Mark Twain Said It Best

by Joseph DeMaio, ©2021

(Aug. 2, 2021) — Mark Twain said it best: “There are lies; there are damn lies; then there are statistics.” Today, Twain’s observations have no better example than those that appear daily in the propaganda arm of the Democrat Party, formerly known as the independent mainstream media. 

The most recent example of the truth of his remarks comes amid the recent reports of the “cataclysmic” spike in the number of “confirmed” cases of C-19 “variant” infections and deaths, not only trumpeted by the Washington Post, the Gray Trollop and CNN, but by virtually all of the other pandemic porn peddlers infecting the airwaves and the Internet.  And academia is not far behind.

However, as insightfully reported at Townhall.com, the porn peddlers’ attempt to turbocharge the actual increase in the numbers of cases, hospitalizations and deaths attributable to the disease by relying on percentages rather than actual numbers and source reporting protocols is now exposed.

As reported here, relying on old data, a Johns Hopkins University report last week claimed there was a 300% increase in the number of deaths from the India variant, PC-rebranded the “Delta Variant” by the Centers for Disease “Control” (sic), (“CDC”) and the Biden Regime.  The Townhall article correctly notes: “You were made to think that there was a 300 percent increase in deaths.  There’s a reason why the media focuses on percentages instead of figures.  You can make a slight uptick in deaths into something more horrifying by adding a percentage to it.”

Precisely.  If last month, for example, 50 elderly people died from the infection, but this week 150 people died, that is a 300% increase.  In a nation of some 333 million people, the deaths of 50 people, while lamentable, amounts to but 0.00000015 of the total.  And the deaths of 150 people amounts to 0.00000045 of the total. 

And even if one increases the number of actual deaths by a factor of ten, a hundred or even more, the application of a percentage to express the “spike” can make it look even more problematic and ominous.  This, of course, is the objective of the panic peddlers.  Scare the public in order to advance the narrative: obey or suffer, you Walmart serfs.

By expressing the death toll increase of one week over the prior week as a percentage spike, the Johns Hopkins report and the eager C-19 panic porn merchants seek to set off alarm bells that we are now headed back to mass lockdowns, quadruple masking and another few years of “remote learning.”  The only solution: listen to Herr Fauci, do as you are told…. and ignore altogether those illegal aliens infected with the C-19 virus streaming across the southern border.

Speaking of the continuing tsunami of illegal aliens pouring over the border – yes, your humble servant will continue to refer to them as such, consistent with federal law as discussed here – in perhaps the dumbest lawsuit yet authorized by Attorney General Merrick Garland, the Department of “Justice” (sic) has filed a lawsuit against Texas Governor Greg Abbott. 

Abbott has signed an executive order barring the ground transport over Texas highways of illegal aliens who are or may be carrying the C-19 virus.  The DOJ suit claims that Abbott’s order “interferes with the federal government’s ability to deal with immigration.”  Garland had previously warned Abbott that his order “would jeopardize the health and safety of noncitizens in federal government custody.”

Seriously?  The DOJ is in effect arguing that Texas cannot police its own roads to stop the federal government from facilitating the Goofball-in-Chief’s continuing failure to “take care that the laws be faithfully executed,” including 8 U.S.C. § 1325, welcoming in an illegal flood of potentially C-19 positive “undocumented Democrats.”  This is how the Goofball regime is “dealing with immigration?”  And this is supposed to pass for competent governance of the planet’s last remaining “shining city on a hill?”  Really?

Faithful P&E readers, if ever there were a time in the history of this Republic to remove Democrats, Marxists, leftists, socialists, collectivists and their ilk from the halls of Congress and the White House, it is now.  Not tomorrow; not next month; not in 2022.  It is now.  That is why, once more, the proposal made here is repeated and triple-downed upon (yes, Virginia, that is a new term befitting the gravity of the situation).  It may be only a first step, but as they say, the longest journey begins with the first step.

We are no longer in merely choppy waters: we are nearing the maelstrom whirlpool in the movie Pirates of the Caribbean.  Not good.  Bad.  Really bad. 

And if you think things will get better by leaving Nancy Pelosi as second in the line of executive office succession, you need to cut back on your controlled substances and seek professional help.