Peter Bromberg's UnBlog

A recent study of the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic by a member of the Federal Reserve board and economists at the Fed and M.I.T. compared cities that imposed stringent public health measures — including school and church closings, public gathering bans, quarantines and restricted business hours — with cities that opened faster and imposed fewer restrictions. The more stringent cities not only had fewer deaths but experienced “a relative increase in economic activity from 1919 onward.” I understand how this can be counterintuitive to many people, yet the lessons of history are there.

People across the country are now being called racists unless they publicly support the “protests” by Black Lives Matter, an anti-Semitic movement that calls Israel an “apartheid state,” accuses its Jewish citizens of committing “genocide,” and supports the anti-Semitic boycott, divestment and sanctions movement designed to destroy Israel. Our children are being indoctrinated with lies about what the BLM organization is and what is actually happening on America’s streets – from lies about systemic police racism to the idea that the protestors are peaceful citizens with reasonable demands. Even Nickelodeon and Sesame Street have joined the bandwagon of brainwashing our nation’s kids. "White Silence is White Violence" is the new mantra of the unhinged progressive left - minds that are closed, refuse to look at facts and history, and insist on removing any traces of it by defacing and burning symbols of capitalism and taking down Confederate statues.

Painful memories of ActiveX controls, java applets, Silverlight, Flash and the other attempts at portable code are all being revenged by WebAssembly. I don't care how good someone is at JavaScript. They will make more mistakes (especially subtle, hard-to-find bugs) in JavaScript than they would doing the same task in C#. Every time. Blazor with WebAssembly is mature now to the point of being very useful. The great thing about WebAssembly is that it is a standard, unlike ActiveX or Silverlight.  Here are the steps to create either a Blazor WebAssembly or a Blazor Server app in Visual Studio Code: From a command shell: dotnet new -i Microsoft.AspNetCore.Blazor.Templates::3.2.0-preview1.20073.1 1. Install Visual Studio Code, if not already installed. 2. Install the latest C# for Visual Studio Code extension. 3. For a Blazor WebAssembly experience, execute the following command in a command shell: dotnet new blazorwasm -o WebApplication1 You can do the above from a comman