Author Archives: Richard Fernandez

The problem with linear projection is tomorrow won’t be like yesterday. Politicians with hardcoded 5 or 50 year master plans will almost always get it wrong.

As pandemic restrictions increase demand from China and suppress American ports, logistics. Americans stuck in their homes have set off a surge of orders from factories in China, much of it carried across the Pacific in containers — the metal boxes that move goods in towering stacks atop enormous vessels. As households in the United …

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I was mulling a New York Post report that half the employees at The New York Times are afraid to say what they’re thinking when it hit me. It’s time for Free Speech Insurance. Deadline

The extraordinary intervention, which came just as Mr. Cuomo was starting to write a book on his pandemic achievements, was the earliest act yet known in what critics have called a monthslong effort by the governor and his aides to obscure the full scope of nursing home deaths. New York Times

So Dr. Seuss has joined the list of unpersons. The Woke should keep canceling and soon all the quality will be on the other side.

The legislation passed, 220-210, without any Republican support. One Democrat, Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, voted against it. The bill’s fate in the Senate is uncertain. WSJ This implies that one couldn’t reliably duplicate the outcome of the 2020 elections without also duplicating some of its ‘desirable’ circumstances.

New at the Belmont Club. Ready for the next Pearl Harbor but not the foes with no name.

It’s interesting to consider the extent to which stovepiped and group thinking conditioned the global response to the pandemic. The contrast between the relatively similar public health approaches (masking, social distancing, lockdowns etc) and the much more diverse vaccine development effort is stark.

Democratic progressives are beginning to suspect the party establishment lied to them. Trump not impeached … Syria bombed … minimum wage dumped. But … but …

Without answers scientists theorize that social control like lockdowns is suddenly and simultaneously dramatically reducing cases at last.

A pandemic of loneliness.

The Woke sit in moral judgment of dissident. But who appointed them to the PC supreme court?

The only thing that appears capable of defeating the coronavirus epidemic in the end was the development of vaccines. Not just one but several vaccines employing different technologies appear to be effective.

“More people died from suicide in Japan in October than the total number of COVID-19 deaths up to that point in 2020.”

New at the Belmont Club The fighter direction officers of World War 2.