REPUBLIC REBORN

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.

At this point it’s less about safety and more about who will blindly obey.

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.”

From the New York Post:

“The NYPD is making it mandatory to answer 311 within 45 minutes, otherwise [the commanding officer] is gonna have to explain himself,” the source went on…”

“…But commanding officers are under pressure to get 311 calls answered within 45 minutes to deal with surging social-distancing complaints, making it difficult for officers on the ground to accomplish that while also responding to 911 emergencies in a timely manner, according to sources.”

Coronavirus madness empowers murderous busybodyism.

A completely unnecessary tragedy.

Notice how the corporate media always blames the “pandemic” for the massive spike in unemployment. COVID-19 did not shut down the economy, government did. This apocalypse is self-inflicted.