It’s rare that an election in an odd-numbered year produces any kind of serious response from politicians and pundits, which is what made the left’s anaphylactic reaction to a handful of races on Tuesday both entertaining and infuriating.
In Virginia, a state that’s been trending blue for years and where a Republican last won statewide office in 2009, Republican Glenn Youngkin — a businessman and first-time political candidate — defeated establishment scion Terry McAuliffe, a former governor and head of the Democratic National Committee.
In a New Jersey gubernatorial race that was never expected to be close, incumbent Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy was still neck-and-neck with Republican candidate Jack Ciattarelli in the early hours of Wednesday morning, according to Fox News.
Needless to say, there were plenty of meltdowns on left-bubble Twitter because of this state of affairs. And then there was Van Jones, who called Youngkin the “delta variant of Trumpism,” linking the now-governor-elect to a pandemic that’s killed hundreds of thousands of Americans.
“The stakes are high,” Jones said in a widely circulated clip of CNN’s election coverage.
“When this election is over in Virginia, we will know — have we seen the emergence of the delta variant of Trumpism? The delta variant of Trumpism. In other words, Youngkin — same disease, but spreads a lot faster and can get a lot more places.”
Van Jones on CNN calls Glenn Youngkin the "delta variant of Trumpism."
"Same disease, but spreads a lot faster and can get a lot more places." pic.twitter.com/8dA9WfTCFC
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) November 2, 2021
CNN anchor Anderson Cooper then said Jones was “implying that Youngkin is more dangerous than the president — the former president.”
“More easy to spread,” Jones said. “Because if you look at what he’s doing, he is playing footsie with the worst of Trumpism. He’s putting himself forward as a champion of parents; this is a referendum on parents’ rights … but he’s using all the critical race theory head fakes and head nods which is a softer version of a very virulent, kind of anti-black posture.”
“This is a very big deal because if this is a pathway — if you can flirt with Trumpism, if you can flirt with Trump, and still win in the suburbs — that’s a new development for us.”
Jones would later kinda-not-really apologize.
“My point is that playing on racial fears by demagoguing CRT furthers dangerous aspects of Trumpism, just in friendlier form,” Jones tweeted. “Did not mean to imply that human beings are diseases.”
My point is that playing on racial fears by demagoguing CRT furthers dangerous aspects of Trumpism, just in friendlier form. Did not mean to imply that human beings are diseases. https://t.co/ohXwQSXYJW
— Van Jones (@VanJones68) November 3, 2021
Clearly.
Critical race theory emerged as a central issue in the Virginia gubernatorial race after parents challenged school curricula in Fairfax and Loudoun counties.
Opponents said lesson plans included elements of the controversial far-left school of thought that proposes that racism was one of the central motive factors — if not the central motive factor — behind the development of American and Western society.
Much of the left’s counterargument was that CRT wasn’t actually taught in schools. Thus, they claimed the use of the term was a dog whistle, part of what Jones called an “anti-black posture.”
Jones, mind you, is best known for a 2016 election night rant in which he called former President Donald Trump’s victory a “white-lash against a changing country.”
.@VanJones68 on #ElectionNight: "This was a whitelash against a changing country" https://t.co/DumWoBvixe pic.twitter.com/Kmt2eBJxci
— CNN (@CNN) November 9, 2016
Arguing over whether CRT is taught in Virginia’s schools ignores the salient point: Using the term isn’t dog-whistle racism one way or the other.
Even if the concept has become shorthand for liberal educators thinking they can solve our social ills in 15 minutes by emphasizing the perceived evils of white Americans to our children, opposition to it isn’t demagogy — it’s common sense.
When voters objected to McAuliffe saying “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach,” it wasn’t “white-lash.” Youngkin’s promise to protect parents’ right to shape what their children are taught in the schools their tax dollars fund isn’t stoking any racial resentment.
Jones is forced to invoke the coronavirus and the ill-defined, all-purpose Democratic bogeyman of “Trumpism” to smear Youngkin — who never once campaigned with Trump, it must be noted, and has little in common with the former president temperamentally.
This Twitter conservative may have put it best:
Youngkin is a more passionate Mitt Romney and a conservative.
This just proves that for media there’s no acceptable Republicans. So stop treating these people as anything but the Democrat operatives they are.
Stop being nice. https://t.co/V3MZnhlKGX
— RBe (@RBPundit) November 2, 2021
“Youngkin is a more passionate Mitt Romney and a conservative. This just proves that for media there’s no acceptable Republicans. So stop treating these people as anything but the Democrat operatives they are. Stop being nice.”
A good Republican for Jones is one who does what Democrats want, but maybe grumbles a bit when he does it. (Preferably, he loses races, too.)
