Notes For Door-To-Door Salesmen

  1. I don’t like door-to-door salesmen.
  2. Door-to-door salesmen are not allowed by the HOA.
  3. Being a perfect stranger coming to my door and asking what home security systems I have installed is bad.
  4. Trying to sell me Internet Of Things, web-based, security systems is insane
  5. Oh, yeah. A “security” company rep so unobservant, completely lacking situational awareness, as to miss all the “no soliciting signs” does not recommend the company to me.

Don’t be that guy. He actually seemed shocked that I especially didn’t want to tell him my security secrets.

Could have been worse. There was one person so suspicious that I called the police, and they thought the report was weird enough that put out a BOLO, and pulled her over.

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Disabling Amazon Sidewalk

If you have an Amazon surveillance device, you should immediately disable the new mass networking feature, Sidewalk, which the company is rolling out. 357Magnum has some instructions.

However, that isn’t a good fix. Just as Amazon enabled this “feature” without your permission, they can re-enable it with another patch. I suggest a more permanent fix.

  1. Turn off the device
  2. Unplug it from power and Internet
    Beat the device to shards with the biggest hammer you can manage
  3. Place remnants in trash
  4. Never, ever be foolish enough to replace thing
  5. And if you were stupid enough to buy an Internet-enabled “smart TV,” shoot it

That should take care of the problem for a while.

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DC Rep. Holmes is an ill-informed idiot.

She’s all upset that all crash test dummies are male.

“Women have achieved equality on the road when it comes to driving, but when it comes to safety testing to keep them safe on the road, they are nowhere near achieving equality,” Norton said.

“Crash test standards are incredibly antiquated, and we must update these standards now, especially as more people return to their daily commute in the next few months,” she added.

She probably should have checked the DOT NHTSA’s Quick Reference Guide (2010 Version) to Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards and Regulations

There are female dummies (not to mention men, infants, and children), they’ve had them for decades

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So much for helping Occasionally-Firing-Cortex’s abuela.

I wrote yesterday about Matt Walsh fundraising for AOC’s abuela, whom the ditz claimed was living in a squalid, hurricane-damaged house.

TThe campaign raised over $104,000, in less than 12 hours.

UPDATE: “Someone” in AOC’s abuela’s family told GoFundMe that she won’t take our money, even though AOC previously claimed that her grandma was in dire straits (and it was Trump’s fault). AOC still hasn’t acknowledged this effort or thanked us. Instead, she seems to think that it is worth $104,153 of her abuela’s money to express that doesn’t want money from the likes of us. Abuela could have accepted the money and donated it to charity, but it seems AOC preferred to insult the 5.800 people who donated.

That sounds rather peculiar. I’d think they’d want to fix granny’s leaky roof, at least. Refuse the money just because it came from nasty conservatives? I have another suspicion.

Just how old were the pictures AOC posted? If abuela has been living in that house for a couple of years post-hurricane, where in the bed’s mattress? Is the house still damaged? Or was this another fairy tale to illustrate how bad things could be? Were they afraid to accept the money under — rather public — false pretenses?

It would be nice if someone in Puerto Rico could take a drive past the house and get current pictures.

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Must be another wanna-be whose career was going nowhere.

Some actress of whom I’d never heard, and whose top role was apparently a minor supporting role in a film or TV show of which I’d likewise never heard, “came out as queer and gender non binary on Wednesday, adding that she is pansexual.”

It’s name is now “Lio.”

Bizarre, the things failed “celebrities” will do for a little attention. I’m not sure if she’s hoping for new acting jobs, or desperately widening her dating options due to no guy wanting anything to do with her.

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Give it up, CDC.

Sheesh.

COVID-19 still poses severe risk to unvaccinated teens: CDC
While most coronavirus hospitalizations occur in adults, the coronavirus still poses the threat of severe disease to teens, according to a new study issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Nearly a third of teens ages 12-17 hospitalized with COVID-19 ended up in the intensive care unit, with 5% ultimately being placed on ventilators.

The Infection Fatality Rate for 10-17yo is a whopping 0.00010, or 0.010%. I wasn’t specifically tracking it, but the 10-17yo death total hasn’t budged in months.

18-29yo: IFR 0.00063, or 0.063%.

The overall IFR, all ages, is 0.0202, or 2.02%.

Unless teens have serious co-morbidities (just like everyone else) their non-“vaccinated” ChinCOVID risk is probably a lot lower than the “vaccine risk.

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Conservatives step up to do what Ocassionally-Firing-Cortex won’t.

Help her grandmother.

TL;DR; The ditz tweeted about how her sick granny’s house is still damaged and leaking since Hurricane Maria. Many, many people called her out for not doing anythinng herself (beside claiming she was merely calling attention to “systemic injustices).

So Matt Walsh of the Daily Wire started a GoFundMe campaign to raise money for repairs, since out of the financial reach of a House Rep making $174,000 per year.

As of this writing, it’s up to $30,934, in just three hours. ‘Cuz those evil conservatives are more willing to help a Latina than her own family.

Walsh kicked it off with $499 of his own money. That terrible person.

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‘Cuz Every Village Needs An Idiot

It’s not like I give a damn what Moore thinksbabbles incoherently, but he keeps showing up in my news feeds.

Michael Moore: ‘We Need a Stacey Abrams in Every State’
Moore replied, “We need a Stacey Abrams in every state.”

Georgia would be happy to donate ours to whatever state is stupid enough to want her.

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Did ChinCOVID cases drop because of “vaccinations”?

Axios thinks so.

Axios Attributes Low Chinese Coronavirus Levels to Vaccines
Cases of the Chinese coronavirus are at their lowest levels since March 2020, the beginning of the pandemic, which Axios attributes to the nation’s mass vaccination effort.
[…]
Axios also claimed the U.S. “largely failed to contain the virus until the vaccines arrived.” However, Florida, for example, reopened its state months earlier than blue states, before vaccines were readily available, yet it continued to consistently report fewer new cases of the virus per capita than states such as the most pro-lockdown, pro-mask states such as New York.

I won’t speak of the whole country, because the public data is crap (Johns-Hopkins lumps positive antibody tests, non-specific rapid antigen tests, Ct>40 PCR tests, and non-testing “diagnosis” together, then confuses day the test report was received for date of onset). But Georgia reports far better quality data.

Here is new cases per day, by symptom onset or date of test.

Note that Georgia peaked on January 4, 2021, and has been droping like a rock ever since. Is mass “vaccination” responsible?

No. Georgia began rolling out the first “vax” — Pfizer — mid-December, 2021, but it was restricted to medical personnel. It wasn’t available to the general public — and then only limited high-risk people — until mid-January when new cases were already in freefall.

“Vaccinations” slowly ramped up and finally peaked on March 25, nearly three months into the new cases powerdive. “Vaccinations” tapered off after that, as new cases continued to drop like a flamed-out F-4.  In fact, in my public health district, they began closing the mass-vax sites… because no one was coming in to get jabbed.

Unless you posit that that nearly all Georgia ChinCOVID cases are attributable to superspreader medical personnel, “vaccinations” were not responsible for the case drop.

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