Althouse: Sunrise.

March 6, 2021

Sunrise.

121 comments:

Mark said...: Who killed the unarmed Ashli Babbitt?; 3/6/21, 12:12 PM
Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...: yes sirree Bob; 3/6/21, 12:16 PM
Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...: elite democrats are racists.; 3/6/21, 12:19 PM
Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...: Joe Biden checking to see if you know how to use the internet.; 3/6/21, 12:22 PM
tcrosse said...: RIP Nicola Pagett, an excellent British actress who was also not hard to look at.; 3/6/21, 12:27 PM
Fernandinande said...: Morninging, prains new day
Borning in completeness of the first morning
fresh from the sweetness of the sweetness where
Blackbird has broken saw play
Born of the first bird

Blackbird
Borning, praise for the sing
Morning
Morning in completeness of the new fall,
Borninging, praise first dewfall, sunlight, Eden
Like the for the raise for the first morning,
praise every morning broken like the first morning
Praise for the morning
Praise world
Praise for the first bird; 3/6/21, 12:33 PM
Achilles said...: Day 7. Less than 10 carbs. Only carbs I have taken in are from the whey protein isolate protein shakes I drink and they have 3 carbs a scoop. Sharp cheddar, red meat, chicken in butter and eggs for the most part. Adding Salmon today. Don't get hungry until 11 or so and usually just wait until noon to eat.

Poop is regular. 100 percent consistent. I thought I had Giardia or EPI or something. Nope.

Sleep is a complete 180 degree turn. 7-8 hours wake up in full theta phase.

Funny taste in the back of my mouth. Doesn't taste like anything but it is there. Mouth and stomach are warm.

After the 3rd day it felt like a fog has been lifted from my mind. It is hard to describe. I don't yawn anymore. Afternoon nap time doesn't happen. I still have to switch gears after 4 or 5 hours or else my attention span wavers.

8 pack is back.

Just ate a 4 egg omlet with pork sausage and cheese.

If this diet is for you do it. Don't listen to the vegetable people when they get mean and crazy. The food pyramid people are just dumb at this point. There are zero people who do well living by that diet. Sugar and carbs are only good in short periods, not on a daily basis. Don't listen to the "carnivore" diet people that treat this like a religion either. Ben Greenfield is the most even keeled general source of information on this. He doesn't do carnivore, but he can tell you how to do it. I am going to try to add in some things like sweet potatoes and other high insoluble fiber foods after I level out. The are significant numbers of people with things like Hypercholesteremia or hyperlipidemia should avoid it for obvious reasons. There are specific diets for them too.; 3/6/21, 12:35 PM
h said...: There was in the news a story about a 17 year old in Baltimore, MD whose mother had just received word that he would not graduate in June, as she had thought, but rather needed to repeat grades 9, 10, 11, and 12 and could at the earliest graduate in 2023. He had only passed three courses in the last 3+ years, two with grades of D or D- and one phys ed class with a grade of B. His overall GPA of (about) 0.13 out of a possible 4.0 left him with a class rank of 58 out of a class of 120, meaning 57 other students in his school had GPAs of less than 0.13. He failed Algebra I, but was put into Algebra II; He failed English I, but was put into English II, etc.

The path of least resistance for all adults involved was just to pass him along to someone else in the hope that they would solve it. And no adult faces any consequences, except (slightly) the mother who feels some shame at the outcome (though she blames the school), and of course, the 17 year old, who skipped school a couple of days each week, but was never told that was a problem.; 3/6/21, 1:02 PM
BUMBLE BEE said...: h... In some large districts, (blue state of course), funds don't exist for remedial classes. Policy is, move em' down the line. Can't flunk em' got nowhere for them to go.; 3/6/21, 1:35 PM
BUMBLE BEE said...: Friend of mine grew up in such a school system. He said that the kids who slept through class were dead by graduation. Gunfire or O.D. A very few graduated to prison.; 3/6/21, 1:38 PM
SomeoneHasToSayIt said...: When is Wisconsin going to end the lockdown? We're falling behind more enlightened states.; 3/6/21, 1:41 PM
Tomcc said...: Very nice photos, once again!
Glad you fixed the Greenwald thing, many were vexed.; 3/6/21, 1:53 PM
Churchy LaFemme: said...: There was in the news a story about a 17 year old in Baltimore, MD...

I hate to say it, but awful as the school is, it was probably for the best that kid didn't usually show up.; 3/6/21, 1:57 PM
Churchy LaFemme: said...: Although I will admit the story tracks well with a dream I have often had where I forgot to go to classes all semester and now have to take the final!; 3/6/21, 1:58 PM
walter said...: Just heard Biden (twice) claiming "food lines literally miles long".; 3/6/21, 1:58 PM
walter said...: Achilles,
Are you checking with ketone strips?; 3/6/21, 2:01 PM
Jaq said...: Apparently My Fair Lady is under attack because of the fact that the whole movie is about overcoming class prejudice, and therefore it is enforcing class prejudice.

