More coronavirus BS from msn.com

MSN wants to show us how much more deadly the COVID-19 virus is than the influenza virus, so they employ this graphic:

Does anyone else see the problem with this comparison? 

It's in the superfine print at the bottom where they give their sources for the data.

The graph on the left shows the death rates per age group from influenza in the US. The one on the right shows the death rates per age group from coronavirus IN CHINA.

This is a totally BS comparison, given the huge disparities between health care, sanitation, air quality, and cultural practices in the US and China.  If they truly want to use real "science-y" data to prove the coronavirus more deadly than this year's influenza, they should show the death rates from the SAME COUNTRY for each one. 

I can't decide if this is just the msm's ignorance of anything that requires logical thinking or deliberate obfuscation. 

  Progressivism's inevitable next step

 

Coming soon to a college campus near you.

Allahu Akbar - What does it really mean?

Every time someone named Mohammed does something weird 'n wacky, the most recent example being this guy, the authorities assure us it has absolutely nothing to do with Islam, in spite of the fact that the perpetrator is either heard saying Allahu Akbar as he caries out the deed or has it written in his manifesto. Now normal people would assume that since Allahu Akbar means "Allah is great" and the aforesaid people named Mohammed always shout it as they fly planes into buildings, blow themselves up on crowded buses, or cut someone's head off, that their actions have plenty to do with Islam.

But maybe it doesn't mean what we think it means. Maybe all our authority figures have made an intense study of Arabic and found that there are other, completely innocuous meanings to the phrase. Given their fairly cavalier attitude towards Muslim terrorists, it must mean something like this:

"Excuse me, coming through!"
"Nothing to see here!"
"Can you direct me to the train station?"
"I'm walking here!" (NYC)
"Got any spare change?"
"Help, help, I'm being repressed!"
"I'm definitely not Muslim!"

Once more, Germany leads Europe into the abyss

From Adam Garfinkle at The American Interest:

" To Poland’s west we are about to witness the biggest boon for right-wing xenophobes since the 1930s. All this moral unction reminds me of the reality-challenged 1920s in Europe, which gave rise to the very ugly 1930s........." 

and

"For all this we can blame the Nazis, because the moral ricochet over time is clear, and it is in many ways very noble. It’s nice that the Germans want to be moral, charitable, hospitable, generous and kind, isn’t it? But absent a heavy doze [sic] of Niebuhrian moral realism, they now risk letting dead Nazis derange living thought from beyond the grave."

Read the whole thing.

The Religious Aspects of "Wellness" 

I have read many, many diet and exercise articles over the years, and it strikes me that they can all be summed up in two sentences:

"Whatever you are doing, it's wrong and you're headed for an early grave. Eat or do what I say and you'll live forever!"

Sound familiar?

So, what are our priorities again?

Karen Lewis, head of the Chicago teachers' union, says that they are "sick of working for starvation wages". I think she needs to get out more.