Key grafs:
“…the formerly confident Democrats are beginning to panic. Now they want to change the election rules in the middle of the game:
‘[T]he Democrat-dominated Fairfax Board of Supervisors has asked Gov. Ralph Northam to waive the witness signature requirement that Virginia law stipulates for all absentee ballots. Board Chairman Jeffrey McKay insists that the waiver is necessary due to the threat of COVID-19, yet cases are declining.’
“This is the same fraud that the Democrats perpetrated in something like 15 states in the 2020 election. Using covid as an excuse, they illegally changed election laws, via collusive litigation, to delete the requirement of a witness signature on mail-in ballots–in many states, the only safeguard against mail-in voter fraud….”
Short verion: the Democrats fear they’re in electoral trouble (as well they might be).
And so time to roll out the “tried, true and tested”…
File under: Heeere we go again…
Also in Virginia, Loudoun County School Board has distinguished itself with its treatment of parents generally and Scott Smith in particular who questioned the policy of allowing “transgender” boys to use the girls’ restrooms. Not only did the school fail to protect Mr. Smith’s daughter from a (male) sexual predator who assaulted her in a girls’ restroom, but it attempted to cover up the assault. Subsequently the same predator assaulted another girl at a different school to which he had been moved. Then Mr. Smith attended a public meeting with the Board and tried to question the policy; the Board had him arrested and dragged out of the room.
Unclear what voters will do about this, but I suspect the issues —of high-handed and unresponsive official attitudes, of outrageously unsafe policies adopted to serve a bizarre ideology, of concealing felonies arising directly from those policies— are not going away.
Surprise! (Just kiding.)
They’re bent AND stupid. (To paraphrase, “The convenient is the enemy of the smart”…)
True Jen will no doubt tell us—warn us?—that we’re taking that shared account “out of context”…that the Biden family is a warm and loving family…that they share EVERYTHING…in which case, she just might be telling the truth for once….
File under: Nothing to see here, etc., etc….
Coast of Maine?
Barry,
To be fair we share a joint Credit Card with our children. They know they can use it in an emergency.
Which, strangely enough even with COVID raging, has not yet occurred.
Oh, you mean your 50+ year-old kids–the ones who enjoy hobnobbing with the rich, famous…and corrupt…in Kazakhstan, China, Qatar, etc…?
(Besides, you’re—I assume—talking about “mishpocha”. I’m talking about “famiglia”…)
Captain Kirk just made it back from space. It will be interesting to see what he has to say. Maybe Nevermore,
“Hasn’t changed a bit”, most likely.
– – – – – – –
…And in other non-news news, the absurd, corrosive and destructive politicization of science revisited:
“We are ALL LYSENKO NOW” (i.e., all too many of us)… https://www.city-journal.org/panic-pandemic
H/T Instapundit.
Read it and weep (as they say)…and/or marvel…
With the 3 day weekend, I just got the latest Covid numbers today instead of yesterday. Remember, I look at cases/day which is essentially a “velocity”. Nationally, the cases/day is now -5000, which means cases are moving down. Last week it was +9000/day. Essentially the Covid car was still moving forward last week but over the weekend it stopped and shifted into reverse. But it won’t seem like much progress as the total cases is in the 9.5million range. The case curve is by appearance flat but until the cases/day gets into the -50k to -100k I suspect the news media will ignore.
Of the states I follow, Florida and Georgia continue their very rapid downward trend. NC continues it somewhat slower decline, NH is showing a slight uptick, as is CO. CT is starting a very slow downturn.
Barry Meislin,
Great stuff from City Journal, as always.
This
“One in three people worldwide lost a job or a business during the lockdowns, and half saw their earnings drop …”
has made life very odd for my wife and me. In an odd set of circumstances, I am the only one among our circle of friends who lost a job due to the pandemic. Not only that, but, economically, life improved significantly and unexpectedly for our circle of friends as they worked from home and saw their investments sky rocket.
All is well. My wife and I are clever and industrious and we will figure this out, but it is sometimes odd socializing these days. All our friends don’t have a care in the world, they had a better year than their most rosy projections. It’s like my wife and I slept through Christmas, or something. It’s an odd incongruity.
I do have concerns it may negatively affect future economics and politics. Those in my social circle don’t have a tangible feeling for what these policies have done to many and I fear they will be willing to keep things going. Working from home while making more money must be nice. I’d like to try it myself. But getting wealthier while being even more insulated from the hoi polloi may create greater societal enclaves with perspectives like the limousine liberals who live in gated and gilded communities.
