Tag: COVID-19
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The Resistance Is Cohering. And the Media is Part of It.
NEW: Virginia’s new attorney general emphatically denies that he fired a @UVA lawyer because that lawyer is also helping investigate on the January 6 select committee. I pressed @JasonMiyaresVA on this after a spox told this to @washingtonpost. Here’s the AG’s response. @8NEWS pic.twitter.com/7Jf1hJ5w8y — Ben Dennis Reports (@broadcastben_) January 24, 2022 by James A.…
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Chap Petersen to the Rescue?
by Kerry Dougherty Don’t look now, but Virginia may have its own version of maverick U.S. Senator Joe Manchin. I’m talking about Democratic State Sen. Chap Petersen of Fairfax County. The lone member of Virginia’s General Assembly — from either party — with the stones to stand up to former Gov. Ralph Northam’s despotic executive…
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Report From the School Mask Mandate Battlefield
by Dick Hall-Sizemore My grandkids have been homeschooled since they were old enough to go to school (going on 16 years or so now). Therefore, I don’t have a dog in this fight over school mask mandates. Neither do most of the commenters on this blog, I suspect. Thus, a recent conversation with a friend…
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Suddenly, Democrats Don’t Like Executive Orders
by Kerry Dougherty Good grief, they have no self-awareness, do they? I’m watching hysterical Virginia Democrats lose their minds because the new Republican governor issued an executive order that actually RESTORES civil liberties to Virginians. Yet, back when Ralph Northam was issuing one useless executive order after another, the left was silent. In fact, many…
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Belligerence as Leadership
by Joe Fitzgerald About one in 16 American adults suffer with chronic pulmonary disease. Serious health guidelines say they’re the primary ones who should not wear masks. Some of them still can, but a figure of 6% is about the maximum of adults who shouldn’t wear them. The governor of Virginia, elected to eradicate a…
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Mask Hysteria
by James A. Bacon People, get a grip! Emotions over this mask business are running out of control — on both sides of the debate. On the right: Amelia Ruffner King, a 42-year-old Luray mother, has been charged with a misdemeanor for issuing threats to the Page County School Board. “No mask mandates,” the Page Valley…
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COVID Vs. the Flu
by James A. Bacon I have seen considerable discussion on the internet recently about the relationship between COVID-19 and influenza. One thing that seems to be widely accepted is that influenza receded — indeed it practically disappeared — as COVID-19 surged. Where the disagreement occurs is over why influenza faded and now seems to be…
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The Great Unmasking
by Kerry Dougherty Excellent news for students in two Hampton Roads school districts. On Thursday, the ever-sensible Chesapeake School Board voted 7-1 to abolish its mask mandate. Beginning Monday, students in Chesapeake can breathe free again! The board is complying with an executive order signed by Gov. Glenn Youngkin on Saturday, removing the former governor’s…
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Youngkin Unveils No-Mandates COVID Plan
by James A. Bacon So, what does a COVID-19 containment strategy look like without the activist governor’s usual go-to tools of mask and vaccination mandates? Governor Glenn Youngkin has provided the answer with the COVID Action Plan he unveiled this morning. The key elements are: (1) encourage (but don’t compel) people to get vaccinated, (2)…
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Has Omicron Peaked?
by James A. Bacon The news media today is chock full of stories about school boards in Northern Virginia and other blue localities defying Governor Glenn Youngkin’s executive order ending mask mandates. The confrontations won’t be settled until the courts rule definitively whether Virginia’s Governor or the school boards have the last word. By the…
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School Board Bullies
by Kerry Dougherty You’re guilty. I’m guilty. We’re all guilty. Admit it. At election time most of us know exactly who’s running for president, congress, governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, commonwealth’s attorney, treasurer, sheriff and city council. We study bond issues and constitutional amendments. We know how we’re going to cast our votes before we…
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UVa on Third-Vaccination Mandate: Trust Us
by James A. Bacon So, the University of Virginia bumped up its deadline for students, faculty and staff to get a COVID-19 booster shot to today, one day before Glenn Youngkin, a foe of vaccination mandates, takes office. In an interview with CBS19 News, UVa spokesman Brian Coy says Youngkin’s ascension to office was not…
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Unvaccinated Being Slammed by Omicron
by Steve Haner In just four weeks ending January 8, more than 12% of unvaccinated Virginians have been diagnosed with COVID-19. In the most recent week reported, the unvaccinated were almost 60 times more likely to come down with the disease than those current on their shots. This is new. This Omicron version is clearly…
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No More “Medical Bandwagon Thinking” for Virginia
by Kerry Dougherty For the past several weeks, Glenn Youngkin has been busy appointing top members of his administration. One of the most exciting announcements came this week when we learned that Dr. Marty Makary, a surgeon and public policy researcher with a dazzling resume at Johns Hopkins University, agreed to chair Youngkin’s COVID advisory…
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Northam’s Legacy as COVID Fighter
by James A. Bacon As the hours tick down on his term in office, Governor Ralph Northam is inclined to reflect upon his performance. In the limited remarks he has made in public, he has expressed few regrets and admitted to few mistakes. As demonstrated by the thoroughly documented meltdown in Standards of Learning (SOL)…