When it really happens: SHTF...

[HOOKED ON HISTORY]

Covid deaths here are now just slightly over the daily average for the seasonal flu. 331 per day seasonal flu, 451 Covid, out of 7970 from all causes per day. Still don't know if this number has actually changed or numbers from one type of death were simply transferred to Covid

Sad to hear it got Herman Cain.
Seemed to me (as far as it is possible to tell not having met him) he was a very genuine and honest man with a very optimistic and cheerful nature.
I will miss his take on current events.
May he rest in peace.

[Ovidio]

We have extended the state of emergency here, although there is no emergency.
Most cases are imported via illegal immigration, but that does not seem to bother the very democratic government we have.
They even put all decisions they took from January until now under state secret, just to show us all what democracy means when someone who calls himself democratic can grab power...
These politicians are more dangerous that it seems.
Who dares talk about the situation saying that it is under control (some of the best clinical doctors in the country) gets destroyed by the armada of lined up journalists, opinion makers and politicians.
This pandemic will keep running until our next elections, I can bet on it.
Unless the unrest in the country, mostly due to economic and immigration issues, will detonate and create a wholly new situation.

[Gil Boyd]

Ovidio,
My concern is winter.............I do think if we all keep our distance and wear masks in and around close confinement, we might not see traditional flu and colds take any hold this year. Just my opinion!!

[fjruple]

Well, another week has past and the gun cases are getting emptier and emptier. We got are first S&W and Sig Sauer pistols in, two SD9, one SD40, a P365XL with manual safety and a M17. The S&W SD9s were gone within the first hour. The SIG Sauers were gone by the next day. I had a gentleman bring back a black Troy A4 Other in 5.56mm who had buyer's panic and want to return the gun. We gave him the full price return which we did not have to do. That lasted one hour in the gun rack. I had another return a OD Green Troy A4 Other in 5.56mm because safety switch did not "look" right. While I was putting a new safety switch in the gun. I had a customer purchase the gun out of hands. I am back doing gunsmithing full time again. I should have never sold my milling machine as I could use it now. I am getting customers who cannot find a defense shotgun bringing in one of their hunting shotguns to cut the barrels down to the legal limit. I must have done about 5 of them so far. The ammunition situation has worsen. The local distributor is limiting the number of cases to purchase per dealer so we are limiting our purchases to 5 box per customer. Still getting customers who seem to have been living under a rock or in a cave since the Covid-19 virus started and wonder why we can not get firearms. AR parts are starting to dry up or getting outrageously priced. Gun parts are taking four weeks or longer to get. Some manufacturers have stopped selling parts to dedicate the parts to production. I have resorted to e-bay to purchase parts. Customers do not care about cost they just want their guns fixed. NICS is still taking 4 to 5 days. It has been brutally hot and humid for the past two weeks. Today it seems we are getting a break and it is raining. Well, that's it on the NJ home front. Everyone stay safe and healthy.

Update: After I had written this post yesterday I stopped in the shop to drop off two firearms that I repaired. Christmas in July was the last day in July. The boss is as happy as a "pig in *hit". The Troy dealer showed up with 17 Troy A4 Others both in 5.56mm and 9mm. The feeding frenzy has started!! Blood is in the water!! Shut up and just take my money!! We have another 30 coming in next week and the additional 30 in the week after that. We are also getting tactical shotguns from the same source. If we can keep up this pace through to after the election in November we should be Okay. I don't think there will be much of a hunting season this year as most production of guns and ammunition is focused on the tactical stuff.

[Gil Boyd]

The heat will have an impact on the virus the hotter it is apparently the more it will be killed...........alledgedly

[Ovidio]

Think positive, Gil!

[emmagee1917]

The heat will have an impact on the virus the hotter it is apparently the more it will be killed...........alledgedly

Didn't the leaders in the US say that the heat will help kill the virus her while Australia's leaders were saying the same thing about the onset of winter ?
Chris

[Ovidio]

Well, we had 358 new infections. All newspapers say it is the new tragedy coming.
We’re lost... up from 330 and change.
Then, you read further on and... Not a single person with symptoms.
Veneto, again considered a high risk region, has 136 new infections.
133 from illegal immigrants who just landed in Italy and were transfered over there.
But you read that only on page 52, bottom right corner.
ICUs are again at pre-covid levels. Since June, actually.
People mostly live as normal, without many thoughts. Just a tad more distance, but relatively normal life.
I’m still pretty sure that in Italy Covid will last until 2023,when the legislature will end.
The government is using it to keep elections away, no matter the cost of this operation.
But fall will come, and the earthquake in our economy will follow it. The signs are unmistakable. And it will be a real blow!
That will probably change everything...

[Gil Boyd]

Ovidio,
I trust in my son who is in the British Army's Royal Army Medical Corps now, being ex Parachute Regiment, and he says with his experience of fighting Ebola in Sierra Leone on behalf of other countries, who need British expetise.........AGAIN, the heat is a real killer!! He is currently in kenya doing exactly that!!

Sorry guys, but I get well ****ed off when I hear these so called experts vent their spleens, knowing that it is my son that is fighting these viruses at the sharp end, not these desk bound jockeys reading from books and spouting the knowledge thousnads of miles away, and seperated from his family for months.
So take it from me, HEAT is the killer................and a vaccine EVENTUALLY will defeat this **** virus!!!

[Aragorn243]

Here in the US, it's getting really crazy but not because of people getting sick. It's all about this malaria drug Trump suggested might combat Covid and because he suggested it, the media and their allies refuse to even consider he might be right. Hundreds if not thousands of doctors are using this successfully but if they mention it, they get scrubbed from social media. One got fired from her job, she's a doctor and was using it. It's being used all around the world yet here they are fighting over it continuing to say it's not only worthless and untested against COVID, it's outright dangerous. It has a 56 year history of being used and side effects are extremely rare. Media reports it's deadly. What a crock.

And these same groups are pushing for a vaccine as fast as they can possibly produce it. No testing, if tested, only a couple of months for results. Nothing to fear here.