SCIENCE!
Democrats have apparently started to realize that their strategy of scaring their voters into voting by mail, (whatever motivations you ascribe to the strategy) has been backfiring spectacularly and they are making a desperate push to get more voters to the polls on election day.
The Tar Heel state has received eight times as many postal votes as it had by this point in 2016. Despite fears about first-time absentee voters botching their ballots, the share that are rejected has in fact fallen to 1.3%, from 2.6% in 2016. This is probably due in part to campaigns educating supporters on voting by mail, and also to new efforts by the state to process such ballots.
However, these gains have been concentrated among white and richer voters, causing North Carolina’s already large racial gap in rejection rates to widen. In 2016 black voters sent in 10% of postal ballots, but 18% of discarded ones. This year, those shares are 17% and 42%. That hurts Democrats, who rely on black voters’ support.
https://patriotnewsfeed.com/the-data-coming-in-shows-vote-by-mail-has-backfired-on-democrats/
So the CDC has decided to assist by adding this to their Covid-19 Guidance, instructing quarantined Covid-19 patients to vote!
The day you vote
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Voters have the right to vote, regardless of whether they are sick or in quarantine.
Voters who are sick or in quarantine should take steps to protect poll workers and other voters. This includes wearing a mask, staying at least 6 feet away from others, and washing your hands or using hand sanitizer before and after voting. You should also let poll workers know that you are sick or in quarantine when you arrive at the polling location. Check with local authorities for any additional guidance.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/daily-life-coping/going-out/voting-tips.html
YESTERDAY, it said this.
People who are sick can follow CDC advice for when to be around others.
https://web.archive.org/web/20201101064000/https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/daily-life-coping/going-out/voting-tips.html
The link takes the user to the page that says this.
When You Can be Around Others After You Had or Likely Had COVID-19
Updated Oct. 27, 2020
If you have or think you might have COVID-19, it is important to stay home and away from other people. Staying away from others helps stop the spread of COVID-19. If you have an emergency warning sign (including trouble breathing), get emergency medical care immediately.
I think or know I had COVID-19, and I had symptoms
You can be around others after:
10 days since symptoms first appeared and
24 hours with no fever without the use of fever-reducing medications and
Other symptoms of COVID-19 are improving*
*Loss of taste and smell may persist for weeks or months after recovery and need not delay the end of isolation
Most people do not require testing to decide when they can be around others; however, if your healthcare provider recommends testing, they will let you know when you can resume being around others based on your test results.
Note that these recommendations do not apply to persons with severe COVID-19 or with severely weakened immune systems (immunocompromised). These persons should follow the guidance below for “I was severely ill with COVID-19 or have a severely weakened immune system (immunocompromised) due to a health condition or medication. When can I be around others?”
I tested positive for COVID-19 but had no symptoms
If you continue to have no symptoms, you can be with others after 10 days have passed since you had a positive viral test for COVID-19. Most people do not require testing to decide when they can be around others; however, if your healthcare provider recommends testing, they will let you know when you can resume being around others based on your test results.
If you develop symptoms after testing positive, follow the guidance above for “I think or know I had COVID-19, and I had symptoms.”
I was severely ill with COVID-19 or have a severely weakened immune system (immunocompromised) due to a health condition or medication. When can I be around others?
People who are severely ill with COVID-19 might need to stay home longer than 10 days and up to 20 days after symptoms first appeared. Persons who are severely immunocompromised may require testing to determine when they can be around others. Talk to your healthcare provider for more information. If testing is available in your community, it may be recommended by your healthcare provider. Your healthcare provider will let you know if you can resume being around other people based on the results of your testing.
Your doctor may work with an infectious disease expert or your local health department to determine whether testing will be necessary before you can be around others.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/if-you-are-sick/end-home-isolation.html
But SCIENCE!
The Covid-19 epidemic has provided ample opportunity for the public health community to repeatedly destroy their credibility. Whether it is publishing (and then retracting) wishcasting studies based on the flimsiest of data, or the politically biased application of rules.
More than 1,200 health professionals have signed a letter saying that they approve of protests against racism during the Chinese virus pandemic, because it is “vital to the national public health.” The health professionals added, however, that protesting lockdown orders is still dangerous, and is also “rooted in white nationalism.” According to the letter, “White supremacy is a lethal public health issue that predates and contributes to COVID-19.”
