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Gay Men Spread Chinese Virus at Miami’s South Beach ‘Winter Party’ Festival

Posted on | March 21, 2020 | Comments Off on Gay Men Spread Chinese Virus at Miami’s South Beach ‘Winter Party’ Festival

 

At least nine men who attended the March 4-10 “Winter Party” LGBTQ festival in Miami have tested positive for Wuhan coronavirus. The annual gay festival in South Beach attracted thousands of visitors, among them a young physician from Boston:

Dr. Joshua Ellis, a medical education fellow and emergency medicine physician at Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, was excited to celebrate his 30th birthday in Miami with five of his close friends.
They had been planning the trip to Florida since late fall — long before the novel coronavirus was even a blip on anyone’s radar. They rented a house on Ocean Drive, steps away from beautiful South Beach. They bought tickets to the Winter Party Festival, a week-long event that brings thousands of gay men to Miami’s hotels, nightclubs, bars, and beaches to raise money for LGBTQ groups in South Florida.
Ellis and his friends traveled to Miami in early March — before the cascade of shutdowns, curfews, and closures that would swiftly upend American life — from all over the country: Seattle, Denver, Boston, Washington, D.C.
Since then, all six of them have gotten sick and with the same symptoms: chills, sweats, fatigue, shortness of breath. Four of them, including Ellis, already have tested positive for COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the coronavirus.
“All six have shown the exact same symptoms at different times. So everyone in the household got it for sure — I am 100 percent confident; it’s too coincidental,” Ellis said in an interview this week, his nose running and voice hoarse. “The fear, though, is a lot of them were actively enjoying their social life [before they felt sick] . . . going to bars, going to dinners, going and hanging out at friends’ houses, quarantining with friends.”

Oh, trust the medical experts, they tell us. Meanwhile, Doctor Homo is partying down in South Beach with his gay buddies, who then return home to spread the deadly contagion across the country.

Speaking of homosexual activity in South Beach:

 

This is the sordid aftermath of the raucous drugs and booze party at a Florida hotel that left a male escort hospitalized and sent high-flying Democrat Andrew Gillum into rehab.
Plastic baggies of suspected crystal meth, empty beer bottles and prescription pills are seen scattered among trash and soiled bedding in the shocking images obtained exclusively by DailyMail.com.
Gillum, a married dad-of-three who narrowly missed out on becoming Florida’s first black governor, was too ‘inebriated’ to tell cops what went down when they arrived at Miami’s Mondrian Hotel early last Friday.
He was inside room 1107 with two more men, one of them a hunky 30-year-old male escort named Travis Dyson, who was found naked and in the throes of a drug overdose.
A police report says the third man, Aldo Mejias, 56, dialed 911 when fitness freak Dyson began vomiting and collapsed.
He later told officers from the Miami Beach Police Department that he had walked in to find Gillum and Dyson ‘under the influence of an unknown substance’ and Gillum, 40, vomiting in the bathroom.
Our exclusive images show the slew of drugs, both prescription and illegal, found inside the swank $220-per-night hotel room, including three bags of what police believe was crystal meth.
Dozens of white pills can be seen scattered on the floor and bedside table alongside empty containers of citalopram, an anti-anxiety medication, and gabapentin, which helps combat seizures and nerve pain.
There’s also a small bottle of an injectable medicine containing alprostadil which is typically used to treat erectile dysfunction and should never be mixed with alcohol.
Beer bottles and sheets covered in bodily fluids can also been in the photos, obtained from police under Freedom of Information law.
Cops declined to press charges and said Dyson, who posts X-rated photos and homemade porn movies on his profile page on the Rent.Men website, was likely to make a full recovery.
Gillum, a former Tallahassee mayor and regular CNN contributor, issued a statement within hours of the story leaking, apologizing for his drinking while insisting he never used meth.

Let’s be clear that this was a gay sex party. Methamphetamine and a drug “used to treat erectile dysfunction”? Sheets “covered in bodily fluids”? Do not expect us to pretend we don’t know what this was about. By the way, what is purported to be a nude photo of Gillum passed out on the floor of this South Beach hotel room has circulated online, and the Official Gay Community is angry at the “far-right” gay blogger who first posted it. Jacob Engels of the Central Florida Post says he obtained the photo from Republican congressional candidate Enrique Tarrio — a guy who we actually interviewed on The Other Podcast at CPAC 2019.

Anyway, I like how the “far-right” blogger reports the story:

At the time of the meth fueled sex orgy, Gillum was leading a powerful political committee in Florida, serving as a lead contributor to CNN, and was being considered as Joe Biden’s Vice Presidential pick for the Democrats. . . .
This is an ongoing story and we are currently working to obtain bodycam footage from law enforcement officers. Remember, this guy came within 34,000 votes of becoming Governor of Florida and was being discussed as a VP nominee for the Democrats.

If only Gillum had postponed his “meth-fueled sex orgy” a few more months, he might have become Joe Biden’s running mate. That’s scary.

