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by French reverence for intellectuals
The French philosopher king continued to write extensively on chastity while allegations about his pædophilia were covered up Confessions of the
Flesh: The History of Sexuality, Volume
4
Michel Foucault, edited by Frédéric Gros, translated by Robert Hurley Penguin, pp. 416, £25 The Last Man Takes LSD: Foucault and the End of Revolution Mitchell Dean and Daniel Zamora Verso, pp. 256, £17.99 Consider the
hare and the hyena. The hare, Clement of Alexandria
told readers of his 2nd-century sexual self-help
manual Pædagogus,
was thought to possess both male and female sexes
and swapped their roles from year to year. As for
the hyena, it was believed to acquire an extra anus
annually and ‘to make the worst use of these added
orifices’, as Michel Foucault puts it in the newly
translated fourth volume of his History of Sexuality.
For early church theologians the moral lesson was clear: we must not emulate gender-bending hares or randy hyenas. Rather, sex should be procreative, not pleasurable; we must go forth and multiply, borne by duty, not ecstasy. St Augustine went as far as to argue that since Adam and Eve were banished from Eden, sex was inherently tainted by association with original sin. Only outside Eden did Adam’s penis stir unbidden, cursing humans to become slaves to their degrading appetites. Many church fathers, Foucault considers, championed virginity as a lifestyle alternative. All this is fascinating. But Foucault’s posthumously published book about sexual norms in early Christendom takes on poignant resonance, given claims earlier this year by a fellow French professor that its author was a pædophile rapist who had sex with Arab children while living in Tunisia in the late 1960s. If Foucault learned about the art of sexual restraint preached by the theologians he studied, Guy Sorman’s revelations suggest he rarely practised it. Sorman told the Sunday Times that he witnessed Foucault throwing money at boys aged eight and inviting them to meet him for nocturnal sex at the local cemetery, where he abused them on the gravestones. The question of consent wasn’t even raised. Sorman, who gave the interview to publicise his book Mon dictionnaire du Bullshit — an indictment of irrationalist thought for which he thinks the likes of Foucault were responsible — said he regretted not telling the police, but that Foucault’s status as philosopher king made him fearful of doing so. He claimed that French newspapers were also aware of Foucault’s behaviour, but kept quiet. In this portrayal, Foucault figures as a Gallic Jimmy Savile, a predator hiding in plain sight, indulged by the Establishment. In Britain we defer to TV celebs; in France they abase themselves to intellectuals. There are differences between Savile and Foucault. The latter indulged his libido abroad, in the time-honoured manner of white Frenchmen (Gauguin had sex with fetishised Tahitian women; Gide preyed on African boys). Moreover, while Savile now personifies evil, Foucault, who died of Aids in 1984, lives on as an influencer, like a highbrow, if dead, Kim Kardashian. Just as he had campaigned to reduce the age of consent to 13 in 1977, so today the women’s rights caucus of feminist groups, LGBT+ organisations and trade unions worldwide campaign for the abolition of ‘laws limiting legal capacity of adolescents ... to provide consent to sex or sexual and reproductive health services’. Liz Truss, the equalities minister, recently even blamed Foucault’s influence for illiteracy at her Leeds school, which seems a bit of a stretch. Her peers, apparently, were taught about sexism and racism but not how to read and write. Foucault’s ‘postmodernist philosophy’, Truss claimed, ‘puts societal power structures and labels ahead of individuals and their endeavours.’ This is unfair. Foucault’s early work was a sustained takedown of oppressive societal power structures. Madness and Civilisation (1961) and The Birth of the Clinic (1963) were histories of what the French call assujettissement — roughly, how we are dominated by institutional power. Discipline and Punish (1975) was a critique of 19th-century prisons, in which the Orwellian surveillance state was prefigured in Jeremy Bentham’s panopticon prison design. Foucault’s point in these books was that power is always with us — like the poor, only more so. With power, as with the hyena’s extra anus, what’s important is not what you have, but what you do with it. Truth, as well as what is right and wrong, is relative to what he called epistemes — underlying cultural codes that govern language, norms and values. What’s more, Truss’s idea that Foucault preached against racism and sexism bears little scrutiny. Take sexism: in the first volume of The History of Sexuality (1976), Foucault wrote about a farm labourer who in 1867 sexually abused a young girl. The point of the story for Foucault was how power constructed from this incident someone deserving of punishment, making from ‘these inconsequential bucolic pleasures’ an ‘object not only of collective intolerance but of a judicial action’. Reading this again recently, I thought how much I’d like to have heard the young girl’s version. One person’s bucolic pleasure here reads very much like another’s rape. But then Foucault was long a champion of liberating the libido from social norms. In 1971 he wrote the foreword to Anti-Oedipus, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s eulogy to the revolutionary potential of not the proletariat, but desire. Like these fellow disenchanted soixante-huitards, Foucault junked the left’s abasement before Marx and Freud in favour of a new false secular idol: norm-free libidinal relativism. You don’t have to be Harvey Weinstein to buy into that philosophy, but it might help. It is a short step from this fixation on desire, argue the authors of The Last Man Takes LSD — a fascinating study of Foucault’s American years — to dabbling in the then-current neoliberal thought which Foucault encountered while teaching in California in the 1970s. He liked the idea of busting down the welfare state, which he believed had created dependent, docile subjects. He heretically supported both the conservative French president Valéry Giscard d’Estaing and the Iranian revolution, while denouncing the dirigisme of the French communist and socialist parties. He had more in common with Thatcher and Reagan than Mitterrand. Maybe if Truss had read Foucault carefully she might have realised how much she shares with him. Foucault was turned on by California’s cult of the self, whereby virtuosic individuals remake and remodel themselves beyond social norms and oppressive labels. That cult was French existentialism with an American free-market twist. The cult faithful the authors call ‘entrepreneurs of the self’. They suggest that by frequenting New York leather bars and San Francisco bath houses, and by dropping acid in Death Valley, Foucault became just such an entrepreneur, cultivating an image of himself as authentic and free to a world captivated by the pursuit of such delusions. In the late 1970s, he also wrote the second and third volumes of the History of Sexuality, championing ancient Greek and Roman sex lives as antidotes to Christian shame and bourgeois repression. Critics pointed out that these erotic idylls were reserved for tiny elites; the sex lives of plebs, slaves, women and children were beyond Foucault’s remit. Ancient Greek slaves rarely write history —nor, I’ll bet, do pre-pubescent Arab boys get to tell their story. All this makes the appearance of Confessions of the Flesh intriguing. The manuscript had been locked in a bank vault for 30 years, and whether Foucault would have wanted these now edited notes to see the light of day is uncertain. He told his literary executors he didn’t wish to become the Kafka to their Max Brod, but in a sense he has. No matter; it’s an undeniably fascinating text, since it deals with how our experience of sexuality has scarcely emerged from the long shadow cast by Augustine and other church fathers who preached the paradox that after the Fall sex was necessary yet shameful. The book is readable and engaging, but the erotically blighting imperative to confess our sex lives to priests — and latterly to shrinks — arose in times beyond its compass. In any case, the book we really want to read is the one Foucault didn’t write — not a critical account of venerable Christian libidos, but his own. (read more) See also: The perversions of M. Foucault by Roger Kimball See also: The Whip Hand "The
conventional wisdom of the Great
Awokening is in sizable part the
dumbed-down heritage of the brilliant and
sinister French philosopher Michel Foucault
(1926–1984)."
