As a keen follower of The Science, my main take-away from the Democrats’ nationwide anti-Trump mass gatherings was “Why aren’t they wearing masks?”
A sea of old white people crammed together (source), none of them masked:
These are the same people who demanded that public schools be closed for 18 months, and that peasants be ordered to wear masks outdoors. Old white Democrats demanded that, except for mostly peaceful BLM protests, the subjects would be forbidden to assemble more than 25 people outdoors (Maskachusetts December 2020), or no more than 3 households (California, October 2020), or no more than 10 people from 2 households (Colorado, October 2020)).
What happened to The Science?
Montpelier, Vermont, formerly a center of the mask religion:
The Righteous in Boston have their Palestinian flag and they say “Trump is Stupid”, but they aren’t smart enough to wear masks:
Jonathan Gruber, Obama’s good friend and architect of Obamacare was spot-on when he mocked the “stupidity of the American voter.” I just took it to the next level with my Wuhan project and all the fun that followed!
The point of the religion isn’t masks, it’s obedience. The masks were just a visual representation of the obedience. If we hadn’t been obedient, the healthcare system would collapse. Now it’s the financial and regulatory systems that are in danger, so everyone has got to be a free-trader and expert in the function of the federal bureaucracy. Also I guess the microplastics are going to get worse and anyone can get gulaged.
Nobody cares about covid anymore. It’s still killing people, but it’s endemic, so there’s not much to be done.
This is prof that Trump haters is primarily from older white Democrats. The rest, support him — including Black, Latino, Asian, Indian, non-binary and even legal and illegal migrant. Go figure!
The schools were closed under the Trump administration. He’s an old, white, republican. At the dates you cite democratic cities were imposing restrictive mass gathering prohibitions, covid deaths were increasing to a high of 26,000 per week, while they’re currently under 500-1000. And, there are now vaccines and much more knowledge which we did not have then. Though contrarian republicans seem to die significantly more, at 43%–yikes, maybe the contrarian brain worm RFK has is spread by Fox News?
https://www.npr.org/2023/07/25/1189939229/covid-deaths-democrats-republicans-gap-study
“More specifically, the researchers say, their adjusted analysis found that “the excess death rate among Republican voters was 43% higher than the excess death rate among Democratic voters” after vaccine eligibility was opened.
Over 1.2 MM Americans died of covid. Is there any number which wearing masks or closing schools would have been a reasonable or bearable burden for you to endorse?
@Senorpablo. This blog and the readers blame everything on democrats. Lot of republican states also closed schools and imposed strict restrictions. Trump printed more money in short time period than Biden spent in 4 years on covid relief. In 2007 financial crisis , then republican administration spend lots and lots of money bailing out corrupt private companies. By this time you should know that this is a democratic bashing blog. This is a free entertainment for me, so i love it.
Anon: I agree with you that Republicans weren’t immune from coronapanic. Even the stolid nearly-Swedish Ron DeSantis fell prey to Faucism for a few weeks in the spring of 2020. However, the blog concerns “old white Democrats who wanted public schools closed for 18 months”. To find a parallel among the Deplorables we’d need to find a Republican-run school district that was closed for the 12-18 months that the Democrat-run cities and counties managed (except in Florida where teachers in Democrat paradises were cruelly forced to go into work by Governor DeSantis). I’m aware of Republican-run school districts that were closed for 2-3 months, but not of any examples of Republican school closures that extended to the Science-mandated 12-18 months of Boston, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, etc.
> Over 1.2 MM Americans died of covid.
No, silly. They died WITH Covid. The median age of so dead is over 80 years. The life expectancy at birth in US is 77.5 years, and life expectancy for people born in 60s was about 70 years.
This means that nearly all people who died “from COVID” died from old age with COVID being the last-straw infection – or from improper treatment of COVID with lethal stuff like ventilators and remdesivir instead of effective regiment of invermectin, azytromicin (prevention of secondary bacterial pneumonia), zinc and vitamin supplementation – and oxygen if pneumonia has developed.
The still-unknown-FP-rate[*] PCR/NAAT tests were considered sufficient to diagnose COVID. [*] FDA test certification protocol required correct reading on 32 samples. With 95% confidence it allowed false positive rate of 0-11%.
So an unknown (but likely quite large) share of these “COVID” deaths were deaths from other respiratory infections which were simply misdiagnosed as COVID based on unreliable tests. This is confirmed by the “mysterious” disappearance of flu infections during COVID.
averros: I think that we need to give credit to the Righteous for having flexible brains. They’re able to simultaneously believe (1) COVID killed more than 1 million Social Security and Medicare beneficiaries who would otherwise have lived for 10 additional years, (2) Social Security and Medicare’s financial solvency didn’t improve when 1 million people who would have been getting 10 years of monthly checks (and running up tens of $thousands/year in medical costs) died. They also believe that COVID killed a huge number of Americans who were in the primes of their lives and that life insurance companies didn’t suffer financially as a result (paying out huge benefits 10-50 years prior to the previously expected date) and finally that life insurance rates didn’t have to be adjusted (which they weren’t).
Senorpablo, so glad to see your strong rebuttal of Phil’s logic. Is it possible you are an esteemed graduate of MIT’s economics program under the brilliant Jonathan Gruber? If not, you are surely deserving of such a degree! Unfortunately for Phil, I think he chose a different advisor. Anyway, if Phil suggests masks aren’t effective at blocking the coronavirus that I helped develop, please remember that I told you they worked great (after I told you they were worthless…my bad). Also, if Phil suggests the vaccine was useless because the majority of people had already been infected by the virus by the time it was rolled out, don’t believe him! Don’t let him try to tell you natural immunity actually works best. In summary, trust in the entire narrative I developed for folks just like you.
I believe that coronapanic surplus deaths are due to unavailability of regular medical services. For examples, local dermathologists closed and those who stayed open had 9 month appointment schedule lead time. Time is precious for sarcoma patients. Skin cancers diagnosed early are easily treatable without time off, diagnosed too late are usually lethal.
Also, higher deaths rates for Republicans are blue sky dream staff. Somehow, Republican votes replicated at a higher rate then Democrat votes during covid nakba, from 2030 to 2024.
And yet, in countries like India and South Africa — where large parts of the population didn’t or couldn’t fully follow the strict COVIDFear protocols like masking, distancing, vaccinations, and lockdowns — mass casualties didn’t occur. Meanwhile, in the U.S., where strict adherence to those guidelines was heavily enforced (you lost your job if you didn’t get the jab), we still saw one of the highest death tolls, particularly among the elderly and those with pre-existing conditions. Doesn’t that tell you the measures intended to “flatten the curve” has done the opposite?
Protests in my Florida town skew heavily boomer too. Best reason I can think is that group has higher news consumption.
IMO Poor title and your interpretation of this helicopter video would probably be less biased. If less humorous:
https://eu.citizen-times.com/videos/news/local/2025/04/17/watch-helicopter-dumps-water-on-504-acre-wildfire-in-mcdowell-county/83140372007/
Two Asheville photos showed someone masked. Numerous younger people were there, probably a fair sample of the ~40 median age. Telephoto shots make people look closer together… My take: a lot of hats and sunglasses – good balanced judgment for a sunny spring day. Where were Asheville’s ~20% non-whites? Maybe they couldn’t swim (remember the flood there ~7 months back)?
You knew masks were half measures when they didn’t distribute any with capability of detecting and indicating covid virus exposure. Supposedly concepts were developed. They studied sewage contents, why not detection in HVAC systems?
PS. Remember April 19, 1775.