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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

Cuomo Aides Rewrote Nursing Home Report to Hide Higher Death Toll

The intervention was the earliest action yet known in an effort by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo that concealed how many nursing home residents died in the pandemic.

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.

An Oasis of Hope in the United States of Lunacy

From the canceling of Dr. Seuss—If Theodore Geisel was a racist, I’m a Martian—to the President of the …

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.

House Democrats Pass Voting-Rights Bill Opposed by GOP

Democrats passed legislation to expand voter participation and curb the role of big campaign donors over the objections of Republicans, who claimed the measure would weaken safeguards and spur mistrust in elections.

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

Biden and the Nuclear Codes

Solving the last century’s strategic challenge

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.

A Guide to Global COVID-19 Vaccine Efforts

Only a year after the new coronavirus emerged, the first vaccines to protect against it are being administered. But production challenges, vaccine nationalism, and new virus strains are all presenting hurdles.

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.

Coronavirus cases are falling globally, but the big question is: why?

For the sixth consecutive week infections have plummeted worldwide. Our Global Health team looks at what might explain the fall in cases

A pandemic of loneliness.

Pandemic Loneliness Is Hitting Young Adults Especially Hard

New research shows rampant loneliness among Americans, with young adults and mothers among the most vulnerable. Here are ways to help.

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

Amnesty strips Alexei Navalny of ‘prisoner of conscience’ status

Amnesty strips him of the status but links it to an “orchestrated campaign” to discredit him.

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.

UK data: COVID-19 vaccines sharply cut hospitalizations

LONDON (AP) — Two U.K. studies released Monday showed that COVID-19 vaccination programs are contributing to a sharp drop in hospitalizations, boosting hopes that the shots will work as well in…

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

Japan has appointed a ‘Minister of Loneliness’ after seeing suicide rates in the country increase for the first time in 11 years

During the pandemic, with people more socially isolated than ever, Japan saw a rise in suicides for the first time in 11 years in 2020.

New at the Belmont Club

The fighter direction officers of World War 2.

Home is where the heat is. War, holy or otherwise, gets old real quick.

Pressuring France to Bring Them Home, Women Who Joined ISIS Stage Hunger Strike

Frenchwomen who joined the Islamic State and are now held in squalid detention camps in Syria have gone on a hunger strike to protest France’s refusal to bring them back.

Countries meet to form alliance following social media strike on Australia.

Canada to follow Australia and take on Facebook, seeking payment for content

Canada is poised to take on Facebook, following the example set by Australia, which began a war with the tech giant when the country’s publishers backed proposed legislation demanding payment…

The 5 year planners discover that once you make something completely free it becomes unaffordable.

Venezuelan Women Lose Access to Contraception, and Control of Their Lives

Affordable birth control has disappeared, pushing many women into unplanned pregnancies at a time when they can barely feed the children they already have.