Lockdown Lunacy vs Fringe Ideas

George Rebane

Litmus test for autocracy – ALL autocracies actively proscribe ideas that are fringe to what the state prescribes as mainstream thinking.  Rebane Doctrine

The recent study from Johns Hopkins University unequivocally shows that lockdowns don’t work in reducing Covid-19 death rates. (here, here, and here) The mortality rate data for this also comes from around the world.  In the developed world state-imposed lockdowns have devastated economies, families, and individuals of all ages.  This pandemic will be studied for generations by historians, political scientists, and autocrats.

The impact of lockdowns has so many dimensions in the realms of their implementation and causal effects.  Most independent (i.e. not on the government tit) epidemiologists, economists, and other science-savvy analysts decried the lockdown policies from the start.  Only the central planning/control elites and ignorantly compliant local jurisdictions promoted the months of insane mandates handed down from on high that began in the spring of 2020.

Half the country is populated by those reliably labeled sheeple.  To the ruling elite these are the recipients of received wisdom known as ‘mainstream thought’, which is comprised of an ever-changing roll of diktats a la Orwell.  These people have been taught since grade school to unquestioningly accept and put to practice whatever and whenever Big Brother mandates.  No critical thought needed nor tolerated – such thought, being constituted of ‘fringe ideas’, is to be rejected as anti-social and dangerous, polluting the purity of state mandated groupthink.  To witness them, one need only go to the local shopping mall or read The Union.

The trained progressive has had excised from his education any notion that all benefits to mankind over the millennia have always been introduced as fringe ideas.  Mainstream thought has always been the home of thought-free compliant stasis and stagnation.  At no time in the last hundred years have we witnessed in the developed world a more complete practice of such mainstream thought than over the last two years – and the beat goes on.

So now we have the latest from Johns Hopkins that once more confirms what the greatly denigrated Barrington Declaration already told us back in the fall of 2020 (here).  That piece of work was endorsed by thousands of accredited scientists and medicos, and ruthlessly put down by our federal government and their lamestream lackies.  Hundreds of thousands more died needlessly and/or went bankrupt.

No recognition of, let alone apologies for the Big Lies were forthcoming, and no one today is holding their breath.  The dead and financially destitute are a price the leftwing elites were willing to pay for their great experiment in the fundamental transformation of America into a satrapy under a global government.  And you can bet that there’s more to come from the same team, still fully in control and totally insulated from any legal or public repercussions by a corrupt DoJ and judiciary.  According to those propagandists and their local true believers, Joe Biden has had a banner year since he was inaugurated.  And the Democrat devotees across the land still revere and believe in the gospel according to Saint Anthony of Fauci, the Beatified - “The fact that we shut down when we did, and the rest of the world did, has saved hundreds of millions of infections and millions of lives.”  (17 June 2020)

The tactic of ‘accuse them of what you do’ is a tried-and-true formula for shutting down any real opposition from the recumbent Republicans.  (Does anyone know on what are they spending their political capital?)  No better example of that can be had than the established fact that Russian appeasement has been a leftwing monopoly as once again illustrated by Victor Davis Hanson (here).  To this day lamestream outlets trumpet that Trump was the Great Colluder.

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[Bill Tozer]

AN EPIDEMIC OF THE VACCINATED

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/02/an-epidemic-of-the-vaccinated.php

[scenes]

The political cartoonist is just showing, well, mainstream thinking. There's a few year old wave of philosophy that wrongthink needs to be scrubbed from broadcast and internet media. I'm not saying something that everybody doesn't already know. It isn't like you'll ever see a second newspaper either, this isn't 100 years ago.

The super-slick angle to it, also obvious, is that the internet gives you mechanisms for bypassing the First Amendment and the court system built, in part, to enforce it. You merely nudge rightthinkers at internet monopolies to do your dirty work. It doesn't have to be Facebook, etc., you can usually accomplish the same thing by using VISA, Paypal, Amazon Web Services, GoDaddy, Cloudflare.

It's a darned good reason to kill off decentralized cryptocurrencies, you could really put the hammer down by controlling all cash flow to wrongthinkers.

Team Red put themselves in this boat to some extent by being pro big-business up until recently. They allowed monopolies and near-monopolies to form while allowing Team Blue to use the strong argument 'Don't you believe in private business? They can sell to whom they like'. Nothing Team Red believes in was allowed to become a protected group, so the vulnerability is near total.

I can't say that it was all planned, but admire the genius of the situation.

