Denmark halts vaccination program, which failed miserably to prevent the massive December-February outbreak and 3,500 additional deaths

 74% of the Danish population was fully vaxxed on September 19, 2021, rising to 80% by January 6, 2022.

They still got creamed.

Almost 3,500 people have died of COVID-19 in Denmark since September 19th, 57% of the total COVID-19 deaths in Denmark to date.

This is a MASSIVE failure.

The liars in Denmark and in the news, however, sweep all that under the rug and report this instead:

... many people have been infected since the omicron variant became the dominant strain of the virus, [the Danish health authority] said, meaning immunity levels among the population are high.

“We are in a good place,” Bolette Soborg, unit manager at the National Board of Health, commented. 

“We have good control of the epidemic, which seems to be subsiding. Admission rates [to hospitals] are stable and we also expect them to fall soon. Therefore, we are rounding up the mass vaccination program against Covid-19.” 

... the shots authorized for use in the West remain effective at preventing serious infection, hospitalization and death from Covid-19.

"I don't feel no ways tired" to stop messing with you now

 Year after disappearing, informant in Trump probe found dead at high school...

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If Drudge only had a rain

 Parkinson's Patient First In World To Receive rain Implant That Reverses Symptoms...

LOL, VP Kamala Harris came down with Covid despite having had TWO booster shots

 

LOL, Trump can't run in 2024 because he's term-limited

 

Mark Penn: Voters are "awash in fears about economic security, border security, international security and even physical security"

inflation

nuclear war

illegal immigration

crime 

American Voters Haven't Been Afraid Like This in Long Time...

 

Fake Native American says Kevin McCarthy is a liar, and a traitor

 

Warren: "Kevin McCarthy is a liar and a traitor" 

C'mon, man, nobody believes Kevin McCarthy is that competent.

Obama White House visitor logs show congenital liar VP Joe Biden met with son Hunter's business partner Eric Schwerin in Nov 2010, who also met Biden aides 18 other times there from 2009-2015

 All the visits are detailed here:

The logs also reveal that Schwerin met with various close aides of both Joe and Jill Biden at key moments in Hunter’s life when he was striking multi-million dollar deals in foreign countries, including China. Yet President Biden has long insisted he had no involvement in his son’s foreign affairs. “I have never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings,” he said in 2019.

 

Paxlovid rebound in viral loads occurs in about 10% of recipients

A host of anecdotal reports began popping up in the past week of people taking Paxlovid experiencing viral remission, negative rapid test and all, and then getting sick again - positive rapid test and all.

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LOL, NYC has fewer than 100 teachers you'd actually want teaching your kids

 The ones using fake vaccination cards, of course.

From the story:

NEW YORK - The New York City Department of Education is placing dozens of educators on unpaid leave to investigate whether they tried to use fake COVID-19 vaccine cards to meet city requirements to continue working in the school system.

School spokesperson Nathaniel Styer said, "Fraudulent vaccination cards are not only illegal, they also undermine the best line of protection our schools have against COVID-19 – universal adult vaccination. We immediately moved to put these employees - fewer than 100 - on leave without pay." ...

The United Federation of Teachers, which represents district employees, says approximately 70 of its members were contacted by the Department of Education. ...

The FDNY and the Sanitation Department have also had issues with fake vaccination cards by department employees.

 

WHO strongly recommends Paxlovid after two trials show it reduced risk of hospitalization for Covid by 85%

 

US pharma giant Pfizer's combination of nirmatrelvir and ritonavir was the "superior choice" of treatment for unvaccinated, elderly or immunocompromised people with Covid, the WHO's experts said in the BMJ medical journal.

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LOL, there was nothing successful about Nebraska's Covid strategy: With 2,169 deaths per million, if it were a country it's worse than France, 38th in the world for Covid deaths as of today

 Inside Nebraska's Surprisingly Effective Covid Strategy...

Unavailable at any price: 53 of my 184 frequently ordered items are not available at Sam's Club this morning . . . 29%!

 Is that the new meaning of inflation?

