Quick Hits

Monkeypox 2.0.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have issued a "serious public health" alert, warning of a nationwide spike in "extensively drug-resistant" shigellosis.

The highly contagious shigella bacterial infection attacks the intestines and causes inflammatory, sometimes bloody diarrhea, according to the CDC's "emergency and preparedness response."

Healthcare providers "should understand the nuances of testing and managing infections, especially when treating patients from populations at increased risk of drug-resistant shigellosis including young children; gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men; people experiencing homelessness; international travelers; and people living with HIV," according to the new research.

Which other men would have sex with men apart from "gay and bisexual men"? Are there new categories of men who have sex with men who are neither gay nor bisexual? Are we now forced to consider the possibility of "trans men" who are actually biologically women presenting as men? But wait, they wouldn't be having gay sex for medical purposes, that would just be regular sex; they would just be pretending to have gay sex.

Oh the pain, I feel like I'm having an ice cream headache just trying to riddle my way through this...

This is all like a stupid, disgusting LSAT logic puzzle that I'm not interested in solving.

Anyway, there's a serious disease transmissible through sexual contact apparently involving the... excretory functions and it tends to effect gay men but don't you worry, there will be absolutely zero public health warnings about sex involving the excretory functions. Zero.

The government will order the closures of Constitutionally-protected activities such as worship, but damnit, it will never issue even an advisory of caution about anal sex! That's a sacrament we're talking about there!

Harry and Meghan's US approval is way, way down, a poll says, with another big loss of support coming after the South Park episode.

[T]heir ratings plummeted way below Prince Andrew's, according to a new survey conducted by market research firm Redfield & Wilton for Newsweek.

The poll said that Harry's overall US approval rating took a hit by three points to -10 since the "South Park" episode aired. His wife's rating now sits at -17.

The new figures show a drastic shift in popularity, as in December 2021, Harry's rating was up 48 points and Markle's was up 40 compared to now, the poll shows.

I heard someone say their popularity in the UK was already low and they were relying on the US to buoy them. The US is also where all the money is, too, of course.

Is this why Harry is now hawking a $33-a-pop PPV streamed "intimate conversation" with a trauma expert? Is he trying to "flip the script" and tap into public sympathy with an Oprah-interview-style candid confessional? Is this Meghan's latest brilliant idea?

Here's the good news about not knowing the answers to these questions: I don't care.

A Christian school which embraced the LGBT agenda has been forced to shut down due to lack of customers and donor interest.

A conflict over what it means to be Christian is forcing a school in Kansas City, Missouri, to close.

Urban Christian Academy is a private, K-8 school with an enrollment of 100 that describes itself as providing "a tuition-free, high-quality, Christ-centered education for low-income students."

The school's mission statement has always stressed inclusivity in general terms, noting that following Jesus "opens up doors and makes room at the table." But last year it added a paragraph to its website, which read in part, "We are an affirming school. We stand with the LGBTQIA+ community and believe in their holiness. We celebrate the diversity of God's creation in all its varied and beautiful forms."

According to the school, that update prompted donors to stop contributing, many of them citing their interpretation of Christianity as the reason. Now, UCA has announced it will close at the end of the school year due to the loss of financial support.

Kalie Callaway-George, UCA's executive director and co-founder, said this new language "is kind of what started the backlash from our donor base, which we anticipated. It was just that we anticipated a 50% loss in funding and made adjustments for that. We had an 80% loss in funding and that was too much to overcome."

"If you seed the wind with woke, you will reap the whirlwind with broke." It's in the Bible. Google it.

Texas is considering a bill to ban the purchase of land by Chinese citizens, and the left is crying racism and stirring up a Woke Outrage.

Bear in mind, I said Chinese citizens. Not American citizens who are Chinese. NBC/MSNBC uses the term "Chinese citizen" -- an uncommon term -- to deceive you into thinking, at first, they mean US citizens who are Chinese.

The normal term to describe citizens of China is Chinese nationals.

NBC/MSNBC deliberately lied to you to make you think Texas is considering stripping US citizens and taxpayers of the right to buy property, when really, they're trying to limit Chinese billionaires and Chinese state investment consortiums from buying up every square inch of American soil.

