βοΈ Coffee & Covid β Tuesday, May 24, 2022 β MSM π¦
Good news on the WHO treaty; Netflix unwinds its woke programming; State Farm learns a lesson; great news for balding people; the US media starts to get real about the pox; and more...
Good morning and Happy Tuesday, C&C! Itβs a Good News roundup today: good news on the WHO treaty; Netflix tries to unwind its woke programming; State Farm learns a lesson about the culture wars; great news for balding people; good news for first time Florida homebuyers; and the WHO, the CDC, and the media start to come clean about monkeypox.
π *THE C&C ARMY POST* π
πͺ Thanks for all the wonderful comments yesterday encouraging and discouraging me from probing Elon Muskβs open job offer. I should have made this clear yesterday: OF COURSE it never even occurred to me that I might have to stop writing Coffee & Covid. How perfectly absurd. What would I do to vent all this pent-up sarcasm?
πͺ Iβm mulling over options for our June multiplier. There are lots of good possibilities, but I havenβt made any decisions yet. Candidates include: Rand Paul, for standing up to the WHO, Rebel News, or Feds for Medical Freedom. If I left out any other good ones, let me know in the comments.
Incidentally, Iβve been getting lots of requests for multipliers from people running in local races against established democrat opponents. These situations donβt really fit the multiplier model, which is designed to bless folks and outfits whoβve ALREADY accomplished something important and shown courage in the face of cancellation. By multiplying them we are sending a message to encourage others, too, and show our opponents that weβll support our heroes. Plus, accomplishment is the very best evidence that folks are for-real, non-RINO, valuable assets for the cause.
Having said that, Iβd like to figure SOME way we might be able to help support local candidates and local issues, even if not financially. Suggestions are welcome.
π*COVID NEWS AND COMMENTARY* π
π₯ Looks like all the attention on the WHOβs pandemic treaty amendments has borne some nice fruit. Yesterday, several Substacks reported that β12 of the 13 proposed [WHO] amendments had been removed from consideration because the working group [for Pandemic Response] was βunable to reach a consensus.ββ Weβll see how it plays out this week, but this is a great sign. Keep the pressure on.
π₯ You arenβt used to hearing this, but sane people scored two more big wins in the runaway culture wars yesterday. The first story has been developing for a few weeks, but yesterday RedState ran a story headlined, βThe New Ricky Gervais Special Might Be the Reason Netflix Sent out Its Memo Suggesting Woke Employees Quit.β
I recently reported how the streaming company sent a memo to its employees saying that if they donβt like working on shows that offend their political sensibilities, then donβt let the door hit them on the way out. The memo didnβt mince words, using phrases like βNetflix may not be the best place to work for youβ and suggesting employees βmight want to consider working somewhere else.β
Seems pretty clear.
The first sign of the new direction was that Netflix cancelled its big-budget show βCowboy Bebop,β a live action remake of a popular animΓ©, that had been widely criticized for turning one main character transgender and morphing another popular series character into a feminist lesbian action heroine.
Next, Variety reported Netflix pulled the plug on several other woke animated projects aimed at kids, including βWings of Fire,β from executive producer Ava DuVernay; βAntiracist Baby,β a series aimed at PRESCHOOLERS; βWith Kind Regards From Kindergarten,β a film targeting youngsters; and a yet-unnamed feminist animated series concocted by royal grifter Meghan Markle. Netflix also scrapped the banal documentary βStamped: Racism, Antiracism and You.β
Finally, Netflix has announced the release of a comedy special by acerbic British funnyman Ricky Gervais. Red State says the streaming company had the Gervais special in cold storage for some time, but hasnβt released fearing leftwing backlash. Reviewers say it has more transgender jokes than Dave Chapelleβs recent special. βOne-hundred percent, the Netflix employees are going to get mad again,β said SiriusXM host Sam Roberts, whoβd gotten an early peek at Gervaisβ show.
Get un-woke, go un-broke?
