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Contagion!
Townhall.com ^ | July 25, 2021 | Ted Noel

Posted on 07/25/2021 7:05:42 AM PDT by Kaslin

The MSM is echoing with cries of “The Delta Variant is more contagious!” This is somehow supposed to bring us to the needle on our knees, weeping for our insensitive, snowflake triggering refusal to get the shot sooner. We should have realized that our questions about the safety of the shot are actually “violence.” Certainly we don’t wish to be violent?

Fast on the heels of the “Contagion!” scream is the screed that “hospitals have not yet reached maximum capacity.” Somehow this is supposed to frighten us back into ineffective and harmful lockdowns in the futile hope that something we will do is actually going to be the little Dutch boy’s finger in the dike, stopping the deluge. But The Gray Lady doth protest too much. (cf. Hamlet, Act III, Scene II)

“Contagious” sounds like the Delta Variant is a really, really awful and deadly bug. The original COVID-19 was so bad that if you got near it, you were going to die. The only thing missing was the date on the headstone. But now you will assume room temperature the moment you get near Delta.

Take a breath. A deep, cleansing breath. That’s it. Now you’re ready to hear the facts. And, by the way, there are facts that aren’t “your truth” or “my truth.” They are “the truth.”

“Contagious” simply does not mean “deadly.” It just means you can catch it. “More contagious” just means “easier to catch.” And if we really want to talk about a highly contagious bug, we should discuss the common cold. It’s one of the most contagious bugs out there, but it doesn’t kill people very often, if at all. For most people it lasts a week. If they treat it, it only lasts seven days…

By now you get the picture. The lame-stream media simply will not tell any story that doesn’t turn a moderate viral infection into the Black Death, which killed between thirty to sixty percent of Europeans during the fourteenth century. But many have begun to realize that the original Wuhan Flu simply did not kill very many people. We saw news reports of refrigerated trailers full of dead bodies, but most of us don’t know anyone who was seriously impacted by it. I personally know several, and they all recovered with no illness worse than the seasonal flu would cause. A close friend in active medical practice has seen a single COVID death, and that person was elderly with multiple severe illnesses before the virus tipped him over the edge. We have to decide whether we will believe the Quixotic Quislings of Quarantine or our own lying eyes.

We have to discuss numbers. Various scoreboards have listed over half a million American deaths from COVID-19. The current occupant of the White House has repeated this, using it to decry the fact that somehow every American (but no illegal alien!) should be jabbed. We can’t take that number at face value. On April 14, 2020, the CDC published a definition that a COVID case is defined by “confirmatory laboratory evidence for COVID-19.” After that point, the “total cases” multiplied.

Various analyses using the earlier CDC case definition – a person with typical signs and symptoms plus, if needed, lab confirmation – show about six percent of that half million actually died from COVID-19. That’s about thirty thousand, a number very close to seasonal flu. And, by the way, cases of the flu are still defined in the original way.

When we allow a positive lab test, which incidentally, is completely unstandardized and utterly unsuited for the way it’s used, to rule the count, we find that politics and financial interests force a massive over count. Politicians use it as a way to drive the unquestioning public into submission to useless mandates, and hospitals use it to extract many thousands of dollars for each “COVID-19 case” under the CARES Act. The only people who lose are…

Us.

But the language manglers aren’t done. “Hospitals have not yet reached maximum capacity!” The implication is that admissions for the Delta Variant are rising so rapidly and cases are so severe that in mere moments we will run out of ICU beds. A moment of careful reflection is in order.

Exactly the same fear was ginned up early in the pandemic last year. New York Governor Cuomo was so panicked that he announced New York was about to run out of ventilators and bed space. President Trump was so helpful that even this vocal political adversary complimented his rapid deployment of a field hospital to the Javits Center and a Navy hospital ship to New York harbor. But those 3,910 beds barely saw any patients, and the extra ventilators President Trump got built went unused. Ultimately many were sent to foreign countries.

An occasional hospital ICU did briefly fill to overcapacity, but that happens all the time. Intensive Care beds are very expensive to maintain, so hospitals routinely manage them in a way to keep them as full as possible. During my years of doing anesthesia for open heart surgery, delays due to fully occupied beds were nearly a daily occurrence.