In case anybody is interested Jeff Goldstein at Protein Wisdom is back to blogging after being banned on Twitter.
That explains the myriad news items I see, retracting previous, negative reporting on Ron DeSantis’ handling of COVID. /sarc
physicsguy —
The WA State covid dashboard shows case count/fatality peaks at roughly five-month intervals, alternating high peak/low peak.
I think the overall state data for the latest peak are affected by the non-urban counties finally getting hit hard, but if you look at King County, the fatality peaks keep getting smaller and smaller.
I expect that if we have another midwinter peak in February or so, the King County fatalities will be hardly above the base non-peak rate at all.
physicsguy –
Using the 7 day moving average of the CDC data, it appears as if the daily cases have been trending down since September 15 (after the minor “back-to-school” peak after the Delta Variant high point of 160k per day on September 1st). I prefer the moving average due to the noise produced by reporting delays. As of yesterday the moving average was at around 85k per day. Assuming the trend continues we should hit 50k per day sometime around November 7th.
Barry,
Yeah … you are exactly right … mispocha 🙂 [ I had to look up the meaning ]
No artists in the bunch. But I do have a DIL that does cutesy cross stich patterns.
geoffb,
Thanks for the heads up on protein wisdom!
“…circle of friends…”
Looking on the bright side, it’s great that one still has them.
On the less than bright side, “Biden” has plans for them (and most all of us).
(Actually, what struck me about that article was the sheer heroism of those scientists and researchers who bucked the trend and the hyena-like cruelty, voracity, vindictiveness and hatred of those who constantly and unfairly attacked them, leading to many scientists being too fearful to publish any of their findings that contradicted the Holy Narrative…)
File under
WAS THE WASHINGTON, DC January 6th PROTEST REALLY AN ARMED INSURRECTION? Byron York walks us through the numbers and concludes no.
Those “wielding guns” (or charged with “possession”), for instance, mostly kept them off site. And one of the very few to carry his onto the grounds was a DEA agent carrying his federal authorised weapon.
When Neo does another look at this, I trust this will be referenced. Meanwhile, bookmark this, amaze your friends, and get your enemies to question The Media Narrative. https://www.jewishworldreview.com/1021/york101321.php
Re., your photos: With the proviso that what I am seeing may not what be you are producing and posting, and at the risk of repeating myself.
That said, most of your images seem to lack the natural contrast and intensity that I assume you were attempting to capture.
My – uh, I don’t know what she is to me – close cousin’s wife I guess, has been shooting hundreds of images around the vacation farm “Up North”. Some of them would knock your socks off, weathered barn, intensely blue sky, afternoon lit wildflowers in foreground, the deep green crowns of huge white pines in the background.
I mentioned to her that similar images I had taken years before tended to look somewhat washed out (not underdeveloped) in comparison.
Then, she showed me what she was doing with post image processing. The skies probably were milky blue. Her adjustments to bring what was captured into line with what was subjectively perceived at the moment of capture, made quite the difference.
And so their next mega-battle will be to shut this whole thing down.
(While the responsibility of their media goons will be to either ignore this promising discovery entirely or misrepresent it totally…because the DEMOCRATS REALLY DO CARE about America…)
To be continued…
What will be the downfall of Wokism? Re Barry and especially Owen’s comment at the top, about the transgenderist follies of the Virginia, Loudoun County School Board, et al.
The First weakness is our enemies inherent incompetence. (Take Ibram Kendi, for example — a lightweight among an army of lightweights.) We see this most obviously with Xi-Den, Afghanistan, inflation, and China.
The second and third are the inherent contradictions and incoherence, as see in the transgenderist rigorsimentto, or the rigid Idpol righteousness caterwauling amidst the now commonplace multiracial families, who standout as highly visible contradictions of theorea run amuck!
In other words, The Church of Woke is a Train Wreck. Glenn Reynolds linked to the prescient 13th Anniversary piece on Legal Insurrection by William Jacobson, yesterday.
And Jacobson’s steely eyes recounts our nation’s decline as slow, almost hidden, not many years ago. Yet now sudden, almost inescapably self-evident.
Decline has given way to abject American collapse. In comments, “fredx3” gives some pushback against this stark, unremitting pessimism.
But I think there’s more room for optimism in my three points (above), in addition to necessary Big Picture strategic thinking.
