vdare--2020-04-17--Saint Stephen Lawrence Day In The UK—Feast Day Of A (Rare) Black Victim Of White Crime

Back in 2016 I noted a column that Professor and scholar of human language John McWhorter had published at The Daily Beast under the title `` Anti-Racism , Our Flawed New Religion . ''
Anti-racism is , he wrote , quote , `` what we worship , as sincerely and fervently as many worship God and Jesus and , among most Blue State Americans , more so . ''
I bring this up again because next Wednesday is April 22nd , feast day in Britain of the holy blessed martyr Stephen Lawrence .
I described the case of Stephen Lawrence @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to the Radio Derb transcripts on my website and look for the one dated April 27th 2018 .
Suffice it to say here that Lawrence was a young black man who was stabbed to death by some white teenagers in London , April 22nd , 1993 .
He has subsequently been elevated to what can only , with a nod to Prof. McWhorter , fairly be described as sainthood .
Nobody knows who killed Lawrence , but some low-life teenage males of the neighborhood were arrested , charged , and tried .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ them , though .
Some years later the far-left , anti-white Labour party was voted into power under the unspeakably loathsome Tony Blair … excuse me , I had to go spit there .
The Blairites reopened the whole case and turned the British constitution—yes , there is one—they turned it upside down to re-try the teens , repealing the principle of double jeopardy and a good deal besides .
Ancient English rights to freedom of speech and assembly were cast by the wayside .
There were endless official inquiries and reports .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ the case when I made my 2018 report : an investigation was still going on , 25 years after the crime !
Probably it still is , I do n't know .
An enormous , and extremely ugly building was erected in London and named the Stephen Lawrence Centre .
Lawrence 's mother , a lady of no distinction whatsoever , was raised to the House of Lords , the upper chamber of Britain 's national legislature .
And at a hushed , reverent memorial service on the 25th anniversary of the murder @ @ @ @ @ @ @ vapid and worthless Theresa May , told a hushed conregation of all the highest in the land , that April 22nd would henceforth be Stephen Lawrence Day .
So should you find yourself in Britain on Wednesday , be sure to visit the Stephen Lawrence Center and pay proper respects to the holy blissful martyr Stephen Lawrence , peace be upon him .
Do n't forget to take your prayer shawl and some suitable offerings—anything white will do .

Back in 2016 I noted a column that Professor and scholar of human language John McWhorter had published at The Daily Beast under the title "Anti-Racism, Our Flawed New Religion." Anti-racism is, he wrote, quote, "what we worship, as sincerely and fervently as many worship God and Jesus and, among most Blue State Americans, more so."
I bring this up again because next Wednesday is April 22nd, feast day in Britain of the holy blessed martyr Stephen Lawrence.
I described the case of Stephen Lawrence in full two years ago; go to the Radio Derb transcripts on my website and look for the one dated April 27th 2018.
Suffice it to say here that Lawrence was a young black man who was stabbed to death by some white teenagers in London, April 22nd, 1993. He has subsequently been elevated to what can only, with a nod to Prof. McWhorter, fairly be described as sainthood.
Nobody knows who killed Lawrence, but some low-life teenage males of the neighborhood were arrested, charged, and tried. The evidence wasn't strong enough to convict them, though.
Some years later the far-left, anti-white Labour party was voted into power under the unspeakably loathsome Tony Blair … excuse me, I had to go spit there.
The Blairites reopened the whole case and turned the British constitution—yes, there is one—they turned it upside down to re-try the teens, repealing the principle of double jeopardy and a good deal besides. Ancient English rights to freedom of speech and assembly were cast by the wayside.
There were endless official inquiries and reports. That word "endless" was literally the case when I made my 2018 report: an investigation was still going on, 25 years after the crime! Probably it still is, I don't know. An enormous, and extremely ugly building was erected in London and named the Stephen Lawrence Centre. Lawrence's mother, a lady of no distinction whatsoever, was raised to the House of Lords, the upper chamber of Britain's national legislature.
And at a hushed, reverent memorial service on the 25th anniversary of the murder, Britain's then-Prime Ministerette, the vapid and worthless Theresa May, told a hushed conregation of all the highest in the land, that April 22nd would henceforth be Stephen Lawrence Day.
So should you find yourself in Britain on Wednesday, be sure to visit the Stephen Lawrence Center and pay proper respects to the holy blissful martyr Stephen Lawrence, peace be upon him. Don't forget to take your prayer shawl and some suitable offerings—anything white will do.


vdare--2020-04-21--China Virus Survival Tip: Buy a Pulse Oximeter

In the NYT , an expert on intubation explains the new view among New York emergency room doctors on what is killing so many people : silent hypoxia .
Those with pneumonia caused by the coronavirus don ’ t have enough oxygen in their blood , but they aren ’ t short of breath until they ’ ve had pneumonia for several days , so they don ’ t go to the emergency room until they ’ ve already suffered severe lung damage .
But if you get to the hospital when pneumonia first sets in , they can probably @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Fortunately , there ’ s a simple and reasonably cheap device you can buy right now to detect if you are running out of oxygen and get treatment when treatment can do the most good .
The Infection That ’ s Silently Killing Coronavirus Patients This is what I learned during 10 days of treating Covid pneumonia at Bellevue Hospital .
By Richard Levitan Dr. Levitan is an emergency doctor .
A major reason this pandemic is straining our health system is the alarming severity of lung injury patients have when they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ kills through the lungs .
And because so many patients are not going to the hospital until their pneumonia is already well advanced , many wind up on ventilators , causing shortages of the machines .
And once on ventilators , many die .
Avoiding the use of a ventilator is a huge win for both patient and the health care system .
The resources needed for patients on ventilators are staggering .
… There is a way we could identify more patients who have Covid pneumonia sooner and treat them more effectively @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for a coronavirus test at a hospital or doctor ’ s office .
It requires detecting silent hypoxia early through a common medical device that can be purchased without a prescription at most pharmacies : a pulse oximeter .
Pulse oximetry is no more complicated than using a thermometer .
These small devices turn on with one button and are placed on a fingertip .
In a few seconds , two numbers are displayed : oxygen saturation and pulse rate .
Pulse oximeters are extremely reliable in detecting oxygenation problems and elevated heart @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lives of two emergency physicians I know , alerting them early on to the need for treatment .
When they noticed their oxygen levels declining , both went to the hospital and recovered ( though one waited longer and required more treatment ) .
Detection of hypoxia , early treatment and close monitoring apparently also worked for Boris Johnson , the British prime minister .
It would be nice if the Prime Minister ’ s doctors would explain how exactly they treated the world ’ s most famous CV survivor .
Widespread pulse @ @ @ @ @ @ @ people check themselves on home devices or go to clinics or doctors ’ offices — could provide an early warning system for the kinds of breathing problems associated with Covid pneumonia .
… All patients who have tested positive for the coronavirus should have pulse oximetry monitoring for two weeks , the period during which Covid pneumonia typically develops .
All persons with cough , fatigue and fevers should also have pulse oximeter monitoring even if they have not had virus testing , or even if their swab test was negative , because @ @ @ @ @ @ @ accurate .
A vast majority of Americans who have been exposed to the virus don ’ t know it .
Amazon sells fingertip pulse oximeters for around $ 50 , with delivery times of one to two weeks .
If you don ’ t have one , buy one now .
It could save a loved one ’ s life .
The epidemiologists have only interpreted the Infection Fatality Rate , in various ways .
The point , however , is to change it .
The coronavirus attacks lung cells that make surfactant @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sacs in the lungs stay open between breaths and is critical to normal lung function .
As the inflammation from Covid pneumonia starts , it causes the air sacs to collapse , and oxygen levels fall .
Yet the lungs initially remain “ compliant , ” not yet stiff or heavy with fluid .
This means patients can still expel carbon dioxide — and without a buildup of carbon dioxide , patients do not feel short of breath .
Patients compensate for the low oxygen in their blood by breathing faster and deeper @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it .
Free divers , who go diving in water without scuba gear , are warned against hyperventilating in advance precisely because of this phenomenon in a more extreme form .
A few weeks ago a NYC doctor put out an influential video warning that ventilators weren ’ t working well for this disease because it was less like the problems ventilators were built to deal with and more like the altitude sickness suffered by Everest climbers who can ’ t get enough oxygen in their blood .
The free diving analogy might @ @ @ @ @

