[Bongino] Who knew that a potential medical treatment could become politicized? In the era of Donald Trump, nothing is beyond the media’s scope, it seems. After Trump expressed optimism in the drug Hydroxycloroquine as a coronavirus treatment, the media quickly mobilized to discredit it (on the sole basis of the person having recommended it being Trump).
So desperate was the media to turn the public against the potential treatment that they pushed a story of a man who died eating fish cleaner (which has chloroquine-phosphate in it), and his wife who became ill from ingesting it, attempting to equate this with the actual drug. It later turned out that the woman who claimed she and her husband took it on advice from Trump gave heavily to Democrats and is no fan of Trump — so perhaps we’ll learn that there’s even more to that story in the future.
Politicians were just as bad, with some in power handing out knee-jerk bans of the drug, only to quickly reverse course. Nevada governor Steve Sisolak banned the drug — then the state’s Department of Corrections was caught hoarding it for prisoners. Michigan’s governor also banned the drug and threatened the licenses of those who prescribe it — only to quickly reverse that decision and begin asking the federal government for more of it.
Not long-after one of Michigan’s Democrat state lawmakers credited the drug for her recovery from the coronavirus, and thanked President Trump for saving her life. Most aren’t as open minded as her however.
Unfortunately, the politicization of what could end up becoming confirmed as a viable treatment or cure for the coronavirus could prevent millions from ever considering it.
According to Rasmussen Reports, of Americans who say they or a family member have contracted the virus:
Among these Americans, 38% say they would take the drug Hydroxychloroquine if they were diagnosed with the coronavirus. Forty-one percent (41%) would not, but 21% are not sure.
Among all Americans, 31% would take the anti-malarial drug that many experts say counters the coronavirus but came under political attack after President Trump endorsed it. Thirty-five percent (35%) would not take Hydroxycholoroquine. Just as many (34%) are undecided.
Politics rules these days even when it comes to personal health. While 53% of Republicans say they would take Hydroxychloroquine if diagnosed with COVID-19, just 18% of Democrats and 28% of those not affiliated with either major party agree. Easy to say when you aren't having trouble breathing, big man.
It’s a choice. Darwin always wins.
While there is anecdotal evidence of Hydroxyclorquine’s effectiveness, medical research isn’t done based on anecdotes. There is still an enormous amount of research to be done on what does seem to be a promising treatment so far — but liberals don’t seem to want to know if it’ll work one way or another.
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Good. Eat the propaganda your "party of science" is feeding you, and there will be a lot less of you around to spread the stupidity. Even better there will be more people that listen to their non-political physicians, and President Trump, who will live, and outnumber you self-terminating morons.
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Son-in-law (a doctor) showed me a medical paper last week regarding hydroxychloroquine & COVID-19: I didn't completely understand and don't completely recall what I did understand, but it mentioned three different biochemical mechanisms by which the drug reasonably could be expected to inhibit the virus, though none were yet proven to do so.
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Hydroxychloroquine has become an absurd debate in the U.S. Here this is not an ideological discussion.
The malaria drug is tested, but of course it's not the only drug which is tested.
Whatever works will be fine.
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...its only a debate because of the Orange-Man-Bad pan-epidemic that proceeded the Kung Flu. That has flatten a bit but looks like the level stabilized out to indefinitely.
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Not a "debate" but the S-show. Three conditions satisfied:
1. Extreme absurdity: check
2. Gross incompetence: check
3. Noxious virtue-signaling: check
Don't have exact daily counts for deaths but based on the graph showing same, Sweden's daily COVID19 deaths have also fallen steadily during the past week after peaking at ca. 70 per day.
Based on my interpretation of the daily bar chart, they fell to an average of ca. 25 per day early last week and have fallen still further, to ca. 15-18 per day, over the past several days.
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Need any additional proof that leftists don't think for themselves but turn to their favored propaganda organs for instruction on what is the proper thing a good lefty is to think?
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reddit is trying to keep up with the reports on HCQ
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Bloviating nonsense. If any of them were diagnosed with the virus they'd beg for anything to save them. Survival to fight against Orange man in the future is their greater good.
