"The Pandemic is Over"

So says the President, demonstrating clearly that the question was always political rather than medical. The medical facts, whatever they are, do not even get mentioned; there are no statistics quoted. What you hear is that the trade show is back on, and 'look around, nobody is wearing a mask.'

Meanwhile, h/t Wretchard, can we finally get a real investigation into the origins?
Prof. Sachs recently co-authored a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences calling for an independent inquiry into the virus’s origins. He believes that there is clear proof that the National Institutes of Health and many members of the scientific community have been impeding a serious investigation of the origins of COVID-19 and deflecting attention away from the hypothesis that risky U.S.-supported research may have led to millions of deaths. If that hypothesis is true, the implications would be earth-shaking, because it might mean that esteemed members of the scientific community bore responsibility for a global calamity.

"Inconceivable!" says the little Sicilian with the Spaniard and the giant. 

Also, Stephen Miller points out, Biden just used the COVID emergency as the legal excuse for enacting a trillion dollar student loan relief plan. But there's no emergency -- only the 'state of emergency' he extended in order to retain extra powers.

4 comments:

Christopher B said...

Even before this statement contradicting the student loan relief argument, the Biden administration was arguing the pandemic was over wrt Title 42 deportations while continuing COVID restrictions on legal entry into the United States.

The 'emergency' appears and disappears depending on how useful it is.

james said...

'look around, nobody is wearing a mask.' I still see plenty of them, and not just in the clinic where they make sense. But we live next to Madison.

It's an ironic declaration (to be forgotten whenever convenient, as Christopher notes)--my wife's elderly uncle just got it, and one of our grandchildren is violently ill with it right now. Someone else has just gotten it for the second time in three months. (I wonder about false positives, though.)

Dad29 said...

James, my sympathy on your unfortunate location; I'm in a far-western suburb of MKE and have a number of acquaintances in Madistan........

As to masking, what's notable around here is that blacks wear them far more often than whites.

Dad29 said...

The research on CoVid began at UNC-Charlotte. One could ask a few questions around there to begin.