“The CDC raised its alert level for Monkeypox to level 2 on Monday, recommending that travelers wear masks, among other health measures.
While not on the level of COVID-19, Monkeypox has spread across the globe out of Africa since March. Monkeypox symptoms begin as relatively flu-like but soon expand to the swelling of lymph nodes and a rash across the body and face. Ultimately, painful lesions form on rash areas, leaving severe scarring.
“Cases of monkeypox have been reported in Europe, North America, South America, Africa, Asia, and Australia,” the CDC wrote in its alert. “Some(“Some”?!? Try almost all!!!) cases were reported among men who have sex with men. Some cases were also reported in people who live in the same household as an infected person,” it added…”
Soooo…the CDC is saying we must once more mask up in the face of a virus which is primarily transmitted only after prolonged, close, carnal contact between homosexual males, or by living with those engaging in same. Which begs the question “why”? Unless there’s a serious risk of being buggered while either in flight or going through the TSA line, we’re going to opt out!
Here’s the juice: Once again, people, this has nothing to do with controlling a virus and everything to do about controlling you.
For those requiring further proof of the government’s true intentions, the Journal‘s Jay Bhattacharya records how…
“I’ve been a huge advocate of keeping schools fully open to in person education since October of 2020,” Ashish Jha, the White House’s Covid response coordinator, tweeted last week. “Still am.” So why is Dr. Jha engaged in scare-mongering about the danger of Covid to children?
In a May 30tweet, Dr. Jha asserted that Covid is “a far greater threat to kids than the flu is.” He linked to an article by Harvard Medical School instructor Jeremy Faust, which claims that Covid killed more than 600 children in 2021, whereas the flu kills “an average” of only 120 children annually. But Dr. Faust’s data are severely skewed, for three reasons.
First, while flu is seldom tested, everyone admitted to a hospital for any reason gets a Covid test. Between October 2018 and September 2019, 1.4 million flu tests werereportedto public-health and clinical labs. As of May 31, 2022, there had been897 million PCR tests for Covid.
Second, evidence from audits of death certificates found that 35% of all pediatric deaths in 2020 “had co-occurring diagnosis codes that could not be plausibly categorized as either a chain-of-event or significant contributing condition,” according to astudypublished by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Put another way, in at least 35% of pediatric “Covid deaths,” Covid couldn’thave been the cause.
Third, Dr. Faust relies on a figure for confirmed flu deaths that is well-known to underestimate actual flu deaths by an order of magnitude. Correcting for the lack of flu testing, the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases estimated1,161 pediatric flu deaths in the 2012-13 season rather than the 142 that Dr. Faust reported.
For the White House to amplify a false message of high Covid risk for children undermines public health and erodes public confidence. (What little is left after the Faux Chi fraud!) It foments an erroneous assessment of risk and is the kind of misinformation that leads to more school closings as well as burdensome (and utterly unnecessary!) mask and quarantine mandates.
There are far greater risks to children than Covid. Since March 2020, more than 1,000 kids have died with Covid (an average of around 38 a month), according to the CDC. In the same period more than 1,400 childrendiedfrom drug- and alcohol-related causes.
The biggest risk to children comes from disruptions in their schooling. We will be cleaning up the school-closing mess for years, and fomenting baseless fear only makes the task harder.
All of which just goes to prove Ronaldus Maximus was right when he remarked in his first Inaugural Address, “Government isn’t the solution, government is the problem.” And the bigger the government, the bigger the problem.
Now, here’s The Gouge!
We lead off the mid-week edition with another compelling commentary from Kevin Williamson in which he urges the Executive Branch to…
“Here is a ratio to keep in mind when thinking about guns and crime: one in 10,000.
In 2018, the hilariously misnamed Government Accountability Office performed an audit of the federal government’s performance when it comes to prosecuting the easiest kind of gun-crime case; i.e., the crime that is committed when a prohibited person attempts to purchase a firearm through a licensed firearms dealer, a process that requires submitting to a background check. It is a crime for a prohibited person to try to purchase a firearm in any circumstance, but, in practically all of these cases, the person trying to buy the firearm lies on the background-check paperwork, which is called Form 4473 — and that is a felony…
…that can bring as much as ten years in prison on the first offense and even more time when there are aggravating circumstances.
In 2017, the year the GAO audited, there were 112,000 attempts by prohibited persons to buy a firearm that were stopped by the background-check system — that’s 112,000 federal gun crimes in which the perpetrator signed his name on the form and thereby provided all the evidence needed to convict him. Shockingly, the federal government simply ignored about 100,000 of those cases, investigating only 12,700. To be clear, this isn’t a mere paperwork crime we are talking about: According to the GAO, 36 percent of those 112,000 denied firearms were convicted felons, 30 percent were subjects of protective orders, and 16 percent had been convicted of disqualifying domestic-violence misdemeanors. These are the very people who should be our top priorities when it comes to fighting gun crime; in fact, the Department of Justice reports that about 30 percent of those who fail a background check are arrested on another criminal charge within five years.
Here’s the really bad part: Out of those 12,700 cases that were taken up for investigation, there were only twelve prosecutions. Twelve.
Put another way: If you get caught trying to buy a gun illegally in the most obvious and brazen way, your chances of being prosecuted are only about one in 10,000 — for comparison, a felon in the United States is about six times more likely to die in a murder than one of these offenders is to face prosecution.
On paper, illegal gun purchasing is something our government takes seriously: It is a felony that can bring ten years in federal prison. In practice, it is something the government does not take very seriously at all: Hence, only twelve prosecutions out of 112,000 violations.
That’s a prosecution rate of one in 10,000 for the people we know are trying to buy guns illegally.
If you have spent much time around elderly men with declining faculties, you will recognize the all-too-common pattern of lashing out because they need help for things they could once do themselves, rather than being thankful for the help.
Okay, but the main thing the in-his-prime-such-as-it-was Joe Biden could do for himself was say stupid stuff . . . that he would then have to pretend not to have said.
The difference between then and now is that, as president rather than blowhard senator, Biden has legions of staff, rather than just the media, to walk it back. He was grateful for the media. But now he’s angry at the staff. I guess that’s the measure of decline.
Moving on, here’s another sextet of selections certain to pique the interest of inquiring Conservative minds:
(1). NRO‘s Caroline Downey’s report on the firebombing of a Buffalo pro-life pregnancy center not only reinforces the reality The Left inevitably resorts to violence any time it doesn’t get its way, but offers yet another reason the 2nd Amendment is more important and relevant today than ever.
(5). Since we’re on the subject of the most illegitimate resident ever to soil the White House, we’re with the Morning Jolt when it suggests Joe needs to stop his whining and complaining.
“…In a statement, Tampa Bay Rays president Matt Silverman said “Our Pride Nights continue to grow both in terms of visibility and participation” and that “By doing this, we extend an invitation not just for this game but for all of our games that the LGBTQ+ community is invited, welcomed and celebrated.”“
Accepted? Yes. Celebrated? No, and these players were not willing to represent otherwise.
Here’s the juice:
This is sh*t you don’t NEED to make up, ’cause it’s already happening!!!
Magoo
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Video of the Day
John Stossel uses fact-based reality to refute purely emotional arguments.
Tales of The Darkside
These complete ass-clowns can no more feel the pain of the policies they impose and promote than a monkey can fly to the moon.
On the Lighter Side
What do the harpies on The View have in common with a broken clock? Nothing, ‘cuz they’re NEVER right!
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