And I don’t mean people with co-morbidities or who are concerned about folks with co-morbidities. I’m talking abot the girl I had in class today. Lacross player. Didn’t wanna play because the other team wasn’t going to wear double masks. I observed that their never been a case of in-competition transmission anywhere around the globe. She said she didn’t trust the other team (fro a Catholic school) because they “don’t believe in Covid.” I pointed out that there’s a difference between following the science and “not believing.” But she had her bigoted priors. So there ya are.

So here’s a bit of a roundup, starting with this: “Safer at Home” Isn’t.

The Smug Arrogance Of The ‘Science’ Crowd. How can the same group that says it trusts science also believe that Earth is a woman-spirit named Gaia?

Fauci Admits Science Doesn’t Drive All Of The CDC’s Decisions. “When you don’t have the data and you don’t have the actual evidence, then you’ve got to make a judgment call,” Fauci said.

I’ve long observed that “Safe” is NOT the default setting for civilization: Stop Trying To Create a Zero-Risk Society

TWO WEEKS WAS FINE, TWO MONTHS WAS CRAZY, A YEAR WAS A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY: One Year Later, Vindication for Lockdown Skeptics. “The overwhelming majority of Americans last March acted in good faith to do what we were told was in the best interest of our country. That faith has been abused and squandered.”

Did The Shutdowns Save Lives? A Year Later, Statistical Analysis Suggests Not

And then for SOME reason there’s this: The U.S. Is Hoarding Vaccines It Won’t Let Americans Take

Most of this was bullshit from the outset: NY Times Quotes Expert Admits ‘Six-Foot Rule’ Never Had Merit.

Don’t just DO something! Stand there. The Cop-Out of “Follow the Science:” How feckless Covid leadership turned us against each other.

But there IS some GOOD news for us Neanderthals. Two Weeks After ‘Neanderthal’ Decision To Lift Mask Mandate, Texas COVID Numbers Drop

yeah, another aggregation or aggressive agrievement (yes, it’s a word)

CU Professor says much of climate research ‘untethered from the real world’; cites misuse of scenarios.

“Of the countless lies the American people are meant to believe, perhaps the greatest is the myth of expertise.”

OUT: SCIENCE. IN: SACRIFICE TO APPEASE THE GODS OF WOKENESS. Harvard researchers claim COVID-19 wouldn’t have been so bad if US paid reparations.

BUT IF WE DID IT WITHOUT BUREAUCRATS DOES IT EVEN COUNT?

ME? I YEARN TO BREATHE FREE:  Masking the Science

We must never surrender to the New Normal

An update on coronavirus from an Arizona doctor.

Johns Hopkins Medical Professional: Herd Immunity Will Be Here By April

THE SCIENCE WASN’T SETTLED: “As Samuel West combed through a paper that found a link between watching cartoon violence and aggression in children, he noticed something odd about the study participants. There were more than 3000—an unusually large number—and they were all 10 years old.”

We may NEVER know: Wuhan Lab Was Cause Of COVID-19, Claims Award-Winning Scientist In New Study Citing 600 Pieces Of Evidence.

now that the goalposts are being rapidly relocated with the change in the Oval Office which my friends on the left assured me would not happen.

Thou Shalt Have No Other Gods Before Science with several informative links.

Why Those Who Claim To ‘Follow The Science’ Are More Likely To Ignore It I’ve said it before but if keeps applying and becoming more important: I’ll believe it’s an emergency when the people telling me it’s an emergency start acting like it’s an emergency. Joe Biden Violated His Mask Mandate Within Hours of Signing It. Rules are for the little people. cf: Heritage Foundation creates interactive map for those who literally want to follow lib hypocrisy And from the Peanut Gallery: Rep. Pramila Jayapal’s Mask Hypocrisy

Environmentalist groups are suing so the EPA can keep the science behind its regulations a secret. Because if science means anything it means blindly trusting authority.

And this is nothing new: The Rise and Fall of Facts.

And the point? Why ‘Just Follow the Science’ Won’t Solve All Our Problems

IF we took everyone in Ohio and buried them up to their necks six feet apart, within a week there would be NO Corona in Ohio. Science, right? They couldn’t touch their faces, and we could mask them ALL. Doesn’t disagreeing with that policy proposal therefore make you “anti-science?” Can we PLEASE be done with that stupidity?