[Bill Tozer]

Democrat Politicians Were Never As Afraid Of Covid As They Want You To Be

“Think about this the next time you fasten a useless, oxygen-depriving, speech-impeding bacterial trap to your helpless two-year-old. When you don the Covid talisman to go to church, attend class, enter a grocery store, watch a show, or board an airplane, reflect on how a disdainful coterie of officials have trolled Americans for two years.

They’ve been bleating about “flattening the curve” while they’ve been nonchalantly recreating, dining, primping, and preening, vacationing, partying, and clubbing in contradiction of their own fabricated and capricious public health edicts. Yes, they were being dishonest, hypocritical, and hierarchical. But most importantly, they were clearly never afraid of the virus, and you shouldn’t be either.”

https://thefederalist.com/2022/02/04/democrat-politicians-were-never-as-afraid-of-covid-as-they-want-you-to-be/

[Bill Tozer]

TRUCKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE!
In recent years, we have seen a fundamental realignment in American, and Western, politics. After something like 200 years of purporting to represent the laboring classes, liberalism has been exposed. Most voters now understand that it is Republicans, and by inference conservatives, who speak for the working class. Democrats (liberals) are seen as the party of the would-be elites, who unfortunately aren’t elite at anything useful.

This is the context of Glenn Reynolds’ excellent New York Post column: “Truckers are starting a working-class revolution — and the left hates it.”

So we’re finally seeing a genuine, bottom-up, working-class revolution. In Canada, and increasingly in the United States, truckers and others are refusing to follow government orders, telling the powerful that, in a popular lefty formulation, if there’s no justice, there’s no peace.

Naturally, the left hates it.

For more than a century, lefties have talked about such a revolt. But if you really paid attention, the actual role of the working class in their working-class revolution was not to call the shots — it was to do what it was told by the “intellectual vanguard” of the left.

Which is a problem when your intellectual vanguard is–to be blunt–stupid.

A working-class revolution led by the working class is the left’s worst nightmare because the working class doesn’t want what the left wants. The working class wants jobs, a stable economy, safe streets, low inflation, schools that teach things and a conservative, non-adventurous foreign policy that won’t get a lot of working-class people killed. It’s not excited about gender fluidity, critical race theory, “modern monetary theory,” foreign adventures and defunding police.

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/02/truckers-of-the-world-unite.php

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"Most voters now understand that it is Republicans, and by inference conservatives, who speak for the working class. Democrats (liberals) are seen as the party of the would-be elites, who unfortunately aren’t elite at anything useful."

An alternative theory, somewhat related.

Think of Democrats as being the party of high-density-living people and the Republicans less so.

A half century ago, a large cadre of working class people lived in cities, useful things were done in cities, cities were productive. With automation, the manufacturing move overseas, etc. what's left in urban areas produces wealth, but it's mostly overhead (the FIRE business) or symbolic (software, legal, government administration).

The urban working class was essentially killed off by an economic neutron bomb.

[Bill Tozer]

Scenes @ 5:47 pm, Feb 3

“They allowed monopolies and near-monopolies to form while allowing Team Blue to use the strong argument 'Don't you believe in private business? They can sell to whom they like'. Nothing Team Red believes in was allowed to become a protected group, so the vulnerability is near total.”

There is a current legal theory bouncing around that argues once the government encourages a private business to do as they say and the business follows, then that private business becomes an agency of the government. This was brought on by Peppermint Patty, speaking for the White House, directing Spotify what to do next.

A link picked at random.

https://youtu.be/CRFz5jW335c

[Bill Tozer]

Opps. Or try this link.

https://www.louderwithcrowder.com/jen-psaki-joe-rogan-spotify

Or try a link I already posted over on Sandbox. Is Spotify a government agency?

‘White House urges Spotify to censor content over COVID-19 'misinformation' concerns’

https://thepostmillennial.com/white-house-spotify-censor-content-covid19-misinformation

[Douglas Keachie]

Came by to see what the descendant of the Estonian commander had to say about the Russian forces. Crickets?

[Mockniglio]

Posted by: Douglas Keachie | 04 February 2022 at 08:06 PM

DugsKKKi.......did you really get arrested at a wedding?!?!

That you were supposed to be photographing........?

Bad form dude!

Great Yelp reviews though!

[scenes]

"Came by to see what the descendant of the Estonian commander had to say about the Russian forces. Crickets?"

It comes up now and again, although it's a lot simpler to talk about the latest insanity of the US Left. You're in the wrong thread though.

some odds and ends:
https://www.understandingwar.org/sites/default/files/ISW%20Ukraine%20Indicators%20Update_0.pdf

As a practical matter, it's hard to call. Too complex. As a moral matter the Russians certainly have a higher degree of self-interest involved than the US in Afghanistan/Iraq/Syria/Libya and the 100 other places the NeoLibCons love to place chess pieces.

