vdare--2020-04-02--Jon Entine Goes There—Suggests Race May Explain Why Africa Is a WuFlu “Cold Spot”

We are getting perilously close to being allowed to discuss race and ethnic differences in susceptibility to Covid-19—ironically , in part because leading Democrats are sniffing for “ racism.
” Jon Entine , who first became prominent 20 years ago with his book on race and sport Taboo : Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports and Why We ’ re Afraid to Talk About It , has broken cover in a co-authored article on the website of his Genetic Literacy Project [ What ’ s ‘ race ’ got to do with it ?
Most of sub-Saharan Africa emerges as coronavirus @ @ @ @ @ @ @ offer clues to finding COVID-19 vaccine , By Jon Entine & Patrick Whittle , Genetic Literacy Project , March 31 , 2020 ] .
Perhaps this will do for the race-disease nexus what his book did for the race-sport nexus ; that is , compel the Mains Stream Media finally to talk about it .
Back in 2001 , Entine actually wrote about Taboo ’ s findings for VDARE.com , his article having been originally commissioned by the Boston Herald before being pulled for the usual cowardly reasons .
But twenty years of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on Entine : he does a fair amount of grovelling in this new article .
Thus , after asking the perfectly sensible question “ Do diseases discriminate on the basis of race ?
” Entine feels compelled to write : But he concedes that the answer is “ yes ” and marshals some of the theoretical explanations for this .
Again , this has to be peppered with bows and curtsies to the Multiculturalist bishops , such as “ Despite the fact that the social conception of ‘ race ’ does not neatly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” In fact , however , it has been shown that popular notions of “ races ” do effectively parallel the “ genetic clusters ” into which humans have been demonstrated to divide ( see On Genetic Interests , by Frank Salter , 2006 ) .
But Entine does report frankly that—as of March 30th , according to the World Health Organization—Africa has among the fewest per capita deaths from Covid-19 ; the lowest of any region in the world .
Sub-Saharan Africa has been almost entirely spared , with the exception of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ranked 39th in the international league of per capita Covid-19 cases .
South Africa , of course , is multiracial .
Entine then presents a well-argued theoretical case for race being directly relevant to Africa ’ s lack of Covid-19 deaths .
There are caveats , of course .
Lack of infrastructure may have made the spread of the virus difficult .
So might sparse populations , though Lagos in Nigeria is one of the most densely-populated cities in the world .
There may be under-testing due to poverty and poor medical facilities @ @ @ @ @ @ @ old people in Africa .
Entine doesn ’ t provide the figures in making this claim , so I will .
According to Worldometer , as of March 31st , in Nigeria there have been 139 cases and 2 deaths , a mortality rate of 1.4 % .
In Italy , with its far-superior medical facilities and testing capacity , there have been 105,792 cases and 12,428 ; a mortality rate of 11.7 % .
Entine sets the stage by noting that genetic factors have long been cited to explain why Africans appear @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and HIV .
African genetics increases the likelihood of being infected by the most common form of HIV , when exposed to it , by 40 % .
He observes that there are race differences in the prevalence of many conditions—such as Sickle Cell Anemia—for evolutionary reasons : they stay in the population because if you have one “ faulty ” allele then there is a positive result , such as immunity to malaria .
And he cites serious medical and scientific authorities—to reassure his mid-wit , credentialist readers—that race is , actually @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of evolution to different ecologies , and , thus , there are race differences in virus susceptibility .
Disappointingly , Entine fails to go into any further detail regarding why Africans might be less susceptible to Covid-19 .
So , let ’ s imagine that Entine was still writing for VDARE.com and suggest some reasons .
• None Susceptibility to Covid-19 has been found to be associated with a high expression of the ACE2 receptor gene in the lungs .
A recent study has found that Africans are considerably lower than East Asians @ @ @ @ @ @ @ though slightly higher than Europeans [ Comparative genetic analysis of the novel coronavirus ( 2019-nCoV/SARS-CoV-2 ) receptor ACE2 in different populations , By Y. Cao et al.
, Cell Discovery , 2020 ] .
• None Susceptibility to the Coronavirus has been found to be negatively associated with having a genetic propensity to absorb Vitamin C Africans are particularly high in the Vitamin C-friendly haptoglobin variant Hp 1 , according to a study in the International Journal of Laboratory Haematology [ Haptoglobin : a review of the major allele frequencies worldwide and their @ @ @ @ @ @ @ & Mark Worwood , March 6,2007 ] and East Asians are especially low in it .
In other words , Africans are genetically good at absorbing Vitamin C. Across Africa , roughly 50 % of people carry the Vitamin C-friendly variant and in some African countries , it is as high as 70 % .
In the US , 41 % of Whites carry this variant , compared to 55 % of Blacks , and 52 % of Hispanics , but only 31 % of Asians .
• None There is some evidence @ @ @ @ @ @ @ more susceptible to Kung Flu , whereas those with O are less so [ Relationship between the ABO Blood Group and the COVID-19 Susceptibility , Jiao Zhou et al.
, medRxiv , 2020 ] .
Blood type varies Blood type O is highest among Africans .
It is carried by 51 % of African Americans , compared to 45 % of Whites , and 40 % of Asians .
Blood type A , which is associated with Covid-19 susceptibility , is carried by 26 % of African Americans and 40 % of Whites @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ?
, By Rachael Rettner , Live Science , April 1 , 2019 ] .
• None Blacks were relatively resistant to the Spanish Flu pandemic .
The races and ethnic groups that have suffered so acutely from Covid-19—Chinese , Italians and Iranians—were the same groups who were particularly badly impacted when Spanish Flu swept the US in 1918 .
But there was another minority group that somehow managed to avoid the worst ravages this particularly nasty form of novel influenza : Blacks .
According to the journal Public Health Reports : And @ @ @ @ @ @ @ According to one study of influenza vaccines , when exposed to flu , “ African Americans mounted higher virus neutralizing and IgG antibody responses to the H1N1 component of IIV3 or 4 compared to Caucasians ” [ Race-related differences in antibody responses to the inactivated influenza vaccine are linked to distinct pre-vaccination gene expression profiles in blood , By Raj Kurupati et al.
, Oncotarget , 2016 ] .
Put simply , the African immune system is better at fighting off influenza than the white immune system .
And this part of a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ crucial theoretical issue that Entine and Whittle don ’ t mention : Dysgenics .
Africa is the last continent to industrialize .
Richard Lynn has shown in his book Dysgenics that industrialization creates better public health and offers inoculation against killer childhood diseases .
The result : child mortality , which was 50 % in Europe in 1800 , collapsed , now down to 1 % .
But high child mortality purged populations of children with mutant genes that resulted in poorer immune systems and would manifest as other genetic defects if they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ survive and have children , leading , as Lynn documents , to an increasingly genetically sick population .
Africa , being less industrialized and having a child mortality rate 15 times higher than the West [ Under-five Mortality , Unicef , September 2019 ] is genetically fitter , making its people better able to survive many kinds of illness .
Possibly consistent with this , it has been found that Europeans have weaker immune systems than Africans [ Genetic Adaptation and Neandertal Admixture Shaped the Immune System of Human Populations , by Helene @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ] .
Taken together , these different strands of evidence suggest the reason the Kung Flu is not scything its way through Africa in the way that some commentators predicted .
There ’ s no need to sugar coat it in PC language : Race is a biological reality .
Africans , by virtue of the genes that are more prevalent in that race , appear to be less susceptible to Covid-19 .
This may be why so few of them are dying , compared to Italians .
I conclude , again , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 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 .

