2022-01-02 | ANONYMOUS

Canada To Announce Mandatory Covid Vaccinations Soon

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<p><strong>Canadian Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos told the nation on Friday that he believes mandatory vaccinations will be announced soon.</strong></p>
<p>Asked if the government would consider instituting mandatory Covid vaccination laws, Duclos said, “I personally think we will get there at some point. I see it coming personally. Not now. I don’t think we are there yet. But I think discussions need to be had about mandatory vaccinations because we have to get rid of Covid 19.”</p>
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<p>He continued, “Our people are tired and the only way as we know through COVID–19, be it this variant or any future variant, is through vaccination.”</p>
<p>This sentence totally contradicts previous comments made by Fiji Public Health Professor Michael Baker, <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/world/fiji-faces-large-rise-in-covid-19-deaths-strict-lockdown-needed-baker/ar-AALZdSP" target="_blank">who told the world in October</a> that “you can’t vaccinate your way out of a epidemic that is this intense.”</p>
<p>Highly vaccinated nations such as Israel have all but proven this to be true as they continue to see record numbers of Covid deaths, cases and hospitalizations despite being <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/08/20/1029628471/highly-vaccinated-israel-is-seeing-a-dramatic-surge-in-new-covid-cases-heres-why" target="_blank">the first country on Earth</a> to fully vaccinate a majority of its citizens.</p>
<p>The federal health minister noted that the decision to mandate Covid vaccines will be left up to the provinces, saying, “Provinces and territories will continue to take decisions that are within their jurisdiction. As a government, we will continue to do everything we can within our federal authority to keep Canadians safe.”</p>
<p>Canadians lashed out at the idea on Twitter.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">Fascist Liberal minister is preparing the ground for draconian violation of our fundamental rights and bodily autonomy.</p>
<p>MY BODY DOES NOT BELONG TO THE STATE<a href="https://t.co/yFD5TbTQe7">https://t.co/yFD5TbTQe7</a></p>
— Maxime Bernier (@MaximeBernier) <a href="https://twitter.com/MaximeBernier/status/1479578533290811396?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 7, 2022</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">Bullshit, Trudeau cant give the order as his Federal Employees only have to say they are vaccinated, he wants Premiers to start the war while he hides at home…</p>
<p>Mandatory vaccinations coming to Canada, say health minister Jean-Yves Duclos <a href="https://t.co/OYECVnq3yD">https://t.co/OYECVnq3yD</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cdnpoli?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#cdnpoli</a></p>
— Rex Glacer (@rexglacer) <a href="https://twitter.com/rexglacer/status/1479524298125721608?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 7, 2022</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">"Provinces are likely to introduce mandatory vaccination policies in the coming months to deal with surging COVID-19 caseloads, Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos said "</p>
<p>If you're not engaged yet, now is the time.</p>
<p>Stand up, wake up, Canada. <a href="https://t.co/d2TvFRXjb4">https://t.co/d2TvFRXjb4</a></p>
— Free to Fly (@f2fweb) <a href="https://twitter.com/f2fweb/status/1479533565004103680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 7, 2022</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">It seems millions of Canadians are about to become an enemy of the state. This may be the real reason for the recent calls to deploy military in QC/ON</p>
<p>🇨🇦 is about to discover the price of freedom.</p>
<p>There’s no one coming to help.</p>
<p>It’s up to you citizen.<a href="https://t.co/umzilWOTmp">https://t.co/umzilWOTmp</a></p>
— Yukon Strong (@YukonStrong) <a href="https://twitter.com/YukonStrong/status/1479580698931613696?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 7, 2022</a></blockquote>
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<p>Check out Canadian mainstream media’s coverage of Duclos’ announcement in the video below:</p>
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Canadian Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos told the nation on Friday that he believes mandatory vaccinations will be announced soon. Asked if the government would consider instituting mandatory Covid vaccination laws, Duclos said, “I personally think…

How protests in Kazakhstan could become a geopolitical crisis

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<p>Days into demonstrations in Kazakhstan, it remains hard to fully grasp what’s happening on the ground.</p>
<p>Peaceful <a href="https://www.rferl.org/a/kazakhstan-fuel-protests-protests/31639462.html">protests</a> began in Zhanaozen, a city in the western corner of Kazakhstan, earlier this week. A rise in <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/1/4/protests-erupt-in-kazakhstan-after-fuel-price-rise">fuel prices</a> in this <a href="https://thediplomat.com/2021/11/kazakhstan-what-happened-in-zhanaozen/">oil-rich city</a> triggered the demonstrations, though it tapped into deeper grievances about the country’s economic and political structure. Across other cities in Kazakhstan, including Almaty, the former capital, citizens flooded the streets in solidarity.</p>
<p>But those peaceful protests have since been overtaken by chaotic and confusing scenes of unrest across Kazakhstan, with <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTd3kVpj2Ik">people storming buildings</a> and rioters engaged in <a href="https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20220106-kazakhstan-protesters-killed-in-clashes-with-police-as-crisis-escalates">widespread looting</a> and <a href="https://www.rferl.org/a/vandalism-attack-on-installation-at-kazakhstan-international-art-festival/24600793.html">vandalization</a>. At the request of President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, Russia <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/01/06/world/kazakhstan-protests">has sent in troops</a> to help tamp down the violence, and Tokayev has since declared he will destroy all <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/07/world/asia/kazakhstan-protests.html">“criminals and murderers.”</a></p>
<p>A lot remains murky about the circumstances in Kazakhstan, especially who, exactly, is engaging in this rioting, as <a href="https://gizmodo.com/what-really-happened-during-kazakhstan-s-internet-black-1848315477">government-imposed internet blackouts</a> have largely blocked independent and social media. That has allowed President Tokayev to tell one narrative about the protests, and for speculation and theories and rumors to fill in some of the rest. That is a volatile situation, one made even more combustible with the arrival of Russian forces.</p>
<p>“This is stirring a very ugly pot by injecting the Russians into this,” said Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili, associate professor of international affairs at the University of Pittsburgh.</p>
<p>Russia’s intervention could turn Kazakhstan’s internal crisis into a geopolitical one, as Russian President Vladimir Putin <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/06/world/asia/kazakhstan-putin-russia.html">tries to expand his regional influence</a>. But it potentially adds another grievance to the long list Kazakhs already have. Bota Jardemalie, a member of the opposition movement Democratic Choice of Kazakhstan, which was <a href="https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/07/07/kazakhstan-crackdown-government-critics">designated an extremist group by Kazakhstan’s authoritarian government in 2018</a>, said this could become a two-part struggle. One, still, is the push for democratic and economic reforms. The second may be for sovereignty. “At the same time,” Jardemalie, who has asylum in Belgium, said of Kazakhstan, “now [there’s] this kind of fight for its own independence.”</p>
<p>Not all experts I spoke to believe Russia will, or even wants to, stay in Kazakhstan very long, though it did present a ready-made opportunity to remind the world that Russia is ready to intervene in its sphere of influence. But even a short-lived intervention will likely have consequences for Russia, the regime in Kazakhstan, and the Kazakh people.</p>
<p>“Those people who came out on the streets to peacefully protest and legitimately express their opinions, they’re becoming the playing card in the bigger game,” said Diana Kudaibergenova, assistant professor in political sociology at the University of Cambridge.</p>
<p>The protests broke out in Zhanaozen not long after the region marked the 10-year anniversary of another deadly demonstration. On <a href="https://www.rferl.org/a/zhanaozen-a-year-after-the-riots/24798726.html">December 16, 2011</a>, oil workers in Zhanaozen went on strike to protest wages and working conditions, <a href="https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/odr/they-shot-to-kill-the-massacre-of-kazakhstans-striking-oil-workers-eight-years-on/">an uprising met with brutal force by the Kazakh regime</a>. That massacre showed some of the region’s contentious history with the center, Murtazashvili said. It also marks a decade of somewhat underappreciated pushback against the Kazak regime; <a href="https://www.rferl.org/a/tenge-protest-almaty-police/25265027.html">in 2014</a>, after a currency devaluation; <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-36163103">in 2016</a>, after land reforms; <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-48545166">in 2019</a>, after rigged elections the year longtime leader Nursultan Nazarbayev stepped aside so his handpicked successor, Tokayev, could become president.</p>
<p>And now, 2022. On January 2, people began protesting price hikes of liquefied petroleum gas. The cost increase was tied to the end of subsidies, but it meant regular people would pay more to fill up their tanks.</p>
<p>The Central Asian country isn’t exactly wanting for resources, but in Kazakhstan, economic and political power is concentrated in the hands of the very few. Specifically, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/powerful-ex-leader-nazarbayev-is-main-target-kazakhs-anger-2022-01-05/">the hands of the family and close allies</a> of ostensibly former president Nazarbayev, who, though 81, is still largely seen as the real guy in charge. “The outrage was against Nazarbaev, not against Tokayev,” said Assel Tutumlu, an assistant professor of international relations at Near East University. “Because Tokayev is not really a decision-maker, since power still belongs to the old president.”</p>
<p>One of protesters’ chants is <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/01/06/kazakhstan-crisis-timeline/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world">“Shal, ket!</a>” which is basically: “Old man, go away!”</p>
