When Will Hugs Be Okay Again?

 To a first approximation, hugs will never be okay again.   To a second approximation, one generation from now.  A whole generation has been damaged by Covid fright and Wonk Wisdom From On High.  The Nomenklatura that mandated masks and magisterial shutdowns will never say they may have been wrong to ruin the livelihoods of millions or chill the beating heart of community life.  They will gradually stop highlighting their rightness, will gradually stop shaking the finger and censuring the ones who will not agree with them.  It will be largely an individual matter.  People like you and me will make choices to hug at times, to wear masks less often, to overlook their customers who chatter in happy back-slapping groups.   Civil disobedience.  People like my dear aunt in her nineties will go to her grave frightened to touch the people she loves.

This is fun: Tuba Skinny with "Jubilee Stomp", guest appearances by dog and dancing couple.

 

Masks Are Not Virus Filters.

 Input from a filter designer reported by Andrea Widburg at American Thinker:

"Surgical masks were not designed as filters and were not intended to be used as filters. Surgical masks were designed to be used by surgeons standing face down over an operating table holding a patient with an open wound. The surgeon wearing the mask would be able to talk to others in the room without discharging spittle droplets into the patient's wound. Spittle droplets are large and can cause infection." 

Then a test is described. 40 micrometer white plaster dust was puffed into a room.  A surgically-masked man went in and out briefly and was then checked.  His face behind the mask had white dust.  Virus particles are about one hundred times smaller than those dust particles.

"Surgical masks will not prevent the wearer from inhaling or exhaling viruses or bacteria. They provide absolutely no protection for either the wearer or anyone nearby. They create a very dangerous false sense of security for everyone. They also force the wearer to re-breathe carbon dioxide, which will, over time, reduce the wearer's blood oxygen level. That can become very dangerous, especially for older people."

Thagomizer on a Dinosaur

 

Wikipedia Censors Diversity

 Bitchute is an alternative publishing platform to YouTube to bypass leftist censorship.  Wikipedia gives an example of censorship.   My search on Google this morning:

If Only Singles Voted in 2016, America Would Be Blue. If only Marrieds Voted, America Would Be Red.

 Sourced here:  The first chart shows results in 2016 if only the unmarried had voted.  The second shows what only married people with children, commitments to one another and property would have voted in 2016.

In Praise of a Good Burger with Brioche Bun.

 

 "The brioche buns I served the burgers with were perfect. Maybe it's in the bible." 

Ace praises this mouthwatering morsel.  Do not omit bun.

The good old days for Fire Apocalypse were the Thirties and Forties.

Burning the forest fuel load is basic recycling and suppressing that is coming back to bite us after a long downturn since the thirties and forties.  You're in favour of recycling, right?   And you don't wan't super fires whose great heat sterilizes the forest floor, right?   A century ago, we were seeing 20 to 50 million acres burn every year, not two million.

"Academics believe that between 4.4 million and 11.8 million acres burned each year in prehistoric California."

Globalism: Follow the Money

 

 I like the idea of everyone getting along too.  Wearing different coloured costumes isn't diversity, DISAGREEING is diversity.  Make disagreement safe again.

Will Covid Suddenly Get Better After The Election? Administrators of America's Largest School District Think So.

 Quoting from a conference call among Los Angeles school administrators, the words of Los Angeles County Public Health Director, Barbara Ferrer:

"We don’t realistically anticipate that we would be moving to either tier 2 or to reopening K-12 schools at least until after the election, in early November. When we look at the timing of everything, it seems to us a more realistic approach to this would be to think that we’re going to be where we are now until we are done with the election."

As John Hinkeraker of Powerline Blog comments:

"What does the election have to do with the reopening of the public schools? And what does Dr. Ferrer mean when she says that “we’re going to be where we are now until we are done with the election.” Who is the “we” who will be “done with the election”? Teachers and administrators? LA County officials? Democrats? What exactly is the relationship of these groups to the election, that they need to be “done with” it before kids can go back to school?"

Sturgis: Experts pratfallen, Infection almost zero.

 Almost half a million people went to Sturgis this year.  (460,000).  Including out-of-state totals, some 260 new infections reported.  One of them died.    

Pratfallen experts predicted a quarter million new infections costing the US health system $12, billion dollars.  Headlines continue to appear even after the event, some even claiming the 250,000 infections had actually happened.    (e.g. write up in Houston Chonicle).   Instead of a "superspreader event", came proof positive that public fellowhsip is almost totally safe now.

Related:  Surging caseloads in Britain are not showing up in hospitals and morgues.  The first time around the old and weak were dropping.  This time around it's mostly younger people  who get sniffles or are even unsympyomatic.  While crazed UK leaders are making gatherings of more than six people illegal, the storm has actually passed.

Human Nature Guarantees COVID Posturing Will Last A Long TIme

 The pandemic protocols will last for years because the standard of proof to rescind them is higher than the standard to implement them.   To implement them brought funding, new staff, microphones and a strange new respect to the medical and political nomenklatura.    The evidence to rescind the protocols leads directly to a loss of budget, loss of staff and loss of attention and respect.  This runs against the first rule of all bureaucracies.

California is a third world country: "If your government is too inept to deliver the basics"

California is now a third world country.

"There is no better sign you live in a third world country than rationed electricity.  Honestly, if your government is too inept to deliver the basics, and other than water — something else California can’t deliver — there is nothing more basic than electricity, you live in a third world country.
Sorry, you just do."

