…is a horrible carbon pollution infused beer causing rivers to rise, you might just be a Warmist
The blog of the day is Jihad Watch, with a post on a convicted Canadian ISIS jihadi now allowed to go skiing with his girlfriend.
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I wonder how this is working in all the states and cities and countries with mask mandates?
The best way to make masks work against Covid-19
What over eight months of navigating the novel coronavirus pandemic has taught us is that a mask is one of the most valuable tools currently available to mitigate the spread of the virus.
A recent report produced by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington found that if 95% of Americans wore masks, we could save nearly 70,000 lives that would otherwise be lost to Covid-19 by March 1. Additional research has shown that wearing face masks reduces the spread of Covid-19. But while infection rates are rising in all 50 states, only 34 states and the District of Columbia require face covering in public. In cities and counties with masking mandates, Covid-19 cases have tended to decline compared to municipalities without such rules. Indeed, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, seven studies have confirmed significant declines in coronavirus infections in communities after universal masking orders were implemented.
Yet, more than 30% of the US population does not use them on a daily basis, according to the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation.
As the United States faces a tsunami of Covid-19 infections, with 2,200 daily deaths projected by mid-January, a national masking mandate is long overdue as part of a federal strategy to prevent further spread of the virus.
30% seems a bit high, doesn’t it? Most private businesses in those 34 states and D.C. don’t want to cause waves and they go and enforce the mandate for customers. In nations around the world they enforce the mandates even harder. Yet, COVID is again rising. Michigan has had one of the most restrictive COVID responses, and
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer Locks Down Michigan Again https://t.co/JnGYuXsChp pic.twitter.com/nJ4hZhU4EU
— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) November 16, 2020
She could now be facing impeachment for violating state law and Michigan Supreme Court rulings. Many other restrictive areas, like California and NY City, are moving restrictions back to hardcore. We’re seeing the same, again, in Europe. Why? Most people comply.
President-elect Joe Biden has made implementing this critical public health intervention a top priority. He will call on governors to enact masking orders in their states and ask local authorities to buttress these actions by making them mandatory in their municipalities.
What will China Joe do if people refuse to comply? Police?
We would never dream of sending our country’s soldiers into combat without state-of-the-art helmets, armor and weapons. In this battle against Covid-19, all Americans need the best personal protection possible to fight back.
Consumers need an easy to use rating system: just as the US requires package content and labeling for tobacco and food products, masks should be rated for the percent of viral particles filtered by the mask.
Meaning that you will only be allowed to wear certain masks, ones approved by Government. Which mostly means big big companies who donate to lawmakers.
With a new administration in January 2021 an executive order by the President or guidance from the White House Coronavirus Task Force requiring masks to be worn on federal property could be issued as well as examining other governmental authorities for requiring face coverings to be used in public settings across states.
They really do just want to control citizens.
Read: CNN: Yeah, We Should Force Everyone To Wear A Mask To Save Lives From Bat Soup Virus »
Well, see, it is OK for grand poobahs in the Cult of Climastrology to take fossil fueled trips, because they are just trying to Save The Eart
He called for unity in the face of the challenges threatening the world.
“We must stand alongside each other in determined defence of the future we owe our children and our grandchildren.
“The challenges to that future are manifest, whether from this dreadful pandemic or from the existential threat to our planet and our way of life from climate change.”
Charles’ appeal during a visit to Berlin to attend Germany’s traditional day of remembrance was part of Britain’s diplomatic outreach to Europe’s biggest economy, days before a deadline to strike a post-Brexit deal with the EU.
Hey, remember this?
Prince Charles: 100 months to save the world
Prince Charles will say that the need to tackle global warming is more urgent than ever before and that, even in a global recession, the world must not lose sight of the “bigger picture”.
Aides believe it will echo one he gave in Sao Paulo in 1991 at the start of the last recession, when he warned that caring for the world’s long term welfare must not become a “luxury”.