π₯ Youβre going to love this next story. It took less than a workday to turn the trans cruise ship around. It started when about mid-day yesterday I began to get reports about a leaked State Farm memo sent to its insurance agents in Florida, asking six βvolunteerβ insurance agents to deliver packages of gender-bending books to KINDERGARTEN classrooms. In other words, we saw yet another big woke corporation sneakily assisting groomers by stealthily flanking parents with gross sex stuff. Because what do parents know about raising kids anyways? It was also clearly trying to help kooky allied teachers break the new Florida law clearly prohibiting giving this exact kind of material to young kids.
Why involve parents anyway? Those bigots, they donβt realize that you have to break a few young eggs to make a rainbow omelet.
State Farm, which itself offers zero products for children, was supporting a program by a lunatic grifting outfit calling itself GenderCool, which βpromotes education around LGBTQ issues,β and which designed the outrageous strategy for βdistribution of books in schools,β including one awful offering for the littlest children titled βA kidβs book about being non-binary.β
βThe projectβs goal is to increase representation of LGBTQ+ books and support our communities in having challenging, important and empowering conversations with children age 5+,β the leaked email said.
Why on Earth do they think 5-year-old kids need to have βchallenging, important and empowering conversations?β
The email continued, βNationwide, approximately 550 State Farm agents and employees will have the opportunity to donate this three book bundle to their local teacher, community center, or library of their choice.β
In other words, if the STATE wonβt give kids five years and up the disturbing sex manuals, then GenderCool will, and it will use your State Farm insurance premiums to do it with, too. So, take that.
Personally, I find it impossible to scrape together any sympathy for deviants who want to teach kindergartners about their options for having a more fulfilling sex life. Personally, I think these kinds of people should be criminally prosecuted.
So I was all set to give the insurance giant a wicked scolding in todayβs post and encourage some βpositive communicationsβ with local agents when, early yesterday evening, the Washington Examiner ran a story headlined, βBacklash Prompts State Farm to End Program Donating Trans Books to Schools.β Well, well, well.
It turns out the pushback began almost immediately yesterday, with awesome meme campaigns βLike a Creepy Neighborβ and βLike a Good Groomerβ making the rounds of Twitter by mid-afternoon. Moms for Libertyβs twitter feed was red hot, as you can imagine.
Although State Farm initially defended the program, by late afternoon it was sprinting backwards. βState Farmβs support of a philanthropic program, GenderCool, has been the subject of news and customer inquiries,β the company said in a statement to the Examiner. Then it conceded, βConversations about gender and identity should happen at home with parents.β You donβt say. It continued, βWe donβt support required curriculum in schools on this topic. We support organizations providing resources for parents to have these conversations.β
And finally, βWe no longer support the program allowing for distribution of books in schools,β the statement promised, but warned βwe will continue to explore how we can support organizations that provide tools and resources that align with our commitment to diversity and inclusion.β Hmm. My thought is that, if youβre spending time dabbling in kindergarten sexual education, maybe you arenβt focusing enough on the INSURANCE BUSINESS.
Just saying.
Anyway, well done, parents! Whatever you did yesterday worked. State Farm wisely decided not to join Disney in the culture wars this round, and will be coughing up crow feathers all day today.
π In a series of about six hundred excited tweets, the Boston Globe reported yesterday on its very own article, headlined βExperimental Pill Prompts Some to Regrow a Nearly Full Head of Hair.β How about that? Itβs too bad this story didnβt break a couple months ago, we mightβve avoided all that unfortunate unpleasantness with Will Smith.
The Globe reported that Concert Pharmaβs CEO Roger Tung announced that between several hundred thousand and 1.5 million people in the US currently have the heartbreaking non-hair condition. For some reason, this is a HUGE new market opportunity, because nobody ever heard of baldness before. I wonder what couldβve changed. Weird.
And, it turns out that the small Lexington pharma company is only one of SEVERAL companies with hair-loss drugs in the late stages of clinical trials for the disease, where a personβs immune system attacks their own hair follicles, resulting in patchy or total hair loss. Eli Lilly, Incyte, and, wait for it, PFIZER are also developing new treatments for the condition. Soon balding people will have tons of options for regrowing their shedding curls. So thatβs good.
