In "Recommended Reading," you must see this new study from NBER: "Final Report Card On The States' Response To Covid-19." Read it and weep, to see the way the world has messed this up.
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Sunday, April 10, 2022
You just can't make this stuff up.
"QUESTION: Thanks, Jen. How can you guys say that President Biden was not a close contact with Speaker Pelosi when there is video of the Speaker kissing him?
"MS. PSAKI: Well, Peter, the way that it is defined is by the Center for Disease Control — the CDC. And their definition of it is 15 minutes of contact within a set period of time within six feet. It did not meet that bar."
The link to the entire official transcript, in case you don't believe she actually said this, is in "Recommended Reading."
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Saturday, April 9, 2022
In "Recommended Reading," Fauci predicting a "surge" in BA.2 subvariant infections -- because people will be "without masks" (which he once said we didn't need anyway) and "even people who are vaccinated" (whom he once said his vaccines would protect). But other than that, he's just America's Numero Uno fearless forecaster.
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Friday, April 8, 2022
The Gridiron Club's elite gathering last weekend is proving to be a super-spreader event, infecting Democrats including Attorney General Merrick Garland, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and Reps. Adam B. Schiff and Joaquin Castro. These are the most vaccinated people in the US, in the most locked-down city in the US.
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Thursday, April 7, 2022
US hospitalizations and ICU occupancy have now fallen back to low levels not seen during the pandemic. What better sign that Covid is in full retreat?
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Wednesday, April 6, 2022
Here's an example of everything that is wrong with Washington. The Senate is paralyzed over a $10 billion pandemic "response" bill -- while $700 billion remains unspent from all the prior pandemic "response" bills. It's in "Recommended Reading."
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Tuesday, April 5, 2022
For the New York Times, it always has to be something bad, even when it's wrapped in something very, very good: "The End of the Covid Emergency Could Mean a Huge Loss of Health Insurance ."
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Monday, April 4, 2022
The BA.2 subvariant of Omicron continues to disappoint the doomsayers. World cases are making new lows for the year.
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Sunday, April 3, 2022
Must be a slow news day in Ukraine. From the New York Times, "A New Wave of Covid-19 Is Coming. Here’s How to Prepare." And from CNN "Covid-19 hospitalizations hit a pandemic low in the US, but strain on hospitals persists."
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Saturday, April 2, 2022
A new high for daily new cases in China. The CCP can stop bragging about their great preventive measures now.