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Best of the Web: Land of sanity: Florida governor won't require COVID-19 'vaccine passports'

Adrienne Cutway
clickorlando.com
Fri, 19 Mar 2021 16:08 UTC
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Soaking up the sun on a Florida beach
Floridians who plan to attend concerts and major sporting events in the Sunshine State won't have to show proof that they've received the COVID-19 vaccine, if Gov. Ron DeSantis gets his way.

As the European Union announced its "Digital Green Certificate" that would allow those who are fully vaccinated to travel freely across the bloc, DeSantis cautioned against so-called "vaccine passports."

"I just want to make very clear in Florida, we are not doing any vaccine passports. All those experts said that it was a bad idea. I think it's a bad idea and so that will not happen. And so folks should get vaccinated, if they want to, we'll obviously provide that, but under no circumstances will the state be asking you to show proof of vaccination, and I don't think private companies should be doing that either," the governor said Thursday.

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Lockdowns killed 228,000 children in South Asia, says UN report

Will Jone
Lockdown Skeptics
Wed, 17 Mar 2021 07:59 UTC
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A new United Nations report has laid bare the appalling cost of lockdowns in some of the world's poorest countries.

The report, Direct and Indirect Effects of COVID-19 Pandemic and Response in South Asia, examines the effect of the unprecedented Government shutdown policies on healthcare, social services, education and the economy.

It estimates that the disruption in healthcare services caused by Government responses to COVID-19 in Afghanistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka (home to some 1.8 billion people) may have led to 239,000 maternal and child deaths.

This compares to around 186,000 deaths "with COVID-19", meaning the lockdowns are estimated to have killed considerably more than the virus. Furthermore, 228,000 is the estimated lockdown death toll just of children under five, almost none of whom would have been at any risk from the virus. With the majority of Covid deaths worldwide being among the over 80s, the difference in terms of quality adjusted life years (QALYs) must be staggering.

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'It's good to be WHITE when doing crimes,' writes Esquire pundit about BLACK suspect caught & released during Capitol riot


RT
Fri, 19 Mar 2021 13:28 UTC
Capitol rioter Mark Ponder
© FBIA photo included in an FBI criminal complaint alleges to show Capitol rioter Mark Ponder as he clashed with police during unrest in Washington, DC, on January 6, 2021.
A journalist with Esquire magazine was lambasted online after penning a blog post arguing that police treat white suspects with kid gloves, apparently missing the fact that the story he cited as evidence centered on a black man.

Esquire's Charles Pierce took to the outlet's online blog on Wednesday with a piece entitled 'It's Good to Be White When You're Doing Crimes,' citing a recent Politico report about how an overwhelmed DC police force released a rioter from custody during the January 6 unrest at the Capitol, only for the man to rejoin the mob.
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Best of the Web: Unsurprising: Former president of drag queen story hour foundation and children's court judge arrested on seven counts of child porn

Cassandra Fairbanks
Gateway Pundit
Thu, 18 Mar 2021 07:20 UTC
Brett Blomme
A Milwaukee County Children's Court judge and former president and CEO of the Cream City Foundation, which runs the city's drag queen story hour program, has been arrested on seven counts of child pornography.

Brett Blomme, 38, was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly uploading 27 images and videos of children being sexually abused on the messaging app Kik.

Blomme was held overnight and released with a signature. He has been ordered to stay off social media and file-sharing services and is not allowed near any children except the two that he adopted with his husband.

Comment: Anyone who thinks it's appropriate to expose children to a sexualized subculture is sick, so it's rather unsurprising to have that confirmed. It's just tragic that it takes someone being caught red-handed to make people aware of this fact.

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Best of the Web: Florida governor Ron DeSantis: 'Don't trust the elites. They got Covid completely wrong'

Ron DeSantis
Wall Street Journal
Thu, 18 Mar 2021 12:51 UTC
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© MediaPunch/Associated PressSpring-break crowds on the beach in Ft. Lauderdale last Sunday.
Influential people in public health, government and the media got Covid-19 completely wrong

The Covid-19 pandemic represented a test of elites in the U.S., from public-health experts to the corporate media. The results have been disappointing. Policy makers who bucked the elites and challenged the narrative have been proven right to do so.

To begin with, highly publicized epidemiological models were as consequential as they were wrong. The model produced by Neil Ferguson of Imperial College London — which erroneously forecast millions of non-nursing home Covid deaths in the U.S. — sparked panic among public-health elites and served as the pretext for lockdowns throughout the U.S. and Great Britain. The lockdowns failed to stop the virus but did a great deal of societal damage along the way — damage that a more targeted approach, seeking to reduce total harms, would have been able to avoid (and did, in places like Sweden and Florida).

Similarly, models predicting massive shortages of hospital beds helped to precipitate the disastrous policy — enacted by states like New York, New Jersey and Michigan — to send contagious, Covid-positive hospital patients back to nursing homes. States like Florida that rejected the models and adopted policies to protect nursing-home residents had comparatively lower nursing-home mortality rates as a result.
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Smartphone app to prove sexual consent? Proposal sparks backlash


Metro
Thu, 18 Mar 2021 10:19 UTC
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© Metro.co.ukThe idea of a smartphone app for sexual consent has been proposed in Australia.
A senior Australian policeman suggested a phone app could be developed to document sexual consent in a bid to improve conviction rates in sex crime cases.

