Category Archives: Wuhan virus

Don’t count China out

“CNN is owned by AT&T.

“AT&T also owns: HBO, Warner Bros, New Line Cinema, Turner Broadcasting, DC Entertainment (Batman, Superman). They do a lot of business in China.

“China has been putting the economic screws to companies. Forcing them to toe the Chinese line or face economic injury.

“I think it’s fair to say CNN is a China mouthpiece at this point. As are most other major media outlets for the same reason: their parent companies are economically tied to China.”

—Otto on Instapundit

WuFlu

Saw somewhere, I think it was PJMedia, calling the Wuhan, China virus the WuFlu. Makes sense. Not as funny was the Pooh Flu (Xi does look like Winnie thur) but it’s shorter and I always have liked succinct.

Masks and hearing aids

Don’t mix. The elastic bands for the ears shove my hearing aids off my ears. I ventured out this morning to buy some masks made by a local tailor. Bar can wear hers, but I’ll have to stick with the bulky one she made me because its ear bands are made of cotton and aren’t as aggressive as elastic. Oh, well, I only have to wear it in the grocery and pharmacy.

Certainly be glad when this is over. Only bad thing is Bar will have to resume driving to work. It’s very nice having her work from home.

Eight hundred gloves

Or 400 pairs of white, cotton gloves. Ordered by mistake on the Internet. You gotta watch what you click, obviously. We could become mimes.

Our masks on order

Not N95s, nor plain cloth ones. Bar ordered two Halloween masks for us, a friendly bear and a kitten. If you gotta wear a mask, and we’re supposed to now, you might as well do it in style.

UPDATE:  More seriously, Bar is crocheting a wraparound to cover folded paper towels to hold them over the nose and mouth. Only problem is they will have to be washed after each use. But we don’t go out that often.

MORE: Didn’t really work. Too confining. Be hot, too. So she’s turned to crocheted hair ties to use with a video-product I saw on Twitter. And we also have two kitty masks that cover the head with just eye openings.

Who was that masked man?

Old line from an old radio and later TV show of my youth, The Lone Ranger. Except his mask was only around his eyes. Our masks will cover nose and mouth. Coming soon to a town near you—already in Laredo.

The Viral Rocket Ship

As long as I’m going to do national, I suppose I should relate the latest shenanigans of the Dimocrats and the Lamestream Media (but I repeat myself) but I’m only inclined just now to keep up with the Wuhan virus.

And Trump, who looks genuinely worried, and who wouldn’t be being the cause of so much tragedy as he takes expert advice and advises staying home and thousands of small businesses crater, says Lousiana fataltities from the virus “went like a rocket ship” to today’s 239 dead. At one point they lost 150 in 24 hours.

He said these next two weeks are going to be painful. I’m sure they will be for him, bless his heart.

Via Breitbart News Syndicate

UPDATE:  The mortality rate is picking up, already doubling that of the ordinary flu