GRANDMA-KILLER CUOMO SHOULD FACE CONSEQUENCES: Dr. Rand Paul calls for Cuomo to be impeached over coronavirus response.
More likely candidates are Govs. Beshear and Wolf, but all are deserving.
WELL, THAT’S HER M.O.: Is Kamala Harris Planting Evidence on Her VP Rivals? “Harris clearly wants the gig. Pretty much everyone does, given the likelihood that the elderly and cognitively declining Biden might not even serve a full term in office. Enough to be shopping oppo about the other black women under consideration? Obviously.”
I WAS TOLD THAT BLACK LIVES MATTER IS “ANTI-HATE:” This Black Lives Matter Activist Thought KNEELING on a White Baby’s Neck Was a Good Idea. “A shocking and deeply disturbing image posted to Facebook has led to the arrest of a Black Lives Matter activist. A black man, identified as BLM supporter Isaiah Jackson, took a picture of himself kneeling on the neck of a 2-year-old white child in diapers. The image shows another person holding the child’s arms back, and the child crying. The caption read, ‘Blm now mf.'”
Another in-kind contribution to Trump 2020. Thanks, BLM!
THE PERSONAL IS POLITICAL: Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf’s Home Vandalized, Hours Later She Votes To Protect Police Funding.
ANOTHER PUBLIC HEALTH TRIUMPH FOR TRUMP: U.S. infant mortality rate hits all-time low, CDC reports.
ANALYSIS: TRUE. Schools Are Closing Not Because They Should, But Because They Can.
Related, seen on Facebook:
PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS: In Which Joe Biden Brags About Having Written the Patriot Act.
Related: Joe Biden in 2007: ‘It was the Biden Crime Bill that became the Clinton Crime Bill.’
As Steve asked last month, “Is Hidin’ Joe Biden the 1994 Crime Bill guy, or the #BLM and antifa guy?”
But he’s hiding no more! Or is he? Wait, how many people were watching Joe Biden’s live stream?
THE MEDIA AND THE VIRUS: American press coverage of Covid-19 was first dismissive, then alarmist—but always condescending.
It would once have seemed strange for a man in Tedros’s position to adopt the saccharine slogans of protest marches. Just so, it would once have seemed strange for a medical doctor to rate protecting people from racial offense a higher priority than saving lives. That it no longer seems strange is part of the story of the Covid-19 pandemic.
That story is one of compounding failures. During the early stages of the unfolding crisis, the WHO failed to take the coronavirus threat seriously, to question China’s official claims about its outbreak, and to coordinate a global response. In January, February, and early March, while the WHO was still declining to label the coronavirus a pandemic—partly because that label carries, according to Tedros, “significant risk in terms of amplifying unnecessary and unjustified fear and stigma”—the American media were also failing, systemically, to sound the alarm.
As it unfolded in the media, the story of the pandemic was initially that of a nonevent. On January 31, Vox ran a supposedly comprehensive “explainer” about the coronavirus. There was no need for Americans to wear protective face masks, Vox said, and “really no reason to worry.” On Twitter, Vox was still more blunt: “Is this going to be a deadly pandemic? No.” The hectoring tone and sham certitude are Vox specialties. But Vox wasn’t alone in dismissing the virus. USA Today, the Washington Post, Canada’s National Post, and many other outlets treated the Wuhan virus (as it was then known) less as a matter of objective concern than an instance of mass hysteria.
Their cardinal error, in almost every case, was to rely on the WHO, an organization at best egregiously mistaken and at worst politically compromised, carrying water for the Chinese Communist Party and President Xi Jinping.
Read the whole thing. As Glenn likes to say, “Think of the press as a psychological warfare operation against normal Americans and you won’t go far wrong.”
SERIOUS BODILY HARM THRESHOLD, CROSSED: Federal officers in Portland may have been permanently blinded by lasers, officials say.
UPDATE: Reminder: Using Blinding Laser Weapons is Already a War Crime.
DIDN’T THE DEMOCRATS TRY THIS WHOLE “MASSIVE RESISTANCE” THING ONCE BEFORE? Philadelphia’s Top Prosecutor Is Prepared to Arrest Federal Agents.
LIFE IN DE BLASIO’S NEW YORK: Occupy City Hall protesters were ‘s–tting and pissing’ in subway grates.
