“Approximately Zero”: What the Best Evidence Shows Masks Do Against Covid

“Approximately Zero”: What the Best Evidence Shows Masks Do Against Covid - BY WILL JONES

John Tierney has written an excellent article in City Journal summarising the latest Cochrane review showing masks do “approximately zero” against Covid. 

Here’s an excerpt.

• The most rigorous and extensive review of the scientific literature concludes that neither surgical masks nor N95 masks have been shown to make a difference in reducing the spread of COVID-19 and other respiratory illnesses...

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History for February 24

History for February 24 - On-This-Day.com

Chester Nimitz 1885 - U.S. Navy Admiral, WWII Commander in Chief, signed the Japanese surrender papers

• 1839 - Mr. William S. Otis received a patent for the steam shovel.
• 1868 - The U.S. House of Representatives impeached President Andrew Johnson due to his attempt to dismiss Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton. The U.S. Senate later acquitted Johnson.
• 1903 - In Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, an area was leased to the U.S. for a naval base.
• 1938 - The first nylon bristle toothbrush was made. It was the first time that nylon yarn had been used commercially.
• 1956 - The city of Cleveland invoked a 1931 law that barred people under the age of 18 from dancing in public without an adult guardian.
• 1981 - Buckingham Palace announced the engagement of Britain's Prince Charles to Lady Diana Spencer.
• 1983 - The Dow Jones industrial average closed above the 1100 mark for the first time.

Biden Weak Foreign Policy - TheBlaze

Biden Weak Foreign Policy - TheBlaze: 

“The Biden family were a tremendously good investment for the Chinese Communist Party,” says Mark Levin, host of “LevinTV.”

Given the suspicious activities of the Biden family over the years, it is very convenient that the patriarch is now in control of the Department of Justice. They’ll never be investigated so long as they remain in office. The Chinese know this.

The way we were-----The Unspeakable Things The Bolsheviks Did During Their Reign

Media War On Science

""For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled."

Richard Feynman

Hmmm. Notice the word "China" isn't in this article?-----NPR, enemy of America...and truth!-----Fentanyl smuggling: Experts say a new drug war won't work : NPR

Fentanyl smuggling: Experts say a new drug war won't work : NPR

"Republicans first politicized the fentanyl crisis during the midterms last November, falsely linking drug smuggling with undocumented migrants.

NATIONAL

Many Americans falsely think migrants are bringing most of the fentanyl entering U.S.

Now Democrats, too, are calling on the Biden administration to do more to pressure Mexican officials to crack down on the cartels.

"We work with our Mexican friends with kid gloves on this issue, and it's fundamentally wrong," Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat, said at a hearing on fentanyl last week. "I don't know how many more lives have to be lost for Mexico to get engaged."....

Frightening!-----Did I just Leave a Cult?

Did I just Leave a Cult? - Free Thinking Through the Fourth Turning with Sasha Stone

“The modus operandi of every cult is to convince you there's something wrong with you and only they can fix it.” ― Marty Rubin
I grew up in the era of cults. My siblings and I attended a small elementary school in Topanga Canyon back in the 1970s, when it was still a wilderness of hippies and health food stores - not a safe haven for the 1%...

• ...The cult of the Left is ruled by fanatics, zealots, and true believers. 

...The women are bad enough - trading their journey of empowerment for endless self-punishment over their whiteness. 

So now their children are being used as sacred symbols for their path toward salvation...

• Cults separate children from parents. 
• Cults separate mothers from their biological impulse to protect their children. 
• Watching Democrats wear pins to the State of the Union that said “abortion” was yet another sign that the cult seeks to destroy the bond between mother and child.

...Years from now when all of these young people come to us to ask, Where were you? 

• Why didn’t you protect us? 
• What are we going to say?... 

Councilman arrested for alleged voter fraud in connection to 2020 election - TheBlaze

Councilman arrested for alleged voter fraud in connection to 2020 election - TheBlaze: 

A California city councilman has been arrested and may have resigned his seat after officials discovered at his residence dozens of allegedly fraudulent ballots from the 2020 election. Shakir Khan, 33, was first elected to serve on the city council of Lodi, California, about 15 miles north of Stockton, in 2020. Like many city council races, his election was close. The San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office estimated that he won the seat by just 282 votes.

My Electricity Bill this Year in Europe!

The death of common sense!-----Stop participating in the delusions of the insane

Stop participating in the delusions of the insane -  Robert Zimmerman

"In a perfect example of the modern madness of our time, when a bearded heavy-set man using the name “Lily” Mestemacher was arrested in Arkansas for making bomb threats against a location in Mississippi, the local news organization reporting the story in Mississippi used female pronouns to describe him because he claimed he was a woman. 

To quote that February 13, 2023 news report:
On February 10th, Mestemacher was transported to Oxford where she was booked on the aforementioned warrant. She was taken before a Lafayette County Justice Court judge for her initial bond hearing and issued a $50,000 bond. 
His arrest mugshot is to the right. 

This is a man...