We are getting perilously close to being allowed to discuss race and ethnic differences in susceptibility to Covid-19—ironically, in part because leading Democrats are sniffing for “racism.” Jon Entine, who first became prominent 20 years ago with his book on race and sport Taboo: Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports and Why We’re Afraid to Talk About It, has broken cover in a co-authored article on the website of his Genetic Literacy Project [What’s ‘race’ got to do with it? Most of sub-Saharan Africa emerges as coronavirus ‘cold spot’, which may offer clues to finding COVID-19 vaccine, By Jon Entine & Patrick Whittle, Genetic Literacy Project, March 31, 2020]. Perhaps this will do for the race-disease nexus what his book did for the race-sport nexus; that is, compel the Main Stream Media finally to talk about it.
Back in 2001, Entine actually wrote about Taboo’s findings for VDARE.com, his article having been originally commissioned by the Boston Herald before being pulled for the usual cowardly reasons. But twenty years of Politically Correctness has clearly taken its toll on Entine: he does a fair amount of grovelling in this new article.
Thus, after asking the perfectly sensible question “Do diseases discriminate on the basis of race?” Entine feels compelled to write:
this may seem like an inflammatory question, bringing together the loaded term “discriminate” and the contentious and the historically problematic concept of ”race”—all set against the xenophobic backdrop of the current Covid-19 pandemic…
But he concedes that the answer is “yes” and marshals some of the theoretical explanations for this. Again, this has to be peppered with bows and curtsies to the Multiculturalist bishops, such as “Despite the fact that the social conception of ‘race’ does not neatly mirror human biological differences . . .” In fact, however, it has been shown that popular notions of “races” do effectively parallel the “genetic clusters” into which humans have been demonstrated to divide (see On Genetic Interests, by Frank Salter, 2006).
But Entine does report frankly that—as of March 30th, according to the World Health Organization—Africa has among the fewest per capita deaths from Covid-19; the lowest of any region in the world.
Sub-Saharan Africa has been almost entirely spared, with the exception of South Africa, a hot spot currently ranked 39th in the international league of per capita Covid-19 cases. South Africa, of course, is multiracial.
Entine then presents a well-argued theoretical case for race being directly relevant to Africa’s lack of Covid-19 deaths.
There are caveats, of course. Lack of infrastructure may have made the spread of the virus difficult. So might sparse populations, though Lagos in Nigeria is one of the most densely-populated cities in the world. There may be under-testing due to poverty and poor medical facilities. And there are fewer per capita old people in Africa.
But, asserts Entine,
even granting those differences, the disparity in cases and deaths among Africans as compared to the rest of the world is striking.
Entine doesn’t provide the figures in making this claim, so I will. According to Worldometer, as of March 31st, in Nigeria there have been 139 cases and 2 deaths, a mortality rate of 1.4%. In Italy, with its far-superior medical facilities and testing capacity, there have been 105,792 cases and 12,428; a mortality rate of 11.7%.
Entine sets the stage by noting that genetic factors have long been cited to explain why Africans appear to be more vulnerable both to TB and HIV. African genetics increases the likelihood of being infected by the most common form of HIV, when exposed to it, by 40%.
He observes that there are race differences in the prevalence of many conditions—such as Sickle Cell Anemia—for evolutionary reasons: they stay in the population because if you have one “faulty” allele then there is a positive result, such as immunity to malaria. And he cites serious medical and scientific authorities—to reassure his mid-wit, credentialist readers—that race is, actually, biological. It is a matter of evolution to different ecologies, and, thus, there are race differences in virus susceptibility.
Disappointingly, Entine fails to go into any further detail regarding why Africans might be less susceptible to Covid-19. So, let’s imagine that Entine was still writing for VDARE.com and suggest some reasons.
Susceptibility to Covid-19 has been found to be associated with a high expression of the ACE2 receptor gene in the lungs.
A recent study has found that Africans are considerably lower than East Asians in the expression of ACE2 receptors, though slightly higher than Europeans [Comparative genetic analysis of the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV/SARS-CoV-2) receptor ACE2 in different populations, By Y. Cao et al., Cell Discovery, 2020].
Susceptibility to the Coronavirus has been found to be negatively associated with having a genetic propensity to absorb Vitamin C
Africans are particularly high in the Vitamin C-friendly haptoglobin variant Hp 1, according to a study in the International Journal of Laboratory Haematology [Haptoglobin: a review of the major allele frequencies worldwide and their association with diseases, by Kymberley Carter & Mark Worwood, March 6,2007] and East Asians are especially low in it. In other words, Africans are genetically good at absorbing Vitamin C. Across Africa, roughly 50% of people carry the Vitamin C-friendly variant and in some African countries, it is as high as 70%. In the US, 41% of Whites carry this variant, compared to 55% of Blacks, and 52% of Hispanics, but only 31% of Asians.
There is some evidence that those with Blood Type A are more susceptible to Kung Flu, whereas those with O are less so [Relationship between the ABO Blood Group and the COVID-19 Susceptibility, Jiao Zhou et al., medRxiv, 2020]. Blood type varies
Blood type O is highest among Africans. It is carried by 51% of African Americans, compared to 45% of Whites, and 40% of Asians. Blood type A, which is associated with Covid-19 susceptibility, is carried by 26% of African Americans and 40% of Whites [What's the Rarest Blood Type?, By Rachael Rettner, Live Science, April 1, 2019].
Blacks were relatively resistant to the Spanish Flu pandemic.
The races and ethnic groups that have suffered so acutely from Covid-19—Chinese, Italians and Iranians—were the same groups who were particularly badly impacted when Spanish Flu swept the US in 1918. But there was another minority group that somehow managed to avoid the worst ravages this particularly nasty form of novel influenza: Blacks.
According to the journal Public Health Reports:
Contradicting prevailing theories about African Americans' increased susceptibility to disease, it appears that during the 1918 epidemic the incidence of influenza was lower in African Americans [“There Wasn't a Lot of Comforts in Those Days:” African Americans, Public Health, and the 1918 Influenza Epidemic, Vanessa Northington Gamble, 2010].
And why were African American less susceptible? According to one study of influenza vaccines, when exposed to flu, “African Americans mounted higher virus neutralizing and IgG antibody responses to the H1N1 component of IIV3 or 4 compared to Caucasians” [Race-related differences in antibody responses to the inactivated influenza vaccine are linked to distinct pre-vaccination gene expression profiles in blood, By Raj Kurupati et al., Oncotarget, 2016].
Put simply, the African immune system is better at fighting off influenza than the white immune system.
And this part of a more general trend. There is a crucial theoretical issue that Entine and Whittle don’t mention: Dysgenics.
Africa is the last continent to industrialize. Richard Lynn has shown in his book Dysgenics that industrialization creates better public health and offers inoculation against killer childhood diseases. The result: child mortality, which was 50% in Europe in 1800, collapsed, now down to 1%.
But high child mortality purged populations of children with mutant genes that resulted in poorer immune systems and would manifest as other genetic defects if they survived. These people began to increasingly survive and have children, leading, as Lynn documents, to an increasingly genetically sick population. Africa, being less industrialized and having a child mortality rate 15 times higher than the West [Under-five Mortality, Unicef, September 2019] is genetically fitter, making its people better able to survive many kinds of illness.
Possibly consistent with this, it has been found that Europeans have weaker immune systems than Africans [Genetic Adaptation and Neandertal Admixture Shaped the Immune System of Human Populations, by Helene Quach et al., Cell, 2016].
Taken together, these different strands of evidence suggest the reason the Kung Flu is not scything its way through Africa in the way that some commentators predicted.
There’s no need to sugar coat it in PC language: Race is a biological reality. Africans, by virtue of the genes that are more prevalent in that race, appear to be less susceptible to Covid-19. This may be why so few of them are dying, compared to Italians.
I conclude, again, by drawing my now-traditional moral:
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--2020-04-02--Trump World Comes After Sessions, But Immigrant Patriot Message Still A Winner In Alabama

Jeff Sessions ’ s Senate candidate benefited by the postponement of the Alabama Republican run-off to July .
His chances looked grim with the original date of March 31st and Donald Trump ’ s endorsement of his opponent , Tommy Tuberville , fresh in voters ’ minds .
The extra time gives Sessions the chance to negate the setback of Trump ’ s betrayal and convince Alabamians he ’ s the real Trumpist in the race .
The NRA ’ s recent endorsement of his campaign shows he still has a chance .
However , powerful figures in Trump World @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s campaign .
The Trump campaign sent a letter demanding that Sessions , who was the president ’ s first attorney general , stop referencing Trump in ads and mailers .
The campaign told Sessions that he is “ delusional ” for asserting he was the president ’ s number one supporter .
The letter emphasized Trump ’ s support for Tuberville and his lack of support for Sessions .
[ President ’ s Campaign Calls Sessions ‘ Delusional ’ for Tying Himself to Trump , by Maggie Haberman and Annie Karni , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 2020 ] Sessions ’ s campaign said that they will disregard the Trump campaign ’ s demands and continue to speak the truth about the candidate ’ s support for the president .
Disconcertingly , one of the most America First legislators endorsed Tuberville against Sessions .
Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz endorsed Tuberville on Monday .
Sessions mocked the endorsement in kind .
This is a mark against Gaetz assuming the leadership mantle in a post-Trump GOP .
No one better articulates the national populist message Trump won on than Jeff Sessions .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ result of the congressman wanting to curry favor with Trump , anger over Sessions ’ s recusal in the Russia investigation , and Sessions ’ s firm opposition toward marijuana legalization .
Gaetz supports marijuana legalization and attacked Sessions ’ crackdown on the drug as AG .
[ Matt Gaetz : Marijuana policy shift 'heartless and cold ' , by Kevin Robinson , Pensacola News Journal , January 5 , 2018 ] But Sessions shouldn ’ t let this get him down .
He still can turn this race around .
His nationalist @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by the coronavirus .

washingtonwatcherii@protonmail.com (Washington  Watcher II)

Jeff Sessions’s Senate candidate benefited by the postponement of the Alabama Republican run-off to July. His chances looked grim with the original date of March 31st and Donald Trump’s endorsement of his opponent, Tommy Tuberville, fresh in voters’ minds.
The extra time gives Sessions the chance to negate the setback of Trump’s betrayal and convince Alabamians he’s the real Trumpist in the race. The NRA’s recent endorsement of his campaign shows he still has a chance.
HEY, ALABAMA! The smartest group in the U.S. has endorsed JEFF SESSIONS.
The NRA knows what will happen to gun rights in America under Tuberville's cheap labor immigration policies. #DontScrewUpAgainAlabamahttps://t.co/wdUHqbWlXC — Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) March 13, 2020
However, powerful figures in Trump World want to further stomp on Sessions’s campaign.
The Trump campaign sent a letter demanding that Sessions, who was the president’s first attorney general, stop referencing Trump in ads and mailers. The campaign told Sessions that he is “delusional” for asserting he was the president’s number one supporter. The letter emphasized Trump’s support for Tuberville and his lack of support for Sessions. [President’s Campaign Calls Sessions ‘Delusional’ for Tying Himself to Trump, by Maggie Haberman and Annie Karni, New York Times, April 2, 2020]
Sessions’s campaign said that they will disregard the Trump campaign’s demands and continue to speak the truth about the candidate’s support for the president.
Disconcertingly, one of the most America First legislators endorsed Tuberville against Sessions. Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz endorsed Tuberville on Monday. Sessions mocked the endorsement in kind.
Tommy Tuberville’s Congressman from Florida has endorsed him. Seems fair, @TTuberville voted for him in 2018, where he lives, in Florida. https://t.co/EO26loYdDB — Jeff Sessions (@jeffsessions) March 30, 2020
This is a mark against Gaetz assuming the leadership mantle in a post-Trump GOP. No one better articulates the national populist message Trump won on than Jeff Sessions. Gaetz’s endorsement is likely a result of the congressman wanting to curry favor with Trump, anger over Sessions’s recusal in the Russia investigation, and Sessions’s firm opposition toward marijuana legalization.
Gaetz supports marijuana legalization and attacked Sessions’ crackdown on the drug as AG. [Matt Gaetz: Marijuana policy shift 'heartless and cold', by Kevin Robinson, Pensacola News Journal, January 5, 2018]
It’s a disappointing move for a promising politician.
But Sessions shouldn’t let this get him down. He still can turn this race around. His nationalist platform is perfect in the climate created by the coronavirus.


vdare--2020-04-02--Patrick J. Buchanan: When It's Over, Will We Be the Same America?

