August 2021 – Page 8 – Bear Bussjaeger

Florida Department of Health Epitomizes “Bureaucracy”

The saga of finding out Florida’s new COVID cases per day continues.

After getting shuffled back and forth, I sent my request to FDH Public Records Center. And late yesterday afternoon I got a response.

It was just an automated email telling me that my request was being processed, with a tracking number; and second email told me to login to the Public Records Center to see the request progress using the login and password below.

There was no password. There was a “change password” link.

It went to a 404 – page not found. So I went to the Public Records Center web page and looked for a login button.

Nope. Nowhere to log in. I played a hunch and clicked the “view requests” link. And that finally brought up a login page. Since I didn’t have a password, I input my “login”, and clicked the “dumbass forgot password” link (happily, I’m paraphrasing).

It told me if I was in the system, it would email me a temp password.

Which it finally did some 15-20 later. So I played link tag again, logged in, set a permanent password, then had to log in again to actually review my request for progress.

It just displayed copies of the first two emails it had sent me.

It’s enough to make me wonder if the lunatic “whistleblower” who set up their ArcGIS COVID tracker, and then changed the data, also set up their Public Records Center site.

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And everyone rooted for the cat.

Yankee Stadium security chases a cat around the field for nearly four minutes and never gets its hands on what might be the most elusive animal that ever lived

Clearly most of the security guys know zip about cats. You do not catch a cat by chasing it. One guy was smart enough to just open a door and let the cat escape.

The entire stadium booing security when they got the cat off the field was a nice touch.

Quote Of The Day: Alan Jones

“We live in a time when smart people are being silenced so that stupid people won’t be offended.”
– Sky News host Alan Jones

Frickin’ Florida Department of Health

Florida used to have an ArcGIS COVID-19 tracking page. It started out useful; then their data entry specialist decided she was a professional epidemiologist, and pumped it full of BS. You’ve probably heard the story: convicted criminal, crazy person, all fake whistleblowy and whiny, had a warrant served on her after she allegedly hacked state systems… At one point, I heard she’d locked out everyone else from the ArcGIS page, assumed sole control, and changed the data. I think that was after they’d canned her ass.

Fun stuff. Never heard if the state ever got its ArcGIS page back. Maybe that’s what caused my next bit of trouble.

At the end of it all, I can no longer find Florida’s COVID daily case numbers, by date of onset/diagnosis/test administered. I’m persistent, so I scoured the Florida COVID page. Not there, so I found their email address for more specific data requests and … requested.

They replied by telling me to check the same damned page again, and if that didn’t work to use the contact at yet another page.

That page showed zilch about COVID reporting, but it had a search bar. That pulled up links to the same pages I’d already gone over, plus a report even less informative. But there’s another email address to request more specific data.

Wait, I’ve seen this before…

I emailed them. And got a reply telling me to check the same goddamned useless pages. And if that doesn’t work to make a public records request to an email address in yet another DPH office.

No response yet, but I have a sneaking suspicion I know what it will be. Lather, rinse, repeat.

Funny thing. You know what it took to get the equivalent data from Georgia?

Click here, scroll down to the “COVID-19 Over Time” graph, click “date of onset. Done.

There’s always someone who misses the memo.

Frickin’ visionaries.

Great Reset: World Economic Forum Declares the ‘Age of Human Robots Is Over’
“Take a walk into the future,” the World Economic Forum (WEF) implored users on social media on Monday, as they presented the Great Reset technological wonders which will free humanity from manual labour in favour of work which requires “understanding what it means to be human.”

Stuart Russell of the University of California, Berkeley said in the video: “We’re getting past the last 10,000 years where we’ve used humans, by and large, engaging only a tiny fraction of human abilities and forcing people into repetitive, tedious dead-end work for the most part.”

“So the age of human robots is over and we have to figure out a new age. That means dramatic changes to the structure of our economy and society,” he declared.

Like 1984, Brave New World was a cautionary tale, not an instruction manual.

Are there large segments of the world’s population stuck in slave-like (if not outright slavery) rote, better-left-to-machines jobs like piecework in third world garment factories? Sure. But you’d better educate, train, and employ them at something before you cut them loose to live lives of pointless “creativity.” Idle hands… workshops…

I think Mack Reynolds wrote a novel — title forgotten — that touched on the revolutionary aspects of permanently unemployed, and very bored, people on universal basic income. That would give some hints.

But for most working Americans, I think this Great Reset BS is repugnantly dystopian. These guys are so disconnected from regular people that they can’t grasp that we might prefer doing things over being house pets. That we might prefer to choose our own lifestyles over being told that we’ll love being penniless, propertyless drones.

Milestone

By the way, I reached a new milestone the other day:

After 19 months of the ChinCOVID pandemic, I now personally know two people who got it. Since that person had been attending family gatherings, I might know more in days to come. Or not; a person who shares a home with the case person, and has been providing care, still hasn’t come down with it.

The recent case was a fully vaxxed person; three weeks after their second mRNA dose (I don’t know if it was Pfizer or Moderna).

In other news, several fully vaxxed workers at a local long-term care facility have come down with ChinCOVID. One person who refused the vax hasn’t never gotten COVID; which fact apparently drives management nuts.

2020-21 U.S. COVID-19 Deaths By Age

Looks like that did wonders for reducing Social Security and Medicare costs, in the long run.

(Click to enlarge; that’s a big image, so they could fit in 85+.)

First Coast “News” …”debunks” another claim.

So someone claimed the feds dumped some illegals off in a Florida town over the weekend.

On Saturday morning, July 1, 2021 at 6:30am two federal government busses stopped in front of a Mexican restaurant in the very small town of Green Cove Springs Florida, where I live. Once stopped, the drivers had everyone … $100 bill and left. The passengers were illegal immigrants, straight from the southern border. Sheriff’s Deputies on the scene said 12 of the illegals had to be immediately transported to the hospital because they had obvious signs of COVID-19.

Sounds bad, eh. But FCN’s “VERIFY” propaganda team jumped in to set the record straight.

VERIFY: No, buses full of undocumented immigrants were not dropped off in Green Cove Springs
According to GCPD, the Mexican Consulate was in the city assisting local Mexicans in obtaining proper identification, documents, COVID testing/vaccines and other social services.

Legal Mexican nationals in the US would have “proper identification.” What the Mexican Consulates issue to illegals in the US is the matrícula consular.

What FCN VERIFY did was clarify that this was a Mexican federal government operation, not US federal.

That’s two straight days of utter bullshit from FCN (and that previous fake story still hasn’t been corrected, nor even acknowledged). Like the stupidly and lethally bad News4Jax, these frauds are exiting my news bookmarks.

What makes her think that was “unintentional”?

How many criminal protection laws do they have to inflict before people understand that criminal protection is the intent? Victim disarmament, and now this:

Washington state police reform goes into effect, violent crime ensues
“While apprehending him was crucial, and obviously incredibly important to the victims, the new law prevented our officers from doing so,” Lt. Claudia Murphy told The Bellingham Herald. “This is one of the unintended consequences stemming from the passage of the law.”

All this was quite predictable, evidenced by the fact that a boatload of people did predict it. The legislators knew this, as did the gov, and they passed and signed it respectively, in full knowledge of what they were doing.

When you are a member of the criminal class, it only makes sense to protect yourself from the law and your victims.

Wait… what?

I have fans?

Just got an email:

Are you still at [XYZ XXXXXC ABCDE]?

Don’t worry, I’m not a bounty hunter, just a fan.

I sort of had a few fans just after Net Assets was first published; someone even nominated me for a Prometheus Award (and to this day I do not know who that was, but thank you). But that was quite a few years ago.