THIS IS TOTALLY WHAT PEOPLE DO WHEN THEY’RE CONVINCED THE WIN WAS HONEST: YouTube Will Ban ANY Video Criticizing Biden ‘Win’.
TOTALLY!
BUT BUT BUT THEY WERE GOOD FOOT SOLDIERS FOR THE LEFT! 48 States and US Government Sue Facebook for Illegal Monopoly Practices.
Now do Google.
EIGHTEEN, LAST I LOOKED. AND OTHERS MIGHT HAVE JOINED. LAST STOP BEFORE THE BLOOD IS ON THE STREETS: 17 States File Amicus Brief With Supreme Court in Support of Texas Election Lawsuit.
And those of you who’ll say it was on the streets this summer…. Oh, my sweet Summer children, you have no idea.
AND WE WILL NEVER BELIEVE THEM OVER OUR LYING EYES: The Brahmandarins’ new clothes: they will never forgive Trump for pointing out they’re not wearing any.
IT’S PROBABLY NOT TRUE. THE SAD THING IS THAT I’D LIKE IT TO BE. AT LEAST IT WOULDN’T BE BORING: Former Israeli space security chief says aliens exist, humanity not ready.
Because 2020 is horrifying and boring. Something that shouldn’t even be possible.
MAYBE TOO LITTLE TOO LATE, BUT: Starship flies!
IF THE SUPREME COURT DOESN’T LISTEN, THEY’LL HAVE CHOSEN THE FORM OF THEIR DESTRUCTOR…. AND OURS: Key legal issues behind the Texas petition to Supreme Court re election issues.
December 9, 2020
PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS:
—Headline, CNBC.com, October 15th.
● Chaser: Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden under federal investigation for tax case.
—Headline, CNBC.com, today.
UPDATE: DNC operatives with bylines sure know how to protect their boss:
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FUNNY: Rehab for Vice Bloggers.
Of course, if the vaccines were being rushed out to poor countries first, the complaint would be “using poor people as guinea pigs.”
OPEN THREAD: It’s the one thread to have when you’re having more than one.
UPDATE: A friend emails:
Thought experiment. There are five Democrat justices on the Supreme Court. There was a Democrat president who just ran for reelection. He supposedly lost, but virtually all Democrat voters believe that massive fraud in several Republican controlled states caused him to lose. Many Democrat attorneys general file a lawsuit in the US Supreme Court, essentially identical to the one that is pending now.
Does anyone believe for a second that those five Democrat justices wouldn’t do absolutely anything necessary to make sure the Democrat control of the presidency was maintained? Democrats care about power. Democrats do not care about process, or rules. Now we are being asked to be so meticulous about adhering to the rules, that we are to allow a laughably egregious fraud to succeed, and to permit our own throats to be cut by turning over the executive branch to the people who just committed the biggest political crime in history. I hope five US supreme court justices will show just a tiny bit of the creativity, to put it politely, which Democrat justices had when they, for example, found an imaginary abortion right in the US Constitution. We’ll see what happens.
Discuss.
THERE’S A LOT TO UNPACK IN THIS LONDON DAILY MAIL HEADLINE: Eric Swalwell refuses to admit wrongdoing over ‘top secret’ friendship with Chinese spy Fang Fang and demands probe into who leaked story — as he refuses to say if he slept with her (and she’s still Facebook friends with his dad and brother).
KATHY SHAIDLE OF FIVE FEET OF FURY AND STEYNONLINE.COM AND HER HUSBAND ARE HAVING A FUNDRAISER:
The pic above is Kathy in NYC several years ago.
Kathy is doing well at home and has homecare nurses and a doctor attending. She is suffering ovarian cancer and is now in palliative care.
We hope to hold on to her at home for as long as we can.
This is day two of Kathy’s Fundraiser. We’ve had a wonderful response to date and both Kathy and I are very grateful.
We know it’s a big favour to ask but we have about $50,000.00 dollars left on our mortgage and hope to pay it down before its scheduled end in 2024. As many of you know my Sainted Irish Mother has been looked after by Kathy and I these past few years. Kathy worked from home allowing me to work outside. That has now ended and our financial situation has taken a huge hit. Eliminating the monthly mortgage payment will ease our financial situation considerably and allow Mom to be looked after at home while I work part time. LTC in Ontario is a Covid nightmare and not an option.
If you can help with a donation or already have we thank you. We know not everyone can but your kind wishes and prayers mean as much to us.