`` Depend upon it , sir , when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight , it concentrates his mind wonderfully , '' said Samuel Johnson .
And as it is with men , so it is with nations .
Monday , Dr. Deborah Birx , White House coronavirus response coordinator , projected some 100,000 to 200,000 U.S. deaths from the pandemic , `` if we do things almost perfectly . ''
She agreed with Dr. Anthony Fauci 's estimate that , if we do `` nothing , '' the American dead could reach 2.2 million @ @ @ @ @ @ @ twice as many dead as have perished in all our wars from the American Revolution to the Civil War , World War I and II , and Korea and Vietnam .
This does indeed concentrate the mind wonderfully .
Now add to this slaughter of our countrymen a market plunge steeper than the 1929 Crash and a 1930s-style Depression .
Wall Street analysts are talking of a wipeout of 30 % of our GDP and unemployment reaching 35 % .
On March 3 , Super Tuesday , we were caught up in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ stunning victory in South Carolina , which broke the momentum of Sen. Bernie Sanders ' wins in Iowa , New Hampshire and Nevada .
What March 2020 produced and what it appears to portend is a sea change in U.S. history , an inflection point , an event after which things never return to what they were .
The coronavirus crisis seems to be one of those epochal events that alter the character of the country and the course of the republic .
Consider what has happened in three weeks .
The Republican @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and balanced budgets , approved with but a single dissent a $ 2 trillion emergency bill .
There is talk now of a second $ 2 trillion bill , this one for infrastructure .
In a single month then , a Republican Senate and president grew the federal budget by 50 % and are looking to double that .
For years , Democrats raised alarms about Trump 's poaching of the powers of the other branches .
Now Democrats are demanding to know why Trump has not shut down the economy by presidential @ @ @ @ @ @ @ powers to order U.S. companies to produce what the nation 's hospitals demand .
Democrats who long accused Trump of xenophobia and racism for seeking to close the borders to migrants entering the country illegally are now silent as Trump closes America to the world .
First Amendment free press champions are calling for Trump 's White House briefings not to be carried on TV because the president is spouting propaganda and lies .
The problem : The people are watching and approving of what the media think the people ought not see @ @ @ @ @ @ @ jettison lifelong beliefs like this readily , how enduring will their professed belief in democracy itself prove ?
The president thinks this will be a V-shaped recession , that once the economy hits bottom and turns up , it will soar , as in 1946 when pent-up demand from World War II was unleashed and America began to churn out cars and consumer good as rapidly as it had weapons of war .
Perhaps .
But put me down as a skeptic .
You ca n't go home again .
The shattering events @ @ @ @ @ @ @ coming in April and May , will have lasting impacts on the hearts and minds of this generation .
That once-insatiable appetite for Chinese-made goods at the mall—will it really return ?
Will Americans , after having `` socially distanced '' for months from family and friends , be reassured of their safety and pack into restaurants in July ?
Observing the carrier Theodore Roosevelt in Guam offloading scores of sailors infected with coronavirus , will Americans be up for a clash with a China that is even today asserting its claims to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ who survive this crisis care whether Iranian-backed Shiites dominate Iraq or Saudi-backed Sunni prevail in Yemen ?
If March shocked this nation as severely as 9/11 , what is coming may be even more sobering .
Are millions of unemployed workers without the cash to pay for or to find medicine and groceries likely to stay indoors for weeks or months ?
All those criminals being given early release from virus-infested jails and prisons without the means to provide for themselves and their families , how will they react to weeks of mandatory @ @ @ @ @ @ @ its thousands of members , and its rival gangs that live off narcotics sales , comply ?
Americans have done well in staying home in March .
Will they do so through April , May and perhaps June ?
Or will the system gradually break down just as the second wave of the virus in the fall appears ?
In times of crisis in America , there is a tradition of self-sacrifice .
But there have also almost always been not a few whose mindset is that of the Fort Lauderdale spring-breakers .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ 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 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Fight ” —Pat Buchanan ’ s Nixon Book Provides Road Map For Trump .

"Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully," said Samuel Johnson.
And as it is with men, so it is with nations.
Monday, Dr. Deborah Birx, White House coronavirus response coordinator, projected some 100,000 to 200,000 U.S. deaths from the pandemic, "if we do things almost perfectly." She agreed with Dr. Anthony Fauci's estimate that, if we do "nothing," the American dead could reach 2.2 million.
That 2 million figure would be twice as many dead as have perished in all our wars from the American Revolution to the Civil War, World War I and II, and Korea and Vietnam.
This does indeed concentrate the mind wonderfully.
Now add to this slaughter of our countrymen a market plunge steeper than the 1929 Crash and a 1930s-style Depression. Wall Street analysts are talking of a wipeout of 30% of our GDP and unemployment reaching 35%.
What a difference a month can make.
On March 3, Super Tuesday, we were caught up in the 14 primary contests after Joe Biden's stunning victory in South Carolina, which broke the momentum of Sen. Bernie Sanders' wins in Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada.
What March 2020 produced and what it appears to portend is a sea change in U.S. history, an inflection point, an event after which things never return to what they were.
The coronavirus crisis seems to be one of those epochal events that alter the character of the country and the course of the republic.
Consider what has happened in three weeks.
The Republican Party, the party of small government and balanced budgets, approved with but a single dissent a $2 trillion emergency bill. There is talk now of a second $2 trillion bill, this one for infrastructure.
In a single month then, a Republican Senate and president grew the federal budget by 50% and are looking to double that.
For years, Democrats raised alarms about Trump's poaching of the powers of the other branches. Now Democrats are demanding to know why Trump has not shut down the economy by presidential decree and not used his latent dictatorial powers to order U.S. companies to produce what the nation's hospitals demand.
Democrats who long accused Trump of xenophobia and racism for seeking to close the borders to migrants entering the country illegally are now silent as Trump closes America to the world.
First Amendment free press champions are calling for Trump's White House briefings not to be carried on TV because the president is spouting propaganda and lies. The problem: The people are watching and approving of what the media think the people ought not see.
If people in a crisis will jettison lifelong beliefs like this readily, how enduring will their professed belief in democracy itself prove?
The president thinks this will be a V-shaped recession, that once the economy hits bottom and turns up, it will soar, as in 1946 when pent-up demand from World War II was unleashed and America began to churn out cars and consumer good as rapidly as it had weapons of war.
Perhaps. But put me down as a skeptic. You can't go home again. The shattering events of March, followed by what is coming in April and May, will have lasting impacts on the hearts and minds of this generation.
That once-insatiable appetite for Chinese-made goods at the mall—will it really return? Will Americans, after having "socially distanced" for months from family and friends, be reassured of their safety and pack into restaurants in July?
Observing the carrier Theodore Roosevelt in Guam offloading scores of sailors infected with coronavirus, will Americans be up for a clash with a China that is even today asserting its claims to the South China Sea?
Will Americans who survive this crisis care whether Iranian-backed Shiites dominate Iraq or Saudi-backed Sunni prevail in Yemen?
If March shocked this nation as severely as 9/11, what is coming may be even more sobering.
Are millions of unemployed workers without the cash to pay for or to find medicine and groceries likely to stay indoors for weeks or months?
All those criminals being given early release from virus-infested jails and prisons without the means to provide for themselves and their families, how will they react to weeks of mandatory sheltering in place?
Will MS-13 and its thousands of members, and its rival gangs that live off narcotics sales, comply?
Americans have done well in staying home in March. Will they do so through April, May and perhaps June? Or will the system gradually break down just as the second wave of the virus in the fall appears?
In times of crisis in America, there is a tradition of self-sacrifice.
But there have also almost always been not a few whose mindset is that of the Fort Lauderdale spring-breakers.
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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--2020-04-02--Kritarchs Strike Again Behind China Virus

The pandemic panic has again struck at immigration enforcement .
Another kritarch has ordered the release of two illegal aliens based on a claim that if a minor is released from custody , that minor ’ s parent must also be released .
The kritarch in this case is not named , but previously a judge had denied the demand from the Treason Bar that both be released , while the government was offering to release the minor to her illegal alien mother who was already in the United States .
First the bad decision , there is now a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from custody and to have a parent freed from custody as well .
Above , Alien Smuggler , Mrs. H , The Smuggled Aliens , Mr. H and Maddie Maddie , the 7-year-old Guatemalan girl who spent a record 250 days at the Berks County immigrant detention center , left the facility with her father on Tuesday after a key legal ruling , the family ’ s lawyer confirmed .
The two were on their way to reunite with Maddie ’ s mother in New Jersey on Tuesday night .
It will be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as “ Mr .
H. ” in court , will meet his newborn son .
“ Daddy , why are you crying ?
” the child asked as her father wept after the release .
They walked free a day after a federal judge in Washington , D.C. , ruled that amid the pandemic , the same standards that apply to migrant children should apply to their parents — including prompt release from custody whenever possible .
[ Guatemalan Girl And Her Father Freed From Berks Immigrant Detention Center , by Jeff Gammage @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 2020 ] This is all the more strange as just a few short months ago a Federal Judge , Joshua Wolson , had ruled that there is no basis for a minor to claim the Constitution requires that the minor and any parent must be released from immigration custody .
Presumeably these are two different judges , though I would not put it past that the Wu Flu panic has had an influence over a otherwise intelligent judge .
A 7-year-old Guatemalan child who has spent a record 210 days at the Berks @ @ @ @ @ @ @ accompanied by her father , after a federal judge ruled Wednesday that the family “ must show more than noble goals and an empathetic case ” to win their joint release .
U.S. District Judge Joshua D. Wolson wrote that while he sympathized with the girl , known as Maddie , and her father , called Mr. H in court , they find themselves in a difficult position that is “ largely of Mr. H ’ s making.
” The father and Maddie were detained last spring after illegally entering the United States @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is free to go to her mother in New Jersey at any time , the court noted .
But the petitioners did not show that either of them has a right to demand that the father be released along with his child .
The judge called Maddie “ an unfortunate victim of circumstance.
” But to prevail the family must show that they were likely to ultimately win their legal claim on the merits , and they failed to do that , the judge wrote… Judge Wolson wrote flatly : “ Mr .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ a right to release with the other so that they can be together as a family .
No such right exists , however.
” [ After A Record 210 Days , A 7-Year-Old Guatemalan Girl Can Leave Pa .
Immigrant Detention Center , But Her Dad Can ’ t , by Jeff Gammage , Philadelphia Inquirer , January 23 , 2020 ] Interestingly , Judge Wolson has been more discerning than U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ( ICE ) , noting that the illegal aliens involved , unnamed for some reason , are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the United States illegally .
The court cited its own concerns , however , that “ this particular family might flee , given the concerted effort they have made to come to this country , ” and given what looked like coordination for Maddie and her father to enter the country while the mother was here on a visa .
She subsequently gave birth to a son , a U.S. citizen .
“ All of this indicates that the family is committed to staying here , regardless of the legality of doing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Though the mother is at risk of deportation , she has not been placed in removal proceedings .
The girl ’ s father had sought asylum for both of them after entering the United States illegally , saying they had been threatened by violence in Guatemala , and also in Mexico , where federal authorities had said the two had to wait before their asylum claim could be heard .
Judge Wolson has observed that this whole series of events was deliberate scheme by this family to immigration to the United States illegally @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , the wife and mother , fraudulently obtained an non-immigrant visa to enter the United States for some other stated purpose than living in the United States .
Then , she gave birth to an anchor baby .
Next , since her husband and first child could not obtain non-immigrant visas , they crossed Mexico , despite his claims of fear of violence in Mexico , and entered the United States illegally , surrendering themselves to the Border Patrol .
Clearly they were smuggled to the United States as part of this scheme @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the cost of smuggling paid by the illegal employment of the first one in the United States .
Shockingly , the Deep State saboteurs at ICE have failed to arrest the mother , either at her illegal employment or at her home after her picture was published in the newspaper .
Immigration patriots can call Brian Michael , Special Agent-in-Charge of ICE SVU in New Jersey and politely ask him why “ Mrs .
H ” has not been arrested , as well as why his office has not identified and raided her @ @ @ @ @ @ @ New Jersey is doing nothing about illegal employment , visa fraud , false statements , or alien smuggling schemes .
By not arresting “ Mrs .
H , ” ICE SVU and Michael are essentially aiding the original alien smuggling crime , similarly condemned in other cases by a Federal Judge , Andrew Hanen , when confronting the Obama Regime Administrative Amnesty for alien smugglers .
Michael can be reached here at :

