Re: the 500 pages per month - an experienced document reviewer can read, analyze, code and redact more than 500 pages per DAY, particularly given the sophistication of electronic document review software and the fact that many of these documents are probably email chains with or without attachments. A redaction in the original email will carry over to every iteration of that email in the chain, as well as the coding and any attorney analysis notes. All the reviewer then has to do is code the subsequent emails in the chain and modify the coding and add to the attorney notes if necessary, which are both carried over just as in the original document. For over a decade, I developed litigation strategy on mass tort cases employing large numbers of document reviewers and know this subject intimately. The FDA protestations are rank BS, unless the documents are handwritten and must be reviewed individually.
DOD just caved in on mandatory vaccinations. Now they have weekly testing for un-vaccinated military and civilians. If you get the covid and recover you get 90 days off from testing. I'm assuming they pay, but the policy letter doesn't say. Must provide written results to your supervisor weekly.
The analogy of selling vaccine like SaaS is a good one, your not buying any immunity but paying for annual or semi annual licensing of expected or implied usage.
Quite the mind game!
I'm still looking for the big "why" in this, why are they pushing a known to failed model so hard? It's easy to speculate but there has to be a something to this beyond the simplicity of basic greed or government Idiocracy. Maybe making a $1000 a second is enough for the drug pushers but the down stream non-payee support doesn't add up.
The failure is just too obvious at this point...
The speculation is wild and maybe it's just a matter of enough multi agenda lunacy baked into the cake. Anything from mail in voting, intentionally dividing society, weeding the non sheepel from the military, we've seen the funding pay off or transfer massive debit away from the failing cities and blue states, now creation of a new universal database to rewrite the way we track Americans. Its showing to be far more of a universal subject than global warming did. We've seen nothing this contagiously cultish since the cold war propaganda days and maybe that's enough? Too many agenda to even contemplate, it gets endless.
No surprise here, I think. However, once again we see the delay in the mandate is at the regime's door. How can the SCOTUS possibly regard it as an emergency?
< Atlas’s book has exposed a scandal for the ages. It is enormously valuable, because it fully blows up what seems to be an emerging fake story, involving a supposedly Covid-denying president who did nothing, vs. heroic scientists in the White House who urged compulsory mitigating measures consistent with prevailing scientific opinion. Not one word of that is true.
Atlas’s book, I hope, makes it impossible to tell such tall tales without embarrassment.
Anyone who tells you this fictional story (including Deborah Birx) deserves to have this highly credible treatise tossed in his direction. The book is about the war between real science (and genuine public health), with Atlas as the voice for reason, both before and during his time in the White House, vs. the enactment of brutal policies that never stood any chance of controlling the virus, while causing tremendous damage to the people, to human liberty, to children in particular, but also to billions of people around the world.
…..
Throughout the book, Atlas points to the enormous cost of the machinery of lockdowns, the preferred method of Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx: missed cancer screenings, missed surgeries, nearly two years of educational losses, bankrupted small business, depression and drug overdoses, overall citizen demoralization, violations of religious freedom, all while public health massively neglected the actual at-risk population in long-term care facilities. Essentially, they were willing to dismantle everything we called civilization, in the name of bludgeoning one pathogen without regard to the consequences.
The fake science of population-wide “models” drove policy, instead of following the known information about risk profiles. “The one unusual feature of this virus was the fact that children had an extraordinarily low risk,” writes Atlas.
“Yet this positive and reassuring news was never emphasized. Instead, with total disregard of the evidence of selective risk consistent with other respiratory viruses, public health officials recommended draconian isolation of everyone.”
“Restrictions on liberty were also destructive, by *inflaming class* distinctions with their differential impact,” he writes, “exposing essential workers, sacrificing low-income families and kids, destroying single-parent homes, and eviscerating small businesses, while at the same time large companies were bailed out, elites worked from home with barely an interruption, and the ultra-rich got richer, leveraging their bully pulpit to demonize and cancel those who challenged their preferred policy options.”
…..
We all owe Atlas an enormous debt of gratitude, for it was he who persuaded the Florida governor to choose the path of focused protection, as advocated by the *Great Barrington Declaration*, which Atlas cites as the “single document that will go down as one of the most important publications in the pandemic, as it lent undeniable credibility to focused protection, and provided courage to thousands of additional medical scientists and public health leaders to come forward. >
Here's a rebuttal from Bill Johnson (R-OH), one of those 80. I think it's at least possible that Breitbart isn't being completely accurate with this one.
Yeah, and to add to that disjointedness how the bill might be "interpreted" and applied by the CDC?