<p>Gas prices were the trigger, but Kazakhs were frustrated with the economy and a kleptocratic government that benefited while the rest struggled. And then people in other parts of Kazakhstan joined the protests. (Kazakhstan, though geographically vast, is less than about 20 million people.) “In a nutshell, people are tired of the regime,” Kudaibergenova said. “People wanted change. They wanted political reforms, but they wanted to achieve them peacefully; they wanted to be heard.”</p>
<p>As the protests spread, they also became more intense, with people storming government buildings; <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/05/world/europe/kazakhstan-protests-gas-prices.html?action=click&module=RelatedLinks&pgtype=Article">a regional government office of the ruling party was reportedly set ablaze</a>. There was a <a href="https://www.dw.com/en/kazakhstan-president-confirms-takeover-of-almaty-airport/a-60335623">reported takeover of the Almaty airport</a>. Protesters and security forces reportedly clashed, and there have <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-59880166">been reports of about a dozen deaths of security forces, and dozens of deaths and injuries among</a> protesters, though the exact figures are not clear. <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/dozens-killed-in-kazakhstan-as-authorities-crack-down-on-unrest-11641462504">Thousands have also reportedly been detained.</a></p>
<p>This upheaval coincides with reports of more widespread vandalism — windows broken, cars set on fire — <a href="https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20220106-kazakhstan-protesters-killed-in-clashes-with-police-as-crisis-escalates">along with looting in places like Almaty.</a> But where it gets really confusing is who is doing what. The lack of internet access has left a lot of information gaps. Neither the peaceful protesters nor the rioters are homogeneous groups. The peaceful protests appear to include old-guard opposition leaders, youth leaders, and others demanding reforms and opposing violence. But that is now mixed in with looters and opportunists who may just be taking advantage of the chaos, along with rioters, bandits, and organized gangs, though no one knows where they came from.</p>
<p>Still, the mayhem has allowed Tokayev to group everyone together and claim that <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/kazakhstan-president-shoot-kill-order-protests-violence-rcna11317">“bands of terrorists”</a> are responsible for the unrest. He has insinuated conspiracies: that these are organized groups, aided by foreign training and funding. To deal with them, he sought out some foreign assistance of his own.</p>
<p>President Tokayev requested the aid of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, an alliance of some post-Soviet states — think a much smaller, Russian version of NATO — <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/1/5/kazakhstan-asks-russian-led-alliance-for-help-quelling-protests">“in overcoming this terrorist threat.”</a></p>
<p>The CSTO responded, almost immediately, <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/russia-sends-troops-into-kazakhstan-as-protests-turn-deadly/">deploying as many as 3,000 troops to Kazakhstan, according to local media</a>. Though this is through the CSTO, most of the troops are reportedly Russian, a signal to the region, and beyond, that Putin is ready to intercede to defend what he perceives as Russia’s interests. Russian troops <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/kazakh-president-says-constitutional-order-has-mostly-been-restored-2022-01-07/">reportedly helped secure Almaty airport</a>. Tokayev has said security forces have regained control, though he said Friday that forces should “shoot without warning” to kill. He also thanked Putin for sending over his troops. “He responded to my appeal very promptly and, most importantly, warmly, in a friendly way,” <a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/01/07/world/kazakhstans-president-says-security-forces-can-fire-without-warning-quell-unrest/">Tokayev said</a>.</p>
<p>And there may be reason for the warm relations between Putin and Tokayev, as the timing appeared to be good for both of them. Calling in the Russians may have allowed Tokayev to outsource the dirty work of putting down a rebellion.</p>
<p>Tokayev, too, has claimed that these “bandits” were foreign-backed, and framing this as an external threat, also requiring external help, may make it easier to ignore the legitimate grievances that sparked the initial protests. As many pointed out, no one fully understands the protests right now, but this government line is very troubling, and gives them a ready-made justification to clamp down aggressively.</p>
<p>“Regimes like the one in Kazakhstan, they are very clever about that how to survive, about how to stop people from protesting and how to scare them, how to put blame on them,” Jardemalie said.</p>
<p>The timing might have been pretty good for Russia, too. Tensions with the United States and other Western allies are rising <a href="https://www.vox.com/2021/12/8/22824015/russia-ukraine-troops-tensons-putin-biden-nato">around the situation in Ukraine</a>. US and Russian officials are supposed <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/28/us/politics/nato-russia-ukrain-us.html">to talk next week about the tensions</a>. Now, Russia comes to the table after a chance to flex its military muscle, even if street unrest isn’t exactly on the level of a full(er)-fledged invasion of Ukraine. It’s at least a little reminder that Moscow is ready to deploy troops, and ready to defend its interests. “It’s going to be a symbolic operation to show all the rest of the people that if you go against your dictator, we’re going to clear you up,” Tutmulu said.</p>
<p>Yet everything comes with caveats. As some experts said, Putin would probably prefer not to deal with sustained unrest in Kazakhstan, in his backyard, especially when he’s got his hands full with plenty of other challenges, like Ukraine. And if Russia’s stay in Almaty goes on well after these protests die down, that could not just bog down the Kremlin but also generate even bigger backlash in Kazakhstan.</p>
<p>Kazakhstan has only been independent since 1991, and its relationship with Moscow is always a sensitive subject. Putin has referred to Kazakhstan as an <a href="https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/how-kazakhstan-could-shift-putins-calculus-on-ukraine/">“artificial state,”</a> and experts said the longer Russia stays, the greater the risk of a potential backlash, and maybe even more violence.</p>
<p>Which means Russia’s intervention comes with a catch for Tokayev, too. He was already a weak president — even the people protesting him think someone else is running the show — and having to run to Russia for help may not convince anyone that he has full control of the government. Tokayev reshuffled his cabinet this week, and removed Nazarbaev from h<a href="https://twitter.com/Peter__Leonard/status/1478713218474336257?s=20">is post on the national security council</a>, possibly in an effort <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/05/kazakh-president-removes-ex-leader-from-post-amid-worst-unrest-in-a-decade.html">to appease the protesters and maybe shield Nazarbaev</a>. But Tokayev’s quick call to Russia is raising questions about the stability of his regime, and where he might stand in any internal power struggles.</p>
<p>Kazakhstan, too, has tried to play a delicate balancing act by trying to have it all ways — be nice to Moscow, and to Beijing, and to Washington, in the hopes of not getting caught between the superpower squabbles. In asking Russia for help, Tokayev might have tipped the scales a bit, at least when it comes to the US and Russia. “It would seem to me that the Kazakh authorities and government certainly have the capacity to deal appropriately with protests, to do so in a way that respects the rights of protesters while maintaining law and order. So it’s not clear why they feel the need for any outside assistance, so we’re trying to learn more about it,” <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/kazakh-president-says-constitutional-order-has-mostly-been-restored-2022-01-07/">Secretary of State Antony Blinken</a> said Friday.</p>
<p>But all of this leaves the people of Kazakhstan, who do have very real grievances, still trying to understand the events of this week, and what it means for their future. Tokayev had promised some reforms, and some experts thought maybe, once the violence ends, Tokayev might make some concessions. Or the opposite may happen: He could clamp down even harder, launching an even greater crackdown on those fighting for democratic or economic change.</p>
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vox How protests in Kazakhstan could become a geopolitical crisis

Days into demonstrations in Kazakhstan, it remains hard to fully grasp what’s happening on the ground. Peaceful protests began in Zhanaozen, a city in the western corner of Kazakhstan, earlier this week. A rise in fuel prices in this oil-rich city t…

“The Science Isn’t Strong Enough”: British Health Minister Schooled by UK Physician on Covid Jabs

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<p><strong>Cameras were rolling during an incredible exchange between British Health Secretary Sajid Javid and a savvy, unvaccinated UK healthcare worker, who educated the unelected bureaucrat on everything from the benefits of natural immunity, to the dangers of a never-ending booster scheme.</strong></p>
<p>The one-sided debate took place during a visit Friday by Javid to Kings College Hospital in London, where he asked nurses what they thought about the government’s mandatory vaccination policy for healthcare workers.</p>
<p>Steve James, an anesthesiologist working in the hospital’s Covid Intensive Care Unit, spoke up to Javid about why he disagreed with the NHS policy, and explained he hasn’t been vaccinated because his natural immunity is better than that provided by so-called Covid vaccines.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">Government: “Follow the science”</p>
<p>Doctor: "The science isn't strong enough"<a href="https://t.co/MEFK7qCrKS">pic.twitter.com/MEFK7qCrKS</a></p>
— Calvin (@calvinrobinson) <a href="https://twitter.com/calvinrobinson/status/1479536461829574659?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 7, 2022</a></blockquote>
<p>“I’m not happy about that,” James told the health secretary.</p>
<p>“So, I’ve had COVID at some point, I’ve got antibodies, and I’ve been working on COVID ICU since the beginning,” the ICU doctor stated.</p>
<p>“I have not had a vaccination, I do not want to have a vaccination. The vaccines are reducing transmission only for about eight weeks for Delta, with Omicron it’s probably less,” James said, speaking to the jabs’ reported waning efficacy.</p>
<p>“And for that, I would be dismissed if I don’t have a vaccine? The science isn’t strong enough,” James said.</p>