Editor's Note: Foucault, the
darling of Post-Modernism and sadomasochistic
hedonists, is also known for his elaborations
of Bentham's Panopticon. Foucault would have
approved of the modern surveillance state. He
was a disgusting pervert who wrote turgid
prose that is a sure cure for insomnia. The
Left still adores him.
Fittingly, he died of AIDS in June, 1984. His many indecencies caught up with him. 2021-07-31 g DIVERSITY IS NOT SOUTH AFRICA'S STRENGTH The real reasons for South Africa’s
riots
Sixty-eight years ago, when I was four, my Scottish father and English mother took me from London to South Africa, to a seaside town 20 miles south of Cape Town in the Western Cape. This is Fish Hoek (pronounced ‘fishhook’). I was brought up here, and after working in England and elsewhere in South Africa, I have returned. I have lived through the rise and fall of apartheid, and the 27-year rule of the ANC. I watched the terrible recent events, which seem to have subsided. We are sifting through the ruins and wondering what happened, and why. South Africa has nine provinces. Two of them, KwaZulu-Natal (KZN, formerly Natal) and Gauteng [formerly Transvaal] (with Johannesburg and Pretoria), have been devastated by violent riots. More than 300 people have been killed and more than 50 schools in KZN have been ransacked; thousands of shops, including big, insured, white-owned supermarkets and small, uninsured, black-owned stores, have been destroyed; pharmacies and clinics have been attacked and trucks and buses have been set on fire. The main motorway from Johannesburg to Durban is often simply closed. The damage now amounts to billions of rand. Only bookshops seem to have escaped the looters, which might tell us something. Shops selling TVs, smartphones, freezers, furniture, designer clothes and luxury goods have been less lucky. The nominal cause of the riots was the arrest and imprisonment of Jacob Zuma, our president from 2009 to 2018, a charming man with powerful supporters and the most corrupt leader in South Africa history. We were told the riots were in his name, but I saw very few pro-Zuma placards. In fact, there were almost no placards at all. Instead, there seem to have been more immediate causes: desperate need and greedy opportunism; political and racial rivalry. Murderous faction-fighting within the ANC was doubtless a factor, especially in KZN, where assassination of political rivals has become an administrative procedure. One KZN journalist wrote: ‘Politicians in Durban walk around with hit lists in their back pockets … a hitman can be hired as easily as we hail e-rides. A simple trip to the taxi rank gets you an inkabi — or hitman — as long as you have R5,000 to pay.’ But if there are many immediate causes of the rioting, there is only one profound cause, which is the failure of the ANC to improve the lives of ordinary black people. In 1994 the ANC inherited the strongest economy in Africa, with excellent infrastructure, including cheap, reliable electricity. The ANC has wrecked it all. We have continual blackouts; the passenger railways are crumbling into ruin; most of the municipalities are dysfunctional, with appalling water supply and sewage running in the streets; South African Airways is bankrupt; the economy is crippled; deep poverty is widespread, and unemployment is at 43 per cent (including many who have given up looking for work). This tragedy has been caused by systematic corruption, a bloated government, ruinous racial laws and a relentless assault on private enterprise. Violent crime alarms the rich and terrifies the poor. The ANC government responded to Covid-19 with a clumsy and callous lockdown. A team of actuaries showed that many more South African lives would be lost by the lockdown than by the virus. The ANC ignored them. The country was a tinderbox waiting for a spark. In Cape Town we have escaped this rioting but been victim to a different source of violent death: taxi wars. Here, 82 people have been slaughtered this year for using a rival taxi company’s transport. As little boys in the 1950s, we used to travel safely by train from Fish Hoek to Cape Town. The Cape Town to Simonstown line, a scenic engineering marvel, was completed in 1890 and served well for a hundred years. No more. The railway lines are now dilapidated, unreliable and dangerous or completely defunct, and black people living in townships established by apartheid far from the city must find other ways to get to work. In the last years of apartheid, to cater for these people, a network of private, black-owned minibus taxis sprung up. Unfortunately this welcome triumph of free enterprise has become infected with organised crime. Each company claims a particular route as its monopoly and kills any rival drivers who use it. The taxis shoot at buses. Uber drivers are in peril. Any Cape Town companies that provide their own transport for staff risk their lives. When I go to Cape Town airport, my driver (in an unmarked private car) asks me to sit in front because if I sat in the back, I might look like a paying passenger. On the way to the airport, I see spectacular natural beauty, graceful manors, and festering, crime-ridden slums. Such is the South African paradox. (read more) 2021-07-31 f DIVERSITY IS NOT SWEDEN'S STRENGTH Sweden Is Being Shot Up
In late May a throng of a hundred or so young men, most of them from African or Middle Eastern minorities, started fighting in a square in Hjallbo, a suburb of Gothenburg, Sweden’s second city. Members of rival gangs seem to have started the scrap over the theft of a moped. Two days later a man in a nearby grocery shop was shot in the back of the head, thought to be as an act of revenge for the gangland battle. Then a policeman in Biskopsgarden, another suburb of the city, was shot dead. A few days after that a man was murdered in a barber’s shop in Frolunda, yet another suburb. To add to this litany of recent criminal violence, two young children were lucky to survive last week after being caught in the crossfire of yet another gang shoot-out, this time in Visattra, on the edge of Stockholm, the capital. In the past 15 years, Sweden has had Europe’s highest rate of death by shooting, according to a recent report by the country’s National Council for Crime Prevention. Analysing data on 22 European countries provided by Eurostat and the UN’s World Health Organisation, Klara Hradilova-Selin, a researcher at the council, reckoned that Sweden came second after Croatia between 2014 and 2017. But by 2018 preliminary data suggested that Sweden had risen to the top spot. Most of the victims are men between 20 and 29. Sweden’s rate of homicide by shooting is two-and-a-half times the European average. Such violence is invariably fuelled by illegal drugs and ill-feeling between jobless, marginalised young men and the police. Recent immigrants, many of them Somali, have failed to integrate. The Syrian migrant crisis of 2015 has led to more ghettoisation. In Hjallbo 70% of residents were born abroad. Many of them, especially young men, scrape by on welfare benefits and the black market. Shooting has become a common way for gangs to settle their differences. Some analysts also blame excessive centralisation in the past decade for the falling number of police serving on the streets of Sweden’s grimmer suburbs, despite higher police numbers overall. In some districts where immigrants are prominent, community policing has broken down, letting lethal gangs take over. In 1980 Gothenburg’s police solved 80% of all murders. Nowadays the figure is a dismal 20%. (read more) 2021-07-31 e DIVERSITY IS NOT AMERICA'S STRENGTH III With
the African
population boom, South Africa is the fate
awaiting every Western country that
cannot keep blacks out. Hispanics and Asians
should be paying attention. Even blacks who dream
of owning property, living in nice communities, or
simply avoiding bullets should also be worried.
They should think carefully about whether they
really want a black-majority country or a
black-majority world. Not even the co-founder of Black
Lives Matter wants that. Look
where she lives.
