COVID-19

[Jiggafini19Deux]

I'm not sophisticated or tolerant. I'm most sad that polio came back.

 

[Bluto]

That is the worst comedic monologue I’ve ever seen.

Makes sense though, most self described libertarians are as much fun as a colonoscopy.

 

[TorontoGold]

That is the worst comedic monologue I’ve ever seen.

Makes sense though, most self described libertarians are as much fun as a colonoscopy.

The most defund the police open border policy group are Libertarian's lol. Usually its just I want the services but I don't want to pay for them. Sad group.

 

[sixstar]

As a Libertarian, I think the "Defund the Police" movement is incredibly stupid and hyperbolic. I also reject open border policies.

I will own up to being as fun as a colonoscopy though.

 

[Jiggafini19Deux]

Covid broke a lot of brains, and if we're being honest, just how together and mentally fit was society prior to 2020 to begin with? I was mostly disappointed with how it made people even angrier than before, but even in the isolation I probably met more neighors than I did in the six previous years I lived in our neighborhood. I got outside more. I now work permanently from home and every weekend we take time to watch a movie together as a family, which I know is going to end soon enough when my kids become teenagers.

I'm a demilitarize kind of guy, not defund. That's mostly because about ten years ago the Fourth of July parade in our nice little suburb was sporting some utility vehicles that looked like what you'd see on the streets of Fallujah.

I think people who commit crimes should be held accountable by the police and courts.

I have never met a single person that identifies as being a part of The Green Party. That's a streak I hope continues.

 

[MacIrish75]

You have to wonder if Tommy Rees contracted COVID and if COVID brain is to blame for his poor recruiting and QB development.

 

[sixstar]

Estimating excess mortality due to the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic analysis of COVID-19-related mortality, 2020–21

The full impact of the pandemic has been much greater than what is indicated by reported deaths due to COVID-19 alone. Strengthening death registration systems around the world, long understood to be crucial to global public health strategy, is necessary for improved monitoring of this pandemic...

www.thelancet.com

		Reported COVID-19 deaths	Reported COVID-19 mortality rate (per 100 000)	Estimated excess deaths	Estimated excess mortality rate (per 100 000)	Ratio between excess mortality rate and reported COVID-19 mortality rate
Global	5 940 000	39·2	18 200 000 (17 100 000 to 19 600 000)	120·3 (113·1 to 129·3)	3·07 (2·88 to 3·30)
	Australasia	2300	4·0	−19 000 (−22 200 to −15 200)	−32·9 (−38·6 to −26·4)	−8·23 (−9·65 to −6·60)
	Australia	2250	4·7	−18 100 (−21 400 to −14 400)	−37·6 (−44·5 to −29·9)	−8·03 (−9·52 to −6·39)
	New Zealand	51	0·5	−872 (−1330 to −451)	−9·3 (−14·1 to −4·8)	−17·10 (−26·06 to −8·84)
	Sweden	15 300	77·2	18 100 (16 900 to 19 500)	91·2 (85·2 to 98·1)	1·18 (1·10 to 1·27)

lmao. So immense that excess deaths are wildly different. Immense.

The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is an intergovernmental organization with 38 member countries. Their focus is to provide a platform to compare policy experiences, seek answers to common problems, identify good practices and coordinate domestic and international policies of its members.

OECD has been tracking worldwide all cause and COVID mortality - using actual data - which you can see here: https://stats.oecd.org/index.aspx?queryid=104676

OECD cares about this data to determine if intrusive NPI policies were worth the economic impacts.

Here's a graph of the data. Sweden's non-invasive, virus-gonna-virus policies have been tremendously successful.



Keep in mind that COVID deaths are categorized differently by country (for example, the US counted deaths "with COVID" as a COVID death), but excess death as a function of all cause mortality is standardized.

But digging further, you will see where Sweden, who eliminated NPI early, leveled off early, countries that pursued zero COVID policies, like AUS and NZ, are rapidly getting worse. So, if trends continue, we expect NZ and AUS excess and all cause mortality to continue increasing.

