Went to Pohoiki this morning for about 4 hours. Beautiful day. The warm pond was the hottest we've ever experienced it. Saw about two dozen people there. Not one single mask! No "social distancing" that I could see. And apparently the lifeguards weren't interested in telling anyone to put their mask(s) on or stay the official-scientifically-confirmed-by-randomized-controlled-trials distance apart. It was weird. Seeing people's faces is cool. Almost human. Of course I realize that all of us will be dead within the next 14 days, being a superspreader deluxe violation of every SAFETY CULT mitigation measure. It was worth it.

Someone doesn't econ101

captain obvious cannot see that opening up to more people does not equal more demand...
the US administered 1.64 million doses yesterday

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E0BND-DWEAMnVKC?format=jpg&name=large

captain obvious cannot see that opening up to more people does not equal more demand...
the US administered 1.64 million doses yesterday

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E0BND-DWEAMnVKC?format=jpg&name=large

Captain obvious sees that one of the reasons some people give not to get the vaccine is the effort to sign up.  Less excuses for them. 

Well, I guess that's what a judge in Germany gets for following the actual science. Who the hell does he think he is anyway?

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/04/german-police-ransack-home-doctor-provides-evidence-court-children-endangered-mental-physical-spiritual-obligation-wear-face-masks/

German Police Ransack the Home of Judge After He Agrees with Evidence In Court that Children Are “Endangered in Their Mental, Physical and Spiritual Well-being by the Obligation to Wear Face Masks”

German police ransacked the home of a judge after he wrote a decision in Germany prohibiting two schools from requiring students to wear mouth-nose coverings while at school.

Using scientific evidence a doctor recommended prohibiting two schools from forcing students to wear masks.  The judge agreed.

American Front Line Doctors reports:

2020News yesterday reported Weimar District Court judge Christian Dettmar was subjected to a police search of his house, office, private premises, and car, and his cell phone confiscated. Dettmar delivered the April 8, 2021 decision that two Weimar schools were prohibited from requiring students to wear mouth-nose coverings of any kind, in contravention of government COVID policy.

The case marked the first time that evidence was presented before a German court regarding the scientific soundness and necessity of the prescribed anti-COVID measures, reported 2020News.

He wrote: “…the children are not only endangered in their mental, physical and spiritual well-being by the obligation to wear face masks during school hours and to keep their distance from each other and from other persons, but, in addition, they are already being harmed. At the same time, this violates numerous rights of the children and their parents under the law, the constitution and international conventions. This applies in particular to the right to free development of the personality and to physical integrity from Article 2 of the Basic Law as well as to the right from Article 6 of the Basic Law to upbringing and care by the parents (also with regard to measures for preventive health care and ‘objects’ to be carried by children)…”

The judge agreed with the experts’ assessment that the masks were not useful for viral protection, that the PCR test could not detect a disease-causing infection with the necessary certainty, and that asymptomatic transmission played no detectable role epidemiologically with respect to SARS-CoV-2.

A peer-reviewed study published by the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH) in the Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) last week concluded that “extended mask-wearing by the general population could lead to relevant effects and consequences in many medical fields.”

Last week we also reported that masks have negative effects while not preventing the transmission of COVID-19 based on another study.

There are now numerous studies that report on the negative consequences of masks and their lack of protection from COVID-19.  However, sometimes people just can’t stand the truth.

Video of the moron White House Resident uttering his inane response at the site:

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/04/idiot-joe-biden-wears-face-mask-outside-alone-breaking-new-cdc-guidance-announcing-new-guidance-video/

Idiot Joe Biden Wears Face Mask Outside Alone, Breaking New CDC Guidance While Announcing the New Guidance (VIDEO)

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated its Covid-19 guidelines on Tuesday and said fully vaccinated people can exercise and gather outdoors without wearing face masks.

“As we gather more and more data on the real-world efficacy of vaccines, we know that mast fully vaccinated people can safely attend worship services inside, go to an indoor restaurant or bar, and even participate in an indoor exercise class,” CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said during Tuesday’s announcement.

Joe Biden is (supposedly) vaccinated so why is he still wearing a mask?

