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I see plague rat and double/triple/boosted Fauci has covid again;

After testing positive for COVID-19 earlier this month, Dr. Anthony Fauci said Tuesday that he has joined a growing group of people experiencing a Paxlovid rebound, following treatment with Pfizer's antiviral. Fauci, 81, said that when he first tested positive two weeks ago, he had very minimal symptoms. However, when he began to feel worse, "given [his] age," he was prescribed Paxlovid. Other than fatigue and a bit of congestion, Fauci reported that he felt "really quite well," and after his five-day course of Paxlovid, he tested negative with a rapid test.
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ABC News

Despite zero evidence that masks work for "stopping/slowing the spread", non doctor Barbara Ferrer and the control freaks in LA County are starting to make noises about indoor mask mandates again;

Los Angeles County health officials are warning the region is again trending in the wrong direction when it comes to COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations. If the county reaches 10 new daily hospital admissions per 100,000 residents, it will move into the "high" virus activity category as defined by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. If the county stays in the "high" category for two consecutive weeks, it will reimpose a mandatory indoor mask-wearing mandate.
She (Ferrer) noted, however, that given the continued high level of virus transmission in the county -- particularly with more rapid spread of the highly transmissible BA.4 and BA.5 variants -- people should already be masking up indoors.
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ABC News

"masking up", what male bovine excrement.
 
TSwizzle said:
Despite zero evidence that masks work for "stopping/slowing the spread", non doctor Barbara Ferrer and the control freaks in LA County are starting to make noises about indoor mask mandates again;
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There is abundantly clear evidence masks help. Whether mask mandates do anything comes down to how they are enforced.
 
Daily Covid infections and deaths are beginning to surge in the U.S. after over a month of little movement - signaling that a summer surge fueled by the BA.5 variant could now be under way. America is averaging 649 daily deaths from Covid, a 97 percent increase over the past week. It is the largest seven day increase in deaths since early December. Recorded infections have made a leap as well, to 136,903 per day. It is a 24 percent increase over seven days and the largest daily case average since February - when America was coming down off of the largest Covid surge of the pandemic. These sharp increases are being attributed to the BA.5 variant. The highly infectious strain of the virus that has quickly taken over as the dominant strain in the United States. While more mandates related to the virus are not expected in the near future, Dr Anthony Fauci, America's top infectious disease expert, once again recommended Americans wear masks in indoor public gatherings. According to most recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the BA.5 strain now makes up 65 percent of active cases in the U.S.
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Daily Mail

The vaccines are proving to be a bit of a bust. I don't believe the 649 daily deaths from covid either. In most cases in LA County, hosptial patients were admitted to hospital for something other than covid but then tested for covid which skews the numbers.
 
The daily average deaths is about half that. And that averages to between 7 or 8 per state per day, which isn't a particularly large number.

The vaccine worked great against the first two bugs, not so well against the bugs 10,000 mutations later. Of course, those diseases aren't as deadly either.
 
Loren Pechtel said:
For you deniers: The risk of lasting damage goes up every time you get it:

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Fucking great. The most severe affliction is to mental health. Which is already compromised among pandemic deniers.
 
Jimmy Higgins said:
The daily average deaths is about half that. And that averages to between 7 or 8 per state per day, which isn't a particularly large number.

The vaccine worked great against the first two bugs, not so well against the bugs 10,000 mutations later. Of course, those diseases aren't as deadly either.
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The vaccines are still working against severe disease.
 
TSwizzle said:
The vaccines are proving to be a bit of a bust. I don't believe the 649 daily deaths from covid either. In most cases in LA County, hosptial patients were admitted to hospital for something other than covid but then tested for covid which skews the numbers.
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Your unwillingness to accept reality doesn't make it go away.

I know one of those "with Covid" cases--while she wasn't admitted for Covid in hindsight it's obvious that it was Covid that destabilized her existing medical issues. It wasn't reported as a Covid death but it was one.
 
Loren Pechtel said:
TSwizzle said:
The vaccines are proving to be a bit of a bust. I don't believe the 649 daily deaths from covid either. In most cases in LA County, hosptial patients were admitted to hospital for something other than covid but then tested for covid which skews the numbers.
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Your unwillingness to accept reality doesn't make it go away.

I know one of those "with Covid" cases--while she wasn't admitted for Covid in hindsight it's obvious that it was Covid that destabilized her existing medical issues. It wasn't reported as a Covid death but it was one.
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This is a sliding scale. Was covid 10-20% responsible?

Someone in stellar health getting whacked by covid (even if from a more subtle issue with clotting) is approaching 100% caused by covid.
 
"Doctor" Barbara Ferrer threatens mask mandates on LA County.