The pandemic panic has again struck at immigration enforcement. Another kritarch has ordered the release of two illegal aliens based on a claim that if a minor is released from custody, that minor’s parent must also be released. The kritarch in this case is not named, but previously a judge had denied the demand from the Treason Bar that both be released, while the government was offering to release the minor to her illegal alien mother who was already in the United States.
First the bad decision, there is now a right for illegal alien minors to freed from custody and to have a parent freed from custody as well.
DEVELOPING STORY: Maddie, 7, and her father have left the Berks immigration detention center together. The girl spent more time inside than any child currently held in family detention. @ALT_uscis, @Haleaziz, @ImmigrActivists https://t.co/weXM8QIGrt — Jeff Gammage (@JeffGammage) March 31, 2020
Above, Alien Smuggler, Mrs. H, The Smuggled Aliens, Mr. H and Maddie
Maddie, the 7-year-old Guatemalan girl who spent a record 250 days at the Berks County immigrant detention center, left the facility with her father on Tuesday after a key legal ruling, the family’s lawyer confirmed. The two were on their way to reunite with Maddie’s mother in New Jersey on Tuesday night. It will be the first time the father, identified as “Mr. H.” in court, will meet his newborn son. “Daddy, why are you crying?” the child asked as her father wept after the release. They walked free a day after a federal judge in Washington, D.C., ruled that amid the pandemic, the same standards that apply to migrant children should apply to their parents — including prompt release from custody whenever possible. [Guatemalan Girl And Her Father Freed From Berks Immigrant Detention Center, by Jeff Gammage, Philadelphia Inquirer, March 31, 2020]
This is all the more strange as just a few short months ago a Federal Judge, Joshua Wolson, had ruled that there is no basis for a minor to claim the Constitution requires that the minor and any parent must be released from immigration custody. Presumeably these are two different judges, though I would not put it past that the Wu Flu panic has had an influence over a otherwise intelligent judge.
A 7-year-old Guatemalan child who has spent a record 210 days at the Berks County immigrant detention center cannot leave accompanied by her father, after a federal judge ruled Wednesday that the family “must show more than noble goals and an empathetic case” to win their joint release. U.S. District Judge Joshua D. Wolson wrote that while he sympathized with the girl, known as Maddie, and her father, called Mr. H in court, they find themselves in a difficult position that is “largely of Mr. H’s making.” The father and Maddie were detained last spring after illegally entering the United States near Tecate, Calif. The girl is free to go to her mother in New Jersey at any time, the court noted. But the petitioners did not show that either of them has a right to demand that the father be released along with his child. The judge called Maddie “an unfortunate victim of circumstance.” But to prevail the family must show that they were likely to ultimately win their legal claim on the merits, and they failed to do that, the judge wrote… Judge Wolson wrote flatly: “Mr. H and [Maddie] each claims a right to release with the other so that they can be together as a family. No such right exists, however.” [After A Record 210 Days, A 7-Year-Old Guatemalan Girl Can Leave Pa. Immigrant Detention Center, But Her Dad Can’t, by Jeff Gammage, Philadelphia Inquirer, January 23, 2020]
Interestingly, Judge Wolson has been more discerning than U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), noting that the illegal aliens involved, unnamed for some reason, are likely engaged in a scheme to live in the United States illegally.
The court cited its own concerns, however, that “this particular family might flee, given the concerted effort they have made to come to this country,” and given what looked like coordination for Maddie and her father to enter the country while the mother was here on a visa. She subsequently gave birth to a son, a U.S. citizen. “All of this indicates that the family is committed to staying here, regardless of the legality of doing so,” the judge wrote. Though the mother is at risk of deportation, she has not been placed in removal proceedings. The girl’s father had sought asylum for both of them after entering the United States illegally, saying they had been threatened by violence in Guatemala, and also in Mexico, where federal authorities had said the two had to wait before their asylum claim could be heard.
Judge Wolson has observed that this whole series of events was deliberate scheme by this family to immigration to the United States illegally.
First, one of the family, the wife and mother, fraudulently obtained an non-immigrant visa to enter the United States for some other stated purpose than living in the United States. Then, she gave birth to an anchor baby. Next, since her husband and first child could not obtain non-immigrant visas, they crossed Mexico, despite his claims of fear of violence in Mexico, and entered the United States illegally, surrendering themselves to the Border Patrol. Clearly they were smuggled to the United States as part of this scheme, which is quite common, with the cost of smuggling paid by the illegal employment of the first one in the United States.
Shockingly, the Deep State saboteurs at ICE have failed to arrest the mother, either at her illegal employment or at her home after her picture was published in the newspaper.
Immigration patriots can call Brian Michael, Special Agent-in-Charge of ICE SVU in New Jersey and politely ask him why “Mrs. H” has not been arrested, as well as why his office has not identified and raided her employer. Perhaps because ICE SVU in New Jersey is doing nothing about illegal employment, visa fraud, false statements, or alien smuggling schemes. By not arresting “Mrs. H,” ICE SVU and Michael are essentially aiding the original alien smuggling crime, similarly condemned in other cases by a Federal Judge, Andrew Hanen, when confronting the Obama Regime Administrative Amnesty for alien smugglers.
ICE SVU Deep State Saboteur Brian Michael
Michael can be reached here at:
620 Frelinghuysen Avenue
Newark, NJ, 07114
Phone: (973) 776-5500
Fax: (973) 776-5652


vdare--2020-04-02--From The Derbyshire Email Bag: Math, Masks, And Rhinoviruses

For some reason—a lot of people with time on their hands to read random bloggings , I guess—my March Diary brought in an unusually large quantity of email .
Many thanks to all , and apologies for not being able to answer everyone individually .
The biggest subset concerned my Math Corner .
I did indeed bugger up my algebra , at an embarrassingly elementary level .
I had proceeded by brute enumeration , just scribbling down all 35 best-of-seven possibilities , then counting— but of course mis-counting—wins in 4 , 5 , 6 , and 7 games .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ number of ways of winning best-of-seven in n games is C ( n-1,3 ) , so correct coefficients in my formula are 1 , 4 , 10 , and 20 .
I have n't decided whether to blame my raging rhinoviruses for the blunder or to write it off as a Joe Biden moment .
One reader told me that this problem and several of the same kind are covered in Paul Nahin 's 2000 book Duelling Idiots and Other Probability Puzzlers .
Thank you , Sir , I 'll check it out @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hard copy , but there are lots at Abebooks.com .
( Also available as an ebook for the young folk . )
Readers have also been free with diagnoses of my long URI , suggesting everything from whooping cough to you-know-what .
Three or four readers tell me that they , or someone close to them , have been similarly afflicted through the first weeks of 2020 , fortifying my suspicion that something 's going on besides , or below , COVID-19 .
Richard Dawkins has tweeted that among the many , many @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the common cold '' are junior members of the coronavirus family .
Seems to me we have a lot to learn about this stuff .
A reader wants to know why , if I only wear a mask when shopping , the diary was decorated with a picture of me in my study , masked .
That 's easy : My VDARE.com editor emailed in when the March 20th Radio Derb was being posted asking if I could send across a picture of myself in a mask .
I obediently put a mask @ @ @ @ @ @ @ my mask picture be interpreted as me taking sides in the raging masks-work / masks-don't-work debate ?
Nah .
Wearing a mask is , for me , just chicken-soupery : it ca n't hurt .
Also I messed up the Philippa link to my May 2017 diary : here you go .
The Philippa there is Pippa Middleton , younger sister of Kate Middleton , Duchess of Cambridge .
That Philippa may be the only person to have had a Facebook page dedicated to her rear end .

For some reason—a lot of people with time on their hands to read random bloggings, I guess—my March Diary brought in an unusually large quantity of email. Many thanks to all, and apologies for not being able to answer everyone individually.
The biggest subset concerned my Math Corner. I did indeed bugger up my algebra, at an embarrassingly elementary level.
I had proceeded by brute enumeration, just scribbling down all 35 best-of-seven possibilities, then counting— but of course mis-counting—wins in 4, 5, 6, and 7 games. The right way is to note that the number of ways of winning best-of-seven in n games is C(n-1,3), so correct coefficients in my formula are 1, 4, 10, and 20.
I haven't decided whether to blame my raging rhinoviruses for the blunder or to write it off as a Joe Biden moment.
One reader told me that this problem and several of the same kind are covered in Paul Nahin's 2000 book Duelling Idiots and Other Probability Puzzlers. Thank you, Sir, I'll check it out. Amazon.com only shows two available in hard copy, but there are lots at Abebooks.com. (Also available as an ebook for the young folk.)
Readers have also been free with diagnoses of my long URI, suggesting everything from whooping cough to you-know-what.
Three or four readers tell me that they, or someone close to them, have been similarly afflicted through the first weeks of 2020, fortifying my suspicion that something's going on besides, or below, COVID-19.
Richard Dawkins has tweeted that among the many, many viruses for what we loosely call "the common cold" are junior members of the coronavirus family.
Coronaviruses are among the causes of that family of ailments called “colds”. The “cold” has seldom been seen as serious enough to warrant much research. Could the massive effort to beat the more virulent Covid-19 variety have a fortunate spin-off: the end of the common cold? — Richard Dawkins (@RichardDawkins) April 1, 2020
Seems to me we have a lot to learn about this stuff.
A reader wants to know why, if I only wear a mask when shopping, the diary was decorated with a picture of me in my study, masked. That's easy: My VDARE.com editor emailed in when the March 20th Radio Derb was being posted asking if I could send across a picture of myself in a mask. I obediently put a mask on and clicked the vidcam.
Should my mask picture be interpreted as me taking sides in the raging masks-work / masks-don't-work debate? Nah. Wearing a mask is, for me, just chicken-soupery: it can't hurt.
Also I messed up the Philippa link to my May 2017 diary: here you go. The Philippa there is Pippa Middleton, younger sister of Kate Middleton, Duchess of Cambridge. That Philippa may be the only person to have had a Facebook page dedicated to her rear end.


