[The Jewish Voice] Hundreds of thousands of COVID-19 deaths could have been avoided if obesity rates had not been so high, according to the World Obesity Federation(LINK to STUDY)
The death rate from COVID-19 is 10 times higher in countries where 50% or more of the population is overweight, according to the federation.
From the report’s summary
This report shows that in countries where less than
half the adult population is classified as overweight
the likelihood of death from COVID-19 is a small
fraction — around one tenth — of the level seen in
countries where more than half the population is
classified as overweight. Of the 2.5 million COVID-19
deaths reported by the end of February 2021, 2.2
million were in countries where more than half the
population is classified as overweight
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My daughter-in-law is Type 1 diabetic and was not on the early priority list for the shot, but Type 2 diabetics were high priority.
Only this week did I find out why - Type 2 are mostly overweight, and that's more of a concern.
Her doctor got her an exception and she was vaccinated in late February, about the same time as her 70+ year old parents and her similarly aged in-laws.
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Waiting for the stats on the BMI of those who died of / with COVID vs the BMI of the country they lived in. Countries with high rates of COVID mortality have tended to be those with the best record-keeping.
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Explains the big impact on the Navajo reservation (besides Meteor Crater).
[Imprimis] The COVID pandemic has been a tragedy, no doubt. But it has exposed profound issues in America that threaten the principles of freedom and order that we Americans often take for granted.
First, I have been shocked at the unprecedented exertion of power by the government since last March—issuing unilateral decrees, ordering the closure of businesses, churches, and schools, restricting personal movement, mandating behavior, and suspending indefinitely basic freedoms. Second, I was and remain stunned—almost frightened—at the acquiescence of the American people to such destructive, arbitrary, and wholly unscientific rules, restrictions, and mandates.
The pandemic also brought to the forefront things we have known existed and have tolerated for years: media bias, the decline of academic freedom on campuses, the heavy hand of Big Tech, and—now more obviously than ever—the politicization of science. Ultimately, the freedom of Americans to seek and state what they believe to be the truth is at risk.
Let me say at the outset that I, like all of us, acknowledge that the consequences of the COVID pandemic and its management have been enormous. Over 500,000 American deaths have been attributed to the virus; more will follow. Even after almost a year, the pandemic still paralyzes our country. And despite all efforts, there has been an undeniable failure to stop cases from escalating and to prevent hospitalizations and deaths.
But there is also an unacknowledged reality: almost every state and major city in the U.S., with a handful of exceptions, have implemented severe restrictions for many months, including closures of businesses and in-person schools, mobility restrictions and curfews, quarantines, limits on group gatherings, and mask mandates dating back to at least last summer. And despite any myths to the contrary, social mobility tracking of Americans and data from Gallup, YouGov, the COVID-19 Consortium, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have all shown significant reductions of movement as well as a consistently high percentage of mask-wearing since the late summer, similar to the extent seen in Western Europe and approaching the extent seen in Asia.
[WSJ] The media vilified him for rejecting harsh lockdowns. But Florida’s Covid-19 numbers are better than California’s or New York’s, and its economy thrives.
In the early months of the coronavirus pandemic, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo imposed strict lockdown policies—many still in place—and became the media’s golden boy. "The governor of New York’s morning news conferences have become part of the country’s new daily rhythm," the Washington Post’s Style section gushed in March 2020. "He’s the strongman who can admit he’s wrong. He speaks fluently about the facts. He worries about his mother, and by extension, yours, too."
Gov. Ron DeSantis took a different approach and was pilloried. He was among the first to lift his state lockdown, adopting something resembling Sweden’s strategy of protecting the vulnerable while keeping businesses and schools open. "Florida Man Leads His State to the Morgue," read a June headline in the New Republic. "Ron DeSantis is the latest in a long line of Republicans who made the state a plutocratic dystopia. Now he’s letting its residents die to save the plutocrats."
A year after the virus hit the U.S., Mr. Cuomo’s luster has faded, and Mr. DeSantis can claim vindication. The Sunshine State appears to have weathered the pandemic better than others like New York and California, which stayed locked down harder and longer.
