Coronavirus surges linked mostly to protests -- and proximity to US-Mexico border

Fox News ^ | 7/12/2020 | By Victor Garcia

[Carbonsteel]

'Protesting, sharing megaphones, screaming ... That's a setup to spread cases,' Atlas says....

The recent surges in U.S. coronavirus cases can be traced to two key factors -- crowds of protesters and proximity to the U.S.-Mexico border, Dr. Scott Atlas, a senior fellow at The Hoover Institution, said Saturday night.

Most of the cases in the Southwest -- California, Arizona and Texas -- are occuring in counties closest to the U.S.-Mexico border, Atlas told anchor Jon Scott during an appearance on on "Fox Report Weekend."

[Carbonsteel]

You'll never see this story on CNN or in the New York Times.

[2banana]

But...they told me the Trump rallies did this!

[Starboard]

Imagine if we had no border control at all, which is what the Dems want. The epidemic would be spreading like wildfire with all the related systemic problems.

[jeffc]

If the virus is so easily spread why are they shoving a Qtip up your nostril practically into your brain to get a sample?

[S.O.S121.500]

100% Covid cure!!:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDSDdwN2Xcg&fbclid=IwAR2fzLGUNIQW2mOtzoZTEPQkqK7xA9JsJVung-co7DHvEvodYGw4Gezk35M

[Grampa Dave]

Dr. Atlas: Coronavirus surges linked mostly to protests — and proximity to US-Mexico border:

‘Protesting, sharing megaphones, screaming ... That’s a setup to spread cases,’ Atlas says
By Victor Garcia | Fox News

Dr. Scott Atlas on the state of the pandemic as daily infections approach 70,000:

Senior Fellow at The Hoover Institution, Dr. Scott Atlas, joins Jon Scott on ‘Fox Report Weekend.’

The recent surges in U.S. coronavirus cases can be traced to two key factors — crowds of protesters and proximity to the U.S.-Mexico border, Dr. Scott Atlas, a senior fellow at The Hoover Institution, said Saturday night.

Most of the cases in the Southwest — California, Arizona and Texas — are occuring in counties closest to the U.S.-Mexico border, Atlas told anchor Jon Scott during an appearance on on “Fox Report Weekend.”

“When you look in the southern counties of California, Arizona and the bordering counties of Texas — with the Mexico border — these are where most of these cases are really exploding,” Atlas said. “And then you look at the Mexico map and in Mexico, that’s where their cases are. Their cases are in the northern border zone states. And it turns out the timeline here correlates much more to the Mexico timeline of increasing cases than anything else.”

IN FLORIDA, OVER 40 HOSPITALS MAX OUT ICU CAPACITY AMID CORONAVIRUS SURGE

Spikes in Texas, Florida and Arizona don’t essentially line up with reopening but with Mexico’s surge and the recent protests that have gripped the U.S., Atlas said.

“When you really look closely at these so-called re-opening policies, whether it’s in Georgia or Florida or Texas, you know, we didn’t really see a big correlation of cases and hospitalizations from that,” Atlas said. “That’s really not true. That’s sort of some sloppy thinking, I think, again. We really ... have to look closely at why these things are happening.

“By the way. California didn’t really reopen. Yet they have cases coming up. Why is that? I mean, that’s because these cases don’t really correlate to that.”

‘A setup to spread cases’:
“They correlate mainly to two things — the big thousands and thousands of people with protesting, sharing megaphones, screaming. That’s a setup to spread cases,” Atlas said. “And also when you look at the analysis of the border counties, there’s a tremendous amount of cases coming over the border and exchanging with families in the northern Mexico states.”

https://www.foxnews.com/media/dr-atlas-coronavirus-surges-linked-mostly-to-protests-and-proximity-to-us-mexico-border

[Grampa Dave]

If the virus is so easily spread why are they shoving a Qtip up your nostril practically into your brain to get a sample?

4 posted on 7/12/2020, 7:28:22 AM by jeffc (I'm a Patriot, and the media are our enemy)

Thanks for what appears to be the post of the day.

[The Great RJ]

Trump’s Mt Rushmore rally was supposed to cause forest fires from the fire works...never happened. The rally was supposed to cause a huge spike in COVID cases... never happened. However, mass protests and open borders actually cause a spike in COVID cases ...crickets from the media.

[silverleaf]

This still doesnt explain the near simultaneous spike in cases across the south, when the massive protests in northern and central cities haven’t produced the same simultaneous spikes

Where are the spikes in NYC, DC, Chicago, Seattle, Pottland?

[ek_hornbeck]

The only reason BLM protests haven’t caused a bigger spike in Covid-19 infections than what we’re already seeing is that their presence actually reduces the density of other (normal) people in an area. Nobody wants to be around a mob that’s on the verge of looting and rioting, which means that (luckily) it’s mostly the protesters themselves who are getting infected.

[Tallguy]

... and increased testing. In Montgomery County PA, epicenter of the early COVID breakout, they opened 4 new testing centers on a Monday and low & behold the weekly count jumped by 1,000 positive tests. Of course Pennlive.com dutifully reports Governor Wolf’s panic and warnings about renewed lockdowns, but never mentions the additional testing as the reason for the spike.

[elpadre]

I know the media has been searching for anyone attending the rallies who has since come down with the virus. Have they found any?? I did hear about a reporter, but his story doesn’t hold water when looking at the incubation time.

[null and void]

Well, I'm shocked...

Bring Out Your Dead

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

The false positive rate was 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

Quarantine the sick. Shield the vulnerable. Free everyone else!

[metmom]

Ya don’t say?

What a surprise.......

[Irish Eyes]

Excellent interview . Hope everyone sees this.

[Raycpa]

Harvest labor?

[Jane Long]

I'm shocked, as well 😱

No, I'm not...I called this weeks ago.

Trump Rallies....bad....cause China Flu spreading

"Friendly" riots, good.

🙃

[Socon-Econ]

Conservatives need to cease wrongfully assuming that the surges and spikes are a real problem but blaming that nonexistent problem on Mexico and rallies. This approach helps only the Democrats. Breitbart has done much to spread this approach.

[FreedomPoster]

That guy talks a good game, but his paper is a case study of only TWO cases. He may have something, but I need more verification than I’ve seen.

[little jeremiah]

And the new CDC guidelines to include “probable/presumptive” cases in with positive test results. IOW any contacts a positve case had in the last week are ALL counted as “cases” Along with new testing kits that give false positives.

ANything to keep the Scamdemic going!