Politics of Covid-19

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“….Even after you’re vaccinated, social distancing, wearing masks are going to be essential. We’ll need to keep communicating about that through health and medical experts,” she said in her reply.

Alexander followed up, saying, “What do you say to those folks….who say they don’t believe that 450,000 Americans have died of coronavirus. At the end of today, we need everybody on board to beat this virus. What do you tell them?”

“We know statistically,” Psaki said, “…that if Americans wore a mask for 100 days, 50,000 lives would be saved. We know it’s not going to be overnight, but we’re going to continue to communicate about it in a non-political way and a factual way so that Americans can take steps to save themselves.”

White House Press Secretary: After Vaccine, You Keep Wearing Mask

Jen Psaki insisted people should continue to shelter-in-place and wear masks at all times even after herd immunity has been achieved through vaccines.

thefederalist.com

you don't know sht statistically

 

[LightRoasted]

If I may ...

“The most terrifying force of death comes from the hands of ‘Men who wanted to be left Alone’.
They try, so very hard to mind their own business and provide for themselves and those they love.
They resist every impulse to fight back, knowing the forced and permanent change of life that will come from it.
They know the moment they fight back, the lives as they have lived them, are over.
The moment the ‘Men who wanted to be left Alone’ are forced to fight back, it is a small form of suicide. They are literally killing off who they used to be.
Which is why, when forced to take up violence, these ‘Men who wanted to be left Alone’, fight with unholy vengeance against those who murdered their former lives.
They fight with raw hate, and a drive that cannot be fathomed by those who are merely play-acting at politics and terror.
TRUE TERROR will arrive at the Left’s door, and they will cry, scream, and beg for mercy, but it will fall upon deaf ears.”

A STRANGE GAME (PART TWO)

In Part One of this article I laid out the dire situation we find ourselves facing, as the illegitimate Biden administration inflicts the coup de grace to our dying empire of debt. I will now provi…

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[stgislander]

Why did that make me think of the Battle of King's Mountain.

 

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The Florida Covid ‘Whistleblower’ Becomes the Left's Latest Fallen Hero


This was just a perfect scenario that would expose a state doing well with its pandemic response and served as a chance to undermine a GOP governor. It was all too good to be true, but our modern day media is incapable of laying off such a rich tale. Our national fact delivery experts were not interested in noting that none of the Rebekah Jones details were accurate.

For starters she is not a scientist. Jones has a degree in geography, and her education is why she was tabbed to operate the portal, as it involves compiling statistics from various locations into a functional data set. She is also not a "doctor" as some have reported, not even in the Jill Biden sense of the title. While she was studying to get her PhD from Florida State University, she became suspended and dismissed.

The removal from the state pandemic team marks the third time Jones has been fired and had criminal charges brought against her for her actions. In 2016 she was arrested as a staff member at LSU. At FSU she was involved in an affair with a student, leading to a restraining order and a number of charges, including cyberstalking and sexual harassment. Now she is facing hacking charges and probable illegal possession of government data.

In the time when Jones was a media star she was credited with building the state’s Covid-19 database. This is quite a stretch of the description. The web portal was actually the framework developed at Johns Hopkins University. Jones did not build this from scratch but used it to create the state Covid reporting network, her prescribed task as geographic information systems manager. This title is rather key in disrupting her last claim -- that she had been instructed to falsify data in this system.

 

[GURPS]

In an interview with CBS News this week, President Joe Biden hinted at some of these concerns, saying it would be “very difficult” to reach herd immunity—a population-wide resistance to the virus—“much before the end of the summer” with the current daily rate of approximately 1.3 million vaccine doses. Other top officials working on the federal government’s COVID-19 response say the unease about vaccine supply long term and the impact on herd immunity, and have begun to explore ways to expand U.S. manufacturing capacity, potentially through new partnerships with outside pharmaceutical firms.


