Covid porn

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Sturgis Rally, 2020: super spreader event?Ah,no.

Sturgis Rally, 2020: super spreader event?Ah,no.

WaPo admits, a year later, that the media hyped the supposed danger of outdoor gatherings.

The Washington Post quietly admitted this week that mainstream media outlets were wrong to panic over crowds in Lake of the Ozarks, Mo. and Clearwater Beach, Fla., last year during the early months of the coronavirus pandemic.

A Post report headlined, "A year into the pandemic, it’s even more clear that it’s safer to be outside," essentially proving the media narrative was wildly overblown.  

"For more than a year, the vast majority of documented coronavirus clusters have been linked to indoor or indoor-outdoor settings — households, meatpacking plants, nursing homes and restaurants. Near-absent are examples of transmission at beaches and other open spaces where breezes disperse airborne particles, distancing is easier, and humidity and sunlight render the coronavirus less viable," Post reporters Karin Brulliard and Lenny Bernstein wrote.

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CNN was among the biggest contributors to panic at the thought of outdoor gatherings. Brian Stelter shamed partiers crowded at a Lake of the Ozarks pool for "obviously" ignoring warnings from health officials, the network closely monitored anyone who attended the pool party who eventually tested positive, and footage of the crowded Florida beaches was plastered across the network.

"Randall Williams, director of the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, said an extensive tracing effort found no major coronavirus clusters connected to the weekend, though a few individuals were infected," the Post reported.

"From that event that attracted national attention, we didn’t see any kind of spreader or superspreader even," Williams added.

For another example, here’s press coverage on the Sturgis Rally, replete with scare headline. “COVID-19 cases tied to the Sturgis motorcycle rally have reached across state lines”

The media played up a non-peer reviewed “study” that the press claimed showed that 260,000 Covid cases could be traced back to the rally. Even Snopes debunked this nonsense, yet I still see that number repeated as fact today. A fake crisis is too good to waste.

Mandate vaccines now!

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So say these petty dictators at the NYT

The next coronavirus surge seems to be underway. Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin are among the states with rising cases, hospitalizations and intensive care occupancy, and hospitalization rates among younger people are increasing nationally. The causes of this pronounced rush of cases — the spread of a more infectious B.1.1.7 variant and lockdown fatigue — are not going away.

We need to sharply reduce coronavirus infections to turn the tide and quell the pandemic. The best hope is to maximize the number of people vaccinated, especially among those who interact with many others and are likely to transmit the virus.

How can we increase vaccinations? Mandates.

Vaccines should be required for health care workers and for all students who plan to attend in-person classes this fall — including younger children once the vaccine is authorized for them by the Food and Drug Administration.

Employers should also be prepared to make vaccines mandatory for prison guards, E.M.T.s, police officers, firefighters and teachers if overall vaccinations do not reach the level required for herd immunity. Short of a mandate, these workers should be reminded that these vaccines have proved safe and are important not only for their health, but for the health of those they deal with in their jobs.

Our recommendations are not premature. At over three million shots per day, the United States is a global leader in vaccine distribution. Over 35 percent of the population — over 120 million people — have received at least one shot. But we are already seeing signs that vaccination drives are plateauing in some states, including Mississippi, New Mexico, Oklahoma and South Dakota.

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Polling suggests almost 60 percent of all Americans are already vaccinated or want a vaccine as soon as possible. But younger people, white evangelicals and conservatives are among those less likely to feel the urgency. To return to our prepandemic lives, we will need to achieve herd immunity, with 70 percent to 85 percent of the population having some form of immunity. That’s a steep climb.

Mandates are the fastest way to get to herd immunity. Frontline workers should be at the start of the line.

I’m no “white evangelical” like RFK, Jr., or Jim Carey, and so I’m probably going to keep my appointment next week for a second dose of the experimental Moderna vaccine, but with the government refusing to declare the vaccines either safe or effective it’s easy to see why many non-sheeple are reluctant to join Dr. Fauci’s guinea pigs. The arrogance of one “medical ethics” professor and two researchers to demand that we submit to their superior knowledge is typical of our betters, but not something we need submit to.

Some lives matter

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Glenn Reynolds:

No Charges Against Officer Who Shot Ashli Babbitt: DOJ. Lawyer for Babbitt’s family calls decision ‘baffling.’ “I find it to be baffling given the circumstances that it’s a clear case of shooting an unarmed person without any legal justification, but I have no idea what went into their decision.”

The — still unnamed — officer’s lawyer:

“This is the only correct conclusion following the events of January 6. The lieutenant exercised professionalism and fantastic restraint in defending and protecting members of Congress.”

The officer remains unidentified in the public sphere.

“As unfortunate as it is that the lieutenant had to resort to deadly force, he fired only one shot at the only person who breached the locked doors and makeshift barricade that had been erected. He did so after clearly identifying himself and ordering the mob not to come through the barricade,” Schamel added. “He used tremendous restraint in only firing one shot, and his actions stopped the mob from breaking through and turning a horrific day in American history into something so much worse.”

Reynolds:

Missing from this: Any claim that the unarmed Ashli Babbitt posed a threat of death or great bodily harm, the necessary predicate for deadly force, to anyone. There’s no “members of Congress were scared” exception to the law on deadly force.

But this is a police shooting that all the Best People heartily approve.

And more from the Professor:

 Stiletto Combat? Now Pelosi Thinks She’s a ‘Street Fighter’ Who Could Have Fought Off Capitol Rioters.

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): If an 80 year old woman could have defeated the threat, the Ashli Babbitt shooting was murder