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This is the entry in Lord Louis Mountbatten's diary for July 24, 1945:
"I had come back convinced that Labour would get in by a handsome majority and was astounded to find that the Prime Minister [Churchill] and indeed everyone I met at Potsdam was quite confident that the Conservative Party would get in.
"The most pessimistic majority I heard was 30, and the Prime Minister himself told me he thought he would have 1OO."

There's a lesson here for Joe Biden.
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The USDC for the D.Oregon issued an injunction against federal forces in Portland, enjoining them "from arresting, threatening to arrest, or using physical force directed against any person whom they know or reasonably should know is a Journalist
or Legal Observer . . ., unless the Federal Defendants have probable cause to believe that such individual has committed a crime.
For purposes of this Order, such persons shall not be required to disperse following the issuance of an order to disperse, and such persons shall not be subject to arrest for not dispersing following the issuance of an order to disperse."
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At the early part of the pandemic, I posted a link to a paper by epidemiologists at Imperial College London. That paper projected that, if significant steps were not taking to tamp down the spread of the coronavirus, there could be hundreds of thousands of deaths in the US.
In fairly short order, the right wing promoted counter-predictions by John Ioannidis to the effect that the cost to the economy of a lock down was far in excess of the danger that the coronavirus posed.
His analysis was, of course, warmly embraced by the likes of Fox News and the Trump Administration. We now know that his analysis was wrong.

Here's the full story. Ioannidis covered himself with shame. buzzfeednews.com/article/stepha…
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This morning an ad for a "UV-C Light Wand" crossed my desk. The pitch is that you can sterilize surfaces and better protect against Covid-19.
Before even thinking about purchasing this alleged device, I did some research and came across this:

bbc.com/future/article…

The short answer: Don't fall for simplistic miracle "cures."
Oh, yeah. For those of you too lazy to read the entire article, don't believe anything that Donald Trump tells you.
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