By Roger Kimball

July 31, 2021 - The most cheerful headline I have seen in weeks was on Glenn Reynolds’ New York Post column: No, Karen, we’re not masking again. I hope he is right. I do wonder, though. I have no doubt that the second part of his headline - A winning GOP message for 2022 [and] beyond - is correct. At least it’s correct if it is expressed as a conditional: It would be a winning strategy were it adopted. As Reynolds notes, “There is a great deal of pent-up frustration and resentment over the inconvenience, the loss of freedom, and the general climate of hectoring that the government’s pandemic response has created.”

BAD NEUENAHR AHRWEILER, Germany (PNN) - July 30, 2021 - Around 600 corpses of tortured babies lay in a Bad Neuenahr Ahrweiler Germany gymnasium this week according to eyewitnesses. The bodies had washed up into homes and rivers during extensive floods and were believed from an extensive underground tunnel system where children were tortured, and organs and blood harvested for elites to drink in satanic worship. The rivers were now guarded by the military with the only information let out about the dead children was that they didn’t appear to be from the region and hadn’t died from drowning or natural causes.

LONDON, England (PNN) - July 30, 2021 - A video out of the Fascist United Kingdom shows NHS nurses demanding to COVID test a newborn baby, claiming it’s not the mother’s property once outside the womb and then threatening to report her to social services for refusing.

The shocking video, which was posted to Twitter, shows a heavily pregnant mother in a hospital bed being lectured by nurses about how it’s mandatory for the baby to be given a COVID test immediately after birth.

“It is my property,” states the mother, to which one of the nurse’s responds, “so you will… while the baby’s in your abdomen.”

SYDNEY, Australia (PNN) - July 29, 2021 - Fines for COVID rule breakers in NSW have doubled and terrorist pig thug cops have unlawfully been given wide-ranging new powers to shut down businesses and construction sites.

The penalty for not wearing a mask where required has more than doubled from $200 to $500.

Sydney's outbreak added 239 cases - a record for NSW in the entire nonexistent pandemic - on Thursday with 66 infectious in the community and 70 under investigation.

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Kalifornia (PNN) - July 27, 2021 - The owner of Basilico's Pasta e Vino spoke out against a backlash on Monday, after posting flyers outside his business and on social media requiring proof that customers are not vaccinated.

The flyers read, "Notice: Proof of being unvaccinated required. We have zero tolerance for treasonous, anti-Amerikan stupidity. Thank you for pondering."

Tanya Scheer, who cuts hair at a nearby barber shop, said she was aware of the owner's anti-mask, anti-vaccination stance. They have been very open about it throughout the nonexistent pandemic on their storefront and online.

FAIRFAX, Virginia (PNN) - July 25, 2021 - A civil rights group is calling on George Mason University (GMU) executives to reconsider their vaccination requirement for staff and students in the fall semester, claiming that it’s a scientifically “irrational” policy that violates constitutional rights and medical ethics.

The New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA), which describes itself as a nonpartisan, nonprofit civil rights group that seeks “to protect constitutional freedoms from violations by the Administrative State,” said in a July 22 statement that GMU’s “flawed reopening policy” for the fall semester “tramples on the civil liberties of students, faculty and employees alike.

STOCKHOLM, Sweden (PNN) - July 25, 2021 - One country not making much news is Sweden.

Sweden, of course, was maligned in 2020 for foregoing a strict lockdown. The Guardian called its approach “a catastrophe” in the making, while CBS News said Sweden had become “an example of how not to handle COVID-19.”

Despite these criticisms, Sweden’s laissez-faire approach to the nonexistent pandemic continues today. In contrast to its European neighbors, Sweden is welcoming tourists. Businesses and schools are open with almost no restrictions; and as far as masks are concerned, not only is there no mandate in place, Swedish health officials are not even recommending them.