My suggestion is to put Grand Admiral Levine in charge of US 'defense' policy, the Russians will lose their will to fight in all the laughter.

[Douglas Keachie]

I have no idea what wedding you are talking about since I haven’t shot any weddings for at least four years. And prior to that years more. Please post a link to whatever it is you think I got arrested for? Of course it’s in the wrong thread there is no thread on the topic that I thought would be near and dear to the heart of The originator of this blog. By the way how come all the fake names? Running for cover is not becoming you, and surely somebody should say something about Pence.

[Douglas Keachie]

By the way the mainstream media has been advocating for getting everyone vaccinated. If the CDC and the vaccination program are bullshit propaganda how many here will affirm that they never have gotten vaccinated and never will? Come on speak up, are you vaccinated? If so it looks to me like you pick and choose your science to suit your political agenda. Wear a mask or be part of the problem.

[scenes]

on masks (from May 2016)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4868614/

[Douglas Keachie]

“On masks, from 2016.” Oh right, no newer science or advisories are available on this topic. Yeah, right. 14 times more deaths among the Unvaxxed, the Idiots. Are you one of them?

[sKKKiniglio]

Posted by: Douglas Keachie | 05 February 2022 at 02:30

If the CDC and the vaccination program are bullshit propaganda how many here will affirm that they never have gotten vaccinated and never will?

That would be me dugsKKKi…:.!

And a Super Science guy like yourself should have no trouble finding a Yelp review.

[Bill Tozer]

Douglas Keachie.

I suggest you post you vaccine and mask comments under Scattershots – 25jan22 (updated 2feb22). There you will find mask and vaccine comments that you can take your questions comments about masks and vaccines to your heart’s content.

As far as Russia and Ukraine goes, I take a wait and see approach. Right now, there are no US troops in Ukraine. We are sending 8,500 troops to reinforce our NATO allies…our finest National Guard troops, lol. Denmark is sending two jet fighter to Bulgaria in April. Since Germany has no Air Force to speak of nor a standing Army, the Krauts are sending 4,000 protective helmets to Ukraine. Canada has sent 400 troops to the area.

Looks like we are defending our NATO allies, who in turn are preparing to defend a non-NATO country. Poland has stepped up and have sent misses to Ukraine. That’s about all I know at this point.
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Oh yeah. Here is something about NATO. That’s all I got at this moment. Wait and see, speculation is just one person’s opinion so it’s kinda waste of time.

NATO’s “open door policy” is based on Article 10, which declares that NATO members, “may, by unanimous agreement, invite any other European State … to accede to this Treaty.”

Moreover, membership is open to “any other European State in a position to further the principles of this Treaty and to contribute to the security of the North Atlantic area.”

Note that NATO admission requires “unanimous” consent of all 30 present members.

Blinken has often stated this as U.S. policy: “From our perspective, NATO’s door is open and remains open, and that is our commitment.”

What Blinken is saying is this: While America will not fight for Ukraine today, America remains open to Ukraine’s accession to NATO, in which event we would have to fight for Ukraine tomorrow, were it attacked by Russia.

What the U.S. needs to do is to say with clarity that while Ukraine is free to apply to NATO, NATO is free to veto that application, and the enlargement of NATO beyond its present eastern frontiers is over, done.“

https://buchanan.org/blog/nato-strategic-asset-or-liability-159037

[Gregory]

Keach, there'd be a new study on mask use worth discussing if DANMASK-19 had been redone, not memory holed.

I've not been vaxxed but a vow to remain so is folly... there may be a new vaxx coming along that doesn't protect against a now extinct variant. I got my Immunity the hard way, getting sick from the Alpha before the vaxx was made available.

If a vaxx worth taking comes along I will evaluate the benefits and act accordingly... but people getting ill now are pissed the vaxx did next to nothing to protect them from Omicron.

My natural immunity is holding up from my helping care of two generations sick with it.

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Keachie: "“On masks, from 2016.” Oh right, no newer science or advisories are available on this topic. "

If you had read the article (doubtful), it's about the psychology of masks. I posted the date in order to underline that the article pre-dates the current political insanity that you are taking part in.

There really isn't any newer science, they're not particularly helpful. The better they are, the more restrictive with the inevitable issues for long-term use.

N95 masks, which do some good, are single-use, need to be well fitted and shouldn't be worn for hours at a time.

