Panic Covid-19 Testing Underway, Biden to Address the Nation on Tuesday
Yesterday, I noted Panic Covid-19 Testing Underway, Biden to Address the Nation on Tuesday
If you don’t have Covid, I suspect one of the best places to catch it is stand in line for hours with people who think they do.
More Tests? Why?
If you stand in line to be tested, that very standing in line means you need to be retested because undoubtedly you have been in contact with someone who has it.
The setup is of course lunacy.
NFL’s Surprising Reaction to Record Covid-19 Cases: Do Less Testing
Please note the NFL’s Surprising Reaction to Record Covid-19 Cases: Do Less Testing
95% of NFL players are vaccinated and 100% of the coaches are. That is amazingly high vs health care workers and the population at large.
Two-thirds of the players who have tested positive this week are asymptomatic, NFL chief medical officer Dr. Allen Sills. The other third, he said, are suffering very mild symptoms. In London, Omicron cases are doubling every 1.5 days. If that rate keeps up the whole city will have it in short order. That won’t happen of course, but assume it does.
Two-thirds of the players with Covid have no symptoms. What the hell are we supposed to do? Test everyone, every day?
Cases Doubling in London Every 1.5 Days
Cases in London and other parts of the UK are doubling every 1.5 days. At that rate, nearly everyone will have it in short order.
Would that be a curse or a blessing?
After a temporary flood of hospitalizations and deaths, primarily among the unvaccinated, everyone would then have omicron antibodies.
Percentage of Population Vaccinated
Accurate But Misleading
- The Chart From Mayo Clinic is presumably accurate but very misleading.
- It’s the entire population not adults and does not factor in age.
- It does not at all factor in the number of people unvaccinated who have had Covid and thus have antibodies.
Tweet of the Day
the resources it needs, and we need to start living again. It appears that Omicron will ‘vaccinate’ everyone who isn’t already vaccinated. Let’s protect the vulnerable and continue to live our lives. The beginning of the end of living in fear of Covid is near.
— Bill Ackman (@BillAckman) December 19, 2021
New Rules
- Testing the masses for Covid is worse than useless. Standing in line spreads it.
- The number of Omicron asymptomatic cases tells us that isolation is not the answer either. People not realizing they have it now spread Omicron like mad.
- We need to accept a fair percentage of the people simply will not get vaccinated.
- Given the vast majority of severe complications happen in the unvaccinated group, we should not let them clog up the hospitals.
- Hospital priority should go first to those with a booster, second to those with two shots, third to those with one shot, and last to the unvaccinated, with exceptions for those under the age of 12.
- If the unvaccinated don’t care, we should not care about them. Nor should insurance cover them.
- Finally, at long last, it makes sense to say “No worse than the Flu, at least for the vaccinated.” More accurately, for the vaccinated, it now appears to be “Nowhere near as bad as the flu“.
New Studies Raise Hopes That Vaccines Prevent Severe Disease From Omicron
NY Times: “New Studies Raise Hopes That Vaccines Prevent Severe Disease From Omicron – In the lab, immune cells put up a strong fight against Omicron, suggesting that vaccines will be able to prevent the worst outcomes of the virus variant.” https://t.co/0r9QEpZspH
— Scott Gottlieb, MD (@ScottGottliebMD) December 20, 2021
In the lab, immune cells put up a strong fight against Omicron, suggesting that vaccines will be able to prevent the worst outcomes of the virus variant.
How Fast Will Omicron Burn Out?
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More FUNDSTRAT: @IHME_UW forecast suggests Omicron “peaks in early Jan, .. but this surge will be below the Summer 2021 surge .. thus, our view of 250,000 to 300,000 cases might be too aggressive ..” @fundstrat pic.twitter.com/1F04sQBIGt
— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla) December 20, 2021
Time for Normal Lives Again
If people are really sick then they should stay home. Otherwise, enough of this damn testing and isolation.
