Panicdemic was how I have been spelling it for a while now, because panic has been the greatest problem from COVID-19. Philadelphia was among the worst of the cities in this country when it came to forced masking, vaccine mandates, and throwing people out of work who did not comply. The Philadelphia Federation of Teachers […]
In news that should surprise exactly no one, Philadelphia is losing population, and it’s worse than every other city among the twenty most populous in the United States. Most large U.S. cities reversed or slowed pandemic population drops. But not Philly. New data released by the U.S. Census Bureau Thursday shows 19 of the 20 […]
American novelist and literary critic Mary McCarthy once said of playwright Lillian Hellman, “Every word she writes is a lie, including ‘and’ and ‘the’.” While not everything the newspaper I have frequently mocked as The Philadelphia Enquirer[1]RedState writer Mike Miller called it the Enquirer, probably by mistake, so I didn’t originate it, but, reminiscent of […]
I do not normally like to reproduce photos from The Philadelphia Inquirer, due to copyright issues, but this one definitely falls within “fair use” criteria. The caption, reproduced along with the photo via screen capture, states: Masked Sixers fans watched pregame warm-ups before the Sixers’ Monday playoff game against the Toronto Raptors, during Philadelphia’s short-lived […]
As we predicted on Aprilth, authoritarians gotta authoritarian, and the City of Brotherly Love is reinstating its indoor mask mandate. But there’s a catch: Why Philly is bringing back its indoor mask mandate by Jason Laughlin | Monday, April 11, 2022 | 2:50 PM EDT By resuming the indoor mask mandate, city officials hope to […]
We have noted Philadelphia’s Health Commissioner Cheryl Bettigole and her desire to control, control, control people’s lives. We pointed out that even as countries around the world, and many American cities and states were loosening or dropping restrictions on people that had been imposed due to the COVID-19 panicdemic — and no, that’s not a […]
Remember the halcyon days of 2020 and 2021, in which Philadelphia, among most major cities, allowed restaurants which had been otherwise closed to indoor dining, to expand, where they physically could, to outdoor dining facilities? A challenging problem in a city which experiences severe winters, outdoor dining and increased carry-out ordering enabled many restaurants to […]
The heavily politicized Center for Disease Control have finally eased some of their masking guidelines, but, of course, the petty little dictators in the City of Brotherly Love want to keep Philadelphians wearing the symbols of authoritarian control. CDC loosens COVID-19 masking guidance, but Philly is keeping its mask mandate for now The city’s health […]
We noted, on February 3rd, that Philadelphia’s Health Commissioner, Cheryl Bettigole, said that lifting the city’s COVID-19 mandates would likely be several months away. Of course, Dr Bettigole has an appointed position, not an elected one, and it seems that the elected Democrats who control the City of Brotherly Love might be moving somewhat faster […]