I remember when we were supposed to care about public health.
THEY’RE DOING IT WRONG: Mainstream media, and their vigilant stenographers keep using that phrase “secret police.” Nonetheless, I would like to send out congrats to New York Magazine for exposing the use of “unidentified” secret police. Except for the fact that they are not “unidentified”:
Either that or the Border Patrol are doing it wrong.
Another option is that New York Magazine has started hiring visually impaired people to be photo editors, in which case, extra wokeness points!
HMM: Interesting Case Study In The Volatility Of Ammunition Supply In America. “This means that for this one distributor located via Ammoseek.com, for one caliber, for one brand, 200,000 more pistol rounds are in the hands of ordinary Americans within about two weeks. Range ammo or PD, it makes no difference. That tells you something about what’s happening in America, more than you can learn from any MSM outlet even on a good day.”
WEIRD, BECAUSE ALL WE’VE BEEN HEARING ABOUT ARE TEXAS, FLORIDA, AND ARIZONA: California now has most COVID-19 cases.
QUESTION ASKED: Is St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner Framing the McCloskeys? “If it’s true that the gun was inoperable during the incident at the McCloskeys’ home, Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner or her office may be framing the McCloskeys in order to prosecute them… And what about the rifle Mark McCloskey was holding? Police reported finding no ammunition at the McCloskeys’ home when they confiscated it, and that it was not loaded. Was it ever loaded? Has it ever even been fired prior to being in police custody?”
Related: Gateway to the Wild West: The accelerating collapse of St. Louis, the most violent city in America.
THIS ISN’T NEWS IF YOU’VE BEEN TO A GUN SHOP LATELY: News: Skyrocketing Ammunition Demand. But wait, there’s more: “Ryan Repp, director of content and communications for Brownells, indicated the company experienced something slightly different. ‘Our ammo sales are up a few points, but our emergency food and survival supplies sales are trending up higher even than ammo.'”
UPDATE: You can always check out my former students’ site, LuckyGunner.com. New shipments arriving every day — but lots of folks buying, too.
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VODKAPUNDIT’S DAILY INSANITY WRAP: California’s Lunatic Booze Rules, Plus Biden Can’t Hack It.
Today’s Wrap found itself in yet another target-rich environment.
MORE HANS BADER: Research race and racism had better toe the line.
HANS BADER: “Anti-Racism is Racism in Disguise.”
NO THANKS, I’VE SEEN THE MOVIES WHERE RESEARCHERS ACCIDENTALLY BREED SOMETHING: Researchers accidentally breed sturddlefish.
SPEWING COMMUNIST CHINESE PROPAGANDA WITH THE GREATEST OF EASE: Nancy Pelosi Calls the Wuhan Coronavirus ‘the Trump Virus.’
I EXPECT THERE WERE EARTH-SHATTERING KABOOMS: Earth, moon were bombarded by asteroid shower 800 million years ago.
LIES, DAMNED LIES, AND THE LEFT: Writer Tweets Video Of Police Brutality Implies It’s From America, But It Was From Serbia.
JUST A FEW BUSHELS OF BAD APPLES: Another ‘Mostly Peaceful’ Protest: 49 Chicago Police Officers Injured.
SO MUCH FOR ELAINE BENES’ CLAIM THAT IT’S JUST A WHISTLE-STOP ON THE EXPRESS TRAIN TO GAYTOWN: Skepticism of male bisexuality unfounded, researchers say.
I THINK THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION NEEDS TO INVESTIGATE THIS OFFICIALLY-TOLERATED POLITICAL BULLYING: Conservative Student Leaving Syracuse University Due to Harassment and Threats.
Complain to grantmaking agencies under Executive Order 13864.
WHERE IS SARAH HOYT’S SHOCKED FACE WHEN YOU NEED IT MOST? Steele Dossier Was British Disinformation: From A Steele Employee.
HEATHER MAC DONALD: Four Months of Unprecedented Government Malfeasance.
The coronavirus lockdowns demonstrated our leaders’ ignorance of economic interdependence. After the riots, that ignorance has been shown to run far deeper. It is an ignorance about government’s most fundamental obligation: to safeguard life, liberty, and property. It is an ignorance about human nature and human striving.