All we need is to track and recruit the young and immunised against IdPol to go into the noble teaching world and go into government and municipal service.
But does any place in the Right thinking World equip the young to pursue a counter-revolutionary Patriotic Defense for the Great Republic’s revival potentials?
The Intercollegiate Studies Institute and the Institute for Humane Studies are the closest old spawning grounds. But this spade work must be refined, upscaled, and missionary zeal generated to outreach to every Charter and Private school in America if this strategy is to succeed and redeem us.
And the long-lived threat of corrupt message dilution and institutional cooptation is the ever present danger that emanates from our enemies.
Where is that Roger Kimball style voice that focuses us on Ronald Reagan’s warnings on Liberty, fused together with an Eisenhower “Farewell Speech” type of visionary, precautionary, wisdom? The Guardian we need to focus our long term energies, and lead us?
It’s a voice of prophetic leadership that we need today. Perhaps someone like Steven Miller (Trump’s leading speechwriter)?
Nonapod, My numbers are a 14 day running average…I should have mentioned that. The 7 day running average is even more negative. I use 14 day average from way back in the beginning when it became obvious that the non-serious case people were recovered by about 2 week’s time.
Nonapod —
I’m watching “Babylon 5” with my daughter, it is of course a re-watch for me. An “Easter egg” in the background of a first-season episode is a news headine in one of the common areas on the space station: “Rolling Stones Embark On Farewell Tour”.
It’s set in 2258. 😀
Barry Meislin,
“Hasn’t changed a bit”
LOL! Good thing I was sitting down when I read that or I’d have been ROFLOL…
Clicked on that link. This sounded good, “Scientists at Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) and EPFL have discovered a highly potent monoclonal antibody that targets the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein and is effective at neutralizing all variants of concern identified to date, including the delta variant.”
Until I got to this… ” However, this antibody is not intended to replace COVID-19 vaccines, which remain the most effective way to prevent infection“.
That’s a big lie.
Bryan,
Probably only Keith with some younger players in 2258.
I’ve never noticed that though I’ve watched the entire series 4 times now.
DNW:
I’m not sure what colors you’re seeing, but to me the colors in the photo above look quite close to how they looked in real life. I’m not good with cameras and just use my cell phone camera, but I think it does pretty well and it’s easy to carry and to use.
Barry Meislin, that antibody won’t be available for at least a year. Clinical trials start in early 2022. No luck on stopping the hysteria soon.
Yes, that’s true, but it seems so “scientific”, so sophisticated, so glamorous (in its own way).
When you think about it though, today—as we speak—all any government has to do is flood their respective country with Ivermectin (or HCQ+).
Which is precisely what they’re NOT doing (for the most part—a huge exception is India because they really had no choice, i.e., not enough money or vaccine doses combined with huge numbers of sick to deal with; and there also was a report that Japan was going to start using it but I haven’t heard anything since). Why? Not “scientific” enough? Not sophisticated? Not glamorous?
Well, we know why they’re not pushing Ivermectin or any other treatment, in fact they’re generally discouraging and even ridiculing these treatments—that is when they’re not trying to hide information about them.
So I thought maybe this new, really sophisticated alternative might present a threat to the Narrative pushers…but that may in fact be naive.
Welcome to the true mass die offs. As i said in feb 2020, the corona will not kill humanity. But what comes now as a result ofnthe choice to fight god usijg gmo… well that is a different soddom.
Be happy. Satan s world… ur world is ending
Thsi is a good thing.
For if it did not end, none of you would survive
I’ve missed my true calling as an old time alcoholic newspaper sub-editor.
Today’s banner headline in the South China Morning Post: City Suffers Prolonged Pounding.
Well there *was* a typhoon yesterday.
@ Barry > the Chinese-born woman testifying against the Loudoun school board knows that the danger of silence is greater than that of speaking out.
Interestingly, 2 commenters say essentially the same thing, having been raised in the USSR and communist Czechoslovakia.
Also interestingly: Fox interviewed Xi Van Fleet and Suparna Dutta – not exactly names you expect to see on the White Supremacy Soccer Mom PTA list.
Third interestingly: “EDITOR’S NOTE: Suparna Dutta, a Fairfax County Parent interviewed here is also affiliated with the Youngkin for Governor campaign as the Chairwoman of Educators”
“I am scared,” Dutta told Fox News. “Yet, I believe that I’m living in a time when if I don’t speak up for my child and if I don’t stand up for what’s right in America, I don’t know what the next generation will be left with.”
