Pirate's Cove

Have you noticed that most of the doom and gloom surrounding COVID deaths and positive tests has rather dried up since China Joe took office? Have you read any stories about there being 1,815 deaths across the US Sunday? Or, going back to inauguration day, 3322, 3734, 4142, 4370? For a total of 419k? Anyhow, an “analysis” by the Washington Post looks to take the blame off Democratic governors

Shutdowns by Democratic governors did not cause the pandemic jobs crisis

The coronavirus pandemic has killed more than 416,000 Americans and recently pulled the U.S. economic recovery into reverse. Some states have shut down again to get a handle on surging caseloads. And critics have blamed those states’ governors, typically Democrats, for job losses.

But pandemic-related economic research shows the shutdowns aren’t killing jobs; the virus is.

In the first outbreaks last spring, people stayed home to avoid contracting the deadly novel coronavirus, regardless of what their governor said. (snip)

If stay-at-home orders poisoned an otherwise healthy economy, business should have crumpled the moment they kicked in. But cellphone activity data analyzed by Gupta, Simon and Wing show a different trend: People started to stay home well before states imposed shutdowns.

I’ll give Andrew Van Damm the benefit on that part: people were staying home. They were seeing what was going on in China, then the cruise ships, then the devastation in Italy, and were very concerned. Traffic was way, way down at stores, was it not?

The Washington Post often hears from readers who blame job losses on Democratic governors who have often imposed shutdowns when coronavirus cases surge. If Democrats are really responsible for job losses, we would expect to see employment fall off the cliff in blue states while employment in red states sail on untouched. But even the simplest analysis shows job losses don’t depend solely on the governor’s party. Some red states struggled; some blue states thrived.

But, see, the WP and these economists are attempting to really just look at the beginning, rather than what happened when Government starting locking everything down, and so many have kept them locked down. Certainly, I do not want to place all the blame on Democrat governors (and some GOP govs, like Maryland’s Larry Hogan), as they are not all to blame. But, certainly, they played a big part in closing businesses, telling people when businesses could be open, how to operate, and keeping many closed and/or limited. At the end of the day, we should be blaming China, but, the Dem govs sure helped increase the pain, which was meant to let them play their power game, because Dems love government power, along with hurting President Trump, because, let’s face it, a lot of this was political. Notice all the complaints about re-open protests while virtually none about the BLM riots.

This isn’t about science or economics, it’s about setting a Narrative to protect Democrat governors when they come up for election in the next two years, because they sure were blaming Trump for everything, right?

Wilmington firm rolls out its own COVID-19 vaccine ‘passport’

North Carolina-based CastleBranch, a consumer reporting agency, has rolled out its own version of a “digital vaccine passport.”

The Wilmington-based firm, supported by anti-counterfeit technology, is now issuing Real Vaccination ID cards as proof for the COVID-19 vaccination.

“Tracking, storing and reviewing complex medical documents – including vaccine records – is what we do,” its CEO Brett Martin, who founded the the agency more than 20 years ago, told WRAL TechWire.

“If we can help people prove their COVID-19 vaccination status and help them return to everyday life — then that’s a summit worth climbing.”

How soon till Government recommends that companies require this for employment, with companies implementing this “recommendation”?

You’re good with this, right?

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