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Who is the real audience for Biden’s vax-mandate speech?

By Marc Comtois | September 10, 2021 |

According to John Podhoretz, Biden’s vax-mandate “speech was a Rube Goldberg message aimed at neurotic vaccinated people”.  Pohhoretz continues: He told the American people without qualification that fully vaccinated people are at incredibly low risk: “Only 1 out of every 160,000 fully vaccinated Americans was hospitalized for COVID per day.” Then he promised to shield…

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State Senator Alana DiMario is right, you know.

By Justin Katz | September 9, 2021 |

We should definitely reduce the ridiculously long quarantine timeline.

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Unpaid leave for unvaccinated healthcare workers is slightly better than firing them, I guess.

By Justin Katz | September 9, 2021 |

But in making this move, it seems Democrat Governor Dan McKee is only shining more on the arbitrary power he’s claiming to have: They will be placed on leave without pay during that time and barred from working in a state-licensed health-care facility until they get inoculated against COVID-19, according to an email from the…

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Journalists should give readers and viewers the context of the people on whom they report.

By Justin Katz | September 9, 2021 |

Thus, John DePetro is keeping an eye on the folks at the heart of the scandal with the Sayles Street police response: One of the main players in the Providence Sayles street melee was arrested in Cranston for dealing drugs with children in the house. Alynezea Quaranta was one of the main contributors to the…

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Teen Vogue is taking advantage of its audience’s lack of 9/11 memory.

By Justin Katz | September 9, 2021 |

As I write in my latest article for Accuracy in Media, the oldest teenagers alive today were born in 2001, so no teens have memories of 9/11/2001 and probably very few memories of that entire decade.  UMass Amherst history professor Asheesh Kapur Siddique attempts to take full advantage of that fact by framing September 11 as…

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Two-thirds of people hospitalized in Rhode Island with COVID-19 are unvaccinated.

By Justin Katz | September 9, 2021 |

People on both sides of the argument over our response to COVID-19 are tending to act on emotion, but as often happens, review of the facts brings the topic back to individual decisions about risks and consequences.  Of course, the realization that a topic is up for debate counts as an argument against those who…

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Progressive state senator Tiara Mack is so pro-choice…

By Justin Katz | September 9, 2021 |

… she doesn’t think you should have a choice but to fund other people’s abortions:

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Apparently, the vaccine isn’t a waste if you’ve had COVID.

By Justin Katz | September 8, 2021 |

Michaeleen Doucleff reports for NPR (via Instapundit) that studies are finding that people who had COVID and then get vaccinated have a sort of super-immunity: Over the past several months, a series of studies has found that some people mount an extraordinarily powerful immune response against SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes the disease COVID-19. Their…

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Here’s a response when people tell you the Delta variant is more dangerous for children.

By Justin Katz | September 8, 2021 |

Like a rumor about some new threat, the common wisdom is out there that the Delta variant of COVID-19 is more harmful for children than earlier versions.  A CDC study, however, suggests that current evidence suggests it’s not the case. After examining 3,116 hospital records from the period before Delta, and comparing them to 164…

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Hospital wait times result from bigger policy failures than failing to vaccinate everybody.

By Justin Katz | September 8, 2021 |

Credit is due to WPRI’s Courtney Carter for including at least this much nuance in her article about increasing wait times in hospitals in Rhode Island and across the country, although it takes several paragraphs and scary visions of up to 48-hour delays for emergency care to get to this: [Dr. Laura Forman, chief of…