THIS WAS

we voted these people into office..

the buck stops with them..

but..

also with us..

you get the government you..

deserve..

also

we get alpha shits..

 who are not even elected..

who grab power..

at times just like this..

and other times like this..

in days gone by..

THE TRUTH IS NOT WHAT IT WAS

coming up..

the big yellow virus..

come wait with me..

the world wide wait..

desperately seeking  symptoms..