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[KMaC]

Thanks for finding and posting the WIBC story.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

Federal money, money, money...

Heart tugging story, but advertising on the Superbowl? Fed money is free money right? No one has to pay for it, eh?

Super Bowl commercial highlighting COVID-19 death of beloved Hoosier pushes masks and vaccine

Paul Loggan was diagnosed with COVID-19 after attending a basketball sectional game last March. He and at least four others attending died from the virus.

www.wthr.com

I wonder if the time allotted (even though paid for by fed gov ) is part of what Budweiser et al "gave up"?

 

[bwframe]

It is a heart tugging story.

That said, the advertising is paid for with tax dollars, OUR TAX DOLLARS...

 

[NKBJ]

Any reports yet of bank bug vaccines containing components to induce sterility?
I know that trials of the vaccines were carried out as far back as the 90's and Gates started touting population control vaccinations, and that testing in Central America and Africa has been conducted under the guise of programs to save the children from tetanus and other diseases...

Doesn't it just seem so unlike globalists not to take advantage of this opportunity?

 

[MCgrease08]

Iowa is open.

Iowa governor lifts mask requirements, other coronavirus restrictions

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds on Friday lifted coronavirus restrictions that had been in place in the state since before Thanksgiving.

www.foxnews.com

 

[T.Lex]

This should be the week that we see deaths trend down nationally, given the lag on that metric. We should also pass 500k dead about a week from now. That's somber.

We're still in exponential growth of deaths from November, but in the next 10 days or so we should "catch up" to the start of that cycle back in November. Generally, that means the exponential growth should pivot to linear because, in almost every context, exponential growth is unsustainable.

I still think there's something odd about the reporting on new cases. I'd be naively happy to accept that the combination of vaccines and personal responsibility are reducing the number of infections.

But I'm not prepared to accept that quite yet.

I'm also kinda ok with IN doing an audit and correcting the numbers over time. Ultimately, we want the right numbers. It really shouldn't be as difficult as we appear to be making it, but it is what it is.

 

[nonobaddog]

I still think there's something odd about the reporting on new cases. I'd be naively happy to accept that the combination of vaccines and personal responsibility are reducing the number of infections.

But I'm not prepared to accept that quite yet.

I think it is apparent that there has been a manipulation aspect to the reporting all along. I don't expect that to go away in this or other areas - ever.

 

[HoughMade]

Only just over 1,000 new cases today.
Over 37% of ICU beds available.
COVID hospital census dropping like a rock.
Daily deaths likewise in a...death spiral.

 

[nonobaddog]

Only just over 1,000 new cases today.
Over 37% of ICU beds available.
COVID hospital census dropping like a rock.
Daily deaths likewise in a...death spiral.

What about overall deaths? Is there a coinciding decrease there?

 

[T.Lex]

I think it is apparent that there has been a manipulation aspect to the reporting all along. I don't expect that to go away in this or other areas - ever.

I would not call it "manipulation." There are too many data sources for a single/consensus entity to intentionally alter the data points. Even so, that also suggests that the "real" numbers are out there - to be found at some point in the future.

Rather, I think it is ineptitude. Which is still a stern indictment of our system IMHO.

 

[HoughMade]

If the number of deaths per day is dropping...then the rate of death is dropping, but obviously total deaths will go nowhere but up.

 

[nonobaddog]

If the number of deaths per day is dropping...then the rate of death is dropping, but obviously total deaths will go nowhere but up.

I didn't mean total deaths from wuhu, but rather total deaths from all causes over the same recent period of time that the wuhu deaths have been "dropping like a rock".

 

[JettaKnight]

Just great. Now the tigers have it.

https://www.wane.com/top-stories/2-fort-wayne-childrens-zoo-tigers-test-positive-for-covid-19/

 

[T.Lex]

Just great. Now the tigers have it.

https://www.wane.com/top-stories/2-fort-wayne-childrens-zoo-tigers-test-positive-for-covid-19/

Well, from what I've heard, the cougars up there have been super-spreaders!

 

[HoughMade]

I didn't mean total deaths from wuhu, but rather total deaths from all causes over the same recent period of time that the wuhu deaths have been "dropping like a rock".

Darned if I know.

 

[nonobaddog]

Just great. Now the tigers have it.

https://www.wane.com/top-stories/2-fort-wayne-childrens-zoo-tigers-test-positive-for-covid-19/

I noticed they didn't try to shove a nasal swab up the tiger's face, that would be a bad day.

 

[NKBJ]

Fitts is a very smart lady.
She knows stuff about the bank bug too scary for most people.

 

[T.Lex]

Indiana's numbers continue to be really good. Yay us.

Even the national numbers appear to be tracking down. The (perceived) CFR gets weird here because of the lag between cases and deaths means that the cases are reducing faster than the deaths. That means that it appears the the CFR is creeping up (well, mathematically it is), but the virus itself isn't necessarily getting any deadlier.

By my unfrozen caveman perspective, if any of these new variants are more fatal, it'll take at least a few weeks (if not longer) for that to be shown.

 

[jamil]

This should be the week that we see deaths trend down nationally, given the lag on that metric. We should also pass 500k dead about a week from now. That's somber.

We're still in exponential growth of deaths from November, but in the next 10 days or so we should "catch up" to the start of that cycle back in November. Generally, that means the exponential growth should pivot to linear because, in almost every context, exponential growth is unsustainable.

I still think there's something odd about the reporting on new cases. I'd be naively happy to accept that the combination of vaccines and personal responsibility are reducing the number of infections.

But I'm not prepared to accept that quite yet.

I'm also kinda ok with IN doing an audit and correcting the numbers over time. Ultimately, we want the right numbers. It really shouldn't be as difficult as we appear to be making it, but it is what it is.

I don't think "personal responsibility" has changed (not that I'm willing to classify the thing you're talking about as that), at least not in my visible universe.

 

[Ark]

I still think there's something odd about the reporting on new cases. I'd be naively happy to accept that the combination of vaccines and personal responsibility are reducing the number of infections.

Probably has something to do with WHO posting new diagnostic criteria on Jan 20th, immediately creating a massive drop in new cases.
Manipulate the criteria and you can make the numbers do whatever you want. Corona has outlived its usefulness and is now being phased out.