vdare--2020-04-02--COVID-19 And The Fragility Of An Inter-Connected World

Watching the world go by while sheltering in place can be quite informative .
Your humble servant has worked at home in splendid self-isolation for nearly nineteen years , so the new reality of hunkering down during the COVID-19 scare hasn ’ t changed my daily routine much .
Over that nearly twenty year span , the internet has exploded , along with social media .
What used to be an information cycle is now a 24/7 torrent of information , opinion ( informed or not ) , half-truths , outright lies , spin , and mobs mounting twitter attacks @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Narrative .
The rapidity of the manner in which the Narrative focuses and evolves shapes our perceptions of reality .
Yours truly has worked as a researcher and consultant on certain matters related to national security during a time of momentous technological and social change , and I can tell you , dear readers , that in today ’ s world , there is an increasing danger of policy makers acting , or reacting , to unconfirmed information and partial data .
In a media-driven world wired to the internet , there is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ there is great pressure to conform to the parameters set by the Narrative .
What ’ s more , the dominant globalist worldview among the managerial class skews the way that partial data is presented .
If a particular story suits the Narrative , it will receive the full spotlight treatment .
Certain plotlines are relentlessly pursued , and often embellished , while others are shoved down the memory hole .
If the ever watchful internet/mass media Eye choses to focus on a particular subject , then all else fades into obscurity .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ what is not , what is real and what is not .
The pressure on policymakers to act in a crisis , a real one , or one that has been contrived to suit political and ideological aims ( the endless “ war on terror ” spun out of 9/11 and the “ Russiagate ” fantasy , to name just two ) is quite strong , as is the potential for generating panic , even hysteria , in the general public .
Are we now witnessing such a phenomenon ?
There are a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ level of the threat presented by the COVID-19 virus , as well as the necessity of the severe measures taken to combat it ( See , for instance here : How deadly is the coronavirus ?
It ’ s still far from clear , by Dr. John Lee , Spectator ) and the White House ’ s Coronavirus Task Force Response Coordinator , Dr. Deborah Birx , has expressed doubts about assumptions made in modelling the virus ’ s spread and severity The Eye has chosen not to highlight those doubters , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ into a PC dogma that can not be questioned , lest the questioner be deemed a Very Bad Person .
That in itself explains why the divide between COVID-19 doubters and true believers has predictably split along “ red ” and “ blue ” lines .
“ Deplorables , ” having grown weary of PC enforcers , are now automatically discounting what those enforcers tell us we are supposed to think .
As I ’ ve noted previously [ What Globalism Has Wrought , Chronicles , March 19 , 2020 ] this is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the country ’ s population , with good reason , no longer trusts the political system or news media , and doubts that the country ’ s institutions are effective or will act in a fair manner in keeping with the national interest .
The interconnected , wired globalist system is proving itself quite fragile as supply lines break down , markets crash , and panic spreads across continents .
Judging from what appears to be happening across the world , there is an intense feeling among individuals and nations of having lost @ @ @ @ @ @ @ their own destinies .
Given the pressures noted above , and the conflicting nature of the available data on the virus and its severity , it is no surprise that leaders of all political stripes have chosen to enact or encourage “ lockdown ” measures .
Skeptics , including the president , decided to err on the side of caution and wait until the end of April to attempt to discern the actual severity of the virus .
We should not , however , forget that “ emergency ” measures and the expansion @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , real or imagined , have a tendency to remain in place indefinitely .
The surveillance state loves a crisis , and the globalists will likely attempt to double down rather than back off .
Regardless of what one believes about the actual severity of the COVID-19 threat , that ’ s one thing all of us should have learned since 9/11 .

Watching the world go by while sheltering in place can be quite informative. Your humble servant has worked at home in splendid self-isolation for nearly nineteen years, so the new reality of hunkering down during the COVID-19 scare hasn’t changed my daily routine much. Over that nearly twenty year span, the internet has exploded, along with social media. What used to be an information cycle is now a 24/7 torrent of information, opinion (informed or not), half-truths, outright lies, spin, and mobs mounting twitter attacks on hapless souls who might doubt The Narrative. The rapidity of the manner in which the Narrative focuses and evolves shapes our perceptions of reality.
Yours truly has worked as a researcher and consultant on certain matters related to national security during a time of momentous technological and social change, and I can tell you, dear readers, that in today’s world, there is an increasing danger of policy makers acting, or reacting, to unconfirmed information and partial data. In a media-driven world wired to the internet, there is little time for considered reflection. And there is great pressure to conform to the parameters set by the Narrative.
What’s more, the dominant globalist worldview among the managerial class skews the way that partial data is presented. If a particular story suits the Narrative, it will receive the full spotlight treatment. Certain plotlines are relentlessly pursued, and often embellished, while others are shoved down the memory hole. If the ever watchful internet/mass media Eye choses to focus on a particular subject, then all else fades into obscurity. The Eye decides what is important and what is not, what is real and what is not.
The pressure on policymakers to act in a crisis, a real one, or one that has been contrived to suit political and ideological aims (the endless “war on terror” spun out of 9/11 and the “Russiagate” fantasy, to name just two) is quite strong, as is the potential for generating panic, even hysteria, in the general public.
Are we now witnessing such a phenomenon?
There are a number of experts who are questioning the level of the threat presented by the COVID-19 virus, as well as the necessity of the severe measures taken to combat it (See, for instance here: How deadly is the coronavirus? It’s still far from clear , by Dr. John Lee, Spectator) and the White House’s Coronavirus Task Force Response Coordinator, Dr. Deborah Birx, has expressed doubts about assumptions made in modelling the virus’s spread and severity The Eye has chosen not to highlight those doubters, and the COVID-19 crisis has begun to harden into a PC dogma that cannot be questioned, lest the questioner be deemed a Very Bad Person.
That in itself explains why the divide between COVID-19 doubters and true believers has predictably split along “red” and “blue” lines. “Deplorables,” having grown weary of PC enforcers, are now automatically discounting what those enforcers tell us we are supposed to think. As I’ve noted previously [What Globalism Has Wrought , Chronicles, March 19, 2020] this is what happens when a large segment of the country’s population, with good reason, no longer trusts the political system or news media, and doubts that the country’s institutions are effective or will act in a fair manner in keeping with the national interest.
The interconnected, wired globalist system is proving itself quite fragile as supply lines break down, markets crash, and panic spreads across continents. Judging from what appears to be happening across the world, there is an intense feeling among individuals and nations of having lost whatever degree of control they had over their own destinies.
Given the pressures noted above, and the conflicting nature of the available data on the virus and its severity, it is no surprise that leaders of all political stripes have chosen to enact or encourage “lockdown” measures. Skeptics, including the president, decided to err on the side of caution and wait until the end of April to attempt to discern the actual severity of the virus.
We should not, however, forget that “emergency” measures and the expansion of state power to deal with emergencies, real or imagined, have a tendency to remain in place indefinitely. The surveillance state loves a crisis, and the globalists will likely attempt to double down rather than back off. Regardless of what one believes about the actual severity of the COVID-19 threat, that’s one thing all of us should have learned since 9/11.


vdare--2020-04-02--Trump Says Without Cheap Foreign Labor "We're Not Going to Have Farms"

See , earlier , by James Fulford : The Needs Of America 's Farmers The Trump administration should be using this COVID-19 crisis to eliminate immigration .
Instead , Trump still wants cheap farm labor .
Typically we hear that if foreigners ca n't work on American farms , the crops will rot in the fields .
But President Trump has taken it a step farther .
According to Trump , without foreign farm labor , we wo n't have any farms .
President Trump says he has committed to American farmers to continue admitting large numbers of H-2A foreign @ @ @ @ @ @ @ even as jobless claims are set to climb above 3.3 million in the midst of the Chinese coronavirus crisis .
During a press briefing on Wednesday [ April 1 , but apparently not a joke ] , Trump suggested United States farms would not survive without a continuous flow of H-2A foreign visa workers who are brought to the country by farmers .
There is no limit to how many H-2A foreign visa workers can be admitted to the U.S. Trump : 'We 're Not Going to Have Farms ' Without H-2A Foreign @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Breitbart , April 1 , 2020 Here 's how our misguided President explained it : We want the farmers to be able to get people that have been working those farms for years , or we ’ re not going to have farms .
So they ’ re going to come in .
And they ’ re going to be given a certain pass and we ’ re going to check them very , very closely [ yeah , right ! ]
— especially over the next month , because remember after a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ we ’ re not going to have to be , hopefully , worried too much about the virus .
But we want them to come in .
We ’ re not closing the border so that we can ’ t get any of those people to come in .
They ’ ve been there for years and years , and I ’ ve given a commitment that they ’ re going to continue to come or we ’ re not going to have any farmers .
President Trump does n't know much about @ @ @ @ @ @ @ mark for the agribusiness cheap labor lobby .
American farms are not going to disappear without the H-2A program .
A certain kind of farm—the type that depends on cheap labor— might disappear , but that would be a good thing .
In the article , John Binder provides some background information .
Did you catch that ?
`` H-2A foreign visa workers make up only about ten percent of the total U.S. crop farm workforce . ''
That 's 10 % .
The way Trump is talking , it sounds like 100 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ rulers—yes , even the Trump administration—are so determined to bring in foreign labor `` despite record jobless claims '' !
Truly , this is an addiction , an obsession .
As John Binder points out , this is really about cheaper labor : While H-2A foreign visa workers earn well above the $ 7.25 an hour federal minimum wage , farmers routinely use the program to reduce wages in the agricultural industry , Bureau of Labor Statistics data has shown .
In 2017 , H-2A foreign visa workers picking crops were paid about @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , while visa workers operating agricultural equipment were paid 23 percent less than the national average wage for that job .
The largest wage discrepancy comes with H-2A foreign visa workers who take jobs as first-line supervisors for farming and fishing .
They are paid about 95 percent less than their American counterparts .
UPDATE : It 's been pointed out that Binder 's reference to first-line supervisors being paid `` 95 percent less than their American counterparts '' sounds like a twenty-fold discrepancy .
That 's not true , of course .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ that American wages are 195 percent of immigrant wages .
The average wage for a `` first-line supervisor '' , aka foreman , strawboss , or `` gangmaster '' , is 12.39 an hour for an H-2A visa holder , $ 24.11 for an American .