Van Fleet said parents should not be intimidated by recent events.
“This is about your children,” said Van Fleet, whose son graduated from Loudoun High School in 2015. “For me, I’m fighting it because it is about our future. The future of this country. So we cannot be intimidated.”
@ Barry > “the absurd, corrosive and destructive politicization of science revisited:”
John Tierney’s piece in City Journal is incisive, comprehensive, and one of the best “explanations” of the woke elite’s behavior about the Covid pandemic.
Conclusion to his masterful exposition:
This experience should be a lesson in what not to do, and whom not to trust. Do not assume that the media’s version of a crisis resembles reality. Do not count on mainstream journalists and their favorite doomsayers to put risks in perspective. Do not expect those who follow “the science” to know what they’re talking about. Science is a process of discovery and debate, not a faith to profess or a dogma to live by. It provides a description of the world, not a prescription for public policy, and specialists in one discipline do not have the knowledge or perspective to guide society. They’re biased by their own narrow focus and self-interest. Fauci and Deborah Birx, the physician who allied with him against Atlas on the White House task force, had to answer for the daily Covid death toll—that ever-present chyron at the bottom of the television screen—so they focused on one disease instead of the collateral damage of their panic-driven policies.
“The Fauci-Birx lockdowns were a sinful, unconscionable, heinous mistake, and they will never admit they were wrong,” Atlas says. Neither will the journalists and politicians who panicked along with them. They’re still portraying lockdowns as not just a success but also a precedent—proof that Americans can sacrifice for the common good when directed by wise scientists and benevolent autocrats. But the sacrifice did far more harm than good, and the burden was not shared equally. The brunt was borne by the most vulnerable in America and the poorest countries of the world. Students from disadvantaged families suffered the most from school closures, and children everywhere spent a year wearing masks solely to assuage the neurotic fears of adults. The less educated lost jobs so that professionals at minimal risk could feel safer as they kept working at home on their laptops. Silicon Valley (and its censors) prospered from lockdowns that bankrupted local businesses.
Luminaries united on Zoom and YouTube to assure the public that “we’re all in this together.” But we weren’t. When the panic infected the nation’s elite—the modern gentry who profess such concern for the downtrodden—it turned out that they weren’t so different from aristocrats of the past. They were in it for themselves.
Zaphod,
I assume you are familiar with the New York Post’s history of writing great headlines?
“Ford to City: Drop Dead” is indeed a classic (except that it was the Daily News)…
(And then there’s always “Variety”‘s purple-prose banners.)
@Rufus:
Only ones I know off hand are:
Headless Corpse Found in Topless Bar
Sick Transit’s Glorious Monday
But this is something needs further research in an idle hour!
“Sticks Nix Hick Pix” — Variety, July 17, 1935
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Murky waters… Ominous raven…
And so…Democrats (who else?) preparing the ground for voter fraud in Virginia’s upcoming gubernatorial election.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/10/virginia-democrats-panic.php
Key grafs:
“…the formerly confident Democrats are beginning to panic. Now they want to change the election rules in the middle of the game:
‘[T]he Democrat-dominated Fairfax Board of Supervisors has asked Gov. Ralph Northam to waive the witness signature requirement that Virginia law stipulates for all absentee ballots. Board Chairman Jeffrey McKay insists that the waiver is necessary due to the threat of COVID-19, yet cases are declining.’
“This is the same fraud that the Democrats perpetrated in something like 15 states in the 2020 election. Using covid as an excuse, they illegally changed election laws, via collusive litigation, to delete the requirement of a witness signature on mail-in ballots–in many states, the only safeguard against mail-in voter fraud….”
Short verion: the Democrats fear they’re in electoral trouble (as well they might be).
And so time to roll out the “tried, true and tested”…
File under: Heeere we go again…
Also in Virginia, Loudoun County School Board has distinguished itself with its treatment of parents generally and Scott Smith in particular who questioned the policy of allowing “transgender” boys to use the girls’ restrooms. Not only did the school fail to protect Mr. Smith’s daughter from a (male) sexual predator who assaulted her in a girls’ restroom, but it attempted to cover up the assault. Subsequently the same predator assaulted another girl at a different school to which he had been moved. Then Mr. Smith attended a public meeting with the Board and tried to question the policy; the Board had him arrested and dragged out of the room.
