By Selwyn Duke

First it was “14 days to flatten the curve.” This became “We can’t reopen until there are two weeks of declining infections.” Then it was “Nah, we can’t get back to normal until we have a vaccine.” Now we have more than one vaccine, but the only “normal” is a new one: COVID Ritual and restrictions as far as the eye can see. Against this backdrop, a physician has decided to “take stock of the pandemic” via two articles published the last couple of days, the first outlining COVID-19 “good news” and the second dealing with the bad policy and press.

Dr. Thomas T. Siler is an internist with 37 years experience, which means he has the same credentials as Dr. Anthony Fauci; only, he actually treats patients. In his first piece, Siler presented 10 points of good news about the coronavirus. A synopsized version follows….

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By Selwyn Duke

As Joe Biden “takes a knee to the Taliban” and it has been suggested that we absorb millions of Afghan migrants, a simple question is largely unasked:

Why aren’t Muslim countries “stepping forward to take care of their co-religionists”? as American Thinker puts it. “Isn’t it time they did?”

Actually, it’s long past time. This is why I’ve actually been asking the above question for years in response to 2015’s wave of Mideast migration into Europe. The “rich, sparsely populated Gulf States such as Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Dubai, and the UAE are not accepting their supposedly desperate coreligionists,” I wrote in 2018, for example. “Why are these Muslims shipped thousands of miles into the heart of erstwhile Christendom?”

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By Selwyn Duke

Scolding people for watching the sunset, executing rescue dogs, and talking about a Crime Stoppers tip that has “blown the lid” off a church service. All these things and more have been done in the name of fighting COVID-19 Australia, as from Darwin on the Timor Sea to Sydney on the Tasman Sea, an iron mask has descended across the continent.

In fact, with parts of the nation under martial law, Australia serves as a warning about what could happen in the United States if Americans continue tolerating COVID craziness.

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By Selwyn Duke

“You’re a thought criminal!” said the boy to protagonist Winston Smith in George Orwell’s 1984. This comes to mind when pondering stories of parents who get “canceled” by their own children. Oh, they’re not called thought criminals. They’re just not called — for Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, or any other time because they dared be awakened to Truth in a “woke” time. 

We’ve heard about this for a while. “You are no longer my mother, because you are voting for Trump,” Reuters related lifelong Democrat Mayra Gomez, 41, as having been told by her 21-year-old son last year. The news organ also relates that “Jacquelyn Hammond, 47, a bartender in Asheville, North Carolina, no longer speaks to her Trump-supporting mother Carol.” Now Meadowlark Press writer Caryn Boddie relates her own experiences being canceled by her kids, along with those of other people she knows of enduring the same fate. 

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By Selwyn Duke

Aside from laws, it’s now apparent that masks and other COVID restrictions are also for the “little people.” This message has again been sent by octogenarian House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who again was caught maskless. This time she was at a very large, non-diverse Democrat fundraiser where all in attendance appeared unmasked — except for the “faceless brown serfs” serving all the liberal swells, to quote Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson.

It’s a clear “window into the society they’re trying to build,” he said, a two-tiered tyranny with a (pseudo)elite power class and those who obey.

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By Selwyn Duke

The level of incompetence apparent in the Afghanistan withdrawal has been breathtaking. Even a smart 12-year-old, after all, would know that you have to evacuate American civilians and vulnerable allies before removing your military personnel. This reality has given rise to staggering speculation, that, for example, the powers-that-be desired this messy outcome. Some have even theorized that the goal, by hate-America-first Deep Staters, is to diminish the United States.

But what if the goal is actually to damage the Joe Biden administration, something that’s already a fait accompli?

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By Selwyn Duke

“Everybody says that sort of stuff until they have to call 911,” said city councilman Michael Bond recently in reference to “defund-the-police” agitation.

One might assume Bond was white, except that Bond is a black politician in the mostly black city of Atlanta, Georgia.

Bond also perhaps knows that most black Americans want a robust police presence in their neighborhoods, and that a majority are satisfied with their local cops. That’s called reality — also known as where leftist narratives go to die.

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By Selwyn Duke

A new study that has just listed the best and worst states for women’s “equality” may again illustrate two truths:

What most call “equality” actually, well, isn’t.

And equality tells you nothing about quality.

Performed by personal finance website WalletHub and supposedly designed to “determine where women receive the most equal treatment,” the site writes, “WalletHub compared the 50 states across 17 key indicators of gender equality. Our data set ranges from the gap between female and male executives to the disparity in unemployment rates for women and men.”

According to the site, the 10 most equal states for women are

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By Selwyn Duke

A pro-vaccination Democrat official who said that teenagers could receive COVID vaccines without parental consent apparently faked a threat she claimed was designed to silence her. It may be yet another example of conservatives being so “violent” that deception has to be used to make them appear so.

Michelle Fiscus, then-medical director of Tennessee’s immunization program, “met with state investigators in July to report … [a] suspicious package mailed to her office containing a silicone dog muzzle"….

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By Selwyn Duke

They don’t yet try to get deer to hunt or pigs to fly, but the will to thwart humans’ nature is alive and well. One of many examples is the obsession with getting girls involved in STEM (Science, Technology, Math, and Engineering), and a recent such effort involves COVID-era art classes designed to entice girls to do computer programming.

Because, of course, nothing makes life more exciting and fulfilling than becoming a vitamin-D-deprived computer geek.

What’s seen as the “problem,” at least by the social engineers, is that coding is testosterone heavy: 75 percent of American computer programmers are men. (Eighty-five percent are white or Asian-descent, too.) So in a time in which “equality” is worshipped, women must just be cajoled into coding.

Of course, unasked is: Do they even want to?

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