You can donate via the PayPal Kitty button on their blog’s sidebar or via Interac email transfer to [email protected].
Having enjoyed Kathy’s writing for nearly 20 years, I donated.
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): I kicked in a hundred bucks. I’m devastated at her health situation, but at least I can do a little to ease the blow. I hope you will too.
SPACE: Virgin Galactic unveils pilot spacesuits for space tourist flights (photos). At least nobody gets a red shirt.
Related: Virgin Orbit will carry 10 cubesats on its LauncherOne Demo 2 flight this month.
DEEP BLUE URBAN JURISDICTIONS SEEM INTENT ON SUICIDE:Los Angeles prosecutor plans to seek release of thousands of criminals. As a friend on Facebook noted in a related context, Americans under 40 or so think relatively orderly, low-crime cities are a natural phenomenon. Those of us who came of age in the 70s and 80s know better. Unfortunately, a lot of young urbanites are about to learn how easy it is for a hip, “edgy” neighborhood to turn into a hellhole of crime and disorder.
NOW YOUTUBE WILL BAN YOU FOR TALKING ABOUT IT: An HBO Documentary About How Easily an Election Can Be Stolen Was an Emmy Contender in 2014.
Related, seen on Facebook:
IT’S DECEMBER, THE LID CAN COME OFF THE HUNTER BIDEN AFFAIR:
Related: Federal criminal investigation into Hunter Biden focuses on his business dealings in China. Before the election, my column on this subject was spiked because of journalistic ethics or something.
YOU DON’T TUG ON SUPERMAN’S CAPE, AND YOU DON’T TRY TO TROLL SEN. FRANK NICELEY:
THIS CALLS FOR A LAWSUIT AND MASS CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE: Stars and Stripes: Minority veterans to receive priority for coronavirus vaccines. What do I mean by civil disobedience? White and Asian veterans should sign up for vaccines as Native American, Hispanic or African-American. It’s hard to think of anything more un-American (and unconstitutional) than the government favoring one group of veterans over another based on race.
UPDATE: When the possibility of distributing Covid vaccines by race first reared its head over the Summer, I wrote:
There are obvious dangers to allocating medical resources by race … especially in a politically sensitive an area such as vaccines, where the public is already all-too-prone to accept various conspiracy theories and quackery that leads them to oppose vaccination. Instead of expanding the use of race in this way, science and medicine should be moving away from considering race and ethnicity at all.
VIDEO: Replay: SpaceX attempts Starship SN8 high-altitude launch test. A friend in the industry (not at SpaceX) writes on Facebook:
That was so totally awesome that awesome needs to be extended in meaning.
Starship made it through almost the entire set of test items on the check list. I am still just mindblown by what I’ve just watched. In-effing-credible.
According to Elon, the one fault in the test was insufficient pressure in the header tank for the landing burn. If not for that they’d have checked off the final item on the list.
No doubt that SN-9 will do it all… the only fault they had was a trivial one to fix.
All correct. But that said, there was an explosion at the end. But SpaceX isn’t afraid to blow things up on the path to getting it right, which is a huge advantage to progress.
SCOTT JOHNSON: Swalwell’s Swill. “The spy not only infiltrated Rep. Eric Swalwell’s network, she may have shared his bed, or so we can infer from Swalwell’s assertion that the response to the question whether she did may be ‘classified.’ Axios seems to have missed that aspect of the story, which the New York Post picked up here.”
1998 FLASHBACK: Charlie Trie Indicted: Clinton Friend Linked To Questionable Fund Raising. “Congressional investigators have alleged that some of the money Trie contributed to Clinton and the Democrats may have come from sources in China, which are barred by federal law from contributing to American election campaigns. Trie also has been linked to schemes by which money was distributed to people legally able to contribute, who then allegedly donated it to the Democrats in their names in order to conceal the actual source of the funds.”
IT’S THE MARION BARRY DEFENSE: Eric Swalwell Implicates Democrat Leadership, Blames Trump for Revelation of Chinese Spy Who Infiltrated Him.
NOTHING SAYS “EVERYTHING HERE IS ABOVEBOARD” LIKE CENSORING ALL CRITICISM: Covid and the New Age of Censorship: It doesn’t promote public health when media and tech companies stifle scientific debate.
Information has never been more plentiful or easier to distribute. Yet we are sliding into a new age of censorship and suppression, encouraged by technology giants and traditional media companies. As someone who’s been falsely characterized as a coronavirus “denier,” I have seen this crisis firsthand.
