Archive for 2020
October 11, 2020
PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS: WHO backflips on Coronavirus stance by condemning lockdowns.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Firearms Training Starts with Having the Right Attitude.
LEFTISTS ALWAYS WANT TO SILENCE AND CRIMINALIZE THE OPPOSITION BECAUSE THEIR IDEAS AND LIES CAN’T STAND UP TO CRITICISM:
PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS:
● Shot: Pope says weapons manufacturers can’t call themselves Christian.
—Reuters, June 21st, 2015.
● Chaser:
LOCKDOWNS JUST PUSH CASES OFF INTO THE FUTURE: Coronavirus cases surge in Europe and Latin America.
Plus, resistance: “Police said ‘several thousand’ people marched through Berlin on Saturday in a silent protest against restrictions. Protesters also rallied in Rome, Warsaw and London against mask-wearing requirements and virus curbs. Governments across the globe are struggling to keep up with a sharp rise in infections and manage growing public frustration over a new restrictions as the pandemic enters a second wave.”
My thinking: Early on, short lockdowns made some sense. They kept hospitals from being overloaded and let people get a handle on what was going on. But we’re in what, day 200 of “15 days to slow the spread” now? Also, I’m a big fan of the Vitamin D hypothesis. Early lockdowns pushed infection back from March, when people’s Vitamin D levels were at their lowest, into the summer, where the levels were higher, making infections less likely and cases milder. Lockdowns now, on the other hand, will push cases back into the winter months, when people are more susceptible.
You could help address this with a public campaign to get people to take Vitamin D, pursued with the same energy as, say, masking. But unaccountably, despite a fair amount of official endorsement for Vitamin D supplementation — e.g., Anthony Fauci — we’ve seen no such campaign anywhere.
VERNOR VINGE WROTE ABOUT THIS DECADES AGO, BUT NOW IT’S REAL: NVIDIA Uses AI to Slash Bandwidth on Video Calls.
WE’VE DESCENDED INTO SOME SORT OF BIZARRE HELL-WORLD IN WHICH JAKE TAPPER IS A VOICE OF SANITY: ‘It’s Not Unconstitutional.’ Jake Tapper Shreds Biden Campaign Manager Kate Bedingfield Over Biden’s Take on the Supreme Court.
Related: “There is no crisis. Fill the seat.”
IT’S AN ALIEN BASE, WHO ARE YOU KIDDING? New 3-D model could explain the formation of a hexagon storm on Saturn.
KAMALA HARRIS’S DISHONESTY ON ABE LINCOLN: “It was impossible to miss how Kamala Harris, like Joe Biden, refused to answer questions about their plans to expand the Supreme Court. But she also misrepresented history. Harris claimed at the VP debate that Abraham Lincoln refused to nominate a candidate for Chief Justice in October 1864 because ‘Honest Abe said, it’s not the right thing to do’ and wanted the people to vote first. Lincoln, of course, said no such thing.”
AT LEAST 30 SHOT, FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY, IN MAYOR LORI LIGHTFOOT’S CHICAGO.
I thought a city led by the fearsome “Corona Destroyer” could solve all of its problems:
ROGER KIMBALL ON THE DEMOCRATIC ART OF MAGICAL THINKING:
I should clear up one thing straight away. I do not believe that Joe Biden is guilty of magical thinking. Magical thinking, though specious, is a form of thinking. It is a truth universally acknowledged that Joe Biden is not guilty of thinking of any kind, ergo, Joe Biden is not guilty of magical thinking. Quod erat demonstrandum.
But Biden’s supporters? Well, that is another matter altogether. There you see a wild efflorescence of magical thinking.
Heh. Read the whole thing.
IT’S COME TO THIS: Why some onions were too sexy for Facebook.
THE 21st CENTURY IS NOT TURNING OUT AS I HAD HOPED: Take a Guess What This Massive RBG Portrait in D.C.’s New ‘Female Empowerment’ Hotel Is Made Of.
QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED: Is Biden Coming For Your Guns? To Quote Beto, ‘Hell Yes’ — It’s Right There On His Website.
WHEN RACISM IS OKAY: OSU: Derogatory terms against Whites ‘do not have the same impact’ as on minorities.