Masks Work: Despite Skyrocketing Infection Rates, Death Rates Are Low

By William Teach October 28, 2020 – 10:30 am

Perhaps it could be due to so many of the most vulnerable having already died because they were stuck in nursing homes to infect other vulnerable seniors?

Covid-19 deaths aren’t rising as fast in Europe and US, despite soaring new infections. That doesn’t mean the virus is less deadly

Europe is drowning in the second wave of the coronavirus epidemic. Infection rates are skyrocketing across the continent. Governments are imposing strict lockdowns. Economies are shutting down again. But there is a glimmer of hope: The virus, while still deadly, appears to be killing fewer people on average.

Recent case and fatality figures from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) show that while recorded Covid-19 cases are spiking in the United Kingdom, France, Spain, Germany and other European countries, deaths are not rising at the same rate.

“The fatality rate has declined, in the UK, we can see it going down from around June to a low point in August,” said Jason Oke, a senior statistician at the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences. “Our current estimate is that the infection fatality rate is going up a little bit, but it hasn’t come up to anywhere near where we were and that’s unlikely to change dramatically unless we see a really surprising increase in the numbers of deaths.”

Oke has been tracking Covid-19 fatality rates along with his colleague Carl Heneghan of the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine and health economist Daniel Howdon. Their research shows that, at the end of June, the fatality rate was just below 3% in the UK. By August, it had dropped as low as about 0.5%. It now stands at roughly 0.75%.

So, it is now essentially the same as the regular flu. Perhaps herd immunity has something to do with it, and there was no need to lockdown countries, just isolate those who were the most vulnerable. And, again, why are cases going up when everyone is wearing a mask?

In fact, data gathered by researchers from London School of Economics’ long-term care responses to Covid-19 group shows that, on average, 46% of all Covid-19 deaths across 21 countries happened in care homes.

Thanks, Governor Cuomo.

“The Covid-19 virus is very stable, it is not mutating much at all,” said Dr. Julian Tang, clinical virologist and honorary associate professor at the University of Leicester. “The variation in severity of Covid-19 illness is really due to individual host immune responses together with age, sex, ethnicity and certain pre-existing medical conditions,” he added.

Lots of young folks are getting, but, they are not dying. Most are not even getting that sick.

The demographic shift may have contributed to the lower death toll, but experts suspect the fact that healthcare providers are now more experienced in dealing with Covid-19 patients is another factor.

So, all the stuff the Trump admin did is helping. How about that?

BTW, who ever thought that some of the merchandise for the Dodgers winning the World Series would be face masks? Yeah, I ordered them.

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Dems See Green New Deal Which They Won’t Pass Yielding Gains Or Something

By William Teach October 28, 2020 – 8:53 am

Democrats totally see the Green New Deal gaining support despite the GOP bad-mouthing it

Democrats see Green New Deal yielding gains despite GOP attacks

Democrats are sensing political gains from the Green New Deal heading into Election Day, even as Republicans deride the progressive proposal and some Democratic candidates slink away from it.

The fight over the proposal — what’s in it and who supports it — has played out on the debate stage over the past month, with Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden showing he’s as eager to cast his climate plan as his own as President Trump is to tie the Green New Deal and Biden to socialism.

The battle underscores how less than two years after it was introduced in Congress, few voters fully understand what is and isn’t in the 14-page resolution introduced by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.).

The resolution lacks any legislative language to enact its proposals, let alone ban meat or air travel as Republicans have suggested, but some Democratic congressional candidates have nonetheless distanced themselves from it as Republicans land some blows with their attacks.

But where Democrats sense success is in energizing voters around a massive investment in clean energy — a topic that unites the party and offers a pathway to growth amid an economic downturn.

Yes, so the nation can have rolling blackouts, planned and unplanned.

A Yale University poll last week found that 64 percent of voters expressed support for the Green New Deal.

That figure is in line with the share of voters who say they support Biden’s climate plan, which he has stressed won’t transition the U.S. away from fossil fuels as quickly as Green New Deal backers would prefer.

If this was true, then why has there been no vote on the GND in the House? In fact, there have been no committee hearings or anything on it. It was introduced, dumped in committee, and then shelved. Even AOC has not called for action on it. In the Senate, Mitch McConnell forced a vote on it and every single Democrat voted “present”, including the GND’s main sponsor, Ed Markey. If it’s so popular, why have Dems done nothing?

Markey told The Hill that the proposal has helped Democrats on several fronts.

