Sunday, November 28, 2021
Saturday, November 27, 2021
Michigan's growth of breakthrough hospitalizations and deaths through August has made it the poster child for vaccine failure as it sits atop all other states in the autumn outbreak
Aug 26: More than 20% of recent COVID cases, hospitalizations have been among Michigan’s fully vaccinated:
In the last 30 days, vaccinated individuals in Michigan have represented 23.4% cases, 28.1% of hospitalizations, and nearly 15.4% of COVID-19 deaths, according to data from the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services.
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Even without reporting cases in the last two days Michigan remains #1 in the nation for daily new cases over the last two weeks.
Wayne, Oakland, and Macomb counties around Detroit remain ground zero for daily new cases.
The lack of reporting during Thanksgiving week is emblematic of Michigan's underlying laissez-faire attitude to life. It is under-vaccinated compared to the rest of the nation, and gave up on social distancing and masking months ago.
That's as true of its so-called conservatives as it is of its liberals, including the Democrat Attorney General Dana Nessel who got ignominiously drunk in public at the Michigan football game at the end of October, sans mask.
The government we deserve!
Suddenly 25% of C19 victims in Michigan are vaccinated, but WaPo won't say it that way
The unvaccinated made up about three-quarters of cases, hospitalizations and deaths in the 30 days ending Nov. 5, according to the state health department. About 54% of Michiganders are fully vaccinated, trailing the national figure of 59%.
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About? Sounds like it could be fewer than 75% unvaccinated, which would mean the vaccinated are more than 25%.
And why conflate cases, hospitalizations and deaths that way?
Because it's WaPo, that's why.
World Health Organization protects Xi Jinping's feelings, adopts Omicron for new South African variant B.1.1.529 instead of Nu or Xi
alpha beta gamma delta epsilon
zeta eta theta
iota kappa lambda mu nu
xi omicron pi
rho sigma tau upsilon
phi chi psi omega
This is the first thing you learn in Greek 101, the alphabet. You've got it down when you can say it from memory after lighting a match and you don't burn your fingers, which you will need to write all the funny letters.
Looks like WHO needs to retake the course, however.
This new South African variant, B.1.1.529, will be very confusing since almost a year ago there was a South African variant everyone got hysterical about but it didn't take over the world. The India variant did instead.
That South African variant (B.1.351), was beta, retroactively so designated at the end of May 2021 with all the variants, which is probably why no one remembers it.
The UK variant (B.1.1.7), dominant in the US in April, May, and June, is alpha.
The gamma variant (P.1), from Brazil, never amounted to much in the US, though that was fear-mongered, too.
The India variant (B.1.617.2) is delta, dominant in the US from July 1.
Epsilon covers variants from California, B.1.427/B.1.429.
Zeta is another Brazilian one, P.2.
Eta and iota cover variants from New York, B.1.526/B.1.525.
Theta was first detected in the Philippines, P.3.
Kappa's another one from India, B.1.617.1, as is B.1.617.3, which oddly hasn't its own Greek letter designation even though it's on radars.
Lambda is from Peru, C. 37.
Mu variants come from Colombia, B.1.621/B.1.621.1.
The WHO made the announcement about the B.1.1.529 variant out of Johannesburg, South Africa, passing over a letter many observers presumed would be next — “Nu” — as well as the subsequent letter, “Xi,” which composes part of Chinese leader Xi Jinping‘s name.
I'm looking forward to Beijing being called Peking again one day.
I mean, who orders "Beijing Duck"?
At any rate, the reality, as one wag put it, is that they are all Xi variants.
And as another answered, the final variant will be communism.
MacArthur was right about China:
Here in Asia is where the communist conspirators have elected to make
their play for global conquest.
Elites today everywhere are on their side.
Friday, November 26, 2021
Looks like there won't be a magic pill for that, at least from Merck
Efficacy of Merck's molnupiravir in preventing hospitalization & death from C19 drops to 30% from 48% in October preliminary results after interim results in over 1400 patients reported, mostly because the interim placebo group hospitalization rate narrowed by 31%:
Merck & Co said on Friday updated data from its study on its experimental COVID-19 pill showed the drug was less effective in cutting hospitalizations and deaths than previously reported.