See, earlier, by James Fulford: The Needs Of America's Farmers
The Trump administration should be using this COVID-19 crisis to eliminate immigration. Instead, Trump still wants cheap farm labor.
Typically we hear that if foreigners can't work on American farms, the crops will rot in the fields.
But President Trump has taken it a step farther. According to Trump, without foreign farm labor, we won't have any farms.
From Breitbart:
President Trump says he has committed to American farmers to continue admitting large numbers of H-2A foreign visa workers to take agricultural jobs, even as jobless claims are set to climb above 3.3 million in the midst of the Chinese coronavirus crisis. During a press briefing on Wednesday [April 1, but apparently not a joke], Trump suggested United States farms would not survive without a continuous flow of H-2A foreign visa workers who are brought to the country by farmers. There is no limit to how many H-2A foreign visa workers can be admitted to the U.S. Trump: 'We're Not Going to Have Farms' Without H-2A Foreign Visa Workers, by John Binder, Breitbart, April 1, 2020
Here's how our misguided President explained it:
We want the farmers to be able to get people that have been working those farms for years, or we’re not going to have farms. So they’re going to come in. And they’re going to be given a certain pass and we’re going to check them very, very closely [yeah, right!] — especially over the next month, because remember after a month or so once this passes, we’re not going to have to be, hopefully, worried too much about the virus. But we want them to come in. We’re not closing the border so that we can’t get any of those people to come in. They’ve been there for years and years, and I’ve given a commitment that they’re going to continue to come or we’re not going to have any farmers.
President Trump doesn't know much about agriculture, and is thus an easy mark for the agribusiness cheap labor lobby.
American farms are not going to disappear without the H-2A program. A certain kind of farm—the type that depends on cheap labor— might disappear, but that would be a good thing.
In the article, John Binder provides some background information.
As federal data shows, American farmers do not wholly rely on H-2A foreign visa workers to take agricultural jobs. H-2A foreign visa workers make up only about ten percent of the total U.S. crop farm workforce. Last year, U.S. farmers hired roughly 250,000 H-2A foreign visa workers.
Did you catch that? "H-2A foreign visa workers make up only about ten percent of the total U.S. crop farm workforce." That's 10%. The way Trump is talking, it sounds like 100%.
Despite record jobless claims due to the coronavirus crisis, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has issued waivers for the H-2A and H-2B visa programs that will help fast-track foreign workers into the U.S. to take agricultural and nonagricultural jobs.
It's amazing how our rulers—yes, even the Trump administration—are so determined to bring in foreign labor "despite record jobless claims"! Truly, this is an addiction, an obsession.
Likewise, in March, Wolf announced he would allow seasonal employers to import an additional 35,000 H-2B foreign visa workers this year — above the 66,000 annual admission cap.
As John Binder points out, this is really about cheaper labor:
While H-2A foreign visa workers earn well above the $7.25 an hour federal minimum wage, farmers routinely use the program to reduce wages in the agricultural industry, Bureau of Labor Statistics data has shown. In 2017, H-2A foreign visa workers picking crops were paid about two percent less than their American counterparts, while visa workers operating agricultural equipment were paid 23 percent less than the national average wage for that job. The largest wage discrepancy comes with H-2A foreign visa workers who take jobs as first-line supervisors for farming and fishing. They are paid about 95 percent less than their American counterparts.
UPDATE BY EDITOR: It's been pointed out that Binder's reference to first-line supervisors being paid "95 percent less than their American counterparts" sounds like a twenty-fold discrepancy. That's not true, of course. It would be more accurate to say that American wages are 195 percent of immigrant wages.
The average wage for a "first-line supervisor", aka foreman, strawboss, or "gangmaster", is 12.39 an hour for an H-2A visa holder, $24.11 for an American.
See Unlimited Cheap Farm Labor: Evaluating H-2A Disclosure Data, by Preston Huennekens, CIS.org, August 6, 2018.


vdare--2020-04-02--UK R0 Supposed to Have Fallen from 2.6 to 0.6

Why is the number ‘ one ’ so important as Covid-19 sweeps Britain ?
The reproductive value describes the average number of people an infected individual can expect to pass the coronavirus onto There are a lot of figures involved in understanding the coronavirus pandemic , be it around cases , deaths or tests .
But there is one number above all others that experts obsess on – the reproductive value , or “ R0 ” .
… But what does this actually mean and why does it matter ?
The reproductive value describes the average number of people an @ @ @ @ @ @ @ coronavirus onto .
It is therefore a measure of how transmissible , or contagious , a disease is .
If a virus has an R0 of three , it means that every individual infected will pass the disease onto three other people if no containment measures are introduced .
… According to a pre-print study from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine published this week , the average number of people an individual comes into contact with each day has dropped by 73 per cent since the UK ’ s lockdown @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to reduce R0 from a value from 2.6 before the lockdown to 0.62 during the lockdown , indicating that physical distancing interventions are effective , ” the study , which tracked over 1,300 adults and has not yet been peer reviewed , concluded .

From the Daily Telegraph (UK):
Why is the number ‘one’ so important as Covid-19 sweeps Britain?
The reproductive value describes the average number of people an infected individual can expect to pass the coronavirus onto
By Sarah Newey,
GLOBAL HEALTH SECURITY CORRESPONDENT
1 April 2020 • 9:41am
There are a lot of figures involved in understanding the coronavirus pandemic, be it around cases, deaths or tests. But there is one number above all others that experts obsess on – the reproductive value, or “R0”. …
But what does this actually mean and why does it matter?
The reproductive value describes the average number of people an infected individual can expect to pass the coronavirus onto. It is therefore a measure of how transmissible, or contagious, a disease is.
If a virus has an R0 of three, it means that every individual infected will pass the disease onto three other people if no containment measures are introduced. …
According to a pre-print study from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine published this week, the average number of people an individual comes into contact with each day has dropped by 73 per cent since the UK’s lockdown began.
“This would be sufficient to reduce R0 from a value from 2.6 before the lockdown to 0.62 during the lockdown, indicating that physical distancing interventions are effective,” the study, which tracked over 1,300 adults and has not yet been peer reviewed, concluded.


vdare--2020-04-02--CV Stats by Los Angeles County Neighborhood: Elites Hardest Hit

I ’ ve matched up , as best I can , the L.A. Times ’ April 1 , 2020 count of coronavirus cases in huge Los Angeles County vs. the Times ’ estimates of population .
Some of these are municipalities ( e.g.
, West Hollywood , Beverly Hills , Compton ) , others are the Times ‘ definition of a neighborhood within Los Angeles city ( e.g.
, Hancock Park , Century City , Bel-Air ) .
( About a decade ago the L.A. Times invited public comment for several months to develop a consensus of what are the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ neighborhoods such as Hollywood . )
The basic pattern is that the rate of coronavirus cases per 100,000 correlates positively with real estate prices .
E.g.
, # 1 Carthay is a nice neighborhood south of the LA County Museum of Art on Wilshire , Hancock Park is next door ( that ’ s where Mad Men ’ s Matthew Weiner grew up ) .
It ’ s also known as Little Ethiopia , which is a new one to me .
When I was at UCLA four decades ago , one of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was the daughter of the former Ethiopian ambassador to Washington , whose career was terminated by the Communists murdering the Emperor Ras Tafari by smothering him with with a silken pillow .
Century City is the high rise district next to Beverly Hills , Playa Vista is a beach town near LAX , Beverly Crest is the part of Los Angeles higher up in the Hollywood Hills than Beverly Hills , etc .
These are largely white neighborhoods in the general vicinity of the Hollywood Hills .
The residents probably get invited to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ premiers , and meet and greets and probably have more people wanting to shake their hands : i.e.
, Tom Hanks Disease .
At the bottom of the list are a bunch of dumpy Latino neighborhoods , with the exception of the high-brow college town of Claremont .
I didn ’ t include neighborhoods with no cases listed .
The largest was East L.A. , which is Mexican .
Black neighborhoods like Ladera Heights , Leimert Park , and Baldwin Hills/Crenshaw appear to be rather hard hit .
Lots of blacks work at @ @ @ @ @ @ @ particularly hard hit , like in the neighborhoods next to La Guardia in Queens .
Affluent Chinese suburbs like Arcadia , San Marino , and Monterey Park are below the median rate .
The small Chinatown in downtown L.A. has only 2 cases and ranks only 118th out of 189th worst .
Also mostly passed over is Koreatown , which is just east of hard-hit Hancock Park .
Koreatown is 145th worst of 189 .
Most of the top of the list neighborhoods are fairly Jewish .
Los Angeles doesn ’ t have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ group that has been hard hit in the New York area .
Maybe Valley Village ?
A good article in The Forward warned its Jewish readers : Why American Jews are at greater risk for coronavirus Samuel J. Abrams March 20 , 2020 … That ’ s because Jews today are among the most socially intimate groups in the nation , according to data .
The Jewish American community , from the most religious to the most secular , is at unique risk from the coronavirus because the density of Jewish social networks @ @ @ @ @ @ @ thick as that of the average American .
A horrible pattern has been that this disease tends to get spread by each group ’ s more admirable and sociable customs : Italians go visit their grandparents , Germanics go skiing , Presbyterians go to choir practice , Jews go out to lunch with old friends .
In contrast , the nationality with the worst trend toward loneliness and holing up in their rooms , the Japanese , seem to be doing the best in this crisis .
The table below suggests that so @ @ @ @ @ @ @ spread by elites .
Keep in mind that California is lagging almost every other state in the union in percentage of population tested , so who knows whether these stats reflect actual infection rates or ability to pull strings to get tested .
You could figure out the trajectory of these rates by neighborhood by going back to the L.A. Times ’ earlier versions of this article ( google Wayback Machine Archive ) .