The intervention will help to put the environment at the top of the political agenda ahead of the meeting of G20 leaders in London next month.
The Prince starts a ten-day tour of South America today during which he will be playing an elevated role as an international statesman working on behalf of the Government to support British interests on key issues.
In Thursday’s speech, the Prince will warn that a failure to act in the next eight years will have catastrophic effects for the planet.
That was March, 2009, and it was nice of him to make the prognostication right before he took a long fossil fueled trip, right? We, and the planet, seem to have survived quite fine. If it’s so existential, one would think just one prognostication of doom would come true, right? Instead of always being replaced with a new “doom’s coming!” prognostication.
Oh, and back to the first article
Charles, 72, was exempt due to the diplomatic nature of his trip from Germany’s rules requiring him to go into quarantine on arrival from Britain. The prince has himself recovered from a coronavirus infection in March.
The elites always get privilege.
Read: Prince Charles Takes Fossil Fueled Flight To Proclaim Climate Change (scam) An “Existential Threat” »
And Republicans are saying “no thanks”, which has made the NY Times very upset. Remember how the NY Times gave Trump a chance?
Biden Asked Republicans to Give Him a Chance. They’re Not Interested.
The change at the Sunday prayer service was so subtle it went unnoticed by several congregants. Tucked in between calls for divine health and wisdom, the Rev. Fred Krebs of St. Paul Lutheran Church, who rarely brings up politics, fleetingly mentioned this month’s presidential election.
“We pray for a peaceful transition,†he told his congregation of 50 people. The carefully chosen words underscored the political reality in Mason, Texas — a rural, conservative town of roughly 2,000 people — after Joe Biden’s victory over President Donald Trump.
Not everyone thought the election was over, and not everyone said they would respect the results.
“My Democratic friends think Biden is going to heal everything and unify everyone,†said Jeanie Smith, who attends the more conservative Spring Street Gospel Church in Mason, which is about 100 miles west of Austin. “They are deceived.
“Now you want healing,†she added. “Now you want to come together. You have not earned it.â€
That line is putting it nicely. What Democrats have really earned is complete and utter resistance, even coming out with lots of theories and Senate investigations of Joe Biden for what he did while he was Vice President and the years since he left that office. They did it to Trump with no evidence, so it would be fair to do it to Biden, right?
On Monday in Dallas, hundreds of Trump’s supporters gathered outside the city’s election office in a “Stop the Steal†protest promoted by the state Republican Party. The message from speakers and attendees went further than expressing fears of election fraud, amounting to a wholesale rejection of a Biden presidency and of the Republican elected officials who acknowledged it. One speaker said of the Republican lawmakers who had called Biden the president-elect, “Remember who they are when you go to the polls next.â€
“This is contempt of half of the country by the other half of the country,†said Paul Feeser, 61, who attended the protest in Dallas. “So if the conclusion was for Biden, I would look at it as illegitimate, and I and many others expect to be part of the so-called resistance — as Trump resisted.â€
And that’s the Times’ big point going forward, that any resistance because of the election irregularities is wrong-headed. Now, if the roles were reversed, the Times’ would be assigning dozens of reporters to investigate.
(Washington Times) Although Mr. Biden has gone back on his word not to claim victory until the election is certified, and has created an “Office of the President-Elect,†complete with an official looking seal, he has at least issued the standard call to unite the country. Can’t fault him for that.
But, more than 70 million Americans who voted for President Trump might be forgiven for asking, “Really?†In 2016, Democrats not only refused to accept Hillary Clinton’s loss but have engaged in a four-year coup attempt to remove Mr. Trump and smear his supporters as racists.
“The bitter 2016 battle for the White House is turning into a forever war with Hillary Clinton’s tormented team vowing a four-year insurgency against Donald Trump,†reported Politico on Dec. 3, 2016. “People in her orbit … are plotting an anti-Trump resistance and venting with a fury.â€
This included FBI treachery, the Russian collusion hoax spun by the Clinton machine, an impeachment over a phone call, months of rioting in Democratic cities by Black Lives Matter and Antifa, a massive media coverup of the Biden family’s China and Ukraine scandals, and severe COVID-19 lockdowns in Democrat-run jurisdictions that crippled Mr. Trump’s roaring economy.
