They just can’t let go of the Fear Porn, eh?
Is Europe’s new COVID surge coming to America next?
While many Americans have decided the pandemic is “over” as it pertains to their own lives — a full 37 percent, according to the latest Yahoo News/YouGov poll — those who’ve been paying close attention to the latest COVID-19 developments overseas are now asking themselves two troublesome questions.
What the heck is happening in Europe? And is it about to happen in the U.S. too?
Over the last two weeks, COVID cases have shot up more than 25% across the European Union. In several European countries, the curve is even steeper: The United Kingdom (120%), Finland (88%) Switzerland (83%), Belgium (62%), Austria (59%), Germany (53%), Italy (49%), the Netherlands (45%) and France (27%). Hospitalizations are starting to rise as well.
And it’s not just this new trajectory that’s alarming; it’s the fact that it’s coming so quickly on the heels of Europe’s previous wave of infection — an Omicron surge that was even larger, and peaked even later, than the one in the United States. (snip)
So does this mean the United States is about to experience yet another huge surge at precisely the moment when our last modest safety measures — namely, indoor mask requirements in public places and schools — have been lifted?
The answer is … complicated.
Because masks totally stopped the rise of Delta and Omicron…..oh, wait
The issue, then, is probably less about whether U.S. COVID cases will rise in the coming weeks and more about how much. The BA.2 subvariant of Omicron — which is almost certainly aggravating the situation in Europe due to the fact that it’s at least 30 percent more transmissible than its sister lineage — is now gaining steam in the U.S. as well, accounting for 30% of new cases. U.S. wastewater surveillance also shows sharp increases in coronavirus RNA levels in sewage at 53 of the 419 sites where it was conducted between Feb. 24 and March 10.
That could be a leading indicator of a big new wave, but it’s not a guarantee. As Topol noted, the Alpha variant — which was 50 percent more transmissible than the original version of the virus — decimated the U.K. last winter, prompting fears of a spring surge in the United States. Yet while the proportion of U.S. Alpha cases kept going up, the total number of COVID cases kept going down. Ultimately, Michigan was the only state where Alpha really caught fire. The rest of the country was largely spared.
After seeing so much fearmongering over the past 2 years, it’s hard to determine if this is simply proper information meant to make sure people have what they need, or, stoking fear to increase government control over people’s lives (and make a profit off of it). The news outlets in the UK aren’t too concerned with it, thinking that the surge will end before the end of March. Even the far left BBC barely mentions the surge, same with the UK Guardian.
And
NEW: Fauci warns it may be "necessary" to "re-institute" restrictions, such as forced masking pic.twitter.com/IeeA0iayGn
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) March 17, 2022
Fear mongering? Teach’s medical expertise led him to believe that vovid was only fake news which he claimed for months was only designed to hurt his fav POTUS Trump. Well now 969000 Americans are dead. Taking on average q0 years off their life expectancy
And after the largest trial (1400 patients) ivermectin found not useful in treatment of covid.
Big surprise!!
Vaccinations and mandates dont work?
Compare 2 states with equal populations FL and NY. Guess which one has a 10x higher 7day average higher per capita death rate.you are 15 times more likely to die from covid if you are unvaccinated. Are the people who are dying now more/less likely to be people that voted for Trump?
Oh, my-Johnny tries to weasel in his meaningless statistic. Don’t worry John, we’ll set you straight.
Again, Florida pop. Is 21.7 million with 71.8 thousand deaths. NY pop. is 19.8 million with 67.6 thousand deaths. So Florida has 4000 more deaths but has 2 million more people, with many of them elderly. Florida was open, NY was not. That’s a the stat you want to look at, John, but it explains why you don’t
The other thing you need to get through that thick skull Hairy, is that Teach wasn’t calling Covid fake, he was calling the Covid panic, hysteria and mandated responses fake. And they were and still are. The response was like Covid was the Bubonic plague and it’s nowhere near. That’s what was fake. Not the virus itself. I don’t recall Teach or anyone here claiming Covid didn’t exist just that it was not as deadly as stated. The very fact that even now you cling to the fraudulent number of 969,000 deaths knowing full well that’s a super-inflated number brought by counting people who died while being Covid positive but not dying from the Covid itself but from some other cause.
Stubbornness is one of the lefts most irredeemable qualities. It makes you guys look stupid when you are just hateful to the core.
The fact that all leftists have become perpetual and pathological liars is most of what causes the total distrust we find in common discourse in America today. Once a liar always a liar. As Francis W. Porretto opined about at his Liberty’s Torch blog today:
“Today, the media offense at the center of engaged Americans’ attention concerns the Hunter Biden laptop:
…Last year, prosecutors interviewed Mr. Archer and subpoenaed him for documents and grand jury testimony, the people said. Mr. Archer, who was sentenced last month in an unrelated securities fraud case in which a decision to set aside his conviction was reversed, had served with Mr. Biden on Burisma’s board, starting in 2014.