So, in addition to the racism of calling this a “Chinese virus,” I suppose I’m now guilty of homophobia for calling attention to how Miami’s “Winter Party” helped spread the disease. Also, telling the truth about a Democrat’s “meth-fueled sex orgy” makes me a hater, I guess.

Political correctness requires us to pretend we don’t know things that we actually do know, e.g., what happens when thousands of gay men travel to a week-long festival in Miami. Even when the consequences of such behavior include spreading potentially fatal diseases, we are expected never to mention the sordid reality involved. You could lose your job — or get banned from Twitter — if you refuse to cooperate with the “progressive” agenda of this compulsory make-believe game.

Classifying the expression of certain opinions as “hate speech” involves an infringement of our First Amendment rights. You are not allowed to express disapproval of a “meth-fueled sex orgy,” or a gigantic week-long gathering of homosexuals (who may not be using meth, but are almost certainly having sex orgies) because there is a political agenda to protect such behavior from public criticism. Most Americans never stop to think about the motives behind political correctness: Why are some categories of behavior (and some categories of people) off-limits to criticism?

Once a special-interest group aligns itself with the Democratic Party, suddenly you’re forbidden to express a negative opinion of them. The rules of political correctness are always dictated by this partisan formula. Once upon a time, Catholics were a key constituency for the Democratic Party, which meant criticism of Catholic practices was prohibited. Once the abortion lobby and the LGBTQ crowd gained ascendancy among Democrats, however, denouncing Catholicism became more or less mandatory. Likewise, anti-Semitism was forbidden until the Democrats began soliciting support from Muslims, at which point Jew-haters like Ilhan Omar became the leaders of the party’s “progressive” wing.

Now? Democrats are eager to have the votes of Chinese bat-eaters, I guess. So while it is still legal to express an opinion on this subject, let me declare that I am against eating bats. (SPLC Headline: “Right-Wing Blogger Stirs Controversy With Dietary Hate Speech.”) So you can add that to the list of things of which I disapprove: Don’t eat bats, don’t do meth, avoid sex orgies in South Beach, and above all, don’t forget that The Five Most Important Words in the English Language are:

HIT THE FREAKING TIP JAR!



 

Category: Florida, Gays

#Coronavirus: The ‘Grisly Calculus’

Posted on | March 21, 2020 | Comments Off on #Coronavirus: The ‘Grisly Calculus’

First, news from the Associated Press:

Illinois and New York state joined California on Friday in ordering all residents to stay in their homes unless they have vital reasons to go out, restricting the movement of more than 70 million Americans in the most sweeping measures undertaken yet in the U.S. to contain the coronavirus.
The states’ governors acted in a bid to fend off the kind of onslaught that has caused the health system in southern Europe to buckle. The lockdowns encompass the three biggest cities in America — New York, Los Angeles and Chicago — as well as No. 8 San Diego and No. 14 San Francisco.

OK, the reason we have been getting scary warnings from public officials is because (a) they’ve seen what happened in Italy, and (b) there are limits to the number of urgent-care facilities available to treat severe cases of Wuhan coronavirus. In Italy, the death toll, which was 197 two weeks ago (March 6) is now 4,032, and they reported 627 deaths in the past 24 hours. As of 8:36 p.m. ET Friday, CNN was reporting that there had been 241 U.S. deaths from coronavirus, so if the pandemic here follows the trajectory in Italy, we could have more than 1,000 total deaths by Wednesday, and over 2,000 deaths by the end of the month.

Notice I’m counting deaths, rather than the reported number of infections. The reason for this is that death is a fixed target, whereas identifying people who are infected is variable. It has been reported that about 80% of people infected with Wuhan coronavirus have only mild symptoms — a few days of sniffling and sneezing, no different than the common cold — and some have no symptoms at all. There has been a shortage of tests for the virus, and many U.S. patients have only been tested in the past few days, so we can expect a significant upswing in the number of known cases over the next week or so, but that does not necessarily mean the actual number of cases is increasing. Therefore, I’m focusing strictly on the number of deaths from the virus.

According to CNN, these are the top 10 states:

1. Washington ……. 82 deaths
2. New York ……….. 39 deaths
3. California ……….. 23 deaths
4. Louisiana ……….. 14 deaths
5. Georgia ………….. 13 deaths
6. New Jersey …….. 11 deaths
7. Florida ……………. 9 deaths
8. Texas ………………. 5 deaths
9. Illinois ……………… 5 deaths
10. Colorado …………. 4 deaths
(tie) Connecticut …… 4 deaths

Of the total U.S. deaths (241), these 11 states account for 87%, and the top three states account for 60% of the total. In other words, 39 states so far have only 13% of the total U.S. deaths. While we can expect some shifts as the number of deaths nationwide increase, it is unlikely that the overall distribution will change significantly. That is to say, the 21 states that have so far reported zero deaths from Wuhan coronavirus (Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Maine, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming) almost certainly will never be among the states most severely hit by this pandemic. A certain number of people in those states will get sick and die, but “social distancing” will limit the transmission of the virus, so that the worst impact of the disease will be in those communities where it is now most widespread. Most restaurants and bars are already closed, “shelter in place” orders have been imposed in several states and localities, and the areas now (relatively) free of the virus will probably be spared the worst of it. How soon will we know?