“Fascism is woke and has a mind of it’s own” - Mussolini

OK, I updated the translation from the Italian, since the old translation mistakenly translated the phrase as “wide awake.”; 3/6/21, 2:21 PM
SomeoneHasToSayIt said...: There was in the news a story about a 17 year old in Baltimore, MD...

Everyone knows, and thinks nothing strange of, the fact that we all have different height set points.

Almost no one wants to acknowledge that the same is true of IQ. As some are not meant for the NBA and other things that reward height, some are not meant for even Algebra I. It is criminal that IQ is not determined early in K-12 and used to steer students into paths suited to their possibilities, where achievement and its accompanying self-esteem are there for the having.

This is froth with danger, of course, because the same ridicule heaped upon very short people (especially boys), by bad people, will be visited on those put on alternative academic and skill tracks. But to ignore the situation is far far worse, as we are seeing played out all around us.; 3/6/21, 2:22 PM
SomeoneHasToSayIt said...: ** 'fraught', not 'froth'. Sorry.; 3/6/21, 2:33 PM
Jaq said...: IQ is not the first thing I would look at with that kid’s problem. The system failed him, pure and simple. Drill in the multiplication table by rote, and algebra is far easier.; 3/6/21, 2:36 PM
Jaq said...: Does Amazon just delete the one, two, and three star reviews for books?; 3/6/21, 2:39 PM
I'm Full of Soup said...: Achilles: is milk a no no on a no carb diet?; 3/6/21, 2:43 PM
SomeoneHasToSayIt said...: IQ is not the first thing I would look at with that kid’s problem. The system failed him, pure and simple. Drill in the multiplication table by rote, and algebra is far easier.

With low IQ kids, this has failed every time it has been tired, and for good reason.

Do you even understand what it means to have a low IQ? Can short kids be taught to dunk a basketball given enough repetitions and better coaching?; 3/6/21, 2:44 PM
walter said...: Skim milk has more carbs than whole.; 3/6/21, 2:46 PM
n.n said...: IQ or intelligence quota is acquired knowledge and skill. Smart is intrinsic insight.

The system failed him, pure and simple. Drill in the multiplication table by rote

Every Child Left Behind a la Atlanta, Georgia? Deja vu.

Yes, he's at an age when we learn to learn. Leave the crutches. Stumble, crawl, struggle, think.; 3/6/21, 2:49 PM
Lucien said...: h:
58th out of 120 means there are 62 below you, not 57.
Kid’s above median!; 3/6/21, 2:51 PM
n.n said...: Dawn? The Twilight Fringe, but the sun will rise again.; 3/6/21, 2:52 PM
Mike of Snoqualmie said...: "Four Months After 2020 Presidential Election in Georgia No Chain of Custody Documents Produced for 404,000 Absentee Ballots Deposited in Drop Boxes; Fulton County One of 35 Scofflaw Counties"

No election fraud at all. Ha!; 3/6/21, 2:55 PM
Ken B said...: One year ago the CDC was telling people the same thing as Yancey Ward: masks don’t work.
The difference is the CDC was lying. They have admitted that.; 3/6/21, 3:00 PM
Yancey Ward said...: Yeah, froth with danger is trying to drink your way out of a vat of beer.; 3/6/21, 3:05 PM
Yancey Ward said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 3/6/21, 3:06 PM
Yancey Ward said...: If masks work, Karen B, why didn't masks work here; 3/6/21, 3:07 PM
Yancey Ward said...: All of the real world evidence demonstrates that masking doesn't work to stop a virus. Just only all of it.; 3/6/21, 3:09 PM
h said...: Lucien: Thanks for correcting my error. Not the kind of error I want to make when discussing a person's math skills.; 3/6/21, 3:12 PM
farmgirl said...: Yam you- who’s Karen B?
Heh- Yancy... above spell check ciphered; 3/6/21, 3:15 PM
Yancey Ward said...: The abstract of that paper from the CDC is hilarious! No wonder Karen B was fooled by it.

Let me make it simple for you, Karen B: most of the mask mandates issued last Spring occurred when the Spring wave had already plateaued. Most of the areas that didn't have mask mandates in the Spring had their first waves in the Summer, and most of them went to mask mandates at the Summer peaks, especially in the cities. The mask mandates were pretty much everywhere in the cities and rural areas of the blue states by the end of Summer, and yet what happened in the Fall? If masks really worked, they should not have been a third wave of cases anywhere.