<p>Javid responded, “I respect that, but there’s also many different views. I understand it, and obviously we have to weigh all that up for both health and social care, and there will always be a debate about it.”</p>
<p>James fired back, saying he’d sooner advise unvaccinated people not to get the jab so they can enjoy the benefits of natural immunity, rather than suffer monthly booster jabs.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">Schooled by the medical professional on NHS workers who face the sack over the jab 👏🏽 <a href="https://t.co/XuoFHeRLyQ">pic.twitter.com/XuoFHeRLyQ</a></p>
— Ollie Harfield (@ollie_harfield) <a href="https://twitter.com/ollie_harfield/status/1479530456592928772?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 7, 2022</a></blockquote>
<p>Another clip of the exchange begins with James remarking, “…If you haven’t had the vaccination, to not get it, because the protection I’ve got from transmission is equivalent to somebody who’s vaccinated.”</p>
<p>“Yes,” the health secretary replied, adding, “but at some point that will wane as well.”</p>
<p>“But if you want to provide protection with a booster, you’d have to inject everybody every month,” James pointed out. “If the protection’s worn off from transmission after two months, then after a month you still have a bit of protection – but if you want to maintain protection, you’re going to need to boost all staff members every single month, which you’re not going to do.”</p>
<p>Clearly taken aback, Javid mumbled, “Yeah we…we take advice on when, how much you may, or may not…”</p>
<p>“But, it’s not going to achieve practical benefits,” James added.</p>
<p>Speaking with the UK <em><a href="https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/sajid-javid-health-secretary-king-s-college-hospital-london-nhs-b975551.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Evening Standard</a></em> following the conversation, James said he hoped the health minister heard his concerns.</p>
<p>“I wouldn’t say he agreed with me,” he said. “I had the feeling he was listening.”</p>
<p>The <em>Standard</em> added: “Mr James told the PA news agency he did not believe Covid-19 was causing ‘very significant problems’ for young people, adding that his patients in the ICU had been ‘extremely overweight’ with multiple other co-morbidities.”</p>
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Why the Left Cannot Let Go of Jan 6

<p><strong>“Every Day Is Jan. 6 Now.”</strong></p>
<p>That was the headline over the editorial of 1,000 words in The New York Times of Sunday last.</p>
<p>On first read, I thought the Times was conceding its obsession and describing its mission. For the editorial began by bewailing yet anew the “horrifying” event, “the very real bloodshed of that awful day,” the “once-unthinkable trauma.”</p>
<p>Still, a year later, said the Times, “the Republic faces an existential threat,” as the “Capitol riot … continues in statehouses across the country, in a bloodless, legalized form that no police officer can arrest and that no prosecutor can try in court.”</p>
<p>“We should stop underestimating the threat facing the country. … (our) democracy … is in grave danger.”</p>
<p>What the Times is saying is that the electoral reforms being enacted democratically in red states — requiring voter IDs, for example, and subject to judicial review — are a Republican continuation of the Capitol riot.</p>
<p>Why cannot our liberal media let it go? Why does the distortion and hysteria about Jan. 6 seem to grow with each retelling?</p>
<p>Now, undeniably, as I wrote in a column the next morning, Jan. 6 was “The Worst of Days for Trump & Trumpists.”</p>
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<p>“The worst of the day’s events for Trump came when a segment of a friendly crowd of 50,000 he just addressed concluded its march down the Mall to the U.S. Capitol by smashing its way into the building and invading and occupying the Senate and House chambers.</p>
<p>“Members of Congress were forced to flee and hide. A protester, an Air Force veteran, was shot to death by a Capitol cop. Vice President Mike Pence, who was chairing the joint session, was taken into protective custody by his Secret Service detail. Doors were broken open. Windows were smashed, and the building was trashed …</p>
<p>“What Americans watched was a mob occupation and desecration of the temple of the American Republic.” I added, “And the event will be forever exploited to discredit not only Trump but the movement he led and the achievements of his presidency.”</p>
<p>That last line understated what an obsession Jan. 6 has become for the nation’s establishment and media elite.</p>
<p>The left cannot let go of Jan. 6. Indeed, it has fixated upon, exploited and exaggerated the riot to discredit and destroy the Trump presidency in the history books and to prevent Donald Trump from ever running or being elected president again.</p>
<p>Though Trump was exonerated by the Senate of the impeachment charge brought by Nancy Pelosi’s House, the House select committee wants to try Trump again and again in the court of public opinion and wants President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice to find some crime with which to charge and convict him.</p>
<p>There are other reasons the left cannot let go of Jan. 6.</p>
<p>Democrats have no other issue on which to run this November.</p>
<p>The Biden presidency has produced an uninterrupted string of disasters: the Afghanistan withdrawal debacle, the Texas border crisis, inflation, an explosion of gun violence and murders setting records in Democrat-run cities, failure to produce an adequate federal response to the delta and omicron waves of COVID-19.</p>
<p>Again, Jan. 6 was a riot, involving assaults on Washington and Capitol cops and the disruption of a formal congressional procedure to validate the electoral vote victory of Joe Biden.</p>
<p>But was Jan. 6 really the planned coup, the terrorism, the sedition, the armed insurrection, the attempt to overthrow the U.S. government?</p>
<p>Was Jan. 6 really comparable to Pearl Harbor and 9/11, during each of which 3,000 Americans went to their deaths in an hour’s time and major wars followed — as Vice President Kamala Harris said yesterday?</p>
<p>If so, why, a year after Jan. 6, 2021, has no one been charged with inciting a rebellion, sedition, treason, armed insurrection, plotting a coup, or a takeover of the government of the United States?</p>
<p>Thus far, all the charges prosecuted and punished are consistent with a riot, which is what Jan. 6 was. Comparisons of this three-hour mob action to Pearl Harbor and 9/11 are almost sacrilegious.</p>
<p>Was that QAnon shaman occupying the chair in the Senate chamber really the moral equivalent of Mohamed Atta ramming an airliner into the World Trade Center or Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto plotting the Dec. 7 surprise attack on Pearl Harbor?</p>
<p>Another reason for the left to paint up the horror of that day is that the perpetrators of Jan. 6 were not the radical left who battled cops and burned and looted Seattle, Portland, Milwaukee and scores of other cities in the aftermath of George Floyd’s killing.</p>
<p>They were the “deplorables” of Trump, the populists of the American right, against whom any slander is justified.</p>
<p>Question: If the left is so terrified of Trump it feels it must prevent him from even running again, by imposing a criminal conviction, what does that say about the left’s belief in American democracy?</p>
<p>What does that tell us about the left’s trust in the people?</p>
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The rehabilitation of Trump national security officials says a lot about Washington

<p>Matt Pottinger served four years on President Donald Trump’s National Security Council, including 15 months as deputy adviser, and then resigned mid-insurrection. “The events of that day, January 6, were for me a red line. Decided that it was time to go, and I resigned that afternoon,” he said <a href="https://soundcloud.com/lowyinstitute/the-directors-chair-matt-pottinger-on-his-career-working-for-president-trump-china-and-covid">six months later</a>. But he hasn’t said much about it since then.</p>
<p>Maybe it’s because he’s been busy, as a distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution, a conservative think tank affiliated with Stanford University. He’s also chair of the China program at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, and a business consultant at the firm Ergo. Pottinger is most closely associated with <a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/01/23/959683134/what-trumps-declassified-asia-strategy-may-mean-for-u-s-china-relations-under-bi">Trump’s hardline China policy</a>, an approach that Republicans and Democrats have come to broadly support.</p>
<p>Many observers initially predicted that working for Trump would turn into a scarlet letter. But service in the Trump White House in the lead-up to the “Stop the Steal” violence hasn’t necessarily been an obstacle for rejoining Washington’s establishment.</p>
<p>Top-level personnel, like adviser <a href="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/05/trump-world-where-are-they-now.html">Stephen Miller</a> and Secretary of State <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/04/07/former-trump-cabinet-officials-corporate-seats/">Mike Pompeo</a>, haven’t been rehabilitated, and former acting Secretary of Defense Chris Miller has stayed under the radar since he <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/05/12/trumps-defense-secretary-suddenly-backs-off-blaming-him-capitol-riot/">testified</a> on the Capitol riot. But <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-21/ex-cia-director-to-advise-super-wealthy-on-risks-for-law-firm">senior officials</a> and <a href="https://www.hudson.org/experts/1379-ezra-cohen">staffers</a> a <a href="https://prospect.org/power/private-equity-firm-profited-khashoggi-killing-saudi/">few</a> <a href="https://www.aspeninstitute.org/our-people/stephen-e-biegun/">rungs</a> below — and <a href="http://www.thinktankwatch.com/2021/09/backlash-fiece-as-carnegie-hosts-trump.html">former Trump</a> officials who questioned the election results — have <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-white-house-administration-maga-alumni-network-database-2021-7">done fine</a>.</p>
<p>This isn’t a phenomenon unique to the Trump administration. Whether it’s George W. Bush and his Iraq War or Barack Obama’s Afghanistan surge, foreign policy officials have time and time again been able to transcend their president and return to positions of power. That speaks to the unique mores of Washington, where subject matter expertise is the entry key to the elite club. Members of the foreign policy establishment protect their own — as long as they stay within the bounds of the mainstream policy ideas of the moment. This same principle protected many of the technocrats and appointees who supported the 2003 Iraq War. Their success in <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/11/bush-iraq-hawks-trump-097502">reestablishing themselves</a> as <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/23/politics/trump-bush-iraq-war-john-bolton/index.html">trusted</a> <a href="https://www.vox.com/2020/1/7/21051868/iraq-war-fleischer-rove-bush-administration-iran-trump">experts</a> has paved the way for other acts that have been forgiven.</p>
