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Lots of people on the left in America look to Sweden for examples of smart government policies, but almost nobody in the U.S. of any ideology looks to Switzerland for ideas, even though multilingual Switzerland would seem like a pretty successful country.
From the Financial Times:
Swiss keep calm and rest on their months of stockpiles
Switzerland has one of the largest strategic reserves of food and medicine in the worldEven in the face of a government lockdown, supply chain disruption has been at a minimum
Sam Jones in Zurich YESTERDAY
… But in the Swiss city of Zurich, the only shortages in supermarkets have been of customers.
As of Thursday evening, Switzerland had 10,714 confirmed cases of the coronavirus and 161 deaths. On a per capita basis, it is the worst-hit state in Europe, reflecting its proximity to Lombardy, northern Italy, the source of the European outbreak.
But even in the face of a Swiss government lockdown, supply chain disruption has been at a minimum.
With between three and six months’ worth of essential foodstuffs and goods kept in storage within the country’s borders, Switzerland maintains one of the largest strategic stockpiles in the world.
As of last year, Switzerland, which has a population of 8.5m, kept 63,000 tonnes of sugar, 160,000 tonnes of white flour for bread, 33,700 tonnes of cooking oil (a fifth of which is for salad dressing and mayonnaise), and just under 400,000 tonnes of specialist feed for its dairy industry in reserve. Already, Swiss authorities have dipped into some medical supplies. …
In November, a huge public outcry put a stop to plans to end the stockpiling of coffee. Government technocrats reasoned that its zero calorific value made it “unessential”. Their defeat means the Swiss currently have 15,000 tonnes of coffee beans in storage to see them through the coronavirus pandemic, if imports into the country dried up and existing commercial stocks vanished.
You can’t win a modern war without caffeine.
Adequate supply is only one half of the picture. The government has run regular public information campaigns for decades advising citizens on how to supply their households.
… The Swiss are advised to have nine litres of bottled water per person, enough food to feed someone for a week, a gas stove, candles and cash.
… Swiss lawmakers had already updated their contingency plans and stockpiling strategy in 2016, as Bern grew increasingly concerned about the fragility of modern supply chains. Officials had been alarmed by a 2015 US storm season that saw food and other goods run out quickly.
One striking feature of the Swiss system is the involvement of the private sector. …
There is no central stockpile: instead, goods are kept in reserve in the warehouses of businesses distributed across the country.
… The close integration with the private sector has huge advantages for the government. Reserves can be released into the supply chain almost instantly, and costs are kept low. …
In some key areas Switzerland has, in common with its neighbours, fallen short. BWL has already released its entire stock — 168,000 — of respiratory masks. Even before the coronavirus outbreak, officials knew the stocks would not be enough: the country needs more than four times as many to see it through the next three months.
So Switzerland did a poor job of planning for contagion by not stockpiling enough masks, but landlocked Switzerland’s planning for war or blockade has helped in other areas.
Modern inventory management has probably gotten too lean and mean in recent years to deal well with the unexpected. Firms like Costco are super efficient about just-in-time logistics compared to how much inventory would have been in the system 30 years ago, but that means we don’t have much margin for error.
Yeah, somehow those of us who are relatively careful about how we live our lives and even about taking precautions and planning for eventualities–we’re not being laughed at any more. Go figure.
Why don’t our elites look to Switzerland as a model?
Didn’t allow women to vote until 1971.
Many if not most families own a semi-automatic, if not fully automatic, gun.
Tradition of individualism and independence.
Sure, it’s rich. But it’s just the wrong sort of country.
Also, no culture on earth is more individualistic than the United States. Switzerland might be more individualist than most cultures, but still noticeably more collectivist than America.
You have to understand that up until the Napoleonic Wars (when they invaded France instead of - more usually - Tyrol) Switzerland was little more than a self-governed band of brigands.
To Cossacks and Americans this should fit like a glove ;)
Like 28Sherman said back when he was still blogging:
“Switzerland? Nation of white middle class gun owners? Move along, nothing to see here.....”
They have secret escape tunnels and electricity-gifting dams and shelters that can house thousands containing digital libraries about how to rebuild civilization, and they didn’t have enough masks?!
Absolutely right on every point Steve.
Best run nations in the world: Switzerland, Hungary, and Israel.
Candid: I think 1971 is the year the last Canton gave women the right to vote. Most women could vote well before then.
What you're talking about is that there is competent administration of various public services.
But the sin qua non of "well run" for a nation is preserving the nation--and improve the quality of life--for the nation's people and their posterity.
Switzerland utterly fails. They've have a full case of the minoritarian disease. Huge immigrant population. A third of residents are "immigrant background". Maybe half of those are neighbors so not wildly different, and presumably integral racial stock--but there's still no reason Switzerland should be given to them. But a full third are not European at all. 5% of the population is Muslim--a non-integrable, hostile element for any Western natio--the historic enemy invader of the West. And all the usual minoritarian b.s.--"racism!", "xenophobia!"--is hurled at Swiss who want to preserve their nation.
The #1 duty of a nation is to protect itself from foreign invasion. Switzerland is failing this basic test. "Well run" is a joke.
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https://www.thelakewoodscoop.com/news/2020/03/njsp-colonel-patrick-callahan-on-lakewood-vast-majority-of-the-community-understands-the-importance-of-social-distancing-and-are-complying-with-the-executive-order.html
NJ is prioritizing fighting antisemitism. People are getting angry because the orthodox community in Lakewood has continued having weddings despite the lockdown. They are going after people venting online about it. Governor Murphy said there is a special place in Hell for the people pointing out how the community is endangering everyone
The State Police colonel explained that one case was a misunderstanding. In what might seem to be an antisemitic plotline, he explained that they thought that they could comply with the lockdown by designating a specified number of wedding guests per yard on the block.
In fact, the Jews are the Wests' great rejectionists of universal, we're-all-in-this-together neighborliness in favor of keeping their separate tribal identity. Thumbing their nose at the majority community--their norms, their values, is per spec. They are historically anti-neighborly people.
These folks in NY and NJ are simply real Jews, behaving as real Jews actually do--thumbing their nose at the larger community's norms and doing their own damn thing.
O hai FWP! One of these things is not like the others. Hint: it’s not what you think. It’s to do with controlling the USA to get it to do your bidding.
“You can’t win a modern war without caffeine.”
Yes, but what about toilet paper? Apparently the FT left out the amount of tonnage of toilet paper. Are the Swiss stockpiling the White Cloud and Charmin and hoarding it at the expense of the world?
Finally the truth comes out and the mystery of the missing toilet paper can be told. It’s crossed the border into Switzerland.
