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The Morning Report 4/10/20

Good morning, kids. The weekend is here, or so the calendar says. Another grim milestone of yet another day of America held hostage. Actually, it’s a combination of two of Yogi Berra’s famous Yogi-isms: “It’s deja-vu all over again” and “50% of Chinese Coronavirus is 90% statistics.” Obviously the last one is paraphrased, but it hits the nail on the head. For going on two months, we have relied on the statistical models of one individual, and tragically, the rest is history – literally:

…The mother of all modeling when it comes to COVID-19 is Neil Ferguson of Imperial College London. It was he who first said 500,000 people in England would die, and another 2.2 million in America unless drastic steps were taken. Then, when both countries panicked, he came out with a new, downgraded model (one that still overstates the reality). Ferguson was presented to the world as one of the world’s foremost epidemiologists and modelers. Perhaps we should have learned more about him before accepting that claim. With help from Bill Steigerwald, Power Line has an expose that gives us more information about Ferguson. 

It turns out that, in 2005, Ferguson had some predictions about the Bird Flu. He estimated 200,000,000 deaths worldwide. In fact, in the last 17 years, there’ve been 455 diagnosed Bird Flu deaths. But anyone is entitled to make one little 199,999,545-person error, right? Well, maybe. But what about two such errors?

Dr. Ferguson was equally off with his death projections for mad cow disease. He made big headlines in the United Kingdom by predicting that mad cow disease could kill between 50 and 50,000. Bill writes: “Millions of cows were slaughtered. But to be fair, his scientific ‘model’ was right. The death toll [is 178 to date].”

But wait! There’s more. Ferguson also refuses to share his methodology with other scientists:

Several researchers have apparently asked to see Imperial’s calculations, but Prof. Neil Ferguson, the man leading the team, has said that the computer code is 13 years old and thousands of lines of it “undocumented,” making it hard for anyone to work with, let alone take it apart to identify potential errors. He has promised that it will be published in a week or so, but in the meantime reasonable people might wonder whether something made with 13-year-old, undocumented computer code should be used to justify shutting down the economy.

Ferguson is the modern equivalent of the man standing on the street corner, screaming at passers-by, “The end is near.” Neither is correct; both are insane. And yet this is the man who has shut down America’s economy…

I like that part about Ferguson’s refusing to share his methodology with other scientists. Not the scientific method but a method for sure, one that Michael Mann approves of.

Thing of it is, I don’t necessarily blame Ferguson for this. He is yet another crackpot faculty lounge egghead who most likely has a political agenda and definitely has a megalomaniacal streak in him. If anyone had bothered to check this guy’s history, which was evidently easy enough to do, they would have seen him for the Professor Irwin Corey that he is. But no one did. 

No, I don’t necessarily blame him; the fact that he has not been defrocked and booted is another matter. But Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx are quite another matter indeed. Now that we know for sure that Ferguson’s model was more apt to prove a flat earth than to flatten the curve, Fauci and Birx continue to push the notion of keeping everyone locked down for extended periods to prevent a wave of illness and death that was and is never going to happen. As insidious and lethal as this particular strain of Asiatic plague is, the idea that social distancing and quarantines are what caused the models to be revised downward and slow the pace of infection and death is a myth. That’s not to say that they did not prevent people from getting sick; naturally when sources of any contagion are not around to infect people, they won’t come down with anything, be it a cold or the Chinese Lung AIDS. But there is now evidence to show that states that did not impose lockdowns are bending the curve down as much as those that did. 

It is more than likely the case that the first infections occurred weeks or even months before the first one was reported. California for instance has such a low death rate because the population built up a herd immunity early and that quelled the spread of infection – just as that is the case every year with your garden variety influenza. But Drs. Fauci and Birx, as well as the Democrat-Media Complex will have none of it. They believe in science and technocracy to such an extent that they willingly toss aside all reason and ethics in order to protect a fellow true believer. Now throw in the political angle to this and it’s cargo cult science in service to an all-powerful State. And the apostates will kneel before it and them.

The latest stats as of this morning are 469,121 cases, 17,820 deaths and 16,234 recovered in the USA, out of a total population of 320 million. There’s also the matter of Dr. Birx herself confirming the counting of deaths due to the Chinese Lung Rot in people who were infected but died of other causes. That’s not a conspiracy theory; it’s data manipulation. And with Fauci now bringing Ferguson’s pulled-out-of-his-ass fictional estimate of 2 million US deaths down to about 60,000 in just 10 days, we’re looking at what will ultimately turn out to be a more lethal than usual flu season. And that assumes that the death toll even makes it that high. Maybe if we wait another 10 days, the estimate will go down to 30,000 – while the Dow Jones goes down to 10,000. 

But still they persist in insisting we continue to stay locked down based on a model that is a complete fraud and ignoring the actual science of viral infection, even one that can be as nasty as this one yet is still not the extinction-level Andromeda strain that it’s being pimped as. That leaves the ball in President Trump’s court. For two months, we’ve watched helplessly as the Superman economy got a surprise kryptonite enema and fell from the top of the Daily Planet and splatter on the pavement. Trump and team continue, at least outwardly, to defer to the “experts” for when they will give the all clear to restart the economy. Fauci is now devolving into General Jack D. Ripper territory with purity of essence madness about how we should never be allowed to shake hands again, while evil Leftist bastards like Ezekiel Emanuel want a total shutdown for upwards of 18 months, just to be sure. That is, be sure the US economy is destroyed and the population screams for Democrat Party dictatorship.

