More False Covid Hysteria

Let's start with this blaring headline from the Miami Herald:

White House looks at domestic travel restrictions as COVID mutation surges in Florida

For those of you not familiar with my previous pieces on the Florida pandemic as viewed from my perch in the Sarasota/Bradenton area (A Covid Panic Update and Why Does the Liberal Media Refuse to Report Meaningful Data on COVID?), I have been a consistent critic of the scare tactics because I look at the actual facts.

Here's the latest numbers for February compared to November and December 2020. The percent of patients hospitalized with COVID at Sarasota Memorial Hospital in December was 10.3%. That number now is 6.27%. Do you call that a surge?

The 7 Day Positivity rate has gone from 5.4% in November to 3.2%. Yes, people are still being infected with COVID and a very small percentage of those are hospitalized. And even smaller number wind up in the ICU.

And what about the death rate? If you just read the Miami Herald headline you would assume they are stacking bodies. Nope. The number of people who have died at Sarasota Memorial in the last 86 days (17 November 2020 to 10 February 2021) is averaging 1 per day. (Yes, I know, two died today but none died yesterday, so it averages out).

Stumbling Joe Biden, or should I say his handlers, are pissed that Ron DeSantis, our Governor, is not playing the fear game. Florida is open for business and we have something approaching a normal, pre-COVID life (except for the brainwashed who have been bamboozled into improperly wearing masks).

Republican governors need to go on the offensive. They should require every hospital to collect and publish data along the lines of what Sarasota Memorial Hospital puts out every day. Those numbers should be posted on a website that all citizens can read. But additional data is needed. What are the ages of the people dying? Florida is called God's waiting room by some wags because of the swarm of elderly that have put down roots here to avoid shoveling feet of global warming in such charming iceboxes as Massachusetts, Minnesota and Iowa. Guess what? Old people die. Not just from COVID.

Don't get me wrong. I am not saying that COVID is not a real, serious disease. But it is not the only disease that threatens life and we should not be bullied into sacrificing our Constitutional rights just because some out of touch bureaucrats buried in the bowels of Washington try to tell you where you can worship and who you can hang out with.

I believe information is power and we need to put more of the correct information into the hands of each and every American. You are more trusted to run your life than letting slow Joe do it.

Sarasota Memorial Hospital	17-Nov	15-Dec	10-Feb
Today’s patient census:	678	757	718
COVID-positive patients total	57	78	45
% of Covid Patients in Hospital	8.41%	10.30%	6.27%
ICU census:	51	57	55
CoVID-positive patients in ICU	12	9	10
% of Covid Patients in ICU	23.53%	15.79%	18.18%
Total Hospital Beds	839	839	839
Total ICU Beds	62	62	72
7-Day SMH positivity rate	5.40%	4.63%	3.20%
Patients who tested positive	1348	1701	2811
Patients who tested negative	32011	38265	52510
% of Patient who tested positive	4.21%	4.45%	5.35%
Patients hospitalized since outbreak began (Mar 2, 2020)	1134	1410	1999
Patients treated/discharged	1233	1548	2304
Patient Deaths	112	140	203

Comments

[KMD]

Here's multiple breakdowns of the CDC's own data. It does not support nationwide lock-downs.

https://kschulzke.github.io/C19/CDC_C19_Excess19.nb.html

TL:DR Removing New York City, not the state, just the city, it was a bad flu season in the U.S.
A better response would have been to educate the public with ways to boost their immune systems so as to avoid hospitalization. Vitamin D and Zinc supplements among other strategies.Depending on an EULA experimental "vaccine" as a magic bullet was flawed thinking.

As others have noted we also have a boomer generation aging up and out.

[Larry C Johnson]

TTG,
Once again the fates align and we agree. I'm beyond thrilled that I got my wife out of Maryland two years ago. We have a life and businesses are operating in a normal fashion except for the stupid mask wearing. DeSantis has done himself some read good.
LJ

[Eric Newhill]

KMD,
Very good link. Yes, that's what I'm talking about.

The tri-state outlier; in addition to what some of us have been saying along about Cuomo and the other murderer Govs. infecting nursing homes with sick patients that should have been quarantined in private , that is now becoming public, hospitals in that region made the wrong call en masse. The pattern of practice was to be very aggressive with the use of vents and heavy sedation. The frail elderly can't handle that. To make it worse, there were often inexperienced staff administering some of that treatment. The treatment itself killed a lot of people. Other states' physicians learned what not to do from the trip-state mistakes.

[Tim Vincent]

The great mass of the population consists of 2 broad personality types.
The rule followers.
People who will (often blindly) do what they're told, go out of their way to avoid confrontation. These are your average citizens who "don't want trouble."
These people are not usually leaders.
The other personality type is people who live with fear, every day. A pandemic is steroids for these people.
These two types are the sheep to be manipulated by the despicable class of politicians, media and bureaucrats.1

[Deap]

CDC website continues to recommend cholorquinine as a good choice when traveling to malaria prone countries. The same drug CDC-Fauci claims will "kill you" if you are in "covid" countries.

https://www.cdc.gov/malaria/travelers/drugs.html

[dale t hood]

Well yeah, "demos" are running all this having robbed any meaning from that traditional labor/common man viewpoint (think FDR) thus in full cahoots with the global cabal which is gates and all the other devils, which must be stopped. Too long to list,here is astonishing summary big food/pharma/chemical/oil/$

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/bill-gates-neo-feudalism-farmer-bill/

[Deap]

A sane discussion: Medicine, law, covid, censorship and media. The Rubin report explores covid tribal hysteria by those censored by new media algorithms with three popular media personalities who are experts in their field.

https://generaldispatch.whatfinger.com/censored-medical-legal-experts-viva-frei-dr-drew-zdoggmd-roundtable-rubin-report/

Media censorship in medicine has translated to private censorship among medical colleagues. No deviations allowed from the corporate medical orthodoxy - even conventional medicine suffering now from the heavy hand of media censorship.

Where is this taking us - when will freedom finally leak out from under this heavy non-science censorship hand?