“…Despite this, the governor said mask requirements will remain in effect in other locations including schools and childcare centers, healthcare facilities, homeless shelters, and corrections facilities.
Hochul said she spoke to Dr. Anthony Fauci, healthcare leaders, business leaders, school superintendents, and teachers unions before making her decisions…”
Rather, they told the good governor, accidental though she is, what decision to make, particularly if she was interested in union campaign contributions in the next election cycle. Hochul couldn’t care less what the actual science says regarding the efficacy and advisability of mask mandates, and even less than that what parents think. She sought the direction of everyone else but New York voters.
Here’s the juice: Cloth masks do virtually nothing to protect, a fact backed by hard data which has been available to anyone with common sense and an open mind for over a year.
Meanwhile, the toad atop the nation’s largest teachers’ union believes masking should be mandated until there is zero transmission in schools. Which causes us to wonder whether Weingarten is just ignorant of the fact the WuFlu is here TO STAY, i.e., it’s NEVER GOING AWAY and we will NEVER, EVER have zero transmission of the virus ANYWHERE ON THE PLANET!!!
Now, here’s The Gouge!
First up, for more on the subject of the utter uselessness of masking, we turn to a forward from Ed Hickey in which Geoff Shullenberger offers a follow-up to an earlier item featuring the research of Ian Miller, as he asks and answers the question…
“…The only way to measure the efficacy of mandates is to look at their actual track record. This is what Miller has done, and the result, he argues, is clear: “mask mandates have demonstrated very little impact, if any, on case curves throughout the United States and in many other international locations.”
Miller is justifiably derisive about the experts who have oversold dubious policies at every turn, but the ironic implication of his book is that much of the expert guidance from prior to 2020 has been vindicated. Before Covid appeared, scientists and officials advised time and again that masks would be ineffective at containing a pandemic respiratory virus, and the evidence Miller has compiled suggests they were correct.
Two years into the pandemic, the experts are now the last to acknowledge the accuracy of their earlier predictions. This raises the question of why they changed course and sacrificed their own credibility in the process. Miller confines himself to the data, and if there’s a limitation to his book, it’s that he does not offer any compelling explanation of why the expert class threw itself a policy it once regarded as worse than useless.
It is not difficult to see why mask mandates proved irresistible to politicians. Masks are the perfect form of hygiene theatre, conveying an intuitive sense of safety regardless of demonstrable efficacy at scale. They also offload responsibility for controlling the pandemic to ordinary people. The overcrowding of ICUs can be blamed on the bad behavior of “anti-maskers”, rather than on the allocation of resources by governments and hospital CEOs. When cases and deaths spike, it is the fault of the citizenry, not the leadership.
The scientific and medical establishment’s uncritical support of masks and other dubious policies is just the latest manifestation of its lack of independence from political imperatives. After several years of finding themselves at the receiving end of rhetorical assaults from rising Right-wing populists, the experts seized on the pandemic as an opportunity to reassert their own status and authority — and that of the liberal-technocratic politicians with whom they are largely aligned.
In the long run, however, the temporary political advantages they gained from this will be outweighed by the discrediting effect of their embrace of censorship, propaganda, and rule by decree. Making us all put masks on was the expert class’s mask-off moment — and what we can see now isn’t pretty.“
To wit, upon entering our local Harris Teeter grocery store Thursday afternoon TLJ discovered she was one of very small minority of people in the store not sporting a mask. Later, traveling down an aisle she encountered a masked woman who looked at her as if she were the veritable Angel of Death come to claim her. TLJ was so amused by the shock on the woman’s face, she couldn’t help taking a detour from her planned route so as to come fact to face with her prey once again. The resultant fear was, if anything, geometrically greater.
Think about: TLJ wasn’t masked, the woman was. Based on the “science” of masking, and assuming being maskless TLJ wasn’t vaccinated, who was in the greater danger? Yes, that’s the behavior exhibited when fear overrides facts and reason, the textbook definition of psychosis.
Turning from the “isn’t pretty” to the downright unattractive…at least in their #NeverTrump machinations…writing at Townhall.com, RNC chair Ronna McDaniel details how…
“…the awful events of that day do not justify Cheney or Kinzinger enabling a partisan committee whose real purpose seems to be helping Democrats’ electoral prospects at the cost of potentially ruining innocent people’s lives. From the outset, the committee has lacked the legitimacy of past independent, bipartisan efforts investigating events of national importance. For starters, Republican leadership was not allowed to freely appoint a single Republican to the committee. Instead, Cheney and Kinzinger were hand-picked by Nancy Pelosi.
The January 6 Committee predictably has now vastly exceeded its original purpose and morphed into something else entirely, investigating Republicans who had nothing to do with January 6 for the apparent offense of being Republican. Under the Committee’s approach, almost anything related to the 2020 election is within the scope of its jurisdiction, to include harassing citizens who were not even in Washington, DC that day.
