Biden bends to DeSantis, sends additional monoclonal antibody treatments to Florida
Why in the world were treatments rationed to Florida?
Covid is politics.
Marines with jetpacks!
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor compared human beings to machines when commenting in favor of President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate
Sidney Poitier, RIP
One of my favorite actors.
Nature works.
Here’s a physician in the UK pointing out that the boosters only work for a couple of months and that natural immunity is stronger. That’s what the Danish study below shows. pic.twitter.com/k4n1UZ46eo https://t.co/KsL3VZOP4G
— Ezra Levant 🍁🚛 (@ezralevant) January 7, 2022
Jonathan Turley on the “insurrection”
“Preserve the Narrative”: The Public Rejects the “Insurrection” Claim in New Polling
“…In the day long events commemorating January 6th, Speaker Nancy Pelosi made a telling statement to her fellow members and the public at large. Pelosi declared “It is essential that we preserve the narrative of January 6th.” Part of that narrative is that this was not a riot but an “insurrection,” an actual “rebellion” against our country. Pelosi’s concern over the viability of that narrative is well-based as shown by a recent CBS News poll. The majority of the public does not believe that this was an “insurrection” despite the mantra-like repetition of members of Congress and the media. The public saw that terrible day unfold a year ago and saw it for what it was: a protest that became a riot. (For full disclosure, I previously worked as a legal analyst for CBS News).
Not surprisingly, the poll received little comparative coverage on a day when reporters and commentators spoke of “the insurrection” as an undeniable fact. Yet, when CBS asked Americans, they received an answer that likely did not please many. Indeed, CBS did not highlight the answer to the question of whether the day was really a “protest that went too far.” The answer was overwhelming and nonpartisan. Some 76% believe that this was a protest that went too far.
That, however, was not one of the four options to the matinee question featured by CBS. It did not allow the public to call this a riot when it asked them to describe “What happened at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021?” Why? There was the ever present “insurrection” and “trying to overthrow government.” However, the other two options were “patriotism” or “defending freedom.” That is perfectly bizarre. The most obvious alternatives to an actual rebellion in a violent clash would be a protest or a riot. However, the public was simply not given those options.
The result was predictable. Some 85% of Democrats dutifully checked “an insurrection” or “trying to overthrow government” while only 21% and 18% of Republicans agreed respectively. For those who did not see the riot as an act of patriotism or defending freedom, they were simply left without a choice.
The poll perfectly captured the state of our media. There is no choice. Using the term insurrection is now a litmus test. In the age of rage, one’s legitimacy is based on your volume and fury. After the attack, I wrote that this was not an insurrection, but it was a desecration of our constitutional process. When I have used “riot” in columns, I have received a torrent of emails objecting to the characterization as proof of being an apologist or “Trumper.”…”
Supreme Court justices have their facts wrong! What next?
Liberal Supreme Court justices spread COVID-19 misinformation
Kaylee McGhee White:
“…Justices Elena Kagan, Stephen Breyer, and Sonia Sotomayor confirmed during Friday’s oral arguments that they are firmly in favor of President Joe Biden’s private sector vaccine mandate. However, the facts they relied upon to make their case were flat-out wrong.
Kagan began by claiming “the best way” to prevent the spread of COVID-19 is “for people to get vaccinated,” and the “second best way” is to “wear masks.” Neither claim is true. While the vaccines appear to slow the spread of COVID-19 and reduce the chance of death, there is absolutely no evidence that they prevent transmission, especially not against the much more contagious omicron variant.
The cloth masks mandated in different parts of the country don’t prevent the spread of the virus either, as several public health experts have recently admitted.
“Cloth masks aren’t going to provide a lot of protection. That’s the bottom line. This is an airborne illness. We now understand that, and a cloth mask is not going to protect you from a virus that spreads through airborne transmission. It could protect better through droplet transmission, something like the flu, but not something like this coronavirus,” the Food and Drug Administration’s former Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said last week.
Breyer continued to spread misinformation by falsely claiming that 750 million people — there are only 330 million people living in the United States — tested positive for COVID-19 on Thursday. That would mean every single one of us tested positive for COVID-19 on Thursday twice.
