🗞*COVID NEWS AND COMMENTARY* 🗞

[GURPS]

☕️ Coffee & Covid ☙ Wednesday, December 29, 2021 ☙ FIVE DAYS 🦠

Today's roundup includes a correction and analysis of the CDC’s new FIVE DAY quarantine, NFL news, domestic vaccine passport news, Boris Johnson admits 90% of UK's ICUs are injected folks; and more…

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So they dramatically reduced the length of quarantine during the middle of a massive surge in cases. Isn’t that interesting? You’d figure they would have a pretty solid reason to do it now, right?

The CDC’s website explains that “The change is motivated by science demonstrating that the majority of SARS-CoV-2 transmission occurs early in the course of illness, generally in the 1-2 days prior to onset of symptoms and the 2-3 days after.”

Science!

That’s pretty funny. It’s not any NEW science. If you could take the CDC’s binky away and make it say what study it was allegedly relying on, the study would have to be MONTHS and MONTHS old. The fact that transmission occurs during the early period of infection is so well-established at this point that nobody’s even talking about it anymore.

 

[TPD]

According to Walensky, no science was involved in this decision but rather human behavior. Yeah - it’s all about the science. BFS!!!

"It really had a lot to do with what we thought people would be able to tolerate," Walensky said, saying studies showed a majority of Americans weren't isolating when they "need to." "And so we really want to make sure that we had guidance in this moment — where we were going to have a lot of disease — that could be adhered to, that people were willing to adhere to and that spoke specifically to when people were maximally infectious."

CDC Director: Human behavior played into shortening recommended isolation period for COVID cases

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky acknowledged Wednesday that human behavior played into the latest quarantine guidelines for people with COVID-19.

www.foxnews.com

 

[GURPS]

️ Coffee & Covid ☙ Monday, January 3, 2022 ☙ WHEN ROBOTS ATTACK

Omicron is spreading like crazy but deaths and hospitalizations are low; the Times shows the new variant seems to have an affinity for the jabbed; the Netherlands goes full booster; and more...

It’s the first Monday in 2022 and things look great. Omicron continues to spread like wildfire — especially among the injected — but people just aren’t getting as sick. Scott Gottlieb dunks on cloth masks; HHS relents on monoclonal antibodies and will let states order them again; a Rose Parade float makes a surprising metaphor; the US hits a new record level of Omicron cases but hospitalizations remain under control (again); the New York Times publishes a pair of infographics that are especially interesting when you look at them together; the Netherlands goes full booster, shooting for the record; I explain my theory on why the CDC shortened Covid quarantines; Eric Garcetti takes office as New York City’s new mayor; and the new Florida weekly report is out.

 

[Hijinx]

So what they are actually saying is that people are spreading the disease before they even know they have it.
So don't be frightened of people with the disease, be frightened of those who don't have it --or don't know they have it.
Then they are saying you are more apt to get Omicron in you have gotten the jab,
So leave the damned booster alone and you may not get Omicron.

This is all great science isn't it. The scientists don't know any more than we do and instead of science they are spreading rumors and BS.

 

[GURPS]

Coffee & Covid ☙ Tuesday, January 4, 2022 ☙ SHORT SELLING
Insurance numbers show excess deaths; two federal courts enjoin two more mandates; Florida pushes back on useless over-testing; N.Y. requires hospitals to report "with" Covid separately; & more...


Yesterday, life insurance company OneAmerica’s CEO Scott Davidson told the Indiana Chamber of Commerce that deaths among working-age people are off the charts.

OneAmerica isn’t some random player that doesn’t know what it’s talking about. It is a $100 billion Indiana-based life insurance company with 2,400 employees that started in Indianapolis right after the Civil war.

“[W]hat we saw just in third quarter, we’re seeing it continue into fourth quarter, is that death rates are up 40% over what they were pre-pandemic,” Davidson explained. He said the deaths were “huge, huge numbers,” and not in the elderly or infirm, but “primarily working-age people 18 to 64.” Most of the filed deaths claims are NOT Covid deaths, Davison said.

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A new preprint Dutch study titled “SARS-CoV-2 Omicron VOC Transmission in Danish Households” found that Omicron is a lot more infectious than Delta. That’s no surprise. But buried in the otherwise obediently pro-vaccine study’s fine print is this little eye-opener:

> “Comparing households infected with the Omicron to Delta VOC, we found an 1.17 times higher SAR [secondary attack rate] for un-vaccinated, 2.61 times higher for fully-vaccinated and 3.66 times higher for booster-vaccinated individuals, demonstrating strong evidence of immune evasiveness of the Omicron VOC.”

