There’s a Dangerous Homeless Camp by a Seattle School. What Could Go Wrong?

When not dishing bizarre mask advice, Dr. Collins enjoys posting cringe Covid videos https://t.co/iaQOgmMN10

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) August 3, 2021

This is nonsensical. Unvaccinated kids are already at lower risk than nearly all vaccinated adults. Have you looked at the numbers? pic.twitter.com/ETYOGnfqbG

— Phil Kerpen (@kerpen) August 3, 2021

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Masks? What’s that? Rules don’t apply to Democrat nomenklatura.

New rule: Only kids need to wear masks outside pic.twitter.com/gyFgC8ldSO

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) August 5, 2021

Fauci and the CDC Undermined Public Trust

“…When clear evidence is lacking, they project their own Covid speculations as authoritative scientific judgments.

In times of public-health emergency, the federal government takes on the role of a provider of information. Unfortunately, as “The CDC’s Delta Variant Panic” (Review & Outlook, July 31) illustrates, our government has fallen into a pattern of not only vacillating between contradictory positions, but also fanning the flames of Covid-19 misinformation.

This pattern extends to the earliest days of the pandemic. Far from providing leadership, agencies such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and figures such as Anthony Fauci have a record of projecting their own unfounded speculation as authoritative scientific judgments on matters in which they lack clear evidence. Recall how the CDC spent spring 2020 attempting to dissuade the public from buying masks, how Dr. Fauci described the risk of Covid to the U.S. as “minuscule” in late February 2020, and how “two weeks to flatten the curve” morphed into two months, then a year.

More recent vacillation includes ever-changing advice on masks, a re-evaluation of the lab-leak theory, the confidence-undermining pause on the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, and now encouraging alarmism with misleading claims about the number of Delta variant breakthrough cases. Despite this stream of inconsistent messages, these public-health authorities are routinely invoked by journalists and social-media fact checkers as the standard against which “Covid misinformation” is to be judged.

A year and a half of placing political expediency over scientific accuracy has taken its toll on the public. By failing to acknowledge the limitations of their own knowledge and repeated errors of judgment, Dr. Fauci and the CDC have undermined the very trust they seek to command. If public trust in science declines as a result, these officials have only themselves to blame…”

This is a great piece. I’ve excerpted a short segment here. I encourage you to click over for the whole thing. This piece exposes the wrong-headed nonsense that got us into the problem and the bad decisions later about how to deal with it. It also shows the attempts by politicians and media and social media to censor dissenters and criticism.

The Panic Pandemic

John Tierney:

“…The United States suffered through two lethal waves of contagion in the past year and a half. The first was a viral pandemic that killed about one in 500 Americans—typically, a person over 75 suffering from other serious conditions. The second, and far more catastrophic, was a moral panic that swept the nation’s guiding institutions.

Instead of keeping calm and carrying on, the American elite flouted the norms of governance, journalism, academic freedom—and, worst of all, science. They misled the public about the origins of the virus and the true risk that it posed. Ignoring their own carefully prepared plans for a pandemic, they claimed unprecedented powers to impose untested strategies, with terrible collateral damage. As evidence of their mistakes mounted, they stifled debate by vilifying dissenters, censoring criticism, and suppressing scientific research.

If, as seems increasingly plausible, the coronavirus that causes Covid-19 leaked out of a laboratory in Wuhan, it is the costliest blunder ever committed by scientists. Whatever the pandemic’s origin, the response to it is the worst mistake in the history of the public-health profession. We still have no convincing evidence that the lockdowns saved lives, but lots of evidence that they have already cost lives and will prove deadlier in the long run than the virus itself.

One in three people worldwide lost a job or a business during the lockdowns, and half saw their earnings drop, according to a Gallup poll. Children, never at risk from the virus, in many places essentially lost a year of school. The economic and health consequences were felt most acutely among the less affluent in America and in the rest of the world, where the World Bank estimates that more than 100 million have been pushed into extreme poverty.

The leaders responsible for these disasters continue to pretend that their policies worked and assume that they can keep fooling the public. They’ve promised to deploy these strategies again in the future, and they might even succeed in doing so—unless we begin to understand what went wrong.

The panic was started, as usual, by journalists…”

Gigantic Teachers’ Union Sues Mom for Asking What the Local Public School Is Teaching Her Daughter.

Can you imagine the nerve of a parent wanting to know what is being taught to their children.

Teachers’ unions are communist trash.

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It seems like many school boards are staffed by a special breed of petty tyrants. They all seem to have the same lefty politics.

School board president cuts off Iranian immigrant mom delivering anti-critical race theory remarks as crowd erupts in anger.

Has any entity anywhere, anytime fallen faster and farther than the CDC in terms of public trust? Senator Cruz asked that question the other day. Okay, the media. But still.