Air raid siren went off every Wednesday at noon throughout my grammar school years. Hide under your desk and try for a peek up the skirt of the girl in front of you. Buildings in every neighborhood on the main drag had stockpiles of Civil Defense supplies, including 50 gallon drums of water. Then in the 60s, I think, it all went away. When ever there is a disaster in a far off country the USA send ship loads of food, water and medical supplies. So we have it some place. In Puerto Rico they found a warehouse full of water and food and supplies that had been sent as hurricane relief. Never made it to the people. If you want bad results, put the government in charge.
I have some of their training literature and yes, it covers pandemics.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Defence_Corps
Obamacare was inspired by Switzerland’s healthcare system
America cannot have a Swiss-style health system because it's not filled with Swiss people, it's filled with.... well, ya know. And even worse, it's run by... well, ya know.
Check back on Switzerland in another 20 years, when it has been fully enriched.
Meantime, though...
FUN LITTLE-KNOWN FACT: Switzerland also has the world's largest emergency strategic supplies of "Adventure Time" DVD's. Talk about a far-sighted people!
Hell, USA companies do this all the time. When hurricanes are approaching, Home Depot will ship generators and preposition them so they will be available to customers when the storm passes over.
The US government specifies this as a minimum:
Don’t forget the extras: ammo, spare parts, lubricants, MREs, night vision, Claymores, etc.
Switzerland has always been an outlier. Their geography and history convinced their powers that be that remaining neutral (small population with no shot of defending itself) and a safe haven for money, was in the best interests of the world and subsequently, would protect the Swiss culture and people. Switzerland is the Svalbard for money in the bank.
And, yes, Switzerland, Israel and Finland (in that order) are the most locked, loaded, storaged in the world – all small countries surrounded by hostiles.
Hmm. Switzerland is too collectivist to appeal to Fox News Republicans, too capitalist and business friendly to appeal to Bernie Bros, too multi-lingual to appeal to ethnonationalist ideologues.
No wonder they’re so successful!
I get the feeling the German-speaking Cantons are the uber-organized ones who are behind all this planning.
Or win a world war without amphetamines…
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-2003-01-05-0301040384-story.html
Which leads to this interesting article …
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/speedy-history-americas-addiction-amphetamine-180966989/
… and those who exploit this weakness…
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/04/sacklers-oxycontin-opioids/557525/
Out of principle I refuse to drink the stuff unless it is free and there are no other choices.
Jeremy Corbyn has made some telling points.
Wonder who he was working for?
Lot’s Covid19 Stay At Home TV Reviews:
The Plot Against America: Quite good so far, very good acting and sets, based on the novel by Steve’s very favorite author. 🙂
Belgravia: Downton Abbey style prestige Brit TV, but set around 1840. So far excellent, and my one complaint about DA is the pace can be a little slow. Belgravia fixes this. So far zero ahistorical black earls, soldiers, or shopkeepers.
Picard: I liked TNG reruns as a kid, but gave up on this show midway through episode 4. It isn’t bad at all, I just outgrew SciFi and only come back for the very best. The first episode was enjoyable, nice to catch up with Picard and see the TNG universe in HD and with modern SFX. After that, meh.
The Simpsons: I think this season has been especially good.
Didn't allow women to vote until 1971.
Many if not most families own a semi-automatic, if not fully automatic, gun.
Tradition of individualism and independence.
Sure, it's rich. But it's just the wrong sort of country.
Why does it matter that they weren’t allowed to vote until 1971? What matters is they are currently allowed to vote and 3/7ths of the federal council are women. Shouldn’t they be a third world country by now by your reckoning?
Also, no culture on earth is more individualistic than the United States. Switzerland might be more individualist than most cultures, but still noticeably more collectivist than America.
Didn't allow women to vote until 1971.
Many if not most families own a semi-automatic, if not fully automatic, gun.
Tradition of individualism and independence.
Sure, it's rich. But it's just the wrong sort of country.
Although they didn’t directly use Switzerland as a model, our elites of the 1780s founded a country that had a lot in common with it: an armed, self-reliant population; a militia system; no foreign alliances or foreign wars; a confederation of powerful states with a limited central government; and no nonwhite immigration (after 1808).
Too bad we didn’t keep it…
Singapore and Japan should probably be on that list, too…
https://www.thelakewoodscoop.com/news/2020/03/njsp-colonel-patrick-callahan-on-lakewood-vast-majority-of-the-community-understands-the-importance-of-social-distancing-and-are-complying-with-the-executive-order.html
NJ is prioritizing fighting antisemitism. People are getting angry because the orthodox community in Lakewood has continued having weddings despite the lockdown. They are going after people venting online about it. Governor Murphy said there is a special place in Hell for the people pointing out how the community is endangering everyone
The State Police colonel explained that one case was a misunderstanding. In what might seem to be an antisemitic plotline, he explained that they thought that they could comply with the lockdown by designating a specified number of wedding guests per yard on the block.
How does this work? Do they believe they can’t be infected, or that the infection won’t harm them? Or is it like the Muslim fatalism, which regards infection as an inscrutable act of god which is pointless to try to prevent?
Who says you can’t learn something from an American art school?
Eddie Murphy in Meet Ed: “You are now educated.”
Thanks .
Didn't allow women to vote until 1971.
Many if not most families own a semi-automatic, if not fully automatic, gun.
Tradition of individualism and independence.
Sure, it's rich. But it's just the wrong sort of country.
Your thinking of daneland.
https://www.thelakewoodscoop.com/news/2020/03/njsp-colonel-patrick-callahan-on-lakewood-vast-majority-of-the-community-understands-the-importance-of-social-distancing-and-are-complying-with-the-executive-order.html
NJ is prioritizing fighting antisemitism. People are getting angry because the orthodox community in Lakewood has continued having weddings despite the lockdown. They are going after people venting online about it. Governor Murphy said there is a special place in Hell for the people pointing out how the community is endangering everyone
The State Police colonel explained that one case was a misunderstanding. In what might seem to be an antisemitic plotline, he explained that they thought that they could comply with the lockdown by designating a specified number of wedding guests per yard on the block.
they thought that they could comply with the lockdown by designating a specified number of wedding guests per yard on the block.
Literally rabbinical! But seriously, our response needs to be, “it’s anti-Semitic if it’s anti-Jewish, and there’s an enormous number of Jewish Jews who are Jewish residing in that same area who, somehow, managed to comprehend the order.”
Never Mind The Bolexes?
“Cuckoo For Switzerland”
https://www.aei.org/articles/cuckoo-for-switzerland/
Cuckoo For “Citizen Kane”
(Welles in The Third Man)
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Sigh…a decade or so ago gave away a Swiss-made mint condition Bolex H8 Reflex wind-up movie camera to my much-brainier-than-me, born-out-of-wedlock, shamefully-neglected-by-me-when-she-was-growing-up, now-pushing-40 commie daughter. I’m afraid to ask her about the Bolex because it has probably been sold. It was very sweet of her to text me recently. One shouldn’t miss an inanimate object more than one’s issue, but then again, I’m an asshole.
