Category Archives: COVID-19

By What Lawful Authority

sunbeam February 10, 2021 1 Comment

As I mentioned yesterday, the current situation with the faux impeachment has historical analogies. Of particular note is the trial of King Charles I in England in the 17^th Century by radical members of Parliament. Oliver Cromwell was a prominent leader of Parliament who was directly engaged in the insurrection that defeated King Charles. And it was an insurrection.

While this is a long story involving multiple years of civil war in England, in the end the dispute was about powers that Parliament had versus the powers of the King.

Musings

sunbeam February 8, 2021 Comments Off

When George Floyd died of a drug overdose despite the efforts of four police officers to save his life, the whole country knew who the four officers were the next day. The media created a false narrative that the officers murdered Floyd by keeping him pinned to the ground. The officers’ names were broadcast ad nauseum.

Ashli Babbitt was shot and killed by a Capitol police officer on January 6^th. The circumstances of that killing are still unknown. The name of the officer has still not been released. Why?

Thoughts

sunbeam February 5, 2021 Comments Off

Censorship continues to raise its ugly head across the land.

Carolyn Maloney, the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, is asking the FBI to conduct a “robust examination” of the role social media site Parler played in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, specifically whether the platform was a “potential facilitator” of planning or inciting the violence.

Masks – All The Fearful Sheeple

sunbeam February 4, 2021 1 Comment

Our pretend president has issued a flurry of executive orders that are designed to weaponize the Federal Government against the American public. Many of these are done under the disguise of protecting the public health because of COVID. Of course, more and more people are starting to recognize that COVID is no more dangerous than the flu.

Recently the CDC issued an order requiring people to wear masks “while using public transportation, which includes “awaiting, boarding, disembarking, or traveling on airplanes, ships, ferries, trains, subways, buses, taxis, and ride-shares as they are traveling into, within, or out of the United States and U.S. territories.” This also covers people who are at “transportation hubs (e.g., airports, bus or ferry terminals, train and subway stations, seaports).” This order went into effect February 1^st. ...

Thoughts

sunbeam January 25, 2021 Comments Off

China Joe’s inauguration speech on Wednesday was so boring that former President Bill Clinton took a nap during it. As one wag noted, “it was the first time in forty years that Bill actually slept next to Hillary.

Just how senile is Joe Biden? China Joe claimed that during the Trump administration, the federal government failed to act “with urgency” to combat COVID. This seems to ignore Operation Warp Speed that produced two viable vaccines in nine months’ time, a record. It also ignores the trillions of stimulus to combat the pandemic.

Trying to continue this line of nonsense, CNN reported that sources within the Biden administration said they inherited no vaccine distribution plan from the previous White House.

“There is nothing for us to rework. We are going to have to build everything from scratch,” one source reportedly told CNN’s MJ Lee.

Hypocrisy

sunbeam January 16, 2021 Comments Off

The hypocrisy of the Democrats and their allies in the media knows no limit. Now that China Joe is headed to be a pretend President, certain blue state elites are beginning to scream for an end to lockdowns.

Fraud

sunbeam December 22, 2020 Comments Off

It is a word that we have heard often of late. It is a word that has been dominant in the public sphere since the election on November 3^rd. This is despite that fact that Big Tech and the MSM have led a concerted effort to suppress any and all information that might shed light on the massive fraud that took place. This is despite the fact that Basement Joe Biden has deigned to say that he won a “free and fair” election. More than half the registered voters in the country believe that fraud took place including some 30% of registered Democrats!

With this kind of a preamble, one might think that I am about to jump into some aspect of the fraud that took place on November 3^rd. I am not. I had some time during the last week while I was “under the weather” to peruse a variety of reading materials. While I did not have enough energy to write a column each day as normal, I was able to amass some additional knowledge on the COVID fraud. And that is what I am going to explore here today.

Random Thoughts

sunbeam December 16, 2020 Comments Off

Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell has issued a warning to Republican Senators not to object to the certification of electors on January 6^th. McConnell has done this despite massive evidence of fraud having taken place during the election. Just whose side is McConnell on? It is certainly not the side of truth and justice. Is it time to audit the Dominion Voting machines that returned him to the Senate?

Although it is illegal for non-citizens to vote in U.S. federal elections, a 1993 law prevents officials from requiring proof of citizenship, and 56% of registered voters in a new survey think that should change. And just who passed such a law? A Democratic President and a Democratic Congress. I wonder how many illegals voted in the recent presidential election. Without checks, a free and fair election is not possible. ...

