While Trump had an army of support, Benny says Biden's "win" had to have been a Christmas Miracle. 🎄 @bennyjohnson https://t.co/VlT7z8drtO pic.twitter.com/uLIWaDMMMj

— NEWSMAX (@NEWSMAX) December 6, 2020

Chicago Teachers Union Tweets Reopening Schools Would be Racist, Sexist, AND Misogynistic – And Then Deletes It!

Responses:

Imagine if all of the time spent teaching #CriticalRaceTheory or other woke issues to high school students was instead dedicated to teaching basic construction, auto mechanic or excel skills?

How much more valuable would a high school diploma be?

— Ian Martiszus (@IanFelipeSays) December 6, 2020

teachers unions are a plague upon this country and its education system.

— j̷o̵h̶n̶🟣🏴‍☠️ (@revjohn22) December 6, 2020

The resistance to reopen schools is rooted in gold-bricking.

— Bono Estente (@BonoEstente) December 6, 2020

https://twitter.com/IPOT1776/status/1335613433908142080

California is shedding residents and businesses

“…A Sacramento Bee headline from late October, “How liberal politics, COVID-19 and a high cost of living are fueling a new California exodus,” could have been written, without the virus reference, a year ago. Or ten years ago. The flight from California kicked off long before this year’s pandemic.

Eight years ago, an Investor’s Business Daily editorial laid out the reasons Californians were moving “To Texas (And Arizona And Nevada),” all of them fueled by progressive public policy. That same year, a Manhattan Institute report detailed “the great ongoing California exodus . . . reversing the storied passages of the Dust Bowl era.” The authors attributed the mass departure to policy decisions making the state a less desirable place to live. Two years earlier, in 2010, New Geography asked: “If California Is Doing So Great, Why Are So Many Leaving?” and noted that the state’s “domestic migration has been negative every year since at least 1990.”

Nor is the California exodus limited to desperate residents. Joe Vranich, a relocation specialist once headquartered in Irvine, California, but now settled in Pennsylvania, has been tracking business departures since 2008. Vranich says that he became “irritated by repeated comments from California politicians, including governor Jerry Brown, that business departures . . . were not a big deal.” As he analyzed the companies, jobs, and capital fleeing the state, he realized the drain was significant. The state’s toxic business environment, Vranich estimates, caused as many as 13,000 “disinvestment events” from 2008 to 2016.

Data-analytics software company Palantir is among the firms to announce more recently that it is leaving California. CNBC characterized its decision to relocate from Palo Alto to Denver as “one of the first signals that a long-anticipated exodus from Silicon Valley is on the horizon.” Hewlett-Packard, a garage-band Silicon Valley original, recently announced that it would move its global headquarters to Texas, seeking “opportunities for cost savings,” while accommodating “team members’ preferences about the future of work.”…”

Related:

My Affidavit – filed in @LLinWood& @SidneyPowell1 lawsuit 2 weeks ago – calculated ~22% vote transfer from @realDonaldTrump to @JoeBiden. Now, evidence from seized Dominion machines PROVES my analysis correct.

Trump voters “4/5ths” a person!

In America, NO #OnePersonOneVote https://t.co/e9jdsJ1R5h pic.twitter.com/oztD8Rq4GB

— Dr.SHIVA Ayyadurai, MIT PhD. Inventor of Email (@va_shiva) December 6, 2020

Our new @trafalgar_group 2020 #Georgia #Senate #Runoff #poll conducted 12/1 – 12/3 shows tight races:

Senate Runoff
48.0% @Ossoff,
47.3% @PerdueSenate,
4.7% Und.

Senate Runoff (special)
50.2% @KLoeffler,
45.3% @ReverendWarnock,
4.6% Und. See Report: https://t.co/S1YLDI9gsz pic.twitter.com/2UPl7oiuav

— Robert C. Cahaly (@RobertCahaly) December 4, 2020

Our @trafalgar_group #GASen #Runoff #Polls also shed some light on Georgia voters opinions of whether the #Presidential elections were compromised enough to change the outcome.  All voters 53.2% yes, 37.9% no, 8.9% unsure.  GOP voters 74.6% yes, 15.9% no, 9.5% unsure.

— Robert C. Cahaly (@RobertCahaly) December 4, 2020

Prof who referred to COVID-19 as ‘Chinese Virus’ placed on leave for semester, future with university uncertain

In September, University of Cincinnati professor John Ucker used the term “Chinese virus” in an email with an individual student.

After a screenshot of the email went viral on social media, the university launched an investigation into Ucker.

The university recently announced it will place Ucker on leave for the semester, and his relationship with the university is currently uncertain.

 

 

Please see my statement regarding Southern California being placed under the Governor’s regional stay-at-home order. pic.twitter.com/lgvvHGnasp

— OC Sheriff Don Barnes (@OCSheriffBarnes) December 5, 2020

https://twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1325513362545897472

Related:

To understand 2020, consider that President Elect Biden called for Democrats to unify with the people he calls neo-Nazi supporters and no one asked a follow-up question.

— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) December 5, 2020

Hat tip to Ed Driscoll

Kamala Harris: Violent attack on ‘Empire’ star is ‘attempted modern day lynching’

1/29/19

One of the hardest decisions I ever had to make in the mountains of Afghanistan: still or sparkling? That was the moment I knew true hardship.

— Dan Crenshaw (@DanCrenshawTX) December 5, 2020

Going for a walk is now illegal in LA

Coming soon – what is not banned is mandatory.

The dead always vote Democrat.

Effectiveness of Adding a Mask Recommendation to Other Public Health Measures to Prevent SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Danish Mask Wearers

Background:

Observational evidence suggests that mask wearing mitigates transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). It is uncertain if this observed association arises through protection of uninfected wearers (protective effect), via reduced transmission from infected mask wearers (source control), or both.

Objective:

To assess whether recommending surgical mask use outside the home reduces wearers’ risk for SARS-CoV-2 infection in a setting where masks were uncommon and not among recommended public health measures.

Design:

Randomized controlled trial (DANMASK-19 [Danish Study to Assess Face Masks for the Protection Against COVID-19 Infection]). (ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT04337541)

Setting:

Denmark, April and May 2020.

Participants:

Adults spending more than 3 hours per day outside the home without occupational mask use.

Intervention:

Encouragement to follow social distancing measures for coronavirus disease 2019, plus either no mask recommendation or a recommendation to wear a mask when outside the home among other persons together with a supply of 50 surgical masks and instructions for proper use.

Measurements:

The primary outcome was SARS-CoV-2 infection in the mask wearer at 1 month by antibody testing, polymerase chain reaction (PCR), or hospital diagnosis. The secondary outcome was PCR positivity for other respiratory viruses.

Results:

A total of 3030 participants were randomly assigned to the recommendation to wear masks, and 2994 were assigned to control; 4862 completed the study. Infection with SARS-CoV-2 occurred in 42 participants recommended masks (1.8%) and 53 control participants (2.1%). The between-group difference was −0.3 percentage point (95% CI, −1.2 to 0.4 percentage point; P = 0.38) (odds ratio, 0.82 [CI, 0.54 to 1.23]; P = 0.33). Multiple imputation accounting for loss to follow-up yielded similar results. Although the difference observed was not statistically significant, the 95% CIs are compatible with a 46% reduction to a 23% increase in infection.

Hat tip to Kane