When I review my Covid Twitter life, theres so many examples of calling out his duplicity, his hypocrisy. Outright lies. Some really funny ones that got some visibility LOL!
Last Summer, the Covid surge in the Southern states, particularly Texas, was driven by Seasonality - specifically seasonality in the Southern areas of the Hemisphere. In Texas' case - the far south counties and Mexico.
The Border Counties along the Rio Grande comprise 9% of the total Texas population. During the Summer 2020 Wave, those counties were accounting for fatalities over 2.5X their population, nearly 25% of the entire state.
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Below shows the impact of the border counties to the Summer Wave as opposed to Winter 2020/2021 Wave.
Again, 9% of the population driving 25% of that first big wave. The second wave, not so much. Hench why previous chart shows Border is now just 18% of total fatalities.
As we shift to post-pandemia, we won't forget what we've learned. Last June, we saw a Mexico driven wave in the South Texas, so despite likely hitting HIT already, we will watch
Meanwhile, hosps down 86.2% since 1/11 peak & 55.5% since end of Mandates
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I'll keep an eye on these hosps numbers going forward but won't be posting as much about them. We are nearing Pandemic lows across the board.
Especially ICUs. Raw numbers competing with April 2020 when hospitals were virtually closed.
This thing is over, now what?
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In the coming days I will update the below reporting. Best thing I have in my arsenal for "seasonality" is to watch the #s coming out of the border counties.
Because what has Mexico's vaccine rollout looked like? What's their HIT? I don't know.
As balanced an article as you will see USA Today put out on #Covidpassports. However, it repeats some arguments for that are easily countered if you're educated on it.
* Existing Vaccine requirements have a myriad of medical & religious exemptions
* Mentions the difficulty of identifying the vaccinated. No mention of the 30%+ of the population with natural immunity. Hammer that any and every opportunity
* These states moving to ban #VaccinePassports will only make the ID system more difficult. Support that.
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* Mentions how paper vax cards are easily forged. In order to overcome this, it will have to be an electronic system. When this happens you are now treading into PHI & HIPAA arguments
* Mentions discrimination and sub-class of people. Now you are treading ADA
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Look, besides crying again ("Impending Doom"), citing raw case totals when last May 11 there were like 57 tests run per day in the US and now its 1.3M per day, is basic Covid 101 that this Twitter account learned 13 months ago.
The 7DMA positivity rate, just hit a PANDEMIC LOW 2.85%. Positivity rate is a crude metric in and of itself, but its a hell of a lot better than RAW CASE NUMBERS.
This is who is running the CDC? Hasn't even graduated from Covid 101?
Ugh Me Neanderthal. Today is 2 Full Moons since end of Paper-On-Face Rules. Sleepy Chief Biden say Land of Lone Star make "big mistake" & we use "Neanderthal Thinking."
Look Covid number @POTUS! Only mistake is you no call Lid early enough, GOL!
Red State Trailblazers Town Hall...question on schools to Gov Abbott. He talks about Telsa, Oracle moving their HQ to Texas. Geez
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DeSantis says Florida legislature is going to pass a Vaccine Passport law that will apply to businesses as well as government, that he will sign. Will supercede his executive order.
Abbott says he will work with industry. He does manage to mention the EUA of vaccines.
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I like Kim Reynolds of Iowa a lot BTW. Its crazy how far out front DeSantis and Florida are on these initiatives. Defund the Police/Riots? Florida already done. Everyone else working on it.
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