What the Mayor of Los Angeles said: 

 

 

Wolves transformed Yellowstone Park,, even changed the rivers. Watch 4 minute Trophic Cascade talk by George Monbiot

 As a warm up, try a few paragraphs from "Yellowstone: How Not To Manage A National Park".  Lying eco-elites in the Park Service were killing  predators and favouring others, making a wasteland of the park.  Reminds me of today's Covid-elites casting their policy curses on the people while believing in their own purity of heart.  

Overgrazing changed the flora. Aspen and willows were being eaten (by elk) at a furious rate and did not regenerate. Large animals and small began to disappear from the park.

In an effort to stem the loss, the park rangers began to kill predators, which they did without public knowledge. They eliminated the wolf and the cougar, and they were well on their way to getting rid of the coyote. Then a national scandal broke out. New studies showed that it wasn’t predators that were killing the other animals. It was overgrazing from too many elk. The management policy of killing predators therefore had only made things worse.  

Actually, the elk had so decimated the aspen that now, where formerly they were plentiful, now they’re quite rare. Without the aspen, the beaver, which use these trees to make dams, began to disappear from the park. Beaver were essential to the water management of Yellowstone, and without dams, the meadows dried hard in summer and still more animals vanished.

And now the video:  The "Trophic Cascade" from a small population of wolves is a real thing and so is the change in how the rivers flow and how the banks flourish.

Electoral Crime Before It Happens: What's coming after November's Vote.

 From PJmedia.com, a summary by David Solway of the assault on the Republic to come:

There is only one way that Donald Trump can lose the forthcoming election, and that is if it is stolen from him outright. A fair election would likely lead to a landslide triumph for the incumbent president, but a fair election is precisely what the hard-left Democrats appear to have no intention of permitting. The methods they will deploy to ensure a Biden victory are pretty well known to anyone who has been paying attention: vote harvesting, counting mail-in ballots (“at least once,” as Rick Moran writes), the dead vote, the multiple vote, the illegal immigrant vote, polling booth intimidation, a media blitzkrieg, Big Tech platform censorship, state pressure on the Electoral College, and anything else a felonious party can come up with. 

The Democrats are no fools. They know that, in the event of a tainted Democrat victory, Trump would be in his rights to refuse to acknowledge a corrupt and misbegotten result and would have every incentive to initiate a legal battle protesting an electoral travesty. Consequently, the Democrats have developed the strategy of accusing Trump of intended malfeasance before the election has even been held.

Best Government Diversity Strategy: Do nothing to diversify.

 Robson's article in the National Post is a must read.  

"So I would abolish all business subsidies in Alberta, not despite or because of bad policy coming from on high, but regardless of it. Every one of them substitutes the judgment of an observer or theorist for that of consumers and entrepreneurs who personally benefit from, or pay the price of, a decision.

Here I do not indulge in mockery of politicians or bureaucrats as dumb or lazy, no matter how hard some of them strive to bring that cliché to life. But I do mock the folly of attempting to improve our prosperity by placing crucial decisions about huge sums of money in the hands of those who will reap no reward for being right and pay no penalty for being wrong."

And more in this vein:

"If you want a list of things the Alberta government should just stop doing, I might need more space. The provincial government’s website lets me “Find the Alberta government services and information you need” under 15 headings from “Arts and culture” to “Parks and recreation” and I would abolish at least five entirely (including “Life events”

Link to John Robson's site. 

Why aren't there big holes around the base of every big tree?

 Because those forest giants feed on air.  The wood you fell for furniture and fire was created out of the air blowing through the leaves and needles.  C02 was harvested for its carbon. 

You'll find a hole in a tree
but not a tree in a hole.

   Water and trace elements generally come from the dirt but the thousands of pounds of fir and teak and spruce were formed from air.

So, that's why CO2 is called plant food.    It's not a vitamin, it's the number one body builder.

If you like this thought, what about how heavy is a cloud?  A cubic foot of water weighs just over 62 lbs.  So, 1 inch of rain on a square foot of pasture weighs about 6.2 lbs.   1 inch of rain on an acre is over a quarter million pounds.  Those clouds usually dump on hundred or thousands of acres and don't immediately disappear either.

Testosterone melting fat and saving lives: Major study over a dozen years

 Quite a few hundred fat older German men participated in the study over a dozen years and all the testosterone injections were done by the doctors.  No one dropped out of the study by Dr. Saad's team.  The control group gained an average of ten pounds and about a third died of all causes with any major cardiovascular events.  The injected group lost an average of over fifty pounds and less than a tenth died, mostly accientally.

After 11 years of data collection in the registry (covering the period 2004-19 with all patients having at least 11 years of data) weight (kg) decreased by a mean of 23kg in the T group (from 114kg to 89kg before adjustment, and to 87 kg after adjustment for baseline age, waist circumference, weight, fasting glucose, systolic and diastolic blood pressure, total cholesterol, HDL, LDL, triglycerides and the quality of life scale AMS). Conversely, mean weight increased by 6kg in the control group. In percentage terms, the results were similar – with the T-group losing an average of 20% bodyweight, whereas controls increased by 6%.

There was also a significant mortality difference between groups: 21 patients (7.6%) died in the T-group and 63 (32.3%) in the control group. More than a quarter of men (28%) in the control group had a heart attack, and 53 (27.2%) a stroke. There were no major cardiovascular events in the T-group. All the deaths in the T-group were related to traffic and sport accidents and post-surgical infections.