The Great Shutdown
Pittsburgh’s Phantom Pandemic, IV — Numbers you need to know
Zero. Everyone in Allegheny County — especially the local media — needs to know that number. 0. That’s how many people in Allegheny County under 20 years of age have died of Covid-19 — in four months. Here’s another number you should know — one that the local panic media might want to mention now…
Read MoreSo Sorry for That Shutdown, Kids
Sorry, young people. Thanks to us old Baby Boomers you Millennials and Zoomers are now living in a world of trouble. We — your parents and grandparents — have screwed up before. Big-time. The Iraq War. The Great Recession of 2008. The creation of a gargantuan Surveillance/Security/Welfare/Warfare State that will never die, never shrink and…
Read MoreAs has been obvious, the biggest scandal will be nursing homes deaths
For the record, this is the email I sent on May 9 to a guy I know who is the editor of a large and powerful East Coast newspaper that shall remain nameless: I encourage you to turn a few of your reporters loose on the chronic failures of private/public nursing homes/care homes to protect…
Read MoreSix flawed arguments for not reopening America, courtesy of the Washington Post
The people in charge of severely shutdown states across the USA are gradually coming to their senses and carefully reopening their local economies and societies. But public health ‘experts’ like Dr. Leana Wen don’t like it. They think it’s still too early in our mismanaged all-out war against the coronavirus to restore people’s basic rights…
Read MoreGov. Tom Wolf of Pennsylvania — America’s worst?
The governor of Pennsylvania, Tom Wolf, continues to make sure he holds on to his well-earned title of worst governor in state history. He and his dictatorial health department bureaucrats completely over-reacted to the initial threat of Covid-19, issuing strict statewide shutdown orders and social-distancing decrees when they should have been concentrating their efforts…
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