Since June, Amazon has twice tried to suppress self-published booklets I have written about Covid-19 and the response to it. These booklets don’t contain conspiracy theories. Like the scientists who wrote the Great Barrington Declaration, I simply believe many measures to control the coronavirus have been damaging, counterproductive and unsupported by science.
Amazon has said earlier that “as a bookseller, we believe that providing access to the written word is important, including books that some may find objectionable.” The company sells “Mein Kampf” and “The Anarchist’s Cookbook.” But when it comes to Covid, Amazon has a different standard. At least half a dozen other authors have emailed me that their books have been pulled. Amazon won’t disclose how many, or other details about how it picks books to censor.
Google-owned YouTube censors even more aggressively. The company disclosed in October that it had pulled more than 200,000 videos about the epidemic—including one from Scott Atlas, a physician who was advising President Trump. Facebook has not only censored videos and attached warning labels or “fact checks” to news articles, but removed groups that oppose lockdowns and other restrictions.
That online entertainment and retail companies have benefited financially from lockdowns adds to the ugliness of their suppression efforts. Interestingly, Apple —whose mobile business means it gains less than other big tech companies—has been less aggressive.
Tech companies aren’t alone in their efforts to stifle debate. Traditional news outlets, book publishers and even scientific journals are reluctant to publish information that challenges ideological orthodoxies. The Danish authors of a study on whether masks protect their wearers from coronavirus struggled for months to get it published, despite its obvious public-health importance. When they finally convinced a journal to print the paper, which showed that masks didn’t appear to protect their wearers, the journal’s editor felt compelled to write a piece defending her decision to run it.
News organizations then treated the study’s findings with a skepticism absent from the coverage of most other peer-reviewed scientific research.
If you want to be trusted, be trustworthy. Nothing about this inspires trust.
WON’T BACK DOWN: ‘The Big One’: Trump Will Join Texas Lawsuit to Block ‘Unlawful Election Results’ in Swing States.
UPDATE (FROM GLENN):
Related: Tennessee joins other red states in legal brief supporting Texas voting lawsuit against swing states. I’m hearing that Roger Simon’s column made the difference here.
Statement:
“The Tennessee Attorney General’s Office has consistently taken the position that only a State’s legislature has the authority to make and change election laws,” Slatery said in a statement. “This Office pressed that argument in cases defending Tennessee’s election laws against pandemic-related challenges and in amicus briefs in cases involving similar challenges in other courts.”
Stay tuned.
BOMB CANADA: THE CASE FOR WAR. Canadian Restaurant Owner Charged With ‘Trespassing’ After Reopening in Defiance of Lockdown Orders. How can you ‘trespass’ on your own property?
(Classical reference in headline.)
HERE WE GO: Feds, and 48 States Sue to Break Up Facebook.
SHUT UP, THEY EXPLAINED: YouTube Says It Will Start Deleting Content Alleging 2020 Election Voter Fraud.
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Nothing says, “relax, everything is aboveboard” like censoring claims of fraud while they’re still being litigated.
As I have called for. Now do Google.
REVIEW: IWI Tavor TS12 Shotgun.
FIGHTING ADMINISTRATIVE TYRANNY: NCLA’s Constitutional Claim at en banc Fifth Circuit Against SEC ALJs Draws Strong Amicus Support.
Background story here.
IF YOU LIKE YOUR PLAN, YOU CAN KEEP YOUR PLAN, HOLLYWOOD STYLE: Actors sue union health plan over loss of insurance.
IT WOULD BE HARD TO BE LESS ACCURATE THAN WHAT WE’VE SEEN IN 2020: Study offers new approach for more accurate epidemic modeling.
IN FAREWELL SPEECH, UDALL SAYS SENATE HAS BECOME ‘GRAVEYARD FOR PROGRESS:’
Senator Tom Udall urged his colleagues on Tuesday to kill the legislative filibuster that he said had helped turn the Senate into a “graveyard for progress,” using his farewell speech to point up a state of dysfunction in Congress that had become painfully obvious to most everyone listening to him.
“I’m not the first to say this in a farewell address, and I won’t be the last, but the Senate is broken,” Mr. Udall, Democrat of New Mexico, said on Tuesday in what is likely his final speech after 12 years in the deeply divided institution.
“The Senate is broken,” he repeated for emphasis.
For months, Americans have watched in anger as Congress remained mired in partisan paralysis over more pandemic relief, allowing unemployment benefits to lapse as many suffer from joblessness. Fewer people approve of the job lawmakers are doing in Washington than at almost any time in recent history. And the government watchdog group Common Cause ranked the current Congress the “least productive in history,” noting that only about 1 percent of bills introduced became law.
