Canadian Cabinet consoles PM Castreau
Grrrr… I am not happy. I mostly skipped news over the weekend, so when I caught up with what has been going on in the Gulag Up North, I got a bit miffed. I know the Canadian press is just as subservient to the government, if not more than even here in the US – but there is little coming out that the average Bob and Betty MacKenzie can see other than AgitProp from the government point of view.
Down here, under America’s Hat, we still have the CDC, NIH, et al hiding the ball, not releasing data, etc. While idiots like the Mayor of NYC and the Landwhale of Illinois continue mask and shot theater.
Bah. Here are some links.
- I hope this is too late for this piece of @#$%. I wonder if the SF school board recalls have him scared?
- Fortunately, these are not my Swiss Masters.
- The beginning of the end for COVID theater in the NFL?
- “Build something useful? HELL NO!” Extra special stupidity from the EPA Administrator, in praise of Mayor’s idiocy.
Since I am heading to the local tap room (I have a meeting there) right now, here is a pre-emptive narrowed gaze.
The comment section is all yours.
Fight breaks out on Ukrainian TV
If it’s a war you want, it’s a war you’ll get.
I would rather watch young Ukranian orphan girls (in the 16-18 age bracket) wrestle. In oil. Winner gets adopted by rich American parents.
Holy cow. How did it get to be 2:00?
You mean 4:00.
Well, really, 2100 UTC.
Honk Honk is code for Heil Hitler. I heard it on the intertubes.
It’s a racist Dog Whistle, which only the left seems to hear. Which means everyone else is racist.
If you hear the dog whistle, you are the dog.
And dogs are color blind and not racist, except when being colorblind is racist.
They should just accept WFH, like all the cool kids. “His 40 time on Madden was off the charts!”
The comment section is all yours.
Until we have access to the blink tag and the ability to post images, no it isnt.
Agreed.
I want to combine blink with marquee.
“The comment section is all yours.”
Don’t mind if I do.
https://archive.md/9YW01
Secretly I think Swiss loves Mammary Monday.
Agents representing more than 150 draft prospects are threatening to boycott 2022 NFL Scouting Combine activities due to the league’s COVID-19 bubble restrictions for the event.
The NFL really dropped the ball.
They really need to punt the restrictions.
They’ll pass on anything too controversial.
They should really have run it by the agents.
I was hoping we would earn that narrowed gaze. Way to tackle the problem.
You don’t rush a narrowed gaze at this point in the links.
Don’t push Swiss into a Corner, none of us will have any Safety then!
The thread is nearing the goal line.
Maybe we should touchback to the top of the thread.
So they’re finally admitting that they fumbled COVID and they’re ready to turnover these ridiculous rules?
Those young players can’t just stand there like a statue and expect liberty to fall in there laps.
Seems a little early in the game for a hail mary.
Well if they wait any longer, someone is likely to get sacked.
They have to stand there because it’s not safety.
I saw something about that NFL story earlier but I didn’t read it.
After watching the playoffs, I had assumed the NFL had finally come to their senses and dumped the theatrics. I guess I was wrong.
“Chicago is still, in some ways, transitioning from a big, industrial city to a city that recognizes environmental justice and environmental health,” the mayor said then. “We have got to have a longer-term plan on how we really repurpose a lot of these brownfields and other remnants of Chicago’s industrial past, and thinking about how we can really lean into the green economy.”
Grifters gotta grift.
Chicago hasn’t been an industrial city since the 1800s. That’s one long transition.
Translation: we’re going to beat Detroit in the race to the bottom!
“And fortunately, my cousins are just the people to take the 8 figure contract to develop this plan.”
Right after they fully transition to the green economy maybe they can drop their weekend homicide totals into the single digits. Got to have your priorities I guess.
we can really lean into the green economy
Certainly not by recycling!
“Nothing suspicious about a 21 year old foreign national with a civil servant job in a host country’s federal government doing such a thing.”
https://twitter.com/stainedhanes/status/1491574341770874890
Lightfoot said she would be announcing plans to use those sites to help build a cleaner, greener economy that would create jobs, especially in low-income communities of color suffering from the air pollution that industry had brought.
What happens when everybody who wants a hand crafted set of organic sustainable bongo drums has one?
They’ll rename it “Miami”?
Featuring our guest from my anniversary cartoon.
“Why Progressives Don’t Care For Black Lives….
