Top Three Takeaways – March 30th, 2021
- What could go wrong? And just like that Mexico’s COVID-19 death toll rose by 60%. Yes 6-0 percent. Minor accounting errors out of Mexico throughout the pandemic until now apparently. This as a report from Mexico’s Health agency showed huge flaws in Mexico’s COVID reporting – especially for related deaths. The result is Mexico, has the second highest number of deaths recorded from COVID-19 in the world in total number and when adjusted for population. Why does this matter to us? The border crisis of course. This new information reveals infection rates in Mexico which are greater than double US infection rates. With migrant caravans and potentially asymptomatic unaccompanied minors being allowed into the country at will by the Biden-Harris administration...what could go wrong? And yet what’s the policy of the Biden-Harris administration, which by the way is officially and only to be referred to as the Biden-Harris administration? The policy as White House press secretary Jen Psaki repeated on Sunday, is not to come but not to turn anyone under 18 away. The Biden-Harris administration in conjunction with Jen Psaki, of the Saki drinking game, really must think we’re stupid. But clearly those seeking access without going through proper immigration procedures aren’t. But what could go wrong?
- Can this country handle the truth? What about the jury in Derek Chavin’s trial? Let’s be clear. Derek Chavin did the unthinkable to George Floyd. He’s guilty of many offenses, some legal – and some violations of basic humanity. But what hasn’t yet been established is to what extent. Floyd was turned into a martyr upon his death but what he wasn’t was an angel. While news media was quick to play into the politics of Black Lives Matter, they were often light on the facts. Like for example, Floyd having been arrested nine times previously leading to convictions on eight separate crimes. This included breaking into a woman’s apartment and robbing her at gun point. They also managed to miss that he had just committed another offense at the time of his encounter with Chavin while resisting arrest while under the influence of illegal substances which potentially contributed to his death. With the trial now underway these facts will be brought to light by the defense. The question is can the country handle the truth as it’s disseminated? And what about the jury. How open might they be to consider all of the facts and to go where they take them? Or how worried might they be for themselves and their families should they feel compelled to not convict on all charges? Derek Chavin proved to be a horrible human based on what we already know, but George Floyd shouldn’t have been held up as a martyr either. The implications are many for all involved.
- Not very likely. That’s what I have to say to anyone who genuinely believes Nikki Fried is tied with Ron DeSantis in a hypothetical head-to-head matchup. After a January poll released by Florida’s most accurate pollster of the past decade, Mason-Dixon, showed DeSantis with a hypothetical nine-point lead, St. Pete Polls was out recently with one showing the race as being tied. There’s only one thing about St. Pete Polls. They stink. Not only has the current polling arm only polled on one Florida Governor’s race, 2018’s. They were terrible. St. Pete Polls had Andrew Gillum beating Ron DeSantis by 5 points on Election Day 2018 with a margin of error of 1.8%. You could triple their margin of error and they would still have been wrong. So, if Mason-Dixon, who had Gillum winning by a point in 2018 has DeSantis up nine and St. Pete Polls has a Fried-DeSantis race tied. What does that tell you? Not very likely. In fact, it’s probably not even close.