Maximum Carnage Week Game Thread
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Vindication for a true American scientist, Dr. Bhattacharya and an alleged presidential pardon from the dementia patient for a chicom and Big Pharma owned Fow Chee. When ever a dem utters "Follow the Science" you are safer assuming that they are lying. Just not a voting issue for Team dazzler and soccer duck.
https://instapundit.com/
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Fascists
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these fucking people
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Another demonrat virus to cripple our food supply. There is a theme and a plan.
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If I sat down and made a list of moments in my life that I regret, getting this fucking vaccine would absolutely make the top 10.
I didn’t really need to vacation in Maui in 2021. Hayden Lake would have been just fine tbh
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Yup, I regret it too... especially now that I have cancer
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Christ - wrong thread.
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Silence from the moronic dem senators. Pretty much like Tug leftards. Silence and no apology. They laid off 20 million Americans and shut down schools and then tried to take credit for jobs that were restored after blue state dems ended the lockdowns and mandates. With Trump we actually do get some competency in our government bureaucracies. Biggest mistake of Trump's first term was not clearing house, especially Fow Chee.
https://www.city-journal.org/article/jay-bhattacharya-nih-senate-confirmation-hearing-covid-pandemic
Jay Bhattacharya’s Confirmation Hearing Was an Embarrassment for DemocratsSenators who once denounced the NIH nominee’s ideas had nothing to say about pandemic lockdowns, mandates, or lessons learned.
Jay Bhattacharya’s confirmation hearing in the Senate last week was as close as we may ever get to a formal surrender in the long war over Covid-19 pandemic policies. While some public-health officials, academics, and journalists continue to defend the Covid restrictions and oppose Bhattacharya’s nomination to direct the National Institutes of Health, Democrats at the hearing unanimously abandoned the fight against his supposedly “fringe” ideas.
Bhattacharya, a Stanford professor of medicine and economics, had been a leading opponent of Covid measures supported by Democrats on the committee, including the Biden administration’s vaccine mandates for federal employees and for workers at private companies. One of the senators, Edward Markey of Massachusetts, had been so worried about the “dangerous” policies in Florida and other states that he advocated a national mask mandate in 2020 and introduced legislation to prod recalcitrant states. Last week, however, Markey and his Democratic colleagues studiously avoided discussing the mandates or any issue related to Covid. Pandemic? What pandemic?
Instead, they used their time to rail at Donald Trump and Elon Musk, leaving it to the committee’s Republicans to address the most consequential public-health edicts ever imposed on Americans. The Republican senators catalogued the costs of the lockdowns, the learning loss from school closures, and the ineffectiveness of the restrictions. They praised Bhattacharya for coauthoring the Great Barrington Declaration opposing lockdowns and school closures, and they thanked him for his court testimony opposing mask mandates for students. They criticized social media platforms’ censorship of his views and the smear campaign egged on by Anthony Fauci and the former NIH director, Francis Collins, who dismissed Bhattacharya and his coauthors as “fringe epidemiologists.”
“You showed incredible courage in speaking the truth about Covid-19 when much of the rest of the world stayed silent about it,” Indiana senator Jim Banks told Bhattacharya. “It’s remarkable to see that you’re nominated to be the head of the very institution whose leaders persecuted you.” Banks then asked him to define the role of the NIH director during a pandemic.
“The proper role of scientists in a pandemic is to answer basic questions that policymakers have about what the right policy should be,” Bhattacharya replied. “Our role isn’t to make decisions—to say you shouldn’t be saying goodbye to your grandfather as he’s dying in a hospital.” Instead of decreeing that schools close and people be vaccinated, he said, scientists should accurately describe the risks and benefits of these actions, so that citizens and their leaders can weigh the trade-offs. “Science should be an engine for freedom, for knowledge and freedom, not something that stands on top of society and says you must do this, this, and this, or else.”
That’s a stark contrast from “The Science” extolled by Fauci, Collins, and their acolytes in academia and the media. They proclaimed the necessity of unprecedented authoritarian measures and ostracized scientists who pointed to abundant evidence—from pre-2020 studies as well as data during the pandemic—that these measures were ineffective. They vastly exaggerated the risk of Covid to younger people while ignoring the enormous social, economic, and medical costs of the lockdowns. They justified vaccine mandates for workers, even ones with existing Covid immunity because of prior infection, by falsely claiming that the vaccinated would not spread the virus. Fauci summed up their attitude toward dissenters: “Attacks on me quite frankly are attacks on science.”
