Well, here we are at Monday again, and to be very honest, it’s been a pretty grim start to the week. As of this exact time of writing, there are over 723,000 confirmed cases of Corona-chan’s pestilential blessings around the world, with over 142,000 – nearly 20% of the total – concentrated in the USA. And of those, very nearly half of all US cases are in New York state.

It’s a rough time for all of us. I’m in a city where a near-complete lockdown is now in effect with no end in sight, and my folks are in a country where they are on complete lockdown until mid-April. Things aren’t looking good for any of us.

Which is why it is more important than ever to keep our spirits up and our morale strong.

We’re going to get through this. Don’t lose faith in that fact. Pretty much everyone reading this is going to come through without issues; the probability that you will catch COVID-19 and get so sick from it that you need critical care, is actually fairly low. We don’t have precise numbers on infection rates yet, but it is becoming clear that, even under absolutely perfect conditions for the virus’s spread, your maximum probability of infection is about 20%, and even if you are among that maximal 20% bracket, about 80% of you will feel just fine.

So we’re talking about 20% of 20% of an entire population – or 4% of everyone out there – who might get really sick.

And of that 4% of the entire population, your odds of actually kicking the bucket are only about 1%, once you strip out all of the hype and craziness and scary shit that’s out there.

So:

Do not live your life in fear.

By all means, stay at home, keep yourself safe, wash your hands carefully whenever you go out, catch up on your reading, start a business or a blog, and keep your mind active.

Follow the lawful directives of the authorities, even if they come across as batshit crazy – which, let’s be honest, many of them absolutely are.

Grit your teeth, be stoic, and remember, we WILL get through this.

I’ll finish off here with a meme about Corona-chan that is probably pretty relevant right now:

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His Most Illustrious, Noble, August, Benevolent, and Legendary Celestial Majesty, the God-Emperor of Mankind, Donaldus Triumphus Magnus Astra, the First of His Name, has proven to be a much better crisis manager than most of us expected – and despite the best efforts of the lying whorenalists in the mainstream (((media))), the American people see this and appreciate it:

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Here is an important message from the beautiful wife of the God-Emperor:

Of course, liberaltards reacted to this message of kindness and hope with their usual compassion and tolerance.

There is going to come a time, in the near future – within our lifetimes – when liberaltards are going to face a physical reckoning for their stupidity. And they are REALLY not going to like the results.

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#BasedTucker is based:

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Via an unusually based bunch of Aussies, who despite their inability to see the world right side up apparently have their heads screwed on straight, we have news that St. Gretard is having a relevance crisis right now:

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Mark Dice is immensely amused by the spectacle of the Cuomo brothers trying to one-up each other on the Clown News Network:

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Bill Whittle and his grumpy homebody buddies have some very useful advice to celebritards trying to “virus signal” about how great they are:

The reaction to the celebritards was entirely appropriate: SHUT! THE! F***! UP!!!

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Dave from Blue Collar Logic explains a few basic facts about the COVID-19 pandemic to hyperventilating liberaltards:

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The Male Brain is once again putting the slower pace of life in the south of Israel to good use and has sent over lots of good stuff for us to enjoy this week.

We start with a video from Laura Ingraham, which was pretty grim a week ago when it was released, and is now woefully out of date:

Israel is doing pretty well, all things considered. Right now they have 4,200 or so confirmed cases, and only 15 deaths. That’s a 0.36% death rate – and, again, if you do some basic maths, that is likely 80% too high. But it’s still a scary time for the people of the Jewish homeland, so send a few good thoughts to our friend and his family.

Continuing on with the week’s contributions – many of you will probably have heard that The Matrix 4 is, in fact, a thing:

There are no plot details as of now. In the last installment, we saw that peace had been established between humans and machines, which give humans the option to leave the matrix. Also, we saw Trinity and Neo dying. No assumption can be made on the plot of the upcoming installment. But what we know for sure is that the film is going to be a blockbuster like its previous installments.

Unfortunately, that’s about as good as the news gets, because it would appear that there is a new fan theory circulating teh innarwebz about how Trinity is going to be The One:

What’s most interesting about the clip is that Trinity seems to be leading Neo, as if she’s showing him how to manipulate the Matrix so they can fly.

This makes sense if the Neo of Matrix 4 has no recollection of his past actions, or if he’s an entirely different person who just happens to look the same (a clone, perhaps).

It also has spawned a particularly interesting theory that the chosen one in Matrix 4 won’t be Neo at all, but Trinity. We have to admit that we find this rather exciting, and it would shake up a plot that we already predict could be coming.

If that happens – no, scratch that, WHEN that happens – you can expect this new film to tank even faster and harder than The Matrix: Revolutions.