Solution? Children have very low fatality rates, are bound to get the virus, masks are probably useless in the environment. If you feel better about it, being older and all, by all means wear one, just don't expect me to not laugh at your bandana as being useless. Generally, old people should steer clear of bars, Paul Emery Events, etc. Masks outdoors are ludicrous due to ventilation and the effect of UV on viruses.

Generally, I'd say that the virus is going to do what it's going to do. Lacking a real vaccine to artificially change the herd immunity level, it'll have roughly the same epidemiology as any other big outbreak. If the offered injections lower the symptom severity (which they appear to), that's great. I can't say that shooting up kids does more good than harm.

Have a nice day.

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GeorgeR: "The tactic of ‘accuse them of what you do’ is a tried-and-true formula for shutting down any real opposition from the recumbent Republicans."

Well, there's Republicans and there's Republicans.

Is Lindsey Graham a Republican?

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/02/its-back-senators-want-earn-it-bill-scan-all-online-messages

Naturally, it's for the children.

[Scott O]

Douglas Who's Just Peachy - "Wear a mask or be part of the problem."
Say - wouldn't that make a dandy poster with a big picture of Stalin pointing out at the viewer?
What about our fearless lefty leaders that have been caught numerous times sans mask?
Now Dougy is the one picking and choosing whom to scold.
If I'm around people that aren't wearing masks and I don't wear a mask - just what is the 'problem'?
If you want a shot, go for it. I'm not against that.
If you want to wear 3 masks in your car driving alone, go for it. I'm not going to criticize you for it. It doesn't matter if you've had the shot or 10. You can still carry and spread the virus and no - your stupid mask doesn't do any real good.
My wife and I haven't had the Woohoo Flu shot and we probably won't. As long as the people that make the shot and the people that mandate the shot aren't responsible for the negative side effects, then they obviously think there is a significant danger in getting the shot.

[Gregory]

"Now Dougy is the one picking and choosing whom to scold."

That's not a new behavior for Keach.

[Joe Peyote’s AV Man goes down on Odlaw]

When the Republicans elected the Swartz Governor?

When the voters of CA elected Swartz Governor?

Posted by: Rock Hunter put lavender on BunBun’s G spot and Ozz hole | 14 January 2020 at 09:33 PM

You'd better believe Trump is pooping his diaper about Bolton's book. Bolton is in for the bucks and has a lot to gain by telling the truth and Trump has no credibility as an honest person even among his supporters. HE will flip as he always does when presented with the truth.

Posted by: Paul Emery | 22 January 2020 at 09:08 AM

[Scott O]

"You'd better believe Trump is pooping his diaper..."
Hilarious - coming from the guy that could hardly wait to vote for the POTUS that did 'poop' his diapers!

[Douglas Keachie]

Searching Yelp + Keachie + wedding + arrest + photographer and all that is there, is: "It looks like there aren't many great matches for your search" Obviously you are lying. Tried it much less restrictively as well, and nothing shows up, either. Provide a link or you are a liar. So sue me, haha!

[Douglas Keachie]

On having to be able to reuse masks. Do you insist on reusing toilet paper too?

[photoniglio]

Posted by: Douglas Keachie | 05 February 2022 at 11:23 AM

Obviously you are lying. Provide a link or you are a liar. So sue me, haha!

Au contraire dugsKKI......I was wrong about it being Yelp though! So sue me, haha!

Jay E. Married on 10/10/2020

Totally nuts.

Guy was WAY to politically focused to provide services! Very, very unprofessional! Tried to challenge multiple guests to physical altercations, simply over politics. Law enforcement was called, and he was removed. I wish I could give partial stars, as he does not deserve any stars. He also refused to refund me, as no service was actually rendered!

Sent on 11/08/2021

Laura T. Married on 12/18/2019

Total Nut Job

When he found out my political affiliation, Douglas proceeded to rant and rave in front of my guests. He was a complete embarrassment and far from a professional

Sent on 08/25/2020

https://www.weddingwire.com/biz/photography-by-douglas-keachie-north-san-juan/943e0c6243279c95.html

[Douglas Keachie]

The Wedding Wire is an account I had totally forgotten about. I badly injured my back in December of 2018, and have done no commercial photography since then. Obvoiously both of the reviews there are BOGUS, as they claim dates later than December 2018. I will be working on removing the account. I have to look up the login details on another ancient backup hard drive. Not everything you see on the Internet is the truth, so says Abraham Lincoln.

[Bill Tozer]

photoniglio

Ouch, ouch, ouch. Ruint a wedding or two. Ouch.