Yeah, I know - Bill Maher. 5:28 video. Perhaps he plagiarized from Kurt Schlichter. I liked it. But don't worry, Maher hasn't gone all Trumpish on us - the next video to load is all about OrangeManBad.
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[Renew America] While the democrat-Communist party was keeping us all distracted by such things as that idiotic 'impeachment' charade against the best president in modern history, a Bible Prophecy was quietly fulfilled that no one expected. The Book of Revelation tells us of a leader who will come quietly on the scene to totally control the population by using a "Mark of the Beast" device to accomplish this.
This means a required 'quantum dot tattoo microchip' to be put in the bodies of every human being, by vaccination, like tagging cattle. That chip will have every bit of information about the individual's life, including bank accounts and medical issues. Without this chip one cannot buy, sell or conduct any kind of business. Plus that chip acts as your ID. The government controls what you are allowed to do and what you are NOT allowed to do, based on your 'vaccination' status. If you do not comply with this, you will become a non-person and unable to make a living or even survive. You will be under complete control of the 'government' that will tell you what you can and cannot do.'
And who is the garu behind this? The very wealthy eugenicist Bill Gates, yes Bill Gates, who first really came on the scene in October 2019 where he conducted his Event 201 Forum, which featured discussions about, now get this, "a hypothetical coronavirus pandemic and how to handle this. Now hold on. Was this a spectacular prophecy given Bill Gates, or was this PLANNED? It was clear that this was all to happen, along with their 'solutions' waiting in the wings for a grand unveiling.
The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security in partnership with the World Economic Forum and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation hosted Event 201, a high-level pandemic exercise on October 18, 2019, in New York, NY. The exercise illustrated areas where public/private partnerships will be necessary during the response to a severe pandemic in order to diminish large-scale economic and societal consequences.
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re #5: a bit more complex than the tattoos at Auschwitz, but at least they contain more information.
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One disturbing aspect of the pandemic is some people now look upon cash as a source of infection. Plastic only, please, with that little chip embedded in it. If you can't buy anything with cash then a major part of the plan has already been accomplished.
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[Zero] Melinda Gates says that COVID-19 is going to "be horrible in the developing world," and that we're going to see 'bodies in the streets of Africa' like what's happening in Ecuador.
"Look at Ecuador," said Gates, adding "They're putting bodies out on the street. You're going to see that in countries in Africa."
[Martin Armstrong] There is no doubt that Americans have been getting a civics lesson as they turn to Washington for answers to the coronavirus crisis, but discover that their state governors have assumed far more control over what goes on in their daily lives than the constitution allows. It has been State and local authorities making decisions about shutting down businesses and allocating medical equipment to hospitals — not the President. They have merely listened to Bill Gates and the compromised Anthony Fauci whose recommendations are illegal.
This is what the "United States" meant that there was a separation of powers between federal and state. This is the system the founding fathers designed, though it seems anachronistic to many while people like Fauci have been the stooge for Bill Gates claiming this is a deadly disease that warrants we be locked-down as prisoners in our own homes without any legal authority under the Constitution....
My interpretation of this is simple. It is unconstitutional for any state to block interstate commerce. Consequently, the President has the executive power to issue a binding order to open up commerce and the states cannot legally resist that order for keeping the economy locked-down violates the Commerce Clause. Over the years, the meaning of the word "commerce" has been a source of controversy. The Constitution did not explicitly define the word. That has led to legal arguments back and forth....
CONCLUSION
Therefore, relying on these decisions, the attempt by the states to lock-down the economy is UNCONSTITUTIONAL and the President has the power even under National Security to reopen the economy since it has been illegally shut down at the request of Bill Gates and his surrogate Anthony Fauci. This is dealing DIRECTLY with interstate commerce which is no different than protectionism that each state could then impose tariffs on imports from another state, which was the clear intention of the Founding Fathers to prohibit.
h/t Instapundit
[NR] - ... For the last thirty years, the vast majority of powerful institutions in the United States placed a gargantuan bet on the idea that the government in Beijing could be a reliable partner in prosperity and would be a responsible actor on the world stage. Many leading politicians in both parties chose to believe this, many foreign-policy wonks chose to believe this, many academics and university administrators chose to believe this, and obviously, corporate America loved the idea of both using Chinese labor for imported goods and receiving access to the Chinese market. This includes Comcast, Disney, Viacom, AT&T, and Fox Corporation — the parent companies of NBC News, ABC News, CBS News, CNN, and Fox News, among other large multinationals that own major U.S. news organizations. So, how was the mess of pottage?