Climate Update for KGRR: 1Q2022

Climate Update for KGRR: 1Q2022

Winter was 1.5% colder than the mean by average temperature, 1% colder by heating degree days, 44% wetter, and 25% snowier. 

Average Temperature: 27.0

Mean Average Temperature: 27.4

Rain: 9.13

Mean Rain: 6.33

Snow: 50.8

Mean Snow: 40.8

Heating Degree Days: 3389

Mean Heating Degree Days: 3356

How the heck should I know, I just work here?

 

Rod Dreher expresses sympathy for the devil

I'm not shocked by much anymore, but this take shocks me.

Imagine this is your first thought about the side perpetrating unspeakable horrors in Ukraine receiving a well-deserved comeuppance for a change, instead of "Yippee!".

Hard for me.

 

Now endorsed by Trump for Senate from Ohio, J. D. Vance in 2016 couldn't decide if Trump was Nixon or America's Hilter

 Backs Candidate Who Said He's 'America's Hitler'... 

 

Yeah, well, at least Nixon had enough class to concede his stolen election in 1960, and Hitler committed suicide.

 

Vance touting Trump's endorsement makes them birds of a feather:

“Trump fought back and so have I,” Vance adds. “Now, I’ll take our fight to the U.S. Senate.”

 You can count on J. D. Vance in office to advance nothing but J. D. Vance.

Brought to you by the same folks who want to restrict free speech

 

Time to Say 'Enough' to Second Amendment Absolutism

Houston Chronicle

 

 

Yeah, well, Jim Cramer is still on the air last time I checked

 CNBC:

The fight to protect consumers against bad investment advice is slowly advancing

 

For once The Grauniad is correct: The answer is a million Bernie Goetzs riding the rails

 

More Police Power Is Not the Answer to NYC Subway Attack

 

Ross Barkan, Guardian

 

 

It never occurs to this potato that Musk buying Twitter is no different than Bezos buying WaPo

 

Stelter: "A Lot Of Folks" Saying It Is "Troubling" To Have Elon Musk, The World's Richest Person, Buy Twitter

When this stops happening it's over

 The stock market will be closed for Good Friday.

Mamet: The New York Times isn't a newspaper, it's a rag for The State

 

Mamet declined through a representative to comment for this article; in “Recessional,” he dismisses The New York Times as “a former newspaper” and suggests that The Times and other media insist on works that “express ‘right thinking,’ that is, statism.” 

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Vaccine failure: Gridiron Club dinner on April 2 was a superspreader event among the triple-jabbed elites of Washington

New York City Mayor Eric Adams tested positive for the virus on Sunday after waking up with a raspy voice. Adams attended the Gridiron Dinner in Washington, an annual event that brings together prominent government officials and journalists. At least 80 people who attended the dinner, the first since 2019, have tested positive for Covid including several senior government officials, according to Gridiron Club President Tom DeFrank.

Attorney General Merrick Garland, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, Reps. Joaquin Castro and Adam Schiff, and Sen. Susan Collins all tested positive after attending the dinner.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D- Calif., also tested positive for Covid last week but wasn’t experiencing any symptoms and didn’t attend the Gridiron Dinner. Pelosi’s positive result came a day after she stood next to President Joe Biden at a bill-signing ceremony. Biden, who also did not attend the Gridiron Dinner, subsequently tested negative for Covid. 

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In calendar year 2021 in the US 99.85% didn't die of COVID, with mass vaccination, and in calendar year 2020 in the US 99.89% didn't die, with no mass vaccination.

Abortion has left a "million empty spaces" every damn year since 1973 but we're supposed to view the COVID-19 death toll as cruel somehow

 Million empty spaces: Chronicling Covid's cruel American toll...

 

A reckoning is surely coming, and a million dead from COVID-19 is nothing compared to the utter evil cruelty and complacency of Americans in the face of this unspeakable holocaust of over 60 million.

We're as bad as any of the evil perpetrators of communist democide in China or Russia.

LOL, the record used goes back only to 2009

 Producer prices rise 11.2%; Biggest gain on record...

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PPIFID

The oldest measure goes back to 1913:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PPIACO .

