Tired of Covid-19 Politics?
So am I, and so is comedian Bill Maher.
Video Discussion
Maher accurately pointed out governor Ron DeSantis of Florida did a far better job of protecting the elderly than New York governor Andrew Cuomo, an alleged hero who faces impeachment over covid-19 lies and coverups.
When blasting Cuomo, Maher gave one of his best lines “Those are just facts. I know it is irresponsible for me to say them.”
Dr. Fauci did not help with his ignorance and lies in which he went from telling people not to wear masks to suggesting people wear two of them.
I do not accept that “science” accounts for Fauci’s changing recommendations. Fauci admitted he wanted to save the limited supply of masks for the medical industry.
I get social distancing and vaccines. But I don’t get praise of Cuomo, no reporting of good news, biased reporting of bad news, and ridiculous demands by teachers’ unions to keep schools closed.
More Quotes
- “New rule. Don’t spin me when it comes to my health. I am from a different school: Give it to me straight doc. That always works better than ‘You can’t handle the truth’.”
- “Look. Here’s what I am saying. I don’t want politics mixed in with my medical decisions.” [huge round of applause] “And now that everything is politics, that’s all we do. If their side says Covid is nothing, out side has to say it’s everything.”
- “Trump said it would go away like a miracle, and we said it was World War Z.”
- “And now of course we find out that all of that paranoia of [disinfecting] surfaces was bullshit anyway even though we spent hours and hours of wiping our knobs with Lysol.”
- “If you lie to people, even with a very good cause, you lose their trust.”
- “I think a lot of people died because of Trump’s incompetence. And I think a lot of people died because talking about obesity had become a third rail in America.”
- “A stunning statistic was reported. 78% of those hospitalized, ventilated, or dead for Covid were overweight or obese. It is the key piece of the puzzle, by far the most pertinent factor, but you dare not speak its name.”
- “Imagine how many lives could have been saved if there had been some national campaign a la’ Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move program with the urgency of the pandemic behind it.”
Conclusion
Maher concluded by blasting the media for failure to point out there is something you can do to help [lose weight].
“Because the last thing you want to do is say something insensitive. We would literally rather die. Instead we were told to lock down, when the killer was already in the house. And her name is Little Debbie.”
Mish
Anyone holding up the immoral greedy pig of a snake DeSantis and comparing him favorably to Cuomo has lost pretty much all credibility with me. DeSantis is an amoral prick that sold vaccine access to wealthy donor class gated enclaves by their ability to pay him in the form of campaign contributions over the rest of the state, to hold him up as doing a better job is a travesty of both morality and justice.
Being a liar pays well – Fauci is the highest paid Federal employee in the US, out of 4.5 million of them…..
The issue with obesity is very simple. Vitamin D, which is definitely crucial to a healthy immune system, is fat soluble. Therefore an obese person would need to take significantly more than the 2,000 – 3,000 units of D3 per day. As Dr. Ryan Cole stated to the Iowa Senate subcommittee, we don’t have a cold and flue season, we have a Vitamin D deficiency season. Nobody from the 35th parallel above can absorb near enough sun in the winter to obtain sufficient levels of vitamin D in their bodies.
Med Hypotheses. 2021 Jan; 146: 110411.
Published online 2020 Nov 22. doi: 10.1016/j.mehy.2020.110411
PMCID: PMC7680614
PMID: 33303303
Facemasks in the COVID-19 era: A health hypothesis
Author: Baruch Vainshelboim
Cardiology Division, Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System
Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, United States
Abstract
Many countries across the globe utilized medical and non-medical facemasks as non-pharmaceutical intervention for reducing the transmission and infectivity of coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19). Although, scientific evidence supporting facemasks’ efficacy is lacking, adverse physiological, psychological and health effects are established. Is has been hypothesized that facemasks have compromised safety and efficacy profile and should be avoided from use. The current article comprehensively summarizes scientific evidences with respect to wearing facemasks in the COVID-19 era, providing prosper information for public health and decisions making.
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Future research might focus on the failed logic of using a non-diagnostic test (RT-PCR) to diagnose infection in asymptomatic persons.
