They can't predict the weather overnight, and yet you believe in fantastic theories of global warming caused by too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and assorted tall tales of unprecedented extreme weather events urged on you by these charlatans.
Rising cases even prompted Prime Minister Boris Johnson to delay the end of restrictions. But the huge case spike didn’t lead to similar hospitalization or death spikes, so Britain’s back on track to lift regulations July 19.
The seven-day average of new UK cases is above 25,000, the highest since late January, when the weekly average had just dropped from a peak of 50,000. But only 2,000 COVID cases are hospitalized, vs. nearly 40,000 in January. Daily deaths average under 20, vs. more than 1,000 in January.
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OK, well, daily new cases coincidentally rolled over after July 18th, so there's that, but hospitalizations are up over 542% in two months, and 179% in the three weeks since the editorial. And daily new deaths aren't in the 20s anymore. They were 131 yesterday.
The confident pronunciamentoes of a month ago don't look so firm today. They were premature, as is typical during this pandemic, which has made fools of us all.
Debates about severity aside, the main point is still that the vaccines prevented none of this in merry old England in July, where 66% were fully (49%) and partially vaccinated as of the end of June.
We are witnessing vaccine failure in place after place, even as the progress of the pandemic changes as the virus mutates and host populations experience transformation. The low hanging fruit easily picked off and killed by the virus in the past will likely not be matched in magnitude going forward by the deaths of what are by definition sturdier hosts. It would be a mistake to miss that and credit the so-called vaccines instead, which are not preventing disease.
Herd immunity schmamunity.
If vaccines are supposed to prevent illness, these aren't vaccines.
h/t Alex Berenson
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US COVID-19 hospitalizations have soared 143% in less than a month, from 12.2k on June 27 to 29.6k on July 23.
Peak hospitalization was 133.2k on January 14, falling to 33.2k on March 20, or 75%.
Vaccination levels on March 20 were merely 13% fully vaccinated and 24% dosed once vs. 49% and 56% respectively right now.
The vaccines had little if anything to do with the declines then and are not preventing the rise now.
Texas, California, Florida and Missouri are the states with the highest numbers of hospitalized, roughly 3.9k, 2.5k, 1.7k, and 1.7k respectively.
Prevalence of variants is mixed in Texas and Florida, where it is not obvious that the India variant is to blame as it appears to be in Missouri. And shouldn't California have more hospitalized than Texas if the India variant is so much more serious and clearly more dominant?
Texas: 43/38% India/UK.
California: 50/23% India/UK.
Florida: 34/39% India/UK.
Missouri: 52/9% India/UK.
Vaccine advocates rarely acknowledge the fact that deaths started dropping long before most people had received shots. In reality, even acknowledging that many people who received vaccines in January and February were older and vulnerable, seasonality and herd immunity seem to have had a greater impact on broad Covid trends than vaccinations.
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Pandemic sweeps the nation.
Fascist America under Trump mobilizes pharmaceutical industry to rush vaccines into development, investing billions of dollars in the efforts.
Industry resurrects a discredited drug delivery mechanism and calls it a vaccine. Smelling $$$, it prepares for mass vaccination but doesn't run trials proportionate to that effort, and then cuts off the placebo arm prematurely, making a complete hash of it.
Government gives Emergency Use Authorization, not FDA Approval, to permit these corporations to experiment on the US population during an "emergency".
The corporations, and the government, are exempted from liability.
A fearful population whipped into a hysteria by propaganda paid for with borrowed dollars lines up like sheep to take the vaccine under a new administration but the same old fascism.
Presto! 9 new billionaires:
The 9 new vaccine billionaires, in order of their net worth are:
The 8 vaccine billionaires who saw their wealth increase are:
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TL;dr: fascism.
The data are clear.
