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REPORT ANY DEMOCRATS YOU MIGHT KNOW: Oregon Gov. Kate Brown urges residents to call cops on shutdown violators.

LIFE IN THE BLUE ZONES: Police union boss tells MTA riders they’re on their own amid violence uptick.

FLASHBACK: Senior WHO official: “stop using lockdowns as your primary control method.” “We in the World Health Organization do not advocate lockdowns as the primary means of control of this virus. The only time we believe a lockdown is justified is to buy you time to reorganize, regroup, rebalance your resources, protect your health workers who are exhausted, but by and large, we’d rather not do it.”

WHY CAN’T AMERICANS JUST GO ALONG WITH QUARANTINES LIKE THOSE ORDERLY CHINESE? Shanghai airport is plunged into chaos after a ‘worker tested positive for Covid-19 prompting Hazmat-clad staff to herd THOUSANDS of people into basement for testing before they make bid for freedom.’

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CHANGE: Mass Protest at CNN HQ. I’m not saying the rally was huge, but it was bigger than CNN’s audience. . .

SOMEONE SET UP US THE BOMB: Face mask trial didn’t stop coronavirus spread, but it shows why more mask-wearing is needed.

SAME: When milkweed leaves are scarce, hungry caterpillar get angry.

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WHERE’S THE SCIENCE? As my local Board of Health ponders closing gyms and bars their own data doesn’t support that action:

Charity Menefee said that small social gatherings between friends and coworkers at homes, offices and restaurants are the most significant causes for COVID-19 cases.

So why close bars and gyms, sending people to spend more time in these gatherings? From the comments to this post, the Tennessee Department of Health data don’t seem to support the restrictions, or even the statement about restaurants above.

As I’ve said before, my concern is that they’re not following the science. They’ve twice admitted that their own data don’t show bars and restaurants as significant sources of infection, yet they’ve continued to treat them as such. In the early days, when we didn’t know much, going by hunch and supposition was forgivable. Now we’ve got over 6 months of contact tracing data, and going by hunch and supposition isn’t forgivable anymore. Any government action must at the very least show a reasonable relationship between a legitimate governmental purpose and the action taken. At this point I don’t think they can show that for the bar and restaurant regulations.

UPDATE: National Study Confirms It’s Safe To Work Out At The Gym: Current Data Shows No Evidence of COVID-19 Spread in Gyms. It’s a big study, though it relies on self-reporting of infections. But, like the contact tracing data above, suggests that gyms aren’t much of a threat.

HE WAS JAILED WAY TOO LONG, DESERVES HIS FREEDOM, But Jonathan Pollard Is No Hero.

RAND PAUL: “When the media says no evidence of widespread fraud, perhaps they mean no evidence, if you look the other way…”

HEH: Biden Is Crowdfunding His Own Transition. Now, Do the Federal Government.

DEVELOPING: Trump legal team shuns Sidney Powell as insiders and national security officials see no evidence supporting her voting machine claims.

SPACE: Rocket Lab launches satellites, recovers booster in ‘Return to Sender’ mission.

HISTORIANS HEAL THYSELVES: There is perhaps nothing crazier in the modern historical profession than the refusal of people who really should know better to acknowledge that Lee Harvey Oswald, a Communist, murdered JFK for political reasons. (He was also unhinged, but the two aren’t mutually exclusive.)

Let’s review. Oswald was a Communist. He had previously defected to the USSR, but was allowed to return after growing disillusioned. He then became a partisan of the Cuban Revolution, and visited the Cuban embassy in Mexico, trying to defect to Cuba. He was very angry about hostile U.S. policy toward Cuba, and before he killed JFK tried to kill well-known anti-Communist Edwin Walker.

Yet somehow, every November, instead of reminding us of these facts, “mainstream” historians gaslight us with stuff like the tweet below, implying, and sometimes explicitly stating, that JFK was the victim of “right wing hate.” They then complain in other contexts about how conservatives purportedly won’t accept “reality.”

I have a theory about why liberal historians do this re JFK. The left spent the 1950s and early 60s decrying McCarthyism as a “witch hunt,” i.e., not just that McCarthy was a lying demagogue (which he was), but that there was no domestic Communist threat, whatsoever. Acknowledging that a domestic Communist, albeit a lone nut apparently acting on his own volition, assassinated a beloved Democratic president ruins the witch-hunt narrative. That narrative has been a huge propaganda advantage for decades, and they don’t want to let it go.

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