But immigration curbs just limit the damage. We need a place of our own. For the West to survive, we must live on our own terms. “Only we can be us,” said Jared Taylor, and only we can build our civilization. We need to get serious about starting our own communities. We’re a global minority. If we don’t defend ourselves, no one else will. — Gregory Hood2021-07-31 d DIVERSITY IS NOT AMERICA'S STRENGTH II New FBI Initiative Will Put
"Hate Crime" Quotas On Local Law Enforcement
The Department of Justice and the FBI have a message for local police departments: start charging more white people with hate crimes or invite an investigation. Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta [Hindu] told an assembly of FBI agents yesterday that they are now tasked with hounding police departments in their district if they do not register any “hate crimes.” Gupta and FBI Deputy Assistant Director of the Criminal Investigative Division Jay Greenberg [Jew] have declared “hate crimes” by “racially motivated violent extremists” (a euphemism generally reserved for right-wing white men) to be a national threat priority — a rare designation. According to Greenberg, the FBI will be increasingly specialized in pursuing “hate crimes” through increased training in the matter, an aggressive media campaign designed to recruit victims in “underrepresented and targeted populations,” and putting federal pressure on local law enforcement to charge and report hate crimes when they otherwise wouldn’t. Hate crimes laws are political and racially motivated. Blacks and Jews are heavily overrepresented as supposed victims in the FBI’s “hate crime” database, while whites are charged at higher rates than general crime rates. For example, last month a black man who shot five white men in a multi-state shooting spree told police his sole motive was that he hated white people, yet neither local prosecutors or the FBI have charged him with a hate crime. According to the FBI’s 2019 hate crime report, blacks are 49% of victims of racial bias while Jews are 60% of crimes motivated by religious animosity. Most of the blacks in the data were victims of “intimidation,” an often Constitutionally dubious charge. A large number of reported hate crimes targeting both blacks and Jews are hoaxes, as seen in famous cases like the Jussie Smollett incident and the thousands of bomb threats targeting Jewish community centers that were the work of a Jew in Israel. Just yesterday, a white man was charged with “ethnic intimidation” for putting up stickers that say “I Love Being White.” The FBI wants more police departments to exploit the legal gray area and lack of First Amendment advocacy groups for white dissidents to juke crime statistics and distort the reality of crime. Blacks commit roughly 90% of violent interracial felonies, a statistic the Critical Race Theorists at the FBI find inconvenient. The mad rush for white racists at the FBI is bound to cause more embarrassments for the increasingly discredited agency. Last year, the theater put on by the FBI over NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace’s “noose,” which turned out to be a hoax, served to reveal the hyper-politicization and lack of seriousness at the Bureau. (read more) 2021-07-31 c DIVERSITY IS NOT AMERICA'S STRENGTH I We Are Now Looking at 1,000
Shootings Per Week [in the U.S.]
[...] This is affecting most people’s lives.
In formerly nice neighborhoods in Columbus, Ohio, people are avoiding going out to dinner because there are so many shootings on the street. Blacks don’t even live there, but they come in and start shooting each other in parking lots. Retail stores are closing and so on. At the same time, police are continuing to pull back. Some cities are saying they’re going to hire more cops after so many have resigned, but there is no real way to make this work, given that new recruits can’t possibly deal with this situation. We’re basically entering a Mad Max style scenario. Blacks are going to start attacking white people on a large scale. They are going to start looting homes. There is nothing currently to prevent this from happening, other than that the blacks haven’t figured out they can get away with it. We are going into a situation where normal white people will be getting sandwiched between a chaotic crime state and the government police state. You will have the Vaxx Police knocking on your front door while the blacks are breaking in the back door and stealing your TV. (read more) 2021-07-31 b DIVERSITY IS NOT TEXAS' STRENGTH “The Biden Administration has created a
constitutional crisis between the federal government
and the State of Texas. This stems from the Biden
Administration’s refusal to enforce immigration laws
and allow illegal immigrants with COVID-19 to enter
our country. As our communities are overrun and
overwhelmed by the record-high influx of migrants,
cartels and smugglers profit off the chaos. Not only
that, but this crisis also extends beyond the border
as deadly drugs like fentanyl infiltrate our
communities. This already dangerous situation
continues to deteriorate as the Biden Administration
knowingly imports COVID-19 into Texas from across the
border—willfully exposing Texans and Americans alike.
President Biden has a duty and a responsibility to
protect and uphold our nation’s sovereignty, yet he
has long-since abdicated his authority to do so.
“As the Governor of Texas, I have a responsibility to protect the people of Texas—a responsibility that grows more urgent by the day while the Biden Administration sits on the sidelines. I take very seriously my duties and responsibilities as the Governor of the State of Texas. I have the authority, and duty, under the constitutions of the United States and of Texas to protect Texans and our nation. I also have the authority under long-established emergency response laws to control the movement of people to better contain the spread of a disaster, such as those known to have COVID-19. My duty remains to the people of Texas, and I have no intention of abdicating that. “Until President Biden and his Administration do their jobs to enforce the laws of our nation and protect Americans, the State of Texas will continue to step up to protect our communities and uphold the rule of law.” As Governor, I have a
responsibility to protect the people of Texas—a
responsibility that
grows more urgent by the day while the Biden Administration is knowingly importing COVID across our southern border.https://t.co/bPlmV6RaLZ — Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) July 31, 2021 2021-07-31 a DIVERSITY IS NOT OUR STRENGTH A nation consists of a people united by stories, history, memory and mythology. Without such unity, a nation ceases to be. "Without memory, there
is no culture. Without memory, there would be no
civilization, no society, no future."
— Elie Wiesel 2021-07-30 k THIS IS SICK XI CDC's Own Data Shows 15% of
In-Hospital Covid Deaths in May Were Among
Vaccinated Patients, Not 'Under 1%' As Officials
Claimed
Anthony Fauci, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy and CDC director Rochelle Walensky were lying to the public when they said over 99% of patients dying in hospitals were unvaccinated, according to the CDC's own data shared Thursday night by the Washington Post. FAUCI: "99.5 percent of the deaths,
in the United States, are among unvaccinated
people,
Israel, Iceland and other highly-vaxxed nations are all rushing to lock down a second time and rush out boosters but our public health "authorities" and Biden himself have spent the last two weeks claiming the "vaccines" are 99.5% to 100% effective.
Now, they're starting to admit that was a load of crap (but they're still fear-mongering that we're all going to die). From Washington Post, " 'The war has changed': Internal CDC document urges new messaging, warns delta infections likely more severe": The data and studies cited in the document played a key role in revamped recommendations that call for everyone — vaccinated or not — to wear masks indoors in public settings in certain circumstances, a federal health official said. That official told The Post that the data will be published in full on Friday. CDC Director Rochelle Walensky privately briefed members of Congress on Thursday, drawing on much of the material in the document.The vaccines are "not as effective" in the people who would theoretically need them most. Another victory for our public health "authorities"!
