“…There are additional reasons for concern.Some doctors feel pressure from hospitals to list deaths as due to the Coronavirus, even when they don’t believe that is the case, “to make it look a little bit worse than it is.”There are financial incentives that might make a difference for hospitals and doctors. The CARES Act adds a20 percent premiumfor COVID-19 Medicare patients.
Incentives matter.When the government increased the disability compensation for air traffic controllers, a lot more controllers suddenly startedclaiming to be disabled.When unemployment insurance payments increase, more people become unemployed and stay unemployed for longer periods.When the government offers flood insurance that charges everyone the same insurance premium regardless of the risk level in their area,more people build homes in frequently flooded areas.
The Washington Post and others claim that we are undercounting the true number of deaths.They reach that conclusion by showing the total number of deaths from all causes is greater than we would normally expect from March through early May, and that this excess is actually due to deaths not being accurately labeled as due to the Coronavirus.But these are simply not normal times.Lots of people with heart and other problems aren’t going to the hospital for fear of the virus.Surgeries for many serious conditions are being put off.The stress of the situation is increasing suicides and other illnesses.
Deaths that have absolutely nothing to do with the Coronavirus count as virus deaths.Add to that claims that the CDC is double counting some of these improperly identified cases and the perverse financial incentives created by the government, and you have a real mess when crucial decisions are being made based in large part on this data…”
“The change came after Colorado’s Department of Public Health admitted that its COVID-19 death toll was counting those who tested positive for the coronavirus but had died of other causes, Fox 31 Denver reported late Friday. The department now says 1,150 Coloradoans who died had COVID-19 but only 878 of those deaths were “due to” COVID-19…”
For more on the Wuhan virus, we turn to an interview featured at Spiked forwarded by Jeff Foutch, as epidemiologist Knut Wittkowski comments on the deadly consequences of…lockdown:
“…When the whole thing started, there was one reason given for the lockdown and that was to prevent hospitals from becoming overloaded. There is no indication that hospitals could ever have become overloaded, irrespective of what we did. So we could open up again, and forget the whole thing.
I hope the intervention did not have too much of an impact because it most likely made the situation worse. The intervention was to ‘flatten the curve’. That means that there would be the same number of cases but spread out over a longer period of time, because otherwise the hospitals would not have enough capacity…”
As we suggested in an earlier edition, Fauxci hasn’t prevented the spread of Beijing’s latest gift to the world, he’s simply postponed it…if that. Time to wake up and see the truth, America, no matter how much…
Next up, courtesy of James Nichols, we present an absolutely MUST-READ commentary from The American Spectator, as Dov Fischer details why, if ever there was one, now is…
“…I accepted that Obama had won. No derangement syndrome for me. It was what it was. As a New York Mets fan from their founding in 1962, I understood what it was to wait patiently and to endure eight years of unmitigated disaster. As a boy, I waited then, and then came Tom Seaver, Jerry Koosman, and Nolan Ryan. As an adult I waited. And then came Donald Trump and Mike Pence.
When the Mets finally took it all in 1969, the other teams accepted the results. They lost gracefully. Now it was the Mets’ turn, and they had won it fair and square. But these past three years have been something different. Trump and Pence won fair and square. But there was no grace. Rather, there was instant character assassination, instant war, instant denial. Advertisements urging electors to violate their Electoral College oaths. Fabrications of collusion with Putin. Investigations that hamstrung a presidency. Lies and innuendoes leaked and published by the unindicted co-conspirators we call the “mainstream media.” A never-ending hunt to find scandals and Trump accusers: a bimbo who pole-danced at bars, her lawyer who now dances behind bars, another crooked lawyer who tape-recorded his own clients and now is locked up, disbarred from the Bar. One cartoon character after another.
…As a rabbi of 40 years and a person who believes that most people have the potential for goodness, and who tries to find the good even in people who disappoint until they absolutely close off the possibility of goodness being discovered within them, I now have learned to hate.
The Bible certainly does not encourage hate. “Do not hate your brother in your heart. [If he does wrong, go ahead and] Rebuke your compatriot, but do not sin because of him” (Leviticus 19:17). “Do not seek revenge, and do not bear a grudge against the children of your people. And you shall love your neighbor as you love yourself” (Leviticus 19:18). But the Bible acknowledges the existence of viciousness and cruelty, and it demands of decent people that we not sit on the fence in the face of evil: “Those who love G-d hate evil” (Psalm 97:10). King Solomon laid it out best in that magnificently poetic third chapter of Ecclesiastes, which inspired not only The Byrds but even Pete Seeger and Judy Collins.
I have come deeply to hate. I hate that Donald Trump never was given a chance to be president of the United States for even one day’s honeymoon. I hate that, long before he won the presidency — fair and square — corrupt crooks and criminals in the United States Department of Justice, its Federal Bureau of Investigation, were actively plotting to take him down. I hate that there are so few outlets in the media that give voice to condemn the criminality and corruption that broke every accepted societal norm by which we play the game. I hate that Obama was in on it, yet continues to pontificate on what is just and on what threatens freedom.