The key will be to keep track of (a) the total number of U.S. deaths, and (b) the percentage of deaths in the top 10 states in comparison to the rest of the country. As I say, the number of people reported as infected may increase rapidly without telling us very much. You could test positive for Wuhan coronavirus and never get very sick at all. It’s the serious cases requiring hospitalization that will put a strain on our health-care system, and the number of deaths will be a good barometer of how that’s going.

If you don’t have any symptoms, you don’t need to be tested. The media are panicking about the lack of testing because guess what? The media are based in urban centers where the risk of getting this disease is much higher than it is for Americans living out in the boondocks. An NBC News employee has died of Wuhan coronavirus, and two other NBC News staffers have tested positive for the virus. The panic over the disease is higher in “blue” states for a reason, as Ron Brownstein explains:

In several key respects, the outbreak’s early stages are unfolding very differently in Republican- and Democratic-leaning parts of the country. That disconnect is already shaping, even distorting, the nation’s response to this unprecedented challenge—and it could determine the pandemic’s ultimate political consequences as well.
A flurry of new national polls released this week reveals that while anxiety about the disease is rising on both sides of the partisan divide, Democrats consistently express much more concern about it than Republicans do, and they are much more likely to say they have changed their personal behavior as a result. A similar gap separates people who live in large metropolitan centers, which have become the foundation of the Democratic electoral coalition, from those who live in the small towns and rural areas that are the modern bedrock of the GOP. . . .
So far, the greatest clusters of the disease, and the most aggressive responses to it, have indeed been centered in a few large, Democratic-leaning metropolitan areas, including Seattle, New York, San Francisco, and Boston. At yesterday’s White House press briefing, Deborah Birx, the administration’s response coordinator, said half of the nation’s cases so far are located in just 10 counties. . . .
Democrats now dominate the places in the U.S. most integrated into the global economy, which may be more likely to receive international visitors or see their own residents travel abroad.
On the case-tracking website maintained by Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering, each of the four states with the largest number of coronavirus cases is a Democratic-leaning place along the coast: New York, Washington, California, and New Jersey. Florida, a coastal, internationally oriented state that leans slightly toward the GOP, ranks fifth. Illinois, Louisiana, Massachusetts, and Texas, each with at least one big urban center that functions as a gateway for tourism and trade, come in next. And though the Johns Hopkins project isn’t publishing precise county and municipal data on the outbreak, the biggest clusters of disease have all erupted in a few large metropolitan areas.

So if, like me, you live in a rural area and don’t travel abroad, your risk of exposure to Wuhan coronavirus is smaller than people who live in Democrat-dominated urban areas — including New York and D.C. where the national press corps is based. The existing lockdowns, and the effectiveness of the “social distancing” regime, can be expected to limit the spread of the disease to areas currently unaffected by the pandemic. So while the number of deaths nationwide will continue to increase — and, based on what’s happened in Italy, we will probably see the rate of increase accelerate — most of those deaths will be in the urban centers. The elderly and people with underlying medical problems are at greater risk everywhere, but they are at less risk in rural areas than in cities.

Heather Mac Donald has pointed out that “there were 38,800 traffic fatalities in the United States in 2019 . . . an average of over one hundred traffic deaths every day.” Even in Italy, the country hit hardest by the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic, there have been fewer than 5,000 deaths. Comparing the coronavirus risk to other potential causes of death is a “grisly calculus,” Mac Donald admits, but it is the only way to put this into proper perspective and avoid panic.

In the meantime, don’t eat any bats and avoid people who do eat bats.



 

Category: Health Care

In The Mailbox: 03.20.20

Posted on | March 20, 2020 | 1 Comment

– compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
A View From The Beach: A Letter From Italy
357 Magnum: Some Discrimination Is (Apparently) Okay In The Age of COVID-19
EBL: Everybody Was Kung Flu Fighting!
Twitchy: Doctor Drops Slate Writer For Trying To Keep Panic Going After First Doomsday Wuhan Flu Predictions Prove False
Louder With Crowder: Trump Trolls The Media For “Sitting Too Close”, Suggests Most Should Leave
According To Hoyt: Seven Days In March, also, Look Beyond The Virus
Monster Hunter Nation: Hermit Lockdown Blog Update
Vox Popoli: The More Things Change, also, This Is Why You Don’t Bail Out The Banks

