Another victory for those who want to make white people feel bad.
Category: Blithe Spirit
The good and the bad, emphasis on Trib and Sun-Times
The Buffalo scene prior to elderly protester being pushed and falling and suffering concussion
BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Tuesday, June 2 , 7:56 p.m.
A Buffalo woman has been charged in connection with the incident that injured three law enforcement officers Monday night.
State police arrested 30-year-old Deyanna Davis
after she was released from Erie County Medical Center.
Davis was driving the car that went through a line of officers at a protest on Bailey Avenue hitting three officers, seriously injuring one.
Davis is facing multiple felony charges including aggravated assault on a police officer and criminal possession of a weapon.
She and others were setting the scene for three days later, when the elderly peace activist walked into the riot squad in full display, with God-knows-what on his mind, finding them in no mood to stop and argue with him.
On the other hand, some things AP left out of its bad-news morning roundup
From the even-Steven Wall St. Journal:
Good news: A new study finds that the novel coronavirus has become less lethal over the past few months. While there’s no evidence that mutations are making the virus less deadly, treatments have improved enormously as scientists have learned more.
Doctors have observed that the coronavirus case-fatality rate seems to have decreased considerably since the early days of the pandemic. But a pre-publication study from Italian universities and local public-health authorities comparing the case-fatality rates in two provinces (Ferrara and Pescara) during March and April is the first to show this might be true.
From International Business Times:
An infectious disease expert from Italy who fought long against COVID-19 claims there might no longer be a need for a vaccine since the coronavirus that causes the disease appears to be losing its virulence. SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2) is the virus responsible for COVID-19.
This surprising optimism was voiced by Professor Matteo Bassetti, head of the infectious diseases clinic at the Ospedale Policlinico San Martino in Genova, Italy. Bassetti claimed COVID-19 has been losing its virulence over the past month, and added patients — even the elderly — who would have previously died from this highly-infectious disease are now recovering.
“It was like an aggressive tiger in March and April but now it’s like a wild cat,” he pointed out. “Even elderly patients, aged 80 or 90, are now sitting up in bed and they are breathing without help. The same patients would have died in two or three days before.”
Same story many places, here’s from The [UK] Sun:
CORONAVIRUS is getting weaker and could die out on its own without a vaccine, according to a top Italian doctor.
Professor Matteo Bassetti said he is convinced the virus is “changing in severity” and patients are now surviving coronavirus infections that would have previously killed them.
He described coronavirus as once an “aggressive tiger” of a disease, which has now weakened and turned into more of a wild cat.
If his ideas are true and the virus is weakening, there’s a chance COVID-19 could disappear without a need for a vaccine.
He has continually said that in recent months, patients with the virus seem to be handling it much better than they were at the beginning of the global pandemic in Italy.
It’s a world of “it seems” this virus time around. Alleged experts not all on same page. It seems.
Professor Bassetti suggests that the strain of coronavirus could be mutating and becoming weaker, making it less lethal.
He also suggested that improved treatments and more social distancing could be the key to why people are handling the virus better than before.
So keeping your distance remains a valuable caution. Which for some of us some of the time is just fine. Solitary walks are what some of us do anyhow, depending on our neighborhood.
More to come on good (and bad) news from alleged experts and reports of same . . .
AP sees no silver lining in anything virus
If you are worried, worried, worried and want surcease in your worrying, do not read this morning rundown from the nation’s wire service, which is arguably the most influential organ around.
Chinese bishop detained again in campaign of harassment
A saint in the making, one would think:
Chinese authorities have arrested an ailing 70-year-old Catholic bishop, forcing him to continue the illegal detention that he has been undergoing for the past 13 years.
Bishop Augustine Cui Tai, coadjutor bishop of the underground church in Xuanhua Diocese, was taken away to a unspecified place on June 19, local Catholics told UCA News.The diocese is based in the northern province of Hebei, near Beijing.Bishop Cui has been detained since 2007 without following any judicial procedure. He has only been allowed to return home for a few days during festivals such as the Lunar New Year and the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Pretty much thrown under the bus by the present Pontiff, one would also think.
BLM Founder, Soros Institute ‘Expert’, Called For ‘Opposing Capitalism’ . . . Colleague Admitted ‘We Are Trained Marxists’
In case you were wondering . . .
Black Lives Matter founder Alicia Garza – listed as an “expert” who’s “guiding the work” of George Soros’s Institute for New Economic Thinking – called for movements to “oppose capitalism” at the organization’s 2016 conference.
