Archive for 2020
June 27, 2020
AT AMAZON, The Savoy Cocktail Book.
WELL, HE’S AMERICAN HISTORY’S GREATEST MONSTER: Princeton Will Remove Woodrow Wilson’s Name From School.
And a leading Democrat. Much more on Wilson in this post from Randy Barnett.
Flashback: The Man Who Might Have Saved America from Woodrow Wilson.
And if they’re going to ban Wilson because he was a racist — and he most certainly was — what about FDR, who segregated bathrooms when Secretary of the Navy, and imprisoned over 100,000 people because of their race?
I’M SO OLD, I CAN REMEMBER WHEN SPORTS WAS STILL ABOUT WINNING ON THE FIELD OR TRACK: This is a Career Win for Bubba Wallace.
A FRIEND ON FACEBOOK COMMENTS: “There’s probably some sort of Venn diagram that could be done that distinguishes my right wing friends as distinct from my gun nut friends. My right wing friends shun masks and my gun nut friends have had medical training so they wear masks.”
Masks are a tool, useful in the right application. They’ve become a political fetish object for reasons that have nothing to do with their utility.
THE CASE FOR American-Based Resilient Supply Chains.
MY USA TODAY COLUMN: When Black Lives Matter to Democrats — And When They Don’t.
RIP: Milton Glaser, Master Designer of ‘I ♥ NY’ Logo, Is Dead at 91. “He also created the famous poster of Bob Dylan with psychedelic hair, was a co-founder of New York magazine and produced designs for everything from supermarkets to restaurants to Mad Men.”
DON SURBER GOES OUT ON A LIMB: Did BLM Spread COVID-19?
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: U. Wisconsin-Madison professor cheers protesters tearing down abolitionist, women’s progress statues.
HEATHER MAC DONALD: Where are the deaths? The drum beat to halt the reopenings gets louder by the day. It should be resisted:
THIS LANGUAGE IS OFFENSIVE AND DISRESPECTFUL TO AMERICAN WORKERS. I DEMAND AN APOLOGY AND THE SACKING OF THOSE INVOLVED IN THIS STATEMENT. Universities claim new Trump visa restrictions will keep out ‘best and brightest’ workers.
Related: Hospital patients four times less likely to die now than they were in April, Oxford study finds.
Related: Heather Mac Donald: Where Are The Deaths? “In May, Georgia was the main target of expert contempt for its allegedly premature reopening. Since then, the media have gone silent, due to the state’s truly discouraging downward daily death toll from a high of 119 on April 7, long before the reopenings, to 10 on June 24. . . . There are no crises in hospital capacity anywhere in the country. Nursing homes, meat-packing plants, and prisons remain the main sources of new infections.”
Also: Getting Realistic About The Coronavirus Death Rate.
Nearly all the studies find between 10 and 100 times the number of total infections as reported infections, with the average somewhere around 20 to 25 times.
In other words, while the CDC reports 2.34 million Americans have been infected with the coronavirus, the actual number of infected and recovered people may be closer to 50 million. (CDC Director Robert Redfield told journalists Thursday that the number of cases may be 10 times higher than the earlier 2.34 million.)
Thus, the death rate, which would be 5.2 percent based on that 2.34 million figure, is actually more like one-20th as high — or 0.26 percent.
It can be awful in some people, but overall it’s turning out to be nowhere near as bad as we feared a few months ago. And that’s good!
MICHAEL WALSH: So, Where Are The Deaths?
Here in Knox County we’ve had hundreds of cases (843 to be exact), and our last death was April 28. So far we’ve had a total of five deaths.
OUT: THESE STATUES OF CONFEDERATES MUST GO BECAUSE THEY’RE HISTORY’S GREATEST MONSTERS.
Remember how in 2017 people mocked Trump for predicting this?
WELL, THE PRESS WON’T SAY IT, SO YOU KIND OF HAVE TO: Seen on Facebook: “So there’s a COVID spike 3-4 weeks after the mass protests. Just saying.”
Related: Did Austin’s protests produce coronavirus spike? (Yes.)
