Archive for 2021
May 6, 2021
VACCINES: Patents Aren’t the Problem; Supply Chain Problems are the Problem.
Plus: “Plastic bags are a bigger bottleneck than patents. The US embargo on vaccine supplies to India was precisely that the Biden administration used the DPA to prioritize things like bioreactor bags and filters to US suppliers and that meant that India’s Serum Institute was having trouble getting its production lines ready for Novavax.”
Why does the Biden Administration want Indians to die?
UPDATE: Heh.
WELL, YES: Mary Grabar: American History Is Being Falsified to Sow Political Division.
The version of history the left/academia are serving up is the kind of history you’d impose on a conquered people whose will you were trying to break.
DOES LIZ CHENEY WANT TO LOSE HER LEADERSHIP SPOT? Jordan says ‘votes are there’ to oust Cheney from GOP leadership.
VACCINE MADNESS IN HONG KONG: A Hong Kong reader sends this:
Take for example a residential building in Hong Kong.
They found one case so they mandated a 21-day quarantine for every resident in the building.
Residents: “But we’ve taken the vaccine – both shots!”
HK Government: “We don’t care”.So where is the incentive to take the vaccine?
Unless you are planning to travel, there is essentially zero motivation.
He’s prepared a helpful flow chart for navigating the system.
Not only does this remove the incentive to vaccinate, it provides a powerful incentive to avoid testing. But plenty of US jurisdictions would do this if they could get away with it, I expect.
DUMB: Basecamp FOLDS on Non-Woke Workplace Policy, Suspends Exec After Employee Cries. “Days after banning politics from the workplace to keep employees focused on their mission rather than distracted by wokeness, software firm Basecamp appears to have reversed course, suspending its chief strategist after he said he does not believe the company is white supremacist and after employees reportedly cried and screamed.”
The only thing my kids (when they were much younger) ever got for throwing a temper tantrum was a brief spanking — these so-called grownup crybullies deserved far worse.
SUPERB COVID ORIGINS READING LIST: Compiled by U.S. Right to Know, this list of credible analyses, news reports and studies on the origins of the Covid-19 virus is continually updated. The evidence is becoming undeniable that the open-air meat market near the Wuhan lab had little or nothing to do with the spread of the disease from China to the entire world.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: The Origins of the Cruel Ritual of Diversity Training.
Related: Boise State pulls, then reinstates diversity class after students ‘humiliated and degraded.’
REALCLEARINVESTIGATIONS: Washington Post Toys With Its Readers On Fatal Police Shootings.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: The Democrats Want Your Ammo and Your Freedom. “I really wish I were being over the top about this but I read and stuff. This asterisked occupier administration continually exhibits a disdain for all of the freedom parts of the Constitution. They like the part where they can tax you to death but they hate almost everything else.”
ALEXANDER RILEY: “The Origins of the Cruel Ritual of Diversity Training.”
JERRY STRATTON: Two weeks, and the madness of experts.
Last month we passed one year since the beginning of “two weeks to flatten the curve”. The curve was flattened. Hospitals were readied. Yet the two weeks never ended—in some cases, those ready hospitals had to shut down or fire employees while people outside were dying from lack of care. The experts decided that the process was the goal, and that our health—COVID-related and not—was secondary to the shutdowns and new regulatory powers.
At its heart, conservatism, like science, is a belief in the fallibility of experts. That the wisdom of millions of individuals acting in their own self-interest exceeds the wisdom and probity of experts trying to discern someone else’s best interests.
The left requires Jefferson’s magical angels of genius, who both know the best interests of others and who will not pretend that their own desires are the best interests of others.
Read the whole thing.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Some CEOs Suggest Dropping Degree Requirements in Hiring.
Millions of jobs requiring a four-year college degree can be done without that level of education, some corporate leaders say.
To address inequalities in business and society, some executives suggest that companies shake up their approach to hiring and consider unconventional candidates. Black Americans in particular are often left unprepared by the U.S. education system, and companies could help by hiring workers without a degree and giving them training, Kenneth Frazier, CEO of Merck & Co., said Tuesday at The Wall Street Journal’s CEO Council Summit.
“It’s really important for us to recognize that because people haven’t had an opportunity early in their lives, it doesn’t mean that they can’t make a real contribution to your company,” Mr. Frazier said. “We want to just recognize that, in some ways, this is a harder population, but, at the same time, if we’re committed to being the kind of country that we want to be, then this is something that business has to be willing to do.”
Higher education is the greatest engine of inequality in America today, with K-12 following close behind.
Plus: Subsidized privilege: The real scandal of American universities.
WHO COULD HAVE IMAGINED THIS WOULD HAPPEN: Taliban attacks in Afghanistan are on the rise, Just the News’ Susan Katz Keating reports. Note her inclusion of the key difference between the withdrawal strategies of Trump and Biden. Susan and I worked together years ago at the Washington Times. Cloning her could save American journalism from its current death spiral into propaganda.
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Matt Margolis: How Biased for Biden is PolitiFact? The Media Research Center Has the Receipts. (Hacks pretending to out hacks are the worst hacks.)
Bryan Preston: An Intriguing New Find Begs the Question: Will the Oak Island ‘Money Pit’ Mystery Ever Be Solved? “The mystery question still remains: What actually happened on Oak Island, and who did it? The show hasn’t answered that. It has found evidence that the Templar Knights or someone carrying a little lead cross identified with them and their regional base in France was there; evidence that the British military was there; evidence that the French military was there and built what appear to be some defensive fortifications; evidence that some of island’s stranger features are man-made as many treasure hunters have suspected; evidence that someone created a swamp for some reason several hundred years ago.” (After that, things get weird.)
Yours Truly: The Burgeoning Bureausclerosis. “If the law is an ass, as Charles Dickens noted almost two centuries ago, then the bureaucracy is an ass***.”