Mortality data bear out this conclusion. The Covid death risk increases enormously with each decade of age. More than 80% of Covid deaths in the U.S. have occurred among seniors over 65. They make up a larger share of Florida’s population than any other state except Maine. Based on demographics, Florida’s per-capita Covid death rate would be expected to be one of the highest in the country.
Nope. Florida’s death rate is in the middle of the pack and only slightly higher than in California, which has a much younger population. Florida’s death rate among seniors is about 20% lower than California’s and 50% lower than New York’s, based on Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data.
Several Democratic governors, including Mr. Cuomo and New Jersey’s Phil Murphy, early in the pandemic required nursing homes to accept Covid patients discharged from hospitals, though many were short-staffed and unable to care for them properly. The New York investigation by Attorney General Letitia James estimated that the state’s nursing home deaths were 50% higher than Mr. Cuomo’s official figures, though it’s impossible to know how many deaths his order caused.
The most recent numbers I’ve seen are that originally New York State nursing home deaths were reported as 6000+, but the corrected number is about 15,000, nearly 200% more.
The Journal reported Thursday that Mr. Cuomo’s aides rewrote a report by state health officials in June to omit the number of New York nursing-home residents who’d died in hospitals during the pandemic.
Mr. DeSantis took a smarter approach. His administration halted outside visitations to nursing homes and bolstered their stockpile of personal protective equipment. Florida’s government also set up 23 Covid-dedicated nursing centers for elderly patients discharged from hospitals. Nursing-home residents who tested positive and couldn’t be isolated in their facilities were sent to these Covid-only wards. Florida set up field hospitals to handle a surge in cases that models predicted in the spring, although it never materialized.
"Those models about hospital overcrowding never even came close to bearing out, even in New York," Mr. DeSantis says in an interview. "Some of those policies that were done in these other states, they really were motivated by those models. And those models did do a lot of damage."
Like most governors, Mr. DeSantis shut down most businesses when President Trump issued guidelines for a national lockdown on March 16. "We did the 15 days to slow the spread," Mr. DeSantis says. The governor kept restrictions on "nonessential" businesses for several more weeks, but he let more places stay open than other states, including child-care facilities, construction sites, hotels and beaches. National media published photos of crowded Florida beaches. "DeSantis in Florida let everybody go crazy over spring break," CNN’s Chris Cuomo, the New York governor’s brother, said in June. "He then exported all that virus back to wherever—wherever they wanted to go, OK?"
But Florida’s infection rate during April stayed on par with California, where most beaches and residential construction were restricted. "I was not convinced that a lot of those [lockdown] policies were making a huge difference as data came in," Mr. DeSantis says.
Florida began a phased reopening in early May, allowing restaurants, barbershops, nail salons, gyms and other retailers to operate initially at 50% capacity provided they follow social-distancing and sanitary protocols. Bars and pubs were later allowed to open at 50% capacity, and limits for other businesses were increased.
Mr. DeSantis also let theme parks—important Florida employers and tourist attractions—reopen at reduced capacity. SeaWorld Orlando and Universal Studios reopened in June. "Disney World took a little longer, but that was just because of their [own] business decisions." California’s government still hasn’t allowed the Disneyland or Universal Studios theme parks to reopen....
[ZERO] And that’s just the way the totalitarians in Europe want it.
The moment the Supreme Court abdicated its responsibility to even recognize Texas’ complaint against Pennsylvania was the moment the veneer of Constitutional authority in D.C. was removed.
With the Court cowed into political subservience and the presidency and the legislature secured there is nothing left of any Constitutional ’checks and balances’ left in D.C.
Now that the Democrat-controlled House is done embarrassing themselves with a sham impeachment of Donald Trump they can now get serious about consolidating power such that they never relinquish it.
It’s called H.R. 1 and it is, in the words of John Fund, "It is the worst piece of legislation I have even seen in my 40 years reporting from Washington."