The people behind this now want us all to go along and “suck it up,†as Whoopi Goldberg angrily yelled repeatedly on ABC’s “The View.â€
Guess we’ll have to forget Nancy Pelosi’s referring to Republican opponents as “enemies of the state.†Or former first lady Michelle Obama opining that “tens of millions of people voted for the status quo, even when it meant supporting lies, hate, chaos, and division.â€
Most Trump voters won’t forget this if Biden is installed come the end of January, and we won’t forget any Republican elected officials who work with Trump on big things that go to Democrat priorities. And the media like the NY Times can go suck it when they whine about Republicans being mean and not unifying behind China Joe.
Read: Biden Asks Republicans To Give Him A Chance Democrats Never Gave Trump »
See, you darned people have too much freedom that you are not willing to give up
Democracies that failed the Covid test will struggle on climate change
Efforts to address both issues are hampered by externalities and behavioural biases
The second wave of the pandemic continues to gather pace in Europe and the United States, but the optimistic news about vaccines has trumped these worries in the minds of investors.
Because they see the global boost to economic activity from the vaccine as potentially larger than any loss of fiscal stimulus in 2021, the markets have interpreted the news as a demand shock, raising bond yields and damaging the relative performance of technology stocks versus cyclicals.
For now, this seems to be a rational response. But the persistent failure of governments in the major western democracies to control the pandemic has lessons for the future, particularly for our efforts to tackle climate change.
Public resistance to lockdown measures made early and strict restrictions, accompanied by effective test, trace and isolation policies, politically infeasible in most of Europe and the US all year. But aggressive restrictions and testing regimes have worked well in Asia and the Pacific.
The comparative results are stark. The cumulative Covid-19 death rate per million of the population is nearly 740 in the US, and 760 in the UK, compared with 3 in China and 15 in Japan, according to Johns Hopkins University.
Opposition to enforced lockdowns in the major western countries is to some extent based on a libertarian belief in economic freedom. This is a legitimate political choice that is usually fully justified but has proved costly in current circumstances. Furthermore, public support for strict measures has been eroded by serious operational failings.
Now, obviously, Japan is a democracy, and a good one, but, the Japanese people can also be very rigid in bowing to authority, so, they were able to lockdown. China? Yeah, that’s more what the Cult of Climastrology wants, an authoritarian government. Does anyone actually believe the China death numbers?
The failure of most western democracies to accept these arguments for early restrictions demonstrates the potency of the behavioural biases involved and their fundamental political belief in free markets.
How dare you believe in Freedom!
The effects of climate change also increase exponentially, albeit over a much longer period than a pandemic. Time lags between cause and effect are very lengthy, making interpretation obscure to the public. Externalities are unavoidable, and apply across international borders, making them even harder to address. Human biases leave us systematically underprepared to address serious but remote risks.
The climate problem is therefore even less suited to free market solutions than Covid-19.
In other words, authoritarianism for all, and you will like it, Comrade. Or else.
Read: Climate Cult Upset That People Can Make Their Own Choices In Western Democracies On Coronavirus »
…is a fish that will soon be wiped out from Other People using fossil fuels, you might just be a Warmst
The blog of the day is The Crawdad Hole, with a post showing what you voted for if you voted China Joe.
It’s fishing week!
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Happy Sunday! Another gorgeous day in America. The Sun is shining, the birds are singing, and Thanksgiving is quick approaching. This pinup is by George Petty, with a wee bit of help.
What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15 (being a little lazy, bee stung the heck out my hand right below the little finger, hurts to type)
As always, the full set of pinups can be seen in the Patriotic Pinup category, or over at my Gallery page (nope, that’s gone, the newest Apache killed access, and the program hasn’t been upgraded since 2014). While we are on pinups, since it is that time of year, have you gotten your “Pinups for Vets†calendar yet? And don’t forget to check out what I declare to be our War on Women Rule 5 and linky luv posts and things that interest me.
