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The Centers for Disease Control, which has a very detailed website, published a report that contains new “best estimates” for infection fatality rates, broken down by age group. According to Table 1, last column:ages 0 tot 19: 0.003% (i.e., 1 in 33,333)ages 20-49: 0.02% (1 in 5,000)ages 50-69: 0.5% (1 in 200)70 and over: 5.4% (alas, 1 out of 19)Especially the figures for the young and fairly young are way lower than what the average person on the street has picked up from the sensationalist media.

The Mysterious Case of the Missing 250-Ton Chinese Power Transformer

Schools aren’t spreading coronavirus

If you read the article, you will see that it is actually protection money. Seattle pays ex-pimp $150,000 to offer ‘alternatives to policing’

For what it is worth, I heard that most of the work was done by the head of the Mossad. But I am putting this out there because hardly anyone is talking about it in the mainstream press. The Emperor’s New Clothes

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Secret Report: How CIA’s Brennan Overruled Dissenting Analysts Who Concluded Russia Favored Hillary

Microsoft gets exclusive access to AI deemed ‘too dangerous to release’

The thing that puzzles me is why change now? Everyone (and by that I mean even liberal historians) knew that it was divorced from reality from the get go and said so. No one seemed to care then. NY Times and Nikole Hannah-Jones Quietly Dropping Central Claims of 1619 Project

These charts don’t prove anything really because our data is not good enough and there is always going to be a lag. Still, you won’t see these charts in the mainstream media because they don’t fit the narrative. They only report bad data as gospel when it suits the story they want to tell. Four graphs prove the utter failure of lockdowns and masks

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The Great Forgetting: How to Stop Tooth Decay

Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.), perhaps unsatisfied with the misery of rolling blackouts to which ill-considered climate restrictions have subjected Californians, has ordered that no new gas-powered cars shall be sold in California beginning in the year 2035. What could possibly go wrong?

COVID19 update, September 23, 2020: another Israeli study on vitamin D; logistics of vaccine distribution

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Journalism’s New Propaganda Tool: Using “Confirmed” to Mean Its Opposite

Regardless of what Trump and Mitch do, the Democrats will (1) Eliminate the Filibuster, (2) Grant Statehood to D.C. and maybe P.R., (3) Expand the Lower Courts, and (4) Expand the Supreme Court [Updated]

Indianapolis Social Activist Pretended to Be Both Black AND Gender-Neutral

Analysis: Don’t trust estimates of Al Qaeda’s strength in Afghanistan

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The Inner Ring A related poem from the same man

The reward for lock downs is more lock downs. The Difficult Fight against the Second Wave Another lock down success story here.

The CIA sent a team of 4 operators on a spy mission targeting China. None came back.

Suppressing fires has failed. Here’s what California needs to do instead.

Bulgarian court convicts two Hezbollah-linked men with 2012 Burgas bus bombing

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This article is written by someone who fails at critical thinking in a big way but it is still and important story. Coffee Rust Is Going to Ruin Your Morning

Since the BLM autonomous zone was such a raging success in Seattle, BLM has decided to set one up in Minneapolis

The rewards for lock downs are more lock downs. Coronavirus cases top 30 million worldwide as WHO warns of ‘alarming’ spread in Europe

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With violent crime on the rise in Mpls., City Council asks: Where are the police?

George Floyd Riots Caused Record-Setting $2 Billion in Damage, New Report Says. Here’s Why the True Cost Is Even Higher

More on a story already posted. Chinese database details 2.4 million influential people, their kids, addresses, and how to press their buttons

A warning to us all. Arminian Temptress Convinces Calvinist To Shave His Beard