Be glad you had one and cherish the memory.
But they’re all one RACE – high quality white people. It’s not the language or culture that matters as much as race.
Hey, so when do the mountains of corpses start showing up? Literally nobody I know or that I know of knows anyone who’s even got a sniffle.
Dittoes. That includes Fakebook friendos prone to embarrassing overshare.
#CoronaHoax
Our food supply chain is quite robust to this disruption. People are buying a huge amount of food, some hoarding, a lot of boredom, and a lot less calories are eaten away from home.
Everything is mostly in stock, and what isn’t will be as soon as people chill a bit.
The supply problems are elsewhere, unless you think we need a strategic toilet paper reserve.
Switzerland is a great country. 8 million people.
Switzerland can manage to have a Swiss-style healthcare system, because it’s filled with Swiss people.
America cannot have a Swiss-style health system because it’s not filled with Swiss people, it’s filled with…. well, ya know. And even worse, it’s run by… well, ya know.
Check back on Switzerland in another 20 years, when it has been fully enriched.
Meantime, though…
FUN LITTLE-KNOWN FACT: Switzerland also has the world’s largest emergency strategic supplies of “Adventure Time” DVD’s. Talk about a far-sighted people!
Some of the world's cities have clean and safe subway systems. Fancy that. I rode the Honolulu city bus to school alone in fourth grade. No problems, and way better than a school bus.
The Seoul government produced Tayo the Little Bus to encourage safe bus riding for little kids. No air pollution visible, though. Ow young do Korean children ride unaccompanied?
https://tayothelittlebus.fandom.com/wiki/Tayo_the_Little_Bus_(character)
Of course the big problem for them is they are infecting their own people. The community leaders are trying to stop it but weddings are very important in the community. And lots of people travel between Brooklyn and Lakewood. It is going to be bad. Rumor is that some prominent people are very sick. We will see in two weeks. At least they are somewhat isolated from other communities.
Completely agree as it pertains to us. In fact that was part of a zillion-word comment from the last thread.
We should create a new command under the US Army specifically for this purpose, in this crisis, the next one, and to help our economy in between. The Treasury should fund this command to the tune of $1 or $10 or $100 billion per year as appropriate and task them with drawing up a list of essential supplies, (for the military, health care, the economy, etc) and delegating to that command the responsibility for securing the supply chain of those things.
The point being, we don’t have to rebuild the entire industrial base in the United States. That would cost a metric fcukton of money and be a horrible waste of American manpower. But we need some dedicated resources for this, that can be dedicated to the national interest and have the freedom to operate at a loss.
I expect it’s going to be easier to accomplish some complicated task, eg, being able to wheel out ventilators for coronavirus patients, if some of the steps are already done for us. Sort of like the space program. When President Kennedy said we were going to the moon, we already had a sophisticated military aviation program. That’s not to say we could take a P51 or F4 and fly it to the moon. But because we had some of the things we needed already, we could work that much harder on the things that we didn’t have.
There is much truth to the saying “America’s an economy, not a country….”
Our leaders care about shareholders& to a lesser extent bondholders….the rest of us have to get along about as well as we can…..our leaders generally speaking could give a rip about average idiots like you and me….
This Brad Pitt monologue describes our society and culture well….
https://www.aei.org/articles/cuckoo-for-switzerland/Cuckoo For "Citizen Kane"
(Welles in The Third Man)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cydkTy6GmFAMORESigh...a decade or so ago gave away a Swiss-made mint condition Bolex H8 Reflex wind-up movie camera to my much-brainier-than-me, born-out-of-wedlock, shamefully-neglected-by-me-when-she-was-growing-up, now-pushing-40 commie daughter. I'm afraid to ask her about the Bolex because it has probably been sold. It was very sweet of her to text me recently. One shouldn't miss an inanimate object more than one's issue, but then again, I'm an asshole.
Minor Correction: Austria produced the cuckoo clock!
Exactly one year ago today I inaugurated the SSSoR:
At the time, I rated the United States as holding at Stage 1: The Passenger with the caution “Could be a hint of smoke in the cabin, though.” Given ongoing circumstances, I find it fitting to declare the United States at Stage 2: This Wheel’s On Fire.
The Passenger
This Wheel’s On Fire
Cities In Dust
I think that might be a baby-faced Robert Smith with the cymbals.
https://youtu.be/zpaqBXc5MTk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL_U5GSUBpw
Iceland finds a guy with two different strains of COVID-19.
Multiple sources, not just Italy. Probably true in the US as well, given there’s one strain in Seattle, probably a different one in New York, possibly a third in New Orleans.
https://grapevine.is/news/2020/03/24/patient-infected-with-two-strains-of-covid-19-in-iceland/
The Plot Against America: Quite good so far, very good acting and sets, based on the novel by Steve’s very favorite author. :)
Belgravia: Downton Abbey style prestige Brit TV, but set around 1840. So far excellent, and my one complaint about DA is the pace can be a little slow. Belgravia fixes this. So far zero ahistorical black earls, soldiers, or shopkeepers.
Picard: I liked TNG reruns as a kid, but gave up on this show midway through episode 4. It isn’t bad at all, I just outgrew SciFi and only come back for the very best. The first episode was enjoyable, nice to catch up with Picard and see the TNG universe in HD and with modern SFX. After that, meh.
The Simpsons: I think this season has been especially good.
Of everything you’ve said around here, that is the most egregious. The Simpsons died with Maude Flanders on Feb 13, 2000.
Didn't allow women to vote until 1971.
Many if not most families own a semi-automatic, if not fully automatic, gun.
Tradition of individualism and independence.
Sure, it's rich. But it's just the wrong sort of country.
Switzerland sounds pretty good to me.
We did the air raid drills when I was in elementary school, mid-1950s. None by junior high, late-1950s.
The US government specifies this as a minimum:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsOZSzo-N8o
Don't forget the extras: ammo, spare parts, lubricants, MREs, night vision, Claymores, etc.
Darn it, Claymores! I try to be well prepared, but i always forget one thing.
The Passenger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nAON-MwUPY
This Wheel’s On Fire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAJH2T_v2RY
Cities In Dust
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsOHvP1XnRg
You left out Siouxsie Stage Four: “Il Est Ne le Divin Enfant” — the redemptive phase.
I think that might be a baby-faced Robert Smith with the cymbals.