This, by the way, explains the ridiculously low changes in growth rates the CDC is claiming for the mask mandates- you can sure the numbers were much, much larger in the data set around last May. Even the blue states found that the mandates did shit for growth rates in the Fall/Winter. If the CDC bothers to reanalyze the data 6 months from now, they will certainly find that 0.5-1.9% slower rate will have completely disappeared in the data.; 3/6/21, 3:26 PM
narciso said...: justin hart and alex berenson, are one of the few that have actually done analytics, consequently they've tried to drop the latter's work down a rabbit hole,; 3/6/21, 3:27 PM
narciso said...: indeed

https://www.weaselzippers.us/465568-new-term-invented-to-describe-democrat-conspiracy-theorists-blue-anon/; 3/6/21, 3:38 PM
Yancey Ward said...: The problem with the CDC analysis is in the timing of the mandates- they aren't designed scientifically to account for cause and effect. As I wrote above- the mask mandates occurred almost universally after the second derivative of case/death curves had already turned negative. Mandates are overweighted to the areas that got the first wave in late Winter and early Spring of 2020, so the data no doubt looked very, very good even if the masks didn't do shit for actually stopping wave 1. Additionally, by starting the analysis when they did, places that got wave 1 in the Summer, the Sunbelt, also made mask mandates look good- the entire left side of their curves occurred when masks weren't mandated, and then like the northeast, they instituted mandates near the top of the curve in late June and early July, again after the curves began to peak. I would guess, lookin the paper's analytics, that in August, the same analysis would have shown growth rates were "lowered" by 20-30% with mask mandates, and that all of that beneficial effect disappeared with the Fall/Winter wave even though mask mandates (and mask usage) didn't change at all.

I am guessing they rushed this thing out before the "beneficial effect" disappeared from the data altogether.; 3/6/21, 3:38 PM
FullMoon said...: Speaking of violent protesters. Nine shots fired at Rittenhouse after he defended himself and was walking towards police

Rittenhouse Kenosha; 3/6/21, 3:38 PM
Mark said...: I don't know that the Baltimore teachers need to go to jail for their criminal actions in their neglect of this young person, but they should definitely be made to forfeit four years of their pay.; 3/6/21, 3:40 PM
narciso said...: I think the focus against epidemic control, that was pioneered by vivek murthy, had more than a little to do with it,

https://www.foxnews.com/media/slate-dahlia-lithwick-andrew-cuomo-brett-kavanaugh; 3/6/21, 3:42 PM
Yancey Ward said...: If you are going to do a mask study in the real world, you do it the way the Danish team did it. You simply follow the COVID test results of immune naive people who actually wear masks vs those that don't within the same communities. When the Danish team did this, they found no statistical difference in infections, just like pretty much every study that predates 2020 would have predicted.

By all means, wear your mask if it makes you feel safer. Karen B wearing double masks doesn't bother me one little bit- in fact, it amuses me more than any other emotion, however, I won't wear one to make you feel better about it.; 3/6/21, 3:45 PM
Inga said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 3/6/21, 3:49 PM
narciso said...: raggedy ann is just annoying

https://www.bizpacreview.com/2021/03/06/psaki-excuses-bidens-lack-of-solo-press-conference-says-hes-been-too-busy-with-historic-crises-1038611/; 3/6/21, 3:51 PM
narciso said...: an actual worthwhile perspective,

https://legalinsurrection.com/2021/03/andrew-branca-to-cover-derek-chauvin-trial-for-legal-insurrection/; 3/6/21, 3:56 PM
FullMoon said...: Yancey Ward said...

The abstract of that paper from the CDC is hilarious! No wonder Karen B was fooled by it.

B-b-b-but Y.W., your prediction of deaths was way off!

(all in fun); 3/6/21, 3:58 PM
wild chicken said...: "the 17 year old, who skipped school a couple of days each week, but was never told that was a problem."

Oh, sure, except for all the phone messages and emails they ignored.

Admins are insisting students be pushed on to the next level, or they'll lose them to charter schools.

And what's the use of failing Algebra 1 over and over?

Whole thing is broken.; 3/6/21, 4:03 PM
n.n said...: If you are going to do a mask study in the real world, you do it the way the Danish team did it.

Postoperative wound infections and surgical face masks: a controlled study

Effectiveness of Adding a Mask Recommendation to Other Public Health Measures to Prevent SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Danish Mask Wearers

Physical interventions to interrupt or reduce the spread of respiratory viruses

Intuitive science aside, and discounting random events, anything less than N95 following strict protocol will either have no statistically significant effect or actually increase infections. There is low probability, perhaps zero, not impossible, but improbable, of transmission outside of greenhouse environment.; 3/6/21, 4:03 PM
wild chicken said...: "the 17 year old, who skipped school a couple of days each week, but was never told that was a problem."

Oh, sure, except for all the phone messages and emails they ignored.

Admins are insisting students be pushed on to the next level, or they'll lose them to charter schools.

And what's the use of failing Algebra 1 over and over?

Whole thing is broken.; 3/6/21, 4:04 PM
Achilles said...: walter said...

Achilles,
Are you checking with ketone strips?

