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Believe in Their Own Lockdowns"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"A week before issuing a statewide mask mandate and a few weeks after trying to ban Thanksgiving, Governor Newsom \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.foxla.com\/news\/fox-11-obtains-exclusive-photos-of-gov-newsom-at-french-restaurant-allegedly-not-following-covid-19-protocols\"\u003Eattended a dinner party\u003C\/a\u003E, maskless, for a lobbyist.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe size of the party, a dozen people, contravened, Newsom’s own Thanksgiving crackdown limiting gathering sizes and urging members of different households not to mingle. The photos also contravened Newsom’s \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/point\/2020\/11\/imposing-masks-gov-newsom-was-packed-maskless-daniel-greenfield\/#disqus_thread\"\u003E93\u003C\/a\u003E to wear a mask at dinner between bites.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-DfvfC60DtIw\/X7q5IBc4FgI\/AAAAAAAASls\/R8TAOKmvkHYgB2Ktw0ajiCWIHFRyzlxEQCNcBGAsYHQ\/s616\/newsom%2Bad.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"453\" data-original-width=\"616\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-DfvfC60DtIw\/X7q5IBc4FgI\/AAAAAAAASls\/R8TAOKmvkHYgB2Ktw0ajiCWIHFRyzlxEQCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/newsom%2Bad.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\"COVID-19 has NOT gone away. Take the new case rates seriously. We cannot let our guard down,\" Newsom had urged on Twitter. \"Wear a mask, limit mixing with those you don't live with, and physically distance.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPhotos of the dinner party showed no social distancing, no mask wearing, and no precautions.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThose attending the party included not only Newsom, but top California Medical Association officials. The CMA had lobbied to suspend “non-urgent” and “non-essential” procedures. It had also cheered Newsom’s mask mandate warning that “anti-science extremists” were “putting public health at risk” in an ad campaign released earlier this summer by the association.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe anti-science extremists apparently include the CEO of the California Medical Association.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENewsom’s dinner party comes after D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser violated \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/ktrh.iheart.com\/featured\/michael-berry\/content\/2020-11-10-dc-dem-mayor-refuses-to-follow-her-own-quarantine-order\/\"\u003Eher own quarantine\u003C\/a\u003E, traveling to Delaware for Biden’s election party, one of the “high-risk” states, while partying with Democrat political operatives, before returning home and then refusing to quarantine.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBowser claimed that she didn’t have to follow her own rules because it was “official business”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe coronavirus is presumably obliging enough not to infect politicians who are traveling on official business to party with fellow Democrats, but knows to infect people at Trump rallies.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn Chicago, Mayor Lightfoot told residents to “cancel traditional Thanksgiving plans”, after joining a massive crowd celebrating Biden’s claim to have won the 2020 presidentia election.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“There are times when we actually do need to have relief and come together, and I felt like that was one of those times. That crowd was gathered whether I was there or not,” Lightfoot argued.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOf course all of this isn’t really news.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGovernor Whitmer’s husband was already\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/point\/2020\/05\/we-are-not-all-together-whitmer-edition-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003E caught demanding\u003C\/a\u003E his boat, Governor Pritzker’s family was caught \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2020\/06\/were-not-all-together-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Etraveling around the country\u003C\/a\u003E, Governor Murphy \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.shorenewsnetwork.com\/2020\/08\/27\/murphy-caught-dining-at-his-favorite-local-restaurant-serving-patrons-indoors\/\"\u003Ewas caught\u003C\/a\u003E dining indoors, Governor Cuomo didn’t bother social distancing or \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/point\/2020\/10\/lesson-social-distancing-and-masking-cuomo-and-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Ewearing a mask \u003C\/a\u003Eat a Sharpton event, Mayor Lightfoot was caught getting a haircut, and Speaker Pelosi was \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/point\/2020\/09\/were-not-all-together-pelosi-edition-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Ecaught \u003C\/a\u003Eat a hair salon.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESenator Dianne Feinstein \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2020\/11\/18\/sen-dianne-feinstein-who-pushed-for-nationwide-mask-mandate-seen-maskless-in-public\/\"\u003Ewas caught \u003C\/a\u003Erepeatedly not using a mask, and Senator Kamala Harris had no problem piling into an elevator with her entire staff. All this is just business as usual.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEven without listing the numerous Black Lives Matter marches and Biden victory parties, or the Women’s March in D.C., it’s all too obvious that Democrat leaders don’t follow the rules.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd that leads to one of two inevitable conclusions.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEither Democrat leaders are suicidal or the mask and lockdown regimen doesn’t work.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut what absolutely cannot be true is the media narrative that Democrats are following science and should be trusted to lead us through the pandemic using a regime of lockdowns and masks.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe same Democrat leadership lecturing us that masks save lives goes maskless whenever it can. And that might be forgivable if they weren’t constantly pretending that the only people not wearing masks are Republican scofflaws who are endangering all of us with their selfishness.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe only thing more unforgivable than corruption is hypocrisy.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut the fundamental question is why Governor Newsom, Governor Cuomo, Mayor Bowser, Mayor Lightfoot, and so many others are casually violating their own restrictions and guidelines.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf Governor Newsom truly believed, as he tweeted, “Wear your mask. Physically distance. Do not let your guard down. Your actions could literally save lives”, would he have joined a crowded party at the French Laundry for a lobbyist and adviser, without doing any of these things?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe only two rational conclusions are that Governor Newsom has no regard for his own life (we already know that he, like most Democrat governors on this list, has no regard for human life when he ordered skilled nursing facilities to accept coronavirus patients in a cruel act that one geriatric doctor compared to, “premeditated murder”) or he doesn’t believe his own guidance.