THE NEW SPACE RACE: New Details Revealed on NASA’s First Medical Evacuation.
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February 26, 2026
THE NEW SPACE RACE: SpaceX Knocks Out Launch As NASA Delays Artemis Rollback.
IT WAS OBVIOUS EARLY ON THAT SURGICAL MASKS, CLOTH MASKS, AND OTHER “FACE COVERINGS” WERE JUST FOR SHOW, AND THAT ONLY N95 MASKS DID ANYTHING SIGNIFICANT: Pro-Maskers Accidentally Admit Masks Don’t Work, Debunking Anthony Fauci And Years Of Mandates.
In a new letter to the WHO head, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, several mask fanatics, in an effort to promote the use of N95 respirators, claim that surgical masks do not “provide adequate protection against flu-like illnesses including COVID,” according to The Guardian. The letter says that there is “no rational justification remaining for prioritizing or using” surgical masks, because they provide “inadequate protection against airborne pathogens.”
Hilariously, one of the organizers of the letter, Professor Adam Finkel of the University of Michigan School of Public Health, also debunked one of the most popular pro-masking arguments. Anyone who argues against masking on social media has come across someone responding, “Well, if masks don’t work, why do doctors wear them?” Ignoring, of course, that not all doctors wear masks, only surgeons do.
But Finkel specifically highlights that those masks were never supposed to stop viruses or respiratory infections, but were “invented to stop doctors and nurses from sneezing into the guts and the hearts of patients.”
Finkel went further, saying that surgical masks are to respirators as typewriters were to computers. Those masks, he continued, are “obsolete.”
So the forever maskers now admit that cloth or surgical masks do not stop airborne viruses. They admit that surgeons do not wear masks to stop respiratory viruses, and that wearing lower-grade masks, the exact type worn by the vast majority of the world for years on end to stop COVID, could not have possibly stopped COVID.
N95 masks only work if they’re fresh, clean, and discarded after a few hours of use. One that you pull out of a pocket or purse is little better than a surgical mask. Masking was about compliance, not health.
SCIENCE ADVANCES: Baby born at 24 weeks goes home from NICU after nearly 300 days.
THE E.V. BUBBLE CONTINUES TO DEFLATE: The Cheaper Nissan Leaf Has Been Delayed Indefinitely.
LAW AND ORDER: Another Anti-Gun Police Chief Busted, This One in Connecticut. “For years, this guy was a face of “gun violence” prevention, cozying up to anti-gun groups like Connecticut Against Gun Violence. He preached about treating gun ownership like a public health crisis, all while pushing programs to disarm the little people under the guise of safety. Because guns are icky and he has his. But lo and behold, safety crusader Karl has been slapped with first-degree larceny charges for (allegedly) swiping almost a hundred grand in police department funds. Some of the money was for earmarked for…wait for it . . . youth programs for ‘at risk’ kids. Thanks, Karl.”
THAT’S NO ORDINARY BIRD — THE BONES, MAN, LOOK AT THE BONES! Emus once faced down the Australian army—and won: Armed with machine guns and 10,000 bullets, soldiers still couldn’t stop the giant birds.
THE E.V. BUBBLE CONTINUES TO DEFLATE: Lamborghini cancels electric Lanzador as supercar buyers reject EVs.
MOST PEOPLE DON’T KNOW ENOUGH ABOUT THIS DANGER: What to know about the risks of carbon monoxide poisoning after college student’s death. “First responders found 21-year-old Salve Regina University student Joseph Boutros unresponsive in his car on Monday in Newport, Rhode Island, where he was parked outside of a university building. Police said the vehicle’s exhaust pipe was obstructed by snow and that his death from carbon monoxide poisoning was accidental. The area didn’t have power at the time and Boutros told a fellow student that he was using his car to charge his phone, Newport Police Captain Joseph Carroll said.”
A common risk. Also people running gas generators in carports or garages with an open door, thinking that they’re well enough ventilated. They are not.
I’M SURE THEY’D BE HAPPY TO EUTHANIZE HER AND END HER PAIN: Priceless Video: Woke Woman Fled to Canada Because of Trump – Now She’s Reduced to Begging Because She Had No Idea How Bad It Would Be There.
WHAT IS WRONG WITH TEXAS HIGHER ED? Texas State University lets socialist club run amok, but cracks down on conservatives.
WHAT’S SPANISH FOR “DRILL, BABY, DRILL?” Taladro, bebé, taladro: Guyana ranks #1 among Latin American and Caribbean countries in GDP per capita, driven by its massive offshore oil boom.
FOLLOW THE SCIENCE: New report alleges key evidence behind medical DEI push is misleading.
GET WOKE, GO BROKE: Washington Post losses topped $100 million in 2025.
OOPS:
To understand this, I think we need to remember the famous quote by Theodore Dalyrimple:
"In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the… https://t.co/GdSye5Mj0u
— Eric S. Raymond (@esrtweet) February 25, 2026
BUT OF COURSE: Democratic Lawmaker: Trump’s Request To Stand For American Citizens ‘Racist.’ “Rep. Janelle Bynum (D., Ore.) described President Donald Trump’s request that lawmakers stand if they believe the first duty of government is to protect American citizens as ‘racist’ and said the moment made her ‘uncomfortable.'”
IT HURTS BECAUSE IT’S TRUE: Salena Zito: ‘These people are crazy’ is the campaign Democrats should fear.
ICYMI: ROGER SIMON: EXCLUSIVE: Sigmund Freud Analyzes the SOTU. I guess it makes sense that Sigmund would watch on an old-style CRT TV.
February 25, 2026
OPEN THREAD: Hump Day.
BOTOX AND JUVEDERM, BABY! The sun hasn’t looked like this since 2022, what’s going on?
HE’S DRINKING A LOT, HE ISN’T SHOWERING, DOESN’T ANSWER THE PHONE, EVEN FOR HIS AGENT: Changes to One of The Largest Known Stars May Signal Destruction.