I don’t doubt that progressives feel sympathy toward Korey, the young mentally ill woman, and other black people experiencing homelessness in San Francisco. Research suggests that politically liberal and progressive people express, in general, greater compassion toward the misfortunate than do more politically conservative individuals. San Francisco spends an astonishing $1 billion per year on around 10,000 homeless individuals who are disproportionately black.”
https://michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/why-progressives-dont-care-for-black
Actually, I do doubt that progressives feel sympathy.
Expecting your taxes to go towards gov’t spending vs donating money/time/etc to churches/charitable orgs/etc is not the same thing.
Even with COVID, my church in cville is still doing their winter homeless shelter (rotation with other churches over the winter – normally 2 weeks of nights for the men – women have space in the Salvation Army shelter – but this year it’s a full month….guessing some of the regular churches “opted out” due to COVID concerns).
Talk is cheap.
Now, that’s a non sequitur.
Of course, if you could cut out the middlemen and the grifters and give $100,000 to each of the homeless, it’d solve the problem, right?
Naaah…
Then you’d have to give the same handouts to the middlemen and grifters they hire as permanent bureaucrats because they would be unemployable in the private sector.
If the middlemen and grifters are unemployable, then they should qualify for the handouts to homeless people soon enough.
This guy gets a lot right but hoo boy he’s got some blind spots.
Like, “Do we really want the same pigs who murdered George Floyd, and who are even now gleefully beating the shit out of peaceful protestors in Ottawa, to have the ability to institutionalize anyone on their say-so?”
Oh California, never change.
That’s got to be it! The guy who was Governor over 40 years ago was so insidious that 4 decades of uninhibited, unobstructed single party rule couldn’t correct for it. They’re finally about to turn the corner. Take the (D) just one more time and it’ll cure what ails ya!
Nope, has nothing whatsoever to do with our own policy – we have FUCKING COMPASSION for the dependent class.
I need to start scheduling meetings at the local breweries.
“Chicago is still, in some ways, transitioning from a big, industrial city to a city that recognizes environmental justice and environmental health,” the mayor said then.
So what she’s saying is it’s not quite a ghost town, yet.
Last one to leave Chicago, don’t forget to blow out the candle.
It used to be a bit nicer…
It’s a true Colorado day today.
High: 50F and sunny
Low: -2F and snow
Temp has been dropping all day. Yesterday was shorts weather.
I fucking love it.
Apparently there’s a chance of snow here later in the week, although I’m hoping the rest of the snow currently on the ground melts and we don’t get any new snow. The dog is getting antsy.
Oh Colorado, how I miss your bipolar atmosphere. They need to get some planes to crop dust some Midol into the atmosphere. That should stabilize things a bit.
The price of bacon is too damn high!: Former DNC Chair Gives Devastating Assessment Of How Things Are Under Joe Biden
No shit. I paid 11-something for a pound the other day.
Holy fuck!
Up about 50% from a couple years ago.
Forum still down. Any further updates for the Gourmeltz meet? Did anyone post there today? Want to text Matt later with approx numbers and time.
I don’t even know how to get to the forum.
I don’t even own a TV!
/get off my lawn
Link at top of page.
Something funny keeps happening.
In your pants?
You’ll go blind!
Can I do it just until I need glasses?
Okay, once you login it takes you back to the landing page and you have to click on Continue to Forum.
Works for me. Two responses since your last.
Sheldon: I would kinda like to be necking my first pint before noon, just for traditions’ sake…
Rat: I’m flexible on time.
I can get into the forum. I’m the only response today.
I was able to get in, but I’m not in Virginia, so I won’t be at Gourmeltz.
We don’t discriminate. Non-Virginians are welcome.
No Marylander though…
Got in now. I’ll let Matt know – maybe 10 folks max…starting around 11ish when they open.
11ish it is
I can’t go – getting a new hot water heater.
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/02/covid-mask-mandate-washington-dc/622860/
“They actually changed it because apparently the first one just wasn’t showing enough contempt.”
https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1495740348882374660
An entire article about how inconsistent mask mandates are (but necessary!) without even acknowledging the most important point, they don’t work.
Even TOS acknowledged as much last week.
From the comments:
Yet the minute a woman goes topless in public, or a gay guy wears chaps on a pride float, conservatards go cry to Jesus.
The Tony puppet still going I see.
