KC Star:
BAIER: Now, what we can find from Friday suggests there are fewer than 3,500 current pediatric hospitalizations from COVID-19. Is that true?
WALENSKY: Yeah. But, you know, here's what I can tell you about our pediatric hospitalizations now. First of all, the vast majority of children who are in the hospital are unvaccinated ...
BAIER: Understood, but the number is not 100,000. It's roughly 3,500 in hospitals now.
WALENSKY: It -- yes, there are -- there are -- and in fact what I will say is, while pediatric hospitalizations are rising, there are still about 15-fold least [less?] than hospitalizations of our older age demographics.
BAIER: Do you have a number of children on ventilators?
WALENSKY: I do not have that off the top of my head, but what I can say is for it -- I don't believe there are any in many of these hospitals who are vaccinated. So, really, the highest risk of being on a ventilator if your child is if you're unvaccinated [sic]. ...
BAIER: ... I guess what I’m getting at in this opening is that the Supreme Court is in the process of dealing with this big issue about mandates. And do you feel responsibility as the CDC director to correct a very big mischaracterization by one of the Supreme Court justices?
WALENSKY: Yeah, here's what I’ll tell you. I’ll tell you that, right now, 17 -- if you're unvaccinated, you're 17 times more likely to be in the hospital and 20 times more likely to die than if you're boosted. ...
Q: Are 100,000 children really hospitalized for COVID-19?
A: Mostly unvaccinated ones.
You can't unkill all the old people killed in Sweden early in the pandemic, who early on laid the foundation of Sweden's present ignominy. They were killed in institutions by workers, many of whom are immigrants and not native Swedes, who spread the disease to them. Sweden got out front early with these deaths, and only kept going.
So-called conservatives don't seem too interested in that story, because it doesn't fit their anti-lockdown, anti-mask narrative, for which they think Sweden is the model, never mind Sweden's immediate neighbors to this day have done much better. The immigrant angle should be right up their alley, too, but nope. Conservatives seem little interested in learning about that, or about what has worked better and why.
Meanwhile Ex-Governor of New York Andrew Cuomo oversaw a similar massacre by transferring COVID-19 patients into nursing homes full of vulnerable elderly people who caught the disease and died. But he had to resign not because of that, but because he felt-up some ladies uninvited.
Connecticut is embarking just now as we speak on the same nursing home policy as New York.
If you are an old person in America, you probably think they are out to get you.
And you would be right.
I mean, it's right there in her own backyard.
And take George Bush with you, please!
https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/09/politics/michelle-obama-2022-elections-fight-for-vote/index.html
https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/588451-jimmy-carter-says-he-fears-for-democracy-our-great-nation-now
https://news.yahoo.com/obama-democracy-is-at-a-greater-risk-today-181810269.html
Democrats are hostile to democracy. It keeps them from imposing their will.
Fully-vaccinated COVID-19 cases presently outnumber unvaccinated by 5.9:1 in Ontario.
Fully-vaxxed hospitalizations outnumber unvaccinated by 2.7:1 in Ontario.
Fully-vaxxed in ICU = >36%.
Breakthroughs are the norm now.
Meanwhile in the People's Republic of Chicago:
“COVID is very real, it’s merciless, and unless you are fully vaccinated, your defenses against it are pretty low,” said CDPH Commissioner Allison Arwady, M.D., in a statement. “You can only fully fight this virus if you’re vaccinated."
https://www.patriotfreedomproject.com/
Media, enemies of the people, repeat nothing but lies.
Three-percenters, take note.
https://thefederalist.com/2022/01/06/j6-hysteria-is-how-media-and-other-democrats-are-avoiding-accountability-for-their-rigging-of-the-2020-election/
Daily new cases per million since Nov 24: up >2,300% !
Percent received at least one dose of vaccine by Nov 24: 67.8%
Percent fully vaxxed as of Nov 24: 62.2%
Number dosed at least once by Nov 24: 6.3 million
Number fully vaxxed by Nov 24: 5.78 million
Number boostered by Nov 24: 4.07 million
Total doses administered by Nov 24: 16.14 million
Omicron is running over everyone like a runaway train, vaccinated or not, but 6 weeks after its identification it is contributing no added lethality to the pandemic curve.
Global daily new deaths per million are still as low now as they were 14 months ago and appear to be headed even lower.
In a historic first, aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln deploys under command of female captain
Five sailors were killed during those work-ups in September when their helicopter crashed into the carrier’s flight deck and tumbled into the sea. Bauernschmidt, who came up through the ranks flying helicopters, had only been in command for 12 days when the crash occurred. She offered condolences to the families of those killed and talked about the effect the crash had on the crew.
Seems longer ago than that.
See what I mean?
At least Billy Pilgrim knows what I mean.
You can still read Alex Berenson, at Substack, as I do. He continues to be an important source for stories our media continues to ignore (censor) because they don't fit the narrative. But sometimes the takes can be odd.
Alex today still thinks the Georgia story way back when was a bad covid take, and that Germany's troubles presently somehow invalidate The Atlantic's positive opinion on the record of Europe's biggest country outside of Russia.
Neither point is defensible.
The US State of Georgia today ranks 10th worst in the US for deaths per million of its population, at 2961/m. Mississippi is our very worst, at 3511/m. In between there, there are red and blue states, including New Jersey and New York.