The higher infectiousness for injected folks is not surprising; we’ve seen that Omicron appears to prefer the jabbed, based on hospitalization numbers and data from areas that track breakthrough cases. But this study shows a significantly higher infection rate for BOOSTED folks, which suggests that the more jabs you get, the more likely you are to catch Omicron, and presumably, any future variant derived from Omicron.

In other words, negative vaccine efficacy may increase with each booster.

 

[GURPS]

️ Coffee & Covid ☙ Thursday, January 6, 2022 ☙ AT ANY LEVEL




This is what a collapsing Narrative looks like. Over the weekend, Science, I mean Fauci, told George Stephanopoulos that “As you get further on and the infections become less severe, it is much more relevant to focus on the hospitalizations as opposed to the total number of cases.” You don’t say. Cases aren’t important anymore! How about that. Science said it.

As I reported yesterday, the State of New York started requiring hospitals to report patients “with Covid” separate from patients being treated “for Covid” this week. And suddenly, many hospitals around the country have started voluntarily reporting with/for statistics, like Jackson Health’s network in South Florida.

In fact, check out how granular the data provided by Jackson Health’s tweeted update was yesterday:

“Jackson Health System hospitals currently have 468 patients who have tested positive for COVID-19. Of those, 235 patients - or 50% - are admitted to the hospital primarily for non-COVID reasons. Of the 468, 108 are vaccinated, 59 of whom are immunocompromised transplant patients.”

How about that? Fully HALF of patients reported as Covid-positive are just there “with Covid” and are not being treated for the disease. Gosh, it might have been useful to have this kind of specific information say, last summer, when the media was constantly whining about “overwhelmed hospitals” and we were all guessing about how many of them were just “with Covid.”

Also note that the tweet didn’t exactly say how many of the injected were being treated “with” or “for” Covid. That would be interesting to know.

 

[GURPS]

Coffee & Covid ☙ Friday, January 7, 2022 ☙ EMERGING




Remember recently the FDA asked a federal judge to allow it to produce Pfizer documents at a rate of 500 pages per month, which would have taken 75 years? Well, the judge entered a decision yesterday. It’s not going to be 75 years. The FDA must produce 55,000 pages PER MONTH.
The judge’s short 3-page order begins with several nice quotations:

“As James Madison wrote, ‘[a] popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy; or, perhaps, both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.’ John F. Kennedy likewise recognized that ‘a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.’ And, particularly appropriate in this case, John McCain (correctly) noted that ‘[e]xcessive administrative secrecy . . . feeds conspiracy theories and reduces the public’s confidence in the government.’”

Observing that “stale information is of little value,” the court ordered the FDA to produce the first 12,000 pages by January 31, and then produce 55,000 pages by March 1, and every 30 days thereafter until all the documents have been turned over.

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The most current data from Denmark appears to show NO benefit from boosters against infection by Omicron, and no benefit from boosters regarding severe disease except in folks older than 70.

The most current data from Israel — week 50, 2021 — appears to show boosted folks (965 new cases) are being infected at a higher rate than the double-jabbed (716 new cases), who are being infected at a higher rate than uninjected (311 new cases).

The most current data from the UK — December 2021 — shows that in every age group 18 and older, injected infection rates are higher than infection rates for uninjected people. The data suggests that overall, a Brit is 2.25 times more likely to get Covid if they’ve been jabbed. So.

Canadian TV (CTV) reported yesterday that, for the first time, there are more hospitalized folks in Calgary who are injected than uninjected. But CTV assured viewers that the data really means that the injections are working. But the expert interviewed for the story did concede, “They’re not perfect. Unfortunately, we don’t have the option of perfect.”
The reporter finished saying, “it may be more important now than ever before to get that booster shot.”

 

[GURPS]

Coffee & Covid ☙ Saturday, January 8, 2022 ☙ ORAL ARGUMENTS





THE PRO-MANDATE ARGUMENTS


It often seemed as though the liberal Justices were trying to convince the LAWYERS instead of the other way around. The liberal Justices sure spent a lot of time arguing facts that were definitely NOT in the record. You might even call those “facts” misinformation. Here are just a few examples.

Each of the three liberal Justices told the lawyers, repeatedly, that the vaccines stop INFECTIONS, astounding many commenters. How is it possible that the judges on the highest court in the country misunderstand this basic fact, when it’s now well-known by every other citizen in the country except maybe some very old people in a nursing home someplace?

I mean, do the liberal Justices even read The New York Times??

At one point, Justice Breyer told the lawyers that a vaccine mandate would “prevent 100% of cases.” Justice Kagan announced it is “beyond settled” that vaccines and masks are the best way to stop the spread. Breyer repeatedly cited statistics about how the number of cases is now at an all-time high. He said that the U.S. is now averaging more than 500,000 cases per day – even higher than when OSHA first issued the vaccine-or-test mandate. And, he added, hospitals are “nearly full” with patients who are NOT vaccinated.

