gotcha, added.
Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler pepper-sprays man who confronted him over not wearing a mask
According to a police report, Portland Democrat Mayor Ted Wheeler pepper-sprayed a person who accosted him while he was leaving a restaurant on Sunday night. This is the second time this month that Wheeler has been accosted while dining out.
Wheeler was leaving the McMenamins Hillsdale Brewery & Public House in Portland with around 8 pm Sunday night with former Mayor, and new administration hire, Sam Adams “when a person confronted him and accused him of sitting in a restaurant without wearing a mask,” according to the report.
In Multnomah County, outdoor dining is allowed and Wheeler and Adams had been eating in an outdoor tent at the restaurant and that he tried to explain to the man that people in Oregon were allowed to removed their masks for dining.
The mayor described the alleged assailant in the report as a middle-aged, white male. He allegedly followed Wheeler to his car and videoed the encounter.
According to the report, Wheeler said he told the man he was carrying pepper spray and to “back off,” but the man refused.
Wheeler claimed in the report that “He had no face mask on and got within a foot or two of my face while he was videoing me. I became imminently concerned for my personal safety, as I had recently been physically accosted in a similar situation. In addition, I was concerned about contracting COVID given that he was right in my face and he was not wearing a face mask.” Wheeler also said he did not recognize the individual.
As Wheeler began to climb into his car, he pepper-sprayed the man in the eyes….
https://thepostmillennial.com/portland-mayor-ted-wheeler-pepper-sprays-a-man-who-refused-to-back-off-according-to-police-report
Ivor Cummins @FatEmperor
Nth example illustrating that the Chinese CCP Lockdown "Science" approach was propaganda, not science.
Surprise surprise.
https://twitter.com/FatEmperor/status/1354002910330425344
from the same study:
COVID Lockdown Policies Will Disproportionately Hit Black Americans For Decades, New Study Finds
"Follow the science" exclaimed every virtue-signaling talking head as left-leaning authorities/officials clamped down on Americans' rights nationwide… "wear a mask", "shelter at home", "no comingling", "slow the spread", "think of the children", "save grandma" were the cries as the virus refused to pay attention to state and local authories' orders to behave as the "scientist" textbooks claimed.
And, as cases rose, and hospitalizations rose, and deaths rose, so did the tyrannical trouncing of the economy sending unemployment rates to record highs and crushing GDP growth to record lows.
Now, here we sit, hunkered down in many blue states still, unable to discern exactly what 'science' it is that is driving officials' decision.
Along those lines, it seems like a good idea to point out that a new peer reviewed study out of Stanford is questioning the effectiveness of lockdowns and stay-at-home orders (which it calls NPIs, or non-pharmaceutical interventions) to combat Covid-19. The study's lead author is an associate professor in the Department of Medicine at Stanford.
"The study did not find evidence to support that NPIs were effective in preventing the spread," according to Outkick, who published the report. …
African-Americans experience larger unemployment shocks and the effects of these shocks on unemployment are more persistent. Conditional on the same race, the shocks for women are smaller. The effects on life expectancy and death rates are more severe for African-Americans, overall.
Alas, the time to fix this is gone as Deutsche Bank's Jim Reid previously noted, the die has already been cast and it is now far too late.
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/covid-lockdown-policies-will-disproportionately-hit-black-americans-decades-new-study
second graph based on same info on effects of lockdown by race.
got home later but did a little digging
gotta go now, time for sleep
'nite
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