Property and capital are not soulless abstractions, easily replaced by an insurance payout, as the rioters and their apologists maintain. (The Massachusetts Attorney General noted that burning is “how forests grow.”) Capital is accumulated effort and innovation, the sum of human achievement and imagination. Its creation is the aim of civilization. But civilization is everywhere and at all times vulnerable to the darkest human impulses. Government exists to rein in those impulses so that individual initiative can flourish. America’s Founders, schooled in a profound philosophical and literary tradition dating back to classical antiquity, understood the fragility of civil peace and the danger of the lustful, vengeful mob.
Our present leaders, the products of a politicized and failing education system, seem to know nothing of those truths. Pulling the country back from the abyss will require a recalling of our civilizational inheritance.
Read the whole thing.
HAM SANDWICH NATION UPDATE: Is St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner Framing the McCloskeys? If so, she should be subjected to discipline by the appropriate authorities.
YOU’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BLOG: China Perfidy Roundup for July 22, 2020. “Time for another roundup of China’s various crimes.”
To be clear, this is the Communist People’s Republic of China on the mainland, and not the well-run Republic of China on Taiwan.
SO I VOTED YESTERDAY. It was early voting for some local elections and state primaries. There was a moderate crowd, with me having to wait about 5 minutes to get in. Everyone was masked and spaced. We had the new optically-scanned paper ballot system, where you mark a ballot, it’s scanned by a machine, and they keep the paper copy for recounts. The poll workers did a good job keeping everything moving and nobody seemed to have any problems. So much for the notion that a pandemic interferes with in-person voting.
THE MASK OF MODERATION SLIPS YET AGAIN: As Antifa Terrorizes Portland, Biden Claims Trump Is Attacking ‘Peaceful Protesters.’
IN THE MAIL: At the End of the World (Black Tide Rising Book 8).
JAMES LILEKS: “It’s 2020, after all. If speech is violence, surely music is first-degree murder…Yes, this is the piece called ‘It’s time to let Classical music die.’ Because classical music is an abusive partner, you see.”
Given his relationship with the Minnesota Youth Symphony, James is angry. You’ll like him when he’s angry.
HUH: Chinese hackers counted on no one clicking ‘update’ in decade-long spree.
The Department of Justice unsealed an indictment Tuesday alleging two hackers worked in collaboration with the Chinese Ministry of State Security to steal everything from video game source code to weapons designs from hundreds of companies around the globe. And, if the indictment is to be believed, the hackers were able to do much of this by exploiting people’s natural laziness about updating their software.
Notably, the indictment claims, the two hackers — Li Xiaoyu, 34, and Dong Jiazhi, 33 — had a decade-long spree that succeeded, in large part, because people and companies often don’t immediately download and install software patches as soon as they become available.
“[To] gain initial access to victim networks, the defendants primarily exploited publicly known software vulnerabilities in popular web server software, web application development suites, and software collaboration programs,” reads a DOJ press release.
It amazes me how many people — including IT pros who ought to know better — shrug off security patches.
#JOURNALISM: An Untrue Claim in The New Yorker Speaks Volumes.
How could it possibly be true that ‘two-thirds’ of all Americans aged 15-34 visiting emergency rooms had been injured by police or security guards, given the very many other reasons why people might present for emergency treatment? In the online version, there is no hyperlink to the research (although the article does contain hyperlinks), and the study’s authors are not named.
Jill Lepore could hardly be more eminent. She is a professor of American history at Harvard, the recipient of a long list of awards, and a longstanding staff writer at the New Yorker, as well as a contributor at many other well regarded publications. I love her writing, so much so that I bought several extra copies of her latest book These Truths to give as presents to friends and family. Given this, I thought at first that I might have misunderstood the sentence, and tweeted as much.
I sought out the study she was referring to, and found it: a 2016 paper, whose lead author, Justin Feldman, was a doctoral student at Harvard at the time. Soon after publication, the findings were described in a Harvard press release, and also reported on by The Guardian.
And it turns out I was right — the ‘two-thirds’ claim is not true. Not even close. . . .
I did my best to work out a rough estimate of the true proportion of 15-34 year olds visiting the ER who had suffered legal intervention injuries, and arrived at a figure of 0.2% (you can follow my working in this thread). So I believe Lepore’s claim to be off by a factor of several hundred.