In the NYT, an expert on intubation explains the new view among New York emergency room doctors on what is killing so many people: silent hypoxia. Those with pneumonia caused by the coronavirus don’t have enough oxygen in their blood, but they aren’t short of breath until they’ve had pneumonia for several days, so they don’t go to the emergency room until they’ve already suffered severe lung damage.
But if you get to the hospital when pneumonia first sets in, they can probably get you through it without a ventilator.
Fortunately, there’s a simple and reasonably cheap device you can buy right now to detect if you are running out of oxygen and get treatment when treatment can do the most good.
The Infection That’s Silently Killing Coronavirus Patients
This is what I learned during 10 days of treating Covid pneumonia at Bellevue Hospital. By Richard Levitan
Dr. Levitan is an emergency doctor. A major reason this pandemic is straining our health system is the alarming severity of lung injury patients have when they arrive in emergency rooms. Covid-19 overwhelmingly kills through the lungs. And because so many patients are not going to the hospital until their pneumonia is already well advanced, many wind up on ventilators, causing shortages of the machines. And once on ventilators, many die. Avoiding the use of a ventilator is a huge win for both patient and the health care system. The resources needed for patients on ventilators are staggering. … There is a way we could identify more patients who have Covid pneumonia sooner and treat them more effectively — and it would not require waiting for a coronavirus test at a hospital or doctor’s office. It requires detecting silent hypoxia early through a common medical device that can be purchased without a prescription at most pharmacies: a pulse oximeter. Pulse oximetry is no more complicated than using a thermometer. These small devices turn on with one button and are placed on a fingertip. In a few seconds, two numbers are displayed: oxygen saturation and pulse rate. Pulse oximeters are extremely reliable in detecting oxygenation problems and elevated heart rates. Pulse oximeters helped save the lives of two emergency physicians I know, alerting them early on to the need for treatment. When they noticed their oxygen levels declining, both went to the hospital and recovered (though one waited longer and required more treatment). Detection of hypoxia, early treatment and close monitoring apparently also worked for Boris Johnson, the British prime minister.
It would be nice if the Prime Minister’s doctors would explain how exactly they treated the world’s most famous CV survivor.
Widespread pulse oximetry screening for Covid pneumonia — whether people check themselves on home devices or go to clinics or doctors’ offices — could provide an early warning system for the kinds of breathing problems associated with Covid pneumonia. … All patients who have tested positive for the coronavirus should have pulse oximetry monitoring for two weeks, the period during which Covid pneumonia typically develops. All persons with cough, fatigue and fevers should also have pulse oximeter monitoring even if they have not had virus testing, or even if their swab test was negative, because those tests are only about 70 percent accurate. A vast majority of Americans who have been exposed to the virus don’t know it.
Amazon sells fingertip pulse oximeters for around $50, with delivery times of one to two weeks. If you don’t have one, buy one now. It could save a loved one’s life.
The epidemiologists have only interpreted the Infection Fatality Rate, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.
iSteve commenter PiltdownMan adds a useful perspective:
The article explains that The coronavirus attacks lung cells that make surfactant. This substance helps keep the air sacs in the lungs stay open between breaths and is critical to normal lung function. As the inflammation from Covid pneumonia starts, it causes the air sacs to collapse, and oxygen levels fall. Yet the lungs initially remain “compliant,” not yet stiff or heavy with fluid. This means patients can still expel carbon dioxide — and without a buildup of carbon dioxide, patients do not feel short of breath. Patients compensate for the low oxygen in their blood by breathing faster and deeper — and this happens without their realizing it. Free divers, who go diving in water without scuba gear, are warned against hyperventilating in advance precisely because of this phenomenon in a more extreme form.
A few weeks ago a NYC doctor put out an influential video warning that ventilators weren’t working well for this disease because it was less like the problems ventilators were built to deal with and more like the altitude sickness suffered by Everest climbers who can’t get enough oxygen in their blood. The free diving analogy might be even more helpful.


vdare--2020-04-21--A Covid Tracing Case Study from a Chinese Restaurant

Here ’ s a diagram from a new Chinese paper illustrating the results of contact tracing from one lunch in a restaurant in a Chinese city ( not Wuhan , but one that had very few cases before this event ) on January 24 .
A 10 person family that had fled Wuhan sat at Table A. Diner A1 ( red and yellow ) was hospitalized later that day with coronavirus .
Four other members of the family ( in red ) later tested as infected , although they could have been infected before .
An airconditioner in the upper @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Downwind at Table B , three out of four patrons were subsequently infected .
Upwind in the general direction that A1 was facing , two of seven were infected at Table C. Both parties spent roughly an hour near A1 .
Nobody was infected at tables E or F , or in the other half of the room ( not shown ) .
The Chinese quarantined all 73 diners in that room , so they feel confident that A1 was the Patient Zero who infected the diners at other tables .
Lessons @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to be downwind than upwind , but spread can happen in both directions .
Looking at this , I ’ d probably say you ’ d want to put people at tables B and F , but it looks hard to get anywhere close to the density of diners that they had back before .
The problem with restaurants is you can ’ t wear masks while eating .
In general , we are going to need a lot more case studies like this .

Here’s a diagram from a new Chinese paper illustrating the results of contact tracing from one lunch in a restaurant in a Chinese city (not Wuhan, but one that had very few cases before this event) on January 24.
A 10 person family that had fled Wuhan sat at Table A. Diner A1 (red and yellow) was hospitalized later that day with coronavirus. Four other members of the family (in red) later tested as infected, although they could have been infected before.
An airconditioner in the upper right blew air from right to left. Downwind at Table B, three out of four patrons were subsequently infected. Upwind in the general direction that A1 was facing, two of seven were infected at Table C. Both parties spent roughly an hour near A1.
Nobody was infected at tables E or F, or in the other half of the room (not shown).
The Chinese quarantined all 73 diners in that room, so they feel confident that A1 was the Patient Zero who infected the diners at other tables.
Lessons: it’s somewhat more dangerous to be downwind than upwind, but spread can happen in both directions. Looking at this, I’d probably say you’d want to put people at tables B and F, but it looks hard to get anywhere close to the density of diners that they had back before. The problem with restaurants is you can’t wear masks while eating.
In general, we are going to need a lot more case studies like this.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-04-21--NYT On Trump Moratorium: But Think Of The Economy!

The Chief White House Correspondent of the New York Times snarks : 1 .
It ’ s crazy for Trump @ @ @ @ @ increasingly allowed out of the house to buy plants for their gardens or walk on @ @ @ @ @ .
2 .
It ’ s crazy for Trump not to want to let in @ @ @ @ @ , what with all the jobs Americans just don ’ t want to do .

Earlier VICTORY:Donald Trump Announces Immigration Moratorium
In light of the attack from the Invisible Enemy, as well as the need to protect the jobs of our GREAT American Citizens, I will be signing an Executive Order to temporarily suspend immigration into the United States! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 21, 2020
The Chief White House Correspondent of the New York Times snarks:
Trump, who says the country is ready to begin reopening, says the crisis is so bad that he is signing an order to "temporarily suspend immigration into the United States!" — Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) April 21, 2020
In other words:
1. It’s crazy for Trump to want Americans to be increasingly allowed out of the house to buy plants for their gardens or walk on the beach or cut hair.
2. It’s crazy for Trump not to want to let in more immigrants at the moment, what with all the jobs Americans just don’t want to do.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-04-21--Can Trump's  "Temporary" Moratorium Be As Permanent As Temporary Protected Status?

Much Earlier : Memo To The President : Nothing Is More Permanent Than Temporary Workers President Trump tells us he @ @ @ @ @ Executive Order to temporarily suspend immigration into the United States . ''
Will `` temporarily @ @ @ @ @ here as it has when we `` temporarily '' permit aliens on nonimmigrant visas to @ @ @ @ @ the Temporary Protected Status program because of some calamity in their home countries ?

Much Earlier: Memo To The President: Nothing Is More Permanent Than Temporary Workers
President Trump tells us he "will be signing an Executive Order to temporarily suspend immigration into the United States."
Will "temporarily" have the same meaning here as it has when we "temporarily" permit aliens on nonimmigrant visas to stay here for ever via the Temporary Protected Status program because of some calamity in their home countries?
I doubt it, but … let's dream.


vdare--2020-04-21--Trump Has Put An Immigration Moratorium "In Play." Not Enough—But Something.

