Weekend Links

Half of COVID deaths are occurring in nursing homes, and yet this. There’s something seriously wrong with this person: Michigan gov. Whitmer vetoes bill that would have prevented nursing homes from accepting COVID-positive patients

Has Sweden achieved COVID herd immunity? Sweden never implemented lockdowns, and now its COVID cases are plummeting. Americans have heard more about Sweden during the past few months than they ever will again in their lives. The Nordic countries, who refused to succumb to the hysteria, have almost become an Axis of Evil in the eyes of Pharma and the COVID cultists. Sweden understands that COVID-19 is its own vaccine. Nothing out of a lab will achieve anything close to the immunity that a natural infection will.

This type of nauseating melodrama is the norm for unions: Iowa teachers write and send their own obituaries to Governor ahead of fall reopenings. If they don’t want to work, they should be replaced by people who do. There are multitudes who would rush in to take these jobs. The schools should fire the hypochondriacs and hire mentally balanced professionals. Of course, these teachers aren’t actually afraid of falling ill. This is a grift, cooked up by union thugs to continue draining taxpayers for what amounts to welfare.

The hero we needed, but probably not the one we deserved: Tulsi Gabbard passes amendment to military budget that forces President to collect and publicly report impact of US sanctions She wants to know how many children are dying as a direct result of US sanctions worldwide.

The elite are desperately trying to keep the Official Narrative from unraveling. Which means we’ll be seeing many more articles like this: You must not ‘do your own research’ when it comes to science. Hey, I agree. I listen to scientists. So really the problem boils down to which scientists to listen to. But if you aren’t a scientist, then by the logic of this article, you don’t even have the ability to decide which ones to listen to, regardless of the side of debate they’re on. Of course, the true intent is “You must listen only to scientists that I pick!” Meaning, the establishment. Meaning also, the scientists chosen by Forbes’ advertisers. And Forbes’ advertisers are the same ones that fill the coffers of every other corporate news outlet.

Facts, news, history, and common sense, are not the exclusive purview of the Credentialed Class. We don’t need a PhD or a medical degree to understand that COVID poses very little risk to the vast majority of us, or that a COVID RNA vaccine could be incredibly dangerous to millions. Orders of magnitude more dangerous that a wild COVID infection.

Wisdom from Albert Jay Nock

From his essay, Prohibition and Civilization:

“The principle of prohibition is extended to cover an endless range of conduct (though, significantly, drink is exempt). The home scheme of social fife is ordered with excellent and obvious rationality, but it is devoid of charm, it has no savor, and all its reasonableness cannot make up for the deficiency, cannot make the normal spirit really enjoy it. One feels the same restlessness and perverseness under it that William James declared he felt under the regime at Chautauqua. One doubts whether such smooth-running social order is worth having at the price. I remember some years ago, after a long time spent in observing the ghastly perfections of German municipal machinery, I came home ready to rejoice in the most corrupt, ring-ridden and disreputable city government that I could find in America, if only I might draw a free breath once more and forget the infinity of things that are verboten…

…he advocates of prohibition ought to get a clear grasp of the fundamental objection to their theory, and meet it with something more substantial than feeble talk about the influence of “the liquor interests.” Our objection is to Puritanism, with its false social theory taking shape in a civilization that, however well-ordered and economically prosperous, is hideous and suffocating. One can at least speak for oneself: I am an absolute teetotaler, and it would make no difference to me if there were never another drop of liquor in the world; and yet to live under any regime of prohibition that I have so far had opportunity to observe would seem to me an appalling calamity. The ideals and instruments of Puritanism are simply unworthy of a free people, and, being unworthy, are soon found intolerable. Its hatreds, fanaticisms, inaccessibility to ideas; its inflamed and cancerous interest in the personal conduct of others; its hysterical disregard of personal rights; its pure faith in force, and above all, its tyrannical imposition of its own Kultur: these characterize and animate a civilization that the general experience of mankind at once condemns as impossible, and as hateful as it is impossible.“

This of course also applies to the COVID cultists, who are perplexed as to why all of society doesn’t immediately submit to their authoritarian vision of a hypochondriac police state. Life simply would not be worth living among the ice-covered landscape of a perfectly-ordered, totalitarian nightmare.

 

Unbelievable censorship: Twitter suspends Breitbart News for reporting on doc news conference

The tech giants are working in unison to suppress any news and opinion that runs contrary to the Official COVID Narrative. Breitbart News, which has over 1 million followers on Twitter, has been suspended from the platform for posting their video reporting of the press conference held by the White Coat Summit doctors.

To repeat: Twitter has suspended a news organization for doing what all journalists are supposed to be doing: reporting the news. In this particular instance, reporting on relevant news: the viewpoints of medical professionals who happen to hold a viewpoint at odds with the Official Narrative. Twitter is resorting to suppression of news, meaning that they are actively engaged in editorial work, which means that their status of a platform must be immediately revoked, exposing them to lawsuits.

Censorship, and the demand for it, is an admission of defeat in any debate. It is an admission that the Political Class has lost the war of ideas, and can only resort to the barrel of a gun to “win”. It’s the behavior of intellectually bankrupt thugs.