Justice Sotomayor may have been the one justice who seemed most poorly informed. She was also the only Justice who did not participate from the Courtroom, choosing instead to Zoom in from her chambers. Presumably, for safety. The Times suggested it was because she has diabetes.

At one point, Justice Sotomayor said there were “100,000 children in critical care for Covid, many of them on ventilators.” Wait, what? The actual number of kids hospitalized for Covid in the U.S. is around 5,000 — and that’s all of them, including those “with” Covid. And even more embarrassing for the Justice, there are only 81,000 TOTAL critical care hospital beds in the U.S. altogether. Whew.

On OutFront yesterday, CNN interviewed Dr. David Rubin, Director of Policy at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, who said, “When we reviewed the data on kids in our hospital, we are actually seeing fewer kids in our intensive care unit. We are seeing types of seasonal illness we take care of every year.” Somebody should let Justice Sotomayor know so that she doesn’t worry.

Back to the orals. Sotomayor also stated — as facts — that: (a) Covid deaths are at an all-time high, (b) the hospitals are being overwhelmed, and — I am not making this up — (c) the Omicron variant is deadlier than Delta. I don’t even know what to say about that last one, except possibly, mass formation psychosis.

In the real world, the Daily Mail UK ran a story yesterday headlined, “Could Omicron be even LESS deadly than seasonal flu? Scientists believe ultra-infectious strain may kill 100 TIMES fewer people than Delta.” (Those capital letters are in the headline, I didn’t add them). Maybe someone who knows Sotomayor could forward the article to her?

Finally, in what might even become an historic embarrassment for the Court, Justice Sotomayor asked “Why is the human being not like a machine if it’s spewing a virus, blood-borne viruses?” Late comrade Stalin might have asked the same question. What, after all, do you do with a machine that is spewing virus? Shut it down, at the least.

 

[PrchJrkr]

Methinks when someone of such power and standing is as delusional as Justice Sotomayor, they should be given a mental evaluation and forced retirement should be an option. How in the world is one who is so misinformed, tasked with such a high position?

 

[Hijinx]

We are watching this mess and we see Justices that have no idea what the facts are.
I sure hope that when they decide on other things before the court, they have a greater knowledge of the facts.
These liberal judges sound more like crazy liberals than Justices on the Supreme Court.

Hey: Sounding like crazy liberals could be the reason they were put there.

 

[GURPS]

How in the world is one who is so misinformed, tasked with such a high position?

They should be impeached for spouting Misinformation and Fake News

 

[Gilligan]

☕️ Coffee & Covid ☙ Wednesday, December 29, 2021 ☙ FIVE DAYS 🦠

Today's roundup includes a correction and analysis of the CDC’s new FIVE DAY quarantine, NFL news, domestic vaccine passport news, Boris Johnson admits 90% of UK's ICUs are injected folks; and more…

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So they dramatically reduced the length of quarantine during the middle of a massive surge in cases. Isn’t that interesting? You’d figure they would have a pretty solid reason to do it now, right?

It's completely explained in this video I posted earlier.

 

[GURPS]

️ Coffee & Covid ☙ Wednesday, January 12, 2022 ☙ WAITING



Thanks, ObamaCare. Biden is fixing TEST SHORTAGES! Starting Saturday, private health insurers will now be required to reimburse up to eight home Covid tests per month for insureds. Isn’t it great how the federal government now has total control of what insurance companies cover and what they don’t cover? Doesn’t that make you feel all warm and fuzzy?

You see, it’s called “central planning,” where super-smart bureaucrats who have your best interest in mind plan everything in the economy without running it by you first, because why should they? What do you know about your own best interest?

Anyway, if the reason people were standing in line for hours at test centers was to get free tests, because they didn’t want to pay for their own tests, this might help alleviate the burden. But if the problem is too FEW tests, because Biden has wrecked the supply chain, and the stores can’t fill the shelves, this isn’t going to move the needle.

In other words, Biden can order insurers to pay for tests, and claim some kind of political victory, but if there is a SUPPLY SHORTAGE, and people can’t even get the free home tests, then who cares? It actually doesn’t help anything.

Isn’t it awesome how in one year we went from having the best economy in history to having store shelves that best resemble 1970’s Soviet Union store shelves?

 

[PrchJrkr]

Let's Go Brandon!

