COVID Fear Monsters and panic

I Think We Flattened That Curve

Looking at the CDC’s provisional weekly COVID death statistics (through July 4, 2020), what part of this graph tells you that we need to still be 1) wearing masks, 2) worried about sending kids back to school, 3) shutting down ANY part of ANY business or 4) listening to the media (ratings) and politicians (control, … Read more

Time for Bolduc, Mayberry, Messner and Mowers to Pick a Side.

Unless something changes drastically between now and Election Day, I plan on skipping right past the Governor’s race when I vote. If you have read my posts, you already know why … Sununu’s COVID policy. In brief, as I posted a little while ago, COVID … per the CDC, not per me … is less … Read more

Masking Outside of Healthcare Facilities is Useless

Dated May 21, 2020 in the New England Journal of Medicine: We know that wearing a mask outside health care facilities offers little, if any, protection from infection. Public health authorities define a significant exposure to Covid-19 as face-to-face contact within 6 feet with a patient with symptomatic Covid-19 that is sustained for at least … Read more

Andy Volinsky is Such an Annoying #Maskhole

So #VolinskyAgenda went on a twitter-tirade today because Governor Chris “Cave” Sununu … in a rare moment of backbone … didn’t cave to Tyrion’s demand that he order everyone to “mask up”: Let’s focus on the second to last tweet: So “every scientist in the country” believes that if 80 percent of the population wore … Read more

Don’t be a #Maskhole

No. I did not mean Masshole. I meant Maskhole … a virtue-signaling, white-privilege “progressive” who knows nothing about COVID, but believes he does and also believes he has some inherent right to tell everyone else how to live their lives on account of COVID. As in these people: There is no evidence that healthy people … Read more

The NH-GOP Needs to Stop the Fear-Mongering … Immediately

The New Hampshire GOP has done something so reprehensible that I find myself in agreement with two of the most unsavory characters in New Hampshire politics: Michael #BeyerTheLiar Beyer and Holly Here-Comes-The-Hate Shulman. Check out these tweets: Seriously GOP? Seriously????? Equating COVID and the New Hampshire Democrat Party -the Party of Ray Buckley? Seriously????? STOP … Read more

The Poll That Sununu Should be Paying Attention To.

George H. W. Bush’s job approval was riding high after the First Persian Gulf War. An approval rating in excess of 90 percent. But less than a year later, Bush’s job approval was under 50 percent. And by July 1992, Bush was below 30 percent job approval. He became one of a handful of incumbent … Read more

How Deadly is Covid?

Massive Majority in New Hampshire Support Authoritarian Government and Willing to Believe Anything Government/Press Tell Them

This from the latest UNH poll: Nine in ten Granite Staters approve of the job Governor Chris Sununu has done handling the coronavirus (COVID-19) situation. A similarly large majority support Sununu’s “stay at home” order for the state. Granite Staters say maintaining the stay at home order is more important than re-opening the NH economy … Read more

White Mountains

Doubling (or is it Tripling or Quadrupling) Down on Stupid – White Mountain National Forest Trailheads Closed in Order to … Wait for it … Protect Us From Coronavirus

This: The U.S. Forest Service shut down several White Mountain National Forest trailheads and recreational sites until further notice Friday in an effort to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus disease, COVID-19. Forest officials said there recently has been “unseasonably high” numbers of visitors, which could result in the increased chance for exposure to … Read more

Sununu

Republican Governors Are Lifting Lockdowns & Reopening States’ Economies … Meanwhile Sununu Plans to Extend NH Lockdown

This: The governors of Georgia, Tennessee and South Carolina on Monday afternoon announced new plans to bring their states’ economies closer to full force amid signs the coronavirus outbreak is slowing. Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp said certain businesses, including gyms and hair salons, can reopen beginning this Friday. Meanwhile, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee confirmed his state’s stay-at-home order, previously extended to April 30, will end … Read more

Sununu

An Increasingly Divorced-From-Reality Sununu Cancels (What’s Left of) School to Save … Potentially … 1.5 Deaths “Related to” COVID

So this: And here is Sununu’s letter: Sununu’s claim that students are at risk from COVID is a crock. The COVID fatality rate for people under twenty is effectively ZERO. As for students spreading COVID to others, a recent paper claimed that reopening schools would cause an increase in COVID fatalities of 2% to 4%. … Read more

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