vdare--2020-05-13--Spain Still Far from Herd Immunity

Spain Still Far from Herd Immunity

MADRID — Preliminary results from a nationwide coronavirus antibody study showed on Wednesday that about 5 % of the overall Spanish population had contracted the novel virus – about 10 times more than the tally of diagnosed cases suggests .
The results point to 2.3 million of Spain ’ s 45 million population being affected by the virus , if without symptoms in many cases , considerably more than the official count of under 230,000 cases .
Spain has had 27,104 official CV deaths , so that would suggest an Infection Fatality Rate of 27,104 / 2,500,000 = 1.08 % @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the New York City area , but worse than in many other places .
Hospitals in parts of Spain were slammed about as hard as in northern Italy and New York City .
I ’ m looking forward to data from this report ( has it been posted yet ? )
so we can estimate the IFR in provinces with high and low infection rates .
My guess is that Infection Fatality Rate goes up with Infection Rate , probably due to stresses on hospitals .
I really , really hope that hospitals @ @ @ @ @ @ @ having so many people die .
Has anybody seen any data on whether IFRs are falling with increased medical experience ?
To plagiarize/paraphrase Karl Marx , “ The epidemiologists have only estimated the Infection Fatality Rate , in various ways .
The point , however , is to lower it.
” I ’ m still looking for a recent estimate of excess deaths in Spain to compare to the official CV death totals .
Still , the results , which showed a higher prevalence in the central regions of Spain , validated the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ one of Europe ’ s toughest lockdowns based on the health data of each region , Health Minister Salvador Illa told a news briefing .
“ We have not been surprised ” by the results , Illa said .
“ There is no herd immunity in Spain.
” The study , carried out by the Carlos III Health Institute and the National Statistics Institute , began on April 27 .
It tested some 60,000 people for the presence of antibodies generated to fight off the coronavirus .
Madrid , one of the worst-affected @ @ @ @ @ @ @ % .
Soria and Cuenca , in the central regions of Castilla y Leon and Castilla La Mancha , are the provinces with the highest prevalence , with 14.2 % and 13.5 % respectively .
The overall death toll from the disease rose to 27,104 on Wednesday , while the number of diagnosed cases rose to 228,691 from 228,030 the prior day .
I don ’ t see any discussion of the usual issues involving false positives and false negatives .

From Reuters via National Post:
Spanish antibody study suggests 5% of population affected by coronavirus
Reuters
Belén Carreño
May 13, 2020 3:07 PM EDT MADRID — Preliminary results from a nationwide coronavirus antibody study showed on Wednesday that about 5% of the overall Spanish population had contracted the novel virus – about 10 times more than the tally of diagnosed cases suggests. The results point to 2.3 million of Spain’s 45 million population being affected by the virus, if without symptoms in many cases, considerably more than the official count of under 230,000 cases.
Spain has had 27,104 official CV deaths, so that would suggest an Infection Fatality Rate of 27,104 / 2,500,000 = 1.08%, which is similar to Lombardy and the New York City area, but worse than in many other places. Hospitals in parts of Spain were slammed about as hard as in northern Italy and New York City.
I’m looking forward to data from this report (has it been posted yet?) so we can estimate the IFR in provinces with high and low infection rates. My guess is that Infection Fatality Rate goes up with Infection Rate, probably due to stresses on hospitals.
I really, really hope that hospitals have gotten better since March at not having so many people die. Has anybody seen any data on whether IFRs are falling with increased medical experience?
To plagiarize/paraphrase Karl Marx, “The epidemiologists have only estimated the Infection Fatality Rate, in various ways. The point, however, is to lower it.”
I’m still looking for a recent estimate of excess deaths in Spain to compare to the official CV death totals.
Still, the results, which showed a higher prevalence in the central regions of Spain, validated the government’s strategy of phasing out one of Europe’s toughest lockdowns based on the health data of each region, Health Minister Salvador Illa told a news briefing. “We have not been surprised” by the results, Illa said. “There is no herd immunity in Spain.” The study, carried out by the Carlos III Health Institute and the National Statistics Institute, began on April 27.
Spain imposed a national lockdown on March 15.
It tested some 60,000 people for the presence of antibodies generated to fight off the coronavirus. Madrid, one of the worst-affected regions, showed a prevalence of 11.3%. Soria and Cuenca, in the central regions of Castilla y Leon and Castilla La Mancha, are the provinces with the highest prevalence, with 14.2% and 13.5% respectively. The overall death toll from the disease rose to 27,104 on Wednesday, while the number of diagnosed cases rose to 228,691 from 228,030 the prior day.
I don’t see any discussion of the usual issues involving false positives and false negatives.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-05-13--Ann Coulter: Black Racial Revenge Versus Myth Of White Privilege—Remember BLM's Dallas Mass Murder

See , earlier , by John Derbyshire , July 2016 : After Dallas , Time To Accept The Reality Of Race This week , we ’ ll look at two tweets that encapsulate everything that ’ s wrong with the “ white privilege ” narrative consuming our nation .
The Twitter account @ nowthisnews posted a video of shutdown protesters yelling at police in California , Colorado and Michigan with the heading : “ What would happen if protesters of color acted this way to police ?
” Audra McDonald ( @ AudraEqualityMc ) responded : “ We ’ d @ @ @ @ @ @ @ question.
” Unless Ms. McDonald is a time-traveler from 1965 , I can ’ t imagine what she ’ s talking about .
Was she at the Sharpeville Massacre ?
McDonald is an actress , and therefore I assume an idiot , but her profoundly ignorant tweet was enthusiastically endorsed by MSNBC talking heads and , at last count , had more than 16,000 “ likes ” and thousands of retweets .
Are they talking about Ferguson , Missouri , where cops stood by during the 2014 riots and politely watched the city @ @ @ @ @ @ @ shooting of Michael Brown—a shooting that both the grand jury and Eric Holder ’ s Justice Department found was justified—mostly black protesters raged off and on for months , torching dozens of buildings , shooting at responding firemen , looting stores and throwing rocks at the police .
And yet—miraculously !
—no protesters were “ shot dead.
” No protesters were even arrested , unless they committed felonies in open view of the police .
To the contrary , two policemen were shot by a black protester .
It was the same thing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ nation—in Baltimore , Oakland , Dallas , Baton Rouge and so on .
Cops stood mutely , as water was dumped on them , their patrol cars were set on fire , rocks were hurled at them and protesters screamed obscenities in their faces .
Their marching orders : Do nothing unless you see a crime being committed in front of you—and not always even then .
We ’ ve had Al Sharpton protests in New York City for decades .
No protesters shot dead .
In fact , I can ’ t @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 21st century by black people , or by white people , that police have responded to with violence .
When was the last time ?
You have to go back to the Democratic National Convention protests of 1968—and those protesters were white .
If we ’ re including the National Guard , there was Kent State in 1970—also white protesters .
The most recent black protest that was met with police violence was Selma , 1965 .
Can we restrict wild generalizations about the police to things that have happened in our lifetimes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ black people being billy-clubbed merely for protesting , we ’ d all love to see them .
We ’ re looking for something more recent than 1965 .
What would happen if protesters of color acted this way to police ?
Audra McDonald : “ We ’ d all have been shot dead .
Next question.
” Why not , “ They ’ d bring back slavery .
Next question ” ?
It ’ s just as insane .
Facts don ’ t matter because the “ white privilege ” craze is just @ @ @ @ @ @ @ I need to have to be fashionable ?
I ’ m so busy , I go to a lot of dinner parties .
Could you fix me up with some opinions ?
Absolutely !
You want to talk about “ white privilege , ” “ racist cops ” and “ systemic racism ” —using these phrases will get you wild applause .
Liberals are so mesmerized by racism fantasies that they don ’ t look at their own evidence .
The video posted by @ nowthisnews shows white protesters expressing their opinions volubly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ were black , these would be called “ peaceful protests.
” In one clip , a white guy shows up at a Denver rally with a holstered gun .
Then you see the cops handcuffing him .
The end .
Explain to me how that ’ s an example of “ white privilege.
” I think it ’ s more an illustration of “ white protester being subjected to the operation of the law.
” JUDGE : Did you look at this tape , counselor ?
Meet me in chambers .
I ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is defense evidence .
The mass delusion about “ white privilege ” and “ systemic racism ” has real-world consequences .
At a BLM protest in Dallas in July 2016 , a black man furious about “ racist ” police murdered five white policemen in cold blood , wounded seven more and held the city hostage for hours .
That year , BLM-inspired activists also murdered three police officers in Baton Rouge and two in New York City .
Everyone ’ s already forgotten about those racist murders .
( Admittedly it was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as recent as 1965 . )
Even at the time , the Democratic Party couldn ’ t support the assassinated officers without eulogizing Black Lives Matter .
Days after the Dallas slaughter , President Obama invited Black Lives Matter representatives to the White House .
Hillary Clinton went to CNN to give her considered response to the bloodbath in Dallas .
Ignoring the dead officers , she cited a string of recent police shootings , pledged to “ go after systemic racism , which is a reality ” and called on “ white @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ourselves in the shoes of those African-American families who fear every time their children go somewhere.
” This , as the corpses of five white policemen lay in a Dallas morgue , basking in their “ white privilege.
” Or as Ms. McDonald would say , “ Shot dead .
Next question.
” Ann Coulter is the author of THIRTEEN New York Times bestsellers—collect them here .
Her book , ¡Adios America !
The Left ’ s Plan To Turn Our Country Into A Third World Hell Hole , was released on June @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Resistance Is Futile !
: How the Trump-Hating Left Lost Its Collective Mind , was released on August 21 , 2018 .