“I have no idea what wedding you are talking about since I haven’t shot any weddings for at least four years”. And for good reason. A most excellent reason. Four years?

Jay E. Married on 10/10/2020 Laura T. Married on 12/18/2019 Ouch, ouch, ouch.

My, how time flies. That is definitely a new one to me. The photographer removed from wedding??? I have hear of drunken ex-boyfields getting escorted out, father-in-laws doing a nose dive on the table and knocking over the wedding cake, mothers of the bride screaming at the caterers….but never a photographer trying to duke it out with the guests.

Triggered much?

Once again, just when I thought I have heard or seen everything and nothing could surprise me, I am surprised again. Never say never and never assume.

[Douglas Keachie]

You have learned well from your God, Donald John Trump, who sits on a Golden Throne, and delivers straight to your mouths. He learned from Joseph Goebbels. "Tell a lie often enough and it become truth." Especially when dealing with the Stupids! BTW, I posted a bogus truth on the WW site, praising myself, under the name Dave Truth. If they do not get back to me and allow me to delete the account, then it will balance out and it tells the truth about my non active status. Butt hurt not, just taking out the trash.

[Bill Tozer]

Talk about ‘Lunacy vs Fringe Ideas’ Boy, Mr. Keachie, that takes the cake. No wonder you were attracted to the post.

Those reviews are worse than the ones former Mayor of Nevada City got about her restaurant….you know, finding a partial rat in the burrito or someone catching Gonorrhea by using the restroom.
Thanks, Mr. Keachie, thanks for the clap. You done outdid yourself.

Looking over your stellar record since your arrival in here in God’s County, may I suggest that you and your cameras have caused more trouble than what it is worth. Perhaps a parting of the ways with your cameras might be considered.

Imagine a unhinged photographer challenging wedding guest to a physical altercation over politics, ROFLMO. Whatever is in those vineyard grapes you are growing, perhaps a parting of the ways with consuming the fruit of the vine from that vineyard.

[George Rebane]

Gentlemen, take your DougK lunacy allegations thread to the Sandbox, please.

[Bill Tozer]

‘European Nations Are Dismantling the COVID State Before Our Eyes. Will the US Follow?’
Denmark, Finland, Norway, the Czech Republic, and the United Kingdom are among the European nations who’ve recently scrapped all or key provisions of the COVID state.

https://fee.org/articles/european-nations-are-dismantling-the-covid-state-before-our-eyes-will-the-us-follow/

[Scott O]

BT - "Will the US Follow?"
Ahem.
Some states led the way.

[Douglas Keachie]

So how does one find & log into the "Sandbox," to see or make a comment?

[scenes]

"So how does one find & log into the "Sandbox," to see or make a comment?"

Reasonable question.

No need to log in.

Just click under the first topic under 'Recent Posts' with 'sandbox' in the title.

Scroll to the end, go to 'Post a comment', type something, hit 'post'.

It's the perfect spot for any anti-Trump diatribe and is often used for that. George likes to keep the other posts on-topic. Everyone else can insult you back. Calories are expended and we all edge a bit closer to that good night (so to speak).

[Bill Tozer]

Off topic, Douglas.

[George Rebane]

DougK 1002am - Now c'mon man! The most recent 10 posts are always (for the last 15 years) listed and linked in the upper right panel. Currently 'Sandbox - 31jan22' is fourth in that list.

[Bill Tozer]

“The impact of lockdowns has so many dimensions in the realms of their implementation and causal effects. Most independent (i.e. not on the government tit) epidemiologists, economists, and other science-savvy analysts decried the lockdown policies from the start. Only the central planning/control elites and ignorantly compliant local jurisdictions promoted the months of insane mandates handed down from on high that began in the spring of 2020.”—Dr. Rebane

‘Coronavirus school closures hurt low income, minority kids most, study finds’
Wisconsin study shows marked drop on proficiency tests scores for all students, with disadvantage students performing the worst.

https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/study-coronavirus-school-closures-hurt-low-income-minority-kids-most

This study kinda dovetails with the new study by the City of Minneapolis own research into the George Floyd riots that clearly revealed the most severe damage to property, the 700 small retailers, homes and deaths occurred in the city’s lowest income area and minority owned businesses.

If BLM and white liberals don’t drive a knife into the black, minority, and poor folks, then the school shutdowns will.

