How the FBI gets in the middle of these things is it’s own puzzle - why do all presidential candidates these days have to be so damned dirty …
One should never be so naive as to trust government, but I notice that I do anyway, and therefore find it disconcerting when it becomes clear how rotten all of these powerful institutions are …
Masks served the political need to “do something”, and they ended up being a way for us to wear our fear on our faces - implied shared suffering. A symbol of our grief at the change COVID gave us. But there was never a reason to think they would help stop an virus that spread via aerosol.
As others have observed, the real injury will be when the CDC that has proven to be a political toy has to try to intervene if we see something even more nasty than COVID.
It wasn’t only Dr. Fauci. Miller subjects the CDC and its claims about masking to strict scrutiny and finds them wanting. The amount of cherry-picked data and flawed methodologies embraced in CDC studies of masking is astounding. None of the 15 studies the CDC used to justify its claims that masks work are randomized controlled studies, considered the standard for such research. Worse, when randomized controlled studies that were conducted during the pandemic did not bolster the CDC’s masking message, they were downplayed or ignored.
They discuss conjectures about why lifting the mandate did not result in the catastrophe that the mask manic predicted. My speculation is that no one changed their behavior, which is to say, the mandate didn’t result in the mass masking everyone pretended would happen based on government edict. The 2nd reason is that, excepting N95/KN95 masks, the aerosol spread of COVID isn’t hindered by masks.
See/listen here for more on that: https://peterattiamd.com/covid-part2/
From the Atlantic:
“In early march, Texas became the first state to abolish its mask mandate and lift capacity constraints for all businesses. Conservatives hailed Governor Greg Abbott’s decision, while liberals predicted doom and death and President Joe Biden disparaged it as “Neanderthal thinking.”
Cloth and surgical masks don’t help to stop aerosol transmission - N95 and KN95s might if they’re worn properly. So, it’s time to let go of the “mask to save someone from your breathing” peer pressure. Wear the right mask if you think you need it.
And … there are several angles on why these articles can be published now, when the information has been around for months. One is the political party that made hay via mask mania tribalism realizes the fun is over, folks have had enough of the religion of masking to save your mortal soul. So they have to find a graceful way to step back from their past mask madness.
https://www.bloombergquint.com/gadfly/did-mask-mandates-work-the-data-is-in-and-the-answer-is-no
There’s always good with the bad, this is one possible example:
“The biggest benefit of emissions is global greening, the increase year after year of green vegetation on the land surface of the planet. Forests grow more thickly, grasslands more richly and scrub more rapidly. This has been measured using satellites and on-the-ground recording of plant-growth rates. It is happening in all habitats, from tundra to rainforest. In the four decades since 1982, as Bjorn Lomborg points out, NASA data show that global greening has added 618,000 square kilometres of extra green leaves each year, equivalent to three Great Britains. You read that right: every year there’s more greenery on the planet to the extent of three Britains.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/02/15/why-global-warming-is-good-for-us/
Studies acknowledged by FDA officials show that the FDA’s various safety databases only collect an estimated 1 to 13 percent of all adverse eventsthat occur. Multiple FDA drug safety epidemiologists have stated during official FDA presentation that it only takes a single well-documented adverse event to justify a safety signal investigation and in turn to warn the American public of the potential risk.
“There’s an extraordinary difference—even greater than widely recognized—between Covid-19’s effects on kids and its effects on adults, as fatality numbers show. Far from regarding this important fact as a godsend for the upcoming generation, however, many policymakers have treated it as an irrelevancy. At the same time, they have ignored that children living in mask-mandate states have had essentially identical Covid fatality rates as kids living in mask-free states.“
https://www.city-journal.org/school-mask-mandates-are-unnecessary
"A socialist is someone who has read Lenin and Marx. An anit-socialist is someone who understands Lenin and Marx." President Ronald Reagan
"Socialism only works in two places. Heaven where they don't need it and hell where they already have it." President Ronald Reagan
https://www.city-journal.org/k-12-science-curriculum-environment
Now we teach passion and strongly held belief and call it "climate science". There is, of course, real climate science and hopefully those engaged in it will eventually start calling out those who use strongly held belief wrapped in the sheep skin of science.
Whatever you do, don't dare to speak the truth about tragic events.
"We will never hear the last of these names. Eric Garner. Alton Sterling. Michael Brown. George Floyd. Rashad Brooks.https://spectator.org/daunte-wright-shooting/
I don't have any idea what to say about the so-called president's ideas. Maybe he's "crazy like a fox", but I doubt it. Who knows how many cronies you can pay off with a 6 trillion dollar spending spree.
"On the menu today: No, really, you can’t keep track of the Biden administration’s trillion-dollar spending bills without a scorecard — and this administration appears to be whistling past the graveyard on the threat of inflation; there’s some easily overlooked good news on COVID-19 over the past two weeks; another police controversy, this time in California’s Bay area; and looking ahead to Thursday night’s NFL Draft."https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/bidens-trillion-dollar-train-wreck/
What the science can determine versus what the Alarmists say - it’s just stupid. People make claims in the name of science that science cannot possibly have determined.
Science is conjecture, attempt to disprove, reassess or refine conjecture, attempt to disprove. If unable to disprove, conjecture may become hypothesis.
Alarmism is pure conjecture, strongly held belief. In other words, some weak assed shit.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/climate-media-vs-climate-science-11618355224?mod=djemalertNEWS
Deming reportedly said “It’s not what we don’t know that gets us, it is what we know that isn’t so.”
https://nypost.com/2021/04/24/obama-admin-scientist-says-climate-emergency-is-based-on-fallacy/
Who will you believe, your lying eyes or the climate alarmists?
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/04/23/how-global-warming-isnt/
"I won’t quibble over the word “free,” for my interlocutor didn’t mean these benisons of modern society cost nothing but that the cost isn’t borne by the user in the form of fees. He knows full well that we pay for them with taxes and borrowing. And it can be conceded that they’d provide strong if not necessarily compelling grounds to support socialism if it deserved credit for them.
"But does it? Does our impulse to help others start with a socialist impulse or any ideology? Or is the truth entirely different?"
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/the-selfishness-at-the-heart-of-socialism
I can remember hearing Rush as far back as 1990 when I was in flight training in Corpus Christi, TX. He was already re-married and went through his first round of weight loss by 1991 when I had completed flight training and was learning to fly and fight a P-3C Orion in Jacksonville, FL. I was grateful to him for his ability to fight the absurdity of political correctness with logic. Ups and downs, joys and sorrows, trials and triumphs; Rush was fully human and therefore, fully imperfect. He was mostly in service of himself but he accidentally struck mighty blows for human liberty and I'm grateful for that, too.
https://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2021/02/19/remembering_the_great_rush_limbaugh_660896.html
https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/03/biden-prepares-to-strip-college-students-of-due-process-rights/
Oh, so funny, that doesn't happen to the Bidens! C'mon man ...