TOS, behind the times again. Maybe someday they’ll have their own cartoon show instead of comics with way too many captions.
Implied in the title and subheader for that article is the idea that the communities goals are themselves ineffective and illogical.
Have they tried acting like the mother of a 10 year old and just yelling back “because I said so!”? I feel like that equally gives the game away.
Also, what does she mean by “community’s goals?” Did they all get together and reach a consensus or did this cunt appoint herself to speak on behalf of many thousands of people without consulting them simply because she decided having a $100,000 sociology degree from Occidental made her the leader?
Funny, I would have thought his not being able to get it up would be what destroyed your sex life.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/17705603/anxiety-erection-ruining-sex-life/
Grrrr… I am not happy.
You’re not the only one. One of my co-workers has a brother who used to be a co-worker as well, except that he was on the second shift so I never saw much of him. The guy died suddenly over the weekend and was only in his 30s.
He was also one of those morbidly obese people and I wonder whether that had anything to do with his death.
Do not speak ill against my tribe, fatist!
Forum still down.
A funny thing happened…
Meh.
Avatar does not check out.
Have you ever considered anal adventures?
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-news/parenting-facebook-page-raises-eyebrows-26293830
Are we sure it was a typo?
I had a client once who sold all those water toys (trampolines, sleds, slides) online and had the url `globalwatersports.com`
The guy was elderly and just a wonderful guy. He had no idea why my old business partner and I would snicker all the time. My business partner and I also couldn’t make eye contact with each other because we knew if we did the snickers would become gales of laughter.
Two years in, and still making stunningly inaccurate predictions.
WE HAVE MODELS DAMN YOU!
” “Canada does not want to see itself this way”
New York Times reporter stands by her account of gunpoint arrests in Ottawa
The New York Times reported last weekend that police in Ottawa had arrested protesters at gunpoint, a claim that was quickly challenged and denounced by prominent Canadian journalists.
“This is wrong,” tweeted freelance reporter Justin Ling, who had been covering the police action from Ottawa. CBC News TV host Ginella Massa called the Times headline “false and incredibly dangerous rhetoric” and CBC radio host Piya Chattopadhyay asked “where are you getting this bs from?”.
Narwhal climate reporter Fatima Syed, who is also the Vice President of the Canadian Association of Journalists and host of the Canadaland podcast The Backbench, called the Times story “embarrassing and wrong.” Journalists from The Globe and Mail, Global News, and more also criticized the Times, some demanding a correction.
“Maybe leave the gossip to the “professionals”,” remarked society writer Shinan Govani.
Yet truckers were indeed arrested by police in Ottawa at gunpoint, says New York Times reporter Sarah Maslin Nir, who shares a byline on the contested piece with colleague Natalie Kitroeff.”
https://www.canadaland.com/canada-does-not-want-to-see-itself-this-way/
Regardless, freezing money is still way worse.
It’s a shit show there, but I’m going to enjoy my schadenfreude at the NYT being dismissed as fake news.
I’m sure when all the politicians and corporate journalists have their meeting tomorrow morning in a smoke-filled room while petting hairless cats, they’ll make sure that NYT remembers the consequences for going off script.
Fake News calling out Fake News.
It’s fucking beautiful. May they all rot in fucking hell, because TMITE.
I say “Minnesoda has some of the most beautiful and talented women anywhere.”
You say “Really?”
I say “It’s twue, it’s twue. Wheelie“
It’s supposed to say “Winner of the Intersectional Olympics 2022.” The article humbly forgot to mention that she’s non-binary and was not originally born as a birthing person.
Dude had it coming.
Look at the police drag this guy between the trucks so an officer can knee him as as hard as he can. None of the other cops seem to care about his behaviour as he quickly checks to see if any Canadian saw him
Fukin Nazis deserve it, eh? Sory.
Sore-y
hawt
https://www.the-sun.com/lifestyle/3194519/orgasms-working-out-its-mortifying-coregasms-gym/
He’ll yes, she looks like fun!
Now THAT is how to do Glibfit!
Qfit.
The video says that she “suffers” from this condition. Can you imagine being handed such a beautiful gift and seeing it as a problem? I don’t know if it’s our puritanical culture or our victim culture, but I volunteer to meet with this young woman personally and set her straight. After some stretching, warm ups and I help her develop her lunge technique of course.
You’re a giver.
