Aug 18, 2021

COVID-19 Update

Reporting remains a little spotty. MI, IA, and KS reported no new cases, while Florida continues to lead the pack in new cases, and lag behind in vaccinations, but somehow manages to come in very low on new deaths. Hmm.


I have to be a bit suspicious when FL Gov Ron DeSantis hits the airwaves pitching Regeneron as a therapeutic, while insisting that masks aren't really a thing, and that vaccination is kinda, "Well yeah - maybe it's OK - whatever".

And then we find out that millions have been "donated" to a certain PAC that just happens to be all in on DeSantis as a prospect for the 2024 GOP nomination for POTUS, and that one of that PAC's top donors is the maker of - you guessed it - Regeneron.

Anyway, here are yesterday's numbers, such as they are.






And here's a nasty little snapshot:


"Remember, dear - karma's only a bitch when you are" --Glinda, Witch of the North

Covid Live Updates: Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas Tests Positive

The governor, who is fully inoculated, has ardently opposed masks and vaccine mandates. Early data suggests that breakthrough infections are making up a growing percentage of hospitalizations in the U.S.

2 comments:

  1. In Florida, we're gonna have to go in and count the caskets and death certificates, aren't we. That's how people discovered how many people really died in the initial outbreaks in Wuhan; by finding out how many funeral urns the mortuaries bought. DeathSantis is intentionally juking the numbers to make him look good. But you need a death certificate to do probate, and collect life insurance, and a million other things you need to do when someone dies in this country. Counting those will tell us how many more people actually died versus what they told us.

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  2. I don't know what has to happen, but you're right - something has to happen. Maybe discovering and publishing the differential ("excess deaths") can do it.
    Thanks for the visit.

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