Cocaine Mitch plays for keeps. Hopefully the upcoming Georgia Senate elections will allow him to continue to do so.
Incidentally, CTL-F “Pelosi” brings up zero finds in the above New York Times article, whose headline, as Steve Milloy of JunkScience.com notes, spells “Communism” wrong.
THERE’S NO SCIENCE TO SUPPORT THESE MEASURES, SO THEY’RE LEGALLY INDEFENSIBLE, AND HENCE EFFECTIVELY ILLEGAL: Southern California Sheriffs Rebel Over Gavin Newsom’s New Stay-at-Home Order.
COVID-RELATED FATALITIES: Restaurant Industry in Free Fall; 10,000 Close in Three Months.
DEMOCRAT RAPHAEL WARNOCK IN 2016: FIDEL CASTRO HAD A ‘COMPLEX’ LEGACY.
Democrat Raphael Warnock yesterday: Dem Senate hopeful Raphael Warnock reassures Georgia voters that he’s ‘a pro-choice pastor.’
As one person replied, “Pro-choice pastors strongly endorse 9 out of the 10 Commandments.”
GOODER AND HARDER: New York City Shootings on Track to Hit 14-Year High.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: What do the NIJ Body Armor protection levels mean?
JUST THINK OF THE NETWORKS AS DEMOCRATIC PARTY OPERATIVES WITH CHYRONS, AND THE AIRBRUSHING ALL MAKES SENSE: Eric Swalwell’s reported entanglement with Chinese spy ignored by CNN, broadcast networks.
Evergreen:
Related: Swalwell Refuses To Disclose Whether He Had A Sexual Relationship With A Suspect Chinese Spy.
BATTLESWARM BLOG: Paxton’s Supreme Court Gambit. “My fear is that the very novelty of this lawsuit will work against it. I’m not sure any state has ever filed to alter election results from other states, or that the Supreme Court would grant standing in the lawsuit. But by making it a state suing another state, it makes it a clear Supreme Court case under Article III of the Constitution.”
Uncharted territory here, but that’s no reason not to venture in at full speed.
THE WAR ON THE CHILDREN: Steep rise in depressive symptoms among 7-12 year olds during UK-wide lockdown.
MICHAEL WALSH: This Election Doesn’t Pass the Smell Test.
ROGER SIMON: Eight Red States Join Texas Supreme Court Suit, But No Tennessee? “Tennessee Republican voters are certain to remember this cowardice among some of their leadership…As many states as possible should join this suit. Kansas, where are you? Idaho? Wyoming? Montana? West Virginia? Oklahoma? Iowa? This lawsuit, when it plays out in front of the Supreme Court in the coming days, must be conducted with the utmost thoroughness and transparency. Get it wrong and the United States of America may not have a second chance.”
IT’S GOOD TO BE THE NOMENKLATURA: It will take $130M to get more EVs on Colorado roads. Xcel wants its customers to cover the cost. “Consumer advocates and the PUC staff are troubled by how much influence Xcel Energy had in developing a $30 million rebate program funded by electric customers.”
IT’S GOOD TO BE THE NOMENKLATURA: Cuomo’s Lockdown Threat Loophole Spares Saturday Night Live.
THE BIDEN ILLEGITIMACY: Joel Pollak: Why the 2020 Election Was Neither Free nor Fair.
There are common international standards about what makes an election “free and fair.” These criteria, summarized by the Inter-Parliamentary Union, include: the “absolute” right to a secret ballot; the right to “express political opinions without interference; [t]o seek, receive and impart information and to make an informed choice”; the right of candidates to “equal opportunity of access to the media”; the “right of candidates to security”; freedom of association, and others.
Many of these were violated in 2020.
Plus, what to do next.
AMERICA’S PAPER OF RECORD: In ‘It’s A Wonderful Life’ Remake, Angel Tells George Bailey To Kill Himself Because He’s White.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: University Of Colorado Dean: ‘Never Waste A Good Pandemic’ — Replace 50 Tenured/Tenure-Track Faculty With 25 Instructors Who Teach More And Earn Less. “To many, White’s proposal read as an attack on tenure, shared governance and the notion of higher education as a public good.”
VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Embarrassing — Granny-Killer Cuomo Can’t Keep His COVID Numbers Straight.