But Californians see Texas as a mortal threat not merely to their state’s business model and way of life but to humanity itself. Drilling is killing. Texas cannot be allowed to be Texas because if Texans get their way, the planet will superheat, destroying us all. You may think that’s ridiculous hyperbole, and maybe it is, but Californians believe it and will not be talked out of it. Hence peaceful coexistence is, for them, possible only on their terms.
The Golden State is no longer down with living and letting live but must impose its will, against the express wishes of others, in fundamentally transformative ways. There’s a word for that.
But Michael Anton can't see how this is just like Lincoln in the North imposing his will on the South in 1861. A Lincoln worshiper in denial.
California is nothing if not Lincolnesque.
Claremont Review of Books, here.
But as it was revealed that the FBI had at least a dozen informants heavily involved in the Watchmen — including that Iraq veteran — critics say the G-Men did as much to prod the plot as they did to prevent it from happening in the first place.
The agents took an active part in the scheme from its inception, according to court filings, evidence and dozens of interviews examined by BuzzFeed. Some members of the Wolverine Watchmen are accusing the feds of entrapment. ...
Since the 9/11 attacks, the FBI has reportedly recruited thousands of informants. Some, according to a recent investigation in The New York Times that centered on the dubious arrest and conviction of the so-called “Herald Square Bomber” by the use of an informant, said they were retaliated against if they refused. ...
Coulson said he and others are “very upset” the FBI hasn’t arrested anti-government and anti-fascist protesters who have been leading violent demonstrations in Portland and Seattle for more than a year — yet are bearing down so hard on those arrested for the insurrection at the Capitol.
Read it all here.
Looks more and more like a replay of the FBI's Michigan Hutaree Militia fiasco from 2010.
The so-called “Proud Boys,” often
cited as a “far-Right” organization and said to be somehow responsible
for January 6, was led by one Enrique Tarrio, an FBI informant. The
so-called Oath Keepers, the group most cited and said by government
sources to be most involved in that day’s events, is led by one Stewart
Rhodes, another FBI asset.
In fact, the Justice Department lists some 15 participants in the event against whom it brings no charges, either for “insurrection” or even for trespassing, because these individuals are paid infiltrators. They work for the FBI or other U.S. intelligence agencies. The U.S. government refuses to expose what these persons did because they did it on the government’s behalf.
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The FBI never changes. Its sting operations are legion, without which it would have no successes. It should be abolished.
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| Michigan testing positivity peaked 4/9/21 |
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| Michigan second wave cases peaked 4/13/21 |
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| Michigan C19 hospitalizations peaked 4/17/21 |
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| Michigan vaccinations peaked 4/11/21 |
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| Nationally there was a case spike peaking 4/13/21 |
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| Peak vaccination nationally occurred on . . . 4/13/21 ! |
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| Testing was low but had popped to 5.2% nationally on 4/13 |
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| And hospitalizations nationally briefly stopped months of progress by 4/20 |
Enjoying a comfortable retirement and a lucrative pension, this is the disgraced FBI chief who is accused of chasing a $400,000 Olympic security job instead of pursuing pedophile doctor Larry Nassar.
William Jay Abbott, the former Special Agent in Charge of the bureau's Indianapolis field office, was alerted to Nassar's sickening abuse of young athletes in summer 2015.
But a recent report by the Justice Department's inspector general revealed Abbott failed to take the complaint seriously or warn authorities at Michigan State University, allowing the former USA Gymnastics physician to continue molesting patients for a further 13 months.
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We keep hearing in FBI's defense that all the problems are at the top, but that the rank and file are God's gift to America.
Well, not in Kalamazoo.
An FBI agent at the center of the investigation
into the plot to kidnap and kill Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is accused of
smashing his wife's head against a nightstand and choking her after a
dispute stemming from their attendance at a swingers' party, according
to court records.
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June 2021 was very warm, and about as wet as it gets. The month was the 12th warmest on record by average temperature, and the second wettest, behind only June 1892 when 13.22 inches of rain fell.
Climate Update for KGRR: June 2021
