Russell Kirk's "shop and till conservatives", a bunch of cheats

"But all these are trifles, if we consider the fraud and cozenage of trading men and shopkeepers."

-- Jonathan Swift

Inquiring minds want to know: Why is there so much hesitancy at NIH, FDA, CDC with only 50-60% vaccinated?

 

LOL, this is an actual editorial headline from an American newspaper from the city which just let itself burn down, hung Chauvin out to dry, and whose crime rate is soaring off the charts

 

"Integrity is key after Minnesota's mask mandate is lifted

With no way to police vaccine status, individual honesty and responsibility are critical."

They must be joking. There is no integrity left in America. Every institution is shot through with liars, grifters, power-hungry lunatics and ideologues.

And they represent nothing so much as . . . us.

Lunatic Biden shuts down Keystone, rewards Russkies with pipeline waiver after Colonial hack

Not The Onion.

Not Babylon Bee.

According to Mitch Daniels, injuries from mass vaccination with experimental new technologies which do not have FDA approval are just collateral damage

"That, just as medicines have side effects, almost all actions produce collateral consequences, often collateral damage."

His remarks are a cavalcade of crazy, not the least of which is:

"We can overcome even the biggest obstacles and be the masters of our fates and our futures."

You know, just like Amelia Earhart and Gus Grissom.

Jack Cashill calls them the Pontius Pilate Republicans, which is kinda unfair to Pilate

Why Has the Right Let the Floyd Cops Fry?

Feeling they had to say something about the Derek Chauvin verdict, the Republicans in Congress seemed to take their cues from Pontius Pilate. “I think the jury did its job,” said Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst all too typically, “and I would – I did not follow, of course, all the parts of the trial, but I would say that given the information they received, they did their job, and I guess I’m in agreement.” The sound of hands being washed echoed throughout Capitol Hill.

I find in him no fault at all. -- John 18:38

Know that I find no fault in him. -- John 19:4

I find no fault in him. -- John 19:6

From thenceforth Pilate sought to release him. -- John 19:12

Inflation: Last year TurboTax cost me $110, this year $255

CDC Director Walensky, who is not a Flying Wallenda, goes out on a limb and says the science evolved in two weeks, masks no longer necessary for the vaccinated

 

The euphoria in the US about the COVID-19 situation is the direct inverse of the hysteria

 

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Bathroom transmission of COVID-19

From: Preventing Fecal-Oral And Fecal-Aerosol Transmission Of Covid-19

Though the main way Covid-19 spreads will always be from person to person, exposure to infectious waste and sewage has a part to play in starting outbreaks, especially in apartment buildings or schools where many people share close quarters at regular intervals of the day. ...

Fecal-aerosol transmission, according to a research paper published in Annals of Internal Medicine in December 2020, was suspected to be the cause of a Covid-19 outbreak in a high-rise apartment building in Guangzhou, China that infected at least nine people across three separate households. ...

Almost all of the environmental samples that came back positive were from the master bathrooms, giving the researchers reason to believe that the drainage pipes connecting the three units were to blame.

US Covid-19 update for Sunday May 16, 2021: With nearly 47% of the population vaccinated with one dose, no metric has beaten lows achieved without vaccines

 

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still 2k higher in May 2021 than Sep 2020

Click on any chart to enlarge.

same as in Sep 2020 but not a new low

bouncing off 4% without equaling the Jun 2020 low

mortality still has a ways to go to equal Jul 2020

Why no one can get a fair trial in increasingly libertarian America

If justice stood on the side of the single person, it ought to give good men pleasure to see that right should take place; but when, on the contrary, the commonweal of a whole nation is overborn by private interest, what good man but must lament?

-- Jonathan Swift

Now that USA CDC has said people vaccinated against COVID-19 can stop wearing masks, let's acknowledge how well masks worked

In Africa.

The continent was a veritable beacon of mask requirements from the Med to the Cape of Good Hope.

And Africa has the COVID-19 case graph to prove how successful this was!

Cases per million in Africa never topped 25! Whereas in North America the metric hit nearly 475/million.

 

Those dang libertarians really screwed things up big time in El Norte with their "We don't need no stinkin' masks!"

For true conservatism which actually works, look to Africa.

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How come 40%+ of FDA, NIH, CDC employees are not vaccinated against COVID-19?

 Asking for a friend.

This has to be the dumbest blackout story ever written: The crisis is entirely of their own making

Blackouts Threaten Entire U.S. West This Summer as Heat Awaits :

States shuttering coal and gas-fired power plants simply aren’t replacing them fast enough to keep pace with the vagaries of an unstable climate, and the region’s existing power infrastructure is woefully vulnerable to wildfires (which threaten transmission lines), drought (which saps once-abundant hydropower resources) and heat waves (which play havoc with demand).

 

Well don't shutter 'em then!

 

Bunch of idiots.

I'm so old I remember when AIDS was going to wipe out America

"In 2017, 16,358 people with HIV died, and 5,534 of those deaths were from HIV-related causes." 

COVID-19 has wiped out that many since April 18th.

A gasoline pipeline hack, inflation, and Liz Cheney are bigger news.

Daily new COVID-19 cases per million fell 62% in South Korea in the two months before vaccination began on Feb 25, and rose 70% in the two months after

South Korea, which has 7.2% of its population vaccinated with at least one dose, uses the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine on its frontline medical workers and the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine on the more numerous population in the long-term care arena: 

By the end of March, authorities plan to complete injecting the first doses to some 344,000 residents and workers at long-term care settings, who will receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines, and 55,000 frontline medical workers, who will receive shots developed by Pfizer and BioNTech.

COVID-19 cases fell without the aid of vaccines in South Korea, and rose again despite them.

Since vaccination began on Feb 25, deaths per million stands today only where it was when the effort first began two and a half months ago.

vaccination

cases

deaths

The Chinese COVID vaccine is a giant nothing burger in Chile

The Chinese COVID vaccine is not preventing much of anything in Chile after three months.

84% of the COVID vaccine doses administered in Chile to date have been Chinese. The effort began in earnest in early February.

44% have received at least one dose of any COVID vaccine in Chile since that time.

Unfortunately, daily new cases per million is still up 44% since the vaccination effort began in early February. And daily new cases per million remains highly elevated compared with the lows of last November, achieved naturally long before any vaccines were available.

Why isn't vaccination producing a low rate similar to that?

Meanwhile deaths per million is still up, 17% since early February when the vaccination effort began. The rate is more than twice as high as it was last November when no vaccines were available at all.

Yet China is distributing these things like hotcakes, over 100 million doses so far, and the WHO is authorizing them for emergency use for the first time.

WHY?

Good a day as any to remember that Alan Greenspan in 2007 explicitly advocated for immigration to suppress the wages of skilled laborers

Greenspan: Let more skilled immigrants in :

"Our skilled wages are higher than anywhere in the world," he said. "If we open up a significant window for skilled workers, that would suppress the skilled-wage level and end the concentration of income."

Yeah, the problem isn't millionaires and billionaires concentrating wealth in their hands, it's the goddamn skilled laborers who must be stopped, the engineers, scientists, doctors and teachers, the crane operators, CDL truck drivers, machinists, drafters, plumbers, craftsmen, cooks and accountants.

 

Quaility Check, Vern: Even the ads at Drudge are misspelled

 

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