The Data Continue to Prove the Mask Zealots WRONG!

I've long said that the data on the Wuhan virus in no way matched the hysteria visited on most of the U.S. and the world. Whether "cases," hospitalizations, deaths, masks, lockdowns, and the like, time and again we've seen that the actual data reveal that our efforts to "slow the spread" have been largely useless and thus unnecessary. In other words, time has revealed the truth on the Wuhan virus. As I noted back in August of last year, short of an effective vaccine (which, at the time didn't seem like it was on the near horizon), each of us is going to get exposed to the Wuhan virus, and our health outcome will be determined by how our Creator made us and what treatments are given to us. 

The rise in hospitalizations and deaths over the holidays, and the subsequent steep decline we've seen over the last several weeks, has little to nothing to do with masks and the like. The rises we saw during the Thanksgiving and Christmas holiday season likely would not have been as severe if we had allowed for more herd immunity to occur during the summer and early fall of 2020. In other words--and again, short of an effective vaccine--the increase in cases was always going to happen; it was just a matter of when. 

Also, the recent declines in cases, hospitalizations, and deaths occurred too soon and too rapidly to be attributable to the vaccine. In other words, this decline was always going to happen; it was just a matter of when. Now, a year removed from the beginning of the panic porn, the data continues to reveal the truth on the Wuhan virus. This is especially true for masks. 

Take a look at the data on multiple school systems in Florida: those with mask mandates vs. those where masks are optional: 

Note that the cases per 100k in school systems where masks are optional are significantly lower than those systems where masks are mandated. As you've probably recently heard, Joe Biden and his fellow mask apologists foolishly described the idea of states lifting mask mandates as "Neanderthal thinking." This is especially foolish considering that democrats are the modern poster children for "Neanderthal thinking." It's also especially foolish given the latest data on U.S. states and "Daily New Cases" of the Wuhan virus: 

Wait two weeks, they always say. Well, Texas ended its statewide mandate well over two weeks ago. By now, hospitals and funeral homes should be overwhelmed, right? Nope, not even close. pic.twitter.com/yJ6mObM4Sv

— Scott Morefield (@SKMorefield) March 29, 2021

Tennessee, my state, never had a mask mandate either. Sure, we had something of a casedemic, but things also never got close to getting out of control - and the curve has been more than flattened. How on earth did this happen without a statewide mask mandate? pic.twitter.com/KUVOkfUH6p

— Scott Morefield (@SKMorefield) March 29, 2021

South Dakota never had a mask mandate and is widely considered the most maskless state in the union. Yet, their recent curve is remarkably flat (this is similar to surrounding Montana and North Dakota as well). It's almost like viruses are gonna virus, regardless of what we do. pic.twitter.com/501Tedwqv3

— Scott Morefield (@SKMorefield) March 29, 2021

Same with mask-loving New Jersey. These two states (New York and NJ), by the way, also LEAD THE COUNTRY in deaths per million. People always say that without masks things would be worse, but truly, how much worse could it get than #1 and #2? pic.twitter.com/RCqXXrpvUh

— Scott Morefield (@SKMorefield) March 29, 2021

This is all on top of all of the other science that reveals the truth on the Wuhan virus and masks: the Danish Mask Study; the mask data from "all U.S. jurisdictions;" the mask data from Europe; the data out of Florida; data from the complete NFL season; the data from the Super Bowl; the data from school districts in Texas and Florida that began school last August, have remained open, didn't cancel events, and never mandated masks; and so on. 

Lastly, recall that Walmart, Kroger, and the like didn't mandate masks until July. We went months in and out of these stores where no masks were required, the virus was supposedly raging, and yet hospitals sat nearly empty. The masks/mask mandates perpetuate the shutdown/lockdown narrative that has destroyed hundreds of thousands of businesses, millions of individual incomes, kept schools and churches closed, etc. If the masks were truly effective, we wouldn't have the data we have. If the masks were truly necessary, there's no way the vast majority of businesses--including Walmart, Kroger, Outback, McDonald's and the like, and every small business (especially restaurants) that require people be indoors for extended periods of time--could properly operate. If there were zero mask mandates and zero mask usage across the U.S., it is very doubtful that our national health outcomes from the Wuhan virus would've been any different. 

(See this post at American Thinker.)