“I do not accept that “science” accounts for Fauci’s changing recommendations. Fauci admitted he wanted to save the limited supply of masks for the medical industry.”
The science was always that commonly used masks provided little or no protection. Yet various states instituted mask mandates. That is why Fauci much later on, during a winter surge, recommended people wear two masks- it had become painfully obvious that masks were not preventing people from contracting Covid.
Fauci ‘not sure’ why Texas doesn’t have COVID uptick after nixing masks
April 10, 2021 | 10:17pm | Updated
It’s something Dr. Anthony Fauci can’t quite explain.
“I’m not really quite sure,” he told MSNBC this week. “It could be they’re doing things outdoors.”
Daily cases in Texas hovered above 7,000 in early March, when Gov. Greg Abbott lifted the state’s mask rules, leaving it up to individuals and organizations to make their own decisions.
Now, according to the Centers for Disease Control, new cases of COVID-19 are under 4,000.
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Bill Maher completely nailed it with that video!
I wonder what the long term consequences will be of taking the experimental treatment. The CDC web site indicates that, so far, 3005 deaths have been directly attributed to taking the jab.
In 2019 there were 417 mass shootings in the US.
In 2018 there were 340 mass shootings in the US.
In 2017 there were around 200. In 2016 and 2015, both well under 200.
So if you put everything aside and just focus on facts, far more people were directly killed by the experimental jab in 2019 than were killed in mass shootings in the prior decade, combined.
Now, some will say “yes but this was offset by lives saved by taking the jab”. But that statement comes without any proof. It’s an emotional assumption. In fact we are seeing good evidence that 40% of those who got the jab can still become reinfected. So the efficacy of this experimental treatment is still not even close to being understood, but 3005 dead from the jab is certainly 3005 dead. Liberals will be quick to say that it’s a small percentage and that would be true. But then they react to each shooting with calls to ban guns even though the founders knew that the reason for citizens to keep and bear was to keep the balance of power between citizens and government so that government could not easily herd the citizens into box cars for that essential final shower.
Maher is right on one main point: the left tend to be very hypocritical in their views.
“The CDC web site indicates that, so far, 3005 deaths have been directly attributed to taking the jab.”
No it doesn’t. It sayd 3005 people died sometime after taking a covid vaccine. No explanation.
Here’s a fun fact, 100% of people die sometime after being born.
Correct. The VAERS data is not even verified for accuracy, much less attribution of causation. As a result, VAERS data can never be used to “prove” anything. It’s sole purpose it to identify areas of concern where additional research might be needed.
Note that 2.5 million people die in the US every year. If you took a random sample of 3 million Americans (about the number being vaccinated each day), from those 3 million, 78 would die that day, and another 78 the day after, and 78 more the day after that. In fact, if you assume that 50% of Americans have now received at least one shot, and that, on average, they received it a month ago (some more, some less), you would, by random chance alone, expect to find that 119,000 people who have been vaccinated are no longer with us.
So, if, in fact, 3005 people died “from the jab” instead of “with the jab”, you’d expect to find 3,000 excess deaths, or a total of 122,000 people who have been vaccinated dead. First, there is no evidence of that, but second, even if it were true, that’s still only a tenth of the excess deaths that we know to have occurred in the non-vaccinated group, where about 30,000 died of covid in the last month. When you factor in that the people being vaccinated were, considerably older, and less healthy, on average, than those not being vaccinated, it’s interesting that they had only 1/10 the death rate.
Anti-vaxxers ain’t so good with math neither.
I know that you weren’t referring to me, but I should point out that my 78/day would be for people who died the same day that they got the vaccine. The 119k total would be people who had died at some point after the vaccine, perhaps weeks later.
Thanks for clarifying. As of five days ago, the US had eight cases of unusual clotting, if you include one from the previous clinical trials. One death, one very ill and likely to die (my guess).
This is out of 7.4 million doses of J&J vaccine…..which makes me think it’ll be available again soon, if science prevails.