It ’ s 25 years to the month since I proposed an immigration moratorium in my book Alien Nation : Common Sense About America ’ s Immigration Disaster ( you can see me explain the concept to an NBC Today ’ s obviously dumbfounded Bryan Gumbel here ) and 28 years since I first broached it in my 1992 National Review cover story that grew into Alien Nation .
So I wasn ’ t unmoved to see a President of the United States finally adopt the idea on Monday night Nor , again because it has been 25-28 years , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Executive Order promptly watered down by the usual suspects , savagely denounced by Fox News ’ Tucker Carlson here .
I ’ ve been waiting a long time , and I ’ ve learned patience .
The key point : unlike the 2008-2009 Great Recession when , incredibly , the idea of an anti-unemployment immigration moratorium literally never entered the heads of key policy makers , the idea is now , as they used to say on Wall Street of a company that had attracted a takeover bid , “ in play.
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
It can no longer be ignored .
( On the other hand , Trump could have won the election if he 'd stuck to his guns on the Executive Order .
And , judging from VDARE.com readers ' reactions , this game of bait-and-switch is wearing dangerously thin ) .
Also gratifying : Trump ’ s now-famous tweet specifically cited the need to protect jobs , rather than sticking to the easy option of keeping out disease .
To judge from the aftermath of the Great Recession , unemployment will be with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and depressed wages even longer .
The next step : to point to the political advantages of an immigration moratorium—that it will stop the Left from entrenching itself by Electing a New People , as Hillary Clinton openly planned to do in 2016 .
The heroic Michelle Malki n has recently made this argument , saying “ Do The Math !
” And back in 2012 , the twentieth anniversary of my National Review cover story , our Edwin S. Rubenstein wrote How A 1992 Moratorium Could Have Helped Preserve the Historic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have been about 288 million , 26 million less than its 2012 level .
And whites—known until the 1965 Immigration Act as “ Americans ” —would have been 68 % of the population , instead of 63 % .
I don ’ t expect Trump , who contrary to advertisement seems quite color-blind , to make this argument .
But someone will .
There are 684 articles on VDARE.com discussing an immigration moratorium .
A couple are from Alien Nation reviewers like Paul Glastris who said `` These disturbing trends can almost certainly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ moratorium '' on all immigrants , as Brimelow demands '' , and Jacob Weisberg , xenophobically wanting “ an indefinite moratorium on right-wing Brits coming to tell us about threats to American values ” .
Some of them are false positives , referring to , say , Obama ’ s offshore drilling moratorium of ten years ago , but most are suggesting an immigration moratorium .
There are 363 examples of the exact phrase “ immigration moratorium ” in our archives , and we have an “ Immigration Moratorium ” tag .
Here @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s tweet .
• Jeff Sessions Calls For Immigration Moratorium In Response To Coronavirus Devastation , by Washington Watcher II on 04/16/2020 • Charlie Kirk Says It ’ s Time For An Immigration Moratorium .
Where Is Congressional GOP ?
, by Washington Watcher II on 04/14/2020 Last year we had this : • D ’ Abrosca On Tucker Carlson : Is Immigration Moratorium Concept Finally Breaking Through ?
, by Peter Brimelow on 12/07/2019 Let ’ s go back to the dawn of the Great Recession ( caused , as you will @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , by the Minority Mortgage Meltdown ) when unemployment soared to …half current levels .
• Unemployment Tops 10 % —Where Are The Calls For An Immigration Moratorium ?
, by Peter Brimelow on 11/06/2009 • A Surfeit Of Jobs Summits—But Bipartisan Silence On Immigration Moratorium , by Peter Brimelow on 11/28/2009 • National Data | Memo to President Obama : Add Immigration Moratorium to the Economic Stimulus Package , by Edwin S. Rubenstein on 01/27/2009 • Brimelow On An Anti-Unemployment Immigration Moratorium In WorldNetDaily , by Peter Brimelow on 12/05/2009 • National @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Immigration Moratorium , by Edwin S. Rubenstein on 12/02/2009 Great Recession Unemployment actually sent some immigrants home ( it ’ s cheaper to be unemployed in Mexico ) and discouraged others from coming .
But as soon as some jobs came back , so did illegals : A number of different people have called for moratorium : • The Tancredo Moratorium Bill , by Sam Francis on 03/24/2003 • David Frum Calls For Immigration Moratorium .
Congratulate Him !
, by Peter Brimelow on 08/12/2011 • Scott Brown Calls For An Immigration Moratorium @ @ @ @ @ @ @ National Origins Quotas Or Moratorium ?
America Smells The Coffee [ Arab Invention ] , by James Fulford on 09/19/2001 • National Data | Gulf Coast Oil Disaster : The ( Immigration ) Moratorium Option , by Edwin S. Rubenstein on 06/16/2010 • National Data | The Economic Case for an Immigration Moratorium , by Edwin S. Rubenstein on 03/03/2011 • Arizona Demographics `` Irreversible '' —Except If There 's An Immigration Moratorium , by James Fulford on 03/24/2011 • Will The Immigration Answer Be Moratorium ?
, by Donald A. Collins on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ But Not From Establishment—Yet , by Peter Brimelow on 01/30/2010 • Is Donald Trump The New Huey Long ?
Will The Immigration Answer Be Moratorium ?
, by Donald A. Collins on 07/28/2015 .
Michelle Malkin notes elsewhere on the site that forces within Trump 's Administration ( Javanka , Pompeo , businessmen , etc . )
are fiercely trying to make him backtrack on the idea of a moratorium , but when and if Trump decides to go ahead , he can count on the support of an even more powerful force @ @ @ @ @ @ @ [ Email him ] is the editor of VDARE.com .
His best-selling book , Alien Nation : Common Sense About America ’ s Immigration Disaster , is now available in Kindle format .

It’s 25 years to the month since I proposed an immigration moratorium in my book Alien Nation: Common Sense About America’s Immigration Disaster (you can see me explain the concept to NBC Today’s obviously dumbfounded Bryant Gumbel here) and 28 years since I first broached it in my 1992 National Review cover story that grew into Alien Nation. So I wasn’t unmoved to see a President of the United States finally adopt the idea on Monday night. Nor, again because it has been 25-28 years, am I particularly moved now to see the Executive Order promptly watered down by the usual suspects, savagely denounced by Fox News’ Tucker Carlson here.
Must Watch @TuckerCarlson Monologue: Trump's EO Fails To Protect American Jobs
"There is only one point in handing out hundreds of thousands of these visas to foreign nationals & it is to placate big business."
"If the point of this EO was to protect American jobs it failed." pic.twitter.com/XzFsoxpXbT — The Columbia Bugle 🇺🇸 (@ColumbiaBugle) April 22, 2020
I’ve been waiting a long time, and I’ve learned patience. The key point: unlike the 2008-2009 Great Recession when, incredibly, the idea of an anti-unemployment immigration moratorium literally never entered the heads of key policy makers, the idea is now, as they used to say on Wall Street of a company that had attracted a takeover bid, “in play.” It can be extended and expanded. It can no longer be ignored.
(On the other hand, Trump could have won the election if he'd stuck to his guns on the Executive Order. And, judging from VDARE.com readers' reactions, this game of bait-and-switch is wearing dangerously thin.)
Also gratifying: Trump’s now-famous tweet specifically cited the need to protect jobs, rather than sticking to the easy option of keeping out disease. To judge from the aftermath of the Great Recession, unemployment will be with us long after the disease has subsided, and depressed wages even longer.
The next step: to point to the political advantages of an immigration moratorium—that it will stop the Left from entrenching itself by Electing a New People, as Hillary Clinton openly planned to do in 2016. The heroic Michelle Malkin has recently made this argument, saying “Do The Math!” And back in 2012, the twentieth anniversary of my National Review cover story, our Edwin S. Rubenstein wrote How A 1992 Moratorium Could Have Helped Preserve the Historic American Majority. The American population would have been about 288 million, 26 million less than its 2012 level.
And whites—known until the 1965 Immigration Act as “Americans ”—would have been 68% of the population, instead of 63%.
I don’t expect Trump, who contrary to advertisement seems quite color-blind, to make this argument. But someone will.
And while we’re waiting…
There are 684 articles on VDARE.com discussing an immigration moratorium. A couple are from Alien Nation reviewers like Paul Glastris who said, "These disturbing trends can almost certainly be reversed without resorting to a "moratorium" on all immigrants, as Brimelow demands," and Jacob Weisberg, xenophobically wanting “an indefinite moratorium on right-wing Brits coming to tell us about threats to American values.” Some of them are false positives, referring to, say, Obama’s offshore drilling moratorium of ten years ago, but most are suggesting an immigration moratorium. There are 363 examples of the exact phrase “immigration moratorium” in our archives, and we have an “Immigration Moratorium” tag.
Here are two most recent… before Trump’s tweet.
Last year we had this:
Let’s go back to the dawn of the Great Recession (caused, as you will have read on VDARE.com but not elsewhere, by the Minority Mortgage Meltdown) when unemployment soared to …half current levels.
Great Recession Unemployment actually sent some immigrants home (it’s cheaper to be unemployed in Mexico) and discouraged others from coming. But as soon as some jobs came back, so did illegals:
A number of different people have called for moratorium:
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Michelle Malkin notes elsewhere on the site that forces within Trump's Administration (Javanka, Pompeo, businessmen, etc.) are fiercely trying to make him backtrack on the idea of a moratorium, but when and if Trump decides to go ahead, he can count on the support of an even more powerful force: the American people.
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Peter Brimelow [Email him] is the editor of VDARE.com. His best-selling book, Alien Nation: Common Sense About America’s Immigration Disaster, is now available in Kindle format.


vdare--2020-04-21--Michelle Malkin: Piercing Illusion of Trump's 'Immigration Ban'