Copyright 2021, Trevor Grant Thomas
At the Intersection of Politics, Science, Faith, and Reason.
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Trevor is the author of The Miracle and Magnificence of America
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COVID Commies

 There's a reason that our approach to the Wuhan virus reeks of Communism: 

Rand Paul was somewhat right when he accused Fauci and his ilk of engaging in political "theatre" when it comes to masks and the like. Tragically, what we are witnessing with many the leftists in our government, and those like-minded, is FAR more nefarious than mere "theatre." Millions of American individuals, and hundreds-of-thousands of American businesses, churches, and schools have been duped into following--or worse: enthusiastically embracing--the "corona-communism" of the champions of Big Government in America. 

The longer this charade plays out, the more it becomes clear--as school districts in Texas and Florida have recently revealed--that almost everything we have done to "slow the spread" has been worthless and unnecessary. Along with the useless masks and the foolish lockdowns, this includes the "six feet" nonsense, as even the leftist hacks as CNBC recently had to admit:

"This six-foot distancing requirement has probably been the single costliest mitigation tactic that we've employed in response to COVID," says @scottgottliebmd. pic.twitter.com/M5tmgj3kTY

— CNBC's Closing Bell (@CNBCClosingBell) March 19, 2021

Not only have many Americans had enough of this anti-science, freedom-destroying garbage, but liberty-loving people the world over are taking to the streets, burning their masks, and saying ENOUGH! (Video below doesn't begin until about 12 minutes in.)

Copyright 2021, Trevor Grant Thomas
At the Intersection of Politics, Science, Faith, and Reason.
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Trevor is the author of The Miracle and Magnificence of America
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Today’s Democrats Are the Poster Children for “Neanderthal Thinking”

As most well know by now, Joe Biden thinks it is “Neanderthal thinking” for Americans to take off their masks and get back to church, work, school, and play. One would think that a U.S. President who refuses to hold a press conference, and, while in office barely over a month, has been caught numerous times struggling to put together coherent sentences, would be careful about hurling around insults accusing others of “Neanderthal thinking.” 

To be fair, Biden is likely suffering with dementia, and this is no laughing matter—for him or the country. No one dealing with such a struggle should be taunted with insults on their mental difficulties. However, a healthy Joe Biden, along with countless other democrats, have for decades provided us with numerous examples of what truly could be described as “Neanderthal thinking.” 

The quickest path into Neanderthal thinking is the “wide road” away from God and His Word and wisdom. The Democrat Party in America has been on this dangerous road for a very long time. Democrat Rep. Jerry Nadler recently reminded us of this when the U.S. House debated the evil “Equality Act.” After Republican Rep. Greg Stuebe used Scripture on the House floor to help shine light on the evils of the “Equality Act,” Nadler responded by declaring, “Mr. Steube, what any religious tradition ascribes as God’s will is no concern of this Congress.”

What is God’s will has long been of “no concern” to modern democrats and has resulted in Neanderthal thinking on a wide array of issues, leading to many tragic public policies. Few things illustrate this better than the democrats’ “Equality Act.” The definition of “Neanderthal thinking” should include the phrase, “unable or unwilling to articulate properly the definition of who is a male and who is a female.” 

Yet, the “Equality Act” aims to obfuscate what biology and sound morality have always known. In other words, with this wicked legislation, democrats are ignoring and undermining what was made clear “in the beginning” and attempts to make criminals out of those who live according to the biblical (and biological) view of who is a male and who is a female. 

Of course, democrats’ struggles with biology are not limited to biological sex. Their Neanderthal thinking on life has led to the slaughter of tens of millions of unborn children. Since the early 1970s, almost every time democrats gain power in America—whether at the national, state, or local level—they rush to promote and enable the killing of the most innocent and helpless among us. Led by Joe Biden, tragically—and much to the dismay of foolish “Pro-Life Evangelicals For Biden”—today’s democrats are no different. 

In 2020, abortion was the leading cause of death worldwide. This has been the case for decades. According to Worldometer statistics, last year, abortion killed more human beings than cancer, malaria, HIV/AIDS, smoking, alcohol, and traffic accidents combined. Additionally, since 1973, when democrats and their Neanderthal-thinking allies in the U.S. Supreme court legalized the killing of the unborn across America, abortion has been the leading cause of death in the United States. (According to the CDC, in 2019, the leading cause of death in the U.S.—659,041 total—was heart disease. Every year since 1973 the Guttmacher Institute reports over 700k annual abortions in the U.S.)