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAre Democrat leaders particularly suicidal? That seems unlikely.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENewsom, Cuomo, Murphy, Whitmer, and Pritzker, not to mention Pelosi, Feinstein, Bowser, and Lightfoot, can be accused of many things, but a wilful disregard for their lives isn’t one of them.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat leaves us with the cold hard reality that they don’t believe the things that they’re telling us.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESome of the violations of guidance meant to stop the spread of the virus can be dismissed as selfishness that doesn’t directly put Whitmer or Pritzker at risk. But when Newsom and Cuomo, among others, casually hang out in close proximity without masks, there’s only one conclusion.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThey don’t practice this stuff because they don’t think it works.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat do they know that we don’t? Mostly, that nothing they’re doing will really make a difference, but that they need to be seen to be doing something. This is a common problem in politics. President Trump suffered from poor ratings on the coronavirus because, while his administration did practical things behind the scenes, it didn’t impose abusive mandates.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELike the kind that Biden ran on.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPeople expect medicine that really works to taste bitter and any real approach to a crisis to cause pain. That’s why we have to take off our shoes and belts when we fly even though the TSA has not stopped a single terrorist attack after all these years of airport shoelessness.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut the TSA was never meant to stop terrorism. It was there to show that the government was taking the problem seriously. And the more miserable flying became, the tighter the security.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere’s a term for that sort of thing: security theater. And there’s a term for what we’re doing now: medical theater. All of these are subsidiaries of political theater in which governments and politicians pretend to be doing things even though they know none of it really matters.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECongress spends a lot of its time holding entirely useless hearings that only exist so that its members can tweet about how seriously they’re taking the thing that the hearing is about.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGovernor Cuomo mismanaged the coronavirus in the worst way possible, lying to the public, sending thousands of infected patients into nursing homes, imposing lockdowns and bragging his way through innumerable press conferences, before illegally scapegoating Orthodox Jews for the virus ahead of the second wave, but never missed a press opportunity or book deal.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s why his coronavirus leadership book hit the bestseller lists ahead of the morgues.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDemocrat politicians know exactly how to navigate the pandemic, not to save lives, but to maximize their approval ratings, book sales, and potential presidential runs down the road. It doesn’t matter how many people die. Arguably more people dying in your state is better.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJust ask Cuomo who still holds down a nationwide championship in coronavirus corpses.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat is really important in any crisis is to be seen taking it very seriously by holding constant press conferences and imposing pain, lockdowns, restrictions, mandates, on the public. The more people suffer, the more a politician must get credit for doing everything to fight the virus.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe governors know that what they’re doing isn’t working and they don’t know what does. Their strategy isn’t to protect the people in their states, but to protect their political careers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETo find out what people really believe, don’t listen to what they say, watch what they do.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGovernor Newsom knew, before imposing his statewide mask mandate, that masks don’t work. If he thought they did, he would have been wearing one while hanging out with his pals. But to a lot of people, masks provide a sense of control and so politicians happily mandate masks.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENewsom, Cuomo, Whitmer, Murphy, and the rest of the gubernatorial gang don’t have a plan to deal with the virus. Their only plan is to wait it out and come out looking good. That’s why they wear masks in front of the camera and then take them off the first chance they get.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThey’re not leaders, they’re politicians, with no clue what to do in a real crisis. Except lie.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs winter is upon us, there are only two possible explanations why so many governors repeatedly violate the rules that they tell us mean the difference between life and death.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEither they’re suicidal or they’re lying to us.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESince none of them have yet grasped a noose, put shotguns in their ears, or plunged needles filled with uncut heroin in their veins, they’re not suicidal. They are corrupt and incompetent. And while they destroy the lives and livelihoods of millions, they go on partying behind closed doors. \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003EDaniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/2013087420762037953\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2020\/11\/democrat-governors-are-suicidal-or-they.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/2013087420762037953"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/2013087420762037953"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2020\/11\/democrat-governors-are-suicidal-or-they.html","title":"Democrat Governors are Suicidal -- or They Don’t Believe in Their Own Lockdowns"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-DfvfC60DtIw\/X7q5IBc4FgI\/AAAAAAAASls\/R8TAOKmvkHYgB2Ktw0ajiCWIHFRyzlxEQCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/newsom%2Bad.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-7491334104784854599"},"published":{"$t":"2020-11-11T22:51:00.000-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-11-11T22:51:52.177-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Biden"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Coronavirus"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Europe"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The Most Masked European Countries Have the Biggest Coronavirus Surges"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"“If we just wore these masks,” Joe Biden said, at the final presidential debate, holding up a mask like a totem, “we can save 100,000 lives.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Democrat nominee’s plan for fighting the coronavirus was all about wearing masks. And indeed the only notable element of Biden’s plan has been a national mask mandate.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut would that actually work? Would it even save one life, never mind 100,000?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFew European countries have been more mask-obsessed than France.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-kfWLcHSWEC8\/X6n0-GTUgSI\/AAAAAAAASj8\/uYqGMg5QNGQRilZ4XamPVGtHXcY5qEXxACNcBGAsYHQ\/s514\/image_2020-11-09_180330.