Trump Administration Declares Public Health Emergency For Coronavirus

By William Teach February 1, 2020 – 7:32 am

Friday the Washington Post was whining

Democrats Call For Trump To Do Something On Coronavirus

And today

Trump administration announces mandatory quarantines in response to coronavirus

The Trump administration on Friday dramatically escalated its response to the fast-spreading coronavirus epidemic by announcing quarantines and major travel restrictions that officials said were meant to limit contagion.

The measures, which could affect thousands of people around the world, represented a marked expansion of the federal government’s response after initially downplaying potential risks.

The White House declared a “public health emergency” and — beginning on Sunday at 5 p.m. — will bar non-U.S. citizens who recently visited China from entering the United States, subject to a few exemptions. Shortly after the White House announced the new restrictions and said there were six confirmed U.S. cases, a seventh case was confirmed in Santa Clara County, Calif.

Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar also said the Trump administration would quarantine any Americans who had visited China’s Hubei province, where the disease originated, within the past 14 days. The government will also require screening and self-quarantines for all other Americans who recently visited any other parts of China. Officials said the self-quarantine rules would require individuals to stay in their homes for a certain length of time, monitor themselves for certain symptoms such as coughing, and check their temperatures and report them to local health officials.

The new travel and quarantine measures, which appeared to be unprecedented on such a scale, were part of a rapidly evolving international response to the growing health scare. For the first time Friday, U.S. officials acknowledged that screening tests for coronavirus are not always accurate and that people with no symptoms can transmit the virus. New cases were reported Friday in Britain and Russia, and Canada announced its fourth case later in the day.

While Democrats were whining, the Trump administration and the group that was put together to deal with Coronavirus were hard at work crafting a response, particularly since the World Health Organization declared Coronavirus a global health emergency on Thursday.

Of course, now that the Trump admin has Done Something, Democrats whine

Public health experts praised the administration’s decision to declare a public health emergency, which some said was overdue. The emergency declaration gives the government more resources and flexibility to respond to the outbreak. But some experts said that several of the administration’s other actions on Friday were extreme.

“These are extraordinary measures to be implemented at this point,” Ali Khan, former director of the Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response at the CDC, said of restricting foreign nationals. “We’re a global economy, people move, and if you have excellent public health and you are able to combine port-of-entry screening with follow-up of people, there should be no reason to put undue burdens on people around travel.”

Now we await other Democrats to come out with “measured responses” that slam Trump for doing this, and take the side of nutters who want out of quarantine early.

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Federal Reserve Has A Role In Fixing The Climate Change (scam)

By William Teach January 31, 2020 – 4:17 pm

Perhaps it’s time for Trump to replace these unelected officials

Fed has a role in combating climate change risk, Powell says

While the overall U.S. response to climate change is up to elected officials, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said on Wednesday, the Fed can play a part in keeping global warming from destabilizing U.S. banks and financial markets.

“The public has every right to expect and will expect that we will ensure that the financial system is resilient and robust against the risks of climate change,” Powell said at a news conference following the Fed’s January meeting.

Asked why the Fed has not joined dozens of other global central banks in the Network for Greening the Financial System, an international effort to better understand risks from rising temperatures, Powell signaled it is just a matter of time.

“We’ve been looking at joining in one form or another … we probably will do that at some point,” Powell said, adding that Fed representatives have been participating in the group’s meetings.

Scientists say human-generated carbon dioxide is a key cause of global warming that has exacerbated wildfire seasons, helped spawn increasingly destructive hurricanes, and initiated a rise in sea level that threatens coastlines around the world.

Apparently, it was you dropping the kids off in a fossil fueled vehicle that started sea rise 20,000 years ago. And that cheeseburger you ate the other day caused the Great Galveston hurricane of 1900. Anyhow, what is the actual role of the Fed?

The Federal Reserve in the United States acts as the country’s central bank. It has a mandate to promote maximum employment, stable prices and moderate long-term interest rates.

The “Fed” has three main functions. They are to provide and maintain an effective payments system, supervise and regulate banking operations, and conduct monetary policy.

But, if the Warmists can gain control if the Fed, it gives them more control of you via control of the economy.

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If All You See…

By William Teach January 31, 2020 – 1:00 pm

…are buildings that are leaning because carbon pollution is causing earthquakes, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Bunkerville, with a post on Pelosi melting down and Romney has the blues.

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Warmists Claim Innovation Isn’t Climate Policy

By William Teach January 31, 2020 – 10:46 am

See, there are some Republicans who are Believers in anthropogenic climate change. Some are rather hardcore, some are just casual believers. Some are members of the Cult of Climastrology, pushing carbon taxes (such as George Shultz), others push different solutions, ones that even skeptics can get behind because they aren’t about taxes, fees, and increased government control over our lives and everything, while attempting to make our lives better. If we could dramatically increase the power generation from solar panels while decreasing their cost, along with better storage from batteries, making it easy for homeowners to afford this, that would be a good thing, right?

