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.
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
1/17
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”
2/17
“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”
1. Many argue over the cost-benefit analysis of COVID measures (eg lockdowns, masks). This is jumping the gun: first, an actual benefit must be established, which has not occurred for either masks or lockdowns. So all we have are the immense costs.
2. "Odious debt" is a legal theory that sovereign debt incurred to oppress a population is unenforceable
Govts have spent $trillions locking ppl in their homes, promoting an environment of fear, closing schools & businesses, & banning worship, dating, & visitation of the ill 🤔
3. If Im being pessimistic, it strikes me we r basically in same place as 18 mths ago despite having implemented catastrophic lockdowns & administered billions of vax doses: w a virus that hits the elderly/comorbid very hard but which all others overcome w minor, if any, symptoms
Biden and the US left's continuing demand for masks on kids in schools is a complete world outlier. There is ZERO evidence of effectiveness (let alone cost-benefit analysis). It's pure sunk cost fallacy at this point given how rabid the debate has been.
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2. Los Angeles reinstated its indoor mask mandate on July 18 and, as usual, is trying to credit it for the decline in case growth. As with every "successful" intervention, however, it came well AFTER the R had already peaked on Jul 3
3. Lockdowns caused NYC rents to decrease for the first time since 1958. In Boise, Idaho, where people burned their masks at the State Capitol, rents are up 40% since Mar 2020 - the largest increase in the nation.