Activist Ling Luo says her Chinese community in Texas has gone from fearful to infuriated -- and they're demanding that their voices be heard.

By the hundreds, they've been taking to the streets all over the state, pleading with elected officials to kill a piece of legislation they fear could threaten their futures.

A bill introduced in the Texas Senate in late December has been gaining steam over the past month, and it came as a bombshell to Asian Americans and others across the state. The legislation, SB 147, would make it illegal for Chinese citizens to buy any property in Texas, including homes.

Luo said it's a shocking premise, incongruous with everything she thought America was when she moved here in 1997, but by the time she heard about the bill, it had already won the support of the biggest player in Texas politics. Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, tweeted last month, "I will sign it.

"This follows a law I signed banning those countries from threatening our infrastructure," he continued.

The only part of the bill which is even borderline objectionable is that it doesn't clearly say that dual citizens of America and China are exempt. I think it's obvious they are; no court would uphold a limitation on an American citizens' right to buy any property he wanted. I guess the law could be amended to make that clear. But they're seizing (and pouncing) upon that as a reason to say that there's just no reason why Communist China front groups just can't buy up all the American land they want.

The CDC has a classification system that tracks reasons for vaccine refusal, but then says it "will not be tracking" the reasons Americans give for refusing the vaccine, even though they just created a system to do just that.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told The Daily Signal that it "will not be tracking" the reasons Americans give for refusing to take a COVID-19 vaccine, after House Republicans demanded answers about a new classification system that tracks the reasons for vaccine refusal.

Meanwhile, congressional Republicans told The Daily Signal that the CDC failed to respond to their questions by a deadline last week.

"Two weeks ago, we sent a letter to the CDC demanding answers about its new COVID-19 vaccine database," Rep. Josh Brecheen, R-Okla., told The Daily Signal in a statement Monday. "The CDC is stonewalling us and refusing to respond."

"Why won't the CDC explain why it's gathering data about Americans' personal choices? House Republicans are not afraid to use the budgetary process to keep the CDC accountable to the American people," Brecheen warned.

House Republicans raised the alarm about the CDC's involvement with the World Health Organization's recently codified International Classification of Disease, or ICD, codes related to COVID-19 vaccination status, which went into effect last April. The codes enable the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to collect data on the reasons Americans refuse to take one of the vaccines.

CNN's chief climate change reporter, who I guess might as well be their chief Bigfoot reporter, cares so much about the climate that he flew 6,600 miles to preach to us that fossil fuels are bad. So bad, in fact, that he made it his personal mission to burn up as many sinful tons of them as possible.

Bill Weir, CNN's chief climate correspondent, delivered a story to viewers on some scientists' warning that "90% of ice around Antarctica has disappeared in less than a decade." The topic and angle are normal fare for CNN and Don Lemon who hosted the segment, but it's notable that Weir reported on the scientists' warning while in Ushuaia, Argentina near the tip of South America.

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Don Lemon asked what, if anything, can be done to avoid the "tipping point" and "disasters" Weir warned of to which CNN's leading climate correspondent had an answer with a nearly lethal lack of self-awareness.

"It's the same answer as it has been for generations," Weir said. "The faster we can move away from fuels that burn -- in the speediest and most equitable way possible -- the less horrible this gets that's the only way right now," he added.

"Not only stopping it at the source," Weir continued, "but pulling carbon out of the sea and sky -- carbon removal is going to be the biggest industry you've never heard of," Weir said.

How interesting.

A quick check of the maps shows that Ushuaia is roughly 6,600 miles away from CNN's studios in Manhattan -- a distance that Weir didn't traverse on foot or by other "green" means.

As Instapundit always says, I'll believe there's a crisis when the people shouting at me that there's a crisis start acting like there's a crisis.

Yes, the media has agreed upon its talking points, it lied and called anyone who presented the case for a lab-leak a "conspiracy theorist" and "racist" because some black lifelong criminal dregs in NY and SF -- not Trump voters -- attacked Asians:

I must help her.

Look, I don't know what her actual complaint is, but whatever it is: I agree, and I'm here to make things better.

Via bonhomme.

posted by Ace at 06:15 PM

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