Biden was confronted by a reporter: “You choose to wear a mask as you walked out here. What message were you sending by wearing a mask outside alone?”

“By watching me take it off and not putting it back on until I get back inside,” Biden said.

What does that even mean??

Captain obvious sees that one of the reasons some people give not to get the vaccine is the effort to sign up.  Less excuses for them.

"Effort to sign up?"

Are these the same people who can't figure out how to obtain a free gov't ID to vote?  (That's a debunked myth, BTW.)

Tucker riffs on demented moron China Bidet wearing a mask on a zoom call (and the whole question of finding a (non)explanation for why "vaccinated" people have to follow almost all the mitigation measure rules, and why they care if someone else chooses not to get "vaccinated"):

this one's still up:



(video will only be up for a few hours....)

I may have posted the original article 51 weeks ago... smh.



https://amgreatness.com/2020/05/04/the-failed-experiment-of-social-distancing/

The Failed Experiment of Social Distancing

The history of science, sadly, is littered with bad experiments gone horribly wrong. The Great Social Distancing Experiment of 2020, when it is over, will very likely be toward the top of that list.

"Effort to sign up?"

Are these the same people who can't figure out how to obtain a free gov't ID to vote?  (That's a debunked myth, BTW.)

Not everyone has access to a computer and phone.  Also you underestimate lazy people.

Not everyone has access to a computer and phone.  Also you underestimate lazy people.

Bullshit.

We don't write laws and rules for the minority.  We write them to apply to the majority. 

If someone is too lazy to make an effort to get signed up, they probably won't show up for the shots, either.   Too much time taken away from trolling gun forums..

Bullshit.

We don't write laws and rules for the minority.  We write them to apply to the majority. 

If someone is too lazy to make an effort to get signed up, they probably won't show up for the shots, either.   Too much time taken away from trolling gun forums..

Doesn't take a math genius to add up numbers and figure out to reach herd immunity you don't just need the majority   

Seriously?! That comment made some students "vulnerable and helpless"?! Holy shit, they need some serious psychiatric counseling. They're gonna make great attorneys, I'm sure.

https://georgiastarnews.com/2021/04/27/law-professor-may-be-fired-after-personal-blog-post-criticized-chinese-government/

Law Professor May Be Fired After Personal Blog Post Criticized Chinese Government

The University of San Diego is formally reviewing a law professor who made a blog post critical of the Chinese Communist Party.

“If you believe that the coronavirus did not escape from the lab in Wuhan, you have to at least consider that you are an idiot who is swallowing whole a lot of Chinese cock swaddle,” wrote Professor Tom Smith on his blog The Right Coast. He later clarified that the reference was to the Chinese government, not the people in the country.

When he first published the March 10 post, the USD Law School placed him under investigation, citing complaints of bias. Now, the law school has sent his case to administration for a formal review.

The review comes as a petition circulates demanding Smith resign or be fired, alleging he has a history of saying and writing things some find offensive.

Signed by the USD Law Student Bar Association presidents for this school year and the next, they claim in the petition Smith’s alleged comments have left some in the USD law community feeling vulnerable and helpless so that students cannot balance their studies or “prepare for our futures in the legal profession.”

I may have posted the original article 51 weeks ago... smh.



https://amgreatness.com/2020/05/04/the-failed-experiment-of-social-distancing/

The Failed Experiment of Social Distancing

The history of science, sadly, is littered with bad experiments gone horribly wrong. The Great Social Distancing Experiment of 2020, when it is over, will very likely be toward the top of that list.

Was done before,  was done in other countries.  Had successes.  Worked here.   Social Distancing and quarantines work,  science knows that.  It doesn't work when a few idiots don't follow the rules.   

Glasser posted re this Pfizer drug a few days ago. Here's the CEO touting it. Notice he fails to mention the likely price per treatment. Anyone here think it will be in the same range as hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin, which cost approximately 50 cents per pill and require about 10-12 pills for a full treatment protocol, and have been shown in hundreds of studies to be highly effective if administered during the first 5 days of infection. I'll wager that the Pfizer drug will have roughly the same efficacy and cost at least 10 times as much.

