THAT’S BECAUSE HE CARES ABOUT HIS KIDS. HE DOESN’T CARE ABOUT OTHER PEOPLE’S KIDS.

WELL, GOOD: Herd Immunity Is Near, Despite Fauci’s Denial: His estimate that it’ll take a 70% to 85% vaccination rate ignores those who have already been infected.

Anthony Fauci has been saying that the country needs to vaccinate 70% to 85% of the population to reach herd immunity from Covid-19. But he inexplicably ignores natural immunity. If you account for previous infections, herd immunity is likely close at hand.

Data from the California Department of Public Health, released earlier this month, show that while only 8.7% of the state’s population has ever tested positive for Covid-19, at least 38.5% of the population has antibodies against the novel coronavirus. Those numbers are from Jan. 30 to Feb. 20. Adjusting for cases between now and then, and accounting for the amount of time it takes for the body to make antibodies, we can estimate that as many as half of Californians have natural immunity today.

The same report found that 45% of people in Los Angeles had Covid-19 antibodies. Again, the number can only be higher today. Between “half and two-thirds of our population has antibodies in it now,” due to Covid exposure or vaccination, Mayor Eric Garcetti said Sunday on “Face the Nation.” That would explain why cases in Los Angeles are down 95% in the past 11 weeks and the positivity rate among those tested is now 1.7%.

Undercounting or removing the many Americans with natural immunity from any tally of herd immunity is a scientific error of omission. When people wonder why President Biden talks about limiting Fourth of July gatherings, it’s because his most prominent medical adviser has dismissed the contribution of natural immunity, artificially extending the timeline.

Many physicians believe that vaccinated immunity will prove more durable than natural immunity. I agree, and I think everyone should get vaccinated. But after a year of millions of Covid-19 cases in the U.S., it’s clear that reinfections are rare. Natural immunity is real and shouldn’t be ignored.

No, it shouldn’t.

UPDATE: Kurt Schlichter: Understand That Some People Love The Pandemic. “That’s what the pandemic is for these people. It’s their war. It’s something that lets them transcend their boring lives. . . . And now you can see them not wanting to give it up. They talk about nothing but the vaccines, but they also want to disregard their effect and make believe the plague is still sweeping the country. They chatter about herd immunity, but they also fear reaching it because that would mean going back to their old, boring lives.”

HEH:

START THE POPCORN: Yale Psychiatrist Who Declared Trump Mentally Unfit Has Been Fired, and She’s Suing: “Your repeated violations of the APA’s Goldwater Rule and your inappropriate transfer of the duty to warn from the treatment setting to national politics raised significant doubts about your understanding of crucial ethical and legal principles in psychiatry.”

BIDEN’S MIGRANT SURGE KILLS KIDS: Michael Yon reports from the Darien Gap.

Related: Mexico’s president says Biden immigration policies prompting border surge.

OPEN THREAD: Hump day.

SPACE: SpaceX marks anniversary of first launch with Starlink mission.

UGH: Spring breaker drugged, raped and left for dead in Miami Beach ID’d as Christine Englehardt.

THE PANDEMIC IS OVER. First, the mass shootings are back. Second, this from an industry newsletter: “NielsenIQ: Retail alcohol sales down for first time during pandemic.”

There you go. We’re done here.

THAT’S A BAD WAY TO SPEND THREE WEEKS: Florida woman missing for 20 days found alive, naked, trapped in storm drain. “The biggest question is how long she has been in there, how did she get in there and why?”

HOW’S THAT RED STATE WELCOME WAGON PROJECT COMING ALONG? 250 Top Business Leaders Just Warned Cuomo: NY’s Tax Hike Proposals Will Have One Huge Consequence.

THIS IS INTERESTING: I was a bartender in Antarctica: ‘It was pretty much a given that anyone who had applied for a job on the base was trying to escape something.’

More here.

YEP, IT’S A BAIZUO PREOCCUPATION, DESIGNED TO GIVE MEANING TO EMPTY LIVES: Climate Anxiety Is an Overwhelmingly White Phenomenon.

