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Monday, December 7. 2020

Monday morning links


COVID and NYC: Is there Life after Zabar's? 


Study Finds Asymptomatic Spread Not a Significant Source of the CCP Virus Pandemic


Everything we were told was wrong 


COVID Pneumonia is a type of SARS 


 Latest Guidance From CDC: Universal Mask Wearing Mandate, No Holiday Travel


Canceling Christmas: The COVID Straw to Break the Camel's Back?


Los Angeles Bar Owner Furious to See Mayor Garcetti Approved Outdoor Dining Area For Movie Company Across From Her Shuttered Restaurant


 San Diego Mayor Decries Newsom's Latest COVID Restrictions


 Oregon TEACHER Has Complete Meltdown at Anti-Lockdown Protesters, Tells Them to ‘Kill Yourself’


Just another annoying Karen.  


 Biden Claims Elementary Schools Are The ‘Highest Risk’ But For 100 Billion For New Teachers For The Unions We Can Swing It


Wrong again 


 Minority Students Crushed By Lockdowns; 600% Increase In Math Failures, 500% English


 The Canceling Of Another Young Adult Author Over Made Up Allegations Of Racism


 Research Shows Diversity Training Is Typically Ineffective


The librarians want to save us 


Finally! 


 ‘Broken’ city: How New York forgot the ABCs of public virtue


 Saks Lights Up Fifth Avenue: a new take on a treasured holiday tradition


We were in NYC this weekend. Lack of traffic was nice, but also sad. Unlike many of our cranky readers, we love NYC. Always interesting, even now.


 Scott Adams – The 2020 Election Was “Non-Transparent by Force” – It’s Illegitimate – Period




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Was Robin Hood beheaded on the King’s orders?

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/robin-hood-beheaded-nottingham-robert-wetherby-b1763946.html
#1 feeblemind on 2020-12-07 08:33 (Reply)
re Los Angeles Bar Owner Furious to See Mayor Garcetti Approved Outdoor Dining Area For Movie Company Across From Her Shuttered Restaurant

I saw this the other day.

One feels for her anger and frustration.

One also wonders if she voted for Newsom?
#2 feeblemind on 2020-12-07 08:37 (Reply)
Re asymptomatic spreading - It would be nice if this were true. Unfortunately, studies from China on the virus are lower on my confidence level than utterances from Fauci.
#3 John Fisher on 2020-12-07 08:44 (Reply)
I have to agree, even thought I think Covid fear is a con, and that mask mandates are theatre. Are we now going to use "science" from China? I think not.
#3.1 tim ferrell on 2020-12-07 09:26 (Reply)
How about gas station sushi?

Oddly, the flu is virtually nonexistent at this point - both through my local Department of Public Health reporting system or any country you'd care to name in the WHO's worldwide flu tracker.

https://apps.who.int/flumart/Default?ReportNo=1

Strange coincidence, that. If masking/washing/social distancing has eliminated the flu, why isn't it working with Covid?
#3.2 JLawson on 2020-12-07 10:43 (Reply)
That reminds me of a meme I saw recently:

“If lockdowns work, why lockdown again?
If lockdowns don’t work, why lockdown again?”
#3.2.1 mudbug on 2020-12-07 11:03 (Reply)
I would never eat gas station sushi. However when I go to Hawaii I do eat gas station musubi. Big difference; the rice probably can't go bad and we all know that Spam never goes bad.
#3.2.2 Anon on 2020-12-07 11:05 (Reply)
'someone not displaying active symptoms' is what I thought was meant by 'asymptomatic'. But when one reads through the Epoch Times linked article above, they are careful to distinguish between people who never have symptoms (asymptomatic) and people who did have symptoms (presymptomatic), but had some days before obvious symptoms and after they had been infected.

The Nature article they are writing about is purely about the lack of hazard from this much-narrower definition of 'asymptomatic', but that's glossed over in the choice of people that Epoch Times chooses to quote, who respond as if it said that 'presymptomatic' people are also non-hazardous.

I'm pretty sure that the academic consensus is still that 'presymptomatic' people can be by all external appearances healthy but still be superspreaders.
#3.3 Douglas2 on 2020-12-07 11:14 (Reply)
Diversity Training is Typically Ineffective

QUOTE:
The stated goals of these training programs vary, from helping to increase hiring and retention of people from historically marginalized and underrepresented groups, to eliminating prejudicial attitudes or behaviors to members of said groups, to reducing conflict and enhancing cooperation and belonging among all employees.


Have the stated goals been successful in securing funding and expansion of this programming within our institutions? Perhaps that was their purpose. Now, as to outcome, tell us more about the unstated goals, please, the one related to social engineering - and let's see how those are doing.
#4 Aggie on 2020-12-07 09:28 (Reply)
Diversity training is not about learning a skill or changing hearts and minds. It's compliance training, making sure you know what pretexts the HR department or a wokester coworker can use to get you fired.
#4.1 Mike Anderson (Link) on 2020-12-07 14:48 (Reply)
Lawsuit protection racket.
#4.1.1 Stargazer on 2020-12-07 15:51 (Reply)
I hope more and more people are figuring out the con of COVID. The virus its self can be dangerous to a very few minority of the population, but the draconian efforts of the government, backed by the creeps in the media, is the scam. They’re attempting to steal our rights. Best start standing up to them! Resistance is a must. You owe it to all those patriots that sacrificed their lives for the cause of liberty. This COVID situation, a long with the attempts to steal the election, is as serious a threat as this country has ever seen. We best start acting like it.
#5 B. Hammer on 2020-12-07 10:21 (Reply)
Re: non-transparent by force

So didn’t that happen in Philadelphia and Detroit? Everything that happened after observers were denied meaningful access to the count should be disqualified. That means Trump won Pennsylvania and Michigan.

