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May 31, 2021 (American Thinker) – I get the New York Times’ daily free newsletter in my email. You can save your rotten tomatoes. I refuse to pay for anything they print. But sometimes it’s useful to stay in contact with the other side.
The NYT May 27 letter discusses the history of the COVID lab leak theory and declares that “the best mitigation strategies — travel restrictions, testing, contact tracing, social distancing, ventilation, and masking — are still the best mitigation strategies.” My parsimony has once again been proven well founded. Let’s break it down.
Mitigation is “the process or result of making something less severe, dangerous, painful, harsh, or damaging.” That means that anything that makes getting COVID less likely is a form of mitigation. Ditto for making the bug not so nasty if you should happen to get it. All of the NYT measures fall into the first group. And, as they like to trumpet, we should “Follow the Science!”
Travel restrictions:
These have a level of plausibility, but once the bug is in-country, limiting travel between the U.S. and U.K. becomes meaningless. The old saw
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