Beyond supply issues, though, top health officials say they are increasingly worried about the United Kingdom and South African COVID-19 variants, the likelihood that more variants will emerge in the coming months, and the possibility that those variants will evade the vaccines. There is some evidence to suggest that both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines protect against the B117 United Kingdom variant, though a recent study shows a new mutation could make the vaccines less effective. Data gathered by the Novavax and Johnson and Johnson clinical trials in South Africa suggest their vaccines are less effective against the variant spreading rapidly in the country. And South Africa recently said it was halting the rollout of the AstraZeneca vaccine because evidence from clinical trials suggested the vaccine did not work well against the variant.

Together, the recent data has alarmed health officials in the Biden administration who are now raising questions about what more can be done to not only shorten the herd immunity timeline—not just to return Americans to some sort of normalcy but also to ensure the country does not experience another surge in COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths. Officials have spent the last several days discussing ways to ramp up genome sequencing to track variants and how to push out the message that Americans need to more closely follow public health guidelines to reduce transmission as B117 variant cases begin to increase.

Biden Team Fears: No COVID Herd Immunity Until Thanksgiving

 

[Sneakers]

No herd immunity until next Thanksgiving. And then we're into the next round of winter virus, so masks still required.

 

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‘Died from’ or ‘died with’ COVID-19? We need a transparent approach to counting coronavirus deaths


The COVID-19 death toll is reported every day by state and federal governments. These numbers are often used, alongside case numbers, to assess how public health policies are faring in controlling the pandemic, and to gauge the success of various drugs or interventions.

There’s been confusion, however, over whether reported death statistics reflect those who’ve died from COVID-19, or those who’ve died with the virus. Often it’s hard for medical practitioners to determine which of these categories a death falls into.

But the COVID-19 death toll publicised daily on Australian state and territory government websites and reported to the press does not differentiate between the two. It includes all people who’ve died with SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) in their body. It’s unclear if the federal government currently makes this distinction or not.

Lumping these statistics together makes it hard for the public to understand the true impact of the virus. Clarifying what’s being counted as a COVID-19 death is necessary for understanding the impact of the virus, and for informing public health and clinical responses to the pandemic. If we know who is susceptible to dying with COVID-19 because of pre-existing conditions, public health responses could more effectively target and protect potentially vulnerable people and communities.

 

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Socialist 'Lancet' Study Says 40 Percent of COVID Deaths in U.S. 'Unnecessary'


A socialist critique of American society, American politics, American social policy, American wealth inequalities, American racial disparities, and most of all, the American health care system in The Lancet theorizes that 40 percent of deaths related to COVID-19 were “unnecessary.”


The surprising thing is that it’s probably all true — at least, from the point of view of a socialist. The upshot of the study is that America doesn’t spend enough money on the poor, we aren’t nice to people of color, there are too many filthy rich people, and we have allowed this decline over the last 40 years which has led to a reduced life span and all kinds of health problems we shouldn’t have — because we don’t spend enough public money on healthcare.

Because no socialist countries are having any of these problems, right?

Their critique of Trump’s response to the crisis leaves a lot out, but is generally accurate.

Yahoo News:

“Instead of galvanizing the US populace to fight the pandemic, President Trump publicly dismissed its threat (despite privately acknowledging it), discouraged action as infection spread, and eschewed international cooperation,” read the report. “His refusal to develop a national strategy worsened shortages of personal protective equipment and diagnostic tests. President Trump politicized mask-wearing and school reopenings and convened indoor events attended by thousands, where masks were discouraged and physical distancing was impossible.”

Except:

1. Deaths are over counted / categorized as Covid
2. an additional 400,000 people did not die last year. the Covid Deaths came from other sources ... people that would have othewise died from something else are being counted as Covid Deaths - Cancer, Heart Attacks, Diabetes, High Blood Pressure ... etc

 

[Hijinx]

Trump knew and still knows that we cannot survive as a country with people hiding in their homes.
Covid or no Covid we have to live our lives and go back to work.
No way can we just keep printing money and handing it out. It's like half of this country being on welfare.

 

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In addition to his previous failed predictions, such as claiming that there was no reason to believe COVID vaccine production and distribution could “occur quickly,” Osterholm also has a history of flip-flopping his position on lockdowns.