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/06/06/1200-health-professionals-sign-letter-approving-of-floyd-protests-but-disapproving-of-lockdown-protests/
It is considered a conspiracy theory to believe that these bureaucracies behave politically despite the fact that the Federal staffs tend to be overwhelmingly Democrat in both registrations and donations, but the evidence continues to pile up.
The Covid-19 death toll is undercounted, not inflated.
In the U.S., the counted victims are people for whom the diagnosis was certain (generally confirmed by testing), and many victims who die outside of a hospital still are not counted as Covid-19 deaths. That means the actual death toll is higher than the reported death toll. In the early stages of the epidemic that problem was even worse.
There are some people who believe that the number of people who die “with Covid,” but not “from Covid,” greatly inflates the number of reported Covid-19 deaths. They are wrong.
The vast majority of people who die with the virus die of the virus. Here’s how we know it:
On an average day, when there’s no epidemic, 7000-8000 Americans die of all causes. If 2% of the American population is currently infected with Covid-19, right now, then you would expect that (very roughly) 2% of those people who die today of other causes happen to coincidentally also be infected with COVID-19. 2% of 7500 is about 150 people.
That’s a rough estimate of the approximate number of people who die on an average day in the United States, from some other cause, while coincidentally infected with Covid.
However, that includes deaths from many causes which are never attributed to Covid-19. Automobile accident, suicide, murder, fire, drowning, etc., are never attributed to COVID-19. Those deaths are not attributed to Covid-19 even when they probably should be, e.g., when neurological effects of Covid cause dangerous behavior, which results in a person’s death, as was probably the case with George Floyd. It also includes many people who die outside of hospitals, and were never tested for Covid, so they are not counted as Covid deaths. (Depending on whose statistics you believe, between 35% and 60% of American deaths occur in hospitals.)
If half of those 150 were misattributed to Covid-19, because of a coincidental positive test result, that would be only 75 cases.
Compare that to the average number of detected Covid-19 deaths per day in the U.S. (average of 817/day, calculated over one week, Oct. 21-28). 75 is just 9.2% of 817.
So the answer is that only a few (less than 10%) of the daily approx. 817 deaths in the United States attributed to Covid-19 could possibly have been people who actually died from another cause. That’s not enough to affect the statistics very much. It is almost certainly less than the number of undiagnosed Covid-19 deaths, which occur outside of hospitals. That means the reported number of Covid-19 deaths (236,900, as of a few minutes ago) is an undercount.
BTW, if you want to learn about Covid-19 vaccines, Florian Krammer’s “tweetorial” is a great place to start:
Tweet #1:
https://twitter.com/florian_krammer/status/1310372301314101250
Tweet #138 (the last tweet):
https://twitter.com/florian_krammer/status/1310435247243304962
Whole thread, unrolled by ThreadReaderApp:
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1310372301314101250.html
(Best format, if you block the ads, e.g., with uBlock Origin.)
Whole thread, unrolled by Rattibha:
https://rattibha.com/thread/1310372301314101250
Whole thread, unrolled by Threader:
https://threader.app/thread/1310372301314101250
Printable unrolled thread (unrolled by Rattibha and exported as PDF):
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“Those deaths are not attributed to Covid-19 even when they probably should be, e.g., when neurological effects of Covid cause dangerous behavior, which results in a person’s death, as was probably the case with George Floyd. ”
LOL what planet do you live on? GF died of fentanyl overdose.
icisil, fentanyl overdose kills people in their sleep, by impeding their autonomic breathing. Floyd was awake, not asleep, when he was arrested.
It is certainly possible that Fentanyl contributed to his death, by interfering with his breathing, when he was unconscious. But even if that was the case, the primary cause of death was Derek Chauvin’s knee, which rendered Floyd unconscious.
Covid-19 often has neurological effects, and might well cause someone to “act crazy.” It might also lead someone to self-medicate with pain killers, like fentanyl, especially if his judgement was impaired by the effects of the disease.
Floyd’s behavior was very out of character for him. He had a checkered past, but he’d had a clean record for the last decade. It is highly probable that his Covid-19 infection began the chain of events which lead to his “crazy behavior,” and death.
