From The Hill:
“Apparently @GovWhitmer believes she is a duly elected dictator of a socialist country. The people of Michigan need to stand up to her. Open your businesses. Go to work. The police think she’s crazy too. They are not going to arrest 10,000,000 people for going to work.”
The bulls are on parade at the capitol of the banana republic formerly known as the state of California. The cops are decked out in gear suited for a totalitarian regime, and the optics are revealing. And who are they opposing? Moms, dads, families with their kids, thousands of Americans brandishing American flags and signs demanding their liberty back.
It’s like a scene straight from some Third World dictatorship, yet it’s happening in California.
This is another visceral example of who will be enforcing the orders of “the libs”: not the libs themselves, but the cops. It will always be a cop that shows up to enforce a quarantine, “social distancing”, or a prohibition on church-gathering or beach-going.
The greatest part, though, is the crowd of protesters. “Surfing is not a crime!” reads one sign. The spirit is one of a resurgent liberty movement, galvanized by the buffoons that have revealed themselves to be nothing more than petty, authoritarian buffoons who throw a fit when someone ignores their commandments.
Weird, petty, and counter to everything journalism should stand for. But then again, journalism professors aren’t actually journalists, and shouldn’t pretend to speak for such a vast, decentralized profession.
I’ve been following Broadway actor Nick Cordero’s coronavirus battle closely due to the fact that he was placed on a ventilator early on. He has been on the machine for weeks, and his condition has gone downhill steadily, from requiring a leg amputation, and now to the revelation that he has developed holes in his lungs. I haven’t seen any coverage that pins the blame on the ventilator; instead it is implied that COVID-19 is the primary cause of his condition.
Severe lung damage is a complication of ventilator use, something no one has discussed during the mad rush to get ventilators to coronavirus patients. The most tragic mistake made by policymakers has been to promise a big payout to hospitals that placed patients on the ventilators, creating an enormous perverse incentive to ventilate patients whether they need it or not. Which means that many patients are ventilated unnecessarily.
The account of the ordeal by Cordero’s wife is gut-wrenching. She had initially dropped him off at the hospital believing that she would see him again just a few hours later; “I didn’t even give him a kiss or a hug.” This was weeks ago.
If Cordero’s complications are indeed caused by the ventilator and not by coronavirus, if he never actually needed a ventilator, then he has become a casualty of one of the most misguided, evil policies in my lifetime. The public deserves to know the full extent of these crimes, and someone will have to stand trial.
The toll from murder-by-public-policy must not be forgotten.
“It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.” -Voltaire. H/t Laurence Vance over at the LRC blog.
Top three? Michigan’s Whitmer, New York’s Cuomo, and California’s Newsom. But in what order?
Unhinged bureaucrats are just doing whatever they want now.
From the Daily Mail:
“No child is known to have passed on Covid-19 to an adult, a medical review has found, as evidence suggests youngsters ‘do not play a significant role’ in transmission.
A review of paediatric coronavirus evidence revealed ‘the China/WHO joint commission could not recall episodes during contact tracing where transmission occurred from a child to an adult.’
Researchers have also failed to uncover any cases of children under the age of 10 transmitting the virus, which has killed more than 26,000 people in the UK.”