Come up with the right conclusions, Buddy, or forget about your damn research.
Author: Jim Bowman
Andersonville Social Justice March today
I’m impressed with the peaceful part. You never know these days. . . .
. . . significant that they specify peaceful. Shows they are woke to that issue like the rest of us.
Later: They walked by an hour or so ago, a model of decorum, a nice show of support.
This late January piece from left-leaning NPR reports doubts about masks
Many reports refer to the newly identified coronavirus in Wuhan, China, as a “mystery” virus. Is it really a mystery? Do masks help keep you from getting infected?
These are some of the questions circulating about the virus called 2019-nCoV. Here are some answers.
Will a mask protect me? There’s a run on masks in China, with the belief that wearing one in public will protect an individual from exposure to droplets sneezed or coughed out by someone infected with the Wuhan virus.
But there’s little evidence to suggest that the face masks worn by members of the public prevent people from being infected by breathing in the virus, says William Schaffner, a professor in the division of infectious diseases at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. “There really are no good, solid, reliable data.”
According to the CDC, the kind of flimsy masks that people often buy in pharmacies may not tightly fit the face, so the wearer can still breathe in air — and infected droplets.
Stanley Perlman, a professor at the University of Iowa who studies coronaviruses, agrees that the mask won’t necessarily prevent infection. But they do have some value, he says: Wearing a mask may stop an individual from directly touching their mouth and nose, which is a common way that viruses and germs enter the body. Masks provide some protection this way, he adds. “But what we teach is that they’re not very good.”
So why bother?Well, and this is not too much to ask, wash your hands.
But there is one thing that experts endorse as a preventive: “Hand hygiene is the answer,” Schaffner says, suggesting soap and water, since the abrasiveness of soap helps remove infectious particles from the hands. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends scrubbing your hands for at least 20 seconds. Make sure to clean the backs of your hands, between your fingers and under your nails, advises the CDC. And scrub for 20 seconds — about as long as it takes to sing, at a moderate pace, the alphabet song.
Let’s see. How does that go? I’ll ask my friend Joe, age 5, and maybe, I say maybe, my other friend Simon, age 2 1/2.
Oxfam: Lockdown Famine Could Kill More than Chinese Coronavirus
Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
International poverty charity Oxfam warned in a report this week that the number of deaths caused by famine as a result of worldwide lockdown measures could exceed those caused by the Chinese coronavirus, which triggered the lockdowns.
Oxfam, which is a confederation of 20 independent charitable organizations focused on alleviating global poverty, released a report on Thursday warning that “12,000 people per day could die from Covid-19 linked hunger by end of the year.”
Does Dr. Fauci know this? Or the dozens of other fixers with (not all) the answers?
Shootings Up 76 Percent in Mayor Lightfoot’s Chicago
Well, if she couldn’t or wouldn’t stop the looting and destruction in the recent riots in black ‘hoods, the same goes for these shootings, which she made a key goal. The lady is dropping ball.
Renew My Church: New round of unified parishes began July 1 — Chicago Catholic newspaper
Lipstick on pig . . .
Sunday sermons, weekday observations
“Unified”? As if repairing a split?
Or “merged,” as solving a problem — fewer worshipers, for one.
You’re gonna put the best face on things, but there’s a rah-rah about it all that does not sit well.
Oak Park & River Forest High School says so long to zero tolerance — to improve “racial climate”
We don’t want no stinkin’ behavior code — sounds too restrictive. A behavior plan, that’s what we want. We can live with that!
There will be major changes in store for students and adults whenever they return to the classrooms and hallways of Oak Park and River Forest High School — particularly on how students are disciplined. But despite the District 200 administration’s overhauls, school board members are still not wholly convinced they will be enough to change OPRF’s longstanding culture of racism and inequity.
The most significant change involves the Student Code of Conduct. Starting this fall, it will have a new name — the Behavior Education Plan. The D200 school board approved the new plan at a special meeting on June 16.
Still there are worries that “the changes sufficiently addressed the biggest impediment to radically changing OPRF’s racial climate — the behaviors of the adults in the building.”
Convicted terrorist linked to Black Lives Matter group | News | LifeSite
July 9, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – A convicted terrorist is on the board of the umbrella group that provides tax-exempt financial status to the Black Lives Matter organization, one of the group’s “projects.” Susan Rosenberg had spent 16 years in prison for terrorizing the United States during the presidency of Ronald Reagan.
According to an investigative report by the Capital Research Center, the Black Lives Matter organization, officially known as “BLM Global Network Foundation,” is a fiscally-sponsored project of left-wing organization Thousand Currents. Fiscal sponsorship simply means that a non-profit organization, in this case Thousand Currents, offers its legal and tax-exempt status to one of its “projects,” in this case Black Lives Matter, which engages in activities related to the non-profit organization’s mission.
She has found a like-thinking group to connect with.
Black community leaders in Minneapolis to City Council: We need better police protection
MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) – The recent and ongoing crime wave in Minneapolis has some Black community leaders calling on the Minneapolis City Council to help them do something about it.
A memorial of balloons and flowers sits at the intersection where a woman was shot and killed Sunday night. Medical staff delivered her unborn baby, who is fighting for his life.
The incident has left some in the community sending a strong message to City Council. They believe there’s a direct connection between the recent violence and the the council’s effort to defund and abolish the police department.
Forget the defund nonsense, our lives matter.
Thinking about loudmouth Black Live Matter demagogues, makes you wanna holler.
via Minneapolis community leaders call on City Council to respond to recent violence
Bishop suspends Indiana priest for criticizing Black Lives Matter
CARMEL, Indiana, July 8, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Catholic priest Father Theodore Rothrock of the Diocese of Lafayette, Indiana, has been suspended as parish priest of St. Elizabeth Seton Catholic Church in Carmel, Indiana, following his condemnation of the Black Lives Matter and Antifa movements.
Despite the priest admitting that some of his phrasing was stated “rather poorly,” and “it was not my intention to offend anyone and I am sorry that my words have caused any hurt to anyone,” Bishop Timothy L. Doherty removed Rothrock from his parish and told the faithful, “if anyone asks you, you can tell them that this bishop says that Black lives matter.”
Sure, Bishop, you bought the message, and your man in Carmel — suspended, for crying out loud! — pays for his delivering another. That’s giving a lot of creedence to an organization and movement that ought not to be beyond criticism. Nice going.
via LifeSite