See, earlier, by John Derbyshire, July 2016: After Dallas, Time To Accept The Reality Of Race
This week, we’ll look at two tweets that encapsulate everything that’s wrong with the “white privilege” narrative consuming our nation.
The Twitter account @nowthisnews posted a video of shutdown protesters yelling at police in California, Colorado and Michigan with the heading: “What would happen if protesters of color acted this way to police?”
Audra McDonald (@AudraEqualityMc) responded: “We’d all have been shot dead. Next question.”
Unless Ms. McDonald is a time-traveler from 1965, I can’t imagine what she’s talking about. Was she at the Sharpeville Massacre?
McDonald is an actress, and therefore I assume an idiot, but her profoundly ignorant tweet was enthusiastically endorsed by MSNBC talking heads and, at last count, had more than 16,000 “likes” and thousands of retweets.
Are they talking about Ferguson, Missouri, where cops stood by during the 2014 riots and politely watched the city burn? In response to the police shooting of Michael Brown—a shooting that both the grand jury and Eric Holder’s Justice Department found was justified—mostly black protesters raged off and on for months, torching dozens of buildings, shooting at responding firemen, looting stores and throwing rocks at the police.
And yet—miraculously!—no protesters were “shot dead.” No protesters were even arrested, unless they committed felonies in open view of the police.
To the contrary, two policemen were shot by a black protester.
It was the same thing at Black Lives Matter protests across the nation—in Baltimore, Oakland, Dallas, Baton Rouge and so on. Cops stood mutely, as water was dumped on them, their patrol cars were set on fire, rocks were hurled at them and protesters screamed obscenities in their faces. Their marching orders: Do nothing unless you see a crime being committed in front of you—and not always even then.
We’ve had Al Sharpton protests in New York City for decades. No protesters shot dead. In fact, I can’t think of a single protest in the 21st century by black people, or by white people, that police have responded to with violence.
When was the last time? You have to go back to the Democratic National Convention protests of 1968—and those protesters were white. If we’re including the National Guard, there was Kent State in 1970—also white protesters. The most recent black protest that was met with police violence was Selma, 1965.
Can we restrict wild generalizations about the police to things that have happened in our lifetimes? If you can produce examples of black people being billy-clubbed merely for protesting, we’d all love to see them. We’re looking for something more recent than 1965.
What would happen if protesters of color acted this way to police?
Audra McDonald: “We’d all have been shot dead. Next question.”
Why not, “They’d bring back slavery. Next question”? It’s just as insane.
Facts don’t matter because the “white privilege” craze is just a fashion statement. What opinions do I need to have to be fashionable? I’m so busy, I go to a lot of dinner parties. Could you fix me up with some opinions? Absolutely! You want to talk about “white privilege,” “racist cops” and “systemic racism”—using these phrases will get you wild applause.
Liberals are so mesmerized by racism fantasies that they don’t look at their own evidence. The video posted by @nowthisnews shows white protesters expressing their opinions volubly at the police. If the protesters were black, these would be called “peaceful protests.”
In one clip, a white guy shows up at a Denver rally with a holstered gun. Then you see the cops handcuffing him. The end. Explain to me how that’s an example of “white privilege.” I think it’s more an illustration of “white protester being subjected to the operation of the law.”
LIBERALS: It’s a white male with a gun! Nuff said.
JUDGE: Did you look at this tape, counselor? Meet me in chambers. I’m trying to help you. This is defense evidence.
The mass delusion about “white privilege” and “systemic racism” has real-world consequences. At a BLM protest in Dallas in July 2016, a black man furious about “racist” police murdered five white policemen in cold blood, wounded seven more and held the city hostage for hours. That year, BLM-inspired activists also murdered three police officers in Baton Rouge and two in New York City.
Everyone’s already forgotten about those racist murders. (Admittedly it was four long years ago, not nearly as recent as 1965.)
Even at the time, the Democratic Party couldn’t support the assassinated officers without eulogizing Black Lives Matter. Days after the Dallas slaughter, President Obama invited Black Lives Matter representatives to the White House.
Hillary Clinton went to CNN to give her considered response to the bloodbath in Dallas. Ignoring the dead officers, she cited a string of recent police shootings, pledged to “go after systemic racism, which is a reality” and called on “white people, like myself, to put ourselves in the shoes of those African-American families who fear every time their children go somewhere.”
This, as the corpses of five white policemen lay in a Dallas morgue, basking in their “white privilege.” Or as Ms. McDonald would say, “Shot dead. Next question.”
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Her book, ¡Adios America! The Left’s Plan To Turn Our Country Into A Third World Hell Hole, was released on June 1, 2015.
Her latest book, Resistance Is Futile!: How the Trump-Hating Left Lost Its Collective Mind, was released on August 21, 2018.


vdare--2020-05-14--Allan Wall Interviewed On Chuck Wilder's Talkback Show About Guatemela, Coronavirus...And Facebook!

Allan Wall Interviewed On Chuck Wilder's Talkback Show About Guatemela, Coronavirus...And Facebook! Listen On Line

Allan Wall was interviewed on Chuck Wilder 's Talkback Show .
The topic was Guatemala 's deportee/guest worker policy .
@ @ @ @ @ show here or here .
Chuck Wilder was disturbed to find that he was n't @ @ @ @ @ 's upcoming appearance on Facebook because the promotional copy mentioned VDARE.com , recently banned .
@ @ @ @ @ Heaven help us when we get closer to the election ! ''
Listen to the @ @ @ @ @ Wall segment starts at 52:30 .

Allan Wall was interviewed on Chuck Wilder's Talkback Show. The topic was Guatemala's deportee/guest worker policy .
You can listen to the show here or here.
Chuck Wilder was disturbed to find that he wasn't allowed to post about Allan's upcoming appearance on Facebook because the promotional copy mentioned VDARE.com, recently banned.
Wilder's comment: "Heaven help us when we get closer to the election!"
Listen to the MP3 here. The Allan Wall segment starts at 52:30.


vdare--2020-05-14--This Day In VDARE.com History, 2015: School Backs Down After American Flag Ban, But What Next?

Originally published here on this day in 2015 .
Peyton Robinson , who stood up to a ban on the American flag at his school [ See also : Anti-White Hecklers Veto Endorsed by the Supreme Court ; American Flag Stays Banned ] The American state once again warred on the American nation today , this time by banning the American flag from a student 's truck .
Peyton Robinson said he got the bad news from a school administrator Wednesday morning .
The 18-year-old senior at York Comprehensive High School was told he wasn ’ t allowed to fly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the bed of his pickup truck .
“ He said , ‘ We ’ re having some issues .
Some people were complaining about the flags in your truck , ’ ” Robinson told WBTV-TV .
He said the administrator said the flags could “ possibly ” be offensive , and told Robinson to take them down before coming back to the South Carolina school Thursday .
But apparently , Robinson didn ’ t have to lift a finger .
He told WBTV that at some point Wednesday , a school official unscrewed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ truck and laid them in the bed “ when I wasn ’ t even there.
” [ School official tells student he ca n't fly U.S .
Flag on his truck—See How Badly That Decision Backfired , by Dave Urbanski , The Blaze , May 14 , 2015 ] School officials later said it was about `` safety concerns . ''
But we know that 's not the case because the student in question was told the issue was complaints about the flags and how they could be `` offensive . ''
There @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , as 70 vehicles waving Old Glory defied the ban and eventually school backed down .
Or is there a happy ending ?
Robinson explained his position this way .
The problem is that the American flag does offend people , quite a few people in fact .
And they tend to be the exact same people who are offended by the Confederate flag , which is , in Peter Brimelow 's words , `` simply the emblem of the white Southern component of the American nation '' and until quite recently , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ . ''
Indeed , the American flag has already been banned ( at least on clothing ) at American public schools precisely because `` American '' students of Mexican descent find it offensive .
They see it ( quite right ) as the flag of their country , not ours .
What 's offensive is not the flag , but those who are offended by it .
Robinson 's defiance is praiseworthy , and he and his friends certainly showed more spirit than many students these days .
But his defense is untenable @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it wo n't be enough to save the flag , or the actually existing nation and people it stands for .

