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I hope no one has the bug yet. I’m not sure how this is going to play out here. The ER is frequently like a ghost town with moderately busy spurts. A nurse remarked yesterday that people are treating us like we have the plague and said it’s fine and dandy because it gives us a respite before the surge finally arrives. Hopefully it won’t. The ER docs think the peak for us is about two weeks away. Maybe we’ll get lucky and the lockdown on “non-essential” business will flatten the curve and keep the pandemic from crushing the health system. I’m not afraid of that so much as I am in regard to what happens next in regard to after the pandemic crisis passes.
Up until this morning when I read Sarah Hoyt’s article portending the possibility of real food shortages- famines caused by breakdown of agriculture and transportation of food and other life essentials- my biggest worries were skyrocketing property taxes from impacted local governments and school districts attempting to pass costs on to taxpayers and of course the restrictions on energy production—coal plant shutdowns and fracking bans promised by the democrats who are lock step beholden to the GND.
And then there’s the 2 trillion stimulus. With the government throwing that kind of money around you have to wonder if that will lead to hyperinflation the likes of Weimar Germany? I’ve often wondered why they just don’t give every household in America a million dollars but it’s probably obvious even to the democrats that such a sudden increase in purchasing power would overwhelm markets based on supply and demand and cause the prices of everything to skyrocket. Everyone and their uncle would be running out to buy a new car and other big ticket durable goods.
You would think if they are going to do a stimulus it would be more
rational to focus it on public works projects to upgrade and sure up
failing infrastructure—roads and utilities like electric, gas and water
distribution systems to get those more resilient and ready to endure a
long period of neglect and wear and tear in the event of a major economic
collapse. But that’s government for you. They’ll just waste it like they
did the Obama stimulus and this time around it may become the straw to
break the camel’s back.
More like a straw bale.
Maybe we’ll get lucky again but if we keep this up sooner or later our luck will run out. And it will likely be sooner.
Take care.
Jeff Fullerton
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Re: Cures and Diseases by Sarah A. Hoyt
"...stop being afraid of the virus and start being afraid of the statists destroying our liberties, our economy, our society."
With a father-in-law dying as I write of the virus and a daughter in medicine dealing with the virus I say be afraid of both.
We need restrictions to limit the spread of the virus for a short time. However, economic failure and people going fug buck as a result of these restrictions and rioting will definitely do more harm. Attempts to restrict constitutional rights (can’t be done, you either abide by them or destroy them and recast them as privileges) such as the attempt to close gun shops in Texas before the state attorney general slapped the notion down will continue, intensify, and set precedents for next time (and there will be a next time, and a next) and that will kill more people than the virus could.
The fact is, we need a firebreak in the spread of the virus, but we need to watch out for those who want to burn the whole forest down.
A.X. Perez
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Anarchist Paradise
I had a revelation a little over a week ago that the anarchist society that I’ve wanted since I figured out that non-aggression is incompatible with the state, is precisely where we are already living.
The original revelation happened on getting off of my bicycle one chilly morning, at my favorite local espresso shop:
“To all you anarchists out there. You’re already living in the anarchist paradise you want. The only problem is that there are these large gangs, that have a whole bunch of people thinking that they need to pay attention to them. If we stop paying attention, they’re gone. I already have. Why don’t you?”
Here’s the selfie video I took of it: https://youtu.be/599yI50Ju3Y
This realization is still growing on me. Statists are always saying that if you eliminate the state, warlords will fill the power vacuum. They already have. The United States of America is the world’s meanest warlord. We have some tiny say in how that warlord does his business, but bloody little. I no longer support the warlord. Yes, for now, paying his protection money (taxes) has better value for me than evicting the warlord, but that could change.
This realization feels like what I’ve been reading for 20 years, finally down to its central core. And into my thick, gummint-skool-programmed, skull.
Bill St. Clair
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Thoughts
Just before things shut down, just as the rush by first time gunowners was starting, went to buy .40 Liberty practice ammo on way to range. First time, or at least inexperienced gun buyer was expressing need to buy 9 mm Para hollow points. Had large box of FMJ’s, but expressed concern about stopping power.
Many of you know people who are buying their first firearm. 9 mm Para isn’t a bad choice, it’s light enough recoiling for most people and there is a wide choice of reliable pistols and carbines in this caliber, most quite user friendly. Also it’s a good idea to load your weapon with hollow points for “social carry.” However, a first time buyer should buy a bunch more FMJ than JHP.
First off, FMJ is a lot cheaper than JHP. This matters because you are going to need to shoot about 500 rounds to “break in” many guns and about 500 more to really learn how to shoot your pistol(s) and/or carbine(s).
Secondly, people have done a decent job putting the quietus on each other with 9mm para FMJ for over a century. While it is preferable to use hollow point for most defensive situations, do not turn your nose up at some nice 115 grain FMJ’s loaded to 1300+ fps.
Most of you all know these things. However, I am sure you have friends who suddenly feel an urge to gun up for the duration who previously weren’t heeled. You may want to put them wise to these realities.
Meanwhile, you might also want to start raising hell to get rid of gun laws that allegedly disarm criminals but in fact leave people vulnerable when SHTF.
Speaking of which allow me to share the following off You Tube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsjezeOQlYc
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Doctors, Masks, and Test Kits (to “Lawyers, Guns, and Money”) Darker than my “I Will Survive,” intended not as humor but as a “cri de coeur” in the present Coronavirus crisis.
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A.X. Perez
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