BREAKING: Two Republicans Vote for Trans HHS Staffer Who Defended Subjecting Kids to Chemical Castration.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Choice of Erectile Dysfunction Med May Have Heart Health Implications. “Men with coronary artery disease who used phosphodiesterase-5 (PDE-5) inhibitors for erectile dysfunction had fewer adverse cardiovascular events than those taking the prostaglandin drug alprostadil (Edex, Caverject, Muse), a large Swedish study showed.”

We’ve seen a lot of evidence that PDE5 inhibitors have strongly beneficial effects on the entire circulatory system, so this isn’t a huge surprise.

CHARLOTTESVILLE MAYOR’S SOCIAL MEDIA POST REMOVED BY FACEBOOK:

A controversial post on Charlottesville Mayor Nikuyah Walker’s Facebook account is causing a stir.

The post was removed by Facebook for violating community standards. However, Walker went to Twitter to show in a tweet what she had posted.

That’s quite an…interesting take on civic pride by Mayor Walker:

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Flashback: Charlottesville report tells us what happens when the police fail to do their job. “When militia groups are doing the job of the police, that’s a bad sign.”

Advice to Charlottesville, and America: Don’t elect leaders who hate you.

UPDATE (From Ed): Mayor of Charlottesville tweets bizarre message about city ‘raping’ its residents.

She slammed gentrification, “white power,” and how the city has a “daily practice” of “separating you from your soul.” Though she leads the town as mayor, she says the town has no moral compass. Walker intoned images of enslavement, saying that “It’s as if good ole tj [Thomas Jefferson?] is still cleverly using his whip to whip the current inhabitants into submissiveness.”

“Charlottesville,” Walker said, “is anchored in white supremacy and rooted in racism.” She reiterates her earlier missive, leaving some of the more salacious words out of it.

As of February, Walker was under investigation for her credit card spending. She revealed on Facebook Live that a memo had been sent by Acting City Attorney Lisa Robertson which accused Walker of misusing city funds.

Is today’s meltdown “stray voltage” to get that scandal off the radar, or just another day for the mayor?

(Updated and bumped.)

IT’S 4:20 SOMEWHERE: New York officials reach agreement to legalize marijuana.

I REMEMBER VACATIONING ON MARS — WAIT, NO I DON’T. Planting false memories in people’s minds and then erasing them.

IOWA STATE GIVES THE CORRECT ANSWER TO COMPLAINT ABOUT 3D PRINTED FIREARM EVENT. A few years back, FIRE sued Iowa State over censorship of a marijuana legalization student group; seems (for now) like it got the message. Free speech is for everyone!

HIS POSITION HAS EVOLVED, UNEXPECTEDLY: Biden Now Supports Ending Filibuster, Held Meeting On How ‘Big,’ ‘Fast’ He Can ‘Jam Through’ Agenda.

SLATE: Mass Shooters Aren’t Disproportionately White. “Judging by those newer numbers, and the most current census estimate that 76.9 percent of Americans are white, the whites-are-overrepresented-among-mass-shooters meme appears even less accurate. Perpetrators that Mother Jones classifies as Asian make up 7.4 percent of the data set, versus an estimated 5.7 percent of the population, while those MoJo identifies as black represent 17.0 percent of the mass shooters in the database versus an estimated 13.3 percent of the population. According to this data set, then, Asians and black Americans are overrepresented among mass shooters by about the same proportion (a bit more than one-fourth) that whites are underrepresented.”

AP: FOUR-STORY, 50-TON MARBLE TABLET OF FIRST AMENDMENT FINDS NEW HOME IN PHILLY. Written so big that government bureaucrats can read it without their spectacles. Bonus: right across Independence Mall from FIRE HQ!

ME IN THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: How to Restore Balance to Libel Law: The Supreme Court can curtail the worst media abuse without overturning its landmark 1964 ruling.

STACEY LENNOX: Will the Pandemic Break the Government School Monopoly?

I REMEMBER WHEN THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION WAS SUPPOSED TO RETURN US TO NORMALCY: The woke takeover of US foreign policy spells doom for trans-Atlantic alliance.