Sweden:


Australia:


New Zealand:

 

[ulukinatme]

Damn, dropping a lot of truth there.

Related to the Atlatic Amnesty article:

 

[Polish Leppy 22]

Talked to a client today who got covid over the summer and now can no longer drink any alcohol. One drink (beer, whiskey, vodka, anything) and he gets severe migraines for hours. To make matters worse, he's from Russia. Said he doesn't even go to family parties anymore because he has to abstain from the vokda lol.

Anyone else hear of this?

 

[Sea Turtle]

Talked to a client today who got covid over the summer and now can no longer drink any alcohol. One drink (beer, whiskey, vodka, anything) and he gets severe migraines for hours. To make matters worse, he's from Russia. Said he doesn't even go to family parties anymore because he has to abstain from the vokda lol.

Anyone else hear of this?

No but I used to love seafood and mushrooms before I got it. Now the mere smell nauseates me.

 

[IrishLax]

So shocking that the obvious scammers turned out to be scammers

 

[sixstar]

Good, Simone is certifiably crazy and a smear on the IVM community. The government helped make her rich though... Had they not blocked access to HCQ and IVM, Gold couldn't have charged the exorbitant prices that she did for consultation and prescription. Her misuse of funds is similar to the grifters at BLM, and their punishments should be equivalent.

But let's not conflate topics here. Gold's predatory grifting has nothing to do with IVM's proven effectiveness in treating C19.

HCQ for C19 has been studied extensively. It has shown marginal benefits, similar to those from approved treatment molnupiravir at ~25% over placebo.

IVM remains one of the best performing drugs to date, far exceeding any of the government approved treatments.

 

[sixstar]

It's sadly ironic watching MSM support the Chinese citizens protesting authoritarian COVID lockdowns...

 

[yankeehater]

According to Secretary Becerra tweet today, he is now advising covid vaccine shots after two months. That would be six/year. I am sure there are plenty of studies on the effects of that shot frequency.

 

[sixstar]

it's not a vaccine, it's a subscription plan.

 

[ulukinatme]

According to Secretary Becerra tweet today, he is now advising covid vaccine shots after two months. That would be six/year. I am sure there are plenty of studies on the effects of that shot frequency.

Source of that advise: Pfizer's accountants.

 

[Irish#1]

So shocking that the obvious scammers turned out to be scammers

These people start with nothing, created a non-profit, then let the success go to their heads. They think they have the right to use the money for personal gain. Wounded Warriors and Susan B Komen went through the same thing.

This lady sounds like a nut job though.

 

[Irish#1]

It's sadly ironic watching MSM support the Chinese citizens protesting authoritarian COVID lockdowns...

TBF, in China they are forcing them into lockdowns and are beating and incarcerating anyone who protests.

 

[Greenore]

Almost made it three years... I tested positive today. I've been off work for 9 days and took 2 tests early. Both came back negative so I assumed it was a bad cold. Horrible coughing (to the point of passing out), joint pain and malaise. Ironically, no fever yet. Walking is a challenge. My wife's sister passed away a couple weeks ago and it was a large funeral (mainly nurses from her hospital) so I guess it was bound to happen.

Cheers and Go Irish!!

 

[ab2cmiller]

Hope you feel better soon.

 

[Blazers46]

Almost made it three years... I tested positive today. I've been off work for 9 days and took 2 tests early. Both came back negative so I assumed it was a bad cold. Horrible coughing (to the point of passing out), joint pain and malaise. Ironically, no fever yet. Walking is a challenge. My wife's sister passed away a couple weeks ago and it was a large funeral (mainly nurses from her hospital) so I guess it was bound to happen.

Cheers and Go Irish!!

Cheers!! Good luck. Get well. Go Irish!

 

[ulukinatme]

Almost made it three years... I tested positive today. I've been off work for 9 days and took 2 tests early. Both came back negative so I assumed it was a bad cold. Horrible coughing (to the point of passing out), joint pain and malaise. Ironically, no fever yet. Walking is a challenge. My wife's sister passed away a couple weeks ago and it was a large funeral (mainly nurses from her hospital) so I guess it was bound to happen.