President Donald Trump unleashed his `` April surprise '' on Monday night , sending shock waves from the Beltway Swamp to Silicon Valley with a long-overdue announcement : `` In light of the attack from the Invisible Enemy , as well as the need to protect the jobs of our GREAT American Citizens , '' he declared , `` I will be signing an Executive Order to temporarily suspend immigration into the United States ! ''
The usual suspects inveighed against the still-unseen proposal early Tuesday morning .
My inbox was flooded with twitching and moaning from Americans for Prosperity @ @ @ @ @ @ @ called a freeze the `` wrong approach '' and the Southern Poverty Law Center , which ranted ( as usual ) about `` white nationalists '' and `` racism . ''
The infuriated Council on American-Islamic Relations condemned the `` irrational and insidious '' plan ( that no one had yet seen ) and called for `` people of all decency '' to `` denounce this xenophobic agenda . ''
Lawsuits are already being prepared against an executive order that has n't been written or signed .
For nonhysterical observers of the Trump @ @ @ @ @ @ @ perfectly obvious : initial excitement followed by abject letdown as actual details have trickled out over the last 24 hours .
Do not forget : 22 million American workers across the wage scale are out of work as a result of pandemic-induced lockdowns and layoffs .
Dire straits demand extreme measures .
The well-being of our native workforce and the millions of families dependent upon them must be Washington 's top priority , not big business , big agriculture , Silicon Valley , academia or foreign countries clamoring to send their students and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany crediting Trump on Tuesday morning for understanding that `` ( d ) ecades of record immigration have produced lower wages and higher unemployment for our citizens , '' at his Tuesday evening press conference , Trump revealed that the prematurely heralded and scorned immigration suspension will last a mere 60 days and will exempt temporary foreign visa holders .
Head .
Bang .
Desk .
This is a cynical betrayal of the burgeoning `` America First '' movement .
It 's all moratorium hat and no cattle @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and routine visa processing were already suspended on March 20 .
• Refugee resettlement was already suspended the same week and is scheduled to be frozen until at least May 15 ( although more than 1,000 Afghan refugees were flown in over the past month while the rest of us have been ordered shut in our own homes ) .
• Foreign travelers from China and Europe , plus Canada and Mexico , were already barred from entering ( though thousands of H-2A and H-2B agricultural and seasonal workers got in and some @ @ @ @ @ @ @ virus outbreaks at Chinese-owned meat plants packed with foreign laborers ) .
• The annual H-1B lottery for Chinese and Indian tech workers was completed last month and a total of 475,000 H-1Bs are safe while untold thousands of American STEM students , graduates and workers lost their livelihoods .
• Despite massive layoffs of H-1B workers in tech , there is no move to send them home .
Instead , immigration lawyers are outrageously advising H-1B and other temporary visa holders ( including those in the L-1 , B-1 and R categories @ @ @ @ @ @ @ checks .
• More than a million F-1 foreign student visa holders remain in the country , including nearly 400,000 from China , as do hundreds of thousands of foreign students who secured Optional Practical Training work permits in STEM fields , displacing American workers .
• More than 4,000 J-1 foreign health worker visas were freed up earlier this month while American medical professionals lost their jobs .
The American Medical Association , which has artificially suppressed the supply of doctors for decades to inflate wages , is whining about shortages and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ limits even further .
The clamor for an immigration moratorium has been steadily rising , from Pat Buchanan 's advocacy , dating back to his first presidential campaign in 1992 , to immigration hawk Jeff Sessions ' call for an employment-based visa freeze last week .
With a whopping 79 % of Americans now in favor of a full halt to immigration ( according to a recent USA Today/Ipsos poll ) , this was Trump 's golden opportunity to seize momentum .
Instead , we got a mess of squander and blunder .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ interested in appeasing India than protecting American workers .
White House adviser Jared Kushner and his top aide Christopher Liddell ( former Microsoft executive ) have prioritized appeasing Apple and Amazon .
I 've learned from insiders that there are at least 15 categorical exemptions on the table and more in the works .
A one-time , 60-day Swiss Cheese-holed farce of an immigration ban will do far more harm than good for Donald Trump .
Think about it this way : Various illegal immigration ethnic blocs have been granted `` Temporary Protected @ @ @ @ @ @ @ do hordes of foreigners get a permanent reprieve while American citizens will be asked to settle for a measly comma before getting drowned again in mass migration ?
The executive order should cover all foreign influxes and should be renewed for at least as long as the longest TPS extensions : 19 years .
We need Permanent Protected Status for American citizens .
Full stop .
Michelle Malkin [ Email her ] is the author of Invasion : How America Still Welcomes Terrorists , Criminals , and Other Foreign Menaces to Our Shores @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s review .
Click here for Michelle Malkin 's website .
Michelle Malkin is also the author of Unhinged : Exposing Liberals Gone Wild , Culture of Corruption : Obama and his Team of Tax Cheats , Crooks & Cronies , , Who Built That : Awe-Inspiring Stories of American Tinkerpreneurs , and Sold Out : How High-Tech Billionaires & Bipartisan Beltway Crapweasels Are Screwing America 's Best & Brightest Workers .
Malkin is author of the book , `` Open Borders , Inc. : Who 's Funding America 's Destruction , '' @ @ @ @ @ @ @ To find out more about Michelle Malkin and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists , visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com .

President Donald Trump unleashed his "April surprise" on Monday night, sending shock waves from the Beltway Swamp to Silicon Valley with a long-overdue announcement: "In light of the attack from the Invisible Enemy, as well as the need to protect the jobs of our GREAT American Citizens," he declared, "I will be signing an Executive Order to temporarily suspend immigration into the United States!"
The usual suspects inveighed against the still-unseen proposal early Tuesday morning. My inbox was flooded with twitching and moaning from Americans for Prosperity, the Koch Foundation-funded outfit, which called a freeze the "wrong approach" and the Southern Poverty Law Center, which ranted (as usual) about "white nationalists" and "racism." The infuriated Council on American-Islamic Relations condemned the "irrational and insidious" plan (that no one had yet seen) and called for "people of all decency" to "denounce this xenophobic agenda." Lawsuits are already being prepared against an executive order that hasn't been written or signed.
For nonhysterical observers of the Trump administration, however, the outcome was perfectly obvious: initial excitement followed by abject letdown as actual details have trickled out over the last 24 hours.
Do not forget: 22 million American workers across the wage scale are out of work as a result of pandemic-induced lockdowns and layoffs. Dire straits demand extreme measures. The well-being of our native workforce and the millions of families dependent upon them must be Washington's top priority, not big business, big agriculture, Silicon Valley, academia or foreign countries clamoring to send their students and workers here to replace ours.
Despite White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany crediting Trump on Tuesday morning for understanding that "(d)ecades of record immigration have produced lower wages and higher unemployment for our citizens," at his Tuesday evening press conference, Trump revealed that the prematurely heralded and scorned immigration suspension will last a mere 60 days and will exempt temporary foreign visa holders.
Head. Bang. Desk. This is a cynical betrayal of the burgeoning "America First" movement. It's all moratorium hat and no cattle:
All new green card applications and routine visa processing were already suspended on March 20.
Refugee resettlement was already suspended the same week and is scheduled to be frozen until at least May 15 (although more than 1,000 Afghan refugees were flown in over the past month while the rest of us have been ordered shut in our own homes).
Foreign travelers from China and Europe, plus Canada and Mexico, were already barred from entering (though thousands of H-2A and H-2B agricultural and seasonal workers got in and some 35,000 more expect a green light despite virus outbreaks at Chinese-owned meat plants packed with foreign laborers).
The annual H-1B lottery for Chinese and Indian tech workers was completed last month and a total of 475,000 H-1Bs are safe while untold thousands of American STEM students, graduates and workers lost their livelihoods.
Despite massive layoffs of H-1B workers in tech, there is no move to send them home. Instead, immigration lawyers are outrageously advising H-1B and other temporary visa holders (including those in the L-1, B-1 and R categories) that they are eligible for stimulus checks.
More than a million F-1 foreign student visa holders remain in the country, including nearly 400,000 from China, as do hundreds of thousands of foreign students who secured Optional Practical Training work permits in STEM fields, displacing American workers.
More than 4,000 J-1 foreign health worker visas were freed up earlier this month while American medical professionals lost their jobs. The American Medical Association, which has artificially suppressed the supply of doctors for decades to inflate wages, is whining about shortages and pressuring to relax J-1 rules and time limits even further.
The clamor for an immigration moratorium has been steadily rising, from Pat Buchanan's advocacy, dating back to his first presidential campaign in 1992, to immigration hawk Jeff Sessions' call for an employment-based visa freeze last week. With a whopping 79% of Americans now in favor of a full halt to immigration (according to a recent USA Today/Ipsos poll), this was Trump's golden opportunity to seize momentum. Instead, we got a mess of squander and blunder.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is more interested in appeasing India than protecting American workers. White House adviser Jared Kushner and his top aide Christopher Liddell (former Microsoft executive) have prioritized appeasing Apple and Amazon. I've learned from insiders that there are at least 15 categorical exemptions on the table and more in the works.
A one-time, 60-day Swiss Cheese-holed farce of an immigration ban will do far more harm than good for Donald Trump. Think about it this way: Various illegal immigration ethnic blocs have been granted "Temporary Protected Status" continuously since 2001. Why do hordes of foreigners get a permanent reprieve while American citizens will be asked to settle for a measly comma before getting drowned again in mass migration? The executive order should cover all foreign influxes and should be renewed for at least as long as the longest TPS extensions: 19 years.
We need Permanent Protected Status for American citizens. Full stop.
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Michelle Malkin [Email her] is the author of Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists, Criminals, and Other Foreign Menaces to Our Shores. Click here for Peter Brimelow’s review. Click here for Michelle Malkin's website. Michelle Malkin is also the author of Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild, Culture of Corruption: Obama and his Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks & Cronies, ,Who Built That: Awe-Inspiring Stories of American Tinkerpreneurs, and Sold Out: How High-Tech Billionaires & Bipartisan Beltway Crapweasels Are Screwing America's Best & Brightest Workers.
Malkin is author of the book, "Open Borders, Inc.: Who's Funding America's Destruction," available directly from VDARE.com in hardcover. To find out more about Michelle Malkin and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.
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vdare--2020-04-21--A Reader Listens To Jonah Goldberg Talk Purges, VDARE.com, And The "Civil Rights" Movement

Jonah Goldberg [ Tweet him ] has a podcast where he often chats with people on the left .
Here he chats with Professor Steven Teles [ Email him ] who wrote a book about Never Trumpers .
VDARE.com and John Derbyshire come up very briefly , especially around the 40 minute mark , when Goldberg says `` I knew about VDARE before the New York Times did '' .
Nothing terribly surprising in the podcast but it 's interesting to listen to their inside take on Conservatism , Inc 's purging and censorship .
What got me angry was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the time about the 1960s civil rights movement , which Buckley opposed , and spoke out against .
It ushered in official discrimination against whites and nation breaking Third World immigration .
I think old NR was right .
What was delicious was to hear their anguish and vexation at Trump 's election .
James Fulford writes : There are lots of things to object to about Jonah 's discourse , and Teles 's book , but it seems that Jonah was never really conservative in the first place .
This is especially @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and instead of defending McCarthy , says that some Democrats were just as `` McCarthyite '' including the guy the Las Vegas Airport is named after .
That would be Senator Pat McCarran , who was not only a patriotic anti-communist , but an immigration restrictionist—see our coverage of the McCarran-Walter Act of 1952 , which is what the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 repealed .

From: Roger Williams [Email him]
Jonah Goldberg [Tweet him] has a podcast where he often chats with people on the left.
Here he chats with Professor Steven Teles [Email him] who wrote a book about Never Trumpers. VDARE.com and John Derbyshire come up very briefly, especially around the 40 minute mark, when Goldberg says "I knew about VDARE before the New York Times did".
Nothing terribly surprising in the podcast but it's interesting to listen to their inside take on Conservatism, Inc's purging and censorship.
What got me angry was when Goldberg said NR was wrong at the time about the 1960s civil rights movement, which Buckley opposed, and spoke out against. It ushered in official discrimination against whites and nation breaking Third World immigration. I think old NR was right.
What was delicious was to hear their anguish and vexation at Trump's election.
James Fulford writes: There are lots of things to object to about Jonah's discourse, and Teles's book, but it seems that Jonah was never really conservative in the first place.
This is especially notable when he mentions "McCarthyism," and instead of defending McCarthy, says that some Democrats were just as "McCarthyite" including the guy the Las Vegas Airport is named after. That would be Senator Pat McCarran, who was not only a patriotic anti-communist, but an immigration restrictionist—see our coverage of the McCarran-Walter Act of 1952, which is what the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 repealed.


vdare--2020-04-22--Social Distancing With Peter Brimelow and Diana West—Premiers TONIGHT At 9:30PM EST.

