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Michigan, USA

Another protest was held at the state capitol today. About 150-300 people showed up, depending on the news source. No major events, but plenty of clickbait, including:
A scuffle between protestors that started over the optics of holding a doll with a noose around its neck.
Police confiscated an axe. The axe-owner complied peacefully.
A person in a Pikachu costume holding a rifle.
(archive)

Unlike at some previous protests, the legislature was not in session today.
Detroit News (right-wing) (archive)
Lansing State Journal (part of USA Today's network, so I presume left-wing, though I don't read them and can't say for certain) (archive)
Another from the LSJ, with more pictures (archive)

Oral arguments are scheduled tomorrow in the Republican-controlled legislature's lawsuit against Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D)'s alleged overreach of her emergency powers.

SHUTDOWN SHOWDOWN
Shelter-in-place order from Tuesday March 24 to Monday April 13. Friday, May 1, Friday, May 15, May 28 May 1, maybe? (archive) (executive order saved on KF) . The Republican-controlled legislature has refused to extend Governor Whitmer's emergency authority. Governor Whitmer insists her emergency orders are all still in effect (Rundown on the laws).
State attorney general Dana Nessel (D) is also leaving enforcement of the stay-at-home order to local discretion until the courts weigh in on it (archive). She has stated Governor Whitmer's orders are valid and are to be enforced (archive). The legislature is not calling for civil disobedience at this time (archive).
The legislature has filed a lawsuit against the governor (archive). The defense must submit arguments by May 12, and oral arguments will be heard May 15 (archive).
State senate leader Mike Shirkey (R) is also supporting a petition drive to change the law. Such a petition would require 340,047 signatures to be collected. It would be veto-proof if approved by the legislature, and would go on the next general election ballot if denied by them (archive 1, archive 2, archive 3).
U. S. Rep Paul Mitchell (R - The Thumb) has filed a lawsuit independently against Governor Whitmer, in federal district court. Link, pdf on KF. He has also founded a committee to work on the petition recommended by Sen. Shirkey.
There have been at least nine other lawsuits against Governor Whitmer's actions during this crisis, mostly regarding the shut-down order, in various stages of progress and in various courts (summary of eight of them). However, "all deadlines applicable to the commencement of all civil and probate actions and proceedings" are suspended until the end of the states of emergency and disaster. Executive order, and thus in limbo. (archive).

OTHER SHUTDOWNS
Recap from NPR
Major protest at the State Capitol April 15 (A&N thread). Minor protest outside Governor's Mansion April 23 (archive). Protest at the State Capitol April 30 (A&N Thread). Protest at the capitol May 14 (archive).
The Big Three Auto manufacturers (Ford, GM, Chrysler) have closed all factories in the USA, putting well over 150,000 workers out of work. This figure does not include workers at supplier factories, which were also obliged to close. (archive) (archive) (archive). Auto manufacturing expected to resume May 18. (archive)

ECONOMY AND MISCELLANY
Over 1 million unemployment claims filed = 10% of the total population of the state, nearly 25% of the workforce (Archive - April 16).
Massive phone-tracking project reveals Michigan travel is slowly creeping back up (website).
Car crashes are down, fatal car crashes are down, and overall death is actually down. (archive - April 12)

FREE STUFF!
Evictions suspended while the state of emergency lasts (archive) Executive order. May or may not still be valid.
Water will be turned back on for all households while the crisis lasts (archive) Executive order. May or may not still be valid.

HEALTH CARE
Hydroxychloroquine banned by governor's order (archive). Nevermind LOL! Now she's asking the federal government for it and claiming the ban was a mistake in the first place. (archive). Detroit-area hospitals are testing the drug's effectiveness as a preventative on first responders and health-care workers (archive). Article on results, May 8 (archive).
Elective surgeries are banned. Maybe? Who knows. If/when in effect, abortions were not included in the ban (thread).
At any rate, hospitals are resuming elective surgeries.
Up-to-date count of available hospital beds, etc. in the State (the Detroit area is "Section 2, North and South.")(government website)
State of affairs May 5 - about half as many hospitalized cases and ICU cases as on April 12 (archive).
Detroit field hospital, capacity 1,000, closed. Never had many more than 20 at any time. (archive, May 7).

LAW AND ORDER
All localities given more discretion to release prisoners early (archive). It was an executive order. Who knows if it's still valid?
Lansing (the capitol) police are not physically responding to minor crimes such as larceny, property damage, and break-ins to unoccupied buildings, including garages. Other police are adopting similar policies (archive) (archive).
Detroit shootings up, but most other crime down (archive - April 30); Muskegon police report crime is up (archive).
Breaking the lockdown is a misdemeanor, punishable by $1500 fines and 90 days jail time. (Still valid???) Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D) has stated there will not be a "ramp up" of police enforcement (archive). The attorney general has left it to local law enforcement to close businesses, as her hands are full with price-gougers and con artists (archive).
The police cannot, at present, pull drivers over simply for being out during the shutdown (archive). Multiple sherrifs from the rural north to Detroit suburbs have stated they will not be enforcing parts or the entirety of the order (archive).