[The Estonian Fox]

Another effect of our shutdowns - link below is an article on the state of the (broken) glass container industry in the U.S. From Nov 2021.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/23/glass-bottle-shortages-pressure-wine-and-spirits-companies-.html

KY distillery using bottles from Guadalajara, shipped by rail, to avoid the months-long delay waiting for sea cargo to arrive from UK. “At current, we have not passed on a price increase for consumers. But that could definitely come,” she said.

Mauricio Perez, North American regional director for Panamanian glass supplier BPS Glass, estimated that 60% to 70% of glass bottles used in the U.S. come from China.

And you wondered why Gavin makes so many "vacation" trips to Mexico!

[scenes]

re: EF@12:14PM

The insanity of shipping inexpensive and heavy items around the world is an odd thing, but I expect it's locked-in for now. The glass biz is bound to have a bundle of precursor materials and technique that is found mostly in China at this point.

Good thing the US is so well-equipped with internet marketing experts, aspiring rap artists, javascript writers, and HR professionals. Just convert to a currency system based on leaves and we'll have a country properly fitted to Team Blue.

[Bill Tozer]

'The Backlash Against Leftist Extremism In Schools Is Even Hitting San Francisco'

Hoping to preserve school board members’ seats, San Francisco Berniecrats have resorted to misinformation and doxxing ahead of a Feb. 15 vote.

"It is laughable to claim the recall as a right-wing conspiracy because San Francisco is one of the farthest left cities in America. The city is where Democrat leaders such as Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Vice President Kamala Harris, and California’s current governor Gavin Newsom launched their political careers. More than 80 percent of San Francisco residents voted for President Joe Biden in the 2020 election. The Republican Party has little presence and influence here, and the local GOP’s website doesn’t even mention the school board recall election."

https://thefederalist.com/2022/02/07/the-backlash-against-leftist-extremism-in-schools-is-even-hitting-san-francisco/

[Bill Tozer]

HAS COVID BEEN GOOD FOR WOMEN?

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/02/has-covid-been-good-for-women.php

[Bill Tozer]

Gov. Hochul lifting business mask mandate effective tomorrow

https://nypost.com/2022/02/09/ny-gov-kathy-hochul-will-drop-business-mask-mandate/

[Bill Tozer]

But of course. Put Randi Weingarten in the stocks in the public square. Liar, liar, pants on fire.

Randi Weingarten suggests not getting rid of masks until zero transmission in school
Weingarten that no one wants masks in schools, 'not teachers, not students'

“The COVID-19 pandemic has been shown to have had a damaging effect on mental health in general, but specifically in children, something that was acknowledged by U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy on Tuesday. Murthy said to lawmakers that the pandemic has had a negative and "devastating" effect on mental health.

"I am deeply concerned as a parent and a doctor that the obstacles this generation of young people face are unprecedented and uniquely hard to navigate and the impact that’s having on their mental health is devastating," he said.”

https://www.foxnews.com/media/randi-weingarten-suggests-not-getting-rid-masks-zero-transmission-school

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An alternative that Randi Weingarten (and boy, is she a piece of work) could buy into.

. Kids are not going to wear proper masks properly. Ain't gonna happen and makes less difference than you think. They don't get very sick in any case.
. Teachers don't want to get sick and die from The Plague given to them by students.

Give each teacher a simple remotely controlled robot with a camera/screen/microphone/speaker.

It can roll around the room and pontificate on white privilege and the like. The teacher can stay snug at home.

Kids get a social life, public health is maintained. If discipline is a problem, assign some sort of proctor (either wearing an anti-plague bunny suit or simply doesn't worry about it) to keep order. Those with good plague-fearing parents could continue with distance learning.

[Bill Tozer]

Fringe Ideas?

Politics vs. 'Science:' What's Behind Democrats' Sudden Shift on School Mask Mandates?

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2022/02/09/whats-behind-democrats-sudden-change-on-school-masking-n2602993?utm_campaign=rightrailsticky3
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‘The Morning Briefing: Dems, MSM Busy Tossing Their COVID Failures Into the Memory Hole’

https://pjmedia.com/columns/stephen-kruiser/2022/02/09/the-morning-briefing-dems-msm-busy-tossing-their-covid-failures-into-the-memory-hole-n1557558

[Bill Tozer]

a rather good podcast with two of my preferred podcasters...Ben Shapiro and new fav Megan Kelly on COVID, masks, and the Dems.

https://fb.watch/b4trD0epd9/

[Bill Tozer]

Democrats Are Conveniently ‘Done’ With Covid Just In Time For The 2022 Midterms

https://thefederalist.com/2022/02/10/democrats-are-conveniently-done-with-covid-just-in-time-for-the-2022-midterms/

[Bill Tozer]

You could see this coming and they will freak out like the Karens and Moral Outragers they are.

