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'liberal' first acquired a political meaning in Britain in the 1770s. A graph:

     

                

A study published by the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases in November 2020 estimated that only 13% of all C-19 infections that occurred in the U.S. from the outset of the pandemic through September 2020 were “recognized and reported.”

A record annual high of nearly 35,000 people were murdered in Mexico in 2019 as President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador struggled to rein in violent crime in his first year in office. A government agency reported a total 34,582 murders the previous year, a 2.5% increase from 2018, when 33,743 victims were recorded.

There is empirical evidence that the top ten inbound states (where people are moving to) are on average out-performing the top ten outbound states (where people are moving from), suggesting that domestic migration patterns in the US do reflect Americans and firms “voting/moving with their feet” from Democratic-controlled, high-tax, business-unfriendly, fiscally unhealthy, economically stagnant states with relatively high electricity and housing costs to Republican-controlled, lower-tax, more business-friendly, fiscally healthy and economically vibrant states with lower electricity and housing costs.
The question not asked is, are they bringing their bad ideas with them?

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In February 2021, the European Journal of Clinical Investigation published a paper analyzing all reported cases of C-19 in Austria during the first two waves of the pandemic. It found that people who caught C-19 during the first wave developed a degree of immune protection to the second wave “comparable with the highest available estimates on vaccine efficacies.” The study also found that no one who recovered from C-19 in the first wave died from it during the second wave.

BMJ Oct. 2020:
“Contrary to popular perception,” the Imperial College paper that was used to justify the lockdown never “specifically modeled” the lockdown.

Blacks and whites use drugs at about the same rate, but blacks are three times more likely than whites to be arrested on drug charges and ten times more likely to be sent to state prison on drug charges than whites.

Heroin-related overdose deaths increased five-fold from 2010 to 2019. As the nation has cracked down on prescription opioid abuse, people suffering from addiction have turned to heroin, a cheaper, easily accessible option.
Since the War on Drugs II began nearly 50 years ago, the U.S. government has spent more than $1 trillion on interdiction policies, and spending on the costly, failed war continues to cost U.S. taxpayers more than $51 billion annually.