OFFICIAL DEATH TOLL

The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services reviews deaths and adds overlooked cases to the count three days a week: Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. Recovery counts are updated on Saturdays.
35 deaths were added today.



Detroit Metro (pop. 3,860,000 total; 1,796/sq. mi.; 694/sq km):*

32,954 confirmed / 3,799 dead
32,356 confirmed / 3,747 dead yesterday
(i.e. 52 new deaths, down 18 from this day last week)
Normal Detroit Metro Death Rate: 104 per day.**

Other Michigan (6,120,000; 65/sq. mi.; 25/sq km):

16,628 confirmed / 988 dead
16,035 confirmed / 967 dead yesterday
(i.e. 21 new deaths, down 2 from this day last week)
Normal not-Detroit Death Rate: 167 per day**

All Michigan (9,990,000; 103/sq. mi.; 40/sq km):

49,582 confirmed / 4,787 dead
48,391 confirmed / 4,714 dead yesterday
(i.e. 73 new deaths, down 20 from this day last week, down 17 without adjustments)
Normal Michigan Death Rate: 271 per day.**

Death toll doubled since: April 19.
We have been (were?) locked down since: March 24 (until April 30?),
Masks have been mandatory in stores since: April 27 (until April 30?).

Detroit Metro Daily Deaths Last Seven Days:
36 / 69*** / 18 / 15 / 69*** / 25 / 27*** = 320***

State Government site, daily - today's archive;
State Gov site, total, includes breakdowns by sex, age, race and ethnicity - today's archive.
*Here defined as the City of Detroit, and Macomb, Oakland, and Wayne Counties, minus state and federal prisoners, who are not counted towards any county's cases, but are kept in categories of their own.
** As of 2018.
*** 67, 19, and 35 statewide deaths, respectively, were added on these days upon State review. Presumably most were in Detroit, but I don't know exactly how many.

One Ann Arbor man allegedly killed by his roommate in a Corona-related dispute (archive). The suspect has been released from custody while the investigation continues (archive).
One Flint security guard allegedly murdered for telling a woman that her daughter needed to wear a mask in a dollar store. Multiple suspects are in custody (archive, A&N thread).
Full video:

Highlighted clips:
Governor Whitmer on role of sexism in backlash against her executive orders


Governor Whitmer hopes to allow small gatherings in Michigan after May 28
 
Elder care in the Uk has been run down and privatised too much with too few controls. People are moaning on about the government not helping but most of these homes are privately owned and privately run. There are a very small minority of homes run by people who genuinely care and provide a decent living environment. The rest are owned by private concerns (including I’m sorry to say an awful lot of doctors) and staffed by the absolute minimum of qualified staff assisted by larger but still insufficient numbers of minimum wage carers who are treated poorly, paid poorly and have no job security.
You can tell when you walk through the door if it’s a good home or a bad one by the smell. They’re mainly hideous places. Fucking shoot me before I get to that point.
It was a disaster waiting to happen. There needs to be a hard look at how we provide elderly care, both at the personal care level and the nursing care level. Both are horribly underfunded.

It's been a crapshoot for a long time. The only real difference between when my gran had to go into a home and now is that the government paid most of the bill based on her pension contributions, instead of taking her house to pay for it and spending her pension on another round at the Stranger's Bar. The actual quality of care seems entirely random and unrelated to the money paid, or who pays it. There has been a severe lack of accountability in the system for a very, very long time.

Healthcare is one of those things that no government really wants to touch, though, because any attempt at reform of increased accountability can so easily be spun as "HEARTLESS CRIMINALS DESTROYING THE NHS!!", which has ended more than a few political careers.

I'm hoping I get my paternal death-trends instead of maternal. My mother's side of the family all have their brains rot out at 80. My father's side of the family just keep going until they're approximately 100 and keel over, or die of heart-attacks at 45. I think I've dodged the bullet on the latter, so chances are I'll go the same way as my great aunt, or my paternal grandmother. Aunt went into a home at 106 and died six months later in her sleep (good home; that crapshoot worked out for once). Paternal grandmother just conked out one day in her garden at 99. My dad is looking like he'll do the same. It's a good way to go.
 
LMAO (wouldn't a furry suit actually protect you?):


Hollywood is turning into the whorehouse is has always been. Comment: "Yeah, these are the big production companies who are doing the strict testing. They aren’t the tiny production companies filming porn in trailers and in seedy hotels. There are so many of these smaller companies out there."