I hate that they all keep getting away with it. Every single one of them gets away with it. There is absolutely no price to be paid on the left for perjury, for conspiracy to overturn a legitimate election, for treason…”
Given its wide-ranging subject matter, this article did not lend itself to effective editing or require added emphasis, hence the snippet above doesn’t do it justice. If ever we’ve offered items worth viewing in full, this is one of them. As G. Trevor noted, though one needs a program to keep track of the myriad wrongdoings which scarred The Obamao’s “scandal-free” terms of office, primarily owing to their frequency and lack of meaningful media coverage, Fischer does a pretty fair job of recounting Barry’s greatest hits…against the country, the Constitution and the rule of law.
Here’s the juice: We watched an absolutely horrible movie Saturday evening with TLJ (take our advice, no matter HOW bored you are, don’t view The Prince), and we remember wondering who on earth would have ever thought this storyline the least bit believable. But having lived through the last eleven years, we’ll believe anything…particularly when it involves THIS piece of…
…human excrement.
Ayn Rand had it right, as confirmed by this quote from Atlas Shrugged forwarded by Balls Cotton:
“When you see that in orderto produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing – When you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors – When you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you – When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice – You may know that your society is doomed.”
Any questions?!? We’d opine even #NeverTrumpers cannot help but see the importance of November 3rd, but our statement would be lacking in conviction.
In a related item from NRO, Andy McCarthy highlights how the real story is when Flynn was NOT masked in the first place, and summarizes his thoughts by noting “the list provided by Grenell indicates no unmasking of Flynnbetween December 28 (the day beforethe call) andJanuary 5, even though news of Flynn’s identificationwas already circulating on January 3(when McCabe briefed McCord about it).“
Curiouser and curiouser; or, perhaps more accurately, guiltier and guiltier.
Meanwhile, just when you thought the credibility of America’s colleges and universities couldn’t sink any lower, it can, as The Washington Free Beacon‘s Adam Kredo informs us…
“…The Department of Education has been investigating how some $235,000 in federal funds were used in 2018 to organize a series of anti-Israel events held jointly by Duke University and the University of North Carolina.
Documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request show the Qatar Foundation to be closely involved in UNC’s educational initiatives. The Lawfare Project suspects this is the case with many other universities that have so far rebuffed the group’s requests for documentation. The Lawfare Project has threatened to take legal action against these schools to compel the release of this financial information.
Qatar is known to spend at least $405 million a year to cover the expenses for six U.S. universities that operate campuses in Doha. They include Northwestern, Texas A&M, Georgetown, Virginia Commonwealth, Cornell, and Carnegie Mellon.
Qatar also spends more than $30 million on Middle Eastern-oriented training programs for American students in various schools across the United States. “Schools that accept money from [Qatar Foundation International] are required to give over a degree of access and control to the Qatari organization,” according to Lawfare’s findings.
The group says this cash is part of an “extensive influence operation in America” that has advanced Qatar’s agenda “while inculcating virulent anti-Semitism that continues to spread in American society.”
…Foreign funding of American universities has been a concern for some time, with countries such as Qatar, Russia, China, Saudi Arabia, and others injecting billions into their budgets. The Education Department found in late 2019 that several schools failed to report more than $1.3 billion in foreign funds. Qatar’s emergence as one of the leading foreign funders has generated concerns about anti-Israel and anti-Semitic bias working its way into the classroom…”
Speaking of subterfuge hiding in plain sight, in today’s installment of the EnvironMental Moment, we present the latest EnviroNazi alarmism purposely promulgated by FOX News:
IF global temperatures rise by another 3.5 degrees Celsius, drastically altering the climate, sea levels COULD rise by an additional 4 feet by the end of the century and 16 feet by the year 2300, a new study suggests…”
“If“?!?…”could“?!? Yeah,…and IF global temperatures rise by another 250 degrees Celsius, we’ll really be in pickle…and a fried pickle at that! Whatever.
Which brings us, appropriately enough, to The Lighter Side:
Then there’s these memorable memes from Ed Hickey…
…along with a bevy from Balls Cotton…
…one from Mark Foster…
…and another from TLJ:
And last, but certainly not least, two more from Balls explaining why you can’t understand this…
…without one of these:
Finally, we’ll call it a wrap with yet another sordid story straight from The Crime Blotter, courtesy today of another young Black Obama is curiously not claiming could have been his son, as the…
“…Tyquan Howard, 16, was found in front of 1550 Sterling Place in Crown Heights just after 1 p.m. with a gunshot wound to the abdomen. He was taken to Brookdale Hospital where he was later found (?) pronounced dead…”
We’re solidly with John Donne so far as any man’s death diminishing us because we’re involved in mankind. But in this case, the rope which eventually tolled the bell for young Master Howard was first pulled back when, in a deliberate and ACTUAL attempt to re-enslave Black Americans for purely political purposes, Dimocrat Lyndon Johnson, perhaps the coarsest, most conniving and corrupt politician ever to curse the country, …
…began paying people for not working and women for have babies without fathers, birthing, as it were, two of the greatest contemporary banes of the Black “community”.
Then again, there wasn’t anyone or any group Johnson wouldn’t willfully mislead…
…if it meant increasing Progressive political power.
Once again, the better Angels of Christ’s nature just prevented us from wishing, when it comes to Johnson…or any other prevaricating Progressive…including the entire cast of Obamagate…
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