Submitted by: Terry Payne
https://www.americanthinker.co
idenapocalypse.html
"Martin Kulldorff, a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and a
biostatistician and epidemiologist at the Brigham and Women's Hospital has
listed 12 principles of public health
<https://threadreaderapp.com/t
H-bJBWExQWX61esUxk6dGK7Ei1w7O4
are in contravention of the administration's policies."-
Clarice Feldman <https://www.americanthinker.c
American Thinker.Com
August 1, 2021
The Three Horsemen of the Bidenapocalypse
By Clarice Feldman <https://www.americanthinker.c
In the Bible, there were four horsemen of the apocalypse -- sword, famine,
wild beasts, and plague. In the Biden Administration, there are three events
spelling the doom of this administration and the Democrats: open border
policy, inflation, and coercive unscientific public health measures.
Catering to the party's far left has poised the Democrats over a cliff from
which I see no soft landing. Without backing off, they've lost the favor of
the nation. But backing off will fracture the party and cost it its most
fervent leftist wing -- indeed, its most strident supporters are already
demanding more
<https://legalinsurrection.com
office-we-are-losing-hope-that
Biden's popularity sinks more every week and Harris's is not much better.
Rasmussen reports the latest poll shows that 47% of Likely U.S. Voters
approve of President Biden's job performance. Fifty-one percent (51%)
disapprove. The two polls on Harris's favorability last week show her
disapproval ratings
<https://www.realclearpolitics
orable-6690.html> edged out the approvals
<https://thehill.com/homenews/
r-democratic-worries%C2%A0> as well.
The Immigration Debacle
It's only going to get worse for the administration. While the major media
have downplayed the size of the stream of illegal aliens crossing the
border, they cannot hide forever the tens of thousands of illegal crossings
each month and that the tide keeps growing geometrically. Here's a video
<https://www.youtube.com/watch
detailing the tsunami into this country.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch
After dithering for months, Harris, who was tasked by Biden with dealing
with this, came out with an absurd and limp proposal
<https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/
gy-to-address-illegal-immigrat
facilities in Central America to be generous to local employees and adding
more legal pathways to immigration.
(https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/
gy-to-address-illegal-immigrat
Read More
As Langford points out, however, the border jumpers hail from 100 countries
all around the globe, so blaming this on employment conditions in Central
America doesn't wash. Neither would adding more legal pathways seem to be
sufficient to persuade thousands of people from 100 countries to go home and
wait for such unlikely legislation to be enacted and even longer to take
force.
Texas has ordered troops to stop NGOs and others from transporting illegals
through the state. Only law enforcement officials will be allowed to do
this. Despite the absence of federal action to enforce immigration law
effectively, Attorney General Merrick Garland is threatening judicial
injunctive relief
<https://www.cbsnews.com/news/
-vehicles-carrying-migrants/> to prevent such state action. Should he
follow through on his threat I foresee a public relations backlash and a
humiliating judicial loss.
(https://www.cbsnews.com/news/
-vehicles-carrying-migrants/)
Notably, many of these illegals seem to be suffering from COVID-19
<https://thetexan.news/border-
-testing-positive-for-coronavi
released by border agents and housed by federally compensated non-government
outfits like Catholic Charities in unsuspecting communities. This at the
very same time that the CDC, Biden, mayors, some businesses, and
institutions are mandating vaccinations and even masking for those fully
vaccinated, along with related restrictions. You have to be an idiot not to
see the cognitive dissonance in these discordant policies.
(https://thetexan.news/border-
-testing-positive-for-coronavi
The Biden Inflation
You also have to be an idiot to believe that cheap borrowing and flooding
the nation with federal funds will not lead to inflation, especially when
coupled with regulatory actions certain to raise prices. Or to believe that
it will be of short duration
<https://www.dailywire.com/new
el-in-30-years> .
(https://www.dailywire.com/new
el-in-30-years)
The U.S. Department of Commerce revealed that a key inflation metric rose to
its highest level since the early 1990s. Personal Consumption Expenditures
Price Index -- which the Federal Reserve uses as a key guide for monetary
policy decisions -- has risen 4% between June 2020 and June 2021.
Nestle's, the world's largest food company reports inflation is causing it
to raise food prices
<https://www.reuters.com/busin
idance-after-h1-organic-sales-
beverage producers are also lifting prices
<https://www.fooddive.com/news
urers-pass-higher-costs-on-to/
<https://fortune.com/2021/06/2
-expert-predicts-the-boom-will
no rational reason to believe this will change soon. In large part due to
Biden's moronic energy policies, gasoline prices keep rising. I can't
imagine strapped families will miss the correlation between the
administration's actions and their diminishing resources.
(https://www.fooddive.com/news
urers-pass-higher-costs-on-to/
(https://fortune.com/2021/06/2
-expert-predicts-the-boom-will
Coercive (and Inconsistent) COVID policies
Is your head spinning from the CDC diktats? It should be. Jim Treacher
summarizes the reasons why
<https://jimtreacher.substack.
We got some new COVID-19 rules yesterday. They were different than the rules
we got the day before that, and I assume they're different than the rules
we'll get tomorrow.
(https://jimtreacher.substack.
To recap:
1. Absolutely do not wear a mask
2. You must, must, must wear a mask or you're killing Grandma
3. Don't leave the house or you're killing Grandma
4. If you can't avoid leaving the house, stay at least six feet away
from any other human being you see or you're killing Grandma
5. Wash your hands 20 times a day
6. Do not touch your face or anything else, ever
7. Get vaccinated so you don't have to wear a mask
8. You have to wear a mask even if you're vaccinated
9. When the above rules change, and then change back, and then change
back again, shut up about it or you're a stupid MAGA-head
10. Don't forget to vote Democrat.
The satire site
<https://babylonbee.com/news/c
o-them> Babylon Bee nails it.