More COVID Insanity

sunbeam December 14, 2020 Comments Off

Yinon Weiss (@yinonw) has been heroic through this fiasco, and he just released a series of charts, along with commentary, that I can’t improve upon. So for today’s issue I’m sharing them with you.

Here we go.

“Santa Clara County (CA) was the first in the US to lock down. They ‘followed the science’ with perhaps the longest lockdown in the world. Gyms never opened. Indoor dining *never* opened. How did that work out?”

“Connecticut is the home of Yale and many intellectuals, so surely they followed the science. Except now they have the highest per-capita case count in the country. What about all those masks, lockdowns, and the almighty #science?” ...

Humor

sunbeam December 5, 2020 Comments Off

I did not write this. Just a change of pace from all the serious things going on.

Random AssClown: “Wear your damn mask”
Me: The viral particles are much smaller than the pores of the mask, so the mask is ineffective at filtering them. Right?
R: No, they travel on droplets and the masks keep the droplets out. Or they keep them in if you’re sick.
Me: So wait, how is the virus transmitted?
R: Through droplets. Wear the mask.
Me: Droplets?
R: Yes, like droplets spewed through a cough or sneeze.
Me: So through people who are showing symptoms?
R: Yes
Me: So why do healthy people need to wear masks?
R: Because of asymptomatic spread. Listen to the experts.
Me: I am listening to the experts. Many studies show, and even the WHO announced, that asymptomatic transmission is exceedingly rare. Did you read that?
R: WHO walked that back to clarify that its presymptomatic spread that’s concerning.
Me: Presymptomatic?
R: Yes, like they are infected but showing no symptoms.
Me: Symptoms like coughing or sneezing?
R: Yes.
Me: So how is the virus spread again?
R: Just wear the mask.
Me: Are you going to answer the question?
R: It’s like pants.
Me: Pants?
R: If a person pees in public without pants on, you have a greater chance of getting pee on you. Your risk is reduced further if you are wearing pants too.
Me: First of all, people don’t pee in public. Second, if they did pee in public, the only way someone’s stream of urine would hit me is if they were directly aiming for me and standing close enough to hit me. And third, I don’t care if you wear pants. How does this relate?
R: If someone coughs on you in public you’ll care.
Me: People don’t just cough on each other. The last time someone coughed directly in my face was when I had toddlers and they didn’t understand common courtesy and germ transmission. The only way someone would cough directly on me in public is if they were aiming. Anyway pants don’t keep the pee in, it’s still going to get everywhere. Pants just change the direction of the flow. Same with masks.
R: Common courtesy?! You don’t have common courtesy if you’re refusing to do something as simple as wearing a mask!
Me: How is it courteous to ask me to do something I disagree with (based on research) especially when I’m not sick or showing any symptoms when the virus is spread through the droplets of people who are showing symptoms?
R: You’ll think differently if you get sick.
Me: If I get sick, I’ll stay home. But if I must go out I will be happy to not cough on people. But just to clarify, would you stand near me in public if I were wearing a mask and coughing?
R: No, I mean, if you get sick, you could die.
Me: The virus has a 99.9 something percent survival rate.
R: It’s not about you, it’s about protecting the vulnerable.
Me: If I am not sick or showing symptoms how am I further protecting the vulnerable by wearing a mask? Studies also show these masks put the wearer at increased risk of illness.
R: You can’t listen to those studies, you need to listen to professionals in the fields of medicine and science.
Me: These studies ARE from professionals in the fields of medicine and science.
R: They are obviously flawed.
Me: How so?
R: It wouldn’t be a mandate if it weren’t important.
Me: Why is it a mandate now that the death rate has plummeted when it wasn’t a mandate during the peak?
R: Because of new studies on masks.
Me: So masks have never been studied before, in the entire history of medicine?
R: It’s a new virus.
Me: A new virus that is transmitted in the same way as other viruses. How is it transmitted again? Through droplets of people showing symptoms? So, if I’m not sick or showing symptoms and I have no fever and I’m not coughing, how would my wearing a mask further prevent transmission?
R: Stop being an asshole and wear the mask.
Me: So, you’re asking that I stop thinking critically, accept a totalitarian mandate, join the herd of mindless sheep, and walk blindly into a dangerous abyss of ever increasing control over my self sovereignty that violates my rights, all while signalling my virtue?
R: I’ll report you if you don’t.
Me: What country am I in again? ...