Wednesday, September 22, 2021

Question 15



Question 15

Illegal immigration has been a glaring problem for quite a while so why are Haitian illegal immigrants being sent home?

So, with this Milley thing, wasn't independent foreign contact the reason that Flynn had his life ruined?

According to GQ, the top 10 earning male models earned a combined total of $8 million last year, compared to the $83 million the top supermodels of the world acquired over the same year. Is that an example of discrimination against men?

As Democrats scramble to finance their $3.5 trillion expansion of the entitlement state, they can’t find more than $2.2 trillion in taxes to raise, so they’re hoping to fill the gap with $500 billion in savings from price controls on drugs. In spite of Pharma's unbelievable Covid vaccine success. These politicians know the basic law that price controls decrease availability, right?

In Ridley’s view, the scientific establishment has always had a tendency “to turn into a church, enforcing obedience to the latest dogma and expelling heretics and blasphemers.” This tendency was previously kept in check by the fragmented nature of the scientific enterprise: Prof. A at one university built his career by saying that Prof. B’s ideas somewhere else were wrong. In the age of social media, however, “the space for heterodoxy is evaporating.” So those who believe in science as philosophy are increasingly estranged from science as an institution. Is there an institution that does not come with a hierarchy?

The Hoover Institution's John F. Cogan and Daniel Heil report that the Biden 4 trillion dollar spending plan would add more than 6 million households, and more than 21 million Americans, to federal entitlement rolls. That would raise the share of nonelderly American households receiving such entitlements by seven percentage points and push it above the 50 percent mark. Is there a point where giving citizens other peoples' money becomes undesirable?

“More than half of Britons suffering from long Covid might not actually have it” – so reports the Telegraph‘s science editor Sarah Knapton. So, how is 'long Covid' diagnosed anyway?

The principal preoccupation of the framers of the Constitution was with restraints on authority.
The word “travel” is not in the Constitution. Neither is the word “bacon,” but we have a right to have bacon for breakfast, and to raise our children. This puzzles people who think rights are privileges — spaces of autonomy — granted by, and revocable by, government. Such thinking paves the road to what some seem to want: a permission society, where what is not explicitly permitted is implicitly forbidden, or at least contingent on the grace of government. (someone)
Isn't this the opposite of the structure of American government where what is not specifically granted the government is withheld?

Will the Imperial College London’s infamous Covid model expose forever the weakness of models?

Incidental or mild cases accounted for a rising share of so-called COVID-19 hospitalizations—nearly half by the end of June. That means it is increasingly problematic to treat that number, which includes COVID-19 patients without life-threatening symptoms as well as COVID-positive patients admitted for other reasons, as an indicator of severe disease.
So do such cases qualify for federal subsidy?

Are employees really working for bosses or are they working for themselves?

Scientists who are skeptical of chief White House medical adviser Anthony Fauci’s proclamations about the coronavirus pandemic don’t want to go public with their concerns for fear it will affect their funding, Sen. Rand Paul claimed. So scientists do not want to contradict their underwriters. Is that an unreasonable assumption?

Stated in dollars, the typical female staffer working in the Biden White House earns $20,000 less on average per year than the typical male staffer. Is that meaningful?

It is a delusion to think of the individual in primitive society as free. There was no natural liberty for a social animal. Freedom is an artifact of civilization. This is from Hayek. So, in the modern hip lingo, freedom is a construct?.

Professor Susan Michie, a member of the Communist Party of Britain and SAGE scientist who openly endorses a “zero Covid” strategy, revealed on Channel 5 News that she believes social distancing, including mask-wearing, should continue not only into the long-term but forever. Is there such thing as a cultural vandal?

The Biden administration on Monday morning announced an interagency plan to deal with the effects of frequent extreme heat waves caused by global warming. Turn on the AC and open the windows? (We already do that in our house. You're welcome.)

“The masks worn by millions were useless as designed and could not prevent influenza. Only preventing exposure to the virus could.” – John M. Barry, The Great Influenza (2004)
“Abandoning masks and social distancing now would be the worst possible move for Americans and their political leaders. The 1918 pandemic teaches us why.” – John M. Barry, Washington Post, March 12, 2021
Is it fair to put these side by side?

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 54% of American Adults disapprove of the policy allowing Americans to select the gender they would like printed on their U.S. passport, even if it does not match the gender on supporting documentation such as a birth certificate, previous passport, or state ID. Are you surprised that people care?

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