But Germany today is at 1361/m. Worst place in the world Peru by contrast is at 6336/m.
Germany's done pretty damn well considering it has a population of 83 million compared with Georgia's paltry <10 million.
The situation in Georgia to date, in fact, is 118% worse than in Germany. And if Georgia were a country, it would be ranked in the top 15 worst performers in the world today for deaths per million.
I think Alex is letting animus cloud his judgment. Animus certainly for The Atlantic, but perhaps also for Germany.
Gee, why would that be?
Georgia's done a very poor job. Not as poor as New Jersey and New York, and not poor enough by comparison with them to be singled out the way they were. "Stupid hicks" elitism, right? On that we agree. But Germany's done remarkably well, and we should care enough to understand why.
But Alex is too busy to go into that right now. The drive-by-shooting of the "little homily on the brilliance of Germany’s Covid response" will have to do for now.
Check it out here.
Attending the event in person allowed me to appreciate how central Trump remains to white evangelicalism. ...
Standing in line 2.5 hours before the event, I chatted with a group of five elderly women who all came together. All were committed churchgoers in the Dallas area, but none were members at First Baptist. ...
There was Bill, a repairman who had taken public transportation to get to First Baptist. He was not a member either, but had always been a huge fan of Trump and was eager to see him in person. ...
And there was Carlos. Like Bill, Carlos was visiting First Baptist from elsewhere in the city along with a friend. ...
Trump’s appeal Sunday morning extends far beyond the First Baptist faithful. Evangelical visitors from around the city had come to cheer for their President. They were convinced he’d been treated unfairly. And they pined to see him back in office. ...
For the vast majority of white evangelicals in the U.S., like those visiting First Baptist Dallas on Sunday, Trump is still their warrior. ... over two-thirds of white evangelicals felt the 2020 election had been stolen from Trump.
More.
This guy should get out more and document the adulation directed at Democrats visiting America's black churches and insinuate in a column about how 92% of the nation's blacks voted for Joe Biden in 2020 because they're duped by religion or something.
Which is even more odd since he has mandated vaccines for the employees of large companies.
The guy is obviously too old upstairs for the job.
"There is no federal solution. This gets solved at the state level,"
Biden responded, before mentioning another Republican governor.
John Tamny has made some progress, however.
He now admits that some of his views are "fringe".
Which is amusing, since we've known that since Russell Kirk demonstrated long ago how the libertarians have always been "chirping sectarians".
A case in point of the continuing confusion:
Tamny expresses fawning admiration for George Will's latest collection of his columns, which opens asserting the priority of the study of history.
But Tamny later avers without the slightest awareness of self-contradiction that "The talented people, the unequal people, have a tendency to run from the present and past."
Nostalgia is "dangerous".
Do make up your mind for once, John.
The seemingly interminable review is here.
Tennessee joins Missouri, Oklahoma and Arkansas in the last three months making big backfills, distorting the graphs we try to make.
Phase 1 human trials have been completed on non-vaccinated, never infected individuals, with Phases 2 and 3 forthcoming on vaccinated or previously sick people.
From the story:
Within weeks, scientists at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research expect to announce that they have developed a vaccine that is effective against COVID-19 and all its variants, even Omicron, as well as previous SARS-origin viruses that have killed millions of people worldwide.
Merry Christmas.
From the story:
The U.S. has purchased 10 million courses of Pfizer’s treatment, Paxlovid, in a $5 billion deal. President Joe Biden said in November that his administration is working to ensure that the treatments are free and accessible. Biden said last month that delivery would start by the New Year and continue through 2022.
Merry Christmas.
Paul D. Eaton, here.
Hillary supporter, critic of Bush 43's Iraq War.
Taiwan is "peripheral" to our interests, Michael Anton says over and over again, here.
Well then, so is Hawaii.
Keep thinking like that and eventually Catalina Island becomes peripheral, too.
If you want to legitimize China's nine-dash line, something he never mentions, giving up Taiwan is the fastest way to do it.
There is MUCH more at stake than Taiwan's relative freedom and independence. All of southeast Asia is at risk if China retakes Taiwan.
The answer isn't to accept the fact, as Anton does, that our Navy is rotten to the core and unable to defend Taiwan. The answer is to reform the Navy before it's too late.
If the Chicoms kill all our woke Navy in a battle over Taiwan, that wouldn't be the start we want, but it would be a start to the reform we most need.
"We must be aware that even triple-vaccinated are likely to transmit the disease…It is obvious we are far from 95 per cent effectiveness that we obtained against the initial virus," Ugur Sahin told the French daily Le Monde in an interview published on Monday.
More.
The seven day average of daily new deaths was 20 on Nov 24th when Omicron was first identified.
As of Dec 19th, it's 30.
Big whoop.
The place was brimming with everything I usually buy and need.
A good sign.
Mediaite LOVES Trump now!
... kudos to the former president for not pussy-footing around in answering, and receiving the smattering of boos with some grace and laughter.
Climate Update for KGRR: November 2021
Earlier this week, the circuit’s active judges rejected a move to have the entire panel consider the case, on an 8-8 vote.
More.
Supreme Court next, which will allow the mandate.
They can make you buy Obamacare, right?
21,346 deaths in 2021 vs. 39,621 deaths in 2020
1334/day in 2021 vs. 2476/day in 2020.
I'll take 2021.
