Floundering CDC director Rochelle Walensky – a kind of hapless Robin facing Fauci’s Riddler – once said, “I’m going to reflect on the recurring feeling I have of impending doom.” Now the winds have suddenly if belatedly shifted in favour of recognizing relative risk – such as that those dying of Covid-19 tend to have four comorbidities. James Freeman in the Wall Street Journal examines.
The Frigid Isle
Íris Erlingsdóttir shines a light on the world’s first wholly feminized state. Women, she writes in The European Conservative, run everything in Iceland: “the presidency, the prime minister’s office…[the] national state church…schools, municipalities, police…newsrooms and [the] ever-expanding public bureaucracy.” As for the men, Erlingsdóttir observes, they describe themselves ruefully as (bad-taste alert) “pussy-whipped.”