Agree with this comment, you can say that shit on SJW rags like Buzzfeed or The Verge, not in a Reuters video:

2:59 “If you are pretending you have never heard of it, is the erotic Netflix”. This not cute or tongue-in-cheek. Reuters should fire whatever uncouth and condescending writer came up with this line. I expect clean and professional news and hope Reuters will not disappoint in the future.

Inevitable comment: "lol the scientists are saying Covid19 lives in semen. Good luck porn industry."


"though it's not clear whether the virus can be sexually transmitted", LMAO, seriously, how many Covid-19 newborns do you need to see in the coming months before scientists do finally concede whether it is sexually transmitted?
 
A friend said he's never heard of AdultTime. He says it's Pornhub for him. "Don't cost nothing." A wise consumer, I'd say.

Check this bitch out. If anyone on God's green earth needs firing, she is it. Utterly disgusting.




Added: A very interesting article from Reason. Sometimes they have some very good stuff.


 
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I haven't been updating because I don't give a shit anymore, but I just want to say that I am sick of old people and how they take the rest of us annihilating our futures on their behalf for granted. Fuck.

Guess I'm old. I don't believe I'm old. In my seventh decade. Don't take anyone sacrificing their future for me for granted. Don't expect it, anyway.

But keep in mind that in my case, for over twenty years I was prepared to give up all my tomorrows so you could have your today. Still prepared to do so. In theory, still subject to recall.

No need to paint everyone with the same brush. I don't. When you look at an older person, you don't know what he or she has done in their lives. Deal with the assholes by exception. When I look at someone young, I see the future. I see potential. I deal with the assholes by exception.
 
LMAO (wouldn't a furry suit actually protect you?):


Hollywood is turning into the whorehouse is has always been. Comment: "Yeah, these are the big production companies who are doing the strict testing. They aren’t the tiny production companies filming porn in trailers and in seedy hotels. There are so many of these smaller companies out there."


Agree with this comment, you can say that shit on SJW rags like Buzzfeed or The Verge, not in a Reuters video:



Inevitable comment: "lol the scientists are saying Covid19 lives in semen. Good luck porn industry."


"though it's not clear whether the virus can be sexually transmitted", LMAO, seriously, how many Covid-19 newborns do you need to see in the coming months before scientists do finally concede whether it is sexually transmitted?

DO NOT ENGAGE IN SEXUAL RELATIONS WITH YOUR SPOUSE CITIZEN.


This is getting way too fucking old.

Also went for a run with no mask on and made sure to flaunt the fact in front of some cops. They did jackshit. Kiss my ass Garcetti. :lit:
 
Michigan, what the hell. This governor is ridiculous.


I mean, we all know the authorities spy on us, but at least try to be sneaky about it, hmm?

A friend gave me the following suggestions to beat monitoring.

1. Use land lines. They need a court order to tap a land line.

2. If you have people who speak exotic languages (Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Arabic, or just about any language outside the Latin languages and German), have them do the communicating. Really doubt they have anyone who can translate exotic languages in real-time. Not that many police around who are native speakers of exotic languages, except maybe in Dearborn, due to the heavy Arabic population. Think the "code talkers" in World War II.

3. Use walkie-talkie style Citizens Band radios and change frequencies often. Hop around. Everyone needs to know all the frequencies used, and their associated channel designators. NEVER say which frequency to go to, just say, "Go to Channel 1 (2,3, etc.) They most likely will NOT be able to break out which frequency is on what channel on any sort of real-time basis. Keep transmissions as short as possible. Doubt they have direction-finding vans, but you never know these days.

4. Use encrypted emails. Or written communications via sneaker-mail.
 
A friend said he's never heard of AdultTime. He says it's Pornhub for him. "Don't cost nothing." A wise consumer, I'd say.

Check this bitch out. If anyone on God's green earth needs firing, she is it. Utterly disgusting.




Added: A very interesting article from Reason. Sometimes they have some very good stuff.


I take back every Wisconsin joke I ever uttered.
I wonder if a state as full of attorneys as Cali would sue to bring it up to the State Supreme Court. Probably a pipe dream.
 
Don't blame old people, blame the big business types and snake oil salesmen like Bill Gates taking advantage of the crisis using old people as a shield.
Yeah dude. Discussions must have been had within governments globally about rich motherfukas stepping up to the plate and contributing a bit more.

Bezos is a trillionaire now ? Just like wtf my dudes and other dudes bitches. Bezos should make it rain, as its p much in his own interest that this place doesn't collapse like a house of Jews.
 
