This evening we float over to Paris to see what the City of Fashion was like in the 1950’s.
Your fashionable or more down-to-earth tips are most certainly appreciated!
Hmmm…
Adam Vaughan, Karen McCrimmon and Will Amos all announce they’re stepping down within hours of each other.
Feels like something is up.
So, How Was Your Day?
A sequence of photos taken at the Riding On Faith Rodeo, in Banderas, TX. on August 7th.
Just keep clicking the grey arrow to the right side of the page.
Everyone walked away.
Micromanagement fever
You can sing the praises of medical experts all you want, but when they offer advice in areas in which they clearly have no expertise, such as engineering and economics, its time to rein them in before its too late.
This is just a little too Orwelllian:
Canada needs a comprehensive solution that incorporates population immunity and transmission reduction, coupled with continued cluster control through test-trace-isolate-support systems (including a strong paid sick-leave program), border control and surveillance.
The op-ed includes a tacit admission that common surgical masks are useless in preventing viral spread. The solution? Force office workers to wear respirators normally used by welders and painters:
When indoor close contact is occurring, cloth or medical masks should be replaced with respirator masks, which provide superior protection through a combination of exhalation source control and inhalational filtration.
Postcard From Iceland
Let ‘er rip.
Herd immunity must be achieved by transmitting the virus
One and a half months after the abolition of all domestic operations, a record number of people have been diagnosed infected in recent weeks, despite the fact that the majority of the population has been vaccinated.
Þórólfur Guðnason said in Sprengisandur in Bylgjan this morning that it is disappointing that herd immunity has not been achieved with vaccination. He says there is only one other way to achieve herd immunity, to allow the virus to spread throughout the community.
Þórólfur says that he has talked about it since the beginning of the epidemic that the crown virus mutated. This has now happened with the arrival of the Delta variant across the border.
He says, however, that the vaccination was not in vain. “The vaccination has prevented a serious illness, there is no question about that,” says Þórólfur.
Þórólfur says that it is necessary to respond to how many people become infected after vaccination. “We just need to shuffle the cards and come up with new plans,” he said.
You’ll have to use something like google translate to read the full article.
Update: And now he’s walking back the statement.
Another Day In Portland.
A Christian service in a Portland park was attacked by Antifa, the group that politicians state doesn’t exist. One of the pastors speaking had been jailed in Canada for holding indoor services. Proud Boys the banned terrorist group on Turtle Island apparently came to the rescue. I guess Antifa hates Christians.
Your creditors can go pound sand
Given this precedent, will student loans effectively be “forgiven” by the simple expedient of endlessly rolling the payment pause? Perpetually denying investors access to their capital will pause any economic recovery as well.
The Biden administration will relieve Americans from paying their federal student loans through the end of January, extending the pause for what it says is the last time as the government seeks to keep the economic recovery rolling.
The move continues the suspension of payments for all loans owned by the Education Department, maintaining a 0% interest rate and keeping in place a freeze on the collection of defaulted debt.
Y2Kyoto: Party Like There’s No Tomorrow
Swept Away — An aerial photo shows the massive party tent for Obama’s party on Martha’s Vineyard.
@ezralevant: You must wear a mask. You must social distance. You cannot travel freely. You need a vaccine passport. You will live in fear. But not your ruling class. They’re having the time of their lives.
Not A Cult
Hewes is no stranger to climate action, having been jailed in March 2020 for 14 days for glueing himself to furniture at the City of London Magistrates’ Court …
This Is The Way
It’s Canada, you will wait.
Passengers left on planes, sometimes for hours, due to Pearson COVID capacity limits
Sources tell the Sun that passengers from abroad are being forced to languish on planes parked at gates — some reportedly for as long as two to three hours — due to capacity limits inside the customs hall at Toronto Pearson International Airport.
It’s TDS, Jim
He Admires Their Basic Dictatorship.
Dear Leader’s favourite country appears to be using its bio-weapon virus to buy up the economies of Western Nations. Is it racist on Turtle Island to say that?
We Are All In This Together!
Hollywood celebrities took time off from preaching about global warming, to hop on their jets for Obama’s birthday party.Some people are exempt from China virus restrictions.
Diversity Is Our Strength!
Its Sunday morning, and time to upset members of the Trudeau cult.
Wuhan Flu: Breakthrough
I came across this tonight on “doggie” twitter, via a club account I assist with.
Israel – most of the people testing positive are vaccinated …
The Sound Of Settled Science
It’s Probably Nothing
“When the pandemic struck, we started seeing all this panic buying,” Maddox said. “What’s really increased is the number of people that contact me. These are really personal emails. They’re not crazy extremists. These are single moms, elderly people, disabled people, regular working people. They’re realizing that things are changing. They can just feel things are changing rapidly,” he said.
“The riots [of 2020] were bad. The election was bad. Now what’s happening is the whole world is starting to change.”
Related In 2020, firearm retailer data showed 40 percent of gun buyers were first-time buyers, more than 8.4 million
August 8, 2021: Reader Tips
This evening we learn what Florida was like in the 1940’s.
Your most fun tips are definitely welcome!
So What About Aids?
With everyone all worked up about possibly getting the china virus from the great unwashed masses one wonders about another more lethal disease.
The criminal law does not require disclosure of HIV in every case.
The criminal law should not apply to persons living with HIV who have engaged in sexual activity without disclosing their status if they have maintained a suppressed viral load (i.e., under 200 copies of HIV per milliliter of blood), because the realistic possibility of transmission test is not met in these circumstances.
The criminal law should generally not apply to persons living with HIV who are on treatment, are not on treatment but use condoms or engage only in oral sex, unless other risk factors are present and the person living with HIV is aware of those risks., In these circumstances, the realistic possibility of transmission test is likely not met.
Alberta vs Ontario
A couple of nice charts in here on all cause mortality.
This decentalized mindset served Alberta well during the C19 response. Public health regulated lightly and despite a few significant missteps, none were fatal. Public health objectives were presumably met and that afforded a quiet glide path to exit a non-pandemic pandemic.
Enter Ontario, the problem child of the Canadian confederation. Its public response has been stubbornly slow, remarkably destructive and inflexible. By any reasonable measure, outcomes have been consistently poor.
Read the whole thing.