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December 11, 2020
TO BE FAIR, THEY ALSO DON’T REALLY WANT TO RETURN TO THE OFFICE: Tech Workers Want a Vaccine Mandate Before Returning To the Office.
NOW THEY TELL US: We Had the Vaccine the Whole Time.
You may be surprised to learn that of the trio of long-awaited coronavirus vaccines, the most promising, Moderna’s mRNA-1273, which reported a 94.5 percent efficacy rate on November 16, had been designed by January 13. This was just two days after the genetic sequence had been made public in an act of scientific and humanitarian generosity that resulted in China’s Yong-Zhen Zhang’s being temporarily forced out of his lab. In Massachusetts, the Moderna vaccine design took all of one weekend. It was completed before China had even acknowledged that the disease could be transmitted from human to human, more than a week before the first confirmed coronavirus case in the United States. By the time the first American death was announced a month later, the vaccine had already been manufactured and shipped to the National Institutes of Health for the beginning of its Phase I clinical trial. This is — as the country and the world are rightly celebrating — the fastest timeline of development in the history of vaccines. It also means that for the entire span of the pandemic in this country, which has already killed more than 250,000 Americans, we had the tools we needed to prevent it .
To be clear, I don’t want to suggest that Moderna should have been allowed to roll out its vaccine in February or even in May, when interim results from its Phase I trial demonstrated its basic safety. “That would be like saying we put a man on the moon and then asking the very same day, ‘What about going to Mars?’ ” says Nicholas Christakis, who directs Yale’s Human Nature Lab and whose new book, Apollo’s Arrow, sketches the way COVID-19 may shape our near-term future.
To be fair, that’s exactly what lots of people were saying on the day of the moon landing, from Spiro Agnew on down.
IT IS UNWISE TO ASK DIFFICULT QUESTIONS, COMRADE: Is It Dangerous to Fight Voter Fraud? (The Dems And MSM Believe Investigations Are Bad).
KIM STRASSEL: Judge Sullivan’s Final ‘Verdict.’
Judge Sullivan positioned himself as prosecutor, judge, jury and lord high executioner. He went so far as to hire a former federal judge, John Gleeson, to make the case against Mr. Flynn—and Mr. Barr. Mr. Gleeson gave it his all, filing a 30-page brief asserting there was “clear evidence” the motion to dismiss “reflects a corrupt and politically motivated favor unworthy of our justice system.” That implies a grand conspiracy and impugns the reputations of dozens of Justice Department professionals. Yet it turns out the only evidence Mr. Gleeson had for such an outrageous claim was Mr. Trump’s tweets expressing interest in justice for Mr. Flynn.
Meanwhile, have pity (or not) on the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, which in August naively provided Judge Sullivan the opportunity to dig out—which he disrespectfully declined. A three-judge panel in June ordered Judge Sullivan to drop the case. He appealed, and the full D.C. Circuit agreed to hear his plea. That was a mistake, establishing joint ownership of Judge Sullivan’s malpractice.
The court made a second mistake by wrapping itself in legal knots (with Chief Judge Sri Srinivasan ignoring his own 2016 precedent, known as U.S. v. Fokker Services) to give Judge Sullivan an out, claiming he should at least be provided the opportunity to rule. The appellate court made clear this was a face-saving exercise; it expected Judge Sullivan to dismiss the case quickly. Instead he made fools this week of his higher-court colleagues. He sat on the case for months, and only when forced by a pardon did he issue a ruling in which he made clear he had no intention of granting the Justice Department’s dismissal motion. (Judge Srinivisan’s willingness to remake law at the behest of a rogue judge is worth remembering if his name comes up for elevation to the Supreme Court.)
It was Mr. Comey’s arrogance that dragged the country into the three-year Russia-collusion saga, so perhaps the Sullivan ruling is a natural bookend. It’s a reminder that for all the caterwauling these past four years about the breaking of “norms” and “standards,” the unhinged critics of Mr. Trump have done the most damage to the system.
Earlier: Kamikaze Trump: If Trump is going down, he should take the swamp monsters down with him.
BEFORE THE ELECTION, MY USA TODAY COLUMN ON THIS WAS SPIKED BASED ON NEBULOUS HANDWAVING ABOUT “JOURNALISTIC ETHICS.” The Disgraceful Hunter Biden Cover-Up. “It’s now clear that the Hunter Biden story was real, with Hunter himself acknowledging a federal probe into his taxes — one that reportedly began in 2018. Really, it was always clear. Yet, when the New York Post broke the details, virtually the entire journalistic establishment and left-wing punditsphere defamed the newspaper, claiming it was passing on Russian ‘disinformation’ or partisan fabrications.”
Many voters will — with basis — regard a Biden presidency as tainted by this concerted effort on the part of both Big Media and social media companies to keep voters uninformed pre-election.
WE’VE DESCENDED INTO SOME SORT OF BIZARRE HELL-WORLD IN WHICH PIERS MORGAN IS A VOICE OF SANITY: Can you imagine the howls of outrage if Don Jr. had been under federal investigation for tax fraud and nobody had told the voters while the media looked the other way? This Hunter Biden cover-up stinks.
VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Face the Fact that Masks Aren’t Working.
Insanity Wrap needs to know: When mask compliance is in the mid-to-high 90s but the virus is spreading like crazy anyway, is it time to admit that masks aren’t working?
Answer: Lock yourself back in your room with your mask on and don’t come out until next summer, sweetie.
Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap.
- The War on Christmas comes to Minneapois, anonymously
- Alleged President-elect Joe Asterisk suffers another bout of projectile word-vomit
- Good news! Experts say COVID make women more promiscuous
And so much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.
INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST, NO REALLY, THIS TIME WE MEAN IT — HONEST! NO FOOLING — CRUSADE: Harrison Ford to reprise ‘Indiana Jones’ role for fifth and final movie.
JOANNE JACOBS: It’s relevant, but is it really math?
A new book with equity-based lessons for high school math teachers has become a bestseller.
Some districts are looking at teaching math through a “social-justice lens,” writes Gewertz. “The Seattle school district developed a framework last year that weaves questions of power and oppression into math instruction, along with explorations of ethnic identity, but it hasn’t been adopted.”
2 + 2 = whatever the Party requires it to.
WORKFARE FOR LEFTY APPARATCHIKS: Ohio State employs more than 100 diversity workers, costing $10 million-plus per year.
IT’S AN IDEA SO CRAZY, IT JUST MIGHT WORK: Reps. Tulsi Gabbard And Markwayne Mullin Introduce Bill That Would Allow Only Biological Females In Women’s Sports.
JIM TREACHER: So, Hunter Biden’s Laptop Was Real After All, Huh?
Well, they did it. They swept the story under the rug because they knew it was bad for the guy who wanted to replace Trump, and they didn’t care about anything but replacing Trump. They weren’t worried about integrity, reputation, professionalism, or anything else that might have kept them from lying.
After all, who’s gonna stop ’em? You? Me? They don’t care about us. All journalists care about is giving each other awards and basking in the praise of their bosses in the Democratic Party.
Now they’re doing the same thing with Eric Swalwell. He’s embroiled in a huge scandal, and they’re just pretending it isn’t happening. After all, he has a (D) after his name and they’re team players.
I don’t believe the Democrats stole the election. But via their enablers in NYC and Silicon Valley, they covered up the truth about the Biden family to sway the outcome of the election.
If you didn’t trust them before Election Day, all they’ve done is prove you right. And now they’ll hate you even more for it.
