Proud to have been an early skeptic in the covid war
History will show the war on covid was the stupidest move the people in charge have ever made. In May 2020 I was a mere ex-Uber driver, but even I could see the government and media had gone nuts.
For the record, I was an instant skeptic in the government’s failed and foolish war on Covid 19 and the unquestioning corporate media that blindly cheerleaded it.
I had no platform except Facebook.
But I did my little bit to call out the insane and oppressive social and economic policies that were put into place in the spring of 2020 by Fauci and his untrustworthy gang of federal ‘experts.’
I also ridiculed petty tyrants like Trudeau of Californian and Pennsylvania’s clueless governor, Tom Wolf, whose early edicts included closing golf courses but leaving gun stores open.
My wife Trudi and also mocked the mask mandates.
Facebook post, May 12, 2020
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/05/10/six-flaws-arguments-reopening/#comments-wrapper
Dr. Wen’s token stats
The people in charge of the most severely shutdown states across the USA are gradually coming to their senses and carefully reopening their local economies and societies.
Public health 'experts' like Dr. Leana Wen don't like it and think it's still too early to restore people's basic rights and freedoms.
Many preventable deaths will occur, she says, particularly among the poor. The Washington Post has published her piece "Six flaws in the arguments for reopening" (below).
No surprise that most Post readers agreed with her, but here was the commentary I wrote to the Post:
It might help Dr. Wen's perspective-free arguments if she spent a few sentences describing what's going on in the real world to her west, where the C-19 'pandemic' has largely existed only on TV screens and in the minds of the extremist governors of Pa., Michigan, Calif. and Maine.
She throws out a few token stats to make it seem everyone everywhere in the USA is equally at risk from getting very sick or dying from Covid-19. But that's simply not true.
If Dr. Wen was actually interested in weighing all the costs and benefits of quickly reopening the country she'd have provided percentages for who actually gets infected by C-19, who recovers with mild or no symptoms (the vast majority) and the minuscule number who ultimately die.
Whether it's ravaged places like New York or Philly or relatively untouched states like Alabama or Montana, those who die or get very sick from C-19 look the same.
Except for rare cases, and as predicted, people most hard hit by C-19 are the very old, the already very sick and those with serious preconditions like heart disease, diabetes and obesity.
That's why so many C-19 deaths have occurred in nursing homes (80 percent of 250 deaths in western Pa./Pittsburgh, pop. 2.5 million, are from nursing homes).
That's why in Pa., where a third of the state's 67 rural counties have 1 or zero deaths, two-thirds of 3,700 deaths have been in nursing homes.
That's why only 5% of Alabama's roughly 400 deaths have been people with zero preconditions. Other shutdown states with virtually no pandemic presence in rural counties, including Calif., show similar figures, yet for two months they have been forced to suffer severe economic shutdowns and adhere to idiotic/unscientific social distancing rules.
It's a tragic health crisis, mishandled bipartisanly by politicians and 'experts' like Dr. Wen who ignored the huge economic and social costs of shutting down the economy.
History will show it was the stupidest move the people in charge have ever made.
Facebook, Jan. 19, 2022
The CDC's nutty bureaucratic method
Soon a lot of people in government and the media are going to look and feel stupid about what they said about the benefits of lockdowns, vaccines, boosters, social distancing, mask mandates and vaccine passports. A Nuremberg Covid Tribunal in 2024 might be a nice idea. First up -- Dr. Fauci and the bureaucrats at the CDC.
Facebook, Jan. 21, 2022
Covid in nursing homes
Covid case numbers and other covid data have always been imprecise, fuzzy and misleading. For two years national and local media did a lousy job of digging into the stats and putting cases, hospitalizations and death (from covid vs. with covid) into perspective. New York state's hideous government has finally fessed up. NJ too. Pennsylvania, where more than a third of covid deaths occurred in long term care homes, needs to fess up too. That means Gov. Wolf.
May 8, 2020
Facebook, Jan. 28, 2022
The CDC's nutty bureaucratic method
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4165304/
The CDC's bureaucratic method is nuts.
It's mindbogglingly dense and unhelpful, as anyone who has gone to the CDC site to find out anything about covid and its victims.
During a breakfast conversation with my wife, I sought a simple answer to this question: How many people die each year of peanut allergies?
Google instantly led me to this 2013 government study -- which is almost impossible for any normal person (i.e., non-public health bureaucrat or simple-minded but curious journalist) to read, much less understand.
There is an answer buried deep in this study. See if you have the stamina to get to it.
And then realize that the covid data and findings and advice and whatever else that the CDC's nearly 30,000 medical/health bureaucrats have been cranking out since March of 2020 is written and presented in this same style.
Created on April 22, 2020