<p>Trump’s foreign policy was divergent from the Washington norm: He visited Saudi Arabia as his first overseas visit, valued personal diplomacy over longstanding protocol with dictators like Kim Jong Un, and wanted to ditch NATO entirely, among many other erratic moves. But Trump’s undemocratic actions at home were even more divergent.</p>
<p>Critics have said that anyone who stood by Trump’s side — in any capacity — should have to answer for the former president’s anti-democratic behavior. Pottinger, for example, never publicly pushed election denialism. But critics say that’s insufficient for a national security staffer, when the US’s foreign policy is (at least purportedly) based on advancing democracy around the world.</p>
<p>“You can have the most well-crafted China policy in the world, but if Donald Trump prevails in his efforts to dismantle US democracy, what is the point? What are we defending?” said Ben Rhodes, who served as Obama’s deputy national security adviser. “That runs so counter to everything that the American national security establishment is supposed to claim to represent, and it kind of makes a mockery of it.”</p>
<p>But that subject matter expertise — plus the patina afforded by resigning on January 6 — has helped Pottinger, a former journalist, expertly navigate the post-Trump landscape. He even emerged as the White House hero of the initial Covid-19 chaos in New Yorker writer Lawrence Wright’s chronicle of “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/01/04/the-plague-year">The Plague Year</a>.”</p>
<p>Pottinger declined an interview request from Vox, and his attorney Mary Boies responded on his behalf. “Matt led the way resigning promptly on January 6 and that action makes spoken denunciation unnecessary and certainly not disqualifying from public service. With Matt’s counsel, the U.S. reversed decades of failed policy toward China, and the new policy has continued under the Biden Administration,” Boies wrote. “This country needs the kind of sound policy that Matt helped craft, not aggressive rhetoric that only further divides the nation.”</p>
<p>Yet a lot of that aggressive rhetoric has come from the president whom he served. And the siege of the Capitol was a red line for Pottinger, but apparently not Trump’s previous questioning of the integrity of the election that gave rise to the attempt to overturn it, or any <a href="https://www.vox.com/2019/11/12/20954985/impeachment-trump-quid-pro-quo">number</a> of <a href="https://www.vox.com/2019/4/26/18517980/trump-unite-the-right-racism-defense-charlottesville">other</a> <a href="https://www.vox.com/2021/6/11/22527796/ig-report-trump-bible-lafayette-square-protest">incidents</a>.</p>
<p>But look at what that red line bought Pottinger. The act of resigning set him apart from his boss, National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien, who stayed on through the handoff to President Joe Biden two weeks later. In that role early last January, O’Brien was mostly worried about antifa counterprotesters to the insurrectionists rather than the pro-Trump insurrection itself, according to the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2021/warnings-jan-6-insurrection/">Washington Post</a>. O’Brien hasn’t emerged with the same prestige. He’s been working as a <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/signature-resolution_dario-higuchi-dj-5-17-21pdf-activity-6803044413091258368-ozF-">mediator</a> for a Los Angeles law firm, an atypical role for a former security chief. He recently started a consulting firm with other officials from the Trump White House since many of them had difficulty securing coveted jobs, according to <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-12/trump-national-security-adviser-o-brien-starts-consulting-firm">Bloomberg</a>.</p>
<p>Yet after a full term alongside Trump, things are going well for Pottinger. This summer, he was the only former Trump White House staffer on the schedule of the eminent Aspen Security Forum. He hopped off early from a panel to serve as an expert witness at the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. This year, Pottinger has appeared twice on CBS’s <em>60 Minutes</em> to talk about the <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-19-wuhan-origins-60-minutes-2021-03-28/">Wuhan lab leak theory</a> of Covid-19’s origins, which he has advanced, and <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/xi-jinping-china-capitalism-60-minutes-2021-12-05/">China’s aggressive economic policies</a>. Neither time was he asked about Trump.</p>
<p>One reason that Matt Pottinger was welcomed back into the establishment is that, unlike some of Trump’s unconventional appointees, he had already been a part of the elite.</p>
<p>Pottinger has become the go-to expert on China’s <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/04/world/asia/matthew-pottinger-trump-china.html">economic</a> and <a href="https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/05/30/donald-trump-matthew-pottinger-asia-218551/">security</a> outlook. He speaks fluent Mandarin, and as China correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, he broke news on companies and took risks to cover politically complex stories about the Communist Party. He changed careers to become a Marine in Iraq and Afghanistan, and then worked at one of the world’s largest hedge funds. Other Trump national security appointees with strong credentials before the administration — like onetime National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster or national security staffers Dina H. Powell McCormick and Nadia Schadlow — have <a href="https://prospect.org/power/mcmaster-lucrative-afterlife-of-a-trump-official/">landed similarly well</a>.</p>
<p>Policy officials have often found ways to transcend party politics, even as they work for partisan leaders. In previous administrations, “there is a lot of respect on both parties for the other sides’ experts even when they vehemently disagree. Policy disagreements are normal and helpful,” said Elizabeth Saunders, a professor at Georgetown University who focuses on the presidency and foreign policy.</p>
<p>In some ways, this is a practical consideration. “Someone’s got to keep the lights on. Someone’s got to run China policy no matter how much you think the president’s good, bad, antidemocratic,” explains Saunders.</p>
<p>A concern raised by scholars of US foreign policy is the thin bench of potential staffers for a future Republican administration. If the Democrats were to lose in 2024, it will have been over a decade since a mainstream GOP candidate took the executive branch, and there are thousands of jobs that would need to be filled.</p>
<p>This pursuit of Republican foreign policy thinkers — to serve on public panels, testify to Congress, or author articles for prestigious journals like <a href="https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/asia/2021-08-23/beijings-american-hustle">Foreign Affairs</a> — has made it appealing to hear from people like Pottinger or McMaster, who do have recent high-level government experience.</p>
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<figcaption><span class="e-image__meta">President Donald Trump stands with National Security Council official Matt Pottinger and White House chief of staff John Kelly at an economic summit in Vietnam, in 2017.</span></figcaption>
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<p>But that deference extends mainly to policy staffers and experts who hew to Washington’s established worldview. It is worth emphasizing the Biden administration’s <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/biden-carries-trump-s-hard-line-toward-beijing-coming-summits-n1282229">continuity with Trump</a> in implementing many of the hawkish China policies of tariffs, sanctions, and strategic competition put forward by Pottinger. “There is a very narrow range of acceptable opinion, and if you’re within it you can weather a lot. Both Pottinger and O’Brien in many respects are inside the Beltway consensus on the big issues of the day,” said Michael Desch, a political scientist at the University of Notre Dame.</p>
<p>It’s part of the unwritten rules of the elite club of Washington. “If you criticize NATO enlargement or Israel or some of the more foundational cornerstones of post-Cold War American foreign policy, you are more likely to be cast aside than if you worked for years for Donald Trump. And that’s just crazy,” Rhodes said.</p>
<p>There certainly are former Trump advisers who haven’t been welcomed back, like the short-lived National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, who <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/01/us/politics/michael-flynn-guilty-russia-investigation.html">pleaded</a> guilty to lying to the FBI and has <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/longtime-trump-advisers-connected-groups-rally-led-capitol/story?id=75261028">encouraged</a> challenges to the 2020 election’s integrity. <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/9/4/17817782/steve-bannon-new-yorker-festival-david-remnick">Steve Bannon</a> isn’t speaking at any centrist think tanks or universities anytime soon. But their cases are exceptions that prove the rule. “For me, the real story is the ability of inside-the-Beltway people to escape accountability for dumb things they did when in office, and I think it’s broader than just the Trump administration,” Desch said.</p>
<p>Many attribute the <a href="https://prospect.org/power/mcmaster-lucrative-afterlife-of-a-trump-official/">reentry of some Trump officials</a> to Washington to a broader lack of reckoning for the enablers of the Iraq War. It’s well established at this point that President George W. Bush’s primary rationale for invading Iraq, Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction, <a href="https://www.vox.com/2016/7/9/12123022/george-w-bush-lies-iraq-war">was an outright lie</a>. “The Bush administration had to work assiduously and I think at times dishonestly to make the case for war, and observing after the fact, I can’t point to anyone who was sanctioned for supporting the war,” said Christopher Preble of the Atlantic Council, a global affairs think tank in Washington.</p>
<p>Secretary of Defense <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-rumsfeld-killer-of-400000-people-dies-peacefully">Donald Rumsfeld</a>, who planned the war, and Secretary of State <a href="https://prospect.org/politics/invisible-general-how-colin-powell-conned-america/">Colin Powell</a>, who advocated for it at the United Nations, both maintained platforms before their deaths this year, as have their acolytes. Consider <a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/157885/david-frums-hold-center-trumpocalypse-book-review">David Frum</a>, the speechwriter who coined the “<a href="https://www.vox.com/2015/11/5/9675942/bush-axis-evil-speech">Axis of Evil</a>” tagline that helped sell the war, who has rebranded himself as a popular columnist for the Atlantic.</p>
