Vitamin D: The cheapest, easiest, safest armour against COVID-19

From a recent study in the Phillipines: The Vitamin D level was found to be lowest in critical cases and highest in mild cases (of Covid-19). Most of those infected had Vitamin D deficiency.

 

For each standard-deviation increase in serum 25-hydroxy-Vitamin D, the risk of a severe outcome was reduced eightfold, and the risk of a critical outcome was reduced 20-fold.
My noble friend Lord Ridley, reporting this result in The Times a couple of days ago, wrote: “Of 49 patients with mild symptoms … only two had low levels of vitamin D; of 104 patients with critical or severe symptoms, only four did not have low levels of vitamin D.”

It's appropriate to boost your defences.  The hydroxchlorquine/quercetin option to improve zinc uptake by cells in another example.  Avoiding a battle makes more sense than just relying on good medical aid in a war zone. 

People are fleeing San Francisco. Houses for sale doubled lately.

The chart shows a half dozen cities with mild changes in houses for sale inventory.   The numbers are split into a solid line (the city proper) and a shaded area (the suburban areas).  The City of San Francisco is in a class by itself in this selection.   Unlivable for many.

Doing good

If it be in thy power to do good
Hold not back thy hand.

My variation on Proverbs 3:27
This goes farther than but includes, "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you". The Bible includes the thought, "Do good to those to whom it is due".

 

Making Normal Illegal.

Mandated anti-social distancing and liquor prohibition had the same mother. The germ of a good idea, untested by its competitors, was given the levers of power. What follows is natural law, here quoting Wretchard the Cat:

To a great extent the bureaucratic empires performed as designed. They used the crises to capture budget increases and inflate their power while carefully avoiding anything politically incorrect.

People will gather and drink together, party and pray together, fall in love and play bridge together.  If they are offside the law, then it is government that is on the wrong side.

"Blue-state politicians failed to learn the lessons of America’s failed experiment with liquor prohibition a century ago: Banning normal economic and social activity creates a black market."

Awesome Orange Blossom Special: O'Connor and Boston Pops

 

Washington Post Loving on Al Baghadi and Hating on Donald Trump's Brother.

"The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity."

 

New York City: Dead Man Walking UPDATE

 Policy has destroyed the heart of New York City.  Watch this two minute drive through Manhattan August 7th 2020.   Apart from St Patrick's Cathedral which has no windows, almost every store great and small is boarded up.  Dead Man Walking.   The Governor can make dinner for a few billionaires and ask them to come home.  Who in their right mind would do that until deep change has happens?

Don't know who recorded it but I downloaded this yesterday

He's single handedly wrecked Manhattan

Ghost town

"Beirut DeBlasio" without the explosion pic.twitter.com/5I48ZGcWTZ

— tadgermania (@tadgermania) August 7, 2020

UPDATE from James Altucher's blog: 

NYC was a net I could fall back on and bounce back up.
Now it’s completely dead.
“But NYC always always bounces back.” No. Not this time
“But NYC is the center of the financial universe. Opportunities will flourish here again.” Not this time.
“NYC has experienced worse.” No it hasn’t.
A Facebook group formed a few weeks ago that was for people who were planning a move and wanted others to talk to and ask advice from. Within two or three days it had about 10,000 members.

His whole article is a must read.  Bandwidth went from 3 megabits/second in 2008 to 20 megabits/second today meaning ZOOM and living elsewhere but working ghostly in New York city works well.  "the longer offices remain empty, the longer they will remain empty. "
"My favorite restaurant is closed for good. OK, let’s go to my second favorite. Closed for good. Third favorite, closed for good."        And this quote: "Another friend of mine works at a major investment bank as a managing director. Before the pandemic, he was at the office every day, sometimes working from 6 a.m.–10 p.m. Now he lives in Phoenix, Arizona. “As of June,” he told me, “I had never even been to Phoenix.” And then he moved there. He does all his meetings on Zoom. "

Big Deal: SOROS "Foreign Agent" support has to be declared by protest groups in America says Supreme Court.

 $200 million to AntiFa.  Support for the Standing Rock protest project against the North Dakota pipeline.  Through Tides foundation, support for many similar "Environmental" activisms.  BLM support.  This guy is not your friend.

From Mike Doran of Doranimated on August 15, the following:

Michigan Mail In Ballots Received From Beyond The Grave

 This is a medical breakthrough or simple fraud, you decide.

"Michigan clerks rejected 10,694 mailed ballots during the August 4 primary.
Of those, 846 ballots were not accepted “because the voter was dead,” the Detroit News reported."

Liquid fractures like a solid under stress (DST)

 Some fluid corn starch and water mixes can be fractured if hit with the right burst of air pressure.  Low impact produces a fluid response.  High impact jams grains against each other and results in fracturing and fingering as the stimulus connects.  The phenomenon can be turned on and off in liquids susceptible to Discontinuous Shear Thickening  (DST) and would have applications in soft objects that become hard only when needed as in bullet-resistant jackets and speed bumps.   More including a slow-mo video at the link.

KFC Compared US to UK. Portion differences!!!

The twitter link: https://twitter.com/InsiderFood/status/1292823268311924738
What is the message?

A sample picture:

Schrodinger humor

 

Biden 2012 and Biden 2020 Video Before And After Dementia Is Apparent

2012 (intelligible) vs 2020 (unintelligible) BIDEN with clips from FOX. An enfeebled mind now with dis-aggregated thoughts.

TRUMP 2020: MAKE AMERICA NORMAL AGAIN

 Bookworm thought of it at the link.  I'm just voting for it.

The News Hates Trump. UPI Evidence.

 Possibly the most number of new jobs ever added in a month in my lifetime happened this July.  UPI reports "through gritted teeth" and illustrates it with the opposite:  A picture of a very employable looking man who is unemployed and can't find a job.  You know the photo is staged.  

Why Are Democrats Running Biden?

My take:  Democrat movers and shakers "knew" Trump would win back before Covid. At the time, Biden served well as a placeholder.  It was Biden's turn and it shut out Sanders.  Then came Covid making a Democrat win possible because of unhappy voters.  The strategy shifted to hide  the increasingly senile Biden they were now saddled with and to amplify Covid dangers to keep voters unhappy and to keep Trump out of those monster rallies.

Beirut and Halifax Explosions One Hundred Years Apart

Canada has a unique tie to Beirut.  In 1917, port-side Halifax was destroyed when a munitions ship caught fire after a collision and twenty minutes later blew up.  Almost 2000 died, 9000 more were injured, 2 square kilometers of Halifax were leveled and windows broke up to 80 kilometers away.    Until Hiroshima, this was mankind's largest ever explosion.  More at CBC site.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/halifax-beirut-explosion-aid-lebanon-1.5675794

Evidence Nitroprill was main component of Beirut explosion.

Bellingcat.com has the most useful review as of August 5th and publishes a photo which they consider contemporary (a face mask present?) and located at the Beirut warehouse  (door details matched) and showing Nitroprill filling the warehouse.   Nitroprill is Ammonium Nitrate, fake brand imitating Nitropril manufactured by Orca, one "L".        Sidebar:  Follow the link to see video clip of controlled detonation of a small amount of Ammonium Nitrate in Afghanistan.

Beirut Port Crater: New Photo From Above

These from above the Beirut blast scene add key information.  A blast crater 400 feet across has replaced a specific building and the dock area around it. (Aug 4 and Aug 5 ).

Before

After