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"300\" data-original-width=\"514\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-kfWLcHSWEC8\/X6n0-GTUgSI\/AAAAAAAASj8\/uYqGMg5QNGQRilZ4XamPVGtHXcY5qEXxACNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/image_2020-11-09_180330.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EIn July, France issued a national mask mandate compelling everyone to wear masks indoors in public spaces. Anyone caught not wearing a mask would face a fine of around $150. In August, Paris and a number of other regions imposed mask rules for anyone leaving the house.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EForget the stereotype of the Parisian nonchalantly dangling a gauloise between two yellowing fingers. \"You're not allowed to smoke on the street without a mask; you can't take it off, so you must find another way,\"  Deputy Mayor Anne Souyris snapped.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHow were Parisians to smoke without taking off their masks, cutting holes in them, or setting them on fire?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn a nod to another French obsession, cyclists \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-53934952\"\u003Ewere\u003C\/a\u003E temporarily exempted, but AI was deployed on the metro to automatically detect which passengers weren’t covering their faces.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESome cynics suspected that this had something to do with France’s mask surplus. After buying a billion masks from China, the worldwide hub of the fashion industry ramped up its own mask production, but the demand wasn’t there leaving manufacturers with a 40 million mask surplus.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe initial drive to produce 5 million masks a day had left \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.manufacturing.net\/supply-chain\/news\/21137274\/france-has-millions-of-unsold-face-masks\"\u003Ea lot of masks\u003C\/a\u003E, many of them fashionable fabric masks, useless but pretty, sitting in warehouses with nowhere to go.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs the summer heat wore on, inspectors marched through French workplaces to check that everyone was masked. In a nod to class privileges, bosses were allowed to unmask in their private offices, but workers were forced to keep masks on unless they had 13 feet of space.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EStill, 78% of French people \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/graphic-detail\/2020\/07\/08\/face-off-over-face-masks-europes-latest-north-south-split\"\u003Epolled\u003C\/a\u003E claimed that they studiously wore their masks.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHow well did that work out?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFrance recently passed 1.1 million confirmed cases and hit a record of over 52,000 cases in one day. While the media has been warning that the numbers are spinning out of control in the United States after this country passed 80,000 cases in a day, France’s numbers are far worse.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmerica, after all, has a much larger population than France.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDespite its strenuous mask regime, France became the country with the fifth largest number of cases, falling behind larger countries like America and Russia.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd it’s not alone.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn Spain, where 86% of people wear masks, the government has declared a six month state of emergency with nightly curfews and gatherings limited to 6 people. The only legal reason to leave your house after 11 PM or before 6 AM is to go to work or deal with an emergency.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESpain hit the 1 million mark even before France did.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd that's despite a nationwide mask mandate back in May, along with a ban on public smoking, making it one of the first European countries to go all in on masks.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEven though masks became more widespread in Spain than most of the rest of the continent, and the country whose totalitarian past lies close to the surface, has unleashed some of the toughest lockdown measures, this is now Spain's third coronavirus resurgence.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EItaly, where 81% wear masks, responded to yet another spike with a fourth set of lockdown restrictions, shutting down gyms and theaters, while forcing restaurants and bars to close by 6 PM. No one is allowed to watch soccer games in person or go to wedding receptions.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDespite all the masks, Italy still holds the record for the second-highest death toll in Europe.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMeanwhile in Sweden, only 5% wear masks. The authorities have never recommended them believing that they are a waste of time. Sweden has used a soft lockdown that avoided fines and mandates. And the media in lockdown countries has spent the months lambasting Sweden and warning the rest of the world not to use it as a model.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut Sweden isn’t alone. In Denmark hardly anyone wears masks. And in Norway, less than a sixth do.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn the UK, where less than a third of Britons wear masks, the death rate is only a little higher than Italy, and it still hasn’t hit the 1 million mark despite a larger population.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn Europe, as in America, masks are a cultural, not medical, practice. The people likeliest and unlikeliest to wear them have cultural similarities. And they wear them for the same reason that the Biden campaign embraced wearing masks, not as a plan, but as a cultural symbol.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWearing masks is not a plan to stop the virus, but it is a fetish of conformity. That is why so many politicians use the language of “respect” rather than medicine to encourage the practice.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMedical practices don’t need to be respected. Cultural beliefs, especially irrational ones, do.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe discomfort of wearing masks, especially in the hot southern countries like France, Spain, and Italy, perversely seem to affirm their effectiveness in the same way that some mouthwash manufacturers make their brands taste astringent to seem more medicinal.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPeople are trained to think that what is medically effective is also physically uncomfortable.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen the Black Death arrived, medieval Europeans resorted to a variety of practices and cures, some useful and many useless, some that had roots in a legitimate concept of illness, others that were little more than voodoo, to deal with a pandemic that had no easy answers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe obsession with masks, an actual useful medical tool transformed into a cargo cult fetish, has echoes of the medieval misuse of legitimate medical practices during the Black Death.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn some medical environments masks may offer potential benefits, but mandating that entire populations wear them accomplishes nothing except keeping the French textile industry employed. That and the assorted unhealthy consequences of constantly wearing a mask.