Our concern that shutting down hospitals to “flatten the curve” would kill people was dismissed by the health establishment. They knew better. The ABS analysed every single doctor-certified death in Australia and compared it to the five years between 2015 and 2019. According to the ABS, cancer deaths are up by 8.9 percent. We sacrificed our businesses to protect the elderly in nursing homes. Dementia deaths are up 18.9 percent. The health establishment is taking victory laps over a reduction in influenza death thanks to our closed borders and social distancing. Deaths from respiratory diseases are up by 1.9 percent.

The labor market ran hot, real wages fell

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Thank the Babylonians, not Pythagoras, for trigonometry

The rise and fall of Andrew Cuomo, New York’s glowering heavy

The Infrastructure Bill Requires New Cars To Come With Unproven Drunk Driving Detection Technology

Exclusive: New York Times quashed COVID origins inquiry

Viktor Orbán is winning his culture war

J&J’s COVID-19 jab holds up against Delta variant, study finds The important bit given the drum beat of calls for booster shots for the the other vaccines is “The inoculation’s durability lasts for eight months, and the study shows that boosters shots are not currently needed, said Gray, president of the South African Medical Research Council.” However, the article also lays out new health concerns for J&J.

Hawaii’s tourism agency plans to reduce visitors to Oahu

Humane, orderly? Border photos show human disaster amid overflowing toilets

The policy went into effect January 1, and since then, 261 inmates have requested transfers, nearly all of them biological males asking to be housed with women.

If you asked public-health authorities for permission to be born and live a life, there’s no way they could just, you know, approve of that in an unqualified way. You just have to remember that you’ll never be in less danger to yourself or others until dead.

Apple’s IPhone: Now With Built‐​In Surveillance?

If Mandates Fail, What Will Politicians Do for an Encore?

Taliban takes second provincial capital

The strange case of the dead-but-not-dead Tibetan monks

Don’t want a Covid vaccine? Be prepared to pay more for insurance

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Dixie Fire becomes largest single wildfire in California history

This is crazier then normal and that is saying something. Teachers Union Sues Mom Nicole Solas To Prevent School District From Releasing Critical Race Teaching Records

Murphy was an engineer not an MBA The company aspires to deliver these two flight engines to United Launch Alliance before the end of this year, although that increasingly appears to be a “stretch” goal. Delivery may slip into early 2022. And in order to make this deadline, Blue Origin plans to take the somewhat risky step of shipping the engines to its customer before completing full qualification testing.

VACCINE PASSPORTS AS SLAVE PAPERS:

Taliban takes full control of Nimruz province, seizes capital

‘Borderline illegal’: Courtesy tows remain Philly’s persistent parking nightmare

Safe Streets is a program trying to deal with violent crime with social workers and ex-offenders instead of coops. For the second time this year, an outreach worker for Safe Streets has been shot to death.

Worker shortage stymies vaccine mandates at nursing homes

Get Ready for the ‘No-Buy’ List

Infected but not feeling it

Taliban, Afghan forces battle for control of Helmand’s capital

The reward for lockdowns. City of Nanjing isolated as China fights worst Covid outbreak in months

JUST ANOTHER REMINDER THAT TWITTER IS A WRETCHED HIVE OF FAKE NEWS AND MISINFORMATION:

Two Dead After Oil Tanker Attack; U.S., UK, Blame Iran