SO HOW LONG BEFORE CUOMO COMMITS SUICIDE?
We’ve come to a situation where any politically connected suicide is presumed to be a murder. The government has lost the benefit of the doubt.
Archive for 2021
August 3, 2021
SHE’LL NEVER BE A HERO TO THE MEDIA WITH TALK LIKE THAT: WATCH: U.S. Wrestler Tamyra Mensah-Stock Praises God, America After Winning Gold.
As she bounced on her feet in excitement, the network reporter asked her about the American flag she had draped around her shoulders. He wondered how it feels to represent the U.S.A. at the Olympics.
The reporter may have been hoping for Mensah-Stock to attack the U.S. like so many other privileged athletes, but if he was, he came away disappointed. Instead, Mensah-Stock was thrilled and to be a proud American.
“It feels amazing,” Mensah-Stock said of competing for her country. “I love representing the U.S.,” she continued as she brought her hands up in the shape of a heart. “I freaking love living there, I love it, and I’m so happy I get to represent U-S-A,” she said.
Is that sort of talk even allowed anymore?
NATURAL IMMUNITY VS. VARIOUS VACCINES: “In both sets of estimates, breakthrough infections in those vaccinated or who had a prior infection had substantially lower infectiousness than primary infections in unvaccinated persons. . . . One finding of this study is that there appears to be a hierarchy in infectiousness of SARS-CoV-2 infections, where primary infections in unvaccinated persons are most infectious, followed by BNT162b2 breakthrough infections, mRNA-1273 breakthrough infections, and finally reinfections in unvaccinated persons.”
In other words, people with natural immunity are the least likely to infect others if reinfected with Covid.
HE’S GOING TO TRY TO PULL A NORTHAM: The Cuomo allegations are awful, but he still has lots of allies, a dogged will to fight.
Related: The Cuomo brothers — and other liberal, privileged men — have finally outdone themselves.
Also: Albany County District Attorney requesting N.Y. Attorney General materials on Cuomo investigation.
OPEN THREAD: I got my finger on the cosmic trigger.
THE UNHAPPY FATE OF THE ‘CUOMOSEXUAL’ TENDENCY: “It is nothing short of astonishing that something in the liberal soul compels them to step on this same rake with metronomic regularity. It’s anyone’s guess who the next unqualified paragon of the pandemic will be. But that there will be another, there can be no doubt.”
FROM MY OTHER LIFE: Five Pro Tips for Programming Articles That Will Preserve My Last Nerve.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: Mystery surrounds Chinese private rocket launch attempt.
DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Professor Sues Student, University After Provost Overrules Her and Awards Him a Participation Grade.
PRESIDENT BIDEN ANNOUNCES ON LIVE TV THAT HE INTENDS TO BREAK HIS OATH OF OFFICE.
UPDATE: The CDC’s New Eviction Moratorium Has Virtually all the Same Flaws as the Old. It still covers some 90% of the country, and still rests on a theory of virtually limitless CDC authority. Even President Biden acknowledges the order is legally dubious.
STACY MCCAIN: “Cuomo: Guilty! Guilty! Guilty!”
DON’T GET COCKY. Politico: Dem campaign chief warns party would lose House if election were held today.
Weakness on the economy is the real sore spot for Democrats. As they see it, they’ve been spending money like drunken sailors so the electorate should reward them for it at the polls. The problem is that the spread of the delta variant and the revival of mask mandates in a lot of places has people who work in retail, restaurants, etc. nervous about what comes next for the economy. You can spend all you want but if businesses can’t operate like they did pre-COVID then the economy isn’t going to fully return to normal.
It’s quite the Catch-2022:
AND YET IF THEY EAT LESS, THEY’LL LOSE WEIGHT: Lockdown weight gain: Telling people to eat less has never been the answer.
WHAT PASSES FOR “CONSERVATIVE” AT THE WAPO, SHOWING HER USUAL JUDGMENT:
THE MASKING OF AMERICA: Faceless people make compliant subjects, not good citizens.
In its worldwide impact, the COVID-19 pandemic has been the worst in a century. As a threat to Americans’ health, however, it is closer to the 1968 Hong Kong flu or the 1957 Asian flu—neither of which noticeably altered Americans’ everyday lives—than to the 1918 Spanish flu. In a head-to-head comparison, COVID-19 makes the Spanish flu look like the Black Death of medieval Europe. According to the best available figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and elsewhere, the typical American under the age of 40 in 1918 was more than 100 times as likely to die of the Spanish flu than the typical American under the age of 40 in 2020 was to die of COVID-19. Whereas COVID-19 sadly shortened the lives of many older people already in poor health, the Spanish flu took people in the prime of life and left orphans in its wake.
Americans’ reaction to COVID-19, however, has been radically different from their behavior in 1968, 1957, or even 1918. Writing in the Wall Street Journal, the Hoover Institution’s Niall Ferguson recalls that President Dwight Eisenhower asked Congress for $2.5 million in additional funding for the Public Health Service during the Asian flu. Overall, Congress has authorized about 2 million times that much for COVID-19. In 1957, there were no widespread school closures, travel bans, or mask mandates. Ferguson quotes one person’s recollection of those days: “For those who grew up in the 1930s and 1940s, there was nothing unusual about finding yourself threatened by contagious disease. Mumps, measles, chicken pox, and German measles swept through entire schools and towns; I had all four…. We took the Asian flu in stride.”
One major difference between then and now is the increased role of public health officials. Long before their ascension, Socrates made clear in Plato’s Republic that he did not want doctors to rule. Philosophers or even poets would be better governors of society, because they at least attempt to understand political and social life in its entirety and minister to the human soul. Doctors, by contrast, tend to disregard the soul: it is the nature of their art to focus on the body in lieu of higher concerns. Moreover, Greek philosophers and poets alike celebrated courage in the face of death—Plato’s Socrates and Homer’s Achilles were undeterred from their noble missions by fear of the grave. But rule by public health officials, under which we increasingly live today, encourages excessive risk-aversion and almost transforms cowardice into a virtue.
Cowardly citizens are easier to rule.
Related:
POSITIVE Mental Attitude. “Stabbing your husband and his mom is what made you who you are today.”
She’s this close to admitting how the MSM largely functions as Democratic Party operatives with bylines.
Some really blur the lines: Email Appears to Show CNN’s Chris Cuomo Drafted Sexual Harassment Statement for His Brother. “Zucker and his cadre have already enabled this behavior, so if they don’t move to suspend or fire Cuomo, one could use their own standards to say CNN condones this.”
Evergreen:
RALPH NORTHAM SMILES: Biden Calls for Cuomo to Resign over Sexual Harassment Allegations.