Fingers crossed ?
Interesting. Not much medical information, or the use of the medical term ‘Exercise Induced Sexual Pleasure’. It would seem that a fitness guru would be teaching a technique for this and then there would be a whole lot fewer fat people in the world.
Instead she whines.
“Why Mitt Romney’s Cold War mentality is out of date”
https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/260498389140127744
“POTUS on Romney: “A few months ago, when you were asked what’s the biggest geopolitical threat facing America, you said Russia.”
9:13 PM · Oct 22, 2012″
https://twitter.com/BarackObama/status/260549576199639040
That was before the Rushuns controlled TRUMP11!! Now, even once literally Hitler Romney is on the belief train, because he accepted the wisdom of the Democrats.
Or his check from Lockheed cleared. It’s definitely one of those two things.
Went with the Bosslady and some of her buddies to Disney World this past weekend. As Disney had dropped their indoor mask mandate on February 17, lots of revealed preferences were evident. The face diaper folks were maybe 1 in 50 guests.
Of those who were still masked up outside in the theme parks / inside in the restaurants and hotels, they were about 30% old folks to 70% kids / teens. Make of that what you will.
Did they drop that for everyone? I read it was just for the vaxxed. But I have no idea how they would enforce that.
The signs in the hotels and at the parks read something like “Facemasks are not required for our fully vaccinated guests. Guests who are not fully vaccinated are encouraged to wear masks.” (emphasis mine)
No one’s checking, of course. Potential Karens are politely reminded that Florida has no shortage of sand, and they are invited to pound as much of it as they like.
That’s actually a new Brazzer’s channel. It’s called SandBlasters. Better than expected.
That’s about what I see on the street in NYC.
Kids’ brains have been turned to mush.
I noticed that recently as well.
We’ve not had mask mandates outside of schools and doctors offices since before last summer, but the ones choosing to wear them are overwhelmingly under the age of 25-30. Huge numbers of teens wearing them.
These people are fucked.
This is what happens when you jack off way too vigorously.
https://metro.co.uk/2022/02/21/man-completely-paralysed-in-20-minutes-after-feeling-pins-and-needles-16140100/
NB: the guy looks like a Canadian trucker, hopefully GoFuckMe cancelled his fund raiser.
Jeez, poor guy.
A guy from my gym got it in his lower back a few days after the vax -couldn’t walk for a couple of weeks. Probably Guillain–Barré syndrome.
Guillain-Barre syndrome usually starts at the tips of your extremities and then moves inwards.
I know way more about that than I want. Dad got it and spent 4 months completely paralyzed. Had to be on a ventilator to keep him breathing. The atrophy after the disease had gone required a couple of years to recover from.
And he was lucky because he recovered completely. Some don’t (see my link above about Ms. Wheelchair Minnesoda. GB is what put her in the chair).
Much the same with my FiL; four months in an induced coma because he required full ventilation. He lost over 100 pounds (he was quite obese), and they had to put him in a special high-tech bed that constantly massaged all the contact points of his skin with the bed’s surface to prevent bedsores. After being released from hospital, he required physio for over a year, and never completely recovered.
Unfortunately, he also re-gained all the weight he lost, in what seemed like record time.
Wouldn’t a coin-operated motel bed be cheaper?
If you feel pins and needles while whacking it, you need some of those pills they are always offering in those exciting emails.
I just get chaffed.
Wheat?
It is my quaint understanding that the delegations sent by the people must be seated.
Last Thursday, several Illinois Republican representatives were blocked from the state House floor after refusing to comply with the state capitol’s mask mandate. On Friday, one of the lawmakers who was booted off the House floor sued to end the chamber’s mask mandate.
Illinois House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch (D-Hillside) is being sued by Republican state Rep. Blaine Wilhour (R-Beecher City) over the masking rules.
“It’s a total lack of common sense,” Wilhour said on Thursday. “It’s a total lack of critical thought. The people of Illinois are done with it.”
The Republicans who refused to comply were booted out of the chambers, but allowed to participate virtually after Democrats voted to kick them out. A motion by Rep. Lakesia Collins (D-Chicago) to kick out the Republicans for not masking passed 66-39.
Please tell me that the IL Senate is split 66-39 Dems/GOP. I don’t want to learn that a lot of GOP senators voted with the Dems to enforce the mask mandate.
