KEVIN DOWNEY JR: Jesse Kelly Challenged Writers to See How COVID Regulations Affect Americans, and Here’s My Research. “My aunt died in April of 2020. A Michigan hospital wouldn’t allow her to have visitors until they were sure she was dying. The state kindly allowed a one-hour funeral with no more than ten people at one time.”
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December 23, 2021
JOHN DANIEL DAVIDSON: The Corporate Media Freakout Over The Omicron Variant Isn’t Normal, It’s Psychotic.
Rather than return to lockdowns and school closures — to say nothing of canceling holiday gatherings — there’s every reason to believe we’ll be able to weather this surge with minimal disruption.
Unless you’re a member of legacy media. In that case, you’re probably going to cancel your own birthday party like The Atlantic’s Ed Yong did, even though all his birthday guests were vaccinated and boosted, and probably would have been tested before showing up at his house. But no, it was just too great a risk.
Yong, you see, covers science. He won a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of Covid. He’s written too many stories about the pandemic to be dissuaded by mere data about omicron. For him, isolation, masking indoors, and eating outside are normal and necessary, and really what everyone should be doing.
He’s not alone. Former GOP communications director and CNN contributor Tara Setmayer blurted out on Twitter last week that she hadn’t been on a plane or gone to a movie since March 2020, and has only eaten indoors twice this entire time, even though her family is vaccinated and boosted.
This isn’t a healthy or sane response to the pandemic, especially not after nearly two years of Covid. Judging by how busy airports and movie theaters and restaurants are across the country, it’s also not normal. It’s borderline psychotic.
It’s also meant to induce psychosis, which for millions of Americans, it has.
BREAKING: Joe Biden Makes Stunning Admission About Running in 2024. “If I’m in the health I’m in now—if I’m in good health—then, in fact, I would run again.”
Mental or physical?
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Libs Need Rehab for Their COVID Panic Porn Addiction. “It feels like the fear of all things pandemic might be an addiction that they have no desire to quit.”
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Matt Margolis: Joe Biden’s Forgotten ‘Mission Accomplished’ Moment. “Today, as many appear ready to lockdown against because of the omicron variant of COVID-19, it seems we have forgotten Joe Biden’s own ‘mission accomplished’ speech from this summer, in which he celebrated our ‘independence from COVID-19.'”
AJ Kaufman: Inside Chuck Schumer’s Disastrous First Year. “He gives stunts priority over legislation.”
Yours Truly: Is the Media Lying About the Texas Man Who Supposedly Died of OMGicron? “Deaths are a lagging indicator, but with so many cases reported, if omicron were at all deadly we wouldn’t be arguing over the fate of one poor soul in Texas.”
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December 22, 2021
IF THIS WERE JUST THE START OF A HORROR MOVIE, I’D ENJOY IT: Human brain cells in a dish learn to play Pong faster than an AI.
IF SO, WHAT A MERRY CHRISTMAS! Hmm … Is Durham Planning to Charge Team Hillary?
YOU CAN ACT LIKE A MAN! CNN’s Chris Cillizza Melts Down Over Omicron. “What is it with CNN’s on-air talent acting like the lamest characters out of The Godfather?”
VIDEO OR IT DIDN’T HAPPEN: Hoax alert: No video evidence for alleged assault against female Muslim in student center.
The University of Maryland Baltimore County has, “pending further investigative leads,” halted an investigation into an alleged assault on a female Muslim student.
University spokesperson Dinah Winnick shared the update with The College Fix via email on December 15.
“It’s our policy to send alerts to the campus when hate-bias incidents are reported,” Winnick said on December 20, when asked if the school planned to send out a new update about the investigation being frozen. “UMBC Police evaluate the need for any updates based on the investigation.”
The hate and bias investigation report labeled the incident “inconclusive” and other information obtained by The College Fix through a public records request point to the strong possibility of a hoax.
Meanwhile, in Virginia: ‘Islamophobic Hate Crime’ in Virginia Turns Out to Be Fake.
WELL, HIS PERFORMANCE IS WORSE THAN CARTER’S: Biden’s economic ratings are worse than Carter’s.
IT’S MOSTLY PEACEFUL: Squad Member Rep. Pressley Calls Opposing Student Loan Forgiveness ‘Policy Violence.’
THE WINTER OF HIS DISCONTENT: High-Risk Presidency: 79-Year-Old Joe Biden Coughs His Way Through COVID-19 Press Conference. “I know you’re tired, and I know you’re frustrated. We all want this to be over. But we’re still in it.”