In March, Osterholm wrote a piece for the Washington Post arguing against lockdowns, citing the need for children to be in school and people to return to work. In the same article, he claimed that COVID-19 would only “go away” with the development of a vaccine or herd immunity, neither of which he believed would “occur quickly.” The development of the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines have since proven that belief to be false.

Months later, Osterholm had a sudden change of heart and began publicly calling for strong, government lockdowns and stay-at-home orders. The doctor also often praised Europe’s lockdown model, claiming that the virus was “largely contained” there without acknowledging the fact that many European countries were experiencing severe case spikes in a second round of coronavirus outbreaks.

Osterholm’s recent targeting of the Sunshine State in late 2020 to fit into the narrative constructed by corporate media outlets, which often focused on shaming GOP-led states for reopening during a pandemic instead of reporting on blue states still under strict lockdowns that were suffering higher case and death counts.









Top Biden COVID Adviser Wrong About Spiking COVID-19 Numbers (Again)

 

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A Day In The Life Of A Brewery Being Crushed By LA’s Ever-Shifting COVID Rules

Inspectors “who apparently don’t have a clue about what the rules are… seem to be a trend,” Bart says. “Several months ago we got a visit from a different inspector who insisted that once a customer paid for a meal and got their glass of beer, if they ultimately wanted another glass of beer, they would need to purchase another meal. Again, why in the hell is the country sending out people who don’t have a clue what the rules are?”
Chhabra’s supervisor that day, Patrick Chun, has since spoken with both Moran and Bart Avery. He apologized “for the miscommunication,” and listened to their struggles with the ever-changing regulations. Neither Moran nor Avery, however, is confident anything will change. This new normal has gone on for nearly a year already, and the Department of Health did not respond to an email requesting comment.

“We have been decimated by the crazy mandates, shutdowns, re-openings, shutdowns, et cetera from our governor and from the Los Angeles County folks. The craziest mandate was from several months, the county mandated that customers needed to make reservations at breweries — the only ones targeted — 24 hours in advance. People normally go spontaneously to breweries, so that was ridiculously out of touch with reality. I called a contact I have in Los Angeles County Supervisor Barger’s office and asked if the 24-hour reservation mandate could be lifted because it was unworkable. I was told by this person to just ignore it. What the h-ll?”

 

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‘This Is All Political’: DeSantis Slams Biden For Allegedly Allowing Illegal Aliens Into U.S. Without COVID Test While Considering Domestic Travel Restrictions

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) slammed President Joe Biden during an interview on Sunday for allegedly allowing illegal aliens to enter the U.S. without being screened for COVID-19 while reportedly considering implementing domestic travel restrictions between states.

DeSantis said that potential domestic travel restrictions placed on Florida by the Biden administration would amount to a “political attack against Florida” and “would be unconstitutional.”

 

[GURPS]

Harris Blatantly Lies Gas Lights About Vaccine







While Biden and Kamala were hiding in the basement, the Trump administration was fast-tracking the development and approval of coronavirus therapeutics and vaccines. The new administration inherited a daily vaccine rate of about one million doses per day from the Trump administration. Biden's goal of 100 million doses in his first 100 days in office was merely a continuation of Trump's success.

On the "stockpile" point, how could the Trump administration stockpile recently-approved vaccines that Democrats and public health "experts" doubted would even be in existance by Inauguration Day? Even if the Trump administration could stockpile vaccines, why would they? Isn't the goal to get people vaccinated as soon as possible?

Axios notes that even Dr. Anthony Fauci has admitted that the current administration "certainly are not starting from scratch" when it comes to vaccine distribution. It's also worth remembering that then-Vice President Joe Biden and then-President Barack Obama depleted the national stockpile of facemasks and left it empty for the Trump administration.

 

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CDC Admits It Catered To Teachers Unions With Political School Reopening Guidelines


Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky publicly admitted that the agency’s new school reopening guidelines were informed by the opinions of anti-in-person-learning teachers unions.