And speaking of stupidity: Asymptomatic transmission of COVID-19 didn’t occur at all, study of 10 million finds. “Only 300 asymptomatic cases in the study of nearly 10 million were discovered, . . . A total of 1,174 close contacts of the asymptomatic positive cases were traced, and they all tested negative for the COVID-19.”

Of COURSE he did. Governments always do. Dr. Fauci Admits He Has Treated The American People Like Children

As harped on MONTHS ago, viral load matters: You’re Infected With the Coronavirus. But How Infected?

With apologies (although not many) to Leonard Read: I, Lockdown

COVID Lockdowns Have No Clear Benefit vs Other Voluntary Measures, International Study Shows.

Two down. Three hundred and sixty three to go. Just sayin’. Illigitimi non carborundum. I will NOT let the maskers win. And our numbers are growing.

Why Is Scientific Illiteracy So Acceptable? Including this Philip K. Dick quote: “Reality is that which continues to exist even when you stop believing in it.”

Three professors, two from Dartmouth and one from Brown, have produced a paper for the National Bureau of Economic Research titled, “Why Is All COVID-19 News Bad News?” It focuses on the U.S. press, and its findings are disturbing.

I really wish I’d written this

DENIERS: State Mandates Ignore Science On Why Wearing Masks While Exercising Can Do More Harm Than Good.

When your job is to use a hammer: Many Epidemiologists Want Social Distancing and Masks Forever—Even After the Vaccine.

Started back to substitute teaching last month. Was the first sub “back” in five buildings so I got to be the guinea pig <wait! Is that racist?> The public is being told that public schools are “following the science” to keep everybody safe ….. but ARE they?

School District #1 (in no particular order) requires a temp check at the door. No other school district (in my experience) is doing this. What’s the margin of error on the device being used? It’s self administered and we’ve received no “training” on its use. And what’s my baseline temperature? If you don’t know what my normal body temperature usually is, how do you know if I’m running a fever? Lots of science-shaped holes here. Pandemic theater.

District #2. Practice HAD been to keep doors closed during class sessions, because that’s safer if we have an intruder. Already set up for the ALICE drill, etc. But NOW they want the doors left OPEN because we don’t have people wiping their filthy corona-infected hands on the door handle all the time with all of that in and out stuff. Really? I wanna see the science that determined that putting our dear little bundles of joy at risk of injury or kidnapping are sufficiently lower than the risk of them contracting da Rona from a door knob. Otherwise it’s just pandemic theater.

District #3 has invested in these cute little 2 ½ – 3 foot tall tri-sided windowed table tents for their desks. And students are required to wipe down their desks with disinfectant after every class. But not the table tent! I’m thinking because its a pandemic theater set piece it must be immune to da Rona. The other fun thing here is that the secretary in charge of us miscreant subs refuses to open her office door. We shout back and forth at each other through (?) the window and she leaves your documents on a desk outside her door. She DOES have a couple co-morbidities so I’m kinda understanding here.

District #4. No medical inspection upon entry. No open/closed door policy. No magic table tent equipment. Just the ever-present signs of coerced (anti-)social distancing. And masks. And smaller class size. After the other three this seems almost normal.

Faculty and administration is all over the place regardless of school policy. Had a teacher mutter to me under her breath “damned Commie masks” the other day. Had another (science) teacher upbraid me in front of a class of 5^th Graders for not rigorously enforcing the mask mandate. She did this from less than a foot away with her mask tucked neatly under her nose. High schoolers seem to be dealing with this reasonably well. I was actually in a classroom earlier this week while seven students listened to the actual teacher lecture via Zoom. Desks are cleaned. Doors are left open or closed (guess different schools have different science.) Behavior seems MUCH improved. Of course class sizes cut in half helps. And the masks. Most classroom noise starts at the whispered level and then grows. Without the ability to communicate with a whisper there’s nothing to grow FROM. But it’s sad. No smiling faces. No funny looks.

Those who told me my side-gig of substituting was over due to Covid seem to be quite wrong (as the Coronobros n hos have been about pretty much everything.) Since starting back 9/14 I’ve had one day “off.” Currently have 10/7 open and then full until 10/19. So … steady. I HAVE added three new districts but haven’t accepted a gig a two of them. Will probably drop them soon as unneeded. And that’s with NO gigs from the district I’ve done the 2^nd most the last 2-3 years. Not sure what’s happened to them.