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut whether it’s using a severed snake to try and draw out the Black Death or wearing a mask, people in an outbreak feel the need to grasp at some means of controlling the threat. And they become angry at anyone who doesn’t appear to respect their chosen control mechanism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWearing a mask is meant to prevent the spread of the virus, not to protect the wearer. A CDC study\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/californiaglobe.com\/section-2\/new-cdc-study-finds-majority-of-those-infected-with-covid-19-always-wore-masks\/\"\u003E showed that\u003C\/a\u003E 88% of those infected wore masks. But the medieval logic of masks falsely assumes that wearing a mask protects you from the virus and that the virus only spreads due to those who don’t wear masks. And that creates natural scapegoats for the pandemic.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Biden campaign and the Democrats are cynically cashing in on these pandemic fears.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"We’re in a circumstance where the president thus far and still has no plan, no comprehensive plan,\" Biden ranted at the debate. \"What I would do is make sure we have everyone encouraged to wear a mask all the time.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFrance, Italy, and Spain tried that. It didn’t work.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe European countries most obsessed with masks are doing the worst. Nearly universal mask wearing in those countries has done little to prevent a surge. Democrats have a weakness for wanting to be like the Europeans. But the only thing the Biden mask mandate would do is turn us into France. The French wore masks through the summer heat only to have three times the cases per capita and per day as the Americans who never adopted a mask mandate.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMaybe, instead of Americans adopting the Biden mask mandate and becoming more like France, it’s time the French tried a little bit of freedom and being more like Americans.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003EDaniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/7491334104784854599\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2020\/11\/the-most-masked-european-countries-have.html#comment-form","title":"16 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/7491334104784854599"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/7491334104784854599"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2020\/11\/the-most-masked-european-countries-have.html","title":"The Most Masked European Countries Have the Biggest Coronavirus Surges"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-kfWLcHSWEC8\/X6n0-GTUgSI\/AAAAAAAASj8\/uYqGMg5QNGQRilZ4XamPVGtHXcY5qEXxACNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/image_2020-11-09_180330.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"16"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-2381672205289379313"},"published":{"$t":"2020-10-17T23:18:00.003-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-11-02T21:55:42.592-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Coronavirus"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The Chinese Lockdown-and-Mask Model Failed. Now Its Proponents Need Scapegoats"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"The problem isn’t just the China Virus. It’s that we adopted the China Model to fight it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPublic health experts adopted China’s draconian lockdowns without knowing how well they really worked and in a country that, fortunately, lacks the power to truly enforce them.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EChina’s deceptiveness and lack of transparency meant that we did not know how well anything that the Communist dictatorship did to battle the virus that it spawned actually worked. Despite that, our public health experts, and those of most free countries, adopted the China Model.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-0dlytSLmmxw\/X4uz1PmTslI\/AAAAAAAASf4\/TmmwhLHO4ac7lpeDINh_q7MzpeiMq5hHACNcBGAsYHQ\/s1608\/china_censorship_south_park.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"905\" data-original-width=\"1608\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-0dlytSLmmxw\/X4uz1PmTslI\/AAAAAAAASf4\/TmmwhLHO4ac7lpeDINh_q7MzpeiMq5hHACNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/china_censorship_south_park.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EWe don’t know how well the China Model worked for the People’s Republic of China, but it failed in every free country that tried it. Lockdowns eventually gave way to reopenings and new waves of infection. This was always going to happen because not even the more socialist European countries have the police state or the compliant populations of a Communist dictatorship.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDesperate, the public health experts adopted China’s compulsive mask wearing, a cultural practice that predates the virus, as if wearing a few flimsy scraps of fiber would fix everything.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt hadn’t and it didn’t.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut by then the public health experts and the media that had touted them were moving fully into the scapegoat portion of the crisis. The China Model had failed, all that was left was shifting the blame to more conservative and traditional populations, and away from the cultural elites.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn New York City that meant\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2020\/09\/cuomo-de-blasio-go-after-jewish-weddings-cheer-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003E falsely blaming\u003C\/a\u003E Chassidic Jews for the second wave. From \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2020\/09\/democrats-blame-church-120-miles-away-corona-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003EMaine to San Francisco\u003C\/a\u003E, Democrat leaders and their media blamed conservative Christian gatherings. Their national counterparts loudly blamed President Trump for not wearing a mask all the time.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA New York Times headline \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/point\/2020\/09\/new-york-times-not-sure-whether-blame-coronavirus-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Ecaptured \u003C\/a\u003Ethe cynical broad spectrum cultural scapegoating with, \"N.Y.C. Threatens Orthodox Jewish Areas on Virus, but Trump’s Impact Is Seen.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe uncomfortable truth was that the lockdowns had failed economically, socially, and medically.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEven blue states and cities were no longer able to carry the impossible economic burden much longer. The Black Lives Matter riots and the onset of summer broke the #StayHome taboos, and medically, the lockdowns had been useless efforts to meet a fake crisis of hospital overflows.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmerica, like too many other countries, put the experts in charge and they failed. Miserably.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDemocrats claimed that they were superior because they were “listening to the science”. They weren’t listening to the science, which is not an oracle and does not give interviews. Instead, they were obeying a class of officials, some of them whom weren’t even medical professionals, who impressed elected officials and the public with statistical sleight of hand. And little else.