Why does this one sentence matter? Well, firstly, it misinforms readers, several of whom (based on my Twitter search for the article’s URL) also alighted on this claim, but unlike me took it on trust. Secondly, and perhaps more importantly, it tells us something about the political climate in a publication like the New Yorker, which was once famous for its rigorous fact checking.
Think of the press as a psychological warfare operation against normal Americans and you won’t go far wrong.
ETHIOPIA AND EGYPT WAGE SLOW WAR OVER NILE RIVER WATER RIGHTS: Whiskey’s for drinking. Water’s for fighting. When it comes to the world’s longest river, there’s a lot of water to fight about.
Human survival, individual and societal, requires water. Just ask Egyptians. At least 7,000 years of life on the Nile has proven the adage “Egypt is the Nile” to be true. From Aswan north to Alexandria, the green band bordering the great river is home to 90% of Egypt’s population.
Twenty-first-century Egypt still confronts pharaoh-era East African geographic and climactic facts. Egypt gets 80% to 90% of its annual water needs from the Nile.
Egypt and Ethiopia have been confronting each other for well over a decade, as Ethiopia built the GERD, the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. The GERD now dams “the Blue Nile River near the Sudan border. This month, Ethiopia began filling the dam’s reservoir, which could ultimately hold 75 billion cubic meters of water.”
The column discusses the water conflict and a framework for resolving it.
MCCLOSKEY GUN INOPERABLE WHEN POLICE SEIZED IT, BUT PROSECUTION ORDERED CRIME LAB TO MAKE IT OPERABLE AND ‘LETHAL:’ “Gardner, a prosecutor backed by George Soros during her election, filed a charge of felony unlawful use of a weapon as well as a misdemeanor charge of fourth degree assault against both McCloskeys…When the gun that Patricia McCloskey had was turned over to the authorities, it was inoperable and inoperable when it arrived at the St. Louis Police crime lab. According to the McCloskey’s attorney, Joel Schwartz, the gun was inoperable during the incident in question with the protesters and couldn’t have hurt anyone. The McCloskeys, who are both attorneys, had used the gun as a prop during a trial.”
ROCKETS AWAY: An AH-64 Apache fires rockets downrange during aerial gunnery tables at Grafenwoehr, Germany.
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY ALLOWS THREATS AND INTIMIDATION AGAINST CONSERVATIVES.
Complain to grantmaking agencies under Executive Order 13864.
DID YOU FEEL THE EARTH MOVE, BABY? Powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake strikes off Alaska coast.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: They’re Not Really ‘Secret Police’ If We’re All Talking About Them. “We’re not talking about a fringe group of Twitter commies pitching a fit. The increasingly-impaired bag of vile who is currently serving as the Speaker of the House of Representatives is in on it. Her alcoholic Trump Derangement Syndrome is so strong that she is disparaging good federal police officers who are carrying out their duties in cities where Democrats have abandoned the law-abiding citizens to lawless packs of criminals.”
“The worse, the better,” the lefty visionary once said.
SORRY, IF PEOPLE HAVE TO DIE IN LARGE NUMBERS RATHER THAN LET ORANGEMANBAD BE PROVED RIGHT, SO BE IT: Hydroxychloroquine could save up to 100,000 lives if used for COVID-19: Yale epidemiology professor: One study found that early administration of hydroxychloroquine makes hospitalized patients substantially less likely to die.
I’M NOT SAYING THAT THE NEVERTRUMP MOVEMENT IS BASICALLY JUST A GRIFT MACHINE BUT . . . WELL, YEAH, THAT’S PRETTY MUCH WHAT I’M SAYING. Founder of Never-Trump Super PAC Arrested in $60M Bribery Scheme.
THE YANGTZE IS A RIVER OF MANY MOODS, AND RIGHT NOW ITS MOOD IS UGLY: Flooding in China disrupts medical, PPE suppliers. Shippers should expect delays.
GREAT MOMENT IN COOL, DISPASSIONATE OBJECTIVITY: LA Times Thirsts After ‘Naked Athena.’
‘Later she rolled on her back in a graceful pose, then stood again.’ Was this man taking copious notes or has he been watching a video on repeat?