The drugmaker said its pill showed a 30% reduction in hospitalizations and deaths, based on data from over 1,400 patients. In October, its data showed a roughly 50% efficacy, based on data from 775 patients. ...
The company filed for a U.S. authorization of the drug molnupiravir on Oct. 11, following the interim data.
Merck said on Friday the data on molnupiravir, developed with Ridgeback Biotherapeutics, had been submitted to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ahead of a meeting of its expert advisers on Tuesday.
The FDA's scientists are expected to publish their briefing documents ahead of the meeting as early as Friday.
The panel is expected to vote whether to recommend that the agency authorize the oral capsules for the treatment of mild-to-moderate COVID-19 in adults who are at risk of severe disease.
A planned interim analysis of the data last month showed that 7.3% of those given molnupiravir twice a day for five days were hospitalized and none had died by 29 days after the treatment. That compared with a hospitalization rate of 14.1% for patients on placebo.
In the updated data, 6.8% of those given molnupiravir were hospitalized and one person died, while the other placebo group had a hospitalization rate of 9.7%.
WaPo finds one sucka in Michigan to say how bad C19 hospitalizations are when 84% of beds statewide are occupied by non-COVID patients
"We don't have a darker color," said Darryl Elmouchi, president of Spectrum Health West Michigan. "So if we're red now, what are we in two weeks?" ...
Spectrum reported more than 370 people hospitalized with covid last week. The system has converted floors and tripled its intensive care unit space, yet there are still patients waiting for beds. Conference space and shared workspaces have been identified for conversion if the surge continues as expected. Elmouchi described the situation as "almost unmanageable."
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The third graph shows 16% of Michigan hospital beds occupied by COVID patients right now.
Who's in the other 84%?
The way you manage a real emergency is to stop filling beds with people getting elective procedures. That they aren't doing this in general tells you they are exaggerating.
COVID patients don't make the hospitals any money. That's the real reason they are complaining. The COVID pandemic cuts into the hospitals' bottom line.
You should see the outpatient eye surgery operation at Grand Rapids Ophthalmology lately. They herd them in and out like cattle, performing cataract surgeries like crazy. The pandemic isn't stopping them one bit.
They've had plenty of time to prepare for this inevitable seasonal wave, but instead they placed their faith in a vaccine which didn't stop the spread. Big Pharma, Big Healthcare, and Big Fauci make suckers of us all:
At this point in the pandemic, months after the shots became widely available, the state's health-care workers expected to see occasional ebbs and flows in case numbers. But not at this level.
"I think all of us had hoped that with relatively reasonable vaccination rates - and a year-plus under our belt - we would not get another surge like this," Elmouchi said.
Thursday, November 25, 2021
Currency in Circulation is up over 24% Oct 2019 to Oct 2021 and people wonder why there is inflation
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CURRCIR
YouTube comments section doesn't want you to be able to link to the Circulation article finding increased risk of Acute Coronary Syndrome from C19 vaccines
https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1161/circ.144.suppl_1.10712
Idiotic "Governments are considering a fresh round of restrictions, largely against the unvaccinated, to try and curb the spread" when it's the vaccinated who also keep spreading the disease
Scientists in South Africa are studying a recently identified new coronavirus variant that is a cause for serious concern, stoking fears the country may face a potentially severe fourth wave that could spread internationally. ...
The findings come as several European countries battle a renewed surge in Covid-19 case numbers, with hospitals in some German cities starting to feel the strain. Governments are considering a fresh round of restrictions, largely against the unvaccinated, to try and curb the spread. South Africa is currently on the lowest level of lockdown measures, though the new variant prompted the cabinet and coronavirus council to call a meeting for the weekend.
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The small British protectorate of Gibraltar is closing in on 16k booster doses administered to date since Oct 10 after fully vaccinating the entire island by May 1, but the virus is spreading anyway.
