The Great Barrington Declaration says to end the lockdown

 

James Arlandson at American Thinker reports:  

Over 18,000 (and growing) medical public health scientists and medical practitioners have signed the Great Barrington Declaration, pleads with the various governments around the world to end the lockdowns and open the economy. As of right now, over 166,000 members of the general public have also signed the petition.

Here are some key points: 

Current lockdown policies are producing devastating effects on short and long-term public health. ...

Keeping these measures in place until a vaccine is available will cause irreparable damage, with the underprivileged disproportionately harmed. ...

Fortunately, our understanding of the virus is growing. We know that vulnerability to death from COVID-19 is more than a thousand-fold higher in the old and infirm than the young. Indeed, for children, COVID-19 is less dangerous than many other harms, including influenza. ...

Those who are not vulnerable should immediately be allowed to resume life as normal ...

Schools and universities should be open for in-person teaching.

Extracurricular activities, such as sports, should be resumed. 

Young low-risk adults should work normally, rather than from home.  

Restaurants and other businesses should open.

Follow the science? Everyone knows why the democrat states continue the lockdown, long past the curve being flattened back in April, which was the original goal.

Read the rest here.

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Handy summary of Russia Russia Russia

Via Bookwormroom:

click to embiggen or go to the Bookworm link here and scroll down.

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Trump to hold largest virtual rally on Friday, Oct 9

 

President Donald Trump will hold the “largest virtual rally” on Rush Limbaugh’s radio program on Friday, October 9. From Rush Limbaugh’s website:

Number one. How incredible was Vice President Pence last night? He was stand-up-and-cheer outstanding. It was just… it was great.

And number two. I’m thrilled to announce that our commander-in-chief, President Donald Trump, will be right here tomorrow hosting the largest virtual rally in radio history. Be sure to tune in. You don’t want to miss this. It will be special. And I am really looking forward to it.

Now, later today, folks, we’re gonna be posting more details on the Rush Limbaugh website and on the Rush Limbaugh Facebook page. So keep a sharp eye out there. And you know what? There’s gonna be a special in-box set up for you to send your questions for President Trump. So be thinking of things you’d like to ask him today, and then get ready for the largest virtual rally in radio history tomorrow.

Oh — and, folks, thank you again for all of your continued prayers. I am so moved by your support. You know that I know and believe that they work. And I cannot tell you how appreciative my family and I are for all of you. Thank you, again, very much. 

Greater Cleveland area listeners can tune in on Friday at noon to WTAM Radio 1100.

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A Voter-Fraud Nightmare in November

 

Justin Haskins is, I think, rightfully concerned about the November elections – at all levels.  His column at Townhall ("America Is Headed For A Voter-Fraud Nightmare in November") concludes:

Never before has America’s political class so willingly and eagerly marched the country toward predictable and preventable chaos. Mail-in balloting is, in fact, not a truly secure way of holding an election. Even if large-scale fraud does not occur, the perception will be that it did, and that should have been enough for politicians concerned about voters’ faith in the election process to enact policies that would have encouraged in-person balloting, a much safer route.

Unfortunately, that did not occur, so unless it’s a total blowout on Election Day, it seems inevitable the country is on the road to disaster. When we get there, Americans should know who to blame.

That would be the political class – D’s for aggressively pushing mail-in voting (and attempting to extend the deadline for counting ballots well past Election Day) and R’s for not aggressively pushing back.  Our household will be voting in person on Election Day.  Mr. Haskins's column is here.

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COVID-19 and risk

 

Guest post by PatD:

CDC recently updated estimated infection fatality rates for COVID. Here are the updated survival rates by age group:

0-19: 99.997%

20-49: 99.98%

50-69: 99.5% 

70+: 94.6%

Remember also that 94% of the fatalities had other morbidities, such as obesity, diabetes, heart disease and cancer, according to the CDC. 

If you are old like me, or our overweight President, you face a greater risk, but, for most people the chances of dying from COVID-19 are minimal. Yet, we are destroying the lives of children by keeping schools shut down for most of the year. We are destroying countless small businesses for a virus that is less deadly than the flu. We have shut down live sports and entertainment for no good reason.

We all know of people who have died with COVID-19. But we know of far more people who have died from other causes, such as traffic accidents, drowning, murder, cancer, heart disease and so on. The problem is we not balancing out the risk factors.

For example, we lose 37,000 people a year in traffic accidents. From 1899 to 2013, it is estimated 3.6 million people died in traffic accidents. Unlike COVID-19, people will continue to die in traffic accidents for the foreseeable future. If we cut the speed limit to 15 mph and require vehicles to be limited to a top speed of 15 mph, we would just about eliminate those deaths. But society won't do that. The convenience and time savings from much higher speed limits outweigh the risk of dying in a traffic accident.

The treatment the President received was little different from that received by most hospitalized COVID-19 patients. The only difference was that he was given an experimental therapeutic that is not yet approved for general use. Our healthcare system has learned a lot since March and the death rates are dropping as better therapies are used to treat patients. 

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VP Debate tonight

 

Stephen Green, a/k/a Vodkapundit will drunkblog the Vice Presidential debate tonight, so you don’t have to watch. 

It should be lots of fun drunkblogging the three of them butting heads, and so I do hope you’ll tune in for it on the PJM homepage at about 8:45 p.m. Eastern on Wednesday.

That’s PJ Media's homepage here.

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Trump sign in California

Overnight someone erected a massive Trump sign on the hills along the 405 Freeway in the Sepulveda Pas.  According to local media “the sign supporting President Trump faced northbound lanes near Getty Center Drive. The white lettering appears to be around 10 feet tall and mimics the style of the landmark Hollywood sign.”

Here's 27 seconds of fun via Conservative Treehouse:

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