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Powerline: The Week in Pictures
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BONUS MEME via Bookworm Room (Mister Potato Head enters the pantheon of cancel culture logos -- with Chief Wahoo and friends):
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Andrea Widburg (a/k/a Bookworm Room) watched President Biden’s speech so that you didn’t have to. Her report at American Thinker begins:
On Thursday night, a masked Biden
tottered down a long, empty hall to a podium. He then gave the most
bizarre presidential address in American history. After a grim recital of
"facts" about the last year, Biden emphasized multiple times that
Americans had better take the vaccine — and be grateful to him for his amazing
ability to get the vaccine to Americans. He also insisted that, vaccines or
not, the government's in control and can lock all of us up all over again.
Here, in no particular order, are
the points that struck me:
1. Biden was more alert than
he's been in many months. Given how frail and confused Biden's been
lately, well, let's just say his verve was suspicious. Even his
eyes, which are usually tightly squinted as he struggles to stay alert and read
his teleprompter, were wide open, almost scarily so. Still, he got
visibly tired near the end, slurring his words and seeming lost.
2. The speech was both bizarre
and boring. Despite the teleprompter, it wandered hither and yon,
without ever touching clearly on a single point. It was a grim,
depressing speech about a miserable year that probably won't get better even
with a vaccine because we must all remain scared and isolated.
. . .
7. The main thrust of the speech
was that everyone must get the vaccine (the wonderful Biden vaccine). However,
Biden conceded that even with the vaccine, masks and social distancing must
continue. Even with everyone vaccinated, by July 4, maybe we
can gather with small groups outdoors. In other words, even as we're
all pumped full of a vaccine, nothing will change. But we
should trust Biden and remember that we're all in this together.
8. Here's the scariest thing
Biden said, although he slipped it in so quickly many may not have noticed
(emphasis mine): "Fourth, in the coming weeks, we will issue further
guidance on what you can and cannot do once fully vaccinated to lessen the
confusion, to keep people safe, and encourage more people to get
vaccinated."
The vaccine, rather than freeing
us, will bring us even more tightly under government control as the federal
government mandates what [we] can and cannot do.
Read the rest of Ms. Widburg’s report here. The article includes the video link to the speech and also a link
to the full transcript. . . if you can stand
it . . .
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This report is from Matthew Impalli at Newsweek:
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a professor
at Stanford
University Medical School, recently said that COVID-19 lockdowns are
the "biggest public health mistake we've ever made...The harm to people is
catastrophic."
Several U.S. states have started to
ease their COVID-19 restrictions over the past few weeks.
Bhattacharya, who made the comments
during an interview with the Daily Clout, co-authored the Great Barrington
Declaration, a petition that calls for the end of COVID-19 lockdowns, claiming
that they are "producing devastating effects on short and long-term public
health."
As of Monday, the Great Barrington
Declaration has received signatures from over 13,000 medical and public health
scientists, more than 41,000 medical practitioners and at least 754,399
"concerned citizens."
During the interview last month,
Bhattacharya said that the declaration comes from "two basic facts."
"One is that people who are
older have a much higher risk from dying from COVID than people who are
younger...and that's a really important fact because we know who his most
vulnerable, it's people that are older. So the first plank of the Great
Barrington Declaration: let's protect the vulnerable," Bhattacharya said.
"The other idea is that the lockdowns themselves impose great harm on
people. Lockdowns are not a natural normal way to live."
He continued, "it's also not
very equal. People who are poor face much more hardship from the lockdowns than
people who are rich."
More of the report is here.
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From our friends at Ohio Value Voters:
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More very scary developments: Daniel Greenfield at Frontpage
reports:
Vaccine passports aren’t coming:
they’re already here. And while discriminating against people based on their
vaccination status is bad enough: the implications are even worse.
A vaccine passport transforms all
of society into a two-tier system, but the basis for it isn’t a needle, it’s a
set of government guidelines that were based on identity politics or ‘equity’.
From the CDC’s Advisory Committee
on Immunization Practices to various state equity initiatives, some even worse
than the CDC’s
push to prioritize people by race, the vaccine rollout was designed to put
minorities at the head of the line. These prioritizations were meant to be
invisible, using disparate impact to advance groups with the right demographic
skew.
The government using race to
prioritize medical treatment is horrifying enough, but vaccine passports take
the biased vaccine system and embed that bias into everyday areas of life.
The end result is a horrifying
cross between China’s social credit system and the racial segregation of the
South. Call it the equity credit system based on racial and sexual identity.
Read the rest of it here.
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