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Friday Hawt Chicks & Links – The CHINA Virus From CHINA Edition
American Conservative: Will Coronavirus-Weary Americans Start To Rebel In “Wartime”
American Greatness: Dangerous Curves, also, GOPe Parasites Bail Out Of Stock Market Before Chinese Virus Crash
American Thinker: Justin Trudeau’s Canada Is Obama’s Dream For America
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Biden’s Hypocrisy Friday
Babalu Blog: Castro Regime’s Apparent Indifference To Coronavirus Has Cubans Worried
Baldilocks: Going Nowhere
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For March 20
Cafe Hayek: A Cut Above?
Camp Of The Saints: WuFlu Related – “The Right Of The People Peaceably To Assemble”
CDR Salamander: My Eyes Have Seen The Horror Of The Coming Of The COVID-19
Da Tech Guy: The Tom Brady Tampa Bucs Expectations Game
Don Surber: A Recession Won’t Save The Democrats
First Street Journal: Another Liberal Solution To Inner-City Murders
The Geller Report: More WuFlu Insider Profiteering, also, Three International Studies Find Chloroquine Shows 100% Success In Treating Coronavirus In Six Days
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, I Haven’t Lost Any Money Yet
Hollywood In Toto: Dark Secrets Make Blow The Man Down Worth Discovering, also, Hollywood’s Tone-Deaf “Imagine” Unites Left & Right
JustOneMinute: Fashion Hints
Legal Insurrection: Sorry, MSM – 55% Of Americans Approve Of Trump’s Coronavirus Actions, also, Bloomberg’s Campaign Transfers $18 Million To DNC
Megan McArdle: When It Comes To The Coronavirus, We Elites Got It Wrong. So Did You Populists
The PanAm Post: The Red Chinese Regime Is Responsible For The Coronavirus And Must Answer For It
Power Line: Suicide’s Not Painless, also, Stop The Insane Overreaction
Shark Tank: Gov. DeSantis Signs Strict COVID-19 EO For Broward & Palm Beach
Shot In The Dark: Disconnected
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday – The Economic Crisis
This Ain’t Hell: Dane Reason, Phony SEAL, also, A Friday Fish Dish
Victory Girls: Coronavirus Has Not Made Us Socialist
Volokh Conspiracy: Just Send The Checks
Weasel Zippers: OANN’s Chanel Rion Throws CNN Into Meltdown With Her Question For Trump, also, Dem Super PACs To Spend Millions On Ads Blaming Trump For Coronavirus
Mark Steyn: Skyping It In

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Category: Linkagery

The Unnatural Prejudice of Globalists

Posted on | March 20, 2020 | Comments Off on The Unnatural Prejudice of Globalists

Sen. Theodore Bilbo could not be reached for comment.

Ace of Spades has been using the slur “cuck,” which was popularized by the so-called “alt-right” to describe neoconservatives. I have avoided this term because it derives from a type of pornography, appealing to men who fantasize about seeing their wives have sex with other men. These “cuckold” fantasies are perverse — abnormal, unnatural, deviant — and why? Because normal men have a pride of possession in their wives.

Students of anthropology, sociology and psychology can explain why monogamous marriage for life is normative among humans. It is not only a matter of instinct, but rational self-interest, that causes men to desire an exclusive sexual relationship, because otherwise a man might spend his life working to support another man’s children. The word “cuckold” refers to the cuckoo bird, which lays its eggs in other birds’ nests, and the exclusivity of marriage serves the social good by preventing analogous behavior in humans. An adulterous woman might, by her deceit, humiliate her husband by compelling him to support children sired by her lover. This is why promiscuity is more stigmatized in women than in men. The man who “plays the field” is engaged in antisocial behavior — and is condemned as a sinner in Judeo-Christian morality — but the woman who exhibits promiscuous tendencies thereby removes herself from the category of “wife material,” since no intelligent man would trust her to remain loyal within marriage. But I digress . . .

The use of the term “cuck” to describe neoconservatives is a reference to their contempt for national sovereignty, particularly their enthusiasm for an “open borders” immigration policy. The globalist outlook of the neoconservative expresses a prejudice in favor of foreigners, to the detriment of his own people, an attitude that is as unnatural as the perverse fantasies of men who want to watch other men have sex with their wives. The analogy is not perfect, but it does call our attention to the pride of possession that is the root of our sense of patriotism.

It’s like home ownership. People who own their own home will invest their own time and money in the maintenance and improvement their property, because this increases the asset-value of their home. The renter, by contrast, has no such incentive, and anyone who has ever owned or managed rental property can tell you nightmare stories about how slovenly and destructive tenants can be.

An American citizen should have the pride of possession in his country that a homeowner has in his home — or that a husband has in his wife. It is worth mentioning here that the word “husband” is of Germanic origin, meaning home owner (as opposed to a landless peasant). The advocacy of open borders — an immigration free-for-all — is as offensive to a patriot as would be the suggestion that he should let a bunch of strangers barge into his home uninvited and help themselves to whatever they want.

