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U.S. Coronavirus Daily Deaths Have Decreased 43% in the Past Four Weeks

Posted on | May 27, 2020 | 1 Comment

 

Since peaking April 21, the daily number of U.S. deaths from COVID-19 have decreased from an average of more than 2,000 per day to fewer than 1,200. This decrease has been mainly due to sharp reductions in the rate of death in the two hardest-hit states of New York and New Jersey.

During the week of April 20-26, there were 14,511 coronavirus deaths in the United States, a daily average of 2,073. During the week of May 18-24, there were 8,315 deaths, an average of 1,188 daily. During this period, the combined total of COVID-19 deaths in New York and New Jersey declined from 5,713 (April 20-26) to 1,639 (May 18-24), a 71% reduction. These two states have the highest per-capita coronavirus death rates in the country, and have accounted for 40% of all U.S. deaths from the disease during the course of the pandemic. The declining death rates in New York and New Jersey, however, mean that during last week their combined deaths were just 20% of the U.S. total.

 

 

As Professor Glenn Reynolds pointed out, data about the pandemic has been interpreted to reflect negatively on Republican-controlled states. Whereas the daily death rate in districts with Democrat representatives in Congress have declined sharply from an April peak, the rate in Republican areas — which has always been much lower — has “remained relatively steady,” according to a Pew Research analysis. Yet the fact is, despite this trend, the rate in Democrat districts is still nearly three times higher than in GOP districts. The huge spike of deaths in New York and New Jersey in March and April is the remarkable anomaly in the data, rather than the low, but “relatively steady,” death rates elsewhere.


 

Category: Health Care, New Jersey, New York

COVID-19: The ‘Experts’ Are Clueless

Posted on | May 27, 2020 | 2 Comments

 

As states began reopening their economies a month ago — led by Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott — the media’s favorite “experts” predicted doom. We were told to expect a deadly “surge” of new cases, a “second wave” of COVID-19 infections.

And then . . . it didn’t happen.

The per-capita death rate in Georgia remains 88% lower than New York’s; Florida’s rate is 93% lower and Texas is 96% lower. In Florida last week, there were 264 coronavirus deaths, an average 38 deaths daily, which is about half of what they were averaging two weeks ago. In Texas, 151 of 254 counties have never reported a single COVID-19 death. While Georgia reported an increase last week in the number of identified infections, officials say that reflects greatly increased testing, and the daily number of reported COVID-19 deaths in Georgia has continued trending downward after peaking at 55 on April 16.

The media don’t want to accept the reality that has become apparent, namely that this disease will never become as prevalent in the rest of America as it has been in New York and New Jersey, which combined have 40% of all U.S. coronavirus deaths. The specific conditions that gave rise to the epidemic outbreak in March and April — when the New York/New Jersey region was racking up hundreds of deaths daily, week after week — simply do not exist in Texas or Florida, and are not going to exist in the future. “Experts” have been reluctant to admit this:

A coronavirus model that has been cited by the White House now projects that fewer people will die in the United States by August.
In a Tuesday update, the model revised its forecast to 132,000 deaths — which is 11,000 fewer than it projected a week ago.
Built by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington, the model is one of more than a dozen highlighted by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on its website. An ensemble forecast from the CDC, which relies on multiple models, projects that US deaths will exceed 110,000 by June 13. . . .
As states began reopening, IHME upped its forecast for the number of US deaths, based in part on cell phone mobility data that showed people moving around more. But the institute began revising its projections downwards last week, saying an expected increase in infections had not yet occurred.
Dr. Christopher Murray, the IHME director, said that might have been because of behavioral changes such as mask wearing. The institute has since described its plan for gathering data on how many Americans wear masks. It’s not clear what drove down the model’s projections on Tuesday, however.

Oh, now it’s the Magic Mask™ excuse. When are these people going to admit they simply don’t know what they’re talking about and never did?