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe entire lockdown to testing to reopening pipeline that we adopted wholesale was a typical bureaucratic and corporate exercise, complete with the illusion of metrics and goals, that suffered from all the typical problems of bureaucracy, academia, and corporate culture.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe system that determines reopenings and closings is an echo chamber that measures its own functioning while having little to do with the real world. Testing has become a cargo cult exercise that confuses the map with the world, and the virus with the spreadsheet. It gamifies fighting the pandemic while dragging entire countries into an imaginary world based on its invented rules.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen the media reports a rise or decrease in positive tests, it’s treated as if it’s an assessment of the virus, rather than an incomplete data point that measures its own measurements.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe daily coronavirus reports have become the equivalent of Soviet harvest reports. They sound impressive, mean absolutely nothing, and are the pet obsession of a bureaucracy that not only has no understanding of the problem, but its grip on power has made it the problem.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe smarter medical professionals understand that the theories have failed, while the administrators who put the theories into practice confused their system with science. The politicians listen to the administrators and when they tell us to trust the science, they mean the bureaucracy. The medical professionals can’t and won’t backtrack now. It’s too late.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe best and brightest spent the worst part of a year shuffling rationales like a gambler’s trick deck, wrecked the economy, and sent tens of thousands of infected patients into nursing homes to infect the residents, accounting for at least a third of the national coronavirus death toll.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELike most national leadership disasters, it was a combination of misjudgement, understandable mistakes, tragic errors, and acts of incomprehensible stupidity or unmitigated evil.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA lot of people are dead, a lot more are out of work, and the problem is far from solved. Someone will have to be blamed and they certainly don’t want it to be themselves.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe lockdown and the rule of the public health experts has become too big to fail.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMistakes were made, as the saying goes. Projections were built based on bad and incomplete data. Everyone followed the path of least resistance by doing what China had done. And everyone in the system, from the experts to the administrators to the politicians to the media, is complicit. That makes the massive error the world has been living under too big to fail.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere are only two choices left. Admit the magnitude of the mistake or find someone to blame.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe establishment that touted the experts is blaming its political and cultural enemies, the  people it has been priming the public to see as strange, selfish, irrational, and dangerous. And also the very people who have been the loudest opponents of lockdown culture.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGiven a choice between admitting the system was wrong or blaming the system’s failure on its critics, the establishment has followed the same pattern as every authoritarian leftist regime.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe lockdowns didn’t fail, they were failed by conservative Christians and Jews, by President Trump, by people who were too selfish to give up their lives, businesses, and religion for the greater good. And if only they had, the coronavirus would be gone and everything would be fine.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe China Model promised something that its proponents quickly knew it couldn’t deliver. Everything since then has been a scam to cover up the original quackery and hackery. The louder they blame critics and dissenters for the failure, the more obvious the coverup becomes.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELockdown culture needs patsies to take the fall for why it didn’t work. Like every leftist social and economic experiment, its defenders are left to argue that it was never properly tried. If only it weren’t for Trump, and for the dissenters, for the Chassidic Jews in Brooklyn, for Christian weddings in San Francisco and Maine, for gyms, bars, and beaches, it would have worked.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYet the simple truth is that the China Model hasn’t worked in any country that isn’t China.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt doesn’t matter who the leader or the ruling party are, whether the public wore or didn’t wear masks, the resurgence is not a political phenomenon, science doesn’t speak, and the virus doesn’t listen. But of all the countries in the world, America was especially ill-fitted to adopt an authoritarian public health model. The sheer size, openness, and diversity of the country makes us unique and should have made it abundantly obvious that no such system would work.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnyone but an expert or administrator would have understood that these plans were doomed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut what the system failed to accomplish in battling the virus, it made up for by providing the leadership that had enacted it with a wonderful opportunity to settle its political scores.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe lockdowns don’t exist anymore as a prophylactic policy, but as a political vendetta. The more people die, the more businesses are ruined, the more everyone suffers, the more vicious the vendetta grows as it hunts for scapegoats, political and religious, for the great error of terror.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELeftist regimes turn to political terror as their policies fail. When the idealism dies, and the theories fall apart, the organizers pursue misery for the sake of misery, using fear, deprivation, and hate to maintain their grip on power while crushing the political threats to their rule.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe rule of the experts isn’t fighting the virus. It has become the virus.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003EDaniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/2381672205289379313\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2020\/10\/the-chinese-lockdown-and-mask-model.html#comment-form","title":"28 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/2381672205289379313"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/2381672205289379313"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2020\/10\/the-chinese-lockdown-and-mask-model.html","title":"The Chinese Lockdown-and-Mask Model Failed. Now Its Proponents Need Scapegoats"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-0dlytSLmmxw\/X4uz1PmTslI\/AAAAAAAASf4\/TmmwhLHO4ac7lpeDINh_q7MzpeiMq5hHACNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/china_censorship_south_park.