Insanity Wrap needs to know: How are we supposed to follow the science when it’s jumping around like a meth-addicted jackrabbit?
Answer: Don’t ask questions and believe whatever Governor Cuomo needs you to believe at any particular moment.
Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap.
- It’s like a scene from Prohibtion in… pot-loving Colorado?
- ACLU goes full BLM.
- How Governor Grinch Stole Christmas.
And so much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.
I’M GLAD TO SEE PEOPLE GETTING A JUMP ON PROTESTING PRESIDENT BIDEN’S RACISM AND SEXISM: Vanderbilt Women’s Basketball Will Remain In The Locker Room For The National Anthem All Season.
DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: MSNBC Host Joy Reid To Teach Journalism Class At Howard University In 2021.
MAKE THEM PAY: Political Discrimination Lawsuit Against Apple Can Go Forward. California law bans discrimination based on political stances or activity, which is going to be a problem for Big Tech.
I’LL JUST BE HAPPY IF SHE DOESN’T WIND UP ON CHINA’S PAYROLL AS A LOBBYIST: Jill Biden plans to continue work as professor if her husband is inaugurated. But of course, that’s a double standard: “Members of the Trump family were pressured into quitting their non-governmental work after President Donald Trump was inaugurated in 2017.”
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Still Searching for 1 CNN ‘Journalist’ Who Isn’t a Lying Scumbag. It is time once again to revisit my ever-growing dislike for the media company that is now permanently atop my Biased Evil list: CNN. CNN’s ascent to the top of the dirtbag pile has been an impressive one. The entire NBC News division — which includes the MSNBC prog squad — held the position for a very long time. Somewhere along the line, CNN decided that Jake Tapper, Don Lemon, and full time Trump Derangement Syndrome were a good idea and a new devil was born.”
GEORGE ORWELL COULD NOT BE REACHED FOR COMMENT: Dictionary.com changes its definition of ‘court packing’ to fit the Left’s current narrative.
K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: ‘The canary in the coal mine?’ What teacher layoffs in one city could mean for U.S. schools. “With budgets battered by the coronavirus pandemic, state and local governments across the United States have laid off nearly 700,000 workers this year, according to U.S. government data, equal to 8.4% of the workforce. Advocates warn that Schenectady’s experience could become commonplace if Washington does not provide more help.”
No more bailouts.
THE INTERNET OF THINGS: Millions of smart devices vulnerable to hacking.
DISPATCHES FROM THE KAKISTOCRACY: LA’s New District Attorney Says He Won’t Prosecute Misdemeanors Including Criminal Threats, Drugs and Resisting Arrest.
ANOTHER SOROS-FUNDED PROSECUTOR: Newly elected Los Angeles district attorney plans to seek release of thousands of criminals.
DECOUPLING: New Australia Law Can Scrap China Belt and Road Accords. “Prime Minister Scott Morrison has new powers to veto or scrap agreements that state governments reach with foreign powers under laws that could stymie China’s Belt and Road Initiative in Australia and further inflame tensions between the trading partners.”
The Belt and Road Initiative is the most naked imperialism since the European powers met in Berlin in 1885 to carve up Africa.
WHY ‘HE’S THE REASON FOR THE SEASON,’ A REFRESHER: What Christmas is really all about. You know, in case the kids ask. Or a liberal acquaintance. Also useful for correcting your know-it-all brother-in-law. Perhaps you’ve even forgotten.
2020: Neal Katyal for Attorney General: Child Slavery Advocates Deserve a Voice in Washington. “If defending problematic corporations becomes anathema, there will be no one left to staff Democratic administrations.”
KINSLEY GAFFE: Sen. Dick Durbin Admits Democrats Turned Down Coronavirus Relief ‘Because an Election Was Coming.’
But we knew this already, as Byron York writes: “A clearly angry Pelosi lashed out at the journalist for his temerity. ‘Look, I’m going to tell you something,’ she said. ‘Don’t characterize what we did before as a mistake, as a preface to your question, if you want an answer. That was not a mistake. It was a decision. And it has taken us to a place where we can do the right thing without other, shall we say, considerations in the legislation that we don’t want.’ The short version of that was: Look, we waited Trump out. He lost. Now, we’ll act.”
ANTISOCIAL MEDIA: Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg once ‘threatened to pull’ UK investment in a private meeting with a minister.
The minutes describe how Zuckerberg said the U.K. is the “obvious territory” for Facebook to invest in Europe, but he claimed the company was looking elsewhere due to the criticism the company had been receiving in Britain.