“I recognize that the decision, on when and how to begin in-person learning is one that must be based on a thorough review of what the science tells us works and an understanding of the lived experiences, challenges, and perspectives of teachers and school staff, parents, and students,” Walensky said in a COVID-19 update on Friday. “We have conducted an in-depth review of the available science and evidence base to guide our recommendations, and we have also engaged with many education and public-health partners to hear firsthand from parents and teachers directly about their experiences and concerns.”

This input from some of the same people who have stalled school reopenings in cities across the nation, Walensky said, resulted in “direct changes to the guidance.”

Others involved in the back-to-school conversations, Senior Adviser for Policy and Planning at the U.S. Department of Education Donna Harris-Aikens said, included “superintendents, principals, civil-rights groups, and all sorts of other folks.”

Just last week, the Biden-Harris administration, which has shown sympathy to teachers unions’ anti-science approach, signaled its intent to use the CDC’s new, official guidelines concerning education and COVID-19 to justify keeping many schools closed based on the rate of community COVID-19 transmission in certain areas.

 

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Axios Deletes Tweet Doing Journalism, Replaces It With Activism To Allow Kamala Harris To Spread Vaccine Lies

While the Biden team first came into office pledging a goal of 100 million shots administered in the first 100 days, the pace to achieve that threshold had already been accomplished by Trump hitting 1 million shots per day. Biden then changed his goal to reaching 150 million, which would inoculate about a fifth of the entire U.S. population, including the most vulnerable and essential workers.

Axios deleted the first post, however, replacing it with a tweet that featured Harris’s claim uncritically, excluding Fauci’s comment.

This decision to protect Harris comes several days after news broke that the publication’s beat reporter for the vice president’s office, Alexi McCammond, is in a romantic relationship with former White House deputy press secretary TJ Ducklo. Ducklo resigned Saturday following comments reported in Vanity Fair that exposed derogatory language he hurled at a Politico reporter who inquired to McCammond about the story.

“I will destroy you,” Ducklo reportedly threatened Politico’s Tara Palmeri to shut down the story, only for it to be published a month later, alongside a glowing feature about the couple in People Magazine the week before.

McCammond’s own work has raised questions about the nature of her relationship affecting the narratives she publishes or doesn’t publish. When Harris made headlines for claiming West Virginia coal miners go digging up land mines, the comments can’t be found under McCammond’s byline and are only featured in a passing reference on Axios’s online pages.

 

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The Disappearing Vaccine Doses

Is the Issue of Missing Vaccines Just a Matter of States Setting Aside Second Doses?

As of this morning, according to the New York Times, Moderna and Pfizer have shipped more than 70 million doses to the states, and somehow the states have gotten only 52.8 million of those shots into peoples’ arms. The Bloomberg chart has a slightly better figure, showing states have administered 54.6 million doses, out of roughly the same total.


That leaves anywhere from 15.4 to 17.2 million doses either in transit or sitting on shelves somewhere. The country is vaccinating about 1.67 million people per day according to the Times data, 1.69 million per day on the Bloomberg chart.

If Pfizer and Moderna stopped delivering new doses, we could keep vaccinating people at the current rate for nine days using the Bloomberg data, ten days using the Times data.


Why are so many FDA-approved, manufacturer-distributed vaccines sitting in the supply chain instead of getting into peoples’ bloodstreams? Some of the problem might be weather delays, particularly this week across the Midwest. But that doesn’t quite explain the gap between doses distributed and doses administered, which has slowly crept down from about 20 million doses at the start of the month.

 

[kwillia]

Since 2 doses are required I assumed all along they would be counting two doses per person thus saving the second so each could get it on time. Why would it be any other way?

 

[RoseRed]

Since 2 doses are required I assumed all along they would be counting two doses per person thus saving the second so each could get it on time. Why would it be any other way?

My Dad had the first dose and no problems. He died anyway due to his other issues.

 

[kwillia]

My Dad had the first dose and no problems. He died anyway due to his other issues.

So sorry to hear of his passing.