Originally published here on this day in 2015.
Peyton Robinson, who stood up to a ban on the American flag at his school
[See also: Anti-White Hecklers Veto Endorsed by the Supreme Court; American Flag Stays Banned]
The American state once again warred on the American nation today, this time by banning the American flag from a student's truck.
Peyton Robinson said he got the bad news from a school administrator Wednesday morning. The 18-year-old senior at York Comprehensive High School was told he wasn’t allowed to fly his American flag and POW-MIA flag in the bed of his pickup truck. “He said, ‘We’re having some issues. Some people were complaining about the flags in your truck,’” Robinson told WBTV-TV. He said the administrator said the flags could “possibly” be offensive, and told Robinson to take them down before coming back to the South Carolina school Thursday. But apparently, Robinson didn’t have to lift a finger. He told WBTV that at some point Wednesday, a school official unscrewed the bolts securing the flags to his truck and laid them in the bed “when I wasn’t even there.” [School official tells student he can't fly U.S. Flag on his truck—See How Badly That Decision Backfired, by Dave Urbanski, The Blaze, May 14, 2015]
School officials later said it was about "safety concerns." But we know that's not the case because the student in question was told the issue was complaints about the flags and how they could be "offensive."
There's a happy ending to the tale, as 70 vehicles waving Old Glory defied the ban and eventually school backed down.
'Merica
Or is there a happy ending? Robinson explained his position this way.
“I’d understand if it was the Confederate flag or something that might offend somebody,” he added. “I wouldn’t do that. But an American flag — that’s our country’s flag. I have every right to do it."
The problem is that the American flag does offend people, quite a few people in fact. And they tend to be the exact same people who are offended by the Confederate flag, which is, in Peter Brimelow's words, "simply the emblem of the white Southern component of the American nation" and until quite recently, "not seen as objectionable at all."
Indeed, the American flag has already been banned (at least on clothing) at American public schools precisely because "American" students of Mexican descent find it offensive. They see it (quite right) as the flag of their country, not ours.
What's offensive is not the flag, but those who are offended by it. Robinson's defiance is praiseworthy, and he and his friends certainly showed more spirit than many students these days. But his defense is untenable, and in the long run, it won't be enough to save the flag, or the actually existing nation and people it stands for.


vdare--2020-05-14--Patrick J. Buchanan: Fauci vs. Trump—Who's Right?

`` We have met the moment and we have prevailed , '' said President Donald Trump Monday , as he supported the opening of the U.S. economy before the shutdown plunges us into a deep and lasting depression .
Tuesday , Dr. Anthony S. Fauci , the nation 's leading expert on infectious diseases , made clear to a Senate committee his contradictory views .
`` If states reopen their economies too soon , there is a real risk that you may trigger an outbreak that you may not be able to control , '' said Fauci .
`` My @ @ @ @ @ @ @ see little spikes that might turn into outbreaks of the disease ( and ) the inevitable return of infections . ''
Fauci is talking of the real possibility of a second and even more severe wave of the pandemic this summer and fall , if we open too soon .
There is evidence to justify the fears of Fauci and Dr. Robert Redfield of the Centers for Disease Control , who told the same Senate committee , `` We are not out of the woods yet . ''
Yet , there is a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that Trump and red state governors are taking in opening up sooner .
The Washington Post daily graph of new deaths nationally has been showing a curve sloping downward for a month from April 's more than 2,000 a day .
On no day yet this week did the U.S. record 2,000 dead from the virus .
On some days , there were fewer than 1,000 .
The graph for new coronavirus cases , which was showing more than 30,000 a day in April , is now closer to 25,000 .
Also , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ high as they were .
Hospitals put up in Central Park and the Javits Center seem not to have been needed .
There was and is no shortage of ventilators .
The Navy hospital ships Comfort and Mercy are returning to their home ports .
Also , not all states are suffering equally , nor are all communities in the hardest-hit states .
There have been three times as many COVID-19 cases in New Jersey as in Texas , though New Jersey is a fraction of the size and has a fraction of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ twice as many cases in Massachusetts as in Florida , the nation 's third-most populous state with one of its highest percentages of retirees and elderly .
There have been five times as many cases in New York as in California .
It is the nursing homes filled with the elderly and ill that have proven to be the real killing fields of this virus .
According to The New York Times , one-third of all deaths from COVID-19 have come among residents and staff of nursing homes .
Beyond these are the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ distancing is almost nonexistent .
Moreover , while Fauci and Redfield are specialists in epidemics , Trump 's portfolio goes far beyond that .
He is chief of state , head of government and commander in chief , responsible for the security and defense of the nation .
His portfolio is broader and deeper than those of Fauci and Redfield .
In the first hours of the Normandy invasion , General Eisenhower must have been rightly alarmed about the high U.S. casualties on Omaha Beach .
But he also had to concern himself @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of Caen to bring ashore the armor to stop any German counterattack that might turn D-Day into another Anzio .
Ike could not worry about casualties alone .
According to The Washington Post , economists already project that 100,000 small businesses have shuttered , never to reopen .
`` ( D ) eeper and longer recessions can leave behind lasting damage to the productive capacity of the economy , '' warned Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome Powell on Wednesday .
`` Avoidable household and business insolvencies can weigh on growth for years to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not `` The Decider '' here .
Trump is .
It is he who is accountable to the nation for weighing the losses , both human and material , due to his decisions .
Fauci may be the best at what he does , but he is still only an adviser .
As John F. Kennedy said after the Bay of Pigs , it is the president who ultimately bears responsibility for what he does and fails to do , while `` the advisers may move on to new advice . ''
Believing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ White House is now doing to contain the incidence of cases , hospitalizations and deaths , Trump has decided his primary job is to prevent the nation from a catastrophic economic collapse from which it might take years to recover .
The country is slowly moving in Trump 's direction , slowly opening .
And he will be responsible for whether the policy succeeds or opens the floodgates to a second and worse wave , should it come .
As Abraham Lincoln put his situation : `` I mean to keep going .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ right , then what is said against me wo n't matter .
If I 'm wrong , ten angels swearing I was right wo n't make a difference . ''
Patrick J. Buchanan needs no introduction to VDARE.COM readers ; his books State of Emergency : The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America , and Suicide of a Superpower : Will America Survive to 2025 ?
are available from Amazon.com .
Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of “ The Greatest Comeback : How Richard Nixon Rose From Defeat to Create the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ published May , 2018 , is “ Nixon ’ s White House Wars : The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever.
” See Peter Brimelow ’ s review : “ Wheel And Fight ” —Pat Buchanan ’ s Nixon Book Provides Road Map For Trump .

"We have met the moment and we have prevailed," said President Donald Trump Monday, as he supported the opening of the U.S. economy before the shutdown plunges us into a deep and lasting depression.
Tuesday, Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the nation's leading expert on infectious diseases, made clear to a Senate committee his contradictory views.
"If states reopen their economies too soon, there is a real risk that you may trigger an outbreak that you may not be able to control," said Fauci. "My concern is that we will start to see little spikes that might turn into outbreaks of the disease (and) the inevitable return of infections."
Fauci is talking of the real possibility of a second and even more severe wave of the pandemic this summer and fall, if we open too soon.
There is evidence to justify the fears of Fauci and Dr. Robert Redfield of the Centers for Disease Control, who told the same Senate committee, "We are not out of the woods yet."
Yet, there is a case to be made for the risks that Trump and red state governors are taking in opening up sooner.
The Washington Post daily graph of new deaths nationally has been showing a curve sloping downward for a month from April's more than 2,000 a day. On no day yet this week did the U.S. record 2,000 dead from the virus. On some days, there were fewer than 1,000.
The graph for new coronavirus cases, which was showing more than 30,000 a day in April, is now closer to 25,000.
Also, hospitalizations and ICU occupancies are not as high as they were. Hospitals put up in Central Park and the Javits Center seem not to have been needed. There was and is no shortage of ventilators. The Navy hospital ships Comfort and Mercy are returning to their home ports.
Also, not all states are suffering equally, nor are all communities in the hardest-hit states. There have been three times as many COVID-19 cases in New Jersey as in Texas, though New Jersey is a fraction of the size and has a fraction of the population of Texas.
There are twice as many cases in Massachusetts as in Florida, the nation's third-most populous state with one of its highest percentages of retirees and elderly. There have been five times as many cases in New York as in California.
It is the nursing homes filled with the elderly and ill that have proven to be the real killing fields of this virus. According to the New York Times, one-third of all deaths from COVID-19 have come among residents and staff of nursing homes. Beyond these are the meatpacking plants and the prisons where social distancing is almost nonexistent.
Moreover, while Fauci and Redfield are specialists in epidemics, Trump's portfolio goes far beyond that.
He is chief of state, head of government and commander in chief, responsible for the security and defense of the nation. His portfolio is broader and deeper than those of Fauci and Redfield.
In the first hours of the Normandy invasion, General Eisenhower must have been rightly alarmed about the high U.S. casualties on Omaha Beach. But he also had to concern himself with the failure to capture the Port of Caen to bring ashore the armor to stop any German counterattack that might turn D-Day into another Anzio.
Ike could not worry about casualties alone.
According to The Washington Post, economists already project that 100,000 small businesses have shuttered, never to reopen.
"(D)eeper and longer recessions can leave behind lasting damage to the productive capacity of the economy," warned Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome Powell on Wednesday. "Avoidable household and business insolvencies can weigh on growth for years to come."
Ultimately, Fauci is not "The Decider" here. Trump is.
It is he who is accountable to the nation for weighing the losses, both human and material, due to his decisions.
Fauci may be the best at what he does, but he is still only an adviser. As John F. Kennedy said after the Bay of Pigs, it is the president who ultimately bears responsibility for what he does and fails to do, while "the advisers may move on to new advice."
Believing he can do no more than his White House is now doing to contain the incidence of cases, hospitalizations and deaths, Trump has decided his primary job is to prevent the nation from a catastrophic economic collapse from which it might take years to recover.
The country is slowly moving in Trump's direction, slowly opening. And he will be responsible for whether the policy succeeds or opens the floodgates to a second and worse wave, should it come.
As Abraham Lincoln put his situation: "I mean to keep going. If the end brings me out all right, then what is said against me won't matter. If I'm wrong, ten angels swearing I was right won't make a difference."
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Patrick J. Buchanan needs no introduction to VDARE.COM readers; his books State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America, and Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025? are available from Amazon.com. Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of “The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose From Defeat to Create the New Majority.
His latest book, published May, 2018, is “Nixon’s White House Wars: The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever.”
See Peter Brimelow’s review: “Wheel And Fight”—Pat Buchanan’s Nixon Book Provides Road Map For Trump.


