4 Months of Unprecedented Government Malfeasance – IOTW Report

4 Months of Unprecedented Government Malfeasance

Monday, 20 July 2020, 21:30 MJA Uncategorized 12

Heather Mac Donald for Imprimis:

Over the last four months, Americans have lived through what is arguably the most consequential period of government malfeasance in U.S. history. Public officials’ overreaction to the novel coronavirus put American cities into a coma; those same officials’ passivity in the face of widespread rioting threatens to deliver the coup de grâce. Together, these back-to-back governmental failures will transform the American polity and cripple urban life for decades.

Before store windows started shattering in the name of racial justice, urban existence was already on life support, thanks to the coronavirus lockdowns. Small businesses—the restaurants and shops that are the lifeblood of cities—were shuttered, many for good, leaving desolate rows of “For Rent” signs on street after street in New York City and elsewhere. Americans huddled in their homes for months on end, believing that if they went outside, death awaited them.

This panic was occasioned by epidemiological models predicting wildly unlikely fatalities from the coronavirus.

On March 30, the infamous Imperial College London model predicted 2.2 million deaths in the U.S. by September 1, absent government action. That prediction was absurd on its face, given the dispersal of the U.S. population and the fact that China’s coronavirus death toll had already levelled off at a few thousand. The authors of that study soon revised it radically downwards.

Too late. It had already become the basis for the exercise of unprecedented government power. California was the first state to lock down its economy and confine its citizens to their homes; eventually almost every other state would follow suit, under enormous media pressure to do so. more here

h/t PHenry.

12 Comments on 4 Months of Unprecedented Government Malfeasance

  2. I’ve said it before and I will gladly say it again;

    That piece of shit, Fauci, has to be a hold-over from the German 3rd Reich, I’m sure he used to be Hitler’s number one henchman.

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  4. History will not be kind to the times we live in as we are quickly approaching the point of no return. On the other hand, if the cancel culture wins, history will be erased or rewritten to show this was the best of times.

    I just threw up in my mouth a little.

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  7. I did not 100% fact-check this so could be some discrepancies.

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    THE DAY THE POLICE WERE NO LONGER NEEDED

    On August 19, 1966 – Chinese students launched a fight for social justice to fight for the rights of the oppressed in China. It was widely believed that the ‘patriarchal system’ in China had been created by the 1% and held down women, minorities, and the working class. The students cried out for a revolution and change, and consequentially launched the infamous Chinese Cultural Revolution.

    Students put a red band around their arm to stand in solidarity with the oppressed and called for a change on old ideas that they called the FOUR OLDS. The Four Olds were: Old Customs, Old Culture, Old Habits, and Old Ideas.

    The movement was supported by the Chinese media.

    Mass demonstrations and looting by the students ensued.

    Statues were torn down.

    Chinese architecture was destroyed.

    Classical literature and Chinese paintings were torn apart and burned.

    Temples were desecrated.

    The Cemetery of Confucius was attacked.

    The corpse of the 76th-generation Duke Yansheng was removed from its grave and hung from a tree.

    Wealthy homes were attacked and destroyed.

    Many families’ long-kept genealogy books were burned to ashes.

    All of history, in short, was to be removed and replaced. This was the central meaning of Cultural Revolution: That China was going to destroy every trace of its bourgeois (privileged) past and replace it with a new culture built on the principles of Maoism and Marxism.

    Communist leaders like President Liu Shaoqi were taken out of power and replaced with men Mao believed were not critical of his reign.

    Public leaders who were considered to be oppressive were tried by angry mobs and vigilantes.

    Three days later, August 22, 1966, a central directive was issued to stop police intervention. The police were disbanded in the city and the students formed a community solution called the RED GUARD. The RED GUARDS policed the communities and punished anyone who did not agree with their ideas. Even people that supported the movement, but had bad thoughts (“wrong thinking”) could be punished.

    Though many Christians supported the movement in the beginning, they quickly became the number one target of the RED GUARDS and public trials were held to condemn them to death.

    Many of those that were on board with the cause of the rebellion, in the beginning, saw that it was not really what they had signed up for, but by then it was too late. The power that the Red Guard wanted had already been given.

    More people died during the cultural revolution in China than any war, famine, or natural disaster in the history of man. An estimated 20 to 30 million people were killed.

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  9. Awesome column Ma’am. You cut to the nut and you cut the nut. Too bad this will never be seen by the ignorant, miseducated masses.

    Do not fail to write more of these. Record them for future dissemination, future people will need this, for fortitude.

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  11. @CCNV July 20, 2020 at 10:52 pm

    Pointing out what Heather Mac Donald (pretends to?) not understand, will not make her — nor her gallery of peanuts — (pretend to?) understand.

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