Covid-19 Lock Down Experiment

Guess I should check-in more often.

My intent with the Belgium Antarctica story, as well as my earlier posts about all the Chicago Bulls who where vaccinated and boosted and still got Covid-19, as well as the Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin who was vaccinated and boosted and still got the virus was to highlight how with each passing day it becomes more evident the vaccine is a dud.

My concept of a vaccine is something that keeps you from getting something, not something that just lessens the degree to which you get it. It should also keep you from becoming a carrier to infect others. This vaccine does neither. In the case of the Antarctic group, they still got the virus after being vaccinated. They passed multiple screening tests probably because the viral load was extremely low in their bodies and then became carriers to infect their fellow expedition members.

So if everyone was vaccinated and boosted, we would still be passing around Covid-19 just like the Belgium Antarctica group and hoping for a mild case. Hope really isn't much of a plan.

While on the topic of testing, there is an article from last summer in Politico that gives some insight into why we lacked testing kits over the holidays.

www.politico.com/news/2021/05/15/hhs-covid-stockpile-money-border-migrants-488427

From the article:

"The Department of Health and Human Services has diverted more than $2 billion meant for other health initiatives toward covering the cost of caring for unaccompanied immigrant children, as the Biden administration grapples with a record influx of migrants on the southern border.

The redirected funds include $850 million that Congress originally allocated to rebuild the nation’s Strategic National Stockpile, the emergency medical reserve strained by the Covid-19 response. Another $850 million is being taken from a pot intended to help expand coronavirus testing, according to three people with knowledge of the matter.

The reshuffling, which HHS detailed to congressional appropriators in notices over the last two months, illustrates the extraordinary financial toll that sheltering more than 20,000 unaccompanied children has taken on the department so far this year, as it scrambled to open emergency housing and add staff and services across the country."

If those funds hadn't been redirected, maybe there would have been enough test kits over the holidays. So go ahead and pretend the crisis at the southern isn't adversely affecting the rest of the country.

Masking, social distance are right now good ideas for the next few weeks to make sure the hospitals don't get swamped.
almost everywhere in the country that would be reasonable and not much burden. In winter states with poor vaccination, it w ould make sense to push that one step and work at home, and in the worst cases take some measures like closing bars and limiting large gatherings.

We are talking short term measures, not a way of life. Hell. it makes sense for us to wear masks more during a regular flu season, a large number of countries around the world do that now. We can do it for a month.

If we had done it through the early variants of the pandemic we would have literally saved 100's of thousands of lives. Major shutdowns could have been limited to many fewer weeks and we'd have controlled the harm until vaccination came on line.

Always interesting to see what OO attempts to defend and what he doesn't. Of my posts from last night, the above passage is what I found most concerning. It shows where our current President's priorities are. 

Biden choose to take funds away from the safety and well-being of our current citizens for a bunch of law breakers who might someday become Democratic Voters. $850  million could have gone a long way in providing Covid-19 testing materials. Another $850 million to rebuild the nation's Strategic National Stockpile of medical supplies would have saved a lot of American lives in the future, maybe even now. Yet Biden obviously didn't care about that. Maybe last summer he thought the pandemic was over and he could get away with doing this? If so, he was sadly mistaken; like he is about so much going on today.

Now maybe Politico is incorrect on this report. In a way it would be nice if they were. We had a president who was actually putting the health and welfare of us Americans first. But Politico as a publication is more left-leaning than right. If they say this about a Democrat, it's probably correct. 

You guys still arguing over here? At this point it's became survival of the fittest. With the new guidelines and a weaker variant admit or not the new strategy is let everyone get it.

Oh yeah medical professionals are so underpaid.   What planet do you live on ?    Everyone in that industry is well compensated.   Most RN's make way more than you do. 

All sadly true.

Forget the unnecessary death or suffering. Those who end up in ICU after saying "f... it, I don't care" will not have my sympathy.

But it's sad to see those who won't get care who could under normal conditions because that bed is full.

Really sad to see health care workers busting ass and being burnt out. They suffer for the mistake and misguided "principle" of others.

It's unconscionable.