New South Wales state Police Commissioner Mick Fuller said dating apps have brought couples together and the same technology could also provide clarity on the question of consent.

He said: 'Technology doesn't fix everything, but ... it plays such a big role in people meeting at the moment. I'm just suggesting: is it part of the solution?'

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Misogyny to be classed as hate crime in England and Wales after pressure from campaigners over Sarah Everard 'murder'

Alice Fuller
The Sun
Thu, 18 Mar 2021 15:04 UTC
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© ReutersMisogyny will be classed as a hate crime from autumn following pressure from campaigners.
Misogyny is to be classed as a hate crime after pressure from campaigners following the 'murder' of Sarah Everard.

Police forces will be asked to record and identify any crimes of violence motivated by "hostility based on sex or gender".

It will apply to England and Wales from autumn and include stalking and sexual offences.
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Polling firm characterizes asking a woman out as a form of "sexual harassment"

Paul Joseph Watson
Summit News
Wed, 17 Mar 2021 10:43 UTC
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© Thomas Barwick via Getty Images
As a debate over "misogyny" rages in the UK, polling firm YouGov recently released a survey that characterized asking a woman out for a drink as a form of "sexual harassment."

Yes, really.

After the tragic abduction and murder of 33-year-old Sarah Everard in London, protesters demanded all manner of new measures, including a 6pm curfew for men.

Others are now pushing for "misogyny" to be made a hate crime, as if murderers would have second thoughts about abducting and killing a woman because of a law that primarily targets speech.

Absolutely none of these professional activists demanded that the law be changed so women who carry pepper spray aren't hit with the same legal penalty as they would be for carrying a gun, which is currently the law in the UK.

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Best of the Web: Stop the white lies about anti-Asian hate crime

Robert Cherr
The Spectator
Thu, 11 Mar 2021 14:55 UTC
asian lives matter
© GettyA demonstrator wearing a face mask and holding a sign takes part in a rally to raise awareness of anti-Asian violence, near Chinatown in Los Angeles, California
Eighteen months ago, liberals attempted to link the spike in anti-Semitic hate crimes to white supremacist actions. New York City mayor Bill de Blasio and the ADL highlighted the activities of white supremacist groups in upstate New York, despite all of the assaults being in the New York City metropolitan area, overwhelmingly perpetrated by black men. This culminated with black men killing Jews in Jersey City and Monsey, New York. Attempts were then made to rationalize them away rather than focusing on the anti-Semitic beliefs of black-nationalist groups, including the Nation of Islam.

The same dynamics seems to be unfolding with the current spike in anti-Asian hate crimes. In a New York Times article, Univision anchor Jorge Ramos argued that both the wave of anti-Asian and anti-Latino hate crimes reflect the racism of white Americans. He noted, 'A common racist attack against the Latino community — and now increasingly, Asian Americans — is the demand, "Go back to your own country!"' Nancy Pelosi also links this spike to white supremacist views.

White supremacists should be vigorously combatted. However, most victimized groups live in central cities where there are few white supremacists. Members of the Asian, Latino and LGBTQ communities may have much more to fear from young alienated black men whose pent up anger spills over into destructive, violent behaviors.

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Journalists, illustrating how they operate, yesterday spread a significant lie all over Twitter

Glenn Greenwald
greenwald.substack.com
Thu, 18 Mar 2021 08:40 UTC
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© Teresa Kroeger/Getty ImagesHunter Biden (L) and then-Vice President Joe Biden speak on stage at Organization of American States on April 12, 2016 in Washington, DC.
Journalists with the largest and most influential media outlets disseminated an outright and quite significant lie on Tuesday to hundreds of thousands of people, if not millions, on Twitter. While some of them were shamed into acknowledging the falsity of their claim, many refused to, causing it to continue to spread up until this very moment. It is well worth examining how they function because this is how they deceive the public again and again, and it is why public trust in their pronouncements has justifiably plummeted.

The lie they told involved claims of Russian involvement in the procurement of Hunter Biden's laptop. In the weeks leading up to the 2020 election, The New York Post obtained that laptop and published a series of articles about the Biden family's business dealings in Ukraine, China and elsewhere. In response, Twitter banned the posting of any links to that reporting and locked The Post out of its Twitter account for close to two weeks, while Facebook, through a long-time Democratic operative, announced that it would algorithmically suppress the reporting.

The excuse used by those social media companies for censoring this reporting was the same invoked by media outlets to justify their refusal to report the contents of these documents: namely, that the materials were "Russian disinformation." That claim of "Russian disinformation" was concocted by a group of several dozen former CIA officials and other operatives of the intelligence community devoted to defeating Trump. Immediately after The Post published its first story about Hunter Biden's business dealings in Ukraine that traded on his influence with his father, these career spies and propagandists, led by Obama CIA Director and serial liar John Brennan, published a letter asserting that the appearance of these Biden documents "has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation."
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