The scare-porn about the coming flu season continues to pour forth. And we're sorry to say that a school in our beloved North Texas is shut down due to an outbreak of "flu-like" infections. This would seem to be a case of having learned all the wrong lessons from Covid. See "Recommended Reading."
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Friday, October 28, 2022
The mainstream media doesn't really know what to do with competing social media like Twitter -- so far, they've found ways to use it and co-opt it, even while being outcompeted by it. One safety valve, at least, is that there have been shared political values -- until libertarian Elon Musk took over Twitter yesterday, and demonstrated he's going to throw out everything but the kitchen sink. To the mainstream media is still groping for ways to trash him. The New York Times' contribution to the experimental efforts today is to call him, in a headline, a "geopolitical chaos agent." Well, at least it's original. See "Recommended Reading," of course.
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Thursday, October 27, 2022
In "Recommended Reading," more "experts are worried" stories about all the diseases we are going to get this winter instead of (or in addition to) Covid. The best of all: we have to worry more because we can worry less, in this NPR story: "Why pediatricians are worried about the end of the federal COVID emergency."
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Wednesday, October 26, 2022
You know the Covid crisis has passed when the best what's left of Time Magazine can do is warn of "troubling trends" pointing to a terrible flu season. It's in "Recommended Reading."
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Tuesday, October 25, 2022
The 20th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party is over and Xi rules the world. It's time to end the "Zero-Covid" lockdowns. Hey, just declare victory. There hasn't been a single Covid death in three months in a nation of 1.4 billion.
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Monday, October 24, 2022
Rochelle Walensky, the CDC director who says she is "up to date" on her vaccinations, has tested positive for Covid. We wish her a speedy recovery. In other "Recommended Reading," her past handiwork continues to pay dividends for the rest of us -- evidence continues to pour in as to pandemic-related learning loss in American schoolchildren.
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Sunday, October 23, 2022
In "Recommended Reading," the media is still reporting not on the facts but on the feelings of public health officials. Fair enough. Their arbitrary feelings have the force of unquestioned law. In this case, FDA vaccine chief Peter Marks is "up at night worrying" that Covid is mutating so fast that you'll need a new booster every six months (yes, he's the same guy who said last year that you wouldn't). That kind of forever-war against Covid is a job for life for Marks. But surely that's just a coincidence.
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Saturday, October 22, 2022
How stupid do they think we are? Pfizer announces that its Covid vaccine will henceforth cost $110 to $130 per dose. At the same time, it just so happens that the media that thrives on pharma industry advertising is warning of a new "nightmare variant spreading." As every day, it's all in "Recommended Reading."
Covid-2019
Friday, October 21, 2022
In "Recommended Reading," a new paper showing that the infection fatality rate for children who get Covid is 0.0003%. That's 3 in a million. So why, dear God, why, did the US government add Covid vaccines to the official childhood schedule (especially considering that the vaccines have not been safety-tested on children)?
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Thursday, October 20, 2022
A great story from the Wall Street Journal in "Recommended Reading" today, answer the greatest of all questions about Covid: how could public officials have handled the crisis so badly, with such seeming disregard to side-effects and consequences. The headline says it all: "As Covid Hit, Washington Officials Traded Stocks With Exquisite Timing." You rarely go wrong by sticking with the axiom: follow the money.