Nope

Dear Republicans: Innovation isn’t climate policy

For the first time in recent memory, congressional Republicans claim to have a climate strategy, with House Republicans rolling out proposals to encourage low-carbon innovation, including legislation to support technologies like nuclear energy and carbon capture and storage. Similarly, prominent GOP Sens. including John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), Mitt Romney (R-Utah), and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) are pushing for an innovation-focused policy response to the threats of climate change.

But while innovation is a critically important complement to a climate strategy, it is not nearly enough. The United States needs policies aimed at producing a carbon-neutral economy.

Innovation is not climate policy. It’s Super Bowl week, so let’s think of energy technologies as football players. Team Fossil Fuels has historically been dominant: the United States gets roughly 80 percent of its energy from coal, oil and natural gas.

Meanwhile, Team Carbon Free is the scrappy underdog: thanks to remarkable cost reductions in solar energy, wind energy, and batteries, Team Carbon Free is quickly catching up to Team Fossil Fuels.

Sigh. So, what is better “climate policy”?

Rather than banking on technological breakthroughs, we need a game plan that works backward from a winning outcome — climate policies that align the incentives of producers, consumers, and investors with a future carbon-neutral economy.

There’s good news for the Republicans turning their attention to climate change. Some of the strongest climate policies, like emissions pricing and market-based performance standards, can rapidly reduce emissions within a robustly growing economy.

So, basically, policies that punish citizens with taxes and fees, skyrocket their cost of living, and control their lives are preferred by the Cult of Climastrology. It just goes to show that they don’t want to solve anything (not that you can solve nature being mostly responsible for the current warm period), they want power and control.

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Pokemon Can Teach Us About ‘Climate Change’ Or Something

By William Teach January 31, 2020 – 7:00 am

Is it that anthropogenic climate change is a fantasy, just like Pokemon? That it is not real? Fake? Meant for children who don’t know better?

What Pokémon can teach us about conservation and climate change

There’s a moment in the live-action movie Detective Pikachu when the ground beneath our heroes’ feet is crumbling. As they slip and slide, Pikachu, voiced by Ryan Reynolds, yells to no one in particular, “At this point, how can you not believe in climate change?” It’s a good quip — one of a million small jokes that’s easily missed. But it’s also one of the first times that Pokémon, the most lucrative media franchise of all time, addressed the climate crisis. It certainly won’t be the last.

Fans appreciate Pokémon for its camp humor, adorable monsters, and emphasis on the quest for excellence. But for more than two decades, Pokémon has also delivered a crash course in environmental science. Like a professor par excellence, it’s addressed ecological vulnerability and land management, extinction and de-extinction, the plight of endangered species and the dangers of invasive ones, and, most recently, the real costs of climate change. There’s a lot more to Pokémon than just catching ‘em all.

Pokémon was an eco-conscious project from its conception. Nineties kids know the origin story well. Satoshi Tajiri was born in Japan in 1965. He was an avid insect collector — the other kids called him “Dr. Bug.” At the time, Tajiri’s hometown still had rural pockets, but as the Tokyo metropolitan area subsumed outlying villages, plants and animals gave way to concrete and skyscrapers. Decades later, when he first played with a Game Boy, he saw an opportunity to ensure a new generation of urban kids could experience the simulated joys of taxonomy and tromping through the wilderness. In 1996, Tajiri’s company, Game Freak, released the first games in his fantastical universe of Pocket Monsters, better known as Pokémon.

Nothing wrong with real environmentalism, but, it is rather ironic that the same people who push the ‘climate change’ scam also want to force everyone to live in big, crowded, condensed cities like they do, eh, places with limited wilderness.

But for many of these species, time is running out. Recently, the 24-year-old Pokémon franchise has begun to grapple with the very real perils of climate change. In Detective Pikachu, it’s that one-liner from Pikachu. But in Sword and Shield, it’s much more serious. Corsola, a second-generation coral-like Pokémon, has been bleached by rising ocean temperatures. It’s been replaced by a ghost-type descendant, Cursola. Where the original reef was pink and smiling, the creature we have now is shock white with watery red eyes.

If Pokémon has taught us anything about the environment, then we know that the time for action is long overdue.

I always get my advice from cartoons and such. How about you?