These . . . comments follow Black Lives Matter (BLM) co-founder Patrisse Cullors describing the group’s Marxist influence, proclaiming:
“We actually do have an ideological frame. Myself and Alicia in particular, we’re trained organizers. We are trained Marxists. We are super versed on ideological theories.”
The Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) is the brainchild of progressive mega-donor and social justice financier George Soros. He’s also the group’s largest donor, funneling at least $50 million to INET since its inception in 2010.
Soros is also a major Democratic party and donor frequently branded as a “globalist” – and rightfully so. As The Guardian notes:
Disturbing footage from Tulsa… – CITIZEN FREE PRESS
Have a look at this series of videos showing how Black Lives Matter act as agents provocateurs.
What do George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, Ulysses S. Grant. Father Junipero Serra, and Christopher Columbus have in common?
These iconoclasts are either dumb or evil. In any case twisted.
None was a Confederate general. And all have had their statues torn down by mobs in the last few days, or, in the case of Roosevelt, had New York’s Museum of Natural History announce that a Roosevelt statue at the museum’s entrance will soon be removed.
As for iconoclasts, they have a history.
As for law enforcement:
The mobs ripped down statues in Portland, San Francisco, Minneapolis, and other cities without any fear of police interference. The police might as well have been defunded, for all they did to protect America’s historical monuments from vigilante violence.
Awful.
Chicago shootings: 102 shot, 14 fatally, over Father’s Day weekend
While Black Lives Matter was the focus of a block party on our block (not kidding: the brain child of five young, otherwise neighborly, women, all white), it was Black-lives-don’t-matter elsewhere in our fair city.
Five children were among the 14 people killed, including a 3-year-old boy and 13-year-old girl killed in separate shootings in Austin on Saturday.
Chicago saw its highest number of gun violence victims in a single weekend this year with 102 people shot across the city from Friday evening to Monday morning, 14 of them fatally. Five of those killed were minors.
The so far feckless-appearing top cop analyzed the matter, offering some thoughts impossible to deny, things a few of us had not realized.
In a Sunday news conference, Chicago Police Supt. David Brown reflected on the surge in gun violence. “Bullets don’t just tear apart the things they strike,” Brown said. “Bullets also tear apart families. Bullets destroy neighborhoods and they ruin any sense of safety in a community.”
As for what he and his police, otherwise presumably in a stinking bad mood from being widely discounted as lower than whale shit, are going to do about this chronic display of disrespect for black lives, he had more emotional outpourings —
“I put myself in that house, holding that little girl as she struggles to breathe,” Brown said. “I put myself in that hospital, clutching that baby with a bullet hole. Tears are natural reactions to these tragic stories of violence, but we need to do more than just cry.”
We? That little word shifts responsibility just enough to make readers feel a little more bad than usual as regards the trouble blacks have seen. The chief of police just one among the “we,” it might seem to the unwary.
Even this, which relies on the courts, not the police:
As Brown repeatedly pushed to “keep violent offenders in jail longer” and revamp the home monitoring program, he also hammered home the pervasive impact of gun violence.
Oh, and the legislature.
Muhammad Ali’s Son Speaks Out (fascinating)… – CITIZEN FREE PRESS
His father would have turned thumbs down on Black Lives Matter.
Of the BLM movement, Ali Jr., a Muslim like his father, said: “I think it’s racist.”
“It’s not just black lives matter, white lives matter, Chinese lives matter, all lives matter, everybody’s life matters. God loves everyone — he never singled anyone out. Killing is wrong no matter who it is,” Ali said during an hour-long interview with The NY Post.
On police brutality, Ali defended law enforcement in general.
“Police don’t wake up and think, ‘I’m going to kill a n—-r today or kill a white man,’” he said. “They’re just trying to make it back home to their family in one piece.
Speaking of Floyd’s killing at the knee of a white Minneapolis police officer, Ali said, “The officer was wrong with killing that person, but people don’t realize there was more footage than what they showed. The guy resisted arrest, the officer was doing his job, but he used the wrong tactic.”
He agrees with President Trump that Antifa fomented violence during the Floyd protests and should be labeled a terrorist organization.
“They’re no different from Muslim terrorists. They should all get what they deserve. They’re f–king up businesses, beating up innocent people in the neighborhood, smashing up police stations and shops. They’re terrorists – they’re terrorizing the community. I agree with the peaceful protests, but the Antifa, they need to kill everyone in that thing.
“Black Lives Matter is not a peaceful protest. Antifa never wanted it peaceful. I would take them all out.”