Get the Hell Out of Here 2021 and Oh, Shit, Here Comes 2022

 The big underlying current that drives events and reaction to events seem to be the ongoing tension between the portion of the population that is fed up with epidemic restrictions and recognizes that they don’t work and the highly politicized group that are frankly safety-obsessed nuts and reality deniers.  Increasingly people seem to be shifting to the former group, both in behavior and in their overt opinions.  But the latter group has a strong hold on those who make many of the decisions.  I expect this tension to continue through most of the year, but eventually those I consider the realists will prevail, partly because of the political situation described below.

The administration of floundering bozos who currently run the country are desperate to get out of the epidemic.  Nothing, literally nothing is going right for them and they can’t really highlight other issues (although what winning issues the whackos fantasize they have is beyond the ken of mortal man, or woman) until they can declare an end to and victory over the epidemic.  You can read the tea leaves from Fauci, Walensky, et al, the political stooges of the White House.  Backtracking as fast as they can from their former rigid orthodoxy about how the epidemic had to be handled.  Suddenly PCR tests aren’t reliable indicators of infectiousness and maybe every hospitalization and death attributed to CV-19 actually wasn’t caused by it.  Two Democrat governors have said very clearly that mask mandates are worthless and masks do nothing to stop the spread.  I am shocked that they were not instantly struck down with lightening bolts for such heretical apostasy to the mask religion.  The mass media, which is slavishly devoted to the interests of the progressive wing of the Dumocrat party, is even publishing articles about the need to move on.

Nothing is going to stop the butt-kicking coming in November, but it will be magnitudes worse if we aren’t out of the epidemic by then, so I predict that sometime in the spring, the Presidementia will declare victory and do everything possible to end all restrictions and return to “normal”, if we even remember what that was.  He and his party have to get the CV-19 millstone off their necks.  Too late for the generation of children whose mental health and life goal attainment we have so substantially damaged.  And just like that, the epidemic will be over and will recede into the background, no matter what new variants arise.

But we can’t let that be the end of this sorry episode.  If the opposition party takes Congress in the fall, we need extensive hearings and investigations which fully expose to the public the political machinations behind this Administration’s responses to the epidemic and the lack of data and science to support them.  And we need a new set of laws which set clear limits on executive power across the country and on the declaring of emergencies for any period beyond a week.  With the available technology, there is no excuse for significant decisions not being made by representative bodies in conjunction with the executive branch.  And we must ensure that never again are children held hostage as pawns by teachers’ unions.  That process should start in 2022 and if it doesn’t, that will be the most significant disappointment of the upcoming year.

Free T-Shirt with Every Entry!

 Mark Steyn:

As I was saying on Fox News recently, every border on the planet is currently locked down, except the US southern border, which has been entirely dissolved by order of Dementia Joe.

When I flew in to Logan Airport in Boston not so long ago, the Department of Homeland Wankery (aside from herding us all into a confined space that made "social distancing" impossible so they could advise us of the need to social-distance) asked for me a street address and telephone number, and then left tedious messages demanding to know if I was "quarantining".

Yet, when over a hundred illegal aliens with no right of admission to the United States arrive in Brownsville, Texas and test positive for ChiCom-19, they're discharged into the community without addresses and phone numbers to board Greyhound buses for every state.

Just behind them are another bunch of pre-amnestied-Americans all wearing identical Joe Biden T-shirts. That's win-win: The Democrats get new voters, and Chairman Xi gets the merchandising concession.

The law-abiding and healthy are locked down; the lawless and infected have the run of the land. And yet the citizenry put up with it.

Covid by Mail

 

How is Gov. Cuomo Not Guilty of Involuntary Manslaughter?

Gov. Cuomo has been gaming the system in order not to attribute deaths due to Covid-19 to infections caught in nursing homes. According to Betsy McCaughey writing at Fox, the number of deaths as a result of Cuomo’s nursing home policy is “likely closer to 10,000.” That number would be near half of the 23,564 cororna virus deaths NY has experienced to date...

Given the state of knowledge on March 25, when Cuomo and Zucker enacted their policy, it is fair to say that New York’s policy amounted to a death sentence for many nursing home residents — deaths that would not have occurred but for this policy. And it is fair to say that both Cuomo and Zucker knew it. It is also textbook involuntary manslaughter. 18 U.S. Code § 1112, defines the federal crime of Manslaughter as the commission, “without due caution and circumspection, of a lawful act which might produce death.” The President should invite the AG to begin an appropriate investigation.

This case is like the drunk who kills someone in a traffic accident. He may not have intended to kill anyone but he is guilty of manslaughter.

Fashion’s “Made in Italy” tag is connected to a Chinese disease.

In the world of fashion, the “Made in Italy” tag has a distinct value associated with luxury and status. Merchants can charge higher prices for clothing, shoes, handbags, and other fashion goods manufactured in Italy, and that value was coveted by certain Chinese entrepreneurs. During the past three decades, more and more Chinese investors bought into textile and leather-good factories in northern Italy, and they brought over Chinese laborers to work in those factories. By 2010, there were reportedly 60,000 Chinese in Prato, an industrial suburb of Florence. To accommodate Italy’s new foreign labor force, nonstop flights were established between China and Rome.

None of this was a secret. The Chinese takeover of “Made in Italy” fashion was reported by, among other publications, the Chicago Tribune (“Chinese immigrants transform Italy’s fashion industry,” Jan. 2, 2009), the New York Times (“Chinese Remake the ‘Made in Italy’ Fashion Label,” Sept. 12, 2010), the BBC (“The Italian fashion capital being led by the Chinese,” Feb. 12, 2013), Reuters (“Italy’s Chinese garment workshops boom as workers suffer,” Dec. 29, 2013), the Associated Press (“Clashes amid Italy’s crackdown on its Chinese community,” July 1, 2016) and the New Yorker (“The Chinese Workers Who Assemble Designer Bags in Tuscany,” April 9, 2018). In the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, however, our media seem to have gotten a case of collective amnesia; readers and viewers are left mystified as to why Italy has become the epicenter of this pandemic.

... should we suspect that these reporters are deliberately overlooking the connection between Italy’s Chinese labor force and this deadly pandemic?

Yes.  One of the numerous ways the MSM lies is by omitting vital details.

Diamond Princess Mysteries

We are getting a lot of crappy information from the MSM who are spending their time telling us that we're all going to die.  well, that's true, but not from the Wuhan flu, or from global warming, or any of the other Apocalypse endings they are predicting.

Here's some data that gives an accurate analysis of the illnesses and deaths, by age group on the Diamond Princess which was quarantined when it was discovered that the ship was infected.

SUMMARY:

... 83% of the people on the ship didn’t get it, despite perfect conditions for transmission. If you get it, you have about a 50/50 chance of showing no symptoms at all. And the fatality rate is lower than the earlier estimates of 2% or above.

This ship is a near-perfect test case.

As you might imagine, before they knew it was a problem, the epidemic raged on the ship, with infected crew members cooking and cleaning for the guests, people all eating together, close living quarters, lots of social interaction, and a generally older population. Seems like a perfect situation for an overwhelming majority of the passengers to become infected.
And despite that, some 83% (82.7% – 83.9%) of the passengers never got the disease at all … why?

 This, despite the fact that the number of people older people was much larger than the population of the US.  Cruise ships are places where you find lots of people over 70 and 80.  They're richer and have nothing better to do with their time.

The press is scaring us to death, destroying the economy and doing so for it's own political and financial purposes.

Read the whole thing.  With lots of charts and graphs.