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Democrats Call For Trump To Do Something On Coronavirus

By William Teach January 31, 2020 – 6:46 am

Democrats do not really have ideas as to what Trump should do, just that he should Do Something. Of course, if he Does Something, they will criticize that. There’s nothing they won’t politicize, and the Washington Post is there to help out

Trump faces pressure to respond to coronavirus threat
Democrats, including 2020 presidential candidates Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren, have argued that the president’s policies make the United States more vulnerable to an infectious disease crisis.

Of course they do

President Trump, a leading critic of the Obama White House’s handling of the Ebola outbreak in 2014, is under increasing political pressure to mount a coordinated federal response to the threat of the new strain of coronavirus — amid fears of a global health crisis with economic ramifications in an election year.

The White House has sought to tamp down criticism from Democrats in recent days by projecting an air of confidence and competence, with Trump presiding late Wednesday over an interagency briefing in the Situation Room. He also announced a new task force of senior aides to lead the government’s response, including screenings at 20 U.S. airports, the repatriation of U.S. citizens from China and efforts to develop a potential vaccine to treat the novel virus.

Sounds like a good plan. Now we’re just waiting for Democrats to complain about people being held in quarantine after they get off those planes.

[Democrats] pointed to the dismantling of a global health security team in 2018 during a reorganization of the White House’s National Security Council. And in an op-ed published in the USA Today on Monday, Biden called Trump the “worst possible leader” to oversee the government’s response, citing his call for then-President Barack Obama to implement a travel ban on West African countries during the Ebola crisis even though public health experts opposed such a move.

OK, none of that is offering a plan or solutions or ideas. Just whining

One senior administration official said Trump has been hesitant to speak out because some aides have cautioned that he could unnecessarily cause public alarm — and assured him that China is working hard to keep the virus under control. But increasingly, there is a feeling among aides that the president must say more, said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private deliberations.

Another anonymous person and anonymous aids? Huh.

Meanwhile, some U.S. lawmakers have pressed for a targeted travel ban from China, which Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Okla.), a close White House ally, said in a letter to the administration was “warranted to protect Americans until we know more about the virus and the outbreak is under control.”

If he did this, Democrats would blow a gasket. Because TDS.

It’s probably a good idea Trump isn’t saying more. He does not want to start a panic, and, let’s be honest, if Trump gave advice that originates from the CDC there would be lots and lots of TDS infused Dems and #NeverTrumpers who would do the exact opposite because they’re deranged.

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Your Fault: Climate Change Is Poisoning Our Food

By William Teach January 30, 2020 – 3:00 pm

Yup, your fault. You refuse to give up your fossil fueled vehicle and mortgage yourself to get a Tesla, plus, there was that steak you had the other day instead of eating bugs. Anyhow, in the BBC’s travel section (should they be recommending people take fossil fueled trips to far flung places?), Naomi Tomky got sick while on vacation, thanks to you keeping your heat above 55 degrees

How climate change poisons our food

One thing I’ve come to love about travelling around Mexico is that you’re rarely far from a toilet. Yes, it will cost you five pesos (£0.20), but it’s a small price to pay for a few folded squares of toilet paper, a clean seat and peace of mind (and bottom). But what I didn’t know as I explored Oaxaca last May, spending a few pesos to slowly, sweatily tour the bathrooms of the city’s cathedral, a few ceramics shops and the sprawling Mercado de Abastos, was that I didn’t have a typical, run-of-the-mill case of food poisoning. I had what I now lovingly call “my freaky fish poisoning”.

Some 12 hours after that first wave of nausea, as I was sitting alone in my holiday rental, the numbness in my fingers and toes crawled up to my wrists and ankles. The odd tingling felt as though I’d woken up in an odd position and my hands and feet were asleep – only instead of gradually improving and returning to normal, the numbness just steadily continued. It suddenly occurred to me that if it persisted, I might struggle to call for help by the time I needed it. So I did the only rational thing I could think of at the time: I walked down the street for ice cream.

The culprit, I would eventually find out, was ciguatera: a strange, specific form of food poisoning stemming from a toxin in certain types of fish. It is acutely misirable for 12 hours and has effects that often last months and sometimes years. There’s no way to screen fish for it and no known cure…

So, things that happen, right? Nope

…and it’s likely to become far more common as climate change warms our oceans and causes more storms, and more widespread as more fish is exported around the world.

This is the insanity of being a cult member: no matter what happens, it is the fault of anthropogenic climate change and IT’S GOING TO GET WORSE AND WE’RE ALL DOOOOOOOMED!!!!!!!

Despite rising ocean temperatures and related weather phenomena bringing ciguatera to the headlines, the toxin is extremely common and has been around for a long time. Back in the 4th Century BC, Alexander the Great supposedly forbade his soldiers to eat fish because of an illness thought to be ciguatera.

So, it’s completely common (especially in shady eateries)? Huh. But, hey, you need to pay a tax to stop Naomi from getting this again.