...The problem was, the Chinese government was never the stabilizing, reasonable force for order that these Americans wanted to believe it was. We saw the regime’s true nature over three decades of brutal human-rights abuses and censorship and shameless lies to cover that brutality.
When the Chinese government initially declared this new virus could not be spread from person to person, and that the situation in Wuhan was under control, very few people wanted to stand up and say they couldn’t be trusted. We had just seen the Chinese government try to blow up the business plans of the National Basketball Association over a single general manager’s tweet. If you cross the Chinese government, you take your livelihood in your hands, if not your life. On March 4, the state-run Xinhua News Agency declared, "If China retaliates against the United States at this time, in addition to announcing a travel ban on the United States, it also announces the strategic control of medical products and the ban on export to the United States, then the United States will be caught in the sea of new coronavirus." Every day, the leaders of China tell us and show us exactly who they are and how they see the world. They are perfectly content to watch us die painful deaths if this means greater leverage and power for themselves.
...It’s easy to see the appeal of the theory out there, contending that the coronavirus came to America earlier than the medical community thinks, that a lot of us suffered anything from "a bad flu" to a "weird flu" in December (or even November) and that a lot of us are walking around having already beaten the virus. It is reassuring, even confidence-building, to think that many of us are already full of antibodies that can terminate SARS-CoV-2, and that we’re a lot closer to herd immunity than the medical community thinks.
I wish this were true. But there are three big pieces of counterevidence, indicating this theory is not true.
The first counterevidence is strain testing.
Nextstrain is an open-source project publishing and analyzing the genomic data of the virus — tracking the minor changes in its DNA as it grows and mutates. (That sounds ominous, thanks to sci-fi films, but most mutations are very minor and don’t really change how the virus works.) So far, all of the collected genomic data of the cases in the United States fall in line with what is already known, with the first confirmed case being in diagnosed in Snohomish County, Wash., on January 21; he had returned to Washington on January 15 after traveling to visit family in Wuhan, China. No one has found any genomic data suggesting a strain of SARS-CoV-2 had been floating around the West Coast or anywhere else in the U.S. from November or December, or even early January.
The second piece of counterevidence comes from flu tests. The Seattle Flu Study went back and reviewed thousands the samples it had taken in an ongoing study of flu outbreaks in and around that city. Out of 3,600 samples taken in January and 3,308 samples taken in February, the first test that showed SARS-CoV-2 was on February 21.
...The third, and perhaps most visually powerful piece of counterevidence, comes from what we’re seeing in the hospitals in New York City, as well as places like northern Italy and Spain. This is what happens when SARS-CoV-2 gets into an oblivious and unprepared population. Google "virgin field epidemics"
No one in the United States even knew about COVID-19 in January; onset of symptoms in the first recorded patient was December 1, at least according to the study in The Lancet. Final part: was it a lab accident? American intelligence agencies don't think so. I can hardly be accused of anti-Americanism for dropping the "so".
#5
So much we don't know. Like how was President Chiang Kai-shek allowed to spend his summers on his estate in China with his first wife and mother while Taiwan (ROC) and China (PRC) were in a state of war?
#6
Sanctions have proved ineffective to remove dictators. Embracing seemed logical as the J curve theory seemed to indicate they'd turn to a democracy in time. The problem was the J-curve was wrong and our businesses went far beyond just embrace.
Too bad Papa Bush did't do more when Tianamen had China positioned as world Pariah.
#8
China cannot seriously threaten us. We have brought this scourge upon ourselves. It is OUR doing.
No one forced us to make our pharmaceutical supply chain >80% dependent on China.
No one forced us to outsource most of our non-pharmaceutical manufacturing supply chain to China.
No one forced us to make our flagship public universities' revenues hence solvency dependent on thousands of extremely well-connected and wealthy, free-spending spoiled ignorant CCP spawn.
No one forced us to admit thousands of Chinese spies into our research land and high-tech corporations.