Neanderthal thinking among today’s democrats has now led to a “war on mathematics” in America’s schools. This has resulted in a stunningly stupid concept called “ethnomathematics.” This absurd “education trend,” among many other terrible things, argues that “White supremacy manifests itself in the focus on finding the right answer.” According to Fox News, the training on “ethnomathematics” declares, 

The concept of mathematics being purely objective is unequivocally false, and teaching it is even much less so. Upholding the idea that there are always right and wrong answers perpetuate objectivity as well as fear of open conflict. …

It should be totally unsurprising that those opposed to the Bible and what it reveals would also be opposed to anything that is “purely objective.”

It turns out that, according to Neanderthal-thinking liberals, not only is math racist, but so is good writing. An Associate Dean at Arizona State University recently penned a 358-page book that details how “grading students’ writing is a form of racism and white supremacy.” According to Legal Insurrection, 

In a book titled “Labor-Based Grading Contracts: Building Equity and Inclusion in the Compassionate Writing Classroom,” professor Asao Inoue encourages teachers to ditch grading for a “labor-based” grading system wherein students earn grades based on their effort. The quality of a student’s writing would not help or hinder their course grade.

“This book focuses on one kind of grading contract, one that calculates final course grades purely by the labor students complete, not by any judgments of the quality of their writing,” Inoue writes. 

Anyone want to guess who Dean Inoue voted for in the 2020 presidential election? 

Only Neanderthal thinking could lead one to be so often wrong on the same issue and yet continue for decades unwaveringly to preach and teach—and attempt to make horrific public policy on—the same falsehoods. This is where modern democrats are on the matter of climate change. For decades, the climate cultists from the “New Religion of First World Elites” have attempted to use fear (the destruction of the planet) and a fake cause (saving the planet) to convince Americans to vote for democrats and enact the perverse science-denying—aka “Neanderthal thinking”—climate agenda of the modern left. 

Though their meteorologists often get the 5-day forecast wrong, the same people who tell us that “gender is a spectrum” want us to take their 100-year climate forecasts as the gospel truth, because, you know, “SCIENCE!” The Neanderthal thinkers who run the bastions of liberalism in America—like San Francisco—can’t even keep their streets free of human feces, yet we’re supposed to trust such politicians when it comes to something as magnificently complex as the global climate. Maybe they should put their efforts toward building a better pooper-scooper.

Speaking of “so often being wrong on the same issue,” the only recent issue that rivals the democrats’ voluminous folly on climate change is their repeated Neanderthal thinking on the Trump-Russia-collusion lie. After years of screaming that Trump colluded with the Russians to steal the 2016 presidential election—and with their lackeys in the media giving them countless hours of airtime to do so—democrats came up completely empty in their nefarious attempts to prove such.

As Tucker Carlson put in in March of 2019, “We have lived through three separate investigations into Russia collusion, not just Mueller, but a committee in the House and a committee in the Senate and they spent years looking in this and in the end, they found nothing…” It turns out that the only campaign that colluded with the Russians was Hillary Clinton’s. As the late-great Rush Limbaugh noted, “Mueller knew from day one there was no collusion.”

Andy McCarthy rightly concluded, the Mueller report was “A hysteria without a cause; a report without a point.” As Daniel Greenfield put it, democrats “invented the Russian conspiracy, then they faked the crimes.” And when you have to fake crimes in what has been rightly described as “the biggest political scandal in the history of the United States,” much Neanderthal thinking ensues. 

That brings us back to the issue that started all of this: democrats and the Wuhan virus. In spite of what Joe Biden would have us believe, since the Wuhan virus entered the U.S., it has been democrats who have burdened millions of Americans with a mountain of Neanderthal thinking. Whether the immoral and unnecessary lockdowns, the useless masks, school closings, cases and hospitalizations, and so on, in order to cling to their COVID authoritarianism, democrats have repeatedly ignored science and the data. In other words, tragically, the Wuhan virus crisis again reveals who are the real Neanderthal thinkers in America. 

(See this column at American Thinker.)

Copyright 2021, Trevor Grant Thomas
At the Intersection of Politics, Science, Faith, and Reason.
www.trevorgrantthomas.com
Trevor is the author of The Miracle and Magnificence of America
tthomas@trevorgrantthomas.com