It’s Monday, November 30th, 2020…but before we begin, like many if not all of you, though bombarded 24/7 with texts and emails seeking contributions for the January 5th run-off election in Georgia, we’ve been leery of sending money to organizations which may not be directly connected with the candidates.
For those interested, we called Kelly Loeffler’s Atlanta office, and were given the following websites: kellyforsenate.com and perduesenate.com.
We tried Loeffler’s link first, but encountered difficulty entering our email, and were thus unable to complete the transaction. However, after making a contribution at Perdue’s site, a link popped up which enabled us to support the Loeffler campaign as well.
Here’s the juice: Absent SCOTUS overturning the manifestly fraudulent election results, Loeffler and Purdue could well be all that stands between the Founders’ Republic and Kamala Harris’s Amerika.
Neither is sitting on your wallet.
Now, here’s The Gouge!
First up, during our annual…and this year, thanks to Progressive political poltroons, supposedly illegal…Thanksgiving gathering, we were shocked to learn both our sister and brother-in-law not only cast their ballots for Biden, but, owing to their South Carolina residency, voted for Jim Clyburn and against Lindsey Graham. Okay,…we kinda, sorta understand that last one.
This is not to note certain college degrees were valueless even in the early ’70s (see “res ipsa loquitur“; see also “educated idiots“), but rather to emphasize the deep disgust with which many who once voted for The Donald came to view him.
Their decision had no basis in fact; rather it represented the exclusive product of an abiding disdain for the representation of Trump’s personality, character and conduct fostered by the MSM. After all, neither could name a Trump policy with which they had significant disagreement, nor any portion of Biden’s proposed agenda they found attractive. Furthermore, they completely ignored Biden’s own numerous shortcomings and character flaws…as well as his 47-year record of corruption…and instead focused on Trump’s tweets and boorish behavior.
In other words, while judging The Donald for the mote in his eye, they ignored the log in Biden’s…along with the Red Star tattooed across Kamala Harris’s forehead. Not to mention the continued slaughter of the unborn a Biden/Harris Administration would ensure.
Since we’re on the subject of November 3rd…
…this meme from Balls Cotton sums up our thoughts on the validity of mail-in ballots:
“Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) revealed on Monday afternoon that she will step down as Democrats’ highest-ranking member on the Senate Judiciary Committee. The California Democrat faced an abundance of scrutiny from progressive lawmakers and activists for her civil behavior toward Justice Amy Coney Barrett during her confirmation hearings in October. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and others indicated that Sen. Feinstein is not combative enough to handle the position on the committee…”
So much for…
Moving to a subject which directly impacted the outcome of the 2020 election, in a forward from Balls Cotton, Not the Bee reports how…
“According tonew data, the U.S. currently ranks first in total COVID-19 cases, new cases per day and deaths. Genevieve Briand, assistant program director of the Applied Economics master’s degree program at Hopkins, critically analyzed the effect of COVID-19 on U.S. deaths using data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in her webinar titled “COVID-19 Deaths: A Look at U.S. Data.”
From mid-March to mid-September, U.S. total deaths have reached 1.7 million, of which 200,000, or 12% of total deaths, are COVID-19-related. Instead of looking directly at COVID-19 deaths, Briand focused on total deaths per age group and per cause of death in the U.S. and used this information to shed light on the effects of COVID-19. She explained that the significance of COVID-19 on U.S. deaths can be fully understood only through comparison to the number of total deaths in the United States.
After retrieving data on the CDC website, Briand compiled a graph representing percentages of total deaths per age category from early February to early September, which includes the period from before COVID-19 was detected in the U.S. to after infection rates soared.
Surprisingly, the deaths of older people stayed the same before and after COVID-19. Since COVID-19 mainly affects the elderly, experts expected an increase in the percentage of deaths in older age groups. However, this increase is not seen from the CDC data. In fact, the percentages of deaths among all age groups remain relatively the same.
“The reason we have a higher number of reported COVID-19 deaths among older individuals than younger individuals is simply because every day in the U.S. older individuals die in higher numbers than younger individuals,” Briand said.
Briand also noted that 50,000 to 70,000 deaths are seen both before and after COVID-19, indicating that this number of deaths was normal long before COVID-19 emerged.Therefore, according to Briand, not only has COVID-19 had no effect on the percentage of deaths of older people, but it has also not increased the total number of deaths.
These data analyses suggest that in contrast to most people’s assumptions, the number of deaths by COVID-19 is not alarming.In fact, it has relatively no effect on deaths in the United States.
This comes as a shock to many people.How is it that the data lie so far from our perception?
