The California Herd

Virus thoughts from VDH. I don’t buy the 1-2% number. I think it will ultimately be shown to be much lower than that.

[Update a few minutes later]

More from VDH: Viral Prerequisites and Nationalist Lessons in Time of Plague.

[Update late morning]

Why herd immunity is not a solution, at least not without a vaccine.

I agree on principle, but I continue to believe that the ratio of infections to deaths is much less than one percent.

[Update a few minutes later]

Time for a second opinion.

Regulatory Relief

…can save lives.

A lot of regulations are merely special-interest rent seeking.

[Late-morning update]

Trump is rolling back fuel-efficiency standards.

He should eliminate them, if possible, but that would probably require legislation. They are an idiotic relic of the energy crisis, almost half a century ago. In my opinion, they’re unconstitutional, or should be. Same with toilet specifications.

The CCP

continues the cover up.

The CCP has been lying from the beginning, and continues to, yet their media organs the NYT, WaPo, CNN et al continue to carry their water, because Orange Man Bad.

Mark Levin said on his show last night that the Soviet Union never damaged our country (and the world) the way that the CCP has. I’m not sure that’s true, if you look at the decades-long damage it did, but it certainly never killed people and destroyed wealth this quickly.

[Tuesday-morning update]

The Chinese Communist Party versus America.

[Bumped]

[Update a few minutes later]

Why China must be held accountable.

I’d start by recognizing Taiwan.

[Update a while later]

How China’s lies brought the world to its knees.

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