Don’t forget to check out all the other great material all the linked blogs have!
Anyone else have a link or hotty-fest going on? Let me know so I can add you to the list. And do you have a favorite blog you can recommend be added to the feedreader?
Read: Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup »
Here’s how this works:
So, once the Biden Voters showed up, you could guarantee things would turn sour
Trump supporters morning protests turn into violent clashes
Several thousand supporters of President Donald Trump in Washington protested election results and then hailed Trump’s passing motorcade before nighttime clashes with counterdemonstrators sparked fistfights, at least one stabbing and at least 20 arrests.
Several other cities on Saturday also saw gatherings of Trump supporters unwilling to accept Democrat Joe Biden’s Electoral College and popular vote victory as legitimate. Cries of “Stop the Steal†and “Count Every Vote†continued in spite of a lack of evidence of voter fraud or other problems that could reverse the result.
After night fell, the relatively peaceful demonstrations in Washington turned from tense to violent. Videos posted on social media showed fistfights, projectiles and clubs as Trump supporters clashed with those demanding they take their MAGA hats and banners and leave. The tensions extended to Sunday morning. A variety of charges, including assault and weapons possession, were filed against those arrested, officials said. Two police officers were injured and several firearms were recovered by police.
Obviously, you can see how the media tries to pin this mostly on Trump supporters. This is the Associated Press story, which will be repeated ad-nauseum throughout the media. But, they finally get to
Multiple confrontations appeared later in the day as small groups of Trump supporters attempted to enter the area around Black Lives Matter Plaza, about a block from the White House, where several hundred anti-Trump demonstrators had gathered.
In a pattern that kept repeating itself, those Trump supporters who approached the area were harassed, doused with water and saw their MAGA hats and pro-Trump flags snatched and burned, amid cheers. As night fell, multiple police lines kept the two sides apart.
And the police?
In preparation, police closed off wide swaths of downtown, where many stores and offices have been boarded up since Election Day. Chris Rodriguez, director of the city’s Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency, said the police were experienced at keeping the peace.
Except, for lots of the time, they were nowhere to be found
Read: Million Maga March Turns Violent When Biden Voters Show Up »
Say, what happens when you demonize the very people who protect you from criminals?
Violence, Gunfire Rage as Officers Abandon Minneapolis Police Department
Violence and gunfire are raging in Minneapolis as officers leave the department at such a rate that residents are warned that 911 responses may soon cease.
The Washington Post reports:
Nearly six months after George Floyd’s death here sparked massive protests and left a wide swath of the city burned and destroyed, Minneapolis is grappling with dueling crises: an unprecedented wave of violence and droves of officer departures that the Minneapolis Police Department warns could soon leave the force unable to respond to emergencies.
The report notes that North Minneapolis is marked by gunfire, as “bullets zip through this predominantly Black neighborhood, hitting cars and homes and people.â€
Minneapolis homicides have surged 50 percent this year, with almost 75 people killed
Community activist Cathy Spann observed, “If you want to talk about pandemics, we’re dealing with a pandemic of violence. We’re under siege. You wake up and go to bed in fear, because you don’t know what’s going to happen next. … And our city has failed to protect us.â€
The same type of “community activists” demonized the police for the horrible actions of a very few (and some actions that aren’t bad but bad people complain about). They wanted them defunded. And the police are leaving for greener pastures. What did you think was going to happen? In fairness, Joe might not want to defund them, but people like Kamala and tons of other Democrats do. And Democrats are soft on criminals, so, have more fun in Democratic Party run cities.
Read: Democrat World: Minneapolis Officers Bolting, City Devolving Into Violence »
…is an area turning to desert from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist
The blog of the day is The First Street Journal, with a post on Karen’s gonna Karen.
Read: If All You See… »
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