It is well known that Illinois Mandaters are worse than Illinois Nazis.
C’mon, man! Joe’s got Putin on the – uh, uhh – you know the thing!
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman said Monday that there were no plans yet for a new summit with U.S. President Joe Biden, contradicting claims by the Elysée Palace and the White House, which had said overnight that the leaders agreed “in principle” to meet provided Russia did not invade Ukraine.
Speaking to reporters, spokesman Dmitry Peskov said there were no “concrete plans” for a new Putin-Biden meeting, but that he was not excluding the possibility. And he said that “dialogue” between the Russian foreign ministry and the State Department would continue. He said that a meeting between Putin and Biden could be coordinated quickly if necessary.
Peskov also announced that Putin had called a large-format meeting of Russia’s Security Council on Monday, and that the Russian president would hold calls with several international leaders. Putin will deliver a speech, Peskov said, and other senior leaders would also speak.
Putin orders #Russian armed forces to enter rebel territories in eastern Ukraine for “peacekeeping operations.”
Inevitable…the big question is does he push to Kiev or, less likely, further.
The big question to me: do Brandon’s handlers call the bluff?
I doubt it’s a bluff and I’m not sure what Biden could do beyond symbolic crap like sanctions.
Don’t even know how effective sanctions could be given that we’re still buying oil/gas from Russia at this time. This admin is absolutely insane.
The invasion sucks horribly for Ukraine, but I don’t see any involvement from the US. We won’t send in troops or do anything past some sanctions. I think what’s happening in Canada right now has the potential for much greater damage to America.
I’ve seen others talking about Biden inflaming the situation, wanting war, or wanting to appear to avert war, but I seriously doubt Biden has influenced Putin’ decision in the slightest. Much more likely that Putin planned to invade all along, and that China asked Putin to wait until their moment in the Olympics was over before starting.
They will still use it to try to kill the pipeline to Germany. That always seemed like a big reason they provoke Putin.
At the same time, Germany has really shot themselves in the dick with this too – why go this way specifically when they had working nuclear plants and could also buy oil/gas from the UK/Norway/etc? It looks like a good deal till you realize you’re absolutely beholden to a country – 3 or 4 countries away…. and don’t forget how Russia tried to shut off the gas just a couple years ago due to “overdue payments”, etc.
I don’t think he pushes to Kiev. That would be much too provocative. Right now the situation is a “who wants to die for Donetsk” situation, a minor border dispute, but pushing further would escalate things to an Iraq conquers Kuwait level.
But if he does push to Kiev, I’d also be looking east and watching Taiwan. I have a suspicion that when the Russians and Chinese decide to finally confront the current world order, they will be doing so together.
Or at least separately together.
Perhaps not necessarily coordinated, but I’d think definitely that they’d both look to use the other as cover.
The peoples’ republics control only about a third of the territories they claim (former oblasty). Somebody has to liberate the rest.
Last night Fox News Radio already claimed they ‘confirmed’ that Russia had ordered an invasion. How they ‘confirmed’ this, I have no clue. Believe the narrative.
does he push to Kiev
Probably not.
Somebody has to liberate the rest.
That’s where the fun begins.
Is she going for the “Megan Fox” after she fucked up her own face with plastic surgery?
Without it saying that’s Madonna I wouldn’t know that’s Madonna.
Nothing like showing off your new plastic surgery behind a thick coat of makeup and Photoshop.
Professional phot shoot, with make-up, lighting and digital touch-ups thus entailed make it hard to know what is an actual change in a person’s appearance and what is ‘style’.
Now, this is the American history they should be teaching.
Probably just as accurate as the cherry tree story.
I can’t decide if I like Washington punching a tiger, or Adams fighting a giant snake, the best.
It’s Cherry Pie
I was going to post something here but it was simply too NSFW.
I love this version
Washington
Women, minorities, and British children hardest hit
The Dollop did a good podcast on George’s teeth back when they were still funny
The Dollop also covered Washington’s death. Hint: Colonial public health experts were pretty similar to current health experts.
Spoiler: The doctors treating 69 year old Washington bled 2.5 qts of blood out of him in 13 hours.
I maintain that the NFL could have single-handedly put a stop to the mask insanity by simply not complying.
Yup. Certainly if the NFL and MLB had said “fuckit, we’re playing a full season, no masks” that would have brought things to a head a lot earlier. Especially if they backed it up with “any city that requires masking at our games will have their games be away games.”
