Here’s some who take freedom seriously:

Back in October, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis told Maria Bartiromo , host of Fox News’s Sunday Morning Futures, that Florida would offer a $5,000 dollar bonus to cops that want to leave their home states and move to Florida. His offer came as officers in states such as New York and Illinois expressed indignation and outrage at the idea of a vaccine mandate, with many vowing to quit rather than submit.

Specifically, during that Sunday Morning Futures segment, in which he called Biden’s vaccine mandate “unconstitutional,” DeSantis said that “ In Florida, not only are we going to want to protect the law enforcement and all the jobs, we are actively working to recruit out-of-state law enforcement because we do have needs in our police and sheriff’s departments. ”

Speaking on the issue of hate directed toward cops in blue cities, Governor DeSantis added “ So, NYPD, Minneapolis, Seattle, if you’re not being treated well, we’ll treat you better here. You can fill important needs for us, and we’ll compensate you as a result. ”

Apparently, cops from New York are starting to take him up on his offer. The New York Post reports that over a dozen New York cops decided to ditch Gotham and settle in a small, Florida town where the vaccine isn’t required and cops aren’t hated:

More than a dozen NYPD cops have ditched the Big Apple to join the force in a small Florida city — part of a nationwide trend of disgruntled officers finding greener pastures in pro-police communities.

Lakeland — a community of 108,000 people 35 miles east of Tampa — mounted a social media campaign targeting NYC cops earlier this year, and in April dispatched a delegation to recruit in Times Square.

Fourteen former Finest moved to Lakeland in the past year — 12 of them wooed over the past two months thanks to the recruiting trip.

The New York Post adds that anecdotal evidence suggests that many more cops are fleeing blue states and moving to red states where their talents, skills, and bravery will be valued...

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California 'sanctuary city' declares itself a Constitutional Republic to fight COVID mandates

Oroville vice mayor told Fox News city is acting 'as a sanctuary city for our citizens'

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A city council in California overwhelmingly voted to declare the city a "Constitutional Republic City" to protect its citizens’ rights in light of federal and state mandates . 

"What we are doing is protecting our citizens' rights as much as we can on the local level," Oroville Vice Mayor Scott Thomson told Fox News Digital. 

"In a way, we are acting as a sanctuary city for our citizens and their rights and freedoms protected by the U.S. and state constitutions," he added. "Gavin Newsom modeled this type of declaration for us when he declared San Francisco a sanctuary city for what he believed to be overreach by the federal government against his citizens." 

Thomson requested the measure, which was passed 6-1 by the city council on Nov. 2. The resolution is intended to allow the city to opt out of enforcing " any executive orders issued by the state of California or by the United States federal government that are overreaching or clearly violate our constitutionally protected rights."…

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"Fauci truly is the devil.  He is evil incarnate.  His elitist complete and total lack of caring about Americans God given inalienable rights. He’s such an ass that he would think that we would let him take any more rights away from we the people. Fauci is a demonic control freak who presumes to think that we would surrender anything to him or the evil regime he fronts for."

What a bunch of hateful ignorant nonsense.

People worldwide are demanding the right to determine what is best for themselves and their families.

From Europe to the USA to Taiwan that is true.  Fauci like Xi want to take that away from people presently holding that right. 

Easily confused...

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People worldwide are demanding the right to determine what is best for themselves and their families.

And continually getting it wrong, because they think that somehow - because they drive a forklift or something - they know more about infectious diseases than say, medical doctors who are experts in infectious diseases.

The cost of their hubris and ignorance is an ongoing pandemic of millions of deaths, not just for the infected, but for all the people who can’t get other kinds of treatment because these morons are clogging the hospitals.

Fauci truly is the devil.  He is evil incarnate.  His elitist complete and total lack of caring about Americans God given inalienable rights. He’s such an ass that he would think that we would let him take any more rights away from we the people. Fauci is a demonic control freak who presumes to think that we would surrender anything to him or the evil regime he fronts for.

Ridiculous emotional theatrics.  

the devil  ... evil incarnate ...  elitist ... ass ... demonic control freak ... evil regime

Ridiculous emotional theatrics.

Nah, it makes perfect sense! This man, with nothing in particular to gain and no particular reason to hurt anyone, spent 50 fucking years working as a doctor of infectious diseases, just so that - at the ripe age of 80 - he could destroy humankind and the freedoms we all cherish . . . or something. Totally rational! 

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His involvement in the gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab made all this misery possible

Do you think tacos is agreeing with the ignorance of this 'article'?  Or the lie you just repeated?