Unclear what voters will do about this, but I suspect the issues —of high-handed and unresponsive official attitudes, of outrageously unsafe policies adopted to serve a bizarre ideology, of concealing felonies arising directly from those policies— are not going away.
Related:
https://www.foxnews.com/us/virginia-mom-survived-maoist-china-school-board-association-doj-communist-tactics
Turley on la famiglia Biden and its “shared account”:
https://www.foxnews.com/media/joe-hunter-biden-finances-influence-peddling-investigation-turley
Joe and Hunter with a joint bank account?
Surprise! (Just kiding.)
They’re bent AND stupid. (To paraphrase, “The convenient is the enemy of the smart”…)
True Jen will no doubt tell us—warn us?—that we’re taking that shared account “out of context”…that the Biden family is a warm and loving family…that they share EVERYTHING…in which case, she just might be telling the truth for once….
File under: Nothing to see here, etc., etc….
Coast of Maine?
Barry,
To be fair we share a joint Credit Card with our children. They know they can use it in an emergency.
Which, strangely enough even with COVID raging, has not yet occurred.
Oh, you mean your 50+ year-old kids–the ones who enjoy hobnobbing with the rich, famous…and corrupt…in Kazakhstan, China, Qatar, etc…?
(Besides, you’re—I assume—talking about “mishpocha”. I’m talking about “famiglia”…)
Captain Kirk just made it back from space. It will be interesting to see what he has to say. Maybe Nevermore,
“Hasn’t changed a bit”, most likely.
– – – – – – –
…And in other non-news news, the absurd, corrosive and destructive politicization of science revisited:
“We are ALL LYSENKO NOW” (i.e., all too many of us)…
https://www.city-journal.org/panic-pandemic
H/T Instapundit.
Read it and weep (as they say)…and/or marvel…
With the 3 day weekend, I just got the latest Covid numbers today instead of yesterday. Remember, I look at cases/day which is essentially a “velocity”. Nationally, the cases/day is now -5000, which means cases are moving down. Last week it was +9000/day. Essentially the Covid car was still moving forward last week but over the weekend it stopped and shifted into reverse. But it won’t seem like much progress as the total cases is in the 9.5million range. The case curve is by appearance flat but until the cases/day gets into the -50k to -100k I suspect the news media will ignore.
Of the states I follow, Florida and Georgia continue their very rapid downward trend. NC continues it somewhat slower decline, NH is showing a slight uptick, as is CO. CT is starting a very slow downturn.
Barry Meislin,
Great stuff from City Journal, as always.
This
has made life very odd for my wife and me. In an odd set of circumstances, I am the only one among our circle of friends who lost a job due to the pandemic. Not only that, but, economically, life improved significantly and unexpectedly for our circle of friends as they worked from home and saw their investments sky rocket.
All is well. My wife and I are clever and industrious and we will figure this out, but it is sometimes odd socializing these days. All our friends don’t have a care in the world, they had a better year than their most rosy projections. It’s like my wife and I slept through Christmas, or something. It’s an odd incongruity.
I do have concerns it may negatively affect future economics and politics. Those in my social circle don’t have a tangible feeling for what these policies have done to many and I fear they will be willing to keep things going. Working from home while making more money must be nice. I’d like to try it myself. But getting wealthier while being even more insulated from the hoi polloi may create greater societal enclaves with perspectives like the limousine liberals who live in gated and gilded communities.
In case anybody is interested Jeff Goldstein at Protein Wisdom is back to blogging after being banned on Twitter.
https://proteinwisdom.com/
physicsguy,
That explains the myriad news items I see, retracting previous, negative reporting on Ron DeSantis’ handling of COVID. /sarc
physicsguy —
The WA State covid dashboard shows case count/fatality peaks at roughly five-month intervals, alternating high peak/low peak.
I think the overall state data for the latest peak are affected by the non-urban counties finally getting hit hard, but if you look at King County, the fatality peaks keep getting smaller and smaller.
I expect that if we have another midwinter peak in February or so, the King County fatalities will be hardly above the base non-peak rate at all.
physicsguy –
Using the 7 day moving average of the CDC data, it appears as if the daily cases have been trending down since September 15 (after the minor “back-to-school” peak after the Delta Variant high point of 160k per day on September 1st). I prefer the moving average due to the noise produced by reporting delays. As of yesterday the moving average was at around 85k per day. Assuming the trend continues we should hit 50k per day sometime around November 7th.
