Tag: COVID-19
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The Incredible Shrinking Virus
It’s amazing how quickly COVID-19 has faded from the headlines. I guess good news is no news. A recent Centers for Disease Control study estimates, based on antibody testing, that 43% of all Americans have been infected by the virus. Naturally acquired resistance plus the high percentage of the population that has been vaccinated (76%…
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Naked Politics: No Masks for the SOTU!
by Kerry Dougherty It’s a miracle! After two years of constantly hectoring us to wear masks, public health officials and Democratic leaders have now decided that it’s time to lose the face diapers. Just in time for the State of the Union Address! Exquisite timing. Remember, this is just two weeks after Virginia Democrats howled…
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The Governor’s Surge
We’ll know soon if the rest of us get what the unvaxed voted for. by Joe Fitzgerald Virginia’s governor ran on a platform to protect children from critical race theory and expose them to COVID. The first goal was moot, since CRT wasn’t often mentioned in public schools to begin with. How well the second…
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CDC Chicanery
by Kerry Dougherty Looks like the jig is up for the CDC. Someone needs to tell the secretive political animals running the agency that when you’ve lost The New York Times, you’re done. On Sunday, The Times published a story criticizing the Centers for Disease Control for hiding massive amounts of data from the public.…
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A COVID Swan Song
by Scott Lingamfelter Pandemics are not new. They have been around as long as the human race has been and will be in the future. Before COVID arrived on our shores from China, the 1919 Flu Pandemic originated in the trenches of World War I and spread rapidly, picking up the name Spanish Flu, a…
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Dems Do an About-Face on COVID
by Kerry Dougherty Some of us knew right away that it was not just a happy accident that the governors of four blue states suddenly announced two weeks ago that they were rolling back COVID restrictions and scrapping loathsome mask mandates. It was clear that this Road to Damascus moment was triggered by polls. Really…
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Things Fall Apart: Fare-Jumping Edition
by James A. Bacon Thirty-four percent of all Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority bus riders are not paying their fares, reducing revenues by $10 million in the second half of 2021 alone, reports The Washington Post. That’s up from 17% in unpaid fares two years previously. Bacon’s Rebellion readers may be reassured to know that…
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Undocumented Aliens vs. Undocumented Vaccinations
by Walter Smith Prior to the fall 2021 semester, the University of Virginia disenrolled 238 students, including 49 who had already registered for classes. What was their offense? Take a guess. Entering and residing in the country illegally, or Refusing to get COVID vaccinated in violation of a university policy that has since been overturned.…
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Democratic Flip-Floppers Voted Yes Before They Voted No
by Kerry Dougherty Tired of masks? Me too. But this is important. Imagine how hard the teachers’ unions must have lobbied their indentured Democratic servants in the Virginia State Senate to get seven who voted to end forced masking of school children on Tuesday to vote against the same exact bill on Wednesday. It passed…
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Things Fall Apart: From the Mountains to the Sea Edition
by James A. Bacon There are more signs in the news today that the social fabric is fraying across Virginia: (1) a teacher poll showing that 39% of Newport News teachers and staff are thinking about quitting; and (2) concerns that urban violence is spilling out of Roanoke into nearby Blacksburg. For good measure, I’ll…
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Virginia Democrats Cling to Forced Masking of Kids
by Kerry Dougherty Hey, Virginia Democrats, read the room. Rather, read the country. As Democrats in the Old Dominion lawyer up and throw hissy fits in a mad attempt to keep forced masking in schools, their counterparts in four blue states spent Monday merrily rolling back the mandates. New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy announced Monday…
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The Petersen Death Star Strikes Again
Letter from state Senator J. Chapman Petersen, D-Fairfax, to Scott Braband, superintendent of Fairfax County Public Schools. — JAB On Friday evening, February 4th, in my capacity as a parent, I received the attached press release from Fairfax County Public Schools which announced the ruling of the Arlington County Circuit Court on the Governor’s Executive…
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Arlington Judge Rules in Favor of Forced Masking of Kids
by Kerry Dougherty Amidst the cacophony of leftist celebrations Friday — the high fives, the gloating — over an Arlington County Circuit Court judge’s ruling that the forced masking of school children can continue in Virginia, one important wrinkle went unexplored by the mainstream media. Once again, only Luke Rosiak, a reporter for The Daily…
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How to Befuddle an Old Lady
My 92-year-old mother takes this COVID business very seriously, as one would expect from someone in a high-risk group. She’s double vaxxed and boosted. And she is assiduous about testing herself and others who enter her house. At the same time, she’s frugal, and a testing two-pack costs about $25 at the drug store. So,…
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Unvaccinated Patients Denied Organ Transplants Everywhere
by Kerry Dougherty It’s right there on the bottom left of my Virginia driver’s license. A little heart and the words “organ donor.” I ticked that box years ago. I also joined the bone marrow donor list when a friend had leukemia and needed a match. Donating our organs is the last act of kindness…