Nancy Pelosi’s committee – which the New York Times says “is employing techniques more common in criminal cases than in congressional inquiries” – has no authority to pursue criminal charges, is not respecting the rights of private citizens and has disregarded due process and checks and balances. Last month, reports showed that 90 percent of the committee’s subpoenas have been delivered to people who weren’t even at the Capitol on January 6th. That is political posturing, not pursuing justice. Even an individual on trial has the right to face a jury of his peers, but those being called in front of the committee are faced with a hostile kangaroo court that reached a conclusion long before even asking a question.
This includes individuals like one of the RNC’s members who was subpoenaed because, weeks before January 6th, she served as an alternate elector pending the outcome of ongoing lawsuits – an action with clear legal precedent which Democrats themselves have done in the past. Now she could face costly legal bills even though she was nowhere near the Capitol on January 6th and had nothing to do with the violence that occurred.
Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger are cheapening the events of January 6th by participating in Nancy Pelosi’s partisan committee. The Senate has already completed one investigation into January 6th, and there are multiple ongoing active law enforcement investigations into what happened that day.These are the correct avenues for investigation.
I firmly believe we are the big tent party, and that disagreement amongst Republicans is welcome and can make us stronger. But what Cheney and Kinzinger are engaged in goes much further than any policy disagreement. These two have permitted their party affiliation to be weaponized to allow the Democrats gross overreach and abuse of power. In short, they never should have agreed to be part of a committee where Republicans were denied representation.
As I have repeatedly stated, violence is not legitimate political discourse – whether in the U.S. Capitol or in Democrat-run cities across the country – and neither is abusing Congress’ investigatory powers for political gain. Media outlets pretending that the RNC believes otherwise are doing so in bad faith, and their lies should be called out for the cheap political stunts they are.“
(2). Maryland RINO governor Larry Hogan made the announcement in a press conference where he said he does not aspire to be a Senator and appreciates those who’ve urged him to consider it. What Larry does aspire to be is the next Republican candidate for President, a position for which he should consider running as a Dimocrat, the party which best suits his proclivity for changing his policies to suit the mood of The Mob.
(3). And we’re shocked…
…to report 15-year-old Russian figure skater prodigy Kamila Valieva has failed a drug test at the Beijing Olympics.
(4). The Journal‘s Dan Henninger sagely suggests everyone in America turn off the Olympics…a recommendation we can’t follow as we never turned them on in the first place.
The powers-that-be are afraid…VERY afraid. And they should be. And if they aren’t…
(7). President Biden criticized a controversial bill making its way through the Florida legislature that addresses conversations teachers have with their students about gender and sexual orientation. “I want every member of the LGBTQI+ community — especially the kids who will be impacted by this hateful bill — to know that you are loved and accepted just as you are,” the president tweeted Tuesday. “I have your back, and my Administration will continue to fight for the protections and safety you deserve.”
Yeah, kids, Uncle Joe’s…
…got your back! Guess the same individual who filtered Trump’s tweets are screening 46*’s.
Which brings us, appropriately enough, to The Lighter Side:
Then there’s this from the lovely Shannon…
…along with a trio of Hunter the Crack King memes forwarded by Speed:
Finally, since we’re on the subject of drugs, we’ll call it a wrap with News of the Bizarre, as FOX relates the story of a state legislator who must be on something:
“…Washington state Rep. Cindy Ryu, a Democrat, is the sponsor of HB 1707, a bill that would require people to wear personal flotation devices while on stand-up paddle boards, kayaks and canoes in an effort to prevent drowning deaths.
The legislation, however, includes an exemption for members of federally-recognized Native American tribes.The exemption came up during a remote hearing on the bill, where Ryu defended it while suggesting Native Americans wouldn’t drown due to their “eons” of experience dealing with the “cold water.”
“The few exemptions you see, including the tribal members – federally recognized tribal members exemptions – are based on responses from the community,” Ryu said. “These are situations where they have either extensive training or [are] traditionally very used to our cold waters for eons, essentially, or are very closely supervised.”
Ryu said she thought the provision “was a great mechanism to allow the tribal members that do have a lot more access to the waters and traditional training and activity, unlike many of the other diverse communities that don’t, like Korean Americans.” “The only time I go out on the water nowadays anyway is when my non-Korean American son-in-law takes me out on the water,” she continued. “And so I thought that was a good way of carving out very narrow exemptions.”
Ryu’s office did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.“
Yeah,…probably because they realize…
Magoo
Video of the Day
If you ever needed a reason to boycott Showtime and any other cable channel or network owned by its parent, ViacomCBS, this is it. P.S. Gotta love the fact ViacomCBS is owned and run by rich WHITE people! (https://www.viacomcbs.com/about/leadership)
Tales of The Darkside
Will Cain, Harris Faulkner and Tammy Bruce team up to expose the true divide in America and the world. These elites have sown the wind, and they’re starting to reap the whirlwind.
On the Lighter Side
Justin Trudeau: He can’t hold ’em, cuz he’s got nothing to hold, and he sure as heck ain’t willin’ to fold ’em. So he just walks away! Another Profile in Progressive Political and Personal Poltroonery.
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