People familiar with the investigation said prosecutors had examined emails between Mr. Biden, Mr. Archer and others about Burisma and other foreign business activity. Those emails were obtained by The New York Times from a cache of files that appears to have come from a laptop abandoned by Mr. Biden in a Delaware repair shop. The email and others in the cache were authenticated by people familiar with them and with the investigation.
In some of the emails, Mr. Biden displayed a familiarity with FARA, and a desire to avoid triggering it.
When the New York Post broke the laptop story, the rest of the “major media,” with the Times leading the charge, pissed on it and the Post from a great height. In tandem, Facebook, Twitter, and other “social media” platforms censored any reference to the Post’s article. And of course we had these tidbits:
During Presidential Debate, Biden Calls Laptop A “Russian Plant”
Lesley Stahl Says Laptop “Can’t Be Verified”
Former Intel Officials Call Laptop “Russian Disinfo””
And one wonders why you can’t the Government.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/cdc-pulls-fast-one-eliminates-25-pediatric-covid-deaths-overnight-blames-coding-error/
L;G;Brandon!, L;G;Brandon!: The very fact that even now you cling to the fraudulent number of 969,000 deaths knowing full well that’s a super-inflated number brought by counting people who died while being Covid positive but not dying from the Covid itself but from some other cause;
The COVID death count is supported by several independent lines of evidence:
• PCR tests confirmed by whole-genome sequencing: Here’s a phylogeny;
• A rise in positive PCR tests for COVID-19 soon followed by a rise in hospitalization and deaths due to respiratory distress;
• The same correlation between positive PCR tests and the rise in hospitalizations and deaths found in subsets (states, cities) and in other countries and regions;
• Reports of hospitals being overrun;
• Reports of morgues running out of capacity to store bodies;
• Studies of death certificates;
• Autopsies of COVID deaths;
• The statistics of excess deaths;
• Excess deaths rising and falling with the COVID death count;
• The statistics of excess deaths in subsets (states and cities) and in other countries and regions.
Phylogeny
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Remember, the Z is just a kid in grade school and does not have enough information to wipe his ass with. All his “facts” are off the internet, usually liberal sites. These kids still do not understand that correlation has nothing to do with causation, despite being schooled here.
All the Z is doing is trying to get talking points and counters for his debate class.
Plus he discriminated against ad homos, whatever those are and his filters are clogged.
david7134: correlation has nothing to do with causation
While it is true that correlation does not imply causation {(A ? B) ? B ? A}, causation *does* imply correlation ceteris paribus {(A ? B) ? A ? B}
However, in science, the argument is that correlation can support but not prove causation {P(A ? B | B) > P(A ? B), {(A ? B) ? ~B ? ~A}. The more independent lines of evidence there are, and the more distinctly the universe is divided by the entailments of the hypothesis, the stronger the support.
A historical example would be the retardation of the pendulum, first observed by Edmond Halley 1676. (The hypothesis is that the Earth rotates (rather than the heavens move around the Earth). The entailment is that the spinning Earth would bulge in the middle; consequently, a pendulum near the equator would be farther from the Earth’s center of gravity; consequently, the pendulum would experience a lower gravitational force; consequently, the pendulum would move more slowly, that is, be retarded when compared to a pendulum at a higher latitude. This doesn’t *prove* the Earth moves, but otherwise, you would have to argue it was a phenomenal coincidence.
One way to address the observations concerning COVID is to provide an alternative hypothesis that would yield the same wide variety of observations, from the rise and fall of cases correlating with the flood of patients with respiratory distress correlation with the rise and fall of excess deaths.
Apparently, logical symbols don’t work on this blog. Trying again:
{((A -> B) AND B) ~> A} (correlation does not imply causation)
{((A -> B) AND A) -> B} (causation implies correlation)
{P(A -> B | B) > P(A -> B) (support)
{((A -> B) AND ~B) -> ~A} (falsification)
Porter’s response bot (The davebot2020) is programmed to repeat the same tired lies tied to a specific reasonable commenter. Whoever sold Porter the bot ripped him off. LOL.
All these arguments regarding cause of death are somewhat silly.
If a person is ill with a disease and if that person is being successfully treated for that disease and then becomes ill with Covid and then dies it is obvious that Covid caused the death.
It is also rather obvious that all these claims of fake diagnoses and fake death certificates requires the belief that thousands, or even more, doctors, lab technicians, nurses and assorted clerical workers have all joined in a conspiracy. An event that would causes doctors/nurses to lose their licenses and even be prosecuted…..
I never knew paranoid was so infectious..
James,
The problem is that the fed gives almost 100% return on a COVID dx.
That means that if you come in with a massive MI and die, but some idiot got a nasal swab that was positive, then your cause of death is COVID.
Now, we have brown doctors in the US and they do not know ethics. We have more administrators than you can believe. Between the two you get scrap chrages.
david7134: That means that if you come in with a massive MI and die, but some idiot got a nasal swab that was positive, then your cause of death is COVID.