According to the minutes, Zuckerberg said he supported the U.K.’s decision to regulate the internet but he was “worried about the tone.”
Hancock reportedly explained to Zuckerberg that he wanted to “use the decision to legislate as a new beginning for U.K. government relationships with the platform” adding that the “tone can shift from threatening regulation to ensure legislation is proportionate and innovation friendly.”
I’m old enough to remember when innovation meant building a better mousetrap, not encouraging users to increase screen time and hoovering up more and more of their personal data.
NOT EVERYBODY CAN BE A CHEERLEADER: Biden owes the Left but can he deliver and still lead effectively?
We’re all fundamentally the same. We want quiet enjoyment, mobility, access to technology, an education that won’t turn us into indentured servants, and the opportunity to find a job that isn’t overly dreadful. We want to live reasonably well in the time we have. And we’re not afraid to work hard to earn that living. But we also want serious men and women in power making good decisions. We want to feel there’s still a semblance of justice and decorum in the country and that we’re being represented. We all generally agree on this no matter our ethnicity or our politics, but even Democrats don’t agree on Joe Biden.
We’re facing social entropy, an economic prison, federal dysfunction, continued pandemic, people chosen not for their skill but for their capacity to be inoffensive, and endless identity strife. Biden didn’t create these things, but he rode them to power. And his transition choices are making us wonder whether they’re firmly on the docket for the next four years. We wonder whether he’s deliberately and unnecessarily trolling the right and mollifying the left with his cabinet picks instead of choosing people who will do the best job possible.
Trolling the right, you say? Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to serve as co-chair of President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration.
And with Whitmer as co-chair, this headline doesn’t sound very surprising: Biden inauguration to be 80% virtual, inaugural committee co-chairman says. “Clyburn said that he doesn’t believe President Trump is obligated to go to Biden’s inauguration but added that he believes the president should attend the event.”
That’s a curious statement, considering that in August, John Clyburn blurted out on CNN that “I Feel Very Strongly That [Trump] Is Mussolini, Putin, and Hitler.”
VITAMIN D UPDATE: Reader Stephen Goldstein sends this:UVB Activation of AMPs Production in the Skin and the Innate Respiratory Immunity. He writes:
I’m writing this evening about Vitamin D and the Covid virus. You’ve posted quite a few pieces on this subject, enough so that a while back I went back to taking a Vitamin D supplement even though I was not deficient by any measure . . . an abundance of caution, as they say.
My key takeaway: while there is very strong correlation between “better” Covid 19 outcomes and Vitamin D levels, the cause for these better outcomes is, likely, the availability of Antimicrobial Peptides (AMPs) that are produced along with Vitamin D in the skin on exposure to UV-B.
This is important because, if true, it means that Vitamin D supplements are not a substitute for sunlight, UV-B, in particular.
So, is the Covid case “spike” the result of citizens failing to wear masks and “social distance?” Or is it an example of the seasonal susceptibility commonly observed with respiratory viruses as some predicted this past summer.
I surely don’t Know but it seems plausible that lower exposure to sunlight (a combination of reduced daylight, lower sun and more cold weather clothing) contributes to the problem. Which, sadly, would mean that things could be quite bad for the next 90 days, or so.
To be fair, I sent the piece to a retired Pulmonologist friend. I asked him about these “AMPs” vs Vitamin D. He was not persuaded, reiterating the need to take the Vitamin D supplements.
I think it’s wise to embrace the power of “and” here. There’s been some reason to think that the process of making Vitamin D from sunlight has benefits distinct from those inhering in the Vitamin D itself, but Vitamin D also has benefits. And realistically, unless you’re a roofer or something it’s hard to get enough Vitamin D from sunlight. And the idea that the coronavirus has some degree of seasonality due to fluctuating Vitamin D levels seems plausible.
HERE’S WALKING, TALKING, CRIMINAL-RELEASING INSANITY: Liberty Unyielding’s Hans Bader assesses the many ways the newly elected Los Angeles prosecutor plans to set in motion what could become the worst crime wave in that city’s history. That this could involve releasing up to 20,000 convicted criminals, including murderers, rapists and burglars is only the most obvious indicators of leftist insanity at work.
December 8, 2020
AT AMAZON, Bose Wave SoundTouch Music System IV.
PINK FLOYD’S THE DELICATE SOUND OF THUNDER FINALLY ARRIVES AS A STAND-ALONE DVD/BLU-RAY.
My latest, over at Ed Driscoll.com.
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