<p>And powerful Democrats (Joe Biden, John Kerry, Hillary Clinton) voted for the war. It’s not just that there were never trials or prosecutions for the Bush officials, or tough questions to their <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/sean-hannity/iraq-war-cheerleaders-who-are-still-around-15-years-later">cheerleaders in academic</a>, <a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/society/press-cheerleaders-afgan-war/">media</a>, and <a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/112673/iraq-war-10-year-anniversary-what-it-was-oppose-it-2003">think tank circles</a>; support for the Iraq debacle has never really been an impediment to career advancement. Quite the opposite: <a href="https://sadat.umd.edu/sites/sadat.umd.edu/files/iraq_war_ad_2002_2.pdf">None of the 33 scholars</a> who signed onto an anti-Iraq War ad in the New York Times two decades ago have ascended to government roles, notes scholar Stephen Walt in <a href="https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374280031/thehellofgoodintentions"><em>The Hell of Good Intentions</em></a>.</p>
<p>It’s rare that those who perpetuated foreign policy disasters are even asked about them; one of the few times a journalist did pose such a question produced a revealing sound bite.</p>
<p>Broadcast journalist Mehdi Hasan asked John Bolton, the senior Bush diplomat who went on to be Trump’s national security adviser from 2018 to 2019, whether he regretted advocating for the Iraq War, especially in light of the hundreds of thousands of civilians who died. “You don’t know what you’re talking about,” <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G78OFZ2MDkM&t=1s">Bolton said</a>, and called the war a “brilliant military victory by the United States and other coalition forces.”</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">Me: "All those innocent Iraqi civilians. All the men and women, children killed by U.S. airstrikes. Some in massacres...None of those weigh on your conscience? None of those keep you up at night?"</p>
<p>John Bolton: "You don't know what you're talking about."<a href="https://t.co/nSMmZGg1cJ">pic.twitter.com/nSMmZGg1cJ</a></p>
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<p>The persistent failures of US foreign policy since the Cold War, and the lack of accountability for those failures, helped give rise to Trump, argues Walt. He writes that “perhaps the greatest barrier to genuine accountability is the self-interest of the foreign policy establishment itself. Its members are reluctant to judge one another harshly and are ready to forgive mistakes lest they be judged themselves.”</p>
<p>Other experts have a more generous interpretation of how Washington slouched toward Baghdad. Kori Schake, a former Bush official now at the American Enterprise Institute, told me that policymakers are implementing decisions based on imperfect information and short timelines. “If you are going to have in government people who have never made an inaccurate judgment on foreign and defense policy, you are going to have almost no one who meets this standard,” she said.</p>
<p>There may be other analogues for the current moment. Few of the Ronald Reagan officials associated with the Iran-Contra arms scandal were rehabilitated. Robert McNamara, the former defense secretary during seven of the most devastating years of the Vietnam War, repudiated his views and still was never really welcomed back into the establishment. “At the end of the day, it comes down to questions of integrity,” Schake said. “Do you judge that these are people of good faith trying to do the right thing? Or do you think they’re a danger and need to be cordoned off from potential future roles?”</p>
<p>As Pottinger <a href="https://soundcloud.com/lowyinstitute/the-directors-chair-matt-pottinger-on-his-career-working-for-president-trump-china-and-covid">said</a> last summer, “I’m proud of a lot of things that the administration did, and I think I’ll look back on those years as ones that I’m proud of.”</p>
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How to use rapid tests in the omicron era

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<p>Should we be swabbing our noses or our throats for at-home tests? Do rapid tests even detect omicron at all? Are PCR tests the only results we can trust right now?</p>
<p>Guidance about how to approach testing in the omicron era seems to be evolving by the day. A recent real-world study that <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/05/health/covid-rapid-test-omicron-detection.html">followed 30 subjects</a> likely exposed to omicron found that PCR saliva tests can catch Covid-19 cases three days before rapid antigen tests, which use nasal swabs. These findings, which have not been peer reviewed, follow the Food and Drug Administration’s announcement in late December that, while they do detect omicron, rapid antigen tests may now have “<a href="https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/coronavirus-covid-19-and-medical-devices/sars-cov-2-viral-mutations-impact-covid-19-tests">reduced sensitivity</a>.” But that doesn’t mean rapid tests don’t play a key role in our pandemic response going forward.</p>
<p>This is all confusing to a public that’s been pulled in several directions over the course of the pandemic when it comes to guidance and testing. Long delays for PCR test results, <a href="https://www.vox.com/recode/2021/12/21/22848286/omicron-rapid-test-covid-19-antigen">a shortage of at-home rapid tests</a>, and the wait for more definitive science about the omicron variant have all made it more difficult to figure out <a href="https://www.vox.com/22814390/omicron-covid-19-vaccine-rapid-test-antigen-pcr-vaccine">when and how to to get tested</a>. Nevertheless, public health experts say that, as more become available, rapid tests will be an increasingly vital tool for diagnosing Covid-19 and reducing its spread.</p>
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<p>So you might be wondering: What’s the point if rapid tests aren’t as accurate as PCR tests? Well, rapid antigen tests, which look for a <a href="https://www.vox.com/ad/22634843/rapid-antigen-test-home-testing-covid-quickvue">specific protein on the Covid-19 virus</a>, remain extremely effective at confirming positive cases. Put simply, if you test positive on a rapid test, you almost certainly have Covid-19. If you test negative, in some cases, you might still test positive on a PCR test, which is much more sensitive because it tests for genetic evidence of the virus. Rapid tests may not pick up positive cases in people who have been vaccinated or who have recently recovered from Covid-19, since they may produce less virus, one expert told Recode.</p>
<p>Rapid tests can also reveal a positive case faster than the labs that process PCR tests, since they can take several days to share results with patients, especially during big waves of infection. Perhaps more importantly, rapid tests can indicate whether someone is contagious enough to spread the virus to others, which is what many people are most worried about.</p>
<p>“Given that a rapid antigen test is often the most feasible or available option for many, we don’t want the perfect to be the enemy of the good,” Joshua Michaud, the associate director for global health policy at the Kaiser Family Foundation, told Recode. He explained that every Covid-19 case that’s caught by someone who could take a rapid antigen test but not a PCR test is a win for public health.</p>
<p>Taking rapid tests more frequently also makes them more effective. Most at-home rapid test kits are designed to be conducted over the course of two days, which is why kits typically include two tests. Because each test is a snapshot of the moment it’s taken, multiple tests help reduce the chance of receiving a false negative.</p>
<p>Of course, all of this is assuming that you can get your hands on a rapid test. In the weeks since omicron started to spread, rapid tests have been incredibly hard to find in some parts of the country. These tests are out of stock because neither test manufacturers nor the Biden administration anticipated record levels of Covid-19 cases, which have boosted the demand for rapid tests. To confront the shortage, the White House <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/01/06/biden-covid-tests-usps/">plans to buy and distribute 500 million free rapid tests</a> in the coming weeks. When that happens, these tests could help catch more positive cases and lower the number of people infected with Covid-19.</p>
<p>The accuracy of a rapid test depends on how often you’re testing yourself and whether you want to identify a Covid-19 infection or measure your contagiousness. But if you test positive on a rapid test, you should trust the result, assume you’re infectious, and isolate for <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/your-health/quarantine-isolation.html">at least five days</a>. If you test positive again after five days, the CDC recommends isolating for five more.</p>
<p>Rapid tests, however, are not perfect. Research indicates that antigen tests are less accurate than <a href="https://www.vox.com/recode/22340744/covid-19-coronavirus-testing-vaccines-rapid-home-antigen">PCR tests</a> — this has been the case since the beginning of the pandemic. PCR tests are processed in a lab, where sophisticated equipment can identify and amplify even the tiniest genetic evidence of the virus that causes Covid-19. These tests are so precise that patients can actually test positive for weeks after they’ve recovered and <a href="https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/covid-19/clinicians/recovered-patients.html">are no longer contagious</a>. The results of rapid tests, meanwhile, can vary based on how much virus is in a patient’s nose at the time the sample is taken and how far along they are in their infection.</p>
<p>Scientists explain the difference between rapid tests and PCR tests in two ways: <a href="https://www.fda.gov/media/143737/download">specificity</a>, which reflects a test’s false-positive rate, and sensitivity, which reflects a test’s false-negative rate. Both PCR and rapid tests have high specificity, which means that their positive results are very trustworthy. But while PCR tests tend to have near-perfect sensitivity, rapid antigen tests tend to have a sensitivity around 80 to 90 percent. This means that rapid tests tend to produce more false negatives than PCR tests do.</p>
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<p>Omicron makes testing even trickier. The sensitivity of rapid tests may be even lower for omicron cases, according to early research from the FDA and other scientists. Another problem is that omicron may propagate <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/02/new-studies-reinforce-belief-that-omicron-is-less-likely-to-damage-lungs">more in the throat than the lungs</a>, and it could take longer for Covid-19 to show up in nasal samples, even if someone is symptomatic. It’s possible that vaccinated people and people who have recently recovered from Covid-19 are noticing more false positives on rapid tends because they tend to produce less virus overall.</p>
