THIS & THAT XVIII

           A UK eugenics society known as the “Sterilization League for Human Betterment” has recently changed its name to “EngenderHealth.”  I feel so much better.

 

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          Brian Sicknick is the Capitol Police officer who died on January 7, one day after the riot at the Capitol Building in Washington.  Originally we were told he was hit with a fire extinguisher by protesters.  False.  Then we were told he was spritzed with “bear spray,” which somehow resulted in his death.  In fact, we now know there is no evidence he suffered an allergic reaction to any chemical irritants.

 

          Finally, more than three months after the riot, the medical examiner’s report on Sicknick’s death was released.  He suffered two strokes and died of natural causes a day after the riot.  The strokes were caused by a blood clot in an artery that supplies blood to the brain stem.  The medical examiner was asked whether the clot constituted a preexisting medical condition, and would not comment.

 

          This means that no one was killed by Capitol protesters during the January 6 riot.  A few hundred people broke into the building, trespassed in secured areas, sat at the desks of some members of Congress and threw papers around.  The only person killed that day was an unarmed protester named Ashli Babbitt, who was shot by a policeman the government still refuses to identify.

 

          Other than that, the Capitol protest was EXACTLY THE SAME as Pearl Harbor, 9-11, the Civil War, the crucifixion, or whatever the Democrats are comparing it to today.

 

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          Life is largely about making one’s peace with entropy.

 

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          As of April 30, 2021, the CDC was reporting 10,262 “breakthrough cases” of COVID-19.  These are people who were vaccinated who then came down with the virus.  On May 1, the agency announced that, going forward, they would only count breakthrough cases if they resulted in hospitalization or death.

 

          Questioned about this shift in policy on CNN, on May 16, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky first admitted that 223 vaccinated Americans had died “with COVID,” but that most of these were not “COVID deaths,” suggesting that, for example, a person with COVID might have a heart attack and that such a death should not be counted as a “COVID death.”

 

          For the past fifteen months, the policy on COVID deaths has been that if you had tested positive for COVID and then died, yours was a COVID death even if you had actually been hit by a truck.  Now, apparently, the worm has turned.

 

          The effect of this change in policy will be to boost the “effectiveness” numbers for the various vaccines by simply not counting many of the people who get the shot and then get sick anyway.  This will help the bureaucrats who want to remove the “emergency authorization” status for the vaccines.  The increase in “effectiveness” will also provide another talking point for those who demand 100% vaccination worldwide.  

 

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          It is easy to get categories confused.  The previous item concerned those people who 1) got vaccinated, 2) got COVID, and 3) died.  The CDC director said there were 223 people in this group, though I have no idea where she got that number.

 

          These should not be confused with those who merely 1) got vaccinated, and 2) died.  According to the CDC’s Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) database, there were 4588 such reported deaths as of June 11, 2021.

 

          Disclaimers:

 

          1.  The CDC does not verify these death reports, so some of these deaths of vaccinated people could have been caused by something other than the vaccine.  Some might even be completely false.

 

          2.  A study by Harvard researchers concluded that less than 1% of adverse events related to vaccines are actually reported to the VAERS database.  So the number of vaccine deaths might be much higher than 4588.

 

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          NBA ratings are plummeting, for a number of reasons, but one reason is that a number of former fans (like me), are bored by the current all-offense/no-defense ethic.  To spice up the game, I suggest the game be changed to a make-it/take-it affair.  If a team scores, even just a foul shot, it retains possession and gets a new shot clock.

 

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          I have written before about blood citizenship (jus sanguinis).  In much of old Europe, blood citizenship is the rule, and you must prove your parents were citizens before you can become one.  This means that entire families that may have lived in a country for hundreds of years will have no path to obtain legal citizenship or voting rights.  The alternative, found in the U.S. and much of the Western Hemisphere, is birthright citizenship (jus soli), where, if you were born in say, Kansas, you are an American citizen from birth regardless of your parents' status.  

 

          Aryan certificates (Ariemachweis), were issued in the 1930s in Nazi Germany to designate those eligible for Nazi Party membership, those qualified to become SS officers, and sometimes those entitled to own land.  Generally, one had to produce proof, from marriage and birth records going back to January 1, 1800, that none of your ancestors had Jewish or other undesirable blood.

 

          Because of Germany’s rule of blood citizenship, Aryan certificates are still accepted as valid ID in Germany because they were based on certified public records.  This link to Germany’s racist and genocidal past is yet another reason why blood citizenship should be rejected by decent people as the sole path to legal status.  Those who want to eliminate America’s birthright citizenship tradition are making a terrible mistake.

 

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                    In Philadelphia, the city’s indoor mask mandate ended a week ago, yet today, at a Target in the city, a large majority (my estimate: 85%) of both customers and employees were walking around with masks on.  There is no legal reason to wear a mask indoors, there has never been a public health reason to do so, and there are now no serious grounds for debate on the usefulness of masks.  It’s a pointless exercise, yet 85% of my fellow Philadelphians are still wearing them.  The reluctance to take the masks off reminds me of a famous gag attributed to Mark Twain:  “It is much easier to fool people than to persuade them they have been fooled.”

 

          Fifteen months ago, there was no particular reason to think mask-wearing would be effective in stopping the spread of a respiratory virus, or that lockdowns of schools and various segments of the economy would prevent infections, or that “asymptomatic spread” (where healthy people can make you sick by talking to you), was anything to worry about.  Still, with the initial confusion and fear about COVID, it was perhaps not surprising that some of these ideas got a bit of traction.  Now however, in the wake of dozens of studies on all these issues, we know these components of COVID panic were pure idiocy.

 

          The people behind these lethal and destructive falsehoods (Fauci and the other bureaucrats, and Governors Newsom, Cuomo, Wolf, Murphy, Whitmer and others), should now be dumped in the landfill of history along with the Y2K proselytizers, the prosecutors in the “Magic Clown” cases in the 1990s, and the perpetrators of a hundred other episodes of mass American madness.  Yet they remain in power.  It seems, in a way, they are protected precisely by those decent people they duped.  Despite all the evidence on masks, lockdowns, and asymptomatic spread, most people who believed what they were told will never accept the truth.  To do so would be to admit they were fooled, and admit their own culpability for the propaganda and the lies.

 

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