The percent change from a year ago is really bad, as in 1974 bad, but hardly the "biggest gain on record", as you can plainly see.

 

 

 

Instead, instead, my kingdom for a head

 

The purchasing power of the US dollar is down 9.4% since Joe Biden was elected in November 2020, just sixteen months ago

 

Percent change from a year ago is shown

 

From 38.4 to 34.8 on the index = 9.375%.

From the spring to the summer of 1933 when FDR confiscated gold and devalued the dollar from $20 to $34 (70%), the decline in this index was 5%, and then 14% by 1940.

 

Yeah, you and The Judds

'Why not us?': Latinos stuck at Mexico border as Ukrainians enter USA... 

 

The country is tired of Donald J. Trump

 Ex-President's NC Rally Draws Fewer Than 2,000 People...

"She", you nitwit

 

LOL, he gets a rapid COVID test every morning and it showed he was negative, despite symptoms

 NYC Mayor infected...

Another incompetent FBI sting operation against the vast right wing conspiracy comes a cropper in Michigan

Remember the Hutaree in 2010?

Obama's FBI tried to transform them, a bunch of yahoos living in a trailer park, into some sort of "armed revolt" against the government hot on the heels of protests after passage of Obamacare. 

"Five days away from fundamentally transforming America", lol, meant sending in paid government operatives to fabricate a dangerous political threat to the nation from the right. 

The m/o hasn't changed.

Now the 2020 Wolverine Watchmen Militia conspiracy to kidnap Governor Hitler has unraveled along similar lines, involving FBI infiltration with multiple actors, orchestration, and entrapment, all of which resulted in a lot of "tough talk" from the so-called conspirators, who were high on drugs and alcohol supplied by the FBI, but no planning of a mission, let alone no possession of an independent capacity to carry one out.

Two Defendants Found Not Guilty in Alleged Plot Against Whitmer

Mistrial Declared for Two Others

2 acquitted in alleged plot to kidnap Michigan Gov... 

 

BLACK EYE FOR DOJ... 

 

Meanwhile in the real world, BLM and Antifa are responsible for $2 billion in riot damage all across the fruited plain in 2020 but the authorities continue to do not one thing about any of them even as BLM leaders have misused funds they raised and lavished it on themselves.

 

Like many so-called January 6th insurrectionists who have been kept locked up for over a year without trial, the two who were acquitted yesterday had been kept locked up for 18 months even though they were ultimately found not guilty. 

The travesty of justice continues in America, at the hands of those entrusted with it.

Abolish the FBI.

LOL, the Drudge help writes "takies" talking about "Thiel" "taking aim"

 Takies aim at Bitcoin's 'enemies' Dimon, Fink...

Republican Senators Collins, Murkowski, and Romney vote to confirm soft-on-sex-crime Judge Jackson to Supreme Court

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There was clearly a rush to push Breyer out and confirm a candidate before Biden becomes any less competent in office than he already is.

AP Obama's coverage is comic:

Jackson will take her seat when Justice Stephen Breyer retires this summer, solidifying the liberal wing of the 6-3 conservative-dominated court. ... Jackson could wait as long as three months to be sworn in, as the court’s  session generally ends in late June or early July. She remains a judge on the federal appeals court in Washington, but she stepped away from cases there when she was nominated in February. 

We won't have Rep. Fred Upton of Michigan to kick around anymore

It's amazing how the new Democrat redistricting law was able to bump off a Republican who has been in Congress since 1986 when beating him fair and square in an election never worked.

That said, Bill Huizenga better represents West Michigan conservatism than Upton ever did, but the redrawn district may mean he'll have a tougher time of it in country club Republican Berrien County.

GOP Rep. Fred Upton to retire :

... redistricting put Upton on a collision course with Huizenga for the newly drawn district.

Remember last fall when a bunch of Nobel economists assured us that gobs more spending by Joe Biden wouldn't have serious inflationary impacts?