<p>“At-home tests are mostly effective when the person has high viral loads, a time when the person is more likely to transmit the virus,” Pablo Penaloza-MacMaster, a viral immunologist at Northwestern’s medical school, told Recode, “Most at-home tests are still able to detect infection by omicron because they target a part of the virus that doesn’t mutate that much.”</p>
<p>Separate studies from both <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1042688/RA_Technical_Briefing_32_DRAFT_17_December_2021_2021_12_17.pdf">the UK’s Health Security Agency</a> and <a href="https://journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1128/jcm.02479-21">researchers in Australia</a> found that antigen tests are as sensitive to the omicron variant as they were to earlier strains of Covid-19. Again, the FDA does still recommend rapid tests to diagnose positive cases, and test manufacturers say they’re confident in their products’ ability to detect omicron. While early <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/05/health/covid-rapid-test-omicron-detection.html">research</a> indicates saliva tests might detect Covid-19 more quickly, right now most of the PCR tests and all of the available rapid at-home tests that have emergency use authorizations from the FDA use nasal samples.</p>
<p>Which brings us back to the question of whether you should be sticking nasal swabs in your throat. There is evidence that saliva samples may be a quicker indicator of Covid-19 cases, but that doesn’t mean you should stop following the directions that come with your test kit. The FDA says that people should not use rapid antigen tests to swab their own mouths. Some experts say you might consider doing so anyway, and point out that other countries, including the UK, have approved rapid antigen tests that use throat swabs and released very careful directions about how to do so.</p>
<p>“I personally do swab my throat and my nose to get the best sensitivity when I use over-the-counter tests at home,” Michael Mina, an epidemiologist at Harvard, said at a Thursday press conference. “There are risks associated with that, but the biology does tell us that they might be getting better sensitivity earlier.”</p>
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<p>But the concern with rapid test kits right now is not that people are swabbing their noses, but how often they’re swabbing their noses. A single test could miss a Covid-19 case and produce a false negative, but taking two tests over a 24 to 36 hour period reduces this risk. The more rapid tests you take, the more you reduce your chances of a false negative, and the more times you test negative over multiple days, the more confident you can be that you’re not spreading Covid-19.</p>
<p>Still, the biggest problem right now is that rapid tests are <a href="https://www.vox.com/recode/2021/12/21/22848286/omicron-rapid-test-covid-19-antigen">pricey and hard to find</a>. Pharmacies have limited the number of test kits people can buy, and many are completely sold out. A single test can also cost more than $10, which means that testing yourself regularly gets expensive quickly. Opportunists have even hoarded tests and <a href="https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2021/consumer-alert-attorney-general-james-asks-consumers-report-price-gouging-home">engaged in price gouging</a>, which has exacerbated the shortage.</p>
<p>If you don’t have enough tests to test yourself regularly, it’s best to test yourself right before seeing vulnerable people, says <a href="https://chs.asu.edu/mara-aspinall">Mara Aspinall</a>, a professor who leads Arizona State’s testing diagnostic commons and a board member for the test manufacturer Orasure, told Recode. “I’m heading to a vulnerable person [or] I’m going into a health care setting, and therefore need to test right beforehand.”</p>
<p>For now, the best test kit is the test you can get (Wired has <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/best-rapid-at-home-covid-19-test-kits/">a handy list</a> of the brands currently available). If you’re planning to go somewhere and don’t want to spread the virus, you should take one rapid test the day before traveling, and then a second test immediately before you go. If you only have one rapid test, take it right before you see people.</p>
<p>Testing yourself should become easier as more rapid tests become available. In addition to the 500 million free rapid tests that the White House will distribute <a href="https://www.statnews.com/2021/12/21/white-house-to-buy-ship-500-million-rapid-tests-for-free-beginning-in-january/">beginning later this month</a>, people with private insurance will also be able to get their rapid test purchases reimbursed <a href="https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2022/01/04/biden-rapid-covid-tests-to-be-covered-by-insurance-next-week">starting next week</a>. You should also check with your local health department, as they might be distributing free tests.</p>
<p>Even though the rapid test situation is still less than ideal, there are other strategies we can use to protect both ourselves and other people from Covid-19, like getting vaccinated, getting boosted, and wearing a mask. And if you do happen to find some rapid tests, go ahead and grab them. They might just come in handy, especially if you use them correctly.</p>
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“Everyone Who Died With Covid Should Be Considered Murdered”: Nurse Promoting Early Treatment Exposes Scamdemic in Epic School Board Rant

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<p><strong>A former ICU nurse laid waste to the Covid narrative at her local county school board meeting this week, exposing how the medical authorities are responsible for coronavirus deaths by not promoting early treatment protocols.</strong></p>
<p>Speaking at a New Hanover County <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVRc9aWjWcI" target="_blank">school board meeting</a> in Wilmington, North Carolina, on Tuesday, registered nurse Morgan Wallace – who says she quit her job over vaccine mandates – slammed vaccines for failing to protect people from contracting Covid, and blamed government incompetence for leading to thousands of deaths.</p>
<p>“Everyone who died with Covid should be considered murdered. Early treatment has always been effective,” Wallace told a captive audience.</p>
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<p><em>I’m Morgan Wallace. I’m a 10-year employee of New Hanover County [hospital].</em></p>
<p><em>I was your last line of defense of with Covid.</em></p>
<p><em>We ran your heart and lungs outside your body with your chest open while you were bleeding on the floor, and what I realized was that patients were needlessly dying because of government’s withheld policies for treating Covid.</em></p>
<p><em>Everyone who died with Covid should be considered murdered. Early treatment has always been effective.</em></p>
<p><em>I walked out of the hospital on the mandate day. I have my own practice and I am the only person in town treating Covid patients prior to hospitalization.</em></p>
<p><em>I also watched the entire staff at the hospital including in my unit get vaccinated and then get Covid.</em></p>
<p><em>Amongst all other kinds of ailments, you have now loaded your body with millions of spike proteins and you are a ticking time bomb for cancer, blood clots, and whatever kind of ailment may come up in your body.</em></p>
<p><em>And I’m tired of hearing people go and ask doctors can they be treated for Covid, and their only option is a vaccine, or go home, or go into the hospital where you’re not going to make it out.</em></p>
<p><em>I’ll be happy to treat any one of you for Covid prior going to the hospital because early treatment has always worked. I’m a member of the FLCCC Alliance, NC Physicians for Freedom and the Medical Freedom Summit.</em></p>
<p><em>And I would ask you all to please stop choosing fear and putting masks on our kids.</em></p>
<p><em>The vaccine is not gonna work, early treatment has always worked, and government mismanagement of patients is why people have died.</em></p>
<p><em>And families have realized this and they are rising up and they are going to come after governments and the hospital.</em></p>
<p><em>I was highly decorated and highly respected at New Hanover. I was the November 2020 employee of excellence and I had a job opportunity this year from the chief medical director at this hospital and I chose to walk out and stand up for what is right.</em></p>
<p><em>So putting these masks on our kids is not going to help, nor is vaccination, and we all need to realize that.</em></p>
<p><em>The cat is out of the bag and people are speaking globally, including the inventor of the vaccine.</em></p>
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Alex Jones: The Truth Behind Ted Cruz’s Jan 6th ‘Terrorist’ Comments Revealed

<p><strong>Infowars host Alex Jones took Sen. Ted Cruz to the woodshed Thursday after the Texas Republican described the Jan. 6 protest as a “violent terrorist attack.”</strong></p>
<p>On Thursday’s <em>Alex Jones Show</em>, Jones put Cruz’s comments this week during a Senate Rules committee hearing on par with lies uttered by Joe Biden during a Jan. 6 memorial.</p>
<p>“Biden came out and accused Trump of quote ‘spinning web of lies’ while promising to defend democracy,” Jones said, referencing a <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.zerohedge.com/political/biden-plans-searing-critique-trump-and-gop-dems-make-jan-6-all-about-democracy" target="_blank">headline</a> from Zero Hedge. “Oh yes… and [he] said that it was an ‘armed’ attack by terrorists on the capitol — and he’s got a little buddy helping echo that named Theodore Cruz.”</p>
<p>According to Jones’ analysis, Cruz has decided to go along with the Democrats’ January 6 narrative in order to position himself to survive the oncoming purge of pro-Trump conservatives.</p>
<p>“And Ted Cruz knows that purge is coming and he wants to position himself so when the staged terror attacks happen he can point his finger at the patriots and say, ‘I’m not with the patriot terrorists,’ <em>instead of saying</em>, ‘The evidence shows it’s a false flag, and the globalists have the motive, and we need to stop them staging a false flag sometime in the next 300 days.'”</p>
<p>Cruz, Jones says, “knows what’s about to happen to America, and well, he’s decided he’s going to join with them and signal that he wants to be part of the vestigial conservative remnant that’s left after they fully destroy the country and start putting everybody in FEMA camps, so… that’s why that’s going on.”</p>
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Reuters Data Scientist Fired After Nuking BLM Narrative, Exposing ‘Significant Left-Wing Bias’ In Reporting