When Ace mocks the #NeverTrump crowd as “cucks,” it is their unnatural (and unpatriotic) enthusiasm for an open-borders immigration policy which makes them deserving of such ridicule. Any conservative might rightly criticize President Trump for his worst tendencies, and certainly it never would have occurred to me to recruit a reality-TV star as a Republican presidential candidate. Nevertheless, on the basic issue of patriotism — particularly in opposition to illegal immigration — Trump is a welcome remedy to a problem that has plagued the Republican Party for the past three decades. Whereas Democrats celebrate the incoming swarm of Third World immigrants as potential future Democrat voters, Republicans have been too much influenced by Chamber of Commerce lobbyists who see in this immigrant horde a supply of cheap labor to be exploited for profit. It has been the habit of neoconservatives to deride as “racist” any opposition to this bipartisan open-borders policy.

A rational concern for one’s own self-interest is not hateful prejudice. An American who doesn’t want to see his country overrun by foreigners — which is what has been happening for 30 years — does not deserve to be smeared as a latter-day Senator Bilbo. It is dishonest to accuse the patriot of “racism” over what is a matter of public policy that directly affects his personal interests, as our immigration policy does. Most of the 62.9 million Americans who voted for Trump have friends and neighbors of various ethnicity with whom they get along just fine, but they suspect (and rightly so, in my opinion) that the total number of Third World immigrants coming to the United States is too large, and that tolerance toward illegal immigrants is particularly ill-advised.

The question of numbers, in regard to immigration, is a matter of public policy, and no matter what you think the proper number of immigrants should be, if you are unwilling to enforce existing immigration law, you effectively endorse unlimited immigration — open borders.

Permit me to remind readers of something you may have forgotten: As soon as President George W. Bush was re-elected in 2004, all the pundits immediately assumed that Hillary Clinton would be the Democratic nominee in 2008. One result was an avalanche of anti-Hillary books from right-wing authors, and every “political strategist” in the Republican Party began thinking of 2008 in terms of how to beat Hillary.

What went wrong? Blame Tim Russert.

The veteran host of NBC’s Meet the Press was the moderator of an Oct. 30, 2007, debate in Philadelphia where this exchange took place:

MR. RUSSERT: Senator Clinton, Governor of New York Eliot Spitzer has proposed giving driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants. You told the Nashua, N.H., editorial board it makes a lot of sense. Why does it make a lot of sense to give an illegal immigrant a driver’s license?
MRS. CLINTON: Well, what Governor Spitzer is trying to do is fill the vacuum left by the failure of this administration to bring about comprehensive immigration reform.
We know in New York we have several million at any one time who are in New York illegally. They are undocumented workers. They are driving on our roads. The possibility of them having an accident that harms themselves or others is just a matter of the odds. It’s probability. So what Governor Spitzer is trying to do is to fill the vacuum.
I believe we need to get back to comprehensive immigration reform because no state, no matter how well intentioned, can fill this gap. There needs to be federal action on immigration reform. …

After an exchange between Mr. Russert and Senator Christopher J. Dodd of Connecticut, Mrs. Clinton jumped in:

MRS. CLINTON: I just want to add, I did not say that it should be done, but I certainly recognize why Governor Spitzer is trying to do it. And we have failed . . .
MR. DODD: Wait a minute. No, no, no. You said, yes, you thought it made sense to do it.
MRS. CLINTON: No, I didn’t, Chris. But the point is, what are we going to do with all these illegal immigrants who are driving?
MR. DODD: Well, that’s a legitimate issue. But driver’s license goes too far, in my view.
MRS. CLINTON: Well, you may say that, but what is the identification if somebody runs into you today who is an undocumented worker . . .
MR. DODD: There’s ways of dealing with that.
MRS. CLINTON: Well, but . . .
MR. DODD: This is a privilege, not a right.
MRS. CLINTON: Well, what Governor Spitzer has agreed to do is to have three different licenses ? one that provides identification for actually going onto airplanes and other kinds of security issues, another which is an ordinary driver’s license and then a special card that identifies the people who would be on the road.
MR. DODD: That’s a bureaucratic nightmare.
MRS. CLINTON: So it’s not the full privilege.
MR. RUSSERT: Senator Clinton, I just want to make sure what I heard. Do you, the New York Senator Hillary Clinton, support the New York governor’s plan to give illegal immigrants a driver’s license? You told the Nashua, N.H., paper it made a lot of sense. . . . Do you support his plan?
MRS. CLINTON: You know, Tim, this is where everybody plays gotcha. It makes a lot of sense. What is the governor supposed to do? He is dealing with a serious problem. We have failed, and George Bush has failed.
Do I think this is the best thing for any governor to do? No. But do I understand the sense of real desperation, trying to get a handle on this? Remember, in New York we want to know who’s in New York. We want people to come out of the shadows. He’s making an honest effort to do it. We should have passed immigration reform.

