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Tuesday, May 10, 2022

Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #403

Sweden Pandemic Deaths Among Lowest In Europe -- All While Avoiding Strict Lockdowns

Sweden logged one of the lowest Covid-19 death rates in Europe, all while avoiding strict economy-killing lockdowns that led to economic chaos across the world, the Telegraph reports, citing new figures from the World Health Organization.

Sweden, which was criticised in the early stages of the pandemic for resisting a mandatory lockdown, had fewer deaths per capita than much of Europe.

In 2020 and 2021, the country had an average excess death rate of 56 per 100,000 - compared to 109 in the UK, 111 in Spain, 116 in Germany and 133 in Italy. -Telegraph

As the Telegraph delicately notes - "Experts said the difference demonstrated stringent lockdowns alone did not determine success when battling Covid-19."

So what's Sweden's secret?

The Telegraph suggests that things such as lower obesity and better general health played a factor - which is certainly true.

"The lesson from Sweden is to invest in your population's health and have less inequality," said Prof Devi Sridhar, the chairman of global public health at the University of Edinburgh.

Meanwhile in the strictly locked-down UK, "there have been too many preventable deaths," according to Dr Michael Head, a senior research fellow in global health at the University of Southampton. "By the end of the pandemic, it's likely that the UK will probably end up mid-table on various metrics that measure pandemic performance, such as excess mortality," he added.

In fact, some 68% of deaths during the pandemic came from just 10 countries, including the United States, Russia and India.

But Colin Angus, a modeller at the University of Sheffield who was not involved in the study, said the WHO’s methodology “looks entirely sensible”, adding that excess death estimates are critical to hold governments to account.

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Will the voters channel their furor at this regime of lies into an unprecedented turnout at the polls in November?

A large majority of Americans now have no confidence in Joe Biden and his administration, which often polls below 40 percent, with negatives nearing 60 percent.

Despite the 15-month catastrophe of his regime, the level of his own unpopularity remains understandable but still remarkable. After all, in 2020 voters already knew well of his cognitive deficits and the radicalism of his agenda. They saw both clearly starting in 2019 and during the 2020 Democratic primaries, the primary debates, and the general election.

So what did Biden’s voters imagine would happen when a cognitively challenged president, controlled by hard-Left subordinates, entered office—other than what he has done?

Now, as then, the media is fused to the progressive agenda and does—and did—its best to turn a non-compos mentis Biden into a bite-your-lip centrist empath in the Bill Clinton “I feel your pain” mode.

The American people know that on every occasion their president speaks, he will slur his words at best. At worst, he will have little idea where he is, where he has been, or what he is supposed to be saying or doing. When he is momentarily cognizant, he is at his meanest, or he simply makes things up.

Our new normal of a mentally incapacitated president is not entirely new in American history—Woodrow Wilson was an invalid during the last months of his presidency. But Wilson’s condition was well hidden. Quite novel is the idea that the American people know the man in the White House is cognitively disabled and simply expect him to confirm that bleak diagnosis each time he opens his mouth.

If Donald Trump exaggerated, Biden flat out lies daily. His most recent untruth was his assertion that the MAGA movement represents “the most extreme political organization that’s existed in American history.” Biden cannot really believe that roughly half the country is now more dangerous than Antifa, Black Lives Matter, the Weathermen, the American Nazi Party, the American Communist Party, and the Ku Klux Klan. And this comes from the mythically moderate “good old Joe from Scranton”?

The bullied people also know the Biden problem has no remedy. The 25th Amendment that Democrats and the Left raised nonstop in efforts to remove Trump—from the Rosenstein-McCabe wear-a-wire embarrassment and former Yale psychiatrist Bandy X. Lee’s congressional tomfoolery to the incessant Montreal Cognitive Assessment demands—won’t apply to Biden.

Either the media will continue to rebrand his incapacity as Ciceronian eloquence or it will privately gloat that Kamala Harris is so off-putting, so uninformed, so unpopular that the people would prefer an amnesiac Biden to a...

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Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #399

White House Warns of 100 Million COVID Infections This Fall

Master Sgt. Nicole Cafarelli, a member of the 106th Rescue Wing, dons protective gear at the COVID-19 testing site at the Theodore Roosevelt Nature Center at Jones Beach, N.Y., May 15, 2020. Joined by members of the New York Army National Guard and New York Naval Militia, the service members are part of a coordinated response to the COVID-19 pandemic and provide care and testing throughout the state. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Christopher S. Muncy)

The Biden regime is warning that there could be as many 100 million COVID-19 infections in the fall, just in time for the mail-in ballot avalanche to happen during the coming midterm elections.

The White House is ready to roll out the fear yet again, even as COVID-19 hysteria has subsided for the time being. They will not let this crisis go to waste and have their court experts spewing propaganda already.

“What they’re saying seems reasonable — it’s on the pessimistic side of what we projected in the covid-19 scenario modeling run,” said Justin Lessler, an epidemiologist at University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health.

“It’s always hard to predict the future when it comes to covid, but I think we’re at a point now where it’s even harder than normal. Because there’s so much sensitivity, in terms of these long-term trends, to things we don’t understand exactly about the virus and about [human] behavior,” he added.

Right now, Pfizer and Moderna are developing new booster shots that will correspond to Omicron and other variants that are scheduled to emerge. This will further bolster their already obscene profits with help from...