Showing posts with label COVID-19 2024. Show all posts
Showing posts with label COVID-19 2024. Show all posts

Friday, December 6, 2024

American whiners generally rate their own healthcare positively but not the country's

 Gallup, here.

People are in a bad mood about it since 2020 because of what happened during the pandemic with lock-downs, quarantines, and mask and vaccine mandates, and because the expanded emergency coverage from that year has expired with the expiration of the emergency in 2023.

But 71% still think their own healthcare quality is pretty good, compared with 44% saying the same thing about the quality for the country as a whole.

There's always been that disconnect.

And generally speaking, it is difficult to draw any conclusions from this about pre-Obamacare and post-Obamacare experiences because of it. But 62% rated the quality of healthcare in the country highly in both 2012 and 2010, the year Obamacare was passed. That's now down 18 points to 44%. 71% now rate the quality of their own healthcare highly, down 11 points since 2012 from 82%.

I suspect we'll be living with the after effects of the pandemic debacle for a while longer.

 





Monday, October 21, 2024

Barack Obama is a lyin' pos who could have made any such life-saving measures public long before now, but everyone knows they never existed

If they did exist, the lost lives are on him and no one else because he kept his mouth shut, which is what he should be doing right now instead of spewing lies to get Kamala Harris elected.

 


Wednesday, October 16, 2024

The vast majority in America is shunning vaccination against COVID-19 more than a month after availability according to the CDC


 

Reported on Friday, October 11th, 2024:

  • The percent of adults age 18+ reporting receipt of the updated 2024─25 COVID-19 vaccine is 11.2% (9.7-12.7), including 26.7% (21.7-31.7) among adults age 65+.

Tuesday, September 24, 2024

Oh! Gee! Covid-19 is heading south after all the hopeful alarums of another pre-election catastrophe

Oh my God, batten down the hatches, nothing bad coming to save Kamala Harris!

 

 


Sunday, September 8, 2024

The Feds are renewing the COVID-19 hospitalization reporting requirement effective Nov 1 despite an actually lower current infection peak than in previous years

 I couldn't believe it when I saw it, but it's true.

The pandemic emergency ended in May 2023.

Required reporting of hospitalizations expired in April 2024, after which "The number of hospitals regularly reporting data decreased by nearly two thirds." 

Are the Feds preparing for the general?


 

 

https://www.cdc.gov/nwss/rv/COVID19-nationaltrend.html

https://www.cdc.gov/ncird/whats-new/updated-hospital-reporting-requirements-for-respiratory-viruses.html

https://www.cms.gov/newsroom/fact-sheets/fy-2025-hospital-inpatient-prospective-payment-system-ipps-and-long-term-care-hospital-prospective-0

 






Tuesday, August 27, 2024

Biden-Harris are the enemies of free speech, Zuckerberg lamely admits they tried to censor COVID-19 content on Facebook

But Facebook actually censored people anyway, Mark. We're waiting for the apology.


 

“In 2021, senior officials from the Biden Administration, including the White House, repeatedly pressured our teams for months to censor certain COVID-19 content, including humor and satire, and expressed a lot of frustration with our teams when we didn’t agree,” Zuckerberg wrote in a letter to the Republican-led House Judiciary Committee. ...

“I regret that we were not more outspoken about it,” Zuckerberg said. ...

In August 2021, Facebook said it had removed more than 20 million posts related to Covid-19 for violating its content rules across the main social networking site and Instagram.

More.

Monday, August 26, 2024

Oh no, not again: COVID-19 school closures in Tennessee and Alabama

 Of all pandemic deaths to date, school age children accounted for about 961 of 1,196,681 or 0.08%, according to the CDC.

Current wastewater surveillance is relatively high but hardly alarming, according to the CDC.

Have we learned nothing?

Yes, of course. We all went to public school.

 





Wednesday, August 7, 2024

The Tim Walz COVID deaths in nursing homes story is a window on the scandal of the pandemic: We victimized old people as a matter of public policy, and we're still doing it

 

Early in the pandemic Minnesota's Tim Walz sent many COVID victims back to nursing homes where the death toll was huge, but the real nursing home slaughter happened later, in the fall of 2020.