His involvement in the gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab made all this misery possible

What involvement??   He did not authorize gain-of-function research at Wuhan and in particular anything to do with COVID-19.   Amazing watching people simply accept these partisan conspiracy theories and take every little change of direction in the wind as evidence of their conspiratorial views.  

You know they aren't going to acknowledge Fauci lied about the gain of function research at Wuhan. 

They aren't going to acknowledge Fauci knew the funding was being used for gain of function.

They aren't going to acknowledge Fauci knew the whole thing started at the Wuhan lab where he has ties.

You know they aren't going to provide a damn thing to back up their claims either.

We're not going to acknowledge nothing but lies.  

That's exactly my point.  You've pushed and only acknowledged the lies. The problem is you accept these lies as truth.

His involvement in the gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab made all this misery possible

Even if you think both that that research was going on, and he was involved, a lot of things have made this misery possible. Cruise ships. Airplanes. Concepts of individual liberty. Science, in general.

But the notion that this octogenarian medical doctor has some anti-human rights agenda is pretty ridiculous.

Individual liberty and personal rights are the most stupid and dangerous concepts on earth to branch covidians.  

That just sounds like made up bigotry.

Only victims have individual rights.

Dr. Fauci – the man who wants to dictate whether or not you can celebrate the holidays with your family – trashed Americans as having a “misplaced perception” of individual rights.

Dear Fauci.  First, go fuck yourself.  You are in absolutely NO position to make ANY recommendations to anybody.

Not only am I ignoring your lying ass and spending EVERY holiday with my family, I'm also joining THOUSANDS by attending concerts (did one already with about 10,000 screaming metal fans last month) and other outings.  Do us all a favor and permanently remove yourself from society.  I'm sure Wuhan will put you up in their Gain of Function lab you lied about.

What an ignorant hateful rant.  Dr. Fauci is no liar.  

We here know who the liars are.  

What an ignorant hateful rant.

No surprise there.

We here know who the liars are.  

So do they. But, that is their only purpose being here. Spread the lies, and discredit the site.

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I'm not going anywhere.  

So you intentionally make yourself out to be part of the ill informed group.  Good to know.

See 5.1.

I see you are choosing ignorance again.  Another example of the failure I mentioned before.

See # 5

Dr. Fauci is the most vile and evil person in America.  

And there you have it folks.   XX has identified the modern equivalent of Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini and Chairman Mao.   It is, per XX, Dr. Anthony Fauci whose vile and evil acts are:   ???

Well done.  Thanks for sharing those words about our biggest domestic enemy.  

His recommendation is on how to be with your family safely. And that makes you mad? He literally wants you to be with family.

I don't give a shit if he recommends suck starting a howitzer.  He can eat shit for all I care.  He is the problem.  None of us need his or anybody's permission to live our lives.  

Brilliant and so thoughtful.  

It was February 2020, and news accounts had been describing increasingly alarming information about a deadly new virus emanating from Wuhan, China. Apart from my general concern about the spread of the infection, I was confused about some of the basic numbers being aired. The overall message coming from the World Health Organization ( WHO ) seemed to have obvious flaws. The extremely high risk estimates seemed very misleading. Even worst—the reported fatality rates were based only on patients who were sick enough to seek medical care rather than on the undoubtedly much larger population of infected individuals. I was stunned that this basic methodological flaw was being overlooked by almost everyone, while the resulting fatality rate of 3.4 percent was highlighted throughout the media. Every legitimate medical scientist should have called that out. Their silence was puzzling.

In the United States and throughout the world, a naive discussion about statistical models ensued. To an extraordinary and unprecedented extent, these epidemiological models were featured front and center in news coverage, with no perspective on the models' usefulness. Reminiscent of other legendary frenzies in history, like the tulip bulb mania or the tech stock bubble, hypothetical extreme-risk scenarios went seemingly unchallenged and were given absolute credence.

At the same time, common sense and well-established principles of medicine were being ignored. Every second-year medical student knew that the elderly were almost certainly the most vulnerable group of people, since they were virtually always at highest risk of death and serious consequences from respiratory infections. Yet this was not stressed. To the contrary, the implication of reports and the public faces of official expertise implied that everyone was equally in danger. Even the initial evidence showed that elderly, frail people with preexisting comorbidities—conditions that weakened their natural immunological defenses—were the ones at highest risk of death. This was a feature shared by other respiratory viruses, including seasonal influenza. The one unusual feature of this virus was the fact that children had an extraordinarily low risk. Yet this positive and reassuring news was never emphasized. Instead, with total disregard of the evidence of selective risk consistent with other respiratory viruses, public health officials recommended draconian isolation of everyone…

…The architects of the American lockdown strategy were Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Deborah Birx . With Dr. Robert Redfield, the director of the CDC , they were the most influential medical members of the White House Coronavirus Task Force.

