Trump: Miss Me Yet? A Continuing Series-14
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
I suppose this applies even if you’ve received the vaccine; Since that is the example Biden’s giving.
Masked fear without end, or until Biden declares victory sometime in the Summer. Then he’ll celebrate by knocking down a border.
America needs a completely new political party, this Duopoly isn’t working at all.
So, since when did the federal government have police power? I thought that was a county level and State power.
Always to enforce federal law or crimes committed on lands owned by the federal government. Presumably this is being done to regulate interstate commerce which seems like quite a stretch. I know one thing: it is going to be as popular as ground glass in a pizza.
The vaccine is irrelevant. In Michigan, at least, masks are still required of the vaccinated, and if you are exposed to Covid, you must still quarantine two weeks.
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It’s a money maker. Lots of money going to mask making–I have yet to buy a disposable mask that was not made in China.
THE CHINA VIRUS DEPRESSION; BLUE STATES VS. RED STATES
Instapundit: “The political correlation is stark. What states have fared the worst during the Wuhan epidemic? We can give Hawaii a pass, since its tourist industry was crushed. But the poorest-performing states are all blue, with liberal governors in most cases notorious for their extreme shutdown policies: Michigan, New York (the ultimate covid disaster state), Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Minnesota, California, New Jersey, Delaware, Oregon.
“Conversely, the best-performing states are red, generally if not always with Republican governors: Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama, Nebraska, South Carolina, Indiana, Arkansas, Arizona, South Dakota, Montana, Missouri, Tennessee. It would be hard to imagine a clearer pattern of success vs. failure.”
The Democrats have done with the dispute over masks what they did with conflicting information about HQL – made it a status marker.
One thing we’ve suffered over several generations is the gradual loss of assiduous attention to character formation. We’re like a bank failing – gradually, then suddenly.
If we had an appellate judiciary worth a pitcher of warm spit, the entire body of jurisprudence on ‘interstate commerce’ dating back to 1937 would be junked. Outside of a dozen commuter belts where live something shy of 20% of the population, taking a cab or a subway car across state lines is a peculiar thing to do – a contrivance of a sort you’d only see in film scripts.
jurisprudence on ‘interstate commerce’ dating back to 1937 would be junked.
Agreed. The Federal judiciary has been part and parcel of endless Federal power grabs, except when they grab power only for themselves. The idea of viewing courts as somehow ethereal Platonic guardians rather than what they are, arms of the State, has done endless harm.
The speed and near unanimity with which even the residents of purportedly independent-thinking places like Texas have rolled over for the masking ritual continue to mystify me. Every honest study of actual data shows that masking healthy people in non-clinical settings does little or nothing to “slow the spread” (our new national motto, it seems), while likely doing actual harm in many instances. Employees of businesses who force them to wear the things for hours at a time should have solid worker’s comp cases against their employers, although state WC commissions will likely quash any such activity in the name of compliance with the narrative.
What a peculiar society we have become, all over a virus with a 99-plus percent survival rate.
Every honest study of actual data shows that masking healthy people in non-clinical settings does little or nothing to “slow the spread”
I’m amazed at the number of people who put together bibliographies on biomedical engineering.
But the poorest-performing states are all blue, with liberal governors in most cases notorious for their extreme shutdown policies: Michigan, New York (the ultimate covid disaster state), Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Minnesota, California, New Jersey, Delaware, Oregon.
I have no clue what data source he is consulting. There’s been a lot of convergence cross nationally and (in this country) regionally, but there remain differences. The worst performing states thus far in this country have been:
New Jersey
New York
Massachusetts
Mississippi
Rhode Island
South Dakota
Connecticut
Louisiana
Arizona
North Dakota
Pennsylvania
Indiana
The range here is 1,729 to 2,484 deaths per million. This particular wave is over in North Dakota and South Dakota’s on the back end and vaccinating more rapidly than any other state bar one, so they should be falling to lower positions on this league table.
Where I think Reynolds may be right is that lockdowns are a weak vector in influencing results. They appear to shift cases from one time period to another. I’m not aware of any state which attempted special measures to protect the vulnerable while letting the rest of the population go about its business. A lot of group think.
OT did you catch this:
https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1357488536098897921
Fun fact. The tool in question was adopted by his step-father. The step-father was the late Edward Jay Phillips, the son of Morton and Pauline (Friedman) Phillips. Pauline Phillips was better known under her pen name, ‘Dear Abby’.
Thanks for the rest of the story Art.
Art-
it was about economic doing poorly, not deaths.
https://althouse.blogspot.com/2021/02/strange-branding-i-dont-associate-him.html
ICYMI, David Hogg is going into the bedding business in order to pwn Mike Lindell. Maybe some Millennial woke-tard at the Bank of America has promised him a C & I loan.
Few people are more repulsive on the current scene than David Hogg, climbing resolutely to notoriety over the bodies of his dead class mates.
Take a look at this article (archived because these things have a nasty habit of changing without notice):
https://archive.is/pOcKL
It’s Time gloating about a wide spread conspiracy to stop Donald Trump. Now I’m sure that some people will take them at at their word that the conspiracy was there only to “protect” and “fortify” the election, but it’s not hard to see the actual motivation. Despite Time’s half-hearted attempts at making those involved indifferent to the result of the election, they constantly frame things in terms of “stopping Trump” and every incident is presented through a liberal frame (my favorite is the photo of the view being blocked from Detroit’s vote counters with the caption “Trump supporters seek to disrupt the vote count “).
This is what they are saying in February. I am firmly convinced that by July they will have dropped the talk of “strengthening Democracy.” You will see major news organizations saying “yeah, we rigged the election. But you should thank us for preventing Trump from getting a second term.”
I mean, if you think I’m exaggerating, here’s an exact quote from the article:
That’s why the participants want the secret history of the 2020 election told, even though it sounds like a paranoid fever dream–a well-funded cabal of powerful people, ranging across industries and ideologies, working together behind the scenes to influence perceptions, change rules and laws, steer media coverage and control the flow of information.
Reminder: they’re presenting this as a GOOD thing.
This is what they are saying in February. I am firmly convinced that by July they will have dropped the talk of “strengthening Democracy.” You will see major news organizations saying “yeah, we rigged the election. But you should thank us for preventing Trump from getting a second term.”
My prediction also. This country is only beginning to pay a dire price for that stolen election.
“Every honest study of actual data shows that masking healthy people in non-clinical settings does little or nothing to “slow the spread” (our new national motto, it seems), while likely doing actual harm in many instances.” Agree but you don’t need data to realise that breathing in your own recycled oxygen – in the case of medical workers or supermarket staff- is not healthy in the long run. It also causes sinus problems and not to mention the toxic fumes which the disposable ones are imbedded with. Wearing them for short stints is ok, but as a mandatory thing over months and months and months… They’re compromising completely healthy people, which is the majority of the population.
I also predict that while the elites will admit to rigging the election, the rank and file will still deny it.
Expect to see fact-check articles like this:
CLAIM: The 2020 election was subverted by changing Trump votes to Biden votes with the help of compromised voting machines.
VERDICT: False. These actions did not subvert democracy, since Donald Trump was so horrible that any action taken to remove him from office was justified.
But most people will use the analysis to say that vote fraud didn’t occur, even though that is not the reasoning used.
Ezabelle:
“[ you] don’t need data to realise that breathing in your own recycled oxygen – in the case of medical workers or supermarket staff- is not healthy in the long run.”
Great point. Unfortunately most people don’t bother thinking clearly about this issue or they would come to the same conclusion.