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"28"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-5820022252467074965"},"published":{"$t":"2020-10-14T12:06:00.006-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-11-02T21:55:58.098-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Antisemitism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Black Lives Matter"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Coronavirus"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Cuomo"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Jewish"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"New York"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"While Cuomo Targets Orthodox Jews, Muslim Mass Gatherings Go On"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Every year, Shiite Muslims in Flushing, Queens conduct the Arbaeen, a procession in honor of Mohammed's grandson whose death at the hands of a Sunni caliph marked the pivotal break between Shiites and Sunnis, slapping their faces and chests for their beheaded Imam Hussein.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EQueens\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2019\/09\/queensistan-big-islamic-terror-problem-trumps-old-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Enow has a large Muslim population\u003C\/a\u003E, and regular fall processions of wailing crowds.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe coronavirus didn’t change that.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-RcLbCHlAcs8\/X4cipr1gpbI\/AAAAAAAASfw\/JKzyR5feonoCHXU0vin7dFcKS96sn0JgwCNcBGAsYHQ\/s949\/frame%2Bmuslim%2Bshiite%2Britual%2Bqueens.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"663\" data-original-width=\"949\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-RcLbCHlAcs8\/X4cipr1gpbI\/AAAAAAAASfw\/JKzyR5feonoCHXU0vin7dFcKS96sn0JgwCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/frame%2Bmuslim%2Bshiite%2Britual%2Bqueens.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn early October 2020, videos show \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QR8xHD7pwig\u0026amp;feature=emb_logo\"\u003Ea huge knot of Muslim men\u003C\/a\u003E packed closely together in circles, not wearing masks or with masks down, chanting and furiously beating their chests in memory of Hussein’s martyrdom. Some are shirtless in the traditional fashion. The slaps are meant to be hard enough to cause real pain and there’s plenty of reddened skin on display.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Shiite procession \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=z7JVpd88UH8\u0026amp;feature=emb_title\"\u003Emarches down\u003C\/a\u003E Flushing’s Main Street, past rows of Chinese stores without a police officer in sight. The media also doesn’t stop by to document the event.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Ciframe allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"551\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QR8xHD7pwig\" width=\"1153\"\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s one of a number of Shiite mass gatherings in New York and \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GI9Aa6DQlu8\"\u003ENew Jersey\u003C\/a\u003E, including more mourning events for Imam Hussein o\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2xrMN5HqK74\"\u003En Manhattan\u003C\/a\u003E’s Park Avenue in August, where few of the participants wear masks, and \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KCQwY4TF0RI\"\u003Eanother in\u003C\/a\u003E Kensington, Brooklyn around the same time.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EUnlike the Orthodox Jewish prayers of the High Holy Days and the Sukkot celebrations, these Shiite Muslim gatherings were not written up by the New York Post, the New York Daily News, or the New York Times as a public threat. Governor Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio did not blame Muslims for the spread of the virus or declare a crackdown that would close mosques.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Ashura Jaloos event took place in late August in the Kensington 11218 zip code which is listed on the \"orange zone\" on De Blasio's coronavirus watchlist. The Queens procession took place in another watchlist neighborhood where coronavirus rates have been rising.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAt the end of August, Governor Cuomo threatened to crack down on Orthodox Jewish weddings and blamed the “Jewish community” and the “Catholic community” for spreading the coronavirus, but made no mention of any action against Muslim events like the one in Manhattan that had taken place a few days before his threats against Orthodox Jews.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOn October 4th, the Queens procession took place. A day later, Cuomo held his infamous antisemitic press conference in which he threatened, “I have to say to the Orthodox community tomorrow, ‘If you’re not willing to live with these rules, then I’m going to close the synagogues.’”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETo bolster his argument that Chassidic Jews were to blame for the spread of the virus, Cuomo used a photo of a funeral from 2006. Once again, he made no reference to Muslim mass gatherings taking place even right before the release of the new data and his press conference.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe media widely and wrongly claimed that the outbreaks were only taking place in zip codes with large Orthodox Jewish communities. This was false, especially when it came to Queens.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere are plenty of mosques to be found in the targeted zip codes in Brooklyn and Queens, in the red, the orange, and the yellow areas, on De Blasio’s watchlist. Some are quite large and in the red zone, but Orthodox Jews made a good target. Muslims make a politically incorrect one.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENo Democrat would be caught dead threatening Muslims or shutting down mosques.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd the same papers that scold, sneer, and mock at men in fur hats would never dream of ridiculing shirtless Muslim men slapping their chests in public. That would be racist.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELike the Black Lives Matter riots and the \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2020\/08\/coronavirus-rules-dont-apply-sharptons-100000-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003ESharpton 50,000 rally\u003C\/a\u003E in Washington D.C., Islamic religious rituals somehow don’t spread the virus. Not even when they’re taking place in areas on the watchlist. Orthodox Jewish prayers, like Trump rallies, are blamed for spreading it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe same hypocritical doublethink extended not only to the rituals, but to the reactions.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen a group of Chassidic Jews protested the discriminatory restrictions by Governor Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio, by burning masks and waving Trump flags, the media was furious.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"Brooklyn’s Orthodox Jews burn masks in violent protests as New York cracks down on rising cases,\" a Washington Post headline blared. That's the same paper which has repeatedly described Black Lives Matter riots that wrecked entire cities as being \"mostly peaceful\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERep. Jerrold Nadler, who had falsely claimed that Antifa violence was a myth, and expressed support for Black Lives Matter, despite the repeated riots, demanded that, “those responsible must be held to account for such violence” and expressed support for Cuomo’s crackdown.