Stage 5: Exterminating Angel
https://youtu.be/UXtKf9nByhc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iqxzURgQWg
This hopefully becomes a fairly big story in Australia- not only do these outfits build apartments, they’re also implementing foreign policy
https://www.smh.com.au/national/second-developer-flies-82-tonnes-of-medical-supplies-to-china-20200326-p54e8n.html
“Hey, so when do the mountains of corpses start showing up? Literally nobody I know or that I know of knows anyone who’s even got a sniffle.”
Dittoes. That includes Fakebook friendos prone to embarrassing overshare.
#CoronaHoax
We libertarian like-minded individuals love Switzerland.
Yes, Swiss, German or Austrian, fine people. The same branch of humankind the U.S. and the British sought to annihilate. If I had a bust of Winston Churchill, it would have been a range target long destroyed.
Must be nice to have a real country. God bless those that do. Cherish it and keep it your own.
https://www.aei.org/articles/cuckoo-for-switzerland/Cuckoo For "Citizen Kane"
(Welles in The Third Man)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cydkTy6GmFAMORESigh...a decade or so ago gave away a Swiss-made mint condition Bolex H8 Reflex wind-up movie camera to my much-brainier-than-me, born-out-of-wedlock, shamefully-neglected-by-me-when-she-was-growing-up, now-pushing-40 commie daughter. I'm afraid to ask her about the Bolex because it has probably been sold. It was very sweet of her to text me recently. One shouldn't miss an inanimate object more than one's issue, but then again, I'm an asshole.
How much I longed for an H8 in my boyhood.
Be glad you had one and cherish the memory.
Everything is mostly in stock, and what isn't will be as soon as people chill a bit.
The supply problems are elsewhere, unless you think we need a strategic toilet paper reserve.
Switzerland is a great country. 8 million people.
Wanna know what’s out of stock everywhere? Baking powder.
Everything is mostly in stock, and what isn't will be as soon as people chill a bit.
The supply problems are elsewhere, unless you think we need a strategic toilet paper reserve.
Switzerland is a great country. 8 million people.
Wanna know what’s out of stock everywhere? Baking powder.
https://twitter.com/michale_price/status/1241939725121921025Eddie Murphy in Meet Ed: "You are now educated."
My favorite comment was “I want my tuition back and I graduated ten years ago .”
Thanks .
Sorry, who was it operating the air raid sirens then? Or was that supposed to also have been bad? Not clear on your story
I think the quote is America is an economy pretending to be a nation.
What about Italy/Spain/France? Are they multiracial or low quality (or both)? Is Russia high or low quality? They have 1000 infections and 4 deaths.
Coronavirus: Russia closes borders until May
At this moment, the United Kingdom has a warehouse full of medical supplies that aren’t being properly distributed to hospitals.
I like ‘electricity-gifting dams’! Very well put; the bards would be be proud of you!
Well I can certainly think of one reason why the American left wouldn’t pay attention to Switzerland, its traditional education system:
https://lenews.ch/2016/01/13/80-of-12-year-olds-in-switzerland-are-told-they-cant-go-to-university/
If there’s one thing the American left really loves (after mass immigration) its mass tertiary education.
Matt Hancock, the health secretary in the video, has tested positive for Covid-19.
Add China to your list.
Also, no culture on earth is more individualistic than the United States. Switzerland might be more individualist than most cultures, but still noticeably more collectivist than America.
Switzerland was the first Third World country, during the Cold War:
He said “the elites”. The “regressive” Swiss attitude would have been a turnoff for the bien-pensants lasting long afterward. Also, most government in Swizerland is local. The last canton to fall– actually, half-canton– was Appenzell-Innerholden in 1991. Voting was tightly linked with militia service. They even brought their rifles.
Note that also in 1991 we repeated our 1944 invasion to liberate an antisuffragist country from a suffragist occupier.
If you were wondering where universal women’s suffrage was first practiced, it was in Utah Territory. Wyoming had enacted it earlier, but the Utahns held an election before them.
Not that the bien-pensants have much love for Utah, or Wyoming.
In Austria we have no government stockpiles, but we don’t have any shortages either. Nor are there shortages in Germany other than the weird run on toilet paper at the beginning.
German speaking peoples still have faith in their government and bureaucrats to respond effectively to a crisis. We also have a safety net – no one is getting evicted, unemployed and business owners don’t have to wait months for Congress to dicker and send checks. A friend of mine in Hamburg said yesterday that there is no country he would rather face this crisis in other than Germany. Our far lower mortality rates seem to bear this out – probably due to having more ICU beds, better personal discipline and better organization.
There is quite a lot of Schadenfreude about America’s and the UK’s failure to respond correctly. One Austrian bureaucrat was comparing the US to Africa yesterday. We expected that of Italians, but not the US.
The sad part is that this may well be the last generation of German speaking peoples that will have this sort of organisational skill and discipline.
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-2003-01-05-0301040384-story.html
Which leads to this interesting article ...
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/speedy-history-americas-addiction-amphetamine-180966989/
... and those who exploit this weakness...
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/04/sacklers-oxycontin-opioids/557525/
It’s amazing to me how many people are addicted to caffeine and how it is universally accepted that so many people are addicted to caffeine. If coffee was made illegal there would be riots.
Out of principle I refuse to drink the stuff unless it is free and there are no other choices.
I’d lack the energy.
https://www.thelakewoodscoop.com/news/2020/03/njsp-colonel-patrick-callahan-on-lakewood-vast-majority-of-the-community-understands-the-importance-of-social-distancing-and-are-complying-with-the-executive-order.html
NJ is prioritizing fighting antisemitism. People are getting angry because the orthodox community in Lakewood has continued having weddings despite the lockdown. They are going after people venting online about it. Governor Murphy said there is a special place in Hell for the people pointing out how the community is endangering everyone
The State Police colonel explained that one case was a misunderstanding. In what might seem to be an antisemitic plotline, he explained that they thought that they could comply with the lockdown by designating a specified number of wedding guests per yard on the block.
Lakewood is up there with Kiryas Joel, New York, in terms of how being overrun with Orthodox Jews can be ruinous to a community. This isn’t the first time the Orthodox Jewish population has caused problems for everyone else in town. They walk the streets like they own them. This wouldn’t be so bad if they looked both ways before they crossed, but they don’t.
Lubavitch would never allow members to have late model cars.
https://www.aei.org/articles/cuckoo-for-switzerland/Cuckoo For "Citizen Kane"
(Welles in The Third Man)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cydkTy6GmFAMORESigh...a decade or so ago gave away a Swiss-made mint condition Bolex H8 Reflex wind-up movie camera to my much-brainier-than-me, born-out-of-wedlock, shamefully-neglected-by-me-when-she-was-growing-up, now-pushing-40 commie daughter. I'm afraid to ask her about the Bolex because it has probably been sold. It was very sweet of her to text me recently. One shouldn't miss an inanimate object more than one's issue, but then again, I'm an asshole.