Evidently Dawn Pine thinks the same thing, because he sent these two videos about the pitch meetings for The Matrix and its sequel as well:

And here are some videos to keep you amused and busy during extended lockdowns:

That video is actually quite a good description of how the daughter of my martial arts school’s Grandmaster grew up. I truly feel very sorry for her boyfriend, to be honest.

(Yeah… Blogger is an ugly platform. But, you get what you pay for, and Blogger is free. So there you go, really.)

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Felix Rex points out that 2020 is the year of a true economic reckoning for the entire Western world, due to the immense weight of stupid decisions taken over previous decades:

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The good folks at China Uncensored have even less trust in the Red Chinese numbers about Corona-chan than I do, and with good reason:

And now, as if Chinese people spreading Corona-chan to the world wasn’t bad enough, we have reports of something even worse brewing there:

Jeebus. I’m just gonna write it now – block ALL traffic with China for the next year. Let’s see how they like it when they have to deal with the results of Chinese culture.

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Jared Taylor from American Renaissance brings your attention to a choirboy doing choirboy things that you might have missed due to all of the pandemic and plague headlines last week:

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Paul Ramsey was in an optimistic mood about the lifting of America’s partial lockdown by April 12th, but it is clear that this is not going to happen now:

Even so, he made some excellent points about the direction in which the data are pointing – which is an optimistic direction, to be very clear:

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Terrence Popp has some harsh words for those who reacted stupidly to the Kung Flu:

With due respect to 1st Sgt. Popp, though – his maths is way off.

That “herd immunity” figure of 80% or so of the population that has to be exposed to the pathogen in order to develop immunity to it, is rarely reached – there are not 264 million cases of flu every year in the USA.

Furthermore, there were about 80,000 deaths from the 2019-20 flu season in the US – it was quite a bad one, despite the presence and widespread availability of vaccines – and most of those were Ye Olde Phartes, but there were a couple of hundred children and teenagers among the fatalities.

And, while it is so far true that approximately 80% of cases of COVID-19 are basically benign, and about 20% require medical intervention, and of that 20% chunk, a further 6% or so will go critical… simply applying that estimate to the entire US population is extremely naive and silly modeling.

Look, I have a background in mathematical modeling. It is something that I do quite well. I have seen what happens when models go horribly wrong. In the financial markets, that results in panics and crashes that wipe out trillions of dollars of wealth. In the context of pandemic management, it results in stringent and severe lockdowns that simply don’t work.

The entire US population will not be infected by this disease. We are already seeing evidence that the infection rates are slowing a little, and if 142,000 Americans are infected right now, that means that there are over 710,000 people actually probably infected.

And once you divide the current death toll of 2,510 by 710,000… suddenly the mortality rate becomes 0.35% in the USA. Which is more or less in the ballpark of what we would expect given the data from Diamond Princess and other cruise ships.

We’re going to get through all of this together. And when experts look back at this pandemic and process the mountains of data and evidence that came out of it, I think that we are all going to realise, to our deep collective embarrassment, that maybe we overreacted just a touch.

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Mat Best and his buddies have made the, uh, “best” of their time under quarantine:

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El Razorfist has been suspiciously quiet of late, which makes this video rather serendipitous:

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Why nobody trusts the lying whorenalists of the mainstream (((media))) anymore:

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John Stossel looks at how US government policy turns American Indians into moochers:

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Midnight’s Edge points out that, to Hollyweird paedos and liberaltards, we look like the problem, not them – but they’re wrong:

And they can’t stop laughing either at Marvel’s new SJWarriors:

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Gary from Nerdrotic rips Marvel a new one for crapping all over their own fans when comic book stores across the country are going bust:

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The Drinker has spent the last few days catching up on some great classic films, and his recommendation here is absolutely spot-on:

Clint Eastwood really doesn’t get enough credit for his skills as either an actor or a director. He’s a living legend. If he croaks from COVID-19, that will be a genuine loss for all of us.

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Overlord Dicktor Von Doomcock really, really hated the latest episode of Star Trek: Shittard:

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Now that I have my grimy paws on HALO: The Master Chief Collection for PC – this is LITERALLY THE ONLY REASON why I still keep a WinDOZE partition on my laptop – I can’t wait to get back to blasting my way through HALO levels. And I’m not the only one. Apparently, the MCC-PC port is AMAZEBALLS, at least as far as HALO: Combat Evolved Anniversary goes:

Plasma grenade chain reactions resulting in colossal explosions that send bodies and weapons and debris flying everywhere, in glorious high resolution… oh, happy days!

I am very, very happy to see that HALO is now available for PC. I’ve spent the past week blasting through HALO: Reach and the first few missions of HALO: Combat Evolved Anniversary, and also got around to downloading HALO Wars too. I am an unrepentant FOSSophile, but I am very glad that I preserved my WinDOZE partition, if only because I can now play through my beloved HALOverse again. It has been far, FAR too long.