We did all this to ourselves. Because we are ruled by f---ing morons.
[The Atlantic] How could democrats win a statewide election that they had seemingly conceded—that they had tried in vain to prevent from even taking place?
That was the question in Wisconsin this morning, after the party celebrated the unlikely ouster of a conservative justice in a crucial race for a seat on the state’s highest court. With former Vice President Joe Biden now the presumptive Democratic nominee, following Senator Bernie Sanders’s withdrawal from the presidential race, the results of the party primary had become moot. The far more consequential race was the judicial election, and Judge Jill Karofsky’s defeat of incumbent Justice Daniel Kelly gave Democrats an important victory—delayed by nearly a week as a deluge of absentee ballots were counted—in what was essentially a trial run for the November election in the closely divided swing state.
But the bigger mystery was how it had happened at all.
Power LIne via Instapundit
The great Zach Goldberg, the youngish Ph.D student who has been quantifying the explosion of "wokeness" in the news media and elsewhere over the last decade, has been looking through the raw data in the Pew Research Center’s latest American Trends Panel Survey, and unearthed some interesting findings, which you can see here. Top line: liberals are more than twice as likely as conservatives to be found to have a mental health condition.
#4
In Germany "liberal" is a supporter of small gov/free market politics.
I think you call them "classical liberals".
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In this country only academic leftists who've lived and studied in continental Europe use "liberal" (usual formulation is "neoliberal") to mean "free market-supporting capitalist."
Nearly everyone else uses the word liberal to designate those who support a significant amount of state intervention to correct market failures - which renders the term all but useless as a meaningful marker of political differences.
The American left shuns the term, favoring "progressive" instead.
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The word/term "liberal", some might say, surely got corrupted. I think your average American would only understand "Libertarian" v a "classical Liberal" such as in the UK and elsewhere.
How's the FDP in Germany doing lately? If I recall, they got pretty beaten up over the past few elections.
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'Liberals' were once essentially people of low self worth with dysfunctional psyches. They are now almost always individuals with a superficial facade of virtuosity but in their lives, while in their choices and attitudes they exhibit an amoral character and really shallow personalities. It is the amoral part, coupled with the usual 'progressive , atheist, pan-sexual' tropes that gives them their political identity in our eyes. Most conservatives see them only as the hair-dyeing, tarot reading, party hoppers and socialites and believe them to be inferior samples. They are just the foot-soldiers, the judases in fact.
The real Left is composed of some highly motivated, psychopaths that have learnt to play collectively, in order to advance their ultimate end. A hedonist utopia for themselves and their mercenary loyalists.
Today, because of the ungainliness of our chosen moralist shackles, the Left has garnered immense power. Even the masses not directly adherent to their dogmas cannot question their carefully cultivated academic, social and moral credibility.
They leveraged the common need to socialize inherent in academics, unemployed people and youth from broken homes very early on. The conservative, trusting in the power of Status Quo and the ability of the world to mend itself, was complacent. The Left braved jail, ignominy, batons and unemployment. Their early generations sacrificed for the strength their bastard offspring enjoys today. They adapted to our constitutionally placed barriers to psychopathy and came out dominant. But we dared not go the un-constitutional way even when we saw what they were going for, no.
The situation is basically the same everywhere, not just in America. The Left has even commandeered institutions that classify mental illnesses today; they have challenged the sanity of democratically elected leaders on grounds that they cannot toe the line.
We are slowly becoming the outliers of this skewed socio-political environment. Soon, for the larger part of the cowardly world - it's you and me who who will be considered mentally ill.
Hurtful cuz it's F'n TRUE
[Babylon Bee] More colleges across the country have been renaming their liberal arts degrees "non-essential worker degrees" in a bid to be more honest about what exactly the course of study entails.
"We wanted to be a little more honest about what you can expect from a liberal arts program -- sorry, a non-essential worker program," said Charles C. Kettlebrook, Dean of Winstonhamington University in Philadelphia. "Whenever people need to be sent home, to be frank, you'll be the first to go. It will be kind of nice for you, sometimes, actually, since you'll get to stay home and collect a check from the government instead of going out and being productive."