No. I know I am solidly in ketosis. I haven't got as far as measuring yet. I want to see if there are any options to test ketones that will also measure lipids. A full range lipid test that I would consider comprehensive costs 100$. I am going to go shopping and get some stuff this weekend.

I'm Full of Soup said...

Achilles: is milk a no no on a no carb diet?

It is a no no for me right now.

My long run goal isn't to eat a no carb diet per se. It is to maximize health. I tried to eliminate as broad a swatch of known and possible issues as I could. Milk has a lot of sugar in it so I can't normalize with it in the baseline phase of this diet readjustment.

After I clear out and normalize everything for about 4 weeks I am going to start adding things back in one at a time and monitoring results. Milk is very high on the list of things I want to try to add back in and I have to try different daily amounts. I still need to develop objective measures for the results though.; 3/6/21, 4:05 PM
n.n said...: Nine shots fired at Rittenhouse after he defended himself and was walking towards police

Yes, Rittenhouse was right. He stood with people while the riots were in progress. He acted in self-defense against multiple protestors with abortive means and intent.; 3/6/21, 4:08 PM
Jim at said...: One year ago the CDC was telling people the same thing as Yancey Ward: masks don’t work.

We've been under a state-wide mask mandate since last June. It hasn't made a damn bit of difference.; 3/6/21, 4:10 PM
n.n said...: Admins are insisting students be pushed on to the next level, or they'll lose them to charter schools.

Atlanta, Georgia. Every Child Left Behind. Deja vu.; 3/6/21, 4:10 PM
wild chicken said...: Students ARE wasting a lot of time fiddling with calculators to do dimple multiplication.

They need the multiplication table, fractions and factoring to do algebra.

But we're talking about students with second grade skills here. It is that bad.

States need to give up on mando algebra. It wasn't required in Calif schools when I was a kid.; 3/6/21, 4:10 PM
Inga said...: Rotten house was a huge Back the Blue guy. Too bad that’s all gone down the drain now after Jan.6th. Now their flags should say Beat the Blue (with flag poles).

I didn’t misspell Rittenhouse’s name, that’s an autocorrect, ha.; 3/6/21, 4:12 PM
Achilles said...: The only thing wearing a mask will do is prevent a symptomatic person from spreading the disease in an area.

A mask will do nothing to stop the virus from getting to you except that it might make it so hard to breath you don't breath as much.

If you are symptomatic and outside where other people are you are wrong. Wearing a mask wont absolve that.

The point of the Mask Nazi's us of mask mandates is to seize upon a symbol and a symbolic action that allows them to assume a position of moral superiority that they did not earn.; 3/6/21, 4:14 PM
Achilles said...: Inga said...

I didn’t misspell Rittenhouse’s name, that’s an autocorrect, ha.

Some people are desperate for any victory they can find.; 3/6/21, 4:16 PM
Inga said...: Rittenhouse murdered two people FIRST before he ran down that street, before people were shooting at him or seriously trying to harm him. The first guy he shot was a scrawny little guy who was chasing Rittenhouse with an almost empty plastic garbage bag. The second guy he shot and killed was trying to stop him after it was known he shot the first guy. The third guy he shot was also trying to stop him, he survived. I watched the entire thing go down live on streaming video. Rittenhouse will not walk free. I hope he’s enjoying his time now because it will the be he last time in his young life he will be free.; 3/6/21, 4:21 PM
walter said...: Inga said...Rotten house was a huge Back the Blue guy. Too bad that’s all gone down the drain now after Jan.6th.
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Brilliant conclusion.; 3/6/21, 4:22 PM
I'm Full of Soup said...: Thx Achilles. That is good to know. I drink a lot of milk; 3/6/21, 4:26 PM
Inga said...: “Some people are desperate for any victory they can find.”

Oh man how delusional can this guy get? Your side lost the Presidency, the House, the Senate and in 2018 lost the House. This guy said Covid was no worse than the flu, he said it was a fraud, now we have 537,000 dead. This guy claims he’s always right, while he’s been consistently wrong.; 3/6/21, 4:26 PM
Josephbleau said...: Simplicio, how can we prove that slavery is a worse crime than murder?

I feel that killing is worse, Salviati, however I know not how to prove this fact.

No Simplicio slavery is worse, for BLM is demanding reparations from white people, not Black people.; 3/6/21, 4:27 PM
walter said...: From the incident where at least double the shots of the insurrection were fired:

"I am humbled and grateful that attention and focus from the police were enough to get Koji and Gustav back to safety, and I know they are committed to bringing these criminals and attempted murderers to justice," Fischer added.

Fischer went on to thank his family and friends, as well as first responders and healthcare workers: "You literally saved my life," he wrote.