When he puts up the slightest whiff of opposition to current Democratic orthodoxy, however, he becomes akin to a pandemic that’s killed hundreds of thousands of Americans. Republicans should take note.
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If one ever deserved a good old fashion slam in the mouth, it is he.
This invalid makes me sick. It is the demon-rat side that are the despised killers. Just look at their record. A plane or two should be charted for people like him, flown to Afghanistan and left there. That’s the type of government they all seem to want to live under, so let them. So, any takers?
Just because Jones looks at everything through a race lens does not mean everyone else does. He apparently forgets that the left convinced suburban moms to fear President Trump’s mean tweets were hateful to their kids. How hateful is CRT to their kids. I’m thinking he should be comparing CRT to the delta variant…..unless Fauci has a stronger version to release next year!
I read that there is a virus called Nipah which has up to an 80% death rate instead of the 1% from the covid19. This also comes from Asia
The death rate for Nipah virus is up to 75% and it has no vaccine. While the world focuses on Covid-19, scientists are working hard to ensure it doesn’t cause the next pandemic.
These include the Nipah virus. Fruit bats are its natural host. “It’s a major concern because there’s no treatment… and a high mortality rate [is] caused by this virus,” says Wacharapluesadee. The death rate for Nipah ranges from 40% up to 75%, depending on where the outbreak occurs.
Across 11 different outbreaks of Nipah in Bangladesh from 2001 to 2011, 196 people were detected to have Nipah – 150 died.
Fruit bats tend to live in thick forest regions with lots of fruit trees for them to feed on. When their habitat is destroyed or damaged, they find new solutions – like the roost of a house, or the creviced turrets of Angkor Wat. “The destruction of bat habitat and the interference of humans through hunting drives flying foxes to search for alternative roosts,” says Duong. It’s likely the bats that Duong’s team have monitored travelling up to 100km per night for fruit are doing so because their natural habitat no longer exists.
But bats, we now know, harbour a number of nasty diseases – Nipah and Covid-19, but also Ebola and Sars.
Nipah virus is in their top 10. And, with a number of outbreaks having happened in Asia already, it is likely we haven’t seen the last of it.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210106-nipah-virus-how-bats-could-cause-the-next-pandemic
Survival rates are low
While it is possible to recover, the virus has a high fatality rate.
In 2018, when Nipah emerged for the first time in Kerala, only two of the 19 infected people survived. When it was detected again in 2019, a 23-year-old man was infected, but swift isolation ensured the virus did not spread to others in his community. The patient survived.
“[With] COVID, you are most infectious before the symptoms set in,” says Anish. “Once they do, your ability to infect other people wanes. But that’s not the case with Nipah. When the symptoms set in, you start spreading the virus.” In areas more prone to Nipah infections (Bangladesh, Malaysia, India and Singapore), being aware of this can help, he says.
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/09/12/1035571714/why-the-world-should-be-more-than-a-bit-worried-about-indias-nipah-virus-outbreak
WHO tool distinguishes which diseases pose the greatest public health risk due to their epidemic potential and/or whether there is no or insufficient countermeasures.
At present, the priority diseases are:
COVID-19
Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever
Ebola virus disease and Marburg virus disease
Lassa fever
Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)
Nipah and henipaviral diseases
Rift Valley fever
Zika
“Disease X”*
This is not an exhaustive list, nor does it indicate the most likely causes of the next epidemic. WHO reviews and updates this list as needs arise, and methodologies change. Based on the priority diseases, WHO then works to develop R&D roadmaps for each one.
* Disease X represents the knowledge that a serious international epidemic could be caused by a pathogen currently unknown to cause human disease. The R&D Blueprint explicitly seeks to enable early cross-cutting R&D preparedness that is also relevant for an unknown “Disease X”.
https://www.who.int/activities/prioritizing-diseases-for-research-and-development-in-emergency-contexts
Jones has done nothing for the black race! Just like the liar and phony REV. AL SHARPTON they just play race card! Due to lot of young black blame white for their problems! But refused to look who are misleading them! The party they cal their party! More like the party that still have SLAVE OWNER IN CHARGE!
What else can you expect losers like Jones and CNN to say, no one watches them anyway and the few that do couldnt take them seriously.CNN, Msnbc, ABC,CBS, and NBC are all political puppets without an ounce of credibility.They are jokes.
Time to have a chat with these Communist run Fake News Media azz holes.
CNN SUCKS FAKE NEWS
They seem to forget that Stinky Joe Biden is a Mass Murderer. Joe, Nancy Pelosi and the rest of the Communists have Murdered 60 Million American Babies since Roe V Wade started.