Wednesday, February 9, 2022
Tuesday, February 8, 2022
Uruguay administered about 44 boosters per 100 of population by January 1st after which it has experienced a death surge
Uruguay has administered a two-dose regimen of Sinovac to its population, but its booster program consists of Pfizer shots.
Basically no one at all was fully-vaccinated even with Sinovac in the spring of 2021 when it got creamed by COVID-19.
Still, deaths per million of population in Uruguay at 1,892 today is a far better record without vaccination than advanced nations like France (1,984), the UK (2,387), and the US (2,842) with vaccination.
What's up with that?
Israel achieved 50 booster doses per 100 of population on January 9th, after which deaths soared anyway
Vitamin D deficiency is endemic across the Middle East, including in Israel, where nearly four in five people are low on the vitamin . . ..
More.
In calendar year 2021 in the US 99.85% didn't die of COVID, yeah vaccines! in calendar year 2020 in the US 99.89% didn't die, yeah . . . what?
34.665 million cases in 2021*
0.478 million deaths
1.38% case fatality rate
332.402 million population on 12/31/21
20.024 million cases in 2020
0.346 million deaths
1.73% case fatality rate
331.698 million population on 12/31/20
*data from The New York Times and the US Census Bureau
Those vaccines are really . . . irrelevant?
I ditch the pantyhose for formal occasions, however
I mean, someone's got to stick up for standards, might as well be me.
Monday, February 7, 2022
It takes an economist to say that the labor market is on fire
But as it stands “we have to take the numbers at face value, and they paint a picture of a labor market on fire,” wrote Jefferies economists Aneta Markowska and Thomas Simons, with the Fed likely heading towards “a more sustained tightening cycle and a higher terminal rate.”
Full-time employment in the US in January was 49.3% of civilian noninstitutional population, a far cry from what it could be. The measure could recover to 50.4% pre-pandemic and it still wouldn't be "on fire".
Bouncing back would be a good thing, is fully expected, and could be actually happening, but confusing it with boom levels as Trump did would remain an illusion.
When WaPo is more accurate than Drudge
Discussions between the Archives and the former president's lawyers that began last year resulted in the transfer of the records in January, according to one person familiar with the conversations. Another person familiar with the materials said Trump advisers discussed what had to be returned in December. People familiar with the transfer, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to reveal internal details. ... the Archives has very limited enforcement capabilities ...
Drudge headline:
Sunday, February 6, 2022
Breakthrough deaths in Massachusetts have soared to 44% of all COVID deaths since last July through the end of January 2022
Let's check in on breakthrough deaths in Massachusetts, where breakthrough deaths have soared by 290 just in the last week.
Massachusetts reported 106 breakthrough deaths by the end of July 2021, according to NBC Boston, here.
At the time there had been 18,082 total COVID deaths in Massachusetts. At the time breakthrough deaths represented a tiny fraction of all COVID deaths (just 0.6%).
Through January 29, 2022 there have been 21,909 total COVID deaths for an increase of 3,827 total COVID deaths during the intervening period in Massachusetts.
As of January 29, 2022 Massachusetts is reporting a cumulative total of 1,789 breakthrough deaths. Subtract the 106 through July 2021 and you get 1,683 breakthrough deaths from August 1, 2021 through January 29, 2022.
1,683 breakthrough deaths is 43.977% of the total COVID deaths of 3,827 which have occurred since last July. More than 8% of all COVID deaths have now been among the vaccinated in Massachusetts.
If this isn't a picture of evolving vaccine failure I don't know what is.
LOL, teacher "Linda" takes rapid antigen test, thinks she KNOWS something
... they are far less reliable than PCR tests – and are “almost useless” when cases are very low. ...
New Zealand Institute of Medical Laboratory Science president Terry Taylor said rapid antigen tests are, at best, 80 per cent accurate when there is low prevalence of the virus, producing about 10 false positives for every one true positive.
From a pool of 1000 people, of whom 50 have confirmed Covid-19 infections, a rapid antigen test would detect 48 true positives, miss two cases, and produce 48 false positives, on average, he said.
“If you’re using it in a business sense, they’re going to have more people sitting at home that haven’t got Covid, than sitting at home that do have Covid."
More.
The rapid antigen tests are PERFECT for teachers, who have shown throughout the pandemic that they'd rather find any excuse to stay at home than go to school.
Saturday, February 5, 2022
Former Democrat Donald Trump laughably calls Mike Pence a RINO and is now the mirror image of the 2016 Hillary Clinton who wouldn't accept the election results
It's obvious to anyone who has looked at this issue carefully that Trump's stance isn't a serious position.
Leave aside the question of the powers of the VP. The fact remains that 50 state legislatures certified their votes in Election 2020, making Trump the narrow looser, just as they certified their votes in Election 2016, making him the narrow winner.
Trying to overturn any of that, no matter how justified one may think it might be, is a fool's errand.
That ship has sailed and Popeye isn't going to turn it around. The inertia is simply too great. There is nothing any legislature will "figure out" at this point.
