MN National Guard activated for March 8 trial

Derek Chauvin will be tried starting March 8 for the George Floyd death.

The medical examiners report will show that Floyd’s death was not due to a knee on his neck but by his own exertions and underlying cardiac condition. No honest jury will be able to convict and it may not even go to the jury. Chauvin will be acquitted.

And that will not go over well.

Marijuana will be legal in Virginia

I wish there were a way to short MS-13 stock.

So, we will have legal casino gambling and sports books. Now legal weed. Next comes legalizing prostitution and what will criminals do for a living?

WSJ: China will demand concessions for climate promises

and they will never keep those promises anyway.

By tipping his hand on climate issues as part of foreign policy, Biden has put China in the power position on negotiations on everything else.

Ralph Northam denies he’s in racist photo, but calls for his resignation grow

Lest we forget: Terry McAuliffe called for Northam to resign. Given that he’s running for re-election, I would love to know if his stance has changed–and what he thinks of Northam’s performance in the two years since. Fair questions, no?

Lomberg: The Paris Accord

That’s  right, if everyone meets their goals, and right now the US is the only nation on track, the reduction in projected temperature in 2100 would be under 0.05F. Note that Lomberg is NOT a skeptic. He accepts the UN projections, he just follows through to the consequences

That’s what we’re going to throw away our standard of living for generations to do.

https://www.vox.com/22254482/republicans-voter-suppression-state-legislatures

As the former President said, the more people who vote, the less chance there is of ever having a Republican president ever elected again.

So legislatures around the country, particularly those lead by the GOP, and in states where T**** lost, are crafting voter suppression laws. They are referring to them as “integrity” laws. But it was the leader of their party who pushed the false narrative of voter fraud even before the first ballot was cast. Even though the down-ballot Republicans did better than expected.

Stand by, voters. You will have to do a little extra work to ensure your voice is heard. And take note of those pushing these “integrity” initiatives. They are suppression cloaked as integrity. And those who support them need to be voted out of office before they can do real harm. Like changing the laws back to white, property owning males over the age of 21.

1/24/2021 Nancy Pelosi’s husband buys $1.25million in Tesla stock

1/25/2021 President Biden signs EO requiring all government vehicles to transition to EVs

Extended family?

Cato: Treat vaccine as the valuable commodity it is

Would the market have rolled out the vaccine perfectly? Probably not, but it only needs to have done  better than the clusterfart we have now.

Keep in mind that in selling the doses first to the highest bidder, the bidder would not be you, it would be your insurer. So, who would get the first doses? Those most likely to run up a huge ICU bill and then die so their premiums stop.  Young insureds are likely to only need a few prescriptions for dexamethasone and antibiotics, and maybe an anticoagulant, so their vaccine could be delayed until the supply is available at a lower cost as demand drops.

Perfect? No, but really…

Heartland

Simple, voluntary, compassionate, and potentially life saving, everything the FDA fears.

Free to Choose Medicine would allow patients, in consultation with their doctors, to try known safe treatments not approved by the FDA when there are no alternatives, or the approved alternatives have been exhausted. In return, the treatment and results would be placed anonymously in a database so the experience with the treatment could be shared and evaluated by drug makers and other doctors contemplating their use.

This would be not unlike Phase 3 efficacy testing on a volunteer basis, and could be done in parallel with conventional Phase 3 testing.

Under this system, we would have known for certain by June in HCQ was a help pr not, and under what treatment regimens. We could have started vaccinating those willing to take the chance in October, and be near done by now as we would have been testing  with hundreds instead of tens of thousands.

It’s such a good idea the bureaucracy will never let it happen.

Source: The Wall Street Journal (behind paywall).

“President Joe Biden is still claiming there’s an economic crisis to justify trillions of dollars in new federal spending. But it’s getting harder to make the case. On Thursday the Commerce Department reported that real gross domestic product increased at an annual rate of 4% in the fourth quarter of 2020. This follows the historic 33.4% surge in the third quarter and demonstrates a remarkable rebound from the spring shutdowns wherever state governors have been willing to allow it.

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