I’ve matched up, as best I can, the L.A. Times’ April 1, 2020 count of coronavirus cases in huge Los Angeles County vs. the Times’ estimates of population. Some of these are municipalities (e.g., West Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Compton), others are the Times‘ definition of a neighborhood within Los Angeles city (e.g., Hancock Park, Century City, Bel-Air). (About a decade ago the L.A. Times invited public comment for several months to develop a consensus of what are the boundaries of L.A. City’s constituent neighborhoods such as Hollywood.)
The basic pattern is that the rate of coronavirus cases per 100,000 correlates positively with real estate prices.
E.g., #1 Carthay is a nice neighborhood south of the LA County Museum of Art on Wilshire, Hancock Park is next door (that’s where Mad Men’s Matthew Weiner grew up). It’s also known as Little Ethiopia, which is a new one to me. When I was at UCLA four decades ago, one of the two most beautiful girls I knew was the daughter of the former Ethiopian ambassador to Washington, whose career was terminated by the Communists murdering the Emperor Ras Tafari by smothering him with with a silken pillow.
Century City is the high rise district next to Beverly Hills, Playa Vista is a beach town near LAX, Beverly Crest is the part of Los Angeles higher up in the Hollywood Hills than Beverly Hills, etc.
These are largely white neighborhoods in the general vicinity of the Hollywood Hills. The residents probably get invited to an above average number of parties, premiers, and meet and greets and probably have more people wanting to shake their hands: i.e., Tom Hanks Disease.
At the bottom of the list are a bunch of dumpy Latino neighborhoods, with the exception of the high-brow college town of Claremont. I didn’t include neighborhoods with no cases listed. The largest was East L.A., which is Mexican.
Black neighborhoods like Ladera Heights, Leimert Park, and Baldwin Hills/Crenshaw appear to be rather hard hit. Lots of blacks work at LAX, and airport workers might be particularly hard hit, like in the neighborhoods next to La Guardia in Queens.
Affluent Chinese suburbs like Arcadia, San Marino, and Monterey Park are below the median rate. The small Chinatown in downtown L.A. has only 2 cases and ranks only 118th out of 189th worst. Also mostly passed over is Koreatown, which is just east of hard-hit Hancock Park. Koreatown is 145th worst of 189.
The gayest neighborhood, West Hollywood, ranks #7.
Most of the top of the list neighborhoods are fairly Jewish. Los Angeles doesn’t have a lot of ultra-orthodox Jews, a group that has been hard hit in the New York area. Maybe Valley Village?
A good article in The Forward warned its Jewish readers:
Why American Jews are at greater risk for coronavirus
Samuel J. Abrams March 20, 2020 … That’s because Jews today are among the most socially intimate groups in the nation, according to data. The Jewish American community, from the most religious to the most secular, is at unique risk from the coronavirus because the density of Jewish social networks across all denominations is almost twice as thick as that of the average American.
A horrible pattern has been that this disease tends to get spread by each group’s more admirable and sociable customs: Italians go visit their grandparents, Germanics go skiing, Presbyterians go to choir practice, Jews go out to lunch with old friends. In contrast, the nationality with the worst trend toward loneliness and holing up in their rooms, the Japanese, seem to be doing the best in this crisis.
The table below suggests that so far this has largely been a disease spread by elites.
Keep in mind that California is lagging almost every other state in the union in percentage of population tested, so who knows whether these stats reflect actual infection rates or ability to pull strings to get tested.
You could figure out the trajectory of these rates by neighborhood by going back to the L.A. Times’ earlier versions of this article (google Wayback Machine Archive).
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-04-02--Mean Age of NYT Coronavirus Obituaries Is 66

The NYT is running obituaries of celebrities who have died of coronavirus , with 28 so far .
The average @ @ @ @ @ 66 , which seems somewhat younger than the average age of NYT obituaries for other @ @ @ @ @ , I took the average of the first 28 obituaries I found for March 2019 @ @ @ @ @ or 16 years longer .
Obviously , these are small sample sizes so far , @ @ @ @ @ of various kinds involved .
But as this sample of NYT obituaries grows in coming @ @ @ @ @ start to emerge since NYT obituaries offer a fair amount of information about each victim @ @ @ @ @ will be I don ’ t yet have much of a clue .
I ’ @ @ @ @ @ old prejudices tend to contain a grain of truth , but this is a new @ @

The NYT is running obituaries of celebrities who have died of coronavirus, with 28 so far. The average age thus far has been 66, which seems somewhat younger than the average age of NYT obituaries for other other causes. For comparison, I took the average of the first 28 obituaries I found for March 2019 and they averaged 82, or 16 years longer.
Obviously, these are small sample sizes so far, and there is selection bias of various kinds involved. But as this sample of NYT obituaries grows in coming days, some patterns might start to emerge since NYT obituaries offer a fair amount of information about each victim, although what those patterns will be I don’t yet have much of a clue.
I’m a big believer that old prejudices tend to contain a grain of truth, but this is a new phenomenon.
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vdare--2020-04-02--Stats for New York City: Any Patterns Leap Out at You?

The NYT has a lot of New York City statistics on coronavirus cases , hospital admissions , deaths , and so forth by zip code .
A Month of Coronavirus in New York City : See the Hardest Hit Areas By Larry Buchanan , Jugal K. Patel , Brian M. Rosenthal and Anjali Singhvi April 1 , 2020 The coronavirus has ravaged all of New York City , closing schools , emptying streets and turning stadiums into makeshift hospitals .
But data made public by city health officials on Wednesday suggests it is hitting low-income neighborhoods the hardest .
At @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are seen in 10280 Lower Manhattan ( Battery Park City ) , which I ’ m guessing tend to be populated by affluent young Wall Street workers , students , fashionistas , and the like .
The hardest hit neighborhood in the city is zip code 11370 West Queens adjacent to La Guardia airport .
Residents tend to commute by public transportation for considerable amounts of time .
Maybe a lot of them who work locally work at La Guardia ?
Manhattan ’ s Chinatown zip codes ( 10002 and 10013 ) are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 5 respectively .

The NYT has a lot of New York City statistics on coronavirus cases, hospital admissions, deaths, and so forth by zip code.
A Month of Coronavirus in New York City: See the Hardest Hit Areas
By Larry Buchanan, Jugal K. Patel, Brian M. Rosenthal and Anjali Singhvi April 1, 2020 The coronavirus has ravaged all of New York City, closing schools, emptying streets and turning stadiums into makeshift hospitals. But data made public by city health officials on Wednesday suggests it is hitting low-income neighborhoods the hardest.
At the the moment, lowest case rates are seen in 10280 Lower Manhattan (Battery Park City), which I’m guessing tend to be populated by affluent young Wall Street workers, students, fashionistas, and the like.
The hardest hit neighborhood in the city is zip code 11370 West Queens adjacent to La Guardia airport. Residents tend to commute by public transportation for considerable amounts of time. Maybe a lot of them who work locally work at La Guardia?
Manhattan’s Chinatown zip codes (10002 and 10013) are in the middle range at 4 and 5 respectively.
ZIP code Neighborhood Total cases Cases per 1,000 people 10280 Lower Manhattan 17 2 10006 Lower Manhattan 6 2 11220 Sunset Park 264 3 10025 Upper West Side 252 3 11214 Southwest Brooklyn 251 3 11233 Central Brooklyn 225 3 11355 North Queens 213 3 11215 Northwest Brooklyn 178 3 10027 Central Harlem 170 3 11216 Central Brooklyn 162 3 10003 Lower East Side 161 3 11354 North Queens 134 3 11224 Southern Brooklyn 133 3 10034 Inwood and Washington Heights 108 3 11105 Northwest Queens 104 3 11103 Northwest Queens 104 3 10010 Gramercy Park and Murray Hill 101 3 11228 Southwest Brooklyn 101 3 11222 Greenpoint 96 3 10012 Greenwich Village and Soho 68 3 10017 Gramercy Park and Murray Hill 45 3 10005 Lower Manhattan 25 3 11385 West Central Queens 425 4 11234 Canarsie and Flatlands 364 4 10456 High Bridge and Morrisania 355 4 11208 East New York and New Lots 350 4 11226 Flatbush 344 4 10458 Bronx Park and Fordham 332 4 11207 East New York and New Lots 332 4 11206 Bushwick and Williamsburg 329 4 11229 Southern Brooklyn 316 4 10029 East Harlem 290 4 11221 Bushwick and Williamsburg 260 4 11212 Central Brooklyn 254 4 10463 Kingsbridge and Riverdale 253 4 10002 Lower East Side 250 4 10031 Inwood and Washington Heights 217 4 10128 Upper East Side 212 4 11209 Southwest Brooklyn 209 4 10024 Upper West Side 204 4 11201 Northwest Brooklyn 204 4 10023 Upper West Side 190 4 10028 Upper East Side 189 4 11237 Bushwick and Williamsburg 184 4 11238 Central Brooklyn 183 4 11419 Southwest Queens 182 4 11205 Northwest Brooklyn 182 4 10009 Lower East Side 181 4 11365 Central Queens 166 4 11106 Northwest Queens 144 4 11217 Northwest Brooklyn 130 4 11231 Northwest Brooklyn 127 4 10026 Central Harlem 126 4 10022 Gramercy Park and Murray Hill 123 4 11358 North Queens 119 4 11364 Northeast Queens 113 4 10030 Central Harlem 106 4 11102 Northwest Queens 105 4 11361 Northeast Queens 85 4 11104 Northwest Queens 85 4 11232 Sunset Park 85 4 10038 Lower Manhattan 76 4 11362 Northeast Queens 64 4 10302 Port Richmond 61 4 11360 North Queens 59 4 11363 Northeast Queens 27 4 10007 Lower Manhattan 26 4 10314 Mid-Island 452 5 11236 Canarsie and Flatlands 416 5 10453 Central Bronx 386 5 10462 Southeast Bronx 377 5 10452 High Bridge and Morrisania 367 5 11377 West Queens 364 5 10466 Northeast Bronx 362 5 11218 Borough Park 350 5 11235 Southern Brooklyn 348 5 11223 Southern Brooklyn 346 5 11203 Flatbush 343 5 10032 Inwood and Washington Heights 308 5 10457 Central Bronx 306 5 10472 Southeast Bronx 302 5 11435 Jamaica 293 5 11225 Flatbush 267 5 10033 Inwood and Washington Heights 264 5 10460 Central Bronx 255 5 10459 Hunts Point and Mott Haven 227 5 11420 Southwest Queens 223 5 10011 Chelsea and Clinton 222 5 10021 Upper East Side 211 5 10040 Inwood and Washington Heights 208 5 11421 Southwest Queens 202 5 10019 Chelsea and Clinton 187 5 10305 Stapleton and St. George 178 5 10455 Hunts Point and Mott Haven 176 5 10301 Stapleton and St. George 175 5 10454 Hunts Point and Mott Haven 174 5 11357 North Queens 162 5 11378 West Queens 156 5 11433 Jamaica 155 5 11101 Northwest Queens 148 5 10035 East Harlem 147 5 10308 South Shore 146 5 10014 Greenwich Village and Soho 140 5 10013 Greenwich Village and Soho 122 5 10065 Upper East Side 121 5 11416 Southwest Queens 117 5 10036 Chelsea and Clinton 116 5 10039 Central Harlem 116 5 10001 Chelsea and Clinton 113 5 11356 North Queens 110 5 10303 Port Richmond 106 5 10471 Kingsbridge and Riverdale 104 5 11426 Southeast Queens 101 5 11436 Jamaica 100 5 10310 Port Richmond 97 5 10307 South Shore 67 5 10474 Hunts Point and Mott Haven 55 5 10044 Upper East Side 49 5 11211 Greenpoint 601 6 11375 West Central Queens 418 6 10468 Bronx Park and Fordham 397 6 11213 Central Brooklyn 394 6 11210 Flatbush 386 6 11434 Jamaica 358 6 10312 South Shore 336 6 10473 Southeast Bronx 304 6 10016 Gramercy Park and Murray Hill 288 6 10306 South Shore 278 6 10475 Northeast Bronx 255 6 11418 Southwest Queens 216 6 11379 West Central Queens 195 6 11417 Southwest Queens 173 6 10309 South Shore 170 6 11423 Jamaica 164 6 11429 Southeast Queens 163 6 11414 Southwest Queens 162 6 11428 Southeast Queens 112 6 11692 Rockaways 110 6 10037 Central Harlem 109 6 10470 Northeast Bronx 83 6 10464 Southeast Bronx 25 6 10004 Lower Manhattan 16 6 10467 Bronx Park and Fordham 638 7 11204 Borough Park 534 7 10469 Northeast Bronx 470 7 11691 Rockaways 436 7 11432 Jamaica 405 7 10465 Southeast Bronx 267 7 11413 Southeast Queens 261 7 11412 Jamaica 245 7 11422 Southeast Queens 211 7 11694 Rockaways 143 7 11693 Rockaways 86 7 11239 Canarsie and Flatlands 85 7 10018 Chelsea and Clinton 66 7 11230 Borough Park 631 8 11372 West Queens 492 8 10461 Southeast Bronx 376 8 10451 High Bridge and Morrisania 337 8 11374 West Central Queens 319 8 11367 Central Queens 318 8 10304 Stapleton and St. George 289 8 11427 Southeast Queens 181 8 10075 Upper East Side 160 8 11411 Southeast Queens 151 8 11415 Southwest Queens 149 8 11004 Southeast Queens 121 8 11366 Central Queens 106 8 11697 Rockaways 25 8 11368 West Queens 947 9 11373 West Queens 831 9 11219 Borough Park 771 9 11369 West Queens 331 10 11370 West Queens 378 12
Any patterns?
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-04-02--Journal Of The Coronavirus Year: Black Police Chief Of 65% White Seattle Encourages Citizens To Call