“The Green New Deal has transformed the national discussion around the climate crisis. It has galvanized a movement of young, diverse activists who have made climate change an electoral powerhouse, and climate action a winning issue. We are seeing progressive candidates running, and winning, on their support for a Green New Deal,” Markey said in a statement.

“On Election Day, this movement of young climate activists will be the difference for Joe Biden and candidates up and down the ballot,” he added.

Yes, the same you climate cultists who refuse to practice what they preach. It’s just more spreading awareness while actually doing nothing. But, then, do most Warmists ever take action in their own lives?

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Is The Suburban Mom’s Switching To Biden A Credentialed Media Myth? Most Likely

By William Teach October 28, 2020 – 8:38 am

The Credentialed Media has been telling us for months that white, suburban women have been changing their votes from Trump to Biden for months now. Vox is telling us that, because they interviewed a few cherry picked suburban women voters that all of them blame Trump for their lives being upended by COVID. But, really, will they be more like this woman?

My ‘suburban mom’ demographic is supposedly all in for Biden. But I’m voting for Trump.

I’m a white, college graduate, suburban mom in her 40s living in an upper middle class area. If you listen to the media, my fuel efficient SUV should be proudly outfitted with a Biden/Harris bumper sticker.

Except it’s not. Not all of us fit into a big suburban box. I have two young girls — yes, girls — and this year I’m voting for them.

In 2016, I took a chance and cautiously voted for Donald Trump based on the promises he made. This year, I’m proudly voting for him based on the promises he’s kept and the leadership he’s shown over the last three and a half years.

President Trump has done more that I support than any president in my lifetime, and certainly more than Joe Biden in his decades in Washington.

See, lots of people think more with their heads than their moonbat gland. Most politicians are not really great people: it boils down to what they actually do in office. Obama seemed a nice guy, right? His policies were destructive, for the most part, and instituted more Big Government control of our lives than any president since FDR.

Newsflash: This year’s election isn’t the choice between a guy who tweets or a guy who trips all over himself reading his teleprompter. The choice is between two vastly different Americas. The question is, which America do you want your kids to grow up in?

An America where the Orwellian mantra of “peaceful protests” reverberates in dismissing violence and anarchy? Where public safety is an afterthought? Where “mob rule” rules the day as we’ve seen in many Democrat-run cities across the country, as rioting and looting have destroyed businesses and ended innocent lives.

That’s Joe Biden’s America.

An America that unequivocally condemns violence, loudly supports law enforcement, and proudly protects our families? That’s Trump’s America.

With violence raging yet again, this time in Philadelphia, with the Pa. Governor having the National Guard stand down in the face of looting, violence, assault, destruction, arson, and so forth, who thinks this changes a lot of votes to Trump?

Suburban moms like me believe the safety of our families also depends on this election.

There are surely a lot of suburban moms who feel the same. They see the violence within Joe Biden’s vision, that Democrats pretty much did jack and squat as riots raged, no matter how much the media trotted out “mostly peaceful”.

For all you Christians out there upset that the president doesn’t say “please” and “thank you” on Twitter: While you were obsessing over 280 characters, Trump was actively working to protect religious freedom. That’s a 180-degree turn from the Obama-Biden administration and Democratic attorneys general which sued the Little Sisters of the Poor — twice.

One of Trump’s first acts was to nominate Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, followed by Brett Kavanaugh. Both nominees had strong records of protecting religious freedom enshrined in the First Amendment — which doesn’t just protect where and how you choose to worship, but also how you choose to exercise your faith in your everyday life.

While the media was obsessing over Trump’s Twitter, he was actually doing this an a lot more. Twitter serves as a messaging platform and a way to distract the moonbat Dems/Media.

The virus has taken a toll on our children as well as our economy and physical health. Keeping our kids isolated at home learning behind a computer screen is a disaster. Working parents struggle to juggle their jobs while supervising online learning.

Meanwhile, mental health issues in our kids are on the rise. In July, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Robert R. Redfield said there are more suicides and deaths from drug overdoses than from COVID-19 as a result of school closures, particularly high schools. Inexplicably, some teachers unions are hijacking schools and refusing to help let kids back in the classroom. The union in my northern Virginia school district demands schools remain closed until at least August 2021.

But in Biden’s America he’ll always stand with the teachers, even when they are wrong. How do we know? Because he told them. In July he said, “You don’t just have a partner in the White House, you’ll have an (National Education Association) member in the White House,” referring to his wife, Jill Biden.