 

Category: Health Care

In The Mailbox: 05.26.20 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | May 26, 2020 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 05.26.20 (Afternoon Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Memorial Day Weekend In Chicago
Twitchy: NY Post Editorial Board Reminds The Media They’re Not The Victims They Claim To Be
Louder With Crowder: Beta O’Rourke Attacks Texas For Reopening, Gets BTFO By Ted Cruz & Dan Crenshaw

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Slow Walking, also, Podcast #144 – The Homeschooling Episode
American Conservative: Remember When Liberals Despised The National Security State? also, Who’s Really Exploiting Norma McCovey?
American Greatness: RNC Sues California Over Statewide Mail-In Voting Order
American Thinker: Cooking The Books On COVID-19 Deaths
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Municipal Meltdown News
Babalu Blog: Surprise! Landmark Cuban Building Collapses In Havana
BattleSwarm: BidenWatch For May 25, also, The Insane Engineering Of The A-10
Cafe Hayek: “Can’t Buy Me Love”
CDR Salamander: Russia’s Libyan Public-Private Partnership Gets Some Aircover
Da Tech Guy: My Wife & Daughter Escape The Illinois Lockdown & Travel To Wisconsin, also, Trump, Scarborough, Lori Klausitis, & Jacksonian Jiujitsu
Don Surber: The Great American Comeback, also, The Protected, The Unprotected, & The Attacked
First Street Journal: Attending Mass Shouldn’t Be A Political Act, But It Sure Feels Like One
The Geller Report: Ramadan Killathon, also, Islamic Call To Prayer Blares 5x Daily during Lockdown, Sparking Noise Complaints In LA
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, Who Wants To Go To Work?
Hollywood In Toto: Screened Out Is The Warning Our Digital Age Demands, also, Comedian Dave Landau Says NYC Is A “Powder Keg”
JustOneMinute: Seriously, What?
Legal Insurrection: Shutdowns Have Brought NYC To The Brink Of Economic Collapse, also, Democrats Panicking At The Prospect Of Quick Economic Recovery
The PanAm Post: Colombia’s Illusive Peace Deal, also, Colombia Investigates Its Armed Forces For Venezuelan Espionage
Power Line: Hanson’s Rule Of Opposites, also, A Unified Field Theory For Democratic Candidates – Which Biden Doesn’t Fit
Shark Tank: DeSantis Says Florida Would Love To Have The RNC
Shot In The Dark: Blue Fragility – “Science!”
The Political Hat: The Era Of Genetically Engineered Catgirls Draws Nearer
This Ain’t Hell: NYT Editorial On US Military’s White Supremacy, also, Meeting The Demand For Biscuits
Victory Girls: Joe Biden Camp Claims He’ll Fix The Economy
Volokh Conspiracy: Luttig On How The DC Circuit Should Handle The Flynn Case
Weasel Zippers: Pentagon Spox Chimes In On NYT’s Terrible Memorial Day Editorial, also, Stocks Soar As NYSE Trading Floor Reopens After Coronavirus Shutdown
Mark Steyn: The Swallows Skim, And All Is Hushed, also, The Case Of The Topless Taoiseach

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In The Mailbox: 05.26.20 (Morning Edition)

Posted on | May 26, 2020 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Items of note from the long Memorial Day weekend.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: People Are Beginning To Push Back
EBL: Biden On Sending Blacks Back To The Democratic Plantation
Twitchy: John Huber’s Thread On What The Deep State Tried To Do To George Papadopoulos Is A Doozy
Louder With Crowder: Barstool Prez Tells Dr. Fauci, “Admit You Don’t Know What The F**k You’re Talking About”
Vox Popoli: The Devil Mouse In Plain Sight, also, How Debt Destroys

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Friday Hawt Chicks & Links – The Universities Are For Losers Edition
American Conservative: What Does Conservatism Mean After The Iraq War?
American Greatness: Useless Senate Republicans No Match For The “Bums Of Steele”
American Power: Abigail Schreier, Irreversible Damage
American Thinker: Democrats Will Sacrifice America To Win A Presidency, also, The GOP’s Unholy Assault On Iowa’s Steve King
Animal Magnetism: Remember
Babalu Blog: Cuba’s Castro Regime Dreads A Second Trump Term
BattleSwarm: Memorial Day – Remembering John Basilone & Henry F. Warner
Cafe Hayek: Is Basic Economics Still Relevant?
Da Tech Guy: Jackson’s Party Trumps His Faith, also, Public Mass Is Back, Satan Hardest Hit
Don Surber: Democrats Destroy Civilization, also, National Review’s Latest Tantrum
First Street Journal: A Sad Juxtaposition
The Geller Report: White House Press Secretary McEnany Calls Out #FakeNews Press, also, MI Gov. Whitmer Decalres Gay Swinger’s Club Essential While Barber Stripped Of License
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, Mergers & Acquisitions
Hollywood In Toto: Five Reasons Why We Need The Justice League Snyder Cut, also, Ghostbusters 2016 Director Whines That Racist Sexist Trump Voters Killed His Movie
JustOneMinute: Hit The Beach!
Legal Insurrection: Red Chinese Troops Cross Into India, Fortify Positions, also, CDC Says Coronavirus Infection Fatality Rate Could Be As Low As 0.26%
The PanAm Post: Crony Capitalism During Coronavirus Lockdown In Argentina
Power Line: Is Corona-Chan Dying Out? also, America’s Honor
Shark Tank: Mucarsel-Powell Still Silent On Biden Rape Allegations
Shot In The Dark: Minnesota Is Finally #1
STUMP: Illinois Pensions – How Did We Get Here? Where Will They Go?
The Political Hat: News Of The Week
This Ain’t Hell: USS Portland Shoots Down Drone With Laser, also, Another Six Return
Victory Girls: NYT Celebrates 100,000 Coronavirus Deaths
Volokh Conspiracy: 9th Circus Rejects Religious Freedom Challenge To California Closure, With One Dissent
Weasel Zippers: Lefty Nutjob Wants To Hand Out Body Bags To Florida Beachgoers, also, California Has More Suicides Than Coronavirus Deaths
Mark Steyn: Scary Scenes In Non-Horror Movies, also, Peggy Lee, Songwriter

