An accomplished public figure with 36 years (and counting) experience in parlaying comparatively narrow expertise into political gold . . .

How dare I talk that way? He’s a national hero, more or less, the uncle to whom (almost) everyone looks for guidance, though sometimes (with apologies to the ethnic group, which I personally admire immensely) a Dutch one, something of a scold, that is.

But to the issue at hand: Is Dr. T. a (mere) technician? Like the kidney specialist, one of several attending a (dying) man on life support, who judged that he as man in charge of kidneys could keep the patient alive indefinitely. He can’t be blamed for answering in this way: when I comes to kidneys, he has to be listened to.

So it is with Dr. F., who knows pandemics, been at it for a very long time, including (or comprising) his 36 years…

Bold prediction:

In life, we encounter things which may work in theory, but not in practice.  Communism is famously one of those things.  Time travel is another.

With any luck, Americans will soon come to realize that strict social distancing, economic lockdowns, and mask-wearing all belong in that category of supposedly sound ideas that simply don’t work in reality.

Oh?

For evidence, let’s look to Sweden.  As Dr. Sebastian Rushworth, an ER doctor at a hospital in Stockholm, writes on his blog, “COVID is over in Sweden.  People have gone back to their normal lives and barely anyone is getting infected anymore.”

Unlike so many other countries, “Sweden never went into complete lockdown,” Dr. Rushworth writes.  Non-essential businesses remained open, people continued frequenting restaurants, the kids stayed in school, and “very few people have bothered with face masks.”

Heresy!

Basically, Sweden did the exact opposite of what most Americans tragically 

What’s odd about this summary?

A deadly summer: Months spent in lockdown and the pandemic’s effects on the economy appear to have contributed to an abnormally large increase in homicides across 20 major U.S. cities

Try “lockdown and its effects on the economy.” Wherever you stand on the lockdown issue, as thinking it’s the price we had to pay, it’s what did it, putting people out of business right and left, slashing employment, etc.

How often is this slipped over on us? That mean old pandemic did it, not the lockdown.

via Tuesday Morning: The risks for young people 

Dr. Fauci said worse is yet to come Covid-wise: Didn’t lock down soon enough, and when we did, people wouldn’t stay locked down.

There are several immediate problems with Fauci’s arguments, including the fact that COVID cases are showing clear signs of a summer resurgence in the same European countries that allegedly tamed the virus through harsh lockdowns in the spring.

Sure enough,

The American news media . . . seized on Fauci’s narrative, and used it to call for renewed lockdowns. The New York Times and The Washington Post both editorialized in favor of a second stricter wave of nationwide lockdowns lasting until October – this despite there being no clear evidence that lockdowns actually work at taming the virus.

Hmm.

Droll meets common sense as to some iffy ideas by some legislators about leveling playing fields the nation over. In fact, the writer at one point refers to these dedicated souls as levelers— a word with a history.

He, by the way, is a New York gem. His outlet is the NY Sun. Read him.

His closing lines save the meat or heart of his treatment.

That doesn’t mean that first-generation ballpayers won’t sometimes win, or that some children of Hall-of-Fame baseball players might not be better off going to law school. It does mean that when fans are finally allowed back into ballparks, rather than booing the Blue Jays infield for reproducing a multigenerational lineage of hereditary elites, we can cheer them for exemplifying family values.

Got it.

Chi Trib lede for this story:

Hundreds of people swept through the Magnificent Mile and other parts of downtown Chicago early Monday, smashing windows, looting stores, confronting police and at one point exchanging gunfire with officers, authorities said.

Can Trib say looters? Or why not rioters? At least they’re not protestors.