 Here's what the ring leader of Tom Nichols' vaunted expert class of economists had to say at the time:

Some, however, have invoked fears of inflation as a reason to not undertake these investments. This view is short-sighted. ... We need safe school buildings and bridges, and affordable child and elder care, whether inflation is 2% or 5%. With the investments being financed by tax increases, the inflationary impacts will be at most negligible ...

The Build Back Better package ... would transform the U.S. economy to be more efficient, equitable, sustainable, and prosperous for the long run, without presenting an inflationary threat.

From Joe Stiglitz' letter last September, here. Robert Shiller of all people signed on to this load of hooey. Carl Schramm unloaded on all this yesterday, here.

Stiglitz wrote that with a straight face when inflation had already soared to 5.3% in July. The orgy of coronavirus spending in 2020-2021 was already stoking the inflation engine, but the experts then simply ignored it, and called for more! more! more!

Now look where we are, even without more.

Government spending in the United States hasn't been financed by tax increases in decades. We wouldn't be $30 trillion in the hole if it were. It's financed by borrowing, and the interest payments on that borrowing progressively accumulate to crowd-out other spending. One day soon interest payments on the debt will become the biggest part of the budget, severely limiting our ability to allocate resources responsibly.

 

 

Redsteeze is supposed to be a writer, but not infrequently posts embarrassments like this

 

"she and them breach public ethics"

US COVID-19 cases and deaths both steeply declined in March 2022

There were about 980 deaths per day in March 2022 from COVID-19 in the United States.

Normal flu deaths per day in an average year are 98.

COVID-19 remains at least ten times more deadly than influenza as Omicron becomes dominant.

There were about 948 deaths per day in 2020, and about 1,310 per day in 2021. 

So far in 2022 deaths per day are 1,726 through March.

Case counts are increasingly unreliable as mass self-testing, which usually goes unreported, becomes more commonplace.

 

Average temperature in 2021 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, was the eighth highest on record in 124 years

The trend line after 123 years of data shows average temperature in Grand Rapids, Michigan, rising 0.7 degrees F, or 0.388 degrees C, 65% less than the 1.1 degrees C claimed for the world by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change yesterday.

And the minimal warming in Grand Rapids may in fact be misleading. Five of the data points in those top eight are from the last twenty-five years, during which increasing development around the KGRR measuring station may well be contributing heat island effects.

 

 

Climate change lunatics must be more pissed off today than Hillary was when Obama robbed her of the Democrat nomination in June 2008

CNBC on UN IPCC's third installment "now or never" report of the current sixth assessment cycle today:

It has been feared that Russia’s unprovoked onslaught in Ukraine may eclipse the findings, despite the fact that the report could be the last comprehensive assessment of climate science while there is still time to secure a liveable future.

 

Drudge right now:

 

 

Maybe they thought they were just homeless

 SHOCK: Bodies of four people killed in Sacramento bar-fight shooting still lying on street 15 hours later...

Anti-capitalist climate scaremongers of the UN IPCC delayed another report because of "disputes over the exact wording of the document"

 The story oddly mentions the dispute without elaborating.

‘It’s now or never’: World’s top climate scientists issue ultimatum on critical temperature limit :

IPCC scientists also repeated calls for a substantial reduction in fossil fuel use to curb global heating, now at 1.1 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. ...

“Climate change is the result of more than a century of unsustainable energy and land use, lifestyles and patterns of consumption and production,” the IPCC’s Skea said. “This report shows how taking action now can move us towards a fairer, more sustainable world.”

What these liars won't tell you is that it was MUCH warmer on Planet Earth in the Late Bronze Age, during the period of the Roman Republic and Empire, and in Medieval times than it is today. Ancient warming made human civilization flourish, and the warming wasn't caused by humans using "fossil fuels", nor has using fossil fuels returned global temperatures to anything like they were in antiquity.

Holocene warming peaked long ago and is trending lower even as human civilization has flourished, and staying alive in future will depend on STAYING WARM and growing enough food to support the increased population, which means developing and using every energy resource at our disposal.

 

LOL, Hungarian politics according to Drudge

 April 2:

VIKTOR ON THE BRINK: Orban Party and Opposition Tied in Poll Before Hungary Vote... 

