1. "Vaccinating the Unvaccinated" (mandates for workplaces)
Case rates are comparable or higher in vaccinated adults than unvaccinated.
Seems like it should be a personal choice given it clearly doesn't stop transmission.
2. "Protecting the Vaccinated"
Ugh, isn't that what the vaccine is for?
Anyway, the data looks decent, though nothing like what we were promised.
As the prior chart demonstrates, transmission is not stopped by the vaccine anyhow, meaning it offers personal protection only.
3. "Keeping Schools Safely Open"
Just open the doors and say "school is open"
Teachers are vaccinated (if they want it) and kids, vaccinated or not, have effectively zero risk -- certainly less than vaccinated adults as the chart shows.
4. "Increasing Testing & Requiring Masking"
Total case rates in 0-18 are comparable to that of 18-39 despite UK dropping masks on children while still recommending them to the general public. And given their mass testing of kids, you would expect the case rate to be even higher.
5. "Protecting Our Economic Recovery"
Just go away. That's all it takes.
There are currently 2.2 million more job openings than unemployed people, the highest number ever recorded. Ever is a long time.
I know this has nothing to do with the UK data. Sorry.
6. "Improving Care for those with COVID-19"
The only good thing on the list. And stolen from @GovRonDeSantis after first attacking him for it with a fake smear campaign.
Let's take a look at a few economic charts as it relates to current policy response:
1. This is a chart of the Chicago Fed National Activity Index, designed to gauge overall US economic activity.
Imagine thinking "the virus closed the economy, not the lockdowns"
2. Nursing Employment: perhaps not what you expected?
3. Share of wealth held by the top 1% (left axis) vs bottom 50% (right axis). Typically upper income wealth drops in proximity to recession; it has exploded upward in unprecedented fashion during "the pandemic" while bottom 50% received no benefit.
This short 1948 essay excerpt from C.S. Lewis is pretty incredible. I encourage you to read it and substitute "Covid" for "atomic"/"bomb" (and the like) each place it appears.
Thread below too for those whose eyes are as bad as mine:
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"In one way we think a great deal too much of the atomic bomb. “How are we to live in an atomic
age?” I am tempted to reply: “Why, as you would have lived in the sixteenth century when the plague visited London almost every year, or as you would have lived in a Viking age...
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when raiders from Scandinavia might land & cut your throat any night; or indeed, as you are already
living in an age of cancer, an age of syphilis, an age of paralysis, an age of air raids, an age of railway accidents, an age of motor accidents.”
In other words, do not let...
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It remains unclear to me whether there is a path forward in the big Blue cities out of Covid myopia. Most of these cities have extremely high vaccination rates--certainly anyone that wants one has received it--yet only 20-30% of workers are back in offices.
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New York City has not even recovered half of the ~1.1m jobs lost due to the lockdowns.
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Having spent time in these cities myself over last yr or having friends/family residing there, you could effectively use the below (job losses) as a ranking for Covid monomania (though I think SF worse than NY. DC is Covid crazy but of course has thrived during the madness)
Even in the Zerocovid police states of Australia& NZ, pediatricians talk more sense than those in USA regarding child Delta:
"Its important to note that many [child hospitalizations] were for social reasons..so hospitalisation statistics do not provide a good marker of severity"
We "would like to reassure children and their parents that while the COVID delta variant has shown that
children are able to be infected and transmit COVID-19, COVID-19 is and generally remains a
mild infection in children."
"children are affected by...restrictions causing impacts on education and mental health.”
"Although one death has been recorded, the child in question was a 15-year-old boy who
was being treated for pneumococcal meningitis"
When COVID hit, I began hearing rumblings of a book called Unrestricted Warfare, written by 2 former Chinese Peoples Liberation Army (PLA) senior colonels & published by PLA
In short, it describes what war will look like in a post-nuclear, mutually assured destruction, age
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I read the book cover to cover and I thought you might be interested in some quotes/passages I highlighted, which I encourage you to read w current events in mind.
“the media has become an immediate and integral part of warfare”
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“China can pump propaganda into the American media while restricting American media’s access to the Chinese media landscape”
A non-military attack could “cause the enemy nation to fall into social panic, street riots, and a political crisis”