Also notice the unrelated remarks about vaccinating everyone from 6 months old and up as "necessary"... you can't make this shit up.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/27/pfizer-at-home-covid-pill-could-be-available-by-year-end-ceo-albert-bourla-says.html

Pfizer’s new at-home pill to treat Covid could be available by end of the year, CEO hopes

Pfizer’s experimental oral drug to treat Covid-19 at the first sign of illness could be available by the end of the year, CEO Albert Bourla told CNBC on Tuesday.

The company, which developed the first authorized Covid-19 vaccine in the U.S. with German drugmaker BioNTech, began in March an early stage clinical trial testing a new antiviral therapy for the disease. The drug is part of a class of medicines called protease inhibitors and works by inhibiting an enzyme that the virus needs to replicate in human cells.

Protease inhibitors are used to treat other viral pathogens such as HIV and hepatitis C.

If clinical trials go well and the Food and Drug Administration approves it, the drug could be distributed across the U.S. by the end of the year, Bourla told CNBC’s “Squawk Box.”

Health experts say the drug, taken by mouth, could be a game changer because people newly infected with the virus could use it outside of hospitals. Researchers hope the medication will keep the disease from progressing and prevent hospital trips.

In addition to the drug, Pfizer is still testing its vaccine in 6-month to 11-year-old children. Vaccinating children is crucial to ending the coronavirus pandemic, public health officials and infectious disease experts say.

Earlier this month, the company asked the FDA to expand its vaccine authorization to adolescents ages 12 to 15 after the shot was found to be 100% effective in a study.

Bourla told CNBC on Tuesday he is “very optimistic” that the FDA will approve use of the shot in adolescents.

Was done before,  was done in other countries.  Had successes.  Worked here.   Social Distancing and quarantines work,  science knows that.  It doesn't work when a few idiots don't follow the rules.

You're a liar. No successes. Didn't work here or in any other countries, ever. "Social distancing" and quarantining healthy people don't work. Science knows that (MIT just demonstrated that). It doesn't work no matter what, even if every moronic idiot such as yourself followed every unscientific garbage made-up "mitigation measure".

So all the SAFETY CULT members can wet their pants, or worse.

Former anti-gay hard leftist MSNBC propagandist Joy Reid double-masks while jogging outdoors, no matter what even the CDC says about not needing to wear a mask in such circumstances. Now there's a real virtue signaler... or, more likely, another moronic ignoramus who can't understand basic science of viral transmission.

The brief video of her interaction with "Dr." Sanjay Gupta is at the site.

https://hotair.com/allahpundit/2021/04/28/joy-reid-i-dont-know-about-you-but-i-wore-two-masks-when-i-went-jogging-today-n386438

Joy Reid: I don't know about you but I wore two masks when I went jogging today
   
Running outdoors with members of your household (or by yourself, of course) was one of only two activities listed in the CDC’s new guidance yesterday that can be done without a mask *even if you’re unvaccinated.* Reid isn’t. She’s had both shots. The odds of her either getting infected or infecting someone else during the course of a jog must be one in many millions.

But this isn’t about science anymore, is it?

It’s pure “I care more than you” virtue-signaling nonsense. Anyone can wear a mask in a risky environment, the thinking goes, but the person who wears a mask in an environment where the risk is near zero? Why, that’s a person who’s really considerate of those around them, or so Reid wants us to believe. Watch, then read on.

That isn’t the first time she’s broadcast her extreme risk-aversion to her audience. From a few weeks ago:

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Even for a virtue-signaler, that’s a lot of signaling — or at least I hope that’s what she’s up to. If she’s genuinely still so terrified of COVID post-vaccination that she won’t do anything indoors, even with the CDC’s endorsement, I pity her. At that point it’s not risk-aversion anymore, it’s paranoia. And borderline anti-vax.

Whatever, though. If she wants to double-mask outdoors after being immunized, it’s no one else’s business. Besides, in due time peer pressure will lead her to change her mind. The fewer masks are being worn outside by others, the more mask-clingers will begin to feel “overdressed” among them.