I’m not going into the details of it here, Fund does a fine job of outlining them, along with Zerohedge. And whether this abortion of a bill passes through a filibuster in the Senate is irrelevant.
What is relevant is that this bill is a laundry list of changes to the electoral system of the U.S. to ensure single party rule for what’s left of the lifespan of the United States as a 50 entity compact among equals.
Oh, I’m sorry, that isn’t correct because not one of the current members of the Supreme Court believes that’s what the U.S. is anymore, a compact of equals.
If any of them did they would have argued for Texas’ right to sue Pennsylvania for its election law changes and heard the case under the court’s original jurisdiction.
Even if they’d thrown the case out on its merit that would have been somewhat acceptable, but to refuse to hear it was an insult to anyone with a passing acquaintance with the Constitution.
What Speaker Nancy Pelosi has done with this bill is to make manifest for the world to see that D.C. is ruled and operated by a mafia. And that mafia works for its own betterment, not those it rules over.
That’s been the very clear message since the election. Because election outcomes not controlled by the D.C. mafia are verboten.
Especially now that the plan to tear down and ’Build Back Better’ the global economy is in process. Nothing as tawdry and plebian as democracy and civilian input can be tolerated when such plans are afoot.
Americans are just now getting the memo that Europeans got repeatedly over the past two generations. The words of former European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker echo through the corridors of the fabulously ugly EU headquarters in Brussels.
[Right Scoop] President Trump has just released this epic statement slamming Biden for what his disastrous policies have done at the border after he worked hard to get the border under control:
I must say that’s a very well written and thorough debunking of what Biden has done at the border to cause this crisis.
In fact a CBS reporter, who has long despised Trump, actually asked Psaki today about Trump’s statement and got a ridiculous, arrogant answer in response:
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“We don’t take advice or council from former president Trump on immigration policy,” said Ms Psaki, offended that such a question could even be thought, let alone asked.
[Washington Examiner] Former President Barack Obama reportedly told a crowd of donors that Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg could not win the presidency because "he’s gay" and "short," according to a book on the 2020 presidential election.
Obama made his remarks about the former South Bend, Indiana, mayor during an October 2019 dinner event in New York in front of a crowd of black corporate donors, according to a book by NBC’s Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes of the Hill.
Obama's attendance at the event was reportedly a partial attempt for the former president to tout Sen. Elizabeth Warren as a viable 2020 candidate for the presidency. At the time, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Warren, Buttigieg, and President Biden were considered front-runners for office.
During the same event, Obama joked about Buttigieg's age, sexuality, and height, stating them as reasons why he could not win the 2020 presidential election, according to the book, which was released Tuesday.
[Spectator] Among the flashier items on the government docket at the moment is President Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden ...Candidate for president in 2020. Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call brilliant... ’s new commission on Supreme Court reform, but it’s not the only transformative proposal the judiciary branch faces. The push to broaden the bench is coming for the lower courts, too, as the Left attempts to reshape the national judiciary.
The Left is rallying around adding new judgeships, and fast, because a packed court is the last puzzle piece they need to own all three branches of government. The increasingly politicized lower courts are their latest target.
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[FRONTPAGEMAG] An NBC News poll released last week reflects one of the most significant political trends of the past 30 years — the realignment of blue-collar workers who’ve left the party of Planned Parenthood ...has received federal funding since 1970, when President Richard Nixon signed into law the Family Planning Services and Population Research Act. It is sometimes described as the gynecololgical wing of the Democratic party... and Drag Queen Story Hour for the party of energy-independence, fair-trade deals and border security.
The poll shows that between 2010 and 2020, the Republican share of blue- collar votes rose from 45% to 57%. Within the same demographic, its Hispanic vote went from 23% to 36%, while its black working-class vote went from 5% to 12%.
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Democrat - the party of hate. They define themselves by what they hate.
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We are The Other to them. If they can just eliminate us, they can usher in heaven on earth. Just like all the other hard left revolutionaries.
#4
A historic realignment of the parties. Dems on the very bottom and the very top but have lost the heart of America, the center. Of course they won't change their rhetoric of calling the GOP party of the rich because that's effective in their own rich feeling superior.
