Author: Doug Santo

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Some thoughts on Columbus Day…

Remember too, that some indigenous peoples conquered neighboring tribes, enslaved the people, practiced ritual human sacrifice where they removed the still beating hearts of their victims, groomed specially selected children for child sacrifices, and in some cases practiced cannibalism. I have not seen calls to cancel the Aztecs, on the contrary, crackpot liberals in California are trying to get grade school children to chant Aztec religious rituals in class.

Liberalism is a mental disorder.

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Vaccine effectiveness not all it’s cracked-up to be

Vaccine Effectiveness Hits as Low as Minus-66% in the Over-40s, New PHE Data Shows

“…The new Public Health England (PHE) Vaccine Surveillance report was released on Thursday, allowing us to update our estimates of unadjusted vaccine effectiveness from real-world data.

Oddly, the report appeared on a new webpage this week, but the old page didn’t include a note to let you know, so it took me a while to discover it had appeared and where it was.

Following last week’s ‘fact check‘ from Full Fatuous – ostensibly of my piece but with some words of admonition for PHE as well, particularly over the accuracy of the population data – a new note appeared in the report: “Interpretation of the case rates in vaccinated and unvaccinated population is particularly susceptible to changes in denominators and should be interpreted with extra caution.” So there you go. All estimates in this post are based on the data PHE uses and are valid insofar as that data is accurate.

As before, the data is just for a four-week period, which, given that the early part of the Delta surge was dominated by the unvaccinated and the latter part has seen infections rise in the vaccinated, seems to me a mistake. A fairer view would cover the whole Delta surge (as with the estimates I make from the data in the Technical Briefings), but in any case the report gives a snapshot of current relative infection rates…”

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Democrats use Covid as a weapon of fear to manipulate voters. Media silent, complicit.

McAuliffe Spreads COVID Misinformation at Candidate Forum

“…Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe incorrectly stated on Thursday night that there were 1,142 children in Virginia’s intensive care unit beds, a gross overestimation of the virus’s current impact in the state.

“We in Virginia today, 1,142 children are in ICU beds,” McAuliffe stated during a roundtable discussion with local reporters. The statistic is a massive overestimation. Virginia Department of Health statistics show that there are a total of 443 people of all ages currently in ICU beds, a fraction of the figure McAuliffe put forth for children.

The state database shows the number of Virginians in ICU beds infected with COVID-19 has never come close to 1,142 since the first hospitalizations in March 2020—the peak of individuals hospitalized in the ICU with COVID-19 was on Jan. 13, when there were 587 cases. State records show that just 1,094 individuals younger than 19 years old have been hospitalized with COVID-19 since the beginning of the pandemic. Children, who rarely get seriously ill from the virus, have never made up a significant chunk of hospitalized individuals.

McAuliffe also said during the roundtable Virginia had “8,000 cases on Monday,” another exaggerated statistic. On Monday, Oct. 4, Virginia saw 1,220 “confirmed” cases and 864 “probable” cases, according to the Virginia Department of Health.

The state has never seen 8,000 confirmed cases in a day. According to the department, Virginia’s 7-day moving case average Peaked at 5,904 on Jan. 8, 2021—a number thousands short of McAuliffe’s case assessment.

McAuliffe’s campaign did not respond to a request for comment on his claims.

This is not the first time McAuliffe has falsely claimed there were 8,000 COVID-19 cases. Both during and after a September debate against Republican opponent Glenn Youngkin, McAuliffe said the state “had 8,000 cases yesterday.” On Sept. 27—the day before the debate—the department reported 1,799 “confirmed” cases and 1,117 “probable” cases. The day after, the department reported 1,723 “confirmed” cases and 988 “probable” cases.

McAuliffe used the inflated statistics during the roundtable to advocate for extreme COVID-19 mitigation efforts such as mask requirements and vaccine mandates.

McAuliffe also falsely called his Republican opponent, Glenn Youngkin, an “anti-vaxxer.” While Youngkin opposes state-imposed mask requirements and vaccine mandates, he has received the vaccine and aired ads urging all Virginians to get the COVID-19 vaccine.

Thirteen, or 0.09 percent, of Virginia’s 13,075 deaths attributed to COVID-19 were of individuals younger than 19 years old…”

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Since Trump’s election in 2016, many ruling government elites have been shown to be weak, petty, and cowardly bureaucrats. Bad at their jobs and peeved that they have been exposed.

The Appalling Moral Failure of Francis Collins

“…Francis Collins, Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has just announced his intention to step down at the end of 2021 after more than 12 years heading the agency. The accolades are already rolling in. Noted evangelical political commentator David French, for example, rushed to praise Collins as “a national treasure.”

But Collins’s real legacy is anything but praiseworthy, and the tendency of figures in the faith community to ignore his real record is far from admirable.

This year of all years should have made the truth about Francis Collins clear. Last month, documents were released suggesting that top National Institutes of Health (NIH) officials may have lied when they denied that the NIH had funded “gain of function” research in Wuhan, China, that could have resulted in a pathogen that could infect humans.