I think you forget that it was mostly driven by the athletes themselves early on. It’s become pretty clear that when it comes to messaging and social media, these organizations aren’t really in control any longer. The stars can say whatever they want and have way more media attention and influence.
I think you’re right. It takes a big domino falling to start a preference cascade, but once it starts it spreads widely.
And now they get to submit to American-style sins of the father. How wonderful for them!
Maybe they ought to have considered telling the U.S. to go pound sand.
At which point we would have denied them access to US banking networks.
Good news is we keep running the money printer and people will say who cares.
Yep, when we crash the global economy, I think everyone else in the world will have the good sense to tell us to fuck off the next time we want to be in charge.
My mild mannered Swiss neighbor went high and to the right years ago when the Swiss started caving on their banking laws. He had nothing to do with banking, but he said that the one thing the Swiss banks had going for them was secrecy. And giving that up because of pressure from US regulators was super stupid.
In fact, he said that if they would have stuck to their guns, Swiss banks would have gotten even more popular.
Experts
Two full years into the pandemic, the agency leading the country’s response to the public health emergency has published only a tiny fraction of the data it has collected, several people familiar with the data said.
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Kristen Nordlund, a spokesperson for the CDC, said the agency has been slow to release the different streams of data “because basically, at the end of the day, it’s not yet ready for prime time.” She said the agency’s “priority when gathering any data is to ensure that it’s accurate and actionable.”
Another reason is fear that the information might be misinterpreted, Nordlund said.
As if anybody didn’t already know the CDC numbers were intentionally worthless, to eliminate alternative analytical conclusions.
How is that not an open admission that their data can’t be relied upon?
You aren’t supposed to rely on the data – you are supposed to rely on their narrative. QED
BREAKING: Russia’s agreements just signed with the LPR and DPR give the right to use military infrastructure and military bases on each other’s territory, and provide for joint protection of the borders of Donbass
I really need a primer on the players and the history. Can you recommend a resource?
HE mentioned Serhii Plokhy’s The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine. I’ve read and it’s pretty solid.
And thanks HE for recommending it.
Thank you HE and G. Purchased.
Listened to this one yesterday. Not a bad place to start: https://ricochet.com/podcast/king-of-stuff/gray-connolly-on-russia-and-ukraine/
Gray Connelly has written more on stuff in the past.
Of course…even where it does make sense from a historical context for Russia…in the post-Soviet era, the current generation of Ukrainians may not concur (although my online interactions, etc are probably not a very broad picture of the whole). I think some of these takes also downplay some of the feelings from the post-Soviet states (Baltics, etc) towards “Mother Russia”….
Thanks to both of you.
I have a friend who adopted a kid from a Ukrainian orphanage who has zero sympathy for the Ukraine.
One of the things he had to do to finalize the adoption was go to the Ukraine for “a week” to do some training before they turned the kid over to him. Instead he spent almost a month and a half there all the time getting bled dry by various officials who wanted money or US booze as bribes.
His stories don’t paint the best picture of the place.
It’s a corrupt shithole. Which makes this all even worse.
My buddy adopted a kid from Kazakhstan and had a similar story, but with more armed robbery.
Here in the good old U.S., it can take the city inspectors a month and a half to issue you a simple building permit to change the layout of your staircase, thought it probably won’t cost you a bottle of Johnny Black. Our crooks make the big money by charging $100,000 (or more) per speech to groups who want influence.
Knowing which groups of people were being hospitalized in the U.S., which other conditions those patients may have had and how vaccines changed the picture over time would have been invaluable, Offit said.
Maybe, if you wanted to make some sort of rational risk based analysis, instead of treating everyone as equally and unequivocally doomed to an early grave, for political reasons.
Maybe, if you wanted to make some sort of rational risk based analysis, instead of treating everyone as equally and unequivocally doomed to an early grave, for political reasons.
Along these lines, I finally had a chance to review the study Scruffy posted this morning that is being trumpeted as showing ivermectin has no effect on Covid. It actually showed the group treated without ivermectin had a 4x times higher morality rate than those treated with ivermectin. The p-value of 0.09 was just on this side of not being significant. So no significant difference.
