When Dr. Fauci speaks, people listens. Makes good reading and table talk. It’s what he recommends, advises, thinks “would be” the thing to do, etc. etc. Good to hear his opinion.

. . . case levels may have to be “considerably less” than 10,000 per day for him to support rolling back mask and social distancing mandates in place in many U.S. cities and states.

. . . he disagreed with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s decision. “Well, I wouldn’t want to see . . .

“. . . would like to see . . . ”

“I’ll just pick a number. . . but I would say . . . ”

. . . he “would like to see . . . ”

. . . states could “gradually” pull back . . .

“I want us to all start getting back to some degree of normality, but we want to do that gradually and not all of a sudden, abruptly.”

Egad no!

Thanks, Doc. When you put it that way, you’re not such a bad guy after all.

The nation’s doctor!

Dr. Anthony Fauci has impressive credentials and a lengthy tenure as a top-level government health official dating back to 1984. But his performance during the COVID-19 pandemic has been abysmal, with politicized non-science-based edicts and frequently reversed “medical advice” that have confused and frightened Americans.

Oh?

Just a week ago, Fauci made what to some was a stunning admission: “We’ve done worse than most any country” in managing the outbreak, he said. We say “stunning” because Fauci, as head of NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, is the official most responsible for the U.S. response.

And it’s not on him? High-priced, anyhow:

His 2019 pay of $417,608 makes him the nation’s highest paid federal official. As a scientist, he’s held in very high esteem by many, particularly those on the left, who see his sweeping powers – lockdowns, masking, social distancing – as a nifty means of social control. It’s control of 330 million people via social isolation and nonstop browbeating of those who dare to diverge from the oppressive “new normal” we all now experience on a daily basis.

Now that’s what you call a takedown. Details?

The big problem has been Fauci’s pronunciamentos are often nonsensical, not supported by science or contradictory. “These are my principles,” Groucho Marx once said. “If you don’t like these, I have others.” That’s Fauci.

Oh my.

Take masking, for instance. The Daily Wire counted five different mask policies by Fauci as of Feb. 11. Oops! Make that six. After calling masking “largely symbolic” last spring and telling Americans “don’t wear masks,” he now suggests we need to “double mask” and that it might last into 2022.

Follow Fauci? Which one?

more more here . . .

Classic case of telling people, “Nothing to see here, move on.”

BIDEN TEAM IN FULL DENIAL MODE ABOUT BORDER CRISIS. During the campaign, candidate Joe Biden promised to undo President Trump’s border security policies. He pledged to halt all deportations for 100 days and allow asylum seekers who enter the United States illegally to stay in this country while their cases are considered, rather than wait in Mexico, as Trump required.

It was obvious that Biden’s changes would attract a flood of new illegal immigrants. So during the transition, the president-elect sounded a note of caution. In late December, Biden told reporters he would not throw out the Trump program immediately, lest the United States “end up with two million people on our border.” Instead, Biden said, he would take some time to set up “guardrails” to make sure his new system would work smoothly.

Blah and blah and blah. Read the rest.

This fellow gives a lot of data and graphs and argues well, is willing to offer this as his closing:

A careful look at the charts shows that mask mandates did nothing except make money for mask-manufacturers and Emmy Awards for petty tyrants pimping masks and lockdowns. COVID deaths rose, and then fell, without any effect from masking. And these are the data we should be looking at.

It’s worse than worthless to tell people that masks will filter out the virus when the data show that masks have no effect. It’s the same evil that rises when we frighten people about how “deadly” the bug is as we learn how to treat it and it resolves into part of the background. Schools get closed, and children are irreparably harmed. People die from multiple other causes related to poverty from lockdowns.

It’s time to lift the yoke of tyrants off our necks and take the diapers off our faces.

Oh, and this is you, or someone like you or like someone you know, but when you get down to it, none of these. But I guarantee you, if she reads and digests this article, she will thereafter, apart from getting into stores etc. without trouble, probably be neither mask-wearer nor -worrier. The trick is to FOLLOW THE SCIENCE!

There.

One of their “most glaring miscalculations happened before the looting started.”

In the days following Floyd’s killing, unrest swept through other cities across the U.S. Clashes between police and demonstrators erupted in New York, Denver, Phoenix, Columbus, Ohio, and other cities. Despite that, senior members of CPD told the inspector general’s office that “they saw no indication that there would be unrest in Chicago following the killing of George Floyd,” the report stated. One member of CPD’s command staff told Ferguson’s team that, leading up to the first weekend of protests, the department had become “complacent.”

They slept.

Once protests swelled on Friday, May 29, and into the weekend, oversight of CPD’s reaction was chaotic and poorly coordinated. Officers were deployed haphazardly, often without knowing what they were supposed to do or who they were taking orders from. There were no plans for making mass arrests; police lacked enough vehicles to transport people arrested, and at times found themselves using plastic “flex cuffs” left over from the city’s NATO summit in 2012 that were broken or decayed.

Case of the broken handcuffs.

The report laid out a long list of other problems: The department failed to adequately document instances of use of force by officers, logging just 30 reports of use of batons on demonstrators despite complaints that baton use was much more widespread. Many officers didn’t turn on their body cameras when making arrests or using force. Some officers obscured their names and badge numbers.

Summing up, Ferguson’s team said, “… the lack of preparedness at the outset crippled the effective implementation of mass arrest procedures, the ability to properly control the use of force and proper use of force reporting, and several critical accountability measures.”

But hardly a police riot, a la 1968.

In any case, the city’s two doughty leaders should learn from this report. Heh.

Voters are the ones who should learn, but they won’t either.

. . . as seen in the 60% “higher than the nationwide average,” rate, according the the U.S. Dept of Justice., for which the mayor fastens on the “incalculable” toll the coronavirus pandemic has had on mental health.

She neatly, or not so neatly, deflects blame from herself and her acquiescent, or quiescent, police chief, in our recent days of rage.

Only a few years ago, I would have railed on anyone saying that America is or is about to become a Totalitarian state. That was only a few years ago. But in 2021, I confess I was wrong and under the current administration, the Democrat-controlled Congress, and the Swamp-filled Supreme Court we are there. You […]

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