$1 Billion to CDC for Campaign to Promote Vaccine Confidence. Wow

The last stimulus bill gave $1 billion to @CDCgov for a PR campaign to promote public confidence in the vaccine.

Where did this money go? How much went to social media companies that ban and censor alternative viewpoints?

— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) June 12, 2021

"Survivors of 1918 influenza . . . possess highly functional, virus-neutralizing antibodies . . . decades after exposure."

"Survivors of the 1918 influenza pandemic possess highly functional, virus-neutralizing antibodies to this uniquely virulent virus, and that humans can sustain circulating B memory cells to viruses for many [10] decades after exposure" https://t.co/SFmOLYpxQ8

— Abir Ballan 😊 (@abirballan) June 12, 2021

LAUSD + UTLA = GULAG MADNESS

 

L.A. teachers union pact mandates masks and coronavirus tests for all this fall https://t.co/vgN43nWxq8

— Mark Groubert (@lordbuckly) June 12, 2021

UTLA is remarkably evil.  One wonders how much power in the state of California that they wield?  It never feels like they're protecting their paid constituents, the teachers, but instead are acting like surrogate masters of the state. 

Masks will remain on for students and staff at Los Angeles schools this fall and coronavirus testing will continue for all, under a tentative agreement announced Thursday between district officials and the teachers union. 

If you can, find a way to boycott LAUSD and UTLA.  Do not patronize their services or join their forces.  Please.

Clearly, LAUSD's top priority is not about higher learning; instead, it is about complying with state actors who have designs to enslave your children.  The district and the union is mandating that testing, apparently for both student and teacher, will be done twice a month.

The mask mandate would continue regardless of whether employees or students are vaccinated, with rare potential exceptions for students with disabilities. And the coronavirus testing would take place at least once every two weeks. That’s a possible step back from the current practice, which has required testing every week since campuses gradually reopened in April. 

Some schools used to have drug-sniffing dogs or metal detectors for weapons.  Today, they have screeners for symptoms.  This is the new gulag.  

Daily screening for symptoms also would be required for students, staff and visitors before entering a campus. This screening has typically consisted of a temperature check and a verbal self-affirmation of good health. The district also has an online Daily Pass that allows for the same affirmation, but people haven’t been required to use it. 

Europe: The Home of the Vaccine Passport

Laurence Vance writes, 

“All 27 EU countries will use this digital COVID certificate program by July 1, 2021.” There goes my vacation to Europe.  

Fauci-Speak: It's Lying-ese and a Desecration of Science

Thank you, Robert Wenzel, for the pic.

Thank you, Tom DiLorenzo.

Professor Harvey Risch of the Yale School of Public Health described Fauci’s method of lying and deceiving last night on Tucker Carlson’s show.  He first explained how real scientists discuss scientific matters:  When citing evidence, they routinely cite published articles and books, the authors, where they are published, along with the conclusions of the research.  They do this so that others can go and read the articles themselves, or if they are researchers, try to replicate the results.  That is the scientific method.  It is how economic science is practiced in my own experience having attended hundreds of academic meetings and conventions over the years.

In sharp contrast, the way that Fauci, a lifelong bureaucrat, argues is to say things like, “nearly every scientist I know agrees with me.”  Of course, this could include only people who work for him and are therefore bureaucratic yes men.  He rarely, if ever, gives chapter and verse of the “scientific research” that he pretends to be so worshipful of, who published it, where you can find it, etc.  He speaks Clintonese, in other words.

Any economist who defended his position about one of his research papers by simply saying that “everyone I know agrees with me” would be belly laughed out of the room and dismissed as an infantile-minded fool.  The same is true of everyone else who practices any kind of science, social or physical.