And today on the last news roundup. Illa is trying to propose masks bding mandatory on all public spaces. I don't even know why he tries. The lift is bringing almost no spike. Literally just single digits on most areas and double digits on a few. So no one's even going to try to listen. And it only makes it less likely that anyone might pact with the PSOE to maintain state of alarm next vote. It's like he only does it to look stupid. Thankfuly, no one has really answered to the guy and most have just ignored him. At this point ignoring him really is the best anyone can do. Motherfucker started being known for being an idiot. And he's somehow managed to surprise us with the sheer unmitigated level of incompetence at display. He really is irl austin powers.
 
Yeah dude. Discussions must have been had within governments globally about rich motherfukas stepping up to the plate and contributing a bit more.

Bezos is a trillionaire now ? Just like wtf my dudes and other dudes bitches. Bezos should make it rain, as its p much in his own interest that this place doesn't collapse like a house of Trump's Chosen People.
I don’t begrudge a man for making money. I do begrudge killing everybody’s livelihood because you happen to be in the age bracket that makes you more vulnerable to the Chinky Lung AIDS.They quarantined everybody instead of the high risk people. Fuck them.
 
I don’t begrudge a man for making money. I do begrudge killing everybody’s livelihood because you happen to be in the age bracket that makes you more vulnerable to the Chinky Lung AIDS.They quarantined everybody instead of the high risk people. Fuck them.
I totally get that. But equally, there just seems to be a ton of questions and scary unknowns about C19. The global economy is pretty much fucked, the crazy elongated supply-chain was just a house built out of zero-hour contracts and outsourced industrial slavery.
 
Michigan, USA

Our Michigan policy regarding Corona patients and nursing homes is being investigated by a state Senate committee. They are not happy.

(archive)

Highlights:
"Michigan’s emergency policy of housing positive coronavirus (COVID-19) nursing home patients in nursing homes with COVID-19 negative patients is coming under scrutiny in Lansing...

"[Governor Whitmer's] order creates what they’re calling “regional hubs”... Many members of the senate oversight committee are calling for the governor to change the policy -- calling it an extraordinarily bad policy...

"We also learned that there are some nursing homes taking these patients that do not have the same strict separation policies that regional hubs are required to have. Only about half of the state’s nursing homes have been inspected since the policy went into effect last month...

"Whitmer’s office has defended its decision to use regional hubs even though New York just changed its similar policy to not allowing nursing homes to accept coronavirus patients."
 
I totally get that. But equally, there just seems to be a ton of questions and scary unknowns about C19. The global economy is pretty much fucked, the crazy elongated supply-chain was just a house built out of zero-hour contracts and outsourced industrial slavery.
First time ever when the healthy were quarantined, not the sick. This is what the real life effects of a decaying education looks like. Everybody trusts the experts because they don’t have the inclination to check their statements. All they have to do is throw out a word like “exponential” to get all the News thots get flashbacks of their High School days and decided to turn off their brains because they don’t want to re-live Math. Pathetic.
 
Assuming we've all seen this, posting again in case anyone missed it.

Leaked Chinese Virus Database Covers 230 Cities, 640,000 Updates


New information may offer insight into the honesty of China’s coronavirus numbers.

"A dataset of coronavirus cases and deaths from the military’s National University of Defense Technology, leaked to Foreign Policy, offers insight into how Beijing has gathered coronavirus data on its population. The source of the leak, who asked to remain anonymous because of the sensitivity of sharing Chinese military data, said that the data came from the university. The school publishes a data tracker for the coronavirus: The online version matches with the leaked information, except it is far less detailed—it shows just the map of cases, not the distinct data."


They don't reveal the actual numbers, they're just saying they have them. Could be 640,000 cases, but individual rows could indicate multiple infections. Safe to assume 640,000 is the basement and we'll find out the ceiling at a later date.

Of note: leaks from China are incredibly rare. They just don't happen. The fact that someone took their life into their hands to get this to Western Media shows how angry people are at the government.
 
A friend gave me the following suggestions to beat monitoring.

1. Use land lines. They need a court order to tap a land line.

2. If you have people who speak exotic languages (Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Arabic, or just about any language outside the Latin languages and German), have them do the communicating. Really doubt they have anyone who can translate exotic languages in real-time. Not that many police around who are native speakers of exotic languages, except maybe in Dearborn, due to the heavy Arabic population. Think the "code talkers" in World War II.

3. Use walkie-talkie style Citizens Band radios and change frequencies often. Hop around. Everyone needs to know all the frequencies used, and their associated channel designators. NEVER say which frequency to go to, just say, "Go to Channel 1 (2,3, etc.) They most likely will NOT be able to break out which frequency is on what channel on any sort of real-time basis. Keep transmissions as short as possible. Doubt they have direction-finding vans, but you never know these days.

4. Use encrypted emails. Or written communications via sneaker-mail.
At this point we're going back to carrier pigeons. Which isn't a bad idea since it would leave law enforcement confused.
 
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