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China has nothing like the critical-care facilities of Western cities. In dozens of sprawling metropolises larger than any in the West, China would be faced with millions more severely ill and dying people than it could possibly care for. An early study found the original Wuhan outbreak, if repeated in the U.S., would require 26 intensive-care beds per 100,000 citizens. The U.S. had these beds. China didn’t and still doesn’t. And yet one irony of the leadership’s decision to treat zero Covid as a national triumph has been a slowness to expand hospital capacity. Its go-it-alone approach on vaccine development,...

Fox News host Tucker Carlson pointed to the City of Baltimore’s under-performing public schools as a crucial factor in the City’s awful crime rate. “It’s because the schools are so bad that the hordes of young people exiting these schools are left without the knowledge and skills they should have been taught that so many end up committing crimes as a means of survival,” Carlson said. “Since many of these crimes are perpetrated against minorities this part of the community is doubly victimized.” Mayor Brandon Scott (D) called Carlson’s remarks “racist vitriol. Carlson well knows that the ancestors of the...

Community “charity” fundraising company GoFundMe demonstrated they’re woke and fascist at the same time by canceling the Freedom Convoy campaign and promising to send the $9+ million raised to “approved charities.” Now, they’re scrambling to fix the PR nightmare that ensued by moving to refund all donations. The company had hoped that by dropping the news late on a Friday that they’d avoid some of the backlash. But it was quickly seized by conservatives across social media as an example of the totalitarian nature of the left. We didn’t let them oppose freedom without voicing our opinions and pushing to...

Live streaming video by Ottawalks. Freedom Convoy 2022 taking place there in Ottawa now. The capital city of Canada. Outside the Parliament building. Downtown Ottawa. Day 9 protest. This is the real deal. This is big time. The overwhelming phrase used is Freedom. Shouted on the street adorning myriad signs. Freedom. Liberté from the Quebec convoyers.

Juiced Up Budgets In Other States Attributed To Federal Aid, But Pritzker Claims Credit In Illinois – Wirepoints By: Mark Glennon* This claim by Gov. JB Pritzker in his State of the State speech on Wednesday just might be his biggest whopper yet, which is saying something: “Let me set the record straight for you — our state budget surpluses would exist even without the money we received from the federal government.” To show why that’s untrue, in this column, we will look at Pritzker’s claim in relation to what’s happening and what is being said in other states. Countless...

VAERS is the acronym for the CDC's Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System. Congress mandated that the CDC create the database to store reports of specific patients having adverse events for those following vaccination. It was designed as a safety signal - if there were suddenly many cases of adverse events clustered around a vaccine, the vaccine would be pulled from market and studied to determine the precise mechanism of harm and if it related to the vaccine.The CDC designed VAERS to be ignored and if used, awkward, time consuming, inefficient and confused. They didn't want to expose any harm that...

We’ve heard an awful lot about the Freedom Convoy in Canada and the burgeoning trucker movement beginning to gain momentum here in the U.S. but not as much about what’s going on in Australia’s capital of Canberra. Australians from all walks of life have descended into Canberra to protest for medical freedom. Citizens who are appalled by the government’s tactics, which have included draconian lockdowns, quarantine camps run by the military, and other restrictions are making their voices heard. Don’t forget that Australia’s vaccine mandates even prevented the world’s number one men’s tennis player, Novak Djokovic, from defending his Australian...

If the omicron surge has you flashing back to earlier in the pandemic, this news won't help matters. Disney's newest cruise ship, the Disney Wish, is delaying its first summertime sailing by six weeks because of COVID-related issues at its shipyard in Germany. Instead of setting sail June 9, passengers will have to wait until at least July 14. The German company that is building the ship says omicron came at a crucial point, delaying its production schedule. The unwelcome news means Disney has to cancel 12 sailings for the season. Many other cruise lines have been affected by the...

Embattled liberal San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin is facing a recall election this summer and the latest headlines out of the City by the Bay this week are unlikely to improve his prospects. The Chief of Police in his city announced on Thursday that the SFPD would no longer cooperate with Boudin’s office in the prosecution of any police officers accused of misconduct or charged with crimes. The reason for this decision stems from the claims of a prosecutor working for Boudin who said that she hid potentially exculpatory evidence from the defense attorneys representing a cop who was...

In the first of a five-part series “Even black men can be fired for not being ‘woke’ enough“, a radio talk show canceled by Canada’s Bell Media and iHeartRadio demonstrates how individuals who are black are only useful to “liberals” when they repeat the slogans of their white intellectual masters. Those who do not conform to the “progressive” stereotype are kicked off the plantation. Writes Jamil Jivani: Wokeness—a political agenda with a superficial commitment to diversity and inclusion—has become a global ideological movement. And, more than government policy, it’s big corporations pushing this agenda and punishing those who refuse to...