Read’s piece climaxes with the implicit comparison of this nude woman to Tank Man, the Chinese gentleman who stepped in front of a column of tanks in the aftermath of the Tiananmen Square massacre. You might think the latter contained more powerful symbolism, because, if nothing else, it followed a massacre. Somehow, though, admirers of ‘Naked Athena’ cannot see the wood for the trees — or, perhaps, the trees for their wood.
Heh, indeed. Read the whole thing.™
DECOUPLING: U.S. has ordered China consulate in Houston to close – State department spokesperson. “We have directed the closure of PRC Consulate General Houston, in order to protect American intellectual property and Americans’ private information.”
COME SEE THE RACISM INHERENT IN THE LEFTISM: BLM speaker: “There is one common enemy: the white man … we need to get rid of them.”
SHOCKER: Thick blue line: Surge in support for police, just 2 in 10 back ‘defund’ scheme.
In one of the first signs that a backlash has begun against police protests, a growing number of people are voicing their support for law enforcement, especially in their neighborhood, and shifting away from the “defund” effort sparked by the Black Lives Matter marches.
The latest Rasmussen Reports survey indicates a strong national support for police and law and order, even among African Americans. . . .
It’s not just a white thing. Rasmussen said that 57% of black people oppose defunding police in their home community. For whites, it’s 69%, and for other minorities, it is 62%.
The shift away from defunding police comes as many cities have seen a surge in crime and the images of looting, flag burnings, and riots during anti-police and Black Lives Matter protests remain fresh in the minds of the public, especially those in the suburbs.
The new survey said that many believe that a cut in funding of traditional policing will lead to higher crime rates. Only 12% now think defunding police will cut crime. Another 61% see crime increasing.
When you talk to African Americans from poor neighborhoods, they often complain that you never see police there until after there’s a problem. And most of them don’t want their neighborhoods turned over entirely to the gangs, which makes you wonder why so many Democratic politicians seem okay with that.
Related: Kurt Schlichter: Brace for the Backlash. “They expect to remove society’s rights and protections for their enemies – us – and they are shocked and indignant when they find their own rights and protections forfeit. They want the status quo for themselves while setting ours on fire, and they are too dumb to understand that things do not work out that way. The backlash has already begun. And it will be brutal.”
AN IN-KIND CONTRIBUTION TO THE TRUMP 2020 CAMPAIGN: De Blasio says he’d sue to stop Trump from intervening in NYC crime surge.
FOR MAYOR BANE, THIS IS A FEATURE: NYC is now the worst place to do business, retailers say.
WHY SHOULD THEY EVEN HAVE A UNION? Why Are Taxpayers Footing the Bill for Full-Time Police Union Employees?
I’VE PROBABLY JUST GOTTEN PARANOID OVER THE YEARS, but the sudden wave of concern over “deepfakes” makes me think maybe there’s some (genuine) video out there that’s really bad for the Democrats.
TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE: Texas high school teaching aide accused of having sex with 3 male students.
CCP BBQ: Houston Fire, Police Responding To Reports Of Documents Being Burned At Chinese Consulate General.
Related: “Police were told that occupants of the consulate building were being evicted from the property at 4 p.m. Friday, the official said. Calls to the Chinese Embassy in Houston, as well as the U.S. Department of State, were not immediately returned by press time.”
WHO IS A WHOLLY OWNED SUBSIDIARY OF THE PRC: WHO Official Promotes Conspiracy Theory Website to Bolster China’s Coronavirus Disinformation Campaign.
Question: How much of our current domestic turmoil is the result of Chinese influence?
CLASS PRIVILEGE: A Tale of Two Arsonists.
Among the dozens of anarchists arrested over the past two months, few have gotten a more vociferous defense from the anti-police left than Colinford Mattis and Urooj Rahman, two “public interest” lawyers accused of firebombing a police car.
Their defenders, who argue that the criminal justice system is stacked against the poor and underprivileged, were the first to invoke Mattis and Rahman’s elite credentials when pressing the courts to cut them slack.
Mattis and Rahman are high achievers: He is a Princeton and NYU Law grad with a corporate legal job, and she graduated from Fordham Law after spending a summer in “occupied Palestine.” These credentials, of course, didn’t protect them from federal charges after they lobbed Molotov cocktails into an NYPD patrol car, but their defenders now cite them in pleas for leniency and special treatment, both in the courtroom and in the press.
