Thursday, March 26, 2020

On of Glenn Reynold's commenters posted this, and it's just too good not to repost.

Truckers are saying “f*** the log rules, I’m hauling” and they’re getting supplies to the stores. People are stocking the shelves all night and letting old people shop first. Folks are buying meals for truckers, who (obviously) can’t go through the drive-ups. Asking ’em what they want, then buying it for them.
Carnival Cruise Line has told Trump “We can match those big Navy Hospital ships with some fully staffed cruise ships”.
GM and Ford have said “hold our cars and watch this — we can make ventilators where we were just making car parts, starting next week” — by re-engineering seat ventilators which their engineers hacked together for a new purpose. In under a week.
In a project with which I’m loosely associated, a very-effective agricultural disease-control agent was re-purposed and re-labeled specifically for Corona-virus control by the FDA and EPA in under ten days, from initial request to distribution.
Restaurants and schools have said, “we’ve got kitchens and staff; we can feed the poor kids who used have school lunch.”
NBA basketball players have said, “Hold our basketballs while we write checks to pay the arena staff.”
Construction companies are saying, “Here are some high-end masks for medical staff and doctors”.
Distilleries are making sanitizer out of distilling “heads and tails” which are normally discarded. Nasty shit to drink, but effective sanitizer.
People are tipping grocery check-out clerks and thanking them for taking the risk.
Local, state, and county governments are taking control of everything the feds cannot do. Some are doing it wrong, but for the first time in decades … they’re doing it. Federalism is re-emerging, and the smallest unit of government is the individual and the family. This, too, is re-emerging after decades of dormancy.

16 comments:

  1. Some of that ain't so bright, but the sentiment behind it is 5 stars.

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  2. That's America. May she yet survive.

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  3. Push comes to shove, real Americans don't fuck around. Let's face facts, none of this will improve because of anything the government does, it will be in SPITE of anything the cocksuckers do. They're growing increasingly incompetent and what's more, irrelevant in the day to day lives of Americans. Unless you factor in their blindingly irresponsible waste of our money and their new and improved needless bullshit laws to the tune of tens of thousands of pages worth a year.

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    1. So, why do we keep electing the worthless pieces of shit.....

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  4. They rescinded the HOS rules like day one.
    Obviously, if a regulation can be lifted for an emergency, it's not that vital for operation.

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    1. Ya think Obama would have done the "regulation lifting"? He would have added many more layers. Trump has his faults, but situations like this prove once again he's heads above the "alternative president."

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    2. Trump will go down in history as being more dangerous than Covid19.

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  5. Great reading! What you have shown are the people of the next "Great Generation" that are heroes and will be responsible for the many in this fourth turning event.

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  6. Another comment from an anonymous commenter.

    Trump is doing what Obama might have done if Obama had been born with testicles.

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    1. 'Murica. Government get the fuck out of the way.

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    2. Seriously, that right there.
      Its baffling, because every time its the same...
      Goobermint emberasses itself with its own inaction and ineptitude, Average Americans step up and save the day (b/c its just what we do), and the stooges on the Potomac vote themselves more power and more of our money.
      Fuck 'em.
      Seriously, you don't NEED the government, they need you! The individual is the only government this country needs. Fuck the whole lot of them!

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  7. Yes anonymous, he is very dangerous to people such as you.

    Paul L. Quandt

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  8. Pay no attention to anonymous, he is a person who hides in the shadows.

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