From what I understand, the Republican observers in Georgia were not removed by force but rather by subterfuge (fake story about a water pipe breaking). That’s really a distinction without a difference. Trump thus wins Georgia and the presidency.

Now, will that case be made and will a judge or enough justices have the courage to make the proper ruling?

As a side note, if you search for “Republican observers banned” or something similar, (even on DuckDuckGo) you will get an avalanche of links to “news sources” claiming that it never happened. With video of that happening, it’s a case of “who are you going to believe, the press or your own lying eyes?”
#6 mudbug on 2020-12-07 10:48 (Reply)
In 1972 in Southern California one of my Hispanic coworkers believed in a kind of outreach to his Anglo friends. He would invite them to his home and share his cultural food and talk about the things we had in common and in general was a good representative of his culture and people. One day he took me to a bar on the less safe part of town and I met some of his friends and the owner. She pointed out to me that probably if I came into the bar by myself I would get beat up because I was Anglo. Hmmm!

My point is that I don't think that racism/discrimination is what many POC think it is. I believe that with very few exceptions they believe it is 100% white racism. Even Obama (I know "even") does the same exact thing; i.e. is blatantly racist in his accusations of white racism. I will add that in Obama's case just as in Al Sharpton's case that they know they are being racist and they know they are gaming the race issue. But many POC simply do not know of their own lifelong racist practices and chose to use the easy excuse that whites are racists.

Let me just use the words of a career criminal who would probably been able to "go straight" if he had not been able to get away with his crimes by claiming racism: "Can't we all get along?"
#7 OneGuy on 2020-12-07 10:58 (Reply)
People be tribal my friend. We can deal with that as we want to but, that’s what it is.
#7.1 DblTap on 2020-12-07 13:38 (Reply)
Should anyone "test positive," there's an important thing to ask: What is the Cycle Threshold (CT) value for the test?

"Sounds wonky but it’s actually really important to understand. A low CT value means someone is loaded with virus. A high value, oppositely, means less of a viral load. Beyond a certain level the load is insufficient to either infect someone else or be of any clinical or epidemiological relevance whatsoever. The problem? Governments all over the country and world are basing their decisions on CT values that are very high. Too high."

https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/tested-positive-covid-19-be-sure-ask-question
#8 PubliusII on 2020-12-07 11:30 (Reply)
If the CT you refer to is the amplification cycles needed to detect virus presence in a test sample, a Doc recently told me normal testing uses 30 - 32 amplification cycles to measure meaningful presence. More than that ends up detecting such small fragments that they are not considered problematic. Current Covid testing continues for on average 38 amplification cycles which he says is ridiculous and only serves to help build the fear-driving narrative. Recently read that some testing was being amplified 42 times so they basically look until they find something, anything that they can call a "case"!
#8.1 Louie Miller on 2020-12-07 18:52 (Reply)
Yes, that's what CT (cycle threshold) is. And yes, you're right that running the amplification cycles until they get a positive result is a great way to bump up the number of "tested positive" cases. All for the sake of keeping people fearful and compliant. They're lying to us.
#8.1.1 PubliusII on 2020-12-08 08:16 (Reply)
Gee, is anyone truly surprised that forcing people to sit through sessions in which they are accused of all sorts of crimes against humanity simply because of their skin color, or actually confess to spurious transgressions to keep their jobs or student status, doesn't improve their attitudes?

Of course, as noted, if the measure of success is how many diversity jobs or government grants the scam creates, then these programs are spectacularly successful.
#9 Oldflyer on 2020-12-07 12:21 (Reply)
re Los Angeles Bar Owner

She should have driven a large pick up truck through those outdoor tents.

Or perhaps had a friend do it while she had an airtight alibi.
#10 DrTorch (Link) on 2020-12-07 12:56 (Reply)
Heh.

Perhaps she should have hired some POC in BLM T-Shirt to set fire to it?
#10.1 feeblemind on 2020-12-07 16:09 (Reply)
I too love NYC. I've worked there for several jobs, both midtown and downtown. Since I live a quick ferry or train ride in we've been there many times for fun.

Love the energy. The people appear to be cold but once you get past the gruff exterior they're usually very friendly. Lots of stuff to see. I could spend days just wandering around Central Park or along the path around Manhattan.

But with the Covid insanity (not the disease, but the overreaction to it) I'm not interested in heading in. I don't even know if the ferry is running (my favorite way to get into the City) and the overbearing lockdown rules would, I suspect, ruin the fun.

"Socially distanced safe viewing locations" for the tree at Rockafeller? No Broadway plays? No restaurants?
Fuggetaboutit.
#11 Hamlet's Fool on 2020-12-07 18:00 (Reply)

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