2021-07-30 j THIS IS SICK X !! 110,000+ vaccine breakthrough cases identified in the U.S. Bloomberg data from 35
states found 111,748 vaccine breakthrough cases That’s more than **10x**
the CDC’s count when they stopped comprehensively — Emma Kinery (@EmmaKinery) July 30, 2021 2021-07-30 i THIS IS SICK IX Delta COVID-19 Variant Shed by
Vaccinated People, Spreads Like Chickenpox, CDC
Document Suggests
The Delta COVID-19 strain spreads as easily as chickenpox, with fully vaccinated people also transmitting the virus, The Washington Post has reported, citing an internal document from the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), expected to be published later on Friday. The transmissibility of the Delta variant is almost as high as chickenpox, with each infected person, on average, infecting eight or nine others, according to the document. Fully vaccinated people can transmit the virus as well as unvaccinated people, it also said. Vaccination, however, provides substantial protection against the virus, the document added. The disease control centre called for universal mask requirements and vaccination as the best tool against the Delta variant. The United States is now experiencing a spike in COVID-19 cases, with the Delta strain accounting for over 80% of new infections as of July 20th. Some 70% of US adults, or 178 million, have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine and 60%, or 155 million, are fully vaccinated, according to the CDC. (read more) 2021-07-30 h THIS IS SICK VIII Busting the myth that
vaccination prevents transmission
2021-07-30
gThe real-world evidence is clear The UK Government seemingly fixed upon a strategy in mid-2020 — without apparently considering the extensive collateral harm — of suppressing the spread of SARS-CoV-2 until such time as a vaccination became available. The strategy necessitated maintaining the claim — against all real-world evidence — that the unprecedented restrictions on our daily lives have had a significant effect on viral spread and infection rates. A claim that does not stand up when scrutinised against real- world case rates falling since legal restrictions were removed on 19 July, as discussed here. The other key plank of this narrative is the safety and effectiveness of vaccination. While safety concerns have been mounting for some time and are now reaching the mainstream, attention is turning towards effectiveness, particularly following disturbing news from Israel, where even previously prominent cheerleaders for vaccines, and health providers, are acknowledging that efficacy is declining substantially, with less protection being afforded by a vaccination given in January compared to in April / May. The Prime Minister meanwhile, stated that protection against the Delta variant is less than had been hoped. Recent
infection rates in the fully vaccinated adult
population (ages 20+) appear, from official data
(available here and here), to be
about the same as rates in the un-vaccinated
implying — at first sight — very little or no
efficacy at all against infection.
Clearly the thinking
in Israel generally is that these vaccines
are no longer the “silver bullet” they were
proclaimed to be, and the country is discussing
the need to order booster shots, a strategy which seems
no more rational than the initial vaccination
programme. Meanwhile, in the USA, the CDC, in a reversal of earlier guidance triumphantly endorsed directly by the President, is now recommending continued (and of course entirely un-evidenced) mask-wearing for vaccinated individuals, thereby expressing a distinct lack of confidence in the vaccines to prevent transmission. Specifically, as reported by the Washington Post: “The game-changer for the agency was data showing that vaccinated people infected with the highly infectious delta variant carry the same viral load as unvaccinated people who are infected.” USA Today had earlier reported that NBC had been told by an unnamed official that vaccinated individuals could actually carry higher viral loads, though later it dropped this aspect of the story. On the other hand, the CDC is apparently still maintaining the breathtakingly misleading — and entirely contradictory — claim that 99% of cases are in the unvaccinated, a claim which, as one epidemiologist has pointed out, could only be substantiated by starting such a count of cases from January, when cases were very high and before the vaccination rollout had begun in earnest. The apparent inability of vaccination to end the pandemic as claimed by the authorities is also being noticed in other nations; Gibraltar, Scotland, Seychelles and India are several such examples. HART has always been concerned about the “vaccine saviour” narrative and calls to “believe” in vaccination — when life or death decisions are being made, it is imperative that we rely on a robust evidential base and reject quack science. Whether
or not the vaccine reduces the severity of disease
remains an open question, although Israel
has concerns that this is also waning.
If that is the sole benefit of the
vaccines which has survived transition from the
clinical trial scenario to the real world, any
discrimination or coercion of any form aimed at
those who choose not to be vaccinated is
completely unsustainable. (read
more) THIS IS SICK VII There’s no such thing as a
pregnant man
The 'birthing community' is increasingly deluded about biology A “pregnant man” emoji is incoming. Designed by Emojipedia, it’s due to be released by the Unicode Consortium later this year. The final approval of all new emojis won’t take place until September, although the organisation says that draft lists of designs have been approved without modification. Trans rights campaigners have long advocated for a depiction of gestating men and consider the release of the “pregnant man” emoji a recognition that transgender men and non-binary people can give birth — if they were born female. In their announcement, Emojipedia stated: “The above additions will mean that nearly all emojis can have a default gender neutral option, with choice to use a woman or man where relevant.” Should anyone have a problem with this? Well, men cannot physically give birth. But then again, humans do not have literal dollar signs in their eyes, or zippers on their mouths, yet these emojis are in wide use. This is a legitimate argument — but it ignores the sinister undercurrent below the push to widen society’s understanding of pregnancy and childbirth by side-lining the material repercussions both have for women and girls, and the advocates campaigning for their rights. Around the same time the “pregnant man” emoji was announced, the parallel plight of Milli Hill became widely known. Hill, a bestselling author and the founder of the Positive Birth Movement, was dropped by a charity after she challenged taboos around the idea of ‘pregnant men’. Hill faced the wrath of the birthing community when she wrote on Instagram in November of last year: “I would challenge the term ‘birthing person’” and stated that the concept of “obstetric violence is violence against women”. The subsequent threats and abuse she received left her shaken. Speaking to UnHerd, Hill reflects: “The
pregnancy, birth, and breastfeeding world is
changing language across the board. Anyone who
questions this is swiftly ejected from their
professional body or attacked on social media.
Many people working in maternity rights consider
the push for inclusive language as a positive step
and a way of being more accepting of people –
which of course I support. But I don’t think they
have thought through the implications of changing
the definition of ‘woman’. They don’t necessarily
realise that ‘being kind’ is going to have an
impact on women’s hard-won rights.”