(https://babylonbee.com/news/c
o-them)
"This whole pandemic has been bizarre for us," said CDC spokesman Dexter
Park. "Normally, we put out recommendations like only cook a steak well-done
and only fry eggs over-hard, and people don't even pay enough attention to
make fun of us, so people acting like what we say during the pandemic
matters is really confusing."
The CDC is a group of bureaucrats used to working a 9-to-5 job of complete
pointlessness, making lists of recommendations that are fated to be crumpled
up and thrown in a wastepaper basket. Thus, the pandemic turning them into
experts whose opinions matter has caught them completely by surprise.
"People keep saying our suggestions on masking are dumb and make no sense,"
said CDC regulator Lyle Howell. "But that's all of our suggestions on
everything. We have to keep making recommendations, though, to justify our
existence and get a budget. But no one listens to them -- not even us. So
can't you all just go back to ignoring us and stop yelling at us? I'm just
here until I get my pension."
Martin Kulldorff, a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and a
biostatistician and epidemiologist at the Brigham and Women's Hospital has
listed 12 principles of public health
<https://threadreaderapp.com/t
H-bJBWExQWX61esUxk6dGK7Ei1w7O4
are in contravention of the administration's policies.
#1 Public health is about all health outcomes, not just a single disease
like #COVID19 <https://threadreaderapp.com/h
important to also consider harms from public health measures. #totalharms
<https://threadreaderapp.com/h
<https://collateralglobal.org/
<https://twitter.com/collatera
#2 Public health is about the long term rather than the short term. Spring
#COVID19 <https://threadreaderapp.com/h
<https://threadreaderapp.com/h
postponed the pandemic to the fall. thelancet.com/journals/lance..
<https://www.thelancet.com/jou
fulltext> @JohanGiesecke <https://twitter.com/JohanGies
#3 Public health is about everyone. It should not be used to shift the
burden of disease from the affluent to the less affluent, as the #COVID19
<https://threadreaderapp.com/h
<https://threadreaderapp.com/h
#4 Public health is global. Public health scientists need to consider the
global impact of their recommendations.
apnews.com/article/lifest...
<https://apnews.com/article/li
-hunger-international-news-5cb
<https://twitter.com/lhinnant>
#5 Risks and harms cannot be completely eliminated, but they can be reduced.
Elimination and zero-COVID strategies backfire, making things worse.
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/
<https://www.theatlantic.com/i
nd-shaming-people-wont-help/61
<https://twitter.com/JuliaLMar
#6 Public health should focus on high-risk populations. For #COVID19
<https://threadreaderapp.com/h
measures were never used to protect high-risk older people, leading to
unnecessary deaths.
#7 While contact tracing and isolation is critically important for some
infectious diseases, it is futile and counterproductive for common
infections such as influenza and #COVID19
<https://threadreaderapp.com/h
inference-review.com/article/o
<https://inference-review.com/
@MikkoPackalen <https://twitter.com/MikkoPack
#8 A case is only a case if a person is sick. Mass testing asymptomatic
individuals is harmful to public health.
#9 Public health is about trust. To gain the trust of the public, public
health officials and the media must be honest and trust the public. Shaming
and fear should never be used in a pandemic. thehill.com/opinion/health...
<https://thehill.com/opinion/h
pandemic> @camakridis
#10 Public health scientists and officials must be honest with what is not
known. For example, epidemic models should be run with the whole range of
plausible input parameters.
#11 In public health, open civilized debate is profoundly critical.
Censoring, silencing and smearing leads to fear of speaking, herd thinking
and distrust. scientificamerican.com/article
<https://www.scientificamerica
@JeanneLenzer1 <https://twitter.com/JeanneLen
#12 It is important for public health scientists and officials to listen to
the public, who are living the public health consequences. This pandemic has
proved that many non-epidemiologists understand public health better than
some epidemiologists.
If you doubt that the administration is getting blowback from this constant,
inconsistent, and unscientific messaging, maybe this will persuade you.
Friday, after the CDC announced that even vaccinated people should mask, it
stopped holding
<https://www.breitbart.com/pol
-briefings-public-revolts-agai
briefings. Several federal unions
<https://www.dailysignal.com/2
vaccine-rules-face-legal-chall
part of the Biden base, threatened court challenges to the requirement that
both federal employees and federal contractors must "attest to their
vaccination status and regularly submit to testing if not vaccinated."
Montana's legislature has banned any vaccination mandate and Texas's
governor Greg Abbott has banned any mask or vaccination mandate. I
anticipate growing resistance.
It's hard to justify any additional government mandates for masking and
there is little reason to mask outside hospitals and nursing homes. I see no
constitutional basis for the government to compel vaccinations. COVID
mortality is down, natural immunity is up, there are easy, rapid treatments
<https://the-pipeline.org/rega
early-stage infections. Despite scare reports about the Delta variant, it is
weaker than the original and is likely to vanish in a matter of weeks in the
way of such things. At the moment, only about .0007% of vaccinated U.S.
residents <https://nypost.com/cover/july
COVID. It makes no sense to restrict the lives of vaccinated people in an
effort to shield the unvaccinated. The more the administration tries to
restrict movement and liberty on such a basis, the more pushback it will
receive and the lower its approval ratings. By dropping the CDC briefings, I
think they're telegraphing that they're finally getting the message: We
aren't buying any more of this shuck and jive.
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