The ‘Open Everything’ Meltdown Exposes the Covid Psychosis

https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/the-open-everything-meltdown-exposes-the-covid-psychosis/

They will be screaming their heads of without their blankie and baba.

[scenes]

The pivot continues. Them elections are fast approaching.

https://singaporedailynews.com/2022/02/11/follow-the-science-the-new-york-times/

[scenes]

JHK speaks:

"...The Democratic Party rode this public health fiasco into power in the USA and has abused its prerogatives exorbitantly in its quest for power without purpose… other than for more power to push people around. The Democratic Party used Covid to enable the ballot fraud that drove its nemesis, Mr. Trump, from office — and dearly wanted the same excuse to use it again this year. For weeks now, the party has been dithering between a quadrupling down of its insane Covid mandates and the fretful recognition that too much news of its Covid crimes and turpitudes has gotten out. ..."

https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/dishonesty-is-a-bad-business-plan/

[Bill Tozer]

Canada. This is the 3rd time I tried to post a 23 second clip, but apparently I can’t paste straight from the site off the Consevative Corner on Rumble. But, Bongino picked up on it.

The background is that the Ottawa police confiscated all the truckers gas cans. It’s now against the law to bring the truckers gas, food, or comfort. So, look what the lawbreakers did. They went and retrieved the confiscated gas cans. Civil disobedience.
Sorry, Gregory, but I had to use FB.

https://m.facebook.com/watch/?v=335879428464086&_rdr

[Bill Tozer]

‘Slash The Tires’! CNN PSYCHO Lashes Out at Freedom Convoy

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2022/02/10/slash-tires-cnn-psycho-lashes-out-freedom-convoy

The government brownshirts of Canada have sent CPS workers to check on the trucker’s children to threaten to remove them from the parents. The government has stolen the truckers fuel, threaten to yank their commercial drivers licenses, seize their children, fine them all…yet the truckers stand fast.

Meanwhile, Justin Trudeau got heckled and drowned out when he appeared at Parilment.

[Bill Tozer]

ABC News

Nevada, casinos rescind mask mandates effective immediately

Nevada and its casinos have stopped requiring people to wear masks in public

[Bill Tozer]

Scenes @ 9:46 am

Why become a teacher. Well, if you become a teacher, then member of the union, you will be part of the real power….it’s about power, not teaching. Teach to gain power.

A publication of the Democratic Socialist Labor Commission and the Young Democratic Socialists of America

‘Why Socialists Should Become Teachers’

https://teachers.dsausa.org/

[scenes]

re: BillT@10:02

(from article) "Socialists believe that workers create society’s wealth and that the working class is the only class capable of governing society democratically."

Methinks they have a much more expansive view of just who is in the 'working class' than I might. I'd have to ask them what happens if the 'working class' decides that welfare, police defunding, and public unions are a bad idea. They're probably planning on making the families of the working class pay for the bullet.

"member of the union, you will be part of the real power"

Probably one top of the heap is whoever runs the elections office. That's the last place an activist should be allowed and the first place they head for. That, and city councils.

[Bill Tozer]

Scenes.

Yep. The juicy part is near the bottom where the real motives (and recruitment) lie. The closer to the bone, the sweeter the meat.

The 60’s radicals went straight from the campus to the streets, then straight to the city councils and school board offices. Didn’t they finally find Abbey Hoffman years later hiding in plain sight working as a small town upstate NY councilman? Council person is where Bernie got his start, before he moved to Vermont. Same with Biden…although he sold used cars and became a councilman.

Would you buy a used car from that bald dude with the Cheshire Cat smile?

[Bill Tozer]

“Consistency has never been a mark of stupidity. If they were merely stupid, they would occasionally make a mistake in our favor.”—-SecNav James Forrestal

[Bill Tozer]

‘Ontario declares state of EMERGENCY: Freedom Convoy drivers can now be fined $100,000, jailed for a year, have their trucks seized and licenses revoked after Biden urged Trudeau to get even tougher’