Pancreatic carcinoma is a tumor with an extremely poor prognosis for which effective treatments have not yet been found. A team has now discovered a way of making pancreatic tumors treatable with immunotherapy methods using a targeted combination of two cancer drugs. The researchers believe that the promising combined approach could also prove effective with other cancer types. Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is the most common form of pancreatic cancer. The disease is almost always fatal, with a 10-year survival rate of around 1 percent. The prognosis is especially poor for a subgroup of these tumors known as mesenchymal PDAC...

Bats have often been the subject of disdain, especially now that they may be somewhat responsible for the COVID-19 issue. It seems as if they may finally be catching a break, thanks to a viral video on Reddit. It shows them upside down, and they look like they are ready for a party. The video was taken by Das Kraftfuttermischwerk of some bats gyrating to music on a lighted floor. The sway of the bats appears to mimic the dance moves you might see at a goth club. Of course, it isn’t all cutesy, especially when you look closer and...

The financial news site accidentally reported that Russia had invaded Ukraine Friday afternoon with a headline on its homepage. “Live: Russia invades Ukraine,” read a jarring headline on Bloomberg’s homepage at around 4 p.m. It stayed up for about 30 minutes, according to Olga Lautman, a Russian analyst who posted the message on social media. Users who clicked on the eye-popping story — which comes as Russian troops mass on the Ukrainian border and US officials warn of a potential invasion — were shown an error page. “I went on the site and saw the breaking news but knew it...

A former staffer for the Washington football team now called the Commanders accused her boss of using “Jewish slurs” and other forms of verbal harassment during her time with the organization. “I was called Jewish slurs that refer to a non-Jewish woman that you are sexualizing,” Emily Applegate said Thursday during testimony to the US House of Representatives Oversight Committee, which is probing allegations of harassment and misconduct within the NFL franchise. “A slur which I will not repeat a rabbi described as ‘simply indefensible, condescending, racist, and misogynistic.'” Applegate did not name her boss in the testimony, but The...

Police detained some 55 protesters outside parliament when they broke up a 'convoy' demonstration that had blocked traffic for several hours in pursuit of demands including cheaper petrol and the resignation of the government. Police began towing vehicles parked on Mannerheimintie when the protesters did not disperse when instructed to do so just after midnight. Two of the detainees were taken in on suspicion of obstructing an official carrying out his duties, and police tweeted that one of their tow trucks had its tyres punctured with a sharp implement. The group's demands included the removal of all covid-related restrictions, even...

OTTAWA, Ontario – “Do I look like a white supremacist?” a protester identifying himself as Daz asked Breitbart News jokingly on Wednesday, pointing to his dark skin, when asked about news media narratives of “white supremacy” among supporters of the Freedom Convoy. Assorted news media outlets have characterized the ongoing demonstration in downtown Ottawa as motivated by “white supremacy.” Leftist Prime Minister Justin Trudeau derided trucker protesters and their fellow demonstrators as “conspiracy theorist” wearers of “tinfoil hats.” He also denigrated Canadian citizens opposing his policies and ideology as members of “anti-vaxxer mobs” who are “racist,” “misogynistic,” and “don’t believe...

The pro-life movement is at a crossroads and making great progress towards the goal of eliminating abortion. Texas is leading the nation with a law called the Heartbeat Bill that has made its way to the United States Supreme Court. Pro-lifers need to take this moment to fight has hard as the left in supporting state laws that don’t allow abortions when a fetal heartbeat can be detected. This issue is too important to wait. When Texas passed the new law, the Courts did not comply with the left’s push to block the law. This law that has saved Texas...

President Biden reacted to surging crime numbers by pushing more gun control Thursday, and Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) responded by tweeting that “Joe Biden’s crime crisis” cannot be blamed on the Second Amendment. Biden spoke about cannons, “illegal guns,” “ghost guns,” “gun crime,” and “gun violence,” among other things. He compared gun manufacturers to cigarette makers, seeking to open up gun makers to lawsuits, and described a Glock handgun as a “weapon of war.” He pressed for background checks and pledged a crackdown on “rogue gun dealers.” Biden then suggested the Second Amendment is not “absolute.” Stefanik responded to Biden...

BEIRUT, Lebanon — For a man who sought to disappear, the leader of the Islamic State seemed to have done everything right. He hid out far from where his enemies expected. He never left the house, relying on trusted couriers to communicate with his far-flung underlings. He was the group’s only leader to never issue a video or voice address, for fear it would make him easier to track. Most of his most fervent followers would not have recognized him on the street. But American commandos came for him anyway, and on Thursday, the leader, Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, blew...