- Milli Hill The context here is crucial. Worldwide, pregnancy and childbirth remain a life-or-death matter for a large number of women. The COVID pandemic has triggered an alarming increase of maternal deaths in some countries as many women and girls are kept away from hospitals. In May, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence published guidelines suggesting doctors should encourage labour induction at 39 weeks for all pregnant women of colour in the UK, a proposal that has been branded as “discriminatory” by the Royal College of Midwives. There are genuine concerns about the way parts of the medical establishment treat women — particularly pregnant women of colour. These questions, and the realities of childbirth, risk being obscured under the guise of “inclusivity” when experts who speak in favour of material reality become victims of abuse. Identity politics has led to a lot of meaningless performative gestures at the expense of substantive support for improving childbirth care, at its worst presenting a veneer of modernity to the age-old habit of erasing female bodies. If only they could make an emoji to articulate that. (read more) 2021-07-30 f THIS IS SICK VI Med Schools Are Now Denying
Biological Sex
Professors are apologizing for saying ‘male’ and ‘female.’ Students are policing teachers. This is what it looks like when activism takes over medicine. Today we bring you another installment of Katie Herzog’s ongoing series about the spread of woke ideology in the field of medicine. Her first story focused on the ideological purge at the top medical schools and teaching hospitals in the country. “Wokeness,” as one doctor put it, “feels like an existential threat.” Katie’s latest reporting illustrates some of the most urgent elements of that threat. It focuses on how biological sex is being denied by professors fearful of being smeared by their students as transphobic. And it shows how the true victims of that denial are not sensitive medical students but patients, perhaps most importantly, transgender ones. Some of you may find Katie’s story shocking and disconcerting and perhaps even maddening. You might also ask yourself: How has it come to this? How has this radical ideology gone from the relatively obscure academic fringe to the mainstream in such a short time? Those are among the questions that motivate this newsletter. We feel obligated to chronicle in detail and in primary accounts the takeover of our institutions by this ideology — and the consequences of it. So far, it has taken root in some of our leading medical schools. Some. Not all. But I’m left thinking: What state will American medicine — or any other American institution — find itself in after being routed by this ideology? If you think reporting like Katie Herzog’s is important I hope you’ll support us by subscribing here. — BW During a recent endocrinology course at a top medical school in the University of California system, a professor stopped mid-lecture to apologize for something he’d said at the beginning of class. “I don’t want you to think that I am in any way trying to imply anything, and if you can summon some generosity to forgive me, I would really appreciate it,” the physician says in a recording provided by a student in the class (whom I’ll call Lauren). “Again, I’m very sorry for that. It was certainly not my intention to offend anyone. The worst thing that I can do as a human being is be offensive.” His offense: using the term “pregnant women.” “I said ‘when a woman is pregnant,’ which implies that only women can get pregnant and I most sincerely apologize to all of you.” It wasn’t the first time Lauren had heard an instructor apologize for using language that, to most Americans, would seem utterly inoffensive. Words like “male” and “female.” Why would medical school professors apologize for referring to a patient’s biological sex? Because, Lauren explains, in the context of her medical school “acknowledging biological sex can be considered transphobic.” When sex is acknowledged by her instructors, it’s sometimes portrayed as a social construct, not a biological reality, she says. In a lecture on transgender health, an instructor declared: “Biological sex, sexual orientation, and gender are all constructs. These are all constructs that we have created.” In other words, some of the country’s top medical students are being taught that humans are not, like other mammals, a species comprising two sexes. The notion of sex, they are learning, is just a man-made creation. The idea that sex is a social construct may be interesting debate fodder in an anthropology class. But in medicine, the material reality of sex really matters, in part because the refusal to acknowledge sex can have devastating effects on patient outcomes. In 2019, the New England Journal of Medicine reported the case of a 32-year-old transgender man who went to an ER complaining of abdominal pain. While the patient disclosed he was transgender, his medical records did not. He was simply a man. The triage nurse determined that the patient, who was obese, was in pain because he’d stopped taking a medication meant to relieve hypertension. This was no emergency, she decided. She was wrong: The patient was, in fact, pregnant and in labor. By the time hospital staff realized that, it was too late. The baby was dead. And the patient, despite his own shock at being pregnant, was shattered. Professors Running Scared of Students To Dana Beyer, a trans activist in Maryland who is also a retired surgeon, such stories illustrate how vital it is that sex, not just gender identity — how someone perceives their gender — is taken into consideration in medicine. “The practice of medicine is based in scientific reality, which includes sex, but not gender,” Beyer says. “The more honest a patient is with their physician, the better the odds for a positive outcome.” The denial of sex doesn’t help anyone, perhaps least of all transgender patients who require special treatment. But, Lauren says, instructors who discuss sex risk complaints from their students — which is why, she thinks, many don’t. “I think there’s a small percentage of instructors who are true believers. But most of them are probably just scared of their students,” she says. And for good reason. Her medical school hosts an online forum in which students correct their instructors for using terms like “male” and “female” or “breastfeed” instead of “chestfeed.” Students can lodge their complaints in real time during lectures. After one class, Lauren says, she heard that a professor was so upset by students calling her out for using “male” and “female” that she started crying. Then there are the petitions. At the beginning of the year, students circulated a number of petitions designed to, as Lauren puts it, “name and shame” instructors for “wrongspeak.” One was delivered after a lecture on chromosomal disorders in which the professor used the pronouns “she” and “her” as well as the terms “father” and “son,” all of which, according to the students, are “cisnormative.” After the petition was delivered, the instructor emailed the class, noting that while she had consulted with a member of the school’s LGBTQ Committee prior to the lecture, she was sorry for using such “binary” language. Another petition was delivered after an instructor referred to “a man changing into a woman,” which, according to the students, incorrectly assumed that the trans woman wasn’t always a woman. But, as Lauren points out, “if trans women were born women, why would they need to transition?” This phenomenon — of students policing teachers; of students being treated as the authorities over and above their teachers — has had consequences. “Since the petitions were sent out, instructors have been far more proactive about ‘correcting’ their slides in advance or sending out emails to the school listserv if any upcoming material has ‘outdated’ terminology,” Lauren tells me. “At first, compliance is demanded from outside, and eventually the instructors become trained to police their own language proactively.” In one point in the semester, a faculty member sent out a preemptive email warning students about forthcoming lectures containing language that doesn’t align with the school’s “approach to gender inclusivity and gender/sex antioppression.” That language included the term “premenopausal women.” In the future, the professor promised, this would be updated to “premenopausal people.” Lauren also says young doctors are being taught to declare their pronouns upon meeting patients and ask for patients’ pronouns in return. This was echoed by a recent graduate of Mount Sinai Medical School in New York. “Everything was about pronouns,” the student said. The student objected to this, thinking most patients would be confused or offended by a doctor asking them what their pronouns were, but she never said so — at least not publicly. “It was impossible to push back without worrying about getting expelled,” she told me. This hypersensitivity is undermining medical training. And many of these students are likely not even aware that their education is being informed by ideology. “Take abdominal aortic aneurysms,” Lauren says. “These are four times as likely to occur in males than females, but this very significant difference wasn’t emphasized. I had to look it up, and I don’t have the time to look up the sex predominance for the hundreds of diseases I’m expected to know. I’m not even sure what I’m not being taught, and unless my classmates are as skeptical as I am, they probably aren’t aware either.” Other conditions that present differently and at different rates in males and females include hernias, rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, multiple sclerosis, and asthma, among many others. Males and females also have different normal ranges for kidney function, which impacts drug dosage. They have different symptoms during heart attacks: males complain of chest pain, while women experience fatigue, dizziness, and indigestion. In other words: biological sex is a hugely important factor in knowing what ails patients and how to properly treat them. Carole Hooven is the author of T: The Story of Testosterone, the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us and a professor at Harvard who focuses on behavioral endocrinology. I discussed Lauren’s story with her and Hooven found it deeply troubling. “Today’s students will go on to hold professional positions that give them a great deal of power over others’ bodies and minds. These young people are our future doctors, educators, researchers, statisticians, psychologists. To ignore or downplay the reality of sex and sex-based differences is to perversely handicap our understanding and our ability to increase human health and thriving.” A former dean of a leading medical school agrees: “I don’t know the extent to which the stories you relate are now widespread in medical education, but to the extent that they are — and I hear some of this is popping up at my own institution — they are a serious departure from the expectation that medical education and practice should be based on science and be free from imposition of ideology and ideology-based intimidation.” He added: “How male and female members of our species develop, how they differ genetically, anatomically, physiologically, and with respect to diseases and their treatment are foundational to clinical medicine and research. Efforts to erase or diminish these foundations should be unacceptable to responsible professional leaders.” There is no doubt the rules are changing. According to the American Psychological Association, the terms “natal sex” and “birth sex,” for example, are now considered “disparaging”; the