Lunch video-----Triple Tomcat Launch

Noon-toon

 

Putin issues nuclear warning to US, threatens to resume weapons tests | Fox News

Putin issues nuclear warning to US, threatens to resume weapons tests | Fox News: 

Russian President Vladimir Putin delivered a stark warning Tuesday that he would be suspending his nation's participation in a nuclear arms treaty, threatening to resume testing of nuclear weapons. Putin made his speech almost exactly a year after the invasion of Ukraine began, accusing the "elites of the West" of escalating international tensions.

The payoff!

 

Did a Government Intel Asset Plant Key Evidence in Proud Boys Case?

Did a Government Intel Asset Plant Key Evidence in Proud Boys Case?

• We should be suspicious of weird coincidences. - By Julie Kelly

"It’s week five of the Justice Department’s most high-profile—and high-stakes—criminal trial related to the events of January 6, 2021. 

Five members of the Proud Boys face the rare “seditious conspiracy” charge. 

Guilty verdicts—almost certain given the government’s near-perfect conviction rate for January 6 defendants—would build legal momentum for a similar indictment against Donald Trump.
...It now appears that one key piece of evidence was not the work of any defendant in this case but rather written by a one-time government intelligence asset with unusual ties to both the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers, another group involved in January 6...

As evidence piles up to show how federal assets played an animating role before and on January 6, Armes’ weird account—and background in government intelligence—cannot be dismissed as coincidence.

Leadership! Trump!

 

Birth Rates Plunge in Heavily Vaccinated Countries

Birth Rates Plunge in Heavily Vaccinated Countries - Colleen Huber

• In many countries, births dropped sharply nine months after peak COVID vaccine uptake...

"Since the beginning of COVID, vital statistics as reported by governments around the world, are hard to come by. 

Spotty availability hinders analysis and understanding.

• ...United States, Massachusetts, New York, Illinois, and Washington are four of the states that, as of this writing, have not updated births data since 2019 [1] and 2020. [2] [3] [4]
• ...Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Sweden, Portugal, Spain, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Slovenia, as well as Iceland, Northern Ireland, Montenegro, Serbia—all show this pattern. Nine months after peak vaccine uptake—the births decline.
• ...All of the nineteen countries studied saw accelerating declines in births in 2022, beginning at nine months after peak COVID vaccine uptake...

#1 This day 1970-----Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge over Troubled Water (Restored - from The Conc...

We've been WARNED!-----Victor Davis Hanson: The Chinese Spy Balloon, Orwellian Newspeak, and the Top-Down Revolution Engulfing America

Victor Davis Hanson: The Chinese Spy Balloon, Orwellian Newspeak, and the Top-Down Revolution Engulfing America

• “I’m just bewildered that these two evil regimes are so asymmetrically treated as we saw with the balloon … Had Russia done that, we would have shot that down the moment it got near the Aleutians,” says Victor Davis Hanson...“When they were trapped about the balloon, the new Soviet talking point came: ‘Balloons came in during Trump. Trump ignored them. Trump ignored balloons.’...
• Unlike the protests of the 1960s, this current woke revolution “was staged from the top,” Hanson says. “The left was not marching on the Pentagon. The left was not marching on the campus administrator. The left was not marching on Anaconda Copper or I.T.T. as they had been. They were inside the boardroom. They were inside the president’s office. They were inside the FBI. They were inside the CIA. They were inside the Pentagon.”

Ultimately, we are witnessing the unraveling of Western civilization, Hanson says.

• “It’s actually an attack on meritocracy, and the whole empirical system of hiring the most qualified better person for the stability and success of society … Where this ultimately goes … it means that, as you see in Cuba or Venezuela or Colombia, very successful societies start to break down and they can’t deliver the essentials of life because they have a commissariat, a commissar system of ideology trumping empiricism,” Hanson says...

Repeat the lie often enough.....

 

Another train derails in Midwest as Pete Buttigieg announces visit to Ohio crash site | Fox News

Another train derails in Midwest as Pete Buttigieg announces visit to Ohio crash site | Fox News: 

Yet another train derailed in the Midwest late Monday night in Gothenburg, Nebraska. Images from the Nebraska derailment showed roughly a dozen cars strewn across train tracks, but there were no flames or smoke. Union Pacific Railroad says the train was transporting coal, and there is no indication that the crash poses a threat to locals.

Gonna "need" free-money from Uncle Joe?-----Hospital systems brace for ‘crisis level’ pressures

Hospital systems brace for ‘crisis level’ pressures 

"...The COVID-19 pandemic and its resulting toll on an overtaxed workforce, on labor prices, on supply chains and almost every aspect of health care operations has squeezed margins. 

Despite the receding pandemic, however, other issues including overseas conflicts, rising labor costs and disruptions to still-healing supply chains are keeping hospital systems largely in the red.

• Across the U.S., hospital leaders are buckling in for a tight year for margins as costs for labor and supplies rise while compensation on the insurance front no longer meets their needs.

...In October, Trinity Health reported a $1.4 billion loss for that fiscal year, while Beaumont Health, now part of Corewell Health, reportedly lost $100 million in the first half of 2022...

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