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we are still in lockdown. Yesterday I sent the maid shopping. This is more expensive than if I shop with her, since she adds canned meat, baby formula for one of her nieces' twin babies, and skin whitener to the groceries for her family (the skin whitener is for a niece in high school who is beauty conscious). OH well. Better to send her and lose a bit of money than to go into a small grocery store without airconditioner.

when it comes to the epidemic, I wonder about what is going on when NYC finally decided to clean their subways: closed areas like this are a really good way to spread the virus. And then there is a report of a biotech conference in Boston that spread the virus all over: held at the end of February. And presumably all those experts at medical problems will blame Trumpie boy for not telling them this wasn't a good idea? and the lack of common sense in the meat packing factories should have been the responsibility of management, pressured by the union, but again guess who will get the blame.


Dilbert's podcast has a lot of scepticism, pointing out that no one knows the real facts, but lots of opinions out here.

He also questions the General Flynn kerfuffle: I have posted about the overreach of federal prosecutors were parts of the plots of some of the very liberal Andrew Greeley's R rated novels back in the late 1990's, and of course, the Church committee about CIA overreach back in the 1970s is being ignored by all and sundry.

this made Watergate look like child's play. And so where is the press in this?
Doesn't the CIA know that it's bad enough when they use their proxies to overthrow the government of the Ukraine and fund the opposition to Duterte, but one does get a bit upset when they try to take out the US president, and the press lets them get away with it.

Sigh.