"In a statement, the bill’s main sponsor, Democrat Rep. Ann Kuster (NH), said the system would be used to 'remind patients when they are due for a recommended vaccine.' How could this be done if the IIS systems contain only "population based, deidentified data, meaning no personally identifiable information"?
I'm sure this has always been part of the game plan for the Dems. Absolutely disgusting that Reps would co-sponsor and vote for this. If they were honest they should just change parties. Kirkpatrick in particular. His brother Mike (my ex-representative, RIP) seemed a right of center moderate and represented his district very well but Brian (who was voted in on his brother's coattails) has voted with the Dems on virtually every bill. All these Reps need to be voted out pronto.
"If they were honest they should just change parties..."
I suggest a maybe more obvious truth or at least a alternative thought.
In their view or over all strategy, they are by design, in the correct perspective parties. We're just the outsiders that have yet to accept the painfully obvious duality by design.
It's been 40+ years since the republicans have mustered a collection conservative outcome to anything beyond mere talking points or poor compromise. At best they are collectively liars, more obviously they progressives masquerading as conservatives.
Or they just somehow keep falling face first, by accident into the same pile of crap to the historical tune of hundreds and hundreds of times over.
This vote out the RINOs thing really reminds me of the tea party, that reminded me of the Perot movement, that reminds me of the Goldwater plan... The red bouncing ball we just never seem to catch.
People are clamouring for unity, I say that's it... Accepting it's the people against a government vs party against party because they don't seem to be very against each other beyond mere words.
I agree. But for me, the really important question is how much power can be taken back through peaceful, lawful, nonviolent means. I think it behooves us, the People, to do a very thorough and careful exploration of that, with some urgency, before things get really ugly. That's why I advocate for mass civic engagement, working within the R party. If the bums really can't be thrown out, then I think we all know what plan B looks like, and I'm pretty sure most of us would rather not go there.
Re: the 500 pages per month - an experienced document reviewer can read, analyze, code and redact more than 500 pages per DAY, particularly given the sophistication of electronic document review software and the fact that many of these documents are probably email chains with or without attachments. A redaction in the original email will carry over to every iteration of that email in the chain, as well as the coding and any attorney analysis notes. All the reviewer then has to do is code the subsequent emails in the chain and modify the coding and add to the attorney notes if necessary, which are both carried over just as in the original document. For over a decade, I developed litigation strategy on mass tort cases employing large numbers of document reviewers and know this subject intimately. The FDA protestations are rank BS, unless the documents are handwritten and must be reviewed individually.
True.
DOD just caved in on mandatory vaccinations. Now they have weekly testing for un-vaccinated military and civilians. If you get the covid and recover you get 90 days off from testing. I'm assuming they pay, but the policy letter doesn't say. Must provide written results to your supervisor weekly.
The analogy of selling vaccine like SaaS is a good one, your not buying any immunity but paying for annual or semi annual licensing of expected or implied usage.
Quite the mind game!
I'm still looking for the big "why" in this, why are they pushing a known to failed model so hard? It's easy to speculate but there has to be a something to this beyond the simplicity of basic greed or government Idiocracy. Maybe making a $1000 a second is enough for the drug pushers but the down stream non-payee support doesn't add up.
The failure is just too obvious at this point...
The speculation is wild and maybe it's just a matter of enough multi agenda lunacy baked into the cake. Anything from mail in voting, intentionally dividing society, weeding the non sheepel from the military, we've seen the funding pay off or transfer massive debit away from the failing cities and blue states, now creation of a new universal database to rewrite the way we track Americans. Its showing to be far more of a universal subject than global warming did. We've seen nothing this contagiously cultish since the cold war propaganda days and maybe that's enough? Too many agenda to even contemplate, it gets endless.
But WOW at the dumb!
I think its multifaceted and still evolving. The reason why. Evil people who can, use it for their own greed or agenda.
OK, that was THREE things, and CONSTANT.
And, another win: CTH now has a post on "Cleveland Clinic Healthcare System Suspends Vaccine Mandate".
No surprise here, I think. However, once again we see the delay in the mandate is at the regime's door. How can the SCOTUS possibly regard it as an emergency?
For another Atlas book review at Brownstone, see
Jeffrey Tucker, at https://brownstone.org/articles/a-president-betrayed-by-bureaucrats-scott-atlass-masterpiece-on-the-covid-disaster/ :
< Atlas’s book has exposed a scandal for the ages. It is enormously valuable, because it fully blows up what seems to be an emerging fake story, involving a supposedly Covid-denying president who did nothing, vs. heroic scientists in the White House who urged compulsory mitigating measures consistent with prevailing scientific opinion. Not one word of that is true.