Trump wants the country open. Democrats want it shut. Trump wants kids in school. Biden wants to touch kids and keep them out of school. He backs teachers who want to get paid for not doing their jobs. I’d place a big bet that lots of suburban moms are thinking the same was as the article author.

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You Know How We Can Solve The Climate Crisis (scam)? Threatening To Withhold Medical Care

By William Teach October 27, 2020 – 3:00 pm

I don’t know about you, but, I’m starting to get the idea that this whole scheme has nothing to do with science or the climate

Accessible healthcare could be key to solving climate crisis

Caring for people’s health is a prescription for protecting rainforests, slowing climate change and creating significant monetary value, according to a new Stanford-led study.

The analysis, published in PNAS on Oct. 26, finds that deforestation in an Indonesian national park declined 70 percent—equivalent to an averted carbon loss worth more than $65 million—in the 10 years after an affordable health clinic opened in the area. The clinic, which accepts barter as payment and gives discounts to villages based on community-wide reductions in logging, could provide a blueprint for preserving the world’s biodiverse carbon sinks while reversing poverty and poor health outcomes.

“This innovative model has clear global health implications,” said study co-author Michele Barry, senior associate dean of global health at Stanford and director of the Center for Innovation in Global Health. “Health and climate can and should be addressed in unison, and done in coordination with and respect for local communities.”

“If you leave that tree up, so that you don’t have fuel for cooking and homes, we’ll give you healthcare. Otherwise…..”

“This is a case study of how to design, implement and evaluate a planetary health intervention that addresses human health and the health of rainforests on which our health depends,” said study co-author Susanne Sokolow, a senior research scientist at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment.

Globally, about 35 percent of protected areas are traditionally owned, managed, used or occupied by Indigenous and local communities, yet the perspective and guidance of Indigenous Peoples and local communities are rarely considered in the design of conservation and climate mitigation programs. By contrast, the Indonesian clinic’s success grew out of the early and continued design by local communities who identified the mechanisms driving linked health-environment problems and the solutions.

So these people who Really, Really Care about indigenous and underprivileged people are essentially threatening to withhold medical care unless these people act in a Climate Cult manner.

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If All You See…

By William Teach October 27, 2020 – 1:00 pm

…is snow that will soon be a thing of the past, except where it snows more because of carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is This ain’t Hell…, with a post on your Tuesday Feel Good Stories.

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Masks Work? Bat Soup Virus Hospitalizations Rise In 36 States

By William Teach October 27, 2020 – 10:59 am

Most of these states have mask mandates

Covid hospitalizations rising in 36 states as U.S. hits another record for average new cases

The average number of new daily cases of the coronavirus in the United States hit another record on Monday as 36 states reported worrying rises in the number of hospitalized patients.

The average number of patients hospitalized with Covid-19 over the past seven days rose by at least 5% in 36 states as of Monday, according to a CNBC analysis of data from the Covid Tracking Project. Hospitalizations lag behind cases as it takes time for people to get diagnosed and become sick enough to require medical attention. However, epidemiologists point to hospitalizations as a more telling indicator of the severity of an outbreak than new cases, which can fluctuate based on testing.

In Illinois, where Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced new business restrictions last week in four counties and Chicago, 2,638 people were hospitalized with Covid-19 as of Monday, according to data compiled by Covid Tracking Project, which tracks testing, hospitalization and other data on the outbreak. It’s run by journalists at The Atlantic. That pushed their seven-day average up over 2,480, a more than 24% increase compared with a week ago, according to CNBC’s analysis.

In Texas, El Paso County Judge Ricardo Samaniego issued a curfew on Sunday to protect “overwhelmed and exhausted” hospitals and workers. More than 5,200 people there were in hospitals with Covid-19 on Monday, Covid Tracking Project’s data shows. The Lone Star state has had an average of about 4,970 Covid-19 patients in hospitals on any given day over the past week, up more than 18% compared with the previous week.

Remember when lockdown would take care of all this? Then it was masks. Remember, we aren’t just seeing this in the U.S., but so much of the world, including the 1st World. Many, many parts of Europe are exploding. In fact, if you look at the graphic, there are way more confirmed cases than during lockdown

And though cases is much, much higher than during lockdown…

…deaths have dropped way off. Perhaps it’s because they aren’t mixing deaths that really were from something else on the reports, and COVID only made it quicker? Of course, they are expecting a big spike in deaths.

He added that flu season typically begins to gain steam in November, and that could add another complication to the U.S. response to the pandemic. The diseases caused by the flu and the coronavirus “look very much alike” and health workers will face new challenges in trying to diagnose Covid-19 and flu patients, Schaffner said.