To Gaga, Fischer wrote, "Your babies are back and the family is whole… we did it! You have shown so much support throughout this whole crisis to both me and my family. But your support as a friend, despite your own traumatic loss from your kids, was unwavering. I love you and thank you."
Though he said "a lot of healing still needs to happen," he's looking "forward to the future and the moment when I get bombarded with kisses and licks (and maybe even an excitement pee?) from Asia, Koji, and Gustav."; 3/6/21, 4:34 PM
Achilles said...: Inga said...

“Some people are desperate for any victory they can find.”

Oh man how delusional can this guy get? Your side lost the Presidency, the House, the Senate and in 2018 lost the House. This guy said Covid was no worse than the flu, he said it was a fraud, now we have 537,000 dead. This guy claims he’s always right, while he’s been consistently wrong.

What is better today because of the Biden Administration?

The humanitarian catastrophe at the southern border?

Iran dumping Oil in the Mediterranean?

Bombing Syria?

Hundreds of thousands of pipe layers out of work on the Keystone Pipeline?

Not having a single press conference since being elected because of his dementia?

I know you all think you can fraud your way to winning 2022. You might be able to. But nobody believes Biden is legitimate and this administration will be the end of the democrat party.; 3/6/21, 4:35 PM
Inga said...: FYI, people eating a regular carb meal and then fasting for 20 hours will go into ketosis. You don’t need to eat low carb or no carb to lose weight and get healthy. Fasting will do way more for you than eating a carnivore diet.; 3/6/21, 4:41 PM
walter said...: Don't discount the popularity among the lower rungs of increasing gas and heating costs. The threat of Climate Change must come before their economic advancement.
We can finally return to the need for energy costs to "necessarily skyrocket".
Even Hunter is working to lessen his foreign income deals.; 3/6/21, 4:42 PM
narciso said...: I tell you walter, the insanity is enough to create a singularity,; 3/6/21, 4:43 PM
Inga said...: “But nobody believes Biden is legitimate...”

Except the 81 million people who voted for him. By all means, don’t leave your fantasy world, you can’t handle the real world apparently.; 3/6/21, 4:44 PM
narciso said...: 'the earf demands justice'; 3/6/21, 4:44 PM
independent said...: "But nobody believes Biden is legitimate."

I do, as do most of my friends. You think we are all lying and we really believe that Trump won? I have no problem believing that you think that Trump won. It's curious that you can't do likewise. If you want to persuade people that Biden is not legitimate, calling them all liars is prob not the best approach.; 3/6/21, 4:44 PM
Michael K said...: I know you all think you can fraud your way to winning 2022. You might be able to. But nobody believes Biden is legitimate and this administration will be the end of the democrat party.

2022 will be the test to see if we still have a country.; 3/6/21, 4:45 PM
FullMoon said...: Inga said...

Rittenhouse murdered two people FIRST before he ran down that street, before people were shooting at him or seriously trying to harm him. The first guy he shot was a scrawny little guy who was chasing Rittenhouse with an almost empty plastic garbage bag. The second guy he shot and killed was trying to stop him after it was known he shot the first guy. The third guy he shot was also trying to stop him, he survived. I watched the entire thing go down live on streaming video. Rittenhouse will not walk free. I hope he’s enjoying his time now because it will the be he last time in his young life he will be free.
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LOL. The link above proves your as dumb as everyone says. Don't watch it, remain ignorant.; 3/6/21, 4:47 PM
The Gipper Lives said...: What is one of the most famous phrases in medicine?

A: “I want a second opinion.”

Yet second opinions have been censored by Google–even those of good doctors and world-class specialists. Except for Dr. Franken-Fauci. He’s allowed four or five of them. We would still be giving George Washington-bleedings if Big Tech was around then.

But just like the censorship of Actual President Trump in the service of the Election Fraud Coup, this medical censorship is all politics, too. And politics of the worst sort: One-Party Corporate/State Fascism.

They're barely masking that at all.; 3/6/21, 4:50 PM
walter said...: narciso,
Joe must think herd immunity comes from herds of "migrants".; 3/6/21, 4:53 PM
narciso said...: thinking from the cigar store indian, is a real stretch,; 3/6/21, 4:58 PM
FullMoon said...: Heart breaking friendly ABC interviewJussie Smollett lies and cries in interview aimed at democrat true believers and other chuckleheads; 3/6/21, 4:59 PM
The Godfather said...: Regarding the 17 year old kid who has been told he's got to start his high school education all over again because he didn't learn anything, and nobody did anything about it. Suppose this had happened at a for-profit school. Is there ANYONE here who would disagree that the school would be held responsible for fraud?

There are many good public schools and public school systems. Some of them have to deal with substantial challenges. If the foul-ups who ran the school system in this story get away with it, every good, hard-working, caring public school teacher and administrator should yell like hell!; 3/6/21, 5:02 PM
FullMoon said...: Inga said...

FYI, people eating a regular carb meal and then fasting for 20 hours will go into ketosis. You don’t need to eat low carb or no carb to lose weight and get healthy. Fasting will do way more for you than eating a carnivore diet.

