One of the great, largely untold, stories of World War 2 was that in the post-war era, the American occupation made such an impression on German society that they ended up taking Federalism to heart to a degree that Americans would feel jealous of, if most of them knew better.
And while it’s not a specific point in the article I’m linking, I’m going to go out on a short, sturdy limb and say that their relatively strict observance of federalism has helped them keep a pragmatic approach to Covid that has largely eluded our centralized public health bureaucracies.
Untrammeled central government hurt Germany terribly, 80 years ago – far worse than Covid has harmed the US. So far.
The power of federalism, not only to help people who don’t like each other much to co-exist politically, but to sand down the rougher edges of government stupidity, is a lesson this country would be blessed to learn, while we can.
It is a junk article, a “just so” story.
There is a lot of shitty speculation passing for serious analysis in our elite publications.
Deaths per million are nearly identical between German and Sweden, despite Sweden’s absence of mask mandates, business closures, social distancing rules, etc.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/weekly-covid-deaths-per-million-people?tab=chart&country=SWE~DEU
Here is the latest covid data from the NY Times: https://nyti.ms/3pSEiBB
The only obvious correlation is the one between covid cases and deaths and vaccination status.
No one is even trying to explain the remarkable shape of the covid curve, which shows cases peaking in late August, with deaths peaking ten days or so later,
and declining, in every age group thereafter.
If you have a curve and you cannot explain why it has its shape, whatever word-sounds you are speaking or writing is not science.
I have been and continue to be surprised by the sources Mitch uses when writing blog posts. Atlantic, National Review, NBC are a few I can think of just offhand. Of course, using these source helps to explain the opinions that J6 was a riot, that masks are helpful, and that the Kung flu is medically a very serious disease.
The commenters here are first rate tho’.
Here are the covid deaths per million figures for Germany and Sweden and the US, and their covid-19 stringency scores. LMK if you see any corelation:
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/weekly-covid-deaths-per-million-people?tab=chart&country=SWE~DEU~USA
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/covid-stringency-index?tab=chart&country=DEU~SWE~USA
Did someone say “untrammeled central government”?
Air Force is first to face troops’ rejection of vaccine mandate as thousands avoid shots
Up to 12,000 Air Force personnel have rejected orders to get fully vaccinated against the coronavirus despite a Pentagon mandate and officials say it is too late for them to do so by Tuesday’s deadline, posing a first major test for military leaders whose August directive has been met with defiance among a segment of the force.
The big question is, can they quickly rally enough trannies to make up the loss?
How’s that mandate going, rat?
On a similar note, I received an email from corporate yesterday with new guidelines regarding the bug juice. Basically it says the mask and distancing nonsense becomes voluntary, but encouraged for bug juice test subjects, but mandatory for pure blooded people.
But it also said if you don’t shoot the juice, you cannot travel to any of our plants. Now I’ve been doing 75% of my work from home, but I have a big project going right now, and had planned a trip to a plant for a meeting next week (I drive rentals everywhere now). It’s some stuff that has to be done on site.
So I texted my boss, and asked him what we are going to do. He said he’d ask his boss….5 minutes later “you can travel to (that plant)”. How about (this other plant) I have a project going on at?”….minute later “yeah, that one is OK too”.
It’s all bullshit where the rubber meets the road.
Here is the graph of cumulative daily vaccinations in the US:
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cumulative-covid-vaccinations?country=~USA
Look at it, and see if you can the deflection in the curve on the day Biden announced his mandate. I can’t (it was Sept. 9).
I read the other day that there may be issues with traveling workers who are just avoiding vax-mandatory states. Unimportant jobs — like electrical lineman as the winter storm season begins on the east coast and midwest.
This is looking a lot like another unforced error by team Biden — locking people out of their jobs during a worker shortage, with no improvement in vaccination.
I read the other day that there may be issues with traveling workers…
That was a fascinating article, MP. It was chock full of info the significance of which cannot be understated.
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/stacey-lennox/2021/10/27/exclusive-how-long-will-vaccine-authoritarians-sit-in-the-cold-and-the-dark-n1527346
Looking at MP’s data, the 417 million doses cover 220 million people partially and 191 million people fully, which is 68% and 79% of the country. Counting this and actual cases (45 million plus those that were asymptomatic/mere nuisances), and shouldn’t we be getting to herd immunity sometime soon? Even if the vaccines are not 100% effective, we ought to be close.
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