By all accounts, Sweden’s high rate of coronavirus deaths was evidence that the country had made a horrendous error. Sweden — which did not impose a strict lockdown — suffered 543 deaths per million of its population, compared to just 105 in neighboring Denmark. The Swedish death toll has been roughly 11 times worse than Norway’s,…
Category: Government
The Hill reports “Rand Paul calls for Cuomo to be impeached over coronavirus response”
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) called Wednesday for the impeachment of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) over his handling of the state’s coronavirus outbreak. “I think Gov. Cuomo should be impeached … for the disastrous decision he made to send patients with coronavirus back to nursing homes. … Virtually half his people who died were in nursing homes,” Paul…
Independent Science News reports “The Case Is Building That COVID-19 Had a Lab Origin”
If the Shi lab has anything to hide, it is not only the Chinese Government that will be reluctant to see an impartial investigation proceed. Much of the work was funded by the US taxpayer, channeled there by Peter Daszak and the EcoHealth Alliance. Virtually every credible international organisation that might in principle carry out such…
The Local reports “200,000 would need to wear face masks to stop one new infection: Norway health agency”
Norway’s health authorities have doubled down on their recommendation for those without symptoms not to wear face masks, arguing that the number of infections in Norway was now so low that they were unnecessary. In a memo, published in English on its website, the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, said that even in the best case,…
NBC News reports “Twitter bans 7,000 QAnon accounts, limits 150,000 others as part of broad crackdown”
The company will classify QAnon as coordinated harmful activity in part because of a rise in harassment targeting high-profile critics of the president. Twitter announced Tuesday that it has begun taking sweeping actions to limit the reach of QAnon content, banning many of the conspiracy theory’s followers because of problems with harassment and misinformation. Twitter…
Zero Hedge reports “Stockman: The Clown Cars Are Fully Loaded And Dr. Fauci’s Leading The Parade”
When it comes to the topic of clown cars, we’d say Dr. Fauci gets a limo version all to himself… Here’s the thing. The Virus Patrol has switched from the death count to the “case” count because the latter is not at the 3,000 per day predicted by the CDC in early May, and ballyhooed by…
Slate reports “The CDC Has Been on a Steady Decline. We’re Just Finally Noticing”
The once-world-class agency has been surprisingly absent during this pandemic. It’s part of a broader trend for American institutions. Since shortly after the end of World War II, the CDC in Atlanta has been the axis mundi of the infectious disease world, head and shoulders above any other national public health agency. And yet, now that a…
Fee reports “Modelers Were ‘Astronomically Wrong’ in COVID-19 Predictions, Says Leading Epidemiologist—and the World Is Paying the Price”
There’s little question that the lockdowns have caused widespread economic, social, and emotional carnage. Evidence that US states that locked down fared better than states that did not is hard to find. Though not yet certain, the COVID-19 pandemic may well turn out to be another example of central planning gone wrong. As I previously noted,…
The Telegraph reports “If there is a second wave of Covid, the Swedish approach will have been right all along “
Not going into lockdown was described as “a mad experiment” at the time, but Sweden can look to the winter with less trepidation than most One country can look to the winter with less trepidation than most. Last week, a study suggested that 30 per cent of Swedes have built up immunity to the virus….