Again, there are multiple, independent lines of evidence that support the COVID death count.
david7134: Now, we have brown doctors in the US and they do not know ethics.
And the racism comes out.
dave has claimed to be a physician, we assume caucasian from his consistent white supremacy positions, yet has admitted to taking bribes from Big Pharma to report favorable results from clinical studies.
So much for brown doctors not knowing ethics.
The American conservative cult continues to construct a rickety, imaginary universe where governments, scientists, physicians, hospitals, churches, The Media, universities, liberals, corporations are conspiring to CONTROL “patriots”. Every new circumstance has to be massaged and shaped to fit in their universe. IF they admit that Covid is real, that global warming is real, that DonJon lost, or that caucasians are not anointed by the gods to rule their rickety, imaginary universe could crumble.
This is hogwash. No one said it was a conspiracy by Doctors and nurses.
It is widely reported that early in the pandemic hospitals were getting paid more money for treatment of Covid patients. Thus it was very important to hospitals to mark patients as having had covid.
A perfect example would be my friends brother went into the hospital asymtomatic to have a heart proceedure. He was diabetic with out of control diabetes and his veins were in terrible shape and he was obese and he was old.
He died on the operating table of a punctured artery in his heart while they tried to put a stint in his heart. Now his entire family was told this was a very risky proceedure and that he could die. They tell everyone you COULD DIE….but in his case they were serious. His own heart doctor would have nothing to do with the proceedure so he had to find someone else because he could barely walk across the room because of the blocked artery and his shitty health.
Long story short. He was tested for Covid. Found to have Covid. He died on the table. The death Certificate listed Heart issues and COVID as cause of death. He didnt even have the sniffles at the tiem.
This takes no conspiracy to simply put covid on the death certificate if it is present when someone dies. It just takes the stroke of a pen so the doctors can keep practicing at that hospital.
This is not a conspiracy. It is a fact. How many truly died? Unlike others I believe COVID HURRIED THE DEATHS OF PEOPLE THAT WERE DESTINED TO DIE WITHIN A YEAR OR TWO ANYWAYS. That is why the numbers are up.
But is covid killing most of them? NO. It is theiry shitty health and a lifestyle encouraged by the BIG PHARMA and medical profession to keep themselves flooded with patients.
AT NO TIME DURING THIS PANDEMIC did you ever hear doctors talking about EXERCISE, eating better, getting yourself in a healthy place?
WHY? Because you will be canceled if you even say someone is FAT. Americans are fuking fat slobs. The world hates us because we are over indulgent slobs. That is their perceptions of us, not realizing that everything we eat is designed to create health issues with us and any healthy food is 2x, 3x more expensive than the normal unhealthy food.
There you will find your conspiracy. Exercise, healthy Diet and lots of sunlight or vitamin D3 and you can fight this battle easily. I know my wife and I have had covid 3x’s and we both walk and jog all winter long on a Pelaton. We lift weights in our basement and we eat healthy and take Vitamin D3 and vitamin K2.
Even the Delta was a moderate flu for us. Omicron 2x’s was nothing more than a mild cold.
Want to survive. Ditch the mask and go on a healthy diet and begin exercising and take vitamin D3 which ia a key vitamin for the proper functioning of your Immune system to fight for you when something like Covid invades.
That is the real truth of what is going on in this country.
Facts Matter: How many truly died?
Facts do matter. There are multiple, independent lines of evidence supporting the COVID death count.
Facts Matter: go on a healthy diet and begin exercising and take vitamin D3 which ia a key vitamin for the proper functioning of your Immune system to fight for you when something like Covid invades.
Good health can certainly help, but everyone will grow old if they live long enough. A million Americans died of COVID. The average loss of expected life for those who have died of COVID is about 14 years.
Z: but everyone will grow old if they live long enough.
And people can develop health problems through no fault of their own.
It’s a conspiracy to CONTROL patriots!!
First it’s masks, but by 2030 we plan to turn all white cons into Soylent Green!! Buckle up!!
FACTS MATTER!: I know my wife and I have had covid 3x’s and we both walk and jog all winter long on a Pelaton. We lift weights in our basement and we eat healthy and take Vitamin D3 and vitamin K2.
It’s great that you survived Covid 3 times. Sadly, one million Americans did not survive, and their friends and family grieve. Just 2 months ago, nearly 3,000 Americans were dying from Covid every day! We know, we know… in the nuCon nuWorldView it’s imperative to believe those deaths were actually from car crashes, MIs, the flu and the common cold… anything but Covid! You must deny or the whole construct unravels.
The fear-mongering Mr Teach calls this fear-mongering by Yahoo News. Yet, this is a legitimate concern.
It appears Omicron BA.2 is much more contagious but may be less dangerous to individuals.
Teach: Because masks totally stopped the rise of Delta and Omicron…..oh, wait
We used to think that Mr Teach was play-acting his apparent ignorance… now we are being forced to re-think that. The hope is is that he’s just joined the cult and will return to normal eventually.