The answer to COVID-19? On Monday, Anthony Fauci, the former president’s top medical adviser during the COVID-19 pandemic and director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, testified before Congress about his role in the pandemic and the origins of the coronavirus.
Fauci, who is considered a god by many mainstream liberals, has made some ridiculous claims. When Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) asked, “Do you agree that there’s a push to downplay the lab leak theory?” Fauci responded in disbelief: “I don’t.”
This defies credence; many, including those who questioned him yesterday, have pointed out that Fauci directs funds to gain-of-function research, including the lab in Wuhan, China, where COVID-19 is believed to have originated. While social media companies, under pressure from the federal government, worked to suppress the spread of information related to the lab leak, mainstream publications dismissed it as a wild theory (except, interestingly, some writers) New York Times). A group of virologists encouraged by Fauci published articles in scientific journals questioning the theory. Together, these actions reveal a more complete picture that contradicts Fauci’s optimistic revisionism.
In private testimony back in January, Fauci told Congress that the six-foot social distancing recommendation “is not based on data.” But yesterday, he clarified that he meant that no clinical trials had determined the six-feet recommendation and that “officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who developed the recommendation based that distance on early expectations of how the virus would spread. “Communication”, per this Washington post. Fauci showed little remorse as congressional Republicans expressed dissatisfaction with the answer and stressed that the arbitrary six-foot rule undermined schools’ ability to get children into classrooms, leading to many schools closing for a year and a half.
Biden expected to crack down on immigration: President Joe Biden is expected to sign an executive order today that would seal the border and limit protections for asylum seekers amid an unprecedented surge in migrants.
Several people familiar with the order said that “the restrictions will take effect once the number of illegal border crossings exceeds 2,500 in a day.” New York Times. “The daily total has exceeded that number, which means Mr. Biden’s executive order will likely go into effect immediately.”
Biden appears concerned that the border crisis is a political liability that could hinder his re-election and push immigration politics to the right.
New York scene: Marijuana shops in my neighborhood are plastered with these types of signs — a sign that the masking that became popular (and, in many places, legal) during the pandemic has now become another tool at the disposal of robbers, According to reports, targeting these head offices.
Republicans in some places, including North Carolina, have been pushing a bill that would ban people from wearing masks in public, possibly to help police crack down on protesters. But some New Yorkers support such legislation because they have seen how serious burglaries can become and how CCTV cameras cannot monitor perpetrators if their faces are covered. It feels like there’s no libertarian answer here: Sure, people should be free to try to avoid surveillance, but what happens when bad people do things that violate rights?
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- “If governments were not making COVID-19 vaccines free and protecting vaccine manufacturers and administrators from any liability for adverse reactions, then prices might better ration the vaccine supply and better educate people about its risks and benefits,” ” wrote reasonChristian Brikighi. “Without prices, people are left to accept flawed government advice, incentives and rationing schemes.”
- Death Spiral:
“We’re losing a lot of money,” WaPo CEO and publisher Will Lewis told employees on Monday. “Your readership has been cut in half in recent years. People are no longer reading your work. I can’t sugarcoat it anymore.”
— Charlotte Klein (@charlottetklein) June 3, 2024
- It seems crazy that former President Donald Trump would have to turn in his guns after a felony conviction. Who is safer as a result?
- Speaking of guns and felonies…Hunter Biden’s legal troubles.
- “The challenge in freezing an organ, brain or entire body is figuring out how to do so without causing irreversible damage,” the report said. Bloomberg. “When ice crystals form during freezing, they tear and rupture cells. This can be done, to some extent, by freezing the tissue quickly and protecting it with chemicals (cryoprotectants) that stop the crystallization process. Still, treating large amounts of tissue in a uniform way with these techniques is difficult because cold and chemicals have proven more difficult to reach an organ or the inside of the body.
- real:
Generally speaking, gender differences are not discouraging. They reflect the freedom of men and women to follow their own interests, which is a disturbing revelation of the universal differences between men and women – differences that we all agree exist when it is convenient (to commit a crime) and not when we When you want to be angry, you forget. https://t.co/AxowpLOHlm
— Mike Solana (@micsolana) June 4, 2024