About a year ago, I had the job of clearing out my late parents’ home, where my dad had lived until he passed on about a decade ago. PiltdownBrother1, who had been living there, decided he couldn’t do it.
I now have the old family Bolex B8 twin lens turret 8mm camera ( a much more basic device than the H8) as well as the old M-8 projector from the early 1950s. It’s an extraordinary piece of mid-century precision mechanical engineering, but as with other nice things that belonged to my parents that I am now the possessor of, I’m not sure where it will all end up.
For my kids, the things with sentimental value are what they grew up with, my cameras, not their grandparents’ camera, which my siblings and I grew up with. I’m learning that not everything in a family is an heirloom, even if it is of heirloom quality. Even if you had kept it, the H8 would eventually have gone.
https://www.thelakewoodscoop.com/news/2020/03/njsp-colonel-patrick-callahan-on-lakewood-vast-majority-of-the-community-understands-the-importance-of-social-distancing-and-are-complying-with-the-executive-order.html
NJ is prioritizing fighting antisemitism. People are getting angry because the orthodox community in Lakewood has continued having weddings despite the lockdown. They are going after people venting online about it. Governor Murphy said there is a special place in Hell for the people pointing out how the community is endangering everyone
The State Police colonel explained that one case was a misunderstanding. In what might seem to be an antisemitic plotline, he explained that they thought that they could comply with the lockdown by designating a specified number of wedding guests per yard on the block.
Mr. Munny, an article in the Daily Mail is saying that Jewish are scumming to SARS-Cov-2 at a 10X higher rate than expected. But, so far, the sample size is not quite large enough to be predictive.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8159589/Jewish-leaders-urge-community-preserve-life-amid-coronavirus.html
I sort of wish one modern nation would run with the herd immunity approach so we can compare results after its over. Probably not gonna happen though. If we had that info, along with the age/mortality breakdown, then we might know who to hide at home and who to keep on working (under 30?) if something similar happened a decade down the road?
I also kinda would like to see the “prescribe that malaria drug” when they got it early on approach vs. us also. Again, prolly not gonna happen.
My dad bought his Minolta in Tokyo around the time of the last Olympics there. I still have it. With the postponement of this year’s, I now have a chance to save up and use it there next year.
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/w7kAAOSwW~FcU17X/s-l400.jpg
I spy! If you can still get film...
So they’re building up the strategic crack reserve.
That’s the SLR. He also got one of these, which I still have:
I spy! If you can still get film…
Ditto the UK Civil Defence Corp, a civilian organisation for responding to large scale emergencies. It was disbanded in 1968.
I have some of their training literature and yes, it covers pandemics.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Defence_Corps
The only difference is that with Jeremy Corbyn we would have had the supply shortages, economic damage and loss of liberty even without a pandemic.
Early days and small sample, but…
>In November, a huge public outcry put a stop to plans to end the stockpiling of coffee. Government technocrats reasoned that its zero calorific value made it “unessential”. Their defeat
So they, too, have stupid government technocrats, the difference is largely that they can defeat them.
The Brits have tea kettles in their tanks. Why? Because “unessential” things help keeping morale up during a war.
I see no reason to glorify America’s” just-in-time efficiency”. It means the opposite. There are no stocks anywhere in US, because the manager think they can bring them in “just-in-time”. The shareholders were sold on the idea that having fewer storage spaces saves money for the corporations. In fact, it saved a few pennies once, when the glut of store-owned depots was sold. Afterwards, it brought close to nothing on a rolling basis. It’s not like all that inanimate matter that Americans need, in order to make literal shit, is not stored somewhere. Nor are true storage costs more expensive in Kansas than just past the border.
Worse, this just-in-time strategy makes it impossible to exploit any sort of increase in demand. It limits the way sellers operate.
In fact, it’s worse. Since wheat is seasonal, it has to be stored somewhere. Shifting the storage from resellers to producers allows the producers exploit price bubbles, and sell overseas. Most of the American food production is concentrated in the hands of four family owned corporations. In contrast, most of the food sold in America goes through small chains that can hardly extend beyond a few states, and have an ephemeral existence. Even the Costcos and the Walmarts are provincial compared with the likes of Cargill. So you can rely on America’s food being sold to the Chinese when the price is right, and you can expect ever emptier shelves at the onset of every flu panic. The Enronization of America’s (and most of Europe’s) food supply is well under way, if the authorities remain passive.
In conclusion, not only Americans are unable to make food, were gov subsidies withdrawn and illegal workers kept out of the country. Turns out Americans are unable to hold in their country, in stores, enough toilet paper for two months.
America ran out of space, because it was overfilled by his yuge brain. They misunderestimated him.
Didn't allow women to vote until 1971.
Many if not most families own a semi-automatic, if not fully automatic, gun.
Tradition of individualism and independence.
Sure, it's rich. But it's just the wrong sort of country.
In 1990 (!) the Supreme Court (d´oh) forced (!) Appenzell-Innerrhoden to let the penis envious vote; to be fair they also regarded non-veterans as honorary females (I love it 😛 ).
You have to understand that up until the Napoleonic Wars (when they invaded France instead of – more usually – Tyrol) Switzerland was little more than a self-governed band of brigands.
To Cossacks and Americans this should fit like a glove 😉
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/w7kAAOSwW~FcU17X/s-l400.jpg
I spy! If you can still get film...
There used to be a guy in Colorado who would load cassettes for the Minolta and other submini cameras such as the Minox C (which I bought used, to try out, back in the 2000s when everyone was dumping their film cameras for a song). Fortunately, I didn’t delete the bookmark, from some years ago. If you are interested, you can try contacting him.
http://www.subclub.org/sponsors/goathil2.htm
Didn't allow women to vote until 1971.
Many if not most families own a semi-automatic, if not fully automatic, gun.
Tradition of individualism and independence.
Sure, it's rich. But it's just the wrong sort of country.
“Why don’t our elites look to Switzerland as a model?”
Like 28Sherman said back when he was still blogging:
“Switzerland? Nation of white middle class gun owners? Move along, nothing to see here…..”
The Plot Against America: Quite good so far, very good acting and sets, based on the novel by Steve’s very favorite author. :)
Belgravia: Downton Abbey style prestige Brit TV, but set around 1840. So far excellent, and my one complaint about DA is the pace can be a little slow. Belgravia fixes this. So far zero ahistorical black earls, soldiers, or shopkeepers.
Picard: I liked TNG reruns as a kid, but gave up on this show midway through episode 4. It isn’t bad at all, I just outgrew SciFi and only come back for the very best. The first episode was enjoyable, nice to catch up with Picard and see the TNG universe in HD and with modern SFX. After that, meh.