Breyer then implied, like Kagan before him, that Biden’s vaccine mandate would bring the number of daily cases down to zero. Again, this is not true. Fully vaccinated and boosted adults are testing positive for COVID-19 at about the same rate as unvaccinated people, which means everyone is going to get the virus one way or the other, vaccinated or unvaccinated. Data show unvaccinated people are more likely to suffer worse outcomes than those who are vaccinated if all other factors are equal.
But the worst falsehoods by far came from Sotomayor, who claimed the omicron variant is just as deadly as the delta variant and that more than 100,000 children have been hospitalized by COVID-19, with “many” on ventilators.
Where in the world is Sotomayor getting her news? Every single public health expert who has weighed in on this virus has acknowledged that omicron is far less severe than delta was, even though omicron is more contagious.
Regarding her claim about children, I have absolutely no idea where she’s getting that 100,000 figure. The current national pediatric COVID-19 census from the Department of Health and Human Services shows 3,342 children with COVID-19 in hospitals. And, as Anthony Fauci admitted last week, there is a huge difference between children hospitalized by COVID-19 and those hospitalized with COVID-19. The vast majority of pediatric cases are from children hospitalized with COVID-19, meaning they were hospitalized by something else first and happened to test positive at about that same time.
“If you look at the children [who] are hospitalized, many of them are hospitalized with COVID as opposed to because of COVID,” Fauci said last week. “What we mean by that is that if a child goes in the hospital, they automatically get tested for COVID, and they get counted as a COVID-hospitalized individual, when in fact, they may go in for a broken leg or appendicitis or something like that.”
It is impossible to take seriously the arguments from people who can’t be bothered to get their facts straight first. That especially applies to Supreme Court justices, who are charged with making important legal decisions that affect every single one of us. Kagan, Breyer, and Sotomayor proved on Friday that they either don’t care about the facts or they just don’t care to be taken seriously…”
Related:
Economy sputtering…
Federal judge gives FDA about 8 months to produce vaccine data instead of 75 years
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1479254271828844545
For liberal ideologues in western countries it is the process that matters, not the results.
*According to two Ontario auditors general reports, the Liberal government, ignoring the advice of its own experts, overpaid $9.2 billion for green energy — buying it at two times the U.S. average price for wind power and 3.5 times for solar power.* https://t.co/JgC4fDHZ7O
— cam mac (@Farmtractor9900) January 6, 2022
Democrats see J6 as a means to save their political fortunes as Biden and Democrat priorities plummet in the polls
Democratic leaders fixate on Trump as voters cite pocketbook issues as top concerns
Divider-in-Chief: Biden Decries Trump Backers’ ‘Dagger at Throat’ of Democracy
For Dems, Jan. 6 narrative offers tool to target election skeptics, push voting rule changes
The louder irresponsible politicians bleat about “domestic terrorism” and other nonsense, the more you can be sure they have personal political exposure resulting from the capitol riot:
‘What is she hiding?’ Top Republican accuses Pelosi of coverup by withholding Jan. 6 documents
Another aspect of the J6 business is the mental breakdown of the anti-Trump Republicans. They have lost their common sense and focus almost exclusively on destroying the former president even at the cost of their own political careers. Example:
Cheney Rant To Jim Jordan: ‘Get Away From Me. You F-cking Did This’
You know how strong Democrat and media arguments are and how confident they are in them when they try to censor people who don’t agree:
Wrongthink – Jayapal: ‘Diminishing’ January 6 ‘Is Its Own Form of Violence’
CBS News Hides Poll Showing Most Americans Believe January 6 a ‘Protest that Went Too Far’
And the final end play:
Update: Democrats Seek to Disqualify Trump from 2024
Left Launches Effort to Win Midterms by Disqualifying Republicans for ‘Insurrection’
A major study from the University of Oxford into risks of myocarditis (heart inflammation) following Covid vaccination has found the risk in males under 40 to be significantly higher than from the virus itself.
Major Study: Heart Disease Risk In Young Males 14x Times Higher After Jab
“…The researchers found that while there were seven additional myocarditis events per million in the 28 days following COVID-19 infection (95 percent Confidence Interval (CI): 2, 11), there were 14 following an AstraZeneca second dose (CI: 8,17), 12 following a Pfizer second dose (CI: 1,7), 101 following a Moderna second dose (CI: 95,104), and 13 following a Pfizer third dose (CI: 7,15).
