When it comes to push-back there is both good and bad news. The good news is that an EU country has seen legislation introduced that makes it clear that “gender” refers to one’s immutable biological sex. The bad news is that it was introduced in Hungary, where Prime Minister Vicktor Orban has been ruling with populist authoritarianism.
“The Hungarian government looks likely to push through legislation that would end the legal recognition of transgender people by defining gender as ‘biological sex based on primary sex characteristics and chromosomes,’ therefore making it impossible for people to legally change their gender.”
But of course it wouldn’t be 2020 if the confluence of Cinco de Mayo and Taco Tuesday wasn’t interrupted by Corona-chan.
But that doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy massive quantities of tasty beverages and tasty, tasty tacos! If you can’t meet up with people, make the phone calls, social media, and video chats a bit different and memorable, like by wearing little novelty sombreros. You’re only limit is you imagination.
Your humble author will be hitting the drive-throughs of local taco joints and tipping extra. Pick-up and delivery are also options in most places. But if you want to make your own, you can just follow Soopermexican’s recipe so easy even a member of Congress could follow it.
Today is Victims of Communism Day. It is also “May Day”, where “useful idiots” march and demonstrate in free countries, while those who have to actually live under Communism are made to march lest they face dire consequences.
Today, also, is a time when the People’s Republic of China is at the center of attention due to the Wuhan Bat Soup Death Plague ChiCom Bio-Weapon of DOOM (with sprinkles*). However, this is just still a minor catastrophe brought on by the Communist Chinese. The Chinese Communist Party’s sins are myriad, and could take up well over a decade of “Victims of Communism Day”. Today, though, let us look back at the greatest mass murder event in history, dwarfing Stalin’s Soviet Union and Hitler’s Nazi Germany in sheer death toll: The Great Leap Forward, which killed off tens of millions of people.
Another “quick takes” on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on.
The focus this time: Medical insanity is difficult to cure, but ya gotta fight anyway.
First, a little mood music:
Carrying on…
Mutilating and hopping kids on hormones is often declared to be a fundamental human right… but soon not any more in the U.K.
“Here’s some potentially good news to share today and for once it has nothing to do with the you-know-what story that’s drowning the news cycle. Across the pond in Great Britain, the other half of our special relationship has announced a change to their medical system that’s making the United States look pretty bad by comparison. The Brits have been dealing with their own wave of transgender unrest just as we have in America. But going forward, they’re not going to allow doctors to perform ‘transitional’ (and irreversible) ‘gender correction’ surgery on children. How surprisingly sane of them.”
Meanwhile, in South Africa, a doctor tried to encourage a women to not terminate her pregnancy. He was charged with medical misconduct. Thankfully two of the four ridiculous charges were dropped.
“A South African council reduced charges this week against a pro-life doctor who is being prosecuted for telling a pregnant woman that life begins at conception.
“Jacque de Vos, 32, was finishing his medical training in 2016 when the Health Professions Council of South Africa charged him with medical misconduct for trying to dissuade a pregnant woman from aborting her 19-week unborn baby.
“IOL reports the Health Professions Council dropped two of the four charges against de Vos this week. One charge alleged that de Vos distributed information that imposed his religious beliefs on patients and colleagues, and the second alleged that he was not objective in his recommendations about contraception, according to the report.
“Two charges remain, and his hearing is scheduled to continue on Monday. The doctor still is being prosecuted for allegedly trying to dissuade a patient from having an abortion and failing to respect a patient’s bodily autonomy, the report continues.”
“This isn’t the first time this has happened and I highly doubt it will be the last. A woman in London named Keira Bell has brought a lawsuit against a National Health Service (NHS) ‘gender clinic’ for allowing her to ‘transition’ to being a male when she was an underage teenager. She now regrets the decision and says that the staff at the clinic ‘should have challenged her more’ before allowing her to undergo the various treatments she received. One judge reviewed the request and the clinic’s efforts to have it dismissed and is allowing the case to move forward.”
TTFN.
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Your humble author has often challenged supposed “experts” who put ideology above discipline. However, these attacks have been first and foremost upon factual inaccuracy and ideological warping and mischaracterization of facts. The belittlement of their claims to being right due to credentialing is an attack on the idea that a mere credential, per se, bestows any magical ability to always be right or that lack of a credential indicates the opposite.
However, some seem to take the flip version of this claim as gospel truth, with the Coronavirus (AKA Corona-chan AKA the Wuhan Bat Soup Death Plague ChiCom Bio-Weapon of Doom*) Such is the case with a recent opinion piece be author Sarah Hoyt in which she not only peddles inaccurate information, but expresses a broad anti-credential bias. ‘Tis worth a fisking.
A fisking! A fisking!
“Someday 2020 will be behind us, and we’ll tell our kids and grandkids about the year we were smitten by the plague.
“By which I don’t mean COVID-19, which is at best a nasty disease with death tolls the equivalent of a bad flu year – if we accept the numbers we’re being fed by an establishment desperate to cash in on the cash bonus for each COVID-19 diagnosis – but the plague that has laid this country low, destroyed our economy and brought us to a place that no external enemy could have brought: this plague of experts.”
Aside from the obvious sarcasm of the opening sentance/paragraph, the opinion piece starts out with a well discredited lie: That the Coronavirus is just the flu, assuming that that social distancing made no difference in limiting the disease, thus resulting in experts who are destroying the economy out of either stupidity or malevolence.
“Or perhaps I should say “experts” since most of them have behind them only a long string of failed prognostications, followed by promotion within the “civil servant” echelons.
“Yes, I am talking about Doctors Birx and Fauci. I’m already seeing people pointing fingers at the president and complaining that he’s relied too much on these ‘experts.’”
Except many of these models were indeed fairly accurate for what limited information we have, with the claims that these models were false due to sinecured idological idiots or evil scientists being based on either inability to understand scientific literature and predictive modeling, or willful ignorance.
With so much news being Coronavirus still related, and your humble author trying the plethora of uninformed idiocy, let’s once again talk about other coronas, this time a one-hit wonder (that no one thankfully remembers).
In the hopes of encouraging a more civil, and illuminating, discourse, here is another episode of William F. Buckley, Jr.’s “Firing Line”.
With China in the spotlight, not just as the source of the Corona Virus, but for the Chinese Communist Party’s obfuscating the pandemic, we are asking the same fundamental question we’ve been asking for decades: What should our China policy be? Mr. Buckley discusses this with Theodore Harold White.