We need to start living normal lives again. The unvaccinated can fend for themselves.
Other than promote vaccinations and let hospitals turn away the unvaccinated, the best thing to do now appears to be nothing.
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The unvaxxed are rubes targeted by antivax quacks. This is nature’s way… stupid is supposed to hurt.
emphasized the importance of “oral-nasal virucidal therapy”. He said 2
teaspoons of betadine into 6 oz of water, squirt it into the nose, snort
it all the way back to the throat and spit it out, then gargle with the
remainder of the solution, then finish off with either listerine or
cetylpyridinium chloride mouthwash. He seems to think that is the most
important thing to do for both early treatment and prevention; he urges
people to get in the habit of doing it as soon as you come home anytime
you’ve been in a crowd, or even just in a closed space with a few people
for any length of time. And of course do it immediately at first onset
of symptoms.”
up the ports is a $150 billion business, but a bipartisan bill to
re-regulate the sector is moving through Congress. Why is Congress about
to do the right thing?
20 months into this pandemic, we’re entering a new phase with different
dynamics. Even the culture-warring around COVID is of a different
flavor.
Accurate But Misleading
“Herd immunity can be reached when enough people in the population have
recovered from a disease and have developed protective antibodies
against future infection.”
Mish gave
his view and I understand why he thinks this way but I do contest the reasoning
and if instituted would bring about results that are exactly contrary to what
is intended.
First of
all we can agree that the goal of triage is to concentrate resources on those
who have the best chance of being saved and leaving those who are too far gone
to their fate.
If we take
Alberta’s statistics for covid mortality as a guide: link to alberta.ca
We see that
covid severity and deaths are highly correlated with the number of
comorbidities. One comorbid is OK, two is bad at 14.4% mortality and three is 72.9%.
Clearly the determining factor is comorbidities. If you make vaccination status
as a principle criteria then you would then be admitting people with comorbidities
over those without. If insurance is denied then that trend would be reinforced
because now the triage would be on the ability to pay on top of it. Since covid
hits older people by far the most you would be admitting older retired people with
comorbidities over young ones with families to support. Frankly someone who
still gets very sick with covid even after three doses is probably not in good
shape to begin with and it would be a more moral and practical decision to save
the younger unvaccinated one and leave the older vaccinated one to fate.
Another aspect
is social and shouldn’t it be underestimated. Normally tirage is by the gravity
of the illness and not by what card you carry in your wallet. It could be quite
dangerous for the personnel of the hospital. Imagine how family members would
feel if a less sick person was admitted while their loved one was not based on
their vaccination status? Imagine if by chance it looks like one racial group
was being favored over another on who gets admitted and who does not simply by
looking at a card? I could easily see violence resulting. Triage by
vaccination would cause more problems and it wouldn’t result in saving lives even
if for some it would feel morally satisfying.
We are all
pissed off that this pandemic keeps hanging on and some people who are
vaccinated feel that since they did it everyone should do it. By now we know
that vaccination helps the individual but not the collective since even the
vaccinated still shed viable virons so covid will circulate no matter what we
do. Eventually everyone will be exposed and if you get sick depends solely upon
your body’s immune system. Helping it out by whatever means is your job and is
your decision.
For some things, like diabetes that is preventable, absolutely, the person with it should bear the cost, or at least some of it.
If you eat healthy and take care of your body you should be rewarded with lower premiums. If you smoke you pay higher rates so why not if you eat tons of sugar and soda? How do you keep track of that???? Easily. By a doctor. EBT benefits should absolutely come with restrictions. EBT recipients are the most likely to buy garbage. And don’t mention food desserts. They are real but are easily overcome these days with food delivery.
My tenants receive 835 a month in food stamps, or 2x as much as I spend for my family of 5, that’s ridiculous.
Cut it in half if they buy soda and potato chips. It’s high time personal responsibility was worth something in this country.
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