Just enjoying himself…

Trying to get a little snack.

https://twitter.com/buitengebieden_/status/1487855426511245313

Democrat governance – Manhattan style (stores closing and leaving area due to out of control crime)

Shoplifting kills a Rite Aid — and maybe Manhattan’s comeback chances.

“…Of all the burdens Manhattan has borne this January, the imminent closing of the 24-hour Midtown West Rite Aid hardly qualifies as a tragedy. But the fact that an otherwise-thriving major corporation is giving up on core Manhattan matters for our decaying borough.

The pharmacy, on 8th Avenue and 50th Street, will close Feb. 8. Last week, it was effectively already shuttered, with most of the store cordoned off with gates. Just a small, strange assortment — children’s coloring books jumbled with vitamins — was marooned on front shelves on “clearance.”

The clearance prices were ironic — because the reason the Rite Aid is closing is mass-scale shoplifting. As The Post reported last week, the shop lost $200,000 in goods in two months.

This store’s workers have had a rough two years. In June 2020 — the summer of “peaceful protests” — the shop suffered looting. The windows were broken and $60,000 worth of drugs stolen.

The Rite Aid was then completely covered in plywood for days.

Since then, the store’s workers — mostly people of color — have suffered the strain of constant disorder…”

Leave the children alone…

Canadian Leftists scatter nails on the highway to stop Trucker Convoy. Pathetic.

https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1487880014293082113

More Canadian truckers headed to Ottawa. Oh Canada!

Related: Pay attention to the fake news portrayal of the Truckers Movement.

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Related: Lyndon Slewidge.

Jim Cornelison.

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Covid is politics. Politics of the confused, easily led, and scared out of their wits.

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Trump: “Canadian truckers… we’re with them all the way.”

https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1487609258724237312

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation wonders if Russia may be responsible for the Trucker’s convoy

Western media is a disgusting joke.

Classical liberals discuss the leftward drift of liberalism and ideas on free speech

The vaccines are not all they are cracked up to be. Nature works.

Data: COVID shots are killing little kids

“…Data compiled by the Office of National Statistics in Great Britain shows that giving young children the COVID shots, especially those aged from 10 to 14, makes their mortality 10 to 52 times higher, depending on the number of shots received.

The graph to the right, from the link, illustrates this starkly. If a child gets one shot, the mortality goes up about ten times. If a child gets two shots, it increases the mortality another five-fold, or about fifty times greater than for children who get no shots at all.

The article at the link also notes that this data was gathered when 10 and 11 year olds were not eligible to get COVID shots. Thus all 10 and 11 year olds at that time fell into the unvaccinated category, where the death rate was low. However, since October 31, 2021, kids in Great Britain in these age brackets began getting shots, which means that we should expect deaths in these age brackets to rise. This also suggests the 52 times increase in childhood deaths caused by the COVID shots is likely understated.

Since the chances of death from the Wuhan virus itself among these children is practically nil, it is insane to give them these shots. Any government official who advocates it, such as Dr. Anthony Fauci, should be fired at once. At a minimum, such fools should certainly not be listened to or used as a guide for establishing any government health policy…”

Dennis Prager on masking nonsense

Why Masked, Unmasked Have Disdain for Each Other

“…Among the many unbridgeable divides between Americans is a completely antithetical view of mask wearing.

On one side are those who wear masks almost everywhere outside their homes and who demand that others do so, including young children in class and on outdoor playgrounds, and 2-year-olds on airplanes. On the other side are those who only wear a mask where they are punished for not doing so (most obviously, airplanes). They regard masks as essentially pacifiers for adults.

Generally speaking, these two groups have disdain for each other.

Why the pro-mask half of America holds the anti-mask half in contempt needs little explanation. They believe anti-mask Americans are putting others in grave danger. Pro-maskers believe that even children who do not wear masks put their own lives and the lives of other children and teachers at risk.

