Posted on 12/18/2020 12:16:31 AM PST by knighthawk
California is now the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic in the US setting a nationwide record with more than 50,000 new infections Thursday and over 100,000 new cases in the past 48 hours.
Over the past week alone the Golden State recorded more than 250,000 new infections, according to the COVID Tracking Project.
If California were a country it would surpass India, Germany and Britain in new COVID-19 cases, according to the Washington Post.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
I’m in CA. Most virus transmission, it is said—75% of it—happens in households with over 6 people.. CA has many, many Latino households with over 6 people.
So because of all the new record setting cases, my senior son’s public school just opted to stay closed indefinitely. Today I filed with the state to homeschool—I’m looking forward to it! His soph sister switched to private school this year, so now we’ve finally cut the cord with public school forever.
Don’t know why I waited so long! Thanks to covid, my teens will now receive a better education.
(And I hope that Newsom does indeed get recalled—I collected about 9 signatures myself).
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2020/12/18/pcr-test-reliability.aspx
We now know that PCR tests:
1. Cannot distinguish between “live” viruses and inactive (noninfectious) viral particles and therefore cannot be used as a diagnostic tool — For this reason, it is grossly misleading to refer to a positive test as a “COVID-19 case.”
As explained by Dr. Lee Merritt in her August 2020 Doctors for Disaster Preparedness1 lecture, featured in “How Medical Technocracy Made the Plandemic Possible,” media and public health officials appear to have purposefully conflated “cases” or positive tests with the actual illness.
Medically speaking, a “case” refers to a sick person. It never ever referred to someone who had no symptoms of illness. Now all of a sudden, this well-established medical term, “case,” has been arbitrarily redefined to mean someone who tested positive for the presence of noninfectious viral RNA. As noted by Merritt, “That is not epidemiology. That’s fraud.”
2. Cannot confirm that 2019-nCoV is the causative agent for clinical symptoms as the test cannot rule out diseases caused by other bacterial or viral pathogens.
3. Have not been established for monitoring the treatment of 2019-nCoV infection.
4. Have exceptionally high false result rates — The higher the cycle threshold (CT) — i.e., the number of amplification cycles used to detect RNA particles — the greater the chance of a false positive.
While any CT over 35 is deemed scientifically unjustifiable,2,3,4 the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommend running PCR tests at a CT of 40.5
Drosten tests and tests recommended by the World Health Organization are set to a CT of 45. These excessively high CTs guarantee the appearance of widespread (pandemic) infection when infection rates are in fact low.
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2020/09/05/medical-technocracy.aspx
Furthermore, instead of comforting everyone and opening the world back up when the death toll started falling, the narrative suddenly shifted focus to “cases,” meaning people who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 — regardless of whether they had symptoms. More cognitive dissonance, as the primary measure of disease threat is its lethality. As noted by Merritt, since ancient times, a “case,” medically speaking, has referred to a sick person. It never ever referred to someone who had no symptoms of illness. Now all of a sudden, this well-established medical term, “case,” has been completely and arbitrarily redefined to mean someone who tested positive for the presence of viral RNA. “That is not epidemiology. That’s fraud,” Merritt says.
The more you test the more cases you have. Duh! Too bad they don’t have a stoopid test. The vast majority of people would fail.
What they are calling cases is BS. Read my post 3. We are being CONNED!
Welcome to FR!
more fear for the fire!!!!, hurry its going out we need more!
Caution California conservatives about this recall effort. It’s more likely to turn Newsom into a martyr. Find a credible candidate and get rid of Newsom in the 22 midterm.
Fake news!
Anyone with a fever is counted as a covid case even if they test negative!
Many H1B Indians as well... bed-spacing (6 in a room meant for 1 or 2...)
Time to triple down on stupid.
I’ve read how the locakdown is hurting the door-to-door signature collection efforts.
Here’s an idea. Why don’t the recall peeps start a GoFundMe drive and use the dollars to pay for mailers that include postage paid return envelopes? I don’t live in Commiefornia but would contribute to that bigly. Mail out to all the Trump voters for a start.
Cases can’t be looked at as stand-alone, it’s the subset of cases that will need medical attention - it’s the near zero capacity ICU beds and staff to man them in all of SoCal that has happened in the last two weeks coupled with more outbreaks in care homes and jails, plus a very large minority population covid hits harder that is creating a crisis.
One in 85 Los Angelinos are now infected. Messicans don’t do well with covid, so while California’s death rate was pretty low, at 54/100,000, for minorities it’s higher. California lost 16 people per hour yesterday, more than 4 an hour in LA. Nationwide, it’s 100/hr. That’s a lot of burnout pressure on staff trying not to get infected. And not a lot of areas of the country to pull staff from.
LA Coroners are backlogged 3 months and so are the labs. Bodies are being kept in refrigerator trucks - sorta like how NYC was six months ago. Some of those bodies are ‘accidental overdoses’ from released jailbirds, who couldn’t get drug diversion in jail because of covid, and were released early so they wouldn’t get covid, who od’d on chinese fentynl sold as heroin right after they got released. Those aren’t included in the covid numbers, btw, but we still have to look at those deaths because they are also resource-intensive.
Orange County hospitals are under a 72-hr order not to redirect ambulances to other hospitals - they have to take in the patient. This, after several instances of ambulances waiting hours with patient onboard for an accepting hospital. The 72-hr window may be extended.
All but emergency surgeries cancelled again. Ward patients are going to be handed off to field hospitals so more space can be made for those in need of advanced equipment. FH’s, five of which already have patients, have been opened in Costa Mesa, Porterville, Sacramento and Imperial Valley; Riverside, Richmond, Fresno, San Diego and San Francisco are on standby for facilities.
Riverside had zero ICU beds left as of last night. LA County has less than 100 ICU beds available. SoCal-10county area is listed as 0% ICU beds available. San Fran is at 13% ICU beds available. Sacramento/NorCal is at 25%.
The Governor has asked for DoD help as of tonite.
So it’s not the numbers of cases, it’s the number of cases that will need medical resources and right now, it’s not looking good for the home team. Med staff are being vaccinated and that will lift some of the fear, but the workload is pretty crushing right now...and that’s a problem.
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/california-reports-record-covid-19-deaths-icu-bed/story?id=74790811
How is the number being derived? If they are using positive tests, IT IS PHONY AND WORTHLESS.
The culprit responsible for California’s sudden infection rate is none other than President Trump!
(Have they tried making him frmr President yet?)
It must really spread in a hot tub environment.
Thanks for this very good info. Trump should send LA that hospital ship again along with the military nurses. Sounds like it will be used this time.
With all the big parties and sharing joints they still wonder why so many get sick.
The duh state
Not in my experience. My daughter brought home some sort of respiratory disease, fever, etc. Wifey started feeling poorly too, then me (slight fever.) I contacted our PCP’s office (they are well aware we do some of my elderly Mom’s care): The nurse told us to get tested ASAP. We all got tested @ the test location nearest us (NOT at the PCP’s office) — had to affirm we had symptoms, had temperatures checked, etc. The tests all came back negative. I proceeded to really get whacked by whatever bug it was, fever got up to about 102 deg. F, but I was back to about 80% of myself after a couple days of being mostly in bed. Never went to our PCP, but she and her facility were of course entered on the form we each had to fill out @ the COVID test clinic. I checked with our PCP’s nurse later, and she says our files all show us being tested due to symptoms, but results were negative for COVID-19 and none of us is considered a case.
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