https://www.mrt.com/news/article/QAnon-conspiracy-emerges-in-some-state-15546456.php

Among those was Suzanne Sharer, a Republican legislative candidate in the Phoenix area who has posted QAnon videos and messages more than a dozen times in recent months. She is running in a suburban district that once was solidly Republican but has been trending Democratic.

In April, she wrote: “Q has been quiet. Is this 10 days of darkness?”

Julie Buria, a Republican running in a northern Minnesota legislative district that Trump carried by nearly 3 percentage points in 2016, retweeted at least four posts in April and May that seemed to support QAnon.

In one she wrote: “Link to new Q drop” with a link to a QAnon site. The tweet also used several hashtags common to the conspiracy's followers. But in an interview, Buria insisted she was not very familiar with QAnon.

“Have I looked at it? Yes. Do I believe all of it? No. I’m not really sure what to think about all that,” she said.

Whether or not candidates believe in QAnon, they are lending the ideas legitimacy by sharing them, said Jenny Guzman, legislative communications coordinator for Progress Arizona, a liberal group that has worked to draw attention to candidates sharing conspiracy theories.

“I think that Republicans very clearly know what they’re doing when they’re engaging and spreading misinformation and conspiracy theories,” Guzman said. “But when they get caught, they’re trying to play ignorant because they just don’t want to face accountability for their actions.”

Most of the legislative candidates identified by the AP as having some history of posting about QAnon are Republicans, though some are independent or third-party candidates.

Some are not shy about their interest in the movement.

On her Twitter account, Melissa Moore has included a picture of Earth inside the letter Q with the slogan, “The World is About to Change,” that is common among the movement's followers. She has also used several Q-associated hashtags in her tweets. A delegate to the Republican National Convention, she is running in a Democratic-leaning district in suburban Minneapolis.

“I like following it,” Moore said. “It’s an exciting movement that opens up our minds to different possibilities of what’s going on, of what’s really happening in our world today.”

https://www.rt.com/op-ed/500000-covid19-math-mistake-panic/

Which fatality rate, did you say?

First, there’s the Infection Fatality Rate (IFR). This is the total number of people who are infected by a disease and the number of them who die. This figure includes those who have no symptoms at all, or only very mild symptoms – those who stayed at home, coughed a bit and watched Outbreak.

Then there’s the Case Fatality Rate (CFR). This is the number of people suffering serious symptoms, who are probably ill enough to be in hospital. Clearly, people who are seriously ill – the “cases” – are going to have a higher mortality rate than those who are infected, many of whom don’t have symptoms. Put simply – all cases are infections, but not all infections are cases.

Which means that the CFR will always be far higher than the IFR. With influenza, the CFR is around ten times as high as the IFR. Covid seems to have a similar proportion.

Now, clearly, you do not want to get these figures mixed up. By doing so you would either wildly overestimate, or wildly underestimate, the impact of Covid. But mix these figures up, they did.

The error started in America, but didn’t end there. In healthcare, the US is very much the dog that wags the tail. The figures they come up with are used globally.

On February 28, 2020, an editorial was released by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Published in the New England Journal of Medicine, the editorial stated: “… the overall clinical consequences of Covid-19 may ultimately be more akin to those of a severe seasonal influenza.”

They added that influenza has a CFR of approximately 0.1 percent. One person in a thousand who gets it badly, dies.

But that quoted CFR for influenza was ten times too low – they meant to say the IFR, the Infection Fatality Rate, for influenza was 0.1 percent. This was their fatal – quite literally – mistake.

The mistake was compounded. On March 11, the same experts testified to Congress, stating that Covid’s CFR was likely to be about one percent, so one person dying from a hundred who fell seriously ill. Which, as time has passed, has proved to be pretty accurate.

At this meeting, they compared the likely impact of Covid to flu. But they used the wrong CFR for influenza, the one stated in the previous NEJM editorial. 0.1 percent, or one in a thousand. The one that was ten times too low.

Flu toll 1,000 – Covid toll 10,000

So, they matched up the one percent CFR of Covid with the incorrect 0.1 percent CFR of flu. Suddenly, Covid was going to be ten times as deadly.

If influenza killed 50, Covid was going to kill 500. If influenza killed a million, Covid was going to get 10 million. No wonder Congress, then the world, panicked. Because they were told Covid was going to be ten times worse than influenza. They could see three million deaths in the US alone, and 70 million around the world.

I don’t expect you or I to get this sort of thing right. But I bloody well expect the experts to do so. They didn’t. They got their IFR and CFR mixed up and multiplied the likely impact of Covid by a factor of ten.

https://www.newsmax.com/politics/1619project-teaching-schools-defund/2020/09/06/id/985607/

With the emergence of an alternative view of America being taught by The New York Times Magazine's 1619 Project, President Donald Trump vowed to defund schools adopting it.

Responding to a tweet California will be taking up the 1619 Project doctrine in its schools, Trump tweeted Sunday morning:

"Department of Education is looking at this. If so, they will not be funded!"

The year 1619 was the year African slaves arrived in Virginia, and the project doctrine paints that as the beginnings of America and will be sharing that message to students in schools that adopt it.

Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., a stout conservative and American historian, introduced a bill in July to defund schools that adopt the 1619 Project doctrine in their curriculum. Among the areas to do so are Democrat-heavy areas of Chicago and Washington, D.C., Fox News reported.

The 1619 Project is "a racially divisive, revisionist account of history that denies the noble principles of freedom and equality on which our nation was founded," according to Cotton.

Among the disputed claims in the project is viewing the American Revolution as not intended for independence from Britain but as a path to preserving slavery.

The project creator Nikole Hannah-Jones was awarded the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary.

https://www.newsmax.com/politics/dewine-ohio-military/2020/09/06/id/985609/

Ohio’s GOP Gov. Mike DeWine said Sunday he’s never heard President Donald Trump disparage U.S. service members, and chastised anonymous sources for not coming forward with allegations to the contrary.

In an interview on ABC News’ “This Week,” DeWine defended the president as he faces widespread criticism after an Atlantic article claimed he'd called service members who died in wars "losers" and "suckers."

“Anytime I’ve been with the president and if there’s been any discussion about the military, he’s been extremely respectful … that’s been my personal experience,” DeWine said.

“Anonymous sources are interesting but people should come forward,” he added about the sourcing for the report.

A call to action anons ?

https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/trump-calls-on-fans-to-bombard-atlantic-co-owner-after-story-claims-he-called-dead-soldiers-losers/2329093/

President Donald Trump on Sunday called on his fans to inundate The Atlantic's co-owner, Laurene Powell Jobs, with messages after the magazine reported that he once called American soldiers killed in combat "losers" and "suckers."

"Steve Jobs would not be happy that his wife is wasting money he left her on a failing Radical Left Magazine that is run by a con man (Goldberg) and spews FAKE NEWS & HATE," Trump tweeted Sunday morning. "Call her, write her, let her know how you feel!!!"

The president's tweet was his latest salvo in his days-long effort to deny the story, authored by editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg. The story cited several sources with firsthand knowledge of Trump's remarks.

Trump has vigorously denied the report, which NBC News has not independently verified.

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