Barry,
Yeah … you are exactly right … mispocha 🙂 [ I had to look up the meaning ]
No artists in the bunch. But I do have a DIL that does cutesy cross stich patterns.
geoffb,
Thanks for the heads up on protein wisdom!
“…circle of friends…”
Looking on the bright side, it’s great that one still has them.
On the less than bright side, “Biden” has plans for them (and most all of us).
(Actually, what struck me about that article was the sheer heroism of those scientists and researchers who bucked the trend and the hyena-like cruelty, voracity, vindictiveness and hatred of those who constantly and unfairly attacked them, leading to many scientists being too fearful to publish any of their findings that contradicted the Holy Narrative…)
File under
WAS THE WASHINGTON, DC January 6th PROTEST REALLY AN ARMED INSURRECTION? Byron York walks us through the numbers and concludes no.
Those “wielding guns” (or charged with “possession”), for instance, mostly kept them off site. And one of the very few to carry his onto the grounds was a DEA agent carrying his federal authorised weapon.
When Neo does another look at this, I trust this will be referenced. Meanwhile, bookmark this, amaze your friends, and get your enemies to question The Media Narrative.
https://www.jewishworldreview.com/1021/york101321.php
Re., your photos: With the proviso that what I am seeing may not what be you are producing and posting, and at the risk of repeating myself.
That said, most of your images seem to lack the natural contrast and intensity that I assume you were attempting to capture.
My – uh, I don’t know what she is to me – close cousin’s wife I guess, has been shooting hundreds of images around the vacation farm “Up North”. Some of them would knock your socks off, weathered barn, intensely blue sky, afternoon lit wildflowers in foreground, the deep green crowns of huge white pines in the background.
I mentioned to her that similar images I had taken years before tended to look somewhat washed out (not underdeveloped) in comparison.
Then, she showed me what she was doing with post image processing. The skies probably were milky blue. Her adjustments to bring what was captured into line with what was subjectively perceived at the moment of capture, made quite the difference.
The Rolling Stones are evidently dropping “Brown Sugar” from their repertoire (meaning they’ll never again play it live).
Uh, oh.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-scientists-highly-potent-antibody-sars-cov-.html
This could spell trouble for “The Narrative” AND for mail-in voting.
(Since any discovery of effective, non-vaccine treatments to fight COVID is simply AWFUL news for the Democrats.)
And so their next mega-battle will be to shut this whole thing down.
(While the responsibility of their media goons will be to either ignore this promising discovery entirely or misrepresent it totally…because the DEMOCRATS REALLY DO CARE about America…)
To be continued…
What will be the downfall of Wokism? Re Barry and especially Owen’s comment at the top, about the transgenderist follies of the Virginia, Loudoun County School Board, et al.
The First weakness is our enemies inherent incompetence. (Take Ibram Kendi, for example — a lightweight among an army of lightweights.) We see this most obviously with Xi-Den, Afghanistan, inflation, and China.
The second and third are the inherent contradictions and incoherence, as see in the transgenderist rigorsimentto, or the rigid Idpol righteousness caterwauling amidst the now commonplace multiracial families, who standout as highly visible contradictions of theorea run amuck!
In other words, The Church of Woke is a Train Wreck. Glenn Reynolds linked to the prescient 13th Anniversary piece on Legal Insurrection by William Jacobson, yesterday.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2021/10/legal-insurrection-13th-anniversary-gradually-and-then-suddenly/
And Jacobson’s steely eyes recounts our nation’s decline as slow, almost hidden, not many years ago. Yet now sudden, almost inescapably self-evident.
Decline has given way to abject American collapse. In comments, “fredx3” gives some pushback against this stark, unremitting pessimism.
But I think there’s more room for optimism in my three points (above), in addition to necessary Big Picture strategic thinking.
All we need is to track and recruit the young and immunised against IdPol to go into the noble teaching world and go into government and municipal service.
But does any place in the Right thinking World equip the young to pursue a counter-revolutionary Patriotic Defense for the Great Republic’s revival potentials?
The Intercollegiate Studies Institute and the Institute for Humane Studies are the closest old spawning grounds. But this spade work must be refined, upscaled, and missionary zeal generated to outreach to every Charter and Private school in America if this strategy is to succeed and redeem us.
And the long-lived threat of corrupt message dilution and institutional cooptation is the ever present danger that emanates from our enemies.
