| Unleash Prosperity Hotline Issue #47 Written By Stephen Moore 1) The Red State Jobs RecoveryAn analysis of job postings from Jed Kolko, the chief economist of the website Indeed.com, found that we’re now five weeks past the low-point in help-wanted ads:”The global economy has slowed dramatically during the coronavirus pandemic. The trend in job postings — a real-time measure of labor market activity — is 32.5% lower than in 2019, as of June 5. The trend has improved over the past five weeks relative to May 1, when the trend was down 39.3% from a year earlier.”And they are seeing a growing divergence between Red and Blue America.  Kolko writes: “red and blue America are increasingly experiencing different trends, with postings farther below last year’s trend — and recovering more slowly — in Democratic-leaning metros than in Republican-leaning ones.”The blue states don’t need or deserve bailout checks from Washington. They just need to help themselves by opening up their businesses and letting their workers get back on the job. 2) Now They Tell Us: Asymptomatic Transmission Is “Very Rare”Recall a key reason why unprecedented lockdowns were sold as needed to control the coronavirus was that it was different. Unlike previous pandemic viruses it could easily enter people who never showed signs of being sick but were nonetheless able to spread the virus to others. This was a key justification for locking up healthy populations for the first time in modern history.Well, now the World Health Organization has revised that view.“From the data we have, it still seems to be rare that an asymptomatic person actually transmits onward to a secondary individual,” Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, head of WHO’s emerging diseases unit, said yesterday. “It’s very rare.”https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/08/asymptomatic-coronavirus-patients-arent-spreading-new-infections-who-says.html 3) Some Gatherings Are More Equal Than OthersThis is the de facto policy in pretty much every lockdown jurisdiction in America, but Contra Costa County, California went ahead and made it official:  (Our favorite part is in the top left corner, where it says “facts not fear.” You couldn’t make this stuff up.) 4) “When People Feel Hopeless…Caution Goes To The Wind”We were among the first to announce last week’s civil unrest was in part caused by the anger and frustration of locking up the healthy population – especially young males – for nearly three months. It’s why we called them the Lockdown Riots.Now more evidence is surfacing from leading experts who say that the lockdowns and street protests are connected. “People are so pent-up with frustration from being inside for so long,” Patricia Newton, chief executive and medical director of the Black Psychiatrists of America, told the Washington Post.“When people feel hopeless, they feel they have nothing to lose and caution goes to the wind.”Yes, police forces need reform – especially those with union contracts that protect bad cops. But the best way to avoid a repeat of last week’s unrest is to open the economy up and once again give people a sense of purpose in work and the ability to take care of themselves and their families. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/protests-coronavirus-risk-choice/2020/06/07/06721ec4-a50e-11ea-bb20-ebf0921f3bbd_story.html5) Lockdown Victims Finally Being CountedThe lockdowns had many unfortunate side effects, none worse than all of the missed medical checkups, canceled surgeries and the increased fear many had of going to a hospital for non-COVID treatment.Now a report by Britain’s Office of National Statistics lays out some details on this grim news. Almost a third of British deaths recorded between early March and May that wouldn’t be expected to have happened in a normal year had nothing to do with coronavirus.Deaths from asthma, heart disease and diabetes especially increased, and because more of them than normal occurred outside hospitals the BBC reports they “could suggest the rise was down to a delay in care for these conditions.”We’ve said it before: lockdowns kill.https://www.bbc.com/news/health-52935152 6) Nevada Congresswoman Pushed For Loans For Casino Firms. Her Husband Got Two.Journalists will be chasing virus bailout corruption stories for months.The latest comes from the Daily Beast, which reports:“In a letter to the heads of the Treasury Department and Small Business Administration, Democrat Rep. Susie Lee (Nevada) urged the agencies tasked with administering the Paycheck Protection Program to reconsider regulatory language that excluded gaming companies from the program’s small business aid.”https://www.thedailybeast.com/nevada-congresswoman-pushed-for-covid-loans-for-casinos-her-husband-got-two?ref=scrollThe regulations were indeed altered and one casino company that benefited from $5.6 million in loans was Full House Resorts, whose 1,600 employees would not normally qualify it as a small business. Its CEO is Daniel Lee. He happens to be married to Rep. Lee. She’s only a freshman, but she appears to be a fast learner in the ways of Washington. 7) Finally, Conservatives Fight Back Against the Mad, Mad, Mad World We Live InNew Trier Township on the north shore of Chicago is one of the five wealthiest school districts in America. The residents are 95 percent white so it is the perfect place for the left to prey upon witless white liberal guilt. Not only has the town’s school board declared solidarity with Black Lives Matter rallies (and tacitly the violence and destruction) but now the “woke” officials want to push on high school kids leftist doctrines like Critical Race Theory that America’s legal and economic systems are inherently racist and “give rise to poverty and criminality in minority communities.”Few have dared to stand up to this mendacious and anti-America doctrine, but we wanted to celebrate our sister in arms and co-founder of New Trier Neighbors, Beth Feeley, who wrote this courageous indictment of the lunacy in a letter to the school administrators:“When New Trier administrators decide that some thoughts are more equal than others they are doing a disservice to the families they supposedly serve. I would much rather continue the conversations in an environment which truly commits minds to inquiry, hearts to compassion and lives to the service of humanity rather than capitulate to groupthink on race which may make people around here feel better but does nothing for people who are suffering in blighted neighborhoods. “I would like to see more attention on practical ideas for reforming police and bringing better schools and work opportunities to low income neighborhoods than I would on how we here in our leafy suburbs can focus on and apologize for our privilege. “You have privilege? Put it to use. Take a drive to a low income neighborhood. Visit and support an organization that is helping people as they need help exiting the prison system, recovering from drug addiction, staying in school or learning a trade to find sustainable work.” 8) Anti-Hero of the DayNew Jersey Governor Phil Murphy has stubbornly refused to open up his state’s economy, claiming he can’t because “data determines dates.”But a group of whistleblowers who say they are members of the state’s Pandemic Response Team have written to state legislators with disturbing allegations.http://newjersey.news12.com/story/42203181/whistleblowers-gov-murphy-rarely-consults-with-health-officials-on-covid19-crisisThey say the governor rarely consults with them and apparently his team is “making things up as they proceed or making decisions and justifying them on the back end.”The governor’s office says it won’t respond in any way to anonymous allegations. But state legislators have snapped to attention and are promising hearings. 9) Look What You Made Them Do!  |
