Seattle public schools are refusing to provide online classes during the 6 week shutdown that just started, on the grounds it will be unfair to poor/black kids who don’t have computers.

Given that primary and secondary education is brainwashing these days, good riddance. There are plenty of internet resources for all grade levels, including Khan Academy, as well as free MIT and Stanford classes for university level. You kid, if smart, will come back ahead. If your kid isn’t smart, there’s nothing that education can really do about that.

The exposure was on the 8th and the mean time till symptoms is 5 days (and Trump is in his 70ss). So this “Trump has corona from the Brazil guy” is past its sell-by date. If he ever gets it, it will be from some other source.

What’s secret about Coulter wintering in Miami?

Her Twitter profile lists her as NY/LA, but she seems to be in Florida half the year, partying with Drudge.

I wonder if the IRS will postpone this year’s filing deadline?

You can postpone it four months this or any year by sending in a Form 4868 “Application fo Automatic Extension of Time to File U.S. Individual Income Tax Return.”

https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f4868.pdf

http://www.irs.gov/Form4868

And there are online services that for a fee will do this instantly under contract with the IRS.

As an expat I get another two months even without requesting it, so my annual deadline is October 15.

You’re supposed to prepay any taxes you think you might owe, but the interest penalties are not that Draconian so you can just make a guess.

In Japan they extended the filing deadline by a month, which is meaningful since there is no other way to extend it.

Denialist article from Heather Mac Donald, of all people, the popularizer of the “Fergusson Effect.”

Compared to what?: On the misguided response to COVID-19.
https://newcriterion.com/blogs/dispatch/compared-to-what

Even if my odds of dying from coronavirus should suddenly jump ten-thousand-fold, from the current rate of .000012 percent across the U.S. population all the way up to .12 percent, I’d happily take those odds over the destruction being wrought on the U.S. and global economy from this unbridled panic.

If the measures we undertake to protect a vulnerable few end up exposing them, along with the rest of society, to even more damaging risks—was it worth the cost?

President Trump has been criticized for not being apocalyptic enough in his press conferences. In fact, he should be even more skeptical of the panic than he has been. He should relentlessly put the coronavirus risk into context with opioid deaths, homicide deaths—about sixteen thousand a year in the United States—flu deaths, and traffic deaths.

And so on.

My hunch: Heather-chan never got around to diversifying her 401(k), and her retirement years are not looking so good now.

In the long run it may help to have huge die-offs in a few large cities with large Irish populations. That will finally bring some sense to the matter. It may be the Wuhan virus’s Philadelphia/St. Louis moment.

By the way, I have come to believe that using Wuhan virus is what we should be doing, and it’s not a casual racist troll. Coronavirus is not long for this world, as a clear term, since we are now on our third or fourth new coronavirus, and after a couple more things will get confusing. The boffins have come with three, count ’em, names, none of which is memorable or rolls off the tongue: COVID-19, HCoV-19, and now SARS-CoV-2. The last two names are apparently algorithmic, in that they are generated based on analysis of characteristics of the virus combined with a date or serial number, so this may not be the end as research continues. Wuhan virus is the only one that’s not confusing.

I suppose they could go hurricane and name new horrible diseases after white, male, northern European given names. Just have a list of them cued up to choose from when a new disease comes out.

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Japan just passed an emergency powers bill, very strong, and the prime minister gave a speech and did a long press conference about it last night on live prime time television. He said if he used it he will do another speech to explain to the country why. I got the feeling he was teeing up some big measures and was getting people ready for them.

Wow. I just stepped over here from Sailer to see what else is going on. Yikes! What a bunch of nutcases, including the proprietor Ron Unz. Back to iSteve for me.

And remember, even the most rudimentary masks help if everyone is wearing one. You catch some of the sneeze or cough on the way out, as well as some of the sneeze or cough on the way in.

I bet the UK ends up having the right approach. It seems like most of the people giving dire predictions and making the most drastic suggestions are math guys but not really medical guys.

Some medical people on the news have mentioned serioius permanent lung damage among some proportion of recovered patients. So I wouldn’t cavalierly expose everyone to the disease.

And there are reports of people getting a second hit of the disease after recovery. For “herd immunity” you need two things: (1) a herd, and (2) immunity. If people don’t always get immunity from having had the disease …

This explains it:

https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/Murder-cases-like-Halloween-night-massacre-in-14847576.php

In shootings in large groups figuring out who is at fault and who is a victim, beyond a reasonable doubt, is impossible. The cops used a special kind of judicial arrest warrant, got some guys in, and sweated them, but no confessions. They’re apparently trying the same trick on a new batch of partygoers.

Meanwhile, the Atlantic proposes $10,000 reparations from Boomers to Millennials:

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2019/11/britain-election-boomers/602680/

To help with house downpayments, which I’m sure is what it’ll be used for. That, or avocado toast.

As for Hungary, I have no problem with the experiment, but they should be gathering data on the recipients and the outcome.

With a bit of Phil Spector and late Serge Gainbourg thrown in.