The Simpsons: I think this season has been especially good.
Have you read Anglin’s reviews of Picard? I’ve never cared for Star Trek, so I wouldn’t watch this stuff anyway, but his reviews make me laugh.
We had “duck and cover” drills in school a few times each year up until around 1960 or ’61. The air raid siren operator Mr. Joe refers to would probably have been the local fire department.
Kind of like how “Roadhouse” was inspired by a true story.
High quality.
Coronavirus: Russia closes borders until May
So the government should stockpile toilet paper in order to prevent panic buying?
I think that might be a baby-faced Robert Smith with the cymbals.
Siouxsie Sioux Scale of Reckoning cont.
Stage 5: Exterminating Angel
The Passenger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nAON-MwUPY
This Wheel’s On Fire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAJH2T_v2RY
Cities In Dust
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsOHvP1XnRg
Surely this ought be Stage 1:
827 , Sorry, but I meant the fact that Civil Defense emergency supplies, which were everywhere in my youth, are gone. And in Puerto Rico, where supplies had been sent and warehoused, the government did not distribute them to the people. And. as an aside, was my school desk really adequate protection from a nuclear blast?
Not if it was right next that room-length bank of windows, Mr. Joe.
Tri, I did say …”If you want bad results, put the government in charge.”
Disagree. Switzerland is a poorly run nation.
What you’re talking about is that there is competent administration of various public services.
But the sin qua non of “well run” for a nation is preserving the nation–and improve the quality of life–for the nation’s people and their posterity.
Switzerland utterly fails. They’ve have a full case of the minoritarian disease. Huge immigrant population. A third of residents are “immigrant background”. Maybe half of those are neighbors so not wildly different, and presumably integral racial stock–but there’s still no reason Switzerland should be given to them. But a full third are not European at all. 5% of the population is Muslim–a non-integrable, hostile element for any Western natio–the historic enemy invader of the West. And all the usual minoritarian b.s.–“racism!”, “xenophobia!”–is hurled at Swiss who want to preserve their nation.
The #1 duty of a nation is to protect itself from foreign invasion. Switzerland is failing this basic test. “Well run” is a joke.
Per Wikipedia, 3.1% of the population was born in Asia, Africa, or Latin America. Some of them may be upper class white Latins and white SAs. That’s doesn’t include 2nd gens, or “Germans” who are Turkish ancestry etc.
But all-around they are probably the wealthy western nation with the lowest share of third world migrants, and also have populist anti-Islamification laws like a burka and miranet bans. Very conservative rural areas have disproportionate political power too.
I suppose then they get an A+ if you grade them on a Western Euro curve, not otherwise.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switzerland_national_football_team#/media/File:Switzerland_national_football_team_World_Cup_2018.jpg
I think that might be a baby-faced Robert Smith with the cymbals.
It’s strictly a Scale of Reckoning. If relating of Redemption is required, surely the Banshees are not the first choice for the discerning faithful. If we are to keep it ‘goth’ perhaps the following classic will suffice for Easter in a time of pestilence (supposedly there are lyrics; I cannot make them out—it’s best in the abstract anyway):
I have some of their training literature and yes, it covers pandemics.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Defence_Corps
Smithsonian, Years ago, I and some others, bought a police station to convert to office space. The basement was filled with Civil Defense drums, rations, water, blankets, cots but no meds. Good idea to start again.
https://www.thelakewoodscoop.com/news/2020/03/njsp-colonel-patrick-callahan-on-lakewood-vast-majority-of-the-community-understands-the-importance-of-social-distancing-and-are-complying-with-the-executive-order.html
NJ is prioritizing fighting antisemitism. People are getting angry because the orthodox community in Lakewood has continued having weddings despite the lockdown. They are going after people venting online about it. Governor Murphy said there is a special place in Hell for the people pointing out how the community is endangering everyone
The State Police colonel explained that one case was a misunderstanding. In what might seem to be an antisemitic plotline, he explained that they thought that they could comply with the lockdown by designating a specified number of wedding guests per yard on the block.
American Jews have done a great job of retconning their history and essential character, casting themselves as poor oppressed MLK judged by “content of his character” universalists.
In fact, the Jews are the Wests’ great rejectionists of universal, we’re-all-in-this-together neighborliness in favor of keeping their separate tribal identity. Thumbing their nose at the majority community–their norms, their values, is per spec. They are historically anti-neighborly people.
These folks in NY and NJ are simply real Jews, behaving as real Jews actually do–thumbing their nose at the larger community’s norms and doing their own damn thing.
The Plot Against America: Quite good so far, very good acting and sets, based on the novel by Steve’s very favorite author. :)
Belgravia: Downton Abbey style prestige Brit TV, but set around 1840. So far excellent, and my one complaint about DA is the pace can be a little slow. Belgravia fixes this. So far zero ahistorical black earls, soldiers, or shopkeepers.
Picard: I liked TNG reruns as a kid, but gave up on this show midway through episode 4. It isn’t bad at all, I just outgrew SciFi and only come back for the very best. The first episode was enjoyable, nice to catch up with Picard and see the TNG universe in HD and with modern SFX. After that, meh.
The Simpsons: I think this season has been especially good.
Rarely do Switzerland and TV come up in the same thread, so I’ll take this opportunity to recommend The Monks of St. Thomas Affair, a solid 1966 Man From U.N.C.L.E. episode in which THRUSH quietly takes over an Alpine monastery — because it offers the best angles for a new laser gun they plan to point at Europe’s major cities.
Out of principle I refuse to drink the stuff unless it is free and there are no other choices.
I agree and think that body count would put Mao, Stalin, King Leopold and Pol Pot to shame.
What you're talking about is that there is competent administration of various public services.
But the sin qua non of "well run" for a nation is preserving the nation--and improve the quality of life--for the nation's people and their posterity.
Switzerland utterly fails. They've have a full case of the minoritarian disease. Huge immigrant population. A third of residents are "immigrant background". Maybe half of those are neighbors so not wildly different, and presumably integral racial stock--but there's still no reason Switzerland should be given to them. But a full third are not European at all. 5% of the population is Muslim--a non-integrable, hostile element for any Western natio--the historic enemy invader of the West. And all the usual minoritarian b.s.--"racism!", "xenophobia!"--is hurled at Swiss who want to preserve their nation.
The #1 duty of a nation is to protect itself from foreign invasion. Switzerland is failing this basic test. "Well run" is a joke.
You know I favor zero afro/islam migration and eugenic natalism too. I don’t think the Swiss migration situation is quite that bad right now.