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Hallowed Ground

Posted on | May 26, 2020 | 1 Comment

 

Try to imagine a row of men, standing shoulder to shoulder, all of them armed with rifles. Picture those men standing on a hill, a few hundred yards in the distance, with their guns aimed at you. Now imagine yourself, standing amid a similar group of armed men, ordered to march across that distance in an attack on the hill: “Forward, march!”

Many times have I tried to imagine what that would be like, marching across that field with the minie balls whizzing past and artillery booming, hearing the sickening thud as some of the bullets found their mark in the men beside you, the cries of the wounded amid the horrible racket of rifle and cannon fire — an experience beyond imagination.

How in the world did men ever endure such an experience? Yet they did. They marched straight into the gates of Hell, and somehow — strange to say — some of those men survived to tell the tale.

Years ago, while I was researching my great-grandfather’s service in the Confederate army, I came across a biographical sketch of his commanding officer, Col. Birkett Davenport Fry. A veteran of the Mexican War, Fry had been a part of William Walker’s filibuster expedition to Nicaragua. He later moved to Alabama, where his wife’s family owned a mill, and was appointed colonel of the 13th Alabama Regiment. He was wounded in battle at Seven Pines, at Sharpsburg, and at Chancellorsville, where his regiment stormed a Union artillery position as part of Archer’s brigade. After Archer was captured in the first day’s fight at Gettysburg, Fry led the brigade on July 3 in what became known as Pickett’s Charge, where he was shot through the thigh near the Union line on Cemetery Ridge and was later captured. It was subsequently said of Colonel Fry that he was “a man of gunpowder reputation.”

Such men, and such reputations, are not to be insulted. Yet it seems that some people, who have never heard a shot fired in anger, have not been taught the proper attitude of respect:

Damned perfidious Yankee scoundrels! Readers will please excuse my strong language, and those of my countrymen residing north of the Mason-Dixon Line should not feel that their integrity is being impugned, because I speak specifically of the New York Times. It has long been my conviction that no honest person would ever wish their name to be associated with that disreputable publication, but over the weekend, the Times went far beyond their usual “fake news” with an unseemly attack on the United States armed forces. “Why Does the U.S. Military Celebrate White Supremacy?” was the headline on a disgusting 1,800-word column, signed by the editorial board of the Times, its deliberately insulting theme summarized by a subhead: “It is time to rename bases for American heroes — not racist traitors.”
Of course, it would be a mistake to believe that the New York Times is against treason. They have spent decades heaping praise on America’s enemies, both foreign and domestic, a tradition dating back at least as far as the 1930s, when Walter Duranty was writing propaganda for Stalin. No one should imagine that the Times has developed a concern for the morale of U.S. military, and their attack on the tradition by which military installations in the South were named for Confederate generals is simply a further effort by A. G. Sulzberger’s publication to deserve the contempt of every patriotic American. . . .

Read the rest of my latest column at The American Spectator.


 

Category: American Spectator, History, Military

How to Ruin Your Life (or Down the Rabbit Hole With a Deer-Sexual)

Posted on | May 25, 2020 | 1 Comment

Stephan Robert Loehr was a promising young man from an affluent family. His maternal grandfather was a successful engineer, while his father was a cardiologist. Attending high school in Chapel Hill, N.C., young Stephan was tall and popular and seemed destined for a bright future, like his older brother, who followed in their father’s footsteps to become a physician. Unfortunately, Stephan was spoiled and lazy, and spent way too much time playing videogames, so he attended a rather obscure university where he was a member of their competitive videogame team, but didn’t accomplish much in the way of academics.

