A report from the New York Times contains this startling statement: “The country [Japan] has never mandated masks or vaccinations, but it’s evaded the worst of Covid, thanks to a fear of public shaming and the ‘self restraint police.’”

Did you ever hear of those Japanese soldiers who refused to admit that they had lost the Second World War? They were so delusional, they hid out on Pacific islands for decades after their country formally surrendered to the U.S. and its Allies, and they died in their caves, old, broken, alone and crazy.

Last Sunday, a huge sideshow on International Boulevard resulted in a chase of one of the participants by two Oakland police officers. When the fleeing perp reached a speed of 100 miles an hour, the two cops gave up the chase—too dangerous. But the perp crashed into a line of parked cars and motorcycles, as a result of which an innocent pedestrian who just happened to be walking by was killed. The two officers were placed on routine administrative leave, OPD Chief LeRonne Armstrong announced on Monday at a hastily-called news conference. (In addition to this most recent death, last March a man was shot to death, and possibly struck by a rogue vehicle, at a sideshow near I-880.)

Actually, he never went away. Just three weeks after his historic recall, San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin returned to the headlines today, with the San Francisco Chronicle blaring, column-to-column, that “Boudin won’t rule out new run for D.A.” (He’ll be turned out of office in a week or so.)

Every time I leave my house, I see people who ought not to be allowed to wander the streets in their sick condition.