And flu deaths will be simply blamed on COVID. Unless Biden wins, then even deaths from COVID will be minimized, at least starting January 21st.

BTW, this doesn’t mean don’t take precautions. Wash your hands a lot, keep your distance, don’t touch, clean up, wear the barely helpful mask when necessary. I won’t tell you to do things that I don’t do myself. Better to be safe than sorry, right?

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To Institute Climate Crisis (scam) Policy We Need To Fix Democracy Or Something

By William Teach October 27, 2020 – 8:27 am

You darned Skeptics are voting with ClimaWrongthink, so, things need to change

To deal with climate change, we must fix democracy first

As wildfires expanded by climate change ravage the Pacific coast and hurricanes intensified by climate change flood the Gulf Coast, Americans are increasingly united behind the need to act on climate. According to the most recent data from the Yale Program on Climate Communication, 57% of American adults are “alarmed” or “concerned” about the effects of climate change; only 20% are “doubtful” or “dismissive.”

If they’re so alarmed or concerned, why do so few make major changes in their own lives? Just wondering

Despite the decisive national majority for climate action — including majorities in every state that supports strict limits for carbon dioxide emissions — one of America’s two major political parties is led by a president who does not “think science knows” whether climate change is real and a Senate majority leader who did not accept the reality of climate change until last year.

Interestingly, in most deep Blue states the governments haven’t done more than pass token measures. The People’s Republik Of California is one of the only Dem states to get serious, and they have rolling blackouts, many which are planned, and people are streaming out of the state

Yet in the current American constitutional structure and electoral system, a climate-change denier could win the presidency while losing the popular vote by 6%. The Senate further advantages the party of climate denial by giving only 18 votes to half of Americans living in the nine largest states. And with the Electoral College and Senate advantages, the opponents of climate action are working to entrench their minority perspective through lifetime judiciary appointments and voter suppression.

Remember, ‘climate change’ is all about science. Is it necessary to mention that we are not a pure, mob rule democracy at the federal level, but a Constitutional Republic? Warmists are welcome to practice Democracy in the cities and states.

If Democrats win the presidency and the Senate, they will have an opportunity for systemic reform that may be generationally unique. Their goal should not be to entrench their own rule. It should be to ensure that a party must win majority support to govern, and that a party with majority support can govern effectively. They must ensure that a minority party in hock to fringe conspiracy theorists is never again able to take control of our government.

Except, that’s what they’ve done in places like California, where they have entrenched their own rule, and run roughshod over the minority. It’s surprising that Republicans even bother running for office in the state.

Both the future of democracy and the future of the planet are on the ballot this year. To save both, we the voters must give the Democrats a decisive and unambiguous victory. And if they win, Democrats must reform our government so that a nihilistic minority will never again make the stakes so high.

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ACB Confirmed To Supreme Court, Many Democrats Are Not Taking It Well

By William Teach October 27, 2020 – 8:03 am

Of course, Democrats not taking it well is nothing that should surprise anyone, right?

Democrats warn GOP will regret Barrett confirmation

Democratic senators are warning that Republicans will regret confirming Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court as the Democrats face pressure from the left to nix the filibuster and expand the court if they win back the majority.

Democrats are facing calls from their base to enact rules changes and broad systemic reforms after President Trump, who lost the popular vote in 2016, was able to put three justices on the bench, in part because Republicans refused to give Merrick Garland, former President Obama’s final nominee, a hearing or a vote in 2016.

Several Democratic senators warned as part of the chamber’s debate over Barrett that Republicans have lost the right to kvetch if Democrats win back the majority and change the rules. Republicans nixed the filibuster in 2017 for Supreme Court nominees and reduced the debate time in 2019 for lower court and executive picks.

Perhaps the Dems should have thought of this before Harry Reid nuked the filibuster for judicial nominees. Hey, maybe it would have been better for Judge Garland to sit in a room for several days, being put on display, before the GOP voted against him.

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), in a statement after Barrett’s confirmation on Monday night, warned that Republicans might “rue the day.”

“With this vote, my Republican colleagues forfeit their right to call procedural fouls,” Whitehouse said.

This vote? Well, Mitch McConnell has something to say

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said on the Senate floor Monday night that America is a “constitutional republic,” and the government’s “legitimacy” does not arise from the left’s “feelings.”