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I am 84 and was raised to be a democrat in MA where repubs were categorized in the limerick "where the cabots speak only to the lodges and the lodges only to god". It was true then but not now. How can any working man treat pelosi, schumer, biden, and harris as superiors?
We're the inverse Sally Field: they hate us... They really, really hate us.
How do they hate ya? Let us count the ways.
For that we are anti- anti-white.
For that we recognize two genders.
For that we demand border enforcement and a sensible immigration policy.
For that we demand an end to Forever Wars that aim to turn frenzied violent primitive tribesmen into Jeffersonian democrats.
For that we refuse to cringe, cower and confess our original sin of racism.
For that we oppose oligarchy, bankster bailouts and anti-competitive business practices that shovel billions to individuals who haven't created anything and companies that stifle innovation.
For that we refuse to accept the Big Lie that America's most anti-Russian president was somehow a tool of the Kremlin.
For that we refuse to see Christine Blasey or Jussie Smollett or Critical Race Theirists or BLMers as other than despicable little con artists.
For that we view Sons and Daighters of the Southern states as brothers and sisters rather than closet fascists or enemy combatants.
For that we read Shakespeare, listen to Beethoven and look at Rembrandts with pleasure and without shame or guilt.
For that we love our heritage and our nation, and will not apologize for it.
For these acts of wickedness, we must be destroyed. Trump was right. He wasn't the enemy; we are. They're coming after us.
[JPost] It appears that Iran, having helped the Iraqi government grab Sinjar from the Kurdistan region, doesn’t want Turkey entering Sinjar now.
While the region’s eyes are on recent tensions with Iran in the Gulf of Oman and Syria, a simmering dispute between Iran and Turkey in Iraq appears to be growing. The dispute has origins going back years as Iran has sought greater influence in Iraq, and Turkey has long viewed northern Iraq as its area of influence.
The recent tensions have grown after Turkey threatened an invasion of Iraq’s Sinjar region. This region was home to the Yazidi minority prior to 2014. ISIS attacked Sinjar in 2014 and committed genocide and around 500,000 Yazidis were forced to flee. After Sinjar was liberated by Kurdish forces, a tense time resulted as various Kurdish factions sought control.
What matters is that in 2017, the Iraqi government supported pro-Iranian militias, called Hashd al-Shaabi, to retake Sinjar from the autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government. Disputes in Sinjar over whether the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) might remain led to Turkish threats the Sinjar is harboring "terrorists." In fact, some Yazidis had joined far-Left groups allegedly linked to the PKK as part of the struggle against ISIS. Turkey wanted to use this as an excuse to invade. Turkey has a long track record of invading and ethnically cleansing Yazidis and Kurds, in Afrin in Syria in 2019, and Tel Abyad in Syria in October 2019.
It appears that Iran, having helped the Iraqi government grab Sinjar from the Kurdistan region, doesn’t want Turkey entering Sinjar now. For the minorities, like Yazidis, no one seems to care. Even the pope will be arriving in Mosul soon, but not Sinjar.
In that context, the Iranian Ambassador to Iraq Iraj Masjedi told Rudaw, a Kurdish media outlet, that Ankara should not be violating Iraq’s sovereignty. "We reject military intervention in Iraq and Turkish forces should not pose a threat or violate Iraqi soil," Masjedi told Rudaw’s Mushtaq Ramazan last week in an exclusive interview. "The security of the Iraqi area should be maintained by Iraqi forces and [Kurdistan] Region forces in their area."
Masjedi appeared to go even further than opposing an invasion of Sinjar, he said Turkey should withdraw forces from bases in northern Iraq’s Kurdish region. Turkey has long preyed on the Kurdish region, claiming to fight the PKK, and set up dozens of bases. Swaths of villages have been depopulated because of PKK-Turkish fighting in the otherwise peaceful, mountainous region. Recently Turkey launched operations striking PKK bases.
