Insanity Wrap #201 (a/k/a Stephen Green) posted the graph below:
It seems like every week there’s
some new chart or graph like this one, but Insanity Wrap thought this one was
particularly thoughtful and well done. (Click to embiggen or click on the link above and scroll down).
Dan Gelernter posted “I’m Still Not Getting the Vaccine” at American Greatness:
. . . We have decided to make
avoiding disease our full-time job. It’s more important than going to work or
seeing your friends. It’s worth destroying the established Western social
convention that we be able to see each other’s faces in public.
I’ve got news for you: If you spend
all your time worrying about getting sick, you’re sick already. America is
having a giant, hysterical, hypochondriacal fit.
. . .
As a young and healthy person,
there is really no upside to vaccination. I’m simply not likely to get the
disease. And, say what you will, we don’t know what the long-term effects of
this vaccine will be.
(Full article is here.) And America’s Frontline Doctors has a sort of “white paper”
on why an “experimental” vaccine injection cannot be mandated, legally [endnotes not included in this extract]:
Covid-19 Vaccines are Experimental
Covid-19 vaccines are not approved
by the FDA. The Covid-19 vaccines are only approved under an
Emergency Use Authorization, for investigational use only. Covid-19 vaccines lack requisite studies and are not approved medical
treatment. The FDA’s guidance on emergency use authorization of medical
products requires the FDA to “ensure that recipients are informed to the extent
practicable given the applicable circumstances … That they have the option to
accept or refuse the EUA product …”
. . .
The right to avoid the imposition of
human experimentation is fundamental, rooted in the Nuremberg Code of 1947, has
been ratified by the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki, and further codified in the
United States Code of Federal Regulations. In addition to the United States
regarding itself as bound by these provisions, these principles were adopted by
the FDA in its regulations requiring the informed consent of human subjects for
medical research. It is unlawful to conduct medical research, even in the case
of an emergency, unless steps
are taken to secure informed consent of all participants
The white paper (just 3 pages including endnotes] specifies students but the legal constraints
protect us all.
# # #
It's up. And here's the link: <https://www.donaldjtrump.com/desk>
# # #
Wolf Howling posted a piece a week or so ago at Bookworm Room that makes the case that the city of Charleston, SC handled the 1760 epidemic of small pox better than the United States has handled COVID-19. The contrasts are remarkable:
. . . the final death toll in the
city [pop. 8,000 in 1760) was merely 650 people from small pox and, by June,
there was only one reported case of the disease in Charleston. Life was wholly
back to normal.
That contrasts starkly with the
course of Covid 19 epidemic. Our modern society has tried to use quarantine to
cure the illness, rather than letting the disease run its course, especially
among those not endangered by the disease. Instead of being done with Covid 19
in a matter of months, we are still wrestling with it well over a year on, and
at tremendous cost to our nation, both economic and otherwise.
In 1760, the people of Charleston
faced a deadly epidemic that they handled with grace and at minimal cost to
society. In 2020-2021, our nation has faced a mild epidemic that it has handled
with fear-mongering and government mandates. And unlike the Great Charleston
Small Pox Epidemic that was over in approximately four months, our modern
society is still dragging on – at great expense – our response to Covid 19.
Will someone please explain to me how we have advanced in intelligence and
common sense relative to our colonial forebears some 260 years ago?
The full article is here.
# # #
Andrew Mark Miller has the story at the Washington Examiner:
Romney showered with
boos at GOP event
as hecklers call him a 'communist' and 'traitor'
Sen. Mitt Romney was showered with loud boos by a
Republican audience in Utah as he attempted to slam President Joe Biden’s agenda.
“I’m a man who says what he means,
and you know I was not a fan of our last president’s character issues,”
Romney said Saturday as delegates at Utah’s Republican convention
shouted their disapproval, with some calling him a “traitor” and a
“communist.”
Aren’t you embarrassed?” Romney
asked the crowd at one point.
Romney also touted his Republican
credentials and told the crowd that the boos don’t bother him.
“You can boo all you like,” said
Romney. “I’ve been a Republican all of my life. My dad was the governor of
Michigan, and I was the Republican nominee for president in 2012.”
The jeers finally stopped when the
outgoing party chairman urged the delegates to “show respect.”
More at the link. Utah conservatives are not feeding Romney The RINO. Bravo!
# # #
I am posting this from today’s Insanity Wrap in the hopes that some readers with kids in public schools will be inspired to tear a page from the AZ parents:
Insanity Wrap isn’t going to sugar-coat this one: It’s the greatest thing in the history of all
things since we don’t know when.
Hundreds of parents showed up to
the Vail School Board meeting to demand the board make masks optional. The
board didn’t want to hear it so they walked out of the meeting before it even
began. So the parents, under Robert’s Rules of Order, voted in a new school
board. Then, the new members voted to end the mask requirement in Vail Schools.
The full 94-minute video of the
entire thing is on YouTube.
Watching these parents using
Robert’s Rules to vote themselves as board members in place of the runaway
cowards is maybe the most delightfully American thing we’ve ever had the
pleasure of seeing.
We earnestly hope this makes your day — week, year — as much as it did ours.
# # #
They are not calling it the State of the Union address. The by-invitation-only event is being referred to as the “Presidential Address to the Joint Session of Congress.” It starts this evening, Weds. Apr-28 at 9pm. The TV Guide lists it as concluding at 11pm. Will our President make it through the full two hours?
No matter. You don’t have to watch it, because Vodkapundit will be live DrunkBlogging the address; click here.
UPDATE at 8:48pm: Direct link is now up; click here.
(
Insanity Wrap will return in our VodkaPundit guise on Wednesday evening right here at PJ Media for a much-requested drunkblog of Presidentish Biden’s much-delayed State of the Union address.)
# # #
# # #