Cheers and Go Irish!!

Get well soon! I was hitting a couple Vitamin Cs, couple Vitamin Ds, one Zinc pill twice a day. Tons of rest and fluids, I was feeling almost back to normal after just 2-3 days. Millage will certainly vary, can't hurt though.

 

[Veritate Duce Progredi]

not COVID related but Flu-A is decimating everyone I know. Nephews/nieces/BIL/SIL/family friends - 103-104 fevers, incredible body aches and it lasts for 2-5 days. The children have the propensity to develop double ear infections and it seems to morph into gastro issues.

Some crazy shit is in the air. Do what you can to help your body fight. Adequate rest/nutrition, don't be vitamin deficient. Reduce alcohol intake for a while, stay hydrated and do a little exercise. Anything to keep your defenses up.

 

[NDdomer2]

Flu is definitely rocking and rolling post thanksgiving

 

[EvilleIrish]

not COVID related but Flu-A is decimating everyone I know. Nephews/nieces/BIL/SIL/family friends - 103-104 fevers, incredible body aches and it lasts for 2-5 days. The children have the propensity to develop double ear infections and it seems to morph into gastro issues.

Some crazy shit is in the air. Do what you can to help your body fight. Adequate rest/nutrition, don't be vitamin deficient. Reduce alcohol intake for a while, stay hydrated and do a little exercise. Anything to keep your defenses up.

Have had several students down and out pretty bad for about a 4-5 day period from Flu A.

 

[MacIrish75]

Flu is definitely rocking and rolling post thanksgiving

My family of 6 has had it since last Friday. We’ve not yet had a full day of everyone at work/school/daycare this week. Lots of washing of bedding and pajamas. Fun times.

 

[NDdomer2]

My family of 6 has had it since last Friday. We’ve not yet had a full day of everyone at work/school/daycare this week. Lots of washing of bedding and pajamas. Fun times.

5 of of us all got a 24 type flu on Sunday after being together on friday.

the hospital system i work at had over 100 people in the ER waiting room Tuesday almost all in for Flu

 

[sixstar]

Did you know that hospitals historically attempt to maintain a 75 - 80% staffed bed to inpatient ratio? Why? To maximize profit (overstaffing is wasteful) while providing sufficient service with overhead for surge.

Remember how the Government was telling the American public that hospitals were overrun and that this was the unvax fault? A pandemic of the unvaccinated.

Did you know that HHS has been posting hospital occupancy numbers for the US, every state, every county, and every city since 2020?

Great - let's see if we really had a hospital shortage, or if the actual data tells us that hospitals were not overrun, and they - in fact - cut staffed beds throughout 2021 and 2022.

According to HHS, national ICU occupancy maxed out at 68k in January 2021, utilizing 77% of ICU beds - right within the standard optimized occupancy rate. In fact, "pandemic of the unvaccinated" started in September 2021 when the nationwide ICU occupancy rate was 74%. And look - we've seen a 14% reduction in staffed ICU beds since JAN 2021. Why? To maintain that optimized profit/service ratio.



The story is the same for overall hospital utilization:



The only time utilization ever exceeded 80% were brief spikes in JAN 2022 when hospitals across the US had significantly reduced the number of staffed beds - so this was a function of operations, not of unvaxxed disproportionately taxing the hospital resources.

Here, you all can browse the data on on your own:

Microsoft Power BI

app.powerbi.com

Former US Surgeon General, Dr. Jerome Adams, continues to spread misinformation, though, because why should the data matter. I'm glad the Biden Admin sacked him. Nationwide hospital capacity at 77%? No state above 80%? All state hospital staffing down? Disregard facts, spew baseless rhetoric.

OHNOES LITERALLY NO BEDS LEFT!



Excuse me while I retreat back to my data-accurate conspiracy theorist cave.

 

[ulukinatme]

Did you know that hospitals historically attempt to maintain a 75 - 80% staffed bed to inpatient ratio? Why? To maximize profit (overstaffing is wasteful) while providing sufficient service with overhead for surge.