Turkey’s hold on the Kurdish region has also resulted in tensions between the Kurdish authorities in Erbil, led by the Kurdistan Democratic Party, and the PKK. It has also resulted in tensions between Sulamaniyeh, controlled by the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan party, and the KDP. For Turkey, this is fine because Erbil relies on Turkey for economic lifelines and Turkey can use its leverage here. For the PUK, this is not ideal but the PUK is linked more to Iran’s views.
When a President is removed from office for Mental Capacity issues using the 25th Amendment. When Mental illness and Competency issues were clearly demonstrated prior to his election, and/or while in office.
Question #1. Does that VOID any Executive Orders, Bill, Laws, and etc. passed that required said President's signature?
Question #2. Or just VOID Executive Orders, Bills and Laws passed that DID NOT meet the two-thirds vote in each Chambers which would override a President's Veto.
Question #3. If Mental Illness / Competency is shown to have existed prior to taking office. Does it VOID his Oath of Office swearing in based on Mental Illness / Competency grounds?
Question #4
4a. Since a Presidents Administration starts after the Oath of Office is administered. Wouldn't a President have to be legally sworn in and take office 1st, before his VP can be sworn in and officially take the VP Oath?
4b. Would this official process timeline VOID the VP Oath of Office and Swearing in process since the President could not legally take office?
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With Dementia Patients Lucidity comes and goes, more time elepses, lucidity is less apparent.
The struggle for the observer is when is/was the line crossed when the patient is spending less time with reality, and more time in confusion.
10 doctors will give 10 answers, suprisingly the patient is more likely to tell you, if you ask the right questions, and they have not lost their ability to communicate, which does happen frequently.
As for the questions above, No on all counts, do not feed my votes through the Dominion System, Please.
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Re #5: You really think Jo-jo has a clue and understands what they put in front of him to sign? Once Harris takes over, she's going to think she's in charge and start throwing her self-imagined weight around.
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"Is this what we do next?"
(referring to taking questions)
Mic cut, but a real tell that he is no long following, but being actively led. He gone.
And as much fun an exercise this would be, like Clem said 'Motion to ratify the acts and deeds of the previous administration' is all it would take, especially with an EO, and the only true witness to the alleged clarity or lack there of at the time of the EO would be the patient, who is no longer available.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[The Jewish Voice] Hundreds of thousands of COVID-19 deaths could have been avoided if obesity rates had not been so high, according to the World Obesity Federation(LINK to STUDY) 
[WSJ] The media vilified him for rejecting harsh lockdowns. But Florida’s Covid-19 numbers are better than California’s or New York’s, and its economy thrives.
[ZERO] And that’s just the way the totalitarians in Europe want it.
...Candidate for president in 2020. Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call 
[FRONTPAGEMAG] An NBC News poll released last week reflects one of the most significant political trends of the past 30 years — the realignment of blue-collar workers who’ve left the party of 
[JPost] It appears that Iran, having helped the Iraqi government grab Sinjar from the Kurdistan region, doesn’t want Turkey entering Sinjar now.
What matters is that in 2017, the Iraqi government supported pro-Iranian militias, called Hashd al-Shaabi, to retake Sinjar from the autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government. Disputes in Sinjar over whether the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) might remain led to Turkish threats the Sinjar is harboring "terrorists." In fact, some Yazidis had joined far-Left groups allegedly linked to the PKK as part of the struggle against ISIS. Turkey wanted to use this as an excuse to invade. Turkey has a long track record of invading and ethnically cleansing Yazidis and Kurds, in Afrin in Syria in 2019, and Tel Abyad in Syria in October 2019.
In that context, the Iranian Ambassador to Iraq Iraj Masjedi told Rudaw, a Kurdish media outlet, that Ankara should not be violating Iraq’s sovereignty. "We reject military intervention in Iraq and Turkish forces should not pose a threat or violate Iraqi soil," Masjedi told Rudaw’s Mushtaq Ramazan last week in an exclusive interview. "The security of the Iraqi area should be maintained by Iraqi forces and [Kurdistan] Region forces in their area."