Sadly, it looks like available doses of the Pfizer and Moderna are going unclaimed now….which is very regrettable. I do blame both social media and gratuitous conservative MSM coverage aimed at their target market.
And the whole anti-vax movement, which has been a problem for a while among poorly educated people…..which happens to be a lot of people, unfortunately.
So far the Pfizer looks the best, which is the one I had. They seem to have the least side effects, and the best protection against the variants. They still may need a booster against the Brazil variant, though.
Good News, doesn t sell !…. The Dow up again, pfff boring, the Dow plummeting, oh dear the end of the world… interesting ! Natural disasters, at the other side of the planet …. awfully GREAT ! The live TV war on alleged brutal dictators…pure happiness much better than football ! Peace treaties ?….fckn boring, etc….
I was never impressed by Bill Maher. He is smart enough to know what was going on and yet he went along with the fake narrative because he was loyal to the “cause”. Suddenly now he “discovered” that the media, of which he is a part, has been lying to us and manipulating the worst public health crisis for decades for political purposes. Please spare me the fake outrage Bill. He is just trying to re-center his show because of falling ratings.
I think that one should see also how vaccines are distributed among the population. For example in Qatar or Bahrein is the huge population of poor workers also vaccinated ?
Vaccines may not be working as well as many expect (see Chile & Bahrain). Oops!
Where Coronavirus Cases Are Growing Fast
Apr 16, 2021
COVID-19 cases are growing in many countries around the world, but some are hit harder than others. Numbers by Johns Hopkins University published on Our World in Data show that among the highly affected countries with rising case numbers are several with successful vaccination campaigns, highlighting the need to not rely on vaccination alone to combat the coronavirus.
Chile still recorded an average of 377 new infections per one million of population on Thursday despite having given out 67 vaccine doses per 100 people – the equivalent of 40 percent of the population having received at least one vaccine dose and 27 percent having been fully vaccinated. The same phenomenon is happening in Bahrain (60 doses per 100 people as of April 15) and Qatar (41 doses). According to Our World in Data this places the countries towards the top of the most successful vaccination campaigns in the world.
On the infographic Chile, Uruguay, Argentina, Turkey all used China’s Sinovac vaccine which doesn’t work well at all.
That’s a good point.
Here’s a month old article that might explain why Covid scaremongering has worked.
Covid coverage by the U.S. national media is an outlier, a study finds.
March 24, 2021
In today’s edition of The Morning newsletter, David Leonhardt writes:
Bruce Sacerdote, an economics professor at Dartmouth College, noticed something last year about the Covid-19 television coverage that he was watching on CNN and PBS. It almost always seemed negative, regardless of what was he seeing in the data or hearing from scientists he knew.
When Covid cases were rising in the U.S., the news coverage emphasized the increase. When cases were falling, the coverage instead focused on those places where cases were rising. And when vaccine research began showing positive results, the coverage downplayed it, as far as Sacerdote could tell.
But he was not sure whether his perception was correct. To check, he began working with two other researchers, building a database of Covid coverage from every major network, CNN, Fox News, Politico, The New York Times and hundreds of other sources, in the U.S. and overseas. The researchers then analyzed it with a social-science technique that classifies language as positive, neutral or negative.
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The main fact about covid19 is the huge difference between the west (USA+Europe) and Asia, as we can see if we compare the ratio : number of deaths/million people.
And this fact does not create any soul-searching, not even attempts to find why, by all our politicians or “specialists”. If this is not a proof of the decline of the western world….
69% of the US population is obese or overweight, which means that the 78% figure is not the “stunning” figure that explains the enormous toll from COVID in the US.
69% of the US population is obese or overweight.
First off bad news sells. Secondly Fauci was clear about masks. He wanted to assure a supply for medical professionals. Maher does make a number of good points with humor.
But it makes him guilty of saying some people are more important than others. In other words medical professionals were more important that common people.
It’s not much different than a fire chief telling people in a burning building that there is no need to evacuate using the stairs because it’s a minor fire just so that he could avoid clogging the stairs for his own firemen to escape because they are professionals needed to fight future fires.