Until that debate, Hillary had a commanding position in the polls, but from that point onward, her numbers began an irreversible decline, from which she never could recover. Her go-to reply to Russert’s question was “comprehensive immigration reform,” which everyone who had paid attention to the recent congressional debate understood to be a synonym for amnesty. In asking about then-New York Gov. Elliott Spitzer’s proposal to give driver’s licenses to illegal aliens, Russert said nothing whatsoever about any national “reform” plan and, after Hillary gave her initial answer, she seemed to realize that she had left herself exposed to criticism on this issue, which is why she interrupted after Russert’s exchange with Chris Dodd. She was trying to weasel her way out of taking a direct stance for or against Spitzer’s proposal, and to blame the failure of “reform” on the Bush administration. I remember watching that debate live as it happened and thinking: “Holy crap, good-bye Iowa.”

“All politics is local,” as they say, and most people have no idea what a huge issue illegal immigration is in Iowa. For the past 20 or 30 years, meat-processing plants have been bringing in workers from Mexico and Central America to work in the pork, chicken and beef plants (which are located in Iowa because that’s where corn to feed livestock can be most cheaply obtained). Some communities have been completely overwhelmed by the influx of Hispanic workers. Small towns in rural Iowa where there had been no significant amount of immigration in the past century suddenly found their local schools inundated by the children of these newcomers, and this caused problems unrelated to any racial prejudice. Overnight, teachers were expected to deal with kids who spoke little English, and whose parents spoke no English at all.

It is very easy for the wealthy elite to shrug their shoulders at the plight of people in rural Iowa — “deplorables,” as Hillary would later dub them — who find their communities transformed by immigration. And the way Hillary answered Russert’s question, by speaking of “undocumented workers” and trying to shift the blame to the Bush administration, showed her elitist disdain for the people of Iowa.

When Ace of Spades mocks #NeverTrump as a bunch of “cucks,” what he is saying is that these Republicans (or ex-Republicans) are as guilty as Hillary of an elitist contempt for ordinary Americans. Patriotism is fundamentally about loyalty, and loyalty must be reciprocal to be rational. The patriot is loyal to his country because he believes that his country deserves loyalty. Yet if his sentiment is not reciprocated — if the leadership caste of the country consistently acts to the detriment of its loyal citizens — then patriotism is foolish. Why should a man send his son to serve in the Army if the nation’s leaders never share that patriotic burden, and especially if those leaders show a perverse tendency to prefer the interests foreigners over the interests of American citizens?

Is it unfair to imply that Bill Kristol, Rick Wilson, Charlie Sykes, et al., enjoy watching their wives having sex with other men? Perhaps, but the analogy implied by the “cuck” insult is entirely accurate. Their lack of proper patriotism — their hostility to the hopes, dreams and interests of ordinary Americans — is perverse, deviant, abnormal and unnatural. They are indefensible, and should be ashamed of themselves.



 

Category: Ace of Spades, Immigration, Racism, Uncategorized

Coronavirus: Why Italy?

Posted on | March 20, 2020 | Comments Off on Coronavirus: Why Italy?

 

It was reported yesterday that Italy now has more coronavirus deaths than China, and that there were zero new cases in Wuhan. Everyone immediately became skeptical: Is Beijing lying again?

But there’s another important question: Why has this pandemic hit Italy so hard? Saturday, I suggested the likely answer:

Almost no one in the media is reporting the demographic factors involved in Italy’s pandemic disaster, and I can’t vouch for this “alternative” source’s account about the way manufacturers in Northern Italy brought in thousands of Chinese laborers to work in the leather and textile industries. Nonetheless, seems plausible, because it resembles the way Mexican and Central American laborers have been brought into the United States to work in, for example, meat processing plants.

It proved nearly impossible to find mainstream media reports on this. The only mention I found was by Robert Fisk in the U.K. Independent, and that column was behind a paywall. So I was forced to go digging into the archives to verify what the alternative source had reported:

As the United States prepares for a second week of lockdown to slow the spread of the Chinese coronavirus (COVID-19), hundreds of people in Italy are dying every day from this disease. And the reason why Italy now has more coronavirus deaths than any other country can be summarized in a single word — luxury.
In the world of fashion, the “Made in Italy” tag has a distinct value associated with luxury and status. Merchants can charge higher prices for clothing, shoes, handbags, and other fashion goods manufactured in Italy, and that value was coveted by certain Chinese entrepreneurs. During the past three decades, more and more Chinese investors bought into textile and leather-good factories in northern Italy, and they brought over Chinese laborers to work in those factories. By 2010, there were reportedly 60,000 Chinese in Prato, an industrial suburb of Florence. To accommodate Italy’s new foreign labor force, nonstop flights were established between China and Rome.
None of this was a secret. . . .