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<p><strong>On <a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/veteran-journo-resigns-cbc-pens-scathing-indictment-canadian-narrative-shaping-industry">Tuesday</a>, we republished a column from a journalist who resigned from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation because the network exhibited such extreme left-wing bias and propaganda that she couldn’t be a part of it any longer.</strong></p>
<p>Today, bring you the story of Zac Kriegman, a former Reuters data scientist who was <strong>fired</strong> after performing a statistical analysis which refuted claims by Black Lives Matter, and spoke out against the company’s culture of “diversity and inclusion” which unquestioningly celebrated the BLM narrative.</p>
<p>As journalist Chris F. Rufo writes in <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/black-lives-matter-reuters-and-the-price-of-dissent"><em>City Journal</em></a>: “Driven by what he called a “moral obligation” to speak out, <strong>Kriegman refused to celebrate unquestioningly the BLM narrative</strong> and his company’s “diversity and inclusion” programming; to the contrary, he argued that <strong>Reuters was exhibiting significant left-wing bias</strong> in the newsroom and that the ongoing BLM protests, riots, and calls to “defund the police” would wreak havoc on minority communities.”</p>
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<p><em>Week after week, Kriegman felt increasingly disillusioned by the Thomson Reuters line. Finally, on the first Tuesday in May 2021, <strong>he posted a long, data-intensive critique of BLM’s and his company’s hypocrisy</strong>. He was sent to Human Resources and Diversity & Inclusion for the chance to reform his thoughts. –</em></p>
<p><em><strong>He refused—so they fired him.</strong> -City Journal</em></p>
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<p>Kriegman, who has a bachelors in economics from Michigan, a JD from Harvard, and “years of experience with high-tech startups, a white-shoe law firm, and an econometrics research consultancy,” spent <strong>six years</strong> at Thomson Reuters, where he rose through the ranks to spearhead the company’s efforts on AI, machine learning, and advanced software engineering. By the time he was fired, he was the Director of Data Science, and lead a team which was in the process of implementing deep learning throughout the corporation.</p>
<p><strong>Following the death of George Floyd</strong>, Kriegman described Reuters as a “blue bubble” where “people were constantly celebrating Black Lives Matter, where it was assumed that everyone was on board.”</p>
<p>The company asked employees to participated in a “21-Day Racial Equity Habit-Building Challenge,” which promoted reparations, academic articles on critical race theory (on which Rufo has written extensively), and instructions on “how to be a better white person.”</p>
<p>The materials were both patronizing and ‘outright racist,’ writes Rufo. The Reuters workforce was told that their “black colleagues” are “confused and scared,” and are barely able to show up to work. They allegedly felt pressured to “take the personal trauma we all know to be true and tuck it away to protect white people,” who are unable to grasp the black experience because of their own whiteness. To right the wrongs of slavery and systemic oppression, <strong>white Reuters employees were told to let themselves get “called out” by minority colleagues</strong>, and then respond with <strong>“I believe you”; “I recognize that I have work to do”; “I apologize, I’m going to do better.”</strong></p>
<p>Ultimately, white people are supposed to admit their complicity in systemic racism and <strong>repent for their collective guilt</strong>, because “White people built this system. White people control this system,” according to a learning module from self-<a href="https://www.michaelharriot.com/">described</a> “wypipologist” Michael Harriot. “It is white people who have tacitly agreed to perpetuate white supremacy throughout America’s history. It is you who must confront your racist friends, coworkers, and relatives. <strong>You have to cure your country of this disease. The sickness is not ours</strong>.”</p>
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<p><em>Kriegman came to believe that the company’s “blue bubble” had created a significant bias in the company’s news reporting. “Reuters is not having the internal discussions about the facts and the research, and they’re not letting that shape how they present the news to people. <strong>I think they’ve adopted a perspective and they’re unwilling to examine that perspective, even internally, and that’s shaping everything that they write</strong>,” Kriegman said. Consequently, <strong>Reuters adopted a narrative that promotes a naïve, left-wing narrative about Black Lives Matter and fails to provide accurate context</strong>—which is particularly egregious because, unlike obviously left-leaning outlets such as the New York Times, <strong>Reuters has a reputation as a source of objective news reporting</strong>.</em></p>
<p><em><strong>A review of Reuters coverage over the spring and summer of 2020 confirms Kriegman’s interpretation</strong>. Though early articles covering the first days of the chaos in Minneapolis were straightforward about the violence—“Protests, looting erupt in Minneapolis over racially charged killing by police,” <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-minneapolis-police/protests-looting-erupt-in-minneapolis-over-racially-charged-killing-by-police-idUSKBN2332G9" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">reads one headline</a>—<strong>Reuters’s coverage eventually seemed like it had been processed to add ideology and euphemism.</strong> Beginning in the summer and continuing over the course of the year, <strong>the newswire’s reporting adopted the BLM narrative in substance and style</strong>. The stories framed the unrest as a “<strong>a new <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/global-poy-blm-idUSKBN28H1K1" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">national</a> reckoning about racial injustice</strong>” and described the protests as “<strong>mostly peaceful”</strong> or “<strong>largely peaceful</strong>,” despite widespread violence, looting, and crime. “More than 93% of recent demonstrations connected to Black Lives Matter were <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-race-usa-protests-idUSKBN2621C3" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">peaceful</a>,” Reuters <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-race-usa-protests-idUSKBN2621C3" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">insisted</a>, even as rioters caused up to $2 billion in property <a href="https://www.axios.com/riots-cost-property-damage-276c9bcc-a455-4067-b06a-66f9db4cea9c.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic&utm_content=1100" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">damage</a> across the country. <strong>The company’s news reporters adopted the syntax of BLM activists</strong>. A May 8 story <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-police-immunity-scotus-snapshot-idUSKBN22K1AM" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">opened</a> with the familiar “say their names” recitation, ignoring the fact that the first named individual, for example, had attacked a police officer, who was subsequently cleared of any wrongdoing: “Michael Brown. Eric Garner. Freddie Gray. Their names are seared into Americans’ memories, egregious examples of lethal police violence that stirred protests and prompted big payouts to the victims’ families.” <strong>Even as Seattle’s infamous “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone” descended into lawlessness and saw the brutal murder of two black teenagers, the newswire’s headlines downplayed the destruction</strong>, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/minneapolis-police-protests-seattle-idINKBN24249L" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">claiming</a> that the Seattle protests were “diminished but not <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/minneapolis-police-protests-seattle-idINKBN24249L" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">dismantled</a>.” -City Journal</em></p>
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<p>According to Kriegman, Reuters ‘data-based fact checks’ were also biased – <strong>and always in favor of BLM interpretations</strong>. In one instance, the wire service’s “special report” <a href="https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-police-immunity-race/">claimed</a> that “a growing body of <a href="https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-police-immunity-race/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">research</a> supports the perception that police unfairly target Black Americans. They are more likely to be stopped, searched and arrested than their white compatriots. They also are more likely to be killed by police.” Reuters dedicated just two short paragraphs to refute the viewpoint, which it quickly dismisses to continue advancing the pro-BLM argument.</p>
<p>Reuters made an evidence-free <a href="https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-police-immunity-history/">claim</a> that qualified immunity – which is protected by the Supreme Court – is “rooted in <a href="https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-police-immunity-history/">racism</a>.” The company also <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-police-brutality-askreuters/askreuters-why-the-u-s-protests-against-police-brutality-are-different-this-time-idUSKBN24937W">hosted</a> a panel with left-wing pundits to discuss criminal reform, which ended up uncritically promoting such policies as “defund the police,” and who suggested that “<a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-police-immunity-scotus-snapshot-idUSKBN22K1AM">hundreds</a>” of unjustified police killings of black men “fail to win victims any redress.” As usual, no facts backed up their claims.</p>
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<p><em>The company’s data reporting <strong>consistently re-contextualized accurate information about racial violence and policing in order to align with Black Lives Matter rhetoric.</strong> In a “<a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-fact-check-bar-graph-black-white-homi-idUSKBN23M2SX" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">fact check</a>” of a social media post that claimed whites are more likely to be killed by blacks than blacks are to be killed by whites, Reuters <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-fact-check-bar-graph-black-white-homi-idUSKBN23M2SX" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">concedes</a> that this is factually accurate but labels the post “misleading”—in part because it doesn’t show that police kill black people at a higher rate than their share of the overall population,<strong> a completely unrelated claim</strong>. Likewise, when President Donald Trump accurately pointed out that police officers kill “more white people” than black people each year, Reuters immediately <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-race-trump-idUSKCN24F2WQ" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">published</a> a story <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-race-trump-idUSKCN24F2WQ" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">reframing</a> the narrative. Though the report admitted that “half of people killed by police are white,” the writers pushed the line that “Black Americans are shot at a disproportionate rate” and then used a quotation from the American Civil Liberties Union to paint the president as a “racist.” -City Journal</em></p>