 

[herb749]

Coffee & Covid ☙ Wednesday, January 12, 2022 ☙ WAITING



Thanks, ObamaCare. Biden is fixing TEST SHORTAGES! Starting Saturday, private health insurers will now be required to reimburse up to eight home Covid tests per month for insureds. Isn’t it great how the federal government now has total control of what insurance companies cover and what they don’t cover? Doesn’t that make you feel all warm and fuzzy?

You see, it’s called “central planning,” where super-smart bureaucrats who have your best interest in mind plan everything in the economy without running it by you first, because why should they? What do you know about your own best interest?

Anyway, if the reason people were standing in line for hours at test centers was to get free tests, because they didn’t want to pay for their own tests, this might help alleviate the burden. But if the problem is too FEW tests, because Biden has wrecked the supply chain, and the stores can’t fill the shelves, this isn’t going to move the needle.

In other words, Biden can order insurers to pay for tests, and claim some kind of political victory, but if there is a SUPPLY SHORTAGE, and people can’t even get the free home tests, then who cares? It actually doesn’t help anything.

Isn’t it awesome how in one year we went from having the best economy in history to having store shelves that best resemble 1970’s Soviet Union store shelves?

And you know insurance companies are going to make up on the freebies being handed out with higher premiums.

 

[GURPS]

Yeah Nothing is FREE

 

[Hijinx]

I have a little sore throat and the sniffles this morning, it started on me last night.
I still have my sense of taste though that sausage I had this morning was all right.
If it gets worse, much worse or i get a fever I will head for Urgent care, but why?
What can they give me that might knock it out? Certainly not what I want and if it gets so bad I cannot breathe well i will refuse a ventilator.
I hear too many bad thing about those.

 

[GURPS]

Coffee & Covid ☙ Thursday, January 13, 2022 ☙ RELENTLESS OPTIMISM



Narrative 2.0 strikes again! Yesterday, AP News ran an article headlined, “Omicron wave prompts media to rethink which data to report.”

Hahahahaha! Well, it might be Omicron. But SOMETHING sure prompted media to rethink which data to report. It gets better.

First, the article quotes Katherine Wu, the Atlantic’s main Covid reporter. “It’s just a data disaster,” she said. Not Covid. The DATA is the disaster. Poor reporters. Next, the article notes the skyrocketing cases over the holidays, but instead of blaming Christmas partygoers, AP calls it “an expected development.”

Expected! Nothing to see here! It’s not even NEWS.

So, what’s the news then? This: “The Associated Press has recently told its editors and reporters to avoid emphasizing case counts in stories about the disease.”

Hahahahaha again! Avoid emphasizing case counts?? Are you kidding me? I mean, it’s great and everything. But to say this without irony or chagrin? The AP explains the reason is because they want to be more NUANCED: “We definitely wanted people to go a little deeper and be more specific in reporting,” said Josh Hoffner, the news editor who helps oversee AP’s virus coverage.

How much do you think it must have hurt for the media to give up its favorite statistic, cases? How can it possibly manufacture terror without all the cases? Where did all this restraint and this sudden new desire to portray the pandemic accurately come from? What is the media going to focus on now, instead of cases?

“Hospitalization and death rates are considered by some to be a more reliable picture of Covid-19′s current impact on society,” AP’s article professorially informs us. If it weren’t so funny, this newfound desire for accuracy in the media would be a bitter pill to swallow, for those of us who’ve been saying THIS EXACT SAME THING for nearly two years now.

The media is all of a sudden finding LOTS of good news, everywhere it looks, even in the hospitalization data, which you shouldn’t worry about too much anyway, since it’s overestimated: “In many cases, hospitalizations are incidental: there are people being admitted for other reasons and are surprised to find they test positive for Covid,” said Tanya Lewis, senior editor for health and medicine at Scientific American.


Politicians and Media have to GIVE UP The Panic Porn, or dems are going to get hammered in the Mid Terms

 

[Hijinx]

So : If I have Covid and not a cold what good will a test do me?
It will only say: Hey man, you got Covid.
Go home , rest, drink fluids, and don't bother asking for HQ or Ivermectin cause yo aint getting it.
I can do that without a test, If i could find Ivermectin I would be taking it now-----just in case.
But meantime i will stay home , rest and drink lots of fluids.
In fact a couple of shots of Bushmills put me right to sleep last night.

 

[herb749]

I have a little sore throat and the sniffles this morning, it started on me last night.
I still have my sense of taste though that sausage I had this morning was all right.
If it gets worse, much worse or i get a fever I will head for Urgent care, but why?
What can they give me that might knock it out? Certainly not what I want and if it gets so bad I cannot breathe well i will refuse a ventilator.
I hear too many bad thing about those.

That's what's going. We have all these positive cases. So what are we doing about them .? Uh, nothing.