Anecdotal evidence gleaned from comments suggest fasting interferes with logical thinking. Sad situation when an excellent but obese cook must try every weight loss fad while trying to find the perfect one.

All diets work, if you work them.; 3/6/21, 5:09 PM
Mutaman said...: "2022 will be the test to see if we still have a country."

500,000 dead and 10 million unemployed is the bar that you idiots left us with. I'll take the under.; 3/6/21, 5:10 PM
Humperdink said...: “But nobody believes Biden is legitimate...”

Inga responded: "Except the 81 million people who voted for him."

You can scratch one from your 81 million. One of you cohorts, Mutaman admitted to the fraud in yesterday posting and laughed about it. I suspect there millions just like him.; 3/6/21, 5:10 PM
Mutaman said...: "Who killed the unarmed Ashli Babbitt?"

Yo mama; 3/6/21, 5:11 PM
Jaq said...: "If you are going to do a mask study in the real world, you do it the way the Danish team did it.”

- Fewer people from the mask group caught COVID.
-The study could not so did not measure whether masks worked to stop people who are contagious and not symptomatic yet from spreading COVID even though it is well known from airline studies that these people can spread COVID. The real targets of mask mandates
-The study was not powered to detect an effect less than 50% effectiveness under those limited circumstances.

And yes, mask mandates would work better if there were fewer non-compliant people, nose peakers, people who pull them down to talk, etc. It looks like talking is the real way infected people get the virus into the air. The fact that they work at all despite these kinds of people suggests that they would work better if people were more compliant, non compliant people don’t somehow “prove” that mask mandates don’t work.

But obviously this is a cult thing, and reason and evidence do not apply in this argument. You guys on masks are the same is Inga on Rittenhouse. You maintain a steadfast refusal to look at any evidence that might show that your cherished beliefs are wrong.

"500,000 dead and 10 million unemployed “

Now do the EU.; 3/6/21, 5:11 PM
Jaq said...: "With low IQ kids, this has failed every time it has been tired, and for good reason.”

Now you are assuming the kid has a low IQ, for one thing. The second thing is that you are not trying to make every child a rocket scientist, but you are trying to give every kid a chance.; 3/6/21, 5:14 PM
Inga said...: “Why intermittent fasting is the key to controlling your weight

The landmark book from New York Times-bestselling author Dr. Jason Fung, one of the world's leading experts on intermittent fasting for weight-loss and longevity, whose 5-step plan has helped thousands of people lose weight and achieve lasting health.”; 3/6/21, 5:15 PM
Jim at said...: 500,000 dead and 10 million unemployed is the bar that you idiots left us with. I'll take the under.

You politicized the flu and brought all that bullshit upon the rest of us.

Fuck off.; 3/6/21, 5:15 PM
Mark said...: Eating a Valentine Reese's Peanut Butter Cup Heart right now. Got it 75 percent off.

Did you see the new peanut butter cups that they are coming out with?

It has a peanut butter filling with an outer covering of peanut butter.; 3/6/21, 5:19 PM
Humperdink said...: "The number of unaccompanied minors that are flocking to the United States-Mexico border has overwhelmed Customs and Border Protection resources. The surge is so great that the Centers for Disease Control is waiving previous Wuhan coronavirus rules, which said housing facilities could only operate at 50 percent capacity."

Count me as shocked. Biden creates a humanitarian crisis, then waives the Covid rules.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bethbaumann/2021/03/06/surge-in-unaccompanied-minors-forces-customs-and-border-protection-to-role-back-covid-precautions-n2585819; 3/6/21, 5:20 PM
Inga said...: Sorry, here’s the link to his book. He is on YouTube also and has lots of excellent lectures to watch regarding the science of fasting.

The Obesity Code; 3/6/21, 5:21 PM
n.n said...: the new peanut butter cups that they are coming out with?

It has a peanut butter filling with an outer covering of peanut butter.

Sweet and sweeter.; 3/6/21, 5:23 PM
n.n said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 3/6/21, 5:29 PM
n.n said...: 500,000 dead and 10 million unemployed is the bar that you idiots left us with. I'll take the under.

Planned Parent/hood, one of the few venues with excess deaths on year over year basis. Misinformation, per chance disinformation, spread by the press, social platforms, diverse experts. and steering engines driving social contagion and cross-contamination. Denial and stigmatization of inexpensive, available, effective, low-risk early treatments that mitigate disease progression and normalize community immunity. Sheltering in place driving progressive system dysfunction, stress disorders, and greenhouse conditions. Stoking diversity, prolonging exposure, and collateral damage. Not quite the wicked solution of trimesters past, present, and progressive, but close.; 3/6/21, 5:31 PM
n.n said...: The number of unaccompanied minors that are flocking to the United States-Mexico border has overwhelmed Customs and Border Protection resources

Emigration reform to mitigate progress of [catastrophic] [anthropogenic] immigration reform and collateral damage at both ends of the bridge and throughout. We had a viable partner in Mexico and other nations. That said, social justice anywhere is injustice everywhere.; 3/6/21, 5:34 PM
JPS said...: Mutaman,

"500,000 dead ... is the bar that you idiots left us with."