Trump's continued whining about his loss makes him nothing if not the mirror image of Hillary. They are unserious, self-absorbed people who can't accept what's happened to them. Richard Nixon, from whom the election in 1960 was stolen, was a better person than these two ever could hope to be.
They should both just go away.
Friday, February 4, 2022
Thursday, February 3, 2022
Wednesday, February 2, 2022
Tuesday, February 1, 2022
The numbers do not lie: The pandemic today with vaccines is worse than it was at the outset without them
Deaths last month were worse than in April 2020, and cases are simply to the moon.
Deaths are likely to remain high in February given such astronomical case figures in January, even if Omicron is less deadly. There's just too many of them.
Vaccines worthy of the name should have destroyed these trend lines by now. It's been over a year.
They have not.
This is vaccine failure writ large. Moving the goal posts to requiring 70, 80, 90% vaccinated is simply an admission of defeat.
"When you get to somewhere between 40-50% [vaccinated], I believe you’re going to start seeing real change, the start of a precipitous drop in cases”. -- Anthony Fauci, Apr 28, 2021, in The Wall Street Journal
An astounding 20.3 million breakthrough cases in January 2022 in the US . . .
. . . but only 62,021 deaths (data is New York Times).
211.05 million people in the United States are fully vaccinated as of January 31, 63.6% of the country, and it's still the fourth worst month of the pandemic for deaths so far. There were an astounding almost 655,000 new cases per day in January. The US ranks 27th worst for confirmed cases/million. The vaccines are a spectacular failure, but everyone pretends the emperor isn't walking around naked.
After all this time, effort, expense, and incessant propaganda about the efficacy of the vaccines, the US still ranks 17th worst in the world for deaths per million of population. Pretty damn pathetic for the most advanced nation on the planet.
Wildcats cheerleaders have only one thing to say.
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Monday, January 31, 2022
US COVID-19 deaths during the "Delta" wave are completely uncorrelated to mass vaccination
US COVID-19 deaths, July-December 2021: 223,362
US COVID-19 fully-vaccinated by 12/31/21: 206.87m
US COVID-19 deaths, July-December 2020: 224,389
US COVID-19 fully-vaccinated by 12/31/20: 0.04m
Difference in deaths: 1,027 (-0.45%)
Difference in vaccinations: 206.83m (+517,075%, heh heh)
Mass vaccination made next to no difference in the number of deaths
All data is from Our World In Data
LOL, newly-minted vaccine misinformation celebrity Joni Mitchell suffers from "a disease most doctors think isn't real"
https://www.vox.com/2015/4/2/8330925/morgellons :
Interestingly, a large number of people in the study had a psychiatric or addictive condition, including depression and drug use. Among half of the participants in the study used drugs, but it wasn't clear whether the drugs caused the symptoms or whether they were being used to deal with the disease.
Even so, the researchers could not uncover any particular underlying medical condition or infectious source, and concluded that Morgellons is "similar to more commonly recognized conditions such as delusional infestation."
LOL, Justin Trudeau got his booster shot in early January, but now not a month later his damn kids have infected him with COVID-19
https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/prime-minister-justin-trudeau-gets-covid-19-booster-shot-at-ottawa-pharmacy-1.5727288
That's the way this works. Your immune system is actually weakened for a short time after any of the shots.
https://www.14news.com/2022/01/31/canada-pm-trudeau-tests-positive-covid-19/
Sunday, January 30, 2022
Canada's "fringe minority" comes to a very cold downtown Ottawa in a 45-mile truck convoy with a message for Justin Trudeau and his vaccine mandate
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10456147/Justin-Trudeau-flees-secret-location-50-000-Freedom-Convoy-truckers-hit-Ottawa.html
Saturday, January 29, 2022
LOL, Joni Mitchell brings blackface star-power to Neil Young Spotify boycott: When will the rest join?
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/29/joni-mitchell-is-joining-neil-young-in-protest-over-covid-misinformation-on-spotify.html
Friday, January 28, 2022
Michigan deaths exceed births by 12,921 in 2020 due to pandemic: Births down 50% from peak Baby Boom year 1957
There were 104,166 births in 2020 in Michigan, 50% fewer than in 1957 when there were 208k, the peak year of the Baby Boom in the USA.
There were 117,087 deaths in 2020 in Michigan.
And ~ 99,000 deaths occurred annually in Michigan, pre-pandemic.
Story here.
Therefore ~ 18,087 deaths in 2020 are possibly attributable to the pandemic according to this accounting (117,087 minus 99,000), except NYT data shows only 13,010 pandemic deaths in Michigan in 2020, which is very close to the 12,921 net deaths minus births.
The 5,077 (18,087 minus 13,010) difference in deaths represents 39% more deaths.
Due to what, exactly?
Thursday, January 27, 2022
The generation of Neil Young rebelled against everything that was right and this one won't rebel against anything that's wrong
Meanwhile Willie Nelson trended on Twitter the other day, which just loves that old "hippie" along with the likes of Neil Young.
Not this Willie, though, who was kinda slow on the uptake. Just ask the IRS.
