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Simonjester wrote: corona virus prediction....

within the next year to three years our response to this virus will be widely viewed as a global episode of mass hysteria...

there will be some who deeply committed to the panic, who will never accept that reality, but as time passes our current madness will largely become recognized for what it is...

Simonjester wrote: that is a interesting point, there may be more vested interest in the hysteria than i think...
i hope not.. but its possible...

Simonjester wrote:
corona virus prediction....

within the next year to three years our response to this virus will be widely viewed as a global episode of mass hysteria...

there will be some who deeply committed to the panic, who will never accept that reality, but as time passes our current madness will largely become recognized for what it is...

Simonjester wrote:
I already judge it pretty harshly... more harshly may be justified ...

Simonjester wrote: ...
as a global episode of mass hysteria...
there will be some who deeply committed to the panic, who will never accept that reality,
...

Simonjester wrote:
"understanding of reality" would have been a clearer way for me to have said it..

big over reaction.. lots on both sides.. the media, the hype, the lock-downs, the micromanagement of peoples lives by busybody governors with aspirations of dictatorship, the overreaction to the overreaction... a lot of mass hysteria all the way round

dualstow wrote: ↑Thu Nov 19, 2020 2:45 pm I can't remember if I already mentioned it. At an ice cream place near my folks -- I have been there -- two employees were put in the hospital after they asked two patrons to put on masks while in the shop. One with broken bones. To me that's an overreaction.

Kriegsspiel wrote: ↑Thu Nov 19, 2020 3:52 pm Since most of what I know about Baltimore comes from The Wire, I'd also suggest that they could have scuffled over heroin and/or burner phones.

In response to much social uncertainty and numerous inquiries, I wanted to clarify the position of the Sacramento Sheriff’s Office relative to existing health orders, as well as any potential impending orders at the County or State level.

The Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office will not be determining—including entering any home or business—compliance with, or enforcing compliance of, any health or emergency orders related to curfews, staying at home, Thanksgiving or other social gatherings inside or outside the home, maximum occupancy, or mask mandates. Further, we will not dispatch officers for these purposes—callers will be advised to call 3-1-1 and be routed to County Health. Of course, if there is potential criminal behavior or the potential for impacts to public or personal safety we will continue to respond appropriately.

I would like to wish everyone a happy and meaningful Thanksgiving Holiday.

-Sheriff Scott Jones

Simonjester wrote:
finally.. hope it spreads...

the loss of popularity that is..

Maddy wrote: ↑Fri Nov 20, 2020 7:13 am It's being reported this morning that Germany has once again gone full-blown Nazi, carrying out raids against citizens daring to contradict the official CoVid narrative.

https://twitter.com/JohnBWellsCTM/statu ... 7384527874

Still think this is about a virus?

Maddy wrote: ↑Mon Nov 09, 2020 4:18 am The media hasn't allowed even a small slice of the truth about this to be aired. I am, at the moment, beginning the workup of a wrongful death case involving one of the many victims of this political stunt who were locked down and therefore unable to obtain monitoring and treatment for cancer. It was my friend, and I watched the whole fricking thing unfold from beginning to end.

They've counted every last sniffle in this county, but no one has shown the slightest interest in including my friend's death in their statistics.

Tortoise wrote: ↑Wed Nov 25, 2020 1:45 am A recent medical study found that of people who test positive for SARS-CoV-2 on an RT-PCR test with a cycle threshold of 35 (the standard threshold currently used in the U.S.), less than 3% of them are actually infectious:

https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-ar ... 91/5912603

The take-home message: For many months now, U.S. policy decisions on lockdowns, school closures, etc. have been based on an RT-PCR test setting that’s far too sensitive for the intended application.

MangoMan wrote: ↑Mon Nov 30, 2020 11:34 am Corto, is this a conspiracy?

Why Is Big Media Hiding That Illinois Has Far More COVID Cases Than Florida? Because Illinois Has A Democrat In Charge And Tighter Lockdowns

@foogatwo was kind enough to introduce me to a fun new CDC tool that tracks CARES act funding by hospital

one need not possess sherlock holmesian deductive powers to guess that those under the cuomo regime would be first & piggiest about getting snouts in trough

5/5 top spots!



big props to NYC HHC for getting twice as much as the next closest competitor!

$1.2 bn in federal funding. to one hospital system.

NY presby in second with 630 million. montfiore in 3rd with 467mm.

a full NYstate podium!

these are the true champions of crony capitalism.

NYS got 12% of funding. (5.7% of US population)

the only hospital outside of NY state to break $400mm in funding was HMH and they are actually 1/2 in NY 1/2 in NJ, so they get some honorary rights

once you break the top 10, it's <$300 million a paltry 25% of NYC HHC

pikers...

the average US hospital received $251,036, 0.02% of NYC HHC.

they got 4730X as much.

median was $9,994.

NYC HHC got $1,196,544,217. that's 120,000X the median.

boy, knowing how to play the pork game sure does pay.

bigly.

(pigly?)

$98 billion has been allocated via this program.

391,602 hospitals have been recipients.

the top 10% have taken $92 billion of that. (94%)

the top 1% have taken $71 billion (72%)

the top 0.1% have taken $35 billion (36%)

392 hospitals out of 391,602 got 36% of funds.



so, the next time you wonder: "why would hospitals seek to overstate covid" keep this in mind.

this is why. it's been a massive pork barrel bonanza if you know how to play the game of "find covid, get paid from federal firehose of funding."



this has been a never before seen grab bag of goodies and danger for the US hospital system.

they were forbidden from undertaking the elective procedures that pay all the bills and left reeling and insolvent.

then they were offered gobs of free money for finding covid.

what else could they do? this was clearly a gravy train leaving the station and their core businesses had been demolished by governmental diktat.

so they responded to incentives to survive.

it's not some conspiracy, it's just bad incentives breeding bad behavior.

and until we shut off this staggering spigot of funding, it is not going to stop.

big business LOVES crony capitalism. it's safer, more predictable, and harder for competitors to encroach on.

it's also terrible for consumers, taxpayers, and in cases like this all citizens.

the over reporting and over-diagnosis this encourages is then used to inform policy that further limits hospitals' traditional revenue lines and adds more pork.

competing for that pork ups apparent dangers through over-reporting.

this tightens policy.

it's inescapable so long as the money flows and it rewards the worst and most aggressively cronyistic and at the expense of the honest and non-politically connected.

it is everything you do not want in a hospital system and a government.

stop the gravy.

#DemandBetter

the tool can be found here:

feel free to check my work.

https://t.co/9isThLGpMm?amp=1

The study found that “This trend is completely contrary to the pattern observed in all previous years.” In fact, “the total decrease in deaths by other causes almost exactly equals the increase in deaths by COVID-19.”

Briand concludes that the COVID-19 death toll in the United States is misleading and that deaths from other diseases are being categorized as COVID-19 deaths.

dualstow wrote: ↑Tue Dec 01, 2020 6:34 am If covid took away my sense of taste and smell, I would want to die.

dualstow wrote: ↑Tue Dec 01, 2020 6:34 am If covid took away my sense of taste and smell, I would want to die.