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vdare--2020-04-22--Ann Coulter: Media Lies About China And Trump—Who Needs To STOP Chinese Job Theft, Birth Tourism

Liberals claim to be appalled that Trump didn’t issue his stay-at-home protocols for the Wuhan virus back in January or early February.
What do you think the media’s reaction would have been if Trump had started babbling about a viral pandemic in the middle of his impeachment trial?
Let’s see. On Jan. 28, Trump released his long-awaited “Middle East Peace Plan,” which was immediately denounced by everyone except Jared Kushner and Sheldon Adelson. Still, the last 1 million Middle East Peace Plans led to tons of think pieces, analyses and arguments.
Here’s how Trump’s “Peace Plan” was reported:
There are plenty of reasons to attack Trump for the virus sweeping our country, but the media are mad at him for not doing something that would have been absurd: shutting down the country when there wasn’t a single Wuhan flu death in the nation and the media had barely mentioned it.
In fact, the first time most news consumers heard about the latest Chinese coronavirus was when liberals attacked Trump for shutting down travel from China at the end of January.
The Times responded with an op-ed titled, “Who Says It’s Not Safe to Travel to China?,” bemoaning “xenophobic rhetoric and the building of walls.”
Sen. Bernie Sanders mocked the ban at a CNN town hall debate, saying, “I don't know you have to stop travel from China,” but Trump likes “to build walls ... to separate us from other people.”
Politico cited “a growing chorus of public health experts” who warned that the China travel ban could “stigmatiz[e] people of Asian descent.”
The Nation magazine reported that the risk to Americans from the Wuhan coronavirus was “low” and accused Trump of playing to “well-worn, racist tropes that depict Chinese people as dirty and disease-carrying.”
So go screw yourselves, media.
On the other hand, Trump does deserve a lot of the blame for the Wuhan virus by keeping—wait, checking my notes—NONE of his promises on China. This, the media will never mention.
During the campaign, Trump sure talked a good game. He said, “We can't continue to allow China to rape our country.” He vowed to put tariffs on their goods and bring manufacturing home.
Then he got elected, and Jared Kushner, Gary Cohn and Trump’s other salt-of-the-earth advisers told him tariffs were a bad idea. So he imposed no tariffs for two long years and, today, almost all our pharmaceuticals, face masks and other crucial supplies are still being made in China.
On the bright side, China fast-tracked all of Ivanka’s trademarks!
Trump has allowed hundreds of thousands of Chinese students to keep attending American universities. He can’t stop gushing about the H-1B workers. In 2018, Trump tweeted a warm welcome to H1-B visa holders, promising them “a path to citizenship” and heaping praise on these “talented and highly skilled people” taking American jobs.
Norman Matloff, University of California, Davis, computer science professor, recently wrote:
“Here is something you won’t read elsewhere: Silicon Valley leads the SF Bay Area in COVID-19 cases—leads by FAR .... “Silicon Valley, of course, is home to very large numbers of immigrant engineers from China, who have the means to make frequent trips to China to visit family, especially during Chinese New Year, when the virus started to spread like mad within China and started to do so in the U.S.”
As we now know, the first two Wuhan flu deaths in America were in ... Silicon Valley.
“Birth tourism” has also continued apace under Trump, with tens of thousands of pregnant Chinese ladies flying to America every year for the sole purpose of giving birth to an anchor baby, who will then be used to bring the whole family here.
There’s one way to stop it, and Trump could do it tomorrow. Sign an executive order ending the anchor baby scam. Not say he’s going to sign it, as he does whenever he wants to gin up the base. Actually sign it.
The Supreme Court has never ruled that the children born to illegal aliens or tourists are citizens, for the simple reason that that would be insane. The 14th amendment is about slavery, as the court has repeatedly held, not Chinese birth tourists or pregnant Mexicans.
But he won’t do it. Ivanka needs her trademarks—and Goldman might give Jared a job! Sorry about that Wuhan flu, America.
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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 1, 2015.
Her latest book, Resistance Is Futile!: How the Trump-Hating Left Lost Its Collective Mind, was released on August 21, 2018.


vdare--2020-04-22--This Day In VDARE.com History, 2017: On Sam Francis And Another Fake Hate Crime

Originally published here on VDARE.com on this day in 2017.
See Also: The Truths That Fake Hate Crimes Tell Us by Sam Francis
"Hate crimes" are debunked so often one must assume they are fake until proven otherwise. And we have yet another example at Indiana State University where a professor is being charged with a felony for making up a story about receiving threatening emails.
Azhar Hussain, 56, assistant professor of aviation technology, was arrested on Friday and charged with felony charge of obstruction of justice and misdemeanor harassment, according to Terre Haute’s Tribune-Star. On March 8, Hussain claimed to have received threatening emails containing anti-Muslim sentiments. And on March 24, Hussain claimed that he was attacked from behind while entering his campus office. But the professor fabricated all of the incidents, police say. “Based upon the investigation, it is our belief that Hussain was trying to gain sympathy by becoming a victim of anti-Muslim threats which he had created himself,” Indiana State University Police Chief Joseph Newport said Friday. “It is extremely unfortunate that this situation caused undue concern on other members of the ISU community. [Police: Indiana State Professor Fabricated Anti-Muslim Hate Crimes, by Chuck Ross, Daily Caller, April 22, 2017]
The late Sam Francis wrote about this problem in 2004 and it has only gotten worse in the years since. Francis (and how we wish he was still with us at this hour) suggested those who invent these scenarios are attracted to a sense of victimhood or are compensating for some personal inadequacy. Yet as he also noted, such false hate crimes are also used to further the agenda of those who want to implement the "the totalitarian manipulation of expression, thought and feeling that George Orwell warned us about."
As he discussed more broadly in Leviathan, Francis showed the current ruling class keeps its power by manipulating social behavior. Fake hate crimes further this agenda by creating the rationalization for cracking down on freedom of assembly and freedom of speech. The leftist rationale runs thus: "hateful" speech leads to "hateful" acts, therefore, ban the "hateful" speech and you will have fewer hate crimes. It's no coincidence the Left is constantly promoting the Narrative that there has been a boom in hate crimes since Donald Trump's elections.
Of course, there are four major problems with all of this.
Groups like the $PLC and their allies in the Main Stream Media are groping for a rationale to abolish the First Amendment once and for all. The non-existent hate crime epidemic is the best they can come up with. We don't know how many of these cases, like this one at Indiana State, were simply made up out of whole cloth. But there is one thing we can say for certain, and Sam Francis said it back in 2004.
[S]ome of those yelling about hate the loudest are people who know a good deal more about that emotion than the ones they're yelling about. Maybe the real hate is already inside those who are so eager to find it.


vdare--2020-04-22--Radio Derb Transcript Up For April 17: Obama Endorses Joe, Corona Numbers, De-Globalizing America, N

Radio Derb Transcript Up For April 17: Obama Endorses Joe, Corona Numbers, De-Globalizing America, N-Word Watch, And Stephen Lawrence Day, Etc.

The Radio Derb transcript is up for April 17. Go here to read or listen.
Playlist:
01m29s Obama endorses Biden. (But Trump is not Hoover.)
10m04s Numbers are of the essence. (Our innumerate elites.)
15m51s The de-globalizing of America. (Let's educate our own people in STEM!)
22m56s N-word watch. (Why isn't it taboo for everyone?)
29m56s The holy blissful martyr for to seek. (Coming up to Stephen Lawrence Day.)
34m45s Why isn't Jeff Bezos in jail? (You know why.)
37m05s Michigan Governess sees Confederate flags, a swastika … (but no noose!)
38m39s What locked-down Americans are doing. (A possible insight.)
40m16s Signoff. (WHO, whom?)


vdare--2020-04-23--UK Race Czar Trevor Phillips Calls For Covid-19 Race Data—May Have Found Why UK Muslims Less Impacte

UK Race Czar Trevor Phillips Calls For Covid-19 Race Data—May Have Found Why UK Muslims Less Impacted

