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mark against which the current dark crisis is to be measured. ‘There is a real danger in complacency, and we are seeing the effects of that play out in real time,’ an infectious diseases specialist at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School recently told the Washington Post. ‘Across the country, we have begun to see another increase in infections and deaths after a period of time with low transmission.’ Who knew? Neither the experts nor the media let on that we were ever in a period of low transmission. And despite today’s raging headlines, the current crisis is still largely anticipatory. Los Angeles County’s director of public health, Barbara Ferrer, has been leaning heavily on the promise of future disaster. ‘This much of an increase in cases may very well result in tremendous suffering and tragic deaths down the road,’ she told the Los Angeles Times on November 12. For now, however, the number of hospitals that are severely burdened nationally is small; at least a quarter of all cases now being labeled as coronavirus hospitalizations in the daily media count were likely admitted for other problems and only retroactively classified as coronavirus cases following a positive test. California governor Gavin Newsom has put 94 percent of the states’ residents under another stay-at-home order. But only six percent of the state’s hospital beds are occupied by COVID-19 patients, up from four percent in early November. Nationally, the case fatality rate and presumed infection fatality rate continue to drop. Human sacrifice Almost all the businesses being sacrificed on the altar of coronavirus fear are as innocent as the vestal virgins of old. The public health authorities have no idea what is driving the current spread. They have no hard evidence that outdoor or indoor restaurant meals are responsible; they certainly have no evidence that shopping is responsible. And yet millions of livelihoods are being destroyed in the exercise of inebriating, limitless power. ‘We don’t want you going into restaurants and sitting and eating outside, and we don’t want you going into retail establishments either,’ Los Angeles’s ubiquitous Barbara Ferrer pronounced recently. Ferrer has no basis for stigmatizing retail establishments.
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businesses’. It is not the pandemic that is threatening jobs and businesses, however, political decisionmaking is. COVID is also ascribed a power that it does not likely have. The New York Times has dedicated a special section to ‘those we’ve lost’ from COVID (ignoring the many more people we lose each day to cancer and heart disease). One alleged COVID casualty was a 101-year-old veteran. We are to believe that without COVID, he would have lived an indefinite number of further years. An advanced civilization builds towards the future, as the Pilgrims and other New World settlers understood. It accumulates social and economic capital to be drawn on by individual discoverers and entrepreneurs for further progress. Now, however, we are cannibalizing our economic inheritance, in the fantastical belief that government transfer payments, generated from ever increased debt, can substitute for private economic activity. Our capital, now being recklessly destroyed by arbitrary government fiat, will take generations to rebuild. We take for granted everything that hard-won prosperity has provided us — well-functioning services (compared to Third World disorder), dependable maintenance, the luxury of choice. We will miss such prosperity when it follows the fate of those millions of businesses whose loss is causing despair, substance abuse, and suicide.
False agency
A mature civilization understands that risk is part of life and that there are higher purposes — even mere sociability — than avoiding death at all costs. No great venture can be accomplished if staying safe is life’s only guiding principle. Now, however, our elites mock courage and perseverance, explicitly repudiating the virtues that built this country. President Trump, upon leaving the hospital after a coronavirus infection, admonished the country to not ‘be afraid’ of the virus, in the Washington Post’s words, and to not ‘allow it to dominate’ our lives. That imminently reasonable exhortation, once expected in a leader, is still being denounced by public health experts and the media nearly two months later. If Americans do not repudiate this ethic of fear, future Thanksgivings will be even bleaker than this year’s.
The director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington, a major purveyor of pandemic panic, claimed in the Wall Street Journal that the pandemic was threatening ‘jobs and
Heather Mac Donald is the Thomas W. Smith fellow at the Manhattan Institute and the author of The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture.
The shaming of heretics and dissenters Neuroradiologist Stanford scientist Scott Atlas and the physician scientists who signed the Great Barrington Declaration have been denounced for challenging the efficacy of economic lockdowns, school shutdowns, and outdoor mask requirements. Their heresies have been borne out by the evidence.
Job Title ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT
Job Title OFFICE ASSISTANT - FACTORY
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Posting Close Date 02/14/2021 Posting Link https:// bit.ly/3l2Q1Yd Description A local company is looking for an ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT who will assist the Office Manager or Administrative Specialist in providing administrative and secretarial duties associated with bookkeeping, purchasing, inventory, payroll and other related activities. Description This position requires a High School Diploma or Equivalent, and a minimum of 2 years related experience.
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Posting Close Date 01/21/2021 Posting Link https:// bit.ly/3q0algL Description A local company is looking for an OFFICE ASSISTANT - FACTORY who will enter sales orders into manufacturing computer program (JobBoss). Maintain Excel to track sales orders, inventory changes, etc. Complete and organize various shipping documentation and assist putting work orders to the factory floor. Description This position requires a High School Diploma or Equivalent, and a minimum of 1 year related experience.