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



 

Category: China, Health Care, Italy

In The Mailbox: 03.19.20

Posted on | March 19, 2020 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 03.19.20

– compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
Ammo.com: Corona-Chan’s Impact On Ammunition Sales
357 Magnum: The Europeans Were Just Too Cool To Worry about COVID-19
EBL: Prayer Of St. Joseph
Twitchy: Adam Schiff Trips All Over #AB5 In Rush To Help “Freelance, Contract, & Gig Economy Workers Who Are Being Hit Hard”
Louder With Crowder: Marvel Reboots New Warriors With Non-Binary Heroes Snowflake & Safespace

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: How To Explain The “Un-Australian” Behavior
American Conservative: Amid Economic Chaos, Trudeau’s Star Nearly Dark
American Greatness: Coronavirus Is America’s Red Chinese Wakeup Call
American Thinker: How Long Will Americans Tolerate Corona Madness?
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Fricking Fracking News
Babalu Blog: First COVID-19 Death In Cuba; Infected American Tourist Remains Hospitalized
BattleSwarm: It’s Red China’s Fault
Cafe Hayek: “Socialism-Lite”
Camp Of The Saints: A Non-Wuhan Post – Of Scoundrels & Fools
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Stop Pretending We Don’t Know Exactly How and Where This Pandemic Started

Posted on | March 19, 2020 | 2 Comments

 

Two words you should add to your vocabulary — zoonosis and zoonotic:

A zoonosis (plural zoonoses, or zoonotic diseases) is an infectious disease caused by bacteria, viruses, or parasites that spread from non-human animals (usually vertebrates) to humans.
Major modern diseases such as Ebola virus disease and salmonellosis are zoonoses.

The Wuhan coronavirus is a zoonotic disease. In January — before the liberal media decided Trump was to blame for this pandemic — it was widely reported that the outbreak originated in China’s Wuhan province, specifically in so-called “wet markets,” where live animals are kept and slaughtered on the spot for sale. The Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market was linked to 41 of the first cases of COVID-19 identified in China by early January. In addition to seafood, this market in Wuhan was known for selling meat of “exotic animals”:

The South China Morning Post reported on 29 January 2020 that the market had a section selling around “120 wildlife animals across 75 species.”

From a Jan. 20 report by CNN:

A new Chinese coronavirus, a cousin of the SARS virus, has infected hundreds since the outbreak began in Wuhan, China, in December. Scientist Leo Poon, who first decoded the virus, thinks it likely started in an animal and spread to humans.
“What we know is it causes pneumonia and then doesn’t respond to antibiotic treatment, which is not surprising, but then in terms of mortality, SARS kills 10% of the individuals,” Poon, a virologist at the School of Public Health at The University of Hong Kong, said.
It’s not clear how deadly the Wuhan coronavirus will be, but fatality rates are currently lower than both MERS and SARS. . . .
Coronaviruses are a large group of viruses that are common among animals. In rare cases, they are what scientists call zoonotic, meaning they can be transmitted from animals to humans, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

From a Jan. 26 report by ABC News:

Chinese authorities temporarily banned the trade of wild animals Sunday following a viral outbreak in Wuhan, saying they will “severely investigate and punish” violators. . . .
The ban will continue until “the epidemic situation is lifted nationwide” in order to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus and block potential sources of infection and transmission.
The three agencies also opened a hotline where people can report violations, and called on the public to refrain from eating wild animal meat. . . .
The wildlife ban comes as the new virus accelerated its spread in China with 56 deaths, and 1,975 infections. China cut off trains, planes and other links to Wuhan on Wednesday, as well as public transportation within the city, and has steadily expanded a lockdown to 16 surrounding cities with a combined population of more than 50 million — greater than that of New York, London, Paris and Moscow combined.
Demand for wild animals in Asia, especially China, is hastening the extinction of many species, on top of posing a perennial health threat that authorities have failed to fully address despite growing risks of a global pandemic. . . .
A group of 19 prominent researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the nation’s top universities had called for the government in China to crack down on wildlife markets such as the one at the center of the Wuhan outbreak. . . .
Zoonotic diseases, or those contracted by humans that originated in other species, account for a large share of human infectious illnesses. Not all of them come from the wildlife trade: Rabies is endemic across many species and one of the biggest causes of death in the developing world. But mixing species of wild animals increases the risk of diseases mutating and growing more virulent as they spread in unregulated markets, experts say.
The emergence of such diseases is a “numbers game,” said Christian Walzer, executive director of the Wildlife Conservation Society’s health program.
“If these markets persist, and human consumption of illegal and unregulated wildlife persists, then the public will continue to face heightened risks from emerging new viruses, potentially more lethal and the source of future pandemic spread,” he said. “These are perfect laboratories for creating opportunities for these viruses to emerge.”
Researchers have not yet identified a definitive source for this latest outbreak, which like many other viruses can infect multiple species.
One of the first measures taken by Wuhan authorities was to close the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market, where 41 of the first cases originated.