Per Wikipedia, 3.1% of the population was born in Asia, Africa, or Latin America. Some of them may be upper class white Latins and white SAs. That’s doesn’t include 2nd gens, or “Germans” who are Turkish ancestry etc.
But all-around they are probably the wealthy western nation with the lowest share of third world migrants, and also have populist anti-Islamification laws like a burka and miranet bans. Very conservative rural areas have disproportionate political power too.
I suppose then they get an A+ if you grade them on a Western Euro curve, not otherwise.
But from the same Wikipedia article -- Religions
Muslim adherents:
Over 65 -- 1.1%
45-64 -- 4.2%
25-64 -- 7.5%
18-25 -- 8.3%
Actual Swiss girls aren't outbreeding Muslims, and Muslims are still coming.
This does not "get better".
What you're talking about is that there is competent administration of various public services.
But the sin qua non of "well run" for a nation is preserving the nation--and improve the quality of life--for the nation's people and their posterity.
Switzerland utterly fails. They've have a full case of the minoritarian disease. Huge immigrant population. A third of residents are "immigrant background". Maybe half of those are neighbors so not wildly different, and presumably integral racial stock--but there's still no reason Switzerland should be given to them. But a full third are not European at all. 5% of the population is Muslim--a non-integrable, hostile element for any Western natio--the historic enemy invader of the West. And all the usual minoritarian b.s.--"racism!", "xenophobia!"--is hurled at Swiss who want to preserve their nation.
The #1 duty of a nation is to protect itself from foreign invasion. Switzerland is failing this basic test. "Well run" is a joke.
Yes, ladies and gentleman I present the Swiss national football team:
Out of principle I refuse to drink the stuff unless it is free and there are no other choices.
“ If coffee was made illegal there would be riots.”
I’d lack the energy.
Have not seen it, but I went and read his reviews on your recommendation. They were pretty funny.
Back in the States, experts are warning that the nation’s outbreak of toilet-paper-only yard sales could increase exponentially.
The Passenger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nAON-MwUPY
This Wheel’s On Fire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAJH2T_v2RY
Cities In Dust
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsOHvP1XnRg
Killing Joke says hello:
It was Blair who liquidated Britain’s emergency stockpiles, and scrapped our freefall nukes.
Wonder who he was working for?
I think the Netherlands stuck with it. Check it out,
Steve, this came in my morning mail. I found it fascinating, and it goes to the nature of cultures:
America cannot have a Swiss-style health system because it's not filled with Swiss people, it's filled with.... well, ya know. And even worse, it's run by... well, ya know.
Check back on Switzerland in another 20 years, when it has been fully enriched.
Meantime, though...
FUN LITTLE-KNOWN FACT: Switzerland also has the world's largest emergency strategic supplies of "Adventure Time" DVD's. Talk about a far-sighted people!
Same was true, to a lesser extent, for Romneycare and Massachusetts.
Some of the world’s cities have clean and safe subway systems. Fancy that. I rode the Honolulu city bus to school alone in fourth grade. No problems, and way better than a school bus.
The Seoul government produced Tayo the Little Bus to encourage safe bus riding for little kids. No air pollution visible, though. Ow young do Korean children ride unaccompanied?
https://tayothelittlebus.fandom.com/wiki/Tayo_the_Little_Bus_(character)
I’d lack the energy.
Where do Mormons get their endless energy? They can’t even drink Mountain Dew or A&W rootbeer.
I've seen the same behavior in other religious folks.
https://youtu.be/zpaqBXc5MTk
Eh. Musically, “Face To Face” is dull and plodding, lyrically not mordantly “Reckoning”-related enough (I suppose one could interpret it as a reference to Adam and Eve—but the SSSoR is not automatically Biblical in nature—e.g., in a stretch it could also apply to the fate of the dinosaurs), and overall too campy in a somewhat commercial sense, having been composed as the theme for Batman Returns—that’s what I associate it with.
Furthermore, the established SSSoR song lyrics retain a 1-2-3 tight metaphor of a rider in a wheeled conveyance (observing a surrounding city). At Stage 3 the rider is now on foot, as the burning wheel(s) have necessitated egress from the vehicle.
You finally got something right. “Just in time” manufacturing and supply means the shelves are bare just when you need something. (Because the best laid plans of mice and men–even the best-laid plans of mice and computers.)
During times of highly unusual crises, we hear of complaints about lack of “stockpiles” about many things. These are inventories of items we normally need but in unusual cases, we need more quickly or resupply is slowed or stopped.
Some thoughts:
— how are your personal “stockpiles” of stuff? Unless you are a prepper, probably low. Why, because it ties up your money and takes up space. Plus, stuff kept for too long can get moldy, crack, lose nutritional value, rust, etc. In the 70s I knew a lot of gloom & doomers who were into buying freeze dried food due to impending crashes, etc. Thousands of dollars tied up. Yet I never heard of anyone actually eating that stuff five years later. Most of it was awful and the crashes never happened.
— in the early 60s economists and others realized that business inventory was costly to keep on hand more than the absolute minimum to prevent production shutdowns. Why? Mainly due to interest carrying costs. Back then rates could normally be 8-10% and in the late 70s-early 80s, up to 20%. Even at lower interest, tying up capital by borrowing or stock floats is expensive. So “just in time” analytics boomed.
— personally I think having extra certain essential supplies (meds, ammo, gasoline/diesel, etc. ) is a good idea for large businesses and the govt. But who knew to stockpile respirators? Masks? Who wants to tie up cash in dead or slow moving inventory? Predicting the next Black Swan shortage is harder than it looks…
They’re high on life!
I’ve seen the same behavior in other religious folks.
The Mormons I’ve known have been quiet hardworking types without any obvious energy or charisma. More Jeb than Trump in persona.
Wouldn’t Romney be a better example than Jeb?
The Matterhorn and other big mountains lie between the Italian and German speaking Swiss cantons. They have lots of tunnels, but still …
The crappy old non-road worthy cars the Lubavitch would drive on Rt 9 between Brooklyn and Lakewood could get other drivers killed.
Lubavitch would never allow members to have late model cars.
“was my school desk really adequate protection from a nuclear blast?”
Not if it was right next that room-length bank of windows, Mr. Joe.
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/w7kAAOSwW~FcU17X/s-l400.jpg
I spy! If you can still get film...
You can get the film itself but not the cassettes it has to be loaded in.
I grew up near Lakewood and have known it since the early ’60s. The Orthodox were not ruinous to it – they came into it because it was already in steep decline and there was cheap space available. If anything, they have revitalized it. If they had not taken up the slack it would be been filled with blacks or Hispanics – in fact it already was and the Orthodox pushed them out to some extent. You are confusing cause and effect.