Again, I don’t want to ignore the fact that even a single person who suffers from this or Lord forbid dies of it is truly a tragedy, and one that the People’s Republic of China is responsible for. But as nasty as this bug may be, it simply does not rise to the danger level that warrants ruining the lives of 320 million people and putting us on a very dangerous course politically. I know that the Democrat states for sure will not comply with it, but Trump needs to announce his recommendation that the lockdowns should be lifted, and except for those already sickened, the elderly or the chronically ill with compromised lungs and immune systems, and the social distancing ended.

Enough is enough.

CHINESE CORONAVIRUS, FICTIONS AND FACTS

More on the specious modeling, Rush explodes on Fauci, anyone who challenges the lies will be labeled a conspiracy nutter, Larry Elder echoes my sentiments, when even I agree with Ron Paul you know…, Nipsy Cuomo with good news out of New York, CDC looking to lift some rules, regulations stifle innovation, and even Lefty site Snopes debunks the Trump HCQ libel.

ECONOMIC IMPACT OF THE LUNG MARCH 

Senate Democrats doing what Democrats do and playing politics with people’s lives, Doug Jones will hopefully be one and done and Alabama never to repeat that mistake, will Tom Massie go thumbs down again, Ohioans and Knox County, TN have had enough, Heritage has a plan to reopen America, Florida reports mountains of food rotting as restaurants rot along with them, WalMart and Costco ordered to not sell non-essential products (where in the Constitution is that permitted?), Bill Gates and Zeke Emanuelle disgust me, Lori Lightweight issues last call for Chicago, a call to suspend mortgage payments, what to do with your 401-K, and Victor Davis Hanson has had enough as well.

POLITICS, 2020 ELECTION

Trump super-PAC goes on a spending spree, Kommie Kidz order Biden campaign to comply, Biden really doesn’t need his arm twisted, Carville with the comedy gold, Jill Stein calling for a prog split from the Democrats (oh boy!), dog-eating shit Midas set to pimp for Biden, and Coonman sabotages the Virginia vote. I really hate that guy.

SHAMPEACHMENT, CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION, 

AG Barr is not letting Oriental Lung Gleet bar him from perhaps going after Comey as well as defending the Atkinson firing, and George Papadopoulos with a smoking gun on Stephen Halper.

CIVIL WAR 2.0

Tell me again how Leftists are all about peace, love, understanding, inclusion and tolerance.

DEMOCRAT-LEFTIST SCANDALS, CRIMES, CHUTZ-POCRISY, MESHUGAS

Steve Sisolak is repulsive.

AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER CRISIS, BORDER SECURITY

Don’t be scared; they’re talking about legal trade and commerce.

FIRST AMENDMENT, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER BIG TECH 

CNN does what it does best; lie and shill for commies foreign and domestic, Comcast should be investigated, if not shuttered and its assets confiscated, Brit science rag goes down on Chinese wang, Mollie Hemingway eviscerates Cuck Todd, two examples of egregious religious liberty violations and AG Barr with a warning on that.

ABORTION

Good news from Alaska, and the baby butchers retreat. For now.

FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

Several links about the WHO in the crosshairs, administration looks to cut Chi-Com cables, Japanese businesses now exiting China as well as ours, Gordon Chang calls for seizure of a cool trillion, will this episode be China’s doom, Italian PM thinks this is the end for the EU, State Dept. accuses Farsis of ramping up nuke production, BoJo out of the ICU, and Daniel Greenfield on Trump going after Maduro et al as narco terrorists.

DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS

AG Barr on our greatest threat.

DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE BUREAUCRACY, WASTE, FRAUD, ABUSE

Never letting a crisis go to waste…

THE ECONOMY, STUPID

Tick-tock-tick-tock, ya don’t stop…

CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

This is the NFL, Washington crooks protest behind bars, California slag pinched for licking food, and we really need to let the crooks out, don’t we?

HEALTHCARE

This farce is more cruel than the virus.

EDUCATION

I hope the teachers unions go out of business, words of wisdom from a very wise man, and the Chi-Com Lung AIDS exposes the higher ed fraud.

RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM

Psycho luddites have to psycho.

FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY

Psycho feminazi has to Nazi.

CULTURE WARS, HITHER & YON

Roger Goodell with a hopeful note, not that anyone should watch that dreck ever again, celebs pimping for anti-American Chi-Com front group, Walter Williams on the race hustle, Christian Toto with a thumbs up on a new kid movie, the power of Christ compels you – literally, Francis the Talking Pope vs. Mike Lindell (no contest), a search for G-d in these troubled times, and finally Passover in time of another plague.

And a blessed Good Friday and Easter to all our Gentile friends, especially those who are persecuted both at home and abroad.

NOTE: The opinions expressed in some links may or may not reflect my own. I include them because of their relevance to the discussion of a particular issue.