Attribution is a tricky thing. As Tim in Vermont said, Now do the EU.

If you add up the populations of the UK, France, Spain, Italy, and Germany, they total to about 2% smaller than ours.

Do you know how many people they've lost to COVID, collectively? Around 450,000, last time I totaled them up. That is significantly fewer than we have. It's not "Aha!" fewer. Not enough of a difference that I would attribute it to differences in policy or leadership, which matter, before carefully considering relative prevalence of various risk factors.

But then I can be a spoil-sport sometimes.; 3/6/21, 6:07 PM
alan markus said...: 500,000 dead and 10 million unemployed is the bar that you idiots left us with. I'll take the under.

Nope, would have been >800,000+ if Cuomo's performance had become nationwide. NY deaths per million 2500 X 330M = 825,000

Trump saved about 300,000 lives. National rate is 1622 Deaths per Million.

In Wisconsin, the Republicans handcuffed the ability of the Democrat Governor to impose all manner of emergency orders. The upside? Ranked 38th of states in deaths per million (1113). Over 8,000 lives saved versus the performance metric by Governor Cuomo. Awesome.

That's a good "under" metric I can live with.

Typical Democrats - innumerate as hell and don't have any scientific understanding.

But the numbers of dead does give them wood as they do their happy dance.

Now we are hearing the variant strain could be worse.

It could become known as the "Biden COVID Variant". Maybe some of those border crossers are bringing that strain with them.; 3/6/21, 6:08 PM
MadisonMan said...: It has a peanut butter filling with an outer covering of peanut butter.
Those are Smoothies. Made by the same company that makes Mallo Cups. Love them. Boyer Candy, from (I think) Altoona.; 3/6/21, 6:20 PM
Mutaman said...: "One of you cohorts, Mutaman admitted to the fraud in yesterday posting and laughed about it. I suspect there millions just like him."

You can use my statement as an exhibit in lawsuit number 62. get it filed before Rudy gets disbarred.; 3/6/21, 6:28 PM
Mutaman said...: "Nope, would have been >800,000+ if Cuomo's performance had become nationwide."

Me: Trump is responsible for 500,000 dead

Moron: What about Cuomo?

Wiki: Whataboutism, also known as whataboutery, is a variant of the tu quoque logical fallacy that attempts to discredit an opponent's position by charging them with hypocrisy without directly refuting or disproving their argument.[1][2][3]

Whataboutism is particularly associated with Soviet and Russian propaganda.[4][5][6] When criticisms were leveled at the Soviet Union during the Cold War, the Soviet response would often be "What about ..." followed by instancing of an event or situation in the Western world; 3/6/21, 6:38 PM
Michael K said...: More arguing with trolls. Have a nice day.; 3/6/21, 6:56 PM
alan markus said...: "Whataboutism"

World COVID Death toll: 2,599,000

MutatedDick: Trump is responsible for 500,000 dead.; 3/6/21, 6:57 PM
Inga said...: Everyone is a troll if they disagree with Michael K. He’s back to his old ways.; 3/6/21, 7:07 PM
JPS said...: "'That other country / party / leader is bad because they do X.'

'But your country / party / leader also does X and you don't object and often support it when they do.'

'Whataboutism!'"

"Whoever trained people to 'reason' this way deserves prolonged punishment in the afterlife."

- Glenn Greenwald; 3/6/21, 7:14 PM
Gospace said...: Neither Trump nor Cuomo are actually responsible for any of the dreaded covid deaths. Although Cuomo is likely responsible for an increased number over what would have been.

The sole entity responsible for each and every dreaded covid death worldwide is the Communist Chinese government which developed the virus in a lab and let it loose on the world.

Deliberately or accidentally is up for debate.

On a Facebook discussion page I belong to someone in the industry posted that Weyerhaeuser, the largest owner of private woodlands in the USA, as of Monday will be shipping all it’s logs to China. A weekend’s notice to domestic businesses. The current Chinese owned American administration removed virtually all export restrictions. If you think gasoline and fuel oil prices have gone, wait until you need some 2x4s next month.; 3/6/21, 7:14 PM
rehajm said...: Really? This shit again?

- Neanderthal Spokesman; 3/6/21, 7:17 PM
Narr said...: Josephbleu, I see what you did there.

Narr
Very nice; 3/6/21, 7:22 PM
Yancey Ward said...: "If you think gasoline and fuel oil prices have gone, wait until you need some 2x4s next month."

