If you shoot someone in your home, whether you wound or kill them, you’re gonna get sued. And likely they will take your house from you or a big stack of cash. That’s just the way it works in the USA nowadays, like it or not.

But if you hear someone kicking in your door or window, you don’t need a gun with live ammo to run them off. You need a gun loaded with BLANKS ! A few blank shotgun rounds inside the house will take care of 99+% of people wanting in to steal from you. Ever set off a 12 ga. blank inside the house ? Believe me, this works.

Traveling outside the home ? Put 6 blanks in followed by live rounds. You’ll not need more than 2 blanks to allow you to get gone.

No lawsuits, no accidental shootings, no locking up the guns from the grandkids needed, no guilt with shooting your neighbor bringing you some vegetables.

The Noise does it all. Can’t buy a gun – you can mail order a “camp trip alarm.” Holds a blank shotgun shell (dump the pellets) and mount it on a scrap of wood as I did. No license, no wait, about $40. Box of bird shells $8 at Academy Sports, no ID needed. No target practice at the range.

Think !

Couldn’t someone become interested in staging a video reenactment of the Floyd death, using sober healthy actors of the same height/weight builds and see whether ~10 minutes of knee pressure on the side of the neck seems to have actual adverse effects ?

Couldn’t someone become interested in staging a video reenactment of the Floyd death, using sober healthy actors of the same height/weight builds and see whether ~10 minutes of knee pressure on the side of the neck seems to have actual adverse effects ?

One of the comments from your cited link to keep ” “It’s okay to be white” constantly in the news” said to just post plain white stickers with the one bolded word WHITE printed on them. I thought this to be absolutely brilliant. Would that be a hate crime ?

Disagree. Testing (except for medical personnel) accomplishes nothing, as there is no different treatment for those testing positive.

The only answer is herd immunity which is where enough people have been infected so that there is no more transmission. This number seems to be ~70% as demonstrated by that % of the population showing antibodies to the virus in Lombardy. The disease is over in Lombardy.

All we are doing with closures is delaying the infections into the future, wave after wave till 70% reached.

Sure, it is good to use basic prophylaxis like hand washing, sanitizer, ending hand shaking, staying at home if sick, screening those visiting nursing homes. and covering face when sneezing or coughing or using masks. These measures in and of themselves should be enough to keep ERs and ICUs from being overloaded. Sweden example.

The folly of fomenting panic by the news media needs to end. Control yourselves.

All these closures and restrictions are economic disaster.

Ron,
These novel bugs hang around until until 60%+ of the population is infected thus allowing “herd immunity.” Any infections prevented now will pick up in the fall and winter, as in the much more difficult Second Wave infections of fall/winter 1918 compared to the spring infections of 1918.
Vaccine or drugs only hope till herd immunity reached.

not covered :
1) Virus doesn’t spread in warm and humid weather – this times right for low rate by November election
2) Trump can cancel any federal guidelines thus leaving it to local officials to put shelter in place regulations, etc in place, giving them the blame for further economic disruption

Perhaps Sailer and/or Cochrane would like to make a prediction of final mortality rate and death totals – to justify the levels of unprecedented financial and social losses imposed on the public.
We’ll know in a couple of years. What’s your over/under – cause I’m taking the under.

Too absurd for comment
Yet, the use of “other” as a verb, is just so, so Cute

Truly an excellently written article !

Make Women’s Sports “Y-Free’” Again !

Don’t bother. Body weight is like a flywheel, once a certain weight is achieved, the body holds it no matter the intervention. 5% success rate at keeping lost weight off long term. Ask any dieter, it comes back. http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2015/03/diets_do_not_work_the_thin_evidence_that_losing_weight_makes_you_healthier.html
The only alternative that has substantial long term success is bariatric surgery.