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While we’re on the subject of my dearly beloved HALO franchise on MCC-PC – it turns out that some enterprising hacker has been busily beavering away at a mod for HALO: CE Anniversary that does a LOT to balance out that game’s highly uneven weapons and combat issues:

To be honest, I’ve never seen the point of modding HALO, because to me the flaws somehow made it an even better game. Yes, the Elite Zealot shields and health are REALLY annoying, and yes, there is basically no point fighting the Flood with anything other than a shotgun and pistol, and yes, the fact that Ghosts and Banshees couldn’t be damaged at all with a .50-cal sniper rifle didn’t make any sense. Yet in spite of all of that, HALO: CE was simply amazing to play – once you figured out how to do it, that is.

But, this is an intriguing modification and I have to admit that I’m quite tempted to give it a try once I finish playing the unmodified version.

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Now that the Kung Flu is VERY much here to stay, we might as well take a look at the Devil Mouse’s first attempt to make a film about an old Chinese legend:

The Honest Trailer people need to stop being so worried about looking woke. They just sound like politically correct idiots.

That being said… the live-action remake was apparently designed more with Chinese sensibilities in mind. Given that the Chinese are directly responsible for the pandemic now raging across the globe, that sensitivity is, in my opinion, thoroughly misplaced.

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Here’s your “Science is F***ING WEIRD” moment of the week:

If any beings live in the solar system HD 74423, their young ones would sketch daytime scenes quite differently than human children do. Where we draw one sun, they’d draw two. And where we draw our star as a round orb, they’d likely draw one of their suns as a bulging teardrop. Gifted animators might even capture the bump’s motion as it stretches toward and recedes from its companion over a matter of hours.

This star’s outlandish shape and behavior are prominent enough to be detected from Earth, 1,600 light years away, astronomers announced on Monday with a publication appearing in Nature Astronomy. Theorists have long suspected such a system was possible, but HD 74423 is the first confirmed binary containing one star whose pulses reach out toward its partner. And because it represents a new way for two stars to interact, it could also help astrophysicists better understand what makes some stars ripple and contort while others stay largely motionless.

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Your long read of the week is a piece in the UK’s The Spectator magazine. They have very graciously taken down the paywall for an article by one Dr. John Lee, a retired professor of pathology from PommieBastardLand. He has some very straightforward points to raise about the enormous uncertainty surrounding the calculations of death rates for COVID-19, which make for both sobering and reassuring reading:

The number of recorded deaths will increase in the coming days, but so will the population affected by the disease — in all probability much faster than the increase in deaths. Because we are looking so closely at the presence of COVID-19 in those who die — as I look at in more detail in my article in this week’s UK edition of The Spectator — the fraction of those who die with COVID-19 (but not of it) in a population where the incidence is increasing, is likely to increase even more. So the measured increase in numbers of deaths is not necessarily a cause for alarm, unless it demonstrates excess deaths — 340 deaths out of 46,000 shows we are not near this at present. Britain has prepared for the worst, but it has not yet happened. The widespread testing of National Health Service staff recently announced may help provide a clearer indication of how far the disease has already spread within the population.

The UK and other governments have no control over how their data is reported, but they can minimize the potential for misinterpretation by making absolutely clear what its figures are, and what they are not. After this episode is over, there is a clear need for an internationally coordinated update of how deaths are attributed and recorded, to enable us to better understand what is happening more clearly, when we need to.

The whole thing is packed with good sense, careful reasoning, and real data. Well worth reading all the way through.

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Linkage is good for you:

• Corona-chan is exposing the fact that the West is made up of a pampered herd of sheep these days;
• Things at Deutsche Bank are getting pretty weird these days, what with their refusal to pay back their own corporate convertible debt;
• Dr. Anthony Fauci has some harsh words for the whorenalists who keep trying to pit him against the God-Emperor;
• Our friend Aaron Clarey has a great prayer to Corona-chan to help you get through these times;
• And here’s your news of the bleedin’ obvious – the whorenalists WANT the God-Emperor to fail;
• Evidently the super-rich knew something before the outbreak of Corona-chan that the rest of us did not;
• Kim du Toit explains why the God-Emperor’s experience in crisis management within a business context has made him an inordinately effective leader in this present time;
• If you had to choose between Corona-chan and celebritard vapidity… which one is worse?
• Ann Coulter has harsh words for those advocating for a complete shutdown of all economic activity;
• Kurt Schlichter gives props and thanks to the people who really deserve it – and heaps vast amounts of scorn upon attention-starved celebritards;

Here’s some more from The Male Brain:

• One of the reasons why the Chinese supposedly “beat” the virus as fast as they did (which they didn’t) may well have to do with forced cardiothoracic implants – i.e. ripping the lungs out of healthy dissidents and Uighurs and implanting them in Chinese citizens;
• Here is a slideshow of a bunch of funny tweets from comedians who are stuck at home with their kids;