Remember how the Government was telling the American public that hospitals were overrun and that this was the unvax fault? A pandemic of the unvaccinated.

Did you know that HHS has been posting hospital occupancy numbers for the US, every state, every county, and every city since 2020?

Great - let's see if we really had a hospital shortage, or if the actual data tells us that hospitals were not overrun, and they - in fact - cut staffed beds throughout 2021 and 2022.

According to HHS, national ICU occupancy maxed out at 68k in January 2021, utilizing 77% of ICU beds - right within the standard optimized occupancy rate. In fact, "pandemic of the unvaccinated" started in September 2021 when the nationwide ICU occupancy rate was 74%. And look - we've seen a 14% reduction in staffed ICU beds since JAN 2021. Why? To maintain that optimized profit/service ratio.

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The story is the same for overall hospital utilization:

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The only time utilization ever exceeded 80% were brief spikes in JAN 2022 when hospitals across the US had significantly reduced the number of staffed beds - so this was a function of operations, not of unvaxxed disproportionately taxing the hospital resources.

Here, you all can browse the data on on your own:

Microsoft Power BI

app.powerbi.com

Former US Surgeon General, Dr. Jerome Adams, continues to spread misinformation, though, because why should the data matter. I'm glad the Biden Admin sacked him. Nationwide hospital capacity at 77%? No state above 80%? All state hospital staffing down? Disregard facts, spew baseless rhetoric.

OHNOES LITERALLY NO BEDS LEFT!



Excuse me while I retreat back to my data-accurate conspiracy theorist cave.

They were willing to let nurses go that wouldn't take the jab, despite the fact they were all working on the front lines the previous year when the jab wasn't even available. My wife saw a number of nurses in that position at her job. They were so worried they were going to get overrun, but apparently not so worried that they'd run into staffing issues by letting some go.

 

[PerthDomer]

Did you know that hospitals historically attempt to maintain a 75 - 80% staffed bed to inpatient ratio? Why? To maximize profit (overstaffing is wasteful) while providing sufficient service with overhead for surge.

Remember how the Government was telling the American public that hospitals were overrun and that this was the unvax fault? A pandemic of the unvaccinated.

Did you know that HHS has been posting hospital occupancy numbers for the US, every state, every county, and every city since 2020?

Great - let's see if we really had a hospital shortage, or if the actual data tells us that hospitals were not overrun, and they - in fact - cut staffed beds throughout 2021 and 2022.

According to HHS, national ICU occupancy maxed out at 68k in January 2021, utilizing 77% of ICU beds - right within the standard optimized occupancy rate. In fact, "pandemic of the unvaccinated" started in September 2021 when the nationwide ICU occupancy rate was 74%. And look - we've seen a 14% reduction in staffed ICU beds since JAN 2021. Why? To maintain that optimized profit/service ratio.

View attachment 3052159

The story is the same for overall hospital utilization:

View attachment 3052160

The only time utilization ever exceeded 80% were brief spikes in JAN 2022 when hospitals across the US had significantly reduced the number of staffed beds - so this was a function of operations, not of unvaxxed disproportionately taxing the hospital resources.

Here, you all can browse the data on on your own:

Microsoft Power BI

app.powerbi.com

Former US Surgeon General, Dr. Jerome Adams, continues to spread misinformation, though, because why should the data matter. I'm glad the Biden Admin sacked him. Nationwide hospital capacity at 77%? No state above 80%? All state hospital staffing down? Disregard facts, spew baseless rhetoric.

OHNOES LITERALLY NO BEDS LEFT!



Excuse me while I retreat back to my data-accurate conspiracy theorist cave.

The civilian hospitals in DC set up overflow tents because the bed situation is bonkers. Source: actual peds ICU doc.

My fellowship hospital in Seattle is operating at the highest volume ever (50 some icu instead of 30 something). It's not adult COVID bad, but it's the worst since H1N1. Fortunately RSV seems to have peaked before flu.