Covid Class Commences

Can copywriters cease with the alliteration already?

Greetings class, welcome to Covid 301 here on the campus of the Ron Paul Institute of Getting Higher Learning. There’s no assigned seating, obviously the free and voluntary choices of rational market participants will lead to the most optimal seating outcome.

Although the doors automatically prevent access from outside after class has begun (to show people the consequences of their actions), I must firmly state that you are NOT being detained and you are free to leave at any time.

That being said, it’s time to review what we know about the seasonality of covid and how it looks like the vaccine is interfering with acquired immunity. Because this is mostly a review, long-time students are free to take off and put in some of their 10,000 required hours at the gun range, or go sell raw milk to willing buyers. Remember the school motto — “I’m not your mother.”

For new students, here’s a quick primer on seasonality, the follow-up post from last winter, and the original worrying data regarding vaccines from earlier this year.

Here’s a look at what the covid hospitalization map has looked like since basically the end of summer:

This held up all November long, although I forgot to nab the data before I flew off travelling. I hate saying this, but you’ll have to trust me on this until I can post the screenshots.

Things I don’t say

But now we’re finally heading into December and the virus is starting to tick up across the country — once again exactly as predicted by the ‘seasonality theorists’.

Sadly the color breakdown of this map doesn’t really show us TOO much, because tons of states are hovering between 5 and 9.9% and therefore are colored the same. But I went ahead and downloaded the data and we have these states above 7%:

MD 9.92, NY 8.74, NC 8.07, AZ 8.06, DE 8.01, CA 7.96, CT 7.75, OR 7.61

Comparing this with this site for percentage of vaccinated population, we see some ‘strange’ correlations between the ‘top 8’ for covid hospitalizations AND vaccination rates:

Maryland #8 (#1 in hospitalizations), New York #7 (#2), Connecticut #5 (#7)

Meanwhile, the least vaccinated states are all completely missing from this ‘worst of’ list. Remember how we had to hear about the correlation between vaccines and hospitalizations for like two years, and all the ‘experts’ told us the jab prevented hospitalizations and deaths? Are you reading any stories today about how highly vaccinated states are dealing with the worst covid outcomes? Of course not — that ‘might promote vaccine hesitancy.’

Instead we see a flood of stories about overwhelmed hospitals, kids coming down with RSV, and masking ‘recommendations’ from the CDC. Here’s a perfect example of the hysteria:

SURGING CASES CAUSING SHORTAGES! CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL SOON TO BE OVERRUN!

Sounds like April 2020 all over again. But when we actually put on our shitwaders and dig into the actual numbers, we see this is much ado about nothing at all.

So we have about 50 patients with RSV in the hospital, making up about 1/3 of total hospital patients. This means there’s about 100 ‘non-RSV’ patients in the hospital. But how many beds does Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital actually have?

So if you do the math, the hospital is about 65% full — or basically empty. I dare you to find ANY articles pre-2020 that described a 65% full hospital as being close to overrun. I happen to have a graphic from the early days that perfectly illustrates this point:

And now and then you were able to find a little bit of truth about hospital occupancy when you were digging around:

Hospitals typically function at 95-98% capacity

In other words, there’s no shortage of hospital beds — and in most places there never was.

Total occupancy flat regardless of how many covid patients

This was certainly the case in Washington, as I’ve said over and over. The only reason our occupancy spikes at all is because of the healthcare worker mandate — and we now know why so many doctors and nurses refused the jab. In fact, perhaps it’s not the actual vaccination rate that correlates with covid hospitalizations at all — perhaps it’s the mandates that cut capacity in certain states.

For your homework, you are to check the top 8 covid hospitalization states and compare them with mandate states. There will be a test, and for the students who already stopped reading, this is yet another reminder of our school’s #1 rule — DON’T TRUST AUTHORITY!

Of course, you should always stay to the end, because that’s where you’ll find the cats! It’s time to get into the Christmas spirit!