preferred term is “assigned sex at birth.” The National Institutes of Health, the CDC, and Harvard Medical School have all made efforts to divorce sex from medicine and emphasize gender identity. When Asking Questions Can Destroy Your Career While it’s unclear if this trend will remain limited to some medical schools, what is perfectly clear is that activism, specifically around issues of sex, gender, and race, is impacting scientific research and progress. One of the most notorious examples is that of a physician and former associate professor at Brown University, Lisa Littman. Around 2014, Littman began to notice a sudden uptick in female adolescents in her social network who were coming out as transgender boys. Until recently, the incidence of gender dysphoria was thought to be rare, affecting an estimated one in 10,000 people in the U.S. While the exact number of trans-identifying adolescents (or adults, for that matter) is unknown, in the last decade or so, the number of youth seeking treatment for gender dysphoria has spiked by over 1,000 percent in the U.S.; in the U.K., it’s jumped by 4,000 percent. The largest youth gender clinic in Los Angeles reportedly saw 1,000 patients in 2019. That same clinic, in 2009, saw about 80. Curious about what was happening, Littman surveyed about 250 parents whose adolescent children had announced they were transgender — after never before exhibiting the symptoms of gender dysphoria. Over 80 percent of cases involved girls; many were part of friend groups in which half or more of the members had come out as trans. Littman coined the term “rapid-onset gender dysphoria” to describe this phenomenon. She posited that it might be a sort of social contagion, not unlike cutting or anorexia, both of which were endemic among teenage girls when I was in high school in the ’90s. In August 2018, Littman published her results in a paper called, Rapid-Onset Gender Dysphoria in Adolescents and Young Adults: A Study of Parental Reports, in the journal PLOS One. Littman, the journal, and Brown University were pummeled with accusations of transphobia in the press and on social media. In response, the journal announced an investigation into Littman’s work. Several hours later, Brown University issued a press release denouncing the professor’s paper. Littman’s paper was republished in March 2019 with an amended title and other minor, mostly cosmetic changes. The journal has since confirmed that, while the paper was “corrected,” the original version contained no false information. But Littman’s career was forever altered. She no longer teaches at Brown. And her contract at the Rhode Island State Health Department wasn’t renewed. Littman is hardly alone. Trans activists have also targeted Ray Blanchard and Ken Zucker in Toronto, Michael Bailey at Northwestern, and Stephen Gliske at the University of Michigan for publishing findings they deemed transphobic. In a recent case, trans activists shut down research that was to be conducted by UCLA psychiatrist Jamie Feusner, who had hoped to explore the physiological underpinnings of gender dysphoria. Nor is this limited to academia. Journalists who question the new ideological orthodoxy, like Abigail Shrier and Jesse Singal (with whom I co-host a podcast), have also been smeared for their work. After the American Booksellers Association included Shrier’s book, Irreversible Damage, in a promotional mailing to bookstores, activists went ballistic, prompting the ABA’s CEO to apologize for having done “horrific harm” that “traumatized and endangered members of the trans community” and “caused violence and pain.” I had a similar experience in 2017 after writing about de-transitioners — people who transition to a different gender and then transition back — for the Seattle alt-weekly The Stranger. After the piece came out, people put up flyers and stickers around Seattle calling me transphobic; someone burned stacks of the newspaper and sent me a video of it. I lost many friends, and later ended up moving out of the city in part because of the turmoil. But far more concerning than the treatment of journalists chronicling this story is the treatment of patients themselves. Patients Are Suffering Julia Mason is a pediatrician in the Portland suburbs who, unlike most doctors I spoke to, allowed me to use her name. Mason explained that she works at a small private practice and her boss is a libertarian. In other words: she won’t get fired for being honest. Mason has been practicing for over 25 years, but it wasn’t until 2015 that she saw her first transgender patient: a 15-year-old trans boy who Mason referred to a gender clinic, where the patient was prescribed testosterone. Since that first patient, she says there have been about 10 more requests for referrals to gender clinics. As this number increased, Mason started wondering about the advice her patients are getting at these clinics. “A 12-year-old female came to see me, and the dad told me that they went to a therapist, and in the first five minutes, the therapist was like, ‘Yep. He’s trans,’” she told me. “And then they went to a pediatric endocrinologist who recommended puberty blockers on the first visit.” Mason generally avoids prescribing puberty blockers, which inhibit the development of secondary sex characteristics like breasts or facial hair. The reason, she says, is that because there have been no controlled studies on the use of puberty blockers for gender dysphoric youth, the long term effects are still unknown. (In the U.K., a recent review of existing studies found that the quality of the evidence that puberty blockers are effective in relieving gender dysphoria and improving mental health is “very low.”) In girls, Mason says, blockers inhibit breast development, but “you end up shorter, and the last thing a female who wants to look male needs is to be shorter.” Other side effects may include a loss of bone density, headache, fatigue, joint pain, hot flashes, mood swings and something called “brain fog.” In boys, blockers inhibit penis growth, which can make it harder for them to achieve orgasm and for surgeons to later construct those penises into “neo-vaginas,” a procedure known as vaginoplasty. Trans activists often claim the effects of puberty blockers are fully reversible, but this remains unproven, and studies show that the overwhelming majority of teens who start on puberty blockers later take cross-sex hormones (testosterone for females and estrogen for males) to complete their transition. The combination of puberty blockers followed by hormones can cause sterility and other health problems, including sexual dysfunction, and the hormones must be taken for life — or until detransition. Little is known about their long-term effects. While the line that blockers are “fully reversible” is oft-repeated by activists and the media, last year, England’s National Health Service back-tracked this unsubstantiated claim on its website. Mason is one of several doctors who voiced concerns about the fast-tracking of adolescents seeking to transition — and the new normal in the medical establishment, which seems to encourage that fast-tracking. In 2018, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommended that pediatricians “affirm” their patients’ chosen gender without taking into account mental health, family history, trauma, or fears of puberty. The AAP recommendations say nothing about the many consequences, physical and psychological, of transitioning. So perhaps it is not surprising that surgeons are performing double mastectomies, or “top surgery,” on patients as young as 13. One leading clinician, Diane Ehrensaft, has said that children as young as three have the cognitive ability to come out as transgender. And the University of California San Francisco Child and Adolescent Gender Center Clinic, where Ehrensaft is the mental health director, has helped kids of that age transition socially. But not all clinicians have cheered these developments. In a paper responding to the AAP guidelines, James Cantor, a clinical psychologist in Toronto, noted that “every follow-up study of [gender dysphoric] children, without exception, found the same thing: By puberty, the majority of GD children ceased to want to transition.” Other studies of gender-clinic patients, stretching back to the 1970s, have found that 60 to 90 percent of patients eventually grow out of their gender dysphoria; most come out as gay or lesbian. In an email to me, Cantor said: “The deafening silence from AAP when asked about the evidence allegedly supporting their trans policy is hard to interpret as anything other than their ‘pleading the 5th,’ as you in the U.S. put it.” Erica Anderson, a clinical psychologist at the UCSF Child and Adolescent Gender Center Clinic and a trans woman herself, also voiced skepticism about the AAP’s approach to would-be transitioners. Unlike Mason, Anderson says withholding puberty blockers from dysphoric children is “cruel.” But she is suspicious of the sharp spike in young people, and especially young women. While she doesn’t like phrases like “rapid-onset gender dysphoria” or “social contagion,” she said something is definitely going on. “What makes us think that gender is the one exception to peer influence?” she told me. “For 100 years, psychology has acknowledged that adolescence is a time of experimentation and exploration. It's normal. I'm not alarmed by that. What I'm alarmed by is some medical and psychological professionals rushing kids into taking [puberty] blockers or hormones.” Because Anderson has been so vocal, including a recent 60 Minutes appearance in which she discussed detransitioners, she regularly gets calls from frantic parents. She told me she’d gotten off the phone with the parents of a 17-year-old who had announced that they were trans and wanted hormones. “It’s alarming to these parents,” Anderson said. Anderson isn’t opposed to pediatric transition when patients are properly diagnosed, but she wants to see more individualized care rather than the activist-driven, one-size-fits-all approach. That, however, goes against current AAP guidelines. Will Science Prevail? Medicine is not impervious to trends. “In the 90s, when I was training, everything was about controlling pain,” said a pediatrician in the Midwest who declined to be named for fear of repercussions. “We were taught that it was really hard to become addicted to narcotics. Look where that got us.” Around the same time, she says, there was a rash of kids being diagnosed with bipolar disorder, something we now know is exceedingly rare in children. Before that, there was the recovered memory craze, multiple personality disorder, and rebirthing therapy, a bizarre treatment for attachment disorders that lead to the deaths of several children in the U.S. So how does this happen? “Some idea will get picked up by major medical associations that put out reports and their members turn to those instead of the actual literature,” this pediatrician said. “And when you get too far ahead of the research, that's when you get into trouble. That's what’s happening now.” For her part, Lauren, the medical student in California, is both hopeful for the future — and not. “On the one hand, I have this idea that the truth will eventually come out and science will ultimately prevail,” she said. But the difference between things like rebirthing therapy or multiple personality disorder and the new gender ideology is that the latter is portrayed as a civil rights movement. “It seems virtuous. It seems like the right thing to do,” she said. “So how can you fight against something that’s being marketed as a fight for human rights?” (read more) 2021-07-30 e THIS IS SICK V Reporter: “Is Kevin
McCarthy a moron, and if so why?