Nurses being overworked due to understaffing is no surprise, either. Because staff is the largest expense at a hospital, nurses get sent home if the patient census falls, and others get pushed into double shifts when census is high. Hospitals don’t want to spend one penny extra, staff discontent be damned. So when there were overworked nurses with full ICUs, it was same-old-same-old, not news. But the MSM contorted it into major news.

“Hospitals have not yet reached maximum capacity!” is simply another piece of panic porn. It’s a true statement that is completely meaningless. If a large percent of the beds were empty, as they were when all elective admissions were cancelled due the pandemic in the spring of 2020, then “they had not reached maximum capacity.”

By now it should be very clear that the language lizards on the Left have tried to get you to believe three things before breakfast that simply aren’t true – that the Delta Variant is somehow more deadly than the original bug (It’s less deadly), that medical services are just about to dry up because the variant is more deadly, and that there are no effective treatments. And this last one is a clear case of deliberate malpractice by Fauci et. al. They deliberately misused language to get you to believe the first two. And their slanders and silence on the last are mind-boggling.

The word from the CDC was that we should not use hydroxychloroquine because it doesn’t work (It does). We should use remdesivir because it will work (It doesn’t). This list is long and distinguished, but it points out a key problem with the CDC. Fauci’s minions never put out a list of therapies that are beneficial, unlike their recommendations for almost every other disease. Their only action was to trash approaches they didn’t invent.

There are many very useful COVID treatments. This disease is very manageable, and has low mortality. It’s time to tell the tyrants to F___ O__.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: cdc; covid19; delta; deltavariant; hysteria; media; vaccine
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1 posted on 07/25/2021 7:05:42 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

I have heard just about enough of this bull shit.

Everyone is lying through their teeth just to gain attention.


2 posted on 07/25/2021 7:06:57 AM PDT by crz
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To: crz

This week Mitch McConnell and other Republicans joined the vaxx or else chorus. Big corporate entities give money to the GOP politicians and their power is out there on the table for all to see.


3 posted on 07/25/2021 7:10:49 AM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODYS BUSINESS, REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: Kaslin

“Language lizards on the left”...good one!


4 posted on 07/25/2021 7:14:16 AM PDT by goodnesswins (The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution." -- Saul Alinksy)
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To: Nextrush

You know what Mitch McConnell and his cabal can do dont you?

BTW, I would tell that bastard right to his face that.
And that is what needs to be done.

All this whining and crying needs to stop among us. Your retired? Then run for office-School board is a good one. That is ground zero. Local and county offices..etc.

I am in the midst of trying to incorporate this community before they get absorbed by the near by city. That city is trying to get an city business tax passed. We dont want anything to do with that and if this community doesnt at least incorporate, we will find ourselves part of that city.


5 posted on 07/25/2021 7:18:45 AM PDT by crz
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To: Kaslin

I’m not playing anymore.


6 posted on 07/25/2021 7:27:51 AM PDT by sauropod (Amateurs built the ark; Professionals built the Titanic. Anon)
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To: Kaslin
"There are only two things that are infinite, the universe and human stupidity. And, I'm not sure about the universe."

~ Albert Einstein

7 posted on 07/25/2021 7:29:52 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: Kaslin

Ready to laugh?

Dog’s actually show more intelligence than humans!

https://www.bitchute.com/video/aPjT6t8N2cyY/


8 posted on 07/25/2021 7:31:19 AM PDT by Safrguns
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To: sauropod

I’m a two time cancer survivor. My breast cancer doc wants me to get a mammogram. I won’t because I would have to wear a mask and follow all their other ridiculous protocols. I have a skin cancer doc appointment in November. I’ve told them I won’t come if masks are required. Good news, both docs are willing to meet on teledoc. Hard to do a full body skin exam on teledoc. LOL. We have three tubes of horse grade ivermectin. We eat amazingly well from local foods and our garden. We take lots of vitamins. I think we’re okay. Our only “comorbidity” is that we’re in our 70s. Oh well.


9 posted on 07/25/2021 7:34:08 AM PDT by Mercat
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To: crz
I am in the midst of trying to incorporate this community before they get absorbed by the near by city

Be careful what you hope for. The area near us incorporated about 20 years ago... It was the same argument... We are going to get absorbed by the bigger city we were on the outskirts of. Well that would have been much better.