The economy of Lakewood was at one time based on winter resort hotels (with a largely Jewish (but not especially ultra-Orthodox) clientele coming by rail, bus or car from NYC) – a sort of Catskills south (Kiryas Joel is in the foothills of the Catskills – not a coincidence). Lakewood, (slightly) south of NYC ,was thought to have a (slightly) warmer climate than NYC in the winter. Jay Gould and John D. Rockefeller had vacation homes (estates) there. But once it became possible to take a quick flight to Florida, these hotels were doomed and someone had to move in to fill the vacuum.
It’s true that they seem to cross the streets without looking but if that’s the worst you can say about them, it’s not very bad. When was the last time you got mugged by a Hasid?
https://www.varusteleka.com/en/product/sarma-tst-dont-sneeze-on-me-morale-patch/64119
The People’s Republic of Illinois apparently has Gov. “Jelly Belly” Pritzker stating a similar ban on reusable bags.
You jest, but I hoarded coffee in February. A month’s worth of K-cups, another two months of preground, and two more of whole beans. Each fallback trading convenience for longevity.
Perhaps you think that is too much coffee for one household. Perhaps you are a fool.
As it is they have hot chocolate. Mr. 427 turned me on to Mormon hot chocolate. If you like hot chocolate, look up the Mormon commissary in your town and get an order from them. It is the best you can buy anywhere.
https://providentliving.churchofjesuschrist.org/self-reliance/home-storage-centers?lang=eng
Here in Oregon, there is no government ban; The stores are doing it themselves for the safety of their workers. Some, like Best Buy, are moving to shop online and pick up in parking lot mode. My auto repair shop has a pick up and drop off service.
I doubt it. The Swiss are one ethnic group divided by language. Historically, the German cantons were small farm peasants and herdsmen with a very backward peasant illiterate culture.
The French cantons were manufacturing, especially high end, international trade and commerce. People like Jacques Coure , the von Taxis und Thurns and Fuggers had branches of their businesses in the French cantons as early as the 13 and 14th centuries. Watches were invented in Geneva in the 1520s. The first banques and burses were in the French Cantons. Even religion, the German traditionalist, illiterate peasants kept mostly catholic while the more educated and progressive French cantons became puritans during the reformation. Because they could read the Bible in either catholic Latin or Protestant french
The German cantons were very poor until the 1870s . That’s when the wealthy English tourists discovered scenery and mountain sport tourism. Prior to that tourism was mainly to cities for architecture, art, music, libraries, religion, high culture. No one went to tiny hillbilly villages to look at mountains before the mid 19th century.
They are all Germans, mostly the old Helvetian tribe.
Switzerland does have powerful self governing cantons. But the national government rules absolutely. The Swiss are very conformist. They love rules and regulations. Like Asians, they have a snitch culture. Like Asians they have ways of forcing conformity on neighbors.
They are all the same mostly Helvetian German ethnicity.
Yes, but in Switzerland’s case they really are watching themselves; there is no us vs. them, it’s all uses. If you are a them, you do not belong in Switzerland, not permanently anyway. As in Japan, or, dare one say it, Israel, you know this on a certain level: you are welcome to visit if you behave okay, but you dasn’t get out of line: and you will be going home, sooner or later.
Every people should have their own Switzerland. What, after all, is Israel but Switzerland for Jews? What, after all, is Japan but Switzerland for Japanese?
The Boer mistakenly thought ZA was his Switzerland, but there were too few of him and too many non-Swiss. Of course the Brits, the Jews, the Coloured, the various tribes of blacks all hated Afrikaner-Suisse. Human nature really. The Boer is paying a high price now.
Perhaps you think that is too much coffee for one household. Perhaps you are a fool.
You, sir, are the Mormon of Coffee. If coffee were permitted by the Word of Wisdom, Mormons would all have pounds and pounds of it in their pantry.
As it is they have hot chocolate. Mr. 427 turned me on to Mormon hot chocolate. If you like hot chocolate, look up the Mormon commissary in your town and get an order from them. It is the best you can buy anywhere.
https://providentliving.churchofjesuschrist.org/self-reliance/home-storage-centers?lang=eng
“I sort of wish one modern nation would run with the herd immunity approach so we can compare results after its over. Probably not gonna happen though.”
Mexico, Brazil, Sweden have got you covered.
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I’m guessing all those #coronahoax posts are coming from readers who DO want America to turn into Brazil, or Mexico, or Sweden. Otherwise, I’m not really sure what they’re on about.
Per Wikipedia, 3.1% of the population was born in Asia, Africa, or Latin America. Some of them may be upper class white Latins and white SAs. That’s doesn’t include 2nd gens, or “Germans” who are Turkish ancestry etc.
But all-around they are probably the wealthy western nation with the lowest share of third world migrants, and also have populist anti-Islamification laws like a burka and miranet bans. Very conservative rural areas have disproportionate political power too.
I suppose then they get an A+ if you grade them on a Western Euro curve, not otherwise.
Lot — No doubt Switzerland isn’t France.
But from the same Wikipedia article — Religions
Muslim adherents:
Over 65 — 1.1%
45-64 — 4.2%
25-64 — 7.5%
18-25 — 8.3%
Actual Swiss girls aren’t outbreeding Muslims, and Muslims are still coming.
This does not “get better”.
Baking powder = two parts cream of tartar to one part baking soda.
Right, but the gov’t provided the Civil Defense stuff in the first place, so the problem isn’t gov’t per se, it’s bad gov’t, right? You want gov’t of 1950’s, not private sector of 2020
I wore a mask and eye protection to the store the other day. I was laughed or scoffed at no fewer than ten times. Granted I don’t live in an identified hotspot (yet). They’ll see…
https://www.thelakewoodscoop.com/news/2020/03/njsp-colonel-patrick-callahan-on-lakewood-vast-majority-of-the-community-understands-the-importance-of-social-distancing-and-are-complying-with-the-executive-order.html
NJ is prioritizing fighting antisemitism. People are getting angry because the orthodox community in Lakewood has continued having weddings despite the lockdown. They are going after people venting online about it. Governor Murphy said there is a special place in Hell for the people pointing out how the community is endangering everyone
The State Police colonel explained that one case was a misunderstanding. In what might seem to be an antisemitic plotline, he explained that they thought that they could comply with the lockdown by designating a specified number of wedding guests per yard on the block.
Orthodox Jews all over the world are ignoring instructions: Large funeral processions in Israel, ‘secret synagogues’ in homes in Australia, corona running amok in their communities in New York. They think they above the law.
Jay Gould’s son George had an estate in Lakewood built in 1899. After he died in 1923, it was purchased by the Sisters of Mercy and turned into Georgian Court College, an all-female college. It became a university in 2004 and became coed in 2013.