The obvious take-away is that stopping the spread will have to be accomplished by means other than vaccines, IF THAT'S WHAT THEY REALLY WANT.
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New Coronavirus Variant a ‘Serious Concern’ in
Wednesday, November 24, 2021
Hillary "vast right wing conspiracy" Clinton is still beating that same old, worn out, authoritarian personality drum she bought at a 1950s vintage store in the 1990s
... there is a plot against the country by people who truly want to turn the
clock back. They believe that the progress we’ve made on all kinds of
civil rights and human rights, the cultural changes that have taken
place, are so deeply threatening that they want to stage a coup.
Now, think about it, because that’s truly what is behind Trump and his
enablers and those who invaded and attacked our Capitol. They don’t like
the world we’re living in and they have that in common with, you know,
autocratic leaders from Russia to Turkey to Hungary to Brazil and so
many other places, who are driven by personal power and greed and
corruption but who utilize fears about change to try to get people to
hate one another and feel insecure and, therefore, be easily manipulated
by demagogues and by disinformation.
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The projection from the person behind the Steele Dossier is really something. Crackpot, loony-bin level stuff.
Not even Dan Crenshaw can deny that the plague of George Soros' political activity is responsible for unpunished crime "all over the country"
And I'll tell you what, I'm not that conspiratorial, but it is pretty obvious that there are people like George Soros funding these far-left radical DAs and prosecutors around the country in the tunes of millions of dollars and you've gotta get out and vote for these local elections because that's how you stop this...They see some people as needing benefits over others. It's a very pathological ideology and it's dangerous.
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Monday, November 22, 2021
The mRNA vaccines are dangerous to the human heart at ANY AGE and should be banned immediately
Abstract 10712: Mrna COVID Vaccines Dramatically Increase Endothelial Inflammatory Markers and ACS Risk as Measured by the PULS Cardiac Test: a Warning:
Our group has been using the PULS Cardiac Test (GD Biosciences, Inc, Irvine, CA) a clinically validated measurement of multiple protein biomarkers which generates a score predicting the 5 yr risk (percentage chance) of a new Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS).
The score is based on changes from the norm of multiple protein biomarkers including IL-16, a proinflammatory cytokine, soluble Fas, an inducer of apoptosis, and Hepatocyte Growth Factor (HGF)which serves as a marker for chemotaxis of T-cells into epithelium and cardiac tissue, among other markers.
Elevation above the norm increases the PULS score, while decreases below the norm lowers the PULS score.
The score has been measured every 3-6 months in our patient population for 8 years.
Recently, with the advent of the mRNA COVID 19 vaccines (vac) by Moderna and Pfizer, dramatic changes in the PULS score became apparent in most patients.
This report summarizes those results.
A total of 566 pts, aged 28 to 97, M:F ratio 1:1 seen in a preventive cardiology practice had a new PULS test drawn from 2 to 10 weeks following the 2nd COVID shot and was compared to the previous PULS score drawn 3 to 5 months previously pre- shot.
Baseline IL-16 increased from 35=/-20 above the norm to 82 =/- 75 above the norm post-vac; sFas increased from 22+/- 15 above the norm to 46=/-24 above the norm post-vac; HGF increased from 42+/-12 above the norm to 86+/-31 above the norm post-vac.
These changes resulted in an increase of the PULS score from 11% 5 yr ACS risk to 25% 5 yr ACS risk.
At the time of this report, these changes persist for at least 2.5 months post second dose of vac.
We conclude that the mRNA vacs dramatically increase inflammation on the endothelium and T cell infiltration of cardiac muscle and may account for the observations of increased thrombosis, cardiomyopathy, and other vascular events following vaccination.
-- CIRCULATION, a journal of the American Heart Association, November 16, 2021
Vol 144, Issue Suppl_1
Color me skeptical: Firewood prices said to be soaring
$67-$83 a face-cord for seasoned mixed hardwoods doesn't sound that high to me, but $158 for hickory would. The former were common many years ago already.