The Beatles was kangs when Willie was still in overalls in 1965 and broke up when Willie was still doing covers of Joni Mitchell in 1970.
Neil Young threatened to ditch Spotify over Joe Rogan because Rogan believes in free speech. And Spotify said: "OK. See ya."
I'm still laughing.
Wednesday, January 26, 2022
Health authorities are not telling the truth about the vaccines and severe outcomes: Breakthrough deaths in Massachusetts have been at least 38%
NBC Boston, Aug 10, 2021:
106 Fully Vaccinated People Have Died From COVID in Mass.
One hundred and six people who had been fully vaccinated against the coronavirus died from the disease in Massachusetts by the end of July, according to the state Department of Public Health.
As of Jan 15, 2022 mass.gov reports a total of 1,224 confirmed breakthrough deaths.
Subtract 106 deaths through the end of July 2021 and you get 1,118 breakthrough deaths from then through Jan 15, 2022.
There have been 2,909 confirmed and suspected COVID-19 deaths in Massachusetts from Jul 31, 2021 to Jan 15, 2022.
That means at least 38.43% of the COVID deaths in Massachusetts have been breakthrough deaths between Jul 31, 2021 and Jan 15, 2022.
LOL, CNBC story on Omicron in the UK avoids the word "breakthrough" like the plague
Yeah, let's talk about reinfections, or maybe about what they all had most in common for breakfast, anything but the elephant standing in every living room.
Bunch of boobs.
The UK has 6 million new cases in the last two months even though
"Almost 85% of the country’s eligible population — those over the age of 12 — is fully vaccinated against Covid, while 64% have received a booster shot."
Tuesday, January 25, 2022
Now that AXIOS finally got its shit together and updated its map for Omicron prevalence, let's check in on variants in Michigan
Delta still dominates in Michigan, as it does in about 12 other states, mostly in the high plains and upper mid-west.
Omicron now dominates in about 14 states, mostly in the south and west.
No other variants register in Michigan on the maps at Axios, nor anywhere else, Jimmy.
Omicron is displacing Delta in America. That's the story.
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| India Variant, aka Delta |
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| Omicron Variant, from South Africa |
Housing affordability turned down again in 2020 as housing prices climbed ever higher and incomes fell
The rich have taken away the keys.
Sunday, January 23, 2022
Nemesis comes for old soldiers Tom Brady, 44, and Aaron Rodgers, 38
Both quarterbacks were defeated in the NFL divisional playoffs by field goals in the closing seconds of their respective contests.
Pure poetry.
In Massachusetts breakthrough deaths must represent a shocking 25.5% of confirmed deaths since March 7, 2021
Cumulative confirmed deaths since the beginning of the pandemic: 20,884
https://www.mass.gov/info-details/covid-19-response-reporting
Breakthrough deaths: 1,224 (5.86% of confirmed deaths to date)
https://www.mass.gov/doc/weekly-report-covid-19-cases-in-vaccinated-individuals-january-18-2022/download
Cumulative confirmed cases since the beginning of the pandemic: 1,418,149
Breakthrough cases: 348,510 (24.57% of confirmed cases to date)
Breakthrough hospitalizations: 5,437 (0.38% of all confirmed cases to date; cumulative hospitalization data is not available from Massachusetts)
Presenting the data this way, however, leads to mixing the breakthrough data with the data from the first year of the pandemic when there were no vaccines through which to break.
We have to subtract the first year data to see what is really going on since vaccinations began and were characteristic of the second year.
A convenient date to choose for the end of the first year is March 7, 2021, when The Covid Tracking Project ceased its pandemic data gathering efforts. That data helpfully included cumulative hospitalization numbers. And fewer than 10% of Massachusetts residents had been fully vaccinated by that date.
In the first year of the pandemic through March 7, 2021, Massachusetts had 16,085 confirmed deaths, 559,083 confirmed cases, and 19,713 ever hospitalized for COVID.
The hospitalization rate in the first year was therefore 3.525% of confirmed cases, slightly higher than the national rate in the first year of the pandemic at 3.06%.
This means in year two to date since March 7, 2021 there have been only 4,799 additional confirmed deaths, but 859,066 additional confirmed cases and approximately 30,282 additional hospitalizations (I used the first year hospitalization rate of 3.525% as a proxy for this, which I grant is only an educated guess).
From those baseline figures from the second year of the pandemic to date, we get the following rates for breakthroughs since March 7, 2021 using the breakthrough data Massachusetts helpfully reports unlike most states:
Breakthrough deaths: 25.50%
Breakthrough cases: 40.56%
Breakthrough hospitalizations: ~17.95%.
In Massachusetts, the proportion of serious outcomes for vaccinated people is much higher than people realize. This is certainly true for deaths.
Saturday, January 22, 2022
Crazed libertarian can't stand other people, but can't do anything about it, so what's new?
Here:
"It's just gone on too long, nobody cares anymore," Maher said. "I don't want to live in your mask paranoid world anymore. You go out it's silly now: you have to have a mask, you have a booster, they scan your head. Like you're a cashier and I'm a bunch of bananas. I'm not bananas, you are."
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