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENadler also tweeted a petition of support for Cuomo and De Blasio’s crackdown on Jews from “300 Rabbis” representing something called the New York Jewish Agenda which had been created earlier this year to fight for “social justice.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe letter was headed by \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/archives.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/rabbis-hamas-obama-and-iran-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003ESharon Kleinbaum\u003C\/a\u003E of Congregation Beit Simchat Torah, a gay temple, much of whose membership defected when it decided to \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/archives.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/fake-orthodox-jews-against-trump-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Epray for Hamas terrorists\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“Recent events have demonstrated that CBST is far more committed to a progressive political agenda than to the Jewish people,” Bryan Bridges, a former board member, \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.tabletmag.com\/sections\/news\/articles\/cbst\"\u003Ewrote\u003C\/a\u003E. “I couldn’t imagine raising a child in this congregation, and have that child hear, just before we recite Kaddish, the names of people who are trying to kill her grandparents.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut, to give Sharon Kleinbaum credit, she doesn’t limit her antisemitism to Jews in Israel.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EKleinbaum supported providing space to Queers Against Israeli Apartheid, but is quite happy to see apartheid implemented by her Democrat political allies against Orthodox Jews in America.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe differing treatment meted out to Orthodox Jewish and Shiite Muslim religious gatherings is a troubling demonstration of how antisemitism is baked into the intersectionality of the Left.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s not about Israel. And it never was.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPierre Leroux, who coined the term ‘Socialism’, \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2019\/03\/democrats-go-socialist-they-go-anti-semitic-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Ewrote\u003C\/a\u003E, “Every government having regard to good morals ought to repress the Jews”. This was a century before the rebirth of the modern State of Israel. It wasn’t Zionism that the founder of Socialism was objecting to, but Judaism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIs it any wonder that Leroux’s socialist successors like Bill de Blasio are taking him at his word?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere is no systemic racism in America. But there’s no question that when you look at the very different treatment for Black Lives Matter rallies, Shiite Muslim gatherings, and Orthodox Jewish events, that systemic antisemitism is alive and well. Especially among New York Democrats.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"My message to the Jewish community, and all communities, is this simple: the time for warnings has passed,\" Bill de Blasio had tweeted in April.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere was no such warning for Muslims who, unlike the Chassidic Jews of Brooklyn, were not harassed or threatened in any way. They went on conducting Islamic events with no interference. The New York Post did not spy on their weddings, the New York Daily News did not ridicule their religion, and the mayor and governor did not threaten to come after them.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECuomo threatened to close synagogues. He did not threaten to close mosques. Nor did he display any pictures, like the one above, of mass Muslim religious gatherings. Instead, he found a photo of a Jewish funeral from 2006 to suggest that Jews were spreading the coronavirus.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESystemic racism is a lie. Systemic antisemitism is real. Just ask Cuomo.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003EDaniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/5820022252467074965\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2020\/10\/while-cuomo-targets-orthodox-jews.html#comment-form","title":"7 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/5820022252467074965"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/5820022252467074965"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2020\/10\/while-cuomo-targets-orthodox-jews.html","title":"While Cuomo Targets Orthodox Jews, Muslim Mass Gatherings Go On"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-RcLbCHlAcs8\/X4cipr1gpbI\/AAAAAAAASfw\/JKzyR5feonoCHXU0vin7dFcKS96sn0JgwCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/frame%2Bmuslim%2Bshiite%2Britual%2Bqueens.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"7"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-8046196789264954619"},"published":{"$t":"2020-10-11T23:38:00.008-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-10-11T23:39:22.952-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Antisemitism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Coronavirus"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Cuomo"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Democrats"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Anti-Semitic Democrats Blame Orthodox Jews for the Coronavirus"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-BcagmZHu16U\/X4PPr5gKsYI\/AAAAAAAASek\/hqXyfSp_TwoFM087ZI5WUA1pWBljR_nQACNcBGAsYHQ\/s800\/cuomo%2Bphoto%2Bhandout%2Bsocial%2Bdistancing.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"450\" data-original-width=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-BcagmZHu16U\/X4PPr5gKsYI\/AAAAAAAASek\/hqXyfSp_TwoFM087ZI5WUA1pWBljR_nQACNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/cuomo%2Bphoto%2Bhandout%2Bsocial%2Bdistancing.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E“I have to say to the Orthodox community tomorrow, ‘If you’re not willing to live with these rules, then I’m going to close the synagogues.’” Governor Andrew Cuomo told religious Jews.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHis basis for the decree was a photo of mourners who weren’t practicing social distancing at a funeral. But the photo of a crowd of Orthodox Jews on Cuomo’s slide was from 2006.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt was a very different message than Cuomo’s condemnation of bigotry when he had insisted, “There is zero evidence that people of Asian descent bear any additional responsibility for the transmission of the coronavirus.\" The new message is, don’t blame the Asians, blame the Jews.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThey did go to a funeral in 2006.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003ECuomo was picking up where Mayor Bill de Blasio had left off in his infamous tweet targeting Orthodox Jews. “My message to the Jewish community, and all communities, is this simple: the time for warnings has passed,” the New York City leftist boss had raged.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMedieval bigots blamed the Black Plague on Jews poisoning wells. Modern Democrats blame the Coronavirus on the Jews. Despite the plague of media narratives accompanied by photos of Chassidic Jews praying or mourning, there’s as little evidence for the latter as for the former.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECuomo’s threat to synagogues was prompted by a supposed resurgence of the virus. De Blasio had already announced that the spike in the targeted areas would lead to school and business closures. Except that a number of those areas have African-American, Latino or Asian majorities. But instead Democrats and the media have focused in on the “Jewish” areas.