I come up with $612 for the 1776 cord through 2020, a quibble.
At Firewood by Jerry in New River, Arizona, a cord of seasoned firewood — roughly 700 pieces or so — goes for US$200 today. That’s up 33 per cent from a year ago. At Zia Firewood in Albuquerque, the price is up 11 per cent since the summer to US$250. And at Standing Rock Farms in Stone Ridge, a bucolic, little town in the Hudson Valley that’s become popular with the Manhattan set, the best hardwoods now fetch US$475 a cord, up 19 per cent from last year. ...
Over the course of American history, there have been any number of booms in the firewood business. One of the earliest episodes came during the British siege of Boston at the outset of the Revolutionary War. That winter, the price of a cord — a centuries-old benchmark measuring 128 cubic feet — soared to US$20, the historian David McCullough documented in his book “1776.” That’s the equivalent of some $635 in today’s dollars ... just about every major spike in energy prices in the past half century has triggered a rush into wood-burning among some segments of the population. These fevers invariably fade as soon as the energy crisis does.
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Australian doctoral candidate: "If you want to know about something, the best way to do it is to look at it"
The final word in epistemology, ladies and gentlemen.
Sunday, November 21, 2021
Weekend crew at KGRR can't even predict the wind speed
Official forecast right now for tonight:
A chance of rain showers before
9pm, then a chance of rain and snow showers between 9pm and 10pm, then a
chance of flurries after 10pm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 26.
Blustery, with a northwest wind 14 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 38
mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%.
Current conditions:
Wind Speed
NW 31 G 47 mph
Blew the lid right off the Weber.
Facts vs. hysteria: Pandemic year 1 vs. pandemic year 2 to date
If you date the start of the pandemic from the first announced US death on Feb 29, 2020, the first year of the pandemic looks like this:
1402 deaths per day, 78208 cases per day.
(There were already 70 cases by 2/29/20, but they have been included in the total anyway.)
For the 265 days since Feb 28, 2021, the second year of the pandemic to date looks like this:
969 deaths per day, 71838 cases per day.
Deaths are down a whopping 31%, cases a much more modest 8%.
The Hill is showcasing the 2021 death toll to date exceeding the 2020 death toll, which is true, and is politically convenient to Joe Biden's opponents, but this completely misses how things are moving in the right direction.
Joe Biden famously promised to shut down the virus and not the country. He has not done the former and may in fact do the latter, for which he ought to be held responsible by booting his sorry ass.
But that's an entirely different matter.
Meanwhile the terrible outcomes predicted by experts from the still dominant India variant, for whatever reasons, are not panning out. At least not yet.
Meanwhile in 79% fully vaccinated Spain: Spread of COVID-19 "has raised concerns", lol
While Spain’s vaccination rates are positive – with 79 per cent of the population having both jabs – the Covid rates are rising.
The country has reported 88.6 cases per 100,000 over 14 days, a jump of 67 per cent, according to El Pais.
This is much lower than other badly hit European destinations such as Germany and Belgium, but the spike has raised concerns about the efforts to slow the spread.
Spain achieved the 79% fully vaccinated threshold on Oct 10. Even that level did not eradicate cases, and now they are rising again.
The vaccine peddlers like Anthony Fauci insisted multiple times that the 50% level would prevent a surge in cases. Europe is 57% fully vaccinated, yet look at that headline.
Boosters will be the next panacea. And Eric Topol now insists we must have 90-95% vaccinated.
"The science has changed" is simply sanctification of moving the goalposts.
Meanwhile Africa, hardly 7% fully jabbed, is making monkeys of the wizards of smart.
But no one asks, Why?
Welcome to The Planet of the Apes.
The powers that be insist the boosters will stop transmission when the first two jabs have not
But boosters dramatically increase protection against infection, which can help reduce the spread of the virus.
Gibraltar, 100% vaccinated with Pfizer since the spring, did not escape the summer outbreak.
And with 35% already given the booster from early October, they are having an even bigger outbreak now.
Three jabs, but the virus still spreads.
The insanity is remarkable.
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