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.
