We’re always looking for ways to poke the COVID-response apologists in their rheumy third eye, and this is a doozy. A pile of global data has been crunched that proves the fearmongers wrong. Almost no one was in grave danger from COVID-19.
Steve MacDonald
Massachusetts Helps New Hampshire Widen Its Advantage
Yesterday I mentioned Vermont and its habit of making New Hampshire more desirable but let’s not forget Massachusetts, a leader in advancing the New Hampshire Advantage. Effective January first, it is enforcing a new tax on millionaires that could benefit the Granite State.
Would You Drive an EV if You Knew The Human Cost?
The next time you bump into a green-energy, electric vehicle futurist who seems a bit too committed to the Net-Zero lie, take a deep breath and then ask them this. So, you’re okay with the human trafficking and slavery required to make that possible?
11th Circuit: Separating Bathrooms Based on Sex Doesn’t Violate the Constitution or Title IX
For the next five minutes, something like common sense just emerged from the bowels of the 11th Circuit Court of appeals. The case is Adams v. Sch. Bd. of St. Johns Cty, questioning whether the school board violated transgender student rights.
Vermont Helps New Hampshire Widen Its Advantage
Vermont’s mandated state minimum wage is rising today to 13.18 an hour. That’s, the new legislators know better what starting labor is worth to job creators rate. All in the name of whatever it is their supporters claim these wage mandates do.
Another Electric Vehicle Fail: NYC EV Trucks Run Out of Juice Plowing the Streets
New York City uses its garbage trucks to plow snow. The Big Crapple is also hot to electrify the entire fleet, and why not? Who should be more climate #woke than the city that never sleeps? But someone is having nightmares after discovering the two are incompatible—electric trucks and plowing snow.
The ‘Grok Top 5 Posts for 2022
There were over 4300 new published posts on GraniteGrok.com in 2022 and millions of page views despite the hurdles thrown at us by Big Tech. And we covered more subjects than I could guess.
Another Huge Win for Ivermectin
This seems like medically dense material, but my layman’s tweak is that researchers found a new key to SARS CoV2, and IVM (Ivermectin) blocks it “when added to RBCs [red blood cells] prior to spike protein and reversed HA (hemagglutination) when added afterward.”
Religious Intolerance at The University of New Hampshire (UNH)
UNH typically gets good marks from groups like FIRE for free speech that, in my opinion, they do not deserve. UNH may put policies in writing that sell a commitment to open and free expression, but the entire campus culture stands on the intolerance baked into identity politics.
The Public Schools are Grooming Your Kid for a Lifetime of Anxiety and Depression
The National Institute for Health’s National Library of Medicine has a 2019 research report that should have ended the practice of public schools grooming kids into the body-bending transgender agenda.
Joe Biden’s “Hysteria, Xenophobia, and Fear-Mongering”
Whoever is Running the Biden Administration (WRBA) has released new restrictions on travel from China. “The White House announced Wednesday it will require travelers from China to test negative for COVID-19 prior to arrival in the U.S.”
Dartmouth is Planning to Violate Title VII and Title IX
Dartmouth continues to shower New Hampshire in glory. They’ve decided that women and minorities are underrepresented in STEM fields, and the solution is one hundred million in scholarships which, at least for now, are not available to white men.
Having Fun with the “Neurodivergents” That Created Stanford’s Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative
When UNH created its Bias-freeLanguage Guide, we wrote stories that went national. Then UNH President Mark Huddleston made it disappear and talked about the University’s commitment to free and open speech.
ICYMI – NH Executive Council Puts a Stake in the Heart of Another Blood-Sucking Commuter Rail Project
I’ve been badmouthing proposed commuter rail projects for New Hampshire for fifteen years. There’s no benefit. It will never make money, meaning it will cost all of us (equity) to have something few will use. But they keep trying.
German Data Shows Significant Association between COVID Booster Rates and Excess Mortality
More bad news, thanks to foreign pencil pushers. That’s where you have to get good data because our own government hides things from us (for 75 years if we let them). Were looking at Germany again, and there’s a clear death signal tied to COVID booster rates.
The Twelve Days of Global Warming
I’m not sure we’ve ever shared this – my being unable to find it is, sadly, no indication either way. And yes, a better site search engine is still on the t0-do list. So, if we have shared it, apologies: It’s called the Twelve Days of Global Warming.
Another FDA “Win” – Molnupiravir Could Turn Patients into COVID Variant Super-Spreaders
A little over a year ago, at the beginning of the “vaccinated athletes are dropping dead” era, Merck announced a new pill. Sold as a treatment for people at risk of severe COVID illness, Molnupiravir could confuse the crap out of COVID, effectively stopping it dead.
Colorblindness Is the Answer. It Must Therefore Be Their Enemy
Coleman Hughs writes an excellent piece at The Free Press that addresses the matter of color blindness. Not the medical condition but the social, cultural, and political one.
You Will Be Made to Pay for an Energy Transition That Doesn’t Work, Isn’t Green, and That You Do Not Want.
As Europe fights to keep warm this winter, going so far as to burn coal to keep the lights on, the reached from reality EU bureaucrats approved a new carbon tax on the old energy (heating and motor fuels), part of which will fund conversions to the new energy that isn’t working.