Conservative Ontario Premier Doug Ford on Friday declared a state of emergency, threatening fines and jail
White House is urging Justin Trudeau's government to use its 'federal powers' to end the Freedom Convoy
Biden's cabinet secretaries Alejandro Mayorkas and Pete Buttigieg spoke with Canadian counterparts
Canadian trucker protesting since mid-Jan against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Covid-19 vaccine mandate
International route drivers must be double jabbed, and 85 percent are, but the demonstrators oppose the rule
Since Monday at least three US-Canadian border bridges have been blocked in Ontario, Alberta and Manitoba
Ontario's Ambassador Bridge, between Detroit and Windsor, is North America's busiest international crossing
Ontario premier Doug Ford asked courts to freeze donations to truckers on a crowdfunding site GiveSendGo
Trudeau said he spoke to officials, accused drivers of 'hurting jobs, businesses, and our country's economy'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10501225/Just-three-days-honking-ban-Ontario-brings-draconian-rules-Freedom-Convoy-truckers.html

But, money keeps flowing in. There was GoFundMe…squashed. Then there was GiveSendGo, but that got held up in court. The third donation to the truckers is a outfit little noticed by MSM located in an office of a bank building that specializes in crowd funding by trading cryptos. It’s own little exchange.

Humans are adaptable.

[scenes]

" in crowd funding by trading cryptos."

They should have done that to begin with, although I expect it makes refunds difficult.

Given that the Evil Nazi Truckers are fighting people with all the cards...law enforcement, courts, internet monopolies, the financial system, MSM, they really need to think more like revolutionaries if they want to get anywhere. Trusting The Man to play by the rules is silly, they're The Man's rules.

[Barry Pruett]

https://yubanet.com/regional/nevada-county-public-health-officer-replaces-local-masking-requirements-for-vaccinated-individuals-to-a-masking-recommendation-effective-wednesday/

Interesting timing by the county. Lol.

[Bill Tozer]

Barry
What a coincidence. Probably one of those correlation-collusion thangs.
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A coming together moment. Intersectionality. The American truckers said unequivocally that this is not a Red-Blue thing. It is a freedom thing whose longings beat in the breast and bosom of every patriot.

NAOMI WOLF AND LIBERAL INTOLERANCE
Guest hosting the Seth Leibsohn show yesterday afternoon, I had Naomi Wolf as a guest for nearly all of the third hour. Wolf, you may recall, first came to public attention as an adviser to Al Gore during the 2000 presidential campaign. She is a lifelong liberal and a noted feminist, with several books on feminist themes to her credit.

But when covid came along, she was appalled by the loss of freedom that covid hysteria caused. She also became skeptical of the vaccines, viewing them as untested and potentially dangerous, especially to women. These reactions caused her to be deplatformed and shunned by her fellow liberals.

Several weeks ago, she published an essay titled Is it Time for Intellectuals to Talk about God? The essay recounts her experiences over the last two years; I think it is truly extraordinary. That was the subject of our conversation yesterday. I think you will enjoy it; I know I did.

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/02/naomi-wolf-and-liberal-intolerance.php

[Bill Tozer]

Link within link.

‘Is it Time for Intellectuals to Talk about God?’
It's a New Dark Age. Evil abounds. Is a postmodern embarrassment about discussing spiritual matters, keeping us stupid and putting us in danger?

Dr Naomi Wolf

https://naomiwolf.substack.com/p/is-it-time-for-intellectuals-to-talk

Womens health is a true feminist issue. Too bad today’s feminists have forgotten their focus. Who Stole Feminism got Christiana Hoff Summers shouted down by the feminist mobs…and probably “The WAR AGAINST BOYS: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men” didn’t help. She is so opened minded and such a critical thinker that she traveled with Milo and Steven Crowder to campuses. She went from hero to zero.

[Bill Tozer]

DR. MALONE: THE TOP OWNER OF SPOTIFY IS ALSO THE TOP OWNER OF MODERNA
‘This is about political warfare and information warfare’

https://news.grabien.com/story-dr-malone-top-owner-spotify-also-top-owner-moderna

[Bill Tozer]

Litmus test for autocracy – ALL autocracies actively proscribe ideas that are fringe to what the state prescribes as mainstream thinking. Rebane Doctrine

The war room: Discussing natural immunity.

‘COVID vaccine adviser plays down importance of feds' meeting on natural immunity, mandates’

"I don't think this was a confidential meeting," Paul Offit told podcast, unaware that observers thought he was cracking the door on feds' dismissal of natural immunity.

“Human rights lawyer Michael Senger, known for his analysis of the Chinese Communist Party's foreign-focused lockdown propaganda, gave the clip a new audience. "How did the consensus against recognizing natural immunity to COVID arise?" he asked rhetorically. Fauci and Collins "simply decided" the issue.”

https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/covid-vaccine-advisor-plays-down-importance-feds-meeting-natural

[Bill Tozer]

Durham’s filing. Typical response. Programmed to react to certain stimuli.

https://www.newsbusters.org/