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from KOMO News (ABC Seattle)
Amid a resurgence in COVID in Washington state, Gov. Jay Inslee held a news conference Wednesday and said mask-wearing will be required in K-12 schools this fall and urged fully vaccinated people to wear a mask in indoor public spaces where the chance of transmission is substantial or high. Inslee's announcements come as the delta variant becomes the dominant COVID strain in Washington state, infections are increasing in a "fifth wave" and vaccination rates are flatlining.
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RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, MIXED
The Jan. 6th Show Trials Threaten All of Us
The recent felony conviction and eight month prison sentence of January 6th protester Paul Hodgkins is an affront to any notion of justice. It is a political charge and a political verdict by a political court. Every American regardless of political persuasion should be terrified of a court system so beholden to politics instead of justice.
In Europe, one of the most important contemporary debates concerns unification and the project to create a centralized state with a single currency, a democratic parliament, and a monopolistic government. In this context, the current crisis of the European Monetary Unit (EMU) becomes a good argument in favor of an even-more-accelerated path toward the transfer of powers from the old nation-states to Brussels and Strasbourg. According to many economists and political scientists, the poor performance of the European single currency is the consequence of a lack of institutional unity. Hoping for a reversal in the declining power of Western socialist ideals, they call for more political centralization and economic planning. These discussions are plagued by certain superstitions, so, in the first part of this article, I will try to show the irrationality of unifying this continent, as well as how this plan is an absurd treason of the best European liberal traditions.
Inflation has been on the rise for the past year and in the last few months it has accelerated. In June 2021, inflation, measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI), hit the highest level since 2008. By inflation, economists refer to the increase in the general level of prices, which means that prices on average are increasing. The Bureau of Labor and Statistics (BLS) has a basket of goods and services that it tracks and uses to create a measure of the CPI. While inflation is the topic of the day in the news media and everyday conversations, many have not heard about its sneaky cousin, shrinkflation. The term shrinkflation, is credited to British economist Pippa Malmgren, and refers to the shrinking weight of the products while the price for the package remains the same. This is in effect another form of inflation, since the per unit price of goods increases when products shrink.
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from PJ Media
News & Media Website
How widespread is the practice of the Biden government handing COVID-positive people off to a charity that’s clearly not managing them properly? We have literally no way of knowing how widespread this issue is, because the government isn’t telling anyone, and it’s apparently paying Catholic Charities to shut up about it. Roughly a million people of unknown origin have crossed into the United States illegally just since Joe Biden was sworn in. He isn’t even bothering to manage the situation with anything approaching effectiveness.
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from Spokane Daily Chronicle
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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from The Washington Examiner
RIGHT BIAS, MIXED, News & Media Website in Washington, DC
President Joe Biden met in secret with Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, the leader of Belarus's democratic opposition party, at the White House on Wednesday. White House officials did not answer questions by press time on why the meeting was not previously disclosed on the president's daily guidance, as is customary for meetings with international dignitaries. The meeting was only made public after Biden's "POTUS" account tweeted a photo of the two leaders.
n Washington, D.C., where 3 in 5 adults and 3 in 4 seniors are fully vaccinated, just four of the 375,000 people vaccinated died from coronavirus, all of whom were elderly or had serious medical conditions. We have the empirical evidence: The vaccines work. Not only is the threshold of effective herd immunity for the fully vaccinated much lower than some experts initially feared, but this level of vaccination also allows us to return to the pre-pandemic normal — masks and social distancing fully discarded.
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from The Washington Post
Newspaper in Washington, D.C.
This is a puzzler. Coronavirus cases are plummeting in Britain. They were supposed to soar. Scientists aren't sure why they haven't. The daily number of new infections recorded in the country fell for seven days in a row before a slight uptick Wednesday, when the country reported 27,734 cases. That’s still almost half of where the caseload was a week ago. The trajectory of the virus in Britain is something the world is watching closely and anxiously, as a test of how the delta variant behaves in a society with relatively high vaccination rates. And now people are asking if this could be the first real-world evidence that the pandemic in Britain is sputtering out — after three national lockdowns and almost 130,000 deaths.
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