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If All You See…

By William Teach January 30, 2020 – 1:00 pm

…are palm trees that will soon be growing in Canada due to ‘climate change’, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Moonbattery, with a post on large scale Fentanyl dealers being released in NYC.

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Almost 200 People Have Had Their Guns Take Via NJ’s New Red Flag Law

By William Teach January 30, 2020 – 10:30 am

I’ve said before that I am not fully against red flag laws as long as they protect Constitutional rights, such as due process, are not abused, and offer penalties for those who frivolously attempt to take people’s 2nd Amendment rights away. But, that’s not the way most Red Flag laws are structured

Nearly 200 people have had their guns seized in N.J. under new ‘red flag’ law

Nearly 200 people in New Jersey have had their guns seized under a “red flag” law that went effect last year, according to data obtained by NJ Advance Media.

The Extreme Risk Protective Order Act, which went into effect Sept. 1, allows a law enforcement officer, family or household member to submit a petition to state Superior Court showing why a judge should issue an order to keep guns away from someone who potentially poses a danger of causing bodily injury to themselves or to others.

So far, 186 temporary extreme risk protective orders have been granted as of Jan. 22, according to the New Jersey Administrative Office of the Courts, meaning more than one person a day has had their guns taken away — at least temporarily — in New Jersey since the law went into effect. In 25 cases, a petition was made but the temporary order was denied by a judge, according to court data.

There have been a total of 88 final orders granted since the law went into effect, according to the Administrative Office of the Courts. Judges have denied 29 final orders, according to the courts.

Should some people have their weapons taken away?

The law is at the center of a proposed class action federal lawsuit filed by a South Jersey man who had his firearm seized by authorities after he had “threatened, advocated and celebrated the killing of Jewish people” on an online forum.

David Greco filed the lawsuit in October, alleging his due process rights, along with other gun owners in New Jersey, had been violated, as they are not given a chance to be heard in court before a temporary order is issued and police confiscate the firearms.

Should Greco have his weapons taken away? Sure seems like it. But, he was not afforded Due Process.

But the lawsuit alleges that because the order is contingent on “good cause” and not the legal standard of “probable cause,” executing a search warrant is unconstitutional.

So, they’ve changed the legal standard to a much, much, much lower one in order to take people’s legally acquired and Constitutional property.

But, let’s go back: 50% of the final orders have been denied. So, does that mean the other 50% were frivolously filed? That there was no real preponderance of evidence to take away people’s property without due process and any real threat? How many Citizens had to spend lots and lots of money on lawyers, and how many couldn’t afford a good attorney to defend themselves in a “guilty till proven innocent” court preceding? This is all an end run around the Constitution.

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It’s All About The Science: St. Greta Looks To Trademark Her Name

By William Teach January 30, 2020 – 8:35 am

Hmm, so, it seems to be more about getting famous then making some cash off that fame

Climate change activist Greta Thunberg applies to trademark her name

Climate activist Greta Thunberg said Wednesday that she has applied to trademark her name and that of the international school strike movement she inspired — a move meant to protect the movement from misuse for commercial purposes.

In an Instagram post, the 17-year-old Swede said that she and fellow activists have “absolutely no interests” in trademarks “but unfortunately it needs to be done.”

Thunberg said the application covers her name, the name of the Fridays for Future movement, and “Skolstrejk för klimatet” (Swedish for “School strike for climate”), which was the slogan on a sign she held during the weekly solo protests outside Sweden’s parliament that inspired similar actions by other young people.

She added that trademark protection is needed because her name and that of the movement “are constantly being used for commercial purposes without any consent whatsoever.”

“It happens, for instance, in marketing, selling of products and people collecting money in my and the movement’s name,” she wrote.

Oh, please. For all the protests about this not being about the money, it’s about the money. In the Instagram post (which I won’t be embedding, can never get those to work) we see

And third: together with my family I’m setting up a foundation. It’s already registered and existing, but it not is not yet up and running. This is strictly nonprofit of course and there are no interests in philanthropy. It is just something that is needed for handling money (book royalties, donations, prize money etc) in a completely transparent way. For instance, taxes have to be paid before we can give them away to specified purposes and charities. This takes a lot of time and work, and when the foundation is fully up and running I will tell you more.
The foundation’s aim will be to promote ecological, climatic and social sustainability as well as mental health.

Handling the money. Uh huh. Getting rich off scaring people and giving them “climate grief”. Is this the endgame she and her family and her enablers were aiming for, much like with Al Gore getting massively rich off duping idiots, or just them going “hey, we should get rich off Greta blowing off classes on Fridays”? How soon till St. Greta starts traveling around in big fossil fueled vehicles because she “needs the protection”? And many other climahypocrite things?

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