Fauci waffles again

Regardless of the varying degrees of belief in the novel coronavirus I've seen in my peers, the degree of belief bestowed upon the establishment officials has dwindled.

So “if people are not wearing masks,” Fauci concluded moments later, “then maybe we should be mandating it” (video below. Relevant portion begins at 3:49).

As for CNN’s later claim that the doctor called for a federal law, perhaps this is wishful thinking. Or maybe the station was reading Fauci’s heart and mind, and such a divination certainly wouldn’t be fanciful. More likely it was sloppy reporting in which the writers’ own statist assumptions influenced their interpretation.   

But more damaging is the deceptive and deceitful reporting underlying this whole issue. First, Burnett in her interview lent the illusion — which Fauci happily capitalized upon — that the doctor has been a prudent, steady hand issuing sage counsel and sober warnings that went unheeded by the dastardly Donald Trump.

In reality, on January 21 and February 29, Fauci said the virus was not a major threat and that Americans didn’t have to change their behavior; moreover, he then claimed in an Easter Sunday interview that he’d advised the government to impose social-distancing measures in February. So he was either lying then or lying on February 29.

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You’ll note that Sweden’s positive-case number did spike upwards beginning mid-September and has continued rising. So the media touting that are telling the truth — just not close to the whole truth.

As the second graph shows, the number of China virus deaths has remained constant, not spiking one iota, since July 31. Sweden had zero deaths Sunday and zero on Saturday. In fact, the week beginning Oct. 19 was the nation’s best since the “pandemic” began, with only two COVID deaths recorded (weekly charts below).

If you’d ask, “Why worry about increased ‘infections’ if the death numbers remain low and constant?” go to the head of the class. All Americans become infected with cold viruses (also in the corona category), and the WHO informs that 67 percent of people worldwide carry herpes simplex type 1, the “cold sore” virus. Yet we don’t worry about this because it’s health and life that matter, not whether our bodies carry microorganisms. That’s normal.

It'll be good to have four more years of swamp draining.  We can always do with fewer parasites.

 

Who is the W.H.O.?

For people who claim to "follow the science", there is very little in the promethean media about this.

The World Health Organization has warned leaders against relying on COVID-19 lockdowns to tackle outbreaks — after previously saying countries should be careful how quickly they reopen.

WHO envoy Dr. David Nabarro said such restrictive measures should only be treated as a last resort, the British magazine the Spectator reported in a video interview.

“We in the World Health Organization do not advocate lockdowns as the primary means of control of this virus,” Nabarro said.

“The only time we believe a lockdown is justified is to buy you time to reorganize, regroup, rebalance your resources, protect your health workers who are exhausted, but by and large, we’d rather not do it.”

Nabarro said tight restrictions cause significant harm, particularly on the global economy.

“Lockdowns just have one consequence that you must never, ever belittle, and that is making poor people an awful lot poorer,” he said.

He added that lockdowns have severely impacted countries that rely on tourism.

“Just look at what’s happened to the tourism industry in the Caribbean, for example, or in the Pacific because people aren’t taking their holidays,” Nabarro told the outlet.

“Look what’s happened to smallholder farmers all over the world. Look what’s happening to poverty levels. It seems that we may well have a doubling of world poverty by next year. We may well have at least a doubling of child malnutrition.”

Considering the WHO and the CDC's constant flip flops on lockdowns and masks, why would the public ever believe them?  All this begs the question, is the system having withdrawal symptoms from being denied access to children for so long? 

 

Trump gets corona'd

This story is not about what was in the news on Friday morning, but what happened the night before.  Though some are saying that this is the beginning of the end for President Trump, I see the future a bit differently.  What was NOT in the news on Friday morning?  What was absent was the smear undercover audio leak of Melania saying "f**k Christmas" while intentionally destroying context.  

Even a cursory look at what she says is clearly understandable to anyone without a concussion.  Democrats out of evil intention tried to smear the President's wife.  What has Trump said so many times before?  That when hit, he will hit back ten times harder.  

So if the news was plastered with an attempted Melania smear on Thursday night, the next morning it was covered with Trump's tweet about him and the FLOTUS getting through it "TOGETHER".  The only thing I saw in the news that day were pictures of Melania and Trump together with nary a disgusting word of the previous night's attempt.  

The media isn't The Liberal Media anymore.  It is liberal still, but control has been seized by Trump.  He can clearly make them speak and act at his will.  This morning he came out stating that he was feeling better.  

The governor's got it

Strange.  I wonder how he got corona if he was following all of his own lockdown mandates.

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D) and his wife, Pamela, both tested positive for coronavirus, his office announced on Friday.

The state of play: The Northams were tested after one of their staff "who works closely within the couple's living quarters" tested positive. The governor is asymptomatic, while his wife is "experiencing mild symptoms." They plan to isolate at home for 10 days.

It'll be a good day for Virginians when he's gone.  Although, a separation of the Borderland Virginians and the Cavalier Virginians described in Albion's Seed will almost assuredly become reality as things begin to deteriorate.

A novel solution

The CDC has been seemingly unsure of how to direct the public with regards to airborne transmission novel coronavirus.  

Driving the news: The agency posted in a note on its website saying the guidance that acknowledged airborne transmission was only a draft, and had been published in error.

• The update came months after scientists pushed for the agency to acknowledge the disease can spread through the air.
• "CDC is currently updating its recommendations regarding airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19). Once this process has been completed, the update language will be posted," the website now states.

Considering that they have previously been both for and against the general public wearing masks, that they had literally contaminated their first tests, and that they can't make a decision on the handling of asymptomatic people, one might just start to question if the CDC is not at least on some level being motivated by political reasons.  When I take into account Karl Denninger's analysis, that fecal contamination and NOT droplets are the primary transmission method, I tend to believe that the correct response to the whole situation should be simply more thorough hand-washing and more herd immunity building a la Sweden.  

And to anyone who would denigrate others as conspiracy theorists for doing their own research, well I think this meme just about says it all.