After reviewing the documents, Rutgers University biologist Richard Ebright had a blistering response: “The documents make it clear that assertions by the NIH Director, Francis Collins, and the NIAID Director, Anthony Fauci, that the NIH did not support gain-of-function research or potential pandemic pathogen enhancement… are untruthful.”

It was another blow to the reputation of Collins in a year when his agency has faced multiple scandals and controversies.

Among evangelical Christians and other people of faith in America, Collins has long been the equivalent of a rock star. But Collins’s days of glory as a non-partisan role model, especially for the faith community, may be numbered — and it’s not just because of the latest scandal over the origins of COVID-19.

In recent months, Collins’s agency has become embroiled in controversies over its funding of stomach-churning medical experiments involving body parts harvested from aborted babies. The disclosures about the experiments followed Collins’s repeal earlier this year of restrictions on the use of aborted fetal tissue in NIH-funded research.

Collins has also stirred controversy with his increasingly shrill attacks on unvaccinated Americans and his support for harsh mandatory vaccination policies that will require the firing of employees who choose not to be vaccinated with a COVID-19 vaccine…”

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Vaccine mandate sick out spreads to Amtrak

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Southwest cancels more than 1,000 flights, Cruz says it’s Biden’s ‘illegal vaccine mandate at work’

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Biden is heading for another self-inflicted crisis.

Hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops have not yet complied with vaccine mandate as deadlines near

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Southwest Cancels 27% Of Flights; Vax Mandate A Factor

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Mandates Key Reason For EMS Shortage That Threatens 911 System

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Defund Via Mandate: 40% Of Seattle Cops Face Firing For Not Getting Jab

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Mark Robinson calls it straight…

Biden administration turning US into ‘socialist hellhole,’ says North Carolina lieutenant governor

I support Mark Robinson.

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Australia has descended into authoritarian Covid hell. Insanity.

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Gas prices up 71 percent in Biden’s first 9 months

This is a willful policy by the Biden Administration to reduce vehicle use and save the planet.

Democrats.

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Another weekend of “Fuck Joe Biden” chants at college football games. Plus “Lets Go Brandon” in the sky.

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Canned goods are getting into the act:

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I’m so old I can remember when all the libs said Merrick Garland is a moderate…

Education firm founded by AG Merrick Garland’s son-in-law issued ‘resource’ for teachers that claims supporters of Donald Trump are white supremacists

    • Alexander ‘Xan’ Tanner, 30, is a founder and the president of Panorama Education, an analytical software and services company in Boston
    • Tanner married Attorney General Garland’s daughter Rebecca in 2018
    • Panorama recently put out a resource that includes an article that calls both Ku Klux Klan members and Trump’s supporters ‘examples of white supremacy.’
    • The article, also claims that ‘murderous police officers’ is part of the reason why white supremacy ‘is everywhere’

Turns out he’s just another Democrat virtue signaling to his peers to cover for his family’s corruption. He apparently does not care that the crap his son in law peddles is destroying our education system because money.

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White House whistleblower comes forward with explosive new claims…

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Many U.S. Congress Members treated with Ivermectin over last 15 months

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Air traffic controllers in Florida walkout over vaccine mandate. Media and airlines claim weather and staffing issues delaying flights.

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Secular religion based on virtue signaling can’t replace science or engineering or common sense.

Nothing Green Ever Works: the perfect six-step environmental virtue loop

Tim Blair:

“…One: Britain goes big on wind turbines in order to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from traditional power sources.

Two: The wind don’t blow and the power don’t flow.

Three: A subsequent massive increase in demand for natural gas as a power source drives wholesale gas prices through the roof.

Four: CF Fertilisers, a US-owned British fertiliser business that also produces carbon dioxide for commercial use, suspends production because high gas prices have made the business unprofitable.

Five: Carbon dioxide is a required component for meat packaging. Without reliable supplies of commercial carbon dioxide, Britain faces a food shortage.

Six: The British government, which spent millions of pounds to cut carbon dioxide emissions, will now give millions of pounds to CF Fertilisers so it can produce carbon dioxide.

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President Trump preparing for his rally in Iowa tonight

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Institutional anti-white racism at Richfield High School in Minnesota. This is systemic racism. Racism against white people. Taught in schools. Ritual sayings performed in school district meetings in the same way the pledge of allegiance to the flag of our great country used to be said. Now they pledge allegiance to racism against white skinned people.

Masked ghouls, repeating insane rantings, affirming each other in their racism against white people, and taking comfort in their affirmation.

Can our education system become more debased, more foul, more twisted, more removed from reality, more mind-numbingly stupid then it is now?

This is the sick garbage that the Attorney General of the United States just pledged to protect from concerned parents whom he considers “domestic terrorists.”

Democrats.

These people are Democrats.

They have a mental disorder.

Doug Santo