Fenster writes:
The Cytokene Storm as a metaphor for a society destroying itself.
The burden of proof.
Nursing homes: a third of all deaths.
Nursing homes: 40%of all deaths.
Nursing homes: over 80% of deaths in Canada.
The invention of the lockdown idea a “bizarre tale”.
Peggy Noonan returns from her long sojourns into la-la land and offers a hard nosed class perspective.
Several from the Left:
Matt Taibbi on the Dems jettisoning civil liberties:
Nowhere has this been more evident than in the response to the Covid-19 crisis, where the almost mandatory take of pundits is that any protest of lockdown measures is troglodyte death wish. The aftereffects of years of Russiagate/Trump coverage are seen everywhere: press outlets reflexively associate complaints of government overreach with Trump, treason, and racism, and conversely radiate a creepily gleeful tone when describing aggressive emergency measures and the problems some “dumb” Americans have had accepting them.
Jimmy Dore and Dylan Ratigan discuss the bad effects of Congress’s “stimulus” efforts. A-one and a-two.