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Wu Are You?

A BRAVE surgeon who treated coronavirus patients has become the 41st victim of the outbreak - with 56 million people now on lockdown. Dr Liang Wudong, 62, passed away today after becoming struck down with the deadly virus on January 16.

Meanwhile, the virus rages on:

Professor Neil Ferguson, an expert at Imperial College London, said the new strain is currently "as deadly as the Spanish flu epidemic". The 1918 outbreak is the most severe pandemic in recent history, wiping out an estimated 50 million people across the world.

They're dropping like flies, over there.

The killer coronavirus was spread from bats to snakes to humans, experts have claimed.

An outbreak of the virus is understood to have started at an open air fish market in the Chinese city of Wuhan - which has since been put in lockdown after 25 people died and more than 600 people were infected globally.

At last count, the number of infected individuals had more than doubled in the intervening time, to 1300.

Snakes are sold at the Huanan Seafood Market in central Wuhan and may have jumped to other animals before passing to humans, they claim.

Do they not offer the pneumonia vaccine over there? On the other hand, 56 million doses would likely be hard to come up with, particularly with little notice.

It's interesting that so many deadly outbreaks of disease seem to have their origins in China.

 

Greta Again

Though only 17, Greta is an accomplished nag, a word we don’t use lightly, but it fits because she is perpetually badgering and complaining. In her speech, which the New York Times posted in transcript form as if it were actually important and must be preserved for future generations, she demanded international leaders “immediately end all fossil fuel subsidies and immediately and completely divest from fossil fuels.

Personally, I grew tired of the little bitch quite some time ago. I'd love to know who pays her way.

She's an autistic idiot, and she didn't clamber up onto the world stage without a lot of help.

 

 

ISIS Leader Captured, Hauled Off In The Back Of A Pickup Truck

He put the fat in fatwa. The 560-pound mufti Abu Abdul Bari, also known as Shifa al-Nima, was nabbed Thursday by an elite SWAT team of the Nineveh regiment in the city of Mosul, according to Stars and Stripes.

Macer Gifford, a British citizen who fought with a US-backed Kurdish militia in Syria, applauded the arrest and compared Bari to the slug-like gang lord of the Star Wars universe who lived on the desert planet Tatooine.

“I’m delighted to say that the Islamic State’s very own Jabba the Hutt has been captured in Mosul,” he said in a tweet.

“As long as the Devil bastes him properly Shifa al Nima should crisp nicely in hell… He literally looks like the world’s biggest chicken,” Gifford said.

Gluttony is supposedly frowned upon by ISIS. Maybe they never actually saw the guy who was speaking for them and preaching to them.

 

Australia: This Could All Have Been Avoided

Things are getting desperate down there:

Aircraft are being used to drop thousands of kilograms of carrots and sweet potato to hungry wildlife stranded amid the Australian bushfire crisis.

The New South Wales government commissioned the service titled ‘Operation Rock Wallaby’ which aims to feed the state’s colonies of brush-tailed rock wallabies and help the state’s population of marsupials survive.

They're burning through tons of cash in an effort to address a problem that they themselves have created.

Much as in California, the wildfires are a direct result of "feel-good" environmeddle policies, or as President Trump has correctly observed in the case of California's wildfires, "poor forest management".

The Australian state of New South Wales, where both Sydney and Canberra are located, declared a state of emergency this week, as worsening weather conditions could lead to even greater fire danger. But a 50,000-year-old solution could exist: Aboriginal burning practices.

 

Aboriginal people had a deep knowledge of the land, said historian Bill Gammage, an emeritus professor at Australian National University who studies Australian and Aboriginal history. They can feel the grass and know if it would burn well; they knew what types of fires to burn for what types of land, how long to burn, and how frequently.

 

"Even though people can see the Aborigines doing the fire control, and could see the benefits, they couldn't copy it," he said.

Now, the juxtaposition is clear.

 

"Where the Aboriginal people are in charge, they're not having big fires," Gammage said. "In the south, where white people are in charge, we are having the problems."

We have the same problem in the American West: a failure to learn effective forest management from the natives who successfully practiced it for centuries.

The Wall Not Working

Well, three illegals from Mexico did make it to the top of the new 30' high wall at San Diego, but that's as far as they got; SDPD & USBP retrieved them without incident and removed them to a processing center. Not all incidents end well, as there have been a number of skull fractures and other serious injuries incurred when border-jumpers tried to get back down without assistance.

“These three were very fortunate to not have fallen from the top of the wall which could have resulted in serious injury or death,” Aaron Heitke, acting Chief Patrol Agent of the San Diego Sector, said in a statement. “These dangers are not important considerations to smugglers, who place an emphasis on profits over safety.”

 

Just Another Case Of "Workplace Violence"

A young man, who was in a coma for nearly four years in Germany after his work lunch was poisoned by a colleague, has died, German media report.

The 26-year-old ingested lead acetate and mercury after it was sprinkled on his sandwiches, resulting in severe brain damage.

Yes, either of those would about do it. Maybe the perp was auditioning for Gestapo duty.

 

Stampede!

Stupid Iranians do stupid stuff yet again.

A stampede in south-central Iran at the funeral of Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani has killed at least 32 people and injured scores, temporarily suspending the burial of the slain commander of the Quds Force who was killed last week in a U.S. airstrike.

Iranian television said the stampede took place in Kerman, Soleimani's hometown, where he was to have been buried following a two-day funeral in which his casket traveled to several cities, where hundreds of thousands of Iranians paid respects.

Those idiots should be re-homed to a zoo.

 

Gooood Mornin' Viet Nam!

Americans are invading the country once again, not to fight, but to retire.

Inexpensive health care and a reasonably good standard of living are the main attractions.

Average cost of living there is about $2000 a month. Heck, I'm thinking of moving!

 

The Old Folks' Home

For elderly people without close families, the prospect of living alone, and dying alone, can be terrifying. But some seniors in Japan are finding they can get care and camaraderie when they are locked up in prison.

Among crimes committed by women aged 70 or older, shoplifting makes up 82.5 percent. With baggage stealing included, more than 90 percent are thefts.

They aren't exactly violent criminals. But they don't have to worry about where their next meal will come from; they have food, heat, shelter, and health care. Japan has never set up the kind of support systems we have available in the USA, and so prison is a good option, as many elderly there see it.

 

Everything In Australia Is Out To Kill You

An antibiotic-resistant superbug that can be spread either though food poisoning or sexual contact is running rampant throughout Australia.

Now, even dining there is hazardous.