To answer that question, Briand shifted her focus to the deaths per causes ranging from 2014 to 2020. There is a sudden increase in deaths in 2020 due to COVID-19. This is no surprise because COVID-19 emerged in the U.S. in early 2020, and thus COVID-19-related deaths increased drastically afterward.
Analysis of deaths per cause in 2018 revealed that the pattern of seasonal increase in the total number of deaths is a result of the rise in deaths by all causes, with the top three being heart disease, respiratory diseases, influenza and pneumonia. “This is true every year.Every year in the U.S. when we observe the seasonal ups and downs, we have an increase of deaths due to all causes,” Briand pointed out.
When Briand looked at the 2020 data during that seasonal period, COVID-19-related deaths exceeded deaths from heart diseases. This was highly unusual since heart disease has always prevailed as the leading cause of deaths. However, when taking a closer look at the death numbers, she noted something strange. As Briand compared the number of deaths per cause during that period in 2020 to 2018, she noticed that instead of the expected drastic increase across all causes, there was a significant decrease in deaths due to heart disease. Even more surprising, as seen in the graph below, this sudden decline in deaths is observed for all other causes.
Graph depicts the number of deaths per cause during that period in 2020 to 2018.
This trend is completely contrary to the pattern observed in all previous years. (You know…sorta like the 2020 election results!)Interestingly, as depicted in the table below, the total decrease in deaths by other causes almost exactly equals the increase in deaths by COVID-19.This suggests, according to Briand, that the COVID-19 death toll is misleading. Briand believes that deaths due to heart diseases, respiratory diseases, influenza and pneumonia may instead be recategorized as being due to COVID-19.
Graph depicts the total decrease in deaths by various causes, including COVID-19.
The CDC classified all deaths that are related to COVID-19 simply as COVID-19 deaths. Even patients dying from other underlying diseases but are infected with COVID-19 count as COVID-19 deaths. This is likely the main explanation as to why COVID-19 deaths drastically increased while deaths by all other diseases experienced a significant decrease.
“All of this points to no evidence that COVID-19 created any excess deaths. Total death numbers are not above normal death numbers. We found no evidence to the contrary,” Briand concluded…”
In a related item, the WSJ‘s Bill McGurn highlights how Progressive politicians served their constituents up…
“Californians live under some of the tightest Covid-19 restrictions in the nation. So when Gov. Gavin Newsom was recently caught without a mask at a crowded table for 12 at a posh Napa Valley eatery, he instantly became the poster boy for the “Do as I Say, Not as I Do” crowd.
He’s hardly the only one. Not long after Mr. Newsom’s visit to the French Laundry was exposed, Californians read about a delegation of their lawmakers who’d jetted to a Maui resort for a conference as everyone else was being told to avoid nonessential travel. New Yorkers earlier learned that Mayor Bill de Blasio was working out at his favorite Park Slope YMCA right as he was shutting down the city. And of course Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot made headlines for sneaking off to get their hair done when barbershops and salons were closed to everyone else.
No doubt Thanksgiving will bring fresh examples. While many citizens dutifully inform grandma there’s no room for her at the table because of new Covid-19 restrictions, someone inevitably will be caught enjoying the holiday with dozens of friends and second cousins who have flown in for some bird and gravy.(Case in point: Check out New Jersey’s Phil Murphy at our Tales From the Dark Side video, accessible through link #3 immediately beneath our Quote of the Day at the top of the page.) And we in the press will let our righteous indignation rip.
Yours truly enjoys a good gotcha as much as the next man. And it’s easy to mock these pols for their blatant hypocrisy when they are caught. But maybe the more important lesson to be learned here is that hypocrisy is guaranteed when we impose one-size-fits-all mandates that are rigid and unworkable…”
To which we’d add “almost completely ineffective and counterproductive”.
Speaking of the completely ineffective and counterproductive, in the Progressive Life Imitates Artsegment, as Newsmax informs us…
Uhhh,…with no disrespect to Sarah Fuller personally, (i) the Vanderbilt Commodores play football about as well as their Motown counterparts; (ii) it was a kick-off, and she had to have a holder; (iii) the kick was a squibb that only went 25 yards. Seriously even we, our age and artificial hip notwithstanding, could have equaled that kick. Hells bells, any of the other players on the Vanderbilt team could have done as well; and, (iv) she was only on the team because the Wuhan virus took down the regular kickers, Vanderbilt dropped its men’s soccer program in 2006 and a coach desperate to keep his job (he was fired on Sunday) needed a distraction from the team’s winless record.
All of which makes Ms. Fuller’s “achievement” historical only in the annals…or, perhaps more appropriately…anals…of political correctness.
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