Atlas’s book, I hope, makes it impossible to tell such tall tales without embarrassment.
Anyone who tells you this fictional story (including Deborah Birx) deserves to have this highly credible treatise tossed in his direction. The book is about the war between real science (and genuine public health), with Atlas as the voice for reason, both before and during his time in the White House, vs. the enactment of brutal policies that never stood any chance of controlling the virus, while causing tremendous damage to the people, to human liberty, to children in particular, but also to billions of people around the world.
…..
Throughout the book, Atlas points to the enormous cost of the machinery of lockdowns, the preferred method of Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx: missed cancer screenings, missed surgeries, nearly two years of educational losses, bankrupted small business, depression and drug overdoses, overall citizen demoralization, violations of religious freedom, all while public health massively neglected the actual at-risk population in long-term care facilities. Essentially, they were willing to dismantle everything we called civilization, in the name of bludgeoning one pathogen without regard to the consequences.
The fake science of population-wide “models” drove policy, instead of following the known information about risk profiles. “The one unusual feature of this virus was the fact that children had an extraordinarily low risk,” writes Atlas.
“Yet this positive and reassuring news was never emphasized. Instead, with total disregard of the evidence of selective risk consistent with other respiratory viruses, public health officials recommended draconian isolation of everyone.”
“Restrictions on liberty were also destructive, by *inflaming class* distinctions with their differential impact,” he writes, “exposing essential workers, sacrificing low-income families and kids, destroying single-parent homes, and eviscerating small businesses, while at the same time large companies were bailed out, elites worked from home with barely an interruption, and the ultra-rich got richer, leveraging their bully pulpit to demonize and cancel those who challenged their preferred policy options.”
…..
We all owe Atlas an enormous debt of gratitude, for it was he who persuaded the Florida governor to choose the path of focused protection, as advocated by the *Great Barrington Declaration*, which Atlas cites as the “single document that will go down as one of the most important publications in the pandemic, as it lent undeniable credibility to focused protection, and provided courage to thousands of additional medical scientists and public health leaders to come forward. >
Yeah--really disappointing. And disturbing.
Here's a rebuttal from Bill Johnson (R-OH), one of those 80. I think it's at least possible that Breitbart isn't being completely accurate with this one.
https://wethepeopleconvention.org/articles/House-RINOS-Vote-for-Vaccine-Database
It's terrifying how superficial and disjoint are these lawmakers' understandings of what's in the bills they vote on. Business as usual, though.
Yeah, and to add to that disjointedness how the bill might be "interpreted" and applied by the CDC?
"In a statement, the bill’s main sponsor, Democrat Rep. Ann Kuster (NH), said the system would be used to 'remind patients when they are due for a recommended vaccine.' How could this be done if the IIS systems contain only "population based, deidentified data, meaning no personally identifiable information"?
I'm sure this has always been part of the game plan for the Dems. Absolutely disgusting that Reps would co-sponsor and vote for this. If they were honest they should just change parties. Kirkpatrick in particular. His brother Mike (my ex-representative, RIP) seemed a right of center moderate and represented his district very well but Brian (who was voted in on his brother's coattails) has voted with the Dems on virtually every bill. All these Reps need to be voted out pronto.
"If they were honest they should just change parties..."
I suggest a maybe more obvious truth or at least a alternative thought.
In their view or over all strategy, they are by design, in the correct perspective parties. We're just the outsiders that have yet to accept the painfully obvious duality by design.
It's been 40+ years since the republicans have mustered a collection conservative outcome to anything beyond mere talking points or poor compromise. At best they are collectively liars, more obviously they progressives masquerading as conservatives.
Or they just somehow keep falling face first, by accident into the same pile of crap to the historical tune of hundreds and hundreds of times over.
This vote out the RINOs thing really reminds me of the tea party, that reminded me of the Perot movement, that reminds me of the Goldwater plan... The red bouncing ball we just never seem to catch.
People are clamouring for unity, I say that's it... Accepting it's the people against a government vs party against party because they don't seem to be very against each other beyond mere words.
Just a thought anyways.
I agree. But for me, the really important question is how much power can be taken back through peaceful, lawful, nonviolent means. I think it behooves us, the People, to do a very thorough and careful exploration of that, with some urgency, before things get really ugly. That's why I advocate for mass civic engagement, working within the R party. If the bums really can't be thrown out, then I think we all know what plan B looks like, and I'm pretty sure most of us would rather not go there.
Carlson just had a segment on this vote.