vdare--2020-05-14--Black Privilege: Black Panthers, Brandishing Semi-Automatic Weapons, Patrol White Neighborhood Where

Black Privilege: Black Panthers, Brandishing Semi-Automatic Weapons, Patrol White Neighborhood Where Ahmaud Arbery Was Shot

Earlier by Paul Kersey : Black Panthers , Brandishing Rifles , Climbed Stone Mountain On July 4th To Demand The Sandblasting Of The Confederate Carving Michigan Militia Puts Armed Protest in the Spotlight : Gun-carrying protesters have been a common sight at some demonstrations calling for coronavirus-related restrictions to be lifted.
, US News , May 2 , 2020 Gun-carrying protesters have been a common sight at some demonstrations calling for coronavirus-related restrictions to be lifted .
But an armed militia ’ s involvement in an angry protest in the Michigan statehouse Thursday marked an escalation that drew condemnation and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ bringing weapons to protest .
The “ American Patriot Rally ” started on the statehouse steps , where members of the Michigan Liberty Militia stood guard with weapons and tactical gear , their faces partially covered .
They later moved inside the Capitol along with several hundred protesters , who demanded to be let onto the House floor , which is prohibited .
Some protesters with guns — which are allowed in the statehouse — went to the Senate gallery , where a senator said some armed men shouted at her , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ some observers , the images of armed men in tactical gear at a state Capitol were an unsettling symbol of rising tensions in a nation grappling with crisis .
Others saw evidence of racial bias in the way the protesters were treated by police .
In Wisconsin , about a dozen men , several wearing camouflage , carried what appeared to be assault rifles and other long guns and stood around a makeshift guillotine at a protest attended by about 1,500 people .
In Arizona , a group of men armed with rifles @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at the Capitol last month demanding Republican Gov .
Doug Ducey lift his stay-home order .
Many in the crowd also carried holstered pistols .
Gun groups have been involved in organizing several of these protests — which drew activists from a range of conservative causes .
Gun rights advocates believe the restrictions on some businesses and closure of government offices are a threat to their right to own a gun , said Michael Hammond , legislative counsel for Gun Owners of America , a group that bills itself as the “ no @ @ @ @ @ @ @ he routinely gets messages and emails from people around the country , complaining that authorities are making it impossible to exercise their Second Amendment rights .
In some cases , that has meant orders closing gun shops or gun ranges or offices shutting down that process permits .
But Shannon Watts , the founder of Moms Demand Action , a gun-control group , considers these protests organized by the ultra-right and not necessarily reflective of most gun owners .
While it ’ s legal to openly carry firearms inside some state capitols , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this .
Armed intimidation has no place in our political debate.
” She said those carrying guns at protests are almost always white men , and are “ a vocal minority of the country ” that opposes the stay-at-home orders .
An overwhelming majority of Americans support stay-at-home orders and other efforts to slow the spread of the virus , according to a recent survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research .
The visual of heavily armed protesters , mostly white men , occupying a government building to a measured @ @ @ @ @ @ @ jarring one for many African Americans .
It draws a stark contrast to the images that emerged from Ferguson , Missouri , in 2014 , when crowds of unarmed , mostly black men , women and children took to the streets in protest after a white police officer shot and killed an unarmed black teenager named Michael Brown .
Police shot tear gas to disperse the crowds , further inflaming the tensions between predominantly black community and law enforcement .
It worsened when members of an armed militia group called the Oath Keepers @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sitting on rooftops .
Jon Belmar , who was then St. Louis County ’ s police chief , said at the time that the presence of the group , whose members wore camouflage , bulletproof vests and openly carried rifles and pistols , was “ unnecessary and inflammatory.
” “ Systemically , blackness is treated like a more dangerous weapon than a white man ’ s gun ever will , while whiteness is the greatest shield of safety , ” said Brittany Packnett , a prominent national activist who protested in Ferguson .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Where Ahmaud Arbery Was Killed : The show of force came as there have been calls for more Black people to arm themselves.
, NewsOne.com , May 12 , 2020 The protests in Georgia sparked by the killing of Ahmaud Arbery bore a number of similarities to the others we ’ ve seen following what seems like a neverending string of controversial shootings of unarmed Black men by white people .
But in the rural town of Brunswick — where father and son Gregory and Travis McMichael racially profiled Arbery before getting their @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hunting him down and killing him in the middle of a road in broad daylight — there is one key difference the separates the protests there from others : demonstrators were armed .
And not only were they armed , but they were also legally armed Black citizens who came out to protest in the town ’ s Satilla Shores neighborhood where the McMicheals are accused of murdering Arbery in February .
It ’ s a neighborhood that is very white and conservative , as seen in images from the protests that show @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Likely sensing that the neighborhood ’ s residents didn ’ t want the protesters there — especially the armed ones — one of the Black men who were carrying machine guns seemed to almost dare someone to say something about them being there .
“ You think they would have shot me if I was running through they goddamn neighborhood ?
” the man who , like the other armed protesters , was wearing a camouflage bulletproof vest and a mask to conceal most of his face , asked rhetorically .
“ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ opportunity , ” he added while walking toward the protest .
One local news outlet identified the men as being members of the Black Panther Party .
Armed Black Panthers showed up in the neighborhood of the men who murdered Ahmaud to protect protesters !
Two of the men involved in the murder have been charged but a third person who filmed the murder , is still free !
# JusticeForAhmaudArbery pic.twitter.com/LvVqonfV7I — IG : @ themelaninshadesroom ( @ tmelaninsr ) May 12 , 2020 Georgia gun laws allow for legally licensed individuals @ @ @ @ @ @ @ if there is no apparent cause for self-defense .
The armed citizens legally protesting Arbery ’ s death came as there have been calls for more Black people to arm themselves because of continued consequences from the coronavirus pandemic , which has disproportionately affected Black people well beyond the health spectrum .
As Nylah Burton , a Black woman , wrote for ESSENCE , the combination of the way law enforcement tried to sweep Arbery ’ s death under the rug ; the recent series of police brutality over nonviolent social distancing violations @ @ @ @ @ @ @ across the country have left her reluctantly considering getting a gun .
Moral of these two stories ?
White men carrying guns , bad .
Immediate cause for the corporate media across the United States to promote the idea of white people planning an insurrection and just how much fear non-whites face on a daily basis .
Black men carrying guns , good .
Not only is this a positive , but it is of absolute no concern for black men to be armed with semi-automatic weapons and patrolling a white neighborhood ( @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Could you imagine a white jogger murdered in a gentrifying neighborhood in Atlanta ( still majority black ) , and then a bunch of armed white people showing up to patrol the black community ?
It would be an international incident immediately , with the Atlanta Police Department , FBI , Department of Homeland Security , GBI , and probably the Georgia National Guard immediately called in to deal with this terror threat .
For members of the Black Panthers to do this in Brunswick , Georgia is a story barely worth reporting @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 2020 America , where white privilege means having Black Panthers open carry semi-automatic weapons in your neighborhood , engaging in racial/ethnic intimidation no member of the corporate media cares to document .
That ’ s real privilege , folks .

