When Biden Declares Victory, He's Really Admitting Defeat

An appetizer before tonight's unappetizing main course

Before tonight’s State of the Union, some great news out of Seattle. The city repealed its bike helmet law, which had been on the books since 2003, because of disparity in enforcement.

Since 2017, Seattle police had given 117 helmet citations, more than 40% of which went to people who were homeless. Since 2019, 60% of citations went to people who were homeless.

In Chicago, a study found that tickets were issued to cyclists eight times more often in majority-Black parts of the city. An investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice found that 73% of bicycle stops in Tampa, Florida, between 2014 and 2015 involved Black cyclists, despite the fact that Black people made up 26% of the population.

I’m proud of Seattle! It took them four decades to figure out the War on Drugs was racist, and only two decades for them to figure out bike lanes are racist! Maybe it will only take them a decade to figure out the issue with their proposed gun control laws………

Some stories are so insane, words fail……..

Better than hiding under your desk……maybe?

Speaking of failing, Jay Inslee and the other two stooges have determined that the science has changed enough that the NEW safe mask removal date is March 11 (though only technically, as it takes effect at 11:59 pm). This is what Inslee said just two weeks ago when setting his original March 21 date:

Well, let’s check the actual data and see how the science has changed! Currently we have 10.6 covid admissions per 100,000 population. That number is………higher than basically every part of the pandemic except winter 2021/2022. If Inslee honestly thought the rules were responsible for this huge drop, he wouldn’t be removing the masks just as they start working (finally)!

Maybe King Jay was talking about overall hospital capacity? No, that’s remained flat for basically the entire epidemic no matter how many covid-positive patients are in the hospital. (The bump in fall 2021 corresponds to the healthcare worker mandate that reduced our capacity)

Covid metrics are higher than many points of the past couple years, but the political science has changed and Democrats are running from covid and the destruction the government’s response has caused.

Side note: Isn’t it sure strange how these charts have different start dates, and neither of them are the actual start of the pandemic? It’s almost like they’re trying to hide inconvenient data.

Speaking of running from covid, in a few hours Biden will deliver his first State of the Union address, and it’s extremely likely he’ll declare victory over the virus. Like the CDC ‘changing standards’ last week, I’m guessing the ‘leaders’ will decide to break out from/with covid in hospitalizations and deaths, and HOPEFULLY stop the financial incentives for hospitals to find covid cases (and victims). If we’re REALLY lucky, they’ll even change the hospital protocol and stop putting people onto vents they don’t need.

But as you watch Biden and the Democrats declare victory, you have to realize what they are really doing is admitting defeat. They told us lockdowns would end the pandemic. They told us masks would end the pandemic. They told us vaccines would end the pandemic. Yet the pandemic continues. Biden will point at cherry-picked metrics and ignore similar data in the states that were done with covid a long time ago. He’ll take credit for spring (again) and declare the forced sacrifice was worth it. His words will sound triumphant, but beyond the platitudes will be the (long-coming) admission that government can’t stop a respiratory bug from going through the population.

Virus gonna virus.