McConnell said before the confirmation of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, “Our Democratic colleagues keep repeating the word illegitimate as if repetition would make it true …We’re a constitutional republic. Legitimacy does not flow from their feelings.”

Of course, that doesn’t stop the caterwauling. Many of them are demanding that the court be packed, that lower courts be packed, all because they lost. But, perhaps the worst take?

Coons: ‘Hundreds’ of Trump’s Lower Court Judges Shouldn’t ‘Be Allowed to Sit Peaceably’

On Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Rachel Maddow Show,” Senate Judiciary Committee member Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) said that there should be a “wide-open conversation” on rebalancing the courts, including the circuit and district courts, where there are “hundreds” of judges who shouldn’t “be allowed to sit peaceably without our re-examining the process, the results, and the consequences.”

Coons said, “[W]e’ve got to have a wide-open conversation about how do we rebalance our courts. Yes, the two Supreme Court [seats] that have been stolen through these processes that are just wildly hypocritical have been used to jam through partisan nominees. But we’ve got to look at our federal courts as a whole, Rachel. Because we’ve seen hundreds of conservative judges put on circuit courts and district courts all over this country in the last four years, in many cases, too young, too unqualified, and too far right to be allowed to sit peaceably without our re-examining the process, the results, and the consequences.”

“Sit peaceably.” Does seem rather a threat, does it not? And, based on how unhinged and violent so many Democrats have become, they will hear this and become threatening and violent. Imagine a Republican said this……yup, you know how the Credentialed Media and Democrats would portray it.

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CFACT Challenges Handsy Joe To Spend A Month Without Fossil Fuels

By William Teach October 26, 2020 – 8:59 pm

This should be a challenge to all those Warmists yammering about getting rid of fossil fuels. Let’s start here

Report: Biden Touts Climate Change Agenda While Making Huge Carbon Footprint on Campaign Trail

Former Vice President Joe Biden has made fighting so-called manmade climate change a pillar of his 2020 presidential platform, but reports show that he is leaving behind a huge carbon footprint traveling on the campaign trail.

In 2019, Biden said the country has to take “drastic action right now to address the climate disaster facing our nation and the world.”

But his actions speak louder than his words, according to E&E News:

So far the Biden campaign has offset roughly half of its emissions from the team’s transportation to rallies, fundraisers and other political events. A spokesman told E&E News that the campaign’s contract with Advanced Aviation to provide flights for Biden and his running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), includes carbon offsets. The campaign’s payments to the Virginia-based jet company make up less than 55% of the more than $5 million that the campaign has spent on transportation and likely represent only a plurality of its overall emissions, according to campaign filings and interviews.

That’s disappointing to climate scientists, who would like to see Biden’s team — which is on pace to raise more than $1 billion before the final votes are cast in 12 days — match its political promises on climate change with commensurate action. Biden has said global warming is an existential threat.

“The time is now to be changing our behaviors and to follow through on our words and commitments,” Heidi Roop, a climate scientist at the University of Minnesota, said in the E&E report. “People who are in positions of leadership and positions of power, they need to start walking the walk.”

Well, see, it’s easy for rich people to pay for offsets, rather than actually practicing what they preach, especially when they can use Other People’s money via campaign contributions. And Joe Bastardi has a challenge for Joe

Joe Biden challenge: Spend a month without fossil fuels

Joe Biden wants to get rid of fossil fuels. This is a position that is either ignorant of facts, or simply preying on the lack of knowledge people have on this matter. IT IS NOT JUST ENERGY APPARENTLY, HE HAS NO IDEA HOW MANY PRODUCTS THAT MAKE YOUR LIFE EASIER RELY ON PETROLEUM!

Its not just the idea we are getting off fossil fuels as a source of energy. Products that are directly produced with petroleum or derivatives of petroleum are not even thought of by the average person, who is being indoctrinated by all this. Either Joe Biden does not understand this, or he does and is preying on the lack of knowledge on this matter by an increasingly indoctrinated public.

So here is the challenge to Joe Biden, win, lose or draw in the upcoming election, I want you your family and staff to spend 1 month off anything that has a link to fossil fuels.

Here is a list and it is still not a full one, but is a start.

https://www.innovativewealth.com/inflation-monitor/what-products-made-from-petroleum-outside-of-gasoline/

Of course, we all know that for most climate cultists it’s always about making That Guy comply, never themselves.

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If All You See…

By William Teach October 26, 2020 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible, evil, not good climate killing plastic water bottle, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Weasel Zippers, with a post on AOC saying the Dems must retake the senate in order to avoid bipartisanship.

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