By the end of May 2020, 80% of the COVID deaths in Minnesota had occurred in long-term-care settings such as nursing homes, according to the story here, which quotes Tim Walz defending sending back all "recovered" cases:

"I think it's important to remember these are folks that went to the hospital, they recovered, but they're still in that mode, and they're going back to their home, and this is where they live," said Gov. Tim Walz during an afternoon press conference. "The rest of us, we may self-isolate, but where are we going to put (these) people?"

"This was federal guidance," Walz said. "This was what everyone was doing. This was not a mistake. It wasn't like no one thought about this. There was complexity in how you deal with this."

But everybody's missing how much worse it got in those settings in December, when deaths from COVID in those places in Minnesota soared to 3.16 per 100 vs. 1.88 nationally, 68% worse at peak.

Just look at these charts of nursing home deaths from COVID in Minnesota available from the AARP dashboard, zooming in year by year.

Deaths calmed down rapidly in 2021, not because of vaccination, but because so many were already dead.

And you would expect things to be under control after that, right?, except the fall outbreak pattern of deaths reoccurs like clockwork at the end of 2021, but worse: The peak rate of death from COVID in nursing homes was 153% worse than the national average.

But all those nursing home residents were vaccinated by the end of 2021. The whole country was.

The same story played out in 2022, except nursing home deaths from COVID were consistently higher through most of that year, and then even more wildly so in 2023, with a spring and a fall outbreak of way-above-average deaths in nursing homes from COVID. 

The December 2022 rate of death was 170% worse than the national average.

The March 2023 rate of death was 400% worse, and the December 277% worse.

Vaccination did not stop the spread of the disease. Close proximity to sick people spread the disease. It's that simple.

It is a crime that we're all OK with that, but especially for our political leadership and medical elites who continually lie to us that vaccination prevents death. The nursing home data proves that it does not.

They all knew what they were doing, and it's still going on right now.

The only thing which will prevent future deaths is getting old people the hell out of there.


2020

2021

2022

2023

2024

Tim Walz locked down Minnesota for 15 months based on an hysterical projection of COVID deaths, and presided over $500 million of George Floyd rioting damage and $250 million of Somali COVID fraud

 

 On taking office in 2019, Gov. Walz was restrained by a one-seat Republican majority in the state Senate—until Covid hit in the spring of 2020. He declared a state of emergency on March 25, 2020, and ruled by decree for 15 months. He proclaimed the emergency on the basis of an allegedly sophisticated Minnesota Model projection of the virus’s course in the state. In fact, the projection reflected a weekend’s work by graduate students at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health. Relying on their research, Mr. Walz presented a scenario in which an estimated 74,000 Minnesotans would perish from the virus. The following week the Star Tribune reported that with the lockdown Mr. Walz ordered, 50,000 would die. Maybe it would have been preferable to address the virus through democratic means.

Having destroyed jobs and impeded life routines, including family get-togethers and church attendance, Mr. Walz finally let his one-man rule lapse on July 1, 2021. When the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center stopped counting in March 2023, the deaths of 14,870 Minnesotans were attributed to the virus. (In 2020 I successfully sued the administration for excluding me from Health Department press briefings on Covid.)

During the state of emergency, protests broke out in Minneapolis on Memorial Day 2020 following the death of George Floyd. That Thursday, rioters burned Minneapolis’s Third Precinct police station to the ground. Mr. Walz didn’t deploy the National Guard until the weekend. Riots, arson and looting throughout the Twin Cities caused about $500 million in damage.

Minnesota leads the nation in Covid fraud. Under the auspices of the Feeding Our Future nonprofit, its founder, Aimee Bock, allegedly recruited mostly young Somali men to seek reimbursement for millions of meals supposedly served to poor students and families. According to indictments handed up by a grand jury to U.S. Attorney Andrew Luger, Ms. Bock and others allegedly defrauded the state and federal government of $250 million. Ms. Bock has pleaded not guilty to the fraud charges.

Story

Oh yeah, and Tim Walz thinks Ilhan Omar is just wonderful.