Masks orders are set to return to Los Angeles after the city officially crossed the threshold of 'high' Covid risk of Thursday night - with official guidance saying that mask mandates will return if it remains above that threshold for at least 14 consecutive days. According to most recent data from the city's health department, the city is averaging 6,384 new cases every day and its test positivity rate - which has become one of the most effective ways to judge the current pandemic-state - has ballooned to 15 percent. It comes as the BA.5 variant, which is now dominant in the U.S., continues its spread and causes case counts to jump across America. Daily infections in America have increased by 30 percent over the past week to 140,677 per day, while deaths have crept up 25 percent to 536 daily over the last seven days. America's second largest city is currently averaging 157 Covid-related hospitalizations every day, according to most recent official data. 'While we are not seeing anywhere near the devastation we saw last winter's omicron surge, we are seeing much higher case numbers than we saw at the peak of the delta surge. It's unlikely we are at the peak of this surge,' Barbara Ferrer, the city's public health director said Thursday. But she added that Covid has killed more people in the city through the year's first six months than any other infectious disease.
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Daily Mail

She's a liar.

The authoritarians will not give up their "recently acquired" emergency powers. It has been more than two years since these bastards have fucked with our lives and they continue to do so. There is no emergency and they still cling to their emergency powers.
 
repoman said:
Loren Pechtel said:
TSwizzle said:
The vaccines are proving to be a bit of a bust. I don't believe the 649 daily deaths from covid either. In most cases in LA County, hosptial patients were admitted to hospital for something other than covid but then tested for covid which skews the numbers.
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Your unwillingness to accept reality doesn't make it go away.

I know one of those "with Covid" cases--while she wasn't admitted for Covid in hindsight it's obvious that it was Covid that destabilized her existing medical issues. It wasn't reported as a Covid death but it was one.
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This is a sliding scale. Was covid 10-20% responsible?

Someone in stellar health getting whacked by covid (even if from a more subtle issue with clotting) is approaching 100% caused by covid.
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They were not in good health but they were stable. They destabilized, the hospital found Covid. Why would one think they weren't connected?
 
TSwizzle said:
"Doctor" Barbara Ferrer threatens mask mandates on LA County.

Masks orders are set to return to Los Angeles after the city officially crossed the threshold of 'high' Covid risk of Thursday night - with official guidance saying that mask mandates will return if it remains above that threshold for at least 14 consecutive days. According to most recent data from the city's health department, the city is averaging 6,384 new cases every day and its test positivity rate - which has become one of the most effective ways to judge the current pandemic-state - has ballooned to 15 percent. It comes as the BA.5 variant, which is now dominant in the U.S., continues its spread and causes case counts to jump across America. Daily infections in America have increased by 30 percent over the past week to 140,677 per day, while deaths have crept up 25 percent to 536 daily over the last seven days. America's second largest city is currently averaging 157 Covid-related hospitalizations every day, according to most recent official data. 'While we are not seeing anywhere near the devastation we saw last winter's omicron surge, we are seeing much higher case numbers than we saw at the peak of the delta surge. It's unlikely we are at the peak of this surge,' Barbara Ferrer, the city's public health director said Thursday. But she added that Covid has killed more people in the city through the year's first six months than any other infectious disease.
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Daily Mail

She's a liar.

The authoritarians will not give up their "recently acquired" emergency powers. It has been more than two years since these bastards have fucked with our lives and they continue to do so. There is no emergency and they still cling to their emergency powers.
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And why do you think that claim is false? Before the world blew up you had to go down to #9 on the causes of death to find any infectious disease. A quick look at the deaths/day shows it's now around 300/day which translates to 100k/yr--taking over the #9 spot. And note that earlier in the year the death rate was a lot higher. I'm not finding a count of 2022 deaths but looking at Google's graph I would eyeball it as probably taking the #3 spot behind heart disease and cancer.
 
Two officials at one of the largest hospital systems in Los Angeles and Southern California dismissed government officials’ statements about another wave of COVID-19 hitting the region and the United States as ‘media hype,’ The Epoch Times reported Sunday. This flies in the face of Los Angeles County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer’s announcement on Thursday that Los Angeles County has officially reached the “High” level of new COVID-19 cases and County hospitalization rates, giving the County two weeks to fall back below or else mandatory indoor masking mandates return, as the Globe reported. Ferrer has been teasing with the “high” level of COVID-19 transmission” indoor mask mandates will likely come back. “In a news conference on July 13, Brad Spellberg, the chief medical officer of Los Angeles County and University of Southern California Medical Center, and epidemiologist Paul Holtom, said that there have been no changes in the transmission levels of COVID-19.” Dr. Spellberg said they are seeing thousands of people with Covid, “but it is mild, and they go home,” he said. He said of the patients who are admitted to the hospital, “90% of the time it is not due to Covid. Only 10% of our Covid-positive admissions are due to Covid. None of them go to the ICU, and when they do, it is not for pneumonia,” he added. “They are not intibated. We have not seen one of those since February. As of this morning, we have no one in the hospital who had pulmonary disease due to COVID. Nobody in the hospital … Nobody. Nobody who had COVID-19 disease as we would see it in the past. So I guess it is hard to get a little more excited,” he said.
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CA Globe

“Doctor” Ferrer is a control freak, nut and not even a medical doctor. Her thing is about “equity”.

The authoritarians will not get me wearing a mask.
 
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