Speaker Pelosi: To say that wearing a mask is not based on science, I think, is not wise, and that was my comment, and that’s all I’m going to say about that.” pic.twitter.com/ZYbhwSvCyR — The Hill (@thehill) July 28, 2021 * Doocy vs. Biden 🔥 Doocy: You said if you
were fully vaccinated, you no longer need to wear a
mask. (….) Doocy: In May, you made
it sound like the vaccine was the ticket to lose the
mask forever.
Folks, if you’re fully vaccinated — you no longer need to wear a mask. If you’re not vaccinated yet — go to https://t.co/4MYpWqXVVo to find a shot, and mask up until you’re fully vaccinated. pic.twitter.com/qcyG2WyCG2 — President Biden
(@POTUS) May 13, 2021 2021-07-30 d THIS IS SICK IV Study Used by CDC to Support
New Mask Mandates Based on a Non-American Vaccine,
Rejected by Peer Review
It has been determined that one of the studies used by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to justify the strict new mask mandates was not only rejected by peer review, but was also based on a vaccine that is currently not authorized for use in the United States, the Daily Caller reports. The controversial study came from India, where scientists there studied “breakthrough infections” in over 100 healthcare workers who had received a vaccine but still caught the coronavirus, determining that the COVID-19 India variant, also known as the “Delta” variant, produces a higher viral load than other strains of the coronavirus. This was one of the pieces of evidence used by the CDC to claim that even vaccinated individuals should wear masks, since the India variant is allegedly capable of being transmitted by vaccinated individuals to unvaccinated individuals. Despite admitting that the study in question involved a vaccine that has not been approved in the United States, the CDC’s report said that such studies “have noted relatively high viral loads and larger cluster sizes associated with infections with Delta, regardless of vaccination status. These early data suggest that breakthrough Delta infections are transmissible.” But, in addition to relying on a vaccine that is different from the ones being used en masse in the United States, the study was also rejected upon peer review, and as a result is undergoing a revision. Although it has been documented that vaccinated individuals can still catch the coronavirus, the notion of “asymptomatic spread” – the idea that an individual who is immune or displays no symptoms, despite actually possessing the virus, can still infect others – was debunked months ago. Yet this theory serves as the basis for the CDC’s abrupt new restrictions, issued on Tuesday; among other sudden reversals, the CDC now demands that all students in K-12 schools wear masks at all times, regardless of vaccination status, and that even unvaccinated people should continue wearing masks. (read more) 2021-07-30 c THIS IS SICK III Whistleblowers Allege Cover-Up
of COVID Outbreak at Facilities for Illegal Minors
Volunteers who served at a detention facility for underaged illegal aliens blew the whistle on Wednesday about an alleged plot to cover up the true number of cases of coronavirus among the detainees after an outbreak, as reported by the New York Post. The claims were made in a filing by the Government Accountability Project, a nonprofit watchdog group; the two whistleblowers were Arthur Pearlstein and Lauren Reinhold, described by the filing as “career federal civil servants” who had been volunteering at the detention facility in Fort Bliss, Texas from the months of April to June. According to the filing, “COVID was widespread among children and eventually spread to many employees,” infecting “hundreds” of children. However, when volunteers were briefed on the situation at a meeting by a senior official at the U.S. Public Health Service, they were told that “if that graph” depicting the number of infections “is going to The Washington Post every day, it’s the only thing we’ll be dealing with and politics will take over, perception will take over, and we’re about reality, not perception.” In addition to the deliberate cover-up, the whistleblowers also claimed that there was “significant waste, fraud, and abuse” at the facilities, after the federal authorities delegated most operational control to private contractors. Complaints raised internally at the time were “ignored or rejected.” Pearlstein alleges that when he suggested going out to purchase supplies for the illegals such as underwear, shoes, and socks, a federal manager responded with “I don’t have time for this sh**.” This led to volunteers ultimately spending hundreds of dollars out of pocket for such supplies, as well as luxuries such as books and games. The complaint was submitted to four different congressional committees, as well as to the Inspector General of Health and Human Services (HHS), and the Office of Special Counsel. In a statement responding to the allegations, an HHS spokesperson said that “the care and well-being of children in our custody continues to be a top priority for HHS…It remains our policy to swiftly report any alleged instances of wrongdoing to the appropriate authorities.” These allegations reflect just one more burden caused by the surge in illegal immigration since Joe Biden first came to power [illegitimately], after promising illegals on the campaign trail that, as president, he would provide them with amnesty and taxpayer-funded benefits such as healthcare and education. In the over six months since his [illegitimate] inauguration, the United States has seen a record number of illegals pouring across the southern border, and largely being allowed in with no enforcement of the law or basic measures taken to combat the sicknesses that they carry with them. Earlier this week, it was revealed that a significant number of illegals who tested positive for the coronavirus are being housed at a hotel rented out by a Catholic charity in La Joya, Texas, with the illegals being free to roam around the town and risk infecting American citizens. (read more) 2021-07-30 b THIS IS SICK II COVID-Positive Illegal Aliens
in Texas Staying in Charity-Provided Hotel,
Infecting People in Restaurants
Authorities in La Joya, Texas discovered Tuesday that a significant number of illegal aliens are staying in hotel rooms provided to them by charities, and were actively infecting other people with the coronavirus in fast food restaurants and other locations, as reported by Fox News. Sergeant Manuel Casas of the La Joya Police Department (LJPD) said in a statement that authorities were first made aware of the situation on Monday, when an officer was flagged down by a concerned citizen at a Whataburger in town. The individual reported that there was a large illegal family inside the restaurant, visibly displaying signs of sickness such as coughing and sneezing without making any efforts to cover themselves, in violation of basic health guidelines. The manager confirmed to the officer that they wanted the illegals to leave the restaurant, since everyone else inside felt “uneasy” at their presence. Upon approaching the group, the illegals told the officer that they had been apprehended at the border by Border Patrol agents, where they tested positive for the coronavirus; nevertheless, they said they were released a few days later. Sergeant Casas said in his statement that local law enforcement had never been informed of this development by federal immigration authorities. “No one told the city of La Joya. No one told the police department that these people were here, and no one told us that these people were possibly ill.” The officer was then informed by the illegals that they were staying at a nearby