HMM: Study identifies exposure to common food-borne pathogen linked to rare brain cancer.

So it won’t just turn you into a crazy cat lady?

KAROL MARKOWICZ: Florida puts New York to shame in rational pandemic policies.

Stepping off the plane, we noticed something odd: Everyone was, in fact, masked. And keeping their distance. There was hand sanitizer everywhere. The COVID “Mad Max” world was nowhere to be found. Yes, everything was open, but precautions-wise, southern Florida looked a lot like New York.

The main difference: Masks aren’t worn in no-risk situations. In Gotham, it’s very common to see people masked even when all alone on empty streets. Small children wear masks outside. In Florida, we saw maskless children playing together outside. It looked like the Before Times.

Which is a good thing: We act like it’s no big deal to wear masks even where risk is nonexistent. But, of course, it does matter. In Florida, we saw the smiling faces of strangers for the first time in nine months. It’s hard to overstate how much that mattered to our well-being and the feeling of normality. There’s also the element of pandemic fatigue: Wearing a mask all the time, even when unnecessary, will at some point discourage use when it actually matters.

It’s a lie, though, that Floridians aren’t taking the novel coronavirus seriously. What they have done is discard the policies that don’t work, while retaining the ones that do.

Is Ron DeSantis mad? Has he abandoned all hope of winning an Emmy Award?!

DISPATCHES FROM THE “IT’S DIFFERENT WHEN WE DO IT” PARTY: Prosecutor Who Dropped Charges For BLM Riots Won’t Rule Out Charging Trump For Capitol Riot.

NEVER MISS AN OPPORTUNITY TO OVERREACH: IMPEACHMENT FOLLIES.

If the Democrats do impeach Trump, the Republicans should return the favor when they re-take the House in 2022 (or whenever). They should retroactively impeach Barack Obama. Obama was far more guilty than Trump of inciting violence: “If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun.” When did Trump ever say anything like that? He didn’t. And the violence that Obama helped to incite–the BLM/Antifa riots–have killed at least 30 people, dwarfing the total who died in last week’s Washington riot. So if the Democrats impeach Trump, the Republicans should respond by impeaching Obama.

GOOD ADVICE: Why You Should Include Your Entire Family in a Home Defense Plan.

BREAKING: Parler Sues Amazon, Asks Court to Reverse Illegal ‘Death Blow.’

THE LEFT IS BUSILY CREATING A BIZARRO-WORLD NARRATIVE IN WHICH MOST OF THE VIOLENCE LAST SUMMER CAME FROM THE POLICE ATTACKING PEACEFUL DEMONSTRATORS: Gaslighting Last Summer’s Riots and the Law Enforcement Response.

SO HOW ARE THE LEFT’S EFFORTS AT POLITICAL ETHNIC CLEANSING PLAYING?

So, the Establishment has decided to address the grievances of people who feel disenfranchised, silenced, and subjected to double standards with much more disenfranchisement, silencing, and double standards. Seems like an on-brand move for the most corrupt, unwise, and incompetent – yet remarkably arrogant – ruling caste America has ever known. Good plan – deny them the right to pick their 2024 president, clap like trained seals as corporate overlords cut off their ability to express themselves, and continue to treat their own supporters well and dissenters much, much worse. That’s sustainable. Say, let’s put out this blazing fire with this handy can of gasoline.

Yeah, they are having fun for now. While the supine GOP is tweeting hack cliches about Muh Not Who We Are, the left is trying to tighten the noose. But we’re woke. Rasmussen puts Trump’s popularity at 51%, rising after the riots. We aren’t blaming Trump for the riots. And we sure aren’t rolling over for these bastards.

This sort of fascism won’t play well with Americans, I predict.

NOT THE BABYLON BEE: Instagram just pulled one of our posts for “violence and incitement” … It was a screenshot of Twitter’s trending topics. The irony is beautiful.

IT’S A GOOD, THOUGH HARD-TO-STORE AND NOT VERY ENERGY-DENSE, FUEL: Researchers take key step toward cleaner, more sustainable production of hydrogen.

YES. NEXT QUESTION? Did Pelosi Just Reveal the Motive Behind Her Desperate Last-Minute Attacks on Donald Trump?

PEACEFUL DEMONSTRATIONS INTENSIFIED: Cops, Kids, Reporters & Activists Were Murdered As Democrats Incited 2020 Riots… Now They’ve Accused Trump of Their Tactics.

(Classical reference in headline.)

IT’S NOT ACTUALLY THAT BIG A PUZZLE, BUT THE CHINESE ARE TRYING TO MAKE IT MORE OF ONE TO ESCAPE ACCOUNTABILITY: A year after first death in China, coronavirus source still a puzzle.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Stressed? Try screaming. Yes, really.

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS:

Shot: Biden inauguration theme will be ‘America United.’

—The Hill, today.

Chaser:

History (via Charlie):

“Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer,” was a call for unity.

OH: Joe Biden says he will only prioritize non-white male owned businesses for aid.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: How and Why You Should Start a Stretching Routine in 2021.

I stretch regularly and also do yoga. I couldn’t spend as much time at the computer as I do without doing that, and lifting.

KAROL MARKOWICZ: Florida puts New York to shame in rational pandemic policies.

It’s a lie, though, that Floridians aren’t taking the novel coronavirus seriously. What they have done is discard the policies that don’t work, while retaining the ones that do.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, on the day he closed indoor dining in New York City, noted that COVID spread in restaurants amounted to 1.4 percent of cases. In Florida, they decided numbers like that meant indoor dining stays open. In New York, we foolishly didn’t.

In Florida, DeSantis prioritized school openings. In New York, Cuomo puffed out his chest and said he was in charge of schools but then washed his hands of them when it was time to do the hard work of getting them open.

And Florida’s policies bore good fruit. On Jan. 9, New York ­reported 17,839 new cases. Florida, with about 2 million more people than New York, had 15,445. An open state like Florida having fewer COVID cases than a mostly closed state like New York proves protracted lockdowns are a ­failure.

And that disparity has led people like Rich Azzopardi, a senior adviser to Cuomo, to spin bizarro conspiracy theories on Twitter that Florida has “cooked the book on case numbers.” It’s much harder to admit that his boss destroyed restaurants and other businesses for no reason.

Hell, the United Arab Emirates has a better handle on public health than Cuomo does:

While the American Left shrieks about “fairness” in distributing the vaccine, the UAE is just distributing it.

GLEICHSCHALTUNG: Parler Will ‘Be Down Longer Than Expected’ as More Vendors Drop Big Tech Alternative.