The variant tracker at Axios now shows Delta prevalence of 50% or more in only thirteen states, Omicron in sixteen

Delta:

 

Maine 63.1%

West Virginia 54.8%

Kentucky 54.6%

Indiana 50.5%

Michigan 53.4%

Minnesota 56.2%

Iowa 57.2%

Missouri 54%

Kansas 55.1%

South Dakota 58%

North Dakota 51.6%

New Mexico 50.7%

Alaska 55.2%

Omicron:

New York 55.5%

New Jersey 54.5%

Maryland 53.1%

Wyoming 61.3%

Montana 61.8%

Washington 56.1%

Oregon 52.5%

Hawaii 74.4%

Texas 70.9%

Louisiana 79.3%

Tennessee 53.3%

South Carolina 56.1%

Georgia 72.4%

Alabama 61.8%

Mississippi 54.3%

Florida 73.8%

Axios.

In the last three months Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York, and Michigan have led the way in daily new deaths.

In daily new deaths per 100k of population the leaders have been Tennessee, Michigan, Missouri, and Ohio.

Breakthrough deaths in Alberta at 47.5% confirm what's going on in Massachusetts is no outlier

Alberta data indicates breakthrough deaths at 47.5% of the total COVID deaths, aged 5+ over, during the last four months.

 

52.5% of the COVID deaths were unvaccinated.

 

358 vaccinated deaths (sum of 3 doses died, boosters!, and 2 doses died) vs. 396 unvaccinated deaths over the last four months.

 

Similar to Massachusetts, end of July 2021 through January 2022, at 44%.

 

 

 

Democrat Kathy Hochul, the new Governor of New York, thinks this was a good idea because Democrats rule New York and can do whatever the hell they want

 

Hey WaPo, I'll see your Canadian trucker swastikas on the twelfth of never and raise you two BLM hammer and sickles in Miami

 

 

... some protesters defaced national monuments and waved flags featuring swastikas while calling on Trudeau to resign.

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?

How the hell is Omicron going to infect the whole country and give us herd immunity if it won't cooperate, huh?

 

Here's another Democrat, Representative Elissa Slotkin of Michigan, who likes to broadcast how she doesn't wear a mask while your kids must

 It's weird.

 

I ditch the pantyhose for formal occasions, however

 

 

 

I mean, someone's got to stick up for standards, might as well be me.

I've got a new mask

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

STUDY: Pantyhose mask better protection against covid... ^

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.”

Reuters.

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:

NATIONAL ARCHIVES RAIDS MAR-A-LAGO

Having the election in Georgia stolen from her makes Stacey Abrams so special that she doesn't have to wear the mask your kids must wear

 

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.

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.

 

I had no idea Whoopi Goldberg could cook

 I just thought she ate out . . . a lot.

 

LOL, Sweden quits while it's ahead

Sweden joins others in announcing end of virus restrictions

New Mexico's Senator Lujan, hospitalized for a stroke, was vaccinated way back in December 2020, so it's a real stretch to connect the two

 Yeah, I'm talking to you, Alex.