Something rotten in Denmark? Covid figures say not so.

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The Danish news is new indeed.

The Danes are now publishing extremely detailed daily data about Covid cases and hospitalizations – not just about Omicron, but all Covid variants.

And, in news that will surprise precisely no one who has been alive the last two years, they paint a picture entirely different than what the media claims.

No!

Omicron – which continues to appear significantly less dangerous though more transmissible than earlier variants of Covid – has been used as a cover for vaccine failure.

Most new Covid cases in Denmark occur in people who are vaccinated or boosted – and that is true for both Omicron and earlier variants. More than 76 percent of non-Omicron Covid infections in Denmark are in vaccinated people, along with about 90 percent of Omicron infections.

But, but, but . . . That means you’re better off non-vaxxed! More more here

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Too much for Chicago’s Taft High School to handle: Go away, Turning Point USA, you bother us.

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Well, they are a threat to law and order.

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As for Taft High,

Last week, a group of students and local Republican groups announced their desire to start a Turning Point USA chapter at Taft, 6530 W. Bryn Mawr Ave. Taft administration and Chicago Public Schools quickly shot down the attempted startup of the chapter, with officials saying the school will not support a group that promotes racial intolerance and does not celebrate diversity and inclusion.

“All student organizations must align with the Taft mission statement, which is to ‘educate global citizens to create a better world,”‘ Principal Mark Grishaber wrote in a letter to the school community. “Please know that the staff and administration at Taft will never tolerate the formation of any group that does not support these values.”

A principled rationale!

And Taft has a handle on their brand of global citizenry, does it not?!

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A new poll confirms most Americans are done with Covid – and vaccine mandates

Slippage among the worried men and women.

More than half of Americans now OPPOSE vaccine mandates, according to the poll, which Monmouth University released this morning. About 60 percent say they are “worn out” from Covid.

And support for President Biden’s handling of the pandemic has crashed, from 62 percent in April to 46 percent today.

The poll:

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“Striking erosion in support for mandates.”

Only 46 percent of people said they supported “requiring people to show proof of vaccination in order to go to work in an office or setting where they are around other people,” compared to 50 percent who opposed such a rule. That’s a reversal from September, when 53 percent supported a mandate, while 45 percent opposed it.

“Vaccine hesitancy . . . rising slightly.”

About 22 percent of American adults are not planning to get the vaccine, compared to 20 percent in November.

“A final note”:

When asked if they were afraid of catching a new variant, 51 percent of vaccinated people said yes.

The figure was even higher among the boosted – 66 percent.

But only 12 percent of the unvaccinated were afraid.

For the whole poll, go here.

Pseudo-martyrdom much to be achieved

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The Jussie Smollett syndrome.

After all, ours is a time in which a great many people covet victimhood. In which it’s the in thing to suffer. In which nothing guarantees you speedier access into the hallowed pages of the liberal media and the bleeding hearts of the new clerisy than claiming you are a casualty of hatred, an oppressed being at risk of moral-majority spite, violence or, best of all, ‘erasure’.

Denied it, alas.

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Sweden and Germany: No Deaths In Children Due to Covid . . .

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Ladies and gentlemen, we’ve been had. These little children are neither vulnerable nor dangerous.


How so?

The decision by parents to vaccinate their child against Covid is really a question of risk management. Parents must seriously consider that Covid-19 is a less dangerous illness for children than influenza. It has shown to be so and quite stably near 20 months now.
Children do not readily acquire this pathogen, spread to other children, spread to adults, take it home, get severely ill, or die from it. It is that simple. We know children tend not to transmit Covid-19 virus and that the concept of asymptomatic spread has been questioned severely, particularly for children.
Children, if infected, just do not spread Covid-19 to others readily, either to other children, other adults in their families or otherwise, nor to their teachers. This was demonstrated elegantly in a study performed in…

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The Church is “the house of prayer” from which “preaching may be left out” but never “the house of preaching” from which “prayer may be left out” . . .

That is, you can do without the sermon but never without the prayer.

That’s from a John Donne sermon, 17th century, found in Prayers, selected and edited by Peter Washington, Everyman’s Library, Pocket Poets (Knopf), 1995.

Not to downgrade the sermon, but this I found helpful. The Mass has both prayer and sermon, or homily, of course, with its essence the Eucharistic Prayer serving as climactic. It has the moments of consecration, when everything shuts down, except the bell-ringer, and the priest says the sacramental words — formula, if you will — and people have nothing to do but watch. And pray.

Before and after these solemn moments, however, there is lots going on, intended to foster prayer and prayerfulness but sometimes, I think, preventing it. These are busy moments, serving to keep people on their toes — and successful in that, in large part anyhow.

My own experience, which I generously share with you, gives the lie to that scenario. I have written about kneeling for the canon, for instance, that crucial part of the whole event, remember, and waking up for the Our Father, when all rise to say or sing the words.

And I with nothing to account for from the previous ten minutes.

Recipe for getting and/or keeping your head screwed on straight

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Try Peter Kreeft’s Socratic Logic, which offers “old logic,” as opposed to the now common symbolic, or “mathematical,” version.

The book, a textbook, is for do-it-yourselfers as well as students, says a seller, BooksRun.

It interprets ordinary language, analyzes and builds arguments, teases out hidden assumptions, makes “argument maps,” using the Socratic method in various circumstances.

I looked it up while reading Kreeft’s 2021 book of essays, How To Destroy Western Civilization and Other Ideas from the Cultural Abyss, (Ignatius Press), about which more later (I hope).

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A specter is haunting the cities . . .

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. . . including Philadelphia, Louisville, Tucson, Columbus, Indianapolis, Chicago . . .

What’s the common thread . . . ? . . . Who’s funding the prosecutors?

In St. Louis, Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner’s campaign took more than $200,000 from a group backed by the billionaire George Soros. . . . Gardner was open about her desire to stop prosecuting crimes.

“We have to tear down the system,” she said two years ago, [causing] . . . mass incarceration.” . . . In 2019 [she] issued warrants for just 23% of the cases brought by St. Louis Police.

Soros also funded DA Larry Krasner in Philadelphia, Kim Foxx in Chicago and George Gascon in LA. . . . Soros is spent millions on them . . .

And now look.

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