“Dear Dr. Kim.
“I’m so worried about getting the coronavirus. What can I do?”
— Paranoid, Chicago
Dear Para:
Do all the stuff that people have been telling you to do: wash your hands thoroughly and often, cover your mouth when you cough and sneeze, wear a face mask if you’re forced to be in close contact with other people, and don’t touch steel surfaces like handrails without cleaning your hands immediately afterwards.
Oh, and shoot all Chinese people on sight.
— Dr. Kim
Suppose somebody said, “Here’s $1,500 and a list of shotguns — and you can only buy from the list,” I know what I’d do:
Buy two of these:
…rather than just one of these:
…and I suspect that 80% of my Readers would do exactly the same. (The other 20% would buy one of the 590A1s and a boatload of ammo with the change.)
A note to all the manufacturers of tacti-cool firearms: there’s a price point for most people when it comes to any gun, and just calling it “tactical” doesn’t warrant a 70% jump in price for very little added utility.
We may be Ignorant Clingers from Flyover Country, but that just means we’re familiar with the smell of bullshit.
I’m not a huge fan of shotguns for the above purpose — I belong to the AK-47 School Of Home Defense — but the one I would consider is the Mossberg 500 or 590 Mariner for under $600, because it’s weatherproof and pretty much unbreakable.
“Our elite is full of self-important morons who contribute nothing but more dumb in a time when the only thing we have a surplus of is dumb. The real hero is the guy who trucks in a load of whole wheat bread, ribeyes, and low-priced cabernet to the Trader Joe’s, not the Prius-piloting sissy with a Maddow fetish who shops there. The people our elite laughed at, scoffed at, poked at, are the very people who are going to rescue us from the mess that same elite helped make. “
So true, and there’s even more goodness at the link.
Coronavirus coronavirus coronavirus coronavirus… doesn’t anyone have a juicy sex scandal to report anymore?
…oh dear god, if anything makes me want to catch the virus and die, it’s a nude Madonna pic.
…that would be Tylenol (acetaminophen) to us Murkins. Looks like that 300-tab bottle from Sam’s Club wasn’t such a bad idea after all.
…always the tough choices: beer or sanitizer. I know which one I’d choose.
…after all those Epstein memes, the Clinton gang gets creative.
…there being no ice floes in the Mediterranean to put the old people onto.
…EVERYBODY PANIC!!! You mean you don’t have a SHTF porno stash?
…okay, that made me LOL. Am I a bad person?
…Charles Darwin, call your office.
With all the crisis talk and “We’re all gonna diiiieeeee!” and “Gummint must do something!” nonsense, there’s still more proof (as if we needed it) that most of America made the right choice back in 2016 by electing God-Emperor Trump. Here’s why:
President Donald Trump did something difficult and remarkable during the White House press briefing on Sunday: he stood up for the free market in a moment of crisis, when at least half the country is pushing him to abandon it.
A reporter asked the president why he was not using the Defense Production Act to nationalize industries to take control of companies and force them to produce needed health care equipment for treating coronavirus patients.
Trump’s answer was that the United States does not believe in nationalization, and does not need it, either.
…and he goes on to give examples.
You know, I have always preferred that our presidents have executive political experience — e.g. a state governorship (despite Jimmeh Carduh) — but of late I’m starting to revise that opinion.
I realize that Trump is quite an aberration — he’s something of an iconoclast, and not all businessmen are in his mold — but I have to tell you that I’m starting to think that we need to elect, or at least give serious consideration to presidential candidates who have made their way in successful businesses. (I’m not talking about CEOs of corporations, necessarily, because they’re often no better than the stultified politician type.)
Can anyone imagine where we as a nation would be now had we elected Her Filthiness as POTUS instead of DJT? There’d be a Virus Czar, a Nationalization Czar, a Facemask Czar and countless other “czars”, all equally incompetent and ineffective — and you’d better believe that we would now be in the death-grip [sic] of a UK/EU-style NHS (which, from all accounts, is proving absolutely incompetent to handle this current emergency).
We dodged a bullet back then, folks; and we now need to do two things:
Otherwise:
Not to mention at least one other charming situation:
This from the CEO of Kroger Co. to his embattled employees:
“This is a situation none of us have ever been in, and at a time when our customers and our country truly need us, you are there every step of the way. None of this would be possible without each and every one of you, working together as one. It’s so inspiring. I can’t thank you enough for your dedication to our customers and each other. You inspire me, it is so impressive.”
And then to add real appreciation to his words, he’s awarded bonuses to all of them.
Bravo.
As an aside: Daughter’s future hubby is a store manager for another grocery chain, and over the past month all store employees have been told, “Don’t worry about the hours; you come to work, work as long as you can, and we’ll pay the overtime, regardless.”
Poor guy has had about six hours’ sleep ever since. Daughter is a stern task master.