 

April 3: 

 

ORBAN LANDSLIDE 

 

LOL, Russian superyachts fled to the Maldives, which climate experts 33 years ago falsely predicted would be three feet under water by the year 2000

 

America's idiotic green dream will end up in disaster just like Germany's

 Hans-Werner Sinn, here:

To cushion the twin phaseout of coal and nuclear, and to close supply gaps during the long transition to renewable energy, Germany decided to build a large number of additional gas-fired power plants. Even immediately before Russian forces invaded Ukraine, policymakers assumed that the gas for these facilities would always come from Russia, which supplied more than half of Germany’s needs. ...

Germany’s pledge to abandon coal and nuclear, the very energy sources that would have given it a degree of self-sufficiency and autonomy, has thus placed the country in great danger. Not so long ago, Germany was the world’s second-largest lignite producer, after China. And it easily could have procured the tiny amount of uranium needed to run its nuclear power plants, and stored it domestically for many years. ...

Despite the fact that turbines and photovoltaic panels now dot much of the landscape, in 2021 the share of wind and solar power in Germany’s total final energy consumption, which includes heating, industrial processing, and traffic, was a meager 6.7 per cent. And while wind and solar generated 29 per cent of the country’s electricity output, electricity itself accounted for only about a fifth of its final energy consumption. Germany would not have come close to achieving energy autonomy even if the renewables sector had expanded at twice the speed that it did. ...

If Germany suddenly halted Russian gas imports, gas-based residential heating systems, on which half the German population, approximately 40 million people, rely, and industrial processes that rely heavily on gas imports would break down before replacement energy became available. The government would be unlikely to survive the resulting economic chaos, public uproar, and outrage should gas become unavailable or heating costs rise dramatically. In fact, the likely scale of domestic disruption would call into question the cohesion of the Western response to the Ukraine war.

Adam Tooze's maternal grandparents were both commies, and the grandfather Arthur Wynn wasn't exposed as a Soviet spy until 2009, eight years after his death

Assiduously avoided here in "The Cult of Adam Tooze":

Another model Tooze said he looks to in his role as public intellectual is that of his maternal grandparents. “Leading synthesizers of global data on childhood nutrition,” Peggy and Arthur Wynn published research on poverty and family policy and together wrote a pseudonymous book attacking Tory business connections called England’s Money Lords. (Arthur was also, for a time, a Soviet-spy recruiter at Oxford.) They continued their work into their 90s. Arthur died over his word processor one night after Peggy had gone to bed; he was making a list of things to do.

 

Recession is inevitable according to the chart-readers

The 2-year pays more than the 10-year. The spread is 0.06.

The idea is that ten-year money will return less over the next two years than the two-year money, so who in his right mind would tie up his money for ten years?

 

The US House, controlled by Democrats, wants you high 220-204

CNN -- The House has voted with a slim bipartisan majority to federally decriminalize marijuana. 

The vote was 220 to 204. Republicans Tom McClintock of California, Brian Mast and Matt Gaetz, both of Florida, joined the majority of Democrats in supporting the bill, while Democrats Henry Cuellar of Texas and Chris Pappas of New Hampshire voted against.

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Donald Trump, president of the working class

 

Stonks have really sucked for the last 21.5 years

Average per annum return of 4.77% has been 26% off the long term historical return from 1871 and over 61% off the immediately preceding 21.5 years beginning in February 1979. The Great Reagan Bull didn't even begin until 1982.

The secular bear continues.

 

Phony Russia lies to its people same as the West lies to its people: Demand for payment in rubles starting tomorrow is just face-saving for Putin at home

Meanwhile Russia continues to sell natural gas which Europe desperately requires, and Putin continues to rake in the dough he needs to continue the war and undergird his regime. 

The headline is purely for Russian public consumption.

Putin signs order demanding gas payments in roubles from Friday :

The decree Putin signed on Thursday authorises the state-controlled Gazprombank to open foreign currency and rouble accounts for gas purchases. European buyers would pay in foreign currency and then authorise Gazprombank to make the conversion into roubles, which would then be used to formally purchase the gas.