Happy flappy-puppy Tuesday, Gerbil Nation!
Good morning, dv8, and Sven!
I’ve been reading up on the coronavirus stats in my county and how we didn’t meet the benchmarks to move into a lower, less restrictive tier. I’ve been tracking the numbers and something didn’t seem right -- and then I found the answer. Apparently my county hasn’t been testing enough people -- the testing rate has dropped below the state average -- so the county’s testing stats are being penalized. I guess the geniuses in Sacramento haven’t figured out that a) if every county that is below average increases their testing rate, half of all counties will still be below the state average, and 2) that testing is still reserved for those who are symptomatic -- maybe few people are getting sick!
At the peak, in July, the county was conducting 53,000 tests per week. Now we’re down to 40,000 but apparently that’s not good enough. If they offered a cash incentive that exceeded the cost of the test, I’d get tested.
If you scroll down a bit, you come to a graph for excess mortality for all ages and selected countries. You can add the United States to the graph and see results.
I think this might be a better way to view the pandemic -- in total, how many deaths are we seeing due to Covid19 above the number of deaths we would normally expect to see. If the numbers are accurate, we dropped back to the baseline last month.
That’s a great site, Sven. By looking at excess mortality, we can also filter out incorrectly classified deaths. Based on that data, we should have been able to re-open everything a month ago. Or maybe I’m just a science denier.
Worse, too many people seem unwilling to accept the reality that the epidemic is ending. Instead, they get outraged by anyone who even suggests such a thing. They have fallen in love with their fear, and want to embrace it, forcing masks and restrictions on everyone forever, just so that they have a false sense of safety.
Unfortunately too many of our fascist governors and health bureaucrats have decided to take full advantage of that panicky fear and use it to gain more power over everyone. As it is said, power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. For the past six months we have seen a perfect demonstration of this.
She had a gun with her when she was arrested crossing into NY from Canada. I thought all the gun crime in NY C and Chicago was from guns bought in States that still thought the government served the people? So the Democrats will start complaining about the “Canada Loophole”and claiming any child can buy a gun in Canada? That it is like buying a candy bar?
Sorry, that is off topic but it caught my eye as I read the article.
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Hi, Dv8 -- happy Autumn!
Happy flappy-puppy Tuesday, Gerbil Nation!
Good morning, dv8, and Sven!
I’ve been reading up on the coronavirus stats in my county and how we didn’t meet the benchmarks to move into a lower, less restrictive tier. I’ve been tracking the numbers and something didn’t seem right -- and then I found the answer. Apparently my county hasn’t been testing enough people -- the testing rate has dropped below the state average -- so the county’s testing stats are being penalized. I guess the geniuses in Sacramento haven’t figured out that a) if every county that is below average increases their testing rate, half of all counties will still be below the state average, and 2) that testing is still reserved for those who are symptomatic -- maybe few people are getting sick!
Hi, Paddy -- maybe your county should offer a cash incentive to get tested?
At the peak, in July, the county was conducting 53,000 tests per week. Now we’re down to 40,000 but apparently that’s not good enough. If they offered a cash incentive that exceeded the cost of the test, I’d get tested.
Trying to make sense of the Chinese Flu numbers, I came across this site: https://ourworldindata.org/excess-mortality-covid
If you scroll down a bit, you come to a graph for excess mortality for all ages and selected countries. You can add the United States to the graph and see results.
I think this might be a better way to view the pandemic -- in total, how many deaths are we seeing due to Covid19 above the number of deaths we would normally expect to see. If the numbers are accurate, we dropped back to the baseline last month.
That’s a great site, Sven. By looking at excess mortality, we can also filter out incorrectly classified deaths. Based on that data, we should have been able to re-open everything a month ago. Or maybe I’m just a science denier.
That was my thought as well, Paddy, but I wondered if I was just giving in to confirmation bias that this thing has been winding down for months now.
I found this article at AoSHQ that also references the steady decline in COVID-19 cases:
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/despite-fading-epidemic-governments-vow-to-maintain-lockdowns/
The skeptic in me immediately agrees with the summation -- I wish I could come up with some other explanation.
This person bears some resemblance to a certain decision scientist. https://heavy.com/news/2020/09/pascale-ferrier/
She had a gun with her when she was arrested crossing into NY from Canada. I thought all the gun crime in NY C and Chicago was from guns bought in States that still thought the government served the people? So the Democrats will start complaining about the “Canada Loophole”and claiming any child can buy a gun in Canada? That it is like buying a candy bar?
Sorry, that is off topic but it caught my eye as I read the article.
She probably got it when she was in Texas, Mac. Then hid and smuggled it around the country while she was gathering together her ricin components.
And managed to sneak it into Canada. You would think they would be checking against them being smuggled in from gun crazy America.