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<p>“I did look through Reuters’s news, and it was concerning to me that a lot of the same issues that I was seeing in other media outlets seemed to be replicated in Reuters’s news, where <strong>they were reporting favorably about Black Lives Matter protests without giving any context to the claims that were being made at those protests</strong> [and] without giving any context about the ‘Ferguson effect’ and how police pulling back on their proactive policing has been pretty clearly linked to a dramatic increase in murders,” Kriegman told Rufo. “At a certain point,<strong> it just feels like a moral obligation to speak out when something that’s having such a devastating impact is being celebrated so widely</strong>, especially in a news company where the perspective that’s celebrated is having such a big impact externally.”</p>
<p><strong>Kriegman took two months off </strong>from Thomson Reuters to ‘grapple with the statistical and ethical implications’ of how the company was reporting on the BLM movement and related riots. While on leave, <strong>he embarked on a careful statistical investigation comparing BLM’s claims on racism, violence and policing with hard evidence</strong>.</p>
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<p><em>The result: <strong>a 12,000-word <a href="https://kriegman.substack.com/p/post-leading-to-termination-blm-falsehoods" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">essay</a>, titled “BLM is Anti-Black Systemic Racism,” that called into question the entire sequence of claims by the Black Lives Matter movement and echoed by the Reuters news team</strong>. “I believe the Black Lives Matter (‘BLM’) movement arose out of a passionate desire to protect black people from racism and to move our whole society towards healing from a legacy of centuries of brutal oppression,” Kriegman wrote in the introduction. “Unfortunately, over the past few years <strong>I have grown more and more concerned about the damage that the movement is doing to many low-income black communities</strong>. I have avidly followed the research on the movement and its impacts, which has led me, inexorably, to the conclusion that the claim at the heart of the movement, that police more readily shoot black people, is false and likely responsible for thousands of black people being murdered in the most disadvantaged communities in the country.” Thomson <strong>Reuters, Kriegman continued, has a special obligation to “resist simplistic narratives that are not based in facts and evidence, especially when those narratives are having such a profoundly negative impact on minority or marginalized groups.”</strong> -City Journal</em></p>
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<p>The essay debunks <strong>three key claims of BLM activists and their media supporters</strong>.</p>
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<li>That law enforcement ‘over-polices’ black neighborhoods</li>
<li>That policies such as “defund the police” will reduce violence.</li>
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<p>Rufo breaks down Kriegman’s arguments: </p>
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<p><em>First, <strong>Kriegman writes that the narrative about police officers systematically hunting and killing blacks is not supported by the evidence</strong>. “For instance, <strong>in 2020 there were 457 whites shot and killed by police, compared to 243 blacks</strong>. Of those, <strong>24 of the whites killed were unarmed compared to 18 blacks</strong>,” he writes, citing the Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/investigations/police-shootings-database/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">database of police shootings</a>. And though the number of blacks killed might be disproportionate compared with the percentage of blacks in the overall population,<strong> it is not disproportionate to the level of violent crime committed by black citizens</strong>. “Depending on the type of violent crime, whites either commit a slightly greater (non-fatal crimes) or slightly smaller (fatal, and serious non-fatal crimes) percentage of the total violent crime than blacks, but in all cases roughly in the same ballpark,” Kriegman writes. However, according to the Justice Department’s <a href="https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/revcoa18.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">National Cri</a><a href="https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/revcoa18.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">me Victimization Survey</a> data, “<strong>there are many more whites killed by police, even though whites account for a similar absolute number of violent offenders</strong>. Thus, if the number of potentially violent encounters with police reflects the violent crime rates, then the raw statistics suggest that there is actually a slight anti-white bias in police applications of lethal force.” To round out his case, Kriegman concludes with a study by Harvard’s Roland Fryer, which, according to Fryer, “didn’t <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/good-policing-saves-black-lives-11591052916" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">find</a> evidence for anti-Black or anti-Hispanic disparity in police use of force across all shootings, and, if anything, found anti-White disparities when controlling for race-specific crime.”</em></p>
<p><em><strong>Next, Kriegman takes up “over-policing.”</strong> Black Lives Matter activists and <a href="https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-police-immunity-race/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Reuters</a> reporters had pushed the idea that police officers focus disproportionate attention on black neighborhoods and, because of deep-seated “racial bias,” are more likely to stop, search, and arrest black Americans “than their white compatriots.” While this might be true on its face, Kriegman writes, it misses the appropriate context: <strong>black neighborhoods are significantly more violent than white neighborhoods</strong>. <strong>If police want to reduce violent crime, they must spend more time in the places where violent crime occurs.</strong> Kriegman points out to his colleagues in Thomson Reuters’s Boston office that “the reason that police have more confrontations in predominantly black neighborhoods in Boston is because that is where the great bulk of violent crime is occurring,”<strong> with nearly all the annual murders happening in predominantly black neighborhoods such as Dorchester and Roxbury—far from the homes and offices of his colleagues in the professional-managerial class at Reuters</strong>. And Boston is hardly an outlier. According to Kriegman, the most rigorous statistical analyses demonstrate that violent-crime rates and policing are, in fact, highly correlated and proportionate. He quotes a Justice Department <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-claiming-systemic-racism-in-policing-defies-science-11614969593" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">report</a> which “found that <strong>for nonfatal violent crimes that victims said were reported to police, whites accounted for 48% of offenders and 46% of arrestees. Blacks accounted for 35% of offenders and 33% of arrestees</strong>. Asians accounted for 2% of offenders and 1% of arrestees. None of these differences between the percentage of offenders and the percentage of arrestees of a given race were statistically significant.”</em></p>
<p><em>Finally, <strong>Kriegman addresses the policy implications of “de-policing.” </strong>Contrary to Reuters’s sometimes glowing <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-police-brutality-askreuters/askreuters-why-the-u-s-protests-against-police-brutality-are-different-this-time-idUSKBN24937W" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">coverage</a> of the “defund the police” movement, Kriegman makes the case that <strong>de-policing, whether it occurs because of the “Ferguson Effect” or because of deliberate policy choices, has led to disaster for black communities</strong>. His argument, building on the work of City Journal’s <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/contributor/heather-mac-donald_122" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Heather Mac Donald</a>, follows this logic: after high-profile police-involved killings, such as those involving Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the Black Lives Matter movement and the media have demonized police departments and caused many officers to reduce proactive policing measures and to pull back from situations out of fear that they might need to use force. The result, according to data from a range of academic literature, is an increase in crime and violence. <strong>Kriegman again cites Fryer, who <a href="https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w27324/w27324.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">concluded</a> that the Ferguson Effect led to 900 excess murders in five cities he considered, and the University of Utah’s Paul G. Cassell, who <a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3690473" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">found</a> that the “Minneapolis Effect” led to 1,520 excess murders in the United States</strong>. Thus, BLM’s signature policy solution—“defund the police”—would likely lead to incredible carnage in black communities. -City Journal</em></p>
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<p>Instead of his essay winning hearts and minds at Reuters, where he hoped it would help his colleagues move beyond “the blue bubble” and see “how devastating Black Lives Matter has been to black communities,” <strong>Reuters HR panicked and took down Kriegman’s post</strong>.</p>
<p>“I didn’t know what to expect going into it, but I expected the reaction to be intense,” said Kriegman. “And it was.”</p>
<p>He says a “team of HR and communications professionals” were called in to manage the situation, which they told him they were “reviewing.”</p>
<p>When he asked multiple times about the company’s decision to remove his essay, he was told that it was too “antagonistic” and “provocative,” and that he needed to work with their head of diversity and inclusion, Cristina Juvier, if he wanted to pursue the matter further.</p>
<p>Read the rest of the report <em><a href="https://www.city-journal.org/black-lives-matter-reuters-and-the-price-of-dissent"><strong>here</strong></a></em>.</p>
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