These findings are depicted above.
Most of these figures represent a doubling of the risk compared with infection.
However, the Moderna second dose figure is a massive 14.4 times greater.
The Moderna vaccine uses a similar mRNA technology to the Pfizer vaccine, but delivers a dose three times as large, which may partly explain the difference.
For females and for males over 40 the study found greater risk of myocarditis following infection than following vaccination.
However, some have criticised the study for under-counting Covid infections by using positive tests rather than antibody surveys, which means the risk following infection may be exaggerated.
Another criticism was the use of only two age bands – above and below 40 years – which may conceal elevated risks for younger age groups.
The study, which is a pre-print, is an update to an earlier study published in Nature earlier in December which used data up to August 24th.
The update brings us up to November 15th, extends the age range down to 13 years from 16 years, and also includes results split by both sex and age (rather than just by sex and age separately) – the original study was especially criticised for omitting this breakdown, leading to allegations of concealing important findings for political purposes.
The authors note: “These findings have important implications for public health and vaccination policy.”…”
Ted Cruz walking it back
Related:
Israel is all in on vaccine crazy. It does not work.
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1479032133981249540
Alex Berenson on a new study from Britain
More bad news on Covid vaccines and myocarditis in men under 40 – even as more colleges require booster shots for students
“…A huge new study has found the risk of serious heart problems called myocarditis in men under 40 soars with each dose of a Covid mRNA vaccine – and is sharply higher than the risk from a coronavirus infection itself.
The findings call into sharp question the efforts by American colleges and universities to make their students receive booster shots before returning to school this January – especially since other studies have shown that the risk of post-vaccine myocarditis is concentrated not merely in men under 40 but in those aged 16-25.
The study, which British researchers released in late December, showed that the risk of myocarditis almost doubled after the first Pfizer shot in men under 40. Then it doubled again after the second and doubled again after the third – to almost eight times the baseline risk…”
A new Canadian study found two-dose mRNA vaccines are “not protective against” the latest variant, while data from Denmark show reinfections among two-dose vaccine recipients have surpassed those of the unvaccinated.
Higher education
Student receives praise for bogus paper on how milk is a ‘colonizer’ of coffee
What normally be readily identifiable as a hoax paper now passes muster as a scientific endeavor.
Higher education, indeed!
Insurrection Day. The new holiday for Democrats. Every Democrat issue becomes a cultish religion. Rational thought out the window. Believe, brothers and sisters, believe!
Democrats and liberal media rally around their new boogeyman, January 6 riots.
Trump: “Biden has completely and totally failed”
Trump Approval Higher Than Day He Left Washington, 85% In GOP
“…Former President Donald Trump’s approval rating has increased since he left office a year ago, and nearly 9 in 10 Republicans now have a favorable view of him.
In dual surveys on Thursday showing Trump’s rise and successor President Joe Biden’s fall, 52% of voters told Rasmussen Reports that they have a favorable impression of the former president. Some 47% don’t…”
President Trump on Biden’s January 6 remarks:
“…Biden, who is destroying our Nation with insane policies of open Borders, corrupt Elections, disastrous energy policies, unconstitutional mandates, and devastating school closures, used my name today to try to further divide America. This political theater is all just a distraction for the fact Biden has completely and totally failed. Our Country no longer has Borders, has totally and completely lost control of Covid (record numbers!), is no longer Energy Independent, Inflation is rampant, our Military is in chaos, and our exit, or surrender, from Afghanistan was perhaps the most embarrassing day in the long and distinguished history of the United States—and so much more. Why is it that the Unselect Committee of totally partisan political hacks, whose judgment has long ago been made, not discussing the rigged Presidential Election of 2020? It’s because they don’t have the answers or justifications for what happened. They got away with something, and it is leading to our Country’s destruction. They want all conversation concerning the Election “Canceled.” Just look at the numbers, they speak for themselves. They are not justifiable, so the complicit media just calls it the Big Lie, when in actuality the Big Lie was the Election itself.
The Democrats want to own this day of January 6th so they can stoke fears and divide America. I say, let them have it because America sees through theirs lies and polarizations…”
Related: Why are Democrats and media fixated on J6?
Worst Ever? New Surveys Put Biden Under Trump On Numerous Issues