George Rebane
How soon they forget – “The accusation that Trump got rid of a pandemic office is among the left’s politicized attacks on the White House since the coronavirus outbreak began. The administration assembled a coronavirus task force run by Vice President Mike Pence to address security and medical issues.” This was echoed in chorus by all of our local leftwing lackies who took their cue from the lamestream. (H/T to reader and more here)
Fauci the Fickle – 3jun20 edition. “Fauci changes tune, now says second COVID-19 wave may never happen — and mask-wearing is symbolic.” (more here and here) How’s that tune go? ‘First you say you do, and then you don’t, …’ Never mind Dr Fauci, Dr Rebane says that unless we miraculously get everyone vaccinated in time, the second wave is inevitable with the high likelihood that it will be a small fraction of the first wave.
Bejing pissing on the Hong Kong parade. (here) Now there’s a puzzle, or maybe not. HK is the acknowledged “cash cow” for the mainland, handling much of the foreign investments into the Chinese economy, and Chinese IPOs placed on foreign exchanges. Screwing with the contracted freedoms of this principality will cripple the cow or even kill it. Is the CCP now so brittle that it is scared of HK’s freedom virus spreading to the mainland when that possibility is added to the lack of progress Beijing has made with reintegrating Taiwan? From my perch, the answer is Yes.
[update] “Donald Trump knows nothing about the strength of Minneapolis,” said the liberal Mayor Jacob Frey in an early news conference this morning. Don’t know what all we need to know about the city after watching understandably justified peaceful protests turn into mobs looting and burning. Am reminded of a Rodney King joke that quoted tongue-in-cheek a white resident of Simi Valley (home of one officer on trial who was involved in the King beating), ‘If they find those police officers guilty, you bet we’re gonna burn down our town!’
Speaking of President Trump and Minneapolis – I think he stuck his foot in it again. Have no idea which of his constituencies he was trying to impress with the tweets that were definitely untimely and off-the-mark. Don’t get me wrong, naming the looting and burning thugs in Minneapolis as “thugs” was not wrong, but it was a sophomoric political error compounded by his threat to send in Minnesota’s National Guard, which under our system of federalism, the state’s governor already has done. All this grandstanding does is give the TDS crowd more fuel to ignite nationwide fires.
All published pandemic data and information is now both wrong and the remainder highly suspect. Here and across the world we continue to receive a torrent of reports about the virus’s death counts, case numbers, recoveries, etc, a couple of days later which turn out to be the stuff that you shovel out of a stall, all disguised as the sober and considered prescriptions and proscriptions from our elected ‘honorables’ and degreed ‘experts’ citing science and medicine. And since most of it comes to us through the media filter of double-dummy and/or agenda-driven reporters (aka ‘journalists’), we have very little idea of what’s really happening, and how we should respond. Your governments in peace and war. [more update] Just received this little tidbit from a reader to underline the above. It now appears that all the bad juju about HCQ that was recently blasted out by the TDS crowd was a bit premature. No less than the NYT had to publish a 'Hold on there' report citing unsettled science.
[31may20 update] Here’s one for the ‘Say whaaat??!’ department. James ‘Forked Tongue’ Clapper has just been appointed to the Executive Board of the Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law (CERL) at the University of Pennsylvania. This announcement bounced off my eyeballs as I opened the most recent copy of Aviation Week & Space Technology. Don’t ask how they came to pick up that major faux pas on the part of CERL (see for yourself here).
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