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I’ve been writing since February 1 about possible race differences in the prevalence of Covid-19, along with theoretical reasons why they might exist, so it is quite satisfying to find that the Mainstream Media have at last woken up. Very substantial race differences in WuFlu incidence have now been found in Britain, to the extent that the British government is finally going to collect the data [Coronavirus cases to be tracked by ethnicity, by Rianna Croxford, BBC, April 18, 2020] . And a professional anti-racism bureaucrat, Trevor Phillips [Tweet him] has co-authored a report documenting these racial disparities and calling for more research. He may even have found the answer to the puzzling question of why British Muslims seem less impacted than British Hindus.
Phillips, a former chairman of Britain’s Commission for Racial Equality concludes that some factors predict that certain ethnic groups would be at elevated risk from Covid-19 but then other factors militate against these. British Muslims (who are mostly South Asian a.k.a. from the Indian subcontinent) are surprisingly low in Covid-19 infections, despite the fact that British South Asians overall (many of whom are Hindu) are high in them. Possible explanation: the entrenched Muslim practice of ritual hand washing.
Phillips’s findings draw on the fact that, as of April, 14.4% of people in Britain who are critically ill with Covid-19 are South Asian, yet South Asians compose only 7.5% of the British population. Overall, 34% of those in intensive care for Wu-Flu in the UK are from ethnic minorities, despite their constituting only 14% of the population [Are ethnic minorities being hit hardest by coronavirus? by Benjamin Butcher & Joel Massey, BBC News, April 17, 2020].
Phillips, who is black and born in London to immigrant parents from what was then called British Guiana, has gone on something of a political odyssey over the last 10 years. He was recently suspended from the Labour Party for drawing attention to Muslim-Asian grooming gangs raping white girls [Trevor Phillips suspended from Labour over Islamophobia allegations, BBC News, March 9, 2020]. But, 13 years ago, he was leading campaigns to silence Nick Griffin, the leader of the British National Party, which had repeatedly protested the grooming gangs only to be met with universal—and, especially in retrospect, disgraceful—execration ['Awful, abhorrent'—but Oxford insists the debate must go on, by Rachel Williams & Matthew Taylor, The Guardian, November 26, 2007].
Now, however, Phillips claims to want a reasonable discussion about race, even a producing a documentary 5 years ago on the accuracy of racial stereotypes [Trevor Phillips says the unsayable about race and multiculturalism, by Michael White, The Guardian, March 16, 2015]. To this end, Phillips has presented us with his report Some observations on COVID-19 and Minorities in the UK, jointly written with his colleague Richard Webber [Email him] of Newcastle University, and published on WebberPhillips.com, April 20th. It is extremely interesting reading.
Firstly, it is clearly true that the more non-white a London borough, or British city, is then the greater are its Covid-19 cases per 100,000 of population. The relationship isn’t perfect, but it’s strong. There are 155 cases per 100,000 in the UK, which is 14% non-white. But there are 345 per 100,000 in the London Borough of Brent (63.7% non-white), and 324 per 100,000 in the London Borough of Southwark (45% non-white).
Secondly, Phillips and Webber look at the possible explanations for this ethnic disparity. Could it be race differences in low income and high poverty? No, conclude the authors, because
the most heavily affected boroughs are Brent, Southwark, Lambeth and Harrow, none of which figures in the top twenty most deprived indices drawn up by the government.
Could it be due to non-whites living in more overcrowded areas? Seemingly not. “Only 2 [of a list of the 9 most crowded London boroughs] figure as COVID-19 hotspots—Lambeth and Southwark” explain Phillips and Webber:
Outside London, the local authorities with a significant minority presence which do figure as COVID-19 hot spots are not particularly overcrowded.
What about ethnic differences in underlying health vulnerabilities? Possibly. But it cannot be the full explanation, Phillips and Webber because—
…the very sharp difference in prevalence between local authorities where the dominant minority is Indian compared to those where it is Pakistani or Bangladeshi suggests that the causes of minority vulnerability are far more likely to be environmental or behavioural.
The authors then note that there are likely to be different reasons why different ethnic minorities are more susceptible to Covid-19 than whites. But what is
…most striking is the absence from this list [of highly Covid-19-infected areas] of virtually all the English local authorities where the dominant minority group is Pakistani or Bangladeshi Muslim: Tower Hamlets, Luton, Slough, Redbridge, Waltham Forest and Blackburn.
For example, Slough (with a large Muslim population) has 193 cases per 100,000. But in adjacent Hillingdon (large Hindu population) there are 208 cases per 100,000.
Trevor Phillips asks whether lack of Muslims in England's coronavirus hotspots may be down to their rigorous hand-washing practice five times a day, by Sam Blanchard, Daily Mail, April 20, 2020.
So, why would there be such a difference between Hindu areas of Britain and Muslim areas? Phillips doesn’t look at it in the report, but in an op-ed in The Times of London [We need to solve ethnic puzzle of Covid-19, by Trevor Phillips, The Times, April 20, 2020], Phillips suggests that the key could be the Islamic practice of ritual hand washing before prayer, which devout Muslims engage in 5 times a day. He writes that:
Maybe there is a revelation to be had here; if one key to stopping transmission of the virus is hand washing, might a faith community many of whose members ritually wash before five-times-a-day prayers have something to teach the rest of us?
What Phillips didn’t note is that he may have solved the puzzle of high South Asian Covid-19 but low Islamic South Asian Covid-19 in the UK. For genetic reasons, all South Asians are more likely to be obese and have diabetes than Europeans [Ancient origins of low lean mass among South Asians and implications for modern type 2 diabetes susceptibility, by E. Pomeray et al., Scientific Reports, 2019]. Diabetes, obesity and related problems such as heart disease make one much more vulnerable to serious complications from Covid-19. So, all being equal, British South Asians should be more vulnerable to Covid-19. And all is relatively equal, with Hindus in the UK enjoying similar socioeconomic status to whites according to a report [Poverty rates among ethnic groups in Great Britain, by Guy Palmer & Peter Kenway, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, April 30, 2007].
But, with the UK’s South Asian Muslims, there are cultural differences masking this effect. As Phillips points out, not only do they engage in frequent ritual ablutions but about 40% of them are unemployed, which will tend to mean less travel and less contact with other people.
As we get more fine-grained information on ethnic differences in Covid-19, we will, hopefully, be able to increasingly untangle these different contradictory factors, leading us to the genetic and cultural reasons for race differences in the pandemic’s prevalence.
I conclude by repeating my usual moral, now tacitly supported by the British government and explicitly supported by Trevor Phillips:
If Covid-19 is not an Equal Opportunity disease, that means our race-denying Ruling Class is frightening most people too much—and not warning some people enough. This will not merely cause unnecessary chaos—it will cost lives.
Lance Welton [email him] is the pen name of a freelance journalist living in New York.


vdare--2020-04-23--Q. What Is Best in Life? A. That Which Is Most Likely to Spread Coronavirus