Earlier by Paul Kersey: Black Panthers, Brandishing Rifles, Climbed Stone Mountain On July 4th To Demand The Sandblasting Of The Confederate Carving
Shot.
Michigan Militia Puts Armed Protest in the Spotlight: Gun-carrying protesters have been a common sight at some demonstrations calling for coronavirus-related restrictions to be lifted, US News, May 2, 2020 Gun-carrying protesters have been a common sight at some demonstrations calling for coronavirus-related restrictions to be lifted. But an armed militia’s involvement in an angry protest in the Michigan statehouse Thursday marked an escalation that drew condemnation and shone a spotlight on the practice of bringing weapons to protest. The “American Patriot Rally” started on the statehouse steps, where members of the Michigan Liberty Militia stood guard with weapons and tactical gear, their faces partially covered. They later moved inside the Capitol along with several hundred protesters, who demanded to be let onto the House floor, which is prohibited. Some protesters with guns — which are allowed in the statehouse — went to the Senate gallery, where a senator said some armed men shouted at her, and some senators wore bulletproof vests. For some observers, the images of armed men in tactical gear at a state Capitol were an unsettling symbol of rising tensions in a nation grappling with crisis. Others saw evidence of racial bias in the way the protesters were treated by police. In Wisconsin, about a dozen men, several wearing camouflage, carried what appeared to be assault rifles and other long guns and stood around a makeshift guillotine at a protest attended by about 1,500 people. In Arizona, a group of men armed with rifles were among hundreds of protesters who demonstrated at the Capitol last month demanding Republican Gov. Doug Ducey lift his stay-home order. Many in the crowd also carried holstered pistols. Gun groups have been involved in organizing several of these protests — which drew activists from a range of conservative causes. Gun rights advocates believe the restrictions on some businesses and closure of government offices are a threat to their right to own a gun, said Michael Hammond, legislative counsel for Gun Owners of America, a group that bills itself as the “no compromise” gun lobby. Hammond said he routinely gets messages and emails from people around the country, complaining that authorities are making it impossible to exercise their Second Amendment rights. In some cases, that has meant orders closing gun shops or gun ranges or offices shutting down that process permits. But Shannon Watts, the founder of Moms Demand Action, a gun-control group, considers these protests organized by the ultra-right and not necessarily reflective of most gun owners. While it’s legal to openly carry firearms inside some state capitols, Watts called it “dangerous to normalize this. Armed intimidation has no place in our political debate.” She said those carrying guns at protests are almost always white men, and are “a vocal minority of the country” that opposes the stay-at-home orders. An overwhelming majority of Americans support stay-at-home orders and other efforts to slow the spread of the virus, according to a recent survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. The visual of heavily armed protesters, mostly white men, occupying a government building to a measured response by law enforcement is a particularly jarring one for many African Americans. It draws a stark contrast to the images that emerged from Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014, when crowds of unarmed, mostly black men, women and children took to the streets in protest after a white police officer shot and killed an unarmed black teenager named Michael Brown. Police shot tear gas to disperse the crowds, further inflaming the tensions between predominantly black community and law enforcement. It worsened when members of an armed militia group called the Oath Keepers arrived, some of them armed and sitting on rooftops. Jon Belmar, who was then St. Louis County’s police chief, said at the time that the presence of the group, whose members wore camouflage, bulletproof vests and openly carried rifles and pistols, was “unnecessary and inflammatory.” “Systemically, blackness is treated like a more dangerous weapon than a white man’s gun ever will, while whiteness is the greatest shield of safety,” said Brittany Packnett, a prominent national activist who protested in Ferguson.
The Michigan demonstrators, she added, “are what happens when people of racial privilege confuse oppression with inconvenience. No one is treading on their rights. We’re all just trying to live.”
Chaser.
Legally Armed Black Citizens Patrol White Neighborhood Where Ahmaud Arbery Was Killed: The show of force came as there have been calls for more Black people to arm themselves, NewsOne.com, May 12, 2020 The protests in Georgia sparked by the killing of Ahmaud Arbery bore a number of similarities to the others we’ve seen following what seems like a neverending string of controversial shootings of unarmed Black men by white people. But in the rural town of Brunswick — where father and son Gregory and Travis McMichael racially profiled Arbery before getting their guns, hopping in a truck, hunting him down and killing him in the middle of a road in broad daylight — there is one key difference the [sic] separates the protests there from others: demonstrators were armed. And not only were they armed, but they were also legally armed Black citizens who came out to protest in the town’s Satilla Shores neighborhood where the McMicheals are accused of murdering Arbery in February. It’s a neighborhood that is very white and conservative, as seen in images from the protests that show Trump-Pence 2020 signs on homes’ lawns. Likely sensing that the neighborhood’s residents didn’t want the protesters there — especially the armed ones — one of the Black men who were carrying machine guns seemed to almost dare someone to say something about them being there. “You think they would have shot me if I was running through they goddamn neighborhood?” the man who, like the other armed protesters, was wearing a camouflage bulletproof vest and a mask to conceal most of his face, asked rhetorically. “Well I’mma give them an opportunity,” he added while walking toward the protest. One local news outlet identified the men as being members of the Black Panther Party.
Armed Black Panthers showed up in the neighborhood of the men who murdered Ahmaud to protect protesters! Two of the men involved in the murder have been charged but a third person who filmed the murder, is still free! #JusticeForAhmaudArbery pic.twitter.com/LvVqonfV7I — IG: @themelaninshadesroom (@officialtmsr) May 12, 2020
Georgia gun laws allow for legally licensed individuals to openly bear arms in public even if there is no apparent cause for self-defense. The armed citizens legally protesting Arbery’s death came as there have been calls for more Black people to arm themselves because of continued consequences from the coronavirus pandemic, which has disproportionately affected Black people well beyond the health spectrum. As Nylah Burton, a Black woman, wrote for ESSENCE, the combination of the way law enforcement tried to sweep Arbery’s death under the rug; the recent series of police brutality over nonviolent social distancing violations; and the armed militias storming statehouses across the country have left her reluctantly considering getting a gun.
Moral of these two stories? White men carrying guns, bad. Immediate cause for the corporate media across the United States to promote the idea of white people planning an insurrection and just how much fear non-whites face on a daily basis.
Black men carrying guns, good. Not only is this a positive, but it is of absolutely no concern for black men to be armed with semi-automatic weapons and patrolling a white neighborhood (in a racially/ethnic intimidating manner).
Could you imagine a white jogger murdered in a gentrifying neighborhood in Atlanta (still majority black), and then a bunch of armed white people showing up to patrol the black community? It would be an international incident immediately, with the Atlanta Police Department, FBI, Department of Homeland Security, GBI, and probably the Georgia National Guard immediately called in to deal with this terror threat.
For members of the Black Panthers to do this in Brunswick, Georgia is a story barely worth reporting in the local press.
Welcome to 2020 America, where white privilege means having Black Panthers open carry semi-automatic weapons in your neighborhood, engaging in racial/ethnic intimidation no member of the corporate media cares to document. That’s real privilege, folks.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-05-14--Why Was Ahmaud Arbery Formerly Ahmaud Avery?

He didn ’ t run .
He was a jogger !
I tried to get him to stop as well .
He would not stop for us , ” said Glynn County Schools Chief of Police , Rod Ellis .
“ We ended up chasing him to the back of the school were other officers helped us apprehend him.
” Ellis said the .380 caliber semi-automatic handgun slipped out of the teen ’ s pants .
And from The Brunswick News in 2013 : At about 7:20 p.m. Tuesday , Glynn County Schools Resource Officer Jody Vicent noticed a man @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of his pants attempting to enter the basketball game between Brunswick High School and Glynn Academy at the Brunswick High School gym .
The man , identified by Schools Police Chief Rod Ellis as 19-year-old Ahmaud Marquez Avery , ran when Vicent tried to stop him , said Ellis , who was on alert in his police vehicle in a parking lot because of a nearby chase involving Brunswick police .
Ellis said he drove alongside Avery with his gun pointed at him as Avery ran along a sidewalk in front of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ several times , Ellis said Avery ran between buildings to the back of the school , where two officers cornered him and arrested him .
“ Once he was handcuffed , the offender confirmed by exculpatory statement that he was indeed armed , but he had dropped the weapon in his attempt to escape , ” Ellis said .
An intense search , joined by Glynn County police , Brunswick police and College of Coastal Georgia police , found a .380 caliber semi-automatic pistol under a folding sandwich board-style sign in front of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is charged with two felonies , possession of a weapon on school property and obstruction of an officer with violence , and a high and aggravated misdemeanor of obstruction of a public school .
Ellis said other charges may be pending .
This could be simply be a typo on a police form , a simple lie , or maybe he changed his name .
I ’ m speculating that this 2020 incident was not between strangers , as the MSM has been implying for weeks now , but between people who had @ @ @ @ @ @ @ It ’ s remarkable how often the Prestige Press manages to find somebody to sanctify who is a real dodgy character .
Alternatively , how often do they find somebody who is even an okay guy ?
Off the top of my head , Philando Castile of Minnesota seems like a workingman who had held the same job for 13 years when he was killed by that diversity hire Hispanic cop .
He ’ d had a lot of minor brushes with the law over driving without insurance and driving without a license @ @ @ @ @ @ @ bad that he couldn ’ t get a license for a legal gun .
But it is remarkable how out of touch the national media is that they so frequently put all their chips on bad actors .