Both were bailed out, with Rahman’s release guaranteed by an Obama-administration alumna who called Rahman her “best friend.” The duo have received friendly coverage in the Intercept, CNN, and NPR. All emphasized the young lawyers’ sterling credentials, echoing a letter signed by hundreds of NYU alumni in their defense.
Compare that with the story of Isaiah Willoughby, a Washington resident now facing federal charges for attempting to burn down a Seattle police station. Willoughby is a former foster kid and a small-time entrepreneur who once ran a quixotic campaign for city council. He also has a rap sheet a mile long.
Willoughby’s case, unlike that of his well-heeled counterparts, has received little attention in the liberal media. He remains in federal lockup, according to Bureau of Prisons records.
Our view—and the Justice Department’s—is that the cases deserve equal treatment.
It is telling that the anti-police left has made Mattis and Rahman their leniency cause célèbre, citing their elite credentials while crowing simultaneously about inequity in the criminal justice system.
It is.
STEPHEN KRUISER GOES In Search of… the Invisible Biden Voter. “Last week, a friend of mine who is well-placed on Capitol Hill remarked that no one in D.C. is talking about Joe Biden. In the ensuing four days, three other friends whose opinions I also respect mentioned that nobody ever meets a Biden supporter in person.”
FIGHT THE POWER: Distressed by Portland Unrest, Rural Oregon Citizens Launch Petition to Become ‘Greater Idaho.’ “McCarter says the values and concerns of the rural counties make better suited to be part of Idaho, and not of urban-controlled Oregon. In particular, recent months of civil unrest and protests in Portland, as well as Oregon’s COVID-19 restrictions, have spurred the group’s push to leave the state.”
My state secession paper just gets ever more timely.
T CELLS SEEM TO MATTER: The people with hidden immunity against Covid-19.
July 21, 2020
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THIS HEADLINE PRETTY MUCH NAILS IT: John Kasich’s ego-driven grift marches on.
‘EXTREME DYSFUNCTION’ IS WHAT DE BLASIO’S NEW YORK IS ALL ABOUT: ‘Extreme dysfunction:’ New York City dropped $52M on a coronavirus hospital that served fewer than 80 patients.
SOMEBODY’S READ HER SAUL ALINSKY: Redwood City Scrubs Black Lives Matter Mural After Trump Supporter Asks to Paint ‘MAGA 2020’ on Same Street.
FOLLOW THE MONEY: Bill de Blasio’s ‘crucial’ $52 million coronavirus hospital treated 79 patients. “We all felt guilty. I felt really ashamed.”
DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Harrison Bergeron University.
FOR A SECOND I WAS AFRAID THESE REALLY WERE WERE SMALLPOX STRAINS, BUT IT’S VACCINATION NOT INOCULATION: Scientists find smallpox strains used to vaccinate Civil War soldiers. It does make me worry, though, whether there might be viable smallpox still hanging around somewhere in a medical archive or a museum. I suppose it’s unlikely.
It’s not easy to gain necessary perspective from the article, but the story does link to a page featuring various statistics related to the virus. According to the Post’s data, per capita Covid-19 deaths in Florida, Texas and Arizona remain far below the levels in New York and New Jersey. In fact the Post website shows that per capita deaths in both New York and New Jersey are more than 10 times the number in Texas.
These encouraging data out of the Sun Belt suggest at least a few possibilities, along with many others. One possibility is that many more people in the Northeast had the virus in the spring than we realized, so the mortality rate is lower than many feared. Another is that doctors have learned to offer better treatment. Another is that Sun Belt governors have learned to prioritize the protection of the vulnerable elderly, rather than forcing them to live in nursing homes with Covid patients, as in the New York example.
Or maybe there are characteristics of the New York City area that made it uniquely vulnerable. Regardless, the good news is that, despite the absence of a vaccine, the virus is lately killing fewer people.
Speaking of good news, the Post story does actually contain some. “The rate of new, positive coronavirus cases has slightly declined in Arizona in recent days,” begins paragraph 41.
Much like democracy, sometimes the news can seem to die and be buried in the final throes of an extensive commentary.
Related: Andrew Cuomo’s Coronavirus Response Has Been a Failure: The media’s fawning interviews obscure the New York governor’s record. All the talk of Texas, Arizona, and Florida is just covering fire for a Democrat grandee who’s screwed the pooch.
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