Posted on 04/19/2020 11:07:21 PM PDT by Enlightened1
I know zero. In my county of about 260,000, there have been about 170 known cases since this all started.
My SIL in AZ, about 60, has tested positive and is ill.
zero, zip, nada, zilch, nichts, none
this is the only more or less full show video Ive found. unfortunately, some ad breaks are included. first half features True Health Initiatives Dr. David Katz, founding director of the Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center.
second half is the great Dr. Ioannidis. sadly, it seems Levins intro with all the Drs credentials, seems to be missing:
Youtube: 48:40 - 19 Apr: Life Liberty & Levin [LIVE STREAM] 4/19/20
from about 22m40s to the end: Dr. John Ioannidis, Stanford University
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQZM_islyfg
Second, the number that most states added to their count of deaths and/or positives did so because they were directed to do so by the CDC. The states were just following orders.
Third, the hospitals get reimbursed only if the victim did not have insurance; also not all victims made it to the hospital, in particular, the ones added to the tally on April 5, per CDC orders.
Fourth, most hospitals are not "enjoying" a financial bonanza. Most hospitals are actually hurting from coast to coast. A number are near bankruptcy. In March, 35,000 doctors and nurses were let go from hospitals and that number has skyrocketed in April. The reason is that hospitals were told by the government to postpone elective surgeries/procedures to make wave for the surge of coronavirus cases. The surge never happened with the exception of 3 or 4 metro areas. There are entire hospitals empty and some have let go most all their doctors and nurses. Other doctors and nurses are only on call. And yes, they are furious. The hospitals are empty because there are few virus cases in their areas and most people with the virus don't require hospitalization. In addition, few are getting hurt since everyone is stuck at home and there no elective surgery/procedures - a perfect recipe for empty hospitals. Now is the perfect time to break your leg.
So now the federal government is going to have to bail out hospitals all across the country to keep them solvent, but at this point, it is just another trillion. What ever amount the hospitals get for the virus victims - and the government only pays if the victim does not have insurance anyway - pales in comparison to the amount of the bail out to the hospitals nationwide to keep them solvent and make them whole.
I don’t even know anyone that has been diagnosed with it... and I and most of my friends are in the high risk groups, or at least bordering on it..
I am a rather social person and know many people but only two suspected carriers who were later cleared as having regular flu. Both are alive and well.
a must-read:
19 Apr: American Thinker: Will the Covid-19 PsyOp succeed?
By Peter Barry Chowka
Five weeks into the countrys shutdown due to the coronavirus crisis, however, it looks unmistakably like a big PsyOp a psychological operation designed to entrance people for the purpose of hidden agendas. The whole thing, in fact, has morphed into what it was intended to usher in a bare knuckles political-ideological battle for what our future will be like...
I have a long career of reporting on the politics of health care as well as national politics. In 2020, we are dealing with both of these areas: the medical issues of Covid-19 and how it is being politically weaponized, including as part of a much larger agenda that fast tracks a global system of surveillance, medical mandates, and control. The essential subtext is the politicization of everything due to this years fall elections and the hatred of President Trump by Democrats and the media.
Theres been what Ive called a flu détat a takeover of our supposedly democratic political process by unelected and unaccountable administrative state medical bureaucrats who are deeply and permanently embedded in the system of modern medicine a collection of businesses that now consumes about twenty percent of the Gross National Product.
Here are several issues that are hardly ever addressed...
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/04/will_the_covid19_psyop_succeed.html
Well said. Thanks so much for the update. Now you’re part of the herd ;D.
I’ll start by saying I know no one that has tested positive let alone died from this.
Now I will add I do know someone, my mother, who very well could be a survivor due to COVID19. She spent over a week in the hospital in February due to an A Fib condition caused by a severely leaking mitral valve. Open heart surgery was deemed necessary to correct the condition while medication fortunately stabilized her heart. I researched the subject and discovered that the #1 rated surgeon for heart valve repair in PA worked out of the hospital that she was in. The bad part about seeking the services of the #1 surgeon is everyone else does to.
She was scheduled to be operated on at the end of May beginning of June with the ever present danger of stroke lingering. As luck would have it, or perhaps the hand of God, many before her in line canceled/postponed due to virus fear and she got a call to see if she was willing to move up her surgery date, which she gladly accepted.
I dropped her off at the hospital on Wednesday, 4/15. This was heart wrenching, no one could accompany her into the hospital and no visitors were allowed. The surgical team was great in providing text updates and phone calls throughout. Amazingly, I brought her home yesterday, Sunday 4/19.
Had it not been for this virus she would still be sitting around for another 1 1/2 months waiting and hoping she makes it until her originally scheduled surgery date. As an added bonus, the work from home requirement placed on me allows me plenty of time to take her for regular blood work and follow-up visits.
One of the nurses told my mother that much of the hospital was converted or set aside for Covid patients. As of yesterday the hospital has not needed to use this converted capacity. I’m guessing the hospital will lose significant revenue for a couple of months due to all the empty beds.
one chased me down the freeway today.....
i know 2 people who get infected and recovered (ages 41 and 49 respectively) and one person (aged 65) who died.
The fact that the numbers are low is because of the social distancing and quarantines
In other words,we’ve been playgued.
“The fact that the numbers are low is because of the social distancing and quarantines”
That’s a theory, not a fact, that will never be proven.
I talked to stranger a week ago who was in the parking lot at our little shopping center and I was kidding him about not wearing a mask. He said that he had back surgery right before this pandemic in Los Angeles. He went back recently for a follow-up examination and the hospital was practically empty. Something’s going on.
It is affecting the whole world not just the US. Why is the whole world affected? It is tunnel vision at this point to say this is just about the US election. Unless you go global conspiracy. But nothing would surprise me at this point.
The models were done WITH the mitigation in place Fauci said that even WITH the mitigation in place the death toll would be 100,000 - 200,000 so the lower counts have nothing to do with mitigation because it was already figured in!! The models were DEAD WRONG!!
for hospitals.
is COVID19 more profitable
than other diseases?
please be specific if possible
thanks
Rocky
Was the plant ‘Smithfield’? I believe that’s owned by the Chinese.
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