According to the article, Concert tested its TWICE-DAILY pill in a study of about 700 people with moderate or severe alopecia. By the end of the study, the company said almost half β 41.5% percent β of people who got the highest dose also got hairier.
βI think there are enough patients in the US who are going to need treatment for alopecia areata that there will be multiple successful drugs,β CEO Tung told the Globe. It seems like there are more alopecia patients all the time, and there will be plenty of market to go around.
For some reason.
π₯ Yesterday, Governor DeSantis announced a program to give certain citizens $100 million dollars for βdown payments and closing costs.β Itβs for βmore than 50 professions when buying their first home,β including police, nurses, and teachers. This is covid surplus money. On one hand, itβs great that the Governor is plowing the dollars back into Floridaβs economy rather than wasting it on some crony-fied boondoggle. It also helps him politically, because his opponents Nikki Fried and Charlie Crist have been constantly attacking him based on the cost of housing in Florida.
On the other hand, from an economic standpoint, the program violates core conservative principles by picking winners and losers, and will inevitably cause more real estate price appreciation, although itβs not clear to what extent. On balance, Iβll call it good news.
π₯ Progress! Yesterday, CNBC ran a story headlined, βMonkeypox Outbreak Is Primarily Spreading Through Sex, WHO Officials Say.β The sub-headline notes that βThe most recent surge in cases appears to have been spread among men who have sex with other men.β
I told you the euphemism machine would be at its highest setting. Why canβt they just say βgay men?β Why do we need this tortuous language βmen who have sex with other men?β Donβt tell me, I donβt need to know. It was a rhetorical question.
But they havenβt given up the fear, I mean public health campaign. The story explained that βWHO officials β¦ emphasiz[ed] that ANYONE can contract monkeypox.β The gist is that they think the transmission is from close physical contact with open body sores rather than something particular to the kinds of sexual contact between gay men. So if hetero people also join up in βsexual networkingβ β whatever that is β and have sex with random people that have open monkeypox sores, the hetero people could catch it, too.
The fear porn continued as the article gloomily predicted, βmonkeypox can kill as many as 1 in 10 people who contract the disease.β Well. We havenβt seen that yet, or anything like that kind of fatality rate. Theyβre just guessing, or hoping, or something. The old African figures they are referring to involve the very worst cases in third-world people who waited a long time to seek treatment.
But at least theyβre acknowledging how the disease is really spreading. That is good news. Late last night, CNBC ran another article headlined βCDC Officials Sound Alarm for Gay and Bisexual Men as Monkeypox Spreads in Community.β Thatβs even closer to reality than the first article. The evening article includes the same silly warnings as the earlier article, but the headline says what it needed to say.
Pfizer board member Scott Gottlieb apparently said, βthere is a possibility now this has gotten into the community [and] if in fact itβs more pervasive than what weβre measuring right now, that becomes hard to snuff out.β Hard to snuff out?
Iβm just a lawyer, not a public health expert, and I donβt know all the ins-and-outs of sexual networking, but here is a suggestion. Maybe β just stick with me for a minute β maybe if people stop having sex with other people they donβt know and arenβt married to for a while? Could that help? Take a year if they have to. Maybe THAT could βsnuff it out?β
Remember all the stuff about βdo it for the community,β and βif it saves just one life,β and βdonβt kill grandma?β How about a tiny abstential sacrifice for grandma and the community, gay people? Will we hear those kinds of suggestions this time, do you think?
Somehow I doubt it. Somehow I think this is going to come down to them telling us ALL to take smallpox vaccines. Or, maybe Iβm just being paranoid. Itβs so hard to tell the difference these days.
Have a terrific Tuesday and Iβll see yaβll back in the morning for more.
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Huge thank you to anyone involved in fighting the WHO treaty!!! π
Please do the multiplier for Feds for Medical Freedom! They are actively fighting for federal employees and military to be rid of this mandate!!