ROBERT SPENCER: The Biden Administration’s Truly Ominous Christmas Wish List for America.
The whole controversy over the vaccines, after all, is one of credibility. Biden’s handlers insist the vaccines are safe, yet there is growing evidence that this is not completely true. CBS News reported that the CDC “issued updated recommendations preferring Pfizer and Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccines over Johnson & Johnson’s, in light of new data about the risk of a rare blood clotting side effect linked to the Johnson & Johnson shot.” As for Pfizer, The Hill reported Sunday that “health authorities in New Zealand have said they believe a 26-year-old man’s death is connected to a side effect from Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine.”
Biden’s handlers also insist that the vaccines are effective, yet The San Francisco Chronicle recently reported about a COVID outbreak at a wedding at which “most if not all of the guests wore masks” and everyone was vaccinated. Meanwhile, the NFL just postponed three games because of a COVID outbreak, despite the fact that all players are required to be vaccinated.
In light of all that and much more, what the Biden administration actually needs in order to stand vindicated for its vaccine mandates and warnings is a large amount of severe illness and death among the unvaccinated this winter.
I never thought I’d look back fondly on Jimmy Carter’s malaise speech, but at least he wasn’t implicitly cheering for millions of Americans to die.
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): I’d say “heh,” but this isn’t really funny.
OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY: Biden To Spend $7.5 Billion on Chargers That Electric Car Owners Likely Won’t Use. “Conveniently placed vehicle chargers could mitigate the range issue: Ideally, a trip to a charger would simply replace a trip to the fuel pump. But the Biden plan is unlikely to fix this problem. There are two types of public vehicle chargers, Level 2 and Level 3. (Level 1 uses a standard power outlet.) Level 2 chargers produce around 25 miles of range per hour, meaning that a full charge from empty could take five hours or longer. Level 3 chargers produce considerably more power, and can charge some vehicles from empty to 80 percent in as little as 15 minutes. But while Level 2 chargers cost less than $3,000 apiece, Level 3 chargers cost as much as $140,000 each to build. There is no indication which the administration prefers, but if it plans to build 500,000 for $7.5 billion, it’s almost certainly going to have to settle for Level 2 chargers.”
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Michael Flynn vs Granny Boxwine—Make Extra Popcorn. “It’s impossible to predict anything anymore, but I still feel that none of this is going to turn out the way the Democrats are envisioning it in their mentally disturbed Trump hate fever-dream.”
EVERYBODY IS GOING TO GET COVID. EVERYBODY. I did everything Biden told me to do. On Friday, I tested positive for COVID-19.
DON’T CALIFORNICATE IDAHO: Sorry, Idaho. Things Were So Bad in ‘Woke’ Places That a Record Number of People Are Fleeing to Spud Country.
How’s that Welcome Wagon program coming along?
ED MORRISSEY: Dems about to play hardball with Manchin … and vice versa?
Excuse me? “Absolutely no pressure”? Not only has Manchin been under constant pressure from progressives in both the House and Senate, he’s been the target of so much abuse from them and their allies that at one point they finally realized it wasn’t doing them any good. That was after House Democrat Cori Bush attacked Manchin for being “racist” over his opposition to BBB.
Manchin wasn’t the only senator targeted over BBB. Kyrsten Sinema got repeatedly harassed in public by activists, including in public restrooms. It got so bad for both Senate Democrats that the White House’s blame-shifting last week to Manchin finally pushed him over the edge in part because Manchin knew that would set off another round of harassment.
Build Back Better is so popular that Democrats can’t even get it through their own Senate caucus.
But the party leadership’s sense of entitlement is so overweening that they can’t tell — or at least won’t admit — that their own lack of political skill is the reason why.
WITCH HUNT: Gen. Michael Flynn Files Restraining Order Against Nancy Pelosi. “Flynn served as Trump’s National Security Adviser for less than a month before he resigned under a cloud in Feb. 2017, having become a central focus of the Russian collusion hoax. He wasn’t serving in the Trump administration in any capacity on Jan. 6, 2020 and had not done so for nearly three years. But that didn’t stop the rabid partisans of the Jan. 6 committee from trying to rope him into something he had absolutely nothing to do with.”
December 21, 2021
I’M OLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER WHEN JOE BIDEN WAS GOING TO SHUT THIS VIRUS DOWN:
Plus: “At the speed Omicron is moving it will be gone by the time they send out the first test. Just inept.“