The task force quickly expanded to include a new chairman, Vice President Mike Pence . The White House also announced that Birx would be the task force's coordinator. She had worked in the State Department as the U.S. AIDS coordinator under the Obama and Trump administrations—hence she was often addressed by the honorific "ambassador." The task force ultimately included representation from numerous federal agencies concerned with health, science, national emergencies and logistics, the economy and many other relevant concerns.

The task force dealt with a number of issues at its origin. Since the country had not been well prepared for a pandemic, one of the primary tasks was to develop adequate testing—a key public health measure in early infectious disease outbreaks. The second main set of tasks centered around the production and logistics of supportive medical equipment, including ventilators, personal protective supplies for hospitals and extra beds and personnel to accommodate sick patients anticipated to overwhelm the system.

Dr. Birx, Dr. Redfield and Dr. Fauci—often called "the nation's top expert in infectious disease"—dominated all discussions about the health and medical aspects of the emerging pandemic. One thing was very clear: all three were cut from the same cloth. First, they were all bureaucrats, with a background in various government agencies. Second, they shared a long history in HIV/AIDS as a public health crisis. That was problematic, because HIV couldn't be more different from SARS2 in its biology, its amenability to testing and contact tracing, its spread and the implications of those facts for its control. Indeed, the three of them spent many years focusing on the development of a vaccine, rather than treatment, for HIV/AIDS—a vaccine that still does not exist.

It's also worth noting Dr. Fauci's history in regard to AIDS. He created headlines for his alarmist speculations in his 1983 JAMA editorial that AIDS could be transmitted by "routine close contact, as within a family household." It had already been known that transmission happened via fluids through blood or sexual contact. Less than two months later, on June 26 in The Baltimore Sun , Fauci publicly contradicted his own explosive claim: "It is absolutely preposterous to suggest that AIDS can be contracted through normal social contact like being in the same room with someone or sitting on a bus with them. The poor gays have received a very raw deal on this." That seemed like quite a flip-flop, with no new evidence or explanation given—more reminiscent of a politician than a reliable scientist.

Most others on the task force were juggling several concerns or had no medical background. This was one more responsibility added to their portfolios, so they deferred to those deemed medical experts. Drs. Birx and Fauci commandeered federal policy under President Trump and publicly advocated for a total societal shutdown. Instead of focusing on protecting the most vulnerable, their illogical and extraordinarily blunt response—despite its predictable, wide-ranging harms—was instituted as though it were simple common sense.

Over those first several weeks, fear had taken hold of the public. Media commentators and even policy experts, many of whom had no expertise on health care, were filling the airwaves and opinion pages with naive and incorrect predictions. This misinformation was going unchecked, and was indeed repeatedly endorsed and sensationalized. Some whom I had previously considered among my smartest colleagues and friends expressed great confusion and a striking absence of logic in analyzing what was happening.

I asked myself time and again, "Where are the critical thinkers?"

After more than 15 years a health policy researcher and decades in medical science and data analysis, I had never seen such flawed thinking. I was bewildered at the lack of logic, the absence of common sense and the reliance on fundamentally flawed science. Suddenly, computer modelers and people without any perspective about clinical illnesses were dominating the airwaves. Along with millions of other Americans, I began witnessing unprecedented responses from those in power and nonscientific recommendations by public health spokespeople: societal lockdowns including business and school closures, stay-at-home restrictions on individual movements, and arbitrary decrees by local, state, and federal governments.

These recommendations were not just based on panic; they were responsible for generating even more panic. COVID rapidly became the most important health policy crisis in a century.

Scott W. Atlas, M.D. is the Robert Wesson Senior Fellow in health care policy at the Hoover Institution.

The views expressed in this article are the writer's own.

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I do not know about others, but as a rule I ignore comments like this where the poster in effect seeds an article in a single comment and offers no summary and does not articulate a point.

Just an FYI that you likely are wasting your time with such practices.

It was a portion of a Newsweek article on the seeded topic that I originally found at Real Clear Politics yetsterday.  They had another great related article there by Public Discourse as well.  Dr.Atlas is a great man and is right on about this issue.  

He’s exactly right about this.  No one is going to listen to anything the government says about any health issue as long as his mug is anywhere near such a pronouncement.  

I totally agree. I have commented on this - what I consider to be a fundamentally disrespectful practice - before, but to no avail. It’s not a conversation. It’s just an attempt to bludgeon.

To see failure and ignorance you must be looking in the mirror.  

Thanks for sharing your own experience with everyone here.