Just to keep track of the nonsense that has wrecked our economy and generally made our politicians run around as if their fool heads were on fire, each day I publish the corona virus total death toll in the US based upon the latest data I can find. A single death is an immense tragedy if you love the person. However, we are not talking about love, but rather public policy, which should always involve a sober analysis of risk and cost. Please recall that in a bad normal flu year our death toll in the US can be as high as 90,000.
Note: this will be a total death toll since the beginning of this bad farce, and not a daily toll. As of the beginning of July 20, 2020 the claimed, as suspect as that claim is, death toll is 143,289 .
Gov. John Bel Edwards of LA, Catholic pro life Democrat, asks his citizens of Louisiana to pray and fast July 20-23. to defeat COVID-19, “Give up lunch and pray”.
https://www.klfy.com/louisiana/governor-calls-for-3-days-of-fasting-prayer-during…
12 hours ago · BATON ROUGE, La. (KLFY) Governor John Bel Edwards is asking Louisianians to participate in three days of fasting and prayer during lunch …
President Trump recently tweeted a photo of himself in a mask. The pro-face mask media of course has not given him any credit for doing so, and has instead released articles about how horrible it is that he waited so long.
But the media is a constant factory for rage and expects its viewers to have short memories and short attention spans. They can’t keep the story of “Trump wore a mask too late” going for very long, since it requires them to discuss the history of the response to the disease. But if the president continues to post pictures of himself in a mask, they’ll have to attack him for it somehow, since they are pathologically driven to attack him for everything.
Therefore I’m making this prediction: Within the next month major news organizations will have stories about how cloth masks are ineffective and that the president is actively endangering lives by encouraging people to wear face masks.