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The Neo-Tsar ordered a weeklong “stay at home” holiday in Russia starting this week, along with a raft of pretty strong new restrictions to combat Corona-chan’s spread:

It also appears that he is more than willing to tax rich Russians who take money out of Russia, which directly contradicts his image among many of the Russian people as a friend of plutocrats and oligarchs:

Finally, here’s one for the airheads among you:

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History lessons of the week, starting – guess who? – Fa Mulan herself:

And now on to the battle that defined and began the conquest of India by the British:

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Kitchen nightmares with everyone’s favourite enraged Scotsman:

And for those of you who enjoy cooking – like me – it’s always worth brushing up on some basic skills:

For those who like a challenge (and can afford to buy lobster):

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Wazzocks gonna wazzock:

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Comedy hour:

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Pics, guns, girls, starting off as usual with our friend The Male Brain’s contributions:

Longtime reader and fellow HALO maniac lynch had a good one to add as well:

If you’ve played HALO 2, that is absolutely hilarious.

Now for a bunch of Corona-chan memes that I found:

And on with the rest:

This next one would solve the Corona-chan problem OVERNIGHT:

The Mexicans obviously have their heads screwed on right good and proper:

Your headlines of the week indicate that Floriduh Man’s actual name is failed Daemoncratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum:

Your “Mexico is Gonna Pay for the Wall!!!” moment of the week:

Your “Weinstein Didn’t Kill Himself” moment of the week:

Your “Do the Dew” moment of the week:

Your “LEARN TO CODE!!!” moment of the week:

Now, boys, let’s not be uncharitable, I’m sure those whorenalists are perfectly nice peop –

Ah, hell, even I can’t bullshit about that. I’m delighted to see that the traitorous whorenalist class is suffering.

Your “Karma is a Stone-Cold Bitch” moment of the week:

Your “Attention Deficit Disorder” moment of the week:

That’s Johnny Cash?!? I thought it was Liam Neeson…

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Your dog of the week is the fluffy, adorable, and much-beloved Long-Haired Collie:

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The Trap Lord is back with some particularly hilarious gym idiots working out at home:

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Gym beast Hafthor Julius Bjornsson trains and talks about the possibility of deadlifting 501Kg on a standard bar, thereby breaking Eddie Hall’s all-time record:

I’m going to say this right now: I don’t believe that anyone will break Eddie’s record anytime soon. The things that he had to do to himself to achieve that 500Kg deadlift were insane. Hafthor’s best deadlift, ever, is still nearly 30Kg less than Eddie’s record – and that best deadlift was done on an elephant bar, which is considerably longer than a standard bar and has a lot more “flex” in it.

That isn’t a mere technicality. The elephant bar bends much more than a standard bar, which means that you can pull a lot more “slack” out of it before you really have to start pulling the actual weight. The range of motion required to pull an elephant bar deadlift is therefore less than that of a standard bar.

It’s not by much – but powerlifting and strongman are sports measured in millimetres and grams, so it does make a difference.

Will someone break Eddie’s record someday? Almost certainly. Will he be alive after doing it? I have no idea, and frankly there is no way that any human can lift that much weight and not pay a terrible price.

Eddie Hall did it back in 2016. He still hasn’t fully cashed the cheques that he wrote against his body to do that lift. That gives you some idea of just how hard it is to do what he did.

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Thanks to Coach Ramsey Dewey, I recently came across an updated modern take on kung fu called sanda, which is a true combat form of kung fu with most of the forms and stances bullshit cut right out. It focuses mostly on combatives and actual fighting, which makes it quite a lethal and powerful fighting style. Unfortunately, it isn’t very popular even in China, its birthplace – but in the hands of a skilled practitioner, I suspect that it could give even muay thai a run for its money in terms of lethality and effectiveness:

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The Grandmaster of my martial arts school has a message of hope and joy for his students, and for all of you:

Watching that video felt a lot like he was standing right in front of me, talking to me directly.

I really miss that. I haven’t seen or felt it for two years.

And his overall message is absolutely spot on. When life comes back, it will ROAR back. Be ready, be healthy, and be raring to go.

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Buakaw Beatdown of the Week:

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#SteelAvenger

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And finally here’s your Instathot for the week. Her name is Anneta Eve, from the UK, and I think she’s 32 years old or thereabouts. Given her looks, my guess is that she has Slavic or Central European ancestry, either Polish or Balkan in nature.

All I know about her beyond this is that she has an OnlyFans site, where of course a bunch of thirsty dudes pay money for her to send them nude photos of herself. Simply put, she’s not just a thot, she’s a radioactive thot, to the point where if she gives you a hickey, you are going to develop a strange and highly irrational addiction to duckface pouts, lip fillers, and stupid poses.

All right, you lot, drop your cocks and grab your socks, it’s CRUSHING TIME!!!

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