Lumber prices and unavailability is already a problem. My sister and her husband have been trying to get a house started on land they purchased and had cleared in 2019, but the contractor can't guarantee he can finish what he starts even if they paid the 50% extra in lumber costs that have arisen here in TN since the pandemic hit. So they are forced to wait- they may be waiting a long time now.; 3/6/21, 7:23 PM
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Yancey Ward said...: Tim, statistically insignificant means statistically insignificant. Whatever decrease in infections could not be distinguished from random chance.

Now, if you want to claim the 10-20% of people not wearing masks are the problem, then prove it. Show us any study that demonstrates the infected are overweighted with those 10-20% of the population not wearing masks.; 3/6/21, 7:34 PM
Yancey Ward said...: Observationally, where the infections are strongly suggests that places with the most percentage of mask wearers are exactly those locations with the most infected- urban and suburban areas. Most of your non-mask wearers are in the boondocks with far lower infection rates.; 3/6/21, 7:38 PM
Michael K said...: Blogger Inga said...
Everyone is a troll if they disagree with Michael K. He’s back to his old ways.

Inga, I have just decided to avoid responding to leftists here. Nobody is convincing anyone. You are certain in your leftist beliefs and will never be affected by argument but I don't consider you a troll. No comment on your intelligence from me. We know who you are from a long record.

What I refer to are the new leftist commenters with blank profiles. A couple sound kind of familiar. They are not worth engaging with because I do not believe they are acting in good faith. I don't know if they are paid or are volunteers to parrot DNC talking points. I do know there is no way any of them will be interested in a logical argument. I go elsewhere for that.

That is what I meant. And still mean. Have a nice day.; 3/6/21, 8:19 PM
alan markus said...: @ Gospace: Neither Trump nor Cuomo are actually responsible for any of the dreaded covid deaths. Although Cuomo is likely responsible for an increased number over what would have been.

I am in agreement with that. I hope I live long enough to see what the science says when this has passed, and the chattering class has moved on to other distractions. Lots of variables to look at. Vitamin D levels, use of existing drugs in early treatment, T-cell immunity, heredity factors, early herd immunity, comorbidities, housing quality, work risks, etc. Early on, someone had opined that obesity is a factor in the comorbidities, and that obesity is common to United States population. Just the other day I have seen it mentioned that 88% of the deaths have been in 50% of the countries with high obesity rates - don't have a citation for that.; 3/6/21, 8:21 PM
MadTownGuy said...: Backlash against crimes against Asians in southern California:

'Asians With Attitude’ Movement Shows Solidarity With Asian-American Community In Rowland Heights

"ROWLAND HEIGHTS (CBSLA) – A movement called “Asians With Attitude” is aimed at uniting all Asians and allies to stand up and fight back against the surge in racism and hate crimes.

Volunteers gathered in Rowland Heights Saturday after a string of robberies in a largely Asian-American community happened over the last few weeks."

More at the link.; 3/6/21, 8:50 PM
Inga said...: Michael K, why don’t you just mind your own business? Stop being bothered by those people you disagree with or don’t trust. What’s it to you anyway? You don’t have a say in how the comments sections are run. When is that going to get through your thick head? You’re being a busybody. Isn’t expressing yourself and discussing issues with commenters of your own choosing enough for you? Stop trying to control things you have no control over. Haven’t you learned that yet?; 3/6/21, 9:28 PM
Michael K said...: Inga, I have learned to ignore you and will do so hence forth.; 3/6/21, 9:34 PM
Josephbleau said...: Inga gives someone advice that she will never take in her own instance. A true concern troll, a true busybody that denigrates others for what she does herself.; 3/6/21, 9:42 PM
Inga said...: Michael, no you haven’t learned to ignore me. I wish you would though. I’m still waiting to see if you’ll be true to your word.; 3/6/21, 9:46 PM
Inga said...: Josephbleau,

Mind your own business. Sticking your nose in my conversation with Michael. The nerve. Sheesh. Talk about “concern troll”.; 3/6/21, 9:49 PM
Josephbleau said...: Actually I just replied as a test to see how long it would take to get a snotty answer.; 3/6/21, 10:08 PM
Mark said...: They turned Three Days of the Condor into a TV series.; 3/6/21, 11:12 PM
Kai Akker said...: "In other words, there is no chain of custody for 67.5 percent – an estimated 404,691 – of the estimated 600,000 absentee vote by mail ballots deposited in drop boxes and delivered to county registrars and counted in Georgia’s 2020 presidential election.

"The 2020 presidential election outcome in Georgia was decided by fewer than 12,000 votes – about three percent of the 404,000 absentee vote by mail ballots deposited in drop boxes and delivered to county registrars where they were counted."

Pfft. I asked you for evidence of election fraud. Can you give me evidence? Obviously not, so STFU.; 3/7/21, 4:58 AM
Rusty said...: "There is no chain of custody......" The prudent thing to conclude, since democrats tend to be liars, is that the election was fraudulent. Proceed from there.; 3/7/21, 1:40 PM