GF swallowed the evidence when he was stopped. There’s a picture of him with a white pill on his tongue while he was in his car talking with the cops. The coroner said he had a lethal dose of fentanyl in his blood. He said he couldn’t breathe probably half a dozen times while he was sitting in the police car before they took him out and put him on the ground. ODing on that high of a dose of fentanyl can cause lung edema or the diaphragm muscles to seize up, so you can’t breathe. It had nothing to do with covid. Quit spreading your unsubstantiated nonsense, please.
icisil wrote, “The coroner said he had a lethal dose of fentanyl in his blood.”
Now you’re just making stuff up. The coroner’s autopsy report said that the fentanyl level in his blood was 11 ng/ml, and it also said that, “It is reported that patients lost consciousness at mean plasma levels of fentanyl of 34 ng/mL when infused with 75 mcg/Kg over a 15 min period; peak plasma levels averaged 50 ng/mL”
icisil wrote, “There’s a picture of him with a white pill on his tongue while he was in his car talking with the cops.”
What picture? Where’s the link? Did you just make that up, too?
NC State officials (mostly Democrats, from Gov. Cooper on down) have done a catastrophically bad job of managing this epidemic. They make it hard to get tested, and even when someone does get tested — even a symptomatic patient! — in North Carolina, he’s likely to have wait about five days before he’ll be told whether his test result is positive. (Four-and-a-half of those five days are completely unnecessary.)
In that time he’ll doubtless infect many other people.
Plus, NC officials are not doing contact-tracing, and they are making no discernable effort to identify, notify & test the people that Covid patients come in contact with.
Of course, the Republican-run States have also done terrible jobs of managing this epidemic. But it is hard to imagine any of them doing worse than NC’s leaders.
Consider that the CDC, like most government agencies is populated by unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats. They continue to get regular raise even if they are completely wrong and potentially harmful in their edicts.
Bureaucracies have a place in being standard holders (NHSTA, EPA) and unbiased sources of information (USDA, CDC). They are supposed to be relatively small agencies with limited powers with the decision makers being elected officials. Of course elected officials pass the responsibility to the unaccountable bureau to cover their rear end, so these agencies grow in size and, apparently, power.
I don’t think we should take orders, or even advice from unaccountable gov’t officials.
I am looking for a total mortality data and can’t find it on the CDC website. Simple data – this many people died in the USA of all causes in the first week of 2019, in the second week of 2019, …, in the first week of 2020, … up to now. Can’t find it. I may be thick, or it may be well hidden, or both.
See worldometers
Does anyone remember when the CDC would recommend something and people would be like, “uh..yea, that’s nice in a perfect world that might work”? It really wasn’t that long ago. A decade maybe.
Then something happened with the FCC and they started allowing Big Pharma to advertise directly to customers.
And all of a sudden, the CDC went from “recommending” to “rule making” usually backed by whatever Big Pharma wanted at that particular time.
Politics aside from the CDC because this pandemic, plandemic, scamdemic or what ever you want to call it is not political, it’s profit driven. Find out who profits from it and you’ll find out why statistics have disappeared from the CDC, why policies have shifted 180 degrees from where they were before in some cases less than a month, and who are the true profiteers.
Never forget that fat cats use politicians like puppets. And good puppeteers stay hidden behind the screen, not in front of it.
This is the first freaking pandemic I’ve been able to witness in real time without an active antibody test, without accurate testing and with massive amounts of misleading information. Masks/no masks–just look at that one, just that 1 aspect and read about recommendations/non recommendations being spouted at the time. Look at the massive amount of conflicting articles, questioning if masks are effective, finding only N95 masks to be effective but of course in “short supply” and then mask mandates with supply shortage, driving demand and higher prices. Those of us that realized cloth masks were better than nothing and can sew hit the fabric stores before they too were shut down, leaving only the mega giants open with no competition and inferior cotton woven cloth for protection. Those that weren’t were forced to pay exorbitant prices on regular paper masks (stores had to eat the money to pay for complimentary ones to the public because they couldn’t buy a mask). And why all the pomp and circumstance for something as simple as a mask? Because pharma doesn’t control the textile market.
Regardless of where you sit on the political agenda fence–look behind the screen to find out who is really behind this and it has nothing to do with a New World Order, Socialism, Marxism, Left, Right, Red, or Blue–it all is colored GREEN.