Recommended by Ricochet Members Created with Sketch. Coronavirus Update: Death Toll Increasing

 

It’s been a long time since my last Coronavirus update. Both Western Europe and the US are experiencing a significant increase in the death toll. In Western Europe, it’s a second wave. In the US, it’s more like a third wave, though the second wave (in the summer) was pretty small.

Here is a graph of daily Covid deaths per million, for the US and Western Europe, showing a seven-day moving average. “Western Europe” is the 15 European countries west of the old Iron Curtain, down to little Luxembourg but excluding the micro-states.

Recommended by Ricochet Members Created with Sketch. Well, We Knew This Was Going to Happen

 

Here in the Dictatorship of Washington State, our ruler in Olympia has announced that he will join in the evil conference of Trump-hating states to require state approval of any Covid vaccine approved by the FDA and CDC. This dictator, who is head-over-heels in love with government, and who insists that we comply with all CDC-related directives (with a statewide mask mandate), is now rejecting the approval by that august body of a Covid vaccine that, according to him, will be the only way we will ever approach a normal life here in our dictatorship. Here are a couple of quotes from an article announcing this.

Inslee says this is needed because the Trump Administration has undermined trust in federal agencies.

Join Jim and Greg for a very lively Friday podcast! First, they cheer the Supreme Court for telling the 9th Circuit to reconsider a case where churches face tighter restrictions than non-religious gatherings. They also hammer Los Angeles and California as their COVID restrictions even forbid “unnecessary walking” and effectively make people prisoners in their own homes. And they react to Joe Biden’s confusing comments about what would happen if he and Kamala Harris ever have a major disagreement over principle.

Join Jim and Greg as they discuss a new Georgia investigation into efforts to register the dead and other ineligible voters for the January Senate runoffs. They also react to attorney Lin Wood telling Republicans not to vote in the runoffs unless the two GOP senators publicly demand a special session of the legislature to address issues in the presidential race. And they roll their eyes as Los Angeles tells people not to interact with anyone outside their own homes and two more mayors prove themselves to be massive hypocrites on COVID restrictions.

Recommended by Ricochet Members Created with Sketch. Plus Jamais Normal Life

 

Oh, you fools. You thought a vaccine would bring back normality. Pfft. You must be illiterate. You probably also believe that climate change isn’t an existential threat to humanity. You probably even like meat. Rube!

Thankfully, St. Dr. Anthony Fauci is here to tell us all the truth:

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The current lockdown orders by idiot politicians (but I repeat myself) focus on limiting exposure to people with Covid. The draconian lockdowns in Europe limit people’s time outside their residences. Some of the US lockdowns aren’t much better. We know obese people are more vulnerable to Covid as are people with low vitamin D levels. […]

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Join Jim and Greg as they welcome a six-vote win for Republican Marianette Miller-Meeks in a very tight Iowa House race. They also hammer China for covering up what it knew about COVID in the early days of the pandemic as leaked documents confirm what many suspected for months. And they slam a Detroit Free Press columnist for labeling every man, woman, and child as a potential serial killer since they could possibly spread COVID.

Recommended by Ricochet Members Created with Sketch. An Honest Question About Flu Numbers

 

One of the few pieces of good news this year is that the flu season has been exceptionally mild so far. While it’s great that we don’t have to face two deadly epidemics simultaneously, I have a question:

Why is there less flu in 2020 than other years?

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Love is the drug. We now know beyond doubt that HCQ works & always worked NEVER FORGET that the other side, the fear-mongers, the lockdown proponents, the Big Pharma shills, the control freaks DELIBERATELY SUPPRESSED an effective treatment by lying about it & even banning it, killing 10,000s https://t.co/kZkL23tOKR — Rogue Scholar Books (@RogueScholarPr) November […]

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Great link to an article on Watts Up With That – it goes over, in significant detail, how COVID deaths are being coded, and therefore counted. It’s worth reading for the background, but you won’t get a “this means COVID deaths are overstated by 3X” or the like. Instead, you get the correct answer, generally, […]

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Other than that Dr. Watson, I’ve got nuthin’ US Senate: There were fraudulent papers, published by individuals interested in doing evil to the world with respect to HCQ. The NEJM & Lancet acknowledged they were fraudulent papers, to scare people. This is people in my field, in academic medicine, committing academic fraud. pic.twitter.com/J1gLKyzCiE — Dr. […]

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Recommended by Ricochet Members Created with Sketch. Covid Deaths Are Real: Rebutting Dr. Briand

 

I write to rebut the claims of Dr. Genevieve Briand, a senior lecturer at Johns Hopkins who holds a PhD in Economics and recently released a study questioning the Covid death statistics. The paper was subsequently withdrawn by Johns Hopkins, quite properly in my view. Dr. Briand’s analysis is deeply flawed.

Misleading and erroneous analyses like these have serious effects. It led our friend iWe to author a post yesterday titled Covid – Just A Big Hoax?, which cited Dr. Briand’s study as supporting the assertion “that the total death rates HAVE NOT CHANGED.”

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Our state tells us that, if we wish to have visitors from another household, they must “quarantine for 14 days”, or “quarantine for 7 days and have a negative coronavirus test within the past 48 hours”. Our State web site that supposedly gives you all the information you need to navigate the government edicts, nowhere […]

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Lie back and think of Shingles NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma pleads guilty to federal criminal charges, formally admitting role in opioid crisis. — Mike Balsamo (@MikeBalsamo1) November 24, 2020 Preview Open

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We hope you and your family had a wonderful Thanksgiving! As Black Friday officially kicks off the Christmas shopping season, Jim and Greg each discuss three gifts they’d like to give political figures. The gifts range from the practical to the comical to the desperately needed.

Join Jim and Greg as they reveal what they’re politically thankful for in 2020. From the fight against COVID to domestic politics to major events on the world stage, they each find three things they’re thankful for from this difficult, unpredictable year.

Happy Thanksgiving to all 3 Martini Lunch listeners and your families! There will be no podcast on Thursday. Please join us Friday for our special Black Friday edition, as Jim and Greg pick out gifts for various political figures.

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@caroljoy has had her post on what is happening in California promoted to the Main Feed. Well, some other blue states are also seeing their citizens objecting strenuously to the lockdowns. Let’s start in my state of Washington: Preview Open

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Join Jim and Greg as they welcome disputed reports that the leaders of Saudi Arabia and Israel met in recent days in hopes that the thaw in Middle East tensions is spreading even farther. As the CEO of Qantas Airlines announces all passengers on international flights will eventually need to be vaccinated against COVID to be allowed on board, Jim and Greg discuss why that’s a difficult policy to enforce and whether people will shut out from society if they refuse. And they discuss the Trump legal team parting ways with Sidney Powell just days after their much-discussed press conference.

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Let us be thankful for Lockdowns WOW. ‘Asymptomatic spread is not a thing.’ https://t.co/TwF4A4ll5S. Time for lawsuits, nearly time for arrests, criminal trials: Zoom, FB, Microsoft, Nintendo, Nasdaq, Bloomberg, Amazon, all who funded Covid-19 Response propaganda leading to baseless ‘lockdowns’. @allisonpearson https://t.co/ducCSKkEYw — Dr Naomi Wolf (@naomirwolf) November 22, 2020 Preview Open

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