In short, nearly everything they told us about the second coming of the Black Death turned out to be wrong. And for this, our betters ravaged the economies of the West, bullied the honest citizenry, and suspended the Bill of Rights -- and then when the riots came, excused them on the non-medical grounds that "racism" (a neologism in common usage only since about 1970) is a worse health threat than, well, Covid-19.
Hi Frank,
ReplyDeleteHere we are, hopefully halfway through the pandemic, but who knows. And I thankfully did not get halfway though that report, nor did I proof read its stats to the studies. No big post today, just to say that I have no idea how you found this hack report.
A new study shows that subways are a hot spot as well for the virus, anywhere people gather like that -- for instance George Floyd had it come to find out, but how many other dead people had it -- we do not know and so have not counted them. Thus any death count from the virus that we read, is necessarily low. Even in nursing homes, where early testing was concentrated, the counts can be low, for obvious reasons, certainly not high. It's like not finding all the Easter eggs, the greener we are, the less eggs we uncover.
No one wants their company to have the virus in it. And there are states, such as PA, that have kept the counts outside nursing homes low -- we know that because in comparison to the deceptive 42% that this reporter leans on, PA's percentage is much higher, when it shouldn't be. Florida already was busted for this. Some politicians find it easier to either govern or impress people who can be duped -- or just glory in a lie.
There is a high likelihood, we came to know a few weeks ago, that the virus did not originate in Wuhan, so we are better off calling it the Trump Virus because his ineptitude has caused yet-uncounted dead. At least that gives the name reason. However, the spreaders in Wuhan, although they did not all go to the suspected wildlife market there, maybe all got on a subway with a spreader from out of town, or a crowded beach or restaurant, or a nursing home, and/or all the other ways the virus has spread.
My sister is a nurse and got home today from treating a Covid patient. Maybe all I have to do is go next door to catch it, right? It is, after all, a dumb virus.
Yes, we've "kept the counts outside nursing homes low" and the death rate in the nursing homes quite high — about 4,000, the overwhelming majority.
ReplyDeleteAlso, satellite data suggests that the virus may have hot China as early as last summer.
ReplyDeleteAll counts are low, both inside and outside nursing homes, but especially outside, because of all the testing that was not done, and still is not being done, on the living and the dead. What we do know is that the original expected deaths for 2020 is so much lower than the count of who have died, that the current counts do not account for them, but should -- even when adding back in the flu deaths and auto accidents that did not take place as a result of people staying at home. We begin with under counting out of ignorance. How long we stay ignorant of what the virus us and can do, the more we keep our counts low. And that's just for starters. Money and politics then gets in the way.
ReplyDeleteThere are 2 sides to explaining why the Pennsylvania nursing home count is so much higher percentage-wise than outside nursing homes in your state. The first to consider and probably throw out, is that nursing homes are that bad in Pennsylvania, so bad that their approach to the virus has killed 55% more than the counts we know in other states across the country.
The second makes more sense -- that nursing homes in Pennsylvania, account for 60-plus percent of your total counted state deaths in nursing homes, compared with the 42 percent that the article reports as what we have for the country in general -- because your state is not counting thousands of your neighbors' deaths as covid-19 deaths. Either Pennsylvania's counting or reporting is more suppressed than in other states.
There are business and political reasons to have a low death count. First, one of the nursing homes my father was in just last year was busted this year for not reporting covid-19 cases and deaths, pretending they did not have it there, killing employees as well as patients in the process -- such is the insidiousness of the virus, that it kills those who have no idea they have been exposed, and/or makes super spreaders out of them, such as nursing home employees.
Covid-19 became very bad for all business, not just nursing home business -- thus denial and manipulation by owners and investors, maybe for so badly not wanting it to be true, having the world and political philosophy figured out except for a pandemic's interference, fed by not being creative enough to come up with new business ideas. This denial leads to what happens in business and politics outside nursing homes.
One way for a business to keep going and keep making money, is to try and influence politicians (and employees) that there is no problem, that the pandemic is a hoax or contrived. This can couple with a politician's desire to report to constituents that her city or her state has been successful in stopping the virus, which is mild in her area anyway, because of her political leadership. Then ask, "And don't you want to go back to work too?" This is the politics that enters and keeps a deadly made-up devil's virus advocate debate going on, the motives being votes and money, that some opposing political party or opposition is trying to pump up the counts. It never should have gotten political.