Consequently, pro-mask Americans regard those who do not wear masks, let alone those who actively oppose mask wearing, as selfish, anti-science potential killers.

What may be less obvious is why anti-maskers hold pro-maskers in equal contempt. So, this needs explaining in greater detail. After all, anti-maskers don’t believe that maskers are putting people in hospitals. First, anti-maskers regard the charges made against them by pro-maskers as baseless. Therefore, as odd as it sounds, anti-maskers have contempt for the pro-maskers’ contempt.

To wrongly charge people with causing mass death is, to understate the case, immoral. And if this charge is demonstrably wrong, the people who level it are the ones who are anti-science.

Since each side regards the other as “anti-science,” what is the science? Nearly all public health authorities claim that masks are absolutely necessary to save lives. But they have virtually no science to back up the claim.

There is, however, abundant scientific evidence that masks are worthless vis-a-vis viruses and do great harm to society. Here is a fraction of the examples I could give: In February 2020, then-U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams tweeted: “Seriously people — STOP BUYING MASKS! They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #Coronavirus.”

In March 2020, the World Health Organization Health Emergencies Program executive director, Mike Ryan, wrote: “There is no specific evidence to suggest that the wearing of masks by the mass population has any particular benefit.”

A 2010 study in France led by Laetitia Canini (Ph.D. in epidemiology and biostatistics) concluded: “We did not identify any trend in the results suggesting effectiveness of face masks.”

A 2009 study of Japanese health workers led by epidemiologist Dr. Joshua L. Jacobs, of the University of Hawaii Medical School, concluded: “Face-mask use in health care workers has not been demonstrated to provide benefit in terms of cold symptoms or getting colds.”

As far as I could determine, the only randomized controlled trial to test the effectiveness of masks against COVID-19 was a 2020 study led by Henning Bundgaard of the Copenhagen University Hospital in Denmark. Published in the March 2021 issue of Annals of Internal Medicine, it found that 1.8% of those in the masked group and 2.1% of those in the control group became infected with COVID-19 within a month. The 0.3-point difference is statistically insignificant.

Epidemiologist Vinay Prasad of the University of California at San Francisco, an M.D., buried the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s child-masking recommendation in one sentence: “The CDC cannot ‘follow the science’ because there is no relevant science.”

And what about surgical masks? They are not designed to prevent the spread of viruses, but to prevent medical personnel from accidentally infecting the open wounds of patients on the operating table, and to prevent body fluids from patients spraying up into the mouths and noses of the surgical team.

Dr. Colin Axon, a COVID-19 adviser to the British government, made this point clear: Medics were “unable to comprehend” the minuscule elements involved: “A Covid viral particle is around 100 nanometers, material gaps in blue surgical masks are up to 1,000 times that size, cloth mask gaps can be 5,000 times the size.”

While most studies conclude that masks are essentially useless against COVID-19, not all do. Probably the most widely cited study on behalf of mask efficacy was published in the British Medical Journal in October 2021. But it’s hardly a ringing endorsement. As the authors note, “The quality of current evidence would be graded as low or very low, as it consists of observational studies with poor methods.”

If the only problem with the pro-mask position were that it negates science, it would only be harmless nonsense. But while it is nonsense, it is not harmless…”

Headline of the day – Canadian coward edition

Trudeau flees as trucker convoy enters Ottawa

Biden’s border policies are a disaster. Front line folks recognize it. Watch.

Related: This is the man responsible for the out-of-control border.

Tucker Carlson on Biden/Zelensky call

Truckers in Ottawa

https://twitter.com/luische21416427/status/1487330034671144968

https://twitter.com/NormalGuy223/status/1487188545995522050

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A simple discussion of science by Allan Savory

https://twitter.com/DarlingPlease2/status/1486862509420154883

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson. I could support this woman as a Supreme Court nominee.

How can you tell Democrats are about to lose an election?

Suddenly it’s no longer ‘deeply dangerous’ to talk about rigged elections.

Doug Santo