Where is that Roger Kimball style voice that focuses us on Ronald Reagan’s warnings on Liberty, fused together with an Eisenhower “Farewell Speech” type of visionary, precautionary, wisdom? The Guardian we need to focus our long term energies, and lead us?
It’s a voice of prophetic leadership that we need today. Perhaps someone like Steven Miller (Trump’s leading speechwriter)?
Nonapod, My numbers are a 14 day running average…I should have mentioned that. The 7 day running average is even more negative. I use 14 day average from way back in the beginning when it became obvious that the non-serious case people were recovered by about 2 week’s time.
Nonapod —
I’m watching “Babylon 5” with my daughter, it is of course a re-watch for me. An “Easter egg” in the background of a first-season episode is a news headine in one of the common areas on the space station: “Rolling Stones Embark On Farewell Tour”.
It’s set in 2258. 😀
Barry Meislin,
“Hasn’t changed a bit”
LOL! Good thing I was sitting down when I read that or I’d have been ROFLOL…
Clicked on that link. This sounded good, “Scientists at Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) and EPFL have discovered a highly potent monoclonal antibody that targets the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein and is effective at neutralizing all variants of concern identified to date, including the delta variant.”
Until I got to this… ” However, this antibody is not intended to replace COVID-19 vaccines, which remain the most effective way to prevent infection“.
That’s a big lie.
Bryan,
Probably only Keith with some younger players in 2258.
I’ve never noticed that though I’ve watched the entire series 4 times now.
DNW:
I’m not sure what colors you’re seeing, but to me the colors in the photo above look quite close to how they looked in real life. I’m not good with cameras and just use my cell phone camera, but I think it does pretty well and it’s easy to carry and to use.
Barry Meislin, that antibody won’t be available for at least a year. Clinical trials start in early 2022. No luck on stopping the hysteria soon.
Yes, that’s true, but it seems so “scientific”, so sophisticated, so glamorous (in its own way).
When you think about it though, today—as we speak—all any government has to do is flood their respective country with Ivermectin (or HCQ+).
Which is precisely what they’re NOT doing (for the most part—a huge exception is India because they really had no choice, i.e., not enough money or vaccine doses combined with huge numbers of sick to deal with; and there also was a report that Japan was going to start using it but I haven’t heard anything since). Why? Not “scientific” enough? Not sophisticated? Not glamorous?
Well, we know why they’re not pushing Ivermectin or any other treatment, in fact they’re generally discouraging and even ridiculing these treatments—that is when they’re not trying to hide information about them.
So I thought maybe this new, really sophisticated alternative might present a threat to the Narrative pushers…but that may in fact be naive.
Welcome to the true mass die offs. As i said in feb 2020, the corona will not kill humanity. But what comes now as a result ofnthe choice to fight god usijg gmo… well that is a different soddom.
Be happy. Satan s world… ur world is ending
Thsi is a good thing.
For if it did not end, none of you would survive
I’ve missed my true calling as an old time alcoholic newspaper sub-editor.
Today’s banner headline in the South China Morning Post: City Suffers Prolonged Pounding.
Well there *was* a typhoon yesterday.
@ Barry > the Chinese-born woman testifying against the Loudoun school board knows that the danger of silence is greater than that of speaking out.
Interestingly, 2 commenters say essentially the same thing, having been raised in the USSR and communist Czechoslovakia.
Also interestingly: Fox interviewed Xi Van Fleet and Suparna Dutta – not exactly names you expect to see on the White Supremacy Soccer Mom PTA list.
Third interestingly: “EDITOR’S NOTE: Suparna Dutta, a Fairfax County Parent interviewed here is also affiliated with the Youngkin for Governor campaign as the Chairwoman of Educators”
@ Barry > “the absurd, corrosive and destructive politicization of science revisited:”
John Tierney’s piece in City Journal is incisive, comprehensive, and one of the best “explanations” of the woke elite’s behavior about the Covid pandemic.
Conclusion to his masterful exposition:
Zaphod,
I assume you are familiar with the New York Post’s history of writing great headlines?
“Ford to City: Drop Dead” is indeed a classic (except that it was the Daily News)…
(And then there’s always “Variety”‘s purple-prose banners.)
@Rufus:
Only ones I know off hand are:
Headless Corpse Found in Topless Bar
Sick Transit’s Glorious Monday
But this is something needs further research in an idle hour!
“Sticks Nix Hick Pix” — Variety, July 17, 1935