“we must use our children as human shields to buy false comfort for their elders!” said no society with a future. ever.
🐈drops💣💣
"closing schools made NO difference to covid. masking kids all day made no difference to covid. making them isolate and sit 6 feet apart and..->"
"...eat outside and tracking them and poking them and testing them and terrifying them and vilifying them made no difference to covid.
but wow did it make a difference to the kids.
adolescence is hard enough without this kind of excess baggage piled on top of it." - >
"the kids are breaking and it’s because WE are breaking them.
not covid, not the pandemic, us.
this is not an act of nature, it’s an act of shameless, self-serving, cowardly adults...->"
"pushing fake science and brutalizing social policy so that they can assuage their wet pants atavistic fears and proudly point to piles of damage done as though it were virtue and claim “i did something!”"
How are they flagging tests + for Omicron? S-gene deletion. Meaning a PCR test that tests for 3 genes (S=spike protein, N=nucleocapsid protein, ORF1ab=accessory proteins) shows a positive result for only ORF and N.
But I found some ONS data, and I have questions 🤔
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My initial question was, how common were S-gene deletion positive tests BEFORE Omicron?
If they were common, are they subtracting this base rate from the new rate of supposed Omicron positives?
And if they were common, how are we certain that Omicron "started" in mid Nov?
Here is the answer to question number 1: S gene deletion PCR tests were running 0-33% of all tests pre-Omicron. 🤔
Gee I wonder why Ranney and Jha continually spew doom in the media? A: only really scared people are dumb enough to pay her and Jha $1000 for “advice”. TWICE.
1/7 Brilliant essay by Liel Leibovitz strips naked the absurd monstrosity the former left has become:
" “right” and “left” are now empty categories, meaning little more than “the blue team” and “the green team” in your summer camp’s color war."
2/7 "You don’t get to be “against the rich” if the richest people in the country fund your party in order to preserve their government-sponsored monopolies. You are not “a supporter of free speech” if you oppose free speech for people who disagree with you."
3/7 "You are not “for the people” if you pit most of them against each other based on the color of their skin, or force them out of their jobs because of personal choices related to their bodies."
2/4 "You wait for one great shocking occasion... thinking that others will join with you in resisting. But (it) never comes. (Instead) comes all the 100s of little steps, some imperceptible, each of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next..."
3/4"..And one day...you see that everything -everything- has changed. Now you live in a world of hate and fear, and the people who hate and fear do not even know it themselves..." - Milton Mayer, "They Thought They Were Free"
Always interesting to read what analysts with huge $$$ on the line (and with no incentive other than to make more $$) think. JP Morgan's take:
"Current data does not appear alarming as of this time" –>
"South African cases near the pandemic avg (49th %tile), and COVID fatalities near the bottom (4th %tile) – a fairly favorable situation relative to past 2 years (and sig better than the rest of the world where the cases are in the 64th, and deaths in the 17th percentile)." ->
"Despite Omicron being around for several weeks, a media blitz happened on Thanksgiving evening, one of the lowest points of market liquidity for the whole year, prompting a crash in various assets sensitive to global growth and recovery such as Oil." 🤔->
Town council member (in RI) decries OpEd in local paper that questioned the firing of 3 teachers requesting jab exemption, by writing her own tyrannical screed:
“We value the science behind (vax), have adhered to masking and value our students’ safety... To understand how it could be look at FL, GA, TX community spread. Children out of school, communities paralyzed by virus, hospitals overrun because they rejected a simple solution.” 🤔
Not to let facts interfere, but whatever the “simple solution these states rejected” might be, there is no statistical difference in fatality rates between RI,FL,GA,TX.