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd even those “Orthodox Jews” areas are far from a homogenous monocultural community.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EChassidic Jews, a subset of Orthodox Jews, may stand out, but so do the Amish. So-called “chassidic neighborhoods” in Brooklyn are actually made up of the usual New York mix of African-Americans, Latinos, and assorted immigrant groups, including Muslim immigrants.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECoronavirus deaths among Asians in New York have been twice as high among whites and approaching five times as high among Latinos and African-Americans. New York City's worst death rates were not in Borough Park or Williamsburg, but in a Bronx neighborhood, in East New York, in Flushing, Queens, in Far Rockaway, and in Brighton Beach.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENone of those are Chassidic neighborhoods. Only one has a significant Orthodox population.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENor are the highest positive rates in Orthodox or Chassidic areas. You have to get through five Queens neighborhoods before making it to Borough Park. And Borough Park, and most Brooklyn neighborhoods, except East New York, are far below Queens and Bronx neighborhoods when it comes to cases per population. Borough Park is only the 49th highest zip code in actual mortality rates, Williamsburg is in 79th place.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd yet the insistence that the outbreak is an Orthodox Jewish problem is ubiquitous. It pops up in the media and in rhetoric by top Democrats that stigmatizes religious Jews for the virus.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Democrats who rose to denounce scapegoating of Asians have joined in the racism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe media pumps out stories blaming the outbreak on Orthodox Jews with a cheerful disregard for facts or basic urban geography. The Associated Press rolled out an entire story blaming the outbreak of coronavirus infections on Orthodox Jews, but the only actual neighborhood that it offers statistics for is the \"Gravesend section of Brooklyn\", a mostly immigrant area that is not home to a Chassidic community and whose Orthodox Jews are Syrian refugees, but is mostly associated with Italian-Americans, with large populations of Chinese and Russian immigrants.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe media won’t stop claiming that Orthodox Jews spread the virus because they make a convenient boogeyman for its hipster readers who despise traditional Judeo-Christian religions.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe New York Times, which has run the most articles blaming Orthodox Jews for the outbreak, has linked them to cultural lefty hobgoblins like opponents of vaccines and Trump supporters.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"N.Y.C. Threatens Orthodox Jewish Areas on Virus, but Trump’s Impact Is Seen,\" one New York Times headline read.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe power of othering is that all your hatreds and fears can be projected onto those who are different. And despite all the politically correct lectures on race and hate, the Times needs its own others to hate. The most obvious ‘tell’ is that when the Times writes about any other group, it quotes members of the community, but when it writes about Chassidic Jews, it turns to opponents and critics of the community who are happy to nod along to the negative coverage.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s why a rise in positive test results in a Chinese area isn’t a story, a rise in a black area is a story about racism and inequity, but a rise in an Orthodox Jewish area is a story about ignorant religious fanatics who support Trump, insist on praying, and don’t trust the medical experts.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Orthodox Jewish community has suffered from the virus, as have many other groups. It’s no more at fault for it than they are. It isn’t unique because more Orthodox Jews have come down with the virus, but because they make a convenient scapegoat for the failures of Democrat officials like Cuomo and De Blasio, for the blatant flouting of their rules by rioters and hipsters.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EChassidic Jews in particular are stereotypically ‘Other’ with strange garb, incomprehensible beliefs, accents, large families, and long beards, but they’re white enough that hating them is socially acceptable for progressives who can act out their xenophobia without feeling guilty.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEven before the pandemic, the media was eager to provide a platform for every special interest out to bash Orthodox Jews, from\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2019\/01\/send-your-son-leftist-school-or-government-will-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003E the YAFFED\u003C\/a\u003E campaign by leftists against religious Jewish schools to opponents of circumcision to animal rights cranks campaigning against Kosher meat.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe new coronavirus antisemitism relies on the same stereotypes and slurs: Orthodox Jews are ignorant, superstitious, flout authority, and need to be saved from their backward ways. These are the progressive prejudices that permeate the media’s coverage of Orthodox Jews. And it’s part of the reason why Orthodox Jews are a Republican constituency in presidential elections.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBigotry isn’t just about the pleasures of hate. It’s how those in power redirect blame for their crimes and failures, and a means for those who hate to gain a false sense of power and control.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBlaming the upsurge on an outside group creates a false sense of security for everyone else.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd when it’s no longer possible to pretend that the upsurge is limited to Orthodox Jews, then they can still be blamed for having caused it with their weddings, funerals, and their prayers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBest of all, none of the newfound bigots will blame Governor Cuomo or Mayor Bill de Blasio.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe two top Democrats who mishandled the pandemic in the worst ways possible, while spewing lies, excuses, and smears at their serial press conferences, won’t be held accountable.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd that’s why every time things get worse, Cuomo and De Blasio will blame the Jews.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003EDaniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/8046196789264954619\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2020\/10\/anti-semitic-democrats-blame-orthodox.html#comment-form","title":"9 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/8046196789264954619"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/8046196789264954619"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2020\/10\/anti-semitic-democrats-blame-orthodox.html","title":"Anti-Semitic Democrats Blame Orthodox Jews for the Coronavirus"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-BcagmZHu16U\/X4PPr5gKsYI\/AAAAAAAASek\/hqXyfSp_TwoFM087ZI5WUA1pWBljR_nQACNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/cuomo%2Bphoto%2Bhandout%2Bsocial%2Bdistancing.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"9"}}]}});