The colleges confirmed that nothing has changed in the actual studies being offered by the liberal arts programs, but now they can't be sued for false advertising. "You'll know right from the get-go that the pottery, French literature, or zero-gravity space station basket weaving classes you're taking are completely useless and non-essential."
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I know it's the Bee.
But after 14 days in quarantine without a book, a movie, a song and not even a painting on the wall you might want to rethink "non-essential".
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[Kunstler] The ruins of Mary McClellan Hospital stand on a hill overlooking the village of Cambridge, New York, in what was a "flyover" corner of the country until the planes stopped flying. The hospital cornerstone was laid July 4, 1917. The USA had entered the war against Germany a few months earlier. The "Spanish" flu pandemic kicked off in January 1918. The hospital opened in January 1919. The flu burned out a year later. The hospital shut down for good in 2003.
I’ve lived around here for decades and never actually got a look at the place until I went up there on a blustery spring Saturday before Easter to look around. I like to read landscapes and the human imprint upon them. This one is a ghost story, not just of the bygone souls who came and went here, but of an entire society, the nation that we used to be and stopped being not so long ago....
[Old photos in original story]
American health care, as we call it today, and for all its high-tech miracles, has evolved into one of the most atrocious rackets the world has ever seen. By racket, I mean an enterprise organized explicitly to make money dishonestly. This is what we've become, and the fact that we seem to be okay with that tells you more about what we have become. The advent of Covid-19, along with the extreme economic disorders it has triggered, will probably be the beginning of the end of that racket. We have no idea how medicine will re-organize itself, but I'd guess that it will happen at a much more primitive scale – because that's usually what happens when human societies overshoot badly. Alas, history is not exactly symmetrical.
But read these photos and meditate on what we were once capable of putting together in this land, and maybe you will find some clues about what was truly admirable about the American condition before we stopped caring.
Snip. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is is an attorney, a radio host, an environmental activist, and an anti-vaxxer nut. We who are parents have been watching the damage he’s caused as measles, mumps, and whooping cough swept through our schools. Now, it seems, the idiots are up in arms about the future COVID-19 vaccine, and want to take the rest of us with them.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[Bongino] Who knew that a potential medical treatment could become politicized? In the era of Donald Trump, nothing is beyond the media’s scope, it seems. After Trump expressed optimism in the drug Hydroxycloroquine as a coronavirus treatment, the media quickly mobilized to discredit it (on the sole basis of the person having recommended it being Trump).
[Renew America] While the democrat-Communist party was keeping us all distracted by such things as that idiotic 'impeachment' charade against the best president in modern history, a Bible Prophecy was quietly fulfilled that no one expected. The Book of Revelation tells us of a leader who will come quietly on the scene to totally control the population by using a "Mark of the Beast" device to accomplish this.
Please use your QR code for CV testing, priority boarding, seating, and Diabetic Meal (DBML). 
[Martin Armstrong] There is no doubt that Americans have been getting a civics lesson as they turn to Washington for answers to the coronavirus crisis, but discover that their state governors have assumed far more control over what goes on in their daily lives than the constitution allows. It has been State and local authorities making decisions about shutting down businesses and allocating medical equipment to hospitals — not the President. They have merely listened to Bill Gates and the compromised Anthony Fauci whose recommendations are illegal.
'Liberals' were once essentially people of low self worth with dysfunctional psyches. They are now almost always individuals with a superficial facade of virtuosity but in their lives, while in their choices and attitudes they exhibit an amoral character and really shallow personalities. It is the amoral part, coupled with the usual 'progressive , atheist, pan-sexual' tropes that gives them their political identity in our eyes. Most conservatives see them only as the hair-dyeing, tarot reading, party hoppers and socialites and believe them to be inferior samples. They are just the foot-soldiers, the judases in fact.
[Kunstler] The ruins of Mary McClellan Hospital stand on a hill overlooking the village of Cambridge, New York, in what was a "flyover" corner of the country until the planes stopped flying. The hospital cornerstone was laid July 4, 1917. The USA had entered the war against Germany a few months earlier. The "Spanish" flu pandemic kicked off in January 1918. The hospital opened in January 1919. The flu burned out a year later. The hospital shut down for good in 2003.