You’ll notice I’m using past-tense verbs to describe who Stephan Loehr was, and I’m sure you’re probably thinking, “Oh, he’s dead now?”

Not exactly. “Dead-named,” yes, but still alive. Because you see, he now insists on being referred to with the pronouns “she/her,” and is known by the online handle “FerociouslySteph.” Brace yourself before you go any further, because this situation is painful. Read more

Category: The Transgender Cult

Why Is Ann Coulter Doing This?

Posted on | May 25, 2020 | 1 Comment

An unnecessary conflict:

Former Donald Trump fan Ann Coulter yesterday went on an extraordinary Twitter rant, calling the president a ‘disloyal retard’ and a ‘blithering idiot.’
Coulter was incensed on Sunday after Trump tweeted ‘Alabama, do not trust Jeff Sessions’, the latest attack by the president on his former Attorney General.
The far-right pundit said Trump’s endorsement of Tommy Tuberville – Sessions’ opponent in the Republican primary – showed he was ‘the most disloyal human God ever created.’
The author of the 2016 book ‘In Trump We Trust’ went on to say: ‘I will never apologize for supporting the issues that candidate Trump advocated, but I am deeply sorry for thinking that this shallow and broken man would show even some remote fealty to the promises that got him elected.’
Coulter, 58, once one of the few people who Trump followed on Twitter, has gone after the president ever since she feels he betrayed his immigration pledges, particularly his failure to build the wall.
She defended Sessions in her tweets, saying he was ‘the ONE PERSON in the Trump administration who did anything about immigration.’
It comes amid a bitter war of words between Trump and Sessions which centers around the Alabamian’s time as AG and his infamous recusal in 2017.
Trump was furious Sessions recused himself from overseeing special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation. Sessions ultimately resigned at Trump’s request.
Trump tweeted Saturday: ‘3 years ago, after Jeff Sessions recused himself, the Fraudulent Mueller Scam began. Alabama, do not trust Jeff Sessions. He let our Country down. That’s why I endorsed Coach Tommy Tuberville (@TTuberville), the true supporter of our #MAGA agenda!’
Coulter disagreed with the president’s analysis of how the ‘Mueller Scam’ came to pass, writing: ‘Sessions HAD to recuse himself, you complete blithering idiot.
‘YOU did not have to go on Lester Holt’s show and announce you fired Comey over the Russian investigation. That’s what got you a Special Prosecutor.’

Everyone wishes Trump would be more circumspect in his Twitter usage, but I don’t see the benefit of engaging in such public feuds. I am not an enemy of Jeff Sessions, but I think most conservatives see his recusal as a mistake, and I don’t see why Sessions believes he is owed a return to his former Senate seat. If you feel differently, of course, you have the right to your own opinion, but I won’t argue with you about it, because I don’t enjoy seeing conservatives lacerating each other in public this way.


 

Category: Ann Coulter, Donald Trump

Rule 5 Sunday: Kayleigh “Honey Badger” McEnany

Posted on | May 25, 2020 | 4 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

There’s a new Press Secretary at the White House, and like her namesake, she just doesn’t care about the bruised egos and outraged sensibilities of the White House Press Corps. She’s tearing them up on a daily basis, and the press just can’t deal. Too bad for them; it’s nice to have a Press Secretary who’s combative and hot. Here she is in 2018 shortly after her double mastectomy.

With the Lightning

Ninety Miles From Tyranny leads off as usual with Hot Pick Of The Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #993, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns; at Animal Magnetism, it’s Rule Five Sixth Annual Commencement Speech Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL’s still on a major opera kick with Nabucco, Nadine Sierra, Turandot, Kristy Katzmann, Don Giovanni, Girls In Windows, Lohengrin, Sondra Radvanovsky, Kayleigh McEnany, and Faust.

A View From The Beach’s haul this week includes Morgan Fairchild, Chesapeake Crabs Doing OK, Not Great But OK, Aunt Becky is Headed to the Big House, Fish Pic Friday – Two for One Sale, Oyster Benefits Oversold, It’s Tattoo Thursday, Chesapeake Bay Barely Passes Bay Foundation Report Card, Your Wednesday Wetness, Tuesday Tanlines, Muddy Monday, Palm Sunday? and 70%? Really?

Proof Positive’s Vintage Babe this week is Raquel Welch, Bacon Time has pole dancers, and Red Pilled Jew contributes Women on Boats as well as Women In Sun & Surf.

Thanks to everyone for the luscious linkagery!

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