From News4Jax in 2013:
Police: Man brought gun to high school basketball game Officer in Brunswick stops 19-year-old man with loaded gun
Glynn County Detention Center booking photo of Ahmaud Avery BRUNSWICK, Ga. – A quick acting police officer in Brunswick stopped a teenager with a loaded gun from entering a high school basketball game Tuesday night. Police arrested 19-year-old Ahmaud Marquez Avery (pictured below), who is not a student at Brunswick. “The man ran through the parking lot.
He didn’t run. He was a jogger!
I tried to get him to stop as well. He would not stop for us,” said Glynn County Schools Chief of Police, Rod Ellis. “We ended up chasing him to the back of the school were other officers helped us apprehend him.” Ellis said the .380 caliber semi-automatic handgun slipped out of the teen’s pants.
And from the Brunswick News in 2013:
At about 7:20 p.m. Tuesday, Glynn County Schools Resource Officer Jody Vicent noticed a man with a handgun tucked in the waistband of his pants attempting to enter the basketball game between Brunswick High School and Glynn Academy at the Brunswick High School gym. The man, identified by Schools Police Chief Rod Ellis as 19-year-old Ahmaud Marquez Avery, ran when Vicent tried to stop him, said Ellis, who was on alert in his police vehicle in a parking lot because of a nearby chase involving Brunswick police. Ellis said he drove alongside Avery with his gun pointed at him as Avery ran along a sidewalk in front of the school. After being ordered to stop several times, Ellis said Avery ran between buildings to the back of the school, where two officers cornered him and arrested him. “Once he was handcuffed, the offender confirmed by exculpatory statement that he was indeed armed, but he had dropped the weapon in his attempt to escape,” Ellis said. An intense search, joined by Glynn County police, Brunswick police and College of Coastal Georgia police, found a .380 caliber semi-automatic pistol under a folding sandwich board-style sign in front of the gym, Ellis said. Avery is charged with two felonies, possession of a weapon on school property and obstruction of an officer with violence, and a high and aggravated misdemeanor of obstruction of a public school. Ellis said other charges may be pending.
This could be simply be a typo on a police form, a simple lie, or maybe he changed his name.
I’m speculating that this 2020 incident was not between strangers, as the MSM has been implying for weeks now, but between people who had some past history with each other.
It’s remarkable how often the Prestige Press manages to find somebody to sanctify who is a real dodgy character. Alternatively, how often do they find somebody who is even an okay guy?
Off the top of my head, Philando Castile of Minnesota seems like a workingman who had held the same job for 13 years when he was killed by that diversity hire Hispanic cop. He’d had a lot of minor brushes with the law over driving without insurance and driving without a license, but his record was not so bad that he couldn’t get a license for a legal gun.
But it is remarkable how out of touch the national media is that they so frequently put all their chips on bad actors.


vdare--2020-05-13--The Great Replacement in Minneapolis: From 99% White in 1910 to 60% White in 2020...

Why take just a macro-look at The Great Replacement in the United States of America , when you can easily take a micro-look ?
Let ’ s take a look at Minneapolis , MN .
For those wondering , here ’ s the racial breakdown of Minneapolis from 1910–2020 : Minneapolis , Minnesota , was almost entirely white until 1980 .
However , in the last few decades , large numbers of non-whites came to the city , especially immigrants from Somalia .
Now , the idyllic city created by settlers and pioneers is a center for black crime and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s story began when the United States Army built Fort Snelling after the War of 1812 to guard American settlers .
The most famous non-white inhabitant of Fort Snelling was Dred Scott , whose efforts to escape slavery led to the Supreme Court ’ s ruling in Dred Scott v. Sandford .
Chief Justice Roger Taney wrote that blacks were not citizens and “ are not included , and were not intended to be included , under the world ‘ citizens ’ in the Constitution , and can therefore claim none of rights @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and secures to citizens of the United States.
” After more settlers came , several local settlements combined .
Adolf Hoeffler , a German who visited the area in 1852 , predicted it would eventually become “ an extensive manufacturing town , and depot of all the future productions of the extreme Upper Mississippi.
” Minneapolis was ideally placed for milling flour , not just manufacturing .
Its name means “ water city.
” From 1870 to 1890 , Minneapolis grew from 13,000 people to almost 165,000 .
Almost everyone was white .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ that way .
“ Restrictive covenants ” to keep neighborhoods white were used from 1910 until 1950 .
The fascist Silver Legion or “ Silver Shirts ” had a presence in the city in the 1930s .
Blacks were simply not a significant presence in the city for most of its history , so ethnic tension was between Jews and gentiles , not blacks and whites .
Some help-wanted ads even said , “ Gentile preferred.
” Minneapolis was a critical battleground for the Progressive movement .
The Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party didn ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and the quasi-socialist MFLP was able to elect candidates such as Minneapolis mayor Thomas Latimer .
Class and ideology — not race — dominated city politics .
Non-whites started coming to the city in large numbers in the 1970s and 1980s .
By 1990 , the city was more than 20 percent non-white .
Some migrants may have been tempted by Minnesota ’ s generous welfare programs .
However , there was also a deliberate effort by churches and refugee settlement organizations to bring them .
Corporations also wanted cheap labor , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Somalis .
[ The Great Replacement : Minneapolis , AmRen.com , Gregory Hood and Paul Kersey , May 11 , 2020 ]

Why take just a macro-look at The Great Replacement in the United States of America, when you can easily take a micro-look? Let’s take a look at Minneapolis, MN. For those wondering, here’s the racial breakdown of Minneapolis from 1910–2020:
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, was almost entirely white until 1980. However, in the last few decades, large numbers of non-whites came to the city, especially immigrants from Somalia. Now, the idyllic city created by settlers and pioneers is a center for black crime and Islamic terrorist recruitment.
The city’s story began when the United States Army built Fort Snelling after the War of 1812 to guard American settlers. The most famous non-white inhabitant of Fort Snelling was Dred Scott, whose efforts to escape slavery led to the Supreme Court’s ruling in Dred Scott v. Sandford. Chief Justice Roger Taney wrote that blacks were not citizens and “are not included, and were not intended to be included, under the world ‘citizens’ in the Constitution, and can therefore claim none of rights and privileges which that instrument provides for and secures to citizens of the United States.”
After more settlers came, several local settlements combined. Adolf Hoeffler, a German who visited the area in 1852, predicted it would eventually become “an extensive manufacturing town, and depot of all the future productions of the extreme Upper Mississippi.” Minneapolis was ideally placed for milling flour, not just manufacturing. Its name means “water city.” From 1870 to 1890, Minneapolis grew from 13,000 people to almost 165,000. Almost everyone was white.
Many city leaders wanted to keep it that way. “Restrictive covenants” to keep neighborhoods white were used from 1910 until 1950. The fascist Silver Legion or “Silver Shirts” had a presence in the city in the 1930s. Blacks were simply not a significant presence in the city for most of its history, so ethnic tension was between Jews and gentiles, not blacks and whites. Some help-wanted ads even said, “Gentile preferred.” Minneapolis was a critical battleground for the Progressive movement. The Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party didn’t unite with the Democrats until 1944, and the quasi-socialist MFLP was able to elect candidates such as Minneapolis mayor Thomas Latimer. Class and ideology — not race — dominated city politics.
Non-whites started coming to the city in large numbers in the 1970s and 1980s. By 1990, the city was more than 20 percent non-white. Some migrants may have been tempted by Minnesota’s generous welfare programs. However, there was also a deliberate effort by churches and refugee settlement organizations to bring them. Corporations also wanted cheap labor, such as the meat packers who hired Somalis. [The Great Replacement: Minneapolis, AmRen.com, Gregory Hood and Paul Kersey, May 11, 2020]


vdare--2020-05-09--Bring Back Table 42!—Time For The Trump Administration To Restore The DOJ's Black-On-White Crime Sta

Bring Back Table 42!—Time For The Trump Administration To Restore The DOJ's Black-On-White Crime Statistics Page

See also : Joe Biden Wants To Talk About Black “ Jogger ” Ahmaud Arbery—Why Won ’ t He Talk About These Raped/Murdered White Joggers ?
James Fulford 's article above mentioned Jared Taylor 's statement in his article on the Arbery case , that a black person is nearly 30 times more likely to attack a white person than vice versa .
On the subject of America 's crime statistics , the current administration has done nothing to restore the famous Table 42 in the Bureau of Justice Statistics website .
If you do n't know about Table 42 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Percent distribution of single-offender victimizations , based on race of victims , by type of crime and perceived race of offender '' in the `` Victims and Offenders '' list at the BJS web page `` Criminal Victimization In The United States — Statistical Tables . ''
The data in it comes from the National Crime Victimizations Survey , which is conducted every year .
So this is victim reports , nothing to do with arrests or convictions .
On Table 42 you can look up , for example , how many reports @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in a year , broken out by the race of the victim and the perceived race of the offender .
In 2008 , for example , I see that 16.4 percent of the white victims of rape and sexual assault reported a black perp .
That 's around nineteen thousand victims .
How many black victims of rape and sexual assault reported a white perp ?
Well , Table 42 says zero .
Only one household in three thousand gets sampled for this survey , though ; so that zero just means the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sampling math to get anything meaningful from .
With that and some other slight qualifications aside , Table 42 is a pretty nifty reference on interracial crime … Except that the `` is '' there should be `` was '' : The Bureau of Justice stopped publishing Table 42 in , let me see … oh , 2008 was the last year .
How strange !
The BJS still publishes tables from the NCVS data , but it seems that all sexual offenses have been thrown in under the general heading `` violent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for the type of violence .
We can , of course , never know—nor even guess !
—why that particular table , Table 42 , was discontinued in that particular year .
The public at large lost a useful source of information there , though .
Will the present administration restore it to us ?
Or , if they will not , will they tell us why they will not ?

