Archive for 2020

THEY CAN HANG OUT WITH CNN AND ALL THE REST OF THE MSM VIEWERS IN THE US AND READERS OF OUR BIG NEWSPAPERS. THIS KAKISTOCRACY IS WORLDWIDE AND ITS MEDIA ARM IS CRAZY:  Dear Guardian readers, everything you think you know about who supports Trump is wrong. Love, The Guardian.

I’d add two points of caution: Biden is not elected. The fraud has not prevailed it, and even in this corrupt environment might never be. Hopefully will never be.
Does the coordination of news, lockdowns and “crisis” worldwide scare no one else? SERIOUSLY?

THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS IN A CORRUPT VOTE MARKET, WHERE THE GOVERNED HAVE NO SAY IN WHO GOVERNS THEM, NO MATTER WHAT THE APPEARANCE OF THE THING:  Thanksgiving Lockdown Is For The Peasants.

SURE. OF COURSE IT DOES. BECAUSE GREEN CHEESE VOLCANO PENGUINS. AND ALSO BULLOCKS GENERAL MATTIS, BULLOCKS. WAY TO SHRED A STELLAR REPUTATION, SIR. ALL BECAUSE THE PRESIDENT HAD THE NERVE TO TELL YOU NO. I SUGGEST YOU CONSULT A DICTIONARY FOR THE MEANING OF COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF:  America First Policy Must End – James Mattis.

THE DOGFACED PONY SOLDIER HAS NO CLUE WHAT HE’S SAYING, WHAT AMERICA IS, OR WHERE THE EXIT FROM HIS BASEMENT IS. LET’S STOP PLAYING ALONG WITH THIS LUNACY, KTHANXBYE: America Is Back, Says Joe Biden.

IF WE DON’T CLEAN UP THIS MESS, THE REPUBLIC IS DEAD. AND WE’LL GET A KAKISTOCRACY ON STILTS:  Postal ballots in Georgia: PO boxes, Republican ballots gone astray, and signature matching.

I’ll remind you, boys, girls and various species of arachnid, that the USSR and the DDR had elections. Pro-forma elections mean nothing. And rulers who don’t have any reason to fear being fired all end up like those in the USSR and the DDR.
Admittedly, Commie LaWhorish is STARTING there.

THIS IS WHY AT THIS POINT, THE ONLY THING WE CAN CHANGE IS THE SIZE OF THE BUTCHER’S BILL, BUT NOT IF THERE WILL BE ONE:  The coming purge.

And frankly, the way these apparatchiks hate America, it’s us or them.

BE KIND TO YOURSELF. THESE DAYS, IT’S THE LEAST YOU CAN DO:  Tidings of Comfort.

DO AS I SAY, NOT AS I DO: Denver Mayor Michael Hancock Urged People Not To Travel for Thanksgiving Shortly Before Boarding His Flight: The mayor is traveling to Mississippi to spend the holiday with his wife and daughter. “Leading by example is one way that politicians could voluntarily encourage safe behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic, lessening the need for coercive restrictions. Increasingly, it appears our leaders are not up to that task.”

Nope, they’re mostly entitled garbaage people.

OPEN THREAD: Just do it. And, unlike Nike, do it without Chinese slave labor.

STILL A FEW BUGS IN THE SYSTEM: AstraZeneca Manufacturing Error Clouds Vaccine Study Results: Experts say the relatively small number of people in the low dose group makes it difficult to know if the effectiveness seen in the group is real or a statistical quirk.

AstraZeneca and Oxford University on Wednesday acknowledged a manufacturing error that is raising questions about preliminary results of their experimental COVID-19 vaccine.

A statement describing the error came days after the company and the university described the shots as “highly effective” and made no mention of why some study participants didn’t receive as much vaccine in the first of two shots as expected.

In a surprise, the group of volunteers that got a lower dose seemed to be much better protected than the volunteers who got two full doses. In the low-dose group, AstraZeneca said, the vaccine appeared to be 90% effective. In the group that got two full doses, the vaccine appeared to be 62% effective. Combined, the drugmakers said the vaccine appeared to be 70% effective. But the way in which the results were arrived at and reported by the companies has led to pointed questions from experts. . . .

In a statement Wednesday, Oxford University said some of the vials used in the trial didn’t have the right concentration of vaccine so some volunteers got a half dose. The university said that it discussed the problem with regulators, and agreed to complete the late stage trial with two groups. The manufacturing problem has been corrected, according to the statement.

WHAT ABOUT THE RESULTS THEMSELVES?

Experts say the relatively small number of people in the low dose group makes it difficult to know if the effectiveness seen in the group is real or a statistical quirk. Some 2,741 people received a half dose of the vaccine followed by a full dose, AstraZeneca said. A total of 8,895 people received two full doses.

Another factor: none of the people in the low-dose group were over 55 years old. Younger people tend to mount a stronger immune response than older people, so it could be that the youth of the participants in the low-dose group is why it looked more effective, not the size of the dose.

Another point of confusion comes from a decision to pool results from two groups of participants who received different dosing levels to reach an average 70% effectiveness, said David Salisbury, and associate fellow of the global health program at the Chatham House think tank.

“You’ve taken two studies for which different doses were used and come up with a composite that doesn’t represent either of the doses,″ he said of the figure. “I think many people are having trouble with that.″

Well, when you move fast, you’re going to make mistakes, but still. It does underscore the value in the Operation Warp Speed approach of testing multiple vaccines in parallel.

BREAKING: Trump Pardons Michael Flynn.

UPDATE: Not surprisingly, leftists such as Gerry Nadler condemned the pardon, as Tyler O’Neil writes at the PJ Mothership, “George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley noted that Trump should not have needed to pardon Flynn, however. ‘Trump just pardoned Flynn. This should not have been an issue since the DOJ asked many months ago for the case to be dropped,’ Turley noted. ‘Sullivan’s continued refusal to issue a final decision forced the issue.’”

(Updated and bumped.)