Journal Of The Coronavirus Year: Black Police Chief Of 65% White Seattle Encourages Citizens To Call 911 If They Hear "Racist Name-Calling"

The black mayor of 70 percent black Baltimore begged blacks to stop shooting each other , all to make room in the hospital for those sick with the Coronavirus .
The black mayor of 65 percent non-white Houston asks criminals to “ chill out ” and not commit crime during the Coronavirus pandemic .
What does the black police chief ( you can bet she was promoted to the position purely on merit… ) of one of America ’ s whitest big cities do ?
Seattle Police Chief Tells People To Call 911 If They Hear ‘ Racist Name-Calling ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ better things to do with their time right now ?
, Reason , March 31 , 2020 Seattle ’ s top cop may want to get her priorities straightened out .
In the midst of the global COVID-19 pandemic , Police Chief Carmen Best used her most recent “ chief ’ s brief ” update on the coronavirus crisis to urge residents to dial 911 if they are the victims of racist name-calling .
It ’ s a time-wasting imperative—and one that ’ s at odds with the First Amendment .
In her @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of a former local news anchor , Lori Matsukawa .
“ Hate crimes have no place in our community , ” said Matsukawa .
“ We are all trying to deal with the COVID-19 public health crisis together .
If you are a victim of a hate crime or hate-based harassment , please call 911.
” “ We will document and investigate every reported hate crime , ” Best continued .
“ Even racist name-calling should be reported to police .
If you aren ’ t sure if a hate crime occurred , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ help.
” This is unhelpful guidance that conflates two completely different things .
A hate crime takes place when a person , motivated by animus , engages in criminal activity against a protected class .
Importantly , the underlying action has to be criminal in nature : vandalism , assault , etc .
Mere speech is not generally criminal , except in a few special cases ( true threats of violence , for instance ) .
Racist speech could be an element of a hate crime conviction , but engaging in racist speech @ @ @ @ @ @ @ In fact , hateful speech is clearly protected under the First Amendment , according to Supreme Court precedent .
Telling people to report racist name-calling to the police is thus bad advice .
At best , it ’ s wasting police officers ’ time .
But it can actually lead to far worse consequences : Inviting the police to intervene in speech-based disputes between people is a recipe for disaster .
Teachers , counselors , and parents , for instance , could reasonably interpret Best ’ s remarks as an obligation for them @ @ @ @ @ @ @ use derogatory language .
Over-criminalization of teenage misbehavior in schools is one result of the mindset that people—even kids—causing each other offense ought to be a matter for the police to handle .
Yes , the black police chief of one of America ’ s whitest big cities is encouraging citizens of Seattle to engage in Orwellian acts the Stasi would be jealous of seeing implemented .
What was it Steve Sailer noticed about the authorities in San Francisco trying to keep racial information about the Coronavirus under wraps , in case it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to still engage in pattern recognition in 2020 ?
How Much Should the Public Know About Who Has the Coronavirus ?
Amid calls for more transparency , a debate is raging among public health experts over how much data on the spread of the virus should be released .
… Across the United States there is even less consistency .
New York is listing cases by age bracket , gender and borough despite calls for more localized reporting .
Connecticut lists data by town .
Florida provides its residents with a wealth of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s Department of Health has a detailed dashboard and reports showing the spread of the virus — rich with data on the cities affected , the number of people tested , the age brackets of patients , whether they are Florida residents , and the number of cases in nursing homes ... .
Health departments in the Bay Area make the case that releasing more granular data could heighten discrimination against certain communities where there might be clusters .
The first cases in the Bay Area were among ethnic Chinese residents returning @ @ @ @ @ @ @ point , a hate crime is nothing more than engaging in public acts of pattern recognition .

The black mayor of 70 percent black Baltimore begged blacks to stop shooting each other, all to make room in the hospital for those sick with the Coronavirus.
The black mayor of 65 percent non-white Houston asks criminals to “chill out” and not commit crime during the Coronavirus pandemic.
What does the black police chief (you can bet she was promoted to the position purely on merit…) of one of America’s whitest big cities do?
Seattle Police Chief Tells People To Call 911 If They Hear ‘Racist Name-Calling’: Don’t the authorities have better things to do with their time right now?, Reason, March 31, 2020 Seattle’s top cop may want to get her priorities straightened out. In the midst of the global COVID-19 pandemic, Police Chief Carmen Best used her most recent “chief’s brief” update on the coronavirus crisis to urge residents to dial 911 if they are the victims of racist name-calling. It’s a time-wasting imperative—and one that’s at odds with the First Amendment. In her briefing, Best called upon the expertise of a former local news anchor, Lori Matsukawa. “Hate crimes have no place in our community,” said Matsukawa. “We are all trying to deal with the COVID-19 public health crisis together. If you are a victim of a hate crime or hate-based harassment, please call 911.” “We will document and investigate every reported hate crime,” Best continued. “Even racist name-calling should be reported to police. If you aren’t sure if a hate crime occurred, call 911. We are here to help.” This is unhelpful guidance that conflates two completely different things. A hate crime takes place when a person, motivated by animus, engages in criminal activity against a protected class. Importantly, the underlying action has to be criminal in nature: vandalism, assault, etc. Mere speech is not generally criminal, except in a few special cases (true threats of violence, for instance). Racist speech could be an element of a hate crime conviction, but engaging in racist speech is not itself a criminal action. In fact, hateful speech is clearly protected under the First Amendment, according to Supreme Court precedent. Telling people to report racist name-calling to the police is thus bad advice. At best, it’s wasting police officers’ time. But it can actually lead to far worse consequences: Inviting the police to intervene in speech-based disputes between people is a recipe for disaster. Teachers, counselors, and parents, for instance, could reasonably interpret Best’s remarks as an obligation for them to call the cops on kids who use derogatory language. Over-criminalization of teenage misbehavior in schools is one result of the mindset that people—even kids—causing each other offense ought to be a matter for the police to handle.
Yes, the black police chief of one of America’s whitest big cities is encouraging citizens of Seattle to engage in Orwellian acts the Stasi would be jealous of seeing implemented.
What was it Steve Sailer noticed about the authorities in San Francisco trying to keep racial information about the Coronavirus under wraps, in case it might confirm stereotypes by those foolish enough to still engage in pattern recognition in 2020?
From the New York Times: How Much Should the Public Know About Who Has the Coronavirus? Amid calls for more transparency, a debate is raging among public health experts over how much data on the spread of the virus should be released. Thomas Fuller, March 28, 2020 … Across the United States there is even less consistency. New York is listing cases by age bracket, gender and borough despite calls for more localized reporting. Connecticut lists data by town. Florida provides its residents with a wealth of data on the pandemic. The state’s Department of Health has a detailed dashboard and reports showing the spread of the virus — rich with data on the cities affected, the number of people tested, the age brackets of patients, whether they are Florida residents, and the number of cases in nursing homes.... Health departments in the Bay Area make the case that releasing more granular data could heighten discrimination against certain communities where there might be clusters. The first cases in the Bay Area were among ethnic Chinese residents returning from trips to China.
At this point, a hate crime is nothing more than engaging in public acts of pattern recognition.
[Comment at Unz.com]