See also: Joe Biden Wants To Talk About Black “Jogger” Ahmaud Arbery—Why Won’t He Talk About These Raped/Murdered White Joggers?
James Fulford's article above mentioned Jared Taylor's statement in his article on the Arbery case, that a black person is nearly 30 times more likely to attack a white person than vice versa.
On the subject of America's crime statistics, the current administration has done nothing to restore the famous Table 42 in the Bureau of Justice Statistics website.
If you don't know about Table 42, it is the one headed "Percent distribution of single-offender victimizations, based on race of victims, by type of crime and perceived race of offender" in the "Victims and Offenders" list at the BJS web page "Criminal Victimization In The United States — Statistical Tables."
The data in it comes from the National Crime Victimizations Survey, which is conducted every year. So this is victim reports, nothing to do with arrests or convictions.
On Table 42 you can look up, for example, how many reports of rape and sexual assault there were in a year, broken out by the race of the victim and the perceived race of the offender. In 2008, for example, I see that 16.4 percent of the white victims of rape and sexual assault reported a black perp. That's around nineteen thousand victims.
How many black victims of rape and sexual assault reported a white perp? Well, Table 42 says zero. Only one household in three thousand gets sampled for this survey, though; so that zero just means the number reported is too small for the sampling math to get anything meaningful from.
With that and some other slight qualifications aside, Table 42 is a pretty nifty reference on interracial crime … Except that the "is" there should be "was": The Bureau of Justice stopped publishing Table 42 in, let me see … oh, 2008 was the last year. How strange!
The BJS still publishes tables from the NCVS data, but it seems that all sexual offenses have been thrown in under the general heading "violent victimization," with no separate tabs for the type of violence.
We can, of course, never know—nor even guess!—why that particular table, Table 42, was discontinued in that particular year. The public at large lost a useful source of information there, though. Will the present administration restore it to us? Or, if they will not, will they tell us why they will not?


vdare--2020-05-08--John Derbyshire: Establishment Reprising Emmett Till Narrative, Again. But White Lives Don't Matter

