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The restrictions are the point.

By Justin Katz | December 30, 2021 |

I’ve suggested repeatedly that the motivation for the heavy government hand on COVID in states like Rhode Island isn’t a practical reaction to the virus so much as an emotional need to know that the government can tell people to do things when it wants.  Ben Shapiro has a similar point of view: So, why pursue…

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Hospitalizations are on the dividing lines of our different worlds.

By Justin Katz | December 30, 2021 |

Jack Phillip reports for Epoch Times: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director (CDC) Dr. Rochelle Walensky says the number of hospitalizations for children with COVID-19 has increased in recent days, but she pointed out that many of them are not related to the virus. “Many of them are actually coming in for another reason. But…

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If we really wanted to understand January 6…

By Justin Katz | December 30, 2021 |

… this sort of thing would attract a lot more attention.  Instead, it seems the only time Democrats like police (as distinct from their union organizers) is when they attack Republicans: Recently-released surveillance video from inside the lower west terrace tunnel at the Capitol building from last January 6 confirms what American Greatness has reported…

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Reality versus media on RI hospitalizations is amazing.

By Justin Katz | December 29, 2021 |

Alexa Gagosz of the Boston Globe tweeted out a little while a note from Sage Myers, who appears to be a Pennsylvania doctor, with the following scary message: Just finished an ED shift. Literally everyone has COVID. Everyone. And the few people who don’t have COVID have the flu. There are never enough beds. Or enough…

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For reference, this is what horrifying racism actually looks like.

By Justin Katz | December 29, 2021 |

With Rhode Island’s politics-watchers all atwitter and fainting over a white woman’s expression of regret about a lost friendship that seems to her to have been related to differing races, the need for context seems urgent.  For comparison, consider this story out of London: The attack, which took place at 7.20pm on December 2, happened…

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It’s bizarre that lockdowns’ effects on children is not a bigger part of the discussion.

By Justin Katz | December 29, 2021 |

Somehow, one still sees comments from people who seem oblivious of the effects that our anti-COVID measures are having on children.  College professor Glenn Reynolds mentions the experience on his campus: I was talking to a couple of freshman advisors from UT, and they noted that our freshmen had crucial years of their educations and…

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Rep. Brianna Henries reminds us how awesome our country is.

By Justin Katz | December 28, 2021 |

Here’s the comment of Est Providence Representative Brianna Henries on today’s biggest news in RI: gob·smacked /ˈɡäbˌsmakt/ adjective INFORMAL•BRITISH utterly astonished; astounded ….however I’m not surprised. I can’t even fathom meeting this level of racism with a clever quip, it does not merit that. This is the reality of our world. We simply must do…

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Geena Pham isn’t really disproving Morgan’s concerns. [Language warning]

By Justin Katz | December 28, 2021 |

Geena Pham is a progressive candidate for state senate and a public school teacher.  Here she is tweeting about Patricia Morgan’s controversial comment: Delete your fucking Twitter, Patricia. You’re a disgrace to Rhode Island. Honestly, a world in which a public school teacher running for political office tweets such a thing is exactly a world in…

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Maybe deceptive media is secretly anti-vax?

By Justin Katz | December 28, 2021 |

I’m with Ed Driscoll in finding it political that CBS would edit out its reporter’s complaints about the harm of COVID restrictions on kids: Longtime CBS reporter and chief legal correspondent Jan Crawford went viral on Sunday and Monday on social media following comments, meant to air on Sunday’s Face the Nation, that slammed our…

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Stop and think about the economics of non-profits.

By Justin Katz | December 27, 2021 |

Articles like this from the New York Times are a fascinating view into a worldview where the frame is just shifted (off, I’d say) by a little bit.  (Search the link in Google to read the article if it’s blocked when you click.) In a Northern California school district, the superintendent is taking shifts as a lunchroom…