Texas Inn & Suites. When the hotel manager was questioned, police learned that the entire hotel had been rented out exclusively for illegal aliens by the group Catholic Charities of The Rio Grande Valley, and that the hotel was rented out by the charity specifically to house illegals who test positive for the coronavirus. “We have an understanding,” Casas explained, “based on what was told to us, that the hotel in totality has already been rented out. The information we have is that everyone that is staying in that hotel is COVID-19 positive because it’s being rented out for them.” Police eventually learned that there is an ongoing coordinated effort between federal authorities and the charity to release the illegals into the charity’s custody to stay at other hotels in the area, including La Joya and McAllen. This development reflects the broader public health crisis that is being caused by the surge in illegal immigration across the southern border. Spurred on by then-candidate Joe Biden’s promises of amnesty and taxpayer-funded benefits for illegals, the United States has seen a record surge in illegals pouring across the border in the six months Biden has been in office [illegitimately]. Multiple reports have confirmed that, despite the fact that illegals are far more likely to test positive for the coronavirus, most of them are simply being released rather than being quarantined or treated. Although this is most likely the cause of the recent surge in coronavirus cases, hospitalizations, and deaths, the Biden Administration and its allies in the Democratic Party and the mainstream media have repeatedly and falsely blamed the surge on unvaccinated Americans, and have used this assumption as a pretense to crack down on Americans’ freedom of expression on the Internet with regards to COVID-19. (read more) 2021-07-30 a THIS IS SICK I Only idiots or corrupt politicians could believe computer-generated epidemiological models. They suffer from the garbage-in-garbage-out effect. Or, the programs are often run many times until the desired outcome is "forecast" and only that iteration is published. Lately, the worst modeler has been Neil Ferguson, funded (of course) by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. • “Neil
Ferguson ‘overconfident’ in his Covid claims, says
top US forecaster”
• “Why are we in thrall to ‘superforecasters’ like Professor Neil Ferguson?” • “Have I been unfair to Neil Ferguson?” • “We’ll Have Herd Immunity by April”: Reflections on a Failed Prediction 2021-07-29 l YOU SHOULD CARE THAT BLACK HOLES WARP THE FABRIC OF SPACE It is proven: black holes warp the very fabric of space. Astronomers have seen the back
of a black hole for the first time, Thread https://t.co/UWglowWVaS pic.twitter.com/r5R3npsD21 — The Telegraph (@Telegraph) July 28, 2021 2021-07-29 k JESSE DIDN'T CARE “I don’t care what the New York Times
says about me, and no one I care about cares what
the New York
Times says about me.”
— Senator Jesse Helms 2021-07-29 j TEXAS GOVERNOR DOESN'T CARE IF THE BROWN HORDES DON'T LIKE HIM “Biden’s failure to
enforce the Title 42 order, combined with his
refusal to enforce the immigration laws enacted
by Congress, is having a predictable and
potentially catastrophic effect on public health
in Texas. Biden has thwarted the Title 42
order’s effect by admitting into the United
States and the State of Texas, migrants who are
testing positive for COVID-19.”
*— Greg Abbott It's about time! Greg Abbott issued an
executive order banning ground transportation of
illegal Here are some of the details 👇 pic.twitter.com/DYZPe7FLaO — Julian Conradson (@JCConradson) July 29, 2021 *More Republicans need to be talking about this. There’s going to be an
even bigger surge to the Border if the Biden
Administration — The Columbia Bugle (@ColumbiaBugle) July 26, 2021 2021-07-29 i TUCKER DOESN'T CARE IF THE BROWN HORDES DON'T LIKE HIM Here's an exclusive
first look at the latest episode of Tucker Carlson
Originals:
The Illegal Invasion. Available on Fox Nation in just a few hours. pic.twitter.com/fnKKCrttYF — Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) July 29, 2021 2021-07-29 h MATT WALSH DOESN'T CARE WHAT THE BED WETTING SISSIES WEARING MASKS THINK I immediately lose all
respect for anyone who chooses to wear a mask at
this point.
Wearing a mask is a sign of a deep character flaw, not to mention significant intellectual deficiencies. — Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog July 28, 2021 2021-07-29 g LAUREN BOEBERT DOESN'T CARE WHAT COVID-CON HOAXERS THINK OF HER We might as well start
calling this a Perma-demic.
Permanent masking. Permanent state of emergency. Permanent control. This will go on until the American people just say enough is enough. The tyrants aren’t giving this up! — Lauren Boebert @laurenboebert July 28, 2021 2021-07-29 f JACK POSOBIEC DOESN'T CARE WHAT LIARS & PERJURERS THINK OF HIM (Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire!) Why won't @SpeakerPelosi
release the video of the crowd of 20 people chanting the N-word at Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn as he testified? — Jack Posobiec @JackPosobiec July 28, 2021 2021-07-29 e RON DeSANTIS DOESN'T CARE WHAT THE MEDICAL DICTATORS THINK Forcing kids to wear
masks is bad policy. Parents are best equipped to
decide whether
they want their kids to wear a mask in school. Neither bureaucrats in Washington nor local authorities should be able to override the decision of the parents. — Ron DeSantis @GovRonDeSantis July 28, 2021 2021-07-29 d MIKE LOYCHIK DOESN'T CARE WHAT THE GREAT REPLACEMENT PARTY THINKS Why doesn’t the CDC
recommend shutting down the southern border?
— Representative Mike Loychik @MikeLoychik July 27, 2021 2021-07-29 c UNLIKE STACEY ABRAMS, VERNON JONES CARES ABOUT LEGITIMATE ELECTIONS (We hope Mr. Jones replaces the worthless Georgia governor.)  There is nowhere I won’t go to campaign, even Democrat strongholds! Will leave no stone unturned. #FeelTheVern — Vernon Jones For Governor @RepVernonJones July 28, 2021 2021-07-29 b GAVIN NEWSOM CARES WHAT THE VOTERS THINK Oh yes. Gavin Newsom, the soon-to-be-recalled governor of the People's State of California, was in panic mode when a photo of his son sans mask surfaced. You know the masks are a scam when Gov. Newsom sent his kid to a camp where masks are not required. Even a low-life Democrat would not endanger his son. Newsom's political career, however, is endangered. Voters still recall the French Laundry connection. Newsom has confirmed.
His response is complete BS!
- State mandates everyone mask at “youth settings” - His kid is 10, ineligible for vax. - Camp basically advertises online they’re maskless (which is great!) - Camp said masking left up to families - Finds out from media? 7/ pic.twitter.com/iHrDwk9MWZ — Reopen California Schools (@ReopenCASchools) July 27, 2021 * This email was just
sent by a parent attending the same camp. There is
absolutely
no way Newsom didn’t know. “Masks will not be enforced. Please know that your child is more than welcome to wear a mask during camp” Good for them! I now know why Newsom picked this camp. 9/ pic.twitter.com/63aUZVw2PW — Reopen California Schools (@ReopenCASchools) July 27, 2021 * This is laughable. Of
course Newsom knew.
But say he didn’t. Why did they still attend when they arrived and saw no one in masks? Regarding French Laundry, he said he should have turned around and left. They didn’t. He wants for his kids what we want for ours - normalcy. https://t.co/ydfv1HbLs6 — Reopen California Schools (@ReopenCASchools) July 28, 2021 2021-07-29 a “What Do You Care What
Other People Think?”
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