In Quillette, assistant editor Jonathan Kay publishes an important analysis based on contact tracing of 54 documented superspreader events early in the epidemic:
COVID-19 Superspreader Events in 28 Countries: Critical Patterns and Lessons
written by Jonathan Kay Jonathan Kay is Canadian Editor of Quillette. He tweets at @jonkay. … I was struck by how few of the SSEs originated in conditions stereotypically associated with the underclass (though a March outbreak at a Qatari migrant workers camp in the industrial area north of Doha offers one such example). Many of the early SSEs, in fact, centered on weddings, birthday parties, and other events that were described in local media as glamorous or populated by “socialites.” … But absent more data, the more obvious explanation is that these early SSEs are linked to the intercontinental travel practices of the guests. … Moreover, COVID-19 outbreaks in poor communities are simply less likely to be reported, because the victims have less access to testing, high-end medical care, or media contacts. In fact, the truly remarkable trend that jumped off my spreadsheet has nothing to do with the sort of people involved in these SSEs, but rather the extraordinarily narrow range of underlying activities. And I believe it is on this point that a close study of SSEs, even one based on such a biased and incomplete data set as the one I’ve assembled in my lay capacity, can help us: Of the 54 SSEs on my list for which the underlying activities were identified, no fewer than nine were linked to religious services or missionary work. …
Nineteen of the SSEs—about one-third—involved parties or liquor-fueled mass attendance festivals of one kind or another, including (as with the examples cited above) celebrations of weddings, engagements and birthdays.
Five of the SSEs involved funerals.
Six of the SSEs involved face-to-face business networking. This includes large-scale events such as Biogen’s notorious Boston leadership meeting in February, as well as one-on-one business meetings—from the unidentified “traveling salesperson” who spread COVID-19 in Maine to Hisham Hamdan, a powerful sovereign-wealth fund official who spread the disease in Malaysia. All told, 38 of the 54 SSEs for which activities were known involved one or more of these four activities—about 70 percent…. But even that 70 percent figure underestimates the prevalence of these activities in COVID-19 SSEs, because my database also includes five SSEs involving two warships and three cruise ships—the USS Roosevelt, Charles de Gaulle, Diamond Princess, Grand Princess and Ruby Princess—at least three of which (and probably all five) featured onboard parties. These parties, funerals, religious meet-ups and business networking sessions all seem to have involved the same type of behaviour: extended, close-range, face-to-face conversation—typically in crowded, socially animated spaces. This includes the many people infected by a bartender while being served at a raucous après ski venue in Austria, and party guests in Brazil greeting “each other with two kisses on the cheek [a local custom], hugs and handshakes.” The funerals in question are generally described as highly intimate and congested scenes of grieving among close friends and relatives. In the case of the SSE funeral in Albany, Georgia that devastated the local population, “people wiped tears away, and embraced, and blew their noses, and belted out hymns. They laughed, remembering. It was a big gathering, with upward of 200 mourners overflowing the memorial chapel, so people had to stand outside.” With few exceptions, almost all of the SSEs took place indoors, where people tend to pack closer together in social situations, and where ventilation is poorer. (It is notable, for instance, that the notorious outbreak at an Austrian ski resort is connected to a bartender and not, say, a lift operator.) But generalizations in this area are complicated by the fact that some of the religious festivals described herein were mixed indoor/outdoor affairs. Moreover, the February 19 SSE at San Siro stadium in Milan is also ambiguous, since that stadium has a roof over the seating area, but not over the field.
I would imagine that supporters of the Bergamo soccer club tended to travel to the big game in Milan in buses and trains with other supporters, talking and perhaps singing excitedly at least one way. (If Bergamo won, then both ways.)
The media accounts of these SSEs are full of descriptions in this vein. At a February 15 festival in Gangelt, a town in Germany’s tiny Heinsberg district, “beer and wine flowed aplenty as approximately 350 adults in fancy dress locked arms on long wooden benches and swayed to the rhythm of music provided by a live band. During an interval in the programme, guests got up to mingle with friends and relatives at other tables, greeting each other as Rhineland tradition commands, with a bützchen, or peck on the cheek.” Since that time, more than 40 Germans from the Heinsberg district have died. It’s been called “Germany’s Wuhan.” In the case of religious SSEs, Sikhs, Christians, Jews and Muslims are all represented in the database. … Of the 54 SSEs for which underlying activities could be identified, only 11 did not involve either religious activity, a party, a funeral, a cruise or extended face-to-face professional networking. But even in this minority of cases, one can observe almost identical interpersonal dynamics. Three of the SSEs—in Japan, Skagit County, WA, and Singapore—involved concert-goers and singing groups belting out tunes together over a period of hours. (The Skagit example [a Presbyterian choir practice] is particularly interesting, because the organizers were aware of the COVID-19 risk beforehand, and took the precaution of spacing out the participants by several feet. If they had been merely chatting, instead of singing, no one might have gotten sick.) Another SSE involved a group of Canadian doctors engaged in a day of recreational curling. This is a sport that involves hyperventilating participants frenetically sweeping the ice with brooms while their faces are positioned inches apart, sometimes changing partners—an ideal climate for Flüggian infection. Indeed, this partner-swapping aspect of the activity seems to be a common feature of many suspected SSEs, such as square-dancing parties. Four of the SSEs were outbreaks at meat-processing plants, in which “gut snatchers” and other densely packed workers must communicate with one another amidst the ear-piercing shriek of industrial machinery. I lack the expertise to determine how the refrigerated nature of some meat-processing facilities may affect the dynamics of droplet transmission—though I would also note that at least four of the SSEs on my list unfolded at European ski resorts. But high levels of noise do seem to be a common feature of SSEs, as such environments force conversationalists to speak at extremely close range. (Related factors may be at play in old-age homes. These tend to be quiet places. But the reduced speaking volume and hearing functions of some elderly residents lend themselves to conversations held at much closer range than is socially typical in the general population.) Finally, three of the SSEs involved mass sports spectacles, during which fans regularly rain saliva in all directions as they communally celebrate or commiserate in response to each turn of fortune. (Advance to the 8:30 mark of this video, showing euphoric hometown fan reaction during the infamous February 19th football match between Atlanata and Valencia, and you will see exactly what I mean.) As we now know, the danger starts even before the action begins: One of the most dangerous things you can do at a sports event in the COVID-19 era is sing the national anthem. * * * When do COVID-19 SSEs happen? Based on the list I’ve assembled, the short answer is: Wherever and whenever people are up in each other’s faces, laughing, shouting, cheering, sobbing, singing, greeting, and praying.
“Humanist Conan, what is best in life?”
“Wherever and whenever people are up in each other’s faces, laughing, shouting, cheering, sobbing, singing, greeting, and praying.”
I imagine kissing should also be included in this list.
This is depressing. The accumulating evidence appears to be that most of the grimmer economic activities, outside of perhaps taking the NYC subway to work, aren’t all that dangerous, but the social activities that make getting and spending much more worth living are.
Basically, activities that a Boston Puritan minister of 1650 would have approved of, such as many forms of making money and listening attentively to his sermons, seem less dangerous, while the more dangerous activities are what we tend to think of as either fun or cathartic.
… It’s worth scanning all the myriad forms of common human activity that aren’t represented among these listed SSEs: watching movies in a theater, being on a train or bus, attending theater, opera, or symphony (these latter activities may seem like rarified examples, but they are important once you take stock of all those wealthy infectees who got sick in March, and consider that New York City is a major COVID-19 hot spot). These are activities where people often find themselves surrounded by strangers in densely packed rooms—as with all those above-described SSEs—but, crucially, where attendees also are expected to sit still and talk in hushed tones.
People are all tending to face in the same direction in these venues. And even during intermission, they mostly speak to the people they came with, not to random non-householders.
The world’s untold thousands of white-collar cubicle farms don’t seem to be generating abundant COVID-19 SSEs—despite the uneven quality of ventilation one finds in global workplaces. This category includes call centers (many of which are still operating), places where millions of people around the world literally talk for a living. (Addendum: there are at least two examples of call-centre-based clusters, both of which were indicated to me by readers after the original version of this article appeared—one in South Korea, which overlaps with the massive Shincheonji Church of Jesus cluster; and the other in Jamaica.) In New Zealand, one SSE centered on students at a girls’ school. Given the exuberant and socially intimate way in which children laugh, argue and gossip, I am surprised there are not more schools on my list. Moreover, I had trouble finding any SSEs that originated in university classrooms, which one would expect to be massive engines of infection if COVID-19 could be transmitted easily through airborne small-droplet diffusion. In the United States, the two university-based examples that have received the most media attention are Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va. and the University of Texas. But in neither case was there any apparent connection to classroom activity. At Liberty, where several employees got sick, the one student known to be infected isn’t even currently enrolled in classes. And the UT outbreak, which has caused more than 40 students to be infected, actually took place on a Spring Break trip to Mexico. It’s possible, I suppose, that these students spent the week holed up in a conference room with a stack of books. But my instincts indicate otherwise. It’s similarly notable that airplanes don’t seem to be common sites for known SSEs, notwithstanding the sardine-like manner in which airlines transport us and the ample opportunity that the industry’s bureaucracy offers for contact tracing. Yes, New Zealand has one cluster that’s based around an infected but asymptomatic flight attendant. But the many known infections he caused took place at a wedding reception, not in an airplane. … I’ve already cataloged the limitations of my approach at some length. And I will emphasize again that I am not an epidemiologist, virologist, or infectious-diseases expert (though I like to think I’ve made myself a somewhat educated reader of the most recently published scientific literature in these fields). But even a layperson can see that there is a fairly clear pattern in the most notorious, destructive, and widely reported cases of mass COVID-19 infection—virtually all of which feature forms of human behaviour that permit the direct ballistic delivery of a large-droplet Flüggian payload from face A to face B. If fomites were a major pathway for COVID-19 infection outside of hospitals, old-age residences, and homes, one would expect restaurant cooks, mass-transit ticket handlers, and FedEx delivery workers to be at the center of major clusters. They’re not. If small-droplet airborne concentrations in unventilated spaces were a common vector for COVID-19 transmission (as with measles, for instance), one would expect whole office buildings to become mass-infection hot spots. That doesn’t seem to have happened. … Fighting this disease will always be hard. But it will be harder still if we fail to develop a proper understanding of the precise way it attacks us.
An important unresolved question is if there is a selection bias in these list of superspreader events. For example, imagine that NYC subways were an important avenue of infection. But imagine how much harder a problem the subway poses for contract tracers than, say, a wedding reception with an official invite list.
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vdare--2020-04-23--Patrick J. Buchanan: Big Government—The One Certain Victor In The Pandemic War

"War is the health of the state," wrote the progressive Randolph Bourne during the First World War, after which he succumbed to the Spanish flu.
America's war on the coronavirus pandemic promises to be no exception to the axiom. However long this war requires, the gargantuan state will almost surely emerge triumphant.
Currently, the major expenditures of the U.S. government, as well as a growing share of total federal spending, are Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
None of these programs will be curtailed or reduced this year or next. And if the Democrats win in November, the nation will likely take a great leap forward—toward national health insurance.
Republicans are calling for a suspension until 2021 of payroll taxes used to finance Social Security and Medicare. While that would provide an economic stimulus, it would also blow a huge hole in federal revenue and further enlarge the deficit and national debt.
Even before the virus struck with full force in March, that deficit was projected at or near $1 trillion—not only for fiscal year 2020 but for every year of the new decade.
The next major item of the budget is defense, considered untouchable to the Republican Party. Hence a confident prediction: This generation will never again see a budget deficit smaller than $1 trillion.
Indeed, the $2 trillion lately voted on to save businesses and keep paychecks going to workers will lift the deficit for 2020 above $3 trillion.
As of March 1, 2020, the nation was at full employment, with the lowest jobless rates among women and minorities in our history.
Less than two months later, 26 million Americans are out of work.
These workers will soon begin picking up unemployment checks, a new burden on the federal budget, to which will be added the cost of expanding food stamps, rent supplements and welfare payments.
Consider education.
Though Harvard, with its $41 billion endowment, was shamed into returning the $8.7 million in bailout money coming its way, does anyone believe the stream of U.S. revenue going into higher education will ever fall back to what it was before the pandemic?
As for that $1.5 trillion in student loan debt, is it more likely that vast sum will be paid back by those who incurred the debt, or that it will be piled atop the federal debt?
Congress has already voted to bail out our stressed hospitals.
Now, standing patiently in line for their bailouts, are the states—and America's cities and counties. These governmental units are virtually all certain to face falling tax revenue and expanded social demands, leading to exploding deficits.
Their case: You bailed out the businesses and the hospitals. What about us? When does our turn come?
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, anticipating the mammoth bill for bailing out states and cities, has suggested that governments be allowed to use bankruptcy laws to write down and write off their debts.
Probably not going to happen.
Recall what happened when President Gerald Ford told New York City that Uncle Sam was not going to bail out the Big Apple. "Ford to City: Drop Dead!" was the famous headline splashed across the front page of the New York Daily News.
Ford recanted but did not recover. His perceived callousness in the face of New York City's crisis—though that fiscal crisis was entirely of the city's own making—factored into his defeat by Jimmy Carter.
Donald Trump is not going to give Red State governors facing gaping budget deficits because of the coronavirus crisis the wet mitten across the face. For his political future will be decided by those states.
Still, the cost of bailing them out promises to be enormous and to create a precedent for bailouts without end.
Then there is the clamor, already begun, from, and on behalf of, the Third World. The IMF, World Bank and the West, it is said, have a moral obligation to replace revenue shortfalls these nations are facing from lost remittances from their workers in the developed world.
There is talk of hundreds of billions of dollars in monetary transfers from the world's North to the world's South.
Anti-tax activist Grover Norquist once famously declared: "I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub."
What is more likely to be drowned in that bathtub is the philosophy: "That government governs best which governs least."
What is more likely to be drowned in that bathtub is the philosophy that champions small government, the primacy of the private sector, a belief in "pay as you go," and that "balanced budgets" are the ideal.
Call it Robert Taft conservatism. Today, it appears irrelevant.
Indeed, the one certain victor in the coronavirus pandemic war will likely be Big Government. As John Donne wrote, "No winter shall abate this spring's increase."
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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--2020-04-23--Arlington, VA Using Covid-19 As Racial Handout Excuse

