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Post by eulenspiegel on Apr 9, 2020 13:26:08 GMT -5
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Post by Just Somebody on Apr 9, 2020 19:34:33 GMT -5
A look around Salzburg during their shutdown. Found it searching for new Janet Devlin vids. Good song choice and good cover of it.
COVID-19 Salzburg falls asleep Music: Mad World - Gary Jules (Janet Devlin Cover)
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Post by eulenspiegel on Apr 9, 2020 19:48:43 GMT -5
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Post by House on Apr 10, 2020 15:20:31 GMT -5
How to make your own face mask. No sewing required.
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djt2020
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Post by djt2020 on Apr 11, 2020 13:42:57 GMT -5
chicago.cbslocal.com/2020/04/08/coronavirus-covid-19-crime-chicago-violence/Crime Data Shows Coronavirus Pandemic Isn’t Slowing Violence Across Chicago CHICAGO (CBS) — The coronavirus pandemic is not only straining resources in Chicago hospitals but also on the streets. Despite the stay-at-home order, police responded to 19 shootings Tuesday night, six of which were homicides. Overall crime was down in the last week, but robberies and shootings were up. The Chicago Police Department superintendent said the violence is draining the department’s resources that should be used to fight against COVID-19. Tooth brushes, deodorant and toilet paper are packed in to ziplock bags and passed out on the street in West Garfield Park because the Institute for Nonviolence Chicago hopes providing those essentials will encourage residents to stay home. “Not everyone is heeding it,” said Teny Gross, executive director at the institute. “So many young people have not.” “In one ear and out the other,” said Shelbe Brown, with the institute. Gross and Brown spent Tuesday evening responding to shootings. “Yesterday was a horrific night,” said Gross. “The violence is not going down as much as it should.”
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Post by Guest 5 on Apr 11, 2020 21:58:43 GMT -5
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Post by BOGC on Apr 12, 2020 8:53:19 GMT -5
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Post by eulenspiegel on Apr 12, 2020 9:33:55 GMT -5
Why does this remind me of Mr Scrooge in Charles Dickens Chrismas Carol
What an irony..two immigrant nurses saved his life.
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Post by BOGC on Apr 12, 2020 10:44:46 GMT -5
What an irony..two immigrant nurses saved his life. There's a huge difference between limited, controlled immigration that's helpful to the destination country, versus letting huge numbers of people with potentially hostile cultural backgrounds come in freely. If someone immigrates, they should publicly conform to their new country's language and culture to a reasonable and non disruptive degree, and fully obey its laws both in public and in private. Some accommodation is possible, but they're not the majority, they don't get to dictate what that should be. Otherwise, what's the difference between an immigrant and an invader? Parts of the EU had allowed in too many that remained isolated and were or became militant. There should be NO neighborhoods in any country where the police can only patrol with massive force. The UK already had troubles of its own, both from that and from similar mobility among Commonwealth (former British Empire) countries; they didn't need that from the EU as well as from their Commonwealth connections. That's not racist or xenophobic. The balance is somewhere between zero immigration and uncontrolled immigration. IMO, the balance should first be in the interest of ALL the CITIZENS of the destination country. Obviously it has to be in the prospective immigrants interest too, but that's secondary, as is the fate of refugees. A governments first duty is to its own citizens, not all of humanity. There are at least sometimes solutions possible that give some consideration to both...like making it possible for displaced persons to be safe and survive somewhere closer to their place of origin in both distance and culture.
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Post by eulenspiegel on Apr 12, 2020 12:24:49 GMT -5
What an irony..two immigrant nurses saved his life. There's a huge difference between limited, controlled immigration that's helpful to the destination country, versus letting huge numbers of people with potentially hostile cultural backgrounds come in freely. If someone immigrates, they should publicly conform to their new country's language and culture to a reasonable and non disruptive degree, and fully obey its laws both in public and in private. Some accommodation is possible, but they're not the majority, they don't get to dictate what that should be. Otherwise, what's the difference between an immigrant and an invader? Parts of the EU had allowed in too many that remained isolated and were or became militant. There should be NO neighborhoods in any country where the police can only patrol with massive force. The UK already had troubles of its own, both from that and from similar mobility among Commonwealth (former British Empire) countries; they didn't need that from the EU as well as from their Commonwealth connections. That's not racist or xenophobic. The balance is somewhere between zero immigration and uncontrolled immigration. IMO, the balance should first be in the interest of ALL the CITIZENS of the destination country. Obviously it has to be in the prospective immigrants interest too, but that's secondary, as is the fate of refugees. A governments first duty is to its own citizens, not all of humanity. There are at least sometimes solutions possible that give some consideration to both...like making it possible for displaced persons to be safe and survive somewhere closer to their place of origin in both distance and culture. UK called them...they wanted them to come in...they insisted in EU‘s contracts for free trade and work...from Poland, Portugal etc. etc. Many of immigrants saved the NHS ass ...they speak English...they paid taxes...whole UK economy could only survive because of them. In recent years they were treated like...even people decades in the UK got expelled. Suddenly they all the conservatives discovered that their life is in danger if no immigrants. Yes, there are some problematic families in Germany etc..but Germany is one of the safest countries in the world...murder rate is 5 times higher in USA...and in Germany in an nearly all time low. It‘s mostly far right fairytales shared in the USA. She made a fact check. All the terrorist attack in France, in Belgium were attacks by own citizens...born in France and Belgium. But again..in the USA there are thousands and thousands dying every year by terrorist attacks often by white law abiding gun owners...multiple times more than 9/11 each year.