But, the authors actually note in the Discussion that the risk of death from Covid is too low to make a primary endpoint so the study was not powered to detect a significant difference in mortality. So the real takeaway of the study, like the Phase III Pfizer trial, is that the risk of death from Covid is non-existent in the vast majority of people. The risk of death is so low that 500 patients in this study wasn’t enough to detect significance between groups.
4x the death rate for not taking ivermectin is a substantial rate, and I have no doubt significance would have been reached if investigators had enrolled another 100 patients. For comparison, the rate of death between vaxxed patients and unvaxxed from Covid in the Pfizer trial was much lower. Same for the rate of cardiac death in vaxxed vs. unvaxxed. These findings are actually quite a big deal in support of taking ivermectin.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2789362
See! This is why the CDC can’t release data. People will think for themselves rather than obeying the narrative/guidance.
Only government approved Scientists are allowed to do sciency stuff.
SIgh. I think this plan is as based in reality as the Dem’s plan to simply mandate 50mpg for new cars. In other words, wishing things were so isn’t the best strategy.
My pessimism is mostly based on the fact that the job of being a cop grinds almost everyone down. Dealing with people who are violent, immoral and just generally bad leads to even the best cops becoming jaded. In fairness to them, I think it is the only way to cope with the job.
I’m all for trying to weed out the sociopaths who want to become cops so they can bully people with impunity. I just think that you will be disappointed when the angels you hired become no better than the current crop of cops after five years of dealing with people who beat kids and women, sexually assault people and steal things.
My recollection from twenty years ago is that that so called “highly qualified” category had much higher attrition rates, among other issues.
Most of the really professionally competent police officers that I know, have been actively driven out of their departments for being good at their jobs.
No one is going to sustain “high moral character” when they are covered by qualified immunity.
But I like the inference that they currently do NOT recruit/retain those with high moral character. That’s the way to treat your constituency DFL!
But, the authors actually note in the Discussion that the risk of death from Covid is too low to make a primary endpoint so the study was not powered to detect a significant difference in mortality. So the real takeaway of the study, like the Phase III Pfizer trial, is that the risk of death from Covid is non-existent in the vast majority of people. The risk of death is so low that 500 patients in this study wasn’t enough to detect significance between groups.
As I recall, the greatly ballyhooed “studies” on the other stuff (Q-whatever) were conducted on patients so far gone it would have taken a biblical miracle to save them. This was trumpeted was proof it was completely ineffectual.
Yep, I remember that too.
It must be exhausting having to present everything in two languages.
Our nation needs healing now more than ever. I asked the PM if he would lead the way. His answer was disappointing.
Notre pays a, plus que jamais, besoin de se réconcilier. J’ai demandé aujourd’hui au premier ministre si nous allions montrer la voie. Sa réponse a été décevante.
I wouldn’t expect anything more from El Presidente Comrade Twinko.
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Black History Month
I wanted to link to the original video, but CBS has it buried behind a paywall. I can’t imagine that it has commercial value at this point. I assume it’s buried because it goes against the narrative.
I have no idea how Dave Rubin is. Apologies in advance.
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If there’s a scientific proposal more reckless and insane than GoF research this might just be it.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/solar-geoengineering
Sure, let’s start fucking around with an outrageously complex system in the most ham-fisted, short-sighted way possible to achieve goals that haven’t even been defined yet. Drunk chimps with loaded guns.
I’m beginning to see why scientists are the bad guys in so many movies.
I’m beginning to think you’re right. “Science” driven by politics all teetering on a base of horseshit.
And nobody will stop them.
But they have models and shit.
Your comparison is noted.
I’d rather be a Bond villain scientist with actual models, in bikinis, with sub-machine guns.
Isn’t that also basically the plot of the Simpson’s Movie?
Let’s dump a bunch of iron in the oceans to cause a algae bloom, to sequester carbon
Proving that hubris is not contained solely on the end of the political spectrum that wants to deprive us of energy.
Is that a soletta? It’s actually not a bad idea–for cooling Venus down. Experiment there before we try it at home, folks.
Also potentially useful for Mars. Redirect a bunch of sunlight from Venus to mars via their focusing ability. You get multiple solettas that can focus more sunlight on the planet than currently hits it and warm the planet.
Oh, no, it’s not a soletta. Yeah, let’s fuck with Earth’s atmosphere in unpredictable ways to solve a problem that we don’t even really know the scope of.
Damn I hope Elon gets to Mars soon, because I’m looking for opportunities.