So they want to make every winter an emergency now instead of just increasing hospital capacity to deal with any bad flu season? This is insane and they will destroy us all unless we stop them.
>> The authors write that policymakers should “retire previous public health categorizations” and “focus on a new category: the aggregate risk of all respiratory infections.” The nation, they said, needs to figure out how much hospitalization and death will overload health care systems, and then use that metric to trigger emergency measures.
Holy shit, this terrifies me. This is permanent lockdown; this is the pathologization of absolutely normal biological reality; this is the verbal gymnastics that lead directly to literal totalitarianism.
This is TERRIBLE, frightening news. This policy framework is a permanent state of emergency enforced through biofascism.
I assume the oral treatments for covid they refer to are NOT the oral treatments I used for covid!
How many Americans have vaccinated their schoolchildren? It's considerably fewer than the (20%ish) vaccinated 5-11, since we're looking at a number of sibling groups. (For instance, I know families of 2-4 kids who were all vaccinated; if all kids who were vaccinated have one vaccinated sibling, only about 10% of U.S. families have vaxxed their kids.) My gut feeling is that mandating the covid vaccine products for schoolchildren will be even less popular than Joe Biden. So I can't decide whether I want these people to shut up because what they're saying is so stupid or keep talking because what they're saying is so stupid.
"Zeke Emanuel promotes the "Complete Lives System" as a way to decide who gets treatment and who is denied", which is a slick way of denying medical treatment based on age. Too old? Too bad. I don't want Emanuel involved in national health policy at all!
In a vacuum, I'd love to applaud Lori Lightfoot on this, but here's the problem.... Chicago & all of Cook County will now require all 5 year olds and above to show proof of vaccination to enter restaurants, health clubs, public libraries (!). Lightfoot is firmly behind these policies. If those policies are warranted, who could blame the teachers for thinking the schools would be unsafe? Of course, I reject all of this nonsense, but seems to me Lori can't have it both ways.
Sharp increases in Covid hospitalizations is what you expect when there are sharp increases in positive tests. If 10% of Chicago is testing positive, "Covid patients" will account for at least 10% of hospital patients.
Exactly the case, and the fact that the leaders are just now coming around to this realization (and only for political reasons) is terrifying. Here in WA our total hospital usage stayed flat all year, regardless of the number of covid patients in the system.
The only acceptable response to anyone who says, "New normal":
https://i.imgur.com/hyPcbVu.png
Shoot, I've been using this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4qPOndBCFU
So they want to make every winter an emergency now instead of just increasing hospital capacity to deal with any bad flu season? This is insane and they will destroy us all unless we stop them.
>> The authors write that policymakers should “retire previous public health categorizations” and “focus on a new category: the aggregate risk of all respiratory infections.” The nation, they said, needs to figure out how much hospitalization and death will overload health care systems, and then use that metric to trigger emergency measures.
Holy shit, this terrifies me. This is permanent lockdown; this is the pathologization of absolutely normal biological reality; this is the verbal gymnastics that lead directly to literal totalitarianism.
This is TERRIBLE, frightening news. This policy framework is a permanent state of emergency enforced through biofascism.
I assume the oral treatments for covid they refer to are NOT the oral treatments I used for covid!
How many Americans have vaccinated their schoolchildren? It's considerably fewer than the (20%ish) vaccinated 5-11, since we're looking at a number of sibling groups. (For instance, I know families of 2-4 kids who were all vaccinated; if all kids who were vaccinated have one vaccinated sibling, only about 10% of U.S. families have vaxxed their kids.) My gut feeling is that mandating the covid vaccine products for schoolchildren will be even less popular than Joe Biden. So I can't decide whether I want these people to shut up because what they're saying is so stupid or keep talking because what they're saying is so stupid.
"Zeke Emanuel promotes the "Complete Lives System" as a way to decide who gets treatment and who is denied", which is a slick way of denying medical treatment based on age. Too old? Too bad. I don't want Emanuel involved in national health policy at all!
Quote from: http://freedomeden.blogspot.com/2009/08/ezekiel-emanuel-complete-lives-system.html
Totally not death panels.
Blah Blah Blah....just shitcan the whole lot of 'em! Turns out if you threaten someone's job, it gets their attention!
In a vacuum, I'd love to applaud Lori Lightfoot on this, but here's the problem.... Chicago & all of Cook County will now require all 5 year olds and above to show proof of vaccination to enter restaurants, health clubs, public libraries (!). Lightfoot is firmly behind these policies. If those policies are warranted, who could blame the teachers for thinking the schools would be unsafe? Of course, I reject all of this nonsense, but seems to me Lori can't have it both ways.
Yep! Tomorrow's update will be about Chicago and their hospitalization rate.
Spoiler alert: "Covid hospitalizations" have doubled while total occupancy has gone down.
Sharp increases in Covid hospitalizations is what you expect when there are sharp increases in positive tests. If 10% of Chicago is testing positive, "Covid patients" will account for at least 10% of hospital patients.
Exactly the case, and the fact that the leaders are just now coming around to this realization (and only for political reasons) is terrifying. Here in WA our total hospital usage stayed flat all year, regardless of the number of covid patients in the system.