When the airline mask mandate was lifted by a Federal judge in April, most people cheered, but there were a loud segment of hysterics and memes that predicted doom. These are just two examples. After a very busy summer travel season we can now take a look back.
▪️After the mandate was lifted, cases rose slightly, and anecdotally you probably heard of many get Covid. But nowhere near prior spikes when the mask mandates were in place, nor was this summer any worse than the summer of ‘21.
▪️Looking at hospitalizations and deaths (posted in comments) is even more striking. These were much lower than the prior year, and didn’t see major spikes like in prior waves.
▪️Oswalt’s headline was misleading even at the time, as it referred to two UK airlines but was posted in the wake of the US ban ending. The CBS article ignored that restrictions had only been lifted within the UK and masks were still required on most of these airlines’ flights.
▪️It also ignored several other airlines who lifted (or stopped enforcing) mandates at that time which didn’t have staffing issues. And, ignored the massive cancelations last winter when mandates were still in place. In short, it was a laughable attempt at correlation/causation.
▪️In fact, after the UK mandate ended, cases plummeted and stayed relatively low all summer.
▪️The reality is that after a summer with planes and airports packed, with the vast majority of passengers and crew unmasked, there weren’t any serious health or staffing issues due to Covid. The hysterics and doom memes were wrong once again.
As with the leftist freak out over “banned books” this is not banning books, it’s still easy to get Harry Potter and bookstores should be able to limit whatever books they want for whatever reason. But not only does it show a double standard, the rationale is far less justifiable than removing certain content from school libraries. At least there the justification was the content of certain books are inappropriate for children, clearly not every book should be available in a school library. Here, there’s no argument about the content they just don’t like the author’s politics!
Because news came out about his letter to the FBI, revealing he was a nutcase. The letter was rambling and incoherent, claiming he was trained by the US military off the books, and that Walz had instructed him to kill Amy Klobuchar so he could run for Senate. None of it made any sense (Walz is not running for Senate) and none of the assassinations made any sense, even in a diabolical way.
Nearly all of his hit list was Democrats (including Walz) and abortion clinics, but he was supposedly working for Walz?! Plus, one of the guys he killed wasn’t even on his list, and others were no longer in office or deceased. None of it makes sense from any coherent angle.
Basically, it appears the guy was mentally ill and neither the left or right can use the incident to push their agendas anymore, so the story was dropped.
This is so dumb. First, this means LA began as Spanish land founded to support Spanish missions (i.e. colonialism). Which contradicts their entire premise. But the reality is that Los Angeles is a quintessential American city.
▪️When the US acquired California in the 1840s, LA was a small town of less than 2,000 people. It was basically nothing. It became large only after the gold rush and the railroads completed in the 1870-80s, which brought thousands of new settlers and a booming commercial center.
▪️But LA had a major issue limiting its growth, no water. It wasn’t until Mulholland found a water source and built an aqueduct down from Northern California that LA had the infrastructure to grow into a major city.
▪️Then, a combination of oil, real estate and the film industry caused it to boom in the early 1900s. Post WWII, industries like aerospace continued its spectacular growth. Calling this “Mexican land” is a brain dead take. Neither the Mexicans, Spanish nor ...