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Post by BOGC on Apr 12, 2020 13:05:06 GMT -5
But again..in the USA there are thousands and thousands dying every year by terrorist attacks often by white law abiding gun owners...multiple times more than 9/11 each year. Nope. Most mass shooters are white, some with legally owned weapons, some not. But mass shootings, although they get a lot of publicity, are a tiny portion of firearms deaths. 2/3 are suicides, and of the remainder, most are related to gang, drug, or other criminal activity, plus a little domestic violence (would likely happen without guns too), and a few accidents. The huge majority of firearms homicides involve handguns; those specifically identified as rifles are under 300. Even notoriously left-wing Vox admits that mass shootings are minor in terms of total firearms fatalities. www.vox.com/2015/10/1/18000524/mass-shootings-rarePortion of homicides by weapon: ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2018/crime-in-the-u.s.-2018/tables/expanded-homicide-data-table-8.xlsIf you exclude suicides (which could use some other method) and inner cities, the US rate isn't so different from other places. And there are places like Switzerland where many people have access to weapons, but very few crimes occur. The US isn't Switzerland, we're a bit Wild West and proud of it, even at the expense of higher body count. But most of us aren't just sitting around being armed and privileged and waiting to go dangerously crazy!!! I've got most of the legal but scary (to some) stuff, and I've never shot at anything but paper (neither in a term in the Air Force nor in later decades as a civilian); and give or take whether I ever go deer hunting, I hope I'll never have a reason to. Indeed, I have a bayonet too, NOT that it's useful of itself, but so that if I ever have to face down someone, they'll be maybe likelier to wonder if I'm crazier than they are (I'm not, but they don't need to know that), and back down. I'd REALLY rather not spend an hour puking (which I probably would) if I can avoid the occasion to take out some two-legged trash. OTOH, my decision is made that my life and that of anyone I choose to protect comes ahead of anyone's that imminently threatens those. Whether they go directly to hell and (darn spelling corrector wanted to make that holland) do not collect $200 (Monopoly game reference) is God's problem, not mine. I respect some pacifists, but I'd never be one. There is probably no solid statistical argument either for or against gun control. I prefer the liberty to defend against criminals, wild animals, and prospective tyrants alike, even if that costs a few more lives. Legitimate gun control IMO ONLY consists of the following: choose targets lawfully, hit them accurately, avoid accidentally hitting other persons or property. There are some people that won't honor that; but the mere allegation that they're thus should not take the place of due process before their rights are infringed, and there should be a mechanism for appeal (and even if their appeal is lost, for having their seized weapons, if legally owned at time, transferred to a trustworthy person not in the same household or sold via a licensed dealer rather than destroyed, with proceeds minus commission going to the one from which they were seized).
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Post by BOGC on Apr 12, 2020 13:20:53 GMT -5
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Post by eulenspiegel on Apr 12, 2020 18:21:30 GMT -5
18min docu about Covid treatment by SWR at University Clinic Freiburg...public TV
In German but I think it‘s self explaining
Again all the treatment is covered!!! Only 10€ per day and only at the most 28 days in a year...afterwards completely free
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Post by eulenspiegel on Apr 12, 2020 18:53:57 GMT -5
18min docu about Covid treatment by SWR at University Clinic Freiburg...public TV In German but I think it‘s self explaining Again all the treatment is covered!!! Only 10€ per day and only at the most 28 days in a year...afterwards completely free If poor, unemployed...O€...no tuition in Germany...so all medical students studying e.g. there at that university clinic no tuition
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Post by Guest 5 on Apr 12, 2020 19:57:11 GMT -5
18min docu about Covid treatment by SWR at University Clinic Freiburg...public TV In German but I think it‘s self explaining Again all the treatment is covered!!! Only 10€ per day and only at the most 28 days in a year...afterwards completely free The German medical system has a good reputation. I'm curious about how much income tax people pay there. How high are the tax rates?
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