Back in January, while impeachment was dominating headlines in the United States, the liberal media had no problem reporting that (a) this viral outbreak began in Wuhan, China, and (b) it was a “zoonotic” disease clearly linked to the “wildlife trade” in China. At that time, CNN did not hesitate to use the phrase “Chinese coronavirus” or “Wuhan coronavirus” in its reporting, but in a White House press conference Wednesday, a reporter for ABC News scolded the president for “bias”:

 

President Trump on Wednesday defended himself from the allegations of racism and xenophobia that were leveled in response to his calling the Wuhan coronavirus the “Chinese virus,” telling reporters that “it comes from China” and that “it’s not racist at all” to use the label.
Trump used the term “Chinese virus” in a tweet Wednesday morning, and was asked about why he used the phrase by ABC reporter Cecilia Vega, who referenced “dozens of incidents of bias against Chinese Americans” since the outbreak.
“Because it comes from China,” Trump stated, adding that “it’s not racist at all, no, not at all.”
“It comes from China, that’s why. It comes from China. I want to be accurate,” Trump said. “I have great love for all of the people from our country, but as you know, China tried to say at one point — maybe they stopped now — that it was caused by American soldiers. That can’t happen, it’s not going to happen, not as long as I’m president.”

The Communist regime in Beijing is at fault, not only for its false propaganda trying to blame America for this disease, but also for its mishandling of the initial outbreak of the virus:

A recently published study from the University of Southampton estimated that the global outbreak of the coronavirus could have been dramatically reduced had China’s communist government acted sooner. . . .
The research found “that if interventions in [China] could have been conducted one week, two weeks, or three weeks earlier, cases could have been reduced by 66 percent, 86 percent and 95 percent respectively — significantly limiting the geographical spread of the disease.”
The first case of the virus was reportedly detected as early as mid-November of last year. . . .
Other reports place the initial detection of the outbreak in early December, with Wei Guixian, a seafood merchant in Wuhan’s Hua’nan market, being one of the first reported cases. . . .
China waited until January 23, 2020, before quarantining the entire city of Wuhan, which has a population of over 11 million people.
Axios highlighted how China censored people who tried to sound the alarm . . .

How irresponsible is it for (allegedly objective) journalists to demonize President Trump, blaming him for “incidents of bias,” simply because he has told the truth about where this virus came from?

The media contend it is “controversial,” and almost certainly “racist,” for a Republican to tell the truth about the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic:

As President Donald Trump receives backlash for comments Wednesday about the coronavirus outbreak that were widely perceived as xenophobic, his allies in Congress have risen to his defense — with one senator in particular embracing his rhetoric.
“China is to blame,” Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, said Wednesday of the virus, which was first identified in Wuhan, China. “Because the culture where people eat bats and snakes and dogs and things like that.”
He proceeded to identify the consumption of such animals as the source of the virus, echoing a since debunked myth that the outbreak began with a woman eating bat soup. The origins of the virus remain a mystery to health officials, even as it continues to spread globally.

It is certainly not a “debunked myth” to explain the zoonotic origins of this disease, nor is the source of the virus a “mystery”:

The consensus among researchers studying the spread of the virus pinpoints COVID-19’s likely origin to a “wet market,” or live animal market, in Wuhan, China
The origin theory for the virus is supplemented by preliminary research into the disease’s genome, as well as the origins of similar diseases. Researchers at the Shanghai Public Health Clinical Centre published the genome of COVID-19 two weeks after cases were reported in late December 2019. Gene sequencing analysis strongly suggests the virus originated in bats and was transferred to humans through a yet-unidentified intermediary species. In early February, Chinese researchers published work suggesting the intermediary species may have been the pangolin (also called a scaly anteater), though this work has not yet undergone a peer-reviewed study.
The conditions for such interspecies pathogen transfer are ripe in wet markets, which are common in parts of Asia, Africa and Latin America. Severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, resulted from a virus transferring from bats to civet cats and then humans. SARS, discovered in 2003, originated at a wet market similar to the one now suspected to be the origin of COVID-19.

Are we clear now? Senator Cornyn was absolutely correct in explaining that the dietary habits of (some) Chinese, which involve markets where multiple live exotic species are kept together and slaughtered on site, are to blame for this zoonotic pandemic. If it is now “racist” to tell the scientific truth — which, I should point out, was first reported by Chinese researchers — then political correctness has become fatal.



 

Category: China, Health Care, Media Bias

In The Mailbox: 03.18.20

Posted on | March 18, 2020 | 1 Comment

– compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
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The Geller Report: Facebook Wrongly Removed News Articles About Coronavirus Due To A “Bug”, also, Israeli Scientist Says We’re Not Going To See Millions Die From Corona-Chan
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Michelle Malkin: Crisis Socialism – No Bailouts For Open-Borders Corporate Globalists!
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Victory Girls: Duncan Hunter Sentenced To Prison
Volokh Conspiracy: Why I’m Not (Yet) Worried About The Civil Liberties Restrictions Stemming From The Coronavirus Response
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Mark Steyn: A Glimmer Of Flattening?

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