If he wanted to preserve medical masks for medical personnel, he could easily have used the bully pulpit that had been given to him and said as much. Instead — as he later admitted — he lied to the American public. This is why whatever he says is suspect in my eyes: there’s no way of knowing whether he has an ulterior motive when he makes a pronouncement.
I seldom look at what Kathern Austin Fitts has to say, just not enough time in the day anymore, but I ran into this yesterday. This is posted on the Solari Report: link to pandemic.solari.com
04/16/21
Big Pharma › News
Latest VAERS Data Show Reports of Blood Clotting Disorders After All Three Emergency Use Authorization Vaccines
VAERS data released today showed 795 reports related to blood clotting disorders with 400 attributed to Pfizer, 337 to Moderna and 56 to Johnson & Johnson between Dec. 14, 2020 and April 8, 2021.
Unfortunately we started with an administration that was both incompetent and untruthful. It set a tone, a narrative, and a political division in the Coronavirus response. Maher is being a little simplistic when he only looks at deaths, there are a lot of long term consequences also that don’t result in death. Wearing masks and social distancing are things that can be done right now. It is very unlikely that anyone is going to be able to loose enough weight rapidly to affect their chances of dying from Covid. Unfortunately 69% of American adults are obese or overweight. That is our country now. I agree that some responses don’t make sense, unfortunately the old administration had about 12 months to screw things up and this administration has only 3 months so far to try to set things right. Of course they will make some mistakes along the way but not with the same intentional nihilism that Trump had.
“Maher is being a little simplistic when he only looks at deaths, there are a lot of long term consequences also that don’t result in death”
Relatively few. Maybe 10% and they may mostly be psychosomatic.
“Wearing masks and social distancing are things that can be done right now.”
Does very little, if anything.
“loose” is spelled “lose”. This is a common mistake among the internet uneducated.
“Unfortunately 69% of American adults are obese or overweight. “
Buh-bye then.
Still thinking in terms of us vs them, eh? Sad!
“psychosomatic”-may I ask for actual data on this? Dr. Bruce Patterson has done extensive research on Long Haul Covid and has identified specific biomarkers (Rantes, Interleukin levels, other inflammatory markers) that likely account for the general symptoms of fatigue, pain, brain fog, and other chronic symptoms, in addition to the end organ damage like lung, heart, and kidney damage that we know about,
link to biorxiv.org Immune dysregulation/overdrive is not psychosomatic.
Great post. Agree 100% with all that was said.
I always liked Mahers SNL show. I seen him in concert a few years ago he was a bit left field for me. So this was a breath of fresh air esp coming from the lockdown party side of it all.
Fauci should have resigned after he lied about the need for everyone to wear a mask for the purpose of preserving the limited supply for the people who needed them most. Everything else he says is now suspect because he is an admitted liar.
Technically he killed people with this advice because millions probably took this advice and did not buy or wear masks early on. I wonder how many of those ended up dying.
I’m surprised a class action suit hasn’t been filed against him/Gov’t for deliberate misleading advice.
Must not be any legal juice in such a suit, or I would expect to hear about a lot of them being filed.
He was trying to specifically protect the supply of N95 masks. Some how and I don’t remember from where, I knew that day he announced it and I sided with him. Now, some how, anything over your mouth is miraculously effective now. That’s a bunch of horse sh!t.
I don’t blame anyone for covid deaths except the chinese gov’t.
The state of the science of masks at the start of Covid was:
Thus, at the beginning, the only recommendation for masks was for hospitals and doctors to require all patients to wear masks.,
With more data, two additional facts became clear:
3. People infected with Covid reach their peak in contagiousness about 1-2 days before they begin to show symptoms
4. Covid attempts to disrupt your immune system before it can mount a strong defense. A higher initial dose gives the virus a head start, significantly increasing the odds of a bad outcome.
These two facts changed the recommendations. How do you make sure all sick people are wearing masks? The only way is to make sure all people are wearing masks. And, by having people wear masks, you end up with more people getting mild cases, and less people getting severe cases.