This woman, the director of the CDC, was on liberal cable news crying about Covid a few weeks ago.

Crying.

Crying about problems is considered leadership in Democrat circles. Showing emotion (virtue signaling) is more important than achieving results.

We are governed by idiots. We live in the age of stupid.

Government.

Democrats.

This is who they are.

Five Iranian Revolutionary Guards ships were destroyed this morning at the port of Linjah in Ahvaz. The ships were transporting weapons to Houthis terrorists in Yemen. pic.twitter.com/MYlzTWuXu8

— Avi Kaner ابراهيم אבי (@AviKaner) August 5, 2021

Melbourne CBD Right now#COVID19Vic pic.twitter.com/dCN4LhRaaH

— JulianTheBaptist (@JulesAnthonyCo) August 5, 2021

GO MELBOURNE, YES 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Thousands of rebel crowds gather in protest at the lockdown. #Melbourneprotest #Australia pic.twitter.com/zbBUFBk5ng

— Anti Lockdown Alliance(GLOBAL) (@Demo2020cracy) August 5, 2021

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Australia is Under Dystopian, Military-Enforced Lockdown Despite Less Than 5 COVID Deaths a Day

“…These draconian restrictions on Australians’ freedom and livelihoods are, understandably, prompting backlash…”

Shocking Photos Show the Horrifying, Inhumane Conditions of Biden’s Border Crisis

Funny how so many of the people who kept yelling at Trump about "kids in cages" aren't demanding the same from Biden… pic.twitter.com/L6xKz2Xv9E

— Joanna (@castlesburning) August 5, 2021

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Biden Wants to Cut Funding for ‘Border Security Assets and Infrastructure’ by 96%

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Shock poll shows Gavin Newsom losing recall vote by double digits

I like Larry Elder for governor.

Moderna says ‘booster dose necessary’ before Winter

You don’t get the trick?

Trust government and big pharma?

Understand the forced mandates now?

Everyone must be a believer.

I had the disease. Mild flu symptoms. Lasted a little longer than normal.

My response to this nonsense. Fuck you.

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Majority of Independent voters says federal government reporting on Covid vaccines is not unbiased

Biden is building Social Credit System

You don’t follow Democrat rules and they will try to punish you.

Democrats go authoritarian. Don’t worry it’s for your own good. So shut up and follow orders.

Ratings for Woke Olympics Hit Lowest Night on Record

CNN fires 3 staffers for coming to office un-Vaccinated

For all the idle talk of “going back to Jim Crow” from Democrats, a vaccine passport for NYC restaurants would be the real deal pic.twitter.com/rPvrPmyLNR

— Will Chamberlain (@willchamberlain) August 3, 2021

Same people: “Any policy with a ‘racist’ impact, even if it is neutral on face, is in fact racist.”

— Will Chamberlain (@willchamberlain) August 3, 2021

Mail-in ballots for California’s gubernatorial recall election are an effort to slow the spread of COVID-19, according to the office of the secretary of state

https://twitter.com/ArthurSchwartz/status/1423024579207999488

Johns Hopkins Professor Says COVID Infection Provides More Immunity Than Vaccines

“…A doctor and professor with Johns Hopkins University said in a recent television appearance that, contrary to the official government narrative, those who actually catch the coronavirus and recover are approximately seven times more immune from future infections than those who receive a vaccine

Dr. Marty Makary, during his interview on the Vince Coglianese Show, said studies have proven that “natural immunity is better against the Delta variant” than vaccines. “When you get infected with COVID, your body’s immune system develops antibodies to the entire surface of the virus. Not just the slight protein that the vaccines give you, but the entire surface. And so, you get a more diverse antibody portfolio in your system.”

Dr. Makary, who has appeared as a guest on Fox News, cited a study from Israel which proved that this natural immunity is at least 6.7 times more effective than the vaccine. He called it “one of the great failures of our medical leadership” that “the half of America with natural immunity” has been completely ignored when drafting up restriction guidelines and vaccination recommendations.

The professor followed up his interview with a statement on Twitter, declaring that “the pandemic of the unvaccinated is a misnomer. It’s a pandemic of the non-immune. More precisely, it’s a series of regional outbreaks in select pockets of the country with low population immunity.” Nevertheless, Makary said that “if you’re not immune, get immune by getting vaxed.”

Dr. Makary’s assertions appear to be backed up by the rise of so-called “breakthrough infections,” with thousands of coronavirus cases being confirmed in individuals who already received the vaccine to some degree. This trend debunks previous claims by Joe Biden, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), and others who said that getting the vaccine would ultimately safeguard against any possible future infections with the virus. As it becomes more evident that the vaccines do not work as intended, the CDC has ordered a return to mask mandates for most Americans, including those who have already been vaccinated, as well as children in K-12 schools…”

Also, people with natural immunity are less likely to transmit the disease than those with vaccinated immunity.