Incorporation has been an unmitigated disaster. It was such a nice little community... Most of the houses in the core area have been torn down after they were taken from the owners by eminent domain. They were replaced with low income apartments and tons of new stores. We had a great Fred Meyers, Safeway, QFC, a couple drug stores and various smaller stores and fast food to begin with. Now this place is a crime ridden hell hole with more bureaucracy than you could ever imagine. Incorporation was the worst thing that ever happened around here. I never could have imagined what this place has transformed into.

10 posted on 07/25/2021 7:39:20 AM PDT by fireman15
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To: Kaslin
There are poisons out there that don't take serious effect until a victim gets both parts, and that victim dies. If I were designing a biowarfare weapon of mass destruction, I would use the same design philosophy. So let me put forth a hypothetical:

First, I release a virus that has good transmissability and a pathology serious enough to require hospitalization by itself, with a low to moderate case-to-kill ratio. Bonus points if you can target victims by race -- you don't wantto affect your own people. That virus is not part of the binary poison, but the precursor to the distribution and acceptance of what follows, the first component of the binary poison.

Next, I offer a symptom-reducing medicine (advertised as a "vaccine" but isn't) that is distributed wildly. This is the first component of the binary poison. Extra points if this medicine causes illness that can't be detected weeks or months after ingested/injected, but has consequences down the road all by itself.

Finally, I release a companion virus that has excellent transmissability, slightly affects people without the other binary component, but severely affects those that do have the other binary component. Extra points if the case-to-kill ratio of the victim of the binary weapon is moderate to high.

Note we are talking engineering here, not natural mutation. What if the alleged mutations are experiments in coming up with the other half of the binary pair to the symptom reliever? I know the virii can mutate quickly, but as quickly as a few months. in such a wide variety?

This is all a dream, of course, and not in any way related to reality. No one is trying to kill anyone, sez everyone who opens their mouth. Everyone who also sez "I'm from the government, and I'm here to help you."

11 posted on 07/25/2021 7:42:33 AM PDT by asinclair (Political hot air is a renewable energy resource)
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To: Kaslin

I’m almost 100% sure I got this “Delta variant” on the way back from Minnesota a couple weeks ago. Three days of sneezing, running nose, slight headache. I almost never get a cold in summertime. But that’s what I had. And I’m over it now. Healthy as can be. And no, I never got the experimental vaccine.


12 posted on 07/25/2021 7:43:12 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (Give me a Pigfoot and a Bottle of Beer)
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To: SamAdams76
I’m almost 100% sure I got this “Delta variant” on the way back from Minnesota a couple weeks ago. Three days of sneezing, running nose, slight headache.

How can you be sure that wasn't the original Corona virus, or the beta variant, or the gamma variant - or maybe even the lambda variant?

Regards,

13 posted on 07/25/2021 8:03:06 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Kaslin

Yep, seem like we got a handle on the original virus, but now we are supposed to worry about the delta variant.


14 posted on 07/25/2021 8:05:34 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: alexander_busek
Whenever I hear about the Lambert variation of the so-called virus, I think of this guy:


15 posted on 07/25/2021 8:05:53 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (Give me a Pigfoot and a Bottle of Beer)
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To: Kaslin

In January, about 4000 people were dying each day from this thing, in the US.

Currently, 300 people are dying each day from this thing, in the US.

And they want us to panic harder.


16 posted on 07/25/2021 8:07:32 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: fireman15

That all depends on the by laws in the articles of incorporation.

Sounds like somebody screwed up big time.

And I have a hard time believing that happened. Why? Because for that to happen, you all failed to pay attention at the annual meetings.

It is entirely YOUR fault.


17 posted on 07/25/2021 8:09:12 AM PDT by crz
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To: Kaslin

The lefties and or control freakand or greedy bastards don’t want it to ever end.


18 posted on 07/25/2021 8:09:22 AM PDT by Leep (Save America. Lock down Joe Biden!)
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To: Kaslin

Standing applause


19 posted on 07/25/2021 8:09:57 AM PDT by silverleaf (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act)
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To: Kaslin
How to spot a fake pandemic

They think that if they can force you to buy health insurance they can force you to get shot.

20 posted on 07/25/2021 8:17:10 AM PDT by null and void ("Fact Checkers" Didn't Exist Until The Truth Started Getting Out)
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