Hans Bader observes that the county government of Arlington, Virginia, where he lives, has announced that it will take the "minority" status of owners into account when handing out emergency business grants.
Government officials are handing out tax dollars based on race and gender, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. One example is in Arlington, Va., where I live. The Arlington County government announced that it will hand out grants to small businesses based on “considerations” such as whether the business is “women and/or minority-owned.” COVID-19 leads to racial preferences, Liberty Unyielding, April 17, 2020
An obvious challenger would be any white small business owner in Arlington who's been denied—or even shortchanged—on a grant.
But Bader notes that a taxpayer might have standing, too.
Might you be that taxpayer?
That's illegal, of course.


vdare--2020-04-21--Trump Has Put An Immigration Moratorium "In Play." Not Enough—But Something


vdare--2020-04-23--From The Email Bag: Confederate Flags, Kizzmekia, And Fleet Street, Etc

(1) In last weekend's podcast I scoffed at Michigan Governess Gretchen Whitmer's claim to have seen "a few" Confederate flags and a swastika at the April 15th anti-lockdown protest rally in Lansing. Thus:
I'm still waiting for some follow-up pictures showing those Confederate flags and that swastika. The thing I'd like to know in the meantime is: What about the noose? You mean to tell me there was a Confederate flag and a swastika but no noose? Impossible!
A Michigan listener puts me right. Yes, there were Confederate flags. "Confederate flags aren't hard to find in rural Michigan," he tells me. He continues:
However, the Governess was being disingenuous on the swastika. As she well knows, those signs weren't being waived BY Nazis, they were being waved by protesters calling HER a Nazi. Naturally, there were counter-protesters waving swastika signs that called Trump and Pence Nazis. You can't have a protest without Nazis, can you?
I guess not, but I'd still like to see an explanation for the total absence of nooses. Although, as numerous listeners reminded me, no noose is good noose.
(2) Several listeners directed me to Tucker Carlson's April 13th segment on immunologist Kizzmekia Corbett, telling me it was right up my alley.
Dr. Corbett, a black lady, is (a) a key researcher in the NIH effort to find a coronavirus vaccine, and also (b) crazy-level woke, with a long Twitter trail hate-hate-hating on white men and alleging a conspiracy by us to commit genocide against blacks.
That puts us up against the interesting question: Is it possible to do high-quality work in hard science while holding nutty beliefs about social and political issues? Probably it is: Several first-rank mathematicians have been borderline crazy in that way.
It is none the less the case that any white person holding such extreme opinions about other races would be unemployable in today's USA, whatever his scientific talents. In a fair society—one that did not privilege any one race over any other—either he would not be unemployable, or Dr. Corbett would be.
(3) In my March Diary I made passing reference to child prodigy Philippa Schuyler.
I didn't know, until a reader told me, that Ms. Schuyler figures in Christopher Othen's 2015 book Katanga 1960-63, which is about the ghastly events surrounding the independence of the Congo from Belgian rule. She narrowly escapes getting raped in Chapter 3. A musician and composer, she had been booked to perform at the Congo's Independence Day celebrations.
In 1962 she published a book of her own about the experience: Who Killed the Congo?
Reading Othen's book I came across this on page 44:
In the departure lounge [of Ndjili airport], a BBC reporter led his camera crew through a crowd of cowering white civilians, looking for interviewees. "Anyone here been raped and speaks English?"
That sentence was legendary among London newspaper folk when I was mixing with them in the mid-1980s, and the occasion of much off-color humor. (Fleet Street hacks were not best known for exquisitely sensitive good taste.) Veteran British reporter Edward Behr actually used it as the title of a 1981 book, "the funniest book on war reporting since Evelyn Waugh's Scoop" according to Behr's Guardian obituary. However:
His American publisher in 1978 made Behr change the title to Bearings: A Foreign Correspondent's Life Behind the Lines, which crimped sales. Behr was not amused and immediately changed it back in all other editions, and they sold briskly outside the US [Edward Behr, Foreign correspondent with a flair for reporting conflicts; The Guardian, August 5, 2007].


vdare--2020-04-23--21% of NYC Grocery Shoppers Have Antibodies

From the New York Times:
1 in 5 New Yorkers May Have Had Covid-19, Antibody Tests Suggest By J. David Goodman and Michael Rothfeld
April 23, 2020, Updated 6:35 p.m. ET One of every five New York City residents tested positive for antibodies to the coronavirus, according to preliminary results described by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo on Thursday that suggested that the virus had spread far more widely than known. If the pattern holds, the results from random testing of 3,000 people raised the tantalizing prospect that many New Yorkers — as many as 2.7 million, the governor said — who never knew they had been infected had already encountered the virus, and survived. Mr. Cuomo also said that such wide infection might mean that the death rate was far lower than believed. While the reliability of some early antibody tests has been widely questioned, researchers in New York have worked in recent weeks to develop and validate their own antibody tests, with federal approval. … In New York City, about 21 percent tested positive for coronavirus antibodies during the state survey.
Most estimates of the herd immunity level would therefore put NYC at about 1/3rd of the way there, which is substantial.
The rate was about 17 percent on Long Island, nearly 12 percent in Westchester and Rockland Counties and less than 4 percent in the rest of the state. State researchers sampled blood from the approximately 3,000 people they had tested over two days, including about 1,300 in New York City, at grocery and big-box stores.
So 1300 of the 3000 were out and about shopping. Where and who were the other people?
… Dr. Howard A. Zucker, the state health commissioner, said the lab had set a high bar for determining positive results … He said that while concerns about some tests on the market were valid, the state’s test was reliable enough to determine immunity — and, possibly, send people back to the office. “It is a way to say this person had the disease and they can go back into the work force,” Dr. Zucker said. “A strong test like we have can tell you that you have antibodies.” But he cautioned that the length of any such immunity remained unknown. “The amount of time, we need to see. We don’t know that yet,” he said, adding, “They will last a while.” … Dr. Demetre C. Daskalakis, the city’s top official for disease control, wrote in an email alert on Wednesday that such tests “may produce false negative or false positive results,” pointing to “significant voids” in using the science to pinpoint immunity. … Dr. Michael Osterholm, an infectious disease expert at the University of Minnesota, praised the overall intent of New York’s study, but said the results in this case probably skew to a higher estimate than is real because a survey of grocery store shoppers in a pandemic would not be representative.
A small test of people out on the street in the Chelsea barrio of Boston found 1/3rd infected.
The sampling may disproportionately include those who have either already had the illness, or those who naturally tend to go out more and so are more likely to be exposed to the virus, he said. It would miss children, teenagers and older adults who may be sheltering in place. “It’s not a criticism. It’s more of a comment that we have to be careful about interpreting supermarket customers as a representative sample when the state was in lockdown,” he said. State officials said the test had been calibrated to err on the side of producing false negatives — to miss some who may have antibodies — rather than false positives, which would suggest a person had coronavirus antibodies when they did not. … Mr. Cuomo on Thursday did not talk about any potential for immunity among those previously infected. But he did suggest, based on the survey, that if as many as 2.7 million New Yorkers had the virus, the death rate in New York from Covid-19 would most likely be far lower than previously believed, possibly 0.5 percent of those infected. More than 15,000 people have died of the virus in the state, a figure that does not include an additional 5,000 people in New York City who were never tested but were presumed to have died from the disease.
As of yesterday, New York City was at 15,740 official CV deaths, which include 5,000 who weren’t tested for CV. The population of New York City was 8.4 million people in 2018, so 15,740/(.21)*8,400,000 = 0.9% Infection Fatality Rate in NYC if this 21% Infection Rate is representative.
Now there are two time related problems.
First, antibodies don’t develop immediately, so the cumulative Infection Rate would likely be higher than the 21%. That would tend to lower the final IFR.
Second, and pushing in the opposite direction, not everybody who will die of an existing infection has already died. That would push the final IFR higher.
How to balance out the two factors is beyond me at present.
Somebody needs to figure how many more of the currently infected are likely to die in NYC. There are currently about 15,000 people in New York State hospitalized with CV.
If NYC is 1/3rd of the way to herd immunity, then 3 times the current 15,740 deaths would be about 47,000 deaths in NYC. But maybe the equation would be more like 3 times 25,000 or 75,000 total deaths.
… Mr. Cuomo said antibody testing results, along with hospitalization numbers, would influence the state’s reopening strategy, noting that the number of people being hospitalized was still too high to consider easing restrictions. The state’s plan would involve tracking infections as restrictions are loosened on gatherings and businesses. Antibody testing would be used, Mr. Cuomo said, for identifying coronavirus survivors who can donate convalescent plasma — the part of the blood that contains antibodies.
Plasma treatment is quite promising, although I’m not aware of it being proven yet to work in this case. The challenging logistics of it are easier to make work later in an epidemic when there are large numbers of recovered blood donors.
[Comment at Unz.com]