[ Excerpted from the latest Radio Derb , now available exclusively through VDARE.com ] See also : Joe Biden Wants To Talk About Black “ Jogger ” Ahmaud Arbery—Why Won ’ t He Talk About These Raped/ Murdered White Joggers ?
News-wise , I 'd been beginning to get desperate .
It 's been coronavirus , coronavirus , coronavirus , for weeks now .
But this week we got relief , of a sort .
We got an Emmett Till .
You know the script .
Evil , gap-toothed , leering Badwhites , secure in their white privilege , most @ @ @ @ @ @ @ old Confederacy , hunt down and murder an innocent young black guy .
It 's the core fantasy of Goodwhite Americans , and has to be acted out every so often for their moral satisfaction , like a medieval mumming play : a clear narrative restatement of the eternal conflict between good and evil .
Black Americans can participate in the festivities , too , by burning stores and shooting each other .
That 's epiphenomenal , though ; nobody cares what blacks do .
We have n't had a good Emmett Till @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Baltimore five years ago , so it 's time .
And yes , here it comes .
Headlines from the increasingly Woke Drudge Report : But I 've lived through so many of these Emmett Till re-enactments now , they 're getting to be as boring as Xi Jinping 's virus .
This particular one concerns a father-and-son team in Brunswick , Georgia .
There 'd been burglaries in the neighborhood , which is pretty white ; at any rate , the local elementary school is 76 percent white .
Dad , who @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a black guy running down the street , who he thought matched a description of the burglar ; father and son , not knowing whether the black guy was armed , grabbed their guns and got in their truck to make a citizens ' arrest—all perfectly legal in Georgia , according to the local authorities who decided not to charge him .
A friend in another vehicle followed them [ Two Weapons , a Chase , a Killing and No Charges , by Richard Fausset , NYT , April 26 , 2020 ] @ @ @ @ @ @ @ black guy , they got out to make the arrest , the son holding a shotgun .
The black guy tried to wrestle the shotgun from him .
Three shots were fired , the son presumably fearing for his life if his opponent got the gun .
The black guy died .
All this happened on February 23rd .
The District Attorney who investigated the case saw no grounds for an arrest .
[ PDF ] Last week some cellphone video of the event went public .
It was taken by the friend @ @ @ @ @ @ @ I presume he released it to show they acted within the law—which , the DA had concluded , they did .
All the Goodwhites saw on that video , though , was two white guys with guns and a black guy getting shot .
Just like Emmett Till !
So now we are getting the full Emmett Till narrative , dressed up with all the usual cant threadbare formulas : `` jogging while black , '' `` modern lynching , '' and the rest .
There are rallies ; there are protests ; @ @ @ @ @ @ @ know how it goes .
Under pressure from the Goodwhite Establishment , which of course includes practically all of the media and social media , father and son have now been arrested and charged with murder .
[ Ahmaud Arbery Shooting in Georgia : Live Updates and Coverage , NYT , May 8 , 2020 ] How 's it all going to play out from here ?
Whatever happens at trial in this case , the father and son , the McMichaels , will never again have normal lives .
Their home address @ @ @ @ @ @ @ even if acquitted , they 'd be in danger if they ever went back to live there .
And they will be full-time professional defendants .
Even if they 're acquitted in state court , there 'll be appeals and calls for federal Civil Rights and `` hate crime '' prosecutions .
If a Democrat wins the Presidency in November , those calls will be answered with a vengeance by some anti-white Eric Holder clone at the Justice Department .
So get used to being homeless and unemployable , guys , and to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lawyers ' offices , and all of your net worth in lawyers ' fees .
This is what happens to Americans who bring the wrath of the Goodwhite Establishment down upon themselves as a result of trying to do their citizenly duty .
You could ask George Zimmerman about it [ George Zimmerman sues Trayvon Martin 's family for $ 100m , by Richard Luscombe , Guardian , December 4 , 2019 ] .
As with the Trayvon Martin case , I 'm expecting some degree of Narrative Collapse .
The deceased in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , has so far been presented to us just as a high-school football star .
That 's nice ; but the guy was 25 years old when he died .
What 's he been doing since high school ?
None of the news reports I 've seen want to tell me .
Could it be that he was the burglar who 'd been plaguing the McMichaels ' neighborhood ?
I guess it could , but no one seems interested in finding out .
We have learned that Abery has a rap sheet .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ handgun ( an imported Russian Makarov .380 , like the one at left ) to a high school basketball game six years ago , and he has a shoplifting conviction [ FastNews , The Brunswick News , February 10 , 2015 ] .
Not major criminal activity ; but Arbery , like Trayvon Martin , seems to have fallen somewhat short of the model-citizen standard .
I 'm expecting more Narrative Collapse in this area .
George Zimmerman was at least acquitted at state trial .
Can McMichael father and son expect the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ That was nearly seven years ago .
The political temperature is way higher now than it was back then , and our courts are heavily politicized .
Robert Bork wrote about being the only conservative on the faculty of Yale Law School sixty years ago [ Legends in the Law : Robert H. Bork , DC Bar Report , December/January 1998 ] .
Does anyone think the law schools have become less leftist since then ?
The Zimmerman verdict was , I think , a fluke .
The Establishment will do all they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ For the future of American jurisprudence , compare and contrast the cases of James Fields and Jose Garcia-Zarate .
• James Fields caused the death of Heather Heyer by driving his car into an anarchist mob at Charlottesville , Va. in 2017 .
His intent is unclear .
He was sentenced to life plus 419 years in prison • Jose Garcia-Zarate , an illegal alien , caused the death of Kate Steinle by shooting her with a handgun in 2015 .
His intent , like James Fields ' , is unclear .
He @ @ @ @ @ @ @ picayune federal gun-possession rap , but remains in custody while the authorities ponder , re-ponder , and re-re-ponder his mental state [ Judge considers sending Kate Steinle ’ s shooter to facility for mental testing , by Michael Barba , San Francisco Examiner , February 19 , 2020 ] .
Intent-wise , I ca n't see much difference between those two cases .
Outcome-wise , however , Fields got a colossal prison sentence after a year and a half in custody followed by a very brisk trial , while Garcia-Zarate 's state conviction @ @ @ @ @ @ @ technicality , and federal proceedings against him , now five years under way , look like being dragged out to the crack of doom , with a couple of years in the funny farm as the most probable outcome .
That 's our courts : instruments of the Goodwhite CultMarx Establishment .
White guy kills white gal , intent unclear : four hundred years in jail .
Illegal alien kills white gal , intent unclear : We 're still working on it , do n't rush us , may let a gun-possession charge @ @ @ @ @ @ @ all that : I ca n't leave the case of the Georgia shooting without registering my anger and disgust at the usual Establishment hypocrisy on display here .
Black people kill white people at a pretty fair clip , often with plain malice and horrific cruelty .
Our own Paul Kersey and James Fulford post regular reports on this , as does the indispensable Colin Flaherty .
Examples : here , here , here , and here .
None of these killings ever makes the news .
There are no demonstrations on behalf @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or James Fulford 's posts , or Colin Flaherty 's books ; no Twitter handles , no indignant denunciations by politicians and TV talking heads … nothing .
If you are murdered by a black or other sacralized minority—an illegal immigrant , say—your death will at most be a few column inches on page fifteen of your local newspaper , if your town still has one .
So far as our Establishment elites and Main Stream Media bubbleheads are concerned , White Lives Do n't matter .
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See also: Joe Biden Wants To Talk About Black “Jogger” Ahmaud Arbery—Why Won’t He Talk About These Raped/ Murdered White Joggers?
News-wise, I'd been beginning to get desperate. It's been coronavirus, coronavirus, coronavirus, for weeks now. But this week we got relief, of a sort. We got an Emmett Till.
You know the script. Evil, gap-toothed, leering Badwhites, secure in their white privilege, most likely resident in some state of the old Confederacy, hunt down and murder an innocent young black guy. It's the core fantasy of Goodwhite Americans, and has to be acted out every so often for their moral satisfaction, like a medieval mumming play: a clear narrative restatement of the eternal conflict between good and evil.
Black Americans can participate in the festivities, too, by burning stores and shooting each other. That's epiphenomenal, though; nobody cares what blacks do.
We haven't had a good Emmett Till re-enactment since the Freddie Gray business in Baltimore five years ago, so it's time. And yes, here it comes. Headlines from the increasingly Woke Drudge Report:
But I've lived through so many of these Emmett Till re-enactments now, they're getting to be as boring as Xi Jinping's virus.
This particular one concerns a father-and-son team in Brunswick, Georgia. There'd been burglaries in the neighborhood, which is pretty white; at any rate, the local elementary school is 76 percent white. Dad, who is a former police officer, saw a black guy running down the street, who he thought matched a description of the burglar; father and son, not knowing whether the black guy was armed, grabbed their guns and got in their truck to make a citizens' arrest—all perfectly legal in Georgia, according to the local authorities who decided not to charge him.
A friend in another vehicle followed them [Two Weapons, a Chase, a Killing and No Charges, by Richard Fausset,NYT, April 26, 2020].
When they caught up with the black guy, they got out to make the arrest, the son holding a shotgun. The black guy tried to wrestle the shotgun from him. Three shots were fired, the son presumably fearing for his life if his opponent got the gun. The black guy died.
All this happened on February 23rd. The District Attorney who investigated the case saw no grounds for an arrest. [PDF]
Last week some cellphone video of the event went public. It was taken by the friend who'd followed father and son. I presume he released it to show they acted within the law—which, the DA had concluded, they did.
All the Goodwhites saw on that video, though, was two white guys with guns and a black guy getting shot. Just like Emmett Till!
So now we are getting the full Emmett Till narrative, dressed up with all the usual cant threadbare formulas: "jogging while black," "modern lynching," and the rest. There are rallies; there are protests; there are Twitter handles, … you know how it goes.
Under pressure from the Goodwhite Establishment, which of course includes practically all of the media and social media, father and son have now been arrested and charged with murder. [Ahmaud Arbery Shooting in Georgia: Live Updates and Coverage, NYT, May 8, 2020]
How's it all going to play out from here?
Whatever happens at trial in this case, the father and son, the McMichaels, will never again have normal lives. Their home address has already been made public; so even if acquitted, they'd be in danger if they ever went back to live there.
And they will be full-time professional defendants. Even if they're acquitted in state court, there'll be appeals and calls for federal Civil Rights and "hate crime" prosecutions.
If a Democrat wins the Presidency in November, those calls will be answered with a vengeance by some anti-white Eric Holder clone at the Justice Department.
So get used to being homeless and unemployable, guys, and to spending all of your free time in lawyers' offices, and all of your net worth in lawyers' fees. This is what happens to Americans who bring the wrath of the Goodwhite Establishment down upon themselves as a result of trying to do their citizenly duty. You could ask George Zimmerman about it [George Zimmerman sues Trayvon Martin's family for $100m, by Richard Luscombe, Guardian, December 4, 2019].
As with the Trayvon Martin case, I'm expecting some degree of Narrative Collapse. The deceased in this case, name of Ahmaud Abery, has so far been presented to us just as a high-school football star. That's nice; but the guy was 25 years old when he died. What's he been doing since high school? None of the news reports I've seen want to tell me.
Could it be that he was the burglar who'd been plaguing the McMichaels' neighborhood? I guess it could, but no one seems interested in finding out.
We have learned that Abery has a rap sheet. He was indicted for bringing an unlicensed handgun (an imported Russian Makarov .380, like the one at left) to a high school basketball game six years ago, and he has a shoplifting conviction [FastNews, The Brunswick News, February 10, 2015]. Not major criminal activity; but Arbery, like Trayvon Martin, seems to have fallen somewhat short of the model-citizen standard. I'm expecting more Narrative Collapse in this area.
George Zimmerman was at least acquitted at state trial. Can McMichael father and son expect the same grace?
I doubt it. That was nearly seven years ago. The political temperature is way higher now than it was back then, and our courts are heavily politicized. Robert Bork wrote about being the only conservative on the faculty of Yale Law School sixty years ago [Legends in the Law: Robert H. Bork, DC Bar Report, December/January 1998]. Does anyone think the law schools have become less leftist since then?
The Zimmerman verdict was, I think, a fluke. The Establishment will do all they can to prevent that happening again.
For the future of American jurisprudence, compare and contrast the cases of James Fields and Jose Garcia-Zarate.
Intent-wise, I can't see much difference between those two cases. Outcome-wise, however, Fields got a colossal prison sentence after a year and a half in custody followed by a very brisk trial, while Garcia-Zarate's state conviction was thrown out on appeal over a technicality, and federal proceedings against him, now five years under way, look like being dragged out to the crack of doom, with a couple of years in the funny farm as the most probable outcome.
That's our courts: instruments of the Goodwhite CultMarx Establishment. White guy kills white gal, intent unclear: four hundred years in jail. Illegal alien kills white gal, intent unclear: We're still working on it, don't rush us, may let a gun-possession charge go forward.
Equal justice under the law? [Laugh.]
As a footnote to all that: I can't leave the case of the Georgia shooting without registering my anger and disgust at the usual Establishment hypocrisy on display here.
Black people kill white people at a pretty fair clip, often with plain malice and horrific cruelty. Our own Paul Kersey and James Fulford post regular reports on this, as does the indispensable Colin Flaherty. Examples: here, here, here, and here. None of these killings ever makes the news.
There are no demonstrations on behalf of those named in Paul Kersey's or James Fulford's posts, or Colin Flaherty's books; no Twitter handles, no indignant denunciations by politicians and TV talking heads … nothing.
If you are murdered by a black or other sacralized minority—an illegal immigrant, say—your death will at most be a few column inches on page fifteen of your local newspaper, if your town still has one.
So far as our Establishment elites and Main Stream Media bubbleheads are concerned, White Lives Don't matter.
John Derbyshire [ email him] writes an incredible amount on all sorts of subjects for all kinds of outlets. (This no longer includes National Review, whose editors had some kind of tantrum and fired him.) He is the author of We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism and several other books. He has had two books published by VDARE.com com: FROM THE DISSIDENT RIGHT (also available in Kindle) and FROM THE DISSIDENT RIGHT II: ESSAYS 2013.
For years he’s been podcasting at Radio Derb, now available at VDARE.com for no charge. His writings are archived at JohnDerbyshire.com.
Readers who wish to donate (tax deductible) funds specifically earmarked for John Derbyshire's writings at VDARE.com can do so here.